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Wednesday Morning, May 37, 1854.
-- iiILCIAIIII IlitEiliTEß, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
WIIIG STATE TICKET s
FOR GOVERNOR,
James Pollock, of Northumberland co.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
George Darsie, of Allegheny co.
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JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
Daniel M. Smycer, of Montgomery co.
Medical Students,
Medical Students or Physicians, wishing a
well selected assortment of Medicines, with
Bottles, Jars, and all the necessary fixtures
belonging to a Physician's Shop, also a well
selected Medical Library, may be had on very
low terms. For further information inquire at
his office.
IM.Read New Advertisements.
stir Hon. John McCulloch has our thanks
for valuable Public Documents.
kir On yesterday evening, we had the
pleasure of partaking of a very superior article
of ice cream, at the saloon of Messrs Long A:
Docker.
ear The Washington Monument has reach.
ed the height of one hundred and fifty-four feet,
and cost about two hundred and thirty thous.
and dollars.
OM. The Huntingdon Presbytery stands ad
journed to meet in this place on Tuesday the
13th day of June, at 11 o'clock A. M., of said
day, to install the Rev. Mr. McLean, the pas
torelect of theHuntingdon Presbyterian charge.
sir The House of Representatives at Wash
ington, has a recess from to day till the sth
day of June. A war message is expected from
the President immediately after the recess.—
It is the general opinion that our affairs with
Spain are approaching a crisis.
166 The School Journal for June, is on our
table. It contains a great many editorial arti
cles, book notices, original communications,
the several educational societies, educational
selections, school law, addresses and reports.—
The June number completes the 2nd volume
of the Journal. Now is the time to subscribe.
The Sampson of Democracy.
We have been long accustomed to hearing
the Democratic party compared to Sampson.
There may be force in the comparison, for the
strength of the one was in his hair, and the
other is in its wool. This is the reason why
Democracy has labored so lard for a new wool
crop of slavery in Nebraska; it felt that its pow
ers were failing, and wanted a new infusion of
the raw material which constitutes its element
of might. Should it be shorn, beware the fall
ing ruin.
A GREAT AND NOVEL ENTERPRISE.WC pub
lish in our advertising columns a magnificent
Gift Enterprise, (the third of a series,) started
in New York by Mr. Perham, who has been
long and favorably known throughout the North
and East. An examination of it will present
features that commend it to the attention of
every man, woman and child in the communi
ty. We have only to say that the former en
terprises of this indefatigable manager have
been characterised by the greatest fairness, and
given the utmost satisfaction to all concerned.
Send in your orders for tickets as early as pos
sible, as, they will undoubtedly be taken up in
a short time.
afir The quiet of our town has been again
disturbed by an affray which took place be.
tween nine and ten o'clock ou Saturday night.
The law prohibits boats running on the
Sabbath day; consequently they are obliged to
lie by wherever it may happen; therefore a boat
made this their stopping place on Saturday
evening. Sometime after dark one of the
bands on the boat made it his business to visit
one of the groceries, and becoming somewhat
unruly, he was put out of the house; whereupon
the boatman returned at the above mentioned
time with a double-barrelled pistol, and repair.
ed to the grocery, the door being shut, but
having a window in it; and seeing three men
sitting on a bench in the grocery, he fired both
barrels of the pistol through the window at
them, which wounded all three, but not dan
gerously, they apprehended the fellow immedi.
ately, and is now in jail to await his doom.
M.. On Friday of last week, the great eclipse
of the sun made its appearance, true to aatro•
nomical calculation. The day was very favor.
able, not a cloud to obscure the vision.
Turn your eyes what direction you please,
you would see people with their smoked glass,
and turning up their noses, gazing at one of
the great laws of nature.
At this place the eclipse was not annular,
the visible part of the sun at the period of its
greatest obsciiration resembling the sew moon
in shape.
The eclipse commenced at one minute past
four o'clock, P. M., was at its height about ele
ven minutes past five o'clock, and ended at
twenty-one minutes past six o'clock, the dura
tion being two hours and twenty-three minutes.
'qt. is probably not unknown to many of our
readers, that, in a Period of about eighteen
years, called the chaldean period, or the lunar
cycle, eclpses go through an order of perform
ances, which are repeated, with but slight vari
ations, again and again, but that in the course
of time, these variations amount to great chan
ges, so that, front time to time, some old eclipse
will be dropped out, and some one taken up in
the eighteenth year programme. This subject
is finely discussed in Ferguson's Astronomy,
and a history of the returns of the past eclipse
is given as example.
The late eclipse first appeared OR the list
about the thirteenth century, and will continua l
to return till about a thousand years after its
first appearanoe, when, having gradually pass•
ed off the earth, the shadow, at the correspond•
io r returns of the new moon, will continue,
for wore than ten thousand years, to sweep by
the earth without touching it, and then will
&put, Locum to eutectaiu or terrify, perhaps, a
rree me of :arc'
WV° The passage of the Nebraska bill by
the Senate, Was accomplished soon after mid
night, on Friday, the 26th inst. The affirma
tive vote was two less than on the first passage
of the bill in this body, and the negative ono
lees.
According to all impartial accounts, the
scene was indescribably disgusting and degra.
ding to the Senate. The British envoy, Lord
Elgin, was present, with a number of delegates
to the Provincial Congress, while Weller, of
California, was pouring out a stream of ruffian
ly abuse upon Mr. Seward, which would have
dishonored a pot•house. The blasphemous de
nunciations of the clergy and the pulpit in
which Douglas indulged in closing the de-
bate, were of the same atrocious order.
We have a melancholy rumor from Boston,
as the first fruit of the Nebraska bill, that a
civil war has commenced there by a popular
tumult, and the murder of a Federal officer in
the discharge of his duties. This is the mode
in which the revolution commenced in the same
city. It is peculiarly exasperating that a crew
of dishonest politicians at Washington should
wantonly throw the brand of civil war among
the people of any section. The President has
signed the bill, and returned it to the House
on Monday last, when the Democracy will fire
another feu de joie. May the sound be the fu
neral knell of their party and their cause.
The Nebraska Bill.
The struggle on this bill, in the House of
Representatives, was terminated on the 22d
near midnight. In Committee of the whole
Mr. STEPHENS of Georgia, moved to strike out
the enacting clause, in order to cut off all
amendments. This was rejected, and the pre.
question ordered. Mr. RICHARDSON moved his
substitute for the bill, omitting the Clayton
amendment, and moved the previous question.
An hour was then consumed in reading the
bill, after which the main question was put,
and the substitute was agreed to by yeas 115,
nays 96; the bill was ordered to be engrossed
for a third reading, by ayes 112, nays 99, and
then read a third time and passed, by ayes 113,
nays 100, as follows:
YEAS.—Messrs. Abercrombie, Jas. C. Allen,
Willis Allen, Ashe, David J. Bailey, Thomas
Bayly, Barksdale; Barry, Bell, Bocock, Boyce,
Breckinridge, Bridges Brooks, Cookie, Chas
tain, Christman, Churchwell, Clark, Clingman,
Cobb, Colquitt, Cox, Craige, Cumming, Cut.
ting, Juo. G. Davis, Dawson, Disney, Dowdell,
Dunbar, Dunham, Eddy, Edmundson, Jno. M.
Elliott, English, Faulkner, Florence, Goode,
Green, Greenwood, Gray. Hamilton, Sampson
W. Harris, Hendricks, Henn, Hibbard, Hill.
Hillyer, Houstan, Ingersoll, Geo. W. Jones,,J.
Glancy Jones, Roland Jones, Kerr, Kidwell,
Kurtz, Lamb, Lane, Latham, Letcher, Lilly,
Lindley, Macdonald, M'Dougall, McNair, Max.
well, May. John 0. Miller, Smith Miller, Olds,
Mordecai, Oliver, Orr, Packer, John Perkins,
Phelps, Phillips, Powell, Preston, Ready, Reese,
Richardson, Riddle, Robbins, Rowe, Ruffin,
Shannon, Shaw, Shower, Singleton, Samuel A.
Smith, Wm. Smith, Wm. R. Smith, George W.
Smyth, Snodgrass, Frederick P. Stanton, R. H.
Stanton, Alexander H. Stephens, Straub David
Stuart, John Taylor, Tweed, Vail, Yemeni,
Walbridge, Walker, Walsh, Warren, West-
brook, Witte, Daniel B. Wright, Hendrick B.
Wright, and Zollicoffer.-113.
NAYS.-Mesars. Ball, Banks, Belcher. Ben
nett, Benson, Benton, Bugg, Campbell, Car
penter, Chandler, Crocker. Cullom, Curtis, T.
Davis, Dean, De Witt, Dick. Dickinson, Drum,
Eastman, Edgerton, Edmonds, Thos. D. Eliot,
Ellison, Etheridge, Everhart, Farley, Fenton,
Flogler, Fuller, Gamble, Giddings, Goodrich,
Grow, Aaron Harlan, Andrew J. Marian, Har
rison, Hastings, Haven, Hiester, Howe, Hughes,
Hunt, Johnson, Daniel T. Sones, Kittredge,
Knox, Lindslev, Lyon, McCulloch, Mace, Mat
teson, Mayall, Meacham, Middleswarth, Milleon,
Morgan, Morrison, Murry, Nicholas, Noble,
Norton, Andrew Oliver, Parker, Peck, Peck
ham, Pennington, Bishop Perkins, Pratt, Prin
gle, Pnryear, David Ritchie, Thomas Ritchey,
Rogers, Russell, Sabin, Sage, Sapp, Seymour,
Simmons, Skelton, Gerrit Smith, Hester Ste
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ns, Stratton, Andrew' Stuart, John L. Taylor,
Nathaniel G. Taylor, Thurston, Tracy, Teout.,
Upham, Wade, Walley, E. B. Washburne, Is.
rael Washburn, Wells, John Wentworth, Tap-
pan Wentworth, Wheeler and Yates.-100.
ASSENT Olt Non VoTlNG.—Aiken, D., S. C.;
Appleton, W., Mass.; Bissell, D., Ill.; Bliss, D.,
Ohio; Caruthers, W., Mo.; Chamberlain, D.,
Indq Chase, W., N. Y.; Cook, W., Iowa; Cor-
win,'W., Ohio; Dent, b., Oa.; Ew . ing, W., Ky.;
Franklin, W., Md.; Harris, D., Mo.; Keitt,
S. C.; 1411ey, b., Wis.; Maurice, D.; N. 14 Mc
Mullin, D., Va.; McQueen, D., S. C.; Scudder,
W., Mass.; Seward, D., Ga.; Sollers, W., Md.-21.
The bill, of course, goes back to the Senate.
and the Washington Ultioll anticipates its spee
dy passage by that body. As it passed the
House it is the same that previously passed the
Senate, except the CLAYTON amendment, pre
venting unnaturalized citizens from voting in
the organization of the territory.
Increased Postage,
A cotemporary . says that "this is a subject
which is now being agitated to some extent,
and a proposition is, we believe, at this time
pending before Congress for an increase of let
ter postage throughout the country. The move
ment we suppose can be urged upon no other
ground than a deficiency of revenue in the
Post Office Department; but it may well be
questioned whether true policy would dictate
the proposed increase on the ground that the
increase of business is almost sure to be in
inverse proportion to the reduction of the
charge. Of one thing we are, however, very
fully convinced, and that is that the expenses
of the Department over its receipts must be
caused inno small degree by the large mass
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of franked documents that encumber the mails.
The private newspaper and letter mails would
doubtless meet the charge of their transporta
tion at the present rates if it were not for the,
enormous influx of free matter, which the legi
timate business of the Department must pay
for. Documents literally by the ton, of an en
tirely partisan character, and utterly worthless
to the country, are sent from Washington un
der the franks of members of Congress, encum
bering and delaying the transportation of the
mails, and adding largely to their cost. If it
be absolutely necessary that the franking priv.
ilege shall be used, or rather abused, to this
extent, the expenses incident to it may proper.
ly be charged to the expenditures of Congress,
and not laid upon the postal department to be
brought forward as a reason for increasing the
tax upon private correspondence."
Gov. BIGLER.-Tbo popularity of our Gov
ernor is not alone confined to this State. The
Cincinnati Commercial says: "Gov. Bigler, of
Pennsylvania, vetoed four bank bills. He beats
Gov. Powell, of Kentucky; in regard to banks,
appears to be 'treading in the footsteps' of hon.
est old Simon Snyder."
The above ingenious puff is cooked up by
the Pennsylvanian.; it may make Gov. BmbEn
popular out west, but will not get him votes
next fall in Pennsylvania. The four bills ve
toed will lose him friends by hundreds, because
they were not opposed by him 0n soy just prin,
ciple, and because be signed bills for other 10.
entities, which contained exactly the same pro
visions. The joke as to Gov. BIGLER'S having
vetoed four bank bills, is rich in the extreme,
when it is remembred that he signed some
scores of puns! It reminds as of the ingenious
Irishman, who being advised to plead guilty of
stealing a pair of brogans because four winos&
KOS had Reen him take them, exclaimed, ''Four
seed mo do it! Be jabers, and I can bring
four hundred that didn't tee sac take them!"
From the North American and U. S. Gazette.
Prom Washington.
WASIIINUTON; May 26, 1851
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Gen. Gadsden departed from Charleston for
Vera Cruz, with his family, on Monday Inst.—
He will arrive in the city of Mexico shout June
Ist, and will, it may be unnamed, immediately
exchange the ratifications o 1 the treaty with
Santa Amman. The money cannot be paid, how.
ever, though the treasury is running over, un.
til the House has decitW the great question
whether it will grant the supplies tbr the exe•
cution of the treaty.
The Democratic majority is very large, and
the Administration majority very strong, in ,
the House, but the appropriation of this mon
ey will give rise to a struggle to the fail as ex
citing, as fierce, and as doubtful in the result
as the Nebraska.. In fact, it will be merely a
continuance of the same agitation.
In the plan of an adders to free States, which
Mr. Benton has proposed, this Gadsden treaty,
and the consequent robbery of the treasury to
the amount of ten millions, connected, as it is,
with the intended conquest of all Mexico, are
specified as aggressions to be met with the
sternest resistance. Whether his views in that
respect will be prepared, is a debateable point.
Some surprise has been excited by the speech
of Mr. Brodhead, yesterday, in support of the
Clayton amendment to the Nebraska bill.—
Heretofore the Democratic party in Pennsylva
nia has certainly heen very much under foreign
influence—and Mr. Brodhead is about the most
incorrigible Democrat to be found in the State.
What, then, is the meaning of the revolt? Does
ho wish, by opposing its general policy, to di
vide the Democracy? Or, inure unpardonable
still, does he wish, by fastening the Clayton
anti-foreign-squatter proviso on the Nebraska
bill, to save the Missouri Compromise? There
are many conflicting speculations on this head.
Democrats were heard whispering with white
lips about the chamber, "Brodhead's bolted
Nebraska; he's a traitor," and so on. Others,
more astute, declared that Brodhead had mere
ly struck for higher wages, and that he had es-
Bayed this coup de parti only.because General
Pierce had forgotten some of the Senator's rec
ommendations to office. For my part, I believe
it is principle and a sterns sense of personal in
dependence which have impelled Mr. Brodhead
to sacrifice himself is defence of the Constitu
tion.
The debate yesterday on the Nebraska bill
in the Senate was full of interest. Mr. Bell
vindicated himself most nobly from the petty
slanders to which he has been subjected in re
lation to the proceedings of the secret meetings
of Southern Whig Senators. He held the Sol
ute enchained by his eloquence and the wither
ing force of his invective against Toombs, who
had assailed him, and the other conspiratorg
who countenanced the assault, for several hours,
and gave way to an adjournment only as the
shades of evening were closing in, and this
morning he resumed his reply. The excoria
tion of Toombs was terrible—the severity of
his punishment was greater than his most ma
lignant foe could have wished. I have watch
ed his course for years, and have frequent
ly presented hint to the candid people of
both sc,iuns as an incendiary agitator,
an enemy often open and undisguised, but
oftener secret and insidious, of the Union and
government. But this man has never before
been met, face to face, on the floor of either
House. Encouraged by his success in 1849
and '5O, in defeating Mr. Winthrop as Speaker
of the Bowie, and in disorganizing that body
for weeks, lie has extended the sphere of his
proceedings, and is pointed to. no doubt truly,
as a principal author of the Nebraska bill--
which the mature judgment of every disinteres
ted man pronounces the beginning of a scheme
of disunion, and of inappeasable agitation, and
that it was so intended by its authors, and es
pecially by this one of its authors.
On this day and yesterday, Mr. Bell stripped
the Georgia Oataline of his mask, denounced
and humiliated him in the face of the Senate,
with an intensity of indignation which I have
never seen exceeded. It. will do him good; and
the chastisement which the patriotic and na
tional Senator from Tennessee has this day in
flicted upon him, is a service to the country (or
which its thanks are most eminently due to Mr.
Bell.
Mr. Bell's exposition of the secret doings of
these conventicler, that are two frequently held
just outside of the Senate doors, and bionght
in here to influence its legislation, will also - do
good. The Senate is made the mere vehicle
fitr the conveyance of the decrees of these pal
try cabals to the statute hook. This is the way
our laws are made, and the way in which our
sacred compacts are nullified and broken down.
The reply of Mr. Toombs to the well prove.
ked castigation was noisy and verbose, but
nauseated to little. It required, however, some•
thing more than
"A just proportion of refulgent brass,"
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to reply at all under such circumstances. But
as Mr. T. had not to go far for a supply, he
produced it promptly. He concluded, :Tiro
priatelv enough, in denouncing as "Abolition.
tats" nil northern opponents of the bill. The
admonition of Mr. Bell having taught him pro.
deuce in respect to its southern opponents. he
forbore to direct the same denunciation against
them. Whether we do wisely always in meeting
such insolence with contempt, I will not say.
The fitlihusters are figuring up their
ble strength for a foray upon Cuba in case the
government shall invoke their services. They
say they have a million of dollars in hand, and
a million of men I believe, rendy to take arms.
The fact is. if the Senate and ,House unite iu
repealing the neutrality laws, the fillibusters
will very justly consider themselves for rations
and quarters. In any other contingency they
are harmless as doves.
The despatches from Spain aro yet in the
clouds. The surface is smooth and peaceful;
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but the semi•diplomatists declare tha t this is
only the calm which precedes tho storm. But
as our personal tempests in Congress generally
pas off without anything worse than a worldly
explosion, it begins to be hoped that this com.
plication may pass away with a few fighting
editorials in the Union, and a fillibuster speech
or two in Congress. ALEXIS.
To the Directors of Common Schools of
Huntingdon County.
GENTLEMEx:—An Act for the regulation and
continuation of the Common School System in
Pennsylvania, passed by the last Legislature,
makes it our duty to meet in Convention, at
Huntingdon, on the first Mondny of June next,
and elect a County Superintendent. Those of
us who reside in the lower end of the county
are not able to reach Huntingdon until 44 o.
clock P. M., and those from the upper end not
much earlier. If the Convention therefore
meets at an early hour, all the directors from
each extremity of the county, will be prevent
ed from taking a part in the meeting. We
would, therefore, as there is no person authori•
zed to set an hour for the meeting. recommend
that by common consent the hour of 61 P. M.,
be considered as the time of meeting, which
will give an opportunity to the Directors from
all parts of the county to attend.
Respectfully
Yours,
Jas. E. Glasgow, Wm. B. Swoope, George
Krim, Adam Heater, Jacob E. Barr, John
Mireley, Wm. Taylor, Henry C. Cromer, John
Brown, Henry T. Sta ins, Simon Grate, Henry
Brewster, C. Bowersox, M. S. Harrison, D.
Ahl, S. MlTitty, George Eby, George Bow-
man.
THE RESIGNATION OF SENATOR EVERETT is
announced by the Boston papers, from which
we learn that it was transmitted to the Govern.
or of Massachusets, a day or two since, to take
effect from the firs'. of June next, and that Mr.
Everett will shortly return to Washington and
resume his seat until that time.
The Advertiser says his health has become
so much impaired as to incapacitate him for
the discharge of the duties of his post, and to
even render it dangerous for him, in the opin-
ion of his physician, to continue longer at it.
A member of his family is also in such extreme•
ly delicate health as to trerently call him
home.
For the Journal,
County Superintendent.
Mn. EDITOR :—As the time will soon be here
when the School Directors of 'Huntingdon
county will meet in Convention for the purpose
of selecting a County Superintendent; and as
we understand that those important and highly
•salutary improvements were made in the law
for the special benefit of Common Schools, and
that class of teachers; by professionallizing their
business, and infusing life and'euergy into the
Common School system, we suppose, as a mat
ter of course, that the selection will be made
from among them, to the entire exclusion of
every other class or profession, not contempla
ted in the "ACT" for the regulation of Common
Schools. In view of which, we would—from
among a score of other very worthy and com
petent teachers of this county—any one of
whom, we know, would render general satisfac
tion in that capacity—recommend J. S. BARR,
at present employed in the higher departments
of the Public Schools of the Borough of Hun
tingdon, as it gentleman eminently fitted for
this important station. Mr. BARR is not only
I a fine scholar but no experienced and compe
tent teacher; having passed fourteen or fifteen
years of his life in the school room, in the ca
pacity of a teacher; and has ever been a vigi
lant and active supporter of the interest and
promotion of CoMmon School education. His
standing at present will compare favourably
with the best teachers in the State, and is at
this time a member of the Executive Commit.
tee of the State Teachers' Association; and
chiefly through his instrumentality and untiring
exertions, in behalf of Common Schools, does
the present Teachers' Institute of this county
owe its existence. During our long acquain
tance with Mr. BARR, we have ever found him
at his post, willing to sacrifice time, labour or
means for the furtherance of Common School
interests, and wherever his services have been
needed for that purpose, his place has never
been found vacant. If it were found necessary
for him to meet his fellow teachers from other
sections of the State, at Pittsburg or Lancas
ter, for the purpose of promoting the cause in
which he has been so many years enlisted, re
gardless of expense, you find him'there, or if
in the County Institute or Association he is
there likewise. Wherever you find the friends
of Cotnmon School education assembled to de
vise means for its promotion, if in any way
possible fur him to attend, you may look for
his presence.
As the improvements made in the School
Law are of more importance than generally
supposed, we hope that every School Director
in the county will feel it his duty nod make it
suit, if possible; to be present at the Convention
on next Monday the Pith of June, and select
from the body of the Common School teachers
of the county, the most active, energetic and
competent person, as Superintendent.
We have long since retired from the business
and profession of teaching, but know from ex
perience, the teacher's difficulties, and ardent.
ly desire to see them receive that consideration
at the hands of the School Directors, which
their case merits; and the late law intended
they should receive.
A RETIRED TEACHER,
Jackson township, May 27th, '54.
Senatorial Temperance Conference.
The Senatorial Conferees, for the counties of
Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria, appointed to
elect a Senatorial Delegate to represent said
counties in the State Temperance Convention
to be held at Harrisburg, on 7th :tune next,
met at the Temperance Hall, in Altoona, on
Friday, the 26th inst.
When, on motion, G. W. Patton and Jacob
Good were substituted as Conferees from Blair
county, in place of Messrs. McFarlane and
Schmucker, wlio did not attend. On motion,
B. F. Patton, Esq., of Huntingdon county, was
elected President, and John Menem; Esq.,
Secretary. Nominations fin- a Senatorial Del
egate having been made, John Williams, Esq.,
of Cambria county. was upon the first ballot
declared duly elected.
The following preamble and resolutions were,
upon motion, unanimously adopted:
Whereas, it is vitally important in the judg•
ment of this Conference, that the action of the
friends of Tempefance in the coming fall elec
tion be undivided, and directed unwaveringly
to the triumph of temperance principles, so far
as they will then have to he decided upon by
the people.
Therefbre, Resolved, That we earnestly re•
commend to its friends in this Senatorial Dis-
trict, to use every effort at the polls, both by
their influence and votes, to swim) the election
of men who will work for the enactment of a
Prohibitory Liquor Law by the next Legisla•
tore.
Resolved, That we pledge ourselves, most
heartily, to support the action of the coming
State Temperance Convention, to be held at
Harrisburg, in reference to questions which
will then be presented for their discussion and
final action.
Resolved, That in view of the non-coccur
rence of the friends of Temperance in Blair
county, in the call for a Convention to nomi
nate a County Temperance Ticket, we would
respectfully recommend to its friends in Hun
tingdon county, to postpone any action upon
this subject, until after the nominations of both,
political parties are made, and then, by so act
ing. secure the undivided support and concur
rence of the temperance men of both counties
in any action or measures which they may deem
expedient afterwards.
Resolved, That we recommend to the Sena
torial Delegate elected from this District, to
vote against any resolution which may be of
fered in the State Convention to rescind the
principle adopted by the late State Temper-
ance Convention, in favor of a positive enact
ment of a Prohibitory Law by the Legislature,
submitting the question of its repeal to a vote
of the people, and also, to vote against any re
solution calling upon the friends of Prohibition
to vote in favor of the question as provided for
by the act of the late Legislature.
Resolved, That the thanks of this Conference
be tendered to the members of the iklountain
Echo Temple of Honor, for the use of their
beautiful Hall.
Raolved,• That the proceedings bo signed
by the officers, and published in all the papers
in the Senatorial District.
R. F. PATTON, President.
JOHN W. MATTERN, Secretary.
For the Journal,
MR. EDITOR :—In the Huntingdon Journal
of the 19th ult., I see an article headed "Sup•
posed Murder" of James Stambaugh, which
should have taken place on the top of Sideling
Hill, between George Hudson's Esq., and the
widow Stambaugh's. The body of James
Sturabaugh has since been taken up, and a
post mortem examination made by three regu
lar physicians, and nine intelligent men, the
result of which was that there was no marks of
violence found upon the body of said Slum
baugh which might have occasioned his death,
and that the man, without doubt, had hanged
himself. D.
May, 1851.
Ate' Leonard Honda shot himself dead at
Hameltown, Cincinnati, in his rage because the
moulds in which he was running candles leak
ed. His wife was present, but was petrified by
the man's horrible curse.
Important from Mexico.
The Deftat oh Santa Anna—Him retreat to•
.• .•
wards the Capital—The Blockade of Aca•
paler) Raised.
[From the Panama'Star and Herald, May 14.1
About ten o'clock yesterday morning the
steamer Columbus, Capt. Dow, arrived from
San -Francisco. The following interesting me
morandum was furnished by Dr. Marlin, of the
C, :—P. M. S. Company's steamship Columbus,
John M. Dow, commander, left San Francisco
about 2 P. M., April 20, for Panama.
Arrived at Acapulco 9 A. M., May sth, eight
days nineteen hours from San Francisco. Re
ceived coal, water and provisions, and sailed
again at 7i P.M.
The blockading squadron had departed, and
Stuns Anna had withdrawn his army, number.
ing 3000, into the interior, seven days previous
to our arrival in Acapulco.
We were informed that, during the encamp.
ment of Santa Annn, near Acapulco, he had
several light skirmishes with the revolutionists,
resulting only its killing two or three on either
side, and a bombardment of the castle, the
boMbs doing no damage, falling rather short.
He then sent a flag of truce to the castle, de.
mending a peaceabl surrender. The bearers
were sent bark to Santa Anna by the command.
er of the castle, General Commontor, to say he
would send his answer. After consulting his
command, (about one hundred and fifty or two
hundred,) his answer was sent in a discharge
of round shot into the camp of Santa Anna,
killing six men, and taking an arm off another.
During his withdrawal, Santa Anna, expect
ing to be attacked whilst passing some defiles
in the mountains, sent the litter in which he
had previously been conveyed along with his
army, and took a more circuitous route on horse.
back to the place to which they were marching.
Messrs Wells, Fargo Co.'s messenger sup
plies us with the following additional informs.
tion
Acapulco was blochnded by the Mexican
barque Caroline, hot (lid not see her. Steam
er Oregon was stopped by her while entering
the port, but was finally a'lowed to proceed. af
ter applying to and obtaining permission from
Oen. S a nta Anna.
Brig Panchite, from G amid], run the block
ade after having nineteen shots fired at her.
but four taking effect, doing but little damage.
Santa Anna broke up his camp on the 26th
April, retreating towards the city of Mexico.—
A severe shock of an earthquake was expe
rienced at Acapulco on the morning of the sth
inst. No damage done.
We learn that the Yankee Blade was also
at first prevented entering the harbor, and
some shots were fired at her; but as her com
mander, Captin Randall, took no notice of tho
Mexican fire, and deliberately proceeded on his
way into port, the blockading party finally de
sisted, and he took his steamer alongside the
hulk, coaled, and - proceeded to sea without fur
the? molestation.
MANIFESTO OP GEN. ALvAnEz AT ACAPELCO.
COMPANIONS IN ARMS !—The moment of
combat is at hand. Victory will crown your
valor, for you fight in the cause of the people.
The ministerial press, to take our strength away
front no, basely denounce us.before the, world
as traitors, asserting that in our ranks are to
be found the fillibusters who lately invaded low
er California, and that we are in league with
Count Raousset. to whom we have opened an
entrance through the port of Acapulco. *
* Soldiers! behold in this General Santa
Anna ; 'it is his old trick, played by him in the
civic war he constantly has fomented. Which
is the stranger that stands between us? who
knows Count Raousset ? and where is he who
nt any time has heard me call him friend?—
Such relations, if they have ever existed with
any Mexican, were with Santa Anna himself,
for it was he who called Raousset to Mexico,
where was vet moist the blood that was spilt in
Sonora, .3..1 by him was made the compact by
which the latter was to raise twobattallions of
adventurers. It was he who offered bins a de
coration in the Mexican army. lie it was who
despatched %mosso. to Alta'California with a
secret commission; and, in fine, it was he who
took charge of his journey until his embarea-
Lion at Acapulco, and for Isis better security
provided hint with an escort. * * * While
these acts speak, discussion is useless.
Soldiers who fight under the banner of the
Dictator Bethink you a moment of the cause
which you defend, and for which you are about
to shed your blood. It is the cause of ono
man, for whose aggrandisement the blood of
so raspy of oar compatriots is to be shed.
Soldiers of the South I You see that Santa
Anna makes war upon us hysappealing to a
black and atrocious calumny. May the res.
ponce be, the whistle of our balls; and may
from all our mountains and defiles resound the
battle cry : View to Libertad Visa la la.
depcndeneia ! Death to the real traitors.
JUAN ALVAREZ.
LATE FROM CALIFORNIA.
Arrival of the North Star.
$450,000 Gold Arrived, and . 51,237,000 more
on the way—Revolution ¢n Bogota—lnter.,
tiny from Mexico.
New YORK, May 24.
The steamer North Star, from Aspinwall, at ,
rived here this afternoon at 5 o'clock, with 700
passengers and $450,000 in gold dust. Her
dates are to the lot inst., from California, and
have been anticipated by the arrival of the
steamer United States at New Orleans.
The dates from Panama are to the 13th inst.
The government of New Grenada has abolish
ed the capitation tax.
The United States troops for California.
which left Norfolk in the steamer Illinois, had
arrived at Obispo in sanity.
A revolution has broken out in Bogota. A
new provincial government has been establish
ed, and General Melo has declared himself
dictator. General Herrera and most of the
National Congress had fled.
General Mosquerc was in Barranquilla with
a considerable force. The constitution of 1843
is to be partially restored.
General Melo had arrested the President,
Obando, and other government officers.
The Governors of Savanilla and Santa Mar.
the had issued proclamations calling on the
people to come forward and assist in quelling
the insurrection; and measures were being ta
ken to raise troops for that purpose.
The Governor of Carthagena favors the re
bellion, and a general excitement had been
created throughout the country.
The dates from Acapulco are to the sth of
May. Santa Anna broke up his encampment
on the 20th of April, and was retreating toward
the city of Mexico. He had previously de
manded the surrender of the Castle of Acapul
co, but was answered by a discharge of round
shot, killing six of his men. There is nu con•
tirmation of the capture of 300 of his troops.
The steamer Sonora brought to Panama,
Valparaiso dates to the 29th of April, and
Australia dates to March 3d. The political
news is unimportant. Thu ship Emily Taylor
returned to Valparaiso on the 13th ult., with
her crew in a state of mutiny, having on the
sth, at sea, made an attempt to sink the ship.
Advices from the gold districts of Australia
continued to be cheering. At Melbourne the
gold market was active, and prices were firm
at L 3 1i s 9d.
The prominent points in the advi.s from
California have already been telegraphed via
New Orleans.
The news from Oregon states that Major C.
11, Lamed, of the U. S. army, was drowned in
Puget's Sound, together with eight men.
The dates from the Society islands aro to
March 30th. Three French men•of-war were
at Tahiti, two having just returned from New
Caledonia, where they left a garrison of 600
men and a sloop of war. The French garrison
at Tahiti numbers 1500 men.
House SHOE MACIIINES.-A man at Alleg-
heny City, Pa., has just patented a machine
far making horse•shoes, which will, it is said,
turn out twenty : five per ., mihnte, perfect . in eve
brKop,ll;illl;!, t rneumee'd' 1.'1411'5 price
horse.
ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.
Three Days Later from Europe.
Additional in Regard to the Steamer seen by
BaMau—lnteresting in-Regard to the War
—Spain Reported willing to join the Allies
—Details of the Bombardment of Odessa.
HALIFAX, May 24.
The Royal Mail Steamer America arrived
here this morning at 7 o'clock. bringing Liver
pool dates to Saturday, the 13th inst., (three
days later than the advises by the steamer
Franklin.) She will be due at Boston at 6 o'-
cli.ek on Thursday evening.
The steamship Arctic arrived at Liverpool
on Wednesday evening, the 10th inst.
Additional in regard to the Steam
er seen by the naidanr.
The report brought by the ship Beldaer to
the port of Cork, relative to a steamer hoeing
been seen supposed to have been the missing
steamer City of Glasgow, is repeated by this
arrival, with the important addition that the
steamer, when first seen by the Baldaur, head.
ed North, but altered her * course toward the 8.,
and then immediately disappeared! The Bal•
dour steered toward the spot, and saw large
quantities of biscuits and boxes, &e., floating
•about. When the steamer was first seen a
barque was alongside, but the latter vessel
steered South, and us no one was seen on board
the steamer, it was presumed that the barque
had saved the passengers.
The Progrets of the Wan
The latest news states that the negotiations
for an offensive and defensive alliance against
Russia, between Sweden and the allied powers,
was reported to he progressing to a satisliteto•
ry conclusion.
It was reported at Paris that Spain, Porte.
gal and Piedmont are willing to join the allies
and furnish n contingent.
. . . .
Hanover has dechired against the issuing of
letters of marque. The Paris Moniteur an.
flounces that Austria is about to do likewise.
The Arab Chief Jessup, withlooo followers,
had embarked for Turkey.
Fourteen Russian merchantmen had been
eartured in the Blank Sea. Admiral Dundits
had proposed to make an exchange of prison
ers.
A new French loan of 250,000,000 frees is
talked of
It was reported that the English frigate Am•
phion had gone ashore near Revel, (on the
southern shore oldie Gulf of Finland,) and it
was supposed the crew had been made prison.
ers.
Bombardment of Odessa.
ODESSA. Mar Ist.---The inhabitants are re
turning to the town, and the places of business
urn opening again.
The details of the bombardment of Odessa,
as received at. London, are far from being de
cisive. The affair was a mere destruction of
vessels and property, without any certain re
sult.
The attacking force consisted of nine war
steamers and a detachment of rocket boats.—
The Russian batteries fought with extreme
bravery and the battle lasted 12 hours. During
the action the red hot shpt, from the steamer
Terrible, blew up the Russian magazines on
the Imperial mole, and thus silenced a tiemi•
dable battery. Three Russian Frigates. lying
in the harbor, were burned to the Water's edge.
Also twelve smaller ships and two ships of war
building. The roekets set the lower part of the
city on fire, which continued to burn fur two days.
hree of the steamers engaged in the attack
were disabled.
The British loss consisted of 20 men killed
and wounded. The Russian loss is reported
only 20 killed and 60 wounded.
The Russian account of the bombardment is
as follows:
Mourn 27.—The British war steamer Furi
ous approached the harbor of Odessa, when
two guns without balls, were fired, and the
steamer was ordered to stop. The Furious
sent a boat ashore with a flag of trace, which
was respected. After the boat had la n ded it
was sent back to the steamer with the informa
tion that the British Consul bad left. The steam ,
• er then again approached, ns if to make a slur
vey, when the batteries fired seven shots on the
Furious, but not on the truce boat.
On the second of April, three of the allied
steamers camp to Odessa and demanded sells
thetion. The Russian commander expressed
surprise, in writing that the allies imagined
that the Russian shots bad been fired at the
flag of truce, explained the facts in the case,
and refused to deliver up the shipping in the
harbor, as demanded; hence the bombardment..
It is reported that the allies have abandoned
the intention of attacking Sebastopol for the
present.
Further Details of European Intelligence
by the America,
BOSTON, May 25.
The foreign intelligence recieved at ilalifitx
by the America, bas been greatly delayed in
its transmission by the nefarious acts of parties
interested in the suppression of this mode of
conveying intelligence, except for their own
selfish ends. During Wednesday and yester•
day the wires were cut in many places, but not.
withstanding all these obstacles, the following
continuation of our regular despatch came to
hand.
From the Seat of War.
The British steamers had approached the
harbor of Sebastopol and threw in a few bombs,
but received no reply. A few ships would re.
main before that port. The remaineder of the
allied fleet had sailed, some to the European
and some to the Asiatic coast of the Black Sea.
Sir Charles Napier's fleet in the Baltic had
been reinforced, and on the sth of Mny he sail
ed. his destination is supposed to he the Gulf
of Vinland.
The Norwegian Navy is cruising in the Swe
dish waters.
From the Danube there is no reliable intelli
gence.
Russia will not evacuate Great Wallachia.
Gen. Paskiewitch will defend Bucharest a
any cost.
The Russians purpose to attack Silistria by
water, and are also posting 70.000 troops on
the frontiers of flakowrna and Transylvania.
This will compel immediate steps on thu part
of Austria.
The additions to Sir Charles Nanices Baltic
fleet . are the line of Battle ships Cumberland,
Prince Regent, and the French ship Austerlitz.
Ten other French ships have also recently join
ed the fleet.
It is reported front Vienna that the Russians
have recalled their troops front before Silistria,
but nothing confirmatory of this has been re•
ceived by the British government.
The report that the Russians intended to
evacuate Great Wallachia arose from Prince
Paskiewitch having made a change in Gods.
chakotrs plans, and the strong censure expres•
sad by him ut the great extent of the Russian
lines.
The Greeks who can prove that they were
not concerned with the recent conspiracy are
allowed to remain at Constantinople.
The Earthquike at San Salvador.
The city of San Salvador was totally destroy
by an earthquake gm the night of Easter Sum
day, by which upwards of two hundred lives
and more than four millions worth of property
were destroyed is less than ono minute of time.
On the Friday previous until the moment of
the calamity, strong shocks of earthquake were
experienced from day to day, until the night
of Sunday, the 19th, when, about 10 o'clock, a
rolling sensation, as that of a wave of the sea,
and which lasted about fifty seconds, laid the
whole city level with the ground. The night
being calm the dust occasioned by the fulling
of the houses obscured the whole atmosphere,
rendering it impossible for people to recognize
their own relatives. Plunder and robbery fol-
lowed as a matter of course, the government
with the troops having removed from the scene
of destruction at an early hour upon the tbllow
ing morning. The consequences accompany
ing this ruin are like:y to be attended with
very serious results to commercial business
throughout the republic. The authorities have
petitioned the neighboring States for assistance
in money. provisions and labor.
From the Albany Atlas of Thursday evening.
Another Scene in Court.
The prosecution in the case of the trial of
Mrs. Robinson for murder, nt Troy, rested yes
terday noon, and the defence was opened on
the re-assembling of the Court, in the afternoon.
~
Davi the trial thus far, the prisoner has
persisted in sitting in Court. closely veiled, not
withstanding repented efforts to have her face
uncovered.
Yesterday, Judge Harris, on the opening of
the court, reworked that "before the trial pro
ceeded further he wished to sae n word or two.
We hove thus far proceeded with this trial with
the prisoner masked. We have had the singu•
lay spectacle of a prisoner on trial charged with
a high capital crime, without the Jure or tho
court ever having seen that prisoner. ft Was IL
matter of ceremony. he admitted, but it was the
form prescribed by law in eases of this charac.
ter, fur the jury to look upon the prisoner. and
the prisoner upon the jury. He continued
repugnance to trying a prisoner whose face 11(1
had never seen—whose face was so concealed
that even the jury could not see it. He felt it
his duty to comment; of the prisoner that du•
ring the remainder of the trial she shall sit
unveiled."
Mrs. Robinson rose from her chair, and rais
ing her veil. said—"l am here to undergo a
most painful and important trial. I du not
wish to be gazed at."
Mrs. Robinson continued to sit veiled until
the question arose as to the state of the prison.
er's mind, when Judge Harris again remarked
"It has ttlready,been indicated in the course of
the trial that aberration of mind was to be re
lied upon for the detence. •I regret the neces•
sity of alluding to the subject again. bet if
such is to be part of the defence, the prisoner
must unveil her face so that it may be seen.—
That, in such cases, indicates more truly. oft
entimes. than anything else, the state of the
mind. If the prisoner does not remove the
veil, it will be my duty. however painful it way
be, to direct the Sheriff to have it removed by
force, if that becomes necessary."
After some little time Mrs. Robinson raised
her veil, but concealed her face from the jury
by her fan. Under an intimntion that this
could not be allowed, she finally withdrew her
fat and remained entirely unveiled. a short
time. when she again partially drew it over her
face. •
In the afternoon, the defence haring been
opened by Mr. Pierson, Judge Harris again
said :
"Before proceeding with this cage, we will
make one more effort to go on with an unmask
ed face. I trust I feel all the delicacy cousin•
tens with my position; but 1 must do my duty,
fearlessly and fairly. Notwithstanding all my
efforts this morning. onc veil was withdrawn
and another substituted.
"As yet I have been unable to see the face
of the prisoner, and I doubt if one of the jury
could identify her out of doom. I know the
sting is severe, but it can't be helped. The
jurors and witnesses must confront the prison
er, and if she will not remove her mask it will
be taken from her."
Mrs. Robinson hesitated, and then threw her
veil partly over her bonnet, but, as if sobbing,
bent lbrward her head, burying her face almost
wholly in her handkerchief. She appeared
much affected throughout the afternoon, and
succeeded effectually in concealing her face
from view.
The Troy Whig gives the following intim.
lion as the cause of the prisoner's strange con
duet
"It may not be improper to say, that the cur
rent belief is—not to use a stronger term—that
Mrs. Robinson, the prisoner, fortnerly..--40M0
twenty years ago—resided in this city, as a pu
pil at the Seminary; that her maiden name was
Wood; that her family was one of stealth,
standing. and respectability, and resided some
where near' Quebec; that while here she moved
in the best social circles of our city, as did
three sisters who also attended the Seminary
at different times; and she subsequently mar
ried an army officer in Canada, who diA; that
she then married a surgeon in the army, in the
Provinces, front whom she separated; and that
she is now the veiled prisoner at the bar, char
ged with the crime of murder.
"These, we believe, are the outlines of the
narrative generally credited—we may soy not
doubted, from the first—by very many. For
what reason her identity has been attempted to
be disguised, we know not. Shortly after the
! prisoner was arrested, a gentleman from Que.
bee or vicinity came here, and a statement woo
put forth to the effect that the prisoner seas
some other person; but it is now to be press.
med that the representation is not sustained in
the public belief. •
"Whoever the prisoner is, she has. from this
first, possessed the facilities fur securing for
herself the ableft counsel, and many comforts
not possessed by tall who inhabit a cell."
Revolution in Nicaragua,
We have received advices or a revolutionary
outbreak in the republic of Nicaragua, Senor
l'•istellon as the principal leader, supported by
Colonels Pineda, :Zeres, Zapata, Doctor Guer
rero, and Jose Maria Voile, alias Chellon, who
had arrived from Honduras at the head of a
strong force, and ellected a landing at the port
of Reulijo, which surrendered, as well as the
town of thinandega, without a struggle, their
object being to nutreh upon Leon, and from
thence to the capitol. The President, with the
government officers, had removed from Mana
gua to Leon, with the intention of resisting the
attack meditated against that stronghold. The
whole country was under arms, prepared for
any emergency; but the result so for remains a
matter of great uncertainty, and will depend
upon the enemy's plan of option.
Castillon Guerrero, Zeros and Dias, who are
head the bei of the movement, were banished
from Nicaragua some weeks before the present
revolution, on suspicion of being engaged in 5
conspiracy to overthrow the administration of
Chamorro. This net, however, only delayed
tor a brief period the execution of their plans,
for no sooner had they arrived in Honduras
than they conuneneed their operations anew,
receiving, as is believed, not only encourage
ment, but assistance frier that country. Their
forces at present number nearly one thousand
men, and are about equal in strength to those
of Chamorro. They have already taken Real.
ego and Chimandagua, both of which are towns
of considerable importance, the first ou the sea
coast and the second a short distance in the in.
terior. Chamorro is said to be exceedingly.
tyranic, and the people appear to know no law
but his will. His will has, in feet, been that
of a despot. At the lost election, which placed
him at the head of government, his opponent
was Castillon, who is said to he a man of creat
abilities, and enlightened policy—N: 'ffer.
aid.
t POSTMASTER GENERA L-A Patriot—.
! The Galena ✓r(/ersoninn, one of the ablest Df,
mocratic papers in Illinois, remarking upon
the present mail facilities for the West, eon•
eludes as follows:
'Me truth is, the Postmaster General is a
vain, weak, incompetent man; as lona as ho is
at the head of the Department, the West need
expert no justice. His vision does not extdnd
outside of Pennsylvania."
The Galena editor has formed a pretty cor
rect idea of the Postmaster General ; but ho
errs in One particular, if he wishes to convey
the idea that that functionary extends his vision
over the whole broad surface of Pennsylvania.
A large portion of the Democracy of Pennsyl•
vnnia are blind to Mr. Campbell 'o merits. and
ho is blind to the wants and wishes of a large
portion of Pennsylvania. Me belongs to a fec.
tion, not to a party, and he squares his conduct
to his position.—Thmocratic Vision.
JAPAN.-It appears that the Russians were
informed by the Japaneeso authorities that, in
about two months a treaty would be negotiated
by which the Japanese trade would bo opened
to all western nations in twelve months after.
wards. This tallies with the fact that in tire
months after the visit of the Russians, the A•
'lumina expedition was expected. A. Dutch
captain informs the Hong Kong Register that
the Japanese army is strong, well armed with
percussion muskets, supplied by the Dutch,
cud as well drilled as any European troops.