From the Pennsylvania Inquirer. ROMANCE. IN RE.'sL LIFE, The particulars of a case of more than! ordinary suffering and vicissitude were communicated to us yesterday. Several years ago, a hi g hly respectable young lady of this city, •vell educated and lerls brought up, became attached to and mar ried a young gentleman, at that time in the commercial business and with fin, prospects. They lived tog , t:wr fur a time, happily awl prosperously. An op port unity then otf,rol, and Mr. B. was induced to visit the Western country, and became the proprietor of a hotel at a cel. ebrated watering place in the interior of Pennsylvania. While there, he unfortu nately became intemperate in his habits, neglected his bu.itiess, and was finally compelled t, remove to another section of country. Ile again established himself at another watering plac,, where, after a hi if career, the fiend of intemperance still dog• gieg his footsteps, he was again compellA to sell out and remove. His next location was in Nlaryland, where a few friends once more re-estab lished him, his clingin,l to him throughout all his vicissitudes with the tenacity id woman, and the faint but constantly bea ming hope that he %Auld yet reform and resuscitate his almost lileless fortunes.— For the third time, however, strong drink obtained the mastery. lie was sold out, and again compelled to try the south-west. He passed down the Ohio aid Missis-1 sippi to New Orleans, his wife still cling— ing to him, and finally proceeded into Texas. Here he rallied for a little while, but the period was brief, and intemperance and the climate acting together, soon put an end to his earthly career. His poor wife, at that time, had two children with her—one a boy of three years and a half old, the other an infant of only eleven months, and not a dollar wherewith to provide them food. Her situation was terrible indeed, especially when we re member her early education, kindly bring ing up, and the doting fondness with which she clung, in every misfortune, to her ev er kind but misguided and ruined husband. Appreciating hr situation, a few charita ble individuals engaged a passage for her d in the schooner Harriet Porter, bound to, Philadelphia. They had been out but a few hours, before the unfortunate woman, overcome by distress, anxiety of mind, and the condition of her children, was seized with a violent fever, and died a raving maniac. Her little infant was torn from her dead arms with difficulty, and kept on sweetened water for the rest of the voy age. Doubtless, the other pasacugers ex tended every aid possible; but there was no female on board, and men are not ex- actly suited to nurse an infant of so ten-i der an age; and at sea. The fate of the poor mother must ini'e d, be lamented by every feeling heart. tier body was thrown into the sea, and we are happy to be able to state that the little orphans are now in the care of a family in this city. who were acquainted with the deceased, and who will see that their wants are abundantly supplied. The infant, when it arrived in Philadelphia, was completely emaciated, with scarcely enough life remaining to an mate its feeble frame." From the Gloucester 'lelegraph. A GREAT STORM. Never have we been called upon to re cord so severe a storm, or one so disas trous and melancholy in its results, as that which set in on Sunday morning.---' Snow and rain came together, accompani ed with a high wind from the S. E., which soon increased to a gale almost unprece dented for its violence, and which contin ued without abatement the whole of that day and night and moat of Monday. Property and life have been swept away to an unparrelled extent, and the scenes of suffering and desolation that have been brought before their eyes, have involved a whole community in sorrow and affliction Our shores have been literally strewn with wrecks. surviving but suffering mar iners, anti, alas, with the dead. On Sandy morning there were in our harbor nearly sixty vessels, which had put in, in anticipatiOn of a storm. Of this large fleet, all that could be st.en at anchor on Monday morning v•ere about twenty, and they having every mast ar,d spar cut away, a solitary pole in each only standil ing to bear aloft a signal of distress and for assistance. These, tossing as they were like egg shells upon a violent sea, and exposed to the yet raging gale, liable every moment to part their cables and be driven to sea with all on board, presented a scene mel ascholy enough—but when the eye rested upon the lung line of wrecks that had been cast upon our shore, and the innumerable fragments of others, together with their scattered cargoes—here and there the cold and stiffened corse of a fellow creature, and the suffering survivors—the feeling heart was subdued and almost made to bleed. In regard to the lives lost it is impossi ble as yet to ascertain the precise number. The general belief is that it cannot fall short of forty. Yesterday afternoon nine bodies had been found, exclusive of four at Sandy Bay. From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer :CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP. The Globe of Friday night announced that tieneral Scntt had undoubtedly been nominated at liarrisburg, in consequence of the Whigs of the New York delegafi Sion, eighteen in number, holding a cau- cus, and writing to the N. York members of the Harrisburg Convention a formal letter, recommending the nomination of that dist n,;uished citizen. And then with a view of exciting the friends of IGeo. Harrison against the supposed nom ination of Scott, makes the following ad an.l appeal. 'General Harrison, with what mock try have you beet treated! When there was 'a battle to tight, your party took you for its lea ler. While victory was perching on its banners, you were to be unceremo ['twisty thrust aside to make way for Mr. Clay. And sow, when they have ant.ll- 1 er hattle to filth', belied i t co t !mpt of your popularity, your dexixion, and your' feelings. they must have a new leader in , the person of another chifrain ! 'But what honar or hones'y is there in •s party which can so readily abandon both its principles and its leaders. 'This is not a movement of the people composiN ole of our great political par :ies, but of certain politicians. It does, nit emanate from our Farmers, Meehan-1 ies or itkrchants, from our Valleys, our Plains, or our Citi a; but lions a little band of politicians; from a caucus room at Washington! 'Will not all good Whigs obey the FLAG OF THE PEOPLE! mandate; turn about, wficel, about, and Kr A single term for the Presidener ' and jump Jim Crow ? the of fi ce administered for the whole PEO- What a beautiful admission is here! Be PL and nut for a PARTY. hold, the organ of the administration no ice' A sound, uniform and convenient Na sooner imagines Scott nominated, than it bona' ole COU NTRY , C Y adapted to tl t ae le w , mti.i l r admits the patriotict 'devotion' of Gen. pie,l w s . !lE. A: s sr, instead of I brought about by cur presen Harrison, and that his nomination is de- 12 ERS. sire.' by the 'people' and if made, would jj'ECONOMY, RETRENCHMENT, Hod RE have emanated from our FARMERS, sm. FORM in the administration of public affairs, Experiments aV ill Experh i cuAsiles, and stELICHANTS, from 'our vAt.- I Ts l r tic x LEYS, our PLAINS, and our CI ILES' O M O O n b t S e t sive P merit a , i' br elevating the th r eZ) .' And then again the people are to be called a.tern of WASHINGTON and the desciple of upon to 'turn about, wheel about, and jump JEFFERSON, and thus resuming the safe and Jim Crow !' How beautiful, how refined beaten track of our Fathers,—L. Gazette how classical, and with how very true?. For once. Mr $2.00,000 Globe, you have 'calculated without your host. The peod pie have not been asked to 'turn about;' but the harrisburg Convention has said to them; 'in 1633, without orgaization or concert, you the people, brought forward Gen. flarrison, and without an effort, came within a few votes of defeating the Tory candidate fur the Presidency; we now place before you the same veteran hero and statesman for your sulitages, in the full conviction that his nomination is demanded by oar 'Farmers, Mechanics, an .1 Mechanics;' and that it is loudly cal led fur by a voice which cannot be mista ken—'from our Valleys, our P'ains, and our Cities.' Temperance Meeting. The undersigned committee appointed at a meeting of the leientla of temper lance, in the borough of Huntingdon, on' the 10th inst. to make arrangements for a ;eneral meeting on same subp.ct on Christ Inas day the 25th inst, preparitory to the organization of a society, having adopted the following. 1. That said meeting to be held in the Methodist Church, and to commence at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. 2. Meeting for prayer in behalf of the cause of temperance is recommended to be held at the same church, to commence at 10 o'clock A. M. on said day. 3. The afternoon exercises to be as follows: ADDRESSES-By the Rev. John Peebles and the Rev. G. L. Brown, on the impor tance of immediately organizing a tem perance society in this borough, and the duty of every member of the community to join it and aid the cause by their influ ence and example. After which to enable the friends of temperance to decide upon what course should be adopted in the Organization of a society, the following question shall be considered and discussed. it expedient to extend a pledge of abstinence further than to exclude the use as a beverage, of ardent spirits, and vi. nous liquors ? The gentlemen tp.dow named, have con sented to deliver their respective views tin the question--On the affirmative, Rev. John Ball, John G, Miles Esq. On the negative—John Williamson Esq Samuel S. Wharton. Alter the regular dist u , sion, any other persons present to be at liberty to present their sentiments lon the subject. Ladies and Gentlemen 'ot the borough and the adjoining neighbor. hood, are respectfully invited to attend. J :VIES sum., D. McMURTRIE F. B. WALLACE Corn • } inittee. G. TAYLOR JAMES GWIIN WM. DORRIS RO cmcnaz FOUJIWRI . The subscribers would respectfully in form the citizens of Huntingdon and the adjoining counties that they have repair ed, and newly fitted up the Rockdale Foundry, on Clover creek, two miles troin Wil liamsburg, where they are now prepared to execute all orders in their line, of the best materials and workmanship and with pi oini.triess and despatch. T1...y will keep constantly on hand, Stoves 01 every discription, such as Cook itt4, Ten Plate, Parlor, Coal and wood atom es; Ploughs, anvils, car rings, ham mers bed plates, hollow ware, and every kind of castings necessary fur forges, mills, or machinery of any discription wagon boxes of all descriptions dm which can be had on as good terms as they can be had at any other foundry in the county or State Remember the Rockdale Foun dry. STEEVENS diz GRIFFIN Dec. 25. 1839 THE JOURNAL. I , One country, one constitution, one destiny Huntingdon, Dec. 25, 1839 Democratic .littimasonic CANDIDATES. FOR PRESIDENT, GEN. WM. H. HARRISON OF OHIO FOR VICE PRESIDENT, JOHN TYLER, OF VIRGINIA. Electorial Ticket. JOHN A. SHULZE,Seteto'l I OSEP H RIT N Ell, Selectors Ist Disirict LEVIS PASSMORE, 2d do CADWALLADER EVANS. do CHARLES WATERS, 3d do JON. GILLINGHAM, 4th do AMOS ELLMAKER, do JOHN K. ZELLIN, do DAVID purrs, 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'ELVA INE, 12th do JOHN DICKSON, 13th do JOHN M'KEEH AN, 14th do JOHN REED, 15th do NATHAN BEACH, 16th do NER MIDDLESWARTH, 17th do GEORGE WALKER, 18th do BERNARD CONNE! LY, 19th do GEN. JOSEPH MAIIKLE, 20th do JUSTICE G.FORDYCE, 21st do JOSEPH HENDERSON, 22d do HARM AR DENNY, t3:l do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON, 24th do JAMES MONTGOMERY, 25th do JOHN DICK. “The Empire Slate.” We learn that this interesting and val. uable journal, published in New York city, is to be enlarged. If any of tier citizens desire one of the best political and literary journals published in that State, they would do well to send fur the "Empire State." What we want ! We want money! we want to pny our debts—and we want those to pay us that owe us. We want those of our subscribers, who are in debt to us two, three, and four years, to PAY UP. We want such as reside in distant parts of the State, to send us the amount they know is due us, by the next mail; because, we want to send them a receipt for the same. We want those who are indebted to us for adverti sing, to PAY UP, for the best of all rea• sons, we want the money. We want every man that is in arrears for either paper, job-work, or advertising, to bring or send us our pay, on or before the January Court; and we want them to understand that we need it—we want them to remember this; and we want them to do what we want. Gf e want to obey the injunction of St, Paul, "owe no man any thing"—and we want our patrons to live Up to it also. We want to be able to go into the cam paign for Harrison, able, and anxious fur the strife. It e want a settlement in our accounts—and oui subscribers and pa trons may feel assured that we will fight hard for a settlement with our rulers, who have so long abused the confidence of the people. 11 our friends will bear in mind the beginning of the old catch—" Hand over"—it will all be right. Our Candidates It is really laughaLle to see the move ments of the Van Buren faction, since the noininatiun of the old soldier of the last war—Harrison. Yuu can hardly meet one that does not exclaim, "well, you have nominated the old granny again—ll : you had only nominated Clay,! you might have stood some chance, but with that old petticoat General you can do nothing." This may all do well enough, fellow citizens, for the paltry grogshop politi cians, who can concieve of no other means to advance their man, than by the detrac tion of his opponent. Bu,: there is not in our land, one man who has an Amen an's heart, that would wantonly cast a ' whisper of slander against that man, vt, ho, when only 19 years of age, left the ease and happiness of his fireside home, to en counter the hardships, the privations, and the dangers of a frontier war—against that man who spent years ut his life with but the firmament lot his canopy, and the cold sod for his couch, .alternately fight ing for and guarding the liberties which we now enjoy. The man that would con. jure up the idle and false tales of that man's enemies, and retail them out as truth to suit party ends, and secure party power, would apply a torch to the temple of Liberty, or desecrate the tomb of Wash ington. Have not the foes of Harrison dune so 1 Answer us, every American born—Every sun of those men, whose toil reared the institutions of your country 1, —whose blood-cemented their foundations. Democrats! you are called upon to oppose Gen W m 11. Hari ison, and we are I told, that he is not a Democrat. Are you an American, cit . zen ? If you be, tell us Ly the love of your country—by the glory of its institutions; and by the graves of our glorious fathers, is not he a Dem ocrat 7 a lover of the people, a lover of them for their own good (not hia own, like the Democrats of the present day) a Democrat ? Is not he a Democrat who left the quiet of home for the din of bat. tle 1 Is not he a Democrat who could receive,' and pay out millions of public money 7 and without money or without price, show his hands unpolluted by the peoples' treasure—Such a Democrat is Harrison—Such a Granny is the Hero of North Bend—Such a Petticoat Gener al is the Warrior of Tippecanoe and the Thames. We have one suggestion to make to our'' friends in this county. Let every man who has leisure, and he that has not, find it, come into our town at the January court, and let there b e held on Tuesday night Meeting of the People. And thus begin the work in earnest. In every city and town in the Union, ar e they calling the people together, and ev ery breeze brings us the united shout of every opponent of the mad schemes of the present rulers; it is heard above all ,then• mutterings and revilings,—hurrah for Harrison and Tyler, —Let us not be be hind. The days of their misrule are num bered. The people are coming,—Let us be enabled to tell them in 1840-1' he people are here. 26th Congress. The Senate of the U. S. have been meeting from day to day doing nothing— waiting for the moving or meeting of the waters in the lower House. In the House they have spent nearly a month doing nothing. Each returniug day is a history of the past. The contes ted seats of the New Jersey members be ing the bone of strife. Some little time was spent with Naylor and Tory Inger soll. But the Loco Fucos themselve s were ashamed of the conduct of Ingersoll, and by a unanimous vote declared that he had no right to a vote in their body. A vote was finally had upon the right of the Jersey members, when the right of the Whigs to a vote was by a tie vote--conse quently both sets were excluded, until a committee should be appointed, or the House organized at least. A gleam of hope now appeared that they would soon commence business; and the election of speaker was commenced. After nine unsuccessful balluttings, the contest happily ended in the election of a Whig Speaker of Congress— Hunter of Virginia. It was an unexpected triumph and has knocked the talk out of the Lo: cos. A neat and candid address was made to the House by Mr. Hunter on ta king the chair; when the members were called and sworn in—when Randolph, of N. Jersey, the only uncontested member , appeared with his five Ni hig colleagues, and demanded to be sworn in, on the au• thority of their certificates; when the old scene was all to go over again—speech af. ter speech—motion after motioo, and no deter mination arrived at. There we must leave them until further news. Of course we have no message yet. MARRIED—On Wednesday, Decem ber 11th, by I. Grafius, Esq. Mr. Win. HERMAN, to Miss RACHEL KENADY, all of Porter township, Huntingdon county, Proclamation. HEREAS by a precept to me direc- I 1"/ ted dated at Huntingdon, the 17th day ; of November, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine under the hands and seals of Lie Hon• Thomas Burnside, 1 l'resident of the Court of Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, and general jail deliv ery of the 4th judicial district of Pennsyl vania, composed of the counties of Mifflin, Huntingdon, Centre, Clearfield, and Jeffer son, and the lion. Joseph Adonis, and John Kerr his associate Judges of the county of Huntingdon, justices assigned, ap pointed to hear, try, and determine all and every indictments, and presentments made or taken for or concerning all crimes, which by the laws of the State are made capital or felonies of death and all other offences, crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or shall be committed or perpetrated within the said county, or all persons which are or shall hereafter he committed or be perpe-, trated for crime 3 aforesaid—l am comman ded to make. Public Proclamation. Throughout my whole bailiwick, that a Court of Oyer and Ter miner, of Comm n Pleas and Quarter Sea ' sions will be held at the court house in the Borough of Huntingdon, on the second Mon day and 13th day of January, next, and those who will prosecute the said prisoners, be then and there to prosecute them as it shall be just, and that all Justices of the Peace, Coroner, and Constables within the said county be then and there in their pro per persons, at 10 o'clock A. M. of said day, with their records, inquisitions, examinations 'and remembrances, to do those things which! their offices respectively appertain. Dated at Huntingdon, the 17th day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine and the 63d year of American Indepen dence. JOSEPH SHANNON, Sh'ff. Sheriff's Office Hunting don, December ,25, 1839. Prod a ma lion. mr lIEREAS by Precept to me direc ted by the Judges of Common Pleas of the county of Iluntingdoa bear ing; test the 17th day of Novem'aer, A. D. 1839, I am commanded to make Public Proclamation throughout my whole baili wick that a court of Common Pleas will be held at the court house, in the borough of Huntingdon, in the county of Hunt ingdon, on the third Monday and 20th of January, A. D. 1840, for the trial of all issues in said court which remain un determined befote the said Judges when and where all Jurors, NVitnesses and sui tors in the trial of all said issues are re quired to attend. Dated at Iluntinudon tee 17th day of November, A. D. one thousand eight hen• tired and thirty ninr, the 63d year of - merican lad epentience.......... JOSEPH SHANNON, &cry. Sheriff's office Hunting don Dec. 25, 18S9 Sheriff's Sales, virtue of sundry writs of Vent/Ri m-0 oni Exponas and Lerari Facial, is sued out of the court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon county, and to one direc ted, will be exposed to public sale at the Court 'louse in Huntingdon, on the 13th day of January next, at ten o'clock A. M. the following property, viz: A certain tract of lat d situate in Union township, adjoining land of Samuel Dill, Humphrey Chilcote, Daniel Young Smith and others, Containing about 300 Acres, more or ICSS, about 70 of which are clear rd, having thereon erected three houses, each one story high and two stables. Seized and taken under execution and to he sold as the property of John Quarry and Michael Quarry. ALSO A tract of land situate it. Tell town ship. adjoining lands of James Ford, Ja. cob Help, Hobert Blair and others, con• tainiag One hundred Acres more or less about thirty five acres of which are clear ed, and thereon erected a Cabin house 4- barn; Also, thereon an Orchard of about 60 Apple and other Trees, Seized and taken under execution and to be sold as the property of Henry Fitz• iinmons. ALSO A tract of land situate in Barree town ship, Huntingdon county, adjoining lands of Nlathew Gilleland, James Leonard & others containing about 17 Acres more or less surveyed on a warrant in the name of Wm. Mares. Seized and taken under execution and to be sold as the property of Robert Flern ing. ALSO A certain lot of ground situate in the new town plot lately laid out adjoining the old town of Hollidaysburg, lying and being on the northerly side of Blair street and in front on said street sixty feet, and extending in depth at right angles to the said street one hundred and four feet on the westerly side, and one hundred and sixteen feet on the easterly line of said lot to Mulberry street, being sixty one feet nine inches in Lriadth on said street as laid out on the ground, and known and designated on the plan o' said lot, lately laid out as aforesaid by number 114. Seized and taken under execution and to be sold as the pi o,,erty of Abraham Brawn. ALSO A lot of ground situate in the town of Newry, adjoining a lot of Ale sander Knox on the smith, a lot of E. Fe rree on the north, fronting 50 feet on 13ed fent st. and extending 200 feet in depth to an al ly, the same being numbered 14 in the plan of said town, and having thereon e rected a two story log house. Seized and taken under execution and to be sold as the property of John Shoup. ALSO A lot of ground situate in the exten sion of the borough of Alexandria, num• bered 9 in the plan thereof, adjoining on east a lot of John Itching, on the west a lot of Nicholas Cressweli fronting 60 feet on the turnpike toad and extending back 180 feet to an alley on which are erected a two story log house and a frame tailor shop. Seized an 1 taken under execution and t . be sold as .he property of Stephen Itch Inger. Register's Notico-- OTICE is hereby given to al: per. sons interested, flat the following named persons, have settled their ac counts in the Register's Office, at Hunt ingdon, and that said accounts will be pre sewed for confirmation and allowance, at an Orphans' Court to be held at Hunting. don for the county of Iluntingtlon, on the second Monday, and 13th day of January next; vii: I. John Morrison and Samuel 11 Bell Administrators of the estate of Samuel Morrison, late of Shirley township deed. 2. John Fleck, executor o! the last will and testament of Mary Ann Tem pleton, late of Tyrone township, dec'd. 3. Samuel Myton and Wesley Greg rey, Executors of the last n ill and testa ment of John Myton, late of West town ship, dee'd. 4. Israel Grafms, Eiq. and Mary Roe, Executors of the last will and tcstatnent of John Roe, late of Porter township, dec'd. JOHN REED, Register Register's office, Hunting. (low, Dec. 25,1839—.41.. JUNIATA BRIDGE NOTICE. The stock hold( rs in the Juniata Bridge Company, are notiliel that the annuel e lectioa will be held at the house of Chris tian Couts, in the borbugh of Huntingdon on 7i. e,day the 11th day of January next for the purpose of electing - 1 Presiclent, 6 Managers and Treasurer and secretary, to conduct the alnirs of the said Compa- I tty for the ensuing I. DORLAND, Secy. Dentin Von, Dec, 25, i 839. ( ~Last Notice edILL pet - sons mho know themselves indebted to the estate of Peter Swoops, deceased, arc requested to call and d seharge their accounts, as the ac counts will be left in the hands of vrop pvr officers for collection, if not sctticd 'before the lot day of February nest, without respect to persons. JSO. Sll OOPE, PETER SW OOPE, Exe. WinSWOOPS. liutitingdun, Dec, 25, 183'J. ES I ATE OF Joel Pennock. The Subscriber, appointed by th rout t of common Pleas of Chester county, Trustees, in the place; of Jesse PuseV, and others assignees of Joel PennocK, under a deed of voluntary assignment for the benefit of creditors, hereby gives notice, that the books of the said Joel Pennock, are in the hands of Mr. John Taylor [.lt Clie:ster Purnac,] Who is authorized to make settlement end receive the balances which may be found to be due to the saul estate. All persons therefore who have unset tled ._ccuunts with said estate. are re quested to call immediately on Mr. Tay lor, that they may be settled. I'. FRAZER SMITH. Dec. 26, 18:39.--rt. TO ova vuumatromm. KE notice, that we I ave applied to -m- the Judges of the Court of Com mon Pleas of Huntingdon County for tie benefit of the laws of this Commonwealth made for the relief of Insolvent debtors; and the said Court has appointed the 2nd, monday (13th day) of January next fur the hearing of us and our creditors at the Court house in the borough of Hun tingdon, when and where you may attend if you see proper. David Long, Jacob Myers, John Gorsuch, John Mason, Isaac Ziegler, Simon Brininger, Peter Miller, John B. Glass, William lice,, Mathias Power.. William Johnson. • c. IL, 1833.