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.Legislatire Proceedings.
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SENATE.
The Senate met, and at the call oldie
roll 32 tnembera answered to their names.
The Senate then proceeded to the election
ofSpeaker, which resulted as follows:
THOMAS S. CUNNEVGIIAM,
ALMON H. READ,
Scattering
Mr. PENROSE administered the usual qua
fications to the Speaker. After transacting
some further preliminary business, the Sen.
atiadjourned.
A message from the Governor was re•
ceived and iead-1,000 copies in English,
and 300 in German, ordered to he printed,
and referred to a Committee to arrange its
different items.
Tuunsnmt, Dec. 3.
Petitions and Public Documents were re
ceived and laid before the Senate.
Mr. Burden, on leave, introduced a bil
entitled, "An Act providing for the call of a
Convention, to propose amendments to the
Constitution of Pennsylvania,to be submitted
to the people for their aiopt ion or rejection.'
This being the day appointed fur the e
lection of Officers, the Senate proceeded to
discharge that duty— , which resulied as fol
lows:--
Mixon, (Muhlio)
HAMKEIISLY , (Anti) Assistant Do.
BLACK, ( M iie) Sergeant.at•Arms.
DICKEY, (do.) - Door-Keeper.
Cumin & BARnErr, (do.) Printers of the
English Journal.
BA on, (do.) Printer of the German Journal.
CALLENDER, ( Whig) Printer of the Bills.
FRIDAY, Dec. 4.
.Tbe following are the Standing Commit.
tees for the Senate, as announced to•dny:
Accounts—Rogers, Fore, Hibshman, F J. Harper
James.
Claims—Strobm,Geiger,Sangston,Middlecoff,lrvin.
Judiciary Penrose, - Lect, Slenher, Reed, James.
Militia—M'Cullough, Rogcre, Michler, Carpenter,
Kelly.
Banks—Baker,Toland,Dicicey,Newhard,Sangston.
Education —Smith,Read,Middlecoff,Kelly,Paul.
Roads, Bridges and Inland Navigation—Dickey,
Strohm, Miller, Darragh, Irvine.
Agriculture—Krebs, Fullerton,- Hibshman, John
Harper,M'Conkey.
. To C ompare Harper,Smith,Dar
ragh, Miehler.
Election Districts—Fore, M'Cullough, Kxebs,Hop
kLus, Penrose. •
Vice and Immorality —Fullerton,Geiger,Hibslunan,
.11 , 1'Conkey, Kelly.
Corporations-Read,Sangston,Burden,Krebs,Toland.
Estates and Escheats—Leet,Hophins, James, F. J.
Harper, Darragh.
Revenue Bills—Toland,Rogera, Middlccoff, Baker,
Miller.
L. Private Chlil32ll—Hopkins,Baker, Fore. Leet, Paul.
Library—Burden, Newhard, Miller.
Public 13uildinge—Newhard, Sangston, Smith,John
,Harper, Carpenter.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, December 1.
At 12 o'clock the House met, and on mo
lion of Mr. Lawrence, the returnb of the e.
lection of members were read. After
which, the, House proceeded to the choice
of a Speaker, which resulted es follows:
NEB MIDDLESWARTII, (Anti) 68
JAMES A. NPCLELLAN, (Wolf) 16
B. A.,BIDLACK, (MUII.) 11
- scattering, 3
Upon being conducted to the Chair ; Mr.
MIDDLESW4.IiTII made the following re-
marks
GENTLEMEN: For the unmerited honor
confored, and the distinguished mark ofcon
fidence just bestowed on me, I now tender
you my sincere and unfeigned acknowledg
ments; and I assure you no exertion or in
dustry shall be wanting on my part, to ren
der all the satisfaction in my power by a
faithful discharge of my duty to the utmost
of my ability. But, Gentlemen, I feel con
fident that in the discharge of the multifare.
bus duties which will naturally fall on me as
the presiding officer of the House, I shall
commit many errors, and shall often want
your assistance and much oftener your for
bearance: but, Gentlemen, any errors I may
commit I trust you will attribute to the pro
per cause, to wit: a weakness of the head
and not the intention of the heart, and I shall
at all times feel a pleasure in being coffee
tsd by the House.
Gentlemen, I trust we shall have a plea.
Haut Session, and tbai our conduct towards
each other in the discharge of our several
duties shall evince a spirit of moderation
and forbearance, and that our labors will re•
null in the peerage of laws that will be of
much advantage to our constituents, confer
honor on the Commonwealth and ourselves.
The usual qualifications were administer.
ed to the Speaker by Mr. M'SfIERRY.
Alter the appointment of a Committee to
signaled the Governor of the organization
at the . frioae, and the transaction of some
norther preliminary business. the House ad
journed.
WEDNESDAY, Dee. 2.
A swoop from the Governor was re.
snd 3,000 copies in English,and
115004* Geis ramorclered to be printed.
Srevaxe gave Alice that he world
TUESDAY, December 1.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2.
Clerk.
THE GET - TYSBURG STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER.
on to-morrow bring in a bill authorizing the to the payment of interest accruing upon the
Investigation of Secret Societies. I public debt. ,
TIII3III3DAY, Dec. 3.
We are indebted for these auxiliary sup
plies to the well established credit of the
Mr. STEVENS presented several petitions! tltate and the well grounded confidence re
from citizens of Adams county, praying for posed in its characteristic punctuality, as
an investigation into the evils of Free-,Ma- I
vvell as its unquestioned abiiity to meet all
its engagements. and which enabled us to
gnory; also one of like import from citzens
of Dauphin county.
Mr. S. also reported a Bill entitled "An
Act to suppreis Secret Societies bound to
gether by unlawful Oaths."
On the same dav, the House made choice
of the following Officers and Printers:-.-•••
SAMUEL SUM!, (Anti—of Harrisburg)
Clef k.
Dr. G. L. FATtss, (Anti—of East Berlin)
Assistant Clerk.
JOHN ASH,(Afiti—d Gettysburg) Sergeant •
at• Arms.
20
10
2
GEO. SHAVER, (Anti—of Somerset) Door-
Keeper.
Taco. FeNN, (Anti) Printer of the English
Journals.
S. CLuco, (Anti) Printer of the German
Journals.
.K. STRONG, (Whig) Printer of the Bills
(k7 - 13y a private letter we learn that the
Standing Committees for the House were
announced on the 4th i nnd that Mr. STEVENS
is Chairman of the Judiciary Committee ;
Mr. M'SEnny,of the Committee on Claims;
and Mr. WALKEII,Of Erie,of the Committee
of Ways and Means.
G OPE 11X0 S OAESSaIG E
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
FELLOW CITIZENS:-1n transmitting the
annual message to the General Assembly
according to usage and the directions of
the Constitution, I should do injustice to
my own feelings, in addressing you on
the state of the Commonwealth, I should
omit to offer my congratulations upon its
prosperous and fitly flourishing condition.
Pennsylvania has reached an eminence
moral and physical. which leaves her sec
ond to no state in the union. Her wealth,
her enter prize, and her recent system for
the attainment of knowledge, have elevated
her character abroad,and given her strength
and dignity at home. Her extensive lines
of Rail Roads and Canals, her ample and
steadily increasing revenues, in connection
with her agricultural, manufacturing and
mineral pi oductions, will, in a short period
of time, have thrown around her a power
and an energy commensurate with all her
future schemes of physical and intellectual
improvement, with the consummation of
every project which her commercial inter
ests in honorable rivalry with neighboring
states may derriand, or the requisitions of
an enlightened public policy may render it
expedient for her to accomplish. Much
has been done by her within a few years;
much still remains fbr her to do; and that
she may be enabled to reach the acme of
wealth and power, which will leave her
without a rival, and to which she must even
tually obtain, her march must still be on
ward. Nothing can stop her in her career
to pre-eminence, short of a mercenary spit.-
it, which, if indulged now that a solid foun
dation for such a superstructure has been
successfitilly laid, would be to her future
prospects, what blasting and mildew to the
expectations of the farmer, whose crop, up
on which he has bestowed much labor, has
been visited by their withering influence.—
There can be no reasonable cause for fur
ther procrastination; the means are at hand;
and the whole scheme of improvement as
originally contemplated, may be accom
plished in less time, and at less cost now,
than it could be, executed for at a more !e
-mote period:
The measures adopted for establishing
the credit of the Commonwealth have been
attended with the happiest effects. When
her loans are now offered in the market,
they never fail to command active competi
tion and high preiniums. Her public
stocks inspire confidence, both at home and
abroad; and from the passing of the act of
March 1830,
.authorizing a loan of four mil-.
lions of dollars, ddwn to that of the 13th of
April last, directing the borrowing of nine
hundred and fifty nine thousand six hundred
dollars, there has been but and solitary
check to her prosperous career in her ex
tensive monied transactions, and that was
but of momentary duration.
The loan last mentioned, was negociated
in the usual manner, under the usual notice,
•tud was awarded to the Bank of Pennsylva
nia, at a premium of twelve dollars and
two cents upon every one hundred dollars
of stock, bearing an interest offive per cent,
per annum ; in other words, the Bank pays
to the state one hundred and fifteen thousand
three hundred and forty three dollars and
ninety-two cents, for the privilege of loan
ing her nine hundred and fifty-nine thousand
six hundred dollars, for thirty years, at the
rate of interest just mentioned. The cor
responden:e in relation to this loan will bo
laid before you.
Since the commencement of the internal
improvement policy, adopted by the state in
182) to present period, we have expended
in the construction ofcanals and Rail Roads,
twenty-two milliong, four hundred and twen
ty thousands, and three dollars nud thirty.
two cents. The whole of this sum has been
borrpwvd at an interest of five per cent, per
annum, and has yielded to the Treasury in.
premiums upon the respective loans, an ag.
gregate of one million, three hundred and
My six thousand, six hundred and fifty three
dollars,and thirty six cents. Of this sum,
one million, two hundred and ninety-eight
thousand, two hundred arid seventy-eight
dollars and thirty six cents were received
upon loans negotiated since the eighteenth
day of :Dece.nber, eighteen hundred and
twenty•nine, and regularly applied in aid of
other ftiarla appropriated to talc yams objut,
-xecute one of the boldest designs, and to
consummate one of the most stupendous
works of art known among the achieve
'news of modern times. 1V itlimit the ai l
of these annual advances upon our loans, the
State would have been driven to the neces
sity of borrowing sums eqnivalent to the
premiums reccived,to meet the interest upon
its debt, which would have been a policy at
once destructive of its financial Interest and
fatal to its credit; or a resort mnst have beet.
had to oppressive taxation, neit her of which
measures, it is beiicved, would have been
sanctioned by the people, and consequently
the prosecution or- this great public work
must have ceased, and the benefits already
realized, as well as the solid advantages
which 'they hold out, in prospect of which
no just estimate oan be formed, would have
been lost to the public.
The effect, however, produced by estab
lishing a permanent fund for the payment
of interest, by imposing a light tax, and the
the prosperous condition of the common
wealth during the prosecution of the public
works, which was produced principally by
the expenditure of the large sums of money
in their construction, has enab!ed us to corn
plete in about eight years of active exertion,'
six hundred and one and a quarter miles of
canal and slack water navigation, and one
hundred and eighteen miles and three quar
ters of railway, making an aggregate of
seven hundred and tweuty miles of improve
merits, to which may be added seven and a
half miles of extension on the west Branch
of the Susquehanna, authorized by act of
the last session, four of which are now in
navigable order, and the residue, I am in
formed, will be finished during the current
year.
A state of peace and unexampled pros
perity, combined witn jndicious measures to
inspire public confidence, have enabled us to
consummate a work "so little burdensohie to
the people, which will place our future pros
perity out of the reach of rival neighbors,
will add greatly to the general and individ
ual wealth, and will be the admiration and
pride of this and succeeding generations.
It will be found upon reference to the re•
cords of the auditing department, that the
taxes paid into the State Treasury, under
the several acts oldie 25th of March, 1831,
entitled, respectively, "An act for assessing
a tax on personal property to be collected
with the county rates and levies fur the use
of the commonwealth," and "An act to in
crease the county rates and levies for,the use
of the commonwealth," up to the. first of
November of the present year, a pefiiod of
about four years and eight months, amount
ed to seven hundred end forty one thousand
five hundred and filly seven dollars and nine
ty eight cents, making the average amount
paid annually upon the personal and real
estate within the commonwealth, about one
hundred and fifty-eight thousand nine hun
dred and five dollars and twenty-eight cents.
Tttto snm divided among the whole tax
paying population. of Pennsylvania, annual.
ly, for the .period I have mentioned, has
constituted the whole burden which the ex
tensive line of public improvements has in
flicted upon the people of this great and op-
ulent State. There are however, arreara
ges of those taxes still outstanding, which
will doubtless be collected' and into the
Treasury in due time.
The amount of tolls for the fiscal year
ending on the 31st day of October last, were
estimated by the accounting officers, in their
last annual report,at seven hundred thousand
dollars; the actual receipts into the Treasu
ry have fallen short of that estimate, how
ever, about fifteen thousand six hundred and
forty two dollars and twenty three cents,
the amount actually received, being six hun
dred and eighty-fbur thousand three hundred
and fifty-seven dollars and seventy-seven
cents, exceeding the receipts of the preced
ing year, three hundred and seventy-four
thousand, five hundred and sixty-eight dol
lars and sixty-two cents.
It is estimated that the revenues arising
from the public improvements alone, for the
l current year, will not Tall short•of, but in all
probability, will exceed a million of dollars,
which, with the outstanding taxes supposed
to amount to about three hundred and ten
thousand dollars; the ordinary revenues a
rising from other sources applicable to the
same object, and the premiums upon loans
should it be deemed expedient to borrow
money for further extensions of the public
works, will be sufficient to liquidate all the
claims for interest and the ordinary expen
ses of the government, without the necessity
of having recourse to other means to meet
those objects.
Having found the Commonwealth invol
ved in pecuniary embarrasSments at the
time the administration of its affairs was
committed to my care, which left me no al
ternative other than an appeal taxation,
which is always odious to the ,
,ale, or an
immediate abandonment of a great and most
important public enterprize in which the
state had engaged, upon which she had al
ready expended a large amount of money,
and had contracted for the expenditure of
many millions more, and having meet the
emergency and taken the course to which
m r duty to the state, its interest and its char
acter pointed; but which placed me in the
unenviable situatian of being the first Chief'
Magistrate to recommend a state tax for any
purpose, I rejoice that the affiirs of the Com
monwealth have been brought to an issue so
piosperous, during the continuance of my ad
ministration, as to enable me to be the first ,
also to announce to the Representatives or
the people, and to our common constituents,
the cheering intelligence which will not be
more grateful to them than it is to, myself,
that further taxation for state purposes will
not be required; and that the several acts of
the 25th March 1831, for assessing a tax on
personal property, and for increasing the
coJnty rates and levies for the use of the
Commonwealth, may, without injury to the
I public interests, be permitted to expire by
their own respective limitations. And here
permit me to remark, that so flu from this
administration being obnoxious to the un
generous charge of having involved the state
in inextricable ruin, by plunging it into an
onerous and overwhelming debt, for the pay
ment of which, the hard earnings of its citi
zens °revery grade n nd condition, will, from
time to time, be filched from them, it will
soon be made manifest, that n fund has been
secured to the Commonwealth, proceeding
from the very improveroents for.which the
debt was contracted, which will not only re
lieve its citizens from future taxation, as well
for payment of interest as for other state
purposes; but will enable the Government.
at no distant day, to establish a sinking fund
for the liquidation of the debt itself, which,
if steadily and faithfully applied to that ob
ject, will at no very remote period place the
slate in the enviable condition of posse sing
an annual revenue of several millions of dol
lars, at the same time that it will have been
entirely exonerated and discharged from all
its debts contracted for the purposes ()linter.
nal improvements.
The condition of the commonwealth, in
regard to the revenues, produced by her
public works,. presenting an aspect so pros
perous; it- would seem that the period has
arrived when there ought to be no further
impediment to their extension, to such points
as give the greatest promise of usefulness
in affindinl,T facilities to our internal com
merce, and in renderin g more pro fi table the
works already finished. Among these the
extension from the western termination of
the Pennsylionia canal, to the harbor of
Lake Erie, by such route as will afford the
greatest facilities in its construction, as well
as ensure the most constant supply of the
necessary element to make it answer the
great and important ends for which it will
have been designed; presents strong claims
which ought, in my opinion, to be no long
er postponed. Equally important to the in
terests of the state, and of the people of a
large and interesting district of country, is
the project of carrying the canal from its
termination at the mouth of the Lackawan
na creek, up the north branch of the Susque
hanna, to the line dividing the states of
Pennsylvania and New York, to intersect
the Elmira Canal and Wilco. Rail Road now
in operation in that state. The completion
of both improvements at the earliest period
possible is highly important—whilst the
trade of the Lakes, of the Territory of Michi
gan, the states of Ohio, Illinois and others 1 1
of the western and south western states
would find vent on the one--the salt, plaister
and flour of western New York, would be
transported into the interior of Pennsylvania,
and the iron and coal of the .latter state,
would be carried in return into the state of
New York upon the other. The advanta
ges arising to the commonwealth, from the
construction of both the projected works, it
is believed would be of immense importance.
The increase of population which would
immediately follow the commencement of
those additional improvements, would, of
itself, be a sufficient justification for the ex
penditure in their construction; but the in
crease of revenue which would be added up
on their completion, to that already produc
ed, and the facilities afforded to the people
of those regions,in finding a market for their
surplus produce places the propriety of the
measure beyond all question. Whilst on
this subject, permit 'me also to suggest the
propriety of authorizing a further recount).
isance to ascertain the practicability of a
route for a canal, from some point on the
West Branch of the Susquehanna ,to connect
with the French Creek Division, and by that
Division ultimately with the harbor of Lake
Erie.
It has been a subject of regret with many
of our scientific and patriotic citizens, that
legislative attention had not long since been
directed to the expediency of authorizing a
Geological and Mineralogical survey of this
state. Abounding as it is known to do, in
every variety of mineral wealth, such a
survey would be of incalculable value in still
further developing the hidden resources of
our prolific and opulent Commonwealth---
The discoveries which have already been
made, accidentally and without the aid of
scientific examination, strongly indicate the
immense advantages that might bi. expected
from a thorough Geological exploration--
Our state is emphatically the centre or heart
of the Union. She has made and is still
making, either in her own right, or by dele
gating authority for that purpose to others,
rapid advances in the construction of Canals
and Rail Roads,which are the great arteries
through which, by means of other great
channels of communication with which they
either are or will be connected, incalculable
millions of tons of our mineral and agricul
tural productions will ultimately be trans
ported to every extremity of our extensive,
country. Here then I might atop, and rest
the propriety of the measure upon the addi
tional productiveness it would occasion to
that source of public wealth and revenue.
But there are other considerations of para
mount importance which affect the interests
of the farmer, the manufacturer, and, the
citizen, and which would render such a
measure still' more highly beneficial: to the
former; it would unfold the localities in
which are contained mineral substances
pregnant with those manuring and fertiliz.
ing qualities which would enable him to re
claim and enrich hissed; to the manufactur
er there would be developed and applied to
their proper uses that endless variety ofores.
sands; clays, and other materials so essenti
al to the profitable prosecution of his busi
ness; and to our citizens generally, there
woul& be discoYered many new sources of
wealth in their mines and their quarries;
Which lie concealed from them now, but
whicli the measure proposed would enable
them to realize and convert to profitable
and valuable uses. This subject might be
enlarged upon; but it may be sufficient to
add, that if such a survey was authorised
and carried successfully into effect, it would
have a tendency greatly to increase the
value ofour soil; it would add largely to its
productiveness, nod that of our Canals and
Rail-ways; it would elevate still more the
character of our slate; it wouhl promote the
cause of science, and for a comparatively
trifling expenditure, we should secure a den
ser population and add iiataleulably to our
individual and gPneral prosperity. Permit
me then to recommend this important mea
sure to your early attention. The work
might progiesis graduall; an annual sum,
such as the Treasury could spare without
injury to other interests, might he appro
priated for this object Until it shall have been
completed. Several of our sister States are
engaged in thus exploring their hidden re
sources. Ooe of them, Massachusetts, has
finished her survey, and is now realizing the
advantages resulting from it--a few, years,
and 1 trust Pennsylvania will be doing like.
wise.
In pursuance of the provisions of an act of the
General Aremnbly, passed nt their last session,the
people of this State have recently decided a ques
tion, which has for a considerable time past agita
ted the public mind, by casting their votes for or
against, the call of a Convention to amend tho con
stitution; the fundamental law upon which their
.government and all their civil and, I may add,
their religious institutions tost,nnd by which they
have for the last forty five years been protected.
Their decision is understood to have resulted in
favor ofa Convention, by a very decided majority
of the notes given in reference In that measure;
and whatever opinions may have been heretofore
entertained by any of us upon that subject, it be
comes our duty now, to bow to the will of the poo•
phi en unequivocally expressed, arid to take the
necessary steps to carry it into effect.
A fler ascertaining officially, therefore, the state
of the vote in relation to the call of n Convention,
if it should turn out as it is believed to be, in favor
of that measure, you will doubtless perceive the
necessity of making provision by law ihr comply.
mg with the expressed will of the majority at as
early a period as possible, by fixing upon the time,
place and mannor of holding and conducting the
elections for the choice of delegates throughout
the Stale, as well as the time and place of their
meeting for carrying into effect the objects for
which they shall haVe been elected. That the
people may be safely trusted with that which most
immediately cincerns themselves, and at their
pleasure change or retain their form of govern
ment as to them may sneni expedient and proper,
is ri position which may not now be controverted;
and whatever objections may be started in relation
to the mode adopted for ascertaining the public
sentiment, in reference to that measure, (the con.
stitution having made no provision fur such an
emergency,) there can be no doubt in regard to
their right to adopt such a course, to enable them
to bring about a reform, as they themselves shall
consider bast adapted to the attainment of that
object. By expressing their opinions at the ballot
box in the form and manner prescribed by time act
of Assembly, they have recognised its provisions
as directory to them at !oust, and admitted its nu.
thority as effectually as if the act had emanated
iminediataly from themselves.
In my last annual message, I took occasion to
express my views at large, in relation to the per.
nicious consequences resulting from the creation
of monopolies by legislative enactment, and the
indiscriminate conferring of banking and other
corporate privileges, to the manifest danger of ul.
timately undermining the stability of our free in.
stitutions, and the obvious injustice resulting
'from them to individual enterprize. I have dis
covered no cause for changing the opinions ex
pressed in that document, and would respectfully
refer you to it for the reasons therein assigned,
why the further progress in that course of legis
lation ought to cease, and a more equitable mode
of distributing public favors be introduced. The
Banks chartered during the last session of the
Legislature, being two in number, having sup.
plied the only localities in the State, in which
such institutions had not previously been estab
lished, with the facilities fur the transaction of bu.
mess whial other portions of the community
had long and profitably enjoyed, but which to
them had therefore been denied, it would seem
that a further increase of such establishments In
any part of the commonwealth would be superflu.
ous, and should be zealously guarded against, and
that every additional application for si,nilar priv.
Hinges should be regarded with jealousy and dis
trust.
An evil, in my apprehension, of no ordinary
magnitude nas been introduced into our legisla
tion, against the pernicious tendency of which,
and its further progress, I would beg leave most
earnestly to remonstrate—l moan the practice of
guaranteeing by legislative enactment, the pay
ment of the interest upon the capital employed by
companies incorporated for accomplishing some
alledged object of improvement, in which the
State has no direct or immediate interest; thus
placing the commonwealth in the attitude of an
underwriter insuring to the corporators an inter
est of five per cent upon the capital invested in a
project, which, when completed may never yield
three or even one per cent—in short, it is insuring
that against all risk, which was undertaken as a
speculation at a risk; so far lit least, as the usual
rate of interest now paid fur loans is concerned--
a perseverance in this course of legislation, will,
before long operate like a canker upon the public
purse, and reduce your Treasury to a stirs of fi
nancial embarrassmentirom which it will require
no ordinary skill as well as means to relieve it
It would bo much better that the State should
cause the work to be constructed in its own right,
if it promises to bo of public utility; or that a
subscription of stock should be authorized in its
behalf, which would at least give it the advantage
of being represented in the direction and man
agement of the construction of the work and the
expenditure of tho money. It is to the General
Assembly as the protectors of the people's rights
and the guardians of their inte.ests, the public
must look to apply the remedy to these growing
evils. In the legislative body alone resides the
power to restrict and to control that insatiable
thirst for monopolies and chartered privileges,
that morbid spirit of speculation which would
make the state stand sponsor fur every abortive
scheme in which enrporatiOns may choose to cm.
bark—it is there the axe must be laid to the root
of the mischief and those excrosences upon the
body politics lopped ()Mind deprived of their future
growth. The Executive,it is true, may interpose
his negative, but that should be confined to ex
treme cases involving constitutional difficultioe,or
at most should be applied to bills providing for
measures glaringly inexpedient, and too palpably
improper to receive the •force of laws. A moro
general application of that power would necessa
rily bring the Executive and Legislative branches
of the Government into collision with cacti other, ,
and destroy that harmony which is essential to a
judicious and prosperous administration of its af
fairs.
The proper accounting officers will lay before
you their respective reports showing the stain of
the finances of the Commonwealth for the fiscal
year, ending on the 31st of October lust; from
which it will appear that the receipts into the
Treasury exclusive of loans and prenutuns upon
loans, but arising from the ordinary sources of
revenue only during that period, amounted to the
sum of ono million five hundred and twenty-three
thousand and six dolla; a and sixty one eonts=—
which with the balance remaining in the Trearm.
ry on thei first of November, 18341, of tirly.lioar
thousand end ninety two &Aare and twenty cent.,
gives an aggregate of One million five; hundred
and se vcitty.soven tliuu►aud and itinety.oight
tars and eighty.one cents—and that the expondi.
tures during the same period including interest
upon loans but not embracing the sum borrowed
by authority of the net of 17th January, last, ap.
placable to that object, amounted to one million
three hundred and eighty-ono thousand three hun
Bred and three dollars and seventy-one cents, leav
ing a balance in the Treasury on the first of No.
vember, last, of one hundred and ninety.five thou
sand ROVOII hundred and ninety.five thousand rev
en hundred and ninety.five dollars and ten cents,
which together with so much of the monies since
received into the Treasury, as will bo necessary
for that purpose,may be applied to the repayment
of the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand del.
lore borrowed from thel3ank of Pennsylvanta,for
the payment of interest on the first of February,
last, in pursuance of the act of the 17th ofJanuary
above mentioned, and which is directed to bo re
paid within twelve months from the date of that
act. Should the ro payment of the said loan be
made as mentioned, it will become necessary to
make provision by law for procuring by loan or
otherwise a sum sufficient to meet any deficiency
that may happen in the fund for the payment of
interest on the srst of FebrUary, next, to be repaid
out of any sum in the Treasury at any time there.
after, not otherwise appropriated. It is estimated
that the revenues for the fiscal year now current s
will he amply sufficient to meet the interest and
all other ordinary demands upon the government,
and leave a balance in the Treasury on the first of
November next.
I have the satisfaction to state for the informs.
lion of the friends of education generally, that the
provisions of the act to establish a General Sys.
torn of Education by Common Schools, passed the
first day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty.
four, and its supplement of the fifteenth of April
last, have been accepted by a large majority of
the school districts within the Commonwealth, as
reported to the superintendent of public schools.
The State, exclusive of the city and county of
Philadelphia, which aro not embraced within the
provisions of the law, and the counties orColurn
bin, Montgomery, Greene and Clearfield, from
which no reports hove been received, has been di
vided into nine hundred and seven school districts;
of this number, five hundred and thirty six have
accepted, and three hundred and seventy-one have
rejected the provisions of the law.
The directors of the several districts adopting
the system have been somewhat remiss in trans.
matting their reports; they are, however, daily
arriving at the Secretary's office, who, as the su
perintendent of common schools, will be enabled,
at an early day, to lay be you a detailed re
port of the progress of the system, the effects it
produces where it has gone into operation, and the
future prospects ofite friends in relation to it.
From the reports received it appears that in 66
districts in which the system is adopted, there aro
two hundred and thirty eight schools in success.
ful operation, in which are instructed nine thou
sand six hundred and eighty children; and in ton
other districts active preparations aro snaking to
carry it into effect.
The directors of the several districts in which
the schools aro in operation speak v - ell in their
reports of the characters and general conduct of
the teachers; the scholars they say are improving
in their studios—they express much satisfaction
with the system itselt ; its advantages to such ns
will avail themselves of it, and its ultimate goner
al
There can be no doubt that as the system ed.
winces into more general use, and its advantages
become more apparent, it will increase in flavor
with the people generally, but especially with the
more liberal minded end intelligent; that the ;;
friends of a virtuous and moral education, to be f:
extended to all the children within our extensive
commonwealtlewill eventually triumph; and with '1
the adoption ofa few modifications, some of which
I understand will bo suggested in the report of
the Superintendent of Common Schools, there is
every reason for confident assurance, that the sys.
tom will work its way into public favor, and will
eventually be universally accepted and a t iproved.
At the last session a resolution was adopted by
the General Assembly, "relating to the Cherie-
peake and Delaware Canal," which was referred
to the Attorney General for his opinion in regard
to the measures proper to be pursued for carrying
the objects of the resolution into effect. That of
ficor with his characteristic industry and ability,
has given the subject as thorough an examination
as the circumstances within his roach would ad.
mit, and the result of his investigntions has been
transmitted in the shape ofa legal opinion which
furnishes a history in detail of the origin and
progress of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal,
with the causes of the obstructions and embarrass.
meats complained of in the resolution, and points
out the legal remedy for their removal; a copy, of
which will be laid before you for your considera
tion, and such further legislative action in tole.
tion to a subject so important to our citizens, as
to the General Assembly shall seem expedient and
proper.
The Judiciary of Pennsylvania, as at present
organized, so far as my information extends, is
generally esteemed to be efficient, safe and en
tirely adequate to a prompt and vigorous admin
istration of the laws. Complaints of the law's
delay are no longer heard. The Judges are gen.
erally able, industrious men and sound jurists,
whose decisions command the confidence and res.
pect of the public. lam not aware that any ad
ditional legislation is required in regard to that
department of the Government ut thist ime.
The militia system is deplorably defective, and
requires prompt attention to its re.organization
and thorough amendment. It ought, if possible,
to be raised Arne the reproach and ridicule which
its inefficiency and general defectiveness have
brought upon it. It is true, (lint to make it what
it should be, the action of Congress must be bro't
to bear upon it—but by encouraging voluntary as
sociations, you may provoke a military ardor,
which will add much to the efficiency of the sys
tem, and infuse a spirit of subordination and dis
cipline into the whole body of the militia, which
will inspire confidence, arid make it in a measure
what it ought to be, the bulwark of the nation.
The Penitentiary system still continues to accom
plish all the beneficial effects which its philanthropic
projectors could reasonably have expected from it.—
One of - its greatests excellencies over all former plane
of prison discipline, consists in the prevention of all
combination as well rie contamination, and the favora
ble opportunity it affords the convict of reformation
and amendment of life, which is eminently exempli.
Pied in the lives and characters of those who have
been subjected to its inflictions. All the cells directed
by law, to be built in the Eastern Penitentiary, are
said to be nearly completed, and all the blocks occu
pied except one, which containing one' hundred and
thirty-six cells is plastered and some of the doors aro
hung. and will be finished iu season for the reception
of prisoners in the spring; the appropriation made at
the last session, is deemed to be sufficient to Complete
all the cells now built. The prisoners sentenced un
der the different penal 1 verse° the Eastern Penitentive
ry, are now all received into that prison. The state
of the finances of this institutir n will appear in the
report which will shortly be made to the Legislature.
On the first of January last, there were 216 prisoners
confined in the Eastern Penitentiary,and there have
been received into it from various countiesen the dis
trict, from that time instil the twenty-first of Novem
ber last, 125, and from Walnut street prison 69, who
had been sentenced to the Eastern Penitentiary, bet
were detained in the former prison until a sufficient
number of - cells could be prepared for their reception,
making the whole number received, 197. Sr venty
have been discharged during that period, by expii
tion of sentence and pardon and three died, leaving is
the Penitentiary on the 21st of Nov last,324.male,at d
IS female pri-ciners. Th • conduct and deportment of
the prisoners is represented to have been g, nerally
satisfactory,and at far as bas been :inert eine-leen:4 r f
the convicts who were discharged during either the
present vears,have conducted themselves so as to sa
tiny those who had mi opportunity ofjudging,that tl ta
lerrisla , ur.., were not in error, when they founded the
Penitentiary system. 1 have rec..ived no informations
in relation to the condition of the IVestern Institution,
aed must, therefor... refer veil eelterellY to the report .
of its Insp. re , ran Irch will shortly be laid 'before pre
The eroseeHty Of our reaintry threnehout it:eyehole
extent is erect beyond all former example, but it is to .
be Lunenielf I lint whilst our hearts almatil be filled
with grat itude and humble devotion for the bounties
Providouee'to lieu who bestows tbenetbere Amid
have been manifested in some portions of the Union a
spirit of wantoness and insubordination, which have
set aside the ordinary forms of law,and executed sum
sumary vengeance upon the devoted heads of whoso
ever might fall within its power.aceording to its own
undefinctl,illicit code of criminal justice. Wh erever
this spirit was dominant, a sell-constituted tribunal
predetermined that the victim should suffer the pen
alty whether guilty or innocent.was the aroiter of his
fate. Property,life,liberty,reputation,every thing that
is dear to man upon earth,was made to submit to this
relentless ordeal. !Weil became the voluntary exec'.
tioneri of their fellow men. The most inhuman atro•
cities and wanton cold blooded murders were conimit•
ted in the open face of day,and sanctioned by conmiii
ni ties who would feel themselves greatly scandalised
be having it supposed that they were not models of
refinement, intelligence. and respectability. Mobs
Were collected together under the pretence that sonic
act of immorality or dishonesty had been committed,
which it was their province to punish or to correct.—
The domestic sanctuary was entered by violetice,the
obnoxious individual sought for,and if f und,fell a vic
tim to an infuriated mob; if not, his property became
a sacrifice to•a phrensied populace, and all this under
the unjustifiable p lea of necessity or the tardiness of
the forms of trial in the courts of law. II would be
gratifying to feel a consciousness that we had nothing
of this spirit to reproach ourselves within our own
State; but. the . truth will not, I am constrained to say,
bear us out in claiming entire exemption from its de
structive influences. Such things mu , t not be tolera•
ted in a country professing to be governed by just and
equal laws. If the laws are too weak to afford protec
tion of the citizen In every emergence,it is time they
should be made more efficient ; the lives of our citi
zoos must he secured against lawless violence, and it
might not be unprofitable to enquire how far it would
conduce to the stipprei.sion of riots, if by legal emu-t
-in:lit the obligation to make restitution of property
destroyed be mole., was imposed upon the community
within whose limits its destruction was perpetrated.
For some time past certain individuals under the
cognomen of A bolitionists,few in nunib , r,but manifes
ting a zeal worthy of a better cause, have been labor
ing most assidionsly to imprenn upon the public mind
the n-censity of an immediate emancipation of that
p rrtten of our population now held in bondage by the
rople of the south. As might well be supposed,
the promulgation of such doctrii es produced an excite
ment of no ordinary character in that portion of the
Union where Slavery exists; and it has excited feel
ings of sempathy ton very great extent in other parts
of the United States, which have called forth expres
sions of public sentiment on the subject of a most de
cided charnefer. In Pennsylvania, public meetings
have been held,,which have responded in emphatic
language to the sentiments expressed elsewhere
There 11 , 0 believe, very lisle difference of feeling in
regard to the question of slavery in the abstract, a
mongst us; we all deplore its existence ; we depre
cate it as an evil,and it is presumed there arc but few
of us who would not rejoice if there was not a remnant
of it left upon our soil Inhabitating a state which was
the first to abolish slavery, we cannot be affected by
the existing excitement, otherwise than as members
of the great American confederacy, and as forming a
link in the groat chain which binds it together; as
such we are de-ply interested in the pence,the unity
and integrity of the whole. This most delicate,and I
may say,unfortmiate subject,for ned a part attic civil
polity of the South before,nnil at the time of our great
political association. The sages of the revolution to
whom the arranegement and detail of the political
-Compact were entrusted, were aware of its existence
in its fullest extent; they were no strangers to the
servile condition of the slavc.nor to the burdens inflic
ted upon the master; they knew that the evil existed
but they saw the impossibility of providing an ade
quate remedy. They were well convinced that there
existed rights and interests which could not be abro
gated or abridged without preventing,forever,th e es
tablislimeut of that union which they were anxious to
cement; or producing consequences to their country
of a far more dangerous and disastrous character and
tendency-, than the existence of the rights and inter
ests they were about to concede. The rights were ad
' mittediunoerer, and the interests conceded, among the
many other concessions which it became necessary to
grant before all the conflicting claims could be recon
ciled,or the parties to the great bond of Union which
it is their purpose to form and to perpetuate,could be
harmonized and conciliated. These rights remain as
sacred now as they were then,and these interests are
as sacredly vested inlthe people of the slave-holding
communities now,os they were considered and known
to be then; and we are solemnly bound by the obliga
tions of justice, humanity, and good faith, to abstain
from interfering in any rnauner with them. The doc
trines of universal emancipation, no doubt, had their
origin in motives of the purest humanity and in the
most benevolent designs, and would, if left to them
selves, by their mild and benignant influences, have
greatly ameliorated the condition of both master and
slave: indced,tbey had already contributed greatly to
that desirable end, and might,eventually,have produ
ced the very object which is now professedly held
out as the one desired to be accomplished But the pre
sent crusade against slavery is the oilsyrinvof fanati
cism of the most r dangerous and slamming character—
which if not speedily checked may kindle afire which
it may require the best blood of the country to quench;
and engender feelings which may prove fatal to the
integrity of the Union itself. It must,however,he left
to public alone to check and to control the further pro
gress of this misdirected enthusiasm. Legislation can
not be brought to bear upon it without endangering o
ther rights and other privileges, m which every indi
vidual in this great confederacy is deeply and solemn.
ly interested. The freedom of speech and of the press,
which after all is the safeguard to free discussion,and
the best expositor of public opinion, must not be in
fringed upon or controlled by enactments, intended to
remedy some temporary mischief only. I would take
occasion, however, to suggest for the consideration of
the General Assembly whether a calm,temperate and
dignified, but at the same time, firm and decided ex
pression of the views and feelings of that body in re
ference to this highly dangerous and mischief threat
ening spirit, would not be calculated to give tone and
expression to public sentiment in relation to that sub
ject, and have a direct tendency to impose an imme
diate check and restraint upon its further progress.
In retiring from the station I at present occupy, I
shall have the pleasing satisfaction to cheer me on my
way to private life, which always accompanies a well
grounded consciousness of a faithful and honest dis
charge of the duties incident to a high and responsible
public trust Elevated by the citizens of any native
Slate to the most dignified office in their gift, I could
mot be insensible to the extent of the confidence they
had reposed, nor of the weight of obligation I owed
them. I may be permitted to say, however, I trust
without incurringthe inundation of egotistn,that as the
only return I could make for the confidence reposed, I
have labored most assiduously and unremittingly dur
ing my continuance in oflice,to advance the prosperity
of that Commonwealth over which I had been called
to preside; to sustain its credit; to elevate its charac
ter and to promote its lasting welfare and happiness
—and if,in the endeavor to secure these objects,' have
in my intercourse with the legislative branch of the
governmentat any time happened to differ from them
in regard to particular measures of policy, it will be
ascribed on their part, I trust, as it assuredly shall on
mine, to an honest difference of opinion arising from
an axiom desire on either side to promote the public
good. lf,in the great killing measures of State policy
1 have had the misfortune to differ from a portion of
my fellow-citizens, in regard to their pmprietv and
general utility, I have had the gratification to know,
that I was sustained in these measures by a still larg
er portion of them,and especially by their representa
tives in General Assembly,whose legislative sanction
they received, and under its authority have been car
•
tied_ either partially or wholly into successful opera
tion. Tho ultimate effect of those measures upon the
general properity and happiness of the people of this
great and growing commonwealth,in all future time,"
. am content to submit to that unerring test,—and in
Iwhatnoever situation I may be placed hereafter,whe
ther in the peaceful shades ofdomestic retirement, or
an the more busy scenes of active life,the most fervent
wishes of my heart shall be etiguged,and my most ar
dent aspiration+ shall ascend for the welfare and hap
piness of My native state.
I have Only to add,in conclunion.the assurance of my
hearty concurrence with the General Assembly dur
ing my continuance in office, in all such constitutional
measures as shall be adopted by them: that I shall
carry with me into retirement,and cherish tiro' life,
grateful recollections for the distinguished marks of
confidence with which. I have been honored, and the
many public favors which have been so repeatedly
and so kindly accorded to mc,and to bid you a last and
an affectionate farewell.
GEORGE WOLF.
Harrisburg, Dec. 2, 1835.
The building of Steam Bunt, is carried
to a surprizing extent at Pittsburg. The
Advocate informs that seven large boats
have been launched within a few days, and
that they are shortly to be followed by up.
wards of a dozen more. The value dsteam
and otherboats finished and fitted out, with.
in the year 1835, at that singlo port, will a•
ieount, according to cAinvite, to u
e' dollars!
HE GETTYSIRITRG STAR- &REPUBLICAN. BANNER.
Dit . t I 1 lr,, t I , lr „S r J leulture, the &Mechanic
..11rts, Internal Improvement, a
IiFPUBLIaN BANNER
_BY HOBERT Iv. MIDDLITrON
At $t per antinin t halt . ..yearly in advance.
414 1 4•4:11:144 ;tel. itv;1111
Monday, December 7, 1 8 35.
C* - We are indebted to Messrs. Stevens,
MeSherry, Nauss, and the Chronicle and
Reporter, for copies of the Governor's flies.
C* -- .A II the Harrisburg papers of last
‘veelt,rxeept the Intellig,encerovere received
at this oflie.e.
KrAt the particular request of a Ditec
for who has not attended many of their meet
ings lately, we copy front the Masonic Sen
tine! the Report of the School Directors.
We shall offer no comment on the ungentle
manly (to say the least of it) act of with
holding the advertisement from the Star
but would merely observe, that such pro
needing is riot calculated to do the prescn
attempted School Systcm any good--at leas
at the present crisis.
OZ:7 - The December No. of the Philadel
phia CASKET has been received. It is the
lust of the present Volume, and is filled with
highly interesting - matter, well selected and
judiciously arranged. It grows in populari
ty with every succeeding number.
The Presidency.
(* - Nothing is more gratifying than to
see the suggestion made by us a few weeks
since of the following ticket so generally
responded to:
PR F:SID ENT,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
VICE-PRESIDENT,
THADDEUS STEVENS.
It is not only responded to generally by
the Anti-Van Buren party in this State, but
is spreading into other States. Witness
the follm%ing from the Boston "Atlas," a
leading, influential organ of the Whig party
of Massachusetts:
Thaddeus Stevens, of Pa.
There are a few men in the country un
surpassed in intellect and acquisitions,whose
fame is in a great degree local, because they
have never had an opportunity of displaying
their powers on a scene and on subjects which
command general interest and attention.--
Such a man, before his election to Congress,
was HORACE Ilzrorey, of Pennsylvania; such
a man in an equally eminent degree is
THADDEUS STEVENS of the f•atne
State. Mr. Stevens has acquired by a ster
ling strength of character, and by his un
common vigor of mind, an influence in the
interior of that State, equalled perhaps by
that of no other man. He may be oonsid
ered the strongest and ablest member of the
Anti-Masonic party; and exercises a com
manding power over that large portion of
the party in Pennsylvania, who attached
themselves to it from disinterested and pa
triotic motives.
We have seen the name of Mr. Stevens
mentioned in several papers in connexion
with the Vico Presidency- There is per-
haps no one who could with more propriety
be placed on the same ticket with Mr. Web
ster. His name would indeed he a tower of
strength in the middle states, and the nomi
nation would andouhtedly receive the unani r
mous approbation of Mr. Webster's friends
in New England. Mr. Stevens, we believe
is a native of Vermont, and is now between
forty-five and filly years of age. If such a
ticket were presented.to the Whigs of the
Union; to the opposition throughout the
country; would it not present a sufficient
moral and political strength to concentrate
about itself the elements of success?
If Mr. Stevens should receive the Anti-
Masonic nomination to the Vice Presidency
in Pennsylvania; it would he conclusive, we
presume, as to his adoption by the Whigs.
We have seen the name of THADDEUS
STEVENS connected with the Vice Presiden
cy. Mr. Stevens is known to be a highly
honorable citizen; and to possess qualifica
tions. It is, natural for Pennsylvania, to
whom the honor is, on nll hands referred,
of being the battle ground in the coming con
test, to look among her sons for a man of
strength, and who would bring forces to the
field, and know how to conduct them. For
ourselves, highly as we respect Mr. Stevens,
we are content for the present in thus speak
ing of him as we have. The people, in con
vention, or otherwise, will decide—and we
will follow their lead, point where they may:
the otiject being, to defeat the Baltimore
nomitintinn. lithe selection shall be Thad
deus Stevens for Vice President-- 2 w -- ith all
our henits.—Poulsons Adv.
lii We cut the frilowing from the Bog.
ton "Atlas," a Masonic paper. We hope
the "Advocate," if it is the same "FREE
PRESS" it used to be, will accept the dial.
enge.
. The Boston - Advocate cells upon us to
republish the speeches of THAnnErs STE.
vt:Ns, of Pennsylvania, the gentleman who
has been frequently named as a candidate
fur Ha; Vice Presidency, on the Webster
Ticket, against secret societies. We have
no sort ofobject ion, for we are sure that Mr.
Stevens could never have treated any sub I
ject otherwise than as a man of good sense I
and patriotic motives should treat it. If the
Idvocate will Ihrni:ll the speeches referrer!
to, we will publish them with pleasure; pro.
vided the Advocate will at the same time
republish Mr. Stevens' speeches, denotinc•
log the policy of the administration in gene
cral, and :Mr. Richard Rush in particular.
CK ? " . NEILSON Poe, Esq. has retired from
Editorials!tip of the Frederick Examiner—
having purchased an interest in the Bahl.
more Chronicle. The Examiner will here.
eller be conducted by JOHN H. WILLIAMS,
Esq.
KrThe Chambersburg "Repository" of
Tuesday last, contains a call for a County
meeting of the friends of that great Chant.
pion of the Constitution and Laws, DANIEL
WERSTER, to be held on the 10th inst. in
that place. The call is "numerously and
respectfully signed" by citizens "of various
parts of Franklin county."
KrThe last Franklin Repository has
nothing in it about Thaddeus Stevens, Esq.
or the Gettysburg Star!!! What's in the
From Poulson's Am. Daly Advertiser.
Thaddeus Stevens.
This highly gifted man is ainiin return
ed by the people of Adams county as their
representative in the State Legistature ;
and his fame already fills so large a space
in this commonwealth, that it will be un
necessary, in nominating him for the Spea
kership of the House, to add more than a
word or two in support of that nomination.
He is fit for office. This answers the
first question which naturally suggests it
self; and we apprehend that the fitness is
determined by his eminent abilities—his
stern integrity—his energy of character,
and his established attachment to the con.
stitution and laws of his country.
As an incumbent in that office, he would
elevate its character. This is a con.ider
ation which, unhappily for the honor of our
State, has lately been overlooked: our high
places have been occupied by men whose
promotion was the result of political man
agement, or induced by considerations
founded upon claims of which merit was
no part. Our chairs of office have lost the
aspect they were wont to wear, and they
now require new drapery to be thrown
over them, reflecting the lustre orcharac
ter and genius to make them pleasinglo
the eye of the patriot. Merit has been
treated with so much scorn in the selectitin
of oflicers of the state rind general goverii
ments, that it now rarely shows its face to
pubic life.
The public services of Thaddeus Ste
vens should he rewarded. In the councils
of the state he has always been distinguish
ed ad the uncompromising champion of the
cause of education; his banner has in one
sc;n:Se of the phrase, most emphatically
"streamed in light." Ont he floor of the,
House, he stood, by the bill providing for
the general education of the people, firmly
and faithfully, until every section had been
sanctioned; baffled every attempt of its
enemies, and by the thunders of his elo
quence, alarmed even the slaves of ignor
ance into acquiescence.—And this too, it
must be remembered, was at a time when
a large majority of his constituents—of
those who held in their hands his political
existence—%l ere supposed to entertain a
deep routed prejudice against education;
bnt he fearlessly fared the danger, and in
curred the risk of falling a sacrifice to his
pre.riotism, in preference to seeking the
easily aquired and spurious glory of the
eemagogue.
He returned home from the seat of gov
ernment amid malicious threat, and clam
or'.us denunciation; a debased piess emp
tied the vials of its wrath upon him; the .
minions of darkness and ignorance where
every where let loose at him—yet he was
again elected, and his triumph brought
strength to the cause of education in the
commonwealth. In his legislative career,
Thaddeus Stevens has been universally ac
knowledged to be the brightest ornament
of the House—then upon whom could its
highest honor be more legitimately bestow ,
ed? A %VHIG.
BROWNSVILLE: CONVENTION.- Upwards
forte hundred and fifty delegates net at
lie late Convention in Brownsville, Pa., for
the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of constructing a Rail Road from
Cumberland to Wownsville, and thence to
Pittsburg and Wheeling. After the formali
ties usual in organizing such meetings, a
committee was appointed consisting of three
from each State, and the cities of Baltimore,
Pittsburg and Wheeling, to prepare a re
port; the committee after an adjournment,
reported in strong language in favor of the
undertaking, as promising to be in the high.
est degree useful and as altogether practice.
ble, stating that their opinions were limn
ded upon actual examination, by an engin
eer, 'and other satisfactory information.—
Committees were appointed to prepare me
morials to the Legi , lature of the several.
' States which the work will benefit, and also
to Congress. A Committee was also op
pointedto ascertain and report the probable
cost of the work, the time required to com
plete it, tSzc. They also%recommend a geo.
ogical survey of the valleys of the Potomac.
Touhogany and_Monongahela rivers believ;
ing that they abound in mineral treasures.
Frederick Examiner.
QUICK Noon.—As appeared in our last,
books f'or subsciiptica 10. the capital stock
for constructing a bridge over the Ohio at
this place were opened on Monday, and all
the stock It, the amount of $200:000 taken
in a few a:Mutes. On Thursday thecon.
r• - \
-
\`ll
tract for building the btidgetnver the west
branch was signed, sealed, and delivered.
Mr. LE BARRON, one of the most thstin.
guished bridge builders ►n the country, has
taken the contract, at 668,500. This is
the gentleman that had the contract for
building the bridge over the Nlonongaliela
:►t Brownsville, for the one at Ilartishurfr,
and for various other magoificent structures
•of a similar kind in other sections of the
country. The work will commence forth
with. This is, to use a western phrase,
doing the thing in the right way.—Whcel
iug Times.
{Boston Atlas.
TEM:HEIM-A Society has been formed
in Philadelphia for the purpose of supplying
teachers to such schools as are destitute, and
procuring employment for those who have
no situations. An accurate register is to be
kept of all teachers applying for places, to
gether with un account of their qualifica
tions, and upon application froni any School,
a teacher possessing the requisite attain
ments will be supplied by the Society.
Vincrmuk.—lt is generally understood
that the Anti-Van Buren party in Virginia
will frame an Electoral Ticket, by Conven
tion, in the city of Richmond, sometime du
ring the present winter. Several of the
Counties have already begun to stir in this
matter, and it is not doubted that others
will, in due time. The Convention thus
proposed to be held in Richmond, will proba
bly determine which of the several Candi
dates now named in opposition to Mr. Van
Buren shall be recommended to the support
of the people of Virginia. Or perhaps, more
probably, an Anti-Van Buren Electoral Tic
ket will be framed, as in opposition to cau
cuses and packed Convent - , leaving the
ultimate choice oft he Presidential candidate,
where the Constitution intended it to be left,
to the sound discretion and "responsibility"
of the Electors. The success which atten
ded that mode of proceeding in North Caro
lina, in 1824, will very likely act as a stimu
lant to other States to pursue a similar
course, when the circumstances are favora
ble, as they appear to he in Virginia.
The following is an extract from the Ages
sage of Governor McDuFFIE to the Legis
lature of South Carolina:
"I have but few words to say to you in re
lation to the administraticn of the Federal
Government and the general condition of our
federal relations. It has been fot some years
my opinion that with a large surplus reven
ue, the corruptions ofthat government would
soon become incurable; and it is by no means
certain that they have not already reached
that fatal point. The existing auspices, be
yond all question; are fearfully unpropitions-
The elicit magistrate of our imperial repub.
lic is at this moment more independent of
public opinion, and wields a more despotic
power, than either the king of Great Britain
or the king of France, and it remains to be
seen whether the peopled the United States,
like the degenerate Romans in the time of
Tiberius,will recognise his right to nominate
his successor, by raising to the throne the
imperial though not very youthful Car,
who has been already clothed in the purple
with due solemnity, and formally presented
to the people, as the anointed and rightful
heir to the succession.
"But the sinister omens which darken
our federal horizon, should be regarded only
as so many impressive admonitions to U 9, of
our peculiar obligations to develope the re
sources and increase the intelligence and
power ot our State."
During its present session, the Legisla
ture of Arkansas has passed an act incorpo
rating Little Rock as a city.
The Boston and Providence Rail-Road
Company has declared a semi-annual divi
dend cf 4 per cent. The whole receipts for
the same period, 8112,000; nett profits
884,000, and retained, a surplus 0f834,000.
A PROFITABLE INVESTMENT.—Ii. Is stated
that the revenue of New York Western Ca
nal for the present year will pay 15 per cent.
on its cost.
SEAMEN IN THE UNITED STATES.—We
learn from the last report of the Board of
Directors of the Boston Seamen's Friend
Society, that the number ofseamen belong.
ing to the United States, estimated with as
much accuracy as possible, is 10:3,000, of
whom there are in foreign trade 50,060, in
the coasting trade, in vessels of nearly or
over 100 tons burden, 25,000, in the cod
fishery, 5,000, in steam vessels 1,090, and
in the Q. S. Navy 6,ooo.—New Bedford
Mercury.
LITTLE ROCK, (Ark.) Nov. 13.
We shall die contented. We have seen
the Hon. DAVID CnocxErr, who arrived in
this place last evening, on his way to Texas,
where he contemplates ending his days.—
A. supper was given him at Jeffries' Hotel,
of which malty citizens pirtook. No room
for further remarks.—Adrocate.
Miss Mehnable Granger, has recovered
the sum 8800 of a Mr. Farewellfor a breach
of promise.
The Governor of Louisiana has issued a
Proclamation, calling on all magistrates and
other officers of justice and other good citi
zens to assist him in enforcing the act of
Congress of April 1818, which prohibits
any citizens from enlisting or hiring them
selves, to go beyond the limits of the Uuitcd
States, to enter into the service of any for
eign Prince, State, or Colony. As a mat
ter of form, this is'all very well —but it will
prevent volunteers going. to Texas.—
'hey evade the law in New York by adver
sing that a vessel has been chartenll for
ie purpose ofeonveving passengers, desir
ous of visiting that portion of the country at
the present interesting crisis vf its ali:rirs.
Fire aims are set down ;is "lte:lJw•u-ure."
Carlisle Herald.
IN pursuance of a writ of Venditioni Ex.
p • ms, issued out cf the Court of Corn.
mon Pleas of Adnms county, and to me di•
rected, will be Exposed to Public Sale, on
Friday the 25th day of December next, at
1 o'clock, P. m. on the premises, the follow
ing Real Estate, viz:
Tract of Land,
Situate in Latimore township, Adams emir].
ty, Pa. containing 237 ACRES, more or
less, adjoining lands of Samuel Burkholder,
George Koch and others, on which are e.
rected A TWO STORY LOG
0 IT S
JOSE
' I
large Stone Bank Barn, a good
ORCHARD, and a stream of running wa
ter through the property; ALso, one other
i & a hay story log house,A
Double Loo BARN, and Two ORCHARDS - ,
with two good SPRINGS of water on the
Land. ALSO,
Fifty dcres of
Mountain-Land,
in the township aforesaid, adjoin.
ing lands of John Ziegler, Henry Fickel and
others. Seized and taken in execution as
the Estate of JOIIN LOBAUGH and JOSEPH
LOBAIIGII, deceased.
•JA MES BELL, Jr. Sheriff:
Gettysburg, Dec. 7,1835. tsg-36
[Baltimore Patriot.
T HE Subscriber will sell at Public Sale
on the preintses,in the town of Berlin,
on Friday the 11th day of December next,
the following described property, to wit: A
LOT OF GiIOUND,
Situate in the centre of the town, fronting
sixty-five feet on King street, adjoining a
twenty feet alley, known on plan of said
town by No. 54, with A TWO STORY,
DWELLING
LT 0E :11:
Str. A Two STORY STONE House,
W A RE-TIOUSE, S3IORE and SPRI,NO "
trousE, good STABLING and all other tle
cessary Out.houses,with a never failing well
of water at the Kitchen door—all of which
having recently undergone thorough repairs.
---A LSO—
Lot of Ground,
adjoinino-"
the former,containing about 14
ACRES of first rate LAND. This land
will be sold with the above described pro.
perty together or sepal ate as .may best suit
purchasers.
Lot of Ground,
adjoining lot No. 54, known on plan of said
town by No. 53, on which is erected a ONE
STORY DWELLING
- HOUSE,
1 1 1111
with a number of FRUIT TREES
thereon. LSO—
atract of Lank
containing about 15 acres,' bounded
by lands of Jacob Brown, Conowago creek,
Wm. Wolf and Town Alley. Said tract
will be divided in about four lots.
This Property is well calculated for Pub•
lic Business, and has been occupied as a
Mercantile Stand for a number of years.
Persons wishing to engage in that or any
other Public Business, will find it quite suit
abla as well as desirable—as the contem
plated Rail Road from York to Gettysburg
it is supposed will pass:through the town,
being the most direct route.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock A. K.
when the terms will be made known by
CHARLES BARNITZ.
November 30, 1635. is-35
iss" --- As the subscriber intends to re
move, he will sell, wholesale or
ENTIRE
retail, his
Stock of Memalma - he,
at very reduced prices and on accommoda
ting terms. C. B.
GETTYSBURG GUaIRDS,
Y OU will Parade in front of tho'College,
on Friday the la of :January nett, in
frill Uniiorm.
ROBERT MARTIN, 0. S.
Dc.:cilier 7, ISA, tp-3t3
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
The Rcv. Mr. Watson will preach in the Presby
erian Church on Sunday morning next, at 11 o'clOck.
TENZFEMANG:e.
T HE 'Rock Creek Temperance Socie
ty" will meet at the Rock creek Chap
el, on the 25th of December inst. at 1 o'-
clock, r. 3r. Addresses by several gentle
men are expected.
fly order of the Secretary.
November 7, 1835. tm-36
S CU. 0 0 II -kW!) T FA It S.
ATEACHER is wanted in the Littles
town Aradem). One well qualified
would meet with liberal encouragement and
immediate employment. Fur particulars
inquire of
D. SHRIVER, T rustees.
G. W I LL,
December 7. 1835. 4t-35
Notice to Directors & Teachers
A MEETING of the School Directors
of Huntington township, will be held
on Saturday the 12th of December tnst. at
2 o'clock, r. 31. at the house of Moses My
ers, at which time Proposals will be mem- .
ed from persons wishing to become TEACH.
ERS in said township, or schools. A gener
al attendance of the Directors is requested,
as business of importance will be transacted.
THE SECRETARY.
December 7,1835.
.Sheriff's Sales.
rtrEzzo SALE.
ATTENTION!
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL
DIRECTORS
Of the District consisting of the llorotigh of Gettya-
Inirr, in the county of Adams, to the Suriersiten
dant of Common &boob', for the year ending the
find Mnintay in Novombei, 1835.
Number of Schools—Six: besides a colored
Schuol.which was Continued for 3 months.
Number. of , ` ,. .4clioliirs--MuleS 149—Females
146—'fetal, 295.
Number of Teachers—Male ; 4-:-Female, 2
Total, 0. •
Teachers' Salaries— Mnle Teachers, $2O
per month—Female Teachers, $4 2.
Characters of Teachers—trend.
Branches of Study taught— Rendir.a, Writ
jog, Arithmetic, Geography and English
Grammar.
Number of months each School has been
kept open—Six have been continued since
January Ist; and ono for three months.
Rent of School•houses, $175.
Other costs of maintaining the Schools—
sso.
Money received for the use of the Schools:
From the State,s2l2 70; from the Coun
ty, $170; from the Borough, $9Ol 07;
from other sources, $4 83.
SAMPSON S. KING, g 2
J. F. MACFARLANE, I
GEO. CHRITZMAN,
. JAS. A. THOMPSON,
T. STEVENS, a
It. G. HARPER, J
[Published agreeably to the 16th section
of the "Act to establish a General System
of Etiuratiim by Common Schools," passed
Ist April, 18:34.]
Gettysburg, Dec. 7, 183.5.
Ks) opiir 2-10 3-• 04 04 (0,1
SEA LED PROPOSALS .
will be received
by J. B. McPuctisorr, Chairman of
Building Committee, on or before the 18th
day of December next, for the erection (and
furnishing all the materials) of an EDIFICE
FOR PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE AT GETTER.
nvno. The 'Edifice to - be 150 feet front,
42 feet back, and four stories high with a-
Cupola on the centre building. The draw
ings and specifications of bald building may
be seen on or after t!te sth day of Decem
ber next, by calling upon
D. GILBERT, Secretary
of Building Committee.
Gettysburg, N0v.23, 18:35. td-34
PUBLIC
IN pursuance of a Deed of Trust, the Suh,
scribers, Trustees of Bantus FAUNES•
TOM, will offer at Public Sale, on Thursday
the 24th of December next,at 10 o'clock,A.M.
A TRACT or LAND,'
Situate in Menallen township, Adams conn.
ty, containing 16 ACRES, more or less, hay.
ing thereon
A TAN-YARD,
with 16 LAYAWAY and other necessary
VATS,
LARGE BARR SHED and SHOP, PA.
TENT BARR-MILL, &c. There is a constant
supply of running water through the Yard.
THE OTHER IMPROVEMENTS ARE
TWO GOOD LOG • •
DWELLING
0 1 O'M
BARN, and a good bearing ORCHARD,
with a well of good water at the door. The
land is of the first quality, and under good
fence, containing a sufficiency of good MEA
DOW. This property is situated on the
Pine-Grove and Berlin road, in a very heal
thy situation, and is well located a& to the
advantages of country hides and bark, and
is well worthy the attention of any person
wishing to engage in business ofthis kind.
CO - At the same time will be offered about
80 Cords of Bark.
Terms of Sale will be made known on the
day of sale. The property will be shown
in the meantime to any person wishing to
purchase, by
C U . 'I F L . L K I E A E M N R E E R X „
Trustees.
November 30, 1835. is*-35
N. B. If the above Property is not sold
on said day, it will be Rented.
IP IQ BIAC SALE.
HE Subscriber will offer at Public Sale,
rn the premises, on Saturday the 1914
day of December next:
THAT WELL KNOWN
'V AN Eit'N..
T Ate n;rti :
•
Situate in Petersburg, (York Springs,) late
ly kept by the Misses firgharns. , The house
is large and convenient, with a well of wa;
ter (with a pump in it) at the door; a good
KITCHEN, TWO STABLES and a CARBIAOE.
HOUSE convenient. There are also attach
ed to this Stand,
Tlyree, Lots of %round.
Fronting on the Hanover and Carlisle turn
pike road—and also another
LOT or- GROUND,
Separated from the others by an alley, con
taining 4 acres, in a high state of culti.
• vation, with upwards of 50
d g*
•.
BEARING CHOICE Faurr
TREES ON IT.
This Stand being situated where the Han.
over and Carlisle turnpike and the State
road leading from Harrisburg to Gettysburg
cross each other, has an advantage overany
other Tavern Stand in the place.
Oz Possession given on the first day of
Apia next. Sale to commence at 1 o'clock
P. H. when the terms will be made known:
by the subscriber.
Also—at the same time'end place,
ficiasEs, COWS, ONE BOitm.0:1111IAG Wsectx,
II CLOS r: CARRtAG various other very
valuable articles.
J 11 McCOS Nt
ts-33
Novetnber 36,1195.
tir - An Apprentice 'wanted ft
nalate4r ate Office.