LOMMUNICATIONS.
Know-Nothingism,
THE ANTI-CATHOLIC FEATURE.
Among the most extraordinary phenomena
of modern times is the fact that in this progres
sive age,—in the middle of the 19th century—
there is existing in the United States of Amer
ica a body of men banded together in an asso
ciation with the avowed object of imposing po
litical disqualifications on the ground of differ
ence in religious belief. Hitherto, the move
ment in this highly favored country has ever
been progressive ; her statesmen—poets—artists
-merchants—philosophers--have placed her
in the van of civilization,- and, by the bles
sing of divine providence, she has been...elevated
to a high position among the powers of the
earth to serve as a lode-star and beacon to the
nations of the world. Wherever aspirations
for religious or political-freedom exist, wherev
er despotism and tyranny have not rendered
their subjects passive, callous or immobile,
there the name ofAmerica is revered and cher
ished, for upon her soil the dreams of the pa
triot, the speculations of the sincere politician,
and the ardent desires of the enlightened chris
tian have at length been-realized and accom- '
plished—She has engraved in indelible charac
ters
upon her constitution a guarantee that all
her citizens shall live in the enjoyment of reli ff
-
gious and political freedom, that they shall
govern themselves but not tyranise over each
other, that the law shall be for the protection of
all, but shall not be converted into an instru
ment of despotism or proscription by any. In
this particular America stands stands pre-cm
inent, towering majestically above all compeers,
—and this alone constitutes her pre-eminence.
Abrogate this guarantee and you hurl her from
the high pinaele she occupies, and place her on
the-catalogue of despotism.
Freedom in its true acceptation, is little else
but the absence of control, and as the morality
and virtue of a people increase, the necessity
for control diminishes. The compulsion exer
cised by governments is at best but a necessa
ry evil. To how great an extent may mankind
or the individuals composing a nation be left
untrammelled by law, government or positive
institution of any kind ? This is the political
problem for governments and men in this era
and especially for the rulers and people of the
United States. Accustomed to an enlarged lib
erty they aro prepared for a still greater expan
sion. All human institutions and most of the
products of nature are capable of improvement;
man, governments and constitutions are con
tinually making approximations towards per
fection but are never perfected, each advance
extends the view, revealing higher aims still to
be achieved. The legitimate end and object of
all constitutions as to protect the weak from
the power of the strong—to guard the minority
against the overwhelming strength of the ma
jority. Hitherto the constitution of the Uni.
ted States has fully answered - the intention of
its devisers, it had stood stedfast, unencroach
ed upon, unencroachable—the people, ever
ready to rally around it when threatened with
the slightest danger, have prescrised it intact.—
But in "these better days" what cannot be
accomplished by open attack is attempted by
hidden assault, an association as formed--
whose name is as ridiculous as its aims are
mischievous, a secret compact is entered into '
by which every member is bound to use his best
endeavors to nullify the constiution, to render
its most valuable provisor of none effect, to op
press and persecute the minority, to deprive a
certain sect of important political privileges, to
excise them from the body politic, and to dis
countenance, them as unworthy to hold any
public office of trust, profit, or honor; councils
are organized which meet in secret conclave,
the members are virtually absolved from all al..
leg-lance to any power or authority save - to the
order, the sacred obligation of an oath is pro
nounced a humbug, (well might this precious
order deem it necessary to preface their plat
form with an admission of the existence of a
God) except when taken in the presence of a
Know Nothing council, lectures arc appointed,
proselytes are sought after with eager avidity,
all means are employed to arouse the dor
mant prejudice against Roman Catholicism.—
That such a society exists at this day in the
middle of the 19th century and in the U. S. of
America is, I repeat, among the most extraordi
nary occurrences of the age.. / Such a movement
may well take the world by surprise; not from
its novelty, for, alas! it is no innovation, unfor
tunately for human progress the history of eve
ry country abounds in episodes of a similar
character, but from its audacity in presuming
to resusitatc errors and practices which have
long been exploded and abandoned, annihilated
and trodden under foot by advancing civiliza
tion. They would persuade us to go back with
them to the middle ages to imitate the intoler
ance and proscription practiced by the Romish
Church dui ing that era of intellectual darkness,
and then in the same breath with unblushing
effrontery they will revile the Catholics of this
day and visit upon them the sins of their fore
fathers from thefirst generation. Areli—Jesu
its themselves they declaim against Jesuitry, the
institutes of Loyola were but typical of their su
perlatively infamous regulations. Chief among
conspirators they affect horror of conspiracy,
they cry aloud against political vilany and cool
ly enforce the practice of every political vice.—
Anti-Catholicism is their hobby-horse and they
have already ridden it to the death. They have
conned and quoted the records of councils and the
whole history of the darkest periods in ecclesi
astical annals and this they tell us is a true
portraiture of the Catholic Church of our own
time.
Take any sect in Christendom of one fourth
the antiquity of the Roman Catholic Church,
treat its history after the same fashion and you
will easily succeed in making its tenets and
practices appear as dangerous to the community
as Catholicism is represented to he.
Trace the history of the Protestant Church in
England from its incipiency during the bloody
reign of the sensual and brutal Henry,—him
self the founder and supreme head of , the
church—follow it through its acts of spoliation
and legalised murder under his arrogant and no
less despotic daughter Elizabeth, note the mar
tyrdom of Sercetus by Calvin, the test and
corporation 'acts of the house of Hanover,
the slaughter of the pious covenanters of Scot
land, the persecution of Quakers, the numerous
imprisonments and confiscations, in our own
time, for non-payment of Church rates and the
still existing Judaical disabilities. Why do not
the recipients of this new light (or rather old
darkness) proscribe all communicants of the
Church of England ? has it not ruled with an
iron rod over the consciences of men, burnt,
slaughtered, imprisoned, and used every forci
ble means to create an unnatural uniformity of
opinion?
Nor is dissent it self free from the charge
of bigotry and intolerance. The attroeities
of the Puritans in Ireland under Cromwell
have rendered his name a bye-word to this
day and the imprisonment of Sillburne and
others puring the high and palmy days of
the English Commonwealth are sufficient ev
idence of an intolerant apirit. Transplanted to
the shores of America the same spirit exhibited
itself in the the laws against Anabaptism and
Quakers, and the records of New England fur
nish abundant proof of an ignorant fanaticism
unexcelled in ecclesiastical annals.
Full and complete religious freedom exists in
America, for which we may thank God and the
framers of the constitution. In England, toler
ation, though tardily, has at length been gran
ted. The test and corporation acts have been
repeated, Catholics have been emancipated, and
Church rates are for the most part voluntary.e:—
Catholicity has also progressed and the Catho
licism of the 19th century is as dissimmilar to
that of the 15th and 16th, as is the Protestan.
ism of our own time to that of Henry the Sth or
George the end. The theology of Dens may
still be quoted, but it is not the theology of the
Roman Catholic of this day, the decrees and
dogmas of Nice and of Trent may have been
considered oracular in a former age, but they
are now as little regarded as the incoherent utter
ances of the Delphic Pythiness of still greater
antiquity. The 39 articles still remain upon
the ritual of the Episcopal Church, unreveren
ced by either Clergy or Laity, an ignorant sav
age would laugh at their absurd ity,they no long
er represent Episcopalian theology. A higher,
a purer Christianity has taken the place of hu
man creeds, formulas have lost their vitality and
the power of the hierarchy Inis succumbed to the
enlightenment of the age. It is not the written
ereed,however enforced,that constitutes the faith
of a people, nor do the laws of the statute book
govern a nation; there are many statutes unrc
, pealed which have been lc ig nullified by pub
lic opinion. The hanging, drawing and quar
tering of criminals guilty of high treason is still
ebforced by English law, but the English gov
ernment never dream of executing the revolting
provisions, the solemn mcckery of recording
the sentence is performed and there it ends, a
momento and relic of bygone barbarianism.
Invest any religious sects whatever with un
due privileges and influence, connect it with
the State, surround it with official insignia, ele
vate it above all others and that sect, however
liberal in the outset, will become corrupt, arro
gant, bigoted and intolerant,ina patient of schism,
opposed to innovation, sever against schismat
ics and "like the Turk will bear no brother
near the throne." But in a country like this
wherein political and religious liberly is interwo.
ven in the constitution and has become part and
parcel of the character of this people, the machi
nations of the Romisl► or any other church
need not be feared. Priestcraft can never make
inroads upon the liberties of 30 millions of free
,
men jealous of controle.
The influence of a hierarchy varies with the
external eirsumstanees of the laity. In Italy
and in Spain the Catholic clergy, countenanced
and supported by government, are held in rever
ence by the people, although recent occurrences
would seem to indicate a fast waning influence
even in these strongholds of the faith, and if
they cannot maintain their position in their old
domains, how can it be supposed that in Ameri
ca where the whole fabric of political society,
all modes of thought, the character, associations
and traditions of the people are arrayed against
it, that any priestly crusade could have the
slightest chance of success. The idea is pre
posterous, a mere party cry, an artful dodge of
disappointed and ambitious politicians. •No
man, priest or pagan can long breathe the air
of America without imbiding the spirit of fiber_
ty, everything around him is redolent of free
dom, and he cannot resist an influence so po
tent and incessant. What cool effrontery these
men must possess who attempt to inculcate that
this groat republic, founded upon the immuta
ble principles of truth and justice, can be un-•
dermined and uprooted by a few thousand .
priests dogged on by an impotent pontiff, three
thousand miles distant fronethe scene of ac
tion, himself unable to retain his local authority
without foreign assistance. Such men can
have little faith in the potency of truth, justice
and human virtue, they must have reversed the
old maxim, that truth is mo e e powerful than er
ror. An army of true principles, it has been
said, will penetrate where an army of soldiers
cannot, neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the
Ocean can stay their progress, they will ride up
on the horizon of the world and they will con.
quer.
Since the revival of letters the progress of cor.
rect principles has marked each successive age,
there has been no retrogression, revolutions may
not have achieved their highest aims, but they
have left an improved impress upon the people,
the press secures to us the permanence of our
intellectual acquisitions and guards them from
encroachment with a watchful vigilance. In
America the retention of the blessing of liberty
will compel further advancement, the public
mind is fully awakened, it has become active,
mobile and turbulent, and the assertaion that
the political well-being of such a people is en
dangered by Catholicism is unworthy of serious
refutation, were it not for the sedulous and un.
scrupulous manner in which this idea is dissem
inated, and the fears that have been inspired in
the minds of many honest and well-meaning
men, by the unremitting exertions of an un
principled party to create a general panic, and
to excite a hostility dangerous alike to the polit.
ical and religious freedom of the people and to
their domestic tranquility. J. N.
Scottsville, Pa., July 31st 1855.
County Convention
MR EDITOR-
I have frequently observed what I considered
inequality of representation in the convention
of the political parties annually held in this
county. In almost every branch of our govern.
ment, representatives are apportioned according
to the number of , ;onstituents. There is no just
reason that I can divine, why that rule should
not be a pplicd to the selection of delegates for our
conventions. The method now followed is unjust;
it denies the larger districts tlieir proper number
of representatives and gives to the smaller ones
more than they arc entitled to have.
I have taken the vote given last full for Gov.
Bigler, 1500, and divided it by 50, about the
number of delegates usually in our conventions,
which gives 30 as the number of Democratic
voters entitled to one delegate. The following
list will show what number of representatives
each election district is entitled to:
Votes No of Delegates,
Hellderson,
182 ?
Huntingdon,
Dublin, .60
Warriors Mark, 54 2
Hopewell, 64 2
Barree, 155 5
Shirley, 67 2
Porter, 71
Franklin, 56
Tell, 105 3
Springfield, 24 1
Union, 33 1
Brady, 68 2
Morris, 31 1
• West, 109 4
Walker, 69
Tod, 71 2
Murray's Run, 4 1
Cromwell, 48 2
Birmingham, 15 1
Cass. 23 1
Jackson, 102 3
Clay, 33 - 1
Penn, 27 1
Mt. Union, 29 1
1500
Thcrs is no reason why the 4 Democratic
voters of Murrays Run, or the 15 of Birming
ham, should have as many representatives as
the 155 of Barrec, 109 of West or 105 of Tell.
Nor arc the borough, of A lexandria, Cassville,
Petersburg or Shirleysburg entitled to delegates
because they vote with their respective town
ships. Under the existing system, Cass township
with its borough sends 4 delegates for 23 voters.
Shirley 4 for 67; Porter 4 for 71; and Barre° 2
delegates fbr 155 voters.
I think that this matter should in future be at
tended to. Let delegates be elected by election
cljsfrfrf - .pot 13y townships an.l boroughs.
From the Pittsburg (Whig) Gazette
More Revelations.
The Chambersburg Repository and Whig,
of July 25, is rich in its revalations of the in
ternal workings of Know Nothingism. It
seems that the editor of , that paper, Hon.
Alex. K. McClure, last fall permitted his
name to be presented to the Chambersburg
Council for membership. This was at a
time when the temptations were very great
to go into the order, and before . its corrup
tions were fully developed. The persons at
the head of the Council were the especial
friends of the Chambersburg Transcript, the
sznzon-pure Know Nothing organ, and they
were averse to the admission of so popular a
man as Mr. McClure, whose paper is the
best supported and the most influential in the
country, having been the Whig organ for
many years. They did not dare, however,
openly to oppose Mr. McClure, and he was
elected. Sometime during the evening a
motion was made to reconsider the vote, and
the Chairman, who belonged to the Tran
script clique entertained the motion, when
Mr. McClure was a second time elected. Ac
cording to the rules of the order he could not
be initiated until the next meeting, when he
was absent from town, when the matter was
again reconsidered and Mr. McClure was a
third time elected. The Transcript clique
did not give up yet. Mr. McClure was not
there to be initiated and further time to work
against him was thus allowed them. The
Council was composed of some 400 members,
but five votes according to rule are sufficient
to black-ball a man. Before the next meet
ing the men to serve the purposes of
the clique were found and the President
of the meeting again entertained a motion
to reconsider, when six men out of near
four hundred voted against Mr. McClure and
he was rejected. A great many of the best
men of the party, disgusted, withdrew from
the Council. This gave the Transcript par
ty more power and they subsequently presen
ted the following resolution :
"Resolved, That the members of this Coun
cil be required to discontinue their subscrip
tions to the Repository and TVhig and sub
scribe for the :Transcript, and that copies of
this resolution be sent to the different Coun
cils of the county."
The. word "required" ,was changed to "re
quest," through the influence of some oppo
sed to these high-handed proceedings, and
the resolution passed,
Another act disclosed in these revalations
is still more startling. ISAAC H. M'CAu.LE.Y,
Esq., is the chief and confidential clerk of
Gov. Pollock. The Chambersburg Council
had some reasons for injuring him or wish
ing to prevent his admission into the order.
His name was therefore presented for admis
sion to the Chambersburg Council, without
his knowledge or consent, and he was rejec
t,-;d, and a resolution was passed requiring
the officers to send official information of his
rejection to the Council at Harrisburg. In
mentioning this case, the editor of the Whig
says, the names of men without political or
*moral blemish can be dragged before the se
cret inquisition for the avowed purpose of
impairing their standing and influence; and
that this was done in the case of Mr. M'Cau
ley he is "fully prepared to prove," and can
give the names of those who supposed they
The incarceration of Passmore Williamson
in Moyamensing, for heading a gang of law
less negroes and stealing the property of Col.
Wheeler, of North Carolina, and his subse
quent contempt of Court, in making a false
return to the habeas corpus, alleging that the
negro servants of Col. Wheeler were not and
had never been in his custody, still causes
consiberable excitement in the community;
while the N. Y. Tribune and other journals
(including the American) rapidly affected
with Negro-phobis, are endeavoring to make
political capital out of the affair. Passmore
Williamson, in the esteem of such, is a mar
tyr to the cause of freedom, while Judge
Kane is a high-banded tyrant, guilty of the
most grievous wrong that has ever been per
petrated upon a citizen of Pennsylvania or
the Union ! Some people really have queer
notions of law and morality,, A. stranger
passing through our city on his way to a
foreign land—a high functionary of the Uni
ted States Government—is waylaid and beset
in open day, by a band of negro desperadoes,
his servants forcibly taken away from him,
under a threat that if he made the slightest
resistence, he should have his throat cut, and
these ruffians headed, led on and directed by
a wealthy citizen, who, after plundering the
stranger of his property goes into Court with
a falsehood on his tongue, and declares that
he was not specially concerned in the out
rage,and knows nothing of the property so
violently seized and, carried off. This is
"higher law" doctrine, so rampantly avowed
by the Abolitionists of the present day. They
not only sanction the robbery of property,
but they would stand by and see a fellow
citizen cut down by a gang of outlaws; and
when these violators of law are brought to
the bar of justice to answer for their crimes,
and meet a punishment mercifully lenient in
comparison with the enormity of their ruffi
anism and outlawry, raise the howl and the
Jeremiad of judicial tyranny at the heels of
the inflexible minister of justice who dares
assert the supremacy of the laws agreeably
to his oath of fidelity to the Constitution of
the land. Philadelphia has been too long
the witness of such scenes of Abolition
.kna
very and disobedience to the sacred compacts
of the State and Union; but it is to be hoped
that the punisement now so righteously me
ted out to a principal disturber of the peace,
in the person of Passmore Williamson, will
have the effect of cooling the peculiar pro
pensities, not to say wanton villianies of the
"higher law" violators of all that is dear and
valuable to Republican citizens, and teach
them that daring crimes are no longer to go
' unwhipt of justice, no matter what the posi
tion of the offenders.
REPUBLICAN.
were screening themselves behind extra-judi
cial oaths !
We have mentioned these cases as indis
, putable evidences of the dangerous character
and internal corruption of Know Nothingism.
We have felt the malice and power of the
Order in our own experience, and know how
to appreciate the revalations of other suffer
' ers. We were early solicited to enter the
Order, but most emphatically refused, and
' from that day we have seen the cloven foot
of malice and proscription interfering in our
business. Whether resolutions have been
passed against us we know not, but we do
know that hundreds with whom we had ac
ted in political fellowship as Anti-Masons
and as Whigs, and some of whom we had fa
vored and supported for office, withdrew
their patronage because we would not for
swear our whole past political course, and
render ourselves as politically inconsistent,
to use no harsher term, as they have done.
Their malice, however, has failed in its ob
ject. We have lost hundreds of subscribers,
but have gathered more than we have lost.
When old friends proscribed us, new ones
were raised, most generally in the same neigh
borhood. Thus, although our list has under
gone some changes, it has not been diminish
ed by the proscription of Know Nothingism.
We have passed through a gloomy time, but
we have trusted in the good sense and the
love of fair play and justice of the people,
and have not been disappointed.
We should not have refered to this perso.
nal concern, at all, were we not almost dai
ly asked by our anxious friends, if our losses
are great. We find the impression has gone
abroad, and is industriously circulated by the
Know Nothings, that our circulation has
greatly diminished. It is therefore due to
those who have stood by us, an to those
who feel an interest in the success of the
cause we advocate, to inform them that
these rumors are false. No doubt the Know-
Notnings believe them, because they are ful
ly aware of the efforts made use of to destroy
us ; but we assure all concerned, that our
circulation never was in a more healthy state.
Our list is steadily and permanently increas
ing. So much foi proscription of the press.
From the Phila. Argus, Aug. 2.
The Outrage upon Mr. Wheeler,
There are but two Parties
Fellow-countrymen, now, as before, there
are but two parties in the United States.—
The olcl fashionod Whig organization has
been disbanded, as the whigs admit alike by
action and by word , but in its pace has aris
en a combination, united by a common hope
for power on the one hand, yet torn by inter
nal feuds growing out of doctrines as numer
ous asithe differing tongues in the tower of
Babel,. on the other. This is the existing
opposition to• the democratic party, which
party, stronger in its faith than ever, more
eager for the contest, and more willing to
perish rather than yield an inch to intoler
ance, stands like a fortress against its many
headed and many-titled adversaries. In all
nature there are two opposing elements—the
good and the bad, the pure and the impure,
the healthy and the unhealthy. Every man
is said to be wrestling with two angels—the
angel of virtue and the angel of vice. .A.nd
in every case the good spirit is an open, up
right, and candid spirit; while the bad spirit
is as secret as the pestilence, as wily as the
serpent, and as fatal as" death. We have
opposing elements in politics as well as in
science and morals. The one is a bold and
candid party; the other a secret and crafty
party. The one has a single creed applied
to all latitudes and to all men ; the other has
an opinion for every fifty miles of space, and
a champion for every particular dogma, no
matter how each may differ from the other.
Who should fail to see where his choice
should fall Who will hesitate where the
road is so broad and the right so clear?..—
Washington Union.
HOGS RooTrico.---To prevent hogs from
rooting, cut across the nose, just above the
gristle of the snout, by which you will sever
the nasal' tendon, by which the operation is
performed. Then split the gristle of the nose
up and down the face, and the work is done.
For the long-nosed, flap-eared breed, cut the
nose off eighteen inches above the snout.
Terrible Powder Explosion—All the f
Viforknien Killed:
WILMINGTON, DEL., August 3.—The dry
ing house at Mr. Garesche's Powder Works,
Eden Park, in the vicinity of this city, was
blown up shortly before 8 o'clock this morn
ing. The explosion was tremendous, and
broke a large quantity of glass in dwellings
in the lower part of the city. It had been in
operation for about 40 years without accident,
and was considered to be the safest house
embraced in the works. All the workmen
connected with its operations were instantly
killed. They were blown to atoms, and the
fragments of their bodies were found at vari
ous distances, from 50 to 200 yards.
There were . three Frenchmen engaged in
the drying house, named Eugene Perene, Jo
seph Duplane, Francis Fisher, and a boy na
med John Pugh. The house was literally
blown away, not a vestage remaining. The
explosion of the drying house caused a mill
to explode, which contained about 1400 lbs.,
and which is less than usual. The engineer
says there we7e three separate explosions in
this mill. To those at a distance it seemed
like a single prolonged explosion. The trees
around the drying house were blown up by
the roots, and the fields were literally cover
ed with fragments of wood, cinders, and the
remains of the victims. One or two horses
were killed. Another man is said to have
been killed, but this seems doubtful.
Mr. Garesche says the explosion must
have been caused by one of the Frenchmen
who worked in the packing roam being ad
dicted to smoking a pipe. Mr. G. had cau
tioned him two weeks previous, and told him
to quit the premises or give up his pipe.—
Mr. G. supposed he had abandoned the prac
tice.-
A WHOLE FAMILY POISONED—THREE OF
THE CHILDREN DEAD.—We learn by a letter
received from Dr. J. 0. Patterson, residing
in Candor, Washington county, Pa., the par
ticulars of a most melancholy case of poiso
ning. It seems that on Saturday, the 28th
ult., three lads, sons of Mr. Alexander Plot ts,
residing in the vicinity of Candor, proceeded
to the woods and gathered a large quantity
of mushrooms,.which they took home for ta
ble use. The whole family, seven in num
ber, partook freely of the dish, and shortly
after exhibited the most alarming symptoms.
Three physicians were called in, ants pro
nounced them poisoned. The proper reme
dies were speedily administered, but all ef
forts to savo the boys who had gathered the
plants, proved abortive. They died in great
agony, shortly afterwards. and were all bur
ied in the same grave. They were aged, re
spectively, ten, six, and four years. The pa
rents of the children were so unwell as to be
unable to render them any assistance, and
the poor little sufferers, in the trying hour
of death, were thus deprived of a father's
care, and a mothet's untiring watchfulness.
The parents, and the two children who
survived, exhibited favorable symptoms on
the 31st, and at the time our informant wrote,
hopes were entertained of their final recov
ery._ _
This is one of the most distressing cases
of poisoning we have ever been called upon
to record, and should seive as a solemn war
ning to parents.
ATTEMPTED MURDER ANT) SUICIDE.—\Ye
copy the following from the Louisvill Demo
crat:
"We learn from Cap. Hollcroft, of the
Rainbow, that one day last week, about six
miles back of Leavenworth. Indiana, a wo
man attempted to kill her husband, and on
the next day did kill herself.
"The circumstances are these: Mrs. Bruce
—the woman alluded to—during harvesting,
and after her eons and the the farm-hands
started to work, commenced cutting her hus
band's hair at her own request. She had
cut about half way round when she drew a
hatchet from beneath her apron and cut
away at his head, mangling him in a
horrible manner. His cries called back the
men, when his wife was removed and fas
tened up, with the intention of having her
arrested. Mr. Bruce was not dead at last
accounts. On the next day Mrs. B. lay
down on the bed, and, tying a handkerchief
aroud her neck and to the bed-post, threw
herself off, and so died.
"She gave reason for attempting to kill
her husband that they had considerable prop
erty, that she did not expect to live long, and
was determined that no other women
. should
ever enjoy it by marrying Mr . B. She must
have been deranged. She was somewhere
near fifty years of age, and has a large family
of children, some of them grown to maturity.
The conception of such a horrible design,
the coolness exhibited in hiding a hatchet
under her apron, and the concern manifested
in wishing to cut her husband's hair because
the weather was so very hot, and he was
harvesting—all evidence, to our mind, the
determination of insanity; and we have no
doubt she was insane."
ITOMMET O 51.11PIEMTRSOIRS,
rrHAT the cast end Of the Huntingdon, Cam
bria. and Indiana turnpike road from its
eastern terminus in the borough of Hunting
don to Gemmill's Mill west of the borough of
Alexandria is abandoned and no toll collected
for The use of that distance. The supervisors
of the several townships and boroughs through
which that part of said road passes are hereby
notified to take charge of the same—as per act
of Assembly concerning certain State and turn
pike roads passed 19th of April 1844.
JOHN S. ISETT, Sequestrator.
June 19, 1855,
T_ road Top Land
FOR SALE.
rpHE subscriber will sell at private sale a
tract of coal land on Broad Top, well tim•
bared and plenty of coal, adjoining the Hun
tingdon and Broad Top Railroad and Coal Com
pany's land, and within half a mile of MeCan_
less tract, where he has laid out a town at a
place known as the Watering Trough.
Also, a tract of Woodland well timbered,
with a Steam Saw Mill thereon, within a few
hundred yards of the Raystown Branch and
within six miles of the borough of Hunting
don.. I will sell the land with or without the
saw mill, or the engine, which is eighteen
horse power, alone, as there is water power to
the mill. Indisputable titles will be given.
WM . ROTHE: OM.
May 8, 18.5.5—tf. Huntingdon, Pa.
TO TAX COLLECTORS.
COLLECTORS of State and County tax for
the year 185.1 arc required to collect and
pay over the amount remaining unpaid on their
duplicates on or before the 13th day of August
next or they and their surety will be issued
against immediately after that date.
By order of the
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,
June 5,1855-6 t.
A VALUABLE PROPERTY
FOR SALE.
r rHE subscriber offers for sale that valuable
1 property well known as the "Green Tree,"
in Barrce township, Huntingdon county, on ie
public road leading from Petersburg to Pine
grove, Manor Hill, Saulsburg, McAlavey's Fort,
&e. The improvements arc a large two
story frame house, for many years occu
pied as a public house, a large new sta
ble and other outbuildings, and good water at
the door. There are between 14 and 15 acres
of improved land in excellent order in the prop
erty.
If not sold at private sale before the 4th of
August nest, it will be offered at public sale on
that day all together, or divided to suit purcha.
sers. Terms made known by
MARTI - IA MciIIURTRIE.
June 19, 1855.—t5.
For the People !
SOMETHING NEW IN HUNTINGDON,
Mineral Water & Sarsaparilla
Suniata Bottling Establishment,
1114,TN'Ir/I` 2 t.T.GDON, PA.
REDgRICK LIST respectfully informs the
citizens of Huntingdon and adjoining coun
ties, that lie has commenced the business of bot
tling- MINERAL WATER and SARSAPA
RILLA, and is proparcd to supply all who may
wish to deal in the articles, at reasonable whole.
sale prices.
His establishment is on Railroad street, one
door east of Jackson's Hotel, where orders will
be thankfully received and promptly attended
to. Orders by mail will receive his early at
tention.
Huntingdon April 11, 1855.
TRACT OP, .AND
AT PRIVATE SALE.
IHE subscribers,Executors of the last will
and testament of John I ,l 7 i:hi:field, dec'd.,
will offer at private sale, all that certain tract ot
LAND, situate in Germany Valley, Bunting
don county, Pa., late the residence of the said
John 'Wakefield dcc'd., containing
330 ACRES,
more or less, 190 acres of which arc cleared,
and in a good state of cultivation ; the balance
is well timbered—sufficient Locust and Chest
nut thereon to fence the whole farm, with an
abundance of Rock oak, Poplar &c., Thc:rc is
a good water power and a site for a Grist or Saw
Mill. There is erected on the premises a good
4 4„..4 .\ two story frame house and bank,
barn—also another limn house
ai and log barn—also, two tenant VOW
houses, four apple orchards, two ofgrafteo fruit,
beginning to bear, ten never failing springs, so
that every field can be supplied with water.—
From 40 to 50 acres suitable for meadow.
The above property situated in the heart of
one of the best wheat growing vallies in cen
tral Pennsylvania, is of the best quality of lime
stone and red-shale land, it is convenient to
market, being but five miles from the Penn'a.
Railroad and Canal, and three miles from Shir_
leysb erg, and is a desirable sitation for those
wishing to purehaw. For a wheat or stock
farm it is not surpassed in this part of•ihc
State.
N. 3.—if not sold before the 15th of August
next, it will be offered on that day at public out
cry, on the premises.
For particulars address George P. Wakefield
on the premises, or John R, hunter, Petersburg,
Iluntin.rxdon count, Pa.
GEO. P, WAKEFIELD, Execuio ;
JNO. R. II UNTF,R,
April 11, 1855*—ts•
OVE, TORII OA7
& ( GENTLEMEN'S
BOOT & SHOE STORE.
New sg cell Just Received.
LEVI WESTBROOK informs his old
4 1 1 t, customers and the public generally that
he lths just received from Philadelphia, a
large assortment of Boots and Shoes, com
prising every kind and variety of Gentlemen's
Boots, traitors, Monroes, Ties, Slippers, &c.
Ladies' fine Gaitor Boots, Buskins, and Ties of
the latest and most approved styles. Boys',
Misses' and Children's Boots, Lace Boots, Gai
tors and Shoes of every style and variety now
worn.
Also, Lasts and Morocco Skins.
Huntingdon, May 15, 1855.
MEDICAL NOTICE
Ty. D. HOUTZ and Dr. WM. GRAFIUS,
having formed a medical partnership un
der the title of Holm & GRAFIUS, offer their
professional services to the citizens of Alexan
dria and the surrounding country.
Office, that heretofore occupied by Dr. Houtz.
June 526,1855.-3 m.
health, Beauty, and happiness.
i}IIE undersigned having purchased the full
1 and exclusive right and privilege of con
structing, using and vending to others the right
to make and use in the counties of Hunting
don and Centre, DEMON'S PATENT PRE
MIUM BELLOWS PUMP SHOWER BATH,
manufactured and gold by the subscriber at Al
exandria, Huntingdon county, Pa. Also town
ship rights for sale at reasonable prices. All
orders promptly attended to.
BENJ. CROSS.
Also, for sale by Alex. Newell, agent at Hun.
tingdon.
June 6,18.55-2 m.
The best assortment of Carpet ever
offered, and at lower prices than can be got
at any other establishment, just received and
for sale by J. & W. SAXTON.
The cheapest and best lot of Chal
ky, Bcrage, and Bcrage de Lains, also,
Lawns just received and lin. sale by
J. & W. SAXTON.
-wANTED.---/00 AGENTS WANT
ED.—Froth $3 to $6 a day can be clear
ed in the sale of several new Books. For per
sons wishing to traN el, this affords an opportu.
pity seldom to be met with. For particulars
address, A. G. RICH & CO.,
Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co.,
iiay 16, 1855.4'
20 barrels No. 1 Herring, just re
ceived and for sale at the store of
G Eo. G WIN.
ham, Shoulders and Flitch, just re
ceived and for sale by
ied Apples—pealed and unpealed just
received and for sale by
CUNNINGHAM & DUNN.
Hors° Shoe and Nail rod Iron just re
ceived and for sale by
CUNNINGHAM & DUNN.
J. & W. SAXTON