THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PA. Thursday Morning, Aug. 14, 1451. J. SEWELL STEWART— Ennon, TERMS OF PUBLICATION: Tins "HUNTINODON JOURNAL" is published a' the following rates, viz : If paid in advance, per annum, $1,50 If paid during the year, 1,75 If paid after the expiration of the year,•2,so To Clubs of five or snore, in advance, • • 1,24 THE above Terms will be adhered to in all cases. No subscription will be taken tore less period than six months, and no paper will be discontinued un til all arrearages are paid, sinless at the option ol the publisher. V. R. PALMIER Is our authorized agent in Philadelphia, Now York and Baltimore, to receive advertisements, and any persons in those cities wishing to adver tise in our columns, will please call on him. FOR TUE PRESIDENCY IN 1852, WINFIELD SCOTT, OF NEW JERSEY FOR VICE PRESIDENT LEI 1852, JAMES C. JONES, OF TENNESSEE. FOR GOVERNOR IN 1851, WM. F. JOHNSTON OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER. JOHN STROHM, OF LANCASTER FOR I'l6' surnumii BENCH. WM. M. MEREDITH of Philadelphia. RICH. COULTER of Wesmoreland. JOSHUA W. COMLY of Montour. GEORGE CHAMBERS of Franklin. WILLIAM JESSUP of Susquehanna. WHIG COUNTY TICKET. PRESIDENT JUDGE, HON. GEORGE TAYLOR OF Ii.UNTINODON, Associate Judges, JONATHAN M'WILLIAMS, Franklin, HENRY BREWSTER, Shirleysburg. Assembly, WILLIAM B. SMITH, Jackson, Prothonotary. THEODORE H. CREMER, Huntingdon. Register & Recorder, MATH. F. CAMPBELL, Henderson. Treasurer, JOHN MARKS, Huntingdon. Commissioner, ELIEL SMITH, Union. ROBERT STITT, Huntingdon. Coroner, ISAAC WOLVERTON, Brady Auditor, JOHN REED, Huntingdon, Directors of the Poor, JAMES CLAM, Birmingham. JAMES SAXON, Huntingdon, GEORGE HUDSON, Clay. CORRECTION.—In the last line of the 2d paragraph, in our article of last week, headed William Bigler, the word 44 order" is used in place of the word " ordeal," by an error of the typographer. Broadtop Itailtdad: Quite a large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends of this road was held in the Court House in this place, on the 14th inst., the proceedings of which we have on file; their great length and a press of other matter will prevent us from laying them before our readers this week. They will appear in our neat. Godey's Lady's Book for September is on our table—a welcome visitor—with several fine engravings and filled with choice reading matter from the readiest writers of the day. The approaching foot step is a fine life like mezzotint engraving, more than worth the cost of the period ical. Sour grapes is also a fine embel lishment. The number contains several fashion plates in addition to the above. ERMen John Strohm. The Democratic Whig candidate for Canal Commissioner, lS AN OLD LANCAS TEA COUNTY FARMER. He 'MOWS who pays the mass of the taxes, and he will take care of the interests of the farmers, who intend electing hitn. When he takes his seat on the Board next year, there will be shivering among the plunderers along the line of our Improvements. Ho will not permit them to defraud the State out of ton thousand dollars at "a Anglo lick," by the alteration of pay roll.•. OUR COITNTY TICKET. At the head of our paper will be found the names of the gentlemen whom the late Whig County Convention placed in nomi nation for the respective offices. They are all good men, true to the principles and well grounded in the faith of the great Whig cause—and we cordially commend them to the support of our friends through out the county. Wm. B. Smith is our present member of the legislature, and well known to the citizens of the county as an upright, able and honest legislator ; in whom confidence has been and still may be reposed with safety. We ask for him and his brother candidate for the same official station, Seth H. 111'0in°, t sq., of Blair county, the zealous support of the unflinching Whigs of Huntingdon county. Jonathan .11'Williams, one of our can didates for Associate Judge, is a member of the present bench by appointment from Gov. Johnston, and during the short time be has filled the station, ho has done so to the entire satisfaction of the bar and the people. Ho is a gentleman of strict in tegrity,—honest, capable and deserving—' and withal eminently intelligent and prac tical in his views, and courteous and ur bane in his manners. Henry Brewster, the other nominee for Associate Judge, was a member of the Legislature during the winter of 1844, and was a candidate for a second term in the fall of 1845, but was then defeated in consequence of the convulsion which brought on the division of the county. It will be remembered that two looofooos were then returned by reason of the "ground and lofty tumbling" of the upper end Whigs. We hope our friends will re collect the sacaifice of Mr. Brewster at that time, on a local question, and come up manfully to his support now. He made a good legislator, and is an intelligent, honest, firm and impartial man; and unfal tering in his support of Whig men and measures. John Marks, the nominee for Treasurer, is a gentleman of unimpeachable integrity and well qualified to fill the responsible office for which be is named. During a life, considerably more than half advanced, he has earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, in the woods and fields and work shops of Hontingdon county ; and whenev er the Whig party called for help he was always among the first to answer the sum mons. Theodore FL Cremer, the nominee for Prothonotary, is a most excellent and com petent officer, who is very familiar with the duties of his office and prompt and ef ficient in their discharge. A better selec tion could not have beon made. Matthew F. Campbell, for Register and Recorder and Clerk of the Orphan's Court, is a competent and obliging officer, and the manner in which he has performed his duties is an earnest of his future conduct in the same station. Eliel Smth and Robert Stitt, the can didates for Conunissioners of the county, are good men, and will administer the affairs of the county, with satisfaction to the public and credit to themselves. Isaac Wolverton, who was placed in nomination for Coroner by acclamation, is an unflinching Whig, and will make a good officer. John Reed, the nominee for the very important office of Auditor is so well known for intelligence, probity and cor rectness as an accountant, that it is un nocessry formally to introduce him to the public. James Clark, James Saxton and Geo. Hudson, the nominees for Directors of the Poor, are all well informed business men, who understand their duties and the in terests of the county, and will perform them advantageously for the people. We earnestly call upon onr friends throughout the county to give the whole ticket that hearty support which we feel it merits. Leave no stone unturned which may be in the way of a triumphant victory in October. Remember that the prosper ity of the State is deeply involved in the success of the Whig party—that we must lend our united energies to dam back the tide of corruption that now flows from the Canal Board--and that every man, who loves his country and his own interests, should use all his influence to re-elect Gov. Johnston, whose administration has redounded so much to the credit of the State. We shall await confidently the thrilling cry of victory. t? Gov. Johnston is addressing the people daily in the western part of the State. They will give a good ace ount in octolwr from that section. THE LATE ELECTIONS. Dixon, (Whig) is elected Governor of Kentucky, and Thompson the Whig can didate for Lieut. Governor is also elected. Campbell, the Whig candidate for Gov ernor in Tennessee, is elected by a large majority. The Whigs have also a majori ty in both houses of the legislature, which I insures us a Whig United States Senator. In Alabama five Union men aro elected to Congress and two Secessionists. North Carolina sends 6 Whigs and 3 locofocos to Congress, which is the party complexion of the present delegation. That bold and unflinching whig, Edward Stanley, is re-elected. We have gained one member of Con gress in Indiana. The late whig triumphs in the South af ford us great gratification. They show us that our southern friends disbelieve the slanders uttered and published by the lo cofocos against the northern whigs. BIGLER IN CLEARFIELD CODETY.-A friend writing on business, appends the fol lowing to his letter : "There is dome talk on politics hero since the nominations were made. From all that I can hear, I honestly believe Col. Bigler will run no more than his party vote in this county, and perhaps hardly that, as the colonel has personal enemies here as well as political friends." This agrees in the main with other in formation from that county, all agreeing that he cannot run much if anything ahead of his party vote. On the other hand, there are counties where Governor John ston will gain two votes for every one Bigler will gain in Clearfield.—Lewistown Gazelle. The Locos are evidently frightened. The disaffection in their own ranks and the unanimity, and harmony of feeling per vading our own, are well calculated to dar ken their political prospects. The Lan casterian, of a recent date, says: "The campaign is how fairly opened. The opposition is determined to secure the election of its ticket, and thus nothing will be neglected that may contribute to its suc cess. Governor Johnston is an able and experienced politician, and none can be more active. He will traverse the State from one end to the other, taking adVtin tage of false issues—discontents in our party--and all the expedients that will present themselves to a mind so fertile as his. Wo may anticipate no easy cam paign." The Judicial Nominations. The North American says, of the nomi nations for the Supreme Bench we need only ask that they should be contrasted with those made on the other side, in order that every impartial man should decide which of the two tickets is better entitled to his vote and efforts. We are, for the first time, about to try a most important experiment in the election of Judges by popular suffrage. It is of the utmost int-' portanco not only to all the interests of the State, but also to the purity of the Ju dioial ermine, that high men, capable men, able men, and none others, should be chosen to administer these great trusts.— Our candidates have been selected without reference to party organization. They were chosen exclusively upon the ground of merit and character. They were nomi nated for being competent, exemplary, and unexceptionable. Nona of the tricks of demagogues, which were practiced in the election of delegates to the Democratic Convention were attempted by our friends, and the Convention acted under a full sense of its responsibility, and under no other influence but that of a conscientious purpose to present candidates against whom no fair objection could bo urged, and who came recommended by the purity of their lives and the eminence of their profession al merits. We will make no political ap peal in their behalf. Pennsylvanians are not to be addressed on such a subject in the hackneyed canvas. When Judges shall rely for their success upon the mere nomination of party, or the application of its machinery, we shall consider it a sad day for this or any other State which shall be afflicted with such ministers of the law, IMMENSE PLcOLIT OF GRASSHOPPERS.— Oh Sunday last, at about 12 o'clock, M., a flight of grasshoppers passed over our city, continuing some throe hours, and extend ing some miles to the oast and west, which in point of numbers, exceded all computa tion. The sky was perfectly full, and in the rays of the sun, myriads could be seen, looking like snow-flakes, moving about in circles, and apparently going southward.— Some eight years ago a similar phenomenon was observed in this city, but this is said to have been on a much larger scale. We hope that this flight is the sign for their disappearance, for they arc a scourge ca pable of doing vast damage to tho crops. Reading. Press, 12th inst. Ir;- -- '1Ve have been shown a blue egg plum grown in the garden of David Stewart Esq., at Colerain Forges hi this county, which measured seven inches in circumference one way and six and a quarter the other.— This shows to what perfection fruit may be brought by care and attention in the cultivation. WHIG MEETING. Pursuant to notice, quite a large num ber of the gallant Whigs of this and ad joining counties met at the Court House, on Wednesday ovennig, 13th inst: The meeting was organized by calling Dr. JOIIN• NeCULLOUCH to the chair, and appointing JOHN ROUSE, JOHN WHITNEY, JOSHUA GREENLAND, T. T. CROMWELL, and ROIIBERT KINKADE, Esters., Vice Presidents, and W. T. Wilson, Samuel Glasgow and Capt. Jno. W. Watson, Sec retaries. On motion, B. C. Lytle, Esq. appear ed and addressed the meeting in his usual spirited and pleasing Style; , after which a Committee of seven were appointed to draft a preamble and resolutions, expressive of the sense of the meeting. The Conunittee consisted of the following named gentle men : Daniel Teague, D. Womelsdorf, John Dean, Brice X. Blair, A. Steel and Jacob Gehret Esq'rs. During the absence of the committee the meeting was ably addressed by J. S. Stewart ; Samuel GlasgoW and A. W. Ben edict, Esq'rs. The committee then appeared and pre sented the following resolutions, which were adopted: Resolved That we hail with pleasure the demonstration that is making through out our land in favor of Gen. WINFIELD Soon., the greatest captain of the age, as the Whig candidate for President iu 1852. ResolVed, That every day's experience demonstrates the ruinous tendency of the Tariff of 1846, and the necessity of a Tariff which will afford protection to Ameri can interests and industry. Resolved, That the administration of Millard Fillmore is in fact and in truth a national Administration, Commanding and deserving the confidence of the good men of all parties. Resolved, That we esteem the act of Congress, called the Compromise Meas ures, as part of the history of the past and as forming no part of the issues in the present political campaign in Pennsylva nia. Resolved, That the Whigs of this coun ty have unlimited confidence in the ad ministration of the State Governthent by WILLIAM F. JOIINSTON, the'present in cumbent; for his masterly acquaintance with the financial affairs of the State, and for his integrity, wisdom and prudence in conducting the affairs of the Common wealth. Resolved, That JOHN STROHM, our can didate for Canal Conumisioner, is a man of unsullied integrity of purpose, and his election will insure retrenchment Mid re form in the Canal Board and economy in the management of our State improvements. Resolved, That the Whig ticket for the supreme Bench is the very best that could have been presented to the people. • Resolved, That the Whig County Tick et this day placed in nomination is one which should and will meet the approba tion of every Whig in the county and it will be triumphantly elected. The President was empowered to ap point a committee of vigilenco, consisting of five members, in each election district in the county. The following are the com mittees oppointed in the different districts: Tell.—George Wilson, William Mitch ell, A. C. Blair, Stephen Waters, Henry R. Shearer. .hurrays Run,—Benjamin Corbin, Na than McDivit, Charles Greene, George Miller, William Peightal. Cass.—Ralph Crotsley, Jos. P. Kurf man; John Stever, H. H. Dell, Richard son Read. Clay.—Richard Aahman, Caleb Brown, William Wagoner, John B. Logan, Moses Greenland. Tod.—Mordicai Chilcoat, George Keith ; Frederick Heater, Charles Mickley, David Aurandt. Dublin.—William Clyinons, Thos. W. Neely, Esq., Win. A. Hudson, Brice X. Blair, David Jeffries, Esq. Hopewell•—James Entrekin, A. J. Wigton, Lowry Moore, .Jacob Summers, Jr. David Mountain. Springfield.--Robert Madden, Morrie Brown, Jacob Baker, Jacob E. Bare, John Star. Un on.—Enoch Chilcoat, Sint. Wright, Esq., Zachariah Pheasant, John Hampson, John Myrely. Cromwell.—Michael Star, Adam Big haw, Daniol Teague, Esq., Benson Wig ton, Thos. T. Cromwell. Shirley Tp.—John MoKinstry, John B. Foster, Samuel Booker, Abraham Carothers, George Wakefield. Shirleysburg.—James G. Doyle James Harvey, John Moore, John Loutz, M. S. Harrison. Brady.—Jno. W. Watson, Jas. McDon ald, David Foster, Wm. Hare, James Lane. Penn.—Dr. J. If. Wintrode, John Householder, Esq., David Bunibaugh, Jr. Andrew G. Neff, John Gisinger. B inningiana.—Jno.rren, JnoiThouip son, William Clensimer, David Robinson, James M. Sharra. Franklin.—Hays Hamilton, Dr. R. Stonebraker, John W. Mattern, James Morrow, John Estop. Warriormark.—D. Parker, Geo. Bran stotler, John Beek, Sen., Samuel Oyer, David Grazier. Henderson.—Andrew Allison; Henry Miller, Elisha Shoemaker, Hans Morrison, James Boggs.. Walker.—Thomas McCahan William B. White, John Snyder, John Ker, William Ridenour. Huntingdon.—Thomas Fisher, Jacob Snyder, Edward Summers, William Saxton, Armstrong Willoughby. Porter.—Lewis Knode, Benjamin Neff, (of Andrew) John Huyett, James McElroy, George Woods. ararandrza.—John N. Swoope, John Bisbin, Robert Grafius, Alexander Stitt, Jacob Baker. Morris.—Robert Kinkead, Wm. Bile= man, John M. Tussey, Nathaniel Lytle, Perry Moore. Petersburg.—William Barto, Abraham Rener,.JaMes Harman, George Whittaker, John Hoffman. West.—Robert B. Wilson, Benjamin Neff, (of Jacob,) D. S. Lindsey, John Hen derson, Jacob Shively. Barree.--Samuel Coen, John Carver, David Wilson, Robert Ashton, Peter Liv ingston. Jackson.—Sam'l. Steffey, RCM. Mcßur ney, Samuel Mitchell, Asbury Oaks, James Barr. The following named gentlemen were appointed a standitg committee for the county for the ensuing year:—J. Sewell Stewart, Esq., Dr. John McCullough, K. L. Green, Esq., Peter Myers, James Maguire. JUDICIAL CONFERENCE. Tho Whig conferees for the counties of Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria i consisting of the following persons, to wit: A. k. Cornyn, S. S. Wharton, and W. P. Orbison, Esq'rs., from Huntingdon, Samuel Calvin, R. A. M'Murtrie, . and Joseph Smith, Esq'rs., of Blair county, and B. L. John ston, Esq., Col. C. IL Heyer and A. Cope lin, Esq. from Cambria, for the purpose of placing in nomination a candidate for Pres ident Judge of the twenty-fourth judicial district, composed of the counties afore said, met at the house of. William Donald son in Hollidaysburg, on the 6th day of August, 1851; whereupon Col. C. 11. ftey- 1 er was called to the chair and Wm. P. Orbison, Esq. appointed secretary. On motion of It. L. Johnston, Esq., it was Resolved, That GEORGE TAYLOR, of Huntingdon, be unanhnously nominated for the said office of President Judge. On motion, resolved, that the conferees from Huntingdon county inform the Hon. Geo. Taylor of his nomination. Resolved, That the proceedings of this conference be signed by the officers and published in the Whig papers of the dis trict. On motion, the conference adjourneit sine die. C. IL HEYER, Pres't W. P. ORDISON, Seery. Huntingdon, August 11, 1851 lion. 0 EO. TAYLOR :- Dear Sir.—We, as representatives of the Whigs of Hunting don County, in a conference to select a can didate for the office of President Judge of the 2.4 th Judicial district, were appointed to inform you of the action of that confer once. And it gives us groat pleasure, to make known to you that the three counties composing that district, were fully repre sented, and that by the unanimous voice of the conference, you were chosen as the can didate for that office, at the ensuing election. Hoping that you will accept this nomi nation and not disappoint tho hopes of your many frionds,yo aro. Your Ob't. Serv't. A. K. OORNYN. S. S. WHARTON. WM. P. ORBISON JIUNTINODON, 11th August, 1851. Gentlemen:— It would be in vain for me to deny that I feel honored in the unanimous choice of me by the conferees represen ting the counties composing this Judicial district, as the candidate of the Whig par ty for the office of President Judge; and I gratefully accept the nomination so honorably conferred, and of which your note of this instant informs me in words so kind and flattering. To those who feel, as all should feel, a sentiment of horror at the very thought of any thing partizan or sectarian ever enter ing the place whore Justice is administer ed, it may seem incongruous, and to me, I confess, it feels somewhat awkward, for me at present performing the duties of a Judge to accept a party nomination for a Judgeship : but, as heretofore, selections for Judicial appointments were confined to the party in power without impairing pub lic confidence in the impartiality of the bench, and the purity of the administra tion of Justice, so under our amended constitution, to be a Whig or Democratic candidate for a Judgeship, will, of course, create no thought or apprehension in the minds of honest and rational voters, that, in the event of success, he is to bo a Po- LITIOAL JUDGE. Partizans, either so ig norant or so corrupt as to expect from him anything which might in the most re mote degree favour the suspicion, are sure ly few, if there aro any such to be found among the adherents of any creed, or in the ranks of any party. In accepting this nomination, gentle men, and returning my grateful acknowl edgement for the partiality manifested in designating me as a candidate for so high and so responlibto an office, I cannot but feel and acknowlede also, that the kindness intended to me by the gentlemen of the bar, and the confidence, in my integrity at least, shown by the people, of this dis trict, and which have sustained me under the otherwise disadvantageous circumstan ces I have already occupied the bench, have led my friends to overlook many deficiencies of which I feel deeply con scious. I have doubtless committed many errors. How could it be otherwise, when the most learned and wisest err Feeling that I can lay just claim to little else for the past, than to have been governed in all my official acts by an undeviating recti tude of purpose, and that I have little more to promise for the future, I am still willing to abide the decision of the peo ple of this district, to whom I am known, and who have yet more than I have at stake in the judgement they shall pro nounce. I have the honor, gentlemen, to be Your obedient servant, GEO. TAYLOR A. K. CORNYN, - - S. S. WHARTON, and W. P. ORBISON, Esq'rs; WHIG COUNTY CONVENTION. The delegates elected by the Demo cratic Whigs for the several boroughs and townships in the county of Huntingdon, met, pursrant to notice, at the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon, on Wednesday, the 13th day of Aug., 1851, i for the purpose of puttihg in nomination suitable persons to fill the several offices to be voted for at the ensuing general election. The Convention organized by appointing JAS. STEEL President, and Jos. Law, Esq. and andrew G. Jlreff Sea rotaries, when the following persons pre sented their credentials and took their seats in the Convention, to wit:— Barree Township—Robert Aston, James Coy. Brady—lsaac Wolverton, Robert Kyle. Clay—Richard Ashman, JatiTh Cass—Col. John Slecer, Caleb Swoop& Cromwell—R. B. Wigton, Richard Colegate, Dublin—Brice Blair, James Crcc, Franklin—Ueorgc W. Mattorn, Samuel Wig. ton. Hopewell—David Mountain, Lowry Moore. Henderson—Henry Cornprobst, Hen•y Miller. Jackson—Alex. Stewart, John Cummins. Morrie—Joseph Law, Esq., Casper Weight. Porter.—Heriry Neff, Henry Giulia& Penn—Andrew G. Nell, John Garner: Springfield—Benedict Sterent, Esq., Morris Brown. Shirley—Peter Myers, David Douglass. Tell—George Wilson, Esq., Jacob A. Hocver. Tod—Solomon llouck, Esq., Isaac Taylor. Union— Levi Smith, Zechariah Pheasant: West —John llewit, David Burley. Warriormark—Walter Vantrics, Dr. Henry K Neff. Walker—Thomas MeCahan, John Porter. Huntingdon BOrci—James Steel, John N. Prow. ell. Birmingham---ahri K. McCallan, Thomas Schell. Petersburg—Joseph Forrest, Joseph M. Ste. yens. Shirleysburg—Benjamin Leas, James 13. Doyle. Alexandria—William Grans, William Moore, Whereupon the said Convention, after balloting several times, put in nomination the following persons for the offices attach ed to their names, to wit: [See the head of our paper for the ticket.l On motion, Resolved, That the above proceedings be published in the Whig pa pers printed in Huntingdon and Blair Counties. On motion, the Convention adjourned. JAMES STEEL, Pree't. Joseph Law, .thadrew G. Neil; Secretaries. CI Several larg;bodies of yang mod are preparing at Cinoinnatti to join thd expedition against Cuba. Reported for the Journal, STATE 01',,,T.F1E THERMOMETER: 7a.m. 2 - p - .. - Ea — . - 9p.m. tußs.—Aug.l2 72 84 72 WEDNS. "13 68 90 74 THURS. "14 70 80 69 FRIDAY "15 58 74 64 SATDY• "16 58 79 70 SUNDAY " 17 66 86 75 Mogi)AY "18 66 74 . 69 JACOB MILLER, 0138ERVIER. Ilinahlglloll July 24th, 1851- TEACHER WANTED. -- - A gentleman capable of taking charge of the highest male school in the free schools of this bo rough will find a situation, with a good salary, by applying immediately. The school will com mence on the Ist September and continue until the and of the school year. By order of the Board. ' C. S. BLACK, Scct'ry.