acquitted. The jury, in accordance with tliat opinion, unhesitatingly pronounced him Not Guilty. The intense interest which the cause ex cited detained a great number of persons in the court room anxious to witness its; termination; and when the verdict of ac (plaid was announced, one universal burst of applause attested the sattisfactton of the assembled throng. A hasty expression of thanks to our de fender and preserver was the only remit.' neration ever received or demanded by IHr. Price; but if perchance this simple! tale should ever meet his eye it may prove a source of satisfaction to him to know,! that his generous and noble exertions in our behalf have not been wasted by the way side nor upon stony ground, but that the seeds of gratitude which were sown in our hearts on that eventful night have taken good root, and grown up yielding an hundred fold. The old clock of St. Paul's tolled forth in solemn peals the hour of midnight, as with lightened hearts and hasty steps we left the court to convey the glad result to her who waited our return; we knew full well that every moment of our absence was an age of grief to the almost broken heart of that beloved and affectionate girl, artd a few moments sufficed to bring us within my own threshold; at the brat sound of our approach she had hastened to meet us, and was already descending the stairs with a light. Harry was still near the door, and when she discovered me, as she supposed alone, she stopped suddenly, and with fresh tears starting from herjeyes, endeavored to fathom the darkness beyond. Anxious to relieve this painful anxiety, I called on Harry to advance. Is he there! she exclaimed in an agony of joy. Yes! yes! my dearest girl, replied, I have kept my promise. In as instant they were in each other's arms. My friend Harry vr is soon after mar ried to an amiable and affectionate girl, but he did not remain long to enjoy in this life that felicity which hope had fondly pictured to his imagination. His spirit seemed broken, a settled despondency fix ed upon his mind, and it is now many years since we placed him at rest by the side of his first born. THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, MARCH 13. 1839. FOR THE JOURNAL. Ms. BENZDICT, We have seen it announced in some of the papers, that Samuel Hep burn, Esq. of Carlisle, has been noiniea. ted by Gov. Porter, President Judge of the ninth judicial district, to fill the place of Judge Reed, whose term of office ex pired on the 17th of last February. This is the first operation of the amended Con, stitution on the Judiciary, and if the ma ny and strong objections urged against the adoption of the amendments, could not carry conviction to the public mind of the necessity and wisdom of an independent Judiciary —this nomination should satisfy the honest of all parties, that the Judicia ry is no longer beyond the control of par ty influence, and that Judges, in whom the public have long placed the fullest confi dence, will be supplanted by bawling pol iticians. One of the greatest objections, to the amendments was the contemplated change in the judicial tenure; A change, the consequences of which were not clear ly foreseen by the mass of the people, jealous as they have always been of any innovation on old and well established tights. But the wild fury and partizan Madneaa of certain politicians, to car• ry out their popular, but delusive scheme, of making the constitution so democratic, that all power should be vested in the sov ereign peoVe, had been wrought up to such a pitch, that "even the Judiciary was doomed to share in the general destruc tion of the old landmarks of Pennsylva nia. Rotation in office had become the popular doctrine of the day; life offices were regarded as inconsistent with the institutions of the country, and the lev elling principle was inconsiderately ap plied to every department of State. The people had willed a change; and if ever they had reason to regret any act, it will be, for having rashly undermined the foun dation of the judicial system of Pensylva nia. An independent Judiciary, is a great a • nal blessing—a dependent,: one the lk, . k t curse ever inflicted on a free peo po said that raan who was the brigh test ornament of the Judiciary of the U. States. The retirement of Judge Reed from the bench, will be generally regret ted; for in him were combined all the qual ifications, of an able and accomplished Judge. As a J udge, it is probable th,:t he had not his superior in Pennsylvania; deep in research, strong in intellect, nod distinguished for his general knowledge of the profession to winch he is strongly at tached. lit him the administration of jus tice has always found a decided and un wavering friend, and new in the decline of life, after having spent the vigor of days in the service of the State, without a sin gle well founded obiectiun to him, save his political principles, lie is made the vic tim of bitter persecuting party spirit. As a man, honest and honorable, and as a politicisti, he has not for many ycai s min gled in wpm political contests, unless to express his views and opinions on cities tioua of national importance. his suc cessor is a young lawyer of some prom ile, and respectable talents, having been at' the liar four or five years, and as well ac-! quainted with his profession, as the gen. erality of young lawyers. What claims had he to the notninationt None, save that strongcst of all recommendations, his warm devotion to party. And Judge Reed, whose only fault is, that he would not sacrifice the interests of his country to party, has been judiciallr proscribed. The days of dependent political Judges, have already commenced: OrSinee receiving the above, we learn that the Senate have confirmed the nomi nation. R.IIIL-ROaD JPIEETIXG. At a large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Birmingham and its vicin ity, convened in accordance with previ— ous notice in the public school room, on Wednesday evening, the 27th of Febru ary, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the propriety of urging upon the present legislature, the necessity of a dopting measures, without delay, for the construction of a rail road from Hunting don to intersect the Portage rail way at Hollidaysburg, so that the pnblic works between those points may thereby be reit , tiered capable of transporting an equal a mount, at all times, with the other parts of this, the main line of our public improve ments. On motion, the meeting was organized by appointing SAMUEL. DICKSON, President; JAmtes CLAnK, Esq. and CHAS. BRYAR, Vice Presidents, and David Gar rett, Esq, and Dr. S. S. Dewey, Secreta ries. On motion, it was RPsolved, That a committee of ten be appointed to draft a preamble and resolu tions expressive of the views of this mee ting; whereupon, the Chair appointed A. K. Bell, Wm. Caldwell. Win. Galbreath, Esq., M. Robeson, D. Cree, J. Thompson, Esq., A. P. Owens, D. H. Burnham, Wm. Cunningham and S. Bender, as said com mittee, who after retiring for a short time, made, through A. K. Bell, their chairman the following report:— - . That it is the deliberate opinion of this meeting; that the interests of the state de mend that a rail road should be construc ted to Huntingdon to intersect the Pore tage rail way at Hollidaysburg, As a reason for forming this conclusion, we would refer to the fact, that on a great portion of the public works between those points there is not a sufficiency of water, for several montits in the season to do anything like the amount of business which may reasonably be expected to crests on to this main line of our improve ments; and again, from its location, being so near the base of the Alleghenies, it is more than pr.ihable, that such a freshet, as was the means of L.'most entirely de stroying this portion of the canal during the East summer, may again happen, there by obstructing the navigation, and render ing the entire Juniata division usless to the state. These, and other seasons that we might urge, lead us to form the opin ion we have here expressed. Therefore Y. R. NV Resolved, That the Senators from this' district, and out Representrtives, be, and aro hereby requested to use their efforts to have an appropriation, and measures adopted, for the commencement of a rail road from Huntingdon to Hollidaysburg, during the present session. Resolved, That it is the opinion of this meeting that the most direct and ad vantageou 3 rout for the construction of said road will be found to be along the Valley of the Little Juniata , and thence through Logan's and Pleasant Vallies, to Holli daysburg; and as a reason, this rout pas ses through one of the most extensive iron manufacturing districts in the country—. is generally level, and passing within a few miles of the head of the Bald Eagle navigation from whence a rail road may easily be 'constructed to intersect the one here contemplated. Resolved, That this meeting feel per , fecely confident that the construction of reservoirs, (one of the proposed remedies) at Hollidaysburg, for supplying the canal with water during the time or a izarcity, would be found - entirely insufficient to answer the purpose proposed, and we would therefore depreciate their construc tion as unwise ankimpolitic. Resolved, That this meeting are deci dedly in tfavor of the immediate com— mencement at each end of the proposed rail road from Pittsburg to Chambersburg, believing it but just and liberal towards this section of the state, and believe also, that on such a road being made eastward ly from Pittsburg as far as Ligonier, and westwardly from Chambersburg to the Burnt Cabins, or Springfield township; should it then be found more desirable to complete the ccnnection by means of a McAdamized road, and the public should still desire to have a continuous rail road rrno east to west, the same can lie had by makiag a rail road from Ligonier to Johnstown, and from Huntingdon to the Burnt Cabins, or Springfield township, on very favorable ground. On motion, the report and resolutions of the committee were adopted as the unanimous views of the meeting. During the absence of the committee, anti alter their return, some very spirited remarks were made by Messers. McCahan F Clark, Bell, Caldwell, Dickson, and Dr. Dewey, on the subject of the proposed road. On motion, Resolved, That T. M. Owens, D. Qat. Lett, Eeq . „ Wm, 941hraith, N:rKt., Win Caldwell, James Clarke, Esq. and A. Campbell, be a committee to further the views of this meeting , by ell culating peti tions and fowardingthe same to the Leg islature when signed. 4 ... . On motion, Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be fortvarded to our Senators aud l Nlembers of the House, and published in the papers of the county, and en all others favorable to the project. Resolved, That this meeting now ad journ sine die. SAMUEL DICKSON, President. JARES CLARRE, V. Presid'nt CHARLES BRYAN, David Garrett, Secretaries. S. S. Dewey. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. In relation to the permanent loan, &c. 'l'o the Senate and Houseiot,Represen tatives of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania. GENTLEMeN--In pursuance of the act of the General Assembly of this Com monwealth, passed the 26th January last, entitled "An Act authorising a Loan." Public notice was given by the Secretary of the Commonwealth on the 4th day of February last, that proposals would be re ceived at his office until two o'clock P. M on Tuesday, the fifth day of March 1839, for loaning one million, two hundred thou sand dollars, to the Commonwealth, fur the purposes set iorth in said act, reim bursable at any time after twenty years from the first day of July next, and bear ing an interest not exceeding five per cent per annum, payable semiannually. I regret to say that no proposals have been received in pursuance of this invi tation, and this too at a time when, it is conceded, that money is not scarce, and the credit of the State is unimpaired. How long the representatives of a free people will submit to a state of things manifestly brought about by a combina tion among the institutions of their own creation, it is for the Legislature to deter mine, but there is certainly a manifest im propriety in permitting the monied re , sources of the commonwealth to be used, to her own injury. She owns of the capi tal stock of the bank of Pennsylvania 3750 shares at $4OO, amounting at their par value to $1,500,000 5233 shares in the Philadelphia Bank at $lOO, 523,300 1708 shares in the Farmers and 1 Mechanics Bank at $5O, 85,400 Amounting in the whole to 82,108,700 And which we believe to be worth a con siderable advance. Every day's experi ence strengthens me in the opinion long since formed that all connection should be dissolved between the commonwealth and the banks in which she holds stock, and thus relieve her from the humiliating attitude she occupies of being the holder of three fifths of the whole capital stock in one of said banks and unable to con trol the directions of a single dollar of its loans. Believing firmly that a divorce will be beneficial ,to ~the interests of the oommonwealth, I earnestly recommend the immediate passage of a law authori sing the sale of the bank stock held by the commonwealth as aforesaid. This administration has been but little ever a month in power, and has been obli• ged to ask loans to pay Off engagements which it had no hand in contracting, and finds itself embarrassed in its outset for want of means to meet the engagements of the commonwealth. So far as it has the ability, its exertions will continue to be steadily directed to discharge the pub lic liabilities, and maintain unsullied the public faith. If in its efforts so to do, dif ficulties are interposed by attempts at combination among monied! men and mon ied instutionsll, they most assuredly will discover, as so long as the executive pow er remains in the hands in which it is now placed, they shall never control either its political or fiscal operations; but that this great commonwealth must and will rise superior to all such attempts. All experience goes to show that the veils anticipated, by many of the best and most sagaciOs statesmen, from the grants of corporate powers to Ponied institutions have been more than realized, 40,4 should admonish us to be cautious in continuing to make such unrestricted grants. With no desire to create distrust or a larn•, I cannot but feel that it is the mis use and aLuse of the powers thus com mitted to such institutions that have more than once led to the embarrassments in the monetary concerns of the country. cannot close this communication with• out appealing to the legislature, and cal ling upon them by every principle of pat— riotism, to take such aciton in this matter las will enable the State to vindicate her character and credit, and to take immv diate measures for separating the Stite from all connection with a set of institu tions that have so repeatedly disappointed the just expectations of the public, and on which no reliance can be - pfeeed"When the exigencies of the State may require a call upon them. _ _ DAVID R. PORTER. Executive Chamber, March 7, 1839. The glorious eighteen of the New York Senate arc refasing to sanction many of the nominations made by governor Se ward. "A short life, and a merry one," is their motto. • • 4 :0771 ,, ' : -6; • ~,,.. ~ -.,,, ::, ,„.,....-,:ti‘,,,„,0, THE JOURN AL. f' One country, one conatitution, one destiny Huntingdon, March 13, 1 839 Democratic antimasonic CANDIDATES. FOR PRESIDENT, GEN, WM. H. HARRISON FUR VICE PRESIDENT DANIEL WEBSTER. FLAG OF TUE PEOPLE! Cc:r A single term for the Presidency, and the office administered for the whole PEO pi, E. and not for a PARTY. W. A sound, uniform and convenient Na tional CURRENCY, adapted to the wants of the whole COUNTRY, Instead of the SHIN PLAS'I ERS brought about by our present RULERS. RETRENCHMENT, and RE• !ORM in the administration of public affairs, 17°Tired of Experiments and Experi menters, Republican gratitude will reward unabstrusive merit, by elevating the sub altern of WasnlNGTon and the dosciple of Jxmason, and thus resuming the safe and beaten track of onr Fathers,—L. Gazette. Democratic State Convention. The friends of HARRISON and WEB. STER in the several counties of Pennsyl vania, are requested to appoint delegates equal in number to their members in the State Senate and House of Representa tives, to meet at the Court House in Har risburg, at 12 o'clook, M. on WEDNESDAY, 22d of May, 1859. For the purpose of nominating a ticket of lElectors, to be voted for by the people of I Pensvlvanta, - at the Presidential Election in. 1840, and . pledged, if elected, to sup port the candidates for President and Vice President of the United States set tled by the Democratic Anti-Masonic National Convention, which was held in Philadelphia in November, 1833. Thomas H. Burrowes, Thomas alder, Theo. Fenn, Amos Et!maker, Francis James, iw m. R. Irwin, Pillions Ayres, Harmar Denny, Samuel H. Fisher, Pillions Smith, Ner Middleswarth, William McClure, George. Mowry. Levi Merkel, Maxwell Kinkead. State Committee. Harrisburg. March 2,1839. County Meeting. lu pursuance of the above request of the State Committee, the Democratic Anti- Masonic friends of HARRISON AND WEBSTER, in Huntingdon County, are invited to meet at the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon on Tuesday even ing, the 9th of April, for the purpose of electing one Senatorial and two Repre sentative Delegates, to attend the Demo cratic State Convention which will meet in Harrisburg on the 22il of .May, to nom inate a Harrison Electoral ticket. By the County Committee. DAVID BLAIR, Chairman, We learn from a marginal memoranda l made upon the "Crawford Statesman,"— that the lion. H. SHIPPEN, President Judge of that district, is dead. AFFLICTING DISPENSATION.—On Sun ,L7 afternoon, while enjoying apparently, her usual health—Mrs. Gwin, wife of I Patrick Gwin Esq., iati Sheriff of this co. --and surrounded by her frien:!s, sud denly, almost instantly died. Nothing has transp'red of late years in our borOugh, which cast a more sudden gloom over the feelings of its inhabitants. Mrs. Gwin had spent a long and useful life ' here—was universally respected 4. loved• 1 The information of her sudien demise, fell 'like a shock upon the senses of all. But a moment before, she was exulting in more than the common health, and strength of a good old age. Death's unerring shaft already quivered in the bow-string--it h a d sped; and she whose counsel and whose kindness, were the guide and the com fort of a large circle, is not. That arrow was a messenger intended to tell th e thoughtless "be ye"also ready." Some other of that circle will follow soon, no sprinkling of the door post will stay the destroying angel. Which of us will be as well prepared, as she, who was cut "down like a shook of corn fully ripe," to say, when the dread summons is made, "Lord here am 1." It was a heavy blow to her surviving husband. For nearly fifty [years, have they wandered joyously on in life's thorny pilgrimage; "she was every thing to him, and he to her was all." Old and stricken with years, like the old forest oak' he is left to breast the tempest alone: may it be the object of all to strenghten his fee ble steps down the steep declivity of life ; and may he find in the renewed kindnes s of friends, a something to lessen, if not de. stroy (for nothing can) the suffering of a heart torn from its companion, so much be loved. Credit of Pennsylvania. During the Administration of Gov.Rit ner, the credit of our State, was without suspicion. Every temporary loan requi red was immediately taken; and in fact the money for the repair of the breach was borrowed on the individual credit of some of the then State officers. Let our readers now see the change (or rather let them see, that the change cannot' be seen.) Laws have been passed author. l ,icing large State loans, at the interest of 1 5 per cent. The loans have been adver• tised for veeks, and at last the people ar e informed, that no man who has money, is 1 1 willing to loan this "provisional govern ment," of mobocrats & 'dogfreepers,' mon ey for them to squander amid their rio tings. Could any thing else be expected? An administration, that is directed in its movements by a Robespeirean "Commit. tee of Safely," who to accomplish a party manoeuvre, would proclaim Government at an end, must calculate largely on the duplicity of money lenders, if it thinks, that . they will allow it to count their coppers. Let the candid reader look at it! would you sir! or even you air who are a Loco Foco! loan your money to a man, or a party, or an administration, that laughs to scorn the supremacy of the laws, when they do not chime with his no•. tions of .patty supremacy. We know you would not, much less when you saw what little money they had, left, squandered to pay the marauders, who would trample your constituted rights and authorities un der their feet. All this, and more have been done by the present party in power in this State. They deserve not to be trusted. They even want watching—and your premise s guarded—or their "Provisional Commit tee," may declare your property as well as your rights, a proper subject and victim to their ruthlessness. Trust them indeed! The poor laborer on the public works, has been told he must travel to his far distant home, with out his money; and subsist on "faith alone" —faith that he shall get his pay. Nor is' this all, poor, needy, and afar off, he must travel backward and forward, asking these "provisional" patriots when they can pro• vide, money to pay his paltry pittance-- paltry, but yet the reward of ceaseless toil and sweat. Or unwilling, or unable to wait—the "land sharks" of the sam e party will buy up his "scrip" at 50 or per haps 75 per cent, and the needy victim learns that years of toil and economy have left him more needy, and less able to re enact perhaps the same scene. This is no over wrought picture! The coloring is none too high! Go ask the men who have wielded the mattock and shovel on the Gettysburg Rail Road, what treat ment they have met at the hands of this new administration. Learn of them the language of a poor man's curse— and the prayer of his suffering, and needy chil idren! . Trust them indeed ! The man who casts his "bread upon such waters," will learn that it has sunk in a political maelstrom, from whose, rapacious vortex, no return is ever made. This is the administration that was to redeem the credit of the State— that was to restore old Pennsylvania to the palmy days of "olden time." Does this look like it? Even the monied men of their own party dare not trust it It is a subject in which the butterfly of this world's strife i s 'concerned—and party fealty--pride of opinion--party power, or any political considerations weigh not a feather. Tho man who eaves his money to lend, and takes more notice of a copper lost, than he does of,a day,passed, which has sent him twenty-four hours farther down the stream, and brought km thus much nearer "eternity's broad sea,”— no matter if in his every day walks, he bawls or croaks incessantly for his party, he may love his party--hut he loves his purse more.--1 This, this is the certain evidence, of what men think of the character of our State --- Adminiitra . tion, when touched by Oa, ometer which tries us all. With suck men at_the head of power, why need we expect any thing but an in• solvent State, In another column will be found th e message of Gov, Porter, sighing over, his sufferings, mingling his moans with curses against the Banks. He goes for a divorce of all Banks from the Government. Poor miserable dupe of a dishonest and more wretched party. His "dog-keeperi*may frighten some of the conscientious Du 'peasys of the Legislature, to wink at their folly, but Banks nor monied Nen. 'cannot be frightened into a willingness, that these drunken bullies shall be the keepers of their wealth. Let those who are duped, still talk of the indignant people! but we can tell them when they learn, as they certainly will some day, that these l'inclignantfreemen,' were but hired assassins, whose home should be in the prison ,ell, whose every day of life has been a day of villiany and crime —when they learn this, aw4l — telern to, that these lawless bravoes were the boon companions of the present adminis tration, they will not wonder that they cannot borrow money. Our Rad Road again. The "Standard," will, we hope, do the justice to believe us when we say, we hail no intention to misrepresent the views it expressed upon the subject. But when that print tells us we charged it with be ing opposed to the extension, we aro at a loss to conceive upon what that assertion is founded. We should be rejoiced to think our cotemporary would lend its aid I to further the desired object. We must however, say that we think we discover, i s slight hint, which evinces anything hut 'favorableness to our road, in his last brief notice of our article. He compares the [ canal and rail-road to the dog and his ,shadow.—The canal is the substance—the rail-road-is the shadow. Now if our wor thy neighbor really Clinks the rail-road, a s unsubstantial as a shadow, we must be permitted to say, we believe he has too much good sense ever to favor such "un rei 1 mockery: , We wish to be distinctly understood, as in no wise wishing any abandonment of the canal; or any portion thereof. We would willingly say that, a reservoir should be made at Hollidaysburg, (not one Of such dimensions as recommended by Mr. Dougherty,) and that immediately. But a rail-road is equally, if not more needed. Let us have them both. Our examination of the "Standard's" remarks were made without any passion, prejudice, or a desire to misrepresent. If the "Standard" shows us we have un wittingly done so, our first effort shall be , to atone for the error. Official Capacity. An unprejudiced observer, who was ig. norant of the true character of the Loco Focos, would have imagined, that every' man of them, old and young, was not on ly an old canaller, but a civil engineer, while listening to their animadversions upon the conduct of Ritner's administra tion. In fact we hail supposed, that when they took hold of the reigns of government, that every thing would be done so exact. ly right, that nobody could complain. As our object is to show that they are as ignorant of their duties, and practice the same wicked things which were char+ ged by them against their predecessors. We shall confine ourselves to this, to show their deiiberate villiany, in doing, what they said, was maliciously wicked in others. A thousand little things were picked up—some manufactured—to show the people what an ignorant set of dum mies the officers of Ritner were, To keep the balance adjusted, when they are in the scale we shall note the official acts of these same "wise acres." Below we publish an extract of a letter to the Editor of the Telegraph from-Eas— ton. Just imagine vier, what a know ing lad that foreman was that built a Dam across below a "guard Lock" to make the water run out above the luck!—the idea of shutting the lock never occurred to him— and yet we have no doubt, but h e was loudest among the loud, in telling what fools his predecessors were. We could tell some good tales about the cunning felloWs in our county, if report says true, where they are digging out "sand banks," and are digging them a foot or two below the level of the canal. Our informant shrewdly observed that it was supposed that they intended to establish fisheries along the canal, so that when the water is drawn off, they will know where to find a "deep hole," in which the "cot.
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