THE JOURNAL Huntingdon, Wednesday, June 23, 1847 WHIG NOMINATIONS. FOR GOVERNOR: GEN. JAMES IRVIN, OF CE✓I'TRE COUNTY. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER! JOSEPH W. PATTON ) OF CU.MBEPL.IND COUNTY. V. B. PALMER, Esq., N. W. corner of Third end Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. is our authorized agent for receiving advertisements and subscrip tions, and collecting and receipting for the same. ron THE CAMPAIGN, The "JotraNAL" will be furnished from the present time, until after the October election, at the low rate of Fitly Cetils per copy, when clubs of four or more can be raised—the money to ac company the order. Will the friends of IRVIN and PArroN throughout the county exert themselves to have clubs raised, and forward the names and money with out delay I Now is the time to act v. The Right Reverend Dr. POTTER is expected to preach in St. John's Pro testant Episcopal Church, in this bo rough, on Friday (25th inst.) next, at I I o'clock, A. M. GIVE THEM A CALL.—Those who want a good saddle, fine sett of harness, or anything in their line•of business, at a fair price, would do well to give J. .1. & A. H. BCDIBAUGH a call. They are enter prising and good mechanics, and deserve encouragement. See advertisement in another column. THE DIAREETS, Since the arrival of the late foreign news, a considerable decline has taken place in Breadstuffs. The Philadelphia Ledger of Saturday says : "In New York, on the receipt of the news, flour fell one dollar and a quarter per barrel, wheat fifty cents, corn twenty-five cents. In this city flour has fallen one dollar below the price it was two days ago.— The crops abroad are ir. a fine condition, and those of our own country promises abundance. This fovorable condition of things cannot but have an effect upon prices. Turn about, however, is fair play. Fortunes have been made by the dealers in bresdstuffs by the great rise; a reduction of the price will greatly re lieve a large class of the community who have been paying enormously for their bread." Flour was offered in Philadelphia on Friday last, nt $7,50, with limited sales. Red Wheat offered at $1,70 a 1,75. Sales of Corn at $1,03 a $1,05 ; Oats 57 a 58 cts. Encourage your own Mechanics, We conceive it to be the duty of the citizens of every town, to encourage their own Mechquics; and we heartily concur in the observations of a contem- porary, that the disposition cannot be too much rebuked, let it exist in any town it may, to send to distant places for products, which could be equally well furnished by the Mechanics in their own town. This will apply to nations as well as towns. No one thing can be more positively injurious to the real in• terest of a town than to go over the heads of its Mechanics, and buy else- where. It takes out of the place money, which justly belongs at home. It dis courages, and drives away honest and enterprising mechanics. It prevents them from advancing in prosperity, so as to add to the success of their own town. Wherever you see poor mechan ics you will be very sure to see a poor town. The prosperity of both are iden tified. We regret to believe that there are people, who think that no article can be good for anything, unless it be nn im ported one. Such persons are enemies to the town in which they live. They do what they can to retard its progress, and discourage its citizens. Every real friend to the place in which he lives should do all he can to encourage its Mechanics, and he who has a correct conception of the duties of a neighbor and a true American citizen, will ever take pleasure in doing so, and not run after every thing that is foreign, from the foolish idea that by doing so it ren ders him a man of the ton, by such an act of jleep injustice to his own felloW citi- TUE ISSUE ACCEPWED. 1 "GREAT MEN WILL DIFFER." Two weeks ago, in speaking of the The above caption is taken from the importance of the coming election, we last Globe. No one, who reads the fol said, In voting for Governor next fall, lowing extracts, will doubt its truth.— the people will not only be called upon As the demagogue who now does up the to express their opinions in regard to Globe editorials, is certainly the greatest the administration of our State affairs, man of the three from whom we quote, but they will have to pass judgment upon we will allow him to speak first : the measures of the National Adminis• tration also." 1 gs, _eye the Edit... The Globe of last week quoted the above the Jou;nal. These assertions every sensible man from our article, and replied— knows to be FALSE."—G Iobe, 18th final. "The line is CORRECTLY pnawx, and How the editor of the Hollidaysburg S the people are anxious for an opportunity Standard will relish being stigmatized as to " express their opinions" and " pass a falsifier or a fool, by his co-laborer judgment" at the ballot box." in the Shunk cause here, we cannot tell. And in concluding his article, the editor IBut certain it is that the above extract expressed the hope that we would "stand i from the Globe, published one week sub fast" to the line we had drawn. On that sequent to the date of the Standard con score our neighbor need have no appre- i taining the following paragraph, flings hensions whatever. We are vastly obit- i nothing short of the above mentioned ged to him for so freely accepting the F epithets at its editor. Hear the Stand true issue in the present campaign. And lard : in our torn we hope the editor of the I "Talk about starvation abroad—hut tell us how Globe will stand fast to the position he j a m ta u r c e h u7n re tTC " ja e ce n „/ " ;;:„72 be - f aTiVa t i a i r lo a r i t i he n 'vi.el ben has assumed, and enter at once upon his ! efit of the Speculators, at the expanse of the defence of the measures of both the State LABORING ;lAN. '—Standard 91h, inst. and National Administrations. Let him 1 We expect to see the next Standard justify, if he can, the following acts of j giving the Globe editor a " few" for his the National Administration, viz : The I ungentlemanly epithets. repeal of the Tariff of 1842; the corn- But here comes the Lancaster Intelli mencement of the present bloody and gencer, the organ of James Buchanan, a . nd one of the strongest Shank papers expensive war; the proposition of' the ! President and Secretary Walker to tax ! ! In the State, which gives the " lie direct" the Poor Man's Tea and Coffee ; the de- i to all our neighbor of the Globe has been feat of the " Wiltnot Proviso"; the Veto I saying about the Tariff of 1846 raising of the River and Harbor Bill ; the at- the price of produce. The Intelligencer tempt made by the Administration to saYs : drive from the service, which they are th:t\i'lhe;l"l;arl lice 0 t f 6T 477v 1 oicurlir?d,neeltr asserted crowning with glory, those gallant old fl our to its present height—which ia on l e y p a re tempo.' 'f ;sl , l , v , tt e lu i e , , , caused „ by die n fearful and distressing Heroes whom the people love—Gens. SCOTT and TAYLOR ' by the appointment crop. in this country. ril) ' This d 'l l: auenoLtaminmtyatioofn full , of a Lieutenant General over them, who looked fur, or desired by any person.” never fought a battle, or set a "squadron Why, neighbor, you are getting offthe in the field !" And lastly, let the editor track without knowing it ! In less than of the Globe explain and defend—if he six months you will have to turn another DARE—the pass granted by Air. Polk to somerset and take back all you have said Santa .qnna to return to Xesico—which about Free Trade helping the farmers. has resulted in prolonging the war and . Mark the prediction ! • in destroying hundreds of valuable 1 Since the above was in type, we find American lives, the following paragraph, taken from the All the votes he can secure for Mr. , Clinton Democrat, which flatly contra- Shunk in defending these measures, we diets the Lancaster editor and partly are perfectly willing he should have.— sustains the position of the Globe. Hcre In the mean time we shall take the lib- ! iti Tt ' is true the ecarcltv in Europe may slightly erty of calling upon all who disapprove e ff ect our market ;it is, however, hut STI G HTLI'. them, to rally around the banner of laviN c h om is m th e e rce re t to t v i al , t il , ' e the r. re c irict l ions . — . restrictions— the tax—en 1, " Great men wril z d n if p fe a ,r ''they and if and PATTON, and by electing them, set the seal of their condemnation upon ; should be all good Locofo co editors l— measures so utterly at variance with the' Who can doubt it I feelings and interests of the American People. ! has We administered the tt ha S n ta k State affairs artr e s 'i t'o is tre r rn b te k res a t n o d f So, neighhor, we hope you will "stand the many, regardless of the denunciations and fast" by the " issue" which you have cursesof the few."—Globe, 16th inst. But if it this was accepted ; and if we are not mistaken in .. S ur o ?,': n u es " t s i ly el l e ' r me ,i , wa re-nomination the feelings of the people, you will find your earnestly opposed the die yourself as far out of water on the lath of " Old Shunk." You either played of October next, as do the unsuspecting false then or now, in relation to Shunk's " sunny-a" in Raystown Branch, after ' honesty and capability. greedily swallowing the hook which is I Ds- The Globe quotes for our benefit concealed by a bait suited to their taste. I the following scriptural admonition : POLK'S PASS TO SANTA ANNA. " When thou doest thine alms do not MCALEAVY'S FORT Hunt. Co. June 17. I sound a trumpet before thee as the hyp , , Ma. CLARK have seen a good deal{ ocr A it s e,s 6 o do." n e good turn deserves another," in your paper about President Polk hay- in.- permitted Santa Anna to return to we quote from the same source, for the Mexico ; and I have been asking some benefit of the editor of the Globe, the of my democratic neighbors what they following warning : think of this transaction'! Some con- "All Liars shall have their portion in demn it without hesitation, and seem to the Lake which burneth with fire and think that if Santa Anna had not been brimstone !" permitted to return to his country, we would have had peace before this time. But others, more wedded to party, deny that Santa Anna was permitted to return by Mr. Polk, and that the whole story is a " Whig lie." Did not Mr. Polk make some admission in his last annual mes. sage in relation to this matter's II so, will you have the kindness to publish what he said on the subject. By doing so, you will oblige A SesscalsEs. We cheerfully comply with the above request of a much respected " subscri ber." Mr. Polk did allow the General who is now at the head of the Mexican Army, to return to his country, and we refer all who doubt it to his last annual message, where they will find the fol lowing candid admission over the signa ture of Jas. K. Polk himself: "Santa Anna had been expelled from power by the army, was known to be in open hostility to Pa redes, and publicly pledged against foreign interven tion and the restoration of monarchy in Mexico.— In view of these facts and circumstances it was, that, when orders were issued to the commander of our naval forces in'the Gulf, on the 15th day of May last, only two days after the existence of the war had been recognized by Congress, to place the Gull of Mexico under blockade—he was directed not to obstruct the passage of SANTA ANNA to Mexico should he attempt to return. "Great Olen will Differ," is the most truthful observation we have seen in the Globe this season. As another evidence, the Globe editor says that the prices of Breadstuffs have been raised by the Tariff of 1846 g the editor of the Hollidaysburg Standard says the Agents of the Lewistown Bank have caused these high prices! Hut, "the Farmers are not benelitted by the high prices," "none but a few Speculators ore ben efitted by this State of things," eayo the Editor of SANTA ANNA EXPOSING MR. POLKAS 131.0NnEx!--The Mobile Advertiser trans lates a letter from the principal Mexican paper, which Santa Anna has written to the capital, in which, alluding to the proclamation of Gen. Scott, he says: " But in the midst of the malevolence (encono) which General Scott shows he has against me, he does me too much honor when he says that they had been deceived as to my real intentions and that on account of this mistake his Government had permitted me to pass to my country.— Indeed, most Excellent Sir, the United States did deceive themselves when they dreamed that I was capable of betraying my country. Before this should happen I would prefer to be consumed by fire and my ashes should be scattered that not a single ntom be left. THE GLOBE AND THE FARRIERS.--The Globe of last week tells the Farmers that we are their enemy, and that its editor is their most devoted friend. To make the assertion available in injuring us, or the party to which we are attach ed, the Globe man has still a Herculean task to perform, viz : to get Me Farmers to believe him And whether or not, in the language of a cotemporart-, the far mers can be made to believe that the tariff of '46 did raise the price of flour to its present height, and the mechanics and laboring men be persuaded that it did not, remains to be seen. We are in clined to believe that at the next elec tion the locofoco party will find them selves in the predicament of the man who attempted to sit on two stools. TAX ON TEA AND COPPED. General Irvin's Argument Against It. ..Had the Democratic party such a chieftan as Notwithstanding Gen. Irvin's speech Henry Clay—one whom they could present as the embodiinent " of their principles—hold, heroic, and his votes stands recorded against eloquent and ardent—the lt ad , m e tratio r n d o e f ae th t e h t i vald the proposition to tax tea and coffee, for s r h r i t g e h v e a r l' Vicksburg Sent inel. when a representative from this district in Congress, we observe that the Loco This is a candid admission, (says the Lancaster Examiner and Herald,) , foco papers, with a disregard for truth, of which they alone are capable, continue that the Locofoco party has no such man i to charge him with having voted for this in its ranks as Henry Clay, to whom this justly obnoxious measure—a measure, extorted tribute is paid by one of a Forty, by the blood hounds of which he has too, which was recommended to the last been so slandered and calumniated, that Congress by Santa Anna's friend, Jas. thousands of their snore honest associates K. Polk, whom these falsifiers of General really believed that he was wholly des- Irvin's course, continue to support.— titute of all claim, not only to admire- But (says the Pa. Telegraph) if there is tion but even to respect. And now, such a thing as shame in the breasts of these very slanderers and calumniators, the libellers who have fastened upon thelafter having hunted their noble victim .heel of Gen. Irvin, the following extract! down—after having ascribed to him al from a speech of his, delivered in Con gress on the Tariffßill in '4l, at the extra , most every species of moral delinquency, session, willand denied to him almost every honor able and make their faces blush and able and lofty attribute—have the effron burn ; for while it proves the charge to tery to affect something like sympathy, be false, it exhibits the most watchful that " such a chieftan," whom the Loco and ardent regard for the welfare of the people, and particularly the poor feces would "never desert " where he their leader, is to be abandoned by a who would be most affected by such a tax. T party which honors him, and by whose his extract silences now and for- . ever, the slander of the Locofoco press ; connexion w i th it that party is itself m on this subject. It should be read by most honored ! But we beg lenve to ask every voter in the Commonwealth: these sympathizers, why, if Mr. Clay be i rty of Whig support, ecwas he so [Extract from Gen. Irvin's Speech.] malignantly and bitterly persuted, as "Sir, I agree with the honorable chair man of the Committee of Ways and a monster of deformity, by themselvesl , Means that it is necessary to raise ad- Do his moral deformities constitute him ditional revenue ; that the finances of " such a chieftan," that, were he a loco the country require it; and I am as foco, they would never desert him I— much in favor of providing ways and Either they were infamous slanderers means to meet the current expenses of the Government, and also to provide for then, or, by their own confession, they whatever deficiency now exists, as the are canting hypocrites now. honorable chairman or any other mem-! But Mr. CLAY and his friends know her now on this floor. But, sir, I differ well the fountain from which these croc in opinion with the committee who re tears, tli as theyflow—and he and they of levying a duty or tax on some of the note scorn ported this bill, respecting the propriety . ots the s 3, mpa y before defied articles contained in this bill. 'the hate of his enemies. " Sir, I believe the true and correct "Honest Frank Skunk." policy of this Government is, to raise The Locofoco candidate is called, by sufficient revenue by import taxes, as : being the least onerous and burdensome his party, "Honest Frank Shenk," who, to the people; but, in doing so, we says the Lancaster Union & Tribune, de should select such articles in, the first, dare that "had he been a plunderer or Place as come in competition with those speculator, one disposed to use his posi produced by our own citizens, and if we tion for the purposes of gain, he might cannot raise sufficient front them, then take articles of luxury or such as do ' now have been possessed of his thou- 1 not come into general use, and are not , sands ;" but that "he preferred to be required or consumed by the great per- honest rather than rich, to be true to the' tion of the people ;but it would only be people's interests rather than unfairly in the last resort that 1 would consent to Now we don't wish to take from old advance his own." levy an onerous and burdensome tax upon articles that have come into gener-! al use in almost every family, whether Frank the word " honest," but what do rich or poor throughout our whole coun- the Records of his life prove'! Besides try. .Sir, I consider such a species of tax- many similar ones, we have no doubt a anon impolitic, unwise, and unjust.— bill and receipt something like the fol- Why, sir, is it not impolitic in an ad- . . iowing has been filed away among the ministration just coming into power, af ter professions of relieving the people public ,papers from their difficulties, to propose a bur- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, densome tax upon them, as one of its , To Francis R. Skunk, Dr., first measiiresl 'Why, sir, is it not un- To 5 days services as Clerk du wise to bring this measure upon the ring the Session of the Legis people at the present timel Why not i lature of 184.3, at $3O per wait until the regular session, when day, $lBO,OO there would be time for a fair investiga- , Received payment, FRS. R. SHUNIC. tion into the tariff system, and such This would be evidence sufficient, we re gulations made as might be satisfactory'? It cannot be possible that the Treasury have no doubt, with his friends, of his is in such a wretched situation that an GREAT DESIRE to be "honest rather than able financier could not carry on the op- rich," and "true to the people's interests, erosions of Government for a few morillis, instead of his own," and an " occular without this tax on coffee and tea. an d L is it not unjust to tax the poor man wao demonstration " not to "plunder" nor labors . for the support of his family and " speculate" off the Taxpayers of the earns from fifty to seventy-five cents per Commonwealth! No wonder that a man day, as muscle as the man who owns thou- who has been thus bound imp in love for sands? I feel satisfied, if this bill be- the dear people's interests, and shown comes a law, that hundreds of poor fain ilies in my district will have to pay such utter carelessness of his own, should more of this tax than those who are corn- regret that $71,000 are all that he has paritively rich. Sir, the articles of left for his thirty years services I coffee and tea have become among all Poor " honest Frank Shuck !" classes, but especially among those who live in towns, and manufacturing estab-1 Whit two or three exceptions, all the lishments, necessary articles of life, and leading Whig Journals in Pennsylvania substituted by a great many in place of have expressed their preference for Gen. milk, as being more easily obtained, and Tanon as the Whig candidate for the even cheaper. Then, why should we Presidency. But one feeling exists in oppress this class of people more than the Whig ranks in this State. Every they are at presentl Why increase body goes it with " a perfect looseness' their burdens? Does this bill hold out for old Zack.—Harrisburg Intelligencer. any relief to the laboring class of the The magnifying powers of friend Mc communityl None—none whatever. 'Centr's organ of vision must have im- Sir, it is well known to you and other , proved very considerably of late, even honorable gentlemen on this floor, that, ,beyond time capacity of Toodle's disciple, owing to the embarrassed and crippled condition of business, for the last two or who was accustomed invariably to "see three years particularly, it has been double" when summing up the numeri. with great difficulty the manufacturing I cal strength of the "defenders of the interests of the country have sustained ' . faith ! t..ertainiy, WE have seen no ev themselves, end if it had not been for the bquntiful crops with which our idence of the decided preference to which country has been blessed, and the chenp- allusion is made, as influencing "all the nese of living, many that are yet strug- • leading Whiz Journals in Pennsylvania, filing along must have ceased to exist. I with two or three exceptions," and as But now sir, just on the eve of another "but one feeling in the Whig reduction of duties, which takes place evincin g at the close of the year, and which even I ranks in this State." The impression now operating in anticipation on the given its by an observation of the numer whole business o the country, you pro- ous expressions of popular sentiment ! pose a tax to be levied on this suffering throughout the State is very different people of front one and a half to two millions of dollars.from that of the Intelligencer, and we ._, . .Sir, for one I cannot give it MY stir- I feel quite assured that, were delegates PORT. I came here expecting to assist appointed to the Whig National Conven in carrying out measures calculated to tion at the present time, the voice of relieve my constituents, not to burthen: ! Pennsylvania would be for WINFIELD rn the,and if I cannot accomplish the for mer, s ~. mer, I WILL NOT LEND My AID TO PRO- 1 SCOTT.— G ettysburg Star. DUCE THE LATTER." It?. Flour was selling in Pittsburg on Friday last at $5 per bbl ; Wheat at $1 per bushel. Q:7- The Whigs of Blair county met in County Convention yesterday. HENRY CLAY, A Murderer Arrested The Stroudsburg Republican says:— Francis Basler, who escaped from the yorning county jail 22d January 1845, after having been convicted arid sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Robert Atkinson, was apprehended at Buena Vista, Mexico, put in irons, and sent to New Orleans, whither Sheriff Osterhout has gone for him. He wait recognized by Luther Adkins, formerly of Tunkhannock, now a volunteer in the Ohio company of United States troops in Mexico. A member of the Indiana regiment writing to a friend in Wyo. ming county, says : "He was immediately handcuffed, and every thing done to secure him ; but, notwithstanding, he came very near ma , king his escape. He succeeded in get ting out of the guard house after night, and with the assistance of another man he bribed, he got his irons off, but he was caught again early next morning within about four miles of camp: he is now secured in such a manner that it will be impossible for him to get away, Basler was acting here in the capacity of a teamster, having got with the noisians somewhere in Texas. ANECDOTE OF GEN. SCOTT.—One of the volunteers wilo was at the reduction of Vera Cruz, reports that during the bom bardment, Gen. Scott, riding along the American line, and seeing some of their soldiers raising their heads above em bankment, to get a view of the work of destruction in the city, called out famil iarly—" Better take care, there! Some of you will get your heads knocked off before you know it!"—" Hadn't you bet ter take care of your own head, Generals" asked one of them. "Ay, they make Generals so easy, now, it isn't much odds if one of them should get killed," replied the General. ANECDOTE OF MR. WEBSTER.—In his speech at Savannah, on the occasion of the dinner given him by the citizens of that place, Mr. Webster, adverting par- ticularly to the object of his visit, 1. e, to see Southern culture and Southern people, said: "I have frequently been asked during my tour, by Southern gen tlemen, whether I could go with them to look at this rice field, or that cotton field. The question reminded me of an anecdote told by my friend Skinner, of the Farmer's Library, of a man to be married, who, when asked by the parson if he " wanted to have this woman for his wedded wife," replied, "To be sure I will ; I came on purpose." New Locofoco Candidate! Since Mr. Polk has joined the " ono term " party, and Col. Benton declines a nomination, the party has been casting about for a suitable candidate to run against old "Rough and Ready." We were Teally afraid they would be unable to find one, and are pleased that our fears are not likely to be realized, as we find the following announcement in the Doylestown Democrat, one of the most ably and gentlemanly conducted tory sheets in the State— POE PRESIDENT, GEN. SANTA ANNA, of Cerro Gordo, The same paper has also the name of Francis R. Shunk at its masthead for Governor ! We can only promise them a second edition of the Buena Vista and Cerro Gordo victories, revised and cor• rected by the forces under General TAYLOR and Invix.—Lancaster Unron. REMAINS OF LIEUT. COLONEL CLAY, AND OTHERS.—We find in the New Orleans Bee, that on the sth of June, the schoon er General Patterson had arrived at that port from the Brazos, bringing the hon ored remains of Lieut. Col. Clay, Col. McKee, Captains Willis and Lincoln, Lieut. Powell, Adjutant Vaughan, and private H. Walter, of the Second Reg iment Kentucky Volunteers. These are a few from among the dead of the bloody battle field of Buena Vista. THE DELAWARE LICENSE LAW.- We learn from the Wilmington Gazette, that the no•license law was decided on Friday last, by the Court of Errors and Appeals, composed of the Chancellor and all the Judges in the State sitting at Dover, to be unconstitutional and conse quently void. The five Judges were unanimous in their opinion. We gather from the same source, that the recent election held upon the subject in New Castle county, has also been declared void. MAJOR HAMMOND, better known to our citizens as Gen. Hammond, of Milton, in this State, who recently obtained an appointment as Pay-master in the army, died on his passage from Vera Cruz to New Orleans. Gen. IL has a large fam ily connection and many ardent friends to deplore his death. He was an esti mable gentleman, and has represented his district in Congress. A son of his, attached to the United States Dragoons was killed a few months since in one of the engagements at California. V- Dr. J. F. Lemoyne, of Washing ton county, has been nominated by the Liberty party for Governor, and 111. B. Thomas of Philadelphia, for Canal Commissioner. r
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