GOV. THOMAS V. DOIlll. BY C. AHCKOKT. Alas, for our America ! a stain ii upon her history's page, bluck and Humning in its charac ter, a stain that a thousand years wilt not wash away ; one of her noblest sons her purest pa triots has fallen a victim to the tools of tyran ny; he has become a martyr in the cause of Freedom and of Equal Rights, and his persecu tors may now shout through their dungeons and palaces that treason is o'er. Freeman, arise! if still one drop Of patriot blood flows in your veins, If still one spark of Freedom's firo Fpon your alter yet remains; Will yo stand tamely by and see Your brother Wenr a tyrant's chain ? 1 1' such things on our land may be, Then have our fathers died in vain. Alas, lor Freedom ! if her sons Must linger in a felon's cell, For daring to assert the rights For which our sires have fought and fell ; And have they taught our eagle's wing, To sweep through Heaven's broad arch in vain, Before pome mighty powerj to bring Those heroes from their graves again ? How would each traitor's spirit grieve ? How would each coward's eye grow dim ' If, echoing on the sudden gale, There came the living voice of him Whose banner waved o'er Bunker's height, Whose voice rang free on Monmouth's plain ; O, that his spirit, power and might, Might guide our nation's helm again. Is this the noble Dorr's reward ? Is this the guerdon for the free ? Long years of weary, silent toil A life of hopeless slavery, Beneath our country's flag of light If such must be the patriot's doom, Blot out each star with glory bright, i i i . i. . . t. j-wiu cnaiii Her cagic 10 me ioiiiu. j If from the Democratic ranks, Her noblest sons must thus be torn, Soon shall the last despairing cry Of Freedom on the winds be borne ; And we shall see a despot's flag. Waving above her father's bones, And need a revolution's fires, To purify our fallen thrones. Dkath from tub Rite or a Rattlk.snake. A considerable excitement has existed in the village of Saratoga, during the past week, in consequence of the death of Dr. Stadlin, of the firm of Seebald Stadlin, from the bite of a rattle snake. Dr. Stadlin. froui6ome strange infatu ation, hap, for several months past, kept in a email room in his dwelling some fitty snakes of several kinds, tibout twenty-five of which he used to mingle with perfeet unconcern, and handle and pet with as much freedom as would the more cautious person a kitten. The Doctor had so much confidence in certain preventatives he had prepared against their bites, that ho paid THE AMERICAN. Saturday, Srjit. 28, 1841. lfmo rnllc Nominal Ioiin. FOR- PRESIDENT, JAMES K. POL IE, Or TENNF.8SEB. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. GEO. EX. DALLAS, OP PENNSYLVANIA. FOR GOVF.RNOR, jfvaucfis it. S tin uU. FOll CANAL COMMISSIONER, FOll CONOR F.SS, (ilSX. y. A. l'KTKlKIX. COt: N T Y T I C K E T . J on ASSDMIM.Y, KDWAUI) V. HKHillT. Fllll C OM MISSION lilt, DAVID MAIM'Z. ton Atunon, THOMAS STKINE. E L E C T O R S , For President an1 Vice President of the U. Stales WILSON M CANDLLSS, (' , , , ASA DIMOCK, Senatorial. KEPRKSENTATIVK. 1. (ii;o. F. Lkiiman, 13. (ircowvR Siiivaio.v, 2. Christian K.nkass, I t. Nath'i.. 11. Ei.ihu.ji, 3. William H. Smith. 1'). M.N. Irvine, I. John llu.t.. (Phila.) Hi. .T.imks Wooiuirux, .V Samikl E. Leech, llec;ii Mnt;o.vkry Our CnmUtlnte for Conprrss. The period is now drawing to a close when the Democracy of Northumberland will again be assembled at the polls, for the purpose of sus taining the measures and the principles of the party. That this county is as strongly demo cratic as ever, is beyond a doubt, and nothing can prevent us giving the old-fashioned majorities, but dissensions in our ranks. These, happily, do not, nt this time, exist. The candidates have all been fairly mid honorably selected. For Congress, Lycoming county, which is entitled to the member, bus furnished us with a candidate in the person of GEN. WM. A. PETRI KIN. The unanimity with which he wai supported in the Convention is strongly indicative of the sup port he will receive at home. Gen. Petrikiu is a man of good sound sense, excellent moral cha racter, plain and unassuming in his habits and always exemplary in his conduct. His lute let ter shows that he is strongly in favor of the pre sent tariff. Being fully convinced of its bene ficial effects he is utterly opposed to its repeal. He thus conies out as strongly for this measure I as Mr. Pollock. The whips, flushed with a re- I rent accidental victory, are using all the exer-j tions in their power to defeat the democratic I candidate. Mr. Pollock, however, cannot be e- j lectcd. He should not presume too much upon I the good nature of the democracy of this district, and simply because, by their forbearance, they permitted him tooecupy a seat in Congress for a short time, it is rather too much for him to ask to become their permanent representative in that body. His former temporary democratic sup porters will, therefore, politely request him, on the second Tuesday of October next, to retire, with the utmost good wishes for Lis health and future happiness, leaving him to reflect on the strange and sudden mutations which are every day brought about in this world of change. E. Y. Bright, Esq. Frnnris It. Shrink ami the Bible Our readers are aware of the slanders' urged against Mr. Shunk, charging him as being op posed to the Bible. Such gross charges, it is true, could never injure him in the estimation of any sensible man, having a previous knowledge of Mr. Shank's character. It shows, however, the vile and contemptible means resorted to, by such papers as the Harrisburg Telegraph anil o. thers of the same kidney, in traducing the cha racter of Mr. Shunk, who, when Mr. Muhlen berg was nominated, was eulogised as one of the most worthy citizens of the State. The follow ing from the Harrisburg Union will, we trust, set this slander at rest, even w ith those who make slander their business " To prove to our readers how false and in famous such a clmr!.'i is, we append th" follow ing- cortificete of tin' secretary of the Common Schools in the North Ward of the borough of Harrisburg, (the wnrd in which Mr. Sliinik li ved and was elected a School Director,) that one of his first official act was to move, that the Hiiii.k iik reui in tug Pi hi.io Schools ! Here is the proof. Rend it, ye federal calum niators, and blu.-h over your own infamy. "IIarhisiu Rd. June 12, 1?3S. "On motion of FRANCIS R.SIIUNK. "Rrsnlvd, That the Teachers in the North Ward RK Dl KFCTFD to open their Schools in the morning by reading of a portion of the Old or New Testaments by the Scholars, in a class or classes." "Extract from the Minutes: "JOHN II. FACER, Sicntartj." But this, is not all. Mr. Sliiink'it ollieial re- lllCSt L,T OP TIIR M.11XIS ELECTION. The most complete sweep that has probably been made since the days of William the. Nor man, is that of the coons in Maine, before that favorite Democratic leader, Hugh J. Anderson. So utter has been their discomfiture, that we are almost disposed to commisserate their condition. We annex the full returns for Governor, from the Portland American of the Kith inst. : 1SII. IS 10. . r. Coi n itks. Kennebec, Yoik, Cumberland, Lincoln, Hancock, Washington, Oxford, Somerset Penobscot, Waldo, Franklin, Piscataquis, Aroostook ,17'i I r,'il ft I VI ISM 22 M 20S3 2.V.I9 4.117 50(10 201 1 H 323 fisro 4.VJ9 r.275 2:111 22 11 212 urrjr, 1 1 i;o 2K2fl tfenO 1252 IV) 270S VI23 fills 1 .- 1 7 2K74 2S l.')79 "fi.lO 50.12 4s I I 1 S.'iK 12S2 707 o Til lii ft 3:ii;.- 4 toi 51S8 2072 2520 19i 31 70 4021 2107 1352 lll'i 42'. Si lie? thft nomination fiitvlt hy the two pur port to tho Lectin I ure, ns Superintendent of tis at the Jlalt irnore Conventions, this year. Common Schools, inl"P concludes with the following bciiitifiil sentiment : "In conclusion, let it always he remembered, ! that while a sound, practical, common school education is the mi rest foundation of virtue and I patriotism, it strengthens ami adorns every ' CHRISTIAN (ill ACE, nnd that without it, the TREASURES OF INSPIRATION are I m a grost degree sealed, nnd Hie light which 1 has been mercifully provided to guide man through this world, and shrd its rnns nunn hit Mr. Bright having received the nomination of , j,tJlwn, 1,, immortal huppim ss, is but dimly reflected. (i. Samcli. Camp, 7. Jesk Sharp, H. N. W. Sample. J. W'm. Hkioenreicii, 10. Con rah Simmer, 11. Stephen Baliy, 12. Jonau Brkwsi er, IV Kv.u- Ankney, 1ft. John Matthews, 20. Wm. Pattetson, 21. Anmikw Bciike, 22. John M Giu.. 23. Chkktian Myers, 21. Ropert Oku. I'. . r.llVKU, Eq., at hU ileal En. tate and ( h1 OKec, M. ft'J I'iur Stmt, I'M ladcljilila, is uulhoriifd to act an .Jgent, ai d recfitt for alt monies due tills o1llee) for mb scrtiitiou or arfvtrtislng. ,1lso,at his Office. 1. 100 .Vassan Street, SSw 'ork. CZ We returned homo a few days since, after an absence of several weeks in the city. In Phi ladelphia, it is difficult to say what the result w ill be at the October tdectious. In the county, he Native Americans appear at present, to be the must prominent party. In the city ami county, politicians find themselves in a stiange fix this fall, and acknowledge that there is 110 telling how the thing will come out. In regard to the principles, and will vote as they have done here tofore. little reenrd to this important noint. About a 1 1 . 1. . I Presidency, the Natives full back to their old month since, a person caught eight or ten of ' ' ' the dreadful reptiles, which he brought to Dr. Stadlin, and which were placed in their wild and native state with those which he had before collected, oneof which waia monster in sira. On ' the 12th inst. the Dr., accompanied by fevcral I persons, entered tho room in which these horri-; ble creatures were confined and as uhiioI, i commenced handling and petting tln-m for the j purpose of domesticating them ; and in attenip- j ting to tuke hold of a large one, was bitten on tho right hand between the little and adjoining finger. Almost at quick as thought, the hand commenced swelling, and before the preventive could be applied, the place of the bite was swol len to the size of a butter-nut, and so closed the wound, that tho medicine, if there is any virtue in it, could nut take effect. Within one hour after he was bitten he was so overcome by its effects, that he could not set up ; went to his bed, wa bled as often as once an hour during tho succeeding night, lingered through the next day until about seven o'clock in the evening, 'vhen he died, a victim to his own folly. The Doctor had previously inoculated himself and family with U13 pjison contained in the fang of the snakes, under the im pression that it would prevent fatal re nulls from their 'e.w-l'hila, Jilcr. DC7""TKr.NK Foeniv About two months since, Miss Smith, a young lady fiom Reading, had her trunk stolen from the boot of the Pottsville stage coach. The robbery, it is supposed, was com mitted on the Northumberland Hridge, over w hich the stage Jiasses about midnight. When the coach Mopped at Northumberland, another trunk was half way out of the boot, which hail been opened. The trunk was filled with valua ble clothing; belonging to Miss S , allied at a bout one hundred dollars. Nothing was heard of the trunk until Monday last, when several boys discovered a leather trunk in the bottom of the river, a few roils out from the coal wharf, at this place. It was brought to shore and examined. On the brass plate was engraved the name of i'Fredericka Smith." The lock had been cut out. It was nearly tilled with ladies wearing ap arel, ondull excepting two silk shawls damag- ! the Convention, and as no organised opposi ' tiou is brought out against him, there can be ! but little d.iubt of his success. Mr. Kergstresser, i it is true, is the whig candidate for Assembly, I but he is running, w e presume, as a mere matter j of form, for the purpose of making up a full whig ticket, and to give strength, if possible, to General Mnrklr and Sittire Pollock. The De mocracy of this county is perfectly satisfied with Mr. Rright's nomination, and as he gave very general satisfaction at the last session, there can be no reason why he should not be re-elected. Our friend 1'eigstresser, we are confident, will not regret his defeat, nor feel at nil disappointed lhat he will not be obliged to spend a winter at llai risburg, which he can spend quite a use fully and as profitably to himself, at homo. Let it lie Riinrnihrrril. Democrats ol Northumberland, remember that j 1 there is a United States Senator to be elected ; next winter by the Legislatures of this State : Rememuek that the political complexion of the J I'. S. Senate may depend upon the choice from this State. Rkmemhhi that highly important measures will come before the nex Senate, hence it is all important that Pennsylvania should be truly and faithfully represented. Remem i.i.k that the whigs, niitimasons, Kc, are combining all their elloi ts to defeat the de mocracy, and secure to the opposition a majori ty in our next legislature. Remkmiii.k that should they succeed, they might elect a whig Senator and entail upon our Comiiiouwi-ahh, Cuises not loud but deep," for six years to come. Rememhek that you have the power in your hands to prevent it, by securing the election of the Democratic nominee for Representative. C-7 The ''Stark County (Ohio) Democrat" says : 'The motto of the Democrats here is. t'nlli, Dallas. 7W and Virion : and we intend to elect the wholesrand no mistake.'' Wecun see no necessity in electing the last Fleet the first three, and claime'r'ry as a neces sary consequence. This is what we intend doing in this State with Polk, Dallas, Slnmk and virlory (irnit Whig Gathering ot Shnmokin. Siiamokh, Sept. 25, lis 11. M11. F.niToR I suppose yon would like to be informed of ho great meeting that ivat to be j held at this place 011 Tuesday last ; and as I was j present I will give yon the particulars. In the first place there was Mr. Pollock teitdy for a i speech, and with him Mr. Ceo. A. Snyder, his The Slanderers of Mr. ft hint If The Plttf luit (iacctte. The Editor of the Pittsburg Gazette has ad ded one more link to the chain of falsehoods and calumnies, which unite his name to all that is notorious fo.r canting hypocrisy, black-hearted malignity, and unscrupulous villainy. Uii paper of Saturday last, oomes to us freighted with a load of falsehoods, which we would scarcely have expected, even from the renown ed vender of counterfeit Rrandreth l'lll labels. The (iazette charges upon Mr. Shunk hos tility to the Protestant religion, and enmity to the introduction of the Ilible into common 713 j schools; while in the ver city in which thissmu Jp'j j dor is uttered, it is as well known as any fact can 47T ' be, that Shunk is himself a Protestant, nnd that he has never lost an opportunity of urging tho adoption of the Bible in our common schools. The F.ditor of the Gazette knew ho was pen ning deliberate falsehoods, and he knew too, that in his own city nnd country where thec were known, his slanders would be treated with j contempt. Hut those falsehoods were for use 1 in other portions of the Coriimonwenlth ; and to I accomplish the designs of tfijhen Whins J who bought this traitor to betray the Anti-Ma-I sons, whose organ he had been, he has been 1 rruilty of falsehoods so base ns to defy the Kng 1 lish languige to produce tonus sufficiently j strong for their protection, i For the purpose of informing such of ourren I dersas are not familiar with this man's charac ter, of the kind of person our opponents have I selected to do their filthy work, v will furnish j a sort of deguereotype likeness of his character. : In the first place, he is n man, who, to a grea j ter extent than any indiviilii.il whom we hive j ever known, makes a vaunting profession of his j piety ; a ,iety which he has illu.-tratrd in a va j riety of ways. First, he was engaged in tho laudable elfort of counterfeiting labels for Dr. Rrniulri'lh's Pills; and when licensed of it, I10 denied in the most solemn terms having been This is going it strong for Democracy, and S"' "ch " enormity, appealing to hi 113 !U 4ttft fiilH SAS 4 Oft .'.OS 2!IS 20 4')On2 452 IS 41151 37S50 (il!i Federal majority in 1 10 was2t'i. Demo cratic majority now, lO.SOI. DEMOCRAT IC (JAIN since 1810 1 1 ,107. How lite KlecttoiK go In 141. nine States have held elections, which show result on the Presidential as follows : I'olk. Clay. Maine, 11 Vermont, fi North Carolina, 1 1 Alabama, 0 Louisiana, li Kentucky, 12 Indiana, 12 Illinois, li Missouri, 7 52 2ft ! ! is about the proportion in which the result of the i elec tions to take place will terminate. Demo crats a glorious victory awaits us ! caons w ith a long pole. Stir up the j f.cn. Jottrph Mnrkle. Much has been said of the achievements of i this gentleman, during the last War. So much j indeed that public attention has become curious i to know the length and breadth of his servi- cos . I Anxious to do him justice, anil willing that I the laurels, so assiduously and tastefully wo j ven for his brow, by his whig friends, should be i preserved in all their pristine verdancy, we j have sought the musty records of the past for ! some evidence of his Masssassiuewa victories. Il.iiu it itin nnnintnil will our rpnrtnrfl So when Aid de Camp. Mr. liergstresser and Mr. I'.dward ! , , ,, , f , ' wd tn I nn tltnf nil ut iflvn nn.m jhlii to f 1 fir I ; of his Indian killing, is in Niles' Weekly Re- ginler, that succinct ond fuithful chronicler of ! by-gone events. Markley, of Sunliiii y , was also there. The meet ing was composed of two Welshmen, two Scotch man and two others, having altogether not more than !l votes. Mr. Pollock, after some consulta tion with his friends, ami having concluded that it was not agreeable to address; an audience uf less than ten, resolved to ostpoiie his speech until alter the election. standing as an officer of a church, to prove his iniiocenee. Nevertheless, the truth was clici iel, and Deacon White was proved to have been engaged, ns p'incipal in the nefarious transact ion. Again, he succeeded Mr. Chiaci in the Pitts burj Gazette, in company with ti Mr. Grant. Here he was inns-t violently opposed to Ma sonry or slave holdiiii!. The prospectus which ho then issued pledged that the support of tho Gazette, while under his direction should never give its support either to a Mason or a slave holder! For years he was most lavish in hi j abuse of Henri Clay, nnd his paper was the political organ of both Abolitionists and Anti masons. H'lt it was not in his nature to be true to any friends. It finally became desira ble for tho Clay Whigs to break up the Anti masonie organization in Allegheny county. This they could not do, unless they could gain over their organ. The well known duplicity of W hite allordcd the basis for an arrangement. Mies' Weekly Krgisfr, Vol. Ill, r,iSrtK. VWj (f , by ut Fx-ract of a letter, dated Frankl.nton, OI,:o, ! Mf wm Wi,s too coll,cn. Dec s,3 1"1 ! ; luius to violate his previous pledges, for three. "On the 17th, after marching all night, Col. j .... ... , . - , . , ,rm,, The meeting in the evening, at Snvderstown, Cnll.H. ith his command, arrived at one of: , , . , , ., . , .. 1 ... , , .... . .... .... 1 . uuiius, pmwucu me lauer wciuiti cmer uuosiip- the Massisonncwa towns, and instanfy char., d llllal(m;Ji m ltl;lt ie (;azeUc e,w,ld upon the town, drove the savages across the , coll,cout for UuxHX (;I VT , This contract h Massassi.iewa river, killed seven of the... nnd bec, 1)ub;,ltll repeatedly -the deed in which took :17 prisoners only two of our men were ; ie pi(UHan(i conscientious Fditor of the Pats- "Keep it before the people tlmt Orn. Mnrkl, ! killt'd in ",0 w,lilu contending with ; b(lrg (J,2,!Ue, sell himself to tin support of a never held an office of profit in his lif, ."I'hitu. 'he enemy at tins town. 1 liey sent a runner I'vriim, ; to another of the towns, about three miles dis- Keep it before the people, also, that the rea- i t it, which was immediately evacuated. On son w hy Mr. Markle has never held an olhce, is, tlc iiitri before daybreak, the horrid savage that the people never would elect him. lie bus 1 ..L.u Wila heard, tho word wasffiven toarms,and 1 was equally as large, t lie? same number being present. Further proceedings were also sus pended there, for another occasion. A Shamt.kin Democrat. run for office repeatedly, from Hngade Inspector ; lmw, desperate conflict commenced. Capt. I 1- i in.-if lit m-fiv :itnl vt"i.tiit in n. n tint.i nir..lii a( Aan.l.le l.nt l.'ii. ulu-ie. l,nn ir . 1 wr II t l 1 II couraging your neighbors and f-llow-deinocrats ! "'' " ' ' " ''rc. 01 '.i. cronp, ueinvm "a.iani- to use all honorable means to secure the election i'1''1"0'1' j ly. and died nobly. Unit. Waltz, of Cuif. of Kdward V. Bright. ('l,y an,, inn Bank. At the F.xtra Session ! V"rU' ' Company (from Greensburg, Pa.) wa Rkm, :r.R to allow no consideration to keep in 11 1,. Mr. Clay introduced a bill to re-charter j S thu or"'. ,", 't .l.g satisfied vo fr.,...il...,w.ll. nn H, f th VL.rti..,, a Fliited States Bank, accompanied bv renort. 1,0 agal, endeavored to mount III ed to such a degree that they had become worth- I all,l to see that everv democratic vote is .mil,.,! I from which the following is an extract : I horse, and 111 making the effort, wad shot ... . j , - ii is i up oe i .iterate opinion o. cue c. ommmee, i less. The villains, no doubt, expected to find money in the trunk, and having been disappoint ed, threw the trunk and clothing into the river from off the bridge, from w hence it had gradu ally washed to the place where it was found. for the candidates ot Democratic iarty. The Cotton Crop The Opelousaa Gazette of the 4th inst. says ''The catterpillaro have at length made their appearance in our neighborhood, and are com mitting dreadful ravages upon the cotton field. We cannot make any accurate estimate of the damage ; but suppose it will not fall short of one-third." Other papers speak in tho same desponding strain. CT?" The "Temperance Advocate." formerly published by Hause & Mi Clone, at Miflliiiburg, Immense Destruction- ' 1'nion county, has passed into the hands ol the Rev. Win. II. T. Barnes, who will hereafter pub lish the same at Milton, under the title of "The Advocate and Day Spring." Mr. Panics is said to be well qualified, nnd will, no doubt, make his sheet a useful auxiliary in the cause of Temperance. ('Iinrnrtfr of Col. folk. "At a whiir mass meeting near Wellsville, ( hio, Col. John A. Rogers, n distinguished and talented speaker from Tennessee, was present hy invitation, to address the assemblage, which he did at lenjjth. With the magnanimity char acteristic of nn honorable opponent, ho pref.ired his remarks by stHtiiiL' that 't was proper for him to declare, that Col. Pulk ns a man and a tjei.tleiiinn, had no superior ; that he had known him in private life, and served with him in the Legislative Hall ; that in point ot talent he had man whom he had two mouths l:f'ire denoun ced ns a murderer, gambler, and robbor ! Such in brief, are the claims to respectability posses sed by Mr. Whiix. If a himi whose whole life is but one series of gross hypocrisies, and un pi incipled attacks upon private character, can assail with effect, the reputation of such a man asFKANtis R. Siiink, then indeed has a high character ceased to bo of value. Argu : Kvrry Man to Ids I'o.l t It is too frequently the case, that we hear the ! through the head. His death waHgloriou." 1 most f,rm anj ,ecided friends of the Democra- that an immense majority of the people are in favor of. and CALL FOR A I'MIKIt ST ATI'S BANK, AND THAT IT SIIOI'LD HF. F.S TABLIS11KU AT THIS SPLCIAL SF.S SION." Mil Clay Avows that thk Bank i ibf (heat Issi k. In bis speech on Mr. Tyler's ve to, at the F.xtra Session, he said : "I came to Washington, at the commencement Lieut. Waltz was a brave man, and belong ed to ("apt. Mar kit's Company. But of'Captain i Markle's bravery we have not a word and of the three Indians claimed to have been killed by him, the account is perfectly silent. How very singular ! ! Thk Sai.k or tii k Main Line. This is nn important subject, and one that deserves great attention. I'pnn it hangs the destiny of many thousand indie iduals. If it is sold, we will be Russian Cruelty. A late European paper, the Cologne Gazette, contains an account of the punishment inflicted on five Russian deserters, who were apprehended when close to, if not up on the Prussian territory. They received I'AM strokes of the knout; it ia very seldom the vic tim survives the thousandth blow. Notwith standing the death of the five in question, the executioner proceeded to inflict the very last lash prescribed by the sentence. With worse than Chinese refinement in barbarity, the pa rents and families of the condemned were for ced to witness the punishment from beginning to end. A SHARP SIIAVF.R. "Say, Jonny, where' my razor now I want it here to use It." I'ze had it op'nin' oysters, dad." "Vou scamp ! did you abuse it '" "No!" "Rub it nna brickbat, then, And what Itwll you, mind it If you c'ei use it so again, I'm dtirn'd f iuti thu'n'1 $rind il '" H!7 The River has not been as low in many years as at present. The Susquehanna c anal, j though in navagable order, has not a full supply. The Juniata canal has been very low. K7 The prospects of the democratic party are becoming everyday more rheering. The re sult of the late elections has considerably dam pened the ardour of our whig f. iemls, and finding their hopes of success more feeble than what they had anticipated, they; will, no doubt, be sti mulated to renewed exertions. That they will poll their whulesjtrength, is more than probable. It therefore behooves us to be equally vigilant and active on our partto counteract their efforts. Cn.on CorvTT We have it from un doubted authority, that I'liion county will not, at the furthest, give more than four hundred of a majority for the whig ticket. I'ndei such cir cumstances our whig friends have, indeed, but a forlorn hope. In order to elect Mr. Pollock they have hitheito calculated on from 1,000 to 1,200, in I'nion county. The 13th district is too de cidedly strongly democratic, for any reasonable hopes uf success on the pait ol the uhigj. of the session, with the most confident and buov a. it hopes that the whigs won hi be able to carry .left in a worse situation than we were before. few equals, an. I his integrity of character was j all their prominent measures, and especially A We will have a debt of 22 or 23 millions on our BANK OF Tilt I'MTI'D STATF.S, In ir bunds, with nothing as on equivalent. This we that one of Till" (iRF.ATF.ST I MM l".Dl A IT. ' w ill have to pay in some manner. Our taxes are IMPORTANT!-'.." &e MaHiry's edition of already too high, and if we want to raise them Col. Rogers, while in conversation with him, a few weeks since, nt Philadelphia, in re gard to Col. Tolk "at home," expressed to us views similar to the above. We also made in quiries in relation to the charge of Col. Folk's grand father having been a tm v. The Colonel stated that it was a matter as little known there as here, and concluded that it was improper and unjust that such a story should Itave been circulated. "It may serve as an excellent commentary on the purity of Mr. Shunk' accusers, to men tion that the 'Telegraph extra,' charging him with disrespect for the Bible nnr! the Sabbath, was worked oil and distributed on SUNDAY ! What imiuaculute saints these Federal editors havo become." Dem. I'nion. It is really surpiisin; that any respecta ble whig print should ropy or give credence to any thing that appears in the Telegraph, unless fort i lied by other testimony. The Telegraph has long since acquired so notorious a reputation for slander and vituperation, that one would sup pose that respectable whig papers would hesi tate to endorse the arti h of that paper, when even within the unge of piubability. higher, the selling of our Main Line of public iii) provements, w ill be the very thing to doit. Let every man who has the least spaik of State ; pride about him every one w ho has any regard for thepuiity of the ele ctive fianchise every ; one who regards his own rights and those of his j fellow-citizens, vote AGAINST this measure, ; Let the.n remember that if it is sold, it will fall j into the hands of foreign stock-jobbers ami ca- Vlay's speeches, ml 2. Ma. Clay's Oi in ion ok thk Kftkct ok Df Tii on Pku iv "If there isany truth in politi cal economy, it cannot bo that the result would agree with the prediction ; for we are instructed by all experience, that the consumption of any article is in proportion to the reduction of its p. ice, arid that m general it may be taken as a rale, that the duty upon an article forms a por- j pitalists, whose inlluence Americans should a tion cf its price." Gales and Seat on' t Debutes, ! void. Let them remember, that the works ure vol. 9, page 45. j in a good condition, and yielding a good revenue to the State, and that under the present manage- Mr. S.U'nk a nut he Saiibath. In the Hurrisb Telegraph extra, it is stated as a "remarkable fact," that Mr. Shunk never permitted his child ren to visit the Sabbath schools, during hi resi dence in Harrisburg. The assertion is infamous ly false. On the contrary, Mr. Shunk was him self a regular teacher ir. one of the first Sabbath schools established in Harrisburg. This fact could he attested by the certificates of hundreds of citizens, if it w ere dt all necessary . Pern I'nion inent !' the people, they are improving, and will continue to do so, so long as the people have the control of them. This being the case, we say vote AGAINST the sale. Juniata Times. VtRY ritniiAiiLE. The N. V. Herald, which tic cause the reil "bone and sinew" of the par ly excuse themselves from active exertion, by saying: " havo no influence- have no weight I will not, therefore, mingle in p'irly con flict." This is wtong essentially wrong. Every man has weight, and none so much as ho who labors for his daily bread. It is upon his shoulders the Mechanic, Farmer, and Workingman that the Liberty and Hippines ol our country chiefly c'epvid. Let, then, no man refuse to bear his pc rtion of the buithen let no man, in tins contest say : " have no weight, no influence." Let each nnd all put their shoulders to the wheel, and the burden will be light, the victory complete. To such as entertain the idea that they can rxereiso no influence, we commend the following iinple, but appropriate, stanzis : "What, if the rain would say : So smu.ll a di op as I Can ne'er refresh those thirsty fields, I'll tarry in the sky." What, if the shining beam of noon, Should in its fountain stay, lit cause its feeble light alone, Cannot create a day ' Doth not each rain-drop help to form The cool refreshing shower ? And every ray of light to warm And beautify the llower f On the subject of the tariff, Mr. Clay seems to have taken his ideas of policy from canoe navi- appears to be very solicitous about the fate of , gut ion, and is plying his paddles on both side of Whiggery, ays "We are, indeed, decidedly of j the boat lie will discover his mistake before opinion that the whigs are on the edge of a pre- he finishes his voyage There is but one stream cipire on the very verge of destruction if which can be na igated in that way, and that i something be not speedily done to save them." 1 Salt Rivlr.
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