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according to our letters Patent, and him approved by the Queen; and to refuse him even subsistance money! unless he will betray and expose me that sent him, hath something in it so enormously base, that no profane person could give it so deep a dye, as hypocrisy alone which is the abuse of Religion to worldly purposes, being only able to tinge it so black as that action must ap pear to all that consider it.

I could make one conclusion of this whole matter, and that is to dispose of all to the Crown, soil as well as Government, and be rid of them once for all, and leave them to inherit the fruit of their own doings. But I inust not forget the hand which brought that country to me, the sealing engagements, and sealing of His goodness in those solitary countries, and unless his Providence prevent, nothing else I hope shall prevent me from spending the best part of my life there or thereaway,though I am 20 thousand pounds the worse man than when I began the Colony-as I am able to make appear. Love, fear, and solitude was my aim; and the Lord in due time, give those excellent things more credit with the inhabitants of that place. I am a suffering and mournful man in the senses of spirits and things. I write to you as my friends in Truth, and as men of significancy where you are. Help the Government against those ungovernables, and do all you can to quiet Friends under fair and reasonable enjoyments, counsel them not to strain points, nor halt before a cripple, let them not suffer themselves to be disquieted and blown about with the windy and empty suggestions of sinister and designing persons, but let the ancient Love, and Fear, and Faith that was our Alpha be likewise our Omega, and we may yet live to see happy days before we die. The Lord, if it be his Blessed will,grant this to us! So, with dear love to you and yours, and others that are worthy, (wherein my wife joins heartily with me,) I conclude.

Your faithful and loving friend, Hyde Park, the 26th, 12 mo. 1704-5.

WM. PENN.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The great length of this document precludes its entire insertion-which is also rendered less necessary, by its universal circulation through all the papers of the Union. We extract, however, that portion of it, which seems at the present moment to possess more intense interest to this state than any other-the removal of the deposites, and the re-chartering of the Bank of

the United States.

"Since the last adjournment of Congress, the Secretary of the Treasury has directed the money of the United States to be deposited in certain State Banks designated by him, and he will immediately lay before you his reasons for this direction. I concur with him entirely in the view he has taken of the subject, and some months before the removal, I urged upon the Department the propriety of taking that step. The near approach of the day on which the charter will expire, as well as the conduct of the Bank, appeared to me, to call for this measure, upon the high considerations of public interest and public duty. The extent of its misconduct, however, although known to be great, was

not at that time fully developed by proof. It was not until late in the month of August that I received from the Government Directors an official report, establishing beyond question, that this great and powerful insti tution had been actively engaged in attempting to influence the elections of the public officers by means of its money; and that in violation of the express provi sions of its charter, it had, by a formal resolution, placed its fun is at the disposition of its President, to be employed in sustaining the political power of the Bank. A copy of this resolution is contamed in the report of the Government Directors before referred to; and however the object may be disguised by cautious language, no one can doubt that this money was in truth, intended for electioneering purposes, and the particular uses to which it is proved to have been applied, abundantly show that it was so understood. Not only was the evidence complete as to the past application of the money and power of the Bank to electioneering purposes, but the resolution of the Board of Directors authorised the same course to be pursued in future. that the Bank of the United States was converted into It being thus established by unquestionable proof, a permanent electioneering engine, it appeared to me that the path of duty wh ch the Executive Department of the Government ought to pursue, was not doubtful. As by the terms of the Bank charter, no officer but the Secretary of the Treasury could remove the deposites, it seemed to me that this authority ought to be at once exerted to deprive that great corporation of the support and countenance of the Government in such an use of its funds, and such an exertion of its power. In this point of the case the question is distinctly presented, whether the people of the United States are to govern, through representatives chosen by their unbiass ed suffrages, or whether the power and money of a great corporation, are to be secretly exerted to influ ence their judgment and control their decisions. It must now be determined whether the Bank is to have its candidates for all offices in the country, from the sides of political questions shall be brought forward as highest to the lowest, or whether candidates on both heretofore, and supported by the usual means.

At this time the efforts of the Bank to control public opinion, through the distresses of some, and the fears of others, are equally apparent, and if possible more objectionable. By a curtailment of its accommodations, more rapid than any emergency requires, and even while it retains specie to an almost unprecedented amount in its vaults it is attempting to produce great embarrassment in one portion of the community, while through presses known t have been sustained by its money, it attempts by unfounded alarms to create a panic in all.

that it can force a restoration of the deposites, and as a These are the means by which it seems to expect necessary consequence, extort from Congress a renew al of its charter. I am happy to know that, through the good sense of our people, the effort to get up a panic has hitherto failed, and that through the increas ed accommodations which the State Banks have been enabled to afford, no public distress has followed the exertions of the Bank, and it cannot be doubted that the exercise of its power and the expenditure of its money as well as its efforts to spread groundless alarm, will be met and rebuked as they deserve.

In my own sphere of duty, I should feel myself called upon by the facts disclosed, to order a scire facias against the Bank, with a view to put an end to the char tered rights it has so palpably violated, were it not that the charter itself will expire as soon as a decision would probably be obtained from the court of last resort.

I called the attention of Congress to this subject in my last annual message, and informed them that such measures as were within the reach of the Secretary of the Treasury, had been taken to enable him to judge, whether the public deposites in the Bank of the United

States were entirely safe, but that his single powers ed rail road; whilst the others made their way to might be inadequate to the object, I recommend the Waynesburg, which was indicated as the most suitable subject to Congress as worthy of their serious investi point from which to commence the examination of Sangation, declaring it as my opinion, that an inquiry into dy creek. At Waynesburg, several very intelligent the transactions of that institution, embracing the gentlemen were found in attendance, with the surveys branches as well as the principal Bank, was called for of the Sandy and Little Beaver Canal route, and accomby the credit which was given throughout the country panied the party up the valley of Sandy creek. The to many serious charges impeaching their character, and two divisions of the committee re-united at Hanover, which if true, might justly excite the apprehension and from this point enjoyed the advantages of the atthat they were no longer a safe depository for the pub-tendance of Mr. Joshua Malin, who had a large share lic money. The extent to which the examination thus in the labors exhibited in the report of Maj Douglass. recommended was gone into, is spread upon your jour- On reaching New Lisbon, the undersigned were gratinals, and is too well known to require to be stated. fied by the opportunity of a personal conference on the Such as was made, resulted in a report from a majority subject of their inquiries, with many of the most reof the committee of ways and means, touching certain spectable inhabitants. Here, also, two addresses were specified points only, concluding with a resolution, that read and submitted to them; one by E. Potter, Esq., the Government deposites might safely be continued in supplemental to that presented to the Convention; the the Bank of the United States. This resolution was other by A. W. Loomis, Esq, exhibiting the facts and adopted at the close of the session by the vote of a arguments in favor of a canal by the southern route, and majority of the House of Representatives. dwelling more particularly on the subject of the supply of water. There was also a statement communicated of the amount of merchandize sold in a single year, within the county of Columbiana.

Although I may not always be able to concur in the views of the public interest or the duties of its agents which may be taken by the other departments of the Government or either of its branches, I am, notwithstand- These interesting papers, marked respectively A, B, ing, wholly incapable of receiving otherwise than with and C, are appended to the present report. From New the most sincere respect, all opinions or suggestions Lisbon, the committee proceeded to the mouth of the proceeding from such a source, and in respect to none Little Beaver, and thence along the margin of the Ohio am I more inclined to do so than to the House of Rep-river to Beaver, accompanied throughout by Mr. Malin, resentatives. But it will be seen from the brief views They have at length reached this place; and, under the at this time taken of the subject by myself, as well as pressure of engagements elsewhere, rendered exceedthe more ample one presented by the Secretary of the ingly urgent by an absence of unexpected length, they Treasury, that the change in the deposites which has hasten to state as briefly as possible the conclusions at been ordered, has been deemed to be called for by con- which they have deliberately arrived. considerations which are not affected by the proceedings The question as to a Rail Road ought, perhaps, in referred to, and which if correctly viewed by that De order of time, to be first adverted to, as being one partment, rendered its act a matter of imperious duty. which, in the view taken of it by the committee, at an Coming as you do for the most part, immediately early period, involved no matter of detail or considerafrom the people and the States, by election, and posses- tion connected with a personal examination. As such sing the fullest opportunity to know their sentiments, a work must depend mainly, if not exclusively, upon the present Congress will be sincerely solicitous to car-private subscription, it became indispensable to inquire ry into full and fair effect, the will of their constituents in regard to this institution It will be for those in whose behalf we all act, to decide whether the Executive Department of the Government, in the steps which it has taken on this subject, has been found in the line of its duty."

CONNEXION OF THE OHIO AND PENN. CANAL.
Report to the Warren Convention.

The undersigned, to whom were referred the repre-
sentations made to the Convention on behalf of the
several objects for uniting the canals of Ohio and
Pennsylvania, respectfully report:

into the present state of feeling on this subject, in the quarters from which aid must necessarily be sought, and it was at once ascertained, beyond all doubt, that the prospect of obtaining subscriptions was utterly hopeless When to the powerful arguments, drawn from experience, which were represented as dissuading from such a plan of improvement, in reference to transporta tion, was added the fact, that this work is not an inde pendent one, but designed to connect two canals, and that its employment would involve a double trans-shipment, the committe felt, that to keep it longer in view was to put in peril a really attainable object. It is a source of high gratification to add, that as the convictions of the committee necessarily unfolded themselves in frank conference with gentlemen most deeply inte ||rested in this project, they were met in a spirit of the utmost liberality and candor. No reason is seen to doubt that the most judicious location for the contem. plated work was made by Lieut. Mitchell.

That they could not fail to be deeply impressed with the responsibility of the task imposed upon them, as well as with a grateful sense of the confidence implied in their appointment. The first impulse was to decline, altogether, a trust by no means desired or anticipated on their part; and the discharge of which might well be expected, in any event, to be viewed invidiously; but the frank and candid spirit which characterized the proceedings of the Convention, assured them that their la bors, however imperfect, would be regarded with in-undersigned are unanimous. dulgence; and they did not feel at liberty, therefore, to interpose a sullen negative to the course which their associates regarded as tending to promote the great objects in view.

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Putting, then, a rail road out of view, there remain only the northern and southern routes for a connecting canal, and in coming to a decision between these, the

The great question in reference to a canal-and one compared with which all others are, in truth, insignificant—is, of course, as to the supply of water. if an anxious and distressing uncertainty on this point attach to the work, no safe calculation can be made of its value as a stock, or its usefulness as a medium of conveyance. Where the supply is inadequate or precarious, we cannot assume, in an estimate of revenue, the maximum of boats which might possibly, in a given season, if presented exactly at the desired period, be transported on the canal. The chances of disappointment will, in a great measure, suffice to dissuade from resort to a chanFrom this point, some mem-nel whose failure, at a critical moment, may involve irbers of the Committee pursued the route of the propos- reparable mischief. We must constantly bear in mind

In the attempt to fulfil, conscientiously, a duty so delicate and important, it has been their anxious object, not only to keep steadily in view the very able reports referred to them, but to seek in every quarter, for such further facts and suggestions as might aid in reaching a just conclusion. Shortly after the adjournment of the Convention, they proceeded by the line of the northern route to Akron, and thence descended the Ohio Canal to Massillon,

that ours will be only one of the modes of communication between the east and the west: and that its productiveness must depend on inspiring implicit confidence, not only in the cheapness and safety of this route, but, in the certainty of its operations.

Delegates from the city of Pittsburg, and county of
Allegheny:
Richard Biddle,
Geo. Miltenberger,
Geo. Cochran,

Wm. Robinson, Jr.

Charles Avery,
Alba Fisk,
William Lecky.

Pittsburg, November 23, 1823.

STATISTICS OF CRIME AND PAUPERISM.
The following statement presents an interesting view

The committee are satisfied that a canal, by Sandy and Little Beaver creeks, will not be adequately supplied with water. The allowances in practice, found so indispensable are, in the estimates for this route, very low; strikingly so, when compared with those on the other route by Colonel Kearney. The contemplated resort to steam engines is deemed wholly inadmissible. of the criminal business of York county. We are glad Nor ought we to overlook the admitted tendency of to find the attention of gentlemen in the interior directthe streams relied upon, to shrink up with the improve-ed to such inquiries, and would recommend this examment of the country. The number of boats, also, like

ly to pass through this work, though advantageously ple as worthy of imitation in the other counties of the compared by the engineer, with the number on the state. Few subjects are of more importance, than an New York Canal, at a particular period, falls far short investigation of the causes and progress of crime and of the subsequent expansion of business in that quar ter. It would indeed be deeply mortifying if, instead pauperism; they cannot however be successfully proseof looking to the vast commerce that awaits this con- cuted without a reference to collections of facts. Every nection, and providing for, and urging its enlargement, attempt, therefore, to amass facts, should be made and we should have hereafter to look with alarm at the in- encouraged. Through the exertions of our prison so creasing demand for transportation as a satire on our own want of forecast. The undersigned will only add, ciety, &c, we have frequently been enabled to present that the apprehensious with which they approached much important information in relation to this countythis route, founded on estimate and calculation, were and it is extremely desirable to obtain an acquaintance more than realized by actual observation on the ground; with the criminal statistics of other portions of the and there was forced upon them a conviction stronger, perhaps, than can be conveyed by words.

After the foregoing remarks, it is perhaps superfluous to say to the Convention, that the northern route, by the Ravenna summit, is the one which the undersigned unanimously recommend. Of the abundant supply of water for that canal, no doubt can be entertained; and it is ardently hoped that sectional feelings will be discarded, and the thoughts and exertions of all be steadily directed towards the accomplishment of an object of such vital imp›rtance to the whole of the two states

It is proper to note distinctly that the canal thus recommended, is one which shall connect the two great thoroughfares of the Ohio and Pennsylvania, by an unbroken chain of canal communication from Pittsburg to Akron. A work possessing this character is called for in express terms, by the charter, under which it is at present contemplated to act; and is, moreover, in the opinion of the undersigned, indispensable to enable us to compete successfully with the channels of conveyance already open. A break in this chain, by a rail road from Beaver to Pittsburg, or by reliance on steam power to tow up Canal boats, when the state of the river shall admit, would, in the opinion of the undersigned, render the work altogether incompetent to effect the great objects which are aimed at, and which it is so well calculated, under enlightened management, to

achieve.

In concluding this Report, the undersigned cannot but feel that it is probably the last act of their connection with an assemblage which forcibly impressed every one of them with sentiments of respect and regard. The result of the Convention is, of course, like every thing human—a matter of uncertainty; but they must ever consider the period as well and happily spent, which brought them into intimate association with an estimable body of our fellow citizens, in a quarter of our common country, new to most of them; and they will delight to cherish the feeling of just national pride, with which they have traversed a great and flourishing state, whose prosperity may be distinctly traced to the indefatigable industry and sound morals of her intelligent and enterprising people.

Delegates from the city and county of Philadelphia:

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Josiah White,

Thomas P. Hoopes,

Alex. M'Clurg,

John M. Atwood.

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Criminal Statistics of York county, for the years 1828-9 -30-1-2-3; prepared by THOMAS C. HAMBLY, Attorney at Law.

OFFENCES.

August Term, 1828.

Fornication and Bastardy,
Larceny
Assault and Battery

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Keeping tippling house,
Misdemeanor

Total
November Term, 1828.
Fornication and Bastardy
Larceny,
Assault and battery
Passing counterfeit money
Keeping tippling house

Total
January Term, 1829.
Fornication and bastardy
Larceny

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True Bill.

Not Guilty.

Guilty.

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Bills found and cont'd.
Bills found and settled.

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Guilty.
Not Guilty.

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Schedule showing the commitments to the jail of York County, Penn'a. from the 2d August 1828, to 15th October 1833, with the offence charged.

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Total, Schedule showing the number of Paupers maintained in the York county Alms-House, during the Years, 1828-9-30-1-2.

For 1828

Men Women

delightful one. Its front on Chesnut street is more than fifty feet and its depth more than two hundred feet, reaching from Chesnut to George street.

The Dining room is one hundred feet long, and thir ty-two feet wide. It is well ventilated, and warmed most agreeably by furnaces, in the basement story. There are right spacious parlors-and one hundred lodging rooms, besides ample accommodations for servants. The parlors are fitted up, and finished in mo dern style, and with great taste and elegance. The chambers are, in all respects, delightful and lack no convenience whatever. The beds and bedding are entirely new. Those who prefer coal, can have it; and those who prefer wood, can also be accommodated, as some of the chambers have grates for coal, and some fire places for wood. Water from the hydrants is con veyed all over the building-and a boiler for heating it in ample quantities, occupies a place in the fourth sto The weary traveller may, without leaving the premises, enjoy the luxury of bathing.

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Two well provided bars, occupying separate places, will be always furnished with the best. One in the basement, the other on the first floor. A fire proof room has been prepared, to contain money, or valuable effects of travellers, or boarders.

Mrs. Yohe would seem to have prepared this great establishment for the purpose of setting off, to the best advantage, the thousands of comforts for which our city is distinguished.

In addition to the accommodations of this Hotel, is a

large and commodious reading and news room.-Philadelphia Herald.

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1 An interesting letter from Mr. Penn will be found in the present number, written evidently, in a moment when oppressed by the weight of trials such as few ever experience, and still fewer can fully realize. We are indebted for the letter to a kind correspondent, from whose abundant store we should be happy more fre quently to be supplied.

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Population of York county in 1820,

The Report of the Pennsylvania Delegates to the Warren Convention is also inserted this week.

The Legislature commenced its session on Tuesday. Grand Total 610 Mr. Ringland was chosen Speaker of the Senate, and Mr. Finley of the House of Representatives.

38,759
42,658

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1830,
of which 274 were free colored persons.
Pennsylvania Republican.

MRS. YOHE'S NORTH AMERICAN HOTEL.-This commodious and fine establishment has added another item of value to the improvements of our city, and an adorning to the street upon which it fronts. Its position is a

The Governor's Message was received too late for insertion this week.

The weather here is unusually mild and pleasant for the season. There has been so much snow in the inte. rior, that some of the members of the Legislature travel. led 50 to 100 miles in sleighs.

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