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WILLIAM BREWSTER,. EDITORS.
IAM. G. WHITTAKER.
Wednesday Morning, July 16. 1857,
"Once more our glorious banner out
Unto the breeze we throw ;
Beneath its folds with song awl shout
We'll charge upon the foe."
TOR GOVERNOR,
DAVI 1) WILMOT,
TOR CANAL COMMISSIONER.
WILLIAM MILLWARD,
OF PHILADELPHIA,
YOR SUPREME JUDGES,
JAMES VEECH,
OP PAYETTE COUNTY.
JOSEPH J. LEWIS,
OP CHESTER COUNTY.
Union County Convention,
The members of the American and Republi
( can parties of the county of Huntingdon, are
requested to meet is the several townships, bor
oughs and separate election districts, (in the
townships at 4 and boroughs, at 7} o'clock, P.
M.,) at the usual places of holding delegate
meetings, on Saturday, the 9th day of August,
next, to elect two persons (in each township and
borough) to serve as delegates in a Union Coon.
ty Convention to be held in the borough of Hun.
tingdon, on Tuesday, the 11th day of August,
next, at 1 o'clock, P. M., for the purpose of no
minating a county ticket and doing such other
business as the interest of the party may require.
J. GEO. MILES,
Chairman Republican County Committee.
DAVID BLAIR,
Chairman American County Committee.
July 16th, 1857.]
Why Should American, Divide I
Under theabove caption, the Philadelphia
Sum—the oldest American journal in Pennsyl
vania—holds the following language, which we
commend to the serious attention of such of
oar readers, if there be such, as are likely to be
misled by some of the papers in the State pro
fessedly American, but so wavering in their
course, that it haii become necessary for them
to define their "position" shout once a month,
in order that the public may have a chance to
guess of their political whereabouts, with a
probability of finding it. Let men of reason
aid principle read and reflect :
"One of the most singular features in the
present campaign is that men of the came po
litical faith, and striving for the same political
suds. should oppose sash nthor 5. y
support to the candidates selected for official
positions in the battle which is about to take
place in Pennsylvania politics. The American
party in enlisted in opposition to the principles
of the Democratic party. It maintains an un
yielding opposition to Roman Catholic Irish in
fluence ; to every phase of foreign interference
in the policy and institutions of our country; to
the freedom with which freshly imported pau
pers and criminals are perpetrated upon the
rights of Aar rican freemen in violating the pu
rity of the ballot•box ; to the Romish doctrine
of excluding the Protestant Bible from our pu•
belie schools and to the extension of slavery in
to territory already free. Thep, are the princi
plea of our party. They actuate and govern
every honest member of it, and it is the triumph
of these principles to which every earnest Am
e•ican eventually looks,
The Democratic party is pledged to oppose
every one of these principles, both by its creed
and actions : and it is the enemy of all that A
mericans hold dear to them as cardinal princi
ples in the future welfare and government of
the country.
It is, therefore, impossible to explain the
course pursued by men professing to be Amer
icans, who are determined to secure the success
of this party—which they know to to be their
sworn and inveterate enemy—by engendering
strife and detection in the American ranks; by
dividing and distracting the party, and by rais.
ing a factious opposition among friends, be.
tween whom there is and can bo no essential
difference but upon one single principle. In
Pennsylvania we have pledged ourselves—with
almost united strength of the American party
—to the support of David Wilmot. The step
was not taken without mature deliberation; not
without convincing evidence of Mr. Wilmot's
stern and inflexible adhesion to the principles
we have professed. We know that with &union
a united harmonious action of our American
friends in Philadelphia, his election is certain,
and every true American should yield his earn.
eat hearty support to the only ticket that is an.
stained by the political heresies of false Amer
icanism, and untainted by the enormities of Le
cofocoism.
The faction that has instigated a division, by
bringing into the field another ticket which is
headed by Mr. Hazlehurst, is unquestionably
influenced by a determination to defeat the A
merican patty, and elect Mr. Packer. This is
the single, only explanation for their course.—
It is a crafty deception that is practiced upon
honest and patriotic men, which the perpetra
tors themselves are too lame and feeble to dig
guise.
Geissinger is doing a most tremendous
to,Onen up town. We paid him a visit last
wesk and found him up to his elbows in bust•
nese. Boats nod wagons loading and unload•
mg at his warehouse, and customers crowding
his splendid store. Geissinger is a wbole•soul•
ed, clevet.hearted, jolly brick, and it gives us
pleasure to note his popularity and his rapid
strides towards becoming a millionaire.
ter Magnificent, "ga•lorious" and generally
subllttio—That plc nic at the Cottage.
UNION COUNTY CONVENTION,
The Chairmen of the Republican and Amer.
ican County Committees of this county, have
issued a call, which appears under our editorial I
head, for a Union County Convention, to meet
in this borough, on Tuesday, the 11th day of '
August next, for the purpose of nominating a
county ticket, and "doing such other business
as the interest of the party may require." This
call is but in accordance with the wishes of the
members of the two parties, and will be sanc
tioned with a hearty good will.
It is perhaps unnecessary for us to make any
further remarks at this time, on the proposed
Convention, but we shall venture a suggestion,
which we hope may be fully considered endue.
ted upon, relative to the selection of delegates.
It is this—to prevent any unfairdealings in the
Convention, we propose that each township,
borough, and separate election district be rep.
resented.in the same by one Republican and
one American delegate. We think this would
be the means of putting down any feelings of
ill treatment which otherwise might arise to
disturb the harmony of the two parties. An
other suggestion we have to make is that great
care be taken in the selection of proper candi
dates. Men should be selected whose nomina
tion will tend more towards healing past diffi
culties, than inhaling old sores. Good and true
men we want and must have nominated. With
a good ticket and a clear field, with the present
distracted state of the Locofoco party in our
county, our majority this fall will be unproce
dented.
The Crops.
The crops, all over the country, says the
Germantown Telegraph, are, beyound ques
lion, as abundant as they have been within
twenty years, and yet the amount of croaking
kept up to within a couple of weeks, has been
particularly loud and impertinent. We told
our readers in early Spring what we then hon
estly believed would be the state of the corps
as the season progressed ; and now it turns
out that all we said and predicted is coming
to pass. It is time enough when there are
substantial reasons to alarm the country on
sumptuary matters and thus strengthen the
hands of speculators: but to do so permenent
ly, and ignorantly of the real condition of the
corps, is inflicting upon the community a very
serious injury. Even in Virginia, where the
wheat crop was, according to the croak
ers, a total failure, the news now is, that it is
"very fine," and the harvesting has commen
ced favorably. The truth is, when a person.
in traveling half a dozen miles from home,
sees, a few unpromising fielcaof grain; or a
farmer here and there fails in his crop, he at
once proclaims a general failure I We have
even heard farmers, observing men and not
easily misled, insist that the wheat crop, as
they knew, would fall very far short of an av
erage, and they even now contend that present
appearances are deceptive, and the crop is not
a full one. As an offset, we have noticed that
they hold the same opinion pretty generally
every year. The crops never exactly come up
to their ideas of what they ought to be.
MORE OF THAT "SPLIT."
Our honest, trullptelling neighbor up street I
denies in tote the assertion we made a week a•
go, to the effect that the Locofoco party of this
county are badly split on the "goose" or Main
Line question. Of course it is natural that
onr Democratic neighbor should endeavor to
bide the awful rent in his political "trowsersi"
but like the little boy's dickey, it will stick out.
We repeat it again, and do it without a fear of
successful contradiction, that the division in
the Democratic ranks in this county is not and
if we may believe democratic leaders, men
who are high in their party's estimation will
not be satisfactorily settled. We have heard
old line democrats assert and in the most posi•
tire manner, that they will vote for David Wit.
mot.
In this connection we might say that the ut
most harmony prevails in the American and
Republican ranks, here. There is but one de
sire and that is to defeat the Sham Democracy.
large frame dwelling home, fa.
miliarly known as the "old yellow house," on
Allegheny street, opposite Jackson's Hotel,
was burned tc the ground on lag Sunday mor
ning, The building was the property of Dr.
B. E. McMurtrie, and was unoccupied at the
time. This was undoubtedly the work of in
cendiaries, and it is said the perpetrators are
known and will be dealt with according to their
just deserts. Our citizens worked manfully,
and succeeded in rescuing the surrounding
buildings from the devouring element. We
have been requested to publish the following
CARD.—The undersigned, property holders,
and residents of the immediate vicinity of the
conflagration of Sunday morning last, on Al
legheny street, take this method Lf expressing
their gratitude to the persons—both citizens
and strangers, male and female—by whose no
ble exertions the flames were confined to the
building in which the fire originated--thereby
saving onr property from the devouring element.
W. B. ZEIGLER, DANIEL AFRICA,
JAMES STEEL, GEO. JACKSON,
W. E. McMURTRIE, T.. K. SIMONTON,
FISHERaMMURTRIE, G. A. STEEL.
par We willingly give a place to the follow
ing in our editorial columns. It comes from
one who was a constituent of General Packer
whilst he was State Senator:
---- --••-•-• • .
"Keep it before the people—that the leading
Locofocos of Bellefonte refused to support Gen.
eral William F. Packer for the State•Sennt ,e
in 1849, for the reason, as they said, that 'he
was a rascal, and had cheated the State
"Keep it before the people—that the editor
of the Centre Democrat, (then a Locotoco pa.
par,) would not hoist the name of William F.
Packer to the head of his paper, as a candidate
for State Senator, until he was forced to do so
by some of his patrons threatening to disconti.
nue their papers.
Keep it before the people—that when Gene.
ral W. F. Packer ran for the State Senate, in
1849, he received but about fifty votes, out of
tao hundred, in the borough of Bellefonte, the
Locofocos generally refusing to support him for
the reason that be had robbed the State. The
average Locofoco major'ty in the borough at
that time was about twenty.
"We give the above facts for the benefit of
honest voters throughout the State, Which facts
we are ready to pr ore at any time. If Local".
coo refused to support Mr. Packer for State
Senator, in 1849, bedruse be cheated the State,
can they now consistently support him for Gov.
ernor ? We think not."
THE "SKIES BRIGHT."
Day after day vie become more satisfied that
David Wilmot will be our next Governor; it is
admitted by all his opponents that he is one of
the Srst men of the State, and that he posses-
Res rare faculties of self-reliance—he refused to
bow subserviently to the sinister and corrupt
demands of party and to sacrifice his own in
dependence, when it was clearly wrong. Whilst
speaking of David Wiltnut the IVest Cheater
Republican remarks, "Judge Wilmot has a
powerful and persuasive eloquence, and upon
the question of Slavery he occupies the posi•
lion of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania
from the days of Jefferson down, until it assu
med that Slavery was nati3nal and freedom A
mere sectional institution. He occupies the
position on the subject which had been uni
formly held by the great majority of the Demo.
cracy. He has not swerved from the ancient
landmarks. His sole and only fault is, that he
has to smother the convictions of conscience ;
to forget the traditions of his fathers—the doc
trines of Penn—at the demands of those who
desire more slave Territory—more slave States
—more slave Senators in Congress, instead of
fiolishly abandoning any principle because
his party was drifting away from it; he chooses
rather to embody it in the laws of the land;
and hence the famous 'Wilmot Proviso.'
"The separation of the question involved in
the coming election, front party trammels—
their consideration from another and indepen•
dent st..nd•point, is a consummation devoutly
to be wished. The tyranny of party aims to
shut out the light of truth front the horizon—to
mislead the judgment, to fetter men who boast
of freedom. As the conductor of an indepen•
dent newspaper, aiming only to build up the
prosperity of the country, and to fester the in-
stitution of our fathers in their purity, we shall
solicit the attention of our readers, as we shall
venture from time to time to discuss the ques-
tions in the canvass. The cry of "Democracy"
and" Abolition," will doubtless be heard; and
men who are controlled by prejudice will be
governed thereby ; but the reasoner, the true
patriot and the good citizen, will treat them as
an imposture practiced upon his understuhding
and regard them with deserved contempt.—Tel.
An Incident of the Sale of the Main
Line.
In the editorial correspondence of the Pitts•
burg Journal, dated Philadelphia, June 27th,
occurs the following :
Everybody of course knows Bill P---, of I
Columbia, who has long been a favored benfi
ciary of State road in the way of coal contracts.
The late superintendent, Mr. Baker, favored
Bill P-- with a contract for the delivery of
fifteen thousand tons of coal, which was seal
ed but a few days before Mr. Baker resigned ,
the office. As another matter of course, Bill
P— was active in efforts to prevent the sale
of the Main Line. He was useful in pro.-
ring "subscriptions," from employees of the
State works, to cover the expenses of Henry
S. Mott's—the late Mott's—appliention for an
injunction to prevent the sale. But the sale
was not to be prevented, and Bill F— was
"in at the death," indulging the fugitive hope,
doubtless something would turn up to preserve
the Main Line to the Democracy. 'Jut the
inexorable Auctioneer proceeded with the ten
der of his gcods, and after a long pause ob
tained the bid of seven millions five hundred
thousand dollars. He dwelt long on the sin
gle
bid, asking for more. Be begged for an
other hundred thousand, failing in that he as
ked for even fifty thousand more. At length
the hammer fell, an attachee of the State road
who stood beside dejected Bill P.—, pluck
ed the skirt of Bill's coat convulsively, ex
claiming in an unaffected anguish; "My God
Bill, she's gone!" Bill ejaculated an assen
ting groan, and •'she" was gone, sure enough.
The benignant mother of a thousand rich
schemes of plunder was "gone" at last, and
why should not the fattened recipients of her
bounty mourn over that memorable going out?'
And so prolific a parent of good things was
fitly classed in the feminine gender--"My God
Bill, she's gone!" was but an appropriate
form of affectionate regard wrung from the
grateful sense of many benefactors old Mother
Main Line had showered upon Democratic
children.
Amendments the Consitatimi.
At the election in October next, the citizens
of this State will be called upon to vote in
reference to some important amendments to
the Constitution. There are four alterations
proposed, which will be voted upon separatelY•
They aro :
1. In relation to the creation of Public
Debts.
2. In reference to the erection of new coon•
3. In relation to Legislative Appointment
and proposes the election of Representatives
by single districts.
4. In relation to charters of incorporation,
proposing to give the Legislature power to al.
ter or revoke any charter when deemed neces•
These amendments will be found advertised
on our fourth Page.
Effect of Grief.
The Pittsburg Dispatch learns from Wash.
ington contd.), Pa., that Mrs. White, whose
husband was murdered on the 30th of March,
is now very sick, and all hopes of her recovery
are gives over. He ascribes her sickness to
the grief she feels at a loss of her husband and
her arrest for his murder, an arrest based up.
on no worthy grounds, and as it is believed
made through eagernes., to claim the reward
for the apprehension of the murderers of Sam.
uel H. White.
The Di!Sonnies Between U. B. and Ohio
State Officers.
Cincinnati, July 10.
Judge Leavitt, of the United States District
Court, yesterday discharged the United States
Deputy Marshal and his assistants from the
custody of the sheriff of Clark county. The
latter official held the parties on the charge of
resisting hint in the discharge dins duties while
serving a writ of habeas corpus, obtained by
priloners in the custody of the United States
officials.
;II turil BOtts.
A chiefs amang ye takin' notes,
And faith, he'll prent it.
• Died—ln Pennsylvania, on Tuesday the 13th
of October, 1857, of weakness in the "ranks,"
the 'Democratic Party,' aged 57 years. Greensburg.
Treasurer—Dr. Z. Stewart, FAME..
gebr A lady in Carlisle, Ind., left her infant, Commissioner—John P. Miller, Adamsburg
about a month old, in its cradle, while she District.
went out in the field where her husband was at 1 For Poor House Direetor—Wm. Ruff, East
work. When she returned, what was her her- Hunting don.
Auditor—George George Hudson, Hempfield.
ror to find that her child had been stolen, and
anegro baby left in its place I No clue, waft •
eter, can be found to the kidney no A mi ll n e a g t h: d :ny the Co ro u l n io tt.
t h ieck e I:7blicans have
Assembly—Nicholas Voeghtley, Jr., Alle•
A Nan Stung to Death by Bees.—We learn phony ; James B. Backbouse, Ohio; Daniel
through a letter that on Thursday evening, Negley, Peebles ; J. Heron Foster. Pittsburg;
while a farmer named Hays, was about to hive St.
Thomas Kiddo,Bo,,e. Ad...,
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a swarm of bees, a great portion of them swat, Clair. 'late J ud ge— Ga briel
tried Upon his head, and stung him in such a Treasurer—John J. Muse, Versailles.
fearful manner that he died on the following Recorder—Nathaniel Patterson, Birmiug
day. ham.
Register—John G. Curtis, Ross.
Pee
student ' in 'is t i h ng e ' T ir l h ae c o o l l o o g g i i a ea L l — S A em y i o n u a n ry g a t in
Fair- I bleCs°. Commissioner—Wm.
M.
Burchfield, Pee
n, Low er St. Clair.
fax Virginia, shot and killed with a revolver a ! rr —
Oluedra.toot. B C . Stevenso n,
A. Bo wler,
Pitts
young man on Sunday last in a fracas at a burg.
Sunday . School. When theological students Director of the Poor—J. M'K. Snodgrass,
go armed with revavers it is not surprising that Mifflin.
all rowdies should wear them. Penang° County.—The Republicans have
Death of Wm. L. Marcy.—The Hon. Wit- nominated the following ticket :
Liam L. Marcy, Ex• Secretary of Stale, died Senate—S. P. M'Calmont.
suddenly at his residence at Ballston, N. Y., Assembly—G. P. Ramsdell.
on Saturday last. In the morning he was in
Register and Recorder—Josiah osi Adani
the enjoyment of his usual health. At noon he Treasurer—G. W. Brigham.
was found dead in his room. Mr. Marcy was Commissioner—lsaac Griffin.
the master-piece of the Pierce Cabinet, and auditor—James M. Martin.
managed our foreign affairs with a great deal Somerset County.—The Republicans and
of ability. Americans have nominated Henry C. Stewart
for Assembly. Edward Scull, Editor of the
Whig, for Prothonotary. Robert R, Marshall
for Recorder and Register, and N. B. Snyder
for Treasurer. Wm. R. Koontz has been
recommended by Somerset as a candidate fur
Senator.
Col. S. S. Wharton, from Huntingdon is al
so a candidate for the Senate in the same dis
trict, composed of Huntingdon, Be dfurd and
Somerset.
Mercer County.—The Republicans have
nominated John S. King for the Senate, and
W. G. Rose for Assembly.
Butler County.—Di. A. W. Crawford &
W. W. Woods have been nominated for As
sembly by the Republicans of this county. Dr.
Crawford has been a member for the last two
years, and was ono of the best men in the last
House.
Washington C01170.-The Republicans
have nominated Messrs. J. N. M'Donald and
Job Johnson, as candidates (cr the Legisla
ture.
ler Two inconsiderate young girls in Pat
terson (N. J.) were arrested on Monday, con
victed and fined for stealing flowers from a ce
metery. Much pains had been taken by a mo
ther to ornament the grave of her son, and just
as the flowers Were blooming most beautifully
they were taken away.
flerTwo candidates for Congress in the 9th
i District of Kentucky, Mason, Democrat, and
Cos. American, got into a quarrel lately, in
Morgan county. Ky., and Mason shot and kill.
ed his antagonist. Both have represented the
District in Congress.
sit A mob in Cedar county, lowa, on the
night of the 3d, broke into the jail, and net
' withstanding the desperate resistance of the
Sheriff and guard, took two prisoners named
Gleason and Soper, charged wit's horse-stealing
and hung them.
Se' The recent election in Leavenworth, Kan
sas, was for members of the City Council in
place of those pro-slavery members, who, elect
ed by fraud and violence during the reign of
terror, now find public odium too strong to be
withstood. They voluntary resigned, and the
free State ticket was elected without opposi
tion.
Senator Sumner's Account of Iliniself--We
are fomished, says the Traveller, the following
extract from 04.etteLfrori Senatoc.Samnar, Ala.
ted
"I should have acknowledged your letter at
an earlier date, but I have not been well, and
had no heart to write. Out of my short stay
here I have logt tour weeks, during which I
have most of the time been confined to the
house. But I urn better now, and I believe
am in the way to complete recovery, though I
feel that many months mast elapse before I
regain my old strength."
RECIPE FOR DYSENTERY.—As the season is
at hand when all classes aro liable to be afflict.
el with dysentery, diarrhuea, be., we deem it
our duty to make public the following simple
and efficacious remedy, which has' been known
to us for several years, and which we have re.
peatedly used with complete success:
It is simply to take a tumbler of cold water,
thicken it with wheat flour, to about the consis•
tency of cream, and drink it. This is to be re•
pealed several times in the course of the day,
or as often as you are thirsty', and it is net like.
ly you will need it on the second day. We
have not only used it ourselves, but have re•
commended it to our friends in many cases,
and we never knew it to fail in effeetiffg a sure
and speedy cure.--Ex.
BAYARD TAYLOR'S SAXON BRlDE.—Bayard
Taylor, who, since his return from Lapland,
has been sojourning in the town of Gotha—the
capitol of Saxe-CoburgHotha—left there on
the 9th ult., in company with his two sisters
and a younger brother, for England, where the
lattet wore to embark for the United States.
From England Taylor and his fellow.traveller,
Braiated, intended to set out for a summer tour
in Norway, whence they would return in the
autumn to Gotha, and, after wintering there,
proceed to Moscow, Southern Russia, the Can-
CIIESU3 and the Crimea. Front this tour the
travellers will return to Gotha, toward which
place Bayard Taylor is now attracted by an at
tachment stronger than the ties of friendship
which have hitherto drawn him thither. He is
in fact, betrothed to a daughter of the astrono•
mer Hansen.—.N. Y. Post
OUR BOOK TABLE,
The August No. of that Incomparable meg.
mine, "Godey's Lady's Book," is before us.--
The engravings, thshion plates, &c., are slag.
nificent. This splendid book costs but three
dollars per year, and surely three dollars could
not be better spent.
"Graham's Magazine" for August, one of
the handsomest and moat entertaining Nos.
we have yet seen, is on our table. If persona
who do not take this magazine knew what
they are mining they would snbscribe at once.
"Peterson's Magazine" for August, comes
to hand in all its inteiest and beauty. It is
the cheapest book published, being but two
dollars per year. It should be in the posses.
ohm of every one of our readers.
"Tbe Inventor for July, is before us. It is
as usual very interesting. Published by Low,
Haskell & co., New York, at $1 per year.
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
Flour, standard, is held at $7,12 per bbl.,
outtnon and good, $7,12a7,50 per bbl. Ex
tra, $7,62a8,50, fancy lots, $8,75a9,50.
Corn Meal eel's at for Penna.
Rye Flour temainsiffilet at $4,75 per bbl.
Wheat, red, at 185 c for good. White, 193 c.
Rye, Penna., at 1031 eta.
Corn, southern yellow, 85 de.
Oats, sold at 06 cte. Very good Ponuo.
Nominations.
Westmoreland County.—The following Un.
ion County Ticket has been put in nomina•
tion:
Senator—R. B. Marchand, N. Huntingdon.
Assembly—Wm. A. Cook, Greensburg;
Henry Mcßride, Loyalhanna.
Register and Recorder—A. C. Moorehead,
THE DEAN Cass A.m.—The New York
Sunday Courier says that John Dean, not be
ing of a studious turn of mind, found it rather
dull studying grammar down among the Long
Islanders, and sighed to return. So be took a
run up to the city, and suddenly appeared to
the fair and constant lady-lovo. The Courier
ad gtC, Leine a true haartarl anti hi g t.
lady, was rather shot ked by her husband s lack
of honor in not keeping his parole. She posi•
Lively refused to have anything to say to him,
and 'commanded him to return ontl keep his
engagement, or she would never see hitu again.
He went, but unwillingly.
No Doubt of It.
People dispute about religion, business, nod
even trifles light as air, but there is .e fact
on which all are unanimous, and that is—ltur.
ley's Sarsaparilla is the only reliable and hon
est preparation before the public. It is almost
indispensable at this season of the year, and
will be found the best remedial agent fur enrol.
ula, general debility, various chronic diseases,
and all cutaneous eruptions originating from
an impure condition of the blood. Try a hot
tle.
Ifiir We cannot refrain from calling the at.
tention of our readers to an advertisement in I
this day's paper of the "Bair Restorative" of
Prof. O. J, Wood di Co., of St Louis. It will '
be seen there aro nutnurous certificates from
persons of the highest character, to 68 merits
of his Restorative. From positive knowledge
wo are also enab:ed to say, that it is in every
sense what it professes to be, and we do not
hesitate to pronounce it the finest preparation
for the head and hair which has so far been
devised by human ingenuity. We have seen it
arrest threatened baldness, and restore to
the head its original profusion of natural and
glossy hair, and when the latter has been pre.
maturely tinged with gray, we have seer, it,
like magic, restore the colors of youth and
health. The distinguished property of this, we
might truly say, miraculous "Restorative" is
that it gives to the persona who use it, the same
head of hair that they wore in youth, thus act•
ing in strict compliance with the rules of the
first and greatest of all toilet makers—Nature.
No one who hes used it will hesitate to unite
with us in testimony to its peculiar merit.—
Covington (la.) People's Friend.
Starlf all our readers who are troubled with
Liver Complaint, Jaundice or Dyspepsia, will
read the advertise meat iu another column of
Dr. Sandford's Invigorator, and then do as
we have done—get a bottle, we should not see
so many sickly, haltdead despairing people as
now meet our gaze at almost every corner, for
there never was a remedy of which so much is
said, and that performs so nearly what its pro
prietors say it will do. It come to on so high.
Iv recommended that we could not fail to try it
and a trial has convinced us, without a doubt
that it is the best family medicine in use. We
take it for Headache, Sour Stomach, Bilious
nese, and any of the little bodily ills that are
common, and it does produce a plvasant state
of feeling to the sick, and what In better after
using it a few times, these little ills grow less
and less, and there is a prospect of being en
tirely free from them by a continuance in the
use of the Invigorator. Now we wish to im•
press our readers with this, that the Invigora
tor is a medicine particularly adapted to fami
ly use, and whore there are children subject to
little diseases, as all children are, it is multi.
able, and saves physicians' bills, and an untold
amount of anguish both to mothers and their
little ones.
WHITE TFETH, PERFUMED BREATH AND
BEAUTIFUL CemrLextos—can be acquired by
using the "Balm of a Thousand Flowers."—
What lady or gentletnan would remain under
the curse aft disagreeable breath, when by us
ing"Baba of a Thousand Flowers" as a den
ifrice, would not only render it sweet, but leans
the teeth white as alabaster? Many persons
do not know their breath is bad, and the sub•
,jest is so delicate their friends will never men
tion it. Beware of counterfeits. Be sure each
bottle is signed. FETRIDGE & Co., N.Y.
For sale by all Druggists.
Feb.18;57..6.
Lands of the Ridgway Farm and Land
Co., in Elk Co., Pa.
The folk" is a copy or the proceedings
of the Bee Society of Natural History. It
shows.o.gilat advantage the immense mineral
and africultural wealth of the country. It is
in the midst of flourishing settlements, where a
large business is now done, and where there is
a cash market. It is not difficult to perceive I
the immense wealth and business importance to
which this district is destined t, arrive. It will
supply the vast trade of the Lakes with coal,
and a large lumberin g district of country east,
of it with agricultural produce. In the Bottle. I
meat over 20,000 acres are now in a high state
of cultivation.
Here is solid ground for future progress and I
increase. This is nn unavoidable consequence
of its resources and location. How people can I
be so infatuated as to go to the hardworking
and unwholesome regions of the West, whilst I
such great advantages are at their doors, we
are at a loss to conjecture.
DAVID CLARKSON.
'ly It , 1867:—fit". &scut,
BESZIPEZIRI'S
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN 1.0 ALL
persons interested that the following named
persons have settled their accounts in the Reg
ister's Office rat Huntingdon, .d that the saki
accounts will he presented for confirmation and
allowance, at an Orphans' Court to be held at
Huntingdon, in and t'or the County of Hunting.
don , on-Wednesday the 12th day of Augnst next
Boston Society of Natural History.
to wit:
[Reported for the Traveller by the Secretary.] 1
1. Jacob S. Hunt, Aclininistrator of the Es
The President in the Chair.—Professor!
rate of David Iludirn, fete of Dublin township,
Agassia opened the meeting by some highly died.
interesting remarks upon a now f am il y o f fish-2. Jacob Harticame, Executor of the last
es and their habits . &c., of Nntiey Nell; late of I'' eat township,
Dr. Charles T. Jackson, gave a brief deserip•
tion of the bituminous coal formation of Elk! deed
tion mrne . , , ,aeting
ut .
county, Pennsylvania, which he had been ex. i
ploriug during the month of June last. He .
i the Estate of Henry Netl; late of the borough of
observed that the great bituminous coal basin Alexandria, decM.
or trouh extends from the north-western hot- 4. George Swartz, Administrator of the Es
gtate of Henry Coughenour, late of Cromwell
der of Pennsylvania, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
towrship, decd.
as indicated on Mr. Jules m areou i e Geological 5, James Gain, Esq., acting Executor of the
mop of the United States.
st u e ait o ,R f d S o rzu d e o l o S ti t . eel, late of the bor.
The noretern portion of this basin is of great last Wdl,
economical value on account of its being the " 8
Henry Brewster, Esq., Administrator i,f
nearest to Lake Erie, one of the greatest mar
the Estate of Samuel Willittimon, late of Shit
kets for coals, which are required for navigs-
ley township, deed.
lion on all the great lakes, and for the furnaces
and gas-works, as well as domestic use for 7. John Oakes Administrator Cum Testa.
mento Annexe of the Estate of Wm. McKee.
fuel, on both the U. S. and Canada sides of
late ofJackson township, dec'd.
these lakes. He remarked that statistics show
ed a larger amount of tonnage en the lakes 8. Robert McCall, acting Administratai
the Estate of Alexander McCall, late of Hope.
than exists on the Atlantic coast of this roan-
well township, dee'd.
try, and that steam navigation would certainly
9 Daniel Massey Executor of the last Will,
greatly increase upon the lakes where coal
could be obtained at a reasonable cost, as will
soon be the case
.when the western
owu ,i; I E x ecutors of Thomas Blair, deed.) late of
portionthe of Dr. Mordecai Massey, (who was one of
Barr. township, deed.
the Sunbury and Erie Railroad, it
contract, is completed, which would be done in I 10. John Shope, acsing Executor of the lust
the course of two years.
Will, &c., of John Flasher, late'of Croraweil
Since the recent explorations were made in. to wnshi p , de" d'
to the extensive coal formation of Elk county, I 11. David Rupert and David Goodman, Ali
Joseph
Pa., the Directors of this important Railroad
lute of Henderson township, decd. Dorlane,
have ordered the road to he laid amid these
12. David Clarkson. Esq Adtninistratur
coal-fields, and the consequence of this move.
the Estate of John Speer, late of Cam town•
meet will soon he felt in the augmented price
of the coal lands. 13. S. T. Brown, Esq., Administrator of the
s. is known an the Ridgway Land and Cord
ship, deed.
The particular region explored by Dr. Jed:-
Elizabeth Buchanan, late of Brudy
Company's property, some 27,000 acres of land township,
1 , 1. A. L. Grim, Administrator of the Estat
all situated in the coal region. Five or six
, of J_ , a_c_o , b ,o l.N e. i. d iri . ter, late of the borough of Ho
hods of coal underlie this soil, and they genes
ally dip only from two to five degrees below the ""g""" "
horizon, and are from two to six feet in thick.
ness. Most of the large beds are undisturbed,
and only the small ones are here and there de
nuded by valleys of excavation.
The deep ravines, or runs, expose some of
the out crops of the larger beds on the south
east sides of the hills. On the north-west they
are stiill deeply covered with rocks, the sand•
stones and bituminous shales.
Each of these coal beds is overlaid with a
stratum of 8 or 10 meshes of slaty cannel enal,
and they all rest on fire clays. Iron ores,
namely, carbonate of iron and brown Immo•
tile, abound, the former in the fire clays and
the latter in the superincumbent shales. But
few fossil plants are found in these shales, and
only the scales line, and tails of fishes in the
sta.,. -sees, .our, which oppears.to Pore torn
a tine aqueous sediment of waterlogged sego.
table m •tier.
A bed of buff colored limestone occurs be
swath the principal bed of coal, and is nine or
ten feet thick. This limestone emit/ibis small
fossil bivalve =hells, net yet named.
The Itidgwity lar:d this contains colds, iron
ores, 'latest°ne and sandstone, with an abun-
dance of clay suitable for fireproof bricks. All
the facilities for the reditetin of iron exists on
the spot, and soon the means of transportation
of the coals and metal to market will he sup
plied. The country is elevated about 1600
feet above the level of the sea, and is is lat.
11.25 N., and long. 1.40 W. of Washington,
and is remarkably healthy.
The following analysis of the coals, iron ore
and limestone have been made by Dr. Jackson
since his return to 13oaton. Specimen from
the 6 feet bed
Fixed carbon,
Gas expelled by heat, 40.00
Ashes of coke, 7.62
The ashes analyzed yielded :
Silica, 6.20
Alumina and oxide of iron, 1.12
Linie, 6.20
The slaty cannel gives:
Fixed carbon, :12
Gas, 24
Earthly matter, •4'4
The limestone yielded: _ _
Carbonate of lime, 05.75
Insoluble silica, 3.00
Peroxide of iron, 1.25
100.00
Analysis of the bulls of carbonate it on. 100
grains or this ore yielded
Peroxide of iron, 61.60==iron,
Carbonic acid, 31.60
Silex, 7,60
100.00
In smelting iron ores with the,:eCoals it will
ho necessary to convert the cold into coke, and
the small coals may thus be disposed of en the
spot.
No better gas.making coals are found in the
United States, and but ono better variety in
the British province of New Brunswick—
namely, that of Albert county.
Harvesting has commenced in portions
of our county.
Tho grain crop in many parts of the
county promises to be unasally large.
NEV ADVERTISEMENTS.
M. ROWE,
CONVEYANCER.
Agent for the purchase and sale of float Es.
tale Farms and Oily Properly bought, sold and
exchanged. Also money invested and procured
on mortgage. Those having Panne or Laud
for Sale will do well to call or send description.
No. 63, Dock Street, Philadelphia.
July 15th, 1851.-3 m.
ESTATE OF MICHAEL MIERLY,DEC'L.
EXECUTORS' NOTICE.
T caters testamentary on the estate of Michael
lildierly, late of Cass township, Ituntingtion
county, deed., having been grunted to the mi•
dersigeed, they hereby give notice to all per
eons indebted to said estate to make immediate
payment, and those having claims will present
them duly authenticated for settlement, to the
subscribers.
JOHN MIERl i y, Exec , m,
SOL. AHEHLI.
July 15, 1857,-W.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ESTATE, OF ,At BUMG A RTqEII PECT.
Excetoes Notice.
ettera testatnatlqy on the estate of Jacob
Lißumgartner, late of Union township. Hunt
ingdon county, deed., having been granted to
the undersigned, notice is hereby gtren all
persons indebted to said estate to make imme•
diate payment, and those having claims against
the same, will present them duly autbentleatdd
for settlement to
HENRY GLAZIER, Regi
Register's tyke.
Huntingdon, .fitly 15, '' .
ROUST is SOT ton &Atm.
rub The undersigned offers for sale the
house and lot which she at present ye
2Leupies, situate on Smith street, between
Allegheny and Hill. in the borough of flouting
don ; said house hieing a stone building, three
stories high, and the lot being about. lift:: l.
one hundred feet. Immediate possession isitf
he given if desfred.
11uuLinei1ot:, J
'A E G D: .l Se
Notice in I
Williams, Esq., Trustee
Liam Ingram, has filed I
of the Prothonotary of
Pleas of Ilmitingdon
same will be preient•ad t
first Monday and 10t11
neat, fur confirmation and 01100
Al. I'.
11 - untingtlJu, July H,
HUNTINGDON SEMINARY.
THE NEXT SESSION WILL COMNIENCI
OIL
Monday, august 3lst
Tuition for ten months, 525.
Higher rates charged for pupils remaining
only a part of the year.
During July and August, applications may
be left with lion. Geo. TalAor, or W. P. Orhh
sun, Esq. SARA' W. BIGELOW.
Huntingdon, July ith, 1857.—tf.
100.00
AGRXCULTURAZ.
fm in th e dacreut pie
county desirous of having the coming Agrieel
tural "air hell in their immediate neighbor
hoods, may be directed ti the undersigned, a•
any time previous to the next meeting of
Huntingdon County Ag,rieultoral Society,
August. It will be necessary in making np
plication, to specify. the amount x•ibscribcd fur
the purpose, as by a resolution of the Society
at the last meeting. the locality guaranteeing
the largest amount will he entitled to the pro
Terence. By order of the President.
It. MoDIVITT,
SAM, WHITTAKER, J •
• July sth, 1857.
RjAl. ESTAT
O I& SALZ,
IN PURSUANCE OF DIRECTIoNS;II
on in the last will and testament of Henry N.
Ker, late of the borough of Huntingdon, dee'd
the undersigned Executor of said deed will, on
TUESDAY, 18TH OF AUGUST,
neat, at the Court House in the borough ot
Huntingdon, expose to public sale the real ea
tate hereinafter described, to wit :
1. A tract of land situate in Walker town
ship, Huntingdon county, containing 173 acre,
124 perches, 60 or 70 acres of which are dear
ed, and the residue well timbered. A large
proportion of this tract is natural meadow land;
it might therefore be made valuable as alitork.
Farm. Crooked Creek and the Huntingdon ei
Broad Top Rail Read pass through it. It has
thereon a two story dwelling house.
2. ()no other tract in said township contain
ing 37 acres, 101 perches, all of which is clear
ed excepting about seven acres. No buildings
thereon.
3. One other tract situate in same township,
containing 53 acres, 102 perched, no part of
which is cleared, but a large proportion of
which is good wheat or farm land.
DAVID S. KER, Executor.
-AL SO:-
At the same time and place will bo expo:A
to public sale by the undersigned, as the
property of Joshua W. Ker, doo'd., in puise.
twee of directions in his last will, all that tract
of land situate in said Walker township, upon
which Jcaeph Loflard now resides, which con- .
tales 203 acres, 39 perches, about 159 a. , res et
which uro cleared, with u dwelliue hem,. stone
spring house, barn and saw/quill thereon erect.
ed. DAVID R. KER,
with will annexed ct Joshua W. !Car, deed.
Note.—ll those lands are not sold no above,
they can
.purchased at private sale after.
wards. D. S., E.
July rub, 1057.-3 t.
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