Also, the amount in
Canal Treasury, on
rune day,
39,497 00
Making a total of
Tie also estimates the expenditures
of the Commonwealth, for the
Fame period, including interest
en public debt, at
$3,708,348 88
lemming a balance in Treasury on
30th November, 1945, of
There is, therefore no manner of doubt
(lint, henceforth, the State will be able to
meet, not only the interest on her public
debt, but all her other engagements of
every description ; the taxes now imposed
by law, (if their collection and payment
into the Treasury be strictly enforced,)
and the proceeds of the public improve•
meats, with other sources of revenue, con
szituting a fund amply sufficient fur that
purpose.
Recurring to the history of the past six
years, what a satisfactory answer does it
tarnish to the objections of the enemies of
Republican Government, against its sta
bility and its honor. Oppressed by per
actual embarrassments—weighed down by
public liabilities—reproached for not do
ing what the most manful struggles were
enable to accomplish, the people of Pena
svlvania have still borne themselves stea
dily in the darkest hour, have submitted
to taxation, grievous at all times, and par
titularly so in convulsons of business, and
have at last reached the solid footing
which public integrity and public fidelity
in the end never fail to attain. The diffi
culties and embarrassments attending this
struggle, will hardly be credited by those
who have not shared them; and, I confess,
it will ever be to me a source of proud sat
isfaction to compare the condition of
the State, when the helm of Governs
ment was put into my hands, with
its condition when 1 surrender it into the
hands of my successor. I say not this to
teproach those who preceded, nor to di
tninish the just credit of those who suc
ceed rue; but as an act of sheer justice to
all who embarked with tne in the gloomy
and perilous voyage we have run since the
lsth of January, 1839. It can hardly be
possible fur such a season of trial ever to
occur again ; but it unhappily it should, I
trust those who are called upon to encoun•
ter it, will find something in our example
to cheer and animate them to persevere in
the discharge of their duty.
Raving thus disposed of the financial
concerns of the State, for the last few
years, a subject of the deepest solicitude,
shall proceed to submit to you but a few
special recommendations ; for, at the pre
sent time, I deem it no more than an act
of respectful courtesy to my successor, to
leave entirely in his hands those recom
mendations of a general nature, which
are initially expected to emanate from the
Executive Department. There are a few
topics, however, upon which I feel it to be
my duty to offer some suggestions for
your consideration.
The unexampled commotion and distur
bance that recently prevailed in the busi
ness concerns of the country, have, in a
great degree, subsided, and left us in a
state to survey the field of disaster with a
calm and experienced eye. The throes
and convulsions of the banking system,
for a time, menaced all those institutions,
with speedy downfall, but most of them
have now outrode the storm. No man
could witness the existing state of things,
without feeling conscious that this system
was essentially vicious, and needed effec- I
tual reform.
To make banks useful without being
dangerous—to correct the evils without
depriving them of all power to do good—
to restrain them within their properspliere,
by rigid regulations, is an object at which,
1 think all intelligent and honest legislas
tion should aim. in this opinion, I pre
sume, there will be no discordance what
ever, among well informed men.
Early in the month of May last, a se
ries of the most alarming and sanguinary
riots broke out in the District of leensine
ton, in the county of Philadelphia. On
the origin of these riotous proceedings, I do
not feel called upon to make any particu
lar animadversions. It is enough to say,
that a large amount of private property,
dwelling houses and churches, were burnt
and destroyed; and that a large number
of valuable lives were sacrificed. such
an extent was the public safety endanger.
ed, that I was called upon, by the proper
authorities of the city and county of Phil
adelphia, for an adequate force to arrest
and quell these disturbances. 1 immedis
ately ordered a very considerable number
of troops, lime wljoining districts, to re
pair to Philadelphia, and, by assuming a
firm and determined position, peace and
order were temporarily restored.
In the month of July, similar outrages
again were committed in the District of
Smith wark, in the county of Plitladelphia,
and with similar painful and bloody re
sults. I was again called upon to inter
fere, and, a second time, repaired to the
city of Philmtelphia, having made similar
revisitions upon the volunteers of neigh
boring districts, and, by the adoption of
similar proceedings, lawless outrage was
again suppressed, and public tranquility,
as I trust, thoroughly restored. On these
occasions, the metalled procured fire-arms
of nearly all descriptions, and used them
both against private citizens and against
the military, with deadly effect. I had the
gratineatinn to witness that the citizen
soldiery, thus called,at an how's warning,
tram their homes to the acetic of bloody
eetillict, acted, in all emergencies, with a
ems Mess, steadiness and courage worthy
of veterans, an I with a degree of forbear -
tome, without shrieking from their duty,
inn miteiy tnor: to their honor, Officers
and men all behaved in a manner entitled
to the highest commendation. I refer you
to the report of Major General Patterson,
herewith transmitted, for the detailed op
erations of the military, on the occasions
to which 1 have referred. It is due to
these citizen •soldiers, to make speedy and
adequate remuneration for their services.
I submit it to the Legislature to ascertain
the time to be allowed them, and 'ix the
amount they ought to receive; but I must
urge upon its consideration, in the most
earnest terms, the justice anti propriety of
their claims. Men who abandon their
daily pursuits of life, leave their wives
and children without protection or sup
port, and peril their lives in the public
service, either against foreign or domestic
foes, are justly entitled to a liberal com
pensation from that public whose laws
they have defended. The salutary lesson
taught by the rigid, though considerate
enforcement of the laws, by means of the
military, and the firm and enlightened
course pursued by the judicial tribunals
and the officers in Philai'elphia, entrusted
with the duty of bringing offender's before
them, will doubtless prevent a recurrence
of these evils, and guarantee, hereafter
the peace and good order of that commu
nity.
Although the system of imprisonment
adopted by Pennsylvania, some years ago,
at the establishment of her Penitentiaries,
has been justly regarded as the most ad
mirable to be found among all nations, yet
there is one department which remains to
be provided for, that of establishing, in
connexion with each of our State Penner)•
tiaries, a department for the charge of the
insane inmates. There have been, almost
every year, since I have been governor of
the Commonwealth, some unfortunate
persona confined in the Penitentiary, of
this description, who, either were partial
ly insane when committed,or became so
afterwards. As the law now stands, there
is no remedy for these cases, but to par-
don them, or confine them in the same
manner as other criminals are confined.
Both of these modes are often times wrong,
and I respectfully urge it upon your con
sideration to make some provision for
redressing the evils in future.
The State debt now consists of thirty
seven distinct loans, for each of wl ich, a
separate set of books must he kept in the
loan office of the Commonwealth. Con
stant divisions, sub-divisions and transfers
of stock, are taking place, and the whole
system is becoming daily more, laborious
and complkateel. 1 recommend an in
quiry into the subject, and, if practicable,
the consolidation of these loans into some
uniform system.
The careless manner in which blls are
transcribed, is a subject which calls for
some remedy. It not unfrequently hap
pens that the Executive is compelled to
return bills to the comparing committees,
for correction, before he can give them his
approval. Bills presented during the last
hours of the session, and, as is usually the
case, on the day after the adjournment,
cannot undergo this correcting process,
and are necessarily placed upon the sta
tue book, with such errors as they may
contain. It has likewise been discovered,
after the publication of the laws, that
whole sections which had passed both
houses, had been omitted in the transcri•
bed bill, and sections inserted which had
never received the traction of the Legla
ture. I deem it only necessary to call your
attention to this evil, without making any
recommendation as to the proper remedy.
During the time I have been in office,
no appropriations have been made to fur
Hush the Executive Chamber, in a manner
which seems to the to be suitable to the
character of the State. I have avoided
calling the attention of the Legislature to
this subject for obvious reasons; but a
sense of delicacy no longer retrains nee
from pressing upon your attention, the ne
cessity of supplying the Executive Cham
ber with furniture and conveniences, a
little less unbecoming than those that are
found there at present.
The public grounds surrounding the
Capital, notwithstanding that considerable
sums have been appropriated to improve
and embellish them, are still in a condis
tion not at all,creditable to the capitol ol the
State ; and especially that portion, not
enclosed, upon the south-east side of the
Capitol, stands in need of improvement
and care. This ground was a donation
to the State by the respected founder of
Harrisburg, and it is scarcely just to his
memory to treat his munificence with
such negligence.
The taste and self respect of a people
are strikingly exemplified in the structure
of their public buildings, and in the em
bellishments surrounding them. If stran•
gers were to adopt this as a criterion by
which to estimate the character of the ci
tizens of Pennsylvania, we should have
little cause to be proud of the judgment
they would form of us. 1 beg leave to
recommend that a suitable appropriation
be made to render our public grounds
somewhat more worthy the character of
the people of the State.
The unfortunate destruction of the
bridge of the Cumberland Vally Railroad
Company, over the Susquehanna, at II ar
rrisburg, by fire, has, in a great measure,
cut off the trade and business which that
valuable tributary to our public improve
ments supplied. The State holds in that
company, stock to the amount of $70,000.
The original cost of the bridge was $124,-
000—and it will probably cost $90,000
to rebuild it on the most approved plan.
The condition of the company is such as to
(orbit, the hope of its being able to raise the
whole of the funds necessary to rescon
struet it. Many of the numerous bridges e
rected over that river, have been,lrom time
to pine, (testi oyed by floods and otherwise,
$703,348 88
3,001,013 56
$647,335 3
and I believe that tiie Legislature, in
every instance, has thought it right and
proper to assist in their re-construction.
I would, therefore, recommend the sub
-
Pet to the favorable consideration of the
Legislature, and urge the propriety of
making a reasonable appropriation to aid
the company in this iindertaking.
The annual report of the Superinten
dent of Common Schools, v ill acquaint
you with the progress and condition of
these intititutions, during the year, to
gether with his views respecting the im
provement of the school system, and the
means to be adopted for that purpose. It
is highly essential to the success of our
system of education, that the appropria
tion from the State should be fixed and
permanent. Uncertainty in this respect,
is attended with deleterious consequences,
and productive of derangement in the
practical operations of the system. What
ever is calculated to promote the cause of
popular education, is worthy of your
most serious and earnest attention. On it
depeads, in an eminent degree, the honor
of our Commonwealth, the distinction and
happiness of her citizens, and the perfec
tion and perpetuity of our political insti
tutions.
The report of the Adjutant General will
be submitted to you, and will exhibit par..
titulars in relation to the militia system.
During the last session of the Legislature,
an act was passed to reduce the expenses
of the militia system, and provide a more
rigid mode for the collection of militia
fines. The provisions of this act are
found to be highly beneficial in their ope
ration, and it is believed, will enable the
system to sustain itself without having ra•
course, as hetetofore, to the Treasury of
the State for aid. The amount of fines
assessed the last year, for nonperform
ance of militia duty, is more than sufficient
to defray the expenses for the same time.
The brief period from the enactment of
the law, until the collectors were requi•
red to accomplish their duties under it,
was not sufficient for them to complete
their collections. The outstanding fines
of the past year, however, may be collec
ted with those of the present, and thus a
sum obtained sufficient to meet the expen
ses of both.
I cannot too strongly recommend to
your care and encouragement, the volun
teer troops of our Commonwealth. They
will loose nothing when compared with
the troops of this or any other country.—
Their courage and efficiency as soldiers
have been tested and established, and they
have deservedly become favorites with the
people. In cases of exigency, we must
chiefly depend upon them to protect trom
injury and destruction our individual pro
perly, our national honor, and our politi
cal liberties.
Under the provisions of the act of 29th
April, 1844, entitled " An act to reduce
the State debt, and to incorporate the
Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad Corn.
puny," the question of a sale of the main
line of improvements, submitted to a vote
of the people at the election in October
last, was decided in the affirmative. The
requisite notice was given by the Secre
tary of the Commonwealth to the com
missioners named in the act, and they have
proceeded so far in the performance of
their duties as to advertise that the sale
of the stock of the proposed company will
commence, in the city . of Philadelphia, on
the 20th of January inst. The time has,
therefore, not vet arrived when the prac
ticability of disposing of these improve
ments, on the terms specified in the law,
will be tested. 1 am not aware that any
legislative proceedings on this subject are
called for at the present time.
The proceedings of the commissioners
named in the act of the 13th April, 1844,
entitled " An act to authorize the Gov
ernor to incorporate the Delaware Canal
Company," will appear from a report ac
companying this message, setting forth
their inability to dispose of the Stuck. It
will be for the Legislature to determine
what further action, if any, on this subject,
is necessary.
In my last annual message 1 informed
the Legislature that in pursuance of the
act of 7th March, 1843, a charter had
been issued to the Erie Canal Company,
and possession given to it of that portion
of the public improvements from the town
of New Castle to the harbor of Erie. On
the 18th December last, the necessary
prowl having been laid before me, that the
work had been completed, and was in ac
tual use fur the transportation of merchan
dize throughout its whole length, I direc
ted, in conformity to the terms of the act,
notice to be given to the superintendent
of the line, to deliver the company pos
session of the Beaver Division, from the
mouth of the Beaver river to New Castle.
The District Court of the city and
county of Philadelphia, exercising a juris
diction in all civil demands above the sum
of one hundred dollars, will expire during
the present session of the Legislature, by
a limitation contained in the act creating
it. This court, on which, from the nature
of its jurisdiction, it o ecessarily devolves
to determine the majority of the more im
portant cases arising in that judicial dis
trict, has been laboriously engaged in the
discharge of its duties, fur a space of
nearly ten years. The manner in which
these duties have been performed, besides
securing the confidence of the bar and the
community, would seem to have produced
the very general impression that this tribu
nal is indispensible to a due administra•
tioa of the law in that city and county.--
would, therefore, respectfully recom
mend the passage of an act continuing the
court in its present form, and securing to
it, in every limper manner, the services of
faithful and able judges.
Fortunately fur the Legislature and the
people, the sutiject of the public printing,
for a long time a topic of just complaint,
on account of the unreasonable amount
expended for that purpose, was put to rest
during the lust session, by allotting it to
the lowest bidders, alter the just precau
tion of exacting security for its faithful
execution. The parties to whom it was
given, fixed their own rates of cbmpensa
tion, and have no doubt made ample pro
vision against all hazard of loss; arid we
may, therefore, hope that this item. of the
public expenditure will nut be swblled to
its usual alarming amount, by demands
for extra compensation.
Before I conclude this communication,
I will call your attention to a subject in
which 1 believe the State ot Pennsylvania
has a deeper stake than any other now
pending, or likely to be brought, either
before her own Legislature or the Legis.
lature of tilt Union. I refer td the main
tenance, in all substantial points, of the
existing revenue laws of the Union, more
generally known as the tariff laws. The
great variety and complexity of interests
in the - different quarters of the Union,
render the adjustment of any tariff sys
tem, an extremely difficult and delicate
undertaking. Could the people of every
section of the Union, survey the entire
circle of national interests, with a perfect
ly cool and unprejudiced eye, this diffi
culty and delicacy would almost entirely
vanish. But while certain sections of the
Union are wedded to certain notions,
without regard to their foundation in rea
son and truth, it will be almost impossible
to expect from any body of men, assem
bled in Congress, a perfectly free and un
prejudiced examination of this exciting
question. We must deal with men and
things, as we find them, and not as we
would desire to have them. In a conflict
where prejudice and self-interest bias the
judgment, it behooves the representatives
of every section, while they yield a due re
gard to the!claims ot others, to stand firmly
by their own. I have, front year to year, in
addressingcommunications to the Legisla
ture, referred to this subject, not sr. , much
for the purpose of inducing action iodic
National Legislature, as to keep it befi;re
the dozens of this Commonwealth to fa
miliarize it in their minds, and to prepare
them to unite in maintaining their own
interests, whenever those interests might
be endangered. I was assailed when I
first took this high ground in defence of
the welfare of Pennsylvania, from various
quarters; and denounced for advocating
doctrines to which the majority of the
people of this State were asserted to be
opposed ; but, regardless of these idle and
futile assaults, 1 have reiterated the same
sentiments, and have the satisfaction of
knowing that, in the recent Presidential
election, in which the tariff was believed
to be involved, both political parties, near
ly to a man, assumed the same positions
I had taken, and advocated the same doc
trines which I had endeavored to enforce
upon the consideration of the Legislature.
I advert to this matter now, nut so much
to justify myself, as to prove, whatever
has been alledged to the contrary, that
there is but one party on this question, in
Pennsylvania, and that party is nearly the
entire mass of her citizens. I hazard
nothing in asserting that neither of the
Presidential candidates could have hoped,
for a imminent, to get a majority of the
votes in this State, had not his claims been
based upon the assurance that he was
friendly to the continuance of the present
tariff laws, substantially as they stand.
The iron and coal interests in this State, l
great as they have been considered to be,
are yet in their infancy. Deposits of these
minerals, scattered throughout almost
every hill and valley in the Common
wealth, are exhaustless, and are so pecu
liarly distributed, in all quarters, as to
create a direct interest on the part of
nearly every citizen, in the development
and encouragement of every system of
policy which can render them available.
The owners of the lands in which they
are embedded, the agriculturist who
furnish the workmen with their supplies,
the merchants, mechanics and artizans of
all descriptions, look to these resources
ultimately, as, the great fountain from
which State and individual prosperity
must be derived. Here, it is believed,
must be founded and sustained the great
counterpoise to foreign importations of
all species of iron, raw and manufactured,
with which the whole American people
are to he supplied. Here, too, is to be
found a deposite of fuel for the family
use a the poor, as well as for the more
extensive use in the manufacturing pur
poses of the rich. Possessing such advan
tages, lmw can any rational man consent
to relinquish and forego them, to gratify
the caprices of those who certainly mis
take their own, and are incapable of ap
preciating the interests of others? We
seek no unreasonable prohibitions : We
ask nut the protection of the government
at the expense of the rights of our sister
States, but we do ask, and we think we
have a right to ask, that the system of en
couraging and protecting the domestic in
terests of this country, the corner stone
of which was laid in the act of Congress
of Ist June, 1789, should not be abandon
• ed without some more substantial reason
than the empty notions of visionary theo
rists. We believe that the tariff law of
1842, now in force, making reasonable al
lowance for inaccuracy and inconsistency
in its minute details, is founded in a spit.-
, it of compromise and fair dealing, equally
, just to the great national interests of the
• different sections of the Union. To dis
turb it now, except to correct its minor
details, is to unsettle the whole system, to
r weaken its stability, and to destroy the
confidence, at home and abroad, in the
i wisdom and consistency of the National
Government; and to break down, now
and forever, all hope of competing with
foreign rivalry in the interests to which
this law extends some cherishing protec
tion. The great interests of Pennsylva
nia do not ask for additional protection,
or for new sale-guards; but, small as the
discriminations are in their behalf, to let
them remain as they are, with a certainty
that they shall not be changed without
substantial reasons, and the concurrence
of the citizens of Pennsylvania.
There seems to be a disposition among
some members if the National Legislature
to interfere with this subject, and I think
the present a proper occasion for the
Legislature of Pennsylvania to speak out
in decided terms, and announce to those
who represent the people of this great
Commonwealth in the councils of the na
tion, what course it is expected by their
constiments,they will pursue. I f the issue
is to be distinctly made between the coal
and iron interests of Pennsylvania, and
those of foreign nations, the sootier it is
known the better; and I trust whenever
such an issue is to be determined, every
citizen of Pennsylvania, whether in of
fice or out of office, will be found on the
side of his country. For my own part,
in such an emergency I shall not beSitate
in resolving to take my stand on the same
side where I have always been found,
whenever this sulect has been agitated.
It will afford me pleasure during the
few remaining days of my administration,
to co-operate with you in the adoption of
any measures, which we mutually believe
to be conducive to the public good. Ido
not doubt that we shall fully harmonize
in opinion on this subject.
I have had frequent occasion to einploy
the veto power entrusted to the Execu
tive, by the constitution, to arrest the
success or measures which appeared to
me fraught with evil; but, I have, on no
occasion, resorted to this great power of
preservation, until all other hope of rescue
had failed. in such emergencies, I have
appealed to it without scruple or teserva
tion, and I have yet to learn that the acts
defeated by its operation have been re
gretted by the people. Confederacies to
thwart Executive recommendations,
combitations to promote particular per
sonal or political interests, have, it is true
clan:ored loudly against Executive tyran
ny, and imputed motives to toe, which
existed only in the imaginations of those
whose objects were frustrated ; but the
vast body of the enlightened community
has looked on, not only without murmur
ing, but with unequivocal commendation.
I find abundant 'reason to be satisfied in
ibis manifestation of popular opinion.
. _
. .
I retire from the cares and solicitude of
office, with feelings of no ordinary satis
faction, and with a heart grateful to the
honest anil intelligent yeomanry of my
native State, for the cordial and undevi
ating support which they have given me,
in the midst of the worst difficulties it has
been my fortune to encounter. On this
support, 1 have steadfastly relied, as the
guarantee that, come what might Pennsyl
vania would speedily regain the confi
dence she had lost—prove to the world,
the falsity of the reproach heaped on her
integrity, and rise with renewed vigor, to
run her race, from the temporary depres
sion that had borne her down. My con
fidence has been realized ; the day of her
redemption is at hand, and every true
hearted Pennsylvanian must rejoice, to
see her proud escutcheon purified from the
only stain that had ever defaced it, since
the landing of her founder upon the shores
of the Delaware.
DAVID R. PORTER.
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Harrisburg, January 8, 1845.
WA.SELINGTONIANS I
The Society will meet at the usual place, the
Old Court House, on Saturday evening next. The
fourth Lecture of the course, will be delivered by
A. K. Cornyn, Esq.
Subject.—The tendency of the times.
. .
The citizens generally, and the Ladies especially
are invited to attend. There will be singing, and
music by the Band.
H. W. MILLER, Sec'y.
Jan. 15, 1845,
LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the
Post Office at Alexandria, on the Ist Jan.,
1845, which if not token out within three
months will be sent to the Post Office De
partment as dead letters.
Baker John Murrels Andrew
Breneman Isaac Mayville Henry
Dickey Susan Moyer Henry
Davis John C. Pine Isaac
Davis Samuel Plympton Elijah
Fisher Mrs. Porter John 2
Focklet H. & J. Parmenter S. S.
Gun Benjamin Spy ker Samuel
Green James Esq. Sauter Mr.—German.
Houtz Daniel Stewart Alexander
Houston M. L. Shively James
Herren John B. Stout Mr.
Hall Weston Shively Mary
Johnston William Thomas David P.
Ireland Judith Young George B.
Ichinge' John Yocum Samuel
Kennedy J. H, Wilson James
Kaufman George Walker H. C.
Martin Isaac Walker George
M'Clure Andrew
JOHN GEMMILL, P. M.
Alexandria, Jan. 8, 1895.
LIST OF LETTERS, which remain in
the Huntingdon Post Office, January Ist
1895. If not called for previous to the Ist
of April next, they shall be sent to the
Post Office Department at Washington.
Bottontot John 2 M'Vcy Michael
Bottontot James Mirgrath Miss Emil'n
Coder T. B. M'Willams Thomas
Cron Augustus Murchorn John
Diffenbacher A L. 2 Nt:;an Russel
Dysar Joseph Nummer John
Grubb Abraham, jr. Patterson John
Gray Miss Harriet Peppard Oliver
Grubb E. &C. B. Rosenhiem Abraham
Hessler D. S. Toman James
Hight Charles Wood Samuel R.
Lay George Weight Henry
M'Gwire Catharine Witherow John
M'Connell James
DAVID SNARE, r. M.
January 8, 1845.
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Qn EA r FtEm°l
Diseases of the Lungs and Breast.;
TESTIMONIALS.
. 1 1(NOIP.
giTo THE PUBLIC.— In accordance with the
prevailing custom, and in order to show the
virtues of this medicine more fully, the ful
lowing certificates have been selected ; and
as it is not our wish to trifle with the livesk,i
or health of those afflicted, we sincerely
pledge ourselves to make no assertions or
" false statements" of its efficacy;nor will
we hold out any hope to suffering umanity
which facts will not warrant. The . proots
are here given—and we solicit an ;Inquiry
from the public into every case we publish.
and feel assured they will find it a medicine
well deserving their patronage and anh
dence.
REMARKABLE CURES.
Of all the cures that have yet been record
ed, there are certainly none equal to the
below mentioned, and they plainly show
the curability of Consumption, even in
some of its worst forms :
I et every man. woman and child read the
following, and we are sure that it mustisatis ,
fy all of the great virtues of the medicine.
Q 7" Read the following from Dr. Jacob
Hoffman ,a physician of extensive practice in
Huntingdon county.:
Dear Sire—l procured one bottle of Dr.
Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, from.
Thomas Read, Esq. of this place, and tried - ‘
it in a case of obstinate Asthma on a child of
Paul Schweble, in which many other reme
dies had been tried without any relief. The
Balsam gave sudden relief, and in my opin
ion the child is effectuelly cured by its use.
Yours, &c.
JACOB HOFFMAN, M. D.
Dec. 2S, 1841.
The case of Thomas Cozens is related by
himself as follows, and acknowledged by
all who knew him to be one of the most
astonishing and extraordinary cures ever
performed
HADDONFIELD, N. .1.1
April 20, 1843.
On or about the 13th of October, 1841, I
was taken with a violent pain in the side
near the Liver, which continued about live
days, and was followed by the breaking of
an ulcer, or something inwardly, which re
lieved the pain a little, but caused me to
throw up a great quantity of offensive mat
ter and also mtch blood. Being greatly
alarmed at this I applied to a physician, who
said he thought he could do but little for
me except give me some mercury pills
which I refused to take feeling satisfied that
they could do me no good ; many other re
medies were then procured by my wife and
triends but none did Me any good and the
discharge of blood rod putrid corruption
still continued every few days, and at the last
it became so offensive that I could scarcely
breathe. I Was slso seized with a violent
cough,which at times caused me to raise much
more blood than I had formerly done, and
my disease continued in this way until Feb
ruary, when all hopes of my recovery were
given up. and my friends all thought that I
would die of a galloping consumption: At
this moment when my life apparently was
drawing near to its close, I heard of Wistar's
Balsam of Wild Cherry and got a bottle
which relieved me immediately, and by the
use of only three bottles of this medicine;
all my pains were removed, and my cough
and spitting of Hood removed, and in a few
days my health was to far restored as to en
able me to work at my trade (which is that
of a carpenter) and up to this time I have
enjoyed good health.
THOMAS COZENS.
WITNESS.--I am acquainted with Thos.
Cozens and having seen him during his ill
ness, 1 think his statement is entitled to full•
credit. SAM. H. BURROUGHS.
GLOUCESTER COUNTY, SS.
Appeared before me personally, and affirm
ed according to law, on the 20th of April,•
1843. J. CLEMEN
V" It is unnecessary to remind all who
would get the true article4to inquire partic
ularly for "Dr. Wistar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry," and take nothing else.
Unprincipled dealers will tell you that the
SYRUP of Wild Cherry, or some other cough
medicine is equally as good. Regard them
not—they only want your MURKY ! Remem
ber, it is " Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cher
ry" that not only relieves but cures !
Price one dollar tier bottle, or six for S.S.
For sale only in Cincinnati, by
SANFORD & PARK.
corner of Fourth and 14 ainut.
Also, for! sale by Thomas Read & Son,
(wholesale and retail,) Huntingdon, and
Mrs. Mary Orr, Hollidaysburg.
January 15, 1845.-6 m.
FARM FOR SALE.—An old and well
improved farm containing
asEvzD 726.4>G3a
with allowance, a large quantity of which is.
cleared and under good fence. The improve-•
ments are a large and convenient dwelling
house, tNo story spring house, barn and
other out buildings, with a never failing
spring of water convenient, and an orchard
of choice fruit. There is also a good lime
kiln with abundance of lime stone and fuel.
This property is handsomely located on the
bank of .ughwick creek, Shirley township,
Huntingdon county, and possesses many ad
vantages in point of locality. Being distant
from the borough of Shirleysburg only two
miles from the canal three miles and a half,
and immediately on the road from Shirleys
burg, to Drake's ferry. There is also a
first-rate merchant mill on the property
adjoining it.
ALSO, 53 acres of woodland handsomely
located on Chesnut ridge, Shirley township.
Huntingdon county.
Apply soon to the subscriber on the pre
mises. LEWIS BERKSTRESSER.
January 15, 1845.
STRAY COW.—Strayed from the sub
scriber, living in the boroiigh of Alexandria,
more than a month ago, a red and white
spotted cow, with a white face, and a mark
on one of her horns, nearly the shape of an
0. Said cow is near calving, or probably
has calved by this time. Any information
that could be given, respecting said stray,
would be thankfully received by the subscri
ber. THOMAS MITCHELL.
January 15, 1845.
n 3 / 4 - 4 LANK BONDS to Constables for Stay
of Execution, under the new law, just
printed, and for sale, at this office.
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