THE JOURNAL
Huntingdon, Tuesday, November 314 1847
An Apprentice Wanted.
A boy from the country, between 14
and 16 years of age, who can read and
write, is wanted at this office to learn
the Printing Business. Application
should be made soon.
THANKSGIVING DAY.—In accordance
with the very proper proclamation of the
Governor, Thursday last was strictly
observed by th 6 citizens of this place,
as a day of Thanksgiving to the Git•er
of all Good for His unbounded kindness
towards us as a People, during the past
year. Our stores and shops were all
closed, and the stillness and soiemnity of
the Sabbath was observed throughout
the day. Divine worship was attended
to in the different churches, morning and
evening.
" THE DAILY NE ws."—The prospectus
for this spirited Whig Daily paper, pub
lished in Philadelphia, will he found in
another column. Its publication was
commenced during the past summer, and
we are pleased to learn that thus far it
has met with highly encouraging suc
cess. A cheap Whig daily paper was
much needed in Philadelphia, and should
be liberally sustained by the friends of
the:cause. The News, it will be seen, is
sent to subscribers at one-hall the price
of the large daylies, while it contains
about the same amount of reading mat
ter. A 'Fri-Weekly and Weekly News,
and a Weekly Whig German paper, will
also be issued from the same office, on
very reasonable terms.
17- The editer of the Lancaster Ex
aminer attributes a paragraph, relative
to the appointment of Delegates to the
National Convention, to us, which we
utterly repudiate. The paragraph in
question belongs to our friend of the
Juniata Sentintl. We entirely concur
with the Examiner in regard to the pro
priety of adhering to the Whig system
of appointing by single districts. •
HIGH WATER.—The rains of last week
caused quite a rise in the small streams ;1
and apprehensions were entertained that
we were to be visited by another flood
in the Juniata. Happily, however, not
withstanding the river was pretty well
up, the water did not get beyond its le
gitimate channel. We have heard of
no damage in this vicinity.
We learn from the Lewistown Gazette
that the public works in the Narrows
have again suffered, to what extent is
not yet known. The span of the bridge
at Mifflintown, which was being rebuilt
by the company, we regret to learn fell
from the piers, in consequence of the
false works having been carried away
by driftwood.
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
The Lewistown Gazette, of Saturday
ktst says:
" A large number of contractors were
in town during the past week, examin
ing the profile of the Central Railroad,
preparatory to handing in their bids.—
In consequence of Thursday having
been appointed Thanksgiving day, bids
were received until yesterday morning.
The result will not be known for some
days. In addition to the sections an
nounced in the advertisement, bids were
also received for grading the road from
the dam to opposite Lewistown, and for
two sections at Newton Hamilton, em
bracing a cut of some magnitude. From
this it will be perceived that the river
route has been adopted."
The route, we learn from the North
American, passes up the little Juniata,
and crosses the mountain two miles
north of the portage summit, by a tun
nel, which will reduce the aggregate
rise and fall no feet. By a short line
of six miles to Hollidaysburg, it will
secure the temporary use of the Portage
Railroad, and afford, at all times, the
means of effectintr a connexion between
the two works, Mr. Miller and his effi
cient corps are, meanwhile, pushing
their surveys with great diligence, so as
to unite with the line at the tunnel, on
the western brow of the Allegheny.
P. The New York Herald says that
"a large body of the Whigs of New
York have determined to take up the
name of WINFIELD SCOTT as their can
didate for the Presidency, and to press
his nomination by the Whig National
Convention." The Herald might also
add that a " large body" of Pennsylva
nia Whigs intend doing the same thing.
MR. CLEM'S SPEECH.
The great leech of Henry Clay, pub
lished under his own supervision, has
at length been received, and will be laid
before our readers next week. The sen
timents contained in this speech are
purely American, and will find a ready
response in every patriotic heart in the
land. The effect of this speech upon
the country cannot fail to be most salu
tary. But we are not at all astonished,
in the language of the York Republican,
"that the whole pack of locofoco pension- I
ed presses have opened in full cry upon
Mr. Clay for the positions assumed by
him in his resolutions, which were pub
lished in advance of his speech. What
ever he might have said, unless he had
yielded his own convictions implicitly
to the superior wisdom of James K. Polk
and hissed on " the dogs of war" to a
fiercer pursuit of slaughter and conquest,
lie would from that quarter have receiv
ed
nothing but denunciation, misrepre.
sentation and calumny. Nor are we at all
more surprised that those journals which
loudly boast of their independence and
are always pluming themselves on their
superiority to party attachments and ,
feelings, should join in the same yell. '
The Ledgers, Suns, N. Y. Heralds, et id
genus omne have always gone ahead of
the openly professed Locofoco presses
in the career of radicalism, recklessness
and excitation of the spirit of war and
conquest—like jackalls, they have hunt
ed the prey for the lions in office—they
have acted as the feelers to aserriaio
what extravagance the popular infatua
tion is prepared to swallow next ; and
when the voice of moderation, wisdom
and justice is uttered by the Sage of
Ashland, it so strongly rebukes their
own unlicensed and robber-like course
that they unite to drown it by their
clamors, and by appealing to the lust of
acquisition—the appetite for conquest,
and the glare of military glory, to smoth
er all returning sense of true national
honor and their own best interests in
the minds of the people. It is no dero
gation to Mr. Clay that from such quar
ters he should meet opposition. Let the
Ledger declare him to be " thirty years
behind the age." What then I Why 1
that would put Mr. Clay exactly on the I
platform of the Madisonian Democracy
—among the brightest intellects and i
wisest statesmen of the country—on the
very ground which he occupied when his
clarion-voice was heard sustaining the
American principle of "Free Trade on the
Ocean and Sailors' Rights,"—and advo-
eating that policy which built up our
country in power and prosperity. None
of the great, good and able men who
then managed the government ever con
sidered it to be any part of our mission
—our duty, or our political system, to
consult our own agrandizement by wa
ging war against, and subjugating the
territories of an adjoining nation. "Mil
lions for Defence" they were willing to
expend ; but to set on foot a contest of
aggression not one of them would have
consented. Their object was to illus
trate the superior character of a Repub
lican Government by a firm defence of
its own rights, and a scrupulous respect
for the rights of others ; and acting on
the same principle, Mr. Clay embodied
in his speech and resolutions, a just con
demnation of the manner in which this
War with Mexico was provoked by the
administration, and the honest rule by
which its termination should be regula
ted and secured.
The Ledger in its great sapience classes
Mr. Clay with Mr. Webster, Mr. Cal
houn, Mr. Adams, Mr. Berrien and Mr.
Buchanan ! and then very coolly dis
poses of the whole lot by saying that
their "wisdom is thirty years too old.
The country has outgrown it." That is
to say that George M. Dallas, Robert J.
Walker, and probably poor Mr. Polk,
who between his Secretaries of State and
the Treasury seems to be in an unplea
sant quandary, have shot ahead of the
other persons mentioned; and while
Messrs. Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Adams,
Berrien and Buchanan (how does that
last name get into the category)—a gal
axy of men whose equals, take them al
together, cannot be produced in any like
number, if in twice as many, persons in
the United States— are inclined to be
be governed by the lights, the principles
and policy of our Republic in its days
of purity and when the Constitution was
administered by its authors, these Dal
las and Walker men adopt the very nov
el principle, practiced upon to be sure
by the robber despots of the middle ages
and the caterans of the Highlands of
Scotland who levied black mail and stole
cattle from their industrious Lowland
neighbors, that,
They should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can."
We glory in the fact that Mr. Clay
does not appeal to the base, sensual and
devilish pasions of the depraved human
heart, but that he addresses himself to
the moral sensibilities—the justice—the
generosity--the mercy of his country
men. He neither flatters their weak
sesnes, nor makes himself subservient
to their prejudices, but pays them the
much more substantial compliment of
speaking to them "the words of truth
and soberness"—of seeking to arrest
the current of hostility and acquisitive
ness, and recall them to a disposition of
moderation, forbearance and the resig
nation of all the schemes of aggrandize
ment, subjugation and conquest by force
of arms. This is a statesmanship far
beyond the reach of vision and the point
l of elevation of the rats and moles of
politics—the subterranean and purblind
assailants of Mr. Clay's position; but it
is consistent with the wisdom of the
fathers of the Republic—with the policy
of its purest administration—with the
condition of an enlightened civilization,
and with the dictates of the Holy Chris
tian Religion.
Laboring Men, Look at This.
"A STRIKE AT PIPER'S DAM.—About
30 hands under the charge of a "Boss"
by the name of Law, quit work on Sat
urday morning last, it appears that on
that morning, rules were read to the
Viands requiring them to be at work by
peep of dny and to work until dark, al
lowing twenty minutes for dinner. This
the men, and the best workmen too at
the work, considered rather severe, and
left the work.
When we consider the wages paid,
.(65 cents and found,) and the disagree
able work to be performed in mud and
water, we cannot refrain from express
ing the opinion, that no man but one fit
ted for a Virginia negro driver would be
guilty of enforcing such rules."—Hun
tingdon Globe, 16th inst.
All that we know in regard to the rules
above referred to, is, that they were sub
mitted to Mr. Hartzhorn, President of
the Canal Board, and by him read and
APPROVED. This we have from the
mouths of members of the Locofoco
party. . . .
The last Globe, in continuing its com
ments in relation to the conduct of those
having charge of the repairs sti!s:
" Many of our poor men, too, have
been meanly treated—they were indu
ced by the proper persons to repair and
build new carts, with the promise of
work---but now they are CONTEMPTUOUSLY
told they can have employment, provided,
there are not too many comes from be
low."
Now, if the charges contained in the
paragraphs above quoted be true, and we
suppose our neighbor of the Globe would
not thus assail his own party friends
without some data, what a beautiful
commentary does it not atlbrd us upon
Locofoco professions as compared with
their practices ! Previous to every elec
tion, the "Globe" and kindred prints
claim that the Locofocos are the exclu- '
I sive friends of the Laboring classes—
that in all their policy and measures they
have in view the interests of the "toiling
millions." How, we ask the Laboring
men, do such professions tally with the
confessions made in the above extracts
taken from the organ of the Locofoco
party of Huntingdon county 1 We have
always contended that the professions of
love for poor men made by the Locofoco
leaders were hypocritical and only in
tended to cheat this worthy class of peo
ple out of their votes ; and we are now
fully sustained in our position by the
admissions of their organ here.
THE
PRESIDENCV.—. friend of ours,
who is evidently in some doubt as to
who he should support for the Presiden
cy, until he learns our views, (ahem)
writes us the following familiar and la
conic espistle :
" -- Nov. 25, 1847
`• How goes it. Jim ? What's your Presiden
tial views--Clay, Taylor or Scott ?"
We answer—Fine as a fiddle! In fa
vor of a Whig National Convention, and
decidedly friendly to the nomination of
the o!d scar-covered veteran,whose deeds
of glory in the last war with Great Brit
ain form a bright page on our country's
history ; and who is now, with his gal
hint and victorious army, in possession
of the Halls of the Montezutnas—Gen.
WINFIELD SCOTT !
Them's our "views," Will.
LoutsiANA.—lt has been definitely as
certained that the Whigs will have a
majority in the Legislature of two on
joint ballot—securing them the election
of a Whig U. S. Senator. The Congress
ional delegation will stand I Whig to 3
Locos—same as last year.
Gen. Scott and the Soldiers. I
A correspondent of the Lewistown
True Democrat, in detailing the events
of the battle of Churubusco, relates the
following incident :
"After the taking of the fort on the
bill, Twiggs', Pillow's and part of Quit
man's divisions, commanded by General
Shields, moved in high spirits towards
the city, which was near four and a half
miles distant. When near the next
works the enemy, " Old Chippewa"
came riding down the long column.
Cheer after cheer greeted the old vete
ran as he continued to approach. The
air was rent with the most enthusiastic
acclamations. When opposite our regi
merit, and after we had cheered him with
our whole hearts, he waved his hand
and stopped for a moment, and address
ed us in the following words : "Thanks,
thanks to Gon, and Glory to this army.
I wish I could hug every one of you to
my bosom !' He uttered these words
with great emphasis and emotion. He
then moved forward, and the cheering
continued until he was so far advanced
that he could no longer hear it."
Santa Anna•
The following is taken from the Tam
pico Sentinel of the 4th inst.
One of those revolutions of feeling,
so common among the Mexican nation,
has just taken place. The talienta and
Glen merit° de la Patria the illustrissimo
Santa Anna, has been outlawed and de ,
dared a traitor by his government, and
a premium offered for his person, dead
or alive. Meanwhile various conjectures
are afloat concerning the way which the
outlawed General has directed his fugi
tive steps.
The following paragraph also appears
in the same paper :
Mexico, 26th Oct.—We are positively
informed that Gen. Santa Anna has fixed
his residence conformably in all things
to the orders which he has received on
the subject from the supreme govern
ment, and from thence he intends to de
fend himself against the charges brought
against him as a military man. His
companions in his retirement, are only
his chaplain and Gen. Staboli, with a
small force Qf cavalry for the security
of his person.
AN AMERICAN MATRON.—A correspon
dent of the Richmond Inquirer states it
was his sad duty to inform the widowed
mother of the late Lieut. Wm. T. Bur
well, of the death of her youngest and
darling son, who was killed on the 9th of
September, in the battle of El Molino
del Rey. He says he told his mother lie
was dead, and that he had fallen in bat
tle. Not a tear fell from her eye—not a
sigh escaped her. 'ls lie dead! Did he
do his duty 1 Thank God, lie left no
widow !' were all the words she uttered.
What a magnificent revelation of wo
men's heart is this. How perfectly free
from selfishness the last thought, "thank
God he left no widow!"—the agony of
that sundered tie which she herself had
felt, being in her estimation more poign
ant than the sad tidings which bereft
her of a son. Glorious wife, loving
mother, American woman—may The
Comforter protect thee, and send balm
to thy aching heart !
BReADSTUFFS IN ExcLANn.--Charles
Wilmer's Mail, Liverpool, Nov. 4, re
marks, that " Opinion is still unfavora
ble towards brendstuffs,while holders are
willing to sell. Although prices have
come to a moderate point, still the trade
cannot be induced to purchase more than
their immediate warts require, as stocks
of foreign in the United Kingdom are
large, while of home grown they are ex
cessive."
Kr The Vicksburg Sentinel, of the
9th inst., says that Gen. Butler stopped
a few moments at that place on his way
to New Orleans. In conversation with
his friends he made no scruples as to
avowing himself in favor of closing the
Mexican war by taking a defensive line,
as advocated by General Taylor and
other distinguished men.
ADANS COUNTY.—The Whigs of Adams
County held a meeting at Gettysburg on
Monday evening of last week, and ap
pointed A. R. STEVENSON, Esq., Repre
sentative Delegate to the Whig State , ,
Convention to settle a candidate for Ca
nal Commissioner. They passed a res
olution expressing a decided preference
for Major General WINFIELD Scorr as
the Whig candidate for President—
though pledging their support to the
1 1 candidate to be nominated by the Whig
National Convention; and appointed
DANIEL M. SMYSER, JOSEPH FINK and
JOHN Bnounit, Esq'rs, Conferees to meet
Conferees from York county and select
a Delegate to the National Convention.
Gov. Whitcomb, of Indiana, on
the 16th, at Edinburg, fell between the
cars and the platform of the depot—the
cars whirling him around and crushing
his thighs as they went. It will be some
time, if ever, before he can recover.
Death of Capt. Jas. Caldwell—Letter
from his Son.
We are tru!y happy to mate that the news re
ceived of the death of Alexander Caldwell, who
accompanied his now lamented father to Mexico,
proves to he incorrect. A letter hae been recently
received from him, by hie younger brother, twitting
in Williamsburg, from which we take the follow
ing extrectn:
CITY OF MEXICO, Oct. 1847.
Ny Dear Brother : * * * As you
are well aware of the dangers we have
to go through in Mexico, I hope you will
be prepared to hear some sad news,
though I wish I could save you the pain
of knowing it. Our dear and brave
father, as he proved to be on all occa
sions, received a fatal wound whilst gal ,
lantly advancing at the head of his
company on the terrible day of Chapul
tepee ; he did not receive the wound in
the storming of the Castle ; but after
that place was taken he advanced to the
very gates of the city, where he received
a severe wound in the foot, by a frag
ment of a bomb-shell, of which wound
he died a few weeks since. I hope you
will not grieve too much about this sad
affair, but bear it like a man. It will be
some consolation to you to know he fell
whilst bravely fighting for his country's
honor. It was his wish to be taken
home and be buried along side of his
dear wife. I have him embalmed and
put in a fend coffin, and will take him
home with me when I go. I hope you
will see that our dear little sisters, Mary
and Elizabeth, are taken care of. ‘i hen
I get home I will make suitable arrange
ments for you all. I have applied for a
comtnisf-ion in the Regular Army as
Lieutenant, which, if I succeed, will af
ford sufficient income to educate our
sisters without other aid ; I think there
is no doubt of my getting it, as I have a
letter of recommendation to the Presi
dent written by Gen. Shields, signed by
Generals Scott, Quitman, Twiggs, Pil
low, Pierce, Cadwallader, and also by
Mr. Trist, 11. S. Commissioner. As
soon as I get my commission I will ob
tain a furlough and go home. I expect
to see you in two or three months. I
was appointed Commissary's first clerk
by Gen. Pierce, as soon as we landed at
Vera Cruz. The situation is worth •;+5O
per month. * * The young men from
W illiatnsburg are all well.
Farewell for awhile, and God bless you
all. Your only Brother,
ALEX. CALDWELL.
To FRANKLIN CALDWELL.
DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.-A very
worthy young main, named John Blair,
son of Andrew Blair, Esq., of Carlisle,
was admitted to practice at the Cali le
bar week before last, after passing a
most creditable examination. On the
Saturday of that week he exhibited some
symptoms of alienation of mind, and on
the following day also. He was sitting
by his father in the evening, when he
suddenly jumped up, rushed from the
house, and was seen no more. Meetings
of the citizens were called, and a gen
eral search by hundreds of persons was
made for several days, but without effect,
until Thursday, when his body was
found in a small stream of water run
ning near the Borough, into which he
had no doubt run in his derangement.
EFFECT OF A FAILURE.-A telegraphic
dispatch from Boston, of Saturday even
ing says—" A great sensation was pro
duced in this city on 'change, at the an
nouncement of the failure of a firm
largely engaged in the iron trade. The
amount is estimated at one million of
dollars."
COL. WYNKOOI' AND CAPt. WALKER.-
A letter from a member of the late Capt.
Walker's Company, published in the
American, says :
" The body of Capt. Walker was con
veyed, after the fight, with military hon
ors, to a carriage supposed to belong to
Gen. Santa Anna, escorted by the Penn
sylvania Regiment, under the command
of Col. W. F. Wynkoop. This officer,
who had been at variance with Capt.
W., burst into tears on looking at the
body of the deceased, and exclaimed—
" I would have given six years of my
existence if I could have spoken to Capt
Walker before lie died."
AWFUL STEAMBOAT ACCIDENTS.
Forty Lives Lost.
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 22.—The steamboat
Carolinian, from Pittsburg bound to
Pearl River, burst her boilers on Friday
last when near Shawneetown. Mr. Pea
cock, of Pittsburg, was instantly killed,
and four of the deck hands were badly
scalded, one of whom died subsequently.
Early on Thursday morning last, the
steamboat Tempest, and the Talisman,
from Cincinnati, came in collision about
ten miles below Cape Giradeau,by which
the Talisman was so much injured that
she sank immediately in deep water.—
The total number of passengers that
were carried down with the sinking boat
is estimated at forty, but some say the
loss is still greater.
The ladies and the other passengers
rescued lost everything, escaping in
their night clothes, on board the Tem
pest.
Mississippi returns 3 Locofoco Con
gressmen and 1 Wllig—last year all Lo
cofocos.
Later from the Rio Graade.
Texas Election Returns—Mexicans com
ing to thew senses , —Destruction of the
City of Ocotlan by an Earthquake-t-
Population Lurie( in the ruins--Ru.
mare with regard to Gen. Taylor, 4•c.
By the arrival of the U. S. transport
schooner Sarah, at New Orleans, the
Bee has received files of the Matamoros
Flag to the 6th inst., inclusive.
The election returns in those portions
of Texas, near Matamoros ; are favora
ble to the success of Mr: Wood; one of
the candidates for Governor. Wood
and Miller Were the only persons voted
for.
Capt, Adams had just returned from
a trip in the vicinity of San Fernando.
I-le informs the editors of the Flag, that
the people expressed to him freely their
conviction that further resistance was
totally useless—aye, was madness.—
Their great desire seemed to be, either
to have a separate union of States—a
northern confederacy—or that Tamau
lipas should form a State of our Union.
They say they now see the true value of
that protection which Was to be afford
ed them by their combination with the
powers at the city of Mexico.
A paper printed in Guadalajara, datk
the sth ult., gives the particulars of the
destruction of an entire city (OcotlanY
in the State of Atlisco, by en earthquake;
on the 3d ult. The city ; says the Flag ;
which was a very considerable one, was
entirely destroyed. Not a house Was
left standing, and nearly the whole pop
ulation was buried in the ruins. The
extent of the disaster was not known at
the time the article was written, but the
scene presented is described ns awful.—
The earthquake was not confined to this
one city. Its effects were felt over a
considerable extent of the surrounding
country, and caused serious injury to
several monasteries and small villages.
The earthquake, it will be recollected,
was felt severely in the city of Mexico.
As town gossip, the Flag gives the
following, without being able to trace
the rumors to any reliable source:
,‘ General Taylor on his way to this
place, with a train, has been attacked
by the Mexicans. Canales died. a few
days ago, at a rancho near Cerralvo.".
ben. Lamar has been elected to the
Legislature from Nueces county—tie
county between the Nueces and the Rro
G rande.
The yellow fever was rather on the
increase in Matarnoras.
A bearer of dispatches from \Vashing•
ton to Gen. Taylor had passed through
Matamoras, in great haste. Following
on his heels were one hundred and fifty
teamsters. The circumstances was ex
citing serious speculation. Some were
of opinion that Gen. Taylor had been
ordered again to San Luis, and so forth.
Nothing is said in the Matamoras pa
pers of the return to his country of Gen."'
Taylor.
LATER FROM SANTA FE,--InsurrectioA
at Chihuahua--Battle expected.
LoutsviLLE, Nov. 25th, 1847.
By the arrival of traders from Santa
Fe, later dates from that quarter have
been received.
Another insurrection had taken place
among the Mexicans at Chihuahua, and
the American residents there forced to
fly to escape being massacred, leaving
much of their property behind.
Col. Easton was mustering a force
march against the insurgents, and a
battle wns shortly expected to take place.
NEXT CONGRESS,
The returns from Louisiana and Mis
sissippi increase the already settled
Whig majority in the popular branch of
Congress. That body will meet on
next Monday and stands 117 Whigs, 111
Locofocos and 1 Native.
The recent elections which have taken
place throughout the Union, have re
sulted most favorably for the Whig
cause. The partial success of the op
position in some of the States in elect
ing their Chief Magistrate was chiefly
the result of local questions; but, with
one or two exceptions, the popular vote
had been largely in favor of the Whigs.
NOVEL BALLOTS.—Arriong the tickets
voted at the recent New York election,
were the following :
For Comptroller,
"Remember Silas Wright!"
For Secretary of State,
"Maintain Freedom !"
For Attorney General,
"Rebuke Fraud !"
A large number of the following Iwere
found in the ballot boxes in New York
city :
STATE.
REMEMBER SILAS WRIGHT!
Ye Argus meni Ye office-hacks !
And whole Conservative crew !
Consider well what you're about,
And what you're trying to do ;
You've got to deal with DEMOCRATS,
And long you'll rue the day,
When first you murdered SILAS Wition'T.,....
Then threw our FLAGG away !
A NUMEROUS FAMILY.—Last week there
came to Troy, a little town in Indiana,
a German family, composed of a man,
his wife and thirty-two children—all
girls.