HUNTINGDON JOURNAL,
Wednesday Morning, Sept. 28, 1858.
S. L. GLASGOW, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
WHIG STATE TICKET:
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME coml.,
Thomas A. Budd, of Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL CO3IMI6SIONER,
Moses Pownall, of Lancaster county.
FOR SERVEYOR GENERAL,
Christian Myers, of Clarion county.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
Alexander K. McClure, of Franklin co,
WHIG DISTRICT TICKET:
STATE SENATE,
ALEX. DI• WHITE, of Cambria county.
ASSEMBLY,
JAMES MAGUIRE, of Huntingdon co.,
JAMES L. GWIN, of Bluir county.
WHIG COUNTY TICKET I
811ERIFF.
JOSHUA GREENLAND, of Cassvill.
TREASURER,
JOSEPH M. STEVENS, of Petersburg.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
J. SEWELL STEWART, of Huntingdon,
COUNTY SURVEYOR,
WILLIAM C EIRISTY, of Porter tp.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
THOMAS HAMER, of West, tp.
AUDITOR,
HENRY BREWSTER, of Shirloyaburg.
DIRECTOR OF THE POOR,
SAMUEL MATTERN, of Franklin tp.
Whig County Committee.
The following named gentlemen compose the
Whig County Committee :
S. L. GLASGOW, Esq., Chairman, Hunt.
John Williamson, Esq.,
William Saxton,
A. J. Africa,
John A. Doyle,
M. F. Campbell,
John Flener, Henderson tp.
John Snyder, Walker.
Dr. J. P. Ashcom, Penn.
Lazarus Houck, Hopewell.
David Aurandt, Esq., Tod.
Dr. H. L. Brown, Cassvlllo Borough.
Col. John Stever, Cass tp.
Simeon Wright, Esq., Union.
Isaac 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.
Mkt. Wilson, West tp.
Jno. Crownover, Barren.
Maj. W. Moore, Alexendria Borough.
Henry Graffius, Porter tp.
Jno. Balsbach, Morris,
James Clark, Esq., Birmingham.
Jno. Cummins, Esq., Jnokson tp.
Samuel Wigton, Franklin.
David Parker, Esq., Warriormark.
Benjamin Corbin,Murray's Run.
Saving Fund.
The attention of our readers is directed to
the notice of the Saving Fund, of the National
Safety Co. No. 62 Walnut Street, two doors be
low Third, Philadelphia, which appears in our
advertising columns. This Institution was
chartered by the State of Pennsylvania, in 1841,
and has now more than half a million of dol
lars securely invested for the benefit of deposi
tors, consequently people who have large sums
generally put their money in the Saving Fund,
on account of the superior security it affords.
The directors also pay Five per cent interest,
and the money is always paid back whenever
it is ealled fur without the necessity of giving
notice for it before hand, no matter how large
or how small the sum may be. There is no
other institution of the kind, so far as we know,
in this country, which combines so many ad
vantages, and we presume that such of our rea
ders as have money laying idle will not delay
to render them available.
06' We call attention to the alterations
Made by Sheriff Zeigler in the Proclamation of
the General Election. See alteration made in
Dublin township—also in Penn township. See
also the part annexed to the 19th district.—
This is according to a late Act of Assembly,
and the reason the alterations were not made
when the Proclamation was first published is,
the Sheriff could not procure a copy of the laws
passed last winter. He gave notice that if any
alterations were to be made they would be at
tended to. He has made them, and we hope
those interested will give the matter their at
tention.
See advertisenent of S. Toram's Furniture
Ware Room in another column. This estab
lishment is one of the largest and most fashion.
able in the City of Philadelphia, as well as one
of the cheapest. It is located on the corner of
Ninth and Market streets.
Those of our friends here in the country who
may have occasion to purchase furniture and
bedding in the city could not do better than to
call with Mr. Toram. He is clever and obli
ging.
ea. We had occasion a few days since
to visit Pittsburg, and while there we lodged
at the St. Charles Hotel, now kept by W.
S. Campbell, Esq., formerly proprietor of a
Hotel at the Summit. We were much pleas
ed with the house—the accommodations are
fine--all any man could wish. Mr. Campbell
is certainly one of the most gentlemanly and
obliging landlords we have met with for some
time. If any of our friends should visit the
STATE FAIR now open at that place, we advise
them to stop at the St. Charles, if they wish to
be well treated.
Ve... We have received both Godey and Gra
ham for October, containing as usual quite a
number of handsome illustrations, and a largo
quantity of intereatiug literary matter. These
magazines always receive a hearty welcome to
our table.
The Hollidaysburg Standard.
This paper publicly and boldly stated, and
seemin4ly too, with a great air of authority,
that Wharton was backed in his guerrilla
movements, in this county, by such men as
Judge Taylor, Theo. IL Cremer, Lc. And
last week we denied the assertion and called on
the Standard man to produce his authority.—
Now hear him bow he creeps out of it—a poor,
pitiful, cringing way :
"The assertion is probably based on a no
tice we published of the backers of the respec
tive candidates, the names of whom were fur
nished us by a prominent Whig of this place.
True, he said nothing about Judge Tailor.—
But we inferred from the fwt that the Journal
editor abused the Judge hero for voting fist
Wharton's delegates, and Me fact Mat the per
son, w ho control the Journal opposed Judge
Taylor when he was the, regular nominee of
the party, that he would most likely now be
found in other sompany.',
The only way he reasons is by inference, or
insinuation, which is just no way at all, and is
always the method the individual adopts who
knows he is circulating slander.
The allegation that we abused Judge Taylor
for voting for Wharton's delegates, we pro
nounce, a slanderous falsehood, and could have
originated only in the Hobensack brain of a
man like the writer of the Standard.
He also intimates that the persons who are
now opposing Wharton, the guerilla candidate,
are those who control the Journal, and oppo
sed Taylor's election when he ran as the regu
lar nominee for Judge.
Now this is anotherfis/sehood, as black and
as villainous as the other, and flowed from
the same Hobensack source. The only man
hero that opposed Judge Taylor's election, so
far as our knowledge extends, is John Prowell,
and he is now blathering in favor of Wharton.
He didn't affect Taylor any and is now ma
king votes against Wharton.
No tnan controls the Journal and no man
shall, except our humble self, as long as it
continues in our possession. We were always
Taylor's friend, and when he ran for Judge we
got up out of a sick bed to vote for him. But
we have no doubt the Standard man would
like to see Wharton beat Maguire—as would
some of the locofocos here, such as John An
derson and George Jackson. But the Whigs
are not going to gratify their curiosity this time.
We understand very well what these few loco
focos want Wharton elected fur—they think
they will be able to control his voting in the
Legislature, so as to fill their own pockets.
Wharton has no claims on the Whig party,
and the Whigs in this county know it too, and
they intend to vote accordingly. Mr. Maguire
will be elected beyond a doubt, so that the
Standard man need give himself no trouble
about Wharton and his prospects. The Whigs
in this county understand this Wharton move
ment too well not to give it a wholesome re
buke at the ballot-box. They will do it too,
just 113 sure as the election day comes. And
we ask the Standard man to mark the pre
diction.
Our Prospects.
We have the most reliable assurances from
all sections of the county and districts, that our
ticket will receive a hearty support. There arc
a few, we arc aware, among the guerilla Whigs,
who arc endeavoring to make impressions to
the contrary, for the purpose of creating dis
traction in the party and inducing the people
to helieve that their selfish yoterilla ?movement
is popular. But these men will find out, to
their heart's content, after the election, that the
Whigs and the people generally are not such
great dunces as they supposed they were.—
They will discover through the ballot-box, that
the country people are determined now to rule
as well as to be ruled—that they can take care
of their own interests without the dictation or
advice on the part of the "town clique."
That our whole county and district ticket
will be triumphantly elected by very large ma
jorities, we have no doubt at all. But our
Whig friends must be active—they must not
leave one stone unturned—all should put their
shoulder to the wheel.
We were out last week endeavoring to
ascertain the sentiments and intentions of the
people through a portion of the county, and
the seemed to be but one determination on
t brie part—and that was to support the full
Whig ticket. This is right.
Messrs. Maguiro and (iwin.
The time is almost here when the Whigs of
the Representative district composed of Hun
tingdon and Blair counties, will decide at the
ballot box whether these two gentlemen, the
regular nominees of the party, will be sent to
Harrisburg next winter, or not. They aro both
regularly and fairly before the people—and en
tirely worthy the confidence and support of
every honest man in the district. We trust
they will receive the united support of the par
ty—because they have both been honorably
placed before the public. If we wish to suc
ceed as a party—if we wish those principles
we have so dearly cherished to continue the
foundation stone of our national greatness and
our national prosperity, we must sustain a
strict organization and rally to the support of
regular nominations. In view of this, we hope
every Whig in the district will do his duty and
support the ticket—the whole ticket and noth
ing but the ticket.
Joshua Greenland, Esq.
This gentleman, our emulidate for Sheriff,
we are happy to state to our readers, from
what we can learn, will run a very largo vote
in the county. The lower end will poll a heavy
one for him, and, indeed, there are few more
worthy of a general support front the people.—
Mr. Greenland is very much of a gentleman,
honest, moral and upright. tie will make an
excellent Sheriff, and the people should give
him a hearty support—we have no doubt they
will.
Joseph M. Stevens, Esq.
We hope the Whigs will remember that the
office of Treasurer is an important one, and
will not allow it, by indifference on their part,
to lid/ into the hands of the enemy. Mr. Ste.
vc,,s, the Whig nominee, is very competent to
discharge the duties of the office, and we trust
the party will rally to a man to his sopport.—
h,.. will make also a very obliging officer, and
will no doubt render entire satisfaction. He is
a very moral, intelligent, honest and upright
man, and worthy the confidence, not only of
the Whig party but of the whole community.
AVOTIIER Soau :Vow.—The Alexandria G.
zette says, the Democratic papers hare ceased
from their interrogatory—"Ts the Whig party
dead?" and are rapidly turning their attention
to the inquiry still more important to them—
" Can the Democratic party, as at present con•
stit3tcd, be kept (giver
The Temperance Question.
This is a subject which has excited much
feeling in the public mind, and is now one of
the leading questions of the day. This cannot
he denied, for we come in contact with it wher
ever we go. And many honest and intelligent
men, throughout the length and breadth of the
land, in all parties, have taken a hold stand in
favor of a law stringent enough to destroy the
excessive use of liquor, believing such a law to
he necessary to tho happiness of the human
family and the prosperity of the country.
That the excessive use of n'coholie stimu
lants has caused much misery—degradation,
sorrow, weeping—many broken hearts—no man
with any principle of humanity can deny. The
evidences of it are before our eyes every day.
But should there be any who deny it, let them
go but to the grave yard on the hill above our
town, and read the names of thOse who have
gone down to a drunkard's grave, and if they
are possessed of a human heart at all, they will
feel the force of the truth of our language.—
They will find there, lying on one common lev
el, in a drunkard's grave, men of all classes of
society—the high—the low—the rich—the poor
—the despised—the forgotten. The father and
mother can see there a son—the son can see a
father—the wife can see a husband—the sister
a brother—the brother a brother.
But while it is almost universally conceded,
that liquor has been the cause of much misery
and suffering, yet there are still many who are
unwilling that the curse should be removed from
our land.
Now we do not wish it understood that we,
through our columns, have become the special
advocate of temperance, because we have no
desire now so to do. However, so far as we
can ascertain, all—both temperance and anti
temperance—would be satisfied to have an ex
pression of the people on the subject through
the ballot-box. Now this is the object, in our
opinion, at which the temperance men ought to
aim, and under existing circumstances, we be
lieve, it is the only true policy. We cannot
think that it is a subject that should enter di
rectly into local politics, because it would be
betrayed by the deceitfulness of dishonest poli
ticians.
If it is unconstitutional for the Legislature
to enact a Prohibitory Law, submitting it di
rectly to a vote of the people. let a law be pas
sed amending the Constitution for this purpose,
but at the same time definitely defining the
general features of the proposed prohibitory law,
so that all could vote understandingly on the
amendment. 13y so doing the question would
be fairly tested—the vote of the State would
be had on the subject without reference to poll.
tics at all, and if carried in favor of a prohibi
tory law, its enactment would be submitted to
and respected by the people. No do not I
think that it would be prudent on the part of
the Legislature to pass a stringent prohibitory
law, without first having an expression from
the people through the ballot box on the sub
ject, for the reason that we believe it could not
be successfully enforced, and in a short time
would be treated with contempt, and would
stand on our statute books as one of nn almost
similar nature does now—a dead letter. The
friends of the temperance cause should weigh
well the matter, and judiciously pursue that
course by which they may expect to accom
plish something. They should endeavor to se
cure the doca." or coon to the Legislature who
are in favor of obtaining an expression from
the people on the subject, whether by an
amendment of the Constitution or otherwise, be
cause we honestly believe it is the only way
they will accomplish the great object after
which they now seem to be so zealously stri
ving.
Wo have no doubt that Messrs. Maguire,
Gwin and White, if elected, will all vote on the
question as we have suggested; and this seems
to he the only thin , . the most ultral temper.
twee men want, if we have been correctly in•
formed. So that we can conceive of no reason
why any Whig, whether for or against temper.
once, should not vote for these men, because
all—both Whigs and Democrats—seem to be
satisfied that the matter should be submitted
to a vote of the people in some shape or other
—we trust then that no temperance Whig will
east his vote against any of the Whig condi.
dates for the Legislature, and we hope that no
anti-temperance Whig will vote against any of
them, because they nll stand in relation to this
question just as the people appear to want
them.
Our County Ticket.
All the candidates, whose names are before
the people, as the regular nominees of the Whig
party, are honest, intelligent men—reliable and
active Whigs, and will, beyond a doubt, make
efficient officers. From State Senator down to
Director of the Poor, there is not a man on the
ticket, who is not wholly worthy the confidence
and hearty support of every Whig in the coun
ty. They were all nominated regularly, by
duly empowered Conventions, and there is no
reason why every Whig should not vote for the
whole ticket. Our opponents are tricky—and
they require to be closely watched—nothing
will be left undone on their part by which they
may expect to secure even one vote. Every
Whig should be active from this to the day of
the election—he should be careful that no spu
rious, guerilla, or independent tickets, aro im
posed on his neighbor or himself. Because
there will be an effort made, on the part of a
few, to do this. So we say to all, be watchful
and active.
A Word to the Disaffected.
Gentlemen, if you think you have accom
plished any thing by the course you have thus
far pursued, in this guerilla movement, against
the regularly nominated Whig ticket; all we
have to say is, you will discover that at least,
for once, you have been mistaken. Your me.
tives, for so acting, are too well known by the
Whigs in the country, to effect any thing, and
you will find this to be the case after the votes
of the people have been taken front the ballot
box and counted. They laugh when you urge
the "violation of party usages," as the reason
of your conduct. That is just as much as to
say. you, a few individuals, know equally as
much as the whole Whig party. ft won't do
gentlemen—so that you would adopt a wise
policy, if you would acknowledge your error,
and turn in for the support of the ticket.
Tone.—The following toast was given at
rail road dinner, in Detroit, recently
Edliors.—Ladders on which politicians
climb to power—pioneers in all great enter•
prises—the only class whose labor is its own
reward—the hardest worked, the poorest paid,
most selfsacrificing and best abused of all
professions.
Dar Our friend in Blair county must par
don us for giving publicity to an extract from
a letter of his to U 3 last week on private busi
ness, We wish to show what the prevailing
feeling in Blair county seems to be in refer
ence to the prospects of Wharton. It was writ
ten by one of the most prominent and influen
tial Whigs in that county,and one who 13 situa
ted so as to be fully able to know what the
popular sentiment is. The Whigs in Blair
seem to be determined, as they are in Hun
tingdon, to put their foot on guerillaism, and
stick to the ticket. This is right, and it is a
course they will never regret. The following
is the extract:
"I read the last Journal very carefully and
must say that it reminds me somewhat of read.
ing Don Quixit; I mean ns regards your con
test with Wharton. I certnintly think that you
sire spending a great deal of your talents in
fighting nothing, or nobody, if you please. If
Wharton has no better show in Huntingdon
co., than Ire has in Blair co., there is certainly
no great use in spending much time with him.
In this part of Blair, we never hear his name
mentioned, unless it should be in jest with the
Leco-feces, and amongst them, here, Ido not
think he can get one-half their votes, and there
is not a Whig that would touch his tickets."
The Late Elections,
Vermont foots up for the Legislature, as
nearly as we can gather from the returns re
ceived, as follows :—Whigs 95, Democrats 87,
and free•soilers 32. The Free-Boilers hold the
balance of power numerically. A Governor,
several State officers, and a United States Sen
ator are to be elected. In Maine we have re
turns of 127 members, leaving 24 to be heard
from, ns follows:--Whigs 59, Democrats 58,
and Free•soilers 10. Last year, Whigs 62,
Democrats 84, and Free•soilers 5. The Whigs
and Morrill democrats are thought to be trium
phant, and Morrill, many say, will be Governor,
and Wm. Pitt Fesscuden (free-soil Whig) Sen
ator.
Oa. A public dinner was given on Monday
evening a week, nt Newark, N. J., to Hon.
John Minor Botts, by a large party of his per
sonal and political friends. There were about
sixty persons seated at the table. Col. A. M.
C. Pennington presided. Mr. Botts made an
eloquent speech, and contended that the prin
ciples of protection to industry, improvements
of rivers and harbors, distribution of the pro.
ceeds of the public lands, and other questions
which the Whig party have heretofore support.
ed, are yet vitally important to the welfare of
the nation; and that the Whig party really lives
to support them.
The Whig Party not Dead.
The elections la Ten;see, Kentucky and
other Southern States, prove conclusively that
the Whig party is not cloud. In fact, when we
consider the overwhelming triumph of the
Democrats last November, tho result of these
elections may be regarded as a great Whig, tri
umph. Snob, we may add, is the opinion of
the New Fork Heruid also one of the most con
spicuous advocates of the election of Gen.
Pierce.
Indeed, not only is the Whig party still alive
but, in ono sense at. least, it can never die. A
party composed of similar materials to that
which rallied around Clay and Webster, must
always exist in this country under ono name
or another, fur it is the representative of the
most highly educated, and of the more prudent.
Thousands who start life ns Democrats, end
by deserting to this party, because with nee.
the illusions of youth disappear, and faith
grows cold.
Nor - canllny person Whose views are nt all
statesmanlike, doubt that such a party is ns
useful as its antagonistic one. It constitutes
in truth, the balance Wheel to our political ma
chinery. Without it we should go too fast, as
withit alone one should move too slow.
A Whig party therefore, there will always
be. That is as fixed rand we take it, as that
a negative must exist as long 119 there is an
affirmative. Generally the Whig party will be
in the minority, at least in national affairs, and
that for the reason that we are a young and
growing country, if no other. When the Ito
public becomes older, and more thickly settled,
the spirit of conservation may gain the ascen
dant in turn. But even now, the. Whig party
must by a law of politics, periodically obtain
the supremacy. A triumphant party invaria
bly falls into errors, and as invariably offends
a portion of its participants; and hence acces
sions, at such times are sure to be made to the
party in opposition. These fountains of dis
affection multiply until the aceutnulated tide
becomes irresistable •, the party in power gives
way, and the Whigs flow in and enjoy the land.
It is a good thing it is so. The permanent
ascendency of either party would be less bone.
ficial than this ebb and flow of parties. As
currents and counter currents maintain the pu
rity cf scents and air, so the succession of Whig
and Democrat prevents the stagnation of liber
ty. To say that. the Whig party is dead, to
hold even that it can die, Is to show little
knowledge of the country, and less of what is
necessary to the vigor, if not perpetuity of the
Republhe Most ,nsphatieally the Whig party
is not dead.—Philadelphia Bulletin, a neutral
Paper.
CoL Benton on the Administration.
Col. Benton is indulging an unamiable spir
it toward the Administration. A gentleman
asked him if he visited the White House. He
replied with Bentoninn emphasis, "No sir!—
No Sin I I never go to the buzzard's soost."
The Secretary of the Interor sent a massage
to him that there was a Register of the Land
Office to be appointed in the St. Louis Con.
gressional District, and requested him to fur
nish the Department with the onion of a per.
son to fill the vacant office, "Old Ingot" said,
"I have no name to present, and were lan old
as Methusalem, and this Administration should
exist so long, I would have no favor to ask of
it." The messenger then said, "Colonel, I will
inform the Secretary that you have no name to
offer." "No sir," said the venerable, but now
indignant BuMonist, "carry my answer Sir, in
my own precise language Str."—Niw York
Tribune.
S ECRETARY MA RCY'S MAN I FESTO.-The
Washington Star of yesterday says:
Secretary Marcy's reply to the Austrian pro
test is probably in such a state of forwardness
as that it will go out by the next steamer. All
rumors concerning, its character or details are
premature. being based wholly on the 'magi
nation of the writers. We only know that he
has made the subject one of laborious study and
cautious deliberation, and from his well known
ability as a controversial writer, wo therefore
expect that when it sees the light, though it
will crone up to the mark of the sound progress
of the day, it will embrace nothing with whirls
the most timid conservative of the land can
reasonably find fault. He possesses tact to a
remarkable extent. So we have no idea that
such a paper from under his hand, can fail
greatly to strengthen as well as to foreshadow
the general foreign policy of the new Govern.
ment of the United States. Indeed, it is to be
the first authoritative showing of the Adminis-
tration's hand upon their general international
policy.
Dtx No Go.—The Richmond Enquirer ad
monishes Gen. Pierce against the appointment
of Gen. Di; as Minister to France. The En
rarer says "We utter what wekuow to be the
wresistable preponderant sentiment of the
Southern Democracy—we protest against a
measure which will enevitably strike a blow at
the ascendency of our party—when we depre
cate tae appointment of Mr. Dix to 'he French
Mission..
The Maine Law in England
Whatever John Bull undertakes 'with a will,'
(as the seamen say,) he usually necomplishes.
Catholic Emancipation in 1820, Parliamentary
Reform in 1832, and the abolition of import
duties MI breadstuffs in 1816 are instances of
this. Every opposition was thrown in the way
of these measures for years, but they were car
ried in the end. Another great question new
excites the public mind in England and is des.
tined, we cannot and will not doubt, to equal
success at last. The cause of Temperance
agitates the country,. and occupying the attem
lion of all classes , gaining converts and
champions hourly. In fact, at this moment, it
is the question, and if its agitation proceed, its
it has commenced, its advocates will he in a
condition to call upon Parliament next spring
to legislate upon it.
The English Temperance advocates have
got on the right track at last. They see the
fully of half.mensures; and their appeal to the
Legislature will be for nothing less than an en.
'lament, by which the traffic in intoxicating
liquors will be entirely prohibited and suppress.
ed. The Maine Liquor Law, in short, is what
they intend asking for. Sooner or laterovetrust,
it will pass into the statute book of Great Brit.
ain, and the sooner the better. Nothing else
ran put an end to the habits of intoxication,
which create on much crime, misery and per.
erty in the British dominions.
The Government, ever professing to have the
welfare of the people much at heart, can bring
forward only one reason against wholly prohi
ting the sale of intoxicating liquors. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer may be expected
to come forward and say: "In common with
"with my colleagues, I am desirous of petting
"an end to the demoralization arising from the
"sale of intoxicating liquors; but the financial
"condition of the country unhappily prevents
"our acceding to the proposal. The money
"annually accruing to the Public Revenue,
"from the duty on British Spirits alone, (and
"wholly independent of the amount realized by
"the duty on wine and foreign spirits) is six
"millions sterling. The duty on malt is over
"five millions sterling. Taking the duties on
"spirits, malt and wine, they bring at least fill
"teen millions sterling into the Treasury, or
"considerably more than one-forth of the whole
"revenue collected for the public expenditure."
This may be true enough, financially, but a
substitue can easily be found for the tax on
drink, and we would venture, to hint that econ
omy and retrenchment in the expenditure of
the public money, such as Mr. Cobden has sug•
Bested, would go far to supply the deficiency,
In 1833, the public revenue of Great Britain
and Ireland wag not much over fifty millions
sterling; in 1852 it exceeded that amount by
seven millions and a half.
It is fearful to think of the immense quantity
of wine spirits consumed in the British Islands.
In the year ending January 6, 1851, [the la
test fie. Which we haven return, nearly 28.000,-
000 gallons of proof spirits were distilled and
consumed in England, Scotland and Ireland,
on which were paid duties to the amount of
Z 5.948.497. In the same year, over eight mil
lion gallons of foreign spirits were imported in
to the British Islands, of which five million gal
lons were therein consumed. The duties on
rem, brandy and Geneva alone exceeded £2,-
500.000. In the same year, over nine million
gallons of foreign wine were imported, of which
8,437.222 gallons were for home consumption,
and the duties amounted to within a trifle of
42.000,000. Hero, then. we have 31,000,000
gallons of spirits consented in one year. with
nearly six and a half million gallons of foreign
wine. The whole amount thence accruing to
the public revenue is over fifteen millions Ster
ling. A large sum to be surrendered—but sur
rendered it will be, in spite of nn army of
drinkers on one side. reinforced by 2,527 liven
sen brewers in the British Islands, of 88,400
persons licensed to sell spirits and wine, and of
38.858 licensed to sell beer.
In old of the arguments which the Temper
ance League are now casting over the whole of
England, in public speeches and by means of
the press, n curious auxiliary, in the way of
w0n.3put...4 theta, bum berm published by Pnr
:mut. We take the following from an Eng
lish nailer:
"The House of Commons recently granted
to Mr. Hume a return of the number of persons
apprehended for being drunk and guilty of dis
orderly conduct, in London, Edinburg, and
Glasgow, respectively, for a series of years, up
to the close of 1851. Taking the last embra
ced in this curious return, it appears that. the
number apersons drunk and disorderly pick
ed up in London (nr more properly the whole
metropolis) was 24,283, the population being
2.626,603—0 r about 1 in 106; in Edinburg,
with a population of 166;000, the number was
2.791—5 r about 1 in 60; while in Glasgow,
with a population of 333,557, the number was
44.870—0 r lin 22. In other words, Glasgow
seems to be three times more given to in
toxication than Edinburg, and five times more
drunken than London l"
With such data before them, the friends of
Temnerance in England do well in pushing for
the Maine Late. Nothing less than total extir
pation of the gangrened nart can save the whole
hotly politic. "Gradual" or "prospective" alio.
Minn will net do: it must be rooted out, wholly
and unconditionally.
Bad as is the case in England, however, it
can be paranoias] on this side of the water.—
Take Liverpool, for example as a place which
may be fairly compared with New York as a
commercial city, but with a population only
half as great. A recent calculation states that
the "criminal convictions in New York during
"1852, reit:died 3,580; in Liverpool they reach
"ed only 610. In 1851, Liverpool licensed 2,-
"124 places to sell liquor; New York 5,754, and
"there were 851 unlicensed runt holes. In
"Liverpool the rum shops were closed on Sun.
"days; in New York they remained open."—
Whether in New York or Liverpool, in the New
World or the Olp, the traffic in strong drinks
should be put down, as wholly inconsistent with
the happiness of the people and the national
prosperity. An English writer says, with the
force of truth:
"Every day it is impoverishing and degra
ding the people, Every day, fortunes, health,
happiness, and life, are wasting away under its
malign influence. Every hour the process
goes on without ceasing—the conversion of
virtuous, intelligent, and industrious men and
women, useful members of society, into the vi
cious, ignorant, idle, and profligate, who are a
burden to the community. Your alms-houses,
earls, penitentiaries, and penal colonies are
full of the wretched victims of the wicked sys
tem which has been tbr many generations tol
erated and sustained in the United Kingdom—
the manufacture and truffle in intoxicating
drinks. That traffic betas nobody, under any
circumstances—promotes no legitimate trade
or interest of society—while it curses the nation
nod the world with more anti greater evils than
all other causes of evil combined."
WINDFALL FOR A CI , EROYMAN.-Tho 11ev.
Mr. Clawson, of the Methodist Protestant
Church, says the Uniontown (Pa.) Democrat,
who in many places is known as the"wild man,'
in consequence of his eccentricities, is loft heir
to an estate in England valued at one million
of dollars 1 Mr. C. was very poor, and has had
to struggle thus far with a large and depen
dent family. This estate comes to him by his
wife, and the business is so completely settled
up, that he can draw the amount through bank
ers either at New York or Philadelphia. He
is travelling through a circuit near Clarkesburg
in Western Virginia.
BURIED FOR TWO THOUSAND YEARS.—Lind
sey, in his travels, writes that while wandering
amid the pyramids of Egypt he stumbled on a
mummy, proved by its hieroglyphics to be nt
least two thousand years of age. In examin
ing the mummy after it was unwrapped, be
found in one of its closed hands a tuberous or
bulbous root. He was interested in the ques
tion how long vegetable life could last, and lie
therefore took that tuberous root from the mum
my's hand, planted it in a sunny soil, allowed
the rains of heaven to descend upon it, and in
the course of a few weeks, to his astonishment
and joy, the root burst forth and bloomed into
a beautiful dahlia.
NMI IN LITTLE.
Scared—the Huntingdon clique.
Going to pot—the sage crew of Sodomites,
Right side up—the lower end for the ticket.
Brewing—a heavy storm over "little fatty's"
head.
Funny—to see a certain one whistling to
keep up courage.
lit ignorant—"little fatty" or the Globs man
of the eleventh commandment.
Would' nt stay long —Dr. Hobensack in
Cromwell township.
Will run a big vote—Maguire in Shirley and
Cromwell townships.
Popular—Joshua Greenland, with the peo
ple.
By Alse representations—the names secured
to Wharton's call from Springfield township.
In his breeches—the brains of the Globe
editor.
Can't be induced—many of the locofoco pat ,
ty to voto fur men that tho Whigs throw away.
Tell man--the editor of the Globe in his
stocking feet.
Gloomy, quite—the prospects of the "hand•
some member."
ifir Shall we 'let her rip 7—Globe.
Yes, 'let her rip.'
No go—the name gathering operation in
Union and Cass townships.
Had a cool reception—the "handsome mem
ber" at Cassville on his way to the lower end.
Won't support guerillas—the Whigs of Union
and Cass townships. You are right gentlemen.
Will yet be hung—the wretch that signs him-
self "Genus homo."
Dar A hog weighing 1,100 pounds has been
sent from Wisconsin to the Crystal Palace fair.
Dying politically—Dr. Hobensack, Gulliver,
little Johnny, and the "veracious lawyer"--
your grave is ready.
Cr Will you stake a cool $lOO on that ?
Globe.
Yes, a cool $lOOO.
Fully half locofocos—the persons who sign•
ed the "handsome member's" call in Clay town•
ship.
There's music in sound—so think a few of
the Hobensacks, judging from the loud noise
they make.
Becoming sick of their folly—the lenders of
Dr, Hobensack's party—better take some demi
john pills—they will ease the stomach.
A Question. —Will the Democratic party
support Wharton, because John Anderson and
George Jackson say so? We'll see.
Was successful—the name gathering opera.
tion, by promises to treat to some of "old
Zack's" whiskey paid for by Dr. Hobensack.
Cure all—Dr. Hobensack's Cod-liver pills
brought from Philadelphia in two gallon demi
johns.
terion. NEAT. Dow, author of the "Maine
Law," is stumping the eastern counties of aria
State in favor of Prohibition.
Ominous—when a guerilla Whig candidate
for the Legislature buys off an independent 10.
cofoco. Any ting pite you—Doctor?
gee- One sentence of Mr. Choate's eulogy
of Webster, contains thirteen hundred words,
and occupies four and a half printed pages.
Will have a large majorily—James Maguire
and James L. Gwin, fur the Legislature in this
county.
Lcd by the nose—"little fatty," or the editor
of the Globe, by one or two of his party, Any
thing "courageous" in that—ch ? Better carry
a rerolrer.
Rich—Dr. Flobensack electioneering among
our Methodist friends, as a Iffethodiva Jerusa
lem crickets I Must begin to feel his case
desperate one!
Cool—for the "handsome member" to en•
dearer to make an old citizen of Clay township
believe he is a strong advocate, of the Maine
Law. There is certainly "corn in Egypt"
DOW set things onfire—the young Hobert.
sacks of Shirleysburg last week—had a cosil a
time of it—eh ?—Well, sometimes persons do
pay dear for whistles.
Kr Such attractive power, says a country
editor, belongs to the fair sex, that, if all the
girls were driven out of the world, in one gee.
ration the boys would all go out after them.
Suitable—Mille Johnny" to carry round the
'thandsome memberV tickets—he would meet
with a hearty welcome among the people—es
pecially in the lower end.
Cal„ Are we not a wine-drinking people?
During the first year of the existence of the
Metropolitan Hotel, its consumption of wine
was nearly seventy thousand bottles!
Hard pill for "littlefatty"—Cresswell's nom.
Motion to the Senate—situated as he is—hold
ing office under the Buchanan and Bigler wing
of the "unterrified Democracy."
dir The, leaders of the locofoco party are
busily engaged in circulating all kinds of slan-
der and falsehoods about the Whig candidates.
Whigs, watch the devices of Satan.
dressed like a gentleman, lie looks
like a gentleman—but he nin't.— Globe.
Must be the Globe man himself, as there is
only one of that sort in town.
Pretty equally divided—the whigs and loco.
rows whose names are appended to Wharton's
calls, big vote they will make when summed
up, for the "Handsome member." "Can't
come in—not good lookin' enough."
Nol known by his own party—the locofoco
candidWo for State Senator, in the lower end
of the county. Billy—no Globes down there—
eh? Better strike hand-bills and send them
down.
Good Philosophy—our Devil thinks that the
reason the Globe man had such an outward
tendency in the growth of his physical struc.
tore was on account of the great weight of sap
in his head.
Amusing—to hear many of the "unterrified
democracy" declare they won't support the
fag ends of the Whig party—that they won't
pick up the material thrown away by the
Whigs."
With a malicious heart—the author of the
communication in the Standing Stone Banner
of last week, under the signature of Genus
home, Ah I murder will out—you have need
to whistle to keep up your courage.
Epilepsy can be cured—so says the Standing
Stone Banner, the greatest literary curiosity of
the age, as well as one of the Patent Medicine
Reporters of this vicinity. Must be hard up,
boys, after what you said last week.
Castles round his own calls—the "handsome
member," and pleads long and loud for names
—pretty way for the people to ask him to be a
candidate for the Legislature—better go to
grubbing.
tar The American Methodists, according
to a statement in their official journal, hare
built churches at tl.•e rate of three per weekend
printed books at the rate of ono s minute, do.
ring the pest sixty years.
Sore, very—the (=prance man in town Pilo
was refused a nomination by the temperance
men in this Senatorial district, on the ground
that no confidence was placed in his principles.
Better now resort to Dr. Bobeusack's sanitive
demijohn pills.
Cr" Talk about abolishing the Salic law,"
exclaims an English editor, in a eulogistic ar•
title upon Queen Vietoria,"why,if royalty could
be ever feminine royalty would be immortal,
and revolutionists would bend the knee." The
English are, certainly, very fond of their queen.
In afix—the Globe man—the Buchananim
and the Cassite factions both hold the cudgel
over his devoted head—poor fel:ow—better go
to Pittsburg and procure some fire arms—or
rather titan see him want, we will lend him
OUTS.
Stir Broadway, New York, is perhaps the
most crowded thoroughfare in America, 528
omnibusses pass through it incessantly. It is
proposed to afford relief from its annoyance by
removing the omnibusses, and substitute a rail.
way with 61 cars.
lE4' The under-ground movement the t nom
inated the whit county ticket, is beginning to
be pretty well undarstood by the voters of that
party.— Globe.
That's true—every word of it----it was well
understood by the voters of the Whig party
when they held their delegate meetings. .
Ashamed of his conduct—the individual who
carried round the "humble instrument's" call
paper to secure names to it in Springfield—de
clares he cover said he would vole for him,
though ho acknowledges that the ifobotsack
Demijohn Pills, had a propelling tendency la
enabling him to scale the "thousand hills."
For bunkum—parading the names of the in.
dividuals who signed Wharton's call, before the
people as rtiverlisements in the public presses.
Gentlemen, it won't do—the honest, bard work.
ing yeomanry of the country too well under-
stand your motives for you to accomplish any
thing by such means.
Some of the gu3rilla wbigs are making
a desperate effort for success—and in doing so,
among other things just as fabulous, they are
circulating that Maguire is running exclusively
as a Maine Law candidate. How unjust it is
for men who profess to be honest, to be guilty
of such slanderous conduct.
Can't be found—the equal to "Genus homo,"
except in the gloomy cells of the penitentiary ;
his heart is burning with personal malignity,
and he is just the coward that would, like a
midnight assassin, stab his friend, behind his
back. He has been disappointed politically
and he wants to wreak his vengeance on us.
An easy matter—to carry papers round
through the country and get names to them.—
So said the "handsome member," last winter
when he received the thousand and one pet:.
tions from the people of this county, praying a
repeal of the Act of Assembly, authorizing the
county Commissioners to appropriate $3OOO
towards the construction of the new bridge at
Huntingdon.
A filet—that when William B. Smith was
before the people for a renomination to the
Legislature, Wharton used every effort to de.
feat him and only abandoned the undertaking
when lie discovered that the whips were laugh.
ing at him—then "party usages," in his opin•
ion, had no force—now he endeavors to make
the people believe they are every thing. Pol.
iticians with "tack" should remember that
'consistency is a jewel.'
From the Fisheries.
The United States steamers Princeton and
Fulton, comprising part of the fishing Squad
ron under Commodore Shubrick, arrived below
Portsmouth on Sunday evening. The latter
vessel, when running into the anchorage ground,
came into collision with a schooner which was
not visible, owing to the prevalence at the time
of a dense fog. The schooner had her jib.boom
carried away, and the quarter-boat of the Ful-
ton was smashed. The news brought from the
fishing grounds states that quiet reigns there,
and the reports which have appeared in certain
newsparers representing a different condition
of things to exist,are either exaggerated, or on •
tirely without foundation. Fish were found in
abundance, and a number of vessels had re
turned home with full cargoes. A correspon
dent of the Boston Traveller, writing from
Gloucester, under date of tho 20th, says;
The following vessels arrived from the Bay
of St. Lawrence yesterday:—Schooners Isabel
la, Kendall; Mary Jones, Carter; and Golden
Rule, Bartlett. They have been absent about
three months, and met with poor luck, the three
vessels having only 200 barrels of mackerel.—
They will not pay their expenses. There were
mackerel in shore, hut they dare not venture
in on account of the vigilance of the British
cruisers.
They bring news up to the 12th instant, and
spoke a large number of Gloucester vessels,
with only small fares of mackerel, not averag•
ing more than 50 barrels each. The prospect
is now that it will be a poor season for the Glou•
center vessels on the Northeast coast.
The new clipper schooner "Winged Racer,"
Parker, was spoken on the ith instant, North
of Gaspe. She had been taken (not seized) by
some of Her Majesty's fleet for a United States
revenue cutter, and the usual civilities were
about to be shown, when they found out that
the "Winged Racer," was a Gloucester fishing
clipper.
Mackerel are on the rise in this market, and
there will not be more than one half the num.
ber of barrels packed here, or landed, that there
were last year.
The schooner Harp, Siles, arrived at Rock.
port last week from the Blty, with only 50 barrels.
Brutal Murder.
It again becomes our painful duty, this week
to chronicle another brutal murder, committed
within the limits of our county, under most
aggravating circumstances. On Wednesday
last several Irish laborers employed on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, near Bennington Fur
nace, indulged freely in drink until they be.
came intoxteated. Among the rest were Thom
as Mooney and Patrick Hart, both Leiester
men, who left the shantee of Mr. McMahon'
for the purpose, it is supposed, of killing some
person belonging to an opposite faction. Pre
vious to leaving the shantee, Hart declared that
he had killed ten men in his life time, and that
he would kill another before night.
A witness testified to seeing them take a bye
path that led to Wynne & Anthony's section on
the New Portage road, and that Mooney had
pushed Hart over a log—that both had picked
up stones, but then moved on in company.
Mrs. Meloy testified that shortly after dinner
she went down the path and met Hart,who tried
to conceal his face from her by covering it with
a straw hat. A few steps farther on she disco,
reed the dead body of Mooney. She raised an
alarm immediately, end Hart fled, hut he was
overtaken and arrested by Mr. McMahon and
Mr. Anthony and was brought to this place and
lodged iu jail by the police officers.
A post mortent examination proved that the
murdered man came to his deathby stabs front
a knife or some other sharp instrument—a blow
from which penetrated to the spinal marrow in
the neck.
A coroner's inquest was held on Thursday.
Some eight or ten witnesses were examined,
and every fact brought to light tended so strong
ly to fix the guilt of the murder on Hart that
the jury were unanimous in bringing in a Yet ,
diet to that effect.
•
In a cue like this, whore' the facts be
brought before the court, we have no further'
comments to make.— Ho?. E4andard, 21st inie