HUNTINGDON JOURNAL.
Wednesday Morning, Aug.
S. L. GLASGOW, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
VVIIIG STATE TICKET:
TOR CANAL CONMNISIONEIL
Moses Pownall, of Lancaster county.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
Christian Myers, of Clarion county.
FOR AtiDITgR ORNERAL,
Alexander H. McClure, of Franklin co.
Agents tor the Journal.
The following persons we have appointed Agents
for the lICNTINODON JOURNAL, who are author
ised to ISICCiVe 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 ate distance from Huntingdon.
Joust W. Titomptibm, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
&must. COEN, East Barren,
GEORGE IV. CORNELIUS Shirley township,
Jamas E. GLasoow. Chi , township,
DANIEL TRACE , Esq., Cromwell township,
Dr. J. P. Asncom, Penn township,
Dr. IL L. Bitowx, Cass township,
J. WAREHAM MATTE., Franklin township,
SAMUEL STEFFEY, Jackson township,
Itbnaar M , BURNEY, "
CQI: JNO. C. WATSOM, Brady township,
MORRIS Bnowx, Springfield township,
WM. HUTCHINSON, Esq., Warriorsmark tp.,
JAMES MCDONALD, Brady township,
GEORGE W. WirrrrAmsa, Petersburg,
BEN. NEFF, West Barree.
:lona BALsnAcn, Waterstreet,
Maj. CIIARI.ES MICKLEY. Tod township,
A. M. BLAIR, Dublin township,
.GEOROE WILSON, Esq., Tell township,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
NATHANIEL LYTLE, Esq., Spruce Creek.
JOHN N. SWOOPE, Esq., Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace.
SIMEON WRIGHT, Esq., Union township.
DAVID Cr.stutsox, Esq.; Cassoille.
Svmccr. WIGTON, Esq., Franklin township.
Jrinx LVTZ, Esq., Shirleysburg.
DAVID PARKER, Esq ., Warriorsmark.
DAVID AURANWT, 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 township, at the house of Rob
ert Kyle,) Penn and Dublin 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. AL, of
said day, to elect two persons in each township
and borough, to serve as delegates in the Whig
County Convention, to be held• in Huntingdon,
on Tuesday the 9th day of A:ngust next, for the
purpose of forming a County Ticket and ap•
pointing Senatorial Conferees. Huntingdon
borough will meet at 8 o'clock, P.
By order of the County Committee.
J. SEWELL STEWART, Chairman.
Huntingdon, July 20,'63.
Oa- SAVE COSTS. -sw
THE accounts for advertising and job work
I. done in the "Huntingdon Journal" office
while in my possession, will be placed in the
hands of a Justice of the Peace for collection
immediately after the August Court. Those
interested may rest assured that no further in
dulgence can possibly be extended to any one.
J, A. HALL.
August 3,'53.-2w.
Whig State Convention.
The Whig State Convention will meet in this
place on the 25th of August. This is the first
State Convention of any kind that ever met
here, and old Huntingdon has reason to feel
proud of the honor. We feel very certain that
her gallant Whigs will show their appreciation
of the compliment by giving to the delegates a
reception worthy of those who receive and those
who give it.
Col. McClure, the Whig candidate for Audi!
tor General, and Judge Myers, the nominee for
Surveyor General,will be here on that occasion.
A public meeting will likely be held the even
ing of the 25th, which will be addressed by
some of the most distinguished speakers in the
State. We will refer to this subject more par
ticularly again.
J. Price Wetherill.
We noticed very briefly, last week, the death
of John Price Wetherill, of Philadelphia, after
a short illness. Ile was one of the most prom
inent and public spirited men of the city. He
was the builder of his own fortune. God Al
mighty makes only a few men like J. Price
Wetherill, to show the perfection of his works.
He was a man of indomitable energy, liberal,
generous, of fine talents and scientific tastes.—
lie introduced the manufacture of white lead
into Philadelphia under circumstances of great
difficulty, and was a practical chemist of co
mean acquirements. Ile died at the age of
fifty-nine, and left an estate worth eight hun
dred thousand dollars.. Mr. Wetherill was a
Whig, heart and soul—just as active and in
earnest after an election as before it; just as
active and in earnest after a defeat as after a
victory. We commend his example to the
'Whigs of Huntingdon county, generally, and
especially to the candidates for nomination next
week.
mar The present %cation of the Huntingdon
Post Office in a one-sided affair, and very in-
convenient to nite.tenths of the business men
of the borough. The lawyers, who have the
most to do with the office, all fitive their offices
from a quarter to half. mile off it, and the
merchants, with one or two exceptions. all live
below it. Now, when we have three mails to
receive and two to answer every (lax, the labor
and time occupied in going and returning from
the Post Office is a heavy tax and a serious
greivance. We humbly pray Mr. Lewis to es
tablish a branch in the lower end of the town,
Or give ue a Penny Post, or grant us some re
lief in the promises. We can't stand this eight
years. '
let-We have received a prospectus of a new
paper, titled "The Alleghenian," about to be
established at Ebensburg, Cambria county, Pa.
It will be devoted to politics and general intelli.
gence.
- A good Whig paper regularly and energeti
cally published is very much needed in Cam
bria county, and we hope this enterprise will
be liberally encouraged. A. C. Mullin Chas.
Albright are the editors and proprietors, and
ars said to be talented and energetic man
Sale of the Public Works.
There seems to be a very general desire,
ninowgst the honest taxpayers of the State, 'at
this time, to see the Public Works of Pennavl•
vania sold. The cup of iniquity is at last be
ginning to run over. This huge cancer which
has been slowly and subtily eating its way into
the body of the Covamonwealth, has at length
reached the vitals, and the question is now one
of life and death. The burden of taxation has
become so greivous as to cripple the energies
of industry and enterprize—to depreciate the
value of real estate, and drive capital and bu
siness out of the State. The truth is, the Pub.
lie Works are unproductive, nay, are an expense
to the State, and ever will remain so in the
hands of its officers. Year after year we have
been lulled with the Syren song of promised
increase in their revenue. Take up the Re
ports of the Canal. Commissioners and State
Treasurers for the last ten or fifteen years, and
you will find the same story every year—some
thing has happened this year to diminish the
revenues, but next year it will be all right.—
One year there is a flood on the Juniata, the
next year there is no water in the Ohio; one
year there is a break in the Delaware, the
North or West Branch divisions, and the next
year the Bridge at Freeport or Duncan's Island
is burnt. And so it goes. In the hands of
private enterprise, with the economy and ac
countability and honesty that characterizes
private enterprize, these Works could be made
to yield immense revenues. Nay, verily, as it
is, they are productive, but their revenues nev
er reach the coffers of the Commonwealth, or
if they do, it is only to be lavished on some fa.
vorite officer or contractor. For along the
length and breadth of these Public Works there
lives a race of public plunderers, whose name
ig legion.
There be land rats as well as water rats."
There are wolves and weasels that only suck
the blood, and there are hyenas and buzzards
that live on corruption and offal—there are
sharks in the canal and crabs in the toe-path.
These are they who are eating out our sub
stance—to feed and fatten these, you and I
must be taxed over and over again.
Could the people of the whole Commonwialth
see these things as we have seen them, and
know these things as we have known them,
they would rise as one man, and hurl these
cormorants into the ditch, and give the Works
away, if they could not be sold, for the sake of
preserving the purity and honesty of our State.
Like the Stygian pool they poison every thing
and every person that comes in contact with
them--private virtue and check-rolls have both
become articles of cortimerce along our Works,
and official oaths and public bonds have be.
come ropes of sand. Independent of the vast
amounts of money squandered and plundered
from the revenues of the State, the influence of
this system of fraud and peculation is most
pernicious on public and private morale. It
holds out strong temptations to the avaricious
and the lazy; vice it holds at a premium and
virtue at a discount; it assails the ballot-box,
offering place and power to those who will sell
their birthright for a mess of pottage; it pol
:utes the fountains of justice, using the names
of our magistrates as having administered oaths
and affidavits on check-rolls, when no such
oaths were administered at all before anyone,
or using the magistrates themselves, when they
can be found corrupt enough, to sign and mi.:
tify the necessary affidavit, when none such was
made. But we turn from this part of the case
—at another time we may illustrate the subject
further, by giving names, dates, and facts.
One difficulty in the way of making sale of
the Public Works heretofore, has been the
want of a purchaser; that objection no longer
exists. At the price fixed in the Bill which
passed the House of Representatives, at Har
risburg, last winter, to wit : Sixteen Millions,
it is understood they would have been at once
taken. They ought to, and will, bring twenty
millions of dollars, which amount paid into the
Treasury, wipes out half our State debt. Rid
us of these Public Works with all their evils,
reduce our State debt to $2O 000, amend our
constitution so that it can never be increased
for any purpose. Suffer Samson, deprived of
his eyes and shorn of his hair though he be,
that he may feel the pillars whereupon the
house standeth that he may lean upon them,
and his strength will again return unto him.—
New life, new energy, and new enterprize would
animate every bosom, and every avenue of I
trade, and every persuit of industry. Our good
old Commonwealth, within whose broad limits
lie mineral, agricultural, and commercial wealth
enough to build up an empire equal to that of
Great Britain, would bound forward on a new
career of unequalled and unlimited prosperity.
Sink or swim, we give to this measure, the
sale of the Public Works, our hand and our
heart. Who will join us 7 Who will say nay?
Democratic Nominee for Supreme Judge.
The Democratic State Convention which as
sembled at Harrisburg on the 28th inst., nomi
nated John C. Knox, the present incumbent,
to fill the place made vacant by the death of
the late Chief Justice Gibson. Mr. Knox is a
gentleman of very moderate abilities and of
quite limited acquirements in the law. He is
an exceedingly amiable man and a strong Dem
ocrat, and to these two qualities,: and these
alone, is Mr. Knox indebted for his success and
promotion. Alas! That the mantle of Elijah
could not have fallen on some Elisha.
11%., We understand that the novel project of
getting up a "Temperance Campmeeting" is on
foot in Tuckaboe Valley, headed by the Rev.
A. K. Bell. It is said, with fair weather, the
gathering on the occasion will be immense.—
We wonder whether "Schniedam Schnaps"
conld'nt assemble as large a crowd as that will
be? We think he could.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—Another deaf man
has been run over and killed on a New En
gland railway. The number of accidents of
this kind seems to be on the increase. We
have, within a very short time past, chroni
cled quite a lot of them. It is strange that a
person afflicted with deafness will venture to
walk upon a railrod track, knowing the impos
sibility of being warned of the danger from a
train approaching in the rear.
Mr Graham's Magazine for the month of
August is on our table, containing as usual a
number of elegant illustrations and a large
quantity of interesting literary matter.
lir A child of Mr. Henry Miller, Lancaster,
was choked to death last week while eating a
ground•nut, a portion of which lodged in it 4
windpipe.
sar An entire flinily was arrested in Pitts.
burg on Pridary, clarged-with beings alortttct.
The Bedford Springs Sold.
The Bedford Springs lave been purchased
by Gen. Cameron, Geo. Leman, Col. Geary,
Philip Dougherty; Chambers McKibbin, and
perhaps some others, for the round sum of one
hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Thin
is an important fact in several points of view,
especially so to those interested in the chnstrue
tion.of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Rail
road. The distance from the present terminus
of that road as located and under contract to
Bedford is only eighteen miles. Mifflin
has just concluded a survey, and reports a very
favorable route for the continuation of the road
to Bedford. We regard this purchase as insu
ring the speedy completion of the Huntingdon
and Broad Top Railroad, and the continuation
of the same to the Bedford Springs. The pur
chasers are all men of great wealth, of great
enterprize and great shrewdness, and, in our
humble judgment, they have made, and will
make, an immense speculation by'this purchase.
Had we been the owner of the Springs and able
to keep them, half a million of gold dollars
would not have bought them. This is a kind
of property that is increasing in value faster
than any other kind in our country, except,
perhaps, coal lands, and no man can estimate
the value of these Springs ten yearn hence.—
But the first thing to be done, and no men bet
ter understand this than the purchasers them
selves, is to reach the Springs with a good rail
road. The Hollidaysburg folks may talk about
their Plank Road to Bedford, and this, if it
were made, or likely to be made, is a very good
thing in its way, but nothing less than railroad
speed and railroad facilities will satisfy those
who travel now for health, pleasure or on busi
ness. With the Broad Top Railroad completed
to Bedford, the citizens of Philadelphia, Balti
more, and Pittsburg can leave home in the
morning after breakfast, and without fatigue,
safely land at the Springs in time for supper
the same day. With these facilities of access,
and with that prince of a landlord, Chambers
McKibbin, and others 'like him, to' keep the
Hotels, added to the intrinsic and superior
medicinal qualities of the water, who shall say
that a national watering place, surpassing
Saratoga, and equalling Bath, England, will
not in a few years grow up at the Bedford
Springs. So mote it be.
"RAW HEAD AND BLOODY BONES.
Shall We not have Reform
The Standard, growing apprehensive that
onr remarks it regard to the villainies practis.
ed on the public works by the Locofoco office
holders, might lead honest man of the "Demo
cratic" party to vote for a change of men and
measures, with a view of securing a REFORM,
returns to its threadbare slang about "Shiner,
Stevens, Stonebraker," &e., as a "raw head and
bloody bones" to scare them out of any such
notion. But its labor in this way wo appre
hend will be labor lost.
At one day that cry was potent, and whether
justly or not, it is not now our purpose to dis
cuss. But even admitting that frauds were
then perpetrated, we ask fair men to answer
hom that can justify or excuse the villianies
nowpractised f What has the frauds of "Bit
ner, Stevens, and Stonehrnker," (if they com
mitted any) to do with the late letting of the
contracts on the Portage Railroad at from
$5,000 to $20,000 per section above the bids of
responsible men for the same work? What to
do with any of the frauds, peculations, and ex
travagance of the men now in power? What
to do with these men withholding the pay of
the operatives, and necessitating them to sell
their checkrolls at a loss of 20 per cent= ?
What to do with these check-rolls getting into
the State Treasurer and Auditor General's
hands without passing through the Superinten
dant's hands ?
"Honest, fair men, will sav—"Nothing at all.
"Ritner, Stevens and Stonebraker are not the
"individuals now on trial. Their conduct has
"been canvassed and passed upon. It is the
"men who have wormed themselves into place
"through the power And confidenceof the Dem
ocratic party, and who are NOW mismanag
"ing.public affairs, that are at the popular bar
"for judgement. And by their own acts they
"shall be, udged, and for their own offences
"they shall answer, without regard to anything
"that others may, or may not have done."
This will he the sentiment of the honest mon
of all parties—the response of every candid fair
man who desires to see the Government honest
ly and economically administered—who cares
more for justice, and right, and public virtue,
than for the success for party leaders or an
empty party triumph.
The point, however, that touches our neigh
bor most closely is, our appeal to men of this
character, to the honest, hard-fisted, tax-paying
"Democratic" yeomanry of the country, TO
VOTE for a change of men and measures.—
This we know is the rub; and we are not sur
prised that he resorts to the "raw head and
bloody hones" when the thing is so much as
mentioned. He has a $1,50 or $2,00 a day for
very easy services involved this voting, and the
change might close the purse-strings - on his
fingers. But his we trust will be the very last
tit cut off; for not a man among all the party
is more deserving of a clever tug than just this
same "Standard" neighbor.
But as a faithful watchman for the public
weal, we tell the Tax-pavers that MOST GROSS
ABUSES ARE PERPETRATED ON THE
PUBLIC WORKS, that the public money is
sgandered by thousands and tens of thousands,
and that unless the honest men in the "De.
oeratic" ranks will lay down for once their rig
id adherence to party, and rote for a change,
there is no hope of reformation. Plunder, pec
ulation and extravagance will continue to run
riot, and the tax-gatherers continue to wring
from us all our bard-earned money to keep it
going. Shall we not have a change ?—rfol. Reg.
Atrocious Attempt to Murder.
It is long since we read anything like the
story of an attempt to murder like the one nar
rated. by the Springfield Advertiser. John
Russel was on his return home to Stone coun
ty, and near the month of James river, when
he was overtaken by three villians who envin.
ced a disposition to stop his progress. He at.
tempted to escape from them. They pursued
him and he took to the woods. His horse
gave out, and he endeavoured to escape on
foot; he wax taken, his throat cut, his pockets
rifled, and he was left in a thicket, were it was
supposed he would die. But he survived until
the next morning when one of the wretches re
turned and cut his throat again. He had
crawled to a road and was traced by his blood.
Kimbering was coming along just at the
time and villian fled before he finished his
work. The trachea was cut so as to prevent
articulation. He rode back to Berry's got
help and returned as soon as possible. While
he was gong., the fiend returned a third time,
and told him he should not live to give evi
dence against him. The poor •fellow armed
himself with a knife determined to . defend him
self. He wns stunned with a blow from a rock,
and his own knife again used to cot his throat.
When Kimbering returned in a few minutes
he was removed to a neighboring house, were
Mrs. Messenger stiched up the horrible wound,
so that he was able to give this information.—
It is said that the poor fellow may get well.—
He swallows water well and breaths through
the natural orifice. He had but little money,
and the scoundrel did not get that. He gives
this account of himself, that he lived near the
mouth of James—moved there last fall from
Franklin co., and had a brother residing near
the mouth of James. The desperadoes esca
ped, hut the people will hardly permit them to
,remain in tlistr neighbo.:h•nd.--S!. .Re
INANttot.
DEMOCRATIC TAX-PAYERS ! READ ! 1
A Voice From Old Westmoreland.
Governor Bigler and the State Deb{.
Testimony of a Democrat.
. . .
We invite the attention of all our readers,
but especially of the "Democratic" portion of
them, to the following article which we copy
from the Greeenshurg "Argu.•," the organ of
the Democratic party in old Westmoreland.
[From the Argue,'
MR. EDITOR :—The financial affairs of our
State have now reached a crisis which demands
the serious attention of the people of Pennsyl
vania. The construction of public works in•
volved the State in a heavy debt. The hope
has long since been abandoned that the reve
nue derived from the works would pay even
the interest on the money invested; and al
though the necessity of eventually paying off
the principal by direct taxation has for years
been apparent, yet no remedies have been ap
plied, and the debt has gone on increasing un
til itnow amounts to over Forty Millions of
Dollars. It advanced in adverse times; when
the whole business of the country was prostra
ted; and when every branch of industry m flour
ishing, when the gold of California is pouring
by the ship load into the country, in the midst
of a general prosperity heretofore unequalled in
the Western world, the State debt still increas
es; and the old Keystone keeps plunging deeper
and deeper into Debt and difficulties. Business
tnen who became involved during previous
Fears, taking advantage of the general prosper
ity are extricating themselves from their former
liabilities. In other States, old Bonds are be
ing cancelled and paid off, and Pennsylvania
alone - affords the melancholy exception of a
great State, whose financial embarrassments
are yearly . growing worse and worse.
Possessing natural advantages unequalled in
any land on the face of the earth; a healthy cli
mate—a fertile soil—abundance of pure water
—immense deposits of lime stone—building
stone—iron ore—bituminous and anthracite
coal—vast forests of timber—numerous naviga
ble streams—occupying a commanding positton
—bordering upon the great lakes—the inland
Seas of America ) placed at the head of naviga
tion of the valley of the Mississippi, .her sea
board receiving the commerce of Europe and
Asia, inhabited by a population unsurpassed
for industry, energy, and enterprise; why is it
that Pennsylvania wearing the fetters of the
money lender, continues in helpless bondage?
The honor of her citizens has already Been as
sailed, and on the first great pressure in the
money market, notwithstanding all their sacri
fices, Pennsylvanians may again be stigmatised
throughout the world as Repudiators and Bank
rupts. The amount of taxes, raised in the State
for the last 20 years has been enormous, and if
mismanagement and maladministration contin
ues as heretofore it will be impossible to esti
mate the burdens that Twenty-years hence will
be imposed upon our Citizens. Patiently and
without a murmur have the annual stipends
been paid, long and anxiously have our honest,
and industrious farmers looked for some dimi
nution of the State Debt, for some streak of
light however feint upon the dark horizon.
But they have looked in vain—the clouds
have grown darker and more gloomy; and
while our farmers are now paying a larger tax
than is paid in some of the European States,
and although the amount paid by them yearly,
would purchase a small farm in the west. yet
would they cheerfully make any additional ef
forts if they could but see any prospects of the
final extinction of the State Debt.
In Europe there is a class of politicians who
advocate a National Debt as a national bless
ing. No avowed specimens of this class have
yet appeared in America; but they will show
themselves in due time. When an individual
becomes involved he is at the mercy of his cre
ditors; when a State is financially embarassed
its finances and credit are controlled by monied
mon and corporations. Unfortunate is that na-
tion whose destinies are in the hands of bro
kers and bankers, and whose legislation is con
trolled by such influences. A great public
debt should be the dread and terror of a free
people. They can defend thernielves from
enemies without and terrors within, but taxa
tion will break down the energies and destroy
and subdue the noblest people on the face of
the earth,
It must he admitted that the administration
of Gov. Bigler has proved a failure. The Ship
of State is still drifting before the same unpro.
pitious gales as formerly; he has not proved
himself the "pilot to weather the storm,"—
From every indication, the State Debt will be
increased from three to five millions of dollars
during his term; a mammoth appropriation
bill of over five millions of dollars passed the
last Legislature, and received the Executive
sanction. A diminution of the State Debt was
the platform on which Gov. Bigler stood be.
fore his election. Hundreds of Westmoreland
farmers heard his financial views, and hearing
they had faith in him. They have been deceiv.
ed. If a man deceives us once, it is Isis fault;
if twice; it is our own. To the farmers of
Westmoreland county the State Debt is now
the GREAT QUESTION. ' They have no
faith in the Democratic professions of any Gov
ernor whose recommendations and acquies.
cences cause an increase of the State Debt in
time of pea c e.
_ _
In 1837. by a report of the State Treasurer
the public debt of Peensylvania was $24,731:.
343. The State then had the following pub
lic property; viz:
Bank Stock, $2,108,700
Turnpike and Bridge Stock, 2,587,098
Navigation Stork, 401,000
Balance in the Treasury lot May
1837, 1,904,209
Estimated arnonnt . of money duo
on public lands,
Of the resources at least one half were equiv
alent to cash. The State Debt may be esti
mate in 1837 at no greater sum than $21,000,-
000. In 1853, the debt is near $42,000,000.
Has the debt increased because less taxes are
paid? Previous to 1840 the amount of State
taxes collected front this county was very
small. In 1842, 1843 and 1844 Westmoreland
county's State tax duplicates amounted to $31,-
400,00.
In 1851, '52 and '53, the State tax dupli
cates of the same county amounted to over
s7o,ooo—a corresponding increase has taken
place in other counties-125 per cent. since
1844. Thus taxation increases, and the pub.
lie debt instead of being in part liquidated.
grows larger. Even the selling the good divi
dend paying stocks the Commonwealth held
only afforded a temporary relief. The tide, de
layed for a moment, burst onward with the
greater rapidity, and although the State has
disposed of the resources she held in 1837, and
immense sums have since then been levied
from the people yet what great necessary en
during public improvement has been construc
ted since 1837? What have we to show for
our vast expenditures? In all questions there
is distrust, dissatisfaction and want of confi
dence. The present Canal Board sustain to
the letter, the reputation of that body—a repu
tation uneclipsed until the late developements
of the doings of the New York Alderman a
public informer in Ireland enjoys about the
same degree of confidence that a Canal Com
missioner (with a few humble exceptions)
does in Pennsylvania. Fraud, corruption and
speculation have become interwoven with their
movements, and the base robbers , of the la
borers on the Portage accidentally exposed
and to be quieted down by pretended investi
gations, is but a slight glimpse behind the cur
tain.
Had Gov. Bigler proved true to his pledge;
had he stood up nobly and manfully in defen
ce of the interests of the people and by virtue
of his high position directed public attention to
the frauds and speculations on the public.
works. Had he been as true of the tax payers
as he has been to the interests of certain Phila.
delphia Banks. Had he showed more consis
tency in the exercise of the veto power and
at/vc gi-en by his veto a izath blo-•
to that Bill of abominations, the appropriation
Bill of the last Session ' and thus prevented an
increase of the State D aht during his term, lie
would have been more deserving of the praises
bestowed upon him by the worshippers of the
Powers that be. His patriotism, statesman
ship and integrity so highly vaunted, would
have been much more readily discerned.
The Democratic party is tesponsible for the
administration of affairs in Pennsylvania. Let
the party do its duty. It owes nothing to any
mall. Let it select a candidate who is uncon
nected in every shape and form with plunder.
ers who have preyed for years on the Treasury,
one who fears them not but detests them, a
candidate who is under no pledges, promises or
obligations to any section or Section of the
party, who will, throw the Excutive influence
against the present organized system of cor
ruption and profligacy, and who above all oth
er consideratione will be ready and willing at
all times, to veto any and every bill, the object
or tendency of whicn will be to increase the
State Debt of Pennsylvania.
With such a man we can enter the contest
with a clear conscience, and confident of victo
ry. The principles'of the Democratic party
are deeply embodied in the hearts of the peo
ple of this State. Firmness, integrity and
good faith on the part of our Standard bearers
will strengthen that attachment.
A TAX PAYER.
For the Journal
Running Off the Track. _ _
On Saturday the 23d ult., a party of about
twenty young ladies and gentlemen, mostly
from the schools in that place, left Birmingham
to gather berries on the Allegheny. They
reached the top of the mountain about 7 o'clock
A. M., and affer partaking of some refresh
ments, proceeded across the ridges in search of
berries. They had gone, perhaps, two miles,
through brush, over rocks and beneath a
scorching sun, when a part of the company,
fatigued and thirsty, resolved to abandon the
pursuit and return to the rer.:l, where the con
veyance, &c., had been left. Twelve ladies and
two gentlemen accordingly started. Three of
the ladies, falling behind the company, were
unable again to find them. They, however,
reached the encampment in due time, through
the politeness of some boys with whom they
shortly met. The other part of their company,
missing the direction, were completely lost.
It was ten o'clock when they started in the
return, and from that till 4 P. ht., nothing
could be heard of them. It is not easy to de
scribe the uneasiness and anxiety of the remain
der of the party when,•on their return, it was
known that they had not arrived. Two or three
hours'passed away. Inquiries were made of
every one who came in from the ridges, if
aught had been seen or heard of them. Two
or three companies went out short distances, to
return and if need be, provide for a more thor•
ough search. At about 4 o'clock this provision
was made. A number of friends had furnished
themselves with as many requisites for the
unmeasured task, as the occasion would afford,
and were just on the point of entering upon it
when, to the unutterable joy of all concerned,
the lost party came in sight. We leave a par
agraph here unwritten. It is for those who
have experienced the extremes of joy and sad
ness succeeding earls other in a single moment,
to imagine the feelings with which this divided
party met. The anticipations of that occasion
were not realized. So it often occurs.
The Earl of Ellesmere,
It appears from the reports of the press, that
the Earl of Ellesmore has been appointed by
her Brittanic Majesty to represent the interests
of British art and industry at the 'World's
Fair,' in New York.
Her Mrtjestie'li advisers, in selecting this no•
bleman, have evinced sound discrimination and
a proper appreciation of the functions of the
office to which he is assigned. They have not
sent a titled rake, black leg, or mere man of
fashion with his Earldom only to recommend
him. The Earl of Ellesmore is possessed of
high scholastic and scientific attainments, and
as a connoisenr in matters of art he has few
superiors; he has, from his own pen, tondo
valuable contributions to polite literature and
has always proved a liberal patron both of art
and letters.
His lordship is the Duke of Sutherland's
brother and is better known in the political
world as Lord Francis Egerton, under which
title ho represented the Southern Division of
the County of Lancaster, in the lower house,
during several parliamentary. sessions. His
politics are almost identical with those of the
late Sir Robert Peel, under whose administra
tion, I believe, he was elevated to the parrage.
His wealth is immense, being possessed of the
vast mining and canal property of the late
Duke of Bridgewater,—his annual income
will doubtless exceed $1,000;000. But above
all he is a man of integrity, his nobility is not
merely titular but is part and parcel of the man
himself, and in the whole range of British aris
tocracy it would perhaps be impossible to des
ignate one possessing more admirable moral
qualities or greater rectitude of purpose.
J. M.
Maddensvillo, Pa„ 1853.
Outlawry among the Mormons.
The Detroit Advertiser publishes the follow
ing letter from Jas. J. Strange
St James, Beaver Isle, July 14.
A most bloody and murderous assault was
made on the Sheriff of this (Emmet) coopty,
and a party of men accompanying him yester
day, at Pine River.
J. L. Miller, sheriff, went to Pine River to
summon three jurors, residing there, drawn as
jurors, for the Circuit Court, to be held here
next week. As it had been given out that no
man would be allowed to serve any process at
that place, he took two boats with a crew of
seven men to each, all 'unarmed, believing that
the presence of that number of witnesses would
prevent any act of violence until his business
was understood, when he reasonably believed
no objection would be made.
After finishing his business, which took not
above 25 minutes, the Sheriff and his party
went into their boats to return; but were in
stantly fired upon by a party of some 40 men,
who had hastily gathered on the bluff immedi
ately above them. More than 100 guns were
fired before they got their boats off the beach,
and within a range of five rods,
The party in the boat could no nothing but
stand in plain view to push off the boat, and
sit and row; their assailants came down on the
beach andfired, as they might be expected to
at a mark. The firing continued until they
got out of range, when three boats filled with
men started in pursuit. The leading boat in
pursuit contained twenty-five men. About ten
miles out they came within range and renewed
their firing; and kept up a pursuing fire for
five miles, when the Sheriff and his party made
the bark Morgan, Capt. Stone, and were taken
on hoard.
1,000,000
8,000,007
Six men were wounded, but none mortally,
though more than 200 guns are known to have
been fired, all in short range. Isaac Pierce
has both bones in his left arm broken. A. J.
Porter and A. J. Hall, have seven flesh wounds,
J. F. Pierce, Lewis Briggs and Alex. Went
worth are slightly wounded,
No pretence or excuse was made for this as
sault, except that they were determined to have
no law at Pine River.
A HARDENED SET OF SINNERS.—The Dod•
barn Democrat gives tho following first fate no•
tice of the Pierce appointments in that region:
"Their chief characteristic is lying and cheat
ing the people; mere hack politicians, perfect
cormorants, after office, whose office-hunting
stomachs will stretch like a blacksmith's leath
er apron, and the touch of whose breath would
defile as much. Such is the picture as it ap
pears to us, looking wills a perflsctlp impartial
eye, and with no fear or hope to inauee us to
withhold our opinions."
METOODIBT CAMP 36ETINC.—The Methodists
are to have a Camp Meeting on their old ground
-near Maria Forges, commencing on the 9th of
The Wyandots,
Big Turtle, a chief of the Wyandot tribe of
Indians, who removed from Ohio to the Indian
Territory. writes to the Ohio State Journal
concerning their present condition:
"Our improvements, when appraised, amount
ed to upwards of $127,000, which was paid us
in the autumn of 1845. In the spring of 1850,
our Chiefs retroceded the granted tract to the
Government, and $lOO,OOO of the Government
Stock,—making our present annuity $22,000.
"We have two churches : one a splendid brick
edifice, nearly finished. We have three dis
trict schools in active operation, under the im
mediate supervision of the Council. We have
two flourishing Sabbath shoots, with good li
braries. We have a large Temperance Socie
ty, and a Division of the Sons of Temperance
about to be formed. And as for our agricul
tural pursuits they are carried on profitably,
every year yielding a surplus for market. Our
general thrift surpasses any Tribe north of the
Arkansas line. In short. we are in far better
circumstances than when living in Ohio. The
nation generally is contented and happy.
A Sad Picture.
A young man, who left Nantucket some
three years ago for the gold mines of Califor
nia, came passenger on the steamer 'Bay State'
from New York on Saturday. Some ten
months since, not meeting with good luck at
the mines, he left San Francisco for home.
Not having funds enough to pay his passage
through, he got as far as Central America,
where he was a stranger without friends or a
place to lay his head.
In a few days, on account of the fatigue and
a broken down constitution, he entirely lost
his reason and became a maniac, and wander
ed about the place for some weeks.
At last, in consequence of some information
from letters found upon him, he was taken in
charge by the American Consul, and sent to
New York, where his aged father met him.—
The young man is a mere skeleton, only weigh
ing about GO lbs., his reason gone, and he re
sembling an image of death. It was a sad
eight to see the father with hie son inhis arms
bringing him on board the steamer, for his
sweet home, there only to remain, perhaps,. a
few days on crath. This true picture 'shut one
of many of the results of California immigra
tion.
TERRIBLE STROKE OF LIGHTNING.—Francis.
Cooley was killed by lightniv, on Tuesday of
last week, at Peoria, New York. He was stan
ding in his store, filling a camphene can, when
the lightning entering at the back of the build
ing, struck him near the head and passed out
through his heel, entirely stripping him of his
clothes, and causing instant death. The cam•
phene was also inflamed, and when Mrs. Cool
ey entered the room, hardly a moment having
elabsed, the deceased was standing upright
against the wall enveloped in a sheet of flame.
The part of the building where the lightning en
tered, was used as a store room for scythes and
other agricultural implements which were
thrown in all directions. Mrs. Cooley and her
sister, were sitting at the time about a table, in
a room over the store and the top of the table
was seperated from its legs in an instant. Two
persons were in the store at the time, ono a
young man, standing at the door, was tossed in.
to the street, a distance of nearly twenty feet;
the other, a lady, was prostrated and rendered
senseless but neither were seriously injured.
For the Journal.
BITTEN BY A SNAKE.-*0 learn that a few
days ago, while Mr. Jonathan Bowser. of
Friends' Cove, was in a field mowing a piece
of marshy ground, he very imprudently pulled
off his boots, and continued on mowing.—
While thus employed, he was bitten by a large
copperhead snake in the leg and which stuck
so tight that it had to be pulled off. His leg
immediately commenced swelling, when it was
bandaged, but in a short time, the swelling in•
creasing, and the pain being excreasing, and
the pain'being excruciating, the bandage had
to lie removed and placed higher up. His life
was despaired of for several days, but though
yet very low, there is a probability of his recov
cry. Persons should be careful at this season
of the year when the snakes are so venomous.
[Belford Inquirer.
IWO— The following new Consular appoint.
mcnts are announced:
Lima—J. Caleb Smith, of California.
Pernambuco—William Lilley, of Ohio.
St. John's, P. R.—John parsons of Florida.
Matanzas—Edward Worrell, of Delaware.
Marseilles—Samuel Dinsmoro,of New Hemp.
shire.
Glasgow—Phillip T. Heartt, of New York.
Genoa—E. Felix Foresti, of New York.
Elsineur—F. B. Wells, of New York.
Leith—James McDowell, of Ohio
Mauheim—John &herd; of Maryland.
St. Jago Do Cuba—Stephen Cochran, of
Pennsylvania.
~Sumatra—Commercial Agent, Robert R.
Purvis, of Sumatra.
SHOCKING AFFAIR IN VIRGINIA. -We learn
from the Petersburg Express, that Mr. Bird
song. of Susses county, Va., and his little son,
while lying in bed on Friday night, were both
shot through one of the windows of their chant
bor. The shooting was done with a double
barrel gun, heavily loaded with buck shot.—
The load entered one leg of Mr. B's son at the
thigh, passed entirely through, the other. Mr.
B. also received au entire load in his abdomen,
which proves that both barrels of the gun were
discharged. Their wounds are considered moe.
tal, Suspition rests upon two of his slaves.
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE.—The commencement
of this college, located at Easton, which is ra•
pidly rising to a prominent position amongst
the literary institutions of this State, will take
place next week. It is believed that the cere•
monies will be well attended by citizens from
the immediate vicinity, and by many strangers
from a distance. At the request of the Presi-
dent oft College, the railroad companies to
New York and Philadelphia will reduce the
fare one half to all who wish to attend the com
mencement. Persons on the line of the roads
will pay full price for tickets over, and on their
return will receive free tickets, by applying to
Rev. Dr. McLean President of the College.
gsrA Scotch paper notices an old woman
living at Glasgow, who is 130 years of age.—
She never took a doeter's drug in all her life
nor was a lancet ever applied to her frame.—
She is perfectly free of affections of the chest ;
during the last century of her life she has been
a perfect stranger to pain, and her pulse does
not exceed 70. Her grandfather died at the
age of 129, and her father died in the 120th
year of his age.
MILITARY AND NAVAL FORCE OP RUSSIA.—
The International Journal estimates the avail
able standing army of Russia, always ready for
aggressive purposes, to be in round numbers
800,000 men,
besides a navy of no inconsidera
ble power. This estimation must be to some
extent questionable, but it is probably an ap
proximation to the truth.
IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL DectstoN.—The
Massachusetts State Convention has made a
most important decision in rellsrence to Cam
bridge University,placing it upon grounds
which onablo future Legislatures to de
drive it of its purely denominational, and give
it a popular character. The resolve on the
subject now awaits its final possage.
MACKEREL.—The cutch of mackerel at the
Isles of Shoals this season has been very large,
being estimated, by good judges on the island,
as more than 2000 barrels, generally of goo,
quality. The Portsmouth Chronicle says about
100 barrels were seined around the islands last
Sunday.
A silk flag, ofNew Jersey manufacture,
floats above the dome of the Cryetal Palace,
twenty feet by thirty, blue, red, and white, with
stars and stripes, and of American elk of :mien
did quality, prepared for the Exhibition 1:y
John Ityle, manufacturer of sciting Ohs, in
ter:e .
MUCH IN LITTLN.
Om , - —I, ftiie.
Go/17t') Seed----our fartneni.
Scarce—item and new potatoes.
Renty—rowdina in our streets at night
Troublesome—the flies and "boras.
Old Maids—for cA advocates of celibacy.
Refreshing—the shower on Monday last.
Suspicious—for a dog to refuse a sausage.
ear Nothing eon hegreat which be not right .
e The man that carries the "knife" wee
seen on &misty last.
092 James Shirley is to be env:Med e t
Hollidayiburg, on the 12thinst.
46Y" Lactose peaches ace selling at Cincia•
nati at $1 2 25 per peck.
g®- Severe frosts, it is said, were experienc.
ed. in portions of Massachusetts last week. .
Se—Discard tobacco, runs and rowdyism;
lore the girls and take the Journal.
Vdr It is estimated that there son 55,000
Canary birds impriicined in' the U. States. -
ser The Crystal Palace inauguration bon.
quet cost $7,200.
'There is "trouble in the camp" among
the Mormons of Utah.
Cr Hay is selling in California at WI re;
au- Counterfeit 'slugs' of gold have been do.
tested in San Francisco.
Test of Good Humor.—Wake a man up in
the middle of the night, and ask him to lend
you five cents.
114' Why should ladies be punctual 7
Because when they are little behind they
make it up in a bustle.
Mir A wife never thoroughly appreciates
doughmestic economy until' she' weeds good
bread.
SEir 'There is a California turnip in Buffalo
which measures fortyfive inches in circumfer
ence, and weighs fourteen and a half pounds!
VW The subject of temperance is entering
pretty largely into the State canvass now going
on in Kentucky and Tennessee.
spar Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, of Boston,is
on a tour to Niagara, Falls, with his family, for
the benefit of his health.
Cholera has spread through a wide ex•
tent of country round Williamsport, Md., and
with much fatality.
Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was saa
years old whoa she was married. Courage,
irls?"
Ciab We observe among the eandidatee an•
nounced for Congress in North Carolina, they
have both a Ruffian and Outlaw!
air
Genie, the celebrated New York hotter
is said to be retailing this summer an average
of 620 hate per day.
Og' More than 100 miles of the Illinois Cen•
tral railraad are already in operation. Ten
thousand men are now employed upon the work.
•itirgambo, what am your 'pinion ob rats?"
"Why, I Link dat de one dat has dn short•
est tail, will get in de hole do quickest I"
Or How late is it Bill ?"
"Look at the boss, and see if he'd drunk yet;
if he isn't, it can't be much after eleven."
d i r Be Cheerful—happiness is older than
misery. Adam dwelt in Paradise and clover
almost a week before the devil came along.
er Yankee Sullivan has annonnced that he
is to fight with Morrissey, the champion cf
California about the middle of autumn, for
$lOOO a side.
"Intestine war and "pain under (km
apron" are the polite terms for diarrhea and
"beller•ache," Codfish aristocrats will please
notice.
ff ir Calm, dignified and gentlemanly. Mr.
Fillmore, as the citizen of Buffalo, is no less
respected than was Mr. Fillmore as the Presi.
dent of the United States.
Whig Slate Convention.---In Maryland, at
Baltimore, Sept. 1.
In Pennsylvania, at Huntingdon, August
In Louisiana, at Baton Rouge, August 8.
air The Bork of constructing the ship canal
around the Sault St. Marie is now going for
ward rapidly. The cost of the canal will be
about $400,000.
MS. A boy, whose general appearance bete.
kened the want of a father's care, being asked
what his father followed for a living, replied,
"He is a Methodist by trade, but ho don't work
at it any more."
lir Sulky females generally die old maids.
If a girl wishes, therefore, to taste the [tweets
which spring from love and corduroy, lot her
go in training flit good nature, and become
musical with gladness, like June crowded with
bobolinks.
er The York County, Pa., Agricultural So.
ciety will hold their next annual Agrimiltural
and Industrial Fair, at York, on the Town
Commons, on Wednesday Thursday and Fri.
day, the sth, Gth and 7th days of October
next.
No. 34. During some part of the year most
children are troubled with worms, which is a
source of great annoyance, and in many cases
they are the cause of death. Therefore, if your
children are troubled with worms, you should
loose no time in procuring such remedies as
will most speedily and effectually destroy them
and restore the health of the child. Many of
the Worm Medicines now before thepublic,
contain calomel in various quantities, which is
always a dangerous medicine to take, and par.
titularly for children; as they do not know tho
danger attending it, they are not apt to be milli.
ciently careful after its use. Therefore we
would earnestly recommend all persons who
have children afflicted with worms to procure
a box of Dr. J. W. Cooper's Vegetable Worm
Powders. They are the best medicine for the
destruction of worms ever discovered. They
contain no calomel or any other article fccin,
which any danger can arise, and besidee this
they are pleasant for children to tike. They
are prepared by C. P. Hewes, and for sale at
T. Read & Son's Drug store, Huntinngdon.
I
. Thousands of Parents who use Verrniinge com
posed of Castor oil, Calomel, &e., aro not aware,
that while they appear to benefit the patient, they
ere actually laying the foundations fora aerie. of
diseases, such as salivation, loss of eight, weak
ness of limbs, &c.
In another column will be found the advertise
ment of Hobonsack's Medicines, to which we ask
the attention of all directly interested in their own
as well as their Children's health. In Liver
Complaints and all disorders arising from those
of a hilliout type, should make use of the only
genuine medicine, Ilobousack's Liver rills.
sr. Be not Deceived," but ask for Irobensack's
Worm Syrup and liver rills, and observe that
each has the signature of the rtoprieter, J. N.
IIOBENSACK'S, as none else are genuine.
sir "F ifIDIOESI: 1 ." Seen tp MD TIMM
MEANING of the word 'PEPSIN," or of the t.w. ) ,
Greek words from which it is derived. Tina is
the significant and appropriate title of the Tuna
Din',woes FLOW, or Gartmc Juice, prepared
by its. J. S. liouoitToN, of Philadelphia, firm
the fourth stotriooh Ox, for th e etn , ,r In,
digeation and Dyspepsia. it is Nature's own
remedy for au unhealthy Stomach. No art of
man can equal its curative powers. It mulcts
GOOD EATING perfectly consulteut with ni.atTli.
See llc S,"sir of th, !hi:. in .oat:, pan