112dia3 U3illeiPJYaLfiZ34 RETTYstsURG, JANUARY it, 1841. NEW YEAR'S DAY IN WASHINGTON. Corrpapondenco of the Baltimore Patriot. WAsturtoToN, Jan. 3, 1=42. The year, in the way of delightful weath er, if in nothing else, has commenced most propitiously here. The city, from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to the other, at the White House, and at the hospitable mansions of the Mayor, the Ex-President, at M rs. Madison's and at many more pri. vale dwellings, presented a scene of life and animation unusually at any other quar ter of the town or country. The air was mild almost . as Mny, and the sky as beau tiful as•it could be, with not a cloud to shut out the brightness of the sun. Every bo• dy seemed in motion, and the crowd out of doors seemed more like a New Year's day in New York than over before, except thut there, there are no ladies seen in the streets. At the Executive Mansion, there were more persons than have assembled upon a like occssion for many years past. The doors were thrown open at 12, and for the three hours following there was a continu ed rush to and from the doors of the man sion. The doors were inadequate to afford ingress or egress to one-fourth of the crowd, and the windows were opened as a last resort. The jam was any thing but pleasant to the ladies, some of whom had their dresses not a little damaged in the crowd of persons. For two hours there was a rush and counter rush at the door,— those outside for a moment or two having the mastery, and those within seeking to make their escape being now and then the strongest party. It was a sad day for the owners of bonnets, cloaks and beautiful dresses, but an excellent one fur the little army of milliners and dress makers, who flock here with the session of Congress. The worst scene presented was the ma ny persons who came in the very contrast almost of a decent demeanor; some few, neither shaved nor shorn, came in the ye• ry wantonness of a disposition to see how ill-at.home and ilkit ease a slovenly man would bo in such an assembly, composed for the. most part of elegant and weltoress• ed persons. But upon such an occasion as this, there is no , law against lavishness of any sort. A clown may go to the,,-White Hall in the full harlequin costume, provi ded he keep Ininself to himself, and create no disturbance. One man almost knee deep in mud, who seemed to have come from the Canal to the drawing-rooms, pre sented himself to the President, and pro , menaded the East Room for a long time— and though this man was the worst speci men or humanity which I saw, there were from him upivard all gradations of dress, character and appearance.' The Levee had, however, only the pe culiarity of an extraordinary - attendance. The strangers ,in town outnumbered the usual force, and the members here for the most part have their families. There was an arras of beautiful women from abroad, and very ninny from the District of Colum bia, which can boast its full share of accom phshed The President received his guests in the reception room as usual, nod the other parts of the House were thrown open for the multitude, who came and went at plea sure. All the rooms ware thrown open, and all were crowded. The ladies of the Houses—the chide' whom, in doing the honors of the mansion upon all such occa sions, is Mrs. Robert Tyler—were in attendance, and received alt who presented themselves with the greatest kindness and. urbanity. The President probably shook five thousand persons by the hand, and du ring the three Ileum he stood unflinching ly at his post, exhibiting only some signs of fatigue at the . end of the time allotted for receiving his friends and the public. The Cabinet made a call upon the President at 11 o'clock, when part of thorn retired, as the crowd came in, to receive their friends at home. The Foreign Ambassadors, Charge des Affairs, Secrete, ies of Legation, ; Attuches, &a. .were iu :attendance in, the fall.aud, rich: uniforms of.their. respective .couniries.. The Army and Navy of the Viiited,Stntes.wera..alsio well represented by the officers belonging to and about the city. The -Marino Bsnd enlivened the scene in the outer hall with a variety of ihttiorptl nice, ao that there was no lack o f incident to give interest to the occasion.— Toitoe many strangers present, the spec. tocle was -novel, amusing and not without 'ifibse little inc.iderlts of life which makes such a 'day a dapple in one's life. Par ties,. too, were pretty well represented, thiciegh seine were present who might, all things considered, us well have been ob. eent, and some absent whom their friends would hate been glad to have seen pre. sent. The Levees Elsewhere. —The next greatest crowd was at the mansion of Mrs. !Madison, the Indy of the well beloved and much•respected .lAmes MAnxsoN. Mrs. •Madison is one (lithe marvels of the city and nation. • She is quite seventy-four years of age, and every way accomplished. Ago seems not to have unpaired ber facul ties 1, 1 tin- least, and her vivacity and good tentrirar has all the freshness ofvouth. Her frien , l4 came and went ny the hundreds, all regarding her tts much the greatest curios ity of the (1, v.. . • Mr. A ni,kmts also received his friends, and scores c one s--o ht his dwelling . ..— The memhers no - Congress nearly all paid their respects to the venerable man, who, et home, or in the ft. , use of Represents twee, or say where else, shines conspico; ous above all other men for learning, for the variety of his own public service, and for his associa►ion with all the prominent events of the country from the time of the Revolution to the present hour. The gentlemanly Mayor of the city, Mr. Seaton, also kept open house, alter the good &Won of the city of Gotham, and the ancient Knickerb , •ckers. Many of the citizens paid their respeets to their Chief City Magistrate, who is known to all here to be n most excellent officer, :tod ninny, also, of the strangers who congregate here in the winter season, and who always find a warm welcome at the hospitable mansion of the Mayor. Besides all these places when; the public were free to come and go, many of the citi• zene kept open home and contributed to the entertainment of their friendq. There was no lack of incident, therefore, through the day. -•.o« The Philadelphia Inquirer of Monday has the following notice of the recently discovered forgery case in Philadelphia. The Cheyney Hickman Case.—The re cent affidavit of Mr. John M. Riddle has thrown a new light_irpon the character of Mr. Cheyney Hickman, who sometime since figured as a Director of the United States Bank. Mr. Riddle has made affi davit, that he never endorsed certain notes signed C. Hickman & Co., and Cheyney Hickman, for more than 8100,000; and that consequently such notes, so far as relates to his endorsements, are forgeries. This Hickman was originally appointed a Director of the United States Bank by General Jackson, and was then to elected from year to year on the general ticket by the stockholders. He 'was apparently a dull, illiterate man, with little or no ambi tion, good-natured and limited in his views and aspirations. No one would, ever have dreamed of him as a forger. Ho kept a leather store in Chesnut street above Third, not a great while ago, but subse quently moved into Front street, took a large store, and became a shipping mer chant. He flourished there for a year or two, visited the ExChange regularly every day, and talked freely and coolly of the ups and downs in the Stock of the Bank of the United States. Indeed, he was ra ther looked upon as a mere makeweight in the Board of Directors and not likely to have the least influence in any question. That such an apparent blockhead should with success have committed forgeries to such an immense amount, is really calcula ted to startle. It was understood, however, some weeks before he left the city for South America, that he had made, improper use of the names of several of our citizens— that is, that he had forged them as endor sers, but contrived to save them from harm by taking up the notes. He made escape in good time. This Riddle busi ness has unravelled his character to an ex tent really strange to those who used to re gard him as a soft, good natured cat's paw. DREADFUL MURDEIL—We are again called upon to record another hirrid mur der, perpetrated in our city on Saturday last —that uf a woman being murdered by her husband; the facts are these: A man named Thomas Toppen, an Irishman by birth, being at home nt his lodgings, No. 80 Orange street, on Saturday morning, nn hie wife Elizabeth attempting to pass from the room to the pump to get a pail of wa ter, she was forbidden to ge out by the husband, who peremptorily refused to let her go for it. The woman having occa sion for some water for domestic purposes, urged him to let her go, which led to some angry words, when the inhuman wretch seized a chair and literally broke it to pie. ces over her head and body. Not content with this brutal attack, he took up a broom and beat her with it until the handle was split into several pieces, all of which he then gathered up, and with the splinters stabbed her in several parts of her breast and body. The wretched woman for a moment then escaped from his grasp and from the injuries received, and threw her self on the bed, but the inhuman monster, whore fiendish passion was not yet satiated, drew her from it and inflicted several blows on her head and other parts of her body with a shoemaker's hammer, and not yet content got a Earth and fork and in flicted other stabs on her person. The woman then at length got away from him and threw herself on the bed, when the•wretch laid down on the floor to await the arrival of lug little son, a boy about 13 years of age, whose throat he said he intended to cut as soon as he came' in. 'During the whole of this horrible tragedy a woman named Kelly was lying in a very low state in the room, and was an eye witness of the briital conduct—and about 6 o'clock, finding- that the wretched woman had ceased to breathe, gave the alarm, and Justice Maisel!, aided by two watchmen, took the monster into custody, and he was fully committed to prison. The Coroner yesterday held an inquest on the body, and the jury rendered a ver• diet that the unfortunate woman Elizabeth Toppen, came to her death from injuries received by blows, and inflicted on her per son by her husband, Thomas Toppeu.—N. Y. Express. From the New York Courier of Monday APPALLING OCCORGENCP.—On Satur day evening nn ocrurrence took place at the Menagerie, No. 87 Bowery, which has not been paralleled in this city for hor ror. and which it is feared must terminate fatally. On that evening Mr. David Wat kins, of No. 643 Fourth -street, went to the Amphitheatre, accompanied by his wife and en interesting little girl aged about four years. Finding the doors of the Bow• cry entrance very much crowded. they passed around to Chrsythe street„intending to go through the Menagerie, and en ter the amphithea're by that way. A mong the variops •animals kept there for exhibition is a young leopard, which has hi en considered co tame that it was merely kept chained by a collar, without the re• straint eta barred cage, and many persons have been in the habit of playing With and patting it. ' As Mrs. Watkins was passing this leop. and with her child in her arms, the . aninial made a sudden spring, and catalog the child's head in its mouth, dragged it from its mother's arms who immediately' fell to the floor in a swoon. The Menagerie wart filled with ladies, and their shrieks as thily noticed the dreadful occurrence, was ap palling. 1 The leopard taking the child to a , corrier of the place where it was confined, laid her down, and the keeper of tho animals coming up at the moment dealt, him eeveral so. vere blows on the head with a heavy club, and the clild was rescued. It was horribly . lacerated about the face, the teeth of the Iferocious animal having torn its flesh in a dreadful manner, and ono of the eyes of the poor child was nearly torn from its socket her whole appearance presenting a scene . perfectly horrible. Medical aid was immediately called in, and ovary thing was done to relieve the little sufferer that skill or kindness could suggest; and the wounds having been dress ed, she was conveyed home in a carriage, where she now lies with scarcely-any hope of recovery; or should she survive,, it will be to remain disfigured for the. rest ; of her days. ...... 0 ..... WILEY CONvICIED. — It will be learned with pleasure, by every friend of' justice, that the trial of William Wiley, at New York, fer the part he acted in relation to the stolen money from the Frederick cows. ty Bank, has ended in his conviction.— The jury on Thursday, after an abgince of two hours, brought in a verdict of guilty. His counsel have filed a - motion fora bill of exceptions. The jury, moved by regret for his family, accompanied their verdict with a strong recommendation IO mercy. The punishment is a fine of $250,'0r ` im• prisonment in the State Prison not exceed ing five years. ....a 0 4,....- . . Art AnnacT.—The Nevii,Xoik caqiier states that Mr. Elbert Herring,P, S. army paymaster, for the southern dtatricft that State, was arrested "on Wednesday, by the U. S. Marshal, charged with having abstractedirom the government, funds th his possession, prior to the 17th the sum of thirty-one thousand eight im,dred and fifty dollars. lie was brought before Judge Betts, and required to give bail •in $20,000, which he did in the course of the evening, and was liberated. • • G. T. 'l'.—The New (Melina papers state that the defaulting Tellers of the Coin mereial Bank did norappear before the Re corder as they had given security to do, and their bonds. for 810 000 each, were consequently foi felted. James N. BIuRKEII, one. of the -loudest and most edious of the yelping curs of Van Buren's Adtninistratiou, has.beett. nomina ted to the gentile tv Prei4dent - Tyler . for the Office of Comptroller in the ,',lreasury. Barker was dismissed , by Gen- Harrisoniand is reihstated by "His Accidency,".. we : pee-- some, to prove that he is : "every,.irtch a Whig." We think though, this "harks" him of all such , THERE WA, A LADY IN THE _CAGRoI—f I is said that Lord' Morpeth, the distinguish ed English nobleman now on a visit to this country, was attracted here by the bright e3es of a Boston belle, as: well as to see our magnificent country, and.that he is soon to be married. to 11,4;1 , , A letter from New York says:—Rhode Island, by a decided majority of the voice of her people, has resolved that she : will cast aside the,old Charter oll., , Charliiii?the Second, and adopt n Constitution. A •mn jority of all the people there has thus (loci ded; and, what is more, a mspruy of all the freeholders have come to the samecon• elusion. Louis PLITLLIPPE hits writtensa- letter to President 'i'yler thanking the—Aitneiican people in general, and the, President, in particular, for the kindness and hospitality extended to his beloved son, the Prince de Joiuville. • A LADY FORGER.—They have vit. hold of a lady in New Orleans, for .forgery four or five charges are made ugamat She is The same ; who about a ttr •••• eine° forged the name of the Rev.:J.- Nor-Malt, and has some half dozen aliases. - ) t - •'•'• - • . COLUMBIA. RA. LL ROAD.-.Wo het% seen it stated,—but what credit is to be given to the statement we are unable to say,— that a number of individuals are willing to offer to the State, two hundred thonsand dollars a year for the use of the motive power on this road, and at the end of five years restore the road to the Slate in as good order as they received it. The Columbia rail road, as at present conducted, annually sinks upwards of one hundred thousand dollars of the people's money, over and above the interest and coat of conAruction. If the arrangement above spoken of could be made, there would be an annual saving to the State of three hundred thousand dollarsl—j i an. a miner. A NNIDILATIND TINE AND SPACE.-- Bread was eaten in the U.:4: Hotel ton on Wednesday night, and the . ,sylient from which it was made, was .. in the sheaf at Cananditious, N. Y., four hundred and ten miles distant, on Tuesday morning• the staves of which the tibur barrel was composed were in the tree. at the same time. It is suggested in ono of the exchange papers that if any persPn is. fortunate enough In povecs9 a copy °lnn Almanac for the year 1785, ho need not purchnsa ono for 1842, as the ca!ei,latit.t►s fur the two are precisely' alike. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.. To the Senate and llouse of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: FELLOW CmzEna: Lin performance of the duty enjoined on me by the Constitu •lion, I proceed to give you such informa tion oldie State of the Comtnonwealth,nntl to iecommeud to your consideration such measures, as I think expedient at the pro. sent time. The discharge of this duty is, in many respects, beset with difficult, but this dues not absolve me from the obliga tion created by my official station. In a spirit of petfect frankness, I shall submit to you the best dictates of my judgment, and shall be happy if, in your wisdom and experience, you can so modify and improve in a greater degree, the welfare of our common constituents, the people of this Commonwealth. The subject of deepest interest,and gren test perplexity, that calls for our attention is, the financial condition of the State.— Although I have, on several former occa. stone, entered into a full and minute expo sttion of this matter, I cannot refrain from again preventing it to your consideration, in a manner so distinct and plain, es to preclude, I trust, the possibility of miscen• , ception on the part of those who feel an honest desire to understand it. I em per..l suaded that however embarrassed may be the pecuniary affairs of the Connuonvrealth, nothing is needed to induce the people pro• vide means to extricate them, but a clear and candid exposition of the nature and extent:of the liabilities, to which they are subject. The time for concealment, eve sion_and deception on this po:nt, is at an end. The contract has been made. The faith of the State is pledged, and every eon- sideration of duty and of honor require of us, to know our true condition, and to pro vide adequate means to meet our oblige. itons, and to redeem our plighted faith. • There is dub by this State, to the United Statas. on account of deposit of surplus revenue, the Sum of $2,867,514 78. The funded debt of the State, amounts to $36,331,005 68. This debt is reimbursable as follows: 8278,081 87 in the year 11 1 41 62,500 00 " " 1844 3,510,568 81 " " 1846 50,000 00 " •• 1847 1,000,000 00 185 D 2,000,000 00 .1853 3,000,000 00 •• " :854 2.783,161 00 " " 1956 7,070,661 00 " •• 1858 1.250,000 00 " •• 1859 2,648,680 00 " •' 1860 120,000 00 '• " 1861 3,225,000 00 " '• 1862 200,000 00 1 ' '• 1863 2,515,000 00 " " 1864 1,797,010 00 1865 2,524,000 00 " 1868 1,957,362 00 " " 1870 340,981 00 at expiration of ear lain bank charters. Total $36,331,005 68 This debt has been contracted for the fol. lowing purposes:— For Canals and Railways. $30,055,013 68 To Pny interest on public debt, 3,304,303 00 For the use of the Treasury. 1,571,659 00 For Turnpike■, , 18tate Roads, Bridges, dec. . 930,000 00 For the Limon Canal, 000,000 00 For the Eastern Poniteniiarf, 120,000 00 For the Frat.h.lizi Railroad, 100,000 0 1 1 For :ho Penn. end Ohio Can.% 5%000 00 Tho value of our public itn provoments, estimated at cost, is $99,292,165 33 The Siam owns bank stock -which cost, at par 2,108,700 00 The Stato owns Turnpike and Bridge stock, 2,813,048 89 Tho Stato owns Canal and Navigation stock, 831,778 66 The Stee owns Railroad stock, 350,546 90 Money due on unpatented lands, estimated at 1,090,000 00 The immodi%te difficulty of our situation, arises mainly from the payment of the interest annually accruing on this debt. This interest is about 81,800,000; and this sum, it is incnmhent on the State to proitide as it becomes duo The inconsiderable pot Gott of the funded debt. now redeemable, can be, doubtless, postponed until more auspicious times, but the interest admits of no such postponement. This is in a groat mea• sure payable to those who cannot afford to pro crastinate its reception, and whose, moans of subsistence depend, on the faithful adherence of the State. to its solemn engagements with its loan holders. The income especially appropria ted to the payment of 1.! . .s interest, is derived from the following sources, to wit:—tolls on ca nals and railways, auction duties, tax on collator al inheritances, dividends on turnpike, bridge it' and nitiention stocks, escheats and the tax les iod on real:and personal property, dr.c. The amount received from each of these sev. oral sources, during the last fiscal year, ending 30th November last, is as From tolls on Canals and Railways, $762,360 44 '• Auction duties. 77,022 15 " Collateral inheritances, 21,511 43 " Dividends on turnpike, bridge and navigation Mocks, 30,35.5 72 " Escheats, 336 64 " Tax on real and personal pro. petty, &c. 33,292 77 The sum in the treasury, applicable to this object, on the first day of this month, independent of what will be received during the month, was . $1,020,937 88, being $124,045 62 more than is necessary to pay the interest duo on the first of February, next. In relation to the assessment and entire. 'lion of the state taxes, under the net of the 11th June 1840, the greatest delinquency is found with the county commissioners.— No return or statement has been received from several of the counties, although bathe Bth section of the said act, to be transmit ted to the Auditor General on or before the first Monday of September, in each year. It:is, therefore, .out of my power to in foim you of' the amount assessed under Raid act. From the information, howev er, received, I feel warranted in saying that it will amount to about half a million, or within a fraction of it. That amount will be considerably increased by the valu ation and assessment proyidi d by the "act to establfah a uniform mode for the valaa non be properly and assessment of taxes, l ! p al med 15th May, last; the returns of which aro required to be made to the Audi tor General s thin the picsorit month, and will be laid before you as soon as received. I The duty of ihir county commiosioners to nixku recut ns of the assessrm sits, &r : to the Auditor General, irnpo , reil by I.lw, seems not to be designated and enforred . with sufficient precision and certainty. To I secure its faithful pertorrontice, I recom mend n revision of the law. During the exibting state of things, the continuance el taxes assessed, for the priment of this interest, or at least if tax• es (XBOlllll kind for this Fnian:o, aprnis to be indispensable. if the distributien of the objects of taxation, or the mod,. of lc. vying and collecting the tax be unfair, 01 onerous, and .übtedly the evil sht.uld be promptly corrected. 1 have beret , fore d. dared ivy ch mina'inn to do all that belongs to this &- p a rr-new t.. meet fintloutly r 4 1.1 ei.pgi g:.gr• meets of the state, and to insulin - in uneul lied. the credit arid fidelity of Our t'orn' tr nowc•alth. My sentiments in relation to three matters have undergone no change, and I urn 'pleased to'find that on this sub ject, there is no diversity of opinion a mong the great mass of the citizens of the state. All agree that, whenever the con stituted authorities of the Commouwealth, have entered nito engagements conforma• bly to the constitution and laws, whether these engagements have been churtcter• rod by due prudence and a miter regard to the interests of the public, or nut, the honer of the ante, the-permanence of our republican institieiens, and a meted regard to tire sanctity of public engagements, re• quire that the resources ui• th.r Common wealth, end the energies of her citizens, be put in requisition, to meet her public en gagements promptly, punctually, and un hesitatingly. It is, therefore, rasp• cifully and earnestly urged upon the Legislature, to take the necessary steps, et the earlt est posesible duy, to ensure this dubitable result. As the most efficient means that have occurred to my mind, I would suggest the following course. Let the Legislature ascertain from the financial departinents, both the ordinary revenue, and the amount necessary to be raised, annually, for the payment of the , interest on the state debt, and the ordinary expenses of government• Let previsions also be made to cover all possible contingencies and losses on collec tion. And to this a BUM, though ever so small, for a sinking fund, to be applied an ' ally to the extinguishment of the principal of the public debt, and apportion it among the several counties of the Cowmonwealth, designating the amount to be paid to each, by an uniform apportionment according to the triennial, or last assessments, with such corrections and equalization as shall be found neceseasy, and on the same objects now taxable, or any ntl.ers that the Legit.. feta° may think preferable. Let ade quate and certain penalties be imposed on each county Commissioner for omitting to have the duplirates issued in time, and tin each assessor for the non-performance of his duties, and allow t he'county • such a. reuiem, us shell be thought right, if its 1 lull quota the Treasury. on or before the day required by law. It is believed that a committee of the Legisla• tore wculd be as cemletent aFoaid as could be raised, to apportion the quotas of the several counties, as above mentioned, aided, as they will be, by the late assess memo and census. The establishment of this system by law, would place the fund to meet the interest on the public debt, on a permanent foundation, and silence forev er all doubts t%hich . intrrested speculators might seek to raise on this subject. Rut it is not only to the loan holders of the Commonwealth, that she ought to be just in meeting her engagements. A re gard to economy, as well as justice, to the men who labor upon.the.repairs of our ca nals arid rail roads, requires that they should be pucntually paid. The laborer is worthy of his hire and is as meritorious a creditor as the Commonwealth has, and it is absolutely disreputable that he should be dependent on the borrowing of money for his pay, and be unable, at times, for mouths together, to procure as much for his labor as will buy him a loaf of bread. It is respectfully sugges'ed, that a hen a• bundant means front taxation are provided to meet the interest of the state debt, that the tolls on our public works shall bo first applied to -their repairs, so thnt we may know, at n glance, to what the net: revenue, if any, arising from them respectively a• mounts. 836,331,605 98 536,426,239 78 tis not to be disguised that we are deeply in debt; and that the times call for an unquailing fearlessness in our public functionaries, to meet the emergency, and to provide the means for our extrication.-- The people are already burden, d wrth tax ation, and those burdens cannot be &min ished, if we expect to pay our debts. The conduct and motives of those who make provision to pay them, may be misrepre sewed, and for a time misunderstood.— Prejudice, from the sordid feelings of inter est, may be invoked, and demagogues and unprincipled politicians will, doubtless, at tempt to use it, to answer their own pur poses. But the responsibility is one which every honest public functionary must meet fairly nod frankly, and ill so doing ho will be eventually sustained by the people ut large, who never deliberately err, and who always will reward, with their confidence, en honest and tentless devotion to their true interests, even though it mad•, iit rust, have met with temporary disapprobutien. 'lite means to pay off the lean under the act of 4th May, 1841,—t0 pay the forego ing creditors of the state, and the interest on the public debt, n:ust be prnvided be fore the Legislature rljeurtio. &told pull• cy, nay common konr stv, detetwels this much at your hands, fu.d t iim reseeded no member of the Leg;slaiiiie •‘‘ ill shrink from a duty enjoined by sue)] vete-hit-ra tions as these. $924,959 15 It will be found nn reference u► the it mount at taxes paid by the tatople, that comparatively n small portirat .s le~.esl to diqeharge the ►ate eat an the pi.htie debt. Although in the aggregate the tae ace onerous, by far the greater a►nuuut is ub sorbed in the ordinal" purposes el town ship, city and county affairs. I 'eke great pleasure in stating the fact, that the in crease of the tuxes for the maintenance of the faith and homer of the state, has been regarded in a spirit of patriotic duty by the public at lerge, and has leAen harm: without repinii g, unless, indeed, we except a rely few persons, re,itling in portions or the state which have reaped almost it e en tire benefit of the expentlifirie - of the viler seine of meney, for the payment o f interest on which these taxes are imposed. 1 felt siitisfiA when f reeuninieraled, early in my official career, the resort to taxation, in stead of nilditional loans, to pay the inter• eat annually accruing. ihnt the enlightened yeomunry of Penn sy Ninon would, under the circumstances, sanction the reennimenda rinn. Imu now conviered I did not mis take their true character; nor can the ex traordinary conduct of some persons, pro fussing better principles, who first urged the adoption of the measure, and afterwards ' denounced these who acquiesced in it, shake far a niiiment my steadiest convie• hone on this sulijeel. 1 always believed the people week] do their duty. let it cost what it miiilit, the first itintailee is yet to be found in our history when they hove flinch ed from it, if rightly underamed- The unprecedented increase of one pers. ulation and resources, cannot fail, in o few years to render our imprnv. manta so pro. duchve as to supereede the necessity for taxation. The ultimate value or our stu perafoue system of public winks cnn hardly now be estimated- They have already added an incalculable arn.iunt of value to the property rd the citizens of the Com monwealth, and given an earnest of their capacity tor futtne uselutneca. 'lle travel and transportation up n iLem n ust in. crease in full proportion with the tuultip• i• cation of our population, and the de%e!ope. meld or our exhaust less resources. W hen it is recollec'ed that the population of this State in the year 1800, was only 602 845; that itt 1820, It wits 1,049,3134 nod in 1840, it was 1,724 033, showing an so crease a ithin the Inst twenty yeare, ex ceeding the whole population in the year 1800; and when it is remoufbered that this immense increased and increasing popula tion has imparted, nod is still imparting its intellect, energy at d industry to the improvements of the ugricultural, manufacturing and commercial interests • of the Commonwealth; Dud that during the past year, when trade and business were:, greatly depressed; alien the Delaware di• vision was not in IINO until about the firbt of Angela; and when the important anthra cite coal trade, front the Wyoming, Sha mokin and Bear valleys, and other inter mediate points to tide; and the bituminous coal trade from the Allegheny mew lain, on the West hrar eh, and Juniata region, to hde; have been barely commenced, the ceipts of toll amounted to the sum of t_4702,500 44, it will he difficult to form a just estimate (gibe extent of their future usefulness and extended rereipta. Theso internal i'mproiosnoom, for the ennsauct:en of which the princip.tl of the Stale debt has been incurred, con sists of . 784.1 miles of canal and railways completed, and 1051 tales of canal in pro gress of construction and nearly completed. Tiro finished worlo,nre the following: miles The Delaware canal, from Easton to tido at Bristol The main line of canal and railway from Philadelphia to Pittsburg Canal from Beaver on the Ohio river to Greenville. in the direction of Erie Canal from Franklin on the Allealieny river to Conneaut lake 491 Canal, Susquehanna and North Branch from Duncan's Island to Llckaavanna Canal. Wein. Branch from Nortbomber' , land to Farrandsaille Several atdo cute and huvigablo Naito) Total canals and railway* completed 7681 Canals in propels and nearly completed: miles North Branch extension, from Lackan an. na to New York line Erio extenalon, from Greenville to Erie harbo- Wlsconisco canal, from Duncan's Island to Wirconisco crook Total canals in progress The report of the Canal Commissioner., with the accompanying documents, which will shortly bo laid bolero you, will show in detail, tho state and condition of our public improvements. Hav ing in former communications to the legislature, stated my views in relation to our system of in. lernal improvements, I beg leave, respectfully, to refer you to them, as being unchanged, without wishing unnecessarily to extend this communica tion, by embodying them In it. When 1 first entered upon the duties of the ex ecutive department, the question of completing the North branch and Brio oxtensions was sub mitted to the action of the legislature The rep. resentatives of the people deeiJed in fry. r of coin. pleting both, and have by three subrequont acts, appropriated consichrable sums of money. for that purpose. The North Branch mural liss al. ready cost $2,348,279 38, of' which the sum of 8389,676 42 remains yet duo to contractors.— The Erie extension has already cost about 82,. 919,507 of which the NUM of 8574,406 23, is yet duo to contractors. The grave question is now presented to your serious consideration, whether, under all the circums.ences, those two lines aro to be forthwith finished. or abandoned for all time In come, end the entire amount abbot slid money expandod upon them thrown away. Con. tractors who have gone on to the work and per. haps executed the least profitable port of it, will have fair claims nn the justice of the legislature for remuneration, fur thin lorwes they have Pus. tained by the abandonment of the work by the Commonwealth. •Incl,giiig from the success which usually croons perseierence, in similar appliea. Lions, bolero (lie legislsturo. there can be little eoubt that this chi., of claimants will not go away unanswered and tmeati-fled. 'I lot farmer whose laiois i.vo been cut up a. , (1 deslreYed, will niso bo a jui:t ela.mont for corouettentien for the injuly be hue suslatoot., tar the advantages from the pioi OPCti C 41,111 will mitt be alb available Bel 144 it may to well to inquire whether _the ineuht of Iltut-tt clni,es would col go far towards the completi , n ti'lr. b. al,eitet , C , I/1 itt.NOV.P. illelllll. The only rah,' objectii.n to n prusecue. tion of throe ...ynrica to roinptetion, me the thiteirity t o he npprehended , in reusing :ten neressery tor the pu• po,e. The e:..in,a.ed co-; to coleph.te the B. mu exam-ieu 'rod the Not lh Breech 51.91.8 416, it derrno. it of the arrearncs dt.e contr. •c.or• .r• willell mm 4 he paid at sli r v,Lts, e roe fidocct• can be Inc.t NI in the . exit, ar‘ , tt.t• ostler ales ()Clime coot c , tittpietieg these could be extend. ed to those marls ir, Ilia earlier stages aim pub. lie itruirovatosots; from the increased piractiiisl ,exporience of those entrusted with the att'y cf making them. Ms nen opinion remains nn. changed, thet it is our true policy to go nn and I complete both them wot ks with as little drily es possible. This, however, is a qcostion exclusive ly for your doe loon. Far the debts nee. doe to contractor. on these lines, as well as for ropairs on the other lines, rendered indispensable, end without which ma. , ny portions of nor canals world hese been una. ' vailable and useless Ihroughnet the season, I respectfully urge.that some prompt and immedi ate proVittion ba,inade. Many .of the contrite tors have luid out of their mnaey far a lone , time, and have suffered serious injuries by the delay. If in) better expedient can be devised, I would recommend tho immediate issuing of a six per cont. stock, to all such creditors, redeemable at such time as shall be thought most expedient. The amount required to pay debts due for re pairs on the several lines of canal and rail road, it will bo observed by the report of the Canal Commissioners is unusually large. This is to be ascribed to the unprecedented breach which occurred in the Delaware Division, in January last, which cost about 8150,000; to the renewal of tho North track of the Columbia rail road; to the rebuilding, in a permanent manner, the locks, bridges and aqueducts on several of the divisions, and particularly on the North Branch, where the original superstructures, composed entirely of wood, had so far decayed as to leave no other alternative, than either to renew them through out, or abandon the navigation entirely. It is also, in part, to be ascribed to the fact, that only a portion of the funds appropriated by the act of the 4th of May last, for repairs, and to pay debt. thbn duo, became available; leaVing a largo bal. once of the appropriations to these objects, there. In eutherizati,attli duo to the public creditors. There Is always, even under the roost °cone. mical administration.' of affairs,a greater amount ofoxpense incurred in managing and keeping in repear great public improvements for the Commonwealth, than it would cost if they were in the hands of individuals. It is, therefore, re. spoctfully suggested for the consideration of the Legislature, whether the public interest would nut be promoted, and the amount of the State debt considerably lessened, by a sale of the canals' and railroads belonging to the Commonwealth, or at least, a portion of them, or such ether dis position as would diminish their annual expen ses to the Commonwealth, and Increase the a• mount of revenue trout them. Wore the Commonwealth free from debt, I should hesitate to recommend the sale of any of her public improvements. But oppressed as she is, the cost which the repairs require, and the necessity of relieving ourselves as far as possible, induce me to urge action on this subject, at least,so far as regards the Columbia railroad,and the Delaware division oftho Pennsylvania canal. It will matter but little to those interested in the bee ot the improvements, whether they aro in the hands of the public or individuals, provided ; pro. per safeguards aro enacted to protect the public in tho free use and enjoyment of them, and 'to guard against abuses and exaction. If it be objected that salon cannot be effected In the present state of our pecuniary emb meats, that will be no reason why a law should not now be enacted etuthorising the sale of such portions of them as shall be deemed proper, sub ject to the approbation of the Legislature on the ante being reported. If sold, ()Seri on an extend. ed credit, if the principal be secured, and the interest punctually paid, it will so far relieve the Commonwealth. The dispositions of capital jet, would thus be made known, and it can, at least, be ascertained whether a sale at an ado quote price can be effected. The policy of leas.. ing for a term of years, ono or both of those Im. provemonts, has been more than once suggeeted.l Of the propriety of so doing, I am not prepared I to express a decided opinion, but have thought it worthy of a suggesticn for your consideration. That the public works should be unpro• ductive, it; owing in a great measure to a want of proper legislation on the subject, anti Onto= min bs..T.ismai..d, eviure• - pair public confidence in their utility.— The Canal Commissinners have repeatedly urged upon the legislature the propriety of allowing the Conimonwealth, alone, to carry the passengers on the Columbia railroad. No railroad in the United States could sustain itself if it were to relinquish the carrying of the passengers, yet, on that road thus strange condition of things is ex- Libited. The State line expended in its construction over four millions of dollars, while the capital employed by those carry. ing the passengers, is perhaps thirty thou sand dollars. The State on her immense outlay, is reaping nbout 3 per cent, while the individual carriers on their thirty thou sand dollars, are clearing nearly 200 per cent. So it is, also, with regard to the • -.transportation between Philadelphia and Pittsburg. That line of our improvement, •between those cities, was constructed nt e cost of a fratition over 814,001,000. The transportation on it is monopolized by some seven or eight cOmpaniee, employing a cap ital of less than four hundred thousand dol lars; vet, while the State is receiving little more than will keep it in repair. the trans portere are realizing immense profits, and that, too, one comparatively small outlay. This can only be remedied by vesting the Canal Commissioners with full and ample authority to adopt such measures as in their judgment will, be best calculated to enlist individual enterprise and invite competition and to counteract the streets of the selfish and monopolizing system that has control. led, and now controls, the transportation on ; our public works. It may possibly he supposed that the Ca. narCetninbisinners possess adequate power already for this purpose, but this is to mis• take the case. From the nature of that, de. pertinent of the government, it is always made the target a , . which the discontented and interested point their shales. Not 41 session ot the Legislature passes without harressing the commissioners with invests gations—the whole State is ransacked for eccusers—every net is questioned and min -1 repseeented— alto, till, the result .is fruitless The first instance is vet in be found in which any thing tangible has been produced, or any salutary reform nit he sys tem effected. Were the Legislature to de vote one session in an honest and thorough examination and correction of the agues end defects of the system, withont annoying and pursuing individuals for sinister ends, not openly avowed, much good would bit produced; lint, under any oilier mode of trealine this subject, the issue must be as tulle and frivulunq as heretofore. Ido not wish to preclud e Me most searching inves• tieatious. I merely desire to direct your attention in a Aminel that will be benefi cml to the eublie. Ono of the grenteq oyilti of these fre t-ie:it friyalmiq investigatintis is, that they bring leltislatiye investigatio nv th em • selves into- discredit, The prareut ion of the innocent, always affords a shield to the guilty. It is unw, throughout the country a matter of idle sport to talk of these investi• gattons. The mode by which they me brought about is well understood. A few dissatisfied cnntructors, and others, impose on the c;edufity and Er itnukte the ambition of some member of the legislature to offer a petitioti, complaining of public grievances. A committee to investigate is appointed. Supbcenas are issued, end straightway swarms of hungry confederates throng to the seat of government, to prosecute their claims hofbro the It;gislature,—to lounge at the public expense, and join in a whole sale pillage of the treasury. At the close of the session the committee reports,—the witnesses. return to their homes, and,laugh at t:ie trick, as they pocket the spoils.—By reference to .this subject it will be found that a I-Argo portion of the legislative ex penses is incurred in this way. Tice extra ordinary increase of these expenses, over those of all other departments, has been of late years, a matter of just complaint. It becomes my duty in the next place, to invite your earnest attention to the pres ent condition of the banks, and currency of this state.. It is a most lamentable feet, that, in relation to this subject, the greatest irregularity and disorder prevatl. It is true, we have hullo, if any of that wretched illegal trash, in circulation, which during the early part orate last six years, infected all sections of the . commonwealth, in the forms of notes, checks,eertificate., &c. &c., ofcorporations and individuals, ler small sums, put forth without lawful. authority, and in spire of the prohibitions of law; but wo have, what is little better, a large amount of notes in circulation, ostensibly legal, and purporting to be of equal value, because founded on the faith of the state; by whatever bank issued, and yet, notwith standing this tact, discredited and requdia ted by the very institutions for whose bene. fit and relief they were authorized to be issued. The act of last session, entitled "an act to provide revenue 14 meet the de mands on the treasury and for other purpo ses," under the provisions of which, these small notes have been thrown into circula tion, having become a law by the sanction of two• thirds of the Legislature, according to the forms of the Constitution, notwith standing the objections of the. Executive, I have exerted myself to the utmost, to see its provisions properly carried into effect. This was my duty', as the Execu tive, .and I. have .faithfully performed it, agreeably to the best dictates of my ju.dg meat. I did hope that some of the evils which have resulted from it, might have been obviated, if it was enforced by me, and acted upon in a spirit of enlarged wisdom, by the banks themselves. This hope has been vain. The worst anticipa firms have been realized, end it is my duty to suggest ouch a remedy, as appears 19 me to be best calculated to correct the griev• ances under which the public labors. By this act a loan of three millions one hundred thousand dollars was autholized, to pay srecific appropriations made by the said act, and the several bunks of the Cotn mon weir .stutlieLpt- do , the payment a s tai oii.their dividends, were authorized to subscribe for the same, in certain propor tions to the capital stock r:1 each- Tho whole amount of banking capital in the Commonwealth 18, •23,559.3%4 Banking capital not aubjept to tax on dividnndß, Banking capital subject to the payment al tax on dividends. r $18,409,374 Of the banking capital subject to the pay. ment of a tax on dividends. banks holding to the nmeunt of 810,830,145, did not accept ofthe provisions of the net of 4th May to provide revenue, and hence the cap ital of the banks which did u'cept of the provisions of the said act, amounted only to the sum 0f57,573,229 The whole amount of the loan token by the accepting hanks and paid into the trea sury is 81,756,650 88 lenvii the sum of $1,343,:?49 32 which has not been re ceived. On the 90th August, 1931, i arcepied an cfrir of the Towanda Bank, to P bse ri be for nn additional sum of ono hundred thou sand dollars of the said loan, and on the same day I accepted an offer of the Erie Bank, to subscribe for en additional eum of three hundred and fifty thousand dol la rs. Of theve offers the state treasurer agreed to accept from the Erie' Bank, the sum of twentyfive thousand doiliv,.and from the Towanda Bank, the sum of thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars. This batik did not accede to the proposition to accept a part of the sum offered, hence no part of the one hundred thousand dollars was re ceived at the treasury. Thus it appeals, a I very large portion of the banking capital,; subject to the operation of this ta• ken no part of the loan at all, and can, of course, have no claim to indulgence under' this law. Those banks which haVe corn 1 plied, stand in a different position—their ; loans must be repaid before they can no forced to resume. It is an inquiry of much moment, whether the blink's that have not complied with the requisitions of the law ought not to he deprived of the advantages) arising from the use of the notes issued by those that did. . Alter the most patient reflection on this subjt.ct, I em persuaded that the only ef fectual and certain remedy is, to repeal the net so far as relates to the issue. of these intes, and to provide ndequate means to discharge the loan on which they are ba red.. To pay this lean, a six per cant stock might be authorized to be thrown into mar. kot, to sell for whatever it will produce.— Should there be a small loss upon it, I am sure it will be deemed n very incunsido. rnblu matter, compared with the tneonve• ntence the people suirttr Irom the present state of things. To remedy this, a sacri (lca, to some extent, is inevitable. Connected with this tepeal of this law, should ho the enforcement of specie pay• merits by the banks. An early day should be fixed for this event, at least as early us fist of Juno. The time, hi.wever, is not so material, whether it be a low sooner or Inter, so that a certain definite; and reis• sonable time be•fixed. Your action on this point, clinnot be ton prompt fur -the Oldie interest. The community has been 1904 enough held in sulunise—let the final Is sue be at once presented, and it is tu . :.be hoped, the people and the banks prepared f:r it when•it arrives. Those banks which are in a sound con dition, will conform to the requisitions of the Legislature, without much embarrass-, ment; and those which - are not, will thus be brought to the touchstone of their mer its. The first will sustain themselves, the latter must take their fate. As soon as (he produce of the country has found its way to market to the spring, the people will be as able as at any other period, to endure whatever hardship results from this measure. I do not myself believe, that any inconvenience which can arise from it ; will be greater, nor any thing like so pro. tracted, as those which are felt by all dos ses now. It seems to me it tvould be far better, to bring matters to a crisis at once, than to suffer under the slow, but deathlike torpor that has already seized upon all. A very few may, possibly, fall victims a little soon or, who could not escape in the end, but the community at large will ultimately ex perience effectual relief. Let rashness. violence and injustice be strenuously avoid ed, but no vain hopes, or empty theories should prevent a cool, calm contemplation. of our duty, and a firm and unshaken dis charge of it, without turning to the right: hand or to the left. A suspension of ripe. cue payments is at variance With every principal of correct banking. The forbearance hitherto extended to the lianks has not been without irs uses.— It has enabled the hanks to test their alleg ed ability, arid to extricale thnnseives,from "their difficulties, mid has added much to the stock of our experience. It has clear ly demonstrated, that if the banks corild not regain public confidence, under the in dulgenee they have received, the systetri on.which tboy are founded is essentially unsound, and requires thorough amend ment or extirpation. We have witnessed, too, under its influence the most extraordi nary changes take place, without any sud den or genera: convulsion. A batik of thirty-five millions capital has exploded and gone down in the midst of us, cnmpre bending .within its sphere of business, the• most extensive relations, both with indi viduals and with other banks, without ma king more than limited portions of the Commonwealth feel the blow with oppres 6IVC weight. Looking. therefore, at all these considerations; the indulgence here tofore given to the banks, furnishes the strongest reason in favor of the manse I suggest, and fully justifies its adoption. (Conclusion in our next.] 2.I2'22'WSISUMCS ViTIM ~..ty firr , — ''''''' ...—ag,-, Z , V ita l i it i .x i t ::::.l l-11. : ...., 71 174 430 ,4-11:4:--:1 : , ,1 : ::Pil l 7i', - ..f t::2 3 : , ' :-: , i' -,) ________ sr .... AND REPUBLICAN BANNER. 5,150,000 GETTYSBURG. Jannary 11. 1811. FOR PRESIDENT IN 1844, GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT, Subject to the decision of a National Convention CCWe aro indebted to :Umtata. STr.VENB and FAUSs, of the State Legislt Lure, for copies of the Governor's 'Message. Our acknowledgeinenta are Oro due the'lion. J•leSa COOCER for his numerous Favors. Governoes nessar.e. Owing to the great length of the Onveynoee Message, and the lateneas of the hour at which it was received, we are unable to give it entire this week. Our readers,- however, will find as much of it in to•dny's parer as they will he able, we think, to digest at one meal. We will give the remainder in our next. The Legislature. The Legislature of Pennsllvanis assembled at Harrisburg on Tuesday last. In the House, James R. Snowdon, (Loco loco) was elected Speaker over Isaac Lightner, (Democrat.) The vote stood, Snowden 63, Lightner 33. Henlock & Bratton, of the State Capitol Gazette, were elected printers of the English Journals. Huttrr & Bigler of this GerMrin Journals, and Leant.° & AVKinley, of the Keystone, Printers of the Bills. In the Senate on Wt.dnesrlay, John Strohm of Lancaster WWI elected Speaker of that body, on the fouiteenth ballot. Goo. W. Homersly was elected Clerk, !gain K. Zeilin, of Delaware, was appointed assistant, and Jan. D. Clarke end Holmes Meekly, Transcribing Clerks. nom Vetoes! Governor Porter has already eent to the Legis- lature, since the commencement of the present session,slX Veto messages returning Bills of last session, viz:—The Bill authorizing suit to ha brought against Daniel Sturgeon; the Bill authori zing the election of Notaries Public, by the people; the Election District Dill; the Bill to abolish the Mayor's Court of the city of Lancs.. ter; and two ether Bills, the titles of which we have not learned. It is said there will be at least a dozen more. The Governor generally sets out by saying, ..That he cannot reconcile it with his son.° of duty to give the Executive sanction to the Dill," for certain reasons; but the' greatest difficulty in every instance, is, that it was parsed by a Whig Legislature, which ho never fails to express, either directly or indirectly, in such a manner, that it is not easily misunderstood. ••I, , Ve cut the follawinglrom die Baltimore Express. for the benefit of any who may he dis posed to engage in business these trying times. It is to be feared tbat butfew will answer this coil, lest the trade should suffer at home. The Vccupstisr4 though oftentimes cad and thank. leer, practised so extensively in all our towns, (anti in :l rto - Re to a greater extent than our own) that the ovrrices of young gentlemen cannot be spored Without some Perions detriment to its reipeelobilily. fteciuitv are to be enlisted to keep up the service and regulate public manners There is, therefonr, but little prospect of a nu:net on, body of e pplicants to fill vecaneies in the unless : they establish • Board of Control, whtch can increase the profits, and insure to those who may proffer their services good revile with all church going and orderly people. We con fess this is necdeti in country towns. - ;; Wcrrect--Six or eight respectable look ing young men to stand at the ladies door nt the meeting house, in order to look at the 'fair creatures' when they come out of church, mid at night to push their faces under the ladies' bonnets to ascertain who they are—also A number of persons to go out of church when the services are about half over;male or female persons will answer—also Two or three young men or boys to stand at the side windows to smoke cigars while the congregation is engaged, so that they can be regaled with the smoke; it is so refreshing to the congregation. En quire in Politeness street. CO3C Rut —We have nothing of interest from this body. The National Intelligericer says— .Mo wish we were able to inform our readers that the business of Congress is going on either smoothly or rapidly. But, on the contrary, no progress at all, to speak of, has been made in it this week; and the proceedings, in the Roues! of Repreeentatives at feast, have been any thing but hermonintis." FROM HARRISBURG. Coyeoposuicnor of the Gettysburg Star and Banner. HIEIIIISMICUG, January 6. 1842. * Pear . s"l . r:—ln , the House, the proceedings of a - meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia city and F."-PitY. *ere presented by the Speaker. on the etif;jeet of repudiation of the State Debt. The reference Ird to a protracted dircursion, in which 'Messrs. bteerts, Wright, Crabb. M'Caheu end participated. The doCtrine of repndis. Cron . was effectually repudiated. The petition was nnenitnously referred to • select committee with instructions to report adverse to the prayer o('the petitioners. liluch a decided comiemnation of the abomina ble doctrines upon the threabbold by the repro sentatirel'Of the people, will do much to main tain inviolate the plighted feith of Pennsylvania- The committee are Messrs. Wright, Dcford, Crabh,,Steeene and M'Caben- The Message has been received. It suggests the propriety of authorizing six per cent. State Stock to pay the loan authorized by' ilia last ses sion end for the payment of debts: a resumption of specie payments, &c. We had also a VETO, accompanying the re- turn of the bill of last session authorizing suit to be brought against Daniel Sturgeon. his any thing but complimentary to Mr. Williams and fde,repurt on that subject in the Srnato lest win ter. - liitsjust had an el.ction of Clerk which resulted in the' choice of Wm. J. B. Andrews. it Gross. (er many years assistant Clerk, is his assigtant: Mr. Ramsey ass supported by the Whigs. • Alfred M. Clark, of PI iLidelphia county. a Here of the Buckshot war, has just been elected Sargent at Arms over Major Sanders, the most efficient officer, the House of Representatives has had fur toiny years. But in the language of the loebfoeos, who express such a horror at the re moVal of their friends from office, "The °nine tinit is st work." Lest.,lnt ntet least, Col. Hugh Lindsey of .13cikt; whom •no doubt you recollect upon .ta count of his eocuse previous to the late election , hos been elected Doorkeeper. 'Trento - eh end Blatt° nof the Nato Capita! Gazette, are tu have the printing of the English !litmus!. Hinter and High rof the German; and MlN:inky Leacere of tlie licystone. the bills. r.• :1 , • Youe's ece. I'lannisnun4, Jan 7, 1842 ' DEAR Std—This day the o.wernor rent us six vetomessages, abusing the lsat legislature like • pick pocket. He becomes more debased, the more the people trust hhn In senate, Family has turned out like nil eunuch politicians.—He voted fur the Lacofoco printers . for English and German Journals.— Thee were elected. Elliott & 141'Curdy, of the Intelligencrr, bargained with Boss & Patterson (Locorocas) to divide the profits with them, rather than divide with Montgomery (Democrat) as dm caucus of our lilac& had determined.— larrcHy, who is said to bo related to one of them, followed their counsels and voted as above stated. Tbe members from Huntingdon went into the Locoloco caucus, and vote with them. When will our friends learn to shun hermaphrodite politicians Yours, &c. Tel I PER ANCE.—The following per sons ore appointed De}: gates to • represent the "Total Abstinence Temperance Socie ty of Gettysburg and its oicini'y," in the County Convention, to he held in Hunter• town, on Saturdly next, (the 15th inst.) at 11 o'clock, A. M. Rev. Dr. Schtnucker, Rev. S. Guteltus, H. Van Orsdel, J. F. Macfarlane, Rev. B. Keller, D. M. Sinyser. Gotliebßo4slor, J. Majors, A. R. Stevenson. R. G Mc• Creitry, S. R. Russell, H. Scott, G. Ar. [told, G. Buehler, Rev. J. C. Watson, a s- Baldwin; Col. Wm. N. - Irvico, 3loses MeOletn,"Jolin Brinkerhoff, John Graeff. ===i LowsLt.—The land on which the city orLnwell, 31099. now stands, was twenty vents ago, a'ssessed at 81000. There is °Ow Invested in the manufacturing business eilone 610,501 1 ,000. There are 23 cotton mills; running . 166,000 spindles, and 5193 looms. *consuming annually 1,95!,000 pounds of cotton, and manufacturing 59, 273:400= yards of cloth, and employing 6430 fenn;les, and 2077 male operatives. A FORGERY.—The Carlisle (Pe.) States man mPotions a rumor that one of the citi zen.; of that place, her, been detected in an attempt to commit forgery for $7OOO. Ile is also charged with 'mother serious crime. broncustancor.--1410 inaugunition of Coy. Porter will take pin Ce on Tuesday the 18th inst. We understand that a number of military companies from Phili delphia. York, Lancaster city and other places, design yisiting flarri,burg on that occasion. The number of new buildings erected in Philadelphia during the last year, was 4343. On the 30th ult. by the Rev. Samuel Montgom ery, Dr. John M'Dourli, of Mercer burg, Frank• lin county, to Miss Sarah Rats!, of 'Weatmore land county. On the 30th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Shearer, Mr. Samrsel Rougher, of this count•, to Miss Leah Lielenetein, of York county. On Tuesday morning last. at an advanced age, Mr.Darid Vonde, bell, of Straiten township, on old revolutionary soldier. Gettysburg Literary Association. A Meeting• agile members will be held in the office of Moses fir Clean, Eaq . an Manday rrening' January 17th, at o'clock, to maks a selection of Periodical, fur the precent year. HENRY THORP, Seery. Jan. 11, 1'42. THE deleentes to the County Temper ance Convention are particularly requested to bring with them the Constitutions of their respective Societies—and to be pre- pared to acquaint the Convention with such statistical information as is generally called for on such occasions. Several distinzoished friends of Temper slice have been invited to attend and address the Ilunterstown Convention. To the Enrolled Citizens of the 2d Ihi Bade sth Division Penn. Militia. WHE Subscriber, a' the desire of his JIL friends, is induced to oar himself as a Candidate for the office of Brigade Inspector, at the Election in June next. He will, if elected, perform the duties of the office with promptness and fidelity. JAM ES MORRISON. Jan. 11, 1P42. td-42 Trial List.—Jan. Term. Slingtuff & Co. vs. G. W. M'Clellan, Sheriff. Win. Wright vs. Susquehanna Canal'Co. Meta of John Quickol vs. Gabriel Meals. liPnry Slaybaugh we. William. Daniel & David Bricker. The Cammonsvealth Ex Rel. vs. Daniel Dear. John Eckeurudo vs. John Kohler. You AIRGCMINT. - Myers. Janus J. 111'En:telly vs. Mary Myers, Her of Henry Myers deed. Thomas Heston vs. Aders of John Bowman. Samuel Rife vs. Jam Gsrcin. Borough. David breviary, Joel B. Dounor, Ephraim Martin, Samuel Witherovv. Reading. Henry Hildebrand, faeob Ault. bough, John Tudor, Samuel O•erLoltter, Jacob Bushey (ofJ.) Union. John Daft°, Amos Lefever, Wm. Weikert. Lattmere. Henry Hunt. Hamilton. Martin Getz, Wm. Hildebrand, George Swartz. Samuel Hollinger, (of D.) Stratum. Thomas fir Creary. Franklin. Frederick Stover, Benjamin Gram. mar. • Hamiltonban. Hugh Culbertson. Tyrone. John DiehL Huntingdon. Win. Gardner. Cumberland. Robert M'Ctudy, Abraham Li mit', George Guinn. Union. Joseph L. Shorb, John But. Mountpleasant. Pater IL Noel, Henry Roily. Conowago. Daniel Gitt, John Kuhn, James Riiseringer. Franklin. David Wills, Henry Mickley: Hamilton. Renaud Wagner, Daniel Baker. Robert IWllvatn. Latiinore. Wm. Wright, James Robinette. Berwick. Joseph R. Henry. Reading. James Morrison, John Boum , man, Jr. CONXIINICATIM. Huntington. Isaac E. Wittman, Francis God• frey, William Hunt. MenaHen. John Wilson•.. Hamiltonhan. David M'lttillan. Germany. John A. Davie, Simon Bishop, Henry Gutslies. Borough. Lazarus Shorb, John Gilbert; Da vid Sweaty. Tyrone. Joseph Hill, John Lehman, Samuel Sadler. Straban. John N. Graft. Mountjoy. Joseph Fink. Jan. 11, 1842. to-42 Estate of DAVID STEWART, deed. ErfEILS of Administration on the . Estate of DAVID STEW, MIT, late f liamiltonban township. Adams coon' y, deceased have been granted to William Douglass, residing in the same township, he hereby requests all persons indebted to the said deceased, to make immediate payment of their respective dues, and all persons having claims or demands against said Estate, to make known the same to the subscriber "withourdelac. lIYMENIAL RICOINTIM. MARRIED, OBITUARY RECORD. HI EP, Temperance ',Notice. Committee of Arrangement. Jan 11, 1t.42. tc-42 BRIGADE INSPECTOR. Daniel Witmer 6c wife Ts. Executoia of Henry Grand Jury—Jan. Term. Menallen. Samuel Diehl. General Jury. NOTICE. ‘IILLIA 11 DOUGLASS, dldm'r. Jan. 4,1842. 61-41 ADVERTIEERIF.N.TS. BLACKSMITHING. 1:111P, Sobseril‘er temp6elfully informs ;be public that hr, nnw - nertipres the ehnp nn Welt Ntirkfio streef, Gettysburg, where he is:prepared to Axeeute nil 4inde ef eramtry work and Mar.k4Mithing belong. ing to his line of business ! . He hopes by strict attontion and. moderate charges to. merit a share orptitiliepntrnnege. WILLIAM GRAHAM. 31. 41 Jnn. 4. 1542. IAIS"11` or 'LETT ER% REMAINING in the. Poet ,Office, in I .lertysbOrg,nn the Ist instant, which if rwt token out before the first day of A pril next, will be sent to the General Poet Office 09 dead Letters. A. H. Miller Ash, John Arthur, Henry Anderson. B. James trot d, J. Bellinger, James Black,. Nicholas 'Bair, G. W. B'.yd, F. Baer, Hotly Boyd, Henry Bear, George Baker. C. John Moor, James R. Clark, . David M'Clsary, A. Curren,D. or G. Martin, W. Clapeadlo, A. Caldwell, Henry Cluiz, D. P. A. Dona Nun, Mary Plank. Lydia Devan, R. William Dysert, Jacob Righter, Susan Duntnoro, John Rude, Mr. Dunard. ' S. E. George Eply, 11. Everett, B. Everhart. F. Louis Filler, Thomas Frazier. G. Daniel Gowen, James Gourly. H. G. D. Harman, George Hammer, Susanna Thoman, Dr. S. C. Hall, Walter Thompson, Michael dt Abraham Melvina Thompson, Huffman, Frederick Troyer, George Hahn, V. Joseph Humer, Albert Vandyke. W. M. Harper, W. Zephaniah Herbert, Elizabeth Walker, Susan Hearts, George Wolf, George House, Joseph Walker, J. Hartman, sea.: Henry Webb, Sasan Ann M. Hutt Samuel Wintredo, High Constable. Jacob Welty,. I. James Wltite Addison Irvin. William W. Wright, K. John Wisler, • MohoTas Stoltz, David Scott. Joshua Sadler, C. Sigmond, Jacob Steffy, It. Spangler, William Saylor, S. E. Sadler, Abram Scott, John Swaney, Jacob Smith. 'F. A. Knoer. John Kuhn. Waggoner, Samuel Lehr, Ernaniel Ziegler. H. VANORSDEL, P. M. January 4.142. St-41 y o•rict. Michael Flames & Peter) Fieri Facial. Brough. now for the I No. 15 of A nse of N. Haines. t pill T. 1841..... vs. r Venditioni Ex. Jacob Bringman. j pones. No. 5, Nov. T. 1841. December 2Q, 1941. The Monies. .on this Venditiont Exponas and on the Fieri Facies, No. 15 April Term IE4I, some plaintiff against same debt, being consider ed as in Court, on motion, the court grant a rulo for the appropriation of the monies arising therein on the 4th Monday .)f . Jan uary next; notice to be given by advertis ing the same for three weeks successively in the Star and Republican Banner, print ed in Gettyabuig, and the like notice in ono newspaper in the Borough of Hanover York county. By the Court, A. MAGINLY, Prot/e.g. Bt7-41 Jan. 2, 1.942. Sherirs Sale. IN pursuance of a Writ of Venditioni Exponas, ta'ued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Adorns county, nod to me directed, will be exposed to Public. Sale, at the Court house, tin' the hoiroogh of Gettyaburg, on Toseday the •25111 ddy of January inst., at 1 o'clock P.,. M. Me Life Estate of Mom Merzekey A. Tract ot bawl, Situate in Germany township, Adams coon ty, Pa, containing 12 ACRES, more Or less, on which are erected a one ANT) A 11A LE-S WRY- }fn Log Dwelling illouser CU [1 • and log Barn, and an Orchard thereon, and a sprina of water near the door, adjoining !suds of Dr. Joseph Shorb, laceb Stately, and Jacob' Darman. Seized and taken in execution as the Estate of Adam Menchoy. GEO W. RPCLELLAN, Sherri. Sheriff's Office, Gettysburg, 3 . January 4. 1842. td-41 fr . j Note —An error hnving occurred loot week, in the publication of the shove atlvortire. went, the time of snle.it will he , ol , serretl, his been ebort . ceti from the 19th to the 96th inst. TO MY CRUDITORS. 'AKF notice that I have aprired 10 14e J udges Tit he Ci II of common pki t h of Adams county, for the heoefil of, the in , solvent • Laws, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and that they have appointed Monday the 24th day of January next, for the hearing of me and my creditors st . the Court House in the Borough of Gettysburg, when and where you tnny attend if you think proper. GEORGE KECKLER. Dec. 2 1 , 1341. stc-419 L-übangb, 2 tV. N. Long& Ly dia Lnng, Elizabeth Linsy, D. Longenecker, Isaac Leet, Christian Loew, Jacob . Myers.. John Mangurr; Victor Al'Elheny, John Miller, George Mower, R. M'Gnughy, Charles NigMar, Charles Natun?, 2 Col. C. P. G. 'Wea ver.
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