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111/NrINGDON, TUESDAY,MAILCII 12; 1850,
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Q3' No change in the Markets since Out !Mt
Ct," Our thanks are du! 11011%1'. St.:Si:Ns for
several copies of his erukittent and scathing
speech, on the subject of Slavery.
Also, to Hon. V. 13Es - r, KING and c'ouNtx, of
the Pa. Legislature for favors froni Hafrisburg.
Mr. Stevens' Speech.
A correct and full report of the recent speech
of Hon. T. STavrcvs, will be found on our first
page. No comment from us is needed to in
sure for it a general perusal.
Spring Election.
The election for boroligh and fdwuship , offr
•er.v, and officers of the general election, takes
place throughout this county, on Friday !text
(13th inst.) We hope our Whig friends will
not neglect their duty on the occasion. The
Locofncos never fail to attend to these small
elections. Let the friends of Tari.oa and louts
stay see that the proper kind of Judges, Inspec
tors and Assessors are elected.
The British Tiriff.
Bin H;NRY stLwoa, British Minister it
Washington, sent a letter the other day to Mr.
Clayton, pro wet' ng agairisf tiny change of the
Tariff of 1816, as any arldit;Mad attics wisahl
weigh heavily upon BRITISH irroditctions !"
Yet this is the Tariff that is sa highly applaud
ed by American Locofoccis ! Which is the
British party in this country 1 Doubtless Sir
Henry Bulwer would decide in favor of the Lo
colt:mos, as they go for British interests while
the Whip want Americhn interests protected.
The President caused the letter to be sent in
to the Senate, and Mr. Cooper, Whig Senator
from this State, promptly and properly denoun
ced the British Minister for his attempt at in
terfering in the domestic poiicf &f this country.
CONGRESS%
The Slavery discussion still ienfinues in both
Houses without abatement. Mr. Calhoun has
spoken, and as usual goes for nothing but Sta.
Very and the South. From reading his speech
we would infer that he , considers nothing will
pave the country but dis3o/ution. Foote, of
Miss., took exception to Mr. Calhoun's speech,
and declared that he would not acknowledge him 1 1
as hie leader. This looks encouraging.
In the House, on the Bth inst., STANLEY, of
North Carolina, the gallant Whig whose rote
!laved the Taritbill of 1912, made a speech for
the Union, and denounced the Southern mem
bers who have •been tlireatnitig dissolution.
Among other patriotic expresskona in reply to
an interro,otary, Mr. Stanley said :
H Wilmot Proviso or no WilMot Proviso, the
geo . plee North' Carolina war stand by the
On the 7th, DANIEL Warty= arldressall the
Senate. His speech Is considered the most
powerful of the Session. We hate duly room
to briefly allude to it. After going into an his
tot ical consideration of the institution of Slave
ry, Mr. Webster alluded to its introduction in,.
to this country, and of the opposition to it by
the Colonists. In the early days of th Rephb
lic it was regarded as a serious political Ohl by
both the North and South ; and the ordinance
of 1761, prohibiting Slavery in the Northwest
Territory (a southern measure,) showed that
this Anti-Slavery feeling was not confined to
any particular sect:on of the country. Since
that time, slavery was regarded with more fa
ear by the South; and this change of sentiment
Mr. Webster attributed to the vast increase in
cotton raising in that section of the Union. In
regard to the Wilmot Proviso, he viewed it as
a senseless abstraction when applied to Terri
tories where the law of nature had erected im
passable barriers to the introduction of Slavery,
aad should vote against it regardless of legisla-
Cos la:rations. He bilisved It to be the
duty of the North to gin, proper aid in the cap
tore and delivery of fugitive slaves, and would
support Mr. Mason's bil', which had that object
in view. He elosed his speech by dwelling on
the value and blessings of the Union.
A favorable adjustment of the whole Slavery
question, is now confidently anticipated.
Justice of the Peat&
It is it common opinion that Ore office
of u "Justice of the Peace" is unimpor
tant, because its administration it fatten.
Jed with no pomp and display, and it
must be admitted, too frequently with
out regard to the dignity of the office et
officer. It is true there is no lower ju
dicial office within the gift of the people,
and none which affects smaller legal
rights, but for this very reason it is one
in which all are most deeply interest
ed.
Nine-tenths of the disputes which the
courts are called upon to decide are
about trifling matters, and nirre-tenths
of the disputants are poor. They seek
redress from the Magistrate, who is in
vested with all the power of both Judge
nod Jury so far as his jurisdiction ex
ends. He is judge of both law and fact,
and it is therefore necessary that he
should be not only well acquainted with
the letter and spirit of the Law, but that
he rhonld possess the integrity to adinin
_stet it huno.tly.
Letter from Harrisburg.
Correspondence of the Ifuntingdon journal,
h . /autism:ma, Afifteh 1, 1950
DE. COL-You have. I doubt not, frequent
ly heard it asserted with great confidence, that
" this it a great
.ebteatTyl 3 . 4 IL is a fact, and of
course we grow great men—some great Dem ,
octets, end' large nurnber who arc reellygreat
Locolbros men. who are always talking about
the rights f the dear people:Hthe rich oppress
ing note., &c., &c. But your experience has
doubtless long since taught you that these pro
fessions are only intended Mr election times,
and are always falsified by the official conduct
!of these demagogues.
We have had a recent anal novel exhibitioe b 1
this in the Lower House. Mt. Leijd, ao riren
tee/ Loco Foco, reported a general bunking law,
and last Friday jt was called up. The ad sec
tion
provides that <, so pe,vou who Ittes.ever.
Ca
kerr the 66,41 of . any bankri , pt law or lobo Iran'
ever piled in. Arm aeSx, ,ball be eligible to the
"floe of Pro:admit, Cashier, director, teller or
Clerk mail hie debts ace paid." Arid when
under eisciission every frill blooded Loco boldly
rimed upon the House the adciption of this in
t...tons provision prdvision which really
nets as a partial attainder of thonsands of peer,
honest, intelligent and vain:dile citizen!! ! The
imul.whese kindness of heart, or whose losses
by fire or flood has hurried him under a hope
less burthen of debts, which no toil, no priva
tion; 170 life of labor snd economy can ever re
move, Mt matter how honest, or hew capable,
he is Metter. precluded from being employed
under this hill !
Here yeti have an exhibition of locofoco love
for the podr men, with a vengeance ! A few
democrats had sense enough to see the effect,
and voted with the Whigs to strike out the vile
eristocratic proviso
_by which poor men were
sought to be disgraced for the crime of not be
ing as fortunate as their wealthy neighbors.
The State Treasury committee, are still at
work. The mountain antlers more than Ord ins.
ry pangs in her labor., and fears are now enter
tained that the product will be less eien than a
mouse. From what I call train, the origina
tors are becoming heartily f:ted of it. They
have examined Other Oitnesses, and have clear
-
le proved that Mr. Ball neverrefuse,' to pay a
((raft without ..i.good reason. It is admitted now
I belieie by all hands, that Norris did sell to
the Pa: Road, a better engine for a less price,
and yesterday in a letter to the Senate gave as
a reason, that they were to get one of their
manufacture, as a kind of "slcoteead." 01'
'course your readers will understand, for it “is as
Clear as mud" why they Were not affected by
the same reason 'in their sale to the State--the
State Road terminating at that eb.teere little vil
lage in the eastern part of the State called Phil
adelphia, while their " shore card," would be
displayed at that great cdmmercial and mercan
tile Mart, MeVeytditn, Eihd be examined by the
crows, as they, and it flew up the valley of the
Juniata, What a shallow excuse. The next
best thing that has taken place in this connex
ion, is the story 'that Col. English the Superin
tendent on the Coluinbia Road, and who is clear
ly playing into Norris' hand, and who con
tracted with them for the engines at this enor
mous price, has been showing Hu written ion
tract, to prove that the price . paid was accord
ing to the contract—ergo, was not too mach I
This is truly laughable; and therein he has
shown thet, he made the contract at an enor
moils price, and in raritieg, so that if -possible
the State must nay whatever amount he saw fit
to write. If the contract bail been made, by
parol, without any price specified, Norris could
never have recovered more than a fair price,
and that would be tested by what he sold to
others for: Thus you see Col. English's ',roof
proves the very reverse of what he intended it
should. Many of the Supervisors are here now
as witnesses, enjoying themselves at the ex
pense of the State, tt Who's aleard of the ex
pense"—the State pays the piper.
The Bank Bill, to which I have before anti- .
dad, dragging its slow length along., in the
tower House—a crude and thing.
As usual there are several foreign divorce
eases, to he disposed of at the expense of our
honest fax payers. They have not got fairly in
to the olarZet. They will, of course soon be
ready td show out and it bids -fair fdr an active
Spring truth,
The Bill for the erection of a Poor Heuee ire
Huntingdon county has passed the lower House
in mkt' a shrift°, as to leave it to the citizens to
decide hy'ballot at next election; whether it
shall be carried into effect. Though business is
now beginning to crowd the files, .d all ere .ve
ry anxious
,to bring up their bills in which they
are interested, yet this bill, long as it was, arid
of course more difficult to get, and keep, under
way, was by the tact and talent of your 'mem
ber, passed through all its reedinge:
your county is fortunate in her Avrestptative.
liminisnuan, March 8, 1850.
Cot,—Long as my letters have been, I
see tharyou have given them all to your read
ers. Weld, I am gratified, truly, that prosy as
(hey are, you think they are worth printing.
This letter writing is now reduced to system
by those who follow it. A little of the news
of the day— , some speculation. -.11 little growling
and a little praise and the letter is ready for
market. I gm riot exactly akc fait, but having
promised to' keep you tip with affairs here this
winter, I must write in my own homely old
fashioned, straight forward style.
You know this Varrisburg well. It is Oa
place during the Legislative sessions. Here
you see every body, and heat every thing. Thus
far this year there has been rid special, interest
; ing and exciting topic, if I except the fight of
ale factions of Loco Foroism, that is a fight
"as is a fi,, ,, ht." Jesse Miller in the Keystone
poets 00 . the skin of Cameron and his Iriende.
Simon say, point up," Miller says " wigge
waggle,. and ti ys hard to make Simon "point
down." Jesse to reach Simon says he had a
brother James who ca:Mmitted themost unheard
of frauds when on the Ra;.l ,Boad,-signifies that
SITTiOiI veai a partner 'in the plunder, and wants
lallto beware of the whole tribe. Simon who is
up to trap, beats Jesse at his own game, and
One of the journals says Jesse must be either a
knave or a fool, and it fluky be that he is both,
Nor is the fight confined solely to the ques
tion 6f who shall be Canal Commissioner. It
widens itself Into the Onbernatiffrial• and Pres'.
tint candidates. Miller in hie Keystone, is ma- !
kin; a bed for Juilge Longstreth to sleep quiet-1
ly tucking him op"—while he hills him
to sleep With the gentle song that he shall be
the next candidate Air Governor. While others
say that Lo'ngetreth has been dead mbre than a
year, and if Miller had not kept him " in ice",
he would have long aiis'ce stunk in the nbtrtrils
of every party !dying democrat. _Meter has
been here trying to pave his way. He IT too
anxious—or [lithe, he aliotai, too much ue.riety.
Ile pretends to run a line hf his owndispi
sing factions, and cliques, anti relying upon the
people ; this must lay him on the shelf, Per the
Whole crowd of candidates will go in for head
ing him. Judge Black is the most prominent
now. If not ruined by the folly of such friends
as the Chapman of the Bedford Gazette, he is
in a fair way. Wm. P. Packer is on the look
oirt ; every art of his evinces his putpores.
Shrewd, he tries to he sure of the popular side
of a question, end then be is betel end active . .
He understands the chip traps of polities better
than any of Chem and I doubt not will bern the
way 'eine , now mere candidates.
They need not quarrel ! the people will tell
them that they du not require any of their ser
vices, if 1 tristake not.
The Tesasur, inJestigating cominittes. have
felted from their labors during the pact week.
Its father, BeaUrriont, is sill, quite sir t, unable
to be in his seat ; and as I have said before sick
a the spec/do/ion, and world I think gladly be
rid of it. All parties seem to unite in saying it
Is an outrage,
on a faithful public servant.
The Bank Bill has at last been passed throttgh
the lower house , . after , having undergone many
imaradments. The Bill is. too long to pretend
to give yob an abstract of its several sections;
and as it is yet to pass throUgh the hand§ of the
Senate, there is a great probability that • it will
be much changed.' I shall therefore only giie
you one section and you and your Tehittts can
judge from that us to the prOhable amount of wis
dom Ehe whole thing contains. Several of its
sections enumerates many tilts which shall be
deemed misdemeanors and provides punishment
accordingly. The 10th section declares that
the insolvency of .y bank shall be deemed
fraudulent, and makes it ihcbmbent 'upon the
detectors to « repel by prbilf the pretumption of
frastii,"• thin Changing a well established and
humane principle of law—that fraud shall never
be prevtinted, but that the party alledging it
shall first prone it;
Under this law, every Rank difector; during
the anspension of the. Banks iu 1E47, and ds
would have boon hold a fraudulent man, and
would have been compelled to prove what was
the cause of suspension ' or be sent to a felons
cell. If this law had b een in force then, the
prisons would have needed enlarginvzthe proof
of pu d ic would never have saved one of the of
ficers from conviction.
I have not read the bill, but I am told that it
provides that the rerftbratiott itself be sent
to the l'enitentiary, upon a certain state of facts.
If this is s . b, see shall see some fun when the
law is enforced. To see the Sheriff of a county
hiking a corporation to jail would be funny; for
Of course it means the buildings and the char
ier.and She officers and Stockholders, coMeetivety.
The Senate on. Monday, passed a law in fact
permittir.g the Seventh day Baptists, to labor on
the Sabbath day I In other words they have
taken one step in the path of infidel France ;
when Robespierre and his kindred fiends, tram
pled truth and virtue under foot, and dyed with
hunian gore the streets of Paris. At the re
quest of a few citizens, and for their, especial
purpose the Sabbath is abolished—for them.
The House has been engaged during the week
(at times) discussing the Apportionment Bill,
and the indications are that the bill as reported
by a majority of the committee (Loco) will
with some sheht amendments pass that body,
but I trust will never be sanctioned by the Sen
ate. Every Whig should, by a consistent op
position, acting in concert, oppose this n bill
of abominations.". Selfish political hopes—
personal ends to be attained—a desire to be
wise and charitable beyond the age—and un
fledged folly; are occasionally displayed by
some of the oyeratorA upon' this bill. The end
cannot now be foretold.
The weather for a week was balmy as May,'
but on last Sunday, the snow fell rapidly for
several hours and clad our hits and fields in gar
ments of white, and Monday, though , pleasant
was too cold to melt it, and Winter - seemed to
hare paid us a visit.
Our :own is reasonably full.of strangeri, new
county borers, &c., &c. On Monday tive.aflicers
of the U. S. Army passed through here, stopping
at your friend's, that prince of hotel keepers,
Col. Coverly's, on their way to Carlisle, to try
by Court Martial some refractory officers, I'
cant say who. By the bye one word as to Cov
erly's. Send your friends there if they want to
find all right ' . He has introduced quite a new
era, in that business' in Harrisburg. His •is
emphatically the Haase of the place. Nothing
is left undone to make every body comfortable
and at home. The crowd that is with hurl tells ,
better than I can how successful ho is in plea
siug.
,On Friday we had a fierce blustering wind all
day. No other damage, as I have learned was"
done,, than the unroofing of a part of the New.
Asylum for the insane poor. An Institution,
permit me here to say, that when finished will .
reflect g reat credit upon our State, and shmild .
receive from our Legislature its continued foster
ing care.
By the by, you know that Capital Hill is one
of the most winds places on the earth--espe
cially during the session of the Legislature, much
of it however is very harmless, if you except
the the time lost in listnir.g to its roar or in steep
produced by its soft, and drowsy induerice. '
The Governor on Wednesday nominated for
the advice and consent of the Senate, the tollOw-
Mg persons to be A.v.toriate Judges
William Watigh, of Mercer eonnly
Chas. T. Wirtb, of Lawrence county.
Jas. Harrison, of Union county.
Levi. G. Nicholas, of Tioga county.
Benj. F. Pomroy, of Schuylkill county,
These nominations were all confirmed in the
Senate an Thursday.
I see you say your usual lettet failed you last
week. That is truly strange. FO I mailed it
bare on Friday, in time for that days mail. My
letters are always mailed ou that day and why
it should fail is beyond my Iva. _ .
New Bank Bill.
A Bank Bill has passed the House at 1-larris•
burg, by a vote of $` to :17. The objectionable
features of the bill are the follow;: among
gross absurdities of a less prominent character.
The forbidding all banks, heteafter chartered,
to iesne notes of a denomination lase . than $lO,
while all the surrounding states issue notes of
$5 00 and less. New York, New Jersey, Ohio
end Maryland, all issue small notes; and as
currency is like water, wherever a vacum is
produced, the circulation from the surrounding
States will rush in to fill the place, 'while the
law strives, by penalties and jails to shut it out.
The imposing upon banks for paying out the
notes of other States, of a denomination not less
than len dollars, and upon individuals, commit
ting the sow 0/duce, a fine; not less than fifty
deflate, and imprisonment, not more than three
months. The authorizing theissoe of notes to
three time the amount of the capital, without
any adequate security for their redemption, ex
cept the fear of the jail and other penalties of
the propositions, made by Whigs
were voted down, among which was a proposi
tions providing for the depositing with the And-.
i'or General of State or United States stock to
the amount of the capital of the Bank, as se
curity for the redemption of the notes. This'
is the plan by which New York Bunk nolea are
made safe, but Yennsylvania locofecolsur uppo
, ses it !
Vie Union Safe.
Stanley, of North Carolina, said i his
recent speech, that if the people ever intended
to dissolve the Union, they would not du it al
to reading the •peecliei of . .. Messrs Calhoun and
Hilifarit !
Flank Roads--their Unity and Profit.
BY MINGO,
Thiel is, emphatically, an age of wonders. The
lightning which etrahles us to, communicate in
telligence from one. extremity.kil.the Union to
the other, with the velocity of thought, wits but
two or three Years Since only seen flashing in
the storm doted, yet the genius of a }Morse hes
subdued it and mane it subservient td bib will,
waist now a little nu may ditect its course!
The invention of to-day encntes our astonish
ment; and the language of admiration has
scarcely escaped oft lips, ere some other im;
movement is heralded forth, and we are filled
with amazement at its wondeifttl creation;
yet
on the nihrrOvv, as it were, we are startled and
our previous conceptions are eclipsed, by-the
announcement of some wonderful invention
which places the author—finite nian--almo'si on
the same pedestal with his Creator
Among the lesser and more simple contrivan
ces to facilitate travelling, and the carrying of
our products, the Plank Road certainly occu
pies a prominent position. Although not of re
cent origin, yet it has only been within the last
few years that their practicability has been fairly
tested in the United States. ,'Fhe results have
proved satisfactory in an eminent degree. So
nitich so fhat it is nod rendered certain that un
def many circumstances they are superior to
the railroad, and that they can compete success
fully with it in the carrying of freight; besides
presenting this advantage, under all circumstan
ces, over both railroads and canals, to the Fer
nier—they are Public Highways—on which he
can transport his own. produce by his own
team. And as a bill has just passed our Leg
islature, incorporating a Company to construct
such a road from this place to McAleavy's Fort,
any information or. the subject possess a pecus
liar importance at this time to those who take
an interest in the project. 1 have therefore dc.
voted some leisure to the collection of filets in
relat:on to their mode of construction, probable
cost, &c., all of which I respectfully submit,
believing that it will not prove unecceptable to
your numerous readers. For this information,
I am mainly indebted to a work recently issued
in New York, entitled a Gillespie on Roads"—
extracts from which have been published in, the
various papers of the day.
That the construction of this contemplated
road would add greatly to the prosperity and
business of Huntingdon, none can doubt. Vi'hilst
it is not just so clear to my mind that the stock
holders would be blessed with handsome divi- 1
deeds, yet I firmly belieVe that the borough, in
its corporate capacity, might construct the
whole of this road and be largely the gainer
thereby in the end. I think this , proposition
is susceptible of the clearest proof, and I shall
endeavor to make it manifest at another time.
It is natural for a man to doubt that which he
does not fully compiehend ; and it is prudent in
She capitalist not to invest his funds in a pro
ject until he weighs well every contingency
tie may operate against its success, and has an
assurance based on reasonable grounds, that his
'investment will render him an adeqnute return
for his risks. No man can be censored for using
these precautions; Lot the fool' who rails at
everything his feeble intellect cannot unde. at: n',
should be treated with contempt; and the man
who possesses the means of aiding an enter
prise which has for its object the public good,
yet whose bad heart prompts Wm to withhold
that aid, It et some individuals, whom envy
makes him hate, should be benefited thereby—
ought to be branded as a traitor to his home, and
an enemy of the general prosperity.
Plank Roads were , introduced into Canada in
1834 by the Governor G,neral, Lord SydetihssS,
who hail seen their utility in
,Russia. In the
United States, tire one from Syricese to Central
Square, N. Y., led the way. Being finished in
,IslB,.and its great surceits has already caused
,the construction of about Ave hundred miles in
various parts of the State, and the piojeetion of
twice as Many mote in if, arid in New Jersey,
Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, ste,
The most generally approved plan for taeir
construction, is as follows : Two parallel rows
pf timber are imbedded. in the road three or
four feet apart. Planks ' eight feet long and
three'or four inches thick, are placed on these
sills at right angles to their direction. The
ends of the plank are not laid evenly to a line,
but project three or four Inches, alternately, so
as to prevenf a rut front being formed by the
side Of the plank track, and to make it easier
for loaded wagons to get upon it ; as the wheels,
instead of scraping along the edge of the planks,
when crossing, towards the track obliquey.after
turning off, will; on coming, square against the
edge of one of these projecting planks, rite di
rectly upon it. A side trail; of earth to turn
Out upon must be carefully graded ; and deep
ditches must be ding on each side to insnre per
fect drainage ; and thus is formed a :dank road:
In laying out a road of this character, it is in
dispensable, in order to secure all the benefits
which can be derived from it, to avoid , or cut
down all steep ascents—a very short rise how
ever, of even considerable steepness, may be
allowed to remain to save expense; sine() a
horse can, for a 'short time, put forth extra
exertion to 'overcome such an increased re
sistance ; and the danger of slipping is avoided
by descending the earthen track. The . planks
having been properly laid, they should be cov
ered over one inch so thickness with very fine
: gravel or course sand.' The grit of the sand
soon penetrates into the grain of the wood and,
combines with the fibres, and the droppings np- '
ou the road to forth a hard and tough covering,
like felt, which greatly protects the wood from
the wheels and horses shoes. The motion on it
road of this kind has been compared to travel
ling on a track of well beaten snow.
rirn o
Inow procrel to give the costs of some of
the ro,ds now in °petition. The Syracuse and
Central Square plank road, sixteen miles, cost
81187 per Mile, with himber at $5,20 per M.
It has a sMgle 8 feet track, eleeept over a few
spots of yielding sand. The average number of
teams which passed °Vet this road the first two
years was 220 per day ! The gomeand Oswe
go road, sixty. twermiles, cost $BO,OOO, or about
SI3QO per mile, lumber costing from 4 to $5 per
M. It is of eight feet Hemlock planls three to
four inches thick, with grades cut down to 1
in 20. The Utica torthern road, 22 miles, cost
$lBOO per mile. A short roan rear Detroit, eight
feet wide, laid on a traveled roadway, cost - , with
lumber at $0 per M.,
$l5OO per mile. Twelve
years may safely be assumed as the average
minimum of durability of ail oak plank road ;
one set of sleepers will outlast two plankinz..e.
After it is completed it is estimated that $2O
per mile would be required the first year to re
store the grade -whale it had settled, to fasten
loose planks, &c. For the next years $lO per
mile. These loads have all been very profita
ble to the stockholders, and their average divi
dends declared reach nearly 25 per cent !
The' foregoing facts furnish a data which will
enable any person familiar with the geography
of the country through which the proposed road
passes to determine with reasonable accuracy,
whether it will offer sufficient inducements to
the capitalist to embark in the enterprise.--
More anon.
Huntingdon, March, 1850.
ID-The cholera broke out on board
the steamer belie, during her last trip
from New Orleans to Camden. When
she reached Monroe, eight of the pas
sengers had died ; of those who landed
there, thirteen havo since died.
Important from San Francisco.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 28,
The steamship Alabama has just nr
rived from Chagree, and I hasten to lay
her .news, which is highly , important,
before you.
Site brings sixtY4ive passengers, and
half a million of jo'l,l dust.'
She also brings ndvices from San
Ftnnelsto to the 15th January, being two
weeks Inter than our previous accounts.
'they Were received at Panama by the
stenbiship California.
The city of Sacramento has been
overflowed by water. l3iit few spotS of
land are visible, and the inhabitants are
suffering terribly from this dreadful and
unheard of calamity.
The loss by this tinlooked for visite;
lion is estimated at over rind Million of
dollars.
Immense lipids of cattle and other
property have been swept away. W' file
this great flood, however, destroys' a
great tied of property, it will wash out
the gold in immense quantities;
A party of Chilians had made hit at-
tack upon the Americans at the mines
in the vicinity of Stockton; in which
two of the assailed were killed, and the
others imprisdned through the hitter iiiere
afterwards released.
The ship Prince de Joinwille; attti
bdrque Homan, frt.tn Net' York, had
drrived at San Francisco.
Riot In Pittsburg by Femaleg.
RThe Pitt sbt.rg papers of Saturday con-'
ain accounts of a riot in that city on
'Friday by females. They Were mostly
the wives and friends of the boilers and
peddlers now on a strike, or the work,
men employed ?n the iron establish
ments in that city, Most of whom were
men from the east, and who were em
ployed after the strike, to the places of
those standing out. 7he Gazette says: -
They first attacked the Works of
Messrs. Graff, Lindsay & and took
forcible possession, driving the paddlers
and boilers before them like sheep. They
then gave vent to their spirits 4 throw
ing dirt, etc., into the furnaces, and suc
ceeded in spoiling several hundred del
lars worth of iro,t. They were follow
ed by a large crowd of men and boys,
who urged them on, and were evidently
prepared to defend theta against any re
sistance. The rioters next proceeded to
the works of Messrs. Shoenbergers, and
endeavored to play the same game there,
but the police managed to keep them
from entering. They walked around the
outside several times, whooping and yel
ling and throwing heavy missiles at the
workmen.
A dispatch to the Governor on Tues
day stated that the rioting continued,
and requested him to obtain permission
of (he Secretary of War to use the
United States Arms in the Arsenal in
that eity i to suppress it, in case it should
be necessary.
Tile Organization of Labor.
The intelligent and sturdy nr_elirmits
of, the West seem disposed to settle' fhis
perplexing•question in the most practi'-'
cal and satisfactory way. The Iron
moulders' association at Industry, near
Cincinnati, continues in successful oper
ation,
and another similar establishment
will be opened at a place celled Califor
nia, eight mites further up the 'Ohio, on
(the first of June;' and still another, at
goine.City making .ultogether over two'
hundred iron moulders regularly and
profitably employed on their own ac
count, and sharing among themselves
all the profits of their own labor. The'
iron moulders of Pittsburg are agitating
the same idea, and have already eornmen ,
ced taking steps to carry it into practice.
In• that city there are already two or
three glass establishments owned by the
workmen, and more are in embryo: The
tailors, shoemakers, cabinet makers and
hatters are also talking of similar er
ganizations. In Wheeling the nail cut
ters have a large establishment which
they own themselves, and which yields
them large profits. The paddlers and
boilers of . W heeling are also organizing
on an independant footing. In Philadel
phia the seamstresess and dress makers
carry on an eitensive establishtrient,
whirls furnishes a home and profitable
employment to a large number of girls
who, under theold system, could scarce
ly keep soul arid body together,
A new Idea.
The Pottsville Mining Register gives
the following us the latest wrinkle in the
way of transportation—a scheme that
will doubtless ruin the railroad and ca=
nal if it should ever be put in• co/ca
tkin e
"AI colisideratte stir is being mildest
this time about the new mode proposed
for transporting coal from Schuylkill
county to Philadelphia, by water, enclo
sed in cast iron tubes of wide diameter.
The full,. being :600 feet in 9 . 0 miles, is
considered sufficient, arid the cool being
less than one-third heavier thaw water,
it is thought that two-thirds Crater and
lone-third - coat Wilf be the right propor
tion. it is demonstrated that 18,000
tons can be passed daily through a sin
gle tube of three feet diameter, at a cost
of 25 cents per ton. This may give you
a smile. But less likely things have
succeeded, and capitalists are ready to
embruke in it if experiments, about to
•be made, prove successful."
ry A man named ROBACK, who has
become -somewhat notorious as an as
trologer and foryne-teller in Philadel
phia, has been .gatlty of obtaining mon
ey under htlse pretence from one of his
dupes. The Judge instructed the jury,
as facts were clearly proved, to find a
verdict of guilty, reserving the question,
if the offence was made out by the cir
,cumsqnces according to the form of the
estate, to be determined by a higher
court. Strange to say, this sy stem . of
imposing on the ignorant is extensively
pracjiued in this gity . , , where persrins
who should know better daily drinikult
charlatans, who ehould be inmates of •-tivz ,
wOrkhOtrse.
Register's Notice:
oTicE is hereby given to all per
-
p sons concerned, that the following
named persons have':settled their ac
dounts in the Register's. Office at Hunt
ingdon, and Alta! the said accounts will
be presented for confirmation and al
lowance; at the Orphans' Court, to be
held Tit Huntifigdon, in and for the coun
ty of Iruhlingdoti, 111 Wednesday, tho
10th day of April neat, to wit:
_ .
2. James Clark, Executor of the last
will and ti,strinierit df Elizabeth SheTr,
fate of ShKey tfiwnglilp, dec'd.
. JVIAn McCtilidClii administrator of
John Bannon; late of the Borough Of Pc.
tergbnra, (teed.,
3. William Porter, adminisrrator, de
honis non' of Cdrnelitis Davis, !at& of
Jackson toWnship, dec'd.
4. Jane Gregory, surviving exeenter
of the last kill and testament of k es
ley ,Gregory; late of IVeit
cletfd: . . .
. . .
_ .
0'; ' Mimi! 13. Leas & Samuel McVit•
fy,.aarrinistrators of Abraham Long; late
of sl►ir'ley. to*n'ship, dcc'd.
G. Thomas Fisher, Guardian of the
minor children of Jesse Johns, late of
Shirley tow . n.ship; dee'd.
7. John Atriguire, Guardian of the min
nor children pf George Hyle, late of the
Borough of Alexandria, dee'd.
8: John Runibarger, and Martin Hou•
set, adaiinisti'ators of John Runabarger,
lute of Warrior mark township, dec'd4
M. F. CAMPBELL, R,gi et 4
Register's Office,
Huntingdon, March. 12, ISM. .
FURNITURE SALE:,
Vendue will be held at the 116Yitle
of the undetsigned, in the boroligli
Hunting(lciti, pn
Tue,el ay, , Phalle 2O(& 1850,
commencing at 9 o'clock, A. M., at which'
be offered for sale her
• Personal ProPert3',
consisting of a large variety of valuable has,
hold and kitchen furniture, to specify which.is
deemed unnecessary. •
'Forms, liberal, and will be made knowri'on
morning of sale..
.1% , 1 A RGA RET 3100R1::,
siViarea 1850,
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE, —
Estate of WILLI.II.III WES TON laie
Henderson tn. Huntingdon county, dec'd,
MOTIGE: is.hereby given that Letters
LN Testamentary on said estate have been
granted to the undersigned. All persons in
debted to,said estate are requested to make im.
mediate payment and those having claims or de.
manila against the same to present them diny
authenticated far settlement to
THOS. FISHER.
Executor,
March 12, 185.0-61
• --_
AIMITOR'S' NOTICE.
rpHE undersigned having been appoint.
ed the Judges of Ihe Court of Cob ,
non Pleas of Huntingdon county, an Auditor to
distribute the proceeds arising front the 'sale of
the personal property of Frederidc Itlenninge,
will attend for that purpose.adhis office in flan- ,
tingdon on Friday the sth day of April ne,if at
2 o'clock P. M., where all persona interested
can at tend if they see proper.
JOHN SCOTT, Si':
Mardi
PROCIA 11ATIO
VR'EAS, try precept to me directed, do
ted at Huntingdon, the 19th day of Jan,
1850, under the hands and seals of the Hon.
George Taylor, President of the Court of
Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer and general
jail delivery of the 20th judicialdistriet of Penn ,
sylvania, composed of the counties of . Hunting ,
don, Mifflin and Union, and the Hons. James
°Will and John Stewart; his associates,. judges of
the county of Huntingdon, justices assigned, ap. ,
pointed to hear, try, and determine all and' dery
indictments and presentments, made or taken fur
or concerningo critnes,which by the laws of the
Commonwealth are made capital or feloriie" of
death and other ofiences,crimes and misdetneamirs,
which have been, or shall be committed or petpc
ttated within said county, or all persons who are
or shall hereafter be committed or perpetrated, for
crimes aforesaid, I am commanded to make pro.'
la motion throughout my whole bailiwick, that a
Court of Oyer and Terminer, Quarter Sessions
end Common Pleas, will be held at the Court
House, in the borough of Huntingdon, en the' 2r/
Monday (rind Slit day) of April 1850, end
arose who will prosecute the said prisoners, ho
then awl there to prosecute them as It shall be
just, and that ail justices of the peace, coroner
and constabtes within the said county, be then
and there kith* proper persons; at 10. o'clbck
A. M. of said day, with their reoords,inquisithlns,
eishrirrations and remembrance'', to do these
Ching& which to their office respectively appertain.
litrt77TEW CROWNOVER,Sheritf.
Orr.,
Match 12, 1850.
PROCL4AMTIOJV ' ':
I ge P a c n e i P m ‘ o t u o ;1 6 41 1 ! ' O7 t i o b e y ° ! n i n e
g n, bearing tut the 191 h Joy of
Vty o f i t
u E u
n i d l i g i 4 e n ti A o:f o .
Jan., A. D. 1850.1 am commanded to Make
public proclamation throughout my whole baili
wick that a Court of Common Pleas, will be held
at the Court House write borough otHuntingdbn,
in the county 00 Huntingdon, on the 94 Monday
(and 15th day) . of A prir A. D. 1850, for the
trial of aN recurs in fluid court, which remain en. determined befbre the said judges, when anti
where ell jurors, witnesses and sailor., in the
trial of shid issuee are requi trd. •
M./177HE W CRO. WNO if , Shetifi.,
3uintrr's Utttcu, 1.
Huntingdon, March, 12, 1850.