The Huntingdon Journal, J. R. DI7RBORItOW, HUNTINGDON, PEN N' A. Wednesday Morning, March 27, 1872 Republican State Convention lIIADQVAIITERS REPUBIICAr STATE CEATIAL Consarru of Pen icanvsms. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 5,1872. In pursuance of the resolution of the Republican State Central Committee, adopted et Harrisburg.Jannery 18th, 1872, a Republican State Convention. composad of dele gates from each Sena oriel and Representative district,in the number to which such district is entitled fu the Lea filature, will meet in the Hall of the House of Represen tatives, at Harrisburg, at 11 o'clock, noon, on Welnesday, the 10th day of April, A. a. 1872, to nominate canthdates for Governor, Judge of the Supreme Court, Auditor Gen eral (should the Legislature provide for the choice of one by the people), and en Electoral Ticket; and also to elect Senatorial and Representative delegates to represent the State to the Republican National Convention, to be held at Philadelphia, June 5, 1672. RUSSELL ERRETT, W. Elmore, 1 Chairman. D. F. Horsros, 6ecrotar. Itzas. P. M. Lana, ti@l_ The steamer Hassler, with Agassiz and party, is at Montevideo. stiar It is expected that both Houses of Congress will adjourn on the 29th of May. ,t *1". The election in Utah returned Fuller, a full-fledged Mormon, to Congress. England is advancing towards a republican form of government, which cannot be long delayed. is- Hon. F. H. Lane. of the House of Representatives, will please accept our thanks for valuable public documents. y. • OUL of the 780,000 shares of Erie stock, less than 250,000 are owned in the United States. The press in Russia almost univer sally sides with the United States in their views of the Alabama claims and Treaty of Washington. Ate' On Thursday last a driving snow storm prevailed in London, and at noon the fog and storm made the city as dark as at the midnight hour. re— Chief Clerk, James M. Swank, Esq., of the Department of Agriculture, will accept our thanks for a copy of the Monthly Report for February. per. The Congressional Investigations in Washington into the sale of arum and other alleged frauds, are drawing to a close, without discovering irregularities. ta, The Massachusetts legislative com mittee on the subject, have reported a re solution to amend the State Constitution so as to give women the right to vote. Da— The Governor has again appointed Prof. Wickersham Superintendent of Com mon Schools for the period of three years. No better appointment could be made. va.. A delegation from the Japanese Embassy at Washington, D. C., have been in Philadelphia for a week past, inspecting the machine shops and other industrial establishments of that city. Sir A late London letter says the collapse of the Tichborne trial was due to the want of funds on the part of the claim ant. He is still in jail on the charge of perjury, and unable to procure bail. war Hon. R. M. Speer will accept thanks for a copy of his very neat and appropriate little speech in favor of an ap propriation to William and Mary College, destroyed by our soldiers during the rebel lion. Oar Election in Connecticut on Mon day, April lst. — The Republican candidate for Governor is Marshall Jewell; Demo cratic candidate, R. D. Hubbard. The canvass is lively on both sides. liar Horace F. Clarke, the new presi dent of the Union Pacific Railroad Com pany, has cancelled all passes heretofore issued by Col. Scott, the retiring presi dent, and proposes to run his road on an economical principle. ifst- The latest accounts from Rouma nia, state that the Jews arestill persecuted there with great severity. At Cabul a population of one thousand Jews were fear fully pnnished.and routed, and their syn agogues filthily polluted. ges. Owing to the renunciation by France of the commercial treaty with England, the passage by the French As sembly of a bill taxing raw materials, is said to be certain. Thiers has persistently urged this measure, against much opposi- Mir The Local Option Bill has passed the Senate, striking out the township, ward and borough clause, and submitting the question of license to counties and cities. The House will no doubt concur, and the bill, as it now stands, will become sm. Harry E. Shafer, Esq., editor of nit we were off fix An one for a "move." When we are housed in "ye ancient borough," which will be this week, you will always find us at our post. Come again. JAY' On the outside of to day's JOURNAL we publish the able speech of Hon. John Scott, on the tariff, delivered in the U. S. Senate, .on the 15th day of March, 1872, pending the question to repeal the duty on salt. This speech should be read by --every voter in the land. am, We welcome the Philadelphia Post back to our table. We like the Post for its independence, and hope the day may not be far distant when through it Phila delphia may boast the equal of any of the great New York dailies. We assure it that the JOURNAL is an independent and ont-spoken Republican newspaper, not controlled by any ring or faction, and rigidly opposed to anything of the kind. ger Wm. Fullerton, an ex-judge, testi_ fled before the judiciary committee, New York, that the fifty thousand dollars paid him by the Union Pacific railroad was given to the late James Fisk as hush-mon ey in the settlement of Fisk's suit against the Union Pacific, Witness said this pro ceeding was confidential at the time, but now he felt that he could make this expla nation. Fisk bad declared that he would probably be laughed at if it was understood that be had taken that amount. THE SOUTHERN STATES 1882 AND 1872 EDITOR Down to 1860 Southern statesmen, cap italists and planters were free traders.— Congressmen from that section ofthe Union invariably opposed every measure that fa vored a system of protection to manufac tures. They were opposed even to the in troduction of manufactories in the South. In a work of nine hundred pages entitled "Cotton is King," by E. N. Elliott, L. L. D., President of. Planters' College, Missis sippi, published in 18G0, and embracing the writings and views of Cartwright, Stringfellow, Hammond, Harper, Christie, Hodge and Blodsoc, it is stated that '•lf manufacturing could be prevented, and a system of free trade be adopted, the South would constitute the principal provision market of the country." And again : "If they could establish free. trade it would insure the Am