HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. W BOLE No. 178..] TERMS OF TIER ZVITTINCEDON "70411,1\TAL. The ..journal' will be published every Wednesday morning, at two dollars a year if paid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid within WC mouths, two dollars and a half. F.ver y person who obtains five subscribers end forwards price of subscription, shall be I irnished with a sixth copy gratuitiously for one year. tiosabscription received for a less period than six months, nor any paper discontinued tntilarrearages are paid. All commuhications must he addressed to the Editor, past paid, or they will not be witended to. .94.v8etisinents not exceeding one square bell be inserted three times for one dollar for every subsequent insertion, 25 ficents per square will lie charged:—if no detnitc orderd are given as to the time an adverisment is to ae continued, it will be kept in till ordeed; but, and charge accordingly. COMMON SCHOOLS, .11E ARRISBURG, FEBRUARY 11,1839 '•The Commissioners of Huntingdon CO: .. GENTLEMEN;—By the fifth paragraph of the tenth section ot the act to consolidate and amend the several acts relative to a general system of education by common ve...`teds, passed the 13th June, 1836, the Superintendent of Common Schools is direc ted annually, in the month of February, to transmit to the commissioners of each coun ty, a statement of the amount every district therein that has, and every district that has not adopted the Common School system, may be entitled to receive out of the annual appropriation of two hundred thousand dol lars, and the commissioners shall immedi ately cause such statement to be published three times, in one or more newspapers prin bed in said county, ''By the third section to the supplement to the above recited act, passed on the 12th day of April, 1838, it is thus provided: "SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of each county in the State, triennially, to ascertain with the assistance of the respective assessors, the exact num ber of the resident taxible c tizens of each Common School district in their several counties, and to certify the same under their hands and seal of office, to the Superinten dent of Common Schools, who is hereby di rected to adopt the number of taxables, thus certified to him, as the basis of distribution of the State appropriation; the said certifi cates to he prepared and transmitted on or before the first day ot April in every third year, commencing with the first day of April eighteen hundred and thirty—nine: Provi ded, That if the commissioners of any coon ty shall neglect to forward such certificates, on or before said day, the Superintendent may, in that c .se, adopt the number of tax ables set forth in the next preceding certifi cate or return. "You perceive that there will be some dif ict:lty this year, in carrying into effect these provisions, as the enumeration to be retur ned on the first of April, is to be the basis of ! distribution, while the Superintendent is to , furnish the statement of the amount to which each district is entitled in the month of February. 'ft is impossible, at this time, to conjec titre the proportion of the two hundred thous, and dollars, to which each district will be entitled. When the number of taxables is ascertained by the enumeration to he return ed on the first of April next, the proportion will be reduced according to the increase of the taxables. As the main'object of furnish ing this statement in the month of February, is to give notice to the districts of the amount of tax they arc required to assess in order to entitle them to the State appropriation; and as the reduction in this sum, arising from the additional number of taxables, will not be veat, it is considered that a publication of the statement furnished to you by the Su perintendent, in February, 1838, will sub stantially comply with the law, You will, therefore, re-publigh that statement during the present month, fur the information of the districts, and inform them that it contain the amount, to which they are entitled, n the two thousand dollaes for the presens year. "I am constrained to urge upon you the necessity of furnishing the exact nnixber of taxables in each of the districts in your coup ty, agreeable to the above recited section, as soon as practicable, and not to delay the matter longer than the Ist April. You per- teive, by the concluding part of the section, that if this !return is not made in time, the taxables in the preceeding return are to be adopted, by which your county will be de prived, for the year, of the State appropria tion to the additional taxables in the respec tive districts, granted by the eleventh sec lion of the act of 12th April, 1138, which makes the amount of the State approprin• $i . equal to one dollar for each taxable cit iieu."- FR. R. SRUNK. Superinlovient of Schools." In compliance with the foregoing instruc tions, the following statement of the amount due the several Sc hool - Districts of Hunting don county, for the COMMON scuom. year 1139, is again published as the basis ordis trikution of State appropriation to the said districts for the school year 1840, and which will form the data, upon which the Districts must assess their respective school tax, for tke ensuing Dear. VIZ Allegheny -_ - 8 140,49 Antes -- 191,63 Tiarree -- .1..)81,32 • Cromwell -.- 136,60 Dublin- • 99,70 Franklin- - 165,7) Frankstown- 250,45 - Henderson -- 168,32 - Huntingdon- - 161,85 Hopewell -_ - 121,71 Morris -- - 216,88 Porter -•- 162.50. Shirley -. 138,54 Springfield- - 127,54 'tell - - 117,18 Ty - . rone _ - 142,43 Union - 231,12 Walker -- - 100,35 W. Mark- - 211,05 West -- 244,07 Woodbury- - 374,85 ,bi Hollidaysi Burg - The several assessors within the county of Huntingdon, are required to make out their assessments with a correct return of the whole number of taxables in each COMMON SCHOOL district, and return the same to the Commissioners office in the borongh of Hun tingdon, on Friday the 29th day of March next, that the commissioners may be ena bled to carry into effect the act of the Gen eral Assembly recited in the foregoing cir cular. The personal attendance of each of the Assessors at that time will be necessary Attest, J. ARMITAGE Clk. Comm's. office, Huntingdon February 18th, 1859. THE GA RITA.IIi ll• -.With sweetest flowers enrich'd From various gardens cull'd with care." Here is something to stir the heart and moisten the eyes. We have culled it from one of the magazines of the day. Many, many times have we read it over, and wept with the "joy of grief," as it brought to our remembrance the sweet babes, who could just lisp the name of •sister,' that passed a way long ago. As we read it again and a gain, we think how many a parent's heart has throbbed, how many a parent's eves have grown dim, while pausingrn these very lines, and lingering in memory over the dear ones, and n otine, each well-known face, who have long since been hid in the grave! Balt. Mon. WEE WILLIE. Fare thee well, our last and fairest! Dear wee Willie, fair the well; He, who lent thee, hath recalled thee Back with Him and His to dwell. Fifteen moons their silver lustre Only o'er thy brow had shed, When thy spirit joined the seraphs, And thy dust the dead,: Like a sunbeam through our dwelling Shone thy presence bright and calm; Thou didst add a zest to pleasure— To our sorrows thou wert balm; Brighter beamed thine eyes than summer ; And thy first attempt at speech Thrilled our heart strings with a rapture, Music ne'er could reach. As we gazed upon thee sleeping, With thy fine fair locks out-spread, Thou didst seem a little angel, Who from heaven to earth had strayed; And, entranced we watched the vision, Half in hope and half affright, Lest what we deemed ours, and earthly, Should dissolve in light. Snows oe'r-mantled hill and valley; Sullen clouds begrim'd the sky, When the first, drear doubt oppressed us, That our child was doomed to die! 'I hrough each long night-watch, the taper Showed the hectic of thy cheek: And each anxious dawn beheld thee More worn out and weak. 'Tomas even then Destruction's angel Shook his pinions our path, Seized the rosiest of our household, And struck Charlie down in Death! Fearful—awful! Desolation On our lintel set his sign; And we turned from his sad death bed Willie, round to thine. As thebeams of spring's first morning Through the silent chamber played. Lifeless, in mine arms I raised thee, And in thy small coffin laid; Ere the day star with the darkness Nine times had triumphant striven, In one grave had met your ashes, And your sculs in heaven!. Five w ere ye, the beauteous blossoms Of our hopes, and hearts, and hearth; Two asleep lie buried under— Three for us yet gladden earth. Thee, our hyacinth gay Charlie— Willie, thee our snow drop pure, Back to us shall second spring time Never more allure! "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY•" HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1839. Yet, while thinking, oh our lost cncs! Of how dear ye was to us, Why should dreams of doubt and darkneas Haunt our troubled spirits thus? Why across the cold dim church yard, Flit our visions of despair? 'Seated on the tomb, Faith's angel Saith—'ye are not there.' Where then, are ye? With the saviour Blest--forever blest are ye, 'Mid the sinless little children, Who have heard his 'Come to me 'Yond the shades of death's dark valley, Now ye lean upon his breast, Where the wicked dare not enter, And the weary rest. 192,93 We are wicked—we are weary: For us pray and for us plead;, God, who ever hears the sinless, May through you the sinful heed, Pray that through Christ's meditation, All our faults may be forgiven; Plead that ye be sent to greet us At the gates of heaven! SELECT TALE Win. M. Price the Defaulter . To the Editor of the Daily 11 big. Sin: At this time, when all the world are engaged in just condemnation of the conduct of WILLIADI M. PRICE, the De— faulter, the following incident in his his tory may not be uninteresting. It is a true story, and will stand in beautiful relief upon the sombre mantle of disgrace in which his character has more recently become enshrouded. Should you deem it et sufficient inter est for publication, and worthy of a place in your miscellaneous columns, I should be pleased to obtain its insertion. With much respect, I am, &c., A Tale of the Sessions. During the snmmer of 1824, while on a country Jaunt in the State of Connecti cut, it was my lot to become acquainted with Harry B , and my good for 'tune at the same time, to fall in love with his beautiful sister Elizabeth. But as I am riot about to enter at pi esent upon a tale of romance, or weave a garland at the shrine of love, I shall pass over the list of her perfections, and sum up the whole of that portion of my story, with the sim ple declaration, that my affections were returned, and atter an acquaintance of three years, we were married. My new brother, who, like myself, was just emerging from boyhood, was of a thoughtful, sedate disposition, yet posses sed of an amiable sweetness of temper, that endeared him to all who knew him. Noble, humane and generous in his fee lings, he was one whose anger it was dif ficul to arouse, and who would step aside rather than inflict a wilful injury upon the meanest worm that crossed his path. He had'been bred to a respectable mechani cal profession, but was possessed of a mind which prompted, and an education and talent which enabled him to apply himself to a profession of a very different nature, and he had been but a short time released from his indentures, when he commenced the study of medicine, and removed to the city of New York, for the purpose of availing himself of the advan tages which ai e here offered to students in his favorite science, Here he entered as a student, the office of what we deemed a respectable physician, and commenced his studies with a degree of energy and perseverance, which gave decided prom ise of his future excellence in the medici net art. His gravity of demeanor became now an appropriate auxiliary to his new profession; and so admirably (lid they be come each other, that he was already in vested by his more familiar associates, with the dignified cognomen of Doctor. henry soon discovered, however, that Isis new situation was any thing but plea ant; for the doctor nut only furnished oc casionally a subject for dissection in his own room, but was sometimes called upon to supply a brother in the profession, who resided at a distance, with the same in despensable means of illustrating the sci eece of phisiology. The subjects obtain ed for this purpose, were carefully boxed up and placed in the dissecting room, un til a favorable opportunity should offer for forwarding them to their place of des tination, Harry's:sleeping apartment was immediately adjoining the dissecting room; and as there was but a loose partition be tween then, the effluvia arising from those pent up portions of decaying mortality, was by no means agreeable. He remon strated with the doctor, but without effect, and at length incautiously mentioned the cause of Isis dissatisfaction to others. This intOrmation was too interesting to be con cealed; the facts soon because notorious throughout the neighborhood, until at last the whisperings became so loud, as to reach the ear of the doctor himself. Mor tification and shame at the exposure, were followed in quick succession, with a de. termination to be revenged upon the luck less student. Harry had already taken new quarters, and was busily employed in seeking a more agreeable situation wherein to pur— sue his studies, when a letter was one day placed in my hands, stating that he was imprisoned lion a charge of larceny. Had a bolt front the regions of thunder stricken me to rite earth, 1 could not have been more stupefied. Larceny! 1 exclai med mentally—my friend Harry B guilty of lareenyl—impossible! 1 has tened to the office of the pc lice magistrate, gave the requisite bonds for his appear ance at the Sessions, and obtained an or der fur his release. At the prison door lie met me with a smile—tiuctured, it is true, with a shade of nieluneholly, but wheth er from the natoral gravity of his disposi tion, or the peceliar situation in which lie was placed, I did not attempt to deter mine. For Clod's sake, Harry, 1 exclai med, how came you here? .You shall know directly," he replied, with more than usual pleasantry—and as we left the orison yi.rd he continued--" The whole !natter," said hr, "can be summed up in very few words. My old friend, Dr. S., has commenced paying one oil fur expo sing him in his di;gracefol traffic. But how haS he been able to establish this charge so far as to warrant your coin initial? 1 enquired. "Very easily, indeed" he replied, "the doctor charged one with stealing a medical book front his library, obtained a search warrant, and found the book in my wssession, whereupon I was arrested an.placed where you this mo• ment found me, within the walls of you gloomy prison." Found the book in your possession! "Exactly so." But how carve you by it? "That," said he, “is a question which I shall probably be able to answer more to your satisfaction than to that of a jury; especially as the court will not permit me to say a word upon the subject in their presence, but you shall know the facts as , they are." When I was in the office of Dr. S., lie continued, I kept in my room a small trunk containing books, notes of lectures and other papers belonging to myself, and when using a book from the doctor's library, I usually, for the saki: of convenience, placed it in the trunk when not actually needed for study; the book. in question was in my trunk when I re mored it from his office, and I was heed- • less enough to forget it and take it with me." Tim 'IIITER, Could I possibly have entertained a doubt of his innocence, this simple state ment would have driven it from my mind; it was manifestly a case of the vilest per secution, but as Harry justly remarked, it would be a difficult matter to convince a jury of his innocence, without the power to place in their possession the proofs thereof; the matter at first appeared al most too trilling for consideration, but the more I thought about it the more I ;vas perplexed, and, turn which way I would, these facts were constantly before me: He has been accused of larceny, and the sto len property wasfound in his possession-- the brand jury have indicted him as a fel on, and he muse be tried at the Seseions. Harry accompanied me home, and, as concealment was impossible, we related to his sister with an air of levity, an ac count of the whole affair. The subject, however, did not appear to be one of a very amusing character— on the contrary I soon perceived that it was to her a source of growing and intense anxiety. A ray of hope at length flashed over my mind—a feeble one indeed, yet, like the expiring wretch whose ship all tempest torn, is cast in fragments over the raging b flows of the ocean, grasping a floating portion of the wreck in love of life, so did I seize on this. I will seek this heartless persecutor, I exclaimed; he may perchance relent; he may withdraw this paltry cruel charge, and all will yet be well, Vain hope! Malice had steeled his heart, and with the exultation of a fiend, he said %would teach my brother honesty! No alternative now presented itself, and we were compelled to make up our minds to endure a public trial in a crimi nal court with all the attendant evils and mortitications which must necessarily fol low in its train, independent of the grand result of conviction or acquital. Of his ultimate acquital I did n ot entertain a doubt, for although we could not hope to disprove the charge, yet there could be no difficulty in establishing the excellent ►no ral character of my friend, and the con temptible meanness of the accusation I considered sufficient in itself to present the affair in its true light to the minds of the jury. We had been desirous to avoid if possible, the formality and annoyance of a public trial; but now, when that hope mu denied us, it became necessary to ob tain counsel, and make the necessary pre parations. We accordingly applied to Mr. Price, who was at that time one of the most prominent and able lawyers in the criminal courts of our city; we related to him a hasty outline of our difficulty, and expressed a wish that he would conduct our cause. The amount of fee, however, which he required, was beyond the reach of our slender means, and we were oblig ed to content ourselves with the assis tance of a lawyer of less pretensions. As the day of Harry's trial approached, it was apparent that the knawings of si lent anguish' were making fearful inroads upon the. happiness and health of his be loved sister. Usually serene in her dis posaion, she uttered no loud regrets or vain complaints against his foul accuser, but her wasted form and hollow eye beto kened mental suffering—the timid accents of fear would sometimes tremble on her lips, whilst the silent tear which dimmed her listless eye and coursed in glittering contrast down her faded cheek, told of a heart o'ercharged with blighting sorrow. I strove with an affee:ed cheerfulness to rouse her drooping spirits, but in vain. A melancholy smile would sometimes cross her palied features, as if in mockery of the storm within, and then it would pass away and leave them gloomier than before. It was a smile which seemed to say- -you can't deceive me. Day after day her oleo. der frame and physical energies were yiel ding to the more potent infkence of a mind distressed, until at length our most anxious fears were exercised on her behalf —it was apparent that nature could nut long sustain the conflict between (lie men tal and physical frame, and that unless relief was soon obtained, one or the other' must give way. The day of trial at length arri'cd, and 1 felt a moral conviction that , the result would determine the fate not only of my poor friend !tarry, but that of his unhappy sister also—the state of my own feelings can be better imagined than described. Our arrangements were all made, our witnesses subpceued, and my friend had been duly summoned to appear fat trial before his honor the Recorder, &c. at eleven o'clock, in the forenoon. "Good morning, my dear," said I in a cheerful tone as we were about leaving home, "fear not, 1 will bring him back with me." A silent tear was her only response— tea duly embracing her brother she impressed tie heavenly symbol of a sister's love up on his brow and left us. CHAPTER 11. It was a tedious day to us all. There were several causes to be tried before ours, and it was not until nine o'clock at night that Harry was called to the bar. Hav ing made his plea of not guilty, he was permitted by the court to occupy a seat between his counsel and myself. I now discovered that, although late in the evening, Mr. Price was still in his seat at the opposite side of the table, but ' as I supposed that he remained from cu riosity, this circumstance did not excite my further attention: The trial now commenced by calling the prosecutor to the witness' stand. Ile, without hesita tion, swore to the theft, and took occasion to embellish his testimony with remarks and inuendoes, not only totally at variance with the subject of accusation, but as false as they were astounding, alleging that which he had not dared to charge in the indictment, well knowing that it could all be disproved, and so perverting and magnifying the true state of the atrair, as to create a nest unfavorable impression upon the minds of those who were not already acquainted with the facts. Our counsel allowed him to retire without cross-examination. The officer was next called, and clearly proved by his testimo ny the finding of the stolen property in the possession of the prisoner; he too was allowed to retire without a question. In vain did I strive to rally our almost silent couns2l, and urge him to make ass effort in behalf of his client. He was stu pid as an idiot, and appeared as if held to his seat through the paralysing influence of some powerful opiate. A third wit ness was called to the stand by the zeal ous district attorney, who seemed to con sider it his duty to convict the prisoner, guilty or not guilty. My confidence in my friends acquittal began to wave--I thought of the promise I had given to Elizabeth in the morning, and my heart sank within me. The con sequences of his conviction rushed upon my mind with the impetuous fury of the whirlwind. Cold drops of sweat issued from every pore, and my bewildered brain seemed almost bursting. Disgrace! a prison! the fate of her whom we both lov ed snore than the cruel anguish of a (loafing mother—and the scornful laugh of triumph whirls already rung like the horrid yell of demons in my ear, were crowded with such fearful force upon my imagination as almost to depm e me of she power of reason. The third witness was upon the stand, and as I raised my eyes towards him it seemed as it the evil one had lent his aid to help the doctor in [ Vol.. IV, No. 22. his fiendi-li purpose. Upon the stand beheld perhap the only enemy, except his persecutor, that May had on earth My heated blood grew cold—the long con tinued and painful throbbing of the pulse upon my brain subsided, and the lights in the room were mingled in one confused and undefinable mass with the faces of those around toe. A faint, sickening 'sensation took possession of nay whole frame, &it was with difficulty that I suc ceeded in retaining my scat. The voice of Mr. Price at this moment recalled me to a sense of my situation, and on looking up I perceived that he had left his seat and placed himself by the side of Harry's counsel. A .ingle ques tion from that gentleman was sufficient to drive the witness from the stand. Anoth er took his place, but to share a similar fate, and the testimony for the prosecu tion ended. Mr. Price, as already stated, had re , ceived a hasty statement of the case E a former time, and being convinced of Ilar ry's innocence, he had not the heartto wit ness his destruction—hope was relighted in my breast, for I already looked upon him as our deliverer. The prosecutor was again called to 0 01 stand and placed by .Ir. Price under a rigid cross-examination. The poor wretch quail, d and trembled tinder the castiga tion which he received, until the district attorney, who saw the effect which this examination was likely to produce, sprang from his scat, and in an excited and pre , emptury manlier directed him not to ans wer. The obedient witness refused to answer further question and was permit ted to leave the stand. The officer was now recalled by Mr. Price when the fol lowini, examination took place. Mr. Price. You have informed the court that you found the lost book in the possession of Mr. B. Please to state now what kind of a book it was that you found. Answer. It was a medical book. I have forgotten the title, but it is named in the warrant. Mr. P. Was the name of Dr. S. or any person written in the book? Mr. P. Ho v then did you know that the book which you round was the identi cal book which this man lost? A. I know it by the title only. The prisoner acknowledged, however, that the book belonged to ler, S. Mr, P. W here did you find the book? A. In the prisoner's trunk at his lod-eingo. _ _ P. was Mr. B. at his lodgings when you came there with the warrant? A. lie was. 111 r. P. Did he in any way resist or at, tempt to prevent the search? r. P 1 Please to state as near as you can tie substance of your conversation with Mr. B. A. Then I told hint that I was in search of a book described in my war rant, he replied that it was possible he might have brought such a book from the office of Dr. S., but that it he had done so he was not aware of it. Ile then •vent with me to his room. Mr. P. Did you find the trunk lacked? A. No; he opened the trunk himself, found the book and placed it in my hands. Mr. I'. You may retire. By the Court.—Have you any witness es Mr. Price? Mr. Price replied by stating that sev. erai gentlemen of the utmost respectabili ty were in court prepared to attest to the excellent character of his cliant, but he deemed it unnecessary to trouble them. I want, says he, no better witnesses than those who have been already examined, fur they have not only proved the good character of this young man, but they have in my opinion, established his innocence also. He then addressed the jury in a most touching and eloquent manner; he presented to their minds a clear and flap review of all the testimony before th alluded in the most feeling terms (to the consequent ruin and disgrace which must follow a verdict of guilty, told of the suf fering anguish and the blighted hopes of friends and family, and concluded by ex prrising his firm belief, that the.accusa tion had been made entirely from motives of private malice, and that the whole af fair was but a vile and wicked persecu tion, The district attorney replieJ remarking to the jury that the counsel for the prison er hail endeavored to win their sympathies in his behalf; he reminded them of the solemn oath which they had sword, and in a long and eloquent address he char ged them not to let their feelings get the better of their judgments. When he had concluded, the court charged the jury up— on the testimony, and stated that the cross•caamination of the witnesses had tended materially to weaken the charge of larceny if not to destroy it entirely, ad ding that in the opinion of the court the charge had not been sustained by the evi dence, and that the prisoner ought to be
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