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Weduesday Norning, April 2, 1856,
WILLIAM lIREWSTER, EDITORS.
.‘lllll. 1.. AV MITTAKEIL
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
THOMAS E. COOMLN,
OF YORK COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN VECELPS,
OF ARMSTRONO COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTZI,
OF BRADFORD COUNTY.
OUR BOOK TABLE.
The Sludcnt and School .Male.—This
handsome little work for April, has been
received. $1 per year, Calkins & Co., N.
Grahamie Magazine.—Graham for A•
pril is before us. It is a first class work,
and we always hail its appearance. A.
El. See, Phil., $3 per year,
Petersou's Magazine. -102 per year.
T. 13. Peterson, Phil. The April number
has been received. It is one of the very
best magazines.
Mohr Jones' Sketches of Travel.—lt
is published by T. B. Peterson, and writ
ten by the author of Major Jones' Court
ship. Get it by all means, and we assure
you you will "get your money back" in
fun, Price 50 cts.
edrWo are indebted to E. Niles, Esq.
for the Report of Pa. R. R. Directors.
From this report we learn that the am
ount of money taken at this station for the
year 1855, is as follows
Passenger Receipts,
$13,445 59
OfWe invite attention to the card of
T. H, Pollock, in another column. Mr.
P. is thoroughly acquainted with his busi
ness, and we hope all who are desirous of
becoming expert bookkeepers, will attend
his school. A communication received on
the subject of book-keeping, shall appear
next week.
Drr We understand that Mr. 0. C. B.
C.n t 9. will be in town the last of this week
with his unsurpassed assortment of Pianos,
Melodeons, &c. lie has dispelled of 25
cr 30 Pianos within thei.short space of 60
days, in Hollidaysburg. Several of which
were 5500 instrumeni. This speaks well
for the character of his Pianos, all of which
are guarantied to give entire satistaction or
the full amount of the purchase money
with all expenses will be refunded,
LOCAL 3le'r•rLas.—We understand that
a highly respectable and well known citi
zen of the lower end of this county, com
mitted suicide one day last week. lie
was found in his barn, suspended from a
beam by a bed cord. Worldly troubles are
presumed to have been the cause of this
rash act.
—We are pained to state that Mr. U.
Lewis was very severely injured on the
Broad 'Pop Railroad, at StonerstoWn, on
Thursday last. He was crushed between
two cars, breaking his kg, and otherwise
injuring him. He will recover.
—A portion of the dam across the Juni
ata sit the mouth of Raystown Branch, was
swept away by the freshet on Friday last.
'Providence smiler, upon Democracy' says
a stump orator ; and this almost convinces
us that the high water and low democracy
when combined, can sweep the pockets of
our commonwealth clean. The repairing
of this useless dam will be a magnificen.
opportunity for plundering the State.
—Two deer were run down and killed
by dogs, last week, near Raystown Branch.
The past winter has been unusually fatal
to wild game. Five deer were found a
month or so ago, in Trough Creek Vall4
together, all frozen dead,
THE STATE CONVENTION.
The Republican-Americans, or, American.
11,FtiUr: net, (1, v , rye u please,) in Con.
vention assembled at. Harrisburg nominated
Thomas E. Cochran, of York, for Canal Com
missioner, Darwin Phelps, of Armstrong, for
Auditor General, and Bartholomew Laporte, of
Bradford, for Surveyor General.
Our report nano nitres int, tve enthusiasm
when the resalt of the ballot woe announred.--
The ticket appears to be a pretty strong one.
Mr. Cochran was formerly editor of the York
Republican, and acted with the Whig Party
when it was in existence. He has not, we
believe, been attached to the American Party.
He has represented his district in the Legisla
ture, and is a man of considerable ability.
Darwin Phelps is alto an old Whig, but
latterly has sympathized with the American
movement. He has served a term in the Le.
gislature, from the Armstrong, Indiana and
Clarion district, and i. at present a member of
the House.
Mr. Phelps is a man of fine abilities with
strong anti-slavery proclivities. He is a promi-
neat levier of Armstrong county, and studied
law in Pittsburgh under the late Walter For.
ward.
Bartholomew Laporte is from Judge Wilmot's
county. He was formerly a Democrat, but is
now au alai., amatket of Republica.
party..
sitn„ We may perhaps gratify the editor
of the Hunt. American in "giving a few
more plank of our p provided he
gives us security that he will not attempt
another libel suit, If he can assure us he
will act sensibly, we may notice his long
winded paragraph.
The allegation that ve approve of !clack
ripublicarlism, is a mistaken idea. We
have no sympathy with or for such an or.
ganization. We stand upon the platform
of liberty, and as we declared some weeks
ago, our platform is. the restoration of the
Missouri Compromise, no more slave ter.
ritory. We oppose the encroachments of
slave power, but in no wise favor ultra fa
natical abolitionism,
If it is asked how we stand upon the
Presidential question, "we woul answer,
we would tell you," assure us that Fill
more is not opposed to the restoration of
the Missouri Compromise line, and wo
will place his name at our mast-head, and
give him our hearty support.
No sirs, we are not nigger lovert, but we
do oppose chains and the lash. We are
not abolitionists, but we denounce slavery
as a curse to the nation. Once fur all, we
proclaim it as the fundemental principles
of our creed, No more slave territory, free
dom to Kanzas, America for Americans,
. If this is not sufficient, we can do noth
ing more. We are Americans by birth,
American Republicans by choice, Ameri
can principles are our creed, and the pros
perity of Am-rica our aim. We are as
much opposed to fanatical abolitionism, as
southern disunionism. Consequently we
have no sympathy for any ism cal ciliated
to breed disunion,
THE PRESS-A CALAMITY TO TY•
RANTS.
"Thu liberty of the Press is the palladium of I
all your rights," said Junius in those powerful
letters, which made the aristocracy of England
quail and its very throne tremble.• The Press
is the most potent weapon with whirl, freemen
can defend themselves against tyrannical en.
croachments. The New York Express says,
"it is quite natural, therefore, that the tyrants
and despots who are opposed to constitutional
liberty or public freedom, in any form, should
leek up. the Press as an engine terribly de•
structive of the internal machinery, whereby
for a series of ages, the crowned heads of En
rope—loud particularly the Roman Pontiff, hav e
managed to keep the masses of their subjects
in a state of enslavement—utterly opposed to
that independence of spirit and intellect, which
alone make Ing . n, indeed, the image of his Ma.
ker. If the wearer of the tiara had the same
power in London, that he has in Vienna—ouch
free, outspoken journals, as the Times, for ex
ample—would have been swept from existence
long ago—and as would certainly he the case,
even in a nation so comparatively independent
of Rome us France--its editors would he con.
demned to spend the remainder of their days off
in Cayenne, or some other remote colony, fa.
mous fur the fevers it has, to send out of exis
tence men whose thoughts, in print at home,
were dangerous to despotism. lu all countries
that recognize or tolerate the dominion of that
stupendous anomaly, the Roman See—we listen
in vain for those untrammelled utterances of
public sentiment and public sentiment which,
on every question pertaining to the general
weal, fall like music on the ear in lands that
ignore its preposterous pretensions to apirituro
and temporal authority. France, if not as the.
roughly Roman Catholic as some of her neigh
bors, is still sufficiently auto subscribe religions'
ly to the burthens imposed upon it by the over
shadowing despotism which governs there.—
Popery predominates in Spain—therefitre, Spain
has no free press—and, therefore, hardly the
shadow evert of popular liberty. Unshackle
the journals of Paris and Madrid for three
months only, and we would not give much fur
the thrones et' Napoleon the Third, or Isabella
the Second. The same observation apply .aith
equal truth to Portugal, the greater portion of
of Germany, all of Italy, and most especially
to Austria, the government of which has ever
been the readiest to go farther than the furthe.ft
in its slavish selfsubjection to Rome. We
have at this moment before us a most flagrant
proof of this humiliating truth, in the shape of
a circular letter, recently issued by the Romish
Bishop of Bergamo, enjoining the strict en
forcement of the Romish Concordat with the
government nt Vienna. It 'appears in the
shape of a 'postural,' in the Giornale di Berga
mo. After strongly condemning a suggestion,
that the cruel censorship which is just now in
vogue, under the Concordat, should by slightly
modified, the Right Rev. lethal speaking for
his master—the Roman Pontiff—proceeds:—
. ' l . Now, everybody believes he has a
right to think and print what be pleases; and
therefore we see in many countriesthe so-culled
"freedom of the press." It was welcomed by
the very worst class of society with enthusiasm
and celebrated in high-souuding words us a
conquest which civilization bad gained over
bat barism—as evidence of the progress of hu
nitwit), lint the good and hottest men ennui
der it as liffa-a pa bile ealain;ty,...M as if; with
the abolition of a political book censorship,
; even the laws of God and of the church could
be abolished. Many newspapers and journals
try toles.. the true importance of the ooncot
dut (Austrian) and to place the loyal intentions
of the government under suspicion. They pro
pagan! mistrust and dieseuuion under the pre
text of pacifying the public mind, and of recow•
mending moderation to bishops. Such, my
true believers, aro the fruits which our country
has reaped from the freedotn of the press; but
as the tree is to be recognizedonid our Saviour,
by its fruits, yoit can judge, yourself; what a
pernicious Pant the freedom of the press is,
' and whether good and honest area arc not right
in fte4-riestestiag it, and is considering it a
public VI it/6411n e.... 011 Pope Clement XIII
counselled to stop the source, and to cut oil' the
root of sin. The principal source, and the true
root of the evil consists in the teredoin of the
press and the free trade of books. We recom
mend and order to all, hut principslly to the
pre., to publishers and traders of books, news
pope., pictures, etc., that the laws of the Pope
of Route must be observed in our city and din
cese. Nobody is hereby permitted to print a
book or pamphlet without the previous appro.
bation of the bishop. No publisher is allowed
to possess or sell uuder any pretext a hotever,
books which are not inscribed in our nip:ow'
emote:7lles. If there ever was a period to exile' t
all Itelie , cre to observe the !awe 14 the church
and the trade of books, it is the present, when
the government has sanctioated the freedom of
the press. It. belongs to the Popes especially,
who are instituted by the Italy Ghost, for the
guidance of the. Church of God, to judge of
the moral necessities of the people."
Remember, American reader, continues the
Express, in commenting upon this precious
manifesto, "it is not the production of some
Bishop that lived and flourished hundreds of
years ego, before men's minds were illumined
by the light of the Reformation, and their eyes
opened to the progress of the world all round
and about theta. Not at all I It is a bona fide
product of the Nineteenth Centu•y, having the
seal and authority of the same Runtish Church,
that is today, by every mewls in its power, open
and secret, fair and tied—seeking toexereise
precisely the same power in the United States
as it is exercising in Austria. Rome is the
source of authority for its Archbishops, Bishops
and Priests, all over the world—and uo Bishop
of Bergamo dare fulminate such an infamous
decree as that which e•e hare quoted above.
without the sanction of the Pope. Afraid that
his Bishop' and Archbishops, here, are nut
fully up to the Bergamo standard of devotion
to the Holy See, it is not difficult to discover
another motive for the establishment of a Col.
lege in Rome, for the education of priests for
America. Sbould this nefarions scheme ever
be consummated, a day is rowing that will wit
ness noose Archbishop Hughes calling as his
fellow Churchmau, the Bishop of Bergamo, now
culls, the liberty f 9, the Pre., n " Usi.yp 1.4 de
le
,1 by 9,0'1 end hotted men." lithe press M
a do...stable thing in Austria, or in Italy, it is
equnlly detestable h,e—for the Church and its
judgments, here, as there, are infallible, and
the only reason why our Nees does not dare
to say sop in a Bergamo 13n11, is found iu the
fact, that the people; in whose midst he is, are,
as yet, not sufficiently weaned from their Atne.
rice:: principles, to justify the experiment. Ne
vertheless, hurry up the contributions for the
College in Rome—and .then be prepared fur
a New York 'Pastoral,' issuing from the Ar
chiepiscopal residence in Mulberry street,
something after this fashion :
`We recommend order to all, but principally
to the press, to publishers and traders of books,
newspapers, pictures, etc., that the laws of the
Pope of Rome must, be observed itt our city
and diocese.'
Given under my hand and seal this day of
—, 18, tfouv, AreltlAshop of New Yurk.
Private Reerentry.
Fellow.eitizens 1 Arneli,3ll3—Whip—Da
mocrats—tnen of all parties and politics, again
we say read the Bull from the Bishop of Ber,
gamo—and say if it is not indeed high time to
sound the alarm against the monstrous assump
tions of the Papal Hierarchy—the now open
and defiant foe of everything in the shape of
liberty, in the Old World, and the scent, but
no less deadly, enemies of Republiennisnt-1111(1
that surest safeguard of Pepublicanistn —the
Liberty of the Press, is the New. Read! readl
read I"
Virtu of ißcelt.
The steamship Canada arrived at Halifax
last evening, bringing dates from Liverpool to
the 15th inst. Mr. Dallas, the new Minister
to Great Britain, had arrived out. It was gene.
rally rumored that the Treaty of Peace between
the belligerent Powers would be signed on the
day the Canada sailed. It was also rumored
that the question of boundaries would be re.
ferrod to Cotnmissioners to settle on the spot,
nod that Sardinia would not he represented a•
mong the Commissioners. A despatch from
Berlin states that Prussia had been invited to
be represented in the Conferences, and that Bs.
ron Manteuffel was about to leave fur Paris
as her principal representative. In the Crimea
the Russian and Allied Generals had met and
agreed upnn terms of an armistice, the net•
tral ground being the Tebernaya. The Otto.
man Ministry is taking measures to alleviate
the financial difficulties of Turkey. In the
Baltic the British flying squadron is stated to
be pushing towards the Gullet' Finland. Ad.
mind Napier was bitterly assailed in the Brit.
ish Parliament upon bringing forward his mu.
tion of inquiry into the management of the
Baltic fleet while rimier his command.
By the arrival at Boston, yesterday of the
steamship Einen, we have four days' later ne two
from Europe. The peace Conference was in
daily session at Park, but nothing had trans.
pired in regent to the proceedings. In the
Crimea a neutral lino lied been traced between
the allied armies and the Russians. The White
Works at Sebastopol were blown up rat the 28
of February. A financial cri,is had occurred
at Constantinople. The Minister of Finance
had appealed to the merchants to devise some
means of remedying the didieulty. The nevi.
gallon of the Danube had been reopened. A
great commercial crisis had occurred in Nor.
way. In the city of Bergen, alone, twenty
houses had suspended payment.
Dr. Parker. the United States Commission.
er to China, has nothied Americans there that
they will be severely punished if found in the
"Coolie trade"—the traffic in poor Chinese.
By a desputeh from Syracuse, N. Y., we
learn that a woman named Ward, residing
near Bridgeport, Madison county, murdered
four of her• children with an axe. Cause bru•
tality of her husband.
The National Executive Committee of the
Republican party have issued on address to
the people of the United Staten, reciting the
aggressions of the slave power, and inviting
all who are in favor of freedom in the territor•
ies, to send delegates to the Philadelphia Cou•
withuu of the 17th of June.
The American schooner Maria E Smith has
been captured by the Brazilian brig of War
Olinda, while attempting to land in Brazil 320
African slaves. The commander and crow, all
Americans, were thrown into prison. The
schooner left the African coast with 500 blacks
on board, but they were so closely packed and
so badly fed, that 180 died on the pimp, .ead
64 mote goo l, eft, being tended.
FOR JOE.AL.
Messrs. s.—l liy your last issue
that the niect;eg tell in !h!: aug!i. whir!' ap
pointed me an the reptesentsiiee delogate from
Huntingdon County, to the Union Some (not
vcntiun, which met last week in Ilerrislsu rg, for
the lairpose of nominatinp, u state ticket to be
Hippos ted by the opponents of the National Ad
ministration at the next general election, is cell
ed a "Republican Meeting." The convention
which I was appointed to attend is properly nit
med in your announcement. "the Union Stale
Colivention;" end if the meeting here hail been
called by son a Union Meeting f the purpose
above mentioned. I should cot troubled
you with thiscorrectidn. The mistake doubtless
occurred unintentiondly, will ilk:rehire
oblige me by setting the matter right by pub- ;
lisping this communication. My connection
with the American party is well known in this !
county, front the fact that I carried the dark ;
lectern nearly all over it ; Ad I have no
tMn w hatever of abandoning its organization.—
I have voted for its candidates tram the time of
its birth, and intend to do so tuna its dissolution
it it sk.dl .o lung behest itsclt well. Should it
ever prove recreant to the vital principles of true
Americanism, or hang like a mill-stofte around
the neck of American progress, then, and not
till then, will l ask nsy name to he stricken from
its rolls
The word Republican was onto the potent ral
lying cry nit it great patty, and did goad servic e .
in the great warfare for civil and religious liberty
The words brings to the mind memories °lim
bic ideas vindicated awl great and living prin
ciples preserved; and no Am, ions should blush
when 4 fume is applied to 11,1 art and widen the
curly glories of List:ollmo so thickly ViLl , 4,--
It hal ll , Maver lately b,•,•0 a, „,, _
01117.111 We whose purp• - ,sc i: 0 5 •; , , , , th.• ;•,• •
aeon of the State of Athssouri iu their ;;;;,„,,,,
to establish laws for the territory of 1;,,,
three of arms, a4ainst the wishes of it., -
tants : Ono ore oppose d to the intl , o,-.11-11
slo , ery into territory eonseciated by ito , -eat
Of both the north eel the south, to freedom; •thd
who desire that the federal govvrnment sit:.;:
aahninistered he that the north and the south
shall stand upon sit entice etproldy in the wieen
tion and eivomnent of laws, and the distribution
of federal patronage. Now while 1 arum strong
un Auserenn milks strongest, I also enter, dit
the twins here mentioned, 'wither of whiel, ,
diets with with the other. 1 out therefore 0 mem:, v
of the American party and not of the Republi
can : fur the plartiwm of the former contains; all
that is nee ei.sury to profess of tie titter.
In pursuanee of our Union meeting, I attend
ed the CM or State Convention, and did toy par.
to put no n ljniou State tickvt, composed as fol
lows :—Tlonnus E. Cochran of York, old line
Whig, for Canal Commissioner ; David Phelps,
of Armstrong, Alfieri,: an, for Auditor Getibral ;
and Bartholomew Laporte of Bradford, Ameri
can Repohlican, for Surveyor General , who re
present all the dements of opposition to the Na
tional Administration, and every buoy there be
lieved that the Lord was on our side, and t hut
thy ticket would be elected by fate tit emend
majority. J, SEW ELI, sTL WART,
Huntingdon, Stst March,
6ougressioußl,
XXXIVth CONGRESS,
WAsutxoTos, March 2.4, 1856.
In the U. S. Semite, today, the, Pacific
Railroad bill WWI made the special order of the
day for the 14th of April, nod the bill to create
a public printing, book-binding, and engraving,
establishment, the special order for April 21st.
In the Uouse, the Speaker announced the
CUlllllliiiee to consist of
Messrs. Campbell, of Ohio, Howard of Mich,
and Oliver, of Misseuri. A joint resolution
was adopted, giving to Lew members of Cot:•
gress the usual supplies of $lOOO worth of
books.
WASUiSGTOK, March 25, 185,1
In the 11. S. Senate. to day, on motion of Mr.
Brodhead, the Committee on Military Atliiirs
was instructed to iuge:re into the expediency
of establishing one or more National foundries
in accordance with the rectnumeudation of the
Secretary of War, in his aunnal report of lie.
♦•ember, 1833. The Senate then resumed the
consideration of the general deficiency bill,
which was discussed until the adjournment.
In the House, Mr. Campbell of Ohio, made a
speech, in which he asked to be excused from
serving on the Kansas investigating Commit.
tee. A bill introduced by Mr. Phelps, nuthuri•
zing the running of the souther line of Kansas,
was referred to the Committee ou Territurks.
A long discussion of the most animated chem.
ter followed, upon the question of naturalizing
citizens in Washington.
~~ f isXatl c.
Pennsylvania I,egislature.
Hauuniurau, March 211, 1856,
Itt the State Senate, today. bills Were passed
to incorporate the 13auk of Philadelphia
the Tioiu County Leak, and various private
Itt the noose, the section fixing the salaries
of the law Judges tens stricken out of the lieu.
teal Appropriation bill.
Ilaminsi.uan, March 21, 1856.
, .
In the State Senate, 'today, the bill to pre
vent the luw judges of the Commonwealth from
interfering in elections was reported, with
amondamits.
lu the House, a hill was passed to incorpo
rate the Philadelphia Musics! Saving and Loan
Society. The general Appropriation bill was
passed finally, with a section fixing the sala
ries of the law judges thus:—Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court, $3090 ; other Supremo
Judges, $2BOO each; the Philadelphia Judges
$2500 ; the Pittsburg, Judges $2500 each ; roan
try law Judges $2OOO each. A section was a
depted establishing the office of State hingiucer.
Iliumsuuna, Murch 23,
In the State Senate the Committee of Code
roue on the bill relative to writs of Enor in
criminal eaves, reported a bill,which was taken
up and lost by a tie vote—yeas 15, nays 13.
The bill to incorporate the Northwestern
Coal and Iron Company passed. The Senate
then discussed the proposedamendtnents to the
Constitution, and uftenvards went into convex•
tint with the House, upon the subject of public
printing. In the afternoon a outlaw of incur•
lunation nets acre passed. The bill to Meer.
porate the Corn Exchange Bank woe nogg•
ti,ed.
In the House, a number of private billswere
passed. The Convention in regard to the al.
lotment of the printing adjourned to the 3d of
April. After some other unimportant business
the House adjourned.
ser A. communication received from Milli
dayeburg, signed "Is disinterested Person," is
too lengthy.
'UNION COAVNTION !
A TICKET NOMINATED!
CHEAT ENTHUSIASM ! ! !
The Union State Convention composed
of delegates from the American, Republi
can and Whig parties, met at Harrisburg
on Wednesday last. Delegates were pre
sent trots every district in the State.
After the appointment of officers, &c,
Committee was appointed to draft resolu
tions.
In the evening, on motion of Mr. Rein
hart, Judge Jessup was requested to ad
dress the meeting. John tVilliamson of
Iluntingdon, was then unanimously called
upon. Judge Jessup was next called.—
The following resolutiuns were then adop
ted.
. Mr. 111eCalmotit I rom the Committee on Ros.
°lotions, repqrted the action of the Committee.
The r.Tort was rend; and each resolution acted
upon sei , aratcly.,
As filially adopted, they nre na ft/I,U:
NV ,, ,,i,Eas, rho roti.n of Peno;,•lvanin, op.
t ,, , , ~ i to the National Adiiiiiiiitration, itra dirt.
1.,10 ',laical organizations, lioldho. on
; it la Lbal
ir, taacii or this ::aitte are upon
•• lowionitoits upon the c..,itry
' 3‘ til(tcc l tt i Cl . 01, by
tic andisgoked or inn .Idltligi•
. .iapose I,y violence tort hand Slit
, .TH .11 1,1 Uf a
: ~! ; 111,1 by j;:,
American prorercnee
in the itiitaiii,tinent of men or nireign birth,ter
1 , , the soil, to tact, or tract and
I as in the distriblition or its patro-
• ' , meet in principle is the
• , ,t Heite cfiulircly hone.d
•, Therefore,
tend, d by the
e1.,,u, 1,,,,,,t the In, ot those pisu r ctidcs
1,, tlt.liich we are tnutualiy Ilgreed.
, t,/, That the I , resent National Admin.
by the curl me of an nuwarruntable i
induct:4,o n; the repeal ,d the Missouri Compri,
wise, at the infannee of selfish rind sectional •
politicians; by the'retneval of lmnest and eon,
potent men from offices of honor anti trust, in
order that their places might be filled by inedi•
cient and corrupt partizans k by refuming to
protect the freettion of liansm in the enjoyment
of the rights designed to be secured to then; by •
the Constitution of the United Slates—thereby
showing itself powerful for IM:it:filet; but Noble •
in the muirdansuce fine for the protection of '
of the people and the honor of the country—
has justly torluited all claim to the confidence
and respect of the people of this Common
weulth.
Boole d, That we will use all honorable
means to cheek. the evils inflicted upon the
country by the unjust and sectional measures
adopted by the present National Adniinistra•
Lion, brought about by the exercises of its pa•
nonage; that we are utterly opposed to the ad.
mission into the Couf•dcrncy of Slave Suites
brined ot• territory once consecrated to Free•
dent ; and also to the extension of Slavery into
anyterrittitiesof the United States now Free.
llesoineii, t hat we cordially didapprove of
the interfirtinee of lurcige tit every
kind in o,u• civil mid political 11:fa;1, • are
equally himile to the interference tit ti o ‘.G
0000 or people of the United States in the of
Mita of other tiationa, regarding any:inch imer-
ference tte 'amide nod in conflict with the re
commendation of Washington'd Far.twell Ad
&ea, which inculcated with emphatic earnest
ness, the propriety of avoiding the adoption of
nay policy which might involve us in unprolita
lilt; and dangerous controversies with foreign
fiat 101.
lir.volred. That we regard the pandering of
any pat ty to loteign iatitietice an f'rautgist with
Intonfold coils to the country, threatening the
stability cf,atr institution and endangering the
morals of 11. e people by a contact with the pan•
pert and felons east upon our shored front the
hospitals add prisons of Europe.
That as American liberty de ponds
for its preservation on the intelligence of the
people, universal education is the first duty of
the State, and that oil attempts, by whmn,oever
made, or trout whatever quarter titstinted, to
destroy such a beneficent system by perverting
it to sectarian purposes, or opposing its rug.
rest and extol... because it is not the instru•
meter of inculeutiog any particular religious
oreed. ought to be resisted no fraught with in
caleullblo mischief and
Resolved, That the respect and confidence of
this Convention and the people of this Comma.
wealth arc due to the present Chief Magistrate
of the Stole caul to the members ahio Admin.
iNtraion, for the integrity, parity or purpose
nod No hug patriotism munititsted in their °lli.
tMI conduct, and au heartily cmumend then to
the support of every citizen who values the Ito•
nor and intert,ts at the State, ail eau appre•
Cade the virtues of devoted and faithful public
senses.
[The changes made by the Convention were
the substitution of the present resolution on
Common Schools, on motion of Mr. Common,
in plum of another of oitriil.o (coot, reported by
the committee ; and the 'addition to the first
paragraph of the preamble is all which follows
tho werds "inhabitants," as follows
"And by its unjust, illiberal and Anti• Amer•
icon UreferCllCe in the appointment of 00,11 Of
tbrel,fil birth over those biro upon the soil, to
faces of (root nod homer, ns well as in the dia.
tribution of its patronage."
On adopting this amendment, which wan of ,
fared by Mr. Palmer, of Schuylkill, after some
discussion among the membets, the previous
question was called, nod the main question was
ordered to be put, yeas 82 to 33, 'the amend.
tweet was then agreed to, and the preamble ns
amended was also agreed to.]
Mr. Ingham ofrered additional resolutions
"Resolved, That in the Slave power of this
Union, we recognize a great and growing aris•
tuerary, which now controls the General Gov
ernmettt tool shapes its entire policy with the
design to make 'Slavery national and Freedom
sectional,' and while we are not disposal to
torture with Slavery in the States, we are de•
terminal to repel its aggressions, and to claim
for the North us proportionate influence is na•
lions) allitirs.
Resolved. That we regard the recent derision
of Judge Knee, in the case of Passmore Wit-
Howson, ns au ahem donment of. the doctrine of
Stuto rights, and dangerous to the personal lib
arty ol' the eitizens of this State.
pesoked, That we regard the Fugitive Slava
Law no wholly uncalled for by the Constitution
and an infringement of the rights of citizens of
the free States, and ought to be modified.
Mr. Mannerly moved an indefinite post
ponement of the resolutions. The previous
question wan called, and the main question was
ordered to he put.
The motion to postpone indefinitely waft U3eu
speed to—yeas 90, nay. IP.
On motion, the Convention adjourned until
9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
SECOND DAY,
The Convention met at 9 o'clockand procee
ded at once to the nomination of a candidate
for AUDITOR fiENEII.II,.
Sankey, 7 Walborn, 3
Phelps, 91 Evans, 7
Foust, 3 M'Conkey, 3
1
13radford, 2 Waterhouse,
DARWIN. PIMPS, of Armstrong county.
having received a majority of the votes, a•as
unanimously declared the nominee lbr Auditor
General.
The Convention then proceeded to nominate
a candidate for
SURVEYOICOII\I:RAI,.
I t itporte, BSCobenn,
Shodaker, 6 I Brawn,
King
Myers, 3 I Suively,
7
BARTHOLOMEW LAPORTE, of Brad.
ford co., having received a majority of all the
votes, was unanimously declared the nominee
for Surveyor General.
The Convention Olen proceeded to nominate
a candidate for
CANAL CONI,II.IONEtt.
78 Williamson
3 Power
20 I.lopl,
Cochran,
Stitt,
Mart in,
TEIONIAS E. COC; ;It or York county,
havilv, received n innjority or all the rotes, won
tottnimously declared the notelet. fur Canal
Commidsioner.
• The Loss of the Ship John Rutledge.
Mr Thom. W. Nye, the sale surveyor
of this terrible wreck, furnis hes a narrative,
front ',chick we make the following extract
The John Rutledge lett Liverpool nn the llith
of January ; full in with ice or, the 18th of
iN,rtiary, in latitude 45 33 N,, lonait ode dli
58 W., got into field of ice the next . day, bet
succeed,l in working clear of it, She either.
however, ran in!u tot iceberg, stove n
link: in her hew, and oas abandoned at six
e' cluck the saute evening.
There were live boats attached to the ship,
which 1 think ero.ad not have carried all on
board. As it watt, seine twenty•five or thirty
were left to go down with the wreck, of whom
all but the math :1 , 1 1:111111•IiIre were passe',
. •!.. 't 1 11,1 :;I
and ; • ,
our I, „ . I '
abut : , , bongo, we
have het n saamped. ,
We soon lost sight of the ship, and l e t;.
ourselves—thirteen in number—open the wVo:
ocean, with about u gallon of water, and Fix
or eight pounds of broad. The party in the
bunt consisted of the Ipttswain, a Scotch
lor,—five men, four women, and a little
passengers—and nlyself. (toe of tho women
was the mate's wile. The ...tiller was ilitellSi,
ly cold; and the beat shipped a prom deal of
water, and front the effects of both the
on tier
lugs we were to encounter were nit long delay.
ed. Two other sallets, Mr. Atkinson, and my.
self, were warmly clothed ;
but the passengers
with the exceptieu °rune lady, were not. That
lady, was wrapped op in two Mao:this. We
had a compass in the hoot, but Mrs. Atkimun
rt jumping it:, broke it. We tootle wt effort
to reach tiny particular point—our only hope
being that we might be picked ap Icy seine pos.
sing crete-I. Athinsen thik charge of
the bread awl center, oil would but little
out. She and Ow beutswai.t mo.it or the
water. Beth Wel, 30011 exhata,l, and than
bitter cold began to tell upon us. It is my op.
inion that in on, had been supplied with f.od
and water -those of us could have withstood the
cold.
The third day in the boat a male passenger
died. Ile was very thinly dressed—a light
mat being his only nue. He wax fellowed,
the next day, by a wonine, where lieeLeal sue.
vived her a day or two. We this day saw a
brig running free, with a light wind. tier
hearts ve cheered with n prospect of speedy
relief. We raised a signal en au our, an d p e lt.
ad ler her with ell our strength. M'e gained
on her for some time, and 1 had begun to pie.
tore to myself the henety welcome tint: would
be extended to the shipwrecked by captain and
crew. But a breeze etmn s;l:rung up, and our
hopes wore crushed. She gral.tally ieft us. I
thought we were near enough to he seen from
the deck, but no notice was taken of a, Not.
withstanding this great disappointment, I en
deavored to'keep tip my
.spirits.
On the lifth day, all those in the boat with
me boon to debit; son water. I warned them
against it, but they persisted. I got very lit
tle of the water taken from the ship, but i
drank no sea water. When thy mouth became
very parched and dry I rinsed it out with 8011
water, but swallowed none. Seine snow fell
one day, which I foiled a great relief. After
the °there began to drink the sea water, they
dial in quick secceneieo. Ott the seventh
day, the last one died, and left me the only
living being in the beat.
The deed who first succumbed, were thrown
overboard q but the four last were beyond my
little remaining strength, and for more titan
two dons, I Was flaTini to sit WWI their distor
ted bodies before me, and with but little hope
that a better tete would be mine. The lost
who died Was a peseen,ger—an English lady,
el slight forte, the teether of the little gill.
Her dategliter preceded her a tree hums. I
meet remember the order in which the others
died. The bentsivain, the night before his
death, became delirious and furious. lie as.
mulled Mrs. Atkieson, hit her severely on the
arm, and scratched her. lie threw the bucket
overboard, and attempted to throw the oars
overboard else. Ife assaulted me with the
canteen, and struck me a blow on the face, the
marks of which I still bear. lie died about
noun, some hours before which he became list.
less mid stupid,: Nearly all the others Leanne
delirious. Mrs. Atkinson called in the most
agonizing tones fur water—stretching out her
hands to receive it. They nit died like the
bJatswain and in many instances the first no
tire that I had that another victim had fallen
Was by ilia pitching over when the beat lurch
ed heavily.
When all my companions were dead, I fixed
an oar upright, with a white well. shirt and
I red silk handkerchief waving lime the tell) us
a signal that had been erected. My feet mid
legs had become very badly frozen, and I Ives
hardly able to move. I lay in the bow of the
boat, It would ship a sea occasionally, and I
would rouse myself and bail it out. I would
thee lie down again. Ott the 28th of Miner,
ry, when I had been nine days in the bout, I
saw a ship bearieg towards to,.
[Estate of John McClure, tlee'd.]
Administrator's Notice.
N°Uccle hereby given that letters of Ad.
ministration on the vssalo of Juhn Mc.
um Into of Ted Township Huntingdon Count
dee'd., have been granted to the undersigned,
residing in said township, to whom, thew in.
debted will please make immediate payment,
and those having claims will present them du.
ly authenticated for settlement.
April 2, 1886,60 J. G. MeCLITRE,
Adm
ratricV,
In this borough, on the 25th ult. by Daiid
Snare, Esq., Mr. Philip Garner to ult.,
Elean
or McCall, both of Nan township. Hoot. Co.
On the 3lst ult., by the game, Mr. Christian
Moebus to Magdelen 7-hiller, both of Blair co.,
Pa.
On the 27th ult., by Rev. A. B. Still. hit.
Turner Glasgow to Miss Ohm Miller, both, of
Antes township, Blair co., Pn.
TREASURER'S SALE,
OF UNSEATED LANDS,
Sold for Taxes up to and Including 1351.
lIIMEAS, by an act of the General At•
V notably of the Commonwealth or Pennsyl
vania, entitled "An act do amend an act direct..
lay (lie mode of seltinl tranated lawlijim law
Co and other parliosex t " passed 13th March, 18.
15, and the other acts upon that subject; the
Treasurers of the several counties within thin.
Commonwealth are directed to commence on
the 2nd Monday in Juno in the yeat 1816, and
at the expiration of every two years thereafter,
and adjourn from day to day, if it be necessa
ry so to do, and make public sale of the whulo
or any part of such tracts of unseated lend,
situate in the proper county, on will pay the ar
rearagos of the lases whielt shall then have re
mained due and unpaid for the spaco alum
year before, together with all nceessarily
accruing reu,ii of such delinoucatty, tke.—
I ..II,ViIEH 11. CHKWI . I', Trotiairet:Of the
County of Huntingdon, do time:fere herebygivu
notice that upon the fidlowing tracts of MIS.,
it,l land, situate herein described, the several
sums stated are "the urreat ages of the taxes,
respeetiroly, due and ntipaid fur oneyeari' and
that, in pitrsuallf!P atilt; direction 01 . the afore
said nut of Assembly, I shall, on Monday the
hilt day of .)tam next, nt the Court House, in
the borough of Ilmningdon, commence the
Public Sale of the tthole or any putt of such
tracts of unseated lands, upon which all or any
part of the taxes herein specified rift thin, be
duo, and continuo such mile, by adjournment,
until nil the tracts Upon which the inane shall
retain duo and unpaid, Ito sold.
ALFRED B. CIWWIT,
TetaAnno lium'iazatufri Comay.
Treasurer's ()ince, r
April 1, 1856. f
A, I'. Now, of ir11,0111,3, Tuna
Iln:vee
George Green, Sr.,
Cron:will Township:
A lexander \lc licehuu
Charles
John Smith,
Georg Slephot,,m,
John Jourdan,
Samuel Calla:till:,
J..oplt
Juhu Ualhraith,
alt, It. 110 , 1,0,1,
Cu Town,hip:
William Miller,
110100 t
Clay :
Thomas Green,
111.11raita
'I itns Ilarvey,
Jule Forrest,
Fraithlin 'fuss tship
John l'arm,,
Henderson
Bears
Julia rii 0,
jock,.
-Int! 53
: :1I
; 17
•'.7 1
.:J
413 12
41 , 3 88
400
Thoirms Purincr,
Jacob
Ccor c. Steevcr,
Andrew 11,.,.1,
6,
100
111;
130
.010
401 141
.I').'l 115
Jlllll,, 1..,11J,
llrnry ( . 1
Alt:N.llll4r Juhadtt
'111.1,4 Meettue,
Jttlitt iLtts,a,
\l'ilii:an Steel,
StttutlCitutift,
Sainttel 11attsitts11,
Robe At (aklu•cll,
Ilatthey,t6ittlitt.un,
429 2.1
Genres iee
-
- Porter Township :
Samuel Fidler, 6 76
J:tedl: Noll's beire, 6 30
Ruth Green, 2 62
Henry Green, 1 72
Elenzer Wallastcrs, 58
John Sponeer, 7 49
Shirley Tp. :
Benjamin Brown, 76
~, r inglield Tp. :
Nathan Old, 7 78
Tod Tp.:
Daniul Neu.olllller 4 49
S. Barkley & W. Edwards, 8 64
do. do. do. 10 76
Henry Roads, 0 10
Neal Cbtrk, (now Amon) 94,
Henry Hobble, 2 17
John Pearson, 2 08
.44 a l';.lips, 12 91
: . . !:,I,unon, 10 28
... . i ..-., 11 02
46 07
'O ,i , l, 13 77
Daugherty 4: Speer, 15 20
ilo, do. 14 62
John Blan, 8 65
Willium Blan, 7 66
John Murphy, 11 48
John Miller, 13 85
Tell Tp. :
George 'Truman, 2 48
iiiimin Potter, 2 24
John Pease, 2 CO
Adam Clow. 2 70
r Uninn Tp.:
J(1111.1 Eel:, 8.64
John Corenhoven, 5 92
Sarub Elliott, •• ' 48
Robert Fen, 3 73
Benjamin Elliott, 6:4
81111111111 RiellardS, 6 87
John Brewster, 8 24
West Tp.:
Robert Wataoh, 21 21
John Watson, 25 90
Robert Young, ' 19 63
Juhn Jackson, . 7 14,
William Watson, '23 . 34 .
W. McAlery &W. Reed,. 3 60 Elisha Shoemaker, , . 12 48
Wall.er Tp. :
Charles Smith,
Richard Smith;
Hugh Laurinh ?
litalulph Laurish,
John Eery,
Warriorsmark Tp..
John Matthews, 40 37
—A LSO—
7G 107
100
46 60
291
210 120
420 102
439 51
43'8 40
271 80
242 51
222 52
399 75
893 113
353 129
411 10
131 30
429 69
288 69
181 78
26 18
422 39
412 78
....—„—
The following real estate upon which person
al -property cannot be found sualeient to pay
the taxes, relented by the several collectors, is
charged with the taxes thereon assecsed for the
years 1831 and 1852, a n d will be Solana 11h661-
ted lands, iu pursuance of the directions of tho
41st section of the act of Assembly, entitled :
"An Act to reduce the State debt and to incur.
pornte the Pennsylvania Canal and Railroad
Company,": approved the 20th April, 1844•
Barret, Tp. :
150 William Crownorer,
Jackson
800 Adam Tedwiler,
F
.3 •til
la 37
14 74
15 30,
48
10 AR