DURLIN S: SLOAN, PUBLISHERS. VOLUME 26. Ilterreb Vaittr. THE SHADOW IT ■R6 I .1 Hovering forever hovering. itinod about my sleepless head, Lower soil, and lower, till it Seems to /It beside my bed• N gritty, an the gathered darkness, wide. it through the open door, phantom shadow etesleth 'Loud the wall, and on the go3r' <e itog gray, its pinion iloateth Tcniagh the dim earr.iudirig gloom, 1„ to a bushed, pale pros•oes, mueifig Mutely through and round the room wall lonely (ear I questioned wh,r art (boa, whose mused w.ag t,t er my waiting pillow nightly :lochs weight of wo doe. ding?" Yee@ sod yeirs ago I felt it, Veguety, dimly from st es s dream spot, following 9,, iny footsteps everywhere, Wo,olroas eyes, of pueretn , 4 , power, e•eadfs•t gazed tac o tny own, And I felt the vetl, long rolled I) er my sptrit, backward thrown' T'..n whit* fingers draw the curtains Of the Long-Ago aside— ft.'t,e the stone from the sepulehes Of the hopes that there have died Anil roses, to mournful whispers, Falls upon my shrinking ear, While its hollow echoes haunt me With a cold sad lonely fear. Through my soul's unlighted windows I can test it enter in, Starebiug all its *ecret obambers I,r the thlugs unheard lAD/VW, Samslass. Dottrel'.( unezplainti, Pattie in entrance through yon door. And "my soul from out that shadow Snail be lifted never to..re.'"—Literary Meeenwer, The Transmission of the lessage The newspapers all over the country are dis •ussing the propriety of the Preptdout's sending aI•M stake to an disorganized Congress. The Wsehing•on Union hag an argument on - he sub :et, •h u •h strikes us forcibly and we will repeat : The Constitution makes it the duty of the ?•endeot from time to time to give Congress tfirmation of the state of the Utiiun, and says :tat he miy, on extrivirdivary occasions, convene ',oat Houses or either of them. The Union Anis provision contemplates that no emergen t! shall ever arise *heti the President cannot Nmmunicate to the Congress of the country any ;formation which he may deem important to be to , ,wn If Congress is to ses,iou, it is his duty communicate to them forthwith such informs. ...ma; if congress is not in session, then it would is his duty to convene the two Houses for this ,irpose. No one pretends the latter is the true rite of the case. Had the President issued a ;.xlamation convening the two Houses, it would are been submitted to just criticism by his op posents, who would not. hate failed to filenouoce vu conduct in immeasurable terms The argu ment is thus presented in • nut-h:11 C, agrees either in session or is not If it is in session, :hen th.• c9mmunication of the President is tathorized by the Constitution; if it is not, then he would be required to issu- his prods motion convening both Houses. We apprehend so one will contend that toe latter course would nal% been the proper one in the present state of thingr, and yet the one or the other course must lave teen adopted by the President, ur he would lire failed to discharge that duty which the 'institution seems to demand of him in any and emergencies." The Two Heirs, "I remember," says a late Postmaster Gene % of the United States, "the first time I visited Lr..ngton, Vermont, as Judge of the Supreme ,tart. I had left it many years before a poor At the time I left, there were two families If special note for th•tr staadiug and wealth Each of them bad a eon, about my own age I vu very poor and these two boys were very rich .wing the long years of hard toil which passed vf.re my return, I had almost forgotten them. !ley had long ago forgotten me. Approaching Curt House for the first time in company nip several gentlemen of the bench, ,ind the bar, : oottced, in the Court House yard, a :arge pile 'f )11 furniture about ; t be aprld at auction. The rstieA of my early boyhood by which I was cur ... Laded, prompted me to ask whose it was. I ►a e told that it belonged to Mr J Mr J ? I remember a family by that name very wealthy, •sere w. 3.4 a son, too; can it be lie? I was told :ast it was even so lle was the sin of one of ..se families already alluded to. Ile had atsberi• more than I had earned, and spent it all; 414 now has own family was reduced to real want wi tits furniture was that day to be sold for lebt I went into the C .urt House, suddenly, yet taust glad I was burn pour I was Soon ab forDed to the business before me One of the t-c. cases called, origindasid iu a low drunken itiarrel between Mr H. and Mr. A. Mr. :Lought I, that is a very familiar name. Can it In short. I f .und tills was in Wed the son of r.ither mau referred to: I was overwhelmed L with, astonishment and thauksgiving—ss '',Amesit at the ch.ing.• in our relative posi :,,m, and thanksgiviu4 that I was not born to wealth wil hunt tun " kir The Maine Legi.lature met and organised u Augusta, on the 2d A fusion of the Demo 1' and Straight Whig.. was formed and elect• - .ill the officers of both houses. In the Senate ~ .tt M. Morrill, Democrat, was chosen Prenti tat; William G Clark, Straight Whig, Secre• , y In the Flouse, Josiah Little, Str@iigat whig 'm elected Speaker, and David DUJII, Democrat, -rk The union of the two elements appear@ complete. It is aotagonastical to the Liquor AT and Know Nothingista FANATISDIM AND Munoan —A set of oruy `aurae. at New Haven, Connecticut, were io the 4 4bit of meeting at the h•onse of an old women hued Wakeman, who declares she has been dead 44 :d has risen again. One of the number, nam ed J***4** Mathews, was believed to be possessed as evil spirit whicl tormented the prophete-s; whereupon her brother, named Somme' Sly, mar- I ' re d Mathew*, mulasting him in a shocking wanner, for the purpose, as all allege, of driving of the demon. Al the parties have been ar risied, and the woman who is seventy-three years old, declares if any one of them is punished the world will come to an wad. Sir That distinguished member of the "Or "ler," Mr. Fillmore, who is mow refreshing his saurian by visiting the courts of foreign princes, Popes sod potentates, will regret to hear that his (ma etty of Buffalo has cast him aad his party frow i 4 horns.—Bosion faosl. SIP A State Military Convention is to be held 11 Harrisburg, ma Monday, 21st ofJasuary ant ERIE WEEKLY OBSE i VER Cornspesidamos .1 the Err. Ottesner MI. Emma: The most absorbing topic of the day is the forcible detention, for about forty-eight hours, of the steamship Northern Light, with about 360 Amirante for Nicaragua. After all the emigrants had been pat oa shore, and the vessel had been unsueoessfully searched for arms and ammunition, she was allowed to -go to sea. Several of the prime movers of the expedition are in prison or on bail, awaiting their trial for a breach of the neutrality laws. The general impression here is that the detentiou of the Northern Light was a high-handed outrage, and that the Government will fail to make out a case against the prisoners. Only • ploughs and other agricultural implements, a printing press, and several founts of type, were found on beard the vessel, fur the use of the "invading army." This is the third mare ' nest, that has beau discover ed, within a short time by Mr John McKeon, who by the by, has experieneed a change of heart lately; for it is only a few years ago that be was a member of the famous Irish Directory, and us ed to "make the most inflammatory speeches to mobs of his countrymen. The professed object of the Irish Direoctory was to furnish the Irish with the means of carrying on an armed rebellion against their Government, with which America was inaintaini4 the most friendly relations.— Our United States District Attorney must then be considered an Irish -filibuster, but eminently conservative when Cuba, Nicaragua, or any other country is concerned. I have no objection in the world to foreigners by birth holding office; but I have every objection to having the Government of this country administered by foreigners in feeling What reason is there for our showing more favor to Irish rebels than to Cuba or Nica ragua rebels? The latest statements of the circulation of the daily journals in New York, indicate that at the next revision of the subject, the Post Office ad vertising may fall, under the act of Congress, to the New York Daily Times, which has far out.- ..ripped the Tribune, and is now driving the Herald sharply. The Tines is far the ablest of the daily papers; and its popularity, being based on sterling merit, is continually increasing. It has become the best advertising medium is the city. The weekly edition of the Times for the country is, in my opinion, the best paper in the Union—especially for farmers and country mer chants, u the reports of all the New York markets, especially that of the cattle markets, are more carefully elaborated than those of any other paper. In politics I have nothing very noteworthy to communicate. The Collector, I learn, has near ly succeeded in suieting the riotous disposition of the Custom Woos' employees, consequent upon his order that they should keep their seats is school daring school hours. At first, the want of their customary drinks made them refractory, but the Collector remaining firm of purpose for a few days, the symptoms of rebellion were final ly suppressed. The only chance we have of ever getting an other Speaker of the House of Ropreseniatites lies in the Tact that most of the members are a miserable set of paupers, sad have no means of paying their board bills and tailors' bills, inde dent of Vie eight dollars a day which they earn of Uncle Sam Besides on the _passage of the appropriation bills depend the salaries of thousands of "artists" and "suckers" employed by the old gentleman in various ways to support Constitution and save the Union. I was some what surprised, this morning, to hear Daniel Devlin, proprietor of the great clothing establish. meet in Broadway, express so much anxious in terest in the news from Washington; but on in quiry, I found that a great many thousand dol lars are due him .from members of Congress.— These gentlemen are in the habit of fitting them selves out as they pass through New York, on their way to and from Washington, at Mr De vlin'a establishment, which is the only one in this city in which can be found ready-made goods as fashionably cut and well made . as custom-work. Such an establishment is convenient for foreign ministers, consuls, and other officials, who are often obliged to start for the field of their labors at short notice. Mr. Devlin fitted out nine-tenths of those that were appointed by Mr. Piens. The interests of men are more - cobwebbed together than is at first apparent. Upon inquiry I ewer- Wined that the political stability of Nicaragua, or any of the other Central American States, Mexico, Canada, the West India Islands, or Australia, is a matter of the first pecuniary im portanoe to our heaviest mercantile houses. Mr. Devlin, for example, doing a clothing businoss with the merJhants of those conetries of over $2,000,000 per annals, depends in a great mea sure for prompt payments upon the stability of their Governments. Every time a revolution is declared in one of those countries, and the new "liberator" levies contributions for the sup port of his army, the more difficult it is for the merchants of that country to meet their notes.— Thus are rich mea tempted to be opinionative. B. ACCIDINT urn WONDZIML EtrDULIIICs. The Rapes! Enquirer stales that on Wednes day last a serious accident wowed in the town of Paris, about six miles from that city. A young man aged 18 years, eta of Mr. Nicholas Carlton, was chopping down a tree, in company with an other young man. As the tree was falling, it struck another tree and swerved from the position in which it was expeeteed to fall, striking young Carlton, knocking him down, crushing his right arm to jelly, and the butt of the tree, a foot thick resting on his head forcing the latter into the ground. The skull was somewhat fractured, but strange, to tell, tae hied was comparatively en injured. The young man with him Mopped off , Att log, and endeavored to roll it off Carlt)n's bead, all the time supposing the latter so be dead, but he eoa:d not move the log, and was forced to go a mile and a half to obtain smistastee.— When the log was rolled away it was steer- Wood that Carlton was alive. Re was sword ingly conveyed home. The following day his arm wu amputated and he is likely to recover. ilt• A wild sea moves hes hig h , is stated so be rossaisg throni: eke greet Mississippi bosses is Arkansas. Numerous travelers and hews hays asserted Ass they have loses hiss, bet aril kayo ever bees able le go Mir esoegi is give parsiadsts soissesdag his strap bsiag. - NEW YORK ■iw Tosa, Jas. 2, 11146 GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Te As fikerresils ti. Senators and Members of the Hew qf the Game! Amenity : GZETI.X.MII:--41. hied Providence has greatly Wee. sed our Commonwealth daring the past year. No for eign war, no internal strife have inteerapied or destroy ed-the peaceful quiet or our homes. All the great in terests of the pawls have been eminently prosperous. The earth, in rich abundance, has yielded her lnerease is supply our wants, and reward with her bounties the labor of the husbandman. Laker, in every department of manufacturing and mesiumisral indisdry, MS beeo stimulated aid samurai*. The ravages of disease and the horrors of the prostheses have been averted from us ; and whilst the cry of human soaring, from other State', has been beard invoking our sympathy and aid, we have been blessed with beak and permitted to so- Joy the comforts and hippie's! of social life. To Him who bath bestowed their blessings upon es, and upon whose care we are constantly dependent, should be ever paid the willing homage of oar grateful hearts. The report .1 the State Treaserer will exhibit to you, in detail, the operations of his department. The result. are inure satisfactory sod encouraging than were anticipated. The receipts of the Treasury for the heal year cod ing November 30, 18%, including the balance in the Treasury on the let day of December, /r 154, ($1,440,- 74) amounted to $6,631,462 83. The total pay ments for the same period were $6,385,706 52; leer lug a balance in the Treasury on the 30th November, 1955, of .1,245,897 31. No limas, temporary or other wise, were negotiated during the past fiscal year, as they were not required by the wants of the Treasury. The receipts during the past ear , from all seeress, (excluding the betimes in the Treasury on the first day of December, 1854,) were $5,390 , 474 11. The or& nary expenditures for the same period, including the interest on the public debt, were $4,139,512 28, show ing an execs' of receipts over ordiu4ry expenditures of .1,250,961 83. The extraordinary payments for the year were $l-, 246,183 114, as follows, six :—To the completion of the new Portage railroad over the Allegheny mountains, $446,70.2 12; to the North Branch canal, $87,5(1267; to the Columbia railroad, to re-lay south track, $l3l, 100 00; to the payment of domestic creditors, $ 1.6 n t 35; to redemption of loans $316,550 60, sad to relief notes cancelled, 02 601 8 00 . The balance in the/Treasury will be required for the payment of the interest on the State debt falling dn. in February next, and for unpaid appropriations. The istered on the funded debt of the Commonwealth, which became due in February and August last, was promptly paid ; and it is gratifying to aide that the in terest due in February next sill he paid with equal promptness The credit of the State may be regarded as firmly established, and with proper economy and a careful and honest management of her 6oaneea , an an nual reduction of her debt, to a considerable extent, may be confidently expeaded. There is due by the Treasary to the Sink* Fund, the sum of $335,011 39 to be applied to the redemption of the relief notes now in circulation, and to the funded debt of the Commonwealth. The greater part of the funded debt bears interest at the rate of five per mot per annum ; the balance bears a still less rate of in terest. But as the temporary loans, which by law are to be find paid out of the available means of the Trea sury, bear interest at the rate of six per cent, it has been deemed advisable, as a matter of economy, to apply the surplus revenues to the payment of those loans. When these are liquidated, the amount due and properly applicable to the Sinking Fund will be paid, and its operation continued as directed by law Notwithstanding the revenues kir the lad four or five year. have largely exceeded the ordinary expenditerse of the government, yet, in consequsseee of the large and insatiable demand. upon the 'Treasury for the com pletion of the North Branch Canal, the Portage Rail road, and other kindred improvements; the public debt, instead of being reduced, has beam increased. This increase, with.the amount and condition of the debt at different periods, will be sees in the following state meuts : Simivand of the flouted sad afiumileol /Ink of the Cow ladouotalge ossithe tat of Decesseer, 1831, as per report of tee Auditor Geiser& I. Funded debt, rig : sper cent loans, .2.314,023 51 *704,4514 03 41e " 195,200 Toted funded debt, SO -----/1150,216,707 54 Unfunded debt, viz &Mei sow is cinisisSiss. 011111134113 IS Interest certificates outstanding, 150,231 lutenist certificates unclaimed, 4.44 d 36 hit-rest on outstanding and un claimed certificates,wben funded, 9,752 91 Domestic creditors. 82,932 74 Total debt, December 1, 1851, .40,114,236 39 Statement shorvair Me inelefreedaess of the Commonwealth on the la day of December, 1654, aa per Amiseer dtner ars Report Funded debt, rm. 6 per cent 1ean. , .532.104 93 39,064,609 97 41 ' • 388,200 00 4 100,01181 Total funded debt, —.----.40,084,914 90 Uniunded debt, it Rebel notes in circulation, 494,361 00 Interest certitirates outstanding, 24,857 21 Interest renal. ales unclaimed, 4,448 38 interest un outstanding and un claimed certificates, w hen funded. 1,820 97 Domestic creditors' certificates, 2.707 61 Balance of temporary loan of April 19, 1653, 560,435 0 1 Balance of temporary loan of May 9, 1854, 450,435 67 Total unfunded debt and tem porary loans, 114 To those should be added the following relief notes, nut included 10 the "Mitt notes in circulation," viz Relief notes made by the Lamas. ter Bank, not charged on State Treasurer's book, $25,000 00 Relief notes put in circulation, Sept, 1854, and not redeemed December I. 1854, 50,000 00 Total public debt, Dee. 1,1858:1, Increase adebt in three rears, $1,584,359 35 The funded and unfunded debt, including unpaid tem porary loans, on the Ist day of December, 1855, the civet of the last fiscal rear, as per report of the Auditor General and state Treasurer, was as follows, to wit : Funded debt, eta 6per cent. loan, 4516,154 93 35,903,445 54 4i " 208,2110 00 4 " 1041,000 00 Total funded debt, ...--.1117,800 41 Unfunded debt. via: Relief notes in cos c.lanoe, $258,773 00 Interest certificates outstaring, 93,157 25 Domestic creditors, 1,264 00 Balance of temporary lees of April 19, 1853, 524,000 00 Balance of temporary loan of May 9,1854, 346,000 00 Total a ofuhded debt, Total debt December 1, 1855, 41,067,994 72 Total debt, as above stated, Dec. 1, 1854, 41,60095 74 Total debt, as above stated. Doe. 1, 1855, ', 41 , 067 , 99 4 72 Deems, dams( the decal year, 130,60 i 02 This statement exhibits the• ' fact that dur ing the fiscal year ending November 30, 1856, the in debtedness .if the Commonwealth has been reduced 11430,801 12. During the seine period large appro priations and payments WWII made for the completion of the new Portage Railroad, re-laying the track of the Columbia Railroad, and for other purposes. These de mands upon the Treasury were, without the aid afloat. promptly paid. Refusing to undertake any aew schemes of internal improvement, limiting all appropriations to the actual demand. of the occasion, practicing strict economy in all departments of the government, and holding the receiving and disbursing agents of the Commonwealth to a ngid accountability, will greatly reduce the ex penditures, and, under ordinary circumstances leave an annual surplus of the revenues to be applied to the redemption of the public debt. Toe estimated receipts and expenditures for the cur rent fiscal year will be presented to you in the report of the State Treasurer. The receipts from the usual sourest of revenue, above the ordinary stroditures. may exceed the sum of owe million and a hal of dollars. These estimates may approximate the true result, but cannot be relied upon with certainty. By the thirty-eighth section of the act of the 16th April, 1845, entitled "An Act to provide for the or. diaary expenses of government, the repair of the senate sod railroads of the State, and other claims aria the Commonwealth," the Governor was authorised to cause certificates of State stock to be issued to all per. sons or bodies corporate holding certificates for the payment of interest cm the blinded debt of the State, which fell due on the lit day of August. 1842, the let days of February and August, 1843, and the Ist days of February and August, 1844, it an amount ol'ial to the amount of certificates so held upon their delivering up said certificates to the Auditor tivineraL In pima ante of tie authority thins given, osaigagisis of State stock to the amount of roar millions one hundred and five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars and twenty cents, bearing interest at the rate of live per neat per annum, payable semi-anmially, on the Ist days of Feb ruary sod August in each year, and redeemable on er atter the Ist day of August, 166, was issued. The Irishman, period flied by law for the redeoptioadtheae certificates, expired on the Ist day of August last. No provisitre has bees made for their mews' or reties} ties. illbougb by tbe terms the act seaberiestt theme aertilleates of State steak, ea also by the asaditioas of the &Mileages Weed, is paneling thee's( the tiro el $1 50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 12,1866. payment, alter the expirationperiegislahmuu , is optional with the debtor—the Vosemensnma6—.yet a due regard to the credit of the Slate requires that pro visions should be made for their renewal or redempfies. To redeem these certificates a loan would become ne cessary, and as a loan carnet be effected, in the present fisancial modifies of the oeustl7, on terms inure favor able to the State, than thus is which the united. ' were issued, I would recommend that authority be gin. en to issue the bonds of the Commonwealth in renewal of said certificates bearing interest at the rate of live per cent. per annum, payable . seini-eseesily, ye . smable on or after the exptrutose et twenty years ; and that the bonds be issued with compose or certifi cates of interest attached, in sums equal in amount to the semi-annual interest thereon, payable on the first days of Febniary and August in sub sad every year, at such place ae%ay be designated. This amigo is the form and character of the certificates, it is believed, will be so advantageous to the holders, without increasing the liabilities of the Commonwealth, as to induce a will ing and prompt exchange, at a premium, for the beads proposed to be issued. The condition of the public works, their general ope ration, and the receipts and expenditures for the put fiscal year, will be presented to you to the report of the Canal Commissioners The alginate receipts at the Treasury from public A lim works, fur the yea ,endtag November 3U, 1655, were $ 1, 9 4 2 , 376 71 regate expenditures, including ordinary and extra° airy payments, for the same pe riod, amounted t o $1,838,791 16, showing ea exam of receipts, over all expenditures, of $1113,585 fill. The extraordinary payments for the same year, (ex cluding sim.iou 00 paid for re-laying the south track of the Columbia railroad, and $26,600 00 for re-build ing the Freeport aqueduct) were $690,427 78. The ordioary expenditures were $1,148,363 40. Aggregate receipts, as above stated, $1,942,376 71 Ordinary expenditures " " 1,146,363 40 Net revenues fur the fiscal year, $794,014 31 This balance exhibits a small increase in the net venues, as compared with the net revenues of 1854 ; an d notwithstanding the withdrawal of the transportation lines from the main line ofthe canal, the aggregate re venuer for the la, year have exceeded the revenues of 1854 by more than twenty-three thousand dollars From the abundant crops of the put year, the improv ed condition of the monetary affairs of the country and the general revival of businuu, a large increase in the revenues for the current you may be confidently ex pected. The sum of $161,125 25, hal bete paid into the Treasury by the Pennsylvania railroad company and other railroad companies, as the tax on tonnage passing over their roads. This amount largely exceeds the sum paid by the same companies in 1854. The Delaware division exhibits a satisgetory result The total receipts were 4V04,673 4S ; expenditures, $60,097 tif); showing a net revenue of $312,575 N.— If all oar lines of improvement exhibited a similar bal ance sheet. the potpie would have lee cause of emit plaint and more confide:ice in the general operation of the system. There has been a large increase in the busbies' and ton nage of the Columbia railroad, and a corresponding increase in cue receipts therefrom. The operations of this road, for the past year, hare been highly satisfactory. The opera tion, of that part of the main line from the Junction to Pitts burg, including the Portage Railroad, do sot present so fa vorable a result. The receipts have greatly dimituaLed, and were not sufficient to inset the ordinary expenditurec— The revenues trom the main lute do not equal the receipts of the prey ious years. The causes of this reduction are ap pareut, aud.sotne of them have been referred to and enumer ated. It is but just to add; that the expenditures on this line have been much diminished by the avoidance of some of the inclined planet on the Portage, Railroad. I regret to inform you that the Railroad to avoid the in clined planes on the Allegheny mountain, has not been completed as was couficknely &nucleated. The delay in the completion of this work has occasioned much inconve- WOWS to the business of the main line and a Ines to the rev saues of the Commonwealth. The expenditures have large ly exceeded the original estimates kw its construction, and although the sum of $277,73U OH was appropriated at the last session of the Legislature fur the completion of this work—a sum covenng the miumate of the engineer—yet af ter the expenditure tit the whole amount thus appropriated, the road is unfinished, and to complete u, and pay the debts contracted, the timber sum of $177,373 116, as Dow estimated by the engineer, will be requited. Either the estimates have been very carelessly made, or large sums of money uselessly acid extravagantly expended ns the pros ecution of the improvement.. As aiding the business of the main line, reducing still further its expenditures and reliev ing the Treasury from Mese constant demands, the an sire el Re= eanuentissi mill be bailed with Although the completion of the North Branch canal beane the close of navigation, was certainly expected, yet this expectation haemot been realised. The efforts of the present Supennteodent, during the put year, to complete and put in successful operation this canal. deserves the highest commendation. Every thing that skill, energy and indite ry could accomplish, his been done. Ile labor to be performed was great. and rendered more difficult and perplexing oy..,tbe Im perfect and trauduleut construction of the old work an I some portion of the new. The large quantity of rocks, trees, stumps, and rots placed in the bottom of the ca nal, and the detective material needle the embankments suffered the aster to escape almost as rapidly as admit ted, and rendered a re-construction of the work, in many places indispensibly necessary. Its successful completion, it Is hoped will soon be announced It will appear by the report of the Committee of Ways and Means made to the Hones of Representatives in 1649, that the entire amount necessary to complete and put in operation the unfinished portions of this ca nal was estimated at the sum of $1;106,037 00. The amount actually expended on tie work since that pe. rod, as appears from the reports of the Superintendent, Engineer and Canal Commissioners, is $1,457,377 Ut, being an excess of expenditures over the original esti mates of $751,340 52 ; and the canal not yet in opera tion With such facts before us—such evidence of mis management and reckless expenditure as the history of this canal shows, it is not matter of surprise that the Commonwealth and people are burdened with debt and taxation. P1N,528 &S In pun of the aet of the Sth of May last, provi ding for the sale of the main line of the public works, after giving the notice required by law, I ceased the same to be exposed to public sale, at the Merchants' Exchange, in the city of Philadelphia No offers were made and consequently the works remain unsold. Seal red proposals for the " sale or lease of the main tine," subsequently invited. as directed by the seventeenth sec tion of the said act, and the proposals received are here with submitted to the Legislature for their action and final disposition. Having on a forgoer occasion presented my views of the propriety and policy of a sale of this branch of our public improvements, a repetition of the sentiments then expressed becomes unnecessary. In relation to the sub ject my opinion has not changed. On the contrary the experience of the past, and a careful examination of the question in its economical and political relations, have strentbened and confirmed it That the State should, long since, have been separated from the management and control of thew works, the history of their construc tion and management clearly demonstrates. Public policy and public sentiment demand this separation; and every consideration of present and future interest requi res their sale. The late financial embarrassments of the country—the imperfect character of some of the provisions of the bill authorising the sale, together with the adverse influence of rival interests defeated the re cent attempt to sell. These difficulties have been, or can be, removed ; and a sale yet elected on terms am ply protective of the rights and interests of the people, and at the'saine time just and liberal to the purchasers. To reduce the State debt and relieve the people from taxation, are objects worthy the earnest and anxious consideration of the Legislature To accomplish these objects speedily and certainly, a sale of the whole or part of our public improvements becomes important and necessary. The revenues of the State, under the pre sent system of management of the public works, are but little more than sufficient to pay the interest of her debt, and the ordinary expenses of the goternmont. A sale of these work., for a fair consideragoe, and epos terms just and liberal would constitute a beginning in the pro cess of liquidation that would free our Commonwealth from debt and her people from consequent taxation. In every measere calculated to produce thee. desirable re sults, I will cheerfully co-cperate with the Legislature. The currency of the State, in its relations to banking institutions, and their increase, is a subject that de mands careful and intelligent consideration. From the notice given of °emerges intended applications to the Legislature for new banks and an lacrosse of Medusa capital, this subject will doubtless be presented to, and strongly urged upon your attention. Shall the number of banks and the amount of banking capital be ineetneed and if so, to u-hat extent and in what localities? are questions of absorbing public interest. - Without desiring to assume a general and uncompro mising hostility to all banks, or to an increase of bank ing capital, I cannot discover the necessity that requi res, or the circumstances that would justify the ineer poratioe of all that nosy be demanded from tie Legisla ture,. The ineorporalion of Dew, or the recharger of old and and solvent banks, when indispensably oedema ry and clearly demanded by the actual business wants of the community in which they may be tweeted, should Dot be refused ; under no other eirmunstuacee should their incorporating' be permitted. The necessity for increasing the number of banks should be determined more by the actual wants of legit imate trade, than by the at of applications and the wild fancies of stock-Jobbers sad speculators. The sad. den and unnecessary expansion of the currency Should be avoided, and whatever tends to produce such a re mit ought to be discountenanced and prevented. In the creation of banks the tree interests of the State and sod people should be consulted : and a jell sad basest discrimination., as to the ember, ince* and the dr mends of trade, be exercised by their representatives. Public sentiment does net demand, nor do public or Ca r interests require Ohs eimatise of nemeses s 75,000 00 $41,999„596 74 40.114,236 39 Ia the present ecisditiee el the I and la aid o the revenues of the State, ( addition owa to the taxar now t ioeed by law) a reeeosable premium should be requi red to be paid by all beaks fer wing isetitutioas that may liersir be chartered er re•vbeitered by the Leg As appropriate to this subject, and intimately sonata. led with it, I cannot forbear to express my disapproba tion of a praeliee, that has heretofore obtained to some extent, of using the mines of members of the Legisla ture as corporators in bills pending before them fur the ioeorporation of banks and other companies. Boob a Practice u porniciOus Ltd mown be too strongly con I donned. t perils the independence of the Legislator —exposes him to inipst suspicions, and stamps with selfishness, at least, his legislative action in the premi. ses. Legislation should be free, even from the appear sees of improper motive: and every undue and eorrup ting influent*, inside or outside of the Legislative Halls, should be resisted and condemned It is a cause 'if more than ordinary eionenissilstien, that agriculture, the first, as it is the noblest pursuit of man, has, in its progress of development, vindicated its own importance, and assumed, in public esteem, the honorable position to which it is so justly entitled Constituting, as it does the substratum of our great me chanical, manu&eturing and commercial interests, it should ever be regarded as the chief source of State and National prosperity First in necessity, it is the high est in usefuloess of all the departments of labor, sus taining and promoting, in their varied and multiplied re lations, all the other industrial interests of the country Our Amanda! and etwonsercial prosperity is largely de pendent upon the success of agricultural industry. An interest so important should receive the encour• 'gement of all classes of society No longer* mere art —an exertion of physical streugtb, it has reached the dignity of a scietice ; and to its progress and improve ment the people, and the representatives should cheer fully contribute. State and count y agricultural socie ties have done much to promote this dense, and through their agency muck valuable information has been cql leeted and diffused. Much yet remains to be done. 4— More information is demanded. More efficiency in the collection and diffusion of useful knowledge Is required. To secure this result, the establishment of an agncultu ral bureau, in connection with some of the departments of State, would largely contribute. The im portance such a bureau, properly organized, as an aid to the ad ruiceinent of agricultural knowledge and the success of agricultural industry, cannot easily be over-estimated. The subject is earnestly commended to your attention. By an act of the last session, an institution, designat ed as the "Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania," was incorporated The charter was accepted by the trus tees, and the institution duly organized. An eligible site for the college ku been secured in Centre county, and two hundred acres of valuable and highly cultivated land donated to the trustees, for the use of the institu tion, by Gen. James Irvin, of that county. Tll4l citizens of the county, with a liberality highly commendable, have pledged and secured to the trustees, for the use of the college, ten thousand dollais in addition to the land donated. This liberally shows that the farmers of Penn ey!eania fully appreciate the importance of such an in stitution, and will support and sustain it. The, course of instruction will be thorough and practical. Scientific and practical agriculture, with the usual branches of academic education, will be taught, and the effort will be to make good farmers, good scholars, and good citi zens Whilst individual liberality and energy have done much sad will do more for this institution, an appropriation by the State, in such sum is the Legislature may deem proper, would not only Ind and encourage this laudable enterprise. but would be an honorable and just recognition of tee im portant interests involved. The laws now in operation, regulating manufacturing anti other improvement companies. are in some of their prowl- atone too severely restrictive, and should be modified. Leg islatiOn on these subjects has heretofore tended to restrain the investment of capital—cbeck industry, and curb the en. erry of the people in the prosecution of those enterprises that aid the development of our Immense resources, and contribute so largely to the wealth and prospenty of the State. Liberal and jodicious legislation—encouraging la thy id Ili enterprise—inviting the investment of capital, and stimulating the various departments of manufacturing and mechanical industry, would greatly promote the interests of the people—increase our revenues, and gave to the Com monwealth that prominence and position in the sisterhood of States, to which the charter of het . cameo. and her il limitable natural resources justly esti& Yaw. Tot its sub ject your attention is invited. The report of the Saperianindent of Common Soho*le wilt talithit to you their eondidon and the general opera tion of the t oystem threngtiont the Commonwealth, dal - lagithit girt ow- T. ah.• valoblar sad lasetal smassastimis ef the repe% I would minteetly nab the amontion of the Le .14am». Tb• operatics and results of the system as detailed ore highly isibulistnag. Oar edueational system is slowly, bat surely, cos/queries thepnijadiese sad gaining the coed deer* of the people. ruder the fosteriog ear* of liberal aid enlightened legislation its ultimate triumpi' is certain Warm the system was first istredae•d, it was supposed that it scald be perfected sad roma into postal sod vigor. ous operation by the mere will of the Legislature. Et pence.' has proven, that to this, as in every other great, social and moral reform, time and that consent which arises from a radical change in the popular mind, were required. The slow process of the acclimation of the sew system to our serial and moral atmosphere, has boon in operation for nearly tweet, years; and it is sow widest that the period for soother effective interposition of legislativeilii sod authority is favor of our ooble system of cootio,• schools, has arrived. In whatever form this obviously pro per sad newest., istorpositioa may presets itself, if cal related to promote the great porpoise in view, it shall im ago' my cheerful support. ANT a careful ezenataation of the subject, it is my clear conviction that the system is now prepared far sad re quires iecteesed effeiciacy in its general sopervisiosi—tn- Oreall4l4 qualification in its teschersasid increased means of support. The experiment of the County Saps'intendancy, wher ever faithfully carried out, has not diallPPOintOd the ex pectations of the advocates of that unaware. The improv ed condition of the schools, and the greater seeker, of the system, elearly establish the propriety and utility of such supervision. The olieial whits of as alieer of the school department to tome of the counties of the State, in conateetioo with the County Superintendency, have de monstrated that the voice of public authority to anemia, and the presence of an °Seal agent to entleurage, have largely oontributed to excite and maintain the deep interest now felt by the public in our educational progress and im provement. The most naked improvement recently sleeted in the system, has been in its corps of tew►ers. With almost anparalleled disiaterestadneu and devotion to the noble canoe in which they are engaged, the common school teachers of the State have, In almost every amity, been using all the meets and appliances within their power fur self-improvement. These *forts, so creditable to them, have been highly beneficial in their results, and clearly prove the necessity, and point with unerring certainty to the establishment of State Normal schools. Teachers' meetings for a day have given place to institutes for a week. and these again to numerous Normal meetings, continuing from one to three months. At every stop In this progres sion, it has heroine more apparent that permanent institu tions, with their proper professors anti appliances, which nothing bat the power of the State can provide, are de manded by and would meet the wants of the system and the ocevion. In conceding this boon to our children, through their toast era, we are encouraged by the example of other roan tries, and the experience of the part. It is a ressartable fact, that no State of oar Union, ner nation of the Old World, leas perfected its system of public instraction,witb oat esiools for the profeesional training of teachers, esta blished sad supported by the palate authority and meant, nod it is no lees remarkable and still mare eaeoaraging, that no such tastitution has ever yet been abandoned.— From Prussia, whose experience In this regard, is that of a century and a quarter, to that of oar young sister Mehl gas, wises existent* is as of yesterday, the Normal oehool has been tried throaghoat Christendom with unvarying ISOM& This result Is to fall harmony with the laws of mind and of homes *entity. Teseking Is • high aad honorable pro f/mica; •ad no professitia has mare ardsoes and somniez duties to perfarm—no one greater responsibilities to meet —and no one - operates on, or with, inch rideable and in terestiag matinal. The mon thorough properness is, therefore, requisite; aad as the duties to be performed are an only responsible, but delicate, and may effect the so cial, political, moral or religious feelings amid right" of the eitisea. as seam is a safe, an •atheriy &rani diseberge so free from suspicion or bias, as the Stain Towbars train ed by the State, and representing the vitality of its repu blicanism, will be the rm support and sereguareatee of its repablieui equality. It is time also that the leashing mind should reeeme true place Ia the enseola. la the tiosamenicaticia of know ledge, t() be effective, mind, in sympathette contact, must set upon mind, and with living, 'peskier energy, leave its impress there. The Great Mann himself tins traised tM school wkieh was to reform • world. Bet sow the ieok has too much intruded itself between the teacher •ud the taught Tbe leather has toe muse bottom* the mere expo seat of the priated page, and Ike min of the learner the impressed cup, of be text In thus style& the value and importance of books, as • mow of knowledge, are not intended to be overiented or decried, bat tiis ass* of our best weeds" have their hal* sad who welled the book warping the plane of the teacher, to the injury of the mind of our youth, we should restore sock to its proper pesitios --require from each the performance of ltsappropvistefeati doss, and thus Donn epee book full mown of their wee fulness. As as expedient to sagpirthe place of regular Normal schools tW established, said as a valuable muffler, tattiest whoa he operative, the Tersbers? laetltaa would be of unquestionable value. It would Wag together the teaeben of a roono7 soda the beet isilneuees, for eenealtatio• sad haprovenuiet, sad exhibit 111019 before their fellow *Wiese is their proper profeeelesal eitarseter. e =los of the wane of the !lease, or of the respective af• lineable to alsestiosal lapromisot, mid not he nor* proluelely thee to the "ecumenist of the vent leg el'lbt leen use seen Waite* sesselly, Is nen nasty. A ozpotisoost of ibis kind mostly node is tllto osuar. of Moor. is said to kayo Wes mimosa, osooosofel, sod otroosty Wiwi,* of the wisdom of the MYST& If, to Whim to am*, or similar woo" dor Logis. Woo iambi fad wairmaisd.4ad die woman Ina all *a asailias o eassathe illseassat aaa is li—aa make a II .111111 additions to the anneal Stabs appropriatioa team:mos schools, I behove that all will be done •hush the patriot ism of A. people's representatives can now effect; and I do not bantam to s=pans the opinion that the tame has 0017111 for this prompt, full and decisive action. Let the integrity of the spawn, in its great porpoises and objects. be a sin twined; and if ebotiged, changed only to render it more •f- Miest, and to %cream' its power for greater usefalnties. Whatever else may distiagumb your prbsont session. it as hazarding little to predict, that more honor and benefit will malt from the nerfeetion of the C..0}1110111 school system oducatioa, than from any other exercise of your legiela tire powers. The public sehools of Philadelphia are deserving of ea* nal notice and approval. In their carton. gradations. from the primary up to th• high ',Moo', they are models worthy of imitatioN; and their management and efhmency reflect great credit upon those to whoiii havr been ,onvnLt tad their mpervision and control. It di to be regret!ed that these school.. so creditable to our great "Commercial and literary emporium, and •9 honorable t , our monwealth, should find on place in the annual report the ^upon, weasel of common schools An at present organ thed these eehoolatire independent of the sate superintendency. and do hot report to the school department of tbe Common wealth. As everything that relate,. to the operation of cue summon school system, and the eohdltiou of the public schools in the State. a important and interesting. the sta tistics of those schou's should be furnished to the MAW Superintendent, that the same might be embodies.' in the annual report of the department. A uvxlthcation of exist.- tog Laws on this sublet, so far as to require the controllers of the public schools of Philadelphia, to report to the sehool department, the number. grade and condition of their schools—the number of pupila,ond generally such in formation in relation to their g , vero meat ae may bodeetn ini useful to the coats' of education, is respectfully remota mended To improve the social, intelleetual, an l moral condition of the people—reclaim mos., End atucli.rate humAc suffering are objects that commood themselves to the con sideration of the phrianthropi.t and ,the statesman Our educational, chartable, and ref , trtnatory :inditutlons are justly the prde of the State, honorable Lithe to the wisdom that devised, and liberality rut founded and eustlituo them They have strong' claims upon the boenty of the people, and I cordially recommend them to yonroare arid the liberality of the Commonwealth. The State Lunatic fforrtal. at NarriPburg, in au objecu and result, menu our higheAt approbation. The Ju•t ex peetation of its pr..je.:li.ro and founders hav• been dis appointed. Kindness and love with their softening and subduing influence, constitute the rule of it. g , vernmetit. Many of tta former unfortunate ininatei have t,aen restored to moon to friends and home, and the enjo,.nents of uncial life Those that remain require our s)mpathy and aid. They should not be withheld. Th.• report of the directors will exhibit, in dated, the operations of the mitt- The necouity end Importance of providing additional neeommodettuu for the insane Western i'eoneylvania. have been strongly pressed upon toy att,r,u ,, n The present accemmodattons are clearly insufficient. and these bare been provided principady by the cobt-tbuti , ns of benevolent cttuten• It ts urged that the rapid advance of our popu lation— the gloomy tu , reua of tn^ IDSatir—V , i rho made- quaey of the present asylums for the.r pore and manage. mint, render it imperatively necessary that e aid should be giren to that portion of the mate for the esta blishment of a new and entirely di•iinet We•terii Insane Hospital, as whante to tiAuee of our tellow eitlyeng who.. only alleviation is to be found in ',Weir the frightful malady witn wbi.b they are burdened. The subject is worthy of calm and di•FAL.4l•••uttt • oquiry. I will cheerfully co •perate with the I.., , glslature, in all pro per ifforti to accomplish this object. Should you decline to act upon this subjet, I would then recommend that an adequate appropriation be main to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital for the porlirnic of extend ing its accommodations fur the care of . • r•tne, es di.- tinct as may be peaet.cable from the other oiann of patient, nod inmates. The chant ter tit this insniution u liners' sta its pro visions. and eomprehenefee in the ..bjects liable to b , brought under its este. embrocate trim insane, as well as the sick, helpless and infirm. In this connection I would commend to your attention the Pennsylvania Training School for l i iirizte and Feeble Minded Children. The aid ..1 the C013311 , 1 ', rier-alth haa here- Lofton, been exceeded to that/ instanti.n. lea noble charity, and appeal, to the best feel Inge of the hear:- It 4eservea to ebare the bounty of th• State. The House of Befogs ID Philadelphia, and the Western House of Rouge near Pittsburgh, are inatttuttons of great eseellenee, havin6 for their object the re,leiming of way ward sod rtng youth—the employ allot sad the idle—the instruction erring of the ignorant—the refortuation of the •teious and depraved. sod the natter of the wretched They are aeb-oia,o )t prisou•—honsea, not placee of punishment they are • re fuse to the neglected and outcast children and youth of eur Commonwealth. The sueeess of the past is a sure pursaumr of their future usefulness. Toey should receive your aid and meounigeueuL The "Blind" and the ••Deaf and Dumb Asylums." in Philadelphia. invite our sympathy. and ask t,, share the benefactions of the Commonwealth They should not be diesppointed. The blind, in their darkness—the dumb, in their silence—will cherish the sift, and foie,. the •'ever *as donor. Legislation. In relation o all questionau!' moral and so . ial reform. should be , arefu::y and sr,sly couoi !cored and [natured On no stib.ect, within the e..rioti , utl. nal an- thorny of the legislature, are the pe,ple so se.,..tti‘r; and go use mu-, deeply interests every rim,. and ~ .od,t ..n society. Saaapteary laws. as a general rule. are of doubt ful etpelieticy; and as abridgmeum to liherry and pri vilege, of the citizen. eau unlv be justified un tne ground of necessity. Whilst this a admitted, .t ragout be denied that the evils resulting from toremperanoe, create a ne4••••. sity fur regulating and reeve:wag by legis'ati•e acts. the traffic and sale of intospatiog liquors. To what extent this traffic should be restrained by p, inure law, must de pend on the will of the people. determined by coi-siders tions of their own mural, physical and social wedare.— Whatever may be my opinion, or that of the Legislature or the people. in reference to the law of the twig roessi.e • io restrain the sale of intoxicating liquors," it niu,t be ad mitted that a full return to the license system, in operation prior to the passage of the present law, is nut demeaned by ealighteriod public sentiment, and would not promote the good meter or happiness of the community That the laws then inrextstence were imperfect and failed t cheek or control the evils of Intel/aperient.. In a profrootiiin trio plait to be doubted—that they needed revision tuu•t 1110 be conceded. In our large cult, and town.. the CVI.s of the system were more severely felt. Tor facility And cheapness with which licenses were °We ofl operated en a premium to vice and immorality. and multiplied tipp;ing bosses and places where intemperanre,un ler the authority of laws, was not only permitted, but encouraged. My im mediate predecessor, in his last enroll message to the Legislature, in reference to the then licease law, sal s. -So far as relates to the city of Philade phis, the) are peculiar ly prejudicial to public morals. and teem to have been con structed to promote the con•enioi co tit di-1111.1aq far more than to restrain its evil consequences. • It, this opinion I fully concur. That a remedy was demanded all will con cede. Whether the Law of the last 'elision was the pr• per remedy, It is not my province now to determine. Er.,,,t ed by the representatives of the people. 1 gave that act my Atrial approval. Recognising the people as the suuree of all political power, and their representatives as the• imme diate exponents of their will, upon )ou will aerobe the re sponsibility of further legislation, if any, on 6i...object. In all its relations, economical, political, social and mural, the question is important, and its proper determination in volves fearful reipeusibilities. It deserves. and should re ceive your serious oonsidersition. If action is had, may we lot hope that it will be such as will promote the virtue, morality, and true interests of our people and Common wealth. Legislation as far as practicable, should be general and uniform. Local and special legislation should nut be ea - cooragod, when the desired object can be "btsined by gen eral laws. Such legislation is nonly local and sprotal l lot In its character, bat frequently ti porary—i he act of one mission being repealed by the act 0 the nest, and perhaps replaced by one still more objectionable, which in turn, 900111 shares the fate of its predecessor It crowds the 'tat ate book with uses and unneeessary laws—violates pri vate rtirhas—createirhonfamon and uncertainty—destroys uniformity of practice and decision—prolongs the Sessions of the legislature, and increases the public expenses. Our general laws regulating roads, highways and bridges and providing for the support and employment of the poor, immetitute a well digested system, foc the accomplishment of those objects; sad yet, under the system of 1 ,, cal legis lation heretofore promised, we frequently tind, in different Winship, of the rams county, local LOWS regulating those subjects eist oily differing materially from the general law but from one another. Reform in this regard is required, sad to this I respectfully ask your attention wOmaibnelegisiatioa" having been cowls mined and alias- Aimed, should not be permitted again to ,ul.y the records of legislative actioa. It cannot receive my appr..•al. Nuesercous application' will doubtless be made i , ir the iimorpoirstion of insurance, gas, water awl ',um vumpa nies. To fatillatate action on them questions--eocuomise time—mdse. the *spumes of Legislation—secure waif .r may and °online the companies thereafter in , orp,rated to the Tim** porpoises of their creation. I would re. amnesia the propriety of enacting general laws regula. Wig seek eorporation& Already laws of this character for cos; iron, sea*, railroad, turapike, plauk and bridge ecompanies h ave been passed, and in practice have been foaled highly ss4W sad 'economical. Such laws well regulated sad carefully guarded, would be preductive of Ildmilar malts on their application to insurance and other comspasies wed. The propaiisty of ,issitiag sad restraining corporate bod ies to the objects mid purposes of their creation, will not be &aid or controverted. In relation to the powers and privileges of issieranoe eampaaise, this plain principle bar bees overlooked and disregarded. By seenesrie e nets of legislation many of them institution have acquired dis- Donating privileges, aid Dearly all the powers of banks, without their guards, restriatiedens and lability'. This has been effected by the sag* of some generoi provision ha the act iseorpoeating the company, or by reference to some forfeit's supplement anseealed in the golds of an "omisitwis hill." or lest iso the mesas or We pamphlet laws. Goland laws, whilst they would confer on tio , u coinpa ales all it sessesary to accomplish the objects of their would at the soma time prevent an ex. tee aof privileges foreign to such essociatious. This sobismis estamiesded * your eoassasnstios. The jurisdiction of the worts in relation to real estate, Matt, the lseerporadosraf literary, charitable and religi ose soeieties, massfietaring sad other maimistisey has been greatly tizteaded Ity room( legialaties. This:ealarg ad ,Meriadlealem wermeiGreeml for She paves er,,nellevimg the Mom the pinsumre of siuminseepipliesticias ors gal isitslettes is the premises, The mem are, B. F. SLOAN, kDITOL thaoofore, the proper tribunals to dotanailt• w amakw= twos; and ID all mate whore the subject 111111 Use if their jurisdiction, the Legislature should Mime tun the applteatlon. Divorcee, unless in awes of extreme neseesity red doer ly beyond the Jun,.Lenin of the courts, should see k granted by the Legislature. By the set 16th of April, 1545, entitiet""ha Asa ea he. crease the Novena's sod diminish the legislative egglia• ~ f the Commonwealth," it was provided that Chute no pruate bill, therein described aid taxed, amid be ea rolled in the °Mee of the Secretary of the CemmuMlNallhy or published, or have the tome and Mint of law, USW 111111 party asking or requiring the same should pay bo a e ika treasury of the Commonwealth the respective sum UM.. ed in sail set. A Itir,r. nomber et seas passed by fame" Legalatures and subyeet to Out tax, ramie la 64 1 of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, the tax am d i m not having been paid. The number has been saandly increasing, dud will eontinao to increase, alai= a saes wary remedy he afforded lot the cv:lr , .•tion of the ~mom ent tax, or in default of its payment after a °Walla p.. nod. the aria tbesse,ves be repealed. The amount of Nl roiement tax now due the Commonwealth is large, sad should have been pain long since. I would theraewe re commend the passage of a law repealing all seta Immteetiftre passed, tubje-t to such tax, unless a tax be paid wields one year thereafter, and further, to provide that all sea sots hereafter passed. shall out have the fore* sad Mae et law, uniees the taxer respectively due thereon, to be paid within six month* anti' tneir approval. Snob • law would secure the payment sit these taxes, increase the VPIIIIIIIIIIIIII. and at the *Mile MOS check the demand for private mil designed to be used or abandon- I, as the malettialthm eft chances, or the lose or pin of the parties la MUM* determine. By a resolution of the Legislature, parsed tho 1716 of March, 1855, requiring the "N. Y. I Brie railroad sow pany to communicate to the Leg•slature of thia wealth, a statement, certified under oath by their Prod dent, getting_ forth what quanta, of land said oosapowy bow holds t o Penotyleama—its location—bow noel dig bare heretofore disposed of—its value--tbe value of whoa they now hold, and wnen the titles of said Mod wore 00. yawed," LI was made the duty of the Governor to treasmde a copy of said resolution to the President of maid owmpowp. A copy of he resolution was transmitted as dimmest sod th e answ e r of the President of the company. moisaatoo. ting the infonaut in required, is herewith sabmittod to the Legislature. By a resolution of the 26th day of April, 11156, I woo guested to procure from the Attorney General, his opioism of the richt .4 the State of New York to divert waiter from the nature.: tied and cnannel of the Chemting river, to the prejudice of the publoi ornents of Penisyl tam* the said river belonging to both States, and commandoes the same to the Legislature. As requested, the opinion of the Attorney General has been obtained, and is hottailidi communicated to the Legislature. Un the 6th day of October last, I approved eseidehed the bill, entitled "An Act to repeal the alert*, of die ir and North East railroad oompauy. and to provide fir the dt.poding of the lame." In pursuance of its provision; I appointed the Hon. Joseph Casey to take posseettes .al have the charge and cu,tou) .f the road. Before posses a vg. was takeu, applvaunn was made by the etanpury one ‘.l the Jain.. of the Supreme Cowl of this Common weelt a for so itijunct.or. to restrAin the agent of the SUMO from taking possesston of the rued. and subsequently, • cautionary order was Lunde by the :-upreme Conntaßliat4 to guy h:. proceedings under the set The gni/done In volved in the application f,.r an injunction are new tag before that Court, and will, it is expected, be = 11 : mtned early in the present t0 , .0.11 The result *ill be made the subject of a special :0131Ullinielattoll si jit• job gi.lature. The recent fraudulent., if not felonious &brunettes of large quannty of arms (ruin the arsenal/it liarriabuzi, be. shown the necessity of additional legislation for the pen• teetioa of the arm, and other public property el the Chita.. monwealth deposuted in the arsenals of the State. Tbe taking ao 1 rale of the public arms and property, eddies& authority of law, by the keepers of ,the ateatiahi, at by utber having View to coarse, should be declared a Nag and punished with Sty, and all persons pareheetiejett receiving the same, without proper authority, indknotriaj Ittetil to he the property of the Commonwealth, should be regarded ha principals, and punished accordingly. rho bond, now required to oe peen by the Adjittart General sod the keepers of the &recital., forthisfaitital Ike charge of their duties are insuructent in amount to ressr• the Commonwealth ageunst loss from the fraudulent rate o r taking of the property committed to their aura The win in which these hands are taken should be increased to an amount proportionate to the value of property width is or may be deposited in the arsenals. Since the sale of the arsenal in Philadelphia. the arms in that city have been placed in a room or out pr.,cured for that purpose. As a depository, it is maim and insecure. Better provision should be made for that[ safe keeping. The earn or thirty thousand dollars, arising trout t h e talc of toe Philadelphia arsenal. is now in the Treater', to be expended under the direction of the Governor, to toe purchsuic of a suitable lot and the erection of a new arsenal This sum is wholly insufficient fur that purpose. and o ithout additional appropriations, which are Dot re commended, this object cannot be accomplished. teams and munitions of war can, when required, be treesaltlall tv.th facility and rallidity, to distant parts of the State, tie necessity fur m ,re than vise anenal no longerexists. It the arsenal at Meadville can he dispensed with without detri ment to the public service, I wuul i sug,;isat for your evasiti orauou the propriety of authoraing its sale, and the sale et the one at HaiTisbug, or plsewhirre, as may be deemedatest economical. safe and convenient. The Legislature, at their last 108Piell. haring failed** rice( a Senator to represent the State in the Senate of the l'nited States, for •1.1 year, from the 4th of Much laat, it I.,c,mes yout duty to provide for an election to nap such vacancy. 117 reference to the existing laws tang election of Senator to represent the State in the sl iest State., it will be perceived that their provisions do sat embrace a ease like the present. Having, at the time of toy induetion into odic* declared t icy fellow ettlLVts and their representatives, my aelatl ments in relation to quesii.ms oonnectod with out stational politics, their reiteration now will nut Le expected, To the opinions then est, d. anti now re-aihrinod, you am respectfully reterred. T, maintain, in their integrity. the Constitutin of OMIT Hepublie, and the Union of the mates—protect the eieil and religious privileges of the people—guard with jealous care the general. great end essential principles at Jimmy and free g .veromelit—of frecd,iiti and human nghto—aad vindiente by 11 tine and dev.,(..m to home and eons t.y. the great doctrine of American nationality, are ohjoata that awaken the patriotism and claim the energies and the heart of every American citizen. fu "be , llenee to the Millire9lent., of the Constitution an i levee rf tht• State, as the repre•entatlves of the u hose a.ootn' , lrd tn perf irm the high and dutiOn Cat devu.Se upon roe As a co-ordinate brilisihk of the government, It will be ‘ , ike my duty Lod plosisse, tv unite with you in the enaettnentof all such lain MI will protect the rl i ctito ut the people, and advance the how sod prosperity of the Commonwealth. Wub a sole deeire fur the pubis* good—actuated by I spirit ut enlarged and enlightenhd patriotism, and guided by that wisdom which hath iu beginning in the hoc of OA, may our i.lrorts, iu harm.iiious action, be &rioted to the accomplishment of these objects, and to the promotioo of that righteousness wrii.h eialteth a nation, and tieneti. tutu the true story of a free and independent JAMES POLLOCK. Exact:tura Chamber, Ilarroburg, Jao. 1,1854. KNOW NOTHINOISM IN NORTH CCILOLINL. A telegraphic dispatch, received in this city yesterdtv from Wilmington, North Carolina, states that at the municipal election in that city on Thursday last. the Know Nothing ticket wee elected by seventeen majority At the last elec tion the Know Nothings carried Wilmington by a majority of 500 North Carolina is fast getting rid of the few remaining remnants of the Order within her borders ay While the Davenport family of mediums were giving an exhibitill in New York the ether night, and the spirits were playing on musical instruments, in a dark room, a watchman per• sent suddenly let on the light of his dark ludas and the audience were astonished to see that dip mediums themselves were the actual players oa the instuetnents The , cene broke up in laugh ter, swearing and general confusion. LYNCH LAW IN MASSACHUSETTS.-Thl you tu , n in New Marlboro', Mass., on Saturday even ing, attacked a house, temporarily oecupted by Mr. Warner, a returned Californian, and Mrs. Leonard, and gave each a coat of tar and feathers, and rode them on a rail. Both of the °deaden, (Warner and Leonard,) have families. SHAT SAM MAI EXPECT.—At a Dernoorstkt meeting held in Overton county, Tenn., on the 3d inst., among the resolntiong adopted were the following: "Resolved. Thu the Democracy of ),.d. county will, in the next P r e,adeutial election, treat Sam as they did in August last." j Apia( PRAM--A New Awricia.—We aw exhibited on Change this morning a sample of Peas, w hi c h were attired on the plantation of T. Maslor, Esq , Morfield, Virginia. The peed was brought by the Japon expddition, and carefully cultivated by the above seined gentleman. They are a ver y beaudfar article in sprawls., Clir straw eolar, round, full and smooth, being about the size of a large buckshot--said to be eseei4 ingly prolifie, nudt4plyiag in great aseurisms s od of delicious taste. Messrs. Elden Ca.. have the. for sale and on ezhitio&—laisinere Parriot. NUMBER 35..
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