MOUNTAIN MINEL
EBENSBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1849.
OThe Sentinel, has much the largest cir
culation of any paper published in this county
and as an advertising sheet offers superior
inducements to merchants and business men
generally. Those desirous of making us of
this medium for extending their business can
do so by either sending their notices direct, or
through the following agents;
John Crouse, Esq., Johnstown.
E. IV. Carr Etans1 Buildings, Third st.
Philadelphia.
V. B. Palmer, Esq , New York, Philadelphia
and Baltimore.
Central Pennsylvania Exehanse Azcnry.
R. R. Bryan, Esq., whose card will be
found in another column of to-days pape r,
lias established an Exchange Agency in
Hollidaysburg. We are glad of this.
The rapidly increasing commercial busi
ness of the Central portion of Pennsylva
nia has long demanded the establishment
of an institution of this kind, through the
agency of which our merchants and other
business men have an easy facility of
transmitting money and of obtaining such
other accommodation as the nature of
iheir business frequently requires. And
wc can assure our friends that ibis Agency
is perfectly safe and competent to transact
any "business relative to money matters,
with which they may sec proper to en
trust it.
Death of Judge Huston.
Hon. Charles Huston died at Bcllefonte
on the 10th inst., in the 80th year of his
age. He was early distinguished for his
eminent legal abilities, and in his death the
Bar of Pennsylvauia has lost ore of its
brightest ornaments. In 1818 he was ap
pointed by Governor Findlap President
Judge of the 4th Judicial District, and in
182G Gov. Shultze appointed him one of
the Justices of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania, which office he filled until 1815,
when his commission expired. During
the last four years of his life he was chief
ly engaged in preparing for the press his
late work on the Land Titles of Pennsyl
vania. "Few men" say a writer in the
Centre Democrat, "have experienced more
physical suffering, and few men have
lived a more industrious, useful ane labo
rious life."
Military.
c arc pleased to learn that a new vol
unteer company, called the "Johnstown
Guards" has been organized in the bor
ough of Johnstown. The following o-cn
tlemen were elected officers:
Captain John Flancgan.
1st. Lieut. John J. Worthington
i!J Benjamin F. Davis.
3d -William Paxton.
Two of these gentlemen, Messrs. Wor
thington and Davis were volunteers in the
war with Mexico, where they done good
service in the cause of their countrv, and
we are glad to see them evince such inter
est in military matters as to take part in
the organiza'ion of a new volunteer com
pany. We also learn that the 'Quitman Guards'
at No. 2, A. P. R. R., were duly inspect
ed by John Linton, Brigade Inspector;
and organized on Thursday last, and that
they may now be regarded as one of the
permanent companies of this county under
the new militia law of this commonwealth.
The Next Speaker.
We are glad to perceive that the men
tion of the name of Dr. Wm. A. Smith,
as a candidate for Speaker of the next
House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
has been very favorably received by the
Democracy in several sections of the State.
He has been favorably noticed in connec
tion with that office in some of the leading
democratic papers of the east, and we take
pleasure in assuring those who are not
personally acquainted with him, that he is
all that his friends have represented him
to be, and that lie is most happily quali
fied both by education and habits to occu
py, the Speaker's chair with credit to him
self and the State. We find the following
communication in the Lancaster IntchVen
er of the 13th, and cheerfully endorse the
M-nt'uuonts of the writer.
Dr. Win. J. Smith.
Mr. Sanderson ; A correspondent of
the Pcnnsylvanian of Saturday last, men-
1 . . . . At.n C v ...
name oi un. V m. A. Smith, of
ainbriu county, m connexion
with the
ikf-rsliip of th- npxt Houiv
I Ilrprr-;
sentatives. - Allow me, through the medi-
um.of the Intelligencer, lo say that I have
known Dr. Smith for a number of years,
and a more deserving, upright and honor
able man does not live. He is a firm and
an unflinching democrat, and possesses all
the qualifications requisite for a good
Speaker. Besides, glorious 1 Little Cam
bria,1 tvhich has ahcays stood by the
Democratic flag in sunshine and in
storm, is eminently deserving the honor
of having her able representative called
upon to preside over the deliberations of
the House. II.
A New County.
Poor "Little Cambria!" Her weak
ness, instead ol being a protection, is
seized upon, as is too often the case, as
affording an opportunity for self aggran
disement. For several vears the most
active measures have been in operation
to take from her a large portion territory
composing the townships of White aud
Susquehanna, to form a pert of a new
county to be called Pine, and we believe
this movement was only defeated by a
very few voles at the last session of the
Legislature. Another plan has lately
sprung into existence of depriving her of
three of her largest townships in the
south, and should both or either of these
propositions be carried out successfully,
Cambria would scarcely be a county in
any tmng else man the name.
By the last Johnstown Echo we learn
that an adjourned meeting of the citizens
of Johnstown and vicinity'was held at the
louse of Samuel Biacken on the 13th
inst., to adopt measures to bring about the
erection of anew county out of parts of
Cambria, Indiana, Somerset and West
moreland, to be called Concmaugh with
Johnstown, of course, for its capitol. We
as yet know nothing definitely of what
was done at this meeting, as none of the
proceedings have been published. The
Echo says "from the zeal manifested upon
the occasion, we believe our citizens are
going to work in good earnest, and with
a determination to have a new county."
We believe it is intended to embrace
within the limits of this new county
Richland, Conemaugh, Summerhill and
part ot Jackson townsnips. It we are
correct in this supposition, the line of the
new county will run within three miles
of the borough of Ebensburg. We can
scarcely believe that our friends in Johns
town seriously entertain the idea of ad
vancinga proposition so unreasonable or
absurd, nor do we think that a majority of
the people residing within the limits of
the proposed new county are desirous of
its erection, or willing to incur the heavy
additional tax that will be necessary to
put up the new buiiJ;r.gs. 1 ho taxes
are now heavy enough, and it is admitted
on all hands, that this plan of our Johns
town friends would only increase them.
We will notice this subject more par
ticularly when we receive the proceed
ings of the Johnstown meeting, when we
will be enabled to speak more advisedly of
het proposed new county of Conemaufrh
and of the plan that has been adopted.
New York Election-
In relation to the election in New York,
the whigs, as usual, began crowing betore
they were "out of the woods." When
the smoke of the contest has cleared away,
and a true state of the case ascertained it
is found that they have nothing to boast
of, and that they are principally indebted
to their "colored bredern" of the city ofj
iew York, twelve hundred of whom vo
ted the whig ticket in a body, for their
partial victory. There have been four
democrats and four whigs elected to State
offices. The Legislature is a tie on ioint
0 j
ballot. In the Senate, there are fifteen
democrats and seventeen whigs. In the
Assembly, there are sixty -five democrats
and sixty-three whigs. So the result is a
tie all round.
Col. Ucnry Pctrikcu.
We neglected in our last to announce
the death of Col. Henry Petrikcn, which
took place on the 8th inst. at the Mer
chant's Hotel, Philadelphia. Col. Petri-
ken was a printer by profession, and for
several years was the editor of the Belle,
fonte Patriot. During his latter years he
became well known throughout the state
as an active politician. He had been a
member of the House of Representatives,
a member of the Senate, and Deputy Sec
retary of the Commonwealth, during the
administration of Governors Porter and
Shunk. At the time of his death he was
Superintendent on the Railroad to avoid
the Inclined Plane near Philadelphia.
He was a warm hearted man and a devo
ted friend, lie was lift y-one years of ae.
ins remains were removed to Ilarrisburg
for interment as he requested.
New Banks.
Applications will be made, to the next
Legislature for the charter of no less than
seventeen new Banks; and for the renewal
of eight Bank charters. The total increase
that would be thus added to the banking
capitol of the State would be nearly four
millions and a half of dollars, as will be
seen bv the following table, which has
been made up from our exchanges. It is
well for the people and the State that it is
to a democratic Legislature that these ap
plications will have to be made, who will
doubtless place such wholesome restric
tions on whatever Banks they may create
as will effectually preserve the people
from a repetition of the numerous losses
which they have lately sustained by such
soulless corporations as the Lewistown,
Susquehanna and a number of other
Banks of like character. We believe that
the most effective means in the hands of
the people to keep these institutions true
to their trust is the individual liability prin
ciple, and th experience of tlifi past should
satisfy them that they must look to a
democratic Legislature for its adoption.
It is a democratic principle, and as such
we feel confident that our democratic Le
gislature will engraft it on every Bank
charter they may grant.
The following are the applications that
will be made to the Legislature for new
Banks:
Shrewsbury Saving Institution,
Pennsylvania Bank of Deposit,
Phiadelphia,
$50,000
200,000
Farmers &; Mechanics Bank of
Easton, 300,000
Anthracite Bank of Tamaqua, 500,000
Mechanics' Bank of Pittsburg, 200,000
Bank of Pottstown, 200,000
Central Bank of Pennsylvania,
Ilarrisburg, 500,000
Canal Bank of Erie, 300,000
Wellsboro Bank 150,000
Farmers and Mechanics Bank
Allentown, 150,000
Farmers and Mechanics saving
Bank, Uniontown 50,000
City bank, Philadelphia, 500,000
Luzerne Savings Institution 100,000
Western bank of Pennsylvania
Pittsburg 1,000,000
The bank of Fayette county,
Uniontown 200.000
Armstrong county bank, 50,000
Blair county bank, 200,000
$3,050,000
The following banks will apply for a
rcnewelof their charters with the increase
of their capital set opposite each name.
Kensington bank,
Dauphin Deposit bank,
Miner's bank of Potts vi He
South wark bank,
$250,000
100,000
200,000
150,000
$700,000
Am'nt requested by new banks 3G50.000
Total asked for 8-1,350,003
This would be an enormous amount to
add to the already large banking capital
of the State, and the amount asked for
may be larger than we have stated, as
there may be applications which we have
not noticed. We have prepared the above
table merely with a view to show our
readers what will be demanded of the
next Legislature, & the stand that should
be taken by our democratic representatives
in relation to banks. We have no idea
that more than one fourth of the amount
asked for will be granted, or that more
than that amount is required by the inter
ests of the people.
The Next Douse of Representatives,
What's to be Done?
Bennett of the New York Herald, an
original Taylor man, thus discourses
concerning the Administration and its
prospects:
The Whig part' in the late elections,
has been riddled into rags. Virginia,
Maine, North Carolina, Tenessee Kentuc
ky, Indiana, Georgia, Maryland Pennsyl
vania, and Ohio, tell the same story.
The cabinet is "stove in," and Truman
Smith is out at the elbows. What's to be
done? How shall we mend the broken
crockery?
'1 be cabinet, and the cabinet organs,
have made the next House of Represen
tatives a test question a question of life
and death. With the organs, there was
a prospect of Congress printing with the
cabinet, there was a prospect of filling the
offices of the House with their retainers,
and the more important object of a popu
lar verdict m support of the doings of the
cabinet. The results are gloomy enough.
The organs are left aground, and the cab
inet stands condemned. The election of
Colonel Polk was followed by a majority
of sixty in the House. How is it that the
more triumphant election of Gen. Taylor
carrying with it almost the entire New
lork delegation, including Master Brooks i
is succeeded by such disastrous cave in?
The reason is as clear as daylight. The
cabinet have committed nothing but blun
ders, and their paltry and selfish intrigues
have disgusted the country. They have,
not only united their enemies but have
divided their friends. Jealous of each
other, and distrustful of popular sentiment
advocates of monarchy, and agents of
abolitionism the tendency of their do
ings has been to break down the adminis
tration, and to place the Government in
the attitude of a mere subscriber to the
Holy Alliance."
Cuba -The Movement for Independence.
The X. O. Delta gives the following
extract of a letter from Cuba, under date
of Oct. 17.
"The patriots here are fast recovering
from the depression and discouragement
occasioned by the proclamation of the hero
of Buena Vista, and by the measures of
excessive rigor adopted by his cabinet to
deprive us of the assistance of our friends
on the Continent. Many, who before the
late events had not given thought to the
subject of Independence, or who doubted
its feasibility, have been brought, by the
action of the American Government and
by the alarm caused to our authorities by
the Round Islanders, to reflect seriously
upon the matter, to discuss it with their
friends, and to examine the competency of
the means proposed to achieve the ends
desired. The consequence has been a
better understanding among ourselves and
an increased confidence in our ultimate
success. So you may rely upon it, the
good spirit is abroad again through the
land the spirit of Independence and Lib
erty ! It pervedes all classess and has crept
even into the very ranks of the army.
The Havana Regiment, lately sent by
Roncali to Puerto Principe to fight the
much dreaded Round Islanders, revolted
against their officers and threatened them
with death. The revolt commenced with
shouts of "Liberty and Gen. Lopez."
The Captain General not daring in the
present critical situation of affairs, to visit
the Regiment with all the severity of mil
itary law, has divided them into four parts !
and sent them off to distant and separate
stations.
"The persecution of the Creoles suspec
ted of disaffection has commenced or rath
er resumed its accustomed course. There
are two prosecutions for conspiracy now
going on in Trinidad and in Matanzas.
The accused are numerous. Many oth
ers are now in jail for the same offence.
I will keep you advised of whatever may
turn up worthy of publication.
"A new spy was sent out from here to
New York by the steamer Ohio, and an
other is ready to be shipped to New Or
leans by the return of the same steamer.
The mission of these foul wretches is to
follow all the movements of the most prom
inent of the Cuban patriots in the United
States, and to ascertain how and with
whom chey correspond here. The Cu
bans, fortunately, have been warned in
time by their friends here. These spies
have been selected from high life, the bet
ter to lull suspicion and enable them to
penetrate into every circle."
Fearful Condition of Ireland.
The London Times thus describes the
political and social condition of the "sister
kingdom:"
The main symptom of her present state
is the utter antagonism of ranks and clas
ses. The discord which first existed be
tween Papist and Protestant, or Orange
man and Ribandman, has now become the
discord between landlord and tenant, be
tween the poor and the rich, between
those who have and those who have not.
There is now in progress a war, deter
mined, obstinate, and not unfrequently,
sanguinary, between property and want.
Rent is no longer evaded, but pillaged by
the tenant. All the securities which the
law has provided for its payment have be
come a nullity and a mockery. Armed
and multitudinous force vanquishes the law
and secret deliberations gives addititional
support to force.
Where there is not a detachment of sol
diers ready to assist in the collection of
rent, the marauding tenants triumph, and
the landlord is plundered without redress.
Already blood has been shed in a vain at
tempt to vindicate the rights of property,
and while we write most probably a fresh
outrage has been followed by fresh carn
age. A few weeks more, such as the last
six have been in some of the Irish coun
ties, and the idea of property will have
been extirpated, the ties of civil society
irreparably broken, and a pest worse than
any physical malady perpetuated therein.
This is not the worse part of the crime
or its consequences. It is not only per
petrated by the ignorant and uneducated,
but it is tolerated, encouraged and defend
ed by men of knowledge and education.
It is hailed by patriots as the retributive
war of the oppressed against the oppressor
of the injured and plundered serf against
his domineering and extortionate master.
In the remembrance of old wrongs and old
neglect are buried the suggestions of con
science and the dictates of law.
Some landlords were cruel, and others
indiffeient; therefore all landlords should
be robbed; such is the logic with which
Irish patriotism addresses the most inflam
mable minds in Europe. The lesson is
not lost. The spark falls on the gun
powder, as it was meant that it should.
While the men of learning ease write and
advise, the men of the land are beggared,
and with them all whose subsistence de
pends upon the purveyance of elegant lux
uries or necessary comforts. Trade is
hampered; commerce dulled; and the
thousand arms which put the industry
of cities in motion are paralyzed by a bru
tal violence which wants the dignity of re
venge and the courage of war.
EFDr. Seinple, president of the Cali
fornia Convention is seven feet high.
From Thursday's Union.
The Approaching Congress.
"We trust to see our friends on the ground
early. We call the attention of the dem
ocratic members of Congress to the great
importance of a prompt and early atten
dance upon the organization of the House
of Representatives.
In the present closely contested situation
of the House, the absence of a single dem
ocratic member may change the whole
aspect of affairs, and place the organiza
tion in the hands ol our opponents.
The election of Speaker and of the
different officers, the formation of the
committees, and the whole benefit of the
organization, may be lost by inattention
or neglect. At such a crisis, every man
should be at his post, and not allow the
fruits of victory to be lost by a failure to
be present at the opening of the session.
At the commencement of the last Con
gress, if our friends had been present in
full force, a far different result would have
been produced, decisive as was the whig
mainritv. When it is remembered that
the present Clerk of the House was elect
ed bv a single vote over his domocratic
competitor, and that the sweeping pros
cription of democrats that followed, was
caused by the delay of democratic mem
bers to be present, our friends will seethe
importance of their attention to this sub
ject.
Maddened by continual ueleat, and ren
dered desperate by the triumphant success
of the democratic party, the whigs will
doubtless attempt every scheme of coali
tion, bargain, and intrigue, to defeat a
democratic organization of the House.
Forewarned, let us be forearmed; and by
a full attendance and united front, secure
the House against an administration which
was elected by accident, and is now being
defeated by design.
From the PottstiUe Emporium, iVac. 15.
Singular Freak of Electric Fluid.
During the thunder storm on Thurs
day last, a bolt struck the building occu
pied as a Feed Store, by Messrs. Snyder
& Co., near Lock No. 12, at East Schuyl
kill Haven. The fluid struck the roof,
passed down the front of the building, and
separating, descended on either side of the
front hoor, through which it entered into
the store, where Mr. Francis Benseman
and Mr. Snvder were standing. It struck
Mr. Snyder on the shoulder, completely
stripping the clothes from that portion of
his person, passed down his side, across
his abdomen, through his pantaloon pock
et where was some silver change, thence
down his leg and out through a very con
siderable hole which it burned in the bot
torn of his boot, and disappeared through
the floor. Mr. Snyder was stricken down
senseless and apparently dead, in which
condition he remained until some of the
neighbors carried him out into the rain,
which in a few minutes caused him to re
vive; he cotinues however in a very weak
and precarious condition.
Mr. Benseman was also stricken down
senseless, but revived very soon.
The building was shattered from the
roof to its foundation, and it seems really
miraculous that the inmates were not in
stantly killed. They represent that at the
instant of the shock they felt as if thrown
into a heated furnace, and the smell of
sulphur was utterly overpowering.
Indian Troubles.
Detroit, Nov. 17.
We learn by the Franklin steamboat
which has just arrived from the Sault, that
great excitement prevailed there in conse
quence of the apprehended difficulties be
tween the Quebec Mining Company, and
the Indians. The difficulty has arisen
from the neglect of the Canadian authori
ties to make the payment for their lands,
which had been promised to the Indians.
They had stolen three cannons and had
been joined by thirty whites, and to the
number of about 200 had commenced
their march on the operators of the com
pany. The most serious consequences
are apprehended, as the Indians are well
armed.
All Sorts ol" Paragraphs.
CPBears have been more numerous in
Maine this season than many years pre
vious. EFA.nother exit of 93 Californians was
made from Boston on Wednesday in the
Orion.
07"Prince Metternich has purchased a
residence at Brussels, and means to reside
there.
OEvery foreign female who marries
a natural born English subject is deemed
to be naturalized.
CFM. Arago, brotherof the celebrated
astronomer, was lately at Valparaiso, on.
his way to California, with a company of
young Frenchmen.
EF"The Augusta Banner says a farmer
ploughing in his field in Lubec, Me.,
struck a leaden box or chest, which was
found to contain ninety-six thousand dol
lars in doubloons. It is not known how
the treasure came there.
j?A man is engaged in the business of
peddling to.tibstones in Northampton co.,
Pa. He has a wagon load of ready-made
articles with him, only wanting the names
and stops at the houses by the wayside
o inquire for customers.
C"A Delegation of Kansas Indians,
consisting of a chief, five braves and two
squaws, arrived at Louisville, Ky., on
Saturday, en route for Washington city,
to sec their Great Father. They are en.
tirely deslitue of means, and consequently
give exhibitions.
FOREIGX NEWS.
ARRIVAL OP THE
AM E RICA!
SEVEN DAYS LATER!
Halifax, Nov. 15 8"P. M.
The America arrived lirro'tK;a
at 61 o'clock, but in consequence -of the
lines being down between St." Johns and
,t A. t
vaiais, me transmission Ol ine news has
been delayed duiing the entire day.
France.
The French Ministry has resigned or
been dismissed, on account of its disincli
nation to sustain the views embodied in
the President's letter in relation to Rome.
Great excitement existed in Paris but
the President is firm, and has written a
letter to the Assembly, which the London
Times characterises as impudent.
A new Cabinet has been formed, which
wholly represents the views of the Presi
dent and the majority of the Assembly.
The Ministry resigned in a body on the
30th ult. It seems that the whole of the
Ministry, with the exc eption cf Odillon
Barrot, assembled on the morning of the
30th, to advise the . President respecting
the appointment of a successor to Falloux,
the retiring minister.
Louis Napoleon emphatically declared
that the Cabinet wanted dignity an im
putation sufficiently annoying to raise the
choler of less sensitive personages than
those who formed the executive of Repub
lican France. The result was, that the
insult was too deep to be forgiven. The
President added that the Cabinet had been
too subservient to the majority of the As
sembly that the Club of the Council
State did what himself could not do viz:
settled the policy of the government, and
actually nominated the Ministry. This
was enough, and an explosion instantly
followed.
In the evening, Dupin read in the As
sembly, a message from the President,
whi ch is very spirited and interesting,
for it can hardly fail to provoke angry
passions, and may 'probably precipitate
the coup de main so long foreshadowed.
The London Times says "If this be a
clear, definite signification to the sweep
ing measures by which the President of
the French Republic has changed his
whole administration, we must suppose
that Louis Napoleon intended to convey to
France and the world, his intention to
assume, in his own person the supreme
dictation of the affairs of the Republic."
"Men are needed," says the President,
'who are as much filled with the convic
tion of my peculiar responsibility, as their
own, and of the necessity of action as well
as of words."
The Moniteur, of Thursday, contains a
list of the new Ministry. Mole, Thiers
and Changarnier, will support the ministry
but have too much prudence tojoiuit.
The Parisian journals publish the fol
lowing telegraphic despatch from Gen.
Lamorcier to the Minister of Foreign Af
fairs. St. Petersburg, Oct. 8.
Count Nesselrode notified yesterday to
the Ottoman Envoy, that the Emperor,
taking into consideration the letter of the
Sultan, confined himself to the demand,
that the refugees should be expelled from
Turkey.
Austria and Hungary.
The fiends who were nicknamed rulers
in Austria, not being satisfied with the
human gore which they have already shed,
still continue their sanguinary career.
Haynau has been appointed "Civil and
Military Governor of Hungary." Anoth
er crisis in that country is considered to
beinevitable.
A circular from Kossuth is circulated in
Pesth, in which that patriot assures his
countrymen that he has remored the
crown of St. Stephen solely for the pur
pose of rendering the coronation ot a
Hapsburger impossible.
Turkey.
Measures have been take n by the Porte
for the location of the Polish and Hunga
rian refugees. Kossuth and other laeders
were to remain at Widden until their re
moval or ultimate liberation.
Three hundred Hungarians hare been
converted to the faith of Islamism, and
many are following their example.
Sir Stadford Canninsr had sent pass-
1
ports to Guyon the Irish General, and
other British subjects, who had served
the cause Hungary.
e Rome.
The Pope's return is not expected to
take place for some time. Assassina
tions of the French troops are of daily oc
currence. Spain.
Narvarez has avenged himself by dis
missing the King from the post of keeper
of the palace, and has imprisoned a priest
and a monk, as having been the instrn-
ment of the king s policy. .
The new American minister formally
presented himself at Court. He disclaim
ed in the name of the President of the lT.
States, the doings of the parties who pro
posed seizing upon Cuba.
England.
There is no news of interest. The
press devote much space to the considera
tion of the Canadian Annexation Address.
Its tone and temper is generally co nmen
ded. The Times says, uhat by whomso
ever the document was concocted, it re
flects great credit on the tact, skill and
adroitness of its authors.
CFLouis Napoleon rides about PrlS
escorted by a squadron of Cuirassiers.--
The republicans are naturally enough
displeased at this disploy of Regal s'.atS'