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Although I may not always be able to concur in the views of the public interest or the duties of its agents which may be taken by the other departments of the Go- vernment or either of its branches, I am, notwithstand- ing, wholly incapable of receiving otherwise than with the most sincere respect, all opinions or suggestions proceeding from such a source, and in respect to none am I more inclined to do so than to the House of Rep- resentatives. But it will be seen from the brief views at this time taken of the subject by myself, as well as the more ample one presented by the Secretary of the Treasury, that the change in the deposites which has been ordered, has been deemed to be called for by con- considerations which are not affected by the proceedings referred to, and which if correctly viewed by that De- partment, rendered its act a matter of imperious duty.
Coming as you do for the most part, immediately from the people and the States, by election, and posses- sing the fullest opportunity to know their sentiments, the present Congress will be sincerely solicitous to car- ry into full and fair effect, the will of their constituents in regard to this institution It will be for those in whose behalf we all act, to decide whether the Execu- tive Department of the Government, in the steps which it has taken on this subject, has been found in the line of its duty."
CONNEXION OF THE OHIO AND PENN. CANAL. Report to the Warren Convention.
The undersigned, to whom were referred the repre- sentations made to the Convention on behalf of the several objects for uniting the canals of Ohio and Pennsylvania, respectfully report:
That they could not fail to be deeply impressed with the responsibility of the task imposed upon them. as well as with a grateful sense of the confidence implied in their appointment. The first impulse was to decline, altogether, a trust by no means desired or anticipated on their part; and the discharge of which might well be expected, in any event, to be viewed invidiously; but the frank and candid spirit which characterized the pro- ceedings of the Convention, assured them that their la- bors, however imperfect, would be regarded with in- dulgence; and they did not feel at liberty, therefore, to interpose a sullen negative to the course which their associates regarded as tending to promote the great ob- jects in view.
In the attempt to fulfil, conscientiously, a duty so de- licate and important, it has been their anxious object, not only to keep steadily in view the very able reports referred to them, but to seek in every quarter, for such further facts and suggestions as might aid in reaching a just conclusion. Shortly after the adjournment of the Convention, they proceeded by the line of the northern route to Akron, and thence descended the Ohio Canal to Massillon. From this point, some mem- bers of the Committee pursued the route of the propos-
ed rail road; whilst the others made their way to Waynesburg, which was indicated as the most suitable point from which to commence the examination of San- dy creek. At Waynesburg, several very intelligent gentlemen were found in attendance, with the surveys of the Sandy and Little Beaver Canal route, and accom- panied the party up the valley of Sandy creek. The two divisions of the committee re-united at Hanover, and from this point enjoyed the advantages of the at- tendance of Mr. Joshua Malin, who had a large share in the labors exhibited in the report of Maj Douglass. On reaching New Lisbon, the undersigned were grati- fied by the opportunity of a personal conference on the subject of their inquiries, with many of the most re- spectable inhabitants. Here, also, two addresses were read and submitted to them; one by E. Potter, Esq., supplemental to that presented to the Convention; the other by A. W. Loomis, Esq., exhibiting the facts and arguments in favor of a canal by the southern route, and dwelling more particularly on the subject of the sup- ply of water. There was also a statement communicat- ed of the amount of merchandize sold in a single year, within the county of Columbiana.
These interesting papers, marked respectively A, B, and C, are appended to the present report. From New Lisbon, the committee proceeded to the mouth of the Little Beaver, and thence along the margin of the Ohio river to Beaver, accompanied throughout by Mr. Malin. They have at length reached this place; and, under the pressure of engagements elsewhere, rendered exceed- ingly urgent by an absence of unexpected length, they hasten to state as briefly as possible the conclusions at which they have deliberately arrived.
The question as to a Rail Road ought, perhaps, in order of time, to be first adverted to, as being one which, in the view taken of it by the committee, at an early period, involved no matter of detail. or considera- tion connected with a personal examination. As such a work must depend mainly, if not exclusively, upon private subscription, it became indispensable to inquire into the present state of feeling on this subject, in the quarters from which aid must necessarily be sought, and it was at once ascertained, beyond all doubt, that the prospect of obtaining subscriptions was utterly hope- less When to the powerful arguments, drawn from experience, which were represented as dissuading from such a plan of improvement, in reference to transporta- tion, was added the fact, that this work is not an inde- pendent one, but designed to connect two canals, and that its employment would involve a double trans-ship- ment, the committee felt, that to keep it longer in view was to put in peril a really attainable object. It is a source of high gratification to add, that as the convic- tions of the committee necessarily unfolded themselves in frank conference with gentlemen most deeply inte- rested in this project, they were met in a spirit of the utmost liberality and candor. No reason is seen to doubt that the most judicious location for the contem- plated work was made by Lieut. Mitchell.
Putting, then, a rail road out of view, there remain only the northern and southern routes for a connecting canal, and in coming to a decision between these, the undersigned are unanimous.
The great question in reference to a canal-and one compared with which all others are, in truth, insignifi- cant-is, of course, as to the supply of water. if an anxious and distressing uncertainty on this point attach to the work, no safe calculation can be made of its value as a stock, or its usefulness as a medium of conveyance. Where the supply is inadequate or precarious, we can- not assume, in an estimate of revenue, the maximum of boats which might possibly, in a given season, if pre- sented exactly at the desired period, be transported on the canal. The chances of disappointment will, in a great measure, suffice to dissuade from resort to a chan- nel whose failure, at a critical moment, may involve ir- reparable mischief. We must constantly bear in mind
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STATISTICS OF CRIME AND PAUPERISM.
[DECEMBER
that ours will be only one of the modes of communica- tion between the east and the west: and that its pro- ductiveness must depend on inspiring implicit confi- dence, not only in the cheapness and safety of this route, but, in the certainty of its operations.
The committee are satisfied that a canal, by Sandy and Little Beaver creeks, will not be adequately sup- plied with water. The allowances in practice, found so indispensable are, in the estimates for this route, very low; strikingly so, when compared with those on the other route by Colonel Kearney. The contemplated resort to steam engines is deemed wholly inadmissible. Nor ought we to overlook the admitted terdency of the streams relied upon, to shrink up with the improve- ment of the country. The number of boats, also, like- ly to pass through this work, though advantageously compared by the engineer, with the number on the New York Canal, at a particular period, falls far short of the subsequent expansion of business in that quar- ter. It would indeed be deeply mortifying if, instead of looking to the vast commerce that awaits this con- nection, and providing for, and urging its enlargement, we should have hereafter to look with alarm at the in- creasing demand for transportation as a satire on our own want of forecast. The undersigned will only add, that the apprehensious with which they approached this route, founded on estimate and calculation, were more than realized by actual observation on the ground; and there was forced upon them a conviction stronger, perhaps, than can be conveyed by words.
After the foregoing remarks, it is perhaps superflu- ous to say to the Convention, that the northern route, by the Ravenna summit, is the one which the under- signed unanimously recommend. Of the abundant supply of water for that canal, no doubt can be enter- tained; and it is ardently hoped that sectional feelings will be discarded, and the thoughts and exertions of all be steadily directed towards the accomplishment of an object of such vital importance to the whole of the two states
It is proper to note distinctly that the canal thus re- cominended, is one which shall connect the two great thoroughfares of the Ohio and Pennsylvania, by an un- broken chain of canal communication from Pittsburg to Akron. A work possessing this character is called for in express terms, by the charter, under which it is at present contemplated to act; and is, moreover, in the opinion of the undersigned, indispensable to enable us to compete successfully with the channels of convey- ance already open. A break in this chain, by a rail road from Beaver to Pittsburg, or by reliance on steam power to tow up Canal boats, when the state of the ri- ver shall admit, would, in the opinion of the undersign- ed, render the work altogether incompetent to effect the great objects which are aimed at, and which it is so well calculated, under enlightened management, to achieve.
In concluding this Report, the undersigned cannot but feel that it is probably the last act of their connec- tion with an assemblage which forcibly impressed every one of them with sentiments of respect and regard. The result of the Convention is, of course, like every thing human-a matter of uncertainty; but they must ever consider the period as well and happily spent, which brought them into intimate association with an estimable body of our fellow citizens, in a quarter of our common country, new to most of them; and they will delight to cherish the feeling of just national pride, with which they have traversed a great and flourishing state, whose prosperity may be distinctly traced to the indefatigable industry and sound morals of her intelli- gent and enterprising people.
Delegates from the city and county of Philadelphia:
Wm. Miller, Josiah White,
Jacob S. Waln,
George Handy,
Abraham Miller,
John M. Atwood.
Delegates from the city of Pittsburg, and county of Allegheny :
Richard Biddle, Charles Avery,
Geo. Miltenberger, Alba Fisk,
Geo. Cochran,
William Lecky.
Wm. Robinson, Jr.
Pittsburg, November 23, 1823.
STATISTICS OF CRIME AND PAUPERISM.
The following statement presents an interesting view of the criminal business of York county. We are glad to find the attention of gentlemen in the interior direct- ed to such inquiries, and would recommend this exam- ple as worthy of imitation in the other counties of the state. Few subjects are of more importance, than an investigation of the causes and progress of crime and pauperism; they cannot however be successfully prose- cuted without a reference to collections of facts. Every attempt, therefore, to amass facts, should be made and encouraged. Through the exertions of our prison so_ ciety, &c, we have frequently been enabled to present much important information in relation to this county- and it is extremely desirable to obtain an acquaintance with the criminal statistics of other portions of the state.
Criminal Statistics of York county, for the years 1828-9 -30-1-2-3; prepared by THOMAS C. HAMBLY, Attor- ney at Law.
OFFENCES.
Ignoramus.
True Bill.
Guilty.
Not Guilty.
0
0
0 0
Larceny
4
3
1
Assault and Battery do with intent to kill
3
4
2
2
1
do with intent to com. rape Keeping tippling house, Misdemeanor
6
2
1
2 1
1
1
Total 3 19
November Term, 1828.
3
2 1
Fornication and Bastardy Larceny,
1
1
Assault and battery
6
3 2
1
Passing counterfeit money
1
1
Keeping tippling house
1
Total
1 11
January Term, 1829.
Fornication and bastardy
2
1
1
Larceny
1
1
Ass. & bat. with int. to com.rape 1
1
Total
4
April Term, 1829.
Fornication and bastardy
6
2
4
Larceny,
1
5
1
4
Assault and battery
2
.3
3
Disorderly house
2
1
1
Keeping tippling house
12
5
2
4 1
Riot
1
Total
4 28
Guilty of Ass. & B. alone. Bills found and cont'd. Bills found and settled.
August Term, 1828.
Fornication and Bastardy,
0
2
2
1
1
1
Thomas P. Hoopes, Alex. M'Clurg,
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STATISTICS OF CRIME AND PAUPERISM.
1833.]
Ignoramus.
True Bill.
Guilty.
Not Guilty.
Guiltyof Ass. & B.alone.
Bills found and cont'd.
Bills found and settled.
OFFENCES.
Ignoramus.
True Bill.
Guilty.
Not Guilty .
Guiltyof Ass. & B. alone.
Bills found and cont'd.
Bills found and settled.
April Term, 1831. Fornication and bastardy Assault and battery Larceny
3
1
1 1
Assault and battery
2
8
3
3
2
Keeping tippling house
12
2
3
4
3
Gambling
1
Passing counterfeit money
1
Kidnapping
1
1
Disorderly house
1
1
Fornication and bastardy Larceny
4
1
2 1
Assault and battery
4
1
1
Tippling house
4
2
Malicious mischief
1
1
Larceny
4
3
1
Assault and battery
11
3
1
2
Libel
1
3
1
2
Larceny
2
Assault and battery
2
1
1
Selling unwholsome provision
1
1
Forgery
1
1
Fraudulent insolvency
1
1
Ass. & bat. & false imprison't
1
1
Total
12
17
January Term, 1830.
4
1
2
1
Total 1
4
April Term, 1832.
Fornication and bastardy
1
5
2
3
Assault and battery
1
Tippling house
2
1
1
Gambling house 1
2
2
Forcible entry and detainer
1
1
Keeping tippling house
1
1
Total
5
17
April Term, 1830.
6
4.
1
1
Keeping tippling house
6
3
2
1
1 Larceny
5
3
3
Passing counterfeit money
1
Nuisance
1
Murder
1
Perjury
1
Total
14
August Term, 1830.
Total 23 20
November Term, 1832.
Fornication and bastardy Assault and battery
10
2
1
Larceny
2
1
1
Misdemeanor
2
1
1
1 Malicious mischief Bigamy 1 1
1
Total 14
23
November Term, 1830.
4
1
1
1 1
Total 10 13
January Term, 1833.
Fornication and bastardy Assault and battery
8
3
3
Larceny
4
1
2
1
Adultery
1
1
Nuisance
1
1
January Term, 1830.
Assault and battery .
1
5
3
2
Fornication and bastardy Larceny
1
1
1
4
4
3
1
2
Larceny
2
4
1
1
Larceny,
1
1
Libel
1
1
Riot
1
2
1
1
Murder
1 Guilt. of mansla'ter
Perjury
2
1
1
Total 3
9
August Term, 1832.º
2 Fornication and bastardy Assault and battery 12
4
1
2
1
Fornication and bastardy Assault and battery Adultery
2
2
2
Disorderly house
1
1
Tippling house
3
2
1
Fornication and bastardy
2
6
2
2
1
1
Assault and battery Larceny
1
6
3
1
2
Tippling house
11
4
1
2
1
Conspiracy to rob
1
1
Larceny
1
1
Assault and battery
1
5
5
g
2
4
3
Maliciously killing a dog Bigamy
1
1
1
1
Total 1 12
1
April Term, 1833.
Fornication and bastardy Assault and battery 1
Total 2 8
1
8
2
1
1
3
1
1
2
2
Total 3
6
Total November Term, 1829. Fornication and bastardy
1
1
Total 4 12
November Term, 1831.
Fornication and bastardy,
2
2
Keeping tippling house Robbery
1
1
Malicious mischief
1
1
Disorderly house Adultery
1
1
1
1
Total 2
6
January Term, 1832.
Fornication and bastardy Assault and battery 1
4
1
3
4.
Fornication and bastardy, Assault and battery,
3
1
Passing counterfeit money
7
5
1
1
6
3
3
4 3
4
Fornication and bastardy
Total 8 18
2
1
OFFENCES.
August Term, 1829. Fornication and bastardy Jarceny
13
4
4 37
August Term, 1831.
2
2
Fraud
1
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MISCELLANEOUS.
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OFFENCES.
Ignoramus.
2 1 1& True Bill.
Guilty.
Guiltyof Ass. & B.alone ..
Bills found and cont'd.
Bills found and settled.
Keeping tippling house
Selling counterfeit notes
1
Total
1 12
August Term, 1833.
Fornication and bastardy
5
5
Assault and battery
8
5
2
1
2
Lárceny
5
8
3
1
4.
Horse stealing
1
1
Passing counterfeit money
1
1
Receiving stolen goods
1
1
Disorderly house
1
4
4
Keeping gambling house
1
1
Manslaughter
1
1
Gambling with French Bank
1
1
Assault and battery with in- tent to kill
1
Total 15 29
Schedule showing the commitments to the jail of York County, Penn'a. from the 2d August 1828, to 15th October 1833, with the offence charged.
Cases.
Fornication and Rastardy
17
Larceny,
26
Assault and Battery,
69
Vagrants,
283 1
Breaking Sabbath
4
Disorderly House,
53
Costs,
2
Gambling,
11
Forfeiture,
230 3
Counterfeiters,
6
Murder,
1
Conspiracy,
1
Rape,
1
Bigamy,
1
Arson,
1
Total, 766
Schedule showing the number of Paupers maintained in the York county Alms-House, during the Years, 1828-9-30-1-2.
Men
Women
Boys
Girls
Total
For 1828
45
35
11
6
97
"' 1829
57
33
5
1
96
"$ 1830
81
38
8
2
129
"' 1831
87
67 children included, 154
" 1832
69
45
20 children, 164
Grand Total 610
Population of York county in 1820,
38,759
do
1830,
42,658
do
of which 274 were free colored persons.
Pennsylvania Republican.
MRS. YOHE'S NORTH AMERICAN HOTEL .- This com- modious and fine establishment has added another item of value to the improvements of our city, and an adorn- ing to the street upon which it fronts. Its position is a
delightful one. Its front on Chesnut street is more than fifty feet-and its depth more than two hundred feet, reaching from Chesnut to George street.
The Dining room is one hundred feet long, and thir- ty-two feet wide. It is well ventilated, and warmed most agreeably by furnaces, in the basement story. There are eight spacious parlors-and one hundred lodging rooms besides ample accommodations for ser- vants. The parlors are fitted up, and finished in mo- dern style, and with great taste and elegance. The chambers are, in all respects, delightful and lack no convenience whatever. The beds and bedding are en- tirely new. Those who prefer coal, can have it; and those who prefer wood, can also be accommodated, as some of the chambers have grates for coal, and some fire places for wood. Water from the hydrants is con- veyed all over the building-and a boiler for heating it in ample quantities, occupies a place in the fourth sto- ry. The weary traveller may, without leaving the pre- mises, enjoy the luxury of batliing.
Two well provided bars, occupying separate places, will be always furnished with the best. One in the basement, the other on the first floor. A fire proof room has been prepared, to contain money, or valuable effects of travellers, or boarders.
Mrs. Yohe would seem to have prepared this great establishment for the purpose of setting off, to the best advantage, the thousands of comforts for which our city is distinguished.
In addition to the accommodations of this Ilotel, is a large and commodious reading and news room .- Phi- ladelphia Herald.
DIED-On Friday last, Mr. WILLIAM MAIN, aged 71 years. He was, we believe, the oldest native citizen of this borough-he was born in the year 1763, and remov- ed to Kentucky, in his youthful days -- was among the earliest frontier settlers ofthat state-he was born with- in 100 yards of the place where he died; and is buried within 100 yards of the same place! This was his jour- ney from the cradle to the grave .- Carlisle Vol.
At the late Court of Quarter Sessions for the county of Berks, thirty-one bills of Indictment were disposed of. There were about twenty convictions. Nothing above the grade of Larceny .- Berks' Journal.
THE REGISTER
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 7, 1833.
An interesting letter from Mr. Penn will be found in the present number, written evidently, in a moment when oppressed by the weight of trials such as few ever experience, and still fewer can fully realize. We are indebted for the letter to a kind correspondent, from whose abundant store we should be happy more fre- quently to be supplied.
The Report of the Pennsylvania Delegates to the Warren Convention is also inserted this week.
The Legislature commenced its session on Tuesday. Mr. Ringland was chosen Speaker of the Senate, and Mr. Finley of the House of Representatives.
The Governor's Message was received too late for in- sertion this week.
The weather here is unusually mild and pleasant for the season. There has been so much snow in the inte- rior, that some of the members of the Legislature travel. led 50 to 100 miles in sleighs.
-
Debtors,
Bail Piece
3
Adultery,
Malicious Mischief,
1
Trespass,
50
Surety of the Peace,
1
1
Keeping tippling house
Not Guilty.
HAZARD'S REGISTER OF PENNSYLVANIA.
DEVOTED TO THE PRESERVATION OF EVERY KIND OF USEFUL INFORMATION RESPECTING THE STATE.
EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD.
VOI .. XII .- NO. 24. PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 14, 1533. NO. 310
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE, To the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com -. monwealth of Pennsylvania. Fellow Citizens:
In communicating to the General Assembly, informa- tion of the state of the Commonwealth, I rejoice that I am enabled to congratulate you on the propitious cir- cumstances under which you have met to perform your Legislative duties. Our country still continues to be the abode of peace; the home of freemen; the favored spot of earth to which the nations of the world continue to look as to the only abiding place of rational liberty. To the American patriot, when he contemplates the pre- eminent advantages his own country possesses over those of every other, in its universal prosperity; the extent, variety, and fertility of its soil; the salubrity of its climate; its physical strength and resources, and the unspeakable amount of human comfort and happiness it imparts, the reflection must be peculiarly gratifying, that the government under which he lives, and by which he is protected, so mild in its measures; so simple in its structure; based upon the will and the affections of the people; noiselessly, but effectually, operating upon and controlling more than twelve millions of citizens, mative or adopted; its power no where seen or felt, ex- cept in the administration and the execution of just and equitable laws, righteously administered, and mildly, but firmly enforced, continues, after the lapse of little short of half a century, to unfold the appropriate ener- gies inherent in its constitution, to withstand all the trials and difficulties with which it has been destined to contend; and that our unostentatious republican in- stitutions, emanating from the people and sustained by their virtue and intelligence, have emerged from every onset, whether of foreign war or domestic disaffection, with such healthful manifestations of undiminished en- ergy and vigor, as to inspire renewed confidence in their stability, and to encourage a belief in the perpe- tuity of their endurance. A prudent course of admin- istration, extending its fostering care and protecting influence into every part of the Union; that will conti- nue to cherish the great national interests of Agricul- ture, Commerce, and Manufactures, preserving them as much as possible in a condition of prosperous equali- ty, neither fostering the one to the exclusion of others, nor withholding aid and encouragement from either, when it is needed, will contribute greatly towards pro ducing so desirable a result,
In our own Commonwealth, we are in the enjoyment of every comfort that can reasonably be desired to mi- nister to the wants, or to gratify the wishes of rational creatures. The health of our citizens, with the excep- tion of a slight visitation in a single quarter of the State,
has been marvellously preserved; abundant harvests ! ed within the cells of this prison, of which number, one have richly rewarded the toil of the husbandman, and a prosperity, as universal as it is grateful, is the portion of an industrious enterprising people. In appreciating these blessings as we ought, fellow citizens, it becomes us to be mindful of our obligations to the beneficent source from whence they are derived, and to adore, with grateful hearts, the goodness of Him who so boun- tifully supplies all our wants, and graciously dispenses to each of us so many unmerited favors. hundred and twenty eight were males, and four fe- males. Fifty one of these were received into the pri- son since the first of January, last. In the management of the Institution, and the enforcement of its discipline, great praise is due to those to whom the supervision and care of the establishment is confided, and to none inore peculiarly so, than to the prudent and intelli- gent warden to whose acuteness and sagacity, the sys em owes many ofits valuable improvements, and to whose energy and firmness in carrying it into execution, it is
Your predecessors having failed, at the last session VOL. XII. 47
of the General Assembly, to elect a Senator, to repre- sent this State in the Congress of the United States, for six years from the fourth of March last, the duty will clevolve upon you to fill the vacancy which was thus occasioned and now exists; and as the State is but par- tially represented in that dignified branch of the nation- al Legislature, now in session, your early attention is respectfully invited to the subject.
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