THE JOURNAL.
Huntingdon, Wednesday, Jnne 2, 1847,
WHIG NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR:
GEN. JAMES IRVIN ,
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER:
JOSEPH W. PATTON ,
OF CUOIRERLaND COUNTY.
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Gen• Scott's Proclamation,
In thispaper will be found a proclamation from
Gen. Scott to the Mexican people, to which we in
vite attention. It will be seen that while the
Great Pacificator is fully conscious of his entire
ability to conquer the Mexicans in battle, he is
exerting all the energies of his powerful mind to
win them over to peace. As a composition, this
proclamation at once places Gen. Scott among the
most forcible writers of the present day. No one
can peruse it without emotion ; and we venture to
say that all who read it will rise Com its perusal
with feelings of increased admiration an respect for
its great author. Although Gen. Scott has no su
periors, and few equals, as a military leader, he has
ever shown by his sets that he loves peace rather
than war. And while, as in duty boon I, he obeys
the instructions of his government in prosecuting
this war, we cannot doubt for a moment, that if
Winfield Scott instead of Jam. K. Polk, bad been
at the head of this government, negotiation in
place of the sword, would have settled all the diffi
culties between this country and Mexico.
That the object aimed at by Gen. Scott, (the re
storation of peace) may be speedily attained, must
be the fervent aspiration of every patriotic heart in
the land.
THE W.R.
A correspondent of the National In
telligencer, writing from New Orleans
under date of May 19, says:
Major Gen. Patterson has just arrived from the
theatre of his late active operations. He returns to
muster out of service hie volunteers, who are corn
ing here. His division is broken up, only three re
giments out of nine remaining in the field and lie
is left without a command. He left Xelape en the
6th, and has letters from Gen. Scott to the lath--
Gen. Quitman marched on the 7th to join General
Worth at Perote. The army wilbprobably proceed
as far as Puebla—riot further. Gen. Scott's dis
posable force does not exce, d six thousand. All
the report sof deputations from the capital are
without foundation. No signs of peace—no signs
of any thing like surrender.
There are but two alternatives left to UP—to fall
back and hold on to the seacoast and frontier line,
or to conquer the whole country, province by pro
vince, extend our jurisdiction, and collect taxes
and contributions. All this in impossible: fifty
thousand men would st leant bet cquired. To fall
back now would be disgraceful to, and ruin the
Administration, and they will not do it. Weak
minds perceive an error, arid pride of opinion in too
strong with such men. The Government are in a
dreadful predicament unless they can buy a peace.
There is numeral buret of indignation at the pro
motion 'of detierals Pillow and Quitman—general
diaguel in the whole in my at the proceedings at
Washington.
CONSISTENCY OF THE GLOBE.
Witt= Ts "Tnat Rots s"..- -The question is
ritt now Who hit Billy Patterson'!" or " Who
threW that brick-bat t" Hut the great question,
since the peerage of tic present Tariff, is, " Where
is the RUIN .2" _
Can our neighoor down town, give the people
any information of the whereabouts of his coleague,
Mr. RUIN There are some gentlemen in the
neighborhood of Bellefonte " who are very anxious
to know.--Huntingdon Globe, 26th inst.
When we gave it as onr opinion last
summer, that the Globe would, before
one year, desert the Tariff of 1842, and
support the British Bill of 1846, that
paper became very wroth with us, and
the editor declared himself as good a
friend of the Act of '42 as ourself. Im
mediately after the passage of the Tariff
bill of '46 the following article appear
ed in the Globe. We quote it in answer
to the above interrogotories :
[From the Huntingdon Globe, July 29, 1846.)
It is hardly necessary for us to say
that we condemn the repeal of the Tariff
of 1842 by the present Congres, and
that we are among those who are deter
mined to advocate the REPEAL of the
strictly revenue Tariff that has been
substituted for it. That the act of 1842
had its defects no one doubted. That
fact was acknowledged by both the
\Vhigs and Democrats who passed it.—
But that the principles upon which it was
founded were sound, and its general op
' erasion highly beneficial was UNDE,N7-
.118 LE. The objections to it that we
entertained were to some of its minor
details,
and rather than hazznrd a repeal
of the bill or Its material alteration, we
would have cheerfully consented to
waive every thing in the shape of ob
jection to it. We started out in this ar
ticle by saying that we condemned the
legislation by which the wholesome pro
visions of the act of 1842 have been an
nulled. We repeat it, and declare our
conviction that the system of duty adopted
by the act of t/ i m Session is MOST UNWISE.
We say further that the bill is HIGHLY
PREJUDICIAL to Pennsylvania interests,
and that we are to be ranked among its
UNCOMPROMISING FOES. That it
cannot stand is our firm belief—that it
should not is our firm conviction.
The above was written and published
by our neighbor before the leaders had
time to give their instructions to their
subjects. But in good time the party
lash was applied, and instead of waging
an "uncompromising" war and advoca
ting the "REPEAL of the strictly rev
enue Tariff" our neighbor becomes the
most bitter and "uncompromising" en
emy of the Tariff of 1842, the "bene
ficial" operations of which lie said was
"undeniable!" And now we find him,
in each number of the Globe, extolling
the British Bill of 1846 to the skies !
What a disgusting spectacle of base
party subserviency is here presented!!
What large credulity it must require to
believe any statement hereafter made
by a paper so lost to all sense of consis
tency and truth.
D-The loco fOco press is making a
boast that Gov. Shunk is a poor Gover
nor. He is poor enough in one sense of
the word, but if he be poor in purse, what
has become of the seventy five thousand
dollars which he has drawn from the
State treasuryl Let his friends answer
that. Most men would have laid a little
by out of so large a sum. if the Gover
nor has not fattened after feeding thirty
years at the public crib, he must belong
to the poorer sort, and there is no use
keeping him longer.
Have we Conquered a Peace?
Since the news of the last decisive
battle at Ceiro Gordo has reached us,
the inquiry has often been propounded,
"what effect will it have upon the Mex
icansl—will it bring them to terms?—
will it be instrumental in bringing about
Peacel" We fear not. We might give
our reasons at length for this opinion s
but we prefer laying before our readers
in lieu thereof, the views entertained
upon this subject by the Journal of
Commerce, a locofoco paper, published
in New York. It says:
"To conquer Mexico,
we must take it
in detail; conquer each separate State,
and make a separate treaty with each,
and keep an army in it for the mainten
ance of peace. All this will constitute
a twenty year's job. Not one officer of
the army who has lately been in Mexico,
not a single individual who is acquaint
ed with the present condition of things
in Mexico predicts or expects pence. A
general officer of the army, who has
rendered active services during the war,
at the head of the Quartermaster's De
partment, gives it as his opinion, it is
said, that the war will not end for five
years. Whatever Santa Anna could at
one time have done towards the conclu
sion of peace, he is now powerless for
that purpose, Were he to conclude a
peace to-day, he would lose his power
. '
to-morrow.
THE BODY OF FATHER REy, the Cath
olic Chaplain in the Army, has been
found, and was buried with religious
ceremonies at Mario. He was murdered
by rancheros.
[From the U. S. Gazette.)
csormasz IRVIN.
We are amused with a display of
figures in one of the Locofoco papers in
the interior, brought out to prove Geh.
Irvin's unpopularity at home. The Cal
culator has taken the number of votes
received by the candidate for Governor,
and the Whig Electoral ticket, when the
excitement was very great, and deduct
ed therefrom the vote of General Irvin
in other years, when there was less ex
citement ; and because he had fewer
votes, it is inferred that he is unpopular.
The author of these deceptive calcula
tions knows well that Mr. Irvin received
majorities in his district that no other
Whig Congressional candidate ever re
ceived; indeed, until Mr. Irvin consent
ed to serve, the district was utterly,
darkly, blindly Locofoco.
But the same paper makes out 31r.
Irvin's unpopulority by another similar
statement. "The county in which he
resides is opposed to him in politics."—
That is true. But Gov. Shunk resides
in Allegheny. Now if Mr. Irvin does
not reduce the Locofoco majority in Cen
tre, his own county, twice as much as
Governor Shunk reduces the Whig ma
jority in Allegheny, then we will confess
to the unpopularity of Mr. Irvin.
Again, the same paper says :
" In 1844 he was a candidate for nom•
ination for the office of Governor, by his
own party, and it was decided against
him !, "
Well, that was something. General
Irvin, in 1844., was one among four or
five persons suggested to the Democratic
Wing Convention as candidates for nom
ination. He ran next to-the highest and
was defeated. if our Locofoco cotem
porary will tell us just the amount of
unpopularity which such a fact implies,
he will enable us to say how much of
the same quality is referable to Mr.
Shunk, who, on the very same day of the
same year, and in the same town, met
with the same defeat by his own party,
and only subsequently became a candi
date on the occasion of his rival's death.
The same paper says :
"In 1847, we find him (Gen. Irvin,)
running the Iron Master's Monopoly
Candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania,
with all the Toryism of the Federal
Mexican party pinned on to his coat
tail !"
The IRON MASTER ! How it does offend
the gorge of these pap-sucking Locos,
to have any man presented for office who
has ever earned his bread by the sweat
of his brow. An Iron Master ! A mere
director of furnaces l Why should he
be mentioned in comparison with a man
who all his lifelong has derived his liv
ing from the public crib, and never soil
ed his hands with rusty iron ore, or
hardened them with the use of the plough
or hoe 1
ID-. Mexican party ! ! .. e a] Is not
Mr. Shunk the partisan, the apologist,
the defender, the candidate of the SANTA
ANNA party 1 Is he not bound up with
the man who gave permission to that one
legged scamp to pass through the Amer
ican blockade, take command of the
Mexictin troops, lead them against the
army of the United States, and deal
death at Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo,
to nearly ONE THOUSAND citizens of the'
United States 7 Mr. Shunk is the friend
of the man who has permitted that most
foul act. Mr. Shunk is the candidate of
the party that, while it has to bow its
head in shame at the infamous deed, is
compelled to keep silent at the terrible
charge : and the advocates of Mr. Shunk
are so indiscreet, or so fool-hardy, as to
venture to mention the word MEXICAN
PARTY. Let them, since they choose to
call names, digest the term "Santa Anna
and Polk party," and while they do it,
let them pause, and remember the hor
rible act by which that epithet is earned.
The Locos and the Irish,
The smothering in the House of Rep
resentatives of the bill from the U. S.
Senate, appropriating $500,000 to the
aid of the suffering Irish, had occasioned
some feelings among our naturalized
fellow citizens. Thut such a bill should
have been absolutely pocketed by Mr.
McKay of North Carolina, the Democrat.
ic chairman of the Committee of Way
Means, and withheld by him till the ad
journment of Congress, might well ex
cite their surprise. Such a measure,
which had received sanction of the U.
S. Senate does no doubt appear strange
and unaccountable, in this country, to
the uninitiated, who have not become
familliar with the devices of Democrat
ic politicians to avoid questions they
do not wish to meet. All who under ,
stand these things, know very well that
Mr. McKay did not act upon what he
himself deemed simply his legislative
duty. Party consideration controlled
him. It was understood that Mr. Polk
would veto the bill, and the consequences
of the veto of such a bill, by the Demo
cratic President were dreaded. What
was to be done? If it was put to the
vote of the House of Representatives, it
might pass, and the dreaded exigency
of the veto would arise. Why, said the
Democratic leaders, it must newer reach
Me President. This determination was
easily carried out. It was near the
close of the session, and Mr. McKay
had merely to take the bill in his pos
session and keep it until after the ad
jonrnment! It was referred to .41r. .Alc
Kay—he never reported it back—and thus
was the bill gotten rid of!—RicAmond.
Times.
LATER FROM TILE CITY OF MEXICO.
The New Orleans Picayune has pa-
pers (brought by the way of Tampico,)
from the city of Mexico to the 28th of
April, five days later than the papers
previously received. We copy below
from it:
We look first for news from Santa
Anna, and we find him engaged, with
the utmost deligence, at Orizaba, rais
ing troops. He shows, as the letters
well say, incredible energy in repairing
tne losses he has sustained, and ere this
is no doubt at the head of an army very
considerable in numbers i however infe
rior in discipline. He is, moreover, ac
cording to the papers, granting permits
to guerilla bands: Being straitened for
funds, he is said to have imposed upon
Orizaba a loan of $ i 6,000. We give a
I translation of the first letter we have
seen of Santa Anna's since his defeat at
Sierra Gorda. It was written on the
nd of April, from Orizaba.
Below we copy a portion of this let
, ter:
It appears that the enemy, improving
his triumph, and the astonishment in
which he finds the people, designs to
march upon the capital; but I am taking
measures to organize here a respectable
force in addition to that at present un
der the command of den. D. Antonio
Leon, and 1 can assure the President
Substitute, that with some aid from the
neighboring States or the Supreme Gov ,
eminent itself, 1 shall be able to harrass
the rear guard of the enemy with effect
until his destruction is achieved, I have
already despatched orders to Gen. Cana•
lizo that he protect with his cavalry the
fortress of Perote, and to Gen. Gaona
that he place it in the best state of de
fence until I can relieve him.
I cannot omit to express to your Ex
cellency my astonishment at the apathy
and selfishness of our citizens in the
present critical circumstances; and I
now deem it necessary, to save the
country, that tne Supreme Powers of
the nation should dictate severe and ef
fective measures to enforce compliance
on the part of every one with those du
ties which society and the laws impose
upon him. If this is not done, if the
nation does not rise en masse to defend
its most sacred rights, unjustly and bar•
barously trampled upon, infamy and
scorn, with the loss of our nationality,
will be the results. For my part I shall
spare no sacrifice in behalf of the coun
try; my life and my blood, my repose and
my fortune, are entirely consecrated to
it.
For the present I have established my
head-quarters here, where I shall receive
the orders which the supreme govern
ment may have occasion to transmit,—
Accept assurance, &c.
God and Liberty!
ANTONIO LOPEZ OE SANTA ANNA.
A short letter which Santa Anna
wrote the same day to President Anaya
is hardly worth publishing. He begs
him not to despair, not to make a treaty
with the enemy, and to defend the capi
tal. He begs most piteously for some
moncy.
The same number of El Republicano
which contains the first letter defends
the National Guard from the reproach
therein cast upon it of the lass of Sierra
Gorda. Santa Anna's ipse dixit has al
ready lost much of its power. But not.
withstanding the evident dissatisfaction
felt with him by his countrymen, the
supreme government has confirmed him
in the command of the army by express
orders. The necessity of such an order
indicates that his authority had been se
verely shaken.
Some of the papers were calling for a
court martial on Canalizo for his das
tardly conduct at Sierra Gorda.
Each step in the march of General
Scott was chronicled in the papers of
the capital, and the excesses of his troops
were greatly magnified and denoun
ced,
The press is loud in its denunciations
of the proprietors of haciendas who nre
selling grain to Gem Scott, from which
we infer that he does not lack sup-
Congress having conferred very am
ple powers upon the President Substi
tute to provide for the existing emergen
cy in the affairs of the country, was oc
cupying itself with the discussion of
constitutional questions, The President
shows a good deal more apathy than is
acceptable to the editors of El Republi
can°. They appeal to him to arouse
himself and call forth the energies of the
nation to meet the crises. They de
nounce as cowardly and infamous any'
course other than war and a long war.
Those whore suspected of tnore peace
able views are denounced in no measur ,
ed terms.
A "Yankee" was arrested on the
29th, having presented himself to the
President to confer with him upon the
propriety of peace, but in no authorized
capacity. No clue is given as to who
the man is. He is negotiating on his
own hook.
A general and absolute deeree of am
nesty for all political offences is announ
ced in the papers of the 27th.
In Toluca the castingof cannon was
immediately to be commenced, the Pre
lates of San Francisco and La Mercere
having offered the bells pecessary for
the constrution of carillon.
The Mexicans speak of theconspiracy
which was entered into among their
countrymen in Tampico to obtain pos
session of that town as having failed
principilly for want. of funds; but they
indulge the hope that another attempt
Will be more successful. _ _ .
The owners of the mine La Luz, have
presented or loaned the government
of Mexico $55,000 for the expenses of
th 4 war.
Letters had been received in the capi
tal from San Luis Potosi, announcing
that the government of the state had
promulgated a decree that every citi
zen should take up arms, and that the
enthusiasm to defend themselves was
very great. There was about fonr thou
sand troops of the army of the north
then 3n the city. Gen. Taylor, they
supposed, was to move upon thetn front
Saltillo about the Ist of May.
Deaths in the Army,
A correspondent of the Comniarmal
Times, writing from Vera Cruz, under
date of May 8, says :
" In the Eagle; which I send, you will
find a list of fifty , five soldiers who will
remain in Mexico after the War is over.
They have taken up their homes amongst
the sand-hills, and a louder blast than
that which called them to the field will
be required to call them hence. The
The number of the army who will thus
remain in Eastern Mexico, already far
exceeds that of the shipments to Califor
nia of the same class.
These deaths all occurred within a
period of three weeks, and as far as I
can judge l by the dead carts" which
I pass daily in the streets, the month of
May will tell a worse story than April
has told.
The mere dying of these poor fellows
is not the worst of the matter ; but as I
shall again revert to the subject, I shall
not now dwell upon any of its details.
THE HORRORS OF WAR.
An Arkansas volunteer, writing home
from Buena Vista, describes the rout of
the Mexicans in the following language :
" The Mexicans tumbled on every
side. I saw them struck down with sa
bres and trampelled beneath our horses'
feet. I saw them beg with uplifted hands
for mercy, but it was remembered that
those very hands had driven their lances
into the hearts of our countrymen."
Could anything be more horrible than
this, They "begged with uplifted hands
for mercy," and it was denied them, and
in palliation of their murder "It was re
membered that those hands had driven
their lances into the hearts of our coun
trymen." Is not this picture of the cru
elties of which an incensed soldier can
be guilty, enough to cause every chris
tian man and true patriot to pray ear
; neatly for the tertnination of a war which
can so totally brutalize and degrade hu
man nature,
We have seen it stated that military
men who have become statesmen rarely
advocate the making of war. They,
who are familiar with its horrors,
who
are acquainted with its evils, who know
what a terrible thing a hard fought bat
tle is, will not, without provocation, be
induced to countenance a recourse to
arms. Men like Col, Polk, and General
Benton, whose knowledge of military
matters is limited to an acquaintance
with the dato of comtnissions and the
relative rank of officers, can be induced
through ignorance to support measures
which those conversant with the evils of
war would not advocate. Upon their
heads rests a fearful responsibility—the
lives of thousands of their fellow men
sacrificed at the shrine of an inordinate
ambition.--. Miner's Journal.
A year ago Gen. Scott was as
sailed and denounced from all sides. A
large proportion of those who had pre
viously regarded him with favor, either
joined in the cry against him or remain
ed silent. Few defended him. But time
roiled on, and made manifest the econ
omy of his plans and the wisdom by
which they were contrite& Now, all
eyes are turned towards him in admira
tion and all lips are eloquent in his praise.
His tall form and waving plume, in the
front of battle, as he leads on the host
to "the halls of the Montezumas," are
watched with intense interest and confi
dent expectation of triumph.
The administration designed the war
for its own advantage—to perpetuate its
power. It is, however, grievously dis
appointed. Scott and Taylor s two whigs
—are gathering most of the glory, and
will, if they survive, each in turn occu
py the Presidential chair.—Honesdale
Democrat.
Q .- When Mr. Benton was recently
in this city he inveighed bitterly against
Gen. Scott for the taking of the Castle
of San Juan de Ulua. fie said that the
mode of capture was in gross'*iolation
of all the established usages of war—
that there was not another instance on
record• of a General having compelled a
castle to surrender by threats of destroy.
ing a city We shouldn't be much sur
prised if President Polk were to give up
the Castle of San Juan de Ulna to his
one-legged friend, and then order Gen.
Scott back to capture it according to
rule. —Louisville Journal.
ICP-By the latest advices from Califor
nia, we learn that flour is selling at $4O
per bbl.; tea $3 per lb.; brown sugar, 50
cents per lb.; and common domestic cot
ton shirting, such as se sold here for a
"flp" a yard, at 50 cents per yard.- God
help the poor and needy,
lien. Irvin.
The following anecdote is told of hik
by gentlemen who can vouch for its au•
thenticity, and whose character in every
ivay entitles them to respect:
Gen. Irvin's father, when James was
a young man, had made a will disposing
of his property to his children in such
proportions as he thought fair and just.
He was dissatisfied however with this
disposition, Which he had made, and
one day he called in his son James to
obtain his opinion on the matter.
When the bequest to one of his broth
ers was read over to him, he requested
the old man to increase it by a consider-
able sum, which he named, and when
the bequest to the next brother was read
he made the like request, and so with
the next. At this the old man was as
tonished, and said: "This will never
do, why in this way there will nothing
be left for you." James instantly re
plied, "Never mind me father s am
yound and strong, and am able to take
care of myself—let them have it."
Instances of self denial and magnani
mity of this kind are rare. But manx
anecdotes of the same kind are told of
him which can be relied on as authen
tic, illustrative of his good nature and
kind disposition—his good heart and
sound head.
SENATOR CAMERON.—Tbe Tioga Ban
ner, speaking of Simon Cameron, says :
" We cannot forget his infamous con
duct in the United states Senate on the
tariff question, last summer; and for
that alone it will take years to make
proper atonement."
It will be remetnbered that Geherai
Cameron acted on the " tariff question"
in strict obedience to instruction given
by a Locofoco Legislature ! If the Ban
ner dont't be a little more prudent in the
use of bard words, he will destroy their
utility—lie will. Infamous now means,
in his vocabulary—a Senator obeying
instructions and going against the SRI.
TISH TARIFF.
We are afraid poor Simon has seen
his best days ; and that his end draweth
near. The " terrible Banner " has fore
shadowed his doom ! lie had better re:
sign his office and retire to private life.
Those long " years it will take to make
proper atonement !" Only think of it !
—Ex. Paper. •
n:;;-It will puzzle President Polk, or
his defenders, to evade an answer, while
such questions as the following are con
tinually propounded. A southern paper
says:
"The country would be glad to have
the 'Union answer one thing. Did the
President commit a blunder in letting
Santa Anna into Mexico, or did he re ,
ally Mean to produce all the death and
suffering among our forces which has
resulted from sending him backl One
of the two certainly must be true. Will
some one of the President's advocates
tell usi"
Olt OF STONE.—The Boston Atlas has
a curious account of singular a substance
of peculiar properties, manufactured in
France under this title. It was discov- .
ered several years since, and an interes ,
ting paper upon it was rend before the
Institute. Since then its manufacture,.
far from being abandoned, as many sup
posed, has been silently undergoing im-;
provements, and recently a company has
been formed for its manufacture. It is
now termed mineral oil. By means of. ,
new and very ingenious instruments
and machinery, they obtain an oil as
transparent as the purest water. This
remarkable liquid is said to have this
, great advantage, of not staining by con
, tact, and of giving an admirable light by
the fixedness and clearness of the flame:
The company possesses in Autunnois
' inexhaustible beds of the mineral from
which this oil is extracted, as well as
several other productions, as paraffine,
1 mineral tar,- a new kind of manure, inval
-1 uable for exhausted land, and many oth- .
1 ers. (however much we may be sur
prised,. adds the journal from which we
1 derive this information, of seeing a vile
and despised rock thus yielding a varie-.
ty of precious atters, there is no room
1 for us to. doubt m
the fact. It only proves
1 that the science of Chemestry is in its
1 infancy, and that no one can assign any
limits to its progress. When the first
1 attempts were made to burn bituminous
coal, who then would have believed in .
such results as gas-light, its application
to the generation of steam, or the bright
future in reserve for so humble a miner
all And yet, are not the mines of Au- .
zin more valuable to their proprietors,
than the silver mines of both . the In
dies.
lry..Gallantry Rewarded.—Col. JefFer•
son Davis, of the Mississippi Regiment,
has been promoted a Brigadier General,
in the place of General Pillow, promoted.
Col. Davis is the officer who rendered
such excellent service at Bernie Via
ta, Re is sot-in-law to General Tay
lor.
V-Bowing is a science by itself, and°
must be closely attended to by those
who would, by turning and twisting
themselves, keep in the sunshine of
fashion. Bow very reverently low to a
million of dollars, most reverently to
hundred thousand, courteously to fifty
thousand, coldly to five thousand, and;
Never knew poverty by sight.