openly declared by many of the journals
that a repeal of the Union will no lon
ger suffice or satisfy their alleged grie
vances, by the erection of a Republic
can now alone remedy the evils under
which the country groans. It will be
seen by the judicious reply of M. Lamar
tine to the deputies of the Irish deputa
tion to the French Republic, that the
French government is not disposed at
present to save the risk of a rupture
with Great Britain
The great demonstration of Chartists
which was to come oil in London on the
10th inst., has been forbidden by the
English government. The course par
sued by the government has not only in•
creased the former general excitement,
but called forth their remonstrance from
even that section of the press opposed
to Chartism.
The effect produced by the Chartists
has been, as might have been anticipa
ted, a determivation to carry. out their
object with more ardor than before. At
the first meeting of the Convention held
after the issueing of the proclamation,
an unanimous resolution was come to
that the meeting and procession should
take place despite the threats of Govern
ment. Every delegate present firmly
and coolly declared his determination
to risk his life in the contemplated dein
ortstrai ion, and a general belief was ex
pressed that their constituents would
emulate the example thus set them by
holding simultaneous meetings in their
several localities on the same day.
Resolutions calling those meetings
and for the opening of a counter procla
mation were at once agreed to. The
members in the procession are not to
cam• arms.
Mr. O'Conner made a suggestion to
the meeting, which possessed some sig
nificance at the present time. It was
that they should recommend to their con
stituents the withdrawel of all monies
from all saving banks in order as much
as possible to derange the financial oper
ations of government. As the gross sum
invested in these institutions amounts to
£25,000,000, and belongs almost entire
ly to the middle and lower classes, of
whom the lai ge proportion are chartists
there is little doubt, to use Mr. O'Con
ners own words, that if the people could
withdraw their savings from these banks'
they would more effectually attack the
the government than if they made a di
rect attack on the horse guards. The
government has seemingly determined
on bringing matters to an issue, and
large bodies of cavalry, infantry and
artillery have been drtifted into the me
tropolis, so that it is thought that the
force in the city cannot be less than 10,
000 men.
The European Times says, "it is not
possible to conjecture how this matter
may terminate, but our earnest hope 'is
that the people may have prudence
enough to keep out of evil, and the min
isters sufficient good sense to concede
to the people all reforms which may be
compatible with the onward march of the
times and with the spirit of British Con
stitution."
MUST 'UNDER ARREST.
We learn from the N. U. Picayune
that Mr. Prefilter, the bearer of the trea
ty, took out orders to. Gen. Butler, which
have led to the arrest of Mr. Trist.—lt
is said he was to leave the country as
soon as he had given his testimony in
Pillow's case. When this was made
known to him, Trist protested in a long
letter, which, of course, did not avail him
if Gen. Butler has the orders referred
to. This man Trist has played an event
ful part in the Mexican business. Sent
as the confidential friend of the Presi-
dent, and avowedly hostile to General
Scott, he has changed sides, and becotne
the steadfast friend of the latter. The
former he does not hesitate to denounce
ns he deserves. He lies negotiated a
Treaty, and having fulfilled his mission
he now shares the fate of the illustrious
Scott, and is sent home under arrest.
The markets of Mexico.
A correspondent of the Boston Atlas,
writing from the city of Mexico, thus
describes the Markets:
The butter is not good, and the pota
toes are very indifferent. As milk is j
worth twenty-five cents per quart, post [
of ids sold and but little reserved for
butter or cheese. A .kind of sweet po- j
tato is much cultivated and used. It is a I
cheap article though • mush inferior to j
the sweet potato of the United States.
It is tasteless and incipid. Wild ducks
are very abundant and most delicious, 11
have never found their equal at home.
The oranges are nearly the size of a
pumpkin, tied ns sweet as--they are too
sweet ! They are very abundant, and
may be had for the asking. A hundred
of them will fill a barrel. It is not to be
denied that the oranges of Mexico are
superior to those of Cuba, so many of ,
which find their way to the United
States. What shall I say of the pine
apples 1 They are superb, mogniflgue,
and some of them a foot long. The best
of them mar be had for a York shilling
a-piece. The berries also are good. 1
bad the pleasure of eating strawberries
and cream (or milk) in the middleofJan
uary. Green pens are very abundant,
thouea not equal to our own. Turkies,
too, are to be seen every% here—always
alive and gobliug, in order that if they
they arc not sold, they may not be inju
red by the warm weather."
The estate of John Jacob Astor, it i,.
said does not exceed 117,500,000.
THE JOURNAL
Huntingdon, Tuesday, May 2 1848
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER
NER MIDDLESWARTH,
OF UNION COUNTY,
CAMPAIGN PAPER.
Circulate the Documents!
To save the People of this county the
trouble of sending abroad for cheap
campaign papers—never reliable, and
comparatively of but little service to the
Part y—we, propose to furnish the " HUN
TINGDON JOURNAL" to clubs from the 10th
day of June next, until after the Presi
dential election in November, at the
low price of $5.00 fot ten copses,—being
only fifty cents per copy. 18 o shall in
no case send to a club of less than ten
at the above low prices. The money to
accompany the orders, otherwise the
papers will not be sent. Will our sub
scribers throughout the county mention
the above proposition to their neighbors,
and thus aid us in our efforts to advance
the glorious Whig cause ?
.4fore Xew Goods.—Swoon & AFRICA,
It will he seen, have also supplied them
selves with a splendid new stock of sea
sonable goods, which they promise to
sell as cheap if not cheaper than the
cheapest. Give them a call. •
[ We invite the attention of those
wlnting cabinet ware to the card of our
yonng neighbors, J. H. & D. WHITTAKER.
They are good mechanics, honest, en
terprising and industrious, and deserve
encouragement. Give them a trial.
Those afflicted with Ague would
do well to give the medicine advertised
in another column a trial. We are as
sured that it has cured the most obsti
nate cases.
FOREIGN NEWS.—The foreign news
brought by the Acadia will be found on
our first NV. It is important and in
teresting. The revolutionary spirit is
progressing, and becoming more and
more formidable. Monarchies will soon
be among the things that were.
ID.- The Conferees of the 15th Con
gressional district, composed of the
counties of York and Adams, have ap
pointed Dr. DAVID Homan of Adams, as
the Delegate to the National Convention.
The York Republican says the delegate
is uninstructed, but is known to be fa
vorable to the nomination of Gen. Scott.
ID- The Daily 4"ews thinks Mr. Clay
the strongest civilian spoken of in con
nection with the Presidency. We beg
leave again to differ with our friends of
the News. Either MCLEAN of Ohio, or
CRITTENDEN of Kentucky, would be vast
ly more available. .
f)i-We understand that the Stock
holders of the Wooster Bank, fearing
that the individual liability clause will
compel them to redeem their notes, are
crying down their value and buying
them up at a large discount. We shall
not allow them, by any such trick, to
avoid paying us the three dollar bill
which we hold on the rascally concern.
fly The proposition of J. M. Botts to
run Henry Clay for President, and Gen.
Scott for Vice President, meets with no
favor from the friends of the latter. If
Mr. Clay is again to be a candidate for
the Presidency, we should like to see
Mr. Botts put on the ticket for the Vice
Presidency. He deserves it.
' Kr A letting will take place in this
borough on the 17th inst., for the Gra
ding and Masonary of 36 miles of the
Pennsylvania Rail Road, and the heavy
work on the Little Juniata.
Q:7- Jam. K. Polk, it is now rendered
certain, will be a candidate for re-elec
tion, should his party see fir to give him
a renomination nt Baltimore. We hope
he may be gratified. The People have
had an opportunity., during the past
three years, to ascertain for themselves
who James K. Poll/ is, and can therefore
decide upon his merits understandingly.
Our Locofoco friends would confer a
great favor by again presenting him to
the county.
VIRGINIA ELECTION.-A correspond
ent from Washington under date of
April 28th says :—The election yester
-1 day in Alexandria (now a part of Vir
ginia,) and precincts, for members of
the State Legislature, resulted in the
success of the IVhig candidates by large
majoritiee.
We have no news from any other
part of the State,. •
New Rules on the Canal•
It is said that our Locofoco Canal Ad
, ministration is about to establish new
rules for the regulation of Agents em
' ployed on repairs, " big breaks," &c.,
&c. The system recently practised of
shaving Laboring men tiO per cent. is
considered out of all character—entire•
ly too high, and not according to the
" usages of the democratic party."—
Hereafter, therefore, no agent is to take
front a Laboring man a shave of more
than 40 per cent., nor less than 20, un.
der penalty of immediate dismissal
front office. No change in regard to
swearing to blank check rolls before fill
ing up! The disposition to be made of
the surplus tools, dried beef, hams and
shoulders, which naturally accumulate
about a "Big Break," is held under ad
visement. A strict return however, of
all such matters, together with the pro
fits
arising from shaving, to be made to
Head-Quarters. This rule is indispen
sable, as all extraordinary profits--.not
specially provided for by law—are here
after to be equally divided among all
officials employed on the Public Works,
from the highest to the lowest ; the
shares to be proportioned according to
rank and station : Provided, always, that
Mud-Bosses, who do not devote at least
six days previous to every election in
stirring out the democracy, to be abso
lutely debarred from any share of said
extraordinary profits.
When the rules, of which the above is
but an abstract, are officially proclaimed,
we shall try and ilublish them at length.
GE\. SCOTT'S LETTER.,
Among the correspondence recently
called for by Congress . , is a letter from
Gen. Scott to Secretary Marcy, under
date of Feb. 24, 111 ‘ which, on resigning
his command to Gen. Butler, he takes
occasion to review the Conduct of the
administration towards him during his
glorious services in the field. We re
gret our inability to lay this letter be
fore our readers this week. A Wash
ington correspondent says the House
asked for the correspondence on the
17th of April. Mr. Marcy did not see
fit to communicate it till lie wrote a long
demagogue letter in reply, which is da
ted April 21. I nm told he was shut up
for three or four days, trying to fix up
some apology of an answer to the gal
hint general's charges. This letter is
very long. Three times as long as Gen.
Scott's. It occupies forty-nine pages of
manuscript ! No man in the right ever
took so much space to defend himself.
He intended to make it longer but "com
promised on 49."
No man in the public service was ever
so badly treated as Gen. Scott. The
snarling cabinets at home have been re
buking Gen. Scott, Gen. Taylor, and the
whole army, for little suppposed mis
takes, while not a letter of praise and
thanks have ever been sent out to the
gallant officers and men who fought
these battles of their country. Scott,
ITaylor, and others, have achieved vic
tories on the field, while Polk, Marcy &
Co. have been carpet-knights at home,
writing severe rebukes to both the corn
mending generals in this war. The peo
pie, however, know Scott, and they
know his accusers. They will do jus
tics to both.
GEN. SCOTT IN NEW YORK,
Several influential Whig papers in the
interior of New York urge Gen. Scott
as a candidate for the Presidency. The
Seneca County Courier gives various
reasons for its preference for Scott, and
among th.em the following:
'Gen. Scott is deservedly popular
with the people, and will make a popu
lar candidate, and a popular President.
Nor is this strange--he has spent his
life in their service. In the last war
with Great Britain, in the Black Hawk
.war, and in the conquest of Mexico, he
has displayed qualities which have call
ed forth THE ADMIRATION OF THE
%VORLD.—Equally is he distinguished
'in CIVIL ARTS. In the settlemint of
the northeastern boundary question, in
quelling the Canada disturbances, in the
removal of the Cherokees, and finally, to
crown his glory, in the MATCHLESS
MANNER in which lie has bourne him
self in Mexico, winning by his admira
ble conduct, the love sad respect of a
people whom he has couqured—he has
demonstrated to the world that he is
equally distinguished as a STATES
MAN AND A WARRIOR. In 1840,
when his merits were comparitively lit
tle known, he received 86 votes in the
Whig National Convention, and those
too from the soundest Whig States in
the Union. In 1848 can the Whig par
ty do better than to make the HERO
OF CHIPPEWA, our standard bearer 1
With HIM success will BE CERTAIN."
`Governor Porter is busy engaged
in rebuilding his Furnace, which was
lately much injured by fire.
Polk's Near Neighbor.
The question so often asked during
the campaign of 1844,—"wh0 is Polies
near neighbor?" is at length satisfacto
rily answered. Mr. TRIST has 'let the
cat out of the bag' in his testimony be
fore the Military Court of Inquiry in
Mexico. According to his evidence
"Polk's near neighbor" is no other than
his renowned military friend, Maj Gen
eral GIDEON J. Putow, author of that
brilliant series of letters called "First
Impressions," recently published. Mr.
Trist says that Gen. Pillow frequently
made his boast that he made Mr. Polk
President, by humbugging the Pennsyl
vanians into the belief that the Duck
river Candidate was favorable to the
Tariff' of 1842. How he did it; is best
answered by the following statement
which originally appeared in the Harris=
burg Democratic Union of Juue 17, 1844:
"Now we hnppen'to know, and state,
upon the authority of a Tennessean with
whom we conversed at Baltimore.- A
NEAR NEIGHBOR of Col. Polk, that
he holds the doctrine of Free Trade in
unqualified abhorrence. He has never ad
vocated it, and NEVER WILL.—He is
in favor of a judicious revenue Tariff, af
fording the amplest incidental protec
tion to American Industry. He is the
especial friend of the Coal and Iron in
terest
those two great objects of solici
tude with Pennsylvania, and believing
permanence in our laws to be of incalcu
lable value, is opposed to the disturbance
of the present Tariff. These facts we state
upon the very best authority, and caution
the Democracy of this great State against
listening to the misrepresentations of the
Coons!"
Tins explains the secret of Polk's par
tiality for Pillow. Pillow boasts that
he, by uttering infamous falsehoods, made
Polk President, and Polk 'acknowleges
the corn' by appointing his 'near neigh
bor' to a high position in the army, whore
he has so signally disgraced the service
by a resort to his old tricks. Truly
Polk and Pillow are birds of a feather.—
What Mr. Trist says of the "imposture
and villany" of the one applies with
equal force to the other also.--Reading
Journal.
Tar WAR IN Maxtco.—The Daily
Sun of Saturday says :—There arc some
symptoms which would seem to indicate
pretty strongly that the treaty will not
be ratified by Mexico, and that the war
will have to be all gone over again, and
the whole of Mexico conquered in detail
and annexed to the United States. This
is exactly what the administration in
tended from the first, and we have ne
ver doubted that such a result would be
'nought about.
PRESENT FROM THE POPE.-WC learn
from the Washington Union that the
Pope has forwarded, to be presented to
the Legislature of New York, two cases
—one containing the complete collec
tion of the Calleographia Camerale, a
magnificent series of engravings, in four
large port-folios, representing the An
tiquities of Rome; the other, three sets
of the Medals in bronze, silver and gold,
struck under the Pontificate of Pius IX.
SCOTT IN NEW ENGLAND.-A letter
from Massachusetts to Mr. GREELY, of
the N. Y. Tribune, says that the senti
ment in Massachusetts and New Eng.
land is unquestionably "against both
Taylor and Clay." The preferences of
the Whigs are divided between General
Scott, Judge M'Lean, and Mr. Webster;
but as the nomination of the latter seems
improbable, the writer thinks that New
England will go either for Gen. Scott
or Judge M'Lean.
Newspaper Postage.
The Committee on Post Offices are
under instructions from the House to
report a bill allowing newspapers to go
free of postage within thirty miles of the
place of publication.
. . _ _
An official statement from the Auditor
of the Post Office department; made in
answer to a call from one of the New
York Members, shows that the State of
Pennsylvania paid about one hundred
thousand dollars into the Treasury for
portages, beyond the amount expended in
this State for the transportation of mails.
Massachusetts yielded even a larger
surplus than this, and New York con
siderably more than twice as much.—
None of the Slave States, save little
Delaware, pays the amount expended
by the Government in mail service, and
all the Free States, save one, we think,
yield a surplus—even far off Wisconsin
yields a surplus. The excess of expen
ditures, over receipts in the Carolinas,
Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and par
ticularly in Virginia, are immense, and
yet these States are generally found ap
posing all postage reforms.
ID- A Taylor Convention was held at
Baltimore last week, without distinction
of party, which nominated an electoral
ticket.
Banta Anna:
This redoubtable' hero; sent to Mexico
by his friend Mr. Polk, has again left
his country, Before taking his depter
tare, he wrote a farewell address to his
fellow-citizens, in which all the sacrifi
ces made by the writer are recounted,
the dignsters which, (owing to the stub
borness of SCOTT and TAYLOR) he had
met with, in his various efforts to sus
tain the honor of his country, and the
causes of them. The war has tertnina
ted, and with it all his hopes for the na
tion. lie deals in dismal forebodings
of the future for Mexico.
The treaty is condemned as a thing to
be .‘ forever execrated," by which two
thirds of the national territory has been
sold for a dish of lentils. A shameful
and absurd armistice has been sanction
ed to consummate the iniquity. Here
his grief quite overcomes him, and he
concludes in the following mournful
language
" What recourse, therefore, remains,
citizens, for him who only returned to
his country to satisfy the public wishes
and to tight in support of the noble
cause against the foreign enemy 1 What
is he to do who is pursued in' every di
rection 1 Retire to a distant land to be
wail the Immense misfortunes of the re
public, since political passions and pal
try interests have succeeded in exalting
themselves over the holy cause of the
country.
" In the exile to which I condemn my
self, the grief which will weigh on my
spirits will receive some mitigation from
the gratify ing idea that I have preferred
my personal ruin, the loss of wealth and
of power, to bending my knee before
the enemies of Mexico to obtain by en
treaty a peace, which destroys the ele
ments of her wealth and nationality.—
My garments pierced by the balls of
the enemy—the thousands of Mexicans
who fell in my presence and under my
orders—the blood of the invaders and
their corpses which remained piled in
heaps on the fields of battle, will be so
many titte - s of glory for my country and
for my children.
" Mexicans ! One. of the leaders in
your ind6pendenee, the most devoted to
your good name--one who has had the
glory of offering to the Republic trophies
snatched front the foreign invaders--
one who has fought against them, over
come a thousand difficulties—ono who
has shed his blood to sustain your
rights—in fine, your most faithful friend,
bids you his last farewell."
The Union Second:Fiddle to the
Ledger.
The Harrisburg Unon follows in the
wake of the Tory Le dger in its abuse
of Gen. Scott. It is perhaps a singular
coincidence, that the same ideas express
ed by the Ledger, happened to find their
way into the squabble pate of the Union.
Marvellous inspiration!
The Union says that Gen. &Orr 4ean
not write!' We presume he cannot, to
suit the Locofocos; but their particular
friend, Santa Anna, found that he could
write-and fight too. His proclamations
as well as his powder, were very trouble
some to this friend and ally of the ad
ministration, and it is not to be expect
ed that Gen. SCOTT'S writing is at all to
the taste of the Locofocos, every epistle
of which throws them into a worse pan
ic than did the roar of the cannon at
Cerro Gordo, or the retreating hosts of
the wily Mexican. But such shocks they
must expect for some time to come. The
laurel crowned Hero is on his return,
and the People are begin ing to think that
those whose only display of valor is the
abuse of those who have fought and bled
to heap honors on their country, while
they were rioting at home upon theapeo
plecs substance, should be rewarded ac
cording to their work,.. That those who
have covered their country with glory,
by every sacrifice demanded in the strife
should be placed beyond the posterior
fire of those who never face the enemy.
They may assail General Saar now with
impunity, but the day is not far distant
when retributve justice will avenge the
outrage.--Pa. Telegraph.
Conar OF INQUIRY.—A letter from the
Mexican Capital says:--"On Wednes
day, in the course of the proceedings,
the President took occa s ion to say that
when all the Witnesses in Mexico are
examined and exhausted, unless such
as may desire to accompany the court,
they will then adjourn to the United
States. Gen. Butler being in the Court
at thesame time, stated that it was his
intention to send down an escort in four
or live days, and that Mr. Trist bad ex
pressed a desire to accompany it, which
would be very convenient to the Gene
ral-in-Chief.
A tremendous fire bus been raging
in the woods in Anne Arundel county,
Md., near Annapolis, on the lands of
J. N. %Vatkins and others, for several
days past, which has done much damage
and was still spreading at lust accounts,
favored by high winds.
SERVED Him RIGHT.-A short time
since, the wife of a man in Steubenville
Ohio, found him lying on the pavement,
drunk, and taking a cow-hide, she gave
him a severe dressing.
Falstaff Outdone,
In the celebrated ' , Leonidas" Letter
published, as has been proved, through
the agency of Gen. Pillow himself, the
following rich passages occur :
"PILLOW'S division, in the effort to get
to the Battle-ground, got entangled
among some ditches, wide and waist
deep in mud and water. The General
dismounted from his horse, and, plun•
ging throve, called upon his column to
follow him, which they nobly did. He
(PilloW)itdvanced rapidly with it in front
of the enemy's main work. * * * •
During the advance upon this work, the
General himself (Pillow again) was knock
ed to his knees by the concussion of a can
non ball, which BRUSHED Ills READ! In
the course of the action he shot a Mexi
can officer and killed him with his pis•
tols."
• • •
"The General's (Pillow's) well de•
vim' plans of battle, his judicious dispo
sition of his forces, his coolnesi and
courage during the Whole of this terri
ble battle, has completely silenced his
enetnies, is the subject of universal con
gratulation among his friends and gene
ral remark with all !"
Banta Anna
The Washington Union says:—Kt
gives us some satisfaction to state, as a
fixed fact that Santa Anna has embarked
for Jamaica. We are happy testate that
he left Mexico under a deep impression
of the kindness he received from the
Americans. At Jalapa, he surrendered
himself to Col. Hughes; and both in that
city and during the visit which Col.
Hughes and his officers paid him at his
Hacienda Encerra, he made his grateful
"acknowledgments of their courtesy."
The same grateful sentiments he express
ed to Captain Tilghman and the officers
who escorted him from Jalapa to the
point of ernbarcatiom
- Fire inin Danville.
An extra from the "Danville Demo
crat," states that the printing office of
the Democrat, and the "whole magnifi••
cent block known as the "Montgomery
Building," in that borough, was destroy
ed by fire on Wednesday night. The
Democrat had to borrow type to print
the extra. There were a number of
stores and shops in the block; and the
loss of property is heavy, amounting to
IS or 20,000 dollars.
From Washington.
FRIDAY, April 28.
The reporter of the New York Herald
Mr. NUGENT, who has been so many
days in custody for refusing to answer
the questions of the Senate respecting
the manner in which he got possession
of the treaty ; was discharged to-day.
Senator ASHLEY, for some time ill
with infatuation of the bowels it is
thought cannot live through the day.
What sort of Government.
The Paris correspondent (22d Meth)
of the "London Globe" of the 24th, (the
last London date by the Hibernia,) writes
that "there is a good deal of speculation
as to the constitution to be proposed.
M. de Latnartine inclines to that of the
United States, with two chambers and
a President. Two of the other minis
ter* are scid to incline for a directory
and a convention. The public feeling
general appears to be rather in favor of
the views of M. de Lamartine." The
same correspondent writes:
"All
idea of a war with the continen•
tel powers is, of course, at an end, ex.
cept as regards Prussia. If the Polek
rise, it will be exceedingly difficult to
keep the people here from rushing to
their aid.—The Government will, in all
probability, be compelled, by the press.
are of the multitude, to inte:fe.e. It
will not do so, if it can be avoided; but
it will not and cannot resist any general
display of sympathy for the Poles."
[D>On Wednesday, in Congress, Mr.
Burt, from the Military Committee, re.
ported a Bill repealing the act giving
the President a discretion to retain eith•
er of the old or newly created Generals
of the Army, when the Army should be
reduced at the close of the war.
ANOTHER ST ATE : —The people of Wis.
consin have adopted a Constitution, and
are making the usual arrangements for
the election of State officers. A Bill is
pending in Congress recognizing the ter•
ritory as a state.
DISTRESSING CASE OF HYDROPRORIA,-
A daughter of Mr. Jacob Brown, of South
Easton, Pa., aged about six years, died
in that place, on Sunday last under all
the smptoins of a decided case of hydra
phobia. She was bitten by a dog sup.
posed to have been rabid, about five
weeks since. The would was under
the left eye, and healed up in a short
time. The first symptoms of the die.
ease were discovered the day preceding
her death.
O D AII our readers doubtless remem
ber Santa Anna's toast—
"JamEs K. Pour—the Exile's friend."
If Santa Anna has really vamostd, Mr.
Polk can again take him under his pro-
tection.
CLEAR As MUD—The Surgical Jour
nal describes Chloroform in the follow
ing manner:—"Chloroform is the pech
loyide of formyle—formyle being the
hypnthclical radical of formic acid."