THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C,
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Wednesday,' July 29, /857.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
• FOR GOVERNOR, '
lion. IV.III. P. PACKER, of Lycoming.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, ..
S'I'IBaCICI...II:IITD, of Chester.
•
• FOR SUPREME JUDGES,
Hon. WILLIAM STRONG, of Berks.
lion. JAMBS THORIPSON, of Erie.
Democratic County Convention.
Th Democratic voters of the respective townships and
boroughs of Huntingdon county, are requested to meet in
delegate meeting at their usual places for the' holding of
the Delegate Elections, on Saturday, the Bth day of August
next, between the hours of 5 and 7 o'clock P; N., opening
the meeting and keeping it open during the ♦vholu time,
for the purpose of electing -two delegates to represent
them in a Democratic County Convention to be held at
the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon cut Watt
ncsday evening, the 12th day of August next, at 7 o'clock
P. N., to place in nomination a Democratic County ticket,
appoint three Senatorial Conferees, elect a delegate to the
next State, Convention, and transact such other business
as may be thought necessary for the proper organization
of the party. WM. COLON, Chairman.
R. E. PETIUEEN. Secretary.
Shipments of Coal
The Shipments of Coal from the Broad Ter)
values for the week ending Thursday, July
:23, was 2,121 tons; for the season 43,716
tons.
465—We are requested to state that the
corner stone of the new German Reformed
Church, - will be laid on Saturday the Bth of
August, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The
public generally are invited to attend.
The Present Campaign
We are not sure that we have chosen an
appropriate caption for our article. It may
well be doubted whether there is a campaign
in progress in this State at present. It is true
that one party (the Democratic) and two frag
ments of parties - (the • Republican and the
Know Nothing) have candidates in the field,
but there is neither contest nor sign of a con
test. Here and there a faint squeak breaks
out from a Republican print, but it scarcely
produces a ripple on the smooth current of
Democracy, which flows along with noiseless
but resistless tide. The storm of last fall,
when "freedom shriekers" beat the air with
frantic gestures, has been followed by a calm,
and in the light of unclouded reason the great
army of Pennsylvania Democracy, without
note of drum or shout of captain, is march
ing with hardly a Show of opposition to vic
tory. The whereabouts of Mr. IVetnioT, who
at one time seemed disposed to contest the
field with Gen. PAMER, is not certainly
known. When last heard of he was in the
low groggeries of Philadelphia, endeavoring
to persuade their habitues that he is a better
whisky drinker than the Democratic candi
date, which in all probability is true. He
may be there yet,; or, finding Mr. HAzLE
HURST, the candidate of the Simon Pure
Know Nothings, certain to hold off from him
about twenty thousand votes in the city, he
may have struck back to the wilds of Brad
ford, there to mourn in •solitude the foolish
ambition that led him to seek the nomination
of 4. dead and buried party.
The Chambersburg Valley Spirit remarks
that there never was a time when the De
mocracy had promise of an easier victory
than now. Our opponents have positively
nothing to stand on. They expended all their
capital in the contest of 185 fl, and lost the
great stake they played for. Principles they
have none. The issues they raised have been
decided against them by the people and by
the courts. Their candidates have no popu
larity—their masses have no enthusiasm—
theirleaders haveno heart for work that prom
ises no reward. The Democracy, on the
other hand, have everything to buoy them up
and urge them onward. Their principles are
triumphant. • The destinies of the country
are in their keeping. Upon their fidelity to
the constitutional platform on which they
stood in the Presidential struggle, rests the
perpetuity of the Union.
The strong arm of a Pennsylvania Presi
dent rolls back the waves of fanaticism which,
rushing from the North and from the South,
meeton the banks of the Potomac and threaten
to disturb the tranquil sleep of the Father of
his Country. A Pennsylvania Governor, by
his wisdom, his moderation and his firmness,
is-restoring the clouded sky of Kansas to its
native brightness. Gen. PAcKert's election,
evincing as it will the settled determination
of the people of Pennsylvania to abide by
the verdict rendered last fall, and i s o stand
by the statesmen who are struggling to res
cue the Union from the perils that surround
it, will tell the heartless agitators who have
disturbed the peace of the country, that they
have been weighed in the balance and found
wanting, and that the days of their political
leadership are numbered.
Where will Huntingdon county stand on
the second Tuesday of October? Although,
as we have said, there is neither a contest
nor the sign of a contest in Pennsylvania, tis
regards the State ticket, still there are cer
tain localities in which the opposition may
make a spirited fight for county officers.--
Huntingdon county is one of these. Our op
ponents here will hardly yield the spoils they
have enjoyed so long, without a struggle to
retain them. But we can conquer them if
wisdom governs our nominations. From the
candidates who will he before the Democratic
Convention, a ticket can be formed which it
will be impossible for our opponents to defeat.
Let our best and strongest men be put up,
and victory will follow.
The Race for Riches---Let me be Quickly
Rich.
The age we live in may be appropriately
called the " Money Age." All that people
live for—the end and aini of all their efforts,-
is money. Every where money is the load
ing thought, the great object most sought
and wished for, just as if people had been
created for no other purpose than to engage
in the race for riches. " Put money in thy
purse" is the charmed word that incites to
action—the ruling motive by which the ac
tions of most are governed. "Let me be
quickly rich" saith every one, and what
matters it as to the means—so it is done.—
Upon this subject the Washington Union of
a late date holds the following language
which appears to us to contain some valuable
thoughts fur reflection, especially for those
who are just starting out in the path of life.
The U/iion says :
" The prayer of most young men is, Let
me be quickly rich.' Few seem satisfied to
become so by the once-honored mode of in
dustry and economy practiced by our ances
tors. Of the thousands who make the effort
few become quickly rich, and fewer remain
so. But the story of those who prove suc
cessful, with fabulous additions, spreads with
telegraphic speed, inflames the minds of the
excitable, and often many others, and they
long to become quickly rich. Forgetting, or
not regarding, the fate of the unsuccessful,
their whole energies are directed to the rapid
accumulation of a fortune. They vainly
imagine that the possession of wealth, and
living in a style common with many who
have suddenly acquired it, confer happiness
without alloy, although experience has every
where demonstrated the fallacy of all such
expectations. Man is so constituted that em
ployment is necessary for his health and
happiness. Tie who devotes his energies to
business to secure a livelihood is far happier
than he whose sole employment is caring for
and protecting wealth, while no system of
measuring merit can prove the latter more
honorable or noble.
A false and highly injurious notion is
widely pervading the public mind, that hon
or and happiness flow from wealth, and that
the want of it indicates dishonor and misery.
This fallacious theory has lea to more mis
fortune, suffering, and disgrace than wealth
ever prevented. It induces men to engage
in the wildest adventures, and to hazard, not
only their own accumulated earnings, but
those of others, as far as subject to their
control: while not one in a hundred proves
successful. The effort to become quickly
rich is the great cause of the frauds upon
merchants by their clerks, and many of the
customers, and upon banks and corporations
by their officers and employees. They are
not content to follow the path trod by Astor,
Girard, and others, to rise to fortune by in
dustry and the pursuit of business, directed
with skill and intelligence. They forget that
Astor commenced his commercial career by
carrying his stock upon his back, exchanging
it for furs ; and that regular business skill
fully- managed, conducted him to his im
mense fortune. They do not remember that
Girard, from a cabin-boy on a vessel, became
first a small ship grocer, and by unremitting
attention and great sagacity accumulated his
millions. They only recollect them as mil
lionaires. They wish to approach Or rival
them in their accumulations without subject
ing themselves to the toil, physical and
mental, necessary to accomplish the result
desired. Girard onco made a remark which
is worthy of much reflection.
A young man had been offered a salary
which lie thought too small, as he could lay
up but a limited sum after paying his expen
ses. Girard replied, "I labor far harder
than you, having all this property to manage
and take care of, and all I shall ever have
out of it is my victuals and clothes." Out
of his millions all he enjoyed was com
prised in these two items. Men are most
happy when constantly engaged in business,
and are most likely to perform all of the du
ties of good citizens in the most acceptable
manner. Of course they aro gratified if it
proves successful, so that it may guard them
and their families against want. If well
and skillfully conducted most kinds of busi
ness lead to independence and competence,
which tend to happiness;—whereas, the
mere possession of wealth, except with the
sordid miser, never confers happiness upon
mankind. Those who become suddenly rich
lose all the pleasure and reputation derived
from conducting a successful business. One
lucky venture will lead to new hazards, and
often occasions a total loss of the first suc
cess. Among all who engage in mercantile
business, not three in a hundred are compu
ted to die rich. Among those who seek to
become quickly rich, pkobably not one in a
thousand does so. Of the thousands in Cali
fornia who suddenly became apparently weal
thy or were reputed so, very few are now
even comfortably off. The rich men there
usually become so by the slow process of
regular business. Of the thousands who
have been suddenly made rich by stock and
other 'Wall street operations, few indeed
close their career with wealth. Among the
numerous "operators" in land and other
property, where a regular business course is
not pursued, but a limited number ever come
out with property, much less large fortunes.
We hear much of those who in all these
matters succeed, but lose sight of the infi
nitely greater number who fail and fall into
obscurity. That father confers .the greatest
benefit upon his son who educates him to
some regular and respectable.: employment,
and encourages him to pursue as the road
most likely to lead him to happiness and a
reasonable share of wealth. The son who
devotes his time and talents to such empley
ment may rationally expect a far greater
share of respectability and happiness than
can be derived from fortune not actually
earned and accumulated, but quickly derived
from one lucky move out of - scores of unsuc
cessful ones. He who prays to be made.
quickly rich, if his prayer is favorably an
swered, will fail in his greater object of be
coming honorably distingdished and person
ally happy. If .any doubt .the correctness,of
our conclusion, let them study the evidences
that abound in both city and town in every
quarter of the country. It Will be found
that those who earn their fortunes keep
them, and are generally esteemed by all,
while few who become suddenly rich long re
main so, and fewer still, who secure enviable
positions in society. Parents and young men
just entering upon active life, should reflect
upon these subjects and pursue that course
which the experience and observation of
mankind : show best calciilated to lead to
honor and happiness. , Such course will also
contribute most to the honor and indepen
dence of the country which all should have
at heart.
TLIE "AMERICANS" IN THE FIELD!—The
State Committee of the' "American" or Know
Nothing party, has issued an address to the
"People, of Pennsylvania." That it is the
determination of the "Americans" of this
State, not to suffer themselves to be sold to
the Abolitionists, " like slaves at the block,"
will be seen by the following extract from
the Address:—
And here, we wish it to be distinctly un
derstood, that Mr. Ilazlehurst, and those with
him upon the ticket, have fully determined
to remain in the field to be .voted for at the
polls, as the exponents of American princi
ples, and that under no combination of cir
cunthtances, will they be withdrawn from the
canvass in favor of the nominee of any other
_party or faction. Arrangements have been
made by the State Committee, for a thorough
canvass of the State by Mr. Hazlehurst, and
other able and effective speakers. The time
and places for the meetings to be:held will
soon be announced and the canvass commen
ced.
Defiantly repudiating the attempts of po
litical demagogues to effect a Union of Amer
icans and Republicans upon the State ticket,
nominated by the Republicans, and headed
by the abolitionist Wilmot—a man who has
ever betrayed the trusts confided to him, and
prostituted every position to which he has
been elevated,• the address is equally em
phatic. It says :
Away with the demagogical cry that a
Democratic Free Trader, who maligned and
vilified Henry Clay, who aided in bringing
Texas into the Union with the right of Wing
divided into four Slave States, and who, as
late as 1852, harangued his entire District in
favor of Franklin Pierce, is a better cham
pion of the cause of Freedom than Mr.'lla
zlehurst, who has no such political sins to
answer for. On such a man—Loco Foco in
bred, now as heretofore, except on the slavery
question—the only betrayer in. Congress from,
this State of its industrial interests=who vo
ted for the repeal of the Tariff of 1842, and
the enactment of that of 1840—ON SUCH A MAN
THERE CAN BE NO UNION, or combination of
the conservative elements of the State. As
well undertake to bring about a compromise
between Nationality and Sectionalism, be
tween Foreignism and Americanism, between
Conservatism and Radicalism, between Light
and Darkness, between Truth and Falsehood,
or between Right and Wrong! No! Honest
men, having a regard for principles, are not
yet reduced thus to compromise honor, prin
ciple, conscience, and everything they cher
ish. They are not yet necessitated to choose
between Loco Foco Pro-Slavcryism and Loco
Foco Anti-Slaveryism ; for they have a cause,
which is the cause of the Constitution, and
candidates in Messrs. Hazlehurst, Linderman,
Broom and Brady, who bear aloft in proud
defiance the Flag of the Union I Hearken
not, then, to abuse or persuasion, but march
steadily forward to the support of your own
ticket.
Negro Equality !
The Ohio State Journal (says a eotemporary)
is out in favor of
Letting n egro es vote!
"Letting them set on juries!
ger,Letting them hold offices!
Vir And in favor of Negro Equality!
In a recent article the Journal shadows the
future position of the Republican party on
the question of negro equality. It says :
"We believe the negro is human—he has
a soul—he has an intellect—and so far as
the right of slsfrage, or any other right of
citizenship is concerned, he should be placed
on an EQUALITY with the rest of mankind!'
PRETTYMAN'S PICTURES.—We again call
the attention of all those wishing good pic
tures of themselves or friends, to the beauti
ful specimens to be seen at the rooms of Mr.
E. P. PRETTYMAN, and in almost every house
in Huntingdon. They are beautiful and true,
and can be had at the very lowest rates. Mr.
Prettyman can be found at his rooms at the
Station House, or at Zeigler's Hotel. He
will be pleased to see and accommodate all
who may give him a call during the coming
court.
A WO3I AN AS IS A WO3IAN—WITHOUT
Hoops! There resides in Hollidaysburg, a
lady whom all our readers must admit to be
a full woman, entire and complete, indepen
dent of cotton, crinoline, hoops, or any such
shams. She weighs May 286 pounds—is 37
years of age—has been 16 years married, and
has 18 children!—having borne twins twice.
She is in fine health, strong in proportion to
her weight, and can carry a cargo upon her
head that would break down the shoulders of
half the men we meet.—We believe she is a
native of Wales.
Rebellion In Kansas.
This is the right name for the movement
of the people in Lawrence', and:the Washing
ton Union properly uses it. There can be
no excuse for these mad men: The New York
.Commercial Advertiser, an' Old , Line , Whig
paper, says : ;:
"If the people of Kansas, or any:-.portion
of them, have deliberately determined to 're
sist' any attempt. to enforce the laws by the
collection of the taxes those laws have im
posed, Governor Walker will utterly fail in
his duty, if he does not employ whatever
force is necessary to put down such open re
bellion.. ,Andlhe then who suppose that in
refusing such obedience to the laws and in
resisting the Government-in enforcing them,
they will have- the sympathy of any consid
erable number of their fellow-citizens outside
of the Territory of Kansas, will find them
selves egregiously mistaken."
We have another stronger endorsement
from the New York Times, a paper which
supported FREMONT and the Black Republi
can ticket, which says :
. The inhabitants of Lawrence have set up
a Government within a Government. They
refuse to recognize the Territorial Government
—and the Topeka Government has not recog
nized them. They, accordingly proceed to
recognize themselves, and to constitute a free
city in the heart of the Territory. They take
up what is an absolutely anomalous ground.
They go back in the most literal manner to
first principles, and establish in Kansas such
a condition of society as obtained in Israel
before the days of the Judges. If there were
no .shadow of a Government. in Kansas—if
open civil war raged in that .Territory, and
the bonds of the Federal Union had been loos
ened—we could understand the propriety of
this proceeding and see its relations to civil
order. But the most infatuated defender of
the people of Lawrence must surely find it
difficult to dispose fairly of the facts set forth
by Gov. Walker in his Proclamation, which
we publish to-day.
It is impossible that any man of common
loyalty and common sense, occupying the po
sition of a Federal officer in Kansas, should
look quietly on upon such an absolute and
contemptuous disregard of his authority, and
of the very existence of the Government
which he represents, as is manifested by the
citizens of Lawrence in their municipal or
ganization. If a peaceful solution of the
Kansas question is impossible, if it is inevi
table that civil war should again break out
there, to spread thence"throughout the Union,
let those who cherish this belief make it plain
ly known, that we may understand-what is
before us. But let us not hear cries of "peace"
from those whose conviction is that peace is
a chimera, nor proclamations of regard for
law from those who believe that law in these
United States has become alternately a farce
and a tyranny, that our Government is an
irremediable imposture, and that nothini , 6 can
secure the quiet organization of a great Ter
ritory of the Union but the entire withdrawal
from that Territory, of every pretence and
appearance of Federal authority.
We believe that the entire conservative
voice of the country will applaud the Proc
lamation of Gov. WALKER, warning the Law
rence rebels of the consequences of their de
fiance, and declaring that the Territorial
Laws shall be executed. The Washington
Union, we do not doubt, reflects the senti
ments of the Democratic party, and of the
administration in the following language
which it uses:
The pledge of the general government
and his oath of office will oblige Gov. Walk
er to employ the whole force of that govern
ment if necessary, to carry out those pledges,
and see that. the laws are carried into effect.
We aro advised that the troops at Leaven
worth, that were about to march to Utah
have been ordered to move upon Lawrence,
and that Gov. Walker will accompany them.
This shows that he. is in earnest, and that he
means to do his duty promptly. Brother
Beecher thought that the logic of Sharpe's
rifles was -more convincing than the Bible,
when used against border ruffians; and we
are not without faith in the convincing influ
ences of the same species *of argument when.
addressed to the rebellious Abolitionists,
through Minie muskets. Indeed, it seems to
be admitted that no other argument will do.
Governor Walker has done everything that
man could do, to give confidence to the peo
ple of Kansas, to restore peace and quiet to
the" Territory, to protect the rights of all, to
execute the laws fairly and justly, and to
carry out the just and proper policy of the
Government. He gave them assurance of
this in his inaugural address, in his speech
es, and in his personal interviews and con
versations. So anxious was he to satisfy
these mad fanatics of his fair intentions, and
of the justice and good faith of his govern
ment, and to take away from them every
cause and shadow of excuse for discontent
and resistance to the laws, that, in the judg
ment of many, he went further ,than was
fairly warranted by his instructions. Ills
anxiety in this respect was so great that it
subjected him to censure and abuse. A
small portion of the South thought that they
saw in his anxious efforts to conciliate the
Abolitionists a betrayal of their peculiar in
terests, and straightway denounced him as
a traitor and violator of a most sacred trust
—with what justice the arguments which we
have already .adduced, and the present atti
tude of the Abolitionists in Kansas, very
fully show. In the presence of the great diffi
culties to be overcome, surrounded by men dis
affected to him and to the government that sent
him there, he shaped his course, and initiated a
policy so just and fair in itself, that, if carried
out faithfully, it would take from them every
plausible pretext for further resistance to
the laws. But yet it has not satisfied them.
They think that he has conceded too little ;
the alarmists of the South think that he. has
conceded too much—and thus he is assailed
by the one and resisted by the other; but
the opinion of the people of the country is,
that he meant to do right, and they will sus
tain him. Certain it is, that the laws of the
Territory will be executed, and the policy of
the government carried out to its fullest ex
tent.
Our political friends at the South who
have cast censure on Governor Walker must
see in this proclamation a determination on
his part to maintain 04 laws, while he is ex
erting himself for the peaceable solution of
the Kansas difficulties. They have evidently
mistaken the man, if they have at any time
supposed that his sympathies were with the
abolitionists of that Territory. All doubts
should now be removed.
kt'Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the
e,ucsz . is always criminal.
Banks and the Industrial Classes.
It is a-fact which cannot be disputed, that
in the United States those who control capi
tal Are less ready to aid the prodUcing classes
than in Europe. In England, the country
banks, by their liberal policy and their fos
tering aid to enterprising but strugglingla
bor, have assisted 'largely in making Great
Britain the great manufacturing nation which
she is. If a laboring man, in his working
garret, invents a machine capable of produ
cing an article of utility- and commercial
value, he can go with confidence to the banker,
and, at a moderate rate of interest, secure an
advance of money equal in amount to the es
timated value of his invention'. 'This enables
him to purchase materials and supply orders.
These orders increase 'his business, and with
it the banker increases the amount of the ac
commodations, And thus, by . slow and steady
degrees, the artisan becomes a manufacturer.
This is legitimate banking business; and were
it not for such aid, hundreds - would never
succeed who have succeeded. An instance
will serve as an illustration. Joseph Guillot,
the celebrated steel-pen maker, now a mil
lionaire, was thirty years ago a workman,
earning his thirty shillings, about six dollars
a week. lie was possessed of an inventive
talent, and introduced- several improvements
in manufacturing steel pens, received ready
and liberal assistance from the banks to ena
ble him to carry out the designs of his busi
ness, and now employs hundreds of people,
and exports his manufactures to every-por
tion of the civilized world. In Scotland,
there are numerous similar instances among
her heavy manufacturers, who have risen to
opulence from the very smallest beginnings
through the judicious aid of banks.
But in this country, banks, bankers and
capitalists generally, seem to think more of
corporate and individual interests than of the
general commercial and industrial prosperity
of the communities in which they are located.
The speculator upon other men's industry
stands higher in the banker's hooks than he
who by his labor produces actual value, and
adds to the general wealth of the country.—
The artisan who by his skillful labor is ad
ding $3OO per year to his invested capital,
and could add $6OO if he had bank accom
modation at a fair rate of interest for that
amount to invest as stock in trade, when he
seeks a loan is told, to " get a good endorser"
—a man of equal wealth and equal prospects
with himself will not do—but he must get
" some such man" to endorse his note, and
the banker grumblin . gly . tells him that his
bill is so small that it is scarcely worth his
attention. But the speculators endorsing for
each other can readily obtain their tens of
thousands.
A large addition was made by the last Leg
istature to the banking capital of Perinsylva-:
nix, and a fair proportion of it in our own
city. The new banks are about to go into
operation, and if they wish to achieve the
largest commercial usefulness in their power,
and at the same time "make it pay, they
will pay more attention than banks in this
State have usually done, to furthering the
interests of workingmen—the clasS of actual
producers. A business of this kind would
be a safe business, for the risks would be few
and each risk small - in itself. If a young
Mechanic applies for aid let sonic officer of
the bank ascertain the value of his stock - in
trade, and with endorsers of his own class
upon his paper, give him credit to the amount
of his " cash , value," as a producing citizen.
Workingmen, if they saw a prospect of aid
of this kind, would co-operate and gradually
establish large manufactories. They would
cease 'to harp upon the fictions about the ad
verse interests of labor and capital, with which
demagogues now poison their minds, and the
whole public would be benefitted.
This theme is a fruitful one and might be
greatly enlarged upon, but our intention was
simply to direct the attention of some of the
new banks to the policy, in a community like
our own, of affording a fair share of their
accommodations to the industrial classes, who
will be found on trial to be at least as honest,
as prompt, as safe and as cautious as the ma
jority of those who now have the easiest ac
cess to the banker's coffers.
GEN. PACKER AND PROMBITION.—An effort
has been made by the Journal and other op
position presses, to create the impression that
Gen. Packer, when in the State Senate, was
a Maine Law man, and advocated the passage
of the somewhat celebrated Jug Law, so call
ed—although this enactment was made two
years after he retired from the Senate! The
same party that now attacks Gen. Packer is
the party that was loudest in advocating pro
hibitory and restrictive laws, then, and de
nounced_ in unmeasured terms Gen. Packer
and the whole democratic party because they
would not go into its restrictive and proscrip
tive measures. It is the same party that, in
the Legislature of 1855, when Know-Noth
ingism and Black Republicanism ran riot at
Harrisburg, so far disregarded the voice of
the sovereign people, as to enact a prohibitory
law—providing "that no license lin- the sale
of liquors shag be granted to the keeper of any
hotel, inn or tavern," &c. See Pamphlet Laws
of 1855, page 226.
The truth is, that Gen. Packer during his
entire Senatorial career, did nothing more
than to vote for leaving the whole question of
prohibition to the decision of the sovereign
people. .Ilia acts are part of the Legislative
history of the State, and an examination of
the Journals of the Senate, during the time
he was a member of the body, will show that
this is his only offence—nothing more. And
this is doubtless the reason why these politi
cal co-temperance writers and orators are
now attacking him.—Reading Gazette.
LEAVING THE AMALGAMATION.—We are re
quested by Mr. JOHN W. BOWEN, of Napier
township, to state, that although he has been
a zealous WHIG all his life, and VOTED the
Know Nothing Ticket after the dissolution of
the Whig party—he cannot go ABOLITION
ISM, which is now the banner under which
the leaders of his old party rally. He, there
fore, wishes it to be put upon record that he
is tired of the Tom-foolery which, for some
years has governed the conduct of the oppo
sition to the Democracy, and that he intends,
at the approaching election, to vote for Gen
eral PACKER and the whole Democratic
State and County Ticket, an example which
will be followed by hundreds of other honest
Whigs in Bedford county who have been sim
ilarly surfeited with the abominations of
Know-Nothingisxn and Abolitionism. Mr.
Bowen is a man of the first respectability, and
ranks among our most intelligent citizens.—
We congratulate him upon the noble deter
mination at which he has arrived, and cor
dially welcome him to a party which is found
ed upon the Constitution and Declaration of
Independence. Let all other conscientious
men do likewise, and they will never regret
the stcp.—Bedford Gazelle.
From tho Pittsburg Post
Murder most Foul.
From the solemn hanging of a horse thief
by a band of regulators, or the shooting of a
political opponent for an offensive expression
of opinion ; to the killing of two old persons
for the sake of, a little. money, is, says the
North. American, a considerable descent in
crime ; though ; perhaps ' , riot so great as an
unreflecting public may imagine. There is
always some incentive to the sacrifice of hu
man life whenever it is taken by violence.—
The atrocious act of killing a man in a polit
ical dispute is excused. by the perpetratof as
done in an .ungovernable :rage; and under
provocation: The rObbef, on the• other hand ;
who breaks into a farm house, kind the aged
farmer and his wife, and steals the money so
carefully hoarded up, is stimulated by the
appetite for plunder. In either case a mur
der- is- committed r and, as there are few.rob- ,
hers who desire to ,kill their victims, while
there are many genteel brawlers who stand
ready with a loaded pistol or a bowie knife'
to inflict mortal wounds on slight provocation ;
perhaps, after all;lhe latter is more of a nui ,
sance than the former. : -
But there is something revolting in a mur-.
der committed for mere plunder, and however
we may reason on the subject, htiman nature
stands aghast in horror of it as the deepest
atrocity in all the dark catalogue of crixae.—
More especially in cases like the' Warder at
M'Keesport, Allegheny county, do we shud
der to find relatiVes of the poor victims con
spiring in the fatal plot to obtain a little mo
ney at such a. dreadful cost. The telegraph
informed our readers on Monday that the
three wretches who were arrested as the mur
derers of the WILSON . family, have been con
victed of the' deed. It is so rare to witness
the execution of a woman, that possibly the
female, CHARLOTTE JONES, who is among the
convicts, may escape in this case; but such
mercy is a great wrong upon the community.
If ever a criminal deserved hanging, she cer
tainly does ; and we hope • that no maudlin
sympathy will be invoked in her behalf to
secure her immunity from punishment. She
was the niece of Mr. WILSON and his aged
sister. These two poor old persons have
given her shelter at their farm house many a
time ; and only a few days before the murder
she had been staying there, having no where
else to go. She it was who found out the
fact of her uncle haVing saved up some hun
dreds of dollars which he kept in the house.
She left his hospitable roof to consort with
robbers, and aid in their desperate scheme of
plunder. She 'appears, from the revelations
made upon the trial, to have been an utterly
abandoned wretch. ller brother was in the
gang and saw her practices. The murder
was deliberately planned, as she has confess
ed. In pursuance of the arrangement, she
went with her horrible associates, at the dead
hour of midnight, to her uncle's house,
knocked at the door and sought admission.—
Unsuspectingly, the old man descended and
let her in. She has told us that there, under
the roof to which she was - welcomed, she
stood by and saw her uncle and aunt murder
ed before her eyes by the men whom she had
guided there to commit the deed. She show
ed them where the money was concealed, and
shared it with them, and then they all escaped.
Suspicion was fastened upon her as soon as the
murder was discovered. It was known that
she had been staying at the house, and her
reckless character and destitution-of means
supplied the motives. She was met goin g in a
different direction to that she had indicated
when she first left her uncle, and her contradic
tory accounts of h erselfinereas ed the suspicion.
She was arrested, and her accomplices were
also soon taken. She confessed her partici
pation and told the story. If ever a set of
criminals deserved hanging, she and the two
men who have been convicted with her, do
beyond all doubt. The atrocity of the deed
exceeds anything of recent date.
SAD ACCIDENT.-A foreman in one of the
departments of Jackson S.: Wiley's machine
shop, named Patten, met with a fall Wednes
day morning, which resulted in his death
about 24 hours afterward. He had charge of
the building of iron fencing, in which Messrs.
J. Sc W. are extensively engaged, and soon
after the whistle was sounded in the morning
was employed in lowering some of this fenc
ing from the second to the first floor, by
means of a rope and pulleys, through a trap
door. In swinging off some of the fencing,
Mr. Patten - caught hold of the rope and
swung off with it, as is frequently done, to
steady it. His weight with that of the fenc
ing proved too heavy for the puny fastenings
and they gave way precipitating Mr. Patten,
to the floor below, a distance of some seven
teen feet. He was taken up in a senseless
state, and carried to his residence on Abbott
street, where he lingered until yesterday
morning, perfectly unconscious, - when he died.
His collar bone was broken, and hiS head,
back and other portions of his body consider
ably bruised. He was not thought to be dan
gerous, however, until yesterday morning.—
He probably received some internal injury.—
Mr. Patten, as we learn, has been employed
with Messrs. Jackson & Wiley, for three or
four years,—was a man of most _exemplary
habits and won many friends. lie leaves
a wife and three small children to mourn his
untimely and sad end. His remains will be
taken to Wheeling, Virginia, for interment,
where his relations , and those of his widow
reside.—Detroit (dick.) Democrat, July 9th.
KANSAS EMIGRATION.—The Herald of Free
dom of the 27th ult., estimates the influx of
population to Kansas the present season at
30,000, and is of the opinion that before win
ter sets in 100,000 will have been added to
the permanent-population of the territory.—
Meantime, the human current pours on with
undiminished volume. Many stop in West
ern Missouri, and others continue on to
Northern Texas. There is a regular stream
of emigrants flowing south through Lawrence
and other places in Kansas, says the Herald,
to the number of hundreds a day, looking for
a warmer climate.
POISON PORK.-A . distiller in Kentucky
publishes a letter in the Ohio - Farmer, in.
which he says ho has discovered an effective
remedy for the hog cholera, which has been
prevailing so extensively at the West. His
remedy is, as *soon as he finds the hogs be
ginning to get sick, or to die, to mix a quan
tity of arsenic with their feed, and that inva
riably makes them healthy again, the power
ful mineral poison of the still slops. If his
statement is correct, what must be the char
acter of the arsenic and strychnine fed hogs?
—Cin. Gazette.
A GOOD PAINT FOR. FARMERS.--It . is' said
the following recipe makes a good and las
ting paint :
"One part white lead, one part . gypsum or
plaster of Paris, and one' part lime, ground
together in oil, the same as lead paint.