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The whole art ok Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson.
VOL. 3.
STROUDSB ORG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1843.
Kr; "4 I.
NOTICE
Or those who arc afiout to build
or repair.
The timdersigncd respectfully informs the
public iliat he is duly authorised to sell the
Right of the Johnson Re-acting Water wheel,
to the counties of Monroe and Pike, patented
the 22d day of June, A. D. 3 840.
The Johnson rc-acting wheel is the best now
in use to propel a saw mill; it excels any other
wheel in the United States under a low water
head; under a head from 5 to 7 feet is suffi
cient to cut from 2 to 3000 feel in twelro hours
of inch or any other boards with ease. The
wheels require, under a 7 fool head, 140 inches
of water and so in proportion to any other head.
Under, a 7 foot head, the Saw will make from
200 io 250 strokes per minute. The advan
tage which those wheels have over any other
wheels is, thai it requires hut four pasta to make
the floom or bulk head; the wheels are hung on
the crank shaft. Two wheels are what is re
quired for a Saw mill, and the posts planked in
side the same as a pen stock. I have built one i
of those mills this season, on the Roaring
Brook, in Luzerne county, fjr Mr. S. P. Tem
plin, under about a 7 foot head, which will cut i
from 3 to 4000 in twelve hours of inch boards;
therefore, 1 can recommend them as the best
wheels now in operation. There are several
more mills in that part, all under low heads,
which answers the same purpose as thai of Mr.
Tcmplins. For further information, please call
on the subscriber.
FERDINAND DUTOT. Agent.
Lower Smithfield, Monroe co., -November
9, 1S12
Fashionable Tailorings
ESTABLISHMENT
Would respectfully inform the citizens of
Stroudsburg and county generally, that he is
still exerting himself for their accommodation
at his stand, one door below the office of Wm.
Davis, Esq. on Elizabeth street, and has now
in his possession plates and diagrams of the
Very latest City Fashions;
from which he is enabled to cut all kinds of
gcmlemen's wearing apparel in a manner that
cannoi fail to please those who may wish to
dress in strict accordance with the prevailing J
modes. For others whose tastes may not in-line
to the latest fashions, or whose ages may
.suggest ideas of comfort rather than display, he
trials he is equally well prepared; having had
the advantage of many years experience in the
difficult, yet not unsurmountable task of adapt
ing his work to the wishes of many and vari
ous persons. He is prepared to supply orders
with promptness and despatch. With his sin
cerest thanks for the patronage heretofore be
stowed upon him, he respectfully solicits its
conlinuanou determined to neglect no means
(if giving his customers full and ample satisfac
tion. All kinds of cutting neatly executed at the
f-hortest notice, and in the most fashionable
s'ylo.
September 14, 1843.
NEW ESTABLISHMENT.
Wholesale and Retail
TEtf AftTE SEBBT IRON
WARE
MANUFACTORY, -
At Stroudsburg, Monroe county, Pa.
The subscriber respectfully informs the citi
zens of Stroudsburg and the public generally,
that he has opened a shop on Elizabeth street,
nearly opposite William Eastburn's store, where
he intends keeping constantly on hand, and will
manufacture to order, all articles in his line of
business, such as
TIN AY ARE in all its variety,
Stove Hprs and Drums of all sizes,
Spouts for Dwelling Rouses and
other Bialdinsjs.
Also, very superior Russian and
American Sheet Iron,
Whjch he will manufacture into every shape to
suit purchasers, &c. fec.
As the subscriber is a mechanic himself, and
employs none but first-rate workmen, the pub
lic may rest assured that his work is done in
the best and most workmanlike manner; and he
respectfully splictits a shure of public patron
age Come 2nd see for yourselves, before you pur
chase elsewhere.
Jj PE WTER itnd LEAD, taken in cx
for work, and all kntdsof REPAIRING
la i;e Copper, Tin, and sheet Iron Business
dine si tbp shonosi notice.
WAN DEL BREIMER.
fay 4,18tew-if.
BLANK DEEDS
forte at tHjs .office.
GOVEKKOK'S MESSAGE.
CONCLUDED.
The revenues upon our public works have
not diminished in any proportion to the extent
of the embarrassments which have been thrown
in the way of trade. It will be seen by refer
ring to the Report of the Canal Commissioners,
which will shortly be laid before you, that not
withstanding the scarcity and depreciation of
money, the impaired condition of credit, and the
enormous rates of exchanges the receipts from
tolls for the fiscal year, ending the 3Dh Novem
ber, 181-2, amount to $920,490 42
The expenditures, for all purposes,
fur the nine months commencing
on the 1st March and ending 30th
November, 1S42, amount to 390,040 70
Leaving an excess of receipts for
tbe year, over the expenses of
nine months of - 530,452 72
notwithstanding the decrease in tolls lias been
S 159,390 01.
The receipts and expenditures on the main
lines have been as follows:
Tolis received in All expenses and
1S42.
liabilities fori)
months.
$132,499 45
45,072 12
00,528 03
20,080 00
Colun.bia Railroad, $357,401 50
Eastern & Juniata
Divisions 195,750 10
Allegheny Portage
Rail-road 12-1.258 40
Western Division 85,449 42
8702,919 48 8300,180 20
Leaving an excess of tolls over expenditures
of S1G2,709 23, on the above usually denomin
ated the main line from Philadelphia to Pitts
burg. ,
On the Delaware Division and other bran cues
of the Canals, the excess of lolls over expen
ditures, during the same period, has been 807,
083 44. It is worthy too of remark that the ex
penses for repairs alone for the nino months
has been only 8164,520 30.
This exhibit cannot fail to inspire us with in
creased confidence in the ultimate value and
usefulness of our public works, stregthened as
it is by the fact, that there has been a falling
off in the canal tolls of New York, for the fiscal
year ending 30th November, of 8284,391 89.
It is proper here also in explanation to state
one fact worthy of consideration. At-the com
mencement of my administration there was a
debt due for ordinary ldpairs preriousry done,
independent of the debts due on the Beaver di
vision, of 8310,574
For the repaiis of the Huntingdon co.
breach 350,000
For repairs indispensable lb opening
and the successful prosecution of
the navigation, &c, as per report
of engineers especially detailed lor
that service. 1,070,992
Amounting to the sum of 82,367,560
Which has been hanging, like an incubus, on
the whole system, and has contributed much to
embarrass its operations, and to paralyze the
most laudable exertions of those entrusted with
ihe conducting of them. In the progress of
time, too, the greater portion of the perishable
materials, m the construction of our public
works, became so far decayed and dilapidated,
as to require, in most instances a partial, and in
many instances an entire renewal, during the
first "three years of my administration. Largo
amounts were necessarily expended in making
these repairs, so large indeed, that public con
fidence was very considerably shaken in the
usefulness and value of the system itself.
Those who did not reflect on the circumstance
to which 1 have just adverted, supposed this ex
traordinary outlay for repairs must be annually
repeated. But the work being done, the ex
penses for Uiat purpose for a number of years
to come will be greatly diminished.
While speaking upon this subject, I may call
your attention to a considerable item of expen
diture, which may be, with justice, hereafter
wholly cut off. A very considerable sum is an
nually paid for repairing and rebuilding the va
rious bridges for public and private convenience,
across the canals and railways. This burden
has been heretofore sustained by the state, but
considering the great increase in value of the
private property, through which the improve
ments pass, and that a considerable portion of
the people of the commonwealth derive no im
mediate benefit from the outlay for that purpose,
it would seem to be but just and proper, that the
rebuilding and repairing of the private bridges
should hereafter be done by the owners of the
property, and the public ones by the townships
or counties, in which they are situated.
Since my last annual message, in which I
took occasion to refer to the combinations of
j private companies and individuals, to monopo
lize and reap nearly an tne advantages lrom
the transportation on our internal improvements,
thero has been a trial and conviction of several
persons, on the clearest proof, of a most flagrant
conspiracy to render this monopolizing com
bination still more triumphant over the laws.
This conviction will have the salutary tenden
cy to arrest hereafter any such illegal attempts.
It is now to be hoped, that by the removal of
these obstacles in the way of fair individual com
petition, our public improvements will be open,
as they were intended to be, to the free and
equal enjoyment of all.
Several recommendations, or what were
deemed essential reforms, in the management
of our internal improvements, made cither by
the executive or canal commissioners, have
been hitherto bafiled and defeated, by combina
tions of interest, which it is not easy to cwn
prebond. I do not deem it necessary to speci
fy particularly all these suggostions, but will
refer you to my last annual message, and the
last ami prosnnt report of the Canal Commis
sioners, in which they are contained. I trust
that whatever may have been the doubt hereto
fore oh the subject, if any thero was, the justice
and propriety of making them are now beyond
question. During the last year, as well as for
mer years, the canal commissioners have been
assiduously laboring to correct the most glaring
of the errors and abuses which had crept into
the management of our public improvements.
They have done much, but much remains to be
done, and unless seconded by the Legislature,
there will much remain to be lamented, without
the power to remove in
Nothing has been done under the acts of As
sembly passed at the last session, for the incor
poration of companies to complete the unfin
ished lines of our improvements. If any more
effectual mode for the accomplishment of this
object can be devLed, it will afford mo great
pleasure to co-operate with you in carrying it
into execution.
The resolution of the General Assembly of
the 7th of April lasj, "relative to the payment
of interest to domestic creditors," provides that
such of the creditors of the Commonwealth as
do not choose to receive certificates of stock,
shall be entitled to a credit for the amount of
their claim on the books of the Auditor Gene
ral, and shall receive interest at six per cent on
balance due for work done prior to the 4th of
May, lb41, interest to be allowed from that
date, and on balances due for work done since
Ihe 4th of May, 1841, interest to be allowed
from the passage of the act. And the first sec
tion of the act of the 27th of July last, after
making certain specific appropriations, directs
whatever balance may be in the Treasury on
the first days of August, November and Febru
ary, then next, after paying current demands on
the Treasury, to be divided pro rata among the
domestic creditors, having claims for work done
prior to the 4th May, 1841, or for repairs, &c,
on finished lines of canal and railroad, pievious
to the first day of April 1842. In pursuance of
the loregoing acts, claims amounting in the ag
gregate to 81,191,710 23, were entered on the
books of the Auditor General at the close of the
financial year, of which sum S597,40l 78, was
fjr work done prior, and 8594,248 45, for work
done subsequent to the 4th of May, 1841. On
the first day of August, the Treasury would not
admit of a dividend therefore the first and on
ly instalment, twenty per cent, was paid on the
first of November, together with all interest
then due, which amounted, dividend and inter
est, to 8209,589 43.
Notwithstandinc the very satisfactory result
which has grown out of the broad and liberal
construction given by the Auditor General, to
the resolution of the 7th April, there yet remains
a very deserving class of creditors, who have
received none of its benefits, noir was it at all
practicable to bring them within its provisions.
The poor laborers scattered along the improve
ments, who with their own hands do the work
necessary to keep them in navigable condition,
should be the objects of the first care of the gov
ernment. In Ibis instance they were "bntirely
overlooked, the appropriation for repairs being
inadequate. From the character of their claims
their comparatively trifling amount, and their
number it was found inexpedient to enter them
on the books of the Auditor General. If they
had been entered, it would in many cases have
cost the whole sum due to procure the dividend
from the Treasury and indeed it would be a
mockery for the government, instead of pay
ment, in offer poor laborers a pro rata dividend
on a claim of a few dollars. It is ardently hoped
that this worthy and in most cases suffering class
of domestic creditors, will receive the immedi
ate attention of the legislature.
It has happened in relation lo the banking
system of this Commonwealth, as has on many
occasions heretofore been tho case with the in
stitutions founded on unsound principles, that
with all its power, and with all its hold on pub
lic confidence and support, it has fallen by the
weight of its own imperfections. If any legis
lative action can restore public confidence in
the banks, or render them of more service to
the community, it will become your duty to fur
nish it. The mode and detail of tho aid to be
rendered, I leave in the hands of the represen
tatives of the people. But the public certainly
expect that you will not adjourn until you havo
made ample provision for withdrawing from cir
culation the notes issued by the banks in pur
suance of the act of 4h May, 1841; and it will
afford mo great pleasure to co-operate with you
j in any measure that may be deemed most advi
ble for the accomplishment of this object. At
the same time, 1 will take occasion to suggest
one source, from which ihe means may be read
ily obtained to extinguish a large portion of
these issues. I refer to the sale of tho Bank,
Uridge, and other stocks, in which tho State is
interested. I think an amount might be real
ized, in this way, sufficient to answer the pur-
I pose, if provision be made by law that the pro
ceeds of the sale be exclusively applied to that
object.
The present condition of the Bank of Pcnn-
' sylvania requires. the most careful consideration
of t!ie legislature. 1 he state has a deep inter
est in the proper management of that institution,
and equally so in winding it up, if that be deem
ed a politic measure. Several acts wore passed
I during the last session in relation to it; but ow
ing to some defect they did not answer the pur
pose designed. Some remedy should be at
once provided. One suggestion, 1 will make
on the subject, and that is, that in no contingen
cy should the control of the bank be placed ex
clusively in the hands of the private stockhol
ders. Let the State and the stockholders be
put on the same footing each having, respec
tively, the share of control equal to .the amount
of slock held. No just complaint can then be
made, and the interests of all parties will be
properly guarded. This much, at least, the
public has a right to expect;
Tho passage of a law providing for the elec
tion of members of Congress will be one of the
subjects demanding your early attention. The
apportionment of members of the two Houses
of the General Assembly is also a matter in
which thb people are deeply interested, and
which will, of course, claim your most careful
consideration. The basis of an apuortionment
bill on this subject, should be equality, fairness,
and justice to all sections of the State. In no
other manner can tho various interests be faith
fully presented. The fundimental principles of
a republican government, and our own Constitu
tion, guarantee these rights to every county in
the Slate. The apportionment bill passed on
the 10th June, 1836, will not, I conceive, be re
garded as a precedent, or an example, but as a
beacon to be shunned, by every legislator wno
understands and is honestly desirous of carry-
ng into execution the injunctions ot the Consti
tution. SSo extraneoua considerations can jus
tify a departure from it, and, on all occasions
when a departure has been attempted, it has re
coiled with ten fold force on the heads of those
bv whom it was made.
I have repeatedly called the attention of the
legislature to the subject of selecting jurors in
the several counties in the State. 1 cannot for
bear to urge it again upon vou, and to add, that
there is one grievance very much complained of
in those counties, where it exists, under the
law, that is, that wliere separate wheels are
kept fur the purpose of drawing jurors for dif
ferent courts, there is much complaint as to
the manner of selecting the names put into these
different wheels. It has been suggested that if
one wheel only was provided, out of which all
the panels of jurors for all the courts were
drawn, this objection would be in a great meas
ure obviated. 1 will merely lurtner remarK,
that the system of drawing jurors would be very
greatly perfected, if the selection and drawing
of thesame were to be done by the commission
ers and sheriff in open court, under the super
vision of one or more of the judges. Recent ex
perience calls aloud for the protection of the ju
ry box from even the possibility of suspicion. ,
My views have been so fully expressed in
former messages, in favor of the support of a
liberal and enlightened system of education by
common schools, that i need scarcely repeat
them. I will content myself by reiterating,
that a sound education, based upon proper mo
ral and religious training, is tbe best legacy a
parent can bequeath to his child, and the best
provision a patriot can make to secure the
permanence and purity of our republican in
stitutions. I refer yoii to the very full and
elaborate report of the Superintendent, forthe
condition and details of our common schools,
academies, female seminaries and colleges.
The report of thb Adjutant General will
be submitted to you. 1 shall be exceedingly
happy to unite with you, in any measures that
would render the present militia system more
efficient, and less burthensome to the commu
nity. Perhaps the encouragement of volnn
teers would be the best means that could be
adopted for the advancement of these ends.
Pennsylvania has just reason to be proud of
her volunteers j in number, discipline and
martial spirit, they can vie with those of any
other state in the Union. Should any emer
gency ever arise to require it, she could, on
he shortest notice, muster upwards of thirty
five thousand of these intrepid defenders of
her soil.
The complexity and obscurity of many o f
the material provisions of the act entitled,
"An act to abolish imprisonment for debt, and
to punish fradulcnt debtors," have rendered its
operation almost nugatory. It seems to have
produced little benefit to tbe t'ebtor, and
much inconvenience to the creditor, its pro
visions certainly require a thorough revision,
and if any law of the kind be deemed neces
sary, it should be one, very different in many
of its leading features from the present. The
penal sections, contained in the same bill;
however well designed, were drawn with so
little precision as to have led to most intoler
able abuses.
Frequent complaints have been maue in
Philadelphia on the subject of the power of
Aldermen and Justices of the Peace in crimi
nal cases. Some mode should be provided for
defining and regulating their jurisdiction on
this important subject, so as to guard against
extortion and oppression on the one hand, r.nd
laxity and impunity to crime, on the other.
The tendency of public opinion, for a num
ber of years past, has gradually been to weak
en and relax the execution of the criminal
laws. This morbid feeling has even reached
jurors and other functionaries engaged in the
administration of criminal justice, so that it is
not an unusual spectacle to see courts and ju
ries convict and sentence on the clearest testi
mony a criminal on one day, and recommend
his pardon to the executive the next. These
appeals thus sustained, address themselves with
great force to the magistrate entrusted with the
power of pardoning offenders, and it is not to be
disguised, that unless some clu ck be put upon
it, it will in the end lead to great injustice and
abuse. These remarks are made not so much
with a view to invite immediate legislation
on the subject, its to influence and temper
the action of tbe legislature on subjects connec
ted with the criminal jurisprudence of the
State.
It has been stated that certain loan compa
nies, insurance companies, and other similar
corporations which have sprung into existence
within the last ten years, effected their organ
ization, and obtained their charters, without
conforming strictly to the requisitions of the
law, or after, having Obtained their charters,
perpetrated acts, whereby they would be for
feited ; and have, through sundry devices,
procured the passage oi laws, designed, with
out having the object expressed, to screen
them from the penalty which they had incur
red, and to sanctify the illegality and cor mix
tion in which they originated. Such legislation
as this is doubtless at war with the public in
terest and public safety, and I respect I'uHy re
commend to the legislature, to enquire into
the subject, and if any such laws have -been
smuggled through, in which the real -object;
was not manifested, to repeal thesame at once
and to leave these corporations in precist-ly
the same situation, in which their own -..o-i
placed them, at the time they were perpeuv-
ted. " "
Additional ch-iricery powers have been ves
ted in some of the courts of this Common
wealth, without suitable provision having- beeri
made for the execution of these powers The
benefits to be derived from this mothiicttiimt
of our jurisprudence will in a great measure
be lost, unless these defects are .supplied
Among other provisions authority s'iotild lift
given for the appointment of master.- in chan
cery, and auditors, r.n I their functions defined.
The legislature having omitted to appoint
an agent to receive from the general govenl
ment the dividend of this state lrom the pro
ceeds of the sales of the public lands, 1 ap
pointed Job Mann, Esq., State Treasurer, ir&
virtue of the authority given me by an act ot
Congress, who has received it; amounting to
60,313 27.
The exploration connected with the GeM
gical survey having been brought to a suc
cessful termination, it is necessary that mms
ures be now adopted by the legislature for em
bodying a'nd publishing the results without du
lav. As the state has expended a con-ideiu
ble sum in this examination of her mineral re
sources, as it is known that the final ri pure
and maps of the state Geologist will contain
:
much valuable information ot a nature tto in
vite and direct the investments of tapit.tl ijc?
cessary for the developemenf of our unsur
passed mineral wealth; and as the expenses
of arranging and publishing the details pro-
cured, will bear but a small proportion to
that already incurred in collecting them, con
siderations "of sound economy atid the publio
good require, that the proper steps be taken
for affording our citizens the benefits of this
survey as so:m as practicable. By applying
the balance of the appropriations for the in
cidental expenses of the survey, the Geologist
has been enabled to make considerable pro
gress towards completing the maps,, and
drawings, and various other portions of the
work; but much delay has arisen from the
legislature having omitted at its last session,
to make provision for the furnishing and en
graving of the maps, for the reception of th
State Cabinet, and for the printing of the final
leport, in conformity to the suggestions in the
last annual report of the Geologist, to which
you are respectfully referred.
Oppressed, as the stae i, by pecuniary em
barrassments, at tile present time, it bthoves
us to retrench all expenditures of the public
monry, and to guard the interest of our con
stituents with the same fidelity and care that
we would exert in guarding our own Among
other important expenditures, those incident
to the legislature seem to have been, for the
last twenty years, greatly on the increase.
While the expenses of the other departments
have been almost stationary those of the Le
gislature have been considerably more than
doubled. No satisfactory reason can be shown
for this, and it calls aloud for inquiry and re
dress. The public printing is one of the lar
gest items in this expenditure,and has increas
ed in a ratio that defiesjreasonable explanation.
It demands a remedy. I can see none better
than to provide for appointing a public prin
ter to execute all the public printing at fixed
and reasonable prices. I he work can then
be done with greater facility and economy.
Sound policy strongly recommends this meas
ure, and ihe example of other states fully sanc
tions it. I respectfully commend it to your
attention.
This is the first occasion on which I have
had the honor to address a majority of both
houses of the general assembly, belonging to
the same political relationship with myself;
and I cannot forbear to express the gratifica
tion 1 feel at the prospect of a harmonious and
confidential understanding between the sever
al legislative departments of the government.
I trust we shall recollect, that the great dis
tinctive characteristics of the party to which
we are attached, have ever been roagnnnimi
ty and justice to our opponents. Let us not
forget that minorities have rights as well as
minorities; and that whatever may have been
the examples set us by others, it is the part
of those who are genuine believers in the
principles of democracy, "to do unto othet
as they would that others should du unwv
them."
You will allow me, in conclusion, to submit
to you, in a spirit of perfect frankness and res
pect, the propriety of a prompt and energeiie
despatch cf the public business, and an ad
journment at the earliest day practicable,
liut few leading measures of public importance
will come before you, and those are not of a
nature to be essentially benefitted by a pro
tracted delay. The peeplc will certainly be
willing to forgo at the present session mo3t
if not all of those private matters, which usu
ally occupy so large a share of the time and
attention of the legislature. We have had a sur
feit of jumbled private legislation. Let those
measures in which the public at large really has
an intcrest.be adopted; and the work for which
you have assembled is done. Let the rest be
postponed until the condition of the Treasury
justifies the continuance of the legislatuie for
private uses; the present is not that that time.
To whatever department of the govern
ment we belong, we should remember, that
our efforts to reform abuses, and to letrench
expenses, will avail but little, if we du not
practice ourselves tle principles we lay down
for the guidance of others. This is the, only
A-