THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PA, Thursday Morning, Aug. 7, 1451. J. SEWELL STEWART-EDITOR, TERMS OF PUBLICATION: Trig " HIRATINGDON JoURNAL" IS published at tho following rates, iz If paid in advance, per annum, $1,50 If paid during the year, 1,75 if paid after the expiration of the year, • 2,50 To Clubs of five or more, in advance,. • 14110 Tit it above Terms will he adhered to in all cases. No subscription will he taken for a less period than six months, and no paper will bo discontinued un til all arrearages arc paid, unless at the option of the publisher. V. B. PALMER Is our atithorized agent in Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, to receive advertisements, and any persons in those cities wishing to adver tise in our columns, will please call ou hint. FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1852, WINFIELD SCOTT, OF NEW JERSEY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1852, JAMES C. JONES, OP TENNESSEE. FOR GOVERNOR IN 1851, WM, F. JOHNSTON OF 'ARMSTRONG COUNTY. SOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. JOHN STROHM, Or LANCASTER. FOR TOP SUPREME BENCH. WM. M. MEREDITH of Philadelphia. RICH. COULTER of Westnoreland. JOSHUA W. COMLY of Montour. GEORGE CHAMBERS of Franklin. WILLIAM JESSUI' of Susquehanna. WHIG COUNTY CONVENTION. The Whigs of Huntingdon county are request ed to meet at the usual places of holding their Delegate Elections, on Saturday, the 9th day of August, for the purpose.of choosing two delegates from each township and borough, to meet in County Convention on Wednesday, the lath day of August next, at 10 oNcloek in the fore noon, in the borough of Huntingdon, to nominato candidates for the following offices, via : Ono person fur Assemblyman, Two persons fur Associate Judges, Ono person for Prothonotary, One person for Register 4. Recorder, One person for County Treasurer, One person for County Commissioner, Three persons for Directors of the Poor, Ono person fur Auditor, It is particularly requested that the delegates he in attendance at the hour above named, as there wilt be an unusually large amount of business claiming their attention. By order of the County Committee. Huntingdon, Jnly 24,1851. U :7" Wo arc informed that the barn of James Forrest in Barre° township, this county, was consumed by fire on the night of Monday the 28th ult., which contained his crop , of grain cut during the late har vest. It is believed to be the work of an incendiary, Sometime since, a stable be longing to Mr .Gibbony was burned, in the same neighborhood. Several occurrences of the kind have taken place in that neighborhood within the last two or three years, all of which are believed to be the work of incendiaries We fear that the portals of the penitentiary are open to receive some villian from that quarter. Tr. The Chairman of the Whig State Central Committee has called a meeting of the members of the Committee, to assemble in Philadelphia on Thursday the 14th of August. NEW POSTAGE LAW. Thus far the re duction of postage has worked well. There has been an increase in the number of let ters, and gratifying improvement in respect to advance payment of postage. No gen tleman will now oblige another to pay Eve cents postage unless the letter is upon the other's business. Cr?" The Locofocos of Dauphin County, at their recent County Convention, gave Mr. Buchanan" the cold shoulder," having adopted Cass resolutions by a vote of 61 to 3. Gen. Cameron is responsible for this. tok' The Boston Post, speaking of Mr. Webster's late speeches, says that he now shakes from his venerable head the gems and flowers with which he stored it in his youthful wanderings through the fields of literature, and the profusion of these fresh and briliant ornaments isthe more pleasing when we contrast them with the severe simplicity of must of his previous efforts. To the Readers of the Journal. It is not uncommon for the members of the legal profession, as also of the judi ciary, to mingle in some business, other than the one for which they were educa ted. One devotes his spare time and at tention to fancy farming, another to horti culture and pomology, a third controls a line of mail stages, a fourth has his fancy excited with the roar of a saw-mill, while others are merchandising, speculating in coal fields, blowing furnaces or spinning cotton. We propose devoting a portion of our time in conducting a weekly journal— mingling the cares of business with the exercise of the mind in the more elegant employment of furnishing dainties for the intellectual appetite. We, nevertheless, have no intention of abandoning the pro fession of the law, but hold ourself in readiness to attend to all business with which a generous public may entrust us; and while we say to the lawyers—we are still with you and one of you—to the edi tors, a profession no less honorable and probably more potent, we say—we shall be very happy to make your acquaintance. The patrons and readers of the Journal may expect in its columns the advocacy of those time honored principles, for which it has battled through evil as well as through good report. The Whig party l' as been and is essentially preservative in its character, and has stood as a support to the stately fabric of the Union and the Constitution, when the factions of the de mocracy were assailing the pillars at its base. It is progressive with the progress of reason and knowledge, and moves for ward with confidence and alacrity when the lamp of safety shines in its pathway. The improvements of the ago are the off spring of its genius. It clears out your lakes and navigable rivers, builds up com munications for the transit of your domes tic commerce, and advocates that policy which will place the laboring man in a po sition to command, not beg his terms. A party, so exhaustless in its purposes for good, cannot but commend itself to the good sense of the citizens of this great republic—a country dearer to the American heart than was teeming Canaan to the followers of Joshua. We will advocate the election of the great and goodanen whose names stand at the head of our columns, with our utmost ability, believing it to be the best general ticket ever presented to the people of this Commonwealth. We will boldly meet the questions of the day, when wo shall feel called upon so to do; and while we depre cate agitation for the sake of agitation and disturbance, we are, nevertheless, au un flinching friend of the unlimited liberty of the human mind. No error can long pros per, and no troth can long remain crushed, while free discussion is permitted to at tack the one and uphold the other. J. SEWELL STEWART JOUN STROHM. This gentleman has been attacked by the Locofoco press, with a malicious earn estness worthy of devils, for having voted, as they say, against supplies for the army in Mexico. He voted against the jesuiti cal evasion of a declaration of war, the solo power to declare which, the constitu tion vests in Congress. He voted for every appropriation to that army after the recognition of the war, as the journals of Congress will show. He voted for an ap propriation of $500,000 for providing "for the comfort of discharged soldiers who may be landed at New Orleans or any other places within the United States, so disabled by disease or wounds received in the service as to be unable to proceed to their homes, and for forwarding destitute soldiers to their homes." He voted for increasing the pay of the private soldiers from $7,00 to $lO,OO per month, which was defeated by Locofoco votes. This charge is therefore a slander manufactured for the purpose of exciting the veterans of that war, against their best friend. But who is John Strohm 1 An honest farmer of Lancaster County, who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. By the kindness of the Whigs of this county, we were delegated to the Lancaster Con vention which nominated him, and we there had the pleasure of looking upon his sun burnt face, and listening to his words of wisdom, after the Convention had declared him to be its choice for Canal Commission er; and his remarks impressed us with his practical good sense, while his countenance bespoke honesty and Roman virtue. In fact his integrity has never been impeached, I and cannot and dare not be. Ho is the man, whose services Pennsylvania needs, in the administration of her public works; and with him in the board, there will be no more stupendous Freeport Aqueduct swindles, or no more passing of delegates and others to the Reading Convention over the State improvements, free of toll. In another column will be found the evi dence of the latter fraud and outrage on the people of the Commonwealth; and the only answer that the opposition press gives to the charge is, that Mr. Bigham should not have told it. These men want to live by plundering the State, and then make the people pay the expenses of the robbery. Let us then have the honest, intelligent, firm, hard working, sun-burnt farmer of Lancaster County in the Canal Board, and leave the patent right man of Clarion at home, to peddle patent bee hives, force pumps, and experiment in the mysteries of animal magnetism and clair voyance. The Issues of the Campaign. The locofocos aro endeavoring to pre sent but one issue to the people of Penn sylvania in the present canvass, and that ono entirely foreign to the real issues in volved in the campaign. It is attempted to raise an overshadowing fogs oh the sub ject of the Compromise measures, and the great importance of preserving the Amer ican Union. The measures referred to, we understand have been passed by Congress and approved by the President, nearly all of which are irrepoalablo in their very na ture, and the rest hero are but seldom talked about. There has been no attempt in the State by any Whig, or Democrat either, as far as we can learn, to obstruct the execution of any of those measures, and the talkers and writers of the Whig party aro preaching obedience to them and devo tion to the ooustitution and laws, as they have always done. Nevertheless the lo cofocos will persist, in blowing the flame and smoke of the conflagration of the American Union in our faces, to singe our eye-brows and take our breath. We tell these trembling, quaking, dissolution-fear ing locofocos, that the men who control their party, do their thinking and regulate their national legislation, namely the cotton nabobs and princely aristocrats of the extreme South, are the men who are thundering against the heavy battlements of the confederation. It is their allies and bosom friends, who are cursing the li Union in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Mississippi, Arkansas, North Carolinaand Tennessee. If the Union is not dissolved and dismembered until the Whigs do it, Gabriel's trumpet will send its resuree tionary notes over a country happily held in bonds of fraternal concord, smiling with the prosperity and general plenty that social equality alone can give, and the whole spectacle will be so beautiful, so gorgeous, that a tear will steal down his angelic cheek, at the fatal necessity, which shall forever end and destroy the delight ful paradise. They ask us to pledge ourselves to the Union, and we say we do, eagle and all, and the coat of arms of the United States, too : and we intend to live and die under the whole of them. The adjustment meas ures will be faithfully observed and re spected. These questions therefore pre sent no issue in the campaign. The ques tions aro : shall the State debt bo paid with out the people fooling how it was done ? Shall the farmers and real estate holders be taxed less than under former administra tions, and still more money received into the treasury ? Shall dead heads be made pay when they come into the cars with free tick ets from the Canal Commissioners? Shall corruptions in the Canal Board cease? Shall adequate 'protection be granted to our do mestic interests ? These aro some of the questions in which we aro really interested, and which we shall hereafter put ourselves to the trouble of unfOlding to our readers. Storm—Loss of Life and Property, - - We see in the Bulletin of the 4th inst., taken from the Uniontown Democrat, an account of a storm in Fayette county, the most tremendous of any thing we have read for many years. It blow down houses substantially built of Stone and brick, un roofed barns, and blew others entirely away; destroyed immense quantities of timber, killed some persons by the falling of houses, and badly injured many more. One man was blown a considerable dis tance and lodged in a tree top, two boys were blown fifty paces into a neighboring field, and the hat of ono of them was found in a field three miles distant. The crops were very much injured, and much of them swept away and lodged on the side of a mountain. The storm was accompanied with terific thunder and lightning and oc curred on the night of July `,26th. 0 2 " BE NOT AFFRONTED at a jest. If one throw salt on then, thou wilt receive no harm unless thou halt sore places. THE CANAL. The following from the Keystone ap pears to be a list of the damages to the Pennsylvania canal, by the late flood on the upper Juniata. Two breaches iri the level below the Wil low dam. A break in the level above the Little Watorstreet dam. Two heavy slides off the mountain in the Big Waterstrect dam; channel closed up. Towing-path bridge and abutments in the Waterstreet dam washed out. Three breaches in the level above Alexandria; ono very heavy around the lock; washed 18 feet below bot tom for 50 feet. Two breaches in the level below Alexandria. A heavy break close by Neff's aequeduct. Abutment of guard look stove in at the head of Petersburg dam. River towing-path bridge and two of the piers washed out at the head of Pi per's dam. Small towing-path bridge wash ed away along Piper's dam. Towing-path washed out above Piper's dam. Towing path round the lock at Piper's dam wash ed away; head of lock damaged; stone washed out of cribbing, and canal below dam for some distance-300 yards--wash ed away and washed full of gravel. Two broaches in the short level below Piper's dam. Wash around outer lock at head of Huntingdon dam. Three breaches in the level above Huntingdon dam, heavy wash of the towpath, and fill in the canal.— Breach at the lock at Huntingdon. First culvert above Huntingdon partly washed out. Breach in the tow-path. Culvert below Huntingdon partly washed out.— Breach in the tow-path below Huntingdon. Breach in the Mill creek level, and Mill !creek aqueduct washed out. Breaches and wash in the canal from Mill creek to IMcVeytown. The breaches are so far repaired that boats passed on last Monday morning from below this place on their way to Hollidays burg. Boats would have passed on Sat urday but on letting the water into the lev el hero, the embankment about the new Culvert at the upper end of town gave way, which was again promptly repaired. Mr. Anderson deserves commendation for his energy, in getting the canal in naviga ble order. ANOTHER TREMENDOUS VIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 1 On the 22d of June, just seven weeks af ter the terrible conflagration of May San Francisco suffered from a similar calamity. The whole of the blocks bounded by Montgomery, Dupont, Washington and Merchant streets are now a heap of ruins. The property destroyed covered three squares, and the loss is estimated at some thing over ono million of dollars. The fire was the work of incendiaries, who have been arrested by the Vigilent Committee. Their fate may easily be surmised. Many lives aro said to have been lost by this terrible fire, which, coming so closely on the heels of that from which the city had not recovered, inflicts a severe blow on the prosperity of the inhabitants. [SECOND DISPATCH.] NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 2. The heart of the city is in ashes. The loss is variously estimated at from two to five millions, but it is impossible to toll what it really is. From the Kittanning Press, _ _ The Right Spirit. In our paper of the 27th June last, we published a short extract of a letter from a Democrat in another county, to ono in this place. We have since seen another letter from which wo have been permitted to make a much longer extract. He is a very influential and honest man. , July 3, 1851 * Oboe I was a Democrat, but now a Whig—yes, a true Whig—a friend of my country at last. lam sorry to say that for the last five years I have been helping Demagogues to lay their deep and unholy schemes for the purpose of keep ing Pennsylvania under water—but she is now afloat. All honest Democrats should throw off their prejudices, come out from the party, and unite with the Whigs*—yes the Whig party and the only true party. But some Democrats will say, I am not going to turn Whig and be called a turn coat. For sake of party many of them would run with one shoe off and the other never on. Next October will find all hon est Democrats who wish to promote the true interests of the State, in the ranks of a party which advocates and sustains them. Bigler, will bo defeated, and I am pleased to think that Pennsylvania will continuo her present position. Wm. F. Johnston, Gon. Scott, and the tariff of 1842, is my ticket. I care not for tho name of Whig or Demo ocrat—l go for the interests of Pennsylva nia, not for those of England and other foreign countries. I entreat all my for mer party friends to come out from the Democratic ranks and take their stand among the true friends of our country, and nobly and faithfully sustain, firmly and effectually for the future, the true policy of the State, by entering the ranks of the Whigs. Let them not be backward, but walk in and be mon and Whigs. *** From the Norristown Herald. Corruption in the Canal Board-- More Proof Against the Plunderers of the Treasury We stated that the Canal Commissioners had granted free tickets to the Loco-foco delegates to the Reading Convention. Our statements have been corroborated by sim ilar ones in Lancaster, Westmoreland and Allegheny counties. The Pittsburg Ga zette contains a statement from the Hon. Thomas J. Bingham, which places the mat ter beyond all doubt. Our statement was made on the best authority. Read the communication of Mr. Bigham, and the excellent remarks of the Gazette : T. J. Bigham Esq., one of the late Representatives of this county, furnished us yesterday with the following communica tion : To the Editors of the Pittsburg Ga zette: An article copied into your paper, from the Harrisburg American; in regard to the issuing of free tickets by the Canal Board, has called to my recollection a fact which I deem it my duty, as a member of the Legislature to state, over my own signa ture. Had I known of it before the ad journment, I should certainly of brought it before the House—and now ) as I do not expect to be a member of the next Legis lature, I ask the privilege to state it through your columns. After the adjournment, and before leav ing Harrisburg, a friend procured from one of the members of the Canal Board, and handed me, a ticket, such as he assured me had been furnished to the members generally. As near as I can recollect the substance WAS :- , 4 Pass Mr, Bigham over the State im provements to Pittsburg free of toll." _ _ By virtue of this tick - et I paid nothing on the Portage Rail-road, and no canal tolls on the boat from Johnstown. On my way homeward, in the cars, these tickets became the subject of conversation, when, to my surprise, all, I believe, of the Dem ocratic members then present, and at least one gentleman, not a member of the Leg islature, exhibited tickets, not similar to mine, but in substance as follows :- 4g Pass over the State im provements during the year 1851 free of toll." The gentleman not a member of the Legislature, and at least ono Democratic member, spoke of having free tickets for 1852 as well as 1851. These, however, were not exhibited. Some of the members, and I think this same gentleman not a member, exhibited more than one ticket or pass signed by different members of the Canal Board, and I believe at least one gentleman spoke of having a pass from each of the three Canal Commisioners. I am not sufficiently familiar with the hand-writing of the members of the Canal Board to say that any or all these passes were in their proper hand-writing--but had then and have now no doubt they are genuine as exhibited. I know they were treated as genuine by the officers on the public works. These things struck me with great surprise—as I had never seen such things done before, and know of no law to authorize such passes. My design is simply to state facts, and to call for sonic explanation or for the au thority to grant such tickets. T. J. BIGHAM. Momber of the House from Allegheny. July 17. 1851. Let this statement of Mr. Ingham be published in every county of the State, that the tax-payers may see what kind of men manage the public works, for the con struction of which they are so heavily tax ed. Lot the people see by this gross fraud upon the public revenue, which is only ono of a thousand, why it is that the public worksyield so meagre a revenue. Lot theminfer front this—and a fair inference it is—why the repairs of the public works cost so enormously : and then after seeing all this, if they see proper to accept ri baldry for facts, and scurrillity for argu ment and elect another man of the same kind and of the same party, another noisy politician, of whose moral or intellectual fitness for the trust neither they nor any one can vouch, why let them do so. If they can put faith in the professions of men who have now been convicted of a swindle of the basest kind upon our heavily taxed Commonwealth, we cannot help it. If such abominations are to be covered up under the mantle of “Democracy" which they have stolen, as they have stolen the pub lic money, why bo it so. Mr. Bigham mentions ono vary significant fact, which is that one man who was not a member of the Legislature, was fur nished with a free ticket. This we haz ard nothing in saying, was an active loco foco politieion.The inference is irresista ble, that many more of the same aro at this moment travelling from point to point on the public works, at the expense of the State • electioneering for Bigler, Clover, and the rest of the loco-foco ticket. rr_r Harper, of the Post, talks about "lies sticking in the throats of Whig Edi tors." True, it is rather difficult to get a lie out of the Whig editors, but we have never known a lie to "stick,' for a moment in tho throat of a locofoco Editor. They slip out with the most remarkable ease and facility.—Commonwealth. 07 - It is said that Barnum has succeed ed in obtaining the identical lance, used by James Buchanan, in "letting the demo cratic blood out of his veins." JUDGE BELL.—This gentleman, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this State, has signified his willingness to he a candidate for President Judge of the Chester and Delaware Judicial district.— He will no doubt, receive the nomination of his party. MARRIED. On the 29th ult., by the Rev. J. B. Williams, Mr. John Louden, of Altoona, Blair Co., to Miss E. P. Robeson, of Woodbury, Bedford Co. DIED. In Alexandria, in this county, on the 27th ult., at the residence of her brother, Israel Oraifius, Esq., .Mrs. Catharine Shultz, in the 65th year of her age. Tho deceased had, until recently, resi ded in Huntingdon, and for many years was a consistent member of the Presbyte rian church. Those who knew her uhite in testifying to her ohristian character, while her daily walk afforded satisfactory evidence that for her "to live was Christ, but to die, gain." She was an example in patience and resignation under protract ed bodily suffering; and, though suddenly brought to encounter the struggles of death by dropsical pressure, yet as awaiting the event, she was not surprised or alarmed. She exclaimed, "Oh, Death!"—as part of a sentence, which her voice failed to fin ish; but the expression of her countenance seemed to add—" Where is thy stifle Commuiticated. COUNTY TREASURER. MR. PEIGIITAL ;—Will you be good enough to announce the name of JOHN MARKS, of this borpugh, as a candidate for nomination to the office of County Treasurer. Mr. M. is a good industrious Whig, a man whose honesty has never been questioned and whose kindness of heart is proverbial wherever known. He would, certainly, make a popular officer. MANY WHIGS Huntingdon July 31, 1851. PRICES CURRENT. PIIILADELPULt, July 30, 1851 Flour per bbl. $4 25 White Wheat per bushel 1 01 Rod do Rye Corn Oats 62k 43 Farmers, hereafter, may rely upon being kept fully booked up in regard to the Philadelphia mar ket for produce—our quotations are taken from the "North American and United States Guiette," one of the best and most reliable commercial pa pers in the Union. Reported for the Journal. STATE OF THE THERMOMETER. 7a.m. 2p.m. 9P. al TuEs.—July 29 64 78 68 WEDNB. " 110 65 68 64 TnuEs. "31 64 72 64 FRIDAY " I 63 72 64 SATD Y. " 2 60 79 64 SUNDAY " S 62 82 68 MONDAY " 4 68 70 70 29th July Clear. 30th Rain, afternoon and night 31st Cloud—rain in the evening Ist Aug.—Rain in the forenoon 2d Clelr. 3d Clear. 4th Cloudy—rain molm 3 g & afturnoon 060 JACOB MILLER, Onsanyttn. Huntingdon July 24th, 1851- MONEY MATTERS. Philadelphia It rtes of Discount. CORRECTEI WEEKLY. Philadelphia Banks • par Pittsburg par Germantown, par Chester County • •par Delaware County. . •par Montgomery Co... •par Northumberland • • •par Col. Bridge Co.• • • •par Reading 'par Lancaster, par Doylestown par Easton par Bucks County par Brownsville par Pottsville par Washington York I Danville par. r Lebanon, pa] r Chambersburg, r Gettysburg, r Middleton, t Carlisle, r Harrisburg • Honesdale, 1 1 ; 'Wyoming Pal • Erie Bank, 1 11 'Waynesburg, • Schuylkill Haven, • •pal • West Branch pai 'Relief Notes 11 • " " now issue •1; 'State Scrip, Pittsburg City Scrip • • 1: Allegheny City, 2( Allegheny County,• • • 21 LA FAYETTE COLLEGE. EASTON PENNA. The next session of this Institution, whisk is now in successful operation, with the most encour aging prospects, will commence on the third day of September next. The faculty,consists of: Rev. D. V. MoLam D. D. President and Pro fessor of Moral Sciences, Logic and Evidences of Christianity. JAMES 11. Coerce Esq., A. M. Vice Presi dent, and Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. lie, GEORGE BURROWS, A. M. Professor of Ancient Languages and Literature. WASUINGTON MCCARTNEY Esq., A. M,Profes sor of Mental Philosophy and Rhetoric. JAMES M. PORTER Esq., L. L. D. Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy. The course of study is thorough, the discipline strict but paternal, the position healthy and the' charges moderate for both tuition and bearding. Subscribers of $lOO and upwards to the endow ment fund now in progress sending pupils at this time, will have the benefit of the reduction which • it will occasion. Circulars and further information can be had by addressing Dr. D. V. McLAIN, President of the College, or W. HACKETT Esq., Secretary of the , Board of Trustees, Easton Penna. August 7, 1851.-41. 567 ifichos 010 090