The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-01-15


all with the rate of wages. it is IN my
judgment incumbent on her TO protect her
laboring population 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 recon-
mend this subject to the Legislature tor
prompt and effectual action.
| believe that the several charitable
institutions TO which the Legislature has
been accustomed to giant aid hive been
well managed during the past year.
The Wyoming Canal is still in the
hands of the receiver. Certain creditors
Of the company having Instituted proceed
ings in the Supreme Court for selling the
canal under the mortgage, the Attorney
General has intervened in the suit to OPP
pose the making Of a decree Of sale No
decree has been made, and the proceedings
are yet pending. Meanwhile, it being al-
legged that the subscribers and stockhold-
ers have paid up but small part Of the
nominal capital of the company, an infhr
nation has been filed In the Supreme
Court by the Attorney General, 20 compel
! them to pay up the capital. or such char
ges and assessments as may he necessary
to extinguish the debt due to the Common
wealth. This proceeding is also still
pending. lt is understood that the gross
receipts of the canal during the last season
have been about one hundred aud thirty
thousand dollars, and the annual interest
on he mortgage bonds Of the company a
little over tifty-one thousand dollars.
In pursuance of the joint resolution
passed 11th April, 1862, the Attorney
General has instituted proceedings on the
proper cashiers bonds, to recover the
money due to the Common wealth by the
Bank OF Commerce, at Erie, and | have
employed John H. Walker, Esq, as sre-
cia 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 4 ct 'oi 9th NAV. 1862, an information
in equity was filed by the Attorney Gen
eral against the Delaware and Hudson
Canal Company and the Pennsylvania
Coal Company. The ease was argued
before the Supreme Court at Sudbury, in
October last. BY an Act passed on the
10th day of May, 1851, a company was
incorporated by the name of the Navy
Yard, Broad street aud Fairmoun. railway
company 1t being alleged that the com
pany, Instead Of making railway on the
route and in the manner prescribed by II,
charter, is constructing railroad Of Il
different character, by route extending
from the Philadelphia, Wilmington and
| Baltimore Railroad depot to the Philadei-
| phia and Trenton iiailroad depot, both
! within the city of Philadelphia. the Attor-
ney General has proceeded against the
/ company by quo scorronto for the violation
| of its charter, and ha. also fled infol
nation Cor the purpose of restraining the
| company from gioceeding in the c9nstIuc
ton of their road Both these proceedings
are now pending.
BY the Act OF Goth March, 1913, it
was proviled that citizens absent from
home in actual military service, might
exercise their right Of suffrage as if they
| were present at the usual places Of election
] This act was substantially lie enacted in
| the genera! election law passed on the 2d
! Of July, 1889. The Supreme Court has
| recently decided that by reason of Il phrase
! in the constitutional amendments of 1898,
| this provision has become Unconstitutional
| Pennsylvania has sent to the service about
/ two hundred thousand citizens, who, By
! this decision, are di-frauchised. This
seems to he Il hard mcasurc-that men
who testify their devotion TO the country
| By going to the field should thereby lose
the most iucstimable right of citizen. l
recommend that the necessary steps be
forthwith commenced to amend the con
/ stitution, so as To give the right Of suffrage
to the citizens VIII, are thus excluded.
cannot close this message without
speaking of the unbroken loyalty aud
spirit Of the freemcn os Pcnnsy ylvania. =
They feel that on the preservation OF the
Union and the suppression Of the most
causeless and wicked rebellion which
history records, depend the honor, the
interests aud the whole future welfare OF
the Commonwealth. They will never
tolerate schemes for destroying the Gov
ernmeut of the United States, or for
forming separate Contederacies, or any
! other schemes FOR creating general con
| fusion and ruin and aiding aud comforting
the traitors who are in arms against their
country.
This State has furnished more men foT
the defence Of our institutions and has
lost more by the casualties OF war than
any other State. She has given her blood
and treasure freely, and is ready to give
rs much more OF both as may be ncediul
Her people intend that by the blessing OF
God. this rebellion shall be suppressed
! and ,yill not he turned from their Settie