HUNTINGDON JOURNAL N T , Itis,n 11 : 41,, Z era -et .7 MT:O 1 A 4.!: • :.tr:SISNWN --~ Wednesday Morning, Nov. 30, 1853. 8. L. GLASGOW, Editor. CIIICULATION 1000. Agents for the Journal. The following persons we have ar e olnted Agents for the HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, who are author ized to receive and receipt ft,r money paid on sub scription, and to take this names of new subscri bers at our published prices. We do this for the convenience of nor subscri bers living at a distance from Huntingdon. Jona W. THOSIPSON L Ecq., Hollidaysburg, SAMUEL COEN, East Barren, GEORGE W. CORNELIUS, Shirley township, JAMES E. GLASGOW, Clny township, DANIEL TEAGUE, Esq., Cromwell township, Dr. J. P. ASHCOM, Penn township, Dr. 11. L. Brrowsr, Cass township, J. Waannast MarrEasr' Franklin township, 'SAMUEL STEPTEY, Jackson township, ROBERT M'BURNET, to Col. Jsro. C. WAveoa, Brady township, Molting Baoww, Springfield township, Horcntssots, Esq., Warriorsmark tp., JAMES MCDONALD, Brady township, GEORGE W. WHITTAKER, Petersburg, HENRI' NEFF, West Barrec. JOHN BALSUACII, Waterstrect, Maki. CHARLES MICKLEY. Tod township, A. M. BLAIR, Dublin township, GEORGE WILSON, Esq., Tell township, JAMES CLARK, Birmingham. NATHANIEL LYTLE, Esq., Spruce Creek. Maj. W. Moose, Alexandria. B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace. SIMEON Wittonr, Esq., Union township. DAVID CLARKSON, Esq., Cassville. SAMUEL Wtoros, Esq., Franklin township. Joni Lvvz, Esq., Shirleysburg. DAVID PARKER, E:q., WIIITiOPSMSTk. DAVID AURANDT, Esq., Todd township. New Advertisements. Land for sale, in Clay township, by Robert Madden.—Auditor's Notice, by John Reed.— Safes, by Evans & Watson, Philadelphia.— Land for sale in West township, by Borst d: Rupert. Sir WHIG STATE COMMITTEE.—The Whig State Committee will meet at the Amer ican Hotel, CHESNUT Street, Philadelphia, on TUESDAY, 13th of December at 3 o'clock, P.M. CHARLES THOMSOM JONES, Chair. Henry S. Evans, Secretary. VER.. Last Thursday was Tankegiving day. It was celebrated in this Borough by going to church, drinking liquor, attending turkey din. ners, and keeping one window shutter of the store rooms and lawyers' offices open. In our opinion, judging from the manner this day is generally kept, it would be much better for the health, morals and religious sentiment of the community, if the Governor would issue no more proclamations for days of Thanksgiving. It would be well enough if they were properly observed, but the way they are generally pass. ed, it is perfectly farcical and has become a heathen festivity. 11€11.In another column our readers will dis- cover that the Shirleysburg Female Seminary' is offered for sale or rent. This institution is located in a very beautiful and healthy section of the country, and possesses many attractions. The building is almost new, of brick, and is large, spacious and convenient. Any person wishing to conduct a Female Seminary, could not well do better than to make this institution his selection. TRUE AMERICAN.—The new locomotive, on the Central road, bearing this significant ap pellation, which draws the passenger train con. ducted by Col. Weitzel, has floating front its front two very beautiful flags, one blue and the other red, costing each twenty : fire dollars.— They were presented by Mr. Baldwin, the maker of the engine. Col. Weitzel, the gentle. manly Conductor, has occasion to feel proud of such tokens of regard, and we have no doubt he fully appreciates the liberality of the bestow er. From the Pittsburg Morning Post. KEYSERS PECTORAL SYREP.-We have tried this medicine for a severe cold. and can truly say we have never found any remedy so pleas ant and effectual. It is an expectorant, yet does not sicken the stomach; and it prevents costiveness. It is very highly recommended by physicians and others who have tried it, as speedy and effectual cure fur colds, influenza, hoarseness, whooping cough, croup, quinsey, and numerous other complaints of the bronchial organs and lungs. We can safely recommend it as an excellent remedy. For sale at the Drug Store of Thomas Read S: Son, Hunting don, and Druggists everywhere. ier Hon. Andrew Parker will please ac cept our thanks for a copy of the "Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the year 1852," on agriculture, and a copy of the "Obit uary Addresses" delivered in the U. S. Senate and blouse of Representatives, on the occasion of the death of the Into distinguished States man, Daniel Webster. UP The Legislature of Alabama has elec. ted C. C. Clay for the long term in the U. S. Senate, expiring in 1859, and Benjamin Fitz. paterick to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the late Vice President King. Mr Congress meets on next Monday. Our distinguished menber, Hon. John McCulloch, is on the ground ready to respond to the inter• cat of his constituency. The people, in him, will have a faithful and industrious Represents. Live. tIIE APPROACH ... MG Session of Congress. will be composed as follows: Senate-36 Dent. ocrats, 21 Whir; 5 vacancies, the latter being in Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Maine and New Hampshire. House of Representa tivcs—Demccrats 150, Whigail, Free Soil 4. b@• The mute crop in Kentucky this year, is estimated 33 per cent. larger than anal.— Seven thousand five hundred have passed through one toll gate, this season, on the road leading through the Cutnberland Pap, destined for Georgia and South Carolina. ier We were perfectly frustrated in our ea• pectations of receiving lots of cash during the Court. We scarcely got as much as would per. chase a cord of pine wood. Oh dear—what shocking times ! se!... Sheriff Zeigler retires from office, we believe, with credit, haring ben a faithful and honorable ineumbeut, IiA.RK.EL Before the trial of this unfortunate old wo man, we deemed it inadvisable to say any thing on the subject, lest, peradventure, a sentiment might hare fallen from our pen that a ould have prejudiced the public mind to some degree.— But al the trial Is over, and has resulted in her conviction, of murder of the first degree, it matters little what in said. Elizabeth Harker has been found guilty, by a jury of her own countrymen, of poisoning her sister, Margaret Harris,sometime in September last, and Idas accordingly received her sentence from the Court. To see an old woman, sixty-five years of age, arraigned before Court for any crime, much less for murder, indeed presents a very melan choly spectacle, but the laws of the land are such that they must be vindicated when viola. ted, or human life would soon become of trifling importance in the estimation of desperadoes and blood-thirsty out-laws. All have an oppor tunity to learn what our laws are, and when any are made to suffer—even the penalty of death, there should be no complaint. It is their own fault. Oar sympathies were truly with this old wo man—and we had hoped, even up to the last moment, that some evidence would be produced to prove her innocence; but since this, unfortu nately, has not been the case, and it has been made to appear that she wilfully and deliber ately murdered her sister, by the administration of Arsenic, nothing now remains except a straight forward and manly execution of the law, unless she happens to be pardoned by the Governor, which is doubtful. We know it is hard to speak of the vindica tion of the law in a case like the one before us, but the matter i:. a plain one, and for the sake of the happiness and peace of the community, justice should have her demands. Of course, if there was any other way for the Court to dis pose of cases such as this old woman's, it would be much more agreeable to our natural feelings, and apparently seem more consistent with cir cumstances, than to hang them by the neck until dead. But, while we have a law such as we have, we say let it be vindicated to the let ter. Mrs. Harker had able counsel to defend her, JOUN WILLIAMSON, H. B. Swoops, and A. W. Bummer, ESQRS. Before the jury, Mr. WIL LIAESON spoke four hours and a quarter, in an eloquent and forcible manner, but all his elo quence and labor proved of no avail, because truth held the balance of power and she threw herself against him. Mr. SWOOPE acquitted I himself very creditably indeed—his argiment before the jury, considering the circumstances, was one of the most powerful and logical ones that we have listened to for many days. This was Mr. SWOOPE'S debut, and it was indeed one of which lie need not be the least ashamed.— He has talents of which ho has reason to feel proud, but he should be careful to direct them in the proper channel. Our advice to him would be, if he wishes to stand foremost at the bar, which be can undoubtedly do, in a very short time, he ought to give the subject of law his whole attention. We advise him to pese cern, and let the tongue of envy continue its vile abuse—he will soon be beyond the reach of any thing of the kind, and as far above those poor little contracted souled creatures who now envy his position, as the sun is above the heavens. Joins SCOTT, J. SEWELL STEWART, and S. T. Snows, Eons. were employed on the part of the prosecution, which was ably conducted. Mr. Scores argument before the jury, was clear, searching, eloquent and forcible. There arc, indeed, few better lawyers than Mr. Score. The Bogus Democracy It would be as impossible to define what modern Democracy is, as it would be to "dam up the Nile with Bulrushes." No body ever saw or heard a definition of it, and nobody ever will. It is without form or substance, and con sequently is susceptible of no definition. The jackass editor of the Hollidaysburg Standard, who attempts to read a lesson to the honest hard-fisted yeomanry of Westmoreland county, probably could define the principles by which he, with others, professes to be governed. We have do doubt he will try his hand at it some of these days. He has impudence and presump- tion enough to do any thing—enough even to enable him to denounce Democracy one day andcreach it up the next. But, when we look abroad over the country, and examine the causes of the great disaffection which exists almost in every election district in the whole United Stntes, among the Bogus de -1 mocrney, the only conclusion to which any rea sonable and intelligent man can possibly arrive, I in reference to what constitutes modern demo. crag, is, that it is the "cohesive power of pub lie plunder." This is language which was used by South Carolina's late lamented Statesman, John C. Calhoun, when duty called upon him, on a certain occasion, to expose the corruption and duplicity of locofocotem, or the Bogus De mocracy of the country. And it is as true as any language con be. Nothing holds the lo cofoco party together save the cormorant desire for the spoils of office, or public plunder. What is it that has caused the total annihi lation of the party in the State of New York— in Massachusetts—and other places? If they have principles, and those principles are based on common sense anti sound reason, and have a prosperous and republican tendency, and if the object of the great Bogus Democratic party is the peoples' welfare, why all this dissatisfac tion and fighting among themselves about the spoils of office? No—they have no principles —no measures, whose development ever will, the least, increase the brightness of our coun try's glory—or add a single star to the galaxy of American greatness. They may talk about equal rights and the policy of non.protection to Home Industry, as being absolutely necessary rto promote the happiness of the people and se. , cure an equivalent for their labor—but where I are the evidences ? It is all moonshine—all perfect nonsense—all done in the hope to de• ceive a certain portion of the people. Had it not been for the saving influence of Whig principles—for their prosperous and gin. Hotta tendency—our Republican Institutions, in all probability, would this day, be like those of classic Greece—buried among the ruins of our former greatness. " As thb rays of the Sun are necessary to the growth of vegetation, so are oca principles ne cessary to the growth and healthful condition of the great body politic." Annihilate, if it were possible, Whig principles, and the Amer ican people would soon be called on to chant a requiem over the grave of liberty. Freedom would shriek, as the principles of the immortal sage and patriot of Ashland would fall. As long as Whig policy and Whig principles con . Cum, to excl.- , as influence in the 14,o:0:J-rein of governmental affairs, so long have the peo ple a guaranty for the continuance of their lib. erties and the prosperity of their country's in• stitutions. But blot from existence the con servative doctrines of the great NatiOnal Whig party, and you tear down the very foundation stones of the classic structure of living freedom. The Whigs bare nothing to discourage them —they are the ."bone and sinew" of the land, and fight not for public plunder and the spoils of office. Their object is higher—purer—ho. Her. Their principles are the bulwark of Amer ican Republicanism—their aim their country's glory, We say, then, to the Whigs of Hun• tingdon county and elsewhere. stand firm and fight valiantly on, and soon victory will glori ously perch upon your banner. Foreign News. The Emperor Nicholas has declared war, and several bloody battles have taken place be tween the armies of Russia and Turkey, in which the latter are said to have been'vietori• 0115. The Turkish army occupies advantageous positions on the river Danube, from which, it is supposed, the Russians will decoy them by some means or other, and then give the deci sive blow which must terminate the campaign. England, from present indications, seems dis posed to remain no indifferent spectator to the bloody scenes that are now transpiring on the old continent, though she has yet given no po sitive demonstrations of her course. France has gone a little farther, and has de signated an army, according to report, of hoot tyfive thousand soldiers to be sent to aid Tur key in maintaining her national rights. From what we can gather from our latest news on the subject of hostilities between Rue sin and Turkey, we are not warranted in ex pressing the opinion that the conflict will be of long duration. The interests of the tottering thrones of kingly power on the old continent, demand a speedy close of general warfare be tween these two despotic nations, and we can not think that England, France, and others, will remain idle spectators to the bloody dra ma, and suffer the very principles by which royalty is maintained to become entirely des troyed. We may be mistaken; but we do not think so, though we would delight to see every monarchical throne crumble to dust. Sentence of Elizabeth Harker. We this week publish the sentence of this unfortunate, but evidently guilty woman, pro nounced by his Honor, Judge TAYLOR, on Friday last: "Elizabeth Harker, stand up." "What have you to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced against you ?" The prisoner made no reply. ELIZABETH HARPER: A jury, chosen, as it might be said, by yourself, after giving the most patient and feeling consideration to your case, and to every thing that ingenuity tend el oquence could bring to hear in Your behalf have found you guilty of MURDER OF THE FIRST DEGREE. So overwhelming wan the evi dence of your guilt, that it admitted no other conclusion; and we approve entirely of that ver dict, which makes it our ditty to pronounce up. on you the sentence of the law. You arc pres ent now, to hear and receive that awful sen tence, and we delay it only to say a few words intended for your own good. Your crime shocks us, and shocks all. It is terßDEß—murder by poison, deliberately and most cruelly administered. Your victim was your sister, whom you visited at her home, hav ing first provided yourself with poison for the purpose of destroying her life, to make that home yours. Approaching her then in pre tended affection and kindness, to administer to her wants, you gave her the first draught which stretched her upon a bed of torture, and with the pretext of ministering to her in sickness,— a sickness which you had caused,—you clung to her bed-side, watching every opportunity to mingle arsenic with the drink which she cra ved in her burning agony, until your supply of the deadly drug was exhausted; and you failed, for the time, to effect the real purpose of your visit. But you were not satisfied. You went away, and procured another supply of arsenic, and returned, and plied it in the same cruel manner, until you saw your victim, after days of intense pain and suffering, in the agonies of death. When you saw your work was done, but while your victiM was only dying, and not yet dead, you were up-itairs plaining how you would manage the affairs of the house, and even the disposition you would make of her clothes! As soon as she was laid out, and you had no further use for the arsenic, you took the paper and put it in the stove, more effectually , to conceal what you had done. You then thought you had accomplished your purpose; that no one hail seen you give the poison; end that the horrid secret was hurried deep in your own depraved bosom. Alt, let your dreadful' fate be a timely warning to every one who has the heart to niiirder,.that such a deed cannot he hid! The first thing you did to conceal your crime, seems to have been the first thing that lead to inquiry, and to your detection; mid the very grave to which you had consigned your sister, opened its closed portals to furnish evidence of your guilt. Convicted of a crime so shocking to every feeling of humanity—perpetrared by means, in a manner, and from a motive, which evidence the very utmost wickedness and depravity of heart—it is our duty to say to you, n-liat we solemnly believe, that you have no reason to hope that anything which can be done or urged in your behalf, will save you from suffering the penalty of the law. Now!iere can you look with hope, but to Infinite Mercy! And we earnestly exhort you not to allow yourself to be deceived in this matter, or to deceive your self; but to begin at once, and spend the whole of the brief remant of your days in seeking re pentance and forgiveness from God. It only remains to pronounce the sentence of the law; which is, That you, Elizabeth Harker, be taken hence to the place whence you came, within the jail of the county of Huntingdon, and thence to the place of execution within the walls or yard of the jail of said county of Huntingdon, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you aro dead. And may God have mercy upon your soul I LOUISIANA ELECTION.—In the second Con gressional district, as far as heard from, Hunt, Whig, has 297 majority, and the threeparishes from which returns are yet to he received will increase this majority from 700 to 1000 votes; so that it appears he is elected, notwithstanding the adverse nature of the first returns. The Democratic State ticket will be carried hy over 3000. To the Legislature it is known that 27 Whigs and 44 Democrats are elected to the House, and 12 Whigs and 17 Democrats to the Senate. When complete; it is expected that the Democratic majority on joint ballot will roach 39. To Congress, Messrs. Dunbar, Per kins, and Jones, Democrats, and Hunt, Whig, are chosen. NEW YORE EXPEDITION TO LIBERIA.—The New York State Colonization Society =Thurs. day sent off the bark Isle de Cuba for Monro via. She carried fifty-three emigrants, of whom thirty-two were from Pennsylvania, four from Connecticut, one from New Jersey, and the re mainder from Now York. They are all above eleven years old, with ono exception, and all able to read and write. Among them are two Methodist Episeopel clergymen, a daguerreoty pint, and a schoolmaster; also. Abraham Cal& who is reputed to own $lO,OOO worth of prer.t.. YorVIA be pr:f:r. - . Lib,ria. The Late Election--Our Future. 'Tis said "there is always it calm after a storm," and now after the eseitement always attending elections where the sovereignty of the people is manifested through the ballot box has died away, the political atmosphere again unclouded, and the smoke of tins battle dim!). peared, it may not be unprofitable to take a short view of the contest just concluded. It is a settled principle that there is no cause with.' out an effect, and vice versa. Had any one, three months previous to the late elections, pre. dieted what we have lived to witness, he would have found very few believers; so completely hidden were the results. In our own State, the result of the contest for State Officers, was generally predicted in favor of the Locofoco ticket. But not so with the Legislature, The Whigs have had a small majority in the Senate for several years, and had every prospect of keeping the control of that conservative branch of the Government, as the elections about to take place in strong Whig districts would in. sure it. But what was the result? In Allegheny county Dr. Carothers was ben ten by Mr. McClintock; and by what? Loco foco voters ? No; by Whig votes driven from his support by his placing himself upon differ ent issues than those contained in the Whig platform. He ran as an advocate of the tem perance Reform, and his defeat is the result of such doubtful policy. In the Blair district, Col. White, Whig, was defeated by Maj. Cromwell, indirectly. There a Locofoco, Mar tin Bell, well aware that any votes he could take from Col. White, would thereby increase the chances of Cresswell's election, presented himself as a Temperance candidate. The Whigs as is their custom, deserted their party lines, and in great numbers fell into the sup port of Bell, which brought about the defeat of White, by almost 300 votes. In the city of Philadelphia a rather strange scene was enact ed. Regular Conventions were held, and reg ular nominations made by the Whigs. There, a nomination made heretofore has been equiv. alent to an election; and the Whigs throughout the State were perfectly satisfied with the nom inees of their brother!, of the city, and looked for their triumphant election. To expect a de feat in this.old Gibralter of Whiggery was ri diculous. Some of the nominees had previous. ly been members of our Legislature, and had acquitted themselves in a manner creditable to their constituency and the State. O'Neil, as a Senator, was respected and relied upon, and Flanigen as a member of the lower House, enjoyed the confidence of the whole party, and exerted more influence by his eloquence, intel ligence and industry than any man in the House. When oppositionwas organized against those men, and their characters traduced by men who had for years stood high in the Whig ranks, and by men too, whose motto is 'rule or ruin' whose traitorous course proved their dis regard of Whig success, as long as they had ri vals for the honors. We any when these facts became known, a general surprise was manifested; but still grea ter was the contempt for them when it was an nounced that they had triumphed. Never will the party in the country forget the treachery of some Whig leaders in the city, and their ungrateful and unjust treatment of the Whig nominees, and especially Jos. It Flanigen, who was the target for their concentrated attacks.— His defeat has not shaken our confidence in him. and an opportunity will yet be offered for a triumph over his enemies. Had the charac ter of Mr. Flanigen been exceptionable, why did not his enemies prevent his nomination ? That was their time. He was pledged to the Reform that they pretended to build their hopes upon. But when no other excuse would offer, Judas like, they betrayed him. And the re sult is a mongrel ticket from the city. We are happy to still recognize Mr. Flanigen ns a true Whig, and to look upon the Daily Nenv as a reliable and true exponent of Whig principles in the city, and feel confident that a great ma jority of the thirty in the State will endorse the assertion. The * Senator there was lost by the quarrels among the Whigs, thus deciding the political aspect of the Senate in favor of the Locofocos. the candidates for the lower House, in many of the strong Whig counties were defeated by either going in with the Tem perance Reforth, or loving the support of Whigs who went over to the aid of the Temperance candidates themselves. Thus the fact stares us in the face, that we have lost our influence in the Legislature; not by Locofoco votes, but by attempting to do too much; by going in with issues foreign to our creed, and by the open opposition of some of our leaders. It is not a triumph of the Loco locos, but the natural result of the divisions in our party. The lesson, we hope, may be care fully studied and have a good effect. If the Locofocos have profited by our quarrels in this State, we have the consolation to know that the Whigs have profited by their dissensions in other States. In Maryland, the Legislature is strongly Whig, which secures a Whig U. S. Senator. In New York we have the greatest triumph to record. The election of all the Whig State officers, full Whig Canal Board, and a large Whig majority in both branches of the legislature. AU. S. Senator, in place of Mr. SeWard, is to be elected in '55, and the choice, very likely will be a Whig. Here, the triumph has beets brought about by the quar rels between the Herds and Softs. Whether their difficulties will be harmonized, we cannot say, but as yet the prospect is very dull. Here we have again a lesson to study. Although the picture is more gratifying than in our own State, vet it proves to us the evils of petty quar rels. h has given encouragement to the Whigs throughout the whole country, and the hope that we will again rise from our political grave is brightening every day. "The darkest hour is just before the dawn," and as our prospects were almost as dark, previous to the late elec. tions; as is necessary for all reasonable purpo ses, we may conclude that the dawn of victory is just breaking upon us. It has beets satisfac torily demonstrated to us that harmony among all our members can alone ensure success, and that dissentious will certainly prove fatal. We have our own example to look upon. We also have the example in New York. Our success in '4B was the result of quarrels among our en emies; and we have the prospect of the same success in '56. It now remains for the Whigs to be active and vigilent; to cast off all linnet ural alliances; place all your confidence in Whig principles; rally round, one and all, and defend the good Whig tabernacle, and a day of glory will yet dawn upon your efforts. Let the whole party act as a unit. Spurn from your ranks those who seek admission only to cor rupt and divide you. Far better would you be without such assistance. But six months ago our enemies vainly asked if there was a "Whig party." They have already found nut that we are still in existence, with our 1,300,000 votes, and are preparing for a renewal of the conflict. We have a Governor to elect next year, and we urge thin Whigs to remain true to their principles—await the action of the Convention —and when the nominee is announced, rally around him as one man—and we may greet your ears with the news of a Whig triumph next October.—Telegraph and Slate Journal. GEGROTA.—From the Message of Governor Cone to the Legislature wo learn that the pre scut debt of Georgia is $2,635.472, and that the balance in the treasury on the 20th of Oc tober was $74,857. Gov. Cons recommends a return to annual sessions of the General As sembly, and believes that the public judgement of the State is prepared to acquiesce therein.— He also recommends the extension of the law giving judicial elections to the people to the re maining cases of State officers elected by the Legislature. In the event of the Lemmou case being carried before the Supreme Court, be advises that the Executive he authorized to employ able counsel iu behalf of the State of Georgia. The message touches upon a great variety of local topics, and concludes by an al lusion to the flattering prospect which the pres ent condition of our Federal relations presents, now that the angry sectional strifes which at one time threatened to disturb our domestic tramtuiblity have so halpily terminated. OLBEKNATOWAIr —The Wellsburg AVverli see but hoisted Om name. of Ron. Jarnce Pol lock f;:r Go-enor. The Breach Widening. Potomac, the able and reliable "Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot, in ro• ferring to the perplexities and troubles of Pre• sident Pierce, says: Unfortunately there is growing up, stronger and stronger every day, here and almost every where else, in opposition to him, in the ranks of his own party, which he can never meet and overturn, nor even appease, without promptly dismissing, or getting rid of. a portion of his Cabinet. This condition will be exacted of him as a sine qua non, by those who will in no other war bo appeased. It is already known that Senator Bright, of Indianna. speaks freely and openly, against the line of Freesoil policy pursued by the Ad ministration, and against some of the appoint ments of Ministers to go abroad, sack as those of Soule, Dale and Belmont. Mr. Bright takes ground with Edmund Burke, of New Hamp shire, and the Harde of New York. Nor will these two leading and vigorous Old Guard Dem ocrats lack company in their great work of re forming the course of the President. It is whispered here, in political circles, that the Stantons have had good cause to cherish other than friendly feelings for the President. It is asserted that, at the time the friends of Mr. Stanton, of Kentucky, were pressing that gentleman for the office of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds, for this District, the President gave vent to some expressions very prejudicial to the character and honor of Mr. Stanton. To Mr. Stanton, of Tennessee, ev ery way qualified for, and eminently entitled to a mission abroad, and to whom the whole country expected a foreign mission at least would be promptly tendered, no mission abroad was tendered. The two Stantons have been returned to Congress, where they can, and have the ability to, speak for themselves Another fact:, whiCh hears hard against the President, as a Chief Magistrate of high integ rity and unsullied honor, is whispered about here in Democratic circles, which has been left for a Whig writer to tell to the public, in order that, if it be not true, the friends of the Presi dent may be authorized to put an extinguish. er upon it. It is due to the President that he should know what some of his professed Demo cratic friends are breathing in whispers against him, instead of telling him frankly what is charged, and thus giving him an opportunity to explain. I will therefore do him justice to let him know publicly of one of the grave char. ges whispered against his fair fame. Just before Mr. President Fillmore went out of office he appointed John Ambler, Esq., Mar shal of Western Virginia. Mr. Ambler was a State's Right politician, a high-toned, honora ble gentleman, and a faithful public officer.— Further, he was the son-in-law of Senator Ma son. This latter fact probably had some weight with Mr. Fillmore in selecting Mr. Ambler for the Marshalship, for he was an amiable and kind-hearted President, who loved to conciliate distinguished and influential Democrats—so much so, that just before he left the Presiden tial chair he appointed, at the solicitation of Franklin Pierce, Mr. Brodhead, a violent and bitter Democrat, Second Comptroller of the Treasury. After the installation of President Pierce in the Executive Chair an effort was made in Virginia to get Mr. Ambler removed from office, in order that a regular Pierce De mocrat might be appointed in his place.— Strong papers calling fbr Mr. Ambler' s remov al were gotten up and laid before the President. But for some time action was delayed. It would not quite do, it was thought, to dismiss n cap. hie and upright Marshal from office who had Senator Mason for his father-in-law. And yet it would not do to displease the host of Demo crats who had petitioned for his removal by re. tainining him? What was to be done? It is reported that this was done; that the President having learned that Mr. Ambler had arrived in this city, sent for him; that at the interview, he told Mr. Ambler that to retain him in the of fice of Marshal, under the appointment of Mr. Fillmore. would be to place his father-in-law, Senator Mason, in an embarrassing situation. That those who were clamoring for the minor al of Mr. Ambler, would charge his retention in office to Senator Mason, whiclt he, the Pres ident, did not desire; that he wished to take the responsibility in the matter upon his own shoulders, and that this could he done, and that he could make the net of appointment his own, by Mr. Ambler tendering to hint his res ignation of the appointment conferred upon him by President Fillmore, and then receiving back from him a new appointment to the same office; that this would relieve Senator Mason, and place the responsibility where it properly belonged. To this Mr. Marshal Ambler is said to have promptly and cheerfully assented, by nt once writing and tendering the resignation of his of fice. The next day, to his profound astonish ment, he saw the announcement of the appoint ment of his successor to the Marshalship which, the day before, he had been cutely induced to Is this so, or is it not? It comes in no ques tionable shape, and vet it is too had to he be lieved of President Pierce. I leave it for the Union, or the Sentinel,or the Evening Star, to explain. County Temperance Meeting. In pursuance of public notice, the regular meeting of the County Temperance League convened in the Court House, in Huntingdon, on Wednesday evening, Nov. 16, 1853, when on motion the Hon. THOMAS F. STEWART, in the absence of the President, was called to the Chair, and JAMES NEELY, K. L. GREEN, MOSES MILLER, Maj. S. CALDWELL, and SAM. WEL SHAVER, Vice Presidents. J. K. M'Caltn, W. N. M'Alister, John Nil.. Eamon, Esqrs., and Dr. J. H. Wintrode, being severally called upon, addressed the meeting in a very forcible and eloquent manner, portray ing in vivid colors the many and growing evils resulting to society from the sale and abase of that which intoxicates, and eventually ruins its votaries, and earnestly urged upon all the friends of good order and morals, the many permanent benefits and lasting advantages, which would be conferred upon every member of our great and flourishing Commonwealth, by the passage of a law, prohibiting the sale of all that intoxicates as a beverage. The following resolutions were offered, and, on motion, unanimously adopted: Resolved, That we earnestly recommend and urge upon all the friend's of Temperance, in every borough and township in the county, the importance and necessity of at once and -tome. Wald!' organizing au xiiiittry associations to the League, and that they be requested to report their organization to the Secretaries, as soon thereafter as possible. Resolved, That we recommend to each of them, to subdivide their respective districts in to BA -districts, and appoint three or six per sons who will canvass the sub-districts and so licit every proper member of society, to sign petitions in favor of the passage of a Prohibito ry Liquor Law, by the Legislature during the next Session. Resolved, That the thanks of the meeting are hereby tendered to the Speakers, for their able speeches upon the occasion. On motion, adjourned. THOS. F. STEWART, Prest. pro tem. J. NEELY, and others, V. P. pro tern, William P. bison, James Maguire, Secretaries. John W. Mattern, Hollidaysburg "Register" will please copy. ler Ohio has T 2,000 school districts, and 36,000 school dimetoni. Them are 838,000 youths between the ages of four years and twenty-one, of whom 830,000 depend on the Common Schools for their education, and more than 500.000 will attend school' this winter; 50, 000 , for tlio first time, and 40;000 for the last Limo,. and a number sufficient to turn the scale do tote tkclitn, ""ill become c r•t , re n..,f y-nr. Important Decision. • The Supreme Court of this State has decided, in an appeal from the District Court of Alle gheny county. in which that county was plain• tiff, that shores of Bank stock are nut subject to taxation far county purposes. The follow ing is the decision of the Court, as delivered by one of the :ledges: " The question here is, are slows of Dank stock subject to taxation for county purpoles Be law of 1844, section 'shares °retook in ' any Bank are made taxable for county purpo• se4." and section 23 prescribes the measures of the State tax and mode of collecting it.- 1 But all this was changed by the law of 1850 regulating Banks. By its section 21, the tax lon dividends is considerably increased, and be section 26, a direct tax is added on the stuck itself, with a proviso that the stock shall not be Isubject to texation for any other purpose, and this provision remains in the supplementary law of 1852, pamphlet laws, page 443, which repeals this direct tan; and the result is that the 21st section of the act of 1850 is the only rule for taxing bank stock, and is not taxable for county purposes. We can not appreciate the distinction that would make shares in the hands of owners liable, while capital stock is expressly exempt. "And we can not see reasons that justify the exemptior. of beak stock from all other than State taxes. The State needs this source of revenue for its own purposes, and it may not suit to leave it open to general taxation.— Moreover, banks are not allowed to deal with their money as they please, and Gx their own rate of discount, and with such restrictions on them it might not be just to impose upon them the same burdens that can well be borne by the wealth that is unrestricted in the mode of its employment. Besides this, the burden of such taxation is very unequal, most of it esea• ping taxntion by favoritism, concealment or carelessness." This is nn important derision, inasmuch 113 we are informed that assessors, in a number of counties, have heretofore assessed bank shares for county purposes. The Cherokees—Appal Message of the Chief The Anneal Message of John Ross, the Chief of the Cherokee Nation, is a concise and sensible document. It refers very appropriate ly to the death of Richard Taylor, assistant principal chief; recounts the narrative of the murder of the two Mairs; recommends further legislation for the suppression of mobs and un lawful assemblages. and adverts to some mat ters bearing on the relationship of the Chero lice Nation to the Government nt Washington. Respecting the proposed territory of Nebraska, the inesslge %WS:— You will hare learned through the public prints, that there was a bill before Congress to establish a new territory to be rolled the terri tory of Nebraska; and although that bill failed to become a law, yet the recollection of the events which led to our removal from the East of the Mississippi river to this country. and of the fact that the boundaries indicated for the territory of Nebraska would, if established, en croach on the lands of Vie Cherokees, may well awaken in our minds serious apprehensions as to our future quiet and temerity. But holding 39 we do, the repeated assurances of the Gov ernment. and the stipulations of solemn trete• ties, that the lands of the Cherokees shall nev• er be embraced within the limits of any state or territory, without their consent; it cannot be supposed that any such encroachments on our rights, would be deliberatelyand intentionally made by the Government. I would suggest, however, the propriety of entering a solemn protest against such an extension of bounda- ries of any state or territory as would in any degree contravene the rights guaranteed to the Cherokee Nation by the Government of the United States. Mr. Soltle's Presentation to the Queen of Spain—His Speech and _ . On the evening of the 23d. Mr. Smile:Min ister of the United States to Spain, was admit ted to an audience with the Queen. The Queen was attended by the Ministerof Foreign Milan, awl by the officers of the Palace. After being ushered in with the usual ceremonies, Mr. Soule handed to the Queen the President's let ter necrediting -him as Envoy to the Spanish Court, and then addressed her as follows, is the English language Madam—ln delivering the let'cr which ac credits me no Envoy Extraordinary and Minis ter Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Court of your Majesty, I cannot dispense with expressing the satisfaction I ex perience in having only to give the most friend ly assurances to your Royal person and to the people confided to your direction and solicitude. The respectable chief who presides at this ino meet over the destinies of America, anxiously desires that the beat understanding should characterize the relations of his government with that of your Majesty, and it would be to me a gratification, as it is a duty, to cultivate and develope every event calculated to render more intimate the ties of interest which exist between Spain and the United States, and to strengthen the, bonds which unite the two Pow ers. I offer, Madam, to your Majesty, my sin cere wishes for the welfare of your royal person and angust family. May the reign of your Majesty he fortunate and fruitful in events des tined to render your people happy and prosper. OUR. To this address the Queen replied as follows: "Monsieur the Minister :—I have heard with satisfitetion the assurances you have given to me relative to the friendly sentiments of the President of the United States. and I feel pleas. me in assuring you that they are not surpassed by those which animate me for his person and for your country. Those new assurances, al. ways grateful to me, convince me more nod more of the interest which Spain, as well as the United States, have to preserve and draw clo. ser their former relations. In me your Excel. lenev will find the best dispositions, and in my Government the sincerest co•operation for the accomplishment of so important and so desire. blo an object." Ve)... The New York Tribune gives nn ac count of the vice, misery, and crime existing in the city of New York, surpassing in horror what we imagined could be found in any place in our country. To improve and correct such a state of things ought to occupy the attention of every philanthropist. How much better em ployed would be the Tribune and its friends in endeavoring to abolish the evils of which they so eloquently complain, nt their own doors, than to he agitating and disturbing the public peace with outcries against slavery I Nothing seen in the South is equal to or can compare with the evils which they themselves admit pre vail in their own city. ,Lot them spend their time and money in correcting Now York crime. and they will have enough to do.—Alec. Gazelle. Extraordinary Trotting, The New York Tribune gives the particulars of n match for $6,000 between Prince, and Ab dallah Colt, a sorrel gelding 7 years old, about 153 bands high, and Hero, a natural pacer, ten miles in harness, over the Union Course, Long Island, on the 11th inst. Hero was with drawn at the close of the 9th mile. The winner trotted the ten miles in twenty. eight minutes eight and a quarter seconds, without opposition the last mile, and coming home in line condition and apparently able to continue the some rate of speed for some miles further. This is the quickest ten miles on record.— Fanny Seeks, on the Union Course, WRS 29m 590. The time of the Pacer is also Very extra. ordinary, as she was only a second or two be. hind the first eight milts. STATUE co WEUMR, BY POWF:BIi.--.1 . 11C friends of Mr, WELISTEE: will he gratified to' know that Mr. Powcas has received an order at Florence from Roston fhr a bronze statute of tho great atatuaman, to ho placed in front of the Massachusetia State House. His bunt of Mr..WBBSTEII, made some yoam ago, ie confess. erny kh. , N I or7itv.l. The Past—Che Present—The Future. But a brief year since the Leeefoco pre :4, teemed with the preiitftnn, that the election of Franklin Pierce to the Presidency of the gni. ted States, had pat an end to the Whig Purty, and there were not wanting weak•minded and faint-hearted Whigs who believed dint their predictions would be realized. Experience has, however, taught them otherwise. Though out of power, the two millions of intelligent and pa triotic voters whose names were recorded then in favor of the brave and chivalrous Scott, and against the wild schemes of Lscofscorstrr, are still associated together in one common broth • eriesod as Whigs, and a; unwilling now as then, to surrender their name or abandon their prim ciplee. They are more satisfied now, than ev er; that there is no safety out of the ark of the %% frig Pert', and as may to bottle for its prin• cipies as they ever were. How is it with oar victorious opponents? Let us see. " Look where you may, and there can he men an internal straggle going on, which most firiel• ly destroy the Leedom organization, and pet the Administration of Franklin Pierer, at the mercy of the Whig,. Bound together by no ties of principles, and quarreling over the di, tribution of the spoils, there is not oven now a State in the Union, in which the party has not within itself the elements, which in tie warm of another year, will reduce it into a minority, if not divide it into two organized factions— , So far from now being taunted by Locufoco co . temporaries with the inquiry, whether there yet exists such a thing as a Whig Party, they are busily engaged in wnging a warfare against each other, and each etching the others destruc tion with as much avidity, as they ever did that of the Whig Party. r In Penneyivania the war of the Shells is jest being commenced, and though it may assume a somewhat different phase from that in New York, it will be carried on with as mach unre lenting bitterness, and about the same result, , as that in the Empire State. Identified as Gor r ernor Bigler is with Mears, Buchanan, Carnp• , bell, Brown, Miller, Forney, and others knosfre to have the confidence of, and to be all power ful with the National Administration, the friends of CllB3 of Dallas. of Houston, and of Douglass, all of whom belong to the wing of the party known ns the National Democracy, and condemn the Free-Soil policy of the Ad , ministration, will make a war upon him as did Dickinson, Bronson, Brady, Clinton, and the Hard-Shells generally, upon Van Buren, Dix and their Free-Soil associrace. Of this we have ample evidence already in the war which is , *aged in Westmoreland—the so called Demo , erotic Star of the West—and shall soon have more of it afforded in the city and county of Philadelphia, from both of which the probahil• tics are there will be Hard-Shell anti-Bigler , delegates to the State Convention. How vain. therefore, were the imbecile con , elusions at which some Whiga arrived at the close of last year's campaign. Let-them who ; I then were simple-minded enough to believe, I that the Whig Party could never again mem perate so as to defeat Locofocoism, now survey the nspect of the political horizon, take renew ed courage• and prepare for another vigorous effort to regain weir ascendency in the State. The time will soon arrive for action. Let them ; prepare, pick their flints, and try again. Penn sylvania con and will be redeemed next year, if' they but one and all do their duty.—daily Xeres. A Mysterious Land. The last California steamer brings accounts of the discovery of the ruins of certain cities. embosomed in the Rocky Mountains, in the entity of the Mormon settlement of Utah:— These cities were passed through:by Capt. Waler, in ISSO, who with the exception of Lieut. Beal, is the only person who has accom plished so great as exploit. Capt. Walker has mottled many interesting particulars in regard to the locality, which cannot fail to elicit great attention and awaken profound interest. Ho found there the ruins in a state of great per fectien. The strce , s were well defined, and many of the buildings were in a remarkable state of preservation; the stone and brick ha, Mg the appearance of being glazed, as though they had been parsed over by n raging mat, gallon. Capt. W. also asserts that he has dis covered in that section a race of Albinos, who are probably the descendants of those alto erected the buildinzs. Mr: are indeed pro. lige source; of repuiation. either to prove Capt. Walker a Lumbrg, cr to discover who were the possessors of these cites, when they existed, and what caused their destruction. Two ME7CICAN Ex-MINISTERS SHOT.—A. let• Or from an army officer, near the Rio Grande, communicates that, by order of Santa Anna, Luis de la Rose, formerly Mexican Minister to the United States, and senor Teruel, one of President Arista's Ministers of War, whose name emapes me, have both been shot recent• ly ' somewhere near the northern boundary of Mexico. De la Rosa was - MiniAtcr of Foreign Affairs immediately after the capitulation of the city of Mexico, and was the immediate in stigator of Santa Anna's expulsion from the country, and wrote a letter informing him of his disgrace. The other victim was also plicated in the same transaction. Both wero • shot summarily without pretence of trial. INSTINCTS OF THE BEAVER—A RAINY WIN* TEE.—The Placerville lierahlsays, Indiana and mountaineers, from every locality where dm beaver abounds, reports the fact that these an imals, contrary to their movements for the last sevOn years, are now raising their dams around their ancient habitations, snore than a foot above their former height,• and that they have commenced their work earlier in the season by at least six weeks, than ever before known.-- From this fact, which is apparent and undispu ted, many anticipate an early commencement, and a larger quantity of runs, and of course' snow upon the mountains, the coming winter, than on any previous one since the discovery of the gold in California. - - CARER OF CRIME.—Of 240 convicts confined in the Tennessee Penitentiary, 38 were tem perate before sentenced, and 202 intemperate, and 127 were drunk when they committed crime. There are 43 whose &titers were tens. perate, 197 whose fathers were intemperate of whom 72 were common drunkards. There are three who have had a classical education, 7 a common Engliih education,los who can read and write, 62 who can red only, and 63 who can neither read nor write. These statistics show very clearly that intemperance and the want of education are the two most fruitful sources of crime. PIGEON Moose.—We aro told, says tho Ciar• ion Democrat, that there is a pigeon roost, in the vicinity of Tioncsti, Venango county, where millions of the feathered tribe have congrega. ted to spend the season. It is said that in the evenings they come in flecks that darken the air and at times the noise made by their wings nosy be heard for miles. In the mornings they leave for the woods. Human voices cannot be heard at a few yards distance, in the evening; when the birds are coming to the grove. Many people are visiting the spot to witness a sight they never saw before. CROSSING THE ATLANTIC IN TIGINE•AND.A. natx D.tvs.—The London Morning Advertiser speaks of — a new and improved construction of vessels, by means of which it will be perfectly practicable to accomplish the voyage between Ireland and America in three and a half days, between the ports of Galway and Halifax, and the Advertiser adds that the truth of its state. moat has been thoroughly established by ox• periment. No details are given or hinted at, and the story is entirely tee mysterious lief. NEW Yonx I :i.geriox.--I , till returns of the vote for State officers, official from every cowl. it , except New York, show the following result,' -Secretary of State-I'. , ..nrenwortl;, W8;g.160;• 879; Clinton, Hard Dem., 99,487; Verplatik, Soft Dem., 9 , 4080. Controller—Cook, Whig, 163,97.1; Cooley,. Hard Dem., 92,256, Kelley, Soft Dent., 97,123. Canal Commissioner— Gardinier, Whig, 101,233; 31uther, Hard Dem. 97,345; Yates. Soft Dem., 96,24:, Attorney General--11offman, Whig, 101,754; Dradl, 11 , 1 rd (1,
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