V at ., VI, No. 5.] I'MP.3ZO OF THE 11UNTINGDON JOURNAL. The'' JOURNAL" will be published every Wednesday morning, at two dollars a year, p tid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid with in six months, two dollar and a half. Every person who obtains five subscribers, and forwards price of subscription, shall be furnished with a sixth copy gratuitously for one year. Na subscription received for a less period than six months, nor any paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid. 17-Au communications must be addressed to the E litor, POST PAID, or they will not be attended to. AdVei tisementq not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion, twenty five cents per square will be charged. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continued, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged accor dingly. AGENTS. The Huntingdon Jamul. Daniel Teague, Orbisonia; David Blair, Esq. Shade Gap; Benjamin Lease, Shirley, burs; Eliel Smith, Esq. Chilcottstown; Jas. Entriken, jr. Ceffee Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; James Morrow, Union Furnace ; John Sisler, IParrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. West township ; D. H. Moore, Esti. Prankstown; Eph. Gilbreath, Esq. Holli daysburg; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water Street; Wm. Reed, Esq. Morris townshili; Solomon H.imer, eff's 111111; James Dysart, /lbuth Spruce Creek; Wtn. Murray, Esq. Graysville; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas. E. Stewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler, Mill Creek. TI?EA7`IIIEN7' The principal objects to be kept In view are Ist, to free the stomach and intestines front offending materials. 2d. to improve the tone of the digestive organs and energy of the system in removing noxious matters from the stomach, and obviating costiveness. Violent drastic purgatives should be avoided and those aperients should be used which act gently, and rather by soliciting the per istalic motions of the intestines to their regu larity of health, than by irritating them to a laborious excitement. &'here is no medicine better adapted to the completion of this than l)ar. 0. P. HAaLlett's GERMAN APERIENT PILLS. To improve the functions of the de bilitated organs and invigorate the system generally, no medicine has ever been so prominently efficacious as DR. Harlich's Compound 'Conic Strengthening Pills, whose salutary influence in restoring the digestive organs to a healthy action, and re-establish ing health and vigor in enfeebled and dys petic constitutions; have gained the implicit confidence of the must eminent physicians, and unprecidented public tcstimony. Re member Dr. Harlich's Compound Tonic Strengthening Pills, they are put up in small packets with full directions. Piincipal office for the United States, is No. 19 North Eighth street Philadelpliia where all communications must be addres, sed. _ _ Also for sale at the store of Jacob Miller who is agent fur Huntingdon County. taCtIES NOT HEALTH. Those who enjoy Health, must certainly feel blessed when they compare themselves to those sufferers that have been afflicted for years with various diseases which the human family are all Subject to be troubled with.— Diseases present themselves in various forms and front various circumstances, which, in the commencement, may all he checked by the use of De. O. P. Harlich's Compound Strengthening and German Aperient Pills, —such as Dyspepsia, Liver Complaints, Pain in the Side, Rheumatism, General De bility, Female Diseases, and all Diseases to which liumanty nature is subject, where th „Stomach is a ected. Di:ections for using shese Medicines always accompany them. These Medicines can he taken with perfect safety by the most delicate Female, as they are mild in their operation and pleasant in their effects. Principal Office for the Ui.ited States, No. T 9 North Eighth Stret , Philadelphia. Also for sale at the store of Jacob Miller, Huntingdon, Pa. - LIVER COMPL 4/iV T Cured by the use of Dr Harlich's Compound Strengthening and German Aparient Pills WI.. Win. Richard, Pittsburg, Pa, entirely cured of the above distressing disease: His Pornptarns were, pain and weight in the left s ide; loss of appetite, vomiting, acrid eructa Lions, a distention of the stomach, sick headache. furred tongue, countenance c h„ ng s a citron color, difficulty of breathing, ^d rest, attended with a cough, great tlt other sy interns indicating great the functiens of the liver. 4 the advice of several phy no relief, until using Dr 11 terminated in ef- to%. 41104irS. ;debility, w. derangement Mr. Richard hat. sicians, but received... liarlich's medicine, whit. fecting a perfect cure. f.ight stree Principal ()Inca, 19 North Edon Pa Philadelphia. ` i iuntin For sale at Jacob Miller's store . _ - CAUSB OF DYSPEPSIA. This disease often originates from a hab, of overloading or distending the stomach by e xcessive eating or drink.ing, or very pac rotr ted periods of fasting, an indolent or seden tary life, in which no exercise is afforded to the muscular fibres or mental faculties, fear grief. and ureic nxiety, taken too frequent ly strong pgigmedicines, dyrentery, mis carriages, intermittent and syasmodic affec tions of the stomach and bowels; the mo common of the latter causes are late hour sad *too frequent Übe of ,pilitUlik hquer !e• 4 e • . Sf i- •`• JOURNAL. .4'14 . • • HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13. 1811. .fpNTERESTING CURE PF.RFOI. d NIED BY Do. SWAYNE'S COM. POUND SYRUP OF PRUNES; VIRGIN lANA, on WILD CHERRY. flaying made use of this invaluable Syrup in my fam ily, which entirely cured my child. The' symptoms were Wheezing and choking of Flegna, difficulty of Breathing. attended with constant cough, Spasms, Convulsions, &c. of which I nad given up all hopes of its recrvery, until I was advised to make trial of this invaluable medicine. After seeing the wonderful effects it had upon my child, I concluded to make the same trial upon my self, which entirely relieved me of a cough that I was afflicted with for many years Any persons wishing to see me can call at my house in Beach street. above the marked Kensington, Phila. JOHN WILLCOX OBSERVE—The only plaCe;Leteiiiismed tine can be obtained, is at Jacob Miller's store Huntingdon. RIIEUMATP Entirely cured by the use of Dr. 0. P. Harlich's Compound Strengthening and Ger man Aperient Pills. Mr. Solomon Wilson, of Chester co. Pa., afflicted for two years with the above dis tressing disease, of which he had to use his crutches for 18 months, his symptoms were excruciating pain in all his Joints, especially n Isis hip, Shoulders and alleles, pain increas ng al ways towards eyeing attended with heat. Mr. Wilson, was at o. e time not able to move his limbs on account of the pain be ing so great; he being advised by a friend of his to procure Dr. Harlich's pill of which ht sent to the agent in West Chester and pro cared som; on using the medicine the third day the pain disappeared snd his strength increasing fast, and in three weeks was able to attend to his business, which he had not done for 18 months; for the benefit of 'tilers afflicted, he wishes those lines pu dished that they may be relieved, end artin en joy_ the pleasures of a healthy life. Principle office, 19th North 8t Street, Philadelphia. ALSO—For sale at the Store of J cob Mil ler, Huntingdon, Pa. DR. J A YNE' S EYPECTORAjV7 We consider it a duty to call public atten tention to this admirable preperatirn for Pulmonary Diseases— Especially Coughs Colds, Consumptions, Spitting blood, Asth ma, Broncial affections, Hocpm: Cough,& It is used and very highly approved by peel sons of the first respectability, but we fee confident in saying that a trial of its efficacy will be its best reccommendation. DR. JONATHAN GOING, PRESIDENT OF THE GRANVILLE COLLEGE, Ohio (late of New York), in a letter to Dr. Jayne da ed New York, December. 1836. says:— He was laboring under a severe cold, cough and hoarseness, and that his difficulty o breathing was so great that he felt himsel in imminent danger of immendiate suffoca Lion, but was perfectly cured by using the Expectorant."—Mrs. Delks, of Salem,N.J. was cured of Asthma of twenty years stand ing, by using two bottles of this medicine Mrs. Ward, also of Salem, was cured of the same complaint by one bottle. Ayoungla dx, also of Salem, who was believed by her friends to be for gone with consumption wa 'perfectly restored by three bottles.—Dr. Hamilton of St. James, South Carolina, was greatly affected by a cough, hoarseness and soreness of the lungs, and on using a bottle of this medicine found permanent relief. Mr. Nicholas Harris, sen., one of the Dea ' cons of the First Baptist Church in this city, has been perfectly cured by it—after having suffered for stxty years with Cough, Asth ma, and Spitting of Blood, which no remedy before could relieve. 7he Rev. C. C. P. Crosby, writes as fol lows: New York, June 15,1838 To Dr. Javne:—Dear have made use of your t xpectorant, personally and in my family for the last six years, with great benefit. Indeed I may consider my life pro longed by the use of this valuable medicine, 1 under the blessing of God, for several years. I may say almost as much in the case of my wife, and also of the Rev. Mr. Tensest, of he Island of Jamaica. Fur all cases of cough, nflamation of the chest, lungs, and throat, I o most unhesitatingly recommend this as the est medicine I have ever tried. My earnest wish is, that others afflicted as I have been, may experience the same reliefdwhich I am persuaded they will by using your Expectu anrt. C. C. P. CROSBY. The following Certificate is from a practi sing PHYSICIAN and a muds resist cted Clergyman of the Methodist society—da • ted Modest Town, Va. Augnst 27, 1838. Dr. JAYNE, Dear have been using your Expectorant extensively in my practice for the last three months, and for all attacks of Colds, Coughs, Inflamation of the Lungs, Consumption, Asthma, Pains and weakness of the Breast, it is decidedly the best medi cine I have ever tried. Very respectfully yours. R. W. W ILLIAMS. Dr. Jayne's Office is No. 20 South Third street. Philadelphia. where all orders will be promptly attended to. Sold cilsi; by JACOB MILLER, agent Huntingdon, Pa.—Price el. !MLAD THIS!: DR. SW AYNE'S COM 44..% POUND SYRUP of PRUNES VIR- ' ,:LIANA, Or WILD CHERRY: This is de in use: it allays irritation of l cdt :liv one of the best remedies for Coughs Zhe d olegLCut,::gd.,s;:l7"%seus tho cough, causing the m to ~:lise ir' e and easy; in it thrna• Pulmonary Co:lsumption, Recent or Chron ic Coughs, Wheezing ec Choking of Phlegm Hoarseness, Difficulty of breathing, Croup, npitting of Blood, &c. This Syrup is wet:- az:l%o to effect a permanent cure, it takes nncording to diredt:'‘nz which accompany the nttles. For sale onlw at Jacob Miller's stns "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, OND DESTINY•" A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. MESSAGE From the Governor to' the Senate and House of Representatives, of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. FELLOW CITIZENS c—Among the many duties imposed by the Constitution on the Executive magistrate, none is more im portant and more trequendy perplexing than that of "giving to the General As sembly information of the state of the Commonwealth, and recommending to their consideration, such measures as he should deem expedient. On this occa sion I am hapily relieved from much of the anxiety and embarrassment attendant upon the discharge of this duty, by refer ing your attention to the annual message, which I had the honor to transmit to tile Legislature on the Bth day of January last. In that message, 1 felt it to be my imperative duty, to enter into a full and elaborate exposition of my ,views on sev eral deeply interesting subjects connected with the public welfare, and especially on the subject of the internal improve ments of the Commonwealth, the public debt and the reformation of the banking system. In regard to these leading questions of vital interest, and the nnmer nes subordinate matters intimate associ ated and blended with them, I can add very little to the opinions 1 expressed, and the recommendations I made in the message to which I have justreterred you. The experience of the past year, has nut only confirmed but strengthened my con. viction of the justice and propriety of those recommendations ; the people at large with unexampled unitnitility have approved them, and I earnestly invite your careful deliberation, as 1 did that of the last Legislature, upon those portions of the message, to which you will find convenient access upon your journals. S 3 far as respects the reform of the bank ing system, I perceive no necessity for changing or modifying, in any essential particular, the recommendations therein contained; and I now here respectfully, but earnestly recommend the adoption of the recommendations I then made upon the subject, and trust that the present Legslature will not separate until they shall have made a searching and thorough • reform of the imperfections and manifold abuses of the present system. To me it has been a subject of,deep regret, that my recommendations on that subject did not! meet the approbation of the last Lesgisla. ture, persuaded as I stn, that the most benefiical influences would have resulted from their adoption, It is not, however, too late to apply the remedy still, and I again recommend, with anxious earnest ness, those measures for reforming the abuses of the banking system, to your ear ly attention. The resumption of specie payments on the part of the banks, which constituted a year a"o such a formidable portion of the difficulty in the way of efficient legislation is about to be consumated, without your active interference at all. IJuder a reso lotion passed on the 3d day of April last, those institutions are required on and af ter the 15th day of January rust, to pay on demand all their notes, bills, deposites, and other liabilities, in gold or silver coin, on the penalty of a ferfeiture of their char. I tern, upon certain conditions set foi di in said resolution. It affords me great pleasure to state that although the day fixed for re. sumption 'vas more remote than 1 wished al the time, yet the period of indulgence has nearly passed away and there is now good ground to believe, that the banks of this Commonwealth will as they are re'• (ared to do, be prepared again to dis• charge all liabilities in specie. Should they do so, by continuing strictly to ob serve the law, and by fulfilling the just expectations of the public, they may re 7 gain the confidence which they have kith: erto lost, and inure particularlj may they do this, it proper measures be adopted fur the better regulation and control of their operations. Clue of the most , immediate advantages resulting to the communit7, from the resumption of specie payments will be the entire expulsion from circula tion of the illegitimate brood of small notes that have been poured in upon us, from the neighborini , states on all sides, in defiance of law, arid of the most active endeavors to suppress them, I cannot, i however, conclude this part of my subject without recommending that no increase of our banking capital be made under any circumstances, and that effectual provi• skin be made by law, that if any' bank shall at any time hereafter, suspend specie payments, it shall be ipso facto a lo•tei ture of its charter. Nothing short of an absolute and unconditional provision of this kind can arrest the frequent over is.. sues of the banks, induced by the inordin . - ate cupidity of those under direction they' may be conducted. Let the great princi ple be distinctly announced, as the foun dation on which our banking institutions rest, that hereafter, there are to be no. sus, pensions of'specie payments in [ion. Sylvania. The condition of the public improve ' ments during the past year, has been at tended to by the officers ,trusted with their management, with untiring assi dotty. They are in a much better state of repair than they ever have been since their construction, and but little delay or interruption in business has occurred. The amount of business done on the main line, it is true, has been less than last year, but it has been owing to causes in no degree connected with the management of the public improvements. I refer you to the report of the canal commissioners, for a detailed and accurate statement of the present condition of the improvements, the sum required to complete those lines in a state of forwardness, and the amount needed for repairs on the canals and rail roads now in operation, as well as the amount due for repairs heretofore done. I feel it to be my duty again to state to the Legislature, as soon as those portions of the unfinished lines of improvement, now almost completed, are finished, and upon which, if the work had been suspen ded, more would have been lost to the Commonwealth than by hastening their completion, I think it full tiine for Penn sylvania to pause in her career of internal improvement, and test for a time the use fulness and value of the stupendous a chievements she has already made. I have been from the beginning the friend and advocate of the internal improvement system of this Commonwealth, and shall continue to be, so long as that system is confined to the main lines and their imme diate tributaries—but our immense pub-, lie debt, and the sacrifices which the peo ple are called upon to make in conse quence of it, for the payment of the inter est; and of the principal as it falls due, forcibly admonish us, to consult prudence' and economy before we incur additional responsibilities, without a corresponding increase of means to meet them. A re vival of business, and the natural augmen tation of our population and resources, will in a short period of time, enable us to realize from our improvements, many of the advantages of which they are sus ceptible, and as I confidently trust, enongh, and more than enough to demon strate the wisdom of their projectors, and the soundness of the policy, which led to the enormous investment of capital in their construction. When that day ar• rives, let canals and rail roads be con structed wherever they promise to be use ful throughout the wide extent of the corn mcnwealth; but until it does arrive, let us husband our resources, and diminish as much as practicable the berthens now im posed upon the people of the State. The amount necessary to complete the main lines, and to put the improvements now in use in a thorough state of repair, you will be fully informed by the Canal Commissioners, which amount of money I would respectively suggest, should be immediately appt:opi fated, so as to enable the Canal C:omoussioners to mae proper arrangements to apply it with most advan (age to the public service. Great and tin mediate repairs to our improvements are iedespensible, if we hope to maintain the character of those improvements, and to prevent • our immediate Northern and Southern neighbors from diverting from them a large share cf the business of the West and South. The honor of Penn• sylvania is too deeply involved in this measure to admit of apathy or delay. Feeling as citizens of this Commonwealth should feelon this subject, I sin sure no stronger motive to action could be presen ted to you, than that of enlightened and manly state pride, addressing itself to you through the medium of ()lineal duty, PUBLIC DEBT, The present amount of the public debt Permanent loans at 3 per, cent, 633,085,013 32 Permanent loans at 43 per cent, 200,060 00 Temporary loans at 4 per cent, 15,000 00 9333,501,013 52 Due United States, on ac count of depusite sur plus revenue, 2,867,514 78 Unpaid appropriations, 622,247 59 836,790,775 69 Upon an examination of the debts and liabilities or the Commonwealth, on the 15th of January, 1839, and the subse quent laws passed, authorizing loans and waking appropriations, it will be found, that nearly the whole sum burrowed since that period, has been applied to debts and liabilities then due and falling due, on ac count of the public works finished and in progresi—to the payment of temporary and stock loans—for interest on the pub• lie debt, and fur the repairs of the canals and rail-ways of the Commonwealth, The only sums appropriated out of the loans authorized to be made since I came into office, which were not applied to liar bilitio then due and trowino out of con x.... . ..., . tracts, which existed at the time, are the following: To the survey of a rail road from Harrisburg to Pittsburg, To stock in the Pcnnsyl vania and Ohio canal, To stock in the Frank $45,000 00 lin rail road, To stock in the Mononga hela Navigation com pany, 100,000 00 100,000 00 $295,000 00 PUBLIC PROPERTY Bank stock, 82,108,700 00 Turnpike &11 idge stock, 2,830,348 89 Canal & Navigation stock, 645,269 00 Rail-road stock, 335,546 90 Money due on land, esti- inaCetl, Public works, canals, rail ways, &c., 1,000,000 00 29:578,506 17 836,498,370 96 Thus it appears' that the resources of the Commonwealth are abundant, but not immediately available for the purpose of paying either the principal ur the interest of the public debt. It is proper here to remark, that it has not been the uniform practice of the Leg islature, to provide sufficient revenue to meet the current demands upon the State Treasury, The various appropriations of the public treasure have exceeded the public income. Out of this state of things a custom has gi own up at the Treasury it seems, to pay the demands upon it, as they are from time to dine presented, without reference to the specific appro priation of part of the monies therein, to the payment of the interest upou the pub. lic debt, which falls due semi-annually, on the Ist of February and lst of August. Under this custom, it has happened, that from a deficiency of other means, the mo nies arising from tolls, auction duties, tax on collateral inheritances, dividends on turnpike, bridge and navigation stocks, and Pscheats, which had been set apart by law, towards the payment of the inte rest on the public debt, have been paid out indiscriminately to meet other de. wands upon the Treasury. There will, therefore, be a deficiency in the fund for the pay meat of interest on the public debt, upon the Ist of February next; of perhaps $BOO,OOO. This, as well as every other , ,object relating to the revenue, belongs so exclusively to the Legislative branch of the government, that no recommendation of the Executive can be required, to be speak for it the necessity for some special legislation in relation to its future dis bursement. It is computed that the tax which will be rendered available under the act of the 11th June, 1840, entitled "An act to cre ate addition al revenue to he applied to wards the payment of interest, and the extinguishment of the debts ofof the Coin inonwealth," will amount to about $600,- 000. The sum which will be raised an tler this act, together with the other re• sources of the Commonwealth, will most probably liquidate the interest account, without further resort to loans for that purpose. This act is to continue in force live years, and provides such a rule fur the assessment of taxes, as to fall with gentle weight vu those who are little able to bear any addition to their expenses.— The articles taxed are those purely of luxury, such asold watches, pleasure carriages, househo l u furniture exceeding in val ue three hundred dollars, together with bonds, bills, and notes of solvent ob- ligors, bank stock, or stock in other cur- ' porations, yielding dividends of at least one per cent, salaries of public officers, and real estate. Although this act un doubtedly operates with considerable hardship upon those who fall within reach of its provisions, still they are compara tively, subjected to very little inconveni.. ence, for in most instances they do not belong to the poorer classes, on whom taxation usually falls with the most peen liar severity. To impose taxes on any class of our fellow citizens is nut very agreeable, nor a very popular task; but when, as in this case, the honor and the fidelity of Penn sylvania must be sacrificed, or a tax of this kind be endured, there are few, very few men in the Commonwealth worthy to be ranked among her free, intelligent and upright citizens, who will shrink from their share of the burthen. AViten, too, it is known that those who recommended, and who sanctioned the bill imposing the tax, are no more responsible for the ne• cessity that compelled a resort to it, than any of those who are to pay it, the folly and injustice of those who would condemn' are rendered still more conspicuous. I found the debt upon which this interest was to le paid, in existence, when I as sumed the functions of the Executimand found nothing to pay it with. The Trea sury was exhausted, and nu means left to meet this reepoasibi but further .1 [WHOLE No. 265. loans, a sale of the improvements or tax ation. The first two were impracticable, and I was driven by stern necessity to the adoption of the latter alternative. L saw bnt one path before me open to pur suit, and that was the path of duty. I recommended taxation; that recommen. dation was adopted by the Legislature, and it is a source of proud gratification to me, when I consider that the people of Pennsylvania, almost to a man, so far as have been informed, with a firmness and . patriotism worthy of themselves, have yielded to this necessity without murmur or repining. I feel fully convinced, that at the expiration of the five years at far thest, with a reasonable degree of pru. Bence, and with strict economy in the management of our affairs, the income of our improvements will render a renewal , of this law wholly unnecessary. If any difference of opinion exists, es to the necessity of this tax, let these ques tions be answered by those objecting:— Does not Pennsylvania owe this debt ? Is she not morally and legally bound to pay it and its interests, as it falls due ? Can they point out any other mode by which this can be done? 50,000 00 You, however. have come directly from the people, and are supposed best to know their opinions on this as well as all other subjects : and if you differ in opinion with me on this important subject'and think the tax ought not to have been laid, it is your duty to repeal the law instantly. No part of the tax has yet been collected. Seeing no other mode of extricating the Commonwealth from the difficulties in which I found it, my views and opinions remain unchanged. Yet if the immediate representatives of the people think proper to repeal the law, and can substitute any other mode less objectionable, which will promptly meet the exigency, be it en; the responsibility rests with them. I can never consent, by word or deed, to countenance the idea that the faith of the State can be violated by a failure to meet licr engagements. If there be any in our country who would , be willing, if they were able, to abrogate the contracts of the Commonwealth, and be faithless to her creditois, let their doctrine be dis tinctly avowed and the issue fairly made up before the people. The intelligence and integrity of our citizens would spee dily convince the world, that they feel the necessity in a republican government of maintaining, unsullied, public faith and national honor. The deficiency in the funds set apart tor the payment of the interest on the pub lie debt balling due on the Ist of February next, must be promptly provided fur. By the act of the eleventh June last, the Gov error is authorized to procure it on loan, and fur th..t purpose proposals have been invited; whether the money can be pro cured I know not—and in case I cannot, I see no other mode left to avoid the dishon or of the state credit, but the sale of a suf ficient amount of the stock owned by the State, in one or the other, or all of the banks in which site is interested. The State owns the following amount of stock in each of the banks named, viz: Bank of Pennsylvania, 8750 shares; Philadelphia Bank 5233 shares; Farmer's and Meehan ic's Bank 1708 shares. The stock would. most probably ccmmand a ready sale; and I do most sincerely hope that not a day will be lust, before this possible blot. upon the faith and honor of the State is elfectudlly guarded against, by the prompt action of the Legislature. In my last annual message, the ques tion was distinctly presented tothe Leg islature, whether the works then in pro gress should be prosecuted to immediate completion or not, and the question was by them determined in the affirmative, and the sum of $600,000 appropriated to each of what has usually been denomina ted the main lines, and the works being so far progressed in, as to warrant the ex pectation of their being completed in a nother year, all will now concur in the o pinion, I presume, that provisions should be immediately made for the completion of the unfinished works as soon as possi ble. A judicious and immediate appropria tion promptly made in anticipation of the usual appropriation bill, specifically for the works under contract—for the com— pletion of the reservoirs, ct each end of the Portage rail road—and for ordinary repairs, is imperiously called for, and will enable the contractors to complete the whole, avid have them ready for use by the opening of the navigation in the spring 01 1842. The vast importance or the immediate completion of the main lines, as well to the citizens immediately interested in them, as w the fiscal inter ests of the Commonwealth, cannot be toe strongly pressed upon your attention. They will complete a communication be tween the great Likes, and our commer cial metropolis. They will also, by a proper agreement with the authorities ol INew York, connect our improvements with those of that 2rcat Ccirknionvie4dAs - . .
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