Lewistown Gazette

The Whig Nominations,
The following notice of the Whig nominees are from the North American. Our citizens will be pleased to notice that Henry W. Snyder, of Union county, an intelligent and widely esteemed farmer, has been nominated for an important post, in the proper administration of which every tax-payer is deeply interested.
Joshua Dungan, of Bucks county, is a man in every way fitted for the post of Canal Commissioner, and his popularity is as well known as it is deserved. Highly intelligent and well educated; a practical farmer, distinguished for his devotion to the interests of agriculture; he is a man of the people, and a favorite among the people, irrespective of party. A good Whig, but not a politician, in any ordinary or invidious sense of the word, he has never been in public life, although well fitted for it. He has, indeed, filled one public post, which will not be remembered to his disadvantage, nor will he ever fail himself to recollect it with pride and pleasure. He was a member of the Electoral College of 1848, and he had the honor to cast his vote for General Taylor.
Joseph Henderson, of Washington county, the candidate for the office of Surveyor General, has a name identified with that of the party in the State; and no man in his county ever enjoyed, or now enjoys, a larger share of public favor and confidence. He has represented it in the Legislature, of which he proved himself an able and efficient member: and he has, at various periods, been elected to high offices—that of Sheriff among the rest—in the immediate gift of the people of his county. He served for several years in the Land Office as chief clerk, discharging its duties with an ability which elicited praise even from political opponents, and acquiring there the experience and business readiness which qualify him so admirably to fill the higher office to which he has been nominated. As a politician, his character stands as high as that of any man in the Commonwealth; and he has ever been most zealous and active in the support of the principles, the measures and the men of the Whig party. As a private citizen, he has no superior, his moral character being unimpeached and unimpeachable.
Of Henry W. Snyder, of Union county, the candidate for Auditor General, it ought to be enough to say that he is the son of the late Simon Snyder, the brave and honest old Democratic Governor, who, for nine years, from 1808 to 1817, administered the affairs of the State with incorruptible fidelity, and left behind him a name which, even yet, has a power of enchantment and the force as of a war-cry, to so many thousand Pennsylvania bosoms. The son has inherited the qualities and the popularity of the father. The Convention has, in him, given to the Whig party a candidate whose name is identified with victory.