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THE public are hereby informed, that
t JACOB MILLER has been nPP"inted ag ent
v for Huntingdon county, for the sale et Dr,
Evans' Camomile and family sperii nt pills,
) where all those that ne,d medicine, can be
a supplied as he intends always to have a sup
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vas_ IFE AND FiEALTUL—Persons whose
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r liver, they will cure. That dreadful dis
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symptoms of 'Nervous Debility* had bee„
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now many persons do we daily fad tortu
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Drastic purgatives in delicate habits ore al
must equally improper. Those arc prac
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they seldom f til to prove highly injurious.
Certifcat*s of cures are daily received
odd sufficient testimony of the great efficacy
*if this invaluable medicine, in relieving of
licted mankind. The above medicine is fur
iale at Jacob Miller's stor,, Huntingdon.
Swayne's Compomd .Syrup of pru
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n which the lungs do not perform their
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nest, whooping cough, wheezing and dill
ty of breathing, crimp and spitting of
{nod, 4.c. How many sufferers do we
daily behold approaching to an untimely
!,-,rave, wrested in the bloom of youth from
their dear relatives and friends, afflicted
with that common and destructive rava
ger, called consumption, which soon wasts
the miserable sufferer until they become
Iteyond the power of human skill; it such
;offerers would cnly make a trial of Dr.
Swayne's invaluable medicine, they would
saon find themselves brnefitted; than by
gulphing the various ineffective certain
remedies of which our newspapers daily
abound. This syrup immediately begins
to heal the ulcerated lungs, stopping pro
tnse night sweats, mititigating the distres
sing cough at the same time inducing a
healthy and natural expectoration, also re
iic.ving the shortness of breath and. pain
in the chest, which harrass the sufferer on
the slightest exercise, arid finally the hec
tic flash in the pallid and emaciated cheek
will soon begin to vanish, and the sufferer
will hero peceive himself snatched from a
premature grave, into the enjoyment again
of comfortable health.
Fur sale at Jacob Miller's store Hunt.
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AS.) POUND SYRUP of PRUNES VIR
61N1ANA6, or WILD CHERRY: This la de
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the Lungs, lo isens the cough, causing the
plegin to raise free and easy; in Asthma,
Pulmonary Consumption ' Recent or Chron
ic
Coughs, Wheezing & Choking of Phlegm
Hoarseness, Difficulty of breathing, Croup,
Spitting of Blood, &c. This Syrup is war
ranted to effect a permanent cure, it taken
according to directions which accompany the
bottles. For s l le only at Jacob Miller", story
fluatingdon.
From the Painsylvanht Inlelligencer.
INVES fIGATION INTO THE CON.
,DUCT OF THE CANAL
CMNUSSIONERS.
On Friday the Senate committee pro
ceded with the evidence. Mr. Stevens
appeared and said, that as the commis
sioner had assigned as a reason fur de
claring vacant the contracts, that the re
letting had not been duly advertised, sec
tion 132 only having been named in the
notice, he would proceed to show what
was the law and what had been custom ots
this point. Before the year 1839 it was
customary to re•let contracts without
any public notice. Is 1839 a law was
passed requiring two weeks notice to be
given. Under this law it had been cus
tomary to specify in the advertisements
one or more sections or jobs, and say
that they, "together with all other aban
doned work," would be re-let on a par
ticular day. To prove that this was the
custom, Mr. S. produced a file of the
Harrisburg Chronicle containing adver
tisements dated and signed as follows,
viz:
July 4, 1332, James Taggart, Supt.
Juniata Division.
March 4, 1333, John Dickey,!Supt.,
Heave , Division.
April 22, 1833.
June 10, 1833, Win. F. Packer, Supt.,
W. Branch Division.
August 12, 1833. Win. B. Mitchel,
Supt. Columbia railroad.
September 9, 1933,
All of which advertisements, after spe•
cifying certain sections and jobs, contain
ed the general clause, "together with any
other work that may be declared abaci ,
dotted previous to the day of letting."
Mr. Stevens gave this in evidence that
there had been no defect in the publica
tion of the lettinge which the new coin
imssioners without any form of law have
set aside.
James D. Harris called. I have been
an engineer since 1828. The twill In em
of ads ertising has been to give 30
. days
notioe on new work, that so many miles
of canal would be let on a particular flay;
and for re-letting, two weeks notice. I
have known work re-let without any pre
vious notice, on estimate days and at oth
er convenient times. Since the passage
of the law requiring two weeks notice
of re•letting, the practise has been to
name one or more jobs, and then say "to
gether with all other work that may be
declared abandoned or be ready for re
letting." Under this general clause it
has been usual to re-let work not speci
fied particularly in the advertisement--
all work that might be abandoned whether
specified or riot. It has been the prac
tice on the day of letting to post up at the
place of letting profiles and specifications
of the work to Lie re-lel; I have frequentl y
know these to be ;!raven up on the day of
letting. Lettings have always taken
place in such cases; and 1 have never
known the canal commissioneea to vacate
i
a contract thus let, until the late n e tan-1
cos at Tuuckhannoek. It has not always
on the public works been the practice to
let the work to the /meet, but to the low
est and Gest bidder—to the lowest respon•
siLle bidder. Many bids have usually
been received lower than successful ones.
'the officers have never deemed it good
policy to let the work at prices so low
that the contractors would be obliged to
abandon it, and thus put the Common
wealth to the delay and expense of a new
letting.
Mr. H. was proceeding to detail a
comparison between the prices of work
&c. in 1829 and 1839, when he was re
quested by the committee to put thestate
merit in writing, to which he assented
and the examination was suspended for ,
the present.
Mr. Jere Adams, late Superintendent
on the Tioga line, North Branch, testified
that he knew nothing against the charac
ter of Amos Addis, a contractor whose
estimate Piolett had undertaken to with-'
hold on the ground that he did not pay
his men! ! A fine excuse truly for pock
etieg another man's money. Mr. Adams
testified that he had never know the like
to be done before the era of the humane
thief, Piolett, the present superintend
ent.
Mr. George 14 ilsan, a contractor on
the North Branch canal testified that he
was estimated in November and Decemb
er, had dune some sixty day's work since,
but was estimated about the first of May
by the New engineers and bro't $lBO9 in
debt!
Mr. James Holliday, contractor, N. B.
testified that on one section he had been
estnnated in December by the old engi
neers to have done in all 83,785 worth of
work. After that he continued to work
and in March asked Mr. Mitchell, one of
the old engineers to make an estimate of
the work done since December, and he
estimated it at $150; at which Mr. H.
complained. when Mr. Mitchell said he
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON. PEANSVJ VANIA. W I'DNIPAY, JULY 3. 18`19.
would rather under than overestimate. as
he expected to leave the line. In April
Mr. Gamble, one of the new corps of
engineers, made an estimate that the
whole amount of all the work done up to
that time only amounted to $3,074,65
bringing the witness some $7OO ; n debt!
On another section the witness was alse
estimated in debt by the present engineers
$7OO.
Mr. John Teara testified that he had
heard Piolett say in a barroom in Towan
da that certain contractors (Clarke, Sem
ple and others) were a pack of rascals, and
they should see how the: would come
uut. This was about the time the false
estimates -were made. He also testified
that Piolett's clerk had attempted to
prevent him from coining to Harrisburg to
give evidence.
M r. J. D. Gulich, a contractor, testified
that he had been estimated in December
and received up to that time 8646, which
he bad considered a very low estimate.
lie had ceased work on the 13th of May,
because the new engineers refused to
stake out work for him, declaring that
they had orders to do nothing for him."
Since December, his last estimate, be has
done 1,910 day's work and had two carts
about two months, but has not received
any money, nor can he ascertain what his
estimate is. When he applied at the
office at Tunckhannock, lie was sent to
the canal commissioners here, they said
they knew nothing about it and he must
go to the office at Tunckhannock. When
he inquired of the commissioners if the
contracts were declared abandoned,
Packer told him they w,re; and when he
inquired the reason, Packer said it was
done and there was no use in arguing
about it.
SATURDAY,
Mr. Albert New.ll, a contractor, testi
fied that '!is 4ection, 45, N. B. the
estimate of Mr. Harris' corps of engineers
in Novembe was- - 9.986 yds. common
excavario.l, 21,721 yds. embankment;
that he has doaes soap work since, but
was estitnatted by ihe new Engineers in
May at 16,844 yds. excavation and 17,
731 embankment. This was reducing
his embankment 3,098 yds. anti his ex
cavation 3,142!!! or in other words,
robbing him of so much of his labor,
,exclusive of di,. work done be.ween
November and May. On section 74, the
es:iinate th-- new engineers was $l,-
040. This the witness ha.! complained of
knowing that he had taken clown over
han,ing rock to a greater amount: a new
inea,:ureiwni. was then made, giviti him
$2,430, which still bring.; the section in
debt. He was not with the engineers at
the first measurement not was at the
second, and explained to them the
eitua
tton of the work.
Mr. George Santhyrson, (a Porter mao)
testified that he had heaiil Piiils•ti ,v
. . _
that the contractors would be olt!i ,, eil
relinquish their jobs.
Mr. Piedett then admitted that lie hat;
withheld from Amos Addis the money due
him. Ile said Mr. Addis did not pay his
hands!
The witness said had understood
from tho' contri•ctors who were 1 , ,r flittwr
that they harm expected to be paid for
their work in case or Porter's success.
Their expectations are likely to be reali
zed!
Francis Semple called. lam a con
tractor on the North Branch canal, sec
tion 10 and 34, and acquiduct No. 2:
also a waste-weir on section 34. On
section 10. my estimate under Mr. Har
ris, (whom 1 always considered a close,
hard engineer to contractors,) was in
November 1838, $9,341. My estimate of
1701 April 1839, under the new engineer
(Mr. Foster) was $7,770. This was an
nounced to me on the COtli of May, and
lef roe in debt to the commonwealth
$1571. I had done from November to
April 17th, 573 days work from April up
to May 20th 427—in all 1000 days since
Mr. Harris' estimate. This was all inclu
ded by the engineers who measured so
as to bring me in debt. I can measure
work myself, and have frequently c3ine
within five dollars of the estimate of the
engineers, until this last estimate. I did
some work in December, and then stop
ed work till the first of March, when 1
called upon the engineers to measure the
work before I should commence in the'
Spring., whisk was granted, and on the
4th of March the work was measured, and
/ was told the balance due me was $126.
On the 20th of May I came to Towanda
for my estimate—made several unsuc
cessful attempts (the door being locked)
to procure admission into the canal office
but fmally succeeded. I called upon Mr.
Foster for the amount of my estimate—he
said he did not know—/ must call in half
an hour; but he could recollect enough to
inform me that there was nothing coin
ing to me. I asked him to finish the
calculation and let me know the situ
ation in which I stood, and left. Accord..
ing to his request I called a second time
and was shown an unbound book contain-
ing a statement showing the results al- Quest ionby Piolett.—Did you ever
ready stated. 1 asked for, and received know letter written by the late
a copy of the items of the estimate, ( re-
Coal o f any
Commissioners to Jesse Adams, the
renting the paper.) I then asked Mr. Superintendent, to give you work at low
Fo,ter to give me a copy of Mr. Harris' piee?
estimate: he at first rather declined, but An swer s by , Mr. Semple.—l DID NOT.
finally hunted up a book containing [Examination closed till Monday.]
statements of estimated value of work MONDAY.
done, which exhibited any work as I had
received at the Nov. estimate, $93,41.
asked Mr. Foster for a copy of the items Mr. JESSE Wooncocx, a contractor,
N. B. testified that he has always under
of the November estimate, similar to that stood it to be customary for the original
given me of the April estimate. He an- contractors to get work at the re-lettings.
swered that the items were not in the office; He has had a section on the N. Branch;
that they were kept in temporary books, received an estimate in December; since
then has done 14,00 ilay's work, which
which were lost; and that lie would not
give me a copy if they were there. I then was measured about the Ist of May, when
asked him if he would re-measure the the value of the work wits estimated by
work; he said not till the regular time of the new engineers at $BO7. This he did
estimating, about th e tmt, of June. In not consider a fair compensation fur his
the course of the afternoon and evening I work, the estimate not being more than
hallos much its it ought to have been. In
consulted an Attorney, who suggested to
:no to request Mr. Foster to give me a copy addition, the aew engineers had frequent
of the items of both estimates; and to
ly refused to stake out work, the superin
make the request in writing. lit the mor-
tendent has refused to pay over money
ning I called on Mr. Foster in time office,due to contractors; and the new o ffi cers
and handed him a paper containing three Irate been guilty of various acts of op
requests— to give me a copy of t the April P remijn '
JOSEPH J. LanoTon, a contractor on
estimate—of Air. Harris' estimate—and
sections 55 and 149. N. 8., received an
to proceed to section 10 and correct the
errors by a new measurement. This he
estimate in November last, and in Janua
refused. He also refused to sign the pa- ry had his work measured (on section 53),
by the engineers under Mr. Harris, when
per he had given me the day before, cot
he had $1,400 due, which was not paid.
raining the items of the April estimate
While in the office discovered lays:, On the first or fi fth of May an estimate
was made by the new engineers, giving
open on the desk Tire BOOK containin7.
Use items of the November estimate, WHIC ' H him $ 3 , 20 0. In the interval, between
November and May he had done between
MR. FOSTER HAI) DECLARED WAS NOT IN
live arid six thousand days work, and also
EXISTENCE. 1 looked at the book, but
worked three teams. According to the
having been called aside for a moment to
estimate in May, by the oew en g ineers, he
sp-ak - with Mr. Clark, when I returned,
would lose about FIVE THOUSAND
although a minute of time had not elapsed,
the book had disepprared. I kept my ey DOLLARS, that it he was about five
thousand dollars worse off than if he had
about, however, and saw it on the table'
been estimated fairly. ..1 consider," said
around which the engineers sat—placing
inv hand on it, I asked Mr. Foster to per-"that injustice its been done me
;at I have been robbed. I went to
mit me to take a copy of the items. He Mr.l
nd I t;
work with stone capital-1 invested it fa I I
said 1 should not. On May 24th when
—it is now gone and I am destitute. 1
about leaving Towanda, in obedience to
consider not only myself but my WIFE
the subpcena of this committee, I received
AND FANIILY ROBBED, by the ou
a notice that section 10 was forfeited.
fair estimate." On section 149, he had
On the 20th of May I hail 23 men on the done some work before the re-letting, but
section—no contractor from Towanda to
finding his prices too low, he had thrown
Athens had so many—the section was in
it up and bid again at the re-letting, and
good order and working handsomely. On
was succesful. lie had thrown it up he
that day I learned of the estimate leaving
cause the excitement of competition had
mr $OOO in debt. No reason has been induced him to bid too low in the first
intimated to me why the w rk was abut.
l instunce and he could not live at the pri
dolled, I can conjecture none, save one;
ces. He had known many contracts to be
th it was not a signer of the contract!
re-let to the original contractor; ; there
myself, the work having been allotted to
was no law against it: but he had not
semple & Edmi,ton,—my brother and
himself, nor had he ever kntivn any con-
Jo•e;.h FAlmiston. Ott the 30th of July
tractors to have any understanding with
1,,,t el,. brother porchaseil the interest of '
the officers that they were to be preferred
.lesep!: f'.ilinistirn and per:onally superin
to other bidders. He had known Air,
tended tbe work until November, Olen
Colt, tombs'. of the House of Represen
lie was obliged to visit the South for the i
tatives, to throw up a contract and receive
leirielit of his health, as he was sulTering
l it the same day at a re-letting. 'lad al
under, aii suit k of pulmonary consump
ways known re•lettings to be advertised
Linn; and I never heard any nbjection to
as the Tunkhannock re-letting WIIS.
7,1 V raer on the work until I received
rusts. abandoeinent, which notice was I ZEBULON STEVENS, testified that on
di, ec;eii to Semple, Edmiston and Semple, section 57, which had been thrown up by
ihus reco.biziog me as entitled to carry !Colt, Gaskins h Lemnos son, he offered to
flu OW Ork, SO tinat lamat a loss to ar- bid with Mr. Colt and was accepted.—
rite the reason of abandonment. Yes. Colt and Gaskins made out the bid and
terda v I laid a protest before the Board of lie signed it; but when the contract was
inis=iotters, with an affidavit of given out, Gaskins & Luirinerson went
loy h ether's illness: to-day I called in on before the re-letting to manage it, and
compliant., w.th the suggestion of the Ilse heard no more of his bid!! Does not
President of the Board, out nrcrived no . know whose name was substituted for his
satisfactioir. ;own
Cross eits niined.— I have seen the esti-1
mate books containing the items during
Mr. Harris' time. It is in an office book,
' accessible to all interested. I am ac
quainted with Mr. Piolett, and have heard
him say that some contractors were lion
' est and dishonest, and that some were
right in politics and some wrong. Soon
after the election, when he was an appli
cant for the office ut superintendent,
heard Mr. Piolett say they (meaning his
party) would have mercy upon whom they
would have mercy. This conversation
took place at the stable of Mr. P. when
he took the to look at an ox he was about
to roast to honor of Mr. Porter's election.
'Fite Conversation turned upon the offices
of superintendent, principle engineer, &c.
when he said the motto of the party slio'd
be "new b, omns."
Mr. FlSHER.—(counsel) or in other
words, Poles to Siberia!
Mr FRAILEY (of S. please give us the
English Mr. Fisher; I don't understand
these latin phrazes.
Mr. FISHER.--The Fentlemaii I fear
has not paid due attention to the history
of modern times. (Laughter.)
Mr. FEAILET,-1 never studied flue
dead languages! [Even the gravity of the
chairman of the committee was disturbed.]
Witness (Mr. Semple) continued:
have heard Mr. Piolett since say in 'Mr.
Wilson's Hotel, in Harrisburg, that at the
Tunkhannock letting, he puts in bids in
the name of all his responsible party
friends—that he bid low, not expecting to
get work. I understood that he bad been
laying . a trap to catch the late Board of
Commissioners. I have since heard him
say that the 17 contractors were flagrunt
cases, and the contractors should be put
off.
S. S. GUYER, testified that after the
re-letting the same turn and managers
proceeded to manage section 57, that had
on it before the re-letting, and that they
hail never stopped w ark. Four days
previous to the reletting, (the day Mr.
'Colt threw up his section,) he asked Mr.
Colt if he intended to bid again, and was I
answered in the affirmative. After the
letting, he asked Mr. C. if he had got the
work, and was answered yes; and after
wards saw Mr. Colt on the section direct
ing the work. Mr. Colt is now a member
of the House of Representatives.
On Saturday, Jnne 8; the contractors
closed their testimony. All their witnes
ses were not examined; nor had one half
of the important facts been laid hefore
the committee; but as many of the com
plainants have been robbed of their earn
ing and reduced nearly to beggary by
the oppressive course of Parker, Clark it
Co. and their underlings, anti as relief
must come from the Legislature, it receiv
ed at all, it was deemed proper to close
the testimony for the prosecution, inas
much as an adjournment is close at had.
This view of the case was eloquently
stated tefore the committee by Isaac
Fisher Esq. of Lewistown counsel for the
contractors, who urged that the witnesses
on the opposite side, (the Canal Commis
sioners not deigning to appear,) be exam•
ined with all possible despatch, in order
that the committee might soon report.
Mr. PETER RITNER, a contractor 011
the West 'Branch, testified that his work
was estimated under the new engineers
i n April at $260, when work had been to
the amount of at least $1000: !! not in
cluding a quantity of stone delivered for
L a wall on the section. In addif on to this
a number 91 kegs of powder had been
f: Vol.. IV, N 0.37,
used. This was on section 40. Th
firm (Ritner & Sullivan) had also a cul
vert on which the had been allowed by
Mr. Porter's engineerss, seven hundred
and thirteen dollars, for work on which
they have expended seventeen hundred
and thirty dollars! I This is the justice
the administration show to their oppo
nents.
Maj. Geo. S. ARMSTRONG of Centre
county testified, that some years ago he
had two contracts under. W. F. Pocker
as Superintendent, one of which had been
allotted to him at a public letting and the
other privately by Afr. Packer to Mr.
Rankin and lionself.--The value of the
private contract was 12 or $14,00, and
' was leceived in the year 1833. Maj. A.
also testified that he had a slight acquain
tance with Mr. Piolett; that a day or two
after Piolett was appointed Superintend.
ent on the North Branch, he (Maj. A.)
was sitting in Buehler's reading room in
Harrisburg; that Piolett was there and
told him it he (Piolett) could get the right
kind of cngincers he would drive all the
anlintasonic contractors of the line in u
few weeks.
Mr. Conwrascu.r, one of the late En.
gineers testified to die correctness of the
measurements and estimates made before
the present officers came into power.
3 / 1 .. NATHANIEL CLAPP was then called
on the part of Mr, Piolett, and testified
that his partner was a locofoco; that they
had received their estimates, but he sup
posed that it might have been because he
resided in Mr. Pinlea's county and might
be able to "give him a lift" at an clec•
don
1. -7=lll
ANECDOTE.
Some years ago, a lady noticing that a
neighbour Of hers was not in her seat at
church on a Sabbath, called on her return
home, to inquire what could detain so
punctual an attendant. On entering the
house, she found her yam ly busy at work.
She seemed surprised, when her friend
addresSed her.
"IN hy la! where hare voa been to
day, dressed oat iii your eabbath day
clothes'!"
"•I'o meeting."
"Why what day is id'
'Sabbath clay."
"San, slop waFshing, in a ;Mimic: Sab
bath day! well, I did not know it, for my
husband has got so darn'd stingy he won't
take the newspapers now, and We know
nothing. Well, who preached?"
—"
"And n hat did he prcoti about?"
was on the dead' ut our Savior."
"My, is he dead! o ell, well, all Bos
ton might be d.ntd, and we know nothing
of it, it won't do, we mac! have the news
papers again, for every thing goes wrong
without the papers. Bill has almost lost
his reading,and Pall has got quite mopish
because she has no poetry and pretty
stories to read. 11 ell, if we have to
take a cart load of onions and potatoes
to market. I am resolvod to have a news-
paper."
Fishing and Illatrimony.--Flam tell's
a good story of a man'who was so inordi
nately fond of "going a fishing," that he
was fearful of appointing a day for his
marriage lest it might turn out fine weath
er for his favorite sport. The thing was
finally settled by a contract of this nature:
--- , The marriage shail be consumated on
Monday nextprovided the weather be such
'as to prevent fishes from, biting. If it
should not oo turn oat it shall be postpon
ed until the first day favorable for matri
, money vice versa for fishing.
11 ere we in the girl's place such a
chap might fish somewhere else for a
wife.
11 Fair Business Transaction--A fel
low was engaged to a girl in Maine hut
liked her sister better than he did her.
fJishing to be oft with the old love before
he was on the new, he asked his betrothed
what she would take to release him; she
replied that about sixty-tyro dollars she
thought was as much as he was worth;
whereupon he ponied :up the dust, took
quit claim, and married the sister.—Pica
yune.
A Gentle Hint.—An uncle Deft in his
will eleven silver spoons to his nephew,
Adding ..If I have not left him a dozen, he
knows the reason," The fact was, the
nephew sometime before, had stolen it
from his relative.
Mmenieminsays
A French author says, "the modest
deportment of those who are truly wise,
when rontrasteJ with the assuming air of
the ignorant, may be compared to the
different appearances of wheat, which,
while its i.or is empty, holds up its head
proudly, but as soon as it is filled with
grain, bouts modestly down and with
from observati•in."