"It was but the wind among tke bran- Death-Bed Confession of a ches," replied Franz; "we have not noti- Jthirderer. ced that, though the clouds are diaper- About forty years ago a great sensatior sing, the breeze grows fresher." was created in Liverpool by the murder "There, again," exclaimed Louise, of a gentleman of high respectability throwing herself involuntarily upon her The body was found by a watchman in in cousin's bosom. Ohl fatal moment! For upright position, supported by railings at that instant a bolt from a crossbow which fenced a shipwright's yard, on land rushed through the air, and quivered in now forming part of the east quay of the the maiden's heart. Prince's Dock. On examination it was Franz heard the deadly plunge. He discovered that the deceased had met w felt the warm tide gush out upon his hand; with his death by a fracture of the skull, he saw her sink lifeless to the earth. He executed by a blunt instrument. A re. uttered a wild cry, and sprang to his feet. ward was then offered by the then mayor, and, in consequence, information was A man stood before him whom, even in gi the gloom, he recognized ar Carl the fo von to the police that the deceased gem rester. And in his hand was the fatal tleman was in the habit of visiting a fe male in the neighborhood of the place weapon. There was no time for defiance w or preparation for battle; Franz's sword where the body was found, and on the ap was bare, it flashed like a meteor in the prehension of that female a watch was tar air, and the next instant was sheathed in ken from her person, which was proved to the forester's bosom. Twice—thrice— the property of the deceased, and so sat was the thrust repeated, and the dead - isfactory was the fact, with some corrob body, spurned by the foot of the slayer, orant circumstances, that the prisoner was rolled over the gentle declivity. But committed for trial. what to Franz was the sense of gratified A stable keeper or groom, who was in revenge? He flew to Lcuiso; he lifted her the habit of going, by the deceased's or head from the earth; she breathed not, ders, to fetch his watch which he had on she moved not; there was no pulsation in some occasions forgotten or purposely left her heart, and the blood still welled from with the prisoner, having casually read in her side in a dark warm tide. Madness a - newspaper that part of the evidence re was in his brain. He laid her upon the spocting the watch, gave such information t bench, and plunging into the forest, was to the magistrates that the prisoner was seen no more for many days afterwards. released. The constables were on the continual lock out to discover the mur- There was grevous moaning at the mill for the death of Louise; there were vigo- derer but without effect; and from that rous efforts made to discover the murde- time to this the friends of the deceased, rer of her and of Carl the forester. It who are now of the first standing in Liv does not appear that the latter were sue- erpool in point of wealth and respectabil cessful, for Franz could not be found far sty, are ignorant of the cause of the mur or near; and though suspicion resten upon der, and of the name of the murderer. him at least in one quarter, the world knew The person who confessed the murder w nothing of it. On the contrary, Caspar was the widow of the murderer, who had been then dead many years. The confes- Housman became, after this terrible be- been was to the following effect:—Thatreavement, an altered man. He mourned s for his (laughter like one thaf cannot be she was standing at the door of her house, comforted, and found no resting-place and deceased passing by, being in a state' for the sole of his foot. As to Franz, he of intoxication, caught hold of her; she ran into the front parlour, and he with appeared not on tile stage till after the war consequent upon the progress of the her; she called out, and her husband who was a pilot, happening to come in at the Reformation began; and then he fought in moment, took up the poker and killed the every skirmish with the desperation of f or hi s deceased at one blow; when he saw the one who seeks to win, not victory friends, but death for himself. And he dreadful effect of the act he wept most found it at last. bitterly. In the course of an hour he and Father Ambrose again quitted his cave, as soon as the tragedy of the mill was made known to him, and went--no one knew whither. Such is the melancholy incident that has given its name to a stone which the curious traveller may yet see not far from the Khulistall. A sad tale. yet well known upon the spat, and told to every stranger who is fortunate in the choice of his guide, and sits with him to rest under the canopy of the Maidschenstein. TO-MORROW.—Who can tell hoe- much 1 , is embraced in the expression? Though' but a few hours intervene between it and us, `though it will soon commence its' course who is there, that can read its sin gle page and pronounce the character of its events? To-morrow! Those who are now gay may be sad--Those who are now walking the avenues of pleasures, led by the hand of Hope may be the subjects of intense sorrow. Prosperity may be changed into adversity. Those who are now on the mountain summit may be in the valley. That rosy cheek may be overspread with paleness; the strong step may faulter.— Death may have overtaken us. To-mor row? It may entirely change the course of our lives. It may form a new era in our existence. What we fear may not happen. To-morrow! Away with anxiety. Let us lean on Providence. There is a Be ing, to whom all the distinctions of tune are the same, and who is able to dispose every thing for our wise improvement.— Anthenceum. WearcinformedThat some ofoir friends engaged in raising Durham stock are in the habit of letting the calves run with the cows. We caution them against this practice, especially as to heifers with first, second, or even third, calves. It is but little work to seperate the cows from their caleves, and to let them togeth er again two or even three times a day. The accumulation of milk in the udder cause it to distend. To prevent this is to prevent your cows from possessing one of the most important qualities. And, as your calves have no reason to govern them' in their appetites; it devolves on you to regulate their habits. Regularity in liv ing as essential to the prosperity of the brutal as to the rational part of creation. Indiana Farmer. A YOUNG HUISBAND.—The Boston Mer cantile Journal says—'a lovely young damsel,lwith health blooming on her check and hope sparkling in her eye, stepped in to a book selling establishment in this city a day or two since, and addressing a hand, some clerk behind the counter, said, '1 will thank you for a 'Young Husband,' sir.'—menning of course, Dr. Allcott's late work. The clerk gazed fur a mo ment on the vision of lovliness which ap peared before him—then, laying his hand on his heart—making a low bow— he gal• lantly replied, 'it you wish for a young husband, I am at your service Miss.' The poor gill's blushes betrayed her contusion at this unexpected reply—but she damped the ardor and hopes of the youthful aspirant to her hand by stammer ing out —I—I—I want one far (my—my brother sir.' his wife began to think how the body should be disposed of, when the wife hit upon the plan of taking the body out be tween twelve and one at night, being very dark, and rearing it against the railing, where it was found - by the watchman. She lifted the corpse on her husband's back, and he carried it a distance of two or three hundred yards. They put out all the lights immediate ly, and went to bed, Lut from the agitated state of their feelings neither could sleep, that or many nigl afterwards. The police examined all the houses about, and on one occasion theirs, but fortunately she said, her husband was out on duty in the pilot boat, otherwise she thinks, as his terror was so great, he would have disco vered his guilt by his agitated manner. She often determined after her husband died, to confess all the circumstances to the relations of the deceased, who was a single man, but she was afraid she would be deemed a principle in the murder, and put upon trial. She died on the same day she related these facts.--Liverpool Standard. .1 Shocking 'Murder. The details of a murder that has few parallels iu the annal of crime, are thus given in the Morgan, Alabama, Observer. We are informed from private sources, that on last Saturday, a poor man who was moving westward with his wife and three little children, and driving a small drove of sheep and perhaps a cow of two, which driven by his family; on arriving in Flor ence, and while passing through, met with a citizen of that place, who rode into his flick & caused hint some trouble to keep it together when the mover informed the indi victual he must flat do so again or he would throw a rock at him, upon which some words ensued, and the individual again disturbed the flock, when the mover, as near as we can learn, threw at him, upon this the troublesome man got off his horse went into a grocery, get a gun and came out and deliberately shot the poor stran ger in the presence of his wife and little children. The wounded man then 'made an effort to get into some house, when his murderous assailant /overtook and stabbed him to the heart with a bowie knife. This revolting scene, we are in formed, occurred in the presence of many citizens, who, report says, never even lifted their voices in defence of the mur dered man. The blood of the stranger rests upon them; and the cries of a wid ow and three poor little orphans, among strangers, who suffered a father's blood to be spilt for so trival a cause, must cer tainly pierce their hearts, and send the vengeance of remorse to the guilty soul of such a diabolical murderer. r-r-W2WEELII From the Albany Journal, March 20th. .111urder of Captain Morton. The following, letter gives the particu lars of the murder of an unoflending citi• zen, at a disgraceful debauch of the Loco Focos in the town of ,Greene, Chenango county, N. York. Correspondence of the Albany Journal. GREEN, MARCH 15, 1839. Capt. ARNOLD HORTON, attended our Town meeting on Tuesday last. After the Loco Focos ascertained that their tick et was elected they went hito Calendar's Ball Room and sat up a yell and drinking which soon attracted a crowd. Captair , Horton, among others, went into the room. The cry was raised that there was a Whig in the room, and a motion was made and carried that the It hits should be put out, whereupon a crowd gathered around Hor ton, forced him through the door and over the banisters and down stairs. They then returned and reported that they had hitched the damned If hig down stairs and oped it had killed him. The revel was continued without inquiry about the fat, of their victim! Captain Horton was taken up for dead. Four bones of his neck were crushed. His back was broken. Indeed he was so shockingly mangled that Doctor Willard, in his testimony, expressed his astonish ment that he survived an hour. He did, however, linger till the 9th inst., when he died. The Loco Feces were soon informed that Horton could not live, but they con. tinned their carousal. Indeed they soon after sallied into the streets, and with a violin and bugle, marched about, drinking, shouting and insulting peaceable citizens. [Our correspondent bears hard upon a high Judicial Officer! who we regret to perceive, was conspicuous among the ac tors in this disgraceful and outrageous scene.] A Coroner's Jury, after a long and pa tient investigation, have returned as their verdict that Arnold Horton came to his death by being violently, feloniously and wickedly forced out of the room over the bannister and down stairs. Capt. Horton has left a wife and eight children, who were in a great measure de-' pendant upon him for support. The scene' at Arnold s when the Coroner's Jury as semb!ed, was heart—rending. There lay the;lifeless, mangled corpse of him thus murdered, in the prime of life, for no oth er crime than being a Whig! In the same room sat his broken-hearted wife and be- Ireaved orphan children, weeping over the remains of him who supported and protec% ted them! Every effort was made by the wretches who were concerned in the out rage to suppress testimony and to overawe the Jury. But the facts were too clear. The Jurors, though unable to identify the peasons who committed the murder, said on their oaths that the deceased came by his death feloniously and wickedly. Capt. Horton was an honest, tinoffend ing man. But his murderers are now slan dering him. The men who were engaged in a drunken carousal themselves, say that their victim was intoxicated. If this were true, is it a reason for committing murder?—Had that rule been aeplied to all, poor Horton would have died in distin guished company. Leech's Line.—ln a conversation with David Leech, Esq., the public spirited, 1 , gentlemanly, and enterprising proprietor of the Transpertation Line between this city and Pittsburgh, via the Pennsylvania Canal, we were gratified to learn thatpre parations are in such a state of forward ness, as to render it probable that the Pac kets will commence running in the course of two or three days. Mr. Leech informs us that little interuption, it any, will at tend the opening of navigation. The boats will start shout the 16th, and by the 19th, he anticipates an uninterupted passage along the whole line. We are aware that the diameter of this Trans portation Line is already too well estab lished to receive any great service from commendation at our hands. Mr. Leech has earned a reputation for perseverance and indefatigability, in his aqustic voca tion, similar to that at one time accorded to Lord Admiral Reeside, for the excel lence of his stage coach arrangements. The principle business done nn the Penn sylvania Canal, is entrusted to the com pany of which Mi. Leech is the head and front, and by the by, a formidable one he is. His Packet Boats are large, well fur nished, and comfortable, and the prover bial politeness, and urbanity of the cap tains, with two of whom we are slightly acquainted Messrs. Voglesong and Leip hart, heightens the pleasure of traveling by this conveyance in no slight degree. The most ample arrangements have been made by Leech & Co., to commence vigorous operations in the transportation of merchandise. Anticipating a heavy spring business, and favored with the, prospect of uninterupted navigation on) the canal, they have made corresponding arrangements. Persons desirous of tra versing our line of noble ',state improve ments, in the journey to the West, will be delighted to find in the packet boats, the finest accommodations which can be afforded; excellent dinners, rivalling in ' the choiceness of the viands, and the per fection of the cookery, the dinner tables at our best hotels. We speak experimen tally,aod if any there be who pretend to gainsay this, our testimony, all that we can reply is that they did not happen to meet with the Boats of Captains Leiphart and Voglesong.—Philadelphia Star. A NEW WAT To RAISE THE wiND—A fellow named George Linely, living in Riply, 0., recently broached a plan for raising the wind, which has, at least the merit of novelty. —lie addressed letters to the officers of different banks, in which a most dolorous tale was told of somepoor widow woman having last a note on such bank, by being burnt, &c. In several cases the officers of the bank returned a note for the one that was irredeemably lost.', The cheat was, however detected by the bank of Dayton, the cashier of which, was not 'soft' enough to take the tale for truth —Batt Sun, Death of Dr. Flak. This learned and emminent divine, President of the Wesleyan (Methodist) University at Middletown Connecticut, died at that place on the 23d February last, and Ids funeral took place on the 26. The following notice of his funeral is rro►n a correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser. Steamboat New Haven, Feb. 27. The last tribute has been paid to de parted worth by a bereaved and sorrowing community. All that is mortal of our revered and beloved friend, was yesterday deposited in the house appointed for all lie living. As you may well suppose, a ;loom overspreads the cityof Middletown; the conviction having taken a deep hold upon the ininils of an immense multitude that "a great man has fallen in Israel," and that not only their flourishing insti tution, is deprived of its head, but that ( they have lost a common fatter, counsel lor and friend. I need icarcely say to you that he died as the Christian died—"full of faith and orthe Holy Ghost." "Having served his own generation by the will of GoJ he has fallen asleep," and now rests from his la bours among the blessed and illustrious dead. Truly, a bright light is extinguished. A star of the first magnitude is seen no more in the firmament of the visible church; but is now taking a higher, holier and widen range in the unseen distance, even within the veil of that glory into nhich we cannot look. AWFUL NEWS FROM GAUDALOUPE.-- Upwarde of four thousand persons killed, by the Earthquake.--The N. Orleans Bu I. letin says;—"From our files of Havana papers received yesterday, we learn that the earthquake recently experienced in Martinique and other windward islands with such tearful consequences, his had still more disastrous effects at Gaudaloupe.l There the victims extracted from the ru ins of buildings are stated to have excee sled four thousand! This truly appalling, intelligence is received through the cap tain of the American brig Madrid; from, Barbadoes, which arrived at Trinidad de Cuba about the 6th ult. We await the details of this visitation with impatience, IMPORTANT DECISION FOR PUBLLSNERS OF NEWSPAPERS.—Judge Thompson, of Indiana, at a late sitting of the Circuit Court at which he presided, gave the fol. lowtng decision, in a case where a subscri ber to a newspaper refused to take the paper out of the post office without com plying with the terms of the publisher: "That if a subscriber to a periodical failed to notify the editor to discontinue the paper at the end of the term subscri bed for, or ray up the arrearages, he was bound for another year." This settles a very important principle. A FOUL DEED, The Newark Advertiser says:—"A sa criligious outrage was committed under the cover of darkness during some night of this week in the Alsey St. burying ground, by some human Hyena upon the grave of the late Dr. Jameson, the tomb stone erected to his memory by J. W. Par kins, Esq. having been basely torn up and mutilated, and the grave itself stripped of its covering. Ihe individual who could thus atrociously violate the sanctity of the grave, must be utterly destitute of every feeling of humanity, capable of any wicket:nes whatever, and should be ex cluded from all human intercourse, and bear the brand of infamy, imprinted on his forehead by the finger of public scorn, as a warning to all evil doers, and a mark of caution to those who might otherwise be deceived by him," Dram x, Feb. 20.—Death of the " Wan dering Piper."—This singular individual 'died on Sunday night in Mercer's llospit al, in this city, where he had been for three weeks previously. It is stated in an advertisement in the papers that "Graham Stuart, commonly called the wandering, piper, died in the hospital, having previ ously made his will, and thereby bequea thed all his property for the uses and pur• poses of the said hospital." DESTRUCTION OF KILCOOLEY ABBEY BY FIRE.-MliS splendid old Gothic mansion, the residence of Mr. Ponsonboy Barker, one of the Conservative candi dates for the county of Tipperary, Ireland, was burned to the ground on Sunday mor ning, February 17. The furniture, and every thing but the plate, was consumed. Captain and Mrs. Barker, who had been sleepin g id the Abbey, had 'a very narrow escapehaving got out at a window and descended 40 feet by a ladder, a few mo ments before the floor of their bed-cham ber had fallen in. The fire originated in the libraryduring the night. The Abbey was insured for the sum of £13,000. LARGE EXPORTATION OF Fx.oun.—The tide has turned. Less than a year ago, the arrival of vessels loaded with foreign wheat was a common occurrence. Now, we notice that the British ship Britiannia, which was towed to sea on Wednesday morning had Fon board 8,500 barrels of flour, for the Liverpool market; that the, packet ship Algonquin takes out 4,000' barrels or more and that the cargo of the British barque Minerva, also bound to Liv erpool, is to consist principally of Hour. Large shipments to England have been made from N. Y.— Ledger. THE JOURNAL. One country, one constitution, one destiny Huntingdon, April 3, I 539. Democratic antimasonic CANDIDATES. FOR PRESIDENT, GEN, WM. H. HARRISON FOR VICE PRESIDENT DANIEL WEBSTER. FLAG OF THE PEOPLE! 0 - / - A single term for the Presideney, and the office administered for the whole PEO PLE, and not for a PARTY. t r,-- A sound, uniform and conveniem Na tional CURRENCY, adapted to the wants of the whole COUNTRY, instead of the SHIN PLASI ERS brought about by our present RULERS, 'ECONOMY, RETRENCHMENT, and RE• FORM in the administration of public affairs, a7'Tired of Experiments and Experi menters, Republican gratitude will reward unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub- 1 altern of WASHINGTON and the dosciple of ' JEFFERSON. and thus resuming the safe and beaten track of onr Fathers,—L. Gazette. Democratic State Convention. The friends of HARRISON and WEB STER in the several counties of Pennsyl vania, are requested to appoint delegates equal in number to their members in the State Senate and House of Representa tives, to meet at the Court House in Har risburg, at 12 o'clock, M. on WEDNESDAY, 22d of May, 1839. For the purpose of nominating a ticket of Electors, to be voted for by the people of Pensvlvanta,:at the Presidential Election in 18 . 40, and pledged, if elected, to sup port the candidates for President and Vice President of the United States set tled by the Democratic Anti-Masonic National Convention, which was held in Philadelphia in November, 1833. Thomas IL Burrowes, Thomas Elder, Theo. Fenn, Amos Ellmakcr, Francis James, llm• R. Irwin, Il illiam Ayres, Ilarmar Denny, Samuel H. Fisher, if illiam Smith, Ner Middleswarth, William McClure, George Mowry. Levi Merkel, Maxwell Kinkead. State Committee. Harrisburg, March 2, 1839. County Meeting. Iu pursuance of the above request of the State Committee, the Democratic Anti- Masonic friends of HARRISON AND WEBSTER, in Huntingdon County, are invited to meet at the Court House in the borough of Huntingdon on Tuesday even ing, the 9th of April, for the purpose of electing one Senatorial and two Repre sentative Delegates, to attend the Demo cratic State Convention, which will meet in Harrisburg on the 22. d of May, to nom inate a Harrison Electoral ticket. By the County Committee. DAVID BLAIR, Ch carman (I7•The Subscribers of the Journal ,who have changed their residence, will please in form us. It is impossible for us to know of a removal unless notified.: All those who do not receive their paper regular, will please notify us immediately. Nicholas Biddle Esq., has withdrawn from the U.S. Bank. fre suppose that Mr.T. Dunlap, Esq. who has been elec ted in his place, will now enjoy the envi able title of "monster." The important Presbyterian case which ,has se long occupied the Supreme Court in Philadelphia, has been decided in favor of the New School. A motion was made tur a new trial. We purpose publishing a 'brief report of the case next week. The Lancaster Murder. Some time since, we selected an ac count of this inhuman butchery, for pub. lication, but some good natured friend bor rowed the copy; and finally lost ,it. We will state the facts, in the case, from rec collection, and as briefly as possible. On the 27th Feb. the body of a man was found near the Lancaster race course; which ; had been there apparently some weeks, having fifteen stabs and cuts, a bout the head, neck and hands, (as receiv. ed in defending himself.) It proved to be the body of a German pedlar, and it was supposed that he had been murdered for his money. ( about 1000 dollars) All !surmises as to the guilty perpetraor , seemed to be made in the dark. Latter ly, however, the inscrutable hand of Prov idence, seems to have pointed him out. And there are strong circumstances which seemed to say of the suspected ,"thou art the 'man ." He has been traced to several houses in Philadelphia, at each of which he stayed but a short time; finally taking passage for New York, whither the police men followed him, and it is hoped have secured him already. He is a Ber man stoutly built, and while staying in Philadelphia, had on the coat of the mur dered man. More Reform, We learn by the Williamsport Repub lican that the present Canal Board have created a new office at that place. A Collector's office at Hilliamsport—A Col lector's office on the Summit!! The tolls collected at both will not pay the sallary of one. This is economy, this is reform. What a consistent party. For three years they denounced Joseph Ritner for increasing officers! They have commen ced their administration by making inure! Did we not tell the honest of all parties that Porter would do all, and more of it than Ritner did? Ritner was a farmer, and his successor is a politician, who is using his power and patronage now to el evate himself again. Every unprinci pled knave in the party must have an office. Make a new office and give some hungry office grabber a snatch at the peo ple's money. Pay off your dog-keepers! there is a day of reckoning at hand.— You profess a great regard for the pee :ple's money! Yet when you have the 'power, you scatter with a frugal hand the people's tax amongst your greedy par. tisans; and then to throw dust in their eyes! you cry out reform, retrenchment and economy. Already have these iconomists Increa , I lsed the State debt nearly three millions of dollars, though but three months in office . They now isk for two millions more for a plunderfund—then they will say Joseph Ritner done it all. They said the extra session of 1836 cost the dear people $6O, 000; and what do they do? why just the same thing; without any cause. Yet strange as all this may appear, there are. some ,honest men who are deceived by their continual bawling out reform'. Good News, The faithful and loving subjects of the 'present Governor, will be pleased to learn !that he has arrived safely again among l i his former friends. And such of them as !have been somew hat disappointed in their expectations, as to the honesty or econo my of the course pursued by his adminis tration, will be able to hear him excuse it all away. The most perfect kindness, and cunning, will be used to gull them in to the belief, that every thing is for the best. We can tell him however in ad vance , that his cunning will :not al ways succeed ,--"a burnt child, dreads the fire;' and "soft sawder" will not answer as well now, as it did before he broke hi s thousands of promises to individuals. If he possessed the wand of a wizzard, it would require more than all its virtues , to satisfy the:people, that he has not dictated every appointment, oldie' of the canal Commissioners, or the Supervi_ tsers; even the Lock-keepeis, have had their noses chalked by his hand—without it, a poor fellow must step back. It is a notorious fact.—Yet we have no doubt, that every means will be used to make them all believe, that he had nothing to d o with it—some however know better. We can fancy now, the familiar shake of the hand, 'and the complacent kindly look of the Governor, (as meets some of his promised friends) as much as to say, •'1 done all I could for you, but the Com missioners were obdurate;" while a lur king devil in his eye watches to see how the salvo takes. Have you been an ap plicant for office, call on him, and if you are worth retaining; mark how friendly he will be! How sorrowful he looks, to think you were not appointed. Mark the sly leer of his eye, when he thinks the bait takes. Has he got as much out of you as he wants. The cold look which says "I am Governor now!" will be observed as he bids you a passing, ..how do you do!" But notwithstanding, the news is good. For some will be rejoiced to see him, and will bow and kiss the ground, because he commanded their appointment. Others because they can see if he looks as he did when he was launching his censure against Ritner, for appointing Printers making