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'Wednesday Morning, May 8,1866.
frILEIAM BREWSTER, Editor.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
SAM. G. WHITTAKER.
The ".101.111NAL” has 300 Subscri
bers more, than any other paper
in this county.
Agents tor the Journal.
The followingpersons we have appointed Agents
for the HUNTINGDON JOURNAL, Who are author
ized to receive and receipt for money paid on sub
seription, 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. THOMPSON, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
SAMUEL Coax, East Barree,
GEOROE W. CORNELIUS, Cromwell township.
Hama HUDSON, Clay township.
DAVID ETNIRE, Cromwell township.
Dr. J. P. Asucost, Penn township,
J. WAREHAM MATTERN, Franklin township,
SAMUEL STEFFEY, Jackson township,
ROBERT M'BUaNEY, "
COI. JNO. C. WATSON, Brady township,
MORRIS BROWN, Springfield township,
Wee. HUTCHINSON, Esq., Warriorsmark tp.,
JAMES MCDONALD, Brady township,
GEORGE W. WHITTAKER, Petersburg,
HENRY NEFF, West Barre°.
JOHN BALSBACH, Waterstreet,
Maj. CHARLES MICKLEY. Tod township,
A. M. BLAIR, Dublin township,
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., Tell township,
JAMES CLARK, Birmingham.
NATHANIEL LYTLE, EMI., Spruce Creek.
Maj. W. MOORE, Alexandria.
B. F. WALLACE, Union Furnace.
SIMEON WRIOHT, Esq., Union township.
DAVID CLARKSON, Esq., Cuss township.
STRUM. WicrroN, Esq., Franklin township.
DAVID PARKER, Esq., Warriorsmark.
DAVID AURANDT, Esq., Todd township.
Dn. J. ALFRED SIIADE.
WANTED,
A few loads of WOOD at the Journal Office.
Mr The House passed a resolution to
adjourn sine die, on the Bth of May.
sr- Mr. Hendricks, of the House,
presented a bill to regulate the tolls on the
Spruce Creek and Philipsburg turnpike
road company in Centre and Huntingdon
counties.
INV The bill for the sale of the Main
Line passed the House finally, on Friday
evening, the 20th inst., by a note of 79
to 15. The minimum price fixed is $B,-
500,000. The bill is yet to be acted in
the Senate.
REMOVAL OF THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT
TO PHILADELPHIA.—The House proceeded
to the consideration of the resolutions pro
viding for the removal of the Seat of Gov
ernment from Harrisburg to Philadelphia,
which passed as follows:—Yeas 48, nays
27.
Fire in the lonntaine.
For some time past the woods on Tussey
and the Allegheny Mountains have been
on fire. The fire is said to be a very de
structive one, and is still raging.
The V. S. Magazine.
The present number closes the first vol
ume of this valuable work. This Maga
zine sustains a high reputation and is one
of the best for the price that we are ac
quainted with. It is published at the low
price of $l.OO per annum, by J. M. Em
erson & Co., Nos.l, 3, 5 & 7, Spruce at ,
New York.
Busy Times.
Our farmers are busily engaged in plow
ing, &c. ; we understand that the grain
throughout the county looks remarkably
promising, and indicates a heavy yield,
should nothing occur to blight it. The
news from all portions of the country is
very favorable, and we expect a heavy
crop. In some parts of our western and
south-western country, the grain is said to
be remarkably fine, and to be almost with
out a precedent.
Spain.
• We are of opinion that before many
months we will be engaged in a war with
the above named country. We draw this
conclusion from the fact that our President
is endeavoring to create a disturbance, and
in this he is seconded by his cabinet, and
aided by his particular friends. We hope
that we may be wrong, but indeed present
appearances are strongly for war. When
we think that Cuba is a morsel much de
sired by southern slaveholders, we cannot
but dee that the reason for the President's
bshavour is owing to southern influence
coupled with his desire for fame.
Venus.
Most of our readers, no doubt witnessed
the beautiful astronomical phenomenon of
Wednesday evening, We refer to the oc
cultation of the planet Venus. The star
and moon appeared early in the evening
close together; their angular distance gra
dually diminished until about twenty five
minutes before nine o'clock, when the two
bodies apparently cam in contact.
An occultation is possible, when the
moon's course as sees front the earth's cen
tre, carries her within a distance from the
star equal to the stun of her augmented
semi-diameter and lwrrizontal parallax ;
and it will happen nt any particular spot;
when her apparent path, as seen from that
spot, carries her centre within a distance
equal to the sum of her augmented semi
dimmer and act mil parallax.
To the Patrons of the Journal.
In presenting ourself to the public in
our present capacity, we have a word or
two to say In relation to the course we
shall pursue, and which shall hereafter,
nt least so long as we are editorially con
nected with the paper, chairicterize it In
so doing we shall be as brief as possible,
as we intend making our readers our judg
es. Our endeavor shall be to make the
Journal worthy the support of the good
people of our county, by our devoted at
tention to the whole paper, and in a strict
adherance to the principles which will
promote their best interests. Politically
the Journal shall continue to b?, under our
administration, ss it always has been, the
exponent and defender of Whig princi
ples—the principles of Washington, Clay,
Webster, and all the bright stars in the
galaxy of our nation's history, which gave
to us a name among nations and a standing
among the great powers of the earth ; we
ask that by-goner may be by-gones, and
that the future may not be presumed to
be as the past. Whilst we pronounce our
self thus in relation to the political faith
which shall be held by us, and which we
shall uphold through the columns of the
Journal, we would, as a matter of course,
wish to be considered as the antagonist of
Locofocoism in its every form, and in what
ever guise it may assume. In relation to
the new faith of Americanism, which has
recently made its appearance in almost all
portions of our country, we can have no
objection to urge against ; so far as we are
acquainted with the principles which Arm
its foundation we see nothing to condemn
but much to commend : we - cannot pre
tend to denounce it under the flimsy pre
text of unconstitutionality, for we believe
it does not aim at anything which our con
stitution prohibits or forbids; although its
doctrines may not be altogether what the
Whig Party endorses, yet they are not re
pulsive.
In connecting ourself with the Journal
in an editorial capacity, we do not wish to
espouse the quarrels and altercations
which have been for some time going on ;
we wish to live on terms of friendly inter
course with all our brother editors, but for
the private ear of those captious, ever-'
growling ones who only know vulgarity
and unmanly language we have a word,
and that is, in no case will we brook an
insult or insinuation, let it come from who.
ever or whatever source it may. We do
not love newspaper controversies, but
should it become necessary we shall in no
case flinch from what we may consider our
duty.
As regards the selections, &c., of the
Journal, it shall be our special endeavor to
make that department peculiarly interest
ing to the family circle, in doing which
we shall not forget "the gay, the grave,
the young or hoary head." We do not
doubt but that we shall make the Journal
a pleasant, profitable and desirable com
panion to every citizen of our county.
In conclusion, we re-iterate what we
said in the beginning that we shall devote
our whole time and attention to making
the Huntingdon Journal worthy the sup
port of every Whig, of every American,
in short, of every friend to the principles of
truth and justice. We can assure allthat
the confidence they may see proper to re•
pose in us shall not be misplaced. As an
esteemed old friend has it, "try us, prove
us." SAN. G. WHITTAKER.
The Kanzas Humbug.
If any of our good citizens are inflicted
with the Kanzas fever, we would most af
fectionately advise them to get cured by
any means but that of going there. We
have received the most reliable information
from men of intelligence and probity con
cerning this country, and all agree in the
main, that it is a barren, desolate and drea
ry place, and that the papers published in
that territory, are the hirelings of the spec
ulators who own the land, and thus no de
pendence should be placed in anything
they say. In one instnnce we are inform
ed that no rain had fallen for a term of nine
months. The speculators are mostly the
owners of the papers, and thus put just
what they please into them, regardless of
truth. The best advice we can give the
citizens of Huntingdon County is to stick
to her, and if they wish to emigrate go
first and view the country, before deter
mining.
Broad Top Railroad Iron.
A great amount of the iron for the lay
ing of the track on the Huntingdon and
Broad Top Mountain Railroad, has arriv
ed at this place, by Pennsylvania Railroad.
Teams are being now busily engaged in
transporting it from this place along the
line. It is expected that by the middle of
summer the track will be laid, and by the
latter part of summer the engines will be
, whizzing by us, bringing the products of
the ancient mountain.
In view of the completion of this road,
the contemplated building up of West
Huntingdon, the stopping of the public
improvenents at our place, tfcc , we are led
to believe that we will shortly take such a
lead in the march of improvement and pro
gress as shall distance all oar compcere in
the briefest space of time. So mote it be.
Mr At a public sale in Franklin coup•
ty, on Friday, the 20th ult., Potatoes were
sold at the rate of five dollars per bushel•
`How are the Mighty Fallen."
Never in the history of our nation have
we witnessed or read of a more complete
re-action of public opinion than has been
shown by our countrymen in relation to
the present incumbent of the Presidential
Chair—Franklin Pierce. Nor need we
be surprised that such should be the case
when we consider what has been the un
popular if not unpatriotic complexion of
his brief administration. We do not pre
tend to deny the factthat some of the Pre
sident's public acts have been commenda
ble, but the praise of them are due to the
superior wisdom of the members of his
cabinet, or some other interested ones. -
Chosen by an overwhelming majority,
to the high and responsible office he now
occupies, and elected too over that hero,
patriot and statesman Winfield Scott, it
wrs confidently expected that he would
make his administration worthy of the con
fidence, almost unbounded, reposed in him
by his fellow-citizens, and further that he
would use his every power for the'promo
tion of the prosperity of that country, de
manded by and due those citizens. But
time has fully demonstrated the truth of
the maxim that "power will turn weak
men's heads." The great mistake made
by Franklin Pierce is that he has over
looked the interests of his country to grat
ify his own selfish ones. He has forgotten
the name of his country in his eager de
sire to make himself "a name among na
tions," but he forgot in that eager grasping
after fame that humble, true patriotism will
outlive infamy. The course pursued by
President Pierce in relation to Cuba is but
a verification of our assertion, for it proves
conclusively that he would without the
least hesitancy drag his country into a war
merely for the purpose of gratifying his
appetite for 'fame.' Well, we can assure
the President that all the 'fame' he will
procure by his fillibustering schemes in
relation to Cuba, will be eternal infamy,
and the almost• universal denunciation of
his countrymen.
We have no sympathy for Pierce in
his present situation, for the reason that he
has brought it all upon himself by his in
gratitude and folly. We think it would
have saved the reputation of the Locofoco
party—if indeed it ever Possessed any—to
have left Pierce a hero, and never have
elevated him to the Presidency ; at least
such is our humble opinion, and we give it
for what is. is worth.
The Allies and the War,
The Allies have evidently a strong de
sire to "treat." As yet, they have made
little or no headway towards the capture
of Sevastopol, and we are of the opinion
that it will be many months ere that much
to be desired object—by the Allies—will be
consummated. The Russians appear to be
as determined and courageous as ever, and
are manifestly of the determination to con
quer or die. The Czar is slowly yet ne
vertheless surely drawing his forces into
the Crimea, and we would not at all be sur
prised before another month rolls round to
hear of the allies being in the same deplo.
rable situation as was the fly in that ever
to be-remembered song of "will you, will
you, walk in Mr. Fly 9" When the al
lies attempt to raise the seige they will find
when too late, that they have had their
wings bound by the Russian web, and all
that will remain for them will be an un
pleasant jaunt to Moscow, guarded by the
wild Cossack. The late advices from the
seat of war indicate no very flattering state
of affairs in regard to the allies. The
Russians are almost daily receiving addi
tional f aces, and the allies are compelled
to stand by and without the means of of
fering any possible resistance see supplies
and munitions daily going into Sevastopol.
Even the present disastrous state of the
allies cannot long continue. The diseases
common to the region where the war is
now being carried on is making sad inroads
upon their ranks. Whatever they intend
doing should be done quickly. Procrasti
nation in the attack of Sevastopol will on
ly render the allies weaker, whilst it will
infinitely aid the Russians. The whole
affair thus brings us to the query, what
must be done t Either raise the seige or
be surrounded. The pride of England
most emphatically forbids the forgoer, and
yet we cannot see any other alternative.
On the whole, we do not believe that
the Allies will venture to fly from the trap.
into which they have been so adroitly de
coyed by "Old Nick," without making a
mighty efibrt to capture it. But they will
shortly have to make the attempt to gain a
bloody victory, or either surrender to the
Russians, or depart from the Crimea in ev
erlasting disgrace. We think that the al
lies have forgotten the maxim that “discrcf
tion is the better part of valor," and unless
they shortly quit dreaming and get to act
ing they will have more and harder work
than they had at first bargained for.
Mr Gov. Pollock has appointed Hen
ry Davis, Esq., of Philadelphia, Leather
Inspector for the term of tnreo years
Mr. Davis has long been an activo and
untiring Whig.
WHAT 18 A TOT WEIGHTY—The Supreme
Court of this State has heretofore decided that
a ton weight of coal ) &c., was 2000 lbs., but
the U. S. District Court of Philadelphia, late
ly decided that 2240 lbs., constitute a ton of
coal. If this position is seconded by the Su•
prism Court of the United States, coal dealers
will have to go up in the figures.
Ind Dogs.
We understand from a friend that in
the northern part of our county mad dogs
are making sad havoc among the cattle.
lie informed us that in one neighborhood
upwards of twenty-head had died from the
effects of the bite of these nuisances. In
various other districts we have informa
tion that this plague is making its appear
ance.
In view of all this would it not be sen
sible on the part of our “town daddies"
to adopt some measure for the de popula_
Lion of our canine race. The number of
dogs in our borough is frightfully large and
should this malady break out here we may
expect very alarming consequences.
A New Hill.
We understand that our townsmen Mes
srs. Fisher& McMurtrie, have purchased
the Huntingdon Mill for the sum of $14,-
500. It is the intention of these gentle
men to erect a new mill, not however on
the old site, but above it. The old mill is
to remain as a plaster mill.
This is an improvement much need
ed here, and we know of nothing that will
pay better than a good mill at this point.
We did not ascertain when these gentle.
men intend building, but we presume du
ring the coming summer.
Omni Pius.
Johnston and Dante.
The Chambersburg Whig states as a fact
that Gov. Johnston has signified his willingness
to accept the Know Nothing nomination for
State Senator in Allegheny county, at the next
fall's election, and there is little doubt that the
nomination will be conceded to him ; and, also
that it is generally understood that there will
ho a fusion of the old line Whigs and Demo.
crate in opposition to him, and that they will
unite in supporting George Ijarsie as their
candidate.
We know not what truth there may be in
this statement, but should it turn out to ho cor.
reef, and these two distinguished gentlemen be
pitted against each in the manner indicated,
we venture to say it will prove one of the most
exciting character. that has ever taken place
in that county.
England's Humiliation.
No disaster that England's arms could sus•
taut in the war ngainst Russia would be half
so great a humiliation as is the visit of Louis
Napoleon to Windsor Castle by invitation of
England's Queen and Ministry. It is not the
parvenu character of the Emperor of the
French that makes the event so humiliating,.
but the baseness of his personal character,
trumpeted most loudly throughout the kingdom
by the British press within the past three
years. If Englishmen do pot feel shame on
the occasion of this visit, it will be because the
pride and manhood which were once their boast
have ceased to be national characteristics.—
Haughty Albiov Would not recognize the Im
perial title of the Great Napoleon, and her
ministers and officers insulted him in his cap
tivity by the n2ede in which they addressed him.
Now they bow low before the foreswore adven
turer and destroicr of French liberty, whose
throne rests uponlhe single merit that he is
the "nephew of his uncle. "
A Speck of War.
Yesterday, Secretary Marcy sent a telegraph.
is dispatch from Washington to this city, ma
king inquiries as: to whether Estrampes, who
was recently garroted at Havana, was really a
citizen of the United States or not. A search
of the records of the 4th District Court shows
that Francois (Francisco) Estranirs, a native
of Cuba, arrived in New Orleans in 1844. He
was then a minor, and under the age of 18
years, and the piper steps being taken, be ac•
quired the rights of citizenship when he be
came of age. These facts were immediately
transmitted to Washington by telegraph, and a
certified copy from the minutes of toe Court,
with the names of the witnesses, he., was at
once prepared and seat on to the Secretary of
State by mail.
The canoe for these prcceedings was a good
deal speculated upon by those who happened
to get an inkling of the facts, and the knowing
ones seemed to discern "a speck of war" in the
dim distance. At any rate "we shall see what
we shall see," for something is evidently in the
wind.
A letter, dated Havana, April Bth, says:*
"I am advised, upon authority that I esteem
good, that General Concha has prepared testi
mony to show conclusively that Francisco Es
trampes, who was executed under sentence of
the court martial, was not a citizen of the Uni
ted States, and that his papers, so representing,
were forged or procured by fraudulent repre
sentation," &c... . . . . .
It will 'therefore be perceived that the Cap.
fain General is already preparing himself with
rebutting testimony.—New Orleans True Del•
The Horrors of War.
The London Times lays before its readers
the particulars of a horrible affair which recent
ly occurred near the Dutch settlement of Trans
yard, at the Ca pe of Good Hope, and which
can only be paralleled in atrocity among the
achievements of modern times by the exploit
of Marshal St. Arnaud in Algiers, when ho
smoked and burned to death Thousands of his
barbarian opponents who had sought refuge in
a deep and spacious cave:—
In the case at the Cape of Good Hope. the
Caffree Indians had murdered, in October last,
under circumstances of groat barbarity, ten or
twelve men and women of the Dutch settle-
ment. Immediately General Pretorious raised
an army of five hundred men, and, accompa
nied by Commander General Potgietter, pro
ceeded on an expedition to revenge the blood
of the victims. After Sr. absence of several
weeks, they reached some remarkable subter
ranean caverns, half a mile in length, and from
three to five hundred feet in width, where the
Caffrees had entrenched themselves. Upon his
arrival at this spot, General Protorious attempt
ed to blast the rocks above the caverns, and
thus crush the savages beneath the ruins.--
The peculiar character of the stone, however,
rendered this scheme impracticable, and he
then stationed his men around the mouths of
the eaves and built up walls in front of them.
After a few days, many of the women and
children were driven by hunger and thirst from
their hiding places, and were allowed to es
cape ' • but every man who came forth was shot
dead by their rifles. On the 17th of Novem.
ber, at the close of a siege of three weeks, the
besiegers, seeing no signs of life, entered the
caverns, and the silence within, together with
the horrible odor arising from the bodies of the
dead, told how effectually their object had boon
accomplished. More than nine hundred Caf
frees had been shot down at the mouths of the
caverns, and n'squeh greater number had per
ished by slow degkees suffering all the horrors
of starvation in the doomy recesses within.
kW' Last Thursday was the day appointed
by the Milleritea for the final dastrUction of the
world, but it was again postponed.
Sell the Public Works,
The annexed extract from the money article
of the Philadelphia Ledger, presents another
argument for the sale of all the Public Works
belonging to the Commonwealth. And if not
sold, the argument is Nuttily strong for the
abolition of the Canal Board. Why does not
Senator Brown, who has devoted so much time
and attention to the stopping of leaks in the
State Treasury, that never existed, assail with
equal energy those breaches through whirls
thousands of the peoples' money normally es
cape into the pockets of political favorites and
arrant swindlers ? We hope that it is not be
cause we are about to have an American Tree.
surer, and a Loco-foco canal board. It is ob
jected that the price fixed for the Main Line is
too low. If so, biddcrs will compete for it, and
something approximating its value will be pro.
cured. The Union, good Democratic authori
ty, knows of at least one company already,
which proposes to give three fourths of a mil
lion above the price fixed by the Legislature,
and when the time arrives, the advance may
reach several millions of dollars. We earnest
ly desire the sale of every inch of Public Im
provements belonging to the State ; because
we believe that every dollar made upon them is
and will continue to be stolen. and in order to
secure the object, we think it policy to fix the
price so low as to warrant a disposition of them;
bidders will see to it, that they are not sacrifi
ced. If the Legislature find it too late to pass
bills for the disposal of all these works, then,
we aspect, sell whet you can—turn out the Ca.
nal Commissioners ; and let us have a respon.
sible Superintendent. If this oft-repeated ad
vice be neglected, we speak what we know
when we say, that many of our Iteproseniatives
will not visit Harrisburg next winter, union it
be to occupy the seats of the Lobby-members.
"The usual interruptions chargeable to the
bad condition of the Canal, have already begun
on the Delaware Division. On the 13th inst.,
a leak occurred about 12 miles below Easton,
which it was then said would be repaired, and
boats allowed to pass in the course of two or
three days. But it is not stated that the slope
wall, below Uhler's lock, has given way and
will require several days for its repair. The
Canal will not probably be navigable before the
latter part of the present week. In the tnean
time the business of the entire Lehigh region
is brought to a stand still. How long will - the
State persist in her present policy, of neither
herself improving and strengthening the public
works, nor of allowing them to pass into the
hands of those who would lose no time in put
ting them in a condition in some degree com
mens crate with the requirements of the trade
and the reasonable expectations of the public."
Mies Nightingale,
The Loudon corespondent ofthe New York
Tribune gives the following account of some of
the doings of this philantrophic and truly noble
woman. The correspondent says :
" Miss Nightingale is the real hero of the
present war. Lately a transport of sick arri
ved at Scutaria. In the hospital, where no bed
ding could be provided for them, there were
laid on the wooden floor of the corridor. Miss
Nightingale immediately sent to the purveyor
for beds and mattresses, but got the answer
that no stores could be delivered by him unlesss
he got a regular coder oh foolscap, signed by
the two respective officers and physicians of
the hospital. Miss Nightingale sent him word
again theta]. must have the bedding immedi
ately, but promised that the necessary formali
ties should be complied with as soon as the of
ficers and physicians should return And find
time for writing. Meeting with a second re
fusal, she ordered some twenty convalescents to
follow her ; went straight to the storehouse,
had its doors forced open, and carried away the.
necessary articles. The storekeeper stood
aghast at such uncerimonious infraction of his
authority and of all official routine, but the la
dy coolly said :
Miss ;,` Itiaerfor'retcd oto headquarters
eartrosr thatan
carried away what was wanton i for the protec
tion of the life of her Majesty'ssick soldiers, on
her own responsibility." England is, of course
delighted at such independent and manly con
duct, though the Ministry cannot openly en
courage such acts of insubordination.; still
Loid Raglan had better learn something from
Miss Nightingale, or else the second campaign
be as barren and disastrous as the first has
been, when forty thousand soldiers were sacri.
fired to the Moloelf of routine and red tape."
The Governor of Kansas.
Gov. Reeder, of Kansas seems to have ho•
come exceedingly unpopular with the pro•sla
very party of Kansas, one of the organs of
which strongly hints at an assassination and
revolution. The paper referred to—the Squat
ter Sovereign—has this editorial paragraph:
`lf the feeling against the Governor is not
soon lulled, the stottn will raise to such a pitch
that a vacancy in the gubernatorial chair of
Kansas will be the result.'
This, it is presumed, is a hint that the Guy.
ernor is in danger of being assassinated. In
another article it sass :
"There is a feeling raising in the Territory
against the Governor that only his absence will
prevent a general outbreak. Revolution is in
every mouth and if the President still persists
in forcing Reeder upon us,God only knows
what the consequences wilm. We hope, we
pray that we will be spared the necessity of
such desperate measures bnt if we are left the
alternative of living under a despotic govern.
meat, or of choosing a more honorable mode
of freeing ourselves, we are plain to admit that
we shall choose the latter course. In the lan
guage of Patrick Henry—'Give us liberty, or
give us death.'
If somebody could instill into the writer of
the above a little more moderation, and teach
him to appeal to legal means for a redress of
his supposed grievances, rather than to at. ex
cited mob, it would not only benefit him, but
advance the cause which he pretends to advo
cate.
RESOURCES or RUHBI4I.—Tho New York
Courier shows what financial resources Russia
has to meet the necessary outlays for the sup
port of the army and navy, and thaother wants
of the State. 'l.6e revenue from duties, stamps,
licences, &c., is estimated at about two hun
dred and thirty millions of dollars. Besides
this a large sum is realized from the mines,
probably seventy millions more. In 1852 there
waa a resolve fund of 800,000 in silver rubles.
In - ease of need the churches and convents can
furnish 800,000 more ; the convent of Alexan
der Nevski alone can, at ary amount, produce
100,000,000. If nothing but money be requir
ed to carry on the war, is Russia yet in a con
dition to sue for peace, or is she rescued to the
necessity of dismantling her fortresses or redu
cing her navy."
Toot HER WITH HIM.-H, will be remember
ed that last fall the editor of the Green Bay
Advocate, Wisconsin, during his absence left
his wife to edit the paper, and that she being
a Whig, took the Democratic ticket down from
its columns and wrote some energetic Whig
editorials. The editor, it Boerne, has been
again called to the capital, and through his
substitute announces as follows, on March 22:
"Our editor has gone to Madison, and in order
to make a sure thing of it, and prevent the op
kearance of any more Whig editorials, has la- I
en his wife with him."
TUB U. S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO TOE
NORTH PACIPIC.-WO learn through private
sources that at the last accounts the U. S. ship
Vincennes was at Hor.g Kong preparing for
the exploration of Bhearing's Straits and the
northwest "American coast. Several of the
officers attached to this expedition have died
during the winter, to diseases contracted do
ring the long stay of the vessel at Hong Kong
last summer. Captain Davis, formerly of the
Porpoise Lieutenant Hunter, of the Hancock,
and Dr. Hamilton, of the Kenedy have all di.
ed the past winter. Another letter, under date
of February lot, refers to "terrible suspicion
which has long been held by all, and now
amounts almost to certainty," that the Porpoise
has been totally lost at sea, with all on board.
She has not been seen or hoard of by any yes•
eel since she parted from the Vincennes, in
the gale of the 21st of September last. That
gale, it will be remembered, was very severe
in the China Sea, in which nearly a hundred
small craft were lost, even in the sheltered har
bor of Hong Kong.
The other two vessels belonging to the expe
dition, the Hancock and Kennedy, have been
heard from, and aro known to be safe. That
nothing has been heard of the Porpoise for
eighteen weeks since the gale referred to,jus
tifies the gravest apprehensions as to her fate.
The North Pacific expedition has been com
pelled by unusual circumstances to continue its
investigations during the most unfavorable
season of the year. Its present commander,
in striking contrast to his predecessor, allows
no dangers or di ffi culties to deter him, but
pursues the labors and duties of the mission
upon which he has been detailed, in spite of
all obstacles.—Boston
A GEORGIA Mon.—A young man from Mas
sachusetts went to Gainsborough, Georgia and
being asked if he was an abolitionist, an
swered that he was. He was advised to leave
the town and he started for the railroad de
pot in order to so do, but a mob, headed the
sheriff of the place, pursued and caught him,
rode him on a rail carried by niggers, blacken.
ed his face, and sold him at an auction for a
nigger, and then took him to a drinking house
and made the niggers hug and kiss him. They
warned him that they would kill 'him if he lif
ted a finger to resist, and the sheriff, though
the victim did not resist, aimed a pistol at him
and would have shot him but for the interfe
rence of bystanders from another State.
. .
No act whatever was alleged against the
young mrim and when his baggage was search.
ed no abolition document was discovered ex•
cept a single number of the New Turd Trib•
unc, a paper which is extensively taken in ev
cry Southern State in the Union. Under such
circumstances, the acts of the mob were out.
rageuus end nee - mous. It every Northern
man, who dares to say in the South that he is
a Freesoiler, is to be mobbed and sold at aue•
Lion, how shall he dare in reply to a question
to avow himself in the North a pro•slavery man
will:probably be subjected to similar treatment?
To be sure, the cases are not exactly parallel,
but when did a roused spirit of retaliation ever
stop to 1,111 nice parallels 7—Louisville Join•
nal.
KENTucxv.—The Covington Journal devel
open some amusing and interesting facts con
cerning the Democratic Convention held in
that city a few days since to nominate a candi
date for Congress in the Tenth District. The
ballot for the different nominees were not coun
ted out. The Secretary, after counting a part,
was interrupted by a motion to declare Gen.
Butler the nominee by acclamation, which was
adopted. A delegate, not posted, wanted the
i
counting to proceed, n order that he might
know how the vote stood, but he was overrul
ed. After Gen. Butler was put iis nomination
an ardent delegate, visiting to his feet, decks
red that "Gen. Butler was second only to Gen
eral Jackson, who was second .only to Jesus
Christ." The gentleman having exhausted
himself as well as the subject by this tremen
dons effort, dropped back into his seat. At
last accounts, he was thought to be in a thir
way to got up again.
USELESS CROAKING.—The Buffalo Republic
rebukes the croaking about the scarcity of flour
at present in this country, and states that it is
in possession of information which fully war
rants the expectation that the following quan
tities will arrive at that port this season : I• ram
Lake Michigan 650,000 barrels; from Detroit
124,000 barrels; from Toledo 100,000 barrels ,•
from Cleveland 50,000 barrels—making a total
of 525,000 barrels of flour to coins forward lie
fort harvest, "exclusive of Canada." The Re
public adds that it had no means of estimating
the amount that will be received from Canada,
but learns from gentlemen whose Dwane of in.
formation are extensive, that it will not be lees
than a quarter of a million of barrels, and may
be four times that amount. Large quantities
•of produce and lumßer from Canada are con
staidly arriving at Buffalo, under the Recipro
city Treaty. There has alroady arrived, since
the opening of navigation, 50,000 bhls of flour,
110,000 bushels of wheat, and nearly 500,000
feet of lumber—all of which immense freight
trains are conveying forward as fast as possi
ble.
THE Wnsav Com—The prospects of the
growing wheat crops are said to be excellent
throughout the country. The Germantown
Telegraph, well informed upon such matters,
says that though a month ngo they were quite
unpromising in the vicinity of Philadelphia,
the favorable weather since has ellbetcd a most
gratifying change for the better. The Editor
adds:
"In Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, nod
Bucks, the crops really look well, and promises
well. Farming operations, too, aro generally
prosecuted with unusual energy, and much has
thus far been accomplished, notwithstanding
the backwardness of the season. The ground
also, is better cultivated than formerly—more
heavily manured, and will be more carefully
sown and planted. We have no fears of a
scarcity—or as some 'cautious' people any, of
a famine. It is a niece trick to keep up pros
eat prices."
ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORY Or CRRIIO
GORDO.—The Scott Legion of Philadelphia
celebrated the anniversary of the victory of
Cerro Gordo, on Wednesday last, by the dedi•
cation of the Monument of the Legion,. in
Glenwood Cemetery. The Military companies
of the city joined in the celebration. A part
of the Legion appeared in Uniform similar to
that worn by them in Mexico. The Military
parade consisted of one company of cavalry,
tit of infantry, two of artillery, and four of ri•
fles. On reaching the Cemetery, an oration
was delivered by Joel B. Sutherland.
THE PnosrEcTs.—The Farmers in the State
of New Jersey, generally say, within the last
few days of tine weather, that they never know
grain to look better than at present, and that
the prospect for an abundant yield was never
more encouraging. It is to be hoped that those
expectations may ho realized, not only here,
but all throughout the entire country, and that
the scarcity of last year's crop may be succeed.
ed by a large and early one this year. The
grass is also growing finely, and we may soon
hope for a fall in the price of butter.—Retvark
Advertiser.
HEROISM REWARDED7-i little drummer-boy
in the Brittish army, who was in the thickest
of the fight of Inkerman, combating the foe,
and, as a relaxation, carrying water to the
wounded, has been presented by Prince Albert
with £5. Napoleon would have taken such a
lad and cultivated his soldier•likcd qualities,
till he made a Marshal of him. France has
skillful and daring Generals. England has
only brave soldiers.
Se' No Inter Luropeau nova since our lust
Alen antr *isms.
Der Sing mauls ed.
foslr Coming—Summer.
Nar. On a bust—the Rude.
ger Ditto—the topers on last Monday.
SgiP The ugliest chicken may pick up tha
argest grains.
Ser Another paper is soon to appear in our
town. 'Moseys we ,7•2 t improving.
gar Tomatoes and sweet potatoes are being
served to the citizens of Petersburg, Va.
OW. Allegheny county Court of Common
Pleas has determined to grant no more licenses
for the sale of liquors.
War The winter is past ; the rain is over and
gone ; the flowers appear on the earth ; the
time of the singing of birds is come.
SW' "I have turned many n woman's bend,"
boasted a young French nobleman. "Yes,
replied Talieyrand, "away from you."
Wr Agent Africa's ice cream has got the
flavor of the claret of Turkey, cooled with the
snow of Siberia. Long may it wave.
ser There is a family in Ohio so lazy that
it takes two of them to sneeze—ono to throw
the head back, and the other to make the
New BRIDGE.—Tho/ Cumberland Valley
Railroad Company are about erecting a now
bridge across the Susquehanna at Harris.
burg.
OW A man from New York wont to Fair.
haven, Conn., last week, bought a ship for $2O.
000, and paid for her with two worthless $lO,.
000 drafts.
Mir The Rockville (Md.) Journal says tho
growing wheat in that county is much impro•
ved, the sowing of onts completed and plenty
of corn 'commenced.
frflr A Yankee editor out West says " The
march of civilization is onward—onward—liko
the slow but intrepid steps of a jackass to a
peck of oats I"
Char A wag seeing a lady at a party with an
extra low necked dress and bare arms ; expres
sed his admiration by saying that she out strip.
lied the whole party.
ser The late Rev. Sidney Smith observed
that a railway whistle seemed to him to be
something like the scream au attorney • would
give when first the devil caught hold of him.
Dar A certain poor dyspeptic, whose physi
cal inability to work was attributed to indolence
was advised by a medical friend that the only
way be could ever convince people he was sick
was fa die.
POSTMASTER AR RESTED FOR EMRRL7. LEM ENT.
—N OW ORLEANS, April 21.—The Postmaster
of this city, Mr. Kendall, has been arrested on
the charge of purloining letters containing mon
ey to the amount of WO.
fikr• The young lady who walked all over
the city in the vain pursuit of the pint of the
milk of human kindness, has been more sac•
cessful in getting a little jam out of the jar of
a door. She got the jam on her fingers.
Dar If our Maker thought it wrong for Adam
to live single when there was not in woman on
earth, how criminally guilty arc old bachelors,
with the world full of pretty girls. Let 'young
men think of this.
- ter A lady wished a seat. A portly, hand
some gentleman brought one and seated the
lady. 'O, you're a jewel," said she. "0, no,"
replied he, I am n jeweller ; I have just set the
jewel t"
Dar' The bill for the sale of the Pennsylvani
an Main Line of Works went through the
house onFriday, and now goes to the Dover
nor. The bill fixes $8,500,000 as the mini
mum price. It passed the House---72 to 13 •
par "You say, Mr. Jay, that you saw the
plaintiff, leave the honse. Was it in hot haste?"
"Yes sir." "Do you know what caused that
baste?' "Pm not quite certain, but I think it
was Mr. Stubb's boots, the gentleman he boards
with."
gar A bill is before the Legislature of Blaine,
to give "the bodies of paupers who have nu
friends" to the surgeons for dissection. The
poor of Maine must hereafter make it an object
to get friends before they A die—otherwise, "the
thought of something after ddth may assume a
very unpleasant shape.
lie' A Dovetailing Machine has been inven
ted and is in use in Boston, which, it is said,
enables asinglo workman to dovetail with ease
from eight hundred to one thousand bureau
drawers a day.
Stir A colonel in Brooklyn, who was renew
kohl° for being lean as Don Quixote, the other
day challenged a Mr. Schoonmate ; the latter
declined, "unless the Colonel would the himself
sufficiently to be a mark to shoat at."
sir The London News announces the death
of "Currer Bell," (Charlotte Bronti) author of
"Jane Eyre," "Shirley," and "Vilette." She
was the last survivor of three wonderful girls,
the daughters of a clergyman who, now very
aged and infirm, survives his wife and all his
many children.
Ser A gentleman in Kelooshoo, Ark., was
married to a young woman, and after four
month's connubial felicity was presented with a
black baby. Ile called on his lawyer, related
the circumstance, and asked his advice. "All
right," said the man of the law, "let mo have
the papers, and yon shall have a divorce
instanter." "Oh, hang a divorce," replied the
gentleman, "I only want to know if I can sell
the cursed nigger I"
1 Sevima Furey, POILADETLPHIA.—The
attention of our readers is directed to the no.
tice of the Saving Fund of the National Safe
ty Co., in Walnut street, south-west corner or
Third street, Philadelphia, which appears in our
advertising columns. This is an old and well
established institution, and which pays Five
Per Cent. interest, and now has more than halt
a million of dollars, securely invested for the
benefit of depositors. This Saving Fund has
such a high reputation,
that people who have
large sums often come from a great distance to
put their money in it, on account of the supe
rior safety and convenience it alFords. The
money isalways paid back whenever it is called
for, without the necessity of giving notice for
it beforehand, and therefore affords a great ac
commodation to the public. We understand
that a great many of our citizens have already
put their money in this Saving Fund and we
presume that a great many more of. them will
do sr,
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