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WHIG NOMINATIONS.
For Canal Commissioner,
JOSH! A IH\GA!I, of Bucks County.
For Auditor General.
BEXRY W. SAYDER. of lulon Comity.
For Surveyor General,
JOSEPH HEADERS©*, of Washington Co.
Declination of flr. Calvin.
The last Hollidaysburg Register con
tains the following letter from Hon. 8
CALVIN, by which it will be perceived
that he declines a re-nomination. Imme
diately 011 its becoming known, a strong
determination was manifested by our lead
ing whigs from all parts of the county,
who happened to be in town attending
court, to remonstrate against it, and letters,
numerously signed, were at once forwarded
to that effect. We sincerely hope that he
will re-eonsider the matter, and if he can
do so without a sacrifice of Jiis best inter
ests, \ ield himself to the wishes of his
constituents. From personal intercourse
with our country friends during the present
week, we are satisfied that no man in the ,
i
district would be more cheerfully and
strenuously supported, and that nine-tenths
of the loeofoeos would sooner see him the
representative than any other whig in it,
WASHINGTON, July 21, 1850. j
Dear Sir: —The time is approaching when it
will become the duty of the Whigs of the 17th I
District to select their candidate to represent
them in the 3'2d Congress ; and 1 consider it
proper to inform them, through your valuable
Journal, that it is not my intention to be a can
didate for re-nomination. My duty to myself
~nd family requires this step.
I desire to express my sincere thanks to all
those who gave to me their generous support
and confidence ; and I hope the gallant Whigs
of the District will be able without difficulty,
to agree upon and elect a successor better able
to serve them I shall consider it my duty and
i leasnre to give them any aid in my power in
j romoting his election and the cause of the
Whig party.
Very respectfully,
Yours, Ac. i
SAMUEL CALVIN. i
J FENS JONES, Esq.
tF A communication recommending
:
v en. W. 11. IKVVIS as a suitable candidate
tor Congress, and a similar one in favor of
Dr. MCCTLLOCH, of Huntingdon county,
re held over until next week, by which
time we presume the final determination
of Mr. Calvin will be known. We how
■ ver announce their names, in order to give
them an equal start with others. While on
this subject, we may as well mention that
i your terms, persons not subscribers to the
tluzette , who furnish communications re
ommending gentlemen for office, are
< iiargeable with all such communications
s advertisements.
Delegate Election.
The County meeting on Tuesday last
recommended SATCRDAY, I9ih August, as
a suitable time for appointing Delegates to
the Convention to assemble on Monday,
the 21st, for the purpose of nominating a
county ticket. We trust our friends
vhroughout the county will use their efforts
to have good men selected as delegates,
who will have no other object in view
than to advance the cause for which we
are contending. It such are selected, and
meet together in that spirit of eoneiliation
and good feeling which ought always to
govern nominating bodies, and present a
ticket of true, tried, honest and capable
men—-men in whom the people repose
confidence—we ean enter the political are
na with as fair a prospect of success as
was ever presented. We know full well
that all the power money can command
and political trickery effect, will be brought
into requisition to sustain the nominations
made on Monday last, fur those who were
instrumental in forning them are well
.:ware that the nomination of John Ross
is A I ENSI RE OX MR. ( UINONF.Y and an
insult to his Jr if nils, because made with
out adequate cause. Hence, though their
ticket is in reality weak, we waru our
friends that the " root of all evil" and
other appliances will make it STRONG, and
/'(pure a whiff ticket of more than ordina
''merit to butt it. Let the whigs give
us m n free from ail entangling alliances,
and ot high moral character, to whom we
■can give a conscientious support, and we
pledge our.--ives that the Gazette will en- !
tci tin' field with a determination to carry
ihe political war into the innermost re
cesses of the enemy's camp.
REID, locoloco. has been led
Go verr. or oi NorL Carosua.
ihe Lofdtofo Mffatc
j Had the citizens of Mifllni county been
in .Lewistown on Saturday last and wit
nessed for themselves the extraordinary
scenes enacted in and around the Court
House by our loeofoeo brethren, not one
in a thousand but would have exclaimed
" Can such tilings be, and not create our
special wonder!" It was in truth an ex
hibition without parallel at a primary elec
tion, and if it has heretofore been equalled,
the memory of the " oldest inhabitant"
cannot recal it. To understand the matter
properly, it may be necessary to state that
there are two factions among the loeofoeos,
the one striving to gain, the other to retain,
political ascendancy. The stronger por
tion is Cameronian—the other is anti.—
The caucusing for weeks past at street
corners and in offices, the anxiety displayed
by those more immediately interested, had
pre j tared us for a " spirited" contest, but
the scene as a actually occurred almost
beggars description. It opened with a war
of words and an anxious desire 011 the part
of the captains to make " their marks" 011
each other's phizzes, and the example
hat ing thus been set, the rank and lile soon
exhibited a disposition to do likewise, and
m several cases fell to work in earnest, ami
but for the interference of some who
seemed to feel that the democracy had got
on more than an ordinary " spree," more
blood would have llowed than has fattened
the streets of Lewistown at any election
within ten years. As it was, the boiling
; waters did not subside until a late hour in
the night, at which time Captain Whiskey
succeeded in flooring the more uproarious.
No one could well help laughing at the
antics cut up in this menagerie exhibition,
as a correspondent calls it, yet the feeling
of disgust was certainly uppermost, not
only among the whigs, but the more orderly
disposed among the loeofoeos. Taken al
together, it was a memorable day, and
will long be remembered by participants
and spectators.
On Monday the convention met in the
Town Ilall. and the first act it performed
was decapitating Mr. Ciibbonev, by nomi
nating JOHN ROSS, formerly Supervisor on
the Upper Division, lor the Assembly.
This move created no little surprise among
the uninitiated, as a great many did not
even know that Mr. Ross w as a candidate
for that station. The guillotine having
thus been set in operation, Mr. Rittenhouse,
the present Prothonotary, certainly a most
worthy, competent, and obliging officer,
had his head taken off under the plea of
one term, Capt. T. F. M'Cov, of M'Vey
town, having been named in his place.—
This one term affair seems to be quite a
convenient hobbv for disposing of an office
holder when no other plea ean ho made.
But a few years ago the principle was ap
plied to a member of the Assembly from
the \ alley, and he was accordingly choked
ofl, and yet the very man who succeeded
him obtained two terms ! Now it is again
revived, and its application gives M'Vcy-
town and Oliver no less than three offices,
while the entire Valley has but two ! ' It
was curious, very curious, to watch the
programme as it developed itself. Had
any one witnessed the zeal with which the
dominant faction apparently supported
Messrs. (jibboney and Rittenhouse, he
would not have deemed it possible that
they could be defeated, especially after it
was understood that Capt. M'Coy had not
succeeded in obtaining the delegates in his
own district, comprising M'Veytown and
Oliver township! But " Presto—change!"'
A delegation of plenipotentiaries having
visited the different parties concerned up
the river, the thing was fixed, and lo !
when the convention met, it nominated a
candidate for Assembly who, had he ap
peared before the people in opposition to
Mr. (Jibboney, would most certainly have
been defeated, and put up for Prothon
otary the very one who was thought to
have had the least number of votes. We
could not before, but we can very easily
now, understand the management which
brought about this Cameraman triumph.
The contest for delegates o.Hlcnuib/i/ rested
on the petty office of Prosecuting Attorney,
and while the masses were thinking of no
one hut Alexander and Jacobs, they were
unconsciously working for Koss for As
sembly, and M'Coy for Prolhonotary ;
thus many of them who were personally
in favor of Cibboncy ami liittenhouse,
were made the instruments for the defeat
of those gentlemen. It was undoubtedly
the intention of the leaders, within a few
days of the election, to re-nominatc Mr.
Gibboney, but a fear perhaps that he could
not be trusted when the name of Simon
Cameron would be brought before the
Legislature for U. S. {Senator, induced a
change which resulted as before stated.—
J he ticket, as it stands, may he swallowed
by the faithful froin head to tail, but if the
used up take it without a disposition to
vomit, the my stery of straining at a gnat
. and sw allowing a barn door" will no longer
j he a mystery to us.
' The following is the ticket as nominated:
Assembly —John Ross, of Oliver.
Prothvnotary—' Thomas F. M'C'oy, of M'Vey
<town.
Prosecuting Attorney —Joseph Alexander, of
Lewis town.
Commissioner —Thomas Stroitp, of Brown.
Deputy Surveyor —John R. VVeekes, of Lewis
town.
Auditor —Robert A. M'Kee, of Granville.
Directors of the Poor —Robert Mathews, Lew
istown, one year; for Armagh, Brown, Mcnno
and Union, Isaiah Coplin, three years ; for Der
ry, Decatur, Granville, Oliver, Wayne, M'Vey
town and Newton Hamilton, John Stine, Jr., lor
two years.
Col. Josiah Kerr, James urns, and John
Stine, Jr., were appointed Congressional Con
ferees, and unanimously instructed to support
Col. Andrew Parker, as the candidate for Con
gress.
Gen. R. C. Hale was elected delegate to the
State Convention.
C. C. Hemphill, Thomas H. Yanvalzah, and
A. B. Norris were appointed Senatorial Con
ferees.
To the meeting and it* proceedings in
the evening we shall pay our respects next
week.
iJT The editor of the Union Star, w ho
has known Mr. Banks from childhood,
lately asserted that the locofoeo candidate
for Auditor General is a gentleman pos
sessing " moderate talents, and is not an
experienced accountant." On this the ed
itor of the Mi (11 in town Register, who may
have seen Mr. 11. half a dozen times
in his life, (lies into a lit of eulogy, and
asserts that—
" Mr. Banks is well known as' an experienced
accountant.' His reputation as un accountant
and his business capacity never before was
questioned by any one. Such is the confidence
had in him by the people of Mitflin county, that
he has been appointed administrator, and settled
up more estates than any other three men in
that county, and always to the entire satisfac
tion of the parties. Never has he failed to
perforin these duties with scrupulous and exact
honesty, which together with his promptness
and upright conduct in this line of business, has
ju3tly earned for him the appellation of ' the
orphans' friend.' "
We have heretofore said that we did
not believe Mr. Banks laid claim to one
half the locofoeo papers say* respecting
him, and he would perhaps be thankful
were they more sparing of such fulsome
llattery. The locofoeo editors mav give
him as much proper praise as they choose
—nay, we shall not even object to our
friends down street eulogizing liiin with
all the ardor bestowed on a new-found
love —but if the Register and its kindred
don't quit this soft soaping business, we
shall feel bound as a friend, to advise Mr.
Banks to prosecute them jor libel.
EJ* The Uemocrat is certainly mistaken
in alleging that strong asseverations were
made by Gen. Irwin about cliques and
tactions, at the meeting on Tuesday even
ing. We heard nothing of the kind ! As
for the tariff, a subject always ably han
dled by James T. Hale, Esq., it is but a
few years since our locofoeo brethren
were loud in professions of being the tar
iff party, and although they now prefer to
foster British labor in preference to Amer
ican, we should not wonder to see them
turning a tariff crank a few years hence.
Those who with the facility of a chame
leon can change from one term to two
terms, as expediency may dictate, could
be at no loss in turning foi or against a
tariff.
Congressional Conferee fleeting.
It has been suggested to us to recom
mend TUESDAY, the 27th instant,at the
house of WM. BROTHERS, Esq., Rcedsville,
Mitllin county, as a suitable time and place
for the meeting of the ('ongressional Con
ferees.
EF" The Evening 1 illetin, a neutral
paper, edited by locofocos, makes the fol
lowing announcement, enclosed with black
lines :
.■lppointmtnl by the Canal Commissioners.
Gen. A. L. Roumfort, to be Superintendent of
Motive I'ower on tbe Philadelphia and Columbia
Railroad.
GOD SAVE THE COMMO.XWEXI.TH!
THE RIGHT SPIRIT. —I)a\ id Blair, Esq.,
of Huntingdon, in a communication to the
Journal correcting some statements that
had been made by the Globe in reference
to nominations, says :
" I, in common with the Whig party of Hunt
ingdon county, am desirous to see the re-nomi
nation of my worthy friend, SAMUEL CALVIN,
believing, as I do, that no stronger or better man
can be selected in the District; for lam well
persuaded Mr. Calvin can and will have an in
creased majority over his last election, in Hunt
ingdon county, of from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred votes, if the right kind of a ticket
is nominated by our County Convention."
COI NTY NOMINATIONS. —The Whigs of
Lebanon have nominated Thomas M.
Ilibighause, Esq., for Congress, and J. W.
Killinger, Esq., for the Assembly—a strong
team both in talent and popularity.
The Whigs of Adams eounty have
named Daniel M. Smyser for Congress,
and William M'Sherry for the Assembly.
The Whigs of Union county have
nominated Jatncs Armstrong, of Williams
port, Lycoming county, for Congress, Ner
Middleswarth having declined being a can
i didatc ; Eli Slifer lor Assembly ; Jacob
llaus, Jr., Prothonotary ; (Jeorge Hill,
i Prosecuting Attorney; Robert G. W.
I Hayes, County Surveyor ; George Heint*
j bach, Commissioner.
important Message from President Fillmore.
The Governor ol Texas having intima
ted an intention to take forcible possession
of portions of New Mexico, the President
has deemed it his duty to lay the matter
before Congress, and on Tuesday last trans
mitted a message earnestly appealing to
Congress to adjust the question before its
adjournment; but at the same time states
that if that body fails to do its duty, he
will feel himself bound by his oath of olliee
and the Constitution to protect the people
of the States and Territories in their lives
and their property, and that he shall do so
in case of the invasion of New Mexico by
an armed force. He means to maintain
the Union, and will do it at all hazard.—
After recapitulating all the leading lacts
necessary to show that the territory now
claimed bv Texas was conquered by the
United States forces under Gen. Kearney
during the war with Mexico, anil subse
quently ceded to the United States by the
treaty of peace, he says:
The Executive Government of the United
States has no power or authority to determine
what was the true line of boundary between
Mexico and the United States before the treaty
of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. Nor has it any such
power now, since the question has become a
question between the Slate of Texas and the
United States. So far as this boundary is doubt
ful, that doubt can only be removed by some act
of Congress to which the assent of the Slate of
Texas may be necessary, or by some appropri
ate mode of legal adjudication.
But, in the mean time, if disturbances or col
lisions arise, or should be threatened, it is abso
lutely incumbent 011 the executive government,
however painful the duty, to take care that the
laws be faithfully maintained, and he can regard
only the actual state of things as it existed at
the date of the treaty, and is bound to protect
all inhabitants who were then established, and
who now remain north and east of the line of
demarkation, in the full enjoyment of their lib
erty and property, according to the provisions
of the ninth article of the treaty. In other
words, all must now be regarded as New Mexico
which was possessed and occupied as New Mex
ico by citizens of Mexico at the date of the
treaty, until a definite line of boundary shall be
established by competent authority. This asser
tion of duty to protect the people of New Mex
ico from threatened violence, or from seizure,
to be carried into Texas for trial for alleged
oliences against Texas laws, does not at all in
clude any claim of power on the part of the
Executive to establish any civil or military gov
ernment within that Territory.
That power belongs exclusively to the legis
lative department, when Congress is the sole
judge of the time and manner of creating or
overthrowing such governments. The duty of
the Executive is only 10 sec the execution of the
laws arid the maintenance of treaties actually
iu force, and the protection of all the people of
the United States in the enjoyment of the rights
which those treaties and laws guaranty.
It is exceedingly desirable that no occasion
shall arise for tiie exercise of the powers thus
vested in the President by the Constitution and
the laws. With whatever mildness those powers
might be executed, or however clear the case of
necessity, yet consequences might nevertheless
follow of which no human sagacity can foresee
either the evils or the end.
Having thus laid before Congress the commu
nication of his Excellency, the Governor of
Texas, and the answer thereto, and having made
such observations as I have thought the occasion
called for, respecting constitutional obligations
which may arise in the further progress of
things, and" may devolve on me to be performed,
1 hope 1 shall not be regarded as stepping aside
from the line of my duty, notwithstanding that
1 am aware that the subject is now before both
Houses, if 1 express my deep and earnest con
viction of the importance of an immediate de
cision, or arrangement, or settlement of the
question of boundary between Texas and the
territory of New Mexico. All considerations
of justice, general expediency, and domestic
tranquility call for this. It seeins to he, in its
character and by position, the first, or one of
the first, of the questions growing out of the
acquisition of California and New Mexico, and
now requiring decision.
No government can be established for New
Mexico, either State or Territory, until it shall
be first ascertained what New Mexico is, and
what are her limits and boundaries. These cau
not be fixed or know n, till the line of division
between her and Texas shall bo ascertained and
established—and numerous and weighty reasons
conspire, in my judgement, to show that this
divisional line should be established by Congress,
with the assent of the government of Texas.
In the first place, this seems by far the most
prompt mode of proceeding, by which the end
can be accomplished. If judicial proceedings
were resorted to, such proceedings would neces
sarily be slow, and years would pass by, in all
probability, before the controversy could be
ended. So great a delay, in this case, is to be
avoided if possible. Such a delay would be
every way inconvenient, and might be the occa
sion of disturbances and collisions. For the
same reason, 1 would, with the utmost deference
to the wisdom of Congress, express a doubt of
the expediency of the appointment of commis
sioners, and of an examination, estimate, and an
award of indemnity to be made by them. This
would be hut a species of arbitration, which
might last as long as a suit at law.
So far as I aui able to comprehend the case,
the general facts are now all known, and Con
gress is as capable of deciding on it, justly and
properly, now as it probably would be after the
report of the Commissioners. If the claim of
the title on the part of Texas appears to Con
gress to be well founded, in whole or in part, it
is in the competency of Congress to offer her an
indemnity for the surrender of that claim. In
a case like this, surrounded as it is, by many
cogent considerations, all calling for amicable
adjustment and immediate settlement, the Gov
ernment of the United States would be justified,
in my opinion, allow ing an indemnity to Texas,
not unreasonable and extravagant, but fair,
liberal, and awarded in a just spirit of accom
modation.
I think no event would be hailed with more
gratification by the people of the United States,
than the amicable adjustment of questions of
difficulty, which have now, for a long time, agi
tated the country, arid occupied, to the exclusion
of other subjects, the time and attention of Con
gress.
Having thus freely communicated the result
of my own reflection, on the most advisable
mode of adjusting the boundary question, 1 shall,
nevertheless, cheerfully acquiesce in any other
mode which the wisdom of Congress may devise.
And, in conclusion, 1 repeat my conviction,
that every consideration of the public interest,
manifests the necessity of a provision by Con
gress for the settlement of this boundary ques
tion, before the present session be brought to a
close. The settlement of other questions, con
nected with the same subject, within the same
period, is greatly to be desired ; but the adjust
ment of this appears to me to be in the highest
degree important. In the train ol such an ad
justment, we may well hope that theie will fol
low a return of harmony and good will, an in
creased attachment to the Union, and the general
satisfaction of the country.
MILLARD FILLMORE.
WASHINGTON', August C, IdoO.
County Hetiluz.
The V\ lugs of Mifflin assembled at the Town
Hall in Lewistown on Tuesday evening, 6th in
stant, and organized by the appointment of E. E.
LOCKE, Esq., as President; DAVID M'CLLRE,
ABNKR REED, J. J. CUNNINGHAM, THOMAS WAT
SON, JOSEPH CAMPBELL, WILLIAM RAMJET, GEO.
W. STEWART, and R. RUSH FRANKS, Esquires,
Vice Presidents; and Col. D. Stuart Elliott, C.
Jlujor, and Joseph llaffly, Esq., Secretaries.
On motion, a committee of five was appointed
to draft suitable resolutions for the consideration
of the meeting. The Chair named A. P. Jacob,
George Frysinger, George \V. Soult, Joseph A.
Bell, and William Brothers, Esqrs., who retired
and during the evening reported the following,
which were unanimously adopted :
WHEP.KAS, The period is approaching when,
accdrding to the established usages of the Whig
party, candidates are to be put in nomination for
the various county offices, for a member of the
House of Representatives, and for a member of
Congress in the lower House ; and WHEREAS,
is necessary that a perfect organization of the
party in this county should be effected, in order
to secure unanimity of action and consequent
success, therefore be it
Resolved, That SATURDAY, the 17th day of
August, 1650, be fixed as the day on which Del
egates shall be elected in the various Townships
and Election Districts in Mifflin county, to meet
in County Convention, at Lewistown, ori Mon
day the 19th instant.
Resolved, That in the death of President TAY
LOR the nation has sustained a great and irrepa
rable loss. A Patriot, an illustrious Warrior, a
sound, practical Statesman, a good and truly
great Man, has been stricken down in the com
mencement of a new and no doubt glorious career.
We deplore this National calamity with sincere
and heartfelt sorrow. His name, his glory, be
longs to the American people—his example is a
legacy of wisdom and honor.
Resolved, That our confidence is unshaken in
the wisdom and true Whig principles of MIL
LARD FILLMORE. His reputation is national—
his patriotism embraces ALL our country. With
him the nation is safe, and his energetic and ex
perienced administration will defy the machina
tions of traitors or the wild schemes of political
fanatics.
Resolved, That the exalted credit of Pennsyl
vania, the skill and economy with which her -
finances have been managed, the sagacity and
fearless discharge of duty on the part of the
Executive, speak the strongest language of
praise in favor of WM. F. JOHNSTON. Contend
ing with a wily enemy, surrounded by spies, and
the bright particular mark for every weapon, he
emerges from the contest victorious, and extorts
reluctant approbation from his baffled foes.
Resolved, That the Hon. SAMUEL CALVIN has
faithfully and efficiently represented the interests
of this great iron and producing district; that
he has shown himself constantly alive to the one
only measure of relief—a protective Tariff"; that
our confidence in him and respect for his talents
and integrity are unabated.
Resolved , That J. J. CUNNINGHAM, Esq., our
State Senator, has in every respect satisfied the
expectations of his friends. His constant atten
tion to public business, and his watchful care
for his District, deserve our warmest thanks.
Resolved, That the suffering and prostrate iron
interest of Pennsylvania demands imperatively
a modification of the unjust and unequal Tariff
of 1846.
Resolved, That although Providence has with
drawn from us our great leader, yet, amid all
human changes, our principles change not.—
They are immutable because they are true—they
are the basis of our national prosperity—they
will, they MUST succeed.
The meeting was ably addressed by Captain
THOMAS WATSON, JAMEST. HSI E, Esq., of Belle,
fonte, Gen. IRWIN, and Geo. W. ELDER, Esq.,
who impressed upon the audience the necessity
of united action in the approaching campaign,
feeling satisfied that all that was necessary to
ensure victory was a general turning out of the
Whigs.
THE CABINET.— It is now ascertain™!
that Mr. PEARCE anil Mr. BATES, positive
ly decline the situation offered them in the
Cabinet, and it is said that Hon. M. P.
GENTRY of Tenn., will be Secretary of
War, and Mr. GEYER of Missouri, Secre
tary of the Interior.
CtT It is aunnounced in the Keystone
that the Canal Commissioners are in ses
sion in Philadelphia, engaged among other
things, in allotting the work on the North
Branch Canal. The allotment of this
work seems to be a troublesome job.
NEW COUNTERFEITS.—S'S on the York
Bank, which appear to have been printed
from a counterfeit plate ou the Ilarrisburg
Bank altered, have been detected in Mont
gomery county. In the counterfeit, the
words The York Hank are placed in a
semicircle over the \ignette, which is not
the case in the genuine.
Counterfeit 10's on the Farmers and
Drovers Bank, old plate, are about. The
die u ork generally is cloudy and imperfect.
The Board of Health of St. Louis have
passed a resolution, requesting all persons
to refrain from the use of limestone water,
and in order to prevent its use as far as
possible, have had the handles taken from
many of the pumps in that city.
BALLOONING.— Mr. Wise, the .Eronatit,
inllated his great Balloon, at Lancaster, on
Saturday. An immense number of people
assembled to witness it, and the passenger
cars upon the Columbia railroad were
crowded. After taking up passengers and
letting them down again for some time, the
sport was arrested by a sudden squall of
wind, which capsized the balloon and burst
it. Mr. W. expects to repair the damage
again, and then make a trip with his family
to the upper regions.
On Thursday last, the lightning struck
the house of Jacob Smith, above Hartle
ton, and did considerable damage to it.
Several ol the family were stunned bv it
but none seriously injured.— Union Star.
An ingenious \ ankee, down east, has in
vented a machine for milking cows. The
editor of the Maine Farmer has tried it,
and says it is the very thing.
For the Gaifttt
Our \t\t Itiuher of Assembly.
MR. EDITOR :—Allow me to call the a t
tentiou of our whig friends to the name ot
ANDREW M'FARI.ASD, of the Valley, a-; t
suitable candidate lor member of the next
Legislature in opposition to the Cameronmn
nominee. Mr. MF. undoubtedly com
bines all the requisites of honesty'and ca
pacity. and will command a support that
will astonish both friend and foe. With
him, oui word lor it, success is certain.
BOROUGH.
Fur the Gazette.
MR. EDITOR :—M hile the locofocos are
nominating officers who were in the Mexi
can war 10 profitable posts and bestowing
all manner of eulogiums on them for hav
ing performed well-paid duties, there is
not a word ol encouragement, no note of
praise, for the humble men who bore the
brunt of the hardships ami fatigues of that
memorable war. For instance, there is ari
humble individual now in our midst who
gallantly braved the dangers, privations
and battles encountered by Taylor and
Scott, yet he is passed by as though he
had no existence. I allude, Mr. Editor,
to Col. PETER KERN. Now, why is this ?
lie has always heen a democrat—not one
of the stay-th-home one's during war, but
ever ready to shoulder his musket as a
private, and do battle for his country like
a true American soldier—yet those who
would see so much merit in Mr. McCoy
serving a short time in Mexico as an officer,
can s-e none in the brave and gallant s.il
dier I have named. MONTEREY.
11 i v. WOOL declines being a candi
date for Governor of New York.
fl A RRIED,
' On Tuesday, 6th instant, by Rev. Jarnea $
WOODS, JAMES WAREAM, Esq., and Miss MARIO
REV MART V AKDANEKER, all of this place.
On Wednesday, 7ih inst., by Rev. J. Rosen
berg, Mr. LEWIS HAMON and Miss MART JAXE
GABEL, both of Union township.
DIED.
On Sunday morning. LOUISA, an inteiestm,
daughter of Charles Shell, aged 2 years an 1 A
days.
So taint of earth, no thought of sin,
E'er dwelt thy stainless heart within ,
And God hath laid thee down to sleep,
Like a pure pearl below the deep.
Soon on Death's couch shall we recline-
Soon shall our heads be laid with thine—
And sunder'J spirits meet above,
To live for evermore in love !
On Thursday, Ist inst , in Newton Hamilton,
Mr. ROBERT FIELDS, aged about 37 years.
On Saturday, 3d inst., in Wayne township
ANDREW J., son of Abner Wharton, aged about
8 years.
On Thursday, 11th ult., in Derry township,
Mr JAMES COCHRAN, aged upwards of 73 yean,
a native, and cue of the oldest inhabitants u
the county.
On Sabbath morning, 14th ult., in Oliver
township, Mrs. ELIZA, consort of Robert M
Farland, aged 3S years and 2 monlhs.
On Monday. July 22d, 1850, in Franklin, Pa
Mrs. CATHARINE, wife of John W. Shugert, Esq
formerly of this place, aged -10 years and 5 dan
THE MARKETS.
Lewistown, August 9, J *-50.
Puid hg Peaters KrhiH
Flour - $4 50 Jfcfi 0U
Wheat, white - 105 1 15
red - 100 1 10
Rye 50 (X)
Outs, new, BO—old, 37$ 45
Corn, 50 56
Clovcrsced old, 300
Ho new. 3 00
Flaxseed - . 1 00 1 '25
Timothy seed - - 2 00 2 50
Butter, good - - 12 12
Eggs 10 10
Lard 6 8
Tallevv . 8 10
Potatoes - - 62 >5
PHILADELPHIA, August 7, 1650.
The flour market is quiet. The only sale
reported is a small lot of fresh ground at §5.25
per bbl. Sales to the city dealers and bakers
at .$5.25 to $5.62A for common andextra brands,
and $G to $8 tor New York fancy brands. Rye
Flour and Corn Meal are steady at $2,371
GRAIN. —The market is well supplied witli
Wheat, and prices are rather drooping. Sales
of 2a4000 bushels Red at $L12a1.14 per bush.
Nothing doing in Rye. Corn is in demand.
Sales of 1500 bushels Southern yelfSw at 65c.
afloat. Date are in steady demand. Sales of
new Southern at 40a42c. per bu.— Daily .Yo
BALTIMORE; August 7,1850.
Fiutt.—We note sales of fresh grou/w
Howard Street Flour, from old wheat,atss<bi I
GRAIN. — Much of the Wheat now comuj
to market is damp and unfit for immediate
grinding. The sales to-day were at 100all
cts. for ordinary to good rods, ana 112a120 cts.
for good to prime. Sales also of white W hea
at 112a120 cts,, and of family flour white a.
125a 135 cts. Sales of Corn at t>la6o cts for
white, and (15 cts. for yellow. One lot a
prime white brought 67 cts. We quote Mary
land Rye at 60 cts. Very inferior to prime Oati
are selling at 25a40 cts.according to quality.—
American.
Executors' Notice.
FETTERS testamentary on the estate tf
ROBERT FIELDS, lat of the borough
of Newton Hamilton, deceased, having bens
gi anted to tiie subscribers, they hereby notify
all persons indebted to said estate to call a<i
settle the same without delay,and those having
claims to present theth dulv authenticated.
JOHN PURCELL,
Newton Hamilton.
ELIJAH MORRISON,
augtMK* Wayne township
&<fl> VS<D2Bo
"jVTOTICK is hereby given that 1 purchase'
IN at Constable's Sale, in the beginning'' 1
July, the following articles, as the property "t
John Watson, to wit:
2 Bay Horses
2 Sets Harness
A light Two Horse Wagon, with Spring's
1 Sled .
—which said property I have left in
of said John Watson during my will 1
pleasure, and hereby caution the public net
interfere with the same in anv manner what
soever. THOMAS WATSON
Armagh township, August 9,1850 31'