THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DMFOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
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Circulation—the largest in the county.
REPIVIECDOTI,,
Wednesday, 'Tune 16, 1858.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
WAI. A. PORTER, of Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WESTLEY FROST, of Fayette Co.
Neil,. Advertisements.
41Z.. A Piano for sale. Apply at this office.
Bead advertisement of Cassville Seminary.
Good Farming Land for sale, by Daniel linode.
Aar- Attention, Guards!!!!! Attention !!!!C.
,t /Z- Administrator's Notice, by H. Williamson, Adru'r
•rt-• Moses Strouse is selling Clothing at and below cost
Illinois Lecompton State Convention.
Some five weeks ago the regular Demo
cratic State Convention assembled, nominated
a State ticket, and passed resolutions strongly
anti-Lecompton. The Lecompton delegates
withdrew and issued a call for another State
Convention of the friends of the President's
Kansas policy. On Friday last this Conven
tion met and put in nomination a second
Democratic State ticket. This proceeding,
on the part of the Lecompton Democrats of
Illinois, is to be regretted. If the friends of
the President's Kansas policy will not submit
the action of a State Convention, where the
majority of the delegates are anti-Lecomp
ton, how is it possible for them to expect the
anti-Lecompton Democrats to submit to the
action of a State Convention where a majority
of the Delegates are Lecompton? In this
State the Lecompton Democrats ruled the
State Convention which put in nomination
our State ticket, and thus far the Democratic
press of the State, without an exception, have
yielded to the will of the majority. But, if
the Lecompton Democrats will not support a
State nomination—where the nominees are
anti-Lecompton Democrats—there is a possi
bility of a general division of the party
throughout the Union. The responsibility of
such a result will rest with the unprincipled
men .who wish to be considered the earnest
and devoted friends of the President, and
leaders in the great Democratic party. Such
leaders the party will be compelled to drive
from its ranks, if it would avoid an inglorious
defeat in every State in the Union.
The News
Storms and floods have been numerous of
late, particularly in the West—by which
there has been great destruction of property.
From every direction we hear of great in
jury to the crops, by rain and wind.
CHARLES R. BUCKALEW, of Columbia coun
ty, has been appointed by the President,
Minister to Ecquador.
Col: JA.s. A. GIBSON, of Allegheny county,
has been appointed by the President, Survey
or of Customs for the port of Pittsburg.
The Utah war ended—millions saved to
the Treasury.
Congress, it is expected, will adjourn this
week. On Saturday, the Loan bill, author:
izing the borrowing of twenty millions of
dollars, was passed by both Houses.
New Orleans has quieted down and busi
ness is resumed, but the Vigilance Committee
still hold meetings.
The Johnstown Tribune names Hon. GEO.
TAYLOR of this place, for Supreme Judge.—
Judges PrAttsoN of Dauphin, and MEREDITH
of Philadelphia, have also been spoken of
for nomination - by the State Convention.
CYRUS L. PERSHING, Esq., of Johnstown,
THADDEUS BANKS, Esq., and Maj. JESSE R.
CRAWFORD, of Hollidaysburg, and Judge KIM
MEL, of Somerset, have been spoken of in
connection with the Democratic nomination
for Congress, in this district.
The "American," the "American Repub
lican," and the " Republican" parties have
united in a call for a Union State Convention
at Harrisburg on the 14th of July next, to
nominate candidates for Supreme Judge and
Canal Commissioner.
SWILL-MILK IN CHICAGO.—The Chicago
Democrat says the Chicago people are mostly
fed on swill-milk, from cows kept at the dis
tilleries, and proposes to abate the nuisance.
It also makes the following extraordinary
statement: "There are several persons in
our city who supply families with milk that
have not a cow in the world. They manu
facture milk from chalk and drugs."
[COMMUNICATED.]
MR. LEWIS :—" Who will be the next Demo
cratic candidate for Congress?" is a question
which is beginning to attract some attention.
We want a man of integrity, too stern to
yield either to dictation or to blandishment;
of habits which will insufe his presence in
his seat to guard the interests of the district,
and of ability which will reflect honor upon
his constituency. We want, moreover, one
who has not been an office-seeker. " The
people should rule," is the fundamental truth
of Democracy, and they should call out those
whom they wish to serve them, instead of
bestowing office, as they have too often done,
upon those who have been unfit for it, or for
anything else, merely because it has been
sought for. Desirous to see a candidate nomi
nated whose character, habits, and ability—
whose long and unswerving adherence to true
Democracy—to the rights of the people, would
rally to his support the whole party in the
district. I would, in the name of many with
whom I am connected, direct attention to the
name of THADDEUS BANKS, Esq., of Blair
county, a name so well and so favorablyknown
that commendation would be superfluous.
A TRUE DEMOCRAT
Educational.---Annulment of Teachers'
Certificates.
[For the Globe.]
The following resolution was offered by A.
W. Benedict, in a teachers' meeting in this
place, and published in the School Journal:
"Resolved, That the provision in the 41st
section of the School law giving the County
Superintendent the right to annul the profes
sional certificate of any teacher upon his own
mere notion, whether induced by ill-will, ca
price, prejudice or power, without any as
signed cause, affecting the capacity, integrity
or good morals of the teacher, is an arbitrary
and oppressive enactment, not in harmony
with the genius of our institutions, and de
mands repeal or amendment."
Subsequently, in a letter to the Journal,
Mr. Benedict says:
"Among the published procedings of the
Educational Association of Lancaster county,
as they appear on page 328 of the School
Journal, for May, a resolution was offered
by Mr. Davis, which originated from myself
in the Huntingdon County Institute in Febru
ary last. My object was to call the minds of
those most interested, to what seemed a defect
in our School law, in hope that - a remedy
would be found which would produce no evil
results.
"The discussion in your Association, and
the excellent and opposite remarks made by
yourself in the Journal, convince me that I
- did not over estimate the importance of the
question. I did not then, nor do I now, be
lieve that the School System needs any such
power as is referred to in the resolution, to
protect or sustain itself; but that its presence
in the law will ultimately engender dislike and
oppositon. I said then, that no Superinten
dent who valued the permanence and success
of our School system, more than lie did the
sceptre of power, would doubt the necessity
of a change in the provisio of the 41st sec
tion of the School law. I will quote its pro
vision :
" 'Provided, That the County Superinten
dent may annul any such certificate given
`by him or his predecessor in office, when he
`shall think proper, giving at least ten days'
`previous notice thereof, in writing, to the
teacher holding it and to the directors and
`controllers of the district in which lie or she
may be employed.'
" It gives to the Superintendent the power
of a despot. Without cause—without right
—without hearing, a certificated member of
an honorable profession can be disgraced.—
.Nbtice is required, it is true. It is only no
tice to quit. That notice, like the familiar of
the Inquisition, stops the envied, hated or
perhaps suspected teacher, in his quiet, faith
ful round of duties, and in ten days, his
means of livelihood and his good name are
gone. No charge is made—no accuser ap
pears—no evidence of guilt required or made
known. Innocence has .no opportunity to
prove that slander, the foulest whelp of
sin,' has done the mischief. The silent and
unseeen tread of doom overtakes the victim ;
and why, or by whom he fell is never known.
This is the spirit and letter of the law, una
dorned by the reeraininy grace, which a
wise and prudent State Superintendent
has, by his timely decision, thrown over its
deformities.
" The County Superintendency was erect
ed to individualize, and professionalize teach
ers. An arduous, responsible and meritori
ous task was theirs. It was important to fix
a standard of merit, that the place and badge
of honor might he won and wore by the de
serving. Their certficate, like the star of the
Legion of Honor, should confer dignity on
every wearer and of which none should be
despoiled but for acts which disgrace our
common manhood—crime, cruelty, or immor
al practices. I refer, of course, topernzanent
certificates. A temporary certificate expires
by it own limitation. A permanent certifi
cate once fairly won, gives its possessor a
place in his profession, and there should be
no power, any where, to force its surrender
so long as the teacher's manhood and virtue
are unsullied. In none of the professions are
all equal in eminence, yet all remain in the
profession.
"It is said the power has not been, and
will not be exercised. The first :nay be true,
(and even that I doubt ;) the latter is not
known. Experience, our nature, and the
history of the past, proves that absolute pow
er is never surrendered without a struggle ;
and now the very circumstance that any one
County Superintendent opposes the repeal of
this proviso, which gives such power, proves
that there is pleasure in the knowledge that
the thunderbolt descends at the will of its
master; and the timid tremble,—though
none be blasted by its wrath.
".Amendment is needed. Every profession
should have the power to cast out the dis
reputable. How shall this be done for the
teacher? Your suggestion is a good one. I
should be content that the County Superin
tendent should be the judge to try every
charge, upon written specifications with no
tice to the accused. Possibly your plan is
better ;—a board of teachers, with the Super
intendent.to preside, and a majority to make
up the finding; and that finding I think
should be submitted to the State Superinten
dent for approval. I trust the subject will be
discussed, now, until the remedy is found
and applied. A. W. BENEDICT.
Huntingdon, allay 13, 1858."
At the time this resolution was offered no
professional certificates had been annuled.—
Only one temporary certificate, out of more
than three hundred granted in two years, had
been annuled. Under the immediate instruc
tions of the State Superintendent, the old form
of certificates has been recently recalled and
the new form issued as far as teachers have
complied with instructions from the same
Department. The tendency of Superinten
dents, everywhere, is directly opposite to the
assumption of this resolution. Certificates
arc granted and graded above the qualifica
tions, and then tolerated until complaints are
heard and reflected upon Superintendents.—
I would regret to suppose this resolution was
offered to forestall our obedience to instruc
tions of the Department, which weie pub
lished in the School Journal; for it has al
ways afforded us pleasure to ask and receive
advice, from men of discretion and judgment,
and in an important duty like the one here
alluded to, it would be a relief to have others
share the responsibility with us; but an un
timely reproach, would compel a self-reliance,
to assume the place of conference and cor
diality.
A decision by the State Superintendent is
law in all such cases; and his instruction to
County Superintendents,—as all certificates
and instructions originate- from the same
source—requiring Superintendents to grant a
full bearing to accused teachers, will render
a patching of the acts of Assembly unneces
sary. The ability of a teacher to hold a per
manent certificate; the six directors legally
arbitrating for the right; an intelligent com-
Triunity to observe; and a State Superinten
dent to correct; all are a sufficient guaranty
against imposition. Furthermore, the an
nual conference of County Superintendents,
with the State Superintendent to hear and
determine, is vigilant in the correction of any
real inconsistencies. That body recognizes
no oracles inside or outside of it; and most
courts dwelling upon mere assurnptions,should
investigate so far as not to prove a detriment
to the general interest of education.
"And now the fact that one Superintendent
opposes," &c., &c.; no one opposed the reso
lution, no one answered it; for no one cared.
Conscious of no design we suspected none in
others. The restraining grace of the resolu
tion and letter which follows it to the Journal,
are admirably calculated to make impressions
abroad which need corrections; and it is cal
culated to engender discord where its merits
will be least understood. In political action
and in personal aggrandisement, a resort is
often hail to the establishment of false preju
dices; but in educational affairs even the ap
pearance of it should be shunned.
The duty of granting and withdrawing
certificates, I have considered with a deep
solicitude for right; seeing the path of duty
plainly, I shall pursue it, without "ill-will,
caprice, or prejudice," and unimbarrassed and
uninfluenced by either. The subject of "pro
fessionalizing teachers" deserves a separate
article, and we feel competent for the discus
sion. ALBERT OWEN,
EXIIIBMON.—Prof. Moore and lady will
give an interesting lecture, in the Court House,
on to-morrow (Thursday) evening, descriptive
of recent Travels in the Unexplored Regions
of South America. The Professor and lady
are stopping at ,Johnston's Exchange Hotel,
for three or four days, where ladies and gen
tlemen can call and examine the Indian cu
riosities obtained by them in that country.—
The Mansfield (Ohio) Herald, in noticing
an Entertainment gii , en by Prof. Moore and
lady, in that place, says :
"We congratulate the citizens of Mansfield
that we have an exhibition for a few eve
nings at Sturges & Bigelow's Hall, that is
not only calculated to amuse but instruct the
mind of both young and old, and for the
credit of ourselves as American citizens, this
entertainment should receive more than or
dinary patronage. It is not often that we
have felt ourself called upon to speak thus of
any exhibition that has visited our city; but
Prof. Moore comes to us with credentials
emanating. from the highest sources in the
United States, as an explorer in foreign
lands and a, scientific devotee to the develop
ment of natural science."
The Sword Drawn in Illinois
The intelligence from Illinois disposes of
all doubt as to the future policy of the Dem
ocratic opponents of the Cincinnati platform,
in that State, and per consequence in every
other State in the Union. The convention of
office-holders, held at Springfield on the 9th of
June, has placed in nomination a full ticket
against the regular nomination of the Demo
cratic party.
We do not speak of these things with
pleasure. They are not agreeable to onr feel
ings. But we have a duty to perform to a
great cause, and we shall not fail to discharge
that duty. A monstrous attempt is making
to crush the Democratic party to the earth.
Revolting doctrines are put forth, and made
a test. In this State these doctrines are
commanded to us by what is called the regu
lar organization of the Democratic party.—
In Illinois they are forced upon the Democra
cy over the heads of the regular organization.
In the one ease, our support is demanded for
these doctrines because they have been adopt
ed by the regular organization. In Illinois,
this support is exacted in defiance of 'all recr
ular nominations. Here we are out of the
party if we do not go for the regular nomi
nations ; there we are out of the party if we
do not - oppose them ! And to make this in
consistency acceptable, the public money is
squandered like water, and the most profli
gate scoundrels put in office to execute ven
geance upon some of the purest and most
upright citizens in the Union. It needed the
achievement of the office-holders in Illinois
to crown the column of inconsistency, pro
scription, and tyranny, which has grown out
of these events of the last nine rfionths.—
What will the Democracy of Pennsylvania
say to the new demand which is made upon
their forbearance and their fidelity ?—The
Press.
THE LUMBER BUSINESS. —During the pre
sent season, and. before the last freshet, as we
learn by statistics in the Brookville (Pa.)
Jiffersonian, there have been sent, by way of
Red Bank creek, seven hundred and fourteen
timber rafts, containing eight hundred and
eight thousand six hundred feet lineal mea
sure; also, two hundred and eleven board
rafts, containing a sum total of six millions
three hundred and forty-eight thousand feet
of sawed lumber, which, at the average of
$9 per thousand,the price this season, amounts
to the sum of $57,132. The square timber
run out of the creek will, at the lowest cal
culation measure two cubic feet to the foot
lineal, making 1,617,200 feet cubic measure
ment, Nvbich, at seven cents, amounts to $113,-
204. Add these two items together and we
have the sum of $170.336 as the value of the
productions of the forest within a few miles
of Brookville. The Clarion river, the north
ern line of the county, carries off annually
from Forest, Elk, and Jefferson, an amount
double that sent by Red Bank, while the 11a
honing valley sends through that stream, from
the southern part of the county, an amount
equal to what is done on Red Bank. These
statistics will serve to give some idea of the
value of the products and the business done
in the lumber country.
TIIE WEATnErt.—The following snatches of
poetry describe the weather of the past four
weeks pretty accurately:
It shines, it rains;
Then shines again;
What does the weather mean?
It hangs in doubt,
The sun comes out,
With drizzling mists between.
Now dark, now light,
Like night, like day,
'Tis changing, fickle weather;
It mists at times,
Then rains or shines,
And sometimes all together.
See advertisement of Pr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
Zei - See advertisement of Prof. Wood's
Hair Restorative in another column.
County Superintendent.
The Utah Difficulty—Proclamation of
President Buchanan
OFFICIAL
By fames Buchanan, President of the United
Stales of America.
WnEmis, The Territory of Utah was set
tled, by certain emigrants from the States
and from foreign countries, who have for sev
eral years past manifested a spirit of insub
ordination to the Constitution and laws of
the United States. The great mass of those
settlers, acting under the influence of leaders
to whom they seem to have surrendered their
• judgment, refuse to be controlled by any
other authority. They have been often ad
vised to obedience, and these friendly coun
sels have been answered with defiance. Of
ficers of the Federal Government have been
driven from the Territory for no offence but
an effort to do their sworn duty. Others
have been prevented from going there by
threats of assassination. Judges have been
violently interrupted in the performance of
their functions, and the records of the Courts
have been seized and either destroyed or con
cealed. Many other acts of unlawful vio
lence have been openly claimed by the lead
ing inhabitants, with at least the silent ac
quiescence of nearly all the others. Their
hostility to the lawful government of the
country has at length become so violent that
no officer bearing a commission from the
chief magistrate of the Union can enter the
Territory or remain there with safety; and
all the officers recently appointed have been
unable to go to Salt Lake, or anywhere else
in Utah beyond the immediate power of the
army. Indeed, such is believed to be the
condition to which a strange system of ter
rorism has brought the inhabitants of that
region, that no one could express an opinion
favorable to this Government, or even pro
pose to obey its laws, without exposing his
life and property to peril.
After carefully considering this state of
affairs, and maturely weighing the obligation
I was under to see the laws faithfully execu
ted, it seemed to me right and proper that I
should make such use of the military force
at my disposal as might be necessary to pro
tect the federal officers in going into the Ter
ritory of Utah, and in performing their du
ties after arriving there. I accordingly or
dered a detachment of the army to march for
the City of Salt Lake, or within reach of that
place, and to act in case of need as a posse
fur the enforcement of the laws. But, in the
meantime, the hatred of that misguided peo
ple for the
• just and legal authority of the
government had become so intense that they
resol,'ed to measure their military strength
with that of the Union. They have organ
ized an armed force far from contemptible
in point of numbers, and trained it, if not
with skill, at least with great assiduity and
perseverance. While the troops of the Uni
ted States were on their march, a train of
baggage wagons, which happened to be un
protected, was attacked and destroyed by a
portion of the Mormon forces, and the provi
sions and stores with which the train was
laden were wantonly burnt. In short, their
present attitude is one of decided and unre
served enmity to the United States and'to all
their loyal citizens. Their determination to
oppose the authority of the Government by
military force has not only been expressed in
words, but manifested in overt acts of the
most unequivocal character.
Fellow-citizens of Utah, this is a rebellion
against the Government to which you owe
allegiance. It is levying war against the
United States, and involves you in the guilt
of treason. Persistance in it will bring you
to condign punishment, to ruin, and to shame;
fur it is mere madness to suppose that with
your limited resources, you can successfully
resist the force of this great and powerful-na
tion.
If you have calculated upon the forbear
ance of the United States—if you have per
mitted yourselves to suppose that this Gov
ernment will fail to put forth its strength
and bring you to submission—you have fal
len into a grave mistake. You have settled
upon territory which lies geographically in
the heart of the Union. The land you live
upon was purchased by the United States,
and paid for out of their treasury. The pro
prietary right and title to it is in them, and
not in you. Utah is bounded on every side
by States and Territories, whose people are
true to the Union. It is absurd to believe
that they will or can permit you to erect in
their very midst a Government of your own,
not only independent of the authority which
they all acknowledge, but hostile to them
and their interests.
Do not deceive yourselves nor try to mis
lead others by propogating the idea that this
is a crusade against your religion. The Con
stitution and laws of this country can take
no notice of your creed, whether it be true
or false. That is a question between your
God and yourselves, in which I disclaim all
right to interfere. If you obey the laws,
keep the peace and respect the just rights of
others, you will be perfectly secure and may
live on in your present faith or change it for
another at your pleasure. Every intelligent
man among you knows very well that this
Government has never, directly or indirectly,
sought - to molest you in your worship, to con
trol you in your ecclesiastical• affairs, or even
to influence you in your religious opinions.
This rebellion is not merely a violation of
your legal duty ; it is without just cause,
without reason, without excuse. You never
made a complaint that was not listened to
with patience. You never exhibited a real
grievance that was not redressed as promptly
as it could be. The laws and regulations
enacted for your Government by Congress,
have been equal and just, and their enforce
ment was manifestly necessary for your own
welfare and happiness. You have never
asked their repeal. They are similar in
every material respect to the laws which
have been passed for the other Territories of
the Union, and which everywhere else (with
one partial exception) have been cheerfully
obeyed. No people ever lived who were
freer from unnecessary legal restraints than
you. Human wisdom never devised a politi
cal system .which bestowed more blessings
or imposed lighter burdens than the Govern
ment of the United States in its operations
upon the Territories.
But being anxious to save the effusion of
blood, and to avoid the indiscriminate pun
ishment of a whole people for crimes of
which it is not probable that all are equally
guilty, I offer now a. full and free pardon to
all who will submit themselves to the author
ity of the Federal Government. If you re
fuse to accept it, let the consequences fall
upon your own heads. But I conjure you
to pause deliberately and reflect well before
you reject this tender of peace and good will.
Now, therefore, I, James Buchanan, Presi
dent of the United States, have thought prop
er to issue this my proclamation, enjoining
upon all public officers in the Territory of
Utah, to be diligent and faithful, to the full
extent of their power, in the execution of the
laws ; commanding all citizens of the United
States in said Territory to aid and assist the
officers in the performance of their duties ;
offering to the inhabitants of Utah, who shall
submit to the laws, a free pardon for the se
ditions and treasons heretofore by them com
mitted; warning those who shall persist,
after notice of this proclamation, in the pres
ent rebellion against the United States, that
they must expect no further lenity, but. look
to be rigorously dealt with according to their
deserts; and declaring that the military force
now in Utah, and hereafter to be sent there,
will not be withdrawn until the inhabitants
of that Territory shall manifest a proper
sense of the duty which they owe to this
Government.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to he affixed to these presents.
[L. s.] Done at the city of Washington,
the sixth day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight, and of the Indepen
dence of the United States the eighty--second.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
By the President:
LEWIS CASS, Secretary of State.
President's Message on Utah Affairs.
He considers the difficulties terminated,Vo
occasion for the 'Volunteers.
WASHINGTON, June 10.—A message was
received by Congress to-day from the Presi
dent enclosing a copy of the despatch from
Governor Cumming, dated May 2d, received
at the State Department yesterday.
From the tenor of this despatch the Presi
dent says he has reason to believe that our
difficulties with Utah have terminated, and
the laws been restored.
Ile congratulates Congress on this auspi
cious event, and he expresses the opinion that
there is no occasion to make an appropriation
for the three regiments of volunteers author
ized for the purpose of quelling the distur
bances in Utah, and for the protection of
emigrant trains and supplies. Texas can be
defended by the regular troops now within
her limits.
The President is more gratified, because
the events in Utah will afford some relief to
the Treasury, and not require a loan and an
additional taxation on the people.
In the letter to Secretary Cass, Gov. Cum
ming says he left the camp on the sth of
April, en route to Salt Lake City, accompanied
by Col. Kane, as his guide, and two servants.
In passing through the settlements, he was
greeted with such respectful attentions as
were due to the representative of the Execu
tive authority of the United States in a Ter
ritory. Near the Warm Springs, at a line
dividing the Great Salt Lake from Davis
county, he was - honored with a formal and
respectful reception by many gentlemen, in
cluding the Mayo'r and municipal officers of
the city, and by them escorted to lodgings
previously provided—the Mayor occupying a
seat at his side in the carriage.
Ex-Governor Young paid him a visit of cere
mony as soon as he was sufficiently relieved
from the fatigue of his journey to receive
company. In a subsequent interview Ex-
Governor Young evinced a willingness to
afford him every facility he might require for
the efficient performance of his administrative
duties. Brigham Young's course in this re
spect, Governor Cumming perceived, met with
the approval of a majority of the Salt Lake
community.
The Territorial seal, with other public pro
perty, was tendered to Governor Cumming by
Wm. 11. Hooper, the late acting Secretary of
the Territory. The records and library re
main unimpaired. Gov. Cumming entered
upon the performance of his official duty.—
With feelings of profound regret he learned
that the agent, Wm. Hurt, was charged with
having incited to acts of hostility the Indians
in the Vinta valley. The information came
from Mr. Hooper. He hoped that Mr. Hurt
could vindicate himself from the charges, yet
they demand an investigation.
Governor Cumming had informed Gen.
Johnston that be should probably be com
pelled to make a requisition for a sufficient
force to chastise the Indians. At every point
he was recognized as the Governer of Utah,
and received with a military salute the houses
being illuminated in his honor.
Having heard numerous complaints, Gov.
Cumming caused public notice to be posted
signifying his readiness to relieve those who
deemed themselves aggrieved by being ille
gally restrained of their liberty and assur
ing the protection of all persons. He kept
his office open at all hours, night and day,
and respited fifty-six men, thirty-three wo
men, and seventy-one children, as desirous
of his protection and evincing their disposi
tion of proceeding to the United States. A
large majority of these people were of Eng
lish birth, and were promised assistance to be
removed.
Governor Cumming says that his visit to
the Tabernacle will never be forgotten.—
There were between three and four thousand
persons assembled for the purpose of public
worship. There was the usual profound si
lence when he appeared. Brigham Young
introduced him as the Governor of Utah, and
Governor Cumming addressed them for half
an hour, telling them that it was his purpose
to uphold the Constitution, and that he would
expect their obedience to all lawful author
ity, assuring them of his determination to
administer equal and exact justice, &c. He
was listened to respectfully. lie invited re
sponses, and several spoke, referring in exci
ted tones to the murder of Joseph Smith, to
the services rendered by the Mormon battal
ion in the Mexican war, and recapitulated a
long chapter of their wrongs. The tumult
fearfully increased, but an appeal from Brig
ham Young restored calmness. Several after
ward expressed regret at their behaviour.
Governor Cumming proceeds to describe
the exodus of the Mormons. The people, in
cluding the inhabitants of Salt Lake, in the
northern part of the Territory, are leaving ;
the roads are everywhere filled with wagons
loaded with provisions and household furni
ture, the women and children following after,
without shoes or hats, driving their flocks
they know not where. They seemed not only
content, but cheerful. It is the will of the
Lord, they say, and they rejoice to change
the comforts of home for the trials of the wil
derness. Their ultimate destination was not
fixed upon. Going South seemed to be suffi
cient to designate the place, but from the
private remarks of Young in the Tabernacle,
Governor Cumming thinks that they are
going to Sonora.
Brigham Young, Kimball, and most of the
influential men, had left their commodious
mansions to swell the ranks of the emigrants.
The masses everywhere announced to Gov
ernor Cumming that the torch will be applied
to every house indiscriminately throughout
the country as soon as the troops attempt to
cross the mountains. The people, though
scattered, every means would be taken to
rally them. Some of the Mormons are yet
in arms, and the Governor speaks of the mis
chief they are capable of rendering as Guer
illas. The way for the emigrants to the Pa
eific is open.
Governor Cumming says that he would
leave for the South on the 3d of May. He
says that he will restrain all the proceedings
of the• military for the present, and until he
shall receive additional instructions from the
President.
State Agricultural Society.
[From the Harrisburg Daily licrald.}
MESSRS. EDITORS :—The second meeting
for the year, of the members of the Execu- ,
tive Committee of the Society was held in
this place on Tuesday, the Bth inst., and
evinced continued interest in the subject of .
agriculture. There was a large delegation
from Allegheny county, representing the
County Agricultural and Horticultural Spool: ,
eties, each of which seem determined to ex"-
eft their best efforts to make the Exhibition
in September creditable and attractive.
It was determined, after full discussion or
the subject, that in all the leading articles
for exhibition there should be sweep-stake.
premiums, with an increased entrance fee--
a new feature, and one we think that will
add interest to the exhibition.
It was also decided that the ploughing
match, which, by the increased attention thus
drawn to this most important subject conec
ted with farming, has conduced more to the
benefit of agriculture, than any feature con
nected with State or County fairs, should be
held oniThursday, instead of Friday, as here
tofore, thus affording the Judges more time
to do justice to both ploughs and plough
men.
A number of propositions were received
from public spirited members in different
parts of the State, to furnish on very Met.-
al terms, a full - blood Durham Bull, offered
as a premium to the County Society that
should furnish the largest membership to
the State Society, previous to the first of Sep
tember next. The offer of John S. Goe, Esq.,
of Brownsville, Fayette county, was accepted
by the Board, subject to the approval of a
Committee consisting of Messrs. Stokes,
Snodgrass, and Wright. Mr. Goe very gen
erously offers as a premium a Spanish Meri
no Buck for the largest and best herd of cat
tle, to be on exhibition at the State Fair. I
would respectfully call the attention of Pres
idents and Secretaries of County societies
throughout the State to this premium, and as
time remains for competition, remark that
Bucks county leads the line of subscription
for the Bull.
The Premium List has been carefully re
vised by a competent committee, and 1500
copies ordered for circulation. The Secreta
ry will be pleased to forward copies to any
who may desire them, upon their writing to
Harrisburg.
A communication was laid before the com
mittee, from the officers of the Pa. 11. 11. Co.,
in which they kindly remark that excursion
tickets will be opened and articles carried as
heretofore, "it being the wish of the compa
ny to promote the success of your laudable
enterprise as far as they consistently can."
A General Superintendent of the grounds
and Superintendents for the different depart
ments of Horticulture, the ring, cattle depart
ment, on sheep and swine, on poultry, farm
implements, domestic hall, dairy and house
hold manufactures, mechanics' hall, artists'
hall, &c., were appointed.
Professor S. S. Haldeman, of Columbia.,
presented the Society, for the library, copies
of his new and valuable work, " The History
and Transformation of Corydolus Cormuties,"
with beautiful plates of the appearance and
anatomy of the insect in its different steps of
existence, with several other valuable books.
The Secretary was directed to send a cir
cular to each member of the Executive Com
mittee, asking them to furnish President Da
vid Taggart, at Northumberland, ten or twen
ty names of persons residing in their congres
sional district, to be placed upon the list of
Judges, being careful to secure such only as
will be likely to attend, and he takes this
method of making that request, not only of
the Vice Presidents,' but of all interested in
the prosperity of the Society throughout the
State.
A. O. lIIESTER, Secretary.
Disastrous Floods at the West
LAFAYETTE, la., June 11, 1858.—1 t com
menced raining here at twelve o'clock on
Wednesday noon, and poured down almost
incessantly until this (Friday) morning. The
Wabash river rose with frightly rapidity, and
the inhabitants on the river bottoms awoke
in the morning to find their homes filling
with water, and were obliged to escape in
boats, and swimming on horses. The Wea
and Wild Oat creeks, two small streams, rose
in a few hours to raging floods. The Toledo,
Wabash, and Western railroad, across the
Wea creek, was entirely swept away, doing
damage to the amount of $20,000.
There are two more breaks west, and not
less than five culverts east, on the same road,
are also gone. There are besides three other
serious breaks.
It is impossible to estimate the damage to
the Wabash and Erie canal. At Walcott the
feeder fur the level, four miles east, the lock
and dam and five hundred feet of the em
bankment are gone. The State bridge is
also gone, and there are seven breaks between
here and there. There are also several large
breaks at Attica, Dauphin, Logansport and
Wabash. It will be impossible to use the
canal again this summer.
One bridge and several culverts on the La
fayette and Indianapolis railroad have been
swept away.
The Wabash river is still rising, and im
mense quantities of saw logs, rails, &c., are
sweeping past. No trains or mails can leave
for several days. Whole farms are under
water. A large quantity of grain stowed in
barns will be a total loss.
HARD TIMES AT TEE WEST.-It is strange
to read of such a condition of affairs at the
West as that usually denominated " hard
times," and yet there is abundant evidence
that it is so. The following paragraph from
the Easton (Pa.) Argus tells the tale: "Mon
ey is so scarce there (Wisconsin) that it can be
readily loaned out at from twenty to forty
per cent. per annum—with the prospect that
it will stay loaned out for years to come.—
Where money commands such exorbitant
rates of interest the country certainly cannot
be prosperous. Farm produce is worth al
most nothing. We read a letter several days
ago from a former citizen of Easton, who
now resides in a town in Wisconsin. Ile
says butter is selling there at 10 cents a
pound ; eggs 5 cents a dozen ; potatoes 12i
cents a bushel, and other things in propor
tion ; and as to money, he does not believe
the whole population of the town, number
ing some 2,500, could raise over $5OO in
cash."