The Mountain Sentinel

'The portage Railroad is almost deserted at the present time of its officers. From the highest, almost down to the lowest grade have deserted their posts and gone on a political tour to the Williamsport Locofoco Convention, at an expense of nearly ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS per day to the Commonwealth.'

This is stealing of the worst character, but it is all right the tax payers pay the piper.--Hollidaysburg Whig

What can the people think of a man having control of a public journal, who would be guilty of uttering such a deliberate and malicious falsehood as the above paragraph? Not a single officer on the Portage Railroad attended the Williamsport Convention, with the exception of two--a car Captain and a Foreman--and one of these acted as a delegate from Mercer county.

We know this to be a fact, and defy the editor of the Whig to contradict it. It must be a source of regret to all lovers of truth and justice that a man should get control of a paper who is capable of publishing such a deliberate falsehood (for we cannot believe him so ignorant as not to know it to be such at the time,) and who is so totally lost to all sense of honor or shame, as to make his sheet the weekly retailer of the most unblushing calumnies. The editor of the Whig has been for some time endeavoring to prejudice the public mind against the officers of the public works; and in doing so he has pursued a course of the most abandoned character.

Stopping at nothing, and always more ready to make use of a falsehood than the truth to accomplish his purposes, he has established for himself a character for lying that has not its equal in the State. If he has any patriotism in his composition, or any regard for the welfare of our good old Commonwealth (which we very much doubt) he would alter his course. for he must know that his conduct is calculated to injure, and we believe has injured the character of our public improvements. We sincerely hope that his sense of religion, for he has some pretensions to that, will induce him to pay more regard to truth hereafter, abandon a course which is discreditable to himself in the highest degree, and assume that position before the public as a public journalist which they have a right to expect.