THE JOURNAL.
Huntingdon, Tuesday, July 27, 1847
VV HIU NOMINATIONS.
FOR GOVERNOR:
GEN. JAMES IRVIN,
OF CENTRE COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER:
JOSEPH W, PATTON,
OF CU.IIBERL./IND COUNTY.
V. B. PALMER, Esq., N. W. corner of Third
end Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. is our authorized
agent for receiving advertisements and subscrip
ions, and collecting end receipting for the same.
COUNTY MEETING,
TH); Democratic Whigs of Huntingdon county
are requested to meet at the OLD COURT
HOUSE, in the Borough of Huntingdon, on
Wednesday Evening, 4ug. 11, 1847,
nt the ringing of the boll, for the purpose of res
ponding to the nominations of the Convention,
and to transact such other business no may be
deemed important for the success of the candittntes
of the Whig party, nt the ',mine arnernl Medi n.
A. W. BENEDICT,
Chairman County Committee.
July 20, 1847.
"Scriptural Baptism."
THE Rev. WILLI Mill Or names argument and
review on Seriptu• al Baptism, in now publish
ed in pamphlet form, end Irft at the Store of Wm.
Bourns, for anle—prire, 31 rents.
"Reasons for the Study of the
Languages," No. 2, will be given in our
next.
The Central Railroad,
The prospect of a vigorous prosecu
tion of this great enterprise is now very
flattering. On the 15th inst. contracts
for grading eighteen miles of this road
west of Harrisburg, were made at that
place. There was much competition,
and the work was taken low. The cost
of grading and rnasonary on this portion
of the road it is said, will not exceed
$lO,OOO per mile, including the
piers
and abutments of a bridge over the Sus
quehanna, about five miles above Har
risburg. On Tuesday last a commitee of
Directors, Messrs Wright, Toland and
Magee, passed through this place on
their way to Pittsburg, where another
letting took place on the 22d. inst.
On Friday last, a corps of Engineers
in the employ of this company, arrived
in Huntingdon. They have commenced
surveying in the neighbo-hood of this
town, and will continue their operations
westward.
Since the above was in type, we learn
that the contracts on the Western Di
vision have been taken at the low aver
age of $6,500 per mile.
THE DOLLAR NEWSPAPER.
As this paper is getting a wide circu
lation throughout the counry, on account
of its apparent cheapness, it may be
well enough to inform the Whigs of this
county that it is one of the most ultra
Locofoco Free Trade publications of the
day. It is made up principally from the
Philadelphia Ledger, a Locofoco daily
paper, under the garb of neutrality.—
And it is worthy the consideration of
Whigs, whether, because a paper hap
pens to be published at a low price, they
should extend to it their patronage, and
thus aid in defeating the principles which
they hold to be essential to the prosper
ity of the country. Notwithstanding its
Kofessed neutrality, there is scarcely a
number of the " Dollar Newspaper "
which does not contain a direct stab at
the Protective Policy. Whigs, beware
of this hypocritical publication. An
avowed Locofoco paper has more claim
upon your respect and support, than this
" wolf in sheep's clothing." If Whigs
desire a weekly paper from Philadelphia,
they should support that able and faith
ful exponent of their principles, the
" Weekly North American"—and not
suffer themselves to be humbugged into
the support of a Locofoco sheet, because
it comes to them under the hypocritical
garb of neutrality.
Whigs, Beware
Of all attempts to produce disorgani
zation in your ranks. Strenuous efforts
to accomplish this result, arc now ma
king by the Locofoco wire-workers of
this place. They know that if the
Whigs are united, no hope remains for
them in Huntingdon county. Hence
their efforts to produce discord in the
Whig ranks. Stand fast, then, Whigs,
to your principles and your organization,
and you can bid defiance to all the eflOrts
and tricks of Locofocoism.
TERRIBLE DISCLOSURMS,
Resolved, That we hare the utmost confidence
in James K. Polk, President of the United States,
and that we heartily approve of the measures of hie
Administration. That we are in favor of an early
peace muds upon terms compatible with the inter
ests, dignity, and honor of the country, and that
see utterly repudiate the project of the leading
Federalists in offering to surrender Texas to
Mexico, in consideration of her permitting our
armies to retire from her borders.
We clip the above resolution from the
proceedings of a meeting of the Loco
Foco County Committee, held at the
house of Mr. Geo. Jackson, on the even
ing of the 17th inst., and published in
the last Huntingdon Globe.. The pro
ceedings are signed by T. P. Campbell,
Esq. as President, and A. Gwin, Esq.,
Secretary. The latter part of the above
resolution, (if it be not the idle vaporing
of men so prone to yarning it as to be
unable to deal in facts) would appear to
justify the belief that a new " project,"
humiliating and disgraceful to the coun
try, is in contemplation by the Admin
istration. If so, this timely exposure,
by Messrs. Campbell and Gwin, may
have the effect of arousing the People
to the enormity of the proposition, and
thus prevent the consummation of this
unholy " project." From the course al
' ready pursued by Mr. Polk in his pros
ecution of the war, and his dark and
treasonable intrigue carried on with that
perfidious one-legged demagogue and
murderer, Gen. Santa Anna, we confess
that we are disposed to give some cre
dence to the grave charge contained in
the above resolution. It is well known
too, that that " leading" and distinguish
ed "FEDERALIST," Jas. Buchanan,
has recently been making peace propo
sitions to the Mexican government ; but
no one, previous to the publication of the
above resolve, ever dreamed, that, after
the vast expenditure of blood and treas
ure which has already been made to carry
on the war, Mr. Polk and his cabinet
were about to bring our government
into utter contempt, by offering to sur
render to Mexico n portion of American
territory ! Reckless as have been the
acts of the present Locofoco Adminis
tration, we were not prepared to hear
from it a proposition so monstrous in its
character ! And it will be utterly idle
for ;Messrs. Polk, Buchanan, Trist & Co.,
to negotiate with their old friend Santa
Anna on any such terms. For, however
much the country hates the war and
longs for Peace, Congress will never
ratify a treaty, the provisions of which
surrenders one inch of AMERICAN Solt !
Even a Locofoco Congress would not
dare do it; and we can assure the authors
of the above resolution, who are acknowl
edged to be the lenders of the Locofoco
party of Huntingdon county, that the
Whigs "utterly repudiate"—and if in the
majority m Congress—will reject with
out a moment's consideration, so infa
imous and treasonable a " project."
Pulling Down the Flag.
The Sunbury American, one of the few
Locofoco papers that has maintained its
consistency on the Tariff question, and
the acknowledged organ of the Locofoco
party of Northumberland county, has
hauled down the Free Trade flag of
Skunk and Longstreth, which has since
the March Convention, been floating at
its mast-head. In speaking of this move
ment on the part of the American the
Miltonian, published in the same county,
says:
, 6 The American hoisted the Shunk
and Longstreth flag immediately after
they were put in nomination, but it
had not even until the hauling down of
the same, said one word one way or the
other of Shuck in its columns. if this
state of things should continue until the
election, as it doubtless will, Northum
berland county will do well for the Peo
ple''s candidate, Gen. JAMES IRVIN.—
Disunion and dissatisfaction DO PRE
VAIL in the Locofoco ranks in every
township in the county, and we have
never known, the nomination of any man
more exceptable to the Whigs than just
Gen. Irvin. '
THE ‘VEATHER.—AIthough we have
been visited during the past week with
numerous showers, yet we have rarely
experienced in the country such intense
heat. The following words of caution
from the Philadelphia Gleaner, may not
be inappropriate at this time :
"Great care should beexcercised with
regard to diet, all exciting drinks should
be avoided, and as much rks possible all
irritating topics, or overtasking mental
occupations. The physical man gets
weaker and weaker as the summer deep
ens, and therefore becomes less and less
qualified to resist the approaches or to
wrestle against the assaults of disease.
The laboring classes, and especially such
as are compelled to work out in the sun,
are entitled to sympathy and considera
tion at this season. Employers should
be as indulgent as possible.
ANOTHER LOOO2 l OOO BUM
BUG EXPLODED.
The time-serving policy of our Loco
foco opponents, gets them into innumer
able difficulties. In 1844 when the ben
eficial influence of the American Tariff
of 1842 was apparent to and acknowl
edged by all, they claimed to be its most
especial friends, and even went so far,
in their efforts to deceive, as to declare
that "Mr. Polk was a better Tariff man
than Henry Clay." But no sooner had
Mr. Polk obtained power, than he and
his friends set about to destroy the Pro
tective Policy, and establish in its stead
the British favoring policy of Free
Trade.- Accordingly the American Tar
iff of 1842 was repealed and the British
Tariff of 1846 placed upon the Statue
Books. The deception was so palpable,
and the murmuring of the deceived sol
audible, that, to save themselves from
defeat at the last election, the leaders!
pretended to be opposed to what had
been done by the President whom they
had lied into office. But no sooner is
the election over than they again belie
their professions, and come out unblush
ingly in defence of the measure which
they had so recently condemned. And
in doing so, they sought to again deceive
the people by telling them that to the
effects of the Tariff of 1846 were they
indebted for the high prices which they
were receiving for all kinds of produce.
The farmer was told, says the Union
' Star, that whatever might be the effect
of the scarcity in Ireland, the high prices
he was receiving for his grain, were
j mainly dependant upon judicious Legis
lation; and that the liberal policy of the
'Tariff Act of '46 would insure him a
regular market at permanent prices.—
These declarations were made with all
the boldhess of truth—were iterated by
the Big Guns of the party and reitera
ted by the whole corps of those who,
spaniel-like, are accustomed to follow
the directions of their masters. Even
I the Locofoco "State Central Committe,”
writing when wheat was commanding
,$2 per bushel and flour l 9 per barrel
' and unable to resist so tempting an op
portunity, echoed back the declaration
with the speciousness of assumed sin
cerity. This state of things it was
thought would last till after the October
election and was intended by the Locos
of this State to draw the farming influ
ence over to the support of Gov. Spunk.
But alas 1 the bubble has already burst.
Wheat is down to $l, and flour to $5.
The ideaof permanent prices has already
exploded, and our opponents (poor souls)
are compelled at this late day to hatch
lout some new humbug. Truly they arc
in a deplorable situation—unfortunate
in all their schemes—without the confi
dence of the people—at variance among
themselves •and destined to be " used
up" so completely at the next election,
that even the discomfiture of the Egyp
tians in the Red Sea will be no parallel
to their defeat.
A New Locolbeo Game,
We understand that a prominent Loco
foco of this place has been going about
among anti-Temperance Whigs, telling
them they " should not vote for General
Irvin because he belongs to a Temper
ance Society." And when he meets a
whig who is strongly in favor of Tem
perance, he tells him he is in duty bound
to vote for Shank, " because Shank is a
good Temperance man, and signed the
bill to give the People a vote on grant
ing Tavern Licenses;" and therefore lie
" should be sustained by all consistent
friends of Temperance." Now, we cau
tion the people to be on their guard
against all such Locofoco tricks ; and
we caution the demagogue who has been
engaged in this nefarious business, that
if lie persists in it, we shall feel it to be
our duty to hold him up in propria per
sona, loathsome as he is, to the gaze of
a truth and justice loving people.
Front England.
The Britannia arrived on Saturday
morning, 17th inst.
There has been another decline in
bread stuffs—epual to about one dollar
and fifty cents in a barrel of flour—pro
duced by the fine prospects of a good
harvest and abundant supplies imported
into England. Cotton has risen.
The English have renewed their hos
tilities with China, and the French have
chastised the natives of Cochin China
for imprisoning the Missionaries.
The N. Orleans Bulletin of the 7th
inst. says—" We understand that a re
quisition was yesterday made on the
Governor, by the War Department,
for 1000 mounted men for service in
Mexico.
For tho "Journal."
LOCOFOCO TRICKERY EXPOSED,
MR. CLARK :—ln the Messenger of
last week, there appeared a communica
tion purporting to have been written in
Union township by an Old Anti-Mason.
The writer starts out by asserting that
he is an old Antimason, and requested a
hearing through the columns of a neu
tral paper, which the Messenger pur
ports to be. He then makes an apology
for not applying to the Journal or the
Globe to publish his communication,
alleging that they were " contraed by
men who are leagued together in the
bonds of Odd Fellowship ;" and then
concludes his introduction by announ
cing the important fact, that his commu
nication would probably " find but little
favor with them."
As far as this introduction goes, it
bears on its face the marks of a villain,
and it never was written by an honest
man, or an Anti-Masom, and I doubt'
very much if it can trace its parentage
to Union Township. It was born, I
have no doubt, somewhere in Allegheny
street in the borough of Huntingdon, of
a . 4 disaffected" mother to a Loco Foco
father. It is a monster—a cross in na
ture—the genuine production of a she
wolf and the devil. Shortly after its
birth, it was dressed in an Anti-Masonic
over coat and introduced into the Mes
senger office to spit its venom on a peace
ful community. Thus much for its ge
nealogy.
But if the writer be really an old Anti-
Mason, why did he not make application
at least to the Journal to publish his be
nevolent epistle. If he be the kind of
man he represents himself to be, he
would have gone straight to the Journal,
which has been for the last twelve years
the defender of Whig and Anti-Masonic
principles. If he be an honest Anti
mason he never would have gone to the
Messenger office to publish sedition
among his friends. This paper com
menced sailing, or rather rafting under
the flag of neutrality, but it is beginning
to show its true character. It is begin
ning to be manifest that it was started
by Locofocos, for the purpose of under
mining the Whig and Anti-Masonic party
of Huntingdon county, and all true
Whigs and Anti-masons will beware of
the contagion. But this suspicious Anti
mason says the editor of the Journal is
" leagued' with the Globe ; an assertion
which the writer knew to be false, and
which no honest Whig or Anti-mason in
Huntingdon county would make. If he
be an honest Anti-mason, he would not
thus cavalierly have cut the acquaintance
of an editor who has been toiling faith
fully to make his paper acceptable to the
Whigs and Anti-masons of this county.
But I presume, Mr. Editor, that Loco
Focos and growlers, cloaked under the
name of an Old Anti-Mason, can give
you very little annoyance when the lion's
skin is taken away, and the jack-ass is
left in his naked deformity.
The communication carries all the
way through it an affectation of igno
rance, which, together with other marks,
show it to be the production of a design
ing Locofoco, and not an Anti-mason.
ANTI-LOCOFOCO.
P. S.—Since the above was handed
in, we have received information which
leaves no room to doubt that the "Union
township" communication of the Mes
senger, to which allusion is made, was
written by a sneaking, two-faced LOCO•
FOCO of this borough; the author have
ing exhibited it to a prominent Whig of
this county, previous to the appearance
of the Messenger containing it. How
very green some "smart" young men take
"country people" to be! Ha! ha!
THE WAR! WHEN IS IT TO END?
100,000 Troops and 100 Millions more
to be called for ! !
Ion," the celebrated correspondent
of the Baltimore Sun, whose associations
at Washington have given him facilities
of information which are much relied on,
says in a recent letter :
"Those people who are seriously de
sirous of a peace, have become convin
ced that we are not using efficient meas
ures to conquer it. We have nothing to
expect, for the next six months, but a
languishing, inefficient, and expensive
war. The next Congress must send a
HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN, and raise a
HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOL
LARS, to bring it to an end.
The probability of raising the force
may be imagined by the fact that the
ten regiments ordered by the last Con
gress have not yet been raised, notwith
standing the extraordinary induce:nents
held out for enlistments, in bounty mo
ney and land—and a recent call on Jer
sey, Virginia and Delaware, for a battal
lion from each, has failed to be respond
ed to, and single companies only are
now expected to be raised. Oh! this
" popular war !"—Lancaster Examiner.
[1:- A correspondent of the West
Chester Democrat takes several clergy
men of that county sharply to task for
having preached against the war. The
Polk-Democracy cannot tolerate even
the discussion of war in the abstract.—
" Tis conscience that makes cowards of
us all."
[From t he North American and U. S. Gazette.]
OEM JAMES IRVIN.
Messrs Editors:—The subjoined ex
tracts of a letter from a highly respec
table citizen of Centre county, the home
of Gen. Irvin, will show how unjust are
the imputations of a venal press upon
the character of a worthy Irian. The
conductors of the Locofoco papers in
Philadelphia have indulged so long in
the abuse of good men, that one is con
strained to the belief that the purer the
character of a Whig the greater pleas
ure it affords them to villify and slander,
Among other charges, that of being a
close, selfish, niggardly man, has been
imputed to General Irvin. With those
who are acquainted with him, no refuta
tion is necessrry ; but as many who are
not personally acquainted may credit the
charge, 1 have thought it but justice to
the people as well as the candidate, to
send the evidence that will put to blush
the cowardly menial to party, if such a
thing is possible, and at the same time
chew the people the kind of man for
whom they are asked to cast their
suffragc s. Having heard the report that
General Irvin when writing his father's
will had cut himself off without one
cent, I felt a little incredulous, and was
induced to write to an old acquaintance
whom I knew was on terms of intimacy
with Mr. Irvin's family, and could give
me the information I desired. His an
swer is brief, but to the point, and may
be depended upon. He says :
"I know that the General is adverse
to bringing his conduct in this respect
before the public and has always been
unwilling to have much if anything said
about it, as it was purely a private and
personal affair. But as I consider he is
in some measure public property just
now, and the public have a right to
know what sort of a man he is, I take
the liberty of telling what I know con
cerning the matter to which you allude
without consulting him._
"Gen. Irvin was called upon by his
father in his last illness, some few years
ago, to write his will. The General who '
knew his father's situation and property
well, and deservedly had his confidence
in the fullest extent, proceeded to divide
his property, which you know was
large, among his children, which he did
with his usual good judgment, and after ,
reading it over to his father, he express
ed himself satisfied—but one thing,
said the old gentleman, you have forgot
ten,
and that is your own share. The
General explained that he had enough I
already, and requested his father to give '
himself no concern about him, and so it
passed. The will in his hand-writing is
filed in our Register's Office, and about ,
the facts which I have stated very briefly,
there can be no doubt, for I know them
to be true. As you say, this voluntary
relinquishment of a considerable estate
is a rare instance of true liberality.
" I could give you other instances of
his life which show that this was in
keeping with his character, but I sup
pose it is not necessary—but there is
one that I will. When he was in Con
gress there was an appointment of a
Cadet at West Point in his gift. Two ,
of his relations, one a nephew, were
very anxious to be appointed, but they
being able to live without it and being
his relations he passed them by, and
gave it to the son of a poor man, who
had a large family without influence.
" I am happy to say that our prospects
here are good, and we shall from pres
ent appearances, despite the malice of
office holders, give such an account
from the central region of the State, as
will make them ashamed of their con
duct, if they have any shame left.
" Your's respectfully."
The Victims and the Cost.
A Washington letter to the N. Y. Her
ald says :—" From the light before us,
it appears that since last January, the
war with Mexico, embracing a period of
six months, has cost— Men
In the operations within General
Taylor's department in killed
and wounded,
In New Mexico and California
and Chihuahua,
Died of the climate,
Term of service expired,
In Gen. Scott's line of operations,
in killed and wounded, inclu
ding stragglers,
Died or discharged from sick
ness,
Term of service expired,
Confined by sickness,
Total of the several divisions,, , ,
withdrawn from service or be
yond service, 11,400
—out of an aggregate embracing all the
operations in Mexico of about 30,000
men.
The expenses of all the divisions of
the army, and of extra naval expenses,
on account of the war with Mexico have
been for the same period of six months,
or will be, say about $26,000,000, in
cluding land bounties, recruiting ser
vice' expenses of sick, transportation,
and depot expenses.
Since Father Miller and his
"latter day saints" became an absolete
idea, the greatest humbug of the day is
the Washington correspondent of the
Ledger. The predictions of peace with
which that worthy has for some time
past bamboozled his readers, are as well
founded as the prophecies of Miller, and
with well informed people receive about
the same consideration.
What Harm does this War do
There arc some persons who appear to
look upon war as a sort of holiday
amusement, which may be indulged in
occasionally without affecting much
harm ! Of this class the Hon. CHARLES
J. INGERSOLL appears to be one. In a
recent letter to the editors of the Na
tional Intelligencer, that gentleman asks
them to tell 'what harm this war does,'
to which they reply as follows :
'lt is difficult to frame an answer to
a question the mere statement of which
is a mockery of all humanity; morality
and religion. Perhaps it will be better
answered by other questions. What .
harm is there in wholesale murder, in re
morseless cruelty, and in fell destruc
tiveness 1 What harm in peopling the
territories of two republics with deso
late widows and orphan children 2 What
harm is there in fattenning the soil of
Mexico with the blood and the bodies of
our brave fellow citizens, as well as of
the army proper as of those enticed to
volunteer in the war by the falsest of
pretences 2 W hat harm in the demora-i
lization of the public sentiment of our
own country, of which it were difficult
to give a more striking evidence than the
shocking levity with which a gentleman
of Mr. Ingersoll's birth, education, and
station, speaks of the horrors which
cannot fail to attend war, even when ne
cessary, and much more such a needless,
wanton, wilful war as that in which we
are now engaged 2
We have too much regard for the
common sense of our readers, and of the
great body of the American people, to
doubt what would be the their reply to
these questions. Nay we would not
doubt Mr. ingersolls's own, were his
natural sensibilities not blunted and
hardened by his long (and we dare say
painful) service in the locofoco school of
politics. And even yet, we should think
there is one argument against this war,
which, though steeled by bad and bitter
prejudice against considerations addres
sed to his reason, even he could be
made to feel the force of. His gallant
son, who is equally an honor to his sire
and an ornament to the public service
—had he, the pride of that father's heart
laid down his life—we will not say in
battle, and in a necessary war, for in that
case pride would to seine extent offset
grief—but, operating on the land in
in Mexico, had he sunk a victim to dis
ease in its most helpless form as thou
sands of equally beloved sons have done,
and such a war as this, would the
thought of the blessings of this war, and
the world of good it is doing, or of the
share which he lies himself had in pro
ducing it, reconcile him to the loss, or
assuage for a moment his real grief of
heartl We know that it would not.
The locofocos are laying great
stress on the lift they hope to receive
at the fall election from the" halls of the
Montezumas." Polk and spunk are no
doubt both popular there, as the Mexi
cans would certainly rather vote for
them than such fighting whip; as Scott,
Taylor, Worth, %t 001, &c.—Lewistown
Gaz.
Locofoco Consistency, Again.
The Locofocos are boisterous in their
denunciations of Whigs who do not
chime in and approve of the war against
Mexico, provoked by Polk, and intended
to advance the dominion of Slavery.—
The Pennsylvanian, edited by a Custom-
House Lounger, who is paid by the Gov
ernment $l5OO a year, for doing nothing,
is the most unscrupulous in his remarks
upon those who condemn the war. But
he as well as all the small fry are the
ardent—(we cannot say consistent)---ad
vocates of the election of Morris Long
streth, a practical Peace Party Man—
one who will give neither aid nor com
fort to his country in any war, for Canal
Commissioner! This fact the organs of
Locofocoism, who have the smallest re
gard for truth will not , dare deny. In
what predicament does it place them be
fore an honest people, who see them
hurling bottled wrath at those of the
\\rhig party who do not and cannot ap
prove of the present War against Mex
ico,
while they not only support for a
high office, but laud the democracy, pa
' triotism and love of country of one who
condemns all wars, right or wrong, and
refuses to aid or encourage the country
in the prosecution of any 1 If the hy
pocrisy of Locofocoism does not stand
out in bold relief in this matter, no one
will deny that it establishes the fact,
that, that party are governed by " the
Old Blue-light Federal Peace Party
Men," of which James Buchanan and
Tory Ingersoll are fair and unquestion
able samples. Pa. Telegraph.
1,000
500
500
5,000
1,000
2,000
Requisitions have gone out from
the War Department upon the District
of Columbia and the State of Maryland
and others for the regiments and com
panies already organized, who are to be
sent immediately to Vera Cruz, to open
the commnnications between that place
and Gen. Scott's Army.
Gen. Pillow, in a conversation with
Gen. Taylor about the battles of Palo
Alto and rasaca de la Pama, (says the
Knoxville Tribune) remarked that had
he been in command of the army, he
thought he should have brought on
those battles differently. Gen. Taylor,
looking him full in the face, replied, " I
have no 4*W—re would sir."