2'etx-Ridelen Pennsylvania. (cons'ant attendance of a good doctor du- We have time and again told our rem- ring his sickness, but kind attention and tiers that next year they will be taxedlmedicine could not conquer the virulence two dollars for every one they ore taxed iii his disease. Ile continued to WI from now. The following is the provision of; the day of his attack until the morning of the late loco loco law by which this out-the 19th August, when his earthly career rage is to be perpetrated upon the already closed, lle retained his senses untiJ overtaxed people of this State: about 24 hours before his death, and du-' .Section 7. That the county commission. ring that time believed that he would re• ers of each county of this Commonwealil; cover. He had many sympathising friends shall be, and they are hereby authorized around him who administered to all his end required at the time of assessing coon- wants. lie died two days before our ar ty rates in the present year, and at the rival at Galveston, The burial service of usual period of making the saint, annually the Episcopal church was read over his thereafter, in (addition to the increase at remains before we consigned him to the ',relent required by law, to add to the pre- deep. I enclose to you the only papers sent county rates and levies for the oar o f which he had with him—a letter which he the Commonwealth, urn all real a n d per- received from you in Vera Cruz, and his smut property now made taxable for Slate Mexican passport, upon the back of which purposes, one mill on every dollar of the he wrote a translation of the speech of value thereol : Provided, That in the as- Santa Anna at the time of our release. sessinent of the tax imposed by this sec- lam able to give you but little informa• lion in regard to his business in Texas.— lion, stocks, mortgages and other serum - ties shall be assessed at the actual „a u , I think he has some land and land claims thereof. in Texas, and the government of Texas AeraovEo—The 27ih day of July, 1341 owes him about 14 months pay as an offls DAVID R. POR'T'ER. cer o f the Santa Fe Expedition. As soon If the people will reflect that next year as I go up the wintry I will find out who the tax-gatherer will demand datibto as is his agent, and he will write you more much of their hard earnings as he dial this tullY. Your brother was an old and inti year—that where they now pay y - 'nate friend of mine, and T shall mourn f his loss as that of a brother. ire dollars, they must then pay fifty dol lars, we cannot doubt that they will send I am, dear sir, your friend, only such men to the Legislature as will And obedient servant, pledge themselves to vote fur a repeal of WM. 11. HUNT this galling tax-law. The democratic Harrison party voted almost in a body against the bill, and if they have a major ity in the next Legislature they will feel themselves bound to vote for its repeal.— They will feel this obligation much more binding upon them front its inequality and injustice. Under the late law, before it was doubled, the amount of tax collected was 8638,493,38. Of course next year under the present tax law, the taxes will be twice this sum, or one million two hun dred and seventy-eight thousand nine hun dred and eighty-six dollars and seventy six cents, estimating their proportion un der this law by that under the late law, nineteen Eastern counties must pay one million seventy-one thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and forty four cents, while the thirty-six remaining counties of the State will only pay two hundred and' fifty-seven thousand fivehundred and ttoen, ty-six dollars and thirty-two cents, and draw from the Treasury for school purpo-' ses, $408,084 00, or 8150,557 68 more than they pay into it!! What do the peo ple of Huntingdon, Dauphin, Ltbanon, Franklin, Bedford, Lancaster, Chester, Delaware, Washington, Bucks, and others of the nineteen counties which pay all the taxes for time support of the government, and will next year have to pay more than 8150,000 for the support of schools in the thirty-six counties that now do not pay , taxes enough to educate their own chip, dren Are they willing to send men to , the Legislature who have assisted to fasten upon them a law under which such infa mous injustice has been practised 1 If they are, they must no: only submit to the tax bill which is now eating ,tut their sub stance, but in all probability eve,: hea vier taxes will be imposed upon them.-..- 1 Without the sale of the public works, thisl must inevitably follow, and the adminis• tration has already declared its determr nation to oppose this measure with its whole power. They will hang on to this mighty source of patronage and plunder with the grasp of a dying man, though the consequence would be a four fold increase of our debts. Does Jot past experience give assurance that this is the Porter poli and does it not warn the tax payers to cy, select men at the coming election who will pursue a different policy! From the Hollidaysburg Standard, Captain "bn We deeply regret to have to announce the death of Captain JOHN Ilownay, in whose fate, as one of the unfortunate San ta Fe Expedition, our citizens generally, felt so deep an interest, arid whose return from captivity has been so fondly antici pa After having escaped the slaughter of Chiliad, survived the suffering, hardships and privations of the journey to Santa Fe, endured the horrors of imprisonment in Mexico, under the despotic rule of the Monster Santa Anna, and experienced with his comrades the joy of liberation, end the pleasing anticipation of being again restored to his friends and early home ; an anticipation, alas: never to be realized ; his constitution weakened by continued hardships, sunk beneath an at tack of sickness, contracted en the pas sage from Vera Cruz, and he died fast a, his suffering promised to be o'er, like a tempest tossed mariner, shipwrecked in sight of home and friends. While his relations and friends must keenly feel the unexpected blow, the have the consolation of reflecting that hi died in Freedom, and that to secure tha , boon, their best exertions were given and not in vain. Since the above W 39 in type, the fol lowing letter has been received by A. L liollidav, brother of the deceased, con• firming his death: GALVESTON, 24th August, '42. A. L. HOLLIDAY, Eq., Dear Sir—The melancholy duty de. rolves upon me of informing you of the death of my much esteemed friend, your brother, John Holliday. lie was taken sick with the yellow fever the day before we left Vera Cruz. His friends conclu ded that he:would receive more care and attention at sea with us, than he would oy leaving him at Vet a Cruz. He had the, THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. '•One country, one constitution, one destiny." Huntingdon, Sept. 25, 1842. V. B. PALMER, Esq. (No. 104 S. 3rd St. Ph:ladelphia,)is authorized to act as Agent tor this paper, to procure subscriptions and vertisinents. DEMOCRATIC HARRISONIAN COUNTY TICKET. CONGRESS, S. MILES GREEN. of Huntingdon county. SENATE, ROBERT ELLIOTT, of Perry county. ASSEMDLY, JONATHAN III'ITTLLIA MS, BRICE BLAIR. PROVIONOTART, JAMES STEEL. RLGISTER & RECORDER, JOHN REED. COMMISSIONER, ALEXIA DER KNOX, Jr. Coßowan, I.9MES SAXTON, Jr. AusiTok. THO' A.S' E. 01:13.1.5'0N. SENATORIAL COMMITTEE Or COMM- PONDENCI, Juntata. TOBIAS KREIDER, Mifflin Town. Perry, J. NV. BOSSIIAN, New Port. Huntingdon, D. MOMURTRIE, Ja., H. Borough, Union, NVILLtem CLOVER, Ilartleton. Mifflin, .1. V. CRESSWELL, McVey Towm Democratic Harrisonian Committee o/ Vigilance for Huntingdon county, Thomas Fisher Peter Hewit Col. J. Hoffman S. M. Green Robert Campbell Peter Swoupe 1 Benjamin Leas. ARE YOU ASSESSED? Remember ! if you wish to vote at the next election, you must be' assessed TEN DAYS BEFORE TEM 111 k OF OCTOBER. As our friends had some trou ble last year to find the HIDING PLACE of the Assessor of this 'district, it will be well to hunt him up in time this year, HARRISON DEMOCRATS! SEE THAT YOUR NAMES ARE ON . THE ASSESSOR'S LIST. DELAY IS DANGEROUS. OZ :r WANTED -at this office--an Ap . Prentice. A boy from 14 to 16 years of age, who can come well recommended, may obtain a good situation. No other need apply. Wood Wanted. Wood will be taken at this office in payment of subscription or job work. The Locofocos and the Can didate for the Senate. The Locofocos in this Senatorial dis.. trict have Henry C. Eyre palmed upon them as their candidate for the Senate.-- The mode of operation by which his nom ination was effected, was, to say the least of it, very mysterious, and proved a sad 'disappointment to the aspirant of this county as well as to the candidate who was " used up" two years ago. The gen eral belief is that it was through the man agement of the Guvernsz that Mr. Eyre was nominated instead of Mr. Groin or Dr. Ard. The Conventiot► at Alexandria, which was neither more nor less than a Locofoco concern under a new name, did not nomi nate any candidate for the Senate. Now, this :ircumstance alone, independent of the thousand other equally convincing circumstances, is sufficient to prove to every candid mind, that the so-called Workingmen's party in this county is all a humbug. What is the cause of such a course 1 Why take up candidates for the House of Representatives and not for the Senate 1 The answer is at hand. If the Alexandria Convention had placed Henry C. Eyre on the Workingmen's ticket, all would have seen the connexion, and been satisfied that it was a Locoloco movement, and they could not deceive a Whig or an Antiinason to support that ticket. And on the other hand, if they had taken up any other person for the Senate it would have been certain ruin to Mr. Eyre's pros-, pas. The only alternative then was to say nothing about the most important of all the offices to be filled this fall. Is there any one so simple as to believe there was no design in all this? If any one should contend that this was the result of :►tad vertence, let him tell it to marines, for the intelligent voters of Huntingdon county cannot be deceived by such contemptible shallowness. Although Mr. Eyre was not placed on their ticket by the Locofocos at Alexan• (luta, yet they will—at least all who belong to the " whipuble" species—vote for him; for the old Kickapoo Chief who can man age matters so as to have placed in nomi nation such persons as he thinks will serve him, and guillotine those whom he kates , can also manage to make the corrupt of his party sustain party nominations, no matter how they are effected. The Election. On the second Tuestbintile 11th day) of October the electors wi , .hin this county will be call ed upon to exercise the elective franchise. The election is one of great im portance, and should be so treated by every qualified elector. Fur this reason we shall again call the attention of our readers to, it. In doing so we disclaim all idea of improperly influencing the minds of the voters of Huntingdon county. We have no desire to dictate a particular line of conduct to our political friends, nor to our political foes. But we shall speak in such language as should ever be used by a free , and independent press when addressing I intelligent FREEMEN. In this spirit we say that it is the plain duty of every Anti mason and Whig in this comity cheerfully and heartily to support the regularly nom inated party ticket. Freemen, let us reason together. In this and in all other countries where there is the least spark of freedom existing, the people are divided into parties. Their party differences are of no trivial or imagi nary character—they are deep-rooted and enduring, and on them depends the fate of the people. The science of government is an intricate one, and should be well studied by every freeman. It involves principles which run through constitutions, laws, habits and customs, and effect every individual, front the highest to the lowest. In this country the dividing line of parties was plainly and we trust permanently drawn in the memorable Presidential con test of 1840. The Harrison administra tion came into power like the mountain avalanche. On the banner of the party were inscribed A. National Institution to regulate the currency"—" A Protect ive Tariff" —"Land Distribution"—" Re trenchment and Reform," &c., &c. In one month after that administration came' into power the nation mourned the loss of its head, and the administration of the Government devolved upon a person who was designed for an inferior station ; and in his hands the affairs of the Government are last going back to the condition ir. which they were before the lamented Har rison was called upon to preside over the American people. These great princi ples, therefore, still remain at stake ; and we should endeavor, with unabated zeal, to carry them into effect. Until they are carried into effect this country cannot en• joy true and lastinprosrerity. It is for measures, and not for men that we, as a party, contend. When we lose ,fight of principle., and only fight for fa write men, our elections become unworthy the regard of reasonable and independent men. Whigs and Antimasons of Huntingdon county! you are the repositories of power in this county, for you are the majority. It is for you to determine whether you will abandon your principles, and adopt others to suit the whims and fancies of those who have long and bitterly denoun ced and traduced you! In this county the old enemy has laid a wily scheme to seduce you from your faith, and to aid in , the election of men to office who will con sent to become the tools of the Locofoco! party. Their every movement shows that they are just seeking personal aggrand- 1 lizement. Shall the enemy succeed as they did last year by falsehood and deception, and then again taunt you with your defeat ?- 1 We trust not. You cannot forget your own dignity, and forsake the cause of correct principles, and aid in trickery.--: No, freemen, rally round the good old banner under which you have so often and so gloriously conquered. Sustain your party nominations. With an effective party organization you can do every thing; but without it you can do nothing. Rally, then, friends, rally. Do not think the election of no importance and stay at home—but come to the rescue—come to the polls, and vote the ticket, the whole ticket, and nothing but the ticket! "Gross Impiety ::» Under this head our pious neighbor preached a Locofoco sermon for the bene fit of us poor ‘Vhig sinners! But there is something so ridiculous, so ludicrous, nay so impudent, in our Locofoco neighbor preaching morality and religion, and charging the great Whig party with oppo sition to both, that one is forced to laugh right out in the very face of this "latter day saint." Look for a moment, at the materials of the Locofoco party all over the country! Take for instance that par. ty in the city of New York; and you have Levi D. Slamm, a notorious infidel, edit ing a Locofoco paper ; and there too you' will find Alexander Ming, late co-editor of Fanny Wright's Free Inquirer. He was and is still the favorite of Mr. Van Buren, and was appointed to office by him. Turn your eyes further east, and at Boston you find the notorious Brownson, the bold and fearless Agrarian and grand high priest of Locofocoism. No, no, neighbor.—it won't do—it is worse than Mormonism. And now Colonel, " right about-face"—(we must learn military tac tics)—.. eyes right"—see the unholy ance of your party in Illinois with the outlawed impostor and used up Prophet, Joe Smith. There, too, you will see Fanny, Wright's man Friday, Robert Dale Owen, late Locofoco candidate for Congress.— But to come nearer home— what are the religious opinions of a certain Anti-Tariff candidate on the Locofoco or .. Working men's" ticket in this county? Now don't it make you feel cheap just to think of it. Oh, such a sermon. Executive Interference. " The locoloco conferees of the Lycom• ing Senatorial District had near 200 bal. lottings, without coming to a choice. The Governor has gone up, post haste, in order to whip in the refractory, or buy them off, as circumstances may determine." When we first saw the above paragraph in the Harrisburg Telegraph the Governor was in this borough. The same day Col. Burnside, one of the Senatorial aspirants and General Huston came here and met his Excellency, and held a consultation, and •probably got his orders. The next morning (Friday) they left, bearing, it is supposed, despatches to the Conference, under the broad seal." Difficulties in Senatorial nominations are easily fixed by Old Kickapuo. The only mistake in tho Telegraph is the whereabouts" of the Governor. Works of Fiction. The Watchman of last week contains another beautiful and chaste "fancy sketch of a traitor." It is a higher aim and of course a more harmless shot (if that be possible) than the former one. In this, Henry Clay is the mark, and the blunder. buss is charged with epithets like these--, thief, adulterer, man-stealer, robber, murderer, profane gambler, traitor," dm. Verily some fellows seem to have no other words in their vocabularies! Cc:7 — By a reference to the Sheriff's Proclamation it will be seen that several alterations have been made in the election districts in this county, by recent acts of Assembly. It would 'nit Work. The editors of the Clinton County Dent• ocrat tried hard to mix up a mess for their readers out of Governor Porter's veto of Mr. Rothrock's plastering bill; but after (working at it about three weeks they found that " facts are stubborn things," land can't be worked up into flapdoodles no how they can fix it. Pror fellows: Tickets. Tickets—from Congress down to Audi tor—are ready for distribution. Our friends from all parts of the county can be supplied at ibis office. It is important that they should be circulated extensively at an early day. 07:r Oh, the wisdom of our legislators] In looking over the act of Assembly of the 18th March 1848, we find the following: Section 13, That the township of Su gar, in the county of Huntingdon, shall hereafter be a separate election district, and hold their elections at the public school house in said township." II any of our readers wish to know the whereabouts of Sugar It wish ip, they must look to some one who knows more about it than we do. Why did not the Locofocos in this county take tip a ticket, and call it a Locofoco or a " Democratic" ticket? c*— Why did not the new-fangled Workingmen" take up a candidate fin tite Senate? Otr Why dill the Locofocos who are opposed to "party nominal um," call and hold a meeting and appoint and send Con• terees to Mifflintov n to nominate a candi date for the Senate ? Answer us the above que;tioa, ye con sistent Locufocns, and ye political wire. working-men." (rr The Standard vainly endeavors to create an impression that there is want of unanimity in our political camp. The fact is, there never was more unanimity in the Whig and Antimasonie ranks in, this „county than at present. We do not know of any 'Whig or Antimason who will not support the ticket formed on the 10th of August. But on the other hand, we know that some of the more honest and honorable Locofucos will nut support' the Locofoco nominations, no matter how, they dub them. The Workingmen", humbug is too rank to be swallowed by them. Cl*. The Watchman and the Standard show an admirable picture of Locuroco consistency by opposin;• party nornina thins, and at the same time supporting the IRREGULARLY nominated Federal Ln color° candidate for the Senate, and the' regular Locofoco nominations labelled Workingmen's ticket." Oh! Consis. tency!!! But what care the Locofocos about consistency if they can only gull a few Antimasons and Whigs into a support ) of their nominated no•nominated Work. ingmen's party no party ticket. Oz The two Locofoco papers in this county have raised the name of Col. Eyre, the Locofoco candidate for the Senate, and the .‘ Workingmen's" party ticket, and are doing all they can both by fair and unfair, means to elect all of them.— Is not this enough to show that the Work ingmen's concern is a Locoloco humbug COL. EYER.—We will support this gentleman for the Senate—forget past dif ferences— forgive past offences— let their be union and harmony, and our word for it, Col. Eyer will be elected."—Watch man 21a! Sept. His Excellency David It Porter arri ved in (own on Saturday evening last."— Same paper. Put that and that tagether. Oh yes, yes, certainly! that accounts for it" as the man says in the play. Why did not your Workingmen nom inate Mr. Eyer, for "party tickets can't shine" you say. "SENATORIAL NOM INATION.• As matters now stand we will wait TO HEAR further upon this subject before we raise the name of the nominee (Col. Eyer) of this informal 111HROULAR and INCOMPLETE nounination."—Standard, Sept. 16. We raise the name of our candidate • • • Henry C. Eyer, a democrat a bove reproach and above suspicion.* • • Rally then, Democrats, and by the trium phant election of Henry C. Eyer" Sec,— Same paper of Sept. 23. " His Excellency, David R. Porter ar rived in town on Saturday evening last." Did you HEAR that, buys. You certain ly heard something cause tehy"—you said you must" heerfarther." "He that bath ears" &c. It takes what we call the tall kind of ears to hear that, and obey so readily. Some animals with tall ears hear patiently any burden that is put on them. We wonder if it is a fact in nat ". " B " ural history that a submissive spirit is 'evidence of tall ears. " Joe, which way are you going to rote? I can't tell till I hear from the General." It is a; satisfaction to know that our neighbors have "heard further." The Business of the next Legislature. As the business of the next session of our State Legislature will be of unusual importance, we but deem it our duty to call the attention of our friends to the im perative duty devolved upon them of at tending the approaching election, to record their wishes in regard to measures which %. will be agitated, and upon which depends the weal or wo of the State. %Ire there. tore, again earnestly appeal to the Anti masons and Whigs of Huntingdon county to be up and doing on the second Tuesday in October. The interests involved in the contest are various and of the most momentous char acter ; and on this account our solicitude is deep and abiding. It Hill be the ditty of the next Legislis lei:lll44 'ture to elect a United States Senator in the place of James Buchanan, whose term ex pires on the 4th of March next, and who is already nominated for re-election by the Locofeco party. Mr. Buchanan is an advocate of the low wages doctrine.— He is opposed to the protective tarifof the recent session of Congress ; and pledge to go for its repeal at the next session: lie is opposed to the distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, whereby the immense debt of this State might be paid off; and the honor of our, good old Commonwealth retrieved, and onetous taxation or repudiation rendered unnecessary. Ile voted against Pennsyl vaaia receiving tier portion of the public land Fund, and will oppose that meaauryt, at the next session of Congress if electe4 If you wish him defeated, go to the polls and vote for Robert Elliott fur Senator, and Jonatlzanpl'Williams and Brice Blair for Representatives; and they will record their votes against James Buchanan and in favor of some honest Harrison Demo. ciat for United States Senator, who wi' represent the interests of this State faith• fully in Congress. It devolves upon the next Legislature' to divide the State into Senatorial and Representative Districts. If the Locofe. cos obtain a majority they will resort toe , system of Gerrymandering, whereby they may so apportion the State as to disfran• chise thousands of our citizens, and per. petuate their power for seven years to come. Whigs and Antimasons of tingdon county ! if you wish to avert the consummation of outrages like these, rally under the good old banner under which you often triumphed ; and vote fur Rob. • ert Elliott, and Jonathan McWilliams and Brice Blair, to represent you in the s l / 4, next Legislature. If the Governor, the Veto King, has C.... constitutional power, and does veto the Congressional Apportionment Bill of this State, it will be the duty of the next Le. • gislature to district the State anew; and it may be readily conceived what sort of an Apportionment that will be. Even the Ohio Gerrymanders will be forgotten in the recklessness of the Pennsylvania • Locofocos. Friends and fellow citizenv%,. of Huntingdon county! you know how, .° contribute your share towards the preven• tion of the contemplated outrage. The next Legislature will either as. DEEM or finally nom the credit of the Stale. It will be remembered that "51 session before the last imposed a State las,' ~. e- upon the l;oople—the measure was 114 . ' , an unpopular one; but necessity was pleaded in justification. It was predicted that that was but the beginning of the coda of taxation. The last session, regardless of the murmurs of the people, doubled she taxes—thus placing an enormous barthea upon the shouiders of the Farmers, Me. ) chanics and Workingmen of the State, a ; more than just portion of which has to be', borne by the people of Huntingdon county. Let every voter bear in mind that 'Squiril' v !I esion, who is again soliciting the sun? t % ges of the people of this county, voted for the Double Tax Bill, and for all the other extravagant measures of the Administra. tion. For this, the Locofoco leaders hugs him to their bosoms, and do their utmost to re-elect him —for they know thin - V . S .- will aid them in all their political seller,- Let it be remembered that George Ai Macfarlane, the colleague of Thomas Weston, is a Locofoco of the worst 80rt... a violent politician—wedded to all the tee. eta of his party-..opposed to a ,Protect. - . ei
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