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. :
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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
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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
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! 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.