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politiral.
Locofoco Hypocrisy.

The Union preends to grieve bitterly over the
removal of the late collector of this port and as
signs one reason for the extremity of its grief,
his near relationship to revolutionary worthy Of
great standing Yet the editor of the Union, as we
said the other day, saw Hugh Nelson, nearer re-
lative of the same revolutionary hero, removed,
without one word Of complaint. In the same town,
(Petersburg,) at the same time, it witnessed the
unprovokCd and inexcusable butchery of Dr. John
Minge, the grandson Of Benjamin Harrison, who,
if tradition is TO be trusted, did much any man,
by his careless reckless manner, cheer the sign
ers of the Declaration of Independence, many of
whom had begun 10 look serious when they reflected
on the extremity of the step which they had taken,
al time when firm countenance was all-import-
ant to the success Of the cause in which they had
embarked. Dr. Minge was charged with no me-
gect of duty. 1t was not alleged that he had ever
taken an active part In politics. His capacity
undoubted; his honor was without impeachment
If the ties Of blood form any claim Office he GER
tainly had as strong claim as any man we know
of, for he was not only the grandson of signer of
the Declaration of Independence, but he was also
the nephew of General William Henry Harrison
He was elected for no conceivable reason except
that he was Wing. Yet the Union shed not ore
tear over his fate.
James lines Randolph grandson of the
famous Colonel James Innes, of revolutionary
memory. This man fought bravey in all the bat
ties of the Revolution. Washington entertained
the highest opinion of him, and trusted him as much
as any other man of his age, with the exception,
perhaps, of Colonel Hamilton. He was not only
man of heroic courage, as his conduct on many a
bloody field amply testified, but he was one among
the most powerful Of those mighty orators whose
abilities raised Virginia so high in the intellectual
world Immediately after the revolutionary war. He
was the contemporary and rival of Marshall and
Wckham. Besides the claims on the score Of de-
scent, thus established Mr.. Randolph was the great
grandson of Benjamin Harrison, and the grand
nephew of his iIlusirous son, General William
Henry Harrison. He held clerkship at Wash
iDgton when Mr.. Polk went into Office, and was
guillotined without remorse. The Union shed not
a tear over his political grave
If either of these gentlemen had been pronounced
unfit for the Offices they held, we should not have
objected to the disposition made of them. We by
means accede to the idea that an unfit man
should be retained in office on account of his an
cestors But nobody ever disputed their capacity
to fill them, and therefore insist that the Union,
according to its own doctrine, should either have
inierposed to save them, or at least have sung
requiem over their political graves, in which the
virtues and services Of their relatives were duly set
forth. Since it failed TO do so, we must conclude
that its for the collector, on the score of
his ancestral claims is altogether made up for the
Acknowledgement Wing
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R. J. WALKER,
Secretary ofthe Treasury.
The sections referred to we extract:

Sec. IT, BE further enacted, That on the first
day OF January, In the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty-seven, and thereafter all duties,
taxes, sales of public lands, debts, and sums of
money accruing or becoming due to the United
States, and also all due for postages or other
wise, TO the General Post Office Department, shall
be paid in gold and silver coin only or in treasury
notes issued under the authority of the United
States: Prouided That the Secretary of the Treas
ury shall publish, monthly, in two newspapers at
the city OF Washington, the amount of specie at
the several places of depose the amount of treas
ury notes or drafts issued, and the amount out
standing on the last day Of each month.
Sec. 10. lind be T. tther snacted, That on the first
day Of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty
seven and thereafter, every officer or agent engaged
in making disbursements on account of the United
States, or of the General Post Office, shall make all
payments IN gold and silver coin, or in treasury
notes, If the creditor agree to receive said notes in
payment; and any receiving or disbursing officer or
agent who shall neglect, evade, or violate the pro-
visions Of this and the last preceding section of this
act shall, by the Secretary Of the Treasury, be i'm
medlately reported TO the President Of the United
States, with the facts of such neglect, evasion, or
violation; and also to Congress, if in session, and
1t not IN session, at the commencement Of its ses-
sion next after the violation takes place"
We suppose that Mr.. DENBY, as he re-
ceived a commission of Al per cent. on
his disbursements was a disbursing
agent of the United States within the
meaning of this law.
Was any report of Mr.. DENBY's case
made to the President of the United
States'
If so, was any report of it ever made to
Congressl
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Mr.. CLAYTON averred that the whole
object of the inquiry might be frus-
trated by the passage of Mr.. GRUN-
Dr's resolution and he warned the
Senator from Tennessee and the head of
the department that they could not, by
suPpressing the investigation, either di-
rectly or indirectly, escape the "conse-
quences which invariably flow from at
tempts to conceal the true state of their
affairs from an intelligent public" In the
same debate, Mr.. HOLMES denounced
60 the suppression of inquiry as among the
new fashions" of that day. Inquiry
hitherto" he added, shas been alDays
popular; so much so, that member would
scarcely hazard his reputation in opposing
at.o
From the 4th to the 10Th of Feb
ruary, the discussion of Mr.. GRUNDY's
resolution was continued in the SEN
ate-in the course of which Mr.. Clay
TON made another mastery speech, de-
nouncing the Administration party for
their determination to suppress inquiry.
4" SUPPOSE" said the honorable Senator,
:" that, in MIR. JEFFERsoN's day, or that
=" of any former President, the Govern
''ment had been charged with operating
on the elective franchise, and the rights
+" of the States, through the immense in
4" fuence of an army Of dependents,
{" amounting to more. than ten thousand
"men; with substituting the press, estab-
{" fishing system Of espionage, and
6. wasting the public treasure in disburse-
ments political favorites-I ask, would
I" any party, at any former period, have had
+" the hardihood, after an investigation had
been set on foot to ascertain the truth of
"such conjectures, to suppress the inves-
Litigation, or to restrict it in any particu-
"lar, for the purpose of preventing COM
"plete development Of all its operations
Yet such charges are now loudly pro-
claimed againstit; such an investigation
"has been called for, and the very object
"of the resolution on your table is to
close the door against inquiry"
The resolution was adopted substantial
ly as Mr.. GRUNDY had introduced it, and
the door ,oas thus closed against inquiry
Here we will pause in the history. 1t will
be seen that in the very first step taken
by the Opposition, afterwards the WING
party, to investigate the condition of the
Executive Departments, they were thwart-
ed and baffled by the majority that was
interested in concealing abuses and NAL
versations. As it was at the commence
ment of these inquiries, so has it been
ever since. For twenty years there has
been a struggle between the Executive
and the people on this subject. Mr..
CLAYTON is entitled to the credit of hav-
ing commenced this investigation, ulti-
mately SO thoroughly accomplished. We
shall follow this history down from the
time of Mr.. BARRY to the time of Mr..
DENBY, and we shall show that during
the whole of that period one-half of the
elite of the distinguished Democratic"
leaders have been engaged pretty diligent-
ly in plundering the treasury, and the
other half in defending or concealing de-
falcations.
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Information Wanted.

On the third of December, 1916, cir
cular was. issued to all the collecting, re-
ceiving, and disbursing officers of the
United States, in the words following:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Dec. 8, 1876.
SIR: Your attention is called TO the 18th and 18th
sections Of the act Of the 9th of August last estab-
fishing the constitutional treasury, and the utmost
vigilance is enoined in carrying these provisions of
the law into full effect.
R. WALKER,
Secretary ofthe Treasury.
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Mr.. F. A. BssLss, of the oronoco Steam Nayi-
CATION Company, has arrived at New York Mr..
Beelen has returned for short time from South
America, where he was fortunate in obtaining from
the last Congress Of Venezuela, at Caracas, grant
for the exclusive navigation by steam, for eighteen
years, Of the rivers oronoco, Apure, and such of
their tributaries as water that garden Of South
America. We hope that the attention of our coun-
rymen viii hereaf er be more directed 10 that par,
of our continent. For years 1t has been the harvest
field of ropeeDs, and Of Englishmen especially
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TENNESSEE ELECTION.

The following despatch was received Yesterday.
We do not, however, credit it. There certainly
cannot be gain Of three members Of Congress to
the Locofocos--It is by no certain they have
made gain Of one member. In the last Congress
the Wings had FIVE members. For the next Con-
gress in two districts, the 7th and lth, the Wing
candidates had no opposition. In the I'd district
there were two Wings in the field, with no Loco
foco candidate to oppose them. The Sd is the only
district represented by Wing in the last Congress,
in which there was any party contest, except the
9Th or Nashville district, which Geographic accounts
award to the Locofocos. This district lately rep
resented by Hon. JOHN III. CRozIrR, ia in East
Tennessee, and it is not possible that any definite
information had reached Nashville even at the date
of this despatch.
A Locofoco governor may be the result Of the
election but shall not believe it, nor concede the
election Of Ewsc to Congress from the Nashville
district until the telegraph brings us more reliable
intelligence than the following, which we publish
for what it is worth
CINCINNATI, August g.
"TENNEssEE ELEcTIon.-Trousdal is elected
by 5000 majority Ewing, Democrat, is elected in
the Nashville district Il il supposed the Demo-
Gratis have gained three members Of Congress in
this State
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attractions.

CASE OF LIEUTENANT PRESrIss.-Wc learn that
the finding of the naval court-martial which was
held at the navy yard for the trial of Lieutenant
Prentiss was a suspension of twelve months and a
reprimand The President has RENTED the SEN
tence and the reprimand has already been received
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miscellaneous.

The following beautiful verses, copied from the
Boston Post are by I. B. READ, esq, the poet and
painter of PHILADELPHIA:
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In the same speech, Mr.. CLAYTON al
luded to allegations of gross abuses in
regard to mail contracts, which had
swelled into direct charges of corruption,
in preferring higher to lower bidders and
granting extra allowances to particular ia !.
vorites. Information on this point had
been sought year before by the Senate,
but this resolution of inquiry had not to
that time brought word of reply. Mr..
CLAYTON stated that the special commit
tee had propounded nine interrogatories to
the Postmaster General, on the oath of
December previous, and had received no
reply. In the mean time, specific charges
of corruption and fraud, in the matter of
mail contracts, had been distinctly made
by respectable individuals and it had
been agreed in committee to apply for
power to send for persons and papers.
The power was granted by the Senate,
and the very first attempt TO exercise it
was resisted by Mr.. GRUMPY, on the
ground that the desired information should
be sought in the first instance from the
Postmaster General himself, and that it
would be time enough to summon wit
nesses when it should be found that the
charges could not be established by ref
erence to his own records.
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General CaSS,

GEN. CAss, in letter dated 26th inst,
declined the compliment of public dinner
rendered him by his friends in New Y ork e.
Speaking of the Union, he says:
When dissolution shall find advocates,
and the hands of violence shall attempt to
sever the bond that holds us together, the
West will rise up as one man, 10 stay a
deed so fatal to the cause Of liberty here
and throughout the world-aye, and it
will be stayed. Success can never hallow
the effort.
If we are not struck with judicial blind
ness, we shall hold on to the Constitution
with tenacity defying time and accident,
thanking the God of our fathers, and our
own God, for political Institutions which
have secured to US greater measure of
national prosperity than it has ever been
the lot of any people before US to enjoy.
If one half of great country, abandon
ing all differences of opinion, is unanimous
IN its sentiments upon any measure of in
ternal policy, locally affecting itself, the
citizens should L'eet from their country
men of the other section, kindness, and
not denunciaton; argument and not re-
elimination; and a desire to reconcile con-
fiicting opinions, as harmoniously as is
compatible with the nature of the contro-
yersy.
No such views respecting their rights
or their position can be SO held by an
extensive community without the existence
of forcible considerations, which call for
careful inquiry, and for wise, as well as
kind decision.
In this spirit should sectional questions
be discussed, and if they are SO, they all
bring with them no danger; but will fur
contribute powerfully to our strength and
prosperity.
am gentlemen, with great regard,
Your ob't ser'Yt.
LEWIS CASS.
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Conner at pittSbUrg .

Inc works erected a. Pittsburg Cor the
smelling OF Lake Superior copper, now
smelt from six to eight tons per day. The
Detroit Free Press, remarkinq upon this,
says the amount of minerals smelted this
year is 100000 pounds-the product of
which is $4,000, or 60 per cent. But
as copper is largely mixed with the slug
70 be melted over, the average yield is
estimated at 90 per cent From the
amoun: of metal received and that to re-
celve, about 600 tons of copper will be
made this year at the Plttsburg furnace.
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Great Gale at Milwaukee.
MILWAUKEE,, Nov. 20.

MILWAUKEE,, NOV. 20.
About l / o'clock on Saturday the gath
inst, the steamer Lexington from Green
Bay, made our harbor, but in coming in,
grounded on the bar at the inner end of
the piers, and there remains hard aground.
Soon after, the schooner Baltic came in
and brought up prettily against the Lex
ington, the two together effectually block
ing up the entrance. The schooner Twin,
loaded with lumber, also grounded be-
tween the government piers, and was
pounding pretty hard the last time we
heard from her. The schooner Henry
Clay, loaded with lumber, missed the
harbor and ran hard aground on the beach
a few rods north of the pier. The pro-
pellor Illinois bound up, carried away her
smoke pipe during the gale, and was COM
PEELED to anchor in the bay, under the
north point. The Lexington was got off
on Saturday night by the steamer Detroit.
and towed to the bend of the river where
she sunk.
We learn from Capt. Humphreys, of
the brig Robert Burns, whc arrived here
al IL o'clock last evening from Buffalo,
with cargo of lumber, that her bowsprlt
was carried away in the gale. The Har-
riet Colon arrived with a cargo of lumber.
The propeller Illinois came into the river
yesterday morning, and now lies at Dous-
man d Cos wharf, loaded with lumber
and salt; she took in tow the Sam Ward,
in Saginaw Bay, and towed her to
Pressure Ilse, she had broken her walking
beam and some other part of her engine
! The schooner Susquehanna rode out the
gale in safety and suffered but little dam
age, she threw overheard a large quantity
of pig IRON, and 70 to 70 barrels of oys
ters.
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Irelani.

Letters from this unhappy country stale
that cases of general suffering were never
more severe than at present. The absent
land proprie:ors, (that class of Absentees
who derive their main support from Ire
land, and spend little or nothing in the
country have been called together by the
Government, under the pressure of events
to see what could be done. The result is,
after visiting their land estates and seeing
for themselves, general surrender of the
rents due and in addition a reduction of
she rent equal to 20 per cent. Quite one
eighth part of the population of Ireland
are now living upon charity.
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,bo, divine truth, God hath chosen the

TINT divine truth, "God hath chosen the
weak things of this world to confound the
MIGHTY" What are the elements that
oropei nc steamboat or the iron car, and
how many? Only two-fuel and water
The engine, the most complex part Of the
whole, is but the means to convey and
apply the power With trees from the for
est, or coal from the mine, and his boiler
of water from eighboriug fountain, the
engineer mounts his iron steed, and when
ell is ready he touches the valve rod, his
iron steed feels the breath Of has life
and well may we apply the words OF
Scott:
He is of, he is off, over bush. brak, and scaur'
They'll have fleet steeds that follow, quoth
young Lord Lochinvar."
How complex was the electric telegra ph
Of soemering, with his thirty five golden
points, in comparison with the effectual
and simple Electro, Magnetic Telegraph
of Morse, who, with single wire, sends
the whispers of affection from lake &c
sea, on swifter wings than those o.
'iope."
All the great discoveries that have beer
made are remarkable for their simplicity
because they are based upon the truths
of science, and this implies that man
errors may yet be found in its woof anc
warp.
In saying this much upon the sImph
city of discovery-a theme upon which
we might easily dwell, TO fill up column
after column-we would exhort all those
who have taste for pursuits Of science
or the q 1vancement Of the arls-arricultI.
raj or mechanical-to remember that sim
plicity should be their first, second and las
considerations 10 success.
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EyT The South Carolinian, in taking
sides with the -pro-slavery party, ad-
vocates the organization of a separate
Southern party, and the nomination of a
candidate for the Presidency, in proposed
Conven ton of the South. The Charles
ton Mercury dissents.
Silver is now the only legal tender in
Holland, but this is not owing to the in
fux Of Gold from California, but to law
passed in 1S47.
The body of William Worthy an in
temperate man, was found floating in
the Mill Hill basin, Trenton, on Wednes.
day.
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer. Minister
to this country, is accompanied by his
wife, who is niece of the Duke of Wei
lington.
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Walking into Him.

Col. Gadsden, of South Carolina, as one
of a Committee of a Convention held in
that State, in May last, forwarded to Gen.
Houston Of Texas, the ultra slavery reso-
luton adopted there, accompanied by a
letter inaulging in offensive personalities
10 which Houston rejoined thus:
''You are pleased to taunt me with
defective education. While admitting the
truth of this charge, [ must say that have
long since learned TO regard 1t as an Incl
dental misfortune, arising from my Cir
cumstances in early life. As such may
acknowledge 1t; but there can be co i'm
propriety in imputing it to me as a fault,
or taunting me with it a crime. Twas
educated at an '0id. field Schookhouse,' at
small expense; while you, sir, was educa-
ted at West Point Academy, at consider
able expense. poorly and at individual
cost; you highly, and at public cost
When we entered the army your patriot
ism was ar used by the gift of a commits
sion. | enlisted as a private soldier.
prompted by the desire to vindicate the
honor and the rights Of my coun-
try, and protect the bleeding frontier.
You received your promotions as gratui-
ties-l tough for mine. You depended
upon educatiOn-I upon common sense.
When the question arises which of us
has rendered the most efficient service to
the nation, | Will refer you to your dairy
and to your forthcoming history for the
answer"
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NOTICE
TO HabOrers.

YNvHAT the repairing and keeping in repair
IL of the Hnrtingdon. Cambria and Indiana
Turnpike Road for the term of one year from
the fl rst day of January 1880, will be let by
receiving proposals as follows:--At the house
of a. Meyer. Waterstreet, on Monday, De-
cernber Sd. for the road from Huntington TO
to the IT mile post opposite Canoe Furnace.
At the American House, Ho!lidaysburg, on
Tuesday December 4th, from IL mile post TO
81 mile post on the Summit. AT Z. Carmon's,
Ebensburg, on Tuesday December 9th. from
81 mile post TO SO mile post on Laurel ihil
At Geo. w. Clark's, Armaugh, from SO mile
post TO the east end Of the bridge at Blairsvi!e,
on Saturday December 6th. For particulars
see hand bills.
JOHN S. ISETT, Sequestrator'
H., C. and L. T. r
Nov. %, lS49 .-7-3t.
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NOTICE.

DUBLIC Notice is hereby given, that by
Il order of the Orphans Court of the
County of Cambria will be exposed to sale by
public vendue outcry, on Tuesday the 9Th
day of January next, at one o'clock in the af
ternoon, of that day, a certain messuage or
tract of land, situate in Cambria township
bounded by lands of Richard Edwards, John
E. Jones, Richard Bennett and others. Con-
tanning One Hundred and Eighty nine acres
and allowa nee, !ate the estate of David Davis
deceased.
The Sale ill be held at the Court House i n
the Borough Of Ebensburg. and terms made
known by VIM. Davis and Thomas E. Jones
Administrators of So id estate.
By the Court,
VIM. KITTELL, Clerk.
Nov %, lS49-S-td