THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Thursday Morning, Nov. tO, 1451.
J. SEWELL STEWART—EDnott
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FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1852,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1852,
JAMES C. JONES,
OF TENNESSEE.
tri - Mr. Roam, the Daguerreotypist,
—who, by the way, seems to be a perfect
gentleman and clever fellow—has taken
rooms in the Engineers building, on Rail
road street, near the Station. Mr. Rus
sel is said to be a very successful operator,
and, we have no doubt, will give satisfac
tion to all who may favor him with their
patronage.
UP - During the past ten days there has
been a religious revival going on in the
Methodist Episcopal Church in this place,
which has resulted in the conversion of
a large number. A great many have been
added to the church.
o:7'Our Court labored hard last week,
and notwithstanding they were at it some
nights till eleven o'clock, the whole week
was consumed in tho trial of criminal pros
ecutions.
Methodist Church Suit Decided.
The great snit between the Methodist
Church south and the Methodist Church
north was decided a few days since at New
York, by Judge Nelson of the U. S. Cir
cuit Court. It was decided that the com
plainants (the Southern Church) were en
titled to their share of the profits of the
Book concern, and a decree was issued ac
cordingly.
THE SuraEmE BEN/Ml.—The newly
elected Judges of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, met at Harrisburg on Fri
day, and drew lots for their term of of f ice.
The following aro the respective terms :
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, three years,
Chief Justice.
Hon,. Elias Lewis, six years.
Hon.. John. B. Gibson, nine years.
Hon. Walter H. Lowrie, twelve years.
Hon. Richard Coulter, fifteen years.
The four last will successively hold the
seat of Chief Justice for three years, a
new Judge being elected every third year
fora term of fifteen years.
NEW Yonx ELECTION.—From all the
returns received, the apparent majorities on
the State ticket are as follows : Democrat
ic—Comptroller—WßlOHT, 516; Attor
ney General--CnATFIED, 265; Secretary
of State—RANDALL, 1413; State Engineer
—3IcALPTNE,2S6S, State Prison Inspec
tor—SToams, 2752. Whig—Treasurer—
Com, 164; Canal Conmissioner—FiTz-
HUGH, 828. The official returns decide
that Niagara has elected two Weig mem
bers of the Assembly, which gives the
Whigs two majority in the House, if there
are no farther changes to make. The
Senate is equally divided.
Governor Johnston.
It is understood in Harrisburg, says the
Telegraph, that his excellency upon his
retirement from the position he has held
SO much to his own credit, and to the ad.
vantage of the people of the State, will
not return to the bar, but will devote his
time to other pursuits, and perhaps in en
tirely different fields from those in which
he has beep educated. He has already
been elected the President of the Alle
gheny and Kittanning R. Co., a road
projected from Pittsburg to Olean Point
in the State of New York, and it is be- ,
sieved he will accept the situation. Any
company requiring financial ability will
be fortunate if it can retain the services of
elev. Johnston.
NEIIV YORK.
We heVe carried only the Treasurer
attd Canal Commissioner on the State tick
et at the late election in New York. The
euetessfill candidates of both parties are
elected by small majorities, ranging from
92 to 2000 votes. The scale has been
turned against the Whigs by the efforts of
the Union Safety Committee of New York,
who managed to get a few whigs to vote
against part of the ticket, while the Loco
focos voted for their •'wn candidates to a
man. We hope the Almighty in his wis
d= will harden the heads and give a firm
er consistency to the hearts of the simple
souls, whom locofoco villainy and hypoc
risy have seduced from their party alle
giance. Were it not for the fact, that
they might become in a greater degree,
cringing spaniels to locofoco scoundrelism,
we would pray the Divine Goodness to
make their hearts as soft as their heads.
If this plastic operation were performed,
and He should see proper speedily to take
them to himself, it might possibly be the
best disposition that could be made of them.
Such cattle, as the dupes of the safety
committee, should not be permitted to
stay on earth, to disgrace the ancient,
venerable and liberty-inspiring name of
Whig.
Our far out relation and ancient grand
mother, Eve, was inveigled from the path
of rectitude by a rambo or a pippin, with
the gratifying prospect, to the over-curi
ous woman, of knowing a thing or two;
while the safety committee, a fit persona
tion of the powers of darkness, has fright
ened a little squad of simple Whigs, with
the bug-bear of a disrupted Union, so that
thieves could get an opportunity to steal.
Plunder and tropical productions operate
as strongly on the imaginations of the
worshippers of mammon now as did green
apples and science on the fancy of the
' great-grand-mother of the human race.
' The Whigs will probably see the necessi
ty of standing by their party and their
country, about the time they see the loco
foco ofEce holders sucking the last drop of
blood from its exhausted carcass, then
' they will rush with an undivided front, res
cue it from its devqurers, put it in a con
dition to live, and again abandon it to the
vampires for another feast.
Howe Journal for 1952.
The above paper published in the city of
New York will commence its series for
1852 on the first of January next. The
editors, Geo. P. Norris and N. P. Willis,
are known throughout the country as
among the most elegant and accomplished
of her literary writers. The paper was
started and has been conducted with a
view to "the cultivation of the memorable,
the progressive and the beautiful," and
thus far has amply fulfilled all the promi
ses which were wade for it.
From the first of January next, it will
be the vehicle of conveying to its readers
"all the new Heat. afloat," in the style
and with the ease of familiar friendship,
which will be a NEW FEATURE in the pa
per.
It will contain sketches of Bolles, Por
traits of Public Characters, descriptions of
fashions, manners, gay and literary society,
and in short, a picture of the passing
world.
It will also be well stored with useful
information, in the midst of its wealth of
beauty: and taken all in all the fire-side
cannot have a more pleasant and agreeable
companion.
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tion, and will bo determined on after the
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present fiscal year have been adjusted by
the Auditor.
Improvement in Railroads.
We have lately seen announced a plan
to increase the power of traction in loco
motives, by pressing them against the rails
by means of an artificial loadstone. We
are permitted to describe a recent discov
ery, which the inventors hope to render
still more perfect and which is just the
reverse of the above. It consists in redu
cing
the friction of the cars on the rails
to a mere nothing, by an electric battery,
so arranged as to raise and very nearly
suspend them in the air—a perfect sus
pension being only prevented by the ne
cessity of a slight pressure to maintain the
cars on the track. The inventors design
first to apply their process to the transpor
tation of pessengers, and they expect to
travel at the rate of eighty miles an hour,
with less expense and greater safety than
is now done at 25 miles. Their rails are
in the H form, and not weighing more than
seven pounds to the foot, are supported by
wooden pillars, like lamp-posts, at un ele
vation of 6 feet above the ground, and 31
feet apart. The cars, only 24 feet wide,
but 30 feet long, are suspended between
them upon wheels of a small diameter, roll
ing, of course, upon the top of the rails.—
At the two extremities of each ear, and in
the middle, at a sufficient distance from
the wheels, are attached powerful mag
nets, wade of an immense number of reels
of wire, wound around pieces of soft iron,
the poles placed directly below the rails,
and as near them as practicable.. The ef
fect is easily understood. As soon as the
wires are united to a pile to form a circuit,
the magnets exercise a powerful attraction
on the rail ; but this being immovable, the
magnet itself obeys the attraction, and
the car attached following, the slight
pressure which it still exercises on its
wheels is just equal to its weight, minus
the attractive power of the magnets. It
may be observed, that electricity in this
arrangement will not cost much. It is
not used as motive power, but as static
pressure, it does not, consequently, be
come exausted, and may be continued
without much expense. The invention is
very good in principle. We cannot yet
judge whether it has been sufficiently elab
orated to be practicable. The first inven
tion, above alluded to, to press locomo
tives against rails, is not worth much, in
our opinion, to apply to commom locomo
tives, which may, without difficulty, be
made weighty enough for any labor re
quired of them ; but in connection with
the second invention, it is invaluable, as
it allows the use of locomotives at least
as light as the cars themselves, and this
is of great importance when the structure
does not stand upon solid ground.
Too Good to be Lost.
The two daily papers in Elmira, Indi
ana, have been firing "paper bullets of the
brain," at each other for some time past
with much severity.
Mrs. C. M. Burr, assistant editress of
the Karlon, became entangled in the con
•eat, and received some pretty harsh raps
from Mr. Fairman, of the Republican.
As an ofisei :0 this, Mrs. Burr sent a little
poetic gem to Mr. F. for insertion, over a
fictitious name of course—entitled the
"Death of Sumner." Fairman nabbed at
the bait—the poetic gem was set before
his readers, and it proved to be an acros
tic—the initial letters reading "Long live
Fairman, Prince of Asses, Amen." There
never was much gained by quarreling with
women, no matter in what light we view it.
BROTHER JONATHAN.- An English
newspaper, speaking of Brother Jonathan,
says:—“The waist of his coat may be ridi
culously short, the tail of it ridiculously
long; his shirt collar may absorb the pro
duce of a whole field of flax; his panta
loons may not oome below the tops of his
boots; and his straps may look as though
they were intended to prevent the pants
from going over his head; be may be, in
short, the most unpresentable man you can
conceive of; but beneath the uncouthness
of his dress, and the awkwardness of his
manner, there is such a man and such a
soul as only Yaukecdom and the 19th cen
tury can produce."
COUNTERFEITS.—Counterfoit $5 bills,
on the Philadelphia Bank, have recently
been put in circulation. They are de
scribed as follows :—"Letter A," various
ly filled up. The general appearance of
the notes is calculated to oreate suspicion
as to their genuineness—the medallions
and the female in the vignette are imper
fectiy excented. The dots between the
words , Five—Five' on the upper and low
er margins are oblong in the genuine, and
square in the counterfeit. The words
Underwood & Bald, and Draper & Under
wood are omitted.
ADVERTISING.-Mr. V. B. Palmer, a
man of remarkble business capacity, and
with an experience such as few men have
enjoyed, and who for the last ton year!
has occupied a most important relation be
tween publishers and the business public, a
relation, we fear, not sufficiently appreci
ated by either, says :—Advertising is the'
great lever of success wills the merchant."
He gives illustrations by hundands of ea
ses, in which firms of moderate business, and I
comparatively unknown, have resolved to
expend $5OO, $lOOO or $2.000, and in
some cases as high as $lO,OOO a year in
advertising. Their business at once rush
ed up to a point of pi osperity never known
to them before and in a few years the pro
prietors retired on princely fortunes:—
"This is all natural enough—all reasona
ble enough," says Mr. Palmer. "The
newspapers give the public, far and near,
every day information. A merchant can
make himself known, and the nature of
his business, too, through the newspapers.
He can draw the eyes of 50,000 persons
directly upon his store and stock of goods,
and by doing so, he cannot fail to increase
his sales to an enormous extent." "Why!"
continues Mr. Palmer, "this matter is not
yet fully understood, but our dealers
throughout the country, are getting awake
to the subject, and it will not be long be
fore a merchant will as soon think of ta
king a journey in a oar without an engine
attached, Its to attempt to succeed in busi
ness without advertising. Everybody
sees that all who go into the advertising
plan extensively, succeed, whilst most
others who do not take this advantage,
grope along far in the rear."
We have already alluded to an Exhibi
tion of all nations, which is to open in New
York on the 15th of April, under the man
agement of Messrs. Riddle & Beshek.—
The London Morning Chronicle gives some
further particulars. The plan, says that
paper, "has now received the sanction of
the Austrian and several other Govern
ments of Europe, and a large proportion
of the foreign exhibitors will remove their
goods from the building for shipment to
the United States. Upwards of two hun
dred of the British exhibitors have an
nounced their intention of sending their
goods. One distinctive feature of the pro
posed plan is, that the articles exhibited in
I New York will be exclusively foreign pro
duce, manufactures of works of art, no
American producer or manufacturer being
allowed to take part in it. An important
—and, after the experience we have had
of our exhibition, a very favorable circum
stances is—that so far as we can learn at
presant, no prizes of any kind will be
awarded to the exhibitors. The whole af
fair will be sought in the amount of public
attention which will be directed to the va
rious articles exhibited.
"Another feature of the New York Ex
hibition will be that all the goods will be
exhibited with the prices attached, and,
when sold, the remittances will be prompt
ly forwarded. The goods will be convey
ed front London in first class vessels, pro
vided by the parties engaged in carrying
out the undertaking; and all the charges
of freight; insurance, &c., will be advan
ced, so that no outlay of money on the
NEW COUNTERFEIT.-I!indebte d 3 part of the exhibitors will be required.—
;e are inu
t
to the editors of Bieknell's Reporter for The
goods which may remain unsold at
the close of the proposed Exhibition will
the following description of anew counter
be returned to the exhibitors free of all
feit:
charge. The Exhibtion is to open at
Lancaster Bank, Lancaster, Pa. l's Re-
New York on the Isth of April, and the
issue relief. The general appearance of
last day fixed for the reception of the goods
these notes is especially calculated to do
is the Ist of March; and we understand
ceive the unwary, though the paper is
somewhat different from that on which the that, for the convenience of exhibitors wi.o
may desire to send the articles shown by
genuine are printed—the latter being white
them in the Great Exhibition, vessels are
and clear, and the former white, tinged
ready to convey them forthwith from Lon
with pink. The engraving, as a whole, is
don to New York. The building, as we
quite defective; the figure in the Vignette
have previously stated, will be in a central
has but three fingers on the left hand.—
Dart of New York, near to the various rail-
So also the female on the left part of the
Way termini, and will be a bonded ware
note, who has an arm around an anchor—
house during the period of the Exhibi
her right hand is minus a finger. Above ti .„
this figure is a female who right arm rests
upon the top of the anchor; in the genuine THE CHRISTIANA TRIALS.—The 24th
her neck is bare, whilst in the bad note of November current has been fixed upon
there seems to be two or three strings of for the counnencement of these trials.—
beads around it; her right arm is very bad- Every one of the prisoners, twenty eight,
ly engraved and is indistinct; in the genu- is to be tried separately. This cause is
ine it is perfectly formed and quite as dis- being prepared with the greatest care, the
tinot as any other part of the engraving. District Attorney having been occupied
The names of the engravers, Toppen, Car- since the 12th of September, in the prop
ep nter, Casilear & Co., poorly done. oration of the indictments. A eorrespou
dent of the N. Y. Times says that the or-
Growth of the West. der of proceedings, will be as follows
When the army of the U. S. marched
. , " First, they will be tried for TREASON.
from Cm cinnatti to the Lake, on its way Secondly, should they be acquitted of
to Detroit—who were afterwards eurren- the crime of Treason, they will be taken to
tiered to Hall—the provisions and muni- Lancaster and tried in the State Court for
the murder of Edward Gorsuch. And at
t s e t d ion sto o t f os th , Districte thosto
tions of the troops were taken up the
Great Miami to Dayton in a keel boat.— theo th s e u g te Attorney
They were two weeks ascending, yet such for Lancaster District has already lodged y
was the condition of the road, that this was at the Prison, warrants charging all the
preferaLle to hauling in wagons. Now, if prisoners with the crime of murder.
"Thirdly, if they are acquitted both of
treason
occasions required, the same army, withl
d murder, they will be tried in
all its baggage, artillery and stores, could
the District Court of the United States
be taken to the same point in two hours, for obstructing the Marshal in executing
and to Lake Erie in six hours ! Such has the process issued by Mr. Commissioner
been the growth of the Miami country with-
Ingraham, and for aiding in the escape of
in asingle life time. Well may the exelaina-
the slaves."
tion—"we are a great people and this is a
great country." be pardoned, for it is a
truthful declaration,
TILE PENNSYLVANIA RAIL:IOAD.—This
great work is fast approaching completion;
and before long the cars will be running
continuously over an unbroken line. The'
rails are already laid from Pittsburg to
Wilkinsburg, and in a few days more will
be extended to Turtle Creek. It is ex
pected that during this month the whole
route from Harrisburg will be opened, ex
cepting 26 miles from Chambers Mills to
Turtle Cree.., between which points there
are a good turnpike and a plank road.—
About theilst of Juno next, the heavy
work near Greensburg is to be finished,
and the purpose is to open the entire route,
with the exception of the Mountain Pass,
(over which the company will use the For
age Railroad of the State works until their
own is completed) about the 4th of July
next.
IMPORTANT QUESTION.-WllO finds all
the umbrellas that every body loses ?
Every man we meet loses the umbrellas
he buys, but, we have never got acquaint
ed with the man that finds them. Can
any ono answer the question before the
nee rain!
ANOTHER DISPLAY.
The Great Exhibition in the Uni
ted States.
A HIT AT JAMES COOPER.—Bannan
and Little, the fearless editors of the
Miner's Journal, in Pottsville, Mr. Coop
er's residence, gives the following sly
hit :
One of the meanest things in creation
is for men to seek power, and when ob
tained, use it to defeat those to whom
they are indebted for it. Such mon there
are, and such men generally receive their
REWARD by being despised DY ALL PAR
TIES."
We aro aware, friends, that 44there are
such men ;" and we know exactly whom
you mean—JA.M.ES COOPEll.—llellefonte
Whir.
(1..:,-The name of WINFIELD SCOTT, says
the West-Chester Register, is a tower of
strength. It has been familiar to the na
tion since his youth. The tale of his early
achievements was recounted in the child
hood days of many whose heads are al
ready frosted with advancing ago. His
conduct of the campaign in Minim) has
stamped him the greatest General of the
day. His diplomatic services have proven
the astuteness and power of his intellect.
His frank and noble character has en
deared him to the people. He possesses
their confidence and their love. Ho is,
beyond all cavil, tho choice of the Whigs
,of Pennsylvania.
GREAT SCOTT MEETING.
A very large and enthusiastic meeting
of the friends of America's favorite son
convened in the Court House, in this
borough, on the night of the 12th inst.—
The meeting was organized by calling Hon.
JONATHAN MIVILLIAMS to the chair,
and appointing 0-m.lh:wort, Esq., THOS.
REED, &11 l Col. S. S. WHARTON, Gee.
MILLIKEN and B. F. GLASGOW, Esq.,
Vico Presidents, and Col. W. T. Wilson,
Capt. Richardson Reed, and David R.
Slonebraker Secretaries.
On motion of John Williamson, Esq.,
the following gentlemen were appointed a
committee to draft a preamble and resoln
toins expressive of the sense of the meet
ing:—[The chairman of this committee
having mislaid the list containing the
names of the members, we are compelled
to go to press without them.]
Addresses were delivered during the
course of the evening by Isaao Fisher,
Esq.,J. Sewell Stewart, Esq. and John
G. Miles, Esq.
The following preamble and resolutions
were submitted by the Committee, through
their chairman, and unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, It is the privilege, as well
as the duty, of a free people to meet to
gether and express their views and feelings
iu relation to the men and measures that
are prominently before the country; and
particularly on the threshold of a great
political struggle that will ultimate in the
elevation of some man to the highest office
in the gift of an independent and enlight
ened people. Therefore,
Resolved, That to Gen. Winfield Scott,
the mighty conqueror—the high souled
patriot—the gifted statesman—the ac
complished gentleman—we look as our lea
der, and our triumphant leader, in the ap
proaching struggle of '52.
Roselied, That the time has come, the
people have decreed it, that his admitted
claims can no longer be postponed —the
hour of his vindication and his triumph has
come at last.
Resolved, That he is great alike impeaee
and in war—in adversity and prosperity—
whether standing in triumph on the red
field of blood, or returning in chain: from
the country he conquered.
Resolved, That with him as our stan.
.dard bearer—he who never planted a ban
ner but in victory, whether on the frozen
shores of Lake Erie or the sun burnt plains
of Mexico—victory will be easy.
Resolved, That, as whips, wo are in
favor of the great measures advocated by
the Whig party—we are in favor of the
time-honored usages of the party, and look
with confidence to the nomination of Gen.
Winfield Scott by a Whig National Con
vention.
Resolved, That our confidence in Wil
liam F. Johnston is unabated; tho people
will yet do him Justice.
MR. EDITOR:—The chivalrous citizens
of our village, have set on foot an enterprise
in which very many have embarked: but
which yet needs time, aid, and oareful
fostering to mature. The enterprise is
that of a public library. If ever any en
terprise demanded the patronage, the at
tention, the unqualified approbation of a
community, this one does.
I hesitate not in saying, that the print
ing press is one of the most mighty engines
human genius could invent for the diffu
sion of knowledge, for the pulling down
the strong holds of ignorance and super
stition; that it wields a mightier influence
on the minds of men, than any other with
in the human grasp. Then may Ibe per
mitted through its potent agency, through
the medium of your columns to advocate
the cause of education. Every literary
organization is an auxiliary of the press—
a moral agent for illuminating and chris
tianizing the world. The wide spread and
happy influences of education are almost
everywhere seen, felt and acknowledged;
it equally elevates the moral character
and dignity of an individual, of a commu
nity, of a nation: it popares the sons and
daughters of the present age for the du
ties that are to hereafter devolve upon and
be discharged by them in the different re
lations of life.
The present condition of the youth and
young men of our community demands.
that an immediate effort be made in their
behalf, in effecting, encouraging, and keep
ing up a desire for moral and mental im
provement. We would, therefore, ask
every philanthropist, every one who has a
view to common usefulness to aid, in its
incipiency, this noble enterprise. We pre
sent our claims to a gracious public.—
Donations will bo thankfully received,
from any and every quarter.
Our address will be, Board of Directors
of the Shirleysburg Literary Association..
Shirleysburg, Oct. 2, 1851.
A GOOD Rum—Every subscriber to a
newspaper should make it an unfailing
rule to pay his duos regularly once a year.
They are then paid without being felt, but
when they are left to accumulate for years,
they amount to a sum that is not so willing
ly paid;