(From'the National Gazette.) A passage in the proceedings of th, House of Representatives on Saturday iv, cite ,particularly as worthy of attention. The motion of Mr. l'hoinas Bottler Kim was before the House, "That the Secrete-, ry of the Navy is hereby directed to in quire into the expediency of aiding indi victuals or companies in the establishment of lines of armed steamers between some of our pr i ncipal Northern and southern ports, and to forego ports; and advertise. for proposals fur the establishment of such lines as he may deem most important and practicable; and to report to this House at the next session of Congress ' To which Mr. Irvin of the Twenty-Second Pennsylvania District offered the follow•' ing amendment: "Ater the words 'foreign ports' insert the words, 'and on the rivers Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and the Lakes." "And then insert as additional resolu tions the following: "Reaolsed, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby directed to in quire and report to the next session of Congress as to the expediency of purchas ing and establishing a site for a shipyard on the Ohio or Missippi river, to serve as a depot for naval stores and to give the means for repairs. "Resolved, That the Secretary of the Navy be also instructed to inquire and re port as to the expediency of establishing coal depots to be used in the naval ser vice at Mobile, Pensacola, Key West, arid such other points as may be deemed suit able." The main proposition, to aid private enterprise in the building of vessels which in time of war may be used by the government, is one embracing palpable ad vantages. We are among those who ad vocate the least and most economical force with which the country can be rendered secure; and while it is admitted that some addition to our naval defences is requisite it is clear also that if practicable the plan indicated in the above resolution will coat the least money ar►d prove the most effi cient, The successful adoption of it by the British government is suffioient exam ple on this head. The amendment of Mr. Irvin must be held advisable or otherwise in proportion to the outlay required to carry it into full execution. If the national interests up on the Lakes, in the Mississippi Valley and upon the gulf of Mexico can be actu ally promoted by Mr. Irvin's suggestion, it cannot be too soon adopted. But iC seems to us that the return lor the contem plated expenditures shuld be clear before they are made. As the British govern. ment has now two armed steam vessels on the Lakes, in that quarter certain') equal preparation for attack is dictated by pru dence. ABUSE OF THE PARDONING POWER, The Miner's Journal notices briefly the perpetration of a BRUTISH OUTRAGE on the person of a young lady in Port Car• bon, Schuylkill county, and proceeds to remark as follows: "M'Laughlin was arrested and is now in jail—but what is the use of going to the trouble to try him—so long as the Gover nor is ready to grant a pardon to almost every criminal convicted nnw•a-days, it matters not for what offence he may have been sentenced. This is the second attempt to commit a rape in the neighborhood of Port Carbon, since the pardon of the wretch by Gover nor Porter, who was recently convicted tor a similar offence, and sentenced to TItN TEARS imprisonment in the Peniten- Lary. Those who were instrumental in ob. tainingt that pardon, must be held accoun table at the bar of public opinion—a fear. ful r.sponsibility rests upon their shout. ders. Crime stalks abroad in the open day— and the case of those unfortunate families yesterday, may be ours today. Let the citizens therefor convene a public meet ing, and demand of the Governor the names of those who petitioned for the pardon, and at the same time publicly re pudiate the gross outrage upon the moral sense of the community, proclaimed to the world that the "most respectable citizens of this county" signed the pardon on the ground that they considered eighteen months sufficient punishment for a man convicted of a crime, which in Massachu setts, Louisiana, and a number of other States, would have been punished with death." How GOZEI TILE PIGHT?—From every section of the state, we have the most cheering accounts of the onward course of the cause of John Banks, Our friends in many counties have organized for a vig orous campaign and where there has, as yet, been no public demonstration of opin' ion, the quiet influences of truth a just conception of the true principles of de mocracy are silently working changes in favor of our People's candidate. From the day when John Banks was first nomi nated, we have been sanguine of his sue cess, but never more so than at the pres ent moment. There is no county in the state that gave Porter a majority in 1859, that will nut decrease its vote for him 25 per cent, and all the counties opposed to him will increase their votes handsomely. Let every friend of John Banks look at the changes which he knows to exist in his own immediate neighborhood, and be con vinced that the whole state is equally awa kening to the importance of a thorough Reform! There is no mistake in this.— I Telegraph GOV. PORTER AN!) HIS WHITE WASHING commiTTEE. In the last address of the Loco Foco .itate Committee, the records of the past rave been ransacked to show that others have before done what U. R. Porter has. luring his administration, been charged with and censured for doing. This we consider a hard and desperate effort to prop the sinking popularity of Gov. Por cell and like most of the numbers which have preceded it, fairly proves that his acts will not bear the test of close exami nation, When resort must be had to pre cedent alone, to justify an act, it is fair to conclude that it cannot be done on any other ground. That Gov. Porter has made a free use of the pardoning power, cannot be denied, although probably not' to the extent to which some of his prede cessors carried it—but if former Govern:, ors erred in this matter, how, we ask, does it justify him? If they did wrong, how will that make his actions right? fte know, and the public also know it, that Governor Porter has, by the mistaken ap plication of the pardoning power, turned loose upon the community rogues, whose whose proper sphere was the solitary cell, or the precincts of the prison house; and this for a purpose we have not yet seen 'contradicted—to wit: the promotion of his own political views. And beside all this, notwithstanding the array of a few cases of "previous pardons," that occur red upwards of thirty years ago, they have not attempted to show a case where a Go vernor pardoned before trial, a political partizan for publishing a libel in a polit ical paper in which HE WAS INTERESTED, AND WHICH WAS ADVOCATING HIS OWN ELEcrton. This act, we say, is without precedent, and it is not in our opinion, wonderful that it is so; for however much the kindness of a man's feelings may be influenced, still, few would so far brave public opinion, as has been done in this case, unless an important stake were to be played for, or the force of circumstan• 'cue prevented escape from its commission. But we deny altogether the force of the argument made use of by the Committee, that because other Governors pardoned (convicts, it was right for Governor Porter ; to do so, until it is shown that his acts and the cases cited, with all their circum stances, were similar. And we say, that if under the same circumstances they had pardoned ten thousaad criminals, every such act was wrong, and ten thousand such precedents would not make it right for Governor Porter, or any other man, to follow in their footsteps.—Tedford Iraq. From the Newburyport Watch:mem SHAKERISM. Mr. Canter, a renouncing shaker, visi. ted .his place a few weeks since, and gave two or three lectures on Shakerism, and saw , s some twenty songs, danced, expo. sedMiller's theory, and did several other things fur the amusement of his audience. The shakers' creed is a very curious one, They believe in one God, and two persons in the Godhead—male and Tamale or Father and Mother—called Power and Wisdom. They believe that Adam was the Fath er of the Old Creation, and Eve was the Mother—both beir„, ,, crated after the itn age of God ; and that Christ is the Father of the new Creation, and Ann Lee the Mother—and that the Miellenium com menced with the appearance of Ann Lee on earth. They believe in the immortality of ani mals, as well as of men. '['hey say that John saw horses in the world of spirits, as recorded in Revelations. They believe that all the ugly and venomous animals on e:.rth are symbolical of the evil spirits that inhabit the lower regions of the in visible world, and that all the beautiful creatui es, such as birds with gorgeous plumage, are symbolical of the good spit , its in the mansions of bliss. They believe that the souls of Shakers,' in their trances and visions, really visit the heavenly world. The lancet has been applied to them, and their flesh has been scarified, while in that state, without pro ducing a particle of blood. One person who visited the lend of spirits in a trance, saw all the patriarchs and kings of olden time; saw King David travelling, and Solomon on a snow-white horse ; saw Christ and all the kpostles. HARD % ORK. It'a hard work, (says the Sunday Mer cury,) to go up hill without leaning for ward —and it's hard work for a "neutral" editor to speak of politics without leaning one way or the other. It's hard work to look at the sun with out winking—and it's hard work to look at some girls without feeling inclined to wink. It's hard work to make a dinner of grape shot, unless they are all well boiled —and it's hard work to digest a fool's ar gument if it be soaked in something like reasco4. It's hard work to do nothing, and have too roach of it on hand—and it's hard to collect a debt of one who says, "I'll pay it to•morrow." It's hard work to squeeze cider out of a brick bat—and it's hard wink to scratch out ideas for a paragraph atter being on a spree for twenty-four hours! It's hard work to refuse a good offer— and it's harder still to be compelled to ac cept a bad one. It'd hard work for many people to live and doubly hard for some to die. And it'd hard work for a printer to live on promises—and it's still harder to get money from some of his patrons.—Ed. Journal, 'The Ruling Passions Strong in Vcath., One of the most striking features of Locolocuisin is, the desperatmn will which it clings to office. It can surrend er to every thing—principle, profession, consistency, personal independence, par ty adhesion, every thing, personal in political, before it will yield up (eke and the emoluments which its malpractices and corruption have so greatly multiplied. In its very last death struggle it clings to office, as the miser clutches his keys in the delirium of his last expiring ugly. It matters not that the will of the people has pronounced its doom, and sentenced it to give up the trusts it has abused, into honest hands. It matters not that the judgment of torfeiture has ben rendered against it, and that a capias cad redendum has been awarded by that tribunal whose mandates none ought to resist or disobe it still holds on to office, as though it were to be surrendered only with life itself.— While tt was in power, if a W lug or Cons servative was discovered holding office in any part of the country, he had his walk lug ticket before he could sa) " Jack Robinson." If other reasons were want ing, " rotation in office" was a cardinal Democratic principle; now rotation ns pronounced as proscription. These remarks are elicited by the Lo cofoco newspapers, anti that of the oppo sition in Congress. Instead of lending their aid to accomplish the business for which Congress was convened, the oppos sition are occupying much of the time, daily, in delivering harangues to the gal leries, about "proscription," and depreca. ting their removal of their Locofoco friends front o ffi ce ;as though it was of more im portance than divising measures for the relief of the people. They have introduced into both mouses, resolutions calling for information respect ing appointments and removals, on which to hang their speeches about proscription. Whoever goes up to the capitol, will see how large a portion of eery day is occu pied in this way, by the opposition, instead of aiding or maturing the great measures of relief for which the whole country is so anxiously Iruking. Instead of lend ing their assistance to secure a uniform currency, and to revive the business and prosperity of the country, they employ their time in endeavoring to keep their Locofoco friends in office, against the set tled judgment of the pet*. Instead of assisting to provide the ways and means to pay off the "Van Breren debt," so calls ed, contracted by their own mismanage ment and improvidence, they are endea voring to increase the public burdens, by prolonging the session with denunciatory speeches against the very principle of ro tation, of which they have so long been the advocates. Arid v lien they shall have in that way extended and increased die expenses of the session, the party will turn about and charge it upon the admin istration. rfe wish the people to understand these things. We wish them to know who is endeavoring'to relieve the coun try, and who is seeking to perpetuate the evils which Mr. Van Buren and his office holding partizans and supporters entailed '''po.r.l us. - - Ite stepped into the Senate Chamber, a day or two since, and found Mr. Pierce talking very loud, and deprecating, in "set terms," the removal of some Loco • loco from office. He could not endure the thought. Coming from New Hamp shire, where such a thing as a Whig hold ing an office, after the discovery of his politics, longer than it would take Isaac Hill to snap his fingers, was never known, he seemed to suppose that the Locorocos had a prescriptive claim by the Constitu tion to hold all the offices, and enjoy all the emoluments of them, "through every king's reign." He was much distressed no doubt, at the thought of any departure from what, in New Hampshire, is consid ered sound law. That the Locofuco federalists have an exclusive proscriptive right to all the of flees, is no new idea. When General Jackson came into power, he recoviized the doctrine to the fullest extent. /Pith in fifteen days after his inauguration, his organ announced that "these men (the hips) have not only no claim fur a con tinuance in office, but men of homogene ous sentiments may be brought in, the bet ter by concert of action, to restore the De mocracy of its long lost rights." Mr. Adams, his predecessor, without making removals, made new appointments from among his political friends. Gen. Jack son found a few in office, therefore, besides his own political partizans. This was not to be endured. It was an invasion of their prescriptive monopoly of office; and he promised to "restore Democracy to her long lost rights." lie kept his promise, and "Democracy" has retained the monopoly ever since, Now, that these anti-monopolists are in danger of losing the monopoly, they are thrown into spasms. It is a sort of spas modic cholera, very dangerous at this sea son of the year. PI e advise them, in or der to avoid the fatal consequences which might ensure, to eat no crude, unripe ve getables, and to preserve as much cheer tulness and equanimity of mind as possi ble. Let them put their shoulders to the wheels, and help to finish up the business of the session, and then go home to their constituents, who will whisper in their ears that it is a very silly discreditable business for grave and honorable Senators to be fighting these little battles for office after the contest is over, and the PEOPLE have decreed that the reform shall take ,place.--/Ifadtsonirtn. THE JOURNAL. One cerunt y, one conetitutionone destiny, Huntingdon, Aug. 4. 1841. Democratic Candidate FOR GOVERNOR, JOHN BANKS, OF HERBS COUNTY. COUNTY CONVENTION, AND Democratic Meeting. The citizens of the several Townships and Boroughs of this county, are request. ed to meet at their usual places ot meet ing, on Saturday, the 7th of August, to elect t wo delegates from each of said town ships and boroughs, to represent them in the County Convention, which will meet in the borough ot huntiogdon, on _ _ - • We ineeday, the 11th August, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to nominate a County Ticket to be supported by the opponents of the present State Adininis tralion, at the coining election. By order of the County Committee, THOS. FISHER, Chairman. Jul!, 21, 1841. Our Meetings. We hope that tie friends of Banks will not forget that on Saturday of this week, !he meetings arc held in the different townships, to elect delegates to the coun ty convention. We have nmany a time and ott" called upon our friends to be at.. tentive to the primary meetings,—to be «.n the work there, it they would wish to make refortn effectual. We have once more to ask of them, not Ito neglect this important duty. If you select honest delegates, you can have n o occasion to make objections to the ticke t when it is formed. And if you will go to these meetings— it the people will elect their delegates, instead of staying at home and permitting two, three, or even half a dozen political fags to attend to the matter, there would be less occasion to complain of the political chicanery which secured the nomination, and of the inability and tit& ness of the officer alter his induction into office. We du hope that this 'natter will be attended to. The delegate syss tem is the same as the system of our Go • vernment. The people delegate their rights to individuals; and if the delegate acts in accordance with a majority of his constituents, they are bound as true Re publicans to not only submit to the opin ion, but also to assist in carrying out the wishes of the majority. We say again, let the people be up and doing. OUR TICKET Will be formed by the delegates selected on that evening; and we earnestly trust that every good man and true will at once acquiesce in the doings of that convention. Let nut either sectional nor personal ani mosity excite any heart burnings, but let every man be true to Ins professions and his principles. Every honest man should have much to do thin fall. Every honest man acquaint ed with facts, will be busily engaged in uniting every interest to break down the system of charlatanry and political kna very which has characterised the present State administration; and we feel confi dent that no man who pretends to believe that his political principles are right, can ever so tar admit himself wrong, as to lay down his professions, to carry out private spleen, or sectional differences. OUR OPPONENTS Are on the look out. They will not for mally nominate any ticket, we imagine, this full. Notwithstanding our neighbor's (el the Watchman) boast that "all's well" in this county, we feel assured that they intend to try and get up a ticket, or part of one, of the disappointed among our friends. We shall be much mistaken if such is not the case. They hope to divide us by throwing a fire brand upon the tem. pers of some of the most contentious, or captious; and while they lend excitement, and interest to the strife, they will run oft with the prizes. Now we say, remember it! The Locos gill not regularly nominate a ticket, but will endeavor to gather up such discord• ant materials as they may deem most use ful for their purpose, and will try to di vide and destroy us ; and allow us to say to every anxious expectant !or a nomina tion, that the chances are that you will be disappointed, exactly in the ratio of the , number of applications; and just so sure us you are disappointed, will you find yourselves the object of the especial sym pathy of your loco fora neighbors. Their daily tusk will be to impress upon your mind that you have been badly treated by your own Iriends, and that they can do wonders for you if you will only run as a volunteer. In truth, they will endeavor to make you the instruments to prostrate; your own !fiends, and to exalt themselves. We have nothing more to say to ourH friends, only not to be made the dupes of any poLticians, of either party ; pursue the honest, steadfast, and candid course you have always done. Let not either, • the intrigue or cunning of your political foes, nor the folly or madness of your po litical friends, force you from the path of, honor and truth. Let us have au Answer. We have, on several occasions, asked our neighbor of the "Is atehmars," a few troublesome questions ; but lie seems de termined to not get himself into any vex atious disputes about his patron's charac ter. It seems not a little extraordinary that he cannot tell the people of this coun ty, by what particular operation he learn ed that David R. Porter was a "slandered and villified" man. You have said it was so, now tell us the why. If you will look at your paper of last week, you will ob serve that you do not place much reliance on assertion ; and you certainly ought to practice what you preach. Give us an answer or two, friend Everhart. Your friends will begin to think that they can not be answered very creditably to Mr. Porter's character, it they do not sce some effort made to save "the slandered and vi/lifted." You hav^ asserted that he was "slandered and vtllffed." We deny it— now come on with seine of your proof.-- We have asserted that he was a FRAUD ALENT INSOLVENT; and when you go on with your proof, in its proper order, we will prove our assertions, as soon as our turn comes. You are an Attorney, and know that the proof is with you. But unless you should think that we are willing to let you quietly off; without making at least another effort to bring you, to the scratch, allow us in the most friend ly manner to make the enquiry, where did you learn that it was slander in this coun ty to tell the truth of another? And have you not been long enough conversant with our Court Records to know, that at least a part of what our enquiries implied, was true? If so, why don't you admit, that that portion is true to the letter? It you are so anxious to have truth, as many of your articles would imply; and seek to give that alone to your readers, do tell us if the plea of the "Statute of Limitations" was nut entered by the defendant, in the suit of Crain's heirs vs. David R. Porter? The Standard" is disposed to be ve ry cunning about the Union county story' of Mr. Porter's tennant. We have only one word to say to them about that story. They DARE NOT seek after and publish the truth of that story. II they will agree to do so, we will put them on the right , track. The scene is laid nearer home.. Within four miles of this town, is the 10, , cation of the farm, and within ten miles of the town lives the injured tennant. If you will agree to publish the truth about the matter, we will give you the address, and you can ask any questions you please. Let us hear from you. DARE you tell the truth ? The Loco Foco central committee have attempted to screen Davy, for his abuse of the pardoning power, by appealing to the precedents of of other Governors.— The argument is not available. The mis deeds of one man is not an excuse for an• other. Horse thieves, Pick pockets, high waymen, and the brutal assailant of ta male virtue, should be punished. The laws say it and the HONEST people be. lieve it. A'e do not wonder at Porter for Pardoning Dr. Dyott, if precedent is to make a law. Porter's precedent may save himself some day. The "Standard "says the papers that advocate Bank's election, do not speak plain, but de every thing by asking the question. "IS IT so ?" If they make the rule general, we deny the position. Will you have the goodness to examine the "Journal." Of some things, touching the character of Porter we have said. IT IS so. Will you have the goodness to take up the cudgel, and try your hand at meeting the charges, your friend the " Watchman" seems disposed to " back his boat." Political Judges. A person would think, by looking at the papers which support Porter, that they abhorred even the appearance of politics in a Judge.,;„Almost every paper contains something about Judicial purity; and then winds up by laying it at the door of Jahn Banks, simply because he has been invi ted by his friends, to beat Porter this fall. Now is it not a little strange that they 'could not see the political slime and cor ruption, through which James Madison Porter crawled, when he crept into the Judge's seat at Harrisburg, and defiled the Ermine of Justice, with the gangrene of party malignity, and the odiousness of political favoriteism. Is It not a little strange that they cannot remember the shoal of Associate Judges that Porter cre ated, to be but the playthings of power; and to bask in the sunshine, created by the "magnanimity of his own great soul," for a day; who spurted their brief author ity only till Justice asserted her sway, and they, like Sampson when shorn of his locks, "became as other men." These things are forgotten. But certainly there is one thing that they cannot well get out of. It is this. On their list, among the names of the Central Committee, we see the name of Judge Parsons. Aye! one of the men under whose authority these long addresses are written ; and one of the au thors of that flagitious attempt" to injure the title of the heirs of J. Miller deed, to 'certain lands, which was so ably handled by G.Taylor,E,q.in our last paper! Here is one of their Judges sending forth week ly a manifesto of miserable sophistry, and more paltry falsehood ; and yet they can not see anything but Judge Banks. —Are they not consistent? The truth is, they want to frighten or scold Ranks from the Bench, and thee brother Jim can take his place. Poor fellow; wo doubt he "can't come it." The Banks, or, as Mr. Porter used to call them, the rascally Banks, have within a few days been waited on by the Governor, to obtain more money. We hope for the credit of our state, as well as the success of our Public Improvements, that the application may prove successful. Yet we cannot but smile, to see the brotherly love that ex. ists between Mr. Porter and the Institu tions he has so long reviled. Cannot any lof the honest old Democrats see, that Porter was always a friend to the Banks at heart, although from the teeth out one would think him their bitterest foe. lie called them every thing bad in 1837-8 because they did not resume—ln 1859 he signed a law legalizing a suspenBion. In 1840 he de clared that there should not be another suspension; and before the words had died on his lips, the vaults of the Banks were closed, and still Mr. Porter, perform led no wonders in the way of bringing them to the work ; and finally , he vetoes the Bill to raise revenue, through the agency of the Banks and their small notes; and after having done so, he persuades a num ber of his partizans, to go into the house and vote for it and carry it by two thirds, which was done ; and in his veto ()fa pre vious Bill, he openly declared that one of !his reasons why he vetoed the Bill, was because the Banks did not like it. And these are the same institutions which he in 1838 abused so much, which he now vetoes a bill for, because they do nut like its provisions, they being a little to hard to suit the Banks. Readers don't you think Porter, has a great many principles to stick to The "Standard " is as good as in mourning because, F. S. Key Esqr. has been removed Iron, the office of district at- torney 9f the U. S. Mr. Key was the au thor of the Star Spangled Banner, a Song breathing patriotism in every line. We love the Song and its inspiring sentiments but we cannot see why that or any other particular act of his lite should save him from the odium which has attached itself to him, on account of the company lie kept. Do you mind the story of " honest Tray "—the moral is not inapplicable to Mr. Key. LOCI{ OUT -RE CAREFUL I—All the money obtained from the Revenue Bill is gone, and Gov. Porter wants more to electioneer with. He has gone to Phila delphia to supplicate the banks for more —he wants them to issue the balance un der the Bill, and give his friends another chance for grabbing. We warn the banks to beware—let David R. Porter once get his fingers in your vaults, and he will suck them dry, even as he has the State Trees ury, until an honest Treasurer was ap pointed, who may save the wreck. The Governor will implore you, on his knees, perhaps, but beware how ynJ yield to his entreaties,-- 7 Trlegraph.
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