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HUNTINGDON JOURNAL
Wednesday Morning, Aug 9, 1854.
WILLIAM BREWSTER, Editor.
CIRCULATION 1000.
WHIG STATE TICKET:
FOR GOVERNOR,
James Pollock, of Northumberland co.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
George Darsie, of Allegheny co.
JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT,
Daniel Al. Smyeer, of Montgomery co.
ler V. B. PALMER, the American Newspa
per gent. is THE ONLY AUTHORIZED AOENT for
this paper in the cities of Boston, New-York and
Philadelphia, and is duly empowered to take ad
vertisements and subscriptions at the rates as re
quired by as. His receipts will be regarded as
payments. His offices are-1308'ton, Scollay's
Building; N. YORK, Tribune Buildings. PHILA
DELPHIA, N. W. corner of Third and Chestnut
streets.
Agents for the Journal.
The following persons we have appointed Agents
for the HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, who are author
ised to receive and receipt for money paid on sub
scription, and to take the names of new subscri
bers at our published prices.
We do this for the convenience of our subscri
bers living at a distance from Huntingdon.
JOHN W. Tuostesos, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
SAMUEL COEN, East Barren,
GEORGE W. CORNELIUS, Shirley township,
HRNRY HUDSON, Clay township.
DAVID ETNIR3, Cromwell township.
Dr. J. P. Asticom, Penn township,
J. WAREHAM MATTERN, Franklin township,
SAMUEL STEFFEY, Jackson township,
ROBERT M'BURNEY, "
Col. Jxo. C. WATSON, Brady township,
MORRIS BRows, Springfield township,
WM. HUTCHINSON, Esq., Warriorsmark tp.,
JAMES McDosaLD, Brady township,
GEORGE W. WHITTAKER, Petersburg,
HENRY NETT . , West Barren.
JOHN BALSBACH, Waterstreet,
Maj. CHARLES MICKLEY. Tod township,
h. M. BLAIR, Dublin township,
GEORGE WILSON Esq., Tell township,
James CLARK, Birmingham.
NATHANIEL LYTLE, Esq., Spruce Creek.
Maj. W. MOORE, Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace.
Samos WittouT, Esq., Union township.
DAVID CLeuxsox, Esq., Cass township.
SAMUEL Wnavois, Esq., Franklin township.
DAVID PARKER, Esq., Warriorsmark.
DAVID AURANDT, Esq., Todd township.
WHIG COUNTY CONVENTION
The Whigs of Huntingdon County are re
quested to meet in the several Boroughs, Din.
tricts, and Townships, at their usual places of
holding Delegate Meetings, on Saturday the
12th day of August ensuing, and elect two per
sons in each respectively, who shall serve ns
Delegates to meet in County Convention, in the
Borough of Huntingdon, at two o'clock, P. M.,
on Tuesday the 15th day of August, to make
the following nominations for County officers
One Person for Assembly,
One Person for Prothonotary, &c.,
One Person for Register, Recorder, &c.,
One Person for County Commissioner,
One Person for County Auditor.
One Person for Director of the Poor,
Also. to appoint three suitable persons as
Congressional Conferees to meet similar ones
from the counties of Somerset, Cambria, and
Blair, to place in nomination a candidate for
Congress; and to transact such other business
as may be brought before the Convention.
The Delegate Meetings, in the Districts and
Townships, will be open from 4 till 7 o'clock,
P.M.
In the Boroughs, from 7 till 9 o'clock, P. M.
Star In the new District, called the Mount
Union District, the Whigs are requested to hold
their Delegate Meeting at the Molmt Union
School House.
tar In the District composed of the balance
of Shirley township, the Whigs are requested
to hold their Delegate Meeting at Shirleysburg.
ROT The following are the boundaries of the
Mt. Union District as formed by the Legisla.
tore :—"Thut all that part of Shirley township,
Huntingdon county, lying and being within the
following described boundaries, namely: begin
ning at the intersection of Union and Shirley
township lines with the Juniata river, on the
south side thereof; thence along said Union
township line for the distance of three miles
from said river; thence eastwanlly by a straight
line to the point where the lane from Eby's
mill to Germany valley, crosses the summit of
Sandy ridge; thence nortbwardly along the
summit of Sandy ridge to the river Juniata, and
thence up said river to the place of beginning,
shall hereafter form a. seperate election district.
By order of the County Committee.
July It, 1854.
WANTED,
A few loads of WOOD at the Journal Office.
CASH 1 CASH I 1 CASH!!!
We last week requested those indebted to us
for subscription, &c., to call and pay up at the
August Court. Wp again urge the request, and
hope they will all be in readiness when that
time comes. Our expenses are very great, and
nothing but the ready down will meet them.—
Friends, don't forget.
Polytechnic College.
In our advertising columns will be found a
notice under the above head, to which, we
would respectfully direct your attention.
Lectures, followed by examinations. are giv
en in all the Departments, and the Professors
will call to their aid a well-furnished Analytical
Laboratory, extensive Apparatus, Models, Cab
inets of Art, and of Minerals, Diagrams, and
other means of illustration.
To supply the State and country with aliber
ally endowed School of Engineering, Menchan
ics, Chemistry and Mining, has been, and con
tinues to be a leading object with the Trustees.
The Collegiate year is divided into two Ses
sions of about five months each.
Camp Meeting.
The Camp Meeting for Manor Hill Circuit
will commence on the 25th of August, and
close on the following Thursday. To be held
near Alexandria, on the same ground it was
last year. Preachers and people are invited to
attend.
slir The North Carolina °lamer says tnat
a Mr. J. L. Bryan of Monroe county on the
20th of July, sold a pack of ten blood.bounds
for busting runaway negro*. for $1,540. The
highest price paid for any one dog was 8301—
**k:owed s76—average, $164.
417011111111317.—Jaroes D.. Pas, Esq., has
boo appointsel by Gov. Sigler, Associate
Jadgl► of llletrcoaaty, to Ell tlta, vacancy sass.
act to Siwiseigsatioa of Gardner.
11111.7hoosivas boon two arrivals from
rePlirsinosou Lac ittuk both of trbielt bring
hat little sows of isportonet.
Congress sad the Nebraska Bill.
The proceedings of the present Congress are
omenous of unparalleled evils to our Republi
can institutions, and therefore richly deserve
the early rebuke of every lover of equal rights;
the recklessness of moral principle exhibited in
both Houses, and the contemptuous treatment
of Gospel Ministers, of the different denomina
tions, who remonstrated against the passage of
the late infamous Nebraska Bill, together with
the ultimate passage of that bill, are fearful
evidences of a retrograde movement in our na
tional polity.
In the passage of that bill, Democracy has
been changed into a pro-Slavery Aristocracy,
and forced upon the people, by political dema
gogues and their party dupes; with a blind real,
which bide defiance to moral obligation, and
threatens the exterpation of civil liberty. The
bill opens to the ingress of Slavery an immense
territory, in the heart of the North American
Continent, extending through eleven degrees
of longitude, and twelve of latitude; containing
four hundred and eighty-five thousand square
miles; a country that is to a considerable ex
tent fertile, well watered, and in every way
adapted to agricultural pursuits. Thus placing
an insuperable barrier in the way of the emi
gration of the farmers, and mechanics, who
have no relish for aristocratical distinctions,
and withal' are very useful classes in any coun
try, and indispensable as pioneers in the set
tlement of new countries.
To prevent degeneracy in our republican in
stitutions by the influx of foreigners bringing
with them their peculiar national predilections,
it is important that every difficulty be kept out
of the way of the emigration of our own people
to that territory; they should be induced rather
than hindered, as their presence there may be
much needed to counteract the influence of
foreign elements which are being introduced in
many parts of our country; and elements too,
that are diametrically opposed to American
principles. See the platform of the German
Liberals of Boston, and the free German De
mocrats at Louisville, as given by the Presby
tcrian; their platforms involve among other
things, the repeal of Sunday laws, Temperance
laws, and the exclusion of the Bible from free
Schools.
It is evident that they aim at the subversion
of our civil and religious institutions; and should
they succeed in excluding the Bible, and the
moral principle it inculcates, from our sch"ols,
they will have, in a great measure, accomplish
ed their dark object; as the predominance of
moral principle in the subjects of a Republican
Government is absolutely necessary in order
to its perpetuation. Hence the importance of
counteracting foreign influence. Moral princi
ple may be termed the vital apparatus of re
publicanism; which manufactures, and circu
lates nutrition through all its ramifications, and
to mix the opposite elements of despotism in
the same system, would be to get up a war of
extermination. Look at the condition of the
people of France, when they got up their Re
publican form of Government; infidel Philoso
phy and Jesuitism predominated, and these
manufactured and circulated poison, instead of
nutrition. Consequently, their Republicanism
was brought prematurely to the grave.
The natural tendency of American Slavery
is to disqualify men for making those sacrifices
that are necessary iu order to preserve the
Union in a Republic like ours, when sectional
interest must be considered of secondary im
portance, and made subservient to the general
good. It requires no inconsiderable amount
of high-toned moral courage to counteract the
selfish tendencies of minds engaged in a busi
ness so mercenary and mean as that of Slavery.
Our Geographical position in this country
being central, we have not acquiesced in the
principles of the South, because we believe
Slavery to be a great moral and national evil.
Nor yet have we been influenced by the senti
ments of Northern Abolitionists to any consid
erable extent, as we believe their measures im-
politic, and fraught with evil consequences.—
But present indications forbid that we longer
slumber. The hydra-headed monster of the
South has made an aggressive movement upon
the North; the aid it has received from north-
ern members, who sacrificed their principles at
the shrine of party interest, demonstrate the
importance of neutrals becoming vigilent, in
preventing further aggression, and preserving
the Union.
When that dark and portentous cloud of sec
tional strife menaced the Union, we had noble,
magnanimous, and patriotic men of both par
ties, the thunder of whose eloquence dissolved
the elements of sectionalism, and adjusted the
compromise of 1850. From that period until
the close of Fillmore's Administration, peace
and confidence pervaded our happy country,
but at present how changed ? For peace we
have contention, for confidence we have dis
trust and evil forebodings, and all this evil
brought about upon the ostensible plea of giv
ing the people of new States a right to do what?
To do wrong, to form constitutions, making
provision for the subjugation of their fellow
man, who but for the concurrence of unfavora•
ble extraneous circumstances, might rank as
high in the scale of intellectual existence as
themselves.
The Washington Sentinel, the organ of the
South, says:—
That "recent developments have shown that
the Kansas territory is, in the highest degree,
adapted to slave-labor," and there can be no
doubt as to the intention of slave-holders to
enlarge their borders; whether they will be
prevented from doing so or not, is a matter yet
to be decided. Perhaps the Eastern Emigrant
Aid Company and Western anti-Nebraska
Conventions may accomplish something impor
tant. If we of the Key-Stone State can do no
more, we can withhold o•ur support in future
from the supporters of the Nebraska perfidy,
as unworthy of our confidence.
Cholera Treatment.
One of the editors of the New York Journal
of Commerce, who has visited the Franklin
street Cholera Hospital in ihat city, says;
The "calomel treatment" is the method a
doptep by Dr. Vanderveer, the chief physician.
In the early stages of the disease, spirits of
camphor is used; opium is almost entirely dis
pensed with. Instead of resorting to friction
to generate warmth in the limbs, air is heated
by means of a tin plate, the lower end of which
ie slifficiently enlarged to admit the lamp.—
These remedies have thus far been used with a
good degree of success. Dr. V. complains that
patients are too often detained from the boepi.
, tal, or tinkered with by incompetent physicians,
' until a cure is almost impossible; whereas, if
placed under his care at as early stage of the
disease, he believes a cure may be effected, io
almost every instance. It is =datable that
the patients thus far, are almost entirely of far.
sign birth.
111.4 w Pries tenuity refused to wear •
irtieb inter below beetute-it bed halide en it.
Fern Leaves.
We hare received a book from Mr. Mason
Brothers, in New York, published by Derbey
& Miller, at Auburn, N. Y., under the title of
"Fern Leaves from Fanny's Pori•Folio,seeond
series.
Now is the season forwitty,humorous, spark.
ling reading,—for instruction conveyed in an
indirect manner,—the season when one (either
at home or travelling) needs to be charmedout
of a consciousness of o'terpowering sultriness of
of a dustladen atmosphere, of buzzing flies and
stinging musquitoes, and have his senses wrap.
ped in such delight that all these uncomforta
blenesses shall pass unheeded by ; and FANNY
FERN'S new book in the "medium" wherewith
all this can be accomplished.
We are informed that the aggregate sales of
the first series of Fern Leaves and Little Ferns
in this country and Great Britain, have reach
ed 145,000 copies, while 30,000 of the second
series have already been sold. This snakes a
total sale of 175,000 copies within an average
of five months from the dates of publication,
and gives a continuous sale of 35,000 per month.
Via.. A copy of the Pennsylvania Farm Jour
nal is on our table. It is a most excellent one,
containing a great deal of useful information
for the Farmer. It costs only $1 per year, and
the farmer would be advantaged fifty times the
cost of the work in a year. Why don't they
send their dollar to J. M. Meridith & Co., at
West Chester, Pa., it could not be better laid
out.
It or Graham's American Monthly Magazine,
for August is on our table, with about 100 pa
ges of choice literature, the latest style of Fast'.
ions, a very fine steel Engraving of the "En
campment at Valley Forge," and "Washington
and his Wife visiting the Troops," to be had
for $3 per annum, by sending to R. H. See &
Co., Publishers, 106 Chestnut.st., Phila.
ger We have received a copy of Peterson's
Ladies' National Magazine for August, edited
by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. and Charles J. Pe
terson. This is a most excellent work, show.
ing the latest style of Fashions, about sixty
pages of choice literature, and may be had at
the very low price of two dollars per annum.
Address, (poet-paid,) Charles J. Peterson,
102 Chesnut street, Philadelphia.
Kennedy & Bro.'s Fac Simile Counter.
feit Detector for August, full of the latest, and
all the information relating to money, counter
feit as well as genuine. is at hand. The elucida
tions are so plain that any person may become
on adept by the aid of this Detector.
MP The Peoples' Journal has just arrived,
containing its usual quantity of useful matter
for the Farmer, Mechanic, &c. Thfs number
contains 52 drawings. Alfreb E. Beach, 86
Nassau street, N. Y., is editor and proprietor.
lel. The Musical Review, published by Ma
son Brothers, N. Y., is at hand, contaning, a s
usual, the most choice music,such us: Parting
Song, Good Wishes, True Love, and Ou the
Death of a Friend.
Rig-The Sacred Circle for August is athand,
containing the manifestations of the Spirit
Rappers, published by Partridge & Brittain,
300 Broadway, New York.
A Matter Which We Wish to be
Understood.
The Boston Know Nothing says: "There is
a misunderstanding some where on the road,
and we are glad that many of our correspond-
ents have written to us upon the matter. We
shall clear the mark and make things plumb.
This is a ''free country." A. democracy is
essentially free. It must be so, or it is democ
racy in sham—purely so. It is free from the
exercise of religious opinions, for the full play
of matters of conscience, for civil and social
priviliges. Here all men may worship God as
suits them. No one has a right to say a word
against it. If he does he infringes upon right
by a wrong; and a wrong which we protest a
gainst as much, fast and earnestly as any body.
Now, we wish it to be explicitly understood
that we do not wage war on the Roman Catho
lic religion, as a religion. God forbid. Let who
wiil kneel at its altar, breathe its incense,chant
its praises, listen to its doctrines, pay for its
support. He has a right to such a course, and
we will not interfere one hair. But here is the
point—the gigantic issue. We give it battle
when it becomes a POLITICAL INSTRUMENT.—
When we assert an we do in our platform—
" War to the hilt on Romanism"—we mean it
to be taken as opposing that faith when it puts
on a poltiical front. It iS ROMAN CATHOLIC POL.
'TICS that we contend is an immense evil.
Otherwise we have nothing to do with that church.
We have no fighting to do with the ROMAN
CATHOLIC RELIGION by itself, and separated
from other issues. But when it over-steps its
legitimate field ; when it rudely and lawlessly
grasps the sceptre of State, and would make a
State thing of it, we protest against, and wage
war upon it. We will go as far as any one in
protecting Roman Catholics in their worship.
We have condemned as sternly as any one, the
vandal acts which have destroyed and mutila
ted their temples of worship. We shall contin
ue to do so. Let them kneel before God as the
will—always providingitisin reason .d decen
cy. which the good sense of all men can decide.
Further than this: We are just as much op
posed to Protestants, in any of their multifari
ous powers, making politics a religious ques
tion. We say keep the State and the Church
apart. Dig a wide and deep gulf between them.
They never can be united without offending
heaven and injuring human affairs. Therefore
we say to Protestants, as well as to Roman
Catholics—worship as and where you please,
but touch not religion with political hands.
Palsied be the arm, and throbless the heart
that does it. Are we understood? We hope so.
It is one of the noble things of our nation—
it is one of her chief glories—and we announce
it with sacred admiration, that we have a real
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM; that men and women
who are changed in conscience and soul in oth
er lands, can here utter the sentiments and
pour out their hearts as the spirit within die.
fates; that here the Roman Catholic, Protes
tent, men of every faith and inspiration, are at
liberty to erect their altar, to bend the knee
' before it, to commune as the "still, small voice"
directs.
Therefore we say to all, it is the politics of
the Roman Catholic faith that we oppose, and
not its Remotos. The one is sacred and invi•
olate, when within the pule of reason and right
—the other is opposed to the interests of our
country which we have so earnestly at heart.—
In Roman Catholic politics there is everything
to fear. Let Americans give it battle; but let
the religion be spared. This is a matter be.
Oren the devotee and God.
This much for all who have misunderstood,
or misinterpreted our institutions.
CORE FOR CHOLERA AND DYSENTERY.—The
following recipe for the cure of cholera and
dysentery, is handed to us by a person who
vouches for its efficacy, and we therefore give
it a place:
Calamus. lan oe.; Elecampane, an oz.;
Gentian, *an oz.; Angelica root, an oz.;
bruise these and put them into one quart of the
best Holland gin; stand 48 to 60 hours, then
strain it and at it into a jug or bottles, corked
tightly. A wineglass for an adult when taken,
half a one twenty minutes after, if not relieved,
and ao continue until relieved. For young per.
sons, begin with half a wineglass, or two thirds;
and infants a tea-or:Tuft:l, and so'hn.,
Thomas Jefferson a Know-Nothing.
Thomas Jefferson, a name we all reverence
—one of the proudest in the history of this or
any other nation—was truly and proudly a Na
tive American. He "stuck right out"—actnal
ly bristled up with Americanism. As seltne
call them, he was, in its lofty and patriotic
sense, a "Know-Nothing." Touching this mat
ter one of our American exchanges—which has
escaped us, but a good one—has the following:
"In Mr. Jefferson's time nothing, we believe,
was known of associations called "Know-Noth
ings," and yet we find that this great man, the
author of the Declaration of Independence, pro
fessed the same principles that are now advo
cated by the Know.Nuthings, or American as
sociations—and entertained the same dread of
a foreign influence acting prejudicially to our
republican institutions. He foresaw the conse
quences of a large influx of foreign population,
and warned his countymen against them; but
politicians, to answer their selfish purposes,
have not only encouraged excessive immigra
' lion, but have ende,vored to elevate the raw
foreigner, who was ignorant of the spirit and
nature of our free institutions, above the native
—thus encouraging naturalized citizens to
form themselves into clans or combinations, to
effect particular political objects, or to acquire
ace by intimidation. Thus the fermi: pop•
illation of the country has gradually become a
separate and distinct element in our social sys•
tem, and threatens to become overwheltning if
not checked in season. The natives have re
solved to arrest this evil before it shall have
become too formidable; and hence have united
to restore power to its legitimate owners, the
Native Americans. It yet remains to be seen
whether this effort will be successful; but, for
ourselves, we entertain no doubt of its final tri
umph. So far as elections have served as a
teat, its success has been complete; and we con
fidently look forward to the coming fall elec
tions for further demonstrations to the same ef
fect.
A large portion of our citizens recognize
Thomas Jefferson as the Apostle of democratic
principles, and appeal to his writings in sup•
port of their doctrines. We profess also to be
of the Jeffersonian school in politics, and a
dopt, emphatically, his ideas in reference to the
effects of foreign influence upon the institu
tions of our country. Were he alive at the pres.
ant day, he would certainly become attached,
in principle at least, to the associations which
are now using their exertions to Americanize
America. He could not stand an idle specta
tor of passing scenes.
Washington also held the same principles;
and, in fact, they are implanted into almost ev
ery American breast. Even hacknied politi•
cians, who have been in the habit of appealing
to the foreign element for support, are begin
ning to see the error of their ways, and to fall in
to the American ranks. Some, however,are so
wedded to party and to partizan machinery,
that they can see nothing good, unless it be
composed in part of the foreign influence will
not be able to keep them in power."
KNOW NOTHINGS IN YORK Coo:mt.—The
mysterious order of Know Nothings appear to
be spreading with unexampled rapidity, in eve
ry part of the State. A correspondent of the
Baltimore Clipper, writing from York, gives
the following account of the progress of the or
der in that town and county:—
There have existed,according to report,in our
midst a mysterious body of men, called "Know
Nothings.' It is said their principles are, .`the
suppression of all Popish influence in our gen
eral. State and local governments, and the fur.
therance of political and religious liberty." I
have reason to believe that these repots are at
least partly correct; and if I had no other evi
dence, the flutterings of certain papists estab
lishes the fact beyond a doubt. The threaten
ings and whispered curses, which are daily
heaped upon this invisible and. by the priests,
their greasers or body-guard and their unfortu
nate deluded followers, would be, if it came from
a respecable source, somewhat alarming But
it appears, although thee edict has gone forth,
that the first "Know Nothing" who is discover
ed shall be annihilated, the cause is still pro.
gressing most rapidly, and.if the same mysteri
ous information can be relied upon, there are
now 12 or 15 clubs of these nondescripts in
the county of York alone. From the same
source I learn that one club is from 700 to 800
strong in membership. and in the county they
number scores upon scores; yet, strange to tell,
with these facts staring us in the face, not one
of them is visible to the staked eye. What po
litical influence this formidable band is going
to yield, I am unable to determine, (not being
one of them.) I hope, however, it will be on
the side of political and religious liberty, and
opposed to Popery and priest-craft.
Mayor Conrad and the Liquor Law.
Mayor Conrad, of Philadelphia, is determin
ed to close the taverns on the Sabbath,notwith
standing the recent singular and inconsistent
decision of the Supreme Court. Accordingly
on Saturday afternoon he summoned the Po
'icemen to his office, and addressed them on the
subject. He instructed them to continue re
porting all violations of the liquor on Sunday,
declaring that he would continue as heretofore,
to bind over for trial by jury. taking the ground
that the recent decision of the Supreme Court
in Barr's case was entirely exparte testimony.
The Commonwealth not being notified, was
therefore not represented on the trial. The At.
torney General, though anxious and prepared
to argue it, was afforded no opportunity. The
Supreme Court, in the Omit case, decided that
"a license to sell liquors by small measures
does not confer the right to sell on Sunday."—
The enlightened Judges of the Court of Qum.-
ter Sessions held, under the authority of that
decision, that as the sale of liquors on Sunday
is without license, it must be un indictable of
fence; and as the Commonwealth has generally
been conceded, in cases where an act involves
more than one criminal offence, the privilegeof
selecting which one she shall prosecute, the
course of proceeding before him had been, and
would be, until the law shall have been other.
wise settled, not under the Sunday statute fora
penalty, hut a binding over to answer before a
Court and Jury. Mayor Conrad further decla.
red that even if the decision in Omit's case
over-rated, his possessed ample power, under
other acts, to enforce a rigid observance of the
Sunday law, and the sanctity of the day would
be maintained as it has been since the issue of
his proclamation. By the act of last session
provision is made for the revocation of the
li
cense when the party holding it shall have been
proved to have violated any law of the Coin
monwealtb relating to the sale of liquors. He
would consider the sale of liquor on . Sunday
such a violation, and in every such case would
adopt the measures necessary to secure a forrei•
ture of the license. The course of Mayor Con
rad, in his noble efforts to prohibit the Sunday
desecration which has so long disgraced Phila•
delphia, is warmly seconed by the moral, tem
perate, law and order loving portion of the corn
inunity; while the inconsistency and miserable
truckling of the Supreme Court to the runt in
fluence has excited a universal feeling of' con
' tempt.—Harrisburg Telegraph & Journal.
A SINGULAR CASE.—The Brattleboro' Eagle
has an account of an interesting criminal cave;
which has just been settled in Orleans Co.. Vt.
Seven or eight years since, a woman, nained
Hannah Porker, was arrested, tried and found
guilty of the murder of her infant. The proof
of her guilt was conclusive, but upon her trial
some exceptions were reserved for the consid.
eration of the Supreme Court, and she was re
manded to jail to await their action. In the
Supreme Court the case was continued from
term to term for six or seven years, she in the
meanwhile making the jail her head quarters,
but having a very wide range Of jail-yard. The
Supreme Court at the last session reversed the
former judgement, and she was again brought
up for trial. The same witnesses were called
at this trial as at the former, but, singular to
relate, the facts had faded entirely *mu their
memories. Even the witnesses to whom her
oonfeuion was made. were unable to testify po
sitively that she admitted her guilt. Of course
"a reasonable doubt" was raised in the minds
of the jury, and Lhe wit a,quitted.
For the Jour.l,
MR. EDITOR :—Some time early in May, with
axe and wedge, I sallied forth to snake rails,
and otter some hour!, of toil. I retired to alma
those beautiful streams which issue from the
recesses of onr Pennsylvania Mountains, to
slake my thirst and rest my wearied frame.—
The choristers of the forest were sending up to
their Creator those sublime and pleasing an
thems of praise due to him from all his works.
Here I seated myself upon a green carpet of
moss, and leaned my back against a venerable
oak, to enjoy the pleasing scenery with which
I was surrounded; here I felt secure. There
was no iron-hand of tyranny to grind me to the
dust, nor unfeeling task-master's lash to drive
me front such a sweet resting-place, to resume
my toil, with lacerated shoulders, under a tro
pical sun.
There I sat with mingled feelings of self
gratulation, on account of the benefits and
blessings of liberty, bequeathed to no by our
hardy and virtuous sires, who opened up in our
country a retreat for the oppressed in every
land; and deep sorrow the the down-trodden
sons of Africa, .or and against whom our coun
try is so unhappily divided, and whose condi
tion of life is the occasion of such bitter dis
cord.
Our mind wandered back to the miserable
condition of our forefathers on the British isles,
when they were slaves to tyrannical Druids,
thence down the pathway of history, frequently
stopping to look at each new impulse which
was given to human liberty, till I arrived at
the time when our fathers, like Israel of old,
were wandering ns strangers through the de
sert, of North America, rather than submit to
the tyranny of the old world, and thence to the
inconsistency of onr own rulers, whose ultimate
object appears to be the extension and perpet
uation of the slavery of the sable sons of Africa.
And whilst the mind vainly laboured to dis
cover the reason why the children of Africa,
which, in its palmy days, contained the seed
plot of science, and the mart of commerce,
when it sent forth its colonies to enrich and
enlighten Europe and Asia; should become
slaves to the sons of the once degraded, but
now highly privileged Anglo-Saxon race, the
visual organs ceased to perform their functions,
and I became oblivious to the external world.
But the imagination, that immortal facility
of the human soul, soon carried me into the
most magnificent apartment I had ever beheld.
and as magnificently illuminated, and into the
presence of a tine looking gentleman, seated at
a gorgeous table, upon which was spread out,
what I took to be, maps and charts of our
country. He appeared to be care-worn, and
as I suppose, waiting the arrival of some per
son with whom he had business of importance
to transact.
Just as the clock struck twelve, a person
noiselessly entered the room, but 01 what a
countenance? sinister to an unparalleled de
gree, with intrigue and disappointed ambition
so blended with dark despair, as to defy the
united powers of the chisel, the pencil, and the
brush.
And I soon found that I was in the presence
of the President of the United States and the
distinguished Senator Douglas. And had the
advantage of hearing the following dialogue,
as I suppose, unseen by the parties.
President. Mr. Douglas, you have kept me
in great suspense till a late hour of the night;
what has detained you. and what has thrown
you into such a state of excitement?
Douglas. Alas I lam one of those unfortu
nate beings who are born out of season, turn
where I may, I hear nothing hut anathemas.
execrations and vengeance against us, on ac
count of our service to the South. Ch that I
had never heard of Nebraska or Kansas.
President. Mr. Douglas, surely something I ,
strange has taken place, be seated, compose
your mind, and tell me what has happened,
calculated to suspend the due exercise of your
mental powers.
Douglas. I was not unmindful of my en
gagement with you, but after running over the
news of the day, and reflecting on our defeat
in the New England States, Philadelphia,and o
Cher places, the unmeasured execrations against
us on account of what they too pertinently call
the bill of iniquities, by which we intend to
make room for millions of slaves in Nebraska,
the abusive epithets heaped upon Governor
Bigler and upon you, for getting Judge Camp.
bell to the most important office in your power
to give, and the mingled shouts of victory, and
vengeance constantly going, up against us, I
found a momentary relief from bitter reflections
in slumber, but it was momentarily indeed.—
For soon every thing with which I was stir.
rounded had a portentous appearance of future
evil. The Heavens became lurid, peal after
peal of thunder rolled athwart the firmament,
streams of lightning flashed in every direction,
and all creation appeared to heave and utter
groans, as if in deep sympathy with something
wrong in the moral world. In the distance
westward, horrible sights were seen, and mel
ancholy sounds were heard; a vast theatre pre.
rented itself to view, with all the fruit of our
toil to open a slave market in the west. There
the poor victims of foul avarice tied down with
naked backs, groaning under the lacerating
lash of cruel masters, rendered obdurate by the
institution of slavery; there was mothers having
their tender offspring torn from their breasts
with violence, there were sundered all the ten
der and endearing relations and ties of nature;
there were countless masses of broken-down,
degraded and bleeding humanity; and there
were those lordly task-masters, with souls oh
, dured, with hearts steeled against the cries of
I humanity, who, by long habits of cruelty, were
unfitted to enjoy the fellowship of well regula
ted society.
But still further in the distance appeared, as
I thought, the consummation of dark despair,
Ithere was a yawning gulf, terrible in every
point of view, its emissions were dreadful, and
it stood at the end of a great high-way from
the land which I have just described, and that
high-way was thronged with all classes of men,
travelling merrily and thoughtlessly onward,
till they approached the dreadful gulf, but then
they would have gladly receded, but too late;
fiends and infernal agents forced them onward,
still telling them that "they knew their duty
but they did it not" until shoal after shoal of
human beings were plunged into the awful
abyss to drink deep in the burning cup of Di.
' I vine Vengeance. And when my senses were
! resuscitated, I hurried to meet you with fearful
forebodings, as what I had heard and seen,
r were the natural and necesssary result of what
we have been doing for our party.
• President. It is now a late hour of the night
we will see each other in this room at 10 o'clock,
• when you will feel better, and we will devise
I means to arrest the current which appears to
r I be setting in against us. H. B. C.
MURDER OF A CAII;OONIAN.-601. Loring of
California, was instantly killed this morning,
at the St. Nicholas Hotel by a sword cane in
the hands of it. H. Graham, of New Orleans.
The circumstances appear to have boon as fol.
loivs:—
Graham was out the night previous, at por•
ter•honses and other resorts, and was 80 disor
derly that the Bth Ward police had to take him
into custody, Some persons from the Hotel,
who happened to ho with Graham, premised to
take him home and keep hint there. Upon this
promise the police let him go. However, he
went out again during the night, and at about
5 o'clock, canto home in a rather crazy condi.
firm,
Ho was walking up and down a hall in the
hotel, about half-past five o'clock, this morn
ing, making a disagreeable noise, when Col.
Loring came out of his apartments and request
ed the disorderly character to desist, as he dis
turbed and annoyed his wife very much. The
Colonel then went in, but had soon to come
out again and repeat his request. At this time
Graham, it is alleged, suddenly drew a sword
from his cane, and run Loring through the bo
dy, killing him instantly.
The scene which followed was beyond de
scription. Tiw Colonel leaves a family, who
are at the hotel. Uraham was immediately ta
ken into custody, and locked up in the Bth
Ward Station house. The Coroners were noti
fied of the occurrence. and au inquest wag
h e ld upon th e holy. N. 17 EIM)11 . /iy
AT/ •!. 2.
For the Journal
Enrron:—lt is a good and wholesome
regulation, estnblished by the Whig Party, to
renominate for a second Congressional term,
those representittives, who pass a
.first ordeal
with unsehathml political reputation. The prae
tics has many obvious advantages and the effi•
ciency of the member is increased by the expe.
rienee acquired in the routine of his official du.
ties. The course of our present representative,
Dr. MeCom.ocn, has been characterized by an
unwavering fidelity to the acknowledged princi
ples of the party by which he was elected. Nur
tured in habits of industry—sedulous in his at
tention to legislative duties—his vote upon all
important measures will be found duly record
ed in strict accordance with Whig principles.
. .
He is untainted with the Nebraska' lieresy..and
in despite of executive influence and patron.
age, before which moor professed Whigs nlell
from their high estate," Dr. McCut.t.oeu voted
against that iniquitous measure. We may have
been more brilliantly represented, but a more
complex, thorough, practical Whig never sat
in the Halls of Congress. His reputation,mor
ally and politically, is without. a flaw, even his
enemies are silenced by the unimpeachable pu
rity of his character. With these considera
tions in view, it is evident, that a more eligible
•or a stronger man could not he selected from
the Whig ranks of the 18th district. No secu
rer nomination could be made and a glorious
Whig majority would be the inevitable re
sult. It is, therefore, to be hoped that at the
coming election of delegates the party will be
unanimous in the re-nomination of Dr. MrCut..
LOCH. CLAY TOWNSHIP.
August 2, 1854.
Cholera at the Buffalo Poor House.
We extract from the Matto Commercial
Advertiser the following detailed account of a
matter which has been briefly mentioned by
telegraph:
Painful rumors have been in circulation for
a day or two, relative to the mortality of the
Poor House, and its causes. To investigate
the truth of these rumors, the Board of Health,
accompanied by several physicians, visited the
premises, situated five miles north of the city,
on the evening of the 19th inst. Whatever we
may have to say of the state of things there, is
derived from facts ascertained at this visit. and,
however incredible our story may appear, we
assure our readers that it is but too truthful.
The Board found that, during the preceding
24 hours, fifteen insane persons had died of
cholera; and that four more were then in col.
lapse, and could live but a few hours. This
makes a total of some 19 deaths in 36 hours,
from a house containing 53 inmates. All
these deaths occurred from a building isolated
from the main edifice, in which also cholera
was prevalent, though not with such an unpar
alleled fatality.
This great number of deaths occurring in a
single building, and exceeding the total of mor
tality in the remainder of a city of 80,000 in
habitants, must have some local cause within
the control of its managers. We have a right
to assume that there is blame somewhere.
Unfortunately the investigations of the Board
of Health render it too plain that, aside from
insufficient ventilation and other causes inci
dent to the construction of the building, the
manifest cause of this mortality is in the diet
of the house—a diet which exceeds, in its ac
curate estimate of the starvation point,- why.
thing which-Dickens ever ascribed to a parish
work-house, or to Dotheboy's Hall.
Hospital diet is the same as house diet Af.l
ter a great deal of argument and remonstrance
from the attending and house physician, they
have obtained from the liberal Superintendent
in charge an occasional ration of beef broth for
the sick. Its mode of manufacture may inter
est our lady readers. The Superintendent par.
chases, from the refuse of the slaughter-houses,
certain shanks of beef at 123. cents a•piece.—
He usually buys one at a time; in moments of
extravagance and disregard for the County
Treasury, two. One of these shanks boiled in
I water enough to give 30 odd patients a pint of
broth each. When two shanks boiled, twice
the quantity of venter is added, and half is re
ligiously saved till a second day. .
- The nursing is done by a sore•legged Irish
pauper, who takes especial care of his fellow.
countrymen, at the expense of French or Amer
ican paupers.
Thus far we have confined curselves to a no.
Iced statement of the plain, disgusting facts.—
But we have a word by way of improvement.
Here are more than three hundred paupers,
kept in a foul, ill ventilated building, on a diet
which will but just keep the wheels of life in
motion.
For month after month the thing has gone
on, producing its legitimate and murderous re•
sults. Lying in women have died of fever, lea,
ing their children, and the numerous foundlings
brought to the house to die ofstarvation togeth•
er. Brought there as bright, healthy infants,
these little offsprings of misfortune and crime
have scarcely an average of four weeks of life
in this great lazar house. Older children be.
come idiotic, dwarfed, inanimate; and men and
women die from a hundred diseases, written
down upon the case book in Lntin names but
which might be called starvation—starvation
of God's air and the fruit of God's earth. The
present mortality from cholera is only a signal
manifestation of what has been going on for
months; a small addition to the daily deaths; a
change in the particular mode of dying; or to
look on it in the most favorable light, a substi•
tution of death for imbecility; or rescue it from
a life which is worse than death.
We have no word of censure for the Super.
inteedent in charge. We leave the facts with
the people. Let them decide whether a miser•
able economy, a small poor tax at the close of
the year, is any justification of the facts we
have related—facts which can be sustained by
the names of those whom the community know
and trust.
Terrible Accident.
One of the most appalling accidents it has
ever boen our duty to record, 'happened at the
Allegheny Portage Tunnel on last Tuesday
evening. Five men, who were quitting work
for the day, were being drawn up the Eastern
shaft, having secured themselves by placing
their feet in chains attached to the rope while
holding above. The rope, which was made of
wire, is ordinarily used to hoist and loweremall
cars to convey the material excavated from the
Tunnel. This rope plays over an iron ehieve
running between large girders placed across
overhead twenty feet above the opening of the
shaft which descends perpendicularly, a dist.
ance of 160 feet, to the centre of the Tunnel.
The rope is then secured to a large windlass
worked by a steam engine. The accident was
the result of sheer carelessness—the regular
engineer being away, and his son, a young man
named Smith, who run the engine during his
fathers absece, being desirous to show the men
how rapidly he could bring them up. When
too late, he found the engine running so fast
that ho could not stop it, and alarmed by this,
and the cries of the men, ascending on therope,
(who were conscious of their danger) abandon.
ed his post and ran from the engine, which was
only checked by the men being drawn with
tremendous force against the shieves and gird.
ere above. In this perilous situation—suspen.
deg over the shaft—they remained until sheen.
gine was reversed, when two of them, unable
to hold to the rope ally longer, were precipitat
ed below, a distance of 100 feet, and of course
instantly killed. The others, being fastened
by their feet to the rope, fell downwards, but
fortunately did not get loose, and one man es
caped with little injury by clasping the timbers
above. The others were horribly cut and
mangled by being drawn into the shelve. One
had a thigh and arm broken, and shoulder out
of place. The other had severe compound
fractures of the leg and arm. Amputation of
the thigh, was performed by Dr. H. T. coffee,
of this place, a gentleman celebrated for Ills me
dical skill and scientific performances. Chloro
form was administered—the patients suffering
no
Pe i to nt a
Wolterseard Kelly
assisting.
t the
patients
are getting along well, and that the prospects
for their recovery are now very flattering. The
I,illed those injured, were Irish.
men, - Moir /',,. Is7o*:/, 1,1 insl,
Shocking Murder at Laurel, Del.
A horrible murder was perpetrated at or near
Laurel, fusses Co., Del., on Thurtrlav M A IO,
last, by a negro slave. It seems that is maw by
the name of Anderson bad a negro b' r by
the mune of Samuel Calaway, who he.' •eluc•
ed his 4aughter, arid Opel the (act dis
covered, Anderson threatened to shout the tie•
gro, whereupon the tie tr., lust. Anderom.lmtv•
ever, went to the negro's um,tor, pUretit, .ed his
time, and git a bill of sale ;he then s non
to a trader by the mune of Tin hale, who em
ployed two men named Collins and Ceara to
take bite, and the nezro havitt.t lest his ef }lies
at Andel, in's, he (Anderson) sent him word
that lie could remrn and get them ; the ne 4 ro
kept his.clothes in a F atery or some other out
house, wherein Collins and flown laol
themselves for the purpose of tying liiin
he entered to got them. The negro came and
Anderson went with him to this house, aro;
when the negro entered, he (Anderson) elimet'.
the door, and the two men inside attempted to
seize him, when the negro knocked Culiint
down with n club, and stabbed him toil-Olt-art
with a butcher knife, killing hint almost in
stoutly. LTpon hearing the scuffle, Anderson
rushed in, aid the negro fell upon him and
Hearn, cutting llearit's throat, in such it horrid
manner that his life is despaired of, and inflict
ing a fearful gash in Anderson's stomach,which
exposed his entrails. Anderson's wound has
been sewed up, and his physician has some
slight hope of his recovery, but Hearn. it is
feared, is beyond recovery,. The negro is still
at large, and the Governor has offered a reward
of $2OO (I) for his detection.
BRIDUING Too Mt:isms - tem.—According in
the information of the Boston Adverliser,a new
obstacle has been presented to the bridging of
the Mississippi at Rock Island, by the Rock Is
land Company. The Mississippi at this point
is divided into two channels by the Island of
Rock Island, which is several miles long, and
contains seven hundred acres of land. The is
land belongs to the U. Status, and the Rock
River Company proceeded, under the general
law of Congress granting a right of way to rail
roads through the United States' public lands
unless such lands are actually occupied by cm
tom houses, navy, yards, forts, Sze., to build
their bridges across both channels, fur the pur
pose of forming a connection with the Missis
sippi Railroad. But recently, after the bridges
have nearly arrived at a state of completion,
the island has been claimed by the War De•
partment as a military reservation. It seems
that during the last war with Great Britain, a
fort was built on the southren end of the island.
This fort was occupied as long as there was any
use for it, and then a number of years ago, n•
bandoned. Now, however, the Hon. Jefferson
Davis. Secretary of War, maintains the claim of
the War Department to the island, and refuses
to sell or lease on any terms, the right of way.
Mr. Davis has further sent an officer to the is
land with instructions to remove the trespass•
ers front the spot. The Company, however, are
determined to persevere in the construction of
the bridges, unless they are forced by the Sec
retary of War to give up the work.
Death of Ex-President Fillmore's
Daughter.
BUFFALO, July 26.---Miss Fillmore was at•
tacked, as was supposed, by cholera, at Aurora,
last night, and an express reached here this
morning, when Mr. Fillmore and his son im•
mediately started for Aurora. She left here
only yesterday, to spend a few days at Aurora,
and in the night. she was takes with au attack
of dysentery, under which ste sank rapidly.—
When her father and brother and Dr. White
reached here, about 10i o'clock this morning;
she was so far gone as to be unable to ree:•,S
nize them, and she died in half an hour there.
after. The distressing event casts the deepest
sorrow over the entire community. She was 22
years of age.
N. C. ELECTION, Raleigh, Aug. 4.—The re
turns of the Election, which took place in this
State yesterday, for Governor and members of
the Legislature, come in slowly.
Bragg, Dem., for Governor, in this city re
ceived 234. and Dockery, Whig, 382, showing
a gain for the latter of 97 votes. In Johnston
county, Dockery looses 50, and gains 200 in
Sampson, and 200 in Wake counties. In Fay
etteville, Bragg, (Dean.) has 540. and Dockery,
636, being a gain of 90 fur Dockery.
BIGLER REJECTED BY THE "KNOW NMI/.
INGS."—The Washington Commonwealth learns
from Philadelphia that Governer Bi,ler applied
for admission into the society of Know Not),
ings; but was rejected. The greateßt rejedion,
however, is yet to come! —Daily News.
iter A cow, the property of the postmaster
of Cork, produced lately, at one birth, the en•
traordinary number of five calves. The cow,
however, and her offspring, have since died.
par A lodge of Know• Nothings have been
organized in Ebensburg, Pa.
Medical Students.
Medical Students or Physicians, wishing a
well selected assortment of Medicines, with
Bottles, Jars, and all the necessary fizturea
belonging to a Physician's Shop, also a well
selected Medical Library, may tie had on very
low terms. For further information inquire at
this office.
Real Estate Agency,
The undersigned has established an agenoy
for the Sale and Purchase cf Real Estate in
Huntingdon county.
Any person wishing to sell or purchase can
give us a description of the property, its loco•
tion, quantity, quality, and terms.
We engage in this agency on suck terms as
cannot be objected to.
The Agent has the facility of making this
property extensively known.
We now have some very desirable landwbich
we offer on easy terms. WM. BREWSTER.
PHILA., Aug. s.—There is no change to
notice in the Flour market, and the only sales
making are in small lots for supply of retailers
and bakers from sB} to s9i ij bbl for common
and extra brands. The receipts are far below
the demand for home consumption.
The receipts of Wheat are increasing, and
the demand is less active—sales of 2000a2500
bushels new Southern red from $1,70 to $l,BO
bushel, according to quality. Small sales of
Rye at $1 a $l,OO. Corn is scarce and in
good demand at 80 cents for yellow.
The most extraordinary discovery in the World
is the Great Arabian Remedy for Man
and Beast.
11. 0. FARRELL'S
CELEBRATED ARABIAN LINIMENT.
This celebrated medicine, skilfully composed
as it is of the most healing balsams and pene•
trating oils, can never fail to cure almost every
affliction that could be alleviated by an eater.
nal remedy. Its superiority over all other Lin•
invents is proven by the miraculous cures it
performs, and by the great and constantly in•
creasing demand. There has been sold within
the past rear more than THREE MILLIONS
OF BOTTLES, and there can be but few per•
sons found who do not bestow upon it the high.
est praise for the rare virtues it possesses. No,
thing, perhaps, since the creation of the world
has been so successful as an externaL remedy
fur all nervous diseases, as this wonderful cu•
rative. When applied, it instantaneously diffu•
tea itself through the whole arstem, soothing
the irritated nerves, allaying the most intensd
oint,
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ib c i r io e a w t i i n n g g
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m m a o r td i e , l le ure w
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i t i i ic sa h t l e t
be attested to by hundreds who were fully cc
quainted with the whole circumstance:
CHRONIC ENLARGEMENT OF TOE TONSILS.
My daughter, when six months old, was to.
ken with • swelling in the tonsils, which grew
larger and larger, till when six year.i old si.,
bad great difliytlte iu swallowing her food. •