lIMENGDO) JOUR)AL EY JAMES CLARK VOL. XII, NO. 37. TERMS The " HUNTINGDON JOURNAL" will be pupliehed hereafter at the following rates, viz: $13..73 a year, if paid in advance; $2.00 if raid during the year, and $3.30 if not paid un til after the expiration of the year. The above terms to be adhered to in all cams. No subscription taken for less than six months, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. 0j- To Clubs of six, or more, who pay in ad •ance, the Journal will be cent at $1.50 per colpy for one year ; and any one who will send us that number of names accompanied with the money shall receive the Journal one year for his trouble. THE JOURNAL Huntingdon, Tuesday, September 14, 1847, NEWS AND POLITICS.—UntiI after the election, we will have to discontinue the publication of lengthy Tales, and devote all our space to news and politics. The propriety of this will be acknowledged by al; who feel the importance of the corning election. The Locofocos are industriously engaged in circulating error and falsehood in relation to the Principles and candidates of the Whig 'party, and it becomes the Whigs to be equally industrious in combatting them with Truth. In this county the Polk and Shuck men are circulating (in ad dition to their own reckless county pub licqtions) large numbers of the Pennsyl vanian, edited by J. W. Forney, Esq., an office-holder under Polk, at a salary of $15.00 a year! This paper is filled with the vilest and most palpable false hoods in relation to Gen. Irvin and Jos. W. Patton, intended to injure these gen tlemen with the Laboring class of the community. Let all be on their guard against them. We would suggest to our Whig friends throughout the county the propriety of circulating, freely, all the Whig papers and documents they receive, among their neighbors, who are not in the re ceipt of any. They may be the means of preventing their minds from being poisoned by the vile Locofoco publica tions alluded to. Locofoco Attacks upon Gen. Irvin. The Bellefonte Whig, in noticing the slander of the Locofoco paper published in Bellefonte, upon the character of Gen. Irvin, says: "The severe reverses that party has sustained in the elections just held in the States of North Carolina, Kentucky, Indiona, and especially the overthrow of Polkism in Tennessee, the President's own State, have caused the most serious alarm in their camp. Evidences of pub lic opinion not to be mistaken, in our own State, in favor of that tried and true man of the people, Gen. Irvin, pre saging his triumphant election, have caused such consternation and dismay in their midst, as to make their prospects desperate. Nothing but that madness which is the sure forerunner of destruction, could have induced any man or party to pub lish so low and pitiful a tissue of false hoods of the grossest kind, as is contain ed in the last " Democrat" against James Irvin. It is so wicked, and with all so silly, that we do not deem it worthy of a serious reply.—We look for articles of that kind from that party—we have warned our readers to expect them—and are therefore not surprised, and we be lieve no one is. We are perfectly con tent to let James Irvin's life and conduct answer all such attacks. If a character the most pure and unsullied, the result of a lifetime of uprightness and integri ty in all the relations to society—of dis interestedness, kindness, and liberality to all with whom it has been his lot to associate--is not a defence against the assaults of a venal press conducted by po litical adventurers whose hopes of office depend upon the success of their party, then, indeed, we have fallen upon evil times, and public virtue must be at a low ebb. We have, however, a better opinion of the virtue and intelligence of the people than our neighbor seem to have, and with an abiding confidence that they deprecate and condemn such conduct, we are content to let is rest with them, without any further notice' Ireland. Every human heart must be gratified with the prospect that famine and dis tress in Ireland is about to be supersed ed by an abundant harvest. The London Correspondent of the 4merican and Gazette, under date of Aug. 18, 1847, says:—" Thank God ! there is plenty; even in Ireland, not on ly is the weather glorious and the har vest abundant, but the potatoes so sound that all fears seem to have vanished. Premature, it may be, but who can won der that after a year of despair, that live ly people should delight to indulge in hope." Important Matters Coming to Light ! The statement of the Pittsburg Collec tor is bringing important matters to light, exhibiting the manner in which our public works have been conducted under men bound by party interests, in stead of the interests of the Common- ' wealth. A Captain of a Canal Boat gives the following explanation of why the tonnage of this year exceeds that of the last year more than 18,000 tons, when the number of boats exceeded those of this year nearly 1000: He (the Captain) says "that some time last sum mer while coming up the Canal—just before he came to a weigh lock, he pass ed a line boat, (as they are called,) a boat running through to Pittsburg. It was a large boat and heavily freighted ' • whilst he was in the office of the weigh master, the Captain of this line boat came in and asked to be passed through without weighing; said that he had twenty tons on board, did not wish to be detained, &c.—The gentleman from Union county turned to the officer, at the same time taking a $lO bill out of his pocket, and told him to weigh that boat, and that if he did not find that it had forty tons on board in place of twen ty, the money should be his. The of ficer replied : They were not in the habit of weighinc , these boats, that the mas ters of them they had always found to tell the truth," erc , and at the same time passed the boat regularly through as having only twenty tons on board, when our informant is certain, from the way she was sunk in the water, that her load must have exceeded forty tons." This statement was made to the Edi tor of the Union County Star, who holds himself in readiness to furnish satisfac. tory proof of the statement if required. 'The people will here see a specimen of the manner in which our Public Works have been conducted under the rule of Shunkism ! They will also learn, as the Erie Gazette well remarks, why our Public Improvements have not been more 'productive in former years. In this connection, an important inquiry suggests itself, which the people, we trust, will answer at the ballot-box. It is this: if one Whig member of the Canal Board has succeded in drawing largely increased revenue from the State works, what might not be expected from the conjoint exertions of two 1 Voters of all parties should ponder this question, and let its forcible sug gestions impel them to a truly Pennsyl vania course of action.—Lancaster Tri bune. Irvin and Taylor Gen. Irvin is evidently destined to be elected Governor of Pennsylvania in 1847 and Gen. Taylor President of the United States in 1848. Both are ob jected to by some folks on account of their being engaged in the IRON num ?: ESE. Gen. Irvin MAKES iron, and Gen. Taylor USES it. Each seems to under stand his branch of the business well— and each may be said to be " ROUGH"— the one because iron-making is "rough" work—and the other because he makes " rough" use of the article. To the Mexicans, Gen. Taylor has been a " rough" customer—and to the Locofo cos, both he and Gen. Irvin will prove "rough" candidates. To try to defeat such " iron-masters" is a " rough" un dertaking—and to fail in the effort is a " rough" mortification. The whole bu siness is a "rough" one, and may be parsed thus : Gen. Taylor beating the Mexicans—ROUGli ; en. Irvin elected Governor—ROUGHEß ; Rough and Ready going to the White Huse—ROUGHEST.— Somerset Herald. SINGULAR COINCIDENCE.-It IS men tioned that Santa Anna was "passed" into Vera Cruz on the 14th of August, 1846, and that on the same day in the present year Gen. Paredes "slipped" into the same port. If Paredes gives our Government as much trouble during the ensuing year as Santa Anna has done during the past we shall have an awful addition to the sacrifice of life and an immense national debt. HUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1847. The Old Office-Beggar ! 1 _ Ott - TAx-PAYERS ! read the following items and then turn to your tax receipts : Item Ist.—Mr. Shunk received for two years services as Clerk in the Land Office, at $l,OOO per year, the sum of 2,000 Item 2d.—For two years services as Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, at $9OO per year, $lBOO ; extra compensa tion per year $250 for the same time, ssoo—making 2,300 Item 3d.—Nineteen years services as Clerk of House of Represen tatives—salary per diem and ex tra compensation amounting per year to sl,soo,—making $28,- 500—Perquisites, viz : copies of laws, certificates, pens, ink, pa per, pen-knives, candles, sales of documents, &c., amounting to $5OO per year, being $9,500 for the same period—making the round sum of 38,000 Item 4th.—Six years services as Clerk of the Canal Board at $l,- 500 per year, 9,000 Item sth.—Four years services as Clerk of the Commonwealth and Supd't. of Common Schools at $2,500 per year 10,000 Item 6th.—ln '3B, after being Clerk 19 years, he charged and receiv ed extra pay for arranging House papers 500 Item 7th.—ln 1838-9, from Dec. sth to January 15th, he acted as Clerk to the House, when he resigned and became Clerk to the Commonwealth—for which he received for one month's ser vices $457, and perquisites s3oo—in all 757 Item Bth.—For five days services as Clerk of the House in 1843, he received $3O per day, amount ing to, for those five days, 150 Item 9th.—For three years (ending January next,) services as Gov ernor of the State at $3,000 per year, 9,000 Making a grand total of $7l ,707 It will thus be seen that FRANCIS R. SHUNK has sucked the Commonwealth out of Seventy-one Thousand Seven Hun dred and Seven Dollars ! And yet has the modesty to beg $9,000 more! The old Prince of Beggars! The Locofocos and Gen. Taylor. The following is the vote of the Penn sylvania delegation, in the last Congress, on Mr. Faran s amendment to the reso lution of thanks to Gen. Taylor, which provided "that nothing therein contain ed should be construed into an approval of the terms of the capitulation at Mon terey," thus construing the vote of thanks into a direct vote of censure. For this vote of censure (Faran's amendment) we find the names of every Locofoco from Pennsylvania, save one, in favor, and every Whig against it. Here are the names from the Journal. For the Vote of Censure. against it. James Black, Andrew Stewart, Rich. Brodhead, Jas. Buffington, Jacob Erdman, H. D. Foster, W. S. Garvin, C. J. Ingersoll, 0. D. Leib, Moses McLean, John Ritter, J. S. Yost. Absent J. Blanchard, C. Harrah, J. H. Camboll, Jas. Thompson, L. Levin. Yet we are told the locofocos are for Gen. Taylor. This was "elevating Gen. Taylor with a vengeance !" About like the "holster" Brutus and his co-conspi rators gave to Ctesar in the Senate Chamber.—B. er S. Journal. READING.—Not one in every ten thous and—nay, peradventure, not one in ev ery hundred thousand—know bow and feel how to do justice in reading or re citation to our English tongue. Men may learn most things abroad in schools and colleges ; but the secret is, to read English well, the boy must learn to read at home under the guidance of gentle and accomplished parents, who know how to read themselves and have music in their souls. Read well, and you will disclose passages to the charmed ear in prose and verse—in Bacon, in Boling broke, in Burke, in Shakspearc, in Spen cer, in Milton, and in a host of others, the leaders in our mighty litera ture—which are altogether unequalled in fervor, grace, and melody, except in the Greek. [l:7- A good liver in Cincinnati the other night had all his champagne stolen by a wag of a thief, who left this note in the cellar: Dear Mr. S.--I tried your wine—it , tits,pet hard to take! [CORRECT PRINCIPLES-SUPPORTEII BY TRUTH.) Speaking of the recent Whig victory in Tennessee, the New York Tribune says, in such a canvass, wherein the Tarifl; Currency, and other controver sies of the day, but especially that res pecting the origin, conduct and objects of the War on Mexico, have been thor oughly and ably discussed in the hear ing of the whole People, the verdict of confidence given for Mr. Polk in the contest of '45 has been reversed, upon the heaviest vote everpolled in the State, except possibly that of 1845. a Whig Governor, Senate and House of Represen tatives, all in place of those friendly to the Administration, have been returned, securing a U. S. Senator for sixyears from March, 1849, to replace Mr. Jarna gin. Without noise, violence or undue excitement, this revolution has been wrought, and Mr. Polk again stands be reft of the support of his own State —a calamity which never befel any of his predecessors, unless it were John Tyler. And we have abundant testimony from the journals and letter-writers in his in terest that the War was the main issue, and Mr. Polk everywhere charged by the Whig candidate with having need lessly and unconstitutionally originated it. On this charge issue was joined ; this issue the People of Mr. Polk's own State have adjudicated. Is it strange, then, that the journals in his interest have such difficulty in suiting themselves with Election Returns from Tennessee) Old Don C—a is — abont despatching a messenger to Vera Cruz, and has pro mised to enclose a letter for me, and as opportunities are now scarce to commu nicate with our friends, I embrace this chance with pleasure. Nothing of very great interest has occurred since your departure except a short spiteful little fight we were engaged in at La Hoya. It was at the time General Cadwalader's train was expected, and although all of Colonel Wynkoop's messengers had been stopped by the Mexican troops, still he (Col. W.) ascertained through Mexican information the time he would arrive, and made known to us his deter mination of assisting him by attacking the enemy in the rear. Accordingly he chose his favorite plan of night attack, and left the castle at 9 o'clock in the evening with 250 men including Capt. Walker's rifles, (which you know are attached to his command.) The infantry were companies B, C, F, H and K. We came upon the enemy's pickets the other side of Las Vegas at 2 o'clock in the morning. They challenged and then fired—we advaricA quietly in column of platoons, they firing and falling back continually. Finding they were moun ted, (from the rapidity with which they fell back) Col. Wynkoop ordered Capt. Walker, who was in rear, to charge them which he did gallantly, when the (logs run, losing one man killed. At day break, finding the enemy all around us, and hearing no indications of Gen. C's appearance, we fell back upon Las Ve gas, and sent out three companies as skirmishers, who killed seven men be fore sunrise. Walker at this time re quested Col. Wynkoop's permission to move on in the advance half a mile for some green feed for his horses; which he received and had not been absent ten minutes when we heard firing. We ware immediately formed and led on a run to the ground. Arriving at the top of the hill we saw the rifles behind a stone wall, engaged with about 500 of the enemy. With a yell we followed our gallant Colonel down the hill and came upon them like a storm. They seeing us "broke" down a meadow. The I Colonel turned the column over the hill and met them at that point. We gave them several volleys and then dashed at them in pursuit ; at the same time Cad . wallader's column came up and joined in. The enemy's loss was about 100 killed and 100 wounded. Your friend Hanson, (the orderly,) killed an officer, and Peter Dowly of Company B made way with two more. All hands behaved well. Major Bowman kept up the pur suit until the last. lie behaved very bravely. Colonel Wynkoop sustained his char acter as a brave and gallant soldier.— Gen. Cadwallader and Col. Childs say he stole the fight from them. His aids in this affair were Captains Binder, Dil ler, and Lieut. Goff. They were all in the thickest of it. Truly yours. J. H. Ewing, James Pollock, Alex. Ramsey, J. R. Ingersoll, John Strohm, A. R. Mcllvaine, David Wilmot, ID" The following is the transcend ental for "Miss will you take my arm?": " Young lady, will you condescend so far to sacrifice your own convenience to my pleasure, as to insert the five dig nitals and part of the extremity of your contiguous arm through the angular ap erture formed by the crooking of my arm against the perpendicular portion of my frame 1" Tennessee, Prom the Army. CASTLE OF PEROTE, Mexico, ^ Aug. 6, 1847. Recent Murders. The St. Louis Reveille says :—A cor respondent writing from Fort Mann, Arkansas river, under date of the 25th ult., says that for several days previous to the massacre of the eight men of Col. Easton's command, the Indians had been driving herds of Buffalo close in towards the line of march, for the pur pose, manifestly, of decoying the troops from the main body. They had also piled fuel at various points on the south bank of the river to decoy the men across. It was in the latter manner that they succeeded in entrapping the mur dered men. THE WRONG MAN HUNG.-A young printer, named Boyington, who served his time in the office of the New Haven Palladium, was hung a few years since in Alabama, upon a charge of having murdered a companion with whom he was travelling. He protested his inno cence to the last, but without avail.— Recently, the landlord in whose house the murder was committed, confessed the crime on his death bed ! Boyington was a young man of fine talents and prepossessing appearance, whose guilt was deemed conclusive only from the fact that he was the last person seen with the murdered man. So much for ' circumstantial evidence." " I say Jim, can you spell potatoes with only one letter 1" " No—neither can you, you fool." "Now I reckon I can, you fool." "Let's have it then." " Well, we will put one o—put two o's—put three o's—put four u's—put five o's—piit six o's—put seven o's—PUT. EIGHT-075." PROCL 11LVTION. t s . •S'iL, • 11 , 'Of& •li ~'(',. E.:-, '• --.• `..5:74:>,-;.-0;;:;4,-, Notice of General Election. PURSUANT to an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled " An act relating to the elections of this Commonwealth," approved the second day of July, A. D., 1839,1, JOHN ARMITAGE, High Sher iff of the county of Huntingdon, in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby make known and give notice to the electors of the county aforesaid, that a GENERAL ELECTION will be held in the said county of Hunt ingdon, on the SECOND TUESDAY (and 12th day) of October, 1847, at which time State and County officers, as follows, will be elected, to wit: One person for Governor of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania. aie person for Canal Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One person for State Senator, to re present the Counties of Huntingdon, Bedford, and Blair, in the Senate of Pennsylvania. One person to fill the office of mem ber of the House of Representatives, to represent the county of Huntingdon, in the House of Representatives of Penn sylvania. One person for the office of Sheriff for Huntingdon county. One person for the office of County Treasurer for Huntingdon county. One person for the office of County Commissioner for Huntingdon county. One person for the office of County Auditor for said county. In pursuance of said act, I also here- i i make known and give notice, that the places of holding the aforesaid gen eral election in the several election dis tricts within the said county of Hunt ingdon, are as follows, to wit : Ist district, composed of Henderson township, and also a part of Porter township, and all that part of Walker township not in the 15th district, at the out House in the borough of Huntingdon. 2nd district, composed of Dublin township, at the house of Matthew Taylor, in said township, 3d district, composed of so niucn of Warriors mark township, as is slot Included in the 19th dis trict, at the school house adjoining the town of Warriorstnark. 4th district, composed of the township of Hope. well, at the house of Henry Zimmerman, near En. trekin'a new mill, in said township. , . sth district. composed of the township of Blares, at the house of James Livingston, (formerly John Harper,) in the town of Saulsbury, in said town ship. 6th district, composed of the township of Shir ley, at the house of David Fraker, in Shilleysburg. 7th district, composed of Porter and part of Walker townships, and so much of Vl, eat town• ship as is included in the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the sou , h-west corner of Tobias Caufmarce farm on the bank of Little Juniata riv er, at the lower end of Jackson's narrows, thence in a northeasterly direction to the most southerly part of the farm owned by Michael Maguire, thence north 40 degrees west to the top of Tussey's moun tain to intersect the line of Franklin township, thence along said line to Little Juniata river, thence down the same to the place of beginning. at the public school bossy, opposite the German Reform ea Chu rch,ig, horoush.RE A lexandrio. EDITOR AND PROPR JETOR WHOLF, NO. 607. Bth district, composed of the township of trent+ , lin, it the house of Jacob Menem. now occupied by George W. Matters, in said township. 9th district, composed of Tell township, at the Union school house. near the Union Meeting house, in stud township. 10th district composed of Springfield township, at the school house near Hugh Madden's, in said' township. hilt district, composed of Union township, at the school house near Ezekiel Corbin'a, in said township. . _ . 12th district, composed of Brady township, at the mill of James Lane, in said township. 13th district, composed of Morris township, at the house no‘v occupied by A brsham Moyer, (Inn keep,) late Alex. Lowry, Jr., in the village of Wa terstreet, in said township. 14th district, composed of that part of West township not included in the 7th district, at the public school house on the farm now owned by Miles Lewis, (f rmerly owned by James Ennis,) in said township. 15th district, composed of that part of Walker township lying south wei t of a line commencing opposite David Corbin's hoots, at the Union town ship line, thence in a straight line, including said Corbin "s house, to the corner of Porter township, on the Huntingdon and Woodcock valley road, at the house of Jacob Magnhy, in said township. 16th district composed of the township of Tod, at the house now occupied by .1. Henderson, in said town , hip. 17th district, composed of that part of West township on the south-east side of Warrior ridge, beginning at the line of W, at and Henderson town ships, st the foot of said ridge, to the line of Barre° township, thence by the division line of Banes end West townships to the summit of Stone moun tarn, to intersect the line of Henderson and West townships, thence by said line to the place of be ginning, at the house now occupied by Benjamin Corbin, on Murray's Run. 18th district, composed of Cromwell township, at the house now occupied by David Etnire, in Or bisonia. 19th district, composed of the borough of Bir mingham, with the several tracts of lend near to and attached to the same, now owned and occupi ed by Thomas M. Owens, John K. McCahan. An drew Robeson. John Gensimer and N illiam Gen simer, situate in the township of Warriorsmark, at the public school house in raid borough. 20th district, composed of the township of Case, at the public school house in Cassville, in said township. 21st district, composed of the township of Jack son, at the house of Robert Barr, now occupied by John Hirst, at McAleaq's Fort, in said township. 22d district, composed of the township of Clay, at the house of Joshua Shore, at the Three Springs, in said township. 23d district, composed of the township of Penn, at the school house on the farm of Jacob Brum baugh, in said township. I also make known and give notice, as in and by the 13th section of the aforesaid act I am directed, "that every person, excepting justices of the peace who shall hold any office or appointment of profit or trust tinder the government of the United States, or of this State, or of any city or incorporated district, whe ther a commissioned officer or agent, who is or shall be employed under the legislative, executive or judiciary de partment of this State, or of the United States, or any city or incorporated dis trict, and also, that every member of Congress, and of the State Legislature, and of the select or common council of any city, commissioners of any incor porated district, is by law incapable of holding or exercising at the same time, the office or appointment of judge, in. spector or clerk of any election of this Commonwealth, end that no inspector, judge, or other officer of any such elec tion, shall be eligible to any office to be then voted for." Also, that in the 4th section of the act of Assembly, entitled "An act relating to executions and for other purposes," approved April 16th, 1840, it is enacted that the aforesaid 13th section "shall not be so construed as to prevent any militia officer or borough officer from serving as judge, inspector or clerk, of any general or special election in this Commonwealth." Pursuant to the provisions contained in the 67th section of the act aforesaid, the judges of the aforesaid districts shall respectively take charge of the cer tificate or return of the election of their respective districts, and produce them at a meeting of one judge from each dis trict, at the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon, on the third day after the day of election, being for the present year on FRIDAY, the 15th of October next, then and there to do and perform the duties required by law of said judg es. Also, that where a judge by sick ness or unavoidable accident, is unable to attend said meeting of judges, then the certificate of return aforesaid shall be taken charge of by one of the inspec tors or clerks of the election of said dis trict, and shall do and perform the duties required of said judge unable to attend. Also, that in the 61st section of said act it is enacted that " every general and special election shall be opened be tween the hours of eight and ten in the forenoon, and shall continue without in terruption or adjournment until seven o'clock in the evening, when the polls shall be closed." Given under my hand at Huntingdon, the 10th day of September, 1847, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-first. JOHN ARMITAGE, aerif. [001) SAVE US COMMOHWIALTE.]