1.
bl• tLI Do eee es, a
ly and wisely ronst!tie I and Infitifred.-4j
„ iity t ,
()" H° e ' llaimic-Ina t comm . rts, sheennab. granteii by I
authority of the f aro ; are the pee•—
tete. -
plterests cso c
arrell el tive a, l
and no on con
dition of s more' dee c ply
.13y the act of the I ftli of April, 18.0, anti
in.oi
ety. Sump:nary laws, as a general role -let to inemuse the revenues and di
are of doubtful expedience ; and as minish the legislative expenses of the Coin
abridgements of the liberty and privileges in, - .nwettith," it was provided that thereafter hi
of the citi-ten, eau only be justified on the pi iva: I iii , thrr..ju duet-flied end taxed, should
ground of neees,-ity. IChilst Ili, is admit- Ire enrolled iti thu oilier of the Secretary of the
ted, it cannot he d e ni e d th a t the evils re-' Commonwealth, or published, or have the here
stilling from intemperance, create a neces- and effect of law, until the party asking or re
shy for regulating and restraining by leg- (oaring the Caine should pay into the Treasury
islative time, the traffic and sale of intoxi- of the Commonwealth the respeofil ,l ....s
-eating liquors, To what extent this traffic
should be restrained by positive law, must f . .
th
nett,, in said act. A lam e number a ads pas •
t
depend on the will of the people, deterini- urn "' "?gls,ll.rt-, nail ethjec
doe
nod by considerations of their nun moral, tax, remain in the onwe or t to this
y
physical and social welfare. Whatever
Commonwealth, t h e tax en them not having
may be my own opinion, or that of the been paid. The number has
been annually
Legislature of the people, in reference t o increasing, and will continue to increase, un
the law of the last session "to restrain the less a summer.; remedy be afforded for the col
sale of intoxicating liquors," it must be leciiuu of the e nrolee:fit tax, or iiideflittlt of its
admitted that a full return to the license payment after a certain period, the acts them
system, in operation prior to the passage selves he repealed. The amount of enrolment
of the present law, is not demanded by en- tax now due the Commonwealth is large, and
lightened public sentiment, and would not should have been paid long since. I would
promote the good order or happiness of the
therefore recommend the passim of a law ye
community. That the laws then iu axis-,
t aelit, all acts heretofore pau sed, subject to
tence were imperfect and failed to check
such tax, unless the tax b 0 paid within one
or control the evils of intemperance, is o
year thereafter; and further, to provide that all
proposition too plain to be doubted—that
they needed revision must also be conce• such acts hereafter passed, shall not have the
dad. In our large eities and towns, the force and effect of law, unless the taxes reaper
evils of the systein were more severely lively due thereon be paid within six months
felt. The facility and cheapness with after their approval. Such a law would secure
which licenses were obtained, °penned as the payment of these taxes, increase the reve
rt premium to vice and immorality., and trues, mid at the same time cheek the demand
multiplied tippling houses end places for private nets designed to be used or aban
where intemperance, under the authority
delved, us the calculation of alum., or the
of law, was not only permitted, but encou
loss or gala of the parties in interest might de
raged. My immediate predecssor, in his terrain,.
last annual message to the Legislature, in
13y a resolntiot of the Legislature, passed
reference to time then license laws says:
the 27th day of March, 1835, requiring the
"So far as relates to the city of Vhiladel
phia, they are peculiarly prejudicial to "New York and Erie railroad company to corn
public morals, and seem to have been con. musicale to the Legislature of this COMMOII•
at ructed to promote the convenience of wealth, a statement, certified under oath by
drinking far more than to restrain its evil I their president, setting forth what quantity of
consequences." In this opinion I fully I land said company now holds in Pennsylvania
concur. That a remedy was demanded, —its location—how numb they have heretofore
all will concede. Whether the law of the disposed of—its value—the value of what they
last session was the proper remedy, it is new huh!. and wheu the titles to said lands
not my province now to determine. En.
were acquired, " it was made the duty attic
,t
acted by the representatives of the people ,
overno• ,o transisita copy of .
said resceution
I gave that Oct my official approval. Be.
cognizing the people as the source of all
to the president of said company. A copy of
political paver, and their representatives the resolution was transmitted as directed ; and
as the immediate exponents of their will, the answer of the President of the company,
upon you will devolve the responsibility of communicating the information required is
further legislation, if any, on this subject. herewith subtilised to the Legislature.
In all its relations, economical, political By a resolution of the 20th day of Aril, 1835 ,
social and mond ; the question is impor- I was requested to procure from the Attorney
Cant, and its proper determination involves General, his opinion of the right of the State
fearful responsibilities. It deserves, and j of New York to divert water from the natural.
should receive, your serious considerat;en. bed aud channel of the elietsung river, 01 the
If action is had, may we not hope that it
prejudice of the public improvements of
Poun
will be such as will /mimic me virtue,
Sylvania the said r i ver.. belong
and Commonwealth.
lug to both.
morality, and tom interesouf our people
\ States ; and COMM. Kate the same to the Le.
Legislation, so.fe as practicable, should gislature. As requested, the opinion of the
be general anianitorm. Local and ape- I Attorney General has been obtained, and is l
cial legieknon should not be encouraged, herewith communicating to the Legislature.
ivy , " ' fie desired object esr ho eh. ash .1, of oetolJur last, I approved
.3y general laws. Such legislation is not I and signed the bill, entitled "An Act to repeal
only local and special in its character, but
the char to of the Erie and North East rail
frequently temporary— the act of one sea
Loud company, and to provide for the disposing
eMn being repealed by the act of the next, „
and perhaps replaced by one still more oh- 1" pursumtco of it. provisions, I
jeetionable, which, in turn, soon shares the
appointed the Hon. Joseph Casey to take pus-
I
fate of its predecessor. It crowds the sta. I sessiun and have the charge and custody (Atha
tote book with useless and unnecessary rood. Before Po.enee'os one tubas, ollPlicajoo
laws—violates private rights—creates con- I was made by the company to one of the Judges
fusion and uncertainty--destroys unifor- , of the Supreme Court of this Commonweal&
noralond
may of practice and decisien—prolongs
the sessions of the Legislature, and increa
ses the public expenses. Our general
laws regulating roads, highways and brid
ges, and providing for the employment
And support of the poor, constitute a welt
digested system for the accomplishment of
those objects; and yet, under the system
of local legislation heretofore practiced, we
frequently find in different townships of
the same county, local laws, regulating
these subjects, not only differing materially
from the general law, but from one anoth
er. Reform in this respect is required,
and to this I respectfully ask your atten
tion.
"Omnibus legislation" having been con
demned and abandoned, should not be per
mitted again to sully the records of legisla
tive action. It cannot receive my appro
val.
Numerous applications will doubtless be
made for the incorporation of insurance,
gas, water and bourn companies. To facilitate
action on these guestious —economise time—
reduce the expenses of legislation—secure uni•
fortuity and confine the companies thereafter
incorporated to the legitimate purposes of their
creation, I would recommend the propriety of
enacting general laws regulating each incorpo•
rations. Already laws of this character for
coal, iron, canal, railroad, turnpike, plank and
bridge companies have been passed, and in
practice have been found highly useful and
economical. Such laws, well regulated and
carefully guarded, would be productive of siru
liar results in thbir application to insurance
and the other companies named.
The propriety of limiting and restraining
corporate bodies to the objects and purposes of
their creation, will not lie denied or cuutruver•
ted. in relation to the powers and privileges
of insurance companies, this plain principle
has been overlooked and disregarded. Ily
successive acts of legislation, many of these in
stitutions have acquired discounting privileges
and nearly all the powers of banks without
their guards, restrictions and liabilities. This
has been effected by the magic of some general
provision in the act incorporating the company,
or by reference to some forgotten supplement
conccalod in the folds of an "omnibus bill," or
lost in the mazes of the pamphlet laws. Gene
cal laws, whilst they confer on such companies
all the powers necessary to accomplish the ob•
jests of their incorporation, would utsthe same
time prevent uu extension of privileges foreign
to such associations. This subject is comnmen•
ded to your consideration.
The juirisdietion of the courts in relation to
real estate, trusts, the incorporation of literary,
charitable and religious societies, manufacm•
ring and other aAsociation3, has been greatly
exklidol by rerent This enlarged
jurisdiction was crinforred fur Ow purpose of re.
lieviug th.. Lem ISILLIAtre inllll the pa sst. of uu.
Inurou, upplicati.,- ial jiglation iu
the
TLe rims
er- and
for an injunction to restrain the agent of the
State front taking possession of the road g and
subsequently a cautionary order was made by
the Supreme Court, in bane, to stay his procee•
ding under the act. The questions involved
in the application for an injunction are now
pending before that court, and will, it is expec•
ted, be determined early in the present month.
The result will be made the subject of a special
communication to the Legislature.
The recent fraudulent, if not felonious ab•
straction of a large quantity of arms from the
Arsenal at Harrisburg., has shown the nccessi•
ty of additional legislation for the protection of
the arms and other public property of the
Commonwealth deposited in the arsenals of the
State. The taking and sale of the public arms
and property, without authority of law, by the
keepers of the arsenals, or by others having
them in charge, should 4 0 declared a felony,
and punished with sevrity; and all persona pun
chasing or receiving the same, without proper
authority, and knowing them to be the proper
ty of the Cenanonwealth, should he regarded
as principals, and punished accordingly.
The bonds now required to be given by the
the Adjutant General and the keepers of the
arsenals, for the faithful discharge of their du.
ties, are insufficient in amount to secure the
Commonwealth against loss from the frauds.
lent sale or taking of the property committed
to their care. The sum in which these bonds
are taken should be increased to an amount
proportionate to the value of the property which
is or may be deposited in the arsenals.
Since the sale of the arsenal iu Philadelphia,
the public arms in that city have been placed
in a room or out.house procured for that per
pose. As a depository, it is unsafe and inse
cure. Better provision should be made for
their safekeeping.
With a sole desire for the publie good—ac.
tuated by a spirit of enlarged and enlightened
patriotism, and guided by that wisdom which
hath its beginning in the fear of God, may our
efforts, in harmonious action, be directed to the
accomplishment of these objects, and to the
promotion of that riAtuousuess which oxalteth
a nation, and constitutes the true glory of a
free and independent people.
JAMES POLLOCK.
ExEcurtva Citswaria,
Harrisburg, Jun. 1, 1856. j
Tao ABSENT M.ue.—Tn No. 589 of the Spec•
Won the gifted Addison says:—. l Wino throws
man out of himself and infuses qualities into
the mind, which she is a stranger to in her so.
her moments. The person yol converse with ;
after the third bottle, is not the same person
who at first sat dawn at table with you. Spun
this Masim is founded one of thu prettiest say
logs 1 ever met uhith, which is ascribed to
Publicus Cyrus; 'Qui embruni Induilicat lun
rift til),L110 III: •11c who j, ou n unit that is
Aottrnal
\;;41..1.
: 4i , i2 64 \s ;4k: tirivW " ' .l' s
Wednesday Xorning, January 9, 1856,
WILLIAM nit Eiwoms.
SAM. U. 'WHITTAKER. 5
PirOovernor Pollock, Hons. John IL klaie,
John Cresswell and John Wintrode, will please
accept our thanks for valuable Pub. Doc.
NOTICE.—The undersigned has been appoin•
ted agent for the sale of the Broad Top Mining
Certificates, advertised in another column.
This is a fine opportunity for the investment
of a small amount in a good business, and will
be worth the while of every one to give it a tri
al. Wm. BREWSTER.
ALTOONA TRIDONE.-This is the title of a
very neat, spicy little paper, which has been
Started in Altoona, by Col. Eph. MeCrum and
W. M. Allison. We welcome the Tribune to
our sanctum, and predict for its editors a 'gond
time' generally. We hope the good people of
Altoona may subscribe liberally, and without
any deumring, as we know the Cul. will give
them a good paper.
I.tccmcorc's Gintrma.—This very vale.
able work should be in the possession of eve
r; one. It is decidedly the best work of the
kind extant, and can be obtained at Colon's
Cheap Book Store.
REVIVAI.S.—The Lutheran and Baptist chur
ches of this place, have beet peculiarly raw,ed with interesting revivals ?irreligion. Many
sinners have experienced a hope iethe love of
Gad, and scores are anxiously Aliquiring " what
must we du h be saved." *ay the great work
go on.
The Mes s ages,
We publish this week to the exclusion of al
most everything else, abstracts of President
Tierce's message, and the entire document of
Governor Pollock. The principal features of
the former document, our readers will find in
an article in another column, which we clip
from the North American. General Pierce
take strong pro-slavery grounds, and his mo•-
sage abounds with bombast. It iw a time pro
duction.
Governor Powstk's message is a manly, no.
4 ovoghtforivaril affair, and should be read
bY every• citizen of the Commonwealth. He
treats en all the matters of interest to theStato
with ability ; take it all in all, a bettor message
_rad never written by any of his predecessors.
Read it.
Education in Pennsylvania.
A Curiventiou of a very iiiteresting charac
ter was lately held in the city of Philadelphia,
at the corner of Eighteenth and eh...et
We refer to the Shire Teachers' Association,
attended by some four or five hundred teach
ers, including many from this county. This is
ar. organization of recent ditto in Pennsylvania
though similar societies have long existed ire
New England. 13ut, now that our teachers
have fully entered upon the plan, they seem dis.
• posed to make up for lost time by pressing
earnestly for the general improvement of our
system of education. Teachers' Institutes have
been established in a number of counties, and
with such good results as to cause a movement
for the organization of similar societies all
over the State. By this agency the inferior
teachers are brought into contact with the so
peeler ones, and. stimulated to improve them.
selves, not simply in the acquisition, of knowl
edge but in the difficult art of imparting it to
children. In these teachers' Institutes the val
ue of various systems of tuition is discussed
in such a practical manner an to be of great
service to the teachers who attend. Books,
school houses, classification salaries, the condi.
Lion and progress of local instruction, every.
thing, in short, connected with education of the
common school order, uudergots debate by per
i sons practically conversant with the whole sub-
I jest. It is, therefore, of great consequence to
the Commonwealth that these societies should
be organized through the interior, where, in
most places, eduention is at a low ebb, and
stands in need of great improvement.
As the head of this system of professional
organization, the State Teachers' Association
possesses much importance. Being a represen.
tative body, it is calculated to reflect the condi
tion and actual developement of public instruc
tion in Pennsylvania. The legislation of the
State on the subject of common schools is sure
to meet with a thorough overhauling in this
body, and it is a good thing in manly respects
that it is so, for in this way muck reckless,
careless, and foolish action may he exposed,
I as it deserves, and the authors held up to pub-
lie contempt or opprobrium. Any thing of a
retrograde character will not be likely to meet I
with favor at its hands, while at the same time
the members from districts where education is
neglected, will feel stimulated by the favorable
reports from other sections, to urge improve
ment at home. Somesueh agent as this was I
long since needed in Pennsylvania, and the I
result of its action is visible in the hopeful and
offergetic feeling it has every where elicited.
Sentiment among the teachers snows to be
agreed upon the necessity for the immediate
establishment of ono or more Normal Schools
by the State, for the education of instructors.
Competent teachers are scarce all through the I
interior, and to such a degree that in many I
counties it has, in consequence, been found
impossible to enfbrce the standard set up Ly the
State law, as they undoubtedly arc. The
establishment of local teachers Institutes, it is
hoped, will do much to remedy this deficiency,
but it is clearly impossible to depend upon a,
regular supply of competent teachers fur the
Public Schools, unless Normal Schools shall
be established to educate them. Philadelphia
supplies herself by means of her High and
Normal Schools, and the State ought to de the
same fur counties le-s favored by local inslitu•
tient.%
WO. No change in tho markets since our
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
We We have said that e PreAdmit went be-
Id kis! p
„ co wits* , end 1
his in !ilk ICLITI Tell il
USC :lie : S Ur t 1 ot he . ms Co .
the of e g erttiltentlatt *the.,, isti.
"oat ' (di 01IS slecery.t.! 1 his was,
(niftyall; arrogage Whiiilitik Um - y'nht
warranted by his position'iust,u t , cettordinnte
branch of the Administration, 4 but wholly un- ,
justified by his personal limes for lb , ttels
which le minuted. We supposed that the
Legislature did not need Executive instruction
ou the philosophy of our political ssatem or the
theoretical hearing of the fundamental law of
the Republic uu any condition or interest com•
prehended within its jurisdiction. There are
gentlemen in both Houses whom we would be
guilty,of no wrong to Ur. Pierce in ranking as
his superiors in their knowledge and their judg
ment of American constitutional law, and we
fancy that they will consider it no compliment
! to their understnnding to be read, by the Exe
cutive, a grave lesson upon the nature of that
instrument which they have sworn to support
and obey in taking their oath of office. These
treatises up,. the Constitution have been a
product of modern egotism nod assutnption,
which we do not meet with in the oommunien•
tions of the earlier Presidents to Congress.—
Washington, and Adams, and Jefferson had the
senile, or, at least, the modesty, to presume that
the representatives of the States mid the people
understood the nature of the governmental
scheme they were appointed to administer, tend
the limitations of their power as well as they
did, and hence we do not find them delivering
elaborate and dictatorial discourses on the sub
ject in their messages to the legislative depart
ment of the State,
IL would be fortunate fur the country if tf•
innovation of which we speak, had not ow -'-
red. It the thing were not proper and nets.-
ry in the primitive days of the nation, it e main
ly in nut expedient and decorous now. If the
first Chief Magistrates were nntrequirtd to ex
pound to Congress the charter of eivl polity on
whihh the government is based, it sorely is not
appropriate or necessary to have that sort of
advice accorded at this period. P'or while the
Senate and Ifon,Se'lnorp preserved something of
the ability and digititS• which belonged to the
pristine era of their iustitation, we must con
fess that the men who Lave latterly filled the
Presidential chair have deteriorated wofully be
low the standard of excellence which was real.
'zed in the noble patriotism, the august aim
plieity ead the exalted wisdom of the Father of
the country, andbis' immediate successors.—
The dissertation of President Pierce ou the ala i
very question his not even the merit of origi.
nality of soundless, to vindicate its introdue•
tion into the doctinent of which it forms a so'
or grandilopioat peroration, to no otl.rka
unpretending State paper. It sounds, I V,tie
reads it aloud, as if it were intended to Itf duce
the noisy nil rtpturous effects of the.ut'oi.
and sentit ental passages in a Fourth I J l 4
speech,a dwe are persuaded that ; ' it , had
been pro enticed with proper oluettai nary ertf-:
phasis a 1 gesticulation in the liarpesetitative
chantbe there would have been li,ympathetita.
• res porsOirom-.6.....ftl pnrersanrhat 'body.
in the fil.pe of enthusiastic I tzatt . and 9 1 nd ,
ping of beds and stumping elect. •
But t front the inarpriateness of rho
disqui in on slavery a part of the Escort.
live %page, it teaches 'cry bad doctrine and
makek lost inkiest aeausations. Let us hope
that j‘iil not be atkopted by those to whom
it is etc.ssedly addressed R. ass orthodox in
terprettatet of the Constitution. It might pass
as a Ural stump orntion at the South on the
"pectOtinstitution," because it claims a more
utirestei •il liberty for the extension of slavery
over lite' deral territory than was ever dream
ed of sat in the lueubrations of Senator Doug.
las, whe e was engaged in drafting the vele.
braced sas•Nebraska bill i while it charges
the No tithe series of monstrous aggressions
on the I city of the Federal compact which
would it tem the rebellious and revolution
ary spirit Calhoun in the wildest spirit of
minim' in How the President could have
enunciate inch views respecting the most cri-
tical topi
cannot a
tint has ever divided the country we
wee, unless he designed to concili-.
ate by
vouch'
Penns, a political voto in the np.
eminnati Democratic Presidential
, .
Nominalig 'onvetition, which may be items'.
nary to seen 'din the inside track of all cotn
petit.rs br iis succession. This WMS most
probably he votive which induced him to take
such (led cd coned on the pro•slavery side of
the issue, whit it may account also for this
strange *mire from all precedent, and, we
might sal Aoki. of strict constitutional law,
in dave'ing hi message to a body of men
who had do yet of acquired the technical at
tributes find orgnization of a Congress.
But if Preatit Pierce has been guilty of a
gross folly in 'tit closing paragraphs of his
message, he lies hint; better in the preceding
portions of that
f dcument. On the subject of
t
our foreign re ions he bus expressed just
opinions, in ver ()eels° and resolute language.
The most Wiper das well as satisfactory pas.
sage, however, i at wherein the equivation
and situfiling of Or at Britain, in reference to
hold that Empire tottrictly interpretation of the
convention is res 'tinily, yet firmly, avowed.
rho course of the resident is this matter has
met with urtiversa pproval on this side of the
ocean, and will p ably have a very salutary
1 effect on the odic in bringing our Central
American : disputes , a speedy and pacific ad
inetweet. All that • now necessary is, that
the powers at Was %ton alma maintain here.
j after the position th have taken. But will
they du this 'I Will • hey stand up inflexibly
Ito th e mark, when Jinit Bull shall, perhaps,
, prevaricate and hle4 , r a little to try their
',l ee k ? We trust thine will be no backing
down 14 Ote Mtveetivi ; that there will be no
t e
showi tig the white lihither, when the trial of
his emirs and metthi shall • come. Do not
let it he
any mut
the furti
ipposod that mean by this to cast
table or tinderretl imputations. In
• and valor of the American pro-
the must 11.. tirCa awl faith
plc we
nutuutto COIQCUiIy 1,01111,11W11 thu
uuy Ailufeastraiiou. We have the
*meow. of a Nest discreditable iu-
we
prowehs
pailifu!
titmice of h. l
meat
wing in on the pert of the gover;
its firmness env put to the test. We
have not'
brava,,o,
the holy
rgotten the famoati .'54 40 or fight;
al the humiliating manner in which
I that iitlair was forectl to out his
irony ati.l re rent from his
iig'n. little in rvons and !I `VI
iilld Wle iniigttiite , al flit i,t,l
sone•wli,it n, , e bOl l y than is th e ir 0,,,
11. r feeling s vague . T
1.1 , !Re, ror II..• result. ground in., • .
Co, Central At3ipricAn
Lion is it awl sonnil one, iin ' fi . eitthlit to
tine iiiintli.--.North American.
Front The Daily Neu,
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Suddenly and unexpectedly, yesterday, all
electric flash of the telegraph wires communi.
rated to us the intellighnee, that President
Pierce had delivered his annual ;Message to
Congress, and in n short time nfterwards see
were politely furnished - with a printed copy of
it by our attentive and obliging City Postmas•
• ter, to whose kindnes6 we are indebted for be
ing able to present it at full length to our rm.
dens this morning.
As might have been expected, the extract ,
ordinary course punned by the President, in
thus thrusting forward his Message, before the
House of Representatives has elected a presi
ding officer, and its members have been duly
qualified, and therefore before Congress has
been really organized, and in a condition to be
officially communicated with by theXxecutivo,
illicited n lor , , and animated disc ssion in th e
House, in vldelt his own politica :riends free
ly admittil it to be au innovati , but justified
it under ltM peculiar circumstat es of the case,
while fie opposition member generally, op
peed it being read, and de scaled the estab
lish•tent of n precedent w h might, in time.
1,4 to a g r ea t abuse of wee and serious mis•
,P 1
For ourselves, we ca of regard it otherwise
than a characteristic of he weakness and huh.-
cility with which all tli acts of Pmident Pierce
are signalized. Lill; a child with a toy or a
Chirstmas present, not cannot wait for the re
turn t o home of Of," to dinner, to show his
prize, and the secret before his return
home so
. p rus iBnt Pierce, after having his
ntemsn " b ir k u dap for four weeks dreaming
over i t b y uitrt. and watching it by day, could
' no i„,,,,, e aa .nor sleep without unbosoming
himself ta 1. ogress, soul showing to the coon.
wire 'fry i i ireeities document they have been
' deprive t.e reading of fur one long inonth.—
il ea° ,i pursued by him in simple and child.
' b i b, a tif this were all, it might 'be allowed
to pat as but another evidence Of his utter en
'. iitv i for the high place to which his coon
.' trjei , n have elevated him: bat it may serve
.01 precedent, and, regarding it in that light,
.h , conduct in not only arrogant and presump.
lens, but deserves condemnation and rebuke.
We have heard but one explanation, which,
while it would be no justification, might be
deemed some sort of nn excuse, and that is,
that the Message was probably forwarded to
England at the meeting of Congress, and there
was danger, in ease of any longer delay of its
delivery to Congress, of ite reaching the pea.
ple of this country in the English journals
that will be brought by the nest steamer, be.
lore its aetual commmuniention to Congress.
Of the contents of the Message we hare not
now the spare to speak. lv,. hav a r za lli caxe _ .
ray, nod, its we ins nut expc.ut ma c h, we arc
in no way disappointed. It gives a flin g nt .
John Mil, and feels the public. pulse fin. a war
with Croat Britain, recommends a still further
reduction of the Tariff, and an adherence to
the rat valorem Free Trade system, and emits
quantity of patriotic gas devotion to: the Union.
Taken as a whole, there is hut one thing to
commend, and that is its brevity, and yet for
nil it contains, it might have easily been kept
within one-half its present sine.
The Treasury Del
The report of the Hon. Ja
rotary of the Treasury, fav4
duty free, of wool no a raw
with chemicals and dye stuff
once with the article of iro
manufacturers, it is said, w
with this.
The tables on foreign trade
crease of dutiable goods imp
year ending Juno 30, 1855, f.
ing, June 30, 1845, is $126,18
goods $181352,926 ; decreasel
bullion, $411,430; showing a
$144,028,396 in favor of 1855
list year over 1850 is given
goods, $65,740,698; of flee go
decrease of specie nod bullion,
increase, $83,141,642.
The foreign imports at all t'
State:, (including of course Cr
gon) for the fiscal year endhq
were $261,382,960, against
the proceeding year, showing
397,293. The total exports
Stales to foreign ports, fir the
ing June 30, 1855, were $275,
$278,241,064 for the precedinl
decline of only $3,084,218.
from this that, while for the yl
ports exceeded the exports $2l
last year the exports exceeded
773,896.
The tables further show an Levens° during
the last year, of $10,102,964 i Lc imports of
free goods, but a falling olf 0fi51,253,807 in
dutiable merchandise, and $3,211,250 in specie.
Of the total exports of spi is for the last
year, $53,837,418 were of defuse:le production,
and $2,289,926 of foreign. Th, shipments of
domestic produce, exclusive e' specie, were
$22,486,360 less than for the preceding year,
while there is an increase of $ 1 , 1 97, 2 3 1 in 11 .'1 ti ,
exports offoreign produce, and $12,565,510 in gi
the exports of specie. sir
trtment.
les Uuthric, Sec•
s the admission,
nteriatl, together
but no inferrer•
The Eastern
Idal be satisliol
how that the in.
Led during the
, the year end.
0300; do. of free
,uf specie and
trial increase of
1' The increase
Ale :—Dutinble
s, $18,348,934;
4968,980—t0ta
ports of their.
Tornio, and Ore
tong 30, 185:1, t „,
;05,780,233 fur ra
'decline of $44,- "
An the United t h,
'seal year end• 55'
1i6,846 against l i t i;
Tar, showing a
.t will be seen
Er 1854, the he- ,
139,189, for the
o imports $l3-
SI.EIUM. UhDER iIF;ICULTI
of sleighing to bipeds, and alayi,
peds involved in the operation, h
ed about time out of mind, uo
has become threadbare ; but thll
as strongly apparent ut every fa
Several sleighing parties we
ring the past week ; sleds with
ing burtheus ot humanity that
were compelled to push with u
td give the overladen vehicles a
party we saw on Saturday even
jelly bucks, and blushing lassie
gents it is true were in the dept
of poor Uncle Ned, who "had
top of his his his head," but thenl
IRut that is every th ing. After
iwn, got idol, way no persona
going ~, the saute manner as I
aerial by the 'rutty is the I'
ass.—The fun I 4, "::
of quadri'• al ;
have been talk. i n :,
IA the subject cc,
§iict is made cc
of snow. W I
It 0 noticed du. vii'
1
telt uy o ,, ver ll d o c i% I , : c i,
~, Bud main
Art. Such a ,;,,
, lust i young ',
Some of the .j
file Condition ye
) wool on the
Luy.//i yotrikg 1 I
pvur 1101 . tleS V,
1 uy wvre 1.11 ' .1.1.
niiiinal ,it
wick palm,.
NEWS BY 11 - IL liill3ll,S
i, nothing new ir , inyll":l,l,l;teti, tin
( vuto et, Speaker on the 91d btql,e,
i t. 1, _i.lntitre of ...le:, ett tth
1(.. , :5u.P0..t. Wells, old line Itluoerel,lnye4r
by AANnites in the Muse, 21 in the alitikn,7'
The following is the vote in the two Houses:
House. Senate.
tin 7
t , B 21
Reed, Whig,
Wells, Delo.,
Morrill, Ilepol,Henn
Morse,
Holmes,
S.tteri;ig
Judge iVelis was then inaugurated, and sent
in his message to the Legislature. lie acgni•
°secs in the Nebraska tidies strong grimed
against the Liquor law ; recommends a li
cence system ; and condemns the naturalize
lion latis, and the personal liberty act.
•
The calico of the Territorial Rogi:t.,, an nil.
ministration paper, in Kanzas, has been mob•
bed, the type thrown into the river, and a lot
of paper burned. The mob was composed
principally of Missouribus, The Free State
party had nominated Charles Rubin,. fur Gov
ernor, N. Y. Roberts Lieut. Governor, and M.
J. Delahy for Congress. The election is to be
held ou 63 third Tuesday of January. A let•
ter from a staff officer of the Free State forces
at Lawrence, Nations, claims a bloodless tri•
umph over (lee. Shannon in' the recent treaty,
they having yielded no principle; at issue; and
says that Gov. Shannon and Sheriff Jones talk
of resigning if the people of Missouri will not
keep quiet and mind their own IMAMS.
4kit. The Pennsylvania Legislature has as•
smnbled, and elected Mr. Kitt, Speaker. No
business of importance has been transacted.
Tut: lsvrs•rote.-=Phis invaluable hook comes
to U 8 for January, abounding in useful and en
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V L 1 lAbl S. : , lARTIEN
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The
Aa :•1
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I in
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yo no $ .10in, by
Ttil: illy say, that In)
To other blockheads—or, II
I dare not venture where m
To lend frosh interest to an
And an, lee thought it
The hnelcuey'd style, than s•
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However lame its hobblt u
And if they tail to.please
'Tis ere4tont ntbitra,tl.3- 7 1 to
Far in the LaNt, grim Ira
Waves high ah)ll,lestrn,sio
And proudly n'ar, her
l'o triumph o'er her cotooll
Where !Noodle. rolls,--a In
And claims ln.i. lon; :olpa
Eager for
, glory. lio the con
a nt, nntoilat of waltz., a
Boldly annoxol Turkey to I
And takes his station calm)
Well armed fur war, he fillp
To France and England's t
Proceed, thou namesake of
Glory and Turkey's Empire
Yet think upon, thou somem
Thy predecessor on the Mot
Thou host to aid thee, shout
Many old women but no Cat
This maxim learn titan thy
‘‘The hear may rush into thi
Ps:claim thy desert, l'rem th
And fight oe more Mr Turlit
Betttei abolish slavery and t
Than follow headlong in the
Must war and famine curse
Must battles rage, because
flow long, imperial dandy, I
How soon "if (Ireelis would
Greece ;
now nobly gave he bitch the
Theo toll pugnacious Puton
IleivitiF, beware, if I.liiriopo
To criish t 1 hand awe:
Nii
Your Cosssek legions from a
But 1 ,, ! lu binder Brain
A "ne11.F,,,, / " 'Banes, hmtil . t
Assembles at the ~ultnn's hit!
A blest allitmee, - which says
An earthly trinity which wear
Of heaven's, as man is mitni,
A pions unity—in purpose me
To melt three fools to a Napo
"Why Egypt's gods were refit
Their dogs and .111 litieW lh
And quiet in their krone! or t
Cared little so that they were
But these, more hungry, mos
more,
The power to bark and bite, t
With pondorons malice , swayi
To crush old Bruin, by a stnpi
For 'twos notlove for Turks :he
With armed Preach end Engli,
But hounds will gather to the
And whore he leads, the dutic
low ;
I But not ha love, mistake
Their yelp game is not an
l i t uthlb( fife dent _by firm'
Napoleon's girths are nut yet ,
Nor "V4ekey's" stallion's feet
we advises—keep -watchful e
For treason stirs, When tgmutrrl
Enough of this—hut ere 1 t
To sketch you out the puc toe's
. .Bray let me show how lsrml's
With modern times on aptly du
"All states, all things, all starer
And watt n loan from Britain I
The hanker, broker, baron, bre
To aid the bankrupt monarchs
, Nor these alone ; Columbia
Fresh speculation flilhav each
And philanthropic Israel deign
Her mild rem ntage (rum exit
'Tis Abram's gold, that aids rho
'Tis Abram's , gold that rears
arch.
Tins Jews, the Buthebildes, pro
wand,
In every realm—in every mono
These Jews keep . war a inuring
The thrones of kings— more dii
Two Jows, Ma not Samaritans,
'l'lle world, with all the spirit of
Whore baronies anti orders boll
Olt holy Abraham I dust thou
Thv tollowers mingling with tle
Wim spit not ‘‘oit their Jewish
hat honor them WS portion of t
( Where now, oh pope ! is thy I
Could it not favor Judah with s
Or has it ceased to "kick again:
On Crimea's shore, behold thee
To cut front nation's hearts thei
To our blest land, any !nose I
The land o' men and putupki
Where peace and freedom he
And plenty crowns each pas:
Long may Columbia's brume
The pride of freemen, true m
Long may her shprcs a refill
Of nil who flee from tyranny
Long be her sorts—as well th
United in one brotherhood ;
Long may we boast that fron
Trite freedom had her purest
May ne'er accursed disunion,
Strike from her folds or dial t
But tufty Mir sons from sea to
United freemen over be.
Congress has met—as well you 1
But what appears most Imlay
The only thing it meets to dn,
Is—speed the people's money
My tale is told-1 wish you joy.
Farewell—and pay the—
CARI
EXECUTOR'S NOT
N°tie° is hereby given that Let
tary on the estate el' Toldasl
"Morris tp., Huntingdon en., der
granted to tin undersigned. All
eti to anal astute aro requested to
ate payment, and those having el
them duly authenticated rev sett!
DAVID STEW.%
JACOB lIARNISI
DAVID HAIINIS
January 2, 1826.—tit•
Stoves ! Stoves ! !
tl4Of various Itiuda and pa
reduced prices fur cash
- for country produce. 1
or articles on hand, at ti
loglieny and Smith Streets.
GEO.
Hunt., Jun. 2, 1856.—at.
Temperance Meet
The Huntingdon County Ty I
will meet on Tuesday . evel;
Court 110114 e,
HIIIITINGDOE COON'
§oollir
Tlio County .!%
will inert at their usual
thi• first week of J:tuu;::~•
irN(..