lowl»I»«l/l»»°' ,bl * . : ,i : ilra£,’ PK& W lAvahla mo yottfcfj ISI Rf M 'B»P OSE OOP? ONB.?BAR ’>'• | ( knot paid within twelve mprtiib, aw | /v-*r-I’boQbovotormi aro (11 liberalßlthoio ofony otaa 1 "i U>/ ooaatry papdrin the dtalo.and will b# o*aot«a. NoHtoottiinuattCflwUlbsallowed anillalfairearafaibavi f baas paid. DUTY AND LIABILITY OF POSTMABTERB. pOitttMUri ««BUatittff to notify thoi«*o'whmi °~r «Po«ibi. *• *»■ burnt lubiatiboia, anil aiollabloior mo ir yS,-n,o«,i.n. W oa.ii.dDT mallthrooahout tbaooaalr . Davor DOktai*. .. . P ite i Wko.' ; o ; i W«lpbU,r } ■>";■> i ; CORRESPONDENCE. Milesuujrg, Sept. sth, 1853. Thomas H. Fulton, Esq Deaii stu . The undersigned were present at and heard you address a meeting of Lumber men on the 4th of July last, in Karthdus township, Clea rfiield County. A resolu tion was passed requesting a copy of your peech for publication, which does not np ■ ear to have beon complied with ; and as bore are many reasons why tho attention : f tho public should bo directed to the sub let at tho present juncture, wo inlto this oethod of urging upon you a compliance #ith the unanimous request of the meet ing, by furnishing a copy of your remarks on that occasion for publication. Yours Truly, Rob’t Lipton, E. Porks, Thos. G. gnv der, I). M. Bilger, H. Groe, Jas. Askey and Wm. Holt. Bald Hills, Cloarfield Co , ) Sept. 16th, 1853. $ Gentlemen :— l received your note of ; the sth inst., requos'ing a copy of my nd j dress at the Anti-Log Meeting, at Kart haus, on tho 4th of July last for publica tion. I did not design it for publication at the time 1 prepared it, but at your re quest and that of others I will furnish tho Press with a copy. Respectfully Yours, djc., Titos. H. Fulton. To Rob’t Litton, E q., and others Mb. President and Fellow Citizens: Our meeting to-day, is one of no ordinary character. Tho circumstances that have convened us together here, to-day, are not light, and trivial in their true bearings. — No,they are of vital and momentus iqjpor.' tanco to the interest, prosperity, and well fare of our time honored little county. You have chosen an appropriate day, to meet together, to deljbera^.^ I mean the business of flouting saw logs out of our county, in our river and its tributary streams; a busi ness, if tolerated much longer, must even tually, become the regular calling anjd pur suit of the citizens ol our county, to the utter ruin, and final prostration, of all oth er branches of industry and enterprise in our land, which our citizens are proverbial for at home and abroad. Yes, it is high time, wo should meet to deliberate, remon strate, and publicly protest against a busi s ness founded in injustice towards a large majority of our citizens, a businoss which if allowed to run its course, will spread ruin, desolation and decay ull over our happy and now prosperous country. Our meeting to-day, is not marked nor characterized by revolution, revolt, or trampling upon the laws and institutions under which we live and enjoy so many ' great and glorious privileges. No, it is with due regard, and reverence, to those institutions, in strict conformity and har money with their plainest teachings, that we aro assembled here to-day, for one common purpose, in one common cause, to defend our rights and interests as citi zens of this commonwealth and Freemen of this Republic. Yes, to protect our rights and interests, from being disregarded, trampled upon, ' and crushed beneath the mighty few, who aro riding over tho many, to seek self ag grandizement, and self elevation. To pro testagainsl such invasions and usurpations, we have come up hero to-day. Tho fact can no longer be denied, that floating saw-logs,and rafting in ourstreums cannot be carried on successfully togeth er ; one ortho other must eventually give way before the influence and growing powers of the other. They are so widely different in their nature, and their inter ests, that no middle ground can bo taken ; 00 compromise can be. effected; oneor the Other must tuiumph and reign supreme. Now, the_ question comes, and is before ; lha citizens of this county to decido whether log floating is to superceed, the regular, ancient v and lime honored, system of lumbering, in this county or not. To discus that subject we have come up hero > !to»day. £(**■*• I IMf, [■lf IN kalhar Tfiun; A WEEKLY PAPER: DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE, MORALITY, AND FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. Volume 4U bis kind, tho whole lumbering business of our country, will bo monopolized and controled by a fow wealthy, aristocratic capitalists, who aro strangers to U 9, who will not becomo citizens of our country, whoso feelings, sympathies and interest, are not with us, but must naturally be di- rected against our interest, and prosperity in every way, shape and form,imaginable. Their interests will be to purchase our logs as low as possible, when tho whole business will pass into the hands of a few individuals, it is easily seen how the pri ces will bo controled by them. They will come up here, or send their agents up among us, to purchase our logs, and give usjust what they mny please, as the whole matter will be entirely in their own hands. No choice is left us, wo must take their prices. When it becomes tho rog ular business of the country, you must re collect the privilege of running, and navi gating the river with rafl9 as now, will ho yiolded up and gone forever, from tho fact, that when tho\ business of floating grows up by our encouragoment, and be comes tho rogular system of lumbering and a monopoly in tho hands of a few, you will find tho rivor closed below with booms, and saw logs running so thick that it would bo impossible for a few rails to get through. So no other alternative is loft but submission to their laws, regula tions and prices. Sucli it is plain to sco, even to tho most casual observer, are tho nnlurul resutls and consequences that must inevitably fol low the floating system. A greater, a grander, ora more mognificant monopoly, will never be witnessed, either in this or any other country, than would natural- |y grow up out of the bn^-^ It is lust as cert/"" . , , , • , J n luminary of the duy, is to sink beneath the Western hills, and rise again in the East, and usher into existence another day. Will we stund with foldod arms, and apparently disinterested looks, and view the growing monster, without making an efi'ort or nstiuggle to arrest him in his onward career. No, there is something within, that tells mo the citi zens of this froe and Democratic county, l will never submit to see their rights and privileges disregarded and trodden under foot. No, never, it is wholly contrary to bur education. We have been taught from tho crndle to manhood, to strugglo and contend against monopoliesand against special privileges to the few. Yes, wo Imve imbided our free and republican principles from our mother’s broast—it is rin us — grown up with us ; hence we must, and will forever resist all and every encroach ment, upon our rights and interests. We ask no special privileges —no charters from the Legislature to build booms on our river, and obstruct the great high ways, which nature in her bountiful Prov idence has intended for all, both rich and ! poor. No, if tho log men wish to follow ( their business, thoy are welcome to use tho [ river the same as we do—they musfTaft their logs, and run them the same as we , run our lumber. We are willing to meet ! them upon this great and grund Republi can platform of equal rights and equul privileges. We ask no special favors, nei ther must they. There is not a citizen in the old Kevstono State to-day, dare get up and deny that this is not Republican and Democruiic doctrine. Why not enforce I it ] Why not carry it into practice? | That is a dolicato question to answer, j i That is where all tho trouble lies. We j are the aggrieved and injured party, and ; in our hands alone lio tho means and source of redress. We must come out in | a united body, in a solid phalanx, and do- j Jmand at tho hands of our legislators next | winter, laws to protect us against sucli j wholesale usurpations. If we remain si-j 1 lent, and view tho struggle, with indiffer i once, it is unreasonable to expect that any-1 ! ' thing will bo done to protect our rights.— j Wo must work, we must thunder at tho doors ofl’our Legislatvie Halls, until we are heard and answered. We might have had legislative action upon this subject last winter if wo had used tho proper menns. Your humble speaker spent a few days in Harrisburg before thoy voted on that bill. Several of the mentbers told him they would vote for tho bill if they could bo satisfied that the interests off our coun ty demanded such a law ; many of thorn were under the impression it did not. — They spoke of several of our citizens who wore using their influence to defeat tho bill. They also referred him to our coun ty paper as opposing the bill. Under these influences many of thorn voted against the bin. , , . Those were facts, facts that were to be regretted add deplored; but such lam happv to say, is'not tho caso qt present, nor will not bo in the way next winter. - Our County pnpor has seen the error of its course, has seen that it wus giving aid and comfort to t{te enemies pfour dearest and most cherished interests; henco, she bus come up to our aid and support, and I will bo a warm advocate of pup cause ana I stand by our side. Many of thq citizens (of our.county, \yho wore lukenvarm qr fa^ [v.orablOjtQ log floating, ,aj» PH right and justice now, and wjll stand there, (firm and abtcj cnpsq,^ Clearfield, I*a,, Scpi. 29, 1853. Therefore if wo use our efforts and exert ourselves in the proper way wo will bo able to obtain that protection which wo so much desire and seek, through legislation, at the earliest possible period next winter. We are told by thoso favorable to log float. ing, that wo should not domand the pas sage of any laws against it —thnt to pro hibit men by legal enactments from doing as they please in this country would be unconstitutional acts —that in this land of liberty and freedom every man has a per- fect right to use and navigate our great high-wavs as he may seo fit —that they were made frea for tho use and benefit of all —that every man may choose his own method oT navigating them. This is correct and true, in one senso of tho word, but we must not looso sight of tho groat and important fact, that it is the laws of our country, and tho restriction of those laws upon the action of individuals and society, that makes our country so great, so noble and so free. Every individual j has a right to follow whatever pursuit or j calling in life lie may choose in the pursuit of happiness. Butin the pursuit of hap piness if an individual, in following his culling or profession, cncronchcs upon j vour grounds, destroys your nncient rights ; land privileges, liavo inherited j j form time immemorial, which, as a matter j of course, must cause you to turn aside from tho broad and well known road which you are following in the pursuit of happi ness, it is your right, your duty to your j self and to posterity, to demand of him to stop. Tho very genius and structure of 1 our glorious and time honored institutions under which we live, nn- I . so ' greaLnn-f “icsscd privileges will do , fhnnd of him to stop. If he is a good citi- zcnoflhis Republic—ft law loving and n law abiding citizen ofthis Commonwealth, ho will stop. Those ore rules and laws which were observed und enforced by the ancients. We find them existing among men even in a savage state. They ure the grand fundamental principles which civilization and civilized society are based upon and existed upon from thu earliest history of man down to the present period of time. In our case, wc have been dis turbed, molested, and interrupted in the pursuit of our regular calling by the log Heaters, and our business threatened, seri ouslv threatened, bv them with unuiiiiii ation. There arc lobe seen among us to day those who wero the Pioneers of this country, who in the morning of life should ered their axo and their gun, and emigrat ed into this country, when it was a vast wilderness, when the foot prints of the rod man of the forost were visible here yet,' when nothing broke llie still and quiet nights umid those forests of pines, save the shrill and piercing yell of the Panther or the dismal howl of the Wolf —when no roads, or pikes, or highways or none of the comforts and luxuries of a civilized life were here. Yes, when everything around was yet a dreary wilderness, and no mark of civilization was to be seen came the early settlers of this country, and commenced the work of clearing and opening up tho country. When every dis advantage stared them in tho face, they begun to toil and strugglo amougour lofty forest trees for a bare subsistence. — Through years of perseveranco and dilli genco their eiforls wero crowned with success; but it must ho owned, it wus ul most entirely owing to tho lumber which our forests produced. They have prepar ed for themselves comfortable and linppy homes to cheer and enliven their declining yoars, and will leavo a rich inheritantje for,lhoir children if the present system of lumbering is left unmolested and undis turbed. They spent tho morning of life in those forests. They wasted the noon; lido of their strength and manhood in sub during those wilds, and making tho wild erness to bloom and blossom like a rose. View them to-duy—their heads aro silver ed o’er with ago; their robust and stal wart forms aro bent wiih tho hardships] they have endured in this country. Andj now must they ho doprived o( that busi ness which they have struggled so long to bring to perfection, and which has been the great secret of their success and pros perity? The sun of their life has shed its morning rays, which was so cheerful, encouraging and so promising; has wast ed away its noon.duyof vigor and strength and glory, and is now fast sinking be neath the horizon of time to rise no more. Must thick clouds of trouble and voxntion arise to ruffle their serenity and obscure its declining eve ? No ! .methinks hero the responce from every bosom present saying, forbid it heaven! forbid it justice.. In justice to ourselves, our country and posterity, wo should cause the 16g floaters to desist. If through our own supinenQss and indifference to our interests, we lot the thing run on a few years longer it will then havo arrived at a point beyond our reach and control, The time is here that requires firm,, decided and dntvavering action. Anpthcr year or two and you will see hundreds of thousands of dollars of capital invested in closing the river below with new booms; and building new saw mills.. Already we are pointed to thocup ital inVestad thero in booms and mills, arid told that we daye not take any action to prevent the floating of saw logs, or olse those mill owners and boom owners will bo broken up! How uncharitable they are in their demands; they never take into consideration the millionsof dollars invest ed hore in saw-mills and lumbering estab lishments ; they never think or tho sad and sickening results the consummation of their plans would have upon our opera tions hero; they never raiso the curtain and look beyond to soc the hundreds and thousands of tho honest struggling sons of (oil engaged in this country in the lumber ing business, who, through the aid of our system, will bo able to securo for them selves comfortable and easy homes through i life that would be compolled to seek other I and new callings to obtain a livelihood. They never think of the innumerable mills in operation here ; nor, consider for a moment, the toil and labor of the bod) — the anxieties, uneasiness, excitement and vexations of mind, they cost the country and their proprietors. Those establish ments now arc building up and enriching the country —still we nrc asked by tho log (loaters to abandon them all for their spe cial benefit. There are to be found to-day, several of the hardy yeomanry of our country, at this early period in tho his.ory ofsaw log float ing, who are in a manner ruined by it. — All the bright and glowing prospects of fu ture happiness, and future greatness, which was just beginning to dawn upon them are blasted, and blotted out forever by tlic ef fects of the floating system. For the of this I would refer mo Mushonon nnf) ,v.„ „;.izens who lumber upon its wa ters. Go there, and you will find, that most all tho lumber, is yet remaining in the creek; floods enough to run it, but tho saw logs prevented them from doing so. — They were deprived of the privilege of re alizing for tho lumber in the Spring, tho highest prices ever paid for lumber, since it became a buisness —they aro compelled after a whole years labor spent upon it, with all the toil, and vcxntion incident in preparing it for market, to lay out of their j money, their lumber laying in the streams j where doubtless it must lay till Full, then | to be hauled out or go adrift, with the ice [freshets. Without something is done, to I prevent the. log floating, another Spring will not see their condition bettered. It is not the interest of largo land holders in this country, to go in fur the floating system. — By no means, it is not. 'I he way they can realize most out of their lands, and tim ber, is to build mills and saw it up, and mako it into square timber, or sell them out in lots to settlers who will erect mills, ' and make square limber. It is not the interest of mill ownors, in this country, or of men engaged in squuro timber They are draining nwuy the tim ber from us, and keep the prices down in mnrkot. To my certain knowledge tho mills from Lock Haven to Williamsport, have time over and again, sold lumber in the Philadelphia markets, below tho actu al costs. Here again they are an injury to us. Tho lumbermen in this country who devote their timo and attention to square timber, live in this country, their funds and means are spent among us, their feelings and sympathies arc with us, and go for tho prosperity and welfare of,our county. Hence if you cut olfand destroy their buisness, you will paralize and weak en the efforts and enterpnzo of our coun try to u very great extent,. It is not tho interest of tho farmers in our country who own farms and timber, who farm and lum ber in connection with cuch other. There are many of tho citizens of our country, who havo purchased and own farms, with considerable limber standing upon them. Under our present system of lumbering and living along, they will realize enough from their limber. A great deul of it per haps may bo Oak, which is getting now to be very valuable in squaro limber, but would be worth nothing at all in saw logs. There are a great many men now, who live remote from tho river, that make and haul a raft a year of pine and Oak, for which they realize from three to four hun dred dollars for in clear cash; their timber perhaps may bo cull timber, and of that class that would not be worth one cent to them in saw logs. I moan such men will roalizo enough from their timber, tp enable them to cleur uplheir farms, enrich it, put up neot and comfortable buildings, and fix themselves, so by tho time their timber is done und gone, they can live easy and comfortable o(V their (firms, (or you must bear in mind that timber is not going to he with ud always, the day is not far distant when the country will bo stripped of her valuable Pines. Neither is it the interest ol'the laboring portion of opr fellow citizens, tho hone and sinew of our country. To give support to the floating systerp, they would not be employed ns now in the Spring to run lumber. Many of them, have learned to navigate our river, aud redpcod it to a sci ence, make a regular,and a grapd profes sion of it. All this would be lost to them Wholly lost, iftlio floating system must be adopted.’ Tlie hundreds and thousands of dollars, spent in blowing out rocks, and making thig river fit for navigation, would then be of no avail. Gentleman, "the floating system is itn- practible with us, and not adapted to our country, our streams, or our wonts. It is wholly imprncliblo, absolutely so. It is all wrong, mad wrong from beginning toend; and the sooner we bring it to a close, the better it will bo for ourselves, our country and those who are engaged in it and others about entering into it. Look at it for a moment, examine it, and dccido for your- selves, whether it is practicable or not. — 1 will venture to sav, there is not a school boy in our lund to-day,but will tell you, it is impossible to float our square timber, from the heads of our streams to Fort Dc posito, owned as it is, by hundreds of dif ferent individuals, nnd its places of market and consumption, at every landing nnd town from Northumberland to Fort Depos ito. Even if it could be floated down, it could not be stopped at these points need ed, neither would the ownars be able to re cognize it. No, you might as well attempt to lay a Telegraph wire to the Moon,and converse with the inhabitants of the lunar World, as to attempt floating square timbor down this river nnd make it pay the ow ners, and supply the eastern markets as wo now do. As long as wo have a Fine tree left standing in our country, the eastern markets will require a certain portion of it to be taken to them in square timber to meet the demands, and necessities of their consumption, regardless of the pri ces. No matter what we sec fit lochnrgc them for it, they must have it. And as lone as we Inmlwi, vvo must make more or less of it into square timber. A certain portion, and a certain quality of it will al ways pay better in that, than any thing it can bo made into. It is true, in somo lum bering countries, the floating system ap pears peculiarly adapted to the country, but with us it is entirely diflerent. In Maine on many of the streams thero, they float every thing down them, from the fact that those streams aro short, from one hundred toono hundred and fifty miles, and in many places so rapid thut thoy could not be nav igated by rafts. There the floating sys loin is suitable and pays. In many of the lumbering districts of Cnnada, they float evory thing, for the same reasons. T heir | timberis only laid and juggled. In that rude state it is hauled, and floated i to the mouth of those rivers which discharge! | their waters into lakes, the bays, andgulfofl Si. Lawrence: thore they haul it outunlo yards, and how it ; then it is loaded iftto ships and carried to tbo remotest corners of tbo earth. Other countries may boast of their rich es, and inoxanstiblc beds, and mountains lof Iron ore. Some are prized, nnd sought alter for the precious metnis they contain; j their mountains producing rich mines of ' silver, nnd their plains all studded with 1 diamonds, and glittering with fine particles of gold. Others again, may point you to 1 their fertile plains and vallies, groaning bo -1 neath luxurious crops of grain, their gra neries filled to overflowing, at all times prepared to feed a starving world. The citizens of Clearfield county, if asked for their riches, their treasure, or their jewols, can point you to our sturdy oaks and tow ering pines—they are our jewels, brighter by far, than all the gems that glitter and shine in tbo country of the Ganges, and of more real worth than California’s gold. There are many, very mnny reasons, why we should prize our pines, and not be prodigal of them, nor tolerate ;i business thnt is calculated to sweep them down like a tornado nnd hurl them from us with elec tric speed, nnd give us at the same timo no equivalent for them. One in particular and an alarming one it is, that there is not to be found to day, one single, solitary or isolated spot on the whole American Con tinent from Behrings Strait to the Straits of Magellen thnt you can lay your linger upon where you can find young, growing snppllng forests of pines. And it is no loss strange than truo, that whilst no young forests of pines arc growing up on the American Continent, you will find bv examination thnt the pine regions are con fined to but small spots nnd localities over this continent —that many of them now are ulready exliuusted. Hundreds of the Fineries in tho United States have boon swept down nnd totally destroyed by the irresistnble march of civilization. Yes, the pine is a doomed species of timber. — It appears to bo an irrevocable docree of | fate that it must vanish away nnd for over disappear from tho American Continent. — Like the original inhabitants of this coun try, it is wasiing, dwindling and fast melt ing away before the rupid strides ofcivili zation. When the pines urc ull hewn down nnd exhausted in Clearfield county, they will lie growing scarce on the conti nent. Their valuo will be increasing ev ery year. Wo should husband them with becoming care and appreciate their real them vyo possess a store of real wealth, which wo are only boginning to /eel and know. In travelling over our country and through our forests qf pings, it has e.vex filled my .bosom .with feelings of, pleasure and pride in viewing our ma jestic pines with tlioir beautiful .trunks and wide sprgad brandies extended far ttbovo our hetids. Truly, it. presentsi n scene that is at onca.impressivaauuj sublime and,has repeatedly urought tp my mind Uiq beau tiful language of the poet: ss r 3 =&. ssisf ®JSF® , iS a do 8 moßtlu. «00 1 column 8 moniM. ja w O, forgive tho erring! Did not He who died on Calvary, shield him from tho con tempt of grosser minds; make brightness t and beauty where all was cloud and storm ■ before in bis sad life ? End of an Eventful Life. —Gov. Po indexter, who died at Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, on Monday lost, closed an evontful political lili). The Herald says he was tho first delegate to Congress from Mississippi, nnd, on her admission into tho Union, was immediately chosen United States Senator, which position he held for a great number of years. Ho was like wise, at ono tunc, Governor ol tlie Slate. In early life he was a supporter ol Gon. Jucltson, hut iu later yours ho that ortho commissioned officers hlbi|leh>>nl, is. yin.onlyjSac ‘ v iv ( or ; and the tp-oaknnjrojikf} I pnny show lliu Imvoc m by. dcjllns[>d | disease. Cin. Ee/iquirer.