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HUNTINGDON, PA.
Wednesady Morning, Jan. 26, 1853.
A. W. BENEDICT, ESQ.. POLITICAL. ED,
v. H. PALMER
is oar authorised agent in Philadelphia, New
'York -and Boston, to receive advertisements; and
nny persons in those cities wishing to salvertiso
in our columns, will ploase call on hint.
Announcements of candidates for county
or district offices, will ho inserted at the same rates
as other advertisements, if paid for in advance;
otherwise they will he charged double, or refused
No candidate's name eau be favorably presented
in our rolimms, for inV local office of honor or
profit, in the gift of the'people, unless ha is a pay
ing subscriber to the "Jounml," or a regular
nominee of the Whig party.
oir Our thanks are personally Inc to Messrs.
Carothers, and Lyons, and McMamie, of the
Senate. and Mr. ts , rin, of the Ilonse. for copies
of the Legislative Record, and other public doc
uments.
Neva• Advertisements.
.1. A. Burdick wants 20.000 noes of land in ex
change for City property, 51erchandise, or Cash.
Philip Piper, of Alexandria, offers a good farm
for sale or rent.
Simon and Cabriel Levi announce in to-days
paper that they will he ready to receive customers
on and after Saturday next, at the old stand in
Market square.
Valuable Farms are offered at Orphans' Court
Sale in Warriorsmark township, in Hopewell, in
Cass, in Springfield and Clay; also the extensive
town Property of Greenberry Dorsey, deed.
iStr We are requested to any that the Execu
tive Committee. appointed nt the Temperance
Convention, have prepared end printed a Petition
to the Legislature for the passage, of a prohibitor),
lae•; and that persons desiring, can he furnished
with them, by applying to said Committee. They
bare one to be signed by the Ladies; and one the
lords of creation.
Whigs and Wh ig Papers.
There arc some men, whose good opinion we
esteem. There are others. whose praise should
czeite suspicion, and whose censure is some evi
dence that the ohject commands respect. To the
latter we shall have little to say. To the former,
the very renpert we owe them, compels us to no
tice them.
The senior editor of the "Harrisburg Tele
graph," we have long known, and as long res
pected, fbr his sterling love of truth and right,—
with the junior editor, however. our acquaintance
has been more limited. One of them, and it mat
ters not which. for it carries with it the force of
character which the Telegraph has eversitstained,
has assumed the right to call us to an account for
our correspondence of the 12th inst., and we must
defend ourselves as best we can. As a Whig, we
are hound to make good oar defence—as a man,
we must save truth from injury.
We know well, that no young man in our State,
maintains a, higher reputation than the Hon. J. C.
Kunkel, for talent, and eloquence. These gifts,
with large Requirements, hove won him a more
than common fame. Yet none of these, give him
a license to assail the absent, or to stoop to false
hood in. debate. The Telegraph may dismiss the
charge of brother Benedict, with its "genial" eon.
straction. But, permit us to say, although, as
Tony Lumpkin said, "we say it, who ought not
to say it," where we arc known, rind where our
assailants are known, we shall be believed.. It is
true, we do not understand thnt the Telegraph de
nies that our charge is true. We heard, and noted
well, and• spoke of it, nt the time, the general
charge of tile " irntentlffulness of the press," and
while we wield the pen, no man, of any party,
shall thus characterize the press, and we remain
silent. If the Telegraph is disposed to assume
that passion. made as blind And deaf, we can only
soy, we shall he found, in due time cool enough.
Now, ns to our rernarks.ahout Senator Barnes I I
anti his brother, we- said that. which Honorable
Senators can prove, it' they have a visit to speak
oat. And we gave the man David, notice in dine
that the world-should know his shame. If they,
or the Editors of the Telegraph, or our Whig
friends, any where, suppose that we are to be
scolded or flattered into silence, we recommend
that they study our character and history anew.
We love the Whig party, its independent and
truth loving press,—its manly and faithful parti
zans—its pure end patriotic principles; we have
lived with, and fm them all. We hnve, for twen
ty-three years, been. a mark at which the political
opponents of that party, have directed their pois
oned arrows. The assassin's knife,—and the
torch of the house !turner, have l -en lifted against
us by their cut-throats and rufflans,—yet with all
this: we have won the esteem of hundreds of their
honest wird/A:ls, and we are proud of their friend
ship. Thebes of 'oar party have felt our power,
what ever it may have been. We have spent oar
hest strength; and the freshness and vigor of our
young manhood, for the party of our choice, and
we have no unkind words, or •'hard blows for its
true friandx. We say, as Ire said last week, we
have pnid'a *consideration for all we ever re •
ceived from the Whig party.
If, however; the press of that party, .thinkt
are ready to he Milted out to die, why' Win lion
us out. It is to lie hived, that We shall - be permit =
tett to vote the Whig ticket still;
We wish to give some of these gentle Men a
piece of information—" Brother Benedict" fins the
reputation of being a man of truth where he is
known, even in Harrisburg; and if he is to be
atoned,,because he tells the truth, there are some
Whigs 'who would like to know it in time. Or
to my the least, they prefer that the innocent shall
cast the ftrst.otones.
The "Phuis" Begun. Legifilathie News.
Since the election, in last November. nor poli- That onr readers may know whit is go
tient opponents have been gradually getting them• ing on. at Harrisburg, we intend to keep
selves ready for that happy period, when the
boares,
an editorial record of such business, as may,
won which few poor Whigs have been ,
'feeding, will he snatched from them. mil handed in our judgment, De interesting to them
to some partisan pots of Franklin Pierce. It i It will be remembered that Governor
is 11, '"Y to he '''norlere'l at. Out of office four Iliglor, in his message, recommends the
yer.ra. that party feels as if they hail been akin- passage of a law permitting Slave holders
herited, and evince a spirit which indicates that
to travel in our State, with their domestic
they would like to make the Whigs account for
the mente prqflts. As they don't see how that elm Slaves. In the Senate this portion of the
he done, they are in a greater hurry to get into message was referred to a Select Commit
tee of three—Messrs. Quiggle, Carothers,
and Kunkel. We shall wait with some
anxiety to see this report.
The division line between Montour and
Columbia County, is again agitated, and a
bill changing the line, has passed the House.
It would be a difficult matter to calculate
what that question has cost the State.--
There has been sonic difference of opinion
as to the publication of a u Daily Record"
of the proceedings of the Legislature. It
was once agreed to, as we understand, and
then an effort is made to reconsider. A
full and itupartia daily report of the pro
ceedings, would be a valuable publication
for the people, and enable Legislators to
keep their constituency posted up, as to
business.
A Bill has been read in place, in the
House, authorizing the Penn a. Rail Road
Co. to make a continuous road to Phila
delphia, from, some point on the East bank
of the Susquehanna river, provided that
s id road ipes not, at any point, come with
in five miWs of the State road. This, we
are glad to see. Some such law oUght to
be passed. The State road and its man
agement, must ultimately drive off the trav
el; and unless Pennsylvania will relieve
herself from the difficulties, which now op
press her interests, we, as a State, must
loose not only the travel, but the trade;
and Southern and Western merchants will
find a market which can be reached with
out their being subject to annoyance and
hindrance.
pmsession.
Never, since the sun of our Remit,lie first rose
on earth, has its beams shone on so large a band
of office hunting patriots, of every elms and every
creed, of every faction and every fragment of
their party. From the old worn out partizan, of
many campaigns, to the print upstart °flit young
Amcricon stork—grave Senators—Cbugressmen
—lawyers, doctors—pot-house politicians, county
and township faetotems, and stump orators—party
penny-a-liners—Catholic, and Native American,
—old hunker, and barn hunter—slave driver. and
anti-slavery man, nullifier, and Union saver, old
Federalist. end new Democrat; all, all ere in the
geld for office, and what is extraordinary, all, and
each, base their claims upon the especial service
rendered in keeping in rank their peculiar lid
, glide, regiment, battalion, company, or platoon,
of the democratit forces.
Concord is the Mecca of the party. Thither
have the pilgrims all turned their faces ; thither
do they bend their footsteps. Some, could they
prove their fitith and secure the desired end, we
doubt not, would willingly measure the way with
the length of their body. The tide of life, which
has flowed toward Concord, has been continuous.
Its ebbings were but the return of one, to call to
his aid two snore, the three returning to the place;
to make more apparent and more sure, thechance
of success.
Now, it is not a supposable case, that all this
can take place, and not occasionally produce some
little jarring among the chaos of elements, We
see, fbr instance, that the Bedford Gazette, con
ducted by that mighty General,—Bowman, qui
etly lends, our worthy Secretary of State, F. W.
Hughes, a rap on the nose, to make him step
back, and talks of a grettSry shret in Harrisburg,
called the " Democrat," that is braising Hughes
because, ns Bowman alleges, a pardon procured
through Hughes, saved the editors of the Demo
crat from the felons coll. Bowman having been
pardoned once himself, knows how pardoni are
obtained, and what is to be puid, of course be has
a right to speak out. We go in for freedom of
speech—we do—and we say, hit em again Giner
al. Though we are free to admit that the circum
stance, that the Bedford Gazette is against Mr.
Hughes, speaks volumes for him.
That the plan may not be all on one side, the
Pennsylvanian comes down oil Bowman. (or did)
and hints that he was a party to the transaction
which hastened Searight off, before his time, to
the "pale nations." And the same paper speaks
of one of their party dignitaries, as the " long
. heired, leather-complexioned. lank-looking chap,
who does the Commissioners' dirty work, and who
• bores every man of distinction who visits Harris
• burg, as he has every member of the Legislature
to sign the petition of the would be Governor of
Minesota." All of which is very right and proper
on the part of the Pennsylvanian. We have read
some where, an old srw, perhaps our readers re
member it, it commences " when rogues, 6,,"
and ends with something about honest people
"getting their own," It strikes no, if there is any
truth in that maxim, that possibly the honest ci
tizens of our State and ottr Country, will be likely
to hear enough about their " Loco Foco fellows"
(said by themselves,) to convince them that we,
of the Whig press, generally, speak as well of
them as they deserve.
“Umble.“
" At the Amoral of Dr. Stevens, It worthy old
citiien of Boston. the President elect of the Uni
ted States, woe seen walking on foot in the pro
cession. and the sight excited unrestrained expres
sions of admiration from crowds of citizens:"—
Boston Times.
The above, front a clean haired modern dPmo
crat, we consider one of the good things, which
ought to be preserved. In these few lines we
have several highly Interesting events iu the his
tory of the President elect, recorded.
First. W e hare the remarkable fact chronicled,
that a Democratic President elect, condescended
to attend the funeral of n man who was only a
Doctor.
Second. That President Pierce "walker in the
tuneral procession of a• " worthy old citizen" of
Boston.
Third. That the President elect walked "on
foot," arthat same funeral.
Fourth. That the President elect, of the tnited
Stares, " Was seen" walking, on foot, in that pro-
Fifth. That the sight excited .‘ expressians's of
admiration from citizens.
Sixth. That the expressions of admiration thus
excited, were "unrestrained."
Seventh. That all this was very " amide," as
Uriah Heap would say, on•the part of this great
man.
EVA: That it all gives the common people a
proper sense of theTemocracy of this man ; foi
he attended, and w.hat is more, walked,—and what
is peculiar shout the fact, walked on foot, at the
funeral of Dr. Stevens.
And ninth and lastly, it. proves heyolVing dis
pute, that the Boston Times has a fine sense of
the Democratic.
We are, however, in the dark about one thing;
and that is as to how the unrestrained expressions
manifested themselves, whether in loud hurrahs,
as the mourners, with their sorrowful burden, went
by; or whether at the grave, and Its the clods rat
tled upon the coffin; in shouts of " Bravo, bravo,
vet; well done." As soon as we shall learn the
facto, to finish the 'history our readers shall have
them.
A Whig Gbvetnor irt Maine.
The reinavof the party qusrrels in the Sone of
Make, has resulted in the choke of a Whig Gov
ernor, of that State, by the' Senate. In the'De
mottnitic fat:l'llly, the "regulars" and "wild eats"
quarreled, and rather than trust *each other, they
elin.e t Whig'.
Our worthy Democratic friend, Gen. Jno.
M. Bickel, the present State Treasurer,
was re-elected. There is no better man in
their party.
Col. Wharton presented a petition for
the appointment of Commiseloners to lay
out a State Road from the town of Shells
burg, in Bedford county, by way of Hope
well Iron Works, John Wisharts in Fulton
county, Sideling Hill and Shade Gap in
Huntingdon county, Waterloo in Juniata
county, to the west end of the Harrisburg
Bridge, in the county of Cumberland.
He also read in place, a bill authorizing
the Auditor General to examine the claim
of William Stewart, of Huntingdon county.
And a bill to authorize Levi Evans to
settle the accounts of the Broad Top Ran
gers of Huntingdon county.
And a bill to authorize the laying out of
a State road, from Shellsburg to the• west
end of the ilarrisburg Bridge.
A resolution passed both Hon. cc,invi
ting tic President elect to visit ards
, burg on his way to Washington; and that
the Committee, (three of each house,) make
the necessary arrangements for his recep
tion, if the invitation be excepted.
The Canal Commissioners were called on by a
resolution of the Senate, for the amount of old
debts due by the Commonwealth, on the Public
Improvements. In the Ilouse a hill was read in
place antorizing the Penn's. Railroad Co. to ran
their ears over the roach belonging to the Corn-
monwealth.
Mr Harsie submitted die following I
Resolved, That the Auditor General he request
ed to intlirm the Senate whether it is the practice
of the accounting department in any case to It.
OCCOUIIII3 upon the filial estimates of the Engineer
fur work and labor done upon the public works
of the commonwealth, where the prices allowed
exceed the pricen at which the work was allotted
and specified in the contract; and if so, to state
the authority upon which the practice rests, with
such accompanying explanations, as he may
think proper to present.
The rule was suspended, and the resolution
was twice read and adopted.
Can it pe possible that a practice, at which this
resolution is directed, has crept into the account
ing deportment. We shall see.
A Bill bus been read in the House to author
ize the erection at Harrisburg of a Mansion for
the Governor of the Commonwealth.
Both Houses adjourned on Friday until Mon
day. Free tickets are very handy fur those who
live along the line of the Rail Road. The mem
bers from the North and West,—have to spend
their time at the seat of Government,—while oth
ers run off home.
Erricson's New Motive Power.
K now motive power has been given to the
world, by Errieson, or more properly speaking. a
new means or prdpelling ships, or locomotives,
has hem diietheidd; the power is as old as no-
Witt of our readers know that air, when cool
ed, becomes condense or in truth, occupies much
loss space, —and expands when heated. The ma,
chine* , of Errieson is so contrived and'arranged,
that this expanding and contracting qtiality of air,
is made to do the duty of steam.
We hare seen no description of the Engine.—
We only lay the fact before our readers; and add,
that the machinery hag been made, and a bordis
now propelled by it at the rate of 10 or 12 miles
per hour, as is alledged at an expense mid; less
than'sreinn: What next?
U. 8. SiXATORS.—The lion. Charles R. Stit
art Derrfeeratio member of the Home of Repro
tentatives, has been elected to the United states
Senate by the Michigan Legislature, in place of
Hon. Alpheus r j ercif, whose term will c,)pire on
the 4th of March.
lion. John M. ClaytOh,late Secretary of State
under Gen. Taylor, has heel , elected by the Le
gislature of Delaware for six years from the
fourth of March next.
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Hon. John Pettit; has been'elected by 'thc Le. ' 0..
gielature of Indiana, to fill the uneXpirott term'of A Telegraphic Despatch fret') Washing-
Senator Whitcomb, deceased.
The Washington Union announces the c
jecilon
u ton ec t t o or N " o h r a t s lieru papers states that Senator
positively and finally declined
, of - MY. Fitzpatrick, as U. S. Senator from Mahe- e .. .
ma, for the unexpired term of Mr. Ring. . cabinet appointment."
Teachers' Meeting.
In pertinence of a call, the Teachers, of
the borough of Huntingdon, iutt at the
Public, School House on Thursday evening
the ZOth of January. The meeting was
organized by appointing:. Thomas Adams
Chairman and J. S. Bart) Secretary.
On motion, the following resolutions
were offered and unanimonsly adopted :
Resolved, That Miss Smtaft
SCHEYLER, J. S. BARR, M;sa ELIZABETH
R. Fislint, and Miss C. T. BENEDICT,
be a committee: whose duty it shall be to
prepare aul addresA to the teachers, of
Huntingdon county, requesting them to as
semble in County Convention . itt the
Court House, in the borough of Hunting
don on the thtd of February next, at 1
o'clock P. M., for the purpose of organi
zing a County Teachers' Aassociation,
Resolver!, That one hundred and fifty
copies of the address to teachers, be print
ed, and that a copy be forwarded to each
teacher in the county.
Resolveg, That the proceedings of this
meeting—including the addrcs to teachers
—be signed by the officers and published
in both the County papers.
On motion, adjoufned.
THOMAS ADAMS, President.
J. S. BARR, Secretary.
AN ADDRESS,
To the Teachers of Hunt. County
It is a fact generally conceded that eve
ry profession, both for its individual wel
fare, and the beneficial influence it is to
exert upon society, should have a fixed and
elevated standard by which its members
should be tried. The medical profession
has its rules of qualification, by which
those seeking admission into its ranks are
judged. The theological and legal profes
sions have also their established standard
of qualifications. Ours alone is destitute
of this safeguard against iinaiorality, quack
ery, and incompetency. As a necessary
consequence we find its ranks filled with
those who are totally unqualified to dis
charge its important duties, and exercise
its high prerogatives. Persons of this de
scription, who would be a curse to any call
ing, especially detract from the dignity and
honor of a profession such as ours, and on
ly serve to drag it down lower and lower in
public estimation, until finally instead of
commanding respect, it will be treated with
justly merited .contenipt.
It heroines us, therefore, Teachers of
Huntingdon County, to raise a high and
honorable standard, gather round and sup
port it, until we have established the dig
nity of our calling, upon a foundation as
permanent and elevated, as that which
forms the basis and ensures the respect of
the other less important, though more for
tunate, learned professit ns. To accomplish
this great object , all that is necessary is
, the or'sfanziatiort of teachers in one bold
' and well dirddtdd effort to sever the chain
which has so long bound them down, and,
' becoming their own guardians, fix a stand
ard of qualification by which applicants are
to be tried. It should be remembered that
we are engaged in a &minion cause, whose
only object is the common weal. Hence
to the motives shirk induce others to raise
their profession to a higher sti.nilard,
Teachers have the additional one--the qou
sideration that every advantage to tlidin
will be an advantage to the whole commu
nity, which will be felt and appreciated
bong after they shall have passed from the
stage df action. Front among our pupils
will rise up teachers, who will, perhaps hn
consciously, sot us up as objects of im
itation. Thus our infloence may extend
far down through successive generations;
for it is an observation frequently made that
some of the most important changes in the
physical, moral, and oven in the political
world, have arisen from remote and appa
rently trifling causes. The progress of ci
vilization, the advancement of knowledge,
and the enlarged diffusion of •tospel light
and liberty" go i anu in hand with the
successful results of the Teachers' profes
sion.
We call upon you, the Teachers of Hun
tingdon County, to organize. A conven
tion has been called for that purpose, to
meet in the borough of Huntingdon on the
22d day of February; fit 1 o'clock P. M.
Let all the tenehera iu the cimitty,both male
and female, attend, and exert themselves
to accomplish the great resultS to which
we have alluded. In neighboring counties
associations have already been organized
and arc now iu a prosperous and Sourish
lug condition. Let us not be longer be
hind in the great and important Reform.
Let us come up manfully to the work, and
resolve to raise our profession to that high
and honorable position which it about&
occupy, where it will command, not only
respect, but reverence!
Choice Litterature.
The "Family Circle and parlor Annual," fur
January, contains a new steel plate of the NEW
CallaTAL PALACE at New York, with a deserip
tion. Also, another of those beautiful Mowers
Personified—Dahlia, on steel, colored, with a con
tinettion of-tire “Floral Festival," complete in
emit number. New Year's Beatifies and New
Yerie's Anticipations; it new Morning Sang, by
Thomas, lsq., &e. &c. This Mork gives 45
Etipvueings, 12 or them colored, and nearly
jour lautdredpayes of origiaal reading mutter, lur
ing the yedr; on good paper, with index fur bind
ing. Also a lallalltifUl Sleet Plate of STSWANT'S
WASHINGTON. 14 a 22 in. or Christ Blessing Lit
tle Children, us a premium, at dubscribers option,
for $1 a year iu advance, by mail. City subscri
bers, delivered, 12icts. a No. eir Agenti wan
ted. Address, post paid,
JAMES G. USED, Publisher,' ..
140 Fulton Street, New York.
Sfandinz Committees of the Senate
and Romp of Reoresentatives
of pert tvivIVEM ift•
SENATE.
Finance—Messrs. Dania, Myers, Buck
alew, Mceaslin and Sanderson
Judiciary— lessrs. Kunkel, McMurtrie,
Buckalew, O'Niel and Relater.
Accounts—Menrs. Forsyth, Kinzer,
Frick, 'ry and O'Niel.
Estates and Escheats—Messrs. MeMur
trie, O'Niel, Hoge, B. D. Hamlin and
QuiTgliV•
Pensiobs And Gratuities—Messrs. Hoge,
Barnes, McFarland, Fry and Goodwin.
Corporations-Messm Darlington, Hoge,
Hamilton, Halderman and Quiggle.
Library—Messrs. Carothers, Kinzer and
Kunkel.
Banks—Messrs. Crabb, Robertson, Hal
deman, Hamilton and E. W. Hamlin.
Canals and Inland Navigation—Messrs.
Evans, Crabb, Forsyth, Sanderson and
Skinner.
Rail Roads—Messrs. Slifer, Kunkel,
Hoes. Robertson and Heister.
Election Districts—Messrs. Robertson,
Skinner, Bailey, Sager and Forsyth.
Retrenchments and Reform— Messrs.
Myers, Darsie, Buckalew, Barnes and E.
W. Hamlin.
Education—Messrs. Carothers, Hend
ricks, Heister, Quigele and Goodwin.
Agriculture and Domestic Manufactures
—Messrs. Halderman, Robertson and Mc-
Caslin.
Public Buildings—Messrs. Darlington,
Carothers and Slifer.
Militia—Messrs. McCaslin, McMurtrie,
McFarland, Bails and Fry.
Roads and Bridges—Messrs. Bails, Hen
derson, Frick, Goodwin and B. D. Hamlin.
Compare Bills—Messrs. Burns, B. D.
Hamlin, Hamilton, Frick and Sager.
Vice and Immortality—Messrs. Sander
son, Carothers, McFarland, Slifer, and
MeMurtrie.
Private Claims—Messrs. Kinzer, barsie,
Forsyth, Evans and Sager.
Public Printing—Messrs. Evans, Dar
lington and Sanderson.
New Counties—Messrs. Hendricks, My
ers, McFarland, Frick and B. D. Hamlin.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The Speaker announced the Standing
Corontitfees of the House as follows :
Ways and Means—Messrs. - Kilborn,
Hart, Skinner, Fulton, Frctz, Cowen,
Rowe, Passtnore and James.
Judiciary—Messrs. Lowry, of Tioga,
Henderson, Gilmore, Fulton, Wharton,
Knight, Chase, Eyster and Sergeant.
Pensions and Gratuities—Messrs. Ply,
Kingsley, Mennen, Magee, lunning,
Campbell and Strong.
Claims—Messrs. Merriman, Shull, Ap
pleton, Gabe, 11 harton, and Harris.
Agriculture—Messrs. Thomas, Ander
son, Magee, Beale, McKee, Porter:and
Gray.
Rluesttion—Messrs. Mthicani, Flanig.en,
Conk, Lancaster, Seltzer Foster, Ifiektotin.
_ _
Dotneßtic Manufactures— Messrs. Skin
ner, Mf , Granalian, !Hest, and Scott, Rill
gore, Rammer, McDonald.
Account—Messrs. Mott, Rinnear,Ponw
all, Arnold, Alexander, Hutchinson, and
Bergstrasser.
Vice . and Iminoratitv-- . -Messrs. Laury,
of Lehigh; Shaver, Yost, Gabe, Beale,
Walker and Richards.
Militia System—Messrs. McGranahan,
Hook, Torbett, Harris, Campbell, Bayer,
and Herr.
Election Districts—Messrs. Bigelow,
Dengler, Atherton, Kilgore, Sergeant,
Chandler, end Piper.
Banks—Messrs. Leech, Hart, Merriman,
Brock, Yost, HentlerSon, Rowe, Foster
and Landis.
Estates and Escheats—Messrs. Kelso,
Appleton, Cook, Struthers, Lowry, of Tio
ga, Fliestand, and Chamberlain.
Roads and Bridges—Messrs. Herbert,
Kilburn, Gw•inn, Dennison, Raney, Porter.
Corporations—Messrs. Stritthers, Bige
low, Flanigan, Demers, Chase, Barton,
Herbert, Horn and Eyster.
Local Appropriations—Messrs. Shull,
Dengler, 'Mellinger, Thomas, Ringsley,
Harris and Hickman.
Lands—Messrs. linok, Anderson, James,
(iwinn, Moore, Arnold, Seltzer, and Hills,
of Erie.
Divorces—Messrs. Fretz, Rupfiain, Mcl
linger, Demers, &Ely, Chamberlain, Cowan.
New Ccunties and County Scats—
Messrs. Zerby, Hague, Berger,
Hutchinson, Raney and MeCenci!.
Compare Bils—Messrs. Dunning, Lan
caster, Walton, Meany and Barr.
Library—Messrs. Williams, Hague,
Denison.
Inland Navigation and Internal Int:
provement—Messrs. Knight, Mott, Strong,
Hill, Torbet, Collins, Kelso, Williams,
Gilmore, Taylor, Walteil, Chandler, and
Atherton.
_Printing—Messrs. Wright, Shonor and
Waterbury.
Public VuildiugS • Messrs. Waierbury,
Ely and Brook'.
litc . ad\?ices from Australia, reciv
cd by way of California and Europe, an
nounce the discaorY of atiother,extensive
field, which promises to yield en abundant
harvest. The season in Australia had
been exceedingly wet, so nitlith so that the
farmers had been waiting for three months
for the weather to become anffieiently dry
to admit of the sowing of grain. Consid
erable attention is being given to the cul
tivation of tobacco, which, it is alleged,
can be grown in such perfection as to war
the belief that it will eventually ex
elute the neeetiiity for importation.
'Texas derive. ad name from rtn Indian
w , rti signifying benntifni.
Sp'lnlet's And shavings
C'Sr Shut the ,boor.
tEr Time is precious.
air Stern Winter is upon ns.
tEr Honesty is the best policy.
VW Be not in haste to get rich.
er We should lice, and let live.
Lorat.r —the ladies of Huntingdon.
No, is sometimus a hard word to utter.
(43- Lnke Erie is still open for navigation.
Oren—the Court. after an arduous session.
LIINGTUY—the Canal Commissioners' report.
GOOD—Maine has elected a Inig Governor.
(fir Take advice of good men and profit by it.
liAhNES—nre nut nil constructed after the most
approved models.
INettrAsnco—the length of the d tys, and our
subscription list.
ar Indigestion and honest induttry are rarely
found together.
Aura AND KICKING—the senior editor of as
Jefferson Star.
Er Hon. Andrew Parker has our thanks for
his favor of last week.
trir It is hard for printer; and lawyers to be
honest—but it is tidt mpossible.
Or The citizens of Huntingdon are making an
effort to start a Female Seminary.
60- Stealing "pants" is not larceny. Sp the
Courts of Cambridge have decided.
GENKROUS—the friends who called with us
during Court. We will not forget them.
ilfir An unusual amount of valuable real estate
is offered for sale in our advertising columns.
Cr The beauty of behaviour consists in the
manner, not the matter of your disconrse.
CrWe are again indebted to Col. Wharton.and
J. L. Gwinn, Esq., for valttab le public documents.
Cr A piece of land was recently sold in Lon
don or the enormous rate of $4,000. 000 per acre.
CV' Fitty-eight years ago the weather was so
mild that several persons at Salem Mass., went
in bathing.
A ntse—the junior editor of the Tusertrora Re
gister has been appointed deputy Post-muter of
Alifflintown.
Cr If you want pure and cheap literature,
aubscrihe or Arthur's Home Gazette, and the
Home Journal.
4c4" There are nearly 300.000 Quakers in the
United States, owning more than 7000 meeting•
Er The London Times sold 70,000 copies of
that paper containing the account of Wellington's
Funeral.
Cr Of the children over four years of ago, in
the State of New York, over one third do dot
at
tend the Public Schools!
cia- Dr. Vandyke. the G. W. P. of the Sons of
Temperance addressed the Order, in this place,
on last Saturday evening.
er We would call attention to the proceeding,
of the Teaches' Meeting end their Address, pub
lkherl in another column.
a- We are once mare with our dear pupthi
end enjoying the luxury of moving among filly
amiiing faces and hnppy hearts.
, ‘,l. thin siince after it semicolon," did yon say,
Friend Me? Why our boys frequently space
with •Store wood,' don't you see?
cz . The area of the United States is only one
seventh less than the whole of Europe; but Ce
population of Europe is eleven times greater..
tar Uncle Tom ' s Cabin , alreMiy tratisla- .
tel into French, Italian and Spanish, an I is ad
vertised in Danish, Swedish, Polish nail Prussian.
TUE MILLENIUU AT, TIAND—we observe by
an exeltanee d o the Speaker of our House Re
present.,tives lets appointed a committee on rice
and immortalitg.
Our friend 3. L.. of Altoona, is rigid.—
.. Die mike in his bill was roused lie the 'various
spelling, of his 'Annie on our books. A big E
makes all the difference.
Quittgle of the State Senate hag iatrodn•
eed a iaq to carry out tl a re,nmnonolation of
(43r. Tli.z!er eel ieve t) th, teingit of Slat'es
thr0 , 111:11t his C 'in now
INT" The January tonnher of the &lad Jour
nal has been received, and is replete with matter
or great impot•tanee and especial • interest to par
ents and,teachers.
COMPANY FOR GREEtt —the Ohio Demners.-
ey have spit upon the Baltimore, Loconieo 14m
ill:int, and the Freesoilers of New Yuri; seem
strongly inclined 'to l'ollow suit.'
Cr' lit Holland nod Itavaria army officers are
not nllowed to mono unless they can settle a com
petency noon their wives, exclusive of their regu
lar salary.
AN Om FENCE—an engraving in the last
narnher of Harper's Magazine represents Mount
Sinai, while Motes was receiving the Law—as
• enclosed by is po.t and rail fence!
linuntous—Rcv. F. A. %inky will preach,
by Divine pertniggion in the cicrinen Refitrnied
Church of this piece, on Frifley evening next at
liolrpaFtnix o'clock.
Ptte WHEEL op FonirNE—less then five genre
a go Louis Napoleon was too poor to rty his house
rent; now he rules over a 5,000 000 of penpla and
enjoys en inrome °fame millions of dollars.
CC.' We toke pleasure in informing those putt,
lie spirited citizens who petitioned our'Court "to
order the printing of the Trial and Jury Lists''—
thnt the Honor:ll4e Cciut einthainotisly granted
their prayer.
. _
ttir Of ITS students at enlnmhia College,
t ✓ +outh Carolina, Ito recently left hecau.e they
were not permitted to board whe t ; they chn.e.—
lhe demanda of the stomach will sometimes out•
weigh those ()Min hrain.
CIIOME LITERATURE—Graham's Magazine;
and the Lady's Book, for February, are on our ta:
hie. They are again double numbcrst and as usu
al; deem, ed with charming picture's, and filled
with interesting and instructiie'reading.
I NCENDIARISSI—on Monday night of last week,
several buildings were fired in Hollidaysburg.—
The calmness of the night, the large quantity of
snow on the roofs, and the prompt exertions of the
citizens saved the town' from a general donflaint-
We are in receipt of the sth No. of the,
Fautily Circle and Parlor Annual, a neat and
cheap montliy, published by J. G. Read, 140 Fuk
tuu Street, N. Y., at $1,25 a year itt advance, If
the publisher will send us the baCk nunahers
will take some paiva to recommend his enallent
pertndieml to the ftivarable entire of nur ',masa