-were --surprised- 11 at lie dal mit ',with.. and legislative constancy of thi mention his !mole, and hence aexiiiits to t ralitcniustbe cult' slia know who this stranger might lie. At l xen, if n o t 1/111111:111.1V lost. Thurelore, I length he autirc and mliliessed 'llipee tilt it to he niv Solemn and impera to heaven, in a tune that thrilled the beams I iive duly, to CM. , et s the (4cm:rat Asset!, of his hearcrs• I at oil' :ll . cop.iii,d l bly again t in this extt'anrdin:uy occasion, Janes C, r enoi , i t , to lu,id a si ssiiir. Pal !f:e 8 , v,-,itrenth day (1 as did the 10101 e eOl/14,1110,fi. ins tw at, 111 p Carol , tt . Sat at I hart' ,Lush this (ail .). retiott, before in her hands, sobbed "itiy son, toy ..1, and returneo ir is test „.„ s t h e 1 ,„„.„ a s i n d ie "nomes, to relieve them from the gal son, and Hey, r 1,,,,1 horn sa able of ',winin g at a mire ittrotive 'Moil seas CI, 10 sive the wealth , moved by such a kilivid mid dis, , nurse.la rry ye it, the l at as . from the Loge xpenees which „ ;mining with let es; lie drew a lively she would necessai 'sear in the recat un.tore o r h i s a man., lit I,f the mend. rs f, till their several re licr that oil lilt t'ae force of what be mute places of abode; and to secure the must speedy action if the Legislature on this store vAith , vas ow , inwskai, the scb . jects above referred to, that is 01. first trembled; but soon iagaitied preing l impont to ami muc even tone, and swilled into int t'ltopieni:: practicable, because they are of a nature i. too"l ay'ss t' lAo a w rta matter of unfeign d ed t regret 1 1 1 which Was doubly felt by v the vat led in to me, to be obliged to arrest the return ciilents,onneeled with the sp,kcr, ' ol the members to their families and found its way to the melted licaris of his homes, .but. the irijanctions of duty, are congregation. Ne‘er ;shall 100 stern and unyielding to be disregarded mortal sublimity that was pietused in that —I obey them with readiness, and shall beetle. crest to the enlightened %visit - th' ilavitig finished the duties of hts cal•• 1 ling, he dcst•.ended from the pulpit amid the congratulation of all, and conducted his aged and fond mother, overcome with joy to her long stricken home, I need not picture the ri.joicing that sprecd that' the circle of his former to (inaintance,— Thatindeed will require no such stretch of imagination to portray. Noon after wards the following appeared in the only palter published in the place: t'il/Autuen, on— by the Rev. the Rev. James Patterson, to tllisy Julia Wilmot, both of this b trough. SPECIAL 'MESSAGE OF The Governor, To the Senate and House of Represen'a lives of the Comnonwealth of Penn sylcunia; and to the mendnrs thereof. AVHEREAS, The constitution of this Commonwealth confers upon the Gover nor the power of converting the General Assembly, on extaorilinary occasions: AND wingless, No provision has been made by law for the payment of the inter terest now due, and falling due on the ' State debt, between the present time and the meeting of the next Legislature, and ' for the repair and current expellees of the canals and railroads of the Commons wealth, nor for the prosecution .of the public works now under contract, and in a state of approaching completion: AND WHEREAS, It these several objects be left in their present condition, unprovided for, the Nth and honor of the Common wealth of Pennsylvania must be deeply tarnished, and the •canals and railroads now in a state of completion, and in the construction of which, our enormous State debt was mainly contracted, must, 'in a great measure, if not altogether, cease to be of use, whereby not only will the public suffer great loss and inccm venience, bit the character of our im provements itself fig . stability and use ' fulness, will !receive a ;IC:1U blow from which it will not soon recover, pfl the revenue of the Commonwealth, already so lamentably inadequate to meet the de mands upon it, will be reduced little short of three-fourths of a million of dol lars within. the ensuing year: and the pub lic works, now in a state of approaching completion, in the undertaking of which the Commonwealth has a very large sum of money already invested, must remain idle and useless, to the serious diminu tion of the public revenue, and to the de triment of those sections of the Common wealth, especially through which they pass: AND WHEREAS. By the Act passed the 3d day of April 1840,.entitled a 'res olution providing for the resumption of specie payments by the banks, and for other purposes,' the sum of three millions of dollars is provided for the purposes, herein mentioned, in case the Legislature' enacts the appropriate laws, ;applying it to the same.—AND WHAREAS, One of the • principal reasons for giving the banks so great an extension of their present sus pension of specie papments, as until the 15th of January, 1841, was to obtain this fund of three millions of dollars, for. the relief of the commonwealth from the financial embarrassments by which she is at this time beset; AND WIISRZAS, A fai lure to provide for applying the same to the purposes for which it was designated, is an entire surrender of this important advantage, secured to the public by that law, and is a total release of the banks from an essential part of the considera tion, on which the indulgence they are en joying, was granted, which appears to the to be a course of policy neither wise nor just. ANE WHEREAS, the Commonwealth ofi Pennsylvania with her vast resources, and her magnificent system of public Mis t provements, owns it to her own character for steadfastness, strict observance of en, gagements, and a high sense of state pride and public faith, to pay with punctuality the interest becoming due on the public debt— the respective debts due to those who labored to construct and keep her, improvements in repair—and to exert her' energies to continue those improv.einonts in a fit condition to transport upon them, whatever products her own citizens and) those of neighboring states, may have ere ated or purcliased on the faith, and with' the expectation and assurance, that these' improvements wen to be and remain their highway to and from market; AND' WHEREAS, should there be no remedial legislation in the present emergency, the confidence of the world in the engage- _.igii, ,ten AIM of the .iey . nionthei aof the General Assembly, anifol knew not. •Ilist not one dollar could be our cniiinion constituents—the people to obtained for the purpose for which it was sanction the act, and to render it instru. appropriated. • , mental in.promoting Cie public good, and 11e had received from the Canal Conl in sav i ng f rom im p en di ng re p roac h th e missioners written orders upon! the sit faith and honor of Pennsylvania. pervisurs to pay some of those debts, In the fund for the plyment of , but whether these officers disregarded the the interest on the public •instruction of the Board, or the orders debt, the deficiency within . were countermanded secretly, he knew the next nine months will be not, one thing however all knew—.'he mo not less than 8800,(00 ley could not be obtained seen under the For the repairs made by the . orders of the Canal Commissioners, that Ipresent officers, on the sev- was specifically appropriated by law for 1 eral lines of canal and rail • :the payment if debts. • road, there is yet due and I Mr. B. was anxious that the faith of unpaid, at least, 500 , 00 0 the State should be kept at home and a- For repairs to be made during I broad— and was willing to take the re the present year, it will re- sponsibility of any proper means of sus quire (exclusive of the Fran- Itaining it—and one of the first things to Min line) at least, 400,000 be ;done was the payment of its debts There is due also for ropes, lie was also satisfied that two lines of the locomotives, Sze., 75,000 Public improvements should be carried Also for lucks on Eastern Di- pin. But before his vote could be obtain , vision , 7 , 402 'cd for one dollar, he and the people must Also, (over and above appro- be satisfied that their directions would be priations,) to contractors on regarded by those appointed to carry the Erie extension, 204,000 them lout; that officers would be appoint- On North Branch, 165,000 ed who would comply with their direc- On Wisconisco, 2,000 lions, and not set themselve and their On Sinneinalioning, 54,124 own will up as the law. Unless this was Gettysburg railroad, 145,307 done, he would vote no more money, and Allegheny Feeder, 1,100 no more power into their hands. M. B Inclined plane at Columbia 6 0,000 was proceeding to state cases of tyranny For new work on finished and oppression, that the canal officers lines, pay of engineers, ca- had been guilty of in refusing to pay nal commissioners, ificc. 50,000 debts with the money appropriated, where For damages, 30,000 individual. had coffered greatly, when he • This large amount is HOW due, or will was called to order by the Speaker, and become dae before the meeting, of the look his seat. next Legislature, or immediately thereat% ................-- ter; and it is manifestly impossible to postpone the provididing of funds to meet it, with any proper regard to the con• tracts and faith of the State; and under this view of the subject, it seetns to me there cannot be two opinions upon the ;course that ought to be adopted a mong honest men. This whole subject I have taken occasion to bring before you it , my former message —ample time for re flection and Investigation has been given, , a dz! under the dictates of a true spirit of conciliation :.•.oti.forbearance, it seems to me you cannot coustlnte upon its consid eration, much inure than A single day of your time. * DAVID R. PORTER. Exeoutiae Chamber, April 16, 1840. Pennsylvania Legislature IN SENATE. FRIDAY. April 10, 1840, Mr. Ewavo maved to amend the bill by striking out all after the enacting clause, and inserting as a substitute, a bill provi ding for the payment of the debts of the Commonwealth, on all the lines of im provement, for the repairs of the Colum bia railroad, and e 400,000 for the repairs of the other public improvements. Mr. BELL said ;that he wished to have it distinctly and well understood at this stage of the improvement question, that until he had evidence that the money ap propriated for the payment of debts, &c. was to be distributed by other agents than the present ones, and that the intentions and instructions of the Legislature were to be regarded and lived up to, he would not vote for the apropriation of a dollar, although he had exerted himseif to place the means within the power of the admin istration. Mr. B said he had the facts in his pos session, in black and white on paper, that not one dollar of the suns of $145,000 ap propriated last year for the payment of debts, had been or could be obtained of the State 'officers. Nut one cent of all this loan had been paid to those that the State owed; and he defied a contradiction of the fact. He had received information from all parts of the Commonwealth on ate subject. kfr.Ewixo said his object was to bring the sui.jtsct before the Senate. The ses skin wag fitst drawing to a close, and un-' less there was action upon this subject they could not dispose of it by the time of the adjournmen4—mid lie was opposed to prolongio g the se,sl;in Leyond the day fixed upon. If the Sei:ator from the city was desirous of introducing A clause into the bill in relation to taxation :7e might do it; but he did not believe that eith:l* in the Senate or the House, the party in WI wet' had the “nerve" to vote for a bill• to lay ft, tax. Ile believed that the bill got upend voted dowrvimsthe House, was merely a feeling, and that there was no intention ta3joiity to lay a tax urt an the pat t y. "Il i t.y would stave Ti,,. . hey would dispose of the stom... tither public properly, that the State pp, ,essed, befor e they would lay ] a tax. Mr. L wiAted to be understood that he had taken:his ground on this question with perlect coolness. That although he mil dune . as much he might say, as any '..S'enator, to provide means tar the mind t istration to pay its debts and prosecute its: improvements—and although ho was ing to provide fur the repairs of the pub' lie improvements, and to appropriate a, reasonable sum for the construction of the North Branch and Erie extension, yet, be] lure he would vote one cent o: appropri-, atiun he would have to be satisfied that 'die officers of the Commonwealth confirm to and carry out the instructions of the Legislature. Ile repeated what he:. hail said before, that out of the $145,000 appropriated last year fur the payineut of ,debts due up to the first of February 18 39, not one dollar had been or covld be 'obtained from the disbursing officers; he had the evidence of this in his plitibCSl;loll II hat had been done with the mon- he To Contractors• HE Commissioners of Huntingdon coun ty, hereby give notice that they will re 'ceive proposals at theirloffice, in the borough of Huntingdon on Saturday the 9th May next, for the erection of a BRIDGE over Stone creek, immediately below the said borough. The plan and specifications of the same will be exhibited at the time and place of letting. PETER SWOOPE, JAMES MOORE, JOSHUA ROLLER. Commissioners. Huntingdon, April 21, 1840. COMMON SCHOOLS. The billowing statement exhibits the numbei. of taxable inhabitants, within the several common school districts of Hun tingdon, and is made for the iufu► oration of the directors in compliance with the 10th section of the school law of June 1836. The amount which each accepting school district id entitled to receive the ensuing year, commencing on the Ist Tuesday of J une next, out of the annual State appropriation, is a sum equal to ONE DOLLAR for each taxable inhabitant in the the district. The amount of school tax required to be levied to entitle a district to its share of the State appr9priation, must be a sum equal to at least sixty cents fur each taxa ble inhabitant in the. district. DISTRICTS. ENUMERATION of 1839. Allegheny, 595 Antes, 347 Barree, 439 Cromwell, 268 Dublin, 168 Franklin, 319 Frankstown, 301 Henderson , 237 Huntingdon 268 llopewell, 262 Ilollitlaysburg, 493 Morris, 301 Porter, 360 Shirley, 804 Springfield, 235 'I ell, 209 Tyrone, 235 Union, 180 Walker, 176 NV arriormilark. 391 West, 409 IPoodberry, 630 Ted, 203 Blair, 150 By order of the county Commission- 1 ers, 171 h Feby. 1840. "SLAW FOR 541,1; AT THIS • • • - ', THE JOURNAIA. One country, one constitution, one destiny Huntingdon, April 22 : 1 S,lO Democratic ..ii timasonic CAN Pi: E D N , WM, L it Oi I i pRRISON, FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN TYLER OF VIRGINIA. FLAG OF tilit rcorLE! Kr- A single term for the Presidencyand the office administered for the whole PEO. PL E. and nut for a PA ( yr A sound, uniform and convenient Na tional CUHRENcy, adapted to the wants of the whole CouNmr, instead of the SHIN PLAKIERS brought about by 1 ur preset RuLEns. ri — Ecowom ,RETR EN CHM EN T, and RE - FOR M in the administration of public affairs, reTired of Experiments and Experi menters, Republican gratitude will reward unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub— altern of WASHINGTON and the desciple of JEFFERSOIt, and thus resuming the safe anp beaten track of our Fathers,—L. Gazette Electorial Ticket. JOHN A. SHULZE, &WWII JOSEPH RITN ER, I electors Ist Disirict LEVIS PASSMORE, 2d do CADWALLADER EVANS. do CHARLES WATERS, 3d do JON. GILLINGHAM, 4th do AMOS ELLMAKER, do JOHN K. ZELLIN, du DAVID Po - yrs, sth do ROBERT STINSON, 6th do WILLIAM S. HINDEU, 7th do J. JENKINS ROSS, Bth do PETER FILBERT, 9th do JOSEPH H. SPA YD, 10th do JOHN HARPER, IWI do WILLIAM M'ELVA 'NE, 12th do JOHN DICKSON, 13th do JOHN M'KEEH AN, 14th do JOHN REED, 15th do NATHAN BEACH, 16th do NElt MIDDLESWARTH, 17th do GEORGE WALKER, 18th do BERNARD CONNEI LY, • 19th do GIN. JOSEPH MARKLE, 20th do JUSTICE G.FMDYCE, 21st do JOSEPH HENDERSON. 22d do HAR MAR DENNY, 13d do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON, 24th do JAMES MONTGOMERY, 25th do JOHN DICK. To Correspon nltt We have received "An Ode to Stone Creek." •Ve inform our youthful corres pondent, that it shall appear next week. Our friend in Ifartslog voile., we would inform, that we have lost or mislaid his communication. Will he be good enough to favor u• with another copy? We ca!l the attention of our readers to the letter from Ohio, published in to-day's paper. It is a cheering account of the elections in that State. We have polies itation in saying, that the days of Van Burenism are numbered. The Meeling. The proceedings of the meeting held at the court house, will be found in another column. It gave a "glorious and onzi noes" indiestriim of the feelings of good old Ifuntingdon. The meeting was large and enthusiastic. The meeting was ad• dressed in an eloquent and impressive manner, by H. A. McMurtrie, Esq. ; and John Blanchard, Esq. The speakers, throughout their addresses, were frequen tly stopped by the shouts of applause. The meeting struck terror into the hearts of the Van Buren men. They could not raise a corporal's• guard fur a meeting, and they "gave it up." Harrison is sure of a majority of 1500 in this county-- mark that, The u.9dvocate" has just come to the conclusion that it will expose the writer , for the "Journal." Obi: now don't. You hail'ilt ()tighter do the likes of that crc. A Trial Of more than ordii.ary interest was had during the last week, in the court nfquar ter Sessions. The circumstances are briefly thus. A young man, by the name of John 11. Butts, became, some years since, a student of Dr. 0. G. Scott. They got along quite s ell until some misunder standing arose, when Butts left the Dr., and took with him his trunk, books and clothing, and went home. Almost imme, diately the doctor ulledged that ho had been robbed by Butts, and purposed ma•' king complaint. This hoevever he did not. o at that time. Some months subse- lot oily, llutt3' fa her sued Scott for a .et (lenient tot his son, and then the pros . e.cit tint) for Unit was commenced, as al_ most all die community thought, m ith a most unrelenting determination to con• viet. A long train of svitnesseswera ex amined, and cross•eXamined, and many of the most extraordinary contradiction: were "ought out. As the trial progressed, ^med to be but one opinion, the ;here se. of Butts; and nut a a ery pet feet innocen. '^rd the peosecu charitable sensation tt, it, verse tur, ur as some boldly exire . ,: eu • "ett cutor. The cause was most ably fur the defendant, by Messrs. Miles ann Willionsun —and with as much zeal and ability (V the counselor the pro%ccu lion) as their case would admit of. The charge' of the Judge was clear and distinct —cha racterised by candor and justice. The jury in about ten minutes retuned a ver dict of NoT GUILTY. The Legislature Has adjourned. But as will be seen by the proclamation of the Govet nor, they were called together again the next day ; and then they adjourned again, having passed no bill of appropriations. A refe rence to the remarks of Mr. Bell, in ano ther column, will satisfy every honest man as to the reason why they would not 'give any more money to thesis office hot• ders. Governor Porter has evidently mista. ken his men, when he calls them togeth erlo furnish money fur his knaves to squander; they will not too the mark to satisfy hits, and the result is, that the poor 'laboring man must sutler. After having toiled all winter, he now finds that he cannot obtain his pay; and he must sub mit to have his claim against the St tte shaved (and we doubt not it has bern done, with the very money of the state), to the tune of 25 per cent., or else lot Ifs few goods and chattels fall into the ch.t • ches of the law, This is Porter ref trot. The banks now can declare dividends and loan money, with perfect impunity. , The late law allows it. Before its pas sage, silver could be got of them in three months, by making them endorse their notes. Now the note holder has no way but to sue a common debt; and then he may wander in law's labyrinth, years be. fore he can get his money. True the banks bought this privilege, and were to pay for it. But without the passage of an appropriation law, they have it for no thing. In fact the people are at the mer cy of the banks—and this is bank reform. For the Journal. Legislating For Spoils Mr. BENEDIC In these changing times, it is a mat ter of some difficulty with the people of country, to keep pace with all the ups and downs, the ins and outs of men in public stations. Therefore I send you this brief communication, and request ita insertion in your paper, in order that the people may see how the latest change has been brought about. John Kerr, Esq, was appointed Asso ciate Jui!ge fur this county, under the old constitution, in 1838. The 2nd. section of the schedule of the amended constitution ordains that "the alterations and amendments in the said constitution shall take effect from the Ist day of January 1839." Section 4. "Tile General Assembly which shall convene in December 1838 shall continue in session as heretofore; and shall at all times be regarded as the first General Assembly under the amen den constitution." Section 9. "The Legislature at its first session under the amended constitu tion, shall divided the Associate Judges of the State, into 4 classes. The com missions of those of the Ist class shall expire on the 27th day of February 1840; of those of the 2nd class, on the 27th day of Febi nary 1841; of those of the ;;•41 class on the 27th • day of February 2 184 1 .dayof February 1842; and of tis 18 o the4::3. The IC!a9s l 9ll sa tl i i ,, e 7t classes from the Ist to the 4th., shall be arranged according to the seniority of the commissions of the several Judges." Sa you perceive that the Legislature which assembled in f::!!of 1888 Was the fret Legislature under the present constitution, the alterations and amend ments of which, did not take effect until the Ist ofJanuary 1859; and it was made the duty of the first Legislature to clas sify all the Associate Judges in the com monwealth, In pursuance of the last above quoted 'section, the Legislature Oaring the ses sion which commenced in 1838 passed a law classifying the said Judges agreeably 0 the constitution, which law was al, tom! by Gut.. P-rtvr on the 20th nt . Juni! IF3O. firA Legislature, as Wag their d ii ty, arringed the Judges according to the seniority of their commission,: ich placed Judge Vierr in the 4th etas s, whose commissions ittittiol expire in Hi- But the capricious party in power , who carry out to its fullest extent, the principle; that "to the victors belong the spoils," have at the instigation of • Davit! P. Porter, who is endeavoring to procure Legisla!oe enactments •to authorize IYiI -.p the judgßs to select the jurors, so ' , aye his causes tried on their aistegarited.,the. re - - , sti“ifien and the • tiut he cat. merits, have at.. ''nse rtrtuire quiretnents 01 the cu. law, paved agreeably to melds, and reclassified the Judg;.' cing John Kerr in the Ist class, ‘rho..fe commission thus expired on the £7tli February 184t5. Jame; Gwin, who suits the Governor's views better, is appointed Judge in the room of John Kerr. I do not wish to say any thin% about the new Judge—lit is already known to tt.c people wham he is to judge. Ido not know that he had any hand in bringin; about his unconstitutional appointment, but I presume he believes fully as much in legislation fur spoils as he does in the iviulubility of the cotstitutio,► and laws. JUNIUS. April 20, 1840. IN OHIO. Exfract of :a Wier from Ohio to a genatman in this place, dated, CEIILLICTI'HE, Onto, April 13,1840, DEAR SIR, --I have delayed answer ing your letter, until our spring elections were over. They took place on Monday. last, fur township Officers, throughout the State, and the result, so far as heard from, and wherever the Presidential question was a test, has been great and glorious fur the cause of old Tip. Indeed, the liar ison boys arc so numerous, that in some towns, the Vanites sheer no signs of life. I will state the result in a few towns, us samples of the whole Slate. Ist, In this town, our majority last fall was 54, now it is 2SG. 2nd, In Green township the majority against us last tall was 47, this spring o•.►r majority was 98. Our majority in Ross last fall ms 179, in this spring elec tion it is nearly 800. You may set down , Ohio between 20,000 and 50,000 for the Hero of the Thames; of this there is no mistake. A leading Vanite told me yes terday, when we were talking over the astounding result of our election, "that the State was gone, but" said he "I did not think before, that 'you could beat us so tar." Cincinnati, our majority last fall wa s 800, HOW tis 1700 and upwards. In old Tip's township, below the city, there are no Vanites at all—They can't breathe in an high a region of intelligence, integ • rity and patriotism: You may also rest asured, that our ti nal overthrow of Van Burenism is ter. tain in the following western States.— Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, (don't be alarmed) I say Missouri, for we are sure of Missouri; she is already re - deemed—Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis sissippi. 1 write these facts upon the most cer • tain information, derived through cor respondents of the most trust-worthy character. • Old Tip is in fine heajth. I am Yours Truely. young Men's Mcetitam, IN FAVOR. OF RA RRISON AND TYLER The meeting was caiLl to order , 1 1 Jacob Creswell, Esq. who moveu al J it urotherline take the chair as Presi dent. On motion the following gentlemen" were elected Vice Presidents, viz: Jacob Cresswell, Thomas E. Orbison, T, 'l'. Cromwell, William Murray, Mr. Travis, and Jacob Elias: and L. H. Williams, H. A. McMurtrie, and John Steever, Secretaries. On motion, the following named gentle men were then appointed to prepare pro ceedings for the action of the meeting. viz:
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