.THE PEOPLE'S JO,IIRNAL , JNO. S. MANN, .} EDITORS EDWIN HASKELL, FIDELITY TO THE PEOPLE I ! A 1 = a I I 1 1 Va MM 1 i = PENNSV LVANI State Temperance Convention: A Mass Convention of the friends of Prohi bition wit lie held in 11arrisburg, on the 20th' and 27 of Jinni:it's next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. ‘Yettope CA Clycity and town anti tempemnce ergauszatien will I.e represented fully. Never have we met nadir such circumstances as the present. Voters of Pennsylvania, come up to the bletropolis Lind Beet the good men ynu have elvcted to enact slaw suppresing the the the drinking houses and tippling shops. Hieing:fit - lied 'men from other Statas will be with us to firsist in our delibeTatens. Ed itors will please inse=Ws call; and clergymen are requested to read it their congregations. By order of the State Gen. Com.-: T. WAI SON, Ch it. E. W. JACKSON, Car. SeOr nary Phil. November IS. 1853. The year 1854 begins nn , • nds on Sunday ; there are five moat; . in the year that contain five Sung: ys, and there are fifty-three Sundays Jn the year. Such a coincident will not occur again for twenty-eight. years. f... ' Ur - Millport Lodge of IGood Tern- 1 plans is still flourishing bet nd all ac counts. At their last meeting they had the pleasure of initiating Mr. D. B. Pierson, a leading lumber merchant of C.-414:innati, whose presence in the Lodge :noon created great enthusiasm, and gave unusual pleasure. This Lodge no ' numbers 140 members. Or There will be ~ ; Tem r meeting in Homer, at th Sch e' near Jacob Peet's, on W do r ing next, Jan. 17. Lett out. la' Our thanks are due to Hon. HORACE GREELEY, (or a neatly printed copy of his " Address before the India na State Agricultural Society." This address is published by those / ern terprising book sellers, Messrs,- Fowlers and Wells, and is retailed at 12/cents per copy. It is one the be is things Greeley ever got oft; and if rfarniers would generally read - it, i would be worth more to each man i of them, than the best cow on their' pl / ace. Where is thu Agrictshuml Society of Pc?er Coun ty I _---_ --'. lir We welcome to y our table '-' 'The Free American 4 . an Independent fami ly,l. 'newspap-r/ by Moore and Compton. at one dollerind fifty cents pe T annum in advance The .American is oVmedi • .. • •,./ivell- printed, and start/d on the right principle. We trust the independ ent , Tot , rs of Erie County will trot sutler it to expire for want of support, as they ./ d d the Crescent. Such a paper as the American is much needed in Erie ; and / the men who voted for -Isle and Julian in 1852 are abundantly able to sustain it. Give this paper a generous support, and the cause of progress will b/ greatly benefited. .1 The Slave Power on the Bench. The Free States with a population . of nearly fourteen millions,have. four Judges on the Circuits' of the United States Courts. The Slave states with n popu• lation of little more than six millions" bate fire Judges. Every one of those in the free States with the exception of McKean, were selected with especial referer 'ion on Slavery.— Mune•. Thu more 0 Slave ree States with populationof the .s than half the Supreme Synch. And the same rule is applicable/wherever . Slavery is in cr ested ; ' Ea that the whole power and in fluence of this great Nation is brought to bear in support of, Slavery- F - and pre tended Detnocrati at the north bend their necks to this hateful despotisnz.— 'rhanikto the agitation of this question, the number who thus bend the knee to the dark 'spirit of Slavery," grow less, and less every year. A race of free men ore coming on to the stage ofaction, on whom the raw materialVa true man; has not been wasted. I The ' Templar and Watchman, ORLANDO LUND, Editor, and published at Ithaca N. .Y, at $l,OO per annum, has reached its 15th number ; and is al. ready of of the best ancrmost popular papers of its kind. It is edited with tact and ability, and ought to be on file in every Lodge'room in the Nation. See notice 9 , lithe organization of the Grand Lodge, of Pennsylvania, which we take mm its columns. FP The Independint Press, of Wit liscusport, comes out strongly in favor of Single Districts.. We hope toss t• every Independent pap& in the tate urging 414queition on the antion the next iSestalure. A ii f In another cplumn make an extract from: the letter of S. P. Chase to A..Pedgarton, a member_ of Congress from the sth Congressional Distrtct of Ohio. This letter has been published in pam phlet form, and is one of the best docu ments for distribution that has lately ap peared.. We advise our friends who fa- Tot missionary movements, -to procure a copy of this admirable letter, and see if if is not just the thing to scatter light in. the dark places around them. If it is, send a dollar to Mr. Chase, and we will warrant a return that will more than pay. Mr We publish on the first page', an excellent hit at the babyish complaint . frequently madeagainst school each s: The article is taken from the' / lea' / 1 ' calk, a paper got up, and ad irably conducted by the students of e Cou deriport Academy. Our ci 1 ens would / do well to attend and hear t read, for it .shows up our short corn' g-s in a truth ful, but unexceptiona e-style. ....4...._____. _ ILY' A Lodge o ' / been instituted 1 Pa. ;. and an z" ren (20. " l Eir .. e .-- I;k .-- th — g, - p — eopi - e 57 -ot the Coun ty to ote the fact, that he county com m"..sioners, in one Week, settled With / e Treasurer and Sheriff, made sup / ' their annual statements for publication, drew the Jury for the yeir, made their annual appointments rand transacted much other bisiness, which has hereto fore/ taken,two and three weeks, but has never , been done in one week before. This the result of electing men to office who /are thoroughly qualified to dis charge Ate-duties of the position. Will the 7 voters. of the County bear this,in mind at the next election ? ../. erance (al-House esday -even re be a.turn Our readers will 6nd on the the third page A number of new advertisements among which we would ask their atten tion ttia Stat. Meat of the funds, and the r c.eip.s aid expendilure'S of Potter Coun ty for 1f...5:1. and a notice of .a sale of unseated hinds belonging to the County. Alci an advertisement of new bocks t.t the Journal Book ; and another by I'. B.. T yler of thepiug & Book Store, notifying the public that County Orders will be taken at the face; ,and that of Lewis Mann's referrO . to in our last. We call particular attention to :a couple of . advertisements of Lancet' & C.o, of Wellsville, N. Y. • THAT ODIOUS RESOLUTION', AGAIN.- Those of our readers who attended the anti - -fugiiive-slave'-bifl meeting held in the Court House March 10, 1851, will Well remember the epithets stowed on the following resolution, 'by the then champions of Hunkerism in 'this Coun ty. We 'reprint the resolution because it contains a great truth, wViCh cannot be repeated too often while Slavery has an existence under our flag. The resolu tion is as follows: . . Resolved, That the enormous capital of fifteen hundred millions of dollars, invested in slaves as claimed by the Slveholders, and acting as a ; unit, is a power dangerous to our liberties, espe• daily- when we.see that power constant ly dispos'id to make encroachmens upon the rights of the non-slaveholders of this Nation. Is this resolution true ? If. it be, then the freemen of this State ought to face the dangers to which it alludes, and over throw the power which is encroaching on, their rights. The truthfulness of the resolution" is abundantly sustained by the: history of the last-twenty years; nay, by the his tory of the last three years. A portion of this history as tersely stated by the Hon. S. P. Chase, in a letter . to A. P.: Edgarton, representative in Congress from the sth Cangressional: District of Ohio. The letter is dated Nov. 14, 1853; and like every thing .coming from the pen of Mr. Chase, is thorough, and 'un answerable. Read the following extract, and then say what you think of the res olution : • , " You may say that some, who con curred in the declarations 1 have quoted, have avowed other opinions since. That may - be. I am not ignorant, nor are you, of that great Slave interest, wielding a capital invested in human beings, of not less than fifteen hundred millions of dol lars, and coritralling, directly, the politi- Octal action of nearly half of the States; and exerting a potential influence over that of all the rest—the great concen trated .money and political power, in obe dience to which 'politicians " turn around arid turn around" with as vitsb facility as Jim Urow ever perform'Mis fantas tic evolutions at the command of his mas ter. 1 am not ignorpt, nor are you, how many, elected (o represent the in terest of farriers,' mechanics, laborers, and traders of the Free States, when they reach Washington devote their Good Templars'' has at Waterford, E l lie Co., 4ter in Townsville, War- New AdverWements. / most assiduous efforts to secure their own elevation thrhugb the, favor of the. Slave Power, in utter disregard of the real sentiments arid interest of their constitu ents, relying upon party dril and the fa vor of an adrriinistratied, itself indebted to this power for its existence, to keep the voters in the traces at home. Is it not strange that, ulyier such circurnstan, / ces, some who o declared' strongly in favor of Freed m, have since professed themselves i favor .of Slavery. But the convict' ns of the people do not so easilych age. They may for a time deviate rom the line which those con victio s require them to pursue under the nfluence ot party, but it will only b: for a time." The Troubles at Erie, Pa. There has, been •much , ,nunciation cast out against the .pe of Eiie, for the disturbance of travel ; but we advise our New York and Cleveland neighbors, to keep cool. Hard words don't convince. any body. The. following from Gov. Bigler's Message is a clear and candid statement of the difficulty; and, until it can be answered with something better than denunciation, we 'shall continue to sympthize with our Erie neighbors: al though we have no eicuse to offer for their destruction of property, which we think not only a crime, but a blunder.—. Says Governor Bigler : Recent occurence at the City of Erie evince an intensity of feeling among the people, seldom e led on a question of this kind, to tatting riot only the pro priety, but necessity,lor prompt legisla tive action as to the rights of this compa ny. It must .fie clear .to the impartial oh i.s.erver, that the Legislature never in.- ',tended, by any previous act, to author ize tt e ainstrutt on of a railroad between . the City of Erie and the Ohio line. In deed the highest trtbunal in the State has expressed the opinion that no such' au thority can be found in the charter of the Franklin Canal Company ; and, in my opinion, the grant should hereafter Lr Made on such conditions only. pretest and ,advancec the interest of the people of Pennsylvania, so far as they may be involved in the sutect. It so happens that Pennsylvania holds the key to this important link of connection b-?•ween the Eest and the West, and I most - unhesitatingly say, -that where •no principle of amity or commerce - is to be vinlated,'it is the right and duty of‘the. State to tuft' her naiirral advantages to the promotion of the• views and welfare of hor own people.. It may be. said that a restriction that would require.a break of railroad gauge at the harbor of Erie, would be" the use of - an - illiberal principle. The answer if, that the neces'stty for a break of gauge between the Ohio line; aitd the Seaboard exists, as a consequence of :a difTerence of - width of the New Yoik nod Ohio Reads. The only question td settle, therefore, i•elates tattle point at Which it should occur. I have been able -to dis cover no reasons, founded in public pol icy, why the break should be fixed. at Buffalo, that do not apply -with equal force in favor of Erie. Tun &acre and passengers can be as well transhipped at the latter, as:at the former city.:, • So far as concerns the benefits to eith-. er city, in idant to a transhippment, the idea is unworthy of notice. BLit the et3ects of a brealeof gauge, and conse quent transhippment east of: Erie, upon the business of that harbor, must be par ,alyzing, if not fatal. It would virtually require the shipments to be made either at Cleveland or Buffalo. Scarcely less embarrassing would thii_arrangement he upon the interests of ,the Sunbury4nd Erie Road, or any other avenue that may hereafter connect the lakes with the City of Philadelphia. "It may be that neighboring States, pos sessing similar natural advantages, would give them away for our benefit, but I have not been able to discover any fact in their former policy, to justify such a conclusion. I shall await your action with anxiety. Groggeries and Crime. We have asserted that rum selling, always produces misery, pauperism and crime. We think we have abundantly proved this assertion ; but as those houses, in this County, which continue to sell the deadly poison in defiance of law, public opinimi, and commob hones ty, are still patronized -by respectable men, we shall continue to :pile up tio proof. . The following is an extract from the Report of the Grand. Jury of Schuyl kill County, made Dec. 9, 1853: • The, alarming prevalence of Intem perance in the County imperatively demands the special attention of. the Ju ry. 'Tracing effects to causes, the Jury cannot fail to recognize this as the great - fountainhead of crime among our peo ple. Besides the corruption 'of public morals, and the development of vicious and criminal prppensities ; its obNuous and direct results, to the common injury to the whole community, are 'impaired ' health, additional pauperism, the estab-, lishinent and 'encouragement of indolent habits, interruption of business and largely increased taxes. The connection' of Intemperance with crime and pau ,serism is so intimate, that it is a notice ble fact that the number of criminal cases brought before the CoOrt and the inmates of the. Alms House, from dif- ferent sections of the County, are in di rect Proportion to - the number of grog• genies they respectively contain. Of Fifty-two cases brought before the Jury, Twenty were directly traceable to Intemperance, and a careful examination of the Records shows that an average of two-thirds of the criminal business of this Court is induced by the same cause.. An evil of such comprehensive =pi.._ tude, reaching to al! classes and condi tions of society, deserves- the' most seri ous consideration of every good citizen, to the end that an effectual remedy he speedily provided. The Plink Road. The Genesee Rives Plank Road Co. are receiving enormous revenues from tolls collected on the Road. Last week the gateage amounted io over one hun deed dollars. it must be paying finely, and were it continued to Coudersport, with a branch running to the Honeyoye, it ‘Vould have no equal within our knowl edge. Will our friends at.the capitol of Potter set about it,' and see if it can't be done? Such a work would make Wells ville and Coudersport flourish. We're coming up there in a few days, friends, to talk the , matter corer seriously. =--Wellsville Free Press. Come on, we will bid you God speed in any work of proaress that you may undertake. There was a time, when we thought a plank road" could - be built by by our people to the State line. = But we have come to the conclusion that it is no use for us to say any more on that subject, at least for the present. Trying to RescusrAle a Humbug. The Free ' Soiirs and Abolitionists, throughout the country, are making a desperate effort to renew the agitation'of the Slavery wtion, and again foment sectional animosity throughout the coun try.. The division of the Democracy of New York is F.eized upon as an event affording a pretext. for this movement. Gerritt Smith leads off the dance in Con gress, and Greeley, of the Neio York Tribune, .assumes a kind of .fatherly protectorate over the whole affair through out the length and breadthf the coun try. This is but the exyiting, eflort of. abolitionism, however, and will fail to accomplish any thing intended by its promoters. The abolitionists•have com pleted their record in the political histo, ry of the country. Even the hot bloods of the South laugh at the venomless fa naticism, and let pass in silence the oft repeated and worn out schedule of - frothy abolition speeches.—/. ? ycorning Gazette. The expiring effort of abolitionism" has been witnessed so many times that it has ceased to give consolation t o any body. The most stupid hunker l. that ever cringed at the foot of his master, knows, that ittationism will , never ex pire ‘'hila ti single slave clanks the chain at tyrants have forced him to wear: As ;or intelligent slaveholciers, 7 they were never deceived by any such twad dle. , Just compare the above language of a Northern doughface, with the fol lowing from the pen of a frank Ispoken slaveholder, and say which is nearest the truth. • • i " There is rib intelligent man of any] party . or section. in the United States,] who does not know and' feel that then question of Slavery is The vital question' of this republic—more important in 'its 'bearings, than moral, political, and reli gious questions combined. Politicians marcry peace—peace; but there is no peace for the slave-holder. Partisan in trigues may counsel silence and sbumis sion, in the face of'incessant Machina tions against the institution, at, home and abroad ; but eternal vigilance is the only word of safety for the friends of the Union and the people of the South. Up on the final settlement of this question in oar own national councils and organ izations, depend the commercialyßros perity or i the United States—the perm= anency of the Union—and all the hopes and destinies of mankind that are, staked upon the success of free government. CP'.The whole number of places where alcoholic liquors are sold in this City, i 57,193. Unlicensed, 1,222; re ported disorderly, 1,058; with grocery shops 3,789 ; larger beer shops 1,088 ;- exclusively wholesale 183. .01 the tav erns for travellers there are, only 336.- FirSt Woad, 452 drinking shops ; Second 169; Third, 309 ; Fourth, 510; Fifth, 285; Sixth, 737; Seventh, 320; Eighth, 325 Ninth 268; Tenth, 238 ; Eleventh, :594: Twelfth, 116 ; Thirteenth, 197 ; Fourteeth, 380; Fifteenth, 175; Six teenth, 335; Seventeeth, 450,; Eight eenth, 597; Nineteenth, 425; Twenti eth, 380. Of the whole number, 5,894 sell three cent drinks; 1,002 six cent drinks ;'24 one-shilling drinks;l,2ll are closed on Sundays ; 930 have gam bling 1,043 are kept by Arnericnns or pernn's calling thsmselves such ; 3,270 by Germans ; 2,357 by Irish . ; 234 by other foreigners ; 233 by women, and 22 by colored people. Open on Sundays, 5,893. Drinking places where boxing matches are allowed, 11 ; resorts -of thieves, 126 ; resorts of prostitutes, full - 500 ; billiards, 216 ; dancehouses of pros titates, etc., 162; dog-fights allovied in 6; rat-killing allowed in 4; cock•6;ht ing allowed in 7.—AT. Y. Tribune. REcEII4.—To become popnlar.— Join. the strongest church and all secret societies. - Single Districts. The People's Journal, in a recent number, advocates the formation of Sin-. gle 4epresentative Districts, for the suf ficient reason that such a measure is necessary to give a fair. expression to the popular will, in our smaller counties. Other journals have already spoken out updin the Subject, and we deem it proper to aid in directing the public mind - to the proposed reform. It has hitherto suited the ;designs of intriguing politicians, to have, districts so arranged that a secret understanding with knowing ones of like political faith; would secure the control of adjoining counties, by joining their political destiny to !heir own, and thui perhaps set at defiance the pbpular soy- . ereignty, or drown the voice of the peo ple, in the smallerccinties, by the over whelming din of popular.clamor,among their overgrown neighbors. Now, we have noiresitation in avow ing our admiration of, and devotion to, demOcratic principles; but, inasmuch as in a'country so large, populous and un wieidly as ours, a pure democracy is praCtically 'impossible, we are prepared to adopt and advocate its nearest possi ble approxjniation. As the people can not themselves meet . in yearly council; it is proper that they should do it by their own representatives.' and ,not by men whom some domineering neighbors , • , may have chosen for the purpose. When one county has not a sufficient population to entitle it to a single mem ber,f it is perfectly proper 'that a neigh boring county should be added to make up the deficienCy, but we can conceive of no necessity for joining three, or four or a half- dozen counties together in the election of two or more members, and can discern na other utility in such ger aymandering mayOrmations, than -se curing an undue ascendiincy to the dom inant political party. We are leased to learn that in the 'plan for the consoli dation of the city arid districts, there is an arrangement to secure single districts, in the election of. reprdsentati ves, and if this be practicable where the , greatest difficulties will be encountered, there earl be no valid objection ufged against ui a its general adoption. To-bring the at ter:llo=A° our own district, t as ure seems well I adapted to ihe'w I be- ing of both political,parties. LycoMing county is known to .be largely and'in contestibly, and for aught we know, tin cha ngably democratim and hence is ve ry r properly represented by a democrat ic , member. Bytt\l,..ycoming is joined withXlinton and r otter, in the election af/iwo members, and such is the local and side issues, that the choice of our own county -is liable to be defeated at any.or every election by the overruling voice of our neighbors. • Again, it not unfrequently` occurs that Clinton and Potter may have momeuti.„ , interests' , at stake, and may present un exCeptienable men to represent their in terests, btkt the weal of the party,- or the aspiration'S - of some self-elected, leaders in bur o7n county, thwart their nobler intention, and . thrusts the most obnox ious opoh them, as exponents of their prihciples and representatives of. their •intereste., These remarks will.apply to other `counties and districts, for the ar gument !that will secure the needed re form in 'one case, will apply with equal force to all, and therefore we most hear tily usecond the ;notion" of the Journal, and. hope for its early adoptiub.—Will iamspoit Independent, Press. One Sentiments Exactly. Some twelve millions a year is squan dered, of . the Nation's treasure, to main- • 'lain a Navy which is only a hOt-bed of ',upstart aristocracy, and dog-treated sea pen. The Secretary, of the Navy, pod= am calls on CorTress to vote more mil lions of !the People's money to enlarge the list of public pensioners. Greeley plants ,a kick in the bread t!ket of the icheme- that ; meets otir heartiest appro bation. ;Read it When Napoleon. was on the point of making `a- new conscription' of 80,000 men annually, some 100,000 or WO,OOO of the regular quota being destroyed, and laidiin the new graves from Madrid to Moscow, he always pleaded nvessify. The integrity of France was the cry ; the enemy was coming; the national name, ft:oe and existence were at stake. Nothin g :'short of new' oceans of blood 1 could, on these occasions, save France, Well, conscription on conscription came until in some parts of France—we speak from the testimony of an Ameri canen in that country—for six months tcrgett er not a man could be seen work ing in the fields, all having been drag - gel in or out of chains to glut the blood appetitei of the. Moloch, and women only being left behind - to 'do all the coarse, rude =work which properly belongs to the masculine sex. But notwithstand ipg all the magnificent paraphranalia of destruction, of old guards and young wards, 'of numberless heroes and eter nal glories involved in the war, France went to l ruin and the' fierce . stranger walked through the proud streets of her caPital, and was, perhaps prevenied by 'English', influence from mzinCeyery stone of it to the dust. , We are reminded of these facts by the main tenor and specific recommen darions of the Report of the Secretary of the gay/. "If anything has been a con stant effort on our part tii Consonance with the spirit of our nationalinstittr tions, it is . to prevent that . infernal inter pretation ef-'democracy which increases the army and navy, and to the same ex tent impoverishes and brutifies the peo ple. We shall not at this time conde scend to argde the miserable Virginia Blue Bciok 'doctrines of the Secretary, on the necessity-of increasing our navy, because we have a Pacific coast and art extended commerce