The sentinel. (Edina, Knox County, Mo.). (Edina, MO), 1875-01-14

              - - ' i. - - w : THE SENTINEL. THE SENTINEL. ADVERTISING RATES: Square, Brevier, 1 Inch j Nonpareil, 8 Use.. ; One square, oi-elertlo.. ...... fi.so Each additional insertien .7$ One square one month 3.00 One -gore aix months CO Two squares one year 18.0 Ooeeoluma one insertion. . 15.00 One column six months 60.00 One colnmn one year... 100.00 One q garter eolnmn three months io.c . ,ixS9EE AND PUBLISHER, jDTSAr ' MISSOURI. TSB1I8 OP SUBSCMPTXOIT: r ft. Pr a4Ysmee. . ?. tt WHERE iliIBEItTY DWELLS, THERE IS MY COUNTRY." - .MMMiUon with tiietsnaw, goa One naif column aix months, 83.0ft -Mfrdinistratora'Notioe, cash $3.20, credit 4.00 iT.rZtur mil kinds or oos I'M ir tino can M VOL. VII. EDINA, KNOX COUNTY, MISSOURI,: THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1875. NO 38. Juti la goou j fcstray .. .... j. e.uo Fuiai Settlement 5. CO. 40J - . , . , , ., , , - . IK SK I BUMSES CARDS. O. D. JONES, Attorney at Offif in Sentinel Office, Edina, Mo Will give prompt attention to all legal business Mtru-tr- to bis care yr. V. IJOLLISTKK, Attorney art Ls.x7") Oflee South T Public Square, Edina, Mo. will Draetioc in the varimn Court in the Fourth ' Judicial District. vln6-ly W. 15. MifJUOlD, ATTORNEY AT LAW; Office in Court House, Edina, Mo. Will ffre prompt attention to legal business eitruted to his care. V3n52 di:. c. o nniEN, PHYSICIAN AND iSUBGEON, Z2c r CWXo. gneeial attention given to chronic diseases, and ixJasrfof women and children. Office at residence, North Main Street. DR. A. C. WOODWARD, Late of Iowa, ha permanently located in X3cl txet, 3VTo. He will make the treatment of Chronic Dis-euea, such as Sore Eyes, itheumatism. Female Diseases, Ac, aspccialty. He had hd an experience of about thirty years therein. 1673. Office one door north of Henry Werner's Drug Store. t v6n2S-ly A. l WHITE, M. D., riyiol Surgoon, EDI1TA, MISSOURI. Offers his professional services to the citizens of Edina and vicinity. Particular attention paid to Surgery. V4ne9-y PORTH MISSOURI HOTEL. D. DAUGHERTV, Proprietor. IvIItKSVTI,I.E, MO. F. B. WILLIAMS, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER, Will contract for the erection of all classes of buildings. Address, F. It. Williams, Edina, Mo. v6n38 TREMOXT HOUSE, LOUIS MILLER, Proprietor. Qulnojr, XII. .r. .P. II A 31 PT OX, CAXTOX, JHO. Kreps conptiiillv on hand all kindsof T.umlter, Shinrles, Lath, henrinp, Itamsiding, Weather-twarUing, which he will sell at low tigurea. i. a. miller, i X. H. TODD. D. MILLKR, New Haven, Conn. E. M. MILLER & CO., CARRIAGE MANUFACTURERS, BSC 4k 52H 71 nine fit., 16. 1H, 20 A 26th, 0th Mreet, bet. Iitlne and Jersey. QUINOY, TTiTi. Constuntly on hand, Coaches, Family Itocka-ays, Fha-tons, I'rlnce Alberts, ;:tbriles, Pony Fbxtonn, Standing Top l'ha-tons, Charioteer, Slide ami Shilting Toj I5ox Kniraies, Turk I'haj-tona, Open and '1 on. Side and Knd Spiingltng-is, all styles, Sulkies, Skeleton Wagons, Kx-prs Wagons. Hacks, OmnibutK-s and Hearses, all kinds of Carriage Material on hand for sale OCCIDENTAL HOTEL. T. J. ROGERS, Proprietor, Hampshire Street, between Cth and 7th, QUlWCnr, TTiTi. Menke, Grimm & Co , HAMPSHIRE STREET PLAXIXQ MILL. BLIND FACTORY, Corner Hampshire & 'Ah Stieets, QU1XCY, ILL. Drewed Flooring, Oiling, .Siding, Shelving, yacing, Curb ltoxes, Sash, Doors, Door and window Franirs, Window Itlinds, Shntters, nUes, House and lieture Frame Mouldings, noxes, c , made in a superior manner anrt at prices. We would specially direct attention npr new Machinery, which enabl'S us to do aUkindsof Scroll Sawmjr. Circular Work, Sticking 'Circular Sash, &c. aJm. aawing Wind Slats and dressing them at uw same time. A liberal discount made to whole-ale dealers. v6 LISVILLK, Atty. at Law. BEN.I. BOWKK, Notary Public. LINVILLE & BOWEX, Seal Estate and Collect inggencyi iri?,"cial "t,e"t'on will be given to the exam-'anoa of titles, preparation of abstracts of ues, and to the payment of Taxes. i-Jn .P8Ute wl11 l,c sold on favorable terras. ifhT ,on" wiu b! promptly made, and in cases ?"Wor collections or sales of property, remittees will be immediately made all by draft to gjoun desired. v3n2 QfOX CO. SAVINGS BANK, CAPITAL, $100,000 OFFicans: "ILLIS .VDERSf).V, President. D J. T.KOWN, Vice Presitlent. u- PARSONS, Cashier. DEPOSITS RECEIVED, terest allowed on Time Deposits. Collec-made on all accessible points. Gold, Sil-fwlB ' of Government, State and "ItfT Securities bought and sold at best rates, spelts and General Hanking business respect-w m."01- To oor pattona we pledge the "t liberal treatment. tSLStonV H- R Arsons, Ed. J. lirown, 1 Murphy, Lewis Wriaht. C. M. Campbell, "mis An.leraon. Ed. M. Randolph, II. McGon-J. Slaughter. a PARSONS. W. i. KUIUCBTKR. H. R. PARSONS & CO., Abstractors, - EDINA, KNOX CO., MISSOURI tt take pleasure in announcing to the people -nox county and the public generally, that we 7j rafdy now for bnsinesa. LTraa. we are enabled to exanruc titles, and JJforUOed abstracU to all Real Kitdte situated t. TS'ounty. on reasonable teri.i aVJjraooka are compiled from Hie records of Cj"?! Lewis, Marion and Knox counties, and onlee records at Boonville. ttZ five a more complete abstract than any Office In th fttrntm. UOce at Knox County Savings Bang. H. R. PARSONS A CO. QUISCY ADYERT1SEMETS. a. b. KisoanckY. . 8. a. blasland o. a. WTCKOFP. KINGSBURY", BLASLAXD & CO., . Manufacturers and Jobbers of BOOTS AND SHOES; No. 30 12 Third St., tjtiincy, 111. vniVly JOHN L. BERT, i , ' Exclusive dealer in CAltPETS, OIL CLOTHS,' And House Fumisbina Goods. Our stock em. bn.c. s all new p litems, a. id are to be sold at the lowisi prices, etui nnn see them. No. Fourth Street, QUINCY, ILL "nlVly West side Public Square. . F. II. LONG & CO., . Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in -; Warehouse f 6 N. Fourth St., Quincy, III. Wrapping Paj eT, Bags and Flcur Sacks printed io oruer. vna-iy CROCKETT & MASON, Farmer' Hills, Cleat City and Bluff City Bills North Fourth Street, Quincy, 111. v7n3-ly II. RANDALL, Pat ntee and Manufacturer of ECONOMY HOT AIR FURNACE, for Wooil , Hard or Soft Coal. No. 717 H-tmpshire Strett, Quincy, III. DEALER IN REGISTERS. JAMES GRAFFTEV. Manufacturer of Custom made SHIRTS, DRAWERS, BOSOMS, fte. No. 326 Maine Street, Quincy, 111. V"n2Vly BROWN, BROS. & CO., Manufacturers of CRACKERS & CONFECTIONER r AK1 .lubbers in Foreign Fruits, Factory Cheese, Ac No. fit" Hampshire Street, Quincy, 111. J. WILLIAMS & CO., Proprietors of CITY And Machine Shop. Steam Ensrines. Saw Mills, and Mill Machinery, and all kinds of Mill t urni8ning. t ront t. , bet. erinont ana liroaa way, (juincy, III, PARK & CHANNON glCCKSOBS TO J. M. SMITH 4 CO., Dealers in Agricultural Implements AND G-xAsas Seods. Manufacturers' Agents for the sale ot McCormiek and Excelsior Reapers ft Moweis, AND MasiMou Thresher. Monte Powers, and Portable Kaglaes. 21 A SOS Market Square, Qnlncy, 111. IK A A. SEAVKR.Gen. Aeent for McOrmiek. iHice with Park & Cliannon. TG-n4S ERSKINE & TURNBULL, Manufacturers of the celebrated STAR & RAILROAD MILLS FAMILY FLOUR, CORNER OF SPRING & OLIVE STS., Ttl-nKI Qviinoy, HI. II. RIDDER & CO., Importers and Jobbers of Crocker j, Glassware, Cliina, KEROSENE LAMPS, Chandeliers and Lamp Goods. No. 4-3 Hampshire St;eet, North Side Square. v7n26-ly QUINCV, ILL. xMfL:N- II. OBKRNDOFKR, New York. J. D. LEVY & CO., Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in READY MADE CLOTHIJLG, Gents' Furnishing Goods, etc. , "g 313. 315 Market Square, new building, Quincy, U. v7-'.6-ly WM. H. GAGE, btALIR IX American and Swiss Watches. FINE JEWELRY, SOLID SILVER WARE. Large assortment of best FJLAT hi .WAHE, Gold and Silver Spectacles, Gold Pens, Ac. Watches Repaired by Good Workmen . COR.5TII AND MAINE STS., QUINCY, ILL. v7n2C-ly S. J. LESEM, BRO. & CO. Wholesale AND . 3NT Southeast cor. "Hampshire and Market Square, new building, quincy, 111. vi vo-ij SCIIERMERIIORN & BRO., General Grain. Ilav and Produce CO EMISSION 3HERGHAXTS No8. .1 4 Front Street, QUINCY, ILL. tt,. .. k',irniak-ft at TtniinnHhA Ititm r.ili- eral advances made on consignments. v7n3i-ly II. A. WILLIAMSON, Commission Merchant, and Manufacturers' Agent lor tne sale 01 SALT, COAL OIL, LUBRICATING AND MACHINE OILS, Gasoline, Naphtha, Axle Grease, Ac. No. 3 N. Front Street QCINCY, ILL. v7n36-ly PETER, WADDEL & IRWIN, Wholesale Dealers in HATS, CAPS & STRAY G00D8, GLOVES AND MITTEN 3. No. 510 Maine St., bet. Fifth and Sixth Sts., citf-ly QCINCY, ILL. R. E. LETTON, Manufacturer of And dealer in No. 53 N. Fifth St. TtaM ...QUINCY, ILL. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Annual mana;e of Hin iRxeelleney, Ooveraor Weodaoa ofXisaoari. StniUor$ and Representatives STATE FINANCES. - .Six hundred and one bonds of the State of Missouri, each for the sum of $1,000 and bear, ing interest at the rate of six ner cent, ner an num, matured in 173, and eight hundred and eleven similar bonds matured in 1874. These bonds, aggregating the sum of $1,412,000, have been paid during the present administration. To enable the Fund Commissioners to discharge the above mentioned bonds, it was necessary for me to hare issued nnder the provisions of the act enuueu "An act to provide lor tiw issuing of fundimr bonds." etc. : annroved March 80. fici. four hundred $1,000 bonds. Deducting the amount of these bonds from the amount of the State indebtedness paid, and it win be seen that me iaie ueut nas been actually lessened during t . Anwa 1', .1 A Aid 1 .1 jc.i a lotd mai toi. 9X,UXA,WMf, mill UK BU nual interest upon the State debt decreased $00,730. - " The State debt, inelnding the certificate of in- neoteunes lor suoo.ouo issued to the State lioard of Education, bv virtue of the actanoroved March 2t, 1S72, was, on tlie first day of January, l!73. fjc.m ,wai. -. ueuucfc tne amoont paid uurmg 1M73 and 1874 and it leaves the State debt, on the nrsi uay or jnnunrv. is.;. si7.73d.ouo. xnis in debtetlness, except $1,5.80,000, bears six per cent interest the residue of it seven ner cent. mak ing the annual interest upon the 'entire debt Surinir the rear 1875. SI .428.000 of our Ktjito bonds mature, and in 1876. SS.907.O0O. mnkinir the amount of the principal of our outstanding obligations to lie met during Governor Hardin's administration, $5,3,0U0. In 1877, $70I,000of we principal oi tne ntate aeut win la ll due and must De paid. Alter the last-mentioned installment is liquidated, there will be no difficulty realized in paying, at maturity, principal anil interest of the fctate debt, out of tlie ordinary resources of the interest fund, if that fund is prop erly managed no considerable amount of the principal maturing alter 18 until 18S. In addition, however, to the above mentioned liabilities, provision must be made for the pay ment of twenty bonds of $1,000 each, together mm me iiiwrfHi iiue uiereon, neni dv me uot ernment oi tne i nitea states, ine bonus 1 am referring to were issued May 24, 1851, under an act of the General Assembly, annroved March 8. 1851, entitled "An act to authorize a temporary loan." For a full and satisfactory statement of all the facts connected with the history of these bonds, I refer you to pages 5 and a of the Fund Commissioners' Report for the year 1874, and to the letter of Hon. It. II. Uristow. Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, addressed to the Hon. II. T. !51ov, and herewith transmitted to you. From the fnreirointr statements, vou will see that between the present time and the first dav of January .1878, $6,04,000of the principal of the State debt has to le paid, besides the interest, amounting to largely over one million of dollars per annum. ( It is not safe to conclude that the interest fund, as provided by law, will, during the next three years, much more than pay the annual interest upon the State debt. It devolves, consequently, upon you to provide for the paymentof the principal falling due as above stated. One of two methods must be adopted br vou to enable the Fund Commissioners to disehargw the heavy obligations mentioned: iou may iinpofe a tax upon the )eoplc, sufficiently large for tlie purposes; or, you may authorize the isRue and sale of a sufficient number of State bonds to do it. The first plan would, in my juurment. prove un satisfactory, and almost ruinous to the people. After no little reflection upon the subject, I roost respectf ullv nroDose and nrsre tlie adoption of the policy hereinafter indicated. - - The Constitution ami laws of this State havenotj only provided, but have consecrated in jerie-tuity. a large fund to common schools and edu cational purposes. This fund, so fur as provided oy tne constitution, is secured by it trom all legislative diversion to any other object or purpose. This sehool fund, under the Constitution, can only be invested in the lxmds of the United States or the State of Missouri; ami let tlie investment !e made in either the one or tlie other, it is secured by the Constitution airainst all legis lative encroachment. It was originally bad policy, in my judgment, to invest tho school funds of the stale in the bonds of the United States. At all events, it certainly was not wise in the iramers or the constitution to prohibit the investment of the fund in the bonds of the State. It tended to the disparagement of our credit as a State in the monev markets of the world . anil forced the State and the holders of its obligations to submit to most ruinous sacrin;es. And it seems that tlie people of the State entertained the same opinion upon the subject, and most unmis takably manifested it in adopting, by an overwhelming majority, an amendment to the Con stitution authorizing tue investment ot tne scnooi fund in the bonds of the State. The interest of our common schools will be greatly, promoted by a change of the investment from United States bonds into a bond of the State of Missouri; ami. at the same time, such a change will add greatly to the credit uf the State, and advance to the market value our bonds wherever found. As a part of the permanent school fund, the Treasurer of the State holds registered bonds of tlie United States amounting to $1,019,500; also United States coupon 5-20 bonds amounting to the sum of $52,100 tlie whole aggregating tNe sum of $ 1 .671 .600. These . lionds bear inter est at the rate of six per centum per annum, mak ing the annual interest in gold, $ iuu,j:a. xne premium on this amount of gold, at 10 per cent., would be $10,020.60; making an annual income, in currency, of $ 110,325.00. The above mentioned United States bonds arc worth in New 1 ork a premium of 17 cents on the do.iar. in cur rency. Consequently, if converted into currency, the amount realized would be $1,955,772. This sum would purchase Missouri six per cent, bonds, at 05 cents to the dollar, to the amount of $2,058,707; the annual interest upon which would be $123,522 42. This demonstrates the truth of the proposition, that the school fund would 1m greatly tieneflted by its conversion from United States bonds into Missouri State londs: the difference in favor of the last men tioned investment being $13,100.82 per annum. The same argument apply to the conversion o the University fund into State bunds, and the same reasons exist why it should le done, that have been or may lie iriven In reference to the common school fund. ought to be executed in pursuance of a law passed by you, to the State Board of Education, as trustee of the public school fund, for an amount equal to the purchasing power of the cash for which the bonds of the United States nowlielong- luir to said school fund could be sold, makinir the current value of United States and Missouri State bonds in New 1 ork the basis of action.- As an illustration: It United States bonds, of the class under consideration, are eighteen cents above par, and Missouri State bonds are five per cent, below par at the time of the transaction , the bond to lie executed, as above suggested, should be twenty-three per cent, greater in amount than the face of the United States lionds for which it is to be exchanged. In the same way, and upon the sant terms, the bond of the State should be given for the benefit of tlie Seminary or University fund. These bonds of the State, if given, should not obligate the State to the payment of the principal at any nxed period as it was not intended, i apprehend, by the framers of the Constitution that any part of it should be used in carrying on our public school system. It was rather the policy in the beginning and subsequent legislation has not varied from it to place the principal beyond the control of the General Assembly, and all others connected with its management. Provision should be made, however, for- the certain and nrnmnt payment of the interest thereon semi annually out of the interest fund, thereby placing these bonds on the same footing with the other bonds of the State. When the bonds are executed and delivered to the custodians of them, as firovided by law, simultaneously with their de-ivery, all the bonds of the United States now belonging to the public school and seminary funds should pass into the hands of the Commissioners of the Sinking and Interest funds, to be managed, controlled and used as provided by few. Now, provided the policy suggested is adopted, what good results may be expecOed to flow from it, is a pertinent inquiry: First It will increase the interest-bearing permanent school fund, so as to make it yield annually, at the lowest possible figures, $13,106.82 more than it does at the present time. Second It will increase the annual interest upon the seminary or university fund, "vested in United States bonds, from $7,174.20, what it is at the present time, to $8,012.27. - third it will put a stop to the continual agitation of the qnestion in the Legislature, and out of it, as to whether our school funds should be vested in the bonds of our own State, and where they will be controlled by Missouri ana, or in the bonds of some other government, where such control is impossible. Fourth It will prevent the formation of rings for the purpose of making money out of the transaction, provided the plan, as now devised by law, for the sale of the bonds of the United States belonging to the school fund and the purchase of State bonds in the place of them, should be acted upon, as tlie plan herein proposed ia carried out at home by our own officers, without the sale of a single state bond, and upon terms fixed by law. " Fifth It will place the means within the hands of our Fund Commissioners to discharge the obligations of the State, and that without selling State bonds at a ruinous sacrifice. Sixth It will elevate our credit at home and abroad, and show to the world that in good faith we intend to discharge every just obligation when due. The total value in legal-tender notes of the United States bonds belonging to the school and university funds, that would come into the Fund Commissioners' hands bv the adoption of the policy proposed, is $3,193,369. Of the State; bonds authorized br the act approved March so. 1874. $600,000 remain unissued. Add this sum to the $2,192,369, and it makes $2,792,360. Deduct the last named amount from the $6,026,000 of bonds maturing between the present time and the first of January,' 1878, and it will be seen that 9J,M,ui:reniain unprovmeu ior, even u you should replenish the sinking and interest funds according to the foregoing suggestions. As it will be universally known, however.' that the authorization and issue of new bonds sufficient to cover the amount to be paid adds nothing to our State debt, as the new bonds are simply to taxe place oi tue old, J am satisned mat any new bonds which you mav authorize to meet tne de mand pointed out will be sold at par, as these new nonus win not be loreeu upon tne market, owing to the fact that the Fund Commissioners can fall back, upon the United States bonds above referred to, should they lie placed under their control. The honor of the State being placed in your hands, and tlie neoessity of action presented, I know that you will not hesitate to authorize the issue of as many bonds as' may be deemed necessary to redeem every maturing obligation of the Stale during the next three years. As a matter of course, none of the bonds which you may authorize will be issued except as theGovernor'finds that it is absolutely necessary to meet maturing liabilities. And should the railroad companies ot the State comply with the provisions of tlie constitutional ordinance Of April 8, 1865, upon the subject, and pay the. percentage of tlieir gross earaings as required by it, more than a sufficiency to pay every debt of the State during the next three years, to which your attention has been called, would be realized from tlie payments thus made. The first section of the constitutional ordinance of 1865 declares "There shall be levied and collected from the Pacific Railroad, tlie North Missouri Railroad Company, and the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad Company an annual tax of ten per centum of all their gross receipts for the transportation of freight and passengers, from the first day of Octolicr, 1806, to the first day of Or tolier, 1808, and fifteen per centum thereafter; which tax shall be assessed and collected in the county of Saint Louis, in tlie same manner as other State taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be appropriated by the General Assembly to tho payment of the principal and iu teres t now due, or hereafter to become due, upon the bonds of the State, and the bonds guaranteed bv the state, issued to tlie aforesaid companies.'" The 4th section of tlie same ordinance makes it the duty of the General Assembly to provide by law for the sale of the roads, whenever default is made by the companies in the payment of tlie tax imposed uy it. It will be perceived, by an examination of the aliove recited ordinance, that the sole and exclusive iiower of collecting tlie tax provided by it is devolved upon the local authorities of St. Louis County. The authorities there, as I have been informed, refused to assess the tax since the judi cial decisions hereinafter mentioned were render ed. This refusal. I suppose, resulted from the grave doubts still existing in the best legal minds of the State as to the right to coerce payment thereof, and enforce a compliance on tne part oi the railroad companies with the provisions of the ordinance, since the sale and transfer of the roads, under the act approved JiaTt-n i. 1868: it beinir claimed that such sale and transfer. by virtue thereof, oierated -us a release, by the State, of the tax im nosed bv the ordinance under consideration. The sale of the roads under the I act of 1868 took place before suit was brought to test the lawfulness of the tax under the ordi- I nance, and the collection of which was souirht to be prevented by the suits referred to, and which resulted in tlie declaration of the validity of the tax, both by the supreme Court of this state and by that of the United States. Strange to say, however, the nuestion of the effect of the sale oi the roads, under the act of 1808, was neither argued or decided iu either of the cases, or by either of tlie courts mentioned. No new fuct.it is believed, bearing upon the question, has transpired since the agreed cases were submitted to the courts, for tlie purpose of determining whether the railroad companies were bound to pay the tax aforesaid or not. 'the cases to which I refer, decided by the Supreme Court of this Slate, are reported at length U the Forty-ninth Fifty -first Missouri Kcports; and I herewith transmit to you certified copies of the decisions rendered by the Supreme Court of the United States upon appeftl from the decisions of the State court above mentioned. Perhaps nocxaver or more important question will come before you during your session than the one now presented, or one requiring cooler or more dispassionate deliberation. The existence of the railroad companies referred to de pends uiion the settlement of the question upon the one hand, and taxation of the people to the extent of $ll,OJO,0ou the amount of lionds issued and guaranted by the State for the benefit of tne tliree roads mentioned in me ordinance oi 1865 as well as- for the interest on said bonds already paid, or that to be paid hereafter, on the other. Whether any legislative action is de manded in reference to the matters su lores ted, I leave vou to determine. Not one dollar, 1 am in formed, has ever found its way into the Ireas- ury-r-the interest or sinking fund under tne ordinance of 1865. It is proper for me to state, in this connection, that whilst the cases referred to were pending iu the Supreme Court of the United States, the Gen eral Assembly, believing that the State was deeply interested in the result, passed a concur rent resolution, wiueii was approved me isioi April. 1872. authorizing and reoucstinir the Gov ernor to employ counsel to attend to the eases, and MMMire tlie prompt collection of tlie taxes imposed by tlie constitutional ordinance of 1SU5. Governor It. Gratz Rrown, under and by authority of said resolution, did employ the Hon. A. II . i;ucxner ami the lion. Montgomery uiair to represent the State, and they did so upon the trial of thein in the United States Supreme Court. The amount to be paid for tlie services rendered, as above stated .must lie fixed by you, and the necessary appropriation to pay it, when fixed, can only be realized at your hands. WAK CLAIMS. On the 19th of March, 1874. an act providing for the adjustment of the war debt of the State was approved. Under the provisious of this act, Col. Clay Taylor and lion. A. W. Meyers were ap pointed oinniissioiiers. Hie oiuiuissiouers promptly entered upon the discharire of the du ties imposed upon them, and, in conjunction with the Adjutant-lieneral, Liltorcd most faithfully in the discharge of their duties during the whole time allowed by the act under which they were appointed. There were presented for consideration to the ltoard of Commissioners ll,!;i chums, amounting, in tlie aggregate, to $4,844,- :(;.'.M.i. 7,054 ol these claims were anoweudur-ifti the time in which the Hoard had the riirht to sift and certificates had been issued therefor, aggregating the sum of $2,383,132.67. At the expiration of the time fixed by law for the adjustment of the claims pending before them, there were a great many claims unacted upon it proving a physical impossibility for the Commissioners to examiuc and pass upon all the claims filed within the time prescribed by the act. The Commissioners believing that "the claims unacted upon were equally meritorious with those which had received attention, and that the failure to pass upon them would operate as a great hardship upon claimants, and cause no inconsiderable dissatisfaction on the part of postponed claimants. nnd fully concurring with the Commissioner in opinion upon the subject, I advised them to continue tlieir sessions until they could dispose of all tlie claims presented, and thereby save the expense of tlie creation and action of a new commission, or, what was worse, the denial of equal rights to all claimants. The Commissioners, after the consideration, determined to and did hold a third session , after the time nxed bylaw in which they could legally act. At this irregular session all claims that were pending were dis posed of, and claims, amounting to $861,031.84, .mowed. o certificates lor tlie claims last mentioned have been issued, nor can certificates lie issued to the claimants unless you ratify the acts of tlie Commissioners performed at the extra session held by them . I believe that this ought to be lone, and the Commissioners compensated for uits tunc in wuicii mcy were cuguvu in iiussiii upon the claims allowed at the session last referred to. Should you ratify tlie acts of the Commissioners, as suggested, and the claims allowed at the last session are added to those allowed during their regular sessions, the amount of the war debt adjusted under tlie act above mentioned, will be $3,200,939.69. The aggregate amount oi the claims presented to the Commission is 4.- 844,362.29. Deduct amount allowed, $3,209,-9CS9.69, and it will be seen that tlie rejected claims amount to the sum of $1,634,422.60. The Commissioners labored with great fidelity during their protracted sessions, and I am satisfied they did all they possibly could do to guard against the allowance of fraudulent claims and at the same time afford strict justice to claimants. In my opinion the whole amount of the claims allowed ought to be paid by the Government of the cm ted Mates, as tue amount is justly due to citizens of Missouri. But I do not coincide with those who claim that Missouri is under any obligation, either legal or moral, to pay one dollar of the amount. The services rendered and the articles furnished, constituting the foundation of the claims under consideration, were rendered and furnished for the use and benefit of the Federal, not the State Government. And whilst I believe it is the duty of the State te see that justice is done all its citizens, I do not believe that it is under any legal or moral obligation to pay to its citizen's claims however just and meritorious held by them against any other government, when the latter fails to discharge its obligations. To be sure, every facility should be offered them necessary to enable them to present their demands in proper shape for payment. Beyond this the State should not go. Beyond this the State cannot go without doing great injustice to the great body of the people of the State. This view was entertained oy the last General Assembly, as ia manifest upon the face of the act itself providing for the adjustment of the claims in reference to which I am speaking. The act provides that the certificate given as evidence of the claim, when found to be just and allowed, should not be paid by the State of Miss urt until the means to pay it with has been furnished by the Government of the United States; and I speak advisedly when I say uun uic uiu cuuiu 11171, nave pnsBeu auu iievome a law without the foregoing provision in it. All that the claimants for whose benefit the act was passed desired, at the time of its passage, was that the State should provide for the auditing and proper presentation of their claims for payment bl Iha liAn.Mll iiAVMntun.. . .. .1 ...1 suggested or intimated during tlie pendency of the bill, that the State was assuming the payment of the claims included in it. On the contrary, it was carried through the General Assembly, and became a law, upon the express ground that no responBioiiii.7 oy it would ce o evoiveu upon tne State. Knowing the foregoing statements to be true, I was surprised to hear the argument made during the canvass last fall .that the payment of the larsre amount to be allowed by the war Claim Commission had been imposed upon the people of the State by tlie Twenty-seventh General Assembly, or would be by a subsequent one. 1 pronounced this statement false durinir the canvass. So far as past legislation is concerned, I know that I was perfectly right in doing so, and I should profoundly regret to find, audi believe tlie peopie generally wouiu. tnai 1 was not equally correct In regard to your action in the premises. THE l'ENITENTIAItr. The Penitentiary of this State has attracted a goad deal of attention for several years past. Since June, 1873, it has been leased andself-sustaining. During the lease the management and discipline of the prison have been subjects of severe criticism on the part of the enemies of the leasing system , while those who are friendly to it have endeavored to make it a success. Tlie treatment of convicts and the discipline of the institution have been about the same during tlie year as before tlie leasing system was adopted. There have been two threatened revolts on tlie part of a number of the convicts during the past vear. but these revolts were speedily suppressed. and as perfect order and discipline restored as ever Deiore. w newer outside innuences produced the results referred to I do not know; but I srive it as mv opinion that they would never have occurred had there been a universal acquiescence on tlie part of the people and the press of tne elate in tne propriety oi tne leasinir system. Men who are deprived of their liberty ami con- lined VMtnin the narrow limits or tne wans 01 a prison are exceedingly sensitive to all impressions attempted to lie made uiion tlie outside world in tlieir behalf , and they are always ready to avail themselves of every opportunity presented to escape from confinement, to ameliorate their condi tion, and reassert tneir loneiteu ngnts. iience. i argue that tlie sympathy which outsiders en deavored to excite in benaii oi tne prisoners, and which in one way or another always found its way into the prison, could but exert a bad influ ence over them. To successfully manage such an institution as tife Missouri Penitentiary and preserve perfect discipline in it, two things nre absolutely and unconditionally necessary : first, the possession of a controlling power over the inmates by the officers ami employees, and the recognition of this power unquestiouingly by the convicts; second, intelligence, humanity and firmness on the part of tlie controlling power, coupled with the inspiration of undoubting laun in tlie minus oi tue prisoners that they will be fairly and justly dealt by, and deprived of no right, small or great, to which they are entitled to under the law. CoiivicU-d felons have lost most of tlie rights conferred upon them by nature as well as by law. itut tne loss or tnese ngnts only tenus to make them more highly prize those Unit are left. To such an extent is this true, that I do not suppose there is a single convict in the Missouri Penitentiary to-day, white or black, however ignorant in reference to all other matters, who does not understand precisely every right conferred upon him, as a prisoner, under the law. These all know how they are to lie clothed and fed, how much tobacco each oue is entitled to, and at what time, and what kind of clothing,, and how much money each convict should receive at the time he is discharged from prison. 1 am satisfied that the lessees have not to the letter, in all things, conformed to the law in tlieir dealings with the prisoners. To lie sure, when they have failed in any particular to do so, and have been required hy'the Inspectors to live up to the law and carry it out, they have substantially done so; but, I repeat, not to the letter. Hence, I suggest that you take such steps as will compel them to do so, even to (lie minutest degree. Under the law and the contract between the State anrl tho lessees, the latter are to feed and furnish tlie prisoners with whatever they are entitled to under the law. As a matter of course I do not believe that, under the contract just referred to, the State would have tlie right to furnish food, clothing, etc., for the prisoners, and compel the lessees to pay the cost of tlie articles supplied; but I do believe that the State can, by virtue of an act passed by you, appoint an agent whose duty it shall lie to ascertain exactly the kind and quantity of food, clothing, etc., the prisoners are entitled to receive, and to make re quisitions upon the lessees for all such supplies, and to see that all such requisitions are complied with promptly and with fidelity. This agent should be paid by the State, and neither be under obligations to the lessees for his apiiointment nor dependent upon them for his pay. A good, practical, honest, business man should lie appointed to tlie place, and one who possesses firmness todo right under any and all circumstances. The appointment of such an agent could do no harm to any one, or any interest, as he could require tlie lessees to do nothing except to live up to and fulfill their contract. If he exacted any thing from them not authorized and required under the law and their lease, then the lessees M'ould have the right to appeal from his action to the Inspectors, and have the matter settled properly. The Inspectors of the prison, as you are awnre. arc all public officers. They have laborious and almost constant official dutiisto perform. Hence, it is not possible that they can give that time and attention to the matters above suggr -ted absolutely necessary to insure an efficient iiiaii.iemeut of the prison. There is another matter to which I wish to call your attention whilst speaking of the Penitentiary. Ity all mans, a good, healthy and suitable hospital should 1e provii led for sick convicts. In my Inst message I urged this matter upon the attention of your predecessors, and 1 refer you most respectfully to what I then said, and renew the recommendations then made upon the subject. The State is certainly derelict in duty, and will continue to lie so until this suggestion is acted upon and carried out. The legal and moral responsibility of providing for the proper treatment of the convieU, iu sickness and in health, rests upon the State, and this resiionsibility cannot be evaded or t-hifled elsewhere. The spirit of the age in which we live demands that the inmates of our penal institutions shall be treated humanely, fed bountifully, clothed properly, worked riioderntelv, anil, when sick, provided with suitable quarters, and nursed and cared for as though they were human lieings. Fortunately, no extensive, malignant epidemics have prevailed in the Penitentiary since I linve been familiar with its operations. " But I am sure that if such an epidemic as sometimes finds its way into institutions of the kind under consideration were to break out and become general, the result would be terrible and really disgraceful to the State. Upon the happening of the contingency suggested, 1 ask you to put the question to yourselves. How could the prisoners lie taken care of and treated? There are now 1,060 prisoners confined in the Penitentiary, and the average monthly numlicr during the past year was 973, anil it may lie said truthfully that at no time during the sickly seasons of the year is there a hospital, or any other place pertaining to the institution, in which a single convict coidd be properly provided for and treated. Tin: coi-kts. Your attention is most earnestly invited to the following facts and suggestions in respect to the Supreme Court of the State : Number of cases on the docket at St. Louis, March term, 1874 . . :. . 30t Number of cases on the docket at St. Joseph, February term, 1874 201 Number of cases on the docket at Jefferson City, January term, 1874 '. . 259 Making an aggregate of. 764 Numlierof cases disposed of at the March term in St. Louis 13C Number of cases disposed of at the February term in St. Joseph 74 Number of cases disposed of at the January, term in Jefferson City 86 Making the whole number disposed of at Spring Term 29C Leaving the numlier undisposed of at the close of the Term 4C8 Numlicr of cases on the docket at St. Louis, October Term, 1874 433 Number of cases on the docket at St. Joseph, August Term, 1874 226 Number of cases on the docket at Jefferson City, July Term, 1874 316 Making an aggregate of 973 Numlicr of cases disposed of at the October Term, 1874, at St. Louis 13? Number of cases disposed of at the August Term , 1874 , at St. Joseph SO Number of cases disposed of at the July-Term, 1874, Jefferson City !. 70 - Making the whole number of cases disposed of at Fall Term 282 Number of cases left on docket at close of Term 713 So it will be seen that the number of cases left over and remaining undisposed of at the close of the Spring, Term was 468, whilst at the close of the Fall Terra the number remaining undisposed of was 713. The same ratio ef increase between the last Fall Term and the present Spring Term will give the following result : Number ot cases on docket at St. Louis, March Term, 1875.. r . . . .-.-C6 Number of cases on docket at St. Joseph, February Term, 1875 245 Number of cases on the docket at Jefferson City, January Term, 1875. ... ; Total number at . approaching Spring Term ..-... 1,80 During the year 1874 , 578 cases were disposed oi less uian nan me number now on ine docket. So it is manifest that more than two years must e lapse oeiore ine eases now beiore uie court can be tried, and that more than two vears wiU inter vene before any new cane can be reached. The consequence will be that all litigants against uuni judgments in tne interior courts are od tained, and who are maliciously inclined, or who are hard pressed and desire to put off the day of payment as longas possible, will, as a relief mea sure, carry uieir cases to the supreme Court, knowing that at least two or three vears wUl elapse before their cases can be tried. No one who is familiar with the habits of the judges oi the Supreme Court will attribute tlie slightest blame to them for the condition of the docket at me present tune. On the contrary, every lawyer " " piiK.LHCB iu uic liiui i wui uear me out in saying that they are faithful, prompt and energetic, and do more work really than they are able iv tit, auu imire uuin ouctie io ue miDirM nr tT - pec ted at tlieir hands. . . The remedy for the evils to which T h no. ferred is not to be found in placing men upon the liench who will do more work than tho niwHit iunK"i w-oauM! uwjr cannot oe procured, in my last annual message I nrged the General Assembly to cliange the statute regulating tlie sessions of the the Court, so as to require only one term a year, and thus save tlie time always intervening between sessions of the Court. I refer vou tc what 1 then said upon the sub lee t. and renew the recommendation then made. But the most efficient remedy in your power will be found in passing a law cutting off the right of appeal, or the prosecution of a writ of error to the Snmvmit Court, in all cases when the amount claimed to lie involved does not exceed one hundred dollars. Nearly one-halt of the cases now on tlie docket. T1 1, 1 1 ill eilh O lim- l-iilfl nAA. )i a t-i liaan Kam . . i . ....... ..... , ......... .. . . . . a.u . v .n. and with such a law for the future, connected witii tne other provision indicated, viz.: one term a year, I am satisfied that the Court before a great while will be able to clear the docket and dispose of all the cases pending at each term. a iiuiint mat it is just as iiard. in an abstract sense, to illegally deprive a man of sums under one hundred dollars as it is over that amount. But when we remember what it really costs the successful party to prosecute a case through all the courts to a final judgment in tlie Supreme Court, we may readily conclude that be has lost little that is of substantial value when such a privilege is denied him. Certainly, the Circuit Judges can be safety trusted to make final decisions in the class of cases under consideration. Every case carried to and tried bv the Supreme Court, when the amount involved is not more than one hundred dollars, costs the State more than tlie successful litigant gains. Can the State afford such useless luxuries to excited litigants? Men. when they co to law liefore a Justice of the Peace about the smallest matters, become as deeply interested in the result as if thousands of dollars were involved. These little cases are often attributable to honest differences of opinion between neighbors. One of them thinks the law is as he states it in reference to something ef trivial value; the other does not think the law is that way. They quarrel over tlie question. Each goes to a lawyer for advice Tlie lawyers differ in opinion as readily as tlieir clients. Tlie result is a lawsuit in a Justice's court. The Justice not knowing, or pretending to know the iaw, decides me case justly and equitaiuy between the parties; but tlie defeated litigant, urged on bv his discomfited attorney, takes an apiieal to the Circuit Court. The 'judgment is aflirmeii. By this time, however, the costs in tlie case have accumulated until they amount in value to more than four times as much as the thing in controvorsy. Both part"H now begin to see aud feel that, whoever has to pa;- the costs will lie ruined- To avoid this an ap'pvtl to the Supreme Court is prayed for and obtained. Before this august tribunal tlie original lawyers iu tlie case do not practice. So those who have man ngeu it up to tne present time are dropped, ins-tiiismished attorneys now take hold of It. A fifty or hundred dollar fee must be paid, and that in advance, mis is done, xne original judgment is aflirmeii, and the unsuccessful party is broken up and his family brought to want in consequence of tlie protracted litigation of a case that five dollars would have settled in tue beginning, it is not the part of wisdom, in my judgment, to encourage such litigation, and the earlier in tlie stage of its progress it can be cut on, tne better. THE I'KEVEXTION OF CltlME. Tlie prevention of crime, and the arrest and punishment of violators of our crfminal code, are subjects of the highest importance to the character of the Slate and the protection of all irood citi zens. True Ulierty and personal security can only exist in and be enjoyed under governments controlled by law. The law must be regarded by every citizen as binding upon all, and entitled to supreme allegiance at tlie hands of every one living in the State. Every good private citizen and public officer must feci bound to enforce strict oliedicnce to it before we can hope to soft the state assume her proper position in the sisterhood of States, and infractions of law universally Jiunished. In despotic governments, having arge standing armies and policemen scattered all over the country, obedience to law is possible without a united public sentiment it its favor; but in a free State, snch as ours, where the law hangs upon the will of the people, and in which all who are entrusted with official positions and the enforcement of it are deiiendenf upon popular supiiort, such a result is utterly unattainable As longas a large portion of tlie people entertain the idea that they have the right to punish, contrary to tlie form of law, criminals of however deep a dye, and as long as they can do so without the fear of punishment in consequence of popular sympathy with them, just so long mobs will commit outrages and shock tlie mora) sense of all cultivated, right-thinking men. Again, no one need hope to see the laws strictly enforced until the popular mind is cultivated and induced to lie-lieve, that when a crime is coniqiitted, to fail to arrest the criminal is to fail to discharge one of the most important and binding obligations to the State and themselves. Our statutes in reference to the arrest of criminals, and the duties imposed upon officers and citizens in reference thereto, are but a reflection of the views entertained by our people upon the subject. When tlie laws are changed upon the subject, then we may readily conclude that the public mind has also changed not until then. No officer or citizen, except under peculiar circumstances, is bound to make au affidavit that a crime has been committed and have a writ issued for the arrest of the criminal. Nor is any officer or citizen, bo far as the prevailing crimes in the country are con cerned, liound by positive statutory provision to make the slightest effort to bring any offender against the law to trial and punishment; and even iii such cases as the law (foes require action, a non-compliance with it may be mimeticd by a line of one cent, except in one class of cases, in w men tne nne imposed cannot tie less man live dollars. Now, tlie English common law is exceedingly strict in making it the duty of all citizens, having knowledge of the commission of a crime, to use all possible efforts to arrest the criminal; and, under this law. when a crime is committed in a township or hundred, and tlie residents thereof fail to arrest the offender, such township or hundred is held responsible for tlie crime. The rigidity of tlie common law has been supplemented by a numlicr of parliamentary enactments. To show the light in which the English people and Goverment regarded this subject, I transcrilie almost literally a provision from an net of Parliament, passed during the reign of Elizabeth. "It is enacted, that firom henceforth every county shall lie so well kept that immediately upon robberies ami felonies committed, fresh suit shall be made from town to town and from county to county. If the county will not answer for tlie bodies of such manner of offenders, the pain shall be such that every county, that is, to wit: the people dwelling in the county, shall be answerable for tlie robberies done, and also the damageB." A lailure to pursue and capture a guilty offender against the law was, according to the stern, vet profound, views of the statesmen of the enlightened reign to which I have referred, regarded as being as great a crime as that committed by the felon the law required to be arrested. Suppose a law similar to this were placed upon the statutes of Missouri, and in obedience to the public sentiment of the State who for a moment believes that robbers and other felons would, year after year, bring reproach upon our State and people by being permitted to remain anywhere within our borders for weeks and months at a time? For the reflection of tlie General Assembly, I give the follow extract from Bacon's Abridgement : " In an action against tlie hundred of Graves-end for a robbery on Gads-hill, it seemed hard," says the book , " to the inhabitants that they should answer for the robberies committed on Gads-hill, because they are so frequent that if the inhabitants should answer for all of them, they would be undone. But the inhabitants were adjudged to be chargeable." It is to lie hoped that no snch defense will ever be offered should a similar law to the English be enacted here, when suit is brought under its provisions, anywhere in Missouri. But I say to you, in all candor and with the keenest possible solicitude for the honor and welfare of the State, that unless our people arouse themselves to a higher perception of duty in respect to the enforcement of the law, the arrest of criminals and the prevention of mobs, our State will be most seriously injured its progress and development greatly retarded. ' , I do not believe that greater crimes or more numerous crimes are perpetrated ia Missouri than in other States by which we are surrounded. But this consideration affords no excuse for us. What I ask you to do is to impose the duty upon every able-bodied man in the Statu, as well as every officer thereof, when it is known that a crime has been committed, to use proper efforts for the arrest of the criminals; and when it can be shown that any such man or officer has failed to discharge his duty promptly and faithfully in the premlsesJnflJet such penalties upon him as will deter him, as well as all others, from a repetition of.the failure. --. I wish in this connection to call your attention to my annual message to the adjourned session last winter, in reference to the propriety of allowing changes of venue on the part f the State, in cases where human life has been taken by mobs; and I most earnestly' renew the recommendation therein contained upon the subject. JTKED OF A STATK miJTTA. Once more I regard itmv dutr to call the at tention of the General Assembly to the fact, that there is not an organized militia company in the State, subject to be called upon by the Executive for anr purpose whatever: that there ia not -one : dollar in the Treasury, nor has there been durinir my term of office, that can be used in the organi- t zation or employment of the militia when organ---ized. A well organized militia is the chief reii-t a nee of all Republican and free governments, for ' Srotection against invasions from without andv iseensions from within. I submit the question to yon, whether it is safe and prudent to allow : ' this state of things to continue? We nave a city , now numbering nearly half a million inhabitants'; once assembled, are hard to control, and nothing short of the strong arm of military power can do , . it. A few thousand desperate men, in the ah-' sence of a military force, could with impunity ransack, rob and burn the city of St. Louis. A am fin Anw Can 1 am Im-.JI.IaI- .1. ders of the Indian Territory, the home, hiding place and base of operations of so many desperate outlaws. A few hundred of these men could invade the sparsely populated counties of the . Southwest, burn the nouses, run off the horses, and carry away the scalps of hundreds of our population, before thecitizena could organise and prepare to expel them. A mob of five hundred-men, anywhere in Central Missouri, could, for weeks, defy all the power that the State could command to disperse them. The possession of power to enforce obedience to the law is of itself a source of security and power. The absence or this power, and the knowledge on the part of lawless men of this fact, is an element of Insecurity ami weakness, and operates as an incentive to the defiance of the constituted authorities. It does seem to me that, if it is not a criminal, it is at least a manifest neglect of duty on the part of tlie Legislature, to fail in making any provision whatever to enable the State Government to enforce obedience to law, when defied, or repel in- , vasion should it come. What I said in my last annual message upon this subject I beg leave to call your attention to, and urge action at your hands in reference thereto. TUB CEKTEJiTflAL. In mv last annual messaee. on pa ire 24. 1 called the attention of the General Assembly to the im portance of having Missouri properly represented, in all respects, during the Centennial Exhibition, which is to lie opened in Philadelphia on the 4th of July, 1876. I most respectfully urge nnon vonr consideration whAt I tlun mill. Xaativ every Government throughout the civilised world nas signined its intention to oe luiiy represented upon tlie interesting; and grand occasion, and most of tlie State Governments have done tlie same thing. Will Missouri fail to take any action in reference to this important matter? 1 ask the question ; it devolves on vou to answer it. But it would look strange, I think, to say the least, if our great, rich and expanding State, so fuH of life and energy, were to neglect such an opportunity as the one offered for the exhibition of her advanced skill in manufactures and arts, varied and abundant airricultural productions, and un equalled mineral resources. Herewith 1 transmit to you a letter recently received irom uie non. a. T. Goshorn, Director General of the United States Centennial commission, as well as tne report of the Commissioner anil alternate of Missouri, upon the subject. These communications will give you all the informs tion necessary to enlightened action by you In regard to the matter. RECOMMENDATIONS I1ENEWEI1. All that I said in mv last annual messaee re specting the State Entomologist, clerks of com mittees, Railroad Commissioners, the Indian Territory, the improvement of Western rivers. savings-banas, a reform and industrial scnooi, and tlie Superintendent of Public Schools, I wish you to regard as renewed and urged upon your consideration. Time and reflection have only tended to the confirmation of the correctness of the views then expressed upon tlie subjects mentioned. LOUISIANA. Believimr that the policvpunuedbv tlie Presi dent of the United States and the leaders of the party generally who elevated him to power, in recraro to the Southern States, and especially as manifested in Louisiana, is a war with the great fundamental principles of free government, in direct antagonism to the Federal Constitution. and Intended for the overthrow of State sover eignty, and the concentration of all power in the hands yf a usurping General Government, I cannot refrain from calling your attention to the subject. No intelligent citizen of the United States, whose attention has been directed to the facts, doubts that the Kellogg Government in Louisiana was in tlie beginning the direct result of a gross usurpation of power and henious crime on the part of a corrupt Federal Judge, and that it has been perpetuated from tlie hour of its birth by a still more henious crime on the part of the President of the United States, and his pliant and unprincipled Attorney-General in recognizing, sustaining and upholding, through the instrumentality of the army, the Government thus inaugurated. That the people of Louisiana failed to support Kellogg and his confreres in their aspirations for power, no one questions; that they acted forbeanngly, wisely and well, in acquiescing in Uie results of the stupendous wrongs inflicted upon them, after it was manifest that these wrongs were te be sustained by the strong arm of the Federal power, is equally certain. This acquiescence on tlieir part was most certainly attributable to the iierfcrt consciousness that any other course weuld be attended by bloodshed. Believing this, and knowing that at the next general election they would be able, through the peaceful instrumentality of the ballot box to regain their lost rights under the Constitution, they, for the time being, submitted to tlieir fate. Itut what is tlie result? By a majority of many thousands, at tlie election held last November, they elected their State Treasurer-and an overwhelming majority to both branches of the Legislature, notwithstanding the terrorism exerted over the free action of tlie people by Federal soldiers, and still more fearful and troublesome special United States Deputy Marshals, scattered all over the State to arrest and keep from tlie polls those who wished to overthrow tlie Kellogg dynasty. Every lriend of the Constitution, every hater of fraud and usurpation, rejoiced when he heard the glorious news of the triumph of the friends of law, order and right in this down-trodden State. Time, however, passes on. Faint whispers are atlast heard, after weeks of delay, that the lteturning Board, being in the interest of Kellogg, may after all thwart the expressed wishes of the people of the State. little credit is given to the rumor, nearly every body believing that the majority is too great to to be tampered with or disregarded. Those who thought thus had but a poor appreciation of Kel-logg's power and audacity, when encouraged by the Attorney-General of the United States and oacked bv tlie President and army and navy of the country. Majorities, with Kellogg and his lteturning Board, go for nothing the wishes of tlie people weigh not a feather in the balance and a Kellogg Treasurer is declared elected (although fairly beaten by a majority of more than 20,000 votes) , and the returns of members of the General Assembly so manipulated that Kellogg cannot be deprived of power! Gentlemen, I do hope you wdl not fail to give expression, by proper resolutions, to the indignation felt by Missouri at such conduct. Assert what your great State thinks upon the subject, and the tendencies of such a policy as that pursued bv the President and the ltadical party towards Louisiana. Let not Uie States of the American Union one by one be annihilated, and our Federal Union and compact as framed by the fathers of the republic destroyed, without a bold and fearless protest on the part of Uie representatives of Uie people in this General Assembly, and a vigorous assertion by you of the right oi the States to regulate their own institutions, frame their own laws, and exercise every power . that independent governments may exercise, except so far as the right to do so lias in express terms or by necessary implication been conferred upon Uie Federal Government EDUCATIONAL. The public and Normal schools of the State, the State University, and the educational institutions of Missouri generally , were never in a more prosperous condition than at the present time. The cause of education is at last receiving that attention at the hands of the people so essential to its success. Counties, cities, towns and school districts all over the State are vieing with each other :n oirra tn imiM nn Mtd establish institutions of learning worthy of the age in which we live, and suitable to the wants and demands of every locality. That prejudice against public or common oohrJilR. which some vears ago threatened the very existence of the system , has almost enth riiannnmrMl before Uie marked succeess wt has crowned its progress from year to year. iu.ii.a iK.f tim avatom . m At wresent t lisbed, is perfect; but this recognised imperfi tion is no longer nsea aa am common schools. And when a defect -is ered, it it simply pointed out that it ma; attention and be corrected. My iewrs t tlut moat nhwvtinn&l features. AS I connected with the practical operations public schools, were poinieu oui m n message last winter. The views then are still entertained by me; and I gi most decided opinion that no bouse built ior common acnooi purpww upon Uie people in which it is built tnirds oi Jan quavneu tuk trie vote w impose uw 'axZ2rtoeit should any school be protr "XT time can ue MMJml the district. unls the tax do so is voted oy ir?ZC uuras oi ine qiam-:, FAGS CO WIM 09 FOPT rav ich . 9 - tstav. TV r the: : Anal .-: V jiC -rr- J..-. t3-a al Wt. . . I aaecteo .it T. . 3 AT ft ft WM i dr.-,- elyjr ; ...