From Ike New Orleans Picayune. they were wanted, or where they wanted RECORDER'S COURT, to be. Well dune, Englishmen! Things SECOND MUNI( IPALITY were conic to a pretty good pass, it was . , thought. People raid, onder:ng, to one THE PaEf,IDESI lAL ELECTION.— Fran k another, if our giandfathers could but rise. Smith and Ishonias Reddin were up before from their graves, and see all this, howl Recorder Pattie in on Sunday morning. they would stare! But it was soon found They a were arrested for being noisy and in- that the population and needs of the toxicated. country had outgrown even these scrums ier - l e "Smith," said the Recorder, "about amdations. 'there was a cry for more IIL A II) YOUNAL• what did you and Reddin quarrel?" I conveyance and more speed. Some talk-I "Vy, about the old thing, your honor," ! ed of balloons, some of velocipedes, and said Smith. I some of perpetual motion. The old and "What do you call the old thing?" said the orthodox said, "Let well be. 'Pilings the Recorder. I move fast enough. There is no rest, no "Vy, this here presidential helection,"' repose, no steadiness in this generation; said Smith. all is hurry, hurry, hurry. It is perfectly "0, you diffir in politics, do you," said distractiong!" They even looked back the Recorder. to the old hollow roads and string of pack "Certainly ve do," said Smith—"he iA fortes with affectionate yearnings. Nev a rabbit Loco Foco, and I is a Vig." ertheless, a set of big-headed fellows v ere . "A what?" said the Recorder. busy with their brains, and began to utter "A wiolent politician and in favor of strange speeches about the powers of Wan Buren," said Smith: "But I'll tell steam. It was a thing which was to work your honor as how it is. Ye both lives in our mines and mills, impel our ships, and the same yard, and eenever I passes him I convey us, with velocity of a comet, from he says (here goes Hard Cider; there's one place to another. Oid men, and wise von 9f the party wot aint got no priori- men too, laughed at such Quixotic vapor plea; there's a supporter of the man wet's lugs; yet, spite of their laughter, there been made brave by certificates and not were heard great hammerings, and filings, by his sword; and he goes on in that ere and fizzings; in the workshops of Watt vay vich no good vig can stand. Ven he and Bolton ; and presently that mighty finds the other wigs out vot live in the monster, steam-engine, was seen pulling yard, and the Loco Focos at home, he is up buckets of water and heaps of ore out sure to take the wale so i l then he calls it of the earth, and turning a thousand spin a Wan Buren wictory. and a sign of the tiles in our factories. It has become lo• times, and all that. The fact is, your ho- comotive, has mounted the roads, and the nor, if the feller vasn't looking out fur an ships prepared for it, and is now flying office I doesn't think he'd be end as pa- from town to town, and country to coun triotic as he is." try, with us and our concerns, in a man "Reddin," said the Recorder, "is your ner so wonderful that we shall soon find conduct such as Smith describes it?" ourselves past wondering at any thing. "Not a bit of it," said Reddin—"if I Do we not ride at the rate of thirty miles vas to be let alone I'd never do nothing to an hour, and grumble at such a snail's nobody, but he's heternally talking pull- pace; step over to America in ten days, tics. - Von my old voinan locks the door and think it about five too long; and hear and goes out, lie makes a fox on it vith news front the East Indies in little more chalk and writes underneath it, 'this here than a month? Well done, Englishmen! is sly Reynard front Kinderhook, vot vos as our fathers said, so say we—that is fur sometime in the London Zoological pretty well for another fit. Milton& tiardens, but now is in the Menagerie at //await Vashington ; he's the most cunning huni tnal vote known to naturaists' This is nut all, your hotter. Ven I vapts to sleep at night Wowed if I can get a wink, he kicks up such a rumpus, singing Har rison songs the whole tune anti crowing like a reg'lar rooster. I have challenged him over and over again, but I never can get him -to toe the mark, no how." "Do you know," said the Recorder, "that by challenging him you have been guilty of inciting to a breach of the peace' "1 doesn't mean a duel, your honor," - said Reddin, "but to a discussion of prin ciples; but I'm blamed if I don't believe taint got any." "But can't you both retain your respec tive political opinions without quarrelling?' said the Recorder. "Yell, then," said Redilin, "your honor must bind him over not to sing Allison songs between the hours of ten o'clock at night and six o'clock in the morning, and not to be frightening my children out of bed by firing off that old rusty musket in celebration of wictories when he paint, gained none. Yes, and prewent him., your honor," continued Reildin, "from making his big dog str.nd on his hind legs in my presence, and saying, as lie points to him, 'here is von of Watt Buren's pre sent standing army,' nor I vt not stand any more from hint about negro testimony cause it's all gammon." On the part of Smith it was provided that Reddin was not to call him a hard cider cask, nor a worshipper of log cabins any more. They made mutual promises to act with more forbearance towards one another in future, and to display a great er degree of political charity than they have evinced heretofore, and were dis charged PROGRESS OF MODERN TRAVELLING. Our fathers were--and that within the memory of men--contented to convey their goods from town to town on pack horses. Narrow roads, which barely ad . mitted a string of these beasts, burthened with the needs of many towns, ran on over hill and dale, and often were found worn deep between steep banks, by the persevering traffic of ages, and overhung by trees, which hail spontaneously sprung sod grown over them, rendering them cool and pleasant. But the affairs of our' worthy ancestors became sensibly on the increase. The strigns of the pack-horses slowly progressing over the woods and through forests were found not equal to the demands of commercial exchange and speed; and they set their wits to work, and 10, Pickford's and Pettifor's wagons, and others, their coteniporaries, appeared, piled up in ponderous stateliness, and drawn by horses in bulk next to elephants. For their convenience, the old roads were deserted as too narrow, or filled up as too slumberously profound. New road's, of an airy width, were laid down; and Mr. M'Ailam showed himself, with his necromantic hammer and pebble gunge in his hand, and coaches came gal loping after him at ten miles speed per r, touted with eager and still impatient negociante; roads of granite or of li me sune, however sinned', or however wide, or however covered with wagons, coaches, mails, horsemen, and infinite variety of carriages of pleasure, travel, and parade, which now appeared on them, were found toe few ; and canals were cut; locks— wonderful in these days—were invented; anti heavy boats and light barges hastened to convey their freights of living things, end things for the living; market goods and market people—to the places where THE YOUNIO BRIDE.— The following beautiful sketch from the pen of Wash. ington Irving, although originally pub lished a long time ago, embodies an ex quisit picture: "I know no sight more charming and touching than that of a young and timid bride, in her robes of virgin white, led up tre:rbling to the altar.—When I thus be• hold a ;lovely girl in the tenderness of her years, forsaking the home of her fath er, and the home of her childhood--and with the implicit confidence, and the sweet self-abandonment which belong to women, giving up all the world for the man of her choice; when I hear her in the good old language of the ritual, yielding herself to him "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love honor and obey, till death us do part,"—it brings to mind the beau tiful and affecting devotion of Ruth. "Whither thou guest, I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy peo ple she!' be my people, and thy God toy God." Cvntous OCCURRENCE.—A few nights since, at a late hour, a lad apparently a bout sixteen years of age, applied for ad. mittance at an Inn in Queenston, bit not giving satistactory answers to some ques tions put by the landlord. was refused. The landlord thinking the boy's conduct very strange, communicated his suspicion to a policeman stati ned in the house, whom he awoke about an hour before day light; the policeman immediately went down to the ferry, where he saw the young gentleman apparently waiting for the first Loat to convey himself and a horse across the river. Still declining to answer any questions he was detained and examined by is Magistrate, when he confessed to riot being a boy, as suppo• semi, but a girl, living with her mother in the United States, her father having de serted them for another home and wife, on this side of the water, leaving them ut terly destitute. Their distress and his cruel neglect determined her, in what she considered no crime, to steal one of her father's horses, which she intended to have sold and given the money to her mo ther, The artless tale so won upon the Magistrate's heart, that he sent her (with some remarks on the impropriety of her conduct) home to her mother, detaining the horse however, which was applied for and deliverd to the father, a day or two afterwards. HOW ARE. YOU OFF FOR SOAPY— A Tennessee exchange relates the following —A census taker in a neighboring county a very clever fellow by the bye, called on an old lady la;ely, and among other questions asked her how much soap she made last year. "Soap!" said the old lady. ..Lord bless 'you, young man, I have not made enough soap in the last ten years to Nash one Loco Foco clean. Prentice says: '.The Pennsylvania Mercury, in its lase against Maine, calls it the land of onions'--We do not won der that the Loco Feces think it an onion • State, Every breeze from it brings teara into their eyes " Dr. Duncan is a great speaker. He can thing an arg'unient to a point as soon as any man—Globe. facial britl;agallon of whiskey to e putt sooner thLanY man,—Gin lon other Republican. One country,one , :•onetitution , one deatiny Huntingdon, Nov. 18. 1840 A Real Dim, Such of our subscribers as know them selves indebted for three, four and live years, will beat in mind, that their ac counts will be placed in the hands of the law for collection, immctliately after the November court, unless they hand us the .one thing needful," on or Lefure that Jay. Let there be no misunderstanding of the matter. Money we need, and must have it. To many of our punctual subscribers we return our thanks; and humbly beg continuance of their kindness, in this day of our utmost need. The absence of the Editor must be our apology fur the scarcity of editorial in our columns this week. The Election Is all going one way. One state after another comes in with large majorities for "old Tip," and strikes terror and dis. may into the hearts of the poor Locos.— They see there is no chance for Matty— his "schemes," and "experiments," have ruined his popularity ; and Van Buren now sees that the feelings of an indepen dent - people must not be insulted, and are not willing to live under a monarch, with out some effort at resistance. Of what use was it that so much valuable blood was shed in the Revolution, while oppo sing an over-bearing and tyranical King, if we are now to submit quietly to the will of one man? The people must be respec ted y and Van Buren has now discovered, although too late, that he was in error. ITEMS fhe Hon. Daniel Webster has been very ill at his farm in Franklin, N. , B.: Lut has since recovered. A MYSTERY.—A western editor, way off in the Illinois "dig ins" says, that marriages begin to be brisk always when frost time comes. He makes no attempt to solve the mystery. A PLEASANT LIFE.— No less than six attempts have been made to assassinate Louis Philippe, since his elevation to the I throne. Gov. SWARD, of New York, has ap• pointed the 17th day of December next as a day of general Thanksgiving in thu State. MORE STEAN.-A gentleman of Lon don is said to have made a contract for the exclusive navigation of steamers up the Amazon, for 45 years, and is negoci ating for a communication by steam, be tween England and Brazil. REFINEMENT.—To speak of a divorce, says the Picayune, now is vulgar. The phrase substituted for it is "a repeal of tilt union." FLORIDA NEWS.—One Indian has been fired upon; one pone) , taken after despe • rate kicking ; hundreds of defenceless whites have fallen victims to the Naha. hawk and scalping knife; all the army contractors have made fortunes, and the Secretary of Wam has made himself su• premely ridiculous. Gov. Porter has issued his proclamation for an election to be held in the 13th Congressional District, on the 2011 to supply the vacancy occacioned by the death of lion. Wm. S. Ramsey. Cum. berland, Perry and Juniata counties com pose the district. STATES CERTAIN Feb VAN Bun Ert--- State of appi eliension, state of purturba Lion, state (Jr exclusive, nod state of ilia grace—New Hampshire and Berks coun ty,— Suuth Carolina, doubtful. Breaking Ground.--• The defeated par ty is breaking up, and its several portions moving away to some attractive point. One part, the "out and outers," real Lu. co-focus, are for placing Thomas H. Ben ton strongly before the people as the can didate for the Presidency. This is a fail start. Mr. Benton deserves so touch a , least; he set the ball in motion; he it was that started the kind of warfare in which the party has been engaged: and, though defeated, it owes to him the consequen ce which it has even in defeat. This branch of the party are loud and deep a" grinst Governor Porter, upon whom the charge defeat; upon him to ohom they owe at least from 8,00 to 10,000 vot, in this Stute, and the influence of those votes in other States. Another branch of the Van Buren par t v have already signified their determina tion to rally round Gen Scott, and take measures, as we hear, to ascertain that distibguished officer's views on the sub-' ject, so that the party which seemed as firm, as tight, and as compact in the late contest as a vine cask, has fallen asun der as the staves of that cask would fall if the hoops were cut.----U. S Gazelle. OBITUARY RECORD. the midst of life we are in death." Ibi ED-sin this Borough, on Tuetulay the 10th inst., WILLIAM RAYMOND, aged 19 years. COMMUNICATED The death of this estimable young man —his departure, in the spring time of life, , from the stage of this world's theatre, for that far distant coun'ry from whose bourne no traveller ever returns, furnishes ano ther melancholy, and oft repeated evi dence of the instability of human things, and admonishes us, the survivors, in terms the most forcible, of the infinite imfor tanee of at all times having on the wed ding garment, so that when ihe pale horse and its insatiable rider comes, we may be enabled to sa. "we are ready ;" or when accident may break in twain the fickle reed upon which we lean for support, that we may be found, and gathered among the je'vels to adorn the casket of Him, who wields the destinies of illimitable worlds. A few short months have passed away amongst the things that are uot, since we, beheld him revelling in the sweet smiles or health, young, sprightly, buoyant and gay ; rejoicing in all the exuberance of L healthful spirits, and seemingly anxious to communicate his joy to all things crea ted, with no onr, apparently, to contest his claims to a long and prosperous lite of enjoyment; the pride of his acquaintances, and the joy of his family end relatives. Bright hopes were intertwined in sunny wreaths fur his successful exit amidst the busy scenes, and tumultuous arenas of this Me. Anticipation hail, with intrepid hand held aside the veil of futurity, and lisps-- sweet comforter-- had scanned with anxious eye the seemingly uncloud ed feature. Joy and gladness walked hand in hand, weaving into gay festoons colors painted with an ever versatile fan cy, to auburn the crags of future care. No irk, purtentuus cloud hail asyet for a moment obscured his horizon—his sun shone forth with dazzling lustre, dispers. ing genial light and heat. The bow of promise, bedecked with fascinating hues, beckoned him onward to respectability and affluence. Vain hopes--short lived illusions. I lan unlooked for moment, health in her ephemeral and erratic course, turned from him her rosy and dimpled cheek. Disease! that uncompromising, irresi, table tell-des• trojer, came, paling the ruddy bloom of him "whose growing years had scarcel y told their prime," forcing with cold, un sympathising hand, the now emaci..ted form, upon a couch of languishing and distress, instead of permitting him to en. joy the healt4tlul and invigorating stows phere of hese ' ce from the cares of ill heulth's ra sins. Now was the sudden transition from healthful ease to painful apprehensuni produced, without its effect on others From among a numerous circle of youth• ful associates, to whom his exalted bear ing, his elevated sentiments, his estimable qualities of head and heart, and his ster- I ling worth were deeply appreciated. Thy tear of s3mputhy was seen to flow in co pious profusion, and tnany a secret and ardent aspiration were offered up with feeling hearts to the great Disposer of events, to make his "bur then light." When the dreadful truth was anoun ced, thnt he had shaken oft this mortal cui!, never till then did his friends expe rience the solemn truth contained in the beautiful lines of Mrs. Hemans: is a fearful thin; to love What death may touch,and touching blight.' It was to them like a clap of t'lunder in a cloudless sky, producing an effect which .tifticiently indicated that there are yet 'many noble leelings, and generous affec tions mingled with the darker and stern er attributes of humanity; that like the first bright flowers of spring, grow up imong the thorns and thistles so thickly ,trewn along the pathway of human exis rence. Dying as he did in the full triumphs of redeeming love, 'Fit in his soul to fill a throne Of purity and sanctity.in halo en." His loss has created &vacuum no time can refill, and a memory no time can take i away—a memory that will be enveloped lAnd cherished with friendship and affec• ion by none mote so, than NICYSIA Democratic Harrison MEETIN G. At a numerous Meeting of the Citizens; of Huntingdon County, held in the bo-1 rough of Huntingdon, on Monday I.lth• I November 1840,—JOHN WILLIAM SON, Esq., being appointed President, PETER HEWIT, WM REED, THOMAS CROMWELL, DANIEL AFRICA, and ISRA EL GRAFFIELIS, VICC Presidents; and Robert Stitt, Ephraim Galbraith, Esq and William L. Spear, Secretaries. On motion of William Orbison, Esq., a Committe of twenty.six were appointed' to address a congratulatory letter to Gen. I t illiam Henry Harrison, on the success of the late Presidential Election, and to l tender him an invitation to pass through Huntingdon County, on his way to Wash ington City, previous to the 4th of March next • The following committee were appoin ted, viz: Wm. Orbison, Esq., Samuel Royer, Mx. M'Vicker, Geo. W. Russ, Wm. Hammond, Elias Hoover, 'rho. Reed, Dr. Jas. entree, John Shannon, R.bert Lowry, . - Wm Donaldson, &twat d Tmut, Bcrj. Lees, / . 1... 1'..2 wens, 1;11nK;lir,. Abm R Crane, Maxwell Kinkead, John Parks, (r. C.) I.Vm. Caldwell, Michael Sisler, Dov.d Snare, David M'Murtrie, Jr Samuel Dean, J ames M. Johnson, John G. Miles, James M Bell, Esq The Mating was addressed in anima- ted style, by Isaac Fisher, of Mifflin coun ,ty, John Blanchard of Centre county, John Williamson and John G. Miles of i nuntingdon county, after Thich the fol. lowing Resolutions were adopted. Resolved, That we congratulate the, citizens of the United States, on the glo. 'iota victory achieved by the real Demo-' cracy of the country, over the usurpers of the title, in the election of Gen William Henry Harrison to the Presidency; and, especially, do we congratulate the De mocracy of Huntingdon county, on the happy result of their exertions in the ,cause of truth Resolved, That in the election of Gen. flarilson we anticipate a restoration of :he Government to Constitutional grin- ciples, and an honest and faithful admin. isiration of its affairs, Readved, That our labours do not I cease with the late achievement,—That lour untiring efforts will be required at Ithe coming election, for Governor of this State, in order to rid us of the last yes tige of Loco Focoism and misrule. Roiolred, That we recommend to the Central State Committee, to postpone the calling a convention to nominate a Democratic Ilhig candidate for Gover nor, until after the inat.guration of 1/ tl liam Henry Harrison, thtPresident elect, on the 4th of March next. (Si ned ly l4r ,fficcrs.) RELtotous.—Vhe Commercial Adver. lser gives the following, as having been collected with much trouble by the Com • inittee of the Society for the Propagation , )f the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Christians, 260,000,000 Jews, Nialiomedans, IdoWars of all sorts, 500,000,0 f 0 Total population of the world, 860,000,000 STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, Huntingdon County, ss Personally ap• peered before the subsci iber, a justice of '!he peace in and for said county of Hun tingdon, Jostph Shannon, Sheriff of the county, who being duly sworn accor i ding is law, loth depose and say, that in pursuance of the death warran;. to 11;in di recetd by David R. Porter, Esquire, Gov ernor of the commonwealth of Pennsyl% a hearing date the 19th day of Septet!. her A. D. 1840, this deponent did, be tween the hours of ten o'clock in the fore noon, and three o'clock in the afternoon of Friday the sixth day of November in slant, proceed to execute Robert M'Con• ahy, within . the yard of the jail of said county, and in accordance with the sen• fence of the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the said county, and the death warrant aforesaid, this deponent, did then and there, hang the said Robert M'Conahv by the neck, until he was dead. That this deponent executed the said Robert M'Conahy who was convicted of murder in the first degree, in the presence of such persons sa are required and permitted by the act of Assembly, passed the 10th day of April 1834, entitled "An act to abolish public executions," to invite to be pres ent and witness such execution, and none others, Sworn and subscribed the 16th day of Noveinbet 1840, before - E. GA LBRAITH JOSE - PH SHANNON. MAJ. JACK DOWNING'S LAST. L EROM THE LOG C 18IN, N. BEND. To my Fellow-citizens from New Orleans to Downingville, and from Salt ti a• ter to the Lake. K aters up and deu►t the country and cross-wise. Fellow Citizens—Ever since the world begun all the hunts and chases tell'd on in all parts of creation haint been only a !mere flea hunt to the rale Cox crust !that has just been completed in these Uni• ted States, by the grace of God free and independent at taut, le has been known to every body that' for the last ten years it has been impos sible to hatch eggs, or raise poultry, or to trust any thin g at large of that natur-- night arter night and day arter day—nest nrter nest and chicken arter chicken, wra destroyed by the foxes, and they got as bold and brazen at las.t they would come into the poultry-yard, or any where else, and kept the hull feather'd tribe a kack• ling pretty much all the while. At first the folks got traps and dogs; but it gut so numerous, it was ,fist as much as a dog's life was worth to attack 'em—and folks begin to despair—especially as it was found out that all the young foxes got their directions from one rale sly fox, who as yet never had been tracked, or drivento his hole; he was every where, in every tale, almost at the same time. And wherever he was reported to be, there it was found all the other foxes was most knowin,..g and most impudent. So it was colicluded that it was no use to try and trap the common run of foxes, but, tf possible, make a general rally in all the States, and give chase to this old fax es pecially—and not give up till he was rue to his hole, and then dig him out—for it was thought if lie was only caught, all the rest would be pretty scarce. Well, this matter being agreed upon, the first thing next to be done was to select a good long-winded leader of the chase—one who would not give out, and whose horn could be heard furthest. And so we all agreed upon Old Tip, and we got him pretty well mounted, and he sounded his horn, and its echoes went up and down rivers, and across valleys, and over mountains, till folks all ab out creation got well acquainted with the sound, and on a given day, they assembled at all their stations, and put in practice the few general uules of the chase, capering a Nils round, and having a few sham cha :ea, jest to git nimble,—and then an a big. nal from Old Tip's horn they all - started, and rich a chase, as 1 said afore. as then began, the hull created world has never before seen, fur it was an everlasting wide and long country to chase over, and no ,:ne knowing yet where the fox would first br.•ak kiver, all hands at first went t 3 work beating the bush. The first track was struck in Louisartna, sod about 3,- 000 give chase there, and run hint out of that State, and he streaked away North as hard as he could clip it, and knowing all the by-ways, escaped till he reached the State of Alaine. The Maine boys were ,wide awake, and as soon as they stru,k . his track there, they raised an al. mighty shout and headed him otr. He then sheared oft' to New Hampshire, where they are pretty touch all fox, and there for a spell took breath. hut hears tog the coining shout he struck for Ver mont in hopes the "Green Mountings" would furnish a kiver, but they were all awake there, and about 8000 folks jined in the chase, and he remained no loner in Vermont than he could get out on't. "Well," thinks he, "this is pritty Site work, and I'm oil' South again, for they must be friendly to me there, seeing as how I tell'd alt the foxes to be civil to ti•e So ithern Chickens," and ao he sliped along to Georgia. The Georgia folks, however, not liking the natur of the breed, had already called their fox hunters together, and on the first show of a track they all opened and about 5.000 give chase there in a most noble stile, and lie turned tail and run towards the Mid dle States. In passing through the old Noi th State of Carolina, he finds things too wide awake there to stop a minit. and jest so it continued all the way through Maryland, Delaware and Penn sylvania, though he bothered the hunters plagily in Pennsylvania, for they don't understand fox hunting much in that ' State, except in a few counties especially ' in Bucks county, and that is the reason ' why in that county they always have good poultry and plenty on't. So he • continued North. In Connecticut ana Rhode Island they gave him an amazing • close run, and no time to stop or doubt, and eenniosi caught him. As for Masses ' chussetts, he knew pritty well he stood ' no chance there, and so you see but one strait chase across, and taking a bite in New Hampshire, lie tried fur New York and run considerably well and comforts• bly along the Hudson, but such a howl as • met loin in the west was a shiver for hint ' and he sheered off for Ohio, but that was out of the frying pass into the ashes, and looking around him and seeing all ready in the States— some 10,000, some 15,000, some more, some less—scouring the coup try and prepared to track—thinks he "its ' no use—'to the victor belongs the spoils' I was the doctrine of my party and I may r as well go for it to the last," and he made ' a dead track to the Lug Cabin at the. North Bend, with about 30,000 Buck - eyes arter him and Old Tip at the hes ! on 'em. I was standing near the door and I seed him coining, and now thinks 1 f here goes for Log Cabin mercy and hos. pitality and I opened the door and in he streak'd, and just then came up Old Tip all of a lather. "He is safe," Imps 4,000,000 96,000,000
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