HUNTINGDON JOURNAL
reduesday Horning, July 27,1853.
S. L. GLASGOW, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
WHIG STATE TICKET:
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
hoses Pownall, of Lancaster county.
FOR BI RVETOR GENERAL,
Christian Myers, of Clarion county.
Nos Aurntoß ozmutAL,
Alexander K. McClure, of Franklin co,
Ageing for the Journal.
The following persons we have appointed Agents
for the HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, who arc author
ised to receive and receipt for money paid on sub
scription, and to take the names of new subscri
bers at our published prices.
We do this for the convenience of our subscri
bers living at a distance from Huntingdon.
JOHN W. THOMPSON, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
&must Coma, East Barren,
GEORGE W. CORNELIUS, Shirley township,
JAMES E. Gsamoow. Clay township,
DANIEL TEAGUE, Esq., Cromwell township,
Dr. J. P. Aturcom, Penn township,
Dr. H. L. Blows, Cass township,
J. WAREHAM MATTERS', Franklin township,
SAMUEL STEFFEY, Jackson township,
ROBERT M'BURNEY, Ite
COL JNO. C. WATSON, Brady township,
MORRIS BROWN, Springfield township,
Wm. Huscurrisos, Esq., Warriorsmark
JAMES McDommx, Brady township,
GEORGE W. WHITTAKER, Petersburg,
HENRY NEFF, West Barren.
Jostle BALSBACH, Watersqect,
Maj. CHARLES Attotr,mv. Tod township,
A. H. 13Lant, Dublin township,
Humus Wisson Esq., Tell township,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
NATHANIEL LTTLE, Esq., Spruce Creek,
JOHN N. SWOOPE, EN.,
Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, 11111011FLITIMICe.
SIMEON WRIGHT, Esq., Union township.
DAVID CLARKSON, Esq. ' Cassville.
Svmusr. WIGTON, Esq., Franklin township.
JOHN Lcrz, Esq., Shirleyshurg.
DAVID PARKER, Es 3., Warriorsmark.
DAVID ALTBANDT, Esq., Todd township.
WHIG COUNTY CONVENTION
The Whigs of the several townships and bor
oughs in the County of Huntingdon are re
quested to meet at their usual places of holding
delegates elections, (the borough of Huntingdon
and Henderson town Ship, at the house of Rob
ert Kyle,) Penn anti Dablin townships at the
places now fixed for holding general elections,
on Saturday the 6th day of August next, be
tween the hours of 5 and. 7i o'clock, P H., of
said day, to elect two persons in each township
anti borough, to serve as delegates in the Whig
County Convention,
to be held in Huntingdon,
on Tuesday the 9th day of August next, for the
purpose of forming a County Ticket and ap
pointin,g Senatorial Conferees. Huntingdon
borough will meet at 8 o'clock, P. H.
By'ortler of. the County Committee.
J SEWELL STEWART, Chairman,
Huntingdon, Sul): 20, '53.
110,..We must inform our correspondent of
Dublin township that we were unable to pro
cure a list of the things he wished us to publish.
If we can do so again our next issue, we will
give it an insertion,
iteL. We are indebted to the Hon. Andrew
Parker for the following public favors : "An-
drew's Report on Colonial and Lake Trades"
'Report of the Superintendent of the Census;"
and "Report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
of the Commerce and Navigation of the H. S.,
for the year 2852."
,slap` We must remind our subscribers that
we need money, and as week after next,
Court commences, it will afford those who
come to town on other business, an excellent
opportunity to give us a call. We have been
at a heavy expense during the•last three months
enlarging and improving our paper and we
trust they will not forget us. We would like
much if those who have accounts of longstand
ing especially Would give us a call. We hope
this will be attended to.
Sap In another column will be found the
proceedings of the Whig State Committee,
which met in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the
19th inst. The meeting was largely attended,
and the assurances the Committee had from
different portions of the State, that the Whigs
were resolved to do battle for their cause at the
ensuing election, were certainly very encoura-
gin Aat the old Whig fires still burn brightly,
there is no doubt; anti that the party has every
prospect before it of triumphantly achieving a
glorious victory over its now distracted oppo
nents, at the coming elecfion, there is just as
little. And we hope that every Whig will now,
more than ever, feel it his duty to lend all the
assistance he can to preserve harmony in our
ranks and incite every one to energetic action.
air It will be seen by reference to our ad
vertising columns, that Samuel Wigton, Esq.,
of Franklin township, had a horse stolen on
last Friday night. It is supposed the thief di.
rected his course towards Clearfield or Clarion
ectinty. Our Er:images weOt of the moun
tains wilt please notice the circumstance. Mr.
Wigton offers $5O for the thief and horse, or
$25 for either. There is certainly a regularly
organized band of • these individuals in the
community who make horse stealing their only
employ, and the citizens should endeavor to
adopt some measures to detect them.
war There will he a Fair held in Hunting-
don, on Tuevday of the first week of the Court,
the proceeds of which are to be applied towards
the completion of a Baptist Church now being
erected at this place. All articles—fancy and
otherwise—dsueAly seen at such places, will be
offered fur sale, and we hope all who may be
in town on that day will not forget to visit the
Fair, and leave some of their "ready change,"
in the hands of the PAIR ones who will be pre.
sent, perfectly willing and ready, to receive it.
Our Baptist friends need a suitable home of
worship here, and we have no doubt the people
who will be in town during that week, will show
their liberality in assisting them in the erection
of their Church, by purchasing largely at the
Fair.
ifir A certain locofoeo discontinued the
Jourisai the other day on the ground, as he al
leged, that we were opposed to the re•notnina
ti,:o of Whartou. Great father, *hat a pity 1
sir. We have received several communica
tions from respectable sources in Cambria
county, in reference to the proceedings of the
late Whig County Convention held at Ebens
burg, and on the subject of State Senator, all
of which we respectfully decline publishing, for
the reason that we cannot possibly see what
benefit the Whig party in Cambria county, or
any place else, will derive thereby.
We are sorry to learn that some disaffection
prevails among our Whig friends in Cambria,
but we hope that considerations paramount to
all those trivial questions which now slightly
distract them will sufficiently influence their
minds to induce them to fall back again in the
proper channel.
They should remember that "in Union there
is strength," and that "united they stand—but
divided they fall."
They should feel that the election of a State
Senator in this District, should out-weigh every
other consideration, and every effort they put
forth should be directed to that one object.—
The Whigs of Cambria have always, with us,
been considered a loyal band of soldiers, man
fully battling for the principles of the party,
under all and any circumstances, and will they
now do violence to that enviable reputation, by
cutting themselves up into a thousand factions,
each arrayed against the other? We hope not
—for they cannot possibly expect to accomplish
what they wish by so doing. This fall, especi
ally, they should throw their personal feelings
on local subjects, to the winds, and direct all
their energies to the accomplishment of the
one grand object—the triumphant election of
a State Senator. This should claim the special
attention of every Whig in the entire District,
and should be by every one considered of par
amount importance to any other consideration:
We hope, then, that our Whig brethren iu
Cambria county, will weigh well the importance
of concentrated action, and will not allow
themselves to be beaten by their unscrupulous
enemies. Their foes are vigilant, watching ev
ery move, and endeavoring, if possible, wher
ever they can, by all the means they can com
mand, to increase the disaffection they think
now prevails in their ranks. The past history
of the opposition, all over the country, should
satisfy them that they can expect nothing from
promises of assistance, because they are as
treacherous as Satan, and no confidence is to
be placed in their word, when there is the least
prospect of success on their own part. If we
lose the Senator in this District, we will lose
the majority in the State Senate.
Delegate Meetings.
Too much cannot be said to urge the impor
tance of attending the primary meetings to se
lect the proper kind of men as delegates to the
County Convention, to be held in this place on
Tuesday of the first week of the Court. There
is nothing connected with the formation of a
county ticket so important and necessary on
the part of Whigs, as a full and legitimate turn
out at the delegate meetings. It is there that '
every man should make his wishes and desires
knoWn, so that those who may be chosen as
the representatives of the people to the Conven
tibn, may know how to act understandingly.
The people, as we some time ago stated, are
the sovereigns, and what ever they do through
their representatives in Convention, is right
and proper and no man ought to complain.—
We hope the Convention, will form a ticket of
good, reliable and honest Whigs, and capable
and intelligent men, independent of every con
sideration save the success of the party. And
we hope all will keep cool and avoid every
thing that savors of factionism or tends the
treat to excite prejudice. If this course is
pursued, we are confident, judging from pres
ent indications, all will be done satisfactorily
to the majority of the Whigs, and perfect har
mony will prevail throughout our entire county
bounds.
Whig State Central Committee.
Pursuant to notice, the Pennsylvania Whig
Central Committee met at the American
House, in the city of Philadelphia, C. THOMP
SON JONES, Esq., of Philadelphia, in the
chair, and HENRY S. EVAN!, of Chester county,
waa appointed Secretary.
On motion, John Price Wetherill, Esq., was
elected Treasurer of the Committee.
The following resolution was, on motion,
unanimously agreed to:
Resolved, That a Whig State Convention of
Delegates, to be chosen by the several• counties
and Senatorial Districts, he held at HUN—
TINGDON, on the 25th of AUGTST next, at
11 o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of NOMI—
NATING a CANDIDATE for JUDGE of the
SUPREME COURT.
Reaobled, That these proceedings be publish.
ed in the Whig papers of the State.
C. THOMPSON JONES, Chairman.
HENRY S. EvAxe, Secretary.
/10,-.We had the pleasure of attending a
Concert on last Saturday evening, given by two
blind persons from Harrisburg, a lady and a
gentleman, who were educated at an Institution
purposely established for that class of our ci
tizens, and we were indeed highly pleased with
their performance. They both sang and play
ed as well as if they had the use of the natural
organs of vision, to read music and finger the
keys of the piano. Different members of the
audience named chapters in the Bible, which
the lady sought out and read as distinctly and
as expertly, as though she actually saw every
letter. She did it by the use of the raised Al
phabet, by which the blind are altogether
taught. Their case truly excited our sympa
thy, yet we rejoiced that we have many Insti
tutions in our land purposely adapted to the
intellectual and moral education of such unfor
tunate individuals.
IVO hope the public, wherever they may go,
will cordially receive, and liberally aid them in
the laudable project of raising funds towards
assisting in the education of their fellows.
tar On our Brat page will be found a speech
of the Hon. Edward Everett, bite Secretary of
State under President Fillmore, and now a U.
States Senator, made at the Municipal Cele.
bration of the Fourth of July, at Boston.
It is one which we most cordially recommend
to the careful perusal of our readers, as con
taining sentiments worthy the adoption of eve.
ry true American patriot. What this great
Statesman and orator says in reference to the
principles of 'Progress' and 'Conservatism,' we
heartily endorse. He soya "that true practical
wisdom and high national policy reside in due
mixture and joint action of the two."
Now, we would ask, where is the man who
does not believe that this is the correct policy
of the Whig party? All over the country wo
have indubitable evidences of the soundness
and practicability of this truth.
Showery--Mend'aT night la,t.
liar On the 18th inst., an individual, by the
name of William Cloyd, committed suicide on
his grand-father's premises in Cromwell town
ship, Huntingdon county. It seems the act
was premeditated, for the reason that his sister
saw him preparing the rope with which he af
terwards hung himself, and also for the reason
that a slip of paper was found on his person,
stating to the public that lie was, on that day,
about to commit suicide, and directing a dis
position of the money and clothes he left.
We have received, at this office, a cat
alogue fur the session of 53 and 54, of the
'Female Medical College," located in Phila
delphia. There are now over thirty students
in attendance, and the Institution seems to be
in a prosperous condition. We wonder wheth
er any of these female Doctors will ever locate
in our neighborhood?
9/41. The following nominations will be made
by the Whig County Convention, to be held on
the 9th proximo:
One person for Assembly.
One person for Sheriff. .
One person for Treasurer.
One person for Commissioner.
One person for Auditor.
One person for Director of the Poor.
One person for Coroner.
The dead body of a soldier was found a
few days ago in the hold of the ship Columbia,
at New York, while the laborers were waged
in discharging cargo. He is supposed to have
deserted from the English army at Liverpool,
and hid himself in the hold to escape to Amer
ica, where he was suffocated or starved to death,
in consequence of some of the cargo having
been placed about him so as to prevent his ex
tricating himself.
bar We regret we have to announce the
death of Col. John Price Wetherill, of Phila
delphia, who we have no doubt was known by
many of our citizens. He died at the U. S.
Hotel, on last Sabbath morning in the 59th
year at his age. He was a man who was much
respected by all who knew him, possessing a
generous and noble heart.
MARYLAND.—The indicatioua now are that
the interior counties will disregard the voice of
Baltimore, with all its wrangling and fierce
jealousies and contention; and cast aside the
claims of Walter Mitchell as the Democratic
candidate for Governor of Maryland. The
lower and middle counties are going quite strong
for CoL George W. Hughes.
Ate' A new species of grasshopper has been
very destructive to herbage of every kind this
season in the vicinity of Mercersburg, Pa. It
is of a light yellow color, larger than the ordi•
nary species; and most voracious, devouring
grass, corn, potatoes, onions Se. Farmers are
obliged to take up their vegetables to save them
from destruction, as this army of insects entire
ly strip the gardens, and not only eut the leaves
of corn, but stalks au inch in diameter are
eaten off close to the ground.
ler A Native American State Convention,
composed of delegates from various parts of
Pennsylvania, will assemble in the city of
Philadelphia, on the 10til day of August next,
to agree upon candidates for the offices of Ca
nal Commissioner, SurVeyor general, Auditor
General, and Judges of the State Supreme
Court, to be voted for at the ensuing election,
on the 2d Tuesday of October next.
MAINE.—A mass convention is to be held at
Portland on the 4th of August, to nominate a
candidate for Governor in opposition to the re.
gular Democratic nominee, Albert Pillsbury,
who is unsatisfactory to a portion of the party,
on account of his active hostility to the liquor
law.
Kir Godey's Magazine fur the month of Au
gust, is on our table, containing, as usual, sev
eral fine illustrations, with a large quantity of
interesting literary matter. This valuable pub
lication should be on the parlor table of every
lady in the country.
Praiseworthy Example.—The Operatives in
the Lawrence Bay State Mills have set a noble
example. They have forwarded one hundred
and twenty-fire dollars and fifty-two cents, as
their contribution to the completion of the
Washington Monument.
RELICIOC3.--By divine permission the Rev.
S. H. REID, of Philadelphia, will preach in the
German Reformed church of this place, on next
Sabbath, July 31st at 10 o'clock, A. M.
Model Statesman.
The Vice President de facto, Mr. Senator
Atchison, of Missouri, is now making speeches
in that State against Colonel Benton. We
quote from the St. Louis Republican the fol
lowing reference to a part of his speech at
Weston:
"Senator Atchison declared himself in favor
of the immediate organization of Nebraska
Territory, provided that citizens of all the
States, both free and slave, can settle in it.—
He said he would always oppose the "Wilmot
Proviso" by his vote; and would rather see
Nebraska Terrilory—as Guthrie, her delegate
charges him with having said—"aunk in h—ll"
than organized as a free State."
Doubtless such language as this, says the
Pittsburg Gazette, becomes a Southern States
man; but if any leading Northern man should
use half as violent language with reference to
the admission of Nebraska as a slave State, we
should never hear the end of it, The Northern
man who resists the admission of a slave State
is a madman, a fanatic, and an enemy to the
Union; but the Southern man who would rather
see free territory sunk in h-11, than admitted
as a rues State, is deemed worthy to preside
over the Senate of the United States, and be
come President of this Union ex-officio, on the
death of the present incumbent!
Democratic Harmony.
The Rochester Union, free soil, says of Gen.
Pieree's appointments, that
We are considering the appointments as a
political arrangement, and in that respect we
believe it is admitted in all quarters they indi•
cats weakness, or a want of correct informs.
tioh, off the part of the appointing power.
And the Albany Argus, hard shell, comment.
ing upon this, says, that
Thus we have an illustration of the splendor
of that scheme of harmonising and consolida
ting the coalition—facetioissly known as the
"united democracy of New York"—which com
sista in proscribing true men and petting trait
ors. Nothing short of all the' spoils of office
can satisfy the cravings of the free soil cormo
rants, who, without the shadow of a claim to
preferment beyond the teas of thousands of
Whigs who voted for Pierce and King, have
already been the Ncipients of the lion's share.
What a precious exemplification of democrat
ic harmony is here?
A Prediction. —The Exeter News Letter
say. "the next President of the United States
will be Ed. , fri i erlit, of '..fa-....achti,ettk."
Portage Railroad Difficulties.
In relation tothe recent complaints of the
operatives employed on this work, the Harris
burg Democratic Union says that the Canal
Commissioners have been making an investi
gation into the subject, which will be resumed
at Harrisburg on the 26th instant, and that the
Board intend to make the scrutiny thorough
and complete. Such a course is expected and
demanded by the 111111148 of the community, and
the Commissioners have done well to undertake
this investigation, though whether it is a sincere
effort to arrive at the troth respecting the abn.
ses remains to he shown by the result of their
proceedings. The Union affords us some in
sight into the character of the investigation by
saving:
."14 evidence has as yet been submitted
tending, in the most remot.c.degree, to impli.
rate any State officer in speculating in the
claims of the workmen, or others to whom the
public works are indebted."
Immediately after this there follows the an
nouncement that, at their recent sessions on
the Portage Railroad, the Board adopted the
following resolutions:
Resol;ed, That the Superintendent of the
Philadelphia and Columbia and Allegheny
Portage Railroad, and the Supervisors of the
several divisions of the Pennsylvania Canal, be
directed, in the disbursement of money for the
payment of debts, in ALL cases to pay, FIRST,
those creditors who have performed the labor,
and in NO CARE to pay any check•roll or other
evidence of debt in the hands of second par
ties, until ALL the debts in first hands shall
have been fully paid.
Resolved, That said Superintendents and
Supervisors be also directed to draw from the
Treasury, at the earliest practical moment, so
much money as may be necessary to pay back
debts due to laborers, engineers, and other
hands in the employ of the Commonwealth, and
that hereafter said parties be paid monthly, so
tong as the appropriations for that purpose
may last.
Who are the persons pointed at by the first
resolution unless they are those employed in
some way upon the road? And who is there
at hand to speculate in these unpaid claims of
workmen except those placed over them ? The
Union speaks of the wrongs of the operatives
np mere complaints, and yet both the resolu- ,
tions above acknowledge them to be correct.
The Foreign oppoeition to Whig
Patriotism.
It is well known to all that the present ad
ministration owes its elevation to foreign votes
and foreign aid. By these it was that the par
ty opposed to the principles of the whips of the
Revolution were enabled to overpower them at
the ballot-box. Now for the fruits.
Scarcely had the Administration got into the
seat of power, ere it appointed as Charge to
the Hague, Augrate Belmont, a native of Ans.
tria, into whose hands the affairs of Austria
was placed after Chevalier Huteemann, was
sent home by Hr. Webster! The friend and
apologist of Haynau, the Austrian butcher and
woman whipper! The man who organized
openly a foreign party in New York, during
the campaign of 1852, in favor of Pierce, and
spent large sums of foreign money for that
purpose! All. American applicants for this
office were pushed hack to give place to a for
eigner, the representative of a foreign monar
chy I the deadly enemy of all freedom; of all po
litical and religions liberty! Thisappointment
was made peer such men as John R. Broad
head, the historian, and formerly Secretary of
Legation at the Hague, to please European
despotism by a rebuke of the sympathy of the
American people for hungary, and as an apol
ogy for Webster's excoriation of the insolent
Austrian Minister Hulsemann I But it does
not stop here. The tory spirit that crouches
to Monarchy, throws its venom upon American
patriots. No sooner was Postmaster General
Campbell seated in power than lie struck down
as one of his first victims,RobertMorris, grand
son of Gen. Robert Morris, of Revolutionary
memory, and one of the signers Of the Declara
tion of Independence; the man who lied stood
by his country in the time of her greatest need,
and given his whole fortune to save dier sol
diers from starvation and abandonment.—
This worthy descendant of a noble Revolution
ary ancestor, one of the most competent and
efficient clerks in the Department at Washing
ton, was dismissed from his post with the feel
ings of infuriated hate and rancor, and a wor
thy scion of tory origin placed in his stead!
After such acts as these, of which there is a
long dark catalogue,
who will doubt the hostili
ty that is felt by the Administation at Washing
ton against the principles of the Whigs of the
Revolution and their descendants ?—Penn's.
Telegraph. _ _
Whig Extravagance:The Surplus in the
Treasury.
_
It appears, says the Richmond Whig, that
there will be some TIVENTI"—THREE
LIONS surplus in the Treasury on the Ist of
July. This is the prosperous condition a
Whig administration leaves the country in; yet
we everlastingly hear Locofocos prating over'
Whig extravagance about election times, and
telling the dear people that the Whigs are not
fit to be trusted with the public money. When
did ever.a Locofoco administration leave a sur
plus in the Treasury? On the other hand,they
haie always left exhausted coffers and an ac
cumulated debt. Already the organs of the
party are setting to work to devise some plan
to spend the surplus left by the Whigs. As the
ostensible means of making way with it, some
of them propose to plunge the country headlong
into another war. The peoploneed give them
selves no concern about the disposition of this
surplus. A Locofoco Administration can
spend it.
The subject has been officially broached and
proposed by the present Secretary of the Treas
ury, at the dinner given to the President and
his Cabinet, at Philadelphia last week. The
Secretary expressed himself in favor of a mens
ure that would take all surplus from the Tree
: sury and place it in the hands of political fa
' verges. IVe may therefore look for an early
movement in the next Congress in favor of
some measuresealculated to relieve the Treasu
ry, and probably increase the National Debt.—
Lomfom patriotism would soon die out, with.
out the ':loaves and fishes."
Why Should Whige Murmur
This was the reply made by a prominent 10.
cofoco-office•holder, the other day to a Whig
who was speaking of the mismanagement, cor
ruption and favoriteisin on the Public Works.
"Why should Whigs murmur? They should
be contented with paying taxes, and enabling
democratic contractors, speculators, schemers
and corruptionists to fill their pockets, and rev.
el up in their industry ?"
Whigs should be filled with all humility and
be thankful for the privilege of contributing to
the comfort and welfare of their enemies. The
slaves of the South are so; and why should not
the "toiling millions" of Pennsylvania feel the
same gratitude for their task-masters? What
are the Whigs now? Trodden down by foreign
influence, crushed by the hand of power—lash
ed by their task-master's, to labor for theirben
efit I What are they now? With pockets rob
bed and spirits crushed, what can they do?—
The Locofocos du not feuror dread them. They
can only despise as they trample upon them.—
They feel perfectly secure with their allied for
ces of foreign growth. The whigs, they know,
cannot poll half the vote of last year, and they
are certain of a triumph with increased con
gratulation.
The Ifunsarians were trodden down by the
fron heel of the Rotation Autocrat, and we aro
rechained; the Whigs have been prostrated by
the friends of the same power, and are now
prey to their cupidity, intoleranceand injustice.
When will they attempt to cast off the shackles,
and rid themselves of the spoilers?—Penn'a.
Telegraph.
VA. A mechanic, it is said, proposes to ex•
hibit an engine at the Fair in Now York which
Will carry a vessel over the Atlantic in three
days! All who are incredulous, after the fair
is over are to go aboard and coo the thing done,
but they must first pas:- through the "Caktin's
Tfee, and„ttete:”.
Owning Up.
Some of the Locofuco pa p ers which denied
(through ignorance of the fact, we presume,)
that the last session of the Legislature, with the
aid of Gov. Bigler, passed a law exempting
Banks (ruin taxes, are now admitting their
error, by publisling the law itself. They still,
however, seem unable to comprehend its im•
port; but we have no doubt their readers will
place the matter at the right door:
This is another evidence of the deep state of
corruption, and disregard of the people's inter
ests, that has been reached by our Legislature.
It shows that money incorporations can obtain
any favor in legislation they may choose to ask
for, notwithstanding every litvor•thus extended
is just so much more of n burden placed upon
the general taxpayers. That this kind of leg
islation is a shameful outrage on the peopled
tho State, all candid men will admit, but what
care Bigler & CO. for the opinions of the Imo
ple, if through party drill they can retain their
places and fill their purses at the cost of the
public. Do thh people not see that it is time
they should pay more attention to the clutrac
ter of their candidates for honesty ? With such
men to administer our affairs, as we are now
cursed with, the rights of the people of the State
are not safe; for corporations, with their mon
ey bags, can go to Harrisburg and make such
laws as they think proper.
The so-called "Democratic" party' in this
_matter is deeply compromised, for its leaders
profess to be opposed to Banks, &e., yet when
the test comes they ace found falsifying their
professions, treating their constituents with the
utmost contempt. They annually proclaim
their hostility to Banks, yet they as regularly
turn out a batch of new ones, as freely give those
in existence new and special iiriveleges which
they deny to the people in general. Call you
this the true old Democracy of Jefferson and
of Jackson? or is it one of the new lights which
in these later days has beamed on these latter
day-saints of Locofucoism?
We should like to see the farmer or the
working-man who would go to Harris burg and
after presenting himself before Gov. l3igler and
the Legislature, have slaw passed exempting his
property from taxation I Yet if he would do
so, he would get no more than has been gran
ted by Bigler and his friends to the Banks.
And why should not the interests of the farmer
and workinginan he as tenderly considered as
the interests of those corporations? Ah, that's
the question! Why shouldn't they? The an
swer is, they have not as much money, and can
not afford to give champagne suppers. and to
pack bank notes under the pillows of Members
and Governors.
Most of the Banks of the State aro at this
time making dividends of from 12 to 20 per
cent. on their capital, while furies pay but from
3 to 4 per cent. Why, in the name of all that
is righteous, then, should Banks be made free
from taxation, and as the consequence the in
creased burden fall upon farms and other taxa
ble property? Are our farmers so willing and
on able to bear the burden ? Fiume are now
taxed to a point that reaches almost a small
rental, and still it seems that they are not yet
taxed enough. Are farmers and other tax-pay
ers satisfied with this state of thing? The poor
man who owns but a small house must plank
down his tax for the full amount, while the na
bob who has his thousand in Bank stork, enjoys
superior privileges, and can draw his large div
idends, untouched by local taxes, and indepen
dently place them in his pocket. Is it not time
that the people should take this matter out of
Bigler & Co.'s hands, and attend to it a little
themselves ? It certainly is, if they do not de
sire to be mere pack-horses for unprincipled
men who are speculating upon the power vest
ed in them by the people. We commend this
subject to the people's attention, and ask them
to investigate it, and then net as they shall
think right and proper. If flip) , desire to over
throw this system of corruption which is crip
pling, our State and robbing tax-payers, we shall
cheerfully aid them c if they are satisfied to be
robbed by a set of land sharks, they have the
right to enjoy that luxury.—Leb. Cour.
POPULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL. CITILS IN
EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA.—WC compile
from Weber's Volkolender (People's Alma
nac) for 1853, published annually at Leipsic,
the following table of the largest cities in Eu-
rope and North America
London, 2,363'141
Paris, 1,053,262
Pestle,
Prague
ii(Voluo
Genon, 120,000
Constantinople, 786,990
New York, 522,766
St. retersitrg, 478,437
Vienna, 477,846
Berlin, 441,931
Cincinnati, 116,816
New Orleans, 116,340
Bristol, 113,008
,
Naples, 416,475 I Ghent, ,
112,410
Philadelphia, 409,354 Munich. 106,766
Liverpool, 334,263 Bres/nu, 104,000
Glascow, 367.800 Florence, 102,154
Moscow, 350.000 Rouen, 1 00 265
Manchester, 290.000 I Be/fast, 99,650
Madrid, 260,000 I Cologne, 92,214
Dulihn, 254,950Dreaden, 91,276
14
249,325 I Stockholm, 90,823
Lis
241,500 I Rotterdam, 90,000
Am dam, 222,900 I Antwerp, 88,800
Havana, 200,000 Cork, 86,485
Marsoilis, 195,0001 Liege, 77,587
Baltimore, 189,054 i Bologna, 75,100
Palermo, 180,000 Leghorn, 74,530
Rome, 173,332 Trieste, 70,846
Warsaw, 162,597 Ronigheig, 70,198
Leeds, 152,000 Sheffield; 62,260
Mihtn, 151.438 The Hauge, 66,000
Hamburg, 148,754 Leipsic, 65,000
Boston. 136.78 A Oporto, 62,500
Britsse/s, 186,208 Malaga, 60,000
Turin, 135.000 I Domain., 57,102
Copenhagen, 133,140
Bordeaux, 130,927
Venice, 120,768
Frankfort, 57,550
Mamielmrg, 56,692
Bremen, 51,156
[Boston Transcript.
Commodore Perry—Chinese Affairs and
the Japanese Mission.
We learn from the Washington Star, that
the Navy Department have despatches from
Commodore Perry up to the 27th of April,
when he was at Macao preparing to sail imme
diately in the Mississippi for Shanghai, (China.)
He had been much embarrassed by failing to
find the Susquehanna at Macao, awaiting his
orders; she having sailed for Macao under s a re
quisition from Mr. Commissioner Marsha:l.—
The Commodore had abstained from interfer
ing in any manner with the intestine troubles
of China, and he did not propose to involve his
command in them, directly or indirectly. .Ho
expected on arriving at Shanghai to meet the
sloops-of-war belonging to his squadron, and to
sail (with all his ships) as soon as possible for
Japan. The sloops, at the date of his letter,
were cruising more especially for the purpose
of making explorations and surveTs with the
view of determining the best position for sta
tions and depots for the relief and accommoda
tion of our so fast increasing commerce, in
steamers and sailing vessels, between Califor
nia and China; which duty is to be prosecuted
diligently whenever any of his vessels can be
spared for the purpose. Nothing was known
in China at the date of his letters, concerning
the probable manner in which his mission
should be received by the Japanese govern
went. •
APPOINTMENT.—Gov. Foot, of Now Jersey,
has appointed the Hon. John It. Thomson
Trustee to represent New Jersey in the Board
of Trustees that may be appointed by and on
behalf of the original thirteen States of the
American confederacy, for the purpose of eon
atructing and maintaining in the public square
adjoining Independence gall, in the city of
Philadelphia, a monument to commemorate
the Declaration of Independence, pursuant to
the provision of a law approved March 11,
1853.
PENNVILYANIA R.III.ROAII-MONTULYSTATE•
MENT.-Roceipts of the road tbr the month en.
ding June 30, 1853. $159,978 59
Same month lust year, 122,152 83
Increase,
Receipts from January 1, 1853,
to June 30, 1854, 81,451,131 63
Same period last year, 980,143 03
JOURNAL:—Glaticing at a emninuei•
cation copied from the Cambrian, a Whig print
of Johnstown, Cambria County, in your paper
of July 13th inst., I was struck with some very
pertinent remarks of thnt writer, in relation to
stone gentlemen now spoken of li,r *ate Senn.
for in this District. His language, indeed, is
remarkable; fbr instance, "if Men who are
known not to be good Whigs are to receive the
biggest and fattest offices in our gift, there IS
very little use in being a Whig, at all." Again,
"it is our sincere opinion that it' there is any
use in a Whig party, that good, sterling . , and
unflinching Whigs should be our Representa
tives." Now, every Whig, every where, must
certainly feel the force of such fundamental
truths. Might not the same truthful remarks
of the Cambrian writer apply to some gentle
men now soliciting office at the hands of the
Whig, party its our County? As to number,
their name is legion, all good men no citizens,
and worthy neighbors, hut are they all sterling
and unflinching ;Whigs? that's the question
soon to be decided in Convention; and surely
will he decided correctly. The Whigs of Hun
tingdon County have become almost proverbial,
for their hasty attachment to Locotbeo rene
gades. This language may appear, at first
sight, too strong, but ie it 80? I submit to eve
ry candid mind. Facts are sometimes very
stubborn and hard to receive, yet truth is still
truth the world over.
Taking a view of the political aspect of Han.
tingdon County, at present, she has every thing
in the distance to cheer her, although she pre
sents quite n number of aspirants for ace,
chiefly all too choice spirits, and worthy of be
ingthe proud standard bearers of the Whig
party. Now friend Joraxat, as your sound
Republican principles have become conspicu
ous in extending to all, who may ask a place,
in your valuable paper, the writer asks the
privilege of being heard, and solemnly appeals
to his Whig friends, and urges upon their can
did consideration at lewd the home truths of
the Cambrian writer. The period approaches,
when we will be called in Convention, confor
mable with the time honored custom, to select
men from among our number, and present to'
the citizens of Huntingdon County a strong
ticket of tried faithfulness and unblemished
reputation.
Our Whig friends ought not to forget the
fact, that it is not the easiest of their service
to elect a Whig Sheriff unless harmony pre
vails. 15.
Me. EDITOR—I am sorry to learn from your
last issue that you were linable to obtain a copy
of the law passed by the Legislature last ses
sion, authorizing the construction of a public
road from Mill Creek to Hopewell or Bloody
Run. The people of this township are anxious
to know the full weight of the burden laid upon
them by this partial and local legislation. in
time to fortify themselves against further egres
sion et the next election. If the points of the
road designated by the law, be the same as re
ported here, our little township of Union will
be robbed of not less than two thousand dol
lars, to accommodate one or two persons, with
very doubtful advantage to any others. We
are somewhat ignorant of what is going on in
other places, and have enough to do to attend
to our own private business, but if all be cor
rect that is rumored of late, other townships,
as well as the county at large, have been large
ly agrieved by thiticurse of special and local
legislation. The little township of Walker will
also be east into some fifteen hundred• dollars
to make roads to compel the people to use the
bridge now being erected at your town; whiclf
bridge is also a creature of this local and spe
cial legislation, for the benefit of the few. So
we stand not alone, if that be consolation:—
When I look at the matter lam astonished,
that those who have the means to know of the
bad effects of such legislntion and are injured
by it, can calmly rest at the time when they
have the power to arrest it. , We are even told
that if certain events happen, a larger sum
than the amount taken by special act from the
county funds to build the bridge at Hunting
don, will be required to build a bridge over the
river at the terminus of our own road; and for
the accommodation of whom ? I have made
some enquities of my neighbor, one of the
County Commissioners, of the expenses for
bridges, Le., paid and contracted for during
the last two years, and I ant astonished nt the
result of only his recollection of the amounts.
From his recollection he stated the amounts as
follows.—Bridge at. Paradise Furnace, $600;
above Birmingham, $525; at }limns. $3000;
repairing same. $300.00; at Eby's Mill, $1125 ;
at Couch's Mill, $778,00; at Winchester Fur
nace, $360.00; for buying toll-bridge, $3250;
bridge at Huntingdon, (now) $3000,00; Poor
House farm, above $8000,00; for building
Poor House, above $4500,00--making in all,
more thaw $25000,00. Truly, it is time we
speak out for ourselves, and also act, whilst
there is a chance to keep the appropriation for
bridge purposes, hereafter, in our own hands,
where the general law of the land has already
placed it, and not trust it to the hands of a
log-rolling partial legislature, BRUTUS.
Union tp.
125,000
124,181
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Death Warrant Received.
Pittsburg, July 21.—The warrantfrom Gov.
Bigler for the execution of Jewell, in Prison,
under sentence of death for the murder of .
Mitchell, on the 9th of July, 1851, was received
to-day by the Sheriff of the county, very unex
pectedly to the prisoner. The day fixed for
the execution is the 2d of September next.
From Washington,
Tilishington,July 21.—Dr. Stone, the seulp•
tor, is modelling a bust of Robert J. Walker.
Senator Jant r e's of Rhode Island, arrived here
this evening. •
Collector Campbell, of Roehester,has arrived
here. There is fun ahead, between the "hardy"
and "sorts."
Massachusetts Democratic State Convention.
Worcester, Mass., July 2l—The Democratic
State Committee of Massachusetts have fixed
upon the 22d of September, as the time for
holding the regular . State Convention, and this
city as the place it shall be held.
Fatal Accident.
Boston, July 21.—This morning, at 5 o'clk.
as the steamer Europa, from Halifax, was coin
ing into this port, she ran down a small boat,
by which a young man was drowned.
Massachusetts Judiciary.
Boston, July 21.—The Constitutional Con
vention to-day adopted an amendment, limiting
the term of Justices of State Courts to ton
years.
Emigration to Nebraska.
A letter in the Now York Daily Times, from
its regular St. Louis correspondent, confirms
the statements previously made with reference
to the emigrating squatters to Nebraska, and
gives as authority for it Col. A. J. Vaughan,
the Indian agent for the tribes westward from
the country of the Omahas to the Rocky Moon.
tains. That gentleman says that a large num.
her of
removing into the Indian country from the
northern and northwestern portions of the State
of Missouri. The letter in question says:
"Col. Benton, in one of his late letters, main
' tains that such settlements are legal, and urges
our poor and industrious citizens to avail them
solves of the opportunity to better their fortunes
byoecuring permanent and fertile homes for their
rising families. Senator Atchison, on the nth.
er hand, denies that such settlements crin he le-
gally made, and warns the people that attempts
to make them will be checked, if need be, by
the intervention of military force."
It seems, therefore, that there in no doubt of
this movement having been stimulated by the
advice of Senator Benton. If it should prevail
to any considerable extent, it will be a difficult
and dangerous undertaking for the U. S. mili
tary form to attempt a forcible removal of the
34,825 56
Pennsylvania State Teachers'
Association.
The first meeting of this Association will he
held in the citv of PITTSBURCI,on FRIDAY,
the Rh day id' A 1.7( I:ST next, in the Hall of
the Third Ward liche* commencing at 9
o'clock A. M.
This time and place were selected, not only
because the usual vacations, at that sea.soti of
the year, allow teachers the privilege of Won.
ding: but also front the fact, that the American
Association for the Advancement of Education,
will meet in the same city on the Tuesday fob,
lowing, and thus furnish an opportunity, to all
who may wish it. of attendidg both meetings.
While Massachusetts, New York. Ohio, and
other - Sta t es, have had for years their State
Teachers' Associations; and, through their
agency, hare not only quickened the - energy
of their members to renewed efforts in behalf
of Education, but awakened a more general in•
terest respecting it in the public mind, This will
be the.first meeting of the Peinisvlvania State
Teacheri f Association, and, tberefi,re, calls for
the most active exertions on the part of its
friends to ensure its Complete success'.
Such being the case, the Executive Commit•
tee will venture to Suggest Hanle of the reasons,
which shoidd secure a general attendance of
Teachers and friends of Education from all
parts of the State:
The Association itself is not exclusive. It
permits all Teachers, front the. President of the
University to the Teacher of the humblest com•
mon school, to become members on terms of
perfect equality. Nor are thme who are not
Teachers excluded. Every friend of Educe
tion has the right to participate in its delibera•
tions,and he will find, therein, ample opportu
nity fbr exerting his best effortstor the good of
the cause.
At this meeting Reports will he presented on
Normal Schools, Teachers' Institutes, The
Uses and Abuses of Text Books, and other
subjects of deep interest, Lecturers will be
provided for each evening of the Session.
The great question of ''the duty of the State
to educate all its children," will be brought up
for examination. It is well known that com
bined attacks have been made, in several other
States, as well as threatened in our own, against
this principle—the very basin of our Common
School System; and, while we may feel, that,
Gibraltar-like, the system stands too firm to be
shaken, it is the part of a wise discretion, that
its friends measure well their position and their
strength, and be prepared, in case of emergen
cy, to enter the conflict and defend it. This
meeting will present the opportunity for sea
preparation.
. _
For the Journal,
Ti is admitted that, correct as may he the
principle upon which is based our common
school system, some additions and amendments
in the provisions of the law are needed, to
make it adequate to meet the want it was in
tended to supply. From every county in the
Commonwealth, let the friends of Education as
semble, bringing with them a knowledge of the
workings of the system in their respective lo
entities, that data may be had, upon which to
base measures adapted to remedy the defects
of the present law; and then, after deliberation
commensurate with the importance of the sub
ject, let such measures ho adopted; let them go
forth as the voice of the Association. and sure
ly Legislative sanction cannot long he wanting,
A prominent object of the Association is to
bring about more' co-operation and 'sympathy
among Teachers, and especially among those
having charge of schools of different grades,
than at present exists. And this, more than
anything else, is needed. Jealousy, it is to be
feared, has heretofore supplied the place of q
praiseworthy professional courtesy. The Teach
or, whether engaged in a College, an Acade
my, a Female Seminary, or a Common School,
is still a•Tencher, and his position is not neees•
sarily antagonistic to that of any other. All
are engaged in the same great work, and a
union clbse and permanent should be formed
among them in order to effect the great object
of their mission. Let Teachers, then. from all
grades of shoots, come up to the meeting of the
Association; and, upon its altar, avow eternal
amity and consecrate themselves anew to the
discharge of the high duties of their noble call
ing.
Such are Rome of the motives which, the
Committee think, should prompt the atten
dance of a large body of Teachers and friends
of Education: to all of whom they extend a
cordial invitation. Engaged in a great and
holy cause—dear alike to the patriot and the
philanthropist--come, let us council together
concerning its best interests.
Wm. Travis, New Castle P. 0., Lawrence co.
S. D. Ingram, Harrisburg P. 0., Duphin co.
J. P. Wickersham, Marietta P. 0., Lane. co.
H. R, Warriner, Philadelphia P. 0.
J. M. Barnett, Clarksburg P. 0., Indiana co.
Ex. Com. Penna. Teachers' Association.
No. 33. More scientific evidence of Podop•
hyllim. The chief medical ingredient compo
sing Dr. J. W. Cooper's celebrated Vegetable
Anti• Dyspeptic Pills. From the Eclectic Dia
pensatory of the U. S., by Drs. King and New
ton (58 314,) "One•half to two grains gener•
ally operates ns an active cathartic, leaving the
bowels in a soluble condition; in very small do
ses it is generally an aperient and alterative.—
We make use of this agent in those caseewbere
mereurials are used by a certain class of . prac•
titioners, and find the result to bevastly in our
favor."
The late Prof. T, V. Morrow, makes use of
the following remarks "Perhaps no medi•
tine has been introduced to the notice of , the
medical profession for the last one hundred
years, which promises to be of so much valuo
as thePodophyllim."
Griffith's Medical Botany, page 110: "The
concurrent testimony of all practitioners who
have given a fair trial to podophyllim, is in ita
favor, as a certain and active Purgative.
Dr. Host's Domestic Medicine, page 239, in
speaking of the root of this plant says : "The
root properly prepared is perhaps the beet ca
thartic now known. being very mild, and al
though somewhat slow, yet certain in its ope
ration. It, unlike most other articles of 'this
class, leaves the bowels in a lax and soluble
condition, and hence is, in many instances,
very useful in habitual coaitiveneas.
Dr. Bigelow, in speaking of this valuable or.
tiele says: "The medical properties of the
Podophillim Pellatum are those of a sure and
active cathartic. We have hardly any native
plant which answers better the common purposo
of Aloes, Jalap, and Rhubarb."
When such men as these speak in favor of
any medicine, it tells volumes in itefavor. • Aa
we have said before this is the active medical
ingredient in Dr. J. W. Cooper's CelebrO,k4
Anti-Dyspepsia Pills, and every family should
be provided with some of them, and never. be
without. These pills may be had of T. Read
& Son, agents for C. P. }ewes, the Proprietor,.
by whom the genuine are only prepared.
4ir POISONING. .419
Thousands of Parents who use Vorinifuge com
posed of Castor oil, Calomel, &c., aro not awaro,
that while they appear to benefit the patient, they
are actually laying the foundations for a aeries of
diseases, such as salivation, loss of sight, weak
ness of limbs, &c.
In nnother column will .be found the advertise
ment of liobensack's Medicines, to which wo ask
the attention of all directly interested in their own
as well as their Children'. health. In Liver
Complaints and all disorders arising from those
of a billions type, should make use of the only
genuine medicine, liobensaek's Liver Pills.
10""1ie not Deceived? hut ask for Ilebenseck's
Worm Syrup and Liver Pills, and observe that
each has the signature of the Proprietor, J. N.
1101IENSACK'S, as none else see genuine.
Er "I DIGEST!" •Sron re THE Tara
MEANING of the word "PEPSIN," or of the two
Greek words from which it is derived. This is
the significant and appropriate title of the Tare
DIGESTIVE FLUID. or GASTRIC Juror, prepared
by Dr. J. S. HOUOMTON, of Philadelphia, from
the fourth stomoch of the Ox, for the cure of In
digestion and Dyspepsia. It Is Nature's ono
remedy for an unhealthy Stomach. No art of
man can eq u al its ouratire powers. It renders
GOOD EATING perfectly consistent with HEALTH.
See the f: ~ of thp 0,, ,