LEWISBURG CHRONICLE 0 BY 0. N. WORDEN & J. E. CORNELIUS. YEAR XII....W1I0LE NUMBER, C14. . At $1,50 Per Year, always is Advance. LEWISBURG, UNION CO., PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1856. Ax Ixdefexdext Family and Netts Journal. Sfljt (Sljronidc. FRID.1T, J IX. IS, 1N6. OlilGINAL ESSAYS. Communicated for the LewUbarc Chronicle. And may wo not,without bauishing the honor or glory of the apostles and prime movers in the Protestant Reforniatiou,add to their names such men as Carey and Judson, the pioneer missionaries ? They live and will live as long as truth conflicts with error. The names of Clarkson, Wil berforce, Howard, and Washington, the patriot, warrior, statesman, and more than petuated, tho' they no longer live among men. Tbe first Mrs. Judson and Harriet Newell, fearless and devoted missionaries, Man a Self-Survivor. "Know thyself!" was tho sage counsel of a heathen philosopher. What aut.ject of j ,11 tj,e fathor 0f county are BtjH per- ttudy can De more interesting auu pruum ble, than that of man, considered both morally and intellectually ? How bound less this field of inquiry I A Iile-time o! j w;ii retain tuj.;r hoi j on mortal jife unlil investigation and thought would not be j tue c,rtu js no more. Their praise will be sufficient to reveal all that can be known tbe theme of many a soug, carroling thro' of him. Conjectures are numberless ; yet j castcrn plains and wafted joyously to the doubt has not given place to absolute cer-1 crjjs 0f Ciirt,. They, and such like tainty. The subject is surrounded by them, can not perish; their very foot-prinU impenetrable mists, into which the most can never be effaced, gifted and learned have endeavored to push j We have now seen and for further their inquiries in vain. All have been ! proof we need but refer to the history of obliged to confess, that humac knowledge 1 past generations that the mere victims of lias its imperfections and necessary limits, j sordid avarice, ambition, and cruelty, do These questions, What ami: what is life? is the soul immortal T have perplexed even as meeting less aud less tbe wants of our ; chair to mi no as close as be could, aud country, it ia clear that the standard of whispered that (hey were not able to send respectability for this clam nf our pnpula- him. I don't know a better test than that ti'tH needs raising. Farm Colleges and of whether our ministers are adequately Farm Schools are excellent seed-sowers for provided for. I know there are some peo this. They are principally endowed and I n!o who do not care what a minister sets. started as Public Institutions, however, and as such are cumbrous and slow to get into popular operation beside the politi cal bias and sectarianism that are among their difficulties. While grafts and seed lings from theso nurseries may doubtless Some people think, I have no doubt, that when Dr. Candlisb or I go to tbe pul pit, we have nothing to do but open our mouths, aud out come the sermons like water out of a pump. Some people think that all other professions may be respecta- survive ; and so do the enthusiast, tbe fanatic, and the infidel. But no friendly result has been unsatisfactory. From I are departed. Their memories, in all that Revelation alone, we learn that man is : is good, have passed into oblivion. Only immortal. How thrilliug the fact ! the great, because good, arc self-survivors Leaving this general view, we purpose , in a far nobler and higher sense. Entailed to treat our subject in a more limited aud j blessings aro the fruits and evidences of restricted aspect. In the history of every their present life. Their goodness, their one, there are times when the great ques-1 kindness, their heroism, have given them tion naturally occurs to tho mind, Shall 1 1 a right to live to the end of time. Their survive my death J will the living who i moral actions have rendered them imnior may kindly visit my grave hear angel voi- tal. Their names are for ever engraven ces saying, She is not here ? and as they , on h. e-blcis or memory, and future gen point to the place where the broken casket j crations will breathe the fervent prayer to lies will they also point to the skies where heaven that they too may be like them. the fair jewel still reflects upon earth the 8- lustre and glory of moral results? The Farmers' Boys, fact yet remains, confirmed by the testim- Uaving bespoken some chestnut post ony of past ages, that man will survive his ; log, a while ago, from a farmer in the death. "Abel being dead yet speaketh." niuuntain, I found them duly delivered on What constitutes man a self-survivor : i the different spots as directed ; but it was . be transferred to any soil or distance, aud ; blc, but that it is quite reasonable that a do well, it is safer, we mny say, to have minister should be a poor man. I know the p!autfrt take root ichere it is to grow, a small town where a dancing-master, who My object, at least, is to show how boys j spends five weeks of the year, carries might be made farmers in this neighbor- j away, for teaching the children to kick np h'Kxl, and commence the acquirement, j their heels, more money than two worthy here, of a farmer's independence of means. ; secession ministers of tbe place get all the I may treat the subject somewhat locally, year round. Some think a minister is all perhaps; but the material that I find arouud me at Idlewild, may be suggestive to others, of more to be found elsewhere, and so give incidental impulse to an in quiry by which every neighborhood may profit. A'. P. Willi' Idleicild Letters. Home Journal. The Support of ministers. fExtract from a speech of Rev. Mr. the greatest philosopher. Every principle I prayers are uttered over their memories j in natural religion bas been canvasscd,and I no sweet garlands adorn their brow. They reason has exerted bet it tn find the that pass by in coming generations do not solution of these difficult problems; but the , sigh over tncir g... mnnrn that thev C ,hri. of th KW ih.ireh of Scotland'. ... a r . 17- . J rri 11 .1 . L r 11 1 . - i ..' ueiore a meeting canea 10 consider me subject of the support of ministers : Look across the Atlantic to America, and you find that there they are complain ing that all the energy, talent, and power of the rising youth of that country are going to other professions and mercantile busiuess instead of the Church. Look across the Irish Sea, and you will find the same thing at Ulster J.ok to own citv of r.l60W Iu which, I am there is a singularly small number of stu dents coming out for the ministry of the Free Church. That is to me a most mel ancholy fact. Cut I da not wonder at it; I am at liberty to devote myself to pover ty, if I choose; but I don't know that I am at liberty to devote my family to the poverty ministers must lay their account with. I do not want wealth in the Church ; I cio not want the Free Church to be a rich Church; I do not want the attractive ness of wealth setup; but I want the People not till the last of the eight or ten loads, that I chanced to sec the teamster. He was throwing off the heavy sticks and lay in? them in a neat rile. as I came un. and I stopped to take a second look at the ! repulsivcness of poverty removed Wealth often gives its possessor a place in the annals of fame, or purchases a right to an epitaph or a monumental urn. Croesus obtained a page in history and a line on ek. M marl, I What elso was there in kl. life emulated to neretuate his name? dexterity and ease with which it was done. ! ulk of uini,c being spiritual men, but Had not great wealth been his, he would . He was a slight-made handsome little fel- 1 wlsh ,0 kuow lf ,be' tLl"k 1 cau kKfP long since have been forgotten. ! low, not quite fifteen years of age ; and j UP a hoi! of s,x f"e foand-a-half inches Ambition without just aims may give j with that double team and as heavy loads j ou alr 1 ren"-'u'! " addressing a country lasting eclat to an Alexander or a Napolc-! as could well be lade upon a wagon, be j eongregalw". u.intcr of which is one on and yet how little in their history j had made the trips alone the four miles i of tL Lavlcst d,K",or3 "f dlv",l m tLe deserves the applause, and bow much the distance being mainly doscent down the ! Churoh auJ wbo La alm,nS Ll8 execrations of man. Avarice has immor- mountain-tide, and by as precipitous and oue of U, most P divines, and talized in sacred writ, Nabal, and Gehazi, ! rough a road as could well be called pas- j atk,D8 "hclher thc ,be-,,: fneBj3 UP the servant of Elisha. Cruelty has rend- sable. Twice back and forward between ' tbc,r corP"ratluus ou alr cred infamous and given an enduring name j sunrise and night, he did what would be ! lt 13 ver' ,0 Ulk about mm,sters to Nero, Caligula, and Kobespierre. called a fair day's work for a hired man ' Lt,nS men of (T""ua'',.' w"'b "we Infidelity perpetuates Julian the apost- at a dollar a day. " I J r . . .... .. .... .. aitnli t .lTrnKu tn n.niMii.L. ll-.t n. am .! Constantly applied tr, as editors natur-, " ' ......wv. ally are, for information as to "places" for ?f Ilke Prions with themselves, aud like mjI A V,rA fmm hundreds of I bovs in the citv-and the rape throughout i I"Iirm"R's t0- 1JV a"at,ue n, Lord, admirers, yearly ovations. These live. They j the country seeming to be to plunge all j IeaJ us not ,D(0 temptation; and I want can not die. "boys that mean to be anything," into ! CTerv Christian parent to be delivered Founders of false and perverted systems the seething chaldron of city life-I have from the "P"" t0 wblth 1 know 8jme of religion, are mlao self survivors. Maho- j felt my curiosity, for tbe year past, turned Lav0 of ,ur,,,uS awa' tbe a?P,ra- med, the prophet of fire and sword, lives 1 1 1 such casual observation as I could make tl0DS of tbe,r ch,Mreu lro,n tbe UJ. in the memory of the millions who daily of tho loonditioa in the country. The and JirecllnS tl ui t0 ''"'r! lucrative occu bout, "There is but one God, and Maho- j above-mentioned instance is one of many 1 Patl0D- Aud 1 waul our -vuunS UU:U uf i. hi. r,ronhet " Josenh Smith, the tht I havo noted, a. illustrative of the ! taleut t0 bo J-''";ireJ lr"" tlle tempatinn r--r ' - ate, and boasts of Hume, Gibbon and Vol taire, while Thomas Paine, the profligate founder of Mormoniim, may resolutely contest with the false prophet his claim to a perpetual life. Circumstances (for man is but their crea- value of boy-labor. With my farming neighbors, and with working men, I have gossipped considerably about the propor tion of farm work that requires tbe mam tore) often confer an unenviable and last-! strength of a man, the treatment of boys ing notoriety. Indeed, nothing more may J generally, the cost of their clothing aud Ki ntmun than a few strands of hemp. , nrlionliric. and the nnnnrtunitics riven ' " j I .n i.. r i i - i :. Earl Dudley of British history, and the ' them for reading or relaxation. I have i u,cu- x lu" -uu " "lu of oooiog tlit.ir l.rprlireu made comfortable in other professions while they are ground down with difficulties. Aud I don't want our ministers to be doing what I kuow some of them arc doing, maintaining them selves on their privalo means ou what i does not belong to tbem but to their clul- .ifJ but rinff Prof. Webster of our own i coma to the conclusion that the worst trca- I ,n m? owu carfl' ,u 3 owu uou,c "J lwo country, are fit illustrations. I ud citizen, of our "great and glorious Re-! m03t spectatle ministers of our Free If th .Mlthv Cro.sus. tho ambitious ' ,,-Wfc." is the lo on a farm. It seems ! Cburcb' ,uat tbe VurJ Ust profc-ioii on Alexander, the avaricious Nabal, the cruel . also very evident to me that there is no Nero, still survive, yet it docs not destroy j occupation, at which while learning the th integrity of that inspired declaration, j art of it, a boy can so well earn his liveli- " The memory of the wicked shall rot. j hood and rcscrvo some daily leisure for himself. And it seems to me, too, that considering the healthiness of it, the out door variety of its work and the neighbor- hood of rural liberty and amusements, the the better for being kept poor. There was a friend of mine who was assistant to his father, a seceding minister, and got jCSO a year, while ihe father got 100. After his father's death, the question was wheth er the miuister should be kept at his old allowance of 80, or get the 100, like his father. Whereupon an honest man stands up in tbe congregation, and said, " Modcrawtur, Aw'ia clear for keepin' the lad tao tb anghty, and my reason is just tins, tbat the Church never bad ministers since she was a Church like them she had when they went aboot in sheep Vskios aud goats' skins, and lived in holes an' cavea o' the earth." Well, that is all very well ; but I would bo glad to know what the Edinburgh people would think of Dr. Caudlish and me if we weTe seen walking in Prince's-Btreet, my worthy friend in a goat'a skin, and your bumble servant in the clothing of a snecp t i meet tuai um, narrow-minded, worthy man, by the high authority of Matthew Henry, and I am disposed to leave the whole question in his hands. He said, and I believe tbe experience of the world will prove it, that a scandalous maintenance makes a scan dalous ministry. Poverty and piety are not identical things. I have high ideas of the office of the ministry. With Paul, I would so magnify my office that I would like to see the finest genius and the noblest talent in the couutry devoted to that noblest offec. Of course, I desidcr-! ato piety that is the first thing; but I am nut one of those who think that God generally works by tbe weakest iustru-1 ment, though ho may do so to show his power. Fur that cause God called forth the wisdom and statesmanship of Moses, the poetry of David, the imagination of Isaiah, the buruing fervor of Ezekiel, the pathos of Jeremiah, the lgic and elo quence, of the Apostle Paul for that e.iuie God sent down bis own angels from heaven ; and more than that, and above that, for that cause God sent down his, own blessed Son. I set the pulpit in the highest position which any man can occu py on earth; and I desire, piety being grauted, to see tbe first genius and the noblest talent of our country consecrated to the service of my blessed Master. I do not speak for uiyseif aud existing breth ren. We will very soon be mouldering in the dust. But I am exceedingly anx ious for the fate of the Free Church, that ihe vexations and annoyances of debt and j d:fficulty be taken out of the way of the rising ministry, and God grant such liber ality to you and others that our youth may see no obstruction in the poverty of the ministry in coming to lay their noble taleuts at tbe feet of Jesus. STATE TREASURER'S REPORT. To the Senate and Jlue of Erpretrntatites of the Vomnumwtatth of rcnwytoania. Gentlemk.v : Ky tbe act of the General Assembly of the 16th of March,1832, it ia made the duty of the State Treasurer "to prepare aud lay before the General As sembly, at the commencement of every sessiou, a report on tbe subject of Finance, cootaiuing eaiimates of the public revenue, and public expenditures, and plans fur tbe support of public credit, and for improving or increasing the revenues from time to time, for the purpose of giving information to tbe General Assembly in adopting modes of raising money requisite to meet the public expenditures." In compliance with the provisions of that act, I have prepared aud submit to your consideration the fol lowing lleport, for the year ending SOih of November, 1855. The receipts at the Treasury during the last fiscal year amounted to 85,390,474 II; to this is to be added tbe sum of 11,240, 923 72, the balance reported to be in the Treasury at the commencement of tbe fiscal year ; making the gross amount, available to tbe State for this period, 86,031,402 83. The expenditures for all purposes during the same period, including the payment of interest ou tbe public debt,tne redemption of a portion of the temporary and other loans, to complete tbe iNorth Jirancn canal, and to avoid the inclined planea on tbe Allegheny Portage railroad, and to relay tbe south track on tbe Columbia railroad, were 85,385,705 52, leaving a balance in the Treasury, on the 30th day of Novem ber last, of $1,245,697 31. By a state ment of the account, tb following result is exhibited : Rra-lpU during the SksI ran $5,390,471 11 Biluca reported in Iinnq, N'or. 30, '34 1.2I0.8J) H assistance. Tbe fact that 11,942,376 71 ten' titcd by this eurprus fund, is by antki wis received from the Public WoiLs, aud ! paling the payment of the interest on tho nubile debt, aul requiring from the loau h ;!i rj a premium for such payment at the rate of suy four per cent, per annum. At tbe end of each mouth, the balance remaining in tbu Treasury, alter paying the ordinary current expense oi tna tbat but 8-1,000 remained in tbu bands! of tbe collectors at tbe close of the year, and a largi portion of that being for salar ies due them, speaks well for tbeir gener al promptness and fidelity. The following named counties paid into 1 the taxes act of tbe 29th of April, 1S14, they were I t0 ,il0 ln-tlJer- of the amount n hi severally allowed the abatement to which I Lauda applicable to that purpose. Kur the law entitled them, yit : Adsuis, Alle- Per '"S B0 n,ach ltiow the ord.na. eheny, Beaver, Berks, Bradford, Bucks, rJ 'e of interest, wou.d inuuee tie pub. Carbon, Chester, Clarion, Columbia, Craw- j llc "editors to come forward with alacrity ford, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, j tu lhlr mtereat iu advance, dtduct- Erie, Fayefe, Franklin, Greene, Juuiata, ' ,ns5 lLe premium or discount required Lancaster. Lawrence. Lebanon. Luzerne. ! J adSlr-g fron tbe iare balances that hava Lebich. Mercer. Mifflin. Monnmery. ! bceu !cit probably will continue to Treasury their respective quotas of . outb. 'Slti fce depa-itel with th for the current vear, prior to tbe ! fe' Iit '-Ieeted by the Commonwealth fjr , of August, and as ajihorixed by the tue I'a3 ment vt ,the mtmst, giving notir Amount of RtTtnaa e,&n,4u2 la Am't rf orlinry or permanent txpenditnrM $ 1,139,512 2S KitraonltDary ezpeoditure, vis. North Uranrb Canal ti7.562 67 Allfirh'iiv !rtag Railroad 446.762 13 South track Columbia Kailroad ldXluO 00 IWtWtlio? ot loana 316,1 t'0 lU'luf noua l!wJ,-SJ.i.i.o,iw z Total amount of Expenditures Balance la Tn-uurj, Doc 1, loitit Mi,70i 12 e,31,4ui U It will be observed from these statements that the ordinary revenues of the Common wealth have exceeded the ordinary expen ditures of the year a fraction over a millicn and a quarter of dollars. By the subjoined statement, collated from former reports of this department, it will appear tbat there bas been a steady increase of the ordioary revenues of tbe Commonwealth, averaging nearly a quarter of a million of dollars snnuilly since 1849, while tbe ordinary expenditures in the same period increased but a fraction over uinety thousand dollars per annum, bavins reached their culmina ting point in 1854, being S170.728 64 less in the fiscal year of 1855 than they were in the previous year : Total rwwiptu for 14 f4.4ta.fS8 S Leloananl premiums on loana 492,714 til Oruinarjr n-venue 4.0W.tT4 04 Ordinary txsrnUiturfrt 3,617,227 63 Tntal rrcipu for 15.0 4.1-8 1.11 SI Leu loan IRO.UUU UD Orllnarr revenue 4,16S,1M 51 Ordinary eaprnditura 3,:t),.'6d 29 Total ript ir lsil 4.570..T93 81 Leaa ln.. and a publicprop'j 22.3.4 M Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Philadelphia, Somerset, Schuylkill, Union, Washington, Westmoreland aud York. The receipts from taxes on real and per sonal property exceeded those of lv-t year $210,711 40. The amount of abatement paid ia correspondingly large. It ia a question worthy of consideration by the be, on hand, as well as the constant de luand for moneys, the Commonwealth would, by tho plan suggested, gain an amouut eqnal to twu per cent, per annum on the whole amount of interest paid by ber ; and which, with very little additional expense in tbe payment of the interest, would be a clear aaving to the Treasury of C -1 I f.,.. .1 1 ,'..1! . ll uruisiaiuic, niiDiuci ll, nkuri uui ac t'l v I irL r . t . j .v 1 be revenues from tax on real and per per to change the law, so aa to reduce the , . ,, . , r . 6 , c . .t . ; sonal property, and from bank dividends per ccutajre from five to three per cent, . r ." , , . r ,- " , , . , , ,r . aud corporation stocks, bavins been almost and in all cases allow the abatement di- I , ,. r-, .... V ? ..... , 1 . fuilv pud wttbin the fiscal year, thus rect to the tax payer, in my judgment - , r. ., . , . ' ' ., that amount would prove a suoieient in- , - ., 0 . . , , ,, , . . i-:,Arif tLa r:.r anil the, nrat iltv nf 1-1 centive to prompt payment, while 11 would . J , .. , . ' . .. save a large amount annually to the Trea sury. The increased receipts within tbe year from the county Treasurers aro doubtless act of the 7th of May, 1855, a large ap propriation for the repairs of the canals und railroails is now due, I have thought if noliftf tn wirhtinT I tlin further n&uuivnfc attributable, in nart to the law of the ,ih . ol,tenir;oritr. or otner ioan. due D- tba of May, lSijo, requiring ot County lreas-1 J unti, after t'htt yehJ nrers monthly reports of daily receipts, - , . , , ,' . lf . CtCC i.. . , . , . - ; luicust Du.ii ua.c irttu aim. aj y i 11 , 1 ip , 1 1 c ence to the annexed tables of estimated vuucdcu. a ti E.1.U1 u uv auiiiuiaiioa 111 the law, it has been found necessary to multiply the number of public deposito- revenues and expenditures for the present year, you will observe tuat there will re main a balance in the Ireasury sufficiently ries : for bv the rrovisior.s or this ant. the 1 . . . ' ' , '., ; larce, alter payme tne ordinary expenses State Treasurer can only enforce monthly ; . b ' tb. MJeH on ,ha counties within which ih..rn PULi;c loaDS 01 10J aDa l0. "UU tory for public moneyj." Many of rthe i f f ' am0Unt",S t0&Ctller ,a tUe ,um r..nt T,.. t,. ..... 1 I Of 3. 1,000. faithful in complying with the requisitions ! In clo8!nP 'P0 1 "Ot f jrbear of this law, while others, after rep-aUd i l Cu,nSraiula! Kfrcscntatiw. of tho prompting,, have continued to treat it as 1 H'9. f i Ccn,moBWeal,h ?.Pon h a dead letter. The effect of the Jaw, ! " .'"T'i "! vui 01 though a, yet only partially obeyed, bus : finaa0ii ,au "edlt, of ,he W had such a salutary iiiflueuoe in securing 1 laTC arnv f. ,Le ,U6S J anxiously the prompt and speedy payments of j d?irid ln 0Ur fiuauc:aI, tor revenues, that I would su-r-est, that suah waeB tL? Pe,Iuanent S0Ur9 J penalties should te annexed to its viole, 1 "e ,0' Mj,.e" n r"tler' ttaa ,hs tion.as to insure a ireneral eomnlin. ! ""7 e?r of the government. with its crovUions. i V "J ,Ue eame lru?ail,y economy in tl.o nrii... tl.a, ,.,i ,. ti. nituaireuem oi puono ali:irs, tiat there has been a large balance remainiu- ! Iro'lucei t0'' dewrabto result, and in the Treasurv, and aueh must contiLu" i tho C0,ntl3uaBee f tn9 Mnje Sclent sys to be he casein couseqnence of the prad-; ? rcTe"'ae ,!" Tetans ".'";. ual receipts of the revenues, and only a j mnit'nS witfc 1 the constant appreciation of semi-annual disbursement of one-half the ! FrorfrtJ aJ extension of business, wo rwint. hin .!, r.,rm..i ,.r ! sn3!1 realize, at ni distant day, tho con- the Public Debt, imable at stated r,erirl J suu,.mati" M. devoutly wished for-the Equally true is it that " the name of the righteous shall be Lad in everlasting remembrance." The good also survive. Tho prophets, the apostles, and the martyrs in the cause j ease and simplicity of its acquirements as of truth, though centuries have elapsed a pursuit, aud the certainty and readiness since they lived, yet they come down to us with which its knowledge can be early till breathing holy influences upon a pol- practiced for himself, it might be, of all luted earth. Their impress is npon all the ; apprenticeships tho most attractive to a good. Tbey live again in each of the num berless lives inspired by their deeds and animated by their spirit Nor can they ever die, for truth and holy principles are ternaL Confucius, who seems to have approached 0 Dear to the purity and simplicity of Christian truth, in bis precepts and max ims, still lives embalmed in the memory of a mighty nation. But though he lives, bis life is not destined to be universal, like the prophets and apostles, for principles and maxims mingled with error can never upplaot the pur and the holy. Only truth can have unlimited life, for it alone suits all the beings God has created. The intrepid Luther, and the gentlo Melanc thon ; the learned Calvin, and the crafty Erasmus ; the Bohemian Reformer, John Hum, and Jerome of Prague, each pos sessed such qualities as gave them imper ishable lustre and enduring life. These men possessed the spirit and lived over the lives of the apostles and earlier mar Jf. Unchanging fame and lasting honors 4-9 due them. boy. I wish to write down a few suggestions on this subject but with no aim to direot any present reform in country-boy condi tion. The present race of short-sighted and tyrannical farmers, who take boys from the work-houses, and "get all they can out of 'em," must die off first Public opinion must be so changed, and boys' rights so well understood, as to overrule farm tyranny and is a work of time. The pauper boy will not be decently treat ed, probably till tho next generation. But, meantime, the rush of "all the in telligence" to the cities needs to be check ed farming needs to be rescued from its present stigma of being "only work for the stupid one who can do nothing else" education and seience need to be added to tho farmer's business necessities and (last and perhaps not least) pride in it, as a profession for a manly boy to prefer, is to be carefully contrived for and sustained. With our American shop-keeping getting to be more and more overdone, and our American farmjog yaaily complained of, j f urER-riiosriiATE op Limb as a Fer- ' ULlZElt. We were iudueed, last spring, 1 on the recommendation, of a friend, to use earth to which they would rear a son was I gome sr.r.FHi!,hatc of lime upon some that of a Free Church minister. That is j Curu wLk.h wf wtrc plantig. Ia orJcr a sad aud melancholy state of matters, , make tbe GXperiincat fairly, we left one wnicu win do most injurious to our free row of cora w;,hout any of this fertilizer. LUurcti. And Jet me tell you that there Th ;,. lur.K n nlad tb ..rr. - -" " " - f r - phosphste came up the first, grew tbe are Free Church ministers who havo not that in their power though they had it in their wish. I once entered a lovely Free Church manse. Tbe miuister, a most de vout, excellent man, who would be an honor to any Church, was from home, aud his lady in conversation told me that she had a son who bad been attending Edin burgh College. I said I would be most happy to see him, and presumed, on learn ing ho bad not been up last session, that he was in bad health. When I sympa thized with her on that understanding, a most painful expression passed over her face, and I, seeing it was a painful sub ject, dropped it. I thought to myself now, that son has turned out to bo a mo ther's heart-break ; like other sons, he has gone away with a mother's prayers and tears on his cheek, and a father's blessing on his head, and has become the victim of some of tho vices of our largo towns. But I began to think again it is possible that that young man may have been kept there at home, and lost tbe best year of his life because of the difficulty of sending him to college. So, after conduc ting worship in the inn where I was living, I slid the conversation on to tbe manse and the minister, and said, By the bye, the minister's son was not at tbe college last session, do you know the reason why 1 Upon which, to tho credit of the man's family, which is as good as money saved, kindly feeling and delicacy, bo drew bis . weij as eajne Wnf; raukest, and looked the best all through the season. A week ago to-day we har vested the crop, and, as all the piece was equally manured beforo the super-phosphate, was applied, and had equal culture, we give the result of our experiment Gathering aud husking the row without super-phosphate, we fouud the ears weigh ed 3G lbs., not ten of which were bard or perfect, having suffered from the frost some four weeks ago, whilo the next was perfectly matured and the ears weighed GO pounds. We arc convinced that the super phosphate saved our entire crop of corn, although ' we used only a table-spoonful in a bill. Chelsea Telegraph. Tuk Garden. No land pays a higher rate of interest than the humble, despised garden. The quantity of vegetables which it can be made to produce, almost exceeds belief; and farmers may well open their eyes, when told that under good manage ment two acres of a garden will ba more profitable than 20 acres of a farm, as it is usuallv conducted. In the vicinity of cities and large towns, the raising of vege tables for market is conducted on a large scale, and is very lucrative, and even the poor man can, by his own labor at odd times, secure an abundance of food for his Ordinary nienue 4-347,520 73 Ordinary cxprndituns 3,sis,76 66 Total racfipla for 152 7,716,552 17 Leas tonus, Ac. 3,237,2 30 Ordinary rrwenue 4,47S.999 87 Ordinary expenditures 4,029,426 14 Tntal receipt for ISii .4.T70 09 Us lo.,i,.. ac 4,52;, 33 ordinary revenue 4,659,232 75 Ordinary exeriditurea 4218,1,9 90 Total rripl for lbv4 ,9S3,670 66 Leas loan.-, Ac. i4i,D2i 01 Ordinary rt-Tenne 5.206.042 85 Ordinary expenditures 4,31u4d 92 Total receipt, tor lsoi 5,300,474 11 o.uatiiorextraiiuitiaryreeviit. . Ordinary revenue 6,390,474 11 Oramary vapeudiluree 4,13il12 2S These figures exhibit an annually aug menting revenue without a corresponding increase in the expenditures, and which will doubtless coutiuuo to keep pace with tbe rapidly increasing value of real and personal property throughout the Common wealth. Tbey also exhibit the gratifying fact, that fur tbe first time in many years, no loau bas been negotiated, aud that tho ordinary sources of reveuue supplied all tbe purposes of the government, and 1 take pleasure in statiug that no such loan will be required, tho balaucc in tbe Treas ury at the close of the fiscal year, beiug sufficiently large after adding to it tbe or dinary receipts from tbat period to the first of February next, so meet the paymeut of the semi-annual interest on the State debt theu due, as also to meet such ordinary demands as may in the meantime be made ou the Treasury. Notwithstanding large extraordinary ex penditures were made on the upper North riraoch Canal, on the Allegheny Portage Kailroad, and on the south track of tue Columbia Kailroad, and the heavy pay meut of old debts, due prior to the com mencement of the last fiscal year, yet by a table annexed, it will appear, tbat the State Debt has been reduced within the year SGJO.OOl 02; and tbat at tbe termi nation of the year, the balance in the Treasury is a fraction larger than it was at the close of tbe previous year. Ibis is a most encouraging and gratifying eoudition of affairs to all the citizens of this Com monwealth. It demonstrates to them that if the present revenue laws are rigid ly enforced, with a judicious and economi cal management of our Public Works, if no lavish and unnecessary appropriations be made, the Treasury will be able to meet all tbe ordinary demands of government, nav promptly tho interest npon the public debt, and retain annually a large surplus fund to be applied to tbe final extinguish ment of the debt itself, thus affording hope and encouragement to the people of their complete disentbralment from a burden which weighs so heavily upon their indus try and energy, and npon ail the interests of the Commonwealth. Tbe prompt collection of the revenues received my early attention, and I feel tbat I am but doing an act of justice when I state, that so far as securing the pay ment of tht revenues from tbe publio im provements is oonoerned, tbe Canal Com missionere gave mo most efficient aid and This payment of the interest usually re ceives the first and largest share of the Treasurer's attention, and having made 000 paymeut, he commences accumulating fur the next, thus keeping constantly a Urge amount of money idle in tbe Tretis ury. Tbe Legislature should, if possible, devise some plan by which this monev could be made to yield seme return to the State, gradual, but final extinguishment of our entire public debt ELI SLIFER, Jan. 2, 1855. State Treasurer. A Sad Picture of the Mormons. A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune who recently conversed with an intelligent gentleman ftotn Uub, says that ha gave a horrible account of the moral and social To accomplish thi?, it has been condition of the Mormons, with whom ha suggested, that, as funds accumulate be- j sp"nt some months. IIo left them wal yond tbe current and ordinary wants of ow-s Jeeper Ml, j ;0 the d h of the Treasury, th-y might be loaned to the n.u r. i . - . r Banks, at such rate of interest as might be ' 'S. certainty of going agreed upon. After much reflection upon ; ;rom baJ ,0 wrse tlU ,he wtoIe fi"r'0 of the subject, I am clearly of the opinion j imposture is exploded by the miseries it that both tbe safety of the public fuuds, ! created aud diffuses. Hi! says tbe womea aud the iuterest of trade and businecs, i are nearly all anxious to fly from the hor would be hazarded by such disposition of ! rib!e . e-pciailv those wLo have been these reveuues. Luder such au arrange-i , ,., ., - -. , - . nieut, the weaker aud more needy of ,1. i eW M the ves' of the Bauks would most probably secure the j scoaQjr;1!y hypocrites who propagate and loans, by ulLring a higher rate of iuterest 1 ur'13'i 'his uiuusiroue delusion. Nearly thau tbe more himly established would be ! all the leaders have from three woman, williug to pay, and receiving aud return- J each, np to Brigham Young's seventy, ing it iu large sums, would be calculated 9oni0 of whom make a poor living by wash, to cause sudden and dangerous inflations 1 ., - -. 1 a. . 1 , , t .1 , ing the clothes of the. Luitea butes sol- aud coutractious of the currency in the , 0 ., , , , , , ... community iu which such Banks would be d,er- Hundreds of these deceived, abus- Toeated. A provisiou of this kind would. ' eJ women, secretly attempt to beg tho in my judgment, to say the lea-it, commit privalege of coming away with the troops the keeping of the money and credit of the and trains passing from timo to time thro' f I. ... .1 ...... f..l X. ...1. a .. r. . . C'liuuiouweaith to doubtful bauds. Au- ! or coming from Salt Lake city, but this .t. 1 - . .1 . .1 , , iv. .1 1 . 1 1 1 cannot be allowed. Nearly all would get should be three depositories selec'ed, aud . , , , , ' . all moucys couiiug into the Treasury awaJ lf theT couM- Such pictures of dis bhould at once be paid into ono or the 1 tress and despair as are presented by many other of those depositories ; without, how- j cf these deceived and abused women, can ever, requiring any remuneration from ; be found nowhere else than in Utah, them for such deposites. I must confess , uUD(ired3 0f ,bCm never heard nor dream I have been unable to perceive either the , , .... -,..., ;fj., , ,;i a , . . j GU VI luc Eifiiiiu.i e i.b ojJivm taunt justice or propriety of such a proposition. , , , . , - , . If the Treasury is to reeeive no advantage I harit uPnn th'r "n1"11 Isl0n " tbeip from the deposites, and they are advnnis-1 arrival at Salt Lake. And such a ruix geous to the Bauks, aud to a certain degree ture of profanity and blasphemy, nonsense, 10 the busiuess community in which tho ; impudent assumption, and buffoonery, as Bauks are boated, theu it would seem but u eolaine(I iD thcir S.ral0ns ,nd othcr just and reasonable tbat such advantages ,. . . , , - should be distributed as equally a-possible ! rel,'0U!' tMDot he fheed in among all the Banks of tho State. In j ,he worlJ; A '"" ot any account accordance with these views, where money j is carefully watched from tho hour ba was collected aud deposited in any localitv, I ventures amoos them, and there is littlo I have permitted it to remain, until it was j gcruple as to the means whereby a trouble- - . : 1 r t 1 1 r J m. required for snmo purpose of public ex penditure. Where a community has been prompt in tho paymeut of their dues to the Commonwealth, and that money was not needed immediately by the State, I have considered it mere in accordance with justice that it should remain in its origiu al depository, for tho benefit in some de gree of the community that had placed it there, than that it should be immediately some intruder is disposed of. IiioiiEa Law or tu Jesuits. Th Harri.-bur g II-rald says : "It is related of Dr. De Barth, the Jesuit priest aud Vi car General of Pennsylvania, that when told by a brother be could cot take tha oath of naturalizaton to America without violating the oath of ordination to the transferred to some Banks in Philadelphia, j Roman FoutilT, Jie pronounced it 14 mistake, I'ittsburg or Ilarriaburg : especially, as no and promptly remarked that any part of remuneration was required from such g-n- the 4.a of allesi,nc9 to this country eral depositories for the advantage derived ... . .-li. -,t, , .r . . .. . " .... nrhirh ma ho lnenuinatibie WUU the first from the use of tho public funds'. What , ,, . . .1 .-it claim can a few ind.vidua's in 1'hilade.l- nd jester allegianse to the 1 ontiff, is of pbia, I'iitsburg, or Harrisburg have to the exclusive use, and to a the benefits de rived from such use, of the State funds, without equivalent, tbat may not with equal justice and propriety bo set up in favor of any other citizens of the State of equal responsibility ? The only feasible plan which has suggested itself to my mind, by which tho Treasury mlj:ht l-v Tbe editor of th- Boston Liberator calls npon the ladies of the North to make use of nothing that is produced by slave labor. Us needn't expect, says the Louisville Journal, them not to u$e cotton. The will not expel so old a friond font llo'r bioo - '
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