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Sunbury, Northumberland Co. Pa. Saturday, March 1, IS 15.
Vol. 5--No. 23Whole No, 231.
TERMS OF THIS "AMERICAS."
PwEST FEITITEB. & CO.
Manufacturers of
UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, and SI'S SHADES,
No. 14: Market Street,
Philadelphia,
NVITE the attention of Merchants, Manufac
turers. 5cc. &r., to their very extensive, ele
gant, new stock, prepared with great care, and of
fered at the lowest possible price lor ca-li.
The principle on which this concern is establish
ed, is to consult the mutual interest of their custo
mers and ihemxelves, by m niufacturiim a good sr
tie'e, selling it at thtilowist price fur cash, atid
realizing their own remuneration, in the amount of
airs and quick returns.
Possessing inexhaustible facilities for manufac
ture, they are predated to supply orders to any ex
tent, and rrspec'fully solicit the patronage of Mit
rhants, MHiiufiiclorers and Dealers.
fj- A large assortment of the New htylo Cur
tain Parasols.
Philadelphia. .lone 1. tail. ly
heur's hotel,
FORMERLY TREMCAT IIOI.SE,
Xo. HO I'liCNiiut Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
THE MI BSC HI HE!?, recently of
Heading, Pa., would inform the pub
. i .i , it. . i i. i. .
IIC trial lie linn lltieu ,111 mr wmifo vnji i
cb-us ami convenient establishment, ami
will always he r. ady to cntert tin visitor. His es.
tahlixhed reputaiion i i the line, it is hoped, will
afford full assurance, that his guests will be sup
plied wi'h every comfort and secomnrHlaiion ;
whilst his house will he conduced under such at
raiigemcnt. as will secure a character lor the first
responsibility, and satisfactory ei.terlainiiient for in
dividual!! and taunt e.
Cliarue for bourding $ I perdav.
DANIEL HERR.
Philadelphia. May 25, 1SU ly
To Country Men haul.
Boots, Shoos, Bounds, Leghorn and
Palm Leaf Hats.
(i. AV. & L- 11. TAYLOK,
at the S. E. corner of Market ami Fifth Sts.,
prnr.ADrr.PHiA,
OFFER for sale an ixten.ne iioonment of the
above ar'tch s, all of which they cell at unusual
ly low piires, and patticul uly invite the attention
of buvets visiting the ciiv, loan t lamination of
their stock. G. VV. & L. B. TAYLOR.
Philadelphia, May 25, 1844. ly
1K.r Jf'OU Tbe small farm,
containing about 100 acres, about 2 miles
shove Noithum eilatid, adjoining lands of Jesse C.
Horlon, John I.cghou and otheis, will he sold
ch ap, if apidicaiioH i- made soon to the subscriber,
Sunbury. Aug 31. H. B. MASSEK.
B A Cl.'l'll Tim l.inttAf i.ria ii-illtiM
' given for Flax feed, by
Aug 31. 1844. H. B. MASTER.
rt
at
An Important Improvement.
Some of the newspapers have mentioned an
important improvement which Mr. Coleman,
brother of the inventor of the Eolian attach
ment, has made. We find in the Baltimore
Sun a description of this improvement, by one
who has seen and understands its operation. It
is the working model of a plan by which loco
motive engines, with their whole trains of load
ed cars attached, may pats up ant! down incli
ned planes by their own power, without the aid
of stationary engines, with their cumbrous ma
chinery, costly drag ropes, anil the enormous ex
pense attending them. The Sun says
"We had the pleasure, a few days since, of
witnessing the operation of the model of Mr.
C.'s invention, and were highly pleased with its
performance, because we considered that it af
forded evidence of being a valuable improve
ment, calculated not only to do away with the
necessity of a great proportion of the heavy an
nual expense attending the present mode of
passing inclined planes, but to avoid the danger
to the lives of the passengers, inevitobly connec
ted with the use of the endless drag rope at pre
sent used.
The plan consist of having n second track or
set of rails laid within the regular track, and
The. New York correspondent of the Nation
al Intelligencer writes
Workmen are now busy arranging the wires
for a magnetie telegraph between the "up
town" and "down-town people. The wires are
to pnss through Broadway, and the "down-town"
depot is to be at the Clay Committee room, in
the Express Building, near the head of Wall
street The "tip-town terminus will be for the
present at the rooms of the Lyceum of Natural
History, in Broadway, near Pine street. One
object is to establish a communication for the
convenience of gentlemen whose places of busi
ness are far more distant from their homes. Er
rand boys are to be in attendance at the two de
pots to carry message. A gentleman, for in
stance, wishes to send word to his wite that he
will bring home a friend todine with him. By
the ordinary modes of conveyance, it would
take an hour at least to apprize her of the fact.
By the telegraph, the important communication
may be made in less than five minutes. Again,
Mrs. Smith, from her "up-tewn" abode, wishes
to inform her liege lord, who is as far down
town as the Bowling Green, that the baby is
sick, and that he must come home immediately.
The accommodating telegraph communicates
the mandate with lightning like celerity ; and
F
lis
C'OITAOE PIULEf. Five copies of ti e Cot
' lace Bible, the cheapi st hook ever published,
ronta'nii'B the cominenisrv on the Old and New
Ti stumcnt, jul leciiv.d and for sale, for six dollars,
by June 15. H. It. MAfSKIt.
REMOVAL.
DOCTOR J. H. MASSKIl,
RESPECTFULLY informs ihe cit-
izens of f iinbury and its vicinity, that
be h ,s removed his ollice to the white
building in Market f uunte, east of Ira
T. lament's stoie. slid immediately opposite ll.e
pout ollice, where he will lie happy to receive cjils
in the line of tint protest-ion.
funhuiv, May 4ih. ISlt.
A' 1 I J i : VANS'
Patent Fire ami Thief Proof Iron
Chests, Slate lined Hefrigerators,
witli Filters attached when
required.
ET.1TS cr, "WAT SOU,
JVo. 70 South thin! St., opposite the Exchange,
PHILADELPHIA,
MANLTAOTL'KE and
raised some inc hes above it. In the centre of j n five minutes from the time she sent the sum
this inside or middle track is laid a row of cast I nions, Mrs. Smith receives the assurance that
iron block wheels or pulleys, very near together, j Mr. Smith is "on his way up" Indeed, it will
playing horizontally upnn strong and firmly fas- be difficult to imagine all the advantages ofthis
tenet! vertical axles or studs. This, we believe, establishment. If Mr. Smith has any thing to
is all the variation or alteration that is required i detain him from his dinner, instead of leaving
to he made in the road.
In adaptation to this new arrangement ofthe
road, there is attached to the locomotive, under
neath, a machine containing a set of wheels
smaller than those nfthe locomotive, and so pla
ced inside of them as to rest the weight of the
'ocomotive, on the inner track ofthe plane, ri
sing the outer wheels from the regular track.
These two sets of locomotive wheels are con
nected by gearing, the outer ones playing free
from the track and serving as cranks by which
the smaller are turned, the former making se
veral revolutions to each one of the latter, by
which, as any mechanic will readily see, time
is turned into power. Between the smaller
wheels is attached by gearing, lengthwise with
the locomotive, a substantial cylinder, having
upon it a large strong Kuare thread, running
spirally otoiind it at an angle adapted to the
size of the block wheels or pulleys of the road.
between which it runs upon the principle ofthe j
screw, by the rotary motion of the cylinder to j
which the Hwer ofthe locomotive is applied.
This spiral thread of tho cylinder pressing a
g:nsl the pulleys of the ro.nl prupels the Inc.i
niotivc forward, and in proportion to the dispar
ity of speed between the inner and outer w heels
by a graduation ofthe gearing, may the propel
lieg force or power he increased. It is simply cent man ought to be a.-hameil, of those! that
his wife to fret over his absence, and imagine
that he has been run over by an omnibus, he
sends a laconic message like this : "Unavaida
bly detained ; shall dinn at Del monico's ; don't
wait." I have heard of an up town editor who
means to write his editorials henceforth by the
telegraph the index being fixed against the
wall over the stand of one of the compositors,
and the editor dictating as he sits in his com
fortable library four mile off. Instead of wait
ing at night in a gloomy printing office for the
Southern mail, he remains at home with his fa
mily ; and about 12 o'clock looks at the index
over the mantel piece to see if there is any new
rerpiiring an editorial. Iftho telegraph tells
him that the post office bill has passed, he sends
buck a few lines of congratulation to his readers
on the happy result, and retires to bed, hnppy
in the recollection that he has not to wulk four
miles in the rain to reach it.
Mn. PtiArr, Chainiiiiu of tin; Committee on
Public Buildings, being attacked for miking
certain purchases lor the President's Uousi
thus defended himself:
"It was true (iid Mr. P.) he had directed a
set ot curtains to bo put up in the President's
House, because he was ashamed, and every tie-
Nothino. An Irishman haa defined no
thing to be "a loot less atocking without a leg."
A description by another Emeralder is better.
"What is nothing?" he was asked. "Shut
your eyes and you will seo it," said Pat.
An Ohio Editor, in recording the career of
a mad dog, says : "We are grieved to say
that the rabid animal, before he could be kil
led, seriously ait Dr. Ilagg and several other
dogs."
English Jvuiks. In Lincolnshire, a Jury is
said to have found a man charged with stealing
pigeons, "guilty ot manslaughter."
C O M M U NIC A T K I).
a change of time into power. The machinery
and gearing of course require to be made strong
were there. lie had directed the finest that
could bo procured ; yes, the fine,! and most be-
in proportion to the power to ho applied to them. coming the place, and he told the upholsterer
that if the Government did not pay lor them he
would, am! he meant to da it lie did not yivo
the order as Chairman ofthe Committee on Pub
lic Buildings, but as an individual, as a private
gentleman ; he had taken the respnimibility,
and he memt to stand by it ; and, if the Govern
ment did not pay for the cuitains, he would. He
then turned to Mr. II. and very emphatically
asked of him : Now, sir, have you ever done as
much for your country !" (Much laughter )
:,tfljJ7fV3i!,e-p for sale l)vm Ev' j vimhle on the disc ol the mn.
.-Ptt$-8? s'-itcelel taied V stei and Provi. ,,. t1(,llwtml le8 in diameter,
tttfr&-tit lin ;..l.-r,nd Patent IV- ... ... ., K
viMpmt " f -J r r. i i i i u 1 1 greater than that of the Pacific
rlfFWJIf -"T- ifmium Fire arid 1 hut Front I- -
tw'jfef H't,j4gr.H Che-N, for preserving pot was first observed on the
' "I,1L. lUIU.,a II. nU J. w.'lv.
SZfzZkl&GM, filver, Ac, &c, made
of Bod r Iron, (and not over Plank as inueiy-five
out of every one hundred now in u and for hale
ate made.) v Hi first rate Locks and David Evans'
Patent Keyhole Covers, similar to the one exhibit
ed at the Philadelphia Exchange, for thiee months
in the summer of 1842, when all the Keys weie at
liberty to be used, and Ihe ('best not opened, al.
though the experiment was tried ly i len.l 15(10
persons. One of the tame Locks was nied by
K 'bbers, at the Delaware Coal Ollice, in Walnut
street, above Thud, but diJ not succeed.
fj Iloiniug Machines, Iron Doors, superiol
Link., and all kinds of Iron Kailinus, Seal and Co.
pying Pleases, and Smilhwuik gem-rally, on hand
or manufactured at the shortest notice
CAUTION I do hereby caution all per.
The safety ofthis plan consists in the fact that
the engineer of the I'-comotive hits perfect con
trol over it, can stop and start it as he pleases
on any part of the plane, run up or down, either
way with the same Case, and with complete
command.
We shall be glad to see this improvement ge
nerally introduced.
Soi.ar Spots. The Boston Mercantile Jour
nal says
A dark spot of uncommon magnitude is now
visible on the disc ofthe mn. It is more than
end its area is
ocean. This
13ih iust , near
the eastern limb of '.he sun, and a little above
his equatorial diameter. It has now advanced
nearly to the disc, and will occupy seven or
eight days more in passing across to Ihe west
ern limb, w here it will disappear. It cannot
be seen without difficulty by the naked eye, but
is show n distinctly with a tele.cnpe eight or ten
inches in length. In making observations rela
ting to the son, the eye should be carefully pro-
tecled by means of cotored glass, or a piece of
window glass rendered quite dark by the smoke
ol a lamp. Besides the principal ppot now visi
ble on the sun's disc, there are five others of
sufficient diinetnions to bo seen with a .VJ-inch
achromatic telescope. The sun has not been
ons g :::iKi m iKlng. using, arning, ."-i . , . ,, r, . f
.,.i.i .... K,i IV,.. for Fire Proof Chests, entirely free trom Fpota for several weeks. On
or Doors, of any kind .imilar in principle to my the Hist of January fifteen were c ounletl, tl"iu-'0
Patent, of lOili Ju'y, 184 I, and also sgainsl l.iuuig
Refrigerators with Mute, for whxh my Patent is
dated 26th Msrch. 1844, aa any infringement will
be lealt wiih according to law
DAVID EVANS.
Philadelphia, April 13, 1844. ly
FORESTVILLB
11U ISS IIIUIIT llt t LOUIS.
fllUE subscriber has just iceeived, for sale, a few
JL of the above celebrated tight llay llocKS
which will be sold at very reduced prices, fr.r cash.
Also, suerior 10 hour Clocks, of t.e oet make
and quality, which will be suld fm rtbh, st 50.
Also, superior Brass 30 hour. OWks, at $ OIK
Dec. 8, 143. H. U.M AHWER.
OTON E WARE for sale.
325 Stons Jugs, from I yuart to 3 gallons,
SO 8loji Jars, from 2 to 6 gallon.. Fur sale,
cheap, h; Oct, M )J, tf. MAKSER.
most of them were comparatively r,iaH,
The theo.y most general adopted by As
trMiotners in regard to leuo spots is, that they
are portions of tho bo', iu gad opaqtio mass of the
sun, seen thto'.i'n openings in tho luminous at
mosphero or phosphorescent clowds with which
that b'joy is surrounded.
A white man, saya the Picayune, of the
name of Black, and a black man by the name
ot Whrte, lately attacked a man on the
levee, by the name ol (ireen. After a hard
tussel, Ihe aggrieved party lashed the black
man white, and licked the white man Black.
A "Tiuht" Boor -John L Bool was fined
for being drunk, in Hudson, N. V.
A Tiiovoiit Vor Paufnis. A child begin
ning to read bee jiues delighted with a nowepa
per, because he reads of names and things
which are very fitniliar aod ho will make a
progress accordingly. A newspaper in one
year, (say Mr. Weeks,) is worth a quarters
schooling to a child and evpry father must con
sider that sub.inti;il iufoimation is connected
with advancement. The mother of a family
being one of its heads, and having a more im
mediate charge ol children should herself be in
structed. A mind occupied becomes fort1 '.,,,
against tho ill of life, and is braced te,. B1V .
mergency. Children atnu&ed by rontlinr or
study, are, of course, consider'. lmj lnore" ea
sily governed. How ma-- thoughtless young
men have spent thp:.r in a grog shop
who ought !. tiave 8,,onl lventy ,0arg fr
books for .0-ir fttmii,ei would have given thon
88 "'4 to reclaim a sou or daughter w ho had i"-
iioratitly and thoughtlessly fallen into tempta
lion. A Coxcomb. Presenting & young lady to
his mother, said ' Madam, this is Mi.s t and
she is not so great a fool as she looks to be."
'There madam," said the lady, "lie Ihe ditler
enco between yonr Bon and me."
Mr. George Niarp looked rather dull one
evening, a friend oUerved that ha was ra'.her
in a low key, ' Oil !" replied a young lady
sarcastically, "any one can see that G. Sharp
is A. Hat"
If you can't aland be for o the truth, you must
full, as the mail said whtn he knocked his wifa
down with Ihe Bible,
To the Democracy of the Thirteenth Congres
sional Dislsiet.
Feei-ow-Citizknji : A lato occurrence has
imperatively demanded my appearance before
the public, and full ot a sense of gratitude for
the evidence I have received of the esteem and
confidence of the Democrats in all parts of the
District, but particularly of Northumberland
county, I gladly einorace the occasion to return
my sincere thanks, and to pledge to Ihe public
all my energies, as heretofore, to promote our
glorious cause, and to express iny willingness
to stand or tall with the pally.
All 1 ask, at present, is, that the Democracy
will carefully read Ihe pitiful attack upon me,
and the slutiuent I shall inal.e going to show
the falsity uud injustice of it, a part ol which is
published below.
Our late defeut, though a temporary evil,
will, I hope, eventually terminate in a benefi
cial result. It will purity the party from the
incubus that has heretofore weighed it down.
Petsoually, my defeat did not affect me in
any other way than as a democrat who wished
to see the speedy redu.nption ofthe district.
1 am, fellow Democrats,
Your obedient servant,
WM. A. PLTUIKIN.
Munry, Lycoming county,
February IS, 14-1.
FOR THE AMRRICJI
II. B. Massrn, Iq Jrur Sir: Having
always been a warm advocate tor the cultivation
ot peace and generous feelings among all the
members of Ihe Democratic family, I regret, so
fur as I am personally concerned, th necessity
which demands my appearance before the pub
lie. For the rowardly attack upon me, and a
portion of my frienJs, published in jour paper of
the 1st iust , and the source trom which tin
coiiiuiutiicai ion emanates, I entertain no oihe
feelings than those of contempt ; mid I, then
hue, tee I disposed to pass it by in silence, but
III obedience to the urgent entreaties of my D
mocratic tellow-eti ;zeiis, who have never proved
recreant to our glorious principles, and in ac
Cordiiuce with what I conceive to be an imp'
rulive duty to the patty, I am constrained to use
liie? opportunity thus thrust upon toe, to give
bnel hislnty of our unhappy tiilfereuces in I.y
coming county, and toliuce them to their pu
per cu uses. I, therefore, glauly embrace the
occasion to servo the causu of Democracy, to
which my whole life has been devoted, ami to
promote which much of my time and money have
been ungrudgingly given. As, by the nature ol
the case, I shall, in this communication, fre
quently be compelled to peuk of myself, I ask
the indulgence ofthe reader, and fully rely ue
on my fellow citizens to excuse anythtu 1 4m
may appear like egutism.
The reflecting iiutid will readi'y perceive
the unworthy motives which prompted "Old
Lycoming" to seize upop llu ()Ccaion of the
distribution of the p.1 ,,,, 0f the Sture, fa
publish an erron' Mi statement tor tho purpose
of excusing tli0SR wno had caused .e defeat of
meant) of exposing the falsehoods and misrepre
sentations contained in it, until after the de
signs ofthe writer or writers had been accom
plished. Can any one, therefore, doubt that the
whole was manufactured fur the occasion, with
out regard to candor, truth, or justice I
Owing to other causes, however, it did not
appear in "the nick of time," but remained in
the editors hands nearly two weeks before its
publication. It, therefore, became necessary
In adopt another course, and, consequently, I
had the satisfaction to hear the substance of
much of it repeated in a speech before the Board
of Canul Commissioners ; such parts only as I
had the means ot disproving on the spot, being
suppressed ! Having been apprized, by a friend
at Harrishurg, that there was in the hands of
the editor an extraordinary attack upon me and
my friends, some of whom wera applicants for
office, and having heard the speech of the Audi
tor General, before the Canal Board, pleading
lor the re-appointment of his brother-in-law, I
was fully prepared for the appearance ofthe
publication; for past occurrences have taught
me that there are materials in the source from
which it came, capable of anything however
base.
A charge of cowardice is preferred against
some one, but with what propriety will it ap
ply to himself, or themselves. 1 say themselves
because there isabundunt reason to believe that
there Here mure than one engaged in it. I
arneslly desire that every democrat in the
listrict, that adhered to his party throughout
our try jig contest last fall, and shared in the
isgrace of defeat, will give tho effusion" of
"Old Lycoming" an attentive perusal, and then
u.-k himself if it be not an attempt to justify
tho.-e who treuchetoiisly betrayed their political
friends. This being the case, 1 feel justified
in ascribing its production to the tecrct caucus,
or a committee thereof. Cowardice ! Is there
any thing imaginable more dastutdly thin the
conduct of those of whom 1 speak ! Their se
cret co-operation with the whigs before the e-
lection, can only find its parullel in cowardice
in their anonymous and unmanly attack upon
myself and friends, containing misrepresenta
tions which they dare not at home openly avow.
My accusers have gone back ten years, to
search Pir something reprehensible in my poli
tical course ; but, though the decline of Demo
cracy!! this county is ascribed tome, yet not a
suiolc instance in which I have been unfaith
ful to my professions is given and sustained
with any degree of plausibility. The little po
litical influence I have enjoyed, through the
kindness ol my fellow citizens, has alwtiyg been
exerted in b'-half of our glorious principles.
Time and ogu in have I exerted ftiy energies
and employed my means u;,pparingly, to pro
mote the success of thpuo fnme demagogues,
not because of any n-vril of theirs, but because
they had been p'aced in nomination ; yet, be
cause 1 writ;'(i not, with them, worship the
Bank p-e.vrr, sing hossnnasto Nick Biddlc, and
6ubm;i without a murmur, to Executive dicta
Wial interference, I have been repaid with tho
blackest ingratitude. But it seems that some
of them, iu times pM, luvo suffered defeat,
and when they sub'equrnlly presented them
selves for noinieation by the delegates of the
people, they lUVe been rejected, for Which they
seem tc 0ld me responsible ; but if the reader
will ii.uulge me I wiM endeavor to show some
1)1 (he causes of their rejection, and tho origin
of our unhappy divisions.
They have gone tick ten yoirs ; but, with
much more propriety. I might go back to the
paltry days of Antimasonry, and show where
some of those Wilieunsport worthies were at
that period ; or to the trying time of Panic and
I'n ssire, when the U. H. Bank wns in the po
litical field, aid a what sefport they afford
ed the "Old Hero or I might inquire who
they w ere that were holding meetings at WY-
the par'j j iie irjt la district. It is reasonable
10 ' jppose that the Democracy t-f I yvomipg I Ii import, and puSsing resoktior.s "that it teas
eounly would urge he removal, trom office, id
llliisu w ho had basely belraved their political
friends ; a.t, tss seme of'ther were app.. Tints
for u continuation of efticiul lawns, it bectin?
nvcessATy to dvv.se some means to justify their
opposition to the ticket last Tall, ami to neutral,
ize t'.ie hoiiett ittlit;iiulton tvery where entej--laiiit
d against them. But they h id sagacity e
nulighTa know that the publication t(f a tissue
of personal abuse, interwoven Willi such a glar
ing perversion of lucts, hi tho luce of tho honest
Doitiocraey of Lycoming, to ;.l! ol whom my
political course has been well known fo'r years,
would snbject the Potter lax;lioti, who conceive
the destruction rf my political reputation in
dispensable to their future success, to the scorn
and contempt of all honorable men. To reuch
that object, thel'j- it waa ne'.-eeeary to seixe
the proper occasion to misrepresent the true
Democracy of I.) ci'fiimjf, toy a cowardly anony
mous attack upon me, and Ihe themls for whom
I felt interested, through the medium of paper
in a neighboring cuunty.
The candid reader will pleasu ob.erva that
it was intended to apptar just at the proper
lime, to produce an unfavorable impression of
us upon Ihe tj pointing jvtrer, leaving us no
dicate my Democratic fellow citizens from the
unjust imputations cast upon them by a junto of
spurious pretenders ; and if, in the performance
of Ibis imperative duty, I should happen to tread
upon tho corns of some ofmy neighbor! of Wil
liatnsport, it is not because I feel any disposition
to wound their feelings, but because those ex
crescences have grown to such magnitude that
it is impossible to pass through the field of de
fence without coming in contact with them.
"Old Lycoming" insinuates that my political
sina commenced before the memorable contest
of '35, when William F. Packer, fAe laic Au
ditor General of I'orter,s adminislrationtvBn
a candidate for the Slate Senate, and defeated;
but specifically charges me with being chiefly
instrumental in producing that result. But a.
plain statement of facts, and a reference to the
columns of the Lycoming Guzette, of which he
was, at that time, the editor, being still the own
er, will show that his defeat had its origin in
the honest indignation of -a majority of the peo
ple upon whom his paper had, for months, con
tinued to pour out a torrent of personal abuse.
It will be remembered that in 19:35 the De
mocratic party in Pennsylvania was, unfortu
nately, divided upon the question ot Governor.
The respective frienda of George Wolf and II.
A. Muhlenberg, having separately organized,
each party claiming to support the regular no
minntimi. Here was an open division of tho
party, and harmonious action among its mem
bers was scarcely even hoped for by the most
sanguine; but previous to the meeting of tho
County Convention, the Standing Committee
met, and, in order to unite the two branches of
the party upon local affairs, they published the
following patriotic sentiments :
Nominations having already been made for
Governor, and differences of opinion existing in
our ranks in relation to that question it is expect
ed tliBt delegates will be elected and a county
ticket formed without reference to the Guber
natorial election. Let those who have hitherto
been found rallying around the standard of De
mocracy and in support of President Jackson,
in the great leading measures of his administra
tion, by uniting, present nn undivided front to
their common opponents. It is by union alone,
in our local questions, that we can expect V)
succeed with our county ticket."
("Signed by Gen. Craw ford, E. P. Youngman,
VV. Piatt, jr., W. A. Petnkin, David IJanna,
Isfnc Bruni?r, VV. Morrison, T. Maxwell, Wm.
F. Pucker.)
The result of this conciliatory mea?uro was
a compromise, and the s.st'lement of a full tick
et, upon which VV. F. Packer's name appeared
as the candidate for Senator. I? ;ing the editor
of the Gazette, common prudence, at least,
should have dictated moderation in his abuse of
Mr. Muhlenberg ami his friends, while he soli
cited the votes ot the lulter t elevate himself
to a seat in tho Senate ; but, instead of pursu
ing a course calculated to foster and preserve
the feelings of amity thus happily begun, his pa
per continued its foul abuse of a large portion
of the par'y with, if possible, more viru'ence
than ever ! Would that not account for his de
feut in a county where Mr. Muhlenburg re
ceived 935 votes !
Ijel any one take the trouble to examine a
file of the Lycoming Gatette, for 113, edited
by Mr. Pucker, and note the abe.se of Mr. Muh
lenberg and his friends, and he will be fully
convinced that no exertions ConlJ have pro
cured him the unanimous support of a party
whose sensibilities he continued grossly to out
rage Bp to the very day on which they were
called upon to support Imn ! In a number of
that paper, of May lCth, '35, ttirj reader will
find several articles abusive of Mr. M. and his
friends, wherein the former is denominated thu
"Church and State candidate," and the lutti r
"Miililiee," friends ofthe "Parum" who hire I
men to set a officers ill the "Muhley Melt
ing!" Through several columns, under d:it
ot the J0:h, personal abuse of individuals is
slung w.lh a recklessness rarely if ever equal
led. Passing ever several numbers, fi led w it !t
Ihe same kind of offensive slang, I find an un
gentlemanly personal attack upon Mr. Muhlen
berg himself, published in the Gazette en tl o
10th of June. Were it possible, inacoinmiin
cation necessarily short as this uulat be, to Coi-
fur their West Branch Bank, they could accoin- j lect and condense all the nauseous venom pob-
modate themselves to the particular circutnstan- j lithed, about this period, by Mr. Packer, h
ces, either t throw up their Cps, dap their j was not only the candidate for the Senate, but
hands and shout loudly for Nicholas Biddle, who j one of the Wolf Delegates to Ihe Baltimoio
appeared among them like another Jupiter Convention, held an office under Gov. Wolf,
Amman, or, when the whole country was sgi- j and Was the editor of the Gaaette which cor.
luted with the subject i.f Bunk abutt, they
could silence their organ and close its columns
against the friends and supporter of General
Jucksoii.
I might, with truth, say a grrtU deal more,
a slander in fji'Pi . -i.l Jackson to say that he
wfnld veto tho U. S. Bank hill !" It might al
M he .ho vn that w lit n it suited the t-oiivtnience
ol thi-i junto, who now claim to be iir.maculute
democrat, to 'hond-wink the people-," they
could rc-ar not lustily against tf.e Hank ; but
tvheri they wished to carry a favorite measure,
such as an tpcrcpriatioii tn ovir It-ail Road, or
to procure sob-eription to the stock, or a charter
tained tins sl .ng.il would f xhibit a pio'uto
from which humanity would shuJder, an I
wotlhl filly at count for his defeat will out em'
ajjeiicy of mine. I s'lall, however, bo able t-i
flow and prove l io, that uiiWorlliy as l.o wv.
i . i
hot it wo'ild bo irrelevant, and it is tin part nl yet, tor the n ol the pru.c pies ai hi,
my design to give a detailed history ot all th-ir gave him an anient support. I.ei it uUo bo i -
political summerset and iiiconsisteni ie. NV
present purpose is to glance at lint raicesot
our recent defeats, lo show the injiisliee of the
cowardly attack upon my!, "int the basei pur-pot.-inWiided
to ke tffectcd by it, aud to vin-
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nii'liilw red Dial, as rupcr.iiienoa.,r oi me an . ,
eiioiis chsroes were Mi!)lt.ed iiist hio-;
and, w bother '.ruo or fil , his-oonduv't wt-l
as lo ( ii-L il the nipr jSii oil iho lli:iuUl' thj
piOjiic.