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Amount paid by them to the State Treasurer, being the sum appropriated to the relief of sundry turnpike road companies, by the 4th section of the act of 21st March, 1831,

No. XXIII.

OLD DEBTS AND MISCELLANEOUS. Samuel Allison, executor of Matthew Allison, on account of a bond to the Commonwealth for land late of John Nicholson, deceased,

Stephen Girard, on account of Solomon
Markley's bond for do.
Stephen Girard, for lands late of John Nich-
olson, deceased, situate in Schuylkill
county, and sold to him by the Secretary
of the land-office, and the Surveyor Gene-
ral, agreeably to the provisions of the act
of 28th March, 1814.
Joseph Hackney, commissioner for the sale
of reserved tracts in the town of Warren,
John Patton, agent for the Susquehanna lot-
tery, per Robert Allison, attorney for the
Commonwealth.

161 94 Washington and Wil-
liamsport,

10,000 00 90 00

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Executors of Martin Reilly, former sheriff of Bedford county, on account of court fines,

230,000 00

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1,444,948 54

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11,087 66

Commissioners of the Internal Improvement Fund, amount received of loan per act of 30th March, 1831,

275,000 00

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362,682 40

EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT,

329 75 Pay and mileage of the members, $13,155 30 3,746 53 Clerks,

1,735 00 775 00 1,177 96 Sergeant-at-arms and doorkeepers, 1,150 00

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Executor of Zurah Smitb, late treasurer of
Luzerne co. over-payment on account of
retailers licences,

12 70

Jacob Loutzenheiser, do Mercer

Samuel W. Stuart, do
Peter Lazarus,

20 25 127 94

do Northumberland 118 50 William B. Foster, collector of tolls at Alle-
gheny-town, amount placed to his credit,
by mistake in the State Treasury, on 6th
October, 1830,

CONVEYING FUGITIVES.

No. XIII.

John McLean and W. H. Blaney,

W. H. Blaney and J. Milliman,

Willis H. Blaney,

Adam Bare,

Jacob Sanders,

John Aurand,

1,177 96

Solomon Springman, binding stock books
for the loans per acts of 21st and 30th
March, 1831, for the Auditor Gen's. office,
James Loudon, do. for State Treasury,
Hugh Hamilton and Son, printing and bind-
ing a certificate book for the loans per
acts of 21st and 30th March, 1831,
Do. publishing Circuit courts,

825 00

98 00 120 98 59 08 58 00

135 00

110 00

5.00

153 70

5.00

106 30

Henry Welsh,

do.

13 00

596 06

Peter Hay & Co. publishing the list of haw-
kers and pedlers,

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N. B. In the following paper, some matters found in all the medical publications on this subject, have been omitted, and the Address subjected to a general revision.

ADDRESS

Delivered before the Kensington Young Men's Temperance Society, July 4, 1830, on the presentation of the Annual Report of the Managers; by B. H. COATES,

M. D.

MR. CHAIRMAN:

I have listened with pleasure to the Report which has just been read; and will take the liberty of adding the expression of some feelings arising from the nature of the occasion. Not only is the object of this assemblage interesting and important, but the day has cer tainly been wisely chosen to awaken old and habitual associations. At this hour, throughout the wide extended range of American territory, its thronging population is assembled to celebrate the triumphs of our political independence. Every city, town and village, through all the diversified climates of our land, has its church or its court house occupied by sedate and thoughtful crowds, listening perhaps, to those accents which remind them of the successful struggle of their ancestors, the value of liberty, and the obligation to transmit to posterity the blessing unimpaired. Others, wearied with the repetition of the tale, thrice told, but yearly augmenting in interest, of national liberation and triumph, will have embraced the occasion to inculcate a farther extension of those useful toils which are creating the prosperity of the age. From the pulpit of one buiid ing we are told of the value of mental cultivation; from the bench of another we are impressed with the necessity of more liberal provision for inland navigation and commerce; while, in a third, the most strenuous persuasion is employed to urge the expediency of introducing new subjects for agriculture or manufactures.

We have met, on the other hand, not to listen to accounts of the victories of man over those who would enslave him, nor even to the arguments of patriotism for the extension of knowledge, or the augmentation of productive industry. With these our population is well acquainted. Let us at other times engage in the tasks they urge upon us. Let patriots and philanthropists employ their hours in forming roads and canals, in dis seminating a knowledge of useful sciences and arts, in reforming the criminal and succouring the pauper,in extending education to the whole mass of the community, in planting new vineyards, and converting into articles of profitable trade the produce of our silkworms. We wish all prosperity to the labours of these. May their toils be rewarded by the pleasures of success, by the gratification of serving their fellow creatures, and by a just and honourable applause. They teach us new modes of increasing human comfort; they exhibit new methods of so directing the industry of man, as to produce for himself additional pleasures, and additional provision for his offspring. Be it yours to act upon the moral agent himself! Let the citizen whose benefit is VOL. VIII.

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the final object of all these multifarious efforts, be persuaded by your agency, to preserve unimpaired for this and yet a higher destiny, those powers bodily and men tal with which the Creator has en lowed him. What avail the most enlightened plans for the promotion of useful arts, when the instruments with which they are to be executed, patient and intelligent men, are decay. ing with the rust of intemperance? Of what import is the prosperity of the nation to him who lies intoxicated by the road side, enjoying nothing, seeking nothing but liquor and a bed? Or, to borrow a still more awful reflection from the Author of our religion, "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" Others shall tell us how best to employ our faculties. We have come here to urge upon one another, and upon our fellow citizens, the habits which tend to preserve those faculties from premature imbe. cility and untimely dissolution. It is enough for me to allude to considerations of more solemn consequence and of eternal import. I leave these to abler and fitter hands, who will know how to enforce them with that power which belongs to the written will of God, and to the all absorbing prospects of a future world.

While Ithus concede to the ministers of religion the sanc tity and energy of appeal which belongs to their solemn duty, allow me to claim for medical men opportunities as frequent as any, for knowing and feeling the extent of the evil. I shall not now detain you with dry profeз. sional details. Occasion has been found for the promul gation of these,and it is unnecessary now to repeat them. It is at present generally conceded, that ardent spirits are the source of a large and frightful portion of the sick. ness and mortality which exist among us-that they shorten life, accelerate disease, and anticipate or ensure the advent of death. The physician, who witnesses the banquet of the intemperate, has habitually before his mental eyes, the awful presages of long and painful disease, of the mortification and distress of families, and

at a distance somewhat more remote, of slow but unfailing mortality. Misery and humiliation are in the cup, and death lurks behind the bowl. In the flowing hilarity of the debauch he sees a train of mortal evils, and in the hysterical excitement of intoxication, a premonition of approaching dissolution. Such was the feeling of the poet, when, from the alternate laughter and tears of an excited and riotous assemblage, he draws an omen of their impending destruction. The inspired augur who beholds shadowy spectres surrounding the banquet, is treated with ridicule, and sadly leaves the hall to avoid the fast approaching doom so apparent to him, and so inevitable to its victims.

But Pallas clouds with intellectual gloom
The suitors' souls, unmindful of their doom.
A mirthful phrenzy seiz'd the fated crowd.
The roofs resound with causeless laughter loud—
Then down each cheek the tears spontaneous flow,
And sudden sighs presage approaching woe.
In vision rapt, the Hyperesian seer
Uprose, and thus divin'd the vengeance near,

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