AWFUL THUNDER STORM. A mornEß STRUM DEAD IN TIME MIDST OP HER INFANTS. From the correspondence of the Toron to Patriot, we learn that early on the morning of the 28th March, a dreadful storm of thunder and lightning visited' —river St. Clair, and that "soon alter daylight the inhabitants were made ac quainted with the following melancholly and heart-rendering accident:—Mr. Hens• ry Agar, residing an the river bank, about a mile above this place, who, with 3 others had been out all night, doing duty, as volunteers, about daylight returned home with the intention of taking rest. On his near approach to the house, he discov ered the ridge boards somewhat out of or. der, and on approaching still nearer he discovered fragments of wood, broken glass, etc., which impressed his mind that the house must have been injured by the alarming storm. He opened the door, when he found one of his little daughters, six years old, and another three years, taking care of the infant of nine months nil crying and setting on the foot of the bed. The first words uttered by the el der girl were:'—Oh, father, the house has been on fire, and mamma is sleeping so sound we cannot wake her' It is sarcely possible for the most susceptible to form an idea of, or fur any one to describe the state of agony and distraction which at this instant seized the mind of the unfor tunate and beraved Ma. Agar. He trem bling approached the bed, and there he discovered his kind and affectionate part ner, whom but a few hours before he had left in good health and spirits, now a lifeless corpse. It was soon after discov. ed that the fatal mesenger had entered at the gable end of the house, ;by forcing its way between the logs, close to the bed in which the unfortunate Mrs. Agar with the three children was lying two at the foot, and the infant at her bosom.—lt is supposed dm fatal shock struck her on the head, as part of the heir on her fore bead appeared as if it had been collected , together and burned with a pair of tongs; the upper part of the breast appeared as if it had been struck with great violence by some hard substance, leaving a mark resembling a star; and all that part of the body which was in contact with the bed, even down to the feet, was much disco!• mired, rather resembling purple than black. 'lle eldest child said that her .mamma's cap had been on fire, and most fortunately she had the presence of mind to extin guish it, which ist ono so young is most wonderful. No doubt this was the mews of saving the house and all from being burned. It appears the cap had bent forced from her head by the fatal stroke, as it had been lying on the blanket coy- , erin the breast, and was smelted nearly to a cinder. The child also states, that when the storm was raging with great violence, sh,t asked her mamma if she was afraid, and she replied, 'No my dear, the great gal will take care of us all,' but she never spoke again. She also added, when ante infant was crying she endeavored to wak en her mamma, and when she could not do so, she took the infant away, and she and her sister endeavored to keep it quiet and had been a long while so engaged, as it was quite darts when she first took the child away. BANKS IN PENNSYLVANIA, The subjoined bill, entitled an act to prescribe the mode of Lpplication for banks, has passed toth branches of the Legislature. Whereas, By the twenty• fifth section or the first article of the amended Consti tution, it is provided that no corporate body shall herealter be created, renewed, or extended, with banking or discounting privileges, without six months previous public notice of the application for the same, in such manner as shall be prescrib ed by la , v.—Therefore, Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatiues of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen eral Assembly met, and it is hereby enact ed by the authority of the same, That whenever any citizen or association of citizens of the commonwealth intend to make application to the Legidature, for the creation, renewal, or extension, of any corporate body with banking or disconnt ing privileges, it shall be their duty to cause a notice of such intended applica tion to be advertised in one paper printed in Hat risburg, and two newspapers printed. in the county in which the corporate body is or is intenued to be located, at least once a week in each paper, for six months before the meeting of the then next Legis. tin e; and the notice of such application shalt specify the name and style, the loca tion or intended location, and the amount of capital or intended amount of capital, of such corporate body, and in case of the renewal or extension of any such corpo rate body, such notice shall also specify the amount of increase of capital if any in crease be intended. Provided, That if there be only one paper printed in the county in which such corporate body isor is intended to be located, the publication of such notice in one paper shall be deem ed sufficient. An old lady in the country, hearing of the death of an acquaintance of her's who resided in the city, said she guessed he must have died of Morns Multicaulis, as she had heard th!, disease was very preva lent there. From the Nantucket Inquirer. ENLISTED SOLDIERB.—The St. Louis SEA MONSTER. Gazette states that a surgeon in the Uni ted States army recently obtained permis. Hearing yesterday afternoon, that a sion to inquire of the members of a coot whale had been caught at the South Shore, p a y of fifty:tive, the reason or' their en we took a horse-cart ride of four miles ifistment. Every man was called up to thither, with the view of paragraphing the tell his own story; it appears that nine monster according to its deserts. It was !tenths enlisted on account of some female a journey of much tribulatton in one res-, difficulty; thirteen of them had changed pect. Though the day was fine, the at- ,their name, and forty-three uere either mosphere was literally crowded with 'drunk or partly so, at the time of their en •horse-mochetos— a sort of varment six listment. Most of these were tnen °Hine times the size of an ordinary gallinipper, tolehts and learning, and about one tiled though entirely harmless, sav e by the an-, had once been men in elevated she ems ut noyance caused by spreading their sprawl !life. Four had been lawyers, tin, e ing legs and wings over one's muse and !tore; and two ministers. ears, and eyes. 1 hey were so compactly thronged, during the whole diatance across the commons, that they actually imcommoded each other; and the attempt to look ahead, was like peeping ti rough a shower of feathers, Apropos of vermin— we believe the season has been extraonli• nary favorable to the production and growth of every species of insect with which the vegetable kingdom has ever been infested. Possibly the competitive mild ness of the last winter nosy have contribu ted to the result. if e have observed that, the canker worm was inure tlian usualy plenty and active at an early part of the season, among the olossuais and foliage of fruit trees. A small specious of grass hopper, afoot one forth of an inch in length, has assailed in countless number, the strawberry blossom, and cut oil' all chance of fruit in wally gardens which had given promise of abundance. But to the big fish. It was not Levia than, after all; but a huge sea-pirate, commonly called the bone shark--a com mon occupant of the South Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but rather a phenomenon in this region. He had been cast up dead 'by the waves, and lay wallowing in the surf of the strand, nimsaring twenty-five feet in leng th, and in girth shunt roar times the circum ference of the ox 'Columbus? . the tail measured six feet across. and the head was of like breadth. his spe cies of shark its no teeth but like the ,right whale, sucks its food through s sort of bony comb, the teeth of laminw of I which, to this specimen, were from one to eight inches long. The body, partly ths sected, seemed to be encase-I rn blubb,r, some Bor 1U inches thick. lhe resort who hound it had taken out the liver, 'which alone will yield three or four Bar rels of oil.--and filial the whole carcass, I to all appearance, eight or ten barrels may lbe saved FilE WHIRL IVIND'S WRATH., A letter to the editor of the Crawford - , tatesman, published at Meadville Pa. thus describes the course and effects of a 'very heavy tempest of wind and rain, which passed through Cussewa4o town ship, in th .t vicinity, on the '27di ultimo, about 6 o'clock in the evening: 'lt commenced on the farm of M'Par land di Co., by tearing up several large apple trees, and, passing along, levelled to the ground about an acre of sturdy beach and maple trees; then coming in contact with a new house, raised it to the very dust, and shattered it to atoms Pieces of it were thrown in every three. titn—beams and plates were cast hoot two to six rods—rafters, sixty—and the roof was carried about one hundred. A stove, supposed to weigh about 500 lbs., .vas hurled about six rods, and broken to liezes. and the windows were found three or tour miles distant. The fences on the north of Freem's him, and the south of Dilluner's, were liown down, and the rails scattged 80 and 100 rods, leaving the crops exposed. The course of the storm has been traced for about three miles in length, and from a quarter to a half mile in breadth, by the destruction of every thing on its rout. Some damage was dune to cattle and stock, but 1 have heard of no loss of life.' ANOTHER SUB TREASURER GONE.- The following is an extract of a tette, from a gentleman dated, Livermore, Oxford Co. M e., June 5, 1839. 1 r * Col nel Andrews, the famous Loco Foco refiresentutive to our last Legislature from Turner, in this co. absconded about a fortnight since, leaving many of his Loco brethren in the !imbues. Being a great friend of the people, he was chosen treasurer of the surplus revenue which the town voted to distribute about a year since. The selectmen drew their orders on the treasurer, and some small .portion of the money which had been let out was not collected, in consequence of which his plea was he could not pay the orders. It is said his bondsmen will have to pay a large sum for him. To many of his constituents lie gave his private note in payment of their orders, bat to how large an amount I am nut aware. For some titre previous to his Swartwouting he was very industrious in borrowing money of every bo , ly whom he could pre• veil upon to lend him-- even of girls whin had saved a little of their hard earnings.. It is supposed• his delinquencies will' i amount to $4OOO. It physics his L meth.' Foe° friends rather harmi, as they have been puffing him up as the breatest man in all the country mound about, and hail fixed upon hint as the successor of the great ' Vir it Delphini Purris in the Congress of the United States, lie has probably gone,: to fexas in search of his fellow laborers' in the great cause of Loco•Focoism; Linn, Boyd, Harris, and Jubal Harrington, id smne genus.—Boston The New York Evening Post relates the following:--Several Irishmen were talking about sunset, at the corner of !tat er and Gouveneur stree„ when one of them whose name is said to be Peter Gro gan said in a boastful way that the Yon kees were cowards and he could whip ; Yankee at anytime. lie was overheerti by an American, Hardwick by name, wha• came up to Grogan and telling him that !!e would show bite what a Yankee could do, struck him on the neck. The blow kil led Grogan instantly. Hardwick, wh,• thought guilty of utiwarranialde vlllence, doubtless did not intend it kill the trim, was taken into custody." Noah las'. —.Hackman, how much is my tare?' 'Filly cen t s, sit ' • • - •• 'Why that's more than the law allows.' 'Law sir,' said the hackman, significant ly placing his thumb to the end of his nose, and twiddling his finger; 'Ve has no laws now, sir, the Vigs unit no longer in pow r.' STOVE D TEA ( - 0 : - 1 1) • GE Subset suer filly informs the public, that he has re,,,,iv e d his shop to the curie, of Aldrk..t S. I ,ire, if! the Iv use for in,rly occupied veto, by Alex. A1i.14,/N where he has on hand agen eral assorowiti of GOOD TIN WARE, which he will sell ci . .edp at whole sale or remit. House 4iviatiag w,ll pun on at the shortest I -.., hand ~. general assortment ui Sher iron ware, Stove pipe, Drums, Griop ng . paii, Coal • Scuttles etc. lit has also d a. neri l as-1 sortinent of HOLI.O , V-W.klt6, ever) , size of Pots, Af.tslit Kettles, teiltett les, and oval butlers. Of S FOVES he has a great variety—of all sizes of wood lug stoves, and coal stoves with Sheet Iron tops, all of handsome patterns, and of superior quality of casting, and are fin ished with tin ur copper, and in finish are not inferior to any iii tie coo n , y. All orders will it: J.l:ly attended to, and distil:full very ar ticle cheap for cos, lie hopes by , anti carelull atteution to busto.!s,, to merrit a good share of Public Patronage. WILLIAM iLZIUGSR. Hunting'loa Juiv 1), 1)39. —1 Y. SURVEVIAG AND SCRIVENING, THE Subscriber will attend to all callA in the above line with which he may be favored—office 3 doors East of Henry Dopp's Tavern, where he may at all times be found except when on business in the country. JACOB CRESWELL. Huntingdon Jane 19 1839. M 331 D Sa 21E1 ii 14 OF CO-PARTY 1811 K E notice that the partnershir -IL heretofore existing under the firm o. D. P. Tussey, & Co., 114 Sinking Valley, Huntingdon county, Pa. was dissolved by mutual consent, in March last. HENRY M'MULLE:I, ARMSTRONG CRAW] ORD, DAVID P. TUSSEY. Sinking Valley, May 2 , , 1839. The balks are now in the hands of Armstrong Crawford For settlement, ani all those whom this notice may concerti will do well to call on or before the firs day of September next, and settle their respective accounts. Executor's Notice. ALL PERSONS indebted to the Es tate of James Boggs , bite 0, Tyrone township, fluntin„lthin coun , .%. deLeased , are requested to mak, payment to the subscriber immediatel and those having claims against said Es tate, will present them properly authen• twitted for settlement ABRAM BUCK, Executor. 'Tyrone, May 29, 1859. A D.III IS TRA TOR'S .A ON WE. TAKE notice that Letters at Adadnistra ti,m on the Estate of . riturnas Forshey isle of Henderson tp. Huntingdon co dec'd have been gr,mted by the Register of Huntingdon Cc. ' to the undersigned, therefore, all persons indebted to said Estate, are requested to imake immediate payment, and those haw tng claimsagainst the same, are requester fo present them properly authenticates or settlement, without delay. DAVID SN AR E a _ .Idm niierator May, 15 1839 THE JOURNAL. One country, one constitution, one des/in!. Huntingdon, June 19, 1 SB9. Democratic .Intimasonie CANDIDATES. FOR PR ESIDFNT, EN.WM. H. HARRISON „on EWE PRESIDENT DANIEL WEBSTER. ' , rectorial Ticket. JOHN A. SHULZE, Sen'to'l JOSEPH RITN ER S electors Ist D•sirict LEVIS P SSMORE, 2{l do C ‘DVVALLADER EVANS. do CHARLES WATERS, 3 , 1 do JON. GILLINGHAM, 4th do AMOS ELLMAKER, do JOHN K. ZELLIN, do DAVID pur sth do ROBERT STINSON, 6th do WILLIAM S. HINDEU, 7th do J. JENKINS ROSS, Bth do PETER FILBERT, 9th do JOSEPH H. SPAYD, 10th do JOHN HARPER, 11th do WILLIAM M'ELVAINE, 12th do JOHN DICKSON, 13th do JOHN M*KEEHA N, 14th do JOHN REED, 15th do NATHAN BEACH, 16th do NER MIDDLESWARTH, 17th do GEORGE WALKER, do BERNARD CONNE' 19th do Gem. JOSEPH MARKLE, 20di do JUS I ICE G.FORDYCE, 21st JOsF.PH HF.NDERSON, 22d do 11A RMAR DENNY, 23d do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON, 24th d, JAMES MONTGOMERY, 25th do JOHN DICK. FL 1.44 OF' THE PEOPLE! Ifs' A ein,le t...rm for the Presiclenev. and th .:ffice dministered for the whole PEO PLE m cl not for a PARTY. . . r ) -- A s. , tinti, u n iform and convenient Na thud CURRENCY, adapted to the wants of th e whale COUNTRY, instead of the SHIN PLAS I ERS brought about by cur present RULERS. V.ECONOMY, RETRRNCHSIENT, and RE- For at in the administration of public affairs, reTired of Experiments and Experi menters, Republican gratitude will reward unobstrusive merit, by elevating the sub— :Otero of WASHINGTON and the desciple of JETYKRS'‘N. and thus resuming the safe and beaten track of our Fathers,—L. Gazate. Fourth of July Celebration. Ladies and Gentlemen desirous of par ticipating in the celebration of the coming anniversary of the Decimation of Ameri can Independence are respecildly request ed to attend a dinner, to be prepared in op t B.wough of Alexandria, on the 4th of July, at one o'clock P. M.-an address will b. 3 delivered on the occasion. JOHN PORTER, Prest. Corn. of Arrangement. **lams County. Oa Friday last, the special election was held in this county to fill the vacan cy occasioned by the tyranical outrage committed by the creatures of the Dog Kcepers—The Hopkins House. The Lo ca Focus we believe, calculated upon de testing Mr. Stevens, who was again a viii unteer before the people, avowing hi s wish to meet the usurpers in the Hall, and tell them oftheir shame and villiany. He sought no party nomination, but presen_ ted himself as the candidate of an injured people. We have just learned, that they sustained him —nobly and triumphantly sustained him, and he goes back to that Hall, to tell them of their violations of law. They dreaded--they feared his presence. His tal tats—!us integrity, and .vithall his baldness and zeal, made them fear with an exposure as they knew h, would give them. But he is with them vet; and the mist rable things of circutn stance —the miserable 'metes of power .vho were engeudered in the hot bed Of corruption and knavery, will be forced to writhe beneath his "all smiting steel." They must hear—and the bully, beast,and blackguard Mcglewee, will learn that t ho the ass may kick the dead Lion. yet, to attempt the same teat when alive a d "unchained" that it is dear bough t experience. It will be worth a trip to Harrisburg to listen to the scathing of the L o oco dupes. He will pour it on to them like streams of burning lava, and if' not dead to all feeling, they will hide their heads in shame and confusion.— Stevens' Majority is between 5 and 60) 'hundred we understated, More . I reso °Dicers. We see by the papers that Mr. Jo3ephl [titer his been appointed superintendent upon the Juniata division of the Pennsyl vania canal. Here, then , is another creaion, for the purpose of plundering ) ) the State Treasury. We say for th; purpose, because it is impossible to iin.' .nagine any other cause. rime pars ago, and du ring the whole administration of Joseph Ritner, the Loco .Foco press teemed with denunciations against it fur increasing State officers. L'hey were horror stricken! We then she wed by figures that, even the increas• ed number of officers received less money for their services than the old ones, Le cause their sallartes had been decreased. Yet notwithstanding all this, their howls were incessant even up to the last elec tion, their papers complained of the "hordes of officers sent upon them." 1 This sounded well enough! it answered to gull the unsuspecting; and they suc ceeded: Now mark the issue. ‘Vhere four supervisors performed the duties— under this new Reform administration seven supervisors and fourteen foremen are required—and we believe all at an increased sallary—and now to cap the climax of their fully and wicked. ness, they add a new office, a superinten ding. This is the first time in this State we believe, that a svcrinteudent has been appointed on a finished line of improve_ inent. What has he to superintend? 'Nothing we imagine, except counting the money! Whether this office has been created because the supervisors could not get bail! we do nut know; or perhaps it was created in order to double Mr. Ri' ter's sailers, as he was a faithful servant, and claims the distinguished honor of be ing a martyr to liberty; merely because his services were no longer needed I Bald Eagle Iron Works, on account of his devoting so much more of his time to making votes than making iron. Or per haps it was created to give him the con trol of a large sum of money=a superin tenent can draw fifty thousand dollars at one time out of the treasury; and has the, right to hold that amount in his hands con tinually—this gives them a large election eering fund—fur if put out at interest he can realize three thousand dollars a year.l But still farther, supervisors are allowed to draw five thousand dollars at a time. Then seven supervisors would draw thir ty- fee thousand dollars, making in all the enormous sum of eighty thousand dollars in the hands of their officers, while under Joseph Ritner, they could only have twen ty. Aye! and this is called economy— reform—retrenchment--and taking care of the people's money. 4or is this line an isolated case; we understand that on some of the lines it is far worse. The hands have been increased—and the per, diem allowance increased. Fe!low citizens, what do you think of ! all this? are you willing to allow the polit ical rats to eat up the public treasure ! without a murmur?. They are as cunning! ae theircs! ‘Vlien they were crying stop thief," it was but to draw public attention front them, and they would at once reap the advantage of decieving the people, The Canal. TVehave now been tour years on this division of the Pennsylvania canal, and we can safely say that at no one Cfne du ring that period, has there been such cul pable neglect and tardy operations by the state officers. Not hardly a week, we might almost say a day passes that there is not a break in the canal. Some two weeks since a large break occurred below Lewistown, which was not repaired for ten days, although onehalf that time was considered sufficiently long to have had it finished. Before this break was passed we believe by all the boats, another, occurred about 15 miles below this place, and was occasioned by the most consum mate carelessness, if we have been rightly informed. On Thursday, a very severe rain fell, and raised the small springs Sc which empt . - 1 into the canal, and the loci; keeper, the foremen and all, were some where where they should not be,and never discovered it until the level was full to overflowing, and the breach already made in the bank. Now what on earth are our officers for if it be not to attend to such things a; such times as there is most need of them., But this is a new order of things, seven. supervisors, fourteen foremen, and one' superintendent cannot watch the canal only. in pleasant weather— they do not like to allow the winds of Heaven to visttl too roughly their delicate carcases, and s when every man ought to he at his post, they can be found esconsed in some com fortable corner. The whole of the marvel is not yet done. Last year during a most unprece -1 dented dry season, the breach above here was mended, und was pronounced by the Porter devotees to be a most miserably done job, and that it could not stand with out much additional labor and expense. Even David R. himself said—and we doubt not would have swore to it—that he had personally examined it, that it was in a wretched condition; all this and more he said in his message, and now look at the thing, Not one break has taken place along the whole line of new work—thus the work itself will rise up like the old records, to tell the tale of his folly and infamy. It was false that he had person ally examined them; and every body along the line knows it. It was false that they were not well done—and his own engin eers will tell him so—the permanence cf the work will tell him so—and if con• scienciousness is not extinct--it will tell hum that he wrote it all, knowing that it was basely and wilfully false at the time that he wrote it. Once before, we urged upon the lock keepers to keep their levels is a regular stage of water. The high and low tides should be avoided. Last week we saw a boat or two sticking opposite our town for the want of water; it is r lcctle to had when boatt are detained by the wilful in attention If the luck tenders. We do hope that they will be more careful in fu ture. Canoe Creek Post Oftice. For some cause or other the people who reside &iota this Post Office, have fallen under the displeasure of Amos, or some of his paltry t , pimps, panders, and para sites," who infest every section of the country, and whose march of mind gen. erally marches out of the country with some of uncle's treasure in their pocket -generally known as leg treasurers. Hut so it is tor some cause not yet ascertained, the people of this district of our count? can have no Post Office; and the only cause that can possibly be imagined is. that there is no Loco Foco knan'there to take charge of it. For a number of years this Vost Offico has been located, and now fur the first time it has been takea away, and the citi zens are obliged to climb over a moun tain five miles either way, to learn wheth erthey have any thing in tke office. It is a paltry, and contemptable outrage upon the rights of the people. klut those who have formerly obtained their letters and papers there, are citizens of those two unfortunate townships ,-- Morris and Frankstown, di will not bus down to the dagon of Porterism. They ',are an honest, quiet people, elm repudiate knaves and knaveries, and consequently they are the objects of their animosity and hatred. Last gill Morris township was insulted by the changing of the Post Office, so as to give it into the hands of one calcuk;ed to fill it to tZeir liking, and we earnestly trust that the citizens of that townkip will keep in proper remetnb ranee that matt who would become the tool and play-thing of a band of political knaves, who would sacrifice their first born upon the altar of party, or would drink their mother's blood to appease the moloch of factiom He deserves to be remembered. And re• membered too, that the present party in power, an this State and this Nation, pre • fers the services of "drunkards, rowdies, perjurers, knaves and thieves ,"—and that from them and their companions are you to look for justice, until you rise in your majesty and hurl the invaders irons their seats of power. afflicting ✓accident, A young man by the name of John ; Green, lost his lac on Monday, at th e Rolling mill of .11b. Hatfield near Alex antlria, in this county, in the followin g sudden and awful manner. fi bile run ning the blooms through the first rollers, he stooped to reach for a pair of tongs , when a coarse working- frock or shirt which he had on caught in the rollers with the bloom, and he was instantly drawn :through the rollers. The space between them being but sor 6 inches. His death was instantaneous. —He was said to be a worthy and industrious citizen, and has left a wile and two children to mourn his (sudden and shocking death. CCrlndependence dab! Is there not good feeling enodgh existing among our "citi• zens, to unite once in the celebration of the 4th Ju!y.---It has the name and should be, an Independence day? Will not NM 0 person make a start?
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