GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE
To Me Senate and House of Representa
tires of the Commonwealth of Penney!.
Frittow CrrizeNs.— mong the various
duties enjoined by the Constitution on the
Executive magistrate, none is more impor
tant and more frequently perplexing, than
that of "giying to tho General Assembly
information of the state of the Common
wealth, and recommending to their consid
eration, such measures as he should judge
expedient." On this occasion lam happi
ly relieved from much of the anxiety and
embarrassment. attendant upon the dis
charge of this duty, by referring your at
tention to the annual message which I had
the honor to transmit to the Legislature on
the Bth day of January last. In that mes
sage, I felt it to be my imperative duty, to
enter into a full and elaborate exposition of
my views on several deeply interesting
subjects connected with the public welfare,
and especially on the subjects of the inter
nal improvements of the Cumnioawealth,
the public debt, and the reformation of the
banking system. In regard to these lead
ing questions of vital interest, and the nu
merous subordinate matters intimately asso
ciated and blended with them, I can add
very little to the opinions I expressed, and
the recommendations I made in the mes
sage to which 1 have just referred you.—
The experience of the past year, has not
only confirmed, but strengthened my con
viction of the justice and propriety of those
opinions and recommendations; the people
at large with unexampled unanimity have
proved them, and I earnestly invite your
careful deliberation, as I did that of the last
Legislature, upon those portions of the mes
sage, to which you will find convenient ac
cess upon your journals. So fur as respects
the reform of the banking system, I per
ceive no necessity for changing or modify
ing, in any essential particular, the recom
mendations therein contained; and I now
bare respectfully, but earnestly recommend
the adoption of the recommendation I then
made on this subject, and trust that the
present Legislature will not separate, until
they shall have made a searching and thor
ough reform of the imperfections and mani
fold abuses of thepresent system. To me
it has been a subject of deep regret, that
my recommendations on that subject, did
not meet the approbation of the last Legis
lature, persuaded as I am, that the most
beneficial influences would have resulted
from their adoption. It is not, however,
too late to apply the remedy still,and 1 again
recommend, with anxious earnestness,those
measures for reforming the abuses of the
banking system, to your early attention.
The resumption of specie payments on
the part of the banks, which constituted a
year ago such a formidable portion of the
difficulty in the way of efficient legislation,
is about to be consummated, without your
active interference at all. Under the res
olution passed on the 3d day of April last,
those institutions are required on and after
the 15th day ofJanuary ilia- to pay on de
mand ail their notes, bills, deposites, and
other liabilities, in gold or silver coin, on
penalty of the forfeiture of their charters,
upon certain conditions set forth in said re
solution. It affords me great pleasure to
state, that although the day fixed for the re
sumptionmas more remote than I wished
at the time, yet the period of indulgence
has nearly passed away, and there is now
good ground to believe, that the banks of
this Cowmen wealth will, as they are requir
ed to do, be prepared again to discharge
their liabilities in specie. Should they do
so, by continuing strictly to observe the
law, and by fulfilling the just expectations
of the public,they may regain the confidence
which they have hitherto lost, and more
particularly may they do this, if , proper
measures be adopted for the better regula
tion and control of their operations. One.
of the most immediate advantages resulting
to the community, from the resumption of
specie payments, will be the entire explo
sion from circulation of the illegitimate
brood of small notes that have been poured
in upon us, from the neighboring states on
all sides, in defiance of law, and ofthe most
active endeavors to suppress them. I can
not., however, conclude this part of my sub
ject, without recommending that no increase
of our banking capital be made under any
circumstances, and that effectual provision
be made by law, that if any bank shall at
any time hereafter, suspend specie pay
ments, it shall be ipso facto a forfeiture of
its charter. Nothing short of an absolute
and unconditional provision of this kind,can
arrest the frequent over issues by the banks,
induced by the inordinate cupidity of those
under whose directions they may be con
ducted. Let the great principle be distinct
ly announced, as the foundation on which
our banking institutions rest, that hereaf-
ter there are to be no more suspensions of
specie payments in Pennsylvania.
The condition of the public improvements
during the past year, has been attended to
by the officers entrusted with their manage
ment, with untiring assiduity. They are
in a much better state ofrepair than they
ever have been since their construction,
and but little delay or interruption in busi
ness has occurred. The amount of business
done on the main line, it is true, has been
less than !est year, but it has been owing to
causes in no degree connected with the
management of the public improvements:
I refer you to the Report of the Canal Com.
tnissioners, for a detailed and accurate state
ment of the present condition of the im
provements, the sum required to complete
those lines in a state of fowardness, and the
amount needed for repairs on the canals
and rail roads now to operation, as well as
the amount due for repairs heretofore
done.
I feel it to be my duty again to state to
the Legislature, that as soon as those por
tions of the unfinished lines of improvement,
now almost completed, are finished, and up
on which, it the work had been suspended,
mote would have been lost to the Common
wealth than by bssteuing their completion,
I think it full time fur Pennsylvania to plusl
in her career of internal improvement, and
test for a time the usefulness and value of
the stupenduous achievements she has al
ready made. I have been from the begin
ning the friend and advocate of the internal
improvement sys , em of this Common
wealth. and shall continue to be, tie long as
that system is confined to the main lines
and their immediate tributaries: but our
immense public debt, and the sacrifices
which the people are called upon to make
in cansquence of it, for the payment lof the
interest, and of the principal as it falls due,
forcibly admonish us, to consult prudence
and economy before we incur additional re
sponsibility, without a corresponding in
crease of means to meet them. A revival
of business, and the natural augmentation of
our population and -resources, will in a short
period of time, enable us to realize from our
improvements, many of the advantages of
which they are susceptible, and as 1 confi
dently trust, enough, and more than enough
to demonstrate the wisdom of their project
ors, and the soundness of the policy, which
led to the enormous investment of capital in
their construction. When that day arrives,
let canals and rail roads be constructed
wherever they promise to bo useful through
out the wide extent of the Commonwealth;
but until it does arrive, let us husband our
resources, and diminish as much as practi
cable the heathens now imposed upon the
people of the State.
The amount necessary to complete the
main lines, and to put the improvements
now in use in a thorough state of repair,
you will be fully informed of by the Canal
Commissioners; which amount of money I
would respectfully suggest, should be im
mediately appropriated, so as to enable the
Canal Commissioners to make proper ar
rangements to apply it with most- advan•
Inge to the public service. Great and im
mediate repairs to our improvements are in
dispensible, if we hope to maintain the char
! actor of those improvements, and to prevent
our immediate Northern and Southern neigh
bours from diverting from them a large
share of the business of the West and South.
The honor of Pennsylvania is too deeply in
volved in this measure to admit of apathy or
delay. Feeling ne citizens of this Com
monwealth should fool on this subject, I am
sure no stronger motive to action could be
presented to you, than that of enlightened
and manly state pride, addressing itself to
you through the medium of official duty.
PUBLIC DEBT.
The present amount of the public debt iv,
Permanent loans at 5 per
cent., 633,088,013 32
41 at,4i per
cent., 200,000 00
Temporary loans at 4 per
cent., 15,000 00
Upon an examination of the debts and li
abilities of the Commonwealth, on the 15th
of January, 1839, and the subsequent laws
passed, authorizing loans and making ap•
proprintions, it will be found, that nearly the
whole sum borrowed since that period, has
been applied to debts and liabilities then
due and fulling due, on account of the pub
lic works finished and in progress—to the
payment of temporary and stock loans—for
interest on the public debt; and for the re
pairs of the canals and railways of the
Commonwealth.
The only sums appropriated out of the
loans authorized to be made since I came
into office, which were not applied to lia.
bilities then due and growing out of con
tracts, which existed at that time, aro the
following:
To the survey of a rail road
from Harrisburg to Pitts
burg, 8 45,000 00
To stock in the Pennsylvania
and Ohio canal, 50,000 00
Do. do. Franklin rail road, 100,000 00
Do. do. Monongahela Navi.
gation company, 100,000 00
PUBLIC PROPERTY. -
Bank stock, $ 2,108,700 00
Turnpike and Bridge stock, 2,930,348 89
Canal and Navigation stock, 645,269 00
Rail toad stock, 335,540 90
Money due on land, esti
mated, 1,000,000 00
Public works, canals, rail
ways, &c., 29,578,506 17
Thus it appears that the resources of
the Commonwealth are abundant, but not
immediately available for the purpose of
paying either the principal or the interest
of the public debt.
It is proper here to remark, that it has
not been the uniform practice of the Legis
lature, to provide sufficient revenue to meet
the current demands upon the State Tree
sury. The various appropriations of the
public treasure have exceeded the public in-1
come. Out of this state of things, a custom
has grown up at the Treasury it seems, to
pay the demands upon it, as they are from
time to time presented, without reference to
the specific appropriation of part of the mo•
rues therein, to the payment of the interest
upon the public debt, which falls due semi.
annually, on the Ist of February and Ist of
August. Under this custom, it has hap
pened,that from a deficiency of other means,
the monies arising from tolls, auction du
ties, tax on collateral inheritances, dividends
on turnpike, bridge and navigation stocks,
and escheats, which had been set apart by.
law, towards the payment of the interest on
the public debt, have been paid out indis
criminately to meet other demands upon the
treasury. There will, therefbre, be a de
ficiency in the fund for the payment .of the
interest on ti; public debt, upon the Ist of
February next, of perhaps $BOO,OOO. This,
as well as every other subject relating to
the revenue, belongs so exclusively to the
Legislative branch of the government, that
no recommendation of the Executive can be
required, to bespeak for it the necessity for
some special legislation in relation to its fu
ture disbursement.
It is computed that the tax which will be
rendered available ander the act of the 11th
June, 1840, entitled "An act to create addi
tional revenue to be applied towards the pay
ment of interest, and the extinguishment of
the debts of the Commonwealth," will
amount to $OOO,OOO. The sum which will
be raised under this Act, together with the
other resources of the Commonwealth, will
most probably liquidate the interest account,
without further resort to loans for that pur
pose. This act is to continua in force five
years, and provides such a rule for the as
sessment of taxes, as to fall with gentle
weight on those who are little able to bear
and addition to their expenses. Tho arti
cles taxed are those purely of luxury, such
as gold watches, pleasure carriages, house.
hold furniture exceeding in value three hun
dred dollars, together with bonds, bills, and
notes of solvent obligors, bank stock or stock
in other corporations, yielding dividends of
at least ono per cent., salaries of public offi
cers, and real estate. Although this act
undoubtedly operates with considerable
hardship upon those who fall within reach
of its provisions, still they are comparative
ly, subjected to very little inconvenience,
for in most instances they do not belong
to the poorer classes, on whom taxation
usually falls with the most peculiar sev
erity.
To impose taxes on any class of our fel
low-citizens is not very agreeable, nor a
very popular task; but when, as in this case,
the honor, and the fidelity of Pennsylvania
must be sacrificed, or a tax of this kind bo
endured, there are few, very few men in
the Commonwealth worthy to be ranked
among her free, intelligent and upright citi
zens, who will shrink from their share of the
burthen. When, too, it is known that those
who recommended, and who sanctioned the
bill imposing the tax, are no more respon•
sible for the necessity that compelled a re
sort to it, than any of those who aro to pay
it, the folly and injustice of those who would
condemn, aro rendered still more conspicu
ous. I found the debt upon which this in
terest was to bo paid in existence, when I
assumed the functions of the Executive, and
found nothing to pay it with. The Treasury
was exhausted, and no moans left to meet
this responsibility but further loans, a sale
of the improvements or taxation. The first
two were impraticable, and I was driven by
stern necessity to the adoption of the latter
alternative. I saw but one path before me
open to pursuit, and that was the path of
duty. 1 recommended taxation; that re
commendation was adopted by the Legisla
ture, and it is a source of proud gatification
to me, when I consider that the people of
Pennsylvania, almost to a man, so far as I
have been informed, with a firmness and pa•
trietism worthy of themselves, have yielded
to this necessity without murmur or repi
ning. I feel fully convinced, that at the ex
piration of the five years at farthest, with a
reasonable degree of prudence, and with
strict economy in the management of our
affairs, the income of our improvements will
render a renewal of this law wholly unneces
sary.
836,790,775 69
If any difference of opinion exists, as to
the necessity of this tax, let these questions
be answered by those objecting: Does not
Pennsylvania owe this debt? is she hot
morally and legally bound to pay it and its
interest, as it falls due? Can they point out
any other mode by which this can be done?
You, however, have come directly from
the people, and are supposed best to know
their opinions on this as well as all other
subjects; and if you differ in opinion with
me on this important subject, and think the
fax ought not to have been laid,it is your duty
to repeal the law instantly. No part of the
tax has yet been collected. Seeing no oth
er mode of extricating the Commonwealth
from the difficulties in which I found it, my
views and opinions remain unchanged. Yet
if the immediate representatives of the peo
ple think proper to repeal the law, and can
substitnte any other mode less objectiona.
blo, which will promptly meet t he exigency,
be it so; the responsibility rests with them.
I can never consent, by word or deed, to
countenance the idea that the faith of the
State can be violated by a failure to meet
her engagements. If there be any, in our
country who would be willing, if they were
able, to abrogate the contracts of the Com
monwealth, and be faithless to ber creditors,
let their doctrine be distinctly avowed and
the issue fairly made up before the people.
The intelligence and integrity of our citi
zens would speedily convince the world, that
they feel the necessity in a republican gov
ernment of maintaining, unsullied public
faith and national honor.
8295,000 00
$36,498,370 90
The deficiency in the funds set apart for
the payment of the interest on the public debt
falling due on the Ist of February next,
must, be promptly provided for. By the act
of the eleventh June last, the Governor is
authorized to procure it on loan, and for that
purpose proposals have been invited; wheth
er the money can be procured I know not:
and in case it cannot, I see no other mode
left to avoid the dishOnor of the state credit,
but the sale of a sufficient amount of the
stock owned by the State, in one or the oth.
er, or all of the banks in which she is inter
ested. The state owns the following amount
of stock in each of the batiks named, viz:
Bank of Pennsylvania 3750 shares; Philad
elphia Bank 5233 shares; Farmer's and
Mechanic's, Bank 1708 shares. The stock
would most probably command a ready sale;
and I do most sincerely hope that not a day
will be lost, before this possible blot upon,the
faith and honor of the State is effectually
guarded against, by the prompt action of the
Legislature.
In my last annual message, the question
was distinctly presented to the Legislature,
whether the works then in progress should
he prosecuted to immediate completion or
not, and the question was by them determi
ned in the affirmative, and the sum of $6OO,
000 appropriated to , each of, what has usu•
ally been denominated the main lines; and
the works being so fur progressed in, as to
warrant the expectation of their being coin•
pleted in another year, all will now concur
in the opinion, I presume, that provision
should be immediately made for the com-
pletion of the unfinished works as soon as
possible.
,A judicious and immediate appropriation
promptly made in anticipation of the usual
appropriation bill, specifically flu' the works
under contract—for the compietion of the
reservoirs, at each eod of the. Portage rail
road—and for ordinary repairs, is imperi•
ously culled for, and will enable the contrac
tors to complete the whole, and have them
ready for use, by the opening of the naviga
tion in the spring of 1842. The vast im
portdnce of the immediate completion of the
main lines, as well to the citizens immedi
ately interested in them, as to the fiscal in
terests of the Commonwealth, cannot be too
strongly pressed upon your attention. They
will complete a communication between the
great lakes, and our commercial metropolis.
They will also, by a proper arrangement
with the authorities of' New York, connect
our improvements with those °ldiot great
Commonwealth, thus affording an opportu
nity of exchanging the products of the two
states, and strengthening the bonds of our
national union. They will also add largely
to the revenue on the works now in use.
Whatever differences of opinion may
have existed as to the policy of commencing
the Erie Extension and North Branch Ca.
nals, there ought to be none now as to their
completion. They are nearly finished, a
comparatively small sum is 'necessary to
complete them, and the policy of a corftin
ued and protracted delay in completing
works, which the state is pledged to accom
plish, until the first work done upon them
has become useless from decay, has prov
ed disastrous and ruinous on many occa
sions.
The course heretofore usual, of neglect
ing to appropriate a sufficient sum for re
pairs, and that early in the session, has been
seriously detrimental to the interests of the
Commonwealth. At the last session the
Commissioners'stived that the lowest esti
mate for repairs required $700,000, and
the Legislature appropriated $500,000, a
groat portion of which was- absorbed by
debts then due. The result has shown
that the Commissioners were right. The
fund has long since been exhausted. The
necessary repairs have not been completed.
Those who have been engaged at them are
unpaid, and the Supervisors are without
funds to lay in thb necessary materials for
repairs. The repairs on the lines of Ca
nals in use should ordinarily be made in
winter, when they would not interrupt the
use of the Canals; and it has usually hap.
pened that before the arrival of winter, the
officers have no means at their command,
and no appropriation bill is passed until late
in the session. The whole system of re•
pairs in consequence of the uncertainty of
the time of paying the workmen, and those
who furnish materials, cost the Common
wealth much more than it would do, were
the means of payment, ample, certain, and
promptly applied.
The. Beaver division of the Pennsylvania
Ltanal is already connected with the public
improvements of Ohio, by the Pennsylvania
and Ohio canal,a work which has been com
pleted by individual enterprize, aided by
public appropriations from both States, and
bids fair to be a valuable tributary to our
public improvements, and a profitable in.
vestment fdr the stockholders. It has been
accomplished at a less cost than any (del
work of the kind which I have visited, and
is a monument of.the wisdom of its projec
tors, and of the skill, prudence, and econo
my of those charged' with its construction.
I respectfully recommend to the Legisla
ture,the enactment of a law authorizing the
Canal Commissioners to treat with the au
thorities of the state of New York, for
such a connection of our internal improve
ments with theirs, as will best promote the
interests of the two Commonwealths. The
law should limit the terms and conditions,
and define the power and authorities of the
Commissioners in such manner as on due
consideration shall be deemed proper.
The interest of the Commonwealth would
also be advanced by entrusting the same
board with the power of Bolling, or leasing
water power created by our internal im
provements. There are at many , points,
and in very advantageous situations, sur
plus quantities of water, which could be
profitably applied to various braneheq of
manufacture, without injury to the due sup
ply of our canals. The tolls on our public
improvements would be increased thereby,
and a considerable sum realized from such
sale or lease.
By an act of the seventh April, 1835, a
guaranty was made on the part of the State,
for the payment of an interest of five par
cent. for twenty-five years on $200,000, of
the capital stock of the Bald Eagle and
Spring Creek Navigation company. and by
a subsequent act the State has since sub.
scribed $25,000 to the stock of the compa
ny. The whole of the work is completed
and in active operation, except the last six
miles, on which about one third of the ex
cavation and embarkment is made, two
lacks completed and another nearly com
pleted. A comparatively trifling sum would
finish this work, but the funds of the com
pany are exhausted,and the Commonwealth
is annually called upon for the amount of
her guaranty, and her subscription is whol
ly unproductive. It is a very valuable trib
utary to the State Canal, terminating in one
of the richest mineral regions in this or per
haps any other country. Every article
coming out of it pays a toll on our State
canal for 15U miles to Columbia. I, there
fore submit to the better judgment of the
Legislature, whether sound economy does
not dictate the further subscription of a
sum sufficient to finish it; believing that its
productiveness ‘yill then be amply sufficient
to relieve the Commonwealth from any fur
ther payment of her guaranty.
There are at present many public im
provements in a courts, of construction in
:our State by means. of private companies,
most of winch I cannot but think are cal
culated to benefit Pennsylvania , in a very
high degree. Among the latter I may
particularize tin Williamsport and Elmira
rail road, as tending with certainty to pro
duce this result. This road will connect
the Grand Erie Canal of New York by the
Seneca Lakti, with the West Branch Canal
,at Williamsport; and also intersect, at El
mira, the great Southern rail road now be
ing constructed Nom tho !Judson river to
Lake Erie at Dunkirk. The advantage
likely to result to ourselves, from the con
struction of the road,will be, that the great
amount of tonnage and travel which now
annually finds its way from the Lakes
through the State of New York to the At
lantic,, will thus be brought directly through
our own public improvements to Philadel
phia; the distance from Elmira to the latter
city, by this route, being 71 miles shorter
than from Elmira to the city of New York
by any comtemplated improvement in that
State. Other improvements of a similar
character,and perhaps of equal importance
might be noticed.
Every man is presumed to bo present in
the Legislature by his representative, and
to know what public laws are enacted, and
is therefore held to be bound by them from
the time of their enactment. This notice,
however, is but a constructive one. I would
respectfully suggest, whether some provi
sion for the immediate publication of all
laws of a 'public nature is not necessary, to
give to the people actual notice of provi
sions by which they may be seriously affec
ted.
The Report of the Superintendent of the
Public Schools, which will shortly be laid
before you, will show the progress *which
the cause of education is making iu public
opinion, and the state and condition of the
Colleges, Academies and Schools, through
out the Commonwealth.
Though the active operations of the
Geological Survey are not yet entirely
completed, a much greater extent of coun
try has been minutely explored during the
past season, than in any former one. The
State Geologist, and his corps, were labor
iously occupied in the field, their research
es extending into various districts, both
east and west of the Allegheny mountains.
The insight acquired during the progress of
the survey, into the more minute features of
our Geology, and the true position of our
various mineral deposits, has served great
ly to increase the accuracy and value of the
large body of facts now collected. Through
out several sections of the State, were hith
erto, no accurate clue had been discovered
by w hick particular lkeds of those useful sub
atances,iron ore, coal,marble and limestone
could be traced, much of the obscurity has
been removed. Several districts, however,
of greater or less extent, yet remain to be
explored. Though some of these have
been already faithfully examined, one year
more will be necessary for unravelling the
intricacies of their structure, and enabling
the Geologist to arrive at a satisfactory
knowledge of their resources. For this
purpose an appropriation will become neces
sary. The amount, however, will be less
than the sum hitherto annually expended.
The Topographical maps now in a course
of construction, are essential as a basis for
the Geological map called for by the law.
In the chemical department of the survey,
as extensive series of ores, coals, cement,
fluxes, &c., have been analyzed. resulting
in a species of knowledge now becoming
every day tnore tmportant to the growing
manufacturing and mining interests ofFenn
sylvania.
It is an undoubted fact, that the few last
years have been a period of pecuniary. em
barresment in the business community. It
has been consoling, however, to reflect,
that during a portion of that time, our bus
bandmon have been reaping a full reward
for their labor in abundant cropsfor which,
until recently, they have found ready mar
kets, at fair prices. They bad not general
ly been affected with that mad spirit of
speculation, which at one time seemed to
have seized so large a part of other por
tions of our citizens, and induced them to
engage in almost every visionary scheme
in their "haste to get rich."
The causes of this embarrassment have
been variously explained, as suited theviews
of those who undertook the task. 31y own
views upon this subject have been fully and
freely expressed in my commantcations to
the preceding Legislatures. No one, how
ever, can doubt, that, when our country is
importing largo amounts of the luxuries and
superfluities of life from foreign countries,
and not exporting a sufficiency of our own
products to pay for them, there must be a
constant drain of the precious metals, and
hence a scarcity of money to supply the
wants of our community at home. A re
trenchment among our citizens, of whom
plain republican simplicity has over been a
distinguishing characteristic, in the pur
chase and use of articles of mere luxury.
would greatly tend to lessen this cause of
pecuniary embarrassment.
The consequences of the embarrassment
in our mercantile and manufacturing opera
tions, are now beginning to be felt, also, by
farmers, in the more recent reductions of
the prices of their products, although the
fact communicated by tie Secretary of the
Treasury, in his late report is cheering,
that during the last year the experts from
this country have exceeded the imports by
nearly twenty-seven millions of dollars.—
This is certainly encouraging, especially
when we reflect, that in prior years the re
verse was the fact; and that without going
back further, in the year 18:16, the excess
of imports exceeded the exports upwards of
sixty-one millions of dollars; in 1837 twen
three and a halt millions ofdollars; in 1833,
five millions of dollars, and in 1839, forty
one millions of dollars; and that in 1837,
the Import of the single article of silk, a
mere luxury, which our own country is
capable of producing as any other, amount
ed to twenty-three millions of dollars, while
our export of flour, during the 9une year,
was but about seven millions of dollars. It
is to be hoped, and the increased c.oifidence
growing out oldie resumption of specie pay
ments about to take place, warrants the
conclusion, that business will resume its ac
custorued channels, and titian. , lessons of
prudence from the past, our citizens will
not again be tempted into those wild execs-
-sea which have well nigh led on to bank•
ruptcv and ruin, and the prostration of pub•
lie and private credit and confidence.
Our Commonwealth possesses a fertile
soil, at,d unbounded agricultural and mineral
wealth. We have within ourselves almost
all the necessaries, and many of the luxu
ries of life. %VIII) the increase of intelli
(mace and means, we find our farmers neg.
mewing the products of the soil, improving
their stocks of domestic animals, and adding
to the neatness of their household establish•
meets. No one can puss through our Com
monwealth, without being struck with the
i air of substantial comfort, and increasing ,
prosperity, which pervades the agricultural
districts of the State.
The variety and extent of our water pow
er, give great facilities to the manufacture
of our grain into bread stuffs, and for every
other branch of manufacture, either needed
for the supply of our citizens, or fur the em
ployment of their capital.
Had Pennsylvania already reached the
full developement other resources, with her
present pecuniary responsibility weighing
her down, we might well contemplate our
situation, with trembling solicitude. But
this is not the case. Throughout the whole
extent of her ample territory, there is scarce
ly a square mile, which does not abound in
some or all of the great staples of her mine
ral wealth. Anthracite and bituminous coal,
iron, marble and limestone, have been scat
tered by nature with a most profuse hand,
and have been hitherto worked barely
enough to prove, with what prodigality they
have been lavished upon us. The coal field
of our Commonwealth embraces more than
one fifth of its area, and more than three
times as much as belongs to entire Europe.
Connected with the coal, which abounds in
so large a portion of the Cominonweaith,
we have large supplies of iron ore, almost in
immediate contact with it. In addition
thereto, we have, within convenient distan
ces, almost all the other varieties of iron ore
found in any part of the world. The adap
tation of anthracite coal to the smelting, of
iron ore, has been followed by its successful
and profitable application in the further sta
ges of the manufacture of the metal; and
that the same results will speedily follow
from the anplicatiou of bituminous coal,
may be looked for, with almost absolute
certainty. While the iron manufactured
with charcoal, will always be wanted for
the finer purposes, and the demand fur it,
increased by the natural increase of the pop
ulation of the country, that manufactured
from mineral coal, will be employed in the
construction of rail roads, and for innumera
ble other purposes. This discovery must
stand as a distinguished ern in the annals
of our Commonwealth. It cannot fail to
add millions of dollars to her active and
available capital; and will ore long transfer
to our own citizens most, if not all of the
large sums that are now annually sent
abroad for rail road iron, and other iron
manufactured articles. The manufacture
of these numerous and valuable commodi
ties will not only result in enriching Penn
sylvania, but will cut can large item in the
imports of this country, tend to emancipate
its from European dependence, enable our
sister states to complete their rail roads at a
cheaper and better rate, and strengthen the
National Union, by the strongest of all ties,
that of mutual interest.
Nor is there in Pennsylvania a single class
of citizens who will not share directly in the
advantages. The owners of coal and iron
deposits, and those who engage in the man
ufacture and sale of these productions, will
derive the first benefit; but the farmer. the
mechanic, the merchant, and every other
citizen, will feel immediately, the salutary.
impulse which will be communicated to his
own peculiar business. Tho value of our
canala and rail roads must be greatly (Niham
ced, as well as that of all other species of
property. With the cheap and ready means
which they will afford for rho transportation
of our various products and manulnctures,
there can be no doubt, that the trade and
business of the state must extend and in
crease with unexampled rapidity, and by
prudence and good management be perpet
uated.
In this gradual and certain dovelopement
of our resources may be found abundant
means to liquidate our public debt, and to
discharge every other liability, that can
justly be cast upon the State. I confess it
affords me peculiar gratification to advert
to this topic, for it shows most satisfactori
ly, that though this Commonwealth has
been somewhat in advance of the time in ex
tending her improvenivnt system so widely
as she has done, the people notwithstanding
are destined at no remote period to realize,
most amply, all the benefits it was ever ex
peeled to produce. Tho increase of our
manuOctures will tend to afThird udditonal
sources of employment for the laborer, and
furnish increased security against all im
proper combinations for the reduction of
wages.
If any just cause of apprehension has ex
isted, from the attempts in large manufac
turing establishment's to keep their opera.
lives in subserviency in matters of opinion
and the exercise political rights, let the evil
be corrected under adequate penalties. Let
the rearing up of children in factories with.
out educatton be prohibited, and the light of
learning and science being diffused, as Well
among the operatives as their rich employ
ers, the danger of this influence will be
counteracted by shaking off the shanties of
Ignorance and undue dependence either up
on the information or the will of others.
Then instead of
, having. a class of human be
ings in a state of vassalage, we would rear
up freemen capable of thought and reflec
tion, and of - putting a proper esti 'nate on.i hut
spirit of independence which influenced our
forefathers in achieving our freedom, and
which ought ever to pervade the bosoms of
their descendants to the latest generation.
Performing', 314 Pennsylvanian has always
done in nn exemplary manner, her duties us
a member of the great federal union, of
which she bus not inaptly been denominated
the ..lieystone," we must never forgot, the
duties which we as her immediate function.
arm's, owe to her own interests, and the, no
ce.sity of advancing and sustaining them as
fa , as ran be dime, without inter:ering, with
her duties to the Oeneral Government.
On the part of the Legislature, nothing is
N"anted but a careful supervision of her vu.
rams interests, to place this Commonwealth
1111 a firm basis of pecuniary independence.
'Whatever course other states may think
proper to pursue, lot it he the patriotic duty
of Pennsylvania to sustain and cherish every
effort to develolpe her resources, and to ad•
vnacr her glory and her renown. Vindicate
her charat:Pr for integrity—fulfil all her
engagements faithfully—husband her resour.
ces with economy, but not with n false and
mistaken spirit of parsimonious illiberality
—and the fair fame of Pennsylvania will
stand before the world without spot or blem
ish to tarnish it. To maintain this fame
unsullied. should be the first and most un
yielding duty of every citizen honored with
any station, in which heliecomes its official
guardian. I should deem mysolf unworthy
of the office, with which the. people have
clothed me, if I proved recreant to this high
trust.
By a judicious system of laws, correspon
ding with the habits and wants ofour people,
fostering and encouraging en:erprise and
industry, and enabling our citizens to reap
the full reward of their labor and persever
ance, we shall fulfil the expectations of our
constituents, and be the means under Di•
vine Providence, of peilpetuating, the bles
sings which have been so signally showered
upon us by the Author of all Good.
The experience of many years fortifies
me in the belief, that our greatest error in
legislation, is that of legislating too much.
Our Legislatures have been holding one
extra session after another, and that too io
times of profound peace, and when the
calls , of patriotism are imperiously made on
every public functionary to diminish, as far
as in him lies, the pecuniary burthen under
which the state has been laboring. The
consequence has been, an unparralleled in
crease in the legislative expenses over all
other departments of the government. 1
can recommend no more certain and effec.
tual retrenchment in this matter, than short
sessions; still let the conduct of every de
partment of the government be thoroughly
scrutinized, and let no important interest of
the people be neglected.
The baneful practice of converting the
halls, of legislation into en arena for the
display of political gladiators. which has
too long characterized the halls of our na
tional legislature, is a lamentable departure
from the course pursued by the band of pa
triots who composed "the first congress;"
and whose example, I hope, for the honor
orour common country, has not yet been
wholly forgotten by their successors. The
pernicious tendency of thi•i practice of the
national legislature will not, I trust, be ex
tended to the legislatures of their respective
states; and I am sure, I need scarcely add,
I have no apprehensions of its reaching the
legislature of this 'commonwealth. No
public functionary who would yield to its
influence need expect to retain the confi
dencer and respect of the people of Pennsy
vania.
' In conclusion, I shall beg leave to refer
you to the views on several subjects con
tained in my last annual message. That
message being the first which 1 had the
honor to communicate at tho commence
ment of a session of the Legislature, I went
more into detail on the various topics die.
cuSsed in it,than I supposed would be again
necessary, with a view to an expression of
opinion on them, as well for that occasion,
as for future reference. I therefore rofot
you to it for my recommendations on the
subjects of reform of the Banking system
&c.,—the importance of connecting and com
pleting at the earliest day practicable, tho
disconnected part of our disjointed and un
finished system of internal improvements
—the making of prompt and ample provis
ion for keeping the public improvements
in repair,—the necessity of preserving un
impaired the credit of the Commonwealth,
and promptly meeting all her pecuniary
engagements,—the necessary care and cau
tion to be exercised in creating, renewing,
and supervising corporations,—the subject
of education, and as connected with it, that
of procuring competent teachers and school
books,—the subject of the increase of writs
of error and appeals in the Supreme Court,
and reporting the doc:sions of that court,—
the militia system, the encouragement of
volunteers and the reduction of militia trai
nings to one day in the year,—the evasion
of the laws relative to collateral inheritance
tax,—and the revision of the laws relative to
the selecting and drawing of jurors.
It will afford me great pleasure toco•operate
with the Legislature, in these and all other
measures calculated to promote the common
good of our beloved Commonwealth.
DAVID R. PORTER.
EXECUTIVE CIIAMLIER,
Jati. 6th, 1841..
....MO • 000 mm.
BANK OF TUE UNITED STATES.—We
present in to-day's Patriot,tho full exhibit—
fuller than any that has been recently pub
lished—of the condition and affairs of the
Pennsylvania U. S. Bank, as submitted by
the President and Directors of that Institu
lion, at the annual meeting of the stock
holder's, held on the 4th inst. The state
ment is held to exhibit the affairs of the
Bank in au aspect somewhat more favorable
than the general anticipation, rn the ab
sence nf these details. No dividend is,how
eser, declared—the profits of the' business
of the bank, for the last six months, being
applied to the making whole of former los
ses, and thus strengthening its posinon, on
the eve of resumption. A Board of three-
tors of tho current year, were elected at this
!fleeting, and Mr. DUNLAr was re elected
President.--.6a/t. Pat.
Con. or TUG %VAR AGAINST CHINA.
• Snore oI the English papers consider that
the demonstrations against China thus far,
are by nn means remarkable, •It is estima
ted in onn. that the war has already cost
Great Milani 21,000 ; 000. The moral
beliiio and the ctittro feeling of the nation
uro bfild to he uguinst the war.
REPUBLICAN BANINIER.
GETTYSBURG. January 12. 1841.
Appointment by the Commissioners
JAMES A. THOMPSON, Esq. to bo Tres
surer of the County of Adams.
Appoilinent by the Directors of the Poor.
JAMEMVIAJOR to be Treasurer of the Poor
House Fund of the county of Adams. •
Mitt.nrcuoiv EvErrr.—On Monday evening
last, Mr. ..isstaa SMITH, of Mountjoy township
mot with his death in a sudden and unexpected
manner. We understand ho went to descend in
to the cellar, and the steps having been removed
contrary to his knowledge, ho was precipitated to
the bottom, and died instantly, supposed from a
dislocation of the neck.—Sentinel.
Tho following gentlemen were appointed dole
gates to represent this county in the State Tem
perance Convention to be hold on tomorrow (the
13th) at Harrisburg:
T. Stevens, Esq., Hon. Wm. M'Clcan, D. M.
Smyser. Esq., A. R. Stevenson. Esq., J. M'Crin
ley, B. Gilbert, Esq. and Rev. C. Weyl.
Has the Editor of the Washington Reporter ta
ken the hydrophobia! He rants at an awful rate
at his imaginings. Nobody thinks of robbing
Ciesar of his own: and although we do stand as
near the post of honor us may be, without occupy
ing it, we have accorded long since to our Dauphin
friends the first step. Friend Bauman works his
goose quill well against Locofocoisiu—save it next
time, they're better game.
"All things aro unsartin, but especially snow,"
say our neighbors. Right! Since the beginning
offun, we have never seen It cut short so sudden
ly as during the past week. With sleighing that
should have served us till spring—weather cold
enough to have frozen over the ocean—an atmos
phere almost equal to that of the north pole—our
sleighers, in high glee, buckled on their "merry
jingling bells," and with, a bonnie lassie by their
side, 'ventured far away. A thaw has come! and
all is mud! mud!! How cautiously they come
dragging home.
The Press, the Cabinet, &c
While the press throughout the Commonwealth
has been weekly sending forth its wishes and opin
ions in relation to the formation of the Cabinet of
Gen. Harrison; and in urging the claim of the
Keystone to a place in that cabinet, has in many
instances expressed its individual preferences,
sometimes in terms of propriety and respect, and
again to the attempted disparagement of all others
save a favorite, we have refrained from expressing
oui views and preferences. We aro not now about
to enter the lists and canvass the merits or demer
its of individuals, wo leave that for those who have
blindly in their ill-guided zeal burdened sheets
with favorable notices of "their choice." If the
puffs and flattery of tho press can weigh one tit
tle in the scale of worth and talent, we have much
mistaken the established wisdom and sagacity of
the appointing power. All we design saying is,
that the hood-winked, cable-towed "communica
tions" which are given to the public eye, endors
ed, and it may be, indited by the Grand Master
elect of the sworn league, are evidence of the work
ings of the Lodge. It is not to be wondered at
that the United States Gazette should allow the
distinguished individual whose very name ho
dreads, to be attacked in his columns. The deed
well befits the man, just clothed anew with his
royal toga. A ghost of former days haunts his
steps, and if the influence of the worshipful' can
be brought to boar against him who exposed their
deeds of darkness, will it not he triedl The ser
vices of that gentleman are such as the paper al
luded to will not properly appreciate. There are
others who impartially can estimate talent and
eminent services.
Our ire cannot be roused by the allusions upon
which the communication before ua is founded.
Suffice it to say, that wo will speak word in
season"—until then wo desist.
The Rlessage.
This document as a state paper, emanating
from the Executive of the Commonwealth, is al
ways entitled to a place in our columns. It is
always expected to contain some views which have
not hitherto boon expressed by its author, and
which the varying nature of the bo - dies to which
it is communicated, and the developoments which
during each recess of the Legislature are taking
place require to be made known. But in present
ing to our readers to-day Gov. Porter's message,
it will be found to be a paper, pro forma: liter
ally containing nothing. Read and judge. Ha
commences, congratulating himself that a year
ago ho published a long message (aye! that mes
sage is yet sticking in many a snuff-box) in which
his views are “fully and elaborately" made known,
and the past year having confirmed him in them,
he refers the Legislature to the Journals for what
they expected now. He closes by referring to his
“dotailed" "last annual message" as the budget
where all his notions aro to bo found. It contains
no important feature, and save the encomiums
passed upon the Keystone State, in connection
with the Geological survey, there is hardly enough
to repay a perusal of it. It is quite consolatory
to know that an "air of substantial comfort and
increasing prosperity" pervades
,the Common
wealth. To a Legislature containing but twenty
jive of its old members, Is it right that such a mes
sage should be commmunicatedl Is it the ~o tium
cum dig !itate" of old, or is it modern indolence!
And yet it fills—columns! Wonder if the Reform
Senator from the county won't reform such an
tibuse of the press?
Arm ECLIPSE or TUE MooN. , —The New
York Sun states that there will be a total
and magnificent Eclipse of the Muon in the
evening of the sth day of February next,
commencing at 7 o'clock, 9 minutes, and
should the atmosphere be clear, It will pre.
sent us sublime a spectacle as we seldom
witness. The eclipse will commence at 7
o'clock, 9 minutes in the evening, 2 hours
and 6 minutes after the mow rises. It will
be visible to all parts of the United States.
FROM HARRISBURG.
Correepondence of the Gettysburg Star and Banner.
Ilinnissunn, Jan. 5, IS4I.
Dean Si tt:--To-day at 12 o'clock the members
elect to the House of Representatives mct in their
Hall at 12 o'clock, and wire called to order by
Mr. Kerr of Washington county. The returns
from the several counties being opened and read
by the Clerk, ninety nine members answered to
their names. Mr. Cummings of Indiana was not
present, being in town but unable to attend from
illness. After three ballottings, Wm. A. Crabb of
the city of Philadelphia, was on third ballot elect
ed Speaker. The votes on the several ballots
were as follows:
let Ballot— N. Middleawarth, of Union, 48 coca
R. Brodhead, jr. North'rnp'n,4 B
IL M. Barr, Barka, 1
Mr. Johnston of Armstrong, voted for R. M
Barr; Mr. Brodhead voted for IL P. Flennikin
Mr. Middloswarth voted for G. Darsio.
2d Ballot—N. Middlestvartb,
R. P. Flennikin,
R. M. Barr.
Mr. Johnston voted for Mr. Barr; Mr. Flenni
kin voted for R. Brodhead, jr.; Mr. Middleawarth
voted for J. F. Cox.
3d Ballot—Wm. A. Crabb,
N. Middleswartb,
G. Derek,
Mr. Johnston voted for Mr. Darsie; Mr. Mid
dleswarth voted for Mr. Aaron Kerr; Mr. Crabb
voted Mr. Middloswarth. Every Loco foco, and
four Democrats viz: Mr. Chiisman and Mr. Fu
they of Chester, Mr. Clark of Dauphin, and Mr.
Smith of Philadelphia city, voted for Mr. t"Jrabtp--
making 53 votes in all. I havo not time for fur
ther particulars at present.
DEAR Stn:—To-day the House went into an
election for officers. Alexander Ramsey was
elected Clerk, and nominated for his Assistant
David Todd. Job G. Plalcrson was elected Ser
geant-atairms, and nominated for his Assistant
John E. Brown. Gee. Shaeffer was chosen Door
keeper, and nominated as his Assistant Jacob. Sa
nders of Gettysburg. Messrs. Hunter of Elie, and
Maclay, of Union, were appointed' transcribing
Clerks by tho House, and Mr. Silgreaves Meson
ger.
Mr. Smyser submitted a resolution directing the
Clerk to issue proposals and let out th 6 binding,
stitching, &c., of the Journels to the lowest bid
der. After some discussion, the further consider
ation of the Resolution was postponed until to
morrow. A resolution was offered to supply the
members with four daily newspapers each, or
tpeir equivalent and to pay their postage; which
agar being amended, so as to reduce the number
of papers to three. was agreed to. Yesterday we
had the Governpr's inesEage of which I have sent
you a copy, and to-day the Report of the Canal
Commissioners was also received.
In the Senate G. W. Liamersly was chosen
Clark, Samuel T. Williams Sergeant.ut-arms,
and Wade Door.keeper. Neither House
have yet elec,ted Printers.
In the House Mr. Smyscr presented the peti
tion and documents of John Marshall, an old
Soldier preying for relief.
Your's Respectfully, dm
THE FRANKLIN BANR OF BALTIMORE.
r i
—The followi g notice, announcing the fai
lure of this In motion, we copy from thu
Baltimore A erican of Saturday last:
Arr The President and Directors of tho
Franklin Bank of Baltimore, announce to
the public, that the course this day success
fully adopted by the Mechanics' Bank of
this to discredit the issues of this Insti
tution, has compelled them to decide upon
placing its affairs in a state of liquidation.
The Board have determined to resort to
this course that they may be enabled to do
equal justice to all the creditors of the Bank.
Meanwhile the President and Directors
pledge themselves individually to tho truth
of their belief that the assets of the Bank
are amply adequate to the early redemption
of every outstanding obligation. By order
of the Board,
JAMES HOWARD, Pres't.
January 1, 1841.
Speculation on the causes of this failure
would be as unsatisfactory as unprofitable.
The Baltimore papers of the date on wbtch
the notice was published say very little on
the subject. The Franklin Bank, we be
lieve, was chiefly under loco loco manage
ment.
Tuk, News FROM MONTEVIDEO--A Cor
respondent of the Journal of Commerce, un
der date of the 9th of October from Monte-
video says,—"The place is full of people.
It is estimated there are all of 12,000 from
Buenos Ayres, most emigrants. The whole
population, including the cit . ) and suburbs,
is computed at 45,000. Houses are going
up in every direction. There are probably
all of four millions in specie at this moment
in Montevideo. Flour is of ready sale at
$l6 per barrel, say to net 88 50. About
3,000 bbls. have come in from Rio. It will
continue to be wanted throughout the year,
as no wheat has been sown. Lumber is in
demand; last sales of $6O per mil. to net:
836 25 Spanish. Leaf Tobacco is $9 50
Sp. per qql. Salt is a complete drug.—
There are upwards of 15,000 bushels afloat.
Last sale to nett 229 bush.—Es. 42d. •
MARYLAND. - -The Italtimore papers, of
yesterday, contain the message of the Gov
ernor of that State, delivered on IVednes
day. It presents the following condition of
the finances of Maryland: The debt of the
State is $15,109,000, and . when all authori
zed issues of stock are made, it will be 815,-
346,009; and the estimated demands on the
treasury, for the present year, are greater
than the receipts by $020,000. From this
deduct $149,000 surplus revenue on depos
ite, and the balance to be provided for will
be $471,000; and, after the present year,'
the annual deficiency will be upwards of
$600,000.
CURE FOR A FELEN OR ,BlLE.—Takia a
beet-top, next the root, or the upper part of
the root, pound it fine—mix in a plenty of
common soap and salt, and apply it to the
sore and in a few hours the pain will be re
lieved and symptoms of cure will appear.—
Don't fail fo remember and try tt.
Lsscursa.—A singular act - of lynching
was perpetrated recently at tho Oberliq
Theological Institute, 'of Ohio. Some of
the members detected a young man named
Norton, in writing discreditable anonymous
letters to young ladies 61 the institute. The
members, among whom was a licentiate of
the institute, named H. C. Taylor, procee- .
ded to inflict summary punishment, profane
ly prefacing their proceedings with pray
er. They secured the man's person, gag.
ged and blindfolded him,and then inflicted
25 lashes on his bare back with a cowhide.
They then directed him to leave the town
forthwith,wtthout going to his room. The
licentiate, it is hardly necessary to say, has
had his license taken from him.
It to stated in the Boston Atlas, that the
President has nominated Jonas L. Sibley,
for reappointment to the office of U. S. Mar
shal for that district, from and after the 4th
of March next, when the commission which
he now holds will expire. We imagine
that General Harrison will consider him
self entitled to the privilege of appointing
to all offices "from and after the 4th of
March next.'
48 colds
48 ..
1 .4
63 votes
DOINGS OF Coscns.ss.—The Alexandria
Gazette says:—Congress has been in session
one month, and during that time has con
trived to mako as much leisure time, as
could reasonably be expected. Tho exces
sive fatigue ofsitting in a cushioned chair,
heti:fro a mahogany desk, in a fine carpet
room, warmed delightfully, from 12 o'clock
M., to 3 P. M., requires at least, a respite
every Saturday! No man knows the cares
and labors of public life, until he suffers the
affliction! The public must sympathise!
TuunsDAT, Jan. 7
THE PATRIOT Soy OF A LARGE FAMILY.
—The Electoral Messenger from Indiana,
is Col. M. G. C. Clark. Col. C. was with
Harrison at the Maumee and Tippecanoe,
and has been a resident since the period
when there were but six inhabitants within
its territorial boundary. But what is the
most remarkable he is one of twenty-nine
sons and two daughters by the same father
and mother! This, we reckon, will be hard
to beat.—Detroit Daily Advertiser.
BEST MODE OF SUICIDE FOR LADIES.-
Wear thin shoes, lace with a bed-wrench
and rope and you may kill yourself without
being suspected.
On Tuesday last, by the Rey. J. C. Watson,
Mr. John ll'Hieny, to Miss Hannah Nonforl—
both of Straban township.
On the 29th ultimo, by the Rev. B. Keller. Mr.
John Roth of Franklin township, to Miss Eliza.
bells Eichollz, of Woollen township.
GETTSSEI3MG
STEAM FOUNDRY.
H AVING taken this establishment, the
business will in future be carried on
upon a much more extensive scale than has
been done heretofore. They are now pre•
pared to do all kinds of
A. %TING
in tho neatest and best manner, having on
hands a large collection of patterns. Per
sons wanting castings of any kind, may find
it to be to their interest to call at this estab
lishment.
Mr. WARREN who is an experienced
moulder, and who has been engaged in the
business fur many years, will. at all times
be found at the establishment; and having
the best grey Pig for Foundry purposes,
persons getting castings made may rest as•
sured of them being smooth and of a eupe•
rior quality.
made on short notice. A pattern maker
is attached to the Foundry.
Gettysburg, Jan. 12, 1841. 3m-42
P. S. AU kinds of turning its IRON and
BRASS done at the Foundry.
IVILL my friends permit me to say
that I am anxious that the Books of
the late firm of GEORGE 4- WILLIAM
ARNOLD be settled up? Those who have
not got the money to pay their accounts
will please call and give their note, and all
tho,e that are indebted by note of long stand
ing will please pay at least part. The
books and notes are in the hands of the sub.
scriser, who it at ell times gives pleasure
to give all the indulgence possible; and will
merely say, that necessity requires that
the business of the firm be closed.
Very Respectfully,
GEORGE ARNOLD.
January 12, 1841. 4t-42
aSEIMM3V O 3,14
Attorney & Counsellor at Law,
O FFERS his professional services to the
people of Adams county. He may be
consulted, at all times, at the Office of
Messrs. Stevens and Smyser, in South Bal-
timore street, near the Court house.
tcrßy an arrangement with Messrs. Ste
vens &Smyser, Mr. M!Suratair will also,
in their absence, attend to their business
during the winter.
Gettysburg, Dec.p. at-39
LL persons interested are required to
1~ take notice that the account of Philip
Berlin and John Itadebaugh Trustees o:
HEIVItIf WIIMMILLER, has been filed for
settlement in the Cou rt of Common 'Pleas
of Adams County, andthat the same will be.
presented for confirmation and allowance on
Monday the 25th of January A. D. 1841,
at Gettysburg, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said
day-. By the Court,
AMOS MAGINLY, Prot/sty.
Prothonotary's Office, Gat
ty sburg, Dec. 20, 1810...5
lIVMENIAL ItEGJSTER.
3/AItRIED.
T. Warren SE Co.
All kinds of
BRASS CASTINGS,
CMS% aiOraa6
ASSIGNEES' NOTICE.
ADVERTISEMENTS.
VALUABLE FARM
ron SALE.
THE subscriber offers at private sale,
that valuable
late the property of ROBERT M'CREARY de
ceased, situate in Cumberland township,
Adams counts', 5 miles from Cettysburg,
on the Taneytown road, adjoining farms of
Eli Horner, Hoira of Andrew Horner, and
others, containing
One Hundred A' Six acres,
of excellent land. There is a good'propor•
tion of woodland and meadow. The tm.
provemeats are
A GOOD
ILAO G 1110 13 Sri .•..
I III;
end Barn and other buildings. ; V
There is a never tailing Spring_ ofwater
near the house. A YOUNG ORCHARD ?
choice fruit, &c.
Application to he made to the subscriber.
SA3I'L S. M'CREARY,
Agent for the Heirs,
Gettysburg, Jun. 5, 1841. is-41
0:7 - 11 the above property is not sold it
will he for rent.
ZaSSMIT2O.W L101201:10
T HE co.partnership heretofore existing
between the subscribers, under the
firm of -ICKES 4' BRIDGES, is this
day dissolved by mutual consent. All per
sons indebted to them, and also to the old
concern under the name of WILLIAM lex
us-by Note, Book or otherwise, are hereby
notified that ALL of the Books and papers
are in the hands of Mr. J. C. Bridges, who
is duly , authorised to settle tho some, and
will be found at the house of Mr. A Under.
wood, opposite the store, up stairs.
J' The Store will be continued at the
OLD STAND by Hr. W. Ickes.
JOHN C. BRIDGES,
WILLIAM ICKES.
York . Springs, Jan. 1, 1841.
ICY'As the subscriber contemplates lefty.
mg this neighborhood during the spring,
he would recommend. to those who remain
indebted as above, the necessity of adopting
the EARLIEST means to settle.
J. C. BRIDGES.
3t-41
January 5, 1841.
NOTICE
TO •
0011 9 1 1 11,LOrl'OE.S.
SEALED PROPOSALS for the erec•
lion of a new
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
in the Borough,of Gettysburg, will be re
ceived by either of the undersigned, until.
the 16th day of January. next. The plans
and specifications may be seen at the office
of MOSES M'CLnAri. The materials of the
present Edifice are to be used so far as they
may be deemed advantageous.
JOHN M. STEVENSON,
JOHN F. MACFARLANE,
• JOHN HOUCK, -
WILLIAM M'CURDY,
• DAVID M'CREARY,
MnSES M'CLEAN,
JOSEPH BAY'LEY, •
Building Committee.
December 20, 1840. • td-40
NOVICE
To Constables, Wliolesale
Dealer s,antrßetailer a of
'Tor eigu Alereltantlize.
PURSUANT to an act of the Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania, passed the 7th
day of ApriI—CONSTABLES will take
notice, that, agreeable to the second section
of the Act graduating the duties upon
Wholesale Dalers and Retailers of Men
chandize, and prescribing the mode of issu
ing Licences, and collecting said duties,
they are requested on or before the first day
of January term, to wit: the 25th day of
January next—to make au oath or affirms.
tion, and deliver to the Clerk of the Court
of. Quarter Sessions; a list of all the Whole
sale and Retail Dealers of Goode, Wares
and Merchandize, %Vines or Distillet! Spir
its, except such as are the growth, produce,
or manufacture of the United States.
MERCHANTS AND DEALERS, em•
braced in the pro% isions of the above recited
Act, are hereby notified, that according to
the fifth section• thereof, the Associate
Judges and the County Commissioners will
meet at the Commissioners' Office, in Get
tysburg, on Tuesday the 26th day of Janu
ary next, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, to
heat them (if they see proper to attend) as
to the amount of their annual sales during
the year previous.
Licenses to be taken out on or before the
Ist day of March next, for one year.
Physicians, Apothecaries, Surgeons, and
Chemists, as respects wine, &c. used in
preparations for the sick, and all female tra
ders, or single women, whose annual sales
shall not exceed those of the Bth class be
low enumerated, shall not be required to take
out License under the provisions of this
Act.
The following will be the classification
agreeably to the Act of Assembly:
Ist class amt. of sales, $50,000—550
2d do. 40,000 40
. do. 30,000 30
4th do. 20,000 25 .
sth do. 15,000 20
6th do. 10,000 15
7th do. 6,000 12 50
Bth do. 2,500 10
WM. SI'CLEAN, S
? Associate
GEO. %VILE', Judges.-
. . . DANIEL DIEIIL, p,
J. J. KUIIN, o
IVNI. DOUGLASS, 2 8..
December 29,1840.. tm-40
ADVERTISEMENTS.
Grand Jury—Jan.' re rni, 18 . 41.
Borough—Joel 13' Danner, George Gyer, John
M. Ste%enson, eon. Wm. Taughilibaugh, Robert
G. Harper. -
HantilionbanH—Ezrn Blythe,tiorn'l Eiker, John
M'Gialey, Jacob RuffLnaporger, Washington
Franklin— Hob't Sheakly, Dirni"el Miekleyoien.
Germany—lsauc Snyder, Jobu Lichty.
Ifain , ltori—Jaenh Bushey. • ,
• Conatuvo--Willinin Albright;
Mountplcasunt--Sebastian Weaver,: Richard
Adam.
Mounljoy—John Horner.
Strubari—Henry Hoffman, Pctcr Smith.
Tyronc—Joseph Hill.
Reading—juhn Brough.
Liberty 'Charles Donaldson.
General Jury—Jan. Term.
Cvnotnago—David Wortz, Jacob Little, John
Kuhn, John Busby.
Menallen—W illiam Bell, Adum J. Walter, Ja.
cob Smith, jr. Henry Group, George Hewitt.
Lalimore—Jacob Bowers, George Robinette,
Jacob Griest, John Day, Gideon Griest.
Moutilpleasant—Abraham Reover, Joseph E.
Hemler, James W. Foster, David Clnpsaildle.
Struban—Thomas M'Creary, John Golden, jr.
Isaac Montfort, James L. Neoly, Ralph Fiches.
Hamillonban—Androtv Marshell, Samuel Co.'
bean.
Reading—Gcorgo Hollinger.
Germany—Josoph Riddlomoser, William W.
Cumberland—John Scott, William Went
lough, George Plank. •
Mounljoy —Adam Wirt, John Benner.
Franklin—John Walter.
Tyrone—David Cooley.
Berwick—Mathias Eichleberger,Joseph Berlin,
Jacob Slagle, Peter Diehl. .
Liberty&John •Musselman, jr. Henry Wertz,"
Martin Newman.
Huntington—John L. Sadler; Daniel Sheffer,
Alexander Underwood.
Borough—George Arnold, John Houck.
Freedom—Nathaniel Randolph.
• •
Trial List—Jan. '.lernt.
John Nary vs. Lindsay Sturgeon.
Gettysburg & Petersburg turnpike company vs.
Jas. Reesido, 11. Slaymaker, Wm. M'.
Clellan and others.
Simon Me!horn vs. Philip Kohler.
Executors of Thomas Lindsey vs. Wm. M'Clel
lan, Jas. Reeside, and Samuel R. Sinymaker.
The County of York vs. Jos. Small and Jcio. Beck.
Simon Meihorn vs. Philip Kohler. . .
John Mrlhnrn vs. • Do.
Jas. J. M'Elheny vs. Ex'rs of Henry Myers, dec'd.
Ex'rs of Henry Myers, dec'd vs. Jan. J. M'Elheny.
John M'Knight and wife vs. Administraior of
Charles Stewart, deceased.
William Wright , vs. The' Susquehannah Canal
Company.
Tho County of York vs. Peter
James Majors and wife vs. Executors of John
Sample, deceased.
•
FOR 4.IIt7U3IENT.
Jacob Albert & Co. vs. Jno. & J. J. Davis.
Peter Wolford use vs. Samuel Mothland. • • '
the & Johnston vs. Jos. M'Cloarv.
Daniel Myers vs. Eel. of Ludwick Waltemyer.
John Weaver vs. David Stewart.
Gettysburg, January 5, 1841.
T. C. A. ]RUTTING,
(Fpaxemoucosargoa@ D )
HAS just received and offers for sale a
number of
PIANO FORTES,
of superior manufacture; ,to which he in.
vites the particular attention of all lovers of
music.
Gettysburg, Dec. 22, 1840. • 3m-39
NEW Slldi AND
FANCY GOODS.
It. G. 2‘ll.'eremors-,
H AS just received a fresh supply of ar
ticles suited to the Reason, to which
the attention of the LADIES is particularly
inxited, as the asioitment embraces some .
very fine and and desirable goods.
December 22,1840.
NEIN WINTER
MOODgo
JUST received an additional supply of
iv" new and desirable winter Goods, yiz:
Cloths, Cassimeres and Cas
stnetts ;
Pilot, Beaver, and Bearskin cloths;
Flannels, Wool and Cotton;
Blankets, Horse, Rose and Point; .
Capeting, Ingrain and Hemp; ,
Boys' and Men's Comforts;
Buocha and Blanket Shawls;
White, Black, and Scarlet Merino do.;
French and English Merinocs; . .
Manchester Ginghams;
'Pickings and Checks;
Bleached and unbleached Muslins;
Fur, Cloth, and Sealette Caps;
Water proof and Listing Socks;
Ladies' fur lined Shoes;
Children's Leather and Morroco Boots;
Fur Coat Collars;
Ladies' carrying Baskets;
Mahogany and Gilt framed Looking.
glasses; .
Hair, Cloth, and Tooth brushes, &e.
-A LSO-
A fresh supply of Groceries,
CONSISTING IN PART OF
SUGAR AND COFFEE,
Black imperial, Old and young Llyson
Teas;
Common, N. Orleans, Sugar-house Mo.
lasses;
Steam Syrup;
Fish, and Winter strained Sperm oil;
'Sperm, and Tallow candles;
Allspice. Pepper, Ginger, &c.
To all of which the attention of those
fond of BARGAINS and good GOODS, is
respectfully invited by
December IE4O.
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D. IL SWOUII.