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HUNTINGDON JOURNAL
Wednesday Morning, Aug. 10,1863.
8. L. GLASGOW, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
WHIG STATE TICKET:
FOR CANAL CONMIASIONEII,
Moses Powuall, of Lancaster County.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
Christian Myers, of Clarion county.
FOR ALDITOR GENERAL,
Alexander K. McClure, of Franklin co.
WHIG DISTRICT TICKET:
ASSEMBLY,
JAMES MAGUIRE, of Fluntingdon co.
JAMES L. GWIN, of Blair county.
WHIG COUNTY TICKET t
MERU'? .
JOSHUA GREENLAND, of Cassville.
TREASURER,
JOSEPH M. STEVENS, of Petersburg.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY,
J. SEWELL STEWART, of Huntingdon.
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
WILLIAM CHRISTY, of Porter tp.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
THOMAS HAMER, of Nast, tp.
AIM/TOR,
BENRY BREWSTER, of Shirlenburg.
DIRECTOR OP THE POOR,
SAMUEL MATTERS, of Franklin tp.
Agents for the Journal.
The following persons we !eve appointed Agents
for tko HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, who are author
ized to receive and receipt fur money paid on sub
scription, and to take the names of new subscri
bers at nor published prices.
We do this for the convenience of our subscri•
hers living at a distance from Huntingdon.
Joists W. Triostrsox, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
SASIUEL COEN, East Barrel),
GEORGE W. Cotmemos Shirley township,
JAMES E. GLASGOW, 0,14 y township,
DANIEL TEAGUE, Esq., Cromwell township,
Dr. J. P. Asncom, Penn township,
Dr. H. L. BROWN, Cass township,
J. WAREHAM MATTERN ' Franklin township,
SAMUEL STEPNEY, Jackson township,
ROBERT M'BURNEY,
Col. JNO. C. WATSON, Brady township,
Mains Bnowx, Springfield township,
WM. HUTCHINSON, Esq., Warriorsmark tp.,
JAMES MCDON /LLD, Brady township,
GEORGE \V. WHITTAKER, Petersburg,
Hamar Neer, West Barree.
Joint BALSBACH, Waterstreet,
Maj. CHARLES MICKLEY. Tod township,
A. M. BLAIR, Duhlin township,
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., Tell township,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
NATHANIEL LYTLE, Esq., Spruce Creek.
Joint N. Swoops. Esq., Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace.
SIMEON Wntoirr, Esq., Union township.
DAVID CLAngsox, Esq., Cassville.
Svmuct, Wtorox, Esq., Fninklin township.
Jolt!? LUTZ, Esq., Shirleyshurg.
DAVID PARKER, Es 9., Warriorsmark.
DAVID AURANDT, Esq., Todd township.
& SAVE COSTS. -al
THE accounts for advertising and job work
I done in the " Huntingdon Journal" office
while in my possession, will be placed in the
bands 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.
*. The Whig County Committee of Adams
County hnve appointed John R. Hersh, dele
gate to the Whig State Convention, which is to
meet at this place on the 25th inst.
illel.Col. S. W. Pearson, former Clerk of our
State Eepate, has been appointed book-keeper
in the Manufacturers' and Farmers' Bank of
Wheeling rice E. H. Fitihogh, Esq., resigned.
LEBANON Wow NOMINATIONS,—The Whig
County Convention of Lebanon on Monday
last placed the following ticket in the field:—
Assembly, John Meily, Swatara; Treasurer,
George Hoffman, North Lebanon; Commis.
stoner, Joseph Miller, Heidleberg; Pros. At
torney, Josiah Funk, Lebanon; Director of the
Poor, Henry Bross, Cl:ion.
The SENATORIAL CONVERT.—An announce
ment that an. American Senator, sojourning
in Rome, has been received as a convert into
the Roman Chureh, and the subsequent sur
mise that this means Senator Douglass, is
thought by a New York Journal to be an er
ror, and that the Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, of
Philadelphia, a well known Catholic, now in
Europe, must have been mistaken for a Sena
tor.
sir Any man who will attempt to prevent
another from exercising the rights of a freeman
at the ballot-box, when he is clearly entitled to
vote, is no gentleman, and should be driven
from civil society. This was done on last Sat
urday evening, in the case of a Minister of the
Gospel, to whom it was said, by another, that
he should remember that the latter was a Pew
holder in the Presbyterian Church, and that the
former had bettor not vote. Such conduct is
an outrage on the moral and Christian integrity
of the community, and a gross insult to the
Ministry. Shame to the individual who perpe
trated this barbarous deed.
air We understand that a few of our sub
scribers received a half sheet of the Globe, last
week, enclosed in the Journal. If this was the
ease, it was without our knowledge or consent,
and we cannot hold ourself responsible for
things of that kind done in our absence. The
communication, on the subject of the Legisla
ture, contained in the Globe of last week, said
to have been written fur the Journal, but could
not be published there on account of our ab-
Bence, was au article of which we bad no know!-
• edge, and sever could have found room iu our
oolutnns.
CUAILACTERISTIC.—Th4: New York Herald,
speaking of the rebellion in China of what
should be our policy in regard to it, nays:
4 -Let ua be.impartial in our intervention, if
we must intervene, and help both aides until tee
can ascertain which is the strongest." Thin id
the Iterates rube of conduct.
Democratic Whig County Ticket.
We have but time to notice this week, briefly,
the nominations made by the County Conven
tion.
The Convention, throughout its whole pro
ceedings, preserved harmony, and everything'
seemed to be transacted with a full determina
tion, if possible, to promote the interests of the
party. Under the circumstances, we think,
better order and better feeling could not have
prevailed.
As far as we have been able to learn from
Whigs in town, from the country, the nomina.
Lions are perfectly satisfactory and will be tri
unphantly elected. This indeed is gratifying
to us, and should be to every loyal Whig in the
county. Few County Conventions have as
sembled here for many years back that were com
posed of better men than yesterday's was.—
They all seemed resolved to act independently
and on their own individual responsibility, re
presenting as fully as possible the wishes and
feelings of those who sent them. This was cer
tainly right and we hope it may always be the
MSC
JAMES MAGUIRE, of Walker township, re
ceived the nomination to the Legislature. He
is a farmer, an honest, upright and intelligent
man, and a reliable, active Whig. That he
will be triumphantly elected there is no doubt,
and that he will make a good member there is
just as little.
Joanna GREENLAND, of Cassville, is the
nominee for the office of Sheriff, and that he
will make an efficient incumbent we are fully
satisfied. The Whigs can place the utmost
confidence in him and we have no doubt they
will give a hearty support.
JOSEPH H. STEVENS, Of Petersburg, was no
minated for the office of Treasurer, and a bet
ter man for the position could not have been
found. Ho is honest, intelligent, and very ca
pable to discharge the ditties of the office. His
election is just as certain as his nomination is
now positively known.
THOMAS HAMER ; of West township, the
nominee for County Commissioner, is a very
capable, honest Whig. He is entirely worthy
the confidence and support of the party, and
we have no doubt will receive it.
J. SEWELL. STEWART, Esq., of this borough,
received a re-nomination for Prosecuting At
torney, and as the Whigs of the county well
know him, it is unnecessary for us to make any
comments here. Mr. Stewart is a clever man,
a good lawyer, a sound Whig and will most
emphatically be elected.
HENRY BREWSTER, of Shirleysbnrg, receiv.
ed the nomination for County Auditor, and
Samuel Mattern, of Franklin township, fur
Director of the Poor. They are both sound
Whigs, and very capable to discharge the du
ties of the respective positions.
The ticket throughout is perhaps the best
one that could have been made by the Conven
tion, and is most certainly entitled to the con
fidence
and hearty support of every Wbig in
the County.
Dr. J. 11. WiNntooe, of Marklesburg, is the
man presented by this county as candidate for
State Senator. And if he succeeds in the nom
ination, and is elected, which we do not doubt
the least, if nominated, the Senate of Pennsyl
vania will have a star in its midst whose bright
, ness will not be easily dimmed. He is a man
of unquestioned ability and one of the best
Whigs in the State.
There had been quite a number of candi
dates for the different offices, but it was well'
known that all could not be successful, and so
far as we can learn, those who were not the
lucky ones, seem to be perfectly satisfied. This
speaks much to their credit, as men stud us
Whigs.
We will notice the whole matter more exten
sively in our next issue.
ser We have received several doctments
from a correspondent in Cambria County, in
relation to the card which appeared in the
"Cambrian" and Blair County nig, purpor
ting to have been legally signed by a majority
of the delegates that composed the late Whig
Cambria County Convention, nullifying the pro
ceedings of that body as far as they took ac
tion on the subject of State Senator, and have
to inform him that we have no room for them
in our columns this week. The card referred
to, we bad no intentiondof publishing; and we
do think that Mr. White's friends ought to be
satisfied now that there is no earthly chance of
a nomination for him to the position of State
Senator. Enough has certainly been dote by
this time to satisfy the mind of any intelligent
man of this fact. And if Mr. White's friends
think they are pursuing a course that will pro
mote the interest of their particular favorite, or
produce harmony in the party generally, where
it is alleged some disaffection exists, they are
very widely mistaken.
The Conference will decide the matter in a
few days, we have no doubt, to the satisfaction
of nearly every sincere Whig in the district.—
Next week we may publish those affidavits to
show the trickery practised by some professed
Whigs in certain portions of the District.
MIFFLIN Consrv.--Welocoloco convention,
which assembled at Lewistown, has placed in
nomination the following ticket:—Assembly,
Henry P. Taylor, Prothonotary, &c., Thomas
F. McCoy; Treasurer, William Morrison; Dis
trict Attorney, William J. Jacobs; Deputy Sur
veyor, John Swatzell; Commissioner, James
Fleming; Director of the Poor, William M.
Fleming; Auditor, Thomas I. Postlethwaite,
Jr.
IPA—. A project has been for some time agi
tated in Philadelphia, for purchasing the Penn
Treaty Ground, and laying it out as a public
square. It appears thaPthe owner of the pro
perty places an excessive value upon it, and
the project has been abandoned is consequence.
It is not impossible, however, that some mem
bers of the Society of Friends will be induced
to subscribe the amount required. Theground
is at present, we believe, used as a lumber-yard.
MEXICAN OVERLAND ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA.
Col. Ramsey, Vice President of the "Mexican
Ocean Mail and Inland Company," is now in
Mexico making the necessary arrangement for
regular transportation of the mails and passe°•
gers to California. On the 18th of July the
expretis mail started from Vera Cruz for Aca.
pule°, and arrangements were then also made
for regular departures on the 4th and 18th of
August, or until the arrival of the stages and
wagons for the establishment of the regular
post coach line across Mexico. The return
of the Pacific Mail Conmany's steamers to semi.
monthly instead of weekly trips interrupted this
arrangement, and the Company is now placing
the tolling Reek on the route, and this month
1000 horses and mules will be on the line.—
When all is ready, the train, will ltmvs Vera
Cruz daily for Acapteco
The man who don't subset•ibe for a
newspaper, was in our borough the other day
tryitig to find out what year the Crystal Palace
was caught. and whether it was is a fox-trap
or a "figure four," and if the critter's as large
as a rhinmenokerns. He has not found out.
Demooratio Whig County Convention.
Pursuant to a call, by the proper authority,
delegates elected from the different townships,
districts and boroughs, met in County Conven
tion, in the borough of Huntinvlon, on the 9th
instant.
On motion, the Convention was organized
by appointing DAVID CLARKSON, Esq.,
President; Dr. J. P. Asncost and Hextty Hen—
son, Secretaries, when the following delegates
presented their credentials:
Wnrriorsmark—A. Stevens, S. Ralston.
Birmingham—.T. Clark, J. K. M'Cahan.
Morris—J. Balshach, G. Smith.
Franklin—H. Hamilton, G. M. Thompson.
Porter—S. Hatfield, J. Neff.
Alexandria bnr—J. N. Swoope, W. Graffius.
Jackson—H. Lee, John Cnmmins.
Bnrree—J. G. Stewart, J. Cov.
West—O. Henderson, J. Miller.
Petersburg—O. W. Barkley, A. Renner.
Murray's Run—W. Peightal, A. Corbin.
Henderson—J. McCracken, J. Foster.
Huntingdon—T. Fisher, M. F. Campbell.
Walker—T. S. McCtshan, M. Hamer.
Penn—J. P. AI4IICOIII, J. Garner.
Hopewell—J. Donaldson, A. Foote.
Tod—S. Houck, G. Elias.
Cass bor—H. L. Brown, D. Clarkson.
Cass tp—R. Crotsley. It. Chilcolt.
Union—S. Wright, J. Wright.
Brady-1 C. Watson. J. McDonald.
Shirley tp—P. Myers. J. W. Shaver.
Shirley Boro—H. J. Campbell, Higley.
B Wigton. M. Starr.
Springfield—J. Baker. .1. Ramsey.
Clav—J. E. Glasgow, H. Hudson.
Clemans, J, A. Shade.
Tell—G. Wilson, V. Sehmittel.
On motion, the Convention proceeded to
nominate a candidate forthe Legislature.
First Ballot.
James Maguire
P. S. Wharton,
John Lutz,
I R votes.
16 "
4 "
5
2 "
Jftroh Crei;swell,
Geo Hudson,
John Williamson,
John Conrad,
Second Ballot.
Tames Maguire, 21 votes.
S. S. Woarton, 21 "
J. Lutz, 9 ~
.1. Cresswell, 5 a
Third Ballot.
James Maguire, 29 votes.
S. S. Wharton, 24 "
J. Lutz, 2 "
James Maguire having received a majority
was declared duly nominated.
The Convention then proceeded to nominate
a candidate for Sheriff.
First Ballot
S. Coen. 8 votes.
B. X. Blair. 6 14
T. Greenland, 17 "
H. Corndropst, 4 d
R. Glazier,_ 4 "
J. A. Doyle
7 if
.1. MrElri;ir, I it
A. Willoughby, 2 "
Second Ballot.
J. Greenland
R. en.n,
19 votes.
7 •'
7 ti
6 if
9 14
4 "
4 '4
B. X. Blair,
J. A. Doyle,
3. McElroy,
H. Cnrnpropst,
If. Glazier,
Third Ballot.
J. Greenland,
.T. McElroy;
R. Coen.
25 votes.
11 "
5 '•
6 ti
9 a
B. X. Blair '
3- A. Doyle,
Puttrth halo!.
J. Greenland, 32 votes.
J. McElroy, 21 "
Joshua Greenland having received a majori•
ty was declared duly nominated.
The Convention then hnllotted for all the re•
training offices to he filled, at the same time,
giving the following different results, respec
tively
TREASVRER,
•
Jacob Snyder, 7 votes.
J. M. Stevens, 28 "
Geo. Wilson, 10 "
Alen. Stitt, 2 "
P. C. Swoope, 7 a
Robt. Kinkead, 2 "
Second Ballot.
Jon. M. Stevens, 34 votes.
Ceo. Wilson, 13 "
Jacob Snyder, 6 II
P. C. Swoope, 2 "
COUNRY COMMISSIONER.
John Menne; 4 votes.
Jacob Baker, 10 44
Rnbt. Stitt, 15 44
John Anders.. I 11
John Householder, 1 "
Ben j. Cori in, 4 .
Thomas Hamer, 17 "
•
Second Ballot.
Jacob Halter,
Robert Stitt,
Thomas Hamer, 33 "
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
H. 13. Swnope, 25 votes
J. S. Stewart, . 30
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
8 votes,
Win. Christy,
Daniel Woinelsdorf,
J. S. Africa,
Gideon Elias,
38 votes.
7 II
6 ~
3 I,
AUDITOR.
James Morrow,
Henry Brewster,
15 votes.
DIRECTOR Or THE POOR.
Samuel Mattern,
William Moore,
40 votes.
10 "
Joseph M. Stevens, for Treasurer; Thomas
Hamer, for County Commissioner; J. S. Stew
art for Prosecuting Attorney; William Christy,
for County Surveyor; Henry Brewster for Au
ditor; and Samuel :Vattern, for Director of the
Poor, having received a majority, were declared
duly nominated.
The Convention then unanimously declared
Dr. J. H. IVintrode, of Marklesburg, the choice
of Huntingdon County for State Senator.
The individuals chosen as Conferees by Dr.
Wintrode, are the fullowing:—J. J. Cunning.
ham, S. L. Glasgow, and Dr. H. L. Brown.
On motion, Prof. H. J. Campbell, of Shir
leysburg, was appointed representative delegate
to the Whig State Convention to meet in Hun
tingdon, on the 25th inst., to nominate a mind'.
date fur Supreme Judge.
On motion, David Blair, Esq,, was appoin
ted representative delegate to the Whig State
Convention, to nominate a candidate fur Gov-
On motion, the nominations made by the
Convention for County and District offices,
were unanimously confirmed.
Resolved, That the Democratic Whig Sena.
tonal Conference, to nominate a candidate for
State Senator for the District composed of
Cambria, Blair, and Huntingdon counties, meet
in Hollidaysburg on the 20th inst., at 10 o'clock,
and that the other two counties be requested to
concur is the desiguitiud of the said time and
riacc..
Ilmolved, That the following persons con•
stitute the Whig Conuty Committee fur the en ,
• •
suing year:
S. L. GLASGOW, Esq., Chairman.
John Williamson, Esq.
William Saxton.
A. 3. Africa.
John A. Doyle.
M. F. Campbell.
John Flener, Henderson tp.
John Snyder, Walker.
Dr. J. P. Asheom, Penn.
Lazarus Houck, Hopewell.
David Aurandt, Esq., Tod.
Dr. H. L. Brown, thissville Borough.
Col. John Stever. Cass tp.
Simeon Wright, Esq., Union.
Dilute Wolverton, Brady.
Moses Greenland, Clay.
Jeremiah Brown, Springfield.
T. T. Cromwell, Esq., Cromwell.
Dr. R. Clark, Shirleysburg Borough.
Peter Myers, Shirley tp.
Dr. J. A. Shade, Dublin.
Geo. Wilson, Tell.
Geo. W. Whitaker, Esq., Petersburg.
Robt. Wilson, West tp.
Jun. Crownover, Barree,
Maj. W. Moore, Alexandria Borough.
Henry Grafts, Porter tp.
Jno. Ba'shad, Morris,
James Clark, Esq., Birmingham.
Jno. Cummins, Esq., Jackson tp.
Samuel Wigten, Franklin.
David Parker, Esq,. Warriormark.
Benjamin Corbin, Murrays Run.
Peep Behind the Democratic Curtain.
A letter from Philadelphia, in the N. York
Herald, (copied below) gives a light view be.
hind the curtains of the democratic stage.—
There is evidently serious trouble brewing in
the camp:
PHILADELPHIA, July 19, 1853.
Politic., in Pennsylrania—The Appointments
by the President—Discontent and Agitation.
We are preparing in this State for n heavy
canvass this fall. It is going to be a dull one,
because neither members of Congress nor a
Governor are to be elected, and it is for this
reason that time and opportunity are afforded
for a total revolution of parties in the State.
The "guerillas," as they are called, are hour
ly increasing in strength and numbers, and,
though 'Without a press to spenk their senti
ments, arc making themselves felt in the organ
ization of the detnoeratic party. The "young
democracy" of the Third and Fourth districts
have Ind * a
Fourth of July celebration all their
own way, the proceedings of which were pub.
lislidd in the Lerlgerof Wednesday last, because
the Penn:iYlvanian shrewdly declined that hon
or.
As to the democratic city and county nom
inations it is pretty generally believed that they
will be defeated by a large majority. This is,
in part, owing to the unpopular appointments
of General Pierce, partly to the strong opposi.
tion between the Irish and Germans, in which
Catholicism and Protestantism enter for a con.
siderable share of discord, and partly to the
Maine temperance law, attempted to be enfor
ced by Collector Charles Brown, better known
here as the "Custom House Potentate." The
Germans have a natural aversion to hypocracy
and fanatacism, whether in religion, politics, or
strong drinks, and the conspicuous manner in
which Charles Brown acted the Temperance
apostle on board the boat which brought Gen.
Pierce to town, has rendered him obnoxious to
the censure of a large majority of all classes
and of all political and religious persuasions
in this goodly city.
Nor must you suppose that the German
Catholics side with the Irish Catholics. As
Sam Feller used to say, "So far from it, on the
contrary, quite the reverse." It is precisely
the German Catholics who are most opposed to
the extension of the ecalesiaqical power of the
priests, and to their assuming the control over
public schools. They are as opposed to religious
and political Jesuitism so Martin Luther him
self was to the Dominican friars who wanted to
roast him, and will show their aversion in the
only way they can, at the ballot box.
What appears most strange in the temper
ance movement of Charles Brown, is the fact
that he has appointed so Many tavern keepers
to posts of honor in the Custom House, and
that the democratic city and county ticket is
copiously sprinkled in the same manner. This
gives rise to another war of lager beer against
whiskey, the Germans stoutly contending that
as Gumbrinus, the first brewer, was a King,
and the greatest brewer of Europe is still the
King of Bavaria, drinking of lager beer is roy
al sport, and the best check on intemperance.
"It is impossible," they say, "to snake men
drunk on lager; the stomach will not contain
the quantity necessary to affect the head; while
whiskey possesses the power of concentration,
a single pint of it being sufficient to set a whole
family crazy," "Temperance laws," they add,
"are very good for habitual drunkards and gut.
termen, but the votaries of Giimbrinus quaff
their quart when they are thirsty, and go'home
sober, fully sensible of the duties they owe to
their wives." And then they point.to the fact
that they are habitually sober on small beer
.d wings, and that the true authors of
all mischief are of brandy, whiskey and rum
sellers.
Another grievance of our German fellow
citizens consist in the fact, that while Judge
Campbell has been selected to represent the
Irish Catholics in the Cabinet, Mr. Ashmearl,
the Native AMerican District Attorney under
Gen. Taylor, is still retained in office, though
there are 20 good democrats quite as able to
fill the place; and the editor of the Native
American paper—the Philadelphia Sun—is al
so retained in the Custom House,-It is supposed,
by especial instruction from Washington. The
Germans have no idea of being thus sandwich.
ed between the Natives and the "higher."
Further, the Germans do not like n bit the
appointment of the Austrian Consul General,
the agent of the Rothchilds, to an American
clutr7eship. That appointment is a box on the
ear to every liberal Germ. here .d in Eu
rope, and an abandonment, they say, of the
proud position assumed by Mr. Webster in his
famous Hulsemann letter. The Germans vow
they will cause themselves to be remected.—
Nuts verrons. MICIIEL.
MORE 9 . 1101 . 11T.E TN inn WIONVAM.—WC ACC
it stated that Major A. .1. Donelson, a connex
ion of General Jackson, and who was dismiss
ed froni the editorial control of the Washing
ton Union, is to start a new paper in Nash
ville. It is to be Democratic, but opposed to
the administration of President Pierce. Oth
er papers are springing up in Washington and
other places, and "the powers that be" will
have a warm time of it before their days, now
"numbered," shall be ended.
KENTUCKY lir,Evrrox.—A private despatch
to the New York Tribune States that the fol
lowing Congressmen are almost certainly cho-
lot District—Linn Boyd, dem.
24 " Benj. Edwards, grey whig,
3d " Presley Ewing, whig.
4th " T. E. Branilette, whig.
fith " Clement S. Hill, whig, (gain.)
Gth " Dr. Pierce, whig.
7th ". Wm. Preston, whig.
Bth Jno. Breckenridge, dem.
9th " Leander M. Cox, whig ({min.)
10th " Geo. 13 Hodge, whig (gain.)
The whip have carried both branches of the
Legislature by increased majorities.
Arr Ox that genes James Thorn
of Clinton, has an ox that gives milk freely.--
Ile has a bag with four teats each one of which
yields milk like that of a cow. The bag is di
vided into tour sections, but unlike the cow has
no udder. Each quarter of the hog has a eav
ity which supplies its teat, independent of the
others. When milked out, it is readily suppli•
ed again like that of a cow. Our informs - at
states that the animal, a fine one, is worked
every day on the farm of Mr. T Ibughbfepsie
Lewisburg and Spruce Creek Railway.
The Report of Thomas A. E,nmitt, Esq., the
Engineer employed, by the Cattawissa Railway
Company, to make a survey of this report, has
reported the result of his labors, and from which
report we gather the following:
The length of straight line will be 5:11-
The length of curved line will be 244 miles,
making the' distance from Lewisburg to the
month of Spruce Creek, 78 miles.
The curvature on the whole route will be
light, except for about six miles along Peon's
Creek; where some of the curves may require a
radius of 820 feet.
The total ascent going west from Lewisburg'
will be 1016 feet, and the descent in the same
direction will be 645 feet.
The estimated cost for a single track, with
turnouts, is as follows
Clearing and grubbing 78 miles, at $lOO per
mile, $ 7 800
1,125 000 cubic yards earth excavation,
including hauling. at 22 cents, 247 500
784,000 cubic yards of rock, including
hauling, at GO cents, 470 000
Extra cost of tunnels, ' lao 000
B,ouo rabic yds. bridge masoury,at $5,50 44 000
2.000 do. do. culvert do. 3,50 7 000
3.000 do. do. slope wall do. 1,50 4 500
3,000, do. do. rip rap do. 50 1 500
2,000 lineal ft. of bridgipg. do. 20,00 .40 000
Fencing 78 miles. 50.000 rods, 1,00 50 000
Land damages, 78 miles, at $5OO per mile, 30 000
Total costs of grading, fencing and
land damages, $1,041,300 00
ONE MILE OF TRACK COSTS
100 tone of iron, weighing 60 Ps.
per vnsl. nt 675 $7,560
2.400 Owsn Tien, nt 80 eta. each, 720
tSo term; of Spike. nt $5 250
450 Chaim. nt 40 cents 180
Laying track complete 400
81 miles including turnouts, at $9,050 738.050 00
Depot, water-station and engine house 25,000 00
$1,799,350 00
Add for engineering, Agencies and
Contingencies, 5 per cent 39.997 00
'Niel cost of Road, $1,885,317 00
which divided by 77 miles will give
per mile $24,350 22
A comparison of distances between Cincin
nati and New York, shows thin necordinw to
the following statement made out by Mr. Em
met to be the shortest route between those two
points. The distance from Cincinnati to New
York, by the
N. Y. Cen'l R. R. via Clere'd & Buffalo 893 mg.
"N. Y. & Erie " Ditndirk 802 "
" Sunbury &Erie " " Erie 825
" Ps. Central " Aan•is'g & Phil'a. 739 "
" Lewisburg, Centre & Spruce Creek
R. R the Catiiwissn. Williamsport
Erie, and the New Jersey Central
R. R., 713 "
It will he seen from the above that this route
is over 100 miles shorter than the Sunbury &
Erie, and nearly MO miles shorter than the
New York routes. It is also 26 miles shorter
than the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. and
from the mouth of Spruce Creek to New York,
a distance of 292 miles, there is no ascending
grade in the direction of the trade exceeding
33 feet per mile.
A
A STUPENDOUS CLAIM.—A Western Penn
sylvania company have set up a claim to the
Western Reserve of Ohio, under a grant from
Connecticut, alleged to have been made after
the year 1762, when Charles 2d granted to that
colony a patent for the Reserve. In 1795, it
will be remembered, she sold the Reserve to
another 'company, relinquishing all claim to
jurisdiction over the territory to the 'United
States, in 1800. These Pennsylvania parties,
we learn from the Washington Star, have ap
plied to the General Land office to make to
them patents for all the Reserve I The officer
replied, we learn from the parties interested in
the "speculation," that the government never
having bad a claim to or proprietorship over
that territory, they cannot entertain the appli
cation; and that the State of Conneeticucis the
party to whom the Pennsylvania company must
look for redress, if they really have rights in
volved in the case.
Ate!' A Paris letter says :—"A few days ago
a gentleman said aloud on the Boulevards to a
friend, 'He's a brigand! a thief ! an assassin I'
A policeman was down upon him in a moment:
'Sir, you are speaking of the Emperor: I arrest
your Here is another sample of police do
ings : People in the provinces are much occu•
pied with the phenomenon of turning tables,
and what is more, of tables that answer ques
tions put to them. H. Louis Pujot, one of the
amnestied, having asked a table wou:d Bona
parte fall soon, the table took to thumping the
floor furiously with its feet by way of replying,
'Yes! yes! yes!' M. Louis Not has been ar
rested; the table ought also to have been arrest
ed as his accomplice."
DISCOVERIES IN IRON WoßErso.-The Mt
//ono/ Intelligences says that an important an
nouncement in England, and which is exciting
great attention, is a developement of new prin
ciples in iron metallurgy. The general opinion
of those who are competent to judge, says the
"Mining Journal," is that the inventions and
discoveries referred to will open an entirely
new era in the manufacture of iron, not only
with regard to its various multiplications, but
to the construction and arrangement of appar
atus also. Immense quantities of very vaulable
ore have lately been discovered in Northamp
tonshire, also in Yorkshire and the west of
England, within easy reach of the iron masters
of Monmouthshire and South Wales. If half
these rumors be correct, the iron trade will in
deed be revolutionized.
New Counterfeit.
A dangerous counterfeit on the State Bank
of Ohio, says Dye's Cincinnati Band Mirror,
was discovered on the 10th instant. It is of
the denomination of $lO, and can be detected
by examining the cut that represents the word
"state" on the hack of the note. In the genu
ine, the letter "S" nearly touches the line run
ning down the end forming the border around
the word "State;" also the outside border forms
a very slight shoulder at the corner below. In
the counterfeit the letter "S" is a considerable
distance from the border line, also, the should
er above spoken of, much wider than the genu
ine. The face of Harrison is not very perfect.
[lVaynesburg Engle.
Petal Mistake.
We learn from an oflicer on the steamer Re.
public, that a great mortality prevailed among
the hands on the steamer Franklin Pierce, the
.passengers of which boat the Republic brought
up. It seems that among the freight was one
barrel which contained something of a drug,
but was marked on one end "whiskey," it
having been originally used for that article.—
The hands supposing it to be the Simon pure
article, tapped the barrel, and partook of its
contents. Three of then, are dead, and three
more were ill and not expected to recover.--
Louianille Jour. 12/4 Wt.
Brutal Murder of a Woman.
A horrid murder was committed in North
Haven, Ct., on Sunday, on the wife of Mr. Bar.
cilia Bradley, a highly respected citizen of that
place. The family had gone tochurch leaving
her at home, and when Mr. B. returned he
found her dead upon the flour, and the house
robbed. A young Irishman, named Michael
Jennings, formerly in Mr. Bradley's employ,
has been arrested on suspicion of being the
murderer. A $2O bill with marks of blood up.
on it bus been taken from the man with whom
he lodged. _ _
Quick: COMPOSIT..—JuIian A. Hayes, a
compositor of the Chicago Tribune., distributed,
set up, and corrected, in six consecutive days,
ending on the 12th of March last, 85,000 ems,
the amount of composition each day, being as
follows: 1.1,500,16,250, 11,500, 15,000, 12,000,
15,250. He averaged 114 hours daily , work.
lug titue. In four hours and fifty !mantes be
composed 9,500 cm,. Hi, wages
rxe rhd to $25,f.0.
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
Tic DenZatic
in Maim,.
Porgand, Aug. 4.—TheDemoerats opposed
to Pillsbury for Governor assembled in this
city in large numbers, marching thveigh the
streeth with hands of music ke. They nomi•
ted Hanson P. Morrell;of Redfield, now Land
Agent of the State, as their candidate fot Gov
ernor. The electing was large and enthusias•
tic, and many of the leading Democrats of the
State participated in it.
Execution of nonage Conner.—Friyhtful and
Horrifying Scene at the Scaffold—Break
.
ingof the
Baltimore, Aug. s.—The execution of Thom
as Conner, for the murder of Captain Hutchin
son, took place to-day within the jail walla, in
obedience to the warrant of the Executive.
The gallows was erected above the level, of
the jail wall, affording a fall view to the spec
tators who wore assembled on the elevated
grounds in the vicinity, to the number of at
least 30,000.
Everj:thing being prepared, the condemned
man was brought upon the scaffold at half-past
eleven o'clock, and behaved in the most com
posed and firm manner.
The signal was given, and the bolt being
drawn, he fell, butt° the horror of the specta
tors, the rope broke just above the fatal noose,
and the unfortunate wretch fell to the ground,
a distance of 25 feet.
He was taken up insensible, when prepara
tions were made for carrying the dread sentence
of the law into execution. The rope had been
previously tested with a thousand pounds,
which had probably strained it so as to occa
sion the accident.
SECOND DESPATCH.
At 20 minutes after 12 o'clock the unfortu•
nate man was swung off the second time, and
expiated the crime for which he was ser.teuced
to death.
Oregon Gold.
A letter from Captain William Tichenor,
formerly of Newark, N. J., dated Port Oxford,
Oregon territory, March Ist, 1953, contains the
following announcement;
"I am now washing out gold at the rate of
ten dollars an hour. Two others by the RC* of
me, with assistance of a squaw, (for an Indian
man is not worth his food) are making 450 a
day. We will have thousands of inhabitants
here in a few months, as gold is everywhere in
this vicinity. All the soldiers in the garrison
are at work making from $2O a day upwards,
but none less than $l6. No person would
work for the gold, until my partner tried, and
after too or three hours' work he was offered
$33 for what was in his machine, which he took.
The next day he worked about four hours, and
aonin.sold his sand for $4O. On investirmtion
it was found that he had sold s6oworth of gold
for $35 and $BO worth for $4O. We have ta
ken out $BO worth in two hours and forte min
utes, and then let escape $lO worth. This was
the fist mining done here, and now it is rue,
tnined that it will yield 'a rich reward, every
where along the beach."
This Ore7zon placer seems to be fully equal
to those of California; and if the last statement
is verified, that dig.ssings will yield a rich reward
everywhere along the beach, we maw expect
that a swarm of gold hunters and other emi
grants will soon be on their way thither. In
that section of country two very profitable bran
ches of trade were carried on at the date of
this gold discovery. One was the trade with
the Indians for furs, and the other the lumber
business, both of which gave ample employment.
As California was much in want of lumber fisr
building purposes, its abundance near Port Ox
ford had induced great numbers to fall to work
getting out timber, principally cedar, said to be
most beautiful wood, and very valuable. Large
profits were made in this business, and it is
stated that a person with a sawmill could make
$75,000 a year. Even in its square hewn form
this white cedar sells snore readily in San Fran
cisco than the sawn Oregon lumber.
_ Fashionable Sins.
Among the most fashionable, and far from
the least of crimes or peccadiloes, which are
daily committed in society—and by those too,
who is other respects are almost free from spot
orblemish—is that of talking, and talking about
other people's affairs. In this disgraceful and
mischeivous employment, some seem to be
more engaged than in any other pursuit of life—
that of laying up a treasure in another, better
world not excepted. Among those, I do not
mean to include those wholesale dealers in scan
dal and malice whose breath passes over the
face of society like a sweeping tornado, prostra
fling eveiything which happens to be in its pro
gross; bet I mean those petty retailers who
deal out marvelous stories, conjectures, and sur
mises in small quantities—like the pedlers who,
too poor to pay rent for a shop, travel about the
town and bring their two penny commodities to
your own do'Ors. I mean those people who seem
to haven mint in their own imaginations, where
they can coin such small change as best suits
their purpose, and manufacture such tales as
they think may excite a little wonder in the
hearer and entitle them to the praise of being
their first propagator. By acerb folly and rep
rihensible indulgence, they often wound, deeply
wound the characters and feelings of those per
sons in whose welfare they are so buisily enga
ged.
Extraordinary Trial.
- -
Under this caption the Hartford Times gives
an account of a trial which lately occurred at
New Haven. On the 27th of April last the
house of Samuel R. Pamlico, of Wallingford,
WAS robbed of $1,700 in money, and a gold
watch. chain, and ring. Mr. Parmlee soon aft
terwards made application to a Clairvoyant of
Durham, a girl of thirteen, named Mary Rich.
She charged an Irish servant girl in the family
of Mr. P. with having stolen the property, and
stated farther that she had burnt the money,
and threw the watch, chain, and ring into a
well near the house of Mr. P. The well was
searched, and the watch, chain, and ring found.
Traces of burnt paper were discovered in the
stove pipe and chimney corner of the room oc•
copied by the girl, who was thereupon arrested.
At the trial, the confession of the girl that she
stole the money was put in, as were also the
facts that threats were used to make her con
fess, and also that she declared that she was
innocent, but would confess if it would please
Mrs. Parmlee. The clairvoyant was put on
the stand, but she testified that she could not
remember any thing that she said while in the
mesmeric sleep. The jury, after a consultation
of fifteen minutes, returned a verdict of not
guilty.
Napoleon and the Baptiste.
Lonis Napoleon has been very foolishly per
secuting the French Baptists in the depart-
ment of La Geronde. His Minister of Public
Worship having instituted an inquiry into the
"doctrines of the baptists, and finding that it
was contrary to order and public tranquility,"
has expressed his regret that certain beleivers
of the persuasion have been allowed to assent.
ble, and to practice the right of immersion in
the Department of La Geronde, and has corn.
mended the local authorities to prohibit all
meetings on the part of those "sectaries."—
Louis Phillipe committed a similar piece of
folly just before the revolution of 1848.
RAPID GROWTH or OREGON,—From the first
week in 1853, to the intelligence by last dates,
it appears that the amount of immigration to
the territory of Oregon, is over ten thousand;
which, added to the thirty thousand already .
settled on her soil, and the natural increase
since the taking - Of the last census, must bring
her population up to forty-four or forty-five
thousand. So that we may safely calculate,
that Oregon will he the next claimant for ad
mission to the Union as a State.
They have a fire engine at Iconi‘town
at ...in th ro w weer over i elinrch Rteenlo.
Bedford Springs.
The following article i; reference to the sale
oftho Bedford Springs, &c., we copy from. the
Daily N. Anrriran.
The rmefit movement with respect to this
celebrated watering place, is one of Coniddera
bleimportance, and we are pleased to see that
it is being fbllowed op vigornusly. Already
survey of the Bedford extension of the Broad
Top Railroad is on foot, and before next season
the work will, no doubt, be completed and rea
dy for use. Huntingdon papers.say that dm
grading, masonry, and bridging of the 'Broad
Top road were put under contract on the 28th
of June last, to responsible partied, for a dis
tance of 34 miles, extending from Huntingdon
to Hopewell Iron work 3, which letterer° situa
ted on the south-western out crop of the Broad
Top Coal Field. From Hopewell to the town
of Bedford, a distance of 20 miles in a south
western direction', the same authority tells no
thht the engineers are engaged in lueatingThe
road, and it is expected that that portion slab
will be put under contract by the Ist of Sep
tember. This road, we may remark, is a'por-
Con of the proposed connection between the.
Pennsylvania Railroad at Huntingdon and the
Pittsburg and Connellsvilfe Railroad at Mills'
Creek, at a point 16 miles west of Bedford. -
When these roads are completed there will
then be access by railway to the springs from
Pittsburg. and the whole west, and from Phila
delphia, New York and the east, as well as
Baltimore. At present, the only means of
reaching them is by' 30 miles , of 'staging over
tedious roads either from the Pennsylvania Rail
road or the Baltimore and Ohio. This improve
ment.ed the travelling rotates Will, in all proba
bility make the Springs a very popular resort.
As it is, with all the disadvantages of bad roads
and want of proper hotel acconimodetions, the
number at the Springs this season reaches two
hundred persons, including Many distinguish
ed gentlemen from various parts of the Union.
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazette,
speaking of the Broad Top road and extension,
says:
is located along the banks of the Rays
town branch of the Junidta, and for twelve
miles in an eastern direction from Hopewell.
touches the western horderqf Me Coal Field.
It traverses the rich agricultural region of
Wood Creek, and Snake Spring Valleys, and
affords an outlet for the agricultural products
of Morrston's Cove, Friend's Cove, and Cum
berland Valley. Rich veins of iron ore, both
of Fossil and Hematite, have been exposed to
view by recent exploration and digging, suffi
cient to supply forty furnaces half a century or
more.' Limestone exits along the whole lino
of the road in great abudance.
The coal in the Broad Top region is said to
he semi-bituminous. It is the first coal field
west of the anthracite, end consequently the
mast eastern coal containing bittithen. It com
bines the quality of ruithricite, bitum inous . and
cannel coal, and is well adapted to use in fur.
tutees in its natural state. It is found in three
different strata; the first 5, the second 8, and
the third 11 feet thick.
"The business of manufacturing iron in this
section of country has been carried on for :30
years, but owing to the difficulty and expense
of getting. to the Pittsburg or Eastern markets,
has not been sufficiently profitable to justify
the erecton of works on a.large scale, hut with
the facilities afforded by the railroad when
completed,' (for reaching any distant market)
extensive works may be erected safely, as
pig iron can be made here cheaper than at any
other point in the State."
This, it will be seen, is destined to he an im•
portant tributary of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
the travel to and from Bedford being an impor
tant item at all seasons of the year, but par
ticularly in summer, and the coal, iron and ag
ricultural trade quite promising. Besides these
r dlways, plank roads are to be built to
make Bedford easier of access from other di
rections; and in order to render the Springs at
tractive, two hundred thousand dollars are to
he expended iu improvements during the pres
ent season. New hotels and cottages are to be
erected; one of the latter, for Col. Leaman, be
ing intended as a model. The present frame
buildings are to be demolished, the stables re
moved to a greater distance from the lodging
houses, a story added to the stone and brick
houses now up, new drives laid oat, dc.
The Catastrophe at Niagara Falls.
The most intense excitement was created
.at
Niagara, on Tuesday morning 20th inst., by
the startling intelligence that Oman was in the
midst of the rapid,' within a few feet of tho
falls, clinging for life to a frail stump, against
which, in his perilous descent of the rapids, ho
had been thrown. As soon as the terrible news
become known hundreds of persons hurried to
the spot, and the report was found to he too
true.
Upon inquiry it was ascertained that the
poor fellow was one of three men belonging
to a scow used for taking sand down the river,
who had got into a small boat attached to the
scow about nine o'clock on Monday evening,
and, having by some means become separated
therefrom, were hurried down the rapids. The
boat was of course speedily swamped, and the
men cast into the water; two of them being
at once carried over the falls to their dreadful
fate, and the other by chance striking and
clinging to a stump about midway between the
falls and Goat Island bridge.
At daylight on Tuesday morning this poor
fellow was discovered in his perilous situation,
and it was speedily found that his rescue was
almost impossible, since no boat that could be
procured would float a moment in the rapids
without being swamped and overturned. A
despatch was immediately sent to Buffalo for a
life boat, and one was sent by the railroad
without delay. In the meantime a ,box con
taining refreshment was attempted tobe floated
to the imperilled man, who had clung with
desperation to his frail support in the midst of
the dizzying, whirling rapids, and within hear
ing of the roar of the cataract, over which at
any moment he might be hurled, for upwards
of twenty-four hours !
The life boat at length arrived, but proving
too light, it immediately swamped. A raft was
then floated out to the sufferer, who got upon
it; and at six o'clock in the evening another
life boat was sent to him, which struck the raft
and swept the man off into the rapids.
He then attempted toswim to a small island,
but failing to reach it, he raised himself up to
his full height, nave a shriek, waved his arms
wildly, and disappeared, His name was
Joseph Avery. The name of one of his con,
pa.tions was Thomas Harinaman.—National
Intelligeneer.
Arctic Expedition
Adviccs from the Grinnell Arctic Expedition;
report the arrival ut St. John's Newfoundland,
where they were very hosPitably received. All .
well.
The following has been received from the'
U. S. Consul
CONSULTATE OP TUE U. STATES,
St. John's Nd., Juno 21 '53.
SIR :—I bog to inform you that the hrig Ad.
vance, of whose arrival you will have been al
ready ad •ised, Bailee from this port on the ev.
ening of the 17th inst.
TITe Masons held a special Lodge meeting;
and presented the commander with a silk ban
tier. While leaving port, a boat came off with
presents from the wife of Gov. Hamilton, and
during our passage through the Narrows, the
ship was serenaded from the nearest point by
the Military Band, the Commandent, Colonel
Law, having sent for that purpose.
The officers of the vessel wore shown great
attention by all parties; and, in return, the cit
izens generally were freely admitted on board
the vessel, and every attention paid them.—
There was also an offer made to remit the brig's
•
port charges.
I proceeded to sea in advance so far as was
prudent and parted with commander Kaur at a
quarter before 1 w st. The brig was thou run
ning &Ito the North East, under easy sail, with,
a freshing breeze from W. N. W., night fine ) .
and moonlight, with a smooth sea.
All well.
I Wm. 6 lieNur