THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Thursday Morning, May 6, 1952.
J. SEWELL STEWART--EinToß.
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FOR,THE PRESIDENCY IN 1852,
WINFIELD SCOTT,
OF NEW JERSEY.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1852,
JAMES C. JONES,
OF TENNESSEE.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
JACOB HOFFMAN,
OF BERKS COUNTY.
(17. William Dorris, Jr., Esq., present
ed us last week with a beet, grown in his
garden last year, about two feet in circum
ference. It appeared about the size of the
butt-cut of an ordinary saw-log.
Q - The School Directors of the Hun
tingdon borough School District have made
the following selections of teachers for the
ensuing school year :
High male school, James S. Barr; pri
mary male school, Lyman Smith; high fe
male school, Miss Soheyler; primary female
school, Miss Ellen Drayton; primary male
and female school, Miss Elizabeth Fisher.
The first canal boat this season,
from New York, arrived at Buffalo on the
Ist May.
07 - Our friend, Daniel .Hopnire, had
his name changed by an act of the present
Legislature, to DANIEL. 11. HUYETT. His
numerous friends will please observe the
change.
LE.-* The General Conference of the
Methodist E. Church assembled in Boston
on the Ist May. Bishop Waugh was elec
ted President.
v- Mr. Clay, some days, has been grad
ually sinking, and his friends apprehend
the worst.
ID- Hon. Charles Andrews, represen
tative in Congress from Maine, died last
Friday, aged 38 years.
pg- Col. Doniphan, of Mexican war
fame, has been nominated by the Whigs of
Missouri, as their candidate for Governor.
0 7 - There is now a tolerable prospect
for summer. We hope Nature will soon
put on her fancy dress, and look like a la
dy. She has been outraging good taste
long enough.
CL' The Legislature adjourned on Tues
day the 4th inst.
frr The Broadlop Railroad Bill pass
ed both Houses, and, we understand, has
been signed by the Governor. We will
endeavor to give a synopsis of it next week.
T. 37" The steamship Pacific, from Liver
pool, is in. She brings about $65,000 in
English gold.
The long prevalent drought in Ireland
begins to excite considerable alarm among
farmers. No such drought has been known,
at this season, for twenty years.
France continues quiet. The Patrie
says that the number of persons senten
ced to transportation, throughout France,
amounts to 6000.
V"The Crescent City has arrived, with
nearly three millions of gold from Califor
nia. The yield of gold at the mines has
been immense.
Emigration from South America and
China to California continues brisk. An
outbreak has occurred in the Klamath
country between the Whites and Indians,
and a general Indian war is apprehended.
The Iluods in the up river country have en
tirely subsided, and the prospects of the
miners were never better. Thp late winter
was very severe both in California and Or-
Amu.
Pennsylvania Ilailrclasi aver the
Allegheny Mountain...and
Portage.
In order to avoid the necessity for ma
king two rival railroads across the Alleg
heny mountain, at places In sight of each
other, the President of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company has made the following
propositions to the Board of Canal Com
missioners :
let., The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany to haul over the Allegheny mountains,
between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown, af
ter the canal navigation opens in 1854, all
freights in cars of transporters doing busi
ness on the State canals, for one dollar and
twenty-five cents per ton (exclusive of State
tax on tonnage) for the whole distance be
tween these places.
2d. The State to haul freight passing
over the Columbia Railroad in cars of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at not ex
ceeding two cents per ton per mile, inclu
ding road, motive power, and wheel tolls,
and passengers at the rates charged by said
Pennsylvania Railroad Company for simi
lar travel over their road, with a deduction
of twenty per cent. for the use of cars and
transportation expenses, for first class pas
sengers, and thirty-three and one-third per
cent. for emigrant and other travel.
The Canal Commissioners reply, that if
they bad the power, they could not accede
to the proposition, principally, because it
would make a gap in the main line of the
State improvements; but they make the fol
lowing proposition to the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company :
" That if the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will abandon the construction of
a road over the mountain, and make suita
ble connections with the State works, the
Board of Canal Commissioners will bind
the State so far as they have the power to
do so, to pull their tonnage over the
mountain, at the rate of $1,20 per ton, be
ing a less rate than that at which you pro
pose to carry for the State. This differ- 1
ence in charge, however, is not more than
equal to the difference in favor of the grade
on the State work. The board would
much prefer this arrangement, because it
would leave the main line of the public
works unbroken, and retain its manage
ment within the control of the State.
Very respectfully yours, &0.,
JOHN A. GAMBLE,
President,
The correspondence here ends; but the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company are taking
the necessary steps to construct a double
track on their road from Iluntingdon to
Johnstown, and have authorized funds to
be borrowed for the purpose. During the
scarcity of water which occurs every sea
son in the canal between the mouth of the
Little Juniata and Hollidaysburg, a largo
amount of business might be diverted from
the canal to the railroad at this place or
near Petersburg.
Farmers Look at This i
The opponents of American industry—
for such is the name which must be given
to those who arc opposed to giving it that
protection and support which aro necessa
ry to its full developement—the opponents
of America are in the habit of alleging that
their policy is favorable to the farming in
terests of the country. If there be any
who have been misled by this specious plea,
let them read the following article from the
Boston Courier, and correct the error :
We request our National Legislators to
look at the agricultural interest, and mark
how it has suffered under the operation of
the present tariff. The subjoined table
shows the dooline in the exportation of
bread-stuffs since the tariff went into ef
fect:
$27,000,000
19,500,000
28,700,000
12,200,000
8,100,000
1846-47
1847-48
1848-49
1849-50
1850-51
It is quite unavailing for the advocates
of Free Trade any longer to call in ques
tion the fact the tariff of 1846 has com
pletely falsified the predictions of its au
thors. These men assured us that it was
made for the benefit of the American far
mers. Its practical operation has been for
the benefit of foreign laborers. We may
import foreign manufactures, foreign luxu
ries and foreign superfluities as much us we
please, but Europe will take nothing but
our hard cash for them, except on extreme
compulsion. Famine alone rendered flour
and corn more acceptable to Great Britain
than gold and silver for a short time. The
famine over, she calls for our gold again,
and she gets it. Let our Legislators look
to it, and estimate how long it will be be
fore the cheap labor of Europe, encoura
ged by an anti-American tariff in America,
will break down the manufacturing enter
prise of our country and drain it of the
metal which constitutes the basis of its
monetary system.—Penn. Dem.
"Banda is Wrnin.oo
Mr. Buchanan thus responds, in a recent
letter, to the wish of a friend that ho may
be the next President:
"I thank you most cordially for your
kind wishes in my behalf in regard to the
Presidency. Should the Democratic par
ty of the country elevate me to that most
exalted station on earth, I shall endeavor
to perform its duties honestly and success
fully; if not, I trust I possess sufficient
Christian philosophy to enable me to bear
my fate with cheerful and contented resig
nation. In truth, so far as lam personal
ly concerned, I feel no anxious and ambi
tious longings for the prize, though if it
should come, gratitude to the American
people will ever be engraven on my heart."
The tone of cheerful submission in which
the Pennsylvania bachelor anticipates a
fate which it is wickedly insinuated he on
ly fears won't come, reminds us of an an
ecdote related of Gen. Cass by Sam Hous
ton, during the exciting week preceding
the Baltimore Convention of '4B.
Sam, it will be remembered, then stood
a pretty fair chance of being "Polk-ed"
into the nomination under the operation of
the two-third rule. Meeting the Senator
from Michigan on Pennsylvania Avenue
one fine morning, the hero of San Jacinto
"buttoned" him for a brief comparison of
rival hopes.
"Well, General!" said Sam, "I suppose
you are prepared to start on the road to
wards the White House."
General Cass. "Well, really, I must
confess it looks as though I should be com
pelled to turn my face in that direction.—
I am heartily tired of public life, and have
no aspirations for the Presidency. And,
besides, you know my wife is a member of
the church, and she dreads the thought of
the White House. But if the Convention
force the nomination on me, I shan't back
out and desert the party, much as I would
prefer the selection of any body else who
can successfully uphold the Democratic
banner."
Sam. Ah ! Yes ! yes! General. You
remind me very forcibly of a boy down
our way, who went home one night awfully
corned. His doting mother, poor soul!
was much grieved at his condition, and, in
tones of deepest concern, inquired "how on
airth he had fallen in so bad a habit?'
"Wa al mother," hiccuped Bill, "I was
[hic] down at the cor- [hie] ner, and the
poll- [his] ticianers forced it on me."--
This was not sufficiently clear to Bill's mo
ther, who, urging her son not to add false
hood to indiscretion, repeated her question.
"Wa-al, now," said Bill, as a ray of
penitence broke upon his clouded mental
vision, "the truth is, mo- [hic] thor, Die
Jo- [hie] Jones forced the cus- [hie] sed
stuff down my [hie] throat, and I took it
[hie] d—d easy."
Just then General Cass started down
street, leaving his button and Sam Hous
ton behind—the latter's mouth spreading
the while into a most indescribable grin.
[N. Y. Times.
BUCHANAN VS. CAss.—A Washington
correspondent says that "a handbill has
been printed somewhere in Pennsylvania,
and sent in large numbers to Washington
and about the country, designed to show
that Cass could not be elected, if nomina
ted. qt is attributed to the Buchanan men
of Pennsylvania. It shows that Cass was
in a minority of four hundred and fifty
thousand of the popular votes of the Free
States, at the last election. Again, the
handbill shows that Cass approved Mr.
Clay's animadversions upon Gen. Jackson,
in 1826, and insinuates that President Ad
ams appointed him Governor of Michigan in
consequence. Whether true or not, that
looks bad for Cass, too, for the 'Boys' re
vere the shade of 'Old Hickory;' and if
Gen. C. does not explain the little note to
Mr. Clay on the occasion referred to, more
clearly than he has ever explained the Nich
olson letter, he may hang his harp upon the
willow."
A Bin PILE OF IRON.—There are now
thirty thousand tons of iron lying at
Dunkirk, N. Y., waiting shipment to the
West, mostly destined for Ohio, and there
is daily more receiving. And all British
iron at that!
NORTH CAROLINA.—The Whig Conven
tion of North Carolina has elected delega
tes to the National Convention favorable to
Mr. FILMORE for the Presidency, and Mr.
GRAHAM for the Vies Presidency.
irrSTATE AORICULTURAL FAIR.—The
Carlisle Herald says that the committee
entrusted with the selection of a place for
holding the next State Agricultural Fair,
have decided upon accepting the propo
sition made for the same, by the citizens of
Lancaster.
Inundations of the Mississippi.
The Secretary of War has recently pre-
sented to Congress some interesting papers !
in the shape of reports of the surveys and
investigations relative to the inundations
of the Mississippi River, made by Col. Al
bert, Chief Topographical Engineer, Lieut.
Col. Long, of the Topographical Engineers,
and Charles Ellet, Jr., Civil Engineer.—
The most important of these papers is the
report of Mr. Ellet, in which the subject
is treated of at length, and with the prac
tical skill and research which distinguish
Mr. E. He traces the increased frequen
cy of the inundations to what are known as
"cut offs" in the river, and proposes two
modes of remedying the evil. First, by
making additional outlets for the waters of
the river during freshets, adapted to re
lieve the river when it should rise to a giv
en height, and so constructed as to avoid
abrasion from the action of the discharging
water. Second, a judicious system of dykes
or levees, or a combination of both, accord
ing to circumstances and localities, with
the accessory means of controlling the flood
by artificial reservoirs in the mountain gor
ges near the heads of the principal streams.
The levees, which are recommended by
Mr. Ellet to protect the river coast below
the Red River, will average eight feet in
height, and four hundred and fifty miles in
length, and would involve an expenditure
in their construction of $2,500,000. This,
however, would not protect the country
above the Red River, and would be incom
patible with the drainage and reclamation
of the Delta at the mouth of the Missis
sippi.
The injurious effects of the periodical
floods of the Mississippi, Mr. Ellet shows,
are increasing, and must continue to in
crease and extend up the river, from the
working of causes which arc indicated.—
These causes, he says, will continue to op
erate, and cannot fail in a few years to
bring great distress throughout the delta
of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the
Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. The State of
Mississippi, it is argued, is unable to con
tend against causes which thus threaten to
deluge the whole Valley of the Mississippi,
and the National Government must be look
ed to for the prosecution of an enterprise
which requires unity of design and energy
of execution. The suggestions of Mr. El
let are concurred in by Col. Albert, with
the exception of the proposed system of re
servoirs, which Col. A. thinks would not
have any effect on the inundations of the
river.—Galt. Ilmerican.
DREADFUL STEAMBOAT DISASTERS.-
The steamer Prairie State, while rounding
out from her landing at Pekin, on the Il
linois, between nine and ten o'clock, on the
morning of the 25th ult., collapsed the
flues of her larboard boiler, killing, scald
ing, and wounding some twenty persons,
mostly hands on the boat and deck passen
gers. The boiler blew out both forward
and aft, and but for a quantity of hay stored
in the engine room, the loss would have
been much greater. The head engineer,
named Wilson, was but slightly wounded.
An assistant was instantly killed. The
steamer afterwards caught fire, but the
flames were soon extinguished by the crew
of the steamer Avalanche which was on the
point of landing a short distance off, and
came to the assistance of those on the Pra
rio State. Captain Sprigg thinks the kil
led and missing are mostly the crew of the
boat.
The steamers W. B. Clifton and Chick
asaw came in collision above Evansville,
Ohio river, on the night of the 25th and
the latter sunk immediately. It is re
ported about twenty lives were lost. The
Chickasaw had on board a locomotive, for
theMomphis railroad.
It is also reported that the Poatiac,
No. 2, sunk in the Missouri river, the boat
having broken in two.
The steamer Beacon, bound for Mont
gomery, Alabama, with a full cargo, most
ly provisions, sunk on the night of the '2sth,
on Lake Ponchantrain. The passengers and
crew were all saved, but the greater part of
the cargo will be lost.
121.7 — A Company has been formed at Con
shehocken for the purpose of making a kind
of glass-ware from the refuse cinders of
the "Merlon Blast Furnace." They in
tend to manufacture coffins, table-tops,
mantels, door knobs, flagging, as well as
kitchen and other utensils. This is putting
the cinders to a good purpose.
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PHILADELPHIA. MARKETIL—FIour $4,-
26. White Wheat $l,OO per bu., Red
95 ets. Rye 73 ets. Corn 64 ets. afloat.
Whiskey 21 cents. Money is very abun
dant, and large sums are offered for invest
ment at 51 and 6 per eent.—easily obtain
ed at 6 per cent.
Congressional Apportionment Bill.
The bill to apportion Pennsylvania into
districts for the election of twenty-five
members of Congress, is now a law, and is
perhaps about as strange a piece of legis
lation as evor enianated from our Legisla
ture, distinguished as it has been for doing
strange things. The Districts as laid out
aro as follows:
I. Southwark, Moyamensing, Passyunk,
in the county of Philadelphia, and Cedar,
Lombard, Spruce and New Market Wards,
in the city of Philadelphia.
11. The city of Philadelphia, excepting
the wards before mentioned.
111. Kensington and Northern Liber
ties, in the county of Philadelphia.
IV. Spring Garden, Penn District North
Penn, Kingsessing, West Philadelphia,
Blockley, Richmond, Unincorporated Nor
thern Liberties, Bridesburg, Aramingo, in
the county of Philadelphia.
V. Montgomery county, and Bristol
township, Upper and Lower Germantown,
Upper and Lower Manayunk, Frankford,
Roxborough, Byberry, Lower Dublin,
White Hall, Oxford and Moreland, in the
county of Philadelphia.
VI. Chester and Delaware.
VII. Bucks and Lehigh
VIII. Berks.
IX. Lancaster.
X. Lebanon, Dauphin and Union, and
the township of Lower Mahoney, in the
county of Northumberland.
XI. Schuylkill and Northumberland
counties, except Lower Mahony township.
XII. Montour, Columbia, Luzerne and
Wyoming.
XIII. Northampton, Monroe, Carbon,
Pike and Wayne.
XIV. Susquehanna, Bradford and Tio
ga.
XV. Lycoming, Sullivan, Potter, Clin
ton, Centre and Mifflin.
XVI. York, Perry and Cumberland.
XVII. Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bed
ford and Juniata.
XVIII. Somerset, Cambria, Blair and
Huntingdon.
XIX. Westmoreland, Indiana and Arm-
strong.
XX. Fayette, Greene and Washington.
XXI. Allegheney county, except that
part which lies north-east of the Ohio, and
north-west of the Allegheny river.
XXII. Beaver, Lawrence and Mercer.
XXIII. Butler county, and that part
of Allegheny county, not included in the
21st district.
XXIV. Venango, Warren, McKean,
Clearfield, Elk, Forrest, Jefferson and
Clarion.
XXV. Erie and Crawford.
An Electric Clock.
The Boston Journal describes as ono of
the curiosities of the age, an electric clock,
recently completed by Mr. N. Farmer, on
an entirely new principle, and pronounced
by scientific men to be the most perfect and
simple of any. All wheel work in the time
keeping part, is dispensed with; therefore
all friction is overcome. The time keeping
part of the clock is simply a pendulum, and
electro-magnet, and two armatures. The
vibrations of the pendulum break and close
the circuit of electricity, while the combi
ned action of the electro-magnet and arma
tures keep it in motion.
It is a clock that runs without weights or
springs or anything of the kind. Its mo
ving power is a galvanic battery, which re
quires a small quantity of sulphuric acid
once or twice a year; or if the workmanship
of the clock is delicate, a copper plate bur
ied in the ground will keep it in motion.
There is no friction to be overcome save
the suspension points of the pendulum, and
the two armatures. Hence it approaches
the nearest to perfection as a time keeper
of anything in existence. One hundred
or a thousand clocks all over the city, all
ticking at the same instant, and keeping
the same time, may be carried by one pen
dulum.
flg'' The following is a clasification of
the sooial condition of the people of France,
taken from the last number of the West
minster Review :
Millionaires, 50,000
Rich Men, 200,000
In easy circumstances, 5,500,000
In modern circumstances, 4,200,000
Gaining a decent but uncertain
living, 6,000,000
Gaining a scanty and uncertain
living, 16,000,000
Living in extreme indigence, 5,000,000
Paupers, thieves and prostitutes, 4,000,000
INTERESTING RELIC.—The copy of the
Bible used on the occasion of the admission
of General Washington to the order of
Masons, was exhibited to the brethren as
sembled at a meeting of the Lodge of Vir
tue, held in the Albion House, Manches
ter, England, last month.
TELEGRAPHIC.
The Homicide Case at Columbia.
COLUMBIA, April 80.—Considerable ex
citement was created here, yesterday after
noon, by the appearance in our borough of
Deputy Marshal Snider, of Harrisburg, ac
companied by police officer Ridgley, of Bal
timore, and Mr. Stansburg, for the purpose
of capturing a colored man, alleged to be
the slave of the latter gentleman. At 3
o'clock in the afternoon the party proceed
ed to a lumber yard at the southern ex
tremity of the town, where the negro was
engaged in piling lumber, and his arrest
was attempted by the two officers. Smith,
the alleged fugitive, tried to make his es
cape, when in the struggle officer Ridgeley
drew a pistol and discharged the contents
through his neck, in the region of the ear
otid artery. Smith fell instantly dead.
Much excitement being produced, Ridg
ley then stated that he should deliver him
self up to the authorities, but upon the ar
rival of the borough officers at his hotel he
was found to have escaped. It was then
stated by some of the bystanders that he
was seen going over the Columbia Bridge
at a rapid pace, and no doubt reached the
half-past four o'clock train for Baltimore.
Officer Snider took the cars for Harris
burg at 7, P. M. He had been under tem
porary arrest, but was liberated by the of
ficer without an examination. Deputy Co
roner Fisher held an inquest upon the bo
dy of Smith, and a verdict was rendered
in accordance with the above facts. Smith
leaves a wife and two children. He had
resided in this borough about eighteen
months. The above facts have been glean
ed from the statement before the Coroner's
•
jury.
HARRISBURG, April 30.—Great excite
ment prevails in Columbia, and there is
much feeling here in relation to the killing
of the slave there yesterday. The Gover
nor has been apprized of the transaction,
and will probably be called on to make a
requisition on the Governor of Maryland
for the surrender of the officer on the
charge of murder.
./Ippointment of Supreme Judge.
HARRISBURG, April 30.—Gov. Bigler
has appointed Hon. George W. Woodward
to the vacant seat on the Supreme Bench,
vacant by the death of Judge Coulter.
The Earthquake, Yesterday,
BALTIMORE. April 30th.—The shook of
an earthquake, which was so distinctly felt
yesterday at Washington, was also very
sensibly felt in this city, Frederick, and
other places in Maryland.
Clerks Discharged,
WAsuirtoToN, April 30—The discharg
es of about forty temporary Clerks from the
Census office, were made out to-day, to bo
handed them on Monday, and to take effect
on Wednesday.
PERSON SECRETED.-011 Sunday morn
ing, a moderately well dressed man, aged
apparently about twenty-five years was
found alone in the Library of the Presi
dent's mansion, where he had introduced
himself unperceived. On being questioned
as to the cause of his being there, his re
plies, were those of a person non compis
?midis. Ho strenuously refused to give
his name or place of abode. It is thought,
however, that he is from Philadelphia.—
There being no place in the district adapt
ed to the reception of persons of unsound
mind, he was necessarily committed to the
county jail until further discovery shall be
made respecting him.—Wash.
[f Theßank of England covers five
acres of ground; employs nine hundred
clerks; and should a clerk be too old for
service, he is discharged on half-pay for
life. There are no windows on the street;
light is admitted through open courts; no
mob could take the Bank therefore, with
out cannon to batter immense walls. The
clock in the centre of the Bank has fifty
dials attached to it. Large cisterns are
sunk in the courts, and engines, in porfeot
order, always in readiness in case of fire.
The Bank was incorporated in 1649. Cap
ital £1,000,000, or $90,000,000.
"EFFECTS OF LOCOFOCO Rt;Lz.—The
Sheriff of Clarion county advertises that he
will offer for sale on the first day of May,
sixty nine separate pieces of real estate,
embracing NINE furnaces, several mills,
and many well improved farms. The des
cription of this property fills nearly six col
umns of the Clarion Register."
[D- An Earthquake shock was experi
enced in Pittsburg on Thursday Inst—
als° in Philadelphia. The mountains press
so heavily on this country that it would be
hard to shake.