MMmiNSENTIlL
EBENSBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1850.
' FOR CONGRESS,
GEN: JOSEPH M'DONALD,
OF CAMBRIA COUNTY,
Subject to the' Jeeieion of the Democratic Con.
- - grettional Conference. (
tZTTnz Schti.nkl, hat much the largett civ
-miaiion oi anv vaDcr ouoiitiea in tnit county
a m - - t a
-md at n adzertittwg sheet off-rt superior
indmeementt to merchants and butinttt' men
.generally. Those desirous of making ttee of
tuts medium Jor extending tnexr buttnett can
do to by either tending their notieet direct, or
through the fulloxcinr agents:
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DEMOCRATIC '
COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Democratic citizens of Cambria, county
will meet at the election houea in their sever,
aj townanipa on Saturday the 27th intt., for
.the parpoee of electing .delegates from each
taction district to meet in Convention at the
Court Home in the Borough of Ebensburg on
the following Monday, whoae duty il shall be
to elect a Representative and recommend a
Senatorial Delegate to the Democratic State
Convention which ieto assemble at W'ilUaoia
port on the 29th of May next.'
The pol'i in each district will be kept opon
from two to ix o'clock, P. M , in order thai
vary man may have an opportunity of voting.
By the Democratic County Committee.
S. J. REN SHAW, Chairman
April 0th, 1850.
tFWe learn this morning that Gov.
Johnston has vetoed the Apportionment
urn.
nFor Legislative news see the letter
of our Harrisburg correspondent.
GTThe cholera has again made its ap
pearance in New Orleans with renewed
violence, and created considerable excite
mcntamong the people. It is feared that
its re-appearance at New Orleans so early
in the season is indicative that our country
will be again subjected to this horrible ep
'demic. GThe editor of the Johnstown Echo
endeavors to creep out the charge of hav
ing given publicity to a statement which
he knew to be false and malicious, by re
ferring his readers to the meeting held in
this place last week. This is about equiv
olentto acknowledging "the corn," and is
sufficient satisfiy any one that his as
sertion of Wm. S. Campbell having offer
ed to act as a substitute for any man was
purely gratuitous, and made with the
double view of creating an ill feeling to
wards the Superintendent and of convert
ing the democratic meeting into a personal
quarrel. v e know that anv fcelinir ofi
friendship that the editor of the Echo en
tertains towards Wm. S. Campbell would
not prevent him from giving the public the
proof were it in his power, and this fact
itself is sufficient to stamp the charges as
f.lsc.
But we care nothing about the matter
were it not for the evil consquenccs that
were intended to follow, subversive of
that harmony in the party which is so ne
cessary to success; and Mr. Smith could
find no moreefrec4ivG plan of playing into
the hands of the whins than the one he
appears to have adopted.
Hon. Job Mann.
The following letter from the Hon. Job
Mann, the efficient and worthy Represen
tative in Congress from this district, ex
plains itself. Mr. Mann in retiring to pri
vate life, carries with him the respect and
esteem of those ho has so long and so
faithfully served, and the knowledge of
having performed his duty to the entire
satisfaction of his constituency. The peo
ple of this District have never been more
efficiently represented, or their interests
more carefully guarded thnn they have
been by Mr. Mann, and his untiring exer
Hons m behalf ol the soldiers will ever be
hfld in grateful remembrance:
Washington City 7
March 25, 1850.
Lieut. John G. Given,
Dear Sir:
19th Congressional District of Pcnn3ylva
ma. which I have the honor to represent
at this time, the usual period for selecting
candidates is near at hand, I have there
fore considered it proper on my part, to
.u.w.... vuiijumciiu mat it is not mv
J '. i 1 , 1 . y . J
u3iro wuca candidate tor U
Congress, in order that some
the next (3d)
e other person
may do seiecicu as the candidate of the
JJcmoratic party of said district. This J
have heretofore communicated to some of
my friends in Bedford county.
The generous support I have received
from the people of Wm diatrict, will be ever
held in vrsatful remembrance bv me, and
particularly the. feind, and generous mea
ner ray Democratic friends have sustained
me on all occasions. ' -
I cm verv respectfully yours fcc.
. " - JOB MANN.
; Vrrr Scan. . j ;
A more mea: and -contemptible effort
to create ilLfeeling against those employed
oa the Railroad, than the one which sip
pears in the last Echo, we have never
witnessed. Vc -want no belter evidence
of the fact, that those who control that
sheet are now determined to wage violent
and vindictive personal warfare against
the Superintendent on the Portage Road
that they are now ready to sacrifice
whatever principles of political honor they
may have ever .possessed, on. the shrine
of party spleen, and vindictive animosity
against a single individual that they are
willing to jeopardize the success of-the
party to which they profess to belong, in
order that they may. wreak their vengeance
on one who has been so unfortunate as to
be. placed in a.' position sufficiently eleva
ted to render hiuva fit subject for such
curs to bark at. ' We had reason to ex
pect this. We have learned by past ex
perience that we have a few active men
within our ranks who are ready and wil
ling to support the party so long as they
are fed at the public crib, and no longer;
but we did hope that their warfare against
the harmony of the party, would have
been conducted on more honorable prin
ciples than we are led to believe from the
manner in which they have commenced
it. "Rule or ruin," has ever been their
motto, and to the conduct of such men
to be attributed the numerous disasters
which our party has sustained in this
county.
But we commenced this article for the
purpose of alluding to an accident which
occurred on the Railroad at Plane No. 3
on last Tuesday evening, and to the ac
count given of it by the Johnstown Echo.
It seems lhat whilst endeavoring to bring
up the passenger car on this Plane the
rope broke, and the car3 were precipitated
to the bottom of the plane, which materi
ally injured the passenger car, (which
was destitute of passengers at the time,)
and wrecked completely the baggage car
and one belonging to D. Leech fc Co.
Now, because the Engineer at this Plane
procured a substitute in order that he
might attend the meeting in Ebensburg,
and exercise one of the rights of citizen
ship, and because the rope broke while
the engineer was" absent, the Echo endea
vors to excite the iadignation of the pub
lic against him, by giving a false state
ment of the facts. Such accidents have
occurred frequently on the Road, and un
der the management of the most efficient
workmen, and this attack on the part of
those who control the Echo is merely an
evidence of the mendacity and reckless
ness with which they are determined to
wage a warfare against the Superintend
ent. Such an accident as the one com
plained of would in all probability have
occurred had the principal engineer been
present, and we have reason to believe
that the person employed as a substitute
is fully competent to perform the duty du
ring his absence.
If the Echo wishes to exclude the poor
men who are employed on the Road from
exeicising the rights of citizenship, we
should like to know it. It is not our in
tention, however, to become the eulogist
of Wm. S. Campbell or those employed
on the Road our only object is to see
justice meted out fairly. This duty we
consider incumbent on us as conductor of
a "public journal, and it is one. which we
will endeavor to discharge to the best of
our ability. But we have neither time
nor space for further remarks on this sub
ject at present. We will conclude by
merely saying that if those who control
the Echo wish to effect a defeat of the
democratic party at the next election, we
would advise them to pursue the course
they appear to have adopted.
The Probability of a Pardon for
Jfebster. The Boston correspondent of
of the New York Mirror, says, in refer
ence to Professors Webster's sentence:
There is not the slightest probability, I
am given to understand by those who
ought to know best, that the penalty of
death will be commuted to any less de
gree of punishment. On this point, a very
strong feeling of jealousy exists here just
now. The efforts made so zealously and
an so mcncctua-" fr tne procurement
tne Parn of Washington Goode, or a
commutation ot his sentence, are as yet
it " : 1 1 1 tt
wuu remnnocTO oy an, and the success
of similar ones in favor of a professor
would produce a sensation scarcely, if
any, short of tumultuous in this commu
ning ..
ETFrom the rli cf the Charrnian 6f
the Democratic County Committee which
appears in to-day's" paper, it will be seen
that" the election of Delegates to the Dem
ocratic State "Convention which is to as
semble at ! Williamsport oh the 29th of
May riexti has been referred back to tile
people, for 4heir decision." Each township
will now send two "dele gates to a Cotrifrty
Convention, for the purpose of set! ling
the matter in a satisfactory manner. "' We
trust the people themselves will take it in
hand, attend the meetings, and act in, it as
becomes men who have the welfare of
the party at heart, discarding all questions
of a foreign nature?' We are glad toat
this plan has been adopted. It is the
proper one, and so far as our influijjce
extends it will hereafter be exerted against
calling another such a meeting for such a
purpose, as the one wiiwb met hejetast
Court Week. Such meeting can be of
no service - to tnc party, and- -especially
when,' by the action of. a few petty defba-
gogues, they are made to turn upon the
merits; or demerits of a single irniiyraoxrl,
whose name there is no more right in
bringing into a meeting of that kind than
that of any other person. . , , '
. As we stated in our last, the meeting
which assembled here on Courl Week
was by far the largest that ever convened
in Ebensburg. Tremendous efforts had
been made for a considerable time previ
ous, by the personal enemies of the Su
perintendent of the Portage Railroad, to
bring up a question totally foreign to the
legitimate purposes for which it was call
ed, and which had no olher object than
that of gratifying personal spleen at the
expense of the part)-. It had been deter
mined to raise an issue relative to the
merits or demerits of Wm. S. Campbell
It is needless for us to say that the effort
failed. Any candid man, who was pres
ent at that meeting, must have felt satis
fied that had such an issue been raised,
Wm. S. Campbell would have been sus
tained, without the assistance of a single
man employed on the Road. He would
have been sustained by men totally dis
connected with the Road, and who have
ho personal interest in the matter; but
they would have supported him, because
they regarded the course pursued by his
enemies in raising such a question at such
a time, as being wrong in the extreme.
- The great numbers that were present at
that meeting, render minute description un
necessary at our hands. Suffice it to say
that we hope we may never witness such
another.
Let the people turn out to the Delegate
meetings now called, and send men to the
Convention in whom they have implicit
i confidence. Let them act for the good of
great Democratic party, without permitting
ioi n.f;n,f or nersonal animosities for
luvai uvJvu - j
a moment to influence their conduct.
apportionment Bill
The following is the Apportionment
Bill as it finally passed both houses- Itj
will be seen that Bedford and Cambria are
united, aad send two members:
Senate.
1. Philadelphia city, 2
2. " county, . 3
3. Montgomery, 1
4. Chester and Delaware, 1
5. Berks and Schuylkill, 2
C. Bucks, 1
7. Lancaster, 1
8. Lebanon and Dauphiiit 1
9. NoOampton and Lehigh, 1
10. Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne, 1
11. Adams and Franklin,
12. York,
13. Cumberland, Perry and Juniata,
14. Huntingdon, Union and Mifilin,
15. Lycoming, Clinton, Northumber
land and Sullivan,
1G. Luzerne and Columbia,
17. Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyo
ming,
18. Tioga, Poller, McKean and Elk,
19. Venango, Mercer, Crawford, War
ren and Jefferson,
20. Erie,
21. Butler, Beaver and Lawrence,
22. Allegheny,
23. Washington and Greene,
24. Westmoreland, Somerset, Bedford
and Fayette,
25. Armstrong, Indiana and Clarion,
20. Centre, Clearfield, Cambria and
Blair,
33
HoitE or Representatives.
Adams,
Allegheny,
Bedford and Cambria,
Berks,
Bucks,
Butler and Iawrence,
Blair and Huntingdon, .
Bradford,
Beaver,
Chester,
Cumberland, Perry and Juniata,
Centre,
Clearfield, Elk and McKean,
Clarion, Armstrong and Jefferson,
Columbia and Sullivan, . .
Crawford.
1
5
4
3
2
o
2
1
3
3
1
1
2
D&uphia, 1
Delaware, 1
Erie, 1
Fayette, - , 2
Franklin, 2
Indiana, 1
Lycoming, Clinton and Potter, 2
Lancaster, 5
Lebanon, 1
Luzerne, , 2
Lehigh and Carbon, 2
Monroe, Pike and Wayne, 2
Mercci, Venango and Warren, 3
Mifflin, 1
Montgomery, 3
Northampton, 2
Northumberland, 1
Philadelphia City, 4
Philadelphia county, 11
Somerset. 1
Schuylkill, 2
Susquehanna and "Wyoming, 2
Tioga, 1
Washington and Greene, 3
Westmoreland, 3
Union, l
York, 3
100
Correapondence of the Mountain Sentinel.
. STATE CAPITOL.
Harrisbvro, April 1, 1850. "
Dear Given:
. April has made its bow
tlits morning in a most elegant manner.
The ' weather is delightfully balmy and
pleasant. The earth is assuming the
heavenly green so g rateful to the eye,
whilst all nature is redolent of smiles.
We have had a fitful winter out this
morning bids fair to usher in a delightful
spring to be followed, I hope, with a
healthy summer, and a plentiful harvest.
But let us pass from mute to anima
ted nature, an4 take a peep at the scenes
of busy life among the haunts of men, as
exhibited in our halls of Legislature.
The bills of a public nature which have
passed since my last, are first, the bill to
elect the Auditor General, and Surveyor
General. 2d, The bill to authorize the
State to carry the passengers on the Co
lumbia Rail Road, (this bill lias passed the
II. R. but not the Senate.) 3d, A bill to
regulate the. mode in which the amend
ment to the Constitution shall be submit
ted to the people, at the coming October
election. By the bye, the nex; election
will be one of more importance than
merely to elect a Canal Commissioner.
Two other officers will have to be elected,
namely. Auditor General and Surveyor
General. These are important officers to
the Commonwealth, and should be select
ed with a view to competency and quali
fications for the discharge of the import
ant duties devolving upon them. In ac.
cordance with the spirit of the age, or
rather the furor of the days in which we
live, new men will Deselected to nit tnose
important offices; and so far as those offi-
ces are concernea 1 mint a cnange wouia
be all right. 1 do not know what course
the Convention may pursue in reference
to these offices, but I would ta"ke the lib
erty ot suggesting the nameot agentie-
matt in connexion with the office of Audi
tor General, who is both by nature and
education peculiarly fitted for the dis
charge of the duties of that important
office.
John Walker, Esq., of Blair county, is
a gentleman of whom every body speaks
well. He is a sound intelligent Democrat
of the Old School, a man of superior abil
ities as an accountant, and would make a
most excellent officer. Mr. Walker's
qualifications are well known to many cit
izens in the State, having acted in the ca
pacity of President of the Branch Bank at
Hollidaysburg, during the greater portion
of the time the old Pittsburg Bank had a
branch at that place. .
He was the democratic nominee for the
office of State Senator in the District com
posed of the counties of Bedford and
Blair, when Mr. King was elected, on
which occasion, although in a hopeless
whig district, and without any exertion
on his part, he ran far ahead of the party
ticket. I make this suggestion at my
own risque, and of my own accord, in
the hope that it may meet the eye of some
of the delejrates to the Convention who
will urge the nomination of so competent
and deserving a man as Mr. Walker.
We, are yet in doubt as to when the
Legislature will adjourn, no day having
been fixed for that event, and so much
important public business on hand. In
Senate, the apportionment bill remains
untouched by that body. The democrats
urging action, and the whigs holding back
or rather opposing any action on that bill
in the Senate. The appropriation bill is
on file in the H. R. but as yet it too lies
dormant. This week, however, will
awake to life some of those sleeping meas
ures, and in all probability I will be able
to announce in my next, the passage of
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all the public bills now on the files of both
branchc".' I hope this may be so.
Both the Middleton and the Forrest di
vorce cases have received their quieius in
the Senate last week, which reflects credit
upon that body, or at least on those who
voted against those bills. Messrs. Walk
er of Erie county, and Mr. Brooks of
of Chester county, deserve the thanks and
gratitude ot every lover of good order,
and the well-being of society, for the man
ly course they pursued in reference to
those bills. The amiable and talented
Dr. J. Y. Jones of Montgomery count',
has also stood manfully out against those
divorce cases, who is entitled to a large
share of the credit of their defeat. Dr.
Jones is perhaps the most industrious
member of the Senate. Always at his
post, and always ready to vote when a
question has to be decided. He does not
waste the time of the Senate in making
long winded speeches for "Bunkum," but
attends to the discharge of his duties as a
Senator, with scrupulous fidelity and unti-
ring perseverence. liis mnuence in ine
Senate is equal to any other man's in that
body, although this is his first winter in
the Senate, and if I am correctly informed,
his first session in a deliberative assembly.
Montgomery county may well be proud
of Dr. Jones, as she truly is.
I have been in the habit of noticing
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persons in my letters, who are memoers
of the Legislature; and although I do not
wish to be invidious in any remarks I
may make on the persons or conduct of
particular members whose names I may
introduce into my letters: it is impossible
for me to notice all who deserve notice at
my hands, I am therefore necessitated to
select a few for special notice; but in do
ing so, I do not wish to be understood as
disparaging others.
I do assure you, that if I were to in
dulge in a natural propensity, which I
confess I have for personal description, I
could furnish you matter enough for your
paper for months, from the rich material
which I find congregated at Harrisburg
this winter. But this I will not do. I
must be permitted to select one other man
for special notice, however, for two rea
sons. First, because he is a Cambrian by
birth, and secondly, because he deserves
it.
John S. Rhey, Esq., the talented
young member from Armstrong county, is
a man who has attracted much more no
tice at Harrisburg this winter, than those
who reside at a distance could possibly
believe. I have been every where, at all
seasons.and in all companies, as a kind
of "Paul Pry," who hears all that is said
but says nothing.
Mr. Rhey has not attempted any display
of ability which is too common a fault of
young men when they come to the Legis
lature; but like a man of good sense, sound
judgment and intelligence, he has pursued
the 4even tenor of his way," whith anun
obtrusiveness which has called forth the
admiration of all his fellow members.
John S. Rhey is a young man of rare
abilities, and exhibits as much if not more
real promise to his country, than any man
of his age and experience I know in the
State. I know him well! and knowing
him, as I do, together with the fact, of the
universal commendation which he receives
for the qualifications necessary to consti
tute a good and efficient Legislator, by
those who have been in daily intercourse
with him this winter, I leel warranted in
finoi-;nir of him a.t I do. He is one of
those queer kind of men, who. under an
apparent austere, or blunt manner, con
ceals an excellent heart, and kind disposi
tion. v hp will onlv exhibit themselves
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in all their native goodness, on a protrac
ted acquaintance. In a word, he must be m-
timatelyKnown, to be appreciated. Mr. R's
efforts in debate this winter have been
but few, but alwfvs with the effect which
marks the man of ability. He never speaKs,
unless it is absolutely necessary, and when
he does rise, he commands that degree of
attention from his fellow members, that in
dicates- Hio'h his worth and his ability.
Armstrong county has done herself honor
in the selection of her young and talented
member; whilst Mr. Rhey has reflected
credit upon his County by his course and
his conduct, both as a gentleman and a
member of the Legislature.
On Saturday last, the agent of the
Pennsylvania Rail Road Company, gave
the members of the Legislature the benefit
of an excursion on the new Rail Road as
far as Lewistown; on which occasion, I
am informed, (for I did not make one of
the number) the generous and disinteres
ted corporation found them MEAT
DRINK AND LODGING, excellent, all
of which were necessary to the accommo
dation of the honorable M. Is vho
availed themselves of the opportunity to
take a little recreation for the good of their
health. As 1 was not one of them, I shall
not attempt to detail anything I have
heard about the excurtion; because it
would be hcresay evidence, which they
say is not good evidence; that is the law
yers, tho confounded scamps say so, juit
to suit themselves. But probably ther
is a moral in it, if I only waa a iiwyer to
find it out. '
The melancholy news reached this
place, this, day, of the death of the Hon.
John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, the
champion for so many years of the south,
and her peculiar institutions. - WrCal-.
houn was a great man in the truest sense
of the terra and history will do him jus
tice. He told your humble servant about
three years ago, that he was born in Penn
sylvania; and if I recollect right, in Lan
caster county. His father was an Irish
emigrant, and a farmer in Pennsylvania
previously and subsequently to the birth
of his son John, who was destined 19 fill
such a space in the public eye as he has
done so many years. ,1 will do him th
justice to say, that although I do not apr
prove of his doctrines on the question of
slavery in his liferime, Ibeliere most sin
cerely that he was honest. ". All I hope xV
that so far as his advocacy of jhe institu
tion of slavery is concerned, that Shakes-
pere, may have been mistaken when he
said, that "the evil men do live after them
but the fgood is oft interred with thtir
bones.'
We have news also, that Dr. J. W. Web
ster, has been convicted of the murder of
Dr. Dr. George W. Parkman. Oh, what
a warning is this case to evil doers! From
the inmost recess of my heart, I pity his
poor innocent wife and children, but for
the' wretch who could commit such a
bloody act as that for which he is convic
ted I have but litttle 'sympathy. Truly
the way of "the transgressor is hard."
There is not anything of importance up
to-day. Some of the playful ones in ths
Legislature, are amusing themselves at
the expense of their credulous neighbors,
by sending them on fool's errands. -"Nous
Verons."
Yours in the faith,
CONEMAUGII.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMSHIP EUR0PA.
Halifax, N. S., April 33 P. -M.
The steamship Europa, with two weeks
later intelligence from Liverpool, arrived
here at half past two o'clock this afternoon
having sailed on the 23d of March; She
has thus made the passage in 1 1 days, the
first quick trip this season.
The political news is of no interest what
ever.
The latest advices from India are less
encouraging than was expected.
From the Continent there is htue of mo.
ment.
The Elections in France have passed
over quietly, and the Republic was fre
from excitement at the latest dates.
The latest accounts from Havre girs
remarkably favorable reports of the Cot
ton market, with much steadiness in pri
ces. ENGLAND,
financial JJffairs.
The Chancellor "of the Exchequer ha
presented his budget for the ensuing year
and although he had the pleasure of an
nouncing a surplus of nearly two and a
half millions, still the manner tn which
that surplus had been disposed of was
anything but satisfactory to the country.
Ministers are said to hold offices by a very
precarious tenure.
In developing the view'svof Govern
ment on Financial matters, the Chancel
lor was obliged to proceed on two kinds
of estimates, viz: The income and ex
penditure to the 5th of April, 1S50. He
intimated then that the public income of
the financial year ending on the 5ta
proximo would amount to 52,755,500
and the expenditure to $50,533,651. -H
estimated the probable surplus on the 5th
of April at 2,250,000. As for the esti
mate for the year ending 5h of A?nJ,
1S51, he feared he could not hold out ths
hope of such a favorable state of the Cus
toms, chiefly owing to the reduction upoa
Sugar, and partly from a reduced impor
tation of other articles, such as Corn,
Brandy, &c. He estimated the receipts
from Customs, including Corn, at i?20,
000,000, making a total probable income
of 52,285,000, for the financial, yttt
ending 5th April, 1851. He estimated
the expenditure at-e50,61392, but that
amount was contingent tupon .,cerw
things named. He proposed to takefr
a total, margin one hundred and fiftf
thousand pounds, consequently the prob
able expenditure would be about 50,-
762,582. Under these circumstances
there would be a surplus income beyond
the expenditure in . the year in, round
numbers of 1,500,000. His own pro
posals for disposing of this surplus are
various, among which he proposes to ap
ply one half the surplus to a reduction
of the National Debt. He pressed upon
the House the necessity of maintaining
considerable surplus in the Exchequer, as
it would enable its Chancellor to m&k
those advances wiihout adding to the pub
lic debt.
London, March 22 the Money Mar
ket is firmer, and bullion in the banu.
increasing. : Consola loed at 95i
money and account. '"
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