HUNTINGDON JOURNAL.
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Wednesday Morning, Nov. 9, NM
S. L. GLASGOW, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
Agents for the Journal.
The following persons we have appointed Agents
for tho HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, who are author
ised to receive and receipt for money paid on sub
scription, and to take the names of new subscri
bers at our puhlited prices.
We do this for!he convenience of our subscri
bers living at a distance from Huntingdon.
Jolts W. TIIOMPSON, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
SAMUEL COEN, East Barren,
GEORGE W. CORNELIUS, Shirley township,
JAMES E. GLASGOW. Clay township,
DANIEL Ttaous, Esq., Cromwell township,
Dr. J. P. ASIICOM, Penn township,
Dr. H. L. BROWN, Cass township,
J. WARERAM MATTERN, Franklin township,
SAMUEL STEEFEY, Jackson township,
ROBERT M'BURNEY, "
COI. JNO. C. WATSON, Brady township,
MORRIS Bitowx, Springfield township,
WM. Hurcinssow,Esq., Warriorsmark tp.,
JAMES MCDONALD, Brady township,
GEORGE W. WHITTAKER, Petersburg,
flzmur NE., West Barren.
Jolts BALSBACII, Waterstrcet,
Maj. CIIARLES MICKLEY. Tod township,
A. M. BLAIR, Dublin township,
'GEORGE WILSON, Esq., Tell township,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
N..tvii.tivist, LYTLE, Esq., Spruce Creek.
Maj. W. Moo., Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace.
SIMEON WRIGHT, Esq., Union township.
DAVID CLARKSON, Esq., Cassville.
Svatu. Wiorox, Esq., Franklin township.
Jonx LUTZ, Esq., Shirleysbarg.
DAVID PARKER, Esq., Warriorsmatk.
DAVID AURANDT, Esq., Todd township.
WANTED,—At this office immediately,
MONEY due for Subscription, Job Work and.
Advertising, to buy our winter's pork and wood.
We hope our patrons will remember that the
printer must live as well as others, and that
they will not neglect to fork over some of their
dimes during the Court, which commences next
week. Those in arrears especially, should make
their arrangements to pay up.
New Advertisements.
Tho Huntingdon County Medical Society
will meet in this place on Tuesday next.
Josiah Cunningham & Son invites attention
to their large assortment of Dry Goods, Groce
ries, &c., now opened and for sale in Portstown.
Simon Levi is on hand with an extensive
and magnificent supply of Goods of all kinds,
which he says he will sell at greatly reduced
prices.
Captain R. C. M'Gill, at the Huntingdon
Foundry, is prepared to furnish stoves, and
castings of all kinds at extremely low rates.
Juniata Academy,
At the opening of the winter session of this
institution, on the second instant, Gov. Bigler
was present and delivered a very excellent ad
dress to the students. The large and attentive
audience listened to his Excellency, with mark
ed respect, and afterwards expressed the strong
est terms of approbation. The present session
of the School commences under very favorable
auspices, there being quite an accession of
new students. These indications are certainly
very flattering, not only to the gentlemanly and
talented Principal himself, but to all the pat- I
roan of the Institution and the friends of edit
cation generally. The new Academy building,
erected by the generosity of William McNite,
Esq., is now completed and the school is hold
ing its sessions in it. The building is large,
the rooms spacious, and well finished.
For this truly liberal act, Mr. MeNite de
serves the thanks of every citizen in Shirleys
burg any its vicinity, as well as all who feel an
interest in the advancement of education. We
have no doubt that this school will pros
per and grow to be one of the very best insti•
tutions of the kind in the State. Its patrons
should give it every necessary attention, so
that it may not fail to exert a salutary influ
.ence on the minds of all the youth connected
with it. Our sincere desire is, that it may ful
ly accomplish the noble purpose for which it
was established.
Blair County Fair.
The Agricultural Fair which was lately held
at Hollidaysburg, is said to have fully met the
expectations of its friends and all who attend
ed it.- The different deparments were well
eepresented, showing that the farmers of Blair
County have recently made very extensive im
provements in the mode of tilling the soil.—
We are glad to hear this, though we are sorry
that "old mother Huntingdon" has allowed her
daughter to get so far ahead of het in this
particular. We have repeatedly endeavored
to urge the importance of the organization of
an Agricultural Society in this county, but our
farmers don't seem to care about one, and
consequently we need'nt—perhaps we may yet
say something which may induce them to at
least, think about it.
James E. Belch, Esq.
The Hollidaysburg papers state Mr. 13. was
engaged on the part of the Commonwealth in
the prosecution against Hart for the murder of
Mooney, and that he acquitted himself very
creditably. This, our young friend can be as•
cured, is not a little gratifying to us. The
prosperity of those who have been long and
faithful friends is always news that gladdens
our heart and excites hope in our bosom that
fortune may never withdraw from such her
cheering smiles.
Patrick Hart.
The trial of this individual took place during
the sitting of the late Blair County Court, for
the murder of Thomas Mooney, at Tunnel Hill,
in said county, which resulted iu a verdict of
- Guilty of Murder tit - the second degree," and
sentence to the Penitentiary for 9 years and 6
mouths.
A New Remedy for Coughs and Colds.
Dr. Keyser, of 140 Wood street, Pittshir,gh,
prepares a remedy for coughs and colds that
cannot be excelled. We have seen evidence of
a high character from Pittshargers, where the
article is made, in proof of its efficacy. For
ale at tho Drug Store of Thomas Read S Son.
WY- Court commences on Monday and
we hope to 440 in town many pi our frienda
fecu the country. We should bo glad to take
tb.:Lu by tlt . heal ill our aaw.tru..
The Whige of Huntingdon County.
It requires no elaborate argument on the
part of. any one, to prove that the Whigs of
Huntingdon county are faithful to the principles
of their party. Their manly stability and pa
triotic devotion to its interests, in numerous
past political contests, many of which were of
a very peculiar and critical nature, conclusively
show that they are sincere in their belief of the
final triumph of Whig principles in the admin
istration of all governmental affairs. Their
loyal adherence to party organization and par
ty measures has not been merely to subserve
the purposes or ends of a few unprincipled de
magogues and lazy office seekers, but to incul
cate and promote those principles, which they
have always believed must eventually elevate
the character of our common country, and make
it what it is entitled in the destiny of nations
to become. Their object has been no sordid,
mean and contemptible one, looking only to
the creation of faction and the political aggran
dizement of the few—but it has been high—
patriotic and democratic—looking solely to the
welfare of the people and the general prosperity
of the country. Thus have hundreds labored
long and faithfully in the noble cause—and
though many—such as have been the party's
boldest champions—are now sinking gray
headed to the grave, still their trembling voice
can be heard raised loud in advocacy of those
principles and measures, for which they have
so gallantly fought, in days gone by, through
conflicts fierce and deadly. Defeat has never
discouraged, nor swerved them from their no
ble purpose. And this is indeed truly cheering
to the young Whig heart, and should give in
creased impulse to the motives which constant
ly urge it on to action. Never can locofoco
corruption and oppression destroy us as a party,
nor blot our principles from existence. We
will live and exert a controlling influence in
the administration of public affairs, as long as
our Republic finds a home in the hearts of the
people. As the rays of the sun are necessary
to the growth of vegetation, so are our princi.
plea necessary to the growth and healthful con
dition of the great body politic.
But, while the Whigs of Huntingdon county,
as a general thing, have been loyal to the prin
ciples and measures of their party, occasions
sometimes, nevertheless, have arisen when a
portion of the members have considered them
selves justified in withholding their general
support from regular nominations. Such was
the case during the late campaign; but we have
nothing more to say about that. Such things
happen in all parties, and perhaps sometimes
it is all for the best.
Now, we trust, in view of the approaching
Gubernatorial contest—in view of die circum•
I stance that we have a Congressman to elect
next fall—in view of the importance of the
cause in which we all profess to be zealously
engaged—and in view of the fact that we all
love the name of Whig—that we will at once
throw away those feelings of envy and bitter
ness, which were engendered towards each oth
er in the late campaign, and endeavor from
this on, to secure and preserve harmony and
concert of action in our ranks. Glorious and
triumphant victories for the party are much
better and more to be desired, than the gratifi-
cation of personal revenge. To exist as we
are, especially in this Borough, is what the lo
cofocos would delight to see—but should we
not try to disappoint their expectations and
desires in this? Let us then endeavor to for.
get the past, and be willing to make liberal
concession. Factionism never accomplished
any thing in the end, and it is always more
praiseworthy to forgive and forget, than to har•
bor feelings of revenge.
By being united and harmonious we can ex•
pect to effect something, both in favor of our
friends and the party, but by being distracted,
we give the spoils and the glory to our enemies.
We should remember this.
The Gubernatorial Nomination.
It must be manifest to the mind of any one
who is at all acquainted with the complicated
machinery of the modern political system, that
a premature advocacy of the claims of any par
ticular aspirant to a responsible office, like that
of Governor, tends rather to darken his pos.
pects than brighten them. This is almost uni
versally the case, and we sometimes feel sur
prised at the course some editors pursue ir. en
deavoring to give their particular favorites a
prominent position before the party. The
very thing they think will accomplish this, ex
erts almost invariably a contrary tendency.—
Many of the editors have heretofore, in our
opinion, made a grand mistake in reference to
this very matter. Personal and local preju
dices have been raised against canidates, by
such methods, that have very materially affect
ed the success of the party, after the nomina
tion had been made by the Conventipn. We
hope then, as all the individuals 101103 C names
have been mentioned in connection with the
gubernatorial nomination, are faithful Whigs
—talented and popultir men, that the press
will not give itself too much scope on this sub
ject, and will allow the delegates that may be
appointed to the State Convention, to make
the nomination. The less is said, the better
will it be for the party and for him who shall
be the nominee.
Disappointment Leaves a Sting Behind.
This is very manifest in the conduct of a
few would-be leading Whigs and political aspi
rants or office seekers, lurking about the town
of Ebensburg, in Cambria county. The Whigs
of that county are beginning to discover the
treachery and baseness of these political game
sters, and are waking up to their own inter
ests. These unprincipled demagogues have
deceived them—belied them—and shamefully
betrayed them long enough, and the party is
now resolved,.te they don't act as men and as
Whigs should, to pitch them overboard. We
mar hare more to say on the subject hereaf
ter.
Mr The Farm Journal for Noverber is on
our table, and an excellent number it is too.
The size of this valuable publication has been
recently consideruly enlarged, and consequent.
ly its reading matter increased. It is a work
that should be found in the bands of every far.
mar.
lA. Russia and Turkey have not yut corm
menoed open hostilities, according to the la•
test accounts. But extensive preparationcare
still going on as if the mightiest and bloodiest
scar was about to talc. , plsee that ever stained
earth or shocked high Ilvat en.
bar Thu census records of Europe show a
list of scrim thousand persons —ho lir?) to tin
ac,c of 2u: htnrircd 7cari.
Fut in the Fence.
It is really amusing, to hear how the "little
Berkshire" editor of the Alleghenian, a guerilla
Whig paper, published at Ebensburg, "squeals"
through his dignified and chaste editorials.—
lie is certainly "fast in the fence," and can't
well get out—poor fellow! We had thought
the $l2OO he got from a certain Portage loco
foco, to oppose the election of Coi. White and
"secretly aid" in that of Cresswell, would have
enabled him to slide through. But it seems it
did not. Could'nt the individual who got $lOOO
from Mr. King, on the Mountain, the evening
before the Senatorial conference, assist him a
little? We think he ought, having an interest
in the establishment. Or perhaps the man
from Johnstown, whO had, at Hollidaysburg, a
"carpet sack full of eastern money," would aid
him in his distressing situation? Or perhaps
the man who considers himself the "head and
shoulders" of the Whig party in Cambria coun
ty—who, to subserve his own personal interests,
trades the party off to locofocos and to Consuls
to Belfast—would condescend to administer to
the "little Berkshire" some relief? Now we
think it not altogether fair, to let "Berkshire
pigs" suffer in counties where Whigs and loco
focos purchase presses and start them under the
title of "The Alleghanian"—oppose regular
nominations—and declare every thing was
fraudulently transacted, just because the "Eb
ensburg clique•" could'nt control the late Sena
torial Conference, and thereby make $l5OO,
and secure the Cambria County Conferees for
Congress next fall—we say it is unfair to al
low Berkshires to suffer where such things ex
ist. The stockholders of the Alleghenian un
derstand well what we mean.
Maryland Election.
The returns from the Maryland election,
which took place on Wednesday, leave no
doubt that Thomas Watkins Ligon, the Loco.
foco candidate, is elected Governor of that
State.
The State is entitled to six Representatives
in Congress, of which the Whigs have elected
two, and the Democrats four, viz: Alex. R.
Sellers and John K. Franklin, Whigs ; Jacob
Shower, Joshua Vansant, Henry May, and
William T. Hamilton, Democrats. In three of
the districts the Whigs presented no candidates.
The Whigs will have a majority in both
branches of this State Legislature, which will
enable them to elect a United States Senator
and a State Treasurer. In the present contest
for the Legislature they bare gained four Sen
ators and ten members of the House of Dele•
gates. They nominated no Legislative ticket
in the city of Baltimore, but supported the
ticket presented by the advocates of the Maine
law, containing the names of an equal num•
ber of Whigs and Democrats. This ticket pre.
railed over the regular Democratic nomina
tions.
Pacific Railroad.
The stockholders of the Pacific Railroad
held a meeting in New York, on Thursday,
when the following gentlemen were elected
Directors. They arc among the heaviest
stockholders in the concern Levi S. Chatfield,
Sandford E. Church, Orville Crark, Caleb S.
Woodhull, of New York; Cyrus Moore, Maine;
George Ashman Mass.; T. Butler King, Ga.;
Alfred Gilmore, Penn.; Francis M. Dimon, R.
Island; Robert J. Walker, Washington •, Elon
Farnsworth, Michigan ; William Noyes, Penn.;
Jeptha Fowles, Tenn.; Thomas J. Green, Cal
ifornia; Anson Jones, Levi Jones, W. R. D.
Ward, Texas; James H. Lucas, Mo.• ' Isaac E.
Holmes, South Carolina Nathaniel T. Green,
North Carolina ; Philip'. Thomas, Maryland;
H. B. Spelman, Samuel Waggoner, Ohio; G.
W. Underhill, Ark.; T. Bridge, New Jersey.
The Administration Losing Friends.
The Administration of Gen. Pierce is grad
ually losing friends. The President has disap
pointed the expectations of many of those who
were the most active in contributing to his suc
cess. In New York for example, he has aban
doned the old Constitutional Democrats, and
thrown himself into the hands of the Freesoil
era. The results are already visible in the two
Conventions, and in the two tickets M Syracuse.
The New York Herald has also broken ground
against the present Cabinet, and so too the N.
Y. Journal of Commerce, and both theseprints
were among the most earnest and indefatiga
ble in advocating the election of Franklin
Pierce. For example, the Herald says:
' There never was a more barefaced, shame
less attempt, made by any administration—not
even excepting that of the valiant Captain Ty
ler—to gag public opinion, and to cram men
who have sunk in public esteem down people's
thrests, than at present. Never was the Cabi
net and its menials more avowedly engaged in
buying up votes through government patron
age—never was the buying and selling of pla
ces for rowdy politicians and grog-shop patriots
so openly sanctioned or officially enjoined. It
really seems as if the present Cabinet had run
mad in the sordid attempt to truckle to worth
less factions—as if, in their wretched fear of
retribution, they dreaded nothing so much as
the merest chances of being contaminated by
principles. Marcy and Jefferson Davis act
like men who have no faith whatever in the
people; they treat the great body of the popula
tion as an inert mass, and the factions as the
motive power, which requires to be stimulated
by office."
The Journal of Commerce also reviews the
past, glances at the present, and remarks:
"A patriotic Administration, looking to the
bestinterests of the Republic, would have
seized upon it to give it perpetuity; but it has
been stifled, and a disgusting union of the two
sections on the basis of the public patronage
has been so formed that the helm has been en
trusted chiefly to those who lately steered the
ship astray, while the obligation to follow is im
posed upon those who resisted the deviation.—
The false principle upon which the Administra.
tion has planted itself, is calculated to do great
mischief. The facility with which' deserters
have been received and elevated to conimand•
ing places of power, constitutes a premium for
like dsertions motherjunctures."
The Washington Union, not unmindful of
these indications, attempts to read all disorgan
izers out of the party. Thus it closes a recent
leader with this language:
‘• If the disorganizers expect to put down the
administration and to break up the democartic
party, they expect to accomplish what as great
and as good men have tried before in vain. If
they expect to maintain their connexion with
the democratic party, they have to exhibit more
wisdom in future than they have shown for
some months pas'."
The idea of reading such men as Daniel S.
Dickinson out of the party! It is indeed laugh
able, and exhibits a sorry aspect for the Pierce
Administration.
LET THE 801,11 STEAL -Most of the elec
tions in Southern States during the present
year, were held too early to be much affected
by the Free Soil affiliations of the Pierce Ad
ministration. The policy of that Administra
tion, now unblushingly avowed by the Guthrie
letter and the removal of Bronson, had not
been fully developed until within the last few
weeks. But even what had been done before,
appears to have had apowerful influence in
the Georgia elections. Look at the following,
Pierce's majority over Scott, 18,000
Dem. majority for Goy. in 1853, 348
Whig gain it, one year only,
Had Bronson been removed a few weeks
earlier, mitcr would ha , e 1.,:u the 349 teajor•
Appointments by the Canal Commission•
HARRIRDIMG. Nov. 4.—The following ap
pointments were mode yesterday by the Board
of Canal Commissioners:
SUPERVISORB.—J. M. Orr, Lower Western
Division; W. G. Boyers, Upper Western Divi
sion; J. B. Houpt, Eastern Division; George
Blattenbeer, Susquehanna Division; C. W.
Search, North Branch; David Evans, Dela
ware.
COLLECTORS.—Perry Baker,Pittsburg;S. Me
lty, Blairsville., P. F. Gibbons, Johnstown;
J. T. Hoover, Hollidaysburg; D. Black, Hun
tingdon; W. R. McCoy, Lewistown; H. A. Zoll.
inger, Newport; J. Livermore, Portsmouth, A.
M. Baum, Liverpool; J. H, Zimmerman, Nor
thumberland; P. Ent, Beach Haven; J. Platt,
Williamsport; Aughenbaugh, Dunnsburg;
J. Morrison, Easton; E. R. Soliday, New Hope;
S. S. Yost, Philadelphia; C. Carmany, Lancas
ter; C. Zeigler, Clark's Ferry; Mary Martin,
Freeport Acqueduct; J. Ross, Superintendent
Portage Railroad.
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Srruisona.—W. W. Dimock, Upper North
Branch; D. Vandercock, Middle North Branch;
W. W. Wilson, Lower Juniata.
COLLECTORS.—H. C. Baird, Athens;
Koons, Pittston; J. M. Strickler, Columbia; R.
Patterson, Bristol; J. Shoemaker,Juniata Aque.
duct; G. S. Gamble, Outlet, Columbia; W. Cole,
Outlet, Portsmouth; P. Black, Freeport; J. L.
Reiley, Harrisburg; M. MoNeigh, Parksburg;
L. Laverty, Paoli.
WEICIIIMASTERS.—H. Turd, Easton; Lot Wat
son, Lancaster; J. Maher, Colombia; J. High.
ley, Assistant; D. E. Martin, Portsmouth; J.
D. Leet, Hollidaysburg; J. R. Herd, Assistant;
J. 0. Benett. Johnstown; J. R. Gregg, Assis
tant; C. S. Brown, Northumberland; H. R.
Kline, Beach Haven. _ _ _
CARGO INSPECTORB.—E. Willard, Bristol; J.
Hunter, Philadelphia: Thos. Welsh, Columbia,
D. Dele, Hollidaysburg: C. Carter, Johnstown;
H. Bleakley, Pittsburg.
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Our Consul at Genoa.
The Washington Union has a lengthy arti
cle on the subject of the late announcement in
the foreign news to the effect that E. Felix
Foresti, an Italian by birth, but for seventeen
years a citizen here, and some time since ap
pointed Consul of the United States at Genoa,
would not be received by the Sardinian govern
ment. The Union gives a history of Foresti,
as a Piedmontese republican, who warred
against Austria, and was finally betrayed and
suffered long imprisonment, while his betrayer,
Canis Alberto, (since dead) was rewarded with
the crown of Sardinia. But during the Euro.
pean revolution, from 1847 to 49, Foresti re
mained in New York, and the President se
lects now to send him as an American citizen
and a brother republican to the monarchy
which has so long fought, and may have very
soon again to fight, against Austria.. She,
therefore,intervenes now once more against us,
and tries to compel the Sardinian government
to be false to itself, and to refuse to our Con
sul his exeguatur. Sardinia is the natural ally
of Switzerland, and thereby hangs a tale. The
Union significantly adds:—
"If, supposing that the telegraph and other
hints are true, of which the Department of
State has not received any official information,
it is intended to form a coalition of monarchs
to exclude from all the kingdoms of Europe
any limn who has offended against the laws of
one, the antagonists of the administration will
not find the President either undecided or un
prepared. The Austrian government, and its
proprietors in St. Petersburg and elsewhere,
must learn that the United States cannot be
brow-beaten or tricked.
"We have to believe that E.
Felix Foresti is, and will be our Consul at Ge.
non, or there shall be none."
From Oregon & Washington Territories.
Our files of Oregon papers are up to the
26th ult., inclusive, and from Washington to
the 17th ultimo.
A treaty of peace had been made with the
Indians on Rogue River. The Indians were
to be paid $60,000 for their land, $l5OO to be
withheld as indemnitY to persons who had suf-
fered by their depredations. Captain Nes
mith's company had been disbanded, and the
miners had resumed their work. Their earn-
ings are reported at from $8 to 10 per day.
The Portland Transcript gives a gloomy
picture of the condition of the emigrants on
the plains. It says that whole families are
left there entirely destitute, their cattle having
perished; and, farther, that out of between
600,000 and 800,000 head of cattle which had
left the United States for California and Ore
gon, probably Oct more than 100,000 would
live through the journey.
A gentleman who arrived at Oregon City on
the 2d of September from Salt Lake City esti
mates the number of wagons on the way to Or
eFon at about 2,000; 650 had crossed Salmon
}ails '
and some 1,200 had gone down on the
south side of the river. Many large flocks of
sheep are on the way. About 200,000 head of
cattle were destined for California.
The population of Washington Territory was
between 2000 and 3000.—N. Y: Corn. Ada.
A Long Farewell.
Misses M. W. and C. P. Webster, the only
survivors of the family of the late John W.
Webster now in this country, bade a farewell
to our shores yesterday, having sailed for the
Azores in the ship lon. They have just per.
formed the last melancholy rites on the re
mains of an idolized mother, and a most esti
mable woman; and having moistened the dust
of Mount Auburn with their bitter and sympa.
thetic tears, they now leave forever the sweet
scenes of their childhood of home, friends, and
those many delightful associations around which
the heart always clings so naturally and as
fondly.—They have uttered that last and Joel
ancholy word—farewell. The train of misfor
tunes which have rendered dark and gloomy
the paths of these beautiful young Indies, for
such they are—is peculiar and mournful. We
will not name that circumstance, so dreadful,
hut ending in a death which deprived them of
a father. From that event we desire to draw
no veil. And now, before the robes of mourn
ing had been exchanged; before the deep foun
tains of grief had been dried up, death, Maud
ate, and almost cruel, has prostrated the form
of a mother. The grave has closed over her,
and she too, sleeps in eternal repose by the side
of him who went before her. The mourners,
in their youth and beauty, have now gone.—
The ocean is to separate them from the sacred
spot of home. They have bid a farewell to
whatever is dear, never more to return. Such
is a phase of life—more of shadow than of sun
shine.—Boston Bee, October 14th.
THE CASE or CAPT. Giasox—Action of Me
Government of Me Bayne—Commodore Perry's
Despatches.— Washington, Nov. 2nd—Letters
have been received at the State Department
from Mr. Belmont, which state that on the sec
ond day after his arrival at the Hague he han
ded to the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
his letter of instructions relative to the com
plaint of Capt. Gibson against the authorities
of Netherlands India. The Dutch Minister
had already entered into nn investigation of
the ease, in anticipation of the remonstrances
of the United States Government, and said he
would be prepared with an enrly reply. It is
understood our government have demanded
one hundred thousand dollars damages of the
Dutch.
The despatches received from Commodore
Perry have not, us yet, been sufficiently exam
ined to enable the Secretary of the Navy to de
termine upon the propriety of their publication,
unless in compliance with a call b l y Congress.
[N. ". Herald.
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TOE CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Directors of
the New York Crystal Palace have resolved to
keep the exhibition open through the winter,
instead of cloning it in December, as they had
previously contemplated. It it; said that from
the first of September to the present day, the
receipts have been highly satisfactory, avera
ging four thousand dollars or more a day,
while the current expenses are but UK The
receipts of the fortinght on 1.1.tc ?2 , 1
141., cm
17,743!
Sir John Franklin.
A close examination of the recent intelligence
from the various exploring expeditions in the
Arctic sea discloses two discoveries made, one
by Sir Edward Belcher, the other by Captain
M'Clore, one ur other—if not both—of which
may be deemed to have some possible counec
lion with the fate of Sir John li'ranklin and his
unfortunate fellow voyagers. Sir Edward Belch
er it will be remembered, was sent to explore
Wellington Channel, at the mouth of which was
found the spot where Franklin passed the win
ter of 1845.6, the belief being that through this
Channel the latter had made his way into the
Polar Basin—the great Polynia, or sea free
from ice, which is supposed by many to exist
there, surrounded by the ice of lower latitudes.
Such a Basin, it would seem from Sir Edward's
observation, does really exist,--for as early as
May 20th, of the present year, on,the high par.
allel of Jose's Straits, north of Melville Island,
Sir Edward found an open sett, "as far," he
says, "as the eye could see." This is very ex•
traordinary when it is remembered, first, that
the navigation does not usually begin in the
more southerly straits and sounds until the
middle of July, and, secondly, that the season,
this year, in the latter regions, has been more
than ordinarily backward and rigorous. Why
Sir Edward did not take advantage of this open
sea and push forward in a path which would
have been equally that of duty and ambition,
does not appear. Fatality of neglect or error
seems to have distinguished nearly all the late
explorers at some critical moment of hope or
opportunity; and we shall see that this was not
his only omission, and that even M'Clure--who
wont into Behring's Straits, publicly declaring
"that he would find Sir John Franklin, or make
the North West Passage," and pushed ahead
into the pack, refusing to obey Captain Collin
son's signal of recall—was capable of a similar
error. Sir Edward Belcher, we may remark,
penetrated to 78 deg. 10 min. N. lat., where
he discovered a group of ialands (the Victoria
Archipelago.) and the Western outlet of Jone's
Sound into the Polar Basin. Before reaching
this highest point; he stumbled upon a second
winter station—whether occupied by Sir John
Franklin or not will be the question—present
ing what are called ruins of Esqnimaux hou
ses, but which, Belcher admits, he did not be
lieve were ever built by Esquinumx. "They
were," lie says, "not simply circles of small
stones, but two lines of well laid wall, in exca
vated ground, filled in between by about two
feet of fine gravel, well paved, and withal pre
seating the appearance of great care—more,
indeed, than I am willing to attribute to the
rude inhabitants or migratory Esquimaux.—
Bones of deers, wolves, seals, die., numerous."
We think the world will agree with Sir Edward
Belcher that it is not likely such walls were
constructed by the rude Esquimaux; but, if not
by them, by whom else in the world, if not by
some of the lost navigators? This suspicion,
one might suppose, would lend to a thorough
search for further memorials—for cairns and
letters—for relics of civilized men—ors - for
graves, such as were found at the winter quer.
ters of 1848-46; but no such search is spoken
of by Sir Edward as having been made by him,
and we may, therefore, infer that it was not
made. Such an omission appears like infatu.
Mien.
The discovery made by Captain M'Clure
was, perhaps, of a still more interesting char
acter. At a point east of Mackensie River, on
the main land, where be landed, was a station
occupied by a tribe of Esquimaux, all of whom
at his appearance fled, with the exception of
the Chief and bis sick son. The fencer ex
plained the mystery by confessing his people
had retired in fear lest the Investigator had
come to revenge the death of a white man mur
dared by them some time before. His story
was that a party of white men Lind arrived in a
boat and built a house in which they lived
among the Esquimaux, until, one of their num
ber being slain, the others went away—whith
er the Chief did not know. He pointed out the
very grave in which the murdered man was
buried. Now, as white men in boats, and
white men who land to live among the
Exqui
maux, are not very common in that part of the
world, it was natural to suspect some connec
tion with Sir John Franklin or a party of his
followers in this matter; and one would scarce
believe that M'Clure, pledged to find the lost
navigators or the North West Passage, would
not have taken steps to sift the story to the
bottom, and discover who the unknown visi
tors really were. There was, in this case, the
stronger reason for investigation, that in the
rear 1848, a letter was received and published
by the Admiralty from Mr. Macpherson, one
of the Hudson's Bay Company's officers, sta
ting that a report hid arrived from Peel's riv
er "that the Esquimaux had seen two large
boats to the east of Mackensie river, " (the very
spot in question, be it observed) "ull of white
men," the Esquimaux showing "knives, files,
&c., which they had received from these white
men;" and Mr. Maephersom put the coon*,
"Could these have been Franklin or Rae?" It
was known, before M'Clure sailed, that Rae's
party was not the one referred to. Might it
not have been Franklin's? The route of the
Mackensie river would have been a natural one
for Sir John's people, if wrecked, and endeav
oring to make their way to the nearest Hud
son's Bay Company's station. Does it not
seem amazing that,with these circumstances all
before,him M'Clure made no effort of any kind
at inquiry? It would appear that be was not
unaware of the propriety of making some ex
amination; but a fog coining on, which obliged
him to return to the ship, he abandoned the
purpose, and sailed away, leaving a mystery
unpenetmted, the solution of whirls might have
shed a new light on a subject so full of the
most painful interest.
Driven from this place by so insufficient a
cause as a fog, M'Clure directed his course
northward towards Melville Island, seeking a
passage eastward of the land which the reader
will find, or at least the extreme northern por
tion of it, marked on former charts as Bank's
Land proved to be a huge island (the Baring Isl
and of M'Clure,) its southern portion reaching
waiting fifty or sixty miles of the mainland.—
East of it is a passage, Prince of Wales Chan
nel, which conducted M'Clure to the very bor
ders of Barrow Strait, where he was suddenly
frozed in and passed the winter of 1850. One
day more of good weather would have seen
hint in Barrow's Strait, whence lie could have
pushed his way to Baffin's Bay and England,
making the North West Passage in a single
season. Finding the ice in front immovable
next summer, be returned down Prince of
Wales Strait. and sailed round the western side
of Baring Island; and, in this mode, he got in
to Barrow Strait; where, within thirty or forty
miles of the southwestern cape of Melville Isl.
and, he was frozen up again, his ships having
remained there fast ever since.
One can hardly avoid connecting, in imagi
nation, the two singular facts above stated with
a third—the only well established—fact asso
ciated with the actual history of the missing
explorers. Sir John Franklin did pass the
winter of 1848.6 at the entrance of Wellington
Channel: nothing is clearer than that. His
encampment and the neighborhood were thor
oughly examined, but no discovery made of let
ters or of any written memorial recording his
visit and making known what he had done and
whither he intended next to sail. From the
absence of such letters—a circumstance other
wise woolly unaccountable—it has always
been inferred that he was, by some misadven
turn, the sudden breaking ue of the ice for ex
ample, compelled to fly to his ships before the
intended letters could he written and deposit
ed. Let us suppose his vessels were drilled
up the Channel to the place where Belcher
found the ruins of the "Esquintaux houses"—
only two degrees further north—and there
crushed by the ice. No can conceive that
these houses, so different in all respects from
Es9nimaux structures, were built and winter.
ed in by such of the party as escaped; and
that the survivors, neat bummer, (1847,) re
turning down Wellington Channel in boats,
and finding, while Barrow Island was blocked
up by ice, one of the passages open east or
west of Baring Island, would direct their course
towards Idackensie River ;. where,, about the
ti!oe they might hope to reach it, the white
in law beat," described by the Es
quimaux, made their appearance,--only. en
happily, soon to disappear again, never to be
heard of more. The murder of one man and
the flight of the others show the weakness of
the party; and a weak party, endeavoring to
penetrate to one of the Company's fbrts, with
out guides, and through a desolate region al
most destitute of food, would be very likely to
fail, sinking, one after the other, from starve-
tier.
All this, indeed, is mere conjecture, and may
prove an idle themy. Bnt few now perhaps
believe that any of John Franklin's follow.
ers Will ever be heard of again as living men;
and the question, as ono involving the history
of their lamentable fate, will naturally engage
examination, as it will excuse even mere
guess-work. The hope is already expressed
by English writers that the Hudson's Bay
Company, will repair the error of Captain
M'Clure by ordering investigations to he made
by some of their officers into the true charac
ter and fate of the party of white men who
were the subjects of the Esquimaux Chief's
story.
American Competition with England.
A writer to whose compilations the Times
gives space and conspicuous position. has ta•
ken more than one opportunity of enlarging
upon a competition with which our merchants
are threatened in India and Asia, on the part
of American traders. The ships of the lini.
ted States appear on the Mekran coast, as well
as at Kutch. Muscat, and other places, with
various articles, which they barter for the pro
duce of those countries, the American coin
modifies being principally a certain course cot•
ton fabric which they call sheeting, and dollars.
The Americans appear to enjoy a particular
advantage over our traders—that of conduct
ing their barter individually, in ships, whict
are independent, floating, pushing shops, in
steed of working by routine through large es
tablishments at Bombay; and thus they not
only Rave expense, but in each particular trans
action secure the largest amount of profit.
Another advantage they have is expressed
by the political Agent at Kutch, who says of
the sheeting, that it 'finds acceptance among
the people of the country, because it lasts lon
ger than the cloths imported from Bombs...—
This indicates the true force of the compition
which we hare to drew) from the U. States.—
If America can cut us out in India, where we
occupy the entire country with our Govern
ment and commerce, the ridicule and the dis.
grace would be greater than any which the
most anti-commercial country has incurred.
But there is something in this superiority of
tissue over the manufactures in England. The
comparison is not made for the first time, nor
only in cotton sheeting. It is reported from
the Hudson River Railway, that British iron
rails become in a worse condition within twelve
months than American rails within a Tains.
ber of years. There may lie exaggeration in
this; but we have had complaints of our rails
from our own official and scientific investiga
tors, who declared the bad make of our iron to
be a frequent source of accident. At the last
meeting of the Sheffield Cutlers, the Muster
Culler declared that American Cutlers were
cutting-them out in knives; knives of Ameri
can snake being preferred to ours, because the
material does not give way under use as those
of Sheffield are sometimes found to du. In
short, notwithstanding the sharp practice and
hasty habits of America, they are in some
branches of trade earning the repute for sterling
stuff and make which used to he our own; and
if we suffer theta to win that reputation front
us altogether, then indeed we shall hare lost
snore than if India were annexed to.morrow.--
London Examiner.
Change of Fortune.
Mr Samuel Brannan, of San Francisco. has
an annual income of $250,000. In ISO Bran.
non was a poor and penniless printer in this
city, and worked in the Democrat office for
Messrs. Bolton & Livingston. About nine
years ago he arrived at New York from the
West. A crownless hat, with coat and "
an
mentionables " to match, were not very prepos•
Nosing recommendations t'or the adventurer.—
Tie succeeded, however, in joining the New
York division of the Mormons, and for more
than a year was editor of their paper. Bran.
nun, with three or four hundred of the persecu
ted 'saints became attracted by the glowing
description given by Fremont and others of
California. They chartered the ship Brooklyn,
and immediately sailed for the future El Dorn.
do, where Mr. B. has amassed an immense for
tune. So much for the mutability of human
affairs.
Slavery in Kentucky.
Inn review of Hildreth's Ttieory, Polities the
Louisville Journal says: "In all our acquain
tance with emancipators in Kentucky, we have
known but one who was willing to turn the
slaves of the State loose upon her territory.—
The unanimous sentiment is that such a step
as that would be 'disastrous to both the white
and black races. The example of other States
ere often referred to in proof that such a course
could be safely pursued in Kentucky but the
eases do not Muth the Kentuckey difficulty.—
The other States referred to were not surround
ed with States that forbade the ingress of the
free negro into their boundaries. But Ken
tacky is surrounded with slave States that are
severe in their prohibiting penalties, and the
free States, that are conterminous to Ken.
tueky, are quite as much so as any of the slave
States. What then will Mr. Hildreth devise as
a remedy for this state of things?"
ler The New York Herald states that $5O,
000,000, have been subscribed to the New
York, Atlantic and Pacific Railroad; the capi•
tal stock being $100,000,000. The subscrip
tions are all believed to be in .good faith. At
that rate the work may be commenced as soon
as the surveys are completed, which will prob-
ably be early in the spring; some aid from Con-
gress is expected by the company, in the form
of a grant of land or in some other way. Mr.
Walker, President of the Company, is to de-
vote all his time and energy to the work, and
in his hands it cannot fail. By this movement
a road far enough north to suit St. Louis, and
and terminate at New .York on the Atlantic
and San Francisco on the Pacific, is secured.
CARPET FOR THE PRESIDENT'S Hounc.—lt is
stated that a gorgeous carpet has just been fin
ished at Glasgow, Scotland, for the White
House at Washington. It measures 80 feet
long by 40 feet broad; the portion woven in the
loom without a seam being 72 feet by 31 feet,
and the remainder consists of a handsome bor
der, sewn on. The filling-in of the carpet is a
ruby and crimson damask, with three tasteful
medallions in the centre, and a rice corner
piece to correspond. The medallions are filled
up with boquets of flowers, designed and exe
cuted with magnificent taste. The entire piece
weighs upwards of a ton, and is valued at $2,
500.
TIIF: GEORGIA SENATOR:A paragraph in
the Savannah Courier states that there is
growing disposition among the leading mem
bers of the Democratic party in Georgia to con
fer the post of United States Senator upon
Howell Cobb, the Governor of that State, as n
reward for the efficient services he rendered
the party in defeating Jenkins and electing
Johnson, Governor.
THANCROMNC.—CIovernor Powell, of Ken
tucky, has issued his proclamation, fixing upon
the 34th of November as a day of thanksgiv
ing in that State, when Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connec
ticut and Rhode Island also observe the same
festival.
1 Rev. R. J. Breckenridge hasjust re
signed the post of Superintendant of Public
Instruction in Kentucky, in consequence of a
change in his position as minister of the Gos
pel. He has held the office for nix years
$ The wood sellers at Winchester, Va„
have resolved to haul no more wood to that
town after the lot of November, unless the cor
poration repeals an ordins,,,
fur inrr etion
MUCH IN LITTLE.
Winter is coming.
Or Parents should properly correct their
ebildren and keep them off the streets after
dark.
air Panch, in his fashions' notice for Onto.
her, says "bonnets will be worn on the small of
the back:'
tr r MiRS Julia Clark, an elderly female hung
heraelf in Wheeling kat week. Cause—loas of
her tobacco pipe. •
. .
ge- About forty pledged Maine Law men
have been elected to the Pennsylvania n0u5.0
of Representatives.
re' At the dead letter office in Washington
about two thousand busliele of letters are an•
nually opened.
Soar Byron says: "A thousand years scares
serve to form a State." He had never heard
of California.
se- Charles Lamb wondered once why peo
ple made such a fuss about children—"they
were so very common."
In. The contributions to the Washington
Monument at the Crystal, Palace, since its
opening, amount to $5,266. *
APO. "I have very little respect for the ties of
this world," as the chap said when the rope was
put around his neck.
itS.lmages of saints are seen in every Rus
sian house; but in houses of ill repute the law
requires them to be veiled.
RM. The subscriptions to the Kentucky
Henry Clay Monument Fund have reached
thirty thousand dollars.
per Part of the suit of Louis Napoleon in
his late "progress" through the northern pro
vinces, was eighty cooks!
ti" The number of persons annually killed
or badly burned in the United States in explo
sions of burning fluid is computed to be two
hundred and fifty.
Stir The young cub that kissed one of the
fair sex of our town, the other evening, says it
is an exciting operation and declares he tastes
molasses , ' on his lips yet.
Itia. The entire sum of money raised by the
churches of Great Britian for missionary pur
poses is about $1,750,000; by those of A meri
ea, $750,000, making altogether, $2,000,000.
pry Whenever you see a man running
round the streets And asking a great many
questions about other peoples business, you
can take it for granted that that man has no
business of his own.
fir The number of students connected with
the Harvard University is seven bundred—a,
greater number, probably, than has ever before
belonged at ohe time to any literary biotite
tion is America.
QE' A Southern paper says, "General Jack
son's cabinet was a unit; but the cabinet of
General Pierce is a cipher." A Western edi
tor, however, thinks, that "It is composed of
vulgar fractions."
07' Jenny Lintra baby, according to the
Musical World, begins to manifest signs of tan
sieal capacity. Its cries are so melodious that,
even to the refitted ear of the Queen of Song
herself; they are seldom unpleasing.
Temperance Polilics.—The vote cast tbr the
temperance candidates in Pennsylvania, in the
recent contest, is estimated at 43,000 by the
Harrisburg Crystal Fountain, of which number
11,311 are set down to the credit of Philadel
phia
Tile VitPinnate lan—the Huntsville (Ala.)
Southern Advocate, nakes the following an
nouncement: "Died—ln Lincoln county, Tenn.,
on the 3d ult., Mrs. Susan, wife of W. C. Solo
man, aged about 33 years. This is the third
wife Mr. Soloman Las lust in the abort space of
twelve months."
Wlt was not until Queen Anna's time,
1709, that the Londoners had the luxury of a
daily journal—The Daily Courant. Scotland
had a newspaper in 1658; Ireland, in 1641;
Germany, in 1612; the American colonies, in
1704. The earliest country that had them is
suppbsed to be Itally.
M.. The Methodists of the U. S. have mado
admirable provision for the education of their
pastors. They have already eight first class
colleges, with property and funds amounting
in the aggregate to $494,063, and another is
projected in Missouri. They have also forty
six theological academies and seminaries, in
twenty-nine of which there are 4936 students,
an average of 178 students to each seminary.
The oldest of their colleges is at Wibraham,
and was fouudcd in the year 1830 by the Rev.
Wilbur Fisk.
pith The latest discovery of the excavators
at Pompeii is a group of skeletons in the act
of flight, accompanied by a dog There aro
three human beings, one of them a young girl,
with gold rings and jewels still on her fingers.
The fugitives had bags of gold and silver with
them, snatched up, no doubt, in haste and
darkness. But the fiery flood was on their
track; and vain their wealth, their flight, the
age of ono, the youth of the other. The burn
ing lava rolled above them and beyond; and
the faithful dog turned back to share the for
tunes of its mistress—dying at her side. Seen
by the light of such an incident, how vividly
that night of horrors looms upon the sense 1.
41111 tiiallgitir&l.
HUNTINGDON.
Nor. I, MSS.
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Rye, per he
Corn, per bu
Buckwheat, per bu• • •
Oats. per bu
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Hay, per ton
Butter, per lb.,
PHILADELPHIA,
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Nov. 6, 1853.
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1 37
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White Wheat, per bu
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Greek words from which it is derived. This is
the significant and appropriate title of the Tore
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by I)r. J. S. Hocoursos, of Philadelphia, from
the fourth stomoch of the Ox. fur the cure of In
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