The Oath of the Know-Nothings.
To all those who conceive themselves
bound by the sinful, extra-judicial oaths of
the Know-Nothings, we commend the follow
ing extract from the speech of Col. JOHN W.
FORNEY, delivered at Lancaster, Pa., on the
24th of September last.
"There can be no offence more harrowing
than that of perjury. The vow taken in the
sight of God, and broken in the sight of man,
corrodes in the conscience forever. Purjury
is the apparition which compels the corrupt
witness to speak the truth and the whole
truth. Perjury is the keen vengeance whiCh
pursues the shrinking guilty soul through all
the avenues of life, and is satiated only when
that soul escape to its God. But who would
havo believed, before this midnight conspira
cy afflicted our country, that a political party
would assume the right to enforce its extra
judicial oaths, by holding over its victims
the terror of perjury? Who ever heard be
fore that a man's hope of redemption was lost,
because he would 'not or could not fulfil a
vow to proscribe his fellow being?—because
be would not drive home the steel whetted to
assassinate the reputation of his uninitiated
friend,—because he had fled from the recesses
of an underground lodge, which had been
dedicated to intolerance and wrong? And
yet it is notorious, that the admitted member
of the Order is oath-bound to obey its de
crees on penalty of being denounced as a. wil
ful traitor to his God and his country," and
that he is next assurred by the high priest of
the conspiracy, that for the violation of his
oaths, "the deep and blighting stain of pur
jury will rest on his soul." I have already
specified sorrie of the works to which he is
committed from the moment he enters one of
these caves of persecution, and which he
must accomplish, or be "denounced as a trai
tor to his God and his country." It is a new
thing in the history of American parties, to
see men assuming obligations to proscribe
others, their equals and often their neighbors,
and consenting to the imputation of purjury,
should they fail or falter in this pious pas
time.
Men have taken oaths to destroy their coun
try's oppressors, arid Heaven has approved
the act. The august ceremonial which in
augurated and completed the Declaration of
Independence, was made in the sight of an
approving God, and if ever such approval
was given it consecrated that immortal vow.
But are fellow-freemen, whom we meet in
the daily walks of life, oppressors and ene
mies, that we should crawl into corners to
take oaths against them, failing in which the
sin of perjury is to rest on our souls? No
good angel-blesses such irreverence; no virtue
is to be saved by it; no right protected; and
no wrong made right.
But I will ask whether the profane oath I
have quoted, and the equally profane assump
tion of punishing the violation of such an
oath, should not call down the thunders of in
dignation protest from every
_Christian pulpit
in the land? Instead of turning their thoughts
upon the imaginary dangers of a distant pre
late, whose power to affect our happy insti
tutions, would be as ineffectual --as the at
tempt of the naked King of the Mosquito
Coast to capture Gibraltar; instead of inciting
apolitical party in its work of denunciation
and disfranchisement, as has been the case
with too many of the professing followers of
the meek and lowly Saviour,—l humbly re
fer them to the spectacle of vast multitudes
of men, wallowing in the most reckless oaths,
glorying in the most abandoned persecutions,
and arrogantly assuming the right io punish
robellion to their standard, by hurling the
anathema of perjury, as if they were delegat
ed vice gerents of God on earth.
Surely no American citizen, howeverdeep
ly prejudiced against an opposing creed can
for a moment be misled by the plea that this
midnight Order with all its profession, has
advanced true religion. The ritual and the
platform of the Order both declare belief in
"a Supreme Being" as an essential prelimi
nary. But there is great reason to fear that
the managers want nobody else to worship
God save themselves, and that their idea of a
deity is of one who expects to be propitiated
by acts of deceit and shame. A party which
.excludes a Catholic and admits a Mormon,
which does not hesitate to foliow the lead of
many whose deeds and words are at war
with every idea of religion," such a party can
not long delude any portion of intelligent
citizens with empty professions of piety.
Nay, if there be perjury anywhere, those
who violate an obligation like the following
in the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights, will have
some trouble to purge themselves,
"That all men have a natural and inde
feasible right to worship God Almighty, ac
cording to the dictates of their own con
scienes; that no man can, of right, be com
pelled to attend, erect, or support any place
of worship, or to maintain any ministry
against his consent; that no human authority
can in any case whatever, control or inter
fere with the rights of conscience; and that
no preference be given to any religious es
tablishments or modes of worship.
"That no person who acknowledges the
being of a God and a future state of rewards
and punishments, shall, on account of his re
ligious sentiments, be disqualified to hold
any office or place of trust or profit under
this Commonwealth."
I beg of you to contrast this with the oath
/Of the midnight Order. We are told it is
perjury in a Know Nothing to violate that
oath. And here is an obligation more
solemn, more binding, more essential to so
ciety, which in some of its parts is set at
nought by thousands of Know Nothings; and
this, too, without complaint or condemnation
from those ministers of the Gospel who be
long to the Order, and who themselves prac
tice the evil they should condemn in others.
It has been said that, while the adopted
citizens take an oath to support, the Know
Nothing take an oath to violate the American
Constitution. And the fruits of this reck
lessness are full of terrible significance. A
direct result of the secret obligations of the
Order, may be found in the bloody tumults
of Louisville, and in the excesses of the
Know Nothings in other large cities. To
such an extent has public indignation been
excited against the profane and familiar re
sort to extra-judicial oaths, and the invaria
ble appeal to force and fraud at the ballot
boxes,portions of the Union the Order
has deiberately discarded alike its secrecy
s and its obligations. This has been !he case in
,Alabama, Georgia; Louisiana, and South Car
olina. The very fact that the oath of the
Order, tends to bring into contempt the high
er obligations imposed by the constitution
and! the laws, proves that it is not binding
upon those who are deluded into an assump
tion of it. But it is no less clear that in many
places this oath, imposed with all the forms
of midnight secrecy, has had a disastrous
effect upon those who have accepted it. So
far from contributing to the strength of the
Order, it has been one of the principal causes
of its rapid decay. Resorted to for the pur
pose of consummating the schemes of men
who could not obtain advancement from
other parties, but who were able to pack ma
jorities in these secret societies, it became a
galling yoke to the more respectable mem
bers, and, as may well be conceived, has en
ded by driving out the best and leaving the
lodges in control of worst. Nay, take a
member of this Order, one who is known to
have accepted its obligations, and suddenly
demand of him whether he is attached to it
or not, and observe with how much confu
sion and shame he will attempt to deny, or
indirectly admit the fact. That minister of
God should in the ostensible desire of Promo
ting the spread of the doctrine of Christiani
ty, embark with those who are committed to
these obligations; that they should cheerfully
assume companionship with men besotted in
intellect and led captive by vice and fraud;
and that tliev should sit silent and see not
only their Catholic fellow beings but their
own neighbors (even those concurring with
them in religious belief who do not belong to
the Order,) stricken down or marked out as it
were for execution, almost passes compre
hension. It cannot be doubted that the man
ner in which these obligations have been in
sisted upon and the violence with which the
demands of the pledged midnight majority
have been consummated, has contributed to
change many of these lodges into Pandemo
niums upon earth; controlled, not by intellect
and by virtue, but by men who have become
skilled in the practices at first so bitterly de
nouncee.l by their leaders and now almost-en
tirely abandoned by the old parties. Oaths
employed to sanction and strengthen practi
ces like these are null and void in the sight
of Heaven as soon as they are taken; and Ihe
frequency with which they are repudiated by
those who have reluctantly assumed them,
shows conclusively that the idea of their
binding efficacy is being rapidly dissipated.
Shakspeare expresses the whole doctrine in
the second part of King Henry VI.
"It is a great sin to swear unto a sin,
But a greater sin to keep a sinful oath,
Who can be bound by any solemn vow
To do a murderous deed, to rob a man,
To force a spotless virgin's chastity,
To rcave the orphan of his patrimony
To wring the widow from her customcd
right;
And have no other reason for this wrong
But that he was bound by solemn vow?"
The Opposition to the Democracy
Ever since the promulgation of the prin
ciples of the immortal Jefferson, the Dem
o:tratic party has had arrayed against it a
warm and zealous opposition. This antago
nistic party, under a great many names, from
that day down to the present time has en
ergetically opposed the measures of the Dem
ocracy, and, in a few instances, succeeded in
obtaining the ascendency. But, after a fair
and impartial trial of the doctrines of that op
position, a majority of the people has in
variably come kick to the Democratic stand
ard, well satisfied that under its broad folds
American sentiment and American interests
were always certain to find ample protection.
This opposition has always numbered in its
ranks many well meaning and honest citi
zens. Even at this period do we find array
ed against the Democratic party men whose
every impulse is for the welfare of their coun
try. But blinded by bigotry and prejudice—
led astray by the alluring clap-trap appeals
of designing politicians, or entangled in the
artfnlly contrived net of a secret oath-bound
organization, they are thoughtlessly or igno
rantly contending against the only true, na
tional, American party in the Union, and
laboring, side by side, with the secret plotters
and base, ungrateful miscreants who are
aiming to destroy the great charter of our
liberties. and to sink our country into the ex
tremest depths of political and social degra
dation.
The old Federal or Whig party, with all
its faults and follies, was a fair and honorable
opponent in comparison with the opposition
which is now contending against the Dem
ocracy. The principles of that party were
not mere appeals to the religious or sectional
prejudices of the people, but they battled for
certain political measures, upon which they
desired to see the government administered.
That party had its able, fearless and eloquent
champions, and although they failed to con
vince the people of the correctness of their
views of government, to their credit be it
said. whatever they sought to accomplish they
did it in an open and manly manner.
We no longer hear an argument advanced
in favor of the principles of this old party.—
Not a word is said about a National Bank, a
Tariff, a Sub-Treasury, thedistribution of the
proceeds of the public lands among the States,
a system of internal improvements by the
General Government, or of any of the old
issues which divided the public mind a few
years ago.
And the reason that we now hear nothing
said in reference to those questions is, that
the people of the country have decided that
the views entertained of them by - the . De
mocracy were right and that the measures of
the Democratic party were best adapted to
our form of government. These questions
being disposed of, it became necessary in the
opinion of those who were opposed to the
policy of our party, to raise new issues and
promulgate new doctrines, that a regular op
position might be maintained. Doubtless
there are some of those who were attached to
the old Whig party, who still cherish a love
for these old measures, and would much rath
er go into a contest with the Democracy on
them than to adopt as their creed the new
fangled notions of the new organization.—
But a majority of the old Whig party, dis
heartened at their many reverses, and gov
erned by a love of the spoils of office and a
hatred of anything Democratic, have been
willing to enter into any new arrangement
and subscribe to any new doctrine, no mat
ter how monstrous or absurd, only so they
might be able to make successful headway
against Democracy, and, thereby, secure for
themselves or their friends political promo
tion.
And what are the doctrines now advanced
by the opponents of the Democratic party?—
Could this opposition, were it now fully in
stalled in power, administer the government
on the principles it has defined as the basis of
its organization? Suppose it held the reins of
government in its hands at this time, would
the extension of the term of probation in the
naturalization laws from five to twenty-one
years, or even to an hundred years, enable
our Executive to better understand the ques
tion of currency, or assist him in adjusting a
scale of duties on foreign imports? Would
the entire disfranchisement of every man, not
professing the Protestant faith tend to en
lighten the mind of the Chief Magistrate of
the nation and give him a clearer insight into
the interests and necessities of the country?
Would the liberation of every slave on South
ern plantations, and their elevation to a social
and political equality with the whites, con
duce in the least degree to the welfare of the
country and the happiness of its citizens?—
What other doctrines are advanced as the
creed of the new opposition? Will the ridic
ulous cry of "Americans must rule America,"
when it is well known to ,every man who is
not an idiot that the country has never been
ruled by any other than Americans since the
formation of the government, add one jot or
tittle to the administrative capacity of a
President, or serve in the least to make the
sentiment of an administration more Amer
ican than has ever characterized this gov
ernment when the Democratic party held the
reins?
We have propounded these questions for
the purpose of inducing men to think and to
understand their true position. Let those
who once prided in the name of Democrat
take a retrospective glance at the history of
the Democracy and its opposition. To do so,
is to see that the Democratic party is now
where it has ever been. Its love of liberty
and equality is the same. Its devotion to the
interests and welfare of the people is as true
as it was in the days of Jefferson. The•
Democratic party and Democratic principles
have never changed, and the man who pro
fesses still to be a Democrat, but is found
acting in conjunction with a large majority
of our old political enemies against the Dem
ocratic organization, must surely see, if he
will only take the trouble to examine into the
cases that induced the majority of the old op
position-to change its weapons and method
of attack, that it is himself and not the Dem
ocratic party that has wandered from the old
landmarks. "Men change, principles nev
er."
Public Road to Paradise---Singular De
velopments in the Mountains.
A. correspondent of the Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, Advcrtiscr, writing from Blue Nfoun-
tain P. O. in the wildest part of the Alle
ghenies, gives the following interesting ac
count of two singular beings, dwelling in the
vicinity of the neighboring village of Spoon
ville. These pretended prophets are doubt
less emulous of the fame of Joe Smith and
seek to found a faith which will rival that of
Mormons. The said inhabitants of Spoon
ville are undoubtedly "spoonies :" -
It. is stated that two old favored men with
long beards and uncovered heads, were found
in a peculiar hut near the village a few
weeks since, but how they came there, or
from whence, no one can tell. No one saw
them on the general thoroughfares, or in the
paths leading to this spot, which is in open
view from all three of the taverns, and, what
is more unaccountable, the manner of their
daily sustenance, in a worldly sense, is a
mystery—so much so, that after sage consid
eration, the town has settled into the belief
that their unexplainable presence and exis
tence confirm it more in the opinion of their
supreme origin. The first and last impres
sion is that two reverential and harmless
men, in loose robes, and grey beards, and
long hair, dwell in their midst. Innocent
ate they, and saintly in their intercourse. .
Their hut rests against a large rock in the
side of the hill, and an ancient growth of
trees shades it from the sun. Within the
cabin and in the rock is a cavity of lessor ca
pacity in which they deposit curious instru
ments of writing, and small packages of dark
yellow paper, held together by clasped boards;
these, with a moderate sized brazen box with
a continuous hinge on the back, and an enor
mously disproportioned lock to secure the
lid, record the entire contents of this rocky
niche. The house furniture is all told in two
common benches—no table—no place to pre
prepare food—no bed, or any indications of
the usual comforts of life, but simply two
lone benches of rough plank stand on the
bare earth.
It is not to be wondered at that the quiet
and sober• citizens of Spoonville should be
casting in mind the purpose and destiny of
such untangible creatures, and to arrive at
the opinion above hinted at, "their supreme
origin," they closely observe their out-goings
during the day. At night it was observed
regularly that they took a walk towards the
East, but the moment the people attempted
to follow them, a palpable gauzy veil of haze
enwrapt their forms, and they were lost to
all scrutiny. In two hours these unfathom
able men would return, bearing in their hands
a single sheet of the dark yellow paper,
which as regularly was placed in the brazen
chest. A feeling of awe so pervaded the vi
cinity of the hut that it baffled all desire to
enter after their return. For two months,
each day introduced the same routine—the
same retirement and the same results.
During the daylight, these men, or proph
ets, as they term themselves, will con verse
familiarly with the people but on subjects of
a spiritual nature. They say they haye the
mission to complete before they can plainly
enlarge upon their present occupation—that
their mission is to unite the spiritual and
mortal being into one holy life, which, when
perfected will sanctify the lives of the whole
world—that a new revelation is being made
for accomplishing this glorious task, but many
exigencies must be met and overcome before
its completion—that they are now receiving
the holy word, and when the last is giv
en there will be such signs and manifesta
tions as will sink conviction into the hearts
of all the people round about—but the time
is not yet—that the revelatian made will
point out a public road to Paradise, which
will pass by the homes of all created in his
image, who can travel if they will. Various
other works they converse on, and when thus
engaged, a visible light seems to enclose
their forms to an extent most lovely and fas
cinating to be witnessed.
By these frequent communings with the
venerable prophets, the citizens have become
fully awakened, and daily they crowd the
shades of the majestic grove sheltering their
abode to listen to the teachings of wisdom
emanating from their tongues. For hours
they will sit there entranced, and as if by in
spiration, all the dwellers of Spoonvillo have
become constant converts to the new faith
which opens the "public road to Paradise. 72
They have quite deserted the field and the
place of business, and the majority of them
have come to the conclusion that they are all
intended to be apostles and disciples, chosen
and set apart from the great body of the world.
Peter and Paul and other good men are to be
ordinary mortals compared with the eventful
lives awaiting them.
You may ask us, have we ourselves, seen
these spiritual teachers, have we felt their
teachings and witnessed the halo of glory en
shrouding them? To all these queries we
answer we have seen al! and more than we
have related, and not, too, without experien
cing apottion of the strange influence they
wield.
Illegality of Know-Nothingism
The Mississippian publishes a letter from
Judge J. S. B. THATCHER, of Natchez, giving
it as his opinion that Know-Nothingism is a
criminal organization, a conspiracy to do an
unlawful act by depriving Roman Catholics
and naturalized citizens of their rights; and
that the law provides a full remedy. Similar
opinions have been given by Hon. J• M. POR
TER: Hon. Wat. B. REED, and JOHN M. REED,
Esq., of Pennsylvania, and by Hon. J. D.
FREEMAN, ;ate Attorney General of Missis
sippi. This, to say the least, is very good
authority, and should cause the honest mas
ses to think seriously on the subject of the
legality of this oath-bound order.
Human liberty is a blessing not to be tri
fled with ; and whether that liberty is exerci
sed in a religious, a political, or a social way,
it is one of the most cherished rights of man.
It is the love of it that
.has kept the Circas
sians for ages in their mountain fastnesses
and nerved them to resist the countless hosts
of Tartary and Russia. It was a love for
this Heaven-promised boon which rang in
the voice of HENRY when he electrified an
American Congress with his eloquence, and
thrilled their heart with the sentence—''Give
me liberty or give me death !" It was a
love for it which drove our fathers to bleed
at Bunker Hill and Saratoga, and conquer at
Yorktown. All past history goes to show
that the human mind pants for it, strives for
it, flourishes with it, and, without it, pines
and deteriorates.
Civil liberty is defined to be "the liberty
of men in a state of society, or natural liber
ty, so far only abridged and restrained as is
necessary and expedient for the safety and
interest of the society, state, or nation. A re
straint of natural liberty, not necessary or ex
pedient for the public, is tyranny or oppres
sion. It is an exemption from the arbitrary
will of others, which exemption is secured
by established laws, which restrain every
man from injuring or controlling another."
The-Governments under which we live have
established laws calculated to preserve to ev
ery man the enjoyment of this liberty.—
These laws have, in the opinion of the dis
tinguished gentlemen whose names we have
cited, and others, been violated by the order
commonly known as Know-Nothings. That
this has be done, a candid public must
admit.
The Constitution of the United States de
clares that "Congress shall make no law re
specting the establishment of religion, or pro
hibiting the free exercise thereof." Know.
Nothingism declares that Protestantism. only
shall be recognized as a religion, and that
persons professing the Roman Cotholic faith
shall not beed permitted to hold office under
the Government.
The-election laws of Pennsylvania provide
that no man shall unduly influence or over
awe a voter in the discharge of his duty.—
Know-Nothingism does unduly influence and
overawe men who have become connected
with it, and coerces them into supporting its
men and measures.—Here we have two di
rect violations of the Constitution and laws
of the country, by an oath-bound political as
sociation. Is it astonishing, then, that men
who love their country, and reverence reli
gion, should speak out against such an orga
nization
We might pile an Ossa on a Pelion of evi
dence to prove that the zeal of those men
who originated and who control the dark
lantern party has carried them outside the
pale of truth and patriotism, but it is not ne-,
cessary. The American people are an intel
ligent people, and the strongest proof of this
fact is that they can live down treason and
laugh at incipient tyranny. The social sys
tem here regulates itself, and it will be but
a short time until it will rid itself of the fes
tering sore of Know-Nothingism. —.Patriot
6. Union.
AL I OF IFS
AT THE
Town of Saxton,
Bedford. county, Pa.
SHE Saxton Improvement Company will sell
I at Public Auction, on CHRISTMAS-DAY
DECEMBER 25,1855, at the new town of Sax
ton,
A Large number of Excellent Building
The town is located at the junction of the
main stem of the Huntingdon and Broad Top
Mountain Railroad leading to Hopewell, and
the branch running up Shoup's run.
Arrangements are now being made toward
the construction of a turnpike road from this
place to Martinsburg, in the rich, agricultural
valley of Morrison's Cove, and to supply the
town with fountain water from a spring having
an elevation of from 40 to 60 feet above the vil
lage. A Hotel will be completed and furnished
before the day of sale, at which time the terms
will be made known.
Plans of' the town may be obtained on appli
cation to, or by addressing
JAMES SAXTON, President
of the Compan7j at Huntingdon, Pa.
Nov. 21, 1855.
13 -- Bedford Gazette, Inquirer and Chronicle,
and Fulton Democrat, please insert to amount
of $2 and charge this office.
Cider Vinegar ! Cider Vinegar !
gn i Barrels Pure Cider Vinegar, war_
j ranted, and for sale at wholesale price, by
FRED. LIST.
Huntingdon, Nov. 21.
A HOUSE AND THREE LOTS,
FOR SA ILE.
• • THE subscriber desirous of removing
I.E Ei to the West, offers for sale his dwelling
house and three lots in the small village
lately laid out by A. B. Sangree, near MeCon
nellstown, Walker township, Huntingdon coun
ty Pa. The house is anew log, weatherboard
ed and painted white, three stories high, 26 by
19 feet. The lot the house stands upon fronts
the main road leading from Huntingdon to Bed
ford, 66 feet front and 165 back to a 16 feet
street. There is a good frame stable and a
number of choice fruit trees on the lot, and a
well of good water at the door. The other lots
front on the back street and are in a good state
of cultivation. Any person wishing to pur
chase can have a bargain as I am determined to
sell.
Nov. 21,1855.-3 t.
GREAT EXCITEMENT
Created by the Arrival at
L. WESTBROOK'S
Of a Large and Splendid Stook of
BOOTS 8, SHOES, •
For Dien, Women, Misses Boys
and Children.
CALL AND SEE.
Lots.
JOSEPH GAHEGAN.
TAX COLLECTORS.
COLLECTORS are hereby notified that the
Commissioners will meet on the first Mon.
day in December next to give them their exhon.
crations on Militia fines. According to a late
act of assembly no exonerations can be given
after that time.
By order of the Commissioners.
H. W. MILLER,
Nov. 20, 1855. Clerk.
10,000 lbs. Pure Tallow Candles,
arOULD and Dip, for sale at wholesale priee,
AlbY FRED. LIST.
Huntingdon, Nov. 21.-3 t
A ITDITOIVS NOTICE.
THE undersigned, Auditor appointed to dis.
tribute the balance in the hands of George
P. Wakefield, administrator of John W. With.
ington, deed., late of Shirley township, to and
amongst the creditors of said dec'd., will meet
for said purpose at his residence in the borough
of Huntingdon, on Thursday December 20th,
next, of which all persons interested will take
notice.
Nov. 21, 1855
FOR SALE OR RENT
A TAN YARD in the borough of Alexandria,
Huntingdon county, well supplied with
water; twenty-four lay.away vats, two limes,
and four handlers under roof—a good two story
frame tau house and currying shop—a good
bark house, &c. Terms easy. Address,
JOHN PIPER, Sen.
Oct. 10, 1855.-10t'§
SOMETHING- NEW
At the foot of Mill Creek Level.
COME ONE ! COME ALL ! !
HE subscriber respectfully informs the pub.
lie that he has just opened at the old stand
formerly kept by John Montgomery at the foot
of Mill Creek Level,
A Splendid Assortment of
NEW GOODS,
consisting of
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES,
QUE ENSWARE,
CEDAR WARE,
TIN WARE,
STONE CROCKERY WARE,
BOOTS & SHOES,
NAILS, SALT AND FISH,
All of which 1 will sell at the lowest cash pri
ces.
All kinds of Country Produce taken in ex.
change for Goods.
The public are invited to call and examine
my Goods t.nd prices.
HENRY
Nov. 13, 1555-2m*
NOTICE
A LL persons who have not filled their license
for the present year, are hereby notified to
do so on or before the 21st November. As all
licences uncollected at that time will be left
with the proper officer tbr collection.
JOS. M. STEVENS,
Oct. 31,1855. Co. Treasurer.
ADMINISTRATOR' S NOTICE.
Torr.= is hereby given that letters of ad
ministration on the estate ofJoseph Reed,
dee'd, late of West township, Huntingdon coun
ty, have been granted to the undersigned. All
lersons indebted to said estate will make pay
ment immediately, and those, having claims
will prcscni them duly authenticated for settle
_
went.
Oct. 31,1855
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
r pLIE partnership heretofore existing in the
I name of Cunning,ham & Hewitt, at Moors
vine, Darrec township, Huntingdon county, Pa.,
has been dissolved by mutual consent. The bu
siness will be continued by John Hewett, from
the 10th inst.
CUNNINGHAM & HEWETT.
Oct. 31, 1855.
EVERY READER
Will please notice the advertisement headed
"To Persons out of Employment," and send
for a full descriptive Catalogue of all our Illus
trated Works.
To the uninitiated in the great art, of selling
books, we would say that we present a scheme
for money making which is far better than all
the gold mines of California and Australia.
Any person wishing to embark in the enter
prise, will risk little by sending to the publibher
Siki, for which he will receive sample copies of
the various works (at wholesale prices) careful.
ly boxed, insured, and directed, affording a very
liberal per tentage to the Agent tin his trouble.
With these he will soon be able to aseertam the
most saleable, and order accordingly. Ad.
dress (post paid,)
.ROBERT SEARS, Publisher,
181 William Street, New York.
ADMINISTRATOR' S NOTICE.
4 ETTERS of administration on the estate of
William Cummins, late of Jackson town
ship, Huntingkon county, deceased, have been
granted to the undersigned. All persons in
debted are requested to make immediate pay
ment, and those having claims to present them
properly authenticated to
JOHN CUMMINS, Jackson
GEORGE JACKSON, C township.
Nov. 6,1555.-6 t. Administrators.
A DESIDERATUM.
JACOB'S Amalgam Pens will be found on
trial superior to gold or steel, collecting
none of that sediment about them which steel
pens invariably do. They will be preferred—
the acting of these pens resemble the quill
more than the gold pen. One trial will prove
the fact that they are the best pen yet introdu
ced. Their durability is about 8 or 10 times
as great as steel. Sole in Huntingdon and vicin
ity, exclusively by
J. BRICKER,
Oct. 31, 1855. opposite American office
Books looks v.
° WARM*
80,000
prices.NoL U MIEIS;
he s fair b b s e c l
r o i s b v e t r h
s i r h r a e p t P p .
y i 1
to inform his numerous friends and customers
tltat he has added very largely to his already
extensive and varied stock of new and popular
books, and can now boast as great a variety and
at the same low prices as the City book stores.
His stationary is of great variety and well se
lected, viz : Fancy and plain, note letter and
cap pa per and envelopes,, gold pens and holders,
from $1 upward, Pen and Pocket Knives Fan
cy and Plain Portmonies and Pocket Books,
Ink and Inkstands, Razers, Straps, Brushes, &c.
School Books in quantities to country mer
chants and teachers at city wholesale prices.
Wrapping paper constantly on hand. 1,000
pieces of wall paper of every kind; window pa
per - and painted shades with Putnam's patent
self adjusting curtain fixtures. All the above
at Philadelphia retail prices. Call and exam
ine, "I will endeavor to please". Store on Rail
Road street. WM. COLON.
Huntingdon, Oct. 17,1855.
A. B. CREWIT,
Auditor
PETER STRYIiER,
Administratoi
A lIOUSE AND LOTS FOR SALE.
The subscriber offers for sale the house
he now occupies and three lots of ground
situate in the north east Corner of the borough
of Huntingdon. The house is a two story
frame. The lots will be sold separately or als
together, to suit purchasers.
For further particulars cull on the subseribei:
October 16. A. 3. WHITE.
ADMINISTRATOR' S NOTICE.
TETTERS of administration on the estate
IA of Thomas Read, 'late of the borough of
Huntingdon, deceased, having been granted to
the undersigned, all persons having claims
against said deceased, will present them duly
authenticated for settlement, and all persons in
debted to said deceased or the late firm of Read
& Son, are requested to make immediate pay
ment.
JOHN READ, Administrator.
Huntingdon, Oct. 23, 18.
FALL AND WINTER GOODS '
AT THE
BRomflop DEPOT .
CUNNINGHAM & DUNN,
lAU AVE just returned from Philadelphia, and
arc now opening at the head of the Broad
Too Basin a large and _beautiful assortment of
Fall and Winter Goods consisting of
DRY-GOODS GROCERIES, .
HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE,
CEDARWARE,
TVILLOWWARE,
RATS, & CAPS,
BOOTS it SHOES,
And a general assortment of
READY—MADE CLOTHING.
Also—
BACON, SALT, FISH PLASTER.
And in short, every thing usually kept in a
country store.
Call and examine our stock before purchas
ing elsewhere, and see whether we cannot make
it your interest to patronize us.
All kinds of country produce taken in ex
change for goods at the highest market prices.
The highest market prices paid for all kinds
of grain.
Prompt attention paid to storing and forward
ing all kinds of merchandise, produce &c.
Huntingdon, Oct. 10, 1855.
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
Call and Look before you Purchase.
HAS just returned from Philadelphia and is
now opening one of the pettiest and best
selected stock of goods ever brought to the bo
rough of Huntingdon. It would be useless to
mention all of the goods we have on hand—
LADIES' DRESS GOODS,
of the latest styles.
A large stock of Hosery, Dress Trimmings,
Ribbons, Velvet, Bonnets, Undersleves, Collars,
Spencers, Cassimers, Cloths, Vcstings, Laces,
Silk Mitts, Delanes, De Berge, Kid Gloves, and
all kinds of goods generally kept in a country
store.
Also—a fine assestment of
BOOTS & SHOES, HATS & CAPS,
Glassware, Queensware and Cedarware.
A large and good supply cf
Fresh Groceries.
Call and sec my goods and examine for your
selves.
Thankful fur the patronage of the past by my
friends, and the public generally, I respectfully
solicit a continuance of the same,
All kinds of country produce taken in ox
change for goods at highest market price.
Oct. 2, 1855.
If you want to buy Good and Cheap
(Da)
CALL AT B P. GWIN'S.
- 1 - 1 GWIN has just. received from Philath:l-
... U, phia. a large and beautiful Stock of Fall
and Winter Goods, consisting of the most fash
ionable Dress Goods for Ladies and Gentlemen,
such as French Merinoes, Alapacas, Parametta,
Cloth, Persian Cloth, Plain all Wool De Lain,
Fancy De Lain, Dcbaizc, Coburgs, Black and
Fancy Dress Silks, and Prints of all description.
Also, Cloths Cassimcrs, Plain and Fancy Cas
sinets, Vestings, also a large lot of dress Trim
mings, Dress Buttons, Ribbons, Gloves, Mitts,
Woolen and Cotton Hosiery, Laces, Veils, Col
ars, Undersleeves, Rigulcts, Silk Bonnets and
a variety of Fancy Goods too numerous to men
iton.
Flannels of all kinds, Tussey's Woolen Ta.
ble Covers, Shawls, Bleached and Unbleached
Muslins, Tickens, Cheeks, Ginghams, &c.
Also. Groceries of all kinds, Hats and Caps.
Boots and Shoes, Oil Cloths, Hardware, Queens
ware, Buckets, Tubs, Baskets and all Goods
usually kept in a country store.
My old customers and as many new ems as
can crowd in arc respectfully requested to call
and examine my geode.
All kinds of country produce taken in ex
change for goods at the highest market prices.
Oct. 2, 1855.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
JETTERS of administration on the estate of
Cornelius Decker, deed., late of the bor
ough of Iluntingdon, in the county of Hunting
don, have been granted to the undersigned, by
the Register of said county. All persons in
debted to said estate will make immediate pay
ment, and all persons having claims will pre
sent them duly authenticated for settlement.
301 - IN W. MAT r ERN, Ad ar.
Oct. 2,18.55.
A FARM OF 220 ACRES
FOR SALE.
rpm: subscriber offers at nitrate Sale his farm
in Henderson township, Huntingdon coun
ty, about 34 miles from the borough of Hun
tingdon. It contains about 220 awes, about 100
cleared and in cultivation, about 12 of which
arc meadow. The improvements are a good
two story log and frame house, good
°iii bank barn, saw mill, smoke house, wood
house and other out buildings. The
uncleared part is well timbered. There is an
excellent well of w ator at the diver, and several
springs and a variety of excellent fruit trees on
the property
Possession will be given on the first of April
next. A bargain will be offered, and any per
son wishing to purchase a home will do well by
calling and examining the property soon.
JOHN COLSTOCK.
Oct. 10, 1855.
rpHE best assortment of Carpet and Oil Cloth
just received and for sale by
J. & W. SAXTON.
Ilam, Shoulders and Flitcli, just re-
ceived and for sale by
J. & W. SAXTON.
THE handsomest assortment of De lanes, Per
sian Cloth, Larilla Cloth, Berage de Lanes,
Paramette Cloth, and all wool Morin.)es, all
wool de lanes, oftlie best styles ana elected
with the greatest care, for sale by
ST, W. SAXTON, .