HUNTINGDOg JOURNAL
WOdnesday 310111111 g, Dec 14, 1853.
S. L. GLASGOW, Editor.
iIUCULATION 1000.
Agents for the Journal.
The following persons we have appointed Agents
for the HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, who aro author
ized to receive and receipt for money paid on sub
scription, and to take the names of new subscri
bers at our published prices.
We do this for the convenience of our subscri
bers living at a distance front Huntingdon.
Joan W. THOMPSON, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
SAMUEL COEN, East Banco,
GEORGE W. CORNELIUS, Shirley township,
JAMES E. GLAtmow, Clay township,
D.Axiet. TEAOUE, Eq., Cromwell township,
Dr. J. P. ASHCOM, Penn township,
Dr. 11. L. BROWN, Cass township,
J.
3VARMIAM MATTEILM, Franklin township,
SAMUEL STEPNEY, Jackson township,
ROBERT M'BI7RNEY, " lt
Col. Juo. C. WATSON, Brady township,
Mortals Snows, Springfield township,
Wu. Ifurcntrisos, Esq., Warriorsmark tp.,
JAMES MCDONALD, Brady township,
GEORGE W. WHITTAKER, Petersburg,
HENRY NEFF, West Barren.
JOHN BALSBACH, Watcrsu•cct,
Maj. CHARLES MICKLEY. Tod township,
A. M. BLAIR, Dublin township,
Gnome 'M1.8.4 Esq., 'fell township,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
NATHANIEL LYTLE, Esq., Spruce Creek.
Mnj. W. Moonn, Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace.
SIMEON WRIGHT, Esq., Union township.
DAYtO CLARKSON, Esq., Cassville.
Svmuer, WlG•rox, Esq., Franklin township.
JOHN Lam, Esq., Shirleysburg.
DAVID PARKER, Esq., Warriorsmatk.
DAVID AURANDT, Esq., Todd township.
To CORRESPONDENTEL—Our correspondent
B's article, from Shade Gap, shall appear next
week. Our columns are two much crowded
this week. The communication from the au
thoress of "leaves from a visitor's journal,"
shall find a place in our next issue—and a wet.
come place too.
New Advertisements.
Voluble Town Lots arc offered for sale at
Hopewell, by R. D. Wood and L. T. Watson.
Orphans Court Sale of Real Estate, by Geo.
W. Speer and James Willduff.—Valuable
Real Estate in Walker township, by John
Kerr.—Notice, by Doctor J. B. Luden.—No.
tire to Contractors, by A. B. Sangree, and oth
ers.—New Hotel in Casst•ille, by James MIR
(Nit —Stray Steers, by Jno. S. Bittle.—Regis•
ter's Notice, by 111. F, Campbell.—Sheriffs
sales and Proclamations, by Sheriff Greenland
:Ey'. We stated lust week in an item, that
the Presbyterian Congregation of this place
was again made vacant by the resignation of
the Rev. Lowman Hawes, the resident pastor;
but such is not exactly the ease. Mr. Hawes
did land in his resignation, but the congrega
tion did not receive it, on account of a misap
prehension of difficulties on his part, and be
cause the Presbytery is the legitimate source
to which the pastor must apply for a proper dis
charge. Mr. Hawes, we learn, will in due
time present his resignation to the Presbytery,
and the congregation will be there in the per
son of a delegate, or otherwise, to signify their
approval of such resignation. After hear
ing a correct statement of the matter which in
duced Mr. Hawes to act in the premises as he
did, we are free to•say that those who gave him
an idea of the difficulties existing in the con
gregation, were actuated by perfectly pure and
honest motives, and the object was evidently
misapprehended on his part.
From the Washington Examiner.
PECTORAL SYRCP.-Our readers are aware
that we have not heretofore spoken of anything
in the line of medicine; neither that mitninis
tered by the profession, or that prepared by
outsiders. We arc not admirers of any kind
of drugs; we cannot think of a single article
under that head that we have ever considered
very palatable, yet we, like most of you, have
been compelled at times to partake of various
kinds of nauseous doses. Medicine is one of
the unpleasant things that we sometimes dare
to swallow. We will therefore let this pass by
way of prologue and apology, and as an epi
logue would simply call your attention to the
advertisement of Dr Keyser. His Pectoral
Syrup is said to be a good article, yet we are
not able to speak experimentally in reference
to its qualities. Neighbor Harper, of the
Pittsburg Post, has tried it, and pronounced it
magnum Lomas. For sale at the Drug Store
of Thomas Read it Son, Huntingdon, and
druggists everywhere.
The Cambria Tribune.
This is the title of a new Whig paper star
led at Johnstown under the auspices of JAMES
M. SWANK. Its editorial matter indicates deci
ded ability on the part of the writer, and its
mechanical execution presents a handsome ap
pearance. It pledges itself to advocate" the
principles promulgated by the late distinguish.
ed Statesmen—Henry Clay and Daniel Web
ster, and as long as it does this, it should find
a welcome home in the hearts of the Cambria
county Whigs, and receive a liberal support at
their hands. We trust such will be the case,
for a good, consistent Whig paper is very much
needed in that county—a paper that will not
yield to the influence of petty faction and throw
its columns open to the advocacy of Locofoco
corruption and abominations—a Whig paper
that will support party measures and party or
ganizations, and not turn traitor and advocate
the claims of Locofoco nominations.
We wish Mr Swank all the success that can
possibly attend the editorial career, and a large
list of good paying subscribers.
J. Our readers will find a communication
in the Journal this week, over the initials of J.
N., which is worthy a careful perusal. The
correspondent resides in Springfield township
whore, we hear it allegetl sometimes, the peo
ple don't know anything; hut let such pusilani.
mous creatures, who make such unwarranted
assertions, read the communication referred to
nod they will find in it at least as mock good
practical common sense, as they themselves
aro in possession of.
The President's Message was delivered
in both bpuses of Congress on Tuesday of last
week, but we did not receive it at this place in
time either to publish it in our last issue, or
even give it au editorial notice.
We will lay it before our readers in full on
the first page of our next, but we publish this
week, an abstmet'of it, taken from the North
American, which contains all the plontioeut
feature.; of the Me.?.;age.
"Physician heal Thyself."
The ,lact•axx editor of the Hollidaysburg
Standard, we hove no doubt, thinks he did it
up "most beautiful," as Davy Crockett used to
say, in what he said of us Is his last issue.
It matters hot about what this pusilnitimous
editor attempts to write,he always lies the same
contemptible uniform menner of reasoning.
Ile Will commence and blather, froth, pitch
and crack away, as if he was breaking every.
thing into smash, and soon works himself into
the belief that he is the greatest writer ofmod.
ern times. But as soon as any one contradicts
what he says and becomes the heifer of him, he
gets mad and resorts to the fluniliar weapon of
all cowards —personal abuse °pis opponent.—
We have often watched him in his controver•
sies and have invariably known him to adopt
this same pitiful method of defence. This is his
true character, and the whole community know
it to be a (het.
lfe makes reference again to the manner, he
insinuated sometime since, we received our ed.
ucation. Well, Mr. Jack-ass, suppose this is
all true, which it is not, what's the difference.
It is a great pity indeed that your case was not
a similar one. Because it is very manifest that
your education never extended so fur as to
teach you that you area fool—and it would be
much better for you to have been educated as
you say we were, than to have the community
annoyed by the braying of such an infernal
jack-ass.
But if it is dishonorable to be deprived of 'a
father at the age ofjbur years by the hand of
death, and then to be thrown among strangers
to gain a livelihood as best a boy could at that
age, without the counsel of even a
,friend—to
work hard on farms by the month for several
consecutive years—to tench school during va
cations—and to apply the proceeds saved
thereby to a proper collegiate education, we
can only inform the Standard man that we
plead guilty of the charge. The man that
would any about others, what this vagabond ed
itor does, without the least semblance of truth,
would embrace the first opportunity to step in
the shoes of her who has lately been sentenced
to be hung for having poisoned her sister—
would steal the bread from the orphan's lips—
would rob hen•roosts—and snatch the coppers
off a dead negro's eyes. Yes, this janus•fiaced
jack-ass ought to talk about the things he does.
His editorial courtesy has become as proverbi
al as his bare-faced lying or his whole sale slan
der. He would blush to speak the truth or ut
ter a commendatory sentence of his neighbor,
in the presence of decent company. It is in
deed surprising to us that an honeltt and intel
ligent community, such as that in which this
creature lives, will sustain a graduated slander
er and liar like the pusilanimous editor of the
Standard. But he claims to be a man—a de
cent man too. Bah, such men slink• in the
nostrils of the community and are a burning
disgraie to humanity I God never intended
that such men should be born and live, except
for the express purpose of showing how mean
—how contemptible and degraded poor human
ity can become In the Standard man's case,
the world has a clear elucidation of the nature
of the full of our first parents. No better illus
tration of the awfully degraded condition of
that fall, could be found, if you were to go back
to hoar antiquity and search the annals of his
tory down to the present day. He is a perfect
sill generis, and has no equal in all the known
world as a slanderer and low-lifed blackguard.
He feeds on dander from morning till noon,
and from noon till night. Ho sits under the
droppings of the sanctuary on the Sabbath day,
but he goes there only in the hope that his guil
ty soul may he diverted from the contempla
tion of his hellish deeds.
But, he talks too, about Whig principles and
Whig swindling. *Oh, Jerusalem What has
he not charged even his own State officers With?
Oh, thou hypocrite! Thou Judas Iscariot!—
Host thou no shame 1 And it was only when
they glutted him with office, and filled his
pockets with the spoils of public plunder, that
ho was induced to hold his peace—only by fill
ing his pockets with the hard earnings of the
people in the shape of taxes, wrested from
them, that his closed polluted lips. What ad
ministration acknowledged the Gnlphin claim
to be a just one, and accordingly ordered the
interest to he paid on it? Does the Standard
man not know that it was James K. Polk's ad
ministration ? But how did the Locofoco par
ty in '-14 manage to defeat Henry Clay and
elect James K. Polk Was it by fair and hon.
orable means—by an open and faithful exposi
tion and enforcement of their professed princi
ples? No it was not, and this thousands of
them now acknowledge. It was in the first
place by ingrafting into their platform resolu
tions, the principle of the tariff of '92—or in
other words,by alleging and publishing through.
out the length and breath of the land, that Polk
was as good a "tariff man as Henry Clay," and
by inscribing it on all the Locofoco banners
that flouted in the breeze during that minor.
able campaign. This was one of the hypocriti
cal expedients they iesorted to, to secure the
election of Polk, and it is the very one they
now profess most to loathe and despise. They
knew that the people and the country wanted
and needed the practical development of it
principles, and in order to secure the election
of their man, they had to steal Witiy thunder.
But look a little further. What else did the
Bogus democracy oUlie conntry do? Did they
not abuse Henry Clay in every possible man
ner their imaginations could invent? Tho old
patriot was brandad as a liar—a blackleg—a
gambler—a rillian and even as a murderer,
by the Locofoco press throughout the country,
and the leaders of that party. They spared no
pains to direct their arrows so ns to wound his
reputation the deepest, and cover his gray
hairs with the blackest pall. The cry was,
freemen, to arneil Save the administration of
Republican institutions from falling into the
hands of . yamfders and murderers. The decep
tion proved effectual and secured the election
of an obscure Tennessean.
But by and by, the illustrious sage Of Ash
land was summoned from the stage of action
by the Angel of death. And uo sooner had
the lightning borne the and news to the distant
portions of the Republic, than the ',max°
press was clad in the solemn habiliments of
mourning—that very Press which had only a
few years before denounced him as a blarkbv,
murderer, &c., and proclaimed Minas usur , rthy
the name of an American citizen. Now they
declare Henry Clay was the greatrat Statesman
that ever sat in the Halls of Congress—the
greatest orator that ever graced the American
rostrum, and did more for the institutions of
bis country and give dignity and value to labor,
than any otluir man that ever lived in it. Oh
Democracy ! thou art indeed cousi,teut!--
Shaine and confusion of face should be thy lot
the balance of thy days! We trust in the sin
cerity of our heart, that no man who malicious
ly traduced the character of Henry Clay and
endeavored to blast the fame of a well earned
reputation, will ever have the impudence or
audacity, to invade the'sanctity of his grave by
standing at its side. We think no man ever
will, unless it should be the Jackass editor of
the Standard, and he might be excused on
the ground that he has'nt wit to know any bet
ter. And hotel did the Lucofoco party act in
the last Presidential campaign? Did'nt they
succeed in defeating the Hero of Lundy's Lane
by their universal attempt to establish in the
mind of the people, that he was a Free soiler
or an abolitionist? Will the Standard man
deny this this ? Will any body deny it? Well,
how have the Bogus democracy conducted it
self since Pierce wns inducted into office. Has
it shown itself to be entirely hostile to aboli
tionists and freesoilers ? Has Pierce clearly
carried out the principle on which he was elec.
ted, and thereby proved to the Union men of
the country, that what they said of him before
his election, is true? We answer emphatically
No. There is scarcely a prominent freesoiler
or abolitionist in the whole range of the States,
that Witt either been offered an official ap
pointment by the President, or is now occupy
ing some lucrative and responsible position.—
Thus conclusively showing that they are not
sincere in what they do,and have no systematic
code of principles by which as a party, they are
governed. It is as clear as the noon day sun,
that the Locofoco party is a perfect mass of
hypocrisy and corruption, and lives only by
the "cohesive power of public plunder." We
never had a doubt of this, and the more we
see of the party's doings the better satisfied of
the truth of it, do we become. .If ever the
tires of liberty die out in our highly favored
land, and the trumpet of the angel of the des
tiny of nations, proclaims the extinction of liv
ing freedom, it will be because Whig principles
and Whig policy have ceased to exert an influ
ence in the ac:ministration of govermental af
fairs.
Burned in Effigy.
By the last news from Santa Fe, it appears
that Gov. Meriwether and Chief trustice Dav
enport were burned in effigy in that city on the
7th of September. The Democratic papers
says that it was done because the Governor
and Judge bad attended a Democratic meeting,
and tries to lix the outrage upon the Whigs.—
But we doubt this very mach. The men who
would burn effigies for any such cause don't
generally belong to the Whig party. If the
Whigs did it, we feel confident there was some
much stronger provocation than the one stated.
P. S.—By the following extract from a letter
ofMr. Grimier's, of Columbus, Ohio, now at
Santa Fe, it appears that the contest was not
between Whigs and Democrats, but between
Americans and Mexicans
The election for delegates to Congress took
place on the sth of September, the candidates
being Gov. Lane and Padre Gallegos. About
10,000 votes were cast, and the result watt so'
close that Congress will havis to decide
whirls one of them is entitled to the scat. Pa
dre Gallegos was one of the Priests suspended
by Bishop L'Amy for living in open violation of
the rules of the Church, and the contest between
him and Gov. Lane was really an issue between
those in favor of Mexican customs and those
in fisvor of the reforms carried out by the Amer
ican Bishop. The excitement during the elec
tion was very great. The new Governor, Mel ,
iwetlier, and the Chief Justice, Davenport,
were hung in effigy at the top of the flag staff
in the Pines stt Santa Fe.
The feeling bet neon the American and Mex
ican population is worse than ever. No man
thinks of going without his fire-arms by day,
and I presume there is not a single American
in this territory but sleeps with his pistol under
him.
Locofoco Hypocrisy.
During the Presidential canvass of 1852, the
Locofoco cry, from one end of the country to
the other, was that the election of Gen Scott to
the Presidency would endanger the safety of
the Union, and that there was but one course
lull to the friends of the Compromise measures
to preserve the peace nod quiet of the country,
and that was to keep the Free Sailers and Fire
Eaters out of power. This, it was promised,
Gen. Pierce would do. How has that promise
been fulfilled'?
Not only has Gen. Pierce a Free Soiler and
a Fire Eater in his Cabinet, but appointed to
office more from these Sections of the so•cnlled
Democracy than he has Union Democrats. In
New York, the whole weight and influence of
his Administration was thrown in favor of the
Van Buren Free Soilers at the late election,
while in Georgia and Mississippi it was as ac
tively and strenuously exerted in favor of the
Secessionists.
Even now the Administration journals are
rejoicing over the nomination of Ex-Governor
McDonald for U. S. Senator in Georgia, and the
prospect of the election ofJefferson Davis from
notwithstanding the fact, that the
former presided over the treasonable gathering
at Nashville, known as the Secession Conven
tion of 1851, and the latter is equally notorious
as a Southern Secessionist. Not a word do we
now hear from them in condemnation of the
defeat of Howell Cobb and Henry S. Foote,
who were so prominent in the support of the
Compromise measures. On the contrary, they
rejoice over the defeat of those distinguished
Union Democrats, 'and hail with delight the
success of their Secessionist opponents. And
why? Because it is the policy of the Adminis
tration to favor the extremeists and make war
upon the Union men. Hereafter let us have
no more hypocritical croakings from these jour
nals about Gov. Seward and Free Soil Whigs.
Though far from approving of the New York
Senators ultra course upon the subject of sla
very, we think, every candid man must admit
that he is no more ultra on the one side, than
are Gov. McDonald and Jefferson Davis on the
other, and that his re-election could be no more
dangerous to the peace and harmony of the
Union, than will Im theirs. The Imeofoco hue
and cry against Gov. Seward, is sheer humbug,
as the course now pursued by them in relation,
to McDonald and Davis clearly proves. Free
Sellers can be no more dangerous than are Se
cessionists, and the pretended apprehensions
these journals have of Gov. Seward, must in
common honesty he set down as the worst kind
of hypocrisy.—. Dally News.
Dcceunen FARM JOURNAL—This excellent
publication for December has been received,
containing as usual many interesting and
structive facts in relation to tilling the soil, rai
sing stock, &e. We cannot but believe thnt if
our farmers would make themselves lioniliar
with the suggestions contained in this publica
tion, they would have a powerful influence in
inducing them to adopt measures in reference
to tilling the moil that would bo of incalculable
advantage to theta.
itya-Wo understand that Mr. illusgow has
retired from the publication of the Illuntingdon
Journal, and has been succeeded by a Dr.
Brewster, of Shirley township, Huntingdon
county..- Blair County Whig.
A little too fast, this gine, 7 t tajor—we hav'nt
retired yet from the Jouraii!
Abstract of the President's Message.
After the usual introductory, the Message
proceeds to say that our foreign relations r„e•
main essentially unchanged since the loot Con
gress, though some questions of a disturbing
character are yet pending, which promise how
ever, to be amicably adjusted. Among these
are „the questions respecting the fisheries and
Central America.
Congress is requested to consider the neces
sity of marking the boundary line between the
United States and the British provinces in the
North-West. Our relations with France are
said to continue on a friendly footing, and a
treaty of commerce and navigation with that
prominent is now in course of negotiation.—
It is announced that any hostile attempts with
in our limits against Cuba will be repressed;
and that to avoid causes of misunderstanding
and trouble hereafter, our Minister at Madrid
is instructed to renew a proposition to provide,
is the case of complaints by citizens of the
United States resident in Cuba, for a direct ap-
peal for redress to the Captain-General by our
Consul. The Message recommends the early
and favorable consideration of the claim of
Spain in the case of the schooner “Amistad."
In referring to the Knots affair, the Presi
dent expresses his approval of the conduct of
Captain Ingraham, and says be has declined
compliance with the demands of Anstria in
the case. He declares, also; that the princi
ples and policy set forth in the correspondence
of Secretary Marcy on the occasion will always
be applied and enforced.
OU; commissioner to China has been in
structed to use all occasions to open and extend
commercial relations with that and other Asi.
attic nations. As to the Japan expedition, it is
said that it bas not yet been ascertained bow
for the Emperor of the country is disposed to
comply with oar overtures for commercial in
tercourse.
Respecting Mexico, our Minister has receiv
ed full instructions to adjust all pending sub
jects of dispute, including that of the boundary
line between New Mexico and the Mexican
State of Chihuahua. It is hoped that nor Min- .
ister to the States of Central America will be
able to compose the dissensions which prevail
among them, and to establish friendly relations
between each awl all of them and the United
States. Respecting the navigation of the Am
azon, our Minister to that country is instructed
to use his efforts to induce the Brazilian Gov
ernment to open to common use, under proper
safeguards. ,this great natural highway for in
ternational trade. Several of the South Amer
ican States are deeply interested in this at
tempt to secure the face navigation of the Am
azon, and it is reasonable to expect their co
operation in the measure. The republic of
Paraguay and the Argentine Confederation
have yielded to the liberal policy still resisted
by Brazil, in regard to the navigable rivers
within their respective territories. Treaties
embracing this subject, among others, have
been negotiated with these governments, which
will be submitted to the Senate at the present
session.
In relation to the guano trade with Peru, it
is said that considerable difficulties are expe
rienced in obtaining the requisite supply.—
Measures have been taken to remove these dif
ficulties, and to secure a more abundant impor
tation of the article. Unfortunately, there has
been a serious collision between our citizens,
who have resorted to the Chincha Islands fur
it, and the Peruvian authorities Stationed there.
Redress for the outrages committed by the lat
ter was promptly demanded by our Minister at
Lima. This subject is now under considera
tion, and there in reason to believe that Peru
is disposed to offer adequate indemnity to the
aggrieved parties.
In reference to our domestic condition the
message says that the controversies which
have agitated the country heretofore are pas
sing away with the causes that produced them
and the passions which they bad awakened;
and that the new league of amity and mutual
confidence and support, into which the people
of the Republic have entered, happily affords
inducement and opportunity fir the adoption
of a more comprehensive and unembarrassed
line of policy and Action, as to the great mate
rial interests of the country : whether' regarded
is themselves or in connexion with the Powers
of the civilized world.
The President advises the application of the
surplus fund in the Treasury to the discharge
of the public debt, and a reduction of the rev
enue of the government by a change in the tar
iff. He says that the first of these objects has
been in the COMO of accomplishment, is a
manlier and to a degree highly satisfactory—
The amount of the public debt, of all classes,
was, on the 4th of March, 1853, sixty nine
millions one hundred and ninety thousand and
thirty seven dollars, payments on account of
which have been made, since that period, to
the amount of twelve millions seven hundred
and three thousand three hundred and twenty
nine dollars, leaving unpaid, and in the con
tinuous conm of liquidation, the sum of fifty
six millions four hundred and eighty six thou.
sand seven hundred and eight dollars.
Respecting the second of the above men
tioned objects, that of the reduction of the Inc
iff, the plan suggested by the Secretary of the
Treasury is to reduce the duties on certain ar
ticles, and to add to the free list many articles
now taxed, and especialiy such as enter into
manufactures, and are not largely, or at all
produced in the country.
The present fiscal system is declared to be
amply adequate to the public service. Tho
tention of Congress is invited to several sugges•
tions in the Report of the Secretary of the Tree
sury, referring to reforms in the administrative
action of Isis department, also to fine progress
made in the construction of marine-hospitals,
customhouses, and of a new mint in Calilifr
nia, and assay-office in the city of New York,
heretofore provided for by Congress; and also
to the eminently successful progress of the
Coast Survey, and of the Light-house Board.
An augmentation of and unprovement in the
organization and discipline of the Army and
and Navy are reccommended.
The report of the Postmaster-General is said
to demand the immediate action of Congress.
Tho current revenue of the department has failed
to meet its expenses by the sum of 52,0.12,032,
a chief cause of which is said to be the enorm
ous rates paid tbr null. service rendered by
railroad companies. A change in the laws to
facilate the punishment of frauds upon the Pon
sion•office is advised.
The nett profits from the sale of the public
lands to Juno 30, 1853, amounted to the sum
of $53, 289,465.
The present land system is approved, and its
extension over the territories of lltah and New
Mexico, with suitable modifications, is reccom.
mended. The constitutional power of the gov-
ernment to construct roads within the terra.
ries, is recognized in the Message, and grants
of portions of the public domain, to aid in the
building of railways, is approval of when exer
cised discreetly. The President 'commends to
the favorable consideration of Congress the
men of genius dour country, who Thy their in
ventions and discoveries in science and sort,
have contributed largely to the improvements
of the age, without, in many instances, securing
for themselves anything like an adoquate'rc.
ward.
The erection of an asylum for the insane of
the District of Columbia, and of the Army cud
Navy of the United States, has been somewhat
retarded by the great demand for materials and
labor during the past summer; but lull prepa-
ration for the reception of patients, before the
return of another winter, is anticipated.
A change in the organization of the U. S.
Courts is suggested, with it view to place all
the States of the Union on the same Poling
with regard to the judicial tribunals.
With reference to the policy of internal im
provements by the government, the President
says that the interests of nil the States require
it to be abandoned, unless hopes may bo Maul
gel fur the future which find 110 warrant im the
post. For the completion of the works which
-are regarded by all good citizens with sincere i
interest, Congress s requested to reconsider
the question, with a hope that, animated by a
desire to promote the permanent cud substan
tial interest, of the country, its wisdom may
prove equal to the WI of devising and atittli•
ring a plan which, applied to this suli.ject, may
promise something better than constant strife,
the suspension of the powers of local enter.
prise, the exciting of vain hopes, and the dis
appointment of cherished expectations. It is
submitted whether, in all cones where construc
tions ore to be erected by the general govern.
toont, the right of soil should not first be ob
tained, and legislative provision be made to
cover all such oases.
In spetking of the Pacific railway project,
the Message says that, notwithstanding all the
great public advantages promised by the im
provement, they cannot have nn appreciable
value when weighed against the obligation
strictly to adhere to the constitution, and faith
fully to execute the powers it confers. Within
this limit, and to the extent of the interest of
the government involved, it is admitted that it
would seem both expedient and proper if an
economical and practicable route shall be limed,
to aid, by all constitutional 1111C,U19, in the con
struction of a road, which will unite, by speedy
transit, the populations of the Pacific and At
lantic States. It is, nevertheless, held to be of
doubtful power, and more than doubtful pro
priety, even within the limits of a territory, for
the general government to undertake to admin
ister the affairs of a railroad, a canal, or other
similar construction, nod therefore its connex
ion with a work of this character should be in
cidental rather than primary,
Referring to the alarming agitation of the
slavery question in 1850, mid compromise
which restored harmony, the President snys
that those who placed him in office may be as
sured that, if he has the power to avert it, noth
ing shall disturb the present repose of the States
in relation to this subject, during his official
term.
The Message, alluding to the existing ratio
of our growth in population, expresses the be
lief that if the law of progress in this matter
continues to operate steadily, thousands of per
sons who have already arrived nt maturity, and
are now exercising the rights of freemen, will
close their eyes on the spectacle of more than
one hundred millions of population embraced
within the majestic proportions of the Ameri•
can Union. In view of the vast and rapid fu
ture extension of the republic in population
and inhabited territorial area, the President in.
dulges in some proper reflections on the im
portance, of purity and moderation in the ad
ministration Utile Federal Government, and
the cultivation of friendly feelings and inter
course between the States and people of the
Confederacy. The message concludes with an
appropriate allusion to the decease of the late
Vice President King, and the expression of a
hope that the Executive may deserve and se
cure not only the cordial co-operation of Con.
gross in great public measures, but also those
relations of mutual confidence and regard, which
it is always so desirable to cultivate between
members of co-ordinate branches of govern
ment.—Niirtk American.
A Question Settled.
It has long been understood that the nor
thernmost route to the Pacific must have a
great advantage over t ho Central, or the South.
ern one, front the litet that it is very much
shorter. By that way we shall not only reach
the great Western mean sooner than by any
other, but, when there, we are much nearer to
the Oriental World, whose commerce is thought
by some to be a very extensive and profitable
alibir. It is not only a much briefer journey
from Lake Superior to Puget's Sound than
from St. Louis or Memphis to San Francisco,
but from there we can reach Yedo or Canter
with two days' less steaming. This fact has
caused the Northern route to be regarded with
respect even by those who are most anxious
• that some other line should be fixed on. But
still a very serious doubt has rendered its ad
vocates somewhat uncertain and backward.—
It has been surmised that possibly no good
11080 could be found to conduct the road through
the barrier of the Rocky Mountains, and it has
been feared that however excellent and favor.
able the country on both sides of that great
ridge, it might be necessary after all to re
nounce this use and to settle either on that ad
vocated by Col. BENTON, or that of Texas.
This doubt has now been extinguished.—
Governor STEVENS, at the head of the Nor
thern Exploring Exp edition reports that there
are several good passes, one of them combining
every desideratum, and that there is no hin
drance to the construction of the road over the
line he has traversed. His letter which ap
pears in Tun TRIBmNE this morning, is high
ly explicit on this question. The entire line
has-been investigated by his own party going
'west, and by that of Lieutenant SAxvox, who
started from the Pacific and came eastward;
and though it. cannot be said that the whole
country has been explored on both sides, and
every mountain pass examined, so that the best
possible line can be exactly laid down for all
the distance, not a doubt remains that the Nor
there Route is perfectly feasible, nod indeed
singularly favorable fin• the execution of this
great highway.
And not only do the mountains interpose no
obstacle, but the country from Lake Superior
to the Pacific is described at exceedingly fer
tile and adapted for settlement. The ease is
not so encouraging for either of the other lines.
'the Central line runs zig-zag, and traverses
barren districts where fuel and water do not
abound.. The Texan route lies along the Gila,
whose craggy gorge cannot be used for n rail
road bed, or else it crosses the border of Mex
ico and makes n long stretch through. a region
not- our own. None of these inconveniences
attach to the Puget's Sound line. That runs
with great directness through a highly produc
live territory, well wooded, and well watered,
and has at its western terminus one of the no
blest harbors of the world. The sole objection
that can be raised against it is the accumula
tion of snow usual in northern latitudes in
sister: On this head important facts will no
doubt be given is Gov. Steven's official report
which will be in Washington in season for the
ope4g of Congress. But certain it is that
on the greater portion of this route there are
no such snows as fall on the railroads in the
central part of New York, and that at the
worst there is nothing more troublesome than
is constantly experienced on the railroads of
Maine. We nll know how much these roads
are obstructed in winter, when the snow drifts
upon them, appliances ttlways at hand soon
clear the track; and the circulation is never de
layed beyond a day. On the Puget's Sound
road it would not be more serious; and at any
rate there would he no such terrible depths of
snow there as Col. Fremont had to encounter
in New Mexico in 1850.
The clearing up of all doubts relative to this
line is not the only good done by the Expedi
tion. It lies settled inany other questions with
regard- to the natural features of that rust and
hitherto unknown region, and has opened to
our knowledge and our interists a splendid
portion of the national dominion to which we
have been stranger:L-2V: 75•ibnne.
star- The Territorial Delegates to the pres
ent Congress, are Jose M. Gallegos, from New
Mexico, Henry M. Rice, from Minnesota, the
Rev. T..lohnson, from Nebraska, Dr. J. M.
• Bernhisel, from Utah, and Gen. Joseph Lane,
from Oregon. For so small a body, they are
rather a miscellaneous collection. Gallegos is
a broken 'Mexican Priest, Johnson a Protestant
missionary to the Indians,' Ilernhisel a Mor
mon physician, Lane a General of the Mexican
war, and Rice n man grown suddenly rich by
frontier speculations. Uullegos has his sent
contested by W. C. Lane, late Governor of New
Mexico. Johnson comes from a territory which
is not recognized by Congress. The territory
of Washington has not yet elected a delegate,
or, rather, no sews of the fact bus yet reached
us. These delegates have no votes in Congress,
and serve merely as advocates of the interests
of the territories they represent.
ear" Another death warrant, in the case of
David .Tewell, has been signed by the Clover
nor, and wan read to the culprit, by the Sheriff
of Allegheny county, on Monday, the sth inst.
The time fined for the execution in the sth of
February next.
1 . 11,, Crystal Palace Police, in N. York,
nutnber ret,,on3,
For the Journal
Shall the Public Works be Sold?
This subject is now exciting us extruordina•
17 interest among the taxpayers of this Com.
monwealth, nu interest fin• prosier *than the
comparative silence of the public press would
seem to indicate.
Inherently. this is not n party question, it
does not essentially involve tn. counteract the
Ppolitical principles either of Whig or Democrat;
ut it is 0 question affecting vitally, the pro•
gross and well-being of the Commonwealth,
the integrity of her legislature, nod the mnitr
tenance of the high position she holds among
the sovereign States which compose this great
Republic.
The enormous taxation which so greviously
oppresses the inhabitnnts of Pennsylyattia,-11
taxation almost without pastel, save in the old
royalty-ridden States of Europe,—originated
mainly in a mania for internal improvements,
which - resulted in the construction (tithe public
works. It was anticipated thnt these step..
dons operations would, upon completion, pro.
duce a revenue which would speedily repay the
cost of their formation, and ultimately reduce
the then existing imposts. These anticipations
have nut been realized, on the contrary, the
public burdens have been almost continually
on the increase, without any prospect of mate
rial diminutions.
The cause of this deplorable nspeet of affairs
does not inhere in the public works themselves;
us a speculative enterprise they were well de
vised, and apparently well calculated to yield
a profitable return for the capital invested; but
the plan has been executed and sustained in a
spirit of ruinous extravagance and profligacy.
They were instituted for the general benefit,
with a view to the developement of the national
resources, but have been absorbed into the rot ,
tex of political disputation, and have been con
verted by the dominant party into a machine
for ma n ufacturing
n votes, bribing demagogues,
and aiding in the- lowest chicanery of political
partizanshi p.
It is the busin'ess of a people who would pre
serve the purity and integrity of their represem
Wives to restore, as far as possible, all incen.
lives to cupidity and corruptions, and the most
certain method to engrave political depravity is
the undue increase of opportunity and tempta
tion to official peculation.
The choice of Canal Commissioner has been
made a party question, it has become inter
mingled with the election of Senators and Ile
presentalives and the candidates for each and
all are determined in a spirit of partizanship.
"To the victors below , .. the spoils"—this has
been the watch-word of . elections, and the tri
umphant ejaculation of the successful party,
until 'the spoils" are no longermerelv inciden
tal to, but are the great object of political strife
—principles arc Jost sight of, and popular
elections result not in the dignified expression
of national opinion, but are resolved into a
heterogeneous scramble for official plunder.—
Caucus and Convention pull the wires, and the
people act in obedience to their impulse. Under
suet. a slate of things it is not surprising that
Legitilators should become venal and corrupt,
that private bills should engross their attention
to the exclusion of public business, that the
enactments of a Session should lie retnarkable
mainly for the total absence and neglect of all
measures materially affecting the well-being of
the Commonwealth, that the public works
should be grossly misfile tinged, and that the
revenues of the State should be wasted and
consumed by political cormorants.
SELL THE 'I:111.3e Wens and both parties
are deprived of a great means of corruption,
the bone of contention is removed, and a great
er degree of purity will be restored to the elec
toral
colleges.
It is not our purpose to decry or under-rate
the property of the Commonwealth; no a mer
cantile speculation, it would doubtless afford a
safe and profitable investment to the capitalist;
hut in connection with the State. used as a po.
litical engine, and managed without economy,
it has proved a 11111:31111CO, rather than an advan
tane. The system is wrong from the beginning,
and opposed to all sound principles olgovern
ment. The great efforts of a free people ought
to be directed to the diminution of all delegated
authority, to circumscribing the powers of their
representatives, and to the simplyfving and
limiting the operations and sphere of govern
ment to the lost degree, and that people are in
the most perfect enjoyment of freedom who,
having the power to delegate, use that privilege
the least, and retain the management of their
own affairs as far as is consistent with the pre
servation of order and security. The interfer
ence of governments in matters pertaining le
gitimately to private enterprise, has almost in
variably proved disastrous and unsuccessful.—
The movements of government are more pon
derous and expensive than those of mercantile
corporations or private individuals, the machi
nery is on a larger scale, and of a more intricate
construction, and a greater momentum is re
quired to put it in motion. - Even in the trans
portation of mails, and the operations of the
Post Office Department, which are monopolized
by mcst governments, it is undoubted that the
business could he conducted with advantage by
privtUe enterprise and at a considerable reduc
tion of expense. Then why should a vast pro
portion of the internal carrying trade be en
trusted to political cliques who ohsotb the
revenues in unearned salaries and surreptitious
contracts ?
It is to be hoped that the tninds'of the tax
payers of Pennsylvania will at length Is fully
aroused to a sense of the enormous venality
which has been practiced under pretence of
managing and administering the business of
the public works. The filets and statistics,
which have been recently published in the
Journal, call loudly for a change in the existing
state of affairs, and prove palpably that the
stewards of the Commonwealth ore no longer
worthy of their stewardship. The system is
cancerous and rotten at the core—the whole
body is corrupt—future elections will not
im
prove it, and there is no remedy short of total
extirpation.
Olio danger only attends the sale of the Pub.
lie Works. If the vast Canal and Railroad
property of the State should fall into the hands
of any existing R. It. Co. they would he endow.
ed with a dangerous monopoly of the transport
trade, and would doubtless use their power to
the increase of dividends—freights would ad.
vhncc as competition because excluded. It
would, however, be easy to guard against this
grave difficulty, by the insertion of the neces•
nary clauses and restrictions in an Act author.
icing the sale.
This subject ought to be "kept before the
people" denuded of all its party uspects; it is a
mission well worthy of the independent press,
and surely there is sufficient moral stamina
and numerical strength among the free electors
of the Key• Stone State to overwhelm the horde
of peculators who annually empty the national
treasury and still "cry like the horse•leeek
J. N.
gh ltill i et v is el N . ille, Pa., December, 1853.
For the Journal.
Birmingham, Dec., 1853.
Encroni—Through the columns of the
Journal we wish to speak in behalf of the
Mountain Female Seminary.
We would keep its claims before the public
mind, so that such as desire to educate their
daughters, may know that they condo so with
out sending them to distant schools.
When so many are beginning to fed that
females should he as well educated us males,
it is time to establish Institutions in our midst
as will afford them as great facilities for receiv
ing an education as are offered to males. This
we desire to do, and hope, to sonic extent, wo
are succeeding.
Miss S. S. - Barnes, who is now employed as
principal Teacher, received her education in
Eastern New York, and has been employed for
the last four years in teaching in Institutions
of the first grade. The impressions which she
has already made ou the minds of the young
ladies, are decidedly favontble, and the deep
interest she takes in their improvement is. to
say the least of it, most satisfactory,
Miss C. Ilevniann 2 who is employed in leitel,
music, is tram Ilamburg, Germany, win,•
received her niu,ical Wm' is 1.,
frond doubt a skillful Tcocher. She has bad
much experience in teaching, and the energy
that characterizes her efforts promises to place
the musical department, at tide Institution, in
a position which its importance demands.
Miss M. S. Wilson is already known in the
department of painting and drawing.
The Principal of the Seminary has charge of
the Mathematical department, and besides this,
given constant attention to the progress of all
the pnpils.
A Sabbath School or Bible class is held in
the Seminary every Sabbath day, and a prayer
meeting every Sabbath evening, both of which
all are expected to attend.
As a body of Teachers associated together
to build up and carry on a Seminary of a high
order, we would say to such as place their
daughters in this Institution they :may rest as
sured that they shell be cared for and treated
as our own sisters or children.
We would like to correct some impressions
that may exist to our disndvantage. But, be
lieving that time pill most certainly do this,
and do it satisfactorily, we forbear. An intel
ligent and inquiring community, that socks for
fuels, determined to shape her course accord
ingly, is an arbiter that all need not fear. Such
is the community in which our lot is cast.
A Seminary, established in the midst of an
enterprising, intelligent, and judicious peoplq
has something to insure its prosperity which
nothing but its own want of energy and pru
dence can render ineffectual. We feel, then,
that we have much to encourage us. But still
we would lix our eye upon, and endeavor to
keep off that which may be ll..nred.
Many of our scholm are mini advanced in
their studies, having been With us from two to
four years. Three, having acquired habits of
study and mental application, are of great ad
vantage to beginners.
Most of our pupils ure young ladies. The
class in Music is large, also the clas , es in
French, Painting and. Drawing.
A number of boarders can be accommodated'
at this time.
We would say to parents who have brothers.
and sisters to send to school, there is in this
place an Academy for boys, under the dime.
tion of Rev. Thomas Ward, A. M.
The only connection it Was with
,the Seinina•
ry is in the Sabbnth School and prayer meting.
The Acndetny i 8 doing well.
ISRAEL W. WARD.
The Massacre of Capt. Gunnison and his
Party.
WAFIIINGTOY, Dec. 1-7. I'. M.—The report
of the surprise of Captain G umison's,explorong
party. and floe massacre of Captain Gunnison
and Mr. Kern, the draftsman, is believed by
the government to be correct, from the flirt
that this morning a letter was received from
Governer Meriwether, dated Santa Fe, October
13th, which contains information of a corrobo
rative character. Governor Meri‘fether writes
that about two weeks previous to the date of
his letter, Chico Velasque, a chief of a band of
Utah Indians, visited "Abiquire," and reques
ted Mr. Bead, late Indian agent at that place,
to bear the Governor a message, floe purport of
which was, float a portion of the Utah tribe, un
der a chief maned Walker; a very desperate
character, and the Mormons of thelltah Terri•
tory, had commenced hostilities against each
other. Woollier was represented as coulee.-
ring to incite the entire Utah nation against
the Mormons; lout Velasque represented' float
he and lois band load refused to participate in
the matter.
Yelasques's narrative is confirmed by the
news just received from Salt Lake. and it is
highly probable the Indians mistook Captain
(Jennison's party for Mormons, and thereupon
attached them.
Captain Dennison woo a native of New
Hampshire, and a gradnate of West Point,
where he was placed by General Pierce, when.
in Congress. 11Ir. Kenn was an accomplished'
draftsman and engineer. and was one of Col.
Fremont's party in the disnsterous expedition.
of the latter sonic two or three years
Reinforcements will probably be immediately
sent to all exploring E Herald.
CAPTAIN GUM:IOI6i F.XIII.OIIINO PA nry.—This
party 'ell St. Lonis about the middle of Jun,
last, nail had iirtieeeded as far as Fort Massa
chusetts early in August; since when 110 info,
motion had lice,, received from them. This.
fort is about seventy miles north from Santa Fe.
To this party was nssigned the examination of
the Central 'Route leading from Westport, Mo.
The exploring party consisted of Captain J. W.
Dennison, U. S. Topographical Engineers, in
command. Lieut. E. D. Beckwith, Commis
sary and Quartermaster; Mr. It. H. Kern, To
pographer and Dratightsnme; Mr. 'l'. S. Mi
nions, Astronomer; Dr. Shiel, Surgeon anti
fleolcigist; Dr. Crentsman, Botanist; Mr. .1.
Snyder, Assistant Draughtsman. The whole
escorted by thirty mounted riflemen, 1001,0 1
command of Captain Morris, S. E
Courier.
WKAI.III Or rite XIOX—The report of the
Patent Office, recently nude, presents some in
teresting statistics relative to the Union. The
population of the United States is set down n 1
20,746,000, and the aggregate of personal and
real property is estimated at $8,281,560,000.--
New York is the richest State, her property be.
Mg $1,112,000,000; Pennsylvania next, $B5O,
000,000; then Ohio, $710,000,000; then Virgiti•
ia, $508,000,000. The remainder of the States,
rank as lb'lows: Indiana, 8384,000,000, Ten
nessee, $330,000.000; Kentucky, $342,000,000 ;
Massachusetts, $310,000,000; Georgia, $320,
000,000; North Carolina, 0206,000,000;
$384,000,000; Alabama, $576,000,000; Missis•
sippi 0266,000,000; South Carolina, $242,000,
000; Missouri, 0240,000,00; Maine, $240,000,.
000; Maryland, $183,000;000; Couisianti, $lOO,.
000,000; New Jersey, $166,000,000; Michigan,
$148,000,000; Connecticut, $132,000,000; Ver
mont; $12,000,000, Now Hampshire, $120,000
000; A rkansus,sllo,ooo,ooo; Texas, $56,000,000
lowa, $52,000,000; Rhode Island, $52,000,000;
Wisconsin, $35,000,000: Delaware, $32,000,000
Florida, $30,000,000; Distriet of Cola:alga, $lB
000,0001 Oregon, $8,000,000.
Se r The Miller doctrine is spreading in:
Maine. Thera are said to be thousand's who
believe that the world will be burnt up next
spring. The fools are not all dead yet.
VIM riliVi!,`Ell'if:l4,,
-HUNTINGDON.
Dee. 13, 1853.
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Flour per 1,1,1.,
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Bed Wheat, per bu.,• •
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Eye, per bu
Corn, per bu
Buckwheat, per bu• • •
Outs, per hu
Flaxseed. per he,
Hay, per ton
Butter, per lb ,
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BALTIMORE,
Dee. 9, 1833
Flom. per bbl
Corn Meat •
White Wheat, per ba•
Red,
Corn,
Oats,
iFir liIGEST !" SUCH Is THE THU/
MEANINO of the word .. PEPSIN,'T or of the two
Greek words from which it
,is derived'. This is
the significant and appropriate title of the Tom
Dice:awe Ft.eto, or flueratc JUICE, prepared
by Dr. J. S. !loco Imes, of Philadelphia, frotu
the fourth stomach of the (Is, fur the curt of• Ems
digestion and Dyspepsia. It is Nature's own
renculy for an unhealthy Stomach. Nu art at
luau can equal its curative powers. It render.
anon LATIN. perfectly consistent ail!, 111.1..5t,TH,
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