fI ** r 9W I**t 1 1 1 _ GAZETTE. j.IGVISTOWN, PA. HMiT,,I.M. 1 I. I 84 T E JMIS: To persons trho an not noic subscribers : oxE dollar 8F:R ASSIM, IN' ADVANCE. j 1 FOR SIX MONTHS, 75 CENTS, IN ADVANCE. To eld subscribers who settle vp their accounts to IkeOQth of .Ipril, 1549, same as above from that dale. But until settled at the rate of +2 per annum. The paper wilt be continued to our subscribers who , have regularly furnished icood in payment on the , same terms as heretofore. Persons with whom we hare running accounts, such as merchants, mechanics, S>c., are charged $1.50 ptr annum. STATE CONVENTION. A T the meeting' of the WHIG STATE CENTRA!. COMMITTEE, hold ut Ilirns burg, m pursuance ol liie public can, it was on motion, Resolved, That the friends of the National \ and State administrations, in Pennsylvania, he ' requested to meet in the several cities and counties of the State, and select delegates equal in number to tiieir representation in the State Legislature, who shall meet in Conven tion at the Court House in Harrisburg, at 11 e'c'ock, a. m., on THURSDAY, THE 16TH DAY OK AUGUST NEXT, for the purpose of se lecting a candidate for C.4AAL C(J \1 .MIS XIOSER, and to do such other business as the interest of the country may require. By order of the Committee. GEORGE ERETY, Ch'rman pro tern. DAVID W. PATTERSON, Secretary. i {xff Having some business to transact which will require our personal attention on the usual day of publication, we issue the Gazette this week some days in advance. Military Election. The election on Monday last, under the provisions of the new nii.itia law, resulted as ; follows in this county: Brigadier General. Lewistown Mi Veytown. John Ross, of McVeytown, 53 10 Brigade Inspector. Daniel Eisanbise, 54 10 Colonel of Brady Regiment. ♦Sam'l Brown,of Juoiata co., 44 10 Lieut. Col. of Brady Regiment. Daniel Wise,cf Lewistown, 52 9 Major. George \V. Gibson, 54 10 *For officers of the Brady Regiment Junia- j fa votes with Mifflin. In Mifflmtown, Brown j has 137 for Colonel, and A. P. Jacob 31 for ' Lieut. Colonel—the result for the latter is not j yet known. In Juniata county Col. \Vm. Beli is elected Brigadier General; D. M. Jamison Brigade ; Inspector; and \V. R. Beale Major. IRON WORKS. —We see that several new furnaces are being erected in different parts of the State. Any one disposed to go into the Iron business, can find two furnaces in this j county, both eligibly situated and with many advantages for the manufacture of pig metal, ♦ other of which, we presume, can be purchas ed or rented. MOMTMENT TO GOV. SUCKS.—Notwithstand ing the professions of regard, so fulsoinelv made by the iocofocos after Gov. Shunks death, we perceive that but £305.54 have been subscribed for erecting a monument to bis memory.— When it is borne in mind that a portion of the above amount was subscribed by whigs, every man can make his own commentary on the esti mation in which they stem to hold him, now that i.e has no offices to bestow. The Inclined Plane Loan. The loan of SIOO,OOO, authorized by an act of the Legislature for the construction of a new line oa the Philadelphia railroad fo avoid the Inclined Plane, was awarded as follows: (-. Macalister, $37*2,000 at per SIOO. F. A. Vandyke, Jr. Co., $25,000 at 2>i per SIOO. Charles Bolton, at one per cent, pre mium. THE NEW ORLEANS FLOOD. —The work at ti;e Crevasse, above New Orleans, was pro gressing favorably on the 27th uit„ and it was expected the breach would Le closed by the 1- 1 aware count) ; Edward Waggoner, do. ; Fredrick Em 1 irart,(not known) Win. W. Wooley. Kensington ; Hugh Bigham. Armstrong county ; Thomas Taylor, South-.vark; James Sanders, do ; Henry J. Schreiuer, Gettysburg; Wnr. Stephens, City ; Geo. Kislon, Spring Garden ; Geo Myers, do ; Charles Troxell, Reading; I'rsah Slriliabcr, • Pottsville; Joseph I.itile, Northern Liberties; M 11. ilaggerty, West Philadelphia. .Vi^At/as^ccturs— Jaures Casttedine, Southtvark; Wil liam Gibson, Jo ; James Smith, do ; James O'Bourke.J' ; ; Benjainiii Ttnrkara. do ; Benjamin I.yndall, do ; Robt McLain, do ; Philip Danz, Northern Liberties; Alexander M. Gilbert, do; Washington Conrad, Spring Garden; : James I' Tracer, do ; Jacob Shiller. I'assyunk ; James ' Newell, City; James Alexander, do; Owen Martin, i Pottsville ; Jacob Heller, Kensington. Ilerenue .Incuts —John Payne, Southwark ; John Kcl ley, do ; Win Ilaverstick, Spring Garden ; E B. Vaugh an, City ; E W. Cook, do. St IVEVOSN APPOINTMENTS The Surveyor of the i Port, appointed Mr. Peter Eve, of Cumberland county, ; Ceief Clerk, in place ofCol David Marple, removed John C. McCoy tvas also appointed Messenger, n i place of Col. Jacob It Hibhs, removed. The following removals and appointments were nnd I in the Naval office : ! Morris M> redith, vice George Nagle, removed. Alexander Murphy, vice I. N.Bailey, do j 11. IT. Irvine, vice W. 11. Welsh, do i Geo. 11. Moore, vice Ed. Barton, do I Herman Verkes an t Enoch Willetts are reported as appointed Measurers, and Hubert Price, Warehouse Clerk. Israel Howell, James Clark, and T. J Herring are ] reported as hating been appointed Measures THE CUOLERA. —In New York there were twenty-three new cases and nine deaths by i cholera, reported for the 24 hours ending on i Monday, P. M. The New York letter of Monday afternoon, published in the Philadelphia Inquirer says— Our city papers have very prudently thrown cold water upon the reports heretofore made, but the fact can no longer be concealed that the Cholera is in our midst, and daily doing its , work of death. People are leaving the city by hundreds, and it is probable in a few days many ! ot our most fashionable localities will be al most entirely deserted. Every disinfecting agent ever thought or heard of is brought into requisition, hut in many places from the filth in the streets the stench is horrible. 1 have just 1 heard of a case of cholera which occurred in Twenty-Ninth street, in a high ana healthy i position, and where no one would suppose an epidemic would reach. It proved latal in about three hours after the first symptoms were fell. In Brooklyn, for the 13 hours ending Mon day, 9 A. M., four cases and two deaths were reported. At Aliilville. A". J., there has been one fat ti ease of cholera. In Jamaica, Long Island, there were two fa tal cases of cholera on Sunday. At Cold Spring 1 , N. Y., there were three cases of cholera on Sunday. At Goshen, N. Y., one case of cholera re ported. .No new case of cholera was reported in Phil adelphia lor the 21 hours ending on Mon j day evening. The Newark, N. J., Advertiser of Monday afternoon reports four cases of cholera since i Saturday. One case of cholera has appeared at New Brunswick, New Jersey. BOSTON, Monday. June 4. Two decided cases of Asiatic cholera are; reported. One death. The schooner Martha Collins, from Norfolk for New York,arrived at Lewe-, Del.,4th inst., with two cases of cholera on board. At Pittsburgh en the Ist insrt., there waonc death. At Cincinnati on the 2d inst., three cases und one death. Richmond —The panic respecting tlie chol era, with which the Virginia Legislature was stricken, has resulted in the adoption of a reso lution adjourning the sitting of the Legislature to the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, where it will meet on the 21th mst. It ' appears that during the4*l hours ending on the 4th at SP. M., there were five cases, ot cholera and four deaths at Richmond. At St. Jxiuis, on the 31st ult.,sixteen deaths j by cholera. At Maysville, Icy., on the 30th ult, one i death by cholera. In the Lunatic Asylum at Lexington, Ky., during the 24 hours ending May 3i)th, p. rn.. there were fourteen cases and six deaths. Thv total deaths by cholera thus far in the institu tion hove been thirty-one. The Nashville Whig of Tuesday says: On Saturday last there were three deaths from cholera. On Sunday two deaths and six new cases reported. We heard of no new cases yesterday up to the time dl our paper 1 ipg to press. ST. LOUS, June Ist. CALIFORNIA KM 1(1 RANTS. Mr. (lilmore has just returned from the I*la!r!9 1 * la ! r ! 9 - Ho left St. Joseph with a company of) California emigrants, nnd travelled a hundred und lorty miles. The cholera there became! so bad thut he turned back. He says that not "j ,ltd" He e °T."" to , * h ° 1011 "*• on r. mo. t: r i' • r thousand wagons , en route ,or California. The cholera prevailed also among the In dians on the frontier, and very badly We give below an address from the Penn sylvania Society to the clergy and heads oi churches, respecting the colonization of the African race in the land of their fathers. The . agent, Rev. WM. A. IIALL, designs to call on our citizens throughout the county for aid in ; this undertaking, which is well adapted to ; mitigate their present position in Society. In a lecture cn Colonization, delivered in the Me thodist Church on Sunday evening last, he gave a glowing description of the Republic of Liberia, which was represented as a nourish ing Commonwealth, rejoicing in numerous Churches, Scnools, two public presses, A:c., ail under the supervision and control of colored men alone. ADDRESS TJ the Clerpj and lhads of Churches of Pennsyl vania. We make, once more, our annual appeal to your Christian charity and patriotism, on behalf i of our brethren of the African race. These : peoph in the I 'nitcrl States, are either enslaved or subjected to political and social disqualifica tions. In every point of view, they are tled to our sympathies, and to systematic efforts under religious and legal guidance, for their re lief and elevation. Good men in the different sections of our country, differ both as to the •; means by which these results arc to be obtained, j and as to the time at which they are obtainable. In controversy on these points, we are not cal led to engage. Of the necessity of ameliora tion, and of our duty to aid in it, there can be, ; however, but one opinion. Tb ' religious in -1 struction should be the beginning of ail at tempts of this nature, is also undoubted. Hap pily, just now, in all parts of the I nion the people of the African race, whether actually ' bondsmen, in what are called the slave states, i or nominally free, in what are termed the free states, arc "objects of systematic attention in this particular. The next steps are their liber ! ation from slavery and their political and social regeneration. In Pennsylvania, an example, it might be sup posed, would by this time have been set in fa vor of the last step. But alas, we need not say how slow iias hitherto been the progress of re generation —how little has been the consistency between the practice and the professions of the governing or white race. Worse still! Wc see hut a faint prospect of any very material improvement, so far as regards placing the colored race on a looting of real equality with the white race. But if the entire problem be difficult of solu tion here at home, it is not so everywhere else. As Pennsylranians we cannot directly enforce, nor, beyond suitable mild exhortation, urge emancipation within the borders of the slave j states. If, however, concessions be made in these states, in favor of ultimate liberation of > their slaves, if they admit, even in a qualified sense, the right of the black man, and still more, if they agree to allow him a field for the untrammelled exercise of his faculties, surely ■ we, in the North, ought not to hold back either ' the language of encouragement, or the pecuni -1 ary aid, to give greater effect to these views of I our southern fellow citizens. All these promised benefits are procurable, they have been already to a certain extent pro cured by the instrumentality of African Coloni zation. Already, by this means, have colonies been planted in Western Africa; and lastyiar we have seen the principal of these colonies. Liberia, take its stand among the nations of the earth. By two of the most powerful of these, Great Britain and France, has its independence been recognized, and its new government treat ed with all possible comity arid respect. A home is now offered to the down-trodden children of Africa, where they will be secure in the enjoyment of personal and political free dom, and find incentives for the exercise of all the best faculties of their nature. Slaveholders have manumitted their slaves in large numbers, seeing now that emancipation can be made a reality, by the new freedom becoming citizens of Liberia, with the opportunities there offered to them, of reaching the highest offices in the state, and an active participation in all the ben efits of its educational and religious institutions. The Colonization Societies are now exempt from the responsibilities and expenses incident to the direction of affairs in Liberia, and the support of a government there. As an inde pendent republic, il takes all this under its own control; and so far its action has been attended with the inost gratifying results. The chief and almost sole duty of the Societies consists in procuring means, and giving facilities for the emigration of the free colored people of these I nited States to Liberia in Western Africa; and in guarantying to them the possession of a certain quantity of land for settlement, and provi- ion for their support during the first six months after arrival. In order to enable the American Colonization Society, and the Pennsylvania and other tstate Societies, acting either as auxiliiary to or in conjunction with it, to carry out with any de gree of efficiency, their benevolent operations, funds to a large amount are requisite. For procuring these they rely on the support of the Churches and the benevolence of individuals; and never was there a worldly enterprise that had stronger claims on both. Its missionary and educational aspects arc well stated in the sermon in the present number of this paper, to the perusal of which we earnestly invite you. Imbued with its t hristian and benevolent and patriotic views, and cognizant of the fact that thousands of our colored brethren are only waiting for the means to be furnished by the Colonization Societies, to emigrate to Liberia, there to enjoy what they cannot here, your aid will not he withheld. Mor will it he merely given, unaccompanied with cordial wishes and prayers for the success of our cause, which is that of humanity, of justice, of religion, both here, and ultimately throughout all Africa, car rying with it atonement for past wrongs to an injured race, and a determination to elevate and enlighten it, beyond the probability of any sub sequent mischance or degradation. Again we would say, that our treasury re quires to be largely replenished ; to enable us to aid the Parent Hocicty to fulfil existing con tracts, without taking into calculation the rapid ly increasing demand on it, by the accumulating crowds of applicants for passage to Liberia.— Colonization th raid. Eiictitirase your own Citizens. The subjoined remarks from the Canton (O.) Repository, on the subject of home support, are applicable too all localities: To protect and support each other is the first duty of every community. Man, however rich j or poor, is a dependant creature, and conse- i ipier.tly bound to employ Ins own neighbors of other professions, or those more distant. Home j ■utv—" Buy where you can buy cheapest, and I sell where you can get most''—but it is a false j dogma.—Mechanics and traders generally have j families to support, and when tiicy locate in a ' town they dcsiri to make it a permanent resi dence. When they do so, the citizens of that j town we hold are bound, when they have oeca- i sion for employing one, to look around, and if j you can find one at home, who willVork at tea- ! sonablc prices, employ him, for by giving active > employment to all around you, the whole com- f munity is benefitted. In addition to this, it pro duces a business like aspect, a home market is created for farmers, and general prosperity 1 prevails. If you want a pair of shoes or boots, a carriage, a hat, a coat, or anything in the ! mechanical line, go to your neighbor for it. t ioiiig abroad tor such articles as your own me chanics can produce, will ruin any town—and the practice is too prevalent Correspondence of the Gazette. WASHINGTON, May '-20, 1849. MI-. EDITOR: The ruin has been pouring down in torrents for three days past, and out door business is at a stand, so that 1 have but little of news to communicate. The work of purifying the government still goes on, and 1 observe trom the papers this morning that Mr. Evving the able and efficient Secretary of the Department of the Interior lias been making another step forward in the good work, ra ther Ritchie will deliver himself of another whine, and the next Union will of course con tain a continuation of the " Lives of the Mar tyrs." liocofocoistn dies hard, if we can form an opinion from the groans that reach through their journals from different sections ct the country. The "spoils" of office have become endeared to them from years ot association, and power and plunder they now think their ine.lienable right. But we hail the dawn of a new era, when honesty and capacity are to be the tests of a man's fitness tor office, and not the services he has rendered party, or an ad herence to any corrupt clique or faction, Gen. , Taylor will redeem all his pledges to the peo ple, and the croakingsof such things as George Lippard will not for a moment divert him from the straight-forward policy he is determined to pursue. The author of the " Quaker City" might find a more profitable investment lor his ink and paper, in catering for the diseased taste of the abandoned inmates of brothels and groggeries, than in addressing his impudent epistles to the President of the United States. I have always entertained for himself and his productions feelings ot supreme contempt, and I am now satisfied I did not do him injustice. It is rumored that a number of changes will take place in the Chiefs of the Bureaus here, during the month of June. S. W. Pearson, Esq., of Somerset, and recently Clerk of the Pennsylvania Senate, is named in connection with the Auditorship of the Post Office De partment. and if appointed will make an ex cellent officer. I have no doubt his selection , would be satisfactory to our triends throughout the State, and be received with gladness by the " Frosty Sons of Thunder,of which fami i ily he is a' valuable member. Peter Hagner, Esq., the Third Auditor of the '1 reasury, it is hoped will resign, and thus save the Administr ation the necessity of removinghim. iieliaoLeen in office fir about forty years, has accumulated i a fortune, provided places under the govern- merit for three or lour of his sons find a host ot j relatives; is now entirely unfit for the per formance of his official unties. having' in a great measure lost Ins memory and business ca;acitiaag. Ihe greatest discrepancies prevail with regard to the statements of the. Russian force which has advanced through Cracow. I HOME.—' The Ministers of Great Britain, France and Prussia, have met at Civita Veebia, and two envoys have been sent to Lord Palmer ston to beg his interference on behalf of the Ro man Republic. General Oudinot has, perhaps, ! been glad to promise that he will do nothing till i he receives further orders; the probabilityisthat the British Foreign Secretary will build some golden bridge for the French to retreat over, and "part them further humiliation. The Roman triumrirat hare published a re port on the affair of April thirty, from details | furnished by the Minister of War. The French ! are in it said to have lost fifteen hundred men in killed, wounded and prisoners ; and the Ro mans filty killed and two hundred wounded A letter dated Palo, the Bth ult., adds: The Romms, feeling themselves pressed by fifteen hundred .Neapolitan troops ami fifteen 'hundred v "f-ians. hare niade advances and protest*- V v Mey wily ilemanti guarantees against the uomuiioii of the priesthood. They iv ill have tu I ope but no priests or cardinals in the min is. rv. iney will place themselves under our protection. They express their regret at the ait.>ir ct the thirtieth, which they sav thev could not help, as they thought we came to re-establish s ■ • monkish government UK UMMSF.H DICED. f.-t .... r,. . sons I'e so prcjuitirt*.! against this now truly c-: , Vl . medicine an t despise thin advice; tet it he u.-.i ' ately on pain being felt: no mallet where it whether in the head a*.7<,. V. Dr A. M Mauriceau, Professor of Diseases of W men. —JSixth Edition. IStwo. pp 250. Price il attynn copies sold in six months. —Years of suffering, of physical and mental anguish to many an affectionate wife, a Q d pecuniary difficult!*-* to the husband might have bce a spared ; thousands now poor would have enjoyed con.].* tence; thousands now broken in health would have en joyed it; hundreds now in lin-ir graves been still alive, by a timely possession of this work. It is intended especially for the married, or those con templating marriage, as it discloses important secitls which should be known to them particularly. Truly, knowledge is power. It is health, happiness, affluence. The revelations contained in its pages hav proved a blessing tothousands, as the innumerable lettcn received by the author will attest. Here, also, every female—the wife, the mother,the nr.. either budding into womanhood, or the one in the decline of years in whom nature contemplates an important change—can discover the causes, symptoms,and the mot efficient remedies, and most certain mode of cure, .a every complaint to which her sex is subject. Its importance to the married maybe gathered from the fact that Travelling Agents make from three tufittdolw a day from its sale Hundreds of active, enterpntu ; agent? are accumulating a little competence from the hi., eral discount allowed, and the great demand"for it. Or ders are required to be accompanied with payment. Copies will be sent by mail free of postage to the per chaser. Over twenty thousand copies have been sent by ■nail ithiu three months with perfect safety it certainty. On the receipt of One Dollar, the " Married Woman'; Private Medical Companion" will tie sent {mailedfree) to any part of the United stales. All letters and applice ; lion* from those desiring to become Agents must be post paid (except those containing a remiuance)andaddressed to Dr. A M, Mauriceau, Box 1224. Xew York City. Pub lishing Office, 129 Liberty street, Xew York. The " Married Woman's Private Medical Companion'' is sol ! by booksellers throughout the United Slates. January 20, IS-19 —fmt. MARRIED, On the 7th inst., by the Rev. S V. Blake, FR ANKLIN S. DAVIDSON' to Miss MARTHA HAMLIN, both of this county. On the 2lth u!t., by the Rev. Abel C. Thomas, the Hon. JACOB GHOSH, of Marietta, Pa , to Mrs. SARAH Al nnictir, of Reading. On Sabbath Evening last, byßev. J Rosenberg G. W MORRISON to Miss HARRIET SWITZER, both of Lents town. On the 21th ult , by the Rev. James Smith, JAMES Al ex ANDER, of Derry township, to Miss AMANDA E. BELL. of Decatur township. On the 29th ult , by the Rev. M Allison, GEORGE W. stTßoi Pto Miss SARAH A WISE, both of Miffiintown On the .70:h ult , by the Rev. George Stevenson, Geo. Doughmau to Miss Elizabeth Fastc, both of Miffiintown. On the 31st ult., by the Rev. M. Allison, Thomas Mc- Kenan to Miss Aun Fleger, both of Milf'ord township, Ju niata county. lu Milton, on Monday last, by the Rev F. Ruthrauff, Robert M Prick. Esq., editor of the Miltonian, to Miss Mary A. Rutbrautr, all of Milton. DIED. At Burlington City, lowa, of Cholera, JOHN MYERS, JR., son of Abraham Myers, formetlyof Heidelberg tow a sliip, York county, aged about 35 years. On the 31st ult , MARY MARGARET, daughter of Dr. James R. Smith, aged 3 years, II mon'hs, and 21 days. On the 2U inst., 111 Juniata county, Mr'. Margaret L , wife of Jacob W. Conner, of Bcaie township, aged 22 years, 10 months and 2 days. "the markets. LewistOvvn, June 7, 1*49. I . Paid by Dealers. Rett:!. flour - - §3 87 Sal ?j Wheat, white - 90 1 05 red - 85 1 (X) five 45 56 Oats 25 3d Corn, . - 45 50 Cloverseed - - 300 4GO Flaxseed - - 1 00 1 '25 ! Timothysced 2 00 2 50 Butter, good - - 12.} I'.'} ! Eggs - 8 06" ; I.ard - * 7 S Tallow - £ 10 Potatoes 60 75 Beef, - . 4 00 Bacon, per lb. 54 7 Pork - . 0 00* 0 00 Wool, per lb. - - 25 ; Feathers - - 44 44 The Lcwtslown Mills are paying "5 to 90 cents for good wheat, 45 cents for Rye, j 45 cents for Corn, and 27 cents fir Oats. PHU.ADEI.PUIA, Juneo. Flour—The Flour market is steady bat net very active. Rye Flour is dull. Corn inesi , stationary. \\ heat—There has been r.>c/c in quiry for \\ heat, but prices arc unchanged- There is a good deal doing in Corn, and hold ers are firm ; Pennsylvania and Southern Yt - low is worth 61 cents. Rye is ir but little de mand. Oats are dull at.3o cents. There is tw | visible movement in provisions. YY hiskev ;i a shade lower—brings 214. BALTIMORE, June 6. 1*49. Flour—The market to-day is active, and prices are in favor of the seller. Howard slreC is held ot £1 75. but no sales have been re ported. drain—There is a good deal doing nt j Corn, with an advance, and holders are firm: prime white is quoted at 52a53c., and puffi'' | yellow at 58a59c. per bushel; YVheat is i.e* firmly. There is no change to notice in o9 r articles. , 'he Philadelphia Sun says— i'he Iron trade, at present, pro-etdt s vcr * gloomy aspect, and prices of nearly every djr scrtpiion liave recent!y declined t'roti. £.! !l VJ ' per ton. The mqxtrts ot Scotch Pig Iron a |H - R'i's have boen quite large, aud some ciu.--.i-'- eralre contracts tor No 1 Gartshire Scotch !' 4 ' have been made as low as £l9 per ion. -Y re * cent number of the Pittsburg Journal says:— have recently mot aud conversed with many of our Iron masters id' The A 'eghcny River country, and they all assure us that they will bo somewhat crippled ut manutacturing pig metal during the ensuing summer on ac count of foreign competition which now pre vatN—especially in the Western country