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117 “Original" poetry, from the pen of a
friend, shall appear in our next.
CM" "Boss" Westbrook is again supplied with
a new stock of Boots and shoes. See card.
Ca — The indisposition of the editor hus pre
vented him from giving much attention to this
paper.
MILN WOOD ACADEII Y .-The summer session of
this nourishing young institution, will commence
on the 23d inst. The Messrs. M*Giasas deserve
great praise for the energetic manner in which
they have thus far conducted this Academy.
132"' Those of our citizens who want anything
in the Book and Stationary line, should give H.
W. Saivu a call. His assortment is quite good,
and his prices moderate. By the way, he also
keeps elegant segars and chewing tobacco, which
we can recommend to those who are addicted to
the use of the weed.
The Court.
There wits not much criminal business before
our Court last week. Several cases were made
up after the parties came to town. An indict
ment against the Engineers of the Penn''e. Rail.
road for obstructing the highway between this
place and Petersburg, was tried,. end a verdict
of not guilty, but the defendants to pay the costa,
rendered. This case excited a good deal of in
terest, and wasegneci with zeal and considera
ble warmth by the counsel on both ;ides.
The report of the viewers in favor of a free
bridge across the Juniata opposite Montgomery
street, in this borough, was not acted on by the
Grand Jury, in consequence of a re-view having
been petitioned for.
The civil suits on the list for the first week
were all continued by the parties, and the Jury
was discharged on Friday morning.
Infamous tufairness.
It will be seen, by reference toour Harrisburg
letter, that the Locofocos in the House, with
their characteristic unfairness, refused to print
Gov. Johnston's Message Vetoing their iniqui
tous Apportionment Bill. They dared not let
that document go before the People of the State,
a very large proportion of whom they had base
ly attempted to DISFRANCHISE! A more
unequal, unjust, and tyrannical Bill was never
before attempted tobe passed by any party. It
was a high-handed attempt to d.rprive a free peo
ple of the right of Representation, unparalleled
in the political history of this or any other State.
The Message of Gov. Johnston is an able and
truthful exposition of the deformities of the bill,
and the attempt to rob a portion of our citizens
of their cherished rights. In refusing to print
the Message, the Locofocos have exhibited their
usual dishonesty and unfairness.
The Gerrymander Vetoed.
In another column will be bound the message
of Gov. Jonsstos, vetoing the Apportionment
Bill recently passed by the Locofoco majority
at Harrisburg. The iniquitous features of the
bill are so clearly set forth by the Governor,
that it is unnecessary to serapitulate them. All
agree that the bill was a most infamous gerry
mander. We have heard democrats express
their surprise that such a bill was ever passed.
Gov. Johnston has fulfilled public expectation
by his course, and we hope he will treat every
bill of a similar character in the same way.
Read the Mrssage.
A Poor Creature.
The Carlisle Herald says that Speaker Feat
of the Senate, after sitting like a criminal in the
pillory through the winter, until locofoeoism
beslimed him all over with its rotten egg
vituperation and filth, has at last gone back,
like the dog to its vomit," and acted with
that party in passing the infamous apportion
ment bill I The iniquitous work in which his
party was engaged was too tempting an occasion
for hint to miss the opportunity of having a
shore in it!
Liberty County.
A bill erecting a new county out of parts of
Bedford, with the above title passed the House
on the 2d inst. On Friday last it was taken up
on second reading in Senate, the name changed
to 44 Fulton " and passed. When this project
was first started, two townships, Springfield
sad Dublin, in thin county, were included with.
in its boundaries. We do not know whether they
are included in the ball as passed the !louse.
From Washington.
The Slavery question is still under discussion
in both Houses. The Census bill has passed
the Senate and been sent to the House.
Rumors are afloat that a change in the Cabinet
will soon take place. We are inclined to think
there may be some ground for these rumors.
Mr. Campbell, Clerk of the House of Repre
sentatives, is very dangerously ill. The last
despatch states that he has been given up by
his physicians.
117 - Mr. Lawrence, our Minister in London,
writes to the American Institute, in relation to
the proposed Industrial Exhibition of all Nations
next year, invitin; Us co operation.
The Kidnapping Case.
The case of the Commonwealth vs. Jonathan
Little and others, was settled by the mum] up
on both sides; and as the ease has excited some
interest, we give the facts, as we have learned
them, to the public. -
The lion. ALBERT CoNsTsist.a, appointed as
Counsel for Little, by the Governor of Mary
land, having learned on his arrival here, that an
indictment for Kidnapping was pending against
him in Center county, upon which a Bench war
rant had been issued, and was in the hands of
the Sheriff' of Huntingdon county; and that an
other warrant for the apprehension of Little had
been issued in Mifflin county - , upon a similar
charge, both of which were ready to be served
on him whenever he appeared in this county,
and also that other cases would be commenced
against him, if he were arrested and taken to
Bellefonte ; it was an object of the first impor
tance to avoid, if possible, the trial here, by
which bin appearance in Court would be dis
pensed with, and thus his arrest on the other
process avoided. This was accomplished on
terms entirely satisfactory. The records of
Maryland were here to prove Finley (the negro)
a slave; the sons of his mistress were here who
knew him, and had authorized Little to take
him ; every thing requisite to prove the negro a
slave, and conseqttently Litaeinnorent upon the
indictment. Upon these grounds the prosecu
tton seas abandoned.
This settlement not only acquits Little, which
was the only object of the mission of Mr. Con
stable, but avoids the necessity of procuring
bail in both Center and Mifflin counties, upon
similar charges, which of course would have in
volved the same attention on the part of the
State of Maryland, one of them having already
been tried there and disposed of, and likewise
have multiplied expenses ter a heavy amount.
The rounty was indemnified from costs by the
settlement, which would have come out of the
Treasury, whether Little had been convicted or
acquitted. Little was virtually acquitted, and
avoided arrest and imprisonment upon process
from adjoining counties, and returns to his fam
ily, which we are assured is large, and entirely
dependent upon his labor for support.
We trust this settlement of a vexed question
which, under existing circumstances, needs no
agitation to increase excitement upon it, may be
the precursor of a better state of feeling among
the citizens of adjoining States ) whose interests
are so intimately blended.
What $lOO,OOO May Do.
The Montpelier ( Vt.) Journal, in alluding to
the proposed Cotton Factory in Albany, says:
A capital of $lOO,OOO is to give direct labor
to 200 people. On the average, each one of
those per.ons will support at least one more—as.
wife or child ; and so this moderate amount of
capital is to add .100 to the population of Albany;
Nor is this all to have a population of 400,
buildings must be had—to build and furnish
these houses and clothe the inmates, mechanics
must be had ; to feed them, doctors, teachers,
lawyers and—so forth and so on; all adding
still more to the population and the business of
the place where such a factory is located."
It is this cumulative influence of domestic
manufactures, says a cotemporary, which gives
them their national importance. There are
hundreds of thriving cities and villages in this
country which owe their existence to manufac
tures. Is it not better for the country that our
people should contribute to the support of these
localities, and the hundreds of thousands who
inhabit them, than that they should support a like
number of towns and operatives in foreign
countries T An honest answer to this question
is all that is required to secure an admission of
the wisdom and utility of the Whig doctrine of
protection.
Adjourn.
There is a universal desire among the People
that the Legislature should adjourn. The whole
winter has been spent in doing worse than noth
ing, and it is row high time that the members
should leave the Capitol. We never knew a
Legislature in such bad odor with the People
as the present. Both branches has a Locotoco
majority, and yet notwithstanding all their pro
fessions, corporations have fared better than
ever before. Private legislation, indeed, has
occupied the attention of the members during
the whole session.
Tus PMINsrENANIA RA ILROAD.•-•-lt will be
gratifying to the friends of the Pennsylvania
Railroad'to learn, says the Daily News, that the
passenger traffic alone has already exceeded the
estimate.. The income on that portion of the
work which is open for use, during the last ten
days, exceeds $10,000; being over $l,OOO per
day; with every prospect of an immense in
crease-, when the connection with the inclined
plane at Hollidaysburg is completed. We un
derstand It is in contemplation to open the read
to Huntingdon in the course of a few weeks,
which will not only add to the receipts, but
shorten the time some hours.
Tue Cuot.sas.—Tim cholera is prevailing to
a considerable extent in New Orleans, and the
board of health have issued a proclamation urg
ing upon the citizens caution in dress and diet,
although the.disease has not yet assumed an ep
idemic character. The whole number of inter
ments in the various cementaries for the week
ending the 23d ult., was 221. of which 119 were
from cholera. The number of deaths from
cholera on the 26th was ten.
U 7 For several weeks past we have neglected
to notice the new and beautiful dress of the
Dail : is News. It is now a truly handsome as
well as most spiritedly conducted sheet, and
we sincerely hope that the Whigs both in city
and country may ex;eral to it a liberal support.
We are pleased to see that the business men of
the city are giving the News a pretty liberal
advertising patronage.
7 In addition to Canal Commissioners, we
have to elect next fall an Auditor General and a
Surveyor General. The nomination of candi.
dates for these offices will devolve upon the
Convention which is to assemble at Phillidelpli'a
in June. It is important, t:.erefore, that the
fact should be borne iu mind by the people.
Letter from Harrisburg.
The Apportionment Bill.—Gov. Johnston's Veto
Message.—Disgraeeptl conduct of the Loco
Poros.—Thrersts to adjourn without passing
an Appropriation Bill.—The Treasury Inves
tigation.—Pree and Toll Bridges, 4.e.
HARRISBERO, A PRIL 12, 1850,
Dena COl,-You have, I suppose, wondered
why I have not more faithfully fulfilled my con
tract to write you weekly, a letter. There is
no use in wondering; I could not do i., and that
is answer enough, just now.
Since my last, we have had brave times here.
Plenty to do, and nobody doing it. The Bank
Bill was moulded first into one shape, and then
another, and finally, when the Senate and House
disagreed, it was referred to a committee of con
ference. What kind of a thing they will bring
forth, it is hard to guess—even if they ever agree,
which is very doubtful. Should they agree, I
think it exceedingly questionable whether their
report will be adopted.
.
An Apportionment Bill was also passed, ns
your readers very well know, by one of the Best
speculations of the season. What became of
that Bill, and what it was like, is now n part of
the written history of Pennsylvania. Governor
JouNsroN Vetoed it, and sent it back with such
an expose of its hideous features, and shapeless
deformities, ns really frightened its fathers into
fits. They had not seen until then what a
monster they had created—and the Veto struck
them dumb. Not one man in either House, had
courage to open his mouth in defence of the bill
—thus tacitly admitting their own knavery in
passing such a bill. True, they all recorded
, their votes in the House FOR the bill, after it was
returned • but then their fears got the better of
them, anti they refused to print one ropy of the
Veto in the House ! They dared not let the peo
ple see the INFAMOUS CHEAT (which they had,
under their solemn oaths pronounced fair and
honest) exposed to the public. Some of them
have gone so far as to say that they passed the
bill "only to try Bill Johnston!" I should like
to have such men tell ma whether they think
the Veto of the Governor will wipe offthe stain,
or blot from the record their disregarded oaths.
Disregarded ! would not VIOLATED be a better
word
Now the fight has commenced again—every
Locofoco playing the game of ~l o.rry," with
out even a pair. They say that they will not
pass ally appropriation bill ! Well 1 be it so!
the yew Whigs in office can live as long without
the public funds as Timm myriads of leeches
along the public works. And they must remem
ber that Jesse Miller lays all the responsibility
of bad legislation, this year, 1117011 the "Demo
crats," (as he calls them) in the House. They
are now at work at the rate of ose DOLLAR AND
A DALY A DAY i and some are uncharitable enough
to say, that that is am PAY for weir services—
they say too, that they will keep the Whigs here
until they get such an Apportionment as they
want. I hope the Whigs will just let them KEEP
them as long as they please; and any Whig who
will vote to have their daily pay increased to
'runts DOLLARS while they stay, I trust will be
remembered by his constituents. The Locos
want the Tit. DOLLARS, yet have not courage
;to try and get it. They want the Whigs to start
'it, and they will help. One dollar and fifty cents
a day, and buy their own roast beef, is enough
for them, after they have wasted seventy-five
days out of the hundred. They are also threat
ening that the next Apportionment Bill they
send to the Governor, shall be no better than
the first—and that they will not agree as to
wiles they will adjourn, until the Bill has been
ten days in the Governor's hands. Very well,
who cares. They may bluster and threaten till
they are hoarse. They may try him again, and
, if conscience does not
"Make cowards of them all,"
they may try their oaths again. Gov. Jolts
sTos has proved that he will preserve our good
old Commonwealth from their unholy hands ;
and he will not tarnish his fair name by permit
ting himself to be dragooned into their disgrace
ful wishes, by their bullying, or stubborn kna
very. _ .
The Treasury Investigating Committee are
still at work, semi oreaqiunally. Mr. Bs, has
opened his artillery upon them, and shown by the
Books, that the Canal Commissioners have sys
tematically labored to cripple the Treasury, at
and before the times for the payment of the State
interest—and by their drafts for the public works
sought to exhaust the State funds, at those times,
so that the Treasurer could not pay the interest.
Mr. Ball has beer compelled, in June and Jan
uary, to pay thousands upon thousands of dollars
on Canal Commissioners drafts, more than any
State Treasurer that has preceded him. Yet
with that energy . and ability which has charac
terized his administration, he met their demands,
and paid the interest also—aye, and paid in spe
cie. Mr. Ball has literally annihilated their
charges ; and that graceless committee seem now
only anxious to drag out their labors until it is
too late to make a report; thus expecting that
the matter will sink into forgetfulness.
The Montour county question is still in the
svvint., and whether it will finally be safely
cast on the shore, or engulphed in the whirlpool
of polities, is uncertain.
The
ria. , :soss`urge,l for the passage of the di
vorce cases, have not been numerous or watunTv
enough. It is not yet certain whether the right
lind of arguments will be advanced to secure
their passage..
- -
Your TOLL and Fare %inns: question has
been again agitated, and as I understand, Toll
Bridges came out ahead. Wm. F. Packer, Drum
and Cunningham, in the Senate, and J. m. Por
.ter and Wm. A. Smith, in the House, begging
of the Legislature not to rob the widows and or
phans of their little all, which was invested in
that Bridge, by taking from them their exclusive
privileges; whilst Messrs. King and Cornyn
took strong ground in favor of Free Bridges.—
The merits of the question I suppose the people
of your county understand, and will know how
to appreciate the conduct of all concerned. It
is snid a very heavy "outside" influence was at
work for “Toi.r. Ermines." Wne•r and woo,
I do sot know.
The, e is one thin g I wish the people of this
State to observe and understand. All the Loco
Foccr papers, or nearly all of them, are filled
with attacks upon Gov. Johnston for Vetoing,
the Apportionment Bill. Yet many of them ad
mit the Bill was a bad one. They burthen the
air with their howls of inconsistency against
him; yet with &kind of infamous unfairness pc.
culiar to themselves, they have not published
that 'Message, that their readers may know
whether the Governor has violated any of his
pledges. They dare not let their readers have
that unassailable Message in their hands, for it,
proves that oaths to support the Constitution,
taken by their partizans, are mere matters of
form. PHILO.
137 - We have not received the North American
for more than ten days. If we have been struck
from the exchange list of that paper, we shall
have something to say on the subject hereafter.
rrFor a few Jays past we have had weather
that would do no discredit to January and Feb
ruary. Cold north-westers, accompanied with
snlw storms, has been the order of the day.
A CHOP At THE On. Lows TREE , —The Ohio
Senate has passed a bill to abolish the punish.'
went of Death.
VOICE OF OLD HUNTINGDON.
"{Whig County Hotting.
A public meeting of the Whiga of Huntingdon
county was held at the Court House, on Tues.
day evening, the Bth inst., in pursuance of a call
of the County Committee.
The meeting was organized by the appoint
ment of the following officers:
President,
GEORGE HUDSON, of Clay township.
, ['ire Prfsidene,,
A. STEEL, of West; CnnisTY, of POrter
Dn.ts, of Penn; Z. PIIISASA NT, of Union.
Seeretarict, •
Wm. B. &nom,. and Gaoiwn SMITH
On motion of D. Bt.sin, Esq., the following
named gentlemen were appointed a committee
to prepare and report resolutions expressive of
the sense of the meeting :
D. Blair, Esq., S. M. Green, Benj. Lease,
John Steever, Caleb Swoope.
During the absence of the Committee, the
meeting was very ably and eloquently addressed
by JOHN Bno•rueiwion, Esq., of Blair county,
whose remarks were listened to with great in
terest, and responded to with enthusiasm.
On motion, War. H. Psiournt. was appoint
ed Representative Delegate to the Whig State
Convention, to be held in the city of Philadel
phia on the 19th of June next, to nominete a
candidate for Canal Commissioner.
On motion, Cot. JOHN &revue was appointed
a Conferee, to meet Conferees from the other
counties in this Senatorial district. to appoint a
Senatorial Delegate to the State Convention.
D. Ban in, Esq., Chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, submitted the following report,
which was read and unanimously adopted :
The Whigs of Huntingdon county, in Conven
tion met, as an expression of their sentiment,
pass and publish the following Resolves:
First.—That notwithstanding the clouds and
storms which have lowered in the political ho
rizon, since the meeting of the present Congress
of the United States, our confidence in the sta
bility of the Union remains unshaken, and our
attachment to it, with all its glorious memories
of the past and rich promises for the future, is
unchanged and unabated.
Second.--That the Constitution of the United
States.us it is, without infringement or amend
ment, in letter or spirit, demands and should re
ceive the allegiance of every American heart.
Third.—That California, with her free Con
stitution, the workmanship of her own hands,
should be admitted into the Union at once—the
youngest and brightest daughter of the Republic,
decked in her robes of glittering gold.
Fourth.—That Gen. ZACHARY TAYLOR,
our Whig President, merits anti should receive
the confidence and support of every Whig in the
land, whether in Congress, or in the ranks of
the people.
Fifth.—That his special Message to Congress,
called his Califerni, Message, while it corn
promits no principle either of liberty or sover- '
eignty, lays down the broad and true ground in'
regard to Slavery and the Territories—leaving
to the people of the Territories to determine for
themselves this vexed and excitin g question.
Sixth.—That the administration of WM. F.
.TOHNSTON, our Whig Governor, has been
eminently successful and papular,and commands
alike the confidence and admiration of the great
mass of the people of the whole State.
.
Seventh.—That his late Message on the sub
ject of Slavery, is an honor to his head and heart,
and an honor to the State of Pennsylvan'a, whose
character and conduct he so nobly vindicates.—'
The sentiments of that Message. we heartily en
dorse and adopt as the sentiment of this meeting
on that subject.
Eighth.—=Chat for the. infbrmation of our Sen
ator and Representative at Harrisburg, we here
by declare our opposition to the proposed repeal
of the Act of 3il'March, 1817, entitled "An Act
to prevent Xhlnapping," &c., believing as we
do that that law, based as it is, upon a decision
lot the Supreme roust of the United States, has
made the soil of Pennsylvania what it ought to
be, and what we trust it ever will continue to
be, free soil.
Ninth.—That the letter lately writtetr by
Queen Victoria's Minister at Washington, Sir
Henry L. Bulwer, to the Secretary of State of
the United States, objecting and protesting on
behalf of Her Majesty's Government, against
any increase of duties by the Government of the
U. S. on British Iron an I Coal, ought t convince
every.rensonablernan, be he Whig or Democrat,
that the Tariff of ISM favors BRITISH IN-.
TERESTS;—and presents this simple and im
portant question to every Laboring man, Me
chanic, and Manufacturer in the United State.
Which will ye support, VICTORIA REGINA,
her Government and Minister, and the Tariff of
1846; or Gen. TAYLOR, the recommendations
of his annual Message for an INCREASE OF
DUTIES, and for a change from the ad valorem
to specific duties
T . enth.—That the A pportionment Bill recent
ly passed by the Locofoco members of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives of Pennsylva
nia, is, in most of its provisions, UNEQUAL,
UNJUST,T and TYRANNICAL—giving to some
counties and districts of the Staten much greater
representation than they ore entitled to, because
thee are Locofoco in their politics, and disfran
chising other districts and counties because they
are Whig. The whole bill is a daring attempt
to defraud a large portion of our fellow-citizens
out of their most cherished rights—the elective
franchise; and we trust Gov. Joussrox will
Veto the bill, and rescue the ballot box from the
wicked schemes of designing and corrupt dema
gogues.
Eleventh.—That the state of the Pttlilic Works
in Pennsylvania calls loudly for a change, and
demands the election of a Canal Commission•,r
who, instead of turning P'lu'nderer and Specula
tor, will faithfully attend to the interests of the
Commonwealth.
On motion, Re's/red, That the proceedings of
this meeting be published in the "Huntingdon
Journal," and the other Whig papers in this
Representative and Senatorial district.
More Legislation in favor of Toll
Midge.
The following amendment has been passed by
the Legislature, at the solicitation of the Stock
holders of the Toll Bridge :
in That nothing contained in the 17th section
of an act authorizing the Governor to incorporate
ft• company over the Junhtta river at a point near
Granny's liipples ' shall be held to authorize the
erection of a free bridge within one mile of any
incorporated bridge, the structure of which may
have been partially destroyed by flood or fire,
and which shall have been rebuilt or repaired
within fifteen years last past."
The bridge at this place having been rdpaired
within the period mentioned, it would not now
be lawful to construct a free bridge within one
mile of it.
Our Harrisburg correspondent gives the
names of the Senators nod members who favored
this measure and the arguments used by them.
07 — Henry Clay was 73 years old on Friday
last, the If.ttit of April.
The Issue in Pennsylvania.
Rut a few years ago the Locofoco leaders in
this State professed to be the exclusive champ
ions of the Protective Policy. We were then
told by their orators mid journals that "it was
a Democratic Congress that passed the tariff act
of 1816, of 1826, of 1828, and of 1832 ;_ that it
was by Democratic votes that the tariff act of
1812 was pared, and that it was a Democratic
It of Representatives which refused in 1814
to disturb the tariffof 1812."• Such was the
language used by the Locofoco leaders in the
ever memorable campaign of 18.11 ; and when
they were assailed by the Whigs for their
hypocrisy, they referred to the recorded votes
onthe passage of former tariff acts, and impudent
ly exclaimed : " Can you misrepresent the
Democratic party and their candidates -in the
face of all these filets? " It was in consequence
of this system of tactica, disgraceful add dis
honest as all candid men now tutst admit, that
they succeeded in wresting the electoral vote of
Pennsylvania from Henry Clay, the tried and
ever faithful champion of her industrial interests.
And how did their subsequent acts accord with
professions thus lavishly made during the con
test '1
No sooner had they succeeded in electing Polk
and Dallas, and in securing n Locofoco majority
in Congress, than they gave the lie to their
professions and proved to the world the fraud
they had practised npon the confiding people of
Pennsylvania. James K. Polk was in due time
installed into office, and one of his first nets as
President was to recommend the repeal of the
tariff of 1812, to the support of which his
friends, in this state had pledged him. Southern
democracy forbid its continuance, anti northern
democracy bowed to the behest in the most ser
vile submission. The Locofoco majority in
Congress, heeded the presidentiul recommenda
tion, and brought into existence the tariff of
1816, which after having first been forwarded
I to the British cabinet, and received its approval,
was enacted into a law.—Free trade from
thenceforth became the popular cry of the Loco
foco leaders ' and notwithstanding their solemn
pledges to the people in 1814, they now endorse
and eulogise the tariff of 1816, and tell us that
in !t we have the extent of the protection which
the Locofoco party is willing to afford to Ameri
can industry. They are now willing that the
mechanics and laborers of our own country shall
lie made to rely upon their own energy and
skill for protection against the ruinous competi
tion of those in Europe who labor for ten pence
or a shilling a day.
In all future political contests in this state,
and more especially in next fall's canvass for
Congress, there can therefore be no such con
troversy between the two great political parties
which existed in this state in 1841. There can
be and will be no dispute as to which of them
belongs the credit of sustaining the doctrine of
protecting Home Industry, and to which of them
belongs the honor, if it lie an honor, of favoring
British interests instead of ourown. The Whigs
will be found where they have ever been—on
the side of American workshops and American
Industry. The Locofo,os will sustain the tariff
of 1846, which discriminates in favour of British
workshop, against our own, and the repeal of
which, we have been officially informed by Sir
Henry L. Bulwer, the British minister, would
produce a very elleagrerable rim 071 in; Mr °yin
ion in England."
Such will be the issue next lull in Pennsyl
vania. It is a plain one, end easily to be under
stood, Whigs prepare for it in good time. A
certain victory awaits you.
Valentine Best.
We are not at all surprised by the vote ol
Valentine Best, the Speaker of the Senate, in
favor of the Locofoco bill , ggerrymandering"the
State to perpetuate their power. Best is a Lo
cofoco, but to secure and disgrace an office which
has heretofore been considered honorable, and
to put a paltry hundred dollars in his pocket, he
deserted his party and consented to be the des
pised tool of an opposition. We happened to be
present when he was elected Speaker by hjs
own vote. Like a sheep.killing dog he sneaked
into the chair and read a prepared address of
about two minutes in length, of which tie ap
peared himself to be ashamed. When his vote
was announced his party hissed him, even in
the Senate hall, and but few Whigs present dis
graced themselves by expressing signs of ap
proval.—Fran n Intelligences.
We happened' to•be in the Senate at the same
time, and fully concur with friend fish, of the
Intelhgencer, in the above.
SLAVERY IN Tim D urr OF
National Intelligence,. notes the fact that a very
prominent topic of the resolutions, addresses,
&c., addressed to the•people of the South, du•
ring the agitation of the past few months, has
been the probability 'of the immediate abolition
of Slavery within the District of Columbia, and
remarks that that event has never, in our day,
appeared to be more distant than during the past
twelve months. Certainly at no session of Con
gress for many years, have so few memorials
from the North been presented, asking for legis
lation by Congress to that effect.
LAST MOMENTS or Ma. CA LllOll,-Mr.
Calhoun exhibited as much firmness in his death
as in his life. Mr. C. was never heard to com
plain of his illness or the prospect of a close of
his career, while yet in possession of mental
vigor. In reply to a remark of a friend upon this
subject, Mr. Calhoun I desire nothing
contrary to the constitution of Wore." His cmin
tenance in death was serene, majestic and life
like.
Clg — The Locofocos and Free Sutlers have uni
ted in a call for a Convention in New York, to
nominate a State Ticket. The same party that
refuses to "pander to the Free Soil feeling," is
merely going into the same Convention with
the Free Soilers, in the most powerful State in
the Union ! Consistent Locofocoism !
7 The York Republican says, there is not
a Furnace in operation in York county. Codo
rus, Margaretta, Woodstock, York and Manor
are all blown out, and no talk of putting them
in blast again, according to our information.—
The thing has come to a dead stand. Such are
the withering effects of the Tariff of 18.16!
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TimNASßvrLr.a CONVENTION. -The- Ports-
mouth, Va., Whig says that a call was made
on the Bth inst. for the people of Nansemond
t o meet for the purpose of electing delegates to
the Nashville Convention. When the hour ar
rived for the meeting to assemble, riot a single
person attended I
Homes Tran EXEMPTION NEW TOOK.-A
bill exempting a man's homestead, to the value
of $lOOO, from sale on execution, has passed
both houses of the New York legislature and
been signed by the Governor.
PAY or Om CEIM IN ORRGON.-The army of
ficers stationed in Oregon, have petitioned Con
gress for an increase of pay, in consequence of
the high prices of everything in that territory,
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The Pittsburg Laimirer4asitization •
A letter dated Pittsburg, .14th ult., gives the
following account of the proceedings latterly of
the iron paddlers, etc.,
A Working=men's Congress is tto'assemble s in
this city on the third Monday in April, The de.
sign of this gathering is to effect a ntitdi among .
workingmen of all branches, so that they :nay
start an Institute, get a lecture room, librarydke.
The paddlers have two associations already
organized. '
and the members are at work. One
is located in Sharon, Mercer county, with a
capital of $lOO,OOO. file largest sum held by
one man is $5,000. There are sixty stock
holders, all working men. Each man has one
vote, and no more.
The other association is here—about three
miles up the Allegheny. The capital is only
$30,000, but the members have refused more.
The lending man wantsto invest a * feu+ thousands
in addition, but the company will not let him.
A third is organizing, to be located in Stuben.
Ville, Ohio. A fourth is preparing to start on
the Allegheny, about four miles up. So much
for the paddlers.
The engine builders are preparing for an or
ganiiation, with a capital of $ 2 0,00 0 .
The shoemakers have opened their books for
a joint stock company.
The moulders have purchased ground in Alle
gheny city, to build a Union Foundry upon.
The silver platers have been in operation with
a joint stock company for abo.ut.a year.
There are two gloss establishments belong
ing
to working men, but 1 unoW eery little
about them.
tailors intend doing someti . liiiif ston.
The printers applied to the legislature for a
charter for a joint stock company, but the com
mittee reported against it twice. It will not al
ways he so.
A bricklayer told us yesterday that he was
engaged In getting up a company of journeymen
to work for themselves. So vt;ergo.
MIACDEU.—A most brutal murder
was perpetrated on Sunday night last, near the
Jefferson Barracks. Yesterday morning. infor
mation was lodged with the guard, that the body
of a man called Stephens had been found in the
woods, near the barracks, stabbed and mangled
in u shocking manner. Officer William J. Wil
liamson immediately started in pursnit of the
perpetrator, and was not long in overhauling
man much bedaubed with blood, who, on being
interrogated, after a good deal of evasion, fin
ished by acknowledging, in the most brutal man
ner, that be had committed the murder. He
was taken to the police office and searched,
when $B2 in gold and $2 in silver were fouhd
about him. His shirt he had turned with the
bosom to the back, so as to conceal the blood.
It seems he had carried the body some distance
in the Woods, after the perpetration of the crime.
Ile registered his name at the police office as
John Careless.—St. Louis Int. 2d inst.,
Bg' - 'flie reward of $3,000, offered by the
family of Dr. Parkman, has been paid to Little
field, the Janitor of the Medical College, wile
discovered the remains in Professor Webster's
apartment.
FATHER MATimw.—Up to April the•tth Fath
er Mathew ha•d administered the temperance
pledge to upwards of 6000 persons in New Or
leans.
THE MARKETS.
PITILA.LTHIA, April 12, 1850
The Floor market is quiet. Small sales at $5
per barrel for standard shipping brands. For
city consumption, sales of common and extra
brands Pennsylvania at $5 to $5 25, and extra
New York brands at $5 75 a $0 50
RYE F1.01711-The last sale was at $2 81 0
Coax MEAL is generally held at $2 62i per
barrel.
GRAIN-There is but little IVireaT uttering.
Sales of good and prime Red, In store, at $1 07
a 81 09, part for starch making, and White ut
$1 11 per bushel, now held at $1 15.
Coas continues in good demand, and several
lots of Yellow sold at 55 cents, afloat.
OATS are scarce and in demand. Sales of
Pennsylvania at 33 cents per bushel, which is
in advance.
WHISKEY is held at 22 cents in lihds., and 23
cents in barrels.
DIED.
At the residence of his uncle, Canoe Crerk
Blair County, DAvto P. LI., aged 24 years ,
On Monday the Bth inst., MARTHA, infant
daughter of Francis B. and Amelia Wa Pace,
aged 8 months and 8 days.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Dissolution of Partnership. —
. The Copartnership heretoforecx isting 1 etwcen
the undersigned, under the firm of Irvine and
Marks; eras dissolved on March sth, by mutua I
consent:
JNO. IRVINE.
JOHN J. Al
Petersburg. 461 151 h, 1850. 3t.
l'he Books of the late firm will be left in the
hands of John Irvine, who will continue the
business at the Old land."
_I4(VINE & MARKS,
BIILNWOOD ACADEMY.
A Boarding School for Young Meth
, -
SHADE GAP, HUNTINGDON CO. P
Rev. J. Y. .2lPGinnes, A. 111., and J. H. :It,
Ginnes, A. M. Prineipala„
The Summer ;session will commenee on the'
23d of April, and continue five months. The
cow.se of instruction embraces all the branches
necesaary to prepare young men, either for tlto
higher classes in College, or for the studies; of a'
profession and the active businees of life. The
Academy building it new, commodious, and in
every way adapted to the accommodation of a
large number of boarders, The location is distin
guished for its healthfulness and rho moral and
religious character of the surrounding communi
ty. It ix easy orIICMP, being on the stage route•
connecting Chanibersburg with the Central Hail ,
Road at Drake's Ferry,
1 PIO 14.s;;ox:—For Orthography,.
Reading and Writing, $5 ittrillimetie,Geogra,
phy, Grammar, Composition, Natural. Philoaol
phy, Astronomy, Physiology, Chemistry, die:,
$8 ; Mathematics, Greek and Latin languages,.
$l2; French and German each. $5. Bearding,.
exclusive of fuel and light,sl,2s per week.
For reference or further F articulare address
JAME . tiI Y. WGINNIS
shaile Gap, April 16, 1850.
LOSS IN THE FIELD AGAIN:
iodic's and Gentlemen,
I hove just returned from the City, end brought ,
large esaoriment of
2300T13 AND 1:1130E13
of all kinds, of the best quality. Ladies' and
Gentlemen's Gaiters, and, Children's do. Sum
mer Hat., Etc. &c. Please call and see for your
selves. I will sell low for cash.
Arrir 16, 1850,-31, 1 "
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