THE JOURNAL.
Huntingdon, Tuesday, August 17, 1847
WHIG NOMINATIONS
FOR GOVERNOR
GEN, JAMES IRVIN,
OF C E.I.7RE COUXTY
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER
JOSEPH W. PkTTON,
OF CUMBERL./LVD COUJV'TY
Whig County Ticket.
ASSEMBLY :
DAVID BLAIR, of Huntingdon
SHERIFF
.TORN G. STEWART, of Huntingdon
TREASURER:
ISAAC NEFF, of West.
COMMISSIONER :
JOSHUA GREENLAND, of Cass
t 1.720
JAMES G: of Barree.
V .13. PALMER, Esq., N. W. corner of Third
and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, is our authorized
sgeut for receiving advertisements and suhscrip
tions, end collecting and reccipting for the same.
UJ On our first page will be found a
dialogue, entitled "Political Difficulties."
It. is from the pen of a Huntingdon coun
ty Mechanic, and we commend it to the
attention of all honest democrats.
On our fourth page will be found an
amusing account of a "Trip to the Cave"
in Sinking Valley. The attention of
our young friends is invited to it.
COUNTY MEETING.
The Whig County Meeting on Wed
nesday evening last, was one of those
old fashioned demonstrations of popular
feeling with which we were familiar in
1840, and to participate in which always
gave us renewed confidence of success.
At an early hour the Court House was
crowded with the bone and sinew of the
county. The old stand-bys of the party,
who have never wavered in their sup
port of correct principles, were there in
goodly numbers, to respond to the nom
ination of their old friend and neighbor
Gen. luvin, and to assist in adopting
measures to secure his election in Octo
ber. Many of those, too, who have for
therly acted with the Locofocos, but who
have become disgusted with the time
serving humbuggery of that party, were
also there, and gave in their adhesion to
the correctness of Whig principles, and
avowed their determination to support
the candidates of the,Whig party. Af
ter the organization was completed, the
meeting was addressed by A. K. CORN.
VN, JOHN WILLIAIRSON, and A. W. BEN-
Esqs. Even if our space would
allow it, we would only be doing injus
tice to these gentlemen by attempting to
give an abstract of their truly able and
eloquent addresses. Suffice it to say
that the objects and aims of the Whig
party wore presented by them in a bold
and manly style, and the ruinous meas
ures of the National and State Admin
istrations, commented on in a strain
calculated to carry conviction to every
honest heart. Our friend Mr. Benedict
also took up and refuted some of the
falsehoods uttered on the previous even
ing by Mr. Shunk's Deputy Attorney
General. We do Rot know whether
the young "gentleman" was in the
Court House, but can safely predict, if
he was, that he will not again attempt
a similar harangue in the bailiwick
of that " Same Old Coon."
Altogether, the meeting was a most
cheering evidence of the continued pop
ularity of Gen. JAMES IRVIN, among the
farmers and mechanics of Old Hunting.
don. A popularity secured by merit,
and which all the detraction of Loco
foco presses and leaders is unable to im
pair. We can therefore confidently as
sure our Whig friends thoughout the
State that the W higs of Huntingdon
will do their whole duty in October.
[g- What the editor of the " Globe"
means by calling upon us to "retract"
our charges against its editor, we are at
a loss to determine. A low, dishonor
able, and false insinuation was directed
at us through that paper, and we only
called upon the writer to define his mean
ing. We made no charges whatever,
and therefore have nothing to retract.—
The editor can either accept our expla
nation, or make good the threat contain
s 1 in his,last paper, as heat suits his in
clination.
TUE TICZMT,
The Whig County Ticket, as nomina
ted by the Convention on Wednesday
last, will be found at our mast head.
The gentlemen composing it, are all ,
good and unflinching Whigs, who have 1
in times pest done good service in the 1
ranks of the party. And all honest and
capable to perform the duties of the re
spective offices for which they have;
been put in nomination.
Our Representative of ,last winter,
DAVID BLAIR, Esq., has been again put
in nomination. All agree that the Coun
ty never had a more able and efficient
representative at Harrisburg. And all
know who visited the Capitol during the
last session, that none stood higher, or
had more influence in the House, than
had Mr. B. In addition to his prompt
: ness in attending to the business commit.
ted to his hands by his constituents, it
is well known that he was one of those
who stood up on all occasions for des
-1 patching the business with all possible
I haste, thereby saving to the tax payers
thousands of dollars, by making the see
' lion the shortest which we have had for
the last twenty years. He will doubtless
be re-elected by a largely increased ma-
jority,
JOHN C. STEWART, the candidate for
Sheriff is an active, energetic man ; well
calculated in every point of view, to
make an efficient and popular officer.
He is poor, too, and needs as much Ds
any one who could have been selected,
the profits arising from the office. He
deserves and will, no doubt, receive the
entire support or the party.
ISAAC NEFF, the candidate for Treas
urer, is one of the old veterans of the
Whig party, who has never flinched in
the support of Whig principles. The
name is deservedly popular in the Coun
ty, but is seldom before the public for
office. Look out, therefore, for a sweep
ing majority for the Whig County
Treasurer on this occasion.
Next on the Ticket comes the name
of Josttua GREENLAND, the can didate for
County Commissioner. This name of
itself would be enough to ensure any
man an election in Huntingdon county
—so widely is it known and so highly
is it respected. But in addition to the
popularity of the name, the candidate
in question is one of those quiet, unasti
ming men, of sound practical sense, that
just fits him for the responsible office
for which he has been nominated. Mr.
Greenland is a blacksmith by trade, and
will therefore look after the mechanical
interests, while Messrs. Cummings and
Teague take care of the Agricultural.
JAMES GILLAM, the candidate for Audi
tor, is a clear headed farmer of Barree,
who is well known and universally re
spected in his neighborhood. He is a
good Whig, and will make an honest and
competent officer.
It is not presumed that none have
been disappointed in the formation of
the Ticket. Such a result could not be
reasonably anticipated. But those who
have been disappointed this year, may
be successful in carrying out their views
next. And if such now rise above their
personal feelings, and go heartily into
the support of the Ticket, they can rea
sonably ask, and will no doubt receive,
the aid of those who now have their pre
' ferences gratified. And,indeed,this is the
only true course for all well wishers of
the Whig party and its principles to pur
sue. To adopt a different course, is
only to destroy all the objects and aims
of Whig organization, to wit: the suc
cess of Whig principles by electing to
office those who entertain and uphold
them.
There is a peculiar obligation resting
upon the Whigs of Huntingdon county
at this time, to present a bold and unbro -
ken front to the enemy. The norhina.
tion of Gen. JAMES laviN, was urged up.
on the Whig party of the State because
among other reasons, of his unboun
ded pupularity in Huntingdon and the
other counties of this District. Our fa
vorite was successful, and it now be
comes our duty to show our Whig breth
ern of the State that we are worthy of
the honor they have done us. Let us
go to work, then, at once—throw aside
all little prejudices as regards men, look
" above the standard bearers to the
standard itself," and thus move on in
unbroken phalanx, until we shall have
secured for lavia, FATTON, and the whole
COUNTY TICKET, a majority worthy of
Whigs of Old Huntingdon.
[D. w e are requested to state (by one
who knows) that comfortable quarters
and an obiiging host will be found at Col.
T. S. \Veto's Eagle Hotel, in N. 3d st.
Phil's.
"The Boys" Begging again --What's
to be done?
What a pity it is that our County Com
missioners will not bestow their patron
age upon the "nice young men" in the
lower street. The Sheriff will not agree
to have his printing done at half price—
the Whig candidate for Sheriff is not
willing to pay the Locofoco part of the
establishment twenty dollars for his in
fluence, and as ever a short career in
the Quarter Sessions is expensive, and
therefore that pure, disinterested little
sheet, the " Messenger," is in great
danger of sinking. Can nothing be
done for the " boys 1" That is the ques
tion. It has been ascertained that fifteen
dollars a " pair," is the very lowest the
publishers can be secured for. is there
no candidate for office willing to make
the investment 1 The " king's counsel"
has already suffered pretty severely for
the distinction Its has gained by his flat
ulent orations through its columns, and
the other benefactors are getting tired
answering the demands for pennies.—
If the County Commissioners are still
determined to resist the study importu
nities of these " beggars" to do the
County printing for nothing, and find
themselves, they will indeed be desper
ate ! Something must be done for the
" boys" to pay the penalty of blackguard
conduct. We doubt whether much could
be raised by carrying round a hat, as
the community seem delighted at the
sound sense of the Jury, and a little dis
appointed at the tenderness of the Court,
in not sending into seclusion the false
apostle of Temperance. Poor George
Mundy was sent to Moyamensing for a
very small offence against the laws, and
George Mundy has more wit, if not as
much malignity, as the " Mundys" of
the "Messenger,' If we cannot give
the " boys" a little money, (say a half
or a quarter—the usual sum expected,)
we will contribute our advice, which, if
they follow, they will not have to prac
tice a system of begging, which, though
easily overlooked in the aged and infirm,
must bring upon stout, active young
men unmixed contempt. Pursue, then,
an upright course. Cease envying your
neighbors prosperity, 'and trying to filch
from them their hard earnings by the
publication of known falsehoods. Do
not dishonor the "craft" by low 'ratting.'
Quit begging, and if you cannot make a
respectable living at your trade in an
honorable way, take the spade or the
mattock ; or if your dignity revolts at
that, the whip of a boat driver, and
make an honest penny. We would have
advised the army in Mexico, but the
chivalry that exhausts itself in breaking
the windows of a peaceable neighbor at
night, is not the stuff to make warriors
out of. And it also occurs to us that the
gallant " Major" was satisfied with his
brilliant campaign against the Mexican
Nation last fall. That was certainly a
dazzling affair so far as it went and was
prosecuted with unusual energy up to
the time of starting !
If I had a beaux for a soldier who'd go."
But we have already given too much
space to a notice of the extremities the
Pirates of the Messenger are reduced
to. In their base attempts to injure us
in our business, they are but acting as
the mere tools of !‘ Uncle filth," and
his man Friday, and should therefore
not be held responsible. Those attempts
have so far failed, and we have no fear
of tieing injured by them whilst the An
titnasons of Huntingdon county retain
their good sense.
V- The "Globe" need not think to
reconcile the People of Huntingdon to
the stab directed at their interests by
Mr. Shuck, in his veto of the Broad Top
Railroad, by attempting to palm upon
their understandings the miserable slang
of the Governor in regard to the great
danger of Corporations. All know that
Mr. Shuck signed the Pa. Railroad Bill,
and who pretends to say that that is not
a greater corporation than a little com
pany to make a railroad from this town
to Stonerstownl The humbug about
giving the company the privilige of
" farming five thousand acres of land "
lon Brood Top, does not alarm any body
in the least. The idea is too ridiculous
! to receive a moment's consideration.-
1 We advise our neighbor to drop all such
clap trap in regard to this question, and
set about at once to try and convince
the people that the Governor has repent.
ed his error, and if elected, will sign
the bill at once. This is the only way
our neighbor can get Mr. Shuck out of
the dilemma, and save him from the ter
rible drubbing that awaits him in Octo
. her.
A Great Day in Huntingdon.
Thursday last was the greatest day in
Huntingdon, of which that venerable
citizen, the " oldest inhabitant," hag any
recollection. The announcement that
a procession of Odd Fellows, in full re
galia, would take place had aroused the
curiosity of the public ; and according
ly, at an early hour in the day, all the
avenues leading to the town were crowd-'
ed, and by the middle of the day every
nook and corner of our borough was
filled to excess. We are unable to make
any correct estimate of the number
present, and will therefore not venture
a supposition in the premises.
In another column will be found au
account of the proceedings as furnished
by Col. D. Buoy, Chief Marshall of the
day. The procession made quite an im
posing appearance, the regalia of one
branch of the order being exceedingly
rich and beautiful. The banners, too,
were also elegantly got up, and attract
ed great attention and universal admi
ration. The music was very fine, and
reflected great credit on the gentlemen
composing the various bands in attend
ance. We had not the pleasure of hear
ing the address delivered by Hon. Geo.
R. McFarlane, but understand that it
was an able effort, and gave general
satisfaction to the company. Whatever
may be the opinions of many in regard
to the objects and aims of Odd Fellow
ship, we think all were gratified, who
witnessed the display on this occasion,
with the respectable bearing of the mem
bers, and the good order which marked
the proceedings of the day throughout.
Locofoco County Meeting,
The Locofoco County meeting on Tues
day evening last, proved to be a most
miserable failure. Had it not been for I
Shunk's office-holders and their rela
tives, an organization could scarcely
have been effected. But happily there
were a sufficient number of these disin•
terested patriots present, to make the
aflitir move off. Judge Gwin was made
chairman, Major S.. Caldwell, County
Surveyor, Secretary, and John Scott,
Esq., Prosecuting Attorney, made the
speech and reported the resolutions I
Who wonders that Shunk was opposed
to giving the election of Prosecuting
Attorney's to the People 1 Had an elec. I
tion taken place in Huntingdon county
last year for that office, no one could
have been found to stand up for the
Shuck cause in the Locofoco county
meeting on Tuesday night last. We had
intended to take some notice of the pal
pable falsehoods uttered by the young
gentleman in his speech, but after listen
ing to the castigation he received on
Wednesday evening, to a crowded Court
House, we concluded to allow him to
pass into the obscurity which awaits
him after the 22d Tuesday of October
next, without any further notice at our
hands. It is worthy of remark that not
a single applause was elicited by the
speech, and the few present appeared
very much releived when the young
gentleman took his seat. The meeting
adjourned at an early hour, their coun
tenances indicating the conviction of
their hearts, that "old Shuck" is "no
go" in Huntingdon county.
POLK AND HUNK TICKET.
Our Locofoco friends of this county
placed the following ticket in nomination
on Wednesday evening last. We shall
have something to say in regard to the
claims of some of these gentlemen to
public favor, at a future time :
Assembly.—Dr. J. M. GEMMILL.
Sheriff—MATTHEW CR OWNOVEH.
Treasurer.—DAVlD BLACK.
Commissioner.—ROßEßT SPEEK.
duditor.—lSAAC COOK.
V-The Whigs of Berko County as
sembled in mass meeting in the borough
of Reading last week, to make arrange
ments for the fall election. Resolutions
were adopted in favor of GEN. TAYLOR
as the \Vhig candidate for President.
The Locofocos held a meeting on the
next day, and voted down resolutions in
favor of the old Hero.
MORE EVIDENCE.—The Harrisburg Tele
graph says that the Editor during last
week, had a conversation with a gentle
man, formerly an officer in the army,
with Gen. Taylor, and who has been per
sonallay and intimatly acquainted with
him for a great number of years, and who
assured him that he has a perfect
knowledge of the General's political
character. He stated that Gen. Taylor
I was a "Whig, a whole Whig, and noth
ing but a Whig:" that he was opposed
to the annexation of Texas: and opposed
to the war with Mexico, believing that
it could have been avoided with honor
and safety. He stated further, that he
was opposed to the further extension of
slave territory: and in favor of a protec•
tivc tariff •
THE ELECTIO.III S.
THE WHIG SKIES BRIGHT.
The results of the recent elections are
of the most cheering character.
KENTTCKY.
We are still without deffinite returns
from this State. But what we have
would seem to indicate that the Con
gressional delegation will stand 6 Whigs
to 4 Locofocos. If this be so the Whigs
lose one member owing to divisions in
their ranks, in several of the districts.
The Legislature is largely Whig.
We take the following from the North
American of last evening. The proba
bility is that Mr. Polk has received a
rebuke from his own State.
TENNESSEE.
Commons, o.—The mail brings me
the Nashville Banner of Monday, which
has unofficial returns fram thirteen coun
ties in Middle Tennessee, where the
Democratic strength lies, and where in
1845 A. V. BROWN, D., received 30,292
votes, and FOSTER, W., 25,639, there has
been a Whig gain of 1150.
In Eastern Tennessee, there is a hig
gain in Marion county, usually a strong
Whig county.
The Banner has not a doubt of the
election of a Whig Governor by twice
the majority which the present Demo
cratic Governor had in '45 ; his majori
ty in the State then was 1470.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Whigs have carried the Ist, 2d,
3d, 4th, Bth and 9th Districts certainly.
The Democrats the 6th and 7th. In the
sth District the majorities for Kerr,
Whig, are, Granville 174, Orange 190,
Catham 576—total 940. Venable has
233 in PPrson county, and Caswell re
ported about 700. This elects Kerr by
7 votes, but Caswell is only in round
numbers, and Polk's majority was 900.
The members of Congress elected, are :
Ist—T. L. Clingman, Whig.
2d—Nathaniel Boyden, Whig, gain.
3d—D. M. Barringer, Whig.
Ith—A. H. Shepperd, Whig.
sth—Doubtful.
6th—James. McKay, Dem.
7th—J. R. J. Daniel, Dein.
Bth—R. S. Donnell, Whig, gain.
9th—David Outlaw, Whig, gain.
ALABAMA.
The returns of the State are not yet
full enough to tell who is Governor. No
comparison can be formed with the last
Gubernatorial election, when an' inde
pendent was elected. The following i
members of Congress are known to be
elected :
lst John Gale, Whig, gain.
2d H. H. Hilliard, Whig, re-elected. I
3d S. W. Harris, Dem.
7th F. W. Bowdon, Dem.
, INDIANA.
ZANESVJLLE, Aug. 13-8 P. M.
\Ve have the official returns. from the
Gth District of Indiana, and George G.
Dunn, Whig, is elected to Congress by
twelve majority.
In the 10th District, William Rock
hill, Dem., is certainly elected. The
Congressional Delegation, therefore,
stands—Whigs, 4; Dem., 6.
1 Elfish Embree, Whig gain.
2 Thomas J. Henley, Dem.
3 John L. Robinson, Dem.
4 Caleb B. Smith, Whig.
5 William W. Wick, Dem.
6 Georg G. Dunn—Whig gain.
7 Richard W. Thompson, Whig.
8 John Petit, Dem.
9 Charles W. Cathcart, Dem.
10 William Rockhill, Deni.
The NN higgains in these elections ren
der it certain that there will be a W hig
majority in the next House of Represen
itatives at Washington.
Daring Robbery.
Just before going to press, we learn
that a Pedlar, named David March, was
robbed this morning about nine o'clock,
on the Ridge between this place and
Alexandria, of 411632. Mr. M. thinks
there were three robbers in company,
two of whom tied him to a tree, gagged ;
and then robbed him of his money,
which he had secured around his body.
In cutting the money from his person,
they inflicted a slight wound on his side.
The following reward is offered for the
recovery of the money and the apprehen
sion of the robbers :
$lOO REWARD
Will be paid for the apprehension of
the robbers and the recovery of $1550
in bank notes and $B2 in specie, forci
bly taken from me this morning, about
nine o'clock, on the Ridge, about 4 1-2
miles below the town of Alexandria.
One of the robbers had on dark pants and
light cross-barred or checkered coat.
There was two or three in company.
DAVID MARCH.
Huntingdon, Aug. 17, 1847.
COUNTERFEITS.—The " Philadelphia
Ledger of Friday last, says that well ex•
ecuted counterfeit $5 notes, on the
Bank of Middletown, Pa., are in circula
tion. Also $3 notes on the Mechanic's
Bank of Newark, N. J., and $3 notes on
the Marine Bank of New Bedford, which
can be easily detected, on account of
their bad execution.
[-Nearly 100,000 emigrants left Lip•
erpool in the first six months of the pres.
ent year, in 431 ships.
LATER FROM THE ARMY.
GEN. SCOTT IN THE CAPITOL.
The last and most importont news
from the Army appears in the New Or
leans National of the 2d inst. to the
effect that Gen. Scott enttred the city of
Mexico on the 17th of July, after a se
verely contested struggle with a lne
Mexican force, about eight DakieS 4 this
aide of the capitol, commandtd by Santa
Anna in person. Our loss is put down
at three hundred killed and wounded,
the slaughter of the enemy having been
immense. 46 soon as the battle was
decided, the civil authorities came out
to meet Gen. Scott, and forthwith offer
ed terms of capitulation, which were
accepted.
Gen. TAYLOR was at Walnut Springs,
near Monterey, still awaiting the arri
val of reinforcements, when, it is confi
dently stated, he will advance on San
Luis Potosi,
and from thence to the city
of Mexico. The health of all the troops
is good at Saltillo, Monterey, Ceralvo,
Mier and Matamoras. This remark ap
plies to those recently arrived, as well
as the more acclimated. Gen. Taylor's
whole command at the present time is
about 7000 men—not more. Of these,
Gen. Wool has with him at Buena Vista,
2900, or thereabout ; they are immedi
ately under Gem Taylor, at Monterey,
800 ; at Meir, Ceralvo and Matamoras,
there are about 3300.
RATER FROM MEXICO.
RICHMOND, August 13, 1847,
The Picayune and Delta of the 6th
inst., contains intelligence brought by
the arrival at New Orleans of the Steam•
er Ohio, from Brazos.
The Matamoras Flag states that it
had been rumored there for a week that
Gen. Scott had reached the city of Mex
ico with a loss of three hundred men,
and it now learns on good authority that
positive intelligence had been received
there to that effect, but whether the
fight occurred at Rio Frio or at the city
itself, or what time General Scott arrt•
ved there, are matters still uncertain.
It was also asserted that Gen. Valen•
cia had left San Luis for the capital with
a large force. Gen. Hopping received
information that Urrea was this side of
the mountains with 4000 men. General
Hopping immediately sent to Matamo
ras for a squadron of dragoons, but oul;
one company was sent him.
Carabajal, with about 250 men, had
been seen 25 leagues beyond Matamoras,
and had detained a large number of
mules, loaded for that place, besides ono
hundred cargoes of goods, sent from
Matamoras for Monterey.
It was rumored at Buena Vista that
Gen. Russ, with a force of three thou.
sand men, was on his march, and that
troops were also moving on Parras: A
company of mounted men had been sta
tioned at the pass below Saltillo, and
pickets posted on the road to Nueva,
and other measures taken to guard
against any sudden movement.
Capt. Parker, with two pieces of Ar
tillery, was sent to reconnoitre, but no•
thing had been discovered. Informa-
tion had been received from Mexicans
at Parras that the Indians had destroy
ed three ranchos and killed 300 Mex
icans.
Apprehensions existed of nn attack
being made upon the depot at the mouth
of the Rio Grande, where there are
some seventy loads of public property,
guarded by only fifteen men.
The steamer Fashien has not yet arri
ved.
Intelligence from Gen. Taylor's camp
is up to the 26th ult. The papers from
the city of Mexico received there are
filled with allusions to the mission of
Mr. TRIST and his offers of peace, and
state that the British minister advised
its acceptance. The press however,
denounce it as outrageous and insulting,
and urge the people to repel " the Yan
kees."
Seventeen interments are reported at
New Orleans from yellow fever during
the twenty-four hours ending at 9
o'clock on the morning of the sth inst.
Six deaths occurred at the Charity Hos
pital subsequently on the same day.
ROBERT J. WALKER, Mr. Polk's Sec
retary of the Treasury is looked upon as
a democrat good and true, although he
voted for the Bankrupt Law and against
its Repeal, and paid his debts by availing
himself of the benefits of that Law. Mr.
Jam, who also voted for the Law is
denounced because he chose to pay his
hands with money instead of the Bank
rupt Law ; and for so doing he is de
nounced as an aristocrat and hard-heart
ed Ironmaster. From such facts the Lo
cofocos conclude that the fomer is abet
ter man than the latter—a strange man
ner of forming a correct opinion, truly.
0:7-The Editor of the Easton Argus,
who is notorious for his reckless disre
gard of truth, charges one of Gen.lrvin's
brothers, with having taken the benefit
of the Bankrupt Law. This charge,
like all others that emanate from the
same source, is absolutely and unquali
fiedly false. None of the General's
brothers have taken the benefit of that
law; and if we were dealing with an Edi
tor who had the honesty and independ
ence to retract a lie, we might expect him
to do justice to a man he has foully
slandered. Hutter, however, belongs to
that class of Locofoco editors who act.
upon the princple that "a lie well stuck
to is as good as the truth,"—Whig