MOUNTAIN SENTINEL,
EBENSBURG, PA.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1850
S3Tne Sr.NTi.vsL, has much the largest cir
ulation of any paper published in this county
and as an advertising sheet offers superior
inducements to merchants and business m.en
generally. 1 nose aesirous oj maktriic vt of
IMS mru turn jut cxienuing inetr oustn'ss can
do so by either tending their notice. direct, or
tArougi tne juiioiav.g agents;
John Crouse, Esq., Jofi-itoirn.
E. W. Carr, Evans' Buildings, Third
Philadrlphia.
V. B. Palmer, Esq., New York Philadelphia
and Baltimore.
CSTThis, Thursday has been set apart
by the Governor, as a day of Thanksgiv
ing. We presume it will be properly ob
served by our citizens.
SWe are untier renewed obligations to
our old friend, Col. John W. Geary, for
late California papers.
Hon. Job .Mann, also, has our thanks
for favors from Washington.
PPlainfield, N. J., with a popuiatior.
of 3000, boasts of having eight churches
viz: two Presbyterian, two Baptists, two
Friends, one Methodist, and one seventh
day Baptist.
Our little Borough, on the top of the
Allegheny mountain, with a population of
not quite seven hundred, can also boast of
eight churches viz: one Congregation
alism one Catholic, one Disciples,
one Presbyterian, two Baptist, one Cal
vanistic Methodist, and one Methodist
Episcopal. In addition to this, we have
three public Schools, one Academy, a
Court House and Jail, together with our
Printing Office, four Hotels, three Physi
cians, eight Lawyers, two Mexicans and
three Niggers.
Godey's Lady's Book, for January,
1S51, is a brilliant number. It contains
72 pages. 22 engravings, and thirry
-nine
contnoutors! Several of the
engravings
are very beautiful, and are alone worth the
subscription to the Book for a year. The
number before us exceeds any one that
has yet been issued. Godey has never
yet been equalled, and it seems from this
number that he is determined not to be
1 his being the proper time to subscribe
for periodicals, we take pleasure in recom
mending the Lady's Book to our Iriends
as being decidedly the best magazine now-
published.
Censes of Cambria County .
Henry Cook, Esq., the Assistant Mar
hall of this County has kindly furnished
th following returns of the several
tlection districts. The whole population
of the county amounts to over 18,000
which shows an increase in the last ten
years of near 7000. In 1840 our popula
tion was 11258. We do not think that
the re is more than half a dozen counties
in the State that can show a larger increase
in population m the same ratfo.
Allegheny,
Cambria.
Cairoll,
Conneraaughr
Connemaugh B.
Ebensburg B.
Jackson,
1GS8
1378
1550
3079
831
650 estimated.
832
1732
1293
1526
643
2125
676
Johnstown B.
Richland,
Sumnierhill.
Susquehanna,
Washington,
White.
18,003
Fire in HoUiilaTsbar
On Mondav evening: last, we learn bv
the Staidrd, a fire broke out in the old
building formerly occupied by S. P. Jenks,
which was extinguished. On that night,
between 6 and 9 o'clock, an attempt was
made to set fire to the Stable of R. Lytle,
which was also discovered and extinguish
ed without doing much damage. By some
strange fatuity no watch was set upon the
stable, tins marked by the incendiary, and
at about half past e'ev en o'clock lhe4peo
pie were aroused from their slumber by
the cry of fire this tune accompanied by
the lightand the same stable which had
been attempied in the evening was now in
flames, which soon communicated to the
stable of Henry Learner.
"The fire at this time threatened to
weep the alley and to reach the buildings
en Montgomery street, and the supply of
water being limited to pumps, little could
be done save in the way of prevention by
wetting the adjoining buildings and throw
ing down those on fire, which was prompt
ly done, and the Allegheny engine having
been brought to a pump in the rear of the
fire, which held out admirably, the fire
was extinguished without farther damage."
Another number of the Johnstown
Echo has made itsjappearance, brimful ofj
wrath at Wo. S. Campbell, the Superin
tendent of the Portage Road, hud sdvoca
ting his removal from office because he
did not see proper to give any of the per-
sons who control that scurilous sheet situ
ations on the Road. The Echo annears
o;uy semi-occasionally, or when a quanti
ty of matter abusive ot Mr. Crmpbell has
been written as will be sufficient to fill its
columns. This seems to be the only ob
ject for which it is kept up. But it may
as well save itself as its exertions will
prove to be entirely futile. Its slander
and abuse can accomplish nothing. Its
object is too well understood, and its char
acter for veracity too far below par to
have any weight with either the Canal
Board or the people. Mr. Campbell's
conduct as an officer has been commended
in the highest quarters, and the business
men along the lines, the best judges in
such matters, are pleased with his man
agement of the Portage Railroad.
Admitted.
James P. Barr, Esq., of Philadelphia,
T. L. II eyer, and C. L. Pershing, Esqs.
of Johnstown, were last week admitted to
practice Law in the several Courts of
Cambria county.
These gentlemen are all worthy the
confidence of the people, and give promise
of being ornaments to the profession.
E3f The Fulioti Democrat seem3 to be
offended at the idea of our supporting
John S. Rhey for the Speakership of the
next House. If it i3 so, we can't help it;
but we think a man who refuses to sup
port nominations when regularly made1
and who has been for the last six months
attempting to disorganize the party should
have but little to say in regard to the con
duct of others. We will nerhaos attend
4
to him at another time.
Hon. 11. D. Foster.
We are glad to perceive that the feel
ings of the democracy cf the West and of
the btate generally, with but few excep
tions, are in favor of the selection of this
gentleman as our next United States Sen
ator. We say we are glad of this, be"
cause we regard him as being the verv
best man that could be chosen to fill that
high and responsible station. Possessing
talents and qualifications of a high charac
ter, and having been through life a warm
and enthusiastic advocate of the principles
of the democratic party, he has been long
regarded as occupying a station in the
foremost rnnk among the great mn of the
State. And the difficulties which now
surround and threaten the Union require
. I - r
uiai men oi sounu principles, correct
judgment, & tried fidelity should be selected
I .1 I . . r i
uy uie peopie 10 aci ior and watcn over
her interests. The demoeracv of the
State want no "milk and water demo
crat no man whose abilities are scarcely
above those of mediocrity to represent
them in the Senate of the United States.
We want a man of acknowledged supe
rior mental powers one wnose character,
public and private, is above reproach
whose conduct, as a Senator, would be
creditable to himself and an honor to those
he represents and such a man is HEN 11 Y
D. FOSTER.
Other gentlemen have been brought for
ward by their friends as candidates for this
office, who stand high in the rank of the
party. Among these is Jeiumiah S.
Black. We admire his genius, and re
spect his personal worth. We were
friendly to his nomination for Governor,
and w know of no man in the State who
is better nUeu for the station. Three
years ago, we vPteJ.' for him we think
twenty-five times in Sta?e Convention,
but our preferences for a UnJ.'cd States
Senator lie in another quarter. Tbere
are various rumors afloat of "bargain anJ
sale" anion;: the different candidates for
the high offices in the gift of the people,
but whether Judge Black is a party to the
contract we know not. He may have
changed his views for reasons with which
we have not been made acquainted, and
he would be the last man we would ac
cuse of being guiltv of such conduct. We
cannot approve of the course pursued by
the Pennsylvanian, in denouncing cer
tain influential democrats in the parly.
If Simon Cameron has no influence he
can do the party no harm, and if ie has
influence this indiscriminate abusecin do
us no good. We are no advocate of Si-
mon Cameron, and always condemned,
and do still, the manner in which he ob
tained his election to the United States
Senate. This thing of breaking down
and disorganizing a party for the purpose
of securing one9 own advancement, is
anti-democratic, and should not be tolera
ted, but we must say in candor that Crm
eron's conduct in the U.S. Senate W3S
creditable to himself and the State. But
we trust thai members of the Legislature
will feel themselves bound to stick to their
caucus nominee until they secure his elec
tion, and any man who refuses to do this
should be -consigned to political infamy
for his treachery to his party.'
Henry- D. Foster is a Westetn'man and
the W.e'st 13" er.ti'tle'd to the candidate.
The democracy la'kes pleasure in-. presen
ting his claims and qualifications to the
consideration of the next Legislature, and
feel confident that no man ca'n be' selected
in whose -hands the interests. of the State !
could be more
and urbane in
safely entrusted,
his manners he
Kind
makes
friends of all with whom he" becomes ac
quainted. We sincerely trust "that our
Legislature will consult the interests of the
State, and the wishes of the people; by se
lecting him for the honorable post for
w hich he is a candidate.
FOR THE 8 K N T I N E L. .
Mr. Given I am aware that in conse
quence of the course pursued by the
Johnstown Echo, and the character of
those who control its columns, a decent
respect for one's' self, for public opinion, '
and for the dignity of the Press, would i happily such is not the case. The ab
demand that its scurrilities should be ! sence of those stringent, aristocratic enact
treated only with silent contempt. But! inents in the South generally, that exclude
as ;he motives that actuate the scribble-! ;e masses in South Carolina from elect-
for the paper mav unknown :,, mnnviinsr their rulers, is the preatsecuritv which
into wjlOSe hands it mav f:ill. same infnr.
niation on this subject may not be improp
er at the present time.
It would seem that the criterion of the
great Jefferson in regard to the qualifica
tions of a public officer, namely : "is he
capable, is he honest, will he devote his
energies for the public good," has become
entirely obsolete with those who rail
j , ,
against the present Superintendent of the
Portage Rail Road. Even the notorious
mouthpiece of the opposition to Mr.
Campbell has become altogether disgusted
with these verbose inquiries, and has re
duced the whole thing to the following
few very comprehensive syllables: "Will
he appoint me his Clerk." This, in the
estimation of the person alluded, makes
the sum total of the efficiency or ine'fi
cieucy of a Superintendant on the Alle
gheny Portage Rail Road. And the same
tonn, varied only as to the objects in
view, will answer for all the rest, thus:
"Will he make me a buss;" "Will he
give me an engine;" "Will he patronize
my store orjiiy sawmill;" and more re
cently: "Will. he procure me a nomination
for Congress," has become a pretty sure
standard ol efficiency for an officer on the
aforesaid Road. Now he is of course a
very meritorious Superintendant who will
answer these questions in the affirmative;
but it is a great moral, political and official
delinquency in one who has the horest
independence to do otherwise.
Tliere are many of these censors who
have had alternately their "ins" and their
"outs" since the first building of the road,
and during the whole time their behavior
has been characterized by the most mean
and base subserviency, or the most viru
lent and deadly hostility, according as
they have been ft'd at, or driven away
from the public crib.
Again, there are -others who have man
aged through all administrations. Whig and
lJeinocrulic, to impose on every officer
that came on the road, and maintain their
places. They are admirably versed in
all the mysteries of public plunder, audi
have acquired by its means wealth enough
to make their iiirlueuce in some measure
formidable. On this account Superiutend-
auia have heretofore been afraid to turn
them off for fear of their opposition. But
this influence lias no terrors for Mr.
Campbell in the discharge of a public
duty. Had he been astranger they might
have imposed on him for a time, and then
operated on his fears; but he knew the
men and knew his duty to the public, and
he dared to act and have their malignant
hatred.
Again, it appears from the accounts of
the road for the last two or three years,
that numerous frauds have been perpetra
ted, some ui the item of horse power to
the amount ot from three to hve hundred
dollars, and others in lumber perhaps
greater amounts, and it was and is feared
mat Mr. Campbell will expose the authors
of these frauds to public reprobation; and
this creates another necessity to try to
have him removed, or at least to discredit
his information in such a way that it will
not be believed. But it is gratifying to
rind that public opinion as well as the au
thorities of the Slate will sustain Mr.
f Jampbell iti his righteous efforts to drive
this oaud of plunderers from the public
worlds, tor they are a curse to the Com
mon wesjih as well as a disgrice to the
political pa ty to which they proless to!.
Oelong. It wow'ld be suicidal as well as
ungrateful uot to usiaiu so laudable a
work.
A review of the means employed by
these men to blind the public to Jheir own
crimes will perhaps be the subject pf an
other communication.
Washington.
The World: Fair.K
letter from
Commercial,
London to the New i ork
says:
The building for the coming exposition
is rising with a rapidity never yet seen in
any structure in the world. Already its
vast size is apparent, and produces a re
markable effect. Large as it will be,
however, thcrfi is likely to be a complaint
of want of space. The demand has been
so great that it has been resolved to erect
an extra gallery by which an additional
area of 45,000 superficial feet will be ob
tained. The space appropriated for native
exhibitors is 220.000 superficial feet or
about one half of the quantity applied for.
Fading Away.
South Carolina is left alone in her
glorv; acquired by her ultra complainings
against the general Government. She is
abandoned in the hour of her adversity,
by those upon whom she looked as friends
and comrades, and" is left to agitate, fret
and swagger, until returning reason re
sumes its empire in the heads of her dis
contented demagogues.
. At Washington city all is calm; no one
j feels" alarmed at the threatenings of those
baffled traitors who wish to carve out dis
tinction.for themselves through the ruins
of the Republic. Southern conventions
have denounced the conspirators weak
ness: and proven, conclusively, this attach
ment of the people of the South to the
Union and its permanency.
Were the population of the Southern
States generally, like the people of South
Carolina, excluded by State enactments
from participating in the formation of
laws, the permanency of the Union might
be subjected to great danger. Were the
political power of those States like that of
South Carolina, in the hands of a few
monopolists, we might be in danger; but
the llenuhlie lias for n n roan pro us pontine
, , ,
uance lor centuries yet to come
The political power of South Caroina
being in the hands of a few monopolists,
accounts for the unanimity which seems
to pervade them, in opposition to the gen
eral government. Were the people al
lowed to speak, they would respond as
the masses of all the other Southern States
have, in trumpet tones in favor of the
Union and obedience to tfie enactments.
In no other State is there much discon
tent exhibited; even Mississippi, in spite
of her crazy Governor and Senator, is
wheeling into the Umrm line and discard
ing from her confidence those mounte
banks, who have tried by foul means to
spread discord among her people. In
Georgia too, where the conspirators ex
pected to make a resolute stand, thev have
been overwhelmed with popular indigna
tion. At the election, the other day, in
that State for delegates to a State Conven
tion, the Union men achieved a most sig
nal victory a triumph that is complete
and perfect as the Union itself. The
Union majority is about Twenty-five
Thousand of the popular vote; but twelve
disunion representatives have been return
ed to the convention from the entire State.
In Georgia the disunion feeling was sup
posed to be strong; stronger than in any
other State, save Carolina, and here we
have the result of it. The action of its
advocates has shown their weakness, and
cause all apprehensions for the Union, in
that State to vanish. South Carolina is
therefore without a backer, deserted, and
left to struggle alone. As long as she
contents herself with grumbling, no atten
tion will be paid to her ugly face at
Washington; but should she venture upon
nullification, indifference will be changed
into vigorous determined action and chas
tisement. Pittsburg Chronicle.
The Growth of the United States.
The censu returns, already received
from seventeen Slates of the Union, show
an increase of population since 1840, of
3,130,899, w hich added to the areale
population ten -years ago, of 17,093,353,
would alone, make now. 20,224,25 1 . Es
timating the increase in other States by
the same ratio, the aggregate population
of the nation in June last, may be put
down at not less than 24,000.000, or an
increase of nearly seven millions in the
last ten years.
In some of the States the increase has
been very rapid, in others quite inconsid
erable. In Maine they have 012,000, be
ing an increase, in ten years of 310,207,
or over twenty per cent. Massachusetts
has 1,000,000, being an increase of 220,
172, also, upwards of twenty per cent.
Connecticut has 38G.00O, or an advance
of G5,985, also upwards of twenty per
cent. Pennsylvania has 2,300,000, show
ing an increase of 575,967 or over thirty
three per cent. Ohio has 2.200,000,
showing an increase of 670,732, or over
forty per cent. Wisconsin has 350,000;
she had but 30,000 ten years ago.
The District of Columbia, on the other
hand, has- gained but 7,000. She has
now 50.000, or less man vz per cent, in-
A crease, ixoriii Carolina nas ouu.uuu, oe
ing an increase of 46,581, or only about
six per cent. South Carolina has only
639,099, being an increase of only 44,701
less than 8 per cent. We have retums
from only one other Southern State, that
is Georgia, the population of which is now
1,000,000, showing an increase of 308,
608. or about 45 per cent.
The ratio of increase in the whole
Union, estimated from the returns recei
ved of seventeen States, is about thirty per
cent. 1 hat of Georgia, is nlteen per cerl
ahead of the average; that of South Caro
lina is twenty -two. and North Carolina
is twenty-four. per cent, below the aver
age. In the northern States heard from,
the rate or increase is unitormty over
twenty per cent. iT. V. Evening Post
WRECK OF THE STEAMER HE
LENA SLOMAN.
XIXE LIVES LOST.'
ONE ITCNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE PASSEN
GERS rescued!
The packet ship Devonshire, Capt.
Berry, which arrived at New York, yes
terday morning, bring intelligence of the
total wreck of the steamship Helena Slo
man, which ran between New York and
Hamburg.
The following are the particulars, which
we gather from the log of the Devonshire.
'On the 6th of November.off the Start,
the Devonshire was in company, with a
Havre packet, bound west, (U) signal,
supposed to be the Splendid. Thursday
November29, lat. 42 13. Ion. 6130, at
9, 30, A. M., she fell in with the propeller
Helena Sloman, Paulson, from Hamburg
to New York, having signals of distress
flying. The Devonshire ran down to her,
'atm hnvp? nr.ilpr hpr 1pp. it lilmvinrr d-int !
at the time from N W.. when hnt wi.h
a mate and two passengers came alongside
and informed that she had lost her rudder
and stempost, and wanted immediate assis
tance, as she was leaking badly, and nil
wished to abandon her, and that she had
been in that condition eierht days, and
could not get assistance. We immediate,
ly manned two boats in charge of first and
third mates, and they, with three boats
belonging to the steamer, commenced
transporting passengers on board the
Devonshire.
The third mate's boat had made two
trips, and had on board seven passengers
on her third, when she stove alongside the
- - - - - - ' " - t - - w - - - w M nil
steamer, and the third mate, three seamen
and five passengers were drowned; only
one seaman and two passengers were
saved. No other accident occurred, and
by 6 P. M., fifty-three cabin and eighty
six steerage passengers, with the crew of
ww.. -
shire, when we made sail and stood to the
. ,,,, t - f,
r.. i . i. r '
"rairr "V . . . ?v
lain lea ai o u i . .vi., nan aooi.ii six teet
of water in her. The passengers only
saved what they had on them.
The following are the names of the
crew drowned:
John Johnston, 3d mate. New York.
George Riley, seaman. London.
John Hasson, seaman, Londonderry.
Daniel M'Arthur, seaman, Montreal.
Also, five steerage passengers of Ger
many. The following are the particulars of the
disaster:
From the time of the steamer's depar
ture from Southampton till the 1 9ifi of
November, the weather was rather more
boisterous and variable than usual, even
for the time of year. On the evening of
the 19th, when in lattitude of 14 deg. 19
min. N., and longitude by chronometer)
59 deg. 30 min. W., the wind which du
ring the morning had been blowing fresh
from N N W, increased till 7 P. M., it
became a most fearful gale. About 1 1 P.
M., a heavy cross sea struck heron the
stern and larboard quarter, sweeping the
poop, flooding the cabins, and causing her
to quiver some moments throughout her
whole length.
The next morning, (Thursday) as soon
as it was day-light, a boat was lowered,
and a thorough examination made of the
stern, inside and outside, when it was
found that not only was the rudder gone,
but that it had carried with it about twelve
feel of the stem of the outer or false stern
post, the lower part of which being attach
ed to the keel, causing a considerable leak.
Beside this, the end of the shaft, by
means of which the propeller was woiked
being made to rest on this stern post, was,
by its giving way, deprived of its support,
and was considerably bent in an oblique
direction, causing the fans of the propell
er to incline inward towards the stern,
thus enlarging the stuffing box in the in
ner stern post, (or that built in the ship,)
causinir a second leak.
Thursday, the 28th, at daylight, all the
pumps were worked, but the water had,
during the prev ious twelve hours, gained
from ten to twelve inches in depth. At
half-past 8 o'clock she was seen by the
Devonshire, who came to their reief.
Additional names of those lost by the
staving of the Devonshire's boat:
John P. Nelson, aged 49, of Mechlen
burg, wife and five children on board; Dr.
Edw Luiz, 35, of lleilbroon, Wurtemburg
wife and two children in Germany; Au
gusta Rosenbusch. aged 19, of Mechlen
burg; John Popake, aged 33, of Mechlen
burg; Ilenrv (Jtterburg, aged 35, of Han
over all steerage passengers by the He
lena Sloman.
The Helena Sloman was built in Hull,
England, in 1849, and was six hundred
tons burthen. She was a propeller and
built of iron. Her original cost was prob
ably about $ 120,000, and her cargo may
be estimated at about S60.000 or $70,000
which is heavily insured in Wall street.
additional Acconnts of the Awful Tornado at
Cape Girardeau.
The St. Louis papers contain full par
ticulars of the recent tornado on the Mis
sissippi river, by which the beautiful vil
lage of Cape Girnrdeau, in Missouri, was
almost entirely destroyed.
The convent. Catholic church, and
other buildings in the immediate vicinity,
are heaps of ruins.
The St. Vincent College is also pros
trated, and the Methodist church, and all
the other houses between that and the
bridge, are injured.
The professors and students were at the
college at the time of the awful visitation,
and many of them were severely injured.
One has since died.
of one-half of th residents
the place were left without a roof to :0.
tect them from the weather. r
It is said that for a distance of fiftepn
miles Dae anu around iape
Girardeac.
ccrj luiug ycau iuc aspect OX Utter
stmciion.
The accounts do no not give the num
ber of injured and killed.
Prompt measures have been taken at
St. Louis for the purpose of extending ai j
to the distressed and suffering farniiies
who have been rendered houseless by tuj
awful calamitv.
rorlage Kail Roai
Editor of the Keystone:
Dear Sir Now that fhe jhcat of poht.
ical excitement has more or less subsided
and men are left to a calm aqd dipassion
uls reflection, I b:?g leive to I iy before
the democracy of the state, through the
medium of the Keystone, n few remarki
upon a single incident cf the recent trsf
and its unjust distortion to a base use. " I
! am more particularly induced to dS t!;:
ironi a reason l very much regret, and
that reason is furnished by a democrat!!
paper I have been in the constant habr of
reading since IS35, and which paper I
regard in politics as my Bible in religion,
and that paper is the Penwsvlva.vian.-I
The reason alluded to, is furnished in the
following sentence contained in that papr
of about the lime of the election.
"If Snoegrass is elected in the Bedilvj
district, we shall be satisfied, but that
election, if ratified by a majority of thous
ands, would not make us believe h'ua the
regular candidate."
Whatever may be the opinion of that
r w
(truly talen ed editor, I care not, so Ion is
some experience, in such cus-s, adJeJ to
fads in th present m utcr, enable tne to
lorm one oi mv own one, too, which
has been pretty well sustained by ";hous-
ands," as you have seen. That Cambria
should have had the member, is a fact I
.never entertained a dr.u'.it of, but that her
fi t . .
delegation perpetrated a recrean?r to her
interest in passinj the
i i
nomination over.to
Bedford, at a former
period, lor apparent
sinister motives on the part of oi!2 of the
delegation, has never boen contradicted.
Thus the infliction of wrong has a prlcr
date, and exhibits the fact that i!i3 vocif
erous now have more than half intent in
covering their own sin?. In brir, (to
avoid recapitulation.) there was a rcuir.sl
agreement to abide the decision of the
Ligonier convention. The obligations were
imperative. All parties submit and send
delegates, which is a virtual rctifccticr.
of the agreement. At this Convention,
John SnoJgrass is the nominee I do no:
care whether it was regular or irregular,
the convention was to be final and con
clusive one, and whoever received ths
nomination, (he was to all intents end
purposes) the nominee.
But preliminaries abat Wfi'l tfffSft"."
the git of the matter in the Wei.i.-sA
district so far as Cambria was and is con
cerned. A certain set of men i.i the latter
county, for personal reasons, were orly
making strength subservient to their wish
es they were determnied to raise a
culty, (in which, unfortunately for the
state, they were but too successful,) which
they could bring to bear upon a certain
appointment made by the Canal BourJ
upon the Portage road', in evidence of the
injudiciousness and unpopularity cf said
appointment ja saic county of Cambria.
This may seem strange but it is neverthe
less true. To procure this exhibition to
the Board of its indiscreet act, the pirty
has lost a Congressman and a member cf
the slate assembly. To effect this regret
ted loss, those recreant professing demo
crats voted direct for the whig candidate.
But the cause of the disaster is to be con
cealed, while the effect is to be presented
to me board as the result ot the appoint
ment of W. S. Campbell to the Superhv
tendency of the Portnge n:id ! From this
they argue and press his remnval! Did
ever man behold such consumate hypos
racy ?
Whatever Messrs. Snodgrass and Smith
may be considered, Mr. Campbell should
not be held responsible for. In that eev.U
(of his responsibility,) there wo.dd '1C 1
sad digression from the democratic golden
rule oi "equal and exact justice to aii,
by who ever might bo disposed o ss
operate. The stand.ml of appro')2Uve
excellence has been wisely ih-us : "is h
honest, is he capable ?" Of these quali
ties no honeft man can interposs a d.iab'.
in the case of Mr. C. The;i if the party
and the board will act in acquieseiKe wi
the characteristic fixed principle of wis
dom and judiciousness, they "will not3Ct
in opposition to this rule, but will reward
merit by countenance, and not permit i!
to be sacrificed at ihe shrine of fac:iocs.
selfish aggrandizement. For the cinfct
ness of mv-position, I appeal to the
raocracy of the state.
Than Mr. Campbell, I venture the as
sertion there lives not a man in the coO
monweaith who could have conducted i-
affairs in his present sphere, better thaa
he has in the present year. o
place or person under his supervision, af-
r ..... .l f nations with allC3"
ty. correctness and precision.- He
been active, prompt and vigilant, fut-
and untiring in the discharge of his c-f
and if such a man ' must suffer poh-
decapitation for the gratification of tas
tionists at the end of one year, tiieti i
much mistaken in the material ft
t
I party, and their
i canal board.
high
functionaries
it
Very respectfully, youryjpi
Maran av's attach unon ii"o"
jit is intimated, was influenced by ahs
Hhat his election to Parliament waet
of i ted by the Q-inkrs of Edinburgh.