Cemlo to Hl ii ©n) t tic. Vol XXXVl.—'Whole At) l00. Rales of Advertising. One square, 18 lines, 2 squares, G mos. $5.00 1 time 50 " 1 year 8.00 " 2 times 75 £ column, 3 mos. G.OO " 3 " LOO " C " 10.00 " 1 mo. 1.25 " 1 year 15.00 " 3 " 2.50 1 column, 3 mos. 10.00 " 6 " 4.00 " G " 15.00 " 1 year G.OO " 1 year 25.00 2 squares, 3 times 2.00 Notices before mar " 3 mos. 3.50 riages, &e. sl2. Communications recommending persons for office, must be paid in advance at the rate of 25 cents per square. a;* sjbmmb Attorney at Law, Wl LL attend promptly to business entrust ed to his care in tins and adjoining counties. Office one door west of the Post Office. June 28, 1650-ly. J. W. PARKER, Attorney at Law, X.EWISTOWN, MIFFLIN CO., PA. OFFICE on Market street, two doors east of the Bank. {April 1*2,1850-tf w. XI- IRWIN, A T T ORNEY AT L A If, HAS resumed the practice of his profession in this and the adjoining counties. Office at the Banking House of Ixmgeneck or, Grubb & Co. ~ Jan. 20, 18-18—tf. D. II ROACH, BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER MARKET STREET, Lewistown, next door to Judge Ritz's. niay24tf MAGISTRATE S OFFICE CHRISTIAN HOOVER, Justice oi* Ihe Peace, CAN be found at his office, in the room re cently occupied by Esquire Kulp, where he will attend to all business entrusted to Ins care with the greatest care and despatch. Lewistown, July 1,1848 —tf. M. MOBiTGOM KitY, •toot .V Shoe MnmiVarlurcr, MARKET STREET LEWISTOWN. C CONTINUES to manufacture, to order, / every description of BOOTS AND SHOES, on the most reasonable terms.— Having competent workmen in hieemployand using good slock, his customers, as well as all others, may rely upon getting a good article, well made and neatly finished. January 22,1848 —tf. SOMETHING NEW. In the Diamond, Lcwhtown. A DRUG & VARIETY STORE. A A. BANKS has just opened a general • assortment of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils and Dye-stuffs, with SPICES of all kinds, fresh and genuine. Also, a great variety of Coufectionaries, Nats, Crackers and Raisins. ALSO, Foolscap and Letter Paper, Quills, Steel Pens, Slates, Pencils, Envelopes, Copy Books, Blank Books, English Bibles and Testaments, with several kinds of SCHOOL BOOKS. Tobacco, Smift and Scgars, of the beet quality, Sogar Cases, Snuff Boxes, Pen Knives, Razorj Strops, Shaving Cream, Hair Oil, Perfumery of different kinds. Tooth Powder.Motto VVafers,Gold and Dutch I,eaf,&c. All of the above articles will be sold at the LOWEST CASH PRICES, at the ARCADE, East side of the Diamond. Lewistown, April 5, 1850—tf GREAT EXCITEMENT ABOUT Benjamin Hinklcj's Patent Clastic Sprintf Bottom MANUFACTURED AND SOLD BY A. FELIX, At the Lewiitwu liicap Cabinet Ware Rooms, WHERE the article can be seen at any time among his large stock ot other FURNITURE of all descriptions. The fol lowing testimonials from those who purchased and have now in use, or had the bottom put into their old bedsteads, will speak for themselves: CERTIFICATES : This is to certify tiiut I purchased twenty pair of new bedsteads with Umkley s oatent elastic spring bottom in, am well pleased with thein. consider them a good article, and uo " '. buy no others. I wouid recommend them to all persons,as they arc easily screwed together, and can be kept, cleaner than any hitherto made. JAMES ALLISON. I concur with the above and consider it a good article for tavern keepers and others. THOMAS MAYES. We certify that we goi A. Fcliv to put B. Hmkley's patent bottom into our old bedsteads, and that they answer the purpose exceedingly well. We consider it a bedstead that can be kept much cleaner from insects, screwed up firmer than any others, and recommend them to the public, DAVD BLOOM, JOHN CLARK, JKRMAN JACOB, l>- SCNDF.ULANU I,ewilown, April 20, 18.>0 —tf 1 mi kegs NAILS, at $4 25 per keg, fo r A IMF JYJJJ b alo by WM. KLWAI/I. Confectionariesj !\] UTS, Crackers, Raisins, &.C., at the Dia tnotid Drug and Variety Store of 1)6 A. A. BANKS. g v RANEES,(fresh) LtMOtm, Fos, KAIMNS, " P Pld nfs, Ate., at A. A BANKS' uy3l Diamond Drug and Variety tlore. jmuhssshbib &sm vmmssmmt ws s®m amyssOTiws?) annrasssj ®®3ot } s>a BOOKS k BT4TIOIRY. TOBACCO AND CIGAR STORE. rjnUE subscriber respectfully informs Lis JL friends and the public in general, that he lias REMOVED his store to the room lately occupied by JOHN I. M'COY, as a Shoe Store, ; nearly opposite the Bank, where he has just i received a first rate assortment of Congress, Plug, Roll, Lady I'wist, HmnlH*Lump, Sweet and Plain Cavendish, Black Pat, Luscious Lux ury, Eldorado, Natural Anti-nervous, Mrs. Mil .ler's and Anderson's Fine Cut und Solace TO BACCO ; Rappee, Scotch, Macabau and Na tiotches SNUFF and Snuff Boxes; PIPES, and SMOKING TOBACCO; Havana, Span ish, Half do., and American CIGARS. Also, Letter and Writing PAPER; Quills, 1 Steel Pens and Pen Holders; Motto, Transpa rent and Plain WAFERS; Sealing Wax, ! Slates and Slate Pencils, Lead Pencils, Black, Blue, Red, and Indelible INK, and Inkstands; Black Sand mid Sand Boxes, and a general assortment of Blank and .School Books, together with a choice selection of JUVENILE and LITERARY WORKS. Also, a good article of Pen Knives, Pocket Combs, Bank Cases, Port Monies, &c.. &c., which he will sell at the very lowest cash pri ces. GEO. W. THOMAS. N. B.—He will sell Tobacco, Snuff and Ci gars at WHOLESALE to dealers on the most accommodating terms. Lewistown, June 7, lK r iO —3m LEAD PIPES, 14 to 2 inches, for sale bv jy'Jßtf F. G. FRANCISCUS. ' sett English and American Wagon Boxes i 4fJ 25satt English Tire Iron, 11 to 4 in. broad ! Articles of this kind always on hand by JY 26if F. G. FRANCISCUS. WATERVILLE Manufacturing Co.'s su perior PEN and POCKET CUTLERY—nian , ufactured by the Waterville Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, Conn. An invoice of the above splendid American Cutlery just, re | ceived. Premiums were given for these goods at the New York and Philadelphia Institutes— j rivaling in quality and finish Westenholin and 1 Rogers' best cutlery. Each knife warranted. For sale wholesale and retail by Jy2Gtf F. G. FRANCISCUS. New Shot* l ilkok at the late delegate election in Philadel phia county, (see the Pennsylvania!! of August 12th,) where Wm. B. Rankin, of Wiliiams ■ port notoriety, acted as inspector, and tried to i cheat democrats out of thc-ir votes, and that too fur the apparent purpose of betraying the polit j ical power and influence of that district into ' the huruls of this same faction. 1/JOk too at j Mifflin county, where intrigue tins been trium j pliant, and v. here allegiance to Simon Cameron I is arrogantly proclaimed us the true test of democracy. But, fellow-citizens, our more important and immediate business is nearer home. Here in Union county this same taction lias attempted by disreputable means to over-ride and suppress popular opinion, and defeat the people's will. But they have taken one step too many, and over-reached themselves; they have added the final weight to a burthen that had already be come oppressive, and will now no longer he Irorne in silent submission. We have arrived at a crisis in our local political affairs when it behooves us to be on tiro alert, and firmly to resist encroachments upon our rights and libei ly. This combination of desperate politicians—a leading branch of which is located in this coun ty —is evidently prepared to sacrifice every principle of democracy, in order to accomplish their selfish and mercenary purposes. Not satisfied with enriching themselves with the spoils of office and official influence, they now turn around and use flic very means and influ ence thus acquired to destroy the purity and value of the delegate system, suppress the voice of the people, and subvert that great democratic party through which they obtained such large emoluments. Their own selfish interests is I he exclusive object of their pursuit. They do not, in reality, profess to regard the principles and usages of the democratic party any further than they can use them for their own purposes. Priding themselves (at least the Chief of the faction in this county) upon their pecuniary resources as the only political or social principle of any value, nqd practical ly disregarding all others, they seem to consider themselves entirely alovc, and independent of, the rights, and opinions, and interests of the masses of the people, and look down upon those rights and opinions with cool and contemptuous indifference, and trample upon them, when it suits them to do so, with purse-proud, reckless insuh .pee. These same men, as is well known, have lor years past exerted every means in their power to control the elections of our State fur sinister arid mercenary purposes, and have in variably opposed the nominees of the parly, when such a i could out he controlled and used by them. The same game was lately tried in this county. To prove this we need only refer to the re cent dolegate elections, and the proceedings of the self-styled Democratic C'onventionjiejd in the Court tlouse in New Berlin, on the 12th August. So strong was the evidence of fraud and misrepresentation, and the common opinion of the gross injustice perpetrated in packing that convention, that fourtecu out of forty dele gates refused to go into the convention, and it is notorious that the wishes und preferences of at least four or five districts for whom delegates were present, were totally misrepresented in the action of the convention. It is so notorious as to need no argument that the votes given Ibr the Congressional candidate by the dele gates from Kellv, Lewisburg, East Buffalo, Ccntreville and White Deer were directly the opposite of the wishes of the people of those districts, and if a fair, and open, and honorable choice of delegates had been made, no delegate in favor of that candidate could ever have been elected. But as Maj. Cummings candidly con fessed, in his speech to the convention, that he did p.ot visit those districts at all, the selection of those delegates was undeniably the work of this same faction. Conscious that Loth themselves and the can didate for whom they were secretly working stood no chance of a fair election, they set to work and carried tin ir point by trickery and deception—in some cases hurrying the election to a close long before the proper time—in others getting men to serve as delegates under false pretences —and in others pledging themselves to a course the very opposite of that which they afterwards pursued. In one district bring ing a single delegate to act fur two. who was himself hardly a citizen, if his residence was not actually in on adjoining county, and in others carrying their delegates under circum stances that aroused the indignation of the up right and honest democrats of the districts who were thus disfranchised. In Lewisburg, for instance, the leaders of this faction, afraid to trust themselves in the hands of the people, secretly pitched upon two persons tor delegates, (in opposition to the people's ticket of tried and trusty men,) one of whom had not yet estab lished a political character, and the other an avowed whig. They declared themselves to some in favor ol the same Congressional can didate supported by the mass of the party in Lewisburg, and also gave most solemn pledges that they never would vote for Jack Cummings, thus deceiving many of the voters. They pre vented the election being held by ballot, thus depriving the voters of u right " inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only;" and by this means were enabled to brow-beat and coerce men, peculiarly situated, who were thus forced to vole contrary to their wishos, and against the dictates of their own judgement and conscience, and by this means placed rights and privileges which are dear to every American citizen—rights which every man ought to enjoy fur himself—in the hands und control of one man or a faction of men. If such methods of carryiug an election arc deemed infamous when resorted toby whig iron masters, und whig coal operators, we ask are they right and honorable when used by those who pretend to be Union county democrats? llut tu csp the climax, as SOCJO as the election closed and they found that they had managed to carry the day. (quite a number of the best democrats in the district, who were present, being so disgusted with the proceedings, that they refused to vote at all,) they immediately voted down a resolution of instructions in favor ol the very candidate for Congress whom they had just before most'earnestly professed to sup port—thus aneedily proving the falsity of their own professions. in West Heaver,, whigs were permitted to volo so as to give this faction the delegates. In Centreville they rushed in their votes at an early hour, and then forcibly closed the elec tion by driving the President from his chair, thus preventing the friends of the opposite can didate from polling their strength ; thev then tore up the tally paper and declared their own men elected, and made out their credentials ! und with these facts staring them in the face, they were admitted as delegates by the conven tion. We have no objection to the vote received in Convention by Maj. Cuminings, so far as it rightfully belonged to him. Maj. Cumrnings. as well as everv other man, is entitled to all the political influence and popularity he can command, or may fairly acquire. Hut we pro test against the action of the convention in nom inating hirn, and repudiate its doings, because, as we haco shown, that convention was hut a fragment, and in any aspect, its action was not the voico of the democracy of Union county. And we do not charge this result so much upon him, ns upon the factious demagogues already referred to, whose instrument fie certainly is, although (which is very doubtful,) he may uot he aware of it. They no doubt seized upon Maj. Cumrnings ns the fittest instrument with which to defeat an honest Union county demo crat ; yet at the same time, they never dreamed of having him nominated by the ccuferees of the district. This is evidently no part of their plan. lie was first to help cheat Union county out of the r.omiuation, und then he laid down as a stepping stone for someother man to mount up to a Congressional nomination. We protest against the unheard of manner in which the convention managed the appoint ment of conferees f>r this county; regarding it as agross riolation t of popular rights. These, conferees ought to represent the democracy of Union county in the conference meeting. But instead of this, it seems they are not to be nn pointcd by the democracy, or even a (taction ct them, hut by Jack Cumniings himself \ ] They arc to be the lucre creatures of his will, to be labelled for his use, and disposed of just as ho may see proper; to be sohi, if necessary, to the highest hiddor. It is <0 bo hoped that he will not select tiny democrats of Union county as conferees, but f; o m the skirts of the Williams port convention, or the purlieus of one of the large cif .es, pick out a pair of beautiful " Oven shinc-s, M perfect matches politically and morally, und with this splendid team commence his race through the old UJih Congressional dis trict. Of one tiling he may be certain—all true democrats will "clear the track!" We protest against the action of this conven tion in appointing n delegate 10 the next 4th of March State convention, ns being premature at this time; a doubtful democrat having been selected, and no instructions given. Making it evident to our minds, that the design is to play '• fast and loose," to suit the interests of this faction, and if needs bo, sacrifice Col. Bigler, although he i 9 the decided choice of nine-tenths of tho democracy of Union county. We pretest against this self-styled democrat ic convention, aud its doings, and refuse to rec ognize it—believing that it is substantially the result of the corrupt intrigues of this faction, and does not express the voice of the democra cy of this county. And now, fellow citizens, shall we longer submit to be thus cheated out of our rights as members of the democratic party, by a handful of men, who themselves , have no political character or integrity, and no j popular influence, except what they buy or can compel by tho grinding power of money ? We say emphatically, NO! We are neither slaves nor cowards ! and in the full confidence of the uprightness of our course, we have resolved to wage an open and organized warfare upon this faction) without regard to consequences, and in defiance of the threats which they havealready dared to level at us) until the sins of the past urn atoned for, and we aro fully restored to the equal rights and privileges which belong to us as members of the democratic party. Do you want illustrations of the necessity and propriety of this course ; or have you doubts of it ? Look at the policy and deeds of this same faction, whose despotic will tolerates no freedom of opinion and action, who always require the most blind, unreasoning submission to their wishes from their friends and support ers, yet never iiesitate to betray or sacrifice every man, whether friend or foe, who may happen to stand in the way of their selfish schemes —showing by their own perfidy and ingratitude, that they do not merit the fidelity and friendship of others. They proless to be democrats, yet always oppose the party, and defeat, or try to defeat its caadidates, whenever it suits their purposes. To prove this assertion, and justify our present course, we r.ecd not go further back than the New Berlin convention, where this faction passed but two resolutions—one in relation to the next Presidency, and the other to bolster up their own misdoings—but (O" carefully ab stained from saying a single word in favor ot the democratic nominees for Canal Commis missioncr and Auditor and Surveyor General ! Thus proving to the world their pre conceived determination to defeat the democratic candi dates for these important offices; or at least suffer the election to go by default, and thus help the whigs to an easy victory. We ask nothing unreasonable. We do not complain of any majority which may at any tune be returned against us, provided that ma jority le fairly and honestly obtained. But we demand the fieedom and purity of the elec tive franchise in our party proceedings ; and we demand that our County Conventions shall fairly the democracy of the county, and not to be fraudulently packed to suit a corrupt faction. And we say in conclusion, that as the Now Berlin convention resolved to give their" unflinching support" to their own doings, we have determined to array ourselves in an equally firm and " unflinching" hostility to the faction which wrongfully contro'led it. To this determination we shall INFLEXIBLY AD HERE. James Madden, Jacob Wolfe, I'hilip Gross, John V. Barber, Jonathan Wolfe, John M. Taylor, R. B. Barber, Robert Swineford, Samuel Roush, S. F. Lyndull, Jclm Swineford lvlward Wilson, Geo. W. Huon, Andw. J. Crotzcr, Jacob Reichley, Isaac Neiman, David Kleckner, W. B. Shriaer, Henry W. Fries, liian Dauberaiatt, WilliamKilerf, l.ewis Iddings, R. F. Piatt, John Forster, C. 11. Shriaer, Joseph Ivleckner, Samuel Hermany, jr. Peter Neiman, Jonathan Spanglor, Thomas Tea rick, Charles I). Roush, Michael Henfer, Samuel S. Burber, David Roush, John H. Beale, Joseph Klickner, Joseph Kilert, August 17, 1850. ,pu sr cll anco uO. So WE GO. —The American Mechanic, published at Poughkeepsie, justly remarks: A man growls at paying a shilling for a loaf of bread, thinking he ougiit to get it for eleven pence, and the same evening takes his family to witness the feats of a inagi eian, for tite purpose of being humbugged, knowing they will be humbugged, and willingly pays a dollar for the privilege ! Another is too poor to pav for a newspa per, but can spend a levy or a quarter for every puppet show or other foolish exhi bition that travels the country, and not miss it. Another is too poor to pay a few dol lars, hut can attend all concerts and negro performances that come along. Another wants a mechanic to work for nine and sixpence, when he wants ton shillings, and watches him to see that he labors faithfully, and the next day hires a horse and wagon, at the expense of two dollars, to travel ton miles to see a horse race. Another " heats down" an old woman a penny on a bunch of radishes, and before getting home spends two or three shillings in treating his friends. WATER-LILIES IN THE WEST. —The editor of the Peoria Register speaks with enthusiasm of the magnificent water-lilies which abound in Illinois, He says they grow in water of various depths, some times as deep as ten feet, presenting a smooth loatlcss stalk, till it arrives at the surface, where there is a large circular leaf, often two feet in diameter, not unlike, and full as large as an old-fashioned pewter platter in the time of our great grand mothers. From the centre of this leaf rises a stalk of six or eight inches in height, supporting a splendid dower of a light orange color—some of the petals of which are three or more inches in length. What a field lor the llorist in our Western prairies and forests ! Acw Scries—Vol. 4—No. 40. " I think," said Mrs. Partington, getting up from the breakfast table, " i will take a tower, or go on a discursion. The bill says, if I collect rigluly, that a party is to go to a very plural spot, and to mistake of a cold collection. 1 hope it wont be so cold as ours for the poor lust Sunday ; why there warnt efficient to buy a feet of wood for a restitute widder." And the old lady put on her green calash " Tom, you sot," said a temperance man to a tippling friend," what makes you drink such stuff as you do ? Why, the very hogs wouldn't touch that brandy." " That's 'cause they is brutes," said Tom. " Poorereeturs ! theydonno what's good." A foot race took place yesterday be tween a light-footed gentleman and a run ning account, which he had for some time had at the grocer's store. He beat the ac count all hollow, and came out so far ahead as to be wholly cmt of sight. It is thought he is still running. A HINT.—A chap who lately emigrated | to the West, writes home to his father as , follows :—" You had better come out to Sangamon county, Illinois, for almighty mean men get into office here." This is j rather an equivocal compliment to the ok! ; gentleman, A city lad borrowing a dictionary to read, returned it after he had got through, with the remark, that " It was werry nice reading, hut it somehow changed the sub ject werry often." It was a sister of this hopeful boy who thought the first ice cream she tasted was " a leetle touched with the frost." A certain preacher in the " far West" gave out for his text, a certain chapter and verse of Clorer. The deacon arose and told him it was Timothy. "O, yes," replied the divine, "It is Timothy. I knew it was some kind of grass." The old saying is, "To make a man a drunkard, give him a wife who will scold him every time he comes home." Auditor's Notice. THE subscriber appointed Auditor by die Orphans' Court of Mifflin county to make distribution of proceeds in the hands of JOHN BEALE, administrator de bonis r.on , &c., ot WILLIAM BEALE, late of Milford township, | Mifflin (now Juniata) county, dee'd, appoints 1 TUESDAY, the Ist day of October next, at his j office in Lewistown, to hear the parties in • terested, when and where they arc hereby no tified to attend. WM. M. lIALL. Lewistown, August 23, 18.30-11 Auditor's ."Notice. THE subscriber appointed Auditor by the Orphans' Court oi' llitTlin county to pass and decide on the exceptions filed, &c., to the administration account of JOHN SPROI-K,admin istrator of HUGH SPROLE, late of Wayne township, Mifflin county, deceased, appoint* THURSDAY, the 3d day of October next, at his office in Lewistown, to hear the parties in terested, when and where they are hereby no tilled to attend. WAL M. HALL. Lewistown. August 23, ISSO-4t Audi(or'a Notice. fTIHE subscriber, appointed Auditor by the A Orphan's Court of Mifflin county tore port on the exceptions filed,