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HUNTINGDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 19 1849.
Hoover's Ink.
HOOVER'S SUPERIOR WRITING INK
for Mlle At this office•
TERMS:
The "1-turcrimanos Jounssi." is published at
the, following rates, viz : $1,73 a year, if paid
in advance ; $2,00 if paid during the year, and
32,30 if not paid until after the expiration of
the year. The above terms to be adhered to in
all cases.
No subscription taken for leis than six months,
au:l no paper discontinued until all arrearages
are paid, unless at the option of the publisher.
STATE CONVENTION.
At the — last meeting of the Whig State Cen
tral Committee, held at Harrisburg, in pursu
ance of the public call, it was, on motion
Resolved, That the friends of the National
and State administrations, in Pennsylvania, be
re luested to mset in the several cities and coun
ties of the State, and select clelegat ts equal in
number to their representation in the State Leg
islature, who shall meet in Convention at the
Court House, in Harrisburg, at 11 o'clock, A.
M., on Thursday 16th day of August next, for
the purpose of selecting a candidate for CANAL
COMMISSION., and to do such other buatness as
the interest of the country may require.
By order of the Committee.
VALVADLE Rant Esr.trtc FOR SALE.-The at
tention of persons desiring to purchase valuable
real estate, is invited to the advertisement of the
Messrs. MCMT:RTRIES, offering a large tract of
Limestone Land for sale This tract is situ
ate in the flourishing valley of Shaver's Creek,
and is, in point of location and quality, highly
desirable.
CGT Gunny's LADY'S Boon, for July, is a su
perb number. It contains several elegant en
gravings, fashion plates, &c., &c., and is filled
with the choicest kind of litterary matter.
Every Lady in the country should be in the re
ceipt of this superior magazine. By an arrange
ment with the publisher, we will send this mag
azine, the price of which is $3.00, with the
<, Journal," for $3.30 per annum, in advance.
Select School.
By reference to our advertising columns, it
will be seen that Mr. J. A. lIALL is about open- i
ing, in Huntingdon, a Select School. In this
community, where Mr. H. has taught for sev
eral years, he enjoys the enviable reputation of
being the best Teacher ever connected with
our Schools. In addition to his peculiar faculty
of imparting instruction to , the young, he is one
of the best discipbnarians we ever knew. He
is a gentleman of inflexible probity and high
moral character. And we have no hesitation*
in assuring Parents that they can commit thefr
children to his charge, with the utmost conk ,
dente that they wilt not only be rapidly advan
ced in all the various branches of English Edu
cation, but that their morals will also receive
that care and attention so essential to their fu
ture happiness, respectability and prosperity ire
life. Hence, it gives us great pleasure to com
mend Mr. School to public attention
and patronage.
More Rioting on the Railroad,
Another disgraceful Riot has been going on
rmong the laborers employed on the Pa. Rail
road, in the neighborhood of Birmingham, this
county, during the most part of the past week.
During its progress, several persons were badly
injured, and among them we learn that Mr.
Gillespie, a contractor has been seriously inju
red. Shanties were also torn down, and consid
erable property destroyed. There appears to
be no other cause for these disgraceful scenes
than an old feud which exists between Irishmen
known as Connaught men and Far-Downs.—
Several arrests, we are happy to learn, have
been made. On Friday last Sheriff Crownover
summoned an armed posse and proceeded to the
scene of artists. On his arrival there, the riot
ing ceased, and many of the participants fled
to the mountains-
These riots are dangerous and should be sup
pressed
at all hazards. If foreigners wlio come
here to labor will persist in violating our laws,
the authorities should give them stsch a demon
stration of their power as will learn them here
after to respect them. Let the orders, on all
these occasions, be "Mono GRAPE," and our
word for it, the peace of the community wilt
not long be disturbed by these senseless and
unmeaning Riots.
EC7 — MINT. Uszarre," is the title of a
new literary paper, started at Bristol, Bucks
county, Pa., by WM. Blum, Esq., an ad and
esteemed acquaintance of ours. Mr. B. is a
very worthy man, a good Printer, and' a man of
excellent literary taste and ability. He will
doubtless make a good paper, and we wish him
the most abundant success in his enterprise.
Ice Cream,
Mr. John Cunningham has opened a new Ice
Cream Saloon in the lower room of the Sons of
Temperance Hall, immediately opposite the
PEst Office. The room is handsomely fitted up,
and we can bear testimony that his Cream is
very fine.
S•raswaasatas.-Mrs. Steel', Lady of Major
James Steel, will please accept our thanks for
the large, rich, red, lucioua Strawberries, kindly
sent us the other day, raised in her beautiful
and tastefully arranged garden. They were the
largest we ever saw, but so tempted our appe
tite that they all disappeared before taking the
dimensions of one of them occurred to our mind.
AsvoinusT BY T. GOVBEINOIt.--Josspn
BUFFINUTON, of Kittanning, to be President
Judge of the 18th Judical District, composed of
the counties of Clarion, Venango, Jefferson,
1k and McLean,
Lippard , s Letter.
The Opposition papers, says the York Repub. i
lican, are just now rejoicing in, and gloating
over a letter addressed to Gen. TAYLOR by a
certain GEORGE LIPPARD, author of the Quo- .
kyr City" and other works of prurient notori
ety, in which the modest writer takes the Old
Hero to task for his conduct as President, and
charges him with not having kept his pledges
to him, the said George. It seems that Lir-
PARD called himself last fall a 66 Taylor Demo
crat"—a style of politician not at all admired
by the very papers which use his letter for po
litical effect—" loving the treason, but despi
sing the traitor." He must needs write a letter
to Gen. Tavi.oa too; and having received an
answer, displayed his honorable principle by
publishing it, though marked " confidential,"
by way of showing no doubt what correspond
ence he, GEORG. LIPPARD, had with great men.
Not having been called to the Cabinet, nor re
ceived any appointment, or even a suit of old
clothes, George waxes angry and abusive, and
sets to work to exterminate Gen. TAYLOR with
this letter now going the rounds of the Loco
foco press. The following anecdote shows that
TOM CORWIN understood George edzoeily : •
Tom CORWIN AND GROW. Limtno.—They
sayat Washington that Corwin's levee is always
as well attended as any in the city, and stran
gers coming thither always call on him as one
of the "lions." Among Others, Lippard the
author of raw-head and bloody-bones stories,
and who conducted a kind of piratical sheet du
ring the Presidential campaign, in which he
abused Corwin without stint, called upon him
a month or two since, and introduced himself
I with the easy and confident air of a patron.—
Said Lippard, smiling:
I " Gov. Corwin, my name is Lippard, George
Lippard, of Philadelphia, whom you have prob
ably heard of,—very glad to make your acquain
tanee, sir. I blackguarded you a good deal last
year." . .
Corwin. (With one of his peculiar looks.)
Ah! well, Mr. Lippard, you look very much
like a blackguard!"
Lippard K•as shut up, and left
The Lancaster Tntelligencer, a leading Loco
foco paper, refuses to lend its columns to aid
Geo. Lipp:ind to gain notoriety, and rebukes its
Locofoco cotemporaries who have done so.— I
The editor says :
LIPPARDIANA.--We have not allowed the
political diatribe of this eccentric individual,
addressed to President Taylor, to grace our
columns—nor is it likely that we shall alter our
mind hereafter. We strongly suspect, that a
morbid thirst for notoriety has dictated the
whole of these epistolary exercises--to which
the press has injudiciously too freely adminis
tered.
The Intelligencer is right. Lippard is evi
dently a fellow without principle or character,
and wrote this letter, besliming the great name
of ZACHARY TAYLOR with abuse, with no other
view than to gain notoriety. But it will be no
toriety followed by the contempt of all honora
ble men. George knew that the locofoco press
would seize with avidity a letter of this kind,
and; though it might go forth from a monkey
they would publish it as the effusion of a man
of character and distinction. He knew it would
ensure notorieig,--even if it was a notoriety
which high-minded and honorable men would
revolt at. We are happy to observe, however,
that at least one respectable Locofoco paper
declines to be used by George to gratify his
I thirst for notoriety. The next we hear of him
he will dipahtless be out in a long letter abusing
the Locofocos, with the hope of getting a hear
ing through the Whig press.
Ronnnay.-The Jewelry Store of Mr. James palliate its gross libels, and when it will <, eat
T. Scott, of this place, was robbed on Thurs- i its own words," and strive to court the favor
day night last of several watches. The robber of one elected by the people against every effort
gained access by removing the window shutter of designing politicians.
and taking out a pane of glass, which enabled I The mass of our citizens are disgusted at this
him to put in his hand and lift the watches from open prostitution of the political press, which
the hooks on which they were hanging. Mr. attacks the good and great with ruffian taunts,
S. was sleeping in• the store, but the burglary whenever they stand between party hacks and
and robbery was so quietly performed, that he their chase after public spoils. There is but
was not awakened. one charge which can be laid to Gen. Taylor,
. . . . .
THE Qi:AKEr Crr;Those-Those of our Whig which is, that he has no sympathies with those
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political vampires who have so long sucked the
friends who were induced to subscribe for this
blood of our country and fattened on its decay.
paper, will doubtless feel much gratified that
they have done so, when they read the letter of
There is nothing as yet which justifies any con
the editor, Geo. Lippard, abusing President
demnation ; he has had no opportunity of devel-
Taylor in the most foul-mouthed manner. Seri
oping his policy or advising with the National
ator Corwin told him he 10 /naked like a black-
Legislature, and yet besotted Locofocoism pre
guard ;" and he writes as much like a black-
judges him, and as it strove to ruin him as a
guard as he looks.
General now seeks to brand him as incompetent
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fora President.
12:7' The Washington Examiner says that
rrGen. Taylor will hereafter be regarded as I Schuylkill County--Hon. James
having been a disgrace to the station which he Cooper. A
correspondent of the Daily News, writing
occupies.” And why I Simply becausehe
from Pottsville, says :—The Whigs of this, the
removes Locofocos from office, and obstinately
refuses to surrender to his Locofoco enemies. i "Banner county" of the State, held their usual
Preparatory Santa Anna entertained about the same opinionreparatory county meeting yesterday, and, to
of the old man when he refused to surrender his judge from the numerous attendance, and en
thusiasm that prevailed, the same spirit is still
army to him at Buena Vista. But when
he came to try his hand at mating th
abroad that led to such glorious results last
old Hero surrender, he found himself defeatede fall. The Hon. James Cooper addressed the
and disgraced, and, General Taylor gloriously meeting in one the best speeches I ever lis
tened to. He kept his large audience entranced
victorious. So it will be with Santa Anna's
for upwards of an hour, and the new Senator
Locofoco alies in this country, who are now
heaping their foul-mouthed abuse on President
may congratulate himself upon the very favor-
Taylor, and affecting to sneer at his capacity, able impression which he has prodsced upon
the citizens of this his new home. Strong re-
When they come to make open battle upon him,
they will find themselves defeated and disgraced olutions were passed, awarding praise to the
and Gen. Taylor, as heretofore, triumphantly National and Stole Administrations, and re
sustained.
newing the pledge to the people that every ex
ertion should be made to remodel the tariff act
of 1816 ; also a resolution condemning the in
troduction of slavery into the new territory.
Delegates were appointed to the Ilarrisburg
convention to nominate a candidate for Canal
Commissioner, as follows:—James B. Serau,
Senatorial'; Robert Morris and John Hendricks,
Represetative, uninstructed. The Whigs of
Schuylkill are on the alert, and eager for the
&old Dust,
The steamship Crescent City, from Chagres,
arrived at New Orleans on the 10th inst., bring
ing $1,000,000 in gold dust. The U. S. Ship
Lexington arrived at Baltimore on the 14th in
stout, bringing $1,00,000 of the same article.
The Cholera
A despatch from New York dated 14th inst.,
shows an increase of deaths from Cholera, and l i „ e .
a decrease of cases, compared' with the report
'37' The Globe is out with a complaint tbre
of the previous day. Thirty-eight cases and
Robert Speer, late Postmaster at Cassville, ,, ai
sixteen deaths are reported. 1 i
honest man" and a "gentleman in every parties
With the exception of a few cases in Phila- i e r, ,, has been removed. This complaint is
delphia and Pittsburg, our State has thus far very surprising and shows how hard run the
entirely escaped this alarming disease.. In Phil- Globe must be foe something to find fault with,
adelphia there has been no cases reported du
; when it is known that Robert Speer signed a
ring the past week. . petition asking the department to appoint Isaac
ra- The Whigs of Butler county have nonii- Smith to succeed' him! About the "perfect
nsted Wm. Basica, Esq., editor of the Butler gentleman in every particular," perhaps the
Whig, for State Senntnr, and' D. 11. 8.. Brower least said the better. There is at feast a diver
for Assembly. sity of opinion on that subject.
Removals—The Globe,
The Globe is still whining over the removals
from office now making by the National Ad
ministration. But the editor appears to have
no sympathy for the victims decapitated by the
Locofoco Canal Commissioners, last spring.--
A bout thirty Canal and Railroad officers lost
their heads under the operation of the Long
strolls and Painter guillotine, yet we have to
hear the first word of complaint from the Globe
on the subject. And the editor even declines
to tell us why Mr. Cunningham was removed
from the Collector's office at this place. Was
he not " honest and capable I" If so, why wan
he removed I Great sympathy is expressed by
the Globe for one of the Brown's--an old office
holder, and a blackguard to boot—but the editor
has not one little word of sympathy for his
neighbor, Mr. Cunningham, who had only been
in office three years, and is a very respectable
nian. Now if the editor of the Globe is honest
in his opposition to removals, why does he not
denounce the Canal Commissioners for the re
movals they have made I He is aware that
mare than thirty heads were taken off last
Spring by the Board, yet up to this time he has
been as silent as death on the subject! This is
in striking contrast with the hue and cry he is
raising over every removal made by the Nation
al Administration, and can only be accounted
for by the conclusion that the Globe is not ad
verse to removals, but is only opposed to Whigs
being appointed to any of the offices of the
country.
Tory Opposition to (den. Taylor.
However the people may respect the honesty
of the present executive, and applaud his bra
very, enough has been witnessed to show that
he is painfully INCOMPETENT to the per
formance orhis ditties 04 President of the Uni
ted States. The humiliating verdict, at first
whispered and suggested, amid doubt and sur
prise, is now openly proclaimed and rarely de
nied.
The Philadelphia Sun says, the above, from
the Pennsylvanian, is a specimen of the tactics
of the unscrupulous opposition to General Tag-
Loft's administration. What has been witness
ed 1 Who has pronounced the verdict ? The
Cases of the opposition, the editor of the Wash
ington Union, who,
Like a cur, behind,
Struck Caesar on the neck,"
has drivelled out his belief of his incompetency,
as he did of old against ANDREW Jacasoa.—
Who
believes him or any of the pack who bark
and bite at all honesty, and fawn only when
" thrift may follow ?" What has Gen. TAYLOR
done to be thus denounced by men who were
not born when he was battling for his country ?
What verdict shall be rendered against the
shameless impudence which seeks to assail the
fair fame of a veteran soldier, only for ulterior
partizan purposes 1 The slander which was
" first whispered and suggested" by the mali
cious leaders of Locofocoism when smartin g
under defeat, has been " now openly proclaim
ed" by those in whom the people have no con
fidence—by those who were condemned and
driven from power last fall. The reputation of
Gen. Taylor, his competency and his honesty,
are above the reach of calumny—these cannot
be touched " more than you can pluck its bright
ness from the sun, or with polluted finger tar
nish it." The Pennsylvanian may rail and
fume and calumniate, but the day will come
1 when it will shrink with shame to have so for-
gotten itself when it will seek to excuse and
Nominations.
ALLEGTIKNY.-Our political friends in Alle
gheny county have nominated the following
Assembly ticket:
R. C. Walker of Elizabeth; Win. Es,
.sp
Lower St. Clair; Caleb Lee, of Pittsb urg;
John Miller, of Sharpsburg.
COVNTY.-The Whigs of batmbin
have made the following nominations :
Assembly-4. 13. 131.1theiford, Thos. hiftlean.
Prothonotary—Stephen Miller.
Treasurer—John J. Clyde.
The above is an excellent ticket. The As
sembly candidates represented Dattphin last
year, to the entire satisfaction of the people.
The candidates for Prothonotary and Treasu
rer—Messrs. Miller and Clyde—are eminently
fitted for the stations for which they have been
nominated, and hnvealways been hard-working,
efficient Whigs. We are truly rejoiced that
their services are appreciated by their political
brethren. 'We shall look for the election of
the whole ticket by a large majority.
Does any body, (Gen. Taylor excepted)
know who George Lippard is 1 Eh !—Wood .
Examinvr.
Senator Corwin told him what he is, by his
looks, which renders the inquiry, "who George
Lippard is," entirely unimportant to the public.
ar I hare no friend' to reward," is an
expression never used by Gen. Taylor, and we
defy the Locofoco papers which attribute it to
him to produce the proof. The noble sentiment
used by the old Hero, in his ietter to Captain
Allison, and which has been basely garbled by
the Locofoco press, is as follows :
"I have no private purposes to accomplish--
no party projects to build up—no enemies to
punish—nothing to serve but my country."
The Next Census
The able Census Board at Washington, have
issued the following Circular Letter, the object
of which will be seen on its perusal :
WASHINGTON, May 16, 18.19.
Sir--By the act of Congress, entitled "An
Act to make arrangements for taking the Sev
enth Census," it is provided that the Census
Board " shall prepare and cause to be printed
such forms and sehedules for collecting in statis
tical tables. under proper heads, such informa
tion as to Mines, Agriculture, Commerce, Man
ufactures, Education, and other topics, as will
exhibit a full view of the pursuits, industry,
education, and resources of the country it being
provided that the number of said inquiries, ex
clusive of the enumeration, shall not exceed
one hundred."
The Hungarian Victory.
Last week we gave, in a postscript, the sub
stance of the news from Europe, by the steamer
Europa, in which the gathering of the Russian
and Hungarian armies among the northern de
files of Hungary and the probability of an early
battle was mentioned. Later advices by the
same steamer announce that the expected battle
had actually taken place, and that the left wing APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT
To FILL VACANCIES.
of the Russian army, 60,000 strong, had sutler-
Tho as M. Foote, of New York,to be Charg
ed a total defeat! The Intelligence, although '
d'Aftai n r l s to New Grenada, in lietiof Benjamine
not direct and positive, comes through so many A. Bidlack, deceased.
channels as to leave no room to doubt its truth. I Alexander K. McClung, of Mississippi, to be
The battle was fought by Gal. Bern, who Charge d'Atfairs to Bolivia, in lieu of John All
, met the Russian army in a defile at Rottenthrum, ; pleton, resigned.
and completely routed it, the enemy losing some , Charles L. Flelschman, of the District of Co
, limbic', to be Consul at Stutgard, in Wurtem
onere, with all the arms, cannon, ammunition,
8,000 men killed, and surrendering 36,000 pris
burg in lieu of Tobias Beehler, resigned. i Stephen D. Poole, of North Carolina, to be
&c. The Russians, it is said, were driven across , Consul at Turk's Island, in lieu of J. T. Pickett,
WORKING ITS OWN CURE.
I
The lamentation system, of which the editor 1 the frontier, and forced to fall back upon CIR. ' resigned.
cow which may transfer the war to Poland. I Geo. F. Usher, of Rhode Island, to be Com te
of the Washington Union is the founder, is not ' The New York Tribune, in announcing thus mercial Agent at Port au Prince, in lieu of
likely to be so popular as that gentleman and Joseph C. Luther, resigned.
great victory, remarks—" This result is what
those who have stolen his thunder expected it REMOVALS '
was expected. We have no belief in the real
onst ntinople, in II f Dabny S.
would be. The abuse of the thing has invested . • I George P. Marsh, of Vermont, to be Minister
it with so muchAllat is ridiculous that the ab- . st r re D n: ffi th of
bsk th i e Russian Army. One of Bem'
's Magyar Hus;ars is worth halt " - It s r i r de re n c t aZ
surdity is working its own cure. The ~ pro_ or
of the best troops that the Czar can I Thomas W. Chinn, of Louisiana, to be Charge
scribed" cannot stand the drenching given them
furnish for this war, and the same is true of I d'Afrairs to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
by their friends, and on every hand are entreating
their Infantry and Artillery. •It is only by I John Trumbull Van Allen, of New York to be
them to forbear. Mr. Clapp, examiner of drugs " Charge d'Attairs to the Republic of Ecuabor, in
for the port of Charleston, S.C., having been lieu of Van Brugh Livingston, recalled.
overwhelmingnumbers that the Russians can I
hopeto beat sucha soldiery as they are now I
removed from office, the Charleston Mercury
ret j a ° r hn o C f • Le DavE' of
I‘ l l 2. ass i a:h d usetts, to be Sec
opened to, and Paskewitch, their commander,
opened the sluices of its indignation and sorrow.
lim p et display a higher order of talent than he Lo Y ienzo Dr g a at e w r n o t ; New l l ' l o lc, be Consul
Whereupon Mr. Clapp, who is not the first man ,
has yet evinced, if he ie to out-general the Po- at Havre de Grace, in lieu of r Wm t . ° J. Staples•
, mill. has earnestly prayed, ~ save me from my :
lish and Hungarian leaders. recalled.
1 friends," protests against being drowned in a .
, No, let no man fear that the revolution can at Edward Kent, of Maine, to be Consul a t'
torrent of sympathy, denies that his removal . Rio Janeiro, in lieu of Gorham Parks, recalled.
was a ease of political proscription and among Rev. Thomas Sewall, of Maryland, to be Con.-
once be suppressed in Hungary because the 1
Russian automatons are hurled against her gal- .
other good things says: - : sul an St. Jago de Cuba, in lieu of John W.•
.
lint defenders. It is much more likely that it Holding, recalled.
Your picture of me as a conscientious official .
will be transferred to Poland. Would not that
devoting honself with untiring energy arid William R. Hayes, of Connecticut, to be
sleepless assiduity to•the discharge of his duties, rouse the world—to hear the tread of freemen , Consul at Barbadoes, in lieu of Noble 'Pawner,
is, per se, very affecting, but lam compelled to armed for freedom once more around Warsaw T recoiled.
rob it of much of its charming warmth and
Let the cry of Poland again be raised—and 1 Elijah Payne, of New York, to be Consul at
freshness by confessing that ail the drugs and Panama, in lieu of William Nelson, recalled.
medicines imported into Chavlestowsince I was raised again it must be—not by her nobles, but 1 Charles Benjamin, of Connecticut, to be Con
appointed, have been somewhat less in• valise by n chivalrous and brave democracy, and to , sal at Demerara, in lieu of Samuel J. Masters,
than the amount of my pay, and that they have that last struggle of Light against Darkness all ' recalled.
been of such choice quality, and FO perfectly
put up, that their examination cost Inc almo.,t ('I n . • 'rho ',ay and stendom would convene.i
, 'in- Israel D. Andrews, of Maine, to be Consul
as little trouble as it conferred benefit . theick and Canada
petuous soldier 4 or France, generous and kindly , for N. ow 1 3roosw , in lieu of
Coll ins Whittaker, recalld.
Public. If it had not been that the duties of Germans, men of England, of Americo, of Italy
the office, such as they were, lay in that path
_nay, ere" millions of her own enfranchised I Bailey M. Edney, of North Carolina, to be
of natural science where lam fond of strolling, -' m ' , Consul at P i
ernambuco, n lieu of C. G. Salinas,
T should have been ashamed to hold it. "'' peasants would gather there to wipe out the , (a foreigner,) removed.
The principal nim of the Board, at this time, I
is to acquire such information as will enable it '
to arrive at the most proper enumeration of
subjects to be embraced in the next Census.
The communications of all persons, who may
feel disposed to make suggestions or contribute
information on the subject, will be respectfully
considered.
Address , g Department of State—Census,"
Washington.
JOHN M. CLAYTON,
REVERDY JOHNSON,
JACOB COLLAMER.
JO!. C. G. KtNNEDY, fier'y
We hope every citizen, who has anything of
importance to suggest, will consider himself
addressed by the above Circular, and will has
ten to convey his knowledge to the Board.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, while I thank you , sorrows and wrongs of Poland, the blood of her
for the pathetic touch about the g. dead Osso- sons, the torture of her daughters, the whole
ry," I beg to assure you that I am not dead,
not even politically dead, and that it will be
catalogue of unspeakulile. outrages which Cath
matter of very great grief and loud complaint urine and Nicholas have inflicted upon her. h
on my part if, on the mistaken supposition that end of such a conflict could, not , be doubtful.—
' am so, the Greeks and Trojans should swarm The Russian despotism would inevitably be
out to have a battle royal over my body.
I driven back into Asia, where it belongs, and
07 - Cupid does some last work occasionally.' the stronghold of tyranny and injustice, the
In Cincinnati, lately, a gentleman going through great hindrance of progress in Europe, destroy
the market, saw a lovely girl. He was imme- ed for ever.
diately victimised, proposed to the girl, was ac- I Issues like these hang on the war in Hungary.
cepted, and married to her next day ! That is There is reason, then, to rejoice in this victory.
the way to do business. I God prosper the Right."
THE Fume. AT New OHLeaas.--The water DEATH FROM CHOLERA.—Mrs. Mary,
at New Orleans on the 6th inst. was fully an wife of Mr. Jno. P. Glass, of this city
inch above the highest previous mark, and in died of Cholera yesterday evening at 7
the Bayou St. John was nix inches above the o'clock. We understand that Mrs. 4.1
hurricane work of 1831. At the meeting of was in her übtial health, up to about 3
the joint committee of Councils on the previous o'clock yesterday, having been at church
night, it was stated that Mr. Dunbar, the engi- in the forenoon. She was attacked
neer, had expressed himself confident that he j with unmistakeable symptoms, and des
would succeed in a few days in partially cut- ; pite of all medical aid, was a corpse in
tins off the volume of water. I little more than three hours. This is
ay - One of the members of the Massacliti- I the first case occurring in our city
setts Legislature recently offered a bill, which which has come to our knowledge.—
provided that "no lady shall be married, except Pitts.Gaz. June 1 ltlt.
in the town where she resides." It didn't go [C - A Flog was recently butchered in
down ; another member knocked it on the head Broome co., N. Y., which weighed 2000
by offering an amendment, requiring people "to lbs. The slain was preserved, and it is
die in the town where they are born." I to be sent to New York city for exhi
co- The telegraph reported a few days ago bition.
that Ex-President Polk was attacked with Chol- A FIXED FAcr.—The Baltimore Patriot says
era. This is not correct. fie is suffering from there is nothing mere intense and lasting than
a severe diardura, and is considered dangerous- the " indignation of a dismissed offict-holder."
ly Lt lasts all the time be is "One."
THE ASIATIC CHOLERA,
An erroneous opinion prevails among many
persons that the Asiatic Cholera strikes its vic
tim with the suddenness almost of lightning.—
The fart is that there are few diseases which
give earlier or more certain Warding oT their
approach; and it is only after the patient has
labored under the incipinct stages for three or
four clays, that the final attack occurs. If the
premonitory symptoms are watched, cholera is
coniparatively harmless, indeed far less fatal
than any other disorder to which mankind is
nubjecf.
iy, of
The first indication of the approach of the
ilisease is a hardness, or fulness in the abdomen,
betraying a slight derangement in the organs
there situated. If a glass Ar Water is taken, a
feeling of distress, or uneasiness ensues, gener
ally of a light character howeVer; and in conse
quence frequently disregarded altogether, or
soon forgotten. In time—on the next day per
haps—occasional pains shoot through the stom
ach, and a sensation of nausea is experienced.—
Diarrhwa ensues, perh,,ps vomiting, the day
after, or, in violent cases, on the same day.—
Even though the patient may have disregarded
the former symptoms, if he will now call in a
physician, and take proper remedies, he is near
ly sure of recovery, more sure than a person
attacked with fever, ar other ordinary disorders. •
If, however, he neglects these forewarnings,
violent cramp succeeds, and then there is rral
danger.
The only peril, therefore, that exists, arises
from the carelessness of the public, superindu
cad by the gentleness of the disease in its ear
lier
stages. If a man is attacked with the
cramp, and dies in a few hours, it is said that he
fell a victim to the cholera in a single day ! yet,
in reality, if enquiry was instituted, it would
be found that he had been laboring under the
premonitory stages of the disease for several
days, and that the cramp, which was considered
the first, was in reality the last assault of the
enemy. The lassitude accompanying the car •
tier progress of the disorder, joined to the ex
treme mildness of the symptoms, induces fre
quently a criminal carelessness, which leads to
the most fatal results. Yet, if the approaches
of the disease are watched, they are certain to
yield to proper and timely treatment.
Staveri Expiring,
How can Slavery continue its miserable CXlB. '
tence much longer, with the moral sentiment of
the North solidly arrayed against it, and bold
HARRY CLAY and theindomitab lc 13F.ISTON tram
pling it under foot in the very "house of its
friends 1" The severest blows it now rec eives
are idthe Slave States. Mr. Robinson of Frank
lin, Ky., in a speech delivered in the late Eman
cipation Convention at Frankfort, Ky., hit off
the defenders of slavery in that State with a .
good deal of litirnor and point :
The opposition to our views is inconsider-,
able if we have a fair hearing. There are but
few who admire the shivery of Kentucky and
with many of that few it is a sentiment rather
than a principle. Their birth-place is Old Vir
ginia—there they spent their .youth. Slavery
was there, and everything in Virgin:a was per
fect. You know, sir, the strength of this reel
ing among Virginians. The emigrant from
even those portions of it which slavery has des
olated—from the eastern sand hills—where the.
people subsist one half the year on fish and
oysters, and the other half on past recollection
—amid rill the fertility of the west—sighs for
the sand hills and fish and oysters of Old Vir
' ginia. With others this love of slavery is nei•
Cher a sentiment nor principle—they, from
mere habit, cry olit against us, abolition I dan
ger to property ! !..:- . and, those who cry loudest
are those who never had a negro to abolish, and'.
unless their habits of ihdustry shall vastly ;
change, never will ; while the largest portior
raise the hue and cry merely fhipllitical effect,
and for fear of mere party interests."
CARELESSNESS OF LIFE IN TEXAS.-
The San Antonio Texian mentions a
fearful increase of supposed suicide,
though we doubt whether so many sud
den deaths are Justly chargeable to this
cause. The papers say: "A recklessness
Sf hie unprecedented, has exhibited itself
in many instances; the horrors of death, •
or the fearful consequences of a here
after seems to make but a slight impres
sion upon the minds of many, who are
daily rushing headlong into eternity.
Within the last four or five days not less.
than five, and some report seven, bodies'
have been found in the San Antonio river
and the ditch leading from the Alamo
to the head of the river, thought to have
been drowned.—The names of two only
have been ascertained—Davenport and'•
Frazer, the latter employed in this office.
WHAT A Woms,—ln Chicago lately, a wo
man while intoxicated, demolished the windows
and stock in trade of a grog-shop keeper, beat
him, and then sallied into the steett, where she
drubbed a big Dutchman, and whipped half-a
dozen constables who attempted to wrest her.
Delectable wife she'd make.
Editorial State Convention.
The undersigned publishers of Newspapers
in the 17th Congressional District, concuring
with their editorial brethren generally in the
necessity of having an Editorial State Conven
tion in Pennsylvania, for the purpose of correc
ting numerous abuses now practiced to the pos
itive injury of Country publishers,. respectfully
recconunend to the Fraternity that they meet
in• State Convention at Harrisburg, on THURS
DAY the Bth day of NOVEMIIHR, 1849, and earn
estly urge a general attendance.
The Postage Reform tuner be effected during.
the next Session of Congress. A Law whose
practical effect is to make the rich richer and
the poor poorer, cannot be too soon erased from
our National Statute Book, and we deem the•
time reccommanded for a State Convention an
auspicious one for urging effectually upon our
I National Congress the necessity and expedien
'cy of a speedy and permenant change. This
and other Reforms immediately affecting the in
terests of the Country Press, demand the
prompt and serious attention of the Fraternity,
and we call upon our brethren throughout the
State to act with us harmoniously and energet
ically, feeling confident that by so doing the
Country Press can be placed upon a.praper plat
form.
J. K. SUOEMAKER, Bellefont Whig.
H. J. WALreas, Lewistown Democrat,
Geo. FRYSINGER, Lewistown Gazette,
W. P. Cooper, Juniata Register,
A. K. McCult., Juniata Sentinel,•
JAMES CLARK, Huntingdon Jourrul,
Wm. Lewis, Huntingdon Globe,
J. PENN JONES, Hollidaysburg Register,.
0. A. THOUGH, Hollidaysburg Standard',
Wm' T. WILSON, Blair County Whig,.
Geo. RAYMOND,
W. H. BLAIR, Bellefont Democrat,
W. J. Pnesoss, Centre Beobachtor,
Lrnwiclit; Centre Beriehter.