yet (except among thetnselves) to ogre.
In stop fighting because they feared the'
wo.dil have the worst of it; and thi•
comes from their true religion, and tru
law, and their love of both beyond all oth
er considerations•
...ST ,as before said, if you take ma ad
vice it is: Don't waist money in an idle
p •otecti.in, as you call it, of your Colo
nies here; just keep military tore enough
to aid your civil authorities in executing
the laws, and if such a force is required,
make it a military as far as practicable.
Gaud Laws won't require much to aid
them; push the Common School principle,
and that always makes good laws and
Militia too; for it creates a common inter
est. Give your soldiers "quarter sec
thins" of land in Canada, and put them
all on half pay, to aid them in clearing
up ground for a year or two, and they will
soon become profitable citizens, instead
of paid soldiers. And then what conse
quence is it to England's glory or Eng
land's happiness whether they choose to
live under laws of their own and pay
their own taxes; so long as they speak
and pray in plain English , and extend i
the blessings of human liberty and coin- I
fort; two words that are only known to
that tongue, and can't be written or clear- I
ly understood by any other. Swarms
of the old Hive, who are ready and dis•
pute among themselves on minor points
but in any great contest between liber
ty and oppression, are always true to
the main chance: sound laws, liberty, I
and good order. This is the doctrine
that should prevail at the old Here. It I
makes no odds in what quarter of the
World •these swarms may go, they are
part and parcel of the mother stock—and
any quarrel between them ,and their old I
Mother is a scandal, and should be avoid ;
ed if possible—for, as they prosper, an
you prosper: if they fall, you may fall:
and who can then tell what ling shall be I
law. Foreigners may get uppermost all
the world over, and when that is the
case, I, for one, if living, would just as
leave be in Arnby as any where else; for
one place is just as unsafe as any other,
when folks don't speak plain English.
This doctrine, perhaps, won't suit some
folks, but the time is cons to speak out
truly and frankly- The Anglo• Saxon
family, wherever located must be true
to themselves, to their laws, their reli
gion, anti their notion of human liberty:
orforeigners may triumph. We should
tell of all nations to keep the peace, or
we shall make them do so, and if we
walk in among 'em, it is only to teach
'em English and steam power, and by
common schools and other improvements
put aside human oppression.
I send you with this a copy of Gener
al Harrison's Inaugural address to our
folks, just before lie took the oath to ad
minister as President, the laws of the
United States.
It is considered here a considerable
complete document, in its way—setting
forth general principles; and when Con
gress meets he will give his notions more
particularly on matters that Congress is
likely to act on.
Times here in the money way are not
very good, owing to a fact that your
country and our country both about the
same time, some five years ago, took a
notion to limit the power of their two re.
appective paper money regulators —suppo-.
sing it would make matters better—but
the experiment proved otherwise. The
new Banks in both countries pufl'd the
bladder till it burst, and then want of
confidence followed—and very high pri
ces fell to very low fprices—and credit
came down to hard currency—for credit
and confidence is pretty touch like strain
which can lift mighty t piston rods ant;
turn big wheels, but when a cold breath is
thrown upon it and it is condensed, its!
power is is reduced to a small quantity of
cold water. But foreign nations musn't
think because your cottntty and my coon
try can't pay all debts, in gold and Eiker
on demand, that we are poor and can't
pay debts, or fight for rights. You fought
and lick'd pretty mush all creation (ex
cept us) with paper money, and we can
do that too on a pinch, and continue filth
Ling and then working, till we bring our
paper money to the value of gold, just as
you d id.
If I write you another letter, I will
tell you the best and most economical
way for you to spend your money in this
quarter of creation—but for the present
depend on it the worst use you can make'
of it is to spend it on troops in Canada,
or building . war steamers on the Lakes,
or organizing nigger regiments in the ,
West Indies. Ant? if you don't think so
now, you will before you hear more from
your obedient servant
DOWNING.
Major, &c., &c., &c.,
HINTS TO THE LEGISLATURE.
We indulged yesterday in a few re
, marks upon the different circumstances
in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts influ
encing the means of prosperity, and oper
ating at the present moment in favor of
the latter and against the former state.—
The views taken are, we believe, original;
we think they ate correct; and had we'
followed the impulses of our mind, we
should have extended to include many
other circumstances; but we know the
fate of long newspaper essays; they are
Laid away for future reading—that future
which never comes. But the ideas, crude
as they are, which we threw out have sug..
gested some other thoughts, which, it
suited at all for publication, are now iu
season.
Massachuseas while she wishes for t'le
a asperity of Pennsylvania,evidentlyta kes J Capt Carr, 2d dragoons, with one hun
tone of patronizing kindness, somewhat dred men was sent out from Pilatka a
nortifying to us of the Keystone State: tew days previous, and returned shortly
nil the pain is enhanced by the recollec- after the express had arrived from For
ion that with all the occasion for boasting • Russell. He immediately supplied hit,
if punctuality that we once possessed, it men with provisions, and started for - Capi
,s but too evident that we are indebted to 11's battle ground. it is impossible to
the east—indebted for cloths, spelling' give the particulars under such a circum•
books, broad axes, wooden clocks and pa•lstance. There is no knowing the loss, as
per. The wool of Washington county is yet, that Capt B. has met with Lieut. Al
brought three hundred miles from our in- burtis had lust six or seven men the day
terior into Philadelphia, sent to the east, before, in his skirmish with the Indians,
',lade into cloth, returned, sold, and the and was forced to retreat on account of
payment made (the cost of the wool de-, their number. This looks very much like
Incted) for the hands and materials eta • 1 "peace."
ployed on the fabric.
The men of Juniata cut down the wood
of the forest, and dig up Re ore of their
bogs for their own works, with shovels
ind axes made at the eastward, from iron
.mhiufactured in Juniata, brought down to
our city and thence transported to the
east.
The cotton of Tennessee comes up the
Ohio, and down the whole length of our
state improvement, is shipped at our own
port to the east, is there spun and woven
,into mus/ins, and returned to Philadel
phia for payment of eastern laborers. The
very paper which we buy of our eastern
brethren is made part from rags bought in
Pennsylvania, and we are the rewarders
of eastern ingenuity,eastern labor, eastern
capital, eastern enterprise set in operation
by eastern liberality.
How is this? Why is this? Have the
people of Pennsylvania no ingenuity?—
Look at our work shops, our strain en
gines. Is labor not to be had in Pennsyl
vania? Listen to the thousands who now
seek employment to maintain wife and
children. Has Pennsylvania no enter
prize? Look at her coal mines, her iron
works. flas Pennsylvania no capital 1—
The money of Pennsylvania is employed
in a vast number of factories in New En
gland, where only New England tabus is
rewarded.- Has she no streams to propel
the wheels of her factories? "Pharphar
land Abana"—Delaware and Schuylkill,
the Susquehanna and L •high, and the
thousand streams that gush from our
mountains; are these not equal to the
Connecticut, the Nashua, and the lesser
torrents of New England?
Is Pennsylvania deficient in LIBERAL
ITY?
In that lies her deficiency, the amount
of capital necessary to conduCt a factory
to any considerable profit is not within the
command ofa single individual, or of one
or two citizens, especially when all fab
rics and manufactured articles are liable
to the fluctuations of a market affected by
the accidental scarcity or plenty of money;
l and of course large sums are requited to
enable the owners to hold over and com
mand the rising market. Our Legislature
atlects great chariness in grunting charters
while Massachusetts and the other New
England states hold out all inducements
for investment of capital in manufactories
and chartered privileges. They have de
rived all and more than all the advanta
ges which they could have anticipated
from such liberality, while Pennsylvania,
with all appliances and means to boot,
with an ample market, ample capital, am-
ple powers and ample enterprise, has been
the factor of those who became the prin
cipal by their own liberality.
Let the Legislature of Pennsylvania
look to these things, as among the causes
of present depression, and the means of
future alleviation and prosperity.—U. S.
Gazette.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIVES.-A
'correspondent of the Advertiser, writing
from Plymouth, says that the sloop Belvi
dere, of Boston, Captain L. Hersey, from
Provincetown for Boston, with sand, an
chored in the Cow Yard on Friday night.
During the snow storm she filled with wa
cer—the anchors were slipped and she
frifted upon Mite Flat. About 2 o'-
clock, A. M., on Saturday, they got the
vessel afloat, and in attempting to make
the harbor were carried outside of the
)each and grouned on Brown's Island. 4
As the vessel struck, the Captain was
knocked over by the boom, and drowned.
['he crew consisted of four men, clung to
the shrouds for four holm the waves dash
log over them every few minutes, when,
after two unsuccessful attempts, three
were rescued from their perilous condi.'
tion. The fourth, an Irishman, named 1
James Fearing, became exhausted, and
just when the other men were taken off,
tell into the water.—Boston lifer. Jour. of
Tuesday.
anlmemam mm
FURTHER & LATER FROM
FLORIDA.
Office of the News,
ST. AGUSTLNE, March 7. S
Information reached here last evening,
that an express arrived at Pilatka, from
Fort Russell, on the night of the 4th,
bringing intelligence that Capt. Barnum,
with one hundred men, (including nine
mounted) came up with the Indians,
'(whom Lieut Alburtis had been compel
led to retreat from, on account of the
!smallness of his force,) at the head of Or
ange Lake, and commenced an attack up
on them. Capt B. had placed the nine
mounted men in ambush, as a reserve, and
led on the others; but finding the Indians
in such a body, he made a signal for the
mounted men to come up. No sooner
was the signal made, when the Indians
having cut oft these men from the main 'uo
dy, fired upon them, killing six and the
other three retreated to the Fort, being
wounded. The express was immediately
sent °IF to Pilatka, without knowing any
thing further, The wounded men state
that Capt B. was rtill fighting.
._._,
fri - Brownson, Editor of the Boston
Quarterly Review, a strong writer, and a
rabid locoloco, but somewh at of a latiudi
narian in politics as well as in religion,
gives the following as one of the causes of
their defeat in the recent election:
"Aside from certain constitutional and
political reasons, what arguments can you
bring against a National Bank that do not
I bear with equal force against State banks?
Nay, once admit the policy of a paper cir
culation, and it is questionable whether
you are nut unwise in opposing a Nation
al bank. If the States are to be suffered
to issue, either directly or indirectly,
through institutions of their own creating
a paper currency like the one we now
have. It may be contended with justice,
that a National hank is needed; nay, all
but indispensable. Nothing can be worse
than as many different currencies as there
are States, and as many different curren
cies there will be, if the currency be left
to the States. A principle reason for de•
siring a union of the States was, that we
might have a currency which should not
vary with each other State, but be of unia
form value throughout all the States.
The interest of trade, nay, of industry
of labor, imperiously demand that the cur
rency of Massachussetts and Mississip
pi should be of the same value. Does
any body believe this can be the case, so
long as our currency is paper, and this pa
per is issued by State institutions, and
subject to the action of the State Legisla
tures?
Now the administration party has op.
posed the United States Bank, ..vithout
opposing paper money; it has opposed the
only measure which can possibly render
that policy in any degree tolerable. This
has been its error."
FREE BANKi OF NEW YORK,
The numerous country banks in New
York, that sprung up under the General
Banking Law, are getting into hot water,
and a number of them into discredit. ffe
learn, through a source that may be relied
on, that the following institutions, organ
ized under the General law, in Buffalo,
have refused to redeem their notes, viz:
Union Bank, Bank of America, Mer
chant's Exchange Bank, and U. S. Bank
of Buffalo. Report says the ',free banks
generally, except those of New York
City, are looked upon with distrust. !Pe
see by the Albany Evenarg Journal that
the notes of the Union Bank of Buffalo are
under protest at the Bank Department,
and that the circulating notes of the U
nion Bank amount to $46,000, for the re
demption of which $44,000 Illinois 6 per
cent stocks, and $14,000 New York 5
per cent, have been deposited with the
Comptroller. The notes of the Roches•
ter bank of Western New York ate also
under protest. Its circulation amounts
to $83,158, for the redemption of which
the Comptroller holds $lOO,OOO Indiana
5 per cent, stocks. The Journal suppo
ses that in ,the present condition of the
money mar ket the Comptroller will not
offer their sureties for sale.— Cleo. Her.
BY TILE PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES OF
AmEnicA
A Proclamation'.
WunaaAs sundry important and weighty
matters, principally growing out of the
condition of the finances anti revenue of
the country, appear to me to call fur the
consideration of Congress at an earlier
day than its next session, and thus form
an extraordinary occasion, such as ren
ders necessary, in my judgement, the con
, vention of the two Houses as soon as may
be practicable, I do, therefore., by this my
Proclamation, convene the two Rouses of
Congress, to meet at the Capitol at the
city of Washington, on the last Monday,
being the thirty-first day, of May next.
And I require the respective Senators and
Representatives then and there to assem
ble, in order to receive such information
respecting the state of the Union as may
be given to them, and to devise and adopt
such measures as the good of the country
may seem to them, in the exercise of their
wisdom and power, to require.
Dune at the city of Washington, this
seventeenth day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand
[Ls.] eight hundred and forty-one, and
of the independence of the United
States, time sixty-fifth.
W. H. HARRISON.
By the President:
DANIEL WEBSTER
Secretary of State.
....—....metemss:
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESI.
DENT.
Charles B. Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
to be Solicitor of the Treabury, in the
place of Mathew Burchard, removed.
John Williamson, of Pennsylvania, to
be Recorder of the General Land Office,
in the place of Hudson M. Garland, re
moved.
lit
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TN E JOURNAL.
One country, one conatit ution one destiny
Huntingdon, March 24, 1841
Ifiemocratie Candidate
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOHN BANKS,
OF BEMIS COUNIY.
Our Legislature
What have they done? What are they
! doing Are questions that we are every
day asked, and which we find it impossi
ble to answer in any other way than to
say—nothing! to the first, and—nothing!
to the last. Perhaps, however, it may be
doing injustice to many industrious mem
bers. But no matter, thoiill the labour
ever so industriously, OOP - labors end in
nothing.. Every bill of any, importonce,
that has been passed after long discussion,
has been stopped by the Executive Veto.
But a few years ago the passage of a
bill by the two Houses was considered as
in fact making the law, for who then heard
of vetoes? Now, unless the Legislature
and the Executive are of the same wipe,
ever) bill is vetoed and the Legislature
s ets fur months and are paid out of our
treasure, and have done just Lotting when
they adjourn but give the Governor a
chance to issue his political harangues at
the expense of the State. During the
present session not less than four vetoes,
we think, have been sent in; and it is unis
versally supposed that there will be sev-1
eral more. The Huntingdon breach bill
has again passed, to appoint a committeel
to settle up the accounts. A bill to settle
this matter has been twice vetoed, and in
all probability will be again, for no other
reason than they desire to keep the lies of
Geo. R. Espy and David ft. Porter for
political capital during the coining contest,
and they want the money (which is, and has
for years, we believe, been appropriated,)
to squander and electioneer with, although
the State is pa3ing double interest. Firs t
to the United States Bank and the Harris
burg Bank, where it was originally bor.,
rowed, and again to the banks that took
the loan when the money was appropri
ated.
Now, we ask, why should our Legisla
ture stay there laboring to no end ? A'hy ,
saddle the state with the expenses of a
long session, when the Executive dictator
will not sanction any of your acts ? Go
home ! we say, and so dues the people 01 .
this caunty. Pass such laws as your judg
ment thinks best; and pass them quickly,
if they are vetoed go home and tell your
constituents that you felt it a duty that
you owed to the interest of the state. Go
home and tell them it is useless to legis
late at all, so long as no law can be ere.'
ated, except such as pleases the Executive,j
in every particular! You bare the cen
sure of the protracted and do-nothing-ses
sion. The Legislature are charged with
all the blame; and if you would preserve
your honor as well as dignity, as legisla
tors, leave the Hall and let David R. find
ways and means to bring his administrat;on
out of the mire. As it is now he opposes
what you do to make political capital for
his party, at the expense of the State.
The Banks.
What willl be done with the banks?
Is another question as often asked, and
much harder to answer. There at e nu.
merous plans suggested, and nearly all of
them are wound up with a belief that the
Governor will veto them. '1 he impression
now is, that the Legislature will repeal
the laws of 1824 and 1840, and do nothing
more. 'lle repealing of those laws will
allow the banks to issue small notes and
will give the people the same chance to
crllect specie of the banks that they have
from an individual. But the question is,
will David It. Porter sign such a repealing
law? Some say yes, others no! and others
suppose that he will veto it and in a long
political tirade endeavor to awaken all the
old prejudice against banks; that the Le
gislature will circulate a few thousand
copies of this precious document through
out the State; and that, consequently,
Porter will again be admitted into full
fellowship in the ranks of the Loco Focos,
and his faux pea of last year be forgotten;
and that atter all this, his partizans in the
Legislature will offer themselves up tul
icape Goats to their party, and will assist
m carry the said meastue through by a
majority of too thirds, thus victimizing
t hemselves to save the party and its an'
worthy head.
Such is one of the opinions which has
evidently gained ground for some days.
But we really trust that our legislators'
will at once go home, if this vetoing sys
tem is still to be kept up. Pass the law,
we say, and we shall then see if the Gov
ernor is as i'frarleBs of denuaciaticlus from
any quarter," as he was lost year. Pass
the Canal Commissioner law as a part of
the improvement bill, and if he again re
fuses to sign the Huntingdon Break bill
attach that to it also. Make it h Cab for
,three passengers, but not an Omnibus,
I, pass the bill in this shape one day and ad
journ the next, and ;et Mr. Porter fight it
out with himself and party: Now that's
our advice. It is not worth much, you
may say. Very very well, it did not cost
much, anti as the old Italian said, "If it
is poor preach—it's poor pay too."
Coining to their Senses!
•
The mis-named Democratic party, or
some of its leaders, got their "Ebenezer
up," as Major Downing would say, be
cause a few of their leading and influen
tial men would not shout hozanas at the'
misfortunes of the banks, and the triumph
'of New York intrigue in its assault upon
our institutions; and what did they do T'
',Why held a meeting and formally read
them out of the democratic fold, and pro.,
nounced them recreants and traitors tol
'party because they, forsooth, hail too
much state pride to juin in the war against
'their own State, with her already ton
powerful rival.
After they had been formally drummed
out of the camp, the "Keystone" saw the
danger of their using up, or at least en
deavoring to, alt those whose love of coun•
try overbalanced their adherance to party;
and held the following language, which
shows pretty clearly that they are convin.
ced that they have no votes to spare at
the coming election. We take this ex
tract from the "Blairsville Record," into
which it had been copied; and in which
there were some of the real radical no
tion of party reality. That paper goes
in for reading out every man that will not
bow in obedience to every humbug of par
ty; and trews the Keystone, to speak as
mildly as possible, very cavalierly.
But to show that "the party" are con
vinced that they cannot spare any of their
strength, the have again admitted the re
creants to a high seat in the Grand San
heidrem of their party. For be it known
that at the 4th of march Convention, Peter
Hay &co. were allowed a prominant
place on their State Committee.
The Keystone talks plainly as to th e
folly of reading out; and by a kind of
side hiat, tells Gov. Porter that
not tell the truth, when he said in hi s
veto of the Canal Commissioners bill,
our friends had not a majority in this
state, at the last election, for it acknowl.
that the were in the minority in the poular
vote; but, as they are boils of the same
family, they can settle the dispute o;
whose tale is false between themselves.
Read the article, and see if there is nut
an evident indication that they feel as it
they were in a fair way to get most gin.
riously beaten the coming fall. By way
of advice, we say, read in all you can,
for so many will leave you without the
trouble of being read out, that you will be
without a quorum to read in without you
soon begin.
READING OUT.
We observe that the late meeting in
front of the state house in Philadelphia,
has read Geo M Dallas and John K Kane
out of the democratic patty, and Dr Pet
rilcen in a letter to the Danville Datil:.
gencer, calls those of our party who voted
for the distribution of the procee its of
Ithe public lands and a tariff, federalists
and reereant democrats.
Now when it is recollected that the
democratic party are in a minority in our
legislature, and were upon the popular
vote for President in the minority at the
late election, we respectfully suggest
whether it would not savor more of policy
to begin to read in instead of reading out.
Keystone.
Our Township Elections
Have in a language too plain to be mis•
understood, told the tale of the popularity
of David R. Porter (or more properly
speaking the unpopularity) in his own
county. Three years ago they opposed
him "because they knew him," and Old
lluntingdon, by a majority of 926 againstl
,him, said they would not trust "a rogue ori
a fool." That majority has always been,
ty our opponents, accredited to the "big
!reak." This time the canal is in the
Lands o r Mr. Porter's partizans, and we
can without exag,eration say, that that ma
jwity will be nearly double if not quite.
!Indeed we should not be astonished should
'the majority in this county over run 2,000,
WE KNOW HIM, is the brief but de.
cisive answer of our people to all interrog
atories. Even many, very many of his
active and ardent fi iends have 'eft him,
ashamed and disgusted, and have ex
claimed, "./ did not believe it before, but
the books were in the garret." Under
such a state of things it cannot be imagined
that his popularity has increased in Ws
own county. At any rate the question
was very fairly tested at the election held
in this borough on Friday last. For the
first time this many years we have given a
majority of eleven in the boroughs for
Judge, and with the whole vote of the
township the majority was only five
against our Judge, and When David It.
Porter ran his majority was 15% now
d v , ndled down to 5, and we feel no hesi•
tation in saying that we will give a very
respectable majority in this township
against honest David. The people of the
state can, however, learn how well he is
esteemed at his old home.
'the elections throughout the county
have ail resulted as disasterously to his
hopes as here. In Hollidaysburg th e
Harrison Democratic majority was 54,
last year 1. In Alexandria we carried
our Judge, last year Van Buren. In
West we carried our Judge. In Walker
ditto., and so we might go on to the end
of the chapter. And we believe in every
case it was a strict party contest. We
shall close with an expressive 0. K.
isreputa We.
We do not know when we have seen a
more disreputable article in any journal,
which professes to claim respectability,
than the attack in the Advocate upon J.
G. Miles, Esq. charging him with a viola.
tion of the Sabbath. fhe character of
Mr. Miles, both as a man and a christian,
is beyond such petty malevolent assaults,
and we should not deem a notice necessn•
ry, if he were as well known abroad as at
home. The charge is, that Mr. Miles
traveled on the Sabbath. Now the truth
is simply this. The stage for Harrisburg
leaves here between S and 10 o'clock in
the evening, and Mr. Miles took the Sun
day evening stage, in order to be in his
seat during the action upon an important
bill which came up on Tuesday. Had he
left on Saturday evening he would have
to ride all day on the Sabbath. 'l'herefure,
according to the morals of the Advocate,
he would be precluded from traveling two
days out of the seven.
Fur Mr. Miles, we can say, that we
believe he performs his duty to his con
stituents, not as thlugh it were paramount
to, but in obedience with the will of his
Creator.
We are only astonished that the citi
zens do not pointedly rebuke such utitner
ited attacks upon men who conduct them
selves, in every walk of life, with exem
plary propriety.
Judge Burnside.
We learn from Harrisburg, that the
Hon. Thomas Burnside, Prrident Judge
of our Court, has been appointed to fill the
chair of Judge Fox, resigned, ►n Mont
gomery and Bucks. We presume 1)6 ap
pointment will be confirmed.
We can simply say, that we feel cer.
tain, that the great majority of nor peo
ple will ere long regret the loss of Judge
Burnside. For we feel confident that his
place will not be easily supplied. Ilk
profound knowledge of the law, with a
clear and distinct knowledge of its appli
cation, rendered him eminent as a jurist
in our State.
It is not known who will be his succes-
ELECTIONS IN THE PROVINCE OF CANA.
nA.—Our Canadian friends are very buvy
in the election campaign for members of
the first Parliament under the new eider
of things. If we can rely on reports in
the newspapers, there are considerable ex,
citemeut in some of the Eastern townships
and some lives have been lost. The fol
lowing we copy from the last St. Albans
(Vt.) Al ease nge r.
Canadian Libety—Riot and Death.--
By a gentleman direct from Henryville,
(Canada,) we have an account of the most
disgracetulfand bloody riots, at the now
pending elections, which welhasten to
give, just as we are going to press.
From our informant we learn that at
the close of the polls on Tuesday, the rad
ical candidate was 84 ahead of his tory
opponent. Upon this being stated, the
tories made an attack upon the radicals,