Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1863-01-15

't"CtiCS. fecOWmeHu JnaL proper provision
be made by the Legislature for having the
lands thus granted to this State selected, and
the title made to the State, ard that Congress
be requested to allow the lands and their pro.
ceeds to be used by the State in the construc-
ton and support of such an asylum as | have
above suggested
The details of the operations of the com.
mon-school system, during the school year that
| terminated on the first Monday in June, 1862,
manifest scarcely any evil effects from the
troubled state of the country. Absence of
the usual degree of progress n the various de-
partmentS is the only result observable To
have held its own, however, during the severe
| ordeal to which, in common with all our great
social Interests and enterprises, it has been
subjected, is the strongest proof of its Inherent
vlgor, and of the hold it possesses upon the af-
fectIons as well as the judgment Of the people
of the State
1t has come to my knowledge that in somo
parts OF the State system exists of paying
the wages OF workmen and laborers not in
money, bnt in orders Oh storekeepers for mer-
chandiSe and other articles This system, by
preventing all competition leaves the men to
The uncontrolled discretion Of the storekeeperg.
1t is syste most unwse and unjust, and it
"AAN1'0
live by the proceeds of their daily labor have
rot adequate means to resist it. | have no
doubt that most OF the difficulties which occa-
sionaiiy occur between employers and their
workmen are due to the prevalence of this sys
TEN. That every man, for fair DAYS labor.
| should receive fair days wages is bnt the
dIctate OF Common honesty and while it would
be most unwise for the State to interfere at all
! hn rota &c -
incumbent on her to protect her laboring pop.
ulatIon by requiring that whatever may be
the wages stipulated, they shall be so paid
that the recipient may purchase necessaries
for himself and his family where they can be
had best and cheapest. | do most earnestly
recommend this subject to the Legislature for
prompt and effectual action
believe that the several charitable institu.
tions to which the Legislature has been accus-
toned to grant aid have been we'll managed
during the past year
The Wyoming canal is still in the hands of
the receiver. Certain creditors of the COM
paEy having instituted proceedings in the Su-
preme Court for selling the canal under the
mortgage, the Attorney General has inter-
vened IN the suit to oppose the making of q
decree of sale. No decree has been made.
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while, it teIng alleged that the subscribers and
stockholders have paid up but small part Of
the nominal capital Of the company, an infor-
nation has been fled in the Supreme Court
by the Attorney General to compel them to
pay up the capital or such charges and assess
ments as may be necessary to extinguish the
debt due to the Commonwealth. This pro-
ceeding is also still pending It is understood
the of Il.
last season have been about one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars, and the annual inter-
| est on the mortgage bonds of the company
little over ifty-one thousand dollars.
In pursuance of the Joint resolution passed
llth april, 1862, the Attorney General has
instituted proceedings on the proper cashiers
bonds, to recover the money due to the Com
| monwealth by the Bank of Commerce, at Erie.
! and | have employed John II. Walker ESQ
as special counsel for the Commonwealth, in
the prosecution Of the officers of the bank in
! the Court of Quarter Sessions of Erie county.
In accordance with the provisions of the act
of 9th May, 1862, an information in equity
was fled by the Attorney General against tbs
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and
the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The case
was argued before the Supreme Court at Sun
bury, in October last.
BY an act passed on the 10th day of Nav,
1861, company was incorporated by the
name Of the Navy Yard, Broad.street and
Fairmount Railway Company. 1t being al.
legged that the company, instead of making q
| railway on the route and in the manner pre-
scrbed by its charter, is constructing rail-
road of a different character, By a route ex-
tending from the Philadelphia, Wilmington.
and Baltimore Railroad depot to the Phia.
delphia and Trenton depot, both within the
city of Philadelphia, the Attorney General
has proceeded against the company by quo
aoa1rGat0 for the violation of it's charter, and
| has also fled an information for the purpose
of restraining the company from proceeding
! in the construction of their road. Both these
| proceedings are now pending.
BY the act Of 29th March, 1918, il was
provided that citizens absent from home in &C.
tual military service might exercise their right
OF suffrage as If they were present at the usual
places of election. This act was substantially
re-enacted in the general election law passed
on the ID Of July, 1889 The Supreme Court
has recently decided tnat by reason of phrase
in the constitutional amendments of 1883, the
provision has become unconstitutional Penn
sylvania has sent to the service about two
nuudred tnouSaaO citZeus, WHO, Dy this decl-
sion, are disfranchised This seems to be a
hard meagure-that men who testify their de.
votion to the country by going to the field
should thereby lose the most inestimable right
of citizen. | recommend that the necessary
steps be forthwith commenced to amend the
Constitution, SO as to give the right of suff.
rage to the citizens who are thus excluded.
cannot close this message without speak
ing of the unbroken loyalty and spirit of the
freemen Of Pennsylvania They feel that on
the preservation of the Union and the suppress
sion of the most cauSeless and wicked rebel.