MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK. I GOVERNOR PORTER. ONE HUNDRED ANIO FORTY LIVES LOST! In looking to the course of the execu.. l —The disasters at sea seem to be unusu- tive of Pennsylvania, one is really tempt ally frequent this season, every arrival ed to hazard the conjecture that his very bi ings intelligence of some recent wreck. frequent resort to the veto power, so anti• The most disastrous, is that of the loss of republican in its principle and tendencies, the Brig Minstrel, from Limerick for is designed to bring its use into disgrace Quebec, with one hundred and forty pas-, with the people, and thus bring about its sengers. Four passengers, with tour of abrogation.—TEN times, during the pres the crew, the only survivors, arrived at' ent session of the legislature, has Govern- Quebec on Friday last; and famished the' or Porter nulified the action of the two Mercury with the follov ing account of the houses, by the veto of as many different calamity; laws. And be it remembered that not The Minstrel left Limet irk, (Ireland,)! one of these laws has been vetoed on cons On the 21st of April last, for Quebec, with stitutional principle or scruples. They one hundred and forty passengers, emi I rest altogether on Governor Porter's in grants intending to settle in Canada dividual opinions, as to wisdom, justice The vessel had a tolerable passage up to or expediency. But when the veto pow. Tuesday last, at four o'clock in the mor- er is thus frequently exercised, on all ning,when she struck on Red Island Reef. sorts of subjects—when ten times, in a There was a heavy sea running at the single session, the action of the legislative time, but the boats were launched and body, is arrested, check mated, nullified, made fast to the lore chains. Upwards by the will of one individual, it is imps of one hundred passengers embarked in Bible to doubt that the power is uut only the boats, but their doom was quickly sea- liable to great abuse, but that it has been led ; the vessel "heeled oft" into the deep t greatly abused. And whether or not so water and went down stern foremost, so intended by Governor Porter, the need. suddenly that the "painters" of the boats less frequency of his interference with the could not be cast off, and the people who will and arts of the representatives of the embarked in the boats perished with people, by the exercise of 'one man pow their equutty unfortunate companions On er,' can hardly fail of bringing that power board the ship, except four of the crew into disgrace. When an individual of so and four passengers, who alone of upwards exceedingly moderate capacity as Govern of 150 souls remained to tell the tale!— or Porter, has resorted to this startling These eight persons embarked in the gig, power ten different times, in a single ses. which was towing astern, and fortunately mon, one cannot but conclude, it is high for them the rope which attached it to time that the power itselt was vetoed. the vessel broke when she went down. W hen intemperance reaches to such a They succeeded in pulling to White Ist- head, cure and safety can probably be and, where they remained until the fol- found only in total abstinence I .—liana, lowing day, when they were taken off by more Patriot, the ship Wellington of Belfast, Captaiu _ Mclntyre, and brought to Grosse Isle. Captain Outerbridge, of the unfortunate Minstrel, behaved ni..st gallantly during the awful scene, until he perished with the rest. Ile declared that he would not leave the vessel until his passengers were saved, and he was the last person seen by those who were in the gig. The following are the names of the Bur, vivors— Crew--Patrick O'Loghlin, steward ; James Grady, and Thomas Enright, sea men ; and John Donoghue, apprentice. Passengers—Flaherty, shoemaker, and wife ; Ilonoria Ringrose, and Col lins. Total saved, 8. The following is a statement of the number of the crew and passengers who perished: Crew—Capt. Outerbridge, mate, and 9 others-11. Passengers--Male Adults, 47; Female do. 41—. 88. Males under 14, 10; Females do. 8-18. Males under 7, 9; Females do. 12-21. Infants,.-10. Total perished, 148. The Minstrel was well known in the Quebec trade as a passenger ship ti om Ireland. She belonged to Limerick, and registered 296 tons. Last year she arri ved at Quebec on the 23d May from Lim crick, with 163 passengers. The passengers above mentioned as be ing saved, left the Wellington at Grosse Isle, and came to Quebec in the brig The tis, Capt. Ross, from Limerick, with 131 passengers. MATRICIDE.-A young man, named Wm. Carleton, in a fit of insanity, on ' Tuesday, took the life of his mother. It appears that the deceased, who was 63 years of age, and totally blind, had two sons and a daughter, and that one of the sons named William was insane, though his conduct had never been so vi, °lent or extraordinary as to induce his friends to place him under any restraint. About 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning this young man came into his mother's room and conversed with her a short time He then went to Mrs Sanford and asked the loan of her husband's razor, which was given to him. He then returned to his mother, and leaning over her, as de scribed by Mrs. Sanford, as if abiont to embrace her, he drew the razor across her throat, inflicting a terrible gash. which was followed almost immediately by the death of the ill-fated old lady. The un fortunate youn g man stood agast after the commission of theawful deed, and ex claimed, shall never see her again!" Several respectable witnesses were ex• amined, as also the brother of the tuna tiz, and the jury, after hearing the testi mony, returned a verdict according to the melancholy circumstances.—United States. t onderful Cure.—We heard the fol lowing particulars, a few days since, of an almost miraculous transition from dis ease and infirmity to health and vior, in the person of Mr Isaac Newman, ofSom erset county Md. Mr. N. for several years had been confined to his house by severe affliction which disabled him from walking, and from the free use of his arms and neck. On Saturday night last he was expected to die, but in a few hours became better, and, on Monday evening during the prevalence of a than tier storm he fell to sleep, and to his ut ter amazement, found when he awoke that he had the entire use of his limbs. He arose from his bed, dressed himself, and walked about the house. Mr. N. remembers to have experienced a pecu liar sensation in his whole system during his sleep, and from all the circumstances no other conclusion can be arrived at, but that the, agent of this wonderful cure was electricity. It at least furnishes a subject for much scientific speculation.— Easton (Md.) Gazelle. --cee-- Deaths in N. York last week were 122 THE TIMES.--" Wby are not the times betterl" ask the Locofocos. "Did you not ptomise us better times as soon as Harrison should be elected 7" say they. Well, we promised to reform the Gov eminent, to stop the squandering of mon• ey, and to restore public prosperity; but we promised no miracles. We address ed men of sense, not fools. The mischiefs which the country suffers were brought un by a series of bad measures, and can no more be repaired in an instant than a patient reduced almost to a skeleton by quackery can be restored to vigorous health and otrengh in a day. The Van Buren system is yet in full operation so far as the laws are concerned. The sub- Treasury is the law of the land, and must remain so until the meeting of Congress. The Locus denounce the Extra Session as unnescessary : they wish us to go on with the same experiment which has fail ed in their hands; with their sub-Treasu ry; !heir svoponaca attar &auto; their no eare-rooley and no tarty aril en) national bank; and yet hold us responsible for nut making the times better. We cannot do much under their system. We must a bandon it, and return to the old one un der which we formerly prospered. We hope Congress will lose no time in doing this. There can be no sound currency till it is done, and until their is a better currency, business cannot revive but par tial I y.—Kennebeck Jour. PENNSYLVANIA It has been lately ascertained that the completed State works of Pennsylvanial cost ariginally $20,158,791 64. They have thus far yielded an aggregate reve nue of $6,121,623 81, and have cost for repairs, motive power, superintendence &c., eeclusive of interest, no less than 86,694,205 80, or a half a million of dollars more than their entire income: The Philadelphia Nation Gazette says, in reference to this matter—Chronicle. "When a man's living exceeds his in come, he is generally considered in the high road to beggary. A community fromlike causes must ex perience like effect. The State of Penn sylvania is on the high road to beggary. Or, what is worse, she has been spen ding more than her earnings, and has begged until her story has become stale, , and no sensible person will give her a sous. The precious truth is just reveal ed, that all the public works of the State yield a less aggregate sum per annul. under this present administration, than is required to use them and keep them in repair. In homely phrase, they cost ,nore than they conic to by about halls million of dollars a year." :'l'. , The Yeoman a vile paper published i Harrisburg by flutter and Bigler, desig nates JOHN BANKS as the 'Stevens candi date' for Governor. This is a trick which will do the object of it no harm. Mr., BANKS is no man's candidate, but is the candidate ol the people. Spontaniously l they have called him to his present posi- Clot). Moved by the purest impulses, and the strictest regard to their own interests, they will elect him Governor. He will not be a Stevens Governor, or any other man's Governor. He will be the Govern or ol the people, under the influence of, nu men or factions. Any one acquainted with his character will readily assent to this. If Mr. Stevens sees proper to sup port him, we are glad of it. We hope that all who can do so conscientiously, will join with us ; but we protest against his being designated as any other clinch date dm the candidate of the people.— Pa. Intelligencer. GOOD.-.-A lady's dress accidentally I caught fire in one of the Philadelphia rail I way cars the other day, and on being told of it by one of the conductors, she very , coolly replied, that "she was quite de lighted at the idea of catching a "park." _.-..k0..../ i ) 7 3 4VV-t -10 t , t, , ~..,-oto THE JOURN AL. 'One eeuntry,one constitution one destin Huntingdon June, 9, 1811. Democratic Candidate FOR GOVERNOR, JOHN BANKS, OF BERKS COUNTY, Porter's Economy: If there was any one thing to which Por ter was pledged more than an other, pre• vious to his election, it was a retrench ment in the expenses of the public im provements. The alpha and omega of all the tirades against Ritner, was the ex. travagance and corruption on the canals and rail roads. Every political speech and every article in a political paper was prefaced and concluded with censures up on the corruption of State officers. He was elected; and how has that pledge been redeemed? Have you, sir, who claim so much honesty, in the loco foco rank&, examined the facts? Have you who spend so much of your time heaping your vindictive curses on the “Big Break Thieves," ever examined I to see it there are not "rogues about" now? If you have done so, why do not youe honest hearts howl forth some of the same denunciations against the same ) acts now T They were mighty honest, patriotic, ,and with all, remarkably interested in telling the people how they were robbed by the rascally anti-masons. But they have no complaints to make when the hands of their own partisans are thrust • into the peoples' treasure, and thousands squandered to enrich the pimps and pan ders of the present executive. That .1....1. ...... ... .........1 ~1.... ~........ ...... L... 'grown into a virtue now, We ask of every man who is honest, to examine into the expenditures on our public works since Porter's election, and compare them with any year under Joseph Ritner's, and they will fi,td them, increased to a fearful amount. A few weeks since, we gave a comparative state-' ment of the cost for repairs on the canals 'and rail roads during the last b ear of Ritner's, and the last year of Porter's ad ministration. Since that time we have had given to us the amount drawn from the treasury by some of the present offi cers, for the year 1840. We have thought best to enter it on record that the Llr niers and mechanics may look at the truth. We will, then, in the first place, take the division of Mr. David Woods, from Huntingdon to Augh•vick dam, being a distance of 19 miles. For damages, $2,2 68 43, and for repairs, $23,701 25, ma king the enormous sum of $25. 9139 OS for nineteen miles of canal, or more than twelve hundred dol• laps a mile Do you call that econ omy? eh One other case may suffice. Wm. Morehead was supervisor on the Portage rail road, and during the fiscal year of 1840, he paid oat $88,914 43, and left, when discharged, V 6,00 of debt; ma king nearly one hundred and ftf teen thousand dollars, expended on 36 miles of rail road, or more than three thousand a ; and this is called economy too. Farmers under this state of things, when do you expect to be released from , the State tax, laid on by Porter and his party 1 We shall leave you to answer I the question in your own way. The Revenue Bill Is declared by some of the magicians of the Loco Foco party, unconstitutional. TORY Ingersoll, and G. M. Dallas, he who is so learned in the bloody code of Draco, are the principle characters in this new play. Tory cares as much about our constitution as he did about the suc cess of our armies in the 'evolution, or rather as he would have cared, had he been a man at that time; and Geo. M Dallas cares more for the triumph of par ty than he does for the preservation of the institutions of our country. Two such men are well calculated to win favor in the eyes of the people. Porter's Prospects! David Rittenhouse Porter, is again the candidate of the Loco Focos for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania. Forced upon the party against the will of the ma-1 Ijority by the activity, drill and tyranny of Ihis office holders. lie was successful in 1838, and as a' matter of course, many are now asking %that are his prospects now. We claim no particular knowledge on the subject mote than others, nor do we assume to possess the spirit of prophecy. Yet as our opinion is frequently asked, we may as well give it in this public man• l ner, and it will then be known and can go for what it will fetch. To begin then we say unhesitatingly, that they are very dreary. To judge of the rest of the state by this one county, he will not only be beaten, but absolutely dis graced. Old Huntingdon, is mightiest among the mighty—when the campaign raged with a fierceness which seemed to shake the foundation of our institutions, she was as firm as her own iron bound hills; and in a voice not to be mistaken proclaimed that she knew him. Her hon• est sons who had known him long and best —entered their protest against such a vile stain upon the hitherto bright es. cutcheon of their native state, and lear• lessly announced his shame and their fi- delity to the Key stone state. That was a bitter strife. and we hope -never while we live to see any occasion for another. When the time shall again come, when men of such questionable in tegrity, are again brought forward for the highest honors in the peoples' gift, we for one will lay our hands on our mouth, and silently submit to any indignity that may be forced upon the state. But we are wandering from the subject. What are Mister Porters prospects? Let us answer. They are hopeless. Death never hurled a surer shaft than now quivers in the hands of the People. Por ter will be stricken down, and none will be so poor as to do him reverence. Why? The people know him. The thousand tales which when branded down upon his forehead, have left a mark as plain as that of Cain's; and the people as a body hav e ...a...lack, Os.. wt., ...a /1/11/CV 1461.. alla own deeds since his election have pro nounced his own, doom. An honest and confiding people will not willingly be made the dupes of politicians. They are not willing to quietly look on and see eyery pledge violated--every principle deserted and themselves made the laugh ing stock of the world. They have tried Mr. Porter. They have seen him as re gardless of their wishes as he was reckless of character; and they exclaim the "Books were in the garret," and hundreds aye thousands have openly declared their de termination to shake oft' the shackles of party, to gird on the armor of their coun try; and regardless of all sneers from the ,„:rig:2er—his dupes or the patriotic office holders and se,?kers, to say at once they will have another C!langd. We know this. In this Oun(7 i n 1858, David R. Porter was beaten 92t; vote', l and these the menials of this man pro , nounced fraudulent, or the most of them at any rate. Now what are his prospects in this county, when there will be no frau dulent votes, except the 10 day importa tion of rag barons by his own officce ho!d ers. We can answer. John Bank's ma jority will be not less than 1500, and more than probably 1800. Thus if their , own statement of the Morris county hands be true, our increase will be from 24 to 2700. Such are his prospects here. The question may be asked what has wrought all this change. We can answer that too. His own conduct has satisfied the people that we told the truth. The "Spirit of the Times" asks who is John Banks 1 and answers the ques tion by calling him, Traitor, Federalist, Judge, &c. If the same paper will ask us who is David Rittenhouse Porter? we think that we can answer the question in terms which have a much more definite mean ing now a days. We wish some one would send us the last "Signal." We understand that that paper is now in the hands of a man, nearly equal, if not quite, to A. F. Cox, former conductor of the "Iron Gray," and we understand that there is an article of magnificent blackguardism in the shape of a letter from this place. Since the de cease of the Iron Gray, this beautiful billingsgate blackguardism had got out of date. We are inclined to think, howev er, that it will be cultivated again by our present honest and intelligent Executive. The "Clarion Republican," we see, 6 'going its death against the traitors who voted for the Revenue Bill, and, yet, it seems mightily to admire the knight of the three P's Will not our cotempo rary of the new county have the goodness Ito ask the Governor, or his organs, if the worthy executive, himself, was the cause of those very men votiog as they did: V 1 hether he did not actually induce them Ito go for the Bill? Do, now, Mr. Repub lican, that's a good fellow, and demand a positive answer. You may then see that the “uncompromising opposition" of Mr. Porter is all nonsense, and that you are !barking up the wrong sapling. The trai- I tors knew what they were about, and knew as well that they were to carry the Bill by two-thirds after he had vetoed it, than, as he does now. CONGRESS-EXTRA SESSION. On Monday last the Congress of the U. S. met, pursuant to the Proclamation of the lamented Harrison. The session was called, believing that the condition of our national affairs required immedi ate attention; and we trust that some thing will be done that will bring back the good old times that existed previous to Jackson's war upon the currency. We shall endeavor to give the message of President Tyler in full next week. Plunder. We call the attention of our readers to an article from the Log CaL,in Rifle, which sets forth tLe interns of plunder that have been discovered. They will see i that the lucky friends of P. P. P., will certainly make more out of the ad ministration than the people generally; for this kind of stealing has INCREAS ED THE STATE DEBT, since the time of Joseph Ritner, sixteen millions of dollars. When Ritner came into of fice, the State debt was twenty-four mil lions of dollars, and before he went out he had paid a small portion of that debt, and there was NO STATE TAX. When the days of Davy commenced the per manent debt of the State was actually less than when Ritner was elected. While in his last message he sets down the debts of the State at nearly thirty seven millions of dollars; and, to cap the cli max, we are again burthened with a State Tax. ale Lunn Is, mu renosy trunk', leas eat len among thieves, and they are daily casting !ots for her treasure. How very patriotic many of these very fellows, who are now hiving into the treasury like pi g s into a puddle, were then. They thought that the villians upon the Big Break would ruin the state because they were making some few snatches out of the heap. But now they sit quietly doe n and load themselves with the money of the people, and see hordes of their plunderers do the same thing, and there is not even a mur. mur. Not a single shout to alarm the people or to scare the plunderers away. That there were many misdeeds corn mitted under the administration of Rit ner, there was no doubt; but, they are now increased more than ten fold. Thr character of the man at the head of the Government is a guarantee to any knave, that if he will devide he is safe, and so with his underlings. ~!,t any rate, let the people read the ar ticle t - 1 . 2m "lilfle," and we are dispo sed to think 5:;:v wi!! admit that the shot is a good one, and th' fiock with the practical eye of a mare.,:mati• Plunder by the Canal Com-1 niissioners. To show the people of this Common wealth how their money has been squan dered, and how the State debt has been increased SIXTEEN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS within two years, by Gov• ernor Porter, we will point out a few of, the items of plunder by the Board of Ca nal Commissioners, and their agents. On the North Track the State was squandered out of $lB,OOO by the Engineer giving that sum for !hying the rails upon it more than the work would have been done for $18,095 Eastern Reservoir was 1 etJ. Mitch el, for more than other respon sible Contractors bid Western Reservoir was lot to a brother of one of the Canal Com missioners and to J. K. Moore head, for more than other re sponsible Contractors bid For clearing 400 acres of land to be overflowed by the Western Reservoir, more than responsi ble Contractors would have done work for For 16 Locks on Conneaut Line, ' more than other equally respon • sible Contractors bid For Outlet Locks allotted to Lao • man and Baily for more than other Contractors hid For 9 Sections of Canal on the same line and let at the same time do. Two other Sections to J. Mitchel's son-in-law, above the average price of contracts Making an aggregate of —1,174,994 Thus, the people will see, that they have been defrauded nut of :he enormous .utn,of ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN- I'VFIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS by their agents, in eight contracts alone. In this sum 'we have not included several stealings under SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, of which there are numerous instances. This is the way , they have been robbed and plundered for the last too years! Is it any wonder that the State has been plunged into almost hope less embarrassment'! Below will be found extracts from the Report of the Select Committee appoint ed to investigate these monstrous abuses, which show upon what authority we make the above statements. If such wholesale suindling as is there revealed does not wake up the people of this State to a prop er sense of their tights, we know not what w i I!. RELAYING NORTH TRACK OF CO- LUMBIA RAIL ROAD After giving the bids for the work on the North Track and prices for which it was let, the Investigating Committee pro ceed to show for what the work might have been done, and the evidence upon which they ground their statements. '1 hey say that the laying of the north track would have been done for $2 50 cents r er rod, is established by the testi money of Mr. Colket, Mr. Campbell, Mr. M'Gargy and Mr. Hague. Mr. Colket has made the laying of rails on railroads his busine,s for years—he and his partner have laid 46 miles of track in a year. On hearing that the work was allotted, he of fer ed, after seeing the specification of Mr. Hague, to take his contract at 50 per cent, or one hall the contract price—and after seeing the work as it has been done, he would still be willing to do it at what he offered. Mr. H. ft. Campbell, an expe, rienced engineer, who was employed by a committee of the House of Representa tives in 1839, to survey and examine the Gettysburg railroad, and whose business, and the various stations he has held con nected with public improvements, have qualified him to judge as well as any roan, of the value of work of this sort, says that had the work been advertised, he had ex pected to bid for it. He would have done the work, or any portion of it, at $2 50 cents per rod, and gil en security for the faithful performance of the con tract. Geo. M'Gargy, who bad a sub 'contract for part of the work under Mr. Parke, considers $2 50 cents per rod a fair price; and Mr. Hague, one of the contrac tors admits, that if their was no inconve nience on the track, it could be made for 411% 31.0 teittN pc. ....... iacutivenience alluded to is, that arisin. from the Pas sage on the finishes ...AI of we tumor,: lives and trains, which he estimates at $t a perch. Now, if Mr. Hague, who never had a contract before for doing this sort of work, could do it for $2 50 cents per rod, but for the inconveilier,.e of the passing of the trains while he was at wot k, and which could not take up ten minutes in the day, it is but reasonable to conclude that Mr. Colket or Mr. Camp• bell. from their experience and knowledge it the business, would have made money at that price. As we have already stated, the relaying the rails on this track was privately let for $5 per rod. This secrecy was observ ed to prevent the work from falling into the hands of any but the faithful. The followin; statement shows for what the work was done and fur what it might have been done. 11i miles, laying north track at $1,600 per mile, 150,000 feet, Hemlock mudsil!s at (broad measure,) s►s, 267,000 feet Pine, $l7, 24, 816 Cross-ties, 1,10, it r ,„"zs north 1 114, if let at publ, would have been .:P ng for MOO per mile, $9,400 00. 'Ma t trials according to Mr. Huff nagles estimate in 1839: 817,080 feet plank for mud. sills, $l4, 7, '238 00 24,816 cross ties,at 80 cts, 19,852 80 Difference, We have slated that the Canal COW , - missioners defrauded the people out of $20,000 in letting this work, in order to reward political favorites• The proof is below, taken from the Investigating Com mittee's report. The Eastern Reservoir, the largest job, the letting of which was inquired into by the committee. The estimate of items entering into this contract, made . by Mr. Morris, the engineer, according to his re port, dated November 1, 1839, is as fol. lows : Grubbing five acres for site of dam, and wastes. 33,459 Excavation of foundation of 20,C00 35,369 10,728 dam, puddle ditrhes,eic. 16,500 yds, Embankment of good earth, 50,000 " Ditto slate and stone, 25,000 " Puddling about sluice, 2,000 " 'Rock excavation of waste, 25,000 " Masonry of sluice, 1,500 per' Slope wall, 500 " The bids fur this work that came to the knowledge of the committee were made by two companies : Ist. Bernard O'Fricl, and Henry Devine; and ad, Johil 7,567 35,254 45,543 Contract prices. 218,800 00 2,250 00 6,239 00 27,297 60 $54,286 60 36,490 80 $18,095 80
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