THE JOURNAL.
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HUNTINGDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 2. 1849.
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CANAL COMMISSIONER:
MNRY M. FULLER,
CT LUZYRNE COUNTY,
Whig County Ticket.
ASSEMBLY:
A. K. CORNYN, of Huntingdon.
TREASURER:
JOHN A• DOYLE, of Shirley
COMMISSIONER i
ISAAC PEIGHTAL, of Penn.
AUDITOR :
TPOIIIAS of Huniingdori
t37' No change in the markets since our last,
03?"Doassir 8c MAGUIRE have jdst received
an elegant assortment of Falland Winter Goods.
Call in and see them.
Thou wishing to haVe the likeness of
themselves or children taken by the Daguerreo
type process, are informed that Weis., &Wir
wan will remain in Huntingdon during the pre
sent week. They can take likenesses without
regird to the Weather. See card in another
column:
Examine your 'rickets.
Whigs, examine your tickets before voting
and see that you have the whole Whig Ticket.
Compare with the ticket at the head of our pa
per. - ,
We caution the voters of this county against
the falsehoods and Aumbuggery with which the
columns of the Globe will abound this week.—
Remember last year.
Locofoco Love for Mexican
Soldiers:
Some A. Dolma, the Whig Candidate for
County Treasurer, alai one of the few volun
teers from this county in the war with Mexico.
And it id conceded by all his hompanions in arms,
that theire veils not a braver spirit from Penn
sylvania. Yet with their false professions of
love for the soldiers upon their lips, the Locofo
cos of this county ere miring a more strenuous
snort to defeat Mr. Doyle than any one on the
Whig Ticket. But the true friendd of the sol
diers, the Whigs, will see that their efforts are
defeated, by giving Lim their united vote.
Consistency.
Lest winter when Jacob Miller'asked for' the
Collector's office, his Locofoco friends opposed
him on the ground that he had been in office
three years, and that therefore the Collector's
office should be given to one who never had held
an office. But now they have changed their
tune. They want Whigs to desert their caridi
date, who has never held an office in his life, to
vote for this same Jacob Miller who tl4y de
clared last winter had received his share of of
fice ! How very consistent.
A C1.7111051TY.—.1t is said some person has for
exhibition the Straw with which Polk sucked
in the Tariff men of Pennsylvania. Our neigh
bor of the Globe considers such straws good
investments, and has been busy this fall trying
to suck in some Whigs, who he thinks are soft
enough to suck through a straw. We are satis
fied that our neighbor will meet with as signal
a defeat as he did last tall, when he and his bro
ther collector, tried to suck in some of the Penn
township Whigs.
Neglect of Political duties.
It's no use, says the Daily Newt, crying
over spilt milk, and the truly wise avoid such
Mishaps. in the single county of Cumberland,
in Maine, four Representatives—sufficient to
change the chardcter of the Legislature--were
lost to the Whigs through inactivity. Every
one of them might have been carried h , d an ef
fort been made, for the highest majority against
them was but eleven. But no. Thereare some
who never awaken until after an election.
Then they open their eyes in astonishment, and
wonder at themselves for not having thought in
time'df putting forth an effort. We have many
of the same class Of men in our own State.
They despair of success from the simple fact
that an effort is required to achieve it and in
viting defeat through their own inactivity, in
volve those who do work, and work hard, in the
same consequences with themseltes: We trust,
however, that all these may be aroused, and that
'no man shall have it to say aftir our electiowis
over, that his duty has been neglected. Let us
he warted in it'ar..profit by experience, and
all so to now:
F'acts,
The facts present^d in the address of the
Whig State Committee, which we publish, are
unanswerable, and the locofocos have never at
tempted, it. should not these facts induce every
tat-payer to sustain by his vote, the adminis
tration of Got. Johnston. If so, turn out on
* Tuesday next, and vote for FULLSR, Conans,
And the whole Wbig ticket.
t 117" The yellow fever ie said to have made its
iriipl'ambee in Charleston S. C.
TO THE POLL!
This is the last paper, we will issue previous
to the election. We therefore call upon the
Whigs of Huntingdon county to TURN OUT
in their strength on Toeiday next. Let no
'Whig remain at home. It is the duty, as well
as privilege of every every one to deposite his
vote. Lento Whig neglect this duty . , OF turn
his back upon this glorious privilege on Tuet
day next. The candidates presented for your
suppOrt are alt good whigs, and will make hon
est and competent officers.
TO THE I'OLLS, then, and votefor HINRY
M. I'UI.I.ER, AUOUjS'res,E. CORNYN, JOHN A.
DOYLE, ISAAC NW HTAL and THOMAS FisnEte.
Vote the whole Ticket solid. Don't strike a
dingle man. They are all equally worthy, and
we should therefore show no partiality between
them. TO THE POLLS, Whigs'of Old Hun
tingdon, and achieve a perfect victory,by elect
ing the WHOLE WHIG TICKET, and giving
Henry M. Fuller a majority of six hundred.—
You can dtisit if you will.
County Iveasurer,
The Locofocos,. we learn, are at their old
game. Every time Jacob Miller is on the Lo
cofoco County Ticket, he is represented as a no
Harty man. This was the game they played
last year, and we are informed that they are
trying it over again this year. Now this is all
humbug, intended to deceive the Whigs. in
ebb Miller not a party man ! Why, since 18dti
he has received no less than three Locollico no
minations ! Did any body ever. know the Lo
cofocos to nominate men who did not belong bo
dy and soul, to their party 1 We repeat, it is
all sheer humbug—hcob Miller is ti consistent
Locofoco, and always votes the LoCtifoco ticket.
But the Locofocos want the Whigt to vote
for Mr. Miller because he is poor. If Mr. Mil
ler is poor, and the Locofocos had the syrtipathy
for him which they profess to have now, why
did they not show it last winter when he was a
candidate for the Collector's office? It is well
known here that when Mr. Miller asked for the
Collector's office, these Sympathizing Locofo
co friends of his opposed him, and gave the of
fice to another. Even if the assertion that Mr.
Miller is da mhch a Whig as a Locofoco was
true, and that his circumstances and claims are
such that the people ate briiind to keep him con
stantly in office, it would be but fair that the
two parties should do so turn about. And the
Whigs having given him the Register's office for
three years, one of the best in the county, the
Locofocos should have taken their turn and giv
en him the Collector's office for the same length
of time. Au they refused to do so, it is pre
sumptuous and unfair in them to ask the Whigs
to desert their own candidate now and elect him
County Treasurer.
Joux A. DOYLE, the Whit candidate for '
Treasurer, is also a poor man. He was fairly
nominated, without any interference on hip own
part, and is deserving of every Whig vote in
the county. He was one of the gallant spirits
who volunteered and did good service in the
war with Mexico. He is entirely competent,
and we do hope no Whig in the county will fail
to vote for him. Mr. Doyle has the same right
to expect the undivided Whig vote of the county
as had Gen. Taylor last fall; and Mr. Miller
has no mbre right to expect Whig votes than
had Gen. Cass, or any other Locofoco candidate.
And it would be well enough for the Whigs to
remembet When they come to vote, that Mr.
Miller wad the determined opponent Of General
TAYLOR last fall, While Mr. Doyle was his ac
tive, zealous friend.
We make the above remarks for the reason
that we understand that Sheriff Crownover,who
was himself elected by Whig votes, is travel
ling the county and trying to palaver Whigs in
to voting aininst Mr. Doyle. He made the
same effort against our present excellent Reg
ister and Recorder, Mr. Cainliell, last fall, but
failed to succeed, and we hope our Whig friends
will see to it that he fails now in his efforts to
defeat JOHN A. Doors, the Whig candidate
for County Treasurer.
A Clean Backout!
Many Weeks ago we published the semi-offi
cial statement showing how much money had
been drawn out of the State Treasury by cer
tain Canal officers, to pay the old debts due on
the public works, and we appended the signif
icant inquiry, What had been done with it? Our
neighbor of the Globe, with a boldness that then
looked like truth, gave us to understand that it
could all be shown,—day and date of payment
—so far as our division of the Canal was con
cerned !—lt was all at hand—all in the books.
We asked then very modestly to see the list
published. Our neighbor said the list was too
long would occupy his whole paper for weeks;
but said if we would publish it, that he would
furni h us a copy of the LIST. Since that time,
like Hamlet's ghost, we have cried oh, List,
Ltst ! ! !"—and our valliant and troth-lov
ing neighbor has never named the subject! •
Now the' election is at hand, and the informa
tion somuch desired, and so positively promised,
has not been ftirnished 1 We ask every honest
tax-payer in our county, to imagine what is the
reason that the List has not been furnished I
We have a right to suppose that there is no such
list—that no such payments have been made—
and so hare they!—And we ask them if, under
all the circumstances, they ought notto presume
that the money has not been applied to the le
gitimate purpose. And if, like Os, they, do so
presume, they will be sure to be at the election
next Tuesday, and vote for FULLER for Ca
nal •., $.ll, PSIOIIC7 ; and Wm give them a chance
to know. what kind of vouchers will be filed for
the disbursement of over thirty thousand dol
lars of their money.
07 - The double dealing of the Globe can be
easily seen when you examine its columns, And
find Col Duff at its mast head, showing it to be
the organ of ask., party"—while in the streets
and at Ride meetings, the organ man grinds out
a tune for Job.• Will the Globe speak ont ?
Where are you,, oh
A'Word to Whig&
Another election is just at handl Whigs are
you all awake to its importance Z Too many of
our friends are dispdsed to act at the election
succeeding the Presidential or Gubernatorial, as
if the issues involved, and the interests at stake
were of minor importance. How great an er
ror such a course is, may well be understood
when we examine the returns, and see that we
tave often met defeat by default; our own en
ninth and inactivity, have brought upon tis dis
asterous results, when, had all our energies been
called into action, the banner of victory once
raised, would not be trailed in the duet. The
same lesson is taught by the conduct of our id
vereary. They go into every election, whether
of a Borough Constable or a President, as if the
issues of life and death were in the contest.
Whigs of old fluntingdon I , The present con
teat is not of minor importance. We have
much, we might almost say every thing, to
gain. Furious, because of their fearful over
throw last full, our opponents have sought by
falsehood and misrepresentaticltt, to escape from
the unpalatable truth, that the PeOrile, aroused
by the bold and unblushing duplicity and knave
ry—and the impolitic and anti-American doc
trines of the leaders of locofocoism, struck
them down, that an oppressed people might be
rid of their misrule ; and now they seek to prove
that every election that may result unfortunately
to the Whigs is evidence :hat their Charges against
them, and their gallant old chieftain, ZACHARY
Litton, are true. Will you by your neglect
furnish them material to sustain so foul a calum
ny ? Surely you will not.
Awake to your duty ! You have also a Ca
nal Commissioner to elect this year. Remem
ber the conduct of Mr. Painter last winter when
he sought to get hundreds of thousands of dol
lars of the people's money into the hands of his
canal officers; and was only forced from his
purpose by , the bold and fearless stand of Jas.
M. Power—the only whig in that board. Will
you let that political machine, the public walks,
Fe placed iii their hands alone, that their tools
may plunder, nnwatched, the money wrung from
you by taxation/ If you will not, go every man
to the election, and let your ballot boxes be
Father of Whig votes than they were when, in
mrrry tones, we sent out upon the breeze the
glorious news that g , old Bill JOhnsthn had
come to town."
Col. Cornyn and The Globe.
The new fledged love of the Globe for the
amendment of the Constitution, is likely to car
ry our friend of the Globe entirely away. When
that amendment was before the Legislature, and
up to the present campaign, not one word was
heard from the Globe, whether it was for or
against the amendment—the important question
was of no importance until Col. Cornyn is to be
attacked ; and now every week the readers of
the Globe get two or three columns of attack
Upon but late member; and mostly upon that
subject. '
Have not the people of this county too long
watched the convenient shifting of principles
in that paper, and by that party, to be deceived ?
This question of electing judges, has not been
much discussed anywhere, and but few care
much about it, one way or the other; and the
effort of the Globe and its editors to make it the
only question, is not a little laughable. In an
effort to draw our neighbor away—diverting his
attention from his fearful onslaught, we must
propound another—What is your opinion of
rats '
The Globe would also try to make it appear
that COI. Cornyn was riot faittiftil to the inter.
ants of his constituents. Well truly we did abt
expect our neighbor would, so handsomely, set
a trap to catch himself. If Mr. Cornyn was
unfaithful last winter, why is it that you, a
a watchman on the towers of Democracy, gave
no alarm. You were silent then on that sub
ject, for you knew its falseness—and for your
own credit you shoudd have remained silent now.
YOti were a recreant to duty- , -a faithless
watchman then—or now you are— , rnista ,
ken, to say the least of it.
The Platforin 6f the Glebe.
'the platform of "the Globe" and "the party"
—is solely opposition to a supposed platform
that is made fdr Col. bornyn. The party of
the Globe this Year, has for its candidate, Col.
Duff. Yet the Globe nor Col. Miff ha+e either
of them said what is hie opinion utinn the sub
ject of electing judges I Why don't they speak
out on this subject 7 Does Col. Duff stand
on the lamented Skunk's platform—the veto of
the election of Prosecuting Attorneys—and of a
piece with it oppose the election of Judges ?
Why don't one or the other of you tell the - peo
ple ? Are you laying low so that you will not
be committed? It is a little strange truly.—
Why has not fhe Cal. spoken out for himself ?
Does not the Globe knew that Col Duff is op-
Tinted to the election of Ridges as Well so Prose
cuting Attorneys I And does not the Globe
Know th.t the reason that Col. Cornyn opposed
the Law of last session was because it was im
perfect and needed amendment—and if passed
ought to be made to include the Prosecuting
Attorneys. We shall wait for their answer
when they furnish that List!
rRAUDII ON GovEartSrEivr.-.-We Understand
that a petition is being gat Up' praying for an In
vestigation of
.the enormous frauds practiced
on Government by officers of the U. S. army du
ring the Mexican War. Each officer who keeps
a servant is allowed td draw for him $7 a month;
besides $2,50.11 month for Clothing and One ra
tido a day. Instead however, of keeping ser
vants, the officers took men from the ranks who
did no duty, but dtewtheir pay of soldiers while
the officers each pocketed the $9,00 dollars a
month and the one ration a day. In compliance
with the laws of the United States,, a descrip
tion of each servant had to be made when the
money for him was drawn, and to prevent de
tection or their being recognized as soldiers .vho
should have been 6u ditty, the servants were
described altogether diffeient from theft true
appearance. Thus a tall, tow-headed, gaunt
Vermonter, who acted as a servant for a Lieu
tenant of the 4th Regiment, was described as a
black, woolly-headed, 5 feet 5 inches high, &c.
This is an interesting subject, and the investiga
tion will probably throw much light on the ar
my tactics.—N. Y. Sue.
SERIOUS FACTS FOR TAX PAYERS.
46 'What used to be done with the
Money: ,
The Pittsburg Amerman says, this is d ques
tion which the people are begining to ask them
selves and each other. Gov. Johnston, in the
short time of his administration, has paid the
State interest, and had it paid as an honest man
deities to pay his debts, in coin. Besides this,
a long list of debts, which have been accumula
ting for years under the locofoco administration,
' have been received by him, audited and paid,
amounting to the astounding sum of $418,000.
i These were honest creditors', whose names had
been kept back, to satisfy the demands of pa
'plunderers. Besides this helms already
' set apart $105,000 . to the sinking fund, and yet,
after all this, the locofoco Auditor General hes
• to join the Whig treasurer in a report that they
have over $150,000 of surete, in the. Treasury
for a contingent application to the North Branch
Canal. This work, after' lying twenty years
idle, is shout to be completed from resources
' within the Means of the the State itself, when
will be &Med 00M0 a year to its regular rev
vvithont deduction for interest on loans to
• effect it. We shall do it with our own money
' and without any taxes—on the contrary, haVe
our taxes yearly reduced by it.
But the inquiry now is, what used to be done
r with the money? The former administrations
t
had the same Means at control that Gov. John
ston has. How then does it come that he can do
so much, with the same means that they did so
• little? This is a question for every honest man
to answer. It is one that peculiarly commends
itself to every tax payer—every owner of prop
erty, who found it diminishing in value on his
hands by the continued increase of the State
• debt, for which it was hound, anti the inevitable
increasing inability, as it seemed, of the State
ever to pay it. How does it come that they now
• see this all changed Gov. Johnston had con
trotl
of the State finances a few months, and all
' is changed as if by magic, and this magic noth
' ing more than an honest and wise application of
those means that were heretofore mien lied
and Misused.
Highly imwlirtan.
The Washington Republic of Tuesday, the
drgan of Oen. Taylor's administration at Wash
ington, in condemning the Tariff of 1846, and
alluding to the importance of the elections in
Pennsylvania and Maryland, holds the follow
ing decided and emphatic language
, c If the PEOPLE, by their, votes, manifest
an approval of the existing system, so it must
be. We can have no change. President Tay
lor will seek to carry out the WILL OF THE
PEOPLE.
We shall have no more Exerntive Tariffs da
ring his administration. WITHOUT HIS , .
TINCT AND. AFFIRMATIVE DECLA
RATION OF PINION FROM THE PEO
PLE, OR THEIR REPRESENTATIVES, IT
IS IDLE TO LOOK FOR ANY 'CHANG/E.
There will be no pressure of Executive mea
sures on a reluctant Congress. We hope, there.
fore, that our friends in PENNSYLVANIA and
Maryland will lend President Taylor's Admin.
istration ALL THE •AID THAT IT CAN
DERIVE FROM THE SUCCESS of its
friends and supporters in those States, in their
respective LOCAL and national elections."
Would it not be folly, yes madness, for those
who voted for a change last year, now, before
Gen. Taylor has been able to do a single act,
but express his opinion, end before a single Con
gress, who pass the laws, have met under his
Administration, to vote against him, and .pre
vent the change being made. Could any , rea
sonable and honest man ask f3r, a change, and
then take away the passer to effect the change?
Assessors of 1849.
By the provisions of the act of 7th of April,
1840, for the regulation and continuance of a
system of education by Common Schools," as.
sessors are required to return to the Commis
sioners the EXACT NUMBEa of taxable citizens of
each Scheel district of the county. As the
amount of money received from the State Tree
miry for school ptirPoses depends Upon the num
ber of taxables returned, assessors will see the
propriety of retUrning the statue dt eteri per
son coming under that head. Wheretrer this du
ty is omitted ihe schbol fund of. the township is
the sufferer. There is another reason why as
sessors should be careful to return every taxa
ble inhabitant at this time: The duty of ap
portioning the Senator and Representatives
amdng the several counties of the Common-
Wealth will dei , olve Upon ihe Legislature at the
approaching session, and as the trienial assess_
meet now about being made will form the ba
sis, it is of the utmost importake that the re
turns should be full, and complete, so. that we
may not be deprived of any portion of the rep
resentation to which we are justly entitled.
GRATIFEINGRESULT OF AN INTERESTING OE.
nanTioN.. , •The New Albany (Ind.) Bulletin
has an interesting account of an operation per
formed by Dr. Sloan, of New Albany, upon the
eyes of the Rev. N. Hdakins, of Crawford Co.
la., who had been blind from birth: The Bul
letin says :
Mr. Hoskins was taken home to Crawfirrd
County before the bandages were removed, and
,when this was done, we are informed by a gen
tleman residing in that neighborhood, that the
operation was found to be eminently successful.
He describes the emotions of the patient
when suddenly possessed bf a sense net novel to
him, to be of the most enthusiastic description.
Things which he had long been acquainted with
through the medium of the Other senses, became
of a dew and surpassing beauty— , an roads
which he had been used .to • travel fearlessly
when blind, had to be again• learned. .His wife
and children, whom he had neve, wen, his friends
and parishoners, his home, Ovary thing endow
ed to him, became an unending sOUrce of delight
and new born gratification. He had the same
confused notions of distaiwe which we see the
smallest children manifest, and took the liveli
est pleasure in beholdin the great variety of
colors. In short, he wi t s corripelled to learn to
eee, in precisely the same manner that the
smallest child does',. and to him it was an oceu
pation'of the most gratifying nature.,
MATRIMONIAL.--" My dear, said an af
feetionate spouse to her husband, am 1
not your only treasure 1" "0 yes," was
the cool reply, "and 1 would willingly
lay it up in heaven." Whit an insinu
sting wretch.
For the Journal.
"THAT SAME OLD COON: ,
That" same old coon" observing that the Glob, • ' .•
is disposed togive him a kick , while he has bee& Tlta th e rxerinen of Pennslbranier
quietly singing bat same old tune to himself, In view of the appleath . l. t betweeti
has made ur7 . hi; Mind that altho' it is the Globe
that is about to fire at him ,he Thant cdme
down." Whatever a a little Walker Whig"
ore' Big Walker" may sayer do, I don't care
—but i want the Globe to Iteep his shot gun
out of my range. I have been. "sitting On a
rail," watching the fight, and just drop down
now to hold a leg a minute while the people
jerk the akin off from your neighbor.
The Globe has devoting etibugh Cif his
paper to Col. Cornyn, to have made room • for
that list, you asked it to publish, a half dozen
times, if it is no longer than I think it is.—The
Globe wants to know what the Whigs think of
Col. Cornyn's vote on the amendment of thi
Constitution. It iii very. anxious. Wait till
the election and the Whigs will take occasion to
speak so that you con hear. The election of
Judges will be the law bf thd land Mr. Globe—
and so will the election of Prosecuting Attor
neys—even though Shank And the Globe oppo
sed the one and Col. Cornyn d d vote against the
other. The State Conventions of both parties
have said so in regard to the former if I am not
mistaken; and this winter the Legislature will
Pay so of the latter I think. But what is your
fret about Col. Cornyn's vote 1 You .have not
told the people, that your candidate, Mr. Duff
is in favor of it; and no man of either party
with a grain of sense will have any idea he is
from your course; and as for Mr. Job—if he
is in favor of it you dare not vote for him ; and
you know it ? and I know it, and the people
know it, aid Job himself, (unless he is a
bigger dance than I take him to be) 'knows
it. • So. you see we all know it. Don't worry
yourself any more about. Cornyn's vote until
you tell us how Mr. Duff feels on that subject.
I'he people of old Huntingddn have watched
your course Mr. Globe, as well as I have, and
they can see that you are barking loudly on a
cold track, to make some one think the game is
started; and it wont
. do. You will find in the
end that you have neither deceived the Whigs
of this county, nor have you treed thot
51 SAME OLD COON"
State Election—The Obligation to
Vote.
In one week from this day the electors of
Pennsylvania will be called upon to discharge
one of the highest of earthly duties—that of no
ting for State and County officers. Every man
entitled to a vote should feel that he has com
mitted to his care a great legacy—a share in the
political and moral and social welfare of the
whole community—in the right to vote, and for
the exercise of which he is responsible to the
community and to his God. It is not dnly his
privilege, but it is his duty- , and this convic
tion should sink deep into hie rdind=we Say it
is his duty to vote at every election, and td vote
conscientiously and with a feeling Of keniiine
patriotism, seeking fdr the highest Odd of the
government and rill interested in its success.—
This drily arises from men's relations and res
ponsibilities to each other in a government like
ours, and from the vast importance attached to
a single vote. Cromwell was elected to the
British Parliament by a majority of one vote
over his opponent, and that vote coat Charles
1. his head, and established Cromwell at the
head of the Commonwealth. , Quo vpte in this
Country has Often been Potential in determining
measures vitally important, and in establishing
the character of the Magistracy. The resrlon
sibility.is not merely attached to the act of vo
ting, but to the right to vote, and if a weak and
wicked man is elected to office 1,3 a gddd Man
withholding his vote, he is responsible for the
vote thus withheld, and for the evils thus re
sulting from it: We take the btoad ground that
the.man whd refuses to exercise the right of
Voting has no valid claim upon the protectitin of
a government which is the creature of popular
suffrage, and whose usefulness and stability can
only be preserved by an intelligent and patrio
tic exercise of that right. It id the dilly of ev
ery man to sustain the form of Government un
dot *Rich he lives; and a man has no more ,
right to ask his neighbor to do his voting, than
he has to reqtriretliat neighbor to sow his seed
and gather his crops, dr perform any other duty
which properly devolves upon himself.,
A few, a very few, more rising and setting
suns will come and go, when the &Byer voting
and all its responsibilities will return to the
people of Pennsylvania; and we most heartily
wish that every Whig in the State would act
fully up to his duty on this occasion, and allow
no ordinary matter to keep him from the polls.
Every Whig in the State believes that the es
sential interests of Pennsylvania will be pro
moted by the election of a Whig Canal Commis
sioner, and so believing they should put fcrth
the, utmost or their power to secure this result;
and they may do this now in the cdrindent hope
that if the full Whig strength is brought out--
if the active eicisfing elements against locofoco
ism are concentrated—HENßY M. FULLER will
undoubtedly be elected. •
There is then a prsitive practical advantage
to be hoped for, which should urge all td re
newed activity and zeal. We ean elect our can
didate if wn make the effort.' Shall we not do
it 1- , LancaSter Union.•
c rux-Totty — rs — Aiitiy
Are yoU in favor of RETRENCU
MENT AND REFORM in the tnanage
ment of the public works'! Remember
that the present Loco-foco members, of
the Board of Canal Commissioners de
manded of the last Legislature the enor
mous sum of THIRTEEN HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS the present
year, to be expended upon them--a sum
unprecedented in the history of the
favoritism, peculation and plunder that
has continually, marked their adminis
tration by the Loco-loco Canal Commis
signers. Remember, too, that in the
person of HENRY M. FULLER you
have a man who is both capable and
honest, possessing the. highest confi
dence of all acquainted .with him, no
matter of what party, for the qualities
requisite in him to arrest the system of
CORRUPTION and PLUNDER, that
non, disgraces the State, and robs the
pockets of the honest TAX—PAYER 1!
To )3olls i then, ye whose pockets are
made to sustain this monstrous system
of FRAUD, and vote far HENRY M.
FULPR, the open advocate of RE
TRENCHMENT and REFORM, who
if elected will save HUNDREDS OF
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS annually
to the State. Awake, then, arouse, brush
off the dew-drops; go to work, and see
that every man opposed to the plunder 1 '
and robbery system is„ brought to the
polls on the, 2d Tuesday of October, to
vote for PULLER AN!? RRFORd.—
Pennsylvania Telegraph.
It
is said that the pay of the Atuitriau gob
diers is but four cents a day.
VIDEFAS I IFM
the friends and opponents of the present State .
Administration, and the policy recommended
and pursued respectiv.ely by them in 'reference
tb the affairs of the Commonwealth, the Whig
Slate Central Con•hittee invite attention to the
itolloWing statement of
FACTS FOR THE PEORE,
IT IS A FACT, that the locofoco party; for
a number of years, have had the entire control
of the administration of the State government,
of the finances of the State, and of the public
improvements.
IT IS A FACT, that during this period tho
intefest On The State debt wee paid in deprecia
ted paper; the credit of the State was prostra:
ted ; the stocks of the Commonwealth were
greatly below a par value; the revenues were
insufficient to pay the interest of the debt and,
maintain the public works.
IT IS A FACT, that large amounts of mon;
ey were borrowed to pay the semi-annual inter;
est, and that a floating debt, aloe. the line of
our public works, of six hundred thousand dol
lars had &cumulated for years, and remained
dnpaid.
IT IS A FACT, that laborers, material men,
and men *he had sustained damage along the
improtiments- - -men who could not be denied
their honest claims without sorely feeling the
loss—men whose famishing families were cry; A
ing to them for bread, h'sd remained unpaid for
years, and their petitions for relief had been dis;
regarded.
IT IS A FACT, that the people, while they
paid into the treasury the taxes deemed neces
sary to the support of the public credit, were
fearfully discouraged at the prospect before them
—heavy burthens, crippled and insufficient re
sources, and domestic debts unpaid,—and they
despaired of seeing, in their day and generation
any change for the better.
IT IS A FACT, that the party then in poui
er Made no attempts to reduce the burthens of
the people by the only available mode, the pay
ment of the public debt, and the citizens could
see in the future no relief from taxation.
IT IS A FACT, that those laborers and ma
terial men upon the public works, who were%
fortunate enough to receive from the locofoco
sUperintendants the reward of their toil, were
paid in worthless notes,- , s-torn, defaced, and de
preciated in valite,notes width Were kept in
circulation against the terms of their original
issue, which required their redemption years
ago.
- IT IS A FACT, that as soon as the Whig
Administration came into power, the Locofoco
party, from one end of the State to the other,
commenced an unprincipled outcry against it,
becduse it did not pay the debts along the line
of internal improvements, and because the poor
laborers remained unrewarded,—debts which
that party had contracted and concealed,—labor
ers who had suffered the pangs of want for debts
due them for months, it not years, under loco
loco administration.
These are FACTS, which the records ST the
State and the experience of the people will fol
ly sustain. Look on the reverse of the picture
—for there is a second chapter of facts to fol
low 1
IT IS A FACT, that the Whig Governor,
William F. Johnston, was inaugurated in the
month of January last, having received the lar
gest vote ever polled in Pennsylvania, and that
since then, he has had the Administration of the
Executive branch of the government under his
euntrol.
IT 15 A FACT, that before as well as since
hie inauguration, the public press of the lotofo
co party have assailed him, his recommenda
tiOns, and his public acts, with a ferocity which
ccintenmed public sentiment, disregarded the
expression of the public will, and which, defy
ing truth and shame, denounced his administra
tion as ruinous to the interests of the peop`4.
IT IS A FACT, nevertheless, that under his
administration of public affairs, within thu short
(period of nine months, the interest of the pub
lic debt has been paid in a sound, convertible
currency, without borrowing, and without the
cost of a cent in exchanges, thereby saving to
the people thousands of dollars.
IT Is A FACT; that, within this period, the
flouting debt of six hundred thousand dollars,
created by the locofoco party, and by them suf
fered to accumulate for years, has been princi
pally paid, and tesdurces are in the Treasury to
meet every dollar Of the debt which has been
brought to the notice of the Whig administri
tiort,_
IT IS A FACT, that the workmen, material
men arid men who' have sustained damage along
the lines of Canal and Railroad in the State,
have either been paid, Or the payments have
been delayed by superintendents on the acid
work.
IT IS A FACT, that of those torn, defaced
and depreciated notes, with which thelocolocos
paid the laborers on the public works, $327,837,-
00,—being nearly two-thirds of the wholee--
have been withdrawn fromeirculation, and their
places supplied with a sound and safe currency.
IT IS A FACT, that one hundred and thir
teen thodsand five hundred dollars of the frmd
ed debt have been paid, and one hundred thou
'sand doilars more will be paid before the first
day of February next; and that a sinking fund
has been established, which, under proper man.
age'ment and the continuance of the judicious
system pursued by the existing administration,
will secure the payment of ten million of dol
lars of the said debt—or one fourth of the en
tire debt: di the Commonwealth—within this
next six years.
IT IS A FACT, that after every known claim
which can be legally made upon the Teaenry
shall have been paid, (except the funded debt of
the Commonwealth) Mg:ludic% the interest pay
able on the first of February next, there will
remain in the Treasury an unappropriated bal
ance of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
which may with propriety and justice be
directed towards the completion of the Nortir
Branch Canal.
IT IS A FACT, that dhring the next year,
the revenues of the State will meet every ordi
nary expenditure ; will pay of the public debt
from three to five hundred thousand dollars, and
will leave an unappropriated balance of five
hundred thoiisand ddllars in the Treasury, to be
directed towards the completion of the North
Branch Cahal.
IT IS A FACT, that the credit of the State
it.restored,her stocks have risen in value,—.
the people have become encourr.ged, and tile
future is full of confident hope and rational ex: ,
pectation
And finally IT IS A. FACT, that all this
happy elate of things, so different from what has
been heretofore known in Pennsylvania, has
been brought about during the brief period , arlien
the interests of the State have been entrusted
to the handa of a Whig administration.
By the Committee,
MORTON McMICHAL, (Chairman.]
Dam:HT.—After a most severe drought, We
have at length been visited by a most refresh
ing rain. It commenced raining on Sunday
morning last, and has 'continued with but short
intermissions, up to the preeeniwribng, (Mon
day noon.)We never knew a rain More needed,
or more grnerally.n•ishcd for.
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