SPL'CLAL MESSAGE.
The subjoined message from the President
of the United States was transmitted to both
houses of Congress on Thursday•:
To the Senate and House of Representatives :
Circumstances have occurred to disturb the
course of governmental organization in the
Territory of Kansas, and produce there a con
dition of things which renders it incumbent
on me to call your attention to the subject,
and urgently to recommend the adoptior., by
you, of such measures of legislation as the
grave exigencies . of the case appear to re-
quire.
A. brief exposition of the circumstances
referred to, and of their causes, will be neces
sary to the full understanding of the recom
mendations which 'it is proposed to submit.
The act to organize the Territories of Ne
braska and Kansas was a manifestation of
the legislative i , pinion of Congress on two
great points of constitutional construction
one, that the designation of the boundaries of
a new Territory, and provisions for its polit
ical organization and administration as a Ter
ritory, are measures which of right fall within
the powers of the general government ; and
the other, that the inhabitants of any such
Territory considered as an inchoate State are
entitled, in the exercise of self-government,
determine for themselves what shall be their
own domestic institutions, subject only to
the constitution and the laws duly enacted by
- Congress under it, and to the power of the
existing States to decide according to the pro
visions and principles of the constitution at
what time the Territory shall be received a
State into the Union. Such are the great po
litical rights which are solemnly declared and
affirmed by that act.
Based upon this theory, the act of Congress
defined for each Territory the outlines of re
public.in government, distributing public au
thority among lawfully created agents—exec
utive; judicial, and legislative—to be appoint
ed either by the General Government or by
the Territory. The legislative functions were
intrusted to a council and a House of Repre
seatatives duly elected and empowered to
enact all the local laws which they might
deem essential to their prosperity, happiness,
and good government. Acting in the same
spirit, Congress also defined the persons who
were in the first instance to be considered as
the people of each Territory ; - enacting that
every free white male inhabitant of the same
above the age of 21 years, being an actual
resident thereof, and possessing the qualifica
tions hereafter described, should be entitled
to vote at the first election, and be eligible to
any office within the Territory; but that the
qualifications of voters and holding office at
all subsequent elections should be such as
might be prescribed by the legislative assem
bly : Provided, however, that the right of
suffrage and of holding office should be exer
cised only by citizens of the United States,
and those who should have declared on oath
their intention to become such, and have
taken an oath to support the constitution , of
the United States and the provisions of the
act. And provided, further, that no officer,
soldier, seaman, or marine, or other person
in the army and r.avy of the United States,
or attached to troops in their service should
be allowed to vote or hold office in either
Territory by reason of being on service
therein.
Such of the public officers of the Territo
ries as, by the provisions of the act, were to
be appointed by the general government, in
cluding the Governors, were appointed and
commissioned in due season; the law having
been enacted on the 30th of May, 1854, and
the commission of the Governor of the Ter
ritory of Nebraska being dated on the 23 day
of August, 1854, and of the Territory of Kan
sas on the 29th day of June, 1854.
Among the duties imposed by the act on
the Governors was that of directing and s. - -
perintendino• the political organization of the
respective r• Territories. The Governor of
Kansas was required to cause a census or
enumeration of the inhabitants and qualified
voters of the several counties and districts of
the Territory, to be taken by such persons
and in such mode as he might designate and
appoint; to appoint end direct the time and
places of holding the first elections, and the
manner of conducting them, both as to the
persons to superintend such elections and the
returns thereof; to declare the number of
the members of the Council and House of
Representatives for each county district; to
declare what persons might appear to be duly
elected; and to appoint the time and place of
the first meeting of the legislative as9embly.
In substance, the same duties were devolved
on the Governor of Nebraska.
While, by this act, the principle of consti
tution for each of the Territories was o•ie and
the same, and the details of organic legisla
tion regarding both were as nearly as could
be identical, and while the Territory of Ne
braska was tranquilly and successfully orrran
ized in the due course of law, and its first
legislative assembly met on the :6th of Jan-
ilary, 1855, the organization of Kansas was
long delayed, and has been attended with se
rious difficulties and embarrassments, partly
the consequence of local mal-administration,
and partly of the unjustifiable interference of
the inhabitants of some of the States foreign
by residence, interests, and rights to the Ter-
Tiory,
The G
rill
~vernor o. e Territory of Kansas,
;commissioned, as before stated, on the 29th
of June. 1854 did not reach the designated
seat of his government until the 7th of the
ensuing October; and even there failed to
make the first step in its legal organization—
that of ordering the census or enumeration of
its inhabitants—until so late a day that the
election of the members of the legislative as
sernbly did not lake place until the 30th of I
March 1855, nor its meeting until the second
of July, 1855. So that, fur a year after the
Territory was constituted by the act of Con
gress and the officers to be appointed by the
Federal Executive had been commissioned,
it was without a complete s;overnment, with
out any legislative authority, without local
law, and, of course, without the ordinary
guarantees of peace and public order.
In other respects, the Governor, instead of
exercising constant vigilance, and putting
forth all his energies to prevent or counteract I
the tendencies to illegality, which are prone
to exist in all imperfectly organized and new
ly associated communities, allowed hisatten
tion to be diverted from official obligation by
other obiects, and himself set an example of
the violation of law in the performance of
acts which rendered it my duty, in the sequel,
to remove him from the office of Chief Exec
utive Magistrate of the Territory.
Before the requisite preparation was accom
plished for election of a territorial Legislature,
an election of delegate to Congress had been
held in the Territory, on the 20th day of No
vember, 1854, and the delegate took his seat
in the House of Representatives without chal
lenge. If arrangements had been perfected
by the Governor so that the election for mem
bers of the legislative assembly might be
held in The several precincts at the same time
as for delegate to Congress, any question ap
pertaining to the quo lifieation of the persons
voting as people of the Territory would have
passed necessarily and at once under the su
pervision of Congiess, as the judge of the
validity of the return of the delegate,, and
would have been determined before conflict
ing passions had become inflamed by time,
and before opportunity could have been
afforded for 'systematic interference of the
people of individual States.
This interference, in so far as concerns its
primary causes and its immediate commence
ment, was one of the incidents of that perni
cious agitation on the subject of the condition
of the colored persons held to service in some
of the States which has so long disturbed the
repose of our country, and excited individuals,
otherwise patriotic and law-abiding, to toil
with misdirected zeal in the attempt to propa
gate their social theories by the perversion
and abuse of the powers of Congress. The
persons and the parties whom the tenor of
the act to organize the Territories of Nebraska
and-Kansas, thwarted in the endeavor to im
pose, through the agency of Congress, their
particular views of social organization on
the peolile of the future new Stares, now per
ceiving that the policy of leaving the inhab
itants of each State to judge fur themselves
in this respect was ineradicably rooted in
the convictions of the people of the Union,
then had recourse, in the pursuit of their gen
eral object to the extraordinary measure of
propagandist colonization of the Territory of
Kansas, to prevent the free and natural action
of its inhabitants in its internal organization,
and thus to anticipate or to force the determi
nation of that question in this inchoate State.
With such views, associations were organ
ised in some of the States, and their purposes
were proclaimed through the press in language
extremely irritating and offensive to those of
whom the colonists were to become the
neighbors. Those designs and acts had the
necessary consequence to awaken emotions
of intense indignation in States near to
_the
Territory of Kansas, and espec ally in the
adjoining State of Missoni i, whose domestic
peace was thus the most directly endangered;
but they are far from justifying the illegal
and reprehensible counter-movements which
ensued.
Under these inauspicious circumstances
the primary elections for members, of the
Legislative Assembly were held in most, if
not all, of the precincts at the time and the
places, and by the persons designated and
appointed by the governor according to law.
Angry accusations that illegal votes had
been polled abounded on all sides, and impu
tations were made both of fraud and violence.
But the governor, in the exercise of the power
and the discharge of the duty conferred and
imposed by law on him alone, officially re
ceived and considered the returns; declared
a large majority of the members of the Coun
cil and the House of Representatives " duly
elected;" withheld certificates from others
because' of alleged illegality of votes; ap
pointed a new election to supply the place of
the persons not cm tilted ; and thus at length,
in all the forms of statute, and with his own
official authentication, complete legality was
given to the first legislative assembly of the
Territory.
Those. decisions of the returning officers
and the Governor are final, except that, by
the parliamentary usage of the country ap
:' plied to the organic law, it may be conceded
' that each house of the assembly most have
been competent to determine, in the last re
sort, the qualifications and the election of its
members. The subject was, by its nature,
one appertaining exclusively to the jurisdic
tion of the local authorities of the Territory.
Whatever irregularities may have occurred
in the elections, it , seems too late now to raise
thit question. At all events, it is a question
as to which, neither now, nor at any previous
time, has the least possible legal authority
been possessed by the President of the United
States. For all present purposes the legisla
tive body, thus constituted and elected, was
the legitimate assembly of the Territory.
Accordingly, the Governor, by proclama
tion, convened the assembly thus elected, to
meet at a place called Pawnee City; the two
Houses met and were duly organized in the
ordinary parliamentary form, each sent to,
and received from, the Governor the official
communications usual on such occasions; an
elaborate message opening the session was
communicated by the Governor; and the
general business of legislation was entered
upon by the Legislative Assembly.
But, after a few days, the Assembly resolv
ed to adjourn to another place in the Territo
ry. A law was accordingly passed, against
the consent of the Governor, but in due form
otherwise, to remove the seat of government
temporarily to the " Shaw:. ee Manual Labor
School," (or Mission,) and thither the Assem
bly proceeded. After this, receiving a bill
for the establishment of a terry at the town
of Kiekapoo, the Governor refused to sign it,
and by special message, assigned for reason
of refusal, not anything objectionable in the
bill itself, nor any pretence of the illegality
or incompetency of the assembly as such, but
only the fact that the assembly had by its act
transferred the seat of government tempora
rily from Pawnee City to Shawnee Mission.
For the same reason he continued to refuse
to sign other bills, until, in the course of a
few days, he, by official message, communi
cated to the assembly the fact that he had re
ceived notification of tee termination of his
functions as Governor, and that the duties of
the office were legally devolved on the Sec
retary of the Territory ; thus to the last r eeo ee
nizing the body as a duly-elected and consti
tuted legislative assembly.
It will be perceived that, if any constitu •
tional defect attached to the legislative acts
of the assembly, it is not pretended to con
sist in irregularity of election, or want ot
qualification of the members, but only in the
change of its place of session. However tri
vial this objection may seem to be, it requires
to be considered, because upon it is founded
all that superstructure of nets, plainly against
law, which now threatens the peace, not on
ly of the Territory of Kansas, but of the Union.
Such an objection to the proceedings of the
legislative assembly was of exceptionable
origin, for the reason that, by the express
terms of the organic law, the seat of govern
ment of the Territory was "located tempora
rily at Fort Leavenworth," and yet the Gov
ernor himself remained there less than two
months, and of his own discretion transferred
the seat of government to the Shawnee Mis
sion, whore it in fact was at ,the time the as
sembly were called to meet. at Pa emee City.
If the Governor had any such right to change
temporarily the seat of government, still
more had the legislative assembly. The ob
jection is of exceptionable origin for the fur
ther reason that the place indicated by the
Governor, without having any exclusive claim
of preference in itself, was a proposed town
Isite only, - which he and others were attempt
ing to locate unlawfully upon land within a
military reservation, and for participation in
white illegal act the commandment of the
post—a superior officer of the army—has
been dismissed by sentence of court . martial.
Nor is it easy to see why the legislative
Assembly might not with propriety pass the
territorial act transferring its sittings to the
Shawnee Mission. If it could riot, that must
be on account of some prohibitory or incom
patible provision of act of Congress. But no
such provision exists. The organic act, as
already quoted, says "the seat of government
is hereby, located temporarily at Fort Leaven
worth," and it then provides that certain of
the public buildings there "may be occupied
and used tinder the direction of the Governor
and legislative Assembly." These expres
sions might possibly he construed to imply
that when in a previous section of the act it
was enacted that "the first legislative Assem
bly shall meet at such place and on such clay,
es the Governor shall appoint," the word
"place" means place at. Fort Leavenworth,
not place anywhere in the Territory. If so,
the Governor would have been the first to err
in this matter, not only in himself having re
moved the seat of government to the Shaw
nee Mission, but in again removing it to
Pawnee City. If there was any departure
from the letter of the law, therefore, it was
his in both instances.
But, however this may be it is most unrea
sonable to suppose that by the terms of the
"orgauic act, Congress intended to do implied
ly what it has not done expressly—that is, to
forbid to the legislative assembly the power
Ito choose any place it might see fit as the tem
porary seat of its deliberations. That is-pro
ved by the significant language of one of the
subsequent acts of Congress on the subject,
that of March 3, 1855, which, in making ap
propriation for public buildings of the Terri
tory, enacts that the same shall not be expen
ded "untill the legislature of said Territory
shall have fixed by law the permanent seat
of government." Congress, in.these expres
sions, does not profess to be' granting the
power to fix the permanent seat of govern
ment, but recoenises the power as one already
granted. But how ? Undoubtedly by the
comprehensive provision of the organic act
itself, winch declares that "the legislative
power of the Territory shall extend to all right
fill subjects of legislstton consistent with the
constitution of the United States and the pro
visions of this act." If in view of this act,
the legislative assembly had the large power
to fix the permanent seat of government at
any place in its discretion, of course by the
same enacment it had the less and the inclu
ded power to fix it temporarily.
Nevertheless, the allegation that the acts
of the Legislative Assembly were illegal by
reason of this removal of its place of session
was brought forward to justify the first great
movement in disregard of law within the Te
rritory. One of the acts of the Legislative As
sembly provided fur the election of a delegate
to the present Congress, and a delegate was
elected under that law. But, subsequently
• to this, a portion of the people of the Territo
ry proceeded without authority of law - to
elect another delegate.
Following upon this movement was anoth
er and more important one of the same gen
eral character. Persons confessedly not con
stituting the body politic, or all the inhabi
, tants, but merely a patty of the inhabitants,
land ‘viihout law, have undertaken to sum
mon a convention for the purpose of trans-,
forming the Territory into a State, and have
framed a Constitution, adoped it, and under
it elected a Governor and other officers, and a
representative to Congress.
In extenuation of these illegal acts, it is al
-1
[ leged that the States of California, Michigan,
laud others, were self-organized, and, as such,
were admitted into the Union without a pre
vious enabling act of Congress. It is true
that, while, in a majority of cases, a previ
ous act of Congress has been passed to author
ize the Territory to present itself as a :Mate,
and that this is deemed the most regular
course, yet such an act has not been held to
be indispensable, and, in some cases, the Ter
ritory has proceeded without it, and has nev
ertteless been admitted into the Union as a
State. It lies with Congress to authorize be
forehand, or to confirm afterwards in its
dis-cretion. But in no instance has a
State been admitted upon the application
of persons acting against authorities duly
constituted by act of Congress. In every
case it is the people of the Territory, not
a party among them, who have the power
to form a constitution, and ask for admis
slot: as a State. No principle of public law,
no practice or precedent under the Constitu
tion of the United states, no rule of reason,
right, or common sense, confers any such
power as that now claimed by a mere party
in the Territory. In fact, what has been
done is of revolutionary character. It is
avowedly so in motive and in aim, as respects
the local law of the Territory. It will be
come treasonable insurrection if it reach the
length of organized resistance by force to the
fundamental or any other federal law, and to
the authorities of the General Government.
In such art event, the path of duty for the
Executive is plain. The constitution requi
' ring him to take care that the laws of the
United States be faithfully executed, if they
be opposed in the Territory of Kansas he
may aed should place at the disposal of the
marshal any public force of the United States
which happens to he within the jurisdiction,
to be used as a portion of the posse comitatus;
and ; if that do not suffice to maintain order,
then he may call forth the militia of one or
more States for that object, or employ for the
same object, or employ for the - same object
any pat t of the land of naval force of the
United States. So, also if the obstruction be
to the laws of the Territory, and it be duly
presented to hint as a case of insurrection, he
may employ for its suppression the militia
of ;icy State, or the land or naval force of the
United States. And if the Territory be inva
ded by the citizens of other States, whether
for the purpose of deciding elections or for
any other, and the local authorities find
themselves unable to repel or withstand it,
they will he entitled to, and upon the fact
being fully ascertained, they shall most cer
tainly receive the aid of the general govern
ment.
But it is not the duty of the President of
the United States to volunteer interposition
by force to preserve the purity of elections ei
ther in a State or Territory. To do so would
be subversive of public freedom. And
whether a law be wise or unwise, just or un
just, is not a question for him to judge. If
if it be constitutional—that is, if it be the
law of the land—it is his duty to cause it to
be executed, or to sustain the authorities of
any State or Territory in executing it in op
position to all insurrectionary movements.
Our system affords no justification of rev
olutionary acts;
.for the constitutional means
of relieving the people of unjust administra
tion and laws, by a change of public agents
and by repeal, are ample, and more prompt
and effective than illegal violence. These
constitutional means must be scrupulously
guarded—this great prerogative of popular
sovereignty sacredly respected.
It is the undoubted right of the peaceable
and orderly people of the Territory of Kansas
to elect their own legislative body, make
their own laws, and regulate their own so
cial institutions, withqut foreign or domestic
molestation. Interfelence, on the one hand
to procure the abolition or prohibition of slave
labor in the Territory, has producted mis
chievous interference, on the ,other for its
maintenance or inoroduction. One wrong
begets another. Statements entirely unfoun
ded, or grossly exaggerated, concerning
events within the Territory, are sedulously
diffused through remote States to feed the
flame of sectional animosity there; and the
agitators there exert themselves indefatigably
in return to encourage and stimulate suite
within the Territory.
The inflammatory agitation, of which the
present is but a part, has for twenty years
produced nothing save unmitigated evil, North
and south. But for it the character of the
domestic institutions of the future new State
would have been a matter of too little interest
to the inhabitants of the contiguous States,
personally or collectively, to produce among
them any political emotion. Climate, soil,
production, hopes of rapid advancement and
the pursuit of happiness on the part of the
settlers themselves, with good wishes, but
with no interference from without, would
have quietly determined the question, which
is at this time of such disturbing character.
But we are constrained to turn our atten
tion to the circumstances of embarrassment as
they now exist. It is the duty of the people
of Kansas to discountenance every act or pur
pose of resistance to its laws. Above all, the
emergency appeals to the citizens of the
States, and especially of those contiguous to
the Territory, neither by intervention of non
residents in elections, nor by unauthorized
military force, to attempt to encroach upon or
usurp the authority of the inhabitants of the
Territory.
No citizen of our country should permit
himself to forget that he is - a part of its gov
ernment, and entitled tolbe heard in the deter
mination of its policy and its measures, and
that, therefore, the highest considerations of
personal honor and patriotism require him to
maintain, by whatever of power or influence
he may possess, the integrity of the Jaws of
the Republic.
Entertaining these views, it will be my
imperative duly to . exert the whole • power of
the Federal Executive to support public order
in the Territory, to vindicate its laws, wheth
er federal or local, against all attempts of or
ganized resistance; and so to protect its peo
ple in the establishment of their own institu
tions, undisturbed by encroachment from
without, and in the full enjoyment of the
rights of self-government assured to them by
the Constitution and the organic act of Con
gress. •
Although serious and threatening disturban
ces in the Territory of Kansas, announced to
me by the governor in December last, were
speedily quieted without the effusion of blood
and in a satisfactory manner, there is, I regret
to say, reason to apprehend that disorders
will continue to occur there, with increasing
tendency to violence, until some decisive
measure be taken to 'dispose of theAriestion
itself, which constitutesctllojrltieenient or
occasion of internal agit4oh-'and'of external
interference.
This, it seem to me, can best be accom
plished by providing that, when the inhabi
tants of Kansas may desire it, and shall be of
sufficient numbers to constitute a Slate, a
Convention of delegates, duly elccted by the
qualified voters, shall assemble to frame a
constitution, and thus to prepare, through reg
ular and lawful means, for its admission into
the Union as a State.
I respectfully recommend 'the enactment
of a law to that effect.
recommend, also, that a special appro
priation be made to defray any expense which
may become requisite in the,execution of the
laws or the maintenance of public order in the
Territory of Kansas.
FRANKLIN PIERCE
VVASHINGDON I January 24, 1856.
From th.; Washington Union of the 19th.
Our Diplomatic Relations with Great
Britain
The following extract of a late letter of
One of the correspondents of the Baltimore
Sun has been quoted and commented on by
the National Intelligencer as containing reli
able information :
" The cabinet have had under consideration
the expediency of suspending diplomatic in
tercourse with England, as a mode of resent
ing the refusal of the British government to
afford reparation to the United States for the
alleged violation of our laws_ and neutral
rights by recruiting troops in this country."
We think we can safely assure the edoms
of the Intelligeneer that no such" question as
the suspensfon of diplomatic intercourse with
Great Britain has been before the cabinet.—
Our relations with the government are cer
tainly delicate, and perhaps critical, but the
proposed withdrawal of our minister is not
amongst the evidences going to indicate the
delicacy of those relations. If we might in
dulge conjectures on so grave a matter, we
should venture the opinion that the action of
our government in asking the recall of Mr.
Crampton and the Consuls implicated in the
recruitment of soldiers for the Crimea fur
nishes the only foundation for the statement
quoted above. Whilst we desire by this cor
rection to avoid any unfounded apprehensions
of an impending difficulty with Great Britain,
we cannot deny that there are indeed serious
questions of difference between the two
governments which ought to be thoughtfully
considered by those members of Congress
who are obstructing the organization of the
House. Our neighbors of the Intelligencer
make an appeal on this subject which is wor
thy of attention. We quote :
" And now we would put it, in all sesious
ness, to the members of the House, if, in
view of so critical a state of the affairs of
the country, they can, without beinglterelict
to every dictate of patriotism and duty, con
sent to consume any more of the session a
triangular contest about the Speakership,
which never can be terminated without a
compromise as to the mode or the man; or
can they regard the peace of the country
secondary to pride of opinion and the tram
mels of party 1"
Two DEAD CHILDREN FOUND IN A CAR.—
On Wednesday, after the emigrant train had
changed cars at Altoona, Pa., the bodies of
two children, aged about five and two years,
were found in the vacant cars. They were
ascertained to be the children of poor German
emigrants, who had left them unburied from
necessity. They were decentlyinterred by
the citizens of Altoona.
The Public Works
The Harrisburg correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Ledger, thus details the propositions
submitted to the Governor ► and by ,him com
municated to the legislature, for thepurchase
of the main line of the Public. Works, or parts
•
thereof :
"The Governor, failing to effect a sale of
the public works in June last, pursuant to
the act of the Legislature, advertised for the
reception of sealed proposals for their sale or
lease. Two offers were received, which
were communicated t)y the Governor, and to
day opened and read in the House.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company the
following proposal for the purchase of the
Main Line ot State improvements; also, a
proposition for the Columbia Railroad only.
For the Main Line from Pniladelphia . to the
Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, including
the real estate, slips, tools, engine houses, de
pots, locomotives, cars, toll houses, lock hou
ses, water power, and other property connec
ted therewith, the sum of seven millions five
hundred thousand dollars, ($7,500,000.)
Payments to be made as follows: Five hun
dred thousand-dollars ou the 'delivery of the
works to the Company, in cash or certificates
of State loan; ten per cunt of the remainder
on the 30th day of July, one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-five, and ten per cent.
annually thereafter until the whole amount is
paid.
The instalments unpaid to bear interest at
the rate of five per cent. per annum, payable
semiannually, on the 30th day of January and
July of each year. The company to have.,
the right at any time to pay off the whole or
any portion of the purchase money, by the
delivery to the State Treasurer ot an equal
amount in certificates of State Loan. The
State to relinquish her right to put chase the
Pennsylvania Railroad, and to repeal all laws
imposing a tox on tonnage passing over said
road. The Pennsylvania, Railroad Company
will further agree to keep up the canal por
tion of the line east of the Allegheny moun
tain; also, that part of the line between Blairs
ville and Pittsburgh, until the North-Wes- '
tern Railroad shall be opened for running
from Blairsville to the Allegheny river. The
Company will also agree to purchase the
Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, at its
cost of construction, to be determined by
three eminent engineers, to be appointed by
the State with the concurrence of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, upon which sum,
so ascertained, they wilt pay forever, semi
anually, to the State Treasurer, an amount
equivalent to the dividend paid to the stock
holders of said company, on an equal portion
of capital stock.
The Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy
and Lancaster Railroad Company submit the
following propOsition for the purchase of the
Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, and all
the real estate, rolling stock and other prop
erty connected therewith—to be subject to
all The rights and privileges contained in the
charter and supplements thereto of the Har
risburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy and Lancas
ter Railroad Company. The purchase mon
ey to be four millions of dollars—one eighth
to be paid ninety days after the acceptance
of this proposal, in cash or certificates of
State loan; one-eighth on the first day of Jan
uary,, 1866, and one-eighth annually there
after, until the whole shall have been paid;
the amount of the purchase money unpaid to
bear interest at the rate of live per cent an
num, from the date of the delivery of the
road to the Company, payable on the 30th
day of January and July in each year. Pur
chase money unpaid, to be secured by a lien
upon the whole road, ft um Columbia to Phil
adelphia. The company to have the right to
pay the remaining instalments, or any por
tion of them, at any time in cash or cer titi
cares of State loan. The tax on tonage pas
sing over the H.trrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount
Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company, to be
repealed. To straighten the Philadelphia
and Columbia railroad—re-build the bridges,
which are now itt a dilapidated condition, and
complete the re-laying of the tracks of the
toad, will require fully one million of dollars.
To provide this sum, without, incurring im
measurable sacrifice, we have proposed to
make the second instalment fall due in 1866,
in the meantime interest to be paid to the
State upon an equivalent amount of State
debt. We have not deemed it necessary at
this time, ro submit a proposal for a lease of
the road, as we cannot conceive of a plan by
which the interest of the State would be pro
tected
under a lease, which would not be
equivalent to a sale of the work."
The Hog Crop
The Working Farmer states that the value
of the hog crop this year, in the United States,
will fall short of $200,000,000, or $50,000,-
000, more than the cotton crop. In the 'Uni
ted States there are believed to be 50,000,000
of hogs raised yeas ly, or more than in all the
States of Europe combined. In Great Britatn
the number is estimated at two million, of
which Ireland has a large proportion, and
Scotland nearly two hundred thousand. Aus
tria has about five million swine, and Austri
an Italy 250 000. France has from five mil
lion to six million. Russia has an immense
number of wild hogs, but they are merely
skin and hone, valuable principally for their
bristles. It is estimated that ninety-six mil
lion pounds of lard are made in the United
States, of which twenty millions are made in
Cincinnati. England and Cuba each take
annually nine million pounds of American
lard.
NOTICE
LETTERS of administration, de Zonis-non,
on the estate of 'Wm. Buchanan, deceased,
having been granted to the undersigned, all
persons still inebted to the estate of said de
ceased, are requested to Make immediate pay
ment, and those having claims, not heretofore
presented to the former administratrix or her
attorney are requested to make them known.
SAMUEL T. BROWN,
Admin'r. de bonis non.
Huntingdon Jan. 901,1856
Norcross' Rotary Planing Machine,
IV - ANTED—To sell the Rights and Ma.
V V chines for a Rotary Planing, Tonguing
and Grooving Machine, for boards and plank, un
der the Norcross Patent, Also, the attachment
of the Moulding Machine, which will work a
whole board into mouldings at one operation.—
This patent has been tried, and decided in the
Supreme Court in Washington, lo be no in.
fringement, being superior to Woodworth's Ma.
chine.
Apply to 3. D. DALE, Willow Street above
Twelfth, Philadelphia, where the Machine can
be seen in operation .
January 16th, 1856. —3m.
GE O. GWIN,
LL sell off his Summer stock of dress
\'
i'V goods at reduced prices,
August 14, 5 .
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