The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-01-16
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more than square and less than 90 lines. Estrays
s.25, if but one head is advertised, rs cents fol
J every additional head.
The space occupied by ten lines Of this size o
type counts one square, Attractions of squar
under FIVE lines will be measured as half SQUARE:
and all over five lines as fall square. All lega
advertisements will be charged to the person han,
ling them in. ts
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Q but in orders on store keepers for merchandise
and other articles. This system, by preventing
l all competition, leaves the men to the rncon-
troled discretion Of the store keepers. It is
: system most unwisc and unjust, and it affects
classes of useful citizens. who, as they live by
} ;he proceeds Of their daily labor, have not ade-
} quate means to resist it. have no doubt that
most Of the difficulties which occasionally occur
between employers and their work men are due
to the prevalence Of this system. That every
man, for a fair dayslabor should receive fair
days wage, is but the dictate of common hon.
esty; and while it would be most unwise for
the STATE to interfere at all with the rate of wa
ges, it is inmy Judgment incumbent on her to
Iprotect her laboring population by requiring
that whatever may be the wares stipulated, they
shall be so paid that the recipient may purchase
necessaries for himself and his family, where
they cen be had best and cheapest do most
earnestly recommend flis subject to the Legis-
lature for prompt ard cGecsuaI action.
| believe that the several charitable institu-
tons to which the Legislature has been accus-
toned TO grant aid, have boea well managed du-
ring the past year.
! The Wyoming Canal is still in the hands of
the receiver. Certain creditors of the company
having instituted proceedings in the Supreme
Court for selling the canal under the mortgage.
the Attorney General has interviewed in the suit
to oppose the making Of decree of sale. No
decree has been made, and the proceedings are
yet pending. Meanwhile it being alleged that
the subscribers and stockholders have paid up
but a small part of the nominal capital Of the
company, an information has been filed in the
Supreme Court by the Attorney General, to
compel them to pay up the capital, or such
charges, and assessments as may be necessary
to extnguish the debt due to the Commonwealth
This proceeding is also rending 1t is under
stood that the gross receipts of the canal du-
ring the last season have been about one
hundred aud thirty thousand dollars and the
annual interest on the mortgage bonds of the
company q little over fifty-one thousand dol
lars. a @
In pursuance of the joint resolution passed
llth April 1862, the Attorney General hasin-
stituted proceedings ntheproper cashiers bonds,
TO recover the money due to the Commonwealth
by the Bank of Commerce at Erie, and / have
employed John II. Walker, ESQ.,, as special
counsel for the Commonwealth, in the prosecu-
ton Of the officers of the Bank in the Court Of
Quarter Sessions of Erie county.
III accordance with the provisionsof the Act
of 9Th May, 1862, an information in equity
was fled By the Attorney General agai nst the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company and the
Pennsylvania Coal Company. The case was
argued before the Supreme Court at Sunbury,'
in October last.
by an Actpassed on the 10th day of May,
1861, company was incorporated by the name
of the Navy yard, Broad Street and Fairmount
railway company 1t being alleged that the
company, instead Of making railway on the
route and in the manner prescribed by its char
ter, is constructing a railroad of different
character by route, extending from the Pha-i
de,phia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad de-
pot to the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad
depot, both within the city Of Philadelphia, the
Attorney General has proceeded against the
company by quo acdi7aRto for the violation of
It's charter. and has also filed an information for
the purpose Of restraining the company from
proceeding i'll the construction Of their road
Both these proceedings are now pending.
BY the act of 10Th March, 1873, il was pro-
Vidcd that citizens absent ffom home in actual
military service, might exercise their right of
suiii'ages us If they were present at the usual
places Of election. That act was substantially
e-enacted in the general election law passed
on the I'd of July, 1889. The Supreme Court
has recently decided that by reason of n phrase
in the constitutional amendments Of 1858, this
provision has become unconstitutional. Penn
sylvania has sent TO the service about two hum
dred thousand citizens, who, by this decision,
are dstranchiscd. This seems TO be hard meas
urc--that men who testify their devotion to the
country by going to The field Should thereby lose
the most inestimable right of citizen. Irec-
oninend that the necessary steps be forthwith
commenced to amend the constitution, so rs to
give the right of suffrage to the citizens who
are thus excluded. i lW ttH
| cannot close this message without speaking
of the unbroSen loyalty and spirit of the free
men of Pennsylvania, They feel that on the
preservation of the Union and the suppression
Of the most causeess and wicked rebellion
which history records, depend the honor, the
interests and the whole future welfare of the
Commonwealth They will never tolerate !
schemes for destroying the Government of the
United States or of forming separate Confcd-
cracecs, or any other schemes for creating gen.
cral confusion and ruin, and aiding and COM
foring the traitors who are in arms against
their country.
This State has furnished moro men for the
defence of our institutions, and has lost moro
by the casualties of war, than any other State.
She has given her blood and treasure freely,
md is ready to give as much more of bo;h as