STAR & REPUBLICAN BANNER, F,TTY'SlitlitGli, VENN. HONDA Y EVENI,VG, OCTOBER 8, 1838 The Consfihda7on! fgp,lt is of the greatest importance that a full vote should be given on the subject of the amendments to the Con stitution. The people are called on to decide whether they will continue to live under the STAUNCH HEART-OF-OAK ROOF which has sheltered them for half a century, or will allow it to be torn to pieces and patched up with rags and rotten shingles. This is a vitally mo mentous subject:--if the amendments are either adopted or rejected by a small vote or trifling majority, the question will not be put at rest, but will con tinue to disturb the public mind. CAUTION ! yLet our friends be cautious from whom they receive tickets! Accept of none from any person whom you do not know to be a ovvoncE rair.sri of the old Dutch Farmer! Arco IXANIINE Tticm, before you vote them!! The Nairn." and Foo t:mar party, will atop at no minor crime to carry their end! David D. Porter AND JOSEPH IUTNEII. 0:7 - The important election that is to de cide between those two individuals, is with in a few days at hand. The turmoil and strife will soon bo over, and the destinies of Pennsylvania, and with them those of the United States in a groat measure, decided for a long time to come. Their characters and acts have been fully canvassed before the public; and at this late stage of the con. test, little more can bo urged effectually for or against either, in addition to what has al. ready been said. Let us, then, seo how tho account stands between them; and first we will take the present Governor, JOSEPH RITNER, who is emphatically the son of his own deeds. Born of poor parents in humble life, we see him in early youth bound an apprentice to a Farmer in an adjoining County. Subso. quently, an operative Mechanic—a Weaver —a Waggoner, driving his own team, until he had, by his honesty, industry and frugali ty, saved enough to buy a cheap farm in Washington County, in what was, then en. improved land. This he reclaimed from a state of uncultivated nature, and has made it one of the pattern farms of the West. With the true nobility of soul characteris. tic of the generality of German Farmers in Pennsylvania, which seeks elevation only in the path of industry and honest toil, we see him driving his plough, sowing and reaping his crops, and discharging all the laborious ddtios and labors of a good practical farmer, and literally eating his bread by the sweat of his brow. And shall he be scorned, and scouted, by the proud lordlings of a would bo aristocracy for this? Next, we see him in the Legislative Hall, where he was 'tin active, useful member, whose speeches were always listened to-with respect, and whose reports, as Chairman of many. important Committees, among others that on Claims, were always concise, com prehensive and to the point. So distinguish• ed was he for talent and assiduity, that he was soon chosen Speaker of the House of Representatives, and presided over the delib erations of that body with distinguished abil• ity and applause. Could he have dune this, had lie been the ignorant, imbecile tool his enemies represent him? Passing over the interval of his life, dur ing which he again returned to the honest labors ortho Plough, wo find him in 1835, chosen Governor of Pennsylvania against the united efforts and opposition of two com• petitors--the one the actual Governor, hav ing till the patronage of office at his command, and the other a man of great influence and popularity in the State. What have been his acts since? He found the St3to in debt nearly 25 millions of dot. lam the greater portion contracted t hrough the popularity hunting system then prevalent, and the dishonesty, peculation and extrava• gene° of the officers of the government. He found a direct State tax of $300,000 annual. ly,burthening the people; the Treasury emp ty, and the State works worse than unpro ductive. What do we see now? We behold the State debt,which had been previously stead. iiy increasing at the rate of 83.000,000 an• fluidly, arrested; not only arrested, but di. mkushed to the amount of stoo,ooo. ,For no sane man who has any character would amy with that wretched parasito of party, Daniel Sturgeon, that the share of Pennsyl Milt out of the Surplus Revenue of the U. -nitodStates,and tho hams received from the Vitited State, flank as the price of its char. tor, tto el nothing attic revenue which the public works did not produce owing to the destruction of a port ofthem by the act of God,) should be set down as a portion of the State debt; and yet, take them away, and where is the increase of State debt about which Daniel Sturgeon, and the little scurvy demagogues who constitute the Loco Foco Dictatorship of Gettysburg pram so much? Ile has repealed your State Taxes! lie has increased your annual School appropria tion from 875,000 to $300,000 without in creasing your taxes: He has prosecuted the unfinished works to completion, and made it(ern produce in the three years of his admin istration more than double as much as they ever produced before in something like nine years: He has carried Pennsylvania safely and triumphantly through the late stormy crisis—and has led the way,by his matchless well-timed Proclamation, to the restoration of a SPECIE CURRENCY, in lieu of the Van Buren currency—Shin Plasters! Is all this nothing? Is it nothing, that ho has made Pennsylvania to bo courted,admir• ed, looked up to and obeyed, where she was once, in the hands of her corrupt demago gues, a mere supple tool, despised by all,and accustomed to follow in the wake of those whom now she leads? And will you reject him from office and from your trust—him, whom any other State would be proud to have, fbr this? Rill you do it? And for whom! For, DAVID R. PORTER I! ! Alas! Rittenhouse DO longer! That shallow artifice would not take; and so finding they could not make fools of the Germans by per• suading them that ho was a German because his grand-mother was a Dutchmen, they are now striving to stir up an Irish feeling in his favor, pretending that David R. Porter, who was born in Pennsylvania, is an Irish man, forsooth! And so they think to make fools of the Irish!! But they will find that the Irish, like the Dutch, have too much mother• wit for thorn! But who is David R. Porter? A fraudu lent bankrupt who cheated his creditors and committed PERJURY when ho took the Ben efit, by putting his property out of his hands in trust for himself and afterwards receiving it back, and then swearing that he neither had done so nor would do so.'! And who to this day owes debts due before he took the benefit, which he refuses to pay, though now worth more tha /i $40,000! is there any doubt about this 7 It is pro ven by the Records of Huntingdon, Beaver, Butler, and Northumberland counties, by the testimony of the Stonebrakers, father and eon, and more than 150 witnesses who testify to their character and respectability, among them the Rev. Mr. SMITII, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in this place—by the testimony of Mr. Allison, Porter's own Attorney in Beaver county— of Samuel Sturgeon, whom he first cheated, reduced to Insolvency, then strove to cor. rapt, and still refuses to pay—by-that of Michael Wallace, another of his creditors, whom the Court appointed his T rustee, and who swears he is still unpaid—by the testi mony of Messrs. Wharton and William son; of his own County, both of whom had once been induced by the crafty deceit of this Arch Intriguer to abandon Joseph Rit ner for him, but who on the discovery of the fraud practiced on them, have denounced and exposed it, and now testify to his dishon est acts—and by the testimony of many others, whose names we have nqt time to re. capitulate! Read this moss of testimony. We ask no man to rely on our assertion— but read it, and then withhold your belief if •ou can. Who, again, is David R. Porter? He, too, was a member, for many years, of the Legislature—and likewise of the Senate; and whilst there, although what is called a regularly educated man, ho never made a speech! he never made a report! he never distinguished himself in any mode, except by his consummate skill in "dodging" res• ponsibility 1 Ho was a silent and useless member, who opened his mouth and said "aye," or "nay," when party willed it, but had not sense enough to do any thing be• yond I I Who is he? He is the Van Buren, Sub• Treasury candidate. Ho voted, whilst in the Pennsylvania Senate, in 1837, in favor 4 af the Sub•Treasur'y Bill, by voting against a resolution to instruct our members in Con gress to oppose it; and n Convention of his friends at Harrisburg, in July last, acknowl edged the same, by solemnly renewing the pledge of their devotion to Van Buren's in forests and policy. We have nothing mono to add. If the people of Pennsylvania—if the people of Adams county, are prepared to prefer such a man to their present,Par• mer Governor, so bait r We do not suppose we could talk them out, of it. But we hope better things; and confidently believe, 'that old Demcidratic Adams will realize our hopes, by giving, ON NEXT TUESDAY, a majority of 1,209 votes, at least, for /toned, plain, hardworking OLD JOE I Is he honest? 7'ls the first question propounded to test the qualifications of a candidate fur of fice, by the immortal Jefferson. Try Pot tor by that rule: IS lIE lIONESTI Let the records of our 'courts unswer— La his nr.corrs,,,qecide the question— -way..:.;,..". `r'ee"R+°~ '°^'^., Ask John Stonebraker, Samuel Sturgeon, Michael Wallace, of—any man that knows him And we may ask—lS HE CAPABLE ? Where's the evidence of his capability 7 ();!" - The unprincipled opponents of Mr. Coorru aro inventing all sorts of FALSE HOODS to defeat him. But we trust that the People will not he deceived by any thing that is now put forth by the Dom, gogues of the Gettysburg "Compiler" and Chambersburg "Telegraph." Those two papers, it would seaman: trying which can OUT Ltn the other Among the late inventions of those Dema gogues, is ono that Mr. Cooper said the op ponents of issuing shin-plasters "deserved a coat of tar and feathers." This is known to every man that was in the Court-house TO Ht•: A VILE FALSEDOOD! Mr. Cooper said no such thing, ns will be seen by the following statement of those who heard what he did say, AND WILL NWT, for party purposes, CERTIFY TO THAT WHICH IS UN• TRUE! 'e have seen, in the last "Compiler," the certificate of Moses 111'Clitin, Wm. Tatighinbaugh, E. Buckingham, and sev en others,stating "that at a meeting held in he Borough of Gettysburg, in May, 1R37, got up for the purpose of issuing Shin Plas• ters, JAMES COOPER, Esq. made a speech in favor of the measure, and among other es• pressions made use of the following : that "any man who would oppose the issuing of shin plasters, deserved a coat of tar and feathers." That cortificato is UNTUTTF: IN uvEny 'OHTANI' PARTICULAR. Mr. Cooper was not present at the meeting at which it was resolved to issue shin plasters; or if he was, he said nothing. At that meeting, n com mittee was appointed to procure proper per sons to issue them and make report to a sub sequent meeting. The said committee per formed its duties, and made report, that, after having called upon numerous persons who had declined, they had nt last procured Messrs. llPClellan, Ziegler and Swope to agree to issue them. When it was known that these men had agreed, in compliance with the solicitation of the committee to issue shinplasters, sev eral unprincipled persons, as we were in. formed,had declared that they would make it a money-making business, by suing /or the penalty of ' /ice dollars, for each note that was issued by them. It was at ruts AIEBTING that Mr. Cooper made a speech, (at the request, we are informed, of John F. McFarlane, Esq.) and in it declared, that "any person, who for the sake of gain, would sue and attempt to ruin his neigh• hors, when they had only done what they had been required to do, by n majority of their fellow-citizens, and under existing circumstances, would deserve a coat of tat and feathers, if a resort to Lynch Law wee I ever justifiable,—but that a resort to this kind of punishment was always wrong,— but he , ped such an attempt would be frowned down by the community." Thus it will he perceived, that the certi fiers in the "Compiler" have made an er roneous statement, and that Mr. Cooper did not advocate the issuing of shin-plan. ters, nor did he say that any man who i would oppose the issuing of them deserved a coat of tar and feathers—but the contrary. This we certify. David Little, Samuel Fahnestock, George Arnold, Wm. W. Paxton, Hez. Van Orsdel, Henry J. Schreiner, A. B. Kurtz, George G. Myers, Wm. King., John M. Stevenson, Edwin A. Atlee, M. C. Clarkson, R. W. Middleton, John Gilbert, ' George Little, David Head, John Garvin, H. Denwiddie, J. F. McFarlane, David 'froze]. Gettysburg, Oct. al, l'nB. To JAMES COOPER, Esc,. Sin-1 was President of a Town meet• ing held in the Court House in May, 1837. I do not remember, nor can I bring it to my recollection, the expression as said to have been made by you, that is ns to the tar and feathering of any person who would oppose Shin Plasters. It was by no means a Political meeting, as the issuing of them was done at the request of a full meeting of DOTE( PARTIES. AIcCLELLAN. Gettysburg, Oct. 3, Iq3q. PROSCRIPTIA &PERSECUTION 33--The Porterites endeavor to make a great noise about "proscription" and "persecution!" Let the Public, in the following statement, see to what lengths POOR MEN, who happen to be indebted to them, are driven by the vile suppor ters of a perjured man! Let us, here after, hear no more about proscription! Actuated by deference for my frtends,and a proper regard for myself and (brolly, I am induced to make the folfowing statements to the Public: During my absence from home in 1837, SAMUEL SIBBET bought a note given by me to Milton llumfreys for $l7 00; what Sibbet gave for the note,l know not, but am told it was considerably less than the actual amount. On the 28th of :i'eptember,lB3B, I returned from my work to my tinily, and on the evening of the Inspectors' election I EIiS;MiaMNMMM alore Fraud Exposed! TO THE PUBLIC. FUNKSTOWN, Franklin Co. P. October 3, 1838. was called on by Mr. Sibbot for the payment of the note. I told him I had not the me. ney, and could not pay it at that time. He told me that ho would distress me for it if did not pay him, that 1 was doing all a. gainat them that I could by electioneering against their Party, and that he would dis tress me for it. But added, THAT IF I WOULD GO WITH THEM, VOTE AND ELEC. TIONEEE FOR PORTER, he would giro me , any indulgence 1 wanted—adding that he knew that I had an influence at Mt. Alto, arid could controle 10 or 15 votes. This occurred in Messrs. Lowrey and linepper's Store, to whom I also owed an account, and one of the firm immediately ob served, that they must have their arroarif too, unless I went with them; and if I did, that they were willing to give me indul• genre or any thing. I wanted! I not knowing where to raise the money .o pay these claims; a wife and two small children to maintain, the eldest of which is not three years old; and through fear of tlis. tress, I gave a partial promise that I would do au they wished me. On Monday follow mg, we went to Waynesboro' together to a political meeting.at which Mr. COOPER was to deliver an address. They induced me to drink until 1 was intoxicated, (a situation in which my friends know I am seldom seen,) and then urged me to oppose Mr. Cooper. I did so,nud am told that I behaved in a very unbecoming manner towards Nlr. Cooper, whom I know to be a gentleman, and hum bly ask pardon for any thing that I may have said or done amiss On the same evening, we had a meeting at Furdistown, at which Mr. Coorr also de livered an address; and there I was again urged, by Mr. Samuel Sibbet, to oppose Mr. CI iope r—t bat he (M r. Si bbett) Ithd his hands tied, being Justice of the Peace, dare not use the same freedom that I could, but that I should go and say any thing I pleased, and they (meaning their party,) would see that I should be protected. I again obeyed :hem, end abused Mr. Cooper as before. And now, having come to Any proper senses, and being told by my friends how I behaved, I feel sorry fenny conduct and am determined no longer to be the tool of a party, the principles of which I despise; but to assume the position of a freeman, and maintain it in despite of the threats of those to whom I am unfortunately indebted. Frank/in County, is Personally appeared before me, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, the above named Wm. AnAms, who, duly sworn according to law, deposeth an d ' saitli, that the above statement is correct; and further saith not. October 3d, 18:38. Interesting Correspondence ! JOHN WILLIAMSON, ESQ. cb-In the Huntingdon Journal of last week we find the subjoined interesting correspondence be &eon Joust WitmAyrsoN, Esq. and a Commit tee from Schuylkill County. For the purpose of showing the weight that must be attach to his o pinions. we quote the estimate put upon Mr. Wil liamson's character by the American Sentinel, a loading Porter paper of Philadelphia City. It says: "JOHN WILLIAMSON, Esq. whose name is signed below, is a respectable Attorney at the Huntingdon Bar, was one atilt) first Anti. \l ovens in the county,and was President or the first Anti. Masonic meeting over held in that county. He was elected by that party in the fall of 1831 to the Le gislature,wne the Anti-Masonic candidate for Con gress in 1836, and has always been a prominent loader in their ranks. He is a gentleman of high attainments, knowledge and talents, and withal a truly exemplary man, being a Local Preacher in the Mothodiat Episcopal Church." LETTER TO MR. WILLIAMSON. HUNTINGDON, Sept. 24, 1838. DEAR Sia:—Much importance and credit has been attached to your statements, and position in the present contest. The undersigned. knowing you from the opinions expreased by the friends of David R. Porter, as a Mall of lionor,end know ing too that you have heretofine been an oppon• ont of the present and lam Administration of the General Government, have been induced to pro pound to you the following queriee, and ask of you a candid and definite answer to each: lat. Was you et ono time an advocate of tho elec tion or D. R. Pot tor to the Gubernatorial chair? If aye, why? 2d. Are you now an advocate of his election? It is said by some that you aro not—if so, what has changed your views'? ad. Ate you acquainted with John Stonebraker and his son John H. Stonebrakor? If aye,w hat is their character as men of veracity and inte grity? 4th. Have their statements in the caso of Portnee assigning certain bonds to tho elder Stonebra. her had any *weight in changing your opinions oldie integrity of Mr. Porter's conduct? sth. Wo haVo seen your name attached to certain certificates. published to sustain the character of Mr. Porter as an upright and just man. Did you sign those certificates? If aye, do you still adhere to the opinions therein expressed? Gth. Is the elder Sionobralior a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church in good standing —was he ever expelled therefrom, and is he generally considered a man of"sound mind and disposing memory?" 7th. Have you over seen any thing which con. • vineed you'that the General Government was using its influence to secure the election of Da vid R. Porter? If aye, what is it? Bth. Are you acquaiuted with the character of Michael Wallace, M. Kinkead and other sign ore to certificates of the Stonebrakers? If aye, what is their character and standing?. A, definite answer is requested to these gees. firms, because wo doubt not the candid and cor rect supporters of Mr. Porter will accord honesty of purpose to you, as they always hair) on all oc. (melons avowed their belief in your statements. Very respectfully yours, Scc. AN DREW RUSSELL, • BENJ. HANNAN. • TO JOHN WILLIASISON, ESQ. MR. WILLIAMSON'S REPLY. HUNTINGDON, September 24,..1838. GENTLEeEN•—Your note has just been placed in my hands, containing several do. finite questions, and asking equally definite answers. 1 am ever ready to avow,openly,my senti ments upon any subject, yet on the present occasion, where the enmity of small minds may charge me with being an unstable and wavering caterer for public favor, you will do met he just ice to say,l do so more through a sense of injury inflicted upon the public mind„,than through a desire to place myself conspicuously before the public. I shall then answer your queries as briefly and de finitely as possiblo,consciuuspf the rectitude WM. ADAMS. IV NI. DOWNEY of my own course, neither The sneers of the A ETALLING OUTRAGE envious, nor the lowering brows of the mat. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE ignant, shall deter me. To your first inquiry, I answer, I was a 'lElB JOHN' H. STONED ICZIR I 1 I supporter of Mr Porter, because I had for co•Wo publish below, the statement furnished years been intimately acquainted with him, as by the persons attacked at Water Street. It he was my neighbor,aad I there believedhim needs no comment. The moral and reflecting, honest, upright and conscious in his deal- will draw their own conclusions.[Hunt. Jour. logs, and ho professedly was the opponent, John J. Taylor doth aver and say, that or at least not the friend, of the Sub•Tren- between three and four o'clock on the morm sury scheme; a measure which I then, at..! mg of the 25th September, he was awaken still think fraught with much injury to the ed by the report of d pistol discharged people, if engrafted upon the institutions of through the window of the shantee in which the country. he was sleeping. At the time, he was I answer your next query,by saying, I a m sleeping in tho front side of the bed, with not now an advocate nr supporter of D. it. John Stonebraker on the other side, and Porter; Because I found the p a rts , t o w hi c h had his litce turned towards the wall, and his Mr. Porter is attached, distinctly der:Wing back towards the window. On hearing the their determination to make his election th e report of the pistol, he immediately turned test of the people upon the sub-treasury. Jr his face towards the window, and saw the there had been no other reason, I was forced arm of a man passed in at the window, to leave his support then: for I never could through a vacant pane of glass, with a pis give my sanction and my vote to paraliz „ tol in the hand, in a moment the pistol was an d to es _ fired, and the hand and arm withdrawn. Ho every euterpriae of my country, !Offish any official power equalled only by immediately jumped up, ran to the door of that oftho Autocrat of Res tin. I shall con- the slinntee, where he saw four men running sequentl) vote for and support Joseph Rif. ii iwn the road, some rods from the shantee, nor, because he is the friend of Pennsyb in the direction of Alexandria. Ho at once vania, and opposed to the above scheme. raised the alarm, and woke up the other To your third, 1 reply, lam and always men on the work. On examination, ho have been long and intimately acquainted finds that two largo leaden pistol bullets have with both this Messrs Stonebralters. Their been lodged in the board wall of the Shanten character for truth and integrity is tuna)• directly opposite the bed, and against which peached, and I believe wholly unimpeach• the bed stood, and another ball had penetra— able; they have been free from even the ted the board near the edge, and passed out suspicion of want of honesty or truth; their through a vacancy between the boards of statements have always been considered as the Shantoe wall, about eighteen inches from where the other balls are lodged. The *god as their oaths; and there is not a man who regards his own character would say bed stands at the opposite side or corner of that their oaths were not entitled to the the standee frOm the window ; and from the Place where the pistols wow discharged, to fullest credit. For years they have resided I where the balls struck, the bullets that are whore they now do, and their characters stand without blemish or reproach. lodged in the wall, must have passed about To your 4th questioni must acknowledgeeighteen inches above our shoulders while lying, and the other ball that passed through it is difficult to make a definite answer. 'flie g reat amount of testimony which has been the wall, must have passed about ten or twelve inches above our groin. The shun brought to bear,and with convincing weight tee is about eleven feet broad, and stands on upon the reflecting portion of the communi• ty, renders it difficult to say any one part of sideling gronnd. it had a particular effect. It is the whole, united and combined,all verging to the same facts, which convinces, and must convince all candid inquireis,at least out want of mor al rectitude in the course of :Ur. Porter. I am free to admit that I believe every word uttered by them (the Stonebrakers) to be strictly true, and had I doubted them, the documentary evidence produced, fully sus tains them. Others who have examined as I have, • with n desire to do justice to Mr. Porter, yet free from prejudice,must be con• vinced, as I have been, of his wilful deser tion of the path of virtue. To the fifth,' say, I never signed neither did I authorize my name to bo signed to a certificate signed by 94 citizeos of this coun ty, saving that all the charges in the cele• brated Union county Lotter were false. I did sign a certificate that Air. Porter was not a blasphemer; I did not believe he was a blas• phemer, for I considered blasphemy the highest grade of impious profimity. I did certify that there were no judgments on the docket against Mr Porter, because they were ofmorelhan twenty years standing,and in law were not against him: I did not cer tify that they had ever been paid. To your sixtb interogatory; I must say, I regret that the first clause is introduced. r It is with feelings of mingled sorrow and sur prise that I see the name of any christian sect introduced into any political discussion. The sphere of the professed worshipper in any form, is around the altar and sanctuary of his God. To Him ho must render his account for the deeds done in his body, and whether a man is attached to any sect, is a matter of small moment, if he be a sincere and worthy member lie will meet his reward. I cannot violate the precepts of hint who says "judge not." 1 can only say that Mr. Stonebraker has been for many years, and is now a member of the church you name, his continuing so, is evidence of his standing and I never heard that ho had been expelled therefrom. In answer to the last clause, 1 say, his mind is as sound and as capable of recollecting and reciting transactions now, as in the days of his more youthful vigor. To nnewer your 7th query, I can briefly say, that since the Mr. Stonobrakeis, have given their testimony to the public, the Marshall of the U. S. has served a writ upon Samtiel W. Stonobraker, the son and broth er of the others, for nn alleged defalcation of nine dollars; and that too, without previ ously making any call on him! The execu• Lion of which process must add cost to the amount of not less than 50 dollars,on a poor, young, honest and correct man --tv.io was prepared at any time to adjust the chum, upon the government giving him the credits to which he was entitled. I consider this an insult and injury upon the people, when hundreds who owe thousands of dollars roam unmolested,and merely because they belong to the dominant party! In answer to your last enquiry, I say, I am acquainted with nearly all of the sign ers to the certificates for the Stonebrakurs, and know them to be men of character and correct habits; many of them are among our oldest and best citizens. But as you have selected M. Wallace and Kinkead—l must add my testimony to their character something more at large. Mr. Wallace served in the Senate of this State, and was elected from this district ; and he has ever been respected, and honored by his neigh bors. Mr. Kinkead hail been for many years a prominent lender of the old Demo cratic party, and is still a firm unyielding supporter of Jeffersonian Democracy. Ile was appointed 'Post master at Yellow Springs, by President Madison, and has held that appointment ever since; until lately, when ho was removed by Mr. Kendal. Thus I have answered as briefly and as candidly as possible, your inquiries. You are at liberty to ma(te)-what use of it you deem prudent. With expressions of regard 1 am respectfully, yours, &C. JOHN WI LLI A ISON. A. Russel, and B.- Hannan, Esqrs. C*-Beware of TREACHERY! Beware of FORGERY and all kinds of FRAUD, that ingenious villains can inventkO JOHN J. TAYLOR. I, John H. Stonebraker, concur in the truth of the statement of Mr. Taylor so fur as my knowledge extends. I was sleeping in the same bed with Mr. Taylor, ns ho • states, and was wakened up in alarm at the discharge of the pistols. I did not see the arm through the window, because I was sleeping behind 11r. Taylor, and did not see the men running down the road, because I did not got to the door as soon as Mr. Tay. lor. In every other part of his statement I fully agree. J. IL STONEBRAKER. W E,t lie undersigned, laborers on the Wa ter Street Dam, hereby certify that, we con• cur in the truth of the statemeutis of Messrs. Taylor and Stonehraker, so far as our knowledge of tho matter extends. Wo. wore wakened by the report of the pistols and called out by Mr. Taylor. On exami• nation we fully agree with Mr. Taylor's statement of the,situation of the bed in the shame°, the !minks, at which the bullets struck, and their nearness in passing over the bed. JOHN KELLY, JOHN DOYLE, WNI. PATTERSON, A. A. 11 , PPLIERRAN, PETER SHAFFER. .11Iore Testimony. aWe gave in our last a letter from tho Rev., Mr. Sst mt. of this place, vindicating the character of Mr. John Stonebrukor. Now read the follow ing letter from another highly respectable Clergy man: otter from the Rev. John Miller. Presiding Elder cf the Methodist Episcopal Church, in answer to a communication from citizens of 'Berwick. MILTON, Soptembor 17, 1935. ENTLEDI Ml—Yours of the 1201 inst. has this day been received. It is not my wish or intention to engage in the political agita- tion of the day—nothing can induce me to do so. As a minister of the Gospel, lam employed in anotherand n greater work.— Yet circumstances over which I have no control—by the circumstances alluded to, I refer to the use made of my name in the "Illilionian," without my knowledge or con sent—as well as a disposition to gratify you, seem to oblige me to furnish a reply. 1 am of Huntingdon county.nnd for more than twenty years HAVE KNOWN John Stonebreaker, sen. and can have no liesita • lion ►n saying, that up to the limo of his tes tifying in relation to the case of Mr. Porter, I NEVER HEARD AUGHT AGAIss . rIITS MORAL OR RELIGIOUS CHARACTER; nor did I ever hoar his honesty or varacity questioned—of John H. Stonebraker I know nothing. Yours respectfully, JOHN MILLER. To Messrs. R. McCurdy, A. B. Wilson, W. S. Evans, and A. B. Sherman. is „Look Out !---ralse State- I meals coming. [From the Hollidaysburg Register.] _ Wo have just learned that a statement is forth coming from Porter's press at Hunt- ingdon, abounding in the most, INFAM. is OUS AND NOTORIOUS FALSE HOODS, in regard to the management of the Repairs between this and Huntingdon. The runners of the Lodge have been busy for a fortnight, in collecting statements and !i certificates from fellows who have been dis charged for drunkenness, laziness, and dis orderly conduct. They aro to be paraded, I; in conspicuous style, with scores of others with tieticious names attached to them, and sent to every corner of the state. Look out for them—they are vile slanders, and infamous falsoboOds, 1: KrThe Conservatives of Philadelphia have conie out in a very d Thiecided manner a gainst David R. Pprter. s will greatly . increase the Whig vote in that section. • Goon WnE.t.r.—Wo learn from thaFred• crick Examiner that o load of wheat ; from the Ihrm of Mr, WILLI.6I Coma:nor, near Creagorstowthwas sold in that city last week, which weighed sixty-six pounds the bushel; j • vier ieetedr cThe Harrisburg Chronicle says—By taking the aggregate vote in the counties, we find a tremendous change for the old Farmer since 1835; while the majorities in the loco Loco counties have been as much REDUCED! In the counties of Franklin, Adams and Cumberland alone, THERE IS AN IN CREASE OF NEARLY 2,000 SINCE THE LAST GOVERNOR'S ELECTION! And the increase is in proportion in every county that we have heard from. The friends of Ritner in Harrisburg arc now confident of, his election by a majority of Trz tpit f . 2r 4 Fifi G As •' 9 To the Friends of Joseph Ritner ! FELLovv-CrrtzEnis i—Your unanimity, zeal and determination in the support of right principles have heretofore rendered it unnecessary to address you as a Committee. When the people take their own cause into their own hands, there is little doubt of success. To that,advocacy, and to that tribunal we have been well pleased to leave it. Now, however, on the eve of the final decision, we would say to you, as the only ad• vice necessary to complete success :— Be on your guard against YOUR OWN OVER CONFIDENCE, and against the desperate and unhallowed means which the opposi• Lion will employ %V 'THIN TILE LAST WEEK. After a full and long intercourse with reasonable and well informed citizens in every counts., we are confident that your candidate can be elected by at least 10,000 majority. But then let every friend of sound principles bear in mind, that a strong and united effort must be made to realize this result. Each individual must nut only vote himself, butuse all fair means to get out his careless or doubting neighbors. With this ki n d of effort success is certain ; without it defeat is possible. For, in estimating the result of the contest, you must bear in mind the magnitude of the stake involved, and the fact that it is the lust hope of the party which you oppose. Come then to the POLLS, Eellow•cit izdns, and you—your State —the Union—your posterity, are safe. If the candidate of the opposition be defeated, with him falls the Van Buren party of the Union. They will thereaire make a struggle unequalled in the annals of our politi• cal history. As the end they have in view is dangerous, and as defeat will annihilate their hopes and their power, so will they be unhesitating in their means. You all recol• lect that in 1832, your candidate, Joseph Ritner, was only defeated by the basest forgery that ever disgraced a party. From the past, learn to understand and guard the future. We; thereflire, who have not wearied your patience heretofore, nor tasked your creduli ty with partizanstatements and addresses—wo,thds publicly and emphatically say to you, believe nothing now published or alleged against your cause or your candidate. When ever you hear or see any thing injurious to either—when you are plied with handbills circulars, statements, affidavits, pictures and quotations, ash yourselves this question : why was this not made:known nnFour.7 . The reply is ready and decisive : Because it would have been disprobed if Civic had been allowed. On the other hand, remember that all that has been said or charged against the candidate or cause of the opposition by your friends, has been long before the intelligent and honest freemen of the State, chat longing and defying refutation. If there were no other difference between the two parties, this—this alone should turn the scale. On the one side are grave, open, numerous and long published objections, without successful reply, or contradiction. On the other are week and insufficient de fences, with malignant personal attacks, during the time when satisfactory explanations should have been made, and now the land is covered with statements, Aarges, handbills, affidavits and expedients the most disreputable against your candidate, at a moment when it is too lute to expose their falsity. You will, we know, treat these matters as they de servo. Aware that all the tangib'e charges, or oven insinuations heretofore made, have been disproved, and successfully repelled, you will disbelieve those now divulged. Just east your eyes back on the line of attack that has been occupied and abandoned by your opponents. Bank irgi'uencc—Suspension of specie payments—Anudgamation --,Shin Plasters—these and many more have been made to bear against your candidate, and have been all silenced. And now a new line, as untenable as the first, is opened. So far as yet unmasked, its batteries are an alleged increase of the State Debt, and Bankruptcy of the Treasury. To put to silence the first, it is only necessary to produce the following certificate, by the proper public agents, given in their official capacity, and never officially contradicted; though such contradiction was invited, and would, if it could have been made. •tWo the Secretary of the CoMmomvealth, and the Auditor General, both of whom are, withh Li: _lnto I . .rcasuror, ecanmiguinriftra of theinternal 1 int:moment Fund of Penn sylvania, do hereby certify that the whole Permanent State Debt, on which the State paid interest, and which she was liable to repay, was on the 4th day of December, 1835, $24 4 330,003 32, & that it is now (Augt. 18, 1838) S' t.1:41,230,003 32. THO. H. 130 RAO W ES, Sec'ry of the Commonwealth. NATH. P. HO BA ItT, Auditor General." ‘"HATIRISIDURO, August 18th. 1835.' - But the most astonishing attempt at deception is the other. Read the following cer tificate from the State Treasurer whois obliged by Law to report to the Auditor General, the balance in his possession on the first day ofeach month. It is dated this day. "BALANCE ON LAND THIS DAY We are very much mistaken indeed if the economical citizens of the State will call a Treasury bankrupt with 896,890 86 in it after meeting all demands against it, or find fault with their Governor for not keeping a larger sum on hand when they f Meet that ho thereby saves interest on the loans made by the Legislature against his protests and advice. During the past week unusually large drafts were made on the State Treasurer and Means have been taken to enable him still to meet them. There will no doubt be other charges equally unfounded made between this time and the election. Indeed we have heard of some, which aro in themselves so base and emit mous ns to make it doubtful whether even after they have been prepared, their fabrica tors will dare to outrage a virtuous community by their publication. But fellow-citizens, be on your guard.,Atecollect that your candidate has passed the ordeal thrice without a blemish on his moral character. He is now a fourth time before his fellow citizens without stigma almost till the day of trial. You will therefore do well to disbelieve all that these latter days bring forth, even though his own name be given and made use of us it has beenueratidentl y, on other occasions. Thus regarding the moral worth, it is scarcely necessary to ask your attention to the public acts et Joseph Ritual., for are they rot a part of the history of our State's pros perity THE REPEAL OF THE STATE TAX—THE MAINTAINANCE OF STATE noNou AND RIGHTS—TILE SUPPORT OF A SOUND CURRENEV—THE VETO OF EXTRAVAGANT APPROPRIA- TIONS:-THE CHECK GIVEN TO THE KANO GROWTH OF STATE DEBT-TILE VIGOROUS Pilo GRESS A.ND INCREASED INCOME OF THE PUBLIC WORKS-THE RESITYPTION OF SPECIE PAY MENTS, and many other acts of good service to the State are known to all. Go then, follow-citizens, to the polls, looking with pride at the past--trusting with con fidence to the future—disbelieving the slanders end falsehoods of the present, and vote for him who has been tried and found equal to your expectations in all things. Let your motto be PENIVSYLVA:4IA, ItrrNett and ECONOMY, against Vun Buren, Porter, sub•treas ury and EXTRAVAUANCE. linntusnuaq, OCT. 1, 1838. We'Used .lUp! (c). The Harrisburg Chronicle, received this rnorning,thus exposes the Porteritea of that place: The Porterites here aro completely..us'd up: and for the purpose of keeping the par . ty from sinking entirely before the - genera, election, the leriders Itavd offerecta bet that Porter rtitcarr yet be elected, in thelace of the fact that they cannot raise•a sufficient BUM to make up those already made by them. Poor fellows .they die hard.- Our readers ' may have some idea of the desperation of NO MISTAKE!! the loco fixes here, when we inform them that they are sending out extras daily so fil led with falsehoods,. that they aro ashamed to let them be seen in town, fearing, that if they reached our hands, their deceptions would be exposed o^ j At a quilting tho other day in Cumberland township, at which were present 19 Ladies, the vote for Governor was taken, when Rimer had 18 and Porter 1 ! As go the Ladies, so go their Husbands and Bweet•hcarts! • $96..95 DANL. STU RGEON, State Treasurer October Ist, 1838." TUO. H. BURROWES, THOMAS ELDER, THEO. FENN, AMOS ELLMAKER, FRANCIS J A ES, WM. W. IRWIN, WILLIAM AYRES, HARMAR DENNY, SAMUEL H. FISHER, C SMITH, NEIL MIDDLESWARTH, WM. M'CLURE, GEORGE MOWRY; LEVI MERKEL, MAXWELL KINKAID. The Ladies for Reiner! GETTYSBURGYI, PA. .Monday EvettinT,Oct• 8, 1 838 DEMOCRATIC ANTI-MASONIC NOMINATION FOR GOVERNOR, JOSEPH RITNER. FOR CONE RES, JAMES COOPER. Assintimv, THADDEUS STEVENS, CHARLES KETTLEWELL conmissloNEß, DANIEL DIEIIL AUDITOR, JOIIN G. NIORNINGSTAR InRECTOR OF TM: POOR, PETER TROSTLE. • tuoy) loam . ; 2ou imp iSoptum pun HIIMO) Haut ut IMO 8! lineal (no Jaun pripsod so UOOS HU „ti'lllVly .dn ivinoua pool ay uanua/q lepolyn /no •suoLuaa OIL t tt Examine your Tickets. Porter putty will cheat you if they cnn! One mode by which this is to be done, is by print ing tickets containing the name of masi:Vll MT- N En at the head, and all the miduc, the fail Lucy Porn ticket! In this way, if they fail in electing the Governor, they hope to carry a point which they have fully as much at heart—to defeat Mr. Stevens! Another plan is for a Porter man to go separate ly to a score or more friends of Ratner, and strike a traffic with each one, separately, and unknown to the others, mutually to strike a particular can didate. Thus, even if the Loco Puce were to act in good faith in so far us to keep his word, he would gin TwnNTr votes in exchange for one! BE ON YOUR GUARD, friends of Ritner, and spurn all overtures of the kind! Vote the wootu ticket—strike none; above all, be ma , your guard against all overtures to strike the name of Ritner from your tickets, for it is against him that all the artillery of FRAUD, ritsuiroon and roa- GERV will be directed! In so doing, the Portorites do but imitate their leader. Ho cheated his crodi tors, and it is not strange that those who have stak ed their all on his success, should seek to aid his election by cheating you! Again, we say, EXAMINE YOUR TICK ETS, each man for himself- Trust nothing to f tlune! Above all, trust nothing to the honesty of your opponents! Their leaders know not the name!! LOOK OUT FOR FORGERY! ci:-Thei hands in the Compiler Factory have be'en very busy end day, they have been engaged—laboring withull their !night I To-day several of their out-riders were in town for fresh supplies of Affidavits, Certificates, &c.! So look out for Forgeries I Don't forgot that let ter which defeated Rimer in :832. Thu author' is cock-of-the-walk here ! Beware ! DEAN...aux!! BEWARE !!! Er.e Watchful! co-- Remember that ‘.oe price of Liberty is ETEUN AL vion.s.xcli"l Let every man, there fore, be at his post early, determined to vote, if he shall have to neglect all other husinocss for a day! A day, a few hours, well spent now, may save you from months and years of unavailing regret! Ile active, also, in inducing your neighbors to go to the polls. If active exertion be a duty at all, it is ono that must he displayed in whatever way it may be useful in promoting success. Be,,therc f•re, up and doing! Let no man suppose that his single vote can be of no moment in so mighty a contest. An important election has been more than once decided by a solitary vote ; and remem ber, that if all were to reason in the same way, the result would be that all would stay at home, re lying on their neighbors to do what they ought to be about themselves! UP! UP!! AND TO THE RESCUE!!! Look out for more Frauds. cc/From the sample which our opponents have given, of their reckless mendacity and shameless ness, you may expect to see the County flooded with lying certificates, imputing to our candidates any thing which our adversaries may jud4e will servo to injure or prevent their election! We have a band of Loco Foco certifiers here, who can be procured to certify to any thing; they would cer tify that their own fathers were rogues and scoun drels, and swear to it, if they could thereby pro mote the interests of party! But hoed nut the vile slaves of a reckless party, if you would not bo misled and deceived! Loco Foe° Falsehoods ! ok7 - Tlie Porter Orators are repeating the charge daily that Governor Ritnor has in• creased the State Debt! THIS IS FA LSE, as will be seen by the following transcript from the Office of the Auditor - General : Oa the 4th of December, 1835, the State Dobt was, $24,330,003 32 On the 18th of August, 1838, the State Dobt was, 824,230,003 32 Thus it will appear that Governor Rimer has considerably REDUCED the State Debt, whilst his predecessor INCREASED it at the rate of 83,000,000 a year! Out upon the KNAVES who would thus at tempt to deceive the people, by making FALSE statements about the State Debt !!! Desperation! Tho desperate cause of our desperate adver saries is to be sustained by the most desperate means! In this contest all tho decencies and pro prieties of lite are to be sacrificed by the suppor ters of David 'R. Porterio the Moloch spirit of party! Fake certificates, lying handbills, forged letters, and 'affidavits, are to be circulated in order to promote the success of their perjured candidate! In the certificate in the last t.Comvilor," relative to the declaration ascribed to Mr. Cooper. you will see the spirit which governs the opposite party.— But that slander has been triumphantly refuted— more than twenty honest and intelligent men hav ing declared that the idiot libellers have certified to whet is untrue!!! And it is a fact, that ono half of the certifiers in the "Compiler," are men ignorant of the common import of language, and besides worthless in every respect! LOOK OUT! We learn that the Sheriff is very busy in trying to make the People of Hamilton believe that ho meant no insult to them in his conduct respecting the Proclamation !!! Wo hope the people, by his oct,, have found out what that man will do for his masters and his party! No cipla. nation—no certificates could wipe out the injury and insult, were we a citizen of that patriotic and intelligent community. No! show him and his keepers, fellow-citizens, that you are NOT QUITE as nrern As nr„by his conduct ,H AS DECLARED YOU TO DE! TAXES, TAXES, TAXES. Who is in favor of taxing the POOR? Ono of the most odious taxes which the people of Ponnsylvanta now pay, and which falls chiefly upon those wljj are least able to pay it, is the tax upon Writs, Mortgages, Deeds, Wills, and other legal proceedings. Is Governor Ititner in favor of continuing this burden upon the people, or is be in favor of removing iti Let the following ex tract from his last annual message to tho Senate and House of Representatives, answer: (nx - ritAcT.) "The law of the 6th of April, 182/3, im - posing a state tax upon proceedings in court, and upon deeds, mortgages, letters testamen tary, and letters of administration, was pass ed when the public revenue require-3 extra• ordinary expedients for its increase. The condition and future prospects of the Tron• sury are now different. This tax was always much cornplained of. Paid, an the greater portion of it is,by the already distressed,and perhaps impoverished debtor, or by the family of the deceased owner of a limited estate,which by the law is liable toiler same tax as a large one: it falls upon a portion of society which can least affird it—l would therefore recommend its repeal." JOSEPH RIMER Thus it will be seen that Joseph Ritner urged upon the Legislature the repeal of taxes upon writs of all kinds, deeds, mortgages, letters testamen- tury, &c So much for JOSEH RITNER'S sentiments and his endoavors to relieve the people of this odi ous burdon Let us now see what courso David R. Porter, "HONEST David," has pursued on this subject. It will be seen from the following extracts from the Journal of the Senate, that ho opposed, in every form and shape, the repeal of this tax. We oak attention to thom, and leave tho reader to forth his own conclusion. On page 3.12 of the Journal of the Senate, for 1838, will he found the following extract: The Senate again resolved itself Into committee of the whole, Mr. Kingaburg in the chair, on bill No. 86, entitled, Art ail, to repeal the lax on Writs, Mortgages, Deeds, Wills, and other legal proceedings. "After some time the committee rose, and the Chairman reported the first and xiniy enerthit,—;•;riega "On the question, Well the Sonata agree to the report of the Committee of the Whole. "A motion was made by Mr. Penrose and Mr. Barclay, to postpone the question until to morrow, which was riot agreed to. "The question recurring, Will the Ben• ate agree to the report of the Committee of the Whole. The Yeas and Nays were re. quired by Messrs. Barclay and Penrose, and were as follows: YEAS Messrs. Caldwell, Myers, Carpenter, Paul, James, Potter, Kelly, PORTER M 'Con key, Snyder, Miller, (city) Sterret, Strolim-1 3. NAYS. Messrs. Barclay, LAN,_ . Case, Miller, (Berke) Cassat, Pearson, Darragh, Penrose, Freiley, (Schuyl.) Rogers, Irwin, Sangston, Kingsbury, Burden, Speaker-14. "So it was determined in the negative and the said bill was read the second time. "On the question, will the Senate agree to the first, and only section." (Here a number of amendments were of fered and rejected.) "The question agnin recurring, will the Senate agree to the first and only section. The yeas and nays were required by IVIr. James, and Mr. Carpenter, and wore as follows : Y LAS. Messrs. Barclay, Kingsbury, Case, Leet, Cassat, M iller, (Berke) Darragh, Pearson, Frailey, (Sch.) Penrose, Fullerton, Rogers, Irwin, Sangston, Kelly, Burden, Speaker-18 NAYS. Messrs. Caldwell, Carpenter, Peltz, PORTER James, Snyder, M'Conkey, Sterrett, Miller, (city) Strohm, Myers.-11. Z•Let those who aro in favor of continuing this odious and oppressive tax upon tho poor, vote for "Honest pavi . d,” but those who desire its re• peal will support the man who has endeavored to wipe it from the statute book, and who, if re-oleet ed, will have it repealed. ITrienda of your country! Go'to the polls! Go to the'polls !! Each and every ono, go to the p . olls oa Tin.snAr N Err, and let nothing but sick ness, or the utmost necessity, keep you at home!! Forged Certificates. (C I -Pout:En certificates, and perhaps affidavits,' are now being prepared by the Porter men, to be circulated the day and night before the election.- 13e not deceived by the base machinations of a desperate and dying party!! Heed thorn sot, if you would not he deceived! q "E I ! "Victor-5 MIZZA ! HUZZA I Pictory has perched upon the Farmer's banner ! (nm• It gives us great pleasure to be able to lay before our readers to day the GLO RIOUS NEWS which we give from all parts of tho State. The re-election of the Farmer Governor is now placed beyond doubt. His all majority will be between Dra" 1 ® and 15,000 ! ! !.1.71 There can be no mistake about it now. Tha people have already given us a foretaste of what they WILL do for the old FA RAIEIi. or, ON TUESDAY NEAT. In Adams County, we have elected 14 Inspectors. Tho Loco Focos 4!—one a tie. In Dauphin County, we hove 14 out of 19 Inspectors—Loco Focos 51 In Lebanon County, we have carried till the Inspectors out of the Borough!! In York County, we have elected 12 In• specters! In Lancaster County, out of 39 Inspec tors, we have carried 32 In Union County, we have carried every Inspector but two I In Somerset County, we have elected e very Inspector !! ! In Franklin County, we have carried all the Inspectors except three or four! In Chester County, out of thirty-seven Inspectors, we have elected 31 !!! PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. Germantown, 143 Ritnor majority; West Phil adelphia, 21 Porter majority; Blockloy, 43 Ritner majority; Roxborough,large Ritner majority; North POllll Township, small Porter majority; Bristol, 9 Hither majority; Oxford, 43 Ritner majority; Rose bill, Porter majority; Passyunk, small Porter ma jority; South Penn Township, no election; King messing, 42 Porter majority; Lower Dublin, 47 do. do; Byberry, 14 Ritner majority. THE COUNTY TICIET IS OURS! DELAWARE COUNTY ! !! Whigs have carried TWENTY TOWN SHIPB, and the Loco-Fong ONE I !! CUMBERLAND COUNTY. After a hot contest, the friends of RIT NER AND SPECIE PAYMENTS have succeeded in carrying our Assessor in Car. lisle,and have lost our Inspector by sixnotes only. imported workmen---UNITBD STATES SOLDEERS—citizens of other States—and even NEGROES.were brought up to the polls by our opponents. Men were permitted to vote on the Loco-foco side, when others on the Railer side with similar qualifications, were prevented. With fair play, we should have carried our Inspector by 30 votes. In 1935, Ritner was beaten 210 votes in this borough. 7his is truly a glorious change/! 477 votes were polled. In South Middleton, we have carried our Assessor by eight votes, and lost our Teepee. tor by six. . Thoss.wero 29.4 votes, being nearly a full vote polled. In this township at the-last Governor's election, Rimer teas beaten 171 votes! Showiug a change in this township and in Carlisle of.NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED VOTES. Cumberland County will,on the 2d Tues. day, nobly do her duty. BEDFORD COUNTY. In Bedford County we have carried twelve out of the twenty one Inspectors; and will give OLD JOE at least 500 of ti majority on TUESDAY next. 12e, - CHEERING FROM BERKS ! From OLD BERKS, we have the fol lowing intelligence: Good News from Berks! The Farmers in motion!! The following is the result of the Inspec- tor's election in Robeson township: Ritner Inspector, 113 Loco Foco do. 87 ! In this township, in 1835, the joint vote o Wolf& Muhlonberg was 144: Ritner 118. In Union township, our friends elected their Inspector by 10 of a majority. In this township, the joint vote of Wolf and Mob lenberg in 1835, was 9f3: Ritner 69? In the Borough of Hamburg, the Ritner men succeeded in the lospectors by the fol- owing vote: C. Lochman, Ritner, D Wolf, Loco Foe°, Ritner tistj. 18 ! In Brecknocic, a Rimer Inspector was e lected by a majority of 10! In Carnarvon, we heat them two to one! Joint vote in 1835, Wolf and Muhlenberg, 73: Ritner 51. • In Upper Bern, our friends defeated the Loco Focos for Inspector and Assessor!— Joint vote in 1834, Wolf and Muhlenberg, 174: Ritner 139. In Kutztown,and in Longswamp and Dig. trict, our Inspectors , were elected by large majorities. ~ Also in Scbity!kill Haven by a vote o 06 to 69! - - - . Our hopes are iiiat we have carried some other distiicts, but this is "glory enough fur one day!" Our opponents boasted that we should not carry one district !I (citp PORTER AT HOME ! From Huntingdon County, the HOME OF DAVID It. PORTER, we have the rollowing GLORIOUS intelligence: 100 cheers for Huntingdon! ect?Porter totally routed and gloriously DEFEATED AT HOME! .Below I send you the result of ihelnspee tor's election in a number of our townships, as far as heard from. I give you also Por: ter's majority in some of tho townships at the time ho run for Senator. You can sea what changes 'the startling disclosures of his guilt have made. In Shirley township we carried our In spector by 15 majority; in 1:16 Porter had a majority. James 11I'Donald, the man charged in Porter's eapers with nrarderi wee elected by the Riefler men. 'this mill the estimate' of the people upon the two men— WDonald and Porter—the firet honest ) the last a Perjurer. , In Dublin Ritner Inspector elected. In Cromwell Ritner Inspector elected 2 to 1. In Springfield Ritner Inspector elected. In 1835 Porter had thirty-two ma jority. In Williamsburg, Ritner Inspector elect. ed. In 1836 Porter had thirty five majority. In Woodbury, Ritner Inspector elected. In Franklin, Ritner Inspector elected. This is Porter's old township, that his papers have talked so much a bout. This is the Stonebrakers' township, and Porter had fifty five majority in 1836. It now surtains the Stonebrakers. In Hopewell, Ritner Inspector elected. In Murray's Run do do do. In Morris do do do. In Tyrone do do do. In Union do do do. In Antis do do do, and in 1836 Porter had a majority of ntnetpseven. In Allegheny, Ritner Inspector elected. In Frankstown. do do do. In Hollidaysburg,do do do. In Hnntingdon, Ritner majority 12, in 1838 Porter had 148 majority. The Porter men carried their Inspectors in Barre, Porter, Warriorsmark, West Rex berry and Tell--5!!! 6, RITNER 16 ! ! ! RITNER AT, HOME! 40 200 cheers for Weishington! Ratner sustained at home!! Buffalo—lfuzza for old Buffer! After all the bragging and blowing of the Porter. ites, that they would have a majority in fa vor of Porter in Ritner's own township, slis is still erect—true to her favorite son. Ma jority B.—lluzza, we say, for Buffalo. East Bethlehem—Ritner Inspector elect ed by 100 majority I Last year the aver age majority for the Rimer Assembly ticket over that of the Loco Focos was 43 votes. lluzza for the gain in East Bethlehem! As far as heard from, we have a gain of one Inspector over last year--and a consid erably increased vote in Amwell, South Strabane, Canonsburg, &c., All is well. 04Ve have no room for further returns. It is sufficient to say that Ritnor will be elected by a majority of et least 10,000! Glorious 'News from Con necticut. Another Brilliant Whig Victory. The local elections for town officers, took place in Connecticut on Tuesday last. The Whigs havo even exceeded last spring.' The election was for Selectmen. Old Branford gave a Whig majority for the first time since the days of the elder Adams. Old Guild ford, which sent one Whig and one Loco Foco last Spring, is carried by the Whigs, by 30 majority. Now London, strong Loco Foco, gavo l t 36 Vl'hig, and 70 Loco Foco. North Branford, $0 Whig majority. Derby, 21 ,Whig majority. Watertown, 100 Whig majority. ' It was reported War , ' North Haven had given a Whig majority if this is true; as it is the strongest Loco Foco town in the state,Loco Focoism may be considered dead ad buried in Connee. ticut. Maryland, Too Still another PietotV 0:1-An election was held on Wednesday last in Maryland for a Governor, Senators and Members of Assembly, and as far as heard from, THE WHIGS HAVE ACHIEVED A MOST GLO- - - RIOUS VICTORY! Frederick county, especi ally, wo aro rejoiced to learn, performed her part with great honor. There are some "Little Brit ains" in old Frederick,as well as in Adams, Doctor! Our friends in Maryland will please keep ono BIG GUN far the Key-Stonel A CONTRAST! Porter at Mons& (0 -Huntingdon Borough, whore Portor resides, gave Rituor last Friday a majority of Ritner at Mome! 03>Duffalo township, Washington county, Mt nor's home, gives the old Farmer a majority of su Quito a contrast botween Ritner "Polish" and Porter o Varnish"—aye! People of Adams County: (0-Remember, that cm TUESDAY !cirri., the im portant question is to be decided! Will you have a Swindler, a PEUJURED KNAVE, a FRAUDU LENT INSOLVENT, to govern you for the next three years with a rod of iron; or will you continue in po*br . him whose moral character is unstained by reproach ovon from his bitter and malignant revilers, and who, as your Governor, has made your State the admiration and envy of the world, and won for himself, the apprentice boy, TIIE FARMER, TUE WEAVER AND THE WAG. (Irma, immortal honor? throosa YE; and God grant that ye may choose wisely! RIEFAILEN "On, on to the battle iyeld," "The foe has gone before.us!" criNeed wo admonish our friend's, again, that Ttftsnsv NEXT is the day of Wall Need we urge them to be vigilant, when they know them selves bow much depetuls upon their exertions!— NO! The Freemen of Adams County will do their duty well and nobly! . They vrlll go early to the 'Oti and they will contest it, as the &old shoUld be, contested which is to decide, the fate of a country! 'Thby 'know the principles for which they are to contend ON Tut:soar NEXT, are not transient, but that they arc to influence the des tinies of themselves, their children and their court, try! The stake is a :nighty one! It involves a)', interests of millions, and wo know that it. will not be lost through the caroleaaneas an supinancas at our friends! We about tO our frietUle—to the Ilion& of the. Constitution end Lem, ONE AND ALL, as WO TRW roses, rots tkeliCkg‘VWW WELOZT Ttelartl NSMA
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