tslississippi valley will be covered with
farmers cultivating the soil; then the in
dustry and ingenui'y of the Yankees will
be everything to them. The West will
have the grain, and the East the factories;
their intere, t will be united together like
man and wife. They will then join hands
with their eastern brethren to establish
nail keep the home market, and to prefer
the interests of our own countrymen to
the interests of foreigners. fiat all at
since we seemed to have fallen wonderful
ly in love with Sir Robert Peel! We
have got one Sir Robert of our own, but
we are not contented with that; we must
have an English free trade man in the bar
gain. Pennsylvania has made a vast
number of railroads and canals, and what
were they for? It seemed that the Sec
retary of the Treasury was willing to
transfer them to the use of Great Britain,
to enable her to transport her goods and
manufactures to the far West, in such
quantities as will increase the revenue to
meet this Mexican war, and at the same
time to transport her inferior iron, to un
dersell our iron manufacturers at their
own works. Sir Robert Peel would be
well pleased to have all nations net in this
way, and put their affairs under his man
agement.
No doubt he would soon become quite
fund of our tree institutions when he found
that all the effect of them was to induce
us to make railroads and canals, to trans
port his goods and manufactures at the
cheapest possible rate into the interior,
where they would sell to the best advan
tage, and at the same time enable them to
break up our rising manufactures. This is
a policy after Sir Robert Peel's own heart.
Rather than see our public works used in
this way, I would tear up every railroad,
and break down every canal in Pennsylva
nia. Yet I belong to the "British Whigs."
Yes, we are all "British Whigs" who will
not break down the tariff to raise revenue,
(as Sir Robert Walker says,) and please
England! And this from the mouths of
men who are openly playing into the hands
of GI eat Britan.
This Administration have made a great
noise about the Oregon question; yet after
all it was settled• just as England wanted
it ; so it will be with our tariff. Why
England would agree to give up the Can•
ales also, rather than lose this new Dem
ocratic tariff' bill ; and well slut might.—
It is a voluntary surrender of our indepen
dence to colonial vassalage to Great Bri
tain. It made all the free institutions we
had built up with so much toil and labor
enure to her sole advantage. Yet all are
"British Whigs" who will vote against
this "British bill!" I am amazed and
astonished to see such a measure advocat
ed by men on the Democratic side of this
House. Unless men had got their heads
crazed with dwelling no wild theories,
they never would have fallen into such a
blunder. Could they not hear, aye, could
they not see, what the House of Lords
thought of Sir Robert Walker's report:l—
they complain of it as unfriendly to
the interests of England? No; not at all,
not at all. I think I can see the old fel
lows leering trorn under their powdered
wigs, and from behind their gold specta
cles, and saying to each other, with a
chuckle; "why, what has come over Broth
er Jonathan ? He is not as wise as he
used to be. He is becoming romantic—a
universal philanthropist—a sympathizer.--
He is willing to feed our starving millions
with his grain, and we in ceturn are to
clothe hint with our manufactures—pay•
ins his duties to enable him to extend the
area of freedom into Mexico and Califor
nia! Agreed. We will clothe him up as
fine as a fiddle—cheap, very cheap, at
first, until his manufactures are broken
down, and then we will lay the tariff on
heavy! I Sir Robert's report just suits us.
If the principles of this report are carried
t, it is worth more to us than both the
Omaha. To maintain the Canada% costs
us a heavy sum ; but here all is done to
our hands fur nothing. He proposes ens
eouraging our own labor at the sacrifice of
his own people. We will honor this re•
port of Sir Robert with all honor, and have
it reprinted for our own use—the first coin.
Aliment of this kind we ever paid a foreign
report. Progressive Democracy is not so
bad after all. Pretty clever; yea, ver)
clever, indeed !!"
What was it our fathers wanted to se
cnre by the Revolution? Independence
in their business. They knew that this, and
this alone, would secure them true inde
pendence. This report of our Secretary
strikes at the iron of Pennsylvania, which
is to strike at our own interest both in
peace and in war. How will we appear
before the world in -passing such a cruel
bill as this against Pennsylvania; and she
in debt—anxious and struggling to pay her
debt ; standing with her hands tied, gaz•
Mg upon her resources 011 the one hand,
nod her public debt on the other, bound
fast by the action of our Government?
When I returned home, in April last, to
visit my family, and began to explain to
my constituents the true slate of the Ore
gon question, and why I had voted fur
giving the notice to Great Britain, they
would not listen to hear me out, but anx
iously inquired what will be done with the
tariff ? IVe care nothing about Oregon ;
we don't need any more teritory; the dif•
ference between fifty-four-forty and forty
nine is not worth fighting for; we hope it
will be settled. But when I mentioned to
them that I feared we would have war with
Mexico, they replied, they hoped not; but
if it did mite, let it come. We will
assist the Administration in carrying it
on vigorously, and conquer, the eneiny,
and obtain an honorable peace—but this
repeal of the tariff—this war upon our in•
dustry and means of living—this comes
home to us ail; this is what we fear; this
is what we dread. Wretched supremely
wretched, is the country where men fear
the action of their own Government more
than they do the bayonets of a foreign en
emy. In the one case, love of country,
and every noble feeling of the heart, urges
him on to victory. In the other case,
where the destroyer is he who ought to be
the benefactor, the boldest heart is subdu.
ed—the strongest arm is enfeebled. it is
like the parent unfeelingly striking down
ids innocent child, who loves and reveres
him. I hag of the democratic gentlemen
in this House to remember Democratic
• Pennsylvania. She has done you good
service. She has beets to you a hewer of
wood and a drawer of water. You cannot
do without her. She IS the keystone of
the great democratic arch. Break her
down, and the arch will crumble to dust,
and vanish, like a vision of the night.
Jack Downing said in one of his letters,
when a narrow minded, contracted Yan
kee emigrated to the West, and looked at
your great streams flowing in mighty tor,
rents to the Ocean—when he surveyed
your immense prairies spreading their vast
expanse to the sun—when he examined
the spot,where the mammoth laid his bones,
he swelled up and expanded so large that
lie could talk of nothing but thousauds and
millions of dollars, and could never get
down to ninepences again in his life; (and
Major Downing was always considered
the most judicions statesman in General
Jacksons Kitchen Cabinet.) I call upon
the Western gentlemen to come to the res
cue of Pennsylvania and the nation.—
Don't stand off from us chaffering about
dinlats and cents, when a question of na
tional policy is to be decided. You are
soon to rule us. Nature has determined
it, and man cannot prevent it. Act up to
your high "manifest duty." Help us to
carry out the conceptions of the great Wes
tern statesman—the father of this Ameri
. can system. Rule us not by numerical
strength and brute force, but by superior
mind and views, corresponding with the
greatness of your country. Quit these
little party conflicts, and do not "give up
•to party what you owe to mankind." Be
no longer whippers in for a weak and cor
rupt party Administration. it don't be
come the great West. Rhode Island and
little Deleware would scorn to do it.
There is one subject that has an imme
diate bearing on the bill before us; that is
the encroachments of Executive power
upon he rights of the Representatives of
the people. Since the formation of our
Constitution, there has been a jealousy on
the part of our countrymen against the
Executive power—the one-man power.—
The early Democrats were jealous of
Washington, and called his Proclamation
of Neutrality, (which saved the nation
from mingling in the wars of Europe,) an
act of usurpation. They opposed with a
strong vote the ratification of the Jay trea
ty, and accused the Father of . his Country
with British feelling, and ingratitude to
France; and the elder Adams was defeat
ed of his second election, because Democ
racy thought he had overstepped his consti
tutional prerogatives in the exercise of the
Executive power. Such was the jealousy
with which early Democracy looked upon
the encroachments of the Executive.—
General Jackson was an exception to all
general rules. In his reign, whatever he
decreed was law —whatever he did, niet
with popular approbation. He construed
the Constitution as he chose to understand
It ; and wo to the political man of his
party that said ougl.t against it. His fate
was sealed—his political career was end
ed, and he was heard of no more. But
what has been the course of the present
Executive—the offspring of the Baltimore
Convention ? He has made war upon the
Mexican Repulic, which men, better ac
quainted with diplomacy than I am, think
might have been avoided and peace pre
served without bloodshed.
But the most alarming of all Executive
encroachments upon the rights of the peo•
plc, and the Representatives of the people,
has been exhibited upon the bill before us.
It has been brought forward and pressed
upon this [louse by Executive influence
and Executive power, Not a memorial
has been read from any State Legislature,
nor the people of any State in the Union,
asking for the repeal or alteration of the
tatiff of 1842, Not a petition has been
presented to the House, complaining of its
operation, and asking relief. Not a voice
has been beard against it from any assem•
blages of the people!!
\ - Vhen the Mexican war was commenc
ed, all supposed that the present tariff
would remain untouched, as all the reven•
ue it raised would be needed by the Gov
ernment: but the party bugle was sound
ed by the organ of the Administration,
and the party leaders move as implicitly
at its sound as the highland clans at the'
shrill whistle of their chieftain. An ex
traordinary interest seems to be felt in
the passage of this .new tariff bill, by the
cabinet of Mr. Polk, (including the or
gan.) They hover round the Capitol, like
buzzards in search of carrion. It is
amusing, as well as painful, to observe the
the operation of their presence upon the
movements of men in this House aspiring
to Presidential IA your, and to witness their
convulsive throes and infuriated spasms in
the last agonies of surrendering up their
legislative independence for the base re
wards of Executive subserviency. As
sentinels on the wach•tower of liberty—
as guardians of the people's rig - his, we
should not be unmindful of the immense
incresse of Executive patronage by this
Mexican war. By calling volunteers into
service, much power• of doubtful constitu•
tienality is thrown upon the President,
which has been already judiciously exer
cised to strengthen the Executive depart
meta of the Government.
If this war continues, we will soon have
a multitude of officers, agents. and con
tractors or the army, that will cover the
land, like the locusts of Egypt, "to cat
out the substance of the people." I voted
for men and mohev to carry on this Mex
ican war, and Ntill still vote for granting
means to prosecute it vigorously, and
bring it to a speedy conclusion, and obtain
an honorable peace. But if the object is
to conquer Mexico, and annex it to our
Confederacy, I will no longer give it my
support; I will never agree that the hard
earnings of American citizens shall be
wrung Irom them, to enable our generals
to play Alexander, and Cwsnr, and Bona
parte, in the "Halls of the Alontezumas."
It dose not become
_them, nor us. Let
this game be played by the ephemeral mil
itary chieftains who rise up, "through
blood and carnage," and act the tyrant
•their brief hourb,'t and vanish like the
insects of the day.
I say now, Mr. Chairman, it is our
bounden duty, as the representatives of
a free people, before we leave this Capi
tal, to know officially, from the Execu
tive, what are his ultimate objects in con
tinuing his Mexican war. If his object is
conquest and extension of territory, we
ought to arrest his progress, if consistent
with the safety of the country, by every
constitutional means in our power. If
we sit here much longer as the tame reg
isters of the decrees of the Executive,
then is the vitality of our Government
gone—then is the last rampart of freedom
broken down, and the last vestige of
American liberty extinguished forever.
We should alarm the people to a sense
their danger ; and humble and insigni
ficant as I am—of little physical strength,
I do hope I have heart enough and soul
enough to resist Executive encroachments,
and assist in defending the Constitution
of my country from peril and destruction.
THE JOURNAL,
HUNTINGDON:
Wednesday, August 5, 1846.
Whig Candidate fur Canal Commissioner,
JAMES M. POWER,
OF MERCER COUNTY.
a-y We aro again indebted to the Hon. John
Blanchard, for copies of valuable speeches delivered
in Congress on the subject of the Tariff. Among
which is a copy of the very excellent and racy
speech delivered by himself, which we give at
length in this No. of the Journal. No ono who
gives this speech a careful perusal, will complain of
the space it occupies in our columns. Mr. 8., al
though in feeble health, handles the Locofoco de•
ceivers of Pennsylvania without gloves. We hope
every voter in the district will read this speech.
Mane!old's Life of Scott.
Mr. S. B. WINTER, agent for the sale of this
work in the counties of Dauphin, Perry, Juniata,
Mifflin, Huntingdon, Blair and Centre, is now in
our midst, having the work with him, ready to de
liver to subscribers at once. We have heretofore
published extracts from the press of both parties,
speaking in the highest terms of this work, and
pronouncing it to be a very impartial history of the
brilliant career of the gallant old Hero of Niagara.
Tho work is illustrated with numerous engravings
among which is an elegant likeness of Scott, in
military dress. It describes minutely all the im
portant transactions of Gen. Scott's truly interesting
ing life, both civil and military. The book con
tains 366 pages, well bound and beautifully printed
on clear white paper—price $l.OO. Every family
should have a copy of this work, it being the history
of one who has done more hard fighting for his
country than any man now livir.g.
A copy of the work may be seen at our office.
THE FAIR.—The Ladies, it will be aeen by a
a card in another column, purpose holding a FANCY
SALE next week in the Old Court House, commen
cing on Monday evening next ; the profits arising
from which to ho devoted towards liquidating the
debt upon the new Presbyterian Church. We hope
this fair enterprize may be liberally patronized.
We would advise all gentlemen looking for office
to be especially liberal in their purchases, as it is
an established fact, that the Ladies wield a controll
ing influence, as well upon elections as husbands.
Teeth.--We call attention to the advertisement
of Dr. Errocnirro, Surgeon Dentist, in to day's
paper. We have every assurance that the Dr. is
an adept in dental surgery, skilled in all the secrets
of his profession; and therefore wo take pleasure
in recommending to him all who wish to restore or
prevent further decoy and loss of teeth.
Daguerreotype Likenesses.—We have examined
some of the specimens of those, taken by Mr. D.
STOC KI NG, and pronounce them , 4 true to nature."
Daguerreotypes have already overcome all objections,
and attained a perfection far beyond our early expec
tations. The process of colouring is an improve
ment which adds both to the beauty and durability
of these images. Mr. S. has likenesses of several
persons residing in town, and an inspection of these
will at once prove their correctness. The art will
not sullcr, in the hands of this young gentleman.
See advertisement in another column.
THE STATE INTEREST.--Tho Steto Treasurer
has given official notice that the interest duo on the
funded debt of the State would be paid on last Bat
noisy, at the Bank of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
FROM WASHINGTON.
McICAY'S FREE TRADE BILL PASSED.
We have the lamentable intelligence to commu
nicate to our readers, that Polk tihd Walker's Free
Trade Bill hes passed both Houses of Congress.--
On Monday of last week, on motion of Mr. Clay
ton, the bill was referred to the Coinirlitteo on Fi•
nance with instructions to discriminate in favor of
the raw material, and against British Manufacture,
and at the same time to increase the revenue so as
to provide more adequately for the support of the
government, by the following vole:
AYES.-Mesere. Archer, Barrow, Berrien, Cam
eron, Cilloy, J. M. Clayton, Thos. Clayton, Cor
win, Crittenden, Davis, Dayton, Evans, Greene,
Huntington, Jernigan, Johnson of La., Johnson of
Md., Mangum, Miller. Morehead, Niles, Pearce,
Phelps, Simmons, Sturgeon, Upham, Webster,
Woodbridge-28.
NAYS.--Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Atchison, Ather
ton, Bagby, Benton, Breese, Bright, Calhoun, Cass,
Chalmers, Colquitt, Dickenson, Dix, Fairfield, Han
negan, Houston, Lewis, MeDuffie, Pennebackor,
Rusk, Semple, Sevier, Speight, Turney, Westcott,
Yulee-27.
The opponents of the bill considered this a favor
able system, and entertained strong hopes of its
final defeat. But on Tuesday morning the Fi
nance ( ommittee reported back the bill without
amendment, and were discharged.
On motion of Mr. Webster, the 9th section of
the bill which authorizes the Custom House officers
to pay five per cent. premium on fraudulent in
voices, was stricken out by a vote of 28 to 28.
Messrs. Benton and Jarnagin voting yea.
An amendment was offered by Mr. Bever*
Johnson for recommitment to a select committee,
with instructions to amend by inserting a clause
making a discrimination in favor of raw materials,
which was rejected by the casting vote or the
VICE PRESIDENT—the vote being 27 to 27,
Mr. Jarnagin being absent.
Some further amendments were offered by Mr.
Hammond and rejected, discriminating in favor of
iron and coal.
The question being then taken on ordering the
bill to be engrossed for a third reading, it was dcci.
ded in the AFFIRMATIVE 131' THE CASTING
VOTE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT—the
vote of the Senate being again 27 to 27, and Mr.
Jarnagin being absent.
Mr. Dallas gave his reasons at length. Ho had,
he said, n great responsibility to assume; but after
calling to his aid the best lights within his control,
he was prepared to meet the emergency and the
hazard.
To his mind, ample proof had been furnished
that the majority of the people aro in favor of a
change in the mode of assessing the duties on for
eign imports. Six States ore equally divided on
the question ; eleven States are in favor of the bill
and eleven against it; and of those opposed to the
bill, Pennsylvania is the only Democratic State.
He spoke for nearly half an hour, and concluded
with the remark that ho would prefer the greatest
obscurity of private life to political elevation, acquired
by the perpetration of an act which his conscience
would not approve.
Mr. NILES moved to postpone the bill until De
comber, and made a powerful speech, full of indig
nation, and was followed by Mr. Caaseaow, who
denounced the bill, and said from this day forth
would be heard the cry of " REPEAL."
Tho motion to postpone was lost, yeas 26, nays
28. Messrs. WEBSTSR, DAVIS and HUNTINGTON
then addressed the Senate in strong arguments
against tho bill, when the debate was closed by Mr,
Stamm, in opposition to it, and the yoto taken
on the bill in breathless silence, which resulted as
follows :
Irees.—Messrs. Allen, Ashley, Atchison, Ather
ton, Bagby, Benton, Breese, Bright, Calhoun, Cass,
Chalmers, Colquitt, Dickinson, Dix, Fairfield, Han
negen, Houston, Jernigan, Lewis, McDefile, Pen
nybacker, Rusk, Semple, Sevier, Speight, Turney,
Westcott, Yulce--28.
Neys.—Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Berrien, Cam
eron, (Alley, J. M. Clayton, Thomas Clayton, Cor
win, Crittenden, Davis, Dayton, Evans, Greene,
Huntington, Johnson of La., Johnson of Md.,
Mangum, Miller, Morehead, Niles, Pearce, Phelps,
Simmons,Sturgeon, Upham, Webster, Woodbridge
--27. So the bill passed.
The bill was then sent to the House for concur
rence in the Senate amendment.
We clip the following notice of the final action
of the House from the Pa. Inquirer
The message from the Senate transmitting the
bill, having been read, Mr. McKay got the floor
and moved to concur in the amendment, on which
the previous question was demanded.
Mr. Stewart moved to lay the whole subject upon
'the table, which was lost--yeas 96, nays 113.
The demand for the previous question was then
seconded by yeas 102 to nays 101. The main ques
tion was then ordered to be put by yeas 109 to
nays 103.
Mr. Thompson, of Pa., moved to lay the bill on
the table; which motion was lost—yeas 99, nays
111.
The Senate's amendment was then agreed to by
yeas 115 to nays 93.
The House refused to reconsider the vote. So
the bill will become a law as soon as it shall receive
the President's signature.
g - y Senator HAYWOOD, of North Carolina, re
signed his seat in the Senate on Monday of last
week, previous to the vote being taken upon Mc-
Kay. bill. Ho could not vote for the bill, and pre
ferred retirement and a clear conscience to a seat in
the Senate and the approbation of his party. For
this honorable and patriotic course, the official or
gan of the Executive, pours out upon Mr. H. the
most coarse and violent abuse—stigmatizing him as
a traitor and renegade to the democratic party.
THE TARIFF BILL SIGNED.--The Presi
dent, by way wo suppose of proving himself a bet
ter Tariff man than Henry Clay, signed McKay's
Free Trade bill on Thursday last! Repeal! is the
word.
nj lion. A. Ramsey has our thanks for a copy
of &minor Cameron's unanswerable speech in de
fence of the Tariff of 1842. Nobly has Mr. Cam
eron fullfiled the expectations entertained of him
on this great question.
THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL.
"To your Tents, 0 Israel."
The very best announcement we can make of the
passage of McKay's bill, is by giving our readers
thh following, with tho above caption, from the Na
tidnal Intelligencer:
The spirit of Evil, alto eidetions of Party, the
hellcats of the Baltimore Convention, have finally
triumphed over the prayers and remonstrances of a
betrayed and tot rifled people. The fatal measure
which strikes at the root of all the industry of the
country, and at the living of every man iii it who
earns his bread by the sweat of his brow—this mis
shapen and monstrous scheme, which its friends
would not defend, and which even some of them
admitted could not be defended—this measure, so
pregnant of evil, has received the sanction of both
Houses of Congress, and in two days more will be
come the law of the land, What shall we say of
an act so indefensible and so pernicious ? The
country will be astounded by the news of its pas
sage. Though remotely threatened with it, the
people were incredulous. They did not not believe
that their Representatives—those even most submis
sive to party trammels--would have the hardihood
to smite the country and all its interests and hopes
with so heavy and cruel a blow. They regarded
the Resolutions of the Baltimore Convention as a
mere brutem fulmen, and the "Kane Letter' s as a
covenant of safety. Unhappy confidence ! Bit
terly is it now to be repented; and bitter the fruit
now to be reaped by those who would put their
trust in demagogues. But they suffer not alone;
the whole country shares their suffering, and none
can " mock at their calamity." They have discov
ered their error, too late though it be to avert the
evil, yet not too late to repair it. Let the whole
country rise up as ono man to vi.idicato its rights
and its interests. Let all unite- •those who hove
been deceived; and.those who have not--in one
determined effort to overthrow this ill-advised and
destructive party act. Let the cry of " REPEAL,"
from this day, go forth, and never cease until Con
gress shall obey the public voice. Let every hill
and valley, and hamlet and village ling with it until
the beneficent principles of 1842 bo restored, and
with them the re-animated industry and prosperity
of the country. In the language of en eminent
Senator, we say, " Lot not the President's signature
to this bill be dry before the clarion is sounded ; let
not a day pass before the people assemble to pro
claim their sense of wrong and their resolution to
right that wrong. Let this pernicious measure be
exposed, followed, fastened upon, dragged into full
light, and doomed to public execution, as it is now
to general reprobation. On the very first day of
the next session (added the Senator) let a bill ho
introduced to Repeal this Anti-American law, to re
establish the revenues, and restore the prosperity of
the country. I shall ho here, (he added,) God spa
ring my life, to second the movement, and with all
my ability, to assist in putting an end to this
judged, unprecedented, and monstrous measure of
legislation.
THE Emmet
The excitement throughout this State in regard
to the passage of McKay's bill is already manifest
ing itself. Some of our exchange papers come to
us clothed in mourning on account of the death
blow which has been given to the enterprise of this
great Commonwealth, and from all quarters and
all parties do we hear of the most bitter denunciation
of Geo. M. Dallas, who now receives the appella
tiou of " Pennsylvania's recreant son," for having
voted for this bill of destruction. With what a
spirit of prophecy did John M, Clayton hold the
following language at the great public meeting that
was held in Lancaster in 1844:
Should the struggle for national independence,
'which is now raging throughout the length and
breadth of the land, be decided against us by the
vote of Pennsylvania, she will come out of that con
test with her gorgeous banner trailing in the dust,
herself bleeding at every pore. The shouts of par
ty triumph will be speedily succeeded by the wail
of her ruined ploughmen and her beggared mechan
ics. The fires of her forges and the sound of the
axe and hammer in her workshops, will die away
amidst the acclamations of her fatal victory ; and
there may be many among the thousands before me,
who, withsorrow-stricken, if not with broken hearth,
may live to mourn the loss of that without which
public liberty would cease to be a blessing."
"Undiminished Confidence."
Tho Locefocos of Blair county passed a series of
resolutions in their County Convention, lauding all
their friends in office, and all who are candidates for
office, but upon the great question of the Tariff they
are as silent as the grave ! Their true feelings on
the subject, however, may inferred from the follow
ing resolution which we clip from their proceedings,
proclaiming their " undiminished confidence" in
Jas. K. Polk, who has just consummated his work
of destruction upon tho interests of Pennsylvania:
Resolved, That we have undiminished confidence
in James K. Polk, thc President of the United States.
The above resolution, lot it be remembered by the
people, was passed by the same body that nominated
Gen. A. Porter Wilson for Congress.
Blair County:
The Whigs of this county have nominated the
following ticket:
Sheriff—Samuel J. Royer. Assembly—Henry
Bridenthal. Prothonotary—Jos. Smith. Register
and Recorder—E. Galbraith. Commissioners—
John K. Neff Edward Magraw, Wm. Bell. Audi
tore—W. P. Dysart, .1. S. Wilson, C. E. Kinkead.
Treasurer—Joseph Morrow. Coroner—Joseph C.
Morgan.
Tho above is spoken of, by those acquainted with
the gentlemen composing it, ass very strong ticket—
and will be, without doubt, triumphantly elected.
Tho Convention also appointed Congressional
conferees, and instructed them unanimously to
vote for the re-nomination of the Hon. JOHN
BLANCHARD. A unanimous re-nomination,
we believe, from all we can learn, awaits our talent
ed and faithful representative in every county of
his district.
1:0"- The Locofocos of Blair county have nomi
nated the following ticket:
Assembly—Edward Bell. Sheriff—John Bu
chanan. Prothonotary—J. M. Gibbonoy. Reg.de
Roc.—Samuel Smith. Treasurer—R. H. McCor
mick. Commissioners--V. Lingenfelter, Rudolph
Spang, D. Henchoy. Auditols—D. Brooke, J. R.
Meloy, E. Gibbony. Coroner—A Myers.
CounT tr . Drain COTINTIN—The first Court for
this county was held in Hollidaysburg last week,
commencing on Monday and adjourning on Tues-
day. But one small case was tried—the Court
not having the power to compel the Lawyers to
proceed at the first term. The Court sat in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Between filly and
sixty Lawyers vitro admitted to practice in the soy
cral Courts of that counts'.
COUNTY MEWING,.
We hope and expect to see a grand rally of the
people on Wednesday evening next at the Old
Court House. Let all come, old and young, em
ployer and employed, Mechanic and Farmer, Man
ufacturer and Laborer, so that there may be R full
and general expression of the feelings of the peoples
in relation to the BRITISH-TARIFF BILL just
passed by the American Congress. Let the cry of .
REPEAL-REPEAL, be sounded fiom the hill tope
and mode to ring through the willies of this great
Ines &Grosz ; and although we cannot now meet
the present evils that must result to us from tha
triumph of this British policy, we can say to Jas.
K. Polk, Geo. M. Dallas, Sir Robert Walker, anti
their organ grinder, Father Ritchie, in tones of thun
der, that there evils aro too " grievous to be borne"
and Malik but temporary. Let all who have been
deceived in regard to Jas. K. Polk, come out at
once from among the Free Trade party; and let no
one vote for those who have been the instruments of
their deception, for any office, and our word for it
the present British bill will not remain upon the
statute books more than two years from the date of
its taking effect, if it be not wiped off sooner.
Pennsylvania has been almost ground down into
the dust by her miserable adherence to party. Her
great interests have been stricken down—utterly
sacrificed, by those who promised to stand by and
uphold them; and her deceivers are now mocking
at her calamity and laughing at her verdancy, for
being misled by their heartless and unparalleled
duplicity.
Come, then, ono and all, to the meeting on Wed
nesday evening next, (Aug. 12th,) and let us set
the REPEAL BALL in motion at once.
Since the above was in type we received the fol.
lowing:
FRIEND CLARK:—As I have understood, that
in conformity with the ancient usucs of the Whigs
of our county, a county meeting will be held on
the Wednesday evening of the first Court week,
I will inform the public that it is expected that the
Hon. JAMES COOPER will be in our town, on
professional business, and it is to bo hoped that he
may be prevailed upon to address tho meeting.--
If so, an interesting and eloquent account of the
men and measurer of our opponents, as well as an
appeal to the friends of American Industry, as to
their whole duty may be expected.
A WHIG.
Ingratitude ! I
The Locofocos of Blair county, at their delqato
convention held last week, appointed Congressional
conferees, with instructions to support A. Vorter
Wilson, Esq. for Congress ! We are informed that
the vote stood as follows:—twin 9, Wilson 18 !!
A. Gwin, Esq. has thus been struck down (politi
cally,) by the county for whose erection he made
every required sacrifice! Ho injured himself pi
cuniarly, rendered himself odious to his neighbors,
violated solemn pledges, all for the purpose of com
plying with the requests of the people of Blair;
and when ho asked them for his promised reward,
they turned a deaf ear to his petition and conferred
their honors upon another! ! 0, what base ingrati
tude ! The only compensation Mr. Gwin gets for
all his labors in behalf of this ungrateful people, is
the following hypocritical regrets, contained in the
lost number of the Hollidaysburg Standard, the
organ of the Blair county Locos:
n We fondly hoped that the democracy of Blair
county would havo seized the first, perhaps the only
opportunity they may have, of expressing their
appreciation of the services of Capt. Gwiu, by
giving him the conferees from this county. But
we havo been disappointed, and our only consolation
is, that the democracy of Hollidaysburg are clear of
the sin, as the vote for delegates will show. Wo
believe the people of the Big dish ict wore also right
on the subject, but some of the leaders and delegate.
were not. We regret the result for the honor of
the people of Blair county, and somewhat for the
success of the nomination, but regrets are now use
less."
Wo sincerely sympathise with Capt. Gtvin, and
do hope that he will not give way to melancholy
on account of this outrageous conduct on the part
of his Blair county friends, but bear up manfully
against it ; and should they again want their county
severed, tell them, boldly, to divide it themselves!
Public Bentunent.
The Philadelphia Spirit of the Times, a Deed:-
co paper, thus speaks of the passage of IVlcKay t e
bill, and the vote of Vico President Dallas:
"The infamy has been consummated! and by
the vote of George MiAlin Dallas, of Pennsylvania!
The Old Keystone has been blasted by the ingrate
hand of a treacherous son. Like that of him who
fired the Ephesian dome, the fame of George M.
Dallas shall be immortal—immortal to execration,
immortal to infamy. Tho Commonwealth that had
given him birth, life, favor, wealth, station and power,
called upon him to stretch forth his arm and save
her; he has answered the call as the assassin res
ponds to the mercy cry of the helpless. Alas ! poor
Pennsylvania ! An empire within herself, possess.
ing more of the real elements of wealth and great
ness than the entire Union besides, she has been
sacrificed to the dogmas of tho South—prostrated
and trodden down to earth by those who were
pledged, orally and in writing, to stand by her. rho
fraud must be wiped out--Repeal is the word and
we set the ball in motion, oven though we stand
solitary and alone.' But we shall not be alone.
The Rough, stout arms of sixteen thousand iron•
workers and minors, will roll on the ball, not will
it stop till justice has been done to Pennsylvania."
(0- Wo clip the following paragraphs from the
Philadelphia Eagle of Thursday last :
A WETIIUT FOR TRE TELEGRAPR-Hung in
Effigy.—George M. Dallas, Pennsylvania's room,.
ant son, was found suspended upon the wires ofi
the Magnetic Telegraph yesterday morning, in Mar.l
hot street below seventh.
Errxcrs OF THE BILL—An extensive manufaelf
tory in Kensington, we have just learned, intendsill
discharging FIVE HUNDRED hands on Saturdayg
next, now employed, in consequence of McKay's.
Tariff bill.
Several largo mercantile firms in this city, a
reported as having suspended businesa ; and al
largo manufacturing establishment. at Manayunk;
Trenton, Pottsville, and elsewhere. Where the an
wilt be, time alone can tell.
We learn from tho Harrisburg Pa, Intelligent:oi,
that Vice President Dallas was found hanging
the Market-house of that borough on Friday nu'
ing Inst.
07 . 1 - . It is said that the Pennsylvania volunt6
will be called into !mice about the lst of Sep?.