THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOB
direulation—the largest in the' county
[24.lffifiliatiL)ol\.L
Wednesday, June 24, 1857.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
FOR GOVERNOR,
lion. AVM. F. PACKER, of Lycoming.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
NIMBOD STIMICKILAND, of Chester.
FOR SUPREME JITDGES,
Mon. WILLIAM STRONG, of Berks.
Mon. JAMES TROIVIPSON, of Eric.
Democratic County Committee.
The Democratic County Committee of Huntingdon coun
ty is requested to meet on SATURDAY, June 27th, at 3
o'clock, p. m., at the Hotel of JOHN S. MILLER, in Hunting
don. A. full attendance is requested, as business of vital
importance to the party will come before the committee.
'WM. COLON, Chairman.
ArThe Committee, as appointed by the Chairman, last
year,.is as follows :
Perry Owens, Birmingham; Thomas Bell, Barree ; John
Porter, Alexandria; William Taylor, Clay; Caleb Green
land, Cass township ; G. W. Speer, Cassville ; Hugh Seeds,
Franklin; F. B. Wallace, and B. B. Petriken, Huntingdon;
A. Jackson Fee, Henderson ; Dutton Madden, Brady; Sam
uel Eby, Mount Union; Daniel Isenberg, Shirley twp.;
J. G. Lightner, Shirleysburg; Samuel Bollinger, Cromwell;
Wm. Templeton, Orbisonia; Jacob Aunt, Esq., Dublin ;
Samuel McFeters, Tell; Jacob Cobert, Springfield; David
Berkstresser, Tod; Robert Oakman, Union; Jacob Long
enecker. West; Thomas Ozburn, Jackson; Jacob Tarn
came,yorter ; John B. Hunter, Petersburg; J. Tandevan
der, Esq., Walker; Jacob Grove, Penn; Henry Zimmer
man, Esq., Hopewell ; James Chamberlain, Warriorsmark.
The Supreme Court and the Main Line.
The decision of the Supreme Court, on the application
for an injunction against the sale of the Main Line, was
delivered by Chief Justice Lzwis yesterday morning.—
The points decided were as follows
Ist. That the Legislature had constitutional authority
to authorize the sale of the Main Line.
2d. That the Pennsylvania Railroad Company may law
fully become a purchaser at such sale.
3d. That the Legislature have Constitutional authority
to repeal the tonnage tax.
4th. That the Legislature cannot bind the State by con
tract from imposing equal taxes, and that the condition of
sale to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in that respect
is void and an injunction to that extent is granted. But
sth. That in all other respects the sale may go on and
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company may bid and purchase
on the same terms as other corporations or individuals.
Justices Lowrie and Knox also delivered opinions, in
which they discuss the question of exempting corporations
from taxation. Judge Knox's opinion was as voluminous
as that of the Chief Justice.
To CORRESPONDENTS.-J. D. B.'s request
shall be complied with.
The letter of our Harrisburg friend was re
ceived too late for insertion in last week's
Globe. We give it to-day.
Shipments of Coal.
The shipments of coal from the Broad Top
mines for week ending Thursday, June 18th,
were 2,376 tons, for the year 33,158 tons.
Our friend G. W. OWENS, of Birming
ham, has returned from the West. He has
our thanks fur several "Western papers of a
late date.
TAKING COAL TO NEW CASTLE.—Last week,
Orbison, Dorris & Co., sent a cargo of Broad
Top Coal to Schuylkill county, to fill an order
received from that county.
A HANDSOME PRESENT.—We last week re
ceived from Taylor & Cremer's Nursery a
platefull of Longworth's Prolific Strawber
ries, for which they have our thanks. They
were large and very'delicious.
MILITARY ENCAMPMENT AT NORRISTOWN.-
The Military of Montgomery county will
hold an encampment at Norristown, com
mencing on Monday, 24th of August, and to
continue six days. Gem Cadwallader will
take command. We have been requested to
extend an invitation to the Military of Hun
tingdon county. It will be a grand affair.
re.ESCURSION TICKETS will be issued on
the Broad Top Road for Broad Top City on
the 4th. To parties of thirty or more, ex
cursion tickets will be issued at any time
from any point on the road. See bills.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—The Huntingdon
county Agricultural Society met in the Court
House on.the 12th inst. It was decided to
hold a Fair at a time and place hereafter to
be determined upon.
" A List of premiums is recommended—sub
ject to amendments, additions S;c. We ob
serve that the Society has again omitted to
offer premiums for the best specimens of
printing. At the next meeting we will offer
the following for the consideration of the So
ciety:
For best specimens of Card printing
" Handbills
Judges—llon. A. W. Benedict, and Thco. 11. Cromer, Encl.,
of Iluntingdon, and Geo. W. Whittaker, Esq., of Peters-
Mug.
We make this announcement in order to
give notice to all who may object, to appear
at the nest meeting of the Society and "show
cause" why the motion should not be granted.
We will be there to hear what curious objec
tion can be made.
IN A QUEER Fxx.—An exchange says:—
Canal Commissioner Mott has, under the re
sponsibilities of an oath, made a report to
the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and in an
official capacity stated that last year the
profits of the Main Line were $51,89.1 93
that is, that the receipts were that much in
excess of the expenditures upon the work.—
Now, under the solemn sanction of an oath,
made as a stockholder in the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and made before the Supreme Court
in the matter, of an application for an injunc-
Lion against the Directors and President of
that company, to prevent them from buying
the Main Line, he utters the following re
markable declaration :
" The canals aforesaid are 283 miles in
" length, requiring heavy expenditures for
" repairs and expenses and have not for
"many years yielded income. sufficient
"to pay the cost of keeping them in nav
" igable order."
Now who are we to believe, Henry S. Mott,
the Canal Commissioner, or Henry S. Mott,
the stockholder in the Pennsylvania Rail
road. We remember an old legal maxim
which ran thus : falsom in uno, falsom in
omne. We leave our readers to make the ap
plication.
Agricultural Society.
Pursuant to previous announcement, a meet
ing of the Huntingdon county Agricultural
Society was held in the Court House, on Fri
day 13th inst.
G. M. THOMPSON, Esq., of Franklin town
ship, was, in the absence of the President,
called to the chair, when the following reso
lutions were offered and adopted :
Resolved, That this Society will hold an
annual Fair or Exhibition this season, at such
time and place as shall be determined on at
the next meeting.
Resolved, That the different places through
out the county, desirous of having said Fair
held in their immediate neighborhood, be re
quested to make known the same to the Sec
retaries, together with the amount subscribed
by them for that purpose, previous to the
next meeting, the one guaranteeing the larg
est amount to have the preference; and that
the Secretaries be instructed to publish, over
their own signature, a notice to that effect.
Resolved, That when this meeting adjourn,
it shall be to meet in this place, on Monday
evening of the first week of the August court.
Resolved, That a copy of the proceedings
be furnished for publication to each of the
county papers, together with the annexed
list of premiums as the suggestion of the
meeting, and that the members of the Society
be especially requested to come prepared at
the next meeting in August, to make any al
teration or amendment on the same as shall
seem wise and prudent.
Signed by the Officers.
SUMMER, RETREATS.—The time is now at
hand when many of the citizens of Philadel
phia will be packing up preparatory to leav
ing the city for some fashionable watering
places of resort. The following which we
find in one of our city exchanges is a very
timely affair, and suits our ideas exactly, and
as perhaps some of our citizens may be in a
similar state of mind, it may prove wholesome
advice. It says that when the thermometer
reaches 80 degrees a great portion flee to
what are called "fashionable watering places,"
where one is packed away in closets to sleep;
fed at a table with hundreds, if not thousands
of others, like a herd of swine or beeves, and
subjected to as silly and senseless, and health
destroying a round, as the evil one ever con
cocted. how singular it is, that people will
" bleed" at Newport and Saratoga, when they
go about home with their pockets tightly but
toned! How singular it is, that men and
women consider a quiet, cool, refreshing
home, and comfortable meals a bore, when
the thermometer is up among the nineties ;
and yet pay any price to be huddled, and
crowded, and starved, and almost spit upon
at a "fashionable" watering place. Fashion
is the despot that makes many slaves; fashion
the termagant, the wanton, the unmitigated
tyrant For our part, we love quiet rurality
in Summer's time. There is discomfiture to
us in bricks and mortar, with a high ther
mometer ; there is agony unspeakable in long
piazza'd hotels on sand-banks, heated by the
hottest of hot suns, that which reigns about
this time; yea, even though the roar of the
surf, may drown every other noise. We de
light in rurality, delight in a quiet little ham
let in some grassy vale, or upon the banks of
some shining river. There it is, we can roam
about with book and fishing rod, and catch
ideas or fish, as circumstances favor. To
crowded hotels at watering places, those who
like that kind of life. For us, the quiet cot
tage home, or the spacious and airy mansion
of the town.
Under which King, Bezonian ?
David Wilmot is a Know Nothing. His
"American" (Know No thing) supporters urge
his claims as the "American" (Know Noth
ing) candidate. Ilazlehurst--nominated by
the Lancaster Convention—is the straight-out
Know Nothing nominee for Governor, in other
words, he is the candidate of that faction
which the Know Nothing Leaders in this
county, last Fall, said was in league with the
"Loco-focos," but which the Democratic par
ty despise as heartily as they do the Aboli
tion Know Nothings under the lead of Wil
mot. In short, there are two Know Nothing
candidates for Governor—Wilmot and Hazle
hurst—the former being an Abolitionist, while
the latter is a "non-interventionist." There
is, therefore, no choice at the coming election
except between a Democrat and a Know
Nothing. Now, there are a great many men
who declare they are opposed to Know Noth
ingism, but who voted for Fremont last Fall,
under the impression that he was not a Know
Nothing. How will these men Vote at the
coming election? They must vote for a Know
Nothing, or for a Democrat, or else they can
not vote at all. Which will they do? Will
they resign their anti-Know Nothing princi
ples and support the very doctrines they loathe
and despise ? or will they join a party whose
banner wherever it waves, is the ensign of
liberty, equality and fraternity ? Somerset
Democrat.
$2 00
2 GO
JUDGE THOMPSON.—The Erie Gazetts pays
the following high compliment to one of the
Democratic nominees for the Supreme Bench :
As is well known, we differ from Judge
Thompson politically, and shall feel bound to
oppose his election; but the same time, we
can truly say that he is, by legal attainments
and general talents, well qualified for the po
sition for which he has been nominated. ills
party have certainly evinced good sense and
judgment in selecting him.
When it is remembered that Judge Thomp
son has ever been an ardent and energetic
worker in the Democratic ranks, this testi
mony from a political opponent is entitled to
double weight, proving that our candidate is
as honorable as able.
ze t rOn the Ist of July some thirty or forty
clerks will be discharged from the Pension
Office—cause, nothing for them to do.
CoRoNEE's JußiEs.---By an Act of the last
Legislature, only six jurors are required to
hold a Coroner's inquest, instead of twelve, as
heretofore. This was the law in Philadel
phia for some years past, and the Act lately
passed has made it general, so as to apply to
all the counties of the State.
Moors DOOMED.—Ladies, prepare for an ex
treme change in your habits, for a Paris cor
respondent of the New York Courier says,
"lank as the Recamier of 1800, the substi
tute for the full blown rose, we now behold
the belle of 1858, will come upon us in ap
palling, unmitigated deformity, sans crino
line, sans basque, sans bustle, sans wad, sans
wool, sans cane, sans steel, sans everything."
'There is a lady living in this city,
who had the misfortune a few years since to
be deprived entirely and irrecoverably of her
sight. She is at the head of a family, and
cooks, bakes, irons, cleans house, sweeps the
floor, and, in fact, does all her work, except
the washing, without assistance, and it is said
her house is the very picture of neatness.—
There are many women with two good eyes
who don't do this.—Fall River Sta.
Chicago is evidently getting to be a
city. Within the past two weeks, says the
Chicago Times, only three constables and
two justices of the peace have been sent to
jail, one county physician and two alms house
agents arrested for robbing graves and sell
ing human bodies, and one Mayor arrested
for stealing mail-bags ! That is all—in the
official line. If the public officials are cor
rupt, the people of the city seem to know
what their proper duty is towards them, and,
by bringing the bad to justice they will se
cure a better sot of officers.
Faun , "DOWN EAST."—The Philadelphia
Bulletin. says:—" We learn from various parts
of Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
that there is every appearance of our having
the heaviest crop of peaches ever known.--
Of course they will be cheaper than ever.—
In regard to other fruits, the prospects are
favorable, or nearly so. The chilly weather
of the last day or two is not likely to have
caused any injury, and the young fruit may
npw be regarded as safe from all danger
from frosts."
A Goon ARRANGEMENT.—We see it stated
in our city exchanges that the Central Rail
road Company are having " wrecking cars"
built and placed upon their road. The cars
are to be filled with tools of every description,
for use in case of any accident on the road.
They are to contain screw-jacks, complete
trucks for locomotive or cars, ropes, chains,
hand car, braces, edge tools, pullies, levers,
capgtain, and everything of the most modern
and scientific manufacture, for repairing any
damage that may occur. This arrangement
will be of great benefit to the company, and
will save a vast amount of detention and ex
_
pense.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE PRESIDENT
or MExzco.—President Commonfort on a-re
cent visit to Tacuhaya, to inspect the railroad
in progress at that place was assaulted by
one Norgan, a noted bandit, py a, poignard.
The fatal blow was warded off by a bystan
der, who promptly knocked the would-be as
sassin down. was finally secured, tried,
convicted, and sentenced to suffer the pain
of death next day, as an atonement for his
treason. Ile confessed that he was bribed to
perpetrate this act by Centralists of the City
of Mexico.
A NICE COUNTRY TO LIVE IN.—An extract
of a letter from an officer of the U.S. Army,
dated Fort Cass, Florida, May 6, is published
in the National Intelligencer. The writer
says:
"We are nearly devoured by musquitoes.
I do all my writing ia,bed under the bars,
which will account for this letter being in
pencil. For the last ten days I have not been
able to write at my desk, and I have slept
but two nights during the same period. The
men are better off than I am and they are
not far from being used up. Besides the
musquitoes, we are troubled with the scurvy
and dysentery, and in fact nearly all the ills
that flesh is heir to. It would take the In
dians at least twenty years to kill as many
men as the climate of Florida does in six
months.
LADIES NAMES BEFORE AND AFTER MAR
RIAGE.—Ladies should have but one given
name, and when they are married, should re
tain their maiden name as a middle name.—
This is a practice in some quarters, and were
it generally adopted, it would have many ad
vantages. We should know at once, on see
ing a lady's name, whether she was married
or single; and if the former, what the name
of her family was. And it is further to be
considered, that the adoption of this rule of
but a single first name would quite put an
end to the numerous brood of Emma Melva
linvas and Euphemia Helen Lauras, a style
of nomenclature not in pure taste.
DANGEROUS ADVICE.—The Ledger lately
stated that housekeepers should know that
the acid in rhubarb, gooseberries and cur
rants may be neutralized by putting a third
of a teaspoonful of soda in the fruit without
affecting the flavor. All experiment shows
this information to be worse than useless, for,
as the Pittsburgh Po.st says, fruit prepared
in this way should be very carefully thrown
out of the window. It is not fit for the table.
The immense quantities of soda already used
in the culinary department of our households
is a serious detriment to the health, and we
are sorry that any new. use of this already
too popular alkali should have been sugges
ted.
A STRANGE PILENOMENON'.—WhiIe people
are looking toward the sky to see wonders in
the shape of comets and other phenomena,
some of the wonders are coming down to the
earth with a splash. About two o'clock on
Thursday afternoon, while the workmen em
ployed upon the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's building, at the corner of Fourth and
Willing's Alley, were engaged in their ordi
nary occupation, they witnessed a most sin
gular occurrence. At that time,, rain fell in
various parts of the city, some streets being
drenched, and others perfectly dry. At the
corner of Fourth street and Willing's Alloy,
a small black cloud was seen hovering, and
suddenly a large quantity of water, some of
the workmen say, about two hogsheads, dash
ed down upon them, and yet did not extend
beyond a circumference of thirty feet. The
opposite side of the alley was left perfectly
dry.—Pennsylvanian.
Line upon Line --glare and There a Little.
Im.Pnoimlstsa—The grain crops of our county.
XtZ'Ditto--The prospects of political excitement
Al&•CtLiNaziumr , —The weather and politicians.
ALMOST UNANIMOUS—The people of Huntingdon county
for the sale of the Main Line. They are tired of State
swindlers.
XG"Spoken of—A new Democratic paper in .Tlunting
don."—Altoona Tribune.
I'diAll Gas, Mr.-Tribune. Such an enterprise has not
been "spoken of" by any democrat who ever had $1.50 in
cash to give to the party or its press. Such a sheet, how
over, might flourish, as it would certainly receive six sub
scribers in the borough of Huntingdon—two of whom
might possibly be induced to pay "in trade" in a few
years.
, m.lt is a truth not unworthy of consideration, that
those who obstinately refuse to give up abuses will inevi
tably be called upon to Surrender uses. •
to)..Santo, Anna has issued a manifesto to the Mexicans.
He says there must be another sanguinary revolution be
fore " Order" can be restored. May he be the first to bleed
.4a -- Friend OvEn, editor of the Bedford Inquirer, was in
town last week, and honored us with a call. We found
him to be a pleasant and agreeable gentleman. Success
attend him in everything but his politics.
P. S.—He will consider our beaver touched in acknowl
edgment of the "puff polite" in last week's inquirer, and
at the same time hold us as " good for it" until ho calls
around again. •
tA silk-weaver, and thirty accomplices, have been ar
rested in Paris, for conspiring to blow up the Theater
Francais, while Louis Napoleon was in his box.
Im.The boy-editor of the Tyrone Herald, in the excess
of that folly which usually attaches to youthful ambition,
is still fishing for notoriety, by attacking all who may
come in his way. He now flings his missiles at the hoary
locks of the Post Master at that place, for which, in bon
junction with a personal attack upon him, the Postmaster
flung a dornick in Robert's face, spoiling his countenance
"some." ")lob's" friends should sympathize with him—
"some." '
A. chap reading that Mexican files had been received
in New York city, went into a hardware store and asked
to look at some of them. Ile is a brother of the man who
inquired for a pound of Liverpool dates received by one of
the steamships.
Qur.SIMN.-11 the threats of a renegade demo
crat 0 renegade know nothing (of six cent calibl'e) to start
." a new democratic paper" has the effeet a adding a score
of good responsible subscribers in the borough to the
Globe's list in a few days, if carried into execution, how
many throughout the county would be added in three
months, should the new paper live so long? The experi
merit would be more satisfactory to us than a mathemati
cal demonstration. We know that the people aro with us,
and are content. Opposition to a sale of the Main Line
will, politically speaking, considerably damage any man
in Huntingdon county.
.M" - The German newspapers in the United States aro
said to number two hundred and sixty, which is ten times
as many as there are printed in all Germany.
, Yrn-A Yankee doctor has contrived to extract from sau
sages a powerful tonic, which ho says contains the whole
strength of the original bark. He calls it the "Sulphate
of Canine!"
ASSENT auNnED—The young gentleman who started for
the west on Sunday, leaving his through ticket to Chicago,
and $1.50 for the Globe, /ay upon our table. He came to
his senses about the time the Conductor gave him a call.
A-Lands in Missouri are said never before to have been
in such active demand as at present, and the prices are un
usually high.
.1:/ !-An exchange says—" There aro one thbusand Ger
mans in the city of New York." We suppose so.
".Somebody, who wasn't a fool by any means, says
that no one can want food and remain virtuous. Making
shirts at ten cents apiece would put the devil into the head
of any vestal virgin. Low wages and dear beef lead to
more seductions than Byron's Dou Juan.
The good order of society runs on three wlieels
Breakfast, Dinner and Supper.
IM.When Dr. H. and Lawyer A. were walking area in
arm, a wag said to a friend, "These two are just equal to
one highwayman." "Why?" was the response. "Because,"
rejoined the wag, " it is a lawyer and a doctor—your money
or your life I"
Saxton of the Canton (Ohio) Repository, in look
ing over his book of accounts, finds himself swindled out
of about six thousand dollars, by dishonest subscribers.
11,- , a_The Pennsylvania Magazine, as will be seen by the
letter of MAx. GREENE in to-day's paper, will soon appear.
We learn that its prospects aro very flattering, and have
justified an enlargement of the original plan.
ta.,The iron horse now pursues his way without stop or
important deviation from a direct line from Bangor, Maine,
to Jefferson city, Missouri, a distance of a little over seven
teen hundred miles—half as fiir as to London—in three
days!
NEAT.—The work daily issued from the "Globe" Job
printing office. Much of it can't be beat in Philadelphia
or elsewhere.
MESSRS. STRONG AND Tnomrsos. —The nom
inations of Messrs. Strong and Thompson as
candidates for Supreme Judges by the State
convention, are received Tuy our political
friends throughout the State with the liveli
est satisfaction. Their election in October
next may be regarded as a foregone conclu
sion. The Philadelphia Argus says :
"The nominees already enjoy an enviable
reputation for their ability and statesman
ship, and both have served with peculiar ac
ceptability in the national legislature. They
have long held a commanding position at the
bar in their respective districts and in the
State, and their unquestioned talent, purity
of character, and high moral worth will add
to the already high repute and the confidence
with which the supreme judicial tribunal of
the State is regarded by all classes of our
people. Wholly unexceptionable, and wor
thy in all that pertains to their duties as cit
izens, enjoying the esteem of all in a marked
degree for their legal learning, and occupying
a broadly national position in all their politi
cal action, both at home and in the national
legislature, they will worthily reflect the sen
timents of the gallant democracy of the old
Keystone, and reflect credit upon the positions
for which they have been selected."
LETTER 'FROM A POSTMASTER.—The follow
ing letter was received by the President of
the United States, a• few days since :
CRAWFORD CO., Pa., April 30, 1857.
MR. Bucti,usrAN—Dear Sir :—Mr—is the
Postmaster at this place, and he is gone out
west and has been gone for three or four
weeks; and he has no deputy here; but I have
been opening the mails and attending to it
since he has been gone, as he left the key
with me, and the postmaster told me that I
must make a report at the end of every-month,
and did not tell me who I was to report to, but
I suppose that it is to you - we should make
our reports, as we are all citizens of' the Gov
ernment oiwhich you are now President.—.
If you-are not the right one to receive the re
port please drop me a line, letting me know
who I am to report to and I will write
again.
REPORT AT TIIE END OF APRIL.—The
weather is cold for the season—provisions
scarce and very high—but notwithstanding
all that, we have regular mails once a week,
good health, and the people Of this country
are universally pleased with your adminis
tration; this is all I know that would inter
est you; if there is anything omitted in my
last report, please let me knoW. My best re
spects to you.and Mrs. Buchanan.
Broad Top Coal Regions--Its Geological
Features.
Report to the Directors of the Broad Top
Improvement Company. •
GENTLEMEN:—In accordance with "your in
structions, I visited the land of your compa
ny, situated in Huntingdon and Bedford coun
ties, Pennsylvania, and proceed to lay before
you the result of my examinations.
The estate contains nine thousand six hun
dred and fifty-four acres and seven perches
of land, which is the choicest of the Broad
Top Coal Field. It has upon it three worka
ble veins of semi-bituminous coal—two veins
of the Carboniferous or Black-band ore; one
vein of Bomb Shell ore, another of a. more
Shelly character, and two rich veins of He
matite. The position of the whole strata is
such as to present every possible facility or
mining operations, and that at a minimTnn
rate of cost, as it is for the most part nearly
horizontal and above the water level.
I traced the vein through Six Mile Run,
Shoup's Run, Trough Creek, Broad . Top and
Ray's Hill, and find them to perfectly accord
in every locality. Each vein of the coal has
its own peculiar features, which renders the
recognition certain wherever found. The
lower or Barnet vein has under it a bed of
Grey Fire Clay, resting on a vein of Bomb
Shell ore.
The Cook vein has a middle slate which
separates the two benches of the bed, and is
overlaid by Grey Shale, superior to which is
a large vein of Black band ore. The Speer
vein has also a dividing slate, which is inter
mingled with iron ore; it is covered by Black
Slate, upon which rests fine sandstone shales
through which occurs shell ore in large quan
tities.
The iron ore overlying the Cook vein, I
have traced at the Broad Top Improvement
Company's opening ; the Semi-Anthracite
Coal Company's openings, the two openings
on Trough Creek;• on Six Mile Run, and in
other localities; the veins of ore lying between
the Cook and the Barnet, on Shoup's and on
Six Mile Run ; the ore below the Barnet, at
Riddelsburg and Six Mile Run; the ores over
the Speer vein, near the Mountain House, on
Trough Creek, Ray's Hill, in two or three lo
calities; Shoup's Run near the Hoover Place,
and on Laurel Creek.
There is a vein of mountain limestone of
two feet in thickness, traceable in many lo
calities, which is a valuable addition to the
coal and iron of the region. In addition to
these, there is abundance of grindstone and
millstone grit, fire clay, brick clay, and ex
cellent building stone.'
The coal is easily mined,- and comes out in
large square blocks, accompanied with slack
or fine coal, all of which is combustible and
burns admirably, either for domestic purpo
ses or manufacture: It is free from sulphur,
and will prbduce a sound hard coke, if prop
er care is taken in the' burning. Its value
for the generation of steam and blacksmith
ing are too patent to need any comment.
The amount of coal contained in your lands
is inexhaustible. Taking the three veins at
their mean measurement in the gangways
and breasts ; they present a Wall of solid coal
twenty feet in thickness. I base my compu
tation of quantity on eighteen feet, (which
fully compensates for all breakages on the
land,) and the result is three hundred nzillions
of tons!
Although the present facilities of railroad
connection render the northern end of the es
tate the most available, the productive capa
city will never be fully ascertained until Six
Mile Run is fully opened up, as it presents
the largest exposures and facilities for min
ing on the whole of the veins, both of coal
and iron . ore. (See Vertical Section of the
Strata.)
The veins at Trough Creek dip at an angle
of 11°, pass under the bed of the creek, rising
at the same angle on the opposite side, so
that the creek forms a regular basin on this
part of the estate. The Speer and the Cook
veins are shown by exposures and openings
in several places on Ray's llill, and thus af
ford every facility for recognition.
The opportunities for the manufacture of
iron are greater than any other region of the
State with which I am acquainted, and I have
travelled, professionally, nearly the. whole of
it. There are abundant localities where the
ore and the coal could be mined in the closest
contact with the furnace; and although it
seems looking into the future, I believe that
ten years of time .will see the whole region
teeming with furnaces and foundries, and re
sounding in every direction with the din of
industrial pursuits, and calling into action
the powers of men for its development and
the good of humanity.
_Hereto, I append a section, showing the
formation and the distance between the vari
ous parts of the strata.
To your agent, J. M. Clark, Esq., I am
deeply indebted for his kindness and atten
tion, as well as for being my guide over the
lands, and can only say, in confirmation of
his ability and sound judgment, that I thor
oughly and heartily endorse his views of the
whole region.
With best wishes for your success in the
furtherance of your enterprise, and the hope
that you may fully realize your expectations
and deserts,
I remain, gentlemen, yours, right respectfully,
WM. J. - WHITAKER,
Geologist.
Illuminating Power of Gas Coals---Inter
esting Tests.
The following tests, made impartially and
with good apparatus, furnish much interest
ing information; for at this time not only all
the large cities, but almost every town in the
United States, containing ten thousand in
habitants, including many lesser towns, are
lighted with illuminating gas manufactured
from coal. The consumption of coal, there
fore, in the supply of this one branch of man
ufacture, which is daily exhausted and daily
renewed, in quantities of cubic feet number
ed by millions, requiring, in the process,
amounts of coal numbered by thousands of
tons, is a subject akin to the larger interests
of the country, and one which.very naturally
elicits the nicest calculations.
March 26, 1855.—Tested five pounds of
Pittsburg Coals, which gave 18 cubic feet of
gas of good illuminating power.
May 2 '
1855.—Five pounds of Pictou Coals,
procured from city gas works, at request Of
, which gave' 16 cubic feet of
gas.; coke quite inferior.
Five pounds of English Cannel Coals, which
gave 20 feet of brilliant illuminating quality.
'May 15, 1855.—Five pounds of Coals from
Hollidaysburg,. Pa., obtaining 20 cubic feet
of gas of good illuminating power, and a,
large bulk of coke.
Five pounds of Pennsylvania Cannel Coals,
which gave 19 feet of gas of good illumina
ting power ; coke almost worthless.
June 5, 1855.—Five pounds of Clover Hill
Coals, mean of three trials gave 16 feet ; coke
medium quality.
June 11.—Five pounds Fairmount Coals
gave 16 feet of gas; coke of fair quality . .
Five pounds Allegheny Coals gave 18 feet
of gas, illuminating
. power, medium; with
large amount of inferior coke. '
Five pounds of coals from Chatham coun
ty, North Carolina, gave 20.4 cubic feet of
gas of good illuminating power; coke fippears
Of good quality. ••(125 pounds of these coals
were tested by J. Birch, of Brooklyn; re-
sult-412 cubic feet of gas.)
June 25.—Five pounds of Pittsburg, Coals
gave 19.2 feet of gas of good illumination:
August '3, 1855.--Five pounds of Coali
from Cape Breton gave 20' feet of good
minating gas; coke medium.
Sept: 17, 1855.—Five pounds of Farrands;
vine Coals gave 17 feet, with an inferior coke:
Sept. 17, 1855.—Five pounds of New Cas-;
tle Cannel Coals gave 20 feet of,ga.
April 1,185 G.—Five pounds of Virginia
Coals gave 18.5 feet of gas 'of fair quality ;
coke very like Allegheny.
April 1, 1856.—Five pounds of New Creek
Coals gave 19 feet of gas of ,low illuminating
power.
April 1, 1856.—Five pounds of Coals froni
Broad Top Mountain, sent by
gave 22 feet of gas of fair illuminating pow
er; coke appears good.
Feb. 20, 1857.—Five pounds of Pennsyl-:
vania Cannel Coals, and got 18 feet of good
illuminating gas; coke very poor.
Feb. 21, 1857.—Five pounds from line of
Williamsport and Elmira Railroad,Lycoming
county, Pa., which gave 161 cubic feet of gas
of tolerably fair illuminating power.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCI
ETi.—The second quarterly meeting 'of the
Executive - Committee of the . State Agricultu
ral Society, was hell on Tuesday, the 9th
inst., at the St. Lawrence Hotel, Philadel
phia,. Members present :
David Taggart, PreSident; John Strohm,
Jas. Gowan, Joseph Yeager; John P. Ruther
ford, Thomas P. Knox, Adrian Cornell, Isaac
G. McKinley, Amos E. Kapp,jaeob S.Halde
man, A. 0. Mester, Anthony T.,NeWbold,
A. Boyd Hamilton, Joshua Wright and Rob
ert C. Walker.
The list of premiums for the next Annual
Exhibition, to commence on the 29th of Sep
tember, was adopted, and ordered to be print
ed. The place of holding the exhibition *an
not definitely fixed, but the subject was re
ferred to a sub-committee, who will announce
their decision in a few days. It is pretty
well understood that if the people of Phila
delphia subscribe the amount required by
the Society towards defraying the expenses
of the Exhibition, that city will again be se
lected as the place. lion. Edwin C ~
.. Wilson
of Venango county, has accepted an invita
tion to deliver the Annual Address:
Wilmot's IVlorality:
We had a conversation some years ago with
a friend, a very intelligent man, who had just
returned from Washington; although one
who made no pretensions to morality himself,
he declared that he had been shocked -by . the
wickedness of those he had been wont to re
gard as the great men of the nation. Among
others he spoke of DAVID WILMOT, then a
distinguished member of Congress, now the
candidate of the Abolitionists for Governor
of the great State of Pennsylvania. Said
our friend, " I have heard a great deal of
hard swearing, and considered myself a judge
of it, but I must say, Davy Wilmot can beat
any man I ever heard. His profanity is char
acterized by a fierceness, and an unction, that
I never heard equaled; and when lie spoke of
the South. and her " nigger -suckled' candi
dates for President, was enough to make a
man's hair stand on end."
While David Wilmot was a member of Con
gress his profanity did not seem so much out
of place, although sufficiently disgusting any
where; but when he became a Judge—when
he was clothed in the judicial ermine—when
placed in a position that gave him power to
decide on the rights, reputation, and even the
lives of his fellow-men—it is
-almost as much
out of place as it would be in the pulpit. Of
all places in the gift of the people, there is
none where such strict scrutiny is requisite
as the Judgeship. The election of this man
for Judge in the Bradford District, has taught
the people, not only of that District, but of
the State, a lesson they, will not soon forget.
When we think of a man who clothes himself
with blasphemy as with a . gaiment ; who as
sociates every thing that we regard as sacred
and holy with all that is low and vile ' • who
contemns not only the laws, of the land,
which he has solemnly sworn to uphold and
administer, but-the law of God also, seated
in the throne of judgment, and looking down
upon his fellow man with an eye - of anger and
a heart filled with blasphemy—we see . one of
the pictures that disgrace our form of gov
ernment. leis one of these evils that attend
everything human—hence the necessity for
greater vigilance.-
Age, instead of correcting the habit, has
rendered it more inveterate; his temper natu
rally violent, has become ungovernable, and
with a desperate recklessness he seems,desi
rous of overthrowing every existing law, and
establishing the wild rule of anarchy. May
Heaven preserve our , beloved country from
such men and influences.. The fierce fanati
cism, that seems to have entire control, of him,
is like the rage of the tiger, and can only be
assuaged by blood. This.is a-fair inference,
from the language used by Wilmot, as repor
ted by the Montrose Democrat. Read the
extract—pause and reflect. Will you trust
such a man With the destinies of- our beloved.
State? , The question is an important one.—
It is not mooted for mere political effect, but
from an honest, earnest desire to preserve our
Commonwealth and our institutions. „Wil
mot is a- dangerous man; a 'bold, fatiatic,alr
unscrupulous demagogue. His election:would
fearfully affect the interests of Pennsylvania.-
But to our extract. Read and ponder it well:-
"I" am determined to arouse the people to the
importance of the- Slavery issue Andget an.
organization through w7zzch ih;y, can, get , con
trol of the Government And if I be
come satisfied that these efforts will fail and
that the people will notasserttheir riAt4;-then . ,
be d—d if I don't' join the party that I
think will send the country. to h—ll the quick- .
est:"
, .
The .Demoorat'adds:—"The• profanity we:
would have, left out, but " for fear he would•
not recognize the' quotation, and • therefore•
accuse us of "garbling" his speeches, We:
conclude that he has made•up hi's mind that
the_people will not assert their rights, and he
has, therefore, picked out his party and gone
into full fellowship!"—Somer:set Democrat.
NEW CoAl.—The Journal has received a
specimen of " Candle coal!"