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Wednesday Morning, July 11, 1855,
WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1 EDITORS.
SAM. G. WHITTAKER.
The "JOURNAL" has 300 Subscri
bers more, than any other paper
in this county•
Agents for the Journal.
Thefellowingpersons 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 now subscri
bers at our published prices.
We do this for the convenience of our subscri
bers living at a distance from Huntingdon.
JOUR W. THOMPSON, Esq., Hollidaysburg,
SAMUEL COEN, East Borneo,
GEORGE W. Conwems, Cromwell township.
HENRY ffunsow, Clay township.
DAVID ETNIRE, Cromwell township.
Dr. J. P. ASIICOII, Penn township,
J. WAREHAM MATTERN, Franklin township,
&titular, STarrav, Jackson township,
Col. Jr°. C. WATsox, Brady township,
Mortals BnoWN, Springfield township,
WM. HUTCHINSON,Esq., Watriorsmark Ip.,
GEOUGH W. WHITTAKER, Petersburg,
HarrnY NEFF, West Barren.
Joon BALSBACII, Waterstrect,
Maj. CHARLES AIit:ELEV. Tod township,
A. M. SLAM, Dublin township,
Gaon. WiLsow, Esq., Tell township,
JAMES CL.tax, Birmingham.
NATRANIEL Lyrtg, Esq., Spruce Creek.
Maj. W. Moo., Alexandria.
B. F. WALLA., Union Furnace.
SIMEON WRIGHT, Esq., Union township.
DAVID CLARKSON, Esq., Cage township.
SAMUEL WIGTON, Esq., Franklin township.
DAVID PARKER, Esq., Warriorsnintk.
Dlvin Aunxicirr, Esq., Todd township.
DR. J. Aisne!) SIIADE, Dublin township.
Crowded Out.
Our item column, locals, and several ed
itorials, have been crowded out to make
room for foreign news, &c.
The Pittsburg Times,
Is the title of a very handsome daily
journal, we have been receiving for some
time past, from Pittsburg. It is conduct
ed with ability, and will no doubt meet the
success it merits. We welcome it into
the corps editorial. _
The Celebration.
The fourth of July was celebrated in the
different portions of our State, in a man
ner worthy the old Keystone's name and
standing. In all parts of our country,
the voices of patriots were united in the
glad shouts of praise to the "God of our
fathers." In New York, Boston, Cincin
nati,,New Orleans and all the other large
cities of the country, the preparations
had not been so great, and consequently
the display was not so magnificent as on
many former occasions. It will never do
to permit the fourth to ~g o down."
Billy Bowlegs, Again.
Our esteemed neighbor appears to be
resting on a bed of nettles. He 'wrig
gles,' squirms and twists in a mai - mer wor
thy a skinned eel in a frying pan, or a
worm on a pin hook. We are threatened
with a most terrible castigation, in this
week's Globe, and we are now waiting
with our "feet shod and our loins girt a
bout," ready for the dreadful sentence. 0
ye gods, and little fishes ! whoever listen
ed to such grandiloquent bombast, such
unprecedented egotism. Sink down ye
mountains and ye valleys, rise.
Billy Bowlegs, has at length resorted to
scriptural quotations, to elucidate mor n
clearly our heresy. But like the "old fel
low" on the high mountain, he misquotes.
He tells us "the way of the transgressor
is hard;" now what is it to be a transgres
sor Let us refer you neighbor to a quo
talon or two, for answer. "Wo unto you
fornicators;" "Thou shalt not bearfalse wit
ness," and other choice selections front
the book of books. But to whom does
this apply ? Let the man whose con
science has been seared by vice, who will
barter his freedom of opinion, of action,
and speech, for a paltry pittance, answer.
Mr. Bowlegs has made a sad mistake some
where. Can we point to it ? Why, sel
ling himself, body and breeches, to the in
terests of papal power, and for what?—
An office worth three hundred dollars a
year, and no roast her ( But he is per
mi:ted to go the whole animal on the cab
bage delicacies. And yet, such a man
•the proprietor of the organ of a party of
American citizens! 0 ! shame where is
thy blush ! We look with pity on a poor
wretch, whose freedom is bounded by the
length of his chain, we can sympathise,
aye weep with him, if within his heart
is enshrined a spark of patriotism, if his
spirit refuses to yield obedience to the des
pot who holds his body in servitude. But.
to the dark realms of °terns! perdition, we
could see the traitor to his country and con
science, consigned, an mock at the suf.
ferings of the villain *to can old in the
building up of a system of moral corrup
tion, for a pecuniary consideration. The
very atmosphere of pure society is con
taminated by the breath of such a stench
in the nostrils of morality and honor.—
And yet, this man, assails the characters of
his betters, for holding republican doctrines
and views. May the scorching fires of
the hotest furnace in Pluto's dominions,
crisp the wretch, who, Esau like would sell
his birthright,—his conscience and fiber.
ty—for a mess is 1 assail his neighbors
for not doing t seine. Such men are
fitting instruments for the work which the
man of Rome is endeavoring to accomphs.h
to our widst
The Important Foreign News.
In another column will be found highly
interesting news from the seat of war--
The recent successes of the allies, have
been counter-balanced by the still more
recent successes of the Russians. The
predictions of English journals that a few
days' bombardment, an assault, and shout
of victory, would plant the allied standards
on the bastions and ramparts of the Rus
sian fortresses, that Cronstadt was to be le
veled to the water's edge, and St. Peters.
burg become the headquarters of John
Bull's veterans, have not and from present
appearances never will he verified- The
Mamelon and White Works, of the Rus
sians, which were captured by the allies
on the 7th ult., after a struggle almost un
precedented in the annals of warfare, for
severity, have been triumphantly re captu
red by the besieged after a most brilliant
battle, in which upwards of 4000 of the
Allies were slain, including seventy-six of
ficers. This is said to have been a most
terrible engagement. But we direct the
attention of the reader to the news itself,
without any furthercomment. It will be
seen that the dramatic debut of General
Pelissier has already taken a very tragic
turn, and as yet 'he most important achieve
ment of the Allies is the passage of the
Straits of Kertch and the occupation of the
Sea of Aznff, bloodless and inglorious as
the event may have been. Should the
Russians continue to hold out until the
sickly season arrives, we may have an op
portenity of chronicling the hasty exit of
the Allies from the Crimea, the place of
their humiliation and discomfiture. Such
news ns the present, will go down sadly
with the friends of the allied powers, and
may perhaps teach the allies theinselves
the lesson, that their armies nre made of
"penotrable stuff," and English bayonets
are not always victorious.
Our Fourth.
We made a trip to Altoona on the 4th,
to see how matters and things were pro
gressing. To begin at the beginning, wo
will say we made a few brief notes, which
we lay before our readers. The grain a
long our road looked magnificent, and was
almost ready for the sickle. • Arrived at
Altoona, heard Mr. Levin expatiate, by
the by he made a good address, got hun
gry, and took dinner at Bowman and Sny
der's “Exchange." The way we pitched',
into matters and things, done credit to our
stomach, and made our uproarious intern
als as Dame Partington says, reel quiet in
pea c." We would recommend this house
to all who visit Altoona. The proprietors
are gentlemen, and decidedly 'sound eggs.'
Visited the "Register" office, whilst there
was almost tommy-hawk ed by the presi
dent of some railroad. The editor was
n't at home, went down street with a friend,
got acquainted with some ladies, (the Al
toona girls are handsome, and that's a fac')
presented with a splendid briquet, which,
after being possessor of five minutes and
three seconds somebody stole. Took the
train to Hollidaysburg, arrived there, wal
ked around the village, "weren't a bit pig
eyed" saw six men, eighteen niggers, four
hogs and a bulldog. "Merely this, and
nothing more." Felt bad. Got solemn
choly, took the train and came "home a
gain," sound in body, but slightly broken
down in the items.
A Dismal Subject..
We were pleased with the ideas of an
eloquent divine, some time ago, in speak
ing of death. The common mode of dis
coursing on this subject, so interesting to
all "who live," has become so stilted and
lofty, that it is often beyond our compre
hension to understand what the speaker is
trying to get it. Most speakers soar too
high ; they get so far up that they get
swamped in the clouds, and leave their
hearers' ideas of death out of the roach of
common sense. Death is a plain, blunt
fact, and we should look upon it as such.
Newly-made graves have each a voice and
moral, but to view the do.tth•damp gather
ing o'er the brow of one we love, speaks
to the heart more sensibly. Stand, with
suspended respiration and fevered temples
under the very dropping of his wings, as
the inexorable stops to breathe the last chill
upon the forehead of some beloved ono;
kneel when the silver cord is snapped, by
the pale corpse in the hush of the mid
night hour, kneel and say to Clod the "Ne
ver more" of a bereaved heart—the “Help
Lord, or I perish!" of a soul that is come
into the drop waters. Do this, and you
will know what death is, and what a celes
tial hope may rise at last, luminous and
large, out of the blackness of horror in that
,
word--dead: Wordsworth soya,
"A simple child, a little child,
That lightly draws its breath
And feels its life is every limb,
What should it know of death
And it is beautifully said. But it was a
tong tune before we could beliuvu in dy-
To die
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot !
This sensible, warm motion to becomo
A kneaded clod !
And other pulses to go beating, and the
stars to keep step along the sky ; and the
south wind to ripple the rivers and stir
the leaves of the trees, and little children
to prattle and play, and the millionfold hum
of life to wake anew every 'Horning, and
the round, impassive heaven to be blue as
ever—CH it is strange, and was once Aran•
ger still to isf"
FirNo chanv iq the malice!
The American State Convention.
There were about three hundred dele
gates present at the State Convention of
Americans, which met at Reading, on the
4th inst. John R. Edie, of Somerset, was
elected President. 'Phe delegates, who
had entered a protest against the 12th sec
tion in the National Platform, adopted by
the Philadelphia National Convention, re
ported their action, and concluded by pre
senting their protest to the convention.
The Platform adopted by the State Con
vention, is entirely free from dough•face
pandering to southern fire-eaters' ipse
it. It protests against the interfering in
any manner or form with slavery, within
the limits of those States, where, by the
laws, it already exists, 'but that to every
attempt to bring the freemen of the North
into new partnerships with slavery ; to ev
ery measure proposed in Congress for the
further protection or extension of slavery,
and for the admission of new slave states,
we declare ourselves now and immutably
opposed and repugnant." The repeal of
the Missouri Compromise is pronounced
an infraction of the plighted faith of the
Nation, and recommend the restoration of
the same, and that no State be hereafter ad
mitted into the Union, by Congress, which
tolerates slavery, and which may be form
ed out of the territory from which the in
stitution was excluded by the Compromise.
are all good and substantial clauses
and form the very essence of northern
men's principles.
Is Wise a Whig ?
It is strange that the Locofoco press, in
cluding the immaculate Globe of this bor
ough, should hold up Henry A. Wise, re
cently elevated to the Gubernatorial chair
of Virginia, ns the pattern of Democracy.
In a speech which Mr. Wise recently de
livered, he declared that he had no recan
tation to make, and having expressed him
self in other speeches, both as a tremend
ous Whig and a monstrous Democrat, we
would like for some of his peculiar organs
to answer the above query. We will aid
them to solve it by giving them the follow
ing choice extracts :
A Tremendous Whig—ln a speech in
the House of Representatives in 18-11, Mr.
Wise mid :
"Let him who doubts -whether I am a
friend of the Whig cause and a Whig ad
ministration, stand up and show his face
Let me see whether ho is one who has du
ring an eight year's war been side by side
with me in the foilorn hope against the
hosts of spoilers, or whether lie is one of
those 'eleventh-hour men' who have come
into the Whig ranks just in time to share
the spoils. Let me see his stripes, his per
secutions, his toils, his sufferings and his
sacrifices, and compare them with mine,
and then I can tell whether he is a bettor
Whig than I am."
A monstrous Democrat—ln his speech
in Petersburgh in 1855, he said :
"I am a Democrat—a Democrat vitally
and essentially, in heart and in skin—a
Democrat in head as well as in heart—a
Democrat in deed, a Democrat in practice,
a Democrat in faith that impressei itself so
upon my character that it makes me call
myself an infinite radical of Democracy."
That's rather a presto change, is it not,
reader.
The Broad Top,Coal
In speaking of the Broad Top Coal re
gion, and the benefits which would arise
to Philadelphia, by the completion of the
railroad to that portion of our county, the
North merican says :
"At tilt late session of our State Legis
lature a charter was granted to organize the
Hopewell Coal and Iron Company, to op
en and work the mines located at the ter
minus of the Huntingdon and Broad Top
Railroad, consisting of coal, iron, fire brick
clay, &c. The Company is now about to
organize, with a capital of one million of
dollars, and at en early day, will proceed
to commence operations. Wo do not doubt
that other corporations of the kind will be
speedily organized in the same neighbor.
hood, arid that the Broad Top will soon
become one of the best tributaries of Phil
adelphia. Recently in noticing the com
pletion of the Broad 'rep Railroad, we took
occasion to express the opinion that the
Broad Top coal region is destined to be
at least of much importance as that of Cum
berland. Improvements there have been
commenced in the same manner which
have been found so successful at Cumber
land, by means of a powerful corporation
with large capital. Without in the lekst
expressing an opinion whether individual
or corporate mining is most lucrative, we
may be permitted to say that the capital re
quisite for important mining operations is
more readily obtained by joint stock associ
ations than in any other way, and that it af
fords the speediest road to the prosperity
of n new enterprise."
A Voice Prom Henry Clay.
Henry Clay, in his last speech in the
United States Senate, made use of the fol
lowing language :
"I repeat it, sir, I never can, and never will
and no earthly power can make me, vote direct.
ly to spread slavery over territory where it does
not coot. Never while reason holds her seat
in my brain— er while any heart sends the
vital fluid y Veins--never."
If nn possibly understand
the evil ,it was Clay. He well
knew how t ions to a country it was to
permit slavery to exist within its bounds,
and for the same reason ho took a bold Ad
decided stand against its extension. Had
Henry Clay been in the Senate, when the
Little Giant presented his islebmsba-Kan
zas bill, we should not now have occasions
to mourn for the honor of our dear native
land. •
%Air The crops in this county, we are wisur,
ed hr many intelligent farmers, will be 83 ood
ti,.auv ever cradled.
"That's Wormwood."
Gov. Barstow, of Wisconsin, vetoed the Pro.
hibitory Law. The Legislature struck out en.
ery feature to which ho raised objections, and
even then ho dashed it to tho earth by his veto•
Upon this some•womon of the State—(we should
pardon much to hearts pierced through with
many sorrows)—addressed him a note of great
severity, accompanied with a box containing
scraps of roses, tobacco, tar, bitters, crape, and
other odds and mule,—among them thirty pie•
ces of copper. The note commences
STooonrox, April 10, 1.850...
"As Judas sold his Lord tind'lllnstei. for thir•
ty pieces of silver, so have you sold, for a less
compensation, your honor apd integrity, as
man—yonr good name as the ruler of the
State—at the peril of your ponce and happi.
ness as a citizen."
The writers arc very sarcastic upon the Gov
ernor's expression, "ardent friend of temper
ranee," and then proceed:
"The roses please keep in remembrance of
temperance and its morals which we so much
need. The tobacco please chew and expecto
rate as we do your frivolous objections
to the liquor bills. The tar please use
for perfumery ; while the duck's feathers will
help you to rest your guilty Conscience. The
bitters take at your leisure for your stomach's
sake. The crape you will attach to the topmost
spire of the capitol, to float in the passing
breeze, expressive of the deep sorrow ofa State
nod penitence for the misdeeds of the guilty
ones in the Legislative halls."
As Hamlet said when a rebuke was being
administered to another potentate, the King of
Denmark, "That's Wormwood."
I. O.G. T.
On the evening of Wednesday last, the
4th inst., D. D. G. W. C. 'l'., James Ma
guire, of this borough, assisted by several
members of Juniata Lodge, No 283, insti
tuted "Mountain Spring" Lodge No.—
of the Independent Order of Good Tern
plars, at the borough of Cassville, in this
county, and installed the following named
officers for the current term:
W. C. T.--Itiehardson Rend,
W. V. T.—J ulian Smith,
W. C.—David Clarkson,
W. S.—Robert Speer,
W. A. S.--W. E. Broughton,
W. T.—Louisa A. Read.
W. F. S.—M. W. lleaton, •
W. M.—Henry T. White,
W. D. M.—George W. Smith,
W. I. G.—Hettio M. Baird,
NV. 0. G.—Robert Gehrett,
W. R. H. S.—Benjamin F. Houck,
W. L. H. S.—Samuel Smith.
Lost.
On Wednesday, the 27th of June, at the
Railroad house, a bond purse, containing a two
dollar bank note, and some change. A reward
of one dollar will be given to any person who
will leave it at the "Journal office."
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ARRIVAL OF TILE AMERICA
AT HALIFAX.
ONE WEEK LATER FROM ECROVE.
HEAVY DECLINE IN COTTON.
ITALIFAx, N. S., July 5-A. M.
The royal mail steamship America, Capt.
Lang, from Liverpool at 10 o'clock on Satur
day afternoon, the 23d ult., arrived at this port
yesterday afternoon, and started shortly after
Mr Boston, where sho will be due at an early
hour no Friday morninz.
The steamer North Star, of tho Vanderbilt
line, arrived at Havre on the 20th ult.
THE SIEGE OF SELOASTOPOL.
Lord Raglan's despatch and the newspaper
correspondence are to band, describing the
gallant capture of the Mamelon and the Quar•
He% The details aro highly interesting, but
the main facts have been already stated with
general correctness.
DEFEAT OF THE ALLIES—TERRIBLE
SLAUGHTER.
The allies have made an unsuccessful at
tempt to storm Sebastopol. The most sinister
rumerous prevailed in regard to the transac
tion. By some accounts the English loss is
set down at four thousand men, but the report
is believed to be much exaggerated.
The following are the only official notifica.
tions of the event:
"Lord Panmure regrets to have to announce
that he has received information that the English
troops attacked the Rodan and the French the
Malakoff Towers. at daylight on the morning
of the 18th, without the success which has hith
erto attended our efforts. Both the French
and ourselves have suffered considerably.—
The names of the officers who have fallen will
be forwarded immediately, but it will be hnpos
sible to receive complete returns of all the cas
ualities before the 30th inst. (June) at the ear
liest."
The Moniteur announces that the govern
ment has received two despatches from Gen.
Pelimier the first dated the 17th, informs of
operations concerted between the general and
his allies, and that the Turks and Chasseurs
made a roconnoisanco towards Aitodar, Gene
ral
Bosquet occupying the Tchernaya. The
next day, at daybreak, French and English
were to attack the Malakoff' Tower. The sec
ond despatch, dated the lfith announces that
the attack had failed, and that, although the
troops had showed the greatest ardor, and had
gained footing in the Malakoff Tower, Gene
ral Pelissier was obliged to order their retire
ment into the parallel. Title was effected with
order and without molestation by the enemy.
Private accounts, published in the London
Standard, says that the loss of the British olli
rem in killed and wounded amounts to no less
than seventy. Among the killed aro Gen. Sir
J. Campbell, Col Yea ,
and Col.Shadforth.—
From the obstinacy and courage with which
the combat was maintained by the British at
the Reda% and the necessity of eventually re.
tiring front the attack, the slaughter all sides
has been immense ; and if the information be
correct, the less in killed and wounded of the
British alone amounts to very little short of
4000. The greatest portion of the loss was
experienced in a ravine, where a powerful and
unexpected battery was opened on the troops.
There is reason to fear that the loss has been
very great, but Lord Palmerston said last night
no additonal information had arrived. The
Allies lost terribly by the Russians springing
a mine, and during the confusion they recaptu
red the Mamelon Tower.
Previous advices were to the 17th, stating
that there had boon smart firing on both sides,
but without any result of importance.
A despatch from Bucharest, via Vienna, com
firms that au expedition has been undertaken
against Perekop. Pelessier is exceedingly
savage against the telegraphic messages Napo.
Icon sends hint. Bo is reported to have recent
ly replied that, when anything occurs, ho will
let the emperor know, but that he hut not fl a re
to act as a telegraph operator. This, accor•
ding to rumor, accounts for the recent absence
of news in the Moniteur.
THE BLACK SEA.
The Russian accounts of the successes of the ,
Allies in the Sea of Azoff is published. Gorts
chakotr confirms the successes claimed by the
Allies, but says that operations against the Sea
of Azoff were expected—that not having
means to oppose the hostile fleets, the garri
sons had orders to blow up the batteries and
retire—that the grain stores burned by the
Allies were 'neatly private property, and can
not materially affect the supply of the army,
inasmuch anticipating such an attack, supplies
were mostly conveyed by land, notwithstand
ing the facilities offered by sea.
The correspondence relates the horrible atro
cities perpetrated by the French and Turks, nt
the capture of Kertch. A boat expedition is
rumored to be prepaing to enter the river Don,
but the Russians have the entrance defended
' by twenty-seven gun-boats.
General Adujanati, vice Hetman of the Coo.
sacks of the Don, has issued an address for
their general enrollment as militia.
ASIA
The Russian forces have advanced and en
camped near Redout Kale. The Turks have
evacnated 13atoum and Chouronk Su. Nassif
Paella has advanced with his staff to Kars.—
A despatch from Varna,dated Junel7th, which
was retarded on the way says the Russians had
made an unsuccessful attack on Kars, and it
was reported they had retaken Anapa.
The Austrian commander has proclaimed
martial laws in Moldavia, but the 'Moldavian
authorities refuse to promulgate the order, un
less'autherized by the Sultan.
Constantine Balithe, son of the reigning
prince was killed at Jersey, in a duel, by the
Austrian Major Stalberg. The affairs had
caused considerable sensation in the Principal
ities.
THE BALTIC,
Admiral Baines, with a squadron of seven•
teen steamers, has left Kiel for the Baltic.—
The rest of the fleet lay at Soaker Island.
The recent attack an an English boat's crew
at Hange, under a flag of truce, causes much
excitement in England. Evidence rests solely
on the authority of a negro, the sole survivor,
who asserts he heard the Russian commander
say, "I don't care a damn for a flag of truce."
Unprejudiced supposition is, that the Russians
supposed the boat was taking soundings as re.
contly was done at Kerth.
Admiral Dundas has communicated with
the Russian authorities sod British Government
through the Danish Minister at St. Petersburg,
and demands redress. The Russian account
in the Invalids Rena says six were killed, and
the remainder are prisoners. A despatch from
Dantzic confirms that the officers of the boat,
Lieut. (honest, Dr. Easton, Mr. Sullivan and
all of the crew except six as o prisoners.
Ass infernal machine exploded under the
English steamers Merlin and Firefly, off Cron.
stadt, on the sth, but did not damage them se
riously. . . . .
Prruce Gortschakoff is appointed Resident
Russian Minister at Vienna M. Titotr to Wur
temberg, and M. Fonten to Hanover.
Russian influence is very active, even in the
smallest German Courts.
The Jonrind of St. Petersburg putlishes the
semi-official disseussion on Count Walewski's
French circular of May 23d._
The Journal also sernimfficially says that
peace is possible if France and England arc
willing, inasmuch as the Fourth Point is moral.
ly, although not formally, settled, and the other
points, namely, the navigation of the Danube,
and the evacuation of the Principalities are al
so settled—leaving only the Vienna Third
Point to be arranged.
. .
All the camps Ere healthy, excepting that at
Ba'alder., where cholera prevails. The Sar
dinians are sutlerinu., and Cieneral Marmora,
the younger is dead.
Unlit Paella remains in office. A national
monument is to be erected to the English dead
nt Scutart.
GREAT. BRITAIN,
The steamer Hermann carried out intelli
gence of the presentation to Parliament of the
report of the Roebuck Committee. The report
merely admits that the sufferings of the army
have been aggravated by incompetency at
home. Since then there has been considerable
excitement created by Mr. Roebuck, in cause.
(teener) of his report being overruled by the
other members of the Conunittee, they having
given notice of a vote of censure on the goy
eminent, so worded as to embrace the grievan
ces of all sections of the opposition , namely;
'that Parliament, deeply lamenting the suffer,
ings of the army during the winter campaign
in Crimea, and coinciding with the report
of the Sevastopol Committee, II:at the conduct
of the Administration was the chief cause of
the calamities, hereby visits with its severest
reprehension, every member of the Cabinet
which led us to the cause of such disastrous re
sults.
The debate on administrative reform, after
repeated adjournments, has ended in the un.
amnions passage of Sir Bulwar Lyttou's resolu.
tion : That the House of Conunons mom
mends to the earliest attention of Ministers
the necessity of a careful revision of the various
official establishments, with a view to simplify
and facilitate the transaction of public Imi
tate, and by instituting judicious tests of merit
as well as by removing obstructions to its fair
promotion, and by legitimate rewards to secure
to the service of the State the largest available
proportion of the energy and intelligence for
which the people of the country aro distingui
shed.
Sir John Paul, Win. Strachan, nod Robert
M. Bates, partners of the Banking House of
Stracd an, t'aul A: Co., London, have been ar
restep on the charge of disposing of securities
entrusted to their charge.
Mr. Buchanan received the degree of Doctor
of Canon Law from the university of Oxford,
as also did Chief Justice Robinson, of Canada,
Sir Chas. Lyell, Alfred Tennyson, Delacey Er.
ans, Moncktan Miles, etc.
The Admirality have awarded LlO,OOO to
the salvors of the ship James Cliental.
FRANCE.
The Sonato and Legislature are convoked for
July 2d. to negotiate a new loan of a hundred
or a hundred and fifty millions of dollars.
Louis Napoleon hat been ill for two days,
but has recovered.
The French funds full two per cent, on the
announcement of hie illness.
The Countess of Lavatette died at Paris us
the 18th.
Nineteen Hussars were court•martiallud at
Renee, recently, fur mutiny, and two were see•
Waned to be shot.
SPAIN
The disturbances at Santiago have been sup•
pressed. We have no reliable statement re.
sporting the Carlist insurrection. Russia is
suspected as the instigator.
Mr. Dodge has had hid first interview with
the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mend!) ,
remarks were exchanged.
lord llowdon left Madrid on the 21st.
HOLLAND.
Extra estimates aro voted for the reorganiza•
Lion of tho army.
SWITZERLAND,
The °polo; — issumbly is fix.
ed for July 2d.
ITALY.
The Marquis of Azieglio ban been sant on a
special mission from Sardinia to London.
The Austrian Despatch, doted the 12th, pro•
poses to Prussia that Prussia and Austria should
come to un unilerstauding us to a common
course of condutt to be adopted by the two
powers, in their communication to thc Diet at
Fraukl;At.
DENMARK
The Danish Diet is dissolved. Deince for•
bids enlistments for foreign service, under pea
ally of eight years' imprisonment.
AUSTRIA.
The army is being disbanded. The refine.
tion is great and rapid.
LATEST NEWS.
Lonnix, 11 50 A. M.—Marseilles, Friday
night.—The English strainer Astrologus has
arrived, bringing news from Constantinople to
the 16th of June. There has been a slight en•
gagement at Eupatoria since the 12th of Juno.
The Russians attacked unsuccessfully the ba.-
terien of the besiegers. The general loss in
the taking of the Mamelon nod the quarries is
4,000 men. Wheat is declining at Marseilles.
Niisdantols.
Communication.
We have lately been shown a new book, coin
bining History and Geography, by Goodrich,
our late Minister to France. Nu cue nuttier
has convoyed as much information, in a pleas
ing, comprehensive style, or infused more life,
animation and pleasant past-time into the school
room than this thr-famed Peter Parley. Am
ong some thirty volumes of his writings that
we have examined, there are two of superior
merit—his Common School History, and this
last end best work, of history and Geography.
To him who would wish to have an nuthentic
book for reference—to a parent who would de•
ire to buy a good bcok fora son or daughti r--
or to she student that wishes a "Chart of life
and mirror of the times," we would say get
this book. It can be had of an agent now can
vassing the county. A TsAcumt.
A COMMUNICATION.
We publish the following communica
tion, through the solicitation of a number
of "old liners." It should not be look
ed upon as receiving our eudorsal. We
publish both sides of a question for public
action.
Ms. EDITORS :
I notice in your paper a call for
a meeting of the Whig County Committee, in
Huntingdon, on the 4th of July. The object
of the taming, as stated by the Chairman, is
"go consider and determine what line of action
the Whin- Party of Huntingdon County shell
adopt in the present state of potlitical affairs."
The gentlemen whose names arc given so mem
hers of the tonnuittee, are Dr. J. A,. Shade, S.
L. Glasgow, B. F. Lytle, W. Christy, J. K. Mc-
Call:us, J. M. Leech, J. Import, and D. Blair,
Esq., Chairman. I have not been informed
whether the committee met on the day appoint
ed ; if so, what "lino of action" was "adopted"
for the Whig party of Huntingdon County. It
is certainly very kind in gentlemen composing
the committee, to take so deeP an interest in
the welfare of the party, ; as it is very well
known that every man of them has long since
left the Whig party, and and now belongto that
proscriptive order, called "Know Nothing;' all
of whom have proclaimed to the world that the
party is now dead, and some of them perhaps,
even sung hallelujahs over its grave. And ns
if this were not enough, they now wish to tor
ture its very spirit, by calling it fords from the
tooth.—But I trust its ghost is an honest one,
and as it has again been. called !Ord), will walk
erect, and like the honest ghost of Banco will
not "down" at their bidding. I sail profess to
be a Whig, and in the languageof Webster,"l
see no star above the horizon promising light
to guide me, but the intelligent, patriotic, and
enlightened Whig party." I trust there still
remain a few of the faithful, tried and true
Whigs, in every township in the Cosnty. Al
though the number may be small, still there are
those who have the court:go to do battle for
their ancicut faith ; in the hour of adversity as
its the palmier days of the good old party. It
is said that by the frequent upheavings of the
sea, the excrescent matter that is continually
accumulating on-its Bs:4sec, is made to pass
Iff, and so with a party, it requires a little up.
heaving sometimes, for its purification. Our
political horizon may for a time be overcast
with dark clouds, they shall all soon be dispel:
led by the bright rays of eternal Truth.
I cannot see as much to commend as some
do, in that oath homed organization which has
sprung up amongst us. It has been epheme
ral in its growth, and we cannot expect tt to be
of great longevity. Already the seeds of dis
cord and decay are apparent. In the National
Council which recently met in the city of Phil
adelphia, there were discords and dissensions
among its members, a portion of the delegates
withdrawing from the convention; snaking it
very improbable that they will ever form altar.
momous National Party. Speaking of the
honesty and consistency of ;sorties—the locofo.
CO party, however corrupt it may be, apparent.
ly had some reverence for the soil of freedom;
because, when that party found it necessary for
its harmony to throw away the rights of free•
mon of the North, it selected a place south of
Mason and Dixon's line, on Slave Territory,
out of the genial influenced freedom. It has
been the peculiar privilege of the National
Council of the It. n. party, to desecrate the city
of Penn, the temple ofhberty,. by first exhibit
ing the ;ash of the slave driver over the backs
of freemen of the north. That mighty torna
do, which swept over the whole country, shalt.
ing to the very centre old party organizations,
has at last been met at Philadelphia, by a little
eon:Are-current from the South, and lulled in
to silence. That love or sympathy so deeply
felt by the American party forth° African, has
touched told softened these tender parts, that
they now can scarcely entertain enmity against
an Irishman.
Let rue then say to the Whigs of the county,
don't throw away , your arms yet awhile. If they
will not aid in victory, they may be serviceable
in your retreat.
Whatever may be the action of these men,
who now dictate the course to be pursued by
the Whig party, let all true Whigs in the differ.
cat townships, as usual, assemble at their re•
spective places of meeting on the Saturday
preyious to the August Court, and elect dele.
gates to meet in County Convention, at the u.
anal dine and place, openly, and make their
nominations, and choose a County Committee
out of their own organization, by which, the
future action of the party may be safely guard.
ed. A Wino.
The Platform in Allegheny County.
At a recent meeting of tho Afieghony Conn.
ty Executive Committee of Americans, the fol
lowing resolutions wore unanimously ndop
ted ;
ReSaVed, As the unanimous declaration of
the Executive Committee of Allegheny county,
Pennsylvania, that the "Platform of Principles,"
so called, recently adopted by the Notional
Council, at Philadelphia, in so titres it relates
to the question of Slavery, he, and the same is
hereby repudiated, and that the several Coen
cils in this clunty he requested to take action
upon the some in conformity with the tenor of
this resolution.
Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri.
Compromise was an infraction of the pligl.tni
faith of the Nation, and that it should be re
stored; and if efforts to that abet shall hill,
Congress should refuse to admit any State tot.
erasing Slavery which shall be formed out of
any portion of the territory from which that in•
stitution was excluded by the Compromise.
/AP At one of the New York iron furnace,.
last wog, nn iron plate Wan east on the atelier
of Yl plate glans works, which neighed linty ton
awl measured twenty feet long, Ice feet
else: wide, and ten mehes (Ida.
"Philosopher Greeley."
Whatever may be Mr. Greeley's eccentricities
of character, he is certainly entitled to rank as
a 'philosopher,' even if it be of an original
school of its own. We give an extract from a
very amusing account he furnished the Tribune
of his arrest and imprisonment in France. His
conduct during the whole really annoying ad
venture exhibits a good deal of that civil hero
ism which constitute!, a good citizen. And
while multitudes will read and be vastly amu
sed with the cool, discreet and successful man.
agement of his position and case, many wilt
give him credit for the happy effect it was cal
culated to produce ;it Parisian circles.
The matter has no doubt attached public at
tention in England as well as France; and tho
'philosopher' has had an opportunity to show
the people of both these countries that we aro
not always disposed to challenge the whole
world by way of resenting the mistakes of
fools. We should think that the reflecting peo
ple of Paris and London would readily perceive
the gratuitous character of the outrage, for
such it is, against the person of an American
citizen, who could by no possible construction
of law be held responsible for goods in the New
York "Crystal Palace." And it there is a de.
cent regard for the comity, which these nation
al exhibitions ought to sustain between active
lparticipants in their affairs, the press of Eng
and will at kW, vindicate the position of Gree
ley, on broader ground than the mere law of
the case.
It is worthy of remark that the arrest of ma
ny a man under the same or like mrcumstances
wooll have been attended with a clamor that
would have stirred the two governments of
France and the United States, aroused the mar
tini spirit on both sides of the Atlantic, and
perhaps have created a hot temporary of a day
and a halts duration for a Vanderbilt steam
Ilect nod George Low's rusty muskets. The•
whole Aperican legation in Pnris would havo
been required by an indignant press, to put
the Emperor of France through a regular cote,
ehetical exercise in anticipation of a special
mission from Washington. if ho didn't promise
to behave himself in future, But with
the Tribune 'philosopher,' there is no commo
tion beyond that incidental to the proceeding,
nod in treating or the affair itself he dues it
with the utmost e9uanhuity and with resistless
humor. In all this we hove the exhibition of
good—indeed excellent nod exemplary points
of character, rising superior to the 'inflow,.
perveret and stubborn waywardness of spirit
by which the moral intellect is distorted and
abused.
Imbortant to Business Non.
The Star of the Korth says :—Of all acts.
passed by the hot legislature, that which will
most interest the business community is the
enactment of a portion of the British Mutate
of frauds, which will require nearly all con•
tracts to be in writing, and to be signed by the
person who is designed to be held liable. ln
• the following cases they will be entirely void if
they depend only on verbal evidence:
1. Whore it is designed to charge the defer,.
dart upon any special promise to answer for
the debt, default or miscarriage of another per
son. This will apply to all assumption where
the engagement is collateral and not ori,ginad.
2. Upon any contract or sale of lands, or
any interest inn or concerning them. A part of
this sanm statute was adopted in 1772 which
declared void ail contrails for any interest in
real estate tar a longer term than three years.
it. Upon any agreemeat which is not to ho
performed within one year frtwn the anthing
thersmf.
'Nis act is b, go into operation on the first
or January next, and is to .uppli . to all eases
whe, the subject of the agreen,nt exceed,
s'ia. It has lon : t been in force in some anten
or tit.: no I is adapted to a condition of
s.a.lety that of England and the Eastern
states where all business ma have a pool cow•
martial education. How it will work where
young men after an apprenticeship start a fam
ily and shop upon "their own hook," and enter
into business before then• understand any of
its details, remain., to Ito ,eii.---Jboa,p,tviry
Ledger.
Shaving upon the Sabbath Declared Le
gal.
In the Police Court, this itiorning„lustice
Russell delivered the opinion of the Court, in
the case of E. C. Denting, barber. du this
ease the deft:talent was charged, first with do.
ing work on the Lord's Day, shaving other per
sons than himself, the same not beiti..; a work
of necessity or charity; second, witht keeping
open his work-house for the saint, purpose. On
a former complaint, the defend:lm out netplit •
toil on a teehnical point that his place of busi
ness was not a shop. In that decision he (.111:i•
tle2 Music])) did not acquiesce. In the pre
sent case the first point was whether shaving
won a 'work of necessity .or charity. Do this
point the Justices of the Court were all n:Joi,I
that tt was. II ,s;,avin g by a barber o!'nnoth-
Cl. person upon the Sabbath is nut n nods of
aecostity or charity then is a .person who AUNTS
himself liable, and even the cooking of roth!
upon that day is illegal. The exchange of
ministers, the celebration of the marriage rile,
or the performance of the funeral ceremony,
might be held as an infringt meld of the Sab•
Lath. He alluded to the more liberal senti
ment prevailing in modern titers in regard to
the observance of the Sabbath, and in condo,
sien said that he was aware that the most of
those engaged in the business would greatly
prefer to have their places closed, bat that does
not alter the law in the mutter. In the deci
sion of the point in regard to keeping open
shops, Justice Rogers had doubts upon soma
parts of the decision. The result of the deci
sion was that the defendant was ordered ti ho
discharged.—Baslon Traveler.
Dook.—A Falsehood.
The Democratic Union fins on several occa
sions asserted that we charged the Presbyteri •
ans with having raised 20.000 to procure the
pardon of Dr Deale,--and its last issue alleges
that we charged that it had been raised by the
Reverends Messrs, CHAMBERS, Boon, and other
Presbyterians. The charge is simply a base
hood. We published an,extract from one of
our Philadelphia exchatiges, stating that the
money had been raised for that purpose, —short.
ly afterwards we received a certificate duly
signed by several prominent citizens of Phila.
dulphin, that the extract woo utterly untrue,
which we immediately published. Messrs,
CHAMBERS, IItRID, and others Presbyterians
were never mentioned. What next Colonel 2
We shall not be astonished if you accuse us of
saying that JOIIN CHAMBERS and ANSON ROOD
aro in the penitentiary.—Telegraph.
A DISCOVERY \YE lIAYEBEEN WAITING roe.—
To have to kill an ox in order to make a pair
of boots is a clumsy thing ; and welter() waited
smne time to hear of some invention which will
supercede leather for the feet, al wool and cot
ton, linen and silk have supereeded the akin of
animals for the rest of the human dress.—We
see the London papers speak of an invention,
which has just been su)nutted to the test by the
scientific authorities. A leather cement, so
strong and adhesive that the boots and shoes
are made with it in which not a single stitch in
40011 or required, and the process of mending
so simple that every nion many be, if not his
Loot-maker, at all events, his own boot•mender.
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THE PLAGUE said to exist in New York turns
out to be some hair dozen cases of an eruptive
disease called Pari ale Malign. A few cases
existed lust year. It is characterized by the
appearance of a pimple, rapidly increasing in
sme to that of un ordinary boil, with symptoms
resembling those of a carbuncle, great tbve r
and very severe constitutional disturbance.—
(me or two 01140 cases have recovered but
they Imre generally been thtal in a few days.—
Th, •! is not a new disease, though unfis••
•;•,, ; aid It is well ;•