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
<<o' T' u5-'OOMO.
JAMES SAXTON, Jr.
WOULD RE-TECITULLY TN
form his friends and customer .-
that he has just received a fresh supply of
MPLd3I2G3 &WW . @lra attzu,
Such as Meths; Salamis, Summer Cloths,
Muslin de Leans, Callicois, Brown
and Bleachdd Muslins, and a
complete assortment of
Hardware and Cailery, and
017233111137714.112 i
And a general assortment of Toys am!
Fancy Articles, with the usual variety of
Groceries & Confectionaries,
l'ogether with many articles not uumem
ted above.
PLEASE CALL AND EX.4IIIINE.
All kinds of country produce taken iti
exchange for goods.
Iluntingdon, May 6, 1840.—tf.
FEE BILLS,
mg4ny ExtcurEti, al GOOD rm.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFC E