Instead .1 de, analog at once his pay f•
the lost meat, he thou4ltt he would in
traduce his business so shrewdly as to Clt.
irap the lawyer before he suspected any
thing.
'Squire Cilley, I want your advice in a
little matter which has just happened.'
VI at is it, Mr. Ni 1 should be happy
to assist you'
Why, nothing, only a dog siole a (plat,
ter td meat out of my wagon, & I want to
know it I can make the owner of the dog
pay the damage.'
'Oh, certainly, sir, you have a good
cause of action ; shall I make out a writ 1'
'I forgot to tell yuu it was your dog
Squire.'
'My dog—my dog—is it possible? well
Tiger is a lawless puppy, I am aware
How much is the dama., ,, e, Mr. N.?'
guess about fifty cents will
make me whole.'
'Here is the money•—please sign this
receipt.: . .
The business was done and the farmer
took up his hat to depart.
'Stay, Mr. N. have you not forgotten
something?' said Mr. C.
'Why, not as I know on,' said the far
mer, st❑ring about and feeling his pockets.
IVhat is it. '
'My fee, sir, 'replied the lawyer. smil
ing in his turn. 'You consulted me pro
fessionally ; and I have a demand en you
for the usual fee in such cases.'
The farmer seeing he was fairly caught
inquired the amount of the fee. On being
told a dollar, he very reluctantly handed
over the shiner, and departed, muttering
curses on lawyers' dogs, but deeper ones
on their masters.
ho did it
!Pe were struck the other (lay, by the
plain common sense exhibited by a gen.
tleman from the coonty in conversation
upon politics. We remarked to him that
we were rejoiced to hear that he was no,
longer a supporter of the present admin
istration, and observed at the some time,
that he had undoubtedly had good reason
for his change of opinion.
"My reason is a very plain one," said
he, "one that:every man can understand.
I looked around me and found every
thing going wrong, and I asked myself
what made it so ? and my reason told me,
those in power must have made it. The
higs thave no power—they could not
have brought about this state of things—
the Van Buren men have all the power
and they must have done it."
This reason seemed to us a good one.
He had came to the same point that he
would have done had he waded through
the whole field of argument.—A leg. Gaz.
ii Abe want a Change ! "
Such is the language of many of the for
mer supporters of Gen Jackson and Van
Buren, who have discovered that the ex
perimenting policy of the National Ad
ministration has been the 'ruitful source
of so many evils. These people (and
they are not a few) are honest in their in
tentions ; they have hitherto supported
those measures which they considered the
best calculated to further the common in
terest of the country ; but experience has
compelled them to conclude that they
were in error—that experiment has rapid
ly succeeded experiment ; that plan after
plan has been put into execution only to
fail in accomplishing the object proposed;
and that the consequence resulting from
the failure of those dearly cherished ins
novations of the national rulers have had
a tendency to increase the sufferings of
the people. Now they are determined to
assist in effecting a radical change—a
change of rulers, of policy, and of meas
ures, convinced that no change can be
for the worse. Ff e rejoice to see this spi
rit manifesting itself in the minds of the
great mass of the people: it is an earnest
of better times: it is a glorious atepast of
tho approaching triumph of good princi
ples and measures—and the certain pre
cursor of the success of the People's can
didates—Harrison and Tyler.
The great mass of the people are hon
est, however they for a time may be mis
guided, they are always willing, when
convinced of the error, to retract. Thei r
common object is the public good; they
may err in taking the necessary steps to
accomplish this very desirable object ; but
when the mistake is discovered they
cheerfully support the required measures
whose intimate connexion with the object
in view (experience has shown,) which
will effect the legitimate object of govern
ment by giving the greatest good to the
greatest number.
The People have willed a change—they
can make it. They can turn to no prom
inent measure of the present administra
tion which has been crowned with suc
cess, which in practice has not (tiled to
spread ruin and desolation throughout the
length and breadth of the land—which has
not had a tendencyto weaken and destroy
those American principle which the patri
ots of the Revnlution handed down to
their descendants no less as mementoes
of former glory than beacons to guide our
future course in the wise administration
of government. Smarting under the e
vils of the present administration, they de
Cre to hack a change, and they will ac..
complish such a one as will restore the
government to its former efficacy and
splendor.—Perry Freeman,
Tun We*Lo.--This world of ours is
like a fair bell with a crack in it; it keel's)
on clanging, but dues not ring.
HANG THE GATE ON ,TOTHEIV
PUS I'.
lie were much struck with the fore,
lid . , he above agricultural similie as use,
a
!bvfarmer in our community, who here
I •
tol . ore has given his slipper t to the Van
(Buren party. In speaking of the present
I times, he admitted that there was some
thing wrong in the way in which the gov•
eminent has been a,lininistered for do
last few years, and without saying he had
changed his political principles, he still',
insisted that there ought to he a change',
in nor rulL•rs—•andl! the manner in which
he justified his intention to vote foi
Ceneral Harrison at the coming electiou,
we think ought to have its due effect upon
the minds of all reasonable men of the
same party, who are satisfied that we are
now suffering from the effects of bad gov
ernment. He said that as things now are
a change was necessary—that he did not
think a change could be for the worse,
whilst there was every reason to suppn,
it would be for the batter; and in condo
s:en he lini:thetl hi. rows,
the gnverment iii a gvr; •
so !G ig u.po,, nt.e pmt.
menc,i in,,ch :..
all the way on the gr , ,und, eitt,..r open
ing or shutting; row said he 'hang die eate
to'ther posi' and it will all come right,
So say we, the government gate has hone
se long upon of e post, although it be of
hickory, that it is now unfit for further
use— take it and hang it on the other pest
tis good sound Bwk eye! and the gate.
will be brought to rights, and will once
more again swing clear. Try it.—Mount
Holly Mirror.
A HORRIBLE ACT OF INHUMAN.
If on further inquiry, the following nar
rative shall prove true, we hope the pro
per authorities will seek out and punish
the offender to the extent of the law. It
is unparalled in atrocity.
From the Troy Budget.
An Outrageous Art of Inhumanity.—
W e have been favored with the following
painful account, corroborated by three of
the crew belonging en board of the vessel
herein named. The whale.ship Beaver,.
of Hudson, Capt. Wrn. Rogers, arrived in,
New York harbour, on the Ist of May
last, alter a long and tedious voyage of
teree years and a half. Mr. Murray sta-1
ted, that their first cruise was sixteen
months, during which time a number of
the cress got the scurvy, so as to endan•
ger their lives. A man by the name of
Gordon, a boat steerer, (under the assu
med name of Jack Brown,) made the fol
lowing remark: "If I was in your places
forward, if the Capt., when we arrived in,
port, should refuse to give us liberty
ashore. I would point a knife at his heart.'
This remark soon reached the Captain,
for which he resolved to give him to the
Cannibals. He accordingly, when leav
ing port, steered to an island in the Pa-,
cifiic Ocean, by the name of Savage Ist
and, (inhabited by Cannibals.) When'
they came in sight of the island, the Cap
tain then ordered one half of the crew to
'go below, and the remainder, with the
exception of Mr. Gordon, to go aloft,
de
sign.
which was obeyed, not knowing the
' In a few moments, the men aloft espi
ed, at a short distance from the vessel,
I gnite a number of canoes with natives in
them ; they, however, soon came along
sole ; the Captain then called Gordon to
him, and asked the first mate, (Lansing,
of Albany) what he should do with him: ,
The mate's reply was, "damn him, heave
him overboard." I'he Captain according
ly seized G. and put him overboard. Af
ter the Captain let go of him, he struck on
the side of one of the canoes, the natives
pushed him oft, and would not have an)
thing to do with him. The Captain, en
seeing
that the natives would not take
him, hastened below, brought up, and
kave to them, a quantity of old rust)
nives, to take that man and do with him
according to their custom, that is, first
take his life, then roast him, and then •
him—(that is the custom of • (. 05
buds.) V hen \I v. hi. us •r , ,
tancv Er,
th •
help
implore for wiry : .
length they reacheu 0010 net. f i oil
the vessel, but that did no: pr cut than
from hearing his pitiful exclamation, "tor
God's sake, spare me!"
Mr. G. said that he belonged to the city
of Tray, and the heart-rending thoughts
of leaving a wife and two children to
mourn hie fate, must have rendered his
anguish more poignant.
the undersigned certify that the above
statement is correct—all of which they
were air eye-witness to.
GIORGI! MURRAY,
DENNIS MURR AY,
JAMES WC IJRD Y.
UNFORTUNATE CASUALTY
Mr. Charles C. Lacy, wife and child,
were drowned on the 2,1 inst, attempting
to cross Merrimack river(Mo.)in a skiff.
The skiff was upset by coming in con
tact with a rope stretched across the river
for the purpose of cross the ferry boat.
Two other persons were in it,fone a young
lady, who saved herself by clinging to rope
the other, a young man, saved himself by
hanging on to the skiff. —N. Y. Sun.
FL•VR wakaelling at Cincinnati, on the
19th ult., at $3,19 a 1 , 3.21 per barrel. i
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT,
On Xilturday, a lad named John Hod
4e, an apprentice to William Caswell, in
„ha rlestowo, Mass, went on board a
:chooser lying at Caswell's wharf, and
ifter conversing some time with a young
man on board, expressed an intention of
going in to the cabin to get some ship bus
cuit to eat. The young luau, in a I layful
matter told him t e should not go•—and
took op a gun which he presumed was not
loaded—cocked it, pointed it at hitn—tel:-
mg him, in a laughing way, that if he per
sisted, he would shoot him. Hodge, how
,ee, pressed on, and the tugger was
Irawri. The gun was charged with buck
,hot —and the contents lodge I in the up
?er part of his face and forehead. One
of tile shot enterd the eye, and probably
penetrated to the brain. lie was yes
terday—suffering grert pain—bat no
hopes are cnterta::ed of his recovery.
l'he young ma n, who was u Mint entional ly
the cause of tho reek Ott
re,;rvt a., Ib ••,,• uf his
,• ,•:•; !lira. Jong ,
F. cr T - i: . •‘ENADO AT NATCHEZ
over;: ,1 „yesterday with an in
telligent fiat boat man, who was almost
!a . r,cu!tmily a)v,l, ith his boat, at the
rocent tocnaet tat Natchez. lie says that
impos.ible to describe the itnmense
to - ce of the horricane• Singular as it may
seem, he states that shot, which had prob
ably been blown from some store in the
town, lodged in the bacon hams after the
top of his boat had blown off. Many of
these shot merely stuck in the hams, while
others carne with so much force that they
were imbedded out of sight. lie further
states, that to the best of his knowledge
there were from seventy five to one hund
red flatboats laying at the landing, and
,hat not over fifteen or twenty, at the out
side, were saved! When shall we know
',he worst effects of this lamentable and
disastrous gale?
BRUTAL MURDER
John Rox, a man of gigantic stature
and great muscular strengili, was in the
ba r of William Gunn's Tavern, at the
corner of Front and Master scree to, on
Thursday evening. In the same bar was
a carman, of the name of Bernard Brow
'a man of small stature. Browning
said something which irritated Box,
when the latter" struck Browning repea
tedly with his fist. One of the blows
dislocated the jaw bone of Browning.—
Rox then seized the unfortunate Brown
ing in his arms, and threw him with all
his force on the ground, where he lay
for a short time and then expire:l. Rox
was immediately secured and taken be
fore Alderman Clark, of Kensington,
who committed hint for trial. Rox, it
will be in the recollection of our readers
killed an Irishman of the name of Pat
erick Kelly, some short time back. For
this offence he was convicted and senten
ced to two years imprisonment in the-
Eastern Penitentiary. Having served
about eight months of his tune, through
the influence of his friends, lie was par
doned by Governor Porter, Alderman
Clark held an inquest on the body, when
thejury returned a verdict that the de
ceased came to his death by blowslinflic•
led by John Rox.—Pennsylvanian.
A Fetss Priorti ET.—Th e Philadelphia
Ledger gives the following concerning
Mr. Miler, the prophet, who soinet:ine
predicted the destruction of the
world in 1843. It appears that the pro
phet has a work in press, the profits of,
which he is anxious to secure before this
listtessing event takes plac,., It is sus- 1
pected that IM r. Miller's book, explaining
nis doctrines and belief, will turn out to
be a complete grist of nonsense.
STORAGE, FORW kRDING, AND
Commission Business
ondeesi:rmod Navin, erected
'M. o,' :1,1. , Warr..l.ol1 , 40, 111
P I, are prep_
. no it iner
nil' of the
•reni ttt what.
Che ig will be their rates
...
of :' , torage.
ler: handise per. 2GOO Ilis 75
-;m:iller quail. ,ty 100 " 5
Fish per barrrl 8
Salt .I
6.
Flour " 4
Wheat per bushel
Rye & Corn " 2
Oats ~
2
Commission as per agreement
WHAIi Fiff4 E.
Blooms per ton (22-10 Ibs) 23
Plaister 37
Pig Metal 121
Bar Iron 2000 lbs 374
do stored 501
Weighing per ton 12
All charges to be paid before the r
val of the goods.
All persons entrustiong their business
into their hands, may feel confident that
it shall be attended to with care ands
punctuality; and any goods directed tot
their care, shall be forwarded as pet order
Steevens 4. Wilson.
Petersburg, Hunt. co Pa. Jan. 1,1840.3 m
N. B. The subscribers have also open
ed a J'rew Store in Petersburg.
S. & W.
THE JOURNAL.
'One country, one constitution, one riestin!,
iltllliillglioll, JiWC 3 ; 1 840
Demorrtaic ,iintintesonic
CANDIDATES.
FOIL PRESIDENT,
GEN,WM,H, HARRISON
OF OHIO
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER ,
OF VIRGINIA.
FLAG OF THE PEOPLE
A single term for the Presidency, and
the office r.diniuistercd for the whole PEO•
Pl,lll. and not for a P V.
(I - 7 A sound, uniform and convenient Na
tional CURRENCY, adapted to the wants Gt
the whole COUNTRY, instead of the SIIIN
MASA ERS brought about by cur preset.
RULERS.
iI(ECONOMY, RETRENCHMENT. and RE
FORDI in the administration of public affairs,
V"• Tired of Experiments and Experi
menters, Republican gratitude will reward
unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub
altern of WASHINGTON and the desciple of
JEFFERSON. and thus resuming the safe anp
beaten track of our Fathers,—L. Gazette
Lie ctorial Ticket.
JOHN A. SHULZE, ?Sen'to'l
JOSEPH It FIN ER, S electors
Ist Disirict LEVIS PASSMORE,
2d do CADWALLADER EVANS.
do CHARLES WATERS,
3d do JON. GILLINGHAM,
4th do AMOS F.LLMAKER,
do JOHN K. %ELLIN,
do DAVID parrs,
sth do ROBERT sTiNsoN,
6th do WILLIAM S. HINDEU,
7th do J. JENKINS ROSS,
Bth do PETER FILBERT,
9th do JOSEPH H. SPAYD,
10th do JOHN HARPER,
11th do WILLIAM M'ELVAINE,
12th do JOHN DICKSON,
13th do JOHN M'KEEI-1 AN,
14th do JOHN REED,
15th do NATHAN BEACH,
16th do NE.R MIDDLESWARTH,
17th do GEORGE WALKER,
18th do BERNARD CONNEI LY,
19th do Grx. JOSEPH MARKLE,
20th do JUSTICE G.FORDYCF.,
21s•'
do JOSEPH HENDERSON,
22d do HARMAR DENNY,
231 do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON,
24111 do JAMES MONTGOMERY,
25thi do JOHN DICK.
ansoURA ED COURT.
It is agreed that no Court be held for
Jury Taial on the 3,1 Monday in June next
The Jurers and Parties, and II itnesses
who have been summoned need nut at
tend.
May 1840.
_ _ _
By the direction ofJudge Burnside the
above notice was forwarded to me for pu•
lication.
JOSEPH SHANNON Sheriff.
Sheriff's office Huntingdon
June, 2,1340.
Look Out!
This is the month when the census of.
the Hatted States is to be taken ; and we
think it our duty to- call the attention of
the people to one fact. Let every editor
in the union do the saute. 'I here will
nut be !ess than 1500 marshalls and delm -
ties, who will. be engaged in taking it;
and they will all be THE HIRED ME
NIALS of Van Ouren—they arc his ofli
errs ; and we doubt not, that they will
take every occasion to scatter Amos Ken
dal's Globe, and other infamous publica
tions among the unsuspecting.
We say to every man answer all ques•
tions the law requires. But it these
Govern ment Eleetioneerers,
attempt to advocate Van Buren—the man
who has brought all the distress into the
country, bid hint begone! fur a pampered
parasite of power.
We have been told that these census
tnen have boldly said they intended to do
every thing for their party—and let eve•
ry man look out for their falsehoods.
INHUMAN BUTCHERY!
The folloating letter from a respectable
citizen of Shirley township, tells the tale
of the most demoniacal, and bloody mar •
der, that we ever heard related. Some
demon, in human she pc, has sent with his
own hand, six souls to the word of spir
its. On whom the guilt may rest, it is
imposible to say. We hope none will
prejudge the case upon the current ru
mors. We hope the guilty will not es
cape, nor the innocent suffer for the crime•
Robert McConeghy is now in jail.
Shirley4burg, Huntingdon Co. May Met.
It is our lot to record one of the most
foul, and atrocious murders, ever commit
ted in a civilized land. Yesterday, the
family of William Brown, living in Cron.
well Pvivuship, about lour miles from this
coosisting of his wife, one daugh
ter, nd 1 . 0(11' wt It must inhumanly
mut-tiered, and lfrow 0 himsel f making but
motow escape, being shot et, the ball)
scoring; his diet k half its der th, and pas•
•ing throuo, the lower part of his ear.'
Ihe t!eatl *oodles of the old woman and
oldest son, aged i 1 years, were yesterday
riling found in the house, most dread
fully mangled, the other four being mis
"mg. reitts were entertained of their
late, and watch being made 10-day (Sun
dal.), they were all found in different di
rections, in ilst woods, within half a toile
Rent the house, lutist inhumanly murder
ed ; some shot tin ough, al:patently, as
they were running—others had their skull
,heaten in with stones, and otherwise mane
;;led, so as instantly to deprive them of
life. A jury of inquest has been vigilant
ly engaged part of lust night, and this day,
examining the dead bodies, and endeavo
ring to ferret out the perpetrator or perpe
trators. Suspicion at fit st was strong
against Brow n himself, but the jury are
:If opinion ti at it is almost impossible that
he ct old have participted in the murder,
tent the circumstance of his heving re-,
tinned home that itvening, (lacing absent
at. vitt k all the week) and in less than at,
hour front the time he was seen going, he,
manic running to his nearest neighbors,
alarming, them of his own situation, and
that of his family. There are circum-1
stances coming to light, which go far to,
settle the guilt on Robert McConegh * y,
who is married to Brown's dau.',,.nter, the
only child now hvirg, John McCon•
eghy ; who it is supposed was an accom
plice of Robert's, and are now in custody :
and presume they will both be committed,
at least Robert will. Brown is also in,
custody, and will, we believe, also be
cemmitted. Drown is the owner of a
small farm, the possessing of which, could
have been the only motive of the McColl
eghys murdering Brown's family. The
bodies were this day, six in number, de
posited together in the earth, on Brown's
premises. The scene presented an in -
sheice of the most reckless depavity which
can possibly befall the lot of human na
ture. The oldest oldie children was 21,
and the youngest 10 years of age. _
The ghost of the Hartford Convention,
has evidently appeared to our neighbor of
the Advocate, and frightened him most
prodigiously. All the horro rs of the last
war, seem to have filled up the back
ground of his picture, and after fighting
all the battles over again, he has settled
down upon the sage conclusion that the
present party who all supporting Harri
son, is only the manes of Jimmy Buchan
nan's and Martin Van guren's old friends,
the antiwar party. Notwithstanding ',
candidate is the Irian who said in a
public meeting, that the WAR WAS
IMPOLITIC AND UNJUST, and our
candidate is the man who was watching in
the tented field by night, and fighting
sword in hand during the day, in that very
war. Yet Harrison is the Hartford Con
vention candidate, and Martin is the De
mocratic candidate. Is it not a little
strange that a few scratches of the pen
can make Harrison the Federalist, and
Vanburen a Democrat. Isint it funny.
But just to show how the stale story of
Hartford Conventionist was met twenty
three pears ago, we make the annexed ex•
tract from a paper of that date.
[From the Federal Republican and Balti
more Telegra:di, Jan. 6.]
Authentic Confession from Irashington.
Disclosure of Air. Randolph, in his
place, on the floor attic, !louse of Repre
sentativcs:
"The time has art ived when there is no
longer any necessity for suppressing the•
fact, iin'st the grand armory of Richmond,
in Virginia, was bat with an eye to put
ting down Mr. Adams' administration
with the bayonet, if it could not be accom.
[dished by other means."
Let those who make such an uproar
about the Hartford Convention, read this.
declaration of Mr. Randolph, and then to
breakfast with what appetite they may."
Nut many weeks since we saw in the
"Standard" an article headed "the Gold
Humbug no Humbug." Now as we
understood the gold humbug, it tan some
thing after this sort, ''in seven month,
bank rags shall be abolished." That was
about six years ago when this gold hum•
bug, humbugged the people.
In the last "Standard" we read as. fol.
lows. "Small notes of solvent Banks ta,
ken in payment," for Standards—what a
comment on "the Gold Humbug no Hum
bug."
A few weeks since the "Standard" pub
fished an extract (ruin the "Mountaneer''
relative to the suspension ; and as we un•
derstand pronounced them 'his sentiments'
The language was this: "what a fine thing
it would be if the Key Stone would go over
body and breeches to the enemy." Last
week the "Standard" says "the Key
Stone is in favor of laying a tax, and this
i 8 all we or any one else contended for."
lie suppose that the editor has forgotten
that the resumption, or rallier suspension
bill which the "Key Stone" said was pure•.
ly democratie, This same consistent
Standard bearer pronounced the must
graceful abandonment of p-inciple ever
known." Now the "Standard" loves tire.
"Key Stoney" "like a Vera brither."
immagine the writer has been reading
Shakespear's "Tinning the Shrew," by
sonic called "Turning the Screw."
Petruchio, Now by my mother's son, and
that's myself,
, It shall he Moon or star or what I list-
Katharine, And be it Moon or Sun or what
you please,
Anil if g nu please to call it a rash candle
llei,cetortli I rose it shall be so to me.
Pet. I say it is the Moon.
•
bath. I know itis
Pet. Nay, then, you, lie it is the blessed Sun'
Kat. Then Got! be blesse3, it lathe blessed
Sun;
But sure it is not when you say it is not.
parrisotes Opponents.%2l
711 e 41)7Wetts ofGeneral liarrison
just beginning to find out, that they are
likely to meet with a stronger opposition
from the frignds of old 'l'ip, than they
first anticipated ; and with
madness, characteristic of ~ ".eir own wick
ed hearts, are agliin retailing all the old
and oft repeated, and as oft refuted
hoods about him. 'You can hardly take
'up a Loco Pucci paper now, that it does not
Heitmate the story of his voting to self
ohite men as sla.es. Although every
l one who tells the tale, knows, if he know
any thing, that the whole is a foul ealum.
ny, founded upon his vote to sell the la •
bur of the thieves and felons—yet they
tell the tale again and again.
The story of Croghan's defence of Fort
Stephenson, is still tattled about to de
cieve the feelings of the ignorant partisan,
,notwithstanding, Col. Croghan has over
his own signature pronounced the whole
an infamous attack upon his ierierked
General.
Not satisfied with the every day man
ner of telling falsehoods, to the disparage
ment of that man who fought the battles of
his country, they are anxious to make some
new capital for their political liars; their
National Convention of office hollers have
published a long address to the people, in
which they have gone over all the old
ground, and place much stress upon the
fact that a committee, of the same kind
as officiated for General Jackson, are
pleased to answer some of the many let
ters that are addressed to him. They say
they do not wish to argue the point wheth
er he is a hero; yet they immediately
ask questions—are not all our lies truth ?
yet they do not attempt to prove one
word they say, but evidently wish the
people to think that he is a coward.
Amos Kendal too, has written an ad
dress to the people of the United States,
(nearly one halt of which is fur Pennsyl
vania) in which he has taken the saute
ground. We do not wooder at him. In
gratitude, base & malignant, has been the
leading trait its his character. We could
expect nothing better from an ingrate, who
would enjoy the bounty of a man's purse,
live on his kindness, and clothe himself
on the means of his benefactor, and be
cause that benefactor refused to pay hint
a price he set upon his own business, turn
round and bite the hand that fed him, and
raised him from his kennel of meaner':.
Who could expect any thing else front a
man who lived upon the kindness of Hen
ry Clay, and then demanded an enormous
bonus to make him grateful. Let him
who warms a viper in his bosom, remem
ber he is sure to sting. Every one would
say that such a man was the fit instru.
meat of knaves to traduce the gray haired
veteran of two wars. Let a'sucli man ca
lumniate who they inay, yet where he in
known and hated, there his writings will
be harmless.
J. L.
But when a convention of men have
not the honesty to say what they mean,
and at least attempt to prove it, at tack
the honor and reputation of the brave sol
diers of the American war ; and by inu
endo, try to give a coloring of truth to in
famous slanders, bred in the foul bed of
corrupt party politics, it is time for the
people to awake! Awake! we say, shake
ofl' the shackles of party vassalage; join
heart and hand to pay the homage of a
free people to a brave old warrior, who
fought amid flame and smoke for the tiles•
sing you now enjoy. Awake! and tell
them in the language of insulted and in
dignant Republicans, that Republics ate
,not ungrateful. Awake! and tell them
that they or their Vice President are ma
licious falsifiers, for he has said "the histo
ry of the west was the history of harri•
son—and that he fought more battles than
any other General, and never lost a victo.
ry." Awake! we say once more, and tell
them, that every township contains some
of his brave soldiers, and that they saw
Harrison, .'when war's deadly blast Was