v in ' •"%. ...s o On SS • 0 f 2 _ 0 • 0 . lln 6 1 .. 11 VOLUME XVIL TERMS OF PUBLICATION: $, THE " HUNTINGDON Jo HEM" is published at the following rates, viz: If paid in advance, per annum, $1,50 If paid during the year, 1,76 IT paid after the expiration of the year, • 2,50 To Clubs of five or more, iit Advance,• • 1,26 . 'rue above Terms will bo adhered to in all eases. No subscription will be taken fora less period than six months, and no paper will be discontinued un til all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. POETICAL. - - Oh ! Comrades. fill no Glass for ine. Br STEPHEN C. FOSTER. Oh ! comrades, fill no glass for me Tp drown my soul in liquidjlantei For if I drank, the toast should be— To blighted fortune, health, and fame. Yet. thought I long to quell the strife That passion holds against my life, Still boon companions may ye be, But, comrades, fill no glass forpe ! I know a breast that once was light, Whose patient sufferings need my care— I know a hearth that once was bright; But drooping hopes have pestl'd there. then; Wh!le the drops slightly steal From wounded hearts that I should heal, Though boon comPaniehe ye may be, Oh ! comrades, till no glass fur me ! .v! , When, *titO>uung, I felt the tido Ot aspirations undefiled; But manhood's years have wronged the pride My parents centred in their child. Then by a mother's sacred tear, By all that memory should revere, Though boon companions ye may be, Ohj coniradts, tlll no for me ! MISCELLANEOUS, Peace at Home It is just as possible to keep a Calm house sit . clean house, a cheerful house, Ise! ;derly house, as a furnished house, if the heals act t ‘ heinselves to do so. bele is thO difficulty off' consulting each other's weakness as well as each other's . wants : mach other's tenalsrgi as, paid' Othees elf.r -aoters'l Oh !ftis by leaving the peace at home to chance, .i . iistead of . pursulag.it system; thit 113a4, It deserves notice, also, that almost any„ one can be courteous and patient, in a neighbor's house. If any thing go wrong, or be out of tune, or is disagreeable there, it is made the best of, not the worst ; even `efforts are wade to excuse it, and sh,9v it is not felt; or, if felt, .it ia.attribUted to accident, not to design ; and this is not Only easy, but natural s in the ,Ammo. of a • friead, j, y f ill.ii9t;.tFerefolei believe that iliat is so natural in the house of another, is impossible at home; bet maintain with out fear; that all gio courtesies of social life May be upheld in doiOestie A husband ay :willing to be pleased at home, and as . ,o4.ious to plean ag neighhoPq liyuseidipd ; S: Flfe.as intent on making things coinfartable every day to her family, tis . ,od set days to her guests, could not fail to Make their owu home happy.— Let us not evade the point, of tVege remarks by rectirring,t9,lV6 maxim about allow ances for teinlier. It is worse than folly to refer to oar, temper, unless we could prove that I've e#Of gdidoti /11104'0 good by giving way to it. Fits Of ill hunfor punish us quito as much, if not more, than those they are vented upon ; and it actual ly requires more' effort, and itAtibts - more pain to give them up; than would be re quisite to avoid them. n"" "If, you wish for a clear mind, etrong museles, and quiet nerves, wad long life and power prolonged into old age, avoid all drinks but water, and mild infu sions of that fluid ; shun tobacco and opium, and everything else that disturbs the nor mal state of the system ; rely upon nutri tious food and mild diluent drinks of which water is the, basis, ithd you will need othing beyond these things except rest, and due moral regulation of all your pow ers, to give you long,' happy, and useful lives; and a serene evening at the close. , trr When we take into consideration low short lived is display, the consequence we attach to applause and gingerbread is fenny astonishing. Those who now flaunt rn Brodway, and rejoice in the conse quence of guilt-edged shirts and purple suspenders, will in a few years, have noth ing to mark their whereaboitt but an un- Cared, and very often unpaid for, tomb stone. Twenty years after death, and nine ty nine men out of a hundred aro as un-„ known as the " northwest passage," or a poor relativu. Every , indication that we ever lived will have passed away. All the little memorials of our remembrance will be either ebld,'biokeii Or stowed away iii the wood-shed. Rich People. • "The suit bf Richmond's home-farm, at Greenwood, sixty miles from London, con sists of twenty-three thousand acres, or over thirty-five square miles. And this is in crowded England, which has a popula tion of.sixteetranillions, hird itiett of fifty thousands square miles, or just thirty-two millions of acres ; giving, were the lane di vided, but two sores to each inhabitant.— The residence of the Duke is a perfect pal ace. One extensive hall, s!eovcred with yellow,silk, and pictures i is the richest and Mat costly. , tapestry; The dishes._and plates upon the table are all of porcelakt, silver and gold. Twenty five race-horses stand in the stable, each being assigned to the care of a special groom. • A grotto pear tbe t boose„ the ladies spent six years in adormeg. Ali' aviary is supplied with almost every variety of rare and elegant birds. Large herds of cattle, sheep and deer,, ate gimelid over the immense lawns." The Duke of Richmond also has his palace in Londbri s , which is magnificently fitted up ; but vast as is his wealth; it is nothing com pared tc: OM of TIIE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE " The Duke of devonshire's place at Chatsworth, is said to exceed in magnifi cence any other in the kingdom. In the grounds„about the house are keptfoux.llitit dred head,ef cattle, and fourteen hundred ~The kitchen garden contains twelve acres, and is filled with almost every spa cies of trait and vegetables, ~,A.,yttst:wrb oretrum, connected with the getablish went, is designed , ti) contain a sample of every tree that grows. There is also a glass conservatory, three hundred and eigh ty-seven feet in length, one hundred and twelve in breadth, sixty-seven in height, covered by seventy-six thousand square ffiPt of glass, and warmed by seven miles of Pp° conveying hot water. One plant was obtained from India ty a special mes senger, and is valued at ten thousand dol lap,.. One of the felititains ricer the house plays two hundred and seventy-six feet high—said to be the highest iu the world. Chatsworth contains thirtx-fiv,e, Annyired acresbut the Duke ow is n.thetS , six thou sand acres in Derbyshire. Within, the en-; tire is one vast scene of painting; sculpt ure, mosaic wpck, carved „wainscoting, and all Ole elegances and luxuries within the ;each of almost boundless wealth and high ly, refined taste." ~The Duke's ,income.is one,niillion of dollars per annum, yet he manages to spend it „m It will be re menibered that Paxton, the originator of the Crystal Palace, is the Duko of Devon shire's head gardener ; and to him is the Duke's place at Chatsworth indebted for all its glories. • I A Few Definitions. Ditch—A place where those who have taken too much wine are apt to take too much water. Doze—A short nap eujopt)„b# megry pepple after a diuner on, week day, and after the text on Sunday. Eccentric Individual—One who minds his own business and lets other people's alone. Great Business Qualificalibni—Ha ring the faculty,pf,Awilidling people out of a tow Windieds in money transactions. Clever Fellow—One who spends his earnings at the grog shop, while owing the widow for his board. ,(4gpmplished I,adyrOne who can Ory on the piano and blush at the sight of a frying pan. Ungrateful Wretch—Ono who borrows a V and declines voting for the lender at the ensuing,eteetl'ofi:.• • .11e4ht of Impertinence—For a poor devil to familiarly recognize a candidate fnr Congress, after the election is over. ~.Unparalleled inspleppe—Asking bod to pay a small bill that's been stand ing five years. Shrewd, Fellow—having the fa9plty of overreaching everybody and evading jus tice. Enterprising—Rushing heels over haa in debt to build up a village without the insane of paying for the erection of a sta ble. [r,-" In the days when Connecticut was largely engaged in breeding Milks for the Southerti . market; one morning, Tracy, who was as shrewd a Yankee as ever whittled a shingle or. sold a' (ilia,' stood with a South' Caidlinian on the steps of the Capitol, when a drove of mules passed by on their southern journey. ~T racy," said the Carolinian,' "there goes dbnipai4 of your constituents." "Yes," was the - dry retort, "they are douhtleee going to South Carolina to teach iehool." Kr The humorous Dean Swift whoso antipathy to fishing was well known, hav ing boon asked by a child what a fishing rod. meant, "It means my dear," ; said he, "only a tiUNTINGMON, PA.; THURSDAY, _JUNE_ 17, 1852. POLITICAL. WHY I Affil A WHIG REPLY TO AN INQUIRING MY DEAR P—,„ You have been, i)leised, to express your surprise that I; whom you copßder in other respects Liberal and Progressive, should yet .syilliiitklee find aet,with the American Whig party rather than its great antago nist. The time and place chosen fpr this expression precluded an immediate and cir cumstantial reply, you will excuse,,therte fore, the medium and method of my art !men I hope to be able to present to your mind, seat least to the minds of others less prejudiced against my conclusions, some considerations hitherto overlooked, or in adequetely weighed:4ml regarded. „Nay I not fairly dolma' YaR. , a!patient and, if possible, a candid hearing?; —Two gramil, and fruitful idear Attract and divide the political world. On the one hand Liberty,. on the other Order,. is the watelkiverd, of a mighty host, impatient of resistance and eager for universal dominion. Each has had its reign—nay, its reigns— of terror; and the butcheries of Catiline and Marius, of Marat and Robespierre, . ; have been fully,rralleled ,by,these of Alya and Claverhouro, of Suwarrow And laynau.— An infinity , - .!f cruelty and crime,,has been perpetrated in the abused name of Order, and hardly less in that equally abused of Liberty. But neither of these suffices without the other. Each is,indispensable to general contentment, prosperity, and happiness. No good is secure in the ab flore,pf:eitller. If without Liberty human existence is bitter and „irksome, without Order it, is precarious and beset with con stant perils. Few me:, will clear; dud plant, and build, with Opt a reasonable as surance that they shall likewise reap; and inhabit? and enjoy. lor Liberty, a nation Iv.isely„and nobly discards present tranquil lity, thrift, and peace, just as it welcomes the tempest and the thunhlerhia, *her than . enclure ptong &butt r:nd consequent sterility; but, having achieved Freedom, it finds itself compelled tp rebuild the shat tered bulwarks Of Order, and reaffirm the sacred majesty of Law. Anarchy or mob rule is the wort of despotisms,—it is the rule of thousands of savage tyrants instead of one—it •isthstarnival of unbridled lust, brutality, and ruffianism. As an escape from this, the governments even of Egypt or Naples would be joyfully accepted by all who prefer to walk in the quiet paths of industry and virtue. , • •• , • .•• Now re - publics have their peculiar perils no less than monarchies, and they, though diverse, are not unrelated. What the sy eophant, ..thp.eourtier; A to the Sorereign Prince, the domAgegue is to the Soyoreign People: ,I.lhe .tuitichnlhat 'The King can do ;to wrong' is as ,nnsehievous in a free State as in nn' other.. Nations, as,well.as. kings, huve . their weaknesses,, their vices, theit . ,omptations; they, too, need to be fretinentlY reminded of the Macedonian's admonition—'Remember, Philip, thou art mortal r Whey, t 0,9 ,, are subject to the,il 7 lusloti of falseglory, They are often im pelled to kill or to enslave their neighbors under the pretense pf liberating them; they are in danger of mistaking the promptings of ambition Or covetousness for those of philanthropy or destiny. Nowhere is there greiiter need of Conservatism than in a young, powerful, and martial Republic. It was by no accident, or fortuitous con currence of events, therefore, that Wish.- ington, Knox, Hamilton, and the great =- Salty of those who had battled bravely and perseveringly for American Independence during the Revolutiow„becitme ufterward: the founders Rnd champions of the more qostrvativo And less popular party under the Federal Constitution. When the coun try needed defence against foreign tyranny, and. : again when it , required guidance through the perils of, domestic anarchy, they were found at the post of danger and er„dnti,i, That they committed errors in either case is quite piObahleatit the pa triotic instinct which summoned ; them to the defence of enfeebled Order was identi cal with' that ifirOli had previously called them to battle under the ties . pf,LibertY , . „ And while it is quite possible to err on the side Of Order as well as that of Liber ty, the tendency, the' temptation, in a De, mocracy like ours, is almost wholly on' the side of the latter. Whore ,t . ho,Kiiig is 'the fountain of honor,' the self-seeker flatters and panders to the monarch; where the People are the source of power, the cour tier becomes a demagogue, and labors to ingratiate himself with that active, daring, reckless minority, who habitually attend politainit giithei'ings; give tone to the pub- lio sentiment of bar-rooms, always vote and solicit votes at elections, direct the most efficient party machinery, and thus virtually stand for what they assume to be —the People. The danger of erring lies inevitably on the same side with the temp „ that which assumes to be the champion and embodiment of Democracy. This party enjoys certain vast advantages in a contest over any which can be mustered against it. In the first places it has the more popular name—one which the most ignorant com prehends, in which the most depressed finds promise of hope and sympathy, and which the humble and lowly immigrant, just land ed from his Atlantic voyage, recognises as the watchword of liberty in the beloved land whence he is for liberty's sake, an ex ile. Of course he rallies under the flag so iivitingly inscribed, and suffers his preju tiMes, to be enlisted on behalf of one party litiCere ho kners wherein and why it differs from the other,. Not one-fourth of our vo ters of European birth ever primarily con tddeied, the. claims of the two parties res pectively to their support, and gave an im partial zulginent between them. They were never fairly in a position to do so.— Fiero are half a votes to, begin with secured, to the self-st:yliid Democracy by their name, and there are at least as many natives of our soil who vote 'the regular ticket' because of its name,,and would at least as heartily, suiiiierA.,l)rotection to Home Labor,,ltiver, anti Berl* Imp.reve,- , merits, &c., as they now ,opPoss them, if the democratic label were taken from the one, side, and affixed to-the other. This vast, dea&weiglit fastened in one,settle nat ural* attracts thither a large class Of young lawyers and other asPirauta,whoxe more anxious, to be on the winning than bh the right side, and whose gaze is fascinated aikil fixed by the .prospect of judgeships, seats in the, .legislaturev,&e,f *te the party termed Democratio coomences ' a struggle Or ,aseendeney, .nearly or qajtA,,oncrthir,d of ,the votes Attached to its standard, not by any eidightened, unpre 4441PC4jusiptiVtAtAt the Country will be beitiafited lly its success, but by considers dens quite, foreign to this; whilst its an tagonist, obtains few or no votes but those of reading and thinking men, who, judging from experience, and the doctrines pro winded and measures promoted on either side; earnestly believe the ascendency of that self-styled Democratic party fraught with evil to the nation. And yet, in spite of its immense advantages aside from the merits of the Cage, spite also of the prestige of former triumphs, almost unbro ken, that Democratic party hat been beat en in two of the three last Presidential elections, and barely simeg9do iii. the otk cr. Could such have been tlie distinctive principles and practiCes had not been decidedly adverse to the plain re quirements of the public weal Let nie horp„Priefly indicate, according to wy understanding of the facts, what those distinctive characteristic are : The party styling itself Democratic is, as ,regards Foreign ..Ikraterir„' the, more belligerent and aggressive Party: it take's delight in shaking its fists in the face _of mankind in general. it made all the for eign mars in which our country has been ic,velved since her indoPendence was ac knowledged. In its secret counejls the wresting of Texas from Mexico, and her annexation to this country, were, ,plotted. 'lrere ,tbe,Mexicatt war was precipitated by the absurd claim that Texas,.extended to the Rio Grande del Norte, and by sending General Taylor down to take poet iu the very heart of a Mexican department4.under the, guns of its,,eapital. In those councils peade was rpfAsed to Mexico after she had been beaten into a concession of the Rio Grande boundary, unless slie would further cpwieut .. tO - sell us for money vast areas of (praiten:y which it was not even pretended that she owed us, which, by, offering her fifteen millions therefor; our riders plainly confessed that we had no just claim to. In thoee councilsovere plotted the several in vasions of Culm, under the pretense that her inhabitants pined for deliverance from Spanish ascendency—a pretense thorough ly,,exploded by the event. Thence origi nated the mob-gatherings iu our cities, to raise men and money in aid pf Lopez; thence ultra the shaMeful_ riots in Now Or leaner, wherein the property of peaceful and harmless Spanish,,resideute was destroyed, their safety endangered,' and. their . epueul barely saved front a violent death by taking refuge in n,Prisorro, For these . .shaureful Outrages Democracy htrd pour a word of regret, though it far; eager enough to drivel our government into bostibr , deuronStratiens against Spadri;beetrusc her war-steame. had compelled . our Palcon.to heave to and sat isfy them that she was not ensagetl iu land ing invaders on . the .Cuban eckst. 11;4, harmless Wet of . maritime police, which no captain of a war-steamer, under lijro Cir cumstances, would true been justified in. omitting, and which none who carried the American ling - would ever have thought of omitting, had Spaniards been the invaders and our coast tire soene of notion, bas been trumpeted through the land us a wanton and lawless aggression, for which the full est reparation should be exacted, and whir% our Whig Cabinet evinced great Pusillan imity in not promptly resenting. This is a 41— ....At h., whiait that intr. tillrtta it threatened Franco with war, its case the money she owed our merchants for spolia tions committed under het flag, since 1800, were not promptly paid; though an equal amount due our merchants for French spo liations before 1800, and, whibli.ear goy, ernment for a valuable Consideration, 13 . 3 , it received, had promised a half century siege •te diNimage, s tlibegli often petitioned for, then mumble+ unjiald, and stills re mains so, one bill providing for its pay ment having , beeii vetted by a 'Democratic President, and another defeated in the House by a 'Democratic' opposition. And so from first t.o.last partisan. Ignipexacfre has steadily evinced a disposition to bully other nations for the payment of doubtful debts, while refusing on frivolous pretexts to pay indisputable debts bf our own. No firoaCh his been more commonly applied to the Whig party by its enemies than that of being a 'peace party,' and of 'taking the side of the enemy,' and nothing could be said, which, rightly regarded, re -1 dounds more to its praise. It is easy and popular, in case of international disputes, to take extreme ground, to insist on all the points which favor our own country and slur over those which make for its an tagoeiSt— easy to rouse the dogs of war, and cry havoc amidst the shouts of excited and admiring multitudes. But to urge that there is another side of the picture, which also demands consideration—that ince are not necessarily demons because theY across a river, or speak a differ ent language from ourselves—that we have pot only endured wrong but done wrong, and that the claims put forth on our behalf are beyond the measure of justice,—this is not the way to win huzzas nor elections, yet it is the course often dictated by duty and genuine patriotism. Honor, Then, to that party which has repeatedly dared to stem the mad torrent of revenge and lust of con quest, and to receive into its bosOei the darts aimed at foreign Peoples, States, and Nations, and calculated to stir up revenge ful passions iu their kmasts us turn . 'Blessed are the peacemakers,' and blessed also aro they who for half a century have stood forth the unshrinking antagonists of Aggression and War! 'We are a land stealing race !' was once exultingly pro pounded in Tammany Hall, by a chief ac tor in the theft of Texas, who is now a for midable asPirant for the Democratic nom ination for the Presidency. With our covetous,, aggressive propensities thus broadly proclaimed, who shall say that credit is not flue, to .that party which dares entrench itself itemosl the path of national rapacity, and receive the first charge of the headlong host upon its own thinned ranks, rather than permit jt to pour itself. Un checked aereo the inviting possessions of our neighbors? 2. cipposed.lo the histinet of boupdless amplisition stai4si thztvf aEGru&lrllugrUoe.; went., ,ti nation can not sitintitancßuslY de vote its energies to the absorption of oth ers' .territories and the improvement of it * own. Iu a state of war, not law only is silent, but the pioneer's axe, the canal-dig gpr's •,niad.toelc s the house-builder's trowel alro. Vutiq should ita hope to clear, and drain, and fence, and fertilize, our useless millions of acres, at the same thee that we are intent on bringing the whole Nast continent under our exclusive doptiniou. It is by no accident, therefore, hut by au instinct profounder than any process of reasoning that the Veitioeratic party .arritYs itself againsP•7the prosecution of Internal improvements. Individuals in that party may demur, and local or per-, senar interests. may overbear party tenets and tandencies; but it is none the less true that 'the party' is essentially hostile to the linproverueut policy. We see this evinced in its votes against and vetoes of river and harbor improvement bills, in its repudiation's; its hostility.tu corporations, &c., &c. t ludividuals in the party will pretend to be in favor. of the prosecution of such improvements, but not by the General government, nor by the State government, nor ,y,et tm a company of zens,..unless ologgod mall conditions wliich render such prosecution morally impossible. Tints New-llampshire,ilinder.'Democratie' guidance,. iincl6rtooll to saddle all corpora tions with the individual liability death stockholder fur the full amount of every debt incurred , by. the. Compithr; OAS re— pelling men of large capital or caution, and effectually obstructing progress. To this succeeded a party attempt to make every railroad company buy every foot of land 4wipi pOnipellea to 0190.4 at the own- 1 ezi's - initiation, in effect giving one vtipa cious or perverse landholder on the line of a projected railroad it power to.prey.ent its tionstruction. This ground wasliattlli.re- ceded from, when the •combination of lo cal interest with Whig resistance threat timid to revolutionize the State; but the spirit which dictated to effort still lives 1 , and reigns, though deterred by fear of consequenbeil from that particular mode i ! and-Milasure of self-exhibition. I watched with intense and painful inter est the lust hours of the late Congress.— A. had naßmul the louse. smelted r )7/ NUMBER 2L. Whig votes, nialikug appropriations for the furthminipruvernent of rivers and harbors throughout the.conntry. That bill came eOurecrtb Ifd acted on in the Senate: Every questicn involved in its passage had been heretofore discussed iu either House; so di3 to be perfectly understood from the outset, and nothing could bo effected by its discussion but the consumption of time. But. though a decided majority of the Senate was of the party termed 'Democrat ic,' yet . that majority included a nut., her who,.if this-bill were pressed. toiii gnat vote, would be. impelled, by • local' interest or-personal conviction to support it, so that such a vote would insure its passage; while several 'Democratic' Seruttors, representing States ; deeply, interested the proseduticrd of thecio improvements, but themselves as-• pirants to the Ilresidency, and depending on anti-Improvement support, were unwil, ling to vote either for or,..against thbi In thie ailernma; , an underataudink;was had, in caucus, that the bill should be talked , to death, no matter at what cost. In pur suance of this plot, day after day was wasted in time-killing talk; amendment af ter amendment was moved, merely to hang speeches upon; and oven old reports and veto-messages sent to the clerk to be read through. Nearly all the important busi ness of the session remained unperfected. At length, on the last morning of the ses sion, Mr. Clay, on behalf of the friends of the bill, rose and said substantially: