' MOUNTAIN SENTHrEL, Andrew J. Rhey, Editor. EBENSBURG, PA. THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1851 BXThk Sentinel, has much the largest cir euianon oj any paper published in this county I 1 M . ana as an advertising sheet ojjers superior inducements to merchants and business men generally. Those desirous of making us oj rai mraiumjor extending their business can do so lu either sending their notices direct, or through, the following agents' John Crouse, Esq., Johnstown. t2. . Varr, Ivans' Buildings, Third st J'hUadrlphia. V. It. Palmer, Esq , NewYork Philadelphia a uailimore. G&Our new type have arrived al last, and next week, we hope, our paper will present a neater appearance. It is, even now, a neat paper, but we want to make it superior. CP The Weather for two Jays past has been cold, wet, and disagreeable, enough to give a man the blues, when we should have nice, dreamy, spring weather. tJT Our town presented quite a lively appearance on Monday evening last. Fifteen wagons arrived loadened with goods for our merchants, and there is but little doubt but that this place will soon rival Wheeling where they have forty "wagons in one day! only think of it. Wait till we get a plank road. Charles Sumner a Free Soil, one idea man, was elected U. S. Senator from the State of Massachusetts, on the 21th inst. A most disgraceful coalition, be tween the free soilers or higher law men, and certain fishy democrats done the deed . J3T The Canal Commissioners have seld'to the Central Rail Road Co., the Pa ssenger Cars, heretofore in use on the Portage Road. The State Agents and Conductors are to be continued. The night line is discontinued, from this date, May, 1. Appointment by the Governor. The Governor has appointed Evan Roberts, Esq., of Johnstown, Associate Judge of Cambria County, vice Hon. John Murray, whose time has expired. JuJge Murray in retiring from the Bench has the satisfaction of knowing that it will be universally regretted by the . citizens of this county. He has been one of our Associate Judges for a long series of years, and his kindness of heart, amiability of manners, and gentlemanly deportment, have gained for him, the con fidence and respect of men of all parties. Fatal Accident. On Saturday evening last, Mr. Patrick Cullen, of Jefferson, in attempting to jump on the locomotive while under headway, was thrown under the tender, the wheels of which passed over his leg below the knee. He survived but a few hours. Mr. C. was a worthy and'industrious citizen, and leaves a large lamily to deplore his untimely death, with whom we deeply sympathise in their af- 3 : ?f Ue was aged about 40 years and by occupation a tailor. Tlie Crops in Cambria. The general appearance of the crops in our county is not so good as we anticipated. Quite a number of the wheat fields look well, but we thmk only the one half of them show evidence of a full crop. The cold freez ing weather during the winter, when there was no snow on the ground, had the ef feet of "freezing out" large quantities of wheat. We think this evil would in some measure be allayed by sowing oats with the wheat in the fall. It springs up sooner man the wheat, and when the snow falls. n is Dome down and acts as a kind of covering to it, protecting it from the severe UI1U ncn is here experienced. Our farmers are now busily employed sowing oats, tor which the weather is favorable. The fruit trees, will, during this week, be in full bloom, and from present appear- iiices, snouid there be no frost, we will be plentifnlly supplied during the coming summer with this needful luxurv. CO" Col. James Ross Snowden, says the Pittsburgh Chronicle, formerly Treas urer of the Mint at Philadelphia, has been admitted to the bar in that city, and intends to make that place his permanent place of residence. Rt. Revd. Bishop Meade of Vir- jinia, we learn, is dangerously ill. The Philadelphia Statesman. The above paper abuses Mr. Deal, the Sheriff of that county, most vilely because he has seen fit to transfer his printing to another paper. This is both unkind and ungrateful, for, as long as Mr. Deal con tinued his printing with this paper, thete was not a whimper in it against him; but, as it was disposed to villify his friends, he most justly removes his patronage to an other paper and for so doing is condemned by the insignificant, unknown editor of the "Statesman." But not content with attempting to in jure the reputation of Mr. Deal, and and place him in a dishonorable light be fore the public, he spits the venom of his spleen upon James Buchanan, Judge Campbell, and John W. Forney. This editor dares not place in broad capitals his name at the head of his paper and let the multitude gaze at it with feelings of scorn intermingled with pity, but like a concealed enemy he fires without being seen; he wages war from behind a curtain, which, if once lifted, would no doubt ex pose to the view alike of the praised and slandered, a fiend, who seeks by calumny to raise himself to the glory of a prophet. But this is not the course to be pursued j to win admiration or gain respect, and it: should be borne in mind that there is truth in the saying, "evil be to him who evil thinks." Since the campaign of 1848, we have been the admirer and constant supporter of Gen. Cass, and we are of the belief that he is the strongest man for the next Presidency. But, in forming our opinion we were not in the least prejudiced against that bright particular star of the Democ racy of this State, James Buchanan, a pure patriot, and an enlightened statesman, a man who towers above the puny editor of the "Statesman," and all those concern ed with it, as the monument on Bunker's Hill above the meanest creature that crawls around its base. The contemptible course of that paper is an injury to the cause, which it purports to advocate, and, if per sisted in, will lead to consequences inju rious to the Democracy of the State, and will, with its fall, drag down to the lowest depths of degradation all those in any manner connected with it. W hy cannot it pursue an honorable course towards those members of the party with whom it differs, as is the case with all the Dem ocratic journals that favor the nomination of James Buchanan? He should recollect that, "Slander meets no regard from noble minds; Only the base believe, what the bise only utter Of Hon. James Campbell we would say to the "Statesman," he is a man who enjoys a reputation throughout our Com monwealth that is so lustrous and so firm ly seated in the breasts of the Democracy, that it would require the attacks of so un worthy a journal to be directed against it for ages, ere the lustre of that name could be tarnished, or the affections of the peo ple weaned from him. By his own per severance and diligent study, he has ele vated himself from a poor, friendless boy, to be a Judge, "learned in the law," and the respect due to his exertions is not con fined to his native home, but, even here, to our own mountains has it extended and when vipers assail his path there will be found willing friends to help destroy them. Col. Forney, of the "Pennsylvanian," withstands the attacks of the "Statesman" as the firmly planted rock defies the lash ing of the waves. He returns the charges directed against him with ten fold ven geance on their own heads, and how grat ifying to him it must be that he does it all himself, without fear favor or disguise. Fully aware that he deals with a dishon orable foe, one who is ashamed to show his hands, the difficulty of his position is easily recognized. Go on, Forney, firmly in defence of your rights; the true Democ racy are with yoa in your efforts to pre serve inviolate the principles of the party. You have done the State good service. and take this motto as yourguide, MNever aurrentler. Let the "Statesman" go ahead in its blasphemous course, let it do everything it can to disorganize the party, let it pur sue the uneven tenor of its way until that period arrives, when, as it has foretold, ("verily a Daniel come to judgment") the Democratic party will be in a minority in this State, and then, let it exclaim with regret and in the bitterness of its heart, this is our deed, and the retribution is upon us. Then "He hears On all aides from innumerable tongues A dismal universal ljisa, the sound Of public corn." Two new advertisements from Philadel phia, inserted this week, to which atten tion is desired. Just t... u.... school books is at E. S. Jones & Co. v Capt. Jacob Zeigler. This gentleman, who is the senior edi tor of the Butler Herald, was sujrsested, since the death of Hon. William Beatty as a suitable person for Canal Commis sioner, but in his paper of last week, now before us, he declines the honor. He says: "We thank them for their kind and unmerited compliment. We are now making a decent, and we hope, by the advocacy of democratic principles an honest living. The empty show of polit ical preferment, may be the ambition of some men, for us it has no such dazzling brightness. Contented to live among a people, who have done far better by us, than we ever done by them, we seek not the battle and strife of high official station but desire merely to be looked upon as an humble sentinel on the watch tower of correct principles. Accept gentlemen our thanks for your good intentions, it is all a poor man can give.' The Captain is a brave fifficer in the ranks of the democratic party, and deals ponderous blows on the heads of his ad versaries. If it is not too late, and it is "never too late to do good," we make an amende to the gallant Zeigler that is due him. About the time we entered upon the position we now occupy with this pa- per, he returned from California and be came the editor of the Herald. This we overlooked. We welcome him back to the scene of his early labors, and wish him every success in his enterprise. He i and should be well supported. Central Rail Road. The contractors of the western division of the Pennsylvania Rail Road have ad vertised for five thousand laborers, stone cutters, &c. Fromjhis, it is evident that the road is to he early completed. Dan'l Barr, Esq., of Philadelphia, has been ap pointed the agent in that city for the pur pose of procuring these men, and from a personal knowledge of the manner in which he attends to his duties, in this res pect, we can say that a better or more judicious selection could not have been made. He is a good judge of the quali fications and character of the applicants, and although large numbers of persons, who suppose this a favorable opportunity to go west free of charge as far as Johns town, think to impose themselves on him as bona fide workmen, he is not the man to be gulled, and they meet with a posi tive refusal. Whig Consistency! The Fulton Democrat says : The Whig meeting of last week, as published in the Republican, presents a curious aspect. It passed resolutions de claring Gen- Scott, the choice of the party for President, and Wm. F. Johnston for Governor, which were preceded by a res olution approving of the "Compromise measures passed by Congress last year. It is notorious that both Wm. F. Johnston and Gen. Scott opposed the said Compro mise measures, and that both are bidding high for the free soil vote in the next can vass; yet, in the face of these well known facts, the Whigs are trying to "carry wa ter on both shoulders. Shame on such duplicity ! Not so with the Whig party of our neighboring county, Blair, friend Sansom- At their meeting there was not a word said about the Compromise, but as a reso lution was passed unanimously, appro ving of the course of their Congressman who opposed part of these measures, we must infer that the Whig party in Blair are opposed to the Compromise, thereby disagreeing with the great exponents of their doctrines, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, who were for it to the death. Jenny Lind Insulted. We find the following account of the outrageous insult offered to this estimable woman, while in Pittsburg, in the local column of the Post. It was alike disgraceful and cowardly, but the villians are scouted at by every res pectable citizen. Jos. F. D. Keating, the noble drayman spoken of, is tha very soul of chivalry and honor. We know him. and record this act of gallantry with pride Miss Lind intended to have nven another concert, bnt this outrage quite unnerved her. She intends to do 60 in July, next, 'if arrangements can. be made to secure the audience and herself from disturbance.' She is at present, rusticating near Union town, Pa., from whence she goes to Balti more. Tbe proceeds, of her concert in Pittsburgh, was $9,000. The hall seated 1200 persons. "We were mortified to learn that on Friday night this angel of goodness was most grossly insulted by a ruffian crowd, who, while the Concert was going on, dashed in stones at the window of her dressing room, and applied to her, that she might hear them, the most shnfekinor and degrading epithets. And when the Con cert was over, the crowd, which was im mense, who had assembled iu front of the building, appeared determined not to leave until they would see her. After all the visiters had departed it still waited, (the carriage being there, ready to take her to the Monongahela House,) but she was so much alarmed and terrified, at what had already occurred, that she could not think of coming out while the crowd remained, and it looked very much as if she would be detained all night, when, by some means or other, as the story goes, an hon est, good hearted drayman, by the name of Keating, got into the room and told her that if she mould entrust herself to his care, he would assure her that she would get home safe. She listened to him and confided in his integrity. She accompa nied him, followed by some of her troupe, we suppose, out the back way, and suc ceeded in making her retreat before the crowd was aware of her departure. "We direct atttention to the advertise ment of Mr. J. Moore, who has received a fine lot of goods from Philadelphia, which he is prepared to sell at low prices. 3essrs. Clark, Craig, &, Co., have opened a new store in our town, in the room formerly occupied by G. W. Todd fc Co., and advertise a large assortment of cheap goods for sale. Read their ad vertisement. Messrs. Evans &; Hughes, are now re ceiving a supply of summer clothing from Philadelphia., which is intended to please every person's taste, and will be sold cheap. Read their advertisement. The advertisement of Mr. Lewis W. Brown, Barber, appears this week, to whom we can refer all persons who desire an easy and comfoi table shave. The Pnhlie Yorks. At a meeting of the Board of Canal Commissioners, held in the city of Phila delphia last week,a number of resolutions were adopted, from which we extract the following : Resolved, That each inspector of car goes on the Canals and Railroads of the Commonwealth be, and is hereby directed to make a weekly report to the Board, un der oath, of the number of each car, or the name of each boat inspected by him du ring the week, together with the name of the owner of the car or boat inspected, and a general description of such car or boat; and in case a fine is imposed, the amount of the fine, and the character of the fraud. A failure to comply with this resolution will be considered sufficient cause for removal. Resolved, That the Superintendent of Motive power and Supervisor of Repairs on the Philadelphia and Columbia, and the Allegheny Portage Railroads, be and they are hereby directed to dispense with any agent, mechanic, or laborer, under their appointment, whose services are not actually necessary to conduct the opera tions of their roads, keeping in view a strict regard to economy in expenditure, and despatch in transportation. Resolved, That the Superintendents of Motive Power and Supervisors of Repairs, on the Philadelphia and Columbia and the Allegheny Portage Railroads, be and they are hereby directed to remove any agent, mechanic, or laborer, under their appoint ment, who is not fully qualified to dis charge the duties assigned him, and to ap point in his stead a person duly competent; so that the number of persons employed on said roads shall not be augmented, in consequence of the incompetency orne gleet of duty of any of. the incumbents. Resolved, That the Superintendents of Motive Power and Supervisors of Repairs on the Philadelphia and Columbia and the Allegheny Portage Railroads, be and they are hereby directed to examine into the manner in which the officers on said roads appointed by the Board discharge their duties, and report all cases of incom petency or neglect of duty, as well as such officers whose services are not actu ally necessary, so that the number of said appointments may be reduced, "if now larger than is required for a prompt and efficient discharge of the public business. Resolved, That the Supervisors on the several lines of Canal be and they are hereby directed to reduce their force to the lowest number compatable with the security of the public works under their charge, and a prompt dispatch of the busi ness on their line. Resolved, That the Superintendents of Motive Power and the Supervisors of Re pairs on the Railroads and Canals in the Commonwealth be, and they are hereby directed to make a monthly report to the Board, exhibitingthe name, duty, location and compensation of each and every per son employed by them on their respective lines, together with a clear and detailed statement of the cost of motive power or repairs for the month, whether paid or unpaid. Resolved, That Robert Faries be and he is hereby appointed Engineer for the avoidance of the Planes on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, and for the construction of the Western Reservoir. Resolved, That the engineer for the construction of the Western Reservoir be and he is hereby instructed to make a plan and an estimate of the cost of the com pletion bfxsaid work in conformity to the act of 15th xApril, 1851, and submit the same to the Board. i 13T The trial of Col. Hughes, Gover nor of Jalapa, un the Mexican war, has been decided iU his favor. The Whig Platform. As the Editor of the American andj other leaders of the "fuss and feathers" j branch of Whiggery, are bent upon ma king General Scott an 4available" candi date for the Presidency, we feel disposed to assist them a little in collecting materi als from which to construct their platform. The following letter- written "in haste" by the General in 1841, (he is somewhat celebrated for his "hasty" epistles,) was published at the time by all the Native American WThig papers in the country, and was by them eulogised as a patriotic and brilliant production. We hope the "hasty" document will be read by the chairman of the Scott meeting, which Biddle &c Co. are getting up in this City on the 22d inst. The old Anti-masons, Federalists and Natives will no doubt ap- nlaud the sentiments of the letter. As a contemporary remarks f the views of; I General Scott had been adopted by Con gress, it would have been a sad day for Kossuth and his noble compatriots, who are now seeking a refuge and a home on American soil. Pittsburg Post. From the Loudon (Va.) Whig, June 18, 1848. Letter from General Scott. The following letter from Gen. Scott was circulated among the members of the recent (Philadelphia) Convention, and created much sensation: Washington-, November 10, 1641. Dear Sir: I have the honor to ac knowledge your letter of the 9th inst., written, as you are pleased to add, in be half of several hundred Xative Ameri can Republicans of Philadelphia. Not confidentally, but not for publica tion, I have already replied to a letter from David M. Stone, Esq., of your city, on the same subject. I will write to you in like manner and in haste. This is the month when the pressure of official busi ness is the heaviest with me; leaving scarcely time for necessary sleep and ex ercise. I must not, however, wholly neg lect your communication. Should any considerable number of my countrymen assign me, or desire to give me a prominent position before the public I shall take time to methodise my views on the great question you have proposed. Those views had their origin in the stor my elections in the spring of 1836, and were confirmed in the week that Harri son electors were chosen in New York. On both occasions I was in that city, and heard in the streets the cry, "Down with the jYaticesJ" It was heard in almost every group of foreigners, as the signal for rallying and outrage. Fired with indig nation, two friends sat down with me in my parlor, at the Astor House, (Novem ber, 1840,) to draw up an address de signed to rally an American party. The day after the election, I set out for the South, and have never precisely known why OUR APPEAL was not published. Probably the election of General Harri son rendered its publication at that time unnecessary in the opinion of my two friends. I now hesitate between extending the period of residence before naturalization, and a TOTAL REPEAL of all the Acts of congress on the subject MY MIND INCLINES TO THE LATTER. Concurring fully in the principles of the riuladelphia, &c, ic, I should pre fer assuming the designation of American Republicans, as in New York or Demo cratic Americans, as I would respectfullv surcest. I fishing success to the" great work which you and other patriots have happi ly set on foot, I remain with high respect your fellow-citizen. WINFIELD SCOTT. To George Wt. Rehd, Esq., and others, Philadelphia. Maj. A. J. Docelson. A friend in Virginia sends a copy of the Wheeling Argus containing a letter written by this gentleman, the present able editor of the Washington Union, in 1844, from Nashville, to Col. Geo. W. Thompson, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Wheeling District, in which the following striking passage oc curs. The letter of Maj. Donelson is an invitation to Col. Thompson to attend the great Democratic mass meeting held at Nashville, on the 8th of July, 1844. How breifly and how comprehensively the whole idea of Democratic devotion to the Union is here set forth, and how appro priate to the position of the Democratic party of the present day. Pen n sylvan ian . It is intended as a rally of our party on the broad principles of Republican ism excluding everything sectional partaking of nothing that savors of dis- union aiming ai noining out tte con solidation of the Party on the great National issues involved in' the Presi dential contest. A Precious Offering. A late writer wishes to know what more precious offer ing can be laid upon the altar of a man's heart than the first love of a pure, earnest and affectionate girl, with an undivided interest in eight lots and fourteen three story houses ! We give it up. WTe know of nothing half so touching, or in other words, anything that most people would sooner touch. Exchange Paper. In these digginst we go for United Slates Sixes," at 104, without State Tax, or other encumbrances, save the t4first love" and all that. Phila. Argus. A Prelly Rtttle of Fish! The Pitnburgh Post saysThe poor Whigs we do pity them ! They are al ways in trouble, and fighting amougit themselves. For some days past we have had upon our table a pamphlet of 96 laree pages, entitled thus: "The Chargss against the Collector of the Port of Philadelphia Reply of Charles Gibbons to the Arrn. ment of David Paul Brown, Esq., an appendix, containing the Statement of the Hon. James Cooper, in answer to the Narrative of Wm. D. Lewis." The whole is too long a story for us to present to our readers in full; but it cer tainly details one, of the most extraordi nary, rich, unique, laughable, and serious Whig fights that the country has ever wit' nessed. It seems to be a political quarrel between the Cooper and Johnston factious in Philadelphia. Wm. D. Lewis, Collec tor of the Port, w ho is a tcol of Cor. Johnston, is accused of appointing and retaining in office a man as weigh master who can neither read nor write his ova " , " vi any I'PSCP W-hlfH mil enter , l-.a I " is unable to estimate ihe annual expenses of his department, at any given rale prr month. All the accounts and abstracts from the office of this Whig office holder which the law requires to be verified by oath, are sworn to by him, although he is utterly incapable of understanding a single item which they contain!! Fraud, perjury, and other high criroei and misdemeanors, are charred hv fl.r- j Whig dignitaries upon each other" which are disgraceful to humanity, and a stain upon the present Administration. And although Senator Cooper fully sustained all his allegations against Collector Lewi?, ihe President and Tom Corwin dismissed the charges, and still retain in office the "learned" whig who cannot spell or write his own name ! ! The Cohan Expedition. Correspondence of the Inquirer. New York, April 27. The Cuban expedition, or I might say, attempts to get up an expedition in thw city, has failed, and the purposes of tho engaged in it, if they really intended to invade Cuba, have been frustrated. Six of the principal men engaged in the affair were arrested yesterday by the United States Marshal. Their names are John L. O'Sullivan, (son-in-law of Dr. Kearney Rogers,) Wm. T. Rogers, Jr , (nephew of Dr. Rogers,) Captain Lewis, captain of the steamboat Cleopatra, and formerly captain of the Creole, in the former ex pedition; Major Louis Schlesinger. one of the Hungarian patriots; Dr. Daniel II. Burtnett, an old resident of this city; Pe dro Sanchez, a Spaniard. The manner in which the arrest of tliec parties was brought about, is nther curi ous and novel. Among the deputy Mar shals, is one of the name of Rakiclewitz, a Polish refugee. The authorities having ascertained that there were a number of suspicious lookinjr characters congregated at South Amboy.Rakielewitz was directeJ to put on the garb of a newly arrived German emigrant, go down to South Am boy, mingle with the suspicious character there, and if possible, obtain information that would lead to the discovery of the plotters of the expedition, if such expedi tion had been formed. He succeeded admirably, and the result was the arrest of the above named parties. If'asJiington, April 2G. President Fill more is under the apprenehsion that a military expedition is being fitted ou; in the United States with the intention of invading Cuba. He has issued a procla mation, warning all who shall engage in such an expedition, that they will thereby subject themselves to the heavy penaltie denounced against such offences, and will forfeit their claim to the protection of this government, or any interference in their behalf, no matter to what extremities they may be reduced in consequence of their illegal conduct. He exhorts all good cit izens to discountenance and prevent ary such enterprize, and finally calls upon the civil and military officers of the Gov ernment to use every effort in their power to bring to trial and punishment every such offerder against the laws of our country. From Havana. Charleston, April 25. The steamer Isabel has arrived from Havana. Much excitement continued to exist on account of the invasion which was expected to have landed on the 19th inst. The Cap- f tain General had received a despatch s&- ting that an expedition had sailed tron New Orleans. The troops were sleeping on their arms; horses were ready saddled for expresses; and one steamer keeps her steam up continually but when the Isabel left nothing had occurred. One Spaniard had been condemned to death, having been detected in bribing a pilot to assist Lopez. The people are said to desire the invasion, and are ready to join when respectable force lands on the Island. The Rclino Passiox. Gen. Ilugb Brady, whose death occurred a few weekJ since, from the effects of an accident, ' Detroit, was some years ago seized with a malignant fever, from which his physi cians told him in all nrnhnhilitv he would , j ( never recover. said the veteram "Ze the drums beatt my knapsack s l slung. Attempt to Tire a Church. An1 tempt was made to set fire to the Bapti'1 Church at Cumberland, Md,. on Wednes day last. The fire was extinguished, but not until the Church had been damag to the amount of about $200.