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The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-31
Fresh .El'rfC0F of
FALL AND WINTER
6 i i ] s!

FaNIIE subscriber has just received at n 5
a Store in Ebensburg a large supply Of
New Goods from the East. consisting of
Cloths, CassimerGS, SattineS, PlaidS. Lin@yS and
Flannels of all kinds; Calicoes, Mus
lins, Alpaccas, Merinoes, De LANES,
Ginghams, Tickings, Checks, Shawls,
Handkerchiefs, Gloves, Comforts,
Ribands, Vestings, Silks and Satins.
.4kso-Bed, Horse and Saddle
Blankets and Blanket Cloths.-
Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes of
every description, together with
an elegant assortment of Gro
ceries, Hardware, Queens
ware, Drugs, Medicines,
Stationary, Saddery, Tin
ware, Fish, Leather. Salt
and Nails.
He has also any quantity of Notions, such
as Combs, SuSpeaders, SIX Guards,
Ladies' Steel and .SiIUered Slides,
Buttons, Brushes, Pocket Books,
Hooks g. Eyes, &c. &c. IN short
eUery thing that IS usually
kept an q Country Store.
lie thanks his friends and the public gener-
orally for past favo-s, and requests them to
call and take a look at his goods before purcha
sing elsew here, he feels satisfied tina: he can
accommodate them with anything in his line
of business at least as cheap as any other es-
tablishment in the county.
Cash and approved country produce taken
in exchange for Goods.
JOHNSTON MOORE.
Oct. Is, I849.-2-tf.
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They will not enforce it. Commissioners vii
resign their places rather than carry IL into exc.
cution. The Marshal will be resisted, and q very
little resistance will satisfy him that he cannot
fulfil his duties A thousand obstacles, which
cannot yet be named, will be thrown in its way,
and the slave-owner will be left in the precise
position in which he was before the law was
passed.
Laws must depend upon public opinion for
their vitality. They are nothing more than de-
liberate and formal expression of public senti-
ment When the sentiment of portion of Il
States population favors law, even when ma.
jority Of the same is set against it, the law may
prevail. But when the public opinion of whole
population opposes the execution of law, it is
manifestly void and valueless.
That the Fugitive Slave bill is void and value.
less, we have no doubt will be shortly proved by
facts to the satisfaction of every observer. 1t
becomes the Southern people, therefore, not to
be luled into the sleep of security by the ia
vorable symptoms which they now behold
They will find themselves forced to other means
of resistance and redress than paper guarantees
and statute provisions, if they desire to protect
their property and their rights from the aggres-
sors in the knavsh North
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oppressed by the injustice and tyranny of mere
numbers. The only question Is, will the South.
ern States apply it. | believe that they will
Georgia has taken the lead i'm this matter, and, in
my opinion, should be permitted to keepit.s Hel
Convention which has been called, will sit at the
same time with our Legislature. Before ours
shall have adjourned the decision of the Georges
Convention will he known. a Convention in
this Slate can be assembled by the middle OF
January, in time to support any course of resist.
ance recommended by Georgia, or to consider
the propriety of acting alone, should the South
en States, by their organized bodies, shrink
from the contest.
have fully made up my mind, that the South
is now reduced to condition that she mustchoose
between determined resistance, and base, dis.
honorable Observation-Disclosures to be at.
tended with temporary quiet, but followed by
Inevitable degradation and ruin. 1t would be
far better for South Carolina to enter this con-
test single-handed, with such individual aid rs
she may get from the States Of the South, and
lncut all the hazard of utter subjugation, than
tamely submit, and subject herself to train of
evils that will be worse even than that. ] mean
what say, when declare that would rather
perish than witness the degradation that must
come upon the South, if she submits to the des-
tiny that the North is preparing for her.
have the honor to be, gentlemen, with great
respect, your obd't servant,
d. F. JAMISON
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ErnLn lie Richnnnd Examiner

The Southern people are apt to be dcluded
by the present result Of the Fugitive slave law
Some three or four runaway negroes have been
recovered through its provisions, with little diff
Guilty, and the public Of these States are settling
into the belief that this sort Of thing will con-
tinuc for all time to come 1t is dream from
which they will speedily be awakened. In few
months the Fugitive slave bill will be as mani
testify void as the pain dictates Of the Constitu-
ton and all the provisions Of Congress hitherto
have been. Two or three negroes have been
captured without difficulty, simply because the
Northern population is not yet prepared for re-
sistance, and have notyet organized their schemes
Of evasion. But who that reads Northern
newspaper can doubt their will to evade and
their determination to resist The people OF
those States are cautious race. They look
before they set down their foot. few weeks
more may clapse before they perfect their plans,
and find the means Of multiplying this law. But
they will do it, just so certainly as they promise
10 do it.
A few days since we happened to be present
in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, where
the population had been excited to great pitch
of fury by rum0r that some SOuthcrncrs had
been seen prowling in the ncghborhood." The
people assembled in their town hall, and passed
resolution: multiplying the law Of Congress, and
declaring their deliberate intention to resist the
United States Marshal should he attempt an ar
rest in their locality. This was the substance
of their public expression; and the talk of these
Yankees, rs they walked home through the dusk
was Of tar and feathers. In Boston, on Sunday
morning the writer went to hear the celebrated
Theodore Parker, whose rank as to scholarship
and intellectual power it would be vain to deny,
is not only among the first of the world of liter.
allure, but also of the English language wherever
written. He took occasion to dcnounce the Con-
stitutiOn and laws of the United States with
great bitterness, and mentioned in commentator
ny terms the laying of Marshall Haynau by the
draymen of the London breweries. He did this
to instance the degraded state of public opinion
in Boston as compared with that of London:
for, said he, if great Stare o,oner were to come
here, man Of crimes far blacker than those of
the Austrian Butcher, he would not be logged
in the streets of Boston; the drivers of coaches
and omnbuscs would not refuse to convey him
and his luggage 20 the hotels; but on the con-
trary he would even be received into the houses
of the rich people Of Boston, and looked upon
as very respectable person by many known
even to those whom he addressed. A discourse
of this character was listened to with great at
tention and apparent appreciation by IN audience
of some two thousand very good looking people.
We mention the incident to show the exist
ing state of feeling among the people whom
we expect to enforce the Fugitive Slave bill.
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Resotred, That we do not seek dissolution
Of the Union through the State Convention
But that We will seek redress for our grievances
protection for our property and the preservation
OF the Constitution in its original purity by
every Legitimate means within our power in the
Union. And our motto shall be to demand
nothing but what is clearly our right, and sub,
init to nothing that is wrong"
ReSoired, That we recommend to the State
Convention the adoption of non-intercoursc
policy, as an efficient and practicable system foI
securing these ends
Upon motion the preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted and signed.
Judge Bivin moved That a committee of five
be appointed to present to the meeting the
names of suitable persons for candidates to the
State Convention and Judge Biyin, Dr. Peter
Jacob A. Clements, Il. G.. Brown and p Jarni
gan, were appointed-who reported the names
Of DR.. N. NJ Holton, (Whig) and Captain E
q. Brown, Dem) as candidates, which nomna.
tons were unanimously confirmed by the meet
ing.
Measures were then adopted for the regular
organization of the Association, and the selec.
ton of officers
On motion of +. w. Miller, the association
adjourned to meet again on Saturday the 18th
of October
Warm and eloquent sentiments were express
sed by several gentlemen, and an warm and ell.
thusiasm pervaded the assembly.
ii i bA MlSrHR' Chairman.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGMlA.-We learn from
the Charlottesville Advocate, that the number OF
matriculates on Friday morning of last week
was 322, distributed among the different schools
as follows: Ancient Languages 1903; Modern
Languages lls; Mathematics l44; Natural
Philosophy IA; Chemistry l47; Moral Philoso-
ply 80; Law 81; Medicine 81; Anatomy and
Surgery 81; Lectureship of Anatomy Sc.
Two hundred and tifty-one Students are from
Virginia; the remaining II are from the follow
ing States: Alabama 10; Louisiana IL Mis-
sissippi = Tennessee 6; South Carolina 5;
Ohio s.; Maryland 4 New York 4 /; Georgia 8;
Kentucky ?; District of Columbia 2; North
Carolian l +; Missouri / Texas l and Penn.
sylvania /.
Fifty-six Students matriculated after the lott
last session.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21

HOME EDUoArIoN.-The editor Of the Camden
rs. c. Journal in a brief article against the
Northern education of Southern youths, says
ave had two young friends from Mississippi
staunch ,Southcrners-whow went to an Ohio col
lege-they came home Abolitionists. Two others
rom Virginia, who went to Brown University
whose President is the Moral Philosopher, Way,
land-they came back strong Abolitionists ana
one of them would have r cciyed Lecture OF
unwritten law found inside pine ana outside
a poose1 by the rood people of Virginia, but for
the resnect thew bore his venerable father"
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21
VI. ALL,
L. OEIvER, Secretary.
Letters from Members of the Nashville
Convention.

Convention.
SILVER BLUFF, Sept. %, 1850.
| GENTLEMEN: | have received to-day your DO
lite invitation, and regret that it is impossible
FOR me to attend the meeting you hold on Mon
day next to consider the course to be pursued
IN reference to the late proceedings in Congress.
Permit me to say that the course for South Caro-
INA, Tor the particular moment ut least, seems to
me clear She has long foreseen the present
condition of affairs and has made every effort to
awaken the South to proper sense of the dam
gers that environ it. When eighteen years ago
she assumed the lead in resisting, by resort to
the reserved rights Of the States, acts of the
Federal Government that were oppressive, UNI
constitutional and pregnant with evils not even
yet fully developed, she was so wholly unsus-
tanned by the other States whose situation was
Identical with hers, that think she is not only
fully justiiiabe in waiting now for some other
State to take the initiative but it is her duty to
do so, since there has been so clear manifesto
ton that none of them are willing to follow her
At the same time it is equally her duty to let it
be AFOREMENTIONED | think it is hardly doubted
that she will promptly and efficiently support
any competent movement to rescue the South
from its present perilous condition The pow
erful and gallant State of Georgia has on this
occasion already thrown herself into the breach
Embracing large territory in tho very heart of
the South, and touching Ave other States, it is
altogether becoming that she should take the
lead. And Judging from her past history and
present attitude, entertain the strongest hopes,
that she will propose measures adequate to the
crisis. Measures worthy of herself and such as
South Carolina and the whole South may cor
daily. support without hazardng their safety or
their honor,
1.-THE same apathy under Northern aggression,
which has heretofore characterized the South,
existed now, il would be for our State again to
consider what she could and should do single
handed. But recent events must certainly have
satisfied every intelligent and patriotic citizen of
the slave-holding section, that the time has come
when he must look the dangers that menace him
full in the face, and decide early and finally on
The course to be adopted lie cannot but see
that the South now occupies in this confederacy
the same position that Ireland does in the British
Union, and is rapidly approaching that Of Jamaca
and even worse. A few months may, Il very
few years must settle our fate forever. What
that fate will be, depends altogether upon our
deciding whether to resist or to submit. We have
the strength, and if we have the courage to main
tain our rights, a future is before us more glor-
ious than ever dawned on any other people If
we succumb, the annals of Hayti will be the
only historic record that can furnish after ages
PARALLEL to the terrible sunerings and the in
famous doom awaiting our devoted country.
| have the honor to he with great respect,
Your ob'dt servant
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21

IMPERFECT EDucATIoy.-Leigh Hunt, in his
fascinating autobiography, states that he never
got through the multiplication table when boy,
and does not know it yet, though he is now 60
years of age, and one of the most delightful au-
thors in Christcndom. Hunt also states another
remarkable fact, which is, that the early educa-
ton of the celebrated West, President of the
Royal Academy, had been so sadly neglected
that, at the zenith of his fame as a painter, he
scarcely knew how to read. ~
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21

r IFE INSURANCE.-British. Commercial
Lie Insurance Company, established in 1920,
IA uncovered by act Of Parliament, for the In
smranee Of Lives and Survivorships, and the en-
dowment of Children, &C., &C., CAPT. l.
rJJREE MILLION DOLLARS!
TgeOfice Sd story Colonization Buildings,
near Jackson Hall, Pennsylvania avenue, WASH
inton city, d. Z. 4, o,,
October 81, lS50-df,
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21

When the works now in progress are com.
pleted, Edinburgh will be supplied with 1857
gallons of water per minute In 1912 the sup
ply from all sources was only $50 gallons per
minute, so that it has been, or will be, nearly
trebled,
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21

given out this season than during any fprmer one,
but il will be divided among much greater nuhi-
Der o. miners, with, perhaps, less per man than
has marked the past. Large fortunes win not be
so frequent, but an abundant yield will result
from persevering labor. The quartz rock, par
ticularly in the MarIposa mnes, is yielding rich
return, it'll an encouraging prospect for still
greater abundance when the machinery for crush
ing the quartz shall be put into successful opera
mi .-
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-21

a most enviable POSITION A rum on a banker
here, tries him much more severely than one upon
bank OF issue at home. The latter has grace
The former none. 1t would be impossible TO get
together all the notes of any New York or Boston
bank, and present then Al the counter in one, two,
or even three days. So long as notes are in Cir
culation, the bank he s the use of the funds re-
celyed for them. But our bankers issue no notes,
and depositors come upon them without warning,
and they must be prepared. Therefore, we say,
our bankers, IN sustaining themselves deserve all
credit. Notwithstanding the temptation to loan
money, at the large rates of interest here prevail
ing, we could name bankers who have all along
been prepared to pay all depositors at any mo-
ment. They had coin amply sufficient TO meet
any draft which could be drawn Our bankers
and business men may well be proud Of this truly
gratifying result, and we may venture to anticipate
more prosperous and healthful state Of things
hereafter, both in trade and finance. Subjoined is
list of bankers of our city which have proven
themselves safe and reliable and we trust that
the small financial panic, consequent upon the
failures of two or three will produce no doubt or
disastrous consequences in the Atlantic cities,
among the business men:
Burgoyne & Co., James King, of VIM, Page,
Bacon, & Co., S. Bebee, Ludlow d CO., b. Dav-
idson, agent for Rothschilds, Wells e. Co, Ar
GENT d Co., ID. |. Talent & Co., E. Dunbar s
California bank, Adams g. Co.
Gold dust, SIG sl6.25.
Exchange on London, thirty days, s 4.SS per
pound sterling.
Exchange on New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
and New Orleans, at sight, par.
In State scrip and loans, but little is doing
City scrip, 80 a90.
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[By Telegraph--Fo' the Southern Press
The Markets.

New ORLEANS, Oct. I9-p. m.
The cotton market is dull; barely $500 bales
were sold on Thursday and to-day. Prices are in
favor Of buyers.
Sales of a few hhds. of new sugar, for fair
quality, at cents; new molasses IS cents.
cargo consisting of 4,600 bags new coffee
from Rio, the first imported this season, is held at
Is cents.
Sales Of whisky at &c! cents.
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MIssIsslrrT.-At the Kinds county (Miss.)
Mass Meeting, the following resolutions intro
duced by Colonel Tarpley were unanimously
adopted:
g. Resolved, That we will not transact any
business (either by the shipment of Cotton to,
or the purchase of goods from) with any mer-
chant in the city of New Orleans who is known
to be Free-soiler in his sentiments, or I'M
less his long residence in the South and known
opinions have identified him with the South.
4. Resolved, That we will employ no school
teachers or patronize any school under the man,
agcment Of any person or persons, who are not
known to be wholly Southern in all their feel
ings and opinions, we are unwilling to sub
ject our children to the faint Of corruption, by
placing them under the influence Of those who
claim il as religious merit to aid in the de-
struction Of Southern institutions.
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A0sas q
BY TELEG GRAPH.
[By Telegraph--For the Southern Press
.4rTirai Of The Steamer Phiiadelphia-Tke Market

LBy Telegraph--For the Southern Press
arrival Of the Steamer Philadelphia The Markets.
New York, Oct. 1916 p. m.
The steamer Philadelphia arrived here to-day
from Chagres. She brings l40 passengers, and
eight hundred thousand dollars worth of gold
dust on freight. The consignments to Baltimore
are Conner & Sons $4,000; Winter and Latimer
100000; N. Walker $1,000; Burling & Dixon
5000 Head & Buckner $4,000.
The news by the Philadelphia is no later than
that by the Crescent City.
The stock market to-day was steady United
States 6's; coupons, ll9s; Carlton Company So;
Sterling Exchange l0E prem.
Flour is rather quiet. Sales of 1000 bbls. at
"a Sc a "a GO for common brands. Southern "a 10
a IS l2s. Genesee IS a IS Is. Corn Meal
So II.
" Grain rather dull Sales of 5000 bushels Gen.
esee at ll2 ia cents; 1000 do red 100 l02
cents. Corn--9,000 bushels at Gil 65 cents for
mixed, and 65 66 cents for yellow. Oats AZ
cents; rye 10 cents. Isl
Provisions steady. Mess Pork 81 81 l2..
Sales GOO bbls. Lard II a Il cts. per lib.
The Grocery market quiet and unchanged.
Sales of 600 tierces Rice, during the week, at 80
a 81 cts. per Id.
Cotton firm. Sales of 700 bales at l45 cents
for fair Uplands, ard Isl for fair Orleans
Tobacco continues very firm; prices upward.
Whisky 26 2Gi cts. per gallon.
[By Teegraph-For the " Southern Press. ~
Fully Committed-Sudden DEATH
BALTIMORE, Oct. 1873 p. m. 4"
The seven persons who were arrested some
days ago, charged with numbering young Edward
Mitchell, by shooting him on the night of the
Mayors election, were, after an examination of
two days in the City Court, fully committed this
afternoon for trial at the regular term. The judge
very properly refused to receive bail in their case
They are very hard looking party. The out
rage was most daring and bloody one. 1t is
hoped if guilty, the law may overtake and pun
ish them according to the enormity Of the crime.
M. Howard Moal a young citizen of Balt-
more, well known, and belonging to one Of the
oldest and best families of the city, died suddenly
this morning.
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From the .1merican Sovereign, Poniutoc, Miss.


.1fy" The submissionists have contended all
along that the passage of those concatenated
outruges on the South embraced in what is
known as the Clay Compromise, would tend to
stay the fanatica hand of the Abolitionsts, and
thereby restore peace and harmony to the coun-
try. The State Rights party, on the other hand,
maintained that their passage would be an arb-
trary and ilagitous act of injustice to the South,
| and would not only invite to further and holder
aggressons on her rights, but would be certain
to produce state Of feeling that would sooner
or later result in dissolution of the Union.-
During the protIacted discussion of the Com.
promise in Congress-, the South declared, with
uneXampled unanimity, in various modes, hei
undying hostility to it, and her settled determ
nation not to submit to it if it should be forced
upon her by 4 reckless and despotic majority in
that body. Though defeated in the aggregated
and anomalous shape in which it was introduced
ny its author all the measures Of which it was
composed, as whole, have been taken up and
acted on separated y, and are now n part Of the
laws of the land.
The apparent and attrocious I'M Justice to the
South with which some of these measures are
fraught without the slightest benefit afforded
her in any ofthe others, is what the South should
not, and we believe, will not, endure. Her honor,
her interests, her character for chivary, her ve-
Grafton for the Constitution, and respect for the
memory of its illustrious trainers, her regard for
the opinions of other enlightened nations, her
lofty sense of justice and deep hate of tyranny,
her very salvation, all, all demand that she should
not submit to such grossly fraudulent and ty-
ranical enaetments. TO do so will be to acknow-
ledge her degradation, and enter upon life Of
vassalage which will inevitably and shortly
terminate in civil war; blooshed and general de-
VISITATION. Every body who has watched the
course and manmuvering of tho aboltionists
knows that every advantage they have gained
over the South has but served to stimulate and
embolden them to push still further their inva-
sions On her rights. Witness the recent vote
in the United States Senate on proposition Of
Hale to abolish slavery in the District of Colum-
bia--which proposition received the support of
nine Senators. And this too, before the echoes
of the cannon had scarcely died away which pro-
claimed the joy and exultation Of abolitionism
over the admission of California. Where is the
boosted charm, the magic potency of the Com
promise that would arrest and bind the giant of
fanaticisn, and allay the fears and anxiety ofthe
South. Weighed down by oppression and
tire 'tened with III increase Of her burthen, the
South is now called upon, is ,forced to choose
between submission with degradation and civil
war in its train, and secession accompanied by
equality and independence. Let others pursue
whatever course they may; but for oursef--
our nature, instinct, Judgment, impulse, all, lead
us to cordially adopt the latter alternative.