w Y r `~ ... ~.5 :. ..:r __ ,~., THE JOURNAL - HUNTINGDON, PA: Thursday Morning, Sept. 11, 101. J. SEWELL STEWAILT—Enron. TERMS OF PUBLICATION Toe " HUNTINGDON JOURNAL" if published at the following rates, viz : if paid in advance, per annum, $1,50 If paid daring the your, 1.13 If paid after the expiration of the year,• 2,50 To Clubs of five or more, in inlvance,• • 1,23 Tun above Terms will he adhered to in all eases. No subscription will be taken fora less period than fix months, and no paper will he discontinued un til all arrearages arc paid, unless at the option of the publisher. • V. U. PALMER Is our authorized agent in Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, to receive advertisements, and any persons in those cities wishing to adver tise in our eolunuts, will phmse .11 on him. FOR TILE PRESIDENCY IN 1852, WINFIELD SCOTT, OF NEW JERSEY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1852, JAMES C. JONES, OF TENNESSEE FOR GOVERNOR IN 1851, ti ICI, F. JOHNSTON. OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY. roil CANAL VORMISSIONER. JOHN STROHM 06 LANCASTER. POR TIIP SUPREMH 11C3CII. WM. M. MEREDITH of Philadelphia. RICII. COULTER of Wesinoreland. JOSHUA W. COMEX of Montour•. GEORGE CHAMBERS of Franklin. WILLLANt JESSUP of Susquehanna. WHIG COUNTY TICKET, PRESIDENT JUDGE, HON. GEORGE TAYLOR OV lIIPSTINGDON, Associate Judges, JONATHAN MIVILLIAMS, Frauklin, HENRY BREWSTER, Shirleysburg. Assembly, WILLIAM B. SMITH, Jackson. SETH R. MT UNE, Blair County out, and in violation of the laws of the country, and there is no organized govern ment upon earth to listen to their calls of succour. But while, as a mere legal ques tion, this is undoubtedly the ease, still we believe the time has could when torture and barbarity should cease to exist; and we very much fear that the fifty persons, shot at Ilavana, were not honor ed with a proper trial, or executed merely to subserve the ends of justice. But if legal formalities have been complied with, this govorutOent cannot object to the exe cution. We would advise our country teen not to carry liberty to Cuba or any other country, until they certainly discov er that the article is in demand. If Cu ba actually desired to be relieved from an oppressive yoke, and would show her faith by her works, wo would not object to springing a small leak in the law to afford some help; but if that desire, shown by a formidable outbreak, dues not exist, it is the height of fillibusterism for the people TAX PAYEIN COME AND DEAR of one nation to carry rebellion and revolt into another. Prothonotary THEODORE H. CREMER, Huntingdui Register & Recorder, MATH. P. CAMPBELL, Henderson. Treasurer, JOHN MARKS, Huntiugdou Commissioner, ELIEL S IITII, Union. ROBERT STITT, Huntingdon, Coroner, ISAAC \VOLVERTON, Brady, Auditor, JOHN REED, Huntingdon, Directors of the Poor, JAMES CLARE, Birmingham. JAMES SAXTON, Huntingdon, GEORGE HUDSON, Clay. OLD BILL'S COMING!! HIM GOV. JOHNSTON will address his fellow citizens of Huntingdon county on the evening of FIUD.&Y, September. He speaks at Lewistown at 1 o'clock of the same day. The evening train front the east on that day will bring lam here. We hope to see both the eastern and western' trains of that day and the lateral roads crowded with people coming to hear Gov. Johnston explain how the State Debt can be paid without burdening the farmer and industrial classes, and other subjects of Whig policy. J. SEWELL STEWART, Chairman Co. Corn. Sept. 11, 1851. James Maguire—New Goods. We call attention to the avertisemont of James Maguire's new stock of fall and winter good s,just received from the eastern cities—Fine chance for bargains. o'7" We also call attention to advertise ments of the sale of the valuable Tanyard property in fluntingdon, by Thomas Fish er, Guardian of minor children of Willian Ward, dee'd. _ Also to the sale of the personal property of Horatio Trexler h Co., ut Paradise Furnace. [f_ 7 Also, Milnweml Academy. jj Hon. Don. Taylor will address the sonday school at MeCahan's Grove this day 11th Sept. 1851. The Cuban Revolution. Since our last paper was issued we have received intelligence from Cuba, that tho expedition to that island under Gen. Lo pez has not only been baffled, but totally destroyed. Not a man has come hack to tell the talc of his sufferings, or gladden the heart of a friend. Lopez himself was taken in a private house at St. Chrietoval, into which ho had fled, in order to take some rest, and carried to Havana, where he was publicly executed, in presence of an immense crowd of spectators. In hon or of the occasion ; the houses of the city of Havana were illuminated, processions marched through the streets ; with torch lights, and the whole scene was one of rejoicing. The remnant of the invading force was taken prisoners by the Spanish after having made their last meal on the horse of Gen. Lopez. They have been condemned to work in the wines. Two Lundred and fifty of the invading force Lave been shot by the Spanish. It is said, and we believe it to be true, that the in vaders were successful in every battle they fought, and that in the different en gagements, in which they participated, they kilned two thousand of the Spanish troops. It appears to he entirely certain that there was no rising of the inhabitants of Cuba, and no apparent dpsire on the part of the people to throw off the Spanish yoke. Lopez complained that he had been deceived, as to the extent of the dis affection, and there is no doubt, that if his efforts had been seconded by the Cuban population to even a moderate degree, the expedition would have been successful. His men evidently fought with great bra very and impetuousness, and if they had been backed by any recognized government, even to the extent of permitting arms and munitions to be sent to them, the flag of liberty might now be waving over an en franchised country. Some of his soldiers have written home, that Lopez deceived them, when no doubt both they and their commander wore too sanguine and permit- Led themselves to be deceived. We are Heartily sorry at the terrible doom that the invaders met, but at the same time, as they had no flag, but one of their own make, to flutter over their heads, the gov ernment, which they abandoned is not bound to protect them. They went, against and in spite of the wishes of the govern- The Editor of the Hollidaysburg Standard appears to be in magnetic com munication with the spirits of the infernal world—and at the same time his acerbity of temper partakes more of the snapping spite fulness of the w itch, than the mighty nut lice of the great devils who rub that em pire. He is evidently a very low subordi .. . . nate of that superior power, which rules and controls the confined workings of his frozen genius. \V hen ho attempts to imitate the majestic howling of the wolf, • the hyena or the tiger,it degenerates in to a contemptible yelp. But the little spiteful witch says, in most elegant and gentlemanly Englsb, that we "lied" when wo said that Col. Bigler said "he slid not know what he was doing" when he voted foe tie , jail closing debt of 1847. Bigler says in his Philadelphia speech —Not being a lawyer, he was not a memo bur of the commitee on the judiciary, and he never Lad occasion to conine and make himself fully ucy ',tinted midi the relative powers and duties of the national and state governments on this question," (the jail closing act). In the next para graph he says—" There being no agitation of the subject at the time of the introduc tion of that measure, it was not strange that he should have failed In notice its full effect." (Bigler's speech in the Bul letin 22nd Aug. 1851). We!Oppose the Standard is aware that Bigler voted for the jail closing act. oft and Johnston Club. l'ursuant to notice a largo number of the Whigs of the borough and vicinity met in the Diamond, in front of the house of Alex. Cannon, for the purpose of per manently organizing the Scott and John ston Club. On motion, Mr. JAMES BARR, of the Warm Springs, was called to the chair, when the committee, appointed at a previ ous meeting, reported a Constitution and Bye-Laws for the government of the Club, together with the following list of officers: President.--JOEIN WILLIAMSON, Esq. Vice Presidents—Michael Snyder, Wit ham Hoffman, John J. Easton, Thomas Fisher, Jackson dlfrica, John Whitta ker, jr., John F. .Miller, ✓llexander Car mon, Jacob Snyder, Peter C. Swoope, Thomas APCahan, Samuel Friedley, John Flenner,William Rothrock,Peter .Marks, J. E. Wood, Nicholas Decker. Recording Secretaries—Edmund Snare, E. C. Summers, R. A. Miller. Corresponding Secretaries—W. T. Nil son, Samuel L. Glasgow. The Report of the Committee was adopt ed with a "shout and a song." The President elect was then loudly called for, who appeared and treated the enthusiastic crowd with an able and elo quent speech. Speeches were also deliv ered during the evening by J. Sewell Stewart, Esq., 13. C. Lytle and Samuel Glasgow, which were received with shouts of applause. . They not only gave the Locos a "sight of that same old Coon," which floored their ,rooster in '4B, but also a "touch of that same old tune," which knocked the trot [Mrs from their sneaking fox in '4O. Rev..l.T. Itlct A meeting of the Students of Milnwooil Academy was held iu the Academy hall on Thursday, the 4th inst., relative to the death of their honored Principal, the Rev. J. Y. 3101 ism Es. On motion. Jas. Reed, jr. was called to the chair, and Wm. A. Gray appointed Secretary. The following preamble and resolutions were read by D. Henry Barron, and unan imously adopted: WHEREAS, The Almighty disposer of events having in his providence seen fit to remove our beloved Principal to himself, wo realize the melancholly fact that we have met with a calamity of no ordinary character. We feel that death in his fear . . ful ravage has created a void which this world can never fill—that we, as his pu pils, have been deprived of a friend and ,instructor, whose kind and earnest regard for our mental and moral improvement, bound us to him as children to a common father. We feel, too, that in his death society has been deprived of a shining or nament—education of au able and ardent supporter, and the eltristian religion of an earnest and devoted minister. Well in deed may a cloud of gloom hang over and around us—well indeed may ours be the tears of heartfelt sorrow. Talents devo ted to the cause of religion—influence ex erted for the welfare of mum•—and moral worth as an example for us all, have been in the meridian of usefulness swept from our midst, and it is meet that we should grieve, for we feel deeply our bereave ment. And whereas, the interest with which our honored principal ever regarded our common welfare, demands a final and public acknowledgement, therefore Resolved, That as members of the in stitution so suddenly deprived of its wor thy Principal and founder, we shall ever cherish in grateful remembrance his earn est endeavors to promote our common welfare, and to advance our temporal and spiritual interests. Resolved, That the loss of a generous friend, a kind father and an affectionate husband, demands our warmest sympathy for the bereaved family and relatives of the honored dead. _ Resolved, That in view of our common affliction, and as a token of respect to the memory of our departed Principal, the members of this institution wear the usual badge of mourning during the remainder of the present session. Resolved, That copies of the proceed ings be forwarded for publication to the papers of Shippensburg, Chambershurg, Huntingdon, and WConnellsburg, and a copy to the "Presbyterian" of Philadel phia. On motion, adjourned. JAMES REED, Jr., Pres't. Wm. A. GRAY, Sect' ry. .q. C. Wilson, B. F. Deal, D. Henry 'Barron, Committee on Resolutions. I.,.*Tl;ltelegant periodical, Graham's Magazine for September is on our table, filled with choice prose and poetry and very elegantly embellished.—lt is a fine refiner of the head and heart. 10" A Whig governor is elected in Ver mont over a combination of democrats and free seders and all Ipposing candidates, GLORIOUS irtomai roil THE TAX PAVERS I AMOUNT OF THE REDUCTION OF THE STATE DEBT. We ask the attention of the public to le following official Proclamation -4 i }e i ' r--,-,-.1-... ., 1 5 Iv. , ' - , ,,1 5 0-. - f, - .:,,,- -- , i‘ •• - '-`/Ai:`, -,y , , , -.4 /41, P EJVVYSY LIMNI.9, SS rn the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. BY WM. F. JOHNSTON, Governor of the said Commonwealth A PROCL AMATION. WrIEREAS, In and by an Ar, act of the General Assembly of 013 1 . ) this Commonwealth, passed the .71 11:114. tenth day of April, one thou sand eight hundred and forty-nine, enti tled “An Act to create a SINKING FUND, and to provide for the CRADUAL AND CER TAIN EXTINUIMEMMENT OF THE DEIST OF TILE COMMONWEALTH," it is enacted and provided az follows, viz : SEC. 1. That the Seorotary of the Com monwealth, Auditor General, and State Treasurer, for the time being, shall be Commissioners, who are hereby authorized to receive the revenues appropriated by this act, or which may hereafter bo appro priated for the same object, and to pur chase therewith the debt of the State of Pennsylvania at its market price, if not exceeding the par valie thereof, to the full extent of the said revenues, and to hold and apply the same, and the interest thereon accruing, firmly and inviolably on the trusts and for the purposes hereinafter specified. _ _ _ Sc.E 2. That all revenue derived from the following sources, to wit: the taxes on collateral inheritances and the per centage assessed upon any bank or railroad, or coal mining, or railroad and coal mining, or improvement company oharter, all taxes assessed on distilleries and breweries, on billiard rooms, bowling saloons and ten pin alleys, on now comities, on theatrical, circus and menagerie exhibitions, and on eating houses, beer houses and restaurants, and all such revenues as the Legislature may from time, to time set apart for the purposes mentioned in this act, shall, so soon as the same shall be received at the Treasury, be paid over to the said Com missioners, who shall forthwith proceed to purchase the debts of the Commonwealth, on the terms and for the purposes set forth in the first section of this act. SEC. 3. That the said Commissioners shall be authorized to receive the interest due and payable on the debt, so as afore said purchased and held by them, which interest shall be likewise applied to the purchase of said debt, so that the same shall form a constantly accumulating fund for the extinguishment of the public debt. SEC. 4. That it shall bo the duty of the said Commissioners, on the first Monday of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and on the same day, in every third year thereafter, to cer tify the amount of the debt of the Com- ino'nwealth held by them, to the Governor, who shall direct the certificates repre senting the same to be cancelled, and on such cancellation issue his prolamation, stating the fact and the extinguishment nud final discharge of so much of the principal of said debt. SKe. 5. That the said Commissioners shall, within ten days after the organization of the Legislature, in the year one thou sand eight hundred and fifty-two; and in every third year thereafter, specially re port to the Legislature the amount of the public debt, so as aforesaid liquidated and, proclaimed by the Governor to have been cancelled, and what reduction of taxes may, in consequence thereof, be made, in order that the Legislature may provide for such reduction in the burthens .of the people. AND WHEREAS, Alexander L. Russell,' Secretary of the Commonwealth, Ephraim Banks, Auditor General, and John M. Bickel, State Treasurer, Connuisioners of the Sinking Fund, have CERTIFIED to inn as follows, viz : Vice ofihe commissioners of tin: Sinking to ITAnumninco, September I, 1851. To his excellency TVnt. F. Johnston Governor of Pennsylvania : Stn :—ln compliance with the 4th sec tion of the act, entitled a An Act to create a Sinking Fund and to provide for the gradual and certain extinguishment of the debt of the Commonwealth," apptclifid the 10th day of April, 1819, the Conimis sioners of said fund hereby certify that the amount of the debt of the Common-, wealth purchased since the passage of the act of A, , sembly referred to, and now held ' by them is SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS AND NINETY-EIGHT CENTS ($659422 98) consisting of 5 per cent. loans negotiated under various acts of Assembly. Your obedient servants, A. L. RUSSELL, E. BANKS, JNO. H. BICKEL, Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. Now THEREFORE, In obedience to the requiremenT i rthe fourth section of the act of the General Assembly aforesaid, I do hereby issue this Proclamation, publish ing and declaring the PAYMENT, EXTIN GUISHMENT AND FINAL DISCHARGE of SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-TWO DOLLARS & NINE TY-EIGHT CTS. (659,122 98) of the PRINCIPAL of the DEBT of this Common wealth; and that I have directed the cor titivates, representing the same, to be can celled. GIVEN under my hand and the Great Seal of the State at Harrisburg, this fifth day of September, in the year of our Lord otie thousand eight hundred and fifty one, and of the Commonwealth the seven ty-sixth. BY VIE GOVERNOR A. L. RUSSELL; Sec'y of the Commonwealth Above we publish the proclamation of Gov. Johnston, announcing that the Sink ing Fund in the two years and a half it has been in opperation, has paid $659,122 98 of the public debt. This is not the total reduction of debt effected by Gov.John eton. How much has been paid will be seen by a comparison of the amount of public debt on Nov. 30, 1848, and the amount on September 1, 1851. In 1848 the debt was as follows Funded $39,393,350 24 1,081,386 69 I..Triruncled, Canal, Railroad and Motive Pomi•cr debts returned in 1849 and '5O, being debts contended prior to lot De eemter, 1848, 40,848,49 S 41 d debt N0v.30, '4B, In stating the debt duo at that time, the Locofocos purposely omit to count the floating debt of $373,801 48, which was contracted illegally under Gov. Shank's administration, which was not known to exist until after Gin. Johnston took office, and which, as directed by the Le gislature, Gov. Johnston has paid in full ! ! The public debt, when Gov. Shunk left office, was $40,848,598 41, be ing $137,794 82 less than when he went into office four years before, the whole of this reduction having resulted from the payment of a debt which bore no inter est. See what the public debt now is. The official records prove it to be as follows Amount of funded debt, inclu ding; amount in the hands of Commissioners of Sinking Fund, and also special loan to avoid inclined piano at the Schuylkill, on the 30th of Nov 1850, $39,862,914 78 'aunt of unfunded debt, same date, Total sum of debt, educe amount of stock 'mottos. ed by Commissioners of Sink. in Fund, Twat dobt Sept, 1, 1851, RECAPITULATION. Atli debt Nov. 30th, 1848, do Sept. lot, 1851, MS now than two years and a half ago, $732,235 97 This proves that Gov. Johnston, in the two years and a half since he was inaugura ted, has paid SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE DOL LARS AND NINETY-SEVEN CENTS ($732435 97) of the debt of the Common wealth!! ! In the same time appropriations have been made to the North Branch canal; over two hundred and forty thousand dol lars were paid to the permanent improve ment of the Columbia railway; four hun dred thousand dollars were applied to an avoidance of the Inclined Plane at the Schuylkill, and various other amounts wore appropriated, which have placed the public works in better repair than they ever was before. These are the results of Gov. Johnston's administration. Noble results they are, and well do they entitle Gov. Johnston to the reputation of the first public servant, under whose rule a considerable amount of the public debt was paid, the public cred it maintained, and the public honor pre served!—Daily ✓lmericaan. "A Sou an Currency."—The Looofocol presses are beginning to harp again about a "sound currency." Tho less they say about that the bettor for themselves. The intelligent voters all know that under their "Democratic" Tariff of 1846, the country is being drained at a fearful rate of its soundest currency—the silver dol lars and half dollars, quarters and dimes— to pay the British "Lords of the Loom and Work shop" for the manufactures of their half-starved operatives. If this don't disturb the currency they need have no fears about it. But if it does, as we think it will, the people understand where the fault lies, and will apply the corrective. Harp on.--Pills. Goz. Read these Facts, and see if Gov ernor Johnston has not done his Full Duty. One thing is giving the Looofocos groat trouble. It is the faot that Gov. Johnston has collected annually, less tax from the Real Estate of the Commonwealth than his Locofoco predecessor. Hero is the proof taken from the Auditcr General's Report for last year: Gov. Shunk received From real estate in 1845, Do. 1846, Do. 1847, Do. 1848, Total in four year, Annual average, Gov. Johnston received From real estate in 1849, Do. 1850, Total in two years, Annual average, Gov. Johnston has received over SIX TY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS less annually, from Real Esate, than Gov. Shunk ! ! Yet with less money from this source, and less clear money from the public works, Gov. Johnston has paid in Iwo years $538,203 67 of the public debt, whilst Gov. Shook in four years, paid but $137,794 82 ! ! The income from the tax on Real E state should have been greater now than heretofore, for the Revenue Commisioners of 1848 increased the valuation of proper ty in the State over the valuation in 1845, $43,477,257 00. The rate of taxation has not teen increased, but the same rate on 43,477,257 increase of valuation, should have produced a large increase, of revenue. Instead of an increase, we find in the above, that less money was received from 313,861 48 this source in 1850, than in 1845! ! The *Mt is there in bold relief. Nono can contradict it GOV. JHONSTON HAS RECEIVED LESS MONEY FROM THE FARMERS, AND YET PAID A MUCH LARGER PROPORTION OF THE STATE DEBT THAN ANY PRE CEDING LOCOFOCO ADMINISTRA TION ! Remember this fact when the time for voting arrives: What a Mineral:tee a few Years Make. Mr. J. 11. Snowden in the former of she two letters he recently' , wrote about the public debt, said : would seem as if Gov. Johnston has got the bright idea, that every dollar that goes into the Sinking Fund diminishes the State debt; whereas it is only taking it from one pocket and putting it into anoth ,„. We exposed the absurdity of this a few days ago. We will now bring J. R. Snow den to prove that J: R. Snowdon did no t always think this about Sluicing Funds. In his Treasury Report in 1846, Mr. Snowden recommended a Sinking Fund, and a tax of ten cents por ton on Anthra cite Coal. lie spoke of the advantages of a Sinking Fund as follows—(See Report, Senate Journal, Vol. 2, p. 12): " The first dollar that would go into the Sinking Fund, would be evidence of our safety, and every citizen would breathe more freely. Every species of property, and over variety of business would ad vance under its in ; and whilst the debt would be diminishing, the public redo flues would bo increasing, and thus the prosperity of the Commonwealth and that of her citizens promoted, for they aro in separable from each other." 912,570 04 $40,775,485 42 659,122 98 $40,116,362 44 $40,848,598 41 40,116,362 44 This is sensible. If Mr. Snowden had not desired to pervert and deceive, he would have spoken of Gov. Johnston's Sinking Fund in the same manner. The cases differed in this. In the one ease he was praising his own foresight in making such a suggestion. In the other, he would have given credit to a man who; without boasting and self-gratulation, has done more for Pennsylvania than any Governor she ever had. The difference in the cases allowed Mr. Snowden to sustain a Sinking Fund in the one, and ridicule it in the other. We leave Mr. Snowdon with the worst possible company—that of his own candor and fairness.—Daily ✓lmerican. Hover's Writing Ink. "We are opposed to all kinds of Puf fing,' in the figurative sense of the term. Whether in the notice of a book, or any thing else, wo have a repugnance to give it a fulsome adulation, or to recommend it in any way at all, unless we honestly be ' lieve it worthy of favor. "We have again furnished ourselves with a keg of llover's Black Writing Ink, and when we say that this is not the first or the second keg that has been procured from Mr. Hover, the article may be con sidered as being endorsed 'good' by us, otherwise we should not have continued its use for these six or seven yeere past.— Others may have their preferences in favor of different manufactures, and we are quite willing that they enjoy those preferences (save and except those of our correspon dents, who sothetimes impose that loath some Blue stuff upon us, which is not fit to be used;) for our own part, we continuo the the manufacture of Mr. Hover, whose ink is not only clear and blank, but does not clog and conglomerate our pen, as some otherwise good inks do."—German forcer! Messenger, Chanibersburg, Pa. $1,318,332 02 1,445,112 70 1,380,781 19 1,350,129 49 $5,404,355 40 1,373,588 85 $1,293,021 81 1,317,821 55 $2,611,743 37 1,305,871 68