THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PA, Tluiraday Morning, Feb. 12, 1852. J. SEWELL STEWART—EniTon. TERMS OF PUBLICATION: Tin "HONTINGDox Jo umur." is published at tke followiug rates, viz: If paid in advance, per annum, $1,50 if paid during the year, 1,14 If paid after the expiration of the year,• 2,50 To Clubs of five or more, in advance,. • 1,25 Tan above Terms will be adhered to in all cases. No subscription gill be taken fora less period than six months, and no paper will be discontinued un til all arrearagee are paid, unless at the option of eke publisher. ♦. B. PALMER Ls our authorized agent in Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, to receive advertisements, and any persons in those cities wishing to adver tise in our columns, will please call on him. FOR TEE PRESIDENCY IN 1852, WINFIELD SCOTT, OF NEW JERSEY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1552, JAMES C. JONES, OF TENNESSEE. L 7 See new advertisements, The locofocos of this immediate neigh borhood seem to be divided into two very bitter factions, the main point of differ ence being that ono faetion is in, and the other out. Until very recently we were unaware of the extent of the quarrel, though it would not bo difficult to see, that at least a spicy one could be got up, amidst six or eight candidates for collector and as many for supervisor, in this bor ough. It seems to gratify the disappoin ted hugely, to see flaws picked In the ad ministration of the more fortunate. In a little family quarrel of this kind, we do not propose to engage, nor, make this pa per the vehicle of mere personal abuse.— We are one of those who believe that there is great mismanagement on the public works, and that they are frequently the theatre of great frauds, as an instance of which, we refer to the Freeport Aqueduct, and we conceive it to be our duty, as it shall be our pleasure, to expose them, when furnished with the proper evidence. In our last issue, we said that we were making arrangements to get the "special facts" in relation to alleged frauds on this division, which we would make known as soon as we got them in proper shape.— Since that time we have been furnished with some, which, in justice to the late Supervisor, we must say, do not implicate him. We have been furnished with no fact or allegation which militates against the fairness of the check rolls, and we shall decline to publish any thing founded merely on surmise without at least carry ing with it a_ sufficient presumption to challenge an investigation. We have long since determined to publish nothing but that which we believe to be true, and whenever we discover an error, or have been misinformed, we will promptly snake the correction. Appointments by Gov. Bigler. HARRISBURG, Feb. 2.—eov. Bigler has made the following important appointments to offices in Philadelphia:— Inspector of Domestic Distilled Spirits —Charles H. Schreiner, of Union county. Inspector of Salt Provisions—George Geti, of the Northern Liberties. Inspector of Lumber—James S. Wet- SOL • Sealer of Weights and Measures, for City—S. C. Thompson. Keeper of tile Ponder Nagazine--James Lafferty. Health Officer—William MoGlinsey. Measurer of Marble —Jacob Umpstead. of Montgomery county. CT" A steam ploughing machine has been invented by A. T. Walson, of Staten Island. It is intended for driving twelve ploughs, and perform the operations of ploughing, sowing and harrowing simulta neously. If this invention should prove successful in its application, it will no doubt effect an extraordinary revolution in agri cultural pursuits, and from the complete ness of all the arrangements, there is no doubt but that it will. ocr The wife of Mr. James Roe, at Brooklyn, 111., allot a man named David son, dead, at that place, on the 23d ult., for intmltin,g her. COMMUNICATION. MR. EDITOR While the attention of other portions of the community and of the nation, is ab sorbed in attempts to uproot and overthrow the accursed commerce in ardent spirits ; while meetings are being held around us daily, with this great object in view ; and while the horrible fruits of this extended traffic of misery, wretchedness, crime, pov erty, and wo, stalk around in our very midst; the citizens of Huntingdon have been sleeping upon their post, and gazing with characteristic indifference upon the mighty revolution now going on in our land. When the streets of our town arc, al most nightly, the scene of drunken carous als, and of the most wanton acts of mis chief ; when there are among us those who will place the cup of death in the hands of children, and deal out the soul-destroy ing poison to the school-boy; such indif ference must indeed seem strange. The citizens in other parts of our county, who have been "up and doing," look upon us with surprise and astonishment. In the little village of Birmingham an organiza tion has been effected in the Temperance cause that is doing much good—that will do much more—and that deserves the highest meed of praise from all true chris tians and sincere philanthropists. The Or der of the Sons of Temperance is at work, in other places, spreading abroad petitions and obtaining signatures to be presented to the legislature of our State demanding their interforance. But, notwithstanding the tocsin has been sounded almost nightly beneath their chamber windows; notwith standing they behold all these efforts going manfully on around them, the people of Huntingdon still sleep• on, in imaginary peace and security. Ministers of the ilos pel—followers of the " meek and lowly" Saviour—prominent members in the church —would-be philanthropists—and professed patriots, can remain indifferent spectators of the atal consequences of •a traffic, that floods our laud with crime, that sends an nually thirty thousand of our countrymen to untimely graves, that fills our nation with the wailings of widows and orphans, that peoples our jails, our alms-houses, and our penitentiaries, that breathes upon us a moral pestilence, blights the enjoyment of our prosperity, and destroys our peace. The people in other parts of the country are demanding, with an authority not to be resisted, that something shall be done.— Every where they are begining to appreci ate the alarming evils of intemperance.— In Maine a law has been enacted, which has produced the most happy results.— There, poor-houses and jails are scarcely needed. " The Sabbath is delivered from its worst desecration. Thousands of chil dren on her broad domains will not now, as in times past, be tempted with the drunkard's drink, or caught in the yen ,ler's snare." Other States have followed, or are fast following her example. But Pent sylvania, yet kneels to a moral tyrant who wields a sceptre, mightier than all the powers of Europe combined ; who has erect ed the throne of his despotism, upon the mangleo corses of her citizens; and who sits surrounded by an ocean of the blood of her citizens ! And while the people in other parts of the State are arising in their might, to shake off the yoke of this bloody monster, the citizens of Huntingdon are standing calmly aloof, gazing with apparent indifference upon the struggle. Is this the part of Christians ? Is this the part of American citizens ? Shall our streets con tinue, night after night, to resound with the terrific yell !—the blasphemous oaths ! —and the obscene songs ! of the drunken revel Shall this stream of pollution con tinue to roll on, hurrying many of our youth, and valued citizens to the drunk ard's grave ! and the drunkard's hell ? Is there no Christian, no philanthropic hand to raise a barrier, and stay this rolling tide of infamy ? Even our Burgess and Council seem to have sunk into a lethar gic sleep, that knows no waking, when the signs of our merchants and mechanics, can, under the cover of night, be torn from their places with impunity, and the proper ty of our citizens wantonly destroyed. It is indeed time, citizens of Hunting don, that we should awake from our slum bers ; 'that we should haste to array our selves against the desolating monster ; that we should enlist, with our neighbors, under the broad banner of Temperance, and nev er cease our efforts until the commerce in ardent spirits shall be wholly eradicated from our land. A commerce the fruits of which are seen in the drunkard's home of haggard poverty, in the drunkard's wife, and half famished children, in the drunk ard's parents descending in sorrow to the grave, in the drunkard's death-bed, where the ghastly wand of mania-a-potu crokes some of the terrific scenes of hell ! and in the drunkard's Eternity, over whose gloo my portal the pen of inspiration has inscri bed, in ever living characters, "No DRUNKARD CAN INUERIT TIIE KINGDOM Or GOD!" It is a traffic that will stoop to the lowest depths of infamy and of meanness, or rise to the highest and most daring sacrilege. It would— —Strip the dead, Or rob the orphan of his crust of bread, Pillage the palace of the King of Kings, Or clip the gilding from an Angel's wings !" • • • Huntingdon, Fob. 6th 1852. NOVEL ÜBE of ♦ JAIL—The county jail at Harrisonville, Va., has been pur chased by the Odd Fellows and Sons of Temperance of that place, who intend to convert it into a hall in which to hold their usual meetings. Pardon of Alberti, the Kidnapper. 11"' Gov. BIGLER is certainly making a queer beginning in the discharge of official duties. His first official act of importance was his approval of a Bill authorising a loan of $300,000 and thereby ,increasing the State debt to that amount. This was intended to cover up a deficit in the State Treasury, brought about by the extra-con stitutional act of the Canal Board (all Lo cos) in drawing more money from the Treasury for the North Branch Canal and other Improvements, than was authorized by the appropriations made by the last Legislature. Gov. Johnson would never have sanctioned the matter by his appro val. The second important official not of the Governor, is the pardon of the notorious kidnapper, George F. Alberti, convicted a year or so ago in Philadelphia of having kidnapped a colored woman and her free born child and carried them to Maryland and into Slavery. The crime was denoun ced in strong language by Judge Parsons, under whom the case was tried, and Alber ti was sentenced to an imprisonment in the penitentiary for ten years. Whether Mr. Bigler designs by this pardon to show to Maryland that her agents can hereafter invade our soil and kidnap our free color ed people with impunity, or whether it is designed as a practical exhtition of devo ted love to the "Union," is hard to tell.— Star and Banner.. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—The grocery store of the Messrs. Enr, and the Machine Shop of Mr. DENNING, in Market street, corner of Fifth, were entirely consumed by fire, yesterday morning ; the latter with all its contents. The alarm was given between two and three o'clock, and before the citi zens and firemen reached the scene of con flagration, the fire had made such rapid progress that the well directed efforts of the are department proved unsuccessful in saving the buildings. 111 k. DENNING had no insurance, and his lois is supposed to be very heavy. The Messrs. Ear succeed ed in securing a large portion of their goods. The property was insured to the amount of s2soo,—not sufficient, however to cover their losses. The firemen acquit ted themselves nobly, as they always do on such occasions, and by their prompt and well-directed efforts, saved the adjoining buildings.—Whig State Journal Feb. 5. EXTENSIVE COUNTERFEITING OPERA TIONS.—Mr. Mayman, deputy U. S. Mar shal returned to Cincinnati on Thursday last, after an unsuccessful pursuit after a man named Robert Neal, charged with carrying on• extensive counterfeiting oper ations at Mount Carmel, Ohio. Neal is a man of property, and by profession a lith ographic and steal plate printer. It is es timated that during the last few years he has counterfeited $400,000 on the State Banks of Ohio and Indiana, and the Nothern Banks of Kentucky. In fact, it is believed he has issued nearly all the counterfeit money on these banks that has flooded the country for several years. He has heretofore been above suspicion, but was finally detected through a man in his employ. He was traced as far as New York, where it is supposed he took passage for Europe. ANOTHER GOLD EXCITEMENT.—The St. Louis Republican contains a despatch from Parkville, Mo., which states that the town was thrown into great excitement by the arrival of a band of Delaware Indians from a hunting expedition. They brought with them a quantity of gold dust, which has proved to be finer than California gold. The Indian from whom the dust was pro cured says that it was obtained on this side of the mountains, about 700 miles from Parkville. lle refused a thousand dollars from one of the citizens to show him the place. MURDER AND LYNCH LAW IN MISES ISIPPI.-Mr. John D. Watkins, a planter of De Soto county, Miss., was recently bru tally murdered by three of his slaves, two men and one woman. They attacked him with axes, beating in his skull, and caus ing his instant delth, after which they fell ed a tree across the body, and built a brush fire over the spot where the murder was committed, in order to consume the blood which flowed from the wounds.— Suspicion was immediately excited against the negroes, and on their arrest, having fully confessed the foul deed, the excited populace seized the two men, took them to the place where the murder was commit ted, and hung them to the limb of a tree. 07 - The interest duo on the Pennsyl vania Stat• debt was promptly paid on Monday, aocording to custom, at the Bank of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, by Gen. John M. Bickel, the State Treasurer. From the Phila. Sun. Three Days Later From Europe. ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA. The R. M. Steamship Niagara, Capt. ' Stone, from Liverpool, with 44 passengers, bound to New York, arrival at Halifax on Wednesday, at 2 o'clock P. M. The Ni agara brings London and Paris advices of the 16th, and Liverpool papers of the 17th ult., her day of sailing. She has en countered very heavy weather, which com pelled her to touch at Halifax for a supply of coal, and after having been well replen ished, sailed for New York at 46 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. PRANCE The Moniteur has published the new Constitution, as indicated in the proclama tion. The President is to be responsible Gov ernor ten years. Justice is to be dispensed in the Presi dent's name. He has the initiative of laws, and the right of pardoning. He presents an Annual Message. Com mands the lands and sea forces. Declares war, and makes treaties—and appoints to, all functions. "I swear obedience to the Constitution and fidelity to the President," is the oath required from all the public functionaries. In case of the President's death, the Senate convokes the nation for a new elec tion. The President is entitled, by a se cret deed, to designate a citizen as meri ting the confidence of the people. The papers aro filled with accounts of the removal of the prisoner sent to Cayen ne. Among them are two additional ex- Representatives ' M. Alexandre . Martine and M. Michatßroutet, who sat for Loy ret. Eight political prisoners had been trans ferred to the port of Toulouse. A second list of prisoners proscribed and banished from France, was looked for in the bloniteur, but it had been postpon ed. It was reported to contain the names of some of the most eminent members of the Council of State, and several of the edi tors of the Orleanist papers. On Monday the 12th, in execution of the decree for the dissolution of the National Guard, a quantity of arms were taken to the different Makes and given up to the authorities. They were afterward taken thence in large quantities to the Tuilleries for safe keeping. The forts previously occupied by the National Guards, are now guarded by the troops of the seine. A decree had been issued declaring that within three days the property of insur gents who had taken flight, was to be se questered and administered by the Direc tor of the State Domains in the various Departments, in conformity with the civil and military laws. It is announced in the London Timis, that Louis Napoleon is about to strength en his position by a matrimonial alliance with a princess of Sweden, a daughter of Oscar, and grand daughter on the moth er's side of Eugene Beauharnais. She is said to be in her twenty-second year, and may be considered French in her descent from both father and mother. DENMARK AND TIIE DECIDE/ . It is announced that the Danish Govern ment has yielded to the demand of Aus tria and Prussia respecting the Govern ment of the Duchies, end the differences so long pending may now be presumed to be settled, subject to their ratification by the Chambers. GREAT 13RITAIN, The English papers do not contain any local news of importance. INDIA ANE CHINA The mail from India and China had ar rived in London with Bombay dates to the 17th of Dec. Tho Business Court had 35 days allow ed them to consider the demands made up on them, when, if not acceded to, it was supposed that Commodore Lombert would proceed up the hawed& and commence hostilities at Ragoun. Letters from Hong Kong of the 29th November, mention that the mandarins are purchasing arms and warlike stores of all kinds. The rebels are said to be near Canton. The Yellow River has burst its banks, and trade in the North is interrupted. Latest Intelligence. (By Telegraph from London to Liverpool.]: FRANOE.-PARIS, Jan. 16, 1852.—1 t is rumored that the Moniteur of to-day will contain the names of the Senators. Also, that on Saturday the names of those com posing the Council of State will bo given to the public. On the same authority, it is also stated that the electoral law will be published on Sunday. It is understood that by the provisions of the electoral law, the age for voting by universal suffrage is raised from 20 25 years. The National Guard delivered up their uniform at the appointed time with great regularity, and without any manifestations of discontent. M. Emile Girarpin has received orders to quit Paris. He will proceed to Bel gium, and from thence, it is said, intends to go to England. The Express says, a remarkable change has taken place in the price of French Bullion. It states that Gold Coin at Par is now commands par, that liar Silver has risen considerably in value, and that Sov ereigns have advanced 15 centimes. Mexi can Dollars, on the contrary, have declin ed 1 centime. The correspondent of the London Globe states that Louis Napoleon styles himself Prince President, and that the restoration of titles is considered extremely probable. On the same authority it is stated that the new Constitution has not given entire satisfaction to even the friends of the Pre sident. The proposition of the Minister of War to give Gens. Changarnier, Lamoriciere and De Flockta, a certain amount of pay during the period of their exile from France, has not met with the approval of the President. The election of Louis Napoleom was celebrated at Madrid by a Te Deum in the Church of St. Louis of France. The Spanish Ministry have, it is said, in timated their intetrrion to remove several general officers, who have given umbrage to the Government. BERLIN, Jan. 13,11852.—The old Coun cil of State, after having been many years In abeyance, was again revived by royal lecree yeiterday. VIENNA, Jan. 12,1552.—The Emperor has ordered that in all imperial addresses he is to be styled "His Imperial Royal Apostolic Majesty." It is understood that the coronation of Francis Joseph I.; as Emperor of the Austrians, will take place early in the ensuing spring At a grand ball 'given by the first Minis ter of the Crown, a few days ago, the Charge d'Affaires of the United States, together with the Turkish Ambassador and the Swiss Envoy, received the cut direct, neither of those gentlemen having been invited to attend the paity. (Er In Cincinnati, on the 23d ult., wood was up to the reasonable infliction of twelve dollars a cord ! A most pleasant state of affairs, truly, with those who have wood to sell, (says the Comwelocial of that city,) but not remarkably so with those who are compelled to . buy. Late from Southern Mexico. New York, Feb. 3.—We learn by let ters under date of Acapulco, J anuary 10th, that the brig E. Ranball, of Cambridge, Mass., was picked up, lat. 8, long. 95, five hundred miles from laud, and brought into port. When found, her sails were all furl ed, and her chains were out, but without anchor. No paper or log book was to be seen, and there was not a soul on board. American commerce at Acapulco, con tinued subject to the corruptions and ca price of the Courts at that place, and it was hoped the American Government would despatch a vessel of War there to protect the interests of the American citizens and government. Heavy rains had prevailed here from tho 6th to the 10th of January, which was a most remarkable circumstance for the dry sewn, BANK ROBBERY.—An extensive bank robbery was perpetrated at Portsmouth, Va., on Sunday night. The banking house of the Branch Bank of Virginia was enter ed during the night, the rogues taking ad vantage of the storm that prevailed, and robbed of $87,000, of which $60,000 was in notes, and $27,000 in gold. A despatch from Portsmouth says that no clue has yet been obtained as to whom the robbers' were. It is supposed they are the same party who recently made an attempt to en ter one of the banks of Charleston.—Re- 1t The wife of Mr. Jeremiah Banofield, of Chester, N. H., on Sunday, the 25th ult., in a fit of insanity, while alone in the room with her child, an infant of two weeks old, deliberately laid the child upon a block, and chopped its head off with an axe. 0 The aggregate value of the wines annually imported into the United States is about $2,000,000; of brandy $3,000,000; of beer, $176,000 ; of tobaeco,wmuff and cigars, $1,750,000. Total, about 12,000,- 000 gallons, valued at, say $7,000,000. The value of tea annually imported is $5,- 000,000 ; of coffee, $12,000,000; and of fruits, (raisins, Sgs, almonds, &e.,) $l,- 000,000. FANATICISM.-A man named Gable died recently in Indiana, who was a believer in the Rappers and had not taken any nour ishment for two weeks, and had burnt his hands by holding them against the fire, for the purpose of taking the electricity out, as he said, while under extraordinary ex citement. Exhaustion and excitement were the probable cause of his death. D.r Gen. Houston has been unanimous ly nominated for the Presidency by .the Democratic State Convention of Texas, llgr - A bill has been introduced into the Legislature authorizing the banks of Penn sylvania to issue small notes. Also a bill to repeal the !aw which prevents the circu lation of foreign notes. tO"Two mules and $2O is said to be au Indian valuation of a wife. Flogging in the Navy. Senator Stockton, of New Jersey, lately delivered a speech in the U. S. Senate, relative to the "whipping code" in the Navy. It was one of those brilliant and powerful appeals which never fail to arrest attention, and Senator Stockton has, in his effort, won universal praise and commenda tion. lie has taken the true ground. The idea of applying the lash to Amerind seamen is barbarous, and deserving of gen eral condemnation. Since the abolishment of the flogging system, we have had the highest testimony in proof of the disciplfne; of the sailor, while his devotion and uni- - form conduct has elicited the esteem of f every honest officer in the serviee. Amerix can citizens need no lash to teach them their duty. A higher incentive influences all their actions, and if it is necessary to degrade men who volunteer to serve their country, we had better abolish the Navy. The speech of Com. Stockton complete ly vindicates the sailor, and his opinion is deserving of the greatest respect. His knowleage of nautical affair, and his great services abroad, has rendered him worthi ly distinguished. We rejoice, therefore, to record his protest against the praatice of whipping American sailors ; and we are sure that the people would deplore and de nounce the re-establishment of the infamous system.—Lan Intel. RELIGIOUS PERSEOUTION.—ThO Queen of Madagascar is bent on exterminating Christianity in her dominions, and morel lesk persecutes those who prefer the "new reigion." In the last outburst, four persons were burnt alive: fourteen pre cipitated from a high rock and crushed to death; a hundred and seventeen condemn ed to work in chains as long as they live; twenty persons cruelly flogged with sods, besides 1,748 other persons mulcted in heavy penalties, reduced into slavery, and compelled to buy themselves back, or de prived of their wives and families. Per sons of rank have been degraded, and sent as forced laborers to carry stone for twelve months together to build houses; and in an endless variety of other ways havetho mad dened passions of one wicked woman been permitted now for years past to plunge a large populous and beautiful country into misery and ruin. INDIAN Czxsus.—Efforts have been made for a year or two past by the Gov ernment to obtain a census of the Indian population now inhabiting the U. States. By the accounts received from the census agents, and information derived from other sources, it is ascertained that the entire number of Indians inhabiting all parts of our country amounts to about 418,000. Of this number, 80,000 is the estimated number of those inhabiting the unexplored territories ; 24,100 are the Indians of Tex as ; 93,130 belong to the tribes living in New Mexico ; 82,231 aro in California ; 22,733 are in Oregon ; 11,500 in Utah.— Many of the Now Mexican Indians are cif. ilized, and have fixed habitations and towns. -•••-••••••11.11 [tMrs. Swisshelm says the reason one nation conquers another is not owing to the kind of arms they use, but to the kind of food. In her opinion, eeat will triumph over cabbage. So long as cattle and Hin doos feed on cauliflowers, so long will bull dogs triumph over the one and the Tartars over the other. When Ireland frees her self from England, it will be when Ireland swaps off her potatoes and takes to pork. To expect freedom to come from butter milk, is as absurd as to look for ballot boxes in Russia. 4 air Hundreds of our citizens complain of debil ity and languor of the system, derangement of the liver and stomach, want of appetite, &c.; they are frequently the result of too close application, and a thousand other causes wo cannot here name I but we would my to all so afflicted, do as we bare done—get a bottle or two of Dr. Hoofland's Ger man Bitters, prepared by Dr. Jackson, and, our word for it, you will be cared. We recommend this medicine, knowing from experience that it is much superior to the generality of patent medi cines. We would say to our readers, purchase none unless prepared by Dr. C. M. Jackson, Philadelphia. PRICES CURRENT. • PIIILADELPUIA, Jun. 21, 1852. Flour per bbl. $4 50 White Wheat per bushel 1 02 Red do Rye 72 Corn 65 Outs 40 Cloverseed 4 94 MARRIED. On Thursday the sth cost., by Rev. Mk R. Mills, Mr. EDWARD C. SUJIMIRRAW bliss ABIOAIL A. BUMBAUGII, both of this borough. Ott the sth inst., by Daniel Africa, Esq., Mr. DAViDMUERETS to Miss blaltY JANE &IVES, both of this county.