TIIE G A Z E T T E. LEWLSTOWN, PA. ERIH.IT ETETITfi, October 4, ISSO. T E It M S : O.Ti: DOLLAR PER. ATTIAI, IN" ADVANCE. For sis months, To cents. TTj'All NEW subscriptions must be puil. IVGRAM.of Decaturtownship. TROSECCTING ATTOR^F.r, JOHY VI. SHAH, of Lewlstown. PIRF.CTORS OF Tlir. ROoR, Drown. Armagh* Vtion and „l/tJtf>, JAMES M. BROW.T, of Armagh. 3 year-. Decatur, Jhrry, Q-ann c, Oliver, Bratfon, H'akite, Jfncton Hamilton ana Mc feytotcn, UGTSTIYE WAKEFIELD, of Oliver. 2 years. Borough of I.t wstotcn, GEORGE vr. STEW ART. I vcar. Notices ol AtiverlistiikHls. Scm.o<-sER bas just returned with a large an ! elegant assortment of Watches, Jewelry, Clocks, Ac., which he will dispose of very low at hi 3 establishment in the Diamond. Particulars in our next. Wattson dt Jacob invite attention to their arrangements for a supply of iron. The Stockholders of the Milhcim and East Kishacoquillas Turnpike Company will find two notices respecting their road. The Register's Notices and List of Letters also appear to-day. rF* We have authentic information that the locofocos are resorting to everv species of trading to make votes for Parker—one man having gone so far as to make a whig the offer to strike two names from the county ticket if the latter would \otc for Parker, while others are freely offering to strike any one name from their ticket to secure a similar vote. DON'T DO IT ! Stick, to Dr. McCulloch, and victory awaits you as sure as the election day comes. LOOK AT VOI R TICKETS, and see that you have the genuine, as all kinds will Jio doubt be afloat. A WET DAY. —Should Tuesday next be a icet day , the whigs must not let it deter them from attending the Election. Rain or shine, every vote should be polled. 11? Our neighbor is very much con cerned for Col. Cummins, and cites the ghost of an old stone bridge to the aid of Stroup ! It's no go—if you're scared any, you'll have to put up wish it, and no mis take. ZW Jons J. Co< HRAX, Esq., one of the editors of the York Republican, has been appointed Postmaster at Yoik. This is an excellent appointment, and as we go in for editors, we hope our friend of the Ad vocate will get the next government office given to a citizen of thai place. H/ The organ of " democracy** in Huntingdon county tell* it* readers that tickets will be circulated in some of ihe election districts representing deinocrnts to he candidates for county commissioner, and then adds, " any such tickets should not be voted ! ' Friend Lewis is a very clever fellow, but if he lived down here and gave such democratic advice, the party would have his head off forthwith. Per haps, however, democracy is an entirely diiiereiit article in Huntingdon to what it H in Mitllin, <• P Oid Ritchie, of ;!ie Washington 1 num. who h -b ;; a M , r t ~f *r<-n t part ner in doing the congrr -stoaai printing, modestly came in at the close of the ses sion of ( ongress for f.ft\ or one hundred thousand dollars ej.tro [tutj / Fortunately the House hail honesty enough to hold hun to his bargain. There let him stick wt.cn a man knowingly undertake* to do work at halt price, it is no more than light that be should reap the fruit# f hi* folly. ihe lute Canal is again in navigable IJCV breaches between Harrisburg "'"•••on, having been repaired. : .ltd, as u ,;d. ha* .(..J a % rnor. THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS. On Tuesday next the people of this county will be called upon to exercise one ' of those high privileges guaranteed to them by the Constitution—a prhilege enjoyed by but few nations of the earth, and though regarded lightly by many, is in reality the : superstructure on which is based our lib erties, our rights, and our safety . 1 hat , opposing parties should exht in ah.nd where all are entitled to think, act and speak for themselves, so long as actions and words are kept within the compass of the great document which hinds a Confed eration of thirty States into one, is natural, and that they should differ in sentiment and hold contrary opinions as to the pro per means of effecting the greatest good to the greatest number, is also natural. As a consequence of such a state of things, usages spring up, which, though without sanction of law, are recognized as obliga tory, and a violation of such usage, whether effected by taking an unexpected advantage at primary elections, by open and direct fraud, chicancrv, or deception ot any kind, is alwavs regarded with distrust by all right-thinking men. Another consequence generated by the causes wc have alluded to above—and especially among the dominant part\ in a State, district, or county —is the formation of clit|ites, in most cases some halt dozen individuals, who gradually work their way into favor by rendering a political sen ice here and there —a loan of money iti another quarter—a particular condescension to some honest fanner or mechanic residing in the countrv —until the whole political machinery oi a countv is vested in their hands, and the \oters become mere hewers of wood and drawer? of water to carry out the will and measures, the schentings and speculations, of this combination. Through such means men are frequently thrust forward as the first choice of a party —to the astonish ment it is true of hundreds wlto do not and cannot understand the machinery by which it is effected—and under the drill established by the regency, are elected to offices which they could never attain if left to their own efforts. Continued suc cess renders those cliques less cautious at times than sound policy would dictate, and in jumping at the object of their ambition a little too soon, or in attempting to put down some one who may be in their road to the attainment of a certain end, of little moment perhaps to the party but of much importance to the wire-workers, the SOVE REIGN* PEOPLE now and then take it into their heads to teach their would-be-masters a useful lesson. We ask our readers, we ask the voters of Mifflin county, whether wc have not given a truthful portrait of a clique which has for years led the so-called democratic party of this county, more for their own advantage and thai of the favored few. than the good of the public? Let every unprejudiced and untramuieled man who values the right of suffrage, ask himself whether the ticket headed bv John Rose was nominated in that impartial manner which ought to characterize the doings of men who claim to have been (he represent atives of the democracy of Mifflin county. My usage, we might almost add by right it usage can make such a claim, ninety-nine out of every one hundred will admit that another was entitled to the nomination. How comes it that a change was made ? Pan those uho effected it tell? (ana single d(.'legate to the convention that made it assign even one plausible reason, gne one palfrv excuse, for the course adopted ? Can the organ of " democracy"' tell its readers why this is so ? If it can, it nev ertheless will not. Appeal upon appeal is sent forth calling upon the faithful to sup port the ticket, because it is the ticket, as if that in itself were sufficient cause first to perpetrate and then to justify a wrong 1 The truth may be disguised and distorted in this cast 4 by artful words, and a multi tude of promises, never intended to be ful filled, may willingly blind some into the support of the incongruous ticket nomi nated by the clique, and ratified by a ina joritv of the county convention because the matter was all understood beforehand—but i if tin people of Mitllin county give their assent at the ballot-box to ibis fraud upon their rights, their sayso hereafter in all things n lating to offices and appointments will he of less account than it ever was before. The) w ill of course be graciously allowed to go to th< ballot-box and deposite their voles for the nominees of the firm— hut if a complaint is uttered, if a word is said implying that a principle is set at naught, or that certain men on the ticket are not what they ought to be, the dictators, through their understrappers, will meet them with a speech in effect as follows : • Gentlemen—The Democratic party is the ' friend of equal rights, free thought, and 'justice— you are all at liberty to do as ' you please, but it you don't vote for one 'term, two terms, or three terms, just as ' " in solemn conclave choose to sav—if • von don't support such men as we choose - to set before you—or if you go about and sav that we have changed our principles . on the tariff or any other question—why j vou are no longer democrats, and we'll 4 put you out of the party !' That's pre cisely the liberty the leaders of locofocoisnt in this county, who arrogate to themselves the name of democracy, allow the people who have so often sanctioned their doings, and if they now wish to rivet the chains held over them, they need but to go to the polls on Tuesday next and vote for Ross, Stroup, Alexander & Co. The Issue. Before the publication of our next num ber, the election will have passed, and the issues pending decided, so far as Pennsyl vania is concerned. The great principle to be decided is that of a Tariff which will give us protection sufficient to restore our drooping iron works and manufactories to at least living profits with fair wages to the laborer. The Whigs believe that in this country there is intelligence, energy, industry, and capital enough if allowed scope, to make us independent of all for eign countries in the manufacture of all articles essential to our comfort—and that we ought not to he dependent for any man ufactured articles whatever. But especi ally, we believe to keep us dependent upon F.urope for articles essential in time of war, is suicidal. Iron is an article of this kind. We have ail the material—and it can he produced in Pennsylvania in abun dance—and would be, were it not for the pauper labor of Europe. Why should not our laborers he protected, so as to enable us to manufacture Iron, and be independent of any foreign country whatever? It ap pears to us that the wisdom of our policy, 111 opposition to the locofoco doctrine of Free Trade, is too plain for argument. It cannot he decided but iu one way. If, then, our principles ure right, why should not men be selected to carry them out ? In this district the whig candidate is a man of unquestioned ability and high character, who can and will command as much respect and influence as any one who could be sent there. For the State offices, it is rarely that any party has an opportunity to vote for such men as JO SEPH HENDERSON,JOSHUA DUN (i AN, and 11E NR V \V. S N YI)E R. They are men right from the ranks of the peo ple, and are selected solely on account of their peculiar fitness for the respective offi ces for which they arc nominated. Neith er of them have been office-seekers ; have never been known as thrusting themselves forward on any occasion ; and all of them are men of character, standing, and re spectability in society. This cannot he said, at least, of all their opponents. The fir?'! rallv then should be for the Congress, and thru for the State ticket— a united front should be maintained for the \\ big candidates on these tickets ; and no personal considerations should prevent ev i rv \ote from being given for the candi dates as they stand. In no other way can the Tariff doctrines of the whig party be carried out. Remember, then, that in supporting DR. A!'CI LDOC'II, you are upholding the doctrine advocated by the fathers of this Republic and a long line of the states men who have filled the Presidential chair, while evorv vote given for Andrew Parker will be hailed by the free traders of this country and the lords and ladies of Eng land as a \oic further to enrich them and their manufacturers. That is the issue, and the true one to be 1 decided on Tues day next. ry Our neighbor's "last cards" are made up of a medley of political matter, among which "Stand by your Ticket," " Good News," " The Tariff," " Governor Johnston," " Astounding Disclosures," " (letting Desperate," fcc., are most con spicuous. Dike many quack pills, these paragraphs, if they do no good will not do any harm, hence we arc disposed to let them pass for what they are worth. In another paragraph the Democrat alleges rhat if wc are taken at our word the demo crats must be a set of cheats and swindlers. It does not follow because a few men resort to trickery and deception that a whole party is guilty—nor has any one said so or thought so. The Gazette has pointed out for weeks that the loeofoco nominations were not made according to usage, right, or justice, and it) doing MO has stigmatized the act as the result of trickery, fraud, swindling, or whatever people choose to call it. If the democracy seo proper to endorse these nominations at the ballot-box, and thus encourage- a few to dictate for whom the many are to vote, we have no fault to find, and shall be very far from thinking them either cheats or swindlers, because they have an undoubted right to vote for either Tom, I)ick, or llarrv, if they see proper to do so. But if they will do so, and thus endorse what hundreds allege is wrong, we hope it will he done with open eyes. Andy Parker and bis Supporters. The locofoco press in this district are determined to make Andy Parker a great man, nolens volcns. His free trade no tions, openly expressed on our streets a few years ago, not working quite so well as was then expected, are now lopped down until his advocates would have us forget his own words and the evidence of our senses, and believe that he is going to effect wonders, should he be sent to Con gress ! They don't exactly promise that he would go in for a change ol the taritl, but in order to catch a vote or two among the democracy who would rather see American industry fSstered than British, give a squint that way ! And then what a speaker! what a prominent man he would be, say they ! Andy, according to them, would but have to open his mouth, and Clay, Cass,