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All Lottorsand Communications addressed to tho Editor by mail muetbe post-paid, or they will not be attended to THE GARLAND. —"With sweetest tlowersearich'J, From various garden scull'd withcare." [From the Southern Literary Messenger.] THE COFFIN. , DT ST. LEGIIR L. GARTER, OP VIRGINIA. Tito Coffin is come! 'tis a dreadful sound! And tears are gushing anew; For the family, wrapp'd in grief profound, Have caught that sound as it flew. It sendeth a shock to each aching heart, Suspending with awe the breath; It says that the living and dead mast part, And seems like a second death. Now heavy and slow is the bearers' tread, Ascending the winding stair; And the steps which are echoing over head Awaken a wild despair. They know by the tread of those trampling feet They're lifting the silent dead, And laying him low, in his winding sheet, In his dark and narrow bed. Come, follow the corpse to the yawning grave; The train is advancing slow;— See children and friends and the faithful slave, In a long and solemn show. Hark! hark! to that deep and lumbering sound, As they lower the coffin down! 'Tis the voice of earth—of the groaning ground, Thus welcoming back her own. Now—ashes to ashes! and dust to dust! How hollow the coffin rings! And hands are uplifted to GOD, tho Just, Tho merciful Krwa of Kings— .. Farewell, for ever!—For ever, farewell!" Is heard as the crowds depart, And the 'piteous accents, they seem to swell From a torn and broken heart. • EIIIICIOOIIAM@VSC3o GET ItIARItIED. The editor ol the Norwich Alirora asks of his readers the very important question "what is the use of getting married!" A low thoughts must give our reasons why all men should get married. The great object of human life is happi• uess. To this end, man bends every action, and gives birth to every thought. If he toils, ho toils finr the accomplishment of this purpose only; if he •bogs or bestows favors —if he receives or administers the blessings of fortune—if ho courts popularity, seeks for fame, or spends his whole life in accu• mulating wealth, he has but one grand ac live propelling principle 'within him, ever prompting to thought arri deed, and that is, a desire for happiness: our being's end and aim." Man is a social being, foimed for society and intercourse, and the very elements of his nature are opposed to a life of solitude and "single blessedness." He delights in having one boon companion, in whom he can confide with all the faithfulness and freedom of his' own, breast. It is therefore with a view to his social happiness - for the enlarge ment of his domestic comforts, and for the pleasure of sharing his enjoyments and cares, that he selects that companion from the opposite sex. The sexes are treacherous among themselves, but seldom to each other. A certain writer remarks that, "marriage enlarges the scene of our happinness or misery; the marriage of love is pleasant, the marriage of interest easy, and the mar riage where booth meet happy." It is even so. But though there are cases where men are so blinded by the object of their pursuit ns to overlook discrepancies and disparg,e ments which alleiwards prove vexatious— is it a reason that there is no "use in getting married?" Man has the elements of happi ness within himself, which, when rightly exorcised, never fail to produce it. ft re mains with him altogether to comply with the requisitions of nature, and support her institutions, to fulfil the laws of God; and effect the great object of 1118 own being'. In complying, however, he is assured of a hap piness which he , cannot otherwise enjoy, and which he cannot otherwise obtain.— Therefore, if ho values his happiness—if he ia a judicious man—if he is not selfish and misanthropic, he will act out the principles of his nature and get married. There no mim but feels" the influence of woman, delights in her society, and worships, to a ke r i a i n jp' gr p . A i at the.ehrine of her chsrms of personal beauty, and brilliant men's, "Nature has given her an influence over man, more powerful, more perpetual, than his over her; from birth to death, he takes help and healing from her hand, under all the most touching circumstances of life; her bosem succors him in infancy, soothes him to manhood, supports him in sickness and in age. Such influence as this, begin. ning at the spring of life, and acting in all its most trying moments, must deteriorate or improve man's character—must diminish or increase his happiness, according to the moral and intellectual gradation of woman. Thus, upon her improvement in particular, depends human improvement in general." Setting aside individual happiness, and all the pleasures of the social circle, the comforts of domestic life, the cheering of the smile and voice that greet the husband and the father, the nature of society, urges strong reasons why men should get married. Besides human Improvement, the good of the world, depends upon woman in her proper sphere. Our first lessons are the instructions of her lips, and our earliest im- pressions are taken from her examples.— Thus it is that we carry into society her influence which extends throughout all ranks and classes of mankind. Woman's influence, therefore, not only sheds a mild and cheering lustre over the hearts of her friends, around the fireside of her family, and within the narrow sphere in which nature has placed her, but upon the whole world. It enters the haunts of vice, and drags forth the victim of the bowl, dashes it from his lips, and restores him to reason and to a virtuous life. It prevents the prostitution of those qualities which en noble, dignify, and elevate man above ,all other beings. It prevents crime in its thousand forms, and makes man virtuous, when he would otherwise be vicious. It carries peace and prosperity where trouble and adversity would reign, and gives birth to .a thousand pleasures that would otherwise never elist. The young man who is fond of the society of virtuous females, has a better capital for his character, than a birth of wealth could give him. He is looked upon as a moral and virtuous young man, because, generally speaking, only such take pleasure in the re finement of female society. Take it all in all, therefore, marriage is necessary for man's happiness, for the true formation of his character. for the pence of his home, the comfort of his heart, the joy of his youth, and the solace of his years. in fine, man never becomes a member of society until he is married. IJumarried,he is looked upon with distrust. He has no home, no abiding place,• no ancher to hold him fast, but is a mere piece of float-wood on the great tide of time. His interest is not with society, farther than the accom plishment of some selfish object is concern ed, and he cares not for the welfare of the generations springing up around him, and who are to live after him. He becomesem' bittered in his feelings against all mankind, misanthropic, parsimonious, morose and irascible. To our friend of the Aurora, and to all young men who are looking alter happiness, we say, therelbre "GET MARRIED. " If you are desirous of wealth, get marri ed, for a good wife promotes habits of indus try and economy and prevents a great many unnecessary expenses which cannot be avoided in single life. If au are looking for stations of distinc- Lion and honor, get married, for a good wife will seek to advance her husband in the prosecution of all honorable purposes, and lend him that aid and encouragement which he can derive from no other source. II you would become a good citizen, got married, for he is alone worthy of the title, who is connected to the great family of man by the ties of husband and father. If you are fortunate, get married, for a good wife will increase your prosperity and render you 'twice blessed' in the enjoyment of your riches. if you are unfortunate, get married. The cares of the world are lessened by having a wife who takes pleasure in sharing them with you. If you are in business, get married, for the mart ied man has his mind fixed on his business and his family, and is more likely of success. If you are young, get married. Doct. Franklin advocated early marriages be cause a man who marryeyoung, can have the satisfaction of raising amleducating his children before he dies. GET MARRIED—Let your plans and pur poses tor future life be what they may, the business of getting married is one that should be attended to first as it neither in terferes with your plans, nor prevents their execution. GET MARRIED—Iive soberly, be indus trious, engage in nothing that will deterio rate frotil your character as an honest man —a pure patriot, and a kind husband; take our advice, and •with all your gettings,' GET MARRIED. ••••.•• • 0p... The following is a humorous specimen of Texas , editorializing. It is a leader, under the head of 'Aquatic Scenery,' in the Mor ing Star, of Houston, April• 3d, and. is full of. quaint humor, a Bozo During the hardest of the . storm the , day before yesterday, we took a lounge down to the. steamboat landing;—while standing on the brink of a deep gully that emptied its torrents of water into. the bayou, our atten tion was attracted to the bottom of the guIlY Where drunken loafer was stemming the torrent, hording on fo•a• root fast anchored in the bank. The poor fellow, not Knowing any one was near him, was combatting iiis G. WZ.I3HIIIGTOIT nowsitr, 4Sre rr.0PP.11321011. ds The liberty to know, to atter, and to argue, freely, is above all other /theittes.o—Mtvroh. ord&wireattruisq &the aqesteaturs 4 1. 3P4Pat 99 agoo9 fate manfully, and in calculating his chances of escape, gave utterance to the following. 'Haint this a orful aitivation to be placed in, nohow? II I wos a steamboat, a rail, or a wood pile, I'd be better worth fifty cents on the dollar than I'll ever be agin. Un less I'm a gone case now, there haint no truth in frenology. I've weighed all the chances like a general, and find only two that bears in my favor; the first J s a shook hole to crawl into, and the second a special interspersition of Providence; and the best chance of the two is so slim, if I only had the change, I'd give a premium for the shunk hole —them's my sentiments. If 1 could be a mink, a, muskrat, or a water snake, for aboot two months, perhaps I would'nt mount the first stump tother side the I3io, and flap my wings and crow over everlastin' life, skientifically preservated.— But what's the use holdin' on this root? there haint no shunk hole in these ere dig gins: —the water is getting taller about a feet, and if my nose was as long as king dom come, it would'nt stick out much long er, Oh, Jerry! Jerry! you're a gone sucker, and I guess your marm don't 'know you're out; poor woman! won't she cry the glasses out of her spectacles when she hears her darlin' Jerry has got the whole of Buffalo Bio for his coffin! What a pity 'tis some philanthropic or members of the humane so ciety never had foresight enough to build a house over this gutter, with a steam engine to keep out the water!. If they'd , done tt in time, they might have had the honor and gratification of saving the life of a feller be. ing; but it's all day with you, Jerry, and a big harbor to cast anchor in. It's too bad , to go off in this orful manner, when they knows I oilers hated water ever since I was big enough :o know 'twant whiskey. I feel the root givin' way, and since I don't know a prayer, here's a bit of Watt's Doxologer, to prove I died a Christian: .On the bank where tiroop'd the wilier, Long time ago.' Before Jetty got to the conclusion, he was washed into the bayou, within a few feet of a large flat that had just started for the steamboat; his eye caught the prospect of deliverance and he changed the burden . Of his dirge into a thrilling cry of 'Heave to! passenger overboard and sinkingovith a belt full ofspecief the man what saves me makes his fortune!' Jerry was fished ashore by a darkev; and to show his gratitude, invited Quashey to 'go up to the doggery and liquor.' EXTRAORDINART • OCCOMENCE AT TIYB QUEEN'S Tnevrria.—On Tuesday night, a considerable sensation was created at, this theatre by the following incidentsi—Mr. Buck, the so called "Wizard of the West," has been performing his, conjuring tricks there, and within the last few nights has in troduced an illusion called the "gun trick," which is petrol ined in the following manner: —Mr. Buck invites any gentleman in the pit or boxes to come on the stage and load a g un, which having been done, he requires the party to go to the end of the pit and fire at him, when Mr. Buck apparently catches the bullet between his teeth. Last evening person came from the pit upon the stage, and having fended the gun - , asked Mr. suck if he might take out the dullet egaino to which the "Wizatd of this West" replied in the negative . .. The party then left the stage and proceeded. to the,back of the pit, re marking that he had a shot at Anderson, (meaning the gentleman Who styles himself the "Great Wizard of the North," at the New Strand Theatre,} and that he , would now have a shot at ho n. He , then levelled the piece, took aim, and fired, and immedi ately after Mr. Buck came forward, with the bullet between his teeth, auf said— " Ladies and gentlemen, here is the ball, but something else has been pal in the gun. 11 am wounded." He then appeared to stag. ger, and, retiring to the back of the stage, the curtain fell. Two medical men instant ly attended, and the police were called in by Mr. James, the lessee of the theatre, but Mr. Buck refused to give the party into ,custody. Mr. Jamesr however, considered it his duty to demand the name and address of the person, which he gave by handing him his card. On examination of Mr. Buck, it appeared that there were a number of wounds on his face and forehead. His left eye was also severely injured. The "pair of flats," or the scene running across the Stage, was also perforated with holes, and it seemed that the shot must have been mixed, from the holes being varied in size. The sufferer was, subsequently conveyed froin his dressing room home in a hackney coach, in a very precarious state. London Paper. • The following pathetic soliloquy we found on the back of a £lOO note of the National Bank, which passed through our 'hands lately, and we are sorry we , can add our sympathies to those of our poet on the tran sitory nature of those sublunary enjoyments; 0A little bae ye been mine ? Nae !anger can I keep ye; I fear ye'll neer be mine again . ; Nor ony other like ye," lEclin Paper. It is ignorance that nerves the arm of the tyrant, sharpens the disolatiug sword of war, builds the altar of superstition; lights the torch of bigotry, and spreads want• and famine through the land. All these evils flow from ignorance; because the swinish, sottish ignorance creates-or tolerates them. Mrs. Chapman, alias Mina, recently died at Quincy, Florida, leaving her childrenm a Ideetitute condition: Elbe was travelling ill that' country with her childrenjulhe capacity of ohivera.—Doirlestown Democrat, Gums! Do YOU VEAR 'THAT.—The war (department has declared, in respect to the appointments in the array, that "no Candi. date will be examined who is married."— Exceeding wisdom, gallantry and patriotism all combined! Grand receipt for making excellent soldiers I Verily it would seem that there is to be no matter under thersun which is not to become a subject of experi• meat with Mr. Van Buren. Not let a young offider in the army take to himself a wife from among the brave daughters of the land who would follow him to the cannon's.mouth —bind up hie wounds, inspire him with cour- ' age—live for him and with him—end if needs be, die with him? Was it ever known before that a man's wife and children made him a worse soldier in the hnur of battle? Have they not heretofore been considered the best pledges for a man's fidelity to his country? And _what is the reason for this extraordinary order? The reason assigned is, that the pay of a lieutenant is not suffici eet to enable him to support a wife ! The department considers that 8780 a year wont do! A young officer and his. young wife can't live upon 8780 a year! Now it might so happen that the young lady could add a little from her own patrimony to the stock —if she could not do that, she could make' the clothes, sew, knit and sing and keep the young offieer in good heart while he is at his lonely station in the Western forte. She could, keep him from becoming a brute, a drunkard and the whole- routine of military vices,where the refining influence of females is withdrawn. Where is the authority in law or constitution for this stretch of gallan try? We believe that the Administration is now afflicted so terribly *Rh the tremors that it has got afraid evon of the women.— , They think that they deseriTe to be "brained with their ladies fans," and they are, theife. fore, for keeping them off at the point of the bayonet. Love used to rule the court ;and Mr. Aran Buren , suffers it to remain there still)— it used also "to rule the camp," but Mr. Van Buren means to dislodge it from all the fortifications which have been time - out of mind, its strongest defence.— "Barney, let the girls alone. " - _Frankfort Commonwealth. lb~—lHosts of hardhearted Hiberian homicides, hankering like harpies for hav oc, having hurl ied, hunted and humbled, hen-hearted Hull, who hesitated . to hazard his hapless head in harm's way; had hired hordes of hostile heathens,- having hearts hardly human, hideous hues and habila menus, and the horrible habit of hooping and howling like hungry Hyenas; harboring the heinous hope, (having helped so homogene• ous) to harrass, hamper, harshly handle and hang heroic Harrison; however, heedless of harm, hastened to hunt the hostile hosts, and made horrible havoc, hurling hundreds headlong, hurting them hugely,hitting them hard, hewing and hacking them, head, hips and haunch; humbling their haughty heaits,' hindering their hands from harm hereafter; and hurrying them, helterskelter, (like hogs in a hurricane) howling and hallooing, home to their hellish haunts, horror•struck, hear- tity hoping in their , hot haste and hapless humiliation, that they might never more happen to he harrassed and hunted by the hard and heavy hand of Harrison. Harri son with his heroes hastened horim to his homely and humble hut, his hoe-cake; ham and hard cider. However, we hope to help him hereafter, to a higher and handsomer house for his habitation. A VOICE FROM THE PULPIt.—In a ser mon preached in Boston not long since, by the Rev. Jour( PIERPONT, and published in the New World, is the following denuncia tion of some of the measures of the present Administration. 'The government of this' yeeng nhtion, more weakly, as 1 verily believe, if not more wickedly administered than the government of any other civilize& nation upon earth, which but three years ago had a surplus of $40,000,000 in its coffers, has expended, within the last five years, another 840,009,d 000 in attempting to destroy the last remd nants of a race which it was bound in honor and by treaties to protect end noir; after having stamped upon itself the indelible dis grace, with the hosts and the wealth of fif teen millions, to conquer , a few 'thousand poor savages, has branded the escutcheon of its century's fame with the still more burning shame of caging in blood-hounds to hunt and tear a foe it could not conquer by the modes of warfare Which are deemed honorable by military men—athus placing itself, as a government, by the aids of the sanguinary Spaniard of four centuries' agu, and deserving ; as it must receive, the exe crations or the pity of good men and the righteous judgments of Almighty GO." TUE THMIES Tnivrter..—This work is rapidly proceeding, and preparations are ' abort to be made for sinking a shaft on the Middlesett shore, and forming a staircase for' the foot passengers to descend into and ascend from the' Tunnel, which is expected to be opened, as a thorougfare for pedest. mans only, about' the commencement of 1841. The' excavators have reached' to within thirty feet of the wharfs in Wapping, and the Thames. 'tunnel Company have lately entered into agreements for the !Ar chaise of \ the Ship'and Swan public.housies, the premises over the . wharfs adjoining, and some other buildings, at an expense of 8,0001. The occupants lave received no tice to gait, and' the dwellings - and other erections must sad be pulled' down, or,. from' the near approach of' the excavations and undermining to the edge of the wharf, they Will fai) over flier beads of the inmates. SENATOR WILLIAMS' LETTER To the Editors of the Pittsburg AdvocatS. GrcrinEtitEn:—On my journey homeward a few days ago, it was my fortune to encoun ter a number of your paper, containing a communication from me in relation to the unusual circumstances which attended the recent adjournment of the Legislature.— That the information which that communi cation embodied would be convoyed to your readers in some shape, was not unetpected to me because it was avowedly designed for their use, but that it would appear over my own signature, and therefore in the charac ter of a personal appeal to my constituents, was an honor which I neither expected, nor deemed. I was not aware until 1 bad re- perused it in your columns, that it contained any thing which could have been interpret. ed into a wish of that kind. It was penned at a late hour, without any of that care or reflection or fullness of explanation,which an appeal of that nature would have required, and in that loose, general and familiar style of an ordinary correspondence. If it had been prepared, with the requisite attention, or if you had undertaken to supply its defi ciencies as 1 supposed you would do by lay ing before your readers the accounts pub lished by the Harrisburg papers, of the pro ceedings to which it referred, I would neith er have complained of the use of my name, nor have troubled you or them with any fur ther explanation. •My purpose was only to advise them through your agency as one of the sinntinels of the people, and with the least possible delay, in order that you might sound the alarm amongst them of the perpetration of an outrage upon their representatives for which no parallel could in my opinion be foorid m this country,sinco the era ofeolonial bondage, wt.en the Legislatures of these States were subjected to the petty tyranny of (het obsequious instruments of the crown. To effect this object, it was not necessary that t should be made ostensibly a party to he accusation. 1 was of course responsible to you for the truth of what 1 had written. As a representative of the people, 1 had al ready performed what I conceived to be my duty in resisting the invasion of my privi legeti with the proper spirit, and at the pro per place, end I did not affect any additional notoriety, by volunteering a newspaper cru sade in my own name against the Etecu. tive. I have no particular cause of quarrel with that officer. It is true Ido not admire him. The general tenor of his administra tion, his gross abuse of the appointing pow er, the incendiary recommendation of hie last annual message, his obstruction of the due course of public justice, and hie habitual and contemptuous disregard of the obliga tions of common justice, and the plainest provisions of the constitution, have only con vinced me that I was not mistaken in my original estimate of his character. Ido not desire however to assail him, so long as he confines himself to his own province, as the Executive branch of this Goverement, but whenever he may step beyond his appointed sphere, and think proper. to cross (he thres hold Of the Legislature for the purpose either of arresting or corbelling .its deliberations, he will always flame there ready. to oppose his entrance, to rebuke his interference, and to vindicate as becomes me, and is due to those whom I represent,all my constitutional rights and privileges as a member of that body to which he does not properly belong. Beyond that point I would not choose to pursue him. He has empl4ment enough already in defending . himself from the as saults of his own friends, and I would not add to his perplexities by interfering in a family broil, Where the struggle is likely to prove', so unequal. I would rattier indeed _have declined any further reference through' the newspapers to the subject of my communi cation, if I had been left free to Choose be tween silence and explanation. My position however ) , as it was not one originally of my 'own selection, is not now one of entire free dom from constraint. From a position of attach tt has since bechl changed into one of defence. The extraordinary tone of a very respectable portion of the Whig Press of this state in 'relation to the same measure. which I have so •Strongly condemned has presented an isStre so direct as to render it impossible for me to decline rte acceptance. If they had' contented themselves with tafr. ing the field, merely as the aporokista of the Executilor and endeavoring to excuse his itherfereade on the ground of a suppobed neceeaity, I should not , have' felt it to be my duty to take' elception to their charitable plea; but when the same measure which in my opinion ought to ha've inspired' the deep est apprehension, and been' visited With the *instant and emphatic denunciation of all ' those' at least, who have boon accustomed to- regard with harm the recent enormous ' strides of Eitecutive power in this country, is seized upon by them,, as the occasion of The most eager and extravagant eulogy, and that too at the expense of those who have differed froth its author, the contradiction is so palpable, that' selereopect Will not permit me to pass . if over in Offence, I fake it for granted flowerer that the whole difference arises from defective information, on the part of those whose political opinions, would lead them to the same conclusions with my- self, presided we both started from the same premises, and I therefore propose to furnish a brief recital of the facts,• as they present ed themselves do my mind,- leaving it to the public to determine whether the measure, in regard to which such discordant opinions have been announced, was most fairly char acterized by its panegyrists, or its assailants —by those wi:111611614g its premises to be true, regarded it' as a ligitimate exertion of power. or those who knowing them to be TiPZElVlthrli 4POo 6:3014)0 false,treated it as a gross breach of privilegy —by those who extolled its boldness as ti proper exhibition of spirit, or those who de nounced it as the very climax of audacity. It will doubtless surprise those who have permitted themselves to indulge in so much extravagant laudation of the Executive, when they are informed that the failure on the part of the Legislature to make the ne cessary provision for the public wants is mainly, if not solely attributable to the Exd ecutive himself, and that the extraordinary measure which has been referred to by them in strains of such unwonted eulogy was noth ing more or less than an attempt to control the free action of the representatives of the people, which was intended to produce, and did actually result in the very failure which they have so unreservedly denounced, The whole question in dispute had reference to the immediate prosecution or the temporary suspension of the work on the unfinished lines of canal in which the Commonwealth is at present engaged, involving however certain proposed appropriations to new un dertakings, and those too generally of a pri vate character. I was one of those who thought that the disordered finances of the Commonwealth, and the interests of the pea pie at large recommended a suspension now which in another year at all events their necepaiiies would compel, and that borne of the lines in qdestion were altogether pre mature and ought never to have been under , taken. Of the same opinion was a large mn• jority of both Houses i tie was invariably' shown whenever the naked proposition of continuance or auspeneion was presented, stripped of all those auxiliaries which were industriously clustered around it according to the most approved system of legislative tactics by which a measure is propped up which will not, stand on its own foundation. No pains therefore had been spared to sur. round the extensions with as much rubbish as would keep them on their legs, in in defiance of the fiscal embarrassments of the Com' monwealth, and by means such as these a , bare majority had been at last secured the House Of Representatives. They failed however in the other Branch, and the twd Houses were accordingly divided. The: Senate had already by three or four several votes pronounced its deliberate judgment against all new and expensive enterprises„ and in favor of a suspension of the work.on- the extensions until some means should be' , adopted fdr the support of the public credit,' and the replenishment ofthe public treasury: A majority of that body, composed of men who were among the most active of both par ties, agreed in the opinion that something ought to be done to stay the improvident waste of the public money on objects• fre quently of doubtful utility which had charac terised the legislation of the last few years. They were aware that the credit of the State had sunk to so low an ebb that its stock was then selling in the market at a loss of more - than twenty per cent to the holder--that there was a deficiency in its ordinary reve nues of nearly a million ofdollars per annum,. dependent for its supply on a process of bop: rowing which would be ruinous in the case of any individual and which was compound.; ing interest upon interest until our; debt threatened to outrun all computation, and: that moreover the immediate liabilities and the current wants of ,the Commonweal th would consume the whole fund of three mil- lions which had been -reserved for public' purposes in the Bill postponing the resump tion of specie payments on the part of the Banks. They know that when that fund was ex hausted, as much more would be required from year to year, for the same purposes, which oar wounded credit Could trot pur. chase? and our Banks would not be able, ex cept at the oxpense of the business commu nity, and on the term perhaps' of a still fur ther suspension,. to snpply ; and believing that under .these eirtumstances it Was the' part of wisdom as well as Justice to conse crate that fund to those uses which were roost urgent and imperative, they had offer ed again and again to provide every dollar which would be required for the payment of debts, interest, repatra on the public tetkrks' and the current expenses of tha Governthent. They had already passed a bill appropriat ing.opwards of 2,800,000 for these purposes-. That Bill had failed in the House of Repre". sedatives because it contained no provision for new work, and no appropriation for the enlargement of the Union Canal. The Re port of a committee of Couferrence in which the position of suspension had been surren-' dered, and the Union Canal entirely over looked, had experienced Alm same fate in the Senate, the friends of the Union Canal refusing unanimously by their votes to ap propriate a single dollar either to the prose eution of the work or to the payment of the debts due on the extensions, unless their own favorite project was embraced,and that body vas in the very act of passing another. Bill of a' like character with the former, which would in all human probability have become a law ; when it wad arrested by the r #roclametion of the Executive. Whdther, however,the Bill tinder dolulid oration would have becorhe a law or other- .wise, is riot now the question. It is suffiei..' ent for my, purpose that at the time when' that extraordinary missive, which could nor , . with any dhow of propriety have been ad.( dressed to "the Senate and House of Repre4 sentatives' i in their collective capacity, WA', :delivered, there had been no failureq4fr ore .. vide for the Wants of the' Hove/Write- at , b e ., 'cause there had been no adjOnrnment, end, no sufficient exigency therefore had ariaen for the exercise of that power within the' meaning of the Constitution. The Gover. nor bad no riii,ht to vrentmc that taw *matt
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