THE JOURNAL.
Huntingdon, Wednesday, May 5, 1817.
WHIG NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR:
GEN. JAMES IRVIN,
OF CE.NTRE COUN7'Y,
FOR CANAL COMM ISSIONER :
JOSEPH W. PATTON,
OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
THOMAS E. FRANKLIN, Lancaster city
JOHN C. KUNKEL, of Dauphin county
THOMAS DUNCAN,
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JAMES MARTIN,
THOMAS C. HAMBLY, York.
WM. M. WATTS, Cumberland.
DANIEL M. SMYSER, Adams.
JOHN P. WETHERILL, Philadelphia city
JOSEPII R. CHANDLER,
44
ROBERT T. CONRAD,
THOMAS I.IIPGRATH,PhiIada. county.
DILLER LUTHER, Berks.
ROBERT M. BARD Franklin.
?nos. M. T. WKENNAN, Washington.
ANDREW J. OGLE, Somerset.
HARMAR DENNY ' Allegheny.
RICHARD IRVIN, Venango.
JOSEPH H. KUHNS, Westmoreland.
G. J. BALL, Erie.
D. MAXWELL, Northampton.
NB. SALISBURY, Susquehanna.
ELHANAN SMITH, Wyoming.
SAMUEL A. PURVIANCE, Butler.
HENRY S. EVANS, Chester.
ROBERT T. POTTS, Montgomery.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—We are in
formed that John Hoffman, son of Dr.
J. Hoffman, of this borough, fell from a
boat into the Delaware river on Thurs
day night last, and was drowned. It ap
pears that he had risen from his bed on
the boat, and was walking in his sleep
when the accident occurred. The de
ceased was about twenty years of age.
We sincerely sympathize with the be
reaved parents on this afflicting dispen
•ation of Providence.
Fon THE WAR.—Sergeant R. M. JONES,
of the U. S. Army, has opened a Recruit
ing Rendezvous at the hotel of Mr. Thos.
Wallace, in this borough, where able
bodied men, wishing to participate in
the present war, will be received and
entered for the service. The induce
ments are, $l2 bounty, and 160 acres
of land at the expiration of the term of
service.
THE CROPS.—From the severity of the
winter, and the cold dry weather which
we have had during the month of April,
the grain crops in this county look
rather unpromising, especially upon the
low lands. On Saturday night and
Sunday last we had a fine rain, and
should the season now prove favorable,
it is believed that our farmers ►nay still
have near an average crop. We hope so.
WHO CAN ANSWER I—As the Locofocos
claim for the Tariff of 1846 the credit
of producing the want and starvation in
Europe, and the consequent high price
of our surplus breadstuffs, we respect
fully submit to their consideration the
following question :
If the Tariff of 1846 hns, since it
went into operation, produced almost
universal starvation in Ireland and many
parts of Europe, how long will it take
it to operate to produce a like result
throughout the entire world 1
What Free-Trader can answer 1
([7 A son of Gen. Wallace M' Wil-
Hams had an arm shot off by the prema
ture discharge of a cannon, last week, at
Washington, Pa., while firing salutes in
honor of the late victories.
fD Capt. Vinton, who Sell at the siege
°Merit Cruz, was a pious man, and was
designing to leave the army, to serve
the Prince of Peace, in the ministry of
the gospel. Col. Hardin, who fell at the
battle of Buena Vista, was an elder in
the Presbyterian church, in Illinois.
03 Frederick Reidel, a German, un
der sentence of death for the murder of
his wife, hung himself in the Pittsburg
prison, on the 30th ult,, the day fixed
for his execution.
NICE YOUNG MEN.—Hon. Edward Ev
erett is about to resign the Presidency
of Harvard College, on account of the
intractibility of the students.
[l7- The Harrisburg Telegraph has
placed the name of Gen. WINFIELD
SCOTT at the head of itscolumns, as a
candidate for the Presidency.
"TAW= 211 MGM! AND
WILL PREVAIL."
This imperishable expression of the
heroic Jackson, was never more conclu
sively verified than it promises to be in
the conduct and principles of the two
great political parties in• the United
States. Our Revolutionary ancestors—
those brave spirits who rescued our
country from dependence and oppression
and framed a Constitution and Govern
ment, whose only guarantee must ever
rest in the virtue and intelligence of the
People, intended that this government
should always be free and independent;
and any party acting on principles at
variance with these, cannot long retain
power.
The Party now in power arrogated to
themselves the exclusive advocacy of
Democratic principles ; and mistaking
or underrating the intelligence and vir
tue of the People, which is so essential
to the perpetuity of our government,
they presumed that they could gradually
and imperceptibly change it to a despo
tism, whose pillars should be upheld by
the ignorance of an oppressed and de
'graded populace, who could forever be
held in subjection by means of a union
of the Purse and the Sword, in the
hands of a Despot, under the popular
name of President. This truth was
pressed upon the People in every shape
in which it could be presented, during
the last Presidential campaign; but the
leaders of the dominant Party, covering
up their views and designs under the
potent name of Democracy, and misrep
resenting the principles of their oppo
nents, succeeded, and for a while, false
hood triumphed over truth. But " truth
crushed to earth will rise again." Every
act and measure of that party, since the
inauguration of Mr. Polk, has verified
the predictions of the Whigs and falsi
fied the pretentions of the Locofoco
leaders. A deceived, betrayed and in
dignant constituency, are eager to wreak
vengeance upon those who trifled with
their credulity, and betrayed their con
fidence. The leaders seeing this, en
deavor to extricate themselves from their
critical position by a deeper and more
desperate plunge into falsehood and de
ception, and a louder call upon the once
magic name of Democracy. Democracy
and Slavery, terms considered synony
mous by the nabobs of the South, must
be propagated at the point of the bayo
net. The " area of Freedom " must be.
extended ; and according to the new sys
tem of ethics, the country can never be
Free until all the laborers of the North
are enslaved. The bold blow struck at
the industrial pursuits of the North by
the repeal of the Tariff of 1842, met
with but a momentary threat and resist
ance from the leaders of the Administra
tion party in the North; and now they
are Loud in praise of the British Tariff
of 1846. The Famine in Europe, which
is carrying off its tens of thousands to
the grave, is looked upon as a God-send
to their party, for it suddenly and un
expectedly opened a market for the pro
duce of this country; and the ready
market and high prices they impiously
attribute to the Tariff of 1846—the bit
ter fruits of which have thereby only
been postponed. They endeavor to ap
propriate all the glory of the Mexican
War to themselves, and shift the infamy
of it to the shoulders of the Whigs.—
The people, however, have never been
more vigilant in observing the move
ments of the party in power. And they
see that this war is carried on as a poli
tical capital manufactory by the Admin
istration, and fearful that the War might
come to a hasty termination, a Locofoco
Congress appropriated twenty-five or
thirty millions to prosecute it on our
side, and three millions to the Mexicana !
Of course, all the capital the Adminis
tration makes in this way they are wel
come to; and they begin to see it—for,
like the Mexicans, they get whipped in
every contest with the Whigs, us the
late elections abundantly prove.
We might pursue this subject much
further, but this is enough to show that
"Truth is mighty, and will prevail."
THE POPULAR ADMINISTRATION. -Mr.
Polk went into office with somewhere
about seventy majority in the National
House of Representatives. That major
ity, by recent elections has been redu
ced to eight, and even his organ begins
to calculate the chances of his being in
a minority. This is a strong argument
in favor of Polk's Administration, Polk's
War, Polk's National Debt, and Polk's
violations of the Constitution !
O The New York State Canalswere
opened for navigation on the Ist inst.
[From the Sunbury American, a Loco%co paper.)
THE TARIFF OF 1846.
We cut the following singular recan
tation from the Lycoming Gazette, as
an evidence of the instability and falli
bility of all things human.
" Ruin, indeed, under the tariff of 1846. Why
the price of wheat in the metropolis of the `tote,
has ranged for the last four months, from one dollar
twelve and a half cents, to one dollar fifty cents,—
a thing_ almost unprecedented! Corn is selling in
Philanlphia for 80 and 90 cents per bushel, and in
our own borough for 02} cents. Potatoes at from
50 to 75 cents, and all other kinds of produce in
proportion. Ts this the ruin, which accompanies
the Tariff of 1846, and wan no greatly feared by
the good people of Lycoming Answer, he who
can ! For our own part, we plead guilty of error,
for who that predicted ruin, distress and bankrupt•
cy, to follow the repeal of the Tariff of '42, was
not in error. 'l'o pretend otherwise, is to assert a
falsehood in the face of truth."
That any one should attribute the high
price of grain and provision to the tariff
of 1846, is a stretch of the imagination
so far into the regions of romance that
we could scarcely believe our own eyes
when we saw the above in so respect
able a paper as the Lycoming Gazette. ,
Had the editor contended that the famine
and potato rot in Europe had been
brought about by the new tariff, our sur- I
prise would have been no greater; for
the one is about as probable as the other.
We will not shock the good sense of our
readers by informing them that the star
ving population of Europe, especially
Ireland, where thousands have actually
perished and are still dying for want of
food, has brought about the present high
prices. The loss of the potato crop
alone has been estimated to occasion an
increased consumption of 48 millions of
bushels of bread stuffs. The deficiency
of the oat and bean crops 32 millions,
and the barley crop, one fourth, or 12
millions of bushels—making in all a de
ficiency of 98,000,000 bushels in Great
Britain. France, Belgium, and some of
the Italian States have prohibited the
export of grain. These are the causes
which make Indian corn worth the ex
travagant sum of two dollars per bushel
in Ireland. Neither the tariff of 1846
or any other tariff could have any effect
on the price of grain in Europe. The
British Corn Laws were repealed before
the tariff of 1846 was enacted, because
want was staring the people in the face.
Our opinion of the new tariff remains
unchanged. Although we did not approve
of many of its details, we felt assured
that its greatest defect was its inadequa
cy to protect the coal and iron interests
of Pennsylvania. We did not believe
these interests would suffer for several
years to come, on account of the great
demand for iron in Europe, for contem
plated rail roads. But what security
have we if a revulsion should take place,
and iron go down, as it frequently has
done, to $lO per ton in England. Iron
wo4l then be admitted into our sea
ports at about $lB per ton, under the
ad valorem duty of 30 per cent. At these
prices every furnace in the State must
necessarily close, and in the absence of
a foreign demand, grain would go down
to the lowest ebb. Even M. Walker
was convinced of his error, and recom
mended an increased duty on coal and
iron at the last session. We have no
desire to stir up the tariff question ; but
we cannot quietly sit still and see the
labandonment of the great interests of
Pennsylvania promulgated as a demo
cratic measure, without recording our
protest against it.
THE LIEUTENANT GENERALSHI P.—Col
onel Benton is fond of diving into liter
ature, and drawing up pearls of quota
tions from the golden sands of the olden
authors. We wonder that he never, in
any of his rhapsodies before the Senate,
bethought him of a sentence to be found
in Rabelais, book 1, chap. 33 :
011 that you would but make me
your Lieutenant General: how I should
truss up the rogues with discipline! I
fret, I charge! I strike, I take, I kill, I
slay, I play the devil ! On, on, said Pier
ochole ; he that loves me, follow me !"
V- The Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER left
Washington on Wednesday accompa
nied by his lady, on his long projected
tour through the Southern States to New
Orleans, and thence up the Mississippi
to the Western country, intending to re
turn home by the Lakes. Arrangements
are being made in Richmond, Charleston,
and other Southern towns to give him a
reception worthy of his distinguished
fame.
A VETERAN OFFICE HOLDER.—A wri
, ter in the Cincinnati Advertiser says,
Francis R. Shunk was taken from Mont
gomery county by Mr. B. Boileau, to
Harrisburg, in 1808, and gave him a
clerkship in one of the public offices.—
Since that time he has been, almost with
out interruption, an office holder.
Virginia Election.
GLORIOUS—IF NOT VICTORIOUS!
The returns of the recent Election in
Virginia for Members of Congress and
State Legislature, exhibit a most grati
fying gain for the Whigs. In the last
Gongress Virginia was represented by
a single Whig, Mr. John S. Pendleton,
who stood like a " lone star" in the del
egation. Now the Whigs have certain
ly elected five members, viz : Messrs.
Pendleton, Botts, Flournoy, Goggin and
Preston--all good Whigs--making a gain
of four members of Congress ! And in
the 2d district, which gave Polk 824
Mr. Dromgoole is elected by only 18
votes, and Bocock (Loco) in the 4th dis
trict by only 20 votes !
The election of the fearless John M.
Botts, distinguished as he is for his un
deviating attachment to Whig princi
ples, will of itself be hailed by the
Whigs of the Union as a glorious tri
umph. His presence on the floor of
Congress will be found as annoying to
the Administration as it was to Captain
Tyler and his " Corporal's Guard."
The Whigs have also thus far gained
14 members of the Legislature, and lost
s—being equivalent to a reduction of 18
on the Loco majority of last year, when
it was 22.
THE LICENSE QUESTION IN NEW YORK.
—A singular revolution, says the Pub
lic Ledger, has occurred in New York
in respect to the law licensing the sale
of intoxicating drinks. In almost every
town and village where a year ago the
sale was forbidden, the people have, by
overwhelming majorities, this year voted
for granting licenses. This result, at
first view, might be supposed a change
in people's opinions respecting the evils
of intemperance, but such is not the
case. One year's experience has been
sufficient to teach the people of New
York that such a law is utterly imprac
ticable, and that intemperance, like any
other moral evil, so far from being cured
by legislation, only grows more rampant
from the restrictions attempted to be im
posed upon it. The grand argument
against the law has been, that it has not,
and could not, be enforced, and that,
therefore, it was demoralizing to vote no
license, when liquor, in spite of the law,
woulebe and had been, sold.
" Northern Dough-Facem."
The following description of Northern
Dough Faces is from the New York
Evening Post, a Locofoco print. It is
vigorous and truthful. Whether it has
a fit application to Representatives from
Pennsylvania, we leave it to the reader
to determine :
" A set of men who live only in the
sunshine of power; who take their opin
ions from executive organs; who oppose
the Wilmot proviso to-day because the
administration disapproves ; and who
would support it with equal vigor to
morrow if their file leader winked the
other way ; who, though cradled in the
Free States, have no idea of the dignity
of freedom ; who cannot plead even the
miserable excuse of ignorance, or con
sistency in error; but vacillating, timid
and irresolute, demagogues to their con
stituents—sycophants to the federal ex
ecutive—parasites everywhere, misrep
resenting the North, despised by the South
—bask for a few brief hours in the light
of executive favor, and perish—cover
ing themselves with ignominy and the
free States with disgrace."
TIIEVICTORY TO COME.—Prentice says:
—"We have before us maps of the bat
tle grounds upon which Gen. Taylor
won his four great victories in Mexico.
We have also before us a map of the bat
tle ground upon which he will win his
great battle of 1848—that is to say, a
map of the United States."
p• Gen. SCOTT and suite attended
Church in Vera Cruz on Easter Sunday,
and received marked attention from the
inhabitants. The General was the first
in the congregation to whom a long light
ed candle was handed, which he held
for some time in his hand.
O The Anti-Rent troubles have bro
ken out anew in New York. Gov. Young
has issued a proclamation offering a
reward for the apprehension of any of
the persons concerned in the recent out
rages.
LAST OF THE ROMANS.-Mr. Bowden,
M. C., in a recent speech in Talladega,
Alabama, called Mr. Polk The last of
the Romans." The Montgomery Jour
nal on the occasion expressed its delight
that the breed was so nigh run out !
ID - Hon. Geo. C. Dromgoole, elected
to Congress from the 2d district in Vir-
ginia, died on the 28th instant.
ir)- The Whigs of Columbia county,
Pa., have nominated Gen. Taylor for
President.
From General Taylor.
Despatches from General Taylor have
been received at Washington, bearing
date on the 28th of March, and they
pay the proper tribute to the gallant con
duct of Col. Morgan, of the Ohio volun
teers, in the engagement at Agua Fria.
General Taylor reports that his commu•
nication with the rear is now measurably
secure, no interruption having taken
place since the 20th ult. A train arri
ved on the 24th, under escort of the Ist
Indiana regiment, and another was daily
expected. It is understood that the reg
ular cavalry of Urrea had retired from
that quarter across the mountains ; a
natural result of the retreat of the main
army towards San Luis, and of our pre
cautions to secure the trains. All was
quiet at Saltillo. The troops in good
health and the wounded rapidly recov
ering. The inhabitants, both at Saltillo
and Monterey, were generally returning
to their homes, and, in the country, are
engaged in planting their crops.
A Letter from Father Matthew,
[Father Matthew, in a letter to the
editor of the Albany Journal, announces
his intention to visit the U. States this
summer. The Philadelphia Inquirer has
the following:]
We are indebted to a gentleman of
this city for the following extract from
a letter from Father Matthew, dated
Coax, March 26, 1847.
" We are in a deplorable condition,
even in our wealthy city. More than
fifteen thousand destitute creatures have
fled from the surrounding districts into
Cork, to escape Famine and Death. The
awful consequence of this influx of mis
ery has been the breaking out of a fear
ful fever, which is cutting off our most
respectable citizens.
" The late delightful accounts from
your glorious Republic, have produced
infinite good by lowering the price of
Indian Corn. They have compelled the
heartless monopolists to slacken their
deadly grasp upon their remaining stores.
The multitudinous arrivals of full freight
ed Breadstuff vessels, the well-timed
charity of our kind Benefactors in your
States, will, I hope, confound forever
their unholy hopes."
A Voice from Europe.
The following resolution was adopted
unanimously, amid loud chers, at a great
public meeting held in the City Lecture
Room, in Finsbury, city of London, on
the 24th March, 1847. Mr. Jones pro
pose], and Mr. Harold seconded the re
solut'on :
That overpowered with, heartfelt
gratitude at the prompt, decisive and
energetic benevolence of the people of
the United States of America, in their
spontaneous and unsolicited aid to the
poor peasantry of Ireland, we feel lan
guage to be inadequate, to give expres
sion to our gratitude to that noble and
independent people; betokening, as it
does, to the nations of the earth, whe
ther afflicted by distress caused by pro
vidential calamaties or internal impoli
cy, that there is a great and magnani
mous people on our globe, ever ready
with hope, succor and consolation, in
the hour of need, calling forth the over
joyed thanks of this meeting, the last
ing gratitude of Ireland, and the admi
ration of the world."
SCARE CROVVB. _a 8 the crow and crow
black-bird commit serious depredations
upon the corn field, and it is impossible
to drive them off by any personal means
within the power of the application of
the planter, it is always safest to provide
an efficient scare-crow, and we will here
remark, that the only ones deserving of
this character that we have ever seen,
are sheets of bright tin, suspended upon
poles sufficiently elevated to be seen
over the field. The slightest wind
causes a motion, whose reflection is as
sure to frighten off the birds as would
the flash of a gun. Four sheets of tin,
judicially placed,would protect a 50 acre
field of corn.
Da- Several Loco Foco journals are
afraid that the nomination of Gen TAY-
Lox for the Presidency, will injure him.
They are all at once peculiarly jealous
of the good name of the old soldier.—
But all this is sheer hypocrisy. They
were dumb as door-posts when a subser
vient majority in the House of Represen
tatives endeavored to fix a stigma upon
his character, by condemning the capit
ulation of Monterey. Not a word did
they utter in his defence when, to re
buke him for writing a letter to General
Gems, the War Department issued a
despotic order forbidding all officers of
the army from corresponding with their
friends in regard to matters connected
with the war; and they were silent as
deaf-mutes during the whole struggle
for the appointment of a Lieutenant
General, to supercede "Old Rough and
Ready " in the command of the army.—
Whatever compliments he has received
from the immediate organs of the Ad
ministration have been constrained.—
Yet they now pretend to cherish his
good name with jealous regard.—Even
ing Journal
THE HOME or IRVI2f,
CENTRE COUNTY.
The Whigs of Centre county—tte
home of Gen. JAMES IRVIN, held a
meeting in Bellefonte, on Wednesday,
evening last, which, we learn from the'
Whig, was the largest held in the coon•
ty since the campaign of 1844. The
following are among the resolutions
adopted :
Resolved, That we the fellow-citizens
and neighbors of Gen. JAMES IRVIN,
do declare to our Whig brethren of Penn
sylvania, that we feel deeply the favor
they have conferred upon us by select
ing him as their candidate for Gover
nor, and we mean to show to them that
we appreciate it, by a united and vigor
ous support of our common cause.
Resolved, That in Gen. JAMES IR
VIN we have a candidate of whom wo
may well feel proud. Born and raised
in our midst, he has been known among
us from his youth even until now, as one
of whotn it may be truly said, that no
stain rests upon his character—every
duty has been discharged with scrupu
lous fidelity and with entire ability—not
above acting in the most humble station
he has been found equal to the highes‘.
Armed, as his character is, so strong in
honesty, that the breath of political ma
lice passes by him harmless as the idle
wind.
R esol ved, That in his able and effi
cient support of that great Pennsylvania
measure, the Tariff of 1842—in his
steady and uniform opposition to that
favorite measure of Mr. Polk's adminis
tration, a tax on Tea and Coffee—Gen.
IRVIN is entitled to the confidence and
support of the people of Pennsylvania.
How long is it since the Polk party
claimed the credit of having passed the
Tariff of '42, and claimed to be its most
strenuous and consistent friends; and
yet, strange to tell, we now find those
very men blaming Gen. Irvin for voting
for it, and making that a reason for op
posing him. Oh consistency I thou art
a jewel.
Resolved, That we can safely say to
our Whig brethren that all is right in
Centre; and, without intending to make
any extravagant boast, we feel secure in
saying that we shall do better than we
ever did at any similar election. The
Whig cause is steadily gaining strength
in this county, and has been for years
past, as the result of our elections fully
proves. In addition to this, Gen. Ir
vin's well-earned and well-deserved pop
ularity has always placed him at the
head of his party, even in the fiercest
political struggles, and as it is known
that he has now more friends than he
ever had before, we feel warranted in
the assertion that Centre will do her
full share in electing him.
Resolved, That while we firmly be
lieve the present war with Mexico could
have been avoided without any con►pro
mise of our national honor or individual
rights, and for the consequences, a fear
ful responsibility rests upon James K.
Polk and his advisers; yet the war hav
ing been recognized by the constituted
authorities of the land, we feel it to he
our duty to sustain our own country, by
all the means necessary to a successful
prosecution of the same.
Resolved, That we glory in the tri
umph of American valor led by Ameri
can Generals on the fields of Mexico.—
The victories won by Gen. TAYLOR
are an imperishable monument to his
skill and courage as well as to the cour
age of our officers and soldiers.
Reiolved, That we claim to be just
such "Mexican Whigs" as Taylor and
Scott, and we feel certain that we should
move to a political battle under the lead
of either, to a certain victory over Loco..
focoism, whether lett by James K. Polk
or either of his Lieutenant Generals,
Santa Anna or Thomas H. Benton, al•
though they had three millions of the
people's money to back them.
AN ANCIENT WITNESS-A JUDGE RE.
NOWNED FOR LIBERALITY AND SAGACITY !
—Sir Matthew Hale, in early life, was
addicted to pleasures, and vain, not to
say proflig ate, company. One of his companions, from drunkenness, became
apparently dead, and this was one of
the principal means of reclaiming Hale.
His biographer states, in summing up
his character, hat ever after the time
he was startled into this thoughtfulness,
he cherished the utmost dread of excess
in drinking ; and his testimony was thus
recorded in the latter part of his life:
" The places of jurisdiction, which I
have long held in this kingdom, have
given me opportunity to observe the
original cause of most of the enormities
that have been committed for the space
of near TWENTY years ; and by a due ob
servation, I have found, that four out
of five of them have been the issues and
product of excessive drinking, at taverns
or ale-house meetings."
This was said by Sir Matthew Hale
nearly two hundred years ago. Ever
since that time the uniform experience
and observation of all Judges have been
the same; and the investigations of po
litical economists and philanthropists
concur in establishing the sante result.
Patrick Boran alias Patrick Mc.
ran, accused of the Robbery and Mur
der of Lawrence Brennen recently in
this county, was arrested on Monday
last, and on Tuesday underwent an ex
amination before Justice Reed, and was
fully committed to await his trial at the
June Court of Oyer and Terminer for
Schuylkill county.-4nthrarite Gawk..