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.
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