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HUNTINGDON, PA,
Thursday Morning, Feb. 13, ISSI.
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Church Dedication.
We are requested to say that the Presbyterian
new Church edifice at Alexandria, will be dedi
cated to the public worship of God, on Monday
the 17th inst., instead of the 23rd, as stated in our
last.
Cr See advertisements. A largo quantity of
real estate is offered for sale.
ta- We have nothing of interest from Wash.
ington during the past week.
'The proceedings of the Shirleysburg meet
ing, opposed to Shirley township or borough being
united to a proposed new county, shall appear
next week.
Wood ! Wood ! !
Those of our patrons who desire to pay in wood
will please bring us some immediately. If we
have to buy for cash we will have to demand cash
for our paper.
Poor House Directors.
It will be seen by the supplement to the Poor
House Law which we publish, and which has just
passed the Legislature and been signed by the
Governor, that Messrs. Jo ux Moniusox, of Shir
ley, A. K. Conxrx, of Huntingdon, and Jew;
S. IsErr, of Franklin, have been appointed Di
rectors of the Poor House until the next annual
election. The selection of these gentlemen we
think will give general satisfaction to the county.
They are all good men.
Postage Bill.
We have seen the amended Postage Bill as re
ported by the Committe of the Senate, and earnest
hope that it will not pass that body. That men
pretending to aim at equity, should require the ,
same postage on the Huntingdon Journal for three
orfive miles transmission its on a paper double its
size for perhaps three hundred miles transmission,
rather staggers us ; and we are surprised that grave
Senators seem to be so totally deficient in common
sense when thinking and acting on this subject.—
We shall be glad to see the yeas and nays on an
amendment allowing the free circulation of all pa
pers in the country in which they are printed.—
Come Senators, show your hands !
Altered from C3l. AleClure's spirited paper to
sail ourselves.
Appointments.
Greet dissatisfaction seems to exist among the
democracy in regard to many of the appointments
made by the Canal Board. In regard to the ap
pointments here, of Superintendent and Collec
tor, we hear no complaint. Although not of onr
political faith, we feel bound to say, that so far as
we have been able to observe, Superintendent
ANDERSON and Collector HARRISON, have been
efficient and faithful officers. But the murmur
ing of discontent is heard in various other quar
ters. The Hollidaysburg Standard is severe upon
the Board for appointing bad democrats and in
competent men.
We regrot that Mr. Traugh of the Standard has
lost his place, Cad cannot imagine how the Corn
gpigsimrs f o und a more deserving man than he
who publishes a Locoftwo paper in Blair county.
In speaking of the apointments, the Standard
says
"The appointments made by the Canal Com
missioners will be fou'sd in to-day's paper; and
all who are acquainted 0.;;h men and things in this
quarter, will agree that they k nresent a queer med
ley—a mixture of competent me.t and good dem
°crate, and those who are neither. The worst
thing we see about the compromise the: has evi
dently been made, is the evidence it atfok.ds that
qualification and faithful service are not the best
recommendation a man can have before the
Board. Influential friends, impudence, and per
sonal importunity appear to be much more efficient
auxiliaries.
That we are not in a good humor at our own sum
mary dismissal, we arc not going to deny. We
should have cared insaitOy about it if we had
been removed to make room for a more deserving
man or reliable democrat ; but to be overslaughed
by those who aro neither, is rather more than we
like to stand.
Census of Mifflin County.
The census returns of Mifflin county show a
population of 14,974
In 1840 13,092
Increase in ten years
The Gazette remarks:--" This is a small in
crease for a county like Mifflin, but when we take
into consideration the prostrated condition of our
iron works--not a single furnace being note in
not a matter of mach surprise. From
one to two thousand persons were formerly em
ployed in the manufacture of trim, nine-tenths of
whom have been driven to other pursuits, or
sought employment in neighbouring counties.
ei'The present number of Slaves in the Union
amounts to nearly three millions. In 1840 the
ameher was lost than too mill,ons ■nets half:
Correspondence o f the Huntingdon Journal.
Letter from Harrisburg.
HARRISBURG, Felt, 10 : 1851.
DEAR Cot..-1 observe in my last yon make a
slight error in the quotation from the State Treas
urer's Report. The title of sinking fund act,
at the end of the quotation, is no part of it, and
was intended to follow it after a dash (—) to show
what were the purposes indicated by its title,
' which the Treasurer said it would accomplish.
Nearly all the business that has been done in
both Houses daring the past week, except the
current orders of the day—reading bills in their
place—presenting petitions, &c., has been the dis
cussion upon the Tariff Resolutions. Some small
local bills of course have been perfected.
In the house the now member, Mr. Bonham,
consumed all the spare time of three days and
part of the fourth, in a long and labored, and,
withal, quite an ingenious speech upon the Tariff;
taking exclusive free trade ground, assuming as
the basis of all his arguments, that a Tariff was a
I tax on the consumer, and that all laws laying a
Tariff were legislation for the benefit of one class
of our citizens, consequently injuring and oppres
sing all others,—thus following in the foosteps of
" his illustrious" predecessor, Sir Robert Walker.
Of course he labored hard to prove that such is
the creed of the Democratic party, and called up
in strong array the great lights of the party who
have taken their stand for free trade, most promi
nent among whom he placed G. M. Dallas—and
as I heard his name I fancied I saw under his
feet the old banners of the party, "Polk, Dallas
and Shank, and the Tariff of 18.52." lle made
many of his own partisans tremble in their shoes
as they saw that the truth, as proclaimed by the
Whigs, was now being made apparent. For eight
years the Whigs have said that they were the free
trade party, and that the Tariff was a party ques
tion, while they have denied it—but the truth is
out; and it is to he hoped the people of Pennsyl
vania will rally around their true interests, and
prove that they love State and National prosperi
ty more than they do party success. It cannot be
that our farmers will ever be convinced that a
system which stops the manufactories and iron
establishments, and drives their tens of thousands
of hands into the field to raise their own wheat
and corn, will ever make a better market for their
produce. While they are in the furnaces, forges
and workshops, they buy and eat what the farmer
produces; drive them out and they will raise with
their own hands enough to eat, and to trade off
in their purchase of the necessary " groceries and
dry goods,"—of coarse this will make the supply
greater and the demand less. Our farmers will
not be duped any longer, or I miss my guess.
The party will make another struggle to throw
sand in the eyes of the voters. Part of them are
now taking sides with the friends of the Tariff;
but not effectively—they give it but a heartless
support, only just enough to appease its friends,
when in truth, they lend all their strength to sus
tain their party, its organization, and its triumphs,
knowing at the same time, that such triumph is
death to the Tariff.
Some of the cunning leaders will make speech
es in reply to Bonham, and, I doubt not, will be
quite severe on him, but it is all gammon.
In the Senate, after some discussion, Tariff)
resolutions were passed, though opposed by the
Simon Pures of Democracy. I do not know when
the truth of the old couplet,
A decent, well bred man,
Will not insult me, and uo other can,"
was more clearly exemplified than in the Senate
during this discussion. Ilugus, or, as he is fre
quently called, Hookas, made a fling at Judge
Myers, which his admirers considered a direct
insult. Judge Myers did not.
A supplement to your Poor House Law, has
been passed and signed by the Governor, appoint
ing John Morrison, John S. Isett and A. K. Cor
nyn, directors of the Poor House in your county,
with power to perform all the duties required of
directors specified in the fourth section of the act
to which this is a supplement, a majority of whom
shall constitute a quornaa—to enter upon their
ditties immediately upon the passage of the net,
and continue till their successors are elected, and
fixing the pay of the directors at two dollars per
day, when necessarily employed in the duties of
their office, to be paid by the county.
The signs of the times seem to indicate that the
Warwicks of our land—the President makers—
are beginning to pull the wires for their own par
ticular purposes. The people of Pennsylvania
have but one choice; and they owe it to them
selves, not to postpone an expression of that pre
ference until conclusions are fore-gone. The
name of General Winfield Scott is as familiar as
a household word to the quiet .d unsuspecting
citizens of Pennsylvania, and as they have always
elected our Presidents, they ought to speak early
and boldly, that the country may know, not only
what they wish, but what they are determined to
accomplish.
Your members, Smith and McCune, are highly
esteemed for their kindness of character, and ex
arrolary conduct. With none of the low tricks of
trade, they accomplish all their purposes by their
str i ct muotion to the business of legislation, and
the sound gCnd sense which marks all their ac
tions. Senator McMurtrie is winning his way
daily to the good N: . ill of his brother Senators,
determined to do right and submit to no wrong,
he is respected for his inte t ,:rity of purpose.
Our excellent Governor MO been quite sick,
confined to his bed and room ,Zr several days
since my last, with a billions attack, but it will be
gratifying to your readers to know tha: be is again
convalescent.
Your friends here, dear Colonel, regret a% coed
ingly to hear of your continued illness, and you
have the prayers of the good, and the best wishes
of all, fur your final recovery. The issues of life 1 1
and death are not in our hands. lle " who death
all things well," will, for Ilis own good pleasure,
direct each to the ultimate fulfillment of his dim ,
tinier. Yours, SMII{E.
1,882
erTnEnn has been no election of U. S. Sen
ators in either Maryland. Ohio or Massachusetts,
and it is more than likely that there will be no
election in the two named States this winter. In
Maryland a Locofoce is pretty certain to Ile cho
w,
Report ov the Tariff.
The following is the report of the Whig por
tion of the Committee to whom the Tariff Heat
lutions were referred, in the House of Represen
tatives at Harrisburg. It is highly Creditable to
the author, Mr. KILLINGICR, WS *ties the true
Pennsylvania ground. The report made by one
portion of the committee is radically Free Trade.
The people can therefore see, that so long as
Locofocoism reigns, there is no hope for protec
tion to their suffering interests. But to the re
port:—
The undersigned/ ti part of the Select ComMits
tee to which was referred "Joint Resolutions rela
tive to the Tariff," beg leave to report :
That they dissent from the principles laid down
and the conclusions arrived at, by other members
of the said committee. The majority see no cane
for complaint on account of the existing Tariff
laws ; they approve of the present adralorem sys
tem of levying the duties upon foreign imports,
and in effect, they contend against Congress mak
any changes in the aforesaid laws, by which the
coal, iron, and other industrial interests of Penn
sylvania, shall be effectually protected against for
eign competition and pauper labor.
The undersigned, on the other hand, unite most
cordially with that portion, of Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress from Pennsylvania, who
in obedience to the plain requirements of the pub
lic sentiment of the State, and her true and perma
nent interests, are now endeavoring to effect such
changes in the Tariff laws as will relieve, us and
the country at large, from the manifold evils which
have resulted from their establishment; as will
close the door against the immense frauds which
are daily and hourly being perpetrated upon the
National Treasury, under the operations of the
system of foreign valuations; and as will breathe
new life into, and give renewed vigor unto the now
prostrate and suffering industrial interests of our
State.
The undersigned do not find it necessary to their
present purpose, to enter upon an examination of
and an argument into the great, and in Penney'.
vans the allengrossing, question of adequate pro
tection and encouragement of American labor and
enterprize. In this State, the necessity, justice,
and sound policy of such protection and encourage
ment, have been declared, and insisted upon, in the
various legislative resolves that have been passed
here from time to time. They would but repeat
the facts and arguments, the reasoning and expe
rience, upon the subject, with which ahnost every
citizen in the State is familiar. Facts speak lou
der than theory, experience goes further in enlight
ening
and convincing the public mind than mere
speculative abstractions, and the undersigned pre
fer therefore, to come to the practical portion of
the duty before them. Pennsylvania feels, in the
prostrate state of various of her industrial interests
and in the depressed condition of labor, (the true
source of the wealth and prosperity of a State,) the
ruinous effect upon her of what is known as the
Tariff act of 1846. Deceived and betrayed in the
enactment of that act, many of her citizens have
since been impoverished by its ruinous operations,
and her prosperity has been arrested in the full title
of successful experiment. Her citizens see ton
upon ton of railroad iron of foreign manufacture
brought within the limits of this State, and rail
roads constructed therewith over and upon some
of the richest beds of iron ore in the world. They
see the labor of our hardy and industrious popula
tion brought into unequal competition with the
starving bondsmen of Europe, and its consequent
depression. They see the National Treasury de
frauded out of millions of dollars annually by
means of false invoices the incident of a foreign
valuation. They see the industry and enterprise
of their country, made subject to the changes and
fluctuations of the foreign market; and in short,
they feel sensibly the injustice and impolicy of a
system of revenue, which throughout discriminates
against American labor, and in favor of foreign
labor, by imposing a higher duty on the raw ma
terial than on the article manufactured from it.
Above all other interests, that of labor is felt by
the undersigned to be most entitled to governmen
tal protection. Almost the whole value °fall man
ufactured articles consists in the labor bestowed
upon them, and the inequality in the pnce of la
bor in Europe and in this country constitutes the
strongest reason why the principle of the present
Tariff laws, so far as it discriminates against
American labor, should be abandoned, and the
fostering hand of Government be extended to the
laboring population of this country. The price
paid for labor is a criterion of the prosperity of
the country, and reason and experience prove in
contestably that the American manufacturer who
pays a dollar a day for labor cannot compete suc
cessfully with the European capitalist who starves
his workmen on an average remuneration of twen
ty-five cents a day. The resale is that the Amer
ican manufacturer is driven from his own markets;
the bard money of the country is sent abroad to
pay for foreign labor; and our laborers become by
necessity producers, instead of the consumers of
the surplus agricultural products of the country.—
In this way, the markets of the agriculturists are
overstocked, the supply of agricultural products far
exceeds the demand, and as a necessary conse
quence the prices come down. The true policy
seems clearly to be to foster the various industrial
interests of the whole country; the undersigned do
not wish to be understood as desiring to build up
one interest at the expense of the other. On the
contrary, they would, by a wise and proper discrim
ination in the imposition of duties on foreign im
ports, create a home market, not for one sort, or
species of home production, but for all the vari
ous agricultural, manufacturing and mineral pro
ducts of the country, at one and the same time.
The undersigned recognize the full force and
correctness of these views and considerations, and
believe them to be held in common bye very large
p,'oportion of the people of Pennsylvania, unfetter
ed by party ties, and uninfluenced by partisan
prejudices. They do, therefore, as they conceive,
bob give utterance to the popular will of the State
as well as enunciate the correct doctrine upon this
question of highest importance to the prosperity of
Pennsylvania, when they recommend the Legis
lature to instruct our Senators, and request our
Representatives in Congress, to use their best ef
forts to secure, as speedily as may be, such modi
fication in the existing Tariff laws as the circum
stances of the ease imperatively require. Rower
er "disagreeable" such changes may be to "llr
Most Gracious Majesty," and her Minister at
Washington, the undersigned are persuaded they
will be hailed with real delight by a large majori
ty of the common constituency of the Legislature,
as the dawning of a brighter day fur the prosperi
ty and complete independence of our country from
foreign influence, and pauper despotism.
Satisfied that the duties as now levied have fail
ed to protect the producing, or benefit the consu
ming classes; to regulate trade so as to secure to
us the balance in our favor or, to give to Ameri
can labor its due and adequate reward, the under
signed Minot dose this report without recommen
ding to the favorable consideration of the Legisla
ture the principles embodied in Joint Resolutions
which they herewith report, without being tena
cious OS to the particular wording of the same, or
expressing any special preference for the shape in
which the Resolutions are submitted to the consid
eration of the House.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
J. W. KILLINOER.
A. E. BROWN.
PREAMBLE AND fl SOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, It is the policy of the country not
to purchase abroad that which we can produce at
home:
And whereas, We should secure the balance of
trade in our favor, in our tranactions with foreign
countries, by the enacment of a wise system of
revenue laws;
And whereas, Pennsylvania has ever held, in her
Legislative resolves, to the great and fundamental
doctrine of the Protective Policy; therefore,
Resolved, That we instruct our Senators, and re
quest our Representatives in Congress, to use
their best efforts to effect such changes in the ex
isting Tariff laws as will effectually discriminate in
favor of the industrial interests of our own country
and secure increased duties at a home valuation,
upon such articles as may be imported from
abroad.
Resolved, That more especially we instruct our
Senators and request our Representatives in Con
gress, to use their best efforts to effect such chan
ges in said laws as will effectually protect the iron,
coal and other great industrial interests of Penn
sylvania against foreign competition and pauper
labor.
Resolved, That the Governor be requested to
trasmit copies of these resolves to our Senators and
Representatives in Congress.
Poor House Directors.
The following supplement, appointing Direct
ors for a Poor House in this County, has passed
both branches of the Legislature and been ap
proved by the Governor.
A Supplement to an act entitled " An Act to pro
vide for the erection of a house for the employ
ment and support of the poor in the county of
Huntingdon and for other purposes" approved
May Math one thousand eight hundred and
fifty.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania In General Amenably met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same: That
JOHN MORRISON, Joun S. INETT and A. K.
CORWIN be, and they are hereby appointed dime
tors of a poor house in the county of Hunting
don, to do and perform the services required of
directors, specified in the fourth section of the
act to which this a supplement, a majority of
whom shall constitute a quorum for the transac
tion of business, and the said directors shall enter
upon the duties of their office immediately after
the passage of this act and continue in office until
after the next annual election, and until their suc
cessors are duly qualified without classification,
and the said directors as well as those hereafter
elected shall receive from the Commissioners of
Huntingdon county two dollars per day for their
services, so long as they may be necessarily em
ployed in the duties of their office.
Piety on Politics down South.
Our dear and amiable old friend Parson Brown
low, of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Whig, occasional
ly daguerreotypes some of the "moral" boys down
South in a most withering style. In a recent
number of his paper he applies a "settler" to a
Lawrenceburg publisher named Hatcher, and
winds up in the following modest sketch of the gen
tleman's moral and political qualities;—Juniata
&nand.
" A bigoted hypocrite, a Christian churl, a lake
' warm Laodician, a self-balanced slanderer, a blas
phemous scorer, a worshipper of Bachus, a licen
tious debauches, a loathsome gambler, an abomi
nable swindler, a self-secure bankrupt, nay the
literal impersonation of all vico ! lie stands out
in bold relief, orbed in the rainbow of his own in
famy—and throned in imperial might, holding his
high culminating point in the tirmanent of crime
and daily sheading his damning radiance on socie
ty, in and around Lawrenceburg ! No wonder his
paper has so limited a circulation ! Well may the
sensible portion of the Whig party there want to
get rid of such a "loathsome body of death."
No such a youthful villian as hatcher, was over
burnt by a trophical sun, buried amidst the snow
drifts of the North, or fanned by the breezes of
the Bay of San Francisco ! Shades of the Dontons
and Murats, of the Bobcspeirres and Murrels, of
the Jeffries and Neroes, call upon hatcher to learn
you the rudients of crime!"
Census of Blair County for 1850.
The subjoined is a correct account of the pop
lation, &e., of this county. There were several
material errors in the former table we publish
ed.—Standard.
BOWEL Population,
Antes Township 402 2452
Allegheny" 398 2352
Blair 41 179 991
Greenfield" 173 1032
Juniata .. 306 1752
Hollidaysburg 436 2430
Gaysport 105 590
---- 541 ---- 3020
Woodberry
375 1450
Williamsburg S 747
N. V/oodburry 296 1836
Martinsburg 80 443
---- 376 - 2279
Cutharino 150 899
Tyrone 184 1069
Snyder 173 1090
Huston 198 1174
Fraukstown 267 1483
MIN. el/AM.-There is some dispute as to
whether the new U. S. Senator from Rhode Isl
and is a Whig or Democrat. One thing is cer
tain; he is a great builder of Cotten Mills.
Turn out and Riot at Richmond.
The men employed at the several coal wharves
at the Reading Railroad depot in Richmond com
menced a strike on Tuesday for a continuance of
the rate of wages they have been receiving for
some timepast. The employers there, as we learn
have been giving them $1 25 per day, and at the
rate of 12i cents an hour, since the strike some'
time in the spring or summer. A determination
by
,the employers had been made to reduce the pay
to $1 per day, and ten cents an hoar, and Tues
day was fixed for carrying the resolution into ef
fect.
Some few of the laborers were disposed to work
at the proposed rates, bat the mass refused, and
stood out with a determination that no others
should take hold of the work on the terms indicated
by the employers.
Fearing sonic acts of violence on the part of the
resistants, the owners of the wharves communica
ted their apprehensions to Marshal Keyser, of the
Philadelphia Police, on Tuesday evening. Next
morning the Marshal with the force of about fifty
men proceeded to Richmond, where he found about
six hundred laborers drawn tip to receive him.—
The Marshal ordered the mob to disperse,but they
replied with taunting shouts and other hostile de
monstrations. He then ordered his men to arrest
the ring leaders and about twenty were taken to
the lock-up. The mob still manifesting no disite
to disperse, the Marshal addressed them and read
the riot net, then taking out his watch he gave
them one minute to disperse or he would fire upon
them. The mob dispersed accordingly, not relish
ing such "a summary" mode of quelling the dis
turbance. The persons arrested were all held to
bail in the sum of $l5OO.
The Webster Letter.
The Liverpool Journal of the 18th ult., devotes
a column to the recent correspondence between
Mr. Hulsemann, the Austrian Minister at Wash
ington, and the American Secretary of State.--
After giving an outline of the controversy, in
cluding several extracts from Mr. Webster's lot
, ter, the Journal winds up as follows s
"In this way the Republic ie practising the
phraseology in which, by-aud•by, she is to dictate
to despotisn, and cheer on everywhere the friends
of civilization truth and freedom. In this diplo
matic 'set to,' however, Mr. Webster has the best
side of the argument, for he has 'the law on his
side,' while there is a freshness about his courtesy
that surprises and pleases. Congress was delighted
with the manliness of the foreign secretary; and
it sterns the unwelcome laughter Mr. Hulsemann's
notes excited, reached the attentive ears of the
representatives of Russia and Austria, both of
whom were in the House."
Legislature of California.
The C'uliforma Courier of the 21st December,
has a detailed classification of the Legislature,
which gives the Whigs 8 members of the Senate
and 21 of the Assembly. The Democrats 6 mem
bers of the Senate and 12 of the Assembly, while
two in the Senate and four in the Assembly are
set down as doubtful. This gives a clear Whig
majority of five on joint ballot over the Democrats
and those classed as doubtful combined.
The election of a United States Senator, till.;
winter, by the Legislature, and the election by the
people, next fall, of two members of Congress, a
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of
I State, State Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney
General, and members of both Houses of the Leg
iature, will make the present session one of grave
consideration.
The Tariff Amendment.
The object of Mr. Hunter's bill, just introduced
in Congress, is simply to provide for appraising
the value of foreign goods at the date of shipmeld,
instead of the date ofpurchase. The government
maintained that this was tho intention of the old
law, and so instructed the collectors; but a re
cent adverse decision lies obliged them to refund
the extra duties thus collected; and this amend
ment is introduced to supply the necessary au
thority fur enforcing the original instructions. In
respect to the assessments of duties upon charges,
the new law is an exact transcript of the old.
The charges referred to are those included in the
cost ofthe goods up to the moment of shipment,
and not the charges up to the moment of entry.
Fon THE WORLD'S FAIR.— A New Haven pa
per reports that one hundred American gentle
men have subscribed $20,000, and engaged a
first class vessel, for a trip to the World's Fair at
London. During their stay there they intend to
make their home on board their ship, which is
to be superbly furnished and used for entertain
ments, parties, &c.
A "UNION" CARIIIAGE.—The Union Safety
Committee of New York, have started a subscip
tion to raise the sum of $2,500, to buy Daniel
Webster a carriage and horses, a reward for his
efforts in behalf of preserving the Union. rio
says the Albany Atlas.
arJonw SouDER, Esq., late member of the
Pa. legislature from Perry county, died on the
10th of November last, on board the Osceola, near
San Francisco. He had saved $951 in his Cal
ifornia voyage.
THE GLOBE. TO STOP.—The Dally Globe pub
lished by John C. Rives, at Washington, announ
ces that that paper and also the Weekly Globe,
will be discontinued after the 4th of March next.
The reason is thus given :
"The Typographical Society of this city hay.
ing raised the wages of journeymen printers twen.
ty per cent, these papers cannot ho printed with.
out a serious loss to the proprietor."
So much for Free Soilism.
TRADE BETWEEN INDIA, CHINA, AND CALI
FORNIA.-The overland mail, by the steamer Can
ada, brings accounts of the arrival at various ports
of China and India of no less than fifteen square
rigged vessels from San Francisco, all but two or
three of which were ships. Most of these arrivals
were at ports in China. Nearly all of these ves
sels are owned at Boston and other Eastern ports.
Naw YORK U. S. 81101ATOR.—Ex-Governor,
Ilasszrzrox Fula, (Whig) was elected to the Uni
ted States Senate by the Legislature of New York
on Tuesday last. The vote stood, Fish, 78;
John A. Dix (Loco,) 21 ; scattering 20. Alter
the 4th of March next two Whigs will represent
New York in this senate, pia :—Seward and Fish.
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ARRIVAL OF GOV QUITMAN.
NEW OELEA/49, Fob. a
Gov. Quitman, who had been sent' for on a
warrant issued by Judge Ghotson, has attired.—
A proclamation and protest against his arrest is
expected soon.
A ROMIERY.-The banking How of kfessrs.
Matthews & Fenely of this city ; was robbed lam,
night of 6,000 dollars.
A BRUTAL MURDER.
LotneviLLE, Feb. 4,
In (Stewart county, Tennessee, a lady named
Fletcher, was murdered by a negro man and
woman. They assaulted her with an axe and
club, and mangled her iu a most horrible man
ner.
The murderers have been arrested and commit
ted to prison.
BATON Roove, Feb. 5.
Herr Reyningor, a wire performer, in attempt
ing to walk from the tower of the capitol, fell, and
was killed.
GEN. SCOTT FOR PRESIDENT.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 6 .
The Whigs of the Indiana Constitutional Con.
vention have recommended Gen. Scott as tho
Whig candidate for the Presidency.
SENATOR CASS RE—ELECTED.
LAIISING, MICHIGAN, Feb. 5.
. ,
General Cass has been re-elected to the Uni
ted States Senate, from Michigan, for the full
term from the 4th of March next.
FIRE IN PITTSBURG
PITTEIDURO, Feb. 6.
The extensive Foundry of Knapp & Co., in
sth ward, was set on fire last night and entirely
destroyed. Loss estimated at $20,000 on which
there is a partial insurance.
LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
NEW ORLEANS, Fob. 6
The steamship Pacific, from Chagres, arrived
here this morning with California dates to the Ist
of January, being two weeks later than wore re
ceived by the steamer Cherokee at N. York. She
brings 550 passongers—we have not yet learned
the amount of her gold.
The news generally is unimportant. Gold how
ever, appears to be as plentifwl ws ever.
Many murders were taking place in different
parts of the State.
Col. Fremont, has published an address to the
people.
The Custom House at Monterey bad been
entered by some daring theives and robbed of
$20,000.
brace Smith, Esq., has been elected Mayor
of Sacramento city, in place of Mayor Bigelow,
who was killed during the riots.
Commercial matters are steady, but the mar
kets are not active. There is no change of any
moment to notice in the markets.
RESIGNED.
JAcicsox, Miae, Feb. 7.
John A Quitman, Governor of this State, re
signed his office on Monday, and started for New
Orleans on Tuesday, to answer to charges prefer
red against him by the Federal Government, at
the instance of the U. S. Court of the Eastern
District of Louisiana, relative to his connection
with the Cuban Expedition.
The Hon. Mr. Gwinne, President of the Senate
of this State, was inducted into office as Govern
or of the State on Wednesday, the .sth inst. Ile
subscribed to the constitutional oath of office.
Fire in Catharine Township.
On the night of the 17th instant, the dwelling
house of Mr. Hugh Dunn of Catharine township,
we are pained to learn, was entirely destroyed by
fire, together with its contents. The kitchen part
was of stone, and the main building of logs. It
was the dead hour of night, and the fire was not
discovered until it had nearly consumed the kitch
en ancl was bursting through into the main build
ing, barely giving the family time to escape with
their lives. Thus suddenly driven out, Mot
Dunn was obliged to walk a considerable distance
to a neighbor's house in her stocking feet, and
the smaller children were carried thither in their
night clothes. It caught, we understand, from the
kitchen stove. No insurance. But there is a
counterpart to the story worth telling: The
neighbors of Mr. Dunn have since laid their hands
together, some contributing one material necessary
and some another, and some plying themselves to
the work, have already put up a frame building at
tached to the atone walls of the kitchen, and the
whole is now under roof and will soon be ready
for the reception of the family. All honor to
the citizens of Catharine for this noble act.—Reg
ister.
WA bill for the abolition of Capitaal Punish
ment has passed the Senate of Wisconsin, and
is now befor the Home. A bill for tho same ob
ject was lost by ono majority while Wisconisn
was a Territory.
of 4- Tun Whig State Central Committee met
at Harrisburg on the 4th inst., and decided to
hold a Whig State Convention at Lancaster, on
Tuesday, June 24th, to make nominations for
Governor, Canal Commissioner and Supremo
Judges.
THE MARKETS.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8, 1851.
The flour market continues inactive. We quote
standard brands at 4,56 i per bbl., but there is no
export demand. Thu sales for city consumption
are limited within the range $4,621 a 5 for com
mon and extra brands.
Rye Flour is steady at $3,50, and Corn Meal at
$2,87} per bbl.
Wheat is dull and no sales have transpired.
Rye is scarce and wanted.
There is but little Corn offering. A small lot
of yellow sold at 61c., in store.
Oats aro in demand at 45c. per bushel.
In Provisions there is not much doing. A small
snle of now Mess Pork at $13,75 per bbl. Old
Mess is dull at $l2 75. In Bacon and Lard no
change.
Whiskey is scarce. Small sales of bbl,. at 25
and MI6 at 23e;