Standing Army.
The following is a synopsis of the plan
furnished to Congress, by the Secretary
at war, and recommended by the annual
message of Mr. Van Buren.
This paper contains the report of the
Secretary at war detailing the manner in
which the Administration wishes to orga•
nine the militia of the U. States. Soule
of our warm Administration friends ob
bect to the title given in this report. A
ill to ri.e and keep up a standing army
of one hundred thousand men The man
who isto give his mind fair play,
and to judge for himself, will see that the
report asks,
let. That every free able bodied,
white male citizen of the 11. States, be.,
tween the ages of 20 and 46, to lie en
rolled--see Ist section of the bill.
2d. That within three months of his
enrolment he must srm himself AT /HS
N EXPENSE—see Ist and 4th
sections.
3d. That within—months from the
passage of the law, 100,000 men must be
drafted for active service; from Pennsyl
vania there must be raised 10,000—sea
19th section.
4th. That a reserve of 100,000 men
more must be armed and organized—see
12th section.
sth. That this body of e.C.0,000 is to
be kept up constantly by draft from the
whole mass of the militia—see 15th sec
tion. 44
6th. That the Union is to be laid off
into 10 military districts, Delaware, Mar
yland, the District of Columbia and Vir
ginia to be the sth District--see 14th sec
tion.
7th. That the President may call out
the whole body of this force of 100,000
men twice a year, at such times and such
places .vithin the district, as he choose—
see 17th section.
Bth. That whilst they are thus called
out, and whilst going to and returning
From the placeof rendezvous, this army
of 100,000 men is to he in service of the
United States—see the same section.
flth. That whilst thus in service they
ure to be under ouch regulations as the
President may think proper to adopt—
see same section.
10th. If a citizen fail to march when
ordered by the President, he is to be fi
ned not less than half a month's pay'nor
more than three month's pay, (not less
than $5 nor more than s3o)—see 16th
section.
11th. That unless the fines are pail,
the citizens may be imprisoned by the
court martial for one month fur every five
dollars of the fines—without attempting
to collect the fines by levying property—
same section.
156. That the court martial certifies
the fines of the United States Marshal,
and he collects by the summary process
of distress—see 20th section.
14th. That if the citizen have no
property, then he must suffer imprison
ment "until the fine is paid"—same sec
tion.
Our readers will now read and judge
fur themselves. And the Administra
tMn will hear the voice of the people on
this matter like the voice of seven thun
ders.
Pan Buren and Poor Men.
Poor men read the following and then
vote for Martin Van Buren if you choose!
"CO - Reader, mark well the following,
--Martin Van Buren in the New York
Convention to amend the Constitution, op
posed the right of POOR MEN TO ;
VOTE. In the debate on that question,
he used these words
"But what ie the character of the poor?
GENERALLY SPEAKING. VICE
AND POVERTY GO HAND IN
HAND." See page 284 of the Jointly:
of the proceedings.
In the same Convention he advocated
THE RIGHT OF
.NEGROES TO
VOTE, it they were property holders
and paid taxes.
0:5 - 11 POOR hEA will support ;
man for the highest office in their gift, at
ter uttering such sentiments in a publi
assembly, they deserve to lose the rich
of suiflage."
Aaracnirra.—il'e yesterday met a gen
tleman who had, until lately, been an ac
tive anti influential Van Buren man, and
in speaking about the Harrison victory in
Louisiana, we remarked, "we will sweep
you out clean." "You'll not sweep me,
I can tell you," replied he. "Why, you
have not quit Van Buren," exclaimed we.
"Yes," said he, "1 have renounced the
d 7 I and his works."
We at cnce expressed our pleasure, in
finding that he had manliness and hones
ty,enough to declare against an adminis
tration which he believed to be ruining
the rountry .1
/Pe look upon the man who refuses to
hear testimony against men who, he be
lieves, are destroying the country, us no
wit better than the fellow who stands by
A silent observer of the operations of a
pickpocket.--Pittsburg Ga:ette.
T.IPls JEA• OA LO If If 4-
GES.
• One of those errors, which will creep
;into the columns of a paper, however guar
sled its conductors may be, occurred in
•our last, in stating that Senator Tappen,
made the following speech, in exemplifi
.cation of the "principles of the Sub-Treas
.ury" in the Senate chamber. It was de
iverecl at Stubenville, Ohio, and although
.he Editor of the Pittsburger said that
the Senator souk! deny it lie hue never
lone so.
Read it again, all who want information
is to the means to he employed in bring
ing about better times under Van Buren
government I
Read it Mechanics!
Read it Farmers
Read it Manufacturers I
Read it Laborers
Read tt all who earn wages
"The price of Libor is entirely too high.'
'l'Hl LABORER IN THIS COUNTRY
CAN AFFORD TO WORK FOR ELKv
EN PENCE A DAY, AND "1:11E HARD MO
NEY SYSTEM WILL BRING DOWN
WAGES TO THAT SUM. WHEAL'
WILL ALSO COME DOWN TO SIX
TEEN CENTS A BUSHEL, AND EV—
ERY THING ELSE IN PROPORTION.
'['HIS IS THE BEST TARIFF YOU
CAN HAVE. AND THE ONLY ONE
I HAT CAN !ENABLE THE MANU
FACTURER TO COMPETE WITH
ENGLAND. The Sub- Frequity will ef-
'feet both objects—lT WILL l'U e DOWN
BANKS, AND bring wages and ev
cry thing else down."
Since the above was written, the Globe I
FLAG OF THE PEOPLE
denies the statement 'by authority.' 01iy i
(Kr A single term for the P residency, and
does nut Mr. Tappen du it under his own the office administered for the whole PEG• '
signature? He tells a federal Editor in PLE. and not for a PARTY.
Pittsburg. that he will not deny it, and re A sound, uniform and convenient Na
then are we to believe, that the Globe is tional CURRENCY, adapted to theewj_ii SL-I _ta
denial —no round-about dodging ; until the whole COU NTRY, ? instead of th
his conscience keeper? Let us have a flat the whole
1 ERS brought about by cur presen
then, we believe that Senator Tappan did RULE
v.-Ec.
onomy, RETRENCHMENT, and RE
make the assertion. It sounds like FORM in the administration of public affairs,
it sounds like his party; it sounds destruc V-Tired of Experiments and Experi
iive!—llar. Tel. ,mentors , Republican gratitude will reward
__
unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub-
MECHANIC'S
altern of WASHINGTON and the desciple of
LIEN. IJEFFERson. and thus resuming the safe anp
'beaten track of our Fathers,—L. Gazette
HUNTINGDON County, ss
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
to the sheriff of said county, Greeting:
Whereas John J. Taylor lately, viz—
on the 27th April 1340 agreeably to the
act of assembly in such case made and ap
proved, filed a claim in our county court
of common Pleas in and for the said
county against Richard Pion man for the
sum of five hundred dollars 'against all
that certain saw mill, erected and partly
finished on the farm of Richard Plowman
now in the possession of Dr J. H• Dorsey
known by the name of the Sugar Grove
Farm, in the township of Henderson in
the said county of Huntingdon, upon the
run called which run emp
ties into the Pennsylvania canal at or
near the Red House on said farm," for the
work already done and materials found
for the said saw mill, viz, for mill-wright
work, hewing limber, iron and castings,
in and about the construction and erec
tion of the said saw mill. And whereas
it is alleged that the said sum still remains
due and unpaid to the said John J. 'lay
tor. Now we command you that you
make known to the said Richard Plow
man and Di. Jonathan H. Dorsey and to
, II such !persons as may hold or occupy
said saw mill that they be and appear be
fore the Judges of our said court, at a
court of common Pleas to be held at Hun
. tingdon in and for the said county of Hun
tingdon on the second Monday of August
. next, to show if any thing they know or
have to say why the said sum of five hun
dred dollars should not be levied of the
said building according to the form and
' effect of the act of assembly in such case
made and provided, if to them it shall
seem expedient, and have you then there
this writ. Witness Thus Burnside Esq
President of oar said court at Hunting
don, this second day of July A. D. 1340.
James Steel, Proty
XEChANICS LIEN.
HUNTINGDON county, ss
The commonwealth of Pennsylvania to
the sheriff ot said county, Greetin.--
Whereas Jonathan Conrad and Jerome
Dawson, :rave filed a claim in our court
of common pleas for the county of Hun
tingdon against Solomon Wilson of the
' borough of Hollidaysburg (contractor and
reputed owner) for the sum of two hun
dred and twento dollars, for all the ma
terials, excepting the latches, locks, bin
ges and screws necessary for the doors,'
found, furnished and provided, and used
for, in and about the erection and con•
struetion of "all that brick dwelling
'rouse erected on lot numbered two hun
dred and forty-three in the plan of the ho
rough of Hollidaysburg aforesaid, said lot
being and lyinn on _Mulberry st., sixty ,
feet in front and extending back one hun
dred and sixty-two feet to Horse alley.
which said brick house is twenty-two feet
lung and sixteen fee broad or wide, and
one story and a half high. And whereas
t is alleged that the said sum remains due
and unpaid to the said Jonathan Conrad
and Jerome Dawson • now we command
you that you make known to the said
Solomon Wilson, and to all such persons
as may hold or occupy the said builtlii.g,
that they be and appear before the Jude
es of our said court of common pleas to
he holden at Huntingdon in and for the
said county, on the second Monday of
August next, to show if any thing they
know or have to say, why the said sum of
two hundred and twenty dollars should
not be levied of the said building, to the
use of the said Jonathan Conrad and Je
rome Dawson, according to the form and
effect of the act of assembly in such case
made ,and provided, if to them it shall ,
seem expedient, and have you then there
this writ. Witness the Hun Thomas
Burnside Esq, President of our said
court at Huntingdon, this 11th day of Ju
ly A. D. 1840.
James Steel, Prot'y
THE JOURNAL.
One country, one constitution, one destiny
Huntingdon, July 29, 1840.
Democratic .Intimasonic
CANDIDATES.
FOR Pit ESEDENT,
GEN.WM. H. HARRISON
OF OHIO
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
OF VIRGINIA. 1
Ele clerics, Ticket.
JOHN A. SHULZE, Sen'to'l
JOSEPH RIMER, Selectors
Ist Disirict LEVIS PASSMORE,
2d do CAI)WALLADER EVANS.
do CHARLES WATERS,
3d do JON. GILLINGHAM,
4th do AMOS ELLMAKER,
do JOHN K. ZELLIN,
do DAVID Po'l"l'S,
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'KEEHAN,
14th do JOHN REED,
15th do NATHAN BEACH,
16th do NER MIDDLESWARTH,
17th do GEORGE WALKER,
18th do BERNARD CON NE! LY,
19th do Gr.N. JOSEPH MARKLE,
20th do JUSTICE G.FORDYCE,
21st do JOSEPH HENDERSON,
22d do HARMAR DENNY,
23d do JOSEPH.BUFFINGTON,
24111 do JAMES MONTGOMERY,
25th do JOHN DICK.
COUNTY CONVENTION
AND
DEMOCRATIC MEETING
The friends of lIARRISON and
TYLER within the several townships
and boroughs of Huntingdon county, are
requested to meet at their usual places of
holding elections, on or before Saturday
the Bth day of August, and elect two del
egates from each of said townships and
boroughs to represent them in the county
convention which will meet in the borough
of Huntingdon on Wednesday the 12th
of August at 2 o'clock in the afternoon„
to nominate a county ticket and appoint!
Congressional and Senatorial Conferees.
o* - -Anil a general meeting of all who are'
'opposed to the present administration of
the State and Federal Governments, is re
questud to inert at the Court house in the ,
borough of Huntingdon at 7 o'clock in
the evening of Wednesday the 12th of
August.
_
- By the County Committee
David Blair
Chairman,
July 22nd 1840.
o*' - • I. 0. U. 4:0
We ask our patrons to examine the let
ters at the head of this article, and then
ask themselves if they do not apply to
them? 1 OWE YOU, we know must be
the thoughts of many of these when they
take my paper. The letters above tells
the tale. When you take up the "Jour
nal," and think of the yankee who cast
his lot among you—and think of the toil,
the paper and ink he has had to buy ; and
think of his "little responstbilitica," as
well as his greater ones; does not the ex
pression I. 0. U. apply to you ? if it
does, remember what St. Naul says, "0"
no man any thing.
There are some hundreds of our sub
scribers that we have repeatedly told to
"put money in their purse"—to 'fork up"
—to "pay the printer," and to do the de
cent thing; stilll they forget to remember
three little words, "I Owe You."
Naturally good natured,we have "borne
our misfortunes with a patient shrug."—
But these hard times has nearly starved
the Job out of us—and we are satisfied
that we do not want any more patience
we want money. Patience is a very com
mendable virtue, but there is a time when
it ceases to be a virtue at all ; and "to that
complexion has ours come to at last."
To those who have so long been our pa
trons and friends—who have always
punctually paid the printer —we wish to
say that our insinirations are not meant
for them. For their kindness and punc
tuality, we oiler them our cordial and heart:
felt thanks, fervently desiring them to
continue thchr good scone.
To those who have so long been hold
ing on to the hard earned dollars of the
poor printer, we shall plainly say, they
shall get none of our thanks, until we get
some of their money. We want some at
it, the wife and wee things want some of
it, our hands want some of it, and our
creditors want a good deal of it. So et ake
up your minds to bring it to us, or we
shall be under the disagreeable necessity
of sending for it.
I We've been waiting, we've been waiting,
Long enough to call it fun ;
14t,more waiting, no more waiting.
Our NEXT Oall be a LEGAL VON!
The August court will soon be here.
and a favorable chance will be presented
to 'hand over." Such as cannot come,
can pay to any of our agents. A list of
them will be found on the first page.
The Meetings,
Meetings have been held throughout
the Union in favor of the success of Old
Tip ; and they may emphatically be cal
led the meetings, for in numbers, zeal, and
enthusiasm, there have none been held be
fore. Log Cabins are raised in every vil
lage and town almost in the East and
West, and they estimate the numbers
present by acres. The right spirit is a
broad. The day of our triumph is near at
hand. Let every honest man shout suc
cess to the man who "fought more battles
thou any other general and never lost a
ividory."
Delegate Meetings
Last week we neglected to call the at
tention of the people to the call for the
people to hold their delegate meetings.
We cannot too strongly impress upon
the minds of our readers the importance
of attending to those primary assembla•
ges. Too often they are but slimly atten
ded, and the few who meet and transact
the business, are charged ,with trickery
and unfairness; and sometimes we doubt
not, justly.
Every freeman should attend these
meetings to let his voice be heard, as to
his views and opinions. The people them
selves should meet and select as their a
gents :in forming a ticket, whe are
unbiassed for oe against any and every
man. The Convention should be a body
of deliberating citizens, all intent upon
securing the greatest good to the great
est number, and such a convention can
only be formed by the people selecting
from among themselves, such citizens, as
they can place the firmest reliance upon
their desire to further the wishes and the
welfare of their constituents. Difieren
ces of opinion, undoubtedly will arise—
if they are honest differences, all will be
satisfied with the decision of the majority•
The great body of the people feel no
other wish than that all shall be done for
the best. They have no individual or
personal preferences, or private objects in
view; and it is to them that we
,appeal, to
assemble in their strength, to mingle their
voices with the multitude, to assist in
bringing about the much desired and
much needed reform in our government.
The struggle is just commencing. It
is a struggle of the people against power,
patronage, party drill, party deception,
and partisan office holders. Our State is
over run with scores of the minions of the
National and State administrations.
They are contending for the spoils of of
fice. They are seeking to retain the trea
sure of the people in their hands, which
has already enriched scores of them, at
the expense of the honest and toiling tax
payers.
The contest is already begun, and must
be carried on with energy and a determi
nation to succeed. Let there be no lag
garde. Come at once into the strife. Go,
every freemen ! join heart and hand with
your fellow laborers, and let nothing keep
1 you from the performance of a luty which
you owe to yourself; to your children, and
'to our beloved country. Do sot say the;::
meetings can be held without you. GO
GO ! ! GO ! I ! every man, and go as if
you felt as if
u-You alone was he
On whose sole arm hung victory."
Funny!
The Loco Focos are really talkingabeut
nominating a ticket id this county. Now
is not that - funny ? What do they want
with a ticket in this county, just to have
it beat 1300? Well, poor fellows. if they
desire to show how very popular their
Iron Gray is getting in the land of his na
tivity. We do not blame them; for the way
the people will write Ichabod over his
name and his party in this county will be
a caution.
To the Farmers & inceltmet-
les—No. 8.
When we concluded our last article,
thought we had written enough upon
the subject of Loco Fozo patriot; sm, or as
e call it, party humbug. Some things
that we have seen enacted during the last
few days has convinced us that, there is
much more can be said calculated to show
up the hollow hearted professions of this
ould be democratic faction, and its
thousand acts of deception and trickery;
and we have determined to devote at least
another chapter to the same subject.
There has been no one thing that has
been snore dwelt upon by these Loco Fos
cos, to delude and ensnare the people in
to their ranks, than their opposition to the
unsafe Banks—unsafe, they said, because
the people had no security that their notes
should be redeemed. Upon every and
all occasions you could hear them saying
that they wanted the Banks to put their
notes on the same footing that a man had to
do with his note of hand. They said it a
poor man gives his note, his property could
be sold to pay it, but that the rich Bank s
were allowed to issue as much as they
pleased, and a poor man could not make
them pay up. Every tavern brawler be
longing to the party was eloquent upon
such injustice to the poor. Every Loco
Foco paper was filled with empty bar
angues to the honest and industrious peo
pie, to unite with them in their war of
patriotism to make these rag barons give
security for their trash. Give them the
power, and they would make them secure
their now worthless raps, by binding the
stockholders fur the redemptioe of their
notes. We say farmers, is not what we
have here written true to the letter? You
must all answer, yes!
We now ask you in perfect candor,
have they done with these Banks as they
said they would? Or have they simply
obtained the power by their false promi
ses, and made no attempt to better the
Banks? One Bank Bill was passed du
ring the last session, which contained eve
ry regulation and restriction that they
promised. It was passed ; bat what did
their Bank restricting Governor do with
it? lIE VETOED IT; and in a long
message to the Legislature, says, how
much he likes such Banks, yet does that,
which should convince the most stubborn
man, that he is in heart a greater friend
to the old system of insecurity.
We told our citizens, three years ago,
that this man Porter was a Bank stock
holder, and would never act up to what
he said. We were pronounced a liar,
and a traducer of his patriotism. Did
we not tell the truth? Did we nut expose
the humbug of his professions? Has not
he done just what we said lie would du?
Answer these questions to yourselves,
honest laborers. Be not misled by what
we say, if we are mistaken. Examine
the facts.
We have been led to continue this sub
ject by seeing distributed througout the
country, this very veto message. It is
printed in German and English pamphlets
—in every Loco Foco paper, and is her
shied forth as the right doctrines against
Banks. In that message, all the old
stale humbug against Banks is gone
over. The Governor says we have ton
many; and will not sanction any more. l
In truth, in the whole message he tries tu t i
convince his party that he still adheres to
his patriotism, and Anti Bank Democra•'
cy.
We promised to show in these articles
that party patriotism was neither more,
nor less than political humbug; and we
here show that the head or the party still '
sticks to the humbug. We have shown
that -they never carry out the measures
they profess.
Is there one single honest man, who
does not believe that Mr. Porter would
have signed this restricted Bank charter,
if he really had been in favor of the melt-,
sure . ; Y9!4 have been told hundreds 01,
times that the Batiks were all unsafe, un
sound, and speculating shave shops, in
which the rich took advantage of the poor.
Now, if that party had been honest in what
they said, would they have refused to
grant the clear people one good, safe Bank?
The Governor says, we have too many
Banks ; and hints very strongly that they
are all bad. Yet he will not let the peo
ple have one good one. Is it not just to
suppose that if one good Bank had been
created op their professed principles, that
all the others would have been obliged to
agree to the same restrictions, to make
their notes pass?
Notwithstanding all this, this party
still profess the same notions as formerly,
i
but will not carry them ont, Will n ot)
every man vay that their patriotism is all
humbug?
Now let us ask you who toil for your
money and your bread, what you would
do in a case we will state of precisely the•
same kind.
Suppose you were in the habit of buy--
ing goads of any kind at a store ; and .
al other storekeeper takes you to one side
and tells you, that the articles are not
worth any thing—they ale mean, coarse,
detnaged, to dear at any price, and all
that—in truth that they are only made to
sell, but if you will purchase of him, he
can give you the same goods, that are fine,
elegant, and sound, and made fur use—.
and he can sell them even cheaper than
his neighbor. -Thinking him honest, you
would go and buy of him ; and when you
get the things home, you find he has sent
you just the same article, if not worse,
and has charged you more than the other'
!Ilan, what would you say? would you not
pronounce him in plain terms a liar and
a rascal? and would you be satisfied by
his telling you that all he wanted was,
thatyou should buy on until he had sold
out his old stock—and then he would get
the "right stripe" for you We are sure
you would not.
Like the storekeeper, these Loco Fo
cos told the people, it they would support
,thorn, that they would make laws—make
,good Banks—and they should cost the
'p eople less ;—and in fact they would do
‘vonders for them, and save their money.
The people believed them, and new they
can see that they are like the humbugging
storekeeper. They will not make any of
their good Banks until the old stock is all
gone ; and they are giving them the same
article that they had before, and are char
ging mere for it.
As American citizens, we you, it
you ought not to be as careful in selecting
articles for the Government of your na
tion, as you are in selecting things for
your family/ And will you let s party
lie and cheat you out of your rights; when
you would not let a man cheat you of a
fip?
Are we not right? Tell us. next Otto-.
ber.
Louisiana Election.
As was expected by our friends, owing
to local causes, we have lost one of our
Congress men in this State. But notwith
standing, the Harrison majority of the pop
ular vote is about 2000. Showing that
the Old Ilero is gaining friends there. Ii
we recollect rightly, in 18S6 Louisiana
gave a majority for Van Buren. She
now stands among the disetithralled.
The "Standard" is still chuckling over
the changes for Van Baron. It is not a
little extraordinary, that they have to go
so far abroad to find changes 7 or do they
do it because they can manufacture cham.
es, and no one is the wiser. Endeavor
fur once, neighbor, to hunt up some'
changes in this county, if you do not, we
can, scores of them; and unless you can
make it appear that there are some chang
es at home, the people will be apt to say,
that those from abroad are all humbug.
The Political Pauper.
Amos Kendal has discovered that if he
is busy and can make his former menials
work right that Ike can make more out tat
his Extra Lies, than he can as Post Mas
ter General. He sends letters to every
Post Master, and requests hin, to use his
influence in obtaining subscribers, and
sending the ready on to him. In this way
he at once makes about 10,000 subscri
bers out of the leg treasuries, and then he
commands his obedient serfs to be up and
doing and get as many more as possible.
The truth is Amos is a cunning beg.
ga :and I as discovered that that party must
go down, and he has taken this plan to
get rich on the dollars his slaves beg .
from the people. Honest men shoeh
scorn such beggai a from their doors,
Old Times.
We publish below a letter signed b'
Thomas Ringland, written at a time when
he little thought that his gallant General
would be a candidate for the highest hon.
ors in our country, and that he, blinded by
the madness of party zeal, would be found
among the miscreants, who are willing to
defame and traduce the man that they
then esteemed so highly.
Thomas Ringlaatl, then had a soldier's
honor, (which is now overshadowed by a
politician's infamy,) and he willingly now
mingles among the calumniators of Har
rison.
A few weeks since, "The Keystone" of
Harrisbug, quoted the remarks of Thomas
Ringland of Washington county, to sus.
tain the assertion that Harrison's soldiers