THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. "One country, one constitution, one destiny.' Illuntingdon, July 27, 1842. V. B. Pa Esq. (N 0.104 S. 3,1 Si. Ph:ladelphia,)is authorized to act as Agent for this paper, to procure subscriptions and ad vertisments. COUATY CONVBATION, Democratic Illarrison Meeting The citizens of the several township; and borough of this county, are requested to meet at their usual places of meeting, on Saturday, the 6th 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 a County Ticket, to be supported by the opponents of the present State administra tion, at the coining election, and also to appoint Congressional and Senatorial con. / ferees. By order of the County Committee. THOS. FISHER, Chairman, July 19th, 1842. o::rAdvertisments, notices, &c., must be handed in before 8 o'clock on Tuesday morning, in order to secure their puhlica tion in the Journal of the following Wed nesday morning. Our friends will do well to remember this. Important from Mexico. We have the gratifying intelligence that all the prisoners taken is the Santa Fe expedition have been set at liberty. They were released on the 18th of June, the Lirth-day ol Santa Anna. A list of them Is published, among which, we regret to ray, the name of Capt. John Holliday dovs not appear. Samuel Flenner, the tither native of this county, was killed by the Indians before the capture. The fate ol Holliday is unknown to us. Perhaps he has gone to the "spirit land." Louisiana Election. The latest news from New Orleans, in relation to this election is, that MOUTON, the Locofoco candidate, is elected Gov ernor, by about 500 majority. The Whigs have a majority of 6 in the House of Re presentatives, and there are four counties yet to hear from, which it is supposed will give them 2 more. The Whigs have also a majority of 1 in the Senate, with a pros pect of gaining another.—So it is certain they can elect a U. S. Senator. Conspiracy Case. The proprietors of the Forwarding Lines, at Pittsburg were t ecently indictril in that city for a conspiracy to keep up th, prices at freight on the Canal. The trial excited much interest, and resulted in conviction of the defendants. 'l•he Pitts burg American Manufacturer" say's:— " From the information brought nut OP this trial we have no doubt but there is a similar combination in Philadelphia. In the constitution produced at the trial, the following is one of the regulations: " 10th. No proprietor, agent, clerk, or any person for them, shall make contracts for goods going westward, at any rate or rates less than estalished at the place of shipment, 4.e." The papers state that the persons convic• fed were sentenced as follows :Peter Graff, Robt. S. Hays, George Black, N‘'illiarn Bingham, Luke Taatfe, and 'l'. C. Mc- Dowell, each $lOO fine and 2 months' imprisonment; James Cowan, $lO fine and 2 months' imprisonment; Samuel M.' Kier, $5O fine and 2 months' imprison• ment ; John McFadden, $l5O fine and 2 weeks' imprisonment. IVeu• rapers. We have received the lit and 2nd Nos. of a hew paper, published at Lewi, town, Pa., by Messrs. MERKLEIN and Len ART, entitled the "Independent Press."— It professes to support the interests of the Workingmen and oppose corporatiunt parties and factions. We have also before us the Ist No. vl the " Anchor," a new Temperance paper, by T. Taylor, hailing from York, Pa. The " Pioneer" is the title of Papa recently established at Newville, Cum berland county, Pa. May they flourish like green Bay trees, without experiencing the frosts and blights of adversity. Some heavy seizures of smuggled goods have been 'nude at Ningra and Chippewa. The Investigation. The Joint Committee of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, appointed to investigate whether - any corrupt means have at any time been employed by the Banks for the purpose of infitincing the actions of the l Legislature, or any other Department of the State Government, in regard to any leg , illation for their benefit, have reported. Mr. Lowry, one of the Committee, has also made a minority report, for the spe• vial purpose, apparently, of tehaerrashiug ! the Executive. The letters and testimony produced before the Committee, in the course of the investigation, accompany the majority report, and will be published.— We have a copy of the reports before us, and will endavor to Journelize them, is,' whole or in past, as soon as we can make room for them. In the mean time, we will merely ask our readers to bear in mind, that the Coni• mittee confined themselves chiefly to transactions at Harrisburg during the session of 18:39-4O, when the Loco Foci) party had a majority in both branches ul the Legislature, as well as the Covet nor. That a bill providing for the immsdiate resumption of specie payments was then in progress in the Legislature; that the Gov ernor killed it with a special message, " regardless of denunciation from any quarter," though to the great astonishment of his party; and that, subsequently bolas M. BELL, le:sq. who at that time represen ted this district in the Senate, introduced the suspension recitations which passed finally at that session. The Investigating Committee was corn posed of Messrs. Deford, Lowry and Penniman, (Loco Fucoe) and Sharswood and Ewing (Whigs,) and to us It seems that they have treated the subject in all fairness, and in strict accordance with the rules of evidence; and in that leinent and merciful spirit which inculcates the humane doctrine that it is better that ninety and nine guilty m'n should cue ape ' , kin that one innocent win .sh Jul l supr.l 'The Committee say n that the mink to die' United Stales attempted, and intended etirrupt ion and bribery, but that there is nn evidence before the Committee that a single I' dollar was ever paid out by the agent or I agents to any Iptly for that purpose, direct-1 Iy or indirectly." The report shows clearly land conclusively, that the sum of Z 151,175 was paid to the agents of the Batiks; , vhich is traced to the hands of Daniel NI. Brodhead; and there the investigation stops—he having left the State anal gone to parts unknown, evidently to avoid the Sergeant.at..Arins who was in pursuit of him, with an attachment. Joseph Salinas and George Read no doubt know what disposition was made of the money ; yet they profess total forgetfulness and loss of memory; and so the secret remains buried in their bosoms, and the public are left to 'judge whether to the crime of fraud and corruption they have not added the deeper anal more damning ciirre of prrjury.— When the letters and the evidence are published, the people will be able to whether the accused are clear of all sus picion, or whether the investigation and :Iv , manner in which those implicated tes. lifted or gave " leg bail." does not co, . firin, anal establi.ll as truth the auspicio,s (that went abroad among the people. Fire. On Saturday night last, at abort eight o'clock, the slat tling cry of fire: fire!: fire:!!" rung thtoigh our streets, and in few moments more, the glare of the confla gration dazzled every eyr, and refle:trdi from the dear blue heavens. The ahule town was in commotion. The engin, were brought out; and men and toys, tio men and gills ran with buckets and pails mil tubs &c. to the seat of the cosuming element, and all speedily busied them selves in the various means of checking mil extinguishing its ravages. The fire broke out in the stable of Philip Shultz, and was soon communica ted to the large new stable of Thomas Nallace. or the Washington lintel, and to lie brick house of Thomas Fisher, on the West, and the Washington Hotel on Ih East. 'flip statics, together with their :ontents, except horses and cows, were omit to ashes, and the houses cunsidera• lily damaged —the root and upper story of moth being destroyed by the fire. Same rt the furniture in the houses sustained .onstde•able injury. The stable of Mr. Shultz was filled with the crops of the present year, and the stable of Mr. Wal lac, with hay, straw arid 001.. The store and dweding of h% tiii tin Stewart and the house of David Snyder, on the opposite' side of the stieet, were also in imminent danger, tl.e rook of which took fire sod are cont.itlerulq burnt. NohumanAleans but the activity of out• citizens, and the nearness of the Canal could have saved the lower portion of the town from total destruction. The origin of the fire is not known; but ) several rumors are afloat about it, the moat probable of which t., the eartlessness land neglect of boys—that fruitful source of evils. It is not yet quite two }ears since a fir, l.truke out in the saute place which des• 'tr,,yed two stables which stood where these were afterwards built, and which injured the horses on evlter sole, but not to quite so great an extent as did this. o::rThe Tariff 13;11 which lately passed the lower noose of Conaress is still under consideration in the S, n ite. Loco Foco Consistency. " Corruption is no part of the democrat ic creed, and this is on, rea•on win they aro :0 UNIFORMLY FOUND cippo- SED to our present b inking system." We cut the above four lines from the " Clinton County Democrat," the Lion of the Democracy in little Clinton, and our Imp" translates them as follows, in or der to make common sense :--"Corruption is no plait of the democratic creed, and this is the r:ason why the' DEMOCRATIC cnne.n,' or the DEMOCRATS or CORRUPTION --(don't know exactly which) is so uni formly opposed to our present bunking spa tam." Now, taking this to be the meaning of our Loco Four contemporary—and by the bye, "democratic creed," and "demo crats" and ' , corruption" all mean thesame thing—we will cull his attention to the uniform opposition which his political friends so unilbrmly make against the present banking system: On Saturday the 16t) inst. a bill to ex-I tend the charter of the Farmers' Bank of, Rucks county came up in the House al! Representatives, and on the question of) transcribing for third reading the bill was !ost by the following vide. [Locos in italic ] Apple. Barr. Bauch, man, Bearer. Boil b e, Beers, Brodhead,' !Corm. Co , tri.ght, Ceabb. Def,rd. Elton, E , re. F gel H oUiey, Griffiths, /I , eknrtn, Lure ty, Lee!, Martin, Moore of I 13• ., ks, Mite of 11.intiogiliin, Morris, Picking, Pollock. Potlina b er, Rush, Sitars- Shenk, Soinolv Thomas, Trego, Ifl right, I rilson —35: NArs—Nlessi S. A ndrews, Banks, Bean, Bon, all, Brunner, Bugler, Culver, Dun.. Emottli, Fuss, Felton, Fuiguson, For ne+n, Gamble, Uarreison, Hahn, Ilan-' cock, Johnston, Karns, Kennedy, Lane, Lee, Lowry, M'Cahen, M'Clure, Marchand, Montgomery, Musser, Packer, Painter, Pennell, Ross, Rounifort, Ryan, Sherwood, Snyder, Ste vens, Vanvalzah, Von Nelda, and Spea iker--42. ENTY FOUR Loo Foco Anti Bank Deinocratq voted for the extension ot the charter, and ELEVEN of the. Federal Anti Masonic Whigs" voted the same war ; ankl Mr. Barrett, the Simon-' pure Anti Bankite who represents the " Democracy" of little Clinton, has his kusine not recorded at all on this %ote.— Did he d , d4e the question, elk? And the vote on the final passage of thi tr II In r.•-charter the Farmers Bank of Ilea- Aing stood, yeas s:—nays 9.7. A inoi.g he yeas are a Lirge number of Loco Foca.. What will the invincible ileitiocraco old Het ks, think of the party who is so •• er ri fo. mly opp9 , td" I.3aiikq arid we •ootmues that muss of to Typtioti, the Farmers' Mink of Itetohnz. in the midst of ier 3.500 majmi.y aunio4t fl+nks: 0*- i'lie leo.r of ei.ll Green, in eply to General Wils in, kill be found on the first page of this paper. Al.° a paper relative to the conduct of Irapt.hart aid his crew, at Nlorciaon's luck, on the 4,h. Ql' The Clinton County Democrat"l iy a paper that generally deals largely in •orll-," (the stuff they feed fools ‘v iti. in India.) The fist number winds np a long pieceofthe same kind of stuff out the subject of the report of the Investiga. ring Committee, with the filming beau tiful paragraph :-- •• Will the pink of consistency who talks • Ingin' in lhe Creole Journal at • Iluntinetlon, publish the report or any part thereof ? We shall see whether the tribe of Federalists :ire S tiling to do jus• tiee to injured innocence." To show how supremely contemptible the above paragraph is, it is only necessary to state that we have looked through the " Democrat" in vain for the " report or any part thereof." That paper itself does ton choose to do justice to " injured inno • mice" by publishing the rel;ort ; and yet it: I di or is d•ntagogue enough to throw out Cie Ara to Ilia readers that the report ele:trs the Governor even (I suspicion, and hat the hig presses are afraid to send it among their reader:. Lovt re of truth spurn hoot them such contemptible by. pucrisy. Congressional Districts. Through the favor of JAMES MATHERS, Esq., of the Senate, we have received a copy of the Apportionment Dill passed by both braches of the legislature. It divides the state into Congressional Districts as follows: I. Southwark, l!iloyamerlsine, Passayunk. Passayth..., Kingsessing, Mickley, and West Phil idyl phia in the enmity of Philadelphia, and Ce dar W. ‘rd in the city of Philadelphia. 11. The cite of Philadelphia except Cedar, Upper Delaware, and North Mulberry ards. 111. The Northern Liberties, Kensington in the rowdy of Philadelphia, and Upper 'DO aware, and North Mulberry Wards in e, city of Phil idelphia ! th IV. Sprinr Gttrden, North and Sooth I'cnn Town , hip, Rosh trotieh, Gernitntown, uttincorpto,t«l Northern Liberties, Ox ford, Lower Doblio. Byberry, and Mar, land i n th e county of Pail ttit V. The cc unties of Chester and a 'aware. VI. The counties ..1 Becks and Lehigh. VII. The counties of Montgomery and Burks. VIII. The county of Lancaster except the townships mentioned HI the ninth district. IX. •1 he counties of Dauphin and Lebanon with the townships of Rapti°, Warwick, West Cocalico and West Donegal in the couttty of Lancaster. X. The counties of Northampton, Mon roe, Wayne and Pike. Xl. The comui, of Schuylkill, Northum lerlmal and Columbia. XII. The counties of Luzerne, Wyoming and Susquehanna. XIII. The counties of Lycoming, Potter, Bradford and lino. XIV. The mimics of York and Adams. XV. The counties of Cumberland, Frank lin ..nd Perry. XVI. Tlw comities of Huntingdon, Juniata, U n ion and Mifflin. XVII. "I'he counties of Bedford, Somerset, Cambria and Indiana. XVIII. The counties of Fayette and Green. XIX. The counties of Westmoreland and Armstrong. XX. The counties of Clarion,_fferson, Clearfield, Centre, Clinton and McKean. XXI. The counties of Washington and ,Beaver: XXII. The county of Allegheny. XXIII. tile counties of Butler, Mercer and Venango. XXIV. The counties of Erie, Crawford ;and Warren. This bill makes 13 districts certain for ithb Loco Focos, 9 for the Whigs, and 2 'doolit Pennsylvania Legislature. EXTRA SESSION. Correspondence of the Huntingdon Journal, Haltut.nutto, July 16, 1842. MR. CRENER •In the Senate, yesterday, the bill to dispose of the Delaware Divi sion to a Company, for 2,000,000 was taken up, and amended, and passed through second and final reading. Yeas 20, nays 10. The omnibus bill of divorces, &c. which was lust a short time ago, was again taken up in the Senate and some time spent on it. After loading it still more heavily, it was lost on a motion to transcribe it for 'third reatiing. In the House, the amendments to the l bill providing for the education of poor. children in the non-accepting districts and for other purposes, were then taken up. Mr. Stevens clfeted an amendment appropriating Pennsylvania's share of the proceed; of the Public Lands to the pay ment of Domes' ic Creditors. This amend ment was adopted. A proviso was then 'tided, on motion of Mr. Wright, to the effect that if the proceeds of the Pantie Lands %hall tint be received before the 2.0 it of +kazoo. next, OW the claims ill Cuntraciors shall be paid out of any money in the Treasury nut specifically • • ppropn a led. In the Senate, today, the bill from the !louse incorporating the North Branch Canal Company, passed final reading, after being amended. Yeas 20, Nays 6. And the bill to extend the charter of the Farmer's Bank of Bucks county passed third reading by a vote of 13 to 12, and was sent back to the [louse. In the House the proviso in the law labolishing imprisonment fur debt, which required twenty days residence, was re pealed by a joint resolution. The Senate have not acted on this resolution yet, but will probably adopt it soon. The bill to stay executions for one year, unless the property siezed bring two-thirds of its appraised value, came up—the House concurred in the amendille nts of the Seri ate; and the bill will probably receive the signature of the Executive and become a law in a day or two. The Apportionment Bill is still in the hands or the Committee of Conference. Yours, &c. Correspondence of the Huntingdon Journal limuusauktu, July 19, 1842. MR. CRAM ER : The proceedings of the Senate of yesterday possesses little or no interest. Bills of a local and private character were discussed, and some pass ed. The bill returned from the House with an amendment, providing for the payment of the Domestic Creditors, out of the proceeds of the Public Lando kc. was discussed till the hour ofadjournment. . . ... In the House the Committee or Confer ence on the Apportionment Bill reported that they could not agree, and were dis charged from the further consideration ul the subject. The Senate bill providing for the edu cation of poor children in the non-accep ting districts passed the House, with amendments, and was returned to the Senate. The remainder of the session was spent in considering the Apportionment Bid offered by Mr. Clark, which was finally lost. In the Senate, today, the bill from the House repealing the law abolishing im pri.onnu•nt for debt, which requires twen days residence passed final reading. The Appropriation Bill was then taken up and discussed until the hour of ad• journment. The House was occupied, chiefly, in considering the Apportionment Bill. A motion was made to re-consider the vote , given yesterday, by which Mr. Clark's bill was lust. Numerous bills were then offered as substitutes, but voted down, when at last a bill was agreed to. Hun tingdon, Centre and Union form the 14th District by this bill. No one knows how it will be received in the Senate. Yours .S.e. Correspondence of the Huntingdon Journal HARRISBURG, July 21, 1842. CREMER: The Appropriation 13111 (*.vim the House was almost the only busi ness before the Senate yesterday. Several amendments were offered and debated, and some of them adopted. The bill passed second trading. The Apportionment Bill from the House was then taken up and debated till the hour of adjournment. The House was occupied chiefly in dis cussing resolutions offered relative to a communication from the Attorney General on the subject of his being implicated in the Lumber business." The (louse granted the Attorney General leave to withdraw the communication. The Governor has signed the supple ment to the act abolishing imprisonment for debt. In the Senate the Appropriation Bill came up again this morning, on third reading, when it was defeated by a lie vote —l6 yeas and 16 nays. A good deal of business was transacted that is of little interest to the general reader. In the [louse, the Apportionment Bill as i eturned from the Senate was taken up. The House refused to concur in the .S'ens ate's amendments. A Committee of Con ference was then appointed, consisting of Wright, Stevens and Felton of the House, and Sullivan, Penniman and Cochran of the Senate, Yours &c Correspondence of the Huntingdon Journal, lIARRI , Buiio, July 23, 1842. Mn. C It EMER I hasten to inform you' that the Apportionment Bill has passed bath branches of the Legislature. In the Ilnuse the vote stood, ayes 48, noes 39; and in the Senate, yeas 22, nays 11.— 't'he knowing ones say that our next dele gati,n in Congress will be about 14 Locos and 10 Whigs. I enclose you the bill, so that you can judge of it for yourself.— The Legislature will adjourn on Tuesday Yours, ti.c. COUMUNICATIONS. HARRISBURG, July IG, 1842 MR. CREMER I have put off writing until this late hour (10f o'clock) in order to be able to give you, in addition to the doings of the Legislature, an account of the Clay meeting which came oWin the Court House in this borough to-night. The meeting was large, respectable and enthusiastic. Mr. ROBERT HARRIS, one ,if the oldest, roost popular and substan tial Whigs in the county, and whose character is a sure guarantee of the cause, presided, assisted by a number of good and influential citizens as Vice President.: and able and efficient Secretaries. The crowd that assembled at the ringing of the bell, was composed of citizens of all classes, among whom I recognized many of those who constitute the very bone and sinew of our country—the Farmer, the Mechanic, the Workingman, and the man of Industry in all its multifarious ramifi cations. The veteran fathers, of three scare and ten, and the young men just arrived at the years of maturity, ancious to deposite their maiden votes" in favor of the candidate who is emphatically the 3 oung man's friend," were there, parta king in the measures and movements of the meeting. JOHN A. Fuosixa, Esq. chairman of a committee appoieted for that purpose, reported a preamble and resolutions, in which the committee take strong ground in favor of a Protective Earlll, the Distribution Act, and in which they look to Henry Clay as the "Polar Star" to lead us out of our national diffi culties to safety and prosperity. The !fleeting was addressed in a masterly style, by THOMAS E. COCHRAN, Senator from York county, and E. Joy MORRIS, of Phil adelphia city, member of the H. R. While tite latter gentlemen was addressing the meeting in his most eloquent strains, some of the Locos who had mixed with the crowd, in order to create disturbance, raised a cry of fire; but the cry of " false alarm" quickly succeeded, and it was seen and felt that there was more fire in the Court House than out of it. The speaker, in the midst of the noise and bus tle, was heard to exclaim—" Stay, we shall soon get up a fire among the people that will be no false alarm !" Immense cheering followed, and the meeting went on in real Harrison fashion. There is a powerful feeling in favor of Henry Clay prevailing the country. We have now two thorough going Clay papers in this borough—the " Capitolian" lately established, and the "Intelligencer" an old and influential paper which has thrown off Tyler and declared for " Harry of the West." And lam glad to ace that a good feeling is maintained between the respective friends of General Scorr and Mr. CLAY. It requires no prophet to pre dict that in 1844 the great Harrison party will again be united, and work, aide by side, in the cause of the country. Yours, &c No. HI. The cause of the hard limes, I have said that we were a people of impulse. That popular excitements have too often ran away with the judgments of oar eitizens, and that they did not reflect• aftet the strife was over. Look back and. gee it I tell the truth. When the U.S, Bank was first assailed, the leaders of the . Jackson party said it was slander to say that Jackson would veto it. But he did veto it, arid every partisan exclaimed-- "down with the monster." They were led by the shoots of party against "Bank rogs"—"rog Barons"—" monied aristoe-• rary," and their shouts in favor of "gold currency"-- 'Jackson shiners"—" Benton mint.drops," and the "poor against the rzeh," misled the unreflecting, and like an overwhelming wave, buried every thing beneath it. The elections were carried by such inflamable nonsense, which was in the mouth of every party hack. But with the shout and its echo all was forgot ten. Where is now the promised "hard currency,"—the present is hard enough it is true,—but where is the gold and silver which was to be received by the poor man for his toil! Have you, fellow citizens, forgotten all this? You who gloried in your victories• .it the elections. Let me ask you—did you ever look back over the scene ? Da ,you not remember you were then told that our currency would be ruined—that shinplasters and suspended bank notes would be all we could get, and but few of them 1 The excitement of party strife has made many forget, and the remainder deny this. Don't you remember that in 1887, when the first suspension took place : you and your party charged that on Ritner and his party? You did not reflect that it was the result of your own conduct; and even now you are willing to change your tune and say this present suspension —now a pretended resumption—is charge able to that party which have had no power either at Washington or Harrisburg; and many of you, urged by the shout of party, are now willing to say that Bank corrup tion has done it all. Little do you think that your original cries of "Jackson Hum bug,' have been the fruitful source of all our present and previous evils. Again, an attack was made by the south upon the Tariff system—and party drill, party policy, and party villany triumphed over this sheet anchor of our prosperity. The same old cry of the 'pour again: the rich" was kept up by exciting the laboring class to believe that the necessaries of life were to bear the heaviest tax and the lux uries the lightest. The bait, gilded with such nonsense, was snapped up by the gudgeons of party—and the American system fell beneath the blow ; and Penn sylvania and her toiling sons—her forges —her looms--and her workshops were si lenced by the party cringing of their own members in Congress; and forsooth, this Pennsylvania measure is denied because party policy required it. Did you ever reflect that if the tariff had been still pro tective, that our mechanics would be the very men who would prosper, and the la bor of the ten cent a day paupers of Europe would not come in competition with them --that instead of sending the gold and silver out of the country it would be kept in, and that instead of having an exhaust ed treasury, and a large debt, the revenge would have been ample to carry on the Government—stealings and all. Aed even now can be seen the tricks of party drill to deceive. Find a leader who has formerly been one of the Anti Bank, Aej
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