cers' particular friends; aye, and who knows but it was done with therm . labor ers' own money. We ask you laborers on Pennsylvania's canals, are not these things true? Are you a farmer ? what has made the downward progress of your prosperity for t, the last few years? Why have you been ground by oppressive taxes? why has the price of your produce;failed ? why are you so fearful of a bank note? Is it not be cause something has been done which has destroyed confidewe ? To you all we say, you are governed too much. You think to little, and allow the cunning politician, and greedy office hunter, or office holder, to tell you some flattering tale, which benefits him, and injures you. The whole expenses of the nation come from the. people—not one cent is tlaer.e of it that they do not pay. They pay po;lage ; and the merchant adds to the price of his goods, the taritthe paid. If our Legislature spend months at Harrisburg, doing nothing, the people pay the piper, and the members pocket their pay ; and every year it is getting worse. For instance, take the present session, and that of last. Farmers, me chanics, and laborers, you have had to pay those men hundreds of thousands of dollars—for nothing—it would have been better if they had been at home. Yet they tell you they are all for the people. What is the cause ot all these things? It is an established law ot nature, that for every Cling there is a cause. One of the causes is the fact, that the people, (and when we say people, we mean the millions that work for their bread,) have not at tended to their own rights. They have paid too little regard to their own inter est; and too much to the lies and non sense of demagogues, who have persuaded them that they must vote for the d—l, if he was the candidate of their party. That man who is willing to sacrifice every thing for party ; is not, nor cannot be, a friend to his country. This party madness, par ty fully, and party wickedness, must be broken down, and the people must do it. When a man of wealth, in the Senate of the United States, boldly advocates the reduction of a poor man's wages to SIX CENTS A DAY, and we see poor men supporting him in it, we think that he would sacrifice his country for his party.' Yet this has been done. Another man has said that "a laborer can aJ'ord to work for eleven pence a day ; and wheat should. come dewn- to 16 cents a bushel"—and for party's sake, men will support such things One thing is clear as the san at noon- day, that the farmer, the mechanic, and the day laborer, must awake to their own interest. They must shake off the shac kles of factions, and d as did many amid the revolutionary thunders, 'fight on their own hook" until they do so; and select men because they know they are honest, instead of belonging to this party or the other ; so long :ill they lindi that they are the dupes, and in a fair way to become the slaves of men in power. We shall next week attempt to 5110 W the cause or causes (more at large) that have brought about this strange contrast, between the past and present condition, of our own country. NV eask nothing but a careful perusal of our remarks, and we are confident that neither their truth or justice can be denied. COMMUIODATED. Another Falsehood Nailed. In looking over the last week's number of the Loco Foco paper, of this town, I discovered that the calumniators of the war worn veteran of North Bend, are still busily engaged at their work of defame. Lion. Among the many falsehoods and, misrepresentations of that filthy sheet, was one that had never before met my eye. I allude to the story of General Harrison laving favored and procured the passage of a law while Governor of the Territory of Indiana, establishing a freehold qualifi cation to entitle citizens to the right of suff rage. Whether this slander originated in ignorance or malice, it is not for me to determine. My intention is merely to correct it. Agreeably to the 3d section of the 4thl article of the Constitution of the United States, Indiana was constituted a territo ry in the year 1800, by an ordinance of, Congress, the provisions of which ordiH nanco hid all the force of a constitution, forming its fundimental laws, to which all texiitorial legislation mast conform.. [See 3d vol. 367th page of the laws of the U. S. arranged and published by authori• ty of Congress] . The said act of Congress, constituting Indiana territory, contained the following provisos: "Provided; that no person he elegible or qualified to act as a representative, un less he shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three veers, and be a resident in the district, or unless he shall have resided in the district three , years ; and in either case shall likewise hold in his own right, in fee simple, TWO lIIINDRND ACRES OF LAND within the same; provided also, that a freehold in FIFTY AURS OF LAND in the district, having been citizen of one of the states, and being resident in the district, or the like free .old anti two years residence in the die. ict, shall be necessary to qualify a man an RatzeToß OF • REI'IIIsEII'EATIVE." --[See Ist r01.477di page of Mies of U S.' , 'Thos it will be seen, by the above quoted law of the 7fh of May 1800', that Harrion, (who was appointed Gover nor of the newly cnnstitoted territory) had no part in making the election law of the territory of Indiana;that a more liberal one could not be passed--and that Gov. Har rison had no more right to recomencl any other law than a Governor of a State has to recommend a law expreesly forbidden by the constitution of the State which he governs, for it must be recollected that the act of Congress supplied the place of, or in fact was, the zonstitution of Indiana. If the conductors of the "Advocate" were not strangers to honor and destitute of honesty, it might be expected that they would examine the books and pages refer to, and then correct their statement. The article alluded to is perhaps not original with them; and if they wish to be faith ful instructors of the public mind, they are in duty bound to undecteue their read ers ; for although they may say that it is not false that such laws wereladopted in Indiana, it is dishonest and fraudulent to withold from the public the material facts that these laws were not passed when In. diana was a State and a member of the Union, but when a veto power could not be exercised. This, I think, is sufficient to refute this new slander; the others which fill the papers have all been refuted a thousand times over. June Bth 1840, From the Lewisville Jourual, .1 Cabeauty Refuted. 'SELLING WHITE MEN FOR DEBT This infamous charge against Gereral Harrison, which has again nod again been 'shown to be destitute of a particle of truth is still, we hear, repeated by some of the unscrupulous dem igogues in the service of the Administration. We, once again, at some inconvenience, republish a letter written by General Harrison himself in 1821, when the charge was first made, and nailing the falsehood to the counter. To any man Mr.) shall hereafter repeat this calumny, e beg to say to hint, as the Louisville Journal does—"lmagine us at your elbow, and whispering in your ear, "what you have said is false, and you know it to be false." I'O TFIg CINC INNATTI ADYERTISZR-- Sin—ln your paper of the 15th instant, observed a most violent attack upon e. le-en other members of the Senate and .myself, Inc a supposed vote given at the last session for toe passage of a law to "sell debtors in certain cases." II such nun been our conduct, L acknowledge that we should not only deserve the censure which the writer has bestowed upon us, but the execration of every honest man in sociesy. An act of that kind is no( only opposed to the principles of justice and humanity, but would be a palpable violation of the Constitution of the State, which every Legislature is sworn to sup port ; and sanctioned by a House of Rep, resentatives and twelve Senators, it would indicate a state of depravity, winch would fill every patriotic bosom with the must alarming anticipations. But the fact is, that no proposition was ever made in the Legislature, or ever thought of. That to which the writer alludes has no more re lation to the collection of "debts" than it has to the discovery of longitude. It was an act for the "punishment of offences" against the State; and that part of it which has so deeply wounded the feelings of your correspondent. was passed by the House of Representatives and voted for 11) . twelve Senators, under the impression that it was the most mild and humane mode of dealing with the offenders for whose cases it was intended. it was adop ted by the House of Representatives as a part of the general system of the criminal law which was then undergoing a com plete revision and amendment. The ne cessity of this is evident by the following facts—For several years past it had be come apparent that the penitentiary sys tem was becoming more and more burden-, some every session ; a large appropria tion was called for to meet the excess of expenditure above the receipts of the es tablishment. In the commencement of the session of 1.820, the deficit amounted, to near $2C,00. This growing evil required the imme diate ieterposition of coins of some vigor ous legislative measure. Two were re vvmended as being likely to produce the) effect; first, place the institution under Norics.—Bishop ONDERDONIC, of the! better management; and, secondly, les- Episcopal Church, will preach and ad Bening the number of convicts who were minister the Sacrament on Friday the 12th sentenced for short periods, and whose la- inst. in Huntingdon. bur wa, found, of course, to be most un. productive. In pursuance of the latter ' principle, thefts to the amount of )150 or upwards were subjected to punishment in the penitentiary instead of 010, ndlich was toe former minium sum. This was easily done. But the great difficulty re mained, to determine what should be the puinsment of those numerous larcenies be tow the sum of S5O. By some, whipping was proposed ; by others, punishment by hard labor in the county jails; and by otti ers, rt was thought best to make them work on the highways. To all these there appeared insuperable objections. Fine and imprisonment were adopted by the HoUse of Repreitentatives as the only al • tentative; and as it is well known these vexatious pilferings Were generally per petrated by the inure worthless vagabonds rn society, it was added that, when they could not pay the fines and costs which , ate alWays part of the sentence and pun ishment, their services shonld be sold out to any person who would pay their fines and costs for them. This was the clause that was passed, as I believe, by an unani• inous vote in the House and stricken out in the Senate in opposition to the twelve who have been dehounced.—A little fur ther trouble in examining the journals would have shown your correspondent that this was considered as a substitute for whipping . , which was lost only by a single vote in the Senate, and in the House by a small majority, after being once passed. I think, Mr. Editor, I have said enough to show that this obnoxious law would not have applied to "unfortunate debtors of sixty-four years," but to infamous of fenders who depredate upon the proper ty of their fellow citizens, and who by the Constitution of the State, as well as the principles of existing laws, were subject to involuntary servitude. I must confess I had no very sanguine expectations of a beneficial effect from this measure, as it would apply to convicts who had attain ed the age of maturity; but I had suppo• sed that a woman or a youth who, convic ten of an offence, remained in jail for the p ayment of the fine and costs imposed, might with great advantage be transfer red to the residence of some decent, vir tuous, private family, whose precept and example would greatly lead them back to the paths of rectitude. I would appaal to the candor cf your correspondent to say whether, it tli-re were an individual confined under the cir cumstances I have mentioned, for whose fate he si as interested. he would not glad ly see him transferred from the filthy en closure of a jail, and the still more filthy inhabit ints, to the comfortable mansion of some virtuous citizen, whose admenitions would cheek his vicious propensities, and whose authority over hun would fbe no' inure than is exercised over thousands of apprentices in our country and those bound servants which are tolerated in our as well as every other State in the Union- Far from advocating the abominable prin. ciples attributed to me by your correspon dent, I think that imprisonment for debt, under any circumstances but that where fraud is alleged, is at war with the best principles of our Constitution, and ought to be abolished. I am, sir, your humble servent, AVM- H. HARRISON. NORTH BEND, BM 12, 1821. JUNIUS. ATTACK UPOCI NIR. CARTER BY ONO OF els Tiezas.—The Audience, from which we extract this account, gives the lowing details : "Application had been made to the authorities of Cahors for Mr Carter to exhibit with his animals in an amphitheatre which had been constructed for the pur pose. The magistrates, much to their credit, wished to be satisfied that no accident might happen, and therefore stipulated that a rehearsal should take place prior to the permission being grant ed. This performance took place on the 3d inst. in their presence, and the piece selected was the Lion of the Desert. Lt had no sooner commenced, and Carter assumed his position of lying on the stage in a feigned sleep, than the renowned tiger was let loose to perform his part. He made a spring, and a terrible conflict en sued ; but this time the combat was in right good earnest, and but too fatal. The animal had seized Carter by the throat, and dreadfully mutilated him. In a few minutes the stage was flowing with blood, and the most piercing cries were uttered both by the man and beast,and re , echoed by those who were present. The tiger appeared for a time to have been beaten off, but renewing the attack, made another attempt to gripe his master by the shoulder, and would have, no doubt, devoured him, had not Carter, with indo mitable courage, continued to drag him to the wings, and secured a hammer, hap pened to be at hand, and with which he belabored the tiger until it laid apparently lifeless at his feet.. Mr. Carter attaches great value to the tiger, and entertains strong hopes that it will recover. His own wounds, especially those in the throat are very serious, though not considered to be at all dangerous. The tiger is reported to have Weil dru;ged by one of Mr. Car ter's men, who owed him a spite, and which was the cause of the awful event having occurred. " Most men know what thcay hate, few what they love. GI UTIOA: All persons are cautioned against pur• chasing or receiving a promisary note for fourteen dollars, drawn by Writ. Cum mins in favor of John Gall, as the under signed never received value therefor and is determined not to pay it: The note was given some time in October, and be came due on the Ist of last January. H ILLIAIIa CUMMINS. June 3,1840.• p LIST OF RETAILERS Of Foreign Merehandize in the county of Huntingdon as returned to January Sessions 1840 by the constables of the seucrul Townships and Boroughs, and the classification of the same, agreeably to the act of Assembly, passed 7th April 1830, to wit: Allegheny Township. CL kss. *Allen Bird 8 Thomas M'Matnarra 8 Elias Baker deco. 8 lints 7 otonship. *Edward Bell 8 C. H & A. R. Craine 8 Craham M'Arment John K.ratzer. 8 Borough of Alexandria: *John Porter 8 Porter & Gemmill 8 Henry Neff 8 Michael Sislef. Barree '1 ownship. • Joseph G. Watson 8 James Ennis a John W. Myton 8 Miles Lewis 8 • Love & Oyer. 8 Birmingham Borough. William Galbraith a 'l'. M. Owens & son David Garrett B James Clarke 8 Devi/ & Crawler& 8 Blair rownshiP. "Alexandi.r Knox Robert M'Nauiarra John Dearnient &Co. ' John Bouslough 8 William Anderson di Co. 8 James Conrad & Co. Jeremiah C. Betts 8 John Keim. 8 Cronniell Township. William Pollock 8 M'Arrell & Rutter. 8 Dublin i'ownship. John Blair & son 8 Franklin 'Township. John S. (sett *Shorb. Stewart 4- Co 8 Christopher igtun J. & G, 11. Shoenberger 8 John Ewing 8 Hileman & Hammond. 8 Frank d own Township. David H. Moiire Daniel Haman 8 Hopewell Township. James Entriken. 8 Hollidaysburgh Borough. William Al'corinick a John Cooper 8 John C. Bowers 8 Joseph Dysart 8 Robert Lowry & Co 8 S. 4• T. B. Moor 8 Edward Wthiltey &Co 8 Jacob Snyder 8 James Coffee 8 James B. Frampton ' , Thomas J olinst on 8 Charles 0. Friel 8 John Gourley 8 Miami W. Ward 8 Williams & Bingham 8 George W. Geir 8 James Orr 8 Lloyd & Gardner 8 Peter Hewitt 8 Andrew Martin .George Port 8 Henry Butler 8 David Goodfellow 8 Thomas M'Kiernan 8 Augustus Black *John Cox 8 Peter M 'Nolly 8 Huntingdon Borough. James & George Gwin *Peter Swoope *Fisher & M'Murtrie 8 Jacob Miller 8 C. El. &H. F. Newinghath 8 *William Dorris 8 *Thomas Read 8 William Stewart 8 James Saxton jr: 8 William Steel 8 George A. Steel 8 B. H. & Win. M'Murtrie 8 Robert Coo r cy 8 Henderson Township. J. & J. Milliken Mathew F. I .'airipb'ell 8 Dorsey, Green &Co. 8 John Snyder Morris 7ownahip. [-Nur% S. Spatig (2 stores) 8 *Hem . , & Lewis Mytinger 8 Tussey 4. Co. 8 Petersburg Borough. t illiain Wilke- & A. Cressweil 8 Shirley Township. David FreaVer 8 "W. & B. Leas 8 *alair & Alladen 8 Samuel 11. Bell 8 Springfield Tomah, p. John & Hutton Madden 8 Tyrone 7 ownship. Samuel laett & Co. 8 John Maguire & Co. 8 John M'Cilathery & Co: 8 *Lyon Short & Cu. 8 Tod Township. .John Hoover 8 Union Township, Robert Spear *Cover & Ilenderio'n Yi (mulberry Township. Peter Shoenberger a Samuel Royer & Co. 8 Royer & Schmuker 8 *James M. Johnston 8 William Fouse 8 11 eat Township. Hartman, Love & Smith 8 Walker 4. Neff 6 tireen, Dorsey 4. Co. 8 fk ear 7'o wnship. John Swoope . 8 *James Campbell 8 Warrioramark Township. bednego Stevens' 8 Sisley ts• Diller 8 *Wm. M. Lyon t Co, 8 Frilliamsburg Borough. Adolphus Patterson 8 Simon Ake 8 James M. Kinkead 8 J. geoid 4. Co. 8 Jacob Shoe:Jerelt 8 Smith & Rhodes. 8 The following named persons made ap• , plication for Licenses to Retail tc., 'previously to the Ist of May, viz: *fileorge W. Patterson, Hollidaysburg. (*'Stevens & Wilson, Petersburg. R. R. M'Kee, Hollidaysburg. 1 5 C. H. Leas, Frankstown. *Campbell & Given, James' Creek. •Jacob Fockler, Henderson Township. John Nash, Huntingdon. ((Iti — Those marked thus have lilted their Licenses,) Act of 7th April 1830, relative to Li censes of Petailers &c. "SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the pro! per city or county Treasurer, on the first day of June in each year hereafter, to make out a correct list of all those who have not paid the duty and obtained li cense, and it shall be the duty of such city or county Treasurer to institute a suit a gainst such deliuquente, under the second section of the act of 4th Mach 1824, re fered to in the above section, anion other things, directs that 'lt shall be the duty of proper city or county Treasure, to insti• Lute a suit before any alderman or juitice of the peace, in the name of the Confirion wealth, within the months of June and De cember, in every year, against each de lingent retailer as aforesaid for the amount of duty payable agreeably to law;" In pursuance Of the above recited sections of the law, suits will be instituted against every delinquent whose license is not lit ted before the last day of this month. DAVID BLAIR, Treas. Hunt. June Ist 1840. STORAGE, FORWARDING, AND Commission Business TIE undersigned having erected new and extensive warehouse, in the Public basin at Petersburg, are prep red to receive'all kinds of gain or mer chandise; and upon the opening of the navigation, will have a convenient what erected. The following will be their rates of Storage. Merchandise per. 2000 Ilia 75 Smaller quantity 100 Fish per barrel Salt 64 Flour " 4 Wheat per bushel Rye at Corn 24 Oats Commission as per agreement WHARFAfirt E. Blooms per ton (2240 Ibs) 25 Plaister 57 Pig Metal 1 i 121 Bar Iron 2000 lbs 57i do stored 501 Wei....hlng 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 in N. B. The subscribers have also open 4.(1 a XleW Store in Petersburg. 8.& W. Administrator's Notice. ALL persons interested in the Es, tate, or having claims against the Estate of Elizabeth Bussler, late of Wood berry tp., Huntingdon Co., deceased, are requested to present their claims to th, undersigned, who is duly authorised to administer; and all persons indebted are requested. to make payment. MICHAEL BUSBLEH, Adm'r. May Xi, 1840. Summon demand Charles Newingliam Henry Newin2,hatn. aot exceeding $ _ _ _ 00, $25 29, on due >bill dated 18th Dr. James Coffee, vember 1830, is ustice 42 , sued 25th May 18- J 40 to Constable 3. ones to appear Ist June 1640 served on lath, and Low let june 1840 G. 'faylot ,ppeared and suit continued Gill June inst ,nd now Gth June 1840, George Taylor 13sq. fur defendent appeared and pleads non esumsit infra srx mince, and on hav ing judgment for defendent fur costs. Huntingdon County S. S. Const. J. Jones Bl ... 1 _,../ 1 Dania Africa, WIC of thiS t') justices of the peace in and for • the county] of Huntingdon. do certify that the above is a true ranscript of a judgment entered by me at the suit of Charles Newingliam and Henry Newingham, against Dr. iamea Coffee, with the plea of Statute of Limi tations as therein stated. Witness my hand and seal at Iluntioi , don, the 9th day of June 1840. DANIEL AFRICA: JOHN BOGGS & 00• Coolant:4PM fflitertitanto BALTIMORE ! MD. ResßATt7lFtWidJteir;eivices to tl•e dealers on the Juniata. They are nt all times prepared to make liberal advan ces on consignments. Refer to Jacob PC HaMerman. Esq. Harrisburg; Aftssrs. Duncan and Foster, Aaronsburg, Centre Co.; J. C. McLana • han, Esq. Hollidaysburg; David LoY; Esq : Hopewell Bedford county. May 27, 1840.-21 n.--p. (ft , -The "llullidaysburg Register" will insert the above two months, and cli:irge this office. ATTENTION! HUNTINGDON INFANTRY 1170 U will parade on your usualground, in front f " of the Court Douse, on the 2.1 Ssturday, and 13th day of June next, fully equipped for IX, drill, in summer uniform. By order of the Capt. Y. B. ZIEGLER, May 27, 1840. O. S. Z3lo7lTVLlO'rEcruntc is All persons indebted to the estate of Joh Templeton, late of Tyrone township, Huntingdon county, deceased, are reques ted to make ;immediate payment; and those having claims against said estate are requested to present them properly au thenticated for settlement. Um TEMPLETON, JAS. TEMPLETON. May 20, 18.10. Executors. NEW AND <