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Never Give tip. BY TL'Pi’KK- N e v e r g ive u p ! it is w iser and better. Always to h ope than ever to despair, F a u g off the lo -d o f doubt’s cankering fetter, A n d b reak the dark spell o f tyrannical care. N e v e r give u p ! or th e b u rden m ay sink you, Providence kindly has mingled the cup, A n d in all trials or troubles bethink you, T h e w atchw o rd o f life m u s t be, N e y b k g iv e o p . N e v e r g ive u p , there a re chances and dangers Helping th e hopeful a hundred to one, A n d through th e chaos. H igh wisdom arranges, E v e r success i f you’ll hope only on. N e v e r give u p , for the wisest and boldest. K n o w ing th a t Providence mingles the cup, A n d of a ll m tx iirs, the hest and the oldest. Is the true watchword of, N ever give up ! N e v e r give u p . though the grape-shots m a y rattle, O r th e fell thunder-cloud over you b u rst, Stand like, a rock, and the storm or the battle L ittle shall harm you, tho’ doing their worst. N e v e r give up, i f adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the enp, A n d the best counsel in all y o u r distresses, ■ Is tho stout w atchw o rd, N ev e r give e p . From the Saturday Evening Post. My Early Home. BY PAVLINA. T h e y speak of t h e beauty of lands a far. A w a y o'er the ocean's i'o'.m— I nsk alone for the scenes th a t are T h e pride o f m y early home. Thev sing of skies th a t a re deeply blue— O f sunbeams that never r o u n — I dream of orbs o f the self-same hue, A n d the smiles of my early home. They tell o f the f d rest flowers that bloom ’Mid ruins of fane and dome— Affection's blossoms, in grief and gloom, A r e bright in my e.iriy home. T h e n awav, aw ay to th e f ibled isles W ith spirits til it sigh to roam, B u t Ic ive me the b eauty and loving smiles, T h a t live in m y early home. MESSAGE 03? GOV. GABDHER to the Legislature of Massachusetts. Gentlemen of the Senate and of the House of Representatives :— That gracious Being, in whose hands are alike the destinies of individuals and of na tions, has permitted us to assemble this day, intrusted with great responsibilities and du ties. While we remember that through His providential care and guidance our ancestors were enabled to establish on these shores the principles of Religious Freedom, and through His instrumentality also, our revolutionary forefathers were permitted to secure the added boon of Civil Liberty, may we earnestly and fervently trust that we shall be aided by His wisdom so to deliberate and act that these unspeakable privileges may be trans mitted unimpaired to those who shall coine after us. The year just closed has been an eventful one. Shipwrecks beyond a parallel, the rav ages of pestilence, the partial failure of the harvests, commercial revulsions and gigantic financial dishonesty, have signalized its cal e n d a r . T o t h e s e m u s t b e a d d e d a wanton violation of a solemn national compact, and last of all, that most terrible of evils—car rying in its train every minor one,—war, between the most powerful monarchies in Christendom ; its cause indefinite, its horrors only real, its results beyond the power of From 171*0 to 1810, “ 18H* to 1820, “ 1820 to 1830. “ 1830 to 1840, i « 1810 to 1850, We shWbld be profoundly grateful that, while the wise Ruler of the Universe has permitted such calamities to befall others, we have been spared. Peace and plenty have again been vouchsafed to Massachusetts.— Her public health has been preserved, her harvests blessed, her churches, schools, and charities, and the various branches of her mechanical and commercial industry, largely prospered. A time honored custom requires the Execu tive, at the commencement ol the political year to present his views and recommendations to the Legislature. Convened as you are in accordance with the requirements of the 22d article of the Bill of Rights, which declares that you •* ought frequently to assemble for the redress of grievances, for correcting, strengthening and confirming the laws, and for making new laws as the common good may require,” I have every confidence that you will perform those duties by honest, thoughtful and wise legislation; honest, and therefore not for a party, h u t a people;— thoughtful, and therefore, while protecting the rights of the whole, invading the privil eges of n o n e w i s e , and therefore not for a y e a r , b u t f o r g e n e r a t i o n s . The most prominent subject before our State and Nation at the present moment, and t h a t w h i c h m o s t n a t u r a l l y c o m m e n d s ic.-ailf to-day, and in this place, to our attention, concerns our foreign population;—the duties of republicanism toward them, its dangers from them. 1 he immigration to this country was— ‘ ' - - 12!* iino I I 4,0U0 203 070 778 500 - 1 542 850 And statistics show, that during the present d e c a d e f r o m leO O to lfciiiO, i n r e g u l a r l y in creasing ratio, nearly four millions of aliens will probably be poured in upon us. With this alarming decennial ratio of in crease, with the astonishing statistical facts that n e a r l y four fifths of the b e g g a r y , two- thirds of the pauperism, and more than three- fifths of the crimes spring Irom our foreign population,—that more than half the public charities, more than half the police and the cost of administering criminal justice, are for foreigners,— the people demand of their statesmen, and wise statesmanship suggests that national and state legislation should in terfere to direct, ameliorate and control these elements, so far as it may be done within the limits of the Con.-titution. The times are peculiarly propitious for the development of this g r e a t American m o v e ment by the united action of the whole peo ple. In the gradual disruption of the great parties, whose struggles constitute our polit ical history; in the general resolution of these bodies into their individual elements; when old issues are obsolete or dying out, the individual, freed from the tyranny of party, naturally reverts to the great primary prin ciples of our government, and to the senti ments and purposes of its founders. The remarkable spectacle presented to the eyes of our people, naturally and wisely jealous of their nationality, of a foreign immigration in the ten years from 1840 to 1850 outnumber ing the whole previous influx since the or ganization of the republic, progressing too, in an equally increased ratio since the latter date, and probably European convulsions threatening a steady augmentation of this flood, tend naturally to attract and bind to gether the people in one united national, not party, movement. It is a great problem in statesmanship wisely to control the mingling of races into one nationality. The dominant race must regulate the incoming class. Such is political destiny, and history proves it. It is the only salvation of both. It is the compact of the incoming race. Legislation must co o p e r a t e w i t h tim e a n d c i r c u m s t a n c e s in working out this decree of God, this axiom of political philosophy, this theory of nation ality. To dispel from popular use every toreign language, so great a preserver of unassiiniia- ting elements of character—to print all pub lic documents in the English tongue alone— to ordain that all schools aided by the State shall use the same language—to disband military companies founoed on and develop ing exclusive foreign sympathies—to discour age imported political demagogues, the bro ken-down\ leaders of insular agrarianism or continental red republicanism, whose trade here is to put themselves at the head of their deluded countrymen, to organize prej udice, to vitalize foreign feeling and morbid passion, and then sell themselves to the highest partisan bidder—to purify and en noble the elective franchise—to adopt a care fully guarded check-list throughout the nation —to cultivate: a living and energy tic national ity—to develops a high and vital patrioti in —to Americanize America—to retain the Bible in our common schools—to keep entire the separation of church and state— to na tionalize before we naturalize, and to educate before either— to guard against citizenship becoming cheap —all these constitute a work transcending the ordinary platform of party, and ranking with the great movements that originally founded nations. I t has been said the times are propitious for the successful prosecution of this great work. All who are friendly to these vital measures should remember that, if they fail now, they are lost during this generation, perhaps forever. Unanimity of purp 'se among their advocates, and a patriotic sacri fice to duty of pnvtizan attachments alone, are needed to insure success. The' prodigality with which citizenship, and its franchises, are lavished upon foreign ers in this country, clearly tends 1x> lower the tone of American feeling, to cheapen the value set upon its privileges, and to deaden national spirit and the pride of country.— Neither the policy of other nations at pres ent. nor the recorded experience of the past, affords us any parallel, and scarcely an anal ogy. \ In the elevation and sp’endor of Athenian power, savs Chancellor Kent, the privilege of citizenship was considered so distinguished a fa v o r , that it was granted only by special decree of two successive assemblies of the people, and then alone to signal worth and reputation. In the times of the earlier Caesars the freedom of the city and empire was given with a sparing hand; but the line of degenerate emperors succeeding, corrupt ed anil destroyed this salutary jealousy of the right of citizenship, by extending it first to the while of Italy, and finally to the entire empire, composed as it was of an ag gregate of subjugated kingdoms, until the national blood was tainted, the distinctive national prejudice and spirit were dissolved, and the state perished under a horde of for eign barbarians, whose warlike invasion af fords almost the only historic parallel in number to the peaceful and insidious foreign influx to our shores at the present day. In England, the most liberal of the European governments, citizenship is conferred only' by special act of Parliament. In the Continen tal nations there are still further limitations, or a total prohibition. W hen we witness the profuse liberality with which the sacred right of citizenship is be stowed among us, the slender guards that exist against its unworthy or fraudulent gift, an J the great interests in the hands of those who receive, as well as those who grant it, we should pause and calmly consider the pos sible consequences. To a Republican Government, there is necessarily- cause for greater alarm than to others. Here the adopted citizen is invested with both the right of choosing and being chosen to office. Not only must he be an elector, but he may be. ancl often is, an offi cer. Every- additional naturalization tends to denationalize, to Europeanize, America.— The universal record of history- teaches that all republics that have ri-en and lallen owe their destruction to foreign influence, unseen at first, permitted till too strong for resist ance, at last fata]. The danger of foreign influence was keen ly felt by the early fathers of the Republic. Washington, in language befitting alike the gravity of the subject and his own sagacious statesmanship, repeatedly warns liis country men to beware of it. The writings of nearly all his distinguished contemporaries, of every shade of political sentiment, contains similar counsels. This was at a period when ships were comparatively few and small, steamers unknown, and practically the old world was quadruple the distance from us it is n o w ; at a time too when the stream of immigration was almost imperceptible in comparison with the ocean-like tide that sets in upon us to day ; at a time also before the alien element in our elections had become so important that the foreign vote had been bartered for office and honors, and now on this side, and now on that, had once and again decided who should rule the destinies of the American Republic. Time does not permit me to quote the [ names of the long line of distinguished | statesmen who have given utterance to simi-1 lar sentiments, as this clanger has more clear- { ly developed itself during the half century ; since intervening, but I cannot forbear men tioning the authority and words of our oivn Webster. He said more than ten years since, in Faneuil I-Iall, and in the presence of some I who now hear me, \ There is an imperative I necessity for reforming the Naturalization I laws of the United States.” I Were those patriots with us to-day-, could they witness the more imminent danger now i existing, we feel assured that their voice o f : warning would be raised with redoubled ! earnestness. i Acting then on my conviction of duty, I | express the opinion, that tho people of our ; Commonwealth believe our rights, privileges and liberties are endangered by these causes, j for a long time seen, but yearly- growing more alarming. They distrust foreign in- 1 fluences nursed in customs and creeds antag- onistieal to republicanism, venal voters con- 1 trolled by alien leaders for office and honors, I ignorant voters misled by designing politi- j cians for place and power, vicious voters bought by promised impunity and license for their wrong doings. j The alien born who lia s lived among for- ; eign customs and institutions, however hon est and welt disposed, cannot be competent to enter into the spirit and compiehend the genius of our institutions like one born and educated among them. No native citiz -n can vote for his civil rulers, except in the i few eases of temnorary absence from the i country until he has lived twenty-one years under the blessings and influences of our system He must become not only familiar ized with its workings, but invar • of its value. This period of life being one when the intel lect is most active in acquiring information and the faculties mo>t facile to a lapt them selves to tilj circumstances around them. the whole time is spent, not in eradicating old theories and p r e f e r e n c e s , but in acquiring new ones. j To the alien all this is different. He. comes here at a later age. with preceptive 1 powers less acute, opinions formed judg- ; ment already biased by the intellectual, po litical, social and religious influences of his ! native land. Too frequently- also the want o f ; early education, and the necessity- of unre- | mitting toil, preclude those opportunities of | instruction and habits of thought that our > common schools afford to all who are born 1 within the circle of their influence. Look- ' ing only to the proper educational training necessary to duly appreciate the workings o f . our government, it is important that at i least the same period of apprenticesh p and ; probation should be required of the alien as of the native voter. j To remedy the evils referred to is a cause I alike glorious and permanent ; glorious, for j in defending the fundamental principles of i our Republic we must be co-workers with ( those who laid its corner stone; permanent, because our greatest evils and dangers can only be reached through the national govern ment, and after a protracted struggle, and the remedy- onee applied must be rigidly and constantly- enforced. Legislation for this purpose is not influ enced by prejudice against the foreigner, but rather by the truest regard for his as much as our own interests, and those too of his and our descendants, whose common birth right will be citizenship. Leaving the old world of his own volition, because the old world’s religious and political and social systems, with their temporal and spiritual shackles upon body and mind, kept him im poverished. without a decei t home, sufficient food, comfortable clothing, or means of edu cation for himself or children, he gladly flies to these shores, where he is told education and land are public gifts, and every necessa ry of life is as certain to the industrious as is personal protection itself. Coming as he does, then, because our civil, social and religious systems are better than his own, let him freely avail himself of all the blessings his industry and our laws can give h im ; but we must insist that we our selves shall continue to administer those laws untrammelled, according to our own judgment and the example of our fathers. The laws of Congress, which give any clerk or inferior pol ce justice the right of investing the alien with the high immunities and dignity- of American citizenship, in se cret, at unknown times and places, by read ing a declaration the alien does not compre hend, on testimony often a mockery of sworn evidence, on oaths administered in a manner not considered obligatory, should be funda mentally modified. The practical operation of the present machinery for natui alization is a blot upon judicial proceedings, and a depreciation of the dignity and value of citi zenship. A few select, public naturalization courts should be established in the greater centres of the foreign population —a judge, or com missioner of tried integrity, should preside in each.—a public officer be appointed to in quire into and sift all applications.—its ses sions should be public and at stated times.— hearings on application notified beforehand, —and the whole process conducted with stringent care and guarded with the strictest circumspection. I recommend to the Legislature to consider whether any thing may be constitutionally done to apply these principles ro the clerks of our State Courts and to our Police Courts of Record. Three of the most vital principles of a Re publican Government are Spiritual Freedom, a Free Bible and Free Schools. With these we cannot fail to have independent, npright and intelligent voters, and they necessarily insure a just, impartial and wise government. W ith their opposities. Spiritual Despotism, a Fettered Bible, or. more probably, no Bible at all. \and Sectarian Schools, our liber ties would exist but in name, and very soon but in history. Recognizing, to its fullest extent, the right guarantied to every one in the Preamble to the Constitution of Massachusetts of “ wor shipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own con science,” deeming it the most sacred right that can be granted to man, the determina tion to protect that privilege in all its purity is a cardinal doctrine of truly American statesmanship. But, while no religious denomination as such, should be opposed, every citizen should earn estly- withstand the intrigues of those who would pervert the church to political purposes, and should protest against the union of church and state, or the subordination of the state to the church. The state should pro tect all churches, and not one church control, or attempt to control, the state. Spiritual despotism is antagonistic to the principles of individual and public liberty. An alien may forswear his allegiance to the foreign poten tate, and may take the oath of allegiance to his adopted country-; but, when he has been taught as the fundamental truth of his re ligion that spiritual obligation overrides more temporal and civil obligation, that his duty- to his church is higher than his duty- to the state, the danger and probabilities are, that he will use the privileges of a voter, not primarily- for the benefit of the state which granted them, but of the church, which to his judgment is supreme above the state. Believing these dangers and p r o b a b il i ti e s real, it is a solemn duty so to restrict alien franchise, that, while entire toleration is granted others to worship their M a k e r ac cording to the dictates of their own judgment, we preserve the same right to us and ours untrammelled and unen langered. The present European immigration is deeply prejudicial to the fair remuneration of American labor. The mechanic, the artizan the agriculturist, daily suffer frorn its in fluence. There is no statement in political ethics more palpable or fundamental than that honest industry should receive its due reward. Those who hourly feel the oppress ing competition of alien labor, depreciated under the tnskmakers of the old world, and schooled in the self-denials and modes of existence there so universal, properly believe that their own as well as the interests of the Republic demand that their elective franchise should be exercised for the protection of American labor. In the series of privileges and duties grant ed a legislator, none is more important than the opportunity to dignify- and enno Ie labor, — none either is more frequently overlooked. The corner stones of the American Republic are, the birthright of suffrage, universal edu cation, religious freedom and protection to la b o r . The report of the Secretary of the Treas ury-, recently- transmitted! to Congress, shows that our imports, during the past year, have exceeded our exports twenty-lsix millions of dollars. The profits on our exports and freights d u r i n g that period have reduced, in a trifling degree only, this enormous balance of indebtedness. Thirty-eight millions of dol lars in gold—over nine-tenths of all our re ceipts from California during the year as of ficially reported—have simply passed through the country intransitu. and have been ship ped away to pay for imported products of European labor, and the interest of our Eu rope an debt. This vast sum should have been kept here as a basis of healthy business, and as a more general substitute for small bank notes, or present circulating medium. Had this golden gift of Providence been retained at home to enrich the American a r tizan and tiller of the soil, instead of having been squandered to purchase foreign luxuries and the products of alien labor, we should this day-, as a nation, doubtless have enjoyed prosperity in every branch of industry, in stead of the threatened depression and* dis tress which now alarm the community-. Our remedy is not so much in legislative enactments and tariffs as m cultivating a feeling of patriotic nationality, and an united determination to encourage the skill and in dustry of the American laborer, by consuming the home products of the shop, the f a c t o r y and the field, in preference to imported fab rics and foreign productions, which result must he the inevitable sequence of a truly American sentiment pervading. The tax-payer, when called upon to con tribute from his well-merited earnings for the support of suffering paupei ism and crime, will, and of right should, investigate their causes. When he finds our'State Alms houses now contain two thousand foreign p a u p e r s , our State and County Lunatic Asy inrns eight hundred alien insane otu State Prison, Jails, and House- of Correction, over s x thousand five hundred foreign inmates per annum as shown by the returns and es timates for 1853, a large proportion of which were shipped at the expense of foreign au thorities. to relieve their native countries from their support, or from their crimes, and that this vast alien army is supported by M issaeliusetts at an annual expense of three hundred thousand dollars, he will scarcely b e l i e v e his honest desires to correct these gi gantic evils are occasioned by prejudice, are unauthorized or unjust. It has been stated that many of the evils and dangers referred to are within the exclu siv e p r o v i n c e o f n a t i o n a l le g i s l a t i o n . O t h e r s , however, can be averted through the agency of the State government. If this duty is left unfulfilled, or but partially accomplished, we neglect a great responsibility intrusted to us. Massachusetts, since the days of tho Revo lution, has been accustomt cl to be among the foremost in all measures of rational progress. She is once more permitted to take the lead in that legislation believed necessary to per petuate religious and civil privileges, both initiated within her boundaries, the one on Plymouth Rock, and the other upon the bat tle - f i e l d o f L e x i n g t o n . I recommend then, to the careful consid e r a t i o n o f th e L e g i s l a t u r e , th e fo l l o w i n g measures: 1. That amendment to the Constitution, which last year passed one stage of enact ment, prohibiting the diversion of the educa tional funds of the State to the establish ment of sectarian schools. 2. The power to repeal or modify the naturalization laws is confided alone to the Congress or the United States; out while Congress naturalizes, each State for itself prescribes the qualifications of all voters within its limits, for National as well as State officers. I recommend, therefore, an amend ment to our Constitution, prohibiting the ex ercise ol the elective franchise to all of alien birth, qualified by naturalization, till they have resided within the United States twen- ty-one years. 3. As a common school education, or its equivalent, is necessary to rightly understand the duties, and to be competent to properly appreciate the privileges of a freeman I re commend a further constitutional provision, to the effect that no person, shall be permit ted to vote who cannot read and write the English language. 4. I recommend an amendment to the C o n s t i t u t i o n , so that no person shall bo eligi ble to any office in the gift o f the p e o p le who j shall not be a legal voter in accordance with ' the previous suggestions. 5. The honor of the American Flag should be confided only- to those who are born on the soil hallowed by its protection: they alone can justly be required to vindicate its rights. One of my earliest official acts then will be, if sanctioned, as the laws re quire, by the advice and consent of the Exe cutive Council, whom you will select, to disr J band all military companies composed of for eign birth. 6. 1 recommend to your consideration the expediency of exempting all alien citizens from military duty. If, in your wisdom, this should be deemed insufficient to meet the de signed object. I recommend forbidding by j law payment of the State bounty to any military _ company which has enrolled ! among its members persons of foreign , birth. 7. It has already been stated that two thousand paupers, of alien origin, are this I day in the State AimS-houses, and eight hun- \ ered foreign idiots and lunatics are oeeu- j pants of the State Insane Asylums, or sup ported by the Counties, at the expense of the 1 Commonwealth. Everv kindness that com mon humanity and Christian precepts dic tate, should be shown these* unfortunates.— AC the same time, it is clearly our duty to protect ourselves against the custom, h a r d l y to be. credited, were it not proved to be sys tematical]^ adopted by foreign authorities, whic.h empties upon our shores the work houses and hospitals of the old world. Prov idence Seems to ordain that we should pro vide for those, who, capable of self support, immigrate voluntarily, but meet with misfor tune or calamity here. Those, t ovever, whom cold-hearted cruelty or miserly calcu lation ships liere, should,, without exception, be returned with humanity to their own country. The law o f 1792 provides that any justice of the peace may cause this to he done. W e need legislation that shall make this duty imperative, not merely permissive, and that shall place it in the hands of the proper offi cers. To a small extent, the present law has been acted o n ; but those who are best competent to judge are of the opinion, that, if it should be amended, so as to make it the duty of the selectmen or overseers of the p o o r of the several towns, under suitable penalties, to send such persons to the Board of Commissioners of Alien Passengers at Boston, and to require that Board to return them to the country from whence they came, we should soon be relieved from the charge of one-half the inmates of onr State Alms houses. Moreover, if it is known that we systematically return all who are thus thrust upon our sympathies, the cruel custom of sending them hither will doubtless soon cease. The average expense of supporting an alien pauper is not far from sixty dollars per annum ; the cost of sending them to Liv erpool, whence most of them come, would not exceed twenty eaeb, including a comfortable outfit 8. The. Board of Alien Commissioners now consists of the Alien Passenger Agent, the Auditor, and one member of the Execu tive Council, and ifc< animal gross receipts are aKout fiftv thousand dollars. Practically its duties fall on the first named. They are too onerous and too responsible to be entrusted lo anv one man’s band. The last Alien Pa'S'merer A sent fell a victim to the labors and exposures of his office. The present one is often called on to toil fourteen or sixteen hours per dnv. There are confided to his sole jndemenfc and faithfulness the power of demanding or dispensing with heavy bonds of indemnitv, and of adjusting the commuta tion tax of thousands of dollars, higher or low- er.on a single cargo of immigrants. A re organization of this Board is recommended, causing it to be composed of persons solely de voted to its duties, and acting as a check on one another. 9. The question as to the best method of caving for our alien paupers, is one of great moment Until May la s t , all paupeis unable to labor, and having no settlement within the State, were taken charge of by the various towns where they happened to be. which towns received from the Commonwealth l’or- ty-nine cents per week for adults, twucty- eigbt cents fo r children, and an additional discretionary remuneration for lunatics and those sick with contagious diseases. ‘ Three years ago the Legislature decided to change the system, and to erect State Alms-houses, where all alien paupers should be sent and provided for at the cost of the Common wealth; In May, 1854. the buildings, four in number, were ready for occupancy, and the change took place. The chief benefits of the new system are. the separation of foreign paupers from our own American poor, and the avoidance of c o n s t a n t c o n f l i c t b e t w e e n th e to w n a n d S t a t e authoritiesas to the amount of compensation, which led to numerous appeals to the Legis la t u r e . a n d th e w a s t e o f m u c h of its v a l u a b l e time. Its greatest defect, besides the laige outlay for the necessary lands and buildings, is the greatly increased cost to the State of supporting their inmates. The expense to the community, however, inay not be greater now than before The additional cost, be yond the per capita paid by the State, fell on the towns formerly, but now tne State Treas ury sustains the whole. Without deciding the question whether the change was, on the whole, desirable, concerning which there is a great difference of opinion, it is certain that the new system should now be fairly tested. It is also our present duty to see if any leg islation is needed to improve or economize the new plan. The Reports of the various Boards of Inspectors will be laid before you at an early day, and will doubtless contain valuable suggestions. The cost of the new Alms-houses has been $241,758. The edifices are poorly built, badly ventilated and heated, faulty in their plan of construction, not provided with a needful supply of water, and, unless a very considerable outlay is made on them, will be in a short time in a ruinous condition.— They are no credit to the State. They have no suitable workshops, and from twenty to thirty stoves and furnaces are situated in each main building, rendering the danger of fire very treat. Industry should be rigidly enforced on all who are able to perform the lightest species of labor, both for the benefit of the inmates, and to reduce the cost of their support; w h e t h e r agiiouhurai or mechanical industry should mainly be attended to, the Legislature will determine. Sufficient woi kshops should be provided, and separate buildings for cook ing, the lire ol which might be sufficient for laundry purposes ; and to heat the main ed ifiee by steam lrfght be true economy. No one can think of confl igration breaking out in one of them, filled with six or eight hun dred persons, many of whom are aged, sick, lame or blind without a shudder. The average cost per week to the State un der the ohl system was about forty cunts for each person . but for the first seven months u n d e r the new, it has been n e a r l y th r e e times that sum. The most rigid economy s h o u l d be insisted on enforced by every check and restriction y iur wisdom may deem desirable. E v e r y advantage of the market should be taken in purchasing supplies; and I suggest for your consideration, wl ether ad vertising for proposals or the appointment of a purchasing agent for the State Institution might not he desirable. There is reason to believe that the average cost per week has been considerably enhanced by circumstan ces natural at first, and that it can hereafter be materially reduced. But partial means of information have been' within my reach during the limited time at my disposal. I have plainly spoken m y present convictions; and it is but just to add, that they may be modified by further investigation. I renewedly commend the whole subject of the support and occ-uparion of the alien paupers to your special atten tion. Your judicious but decided action on the important subjects thus briefly stated will necessarily be felt beyond the limits of Mas sachusetts. It will affect the legislation of other States, and to some extent, probably influence the proceedings of Congress itself. We wish our army Americanized, our Navy Nationalized. We wish the restriction as to birth, now applicable to the office of Presi dent, extended to members of the Cabinet a n d of Congress, to the Judges of the Su preme Court, and to all our diplomatic rep resentatives abroad. W e desire a vital amendment of the naturalization laws, and an uniform requirement of twenty-one years5 residence in the United States before the elective franchise is conferred upon Aliens.— W e wish stringent national laws regarding immigration, the imposition of an uniform and sufficient capitation tax, and the univer sal deportarion of criminals and paup>rs shipped to our shores. These and other re forms can only be consummated through au American President and an American Con gress. Your harmony, judgment, and rirm adherence to principle, must needs have no inconsiderable influence in hastening this re sult. The question of temperance will naturally receive your deliberate consideration. The evils of intemperance force themselves on the attention of every statesman. They appear at the courts, they cry aloud from our pris ons, jails and hospitals, and the wailings of our lunatic asylums are their voices. They drain our treasury, and swell the long cata logue ol pauperism and suffering. They are universally recognized as a legitimate object of legislation. They claim the deep atten tion of the law-giver, as well as the philan thropist. Our Supreme Court, a tribunal that has the just confidence of all, having pronounced unconstitutional some provisions of the pres ent anti-liquor law. such sections should not longer remain on our statute bo< k. Every citizen of the State, probably, concurs in tbe wish, that they be either repealed or amend ed. Coming, as you do, fiesh from the people, you; deliberate conclusions will doubtless be a fair criterion of their wishes. Whatever measures you may perfect to prevent intein- pi ranee and check pauperism and crime and which are deemed constitutional by myself and tlie officer whom the laws of the Com monwealth have provided as my legal advis er. shall receive my unhesitating sanction. In defiance of \the principles asserted by the dominant national party in their Jast Presidential Convention, jn disregard, too. of the pledges of the President in his Inaugural Address, sectional issues have been re-opened by the wanton violation of plighted national faith on the part of Congress and the Execu tive in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, which fixed a northern limit to the extension ofslavery. The first result ol this p e r n i c i o u s action was to shock the*moral .sentiment of the eomfmmity. and to excite fears that all constitutional and legal barriers against the diffusion of this acknowledged evil would, from time to time, be swept away. It has moved n cn’s minds at fhe North to an ex tent no other political occurrence has done within the memory of the present generation. Iks ultimate effect will and should be, to de termine us, by the consideration of every sa cred and holy duty, to manfully demand the restoration of this broken compact, and to jealously guard each and every right that be longs to Massachusetts. While we acknowledge our fealty to the Constitution and the Laws, their oft-repeated cry of disunion heralds no real danger to our ears. While we honestly concede the com mon duties evoked by the articles of confed eration, we will preserve \inviolate the Skate Rights retained for each sovereign member of that confederacy W ith fraternal feelings to all her sister States, and filial devotion to their common parent, yet with acknowledged rights and a determination that they be main tained, there stands.Massachusetts. Of those rights, the two cardinal ones are the Habeas Corpus and the Trial by Jury.— It is submitted to your deliberations, wheth er additional legislation is required to secure either of these to our lellovv-citizens. Scru pulously avoid such action as asserts or looks to the maintenance of any rights not clearly and constitutionally ours, but weave every safeguard you justly may round those primal birthrights, older than our national birthaay. and dear as its continued existence. The financial condition of the Common wealth is not a flattering one. The follow ing is an approximate statement of the Ex penditures and Receipts for the past fiscal year, which will be pre'-ented in accurate de tail of the Auditors General Report: E X P E N D I T U R E S . Legislative and Executive Departm ent, Scientific and Educational purposes, Interest on Debt, Charitable and Hum ane purposes. Correctional and Preventive purposes, Military, O R D IN A R Y R E V E N U E . $344,398 00 20.0S6 00 100,-125 00 wages dub above twenty-five dollars. So do th e o p e r a t i v e s i n a m a n u f a c t u r i n g c o m p a n y . This is not only hard, but unjust Business men, when they sell on credit, allow for the risk. The chance of loss enters into the cal culation of the price to be charged. No such idea influences the wages of labor. Tho busi ness creditor would,not fed the difference in his dividends, nor object to the laborer’s be ing paid in full, while it is a matter of vital importance to the workman. Frequent complaints are made regarding the inefficiency of the -mechanics’ lien law. I would suggest to yrour consideration the ex pediency of amending it so as to render it more effective in its working, in order that the laborer can more readily avail himself of its advantages, and at the same time the rights and interests of contractors and build ers be more clearly and surely secured. Within the past year, frequent frauds have been committed by making over issues of stock in corporations. Eminent legal author ities f ppear to be undecided in regard to the precise nature and denomination of the of fence ; and in this uncertainty offenders have escaped without punishment. To affix a suitable penalty’ to such frauds, seems to be au appropriate case for legislative action. No law at present exists giving holders of bills of insolvent banks a prior claim over, other creditors. It is very desirable our cur rency should be rendered as safe as practica ble. It is the duty of a depositor to ascer tain the solvency’ of any bank he entrusts with his property; but the bill-holder, often at a distance, a laborer or a female, trusts solely’ to the law for protection. What the State permits as currency, they confidently * take, assured that the law will protect them : in so doing by all just enactments. I cim- 2«VD2 oo 1 mend the question to your consideration. i7n no ! . 1 . : ____ *i ____ - _____ i t T7*y;.'o oo 07,4*9 00 $ JuO.’—Od 00 While making these suggestions, it seems necessary to add that one great fault in mod ern legislation is constant alteration and j amendment in statute law. Even those* '■‘>?win*in 1 whose province and sole business it is to cx- .kAiii'u ru’jiseuijer iAtrcviiJu*, oU,U*>i w , 1 1 , 1 n 1 it n W e stern Li. R. Sinkimr Fund and Dividends, 119,<*90 00 pound th e law can hardly keep pace w i t h th e Cash oil h a n d at .commencement of year, iy,4io oa avmua] c h a n g e s , w h i l e th e m a j o r i t y ' of our O.OOS 00 ! ° 1 J J - 1 citizens are necessarily’ in - ignorance of, and Bank Tax, Alien Passenger Receipts, From Sundry oilier sources, $718,2-82 00 A n n u a l o rdinary income, exclusive of S tate Tax, short o f expenditure, $232,023 00 T h e following items may' be regarded as extraordinary expenditures:— Convention Expenses, $41,205 00 N ew Lunatic H o spital do, 10,*100 00 Malden Bridge, 0,000 00 $110,205 00 Leaving still a deficit of—say $201,718 00 T h e a c t i o n o f t h e l a s t L e g i s l a t u r e , f o r th e uncertainty as to, fundamental enactments which concern even their immediate occupa tion. No statutory’ change should be made that expedience does not clearly demonstrate to be necessary. > I turn with pleasure to the agricultural in terest of the Commonwealth, an interest so intimately connected with every’ other, and of such importance to them all. that its pros perity is the foundation and wealth of every purpose of increasing the School Fund to a | state. As early as 1792, the Massachusetts million and a half of dollar.-, will, in effect. ( Society for the Protection of Agriculture was diminish the annual income of the State, j founded, and in its example and liberal do- herctofore applicable to meet its current ex- j nations to the county societies, still exerts a penses, about fifteen thousand dollars , Uiprhly valuable influence. The Society of The cost of supporting the Sta’e Paupers : Middlesex Husbandmen was established m for the vear endiiw Nov. 1st, 1853. was | 1794. and others have since been formed, till $lu0,75(ff which amount, under the old sys- ‘ now the bounty of the State is supplied to te r n , h a s b e e n p a i d to th e to w n s d u r i n g th e past year. But, owing to tlu> new plan adop te d . t h e c o s t o f s u p p o r t i n g th e s a m e p a u p e r s in the new alms.houses, for the year 1854 in part, amounting to $80,890, has also been paid from the treasury during the past year. This fact will not materially vary the above estimates, however, as during the y'ear upon which we arc now entering, we must pay to the towns the expense of supporting these paupers from Nov. 1st, lc53, till the period when they were removed to the State alms houses, from month to month, during the current financial year. On looking over the schedule of receipts, the Bank Tax alone, seems likely to produce additional revenue. This, under charters granted last year, may possibly be increased to tho amount of $20,030. It is not proba ble the present wants of the community de mand additional hanking capital, and it is to be hoped that no more charters will be grant ed. I commend to y’our close examination the items of the other and larger column. In troduce into every branch of expenditure rigorous and minute economy; remembering, however, lhat parsimony is not true econo my in fostering the noble and * \hristian char itable and humane institutions of M a s s a c h u setts. On examining tiiis list, there is one item especially that can be, should be, and the peo ple expect will be diminished, and that is the expense of the Legislature. Whatever addi- seventeen associations. In 1852 the State Board of Agriculture was organized. The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Secreta ry of State, are ex-officio members; three persons are appointed by the Governor and Council, and the remainder of the board con sists of delegates, mostly practical men, from the several county societies. In March last, the Trustees of the State Reform School transferred the management of the State Farm at Westborough to the Board of Agriculture, and subsequently the Legislature appropriated the sum of six thou sand dollars for the purpose of commencing the contemplated improvements. A detailed report of the operations of the Board will soon b ■ laid before you. In the same spirit of enlightened liberality which has heretofore fostered this important art, and encouraged the people in its prosecu tion, you will doubtless consider the subject, and f trust such judicious aid will continue to be afforded as will enable the Board to carry out the plans they have already commenced. These may include eventually the opportuni ty for a portion of our youth not only to ob tain that practical knowledge of agriculture which will qualify them for the employments of the garden and the field, but also to ac quire the scientific principles and practice in dispensable lo a successful pursuit of the high er branches of the art. According to the returns of the census in 1850, the aggregate value of the farms, stock, implements and products in the Common- tional cause of grateful regard the session e f l wealth, -von the first of June of that year, 1855 may bring to our constituents, let i t ! «'as more than one hundred and forty mil- have the special merit of being a working and lio”s of dollars. It is believed this sum, large a short on”. I !ls *t is- will be gradually increased by supe- TIvj public lanIs of Massachusetts situated j rk)r modes of culture, in .Mar e, were sold over a j ear ago and I The skl11 and wisdom o f the mechanic have recommend the abolishment of the office of also kept pace with our progress in agricul- Land Agent. '1 he nominal duties pertain ng j tnre. His active genius has devised, and his to the post can be transferred to the Auditor, industry constructed, numerous implements or one of the other Heads of Departments and machines which supersede a vast amount and the salary lie saved to the State. ' .......... ~' J ..... *1\' J- -*--c A large and increasing annual expenditure of m o n e y is made ,to v-.mou- coimniss.ons cre a t e d by the I ugisliuure- In many eases, the duties performed are not commensurate to the price charged. It is hoped no commis sion will be created that is not indispensable a n d p e r h a p s t h e L e g i s l a t u r e c a n s a f e l y ter minate some now in existence. I earnestly recommend that in all cases hereafter, where of human toil, and give to the products of the soil in many places a new value. They also increase the worth of our lands, and en able us to supply, in a larger degree, the wants of those engaged in other occupations, iff all her various branches of mechanical in dustry, Massachusetts is justly proud. U n d e r t h e f o s t e i i n g a i d o f th e s a m e b o r n i - ( ty. the Military of the Commonwealth are There arc on file , in a prosperous condition, commissio s are created, and the amount'of * in the Adjutant-General’s office, applications labor can be approximately estimated, the * fnr aboutthirty companies more than arc au- Legislature will fix in the Resolves the spe cific -urn ’that shall be paid eaeh Commis sioner. The system of per diem pay should be a v o i d e d . The last Legislature initiated a series of series amendments to the Constitution. They were finally agreed upon, and passed by the uni ted voices of able and influential men of all parties there represented. Some of them, by themselves alone, would perhaps have failed of the requisite majority ; but. a s a whole, they were deemed just, fair, and demanded by the popular desire. In this opinion I con- thorized by law—unless in accordance with a recent opinion of the Attorney-General, the present number may be somewhat in creased. Some ju.iicious m i l i t a r y o r g a n i z a tion should exist in every Republic, for the defence of its liberties and rights. Experi ence and prudence alike dictate this course. We need no standing army with the germi nal seeds of an efficient volunteer militia sown in our midst. A standing arm}’ be comes the mere machine of the dominant au thorities, while the Volunteer soldiery unite the skill of the tactician to the enlightened cur. and recommend them, as a body, to your j sentiment and feeling of the citizen, favorable judgment. If approved by you, ' 1 ‘ ’ *‘ they can c i t h e r be submitted to the popular vote at the March town meetings, or post poned till the next annual election. If the first course seems preferable, you can ma ture the 'necessary legislation, to take effect only in case these amendments receive the sanction of the people. During the past year our educational sys tem, in all its various branches, has quietly but constantly exerted its beneficent influen ces in dissipating, the mists of ignorance, and unfolding to the youth of our State a heritage more valuable and enduring than material wealth. Our schools, we are confident, will continue to prosper, while in them are incul- The repeal of the usury laws is believed to cated the great lessons of morality and Chris tianity drawn from the Book which for more than two hundred years has been read in tin m by successive generations. When the Reports of the Heads of De partments and of the various Commissions now in existence shall have been received and are transmitted to you, I shall avail myself of the opportunity of making any suggestions concerning our reformatory and charitable institutions that further acquaintance with their affairs may seem to demand. The last Legislature passed Resolves for the establishment of a Reform School for Girls. The sum of twenty thousand dollars required therein to be raised by private sub scription. has been obtained, and Commis sioners appointed to select and determine its location, and to prepare plans and estimates for the necessary buildings. Twenty thou sand additional were appropriated from the S t a t e Treasury for the purposes of this insti tution, and further legislation will be required at your hands when the Report of the Com mission is presented. A n o t h e r C o m m i s s i o n , w a s a l s o a p p o i n t e d be desired by the business community. The notorious violation of any law serves only to create disrespect for all. Honorable men are deterred from lending money at its real val ue, on personal security, when contrary to law ; and a portion of the funds of the com munity being thus diverted from this chan nel, men less scrupulous obtain a higher rate from the borrower. There is little doubt but that the repeal of these laws would reduce the price of money. Then, too, the borrower can meet the lender face to face, -and make an open bargain, without resorting to the agency and cost of a third party, to avoid infringe ment of the letter of the law. The usury laws have recently been repealed in Great Britain, and the question will probably soon be fayorabiy considered in various States of th e U n io n . I n m y o p in io n t h e c h a n g e h e r e should be made in such a way as not to affect loans on mortgage. VV’ith that view I rec ommend the repeal of the usury laws now in force, so far as they apply to negotiable paper having not exceeding eight months to mature. Our existing law, in arrests on mesne pro- i by the same Legislature to consider and re cess. and commitment on execution, irnpris-1 /whether any material alterations and ons for debt without a trial as to the question additions ave necessary m the Lunatic Hos- of property, leaving the debtor to swear out, ; pital at Worcester, or whether the sale Of making imprisonment precede judgment, and , tkat, and the erection of one or more new practically presuming the debtor to be guilty i ones other locations are expedient. It of fraud, until lie proves himself innocent, would be a subject oi regret should a very. These provisions are unjust, and should be i large outlay be deemed necessary for these done away w ith: though some process , purposes m the present exhausted state should be provided whereby the fraudulent i our treasury. W ithin about three years debtor should be. subject to examination re garding his property, and be compelled to ap ply it to the payment of his just debts. To accomplish these purposes, the creditor might be required to make oath that he be lieves the debtor to have property fraudulent- we have expended over six hundred thousand\ dollars in the construction of t ' e Lunatic Hospital at Taunton, the alien Pauper Alms house, and the Enlargement of the State House. Experience demonstrates, hovt ever, that it iycoiicealei\which 'h e fads’ to*'apply to-the ! ’-s truly the policy as well as the duty of the payment of his debts, and to have a sumrna- j State tarestram its wayward, and educateits ry hearing or trial on this charge immediate | fodigent youth. H ie State Heform School Iv after the arre>t on the writ, and before the ! *or dJo.ys. has. been abundantly blessed in its commitment on execution, if convicted, the j resultsj but its full capacity if now emploj ed debtor is imprisoned, not for iebt, but for i wAde/fis ficlfi of usefulness is by no moans fraud; and imprisonment for debt, so justly ! occupied. Should circumstances'seem to you odious, is entirely abolished. j t0 demand additional: provision for this class If a statute be enacted embodying these t 0,,r 5 0Utk' tke establishment of a Nauti to. M i l 1 ________ -11 J __ L . - I - JL r i . _ V . . • p r o v i s i o n s , i t m i g h t be* w e l l to p i a c e t h e b u s i - ness in the hands of Commissioners appoint ed for the purpose, instead of leaving it m the justices of the quorum, who now conduct it. The number of persons committed to jail for debt, and in civil Suits for tort, m Suffolk County aione, is seven or eight him cal School upon the marine border of. the- State would be a wise extension of this plan of charity and discipline. «. The deficiency of seamen in _our national and merchant marinehas long been deplored. The Secretary of the Navy, in his late Report makes special allusion, to this subject, rccom- dred annually. In the large number o f ar- mending tbe establishment of the apprentice • i. . i . » . I c v c fnm id nner* nmor»f \ w ill Jv/i 4-n k rests in suits for tort, much oppression exists, and arrests for slanders especially might safe ly bo abolished. Tn cases of insolvency, wages for labor are now preferred claims to the amount o f twen ty-five dollars, if the work wag -done Within sjxty-five days before insolvency, Theamount. preferrad should be larger, and the time long er. If a merchant fails for millions, his clerks and laborers take a dividend on their system whose object *’ will be to make youth practical seamen, to teach them to become fa miliar with the duties, of the sailor, the sa- credness ofobedience to orders,And to watch over, their mental training. ” It is a matte? off Imqeasifig regret th a t To day a very large proportion, if nota, majority of seamen in the American service are for eigners. Massahcusetts, from her extensive commercial occupations, has a paramount in- A y e r's C h e rry Pectoral. Dr. Roirer*' S y rup o f Livcr- w ort, T a r and Canchala- gua. B a rley's A rabian H e a v o Cure. terest in this matter. S .ch an institution would provide sh<'!ter, education, moral cu'- tuvo, and restraint for th e '’lass who need ail the/e, and at the same time furnish employ ment. at a suitable age, at a vocation where it is not only in demand, but is essential to commercial prosper.ty and national protec tion. The Claim of Massachusetts against the General Government amounting to $227,- 17 G 48 for services performed and expendi tures actually made to repel invasion, during the war of 1812, still remains unpaid. This large sum, one-third of which belongs to the State of Maine, was spent by us over forty years ago. and nearly twenty years since the Secretary of War. by direction of Congress, made an examinatiou c>f its justice, and pro nounced it valid and due from the United States. Every similar claim from the other States was paid many years ago. It is to be hoped that now, when the national Treasury is overflowing, the justice of our demand ___ ............... ......... . will be fully recognized by the passage of j M cAfii.tei-v Oii.tmeut. the bill before Congress for its liquidation. Gowt-u uiLtaaY,*.111' Anv special action in this matter is referred to your judgment The suit in equity, in favor of the Com monwealth, ag dust the State of Rhode Is land, to establish by a judicial decision tho true boundary between the States, so long a subject of controversy and of fruitless nego tiation, is still pending in the Supreme Court of United States at Washington. At the present term of the Court a rule has been <&uttU $$ l i l o s c s ’ Jllc b i n n c s . &, G E N E R A L AGENTS F O R T H E FO L L O W IN G Vopgate's A sodvne Cordial Payb’s Cliuias Sahe. Railway's Ready XU-liefl Dr. Marshall** C a t a r r h Snuff. Choesemarfs Balsam. Given Mountain Ointment, j Wyiikor»p,*« Sarsaparilla. E. L. Soule’* m i ? . * D r. Roger's Aperient Pills. Pain Ptvtruv Moffatt's 1 i .R Motihi’s Phenix Bitters. Kellogg'* Wtffra Tea. P e ttit’d Kye* Salve. Myers* Jixtruct of Rock IiOsV. Am erican Medicinal Oil. < ‘il I.h.iment. Adams* L iver Balsam. Pl»jl»l'h Porter's Tooth Cordial. A r .ica Liniment. R i c h a r d ' s German Oint ment. Coley's Soap. Dead fcjhot for Bed Bugs. Campbell's H a ir Invi^ora- tor. We have also tor Sale, at Kanulacturer’s Prices, the following articles: Phelp'e Tomato Pill*. Dailey's Pain Extractor. Sherm an's Lozenges and Phn-lers. Durkce'* Bakin# Powders. Lyon's Kuthairon. FahnsttM'kV Vermifuge. M eLane's Vennitnve. MeLanc's Liver Piiis. N o rth's Supporters. Miuvh’si Loudon Support er*. Dr. 1 'itch 's Supporters. Gents' Shoulder Bruces. Ladies Bartlett’s ! N o rth’s M arsh's Trusses. entered, upon the motion of the Attorney- J Ujffi General of Massachusetts, requiring th e ; State of Rhode Island to file its answer to the bill on or before the first day of the next term. It is to bo hoped that the coun sel of both parties will unite in urging to a speedy adjudication a cause of so much in terest to the people of their respective States. The two previous Legislatures passed re solves, to cause to be copied and printed the old Records of Massachusetts. These papers are of great historic value, and were fast going to decay. The fidelity with which this work has so for been done merits warm encomiums. It is for you to consider if a labor so necessary shall be continued till our colonial archieves are secured in a per manent aud enduring form. G e n t l e m e n :— Elevated to this high and honorable office by the suffrages of my fellow-citizens I can only promise to bring to the performance of its duties my earnest efforts and honest de sires. I know of no safer index in official action than a conscientious conviction of duty—none more fluctuating than the at tempt to satisfy temporary caprice. Prin ciples are enduring; and if disregarded, sooner or later the verdict of condemnation will be recorded against those who are false to their requirements. Let us, then, be true to our country and our duty. Let the suc cess of principle, not of party, be our desire —the benefit of State, not of faction, our a i m . I congratulate you that there is so much of encouragement in the past, so much of hope in the future. I have every confidence in our singleness of purpose and in the re sults of your legislation ; and I invoke the favor of the God of nations on your delib erations and your action, that they may be blessed to the benefit of our common con stituency and our ancient Commonwealth. Dtr\ine’a P itch Lozenjre?. H o u s t o n 's P e i’tin [Liquid \ u Pow d er Bryan’s W afers. H u rd's H a ir Gloss. “• Restorative. Batchelor's H a ir Dye. Mathew's 1,1 44 Ballard's “ 44 JohriKOi.'s Tooth Soap. Goodrich's liivi jorator. Godfrey’s Cordial. Seidlidtz Powders. Knapp's Planters. Braudretli's Pills. Tax trier's German Ointment Phahm ’s Invi#nrator. Phalon's H a ir Dye. Track's Ointment. Liquid Opodeldoc. E x tract l.euuni. E x tract Vanilla, &c., &c E C O S P O U H D . P. V. E. COVENTRY & CO., are Sole Possessors of a Hew and Perfect Process, just discovered, of Extracting and Combin ing the Medicinal Properties of Plants, without their Impurities. W ill! it they have ot.taincd tin’ m o st powerful Tonic ami A lterative medicine ever offered to the public. In “ Bach's A m erican Compound” they prove beyond n. doubt the greatest sup. riority and success ever attained by any remedy. Its rapid and perm a n e n t euros of D y s pepsia and all d erangem ents o f the Stomach, a s w e ll as hereditary taints and disorders of the blood, indicate a vast superiority over anything of its kind oyer before known. T h is com p o u nd is w a rranted to cure the w o rst cases of Salt Rheum , Erysipelas, Scrofula, Tetter, Scald Head, Ringworm, Biles and Pim p les—and restore activity and health to sluggish blood. Its great Tonic properties restore digeslion a n d give strength and tone to til** S tomach, thus c u ring any of its derangements, as D y sprpsi i, W eakness, J'iles, and depression attending want o.- app. tite. It is warre.nted to restore strength ancl activity in all rises of female weaknesses, or to those suffering irom nervous debility, or prem a ture old age. We an outw ard application (though taken inter nally a t the same tim e, as directed in each w rapper) it is w a rranted to cure Cankered, Calomel, N u rsing and Ulcer.it. d sore Mouths and Throats, Sore Nipples, Ab- scsa.-s and Fever Sores. T h is is 110 secret preparation (to * curco of ordinary medicines) aB a full formulae. Is being furnished to all Physicians. No medicine lias ever before attained so liigl'i a reputation for invariable success—or been so h ighly rvcommendi d b y Physicians. Opinion o f a crlcf/ratixl Praetioner, Acknoirled^ed one o f the most jirominent P h /sicians in the Stale o f New York. A u b u rn State Penitentiary, 1854. F o r several m o n ths past I have used your u B:icb’s Compound” in m y practic- both Private and Hospital, have core fully w atched and noted its effects in the h ands of others, and in no case ii.'B i t failed lo m e e t m y expec tations. I am pleased w ith the happy and skillful com bination of Us rem edial constituents. L A N 8 1 N G H BRIGGS, M. D. From the eminent Dr. Whaley of Ithaca, N. Y. I have received y o u r Formulae for preparing 11 Bach’s Compound.” 1 think it u n exceptionable. I have u sed it in m y practice, and pronounce i t a valuable medicine. A. W H A L E Y , M. D. T e s t i m o n y o f t h e H i g h e s t C h a r a c t e r . R E M A R K A B L E C U R E . D e a r Sirs W e the undersigned cheerfully give our nam es to tho following statem e n t, th a t the value of y o u r m edicine m a y he known to the public. H e n ry Seym our, a convict now in this Prison, lias been ever since h is confinement, a great sufferer from Salt Rlieum . F o r five m o n ths in 1853, h e was unable to do any work. Tho ordinary rem edies for Sait R h e u m w e re applied w ith out any good effect. In Septem b er he w a s p u t upon fresh diet, and received a bottle of ” Bach’s A m erican Compound.'’ He has used tbree bottles and we are sat isfied he is cured, All orders addressed to T U T T L E & IK USES, Auburn, Cayuga County, X . Y will receive p rom p t attention. C H A R X. T C T T E , Feb. 1,1855. [lyd&w] JO B HOSES. QpP* B. FOSGATETS A A i o « a y x i . e C o r G i a l , A Safe a n d Effectual H tnicdyfor Ute C O M P L A I N T S , V iz: D iarrhcea, D y s e n tery, C h o lera M o rbus, an d F l a t u l e n t anti Spasm o d ic Cholics. 'PH IS invaluable for tbe above complaints, sur- 1 pa?-*** miv otlicr r.’iuetly n«»w In use. JH fisiM trcds of cases have come to the kimwictLv of the proprietor, where a 1 l i r e has bt » n elYW-Vil b y the use of the Cor<Ual after a remrt to all oilier remedies had proved uu- ftvuiiimr. Ii hu-> l»e«-n extvii>ivtdy used throughout this State and elsewhere, for nearly a 4 ' e u t w r y . It has been approved, and i> in prae’iec by a #r«?at num ber of tlie mo. f respectable P U ir SIC IALT S, us m a y b e seen by eertiik-at* 8 and recoiii!nend;;ii”n:> areompanying e:ith lioM'e. A> a or O t o i - in its early M ulys each epidemic which has pa^od over the cDiudry ha*, ^iw-n fact-ay t \ idcnce. TM* modi, ine is u rtuin and effectual remedy for the Interline di'»-.i<-s pvo.V’ced by the of the n uUrs Vte l i l r c.s- of the A'\ '//L' n ai d SonVacc. U-m % hich rcjuU i it o f inc'tiiual !•* 5 alue to those who reside or travel in thosMkvtn-ns of the country. B 3 W A E E OP C O U N T E R F E IT S .— Purchase tho medicine of ihoxe only in whom t h coujidtHee for h%>v* i-t/f can K* p’.e-H. F< r sale h r the principal drui^i-'ts throughout ibe Uni ted Males. Price lib cents p.«r bottle. E. VOStrATE. Proprietor. A n h v n i. V. F. ' EPS* T U T T L E & H O P E ? , A u b u rn, N . Y ., Gcner: 1 Agents for the 8tateB of New-York and Michigan, to whom all o rders should b e addressed. A i.so, fur sale b y all the D ruggists in A u b u rn, and by D ruggists and Mer chants generally. ’ febl d& w ly.gj ( f e t e d C o i t g l j lle n t e i r s L [.Signed.] FOR THE COMPLETE CURE OF CougliSj Colds, Influenza, Bronchitis, Spitting Blood, Asthma, A N D A L L O T H E R LU N G CO M P L A IN T S TENDING TO T H E above Expectorant, juepared by au experienced Physician and Chemist, h-.w now become a standard. Preparation, and is oll'ered for the C O M P L E T E C U R E o f tln.se diseases of tl.e T H R O A T and I.I X(iS, -which, if ne deeted, usually term inate fatally in CONSUM P T IO N . It contains no Opium, Calumil, or any m ineral whatever, b u t is composed entirely of those Jinn's, I P rim and VrgclaWe suhslanrrs w h ich have a specific influence upon tlie T.uncs and tie ir connected organs. Its imme diate effect is to allay all irritation, and gently remove the phlegm and other morbid secretions from the Throat nn»I Airqiassages, thus relieving the t ’ougli, b y subduing tbe inflammation aud other causes which give rise to it. I t is approved of and recommended by Physicians of th e highest standing, a n d m ay be. g iven w ith perfect safety to the youngest child or tlie most delicate female. T U T T L E & M 0 8 E 8 . General Agents for the s tates of N e w Y o rk a n d Michigan. For sale by all D ruggists in A u b u rn, and by D ruggists and M erchants generally. A u b u rn, p'cb. lfjoa. He is now able to do full work, L A N iU N G H BRIGGS, Physician to the Penitent!.ry. COL. L E V I L E W IS , A g e n t and W a rden to the Penitentiary. C H A R L E S W H E E L E R , D e p u ty W a rden of the Penitentiary. D a v id M i l l s , i Forem en in shop where Seym o u r Jam e s P a r ish , j works. From an ok -Agent and Inspector of th.e Auburn Prison. A u b u rn, Jan. 25,1855. T h is certifies th a t m y w ife haB \been for y e a rs afflicted t w ith chronic pore m o u th, arising from a bad condition I of the Stomach and blood, and th a t one bottle of “Bacb’a A m erican Compound” cured h e r entirely. I t is now ten m o n ths and she has h a d n o r e turn of it. B E N J A M I N A S H B Y . P r e p a r e d F o r P . V . E . C O V E K ’T E Y & C 0 - , S o le P r o p r i e t o r s , A u b u r n , X. *5T. See th a t each w rapper h a s a prom isory n o te payable a t A u b u rn, N. Y., w ith pen and ink signature of P. V. R. Coventry, lo im itate which , isforgery. Price SI p e r bottle or six b o ttles for S5. F o r sale b y D ruggists and dealers in medicines every where. febGd&w I TS O R IG IN .—W h ile b o ring for salt w a ter some tim e since near Burksville, K entucky, tho workmen em ployed h a v ing reached the depth o f 185 feet, were aston ished to find th a t they had arrived at a cavity in which th e instrum ent refused to perform i ts office. Presently a liquid of a dark green color began to exude from tho orifice; and, on w ithdraw ing t h e augur, i t rose in a jet, w ith trem endous force, to the height o f more than 20 feet. Ati analysis o f the liquid decided i t to be a most volatile oil, a u d possessing p roperties o f a h ighly medical nature. TO PHYSICIANS. Professor (Miller, a German physician a n d chem ist of great ability, of Rochester, says: I do h e reby certify t h a t I h ave analyzed th e celebrated A m e rican Oil, and find th a t it contains W h ite, Yellow and Brow n N a p tha, possessing rare medical properties. I t also contains Sulphuret of Carbon, a n d a Balsam of Soft Itosin, Sesqtri-Carbonato of Iron, Kali, Alumni, Silicic Acid, A sphaltum , Carbon. I fu rth e r state that I know t h e properties o f the bituminous oils w h ich are found in this country, and in Asia, Africa, Germany, Prance a n d Italv, and th a t th is American Oil embraces rare qualities which a rc not found in the bitum inous oils fofihd in this or any other .countries. I consider tho Am erican Oil, novel, and d eserving the attention of the cUriOus arid the scientific. I t is, indeed, a valuable-med- icine. a n d of great value to its proprietors.. , • • ’ 6 L E W I S G M IL L E R , M. D. Practical a n d Analytical Chemist, Rochester, N. Y. F o r t h e cure of L u n ^ Diseases. Liver Com p laints i Coughs, D y spepsia, P iles, Rheum atism , Cutaneous A f fections, arid ajl Inflam m atory Diseases, and when used externally, itr never fails o f curing -Burns, Bcalds, (3utsr ! Brnfees,--Sprains, Cancers, Tumors, t o , * S£?*For full p a rlicuU rsnfld directions, see Pam p h let. I T I S N A T U R E ' S O W N R E M E D Y ! ' P rice One D o llar p e r bottle: Six Bottles for Five Dollars. T U T T L E fc MOSES, A u b u rn, N. Y., General A g ents for N ew.York, Michigan and Canada W e s t. 1 F o r sale b y a il t h e D ruggists in A u b u rn and th r o u g h out the State, , . ; ARABIAN HEAVE REMEDY. A N E V E R F a i i j n o crw : f o r H e a v e s . T h ick and Broken W ind, Colds, Coughs, Inflammation of the Lungs, and all diseases which affect tbe w ind of Horses. Also for Botts or W orms. T liis preparation is in com mon tree among tlie A rabs, w h o teed i t to tbeir h o rses three or four times a year, for about a week at a time. T h e A rabian lleave-Keinedy was introduced into Eng land some ten years ago, by Mr. Darley, of Y o rkshire, w h o procured the receipt from an Arabian Siek o r Chief, from whom lie purchased a liorse, during b is residence in 8yria, a n d w h ich lie afterw ards im p o rted to England, and known as Darlr-y A rabian, from w h ich sprung th e largest a n d most splendid horse ever known. Mr. Dar ley used the A rabian Heave-Remedy among h is h o rses— h e owned several valuable and celebrated race-horses— and g ave the receipt to an intim ate friend,an eminent Vete rinary S urgeon w h o likewise used it for several years w ith rem arkable success, a n d was a t length induced a t the solic itation o f many, to p u t it u p for general use, its v irtues soon became known, a n d i t is now extensively sold throughou the B ritish Empire, France and Germany, w h e re i t is the standard rem edy for diseases w h ich affect the respi ratory organs of the horse, particularly for heaves and broken wind. I t is, in fact, th e only preparation upon Which any dependence can he placed in the treatm ent o l those complaints for w h ich it is designed. I t cleanses tlie breathing apparatus, by rem o v ing from the air-cells tl.e lOigulable 1) ruph, o r that secretion which in heaves, clogs them, causing a difficulty in b reathing, and by its action o n tbe diseased p a r t causing the m u cus membrane to resum e its natural dimensions, th u s equalizing the cir culation o f tbe blood, and re-storing th e distended vessels to their n a tural si-*-. By its use the horse's appetite is impruved, all derangements o f tho digestive organs cor rected. softening tlie skin, and giving to the coat a sleek and shining appearance, and m ay be used w ith perfect safety a t all times, as i t contains no ingredients w h ich can injure a horse, w h e ther sick or well. N o r is i t necessary that the h o rse be k e p t from working while u sing it. N ew Y o r k , J u l y in, 1848. I hereby certify, th a t by th e use of one package o f P a rley's A rabian Ileave-Remedy, my horse was com pletely cured of the heave.-, w ith' which he h a d been se verely- afflcted for a long time. I consider the cure per manent. .JESSE A L L E N , Carman, No. 130 ISth street. C a rt 131. P R I C E 25 cents p e r package. D. \V . H U R D , M aiden Lane, N ew York, Sole Proprietor. S 3 T T U T T L E & MOSES, A u b u rn N . Y., General A g e n ts for tbe States of New Y o rk a n d Michigan, F o r sale by all D ruggists in A u b u rn, a n d D ruggists and M er chants generally. Feb. 1,1855. [dStwly H E A L T H E S I C K . ( h i f L . S O U L E & C t l J ' I I v.rT^TT^'^T*^^ T D e a t h t o - t h e l i v i n g : LONG LIVE THE HILLERS. IHE intolerable nuisance of Bed Bugs can b e g o t rid J o f effectually only b y thfcuse-of th e I DEAD gUj SHOT, J A n exterm inator w h ich curl's them up, and lays them- ■ out, a S readily a s tfttlpliur fum es k ill b ees. L e t all, w h o have occasion, try i t and sleep in peace. , T U T T L E V MOSES, A u b u rn, N. Y., General A g ents:1 F o r sale b y all the D ruggists in A u b u rn and through- , o u t th e country’. febl 3m I None erenume unless accompanied by a f a c siniilie^qf ine. aoove etigrutea wrapper o f D R . E . L . S O U E E §• C O., upon theface o f each Box. Every- d ay brings n ew testim ony o f the trium p h a n t ef fect from the use of” SOULE’J P IL L S .” W h a t better evidence can be given of the S U P E R IO R IT Y of a Rem edial-Agent than t h a t A L L T H E W O R L D use i t ? ^ I t is an unquestionable fact th a t “ S O ULES P IL L S '’ give better satisfaction than any Pills now before th e public. O f th e proof o f this assertion, every D ruggist or A g e n t w h o sells them will testify. W e m ight cite the A F F L I C T E D to m a n y cases w h e re CU R E S h a v e been effected b y th e ir use. were i t n ecessary here, b u t for th is purpose w e refer them to our CIRCU L A R S , w h ich can be found w ith o u r A g ents, mentioned below-. T U T T L E & M OSES. A u b u rn, N . Y-, General A g ents for N ew Y o rk and M ichigan. F o r sale by all the D ruggists in A u b u rn, a n d b y M er chants a n d D ruggists generally, ly r d t w . _ D E N T I S T S , A T T E N T IO N ! A L A R G E LOT O F T E E T H , also g o ld and tin f o il constantly on h a n d and for sale cheap b y ld t f J . K . W E L L S , 99 Genesee-St
