THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOT TO LOCAL AND GENERAL, NEWS, &C.
TEE GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in the county.
MILYTIVLIBaDOLZ [Pa,
'Wednesday, June 9, 1858.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
Wlll. A. PORTER, Of Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WESMIE.BY FROST, of Fayette Co.
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able. During the past week we entered upon
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and best citizens of the county—and still we
have room for more.
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Locals.
Lost—while returning from the fishing ex
cursion, by way of M'Calian's and the Broad
Top road, on Monday evening last, a Lady's
Gold Cameo Breastpin. The finder will be
suitably rewarded by returning it to this office.
The Broad Top company have placed two
more new locomotives upon their road. The
coal business is steadily on the increase.
Delightful—the weather just now. Every
body and all their relations appear to enjoy
the great change.
A party of young folks—some few out of
their teens—had a pleasant fishing excursion
on Monday last, which accounts for the fall
in the price of fish in our market:
There are slight indications of a political
contest between some of the old nags in the
opposition, for Congressional and Legislative
nominations.
N. C. DECKER'S corn-crib was entered on
Tuesday night of last week. The thief or
thieves were disturbed—leaving behind two
or three bags, one having the name of - Wm.
BREWSTER upon it. How so?
Several shade trees on our main street have
the appearance of being "barked" by either
the ladies' hoops or wheelbarrows. Will the
town council make the necessary inquiries,
and save the trees from being destroyed.
Passenger ear time on the Broad Top road,
for the season, commenced on yesterday—
leaving lluntingdon at 7.50 A. at. and 5.30 r.
al.—arriving at 1.14 and 10.10 r. at. The
number of visitors to Broad Top City and
Bedford Springs, over this road,-this summer,
it is expected will be much greater than last.
kfe". J. K. MOORHEAD has been nominated
fur Congress by the Republicans of Alle-
gheny county.
The State Military Encampment to
be held at Williamsport in September next,
will be the largest ever held in the State.--
We have no doubt Old Huntingdon will be
represented, as she has men with the right
kind of military spirit. See Orders in an
other column.
BROAD Tor CITY IHOTEL.—WC learn that
this "House was opened for the season on yes
terday ; and we venture the assertion that
there is no other place of resort where visitors
can find more comfortable accommodations.
Mr. .MoratisoN, the proprietor, knows how to
make visitors feel at home.
,I;We admit into our columns the adver
tisement of Dr. SAN FORD'S Liver Invigorator—
ist, because we know it to be a good medicine,
and 2nd, because we are paid our regular
advertising rates for its insertion, which is
equal to the profits we have on fifty advance
paying subscribers—something these trying
times.
The Harrisburg Daily Herald, of Mon
day, says:—" The Rev. Mr. M'LEAN, of Hun
tingdon, preached for the Old School Presby
terian congregation on Saturday evening, in
the Baptist Lecture Room, corner of Second
and Pine streets, and yesterday at 10 o'clock
in the morning, and 6 in the evening, in the
Senate Chamber of the Capitol. The atten
dance at the latter was very good."
TYRONE AND LOCK HAVEN RAILTtOAD.—The
Bellefonte Watchman says :—" The Eastern
Division of the Tyrone and Lock Haven Rail
road was put under contract on the 20th inst.,
by the President. The Western Division is
nearly all graded and ready for ballast. It
is the determination of the managers to push
the work through with as much facility as
possible. The road is all under contract
now, having been let to Mr. SAmuEr. BRADY,
the gentleman who contracted for and has
been engaged in constructing the Western
Division.
Short Credit
Too much credit has been the ruin of thou
sands, as it will be the ruin of thousands
more who act upon the principles involved in
the credit system. It is a system in the in
dulgence of which, extravagance of the 'worst
kind is engendered. The ruin of individuals
and the monetary distress of communities are
directly traceable to the system of credit,
which has heretofore been so universally
adopted. There are good and sufficient rea
sons why all persons should insist upon doing
a cash business, when it is possible—and it
is possible, or can be made so in almost every
case—and giving only short credits where
any are absolutely necessary. how is it
with the consumer, who is accustomed to run
up bills for the week or month wits the gro
cer, butcher, &c.? What does he want credit
for? If his employment is steady and his
wages regular, is it not as easy to be a week
ahead as a week behind? It is certainly a
great deal safer. This anticipation of reve
nue is always promotive of bad habits. A
man who has credit buys more and pays a
greater per cent. than the man of no credit,
or one who adopts the cash system, and at
the end of the year has less means though
with the same wages. Ms extravagance is
very likely to be in proportion to his credit.
A cotemporary very truthfully says: "You
cannot divest the word credit in the minds of
some people, men, women and children, of
the significance of free, costless. In their
view everything to be done in the future is
easy. The imagination does it. They don't
mean to cheat you, bless your soul! No, in
deed! but they almost invariably fail to pay
up. Now, such people are not fit to be trust
ed, and yet they are the principle class who
ask for credit. The reason is clear. When
you put your hand into your pocket and take
out the money, you always reflect, (if you are
given to reflection,) before you buy a thing;
you are apt to think twice: do I need this
more than the money? If yes, you buy it;
if no, you "guess you wont take it now," and
you save your money. Let all who read this
try once and keep a week ahead, and send
the cash to the store, shops, &c., instead of
the pass-book, and our word for it, they will
never go back to the credit system again, un
less misfortune compels it, and then your
friends among the traders will be both able
and willing to assist you on account of the
large sums you have paid them in your pros
perity.
Most persons are ready to acknowledge the
truth of these remarks in times like the pre
sent, but in more prosperous ones are apt to
forget it, and indulge in their old habits, to
be followed with like results.
The adoption of the plan of paying cash
down by the consumer would make it un
necessary for the retailer to ask for credit, if
he has any credit. It is questionable whether
a man should ever buy goods on credit to be
trusted out to Tom, Dick and Harry. And
yet it is almost always the case that the fail
ure of a retailer is ascribed to " bad debts."
Ile should never trust any more than he is
worth, so that his creditors may always be
assured of having their money or their goods.
As a general principle credits should be
restricted to the average time required to turn
a fair assortment of goods into cash. Men
should not be trusted with goods long enough
to turn them into cash, and then use that cash,
for the purpose of speculation, two or three
months longer before paying for the goods.
"Such a system of credits is ruinous to all
legitimate trade. Thirty days is now a longer
credit, practically, than three months used to
be fifteen years ago, or three months now
than nine then."
This is owing to the increase of facilities
of intercommunication with all parts of the
trading country. Goods may now be ordered
and received in one-fourth the time it then
required, so that the merchant can turn his
capital over two or three times now, while
he could but once formerly.
The shortening of the credit system, and
the approaching as nearly as possible to the
cash system, will be more for the prosperity
of both consumer and dealer, and to .the se
curity of the future, than anything else.—
"Pay as you go," as John Randolph said, is
truly the philosopher's stone.
NEW SABBATH Scnoon Music.—Mr. Hon-
ACE WATERS, the well-known Music Publish
er and Piano dealer, of 333 Broadway, New
York, has recently issued a very pleasing
and useful little collection of 32 pages of
hymns and tunes for Sabbath Schools, of
more animated character and impressive style
than usual. The words are all excellent,
and the music, though spirited, varied and
fitted to the tastes and life of the young, is
very simple, easily mastered, and full of feel
ing and pathos. There are " Happy greet
ing to all ;" " Kind words can never die ;"
"Do good ;" " The teacher's prayer ;" " Let
us be happy, and let us be gay ;" " 0, that
beautiful world;" "I have a Father in the
promised land," &c., &c.,—and many others
equally attractive, useful and pleasant. All
for three cents, or two dollars per hundred
copies. Postage, one cent. We think it will
be a favorite in the school, and at the fireside
of all who love cheerful music, or the anima
ted faces of happy children.
Er See advertisement of Dr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
See advertisement of Prof. Wood's
Hair Restorative in another column.
,ts= - 21 party of 5G boys and 10 girls were
recently sent from the House of Refuge,
Philadelphia, to respectable persons in the
West, were they were bound out.
A Reminiscence.
The Washington Union of July 25, 1858,
copies an article from the Clearfield (Pa.)
Republican of the 21st, giving an interesting
account of Governor Bigler's tour to Kansas,
is furnished to the editor by that gentleman.
The following are extracts :
"Senator Bigler returned to his home a few
days since, after a tour through several of the
Western States and Territories, in fine health
and spirits. Mr. 13. spent some weeks in
Kansas, visiting all the principal towns and
settlements, and Caine away highly delight
ed with the general appearance of the coun
try." - *
* " All seemed willing to abide the
decision of the majority on the question of
slavery, and to manifest great solicitude that
a decision might be properly and promptly
had, in order that Kansas might enjoy the
advantage of a State in full communion with
the present family of thirty-one. The great
mass of the people have implicit confidence
in Governor Walker, and ardently sustain
his policy, pro-slavery as well as free-State
men. They heartily approve his plan of pre
seating the slavery question and the constitu
tion to a direct vote of the people. Many were
entirely indifferent as to the election of dele
gates, because they thought of nothing as im
portant but their own vote on the Constitution.
They claim the right to exercise this preroga
tive of sovereignty—a right which should not be
denied under any . circumstances to a people
desiring to exercise it ; but in this instance
its exercise would seem to be almost obliga
tory, for it is the very spirit of the organic
act of Congress that the people should pass
upon the question of slavery and that Kansas
should come into the Union under that decision,
whether for or against slavery. The vital is
sue in the last Presidential election was, not
whether Kansas should be a free or slave
State, but whether her people, without molesta
tion or interference front any quarter, shoidd
make it a slave or a free State by THE WILL
OF A MAJORITY ! The people of Kansas
ask no more, and they certainly would not
ask less. Mr. B. says there are a few of the
Republican leaders who declare that they
will agree to nothing that may be offered - by
the convention which is to assemble in Sep
tember; that denying the authority for its
existence, they will vote against any Consti
tion it may present, though it be the Topeka
instrument, without a I crossed or au i dot
ted.
"But the great mass of the people are
right-minded, and will vote for or against the
Constitution, as they may_ deem best. Af
ter the fullest opportunity for hearing the
views of people of all political bias, Air. B.
left the Territory, satisfied that the Conven
tion would submit the Constitution and the
slavery question as distinct propositions to
the vote of the people who had been three
months or longer resident, and that the vote
would be a full and deliberate expression of
the will of the people ; and that if Congress
acts in good faith, by admitting the Territo
ry as a State, no matter what the decision,
this prolonged feud will be settled forever."
What was Democracy in '56, '57, is De
mocracy in '5B. Who have left the princi
ples of the party ?
POLITICS IN BLAIR COUNTY.—The Arneyi
can party, of Blair county haxe'put
iii nouli
nation the following ticket :
Assembly—Jacob Burley, of Tyrone City.
Sheilg'—James Funk, of Allegheny town
ship.
Prothonotary—Joseph Baldrige, of Holli
daysburg.
Cominissioncr—Enos M. Jones, of Altoo
na.
Poor Director—John B. Riddle, of Franks
town.
Coroner—William Fox, of Catharine.
Auditor—J. S. Nicliodemus, of North
Woodberry.
The Republicans have also placed in the
field a ticket, as follows:
Assembly—Martin Bell, of Antis twp.
Sheriff—CO. John Piper, of Gaysport.
Treasurer—Dr. 'C. Irvin, of Hollidaysburg.
Prothonotary—A. S. Morrow, of Martins
burg.
Commissioner—Joseph Feay, of Williams
burg.
Coroner—Joseph Stifler, of Fraukstown.
Poo). Director—John Young, of Allegheny.
Auditor—Chas. R. McCrea, of Altoona
The State Treasury.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia Ar
gus gives the following table of the receipts
into the State Treasury during several months
of this year and last:
February 28,1858 CtlO,5CB 33
March 31,
April 30,
February 28,1357
March al, "
April 30,
The above is truly a melancholy picture of
the condition of the Treasury. The falling
off in the revenue is attributable to many
causes, the principle of which is the hard
ness of the times—the universal depression
in almost every kind of business throughout
the State. And there is but little if any
prospect cf times becoming better, at least
during the present year.
Lady Taming
The great success of Rarey in taming frac
tious horses in England, has suggested to a
crafty Yankee the idea of applying the se
cret art to women, especially those who have
promised to obey, and, of course, never done
so. He charges $5O a lesson. Here are
some of his certificates :
"This is to certify that Mr. Paul Prettyman
has succeded in subduing my wife. He took
her when in her most restless condition, and
in one hour she was cooking a. beef-steak
with the placidity of an angel.
JAMES P. HORNER.
BROAD Tor CITY, May 8, 1858."
"Mr. Prettyman has full liberty to refer to
me. His art I consider the great desideratum
of married life. He quieted Mrs. Simpkins,
who was always ugly in double harness, and
accomplished - wonders. Not a shirt-button
has been missing since the date of his trial.
S. S. SIMPKINS, Bellefonte, Pa."
Vff..ll.lrs. Gage, in a speech at the recent
feminine convention, told the story of a wo
man who, having secured a second spouse
that "nursed the baby," &e., very accommo
datingly averred that "a husband was the
next best thing about a house to the cooking
stove."
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE GLOBE.
Tnixsn lanvis : Since I last wrote to you
our county has been visited with one of the
most terrific storms or tornadoes that has
perhaps ever been witnessed in this or any
portion of the country. On Sabbath, the
30th ult., about 3 or 4 o'clock in the after
noon, a general storm of wind and rain, ac
companied with heavy thunder and some
hail, passed over this place. Between G and
7 o'clock a dark, heavy cloud, of a conical
shape, was noticed south of this ; the apex,
or point to the earth, passing from West to
East, accompanied with a roaring noise, simi
lar to the sound of a train of cars in motion.
The cloud seemed to expand and spread until
a very heavy rain, followed with hail, fell,
and the ground was literally covered with
water at this place, but the damage to prop
erty and life, was confined to a narrow strip
or portion of country. So far as heard from,
the main fury of the storm was felt about
twelve miles south or south-west of this
place, at and in the vicinity of a small town,
called Ellison, in this county, a place con
taining some twenty or twenty-five families.
A messenger reached here in the night with
word that the place was literally destroyed,
several persons killed and a number injured.
Six or seven of our physicians started imme
diately to render what assistance they could,
and some forty or fifty of our citizens went
out to see and give any assistance that might
be needed. A number returned last night
from the scene and report the sad news that
sixteen were found dead and a number seri
ously wounded, some fatally, and yet they all
express astonishment that the loss of life is
so small. Of over twenty dwelling houses
destroyed, there is not a single article of fur
niture left whole ; not a chair, stove, table,
or bedstead can be found. The houses are
razed to their very foundations, and their
roofs, walls, and contents broken, and scat
tered to the four winds of Heaven—scatter
ed for miles along the path of the destroyer.
The first damage, so far as heard from, was
about two miles west of Ellison, at a stone
quarry; two families lived close together—
brothers-in law—by the names of TI OMPSON
and froun. After the storm the body of Mr.
TnomrsoN was found among the ruins of his
house, some distance from where it had stood;
his wife, was found, with her child dead on
her knee, still alive, with one thigh and
right arm broken, and her head cut and
bruised very badly, but some hopes were en
tertained of her recovery. Mr. Henn was
living yesterday, but considered fatally in
jured. His wife was killed. Of eight per
sons in those two houses five were killed and
not more than two of the others can survive.
'The course of the storm was then through
a strip of timber, where it is marked like
the bed of some current of water; the trees
and bushes trailed, twisted and stretched to
the ground, stripped in many places of their
very bark. It next struck Ellison; the town
was built principally on one street, leading
east and west. On that street not a single
building was left. Wagons were broken,
even the wheels were torn to fragments ;
horses and cattle—everything in its course,
mixed in indiscriminate ruin. The goods
and wares of stores were scattered like chaff.
To-night, a meeting is to be held here to
take measures to furnish means to take care
of the survivors, and to furnish clothes and
food to those who are left destitute. Several
teams have left this morning with bread and
meat and some clothing. Meetings will be
held all over the county, and means furnished
to supply, in some measure, their loss. But
I must close for the present.
Yours, in haste, P. J.
The future of these United States, and the
additions which must undoubtedly be made
by " manifest destiny," is almost too great
for human contemplation. The mind is well
nigh overwhelmed by its vastness. If wo are
but true to ourselves, true to the glorious
principles of our patriotic forefathers, this
will be the most powerful country the sun
ever shone upon, within the next century.—
The subjoined calculations have a thrilling
and powerful interest :
299,410 S 11
279,431 33
In 1840, the United States had a popula
tion of 17,068,660. Allowing its future in
crease to be at the rate of 324- per cent. for
each succeeding period of 10 years, we shall
number in 1940, 303,101,641. Past experi
ence warrants us to expect this increase. In
1790, our number was 3,927,827. Suppos
ing it to have increased each decade in the
ratio of 13;1- per cent., it would in 1840 have
amounted to 16,630,250, being more than
half a million less than our actual number
as shown by the census. With 300,000,000,
we should have less than 150 to the square
mile for our whole territory, and 220 to the
square mile for our organized States and Ter
ritories. England has 800 to the squrc mile.
It does not, then, seem probably that our pro
gressive increase will be materially checked
within the one hundred years under consider
tion.
956,35 S 15
1,027,9:30 '26
1,039,570 06
At the end of that period, Canada will
probably number at least 20,000,000. Sup
posing the portion of our country east and
west of the Appalachian chain of mountains,
konwn as the Atlantic slope, to possess at
that time 40,000,000, or near five times its
present number, there will be left 260,000,-
000 for the great central region between the
Appalachian and the Rocky Mountains, and
between the Gulf of Mexico and Canada,
and for the country west of the Rocky Moun
tains. Allowing the Oregon territory 10,000,-
000, there will be left 250,000,000 for that
portion of the American States lying in the
basins of the Mobile, Mississippi and St.
Lawrence. If to these we add 20,000,000
for Canada, we have 270,000,000 as the pro
bable number that will inhabit the North
American valley at the end of one hundred
years, commencing in 1840. If we suppose
one-third, or 90,000,000 of this number, to
reside in the country as cultivators and dr ti
zans, there will be 180,000,000 left for the
towns, enough to people 360, each contain
ing half a million. This does not seem as in
credible as that the valley of the Nile, scarce
ly twelve miles broad, should have once, as
historians tell us, contained 20,000 cities.—
Phila. Argus%
Mosmounr, Warren co., 111.,
June Ist., 18.58.
The Future of America
The Kansas Election—lnstructions from
the Administration to Gov. Denver.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, May 7th, 1858.
J. TV. Denver, Esq., Governor of the Terri.to
ry of _Kansas, Lecompton
Silt :—I transmit to you a copy of the act
of Congress approved May 4, 1858, "for the
admission of the State of Kansas into the
Union." Your duties under this act are of
the most delicate and important character,
but they are clearly and distinctly defined by
the act itself.
Congress was not satisfied, as you will per
ceive, with the ordinance adopted at Lecomp
ton by the Constitutional Convention there
assembled in relation to the public lands,
deeming the grants to the State of Kansas
therein contained too extensive and beyond
former precedents 'in similar cases. They
have, therefore, proposed to the people of
Kansas to assent to such a change in the or
dinances as is stated in the act, reducing the
quantity of land granted, so as to confurm to
the grant in the bill now before Congress for
the admission of Minnesota. This question
is properly left to Kansas to be decided at a
popular election. The voting shall be by
ballot, and by indorsing on his ballot as
each voter may please, "Proposition Accept
ed," or "Proposition Rejected." Should a
majority of the votes cast be for "Proposi
tion Accepted," the President of the United
states, as soon as the fact is duly made
known to him, shall announce the same by
proclamation; and thereafter, and without
any further proceedings on the part of Con
()Tess the admission of the State of Kansas
into the Union on an equal footing with the
original States, in all respects whatever, shall
be complete and absolute, &c. But should a
majority of the votes be cast for "Proposi
tion Rejected," it shall be deemed and held
that the people of Kansas do not desire ad
mission into the Union with said Constitu
tion, under the conditions set forth in the
said proposition. They will then remain in
a Territorial condition, until "it is ascertain
ed by a census duly and legally taken, that
the population of said Territory equals or ex
ceeds the ratio of representation required for
a member of the House of Representatives
of the Congress of the United States," upon
which ascertainment the people of the said
Territory "are authorized and empowered to
form for themselves a Constitution and State
Government in the manner prescribed by the
Act.
Under the second section of the Act, your
self, the District Attorney, the Secretary of
the Territory, the President of the Council
and the Speaker of the House of Represen
tatives are constituted a Board of Commis
sioners to conduct this important election.—
fe he President has entire confidence that so far
as in you lies, the election will be fairly and
properly conducted. Your powers and your
duties are sufficiently pointed out by the Act
and by your previous instructions. It is
greatly to be desired that the jive Commis
sioners should act in concert in all the proceed
ings. The President above all things desires,
that there should be a
.fair exivession of the
popular will on this important question; and
that any person who may commit or attempt
to commit the frauds punishable under the
Act, may be prosecuted with, the utmost rigor
of the law. It is to be hoped that the pee
-1 plo of Kansas, relieved from all outside in
fluences, may be left to decide the question
for themselves, whether they will immediate
ly conic into the Union under the provisions
of the Act, or will remain in a Territorial'
condition until their population is equal to{
the number required fur a Representative to
Congress.
Inclosed herewith you will receive four
copies of the act referred to, one of which
you will send to each of the Commissioners
named in the act, in order that they May be
properly informed of their designations.
At the same time, you will provide for an
early meeting of the Commissioners, so that
the election required by the act may take
place without unnecessary delay, and that all
suitable arrangements may be made fur this
purpose. The President earnestly hopes that
these arrangements may be successful in se
curing a free and fair election, and that at
the present important crisis, the peace of the
Territory may not be interrupted.
The act for the admission of Kansas ought
to be extensively circulated among the people,
because the question to be decided by them
is one of vast importance, and may involve
the welfare and prosperity of their fine ter
ritory for a long period of years. For this
reason, whilst the act very properly prescribes
that the day of election shall be at as early
a period after the proclamation as is consist
ent with the notice thereof to the people, the
intervening period ought to be sufficiently
long to enable them to thoroughly understand
the question in all its bearings and conse
quences. shall have ten thousand copies of
the act printed in this city and forwarded to
you for immediate circulation.
You will not probably convene the Board
until after the appointment of a new District
Attorney for the Territory. A nomination
for this purpose will be sent to the Senate on
Monday next. Should you deem it advisable,
you are at liberty to publish the whole or any
part of these instructions. The President
wishes to give every assurance to the people
of Kansas, that ho desires, above all things,
that there shall be a fair expression of the
popular will at the election ; and that the re
sult may be to produce peace and harmony
among themselves, and promote their lasting
welfare.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
LEWIS CASS
SHOCKING DEATH OF A PENNSYLVANIA
CLERGYMAN.—The Montrose (Pa). Republi
can says : The Rev. Joseph Barlow, a Pres
byterian clergyman, of Franklin, this county,
lost his life in a shocking manner on Satur
day night a week. The familywere aroused
by midnight, and found the house was on
fire. Approaching the kitchen, where the
fire appeared to have originated, Mr. Barlow
opened the door, when the flames burst out
upon him, and ho probably inhaled a portion
of the flame, as he immediately sank down,
and scarcely showed a sign of life after
wards. His wife and daughters, the only
persons present, after attempting in vain to
loosen the death grasp of his hand upon the
door, at length, to save themselves, were
compelled to leave him to be consumed where
he lay. The house was destroyed, with al
most every article of property it contained.
Mr. Barlow was an Englishman, about sixty
years of age, and much respected by all who
knew him.
,l. The Memphis Ledger says: With
the subsidence of the waters on the Arkansas
shore, mosquitos are becoming so thick that
the sun sets fifteen minutes to soon—its rays
being obscured by the swarming insects, as
they were by the clouds of arrows at the bat
tle of Pharsalia.
The State Administration.
It is but seldom—never we may remark,
without fear of contradiction, in this State
thatany Administration has ever existed,
which has, from the commencement of its
career, called forth such unanimous admira
tion and applause as that of Governor Packer.
All parties concede the wisdom of his action,
the justness of his views, and the boldness of
his conduct. Without regard to party feeling,
the people of the State have expressed, in
unqualified terms, their approval of the
course of Gov. Packer as a Chief Magistrate,
—and a just and liberal study of all the acts
of our present Chief Executive cannot fail to
bring from every individual a frank and free
expression of the wise manner in which the
reins of power have been administered by
the man whom the people chose, at a trying
time, by an almost unparalleled majority, to
go vern them.
As a firm and constant friend of the pres
ent Governor of the Commonicealth, we feel
a decided degree of pleasure in the success
which has thus far characterized his Guber
natorial career. As a Representative; Sena
tor, and private citizen, we knew him to pos
sess all the merits which are required to fill
the full capacity of an upright public officer,
and we are happy to observe that our high
appreciation of his character is shown not to
have been at fault.
The excellence of his movements have
more than ever linked his name in the proud
memory of the people, and this day no man
stands more prominent for elevated public
position, or in all the attributes that give dig
nity to a man's character, than Gov. Wm. F.
Packer.
It may, with entire confidence be said, that
no person ever entered upon the discharge of
important public duties with a greater re
sponsibility upon him, than Gov. Packer.—
A great event in the history of our State had
been consummated in the transaction of cer
tain important Legislative matters—the ter
rible convulsion of financial transactions was
at band, and more than at almost any other
period, the mighty interests of the Common
wealth demanded a great mind to direct the
ship of State. In all this difficult position of
affairs, the people understood well the char
acter of the man it was due they should se
lect, to elevate to the most responsible posi
tion in their immediate gift,—and in the
happy action of the moment they selected
Gov. Packer.
From the delivery of the Inaugural, down
to the present hour, the great masses of the
State have felt pride in their Executive.—
The correct sentiments of that important
document gave fresh encouragement to the
confidence they before entertained, and the
subsequent selection of his Cabinet, composed
of some of the best men of the Common
wealth—his firm exercise of the veto power,
—all combined to add force to these convic
tions. Gov. Packer has succeeded to an ex
traordinary extent in keeping the good wish
es—the right place in the hearts of the peo
ple. His Administration is at present one
of the most popular that ever was known,
and it needs no stretch of the imagination to
predict that it will descend to history as a
model of excellence.—llizrrisburg Herald.
A Vigilance Committee in New Orleans.
---Pronunciamento against the Know
Nothings
It will be seen by our telegraphic report,
and the full particulars gathered from the
New Orleans papers, which we publish in
another column, that the Crescent City is a
scene of wild excitement, and that a promi
cianiento to overthrow the Know-Nothing rule,
has taken place there.
The antecedents that have led to this result
are briefly as follows: At the municipal
election in June, 1856, the Know-Nothings
came into power in New Orleans, having
used during the preceding canvass, and at
the polls, the same system of intimidation
upon the naturalized voters that characterized
the city elections in Baltimore and Louisville
in that year, and which were unsuccessfully
attempted in Cincinnati, when the German
population there armed themselves. A band
of men called "Thugs," were employed by
the dark-lantern lodges, and not only were
many persons of opposite politics severely
beaten before the elections, but several were
killed, and many hundreds were driven from
the polls. In the subsequent city elections
this system of thugging was carried to such
an extent that last year only a little over
4,000 votes were cast out of about 12,000
registered voters. These proceedings were
palpable and well known to the citizens, but
the Know-Nothings having obtained posses
sion of all the municipal offices, and elected
their own men as City Judges, there called
Recorders, it is alleged that no conviction of
a Know-Nothing "Thug" could be obtained.
The result of this state of things has been
that an independent movement was started
about a week or ten days since, and Major
G. T. Beauregard, late of the Topographical
Engineers, and one of the most gallant offi
cers in the American army during the Mexican
war, was tendered the nomination for Mayor
by a large number of persons, comprising
many of the most prominent citizens of all
political opinions. Mayor Beauregard has
accepted this nomination in a manly. letter.
From our telegraphic advices yesterday, we
learn that the independent party has appoint
ed a Vigilance Committee, which has taken
possession of the State arsenal and the seve
ral city armories, except one of the latter,
which is in possession of the Know-Nothing
Common Council. This committee has is
sued a cool and determined proclamation, su
perseding the Know-Nothing municipal po
lice officers in the exercise of their misused
power, and announcing that it will dispense
justice, and that the "Thugs" must leave or
perish. The election will take place on the
7th inst., and from the energetic manner in
which the citizens have gone to work we
think it will be a quiet one, and that there
will be no blood shed.—N. Herald..
A BLUE BIRD IN A BOTTLE.—The West.
Roxbury (Mass.) Gazette gives the following ,
item :
"One of our neghbors happening to have a
large bottle, bethought himself of placing it
in the branches of a tree near his house for
the birds to build in. After a short time the
members of his family perceived a pair of
blue birds continually, day after day, flying
about and corning up to the mouth of the bot
tle, as if endeavoring to get in. After this
bad lasted about a week the gentlemen one
day took a hammar up to the tree to knock
off the neck of the bottle, so that these birds
might enter, when upon so doing a blue bird
flow out. The poor prisoner had undoubted
ly succeeded in making his way in, but front
the slippery ascent to the neck had been un
able to escape, and had probably been sup
ported by food brought there by his two out.
tilde brethren!'