~esL~: VOL. V, No. 23.] tnnuo OF THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. The " JOURNAL" will be published every Wednesday morninq, at two dollars a year, itpaid 'IN AISVANCE, and if not paid with in six months, two dollars and a half. • Every person who obtains five subscribers, and forwards price of subscription, shall be ihrnished with a sixth copy gratuitously for acke year. . - No subscription received for a less period than six thotiths, nor any paper discontinued until all atb'earages are paid. ttl'All communications must be addressed (to tho Editor, POST PAID, or they will not he attended to. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion, twenty five cents per square will be charged. It no definite orders are given as to the rime an advertisement is to be continued, it will he kept in till ordered out, and charged accor dingly. AGENTS. The Huntingdon Journal. Daniel Teague, Orbisonitz; David Blair, Esq. Shade Gap; Benjamin Lease, Shirleye +burg; Eliel Smith. Esq. Chikottstown; Jay. Entriken, jr. Ceiree Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; James Morrow, Unign. Furnace; ite.hnSisler, Warrior Mark; James Davis,: ;Esq. West township ; D. H. Moore, E•ci lorankstown; Eph. Galbreath, Esq. /hill daysburg; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Witter Street; Wm. Reed, Esq. Maria township;, :Solomon fLimer. Aefir's James Dysart s ..Month Spruce Creek; Wm. Murray, Esu. Graysville; John Crum, Manor Hill; JP. IE. Stewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler, Mill Creek. Important Discovery. The public are hereby directed to the me idical advertisements of Dr. ILA RLICH'S ;Celebrated COMPOUND STRENGTH -ENING TONIC, and GERALIN,IPER j'ENT PILLS, which are a Medicine of :great value to the afflicted, discovered by HAR LIC 11, a celebrated physician at .Altdorl,Germany, which has been used with •unparalleled success throughout Germany. This Medicine cottsists of two kinds, viz: the C ERMAN APERIEN T, ann the :COMPOUND smENETHENING TO. :141C • PILLS. They are each put up in small packs, and should both be used to -effect v. 'permanent cure. Those who are ablicted would do well to make a trial of thi 'invaluable Medicine, as they never produc , sickness or nausea while using, A safe and 4ffectual remedy for lIESPEPSI.I OR MDIGES7 lON, and all Stomach Complaints; pain in the SIDE, LIVER COMPLAINTS, Loss of Mt:petite, Flatulency, Palpitation of the _Heart, General Debility Nervous Irritabi illty, SICK HEAL) CITE, Female Disea was, Spasmodic Affections, RHEUMATISM Asthmas , CONSUMP LION &c. The CERMAN APERIENT PILLS are to , cleanse tile stomach and purify the BLOOD 'The Tonic or STRENGTHENING PILLS :are to STRENGTHEN and invigorate the nerves and digestive organs and give tone to the Stomach, as all diseases originate from impurities of the BLOOD and disordered Stomach. This mode of treating diseases is pursued by all practical PHYSICIANS, which experience has taught them to be the only remedy to elLct a cure. They are •not only recommended and prescribed by the most experienced Physicians in their daily practice, nut also taken by those gentlemen themselves whenever they feel the symp toms of those diseases, in which they know them to be efficacious. 'This is the case in all large cities in which they have an ex ensive sale. It is not to be understood that these medicines will cure all diseases mere by purifying the blood—this they will not. do; but they certainly will, and sufficient authority of daily proofs asserting that those medicines. taken as recommended by the di rections which accompany them, will cure a great maj-trity of diseases of the stomach, l lungs and liver, by which impurities of the blood are occasioned. re Ask for DR. HARLlcies COMPOUND STRENGTHENING TONIC, AND C ERMAN APERIENT PILLS. Principal 011i , e for e the sale of this Medicine, is at No. 19 North EIGHTH Street, Philadelphia. Also—For sale at the Store of Jacoß MIL LER, is the Borough of Huntingdon, Pa., who is agent fur Huntingdon county. RHEIMIATISM. Entiely cured by the use of Dr. 0. P. Harnett's Compound Strengthening and Ger man Aperient Pills. Mr. Silomon Wilson, of Chester co. Pa., :afflicted for two years with the above dis .Aressing disease, of which he had to use his .crutches for 18 months, his symptoms were ,excruciating pain in all his Joints, especially nthis hip, Shoulders and tneles, pain increas stg al ways towards eyeing attended with beat. Mr. Wilson, was at o.le time not able to move his limbs on account of the pain be ing se great; he being advised by a friend of his to procure Dr. Harlieli's pill of which he sent to the agent in West Chester and pro cured som; on using the medicine the third day the pain disappeared sod his strength increasing fast, and in three weeks was able to attend to Ins business, which he had not done for 18 months; for the benefit of others afflicted, he wishes those lines published that they may be relieved, and again en joy the pleasures of a healthy life. Principle office, 19th North Bth Street, Philadelphia. cs-4.--For sale at the Store of Jacob Mil vr„ listitilvion, Pa. THE JOURNAL. .S' Y.l /P TOMS. Dyepepsia may be described from a wan of appetite or an unnatural alai voracious one nausea, sometimes bilicus vomiting, suddei, and transient distensions of the stomach af ter eating, acid and prutrescent eructations, water brash, pains in the legion of the stom ach, costiveness palpitation at the heart, diz ziness and Oiliness of sight, disturbed rest, tremors, mental despondency, flatulency, spasms, nervous irritability, chillness, sal lowness of complexion, oppressing after eat ing, general and debility; this disease will also very often produce the • sick head ache, as proved by the experience of these who have suffered of it. DYSPEPSIA I DYSPEPSIA !! More proofs of Mc efficacy of Dr. Harli Ch's :Medicines, Mr Jonas Hartman, of Sumneytown, Pa. entirely cured of the ab,ve disease, which he was afflicted with for six years. His spmptoms were a sense of distension and op pression after eating, distressing pain in the pit of the stomach, nausea, loss of appetite, giddiness and dimness of sight, extreme de bility, flatulency, acrid eructations, some times vomiting, and pain in the right side, depression of sv,rits. disturbed rest, faint ness, and not able to pursue his business without causir g immediate exhaustioL and weariness. Mr. Hart..nan is happy to state to the pub lie and is filling to give any information to the afflicted, respecting the wonderful ben efit he rr..ceived from the use of Dr, Ilarlichs Compw.uid Suengthcnitm and German ape rient "pills. Principal nhhioo No. 19 nail ; Eigt , stli street Philadelphia. Also for sale at t.'ite store of Jacob Miller, Huntingdon. VIE A 1' .I.IEN 7. The principal objects to be kept In view are Ist, to free the stomach and intestines from offending materials. 2d, to improve the tone of the digestive organs and energy of the system in removing noxious matters from the stomach, and obviating costiveness. Violent drastic purgatives should be avoided and those aperients should be used which act gently, and rather by soliciting the per istalic motions of the intestines to their regu larity of health, than by irritating them to a laborious excitement. There is no medicine better adapted to the completion of this than Dem U. P. HaaLicit's GERMAN APERIENT PILLS. To improve the functions of the de bilitated organs and invigorate the system generally, no medicine has ever been so prominently efficacious as DR. HaEliell'lt Compound Tonic Strengthening Pills, whose salutary influence in restoring the digestive organs to a healthy action, and re-establish ing health and vigor in enfeebled and dys petic constitutions; have gained the implicit confidence of the most eminent physicians, and unprecidented public testimony. Re member De. Harlich's Compound Tonic Strengthening Pills, thay are put up in small packets with full directions. Ptincipal office for the United States, is No. 19 North Eighth street Philadelphia where all communications must be addres, sod. Also for sale at the store of Jacob Milkr, who is agent for Huntingdon County. CAUSE OF DFSPEPSI.d. This disease often originates from a flab of overloAding or distending the stomach by excessive eating or drinking, or very protrac ted periods of fasting, an indolent or seden tary life, in which no exercise is afforded to the muscular fibres or mental faculties, fear grief, and deep anxiety, taken too frequent ly strng purgnigmedichies, dysentery, mis call iages, intermittent and syasmodic affec_ bons of the stomach and bowels • the mo s common of the latter causes are late hour s and the too frequent use of spirituos LIVER COMPL Cured by the use of Dr Harlich's Compound Strengthening and German Aparient Pills Mr. Win. Richard, Pittsburg, Pa. entirely cured of the above distressing disease: ' tf is somptouis were, pain and weight in the left side, loss of appetite, vomiting, acrid eructa Sons, a distention of the stomach, sick headache, furred tongue, countenance chang ed to a citron color, difficulty of breathing, disturbed rest, attended with a cough, great debility, with other symtoms indicating great derangement of the functiens of the liver. Mr. Richard t ad the advice of several pity sicians, but receivad no relief, until using Dr flarlich's medicine, which terminated in ef fecting a perfect cure. Principal °lnca, 19 North Eight street Philadelphia. [don Pa For sale at Jacob Miller's store Hunting LIVER COMPLAINT. This disease is Oiscovered by a fixed ob tuse pain and weight in the right side under the short ribs; attended with heat, uneasi ness about the pit of the stomach;—there is in the right side also a distension—the patient loses his appetite and becomes sick and trou ble with vomiting. The tongue becomes rough and black, countenance changes to a pale or citron color or yellow, like those t af flicted with jaudice—difficulty of breathing, disturbed rest, attended with dry caugh, dif ficulty of laying on the left side—the oody becomes weak, mid finally the'disease termi nates into another of a more serious nature, which in all probability is far beyond the power of human skill. Dr. Harlich's Clap. pound tonic strengthening and German ape rient pills, if taken at the commencement of this disease, will check it, and by continu ing the use of the medicine a few weeks, a perfect cure cure will be performed. Thou sands can testify to this fact. Ceetißcatesof many persons may daily be seen of the efficacy of this invaluable medi clue, by applying at the Medical Office, No 19 North Eight street. Philadelphia. Also, at the ;tore of Jacob Miller, who siagent for Huntingdon county. "ONE COUNTRY, 0/1E CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY•" A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1840 POETRY, For the Journal. ADDRESS TO DEMOCRACY. Thou art indeed a name too dear, To trifle with, as now we hear; By Americans, thou wast held sublime,— Now mask'd, thou art alone tor crime; Thy votaries, now, do thee disgrace, 1 hou scarcely halt a name or place; Of yore, thou wast the poor man's friend, Thy patty now the poor offend; Their officers say six pence per day, And promise they will silver pay; "Put down the Banks," has been their cry, Until the nation's caus'd to sigh; In Jackson's reign the theme was then, "Put down the Banks ye noble men;" Then by his word the party went, And to Old Nick the Banks they sent; The dupes then said its power's too great, More Banks, less strong, will safety make— Their wishes now are verified, But, now they take the strong Bank's side; Subtreasury now they do uphold; Though of more power than Banks of old In care of one the money give, Live well will he, but not let live, •I'ne Treasurer has the sole conti R tg* trash they sly he'll turn to gal ; The President cloth him appoint, Then sword and purse both be joined; We'll now knees the power is ours, We'll ever now hold reigning powers; i Our party now we will uphold. Get votes we can by sword or gold, The nation prays to highest Heaven, A change of times may soon he given; We know their prayers the sky will reach, Next fall the polls their schemes will breach; tiourrsoN, yes, we'll poll ahead, Vanburen's schemes will low be laid; Then Banks we'll have with wholesome laws Adopted, to our various calls, A currency that can alone, Be sent abroad or kept at home,— The farmer then will whistle at his plough, The mechanic at the shrine of plenty bow, The merchant, too, will trade and useful be, All then will again embrace sweet LIBERTY THE STET-MOTHER. •'Sally tells me that you are not my mamma," said a pretty curled-headed boy of about four years of age, laying great stress upon the pronoun, and bursting in to tears, as lie addressed a beautiful young woman, who had become the wife of a rich widower; •but,' continued he, 'I told her that you was my ma, and Nancy's too.' 'You did right,'said the Countess, hope to prove myself a mother to you both; for, in marrying your lather, I made a vow to Have no separate interest or affections, to love what he loved, and to honor and obey his wilt,' then kissing the child, and giv ing him an apple, she dismissed him, smi ling out of the room, and she never look ed so enchanting. 'This is admirable, this is as it ought to be,' said I to myself, 'but she is only the wife of few months, and I sincerely hope that she will con tinue as she has begun, and that when a second family occupies the same roof, she will conscientiously discharge her com• mon duty to both, and make but one heart and feeling prevail with all the children alike.' The scene which had just passed before my eyes filled my mind with deep reflection, and I could not help thinking how momentous a thing it is, to introduce a wife, who is not the parent of her hus band's fatuity, into it. What jealousy what injustice what strife does not oc cur from such a union?—how many strug gles to alienate prior affection, what pout ing) and strivings to do away with claims of a former date.' A man and woman I ought to think thrice, before they give a nominal mother to maherless children. Purity is compromised, de!icacy is rob, bed of its celestial bloom, and Pistice wa very when the buxom widow spurns her lone pillow, to give her children to a fath er-in-late, and herself a second lord. The commencement of such engage ments is founded either in passion or in intvest, each of is hich is at variance with the duty they have to perform towards un ofknding children, often made enemies from ill treatment, and I am at a loss to account for the preference usually shown to a second family, by the parent of both; the contracting party who has but one fain ily, more naturally leans to it, but the tna turnal parent sins against nature by such conduct, whilst the other party of honer and humanity in a minor, although, not less dangerous degree. Jujus!arm noverea applies too generally to the second I wife of an uxorious widower, yet it de pends upon her alone to merit a better name, and it appears to my humble Call• ception, that a woman cannot more affec tienately endear herself to her husband , than by considering his children and her own as a common stock in love, and by making their interest and happiness one common cause. The stickling for pref_ erences, in any shape, is the beginning of evil, and will end in misery and injus tice, the taunts about unequal birth, for tune, beauty, and (often ideal) merits, un dermine domestic peace, and often end in enormous crimes. Slighted children run headlong to ruin and despair, taking to idle habits and a vicious life, imbibe at 'an early age, the poison of envy and ha tred, fall off from the duty and affection to a first parent, or pine in the wasting agonies of sensibility, wounded by ne glect, and engendered an indifference as to conilect; for remove the excitement to well-tloing, and mental inactivity must ensue; deny the !need of praise, End exer tion is blighted for ever. If 'my poor dear last husband,' be a horror and re proach to the second lucky adventurer, who fain would say, 'would that he were alive!' surely the 'go away you trouble some thing,' to the offspring of him who she is bound to love, honor and obey, must be equally as grating a sound, and as cal culated to foster regrets, resentments, and altered feeling, that sensation which takes place of stated appetite, or of accomplish ed or disappointed mercenary designs. Nevertheless there is nothing more com mon in society, and we have daily proofs of its baneful effects; here we have :k nue youth hurried into the service of his coun b.!, to be killed off', yr sacrificed to the ( v2llow fever, merely because he stood in the way of Master Jackey, the produce of a second marriage; there we see loveliness and tender age a victim to rashness, an out-cast, a run-a-way, because the daugh ter of her who lies, perhaps, in a new made grave, sins by- inheriting her moth_ er's beauty, and is a contrast to a plain step-mother, who must rule the roost, un rivalled and uncontrolled. In one fami ly, the child of the first matrimonial en gagement flies home from having lost a lather's heart—in another, a wretched daughter marries the first being that asks her, merely to escape the tyranny of a strange woman, placed in usurped author ity over her. In lower life, step-fathers cruelly chastising the wife's children, disgust the beholder—and base woman, breaking the spirit of the children given in charge to them by the laws of society, awaken horror in an honest breast—doubt ful and dangerous, however, as these re peated nuptials are, it is impessible to perform the double duties thus imposed and there are some rare examples to jus tify the remark i What is a step mother?' said Irish Pat I( to a neighbor countryman, 'why' said 800 ney,'e step-mother is a step towards be ing a mother, and yet so mother at all, at all.' Bravo! Master Pat, but we will ex amine another picture. Lady liartly ven tured upon a widower of forty, he had five children du premier ill, and a second family of the same number was the con sequence of the second engagement. Sir John was a sportsman, and so com pletely neglected all of them, that he could not be accused of a preference to any one of them, 'there take them away when they have had a glass of wine,' was his daily ord,:r at dessert time; touching the second breed, I shall be glad when the vacation is over, 'awl the brats return to school (or college),' was his remark con cerning the first, whenever they were at home; but his mild matron.like lady was a mother to an without prejudice; she would play with the former like a child and school companion, and was the ten der nurse and receptress or the latter, To reconcile one to another, to establish the closest links of affection and amity between then), to recommend them to their father, to minister to their innocent pleasures, and to conceal their trivet faults occupied her whole time, and they repaid her with the sincerest love. The lovely ' Laura married her guarlian, a handsome man of fifty, for whom [on account of his age and the parental office which he had I discharged towards her] she enter. tabled more respect and esteem than ad- ' miration or impassioned feeling. He had a son of twenty-one years of age, an of- ficer of Light Dragoons, wild expensive, and fond of pleasure, but of a good tem per and feeling heart; he might have be held any other stepmother with envy and mistrust, or he might have viewed a beau tiful young woman thus paired, with re gret, or a criminal flame; but Laura was cast in such a gentle trmald, that to know her was to be her friend, and she fulfilled her duties as a wife and as a mother in such a manner as to captivate every one connected with the family. She never , addressed Theodore by any other name than 'my son;' and he found in- her a mo. titer, a sister, and a friend. Proud of her elegant form and good taste in dress, he was her frequent attendant in public; con vinced of her benevolent mind, she was his adviser and confidant, ever sweeten.. mug and mellowing down the least rigid word or action of her husband towards his firstborn. When he exceeded his pay and allowance, her purse made up the deficiency; and whenever he had commit, ted an error, she was his .apologist in the first instance, his directress in the second, and his consolatrix in care; and when no remedy could be found fur what had oc curred, it was delightful to see the two together. A s proof of the mutual sen timent existing between them, I remem ber him one day introducing her to a for eign nobleman thus—'Voila ma belle me re, vraiment belle, elle est non seulement 1 nix mere, mais ma meilleure amie."The play upon the words belle mere, makes all ' i transiOtion fall short of the original, bu t ' I it dues not hinder it from being copied :I ifrom that life, which would be a blessing i to society, and what is advised by Pnll.o SPECTATOR. TIM E. Time is the most indefinable, yet para . doxical of things; the past is gone, the fu ture is not come, and the present becomes . the past even when we attempt to define it , and like the flash of the lightning at once I exists and expires. Time is the measure of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Like space, it is incomprehensible, because it has no lite its, and . would be still more so if it had. It is more obscure ia its sources than the Nile, and in its tern ination'than the Ni ger; and advances like the swiftest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. It , gives wings of lightning to pleasure, but feet of least to' pain, and lends expecta tion a curb, and enjoyment a spur. It robs beauty of her charms to bestow them on her picture and builds a monument tol merit but denies it a house; it is the tran. sclera arid deceitful flatterer of falsehood but tried and final friend to truth. Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing, is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It con stantly flies yet overcomes all things by fligh t although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of Ambition, is the stern corrector of fork but the salutary counsellor of the wise, bringing all the dread to the one, and all the desire to the other; but like Cassandra it warns us with a voice that even the sagest discredit too long, and the silliest believe too late. Wisdom walks before it, importunity with it; and repentance be hind it; he that hastuade it his friend will have little to tear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy, will have but little to hope from his friends.—Lucon To marry a rake, in hope of reforming him, and to hire a highwayman, in the hope of reclaiming him, are two very dan . gerous experiments; and yet I know a la. dy who fancies she has succeeded in the one, and all the world knows a divine) ahu really has succeeded in the other..o [WisoLE No. 233. SELFISHNESS, Within his house, in a great armchair before the fire, sat an old grey-headed man, ripe for the grave. 'Twas winter, and the cold wind whistled among the leafless branches of the trees, and the snow and sleet rattled against the win dows. The old man chuckled, for he was warm and comfortable, and the biting blast touched hincnot. He said, "I have enough ; I am rich ; so blow ye winds, and drilt ye snows; lam sale," A ser vant entered, and said, "Sir, a woman is at the door, trembling with cold ; has n o where to sleep, no home to go to ; she begs for a corner of your kitchen to pass the night in." "Away, I've no room for thie fving beggars ; there is a tavern close by ; I tell her to go there." She says she has no money, and begs you to give her enough to buy a meal and lodging." "Begone, drive her off; what I've got is my own, and I'll keep it too. I've none to squan der on worthless mendicants.- The next morning the old man stepped out into the porch, and there upon one of the benches sat the poor beggar woman. His rage was kindled. "Did I not tell you I have nothing fo r you, impudence? Come, come, tramp, Leave my house, I sa•, d'ye hear?" She heard him nut. She was dead! The old man smote his breast, and entered the house. He never left it again; for be al so died, and died miserable, though rich. WHAT HIGHT HZ DONE WITH THE MO , NEY WASTED IN wn.n. —Give me the mo ney that has been spent in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe; I will clothe every man woman and child in an attire that kings and queens should be proud of; I will build a school house upon every hill side and in every valley over the whole habitable earth ; I will supply that school house with a compe tent teacher; I will build an academy in every town, and endoW it ; a college in every state, and fill it with able profess ors ; I will crown every hill with a church consecrated to the promulgation of the gospel of peace ; I will support in its pul pit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another, round the earth's broad circuins Terence; and the voice of prayer, and the song of praise, should ascend like an uni versal holocaust to lleaven.—Stebbins, A NEGRO WITH THE BLVES.-- 4 1 Say, Sam Jonsing what fcr you look so sober dis mornihg? You moat us ually ollars a larfin, but no•v your face looks as gloom Hied and brack as this last spell of wed der.' 'Why, child, I feels bad—l'se got what de white flolks calls de bloos, and de wus sort at dat, dat's what I has Pete Gumbo.' 'De what you call 'ern, Sam?' 'De bloos--de raal indigo bloos.' "Darb whar you corner dis child, Sam; you's ahead me dis time. Now if it don't make any 'tetrial difference to you I'd just like to hear you explanify what dis bloos is.' .Ilry, why, Pete you dont knoW notin. I tort you'd more acquaintance wid the flosify ob de human mind. Well, you see, when a man's got de bloos he lo , dts forard into de common footoority just as though he was gwine to draW a lAA' in de lottery—he feels like as if all di de lightsu►n prizes in dis low doWn - scene hadn't a single number oti Hen he gets up in de mornin he feeli bad, and when he goes to bed at night he feels wus ser. He finks dat h►s body is made ob ice cream, a:I 'cep his heart, and days a big peace ob lead in de middle. All sorts ob sights are hubbering around, and red monkeys buzzing about his ears. Dar. dems whatil got sow, and dents what I calls de bloos. How you like to hab 'em' Pete ?' 'Tank you Sam, dis child dont wish For one, nut if dcm's de sort:— N. 0. Pic. A gentleman observed upon a■ indiffe rent pleader at the bar, that he was the most affecting orator he ever heard—lor he never attempted to speak but he excl. 'tett general sympathy.