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WILLIAM BREWSTER, 1 EDITORS,
SAM. G. WHITTAKER.
Wednesday Morning, July 23, 1856
Forever float that standard sheet,
Whore breathes the foe but falls before 4's,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er usl"
FOR PRESIDENT,
JOHN C, FREMONT,
OF CALIFORNIA.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
TIEOZWAS B. COWMAN,
UP TORN COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
DARWIN PHELPS,
OP ARMSTRONG COUNTY.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL.
BARTZOLOWLEUT LAPORTE,
OF BRADFORD COUNTY
American Republican Cou
nty Convention.
j'Tho friends of Fremont and Freedom of tho
several townships and boroughs in the County
of Huntingdon. are requested to meet at the
usual time and place of holding delegate meet
ings on Saturday the 9th day of August next,
to elect two persons (in each township and bor.
ough) to serve as delegates in the American
Republican Convention, to be held in Hunting•
don, on Tuesday the 12th day of August, next,
at 1 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of nomina
ting a county ticket and doing such other busi
ness as the interest of the party may require.
SAM. G. WHITTAKER.
Chairman of the County Committee.
July 23d, 1856.
FREMONT AMERICAN REPUBLICAN
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
Old Huntingdon County is row in motion,
and her hardy sons are buckling on the armor
for the coming contest. Next week we shall
give tho names of the gentlemen who compose
the County Committee.
We feel that the time is come when silence
is treason to God and humanity. The great ie•
sue is upon us :no man can evado it. It is
an issue that we American Republicans would
have warded off ; but that has now become ire.
possible. Meet it we must, nobly and bravely.
We must preserve our northern rights, and
we will oppose the despotic demands of slave.
holding tyranny.
"Yea despots, too long did your tyranny hold us
In a vassalage vile eroits weakness was known;
Till we learned that the links of the chain that
controlled us
Were forged by the fears of its captives alone."
The preliminary steps have now been tahen,
and we shall set the ball in motion at once.
We shall have the pleasure of stumping the
county with s.lveral of the most influential and
worthy men of the district. In the meantime,
let us urge upon our friends the importance of
organizing at once. Form Fremont and Free.
dom Clubs. Action! action ! Up with the
standard of lluman Rights, and we shall nest
November sweep the county for Fremont and
Freedom, 49 lire sweeps the prairie.
Another Railroad Horror.
Another awful disaster occurred on the North
Pennsylvania Railroad, on Thursday last near
Philadelphia. About one thousand persons
mostly children, started on an excursion to
Fort Washington, about Hi miles from the
city. The party consisted of scholars and
teachers of a Catholic Sabbath School, togeth
er with many in cited guests. When about
twelve miles from the city the passenger train
ran into the excursion train with horrible res
ult. Then followed a scene which no pen can
describe. The three forward ears in the Exent ,
sion Train were torts to fragments, and from
the force of the collision, were piled up pyram.
idically one upon the other. The fire from
-the locomotive communicated to these ruins,
as well us to the other ears, and in a few sec
ends, the whole presented a sheet of flannel—
The immediate victims were those in the for
ward cars, many of whom were killed almost
instantly. But others suffered front the fire,
the smoke and the confusion, and the shrieks
arid groans of the dying and wounded thrilled
and appalled Ilse stoutest. Parents and chit.
dren were mingled promiscuously together, and
not a few of those who escaped uninjured were,
for the time, insane with excitement and anxi
ety. Mr. Hoppel the conductor of the passers.
ger train, seas severely hurt, and Mr. Harris,
the engineer of the excursion train, was fright
fully mangled, and died on the spot. The cry
on all sides was for water! and it was respon.
ded to as rapidly as possible. The dead pres
ented an awful spectacle. Many were so dread
fully horned, that it was impossible to distils.
guilds whether they were male - or female. oth.
or sufferers were groaning with broken legs
and arms, and with bruises all over their hod.
ies. Quito a number of women were burnt to
death in the cars wiih their children in their
arms 1 They could not make their escape
The number killed on the spot is reported at
fifty-five, and seventy terribly wounded. The
tragedy was terrible, and we shudder with hor
ror as we contemplate its many scenes of suf
fering, blood and death.
The conductor of the passenger train, has
since committed suicide by taking poison.
Horror upon Horror.
On Saturday night last, another horrible
murder was committed in Hollidaysburg. We
have not learned the particulars, put understand
that the perpetrator of the crime has hems ar.
rested and is now imprisoned iu that place.
On Friday last, a colored man was danger.
molly wounded by another, in Altoona, in the
same county, by being cut with a razor in the
throat. The assassin was arrested.
Thus, there are at the present time, in the
jail of Blair county, lout men for coal.blooded
murder, and sue for attempted murder. Veld.
Iv, verily, these are terrible times.
SHILL A ALAN BE A CATHOLIC A
GAINST 1113 WILL I
Political heats are as apt to hatch out
falsehoods as tropical heats do venomous
insects. We can excuse the editors of the
Huntingdon Globe for their silly attempts
to force their religion down Col. Fremont's
throat,—the poor creatures are hired to it.
The day for forcing Romanism upon the
conscience of nien, by faggot and flame,'
thank God in past. But, whilst we forgive
Catholic editors for their attempts at revi
ving the days of persecution, we earnest
ly hope Christian men will be especially
careful that they do not countenance or
propagate such falsehoods. The charges
of the Globe, (which we now shall prove
false as their purgatory,) brought out td
prove Fremont a Catholic, are as follows :
Ist. Because he was married by a Ca
tholic priest. 2d. Because he was educa
ted by Catholics. 3d. Because his chil
dren have been baptized by Catholics. •
The Globe defies us to "bring a shadow
of evidence" to prove any of these allega
tions incorrect. Humiliating as it is to re
fer to this charge, we shall do so and brand
deep in the foreheads of these ',worship
pers of the beast," mans. We deny that
we "have persecuted men on account of re
ligious belief." We made known Jesuit
Lowis's creed, to place men on their guard.
A man's religion is one of those things
which the Constitution says no other man
has any business to meddle with. A man's
religion is a mutter between himself and
his Maker ; and no other man has any
right to question him in regard to it. But
this is not the view which that Pharisaic
sheet takes of the matter. With not a bit
more religion than is good for themselves,
they are for ever troubling themselves a
bout the religion of others. The Globe,
ie notorious for its attacking professors of
religion, and opened its columns and ea
gerly bought up a person to traduce us,
some weeks ago. It did this, not because
its editors care onb farthing about religion
itself. but because, by adroitly lying about
what other!: profess, they hope to injure
those against whom they "bear false wit
ness." If Beelzebub over holds "love
feasts," it must Do with these scaildei Mee-
gering hypocrites. Col. Fremont's relig-
ion is a matter hetWeen him and his God.
In regard to the charge of Catholocism, it
is simply a naked untruth, which with the
accumulated evidence of its falsity before
him, no man with as much religion in his
heart as Judas possessed when he tvent out
and hanged himself, will ever reiterate.—
Col. Fremont's mother was a Protestant
Episcopalian, and the COI. Wan trained
and educated in that faith ; he was confir
rated by the bishop of that church in
I Charleston—of which church his mother
was a member for thirty years. Freinont
and Jessie his wife, are both communicants
in the same church ; and hie children are
all educated in the faith of their parents.
To prove the forgoing, and nail the first
two charges of the Globe as lies, we sub
mit
the following paragraph, which we
cry from the Jr. Y. Independent, the most
influential and extensively circulated relig
ious paper in America. It is from the pen
of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. We are
curious to see what reply Simon Magus,
of the Globe, will make to this explicit
statement :
At this time ninny newspapers recklessly
charge Col. Fremont with being a Rom. Ca
tholic. Though it has been authoritatively con
tradicted, it still continues to be asserted, and
in very positive and impudent forms.
We have taken pairs to inform ourselves in
this matter, and now state to the Christian pub
lic the simple truth, that good men, at least;
may cease to bear false witness.
' Col. Fremont was blessed with a mother of
devoted piety. She was a member of the Epis
copal Church, St. Philip's, Charleston, S. C.,
and reared her son in her own faith. Indeed,
until he was fourteen, Col. Fremont was edu
cated in the hope and expectation that lie would
become an Episcopal minister. At sixteen, ho
was conflrmcd in the Episcopa, church, and
has ever since, when within reach of the church,
been au attendant and communicant. And
since his tompnrary sojourn in New York, ho
has been an attendant at Dr, Antlion's
until recently, and now he worships at Grace
Church. Mrs. Fremont was reared strictly in
the Presbyterian Church, and united with the
Episcopal Church upon her marriage with Col.
Fremont. Their children have been baptized
in the Episcopal Church. It is sold that a
daughter has been sent to a Catholic institution
for education. So far from it, she has never
teen sent away from home at all, but has been
educated by her os/n mother.
It is well known that Mrs. Fremont is the
daughter of Col. Benton, and that, at the time,
her father was opposed to her marriage. Col.
Fremont personally solicited several Protest.
ant Clergymen to perform the marriage cere
mony, but, on account of Col. Benton's opposi.
tion to it, they were unwilling to do it. A fe
male friend, in this exigency, said that she could
find a cler,gyman who would aid without fear,
and brought in a Catholic clergyman, who mar
ried them. Like a true lover and gallant man,
Fremont said he did not care who slid it, so
that it was done quick and strong. Had we
been in Col. Fremont's place, we would have
been married if it had required us to walk
through a row of priests and bishops as long as
from Washington to Rome, winding up with
the Popo himaelf.
Is it not ludicrous to see a class of citizens
so terribly frightened nt the spread of Catholi
cism, and dreading the evils of Papacy above
all things, seizing a quiet Protestant gentle
man, sail insisting upon it that ho shall be a
Catholic? lit vain he struggles andprotests ;
Catholic ho shall be whether he will or not
"But gentlemen, 1 do not believe in the doc
trines; I was roared by a Protestant mother
in a Protestant church; I have married a Pro.
testant wits ; lay children have bad Protest
ant baptism '
• we and they attend Protestant
worship, and we are, both by education and
conviction, Protestants. Yon must excuse 55 , I
but we cannot be Catholics." The eager gem I
thence will nut be baffled. "Yon shall he
Catholics; you are Catholics; we will have
you Catholics; all that you say may he true,
in some mysterious manner; you are Catho•
lies, and we will have it so I" Poor Col. Fre•
mont. We do not see how ho will get over it I
Those terrible Protestants of the Express aro
out with sword and pen, determined that be
shall be a Catholic I
We now turn to the third charge. To
this it is sufficient to reply that no child of
his has been educated a year, a month, or
even a day, in any Catholic institution, at
Georgetown or anywhere else, and that
they are all reared in the Protestant faith
of their parents—Mrs. Fremont having
been in early youth, a Presbyterian ; but
on her marriage, to oblige her husband, ha
ving connected herself with his church,
the Episcopalian. But to show conclu
sively, beyond all cavil, in what faith Col.
and Mrs. Fremont have reared their chil
dren, we submit herewith the official cer
tificate of the Rector of the Church of the
Epiphany, of Washington City, showing
that all their children have been baptized
in the Episcopal Church :
WesuiNoToN CITY, July 12, 1856,
"The following children of J. Charles and
Jessie Benton Fremont • have been baptized in
the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D.
C.—their baptisms being recorded in the regis•
ter of said parish
1818, Aug. 15, ElisaLeth McDowell Benton
Fremont
1848, Aug. 15, Benton Fremont.
1853, Dec. 28, John Charles Fremont.
1855; Aug. 1, Francis Preston Fremont,
As none were baptized in a house, but all
10dre brought to the church, the order of the
Protcstan t Episcopal Church for 'the Ministra•
tion of Public Baptism of Wants,' was that
which was used. J. W. FRENCH.
Rector of the Parish of the Epiphany, Wash.
ington, 1). C."
It will be noticed that these baptisms of
Colonel Fremont's children were not per
formed privately, but publicly in the
church, before all the world who chose to
look on, to listen to the vows of the parents
and sponsors that they should be brought
up in the faith of the church Among the
sponsors of these children were Col. Ben
ton, Kit Carson, Gapt. Lee, U. S. N.,
Francis P. Blair, and Colonel Fremont
himself (a strong point, as a Catholic could
not promise such things); and Mr. Blair,
who has known Col. Fremont for many
years intimately, is astonished at the per
sistent attempts to force him to be a Cath
olic against his will, when he has known
him always to be a Protestant and to re
peatedly declare himself as of that faith by
education, conviction, and profession.
ORGANIZE FOR LIBERTY.
Fellow Citizens, bur duty to our God.
to our Country, to ourselves, and to our
fellow.men, demands that we should make
a mighty effort to break the bonds thnt are
daily tightening around its; that we should
exert the whole energy of our nature to
shield us from the fearful calamity that
threatens our cherished Union.
Liberty, the master key to every Amer
ican heart, lies bleeding in the Capitol of
our country, and the Tyrant exultingly
waves his sceptor o'er her prostrate form.
Is there no bold arm to wrest the victim
from his brutal grasp, and bruise the hand
that dared defile the sacred shrine of Hu
man Freedom ? Surely, must the angel
of Justice weep, and bow her head in bit
ter agony to see the last resort of Freedom
desecrated. Despots end Tyrants in oth
er lands, need no longer gaze with tremb
ling nerves towards the boasted star of Li-.
betty, in this, our Western world. A fear
ful cloud has dimmed its once pure lustre,
and left a tarnish that no time can e'er
efface. The ballot-box, the bulwark, of our
national existence, has been invaded and
violated to subserve the ends of a fierce
and brutal mob, and those who dared to
raise their voice in vindication of a right,
sacred almost as life itself, have been cru
elly assailed, and forced to flee where Jus
tice yet held some control.
We all remember the tumult of indigna
tion that swelled in every patriotic breast
when the French Usurper took possession
of alp ballot-box of the Peuedo Republic;
but that was fair and honorable contrasted
with the recent outrages on the elective
franchise in our own loved home—outrages
connived at too, by the chosen rulers of the
land. It is a fearful thing, when the fun
damental basis of our institutions is assail
ed—a crime that demands a terrible retri
bution, lest it stand in future time as a pre
cedent for actions yet more foul and hei
nous.
Fellowcitizens, if we love liberty, we
must arouse now—at once—there is not a
moment to spare. Ere another campaign
can come around, the dread edict will have
gone forth, and the last star, to which the
eyes of oppressed nations were turned,
will be sunk in the dark cloud of human
bondage. Where so lately the free pure
air of liberty came floating from the fairest
spot of God's creation in our western
climes, will sweep the pestilential miasma
of slavery, bearing on its wings a wail of
woe and anguish. Unless you seize on
the present moment and act, you are re.
sponsible to Cod and to future generations
in time to come, for a derelection of duty,
which you will repent to the last hour of
your existence. Then arouse ! Form Clubs
in every hamlet and district, and rally ev
ery man of whom you have the most dis
tant gleam of hope. Already many of our
neighbors aro organizing for liberty, with
an enthusiasm that will strike terror to the
heart of every traitor to her cause.
*sr REMEAIIIER, every vote given Buell
is 11. slab et liberty.
Fremont American Itepliblican County
Convention.
We invite the attention of thefreemen of the
County of Huntingdon to the call for alkin
vention of Republicans of this county, far the
formation. of a county ticket. This step has
become imperative. The existing state of af
fairs is such, that wo must do everything in our
power to maintain the right's which are justly
ours. The great and all•absorbing issue now
before the country is slavery. Shall the com
pacts of our fathers be destroyed to extend the
area of human bondage, and bring the free
northern white laborer to the degraded level of
a plantation negro ? This is the question
which must bo decided in the coming contest.
The Republicans say slavery shall not be
brought into free territory, Our opponents
say it shall. The Buchanan and Fillmore par
ties are in a manner united in favor of the ex
tension of slavery; we cannot and will not vote
with any party or for any candidates who will
embrace The extension of slavery as their Creed.
For this reason the Republican Americans
have seen proper to call a County Convention,
separate and distinct front all others.
Among all the issues presented by the oppo
nents of the Democratic party, there is just
one issue that they are careful not to present,
and that is the very issue they ought to present,
the very issue which, of all others, is necessary
to place the two contending parties in direct
opposition to each other, fair and square. The
only direct, unequivocal, and manly issue that
can be made with such a party must be made
by a Republican party. Wo must therefore be
represented by true men, and for this reason
we invite the action of all true Fremont Amer
ican Republicans. We have no room to speak
of this further at present.
Fremont Ratification Meetings,
Two grand inaugural Fremont meetings of
the campaign, wore held last week one in
Pittsburgh and the other in Allegheny. The
attendance at both was very large, and the ut
most enthusiasm prevailed. As the only dif
ference between the two arises out of the ques
tion of the Vice Presidency, there was a con.
tinuel interchange of aucittors and speakers.—
The Alleghenians going to Pittsburgh and
vice versa.
The speech of Gov. Johnston in Allegheny,
was a calm, dignified exhibition of his pecu
liar views relative to his principles and posi
tion. It was received with tumultuous op
please.
On this side of the river, Hon. Henry Nil
son, of Mass., was the principal orator of the
evening. His address was listened to with
deep Intorel.4 7 and was well received.
den. John Williamson's closing speech was
full of keen satire, humor and wit, and the
loud chcors of the audience clearly evinced
that he was a favorite with the Young Ameri
cans.
The family feud of the Johnston and Day
ton wings of the Fremont party, it is said, is
in a fair way of being healed. Should this e
cent take place, Frtiriont's chances would be.
come a good deal brighten—Chronicle.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Tha on, in the House of Roprotontalivos nn
the question of expelling Brooks for the assault
on Mr. Sumner was divided as follows : For
the expulsion, 119 free State men and 2 slave
State men, or 6 democrats and 115 opposition.
Against the expulsion 13 free and 92 slave
State men, or 63 democrats and 32 opposition
Mr. Hoffman, of Maryland, is ono of the two
slave State men who voted in favor of expel.
ling Mr. Brooks.
Brooks immediately resigned, bat will be re.
elested by his slave•holding constituents.
On Tuesday the House passed the resolution
censuring Keitt, and rejected that censuring
Edmundson, for their connection with the
Brooks outrage. Mr. Bully Keitt followed his
illustrious predecessor, Bully Brooks, in a va.
ledictory speech, of the same sort as that made
by the latter, and announced he had resigned
his scat, to take effect forthwith.
This will give tho Republicans n stronger
hold on the House by two votes.
Bully Brooks Again.
A despatch from Washington, under date
of the 12th inst., says: "It is understood that
after Mr. Woodruff had concluded his remarks
in the louse, this evening, Mr. Brooks inform.
ed him, through Mr. Savage, that ho took ox.
ceptions to them, and intimated a meeting.—
Mr. Woodruff declined on the ground that it
was contrary to his religious views, and viola
tivo of the laws of the land."
Here we have another exposition of the
hullyism of the Slave Power. It sneakingly
and cowardly strikes' down Free Speech in the
Senate Chamber, and when one of the Peoples
Representatives denounces the outrage in
proper terms, its chosen Bully seeks further to
intimidate by an invitation to mortal combat•
The time has come when the men of the North
must stand together, if they would not he lash
ed into the quiet and submission of the "chat
ties personal" of the plantations.
Meeting of the Burgesses and Town
Connell.
July 14th, 1856.
Tho house met at
.the usual place,
Present : Chief Burgess, Mr. McCoy.
Assistant Burgesses, Messrs. Fisher a,ml
Simpson.
Town Council, Messrs. Carmon, Grails,
Lower and Westbrook.
The minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved.
Mr. Simpson front the Committee appointed
at the last meeting to examine the condition
of the claim against the Catholic Church lots,
reported that there remained entered in the
Prothonotary's office a mechanic's lion against
the same for $99,99, when, ou motion it was
Resolved, That the proposition of the officers
of said Church to discharge the lien against
the same by the payment of ninety dollars,
within two months from this date, be and is
hereby accepted.
A petition from several citizens was rend,
stating that they labor under great inconveni
ence on account of the northern end of Mont
gomery street not being opened and properly
graded, and also, for want of an alley across
the lots owned by the congregation of the Our.
man Reformed Church, and praying relief in
the premises. The petition was referred to the
Committee on Streets and Pavements.
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Adjourned.
J. SIMPSON AFRICA, See'y
lerNo ehnnge in the markets.
OUR. BOOK
WY" Godey's Lady's Book for August is be
fore us. This is a prime number. It contains
two splendid Steel Engravings—one a colored
Fashion Plate ; One hundred pages, 47 engra•
vings and Cl contributions. This Is a good
time to subscribe for this excellent periodical,
as July commenced the 53d volume. Only $3
per year—and the receipts on Preserving Fruits
&c„ it gives is worth $2O a year.
Se' The Orator for July, has been received.
It is a neat, interesting little work, edited by
D. T. Stiles, Buffalo ; and published at $1 per
year.
RETRIBUTION.-A tale of passion. By Mrs.
E. D. N N. Southworth, author of "The Lost
Heiress," "Deserted Wife," "Curse of Clif
ton," etc. This work is row in press and will
be ready for sale on Saturday, August 16th,
next. Complete in one large duodecimo vol
ume, neatly bound iu Cloth, for One Dollar
and Twenty-five cents,. or in two volumes, pa
per cover for One Dollar. T. B. Peterson,
102 Chesnut street, Philadelphia. Publisher.
The plot is well laid, and the characters are
all fully and most ably developed. The work
is a practical, moral delineation of the hu.
man character, and should be read by all. Its
aims are to improvo the moral training of chil.
dren, and its tendencies to teach ue how to en.
joy life at any and every stage. No book has
ever come into our hands that will better pay
a calm and patient perusal.
Terrible Steamboat Disaster—Thirty to
Forty Lives Lost.
BUFFALO, July 16.
The steamer Northern Indiana took fire this
morning about 11 o'clock, whileon her passage
to Toledo, and was burned to the waters edge.
Large numbers of the passengers were rescued
by the steamer Mississippi, and others were
saved by a propeller and schooner. Notwith
standing tuns, from thirty to forty are reported
to have been lost. From fifteen to twenty that
were known on board are missing. The names
of the lost have not been ascertained.
(Communications.
For the Journal
MESSRS. EDITORS :—lnasmuch as two As.
sociate Judges are to be elected this fall, per-
mit me through the columns of the "Journal,"
to present the name of Thomas T. Cromwell of
Cromwell township, as a suitable candidate for
said office. Mr. Cromwell is a thorough Awe
rican Republican in sentiment, of rare probity,
and good literary attainments, well scienced in
business and the practical theory of law as
practiced in County Courts—of ready percep
tion and ripened judgment. As a Christian
and gentleman he is iu every requisite sense
calculated to adorn the exalted station of As
sociate Judge with dignity and advantage.
In connection wills the undoubted qualifica
tions of Mr. Cromwell is also to be remembered
the claim of the lower end of the county for a
share of said offices. Inasmuch ar none in this
section have yet shared in the honors of the
Judgeship—we claim a share with those of
other portions of the county, without fear of
disregard to our claim by the nominating Con.
vention. Auonwtex.,
[COMMUNICATED,
CELEBRATION.
A very interesting Sunday School colebra•
tion came off at Nossville, fell tp., on the 4th
of July. Tho Goahorn itill.y rutdcou's School
Honor, Shade Gap and Nos:wino schools met
in a beautiful sugar grove of Mr. J. Jones, at
the latter place.• The grove was tastefully fit
ted up and the provisions bountiful. The
schools started for the grove at half past nine
o'clock, under the chrge of Col. Noss, assisted
by the Superintendents. After arriving ahymn
was sung by the schools ; the Declaration of
Independence woo read by Dr. J. A. Shade.
After the singing of an appropriate hymn,
the latter gentleman delivered an eloquent and
powerful address ; and was followed by Col.
Noss, and Rev. J. Price, in able and eloquent
addresses. At 1 o'clock a sumptuous dinner
was served up at a table capable of seating
three hundred persons.
The toasts then followed. Dr. Shade then
read in place on a call by the Committee, the
following thirteen sentiments of the `assembly,
which wore received with great applause:
1. The Revolution of 1776.
2. The Union.
3. The day of Independence.
4. The Constitution of the United States.
5. (,eo. Washington, Father of his Country,
6. The President of these United States.
7. The government of these United States.
8. The Army and Navy of these U. States.
0. Liberty.
10. Education.
11. Religion.
12. Sunday Schools.
13. Our Country, our Home.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By Geo. Wilson, Esq.,Free Press, Free
Speech and Free Country. (Cheers.)
By F. B. Gardner—Thos. JetTerson—May
the eminent services be rendered his country,
be impressed on the mind of every true Amer.
icon. (Cheers.)
By J. S. Briggs—The Washington Montt.
meet—To the Father of his County.
By David Cisney—The Ladies—Often in
Arms yet never in War.
By J. S. Briggs, Esq.—That the memory of
Washington may not be for p mtten• and the tree
of liberty, planted in America, may take deep
root and its branches extend from polo to polo.
By J. G. Jones—lntemperance, the greatest
evil of our land. May the time soon arrive
when the spell shall bo broken that binds the
drunkard to his cups.
By J. Nelson—flay the Sunday School cause
extend over the whole world, and snake the so
litary places glow and the deserts blossom like
the rose.
By J. A. Taflor—Thenks to the people of
Nossville for their kindness.
After a day of unalloyed pleasure the party
dispersed.
July 4th, 1856.
[COMMUNICATED.
Ma. EDITOR.-1 have thought for sometime to
write a short notice of a Sabbath School Cele
bration held near Calvin. Four Sunday Schools
participated. The exercises opened with a
prayer by the Rev. G. Berkstresser. Dr. John
Huilson then read the Declaration, after which
Mr. John Beaver delivered a short oration.—
Rev. C. Rightmyer, then followed iu a most el.
°quaint and soul-stirring address. He advert
ed to the threatening aspect of affairs t o our
country at present; particularly the humiliat
ing spectacle presented to the world, in the die.
graceful mismanagement of affairs in our ter•
ritories. His whole speech was calculated to a•
waken and excite feelings of patriotism. Af.
ter partaking of an excellent dinner, the au
dience was again addressed by Gen. Speer and
Rev. Berkstresser. Their addresses were ex
cellent and wore listened to with marked at
tention. The audience was then dismissed.
AN OBSERVER.
ilez• We regret exceedingly being compelled
to condense the above communications, but
were obliged to do on, owing to our crowded
columns.—[ Ens.
Marri6,
In Marklesburg, on the 16th inst., by the
Rev. C. Rightmyer, Mr. Samuel Kerr to Miss
Julia Rockenberry.
On the 2nd inst., near Fannettsburg, by the
Rev. Ranniberry, Mr. David Steward to Miss
Kato Neil, both of that vicinity
In fishing Dave has long engaged,
With ardent mind and high.wrought zeal;
But tow his troubles are assuaged,
Since he has caught an eel—(a Neil.)
Long life and happiness to Dave proclaim,
And also to his darling dish—
May he share a "faithful steward's" fame,
And she have fewer bones than other fish.
MUCUS.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
A Hare Chance for Speculation.
rpnE undersignea will sell at Public Sale, in
Cassville, Pa., on
Over ONE TROUSAND ACRES of valua
ble FARM and TIMBER LAND, situate in
the valley of Trough Creek, •and adjoining the
Broad Top Coal Field. The property is in
three tracts, but will be sold separately or to•
gether. _
NO. I
Contains 170 Acres, mostly good farm land,
100 acres under fence and iu cultivation ; ba-
lance well timbered. A good log house, log
barn, orchard and other improvements. .
NO. 2
Contains 200 Acres, all good meadow land, 50
acres cleared, balance heavily timbered with
white pine and white oak. Large stone house,
saw mill and other improveinentg, This is one
of the best lumbering and grazing properties
in tho county, being but 8 miles from the pro.
sent Broad Top Railroad, and immediately on
the line of the East Broad Top Road.
NO. 3
Contains 700 Acres, and adjoins the above—
mostly timber land. Good log house, barn and
orchard ; 50 acres cleared, balance white oak
and rock oak timber. An excellent water po
wer suitable for a tannery surraunded by seve
ral thousand acres of Rock Oak Bark. This
tract also contains fine stone coal.
The above property will be sold at a great
bargains and on easy terms, viz Four equal
annual payments ou interest. Examine the
property before the day of sale.
G. W. SPEER,
July23,'sG,
THE LAST CALL I.
At the request of my numerous friends, I
have consented to issue this circular 6r the
benefit of all those persons who
STUTTER OR STAMMER.
There has been a floating population of in,
posters traveling through the country, profits.
sing to cure impediments of speech by my
system and fanny have had the audacity to atb
vertise in my name, and give the names of
men for reference, whom they never knew or
saw. When persons who Stammer called,
those scoundrels would represent me, tied in
several instances produced a certificate purpor.
Ling to be mine, vesting in them full power
nod authority to practice as my Agents. I
have frequently warned the Public or those
men, as they arc not its full possession of my
System, and cannot cure. Through untiring
perseverence I arrested two of thew, and eth
e•s will sooner or twee share the same title.—
This cure for Stuttering or stammering is one
of soy own discovery, fur which I have a Ogg
Right, secured by Law ; and have successful
ly practiced the same for the term of nine
years,
MY RETERENCES
Are of the highest order, such as the Medical
Faculty of New York, Philadelphia, and the
Universityof Virginia, all the Press of Pitts
burg, Washington, Greensburg and Uniontown
Pa., besides 50,000 persons in different parts
of the country.
This cure for Stuttering and Stammering is
perforated in less than one hour. There is no
paiu or surgical operation attending it.
The beauty of all this is, it will cure chit.
dien of five, and adults at the age of ono hun
dred years. A person who is cured by it can
never again Stutter, even if he try. I offer
to forfeit SlO,OOO if any can ever after Stutter
by application of the cure. It was formerly
customary to announce that no pay would be
required unless a perfect cure was performed.
This was done to show the people there was no
rink in giving me a trial. But, now, itiasinuch
as the leading citizens of Pittsburg know my
cure never fails, it would be superfluous to
make another such announcement. To con
elude, I simply say to all who Stutter or Siam.
mer, that this is my last notice. If there be
any wino desire to be cured, I would be happy
have them call at Zeigler's Hotel, on Wedues•
day and Thursday, 30th and 31st inst. I shall
positively remain there no longer.
reirTtecollect that this cure never fails, and
can be sent to any part of the United States.
DR. WYCOFF.
par All persons who may wish to consult
me after the above named days will please ad
dress their letter to Box 746, Pittsburg Post
Office.
July 23d, 1856. DR. IVYCOFF.
MRE2Ik [ISIIg7iIVIIVIAD
At Spruce Creek, flout. Co., Pa.
IT is designed to open this School on Monday,
the 28th inst., and to continue it eight weeks.
The Union Church at Spruce Creek has been
procured for the use of the Institute, and or.
rangetnents made with priests families for
boarding the student teachers.
Triton—Boarding, $2 per week, Tuition, $3
per term. ALBERT OWEN,
Ju1y23;66.
Co. Superintendent.
PUBLIC SALE OF LOTS IN TILE
TOWN OF HOPEWELL
BEDFORD CO., l'A.
A• Sale of lots in the tows of Hopewell will
take place by Public Auction, on the premises
on Thursday thelst of July, 1856,
The sale to commence at 9 o'clock in the fore.
noon.
The town of Hopewell, the termination of
the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain
Rail Road, is located on the east bank of the
Juniata, opposite the mouth of Yellow Creek.
It is destined to be a largo and important
town ; it is within half a mile of the Coal open.
ings ; it lies directly upon the main line of rail
road, and at the point whore the visitors to
Bedford Springs will leave the rail road for the
plank road. It is the only point on the main
rail road, where the produce of the great rich
limestone valleys, watered by the Raystown
Branch of the Juniata and its tributaries, can
find a convenient shipping place to market.—
Hero they will find a common entre. lint
the 'great advantages of Hopewell, are the fa.
cilities which it affords to the manufacture of
iron. There is no place it superior in Penn
sylvania. There is an inexhaustible supply of
Coal, iron ore and limestone, and also a great
abundance of waterpower in and adjoining the
town. The terms will he made known at the
time of sale. HENRY K. STRONG,
President of €l,e Hopewell OW and Iron ro.
H. lb. COGGSII4I.I, Secretary
July 10, '3O-3;.
COURT AFFAIRS.-AUGUST TERM.
PROCLAMATION.
WIIEIIE. by a precept to me directed, dated
at Huntingdon, the 25th day of April,
A. D. 1856, under the hands and seals of tho
Hon. George Taylor, President of the Court of
Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, and goner
aljail delivery of the 24th judicial district of Penn
sylvania composed of Huntingdon Blair and Cam
bria, and the Hon. Thomas F. Stuart and Jona
than McWilliams, his associates, Judges of the
county of Huntingdon, justices assigned, appoint
ed, to hoar, try and determine all and every in
dictments made or taken for or concerning all
crimes, which by the laws of the State are made
capital or felonies of death and other offences
crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or
shall hereafter be committed or perpetrated for
crimes aforesaid—l am commanded to make pub
lic proclamation throughout my whole bailiwick
that a Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Oommon
Pleas and Quarter sessions, will be hold at the
Court House in the Borough of Huntingdon, on
the second Monday (and 11th day) of August,
next, and those who will prosecute the said pri
soners be then and there to prosecute them as it
shall be jest, and that all Justices of the Peace,
Coroners and Constables within said county ho
then and there in their proper personsot 10
o'clock, A. M. of said day, with their records, in
quisitions, examinations and remembrances, to
do those things which to their offices respectfully
appertain.
Dated at Huntingdon the 25th day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1856, and the 81st
year of American Independence.
JOSHUA GREENLAND, Sheriff.
PROCLAMATION.
IXTHEREAS, by a precept to me directed by
VV VV the Judges of the Common Pleas of the
county of Huntingdon, bearing Wit the 25th day
of April, 1850, I am commanded to make
Public Proclamation throughout my whole baili
wick, that a Court of Common Pleas will ho
held in the Court House in the Borough of Hun
tingdon, on the third Monday (and 18th day) of
August, A. D., 1856, for the trial of allissues in
sold Court which remain undetermined before the
said Judges, when and where all jurors, witnesses
and suitors, in tho trial of all issues are required
to appear.
Dated at Huntingdon, the 25th day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1856, and the 81st year
of American Independence.
JOSHUA GREENLAND, Sheriff.
SHERIFF'S SALES.
I)Y virtue of sundry writs of Venditioni Expo
na s, issued out of the Court of Common Pleas
of Huntingdon County, and to me directed, Ilwil l
sell by public outcry, at the Court House in the
boro' of Huntingdon, on Tuesday, tho 12th day
of August, coot, (1850) nt 10 o'clock, A. M. the
following described real estate, to wit :
AU the right, title and interest of John A.
Weaver, in and to a lot or pared of ground,
lying upon the north side of that Woodcock Val
ley road in Hopewell township, Huntingdon co.,
containing three quarters of an acre of land morn
or less, upon which in erected a two story log
dwelling house ; adjoining lambs of Leonard
Weaver on the north, and John Hassell on the
south, &c.
Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold ua
the property of Joins A. Weaver.
ALSO
All the right, title and interest of defendant,
to property which was extended by the Inquest,
as per Inquisition, attached to Pi. Pa. No. 22,
canary Term, 1851, and the yearly retool of
thirty dollars—which WO3 fleet:toed by the said
defendant, at said yearly rental—with which
said terms, the defendant lots failed to comply,
as appears by the affidavit of the Plaintiff, at
tached to Preeips for this writ, to wit A log
house Lelow the borough or Huntingdon, adjoin
ing henry Sturtzanan un the north, Jacob Pork
ier on the cast, Corbin on the south-onst, eon
-tailing about ono acre of glutted, with brick
basement.
Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold us
the property of David Stur:zumn.
ALSO
All the right, title and interest of defendant,
of, iti and to a lot of ground in the borough of
Alexandria, fronting 90 feet on Market Street,
and extending back to the Pennsylvania Canal,
hounded on the west by land belonging to the
Commonwealth, on the east by a lot of Hannah
Albright, having thereon erected a two story log
weather-boarded dwelling-house, with back
buildings and a well of water at the door. Al
so, the interest of the defendant in line adjoining
out-lots, hounded on the north by land ofJohn
Porter, Esq., on the west by land of the heirs of
Robert Lytle, deed., on the south by an alley, by
land of the heirs of George Wilson, deed on the
east, containing in the whole about one acre and
quarter more or lets, with a large frame stable
thereon.
Seized, taken In execution, and to he sold as
the property of Benjamin J. Williams,
ALSO
All the right, title alai interest of the defen
dants, Ehen B. Pike and James Gardner, in and
to a body of wood-land, extending from tho
Raystown Branch on the west to Sideling Hill
on the east, and lying on both sides of Terrace
Mountain and in the head of Trough Creek
Valley, in Walker and Union townships, Hun
tingdon County, adjoining lands of Thomas
Read, Daniel Africa, Jacob Broneman, and the
Heister land on the East or Trough Creek side,
lands of David Blair on the north-west, lands of
David Corbin, Rudolph Bretton., and John
Shaver on the west, or Raystown Branch side
and extending from the Juniata River below the
State Dam to Shaver's Gap, on Terrace Moun
tain as aforesaid, being composed of stueral sur
veys and parts of surveys in the names of Dr.
John Henderson, George Feu, William Fen,
I David Ben and Robert Pea, and containing In
the whole between Melva and thirteen hundred
acres, more or less,
Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold Its
the property of Eben B. Pike nod Jas. Gardner.
ALSO:
All the right title and interest ofdefundant in
and to a lot of ground situated in the Borough
of Birmingham, Huntingdon, Pa., fronting 66
feet on Tyrone Street, and extending back at
right angles 130 feet, to an alley, bounded on
the north by the public School Ideate lot, with
the following improvements thereon erected ,
A two story plastered house, and Tailor Shop,
Stable and Other out-buildings.
Seised, taken in execution, and to be sold se
the property of Wesley P. Green.
ALSO:
All the right, title and interest of the defen
dant 01, in and to a tract of land, lying partly in
Brady mud partly in Henderson township, adjoi
ning lands of Irvin, Green awl Watson on tho
oast, the Juniata river on the south, and lands of
John McCallan on the west, and James Simp—
son on the north ; containing about 60 acres,
more or less, most of which is cleared, with a
large tavern house, stable, saw-mill, store house
and ware-house, and three dwelling houses. Al
so the interest of defendant In a tract of land in
Henderson township, adjoining lauds of Juno
Armitage on the north, on the oast lands of Jas.
Simpson, on tho south by Alox. Simpson,
on the
west by Samuel Goodman, containing 114 acres
more or less, about 80 acres cleared, with a house
u barn and frame carpenter shop, and excel' ens
orchard thorcon.
Seized, taken in execution, and to be sold as
the property of James J. Goodman.
JOSHUA GREENLAND,
Sherifrs Office, I
4unt., July 16, 1856. f
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
ETTERS of Administration have been gran.
ted to ice upon the estate of Robert Gra
ham, late of Dublin township, dee'd. All per
sons indebted to him will make payment, and
those having claims present them to
JOE N PPLE BY, Air,