THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL.
"One country, one constitution, one destiny."
3312 Eatta. co co #
Wednesday morning, May 7., '44.
V. B. PALMER, Esq. (No. 59, P.: rset
below Third, Philadelphia,) is authorized to Jet as
Agent for this paper, to procure subseripticma and
advertisements.
cc? The Huntingdon Journal his a
larger circulation than any other
Newspaper in Huntingdon county.
We state this fact for the benefit of
Advertisers.
~ Once more our glorious Banner out
Upon the breeze we throw;
Beneath its folds, with song and shout,
Let's charge upon the foe!"
FOR PRESIDENT,
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
EARMAR DENNY,
OF PENNSYLVANIA.
(Subject to the decision of a National Covention.)
FOR GOVERNOR,
JOSMPII INIARILLO,
OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
SIMEON GUILFORD,
OF LEBANON COUNTY.
Whig Principles.
The principal objects which, I suppose, engage
the common desire and the common exertions of
the Whig party, to bring about, in the Government
of the United States are :
1. A souxo NATIONAL CURRENCY, regulated by
the will and authority of the nation.
2. AN azzacaTE simmer, with fair protec
tion to AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
3. JUST RESTRAINTS ON TEE ErecuTivE Pow
an, embracing farther restrictions on the exercise
of the veto.
4. A faithful administration of the• PUBLIC no
mAttr, with AN suotTeut,N DISTRIBUTION of the
proceeds of sales of it among all the states.
6. AN DONRST AND ECONOMICAL ADMINIRTRA.
TIO3T or Tits oovattroteaT, leaving public officers
perfect freedom of thought and of the right of suf
frage, but with suitable restraints against improper
interference in elections.
8. An amendment of the Constitution, limiting
the incumbent of the Presidential office to a ma
n. TERM.
These objects attained. i think that we should
cease to he afflicted with bad administration of the
Government."—Henry Clay.
c' The Pennsylvania Legislature adjoured eine
die on Monday last.
0::). The Whig nominating and ratification Con
ventions meet in the city of Baltimore to-day. It
is supposed there will be a greater crowd there to
day than over assembled in that or any other Amer
ican city before.
Another =ember of Congress Dead,
We learn from Washington letter writers that
Death has again stalked into the House of Repro.
sentatives, and that his shaft has again sped ! The
Hon. PETER A. Bassist.. of Louisiana, died on
Wednesday last, after a protracted but not painful
illness. He was a native of the State which he
represented.
This is the tenth death which has occurred
among the members since the last Congress—seven
from the House and three from the Senate.
Th. funeral of Mr. B. took place on Friday, and
was attended by the officers and members of both
branches of Congress.
Military Election.
The election for Colonel of this Regiment, held
on Saturday last, resulted as follows:
2d Batalion.
192 David Da, 27
60 George Bell, 71
219
131
lat Batalion.
David Duff,
George Dell,
Total—Duff,
Bell,
Duff's majority,
A. K. Comyn, En., withdrew his name from the
list of candidates about ten days before the election.
New Papers.
We have received the first number of the a Co
lumbia Freeman," a spirited little Whig paper,
published at Columbia, Lancaster county, Pe., by
Mr. Taarau TAYLOR.
WO have also received a specimen number of the
' , Weekly Argus,' hailing from Marietta, Lancaster
county, Pa. It is neatly printed and ably edited,
by Messrs. I. GOODMAN and F. L. ILIUM; and
supports Clay and Whig principles.
Success to them.
A. Br.artz Facsamoon.—The Locofoco papers—
that is, all those whose Editor's are lost to every
sense of decency and truth—publish the fol
lowing paragraph, as from one of Mr. Clay's
speeches:
cc? , If the gentlemen will not allow us to hare
black slave. they must let us have white ones, for
we cannot cut our fire-wood and black our shore
and have our wives and daughters work in the
kitchen."
The above leas black a falsehood—as palpable a
lie, as ever a Locofoco pen wrote, or a Locofoco
tongue uttered. Hard, indeed, murt our opponents
be tun, when they are compelled to resort to such
base, contemptible falsehood as the above. Of
course, every man who know. any thing of the
character of Henry Clay, knows that ho never ut
tered go infamous a gentiment.—Unien Nur.
A Personal Difficulty in the House.
The Clay Bugle of Thursday last says :—" An
unfortunate collision occurred in the House of
Representatives on Tuesday between Mr. COOPIR
and Mr. SMITH of Berks. The difficulty arose in
the course of a debate on the subject of the report
from the select committee appointed to investigate
the case of the over-issue of Relief notes by the
officers of the Barks County Bank. The particu
lars may be briefly stated as follows:
A motion to print the report of the committee
being before the House, Mr. aurrn moved to print
with the report the testimony of Elijah Dechort and
A. F. Boas, taken before the committee, together
wills the testimony of those witnesses, and also that
of Governor Porter, taken before the Judiciary
Committee, from which committee Mr. S. had pre
viously made a report on the same subject. Mr.
S. said that the testimony taken before the two
committee was conflicting--that the witnesses an
swered interrogatories before one committee in the
affirmative, which they afterwards answered before I
the other committee in the negative, and that when
the subject was properly before the House, he would
bo prepared to snow that in the one case or the
other, they had committed perjury.
Mr. Com sit defended the witnesses against this
sweeping cl arge of perjury, and in the course of
hie remarks said that if the testimony was printed,
in trder to. have a full understanding of the whole
subject, it might be necessary to publish with it a
certain paper which lied been given in evidence be
fore the committee, pledging a member of the House
and other individuals, for certain considerations,
against any opposition to the Berke County Batik.
Mr. Smith jumped to his feet and inquired wheth
er the gentleman from Adams alluded to him I
Mr. Cooper said such a paper had been before
the committee.
Mr. Smith repeated his inquiry—. Does the gen
tleman allude to met'
Mr. Cooper hesitated, then remarked—. Well, I
will tell the gentlemen—l do allude to him.'
Mr. Smith replied—' It is false
Mr. Cooper inquired—. Does the gentleman say
that I have uttered a falsehood
Mr. Smith—. Yes air--it is false!'
Mr. Cooper—. Then sir, you are a coward and
a scoundrel ! and I will prove that what you have
uttered is false!'
The SecAttem here interfered and suggested to
the gentleman from Berke (Mr. Smith) the propri
ety of making an apology—that he certainly did
not mean to charge the gentleman from Adams
with falsehood, and lie had merely stated what had
occurred before the committee.
Mr. Smith replied that he had no apology to make.
The Speaker then remarked that in performance
of his duty he would be compelled to place him in
the custody of the Sergeant -at-arms. He had
grossly violated the rules, and it was for the House
to say what further action should be taken on the
subject.
Some further conversation ensued between Mr.
Smith and the Speaker, which finally terminated
with the understanding that Mr. Smith withdrew
the offensive words as applied to Mr. Cooper, and
applied them to the evidence referred to—that the
evidence so far as regarded himself was false.
Mr. Cooper then made a statement of the cir
cumstances as they occurred—apologized to the
House for the intemperate words he had been com
pelled to use in vindication of his own reputation,
but stated that as to the gentleman from Barks, he
would retract nothing. Ho then read to the House
the paper referred to. The papers were signed by
Gsoasts SMITH, and in consideration of the pur
chase of a certain amount of stock of the Berks
County Bank by Lloyd Wharton front the said
Smith, he, (Smith) pledged himself that neither he
nor his brothers Henry and John, would make any
opposition to the Bank.
Mr. Smith followed with a statement of his un
derstanding of the matter, in which he reiterated
that so far as that paper regarded himself it was
false—that he knew nothing about it. And so the
affair ended.
The motion to print the testimony was not agreed
to, and the printing of the usual number of copies
of the report was ordered.
Sabbath Breaking,
Mr. Clay arrived at Mobile on the 25th of
February, and left Mobile for the North on the 3d
of March." The Almanac makes both of these
dates to full on the Sabbath ! So we have the elec
tioneering progress of the bloody hand"—leaving
Louisville on the Sabbath, he entered New Orleans
on the Sabbath. Comment is unnecessary."
If atrocious, unsparing slander will defeat a can
didate, then there can be no help for M. Clay. Of
all the above charges against him, it is only true
that he, being at Louisville awaiting since the night
before a boat for New Orleans did take passage in
one which left on Sunday. Many will condemn
this, yet we doubt not he had thus a better oppor
tunity to keep the Sabbath than he could do in a
strange city surrounded by friend. True, the
steamboat arrived at New Orleans on Sunday, but
how could passengers help that I It was said that
the Military were called out on the occasion—.
which, if true, Mr. Clay could neither foresee nor
prevent—but it is false. Mr. Bullitt of the New
Orleans Bee affirms that only himself and a single
friend who happened to he on the dock welcomed
Mr. Clay and accompanied him to his Hotel. Souse
Military were out, indeed, as is quite common on
Sunday in New Orleans, but they knew nothing of
Mr. Clay's arrival till he passed them. That he
left New Orleans on Saturday and arrived in Mo
bile on Sunday morning is most true, but ho went
quietly to his Hotel, without a parade of any kind.
It is utterly false that he left Mobile on Sunday the
3d inst.—he left on Tuesday the sth as we stated
at the time. The Mobile Daily Advertiser, in ex
pressly contradicting this last slander, expresses
astonishment, which proves it unacquainted with
The Plebian.—N. Y. 21ibune.
HARD DRIVEN!—The Harrisburg Union copi
ously extracts from the "Emancipator," an abolition
paper and transfers its congenial libels on the char
acter of Mr. Clay.
leseph Markle and the People.
Wear° glad to see that measures have been adop
ted, by the Whigs, to hold a meeting in this city,
with a view of sustaining the nomination of Gen.
Joseph Markle, as the candidate for Governor of
this Commonwealth. The times are such as to call
for the solemn consideration of every friend in this
State, whether it is not due to himself, to the Coin
monwealth, and to the holders
. of her broken pro- .
miser, that we should elect a man who has a heart
to aid in placing Pennsylvania in her old position,
and who is not afraid of adopting the only means,
that can now be resorted to for her restoration, viz
taxation and economy.
The present time is peculiarly favorable to a con
centration of votes, not merely those of the Whig
party, but those of every Pennsylvanian, upon a
man who will, who dares commence the work.—
There is no incumbent to defeat, no direct patron
age to work against, no cherished attachments to a
party favorite to be violated, no distinguished name ,
to be overshadowed. Mr. Muhlenberg has not held
a place by any action of popular favor. Ho was
elected to Congress in Berks county, where the par
ty would have elected his coachman, if nominated
in the party name, by a diminished vote, perhaps,
but still he would have had a majority. Ho went
to Europe by appointment, and distinguished himself
less by any public service titan by the writing
of a few letters, so exceedingly unfortunate in their
I choice of subject, and deficient in the composition,
as to lead to a sudden suppression of its series. As
a candidate now, he obtained the norninution by
what the Convention denominated unfair means,
and so unsatisfactory was the result, that the defea
ted deem themselves absolved from any obligation
to sustain tire candidate whom they opposed.
Mr. Muhlenberg, then, is not, and never bas
been, a popular candidate. He has never enjoyed
popular favor. He hes never, by any distinguish
ed act, won the esteem of his political opponents,
and he has displeased a majority of his own party,
by aiding to defeat the election of George Wolf
against Joseph Ritner, and by defeating the nomi
nation of Francis R. Shunk, by means not ap
proved.
Joseph Markle is justly known to the people of
our State as the citizen soldier, ready, not merely
to take up arms, but to lay down his fortune, and
expose Isis life for his country. Ho did all these,
and haling accomplished the work he undertook,
ho did not haunt the door of the War Office, dog
the heels of the President, nor beseech the Congress
of the nation, for < office,' < pension,' or < relief,' for
his services. He thought it hie duty to serve his
country in the hour of her peril—he performed that
duty. it never entered Isis head that more was due
to him than to any other man who did his duty.—
He knew, felt, acknowledged, and discharged his
obligations as a citizen, and then retired to his farm
and his mill, to enjoy the liberty which he had aided
others to defend.
Mr. Markle has been a close observer of men and
manners, and understands well all the bearings of
the great questions of public policy that are likely
to come before the nation ; but especially does he
understand and feel for the honor of Pennsylvania.
Connected with no clique, he will, as Governor of I
the State, have no favorites to reward at the public
expense. Committed by no previous vote, he will
not have to sustain an imaginary consistency at the
expense of public prosperity. Prosperous in his
I own affairs, his attention need not be diverted from
public business. Beloved by those who know him
best, and cherished for his honesty as a man, Its will
be esteemed as the Chief Magistrate of the Com
monwealth, for the simplicity and fidelity with
which he will discharge his public duties. Such
a man is presented to the people of Pennsylvania
as a candidate for their suffrages. Are we not
bound to believe that, in their present unfortunate
position, they will eagerly seize upon all honest
means to elect such a man, and thereby show their
anxiety to redeem the faith of the Commonwealth,
and sustain good old Pennsylvania.— U. S. Gaz.
Mn. CLAY AND PROTECTION.--lIOW meanly
contemptible must those Locofoco editors appearin
the minds of the People, who have charged upon
Mr. Clay an abandonment of the protective policy,
and that he has one expression for the North, and
another for the South, upon a reference to his late
speech at Charleston—the hot bed of Free Trade
and Nullification itself! There he has put the libel
lers to shame, who must invent some other mode of
attack. We have before us a Locofoco paper which
is constrained to acknowledge that "Ma. CLAY
DECLARED HIMSELF IN FAVOR OF A SYSTEM OP
Flummox, moderate, reasonable, CERTAIN and
nuns exa"—moderate and reasonable, that it may
be certain and durable; and advocating the present
Tariff; denies that it violates the spirit of the com
promise, which contemplated the raising sufficient
revenue for an economicel administration of the
government, and a proper discrimination in favor of
the products of American Labor! Mr. Clay de
clared that he did not stand up there to flatter any
man—that 44 what he had said on the Elkhorn he
' would dare to say in the Palmetto State." For this
manly declaration all true friend. of the Tariff
will give Mr. Clay credit; but not ao those hypo
critical pretenders who, constrained to support an
avowed enemy of the Tariff in principle and in
detail, dare not manfully meet the issue. But their
knavery is becoming manifest to the People, who
cannot be deceived or misled by their misrepresen
tatione—Beaver Argus.
The " While Slavery" Lts, against Mr. CLAY,
so much like a somewhat similar story against Gcn.
lIAHRISON, has been dropped as rather too base, by
that portion of the Locofoeo press which makes
any pretension to manliness or decency. It will of
course,he harped be upon grovelling minds,whostop
at no falsehood, and never apologize for an attemp
ted wrong.—lb.
CO' A daughter of the Commander-in-chief of
the Army, Gen. Wirrtitun SCOTT, has entered the
nunnery at Georgetown. The Forum correspondent
says : "I have not learned the cause ; the General
is absent, attending a Court Martial at Old Point
Comfort, and the seclusion of the young lady has
been most unexpectedly determined on."
Rights of Conscience.
Important Decision.—An exchange paper says :
The lion. Judge Banks, in a case recently tried in
Lehigh county, Pa., has given an opinion directly
the reverse of that given by Judge Lewis of Ly
coming, a year or so ago, respecting the rights which
a parent has to control his minor children in their
religious opinions. It appears that a father entered
a Methodist Episcopal . Church for his daughter, a
girl of fifteen years of age, took her by the arm,
raised her from her knees and told her to come
home. This produced excitement, which termina
ted in violence and assault and battery, upon which
an indictment was found and the case tried.
In the opinion of Judge Banks, given on this oc
casion, the constitution guarantees the right of every
individual to adopt. any creed or mode of worship
which his conscience approves, though this liberty
of conscience is restricted by the worship of Al
mighty God and extends to no other worship what
ever.
The constitution declares that "no human au
thority can in any case whatever control or interfere
with the rights of conscience." The exercise of
parental authority by a father, so as to control or
interfere with the rights of conscience of a minor
child, would, in Judge Bank's opinion, be an exer
cise of human authority, so as to control or inter
fere with the rights of conscience in a particular
case, whereas it is declared that it cannot be done
in any case whatever. This, he says, is the funda
mental law of the land. It is binding upon all
parents.
Judge Lewis, it will be remembered, gave his
opinion in a similar oase, that during legal minori
ty, the law of filial obedience takes the precedence
of all other laws which are binding on the child.
Pinal Passage of tho Tax Bill hi
the House.
The yeas and nays on .the final passage of the
bill to lay a three mill tax on all species of property
in the Commonwealth, and to submit it to a vote of
the people, whether the public works shall be sold,
are as follows:
YEAS—Messrs. Adams, Anderegg, Bennet,
Blair, Boat, Brackenridge, Brady, Carson, Connor,
Cooper, Cummins (Mifflin,) Dickey, Edson, Far
rell, Jordan, Kerr, Knox, Luning, Lawrence, Lin
ton, Long,Macmanus, Musser, M'Ewen, M'Fad
den, M'Kinley, Nicholson, Parke, Porter, Sankey,
Shattuck, Shaw, Shindel, Smith, (Clearfield) Smith,
(Lancaster,) Snyder, Straub, Thompson, Poland,
Trego, Tustin, Whittaker, Whitman, Snowden,
Speaker-55.
NAYS—Messrs. Ambrose, Bachman, Carpenter,
Cumming (Payette) Cummins (Butler,) Botts,
Dunlap, Eckels, Elliott, Evans, Hammer, Heck,
Hineline, Kauffman, Kugler, Metzger, Moore, Mor
gan, M'Caslin, O'Bryan, Picking, Smith (Berks,)
Smith (Monroe,) Smith (Wyoming,) Strouss, Ur
ban, Weber, Wilson-28.
The following are the. Commissioners to sell the
Main Line :
John Sinninon, Philadelphia county, John G.
Lowery, Centre, Thomas M'Cully, Philadelphia,
Joel K. Mann, Montgomery, Thomas P. Cope, city
of Philadelphia, Robert Poland, do., Philip Dough
erty, Dauphin, Thomas C. Rockhill, city of Phila.,
Jacob Shearer, Philadelphia co., John Junkin, Per
ry, Henry Flannery, Berke. Christian Myers, Clar
ion, Dr. Wm. Darlington, Chester, George Harrison,
Bucks, Alex. Cummings, Philadelphia, George R.
White, Allegheny. Michael Muss!omen, Lancaster,
John Kerr, Huntingdon, Jacob E. Raged, city of
Philadelphia, George M. Hollenback, Luzerne.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION.- Octal—The fol
lowing result, obtained from the Canvassers, shows
the actual vote at the late election for Governor :
Cleveland. Baldwin. Gillette. Scat.
Hartford co. 5356 6006 282 6
New Haven 4650 5065 229 2
New London 3564 3539 254 3
Fairfield 4400 4805 141 2
Windham 2420 2296 425 1
Litchfield 4291 *1398 384
Middlesex 2282 2124 145 2
Tolland 1894 1860 111 3
28,846 30,093 1,971 9
• 230 votes returned for Roger Baldwin, instead
of Roger B. Baldwin.
Now Yeas Towx Eracmoss.—The Town
Elections in New York have closed, and the Alba
ny Daily Advertiser gives returns of the Supervi
sors elected in each county, which sum up as fol
lows
1844. 1843.
Van Buren 457 545
Whig 408 337
Native 17 0
Total 884 882
Whig gain from last year 71 ; loco lose 86 ; net
Whig gain, 157.
Tu. BArrzn GROUNDS.-We have boenshown
two beautifully engraved views, ono of the "Ger
mantown Battle" and the other of " Yorktown,"
intended to illustrate early numbers of Graham's
Magazine. If the series now being published in
Graham's Magazine are all to be put out in such
style as these before us, he will put any competitor
upon his metal. To fall below the standard thus
set, will be to fail altogether in the eyes of the pub
lic.
Mr. G. informs us, that this enterprize is with
him, one of years, and not of months, and that as
he occupies most of the important battle grounds.
by the possession of pictures and sketches, he no
more fears competition in this matter, at this late
day, than he does in the "Portrait Gallery of
American Authors."—Spirit of the Times.
00". There was a rumor quite current at Wash.
ington last week, that Gen. JAcxsow had written a
letter advising the withdrawal of Van Buren, and
declaring himself in favor of Cass. Poor Van is a
used up man!
G:1. A correspondent of the Albany Journal at
Ellicottsville, Cattaraugus county, says : "Our
little village is severely afflicted with sickness; out
of a population of 440, two hundred and nineteen
are now, and have been sick, and many deaths.—
My whole family (nine in number) have been sick."
art Mr. Jones, of Ohio city, (0.) for a wager
of $5OO, fumed one cord of wood in 13 minutes
and 57 second,. !
Nuzzo for the Coon
The Miners' Journal of Saturdny states, [bat the
following handbill was posted up in the borough of
Pottsville, on the 22nd ult.
The Fox and the Coon !—Grand Contest !
A grand contest between a little red Fox and a
real live Coon, the representatives of Van Buren
and Clay, will be had at the saloon of the town
hall, thin evening (Saturday, March 23rd,) at 8
o'clock. The friends of the Fox of Kinderhook,
and also the adherents to "that -same old Coon" of
Kentucky, are invited to attend, and see that " fair
play" is shown to their respective favorites. Admit
tance 12 cents.
This contest," says the Journal' "grew out of a
dispute about the representation in the Forum, of a
Coon with a Fox down. On the evening in ques
tion, a large number assembled at the hall to wit
ness the exhibition. The Coon was only about six
months old, and rather small. The Fox was an
old 'un, nearly twice the size of his Coonship, and
looked quite as sly and cunning as Matty himself.
The preperations were made— bets ran high—Coo
ny walked deliberately into Foxey, and lick'd him
in iWO minutes. Foxey ran and ensconsed himself
in a bucket—Cooney followed, sprung upon the
bucket, placed his paw in a peculiar position—and
a shout in favor of " the Coon of Kentucky," fairly
rent the hall. Is not the result of this battle omin
ous of the grand contest next fall r
House of Representatives Frauds.
The Senate Committee on Retrenchment and
Reform, have made a report, which fully discloses
the enormous frauds of Mr. Ex-Speaker Wright and
Ex-Clerk Andrews, by which itappears that the
whole amount of money drawn from the Treasury,
by Win. J. B. Andrews, for the contingencies of the
House of Represen tativea, during the session of 1842
and 1843 and a part of the session of 1844 is $55,-
170 and that the whole of his accounts passed legal
ly or illegally, amount to $46,260 23, leaving in
the hands of that Clerk, unaccounted for the sum of
$8,909 77. It further appears that H. B. Wright,
Speaker of the House of Representatives for the iies
lion of 1843, drew fourlwarrants in favor of Wm..l.
B. Andrews, amounting in the aggregate to $9,480
22 ostensibly for "contingencies," without the shad
ow of authority and in direct violation of the provi
sion of the " Reform Bill," of last session, which
declares "that hereafter no warrant shall be drawn
o by any Speaker of either branch of the Legialature,
" except for the pay and mileage of the members."
If these $9,480 22, be added to the balance struck
against Andrews as above shown, of $9,909 77, it
will make the sum with which that Clerk would
ho chargeable as unaccounted for, $18,389 99-
This is the way the people's money baa been span"
dered by loco foco office holders, and this is the
reason why Pennsylvania has been unable to pay
the interest on her debt.
Wiwi. AN ExAmext !--A New York paper
says :—We learn from Westchester co, that Chris.
Lilly appeared before Judge Ruggles and his Court,
at Dedfort on Tuesday and plead guilty to the kil
ling of McCoy in a milling match, some time ago!
He was sentenced to pay a fine of $500!
This sentence is certainly most extraordinary.
A pugilist, who engages in a most brutal prize fight
and beats to death a fellow being, is to pay $500!
Let us ask, what will be the effect of such a sentence I
It is already stated that some of the sanguinary
professors of the brutal art of pugilism in New York,
are seeking to make up a milling match. And it
certainly might have been anticipated that this would
be the result of the Westchester county decision.
It does appear to us that if any crime should be
visited with the utmost penalties of the law, it should
be that of deliberately beating to death a fellow be
ing in a public prize fight. Tho sad example of this
worse titan barbarous exhibition, should cause the
ministers of the laws to look to the influence which
one case must have upon others. There is probe.
bly no way of preventing the frequent repetitions of
prize fights, but by severely punishing those who
shall dare to engage in them on our soil : and in
view of that position the fining of Lilly for the kil
ling of young McCoy, is not likely to operate as a
check to the spread of these brutal fightsin ourcoun
try.—Saturday Courier.
A RESULT or TUE Tatum—A Company at
Manchester, New Hamshire, chartered in 1837,
are now erecting a mill 440 feet in length, and are
about to commence two other mills of equal size
each to contain 25,000 spindles. The commence
ment of the operations of the Company hasbeen de
ferred till now in consequence of the depression in
manufacturing business. Since the present Tariff
has revived the drooping energies of the business
portion of the nation, hundreds and thousands of
laborers have found employment, and profitable re
muneration. The company above referred to will
now set in operation 75,000 spindles, and of course
employ a large number of hands, furnishing a sub
sistence perhaps to many a needy family, and aid
ing to create a home market end demand for Amer
ican produce. This is a single instance among
thousands, showing the benefits—the absolute ne
cessity—of a protective tariff to the prosperity of
our people.
oj. An old bachelor contemporary thus speaks
of ono of the miseries of human life :—"Receiving a
newspaper from a friend, with the marriage (marked ,
of course,) of a young holy with whom you have
boon desperately, though secretly in love fur two
years.
A young lady trading with a rather raw clerk
for a pair of stockings, asked how high they came V'
Her beauty and her question staggered him, but at
last he stammered out, ( 4 Dont know—'above the
knees I guess !"
At a celebration of the " glorious eighth," in
Norwich. Conn., the following was perpetrated;
By P. M. Judson— The Ladies—Who, reversing
the order of Old Hickory's defence, place the cotton
bags in the rear.
If the ladies don't make a bustle when they read
this toast, then we ere ;:iistskon.-2,...,,i,";
Queen Esouna.—Among the records of the
good old town of Ipswich, Mass., we find the fol-
lowing under date of Hal :
Single persons who ale under no government
are ordered to put themselves under the care of some
head of a family. Daniel Weldrom is required to
return to his wife according to law."
The record does not give us the reasons why
Daniel Weldrom left his wife in the first place, or
whether he returned, "according to law," in the
last. Singular people, our forefathers, and strange
ways did they have.—/V. 0. Picayune.
Herrn or Julian BALDWIN.—The Philadel
phia papers of 22nd Wt., announced the death of
the lion. Hasny BALDWIN, one of the Judge. of
the Supreme Court of the United Stat.. He died
at his lodgings at the Merchant'. Hotel in that city,
on Sunday evening the 21st.
FIRST OF MAY CoNvaxTrox.--The Baltimore
American states that the Whig National Conv,en
tion of the first of May, for the nomination of can
.didates for President and Vice President of the Uni
ted States, will hold its meetings in the Universal
ist Church, Calvert street. .The body of the
Church will be reserved for the Convention, and
the galleries wilt be open for the public.
NEW Cotrwrsarsyr.—Lebanon Bank, Leba
non, Pa.-s's altered from broken Gillipolas (Ohio)
Bank, Vignette, three figures, one Mercury holding
a horn of plenty, a Griffin standing on an iron
chest. On the right margin female, and in the
distance steamboat, &c.; between the name of the
officers, dog and chest. Engraving by Emden,
Wright & Hatch, N. V. The genuine notes were
engraved by Draper, Underwood, Bald & Spencer,
and have for a Vignette a figure of Mercury sitting
on a bale of goods. On the right end 'Justice,'
and on the left female with horn of plenty.
ASSOCIATION or NAMES.--Tho Washington
Standard gives the following singular association
of names
A year ago the natnce of the President and
most of his Cabinet terminated alike, as for example,
Tyler, Webster, Spencer, Porter, and Urethan—
Now they commence alike, as for example, John
Tyler, John Calhoun, John Spencer, John Mason,
and John Nelson—to say nothing of John Tyler,
Jr., the Private Secretary and John Jones, the
organ !"
Film—Spring Forge, with all it machinery and
fixtures, in Paradise township, York county, le
longing to the hairs of Thomas B. Coleman, dec'd.,
was destroyed by fire on the 231 ult. Loss estima
ted to be from 2,500 to 3,000. Insurance on the
property $2000.-- Fork Advocate.
oj. The following feet needs no comment.
New York Jan. 25, 1843.
I have been afflicted with the Asthma for twenty
years, sometimes so severely as to be confined to my
room for weeks, and though attended by various
medical advisers of the highest reputation and
skill in the country, twice the decease proved nearly
fetal to life.
Some few weeks since I commenced taking
lar's Balsam of Wild Cherry, which gave in
ztant relief, and a single bottle has produced what I
believe to be a radical and perfect cure.
For asthma. coughs, colds, shortness of breath.
wheezing, and soreness of the lungs, I believe it to
lie the very best medicine in the world. I send
this certificate to the agent, whom I &a not know,
only as a duty which I owe in sympathy to the af
flicted
A. V'VILLI . AI4IS,
Counsellor at Law, 58 William street.
We are acquainted with the writer of the above
certificate, and his statements are entitled to the full
confidence of the public.
F. A. TALLMADGE,
Recorder of the city of New York.
JOHN POWER,
Vicar General of New York.
For sale by Thomas Read, Huntingdon and
James Orr, Hollidaysburg.
a=~;a,
In Hollidaysburg on Friday last, CH ARLES,son
of Mr. Robert Lytle, Jr., aged 5 years, 5 months
and 21 days.
STATE OF THE THERMOMETER,
(in this Borough.)
7♦. :v. 2. P. M. 9P. W.
APRIL 25 - - 46 62 5O
26 - - 46 69
27 - -- 53 70
29 -57 . 72
29 - 54 78
30 - - 61 70
Temperance Meeting.
The Washingtonian 7eroperante Society will
meet at the Old Court House, on Saturday even
next. The ladies are particularly invited.
By order of the President.
May 1, 1844.
Wagon Making.
CALEB Y 0 C t II
li s ) ESP F.CTFULLY informs his friends
4,13 and the public in general, that he car
ries on the above business in the shop for
merly occupied by William Wooster, situ
ate in Main street, in the borough of Alex
andvit., Huntingdoi county, Pa., where he
is prepared to do all kinds of work - in his
line of business in a durable and woi kman.
like manner. A stock constantly on hand--
and work made to order.
•—••
By strict :mention to business he expects
to merit and receive a liberal share of pat
_ _
Al .. xandria, May 1, 1844.
zo'cm)uK._ . P.Lat.
S
II IL tillsOhoNttoarei m h r t 7 c
a b s y e n
or
meddle in any way with the following de
scribed property, purchased by the subscri
ber at Constable's Salk:, as the property of
James Kennedy, of Porter township, liuut co.
I brown horse, 1 sorrel d0.,2 set of horse
gears, 1 plough and 1 set of iarrow pins, 4
hogs and 1 heifer, 1 eight day clock, 2 lots
of grain in the ground.
Which properly I have left with said
Kennedy until such a time as I may choose
to remove it.
JOHN nuvErr.
April 29, WU
1 11RLANK BONDS—Judgment and