THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL,
=— "o:t -- e
country, one constitution, one destiny."
Elo2m.r.ariamm...ell CID cras
Wednesday morning, Zune 8, '44.
,r).V. B. PALMER, Esq. (No. 59, Pine street
below Third, Philadelphia,) is authorized to act as
Agent for this paper, to procure subscriptions and
advertisements.
The Huntingdon Journal has 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,
HENRYCLAY,
OP KENTUCKY,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
THEODORE FRELINOHUYSEN,
OF NEW JERSEY
Senatorial Electors.
CHESTER BUTLER, of Luzerne.
TOWNSEND HAINES, Cheater.
Representative Electors.
let District—Joseph C. Clarkson, of Philadelphia•
2d John P. Wetherill, do
111 John D. Ninesteel, do
4th John S. Litteit, Germantown.
sth Elleazer T.JlVDowell, of Bucks co.
Bth Benj. Frick, of Montgomery.
7th Isaac W. Vanleer, of Cheater.
Bth William Mester, of Lancaster.
9th John S. Hinter, of Berks.
10th John Killinger, of Lebanon.
11th Alex. E. Brown, of Northampton.
12th Jonathan J. Slocum, of Luxerne.
lath Henry Drinker, of Susquehanna.
14th James Pollock, of Northumberland.
15th Frederick Watts, of Cumberland.
IGth Daniel M. Smyser, of Adams.
17th James Mothers, of Juniata.
13th Andrew J. Ogle, of Somerset.
19th Daniel Washabaugh, of Bedford.
20th John L. Gow, of Washington.
Slat Andrew W. Loomis, of Allegheny.
Old James H. Power, of Mercer.
231 William A. Irvin, of Warren.
24th Benjamin Hartshorn, of Clearfield.
FOR GOVERII on,
JOSEPH IVIARKLE,
OF WESTMORELAND COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
SIMEON GUILFORD,
OP LEBANON COUNTY.
A, T'riumphant Refutation.
In another column will be found a letter address
by Mr. CL►Y to Hon. J. Warre, relative to the
white slave slander," which has been for some
months past going the rounds of the Locofoco pa-
pers. Mr. Clay unequivocally denies ever having
made use of the language attributed to him.
al' The MUNI, Lunn/Aar, conducted by the
Messrs. Peirrrzas, came to us lately in a new
dress. The Luminary is one of the most spirited
and influential Whig papers in the interior of Penn
sylvania. Success to it, and its cause.
cij. The Hon. JAMES CAnnot.r., of the city of
Baltimore has been nominated as the Locofoco Can
didate for Governor of Maryland by the State
Convention which assembled in Baltimore on Mon.
day of last week.
fop The "London Punch" thinka Bob Tyler
must be a remote descendant from the renowned
Wet Tyler, who got his scull split some hundreds
of years ago, by the mace of ono of the Lords
Mayor of London, and that the crack in the head
aroma to have remained ever since in the family.—
We have an idea that Punch is right.
Qj Why did the Lie-one of Democracy, in this
borough, on Saturday morning about six o'clock,
post up bills on houses, poets, corners, &c., calling
a meeting to ratify the nomination of JAMES K.
POLK, as their candidate for the Presidency, to go
off at the Old Court House, afterwards, about 10
o'clock, go around and tear them down? An
swer "Democrats." -
The absence of the Editor will account for
the ecarcety of editorial, and all errors that way ap.
pear in to•day'a " Journal."
0:1- At the Annexation Convention, convened in
Baltimore, on Monday of last week, his aecidency,
john tyler was nominated (before dinner,) unani
mously as the Tex. candidate for the the Presiden
cy. He will never he heard of after '44.
~'j' The celebrated J. IV. Bear, the Buckeye
Blacksmith, is now in Ohio, as usual hammering
it down on the Locofocos of that State.
CZ) . Ica ! Ica CREAM !!—A delicious
article this warm weather—call at the Store of Mr.
James Saxton, of this place.
We presume the nomination of Col. POLY
will silence all the vindictiveness of tho locos against
Mr. Clay as a duellist, for the Colonel himself has
smelt powder in his day. How mighty conacion
cious these locos are !
V" lima!" cried one demented loco yester
day, “the party is safe now !" Yes,"eays a by
stander,"as safe as a pig in a poke!"
aim. sosEnz MAILICIAM.
The Locofoco Editors throughout Pennsylvania,
taking their cue from our 'contemporaries of the
mis-called " Democratic Union," which famous
State paper, eq. the Harrisburg !ntelligencer, was
the first to set the infamous example, have ever
since the nomination of Gen. ?shunts, poured up
on him a continual volley of abuse and slander, and
made him the peculiar object of their sneers and
ridicule. Every thing that would in the least de
gree operate against him is sought with avidity,
and in the absence of any thing calculated to affix
the slightest stain upon his character, they do not
hesitate to manufacture to order all sorts of ridicu
lous stories in relation to the old Soldier, and scat
ter them broad-cast over the State, which are copied
from one Locofoco paper into another, and repeated
from mouth to mouth until many who suffer them
selves to be the dupes of this system of party war
fare, receive them as Gospel and believe them to
be true.
The honorable position in which Gen. Menxts
is placed at this time before the people renders it
out of the question that he should escape calumny,
even were he "as pure ea ice and chaste as snow."
He is the Whig Candidate for Governor of this
Commonwealth, and that alone is enough to induce
every reckless and unprincipled Locofoco Editor,
and political brawler in the State to join in preach
ing up crusade against him. His election too, is
rendered so certain by the signs of the times and
the rapid popularity he is acquiring with the people,
that Locofocoisni is rendered desperate and is ready
to say any thing, publish any thing and do any
thing that will be calculated to injure him in the
estimation of his admiring fellow citizens.
But General Msnitxx's character as a single
minded patriot is too well established to be assailed
with impunity. The mats who offered up life and
property—who submitted to dangers and privations
—who served his country most faithfully in the
darkest hour of her need, is not the man to be mis
trusted in this day and generation. The man who
in the course of a life of three-score years, has by
his industry, his honesty and his probity, acquired
the universal respect and admiration of his friends
and neighbors, who have known him long and well,
is not the individual who can be injured by the
reckless assaults of unprincipled politicians. His
whole past life may be brought up in review and
submitted to the scrutiny of his opponents, but they
will find no act in it calculated to derogate from his
fair fame. He stands beforelhe world confessedly
one of those noblest works of God—an honest man
and no matter to what extent he is assailed, he will
prove invulnerable against each and every attack.
The character of the Whig Candidate being
such as to afford no hook upon which his opponents
can hang the shade of an objection on the score of
honesty and worth, they are reduced to the necessi
ty of endeavoring to get up a feeble opposition to
him on the ground of incompetency. Because he
Is a plain PENNSYLVANIA FARMER, he is,
they say incompetent to discharge the Chief Exe
cutive duties of this Commonwealth! Because he
belongs to that industrious class of citizens who
earn their bread by the labor of their hands and
the sweat of their brow, he is therefore incompe
tent to preside in the councils of this great agricul
tural State! Because he had not the good fortune
to receive a collegiate education and does not happen
to be a lawyer, or a preacher, or a gentleman of
leisure, a hue and cry is raised by his opponents
that he is unfit to be made Governor of Pennsylva
nia! Most sage objection! Moot wise conclusion!
How very complimentary must this train of argu
ment appear to the agriculturalists and working
men of the Keystone, who compose three-fourths of
the constituency of Pennsylvania! Farmers, bow
your heads in the dust, nor presume again to raise
ono of your own humble class to the highest hon
ors of the State, for modern "democracy," or Lo
cofocoism, has in its proscription of burn MA nic.
declared, on, AS A CLASS, unworthy to aspire to
places of honor and trust! Mechanics, working
men, look to your rights; for if the principles of
Locofocoiain are suffered to prevail,and ono of your
number is to be proscribed because he is identified
with the class to which you yourselves belong, your
influence in the State is at an end. We are told
General MARKLE is incompetent by those who
know no more about his qualifications than the
man in the moon. Upon what do they found their
assertion? Upon the simple fact of his being a
Farmer? Our Locofoco opponents appear to for
get that the best Governors Pennsylvania ever had
were men of the same calling. Who doubts that
General Miami:Cs qualifications, much as they are
decried, are fully equal to those of SIMON Ssyntirl
Who does not know that honesty and purity of in
tention, with a sound, practical education, are bet
ter calculated to advance the credit, character and
interests of the State than corruption and intrigue,
though they be hidden under the seductive mask for
brilliant attainments? Gen. Manus is the man
of the people—the man for the crisit, and the very
man best calculated to bring the good old Keystone
back to its ancient glory and renown.
In endeavoring to'cast ridicule and approbrium
upon the Whig Candidate, some of our Lecofoco
contemporaries over do the matter. Many of their
assertions are so highly spiced with Locofoco false
hood that no honest or honorable man can be induced
to swallow them. Our contemporaries of the Union,
for example, asserted soon after the nomination that
Gen. Markle was so grossly ignorant as not to be
able to write Ms own name! This they after
wards found was " piling on the agony" too strong,
and hence in a few weeks afterwards they seceded
from their position and admitted that the General
could write his name--after a fashion—but that he
always wrote it without prefixing the capital letters,
thus—joseph marble !—another Editor declares
that the General is not so well versed in orthogra
phy as he might be—another that he is guilty of
the henious crime of writing a stiff cramped hand !
In a word, from the simple fart of his being a mere
Farmer, whose character is invulnerable at all
points, they have been compelled to descend in the
scale of abuse to the petty meanness of circulating
the ridiculous stories which we have above recoun
ted.
With regard to there charge. of incompetency,
we'presume it will be sufficient for every good Whig
to know that a Convention composed of the most
intelligent men in the State—many of whom knew
Gen. Markle intimately and well--placed him in
his present position before the people. It is not to
be presumed that they overlooked his qualifications
in making the selection. The idea that they would
nominate an individual so boorishly Ignorant as
Gen. Minute is represented to be by the Locofoco
papers is absurd, and no man of common sense will
, believe it.
In conclusion, after all that has been said by the
Locofocos in reference Jodie ignopance of General
MARBLE, we verily believe that, notwithstanding
-his vastly superior advantages, HENRY A. Men-
LErruxao is the most ignorant of the two in all that
constitutes the Statesman. Mr. Muhlenherg is very
far from being a learned man and never was re
markable for any thing brilliant. We are told he
was a very passable Dutch Preacher, and it may
be possible that had he not capitulated, but contin
ued his warfare with his Satanic majesty, he might
in due course of time have been worthy of the title
of General Muldenberg, which Gen. Jackson is
represented as having been so anxious to bestow
upon him. We believe that there are thousands of
Farmers in the Commonwealth who are in every
respect as well and better qualified to be Governor
than he is, and that General JOSEP. MARK. of
Westmoreland, the present Whig Candidate, is one
of them.
From the National Forum.
The Locofoco Baltimore Convention.
THE LAST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS,
BALTixonE, Wednesday, May 29.
The convention assembled at 9 o'clock. The
question was the appeal from the decison of the
chair, that it required a vote of two-thirds to adopt
the resolution declaring Martain Van Buren to be
the nominee of the convention.
Mr. Bartley, of Ohio, took the floor against the
decision of the chair, and proceeded to condemn the
course of the convention on the subject of the appeal.
Mr. Hopkins, of Va., moved that the appeal be
laid on the table.
Mr. M'Nulty, of Ohio, then withdrew his appeal
for the sake of harmony .! !
Col. JOHNSON'S name was then withdrawn by the
Kentucky delegation. Mr. Brewster, of Piffled.,
said he and his colleagues were pledged and in
stucted to sustain Martin Van Buren and stand by
him and to fall with him, and no delegate from that
State dare go home and look his constituents in the
face, who had pursued a contrary course. They
were pledged not only to cast their ballots for him,
but to do everything to promote his nomination as
the first choice of Pennsylvania. He administered
a rebuke to those Pennsylvanians who had voted
for the two-third rule, and declared Buchanan his
second choice.
Mr. Hickman of Pennsylvania, who yesterday
nominated Gen. Jacasox for the Presidency, next
followed In a Van Duren speech, and spoke a good
deal about loss of character to those who had helped
to defeat him. He said he had but one object in
view, which was to defeat the apostate Mr. Clay.
He said too that all the Pennsylvania delegation
could not support Buchanan. Mr. Hickman is the
last man on earth who should talk of apostacy or
character, having himself once been the editor of a
paper friendly to Mr. Clay, and having lately sub
mitted to the terms of liar and coward from a gen
tlemen who called him to account for having insul
t tcd some ladies in a political harrangue.
After little more debate and attempts at concilia
.
non, the convention proceeded to the
EIGHTH BALLOT.
V. B. Cass. Poly. Buchanan Calhoun
Main 8 1
N. Hampshire
Vermont 6
Rhode Island 4
Massachusetts 6 7
Conneticut 6
New York 36
New Jersey 1 5 1
Pennsylvania 22 1 2 1
Delaw'are
Maryland 1 6 1
....
Virginia
N. Carolina 2 8
Georgia
Alabama
Mieaieaippi 6
Louisiana
Tennessoc
Kentucky
Ohio 2l 2
Indiana 1 11
Illinois 1 8
Michigan
Missouri 7
Arkansas
104 114
Mr. Frazier, of Pa., stated that on the last ballot
he had voted for Polk, and would do so on the next,
despite the threat that had been thrown out that
those who had not voted for Mr. Van Buren would
be ashamed to show their faces before their constit
uents. He denied that he had violated his pledge ;
that he had voted for Mr. Van Buren on three bal
lots, but finding that Mr. Van Buren was not the
choice of the convention, he had voted for Mr. Bu
chanan. Finding that Mr. Buchanan could not
succeed, he had cast his vote for James K. Polk,
a whole hog" democrat.
Mr. Pout had been nominated and eulogised by
Gov. Hubbard, of N. H., and the current now set
strongly in his favor. Mr. Young, of New York,
tried to resist it; said six States had nominated Van
Buren before New York spoke, and deprecated the
Texas fire brand, thrown into the party by the
mongrel administration at Washington. Ho made
some allusion to a Nero who wee among them.and
now woe probably fiddling while Rome was bunt
ing ! This allusion was evidently to Mr. Calhoun,
and several of that gentleman's friends asked who
he meant, but Mr. Young did not reply. Another
uproar appeared about to ensue, there were charges
of meanness, skulking, &c. interchanged, but Ham
met, of Miss., and Gov. Hubbard succeeded in allay
ing it. Mr. Howard, of Maryland, and Sam Meda
ry, of Ohio, both talked a great deal about harmony,
which produced considerable cheering. Sam decla
red for Texas, and gave in so far as to say ho would
take any Texas candidate.
The rampant "lion democracy" having thus been
soothed, a ninth ballott was proposed and JAMES
K. POLK unanimously nominated. Some dele
gates from South Carolina, who had not participa
ted in the convention, now appeaMd and after
blackguarding the Whigs, almost - as bad as they
once did Blair of the Globe, gave in the adhesion
of South Carolina! After the requisite degree of
enthusiasm, tho convention adjourned until four
o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESS
At the re-assembling Mr. Walker, of Mississippi,
proposed that Six. WRIGHT, should be nominated
for the Vice Presidency by acclamation which was
not agreed to, but on the first ballot he was nomi
nated, Georgia alone dissenting. Now all was
settled except the feuds hetween father Ritchie, the
Globe and the South, so Cave Johnson, got up and
pledged'the Globe to the support of the nominations!
What a ludicrous thing! Who doubted that the
spaniel Blair, would not crawl to the feet of the
victors and kiss the hand which had been striking
him ! Cave likewise proposed apologies, concessions
and all that sort of thing, for the insult the Globe had
heaped on Southern men. Mr. Saunclers,of N. C.,
who yesterday had convicted Blair in open conven
tion of a lie, said nothing. Mr. Pickens, of S. C.,
coalesced with the "galvanized corpse," young
Ritchie. one of the Secretaries, was ready to frater
nise with the libeller of his father, and if Blair had
been there in person, there is but little doubt a mo
tion would have been made and carried,that a general
hug and kissing shOuld be gone through with.
The proceedings having thus reached the climax
of absurdity, the usual forma! business was transac
ted and the Locofoco Convention of 1814 adjourned
sine die. It will be the last National Convention
ever held by the party. After next Fall, you can
no more rejoin its scattered fragments than you can
re-collect the asteroids, into the one planet there are
supposed to have originally constituted.
WASHINGTON, May 6,1844
My Dear Sir : i hrive received your note, bring
ing to my notice a certificate subscribed by five gen
tlemen, members of the present House of Represen
tatives, ell of them my political opponents, which
you inform me is going the rounds of the locofoco
papers. The object of that certificate seems to be
to verify the correctness of an extract taken from
the National Intelligencer of the Ist of 'July 1820.
In that extract I am stated by a former member of
the House of Representatives (I believe not now liv
ing) to have remarked, in s debate which occurred
a year before, to the followed effect : If gentlemen
will not allow us to have black slaves they must let
us have white ones; for we connot cut our firewood,
and black our shoes, and have our wives and (laugh
tees work in the kitchen.'
I think you attach an importance to this misera
ble attempt to prejudice me which it does not merit.
Here is en extract from the files of the Intelligencer,
under date near twenty-four years ago, not from
any speech of mine, but from a speech of another
meniber of Congress. Ho does not undertake to
give my words, but merely states his impression of
the elfect•of certain words used by me a year be
fore
During the long and arduous discussion of what
was called tht Missouri question, I was so engrossed
with the importance of the subject, and so deeply
apprehensive of the awful consequence which it in
volved, that I never wrote out or corrected any
speech of mine made during the progress of the de
bate. On the last and most important occasion of
the agitation of that question, I made an elaborate
speech of several hours duration, no part of which,
I believe, was ever reported by any of the stenograph
ers, as it certainly never was by me.
I certainly will not undertake to recite what were
the precise words used by me on the occasion of
of any of the nuinerous speechee short or long, which
Since the above was in type, we have received I made in Congress on the Missouri question ;but
this I will undertake to assert, with the most ierfect
news from Baltimore of the nomination of the Hon. confidence, that I never used the words, Or any
GEOIIIIE M. DALLAS of Pennsylvania, for Vice Presi- words which would bear the import of the extract
dent, in place of Mr. Wright. Ito which 1 have alluded. I am confident of it be
cause I never entertained such a sentiment in nay
The Nomination. life. I never conceived a contingency in which I
We mentioned says the United States Gazette, to I would sr fave r r:rszuinott e i n i a nntrot: l ing o, white
l orth t . o e
our readers, on the 31st ult that it was likely that Mr. tenor Y of a whole life, during which my " h ° u P rn P ble ex-
Dallas would be nominated as the locofoco candi. ertions have been constantly directed to the preser
date for the Vice Presidency. Information from cation of liberty at home and the encouragement of
its establishment in foreign countries. If I have not
Baltimore since shows that we were =met , and
been able to extend these exertions to the black race
the Hon. George M. Dallas is, therefore, to see his I held in bondage in this country, it has been because
name connected with that of James K. Polk, in the of considerations and convictions, sincerely and hen-
Presidential canvass. I estly entertained, embracing the peace and happi
onftesesoolfiebooothrtel:::tot a t ;: o d black o race which have
We remember that some years since, when a ticket
was nominated with John Sergeant for the Vice It is quite P possible that, in P arguing upon the ex-
Presidency, we tickled Mr. Walsh very mach, by istence of the institution of slavery in this country,
calling it a' oyrimidical ticket'—the largest at the I may have contended that the black race supplied
base. Well, the locofoco ticket is certainly of that thosel ,dZeendilaci servants,' and l a t h , u d n o d , : es r ttt,,naarulet be
class now. What will the Van Buren men say to found in every state of civilized society, and conge
al! this 1 Polk was, indeed a Van Buren man, but quently relieved the white race from the performance
he was more of a Jackson man, and his nomination of those offices. If I have ever employed such an
is more indebted to General Jackson's whim-wham argument,(of which I have no recollection) it is ap
ant how erroneous inf m have
to have Tennessee go against Henry Clay, than to drawn from it which it did not erences
authoriz ay
e. been
the old General's hopes or desire for the success of I have no desire to disparage the industry of the
the whole ticket. And after all, Clay will carry wives of any of the certifiers to the extract, nor to
Tennessee, and what will be more annoying, he will , boast of that in my own family ; but I venture to say
that not one of them performs more domestic in
dustry with her own hands then my wife does at
But poor Mr. Van Buren lies according to the Ashland.
New York Evening Post, been cheated out of the I am, with great respect, your friend and obe
nomination by Pennsylvania. Her delegates, who d ie " t ""a" H. CLAY.
:
were instructed to go for Mr. Van Buren, and who Hon. Jou, WHITE.
realy pretended to obey, went in for the two-third
Another Prize Banner
measure, and thus defeated the nomination which
Mr. Wright Declined. '
When the nomination of Mr. Wright was an.
nounced at Washington, by the Telegraphic des
patch, he was at the Telegraph office in that city,
and immediately transmitted a communication to
the New York delegation, in which he states that
he positively declines the nomination under any
circumstances.
they were instructed to promote.
We suppose these things will be duly remember
ed, for realy they deserve thought; and the family
difference will, we hope, for propriety's sake, be al
lowed to remain in the form of coolness, rather than
to be warmed into bickerings and strife. It is a very
pretty quarrel as it is, and must, like most other quar
rels, result in advantage to the neighbors.
Information Wanted.
Can any of our Locofoco contemporaries inform
us what are the objects intended to be accomplished
by the election of their Locofoco Candidate for the
Presidency? What aro the general principles of
the party If the Sub-Treasury system is to be
be revived; the Standing Army project put in exe
cution—the repeal of the Tariff effected—and the
Free Trade system adopted, it is meet that the peo
ple should know it. Let the Locofocos know what
they aro struggling for & the people understand what
they are fighting against. Our own glorious Harry
of the West, has himself run up the Wum FLAG
with the principles for which we aro contending,
inscribed upon its ample folds. Let the opposing
candidates go and do likewise, that the whole Union
may understand what aro the interests involved in
the earning contest.—Pa. In.
A. Tory in Congress
William S. Winter, Eq., late of Maryland, be
queathed to Congress, in January last, the Cutup
Chest of General Washington. Hon. John Quin
cy Adams was designated and requested by the do
nor to present the relic to the House. This duty
ho performed on the 18th ult. He concluded his
eloquent address on the occasion by offering the
following Resolution:
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America, in
Congress assembkd, That the Camp chest of Gen.
George Washington, which 60 used during the
Revolutionary Win, bequeathed by the last Will
of the late William Sidney Winter to the Congress
of the United States, ho and the same is hereby ac
cepted and that the same be deposited as a precious
relic to be preserved in the Deportment of State."
In favor of this resolution the vote was unani
mous, with thu exception of Mr. HALE, a locofo
co from New Hampshire, who, " true to his in
stinct," voted " No!"
Read the coon communication in another column.
From the National Intelligence"
To the Editors.
Hors. OP REPRESENTATIVES, May
_2B, 1844.
,
Gentlemen : I herewith transmit a letter writen
come weeks since by Mr., Clay, (in reply to a note
which I addressd to him at Norfolk, in Virginia)
which I have withheld from publication, inasmuch
as lie was impressed (as expressed in his letter) that
I overrated the importance of the charge. Within
the last ten days! have received several letters asking
copies of my speech in defence of Mr. Clay, partic
ularly upon this charge. I have not yet had the
! leisure to write out my speech, but shaU do so at
the first convenient moment. In the meantime you
will please publish the enclosed, which is a single
link in the chain of testimony I have in my posses
sion to nail this charge to the counter as a base
forgery.
JOHN WHITE.
To Messrs. Gales and Seaton.
At a meeting of a number of Whiga from differ
ent States of the Union in Washington city, a few
days since, the following resolutions were offered
by Nathan Sargent, of Philadelphia, and were
unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That a Par. BANNER be offered by
the Whigs of the United States to the Whigs of
that State wnich shall at the next Presidential elec.
tion give the largest proportional increased Whig
vote over her Presidential vote of 1840, the said
banner to be presented to the State to which it
shall be awarded on the 4th day of March next, at
Washington city.
Resolved, That a committed, to consist of one
person from each State, be appointed by the Chair,
to carry the above resolution into effect, and that a
Treasurer of said committee be also appointed.
Resolved, That, as the Whigs of the United
States abhor repudiation, and us a banner was nobly
won by the gallant State of Kentucky in 1840, if
the money collected by the committee shall enable
them to do it, they shall cause a banner to be pre
pared and presented to the Whigs of that State at
the same time and place that the other shall be
presented.
Resolved, That published in
the Whig papers of the Union, and that the gentle
men named as the committee be requested to perform
the duty assigned them.
Safe Home again.
Mr. Clay reached Lexington, Ky., on Saturday
week, whore ho will remain till some time in Feb
ruary next, when ho will be required to start for
Washington to take possession of the White House.
in obedience to the call of his countrymen. His re
ception at home was marked with all the enthusiasm
and show of attachment which Kentuckians, on all
occasions and at all times, have ever evinced towards
their adopted son. A Lexington paper says, Mr.
Clay was received in a brilliant manner by numer
ous friends. Seated in an open Barouche. with the
Hon. George Robertson,Gov. Metcalf and Hon. John
Speed Smith, accompanied by the long procession,
with gleaming torches animating muaick, he pro
ceeded through some of the prinripal rtrrrts of the
city, and thence to 'Ashland. A s tho culvacade pas
' sed along, tho windows and doors were crowded
with the fair ladies of Lexington, who testified
their pleasure and delight by the waving of hand
kerchiefs and bonnets and such smiles no the la
dies of Lexington alone can bestow.
.Ilia Excellency, the Kickapoo Chief, with
several of the leading Sachems were at Baltimore
to superintend the two loco foco conventions, which
met there on the 27th ult., or perhaps we sltould
say the loco fact, convention and the Texas con
vention.
The Locofoco Nominations.
Poor Locolocoism ! if pity melts the mind to love,
we must have The feeling of kindness for the done
up and used up Locofoco party—for most assuredly
pity the lamentable plight in which they find them-
selves ! Never did we know a nomination received
with such an universal feeling of disgust as was
that of Por.x and WHIGUT by tho Locos of our city.
' What an abortion !' cried one Was that the best
I the Convention could do,' asked another. What
claim has James K. Polk on the Democracy ?' said
the third. Consternation, dismay and disgust were
visible everywhere among the rank and Sleet' Loco.
focoism, although we have no doubt the leaders,
will cry hozauna, and the Pennsylvanian and the
Times will assert that the ticket is juel the thing!
Poor locofocoism !—after playing for months the
game of brag, to be reduced to the catch-penny,
name of poke ! After trying for years to prove
that black is white, they now have to take Wright,
right or wrong. What a comment on the princi
plea of Locofocoism ! What a refutation of all the
false accusations circulated against the Whigs !
What a rebuke to the impertinent lettere of Van
Buren and his mendacious charges that the elec
tions of 1840 were carried by fraud and amid the
excitement of debauchery ! Where is now the
'sober second thought' which was to show that Van
Buren was cheated out of his election 1 Where
the bold, bullying, blustering instructions of nine
teen States in favor of Van Buren, pledging them
selves to restore the turn and tattered flag of Loco
focoism, and place it flaunting over the strong towers
of Whig principles 1 Where their confidence in
the great exponent of Locofoco principles! In
ever aspect we view the withdrawal of VAN Beaus
' and Jouxsox as a triumph—a moral triumph, as
gratifying as will be our political triumph next Fall
over PoLx and WRIGHT.
The crowded state of our columns to-day (filled
with many articles laid over yesterday to give room
for the convention news,) will not allow us to enter
into the exposition of the glaring facts that 'mote
coism has put itself in ambush for the next fight,
and that although they have changed their men,
the same destructive principles are involved in tho
contest. As far as the chances of success aro con
cerned, we are perfectly satisfied with Pots. and
WRIGHT; they are but the tools of VAN BUREN
and can be , more easily defeated than their leader.
The people will soon leard that their election will
be but a restoration of the influence of Van Buren,
and that result can never be obtained by party drill.
The most curious aspect of these nominations is
the triumph of Van Buren over all the efforts made
to defeat his influence in the Convention. Next to
his own Success, Mr. Van Buren doubtless would
desire that Mr. Polk and Mr. Wright, who as
poiticians resemble him as much as one pea
does another! It may be asked then, why then
was not Van Buren nominated? What was to be
gained by throwing him off the ticket? The an
swer is obvious; the people knew and had con
demned Mr. Van Buren's course, and it was neces.
sary to take up men less known, but who if elected,
would carry out the same measures. But we must
forbear further remark for the present. If our loco
friends are well satisfied with the nominations we
are, their joy will be prodigious !'—Forum.
MEDICINAL USES OP THE WILD CHZART.-.-
Ever since the settlement of America, Wild Cherry
has been known to possess very important medici
nal virtue. Every body knew this fact, but nobody
knew how to extract its essential properties. Every
moth er gives Wild Cherry tea to her children for
worms, for colds, and for almost every dieease and
adults throughout our country are in the habit of
making a compound or syrup of Wild Cherry bark:,
and other ingredients, to be used in spring ae an an
tidote to complaints incident to that changeful sea
eon. It is found by experiment that the Wild
Cherry possesses even far more important qualities
than was ascridedto it. For the first stages ofCon
sumption, Asthma, no matter how long standing,
Coughs, Liver, Complaint, &c., it is proved to be
the beat medicine known to man. Dr. Wistar'sßal-
Liam of Wild Cherry is a chemical extract, combin
ed with a similar extract from Tar, which enhances
its value. Its success in curing Pulmonary disease
in almost every stage' after our best physicians
could do no more, has astonished the faculty, and
led them to confess that Wistar's Balsam of Wild
Cherry possesses a principle heretofore unknown to
medical men.
For sale by Thomas Read, Huntingdon and
James Orr, Hollidaysburg.
SZARB.ZIBID
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On Thursday 30th ult., by the Rev. IL G. Dill,
Mr. JOILN P. STEII ART, to Miss. LUCY
ANN FOSTER, both of Huntingdon County.
On Thursday morning, the 23d ult., by the Rev.
A. Heberton, Maj. SAMUEL S. BARR, of Gays
port, to Miss CHARLOTTE H. GIBSON, of
Bedford.
On Wednesday evening, the 22d ult., by the Rev.
Mr. HeMer, Mr. HENRY J. STORM, of Holli
dayburg, to Miss CATHARINE MARY, daughter
of N. Lightner, Esq., of Baltimore city.
On the 30th ult., by Ephraim Galbreath, Esq.,
Mr. REUBEN KE VS, to Miss RUTH REFNER,
all of Hollidaysburg.
IDllin,
On Monday, the 27th ult., after an illness of
four months, Mm. ROSANNA SMITH, consort
of Michael Smith, of Hollidaysburg.
CLAY CLUB.
A meeting of the Clay Club" will be held in the
Old Court House, on Friday evening next, at half
past seven o'clock. The friends of Clay, Freling
huysen, and Markle, are requested to attend.
By order of the President.
Julie sth 1844
TO THE ELECTORS OF RUN'
TINGDON COUNTY.
FRIENns &c : Having spent my whole life
in your county, and the greater part of that
time at the business of Farming, I now take
the liberty of nff2ring myself, subject to the
decision of a Whig County Convention, as
a candidate for the office of
GOOLCUBLiaLILPUK I .
If succes.ftil, I pledge myself that my best
efforts shall be to discharge its duties im
partif.lly, to the best of my ability.
JOHN HEWIT,
Wee township.
June 5, 1844,—t3c,