IE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL,
country, one constitution, Q. destiny.'
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Muariaaficazfatlczonaa,
Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1843.
, ;lhig and Antimasonic County
Ticket.
ASSEMBLY.
HENRY BREWSTER
AOBT. A. McMURTRIE,
PROTHONOTARY,
JAMES sTE EL.
REGISTER & RECORDER,
JO: IN RAM.
'TREASURER,
JOSEPH LAW.
COMMISSIONER.
WILLIAM BELL.
CORONER.
SAMUEL p. WALLACE.
AUDITOR:
SETII McCUNI'.
' osT.—On Thursday last, between this borough
1 the Warm Springs, a lady lost a cross-barred
Amer shawl. Any person finding the same, will
fet a favor on the owner, by leaving it at Mrs.
-les boarding house, and be suitably rowarded
.:tcir trouble.
Not True.
:Isere has beets a report put its circulation lit
.“ sections of the county, that in the event of
erection of the Whig candidate for Treasurer;
Low, Esq., the duties of the Mike would
mrd by an individual of this borough.
. 'art, we are assured by Mr. Law himself, is
. le. He say. in his note to us, that if elected he
ill enter upon the discharge of the duties in per- -
. an, and perform them faithfully, to the best of his
.bilitie..
mei
We are pained to :tatc that the haute of Mr.
2.I.IWARD PLownetr, in West township, with all
to contents, was consumed by fire on Sunday mor•
Ming the 2.lth ult. The fire originated in the hitch.
•n, where it was rind discovered at about 2 o'clock:
rapid was the conflagration that the family es•
ied with barely the clothing they were then wear.
Mr. P. is reduced to very necessitous rheum
aces.—We hope a generous public will relieve
--, to some extent.
„,The last Holliday.'litng Register has not
Nord to say on local politics. Has friend Jones
, • Totten that the people intend holding an elec.
- !? 9 ,1 C i lh j iit t g h e 4 3 f t
ge Register h
f ‘ ro " M ." 7 " ;111:17t — o .
• paper. We hope the latter to not the
•
• firom the position of things, and from the
01 of our being both "young in years and younger
et in experience,” we must say that we did not
.xpect to be able to do more than "assist" our
..tighbor this campaign. We were of opinion it
vas not certainly our "lead s " but if neighbor Jones
intends throwing op his "hand," we feel that the
cause is good enough to "go it alone,"
17: - / The editor of the Pennsylvania Telegraph in
mticing our County Ticket, makes the following
emarksi—"This is said to be a popular ticket, and
"•Qta our acquaintance with a majority of the can
ales, we should think that even in old Hunting-
1, where the whigs have troops of the beet kind
men, it would be difficult to select a better tick
et. Messrs. McMurtrie and Brewster, represent
~,•• di:F•rrnt interests for and against a new county
Flag for and the other against it. Mr.
• a well known favorite of the people, having
fitb•d the office of Prothonotary for two terms, we
think; and no man has more merit or more deserves
the good will of any people than he. The great
poet said 'an honest man, the noblest work of God,'
and our country does not contain a more honest
than than JIM. Sr► CL."
(}The Whigs of Louisiana have nominated
n. Wm. Du Buya, of New Orleans, as their
~,ndidate for Governor, and Gen. Edward Sparrow
r the office of Lieut. Governor.
The idea of attempting to deceive the people of
...4gdon . county, by presenting the name of
lexuniier Gwiii, i; so supremely ;idiculous, as p
quire no notice at our hands."
So says the Hollidaysburg Standard, in its at
•,nt to refute our charge of DECEPTION.
.7f , p7emely ridiculous . 0 " is it! And "it would
• ,r .sumptuous" in the Locofoco paper. "to tell
wno and WHAT" Alexander Gwin, Esq. and H.
•.. Patterson are ! We want no further evidence
,f HUMBUG than this. It is carefully concealed
from the voters WHO and IVHA 7' their candidates
for Assembly are--and we are gravely told it would
be "PRESUMPTUOUS" to tell—and that the
idea of fraud ie " RIDICULOUS." Fraud may
c onsist as well in the suppression of truth as in the
representation of facts. If Local - tic° leaders and
editors want to act fairly, why don't they tell
which of the Assembly candidates are for and
which against the division of the county ? Answer
us that.
If the witnesses for the Locofoco party refuse to
answer us title plain question, we shall go to the
',nate with the strong presumptive evidence we
have before us, that they are attempting to gull all
the Loccifocoe into the support of A. Gwin and H.
1.. Patterson, and to Bell the division men in the
Whig ranks into the support of the same men.
The quantity of tea consumed in Great Britian
in 1711 was 141,095 pounds. Iu 1800, 20,358,
, 12 lbs. In 1838, 31,820, 620.
c.a . contractors on the 'ninon; end Michigan
SW iFerti.+e in the Ottern Constitutionalist for
The Present and the Past.
It seems that some of our Locofoco neighbors
were verdant enough to suppose that we would be
very mild and suable in our course through the
present political campaign. As personal friends
and fellow citizens, we shall certainly endeavor to
carry ourselves courteously towards all the people
of our newly adopted county; but the Locofocos
look for too much if they expect us to refrain froth
reposing all their schemes of frond and trickery,
in this and eta, Other Campaign as long as we
occupy the post *a now hold. We consider it
our duty as a faithful sentinel upon the watch
tower of our party, to sound the alarm whenever
we see indications of insidious movements by the
enemy ; arid if our warnings and e.tpostrres Cause
displeasure to the actors therein, that is not a source
of gratification to us; but tire knoMedge of having
done our duty—our whole duty, and nothing but
our duty, does afford us pleasure.
Some of our articles last week caused quite a sen
sation in the locofoco ranks, and considerable nth.
tering among the wounded birds, and wincing by
the galled jade. We have but one apology to offer,
and we give it at once: Gentlemen, birds and
beasts, we are sorry to disturb your equanimity and
Cause you pain, and excite ill-feeling—very sorry
indeed; but you deserve it all, and duty prompts
us to let you have it ; and if you don't carry your
velure very perpendicular in future, you may expect
stronger and larger doses from the same source.
We are sometimes glancing over the old files of
the county newspapers in our office, and we find
some things in them decidedly "rich,"and we may
ter.re them up occasionally, in a rough way, for the
benefit of our locofoco neighbors. Old "files," by
! the-I,y, are often very harsh and grating, particu
larly in the hands of a novice who thinks them is
manic in such things.
In 1841 and 1142 a " third party" sprung up in
this County, and adopted the specious but unappro
priate name of the ".Workingmerz's," and pos
. ceased as much of the humbug quality as do third
parties of tha present day. It was locofocoism un
der a new name which had a popular sound, and
seduced many Whigs and Antiznasone fur a time
from the true faith and practice. During the con
test in the former year the locofocos were all
" Workingmen," and because .1. G. Miles, Esq.
headed the Assambly ticket of the Whigs, It Was
dubbed the " Lawyers' Ticket ;" and no man, we
are informed, went it with a greater rush against
the said "Lawyere Ticket" than cur friend
"Janus," who is noW the very "dog" that he de..
nounced then. Even he will adroit that "what's
I sass for the goose is sass far the gander," and he
nerd therefore not complain when we poke It at
him and firm item with this goose and gander
"sass!" At the seine time John flrotherline, Esq.
(then a layman) was dubbed the' " lawyer's midi
date," because, as was alledgod, the " Renegade"
drilled the Whig and Antimasonia delegates into
his support. The "'Renegade" was then a Whig,
but we ale told, had little or nainfluenee in the Con
vention. Now he is a Locofoco, (perhaps only
half war °ter) rem
ventwm an ew made the whole ticket, 80 palpably
indeed, that some of the old partizans kicked out
of the traces instanter, whereupon the "Venegade's"
roundabout argument was resorted to to bring them
in, but without effect, we believe. In 1841 it Was
very wrong, intolerable, that the people should go
fur the "Lawyer's ticket," nominated through the
influence of the" Renegade" and others: but how
is it now 1 Then the locofoco papers were shed-
ding crockodile team over the outrageous imposi
tion, and calling loudly upon the people to put
their veto on it ; but now a change has come over
the spirit of their dream. They go in, heart and
hand for the " Lawyer's Ticket" and hug the
"Renegade" influence go their bosoms. A Lawyer
is now the very chap to legislate. Just hear the
Huntingdon Globe, the mouth-piece of Janus:
" Mr. 1'; WIN is a Lawyer, and one who stands
high in his profession, and we know that Lawyers
are frequently objected to; but his well known
charade, for stability and discrimination, we think
quite sufficient to release him from any prejudice
of that kind. And it is well known, that it is only
1.11 of legal attainments, that are able to measure
swords with those designing men who are always
found in ouch bodies."
--Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter era long, back on itself recoils."
Dishonest politicians often have to taste the shove
bitter truth; and a man who has two faces must
reasonably expect to taste a double portion of it.
We will close this article with the following ex
tract from the old " Watchman" of tho 28th Sep
tember, 1842, when the second Workingmen's
Ticket was in the field. The article from which
we extract, is attributed to the pen of the double
faced gentleman :
SPURN the LAWYER influence of Hunt
ingdon Borough that would dictate to the honest
freemen of the county, and FORM n TICKET
for YOU, and then ATTEM PT to FORCE you
INTO ITS SUPPORT ! BE FREE, BE YOUR
OWN MASTERS, and your TRIUMPH will be
certain."
Prrrsauno.—The Pittsburg American says:—
"The fire begins to be forgotten. The old tenants
are fast resuming their former stands, and every
one looking forward with an assurance of occupy
ing their old ground in a few days or weeks.
Wood street, with a few exceptions, is itself again,
throughout its whole five equates, and Smithfield
but little behind it. Water street is rising more
princely then ever, with its long line of half a mile
of buildings, to be crowned with the Monongahela
house, already commenced by Messrs. Lyon, Shorb
& Co., who have already reconstructed since the
fire, four or five splendid warehouses."
o.l' John Smith, so long a mysterious and untie.
finable body, has been nominated in Philadelphia
county, for the office of Prothonotary of the Com
naon Pleas. Ills election is counted certain if the
whole family can be brought to vote for him.
Vonr BENsixivx.—A young lady of sixteen
years, a daughter of Mr. John Tyson, of Anson
county, N. C., committed suicide by drowning her
self, about a fortnight since, in consequence of a
slight reproof received front her mother for a trivial
tfTerme,
The Upper End
There is mime anxiety felt in this section of the
county, es to what the Whigs of the upper end are
going to do this fall in regard to the Legislative
ticket. We hope our friends will speak out. I,et
there be no concealments; we all belong to the
same political family, both anti-division Whigs and
those in favor of the measure. Let there be no
Stabbing in the dark. If the contest is to he on the
nominations as they now stand—Henry Brewster
and Bobt. A. Al'Murnie, the nomineesof the Whig
and Anti-masonic party on the one hand, and Al
exander Gwin and Henry L. Patterson, the Loco
fOco nominees, on the other—we are ready for the
contest. If Our Whig friends of the upper end
will conic out and meet us thirty on that ground,
the whole ticket will receive an overwhelming nia
jorttv. In our last we ventured to conic out boldly
for the whole ticket, and we were greeted with a
response from our lower end friends which is
cheering to us in Mir start, and Which has glees u 5
renewed energy to continue this course—the only
true course for all who desire the welfare of the
party to pursue. We have no stomach !be teni
panting with the Locofecoe—no desire to be cheat
ed, and then laughed at for our folly. The Whig
tire begins to burn brightly in Huntingdon and all
the ' , region round about." The party are coming
out with an unanimity unprecedented—all thingd
considered—for the ticket, the WHO. TICK., and
NOTHING HU r THE TICKET; that is, with
the impression that the upper end will purees the
llama course.
But if, in their anxiety for the division of thb
county, any portion of our friends in the upper
end should permit themselves to be Belled into the
support of the Locofoco division ticket—we say
to them on the authority of the old and substantial
Whigs of the lower end, as also of a large portion
of those in the bounds of the proposed new county,
that they will miss their mark; that when the prin
ciples and men of our party—the great Whig par
ty—that party which fought aids by side in the
contest of lust fall, and fell together--are at stake,
all the manoevreing of the Locofocos, and the ring
ing of the treecheroue Bell by the dissatisfied
Whigs, cannot defeat us. That Bell, we ore led to
believe, i■ foot losing its charm with the honest,
hard working people of every section of the county;
it has no music for the poor man's ear; it was rung
so hard in the formation of the Locofoco county
ticket that it is almost worn out, and the only
sound that now comes from it is the heartless and
soulless one of money--money—money. The
cause in which it is now ringing is such a deeper
ate one, that in our opinion it will be necessary, at . -
' ter this election is over, to lay it aside until a new
^clapper" is procured for it.
Whigs of the upper end of Huntingdon county,
stick to your principles, and all will bo well. De
sert them, and you will be cheated in the outcome,
and taunted for your folly. Let not the smiles
and canceler of any hypocritical locotoco or rene
gade Whig, cause you to desert your party.
1. -- at T a h t g to t e ic a l ia t rt g — " th g e o tear teinirn7 . l:ea '; vy ag eo f r al t i li en e
main body of the concern, ...farm" who wrote
exulting letters to his locefeco friends in other
conties,at the time of the emcees of the Working
men's ticket ih this county, claiming that election
as a triumph fer locofocoism, and the utter defeat
and annihilation of the Whig and Anti-masonic
perky, is destined to get a rough ride this fall. He
is well known we learn in the county, and will
therefore be the lowest man on the ticket,
We have no intention in these remarks of im
pugning the motives of any one on the division
question—or dictating to them for or against the
measure. On that question oar Assembly candi•
dates, as we Mated frankly in our first notice of the
ticket, aro divided; a compromise having been made
between the two interests; and to this compromise
wo intend to stick, until we are fully assured that
it will be abandoned by either aide.
A GOOD Oxo.—An amusing anecdote le related
in the Alexandria Gazette in connexion with the
President's late tour of inspection through one of
the Departments at Washington. Entering one of
the rooms, the excellent head of that particular
branch of the public service was assiduous in his
attention to the President, and partieularly anxious
to impress upon him the necessity of newer, better
and safer accommodations of the papers, &c. of the
office, than the building now contains. "See, now,
Mr. President," said he, approaching a large table,
which contained a number of drawers—"it is in
these unsafe and insecure places that we have to
keep the most valuable public documents"—when
suiting the action to the word, he pulled open one
of the drawers—and lo and behold it wan found to
contain—a bottle of porter, and a respectable lun
cheon of crackers and cheese! The contre temps
brought up the worthy officer with a “round turn,"
and the President laughing !warily at the joke,
consoled him with the consolation that fire proof
buildings were hardly necessary for such valuable
"public documents" as these.
A Wholesale Transaction.
Rumor has been busy in Baltimore for a couple
of weeks past, with a gambling transaction, which
has so invariably presented so monstrous a charac
ter, that we can scarcely credit the details. It is
alleged that a young gentleman of that city, very
respectably connected with some of the first mer.
chants in the leather business, was two or three
weeks since, beguiled into a house in Light street,
where he was induced to play by these men until
he had lost, under their kindly auspices, about
$lO,OOO, for which amount he gave checks on one
of the Baltimore banks, being within $3OO or $4OO
of all ho war worth. He was then kept engaged,
or, as some say, locked up, until nine o'clock the
next morning, when, on the opening of the bank,
his checks were presented, and the whole amount
drawn. Ifit is true, as related to us, it is strange
thatno legal action has been taken by the friends
of the party to protect him from such ruin; and
certainly it is the bounden duty of any one cogni
zant of The - affair to bring it to the notice of the
grand jury. There tan be scarcely a doubt, if ru
mor has got the story any thing like the truth, but
that the whole transaction is a nefarious fraud.—
..Votive Eagk.
A Case of Seduction,
A trial of unusual interest took place in
,our
Court last week. It was a prosecution for seduc
tion, with a promise of marriage, under tho late
law of the Commonwealth, making it punishable
with imprisonment, not less than one year, in a
jail or penitentiary.
The proaecutrix in the case, was Eliza Early,
only child of Jacob Early, Esq., of Hanover, in
this county, aged about 17, and the defendant woe
Henry M. Todd, eon of David Todd, Esq., of the
same place, aged about 21 years. They were both
of respectable and wealthy families, and of good
standing in community. An indictment woe found
against the defendant on the coniplaint of the pros
etutrix, and a strong array was made by counsel
and all the evidence that Could be procured on both
std.. After a trial, which Occupied about two
days, the defendant lea' convicted, and sentenced
try the Court to pay a fine of $lOO, the costa, and
confinement in the county prison for one year, the
shcrtest time alldwed by the law.
This is the first conviction, we helices, under
this law; in the State; and the trial created no little
interest in Mir community—the Court House being
crowded to its utmost capacity, mostly during It.
The counsel for the Defendant were Masers. Mc-
Cormick, Alricks and Fleming. For the Prestch
tor, Moseril. Fisher and Kunkle, mid the address
of the latter to the Jury was one of the Most elo
quent and effective appeals over heard. It brought
team from the dense mese of people, who listehed
with breathless silence, and seemed to be retried
sway by thy speaker.—Pa. Telegraph.
Mtausiltrasi.—See what manufacinied do
for the laboring classes, rhea, women, Mal Chil
dren. The Menial* Company at Lowell, who'se
dividends are so erten gamed, oinploys 1,220 Wo
men, whose average carmine atteitleiablY exceed
$2. each per week, above the Oat of theii• board.
The laboring men average 56 . ' cents per 'day above
their board; fifty-six &waters receive $2 each per
day, with occasional premiums; The average
working time of each hand is but ten liourd end a
half. In the Boote mills a careful account of
working time hoe been kept, and it appears :hat
100 girl. averaged 207 day■ each ire a yeas, and
ten hours eight minutes per day, each being paid
according to her work, and all paid cash erery
month, not one farthing its store orders or barter
of any kind. Tho average earniage of the Worn=
in all the factories, including novices, is is $1 93
per week beside their board. Many girls *rho
have been school teat:hors gladly take places in the
mills as the pay is higher there, and the work
lighter though the hours are longer. No one has
lost a sixpence of hoe earnings in the Lowell facto
ries since the first was started. The girls have
about $lOO,OOO in the Savings Bank. Such is
the condition of the laboring class in the principal
manufacturing town in America.—Not.
' , Knowing how well you love the blade tariff, I am sure it will gratify you to learn that Mr. Wal
ker, the Secretary of the Treasury, hi unwearying
hl his exertions to collectsuch statistical information
mestic bearings as will show it up to the country in
all its depravity; and if glaring, incontrovertible
black facts will do the deed, I may almost announce
to you that this execrable relic of whiggery is doom
ed. lam also informed that equally efficient meas
ures will be taken to re-establish that excellenttlem
ocratic regulation known as the sub-treasury, and
that its early re-enactment will be urged upon the
next Congress."
We quote the foregoing paragraph from the
Washington correspondent of the New York
Evening Post. It will gratify, we trust, the good
natured democrats of Pennsylvania, who trusting
in Mr. Polk's letter to Mr. Kane voted for him as a
friend of the Tariff. The Cabinet minister, to
whose department tho revenue business pertains,
is buoy its collecting "facts" to destroy the present
tariff. Mr. Polk assents of course! Oh! the sweet
simplicity of Pennsylvania democracy!—Earth
American.
Pancomons.--At Phila., on Tuesday a boy only
ten years of ago was brought before Alderman
Laws of the Northern Liberties and bound over
for assaulting a lady with a hatchet.
A wruc .STATE or Socirr r.—No lees then (rye
creatures, wearing the semblance of men, were
bound over or committed by different magistrates,
in Philadelphia, on Monday, for beating their wives
or — There has been a disgraceful riot at
Graham's Station, Meigs co., recently,
growing out of alleged offensive language
used by Dr. Cunningham in a temperance
lecture. A mob attempted to prevent his
lecturing again; warrants were issued for
the rarest of the rioters, when [a general
fight uccurred with clubs, knives, stones,
&c. The mob triumphed, but reinforce
ments from the neighboring towns of 70
men were procured in a day or two, when
five of the rioters were arrested, the worst
ones however, among whom were Depuy
and Mitchell, escaped to Virginia.
ccr A fellow named Isaac de Baries robbed Mr.
Porter, keeper of a hotel in Glouceater, Maas, of
the cum of $lO, a day or two since, and then had
the cool impudence to employ Mr. Porter to convey
him some distance in a vehicle, and payod hint for
his trouble with a pert of the money of which he
had robbed him. He was arrested and committed
to prison.
Mons Menen.cnso.--Poisoned Tea.--Large
quantities of tea recovered in a damaged state from
the ruins of the late fire, are now repacking, and
probably preparing for market. It can hardly be
otherwise than that this tea is poisoned, as it is
packed in boxes lined with lead ; which will be very
likely to have imparted its poisonous qualities to
the contents of the boxes which have been crushed
by the falling huildings, and the lead and the tea
thus mixed up and exposed together to the action of
the air and water. If, indeed, it escaped contact
with wine, vinegar or other acid substances, it must
inevitably be converted into a a rank poison. Can.
not the authorities do something in this matter !--
New York Express.
A 3froinnovs Dum..—A duel, at five pace.,
with pistols, lately took placo near New Orleans,
between a Polish teacher of amall•aword exercise
mid a shoemaker, resulting in the death of both at
the first fire.
A fashionably dressed person hoe been arrested
in New• York, charged with having committed tor
gertea to the amount of $BOOO.
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
CortszcasTiorr or. Do. Povrsa.--Our readers
in this Diocese will be glad to know, that the pre
liminary measures towards (hi, consecration of the
Bishop elect ore progressing as fast as possThle.--
We have seen a letter front Bishop Chase, dated
Troy, New York, August 18th, in which he jays,
"I have received your certificate of the consent of
the majority of the Standing Committees to the
consecration of the Rev. Alonzo Potter to the va
cant Episcopate of Pennsylvania, and am now ad
dressing letters severally to the Bishops for their
consent according to Canon."—Banner of the
Cross.
Oanrxrrrox.—On Friday the Bth ult., an ordi
nation was held in rat. John's (Episcopal) Church,
Hartford, Connecticut, when four candidates for
holy orders, ware admitted to the ministry--one of
whom was lately a minister in the Presbyterian
Chtirth, and one a minitter in the Methodist Church.
TAB HEALTH of the Pope of Rome is ouch as
to cause alarm among hls friends. He suffers much
from a cancer in the nose, with which he has been
for some time afflicted. The disease has been lat
terly somewhat checked, but has again acquired
fresh violence. He is now nearly 89 years of age.
Awfricaeike is again agitated by a popular
catinfibtion, caused by the death of M. Leu, a
distinguished Catholic bf Lucerne. fie wee found
dead in a bed, a ball haying passed throtigh his
breast. The Catholic papers charge hls death to
the Prolcsients, while the litter allege that he am;
mitted suicide. Misty note/gent., were Obliged ti
fly from Lucerne to escape the popular fury, and
eev era! arrests Molt place.
2t is sditl that the Prenrit papers bring he*. that
the murderer had been discovered and apprehended ;
and was ono of the laborers of the deceased, who
had borrowed money of him, and had been MAO
fat its payment.
The Rev. D. Judson, tho distingnished Mission
ary from the East, is daily expected in his native
rand. He bas been absent about thirty three years
during which ho has translated and written with
Hie own hand, the whole Bide m the Burmah lan
guage,'
Tau Ertacorai. Cm:nem—From an estimate
which we find in the Banner of the Cross," we
perceive that the number of Episcopal Clergymen
in the Cnited States, in 1822, was 333, and noW,
in 1945, it is 1,211 ! having increesed nearly 400
per cent. In 1822, them were only 27 in Pennsyl
and now 12! ; and in Western New-York
where there was not one in 1821, there ere new
106.--Norrislown Herald;
eTATid-rici ov METllODliM.—Bishop Setll6,
d into letter, brings to light some strange facts in the
history of the Methodist Church within the last
year. In the Church, North,' therd has been Ei de
crease of forty-one thottsand feta hundred and thir
ty-five, in the nuMber of chtrch memberd j' whilst
rt....A. o.uth, thorn has been an ilibredge of
nine thousanu severs nunureu and three membetd,
of whom more than six thentand are Porn the col
ored population. The total increase in 18414, was
one hundred and fifty-live thousand: He attributei
this decrease In the One portion, and diminished irt
crease in the other, to the strife and contention
arising from the late division of the church, and
urges it as an argument for the cessation of TIM&
ity during the year to come. The late decision of
the Bishops, sanctioning the division, as in accord:
ance with the decision of the General Conference,
it is thought, will have a tendency to allay agitation.
Attempted Murder of a Wife by her
Husband.—On Monday evening, a man
named Thomas Childs, attempted to kill
his wife, by cutting her throat. The par•
ties resided in Lombard street, near the
Schuylkill. The husband had been at
Pottsville, for some time, working in the
mines. On Monday he returned about
noon. In the evening he went to the res•
idence of Lis wife, and fonnd her reading
a letter from a son et Pittsburg. He re
quested her to read the letter for him,
which she did. She then sent for pen,
ink and paper, and commenced answering
the letter. While she was doing this, the
husband came up behind her, and putting
his arms around her neck, said—" God
bless you, dear I"—and immediately cut
her throat in twoplaces.—Mrs. C. strug
gled to get away from her husband.--Du
ring the struggle she was stabbed in the
left side ; she was also considerably cut
on her hands. She cried for assistanee,
when two of the neighbors came in and
beat oft the assailant. At the time of their
arrival he had his fingers in the wounds
on the neck, attempting to tear them open
still more. When beaten off he left the
house, and went to that of a friend, where
he had left about forty-five dollars and de
mantled the money, which he obtained,
and has not since been seen. The phy.
sician attending Mrs. Child, is of the
opinion, that she will recover, if the heat
of the weather does not cause the wounds
to inflame. The parties have eight chil
dren, the oldest a son about twenty years
of age, now in Pittsburg, from whom the
letter was received. Mrs. Childs had re
fused to live with her tmsband, on the
ground of a supposed previous attempt by
him to poison her.—Philadelphia Satur
day Inquirer.
Heats or New 011L/SA7(s.—The Picayune of
the 12th inst. says: ' , There were hut fifty-two in
terments loat week in this great city, the popula
tion of which, exclusive of the summer abeentees,
can scarcely be less than 120,000 souls. What
other city can hoast the same degree of health? Not
a case of yellow fever has yet occurred amongst us.
LIZZ SUPLIIIOR.-The level of the water of
Lake Superior le supposed to be 900 feet above the
level of the ocean. It has been sounded to the
depth of 600 and 700 feet. In some places no
soundings have been found. It is from 400 to 500
miles long, and about 80 wide. Ito area, or sur
face of water, is generally very cold. When the
winds are high the waters are mole boisterous than
those of the Atlantic Ocean.
KICKING OOT OF THE Tn•cis.—The Halifax
Herald, a locofoco paper, is kicking out of the
traces. It denounces the locofoco leaders of Oyu..
Ain county as carrupt; and intimates that the bon
sit democracy of the upper end of the county will
not stand to the homintitiona. We told the Editor
of thnt paper last tali that his party was corrupt ;
but in place of receiving Our information in the
kind spirit io which it was given, he fell to Work
and gave its a harpooning in his paper. We asp
poly 'lift hii begins to think by this time that we
were ab6ut fight, with tha enception of that part of
the information which related to himself. The
editor appears to be still open to conviction, as ho
intimates that he may yet support the ticket, net
withatanding the te r rruitt ineaOs used in forming it.
The Harrisburg locda knoli iivhat drgument the
editor of tho Herald would like to have them use
upon hitit
But we lot Hr. toentis speak for himself:—
I POLITICAL COURUPTION.
. . .
If any portion Of our tenders have ev
er supposed that we were so bound down
by party trammels that We would sanc
tum and advocate the tidings of the Dem
ocratic party, whether righi of wrong;
they have mistaken our character; and
they have done us great injustice. We
are aware that to dissent from the dicta
tion of a few self-conceited worthies.
who, if they .1 cant rule will ruin" the
Democratic party, we bring down upon
us anathemas, long, loud and shrill ! But
to pais over the corruptions practiced by
the Harrisburg office holders, and permit
them to spread shame and dishonor upon
the Democratic party, without exposing
the actors; we should be recreant to our
repeated declarations; that we will expose
wrong coining froin what party, or fruit
%hem it may. The Democratic conven
tion of liatipliiti county, perhaps, never
had a better oppeftunity to select a ticket
compose) of gtiod men froth different
parts of the county, that could have de
feated the fnidetable Whig ticket just for
med for their competition in the coming
Fall election. But a combination of po
litical aspirants, hacked by the adminis
tration. and the influence of the public
works, had conspired to give all the offices
to Harrisburg. The whole intent and
meaning of the delegate system was dia.;
regarded, end the candidates nominated
theinselveg. Th'e pedple of the county
had but little or no participation in their
nominations.
However, we are not going to war with
the ticket, as it will, from what we yet
know, receive our support. But it is the
unfair and ungenerous treatment of the
people of the upper part ot the county.
ot which We co'mp'lain. A■ we are the.
organ 61 ►so faction, We will submit to
none, but will speak our censure of all
wing, with a spirit of independence.=
When We have laid bare to the peep'a all
the political iniquities ot some of the cor
rupt Democrats in Harrisburg, we will
rest with t:re echsctousriels of having done
our duty to the party to which we art,
proud to telong. Until then, we shall
not spare the knife:
OFFICIAL DICTATION.
tre were pained to learn the course pur-;
sued by Gov. Shunk and his office holders
in relation te s'ettlnig the present county
ticket. Before the
the
of Geyer,
nor, We preferred the lamented Muhlen
berg ; b'ut whet' by an act of Providence
the man of our choite,.and the cheice of
a majority of the Democratic citizens of
the State was taken liom us, Mr. Skunk
received oar warm support —not suppo
sing that to have been a MOhtenberg man
would bring Opon' any one the curse at
the powers that be. Bet so it is ;we find
the Governor of this Commonwealth, and
the heads of department, clerks and all,
coming down from their high places and
aiding to decide a question between their
political friends/ Yes, Governor Skunk
PERSONALLY ENGAGED ill electing delegates
at n w and delegate election in the borough
of Harrisburg . YEs, GOVERNOR SrIJNIC
and his understrappers, shouting at the top
of their voices... DOWN Wl'[ nTuosE
W 110 PREFERRED MUHLENBERG
TO HIM !" How disgraceful ! A Gov
ernor making a common bravo of himself !
Why in the good old times of the honest
Simon Snyder, he made it a rule that none
of the clerks under the employ of the
State should interfere in the election of
delegates. It seems different now. The
mandate has gone forth, and the Gover
nor intends to see it executed, and to see
that all those who will not bend the pliant
knee are to be excluded from any of the
benefits arising from our civil organization.
WE WILL SEE. The people are the soy
reigns, and will hold their servants re
sponsible for any violations of common
decency, or good faith. Beside, they will
not allow the office holders at the Capitol
and the old court house clique to dictate
to them. For more than twenty years has
this class of paupers on the Democratic
party lived on the peoples money, and
yet they are not satisfied. The longer
they have hold of the public teat, the less
willing they are to lose their hold. It is
high time the tax payers would look to
this. If there are to be any privileged
orders in Harrisburg, let US know it, and
if particular families are to be supported
by the public, with the public money, let
there be a law passed that the tax payers
may know who they support, and where
the money they pay into the treasury goes.
Again, if the country must pay tribute to
Harrisburg, let us know how many years
the farmer and laborer has yet to serve.
The Washington Union remarks that a " war
with Mexico is viewed too lightly in sever a l reared..
It will be very expensive, and will not be terminated
as long en we permit it to he one of posts only.
Mexico ban bad preparations on hand for time,'
month,"