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THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON
NVednesday, March 4, 1846.
In — The U. S. Semite tit Iltintitin7plon
will meet on Thursday Evenierg. It is expected
that a message will be eent in at that time Item the
President. An interesting session may be expected,
and it is hoped all the tnenthets will attend. The
public arc also invited—Ladies and Gentlemen.
MuwirraA TO SPAIT.*ROMUtUR M. Salltlllent .
of North Carolina. has been appointed by the Pre
sident Minister to Spain, in the place of Washing
ton Irving, recalled.
CONRICCTION.— We stated in our last that Sonatot
Waggonseller was in his seat and refused to vote
on the motion restoring Snyder township to Blair.
Our informant was mistaken, as we since learn that
that gentleman was absent from the Capitcl.
00.Gur Harrisburg letter will be found very in.
Westing. It will be seen that the writer gives it
as his opinion that there is a majority in the lower
noose against the right or way, bit still entertains
some fears that it may be worked through by means
of the log-rolling system. The friend, of the
Central route should ire active in /tending in their
remonstrances against the right of way to the Mary
land company, as it now appears that the fate of
the Central road depends upon the defeat of that
measure. Remonstrances can be had at this office,
free of charge.
Congress,
The Oregon debate is still going on in the Senate.
Nothing of intereet has transpired in the llowto
during the last week. The bill for the reduction of
the Tariff in still in the hands of the Committee of
Ways and Mean.. It is said that the bill of Mr.
Welker will be materially altered by that committee,
it being a little too free•tradish corn for Mr. McKay,
the alai, men.
Cr Mr. Slidell, our Minister at Mexico, has not
yet been received by that government. A mewl.
ger it is said has been dispatched by our govern
ment, to require his immediate recognition, which
it is thought, may provoke a collision.
Who Itegister and Mr. Morrison.
The editor of the Hollidaysburg Register does
not seem lobe very highly gratified with the mil
eage of the Blair county bill. He says •Mr. Mor
tises and his cosiljutots succeeded in lopping off
Franklin, Warriorsmark and part of Morris, in di
rect violation of what is understood to be the al
most unanimous wish of the people of those town
.t.-
paper, and ta• •entire upper end," hare pointed to
the returns to evidence the wishes of the people on
the subject of the new county. If the result of
that election in any portion of the county has been
a true index to the wishes of the people on that
subject, it most be ir. the three townships mention
ed, together with Woodbury and Huston! end we
trust that the Register editor and the •entire upper
end" will not deny the fact now, which formed the
se plus ultra of their arguments in favor of division
since the election. in the townships mentioned by
the editor of the Register, according to the views of
himself and his coadjutors, the vote stood thus:
For Dleiebses Against Division.
Franklin 10'
Wasiorsmark 38 52
Morrie 45 102
Cwin 93! //framer 246!! Woodbury far dt
•ision 17, against 254 !!! Huston for division
44, against 96!
The above then is the only dote which Mr. Mor-
rison, (who the Register thinks ' , has done himself
little credit in this matter,') had to govern his ac
tion on this question; for the Register and his coad
jutors know that Mr. Morrison received but two
petitions fur division during the present session;
and those two were signed by citizens of liollidsys
burg and sent to him after the bill had peened both
Houses.
CoUld the Hollidaysburg papers inform the pub
lic how much credit Capt. Gwin has done himself
in this matter? It would no doubt be very inter
esting to the people of Williamsburg and Wood ,
bury township, as also to those residing is the
township of Catharine.
Upon a little reflection the Register editor and
his coadjutors—the "entire upper end"--will see
that Mr. Morrison has represented hisconatituents
frithfully. And the "entire sipper end" haying
last fall thrown itself into the twine of tilt PA:meccas,
lost all claim to "credit" and deserred no aid
the Whigs.
Highly Important News,
e hasten to inform our readers that the Dem•
. .
atic Union, published at Harrisburg, and under
the control of a French Jew, who has never been
suspected by those who know him of wearing to
the truth in regard to any Jointing bill in which ha
was interested ; and who, it has been asserted by
his political friends, made money some few years
ago by having his own jewelry establishment
robbed, has come out and deneuuced our attack
upon the traitor Gwin, as "low, malicious, libel
lous and infamous ;" and further states that Alex.
Gitlin is a man of honor !! ! This is news, in
these d igg
Truly, Mr. G wiu muot be hard run fur defenders,
when he has to buy pul., fruit) such men as the
shove; for be it known that since the public
printing has been given out by contract, he charges
for every puff inserted in his columns.
az7The Locauco State Convention meta in
Harrisburg to-day.
Fur the "Journal."
The Tariff and Pennsylvania De-
mocracy.
Mn. Ctsits—That most devoted American chi
cen, Robert J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury,
has prepared a bill, which is now in the hands of
the Committee of Ways and Moans, for the modi
fication, reduction, or as a aubstilution for the Tar
iff of 1842. The object of this bill is to colony the
duties upon importations, as to afford the greatest
amount of revenue, without any refermico to the
protection of domestic industry. This little eight
by ten gentleman, whom Polk has placed at the
head of the Treasury, takes it for granted that a
community or government has no right to protect
itself—especially, if by that protection, it should
interfere with the fancied rights of a jackass to
kick at a thunder storm on the plains of Mesopo
tamia. He cannot exactly prove to the satisfaction
of himself and every body else, that the throwing
of energy into our home industry, will work an evil
to the community generally; but he is afraid that
if tho principle of protection to tecogniced in the
United Stales, it will operate injuriously to the la
borers of Great Britain and other foreign countries
—for whom he seems to have a more tender re
gard titan for the hardy sane of Mil in this country.
The fact is, that the whole course of policy pursued
by this Secretary, indicates a desire to prefect for
e;gn labor ; saying at the same time that if foreign
ers do our work, our poor men can buy the pro
ducts of their labor cheaper than our own, But
there is an important leg wanting in the Secretary's
stool—and that is this:—he gives our poor men
nothing to buy them with,—for he takes away from
them the last hard privilege, which God gave to
man, when he kicked him out ofParadise—namclyt
to work for his living. But the vapors arising
from the Secretary's boiling brains, have so cloud
ed his mind, that he cannot ace that untiring labor,
• with sure pay, must make money and a living too.
However, Mr. Editor, I did not intend to dull
my axe by cutting these southern grubs, when
,I
have tall northern oaks to hack at. The people of
the State of Pennsylvania are they, to whom my
remarks were intended to be directed.
Tho teat Presidential contest in this State was
conducted on intellectual principles. Each party' ,
claimed the Tariff of 1842; and the difficulty was
to discover which candidate would likely best pro
mote the wishes or the people. The State gave its
vote for Polk, believing hire to be as good a Tariff
man as Clay; and trusted to Providence and politi
cal finesse to direct the heart of the sinner in the
right. He was no sooner installed in his high of
fice, than he attacked this great sentinel that guard
ed the interestarf Pennsylvania—the Tariff of 1842.
Thus the people were deceived by political juglery;
and that which began with reason terminated in
superstition and bigotry. But the most peculiar
feature in the case now is, that the great ones Of
the democracy are perfectly satiafied with the treach
ery of the President to the intermit. of Or State.
They would prefer witnessing the overthrow of the
business prospects of the country, to swerving from
their allegiance to the party. Polk and his cabinet
might start 7n PO -Matra iniderstrappors
. VVOlll . d
an spf Gi, n Mani chewing it.
This is amply proven by the satisfactory manner
the democratic press responded to the sentiments of
the President's message. Although the Tariff of
1847 was Inscribed an their banners in rho contest
of 1844, end all the honed man that voted for
Polk, voted for him because they believed him to
be in favor of the Tariff—nevertheless the political
leaders of the democracy are enraptured With his'
free Wide opinions, for no other reason than be
cause they are his.
Now it is this subordination, subjection and in
tellectual slavery in the democratic party that I
wish to examine for a short time. It may be divi
ded into three classes. The first clans in amps
sad of those, who are either in office or want to be
in ; and who pull the wires, originate new priori.
plea and do head-work generally. These are the
ones who exact veneration from, and fool all the
rest and for whose benefit the whole party organ
ization acts. They are a lazy, worthless unprinci
pled class who are neither fit for this world or the
world to come. They get all the offices. The
second class is composed of those, who are honest
and inAstriona, and make their money in an hon
est business t . but who vote fur the first class, be
cause they fancy them to be in the regular line of
succession from the apostles of democracy. The
individuals of this class are told that the candidate
is a democrat, and forthwith they vote for him, with
out inquiring whether he is a fool, a scoundrel or a
gentleman. This class is in a rotate of slavery to
the first class, without deriving any benefit from the
subjection. They are worked up to order by the
grand Monter; of the first class, without knowing
that they are its a state of intellectual bondage.—
They ate the one, who yell out democratic halls
lujarre to a man, who, after the election would pass
them with contempt. The third class is empo
wer of - those, who have art interest to vote for, but
are afraid to do it, lest the bandy legged gentlemen
of the first class should kick them into political el,
scurity. They are afraid to do right, lest they should
offend those, whom they know to be doing wrong.
'This clasp, I think, will be finally induced to vote
for its own and the country's interest.
Such is a clarification of the system, by which
the /131981, mitten/ kept in a state of unobserved
slavery ; and such is the system by which Polk was
electbd, with principles directly opposite to the its.
tercets of Penneylvania. Ho is now in the Presi
dential chair, with the axe in his hand, mitring at
Pennsylvania's tree of life; and there is no arm
strong enough to ward off the fatal stroke. If the
democracy adds State cart swallow the sentiments
of the President since the election ; after the pro
testations of lriendship to the tariff, made previotisly
to it—it has a larger gulfett than I tale it ter have.
However it may be able to do it ; fur it often MIA
IOW. a grindstone and:chokes on a hen-egg. Thew
denregogues, who seduce the honest and upright,
to their utter ruin, should meet the merited rebuke
of arrintlignant people, and that people rave decla
red, that if they lay their uneenctitied hands upon
that tariff, Pennsylvania is with thorn no longer—
Polk's scowling, treacherous northern visage to the
contrary notwithstanding.
It requires time however to do everything; and
voter. 4 will discover before long, the fully of eleva
ting men to important stations, who aro not lit to be
r i n .. mai d ers in a mokey show. Polk, Walker and
all such men with narrow, contracted notions, will
be deserted, and left as perfectly forlorn and deso
late, no a polar bear, floating on an iceberg, in the
A retie Ocean.
lltaill67,tlun, Feb. 26, 1816,
Pennsylvania Legislature.
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Correspondence of the Zuntligdon
Journal:
Mums:sung, Feb. 28, 1846 .
My Dear Caplairn--einee last I wroto you, the
Senate has passed two very important Billsoo wit.:
the Bill incorporating the Pennsylvania (Central)
Rail Road Company, and the Bill granting tha
right of Way to the Balt. dt Ohio Rail Road Com
pany, to extend their road from Cumberland to
Pittsburg.
The first of three Bills was paned without much
opposition, as all agree that there ought to bee con
tinuous chain of Rail Road from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg by some route, and this Bill does not say
by what route that object is to be effected. It only
provides for commencing at Harrisburg and termi
nating at or near Pittsburg in the County of Alio
gheny, or at Erie Harbor, the intermediate points
being left altogether to the discretion of the Com
pany. The Stock is to consist of 160,000 shares,
of $5O each, in the find place; with power to the
Company to increase the number of shares to 200,-
000, should the same be found neceaeary hereafter
to the completion of the work—thee, authorizing a
capital of from $7,500,000 to $10,000,000.
The Govcrnoris to issue the Charter to the Com
pany as soon as 50,000 shares rue sold, and 5 per
share actually paid in. And it ie provided that un
less the Company commences work within two
yearn, antl,cotapietes one track the entire distance,
withiaien years, or if being so completed it shell
be suffered to remain useless for went of repair, du
ring
a period of two years at any time afterward.,
then the Charter to be void. The right is also re
served to the State to purchase the road from the
Company at any hole not Nes than 15 years nor
more than thirty years fiord the Mee of its comple
tion, by paying the original cost and subsequent
expenses thereof, together with el per cent. intehest,
after deducting tire dividends and other Revenues
realized by the Company, up to the time of shah
purchase. The Company is, moreover, prohibited
from declaring any Dividend of profits for distribu
tion amongst the stock-holders, until the entire line
to completed, and the right is reserved to the
!elute to impose a tai Upon the Company for the
benefit of the Slate, not exceeding 5 mills per mile
for every ton of merchandise transported on said
Road between the let of March and the tat of De
cember in each year :—this last mentioned provis
ion being designed to secure the heavy transporta
tion to the State Line, during the huffiness season.
The Baltimore and Ohio Bill woe fought through
inch by inch, being warmly and ably opposed by
Messrs. Ctabb, Chapman, Heckman, and other
Senators from the Eastern part of the State, as also
by Mt. Creaeraft, the Senator from Washington
County. The Hill you may remember, was news ,
need on second reading, by a vote of Yeas 15,Nays
16 and was subsequently reconsidered. It panted
final reading yesterday morning by a vote of 17 to
13—and was sent to the House for concurrence.— ,
The following are the Yeas arid Naj•ts
Vl:as—Messrs. Anderson, Carson, Darragh,
ras ~,,, has; 'sanstatarin,
Sullivan, and Sherwood, Speaker. --17.
tilers—Messrs. Benner, Bigler, Black, Chap
man; Common, Crabb; Creacrafti Pertly, Foulkrod,
Heckman, Jordan, Smith, and Wagonseller-12.
By a glance at the Teas end Nays will be even
that the Bill hue passedby a combination of influ
ences akin to the old qatem of .. log-rolling''.--the
only difference being that "Omnibuses" are not now
tolerated, and the rollers are obliged to agree to go
for each ethers projects, when they come up sepal ,
etely. Tithe Will show, I think, that the hew York
and Erie .riglit of way"—the Suributy and Erie
Rail Road.—The Chambersburg connection with
the Balt. & Ohio Road, and perhaps also the York
and Harrisburg Rail Road, and rite Pine Grove,
Lebanon 4 Lancaster projects are all parts and per
cale of Site same huge "Omnibus," and belong to
theme= grand category. There is no saying exact
ly what will be the fate of this Bill in the House,
though the estimate which I have tirade figures out
a majority of abont half a dozen against the
But what signifies half a dozen of votes, in a big
businesslike this? Take in another Clearing and !
there'll be hands enough to roll all the Loge!
One of the Senators from the city of
Fhiladsl
phis, (Mr. Gibbon.) has placed himself in a very
awkward 'and Unpleasant situation by the course
which he has pursued on this Bolt. & Ohio Rail
Road queation. The voice of his constituents is
almost unanimous in opposition to the right of way
—which he does riot deny—and yet he goes in favor
of the Bill alleging that their policy isahort sighted?
For this he has been severely handled by the Press
of the city, and espeCiatly by the North American
which is under the control of Judge Conrad. Be
ing a good deal exasperated at this, he took occa- 1
filen in a speech lost week to reply, which he slid
seventy and personally to that gentleniall. This I
induced the Judge to send a special message to Mr.
Gibbons to know whether he would accept a dial
lenge to settle the matter according to the "coda of
honor" —to which Mr. G. returned for ansWer
(being a Quaker) that his education, and duty as a
husband, a Father, and a citizen, alike forbid that
ho should do Po. Mr. Conrad then published the
foregoint ate with revere Comments in several of
the Phil's meta, and the matter is not yet settled
between them. A committee was also appointed
in the Senate on Monday last to inquire into the
faces in relation to the challenge; which comrrtittee
has not yet acted. Mr. G. fins frequently been for
mally respected by his constituents to vote against
the “riglit of way," or resign ;—but he declines
doing either,
Ono thing is pretty clear in regard to three Rail
roads. If the Dolt. and Ohio Company is permit
ted to go to Pittsburg, there is an end to tire pro
ject of a Pennsylvania road from Harrisburg to
Pittsburg. The sleek could not be taken, and
Baltimore must become the rival of Philadelphia
for the trade of the West, and also for that of the
Lakes, fur it is part of the same designid ednstrhet
a Railroad from Pittsburg to Lake Erie. The only
restrietion wortV of notice in the Balt. era Ohio
Bill ilia lax of 50 cent's per passenger, until a con
nection is farmed between thu Cumberland Valley
TILDEN
Railroad and the one in question, a I:er cite
tax is to be only '25 cents per passer-ger. But
what sort ofeompensation is this for dryirig up our
own stupendous and costly line of Canal?—of what
avail a homeopathic dose like this,, to check the
swift decline of commercial prosperity in our East
ern metropolis, which roust follow in its wake. To
day the Bill (Balt. and Ohio) being received in the
House, was referred to the Committee on Internal
Improvements, and ordered to ba,printed.
The Appropriation Bill, making . !vein(' ap
propriations for the salaries of officers and other
expenses of Government, has been under discussion
nearly every day this week front the time the morn
ing orders (petitions, resolution., and reports of
committees) were gone through with, until adjourn
ment. The Bill is on second reading, and the
items of $200,000 to Chihmiin Schools-0500 to
the State Library-04,000 to the House of Refug e
--11,000 Deaf and Dumb Institution -49,000 to
the institution ?dr the Blind-0175,000 for repairs
on the public Works,aiid for repairs on the Nanti
coke, Shamokin, and Dunsborough dams and $25-
000 for ordinary repairs after tho let day of De
cember next—as also specific approPridtiohe to pay
the expense. of Legialative and tiecutive
branches of the Government rind those of use Canal
Commissioners, were agreed to. The items in re
lation to the State's Guarantee of interest on Loan.
to certain corporation., were also agreed to, except
the Danville and Pottsville Railroad Company,
which was stricken out of the Bill. These items
were agreed to early in the week, and the discus
sion has been kept up on the item in relation to
the pay of certain Judge., whose salaries, having
been raised after the date of their commissions, the
Dill proposes to reduce again in conformity with
the act reducing the eateries of those officers, which
act, however, the Supreme Court have in effect de
cided, in the case ofJudge Hepburn, cannot effect
those Judges whose salaries bear date antecedent
to the passage of the Act increasing the same.
Messrs: Durrill, I'iollet, ,Nicholson, and other go
for the reduced pay, and Messrs. Knox, Burnside,
Kunkle, Haley, Price, Webb, Bartholomew and
others, against it. The question is yet pending on
this mat+.el•,
A great number of private and local Bills have
been passed during thd Week, and es many new
ones introduced, ad tha4 altlibUgh fifty (save one)
were passed ih the Hohifc in d Eihgle day, yet the
business is not any nearer dohb than before. It is
true a Resolution was passed ih the Senate come
time ago to adjourn sine tilt trh thslsth of March.
The House, too, had one en file ttf ttiljbhth'on the
24th, which was called up the °Hitt at,
.t4hen
being determined not to be out done by the &Meta
in Buncombe, they emended it no as to fix the 4tli
of March, and so it wao passed. They take good
tare, however, not to agree to the came day, in
both House., and I suppose, as usual, they will be
gin to think seriously of adjourning about the time
the hundred days have expired, when the pay will
fall off. Give them until about the middle of April
to get through.
A good deal of discussion came off yesterday
comniatievoii - Critaili"PtiNG grinlrt;:::
atnendment of the Constitution so as to allow the
colored population the right of suffrage in this
Commonwealth. Mr. B ightim of Allegheny moved
to rotor the report back to the Committee with in
filmdom to report in conformity with the prayer
Of the petitioner.; which was lost by a vote of 73
to 13.
Blair County has bruit signed by the Governor;
Mid to-day he +tint in his veto of the Bill ranting
Certain privileges to the Beaver Meadow Coal and
Railroad Cotnpant. 'A Bill hoe pained the Senate
incorporating the Fox Chase and Huntingdon
Turnpike Road Cothpany.
The Senate has now before it the Bill author
izing, agreeably to the suggestion of the'Canal
Commissioners, the construction of an Out Let
Lock at Well's Falls (New Hope) on the Dela
ware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal.• This
in a modified aspect of the old “Dlack's Eddy,"
annually rejected by the Legislature, ever since the
construction of that part of the State Improvements.
Well's Palls being nearer Philadelphia, and there
fore less likely to-divert trade from her, is lees ob
jectionable, however, and may he agreed O.
..The Natives" held a State Convention in the
Court House on Tuesday last. The counties were
not generally represented, and but little enthusiusru
was nienitebted—more, however, I think than was
felt. The party is going rapidly into a decline.
Capt. Ilobt. IL Morton, of Harrisburg, was again
put in riontimition as the candidate Of. the party, for
Canal Commissioner, at the next general electioli.
The Locefocos Ore to hold their State ConVett
tion here next week. A nutnber of the delegates
are instructed to go for a re-nomihation of Wm. B.
Foster, now President of the Board: Some stun
are instructed to go for any new man in preference,
and a few are instructed specifically for other gen- '
tlemen, whilst one half perhaps will come nntiem
melted by any instructions.
The liarri;burg Rifle Company gave a "Birth
night" ball on last Monday evening, which was
ono of the finest that has been gotten up here far
some time. Every thing was conducted with the
utmost decorum and on Temperance principles,
being held at the Shakespeare Temperance House,
kept by Mr. Markley.
"Yankee Hill" performed here during the week,
tuil drew good Houses. Ho is a rare chap—that
Hill. lie goes into comicalities until the greatest
hypocondriae in the land must nettle laugh to save
his sides , --and then the fellow looks more comical
than even his stories are.
The colored ladles:Ml gentlemen of the borough,
and their school children, gave a "Moral Concert"
in the N. W. School room last nigia fin the "ben
efit of their 'Church," which wee advettised towind
np with e "break down." It is said to htiic been
rich—decidedly—embracing ninny things hOt in
the hills.
It resumed snowing hero last night, and has ton=tinned the liminess at intervals with as mach zeal,
as if we had not had any befell, all Winter, up to
the present 'vvriting, (ii o'clock I'. M.) end the
sleighing was superb when it commented. Soma
3 or 4 inches have fallen since last nighf.
&} A very large town meeting was held in
Philadelphia a few evenings since, at whia' strong
resolution.. VCefe passed against graining the right
of way' to the Itolt. dr Ohio company.
cr_7•Nlr Ritchie,editor of the Richmond Etroti
rer, and Mr. Pleasant., Editor of the Whig, fought
a duel on Wednesday last, in which the latter it is
feared, was inostaly wounded.
Blair County.
Not lowing room for the entire bill we give the
following synopsis wltiFl; will Perhops be 111000
nattsfastory. •
The first section enacts that the townships of
North Woodbury and Greenfield in Belford and
the townships of Allegheny, Antes, Snyder, 'l'g
rune; Frankstown, Blair, Huston, Woodbury and
that part of Morrie lying westward of the lino run
by viewers appointed fordividing that township, in
Huntingdon county, into n new and separate coun
ty to be called Blair—to take effect on the fourth
Monday in idly next.
2d makes that part of Morris township included
in Blair county n oeporato township, to ho culled
Mies Catharino, and fixes her ballot box at Waltor
Graham's.
3d provided for the election, at the nest general
election, of three County Commi.sionge,,ono to
nerve for ohe, another for two, and another fur
three years, to bo. no designated on the titkotA
also three county Auditors to nerve in the same
manner.
4th, that the Commissioners shall have full pow
er to take ki themaelveo and their successors in of
fice, deeds for such lute of pieces of ground
have been selected for sites for the public buildings
Of s aid County.
6th, provides that the return judges of elections
shall meet at the pled° where the courts may be
held in Blair county, and dispose of the same as is
directed by law with respect to other counties.
Gth, that ono person shall fill the offices of Pro
honorary and Clerk of all the Courts, etrd one per:
eon shall hold the °Vb.' of Register and Recorder.
7th, that the coons Shall be &id in such house
within the county, ea the .CoMMissioners may
designate until of court bousehtitiected.
Bth, that the courts in the new county be held tin
the fourth Mondays in March, July, October, Rik]
December—the first court to be held on the fourth
Monday of October next; and that Blair coutitY
shall be annexed to and be apart of the !Gib' judi
cial district—(Judge Black's.)
9th, float no suit or prosecution, commenced by
or spinet any person within the bounds of the
new county in any of the counties of Huntingdon
and Bedford before the fourth Monday of July
next, shall be effected by the division of those
counties, except in the cans provided for in anoth
er section of the act.
10th, that each officers as are by law required to
give bail for the faithful discharge of their duties
shall give bail in the same amount as such officere
give in Huntingdon county.
11th, that the officers of the counties of Hun
tingdon and Bedford shall continue to exercise the
&Alba of their respective offices within Blair court•
ty; übtil eithilar officers shall have been appointed
Bliiir cdiihty.
12; ithit lttb Oithityof Blair shall be attached to
and cot did 17th congressional district;
and thetitialifiki elect*, df the county of Blair,
together with file eblinilea bf Huntingdon, Centre,
Mifflin and danirli, pkait eantihiie to elect a mem
ber of congress; and tfa, 4initilled electors of the
counties of Blair, Hundingdoli All Bedford, shall
and the said counties of Bfriii and, Huntingdon
shall each elect one member of the (mese df repre
sentatives of this commonwealth.
13th, that the Governor shall, on` M. babie the
first day of May next, appoint three persons pat
resident in the countiee of Huntingdon, Bedford,Oi
Blair, as commissioner. to run, ascertain, arid kiark;
the boundary lines, and to fix on a proper site
the seat ofjuetice of the now county, and for a
court house, prison and county offices, , and snake
report of` the same to the Secretary of the Common
wealth on or before the first of August next—also
authorizes . said commissioners to receive proposi
tions and agreements for the building of raid court
house, prison and pnbtic offices, or any of them,
free of charge to said county, or for giving money,
land, or other valuable things for or towards paying
for said buildings; and legalizes the bond given by
a number ofporsona to secure the inhabitants of
the new county against any increase of taxes by
reason of the dection Of said buildings, provided
Hollidnyebtarg bo selected for the county seat.
14th, dnnetes Blair Cotinty to the middle district
of the shpreme &milt
15th, relates to taxes assesssd within the new
county, and provides that the arreant of county tax
assessed within the new county, subsequetit to the
first day of November last, shall be paid to the re
spective treasuries of Huntingdon and Bedford
counties, for the use of Blair county—that separate
accounts of such taxes shall he kept, and that the
same shall be handed ovOr to the treasurer of Blair
county as soon an ho shall be legally appl,intail or
elected.
16th, the( all guile pending in the courts of cortr
mon pleas of the counties of Huntingdon and Bed
ford OR the first day of September next, where the
parties to such suits at that time be residents in
Blair county, shell be replotted to the latter county,
to be proceeded in there.
17th, that certified tranecVs of judgments may
be given by the prothonotalies of the counties of
Huntingdon and Bedford to be entered by the pro
thonotary of Blair county; fill t nothing in the aft
shall be construed to impair MO lien of dui each
judgments in the counties of Huntingdon and Bed
ford nor to prevent proceeding therein' t6' final exe
cution against property in either of said tOttnfies.
18th, that the Register and Register's and Or
phans' Court of Blair county shall from' the fourth
Monday in July next, have the exclusifd jUrisdie
lion over the legal representatives and the estates
of decedents in all cases where each decedents re
tided at the time of their decease wiYhin the terri
tory now in Blair county, where said amines shall
then be unsettled.
19th, relates to trnfinielied proceedings on roads
and bridges—those lying entirely in the new coun
ty are to he certified' to the court of Quarter Sea
sions of that county, slid pr6eeeded IA there; and
those partly in Blair and partly in another county
to be proceeded in as if this att had net been
passed.
20th makes ni.i, coinvy the convicts
that may be sentenced to the penitentiary fur t.f.
fences committed within thin limits of diet / minty
before the fourth Monday of July next, and the
legal expertses of proserotion; and to. support the
paupers in the poor home of Bedford county from
the territory of Blair.
21st, requires the commissioners of Blair county,
as soon or elected and qualified, to !procure a tem
porary Jull for sniti'county; but the Sheriff may de
liver to the jail of Ifuntingdon county any prkoneni
whose wife•keeping in his judgment requires each
a step—and the expense,of keeping such prisoners
shall be paid by the county of Blair.
22d, that so much of the 21st section esoutlier.
more the confining of prisoners in the jail of Hun
tingdoncounty, shall continue fur two years from
the fourth Monday in July next, utile.a s jail shall
have been erected in Blair county before . the expi
ration of that time.
33d and leatiseclion requires tho commissioner.
. _
of Huntingdon and Bedford counties respectively,
to make out and deliver, before the third Tuesday
in October next, to the commissioners of Blair
county, at the expense of the latter, a correct copy
of all the assortments within the limit, of Moir
county, for the year lB4B—and upon the delivery
of said armaments the Sheriff and Commissioners
of Blair county shall select jurors, drc.
The low Woe approved by the governor on the
23d February, 1946. 111
COUNTY MEETING,
Pursuant to notice given a County Meeting of
tho Whigs of Huntingdon county, was convened
on Saturday afternoon (Feb. 29) in the old Court
House.
The meeting woo called to order by A. W. Ben
edict, Esq., on whose motion A. K. CORNYN,
Esq. wos chosen President, and CILIA Gnnint.spin
and Hon. Jour Kgs, Vice Presidents. ' •
On motion A. W. i3enedict, Psil7;d John (~ a r..
nor, Jr. were appointed Secretelies.
On motion, the chair ermined Messrs. James
Clark, 8,5: Wtl'iiiton, David Blair, Adam H. Hall,
J. S. Stewaie, Win. 11I'Murtrie, Tho. Fisher, K. 1..
Green, Dr. John M'Culloch, E. Summer., C. Her:
g..heimei, Wm. B. Zeigler, John Huyett, Dr. A lei.
McKamy,.isaac Wolverton, D. S. hell, Jonathan
Liao and T. T. Cromwell, a committee, to draft a,
preamble aid resolutions expremive of the sense of
the meeting ; who after retiring a short time, ro•
ported, through their chili - 0 , 6.V. the following;
which were unanimously adopted: .
**herein, Tim maxim which any., "in time ob
peace prepare for war" teaches the wisdom offrepo
oration as *elf in a civil, as in a military point of,
view, and whileas, the time is approaching wheat ;
the freemen of Pennsylvania will be required tie
choose s Commissioner to lid in the control of our,
public ImprovenYente, as well as to select ouch other,
officer as the Constitution of rho Union and of the
State require to be. elected to seats in our Netionsf
and State Legislatures, and to conduct the multi.
furious concern. of the aovreign people, Therefore r,
Resolved, That we, the Whip of Huntingdon(
county, at once organize in our respective borougheo
townships and districts, and enter the politicali
arena with our armor buCkled on ready to "fight ono
light ever!" against Loco Foco power and domicil
ion, until we stay the destructive arm of that
power,
Resulted, That our internal improvements aril
now and always have been a burthen to the task
payers while in the hands of the Loco Foeos, and
such they will continue to be as long se the mane
agionan. 1 1.11C11110 in the h a nd. o f their
party.
Resolved, That it is time Whig influence and
counsel be infused and heard in our Canal Boardi'
and that nothing but unanimity and activity in the
Whig ranks of Pennsylvania is neceesary to cc
complish that admirable end.
Resolved, That in view of the foregoing, one
Situitonal and two Representative delegates he ap
pobited to represent this district in the State Con
vention to be held at Harrisburg, on the II th dex ,
Of March inst., to nominate a candidate for thir
office of Canal Commissioner, and do ouch othee
things as the good of the party may require. We
therefore appoint John Moritson, Senatorial antil
T. H. Omer, Esq. end Capt. Robert Lowry, Rep.
resentative delegates to said Convention.
Resolved„Th:t, we are in favor of further reform
and retrench ens in the expenditures of the Gov.
ernment, and oppose all attempts to increase our
present burthensonm.taxes—believing that when
our houses and hearths arc taxed, the smoke arising;
from our log-cabitre end, shop. should be free—or
what is the same thing,tha,eoal and other fuel con':
owned there should remain untaxed.
Resolved, That we cannot beireie in the patriot..
ism of men who oppose an iUdirect tax. on foreign
manufactures for the protection, of home. industry
and yet propose to tax not only the.clods untie! ,
which the mortal remains of the deceased ere dep. 1
iced, in a taxed coffin and a taxed shrond,,but also
to tax the inheritance of the orphan, for which the
deceased parent labored through all his life, and
on which he paid taxes ever since patent (lemma,
cy diffused its blighting influence over the broad
limits ofthe Commonwealth.
Resolved, That the present prosperity of the.
country is chiefly owing to the Whig Tariff d
1842, which is dispensing its “hlessings and ben:
elite" to every brand, of industry and businevs in
the country.
Retro!veil, That Same. K. Polk, the "better tariff
men," In recommending a reduction and modifica•
tion of the Tariff, has verified all that the Whigs
acid of his Tariff policy during the campaign of
1844, and given the "lie direct" to his Kane letter
and tb !ha declarations of hie party °wore and edi
tors, by which Pennsylvania was swindled out of'
her vote.
Resolve , , That although the free-trade report of
the "better ariff Men's" Secretary of the Treasury,
Sir Robert Walker, may be exceedingly popular
within Queen Victoria's dominions, especially in
the &Walt House of Lords, where it ie the only
official document claiming to be American that has
been honored with reprinting, yet it does net OR
that account take the better with the operatives or
"toiling millions" of the Unitad States, who do not
seek the competition of the plarper labor Of foreign
countries. . _ _
Resolved, Thai Mr. Polk, by first boldly.decla.
ring that "our title to the whole of Oregon wee
clear and unquestionable," and then genersusly
offering Great Britian 5 degrees and 90 minutes of
that territory, by way of compromise, bait disliked
the most astounding wisdom! the niescexaftedi
patriotism !! and the most inflexible trtimees !.!
Resolved, That the proceeds of the safes of the
public lands of right, and by a correct interpretatiost
of the deeds of cession, belong to the several States
and should be equitably distributed among them.
Resolved, That the thrice defeated Sub-Treasury
scheme is worthy only of the despotism, frost
which it has been copied by the Locofocos, Madan*
not meet witir the approbation of a nation of flee.
men who are opposed to giving the sword end the
purse of the nation to one snarl.
Resolved, That although Loco Pocoism lux
divided the Winery of "Old Huntingdon," yet her
gallant Whigs are united hew and hand in tits
good cause, and ready to "skin the enemy slim!
the fins time they meet fate to face in the field..
(signed by the Officers.)