The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1862-01-17

"'o OSsH aPPIoPfiaed 10 N AuTposes required
by tie act. His report has vet beeaytcelv-
ed by me.
1t IS understood that art rtEements have at
| last been made under wt1ic4e direct raj.road
/ connection between Piiladki and Ere Will
! be completed within ahortHna. 1t IS inaos-
sibie 10 estimate too highlIe importance Of
! this great work to the Coini iw4aHh. and eg-
7ecialiy TO Philadelphia anos liz and the blth
erto neglected counties neakts route west Of
/ the Susquehanna.
! BY the act OF the 2lst All, 1888, for the
sale OF The State canals 10 tht htunourv and Erie
railroad company II was pri5sd that it fllt
company ShoHid sell SAID ia.s for grsNer
Sum IN the aggregate than Il and sasfanii-
! hons of dollars, s+Vrnty=liea / cenium Of such
excess should b. paid 10 Tie kn:n9aweaIth hy
a transfer of 50 much oi suchlnas aai secqri-
( Ties as Such company shault kIYe for lhe SANG
and nayaoIa 10 he nannerE
TIE company sold tie cabs and reported
! that The share Of aaeaproGt Auch sale, due to
the Commonwealth was SS.25O Of which
( $3.50 was paid in cash and the remaining
| 928i 900 Ibe Comfonwealheceive coopen
bonds OF tie Wyoming cankompanv 10 tha.
amount, being potion Of Als flr 5000, 600
issaeG By ihal company ara sured ~ mort
gage Of ;he Wyoming canal, hnerly called The
Lower North Branch canal. Hnese bonds bear
an interest ct SIX per cent. IHaanum, pava5le
semi-annuaily on the 9th 6fs1uaty ana Julv,
and the interest WAS paiG 5ihe company 10
January last inclusive. ia lnte.est due in
July last ha> nc; oeen paid sdgmenis having
been obtained against the oohny on some Of
the coupons 10, the unpaid a. interest. 5l,f
IN eq4ity was filed in the Saemp Court by a
bond and stock holder in wtll such p-5caed-
ings were had that BY decrsmade on the 2d
September last the proper! ID aGaiss Of the
company were placed 10 the hals Of a receiver
plan has been suggesteiJr the assent of
the stock and boud hoitets " th contenalales
sale Of tie canal under lauk process aaG
purchase al he same for the fe11se Of forming
a new company, Of which he aigal sleck saa!
be one million OF dollars, dived into twenty
tboasand shares Of fifty dalaISach, G! winch
each asserting holder of a artgage bona Tor
one thousand dollars shall be elIed 10 eighteen
shares, and each asserting hoIa Of fifty SHARES
Of stock Of Tie Wyoming cant company shall
be enti,!sd 10 nine shares. Ot9urse no oaicer
- taE CGgul-5. dtttI 3d and ity *, 1s5rtrt ~
the proposal or N any way TO aict her POSITION.
1t IS believed also that the plans not one that
oggtt 50 ba assea.ed TO by theEoumonWeo!lh
and that under all jbe Clycgms.i~es Il the Cou-
v-aieacs Of Individual parties ru!les a change
sg,b as proposed, the deJt dueJ t5a Common
wealth ought 10 ye first paid otaliy secured.
I suIzes. that the Act pass sin Of April,
1851, ouitied can Ac. conce.ing toe sale Of
lassaats. canals, &c. sjIJuiise modihrd 81
.aa. in al CASES in which DEL may BE- due 10
the Commoa~ ra.lh by the c1pany as whose
properly public wotls may beoId, the pur-
chasefs thereof shall not be eht,gd to The bene-
iis and privileges conferred b the Act unless
they shall have first paid thidebt due to the
SAFE, or secured the same by teir bonds to the
C3mmonoea! secured by it mortgage on
the work itself.
I commend the subject to tiiimmed.ate con-
sderallon 0. the Legislature, an effort may
be made at an "a day 10 enfce sale OF tGe
canal, and some provision by Av to protect tn
interests Of the Stale would HAT case BE- ne
cess2ry.
The wicked anG monstfous ebellion h'ch
JroGr out many months ago, hs not yet been
gueiIrd. Every sentiment oi2yaily and pa
tI!Jlism denands lis eHtctuai saJgresstoa.
To MY messages Of the 9th ali 30th CT April
last, st forth at length my giv6 oi the CHAR
aCter and objects Of the conte which Is slliI
pending. Subsequent reteCtia has confirmed
me.In tue correctness Of the opalous then tx
pressed aad to which refer. In ADDITION II
ought to De understood, that lp>!ng to tae va
rlrly aud character Of her PROJECTS and indus
try, her maieitai interest alone Fouid render ta~
preservation oi lhe Unlon ffontue present as
>ault upon it, Indispensable ld PeHnsy 3ania.
She cannot afford 10 have ioreigi power below
or above Or bounding her on thE Delaware, the
Chrsa 2eake OF tie Mississippi, Al sac VII new
er ecquiesce in such result, whateVer may be
tie cost IN men and money OF ilr resistance to
it.
On the 9th OF April last objected the atten-
ton OF the Legislature 10 the F.cessl,y which
existed for an improved mliliaFl Organization,
and on iAe l2ta Of The same m2t tth the Ac. en-
turd San Act ior The better orgEaizalIJn OF the
militia OF tins Commonwealth passed, appro-
pfiatng the sum oi 100000 iol tie purpose OF
jgg4uIzIug, eqnIppIng and arH4n5 the mIlIlia.
On The IJIl OF AptH The Prcsutht, BY procla-
nation, called for a military flee OF 10000
men, OF which the quota assigned 10 Pennsy Iva
lId was al first sixteen (atterw3rdS reduced TO
oufteen) regiments 10 serve as lnIan'ry or nile
men for the term OF three months unless sooner
discharged! THIS call was enthusiastically re-
pondsd to by the people oil Pennsylvania. The
irst military aid from the loyal States, which
he Government received at Washington, was
'ennsy lvania corps which arrived there pIIor 20
he 1914 OF Apfil. Ga that Gay the passage Of
,ther corps from this and other Safes through
Baltimore was imPedrd BY force and during
nearly two weeks afterwards the Communication
,etween Washington and the loyal States was
lmost entirely cut off. On the 18th received
request from the War DepaIlulen that the
roops preparing in this State should be clothed,
.rmed, equipped, slbsisted and transported by
he State in consequence Of the then inability OF
he United States. This request was OF course
complied with, and twenty-five regiments, tbe-