THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PA
Thursday Morning, Sept, 25, ISS-1
J. SEW ELL STEWART—Emon.
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FOR TEIE PRESIDENCY IN 1852,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
OE NEW JERSEY,
FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1852,
JAMES C. JONES,
OF TENNESSEE.
FOR GOVERNOR IN 1851,
WM. F. JOHNSTON,
OF ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
JOHN STROHM,
OF LANCASTER.
FUR VW SUPREME RESTII.
WM. M. MEREDITH of Philadelphia.
RICH. COULTER of NVermoreland.
JOSIII;A NV. COMLY of Montour.
GEORGE CH AMRF.RS of Franklin.
WILLIAM JESSUP of Susquehanna.
WUM COUNTY incKET.
PRESIDENT JUDGE,
HON. GEORGE TAYLOR
OF OtiNTINODON.
Associate Judges,
JONATHAN M'WILLIAMS, Franklin,
HENRY BREWSTER, Shirloysburg.
Assembly,
WILLIAM B. SMITH, Jackson.
SETH It. M'CUNE, Blair County
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,
DAVID PARKER, Warrioramark.•
Directors of the Poor,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
JAMES SAXTON, Huntingdon,
GEORGE HUDSON, Clay.
LocOfocos and Democrats.
There is a difference betwe3n a loofoco
and a democrat. A locofoco is apolitical,
wire puller, thief and plunderer, who makes
his living by filching the people's money
front the treasury ; men, whom we daily
see stooping to any thing that will sub
serve their party purpose, and deceive an
honest community. A democrat is an
. onest man, who attends to his own busi
ness and expects to make his living by that
business, and who generally votes with the
party which calls itself democratic, be
cause he entertains the conviction that its
aims are right, and if he could but see the
villainy of his party leaders ho would.
promptly desert them. When we speak of
democrats we do'nt mean locofocos and
when we speak of locofocos we do'nt mean
democrats. The great mass of the party
are democrats, who mean well.
A HUMILIATING SPECTACLE:
To see the Leedom) cnrdidate for the high
and sacred office of President Judge of,
this judicial district resorting to all the ,
low and contemptible means which the
mind of the most degraded pot-house poli
tician could possibly suggest, to secure an ]
election. Oh! shame, where is thy blush!
[l7 — Ths Clear jiia Republican, the
immediate organ of Col. BIGLER, states
that the Tariff of 1846 has greatly bene
fitted the farming interests. What do
you think of that Farmers l WHEAT is
NOW DOWN TO SEVENTY C EJVTS—
lower than It was ever known-to be, and
lower than it over would have beau, under
a Protective Tariff. Have you been
" greatly beneatted" by that,
THE CHRISTIANA RIOT.
The locofooo editors, stump orators, and
leaders of tht4 party, who want more time
and opportunity to steal from the people
their honest earnings, have turned the
whole force of their batteries on the little
village of Christiana. They say that GOT.
Johnston is the murderer of Mr. Gorsuch—
that his hands are now reeking with his
blood; and tb.ay say it in such strong terms,
that when their papers reach the honest
farm house and are perused, the whole
Family unites in saying that the statement
is a lie—that none but fiends from hell
could be guilty of the imputed charge.
The story therefore carries its own refuta
tion on its face—it is too strong for sensi
ble men to believe and even young school
boys disbelieve it. The head of an honest
Democratic family told us, it was pronoun
ced a lie around his fireside: But let us
look at the subject for a niemsni:
It appears that Gov. Johnston passed
tae scene of outrage in the cars on his way
to Philadelphia, some five or six hours af
ter the riot and murder bad been com
mitted. At the time he passed, all was
quiet, and the whole community was awe
stricken with the terrible tragedy. As
soon after the occurrence as possible legal
proceedings were commenced by the prop
er officers for the detection and arrest of
the offenders. The Attorney General of
the State, the District Attorney, Sheriff and
other officers of Lancaster city, and the
'justices of the peace and constables of the
neighborhood went promptly to work in
the execution of their duty, made several
arrests and lodged the prisoners in the
Lancaster jail. While they were thus en
gaged, and: more than twenty-four hours
after the commission of the crime, a de
tachment of United States marines and
part of the police force of Philadelphia
with the proper federal officers came to act
in concert with the State officers. The re
sult of the investigation was properly report
ed to the Governor, who, upon finding that
some of the guilty persons had escaped the
vigilance of all the officers, immediately is
sued his proclamation offering a reward for
their apprehenson.
The persons who attended to this mat
ter were the proper persons to do it.—
When an offence is committed against the
law, a justice of the peace if he sees it, or
on the information of some one else, issues
a warrant to a constable, who proceeds to
arrest the offender. If he is unable to do
it, he calls on his neighbors to help him,
and if they do not obey the call they are
liable to an indictment. Several people
have been murdered in Huntingdon county
and this is the course which has always
been taken to arrest them. The duties as
signed by the law to the Governor are en
tirely different from those assigned to a
constable. If the Governor would attempt
to assume the duties of a constable or a
justice of the peace, he would be violating
the law. The law don't make it tho duty
of a Governor to run after a criminal to
arrest him, but it has clothed a great body
amen with this power. When this reg
ular mode fails, then the Governor is em
powered to stimulate the exertions of of
ficers and others. by offering a reward for
the apprehension of the criminal. A few
years ago Mr. Kennedy froni Maryland
w 63 killed in a riot at Carlisle, when at
tempting to arrest a fugitive slave, and
Gov. Shunk did not, and was not called
on, to issue a proclamation, or intCrfere to
arrest the perpetrators of the riot adzl
murder. In the case of the murder of
Mr. Gorsuch Gov. Johnston issued his
proclamation as soon as he was notified by
the proper officers, that some of the crimi
nals had not been arrested. He and the
State officers did all that it was possible
for men to do, without sending into Lan
caster county, a standing army to overawe
i her loyal people.
This is the circumstance, which has fur
nished to a. few contemptible, lying black
guards, at the head of the locefocos, the
material for the charge against Gov. John
ston; that his hands are dripping with the
blood of a fellow being. They boldly say
that ho is guilty of murder and treason,
and one whelp said that he would say it to
Gov. Johnston's face and reiterate it on
his dying bed. We toll the scoundrel
Geo. W. Woodward, who opposed the
right of foreigners to vote, that he dare
not tell it to Gov. Johnston's face—while
at the same time, we believe him wicked
enough to utter en his death-bed the most
audacious lie. The Rev. Mr. Gorsuch, a
son of the murdered man, it is said, has
written a scurrillous letter addressed to
Gov. Johnston, charging him with being
accessory to the murder of his father.—
We have too much confidence in the in
tegrity of the awbassadors of the Lord
Jesus Christ, to believe, that one of them
ever wrote or dictated the letter ascribed
to the Rev. Mr. Gorsuch. It cannot be
true that he has lent himself to political
blood hounds, who, to subserve a party
purpose, would seduce him from his al
legiance to his Lord and master. We do
not want to believe that a minister of the
gospel, a teacher of humility and peace,
can drop down to a level with political
brawlers and liars and slanderers—and
for the honor of the sweet and mild religion
which lie professes, we don't believe it.—
The letter was evidently written by Forney
of the Pennsylvanian or some of his affilia
ted liars.
But it is gratifying to know that every
time the locofoco editors and orators cry,
blood—blood—they make a vote for Gov.
Johnston. Their party is daily giving way
under the mighty humbug. They know
they are gone and they are invoking the
blood of Gorsuch to save them. They
are clinging to the last plank On a stormy
and the next wave will wash them
off. The robbers and thieves who have
stolen twenty millions of the people's mo
ney are now whipt and will be totally
routed on the fourteenth. The cry of
blood will not divert the attention of the
people from the SINKING FUND to pay the
State Debt. They know the administra
tion of Gov. Johnston is an honest one
and will be so in the future. Up, friends
of honesty, and the victory is yours.
TRENIENDODS
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TO RECEIVE .9✓YD HE-9R GOVER
NOR JOHNSTO.N; IN HUNTING
DON, ON THE 26th ult.
Gov. Johnston arrived in town by the
Eastern train at 4 o'clock of Friday even
ing last, and was received at the cars and
escorted to his lodging at the house of
Alexander Cannon, by the Johnston Club
of this borough and vicinity, and a great
concourse of citizens from all parts of the
county, where he was welcomed in a short
speech by John Williamson Esq., which
the Governor responded to by informing
those present, that he would address them
in the evening at the Court House.
About dark the Court House commenced
filling up, when the meeting was organized
by calling Christopher Wigton of I?rank
lin township to the chair and appointing
several Vice Presidents and Secretaries.
Soon after the Governor came, escorted by
a long procession behind an' elegant and
superb transparency, the best we have ev
er seen, got up and painted by Mr. Hogmire
of this borough. The Governor was greet
ed with three tremendous cheers by the
enthusiastic multitude, on his entrance in
the house. The large court-room presen
ted one unbroken sea of faces. The Gov
ernor was then very briefly introduced to
the meeting by J. Sewell Stewart He
then commenced an able thorough and con
vincing speech, which occupied two hours
and a half. During the whole time, lie
enchained his auditors, and made a very
favorable impression upon the minds of all
present, both Whigs and Democrats. If
all the people in Pennsylvania could hear
his speeches, his majority in the State
would be fifty thousand! as it is, it will
be at the least, ten thousand.
Gov. Johnston at Hollidaysburg,.
The reception of Gov. Johnston by the
Whigs of Blair county was a demonstration
worthy of our little sister, and not only
flattering to the Governor, but creditable
to her gallant sons ai'l gratifying to every
friend of Pennsylvania's noMest and best
son. They met him at the junctiod of the
Pennsylvania and Portage roads with a
line of carriages which, when formed in
procession, was about a mile in length.
The carriage in which the Governor wag
seated was handsomely decorated and draWn
by eight fine horses most beautifully ea
parivned. Arches were erected in the
streets through which the procession poss..'
ed, and scores of flags were suspended
from the reeves and windows of houses
and across the streets. Notwithstanding
the rain continued to fall all day, the
meeting was the largest that has assem
bled anywhere in the Juniata valley since
the meeting of the great Whig Conven
tion in that county in '44. The gallant
Whigs of Little Blair are awake, and, our
word for it, they will take the starch out
the Portage gang on the 14th.
DEATH OF COOPER, THE NOVELIST.—.
.Tames Fenimore Cooper, the popular A
merican Novelist, died at his residence at
Cooperstown, New York, on the 14th inst.,
in the 62d year of his age. He had been
sick for some months.
More Particulars Narrated of the
Arranged Fraud.
Judge Woodward, when in Harrisburg
last week, told his friends here that he ltd
heard but one Whig in the State who would
not vote for Gov. Johnston now, and that
he had been recently a citizen of a sister
State, but that he knew of hundreds of
Democrats, who would now vote for Gov.
Johnston who had not voted for him in
1848 and if this stampede in Johnston's
favor was not stopped .Mr. Bigler would
be defeated. .To stop this uprising of the
people, he proposed a panic on the slavery
question and remarked :
11." He did not know that there was
any CRUSE for ../11.11R.M, but that it
was better to o_7 - R.iIISE F.RLSE
.4 &nal than that Johnston should be
elected ! ! !"
Remember this trick, Whigs, when you
read the Gorsuch letter, the Comments of
the Locofoco Pre . ss On the riot at Christi
ana and their efforts to identify Governor
Johnston with the Abolitionists. This is
all a mere sham, intended for political
effect. Laugh at and despise the misera
ble tricksters, who would thus agitate the
country with false alarms merely to gain
votes for their party.—Daily .thnerican.
LOCOFOCO
'Lew Wages'
•
b OCTRIN Et
Wheat 70 cents per bushel;
Flour $3 75 per bbl, and falling;
Labor, TEN CENTS A DAY!
Farmers, Mechanics and Laboring Men,
here's a pretty bill of fare for you! Do
you think you can swallow it all? If you
can, vote for William Bigler, Seth Clover,
and the balance of the Locofoco Ticket.
Our Chances.
The last Honesdale Democrat discours
es on this subject. Victory is within the
grasp of the Whigs of the State. Will
they not stretch forth their hands and
seize it ? The Democrat says:
c. All accounts agree that in the west
ern portion of the State Gov. Johnston's
majority will this year be ten thousand
greater than it was in 1848. In the west
Col. Bigler is losing ground daily. Ev
ery speech he makes there lessens the
number of his supporters. When the
campaign opened the locofoeos were con
fident of an easy victory. They sneered
at the suggestion that they could possibly
be defeated. All that they had to do was
to walk over the Course and take the prize.
Now their tone and manner is altered.—
They talk of the result doubtingly—they
look despondingly. Only those swagger
who have not stopped to observe the cur
rent of public opinion, or who would boast
of their security if they knew that the next
minute their heads would be overwhelm
ed."
Gov. Johnston and the Lancaster
Slave Riot.
Interesting Correspondence,
To the Governor of Pennsylvania.
The undersigned, citizens of Pennsyl
vania, respectfully represent:
That citizens of a neighboring State
have been cruelly assassinated by a hand
of armed outlaws, at a place not more than
three hours' journey distant from the seat
of government and from the commercial
metropolis of the State . ;
That this insurrectionary movement in
one of the most populous parts of the
State, has been so far successful as to
overawe the local ministers of justice and
paralyze the powers of the law ;
That your memorialists are not aware
that , 4 any military force" has been sent to
the seat of the insurrection, or that the
civil authority has been strengthened by
the adoption of any measures suited to
the momentous crisis.
They therefore respectfully request the
Chief Executive Magistrate of Pennsyl
vania to take into consideration the neces
sity of vindicating the outraged laws, and
sustaining the dignity of the Common
wealth on this important and melancholy
occasion.
John Cadwalader, and others,
GOV. JOHNSTON'S REPLY
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14. 1851,
To Messrs John Cadwalader, and others.
Gentlemen ;--Your letter, without date,
was this afternoon put into my hands by
one of the servants of the Hotel. The
anxiety which you manifest to maintain the
laws of the land and the public peace, is
fully appreciated, and I have great pleas
ure in informing you that, more than twen
ty-four hours before the receipt of your
letter, the parties implicated had been,
through the Vigilance and decision of the
local authorities, arrested, and are now in
prison, awaiting an inquiry into their im
puted guilt. The District Attorney, and
the Sheriff of Lancaster county, acting in
concert with the Attorney General of the
State, deserve especial thanks for their
prompt and energetic conduct. This was
all done early on Saturday morning, and
duly reported to me by the local officers.
The testimony taken by the U. S. Com
missioner, who arrived at a• later period
on the ground, a printed copy of which
has accidentally reached me this afternoon,
confirms me in the belief that the State mi
-1 dimities had vindicated the law, and to a
1 1 large extent arrested the perpetrators of
the crimes.
The cruel murder of a citizen of a neigh
boring State accompanied by a gross out
rage on the laws of the United States, in
the resistence of its process, had been com
mitted ; and you may be assured that so
soon as the guilty agents are ascertained,
they will be punished in its severest pen
alty by the law of Pennsylvania. I am
very proud that the first steps to detect and
arrest these offenders have been taken by
Pennsylvania officers.
.
Per - mit me, gentlemen, having thus re
moved all just cause of anxiety from your
minds, respectfully to suggest that the
idea of rebellion or " insurrectionary move
ment" in the county of Lancaster, or any
where else in this Commonwealth, has
no real foundation, and is an offensive hn
putation on a large body of our fellow cit
izens. There is no insurrectionary move
ment in Lancaster county, and there would
be nd occasion to march a military force
there, as you seem to desire, and inflame
the public mind by any such strange exag
geration. Ido not wish our brethren of
the Union to think that in any part of this
State resistenec to the law goes undetected
or unpunished, or that there exists such a
sentiment as treason to the Upion and the
Constitution. The alleged murderers of
Mr. Gorsuch, whose crime is deep enough
without exaggering it, have been arrest
ed and will be tried, and they and their
abettors be made to answer what they
have done in contravention of the law.
But in the mean time let me invite your
co-operation, as citizens of Pennsylvania,
not only to see that the law is enforced,
but to add to the confidence which we all
feel in the judicial tribunals of the land,
by abstaining from undue violence of lan
guage' and leaving the law to take its course.
Depend upon it gentlemen, there is in Lan
caster county a sense of duty to the laws
of the land, manifested in the easy and
prompt arrest of these offenders, which
will on all occasions show itself in practi
cal obedience.
The people of that county are men of
peace and good order : and not cn,3ily led
aside from the path of duty which the con ,
stitution prescribes. They and every
Pennsylvanian love the constitution and
the Union. They will detect as they have
done inthis case, and arrest and punish all
who violate the laws of the land. There
is no warrant, depend upon it, for rep
resenting the men of Lancaster county as
traitors and participants in an "insurrec
tionary movement." You do them, uninten
tionally I have so doubt, great injustice.
I am deeply indebted to you for afford
ing me this opportunity of expressing my
views. But for your communication I
might not have been able to do so. You,
and my fellow citizens at large, may be as
sured of my firm determination, at all haz
ards and under all circumstances, to main
tain the supremacy of the Constitution, and
enforce obedience to the laws alike of the
United States and of this commonwealth.
In order that I may be sure that my
answer may reach its destination, (your let
ter having but accidentally corns to my
hands,) I requested Mr. White to put
it in the hinds of Mr. John Cadwalader,
whose signature, I observe ; is first.
I am, with respect, your obedient ser
vant.
W3l. F. JOTISTON
A CHINESE FUNERAL IN CALIFCiRNIA
is described in the San Francisco papers.
Mr. At-hang, a respectable merchant from
Canton, died from the effects of a disease
contracted on his passage to California.—
The funeral procession of his countrymen,
attired iu their native costume, was very
striking, and probably the largest ever
witnessed outside the Celestial Empire.—
On arriving at the cemetery, they all pro
ceeded to the different graves of their coun
trymen, hurried there at various times,
sprinkled wino upon their tombs, and per
formed a variety of other ceremonies very
singular to us " outsiders," after which the
body was consigned to the grave with
much ceremony—throwing into the grave
the white riband which they all wore upon
their left arm as a badge of mourning burn
ing candles, incense, torches, and slips
of gilt paper, at the foot of the grave,
with a salaam for each. They then made
way for the brother of the deceased, who
approached the grave, much affected, and
performed nine genuflections, kissing the
ground and salaaming. After which they
profusely distributed wine, cigars, and per
forated Chinese coin among all present.—
They then returned with the most perfect
decorum to their homes. The whole ap
peared to be one of joy instead of mourn
ing.
THE DEMOCRATS AND DISIINION.--The
authority of Hon. HENRY S. FOOTE, a
Democratic Senator from the State of Mis
sissippi, will not be disputed by his party
friends. He said in his New York speech :
"Much depends upon the action of the
Whig party, for the disunion feeling is
more pevalent aumng the Democrats, u.is
led by certain leading politicians and cor
rupt editors, than among the Whigs."
[1 . .-F The Reading Journal, referring to
Messrs, Cadw•alader, Page, Forney, Inger
sol & Co., who wrote that letter to the Gov
ernor, says, t , We will venture, that each
one of the signers of this petty piece of
Locofoco malignity, after reading the Gov
ernor's scathing answer, was ready to ex
claim with Sir Andrew Ague Cheek in the
play— , Had he known he (the Governor)
has been so cunning of fence, we'd seen
him han6d ere we had challenged him.'
a r The Locofoco papers can't find room
to publish the Proclamation showing that
Gov. Johnston has paid off nearly $700,000
of the funded debt of the State, although
their readers who pay taxes would be glad
to be apprised of the fact, we have no
doubt. It is a piece of news which they
were never troubled with under Locofoco
administrationg.
frrOrabain's Magazine for October is at
band, beautifully embellished and filled
with choice reading matter.
MORE CALIFORNIA (.}OLD.—The steamer
Illinois, arrived at New York on Friday
evening last from Chagres, with ono mil
lion, three hundred and eighty-eight thou
sand dollars in gold, and neat day the
Havre steamer, Franklin, galled with $792, ,
000 of it—more than one half—and by this
time, the remainder is no doubt on its way
to Europe; to pay for goods, which, in the
main, ought to be manufactured in our own
country.
OF - A new issue of counterfeit two's - on
the Lancaster Bank (relief) has made
its appearance. Bicknell says it is an im
provement of the former counterfeits, and
that the block of white, which touches the
right hand end, after the "Two," (in the
line "two's" in the margin) is omitted.—
The paper is whiter than any no* in cir
culation, and the impression is rather blur
red.
Toters Remean'aer.
That Col. Bigler the Locofoeo candidate .
for Governor, is in favor of continuing the .
present Tariff, which is daily throwing your
brothers and sons. nut of employinerA to'
leal;e way for British goods.
Voters, remember that Col. Bigler in
the bitter opponent of Governor Johnston's
Sinking Fund, and is therefore in firm'
of increasing your taxes, by keeping the
State in debt.
Voters, remember that Col. Bigler is
the pledged Supporter of the Federalist
Buchanan, who says that a working mag
should not get more than TEN CENTS for .
a day's work.
Lynch Law in VirOnta
While there has been some excuse urged
for the Californians in tho operations of
Vigilance Committees and summary pro
ceedings among their lawless community, we
know of none that would venture to defend
similar affairs in one of the old Atlantic
States. Virginia, however, seems to have
her Vigilance Conin.it!ces also, and the
following, from the Richmond Times shows,
their mode of procedure;
On the fZth inst., the Vigilance Com
mittee of the county of Grayson, in this
State, arrested a man named John Cortina,'
[a friend and follower of Bacon, the Ohio
abolitionistd and after examining the evi
dence against him, required him to re
nounce his abolition sentiments. This
Cornutt refused to do ; thereupon he was"
stripped, tied to a tree, and whipped.—
After receiving a dozen stripes, ho caved
in, and promised not only to recant, but
to sell his property in the county, [consist
ing of land and negroes] and leave the
State. Great excitement prevailed through
out the county, and the Wytheville Re
publican of the 20th inst., states that the
Vigilance Committee of Grayson were in
hot pursuit of other obnoxious persons.
ZPcntbilacmi) m.a
By virtue of the last will of Samuel Steel,
Esq., late of the Borough of Hantingdon, de
ceased. will be offered for sale, on the premises,
at 2 o'clock of the afternoon of the 22,1 day of
November next, all that certain lot of ground
situate on the corner of the Market square; front
ing on Hill Street flftv feet and running at right
angles to Allegheny gtrect two hundred feet,
adjoining a lot of F. B. Wallace, Esq., on the
East and of John McCalian, Esq., on the West,
in the Borough of Huntingdon, ntimbered 68 in
the plan of said Borough ; thereon erected tt -
Log House weather boarded, and a Log Stable;
there is also a good well of water on the pram=
is e?.
Persons wishing to genre a good location for
public business would do well to attend on the
day of gale.
:Terms ofsalc.—One third of the parchoietunhey
to he paid on the first day of April 1852, when
a Deed will be made, tho residue in two equal .
annual payments, to wit : on the first day of April
1853 and 1854 with interest from the first day of
April 1852, these two payments to be secured
on the premises by the 73011dd and mortgage
of tho purchaser, to he ex cuted at the same time
the Deed and first payment is made.
JAMES GIVIN,
GEORGE STEEL, Ezra.
Oet. 2, 1851.—ts.
For sale, or Rent.
The Farm, on which I at prosent resido nekrl);
opposite the Bordith of Huntingdon.
JOHN bLoCAHAN.
Oet 2, 18M..-tf.