THE JOTRNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Thursday Morniug, Nov. 6, 114.51:
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FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN ten,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
OF NEW JERSEY
FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1852,
JAMES C.. JONES,,
OF TENNESSEE
i '"Mr. James Maguire, of this borough,
has commenced selling off his largo stock
of goods at cost. Here is an opening for
bargains, and we ask the particular atten
tion of our readers to his advertisement in
another column.
07"Coh Gwin offers goods "cheaper
thanever." They must be very cheap,
for the Colonel always sold goods remark
ably low. See advertisement.
It rOur friend, James T. Scott, has
received a fresh supply of watches, clocks,
jewelry, &c. He is also prepared to do
repairing in the very best manner. You
will give him a call, of course; ho deserves.
to be well patronized.
11'7 - Benj. Leas, Esq., publishes an ad
vertisement in to-day's paper offering a
valuable farm for sale. Persons wishing
to purchase will find it to their advantage
to attend on the day of sale,
G.The property of Samuel 31'Kinstry,
late of Shirley township, dec'd., is offered
for sale in another column of to-day's pa-
Cf, - i''Mr. N. G. M'Divitt advertises a
stray Mule.
County Agricultural Meeting
We aro authorised to inform the people
of this county, that a meeting will be held
in the Court House, on Tuesday evening
of the first week of the November court,'
for the purpose of forming an Agricultur
al Society. The farming community, as
well as all others who may feet friendly to
the project, are respectfully invited to at
tend.
A Man Shot for a Turkey.
William Hite, residing five or sii miles
from this place, and his brother &dm, one
morning last week, were in the woods hunt•
ing turkeys. William was crawl ing among
the bushes making a noise in imitation of
a turkey, which hunters denominate "call
ing." John, some distance off, seeing the
stir in the bushes and hearing the noise
above alluded to, shot, and the ball struck
his brother on the back part of the head
near the ear, but did not penetrate the
skull. It was afterward extracted, and
we are informed the accident is not likely
to terminate fatally. We advise hunters
to have a clear view of their game before
they shoot.
Ire'The Hollidaysburg. Standard will
accept our compliments for his indistinct
impression that we still exist. We were
almost forced to fear, that after the smoke
of the battle had cleared away and the
thunder thereof had died on the distant
hills, the stately form of the Rooster of
victory made such an impression on the
editor's mind, as to banish all recollection
of his former friends. The poetical flights
of fancy which he accuses us with doing up,
we hope, wore not unwelcome attendants
luring his short sojourn in the ethereal
halls of political enchantment; and as he
has evidently returned from. his visit to
those shadowy mansions, to mingle in hu
man scours and partake of human anxie
ties, we will inform him that his ticket for
Salt River would not. command a• passage.
We are therefore neither there, nor yet
(€up a tree," and we send the Journal reg
ularly.
The first time you are in town tire us a
PRESIDENCY.
The more we see and hear of polities;
the more firmly are we convinced, that
Mr. Fillmore in case he should be a can
didate, has nothing to expect /tom loco
focus. Ho has been, at tines, well spoken
of in the South 'ey some of them, because
of his firm stand in favor of the compromise
measures, but the elections in those States,
ePttept Georgia, rather indicate an aver
sion to these measures by a majority of the
people. The administration platform was
occupied by the whigs in the late Virginia
election for members of Congress, while
the opposition candidates generally held
the extreme doctrines of Southern rights,
and still the delegation to the next Con
gress will stand as it did in the preceding,
two whigs and thirteen democrats. He
could carry the whig Southern States be
yond all doubt, hut from the indications
in that quarter he would have no show of
chance to carry any of the Loeofooo ones,
for the locofocos there generally manage
to satisfy their own people, that they are
as friendly to the South as the whigs can•
be. These things being true two or three
of the great northern States will decide
the contest, and the question is, who can
carry them? If Mr.. Fillmore can, the!
mere question of men amounts to little ;
but we are satisfied, that for a sure unmis
takeable victory, Gen. Scott is the man.—
Ho has been engaged during his whole
life in riveting the bands of the American
Union, and executing the laws enacted un
der the American Constitution. If any
man on earth can be entrusted with that
sacred instrument, it is he. Give him a
platform as broad as the Whig party(and
that is as broad as the Union) upon which
to plant his standard and over which to
unfurl the American flag, and the people
will flock to it from the cast and the
west and the north and the south. They
will greet it with an acclamation louder
than his cannon when it out-thundered
Niagara, or reverberated in the mountain
gorges of Cerro Gordo. With such a can
didate victory is no problem,
("'" A, SPLENDID MAP of the civilized
portion of North America, including, the
Canadas, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick,
the United States and all her Territories,
Mexico, the States of Central America and
the West Indies, has been!shewn to us by
the agent for this county. It is published
by Jacob Monk in Baltimore and is very
neatly and elegantly executed. The new
State of California and the territories of
Oregon, New 'Mexico, Utah and Mincsota
are accurately delineated, as also those
portions of the ludiun• Territory,. assigned
by the General Government to the - Indians,
removed by her authority, from the eas
tern side of the Mississippi. The gold re
gion in the State of California is also no
ted. There is a table containing the names
of all the counties and county towns in the
United States, with a great variety of
other information, which maps alone can
furnish. We cordially recommend it to
the people of this county as a very valua
ble and beautiful work, which, in addition
to its utility would be an ornament in a
house. No family should be without
something of the kind, for maps and geo
graphy lie at the very foundation of use
• ful knowledge—and this one is furnished
at a reasonable price.
News of the Week.
The steamer Cherokee has arrived at
New York with over two millions• of dol
lars in gold. Not the least important item,
to politicians particularly, is the result of
the elections in that State. It will be
seen that the Democrats have carried all
the principal officers.
The steamer Franklin has also arrived
at New York, after a remarkably quick
passage from Cowes. She brines us four
days later MATH from Europe. Cotton and
breads tuffs were depressed, and had slight
ly given way, KossuTit had not arrived
in Europe when the Franklin sailed.
From Washington, we learn that the
Austrian Minister had demanded his pasts
ports. Mr. HIVEs, 31inister to Piatre>
had been recalled, at his own revest, and
NATIIAN SARUENT, Esq., formerly the
"Oliver Oldsehool" of the United States
Gazette, has been appointed Register of
the Treasury, in place of the HIM. TOWN
SEND HAINES resigned.
PRESIDENTIAL. CACCUSING.-1I is sta
ted in the New York papers that the lead
ing members of the Cabinet of the late
President Polk are assembled in that city
at this time, and engaged in concocting a
scheme to defeat the movement in favour
of Judge Douglas, of Illinois, for the
Presidency, and to secure the nomination
of Mr. Buchanau f of Pennsylvania.
The New Mexican Revolution.
Additional reports by telegraph mention a
rumor that Matamoras had been taken by
Caravajal and his insurgent forces, on the
26th or 27 of October, after a hard fight.
Oe►►. Persifor F. Smith was doing all in
his power to prevent Americans from join
ing the revolutionists.
The New Orleans Picayune of Oct. 24th
says:
"The Mary Ellen, Capt. Henry, arrived
last evening from Tampico, bringing papers
from that port to the Bth inst. The De
fensor, of that date, notices a rumor to
the effect that the Mexican government,
having been convinced of the critical po
sition of the Rio Grande frontier, had in
structed Gen. Avalos, commanding at
Matamoras, to withdraw the prohibitions
on commerce and lower the duties.
“Accounts from Tampico, received here
on Wednesday, states that the schooner
Neptune left there on the 11th inst., with
troops for the Rio Grande, part of whom
she brought from Vera Cruz.
The schooner "Neptune" iS•the same
vessel reported ass "steamer" in our late
despatches, which arrived lately at the
mouth of the Rio Grande. Her troops,
after landing, were driven back by a body
of Texans to the vessel.
LATER—RATTLE OF 3IXTAISIORAS.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 2.
The steamship Fanny has arrived with
Ric Grande dates to Oct. 30th—six days
later.
The attack on Matamoras commenced
on the 21st, and on the 23d Garavajal had
possession of the city.
Within four squares of the Plaza the
government troops still held out, suffering
a loss of 150 Lilled and wounded.
The revolutionists lost but three inclst
ding Capt. Ford, who commanded a com
pany of Texans:
Gen. Avalos was wounded.
No quarter was given to Americans du
ring the engagement.
Mr. Longstreth, a merchant, doing
business at Matamoras; was killed.
The city was set on fire on the 23d, and
the Custom House and other buildings
were destroyed.
Mr. Devino's stores wore also buined,
The Americen Consul w wounded
Spain—Warlike Tone of the Span-
lards.
The Spaniards seem to be seized with a
fit of warlike enthusiasm against the United
States, as au immediate declaration of hos
tilities is recommended, and the Sptinish
papers gl oat over the rich prizes of Ameri
can merchant ships which they would take
in the East, to counterbalance. the loss of
their Western colonies. A foreign war
was said also not to be very distasteful to
the Madrid cabinet, as the expenses incident
to it would serve as a pretext for the non
payment of the English bondholders, and
would besides enable them to draw off the
attentinn , of parties from a commencement
of threatened intestine broils. A general
insurrection of some of the Northern pro
vinces' of Spain is said to be by no means
an impossible or distant event. The sup
pression of the Lopez expedition will, how
ever, have the effect of calming the excite
ment whiSh prevailed. The Ifersldo; in a
long article 'on-the - Cuban expedition, and
on the events• by which it was followed in
the United States; expresses the opinion
that, sooner or later, war between Spain
and the United States cannot fail to break
out, and it calls on the government to pur
chase steamers, increase the fleet and make
other preparations. A Madrid letter of
the 14th says:
I learn that the Spanish Government hts
adopted a high tone towards that of the'
United States; and as public feeling is de
cidedly in favor of such a line of conduct
just now,
it will render itself popular by so
doing. Moreover, it counts upon the sup
port of the British and French govern
ments; hence probably its pugnacity.
Despatches are on the point of being trans
mitted to the Spanish minister at Wash
ington, directing him to protest in the
strongest terms against the supineness of
the American government, in having per
mitted a second marauding expedition to
attack Cuba, and to demand satisfaction
for the outrage the Spanish Consul at New
Orleans has been subjected to by the an
nexationis ts.
THE N ExT CON6LtESS.—The members
of the 32d Congress have now been elec
ted in all the States but Mississippi and
Louisiana. In these, probably, two Union
Whigs will be returned to seven Demo
crats, of various hues. The Whigs will
have from eighty-five to ninety members,
the Free Sellers eight or ten, and the
Democrats, a clear regular party majority
of fifty or thereabouts.
AT GF.N. TIVIGGS' MARRIAGE, in Pen ,
mole, a Cliarivari, for the benefit of the
poor, was got up, and the General handed
over the amount demanded ($100) and the
crowd then suffered the bridegroom and
bride to reet undisturbed.
THE PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.—The
Harrisburg papers publish the following
official returns of the recent State elec
t tion :
FOR COVERNOR.
William Bigler, Deni. 180,499
William F. Johnston, Whig 178,034
Kimbor Cleaver, Abolitionist 1,713
FOR CANAL COMMISSIO:7EIt:
Seth Clover, Dem. 184,021
John Strohm, Whig 175,444
David McDonald, Abolitionist 1,875
FOR JUDGES OF VIE SUPREME COURT.
Jeremiah S. Black, Dem. 185,893
James Campbell, Dem. 176,069
Ellis Lewis, Dem. 183,887
John B. Gibson, Dom. 184,408
Walter 11. Lowrie, Dem. 185,464
Richard Coulter, Whig 179',238`
Joshua W. Comley, Whig 173,635
George Chamburs,. Whig 174,381
William M. Meredith,. Whig 113,391'
William. Jessup, Whig 172,23'2
GOOD.—Lancaster and Lebanon form a
Senatorial district•—entitled to two Sena
tors. Lebanon, though -a small county,
claimed one of the Senators, and present
ed John W. Killingcr as their choice—as
sound a Whig as breathes in Pennsylva
nia. Lancaster, having the power to elect
whom they choose, insisted upon having
both Senators, and presented two candi
dates, both worthy men for aught we
know. Gallant, steadfast, little Lebanon
stood up for her man and for what she
considered her rights. The result of the
Oil was that the two Whig candidates in
Lancaster were elected, because of the
overwhelming Whig majority of that coun
ty. But little Lebanon polled more votes
for Killinger, with a certainty of his de
feat; than she did for any other candidate.
Honor, we say, to the Whigs of Lebanon,
for sustaining her own worthy son, and
for setting au example to W higs every
where of a sturdy devotion to a just cause
without regard to success or defeat.
Bucks Intelligencer.
Err An ingenious printer of Illinois
Mr. F. A. C. Foreman, has recently
invented an Electro-Magnetic Printing
Press, which is highly spoken of by those
who have examined it. The. Vincinnes,
Ind., Gazelle, speaking of this invention,
says—
A contemporary who saw it at work
says it threw off impressions with the ra
pidity of lightning. His paper works on
a reel, and is continuous, like a telegraph
coil. The paper is carried over the type!
on a cylender, and when one side is work
ed, the paper is reversed, and the other
printed with a most perfect register, and
as they come down from the press, the
sheets are clipped apart by an ingenious
contrivance. -The speed of this press is
almost unlimited, and its exactness is be
yond anything in this line of machinery.—
Mr. F. estimates the cost of the largest
sized printing press at not more than five
hundred dollars.
ANOTIEER CUBAN EXTBDITION.—A. lot
ter from Bayou Sarah, La., to the ./Vish
ville Banner, says another Cuban expedi
tion is on foot in that State, at the head of
which ib Gen. Felix Huston: writer
says :
From what I. can • lours; some men of
influence and means have beets approached
on the subject. 1 know one who has bon
offered a command. The plan is first to•
get the means to procure arms. A near
neighbor of mine was offered a command,
and, I am sorry to say, at first thought
favorably of it. The object was to get
money, it being managed as secretly as
possible.
ANOTHER EUZOPEAN CONVUL,IoN
HANn.— , Mr. Walsh, long a resident of
Paris, writes from that city under date ot*
September 16th, to the Journal of Com
merce as follows :
“That great events aro just before us-, is
certain. The crisis of which I hxve of=
ten spoken to you is drawing very near.—
Between the 16th day of September and
the middle or end of next May, the destk
nice of Europe for probably half a century
—which in these days is a very long time
—will be decided. A. tierce struggle —it
may be a most desperate and bloodistrug
gle—between liberty, civil and religious,
on the one hand, and hoary despotism in
polities and religion on the other. \nut
will be the issue, God only knows
"1 find that there is a wonderful activity'
here in the political world. The foreign am
bassadors, especially those of Austria, Pru
sin and Russia, have frequent conferences,
and are constantly sending and receiving
despatches. Nor are the Ministers resi
dent of the smaller powers, such as Sardin
is, Naples, Spain, the States oldie Church,
Belgium and Holland, idle.• Those of
rtgland and the United States are wide
awake, and the former has not a little to
Ido to ook after these Continental States,-
I and the movements of their rulers."
YANKEE ENTERPRlSE.—Arbusiness firm
in Boston is loading a vessel with ice and
apples for Alexandria, Egypt. She is to
carry out an ioe house ales.
TREATMENT OF AMF.RICANS IN AUS
TRIA.—Every now and then a new case
of shabby treatment of Americans turns
up in the Austrian dominions. The Na
tional Democrat, at New York, gives the
annexed particulars •of the latest case,
which we have before briefly mentioned.—
Our Government will most likely be look
ing into these matters. We quote—
" By private letters we learn that Gen
eral Averill, of St.
.Johnsville, in this
State, has also just been expelled from
Milan, in a dastardly minter, without any
explanation being given by the Govern . -
meat in justification of its conduct. It
appears that General Averill was allowed
to travel
. unmetteSted from the Alps to
Milan. After reaching the city he was
seized by gensd'-armes and conveyed be
fore the authorities, who immediately or
dered, without any trial, explanation or
justification, that he be taken in charge of
the police, to the frontiers of Sardinia.
"He was allowed barely time at his ho
tel to arrange his trunks, when he was
placed in a carriage between two gensd'-
armes, and driven to theSardinian frontier.
Here he was detained under guard for
about twelve hotirs, until the arrival of his
trunks, when he was taken to the Sardinian
soil, and forbidden to re-cross the frontier.
The only explanation given was that he
was a dangerous man—that they had had
notice of his arrival, and were prepared for
him."
Street Dresses for Ladies.
Whatever may be thought of the Bloom- I
er costume, there is one evil at least, which
it remedies :—we mean the inconvenience
of a long skirt, sweeping the ground in wet
weather, and thus wetting the ankles.—
More females, perhaps, catch cold in this,
than in any other way: Besides, nothing
is snore unsightly than a wet, soiled and
draggled skirt of this description. We
heard a lady, the Other day, who consi&
ers the Bloomer costumc indelicate, admit
nevertheless, its superiority for wet weath
er over the present fashiom She propo
sed, however, to reform the dress of her
sex, not by shortening the skirts, but by
introducing a light-made Wellington boot,
something like patent leather ones worn by
gentlemen in evening costume:. Such a
boot would he water tight fot . the foot, and
would preserve the ankle from being wet
ted by the skirt. A very little pritetice,
our fair friend said, would accustom a lady
to this sort of a boot; while thousands of
lives would be preserved in consequence of
the reform. The popular notion among
females that a boot of this description
must ho necessarily clumsy is entirely
wrong. Boots, somewhat shnilar, are worn
by the ladies of several foreign countries,
and have, in many cases, quite a pictur:
I °stle effect. It would be a posit ive reform,
and not a mere whimsical change, if ladies
would abolish the train, and, in wintry
or rainy weather, wear a light, coquettish
hoot, a Its Wellinglon.—Bulletin.
BREAD BAKED BY STEANI.—The Eng-1
lish papers contain an account of a new
method of baking bread. Thu bread is
pronounced to be excellent, and superior
to that baked on the old plan. A denrit •••
tion of the process will not be found unin
teresting. When the loaves aro moulded
they arq placed on carriages, and convey
. edon railways into the ovens, which arc
made of cast iron, and placed one above
the other. The doors being closed, the
steam is then turned on front the boiler,
and passing through a singularly formed
coil of pipes, heated to a high degree,. in
F a furnace of remarkable con:Auction, is i by
opening the valve, admitted to the.ovens.
The baking process, front the thee of run
ning in the carriages to drawing them out
again, occupies front half an hour to an
hour and a Kali, according as the loaves
vary iu size. There is perforated pipea
placed at equal distances inside the ovens,
by which mewls all parts aro alike heated.
The heat is kept within determinate ther
mometric limits by the adjustment of the
valves, and the degree ascertained by au
indicator, the "bull," beingscareely thick
er than a cob reb, yet ranging from 130 to
300 Fahrenheit.
ASIENDE 110NOHABLE.-ThO Londun
Times has the following "summing up" on
the subject of the Crystal Palace Exhibi
don :
Great Britain has received 'store useful
ideas and more ingenious inventions from
the U. States through the exhibition, than
from all other sources !
This is making the arnmde honorable to
Johathan, for having cried "small pota
toes" at the first sight of his traps and no-
tiona%
!.fe - In Mississippi a man always makes
his will before accepting a nomination to
run for Congress, and trusts to a pair of
revolvers, bowie knife, and loather lungs,'
to whip his opponent in the race.
DEATH OF THE WIFE OF Gov. UJUAZY.
--We learn from the Washington Tele
graph that Major Tochman and lady have
received a letter announcing that the wife
of Gov. Ujhazy, the Hungarian exile, died
at New Buda; Decatur county, lowa, on
the 11th ult. The venerable Hungarian
patriot, in announcing the sad tidings,
thus concludes his letter:
"The cup of my sorrows is full. I have
lost my beloved wife! She departed this
life after a few days' illness. Could I
haye . corese9n that my exile was to shorten
hbr days, I would have given my head to
the foes of my country, to preserve the'
life of the best of mothers. Your most
affectionate, unfortunate friend."
A Sitawerof FleBh at Benicia.
On Saturday the 20th inst., a shower of
meat fell at the army station near Benicia.
It was first observed by Major Allen, who
was struek by one of the falling pieces.—
The shower lasted two or three minutes.
The pieces were from the size of a pigeon's
egg up to that of an orange—the heaviest
perhaps weighing three ounces. No birds
were visible in the air at the time. Speci
mens of this meat, which is apparently
beef, were preserved by Major Allen and
the Surgeon of the Post. A piece that was
examined three hours after it fell, showed
a small blood vessel, some of the sheath of
a muscle and muscular fiber. It was slight
ly tainted. The ground on which the
shower fell was about 300 yards long and
eighty wide, and the entire amount of
meat between two and a half and five bush
els in bulk. No pieces of bone were founts.
A strong west wind was blowing at the
time and the skies were clear. This is'
the third occurrence of the kind on record
in the last six years.
CREDITABLE it;VEBENT.—Ez-Proi
dent TYLER has written a letter to CAL
DERON DE LA BARCA, the Spanish Minis
ter, soliciting his intercession for the re
lease of all the•Cubnn prisoners. Mr. Tr-
LER says if a sacrifice was• wanting to de
ter others from the commission of a simi
lar offence, it has been offered up. The
vengeance of a great State has fallen ter- -
rible and fatally, and to restore the small
number now in custody to their friends
and homes, would speak a more effective
tale than would ever issue from the . dun
geon or the gibbet.
SANTA ANNA.—There is a concerted
movement in Mexico for the restoration of
Santa Anna and the overthrow of Arista's
administ ration. This famous chief remains
at Trubuco, a town in New Grenada, but
he is evidently waiting anxiolitly for the
moment when he shall he called front bih ,
retitement by his active pattitans in Mcxi
co. Then we may look for another pro
nunciamenlo, a triumphant ovation for
the out-lened hero, and unless M. Arista)
is very wide awake, he will have some
trouble to keep his head on his shoulders..
Philosophical,
The editor of the Easton ./Irgus, Mr.•
W. Hotter, was defeated for the Le
gislature in .Northampton county by a'
Whig opponent, whereupon, Mr. 11. brief
ly 11111101311CC8 :
:The question was submitted to the pco ,
pie of Northampton county, on Tuesday,•
whether they would have a good represen
tative or a good editor, the coming winter,
and they decided by a majority of 80 that
they would rather have a good editor.--
litmeo foe our side.
. _
SC El 00 t. Qe l ST 1.1 N. -111e Supreme Ju
dicial Court of Massachusetts has decided
that the proper Itutheritles,/tetiog in good
faith, and for thc benefit of the schools,
have a right to exclude a girl of bad Aar
acter front the public schools: The court
below had decided the contrary.,
GOLD IN TIM STI:LIETS.—Tho boys of
many of the California fawns occupy their
thee in washing the surface dirt of the"
streets, and wake as high as four and five
dollars per day. Some men have also
been operating in the same way ; sonic of
the dirt paid an high as twenty-five cents
to the bushel. Valuable streets.
Got - I:moil CABINET.--Tha
Bloontsbur; Democrat suggests the fol
lowing named gentlemen as the Cabinet of
tihere of Goy. Bigler's administration;
Gtio. W. WUODWARD, Luzerne,
Secretary of State.
Hon. ,TAMEs CAMPBELL, Philadelphia,
Attorney General.
Cu!. gAmom BLAcK, Pittsburg 341-
taut amend.
C? The ladies of Greenland dress rath
er queer. Their petticoats consist of ox
hides, while the only necklace they wear
are made up of links of sausages. We
have often hoard of ladies looking 'good
enough to eat.' In Greenland they are so.
PRICES CURRENT.
PH ILADELPUIA, Nov. 4, 1851
$4 00
Flour per bbl.
White Wheat per bushel
11e4 do
Rye
Corn
Oats
Cloversee4