The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-10

meHf.-Durmg the late Christmas holidsys fufors
nation having been received In Scottsyilie that
Benjamin Hunt, citizen of this county, residipe
near that village, had been using language tendfne
to encourage insurrectionary movements among
the slave population deputation Of several citi.
zens repaired to his residence to arrest him. On
being broueht TO the village, the charges against
him were subjected to rigid investigation, and
during The examination the following facts were
incontestihIy proved One witness testified that he
had heard Hunt say that the white man had no
more right of ownership in the negro than the
negro had In the white man and II it came to the
test. he woud sooner fight for the negroes than the
white people.
Auother witness testified tha. he heard him say
that he would have rejoiced In the election of FIRE.
mont as il that event the negroes would have
been freeA and that in case Of collision between
the white and blacks he would take the side oppes
ed to the white people; whereupon the indignant
populace Aeized and compelled him to be ridden
upon a rsil, borne by several stout negro men,
through the streets. When they had paraded him
through the streets to their hearts content, they
were ordered to take him to more retired part OF
the village and administer an application of tar
and feathers, which they did with equal satiSfae-
ton and delight When this was done he was Or
dered to leave the county within ten days, and
seek his fortunes where the institutions bet-
ter adapted tn his anti slavery feelings Charlotte
ritte, EA's kfersonian
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR OF PESNsYLvA-
SIA-The chief features of the message of the
Governor TO the Pennsylvania legislature have
been published by telegraph The following ad
diional comprises all its important points:
The financial condition of the Commonwealth'is
highly satisfactory. Every demand upon the
Treasury has been promptly met and paid, with
out the aid of loans The operations of this de
partmens will be exhibited in detail ia the repor.
of the State Treasurer
For the fiscal year ending November 30, 1856,
the receipts of the Treasury (including the balance
M 10 -t hoy nf
of 81 ,243 697 33) have been Sc Cpl ,637 "a. The
total expenditures for the same period were s5,-
81, l42 p. Balance in the Treasury, Dec. l. 1856
g., PA, ,795 AZ
first of December 1855. the receipts from all sour.
ces, were s., 37S. .240 SO The ordinary expepdi-
tnres for the same period, were $4, 1914 II
showing an excess of receipts over ordinary ex-
pendtures of ST. ,265 095 Sc.
The extraordinary payments for the same year
were 81 263 997 45, follows viz To the com.
p!etion of the Portage Railroad, and for the pay.
mant of debts previously contracted on that work
l.49i IL to the North Branch Extension
Gl22, 723 50 to relay the south track of the Co
lumbia Railroad. $780,, 900 90; for motive power in
1893, .O49 AZ; to enlarge the Delaware divi-
sion Of the Pennsylvania canal, 1854, 30 Sl3 $50:
for general repairs in 1853 81 '55, S63 965 IL 10
domestic creditors Sl5l G3; to old claims on the
main lire, examined by the commissioners, and
paid Hsder the act of May % 1856, Sl3O, ,5lo 90;
to the$edemption of loans, 1927 s24 AZ and relief
notes cancelled, $38, ,2l7 90
The interest on the funded debt which fell due
In February and August last, was then paid and
that which becomes due in February next, will be
paid with equal promptness, out of available
means now in the Treasury. The punctuaty
with which the interest on the public debt has been
paid, and the ability of the Treasury to meet all
legitimate demands upon it, have inspired public
confidence in our securities, and contributed
largely to establish and maintain the credit of the
Commonwealth.
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund report
the sum of S722, 432 93 as due by the Treasury TO
that fund. This amount will be applied to the
redemption of relief notes now in circulation and
to the payment of the funded debt.
The total receipts at the Treasury, from the
public works for the year ending November so,
1856, were So 006 0l5 66, being an increase over
OF this sum 81, ,0l3 J89 l6 were canal and bridge
tolls, and $992 426 so, tolls of the Columbia and
Portage railroads.
The aggregate expenditures for the same year
were 81 ,943 500 g, being an increase those
of the previous year. Sl05, 105 Ga. the revenues
exceeding the expenditures, only $63, 1lS "a.
Freedom is the great centre-truth of American
RepubiicanisG-the great Law of American Ma.
tionality-slavery is the exception 1t is local and
sectional; and its extension beyond the jurisdiction
creating it, or TO the free territories of the Union
was never designed or contemplated by the patriot
founders of the Republic. In accordance with
these sentiments, Pennsylvania, true to the prn
ciples of the act of 1870, which abolished slavery
within her territorial limits-true, to the grea,
doctrines of the ordinance of l787 which dedicated
to freedom the north western territory Of the
Union-true TO National faith and National honor
asks and expects, as due to her own citizens who
have in good faith, settled in the territory of Kan
free people, that Kansss should be free.