three hundred thousand, American cal- . 'lens, lead captive by the cruel caprice of a tyrant and to be executed in ignominy for his sport? As strong as the rock of Gibraltar must it, have been, or beneath, the raging storm of indignation and resent-' ment with which the whole nation, united, would have beset it, its unhallowed walls would have instantly crumbled to the earth !—Yet all this, and more, has intem perance done, and we have witnessed it, EVERY YEAR, with passive indifference.— Oh, by what fatal enchantment have all our sensibilities been bound! The drunkard, and the drunkard'sgrave, my friends, have been, and still are, ob jects too familiar. Their very common nes% has rendered us incapable of realizing • fully, the sentiments and feelings that the one and the other should inspire. Alf we could see, through the veil before our eyes, the evils of intemperance in ALT. their true colours. and startling magnitude, all the other ills that have ever afflicted civilized roan, would dwindle to utter nothing in the comparison. Our minds would burn with the conviction, that never, never were men associated together to effect an end so immensely important to the whole loonait family. That veil will 'wear thinner and thin• ner, until it be entirely removed will yet view the subject as it really is:— When the country shall be relieved from the complicated curses inflicted on it by intemperance, and we shall look back upon the polluted and bloody times from which we have emerged in the light of better days, we will be lost in astonishment that such evils, were tolerated for a single day, and still more that they could " Crercome us like a summer cloud, Without our oftecial wonder"! We will be amazed to think that the whole nation did not rise, en moose, against the monster, and raze all his dens and lurking places to the very earth ! Ile will won der then that our efliirts at this day, (which, strangely enough, seem to strike some now as fanatical) were not inure determined and onward! If all these conclusions are correct— and are they not I—in addition to the' visible manifestations of an approving Providence, we have evidence of the slea dy progress, and final triumph of this great' moral reform, plain and convincing ; evi- 1 dece which, appealing, as it dues, to what we see and know, mid building conviction on our knowledge and experience, must " v rtnimate every bosom with a strung and —vely faith in the great consummation so levoutly to be wished." The great truth, by its inherent power, awl against ssamiaistacles, has revolutionized the na .0.1 riva a year, would work its way on, if -vmmiaa tat., through like opposition. It 'Jo sasipisaa'4...--and its power cannot di• Aa moo pie sasu, too st,in• •to the ludo 'ltlnr.io stn „ mil pauperism has disappeared. Drunk , I Trucks—Libel, dke. , iiness and idleness, the prolific parents A Hollidaysburg correspondent of the of vice and crime, have been banished ; ' Harrisburg Telegraph, states that it is mil their infernal brood no longer curse r•imored at Hollidaysburg, "that John ind sc the land. The criminal courts e; the prisons empty! All. Dougherty was to ask $BO,OOO for his is indifrrosperity, health, happiness ; trucks and patent right, of John Snodgrass, there is nothing, comparatively, in the:lth, present sovereign of the toad, and he whole land, "to hurt or destroy."— ' Snodgrass to use his official influence to From the sudden ness, extent, and hies - a sedness of the change, it would almost get $lOO,OOO, or as much more as he could seem as if Paradise hail been regained ; as get appropriated, and in purchasing the if the long-lost image of his Maker, had trucks, to get the Commissioners to de suddenly and miraculously been restored to fallen man. With what joy unapeak• pate him to negociate under arrangements able must the philanhropist indulge the • with Dougherty, and to pocket the ex heavenly vision! With what transport cess." may the patriot look abroad upon his Mr. Snodgrass seems not a little dis country, and hug her free institutions to pleased with the letter published in the his heart! With what proud emotions can Telegraph, from which the above is an he fix his joyful eye on the star-spangled banner, as it floats " o'er the land of the extract. He came out in a long communi- Free!" He may gaze upon it in the con- cation in the last Hollidaysburg " Stand-- 1 fidence that its stripes shall stream in the aid," over his own name, and calls the 1 bree7e, while their kindred colors shall be statement in the Telegraph a " base fob i seen in the rainbow—its stars only • blotted out with the stars of heaven. be I ricalion, without any foundation of truth." Ile advocates the truck system with much apparent sincerity, and with considerable! ability. But what seems strange to us, is his concluding paragraph. In that, he demands of the Editors of the Telegraph, the name of the author of the communica tion published in their paper of the 6th inst. and the communication. "If these he refused" says Mr. Snodgrass, " I will hold THEM responsible, and in the action for libel, which will be forthwith commen ced against the author or authors, I now pledge myself to waive all the advantages afforded by our peculiar law of libel, and to admit as evidence, all the testimony of the truth of the charges they may be able to produce." Now it strikes us very forcibly that Mr. Snodgrass must have some " peculiar" notions about our " peculiar" law of libel —and is much mistaken if he supposes that in actions for libel the Taunt tartnot always be given in evidence under a plea of justification. In cases of libel, how. ever, as in many other cases, the law gives two remedies; one by action and the other by indictment, On the trial of the, latter, generally speaking, the defendant is not permitted to allege the truth in evi dence by way of justification—the max im of the law being, the greater the truth, the greater the libel. But unfortunately r n , corrupt office holders. and for those THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL "One country, one constitution, cne destiny." Huntingdon, July 20, 1842. V. B. PALMER, ESq. (No. 104 S. 3rd St. Philadelphia,) is authorized to act as Agent 'for this paper, to procure subscriptions and ad vertisments. COUNTY CONVEIVTION, Democratic Harrison Meeting The citizens of the several townships and borough of this county, are requested to meet at their usual places of meeting, on Saturday, the 611 i day of August, to elect two Delegates 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 11th of August, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, to nominate itia County Ticket, to be supported by the opponents of the present State administra ion, at the coining election, and also to ppoint Congressional and P .0. n. ferees. By orl.r Pennsylvania Legislature. EXTRA SESSION. Correspondence of the Huntingdon Journal, HARRI3BURG, July 9, 1842. 1 MR. CREMER : In the Senate, yesterday, the bill dividing the State into Congres-! sional Districts passed third reading, after' it had been materially amended. The vote on its final passage was 17 yeas to 15 nays. The Tax Bill then came up and passed second reading. On motion 01 Mr. Plu mer a section was inserted reducing th salary of the Governor to $3OOO, and that of membersolthe Legislature to 82,50 and also to reduce the salaries ofJudges. In the House Mr. Dunlap reported a bill to enable Constables to collect for their own •se judgments which they have been obliged to pay from letting execu tins die in their hands. And Mr. Staub submitted a joint resolution repealing the act creating the Court of General Sessions in Philadelphia and thereby reviving the Mayor's Court. The bill to incorporate the North Branch Canal Company was amended and passed final reading. By this bill the Company are authorized to take the North Branch Canal and complete it, for • which they shall have the profits thereof fur a number of years, at the expiration of which the Commonwealth may repossess herself of it by paying to the Company the amount of money expended in completing it, with interest. In the Senate, to-day, the bill from the House, abolishing imprisonment for debt passed final reading by an almost unani• mous vote, after being slightly amended. The bill was then returned to the House. Mr. Huddleson from the Committee on Education made a report on the subject of Common School Education. The report is accompanied by a bill repealing the law granting appropriations to Colleges, Acca demies and Schools, and providing for the, continuance of the present Common School system by taxation alone. In the [louse the resolution to adjourn sine die on the 14th inst. came up and passed second reading. The House then refused to proceed to third rending. to kotvi The bill to authorize the Governor to ')orrow 8870,000 at 6 per cent. to pay le interest falling due in August next 3sed third reading. Should the Gov 'or be unable to borrow the money, the authorizes the Auditor General to is certificates of State stock to be de- ,erect to persons entitled to the interest, l to the amounts due to them respectively. The bill Iroin the Senate dividing the State into Congressional Districts was the :. libel- then taken up. On motion of Mr. Wright, Ihis bill was substituted in the place of that from the Senate. Several amend ments were °tiered and debated until the hour of adjournment. ,enerosity and zeding all the tstitunon and izen I Correspondence of the Huntingdon Journal HAnntsriuncr, July 12, 1842. for Debt Legislature, hn been abolished, trbarous relic of .ut from our stat fore us a copy of Jal to four or five I ; but still, as it is iportance, encting , we will endeavor nders as soon as we Mn. C REISER the Senate, yesterday on its final reading, and was defeated by a vote of 7 yeas to 24 nays. The bill to incorporate a company to complete the Erie extension was taken up, amended and postponed. The bill to incorporate a company to purchase the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal then caine up on second reading, which occupied the Sen ate till the hour of adjournment. In the House, after the disposition of some preliminary matters, the Apportion ment Bill, or the bill dividing the State, dy say that it takes e passage thereof, •f twenty days in lebtor to its bene- e exceptions.. Furl not change the ontempt of civil ,r fines and pen omises to marry ly collected by ms fur miscon. into Congressional Districts was taken up.l Amendments were offered and discussed;! and after a long debate, the whole bill was negatived, by a vote of 46 yeas to 48 nays. So the House is just where it started in the matter of districting the State. They must begin again. In the Senate, to-day, the bill to incur• potato a Company to complete the Erie Canal was taken up and passed through second reading. flier, or in any he law, we l it will be . 'lts 'na nd it en. tilants on 1 authori- A message was received from the Gov ernor this morning stating that he had signed the bill abolishing imprisonment for debt. ne factbl affitla. ersely. II the urce In the House, Mr. Sharswood, from the Committee of Investigation, made a de tailed Report, in which he states that corruption had been used, but there had been no direct proof that either the Exe cutive or the Legislature had received money as a reward for corrupt legislation. Mr. Lowry made a minority report, de•, fending the Executive and his party.--I After a long debate, it was agreed that 5000 copies of the Report and the letters ver-1 red ope me the drivel's fault, or the fault or those passengers who said he was right: Thit6 is not a farmer in this county who would let a man drive his team, it for twelie years he had known him, and he always upset or got stalled in the mud. Now one party has held the reins of Government for twelve years, and the people have been complaining about the difficulties they were driving us into, and when we stick fast, what is the cry? Oh, it's not the driver's fault; it's your ras cally federalists (that are out of office) that ( have brought us into trouble." The truth is, that they have got us fast in the mud, but still they want to drive on, and If they cannot go ahead, they want to stick to the saddle and crack the whip, whether they can pull us out or not; the driver does not seem to care, if he gets his pay. Fels flow citizens, who is to blame, the driver or the passengers ? In the Senate, yesterday, Let us look back, and see where we got he Apportionment Bill, as returned from oft' froni the good road, and to see what he House, was taken up, and the Senate kind of a road we were on twelve years and evidence be printed in the English' language, and 1000 in the Herman, fir distribution. Messrs. Bonsai' and McFarren each 'introduced bills to district the State for' 'members of Congress. The subject is to betaken up again tomorrow. The House passed a resolution to ad journ on Tuesday the 19th inst. No one here believes that they will get through with the Apportionment Bill against that time. ; and there are other im portant matters to be acted upon. There will be a meeting of the friends' of Henry Clay in the court house, in this place, on Saturday evening next. It is thought that it will be well attended. Correspondence of the Huntingdon journal, Hanntsnunc, July 14, 1842. _ _ _ MR. CREMER 'refused to concur in the amendments made by the House. Each House hold• ing out for its own amendments, a Com mittee of Conference was appointed, con- in some degree, from the ten cent a day misting of seven Senators and seven Rep- wages of foreign paup ers; we had our . . . I resen tatives The bill to incorporate the Erie Canal themselves rich in a few years. Poor old Company was then taken up and passed Tobias Watkins was put in the jail of finally. !Washington city, because he was a de- In the House nothing important was faulter for $4000; and now a days men transacted, except the discussion of the are not only kept in who are knowq to be Apportionment bill, and the appointing d'efaulters, but men are selected for office a Committee of Conference. The Com. because they understand hiding. I don't mittee e Wright, Ihill,Bonsall, McCrum suppose my readers want me to name over Heckman, Brawley and Clarke of the the Swartwouts and Prices in the Nation- House, and Ewing, Maclay, Kline, Plu- !al Administration, or the Fritzs, Camer mer, Brooke, McCully and Dimmock of ens and Brodheads in the State Govern the Senate. Iment ; and it would have been no more In the senate to-day, the Reports of ;he Committee of Investigation were or lered to be printed -1000 copies in En . glish, and 250 in German. A bill to provide for the education of poor children in the non accepting school districts Was passed and sent to the !louse. In the House there was a great deal of talk that amounted to just nothing at all. The House refused to repeal the act estab lishing the Court of Criminal Sessions in Philadelphia, by a vote of 39 yeas to 43 nays. The Committee of Conference on the Apportionment bill have not yet agreed. Yours, &c. Ceneral levhem Speech. General Irvin made a speech in Con gress last week, on the subject of iron, with which he is thoroughly acquainted.-- The speech was listened In with attention, and is well spoken of by those who heard it. It will be published. C01:10:NIC.A.TION8. Yours &c The cause of the hard Times, 111 n. CItEMER: In my introductory com munication, I signified that I would call the attention of your readers to the causes which have led to our present difficulties, and I assumed the position that we had as a government left the path of riglit, and pursued the wrong, asserting as a general rule, that such measut es as obtained pros perity, would, it put sued, moat certainly secure prosperity. The Tax Bill came up I purpose then, in the present commu. nication, to endeavor to show where we deviated from right; and if my remarks ieein to cast censure upon the measures 'and the men of one of the parties in our country, an excuse for such a course will be at once found in the fact that that party, its measures and its men, have, without intermission, controled the destinies of our country, from the time at which we date the downward progress of our pros• perity. When therefore any one charges me with finding fault only with the arts kif that party which calls itself democratic, let them beat• in mind, that none of the i acts of the other party—in fact none of 'their principles of government, have been carried into practice; and consequently, they as a party, nor the effect of their, measures, have had any part in the discs• sera to our currency and country. Let me illustrate, by a plain comparison. One party has been the driver of the govern• ment wagon— the people have merely been passengers, and though the complaints against the bail driving have been loud and numerous, still the same driver held the line and used the whip,--though often told' that he was driving into a swamp, and would stick in the mud,—though many of the passengers believed the driver was right; yet when he does get into the swamp, and dues stick in the mire, it is Yours 4.c. ago. Why, I will tell you: then we hail a National Bank—a heavy Tariff; suffici ent to protect our manulacturers, at least offices filled with men who did not rob. 'than right to have included our worthy !Governor, whose Luminr speculations I lhave made him to princely rich. Well, we left the National Bank, and commenced "Experimenting" with the little rag shops of the States; and how long was it before our currency changed from the most safe and convenient, to the most unsafe and inconvenient? Experi ence, I said in my former communication, was a genii teacher ; and experience teaches all who recollect the troubles of the times previous to the re•charter of the U. S. Bank, that:our currency and credit was just as bad as it is now ; and they will recollect too, that when the Bank was chartered in 1816, immediately there was a change for the better. True the change was not complete, and things pla ced upon a firm basis for several years; and the reason was, becriuse it took lime to get the bad worked out of the system, and then it took time to give the systemic strength. The same as a Physician uses a sick man ; and do any of you think of 'complaining of your Physician, if his pa. tient does not, after taking a dose of his medicine, immediately take his scythe and go to the field to mow ? or do you not give him time to gain strength ? 1 said our people were too much actua ted by impulse, and as I have already extended this communication to a suffi cient length, I will leave it for another time to point out the numerous excitements which have been got up, to inflame and delude the people, and will endeavor to , show that none of the promises and pledges• of those in power have been fulfilled, but that at almost every election, some new delusion was made the rallying cry of the ins, as a means of keeping their• places ; ; and I doubt not that every candid mind will admit that the people have been the dupes of party drill,—that to keep their party in power, they have sacrificed the interest of themselves ; and that the effect of all this has been to gradually prostrate the country. Let the candid of all parties examine what I say, and they will admit a truth. LEONIDAS. Huntingdon, Jane 16, 184;2. No. 11. MR. EDITOR When a false form of gov erninent exists among a free and enlight ened people, which is of a dangerous character, and calculated to bring misery upon them, it becomes the duty of those who see such facts to expose them, and point out the course to be pursued to avoid such forms. As wrong government in a nation should be exposed, so should the false notion, which, in a community, hold undisputed sway, on account of the wealth of the authors of such sentiments, be brought to light, and true ones be adopted in their place. There is, however, this dilierenco between a wrong form of government of a nation, and the false notions of a com munity : The former is adopted under a .sense of riet—those that govern are ac• False Notions. 1
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