(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.