Vor,. V, No. 29.] TLMMt3 OF THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. The " I.•u ANAL" will be published every INednes !•,y m omint, at two dollars a year, paid IN ADV ANC E, and if not paid with in six mluths, two dollars and a half. Every person who obtains five subscribers, 'and forwards price of subscription, shall he irnished with a sixth copy gratuitously for •ne year. No subscription received for a less period 'than six m inths;nor any paper• discontii ued until all arrearages are paid. ;If"All communications must be addressed to the Editor, P IST PAID, or they will not be attended to. Advertisements not exceeding one square, • will be inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion, twenty live cents per square will be charged. lino definite orders are given as to the time an ndverttsemcnt is to be continued, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged accor dingly, AGENTS. The Journal. Daniel Teague, Orbisoniu; David Blair, rsq. Shade Gap; Benjamin Lease, lihirleys ,6 urg.; Eliel Smith, Esq. Chileottstown; Jas. Entriken, jr. Ciffee Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; James Morrow, Union Furnace ; John Sisler, Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. West township ; D. 11. Moore, Esq .Frankstown; Eph. Galbreath, Esq. Holli dansbum; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron IVilliainshurti, - ; A. J. Stewart, Water Street; Wm. Reed, E,q. Morris township; Solomon Hamer, .Aeff's Mill; James Dysart, Mouth Spruce Creek; Wm. Murray, Esq. Graysville; John Crum, Manor MU; Jas. E. Stewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler, itfill Creek. Important Discovery. 'The public are hereby directed to the me dical advertisements of 1)1.. H RLIC UPS Celebrated COMPOUND STRENGTH ENING TONIC, and GERMANAPER IENT PILLS, which are a Medicine of great value to the afflicted, discovered by 0. P. HkRLICH, a celebrated physician at Altdorf;Gerinany, which has been used with unparalleled success throughout Germany. Mos Medicine consists of two kinds, viz: the GERMAN AP E R I EN T, anti the COMPOUND STRENETHENING TO NIC PILLS. They are each put up in small packs, and should both be used to effect a permanent cure. Those who are afflicted would do well to make a trial of thi invaluable Medicine, as they never limbic sickness or nausea while using. A safe and effectual remedy for DYSPEPSL'I OR IADIGES7 lON, and all Stomach Complaints; pain in the SIDE, LIVER COMPLAINTS, Loss of Appetite, Flatulency, Paliiitation of the Heart, General Debility, Nervous. Irr.tabi lity, SICK HEADACHE, Female Dist.- .., Spasmodic Affections, RII EU mATism Asthmas,CONSUMPTION, &c. The !ERMA APERIENT PILLS are to cleanse the stomach and purify the BLOOD The Tonic or :=Tit ENGT HENING PILLS are to S MENG - MEN mid 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 made of treating diseases is pursued by all practical PHYSICIANS, which experience has taught them to be the only remedy to effect a cure. They are not only recommended and prescribed by the mast experienced Physicians in their daily practice, nut also taken by those gentlemen themselves whenever they feel the symp toms of tilos.- diseases, in which they know them to be elli,,acious. 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, t iken as recommended by the di rections which accompany them, will cure a great majority of diseases of the stomach, lungs and liver, by which impurities of the blood are occasioned. • _ re Ask I'm. Pm. HARLICII'S COMPOUND STRENGTHENINC: TONIC, AND C ERMAN A PERIF.NT PILLS. . . Principal Wire for the sale of this Medicine, is at No. 19 Norte EIGHTH Street, Philadelphia. Also—For sale at the Store of JACOB MIL LER, in the Borough of Huntingdon, Pa., who is agent for Huntingdon county. .RHEUMATISM. Entirely cured by the use of Dr. 0. P. Harlich's Compound Strengthening and Gee man Aperient Pills. Mr. Solomon Wilson, of Chester co. Pa., afflicted for two years with the above dis tressing disease, of which he had to use his crutches for 18 months, his symptoms were' excruciating pain in all his Joints, esp n his hip, Shoulders and ancles, pain increas ng al ways towards eyeing attended with heat. Mr. Wilson, was at ole time not able to move his limbs on account of the pain be ing so great; he being advised by a friend of his to proctve Dr. Harlich'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 snd his strength increasing fast, and in three weeks was able to attend to his 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 jor the pleasures of a healthy life. Principle office, 19th North Bth Street, Philadelphia. acso—For sale at the Store of Jacob Mil ler, Huntingdon, r 4. THE JOURNAL. POETRY. From the Southern Literary News-Letter. SPRING. The blessed Spring—the blooming Spring— its dowers around me rise ; I breathe once more its balmy air, I hail its azure skies. A beauty and a glory around my path way east Sweet Sprin g —it is a weary time since I looked upon thee last ! O tell me, truant wand'rer, in what fair southern clime [last thou lingered thus unmindful of the ripid march of time ? Unmindful, tho' the summer heat and the wintry frost and snow [[arc withered all thy loveliness, and laid thy glory low Now all things hail thy coming, Spring; a— gain the skies are bright, the earth is clad in emerald, the streamlet laughs in The rivet lath a merry voice, and the wood land eclvies wake A thousand mingled melo6ics, sweet Spring: for thy sweet sake. And dust thou mark no change, fair Spring, through all thy green domains ? As proudly rise the mighty hills, as widely spread the plains; The trees stand up as loftily—their bran ches wave as tree, And wear as rich a tuilage as when last they welcomed thee. And all along the river side, and thro'the green wood glade, In forest-land and meadow-land, in sunshine or in shade, The sweet wild flowers miring up in bloom, the barren wastes rejoice, And the desert blossoms as the rose at thy reviving voice. Thou'rt welcome unto hall and hearth, to grove and garden bower, Thou'rt welcome to the mountain stream, and to the meadow flower; But there are who never more may .feel thy vivifying brinith,--; There's no welcoming for thee in the si— lent halls of death ! Since last thy step went by, bright heads have to the dust gone down, And brows that wore the myrtle then, now wear the cypress crown; And cheeks, might then have shamed the rose, are pale as marble now, And dust, cold noisome dust, is strown o'er many a fair young brow. Thou wakest the streams, the birds, the flowers-0 bright rej,icing Spring ! Then bear'st back beauty, health and hope - upon thy gentle wing Host thou no spell where with to unlock the chambers of the tomb ! No voice to penetrate the grave, no light to pierce its gloom They come not back—the buried dead—tho' tII beside return, They 44 whose look and tones of love our sad hearts vainly yearn. 0, Spring the awakener! shall the 'towers the streams obey thy spell, And dust forever shroud the forms, beloved by us so well A better land, a brighter land in other climes there lies, Beyond die earth—beyond the sun—beyond the changing skies. It needs no spring-time to re-clothe its ama ranthine bowers, It needs no sunshine to revive the never fa ding flowers. And there the lost, the loved on earth, shall wake to life once more; 0 Spring, when all thy glory and thy tri umph shall be o'er, A mightier power than thine the flowers of every clime shall bring, To bloom in those cel,stial bowers, thro' an everlasting Spring! VIOLA. Remarks of Mr. Hurd. MR. Cnarinta 7 AND GENTLEMEN— I feel highly honored by this call upon me from so respectablo a number of toy ieilow•citt ; but ( assure you, gentlemen, 1 am 1101 so vain, as nut to feel a consciousness of my inability to do justice to the grea t and important subject which is now op. toting the country, vi• to fullfd the expec tations which your flattering invitation would seem naturally to imply. You will hardly expect from me apo • litical argument un this occasion : as well might a man whose head was in the lion's mouth, stop to speculate upon the qualities and disposition of th t animal, in order to ascertain precisely how long it could re main there in safety. 'l•he time for argu• meet is passed ; the time for action is "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." A. W. BENEDICT PUBLXSIIFIR AND PROPRIETOR. lIUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1840 come. Too long have the people of this Republic witnessed the arguments justi fying their present movements, in the distressed condition of the country ; in the general prostration of all kinds of business ; in the crippled state of her commerce and manufactures ; the de rangement of the currency ; the corrups tious of the Administration ; the abridge ' ment of their liberties ; a bankrupt treasu• ' ry, and the paralysed energies of an insul ted and almost ruined people. These are not the images of fancy—not the creatures of the imagination—they are the argu ments which lie within the compass of our natural vision ; they are tangible to the senses; we have seen them, and to our sorrow, we have /c/t them. We are all sufficiently acquainted with the disease, and wish only to consult upon the remedy, and the node of its applica tion. ,t, ~, _ ion pardon, however, for a depar ;,.. !ram what may recut the mare appro priate object of the present meeting, 1 propose to notice a few of the leading features in the present and precedin Ad ministrations. rev& lve 'eats ago and the leaders of the Administration party, promised that if they were elevated to power, they would reduce the patronage of the executive. They promised that they would appoint no members of Congress to office. They promised that there should be no removals from office for mere opinion's sake, nor without giving lessens therefor. They promised to take the public print ing from the influence of the executive, and place it elsewhere. They promised that the sessions of Con gress should be considerably shortened. 'They promised to regulate the exchan ges, and give us a specie currency. „ - - !hey promised that they would abolish a number of offices in several of the de- partments. 'They promised that they would also reduce the number of clerks in those de prtments. They promised that they would greatly lessen the contingent expenses of Con- gross, In short, they promised a reduction iu all the various public expenditures of the country. They have fulfilled all these promises by the rule of "Reduction Ascending," thus: They have reduced the patronage of the executive by increasing it to an al most indefinite extent, and are now upon the very point of giving him entire con• trot of the public treasure. They have religiously performed their premise not to appoint members of Con gress to office, by appointing more in four years than had ever been done during the previous history of the government. They have faithfully observed then• promise net to remove any from office for mere opinion's sake, nor without giving reasons therefor, by removing, during the first half of the period they have been in power, 1300 post masters without giving any reasons whatever, and even denying the right of inquiry into the matter. They have taken the public printing from the influence of the executive, by in creasing the number of presses under his control from 80 to more than 100. They have greatly shortened the ses• sions of Congress, by making them con. siderably longer than they ever were be. fere. They have ~ ;iven us a curreucy of gold silver, in liar shape of 61iinplasters, refined from old rags. . _ They have abolished many of the offices in seveial of the livpartnienis, by sub-di viding old noes, and creating a batch of new ones 'icier before knowa to the gov ernment. for the purpose of accommoda. ting relatives and favorites. They hays• reduced the number of clerks in the several departments from about 50 up to something over 160. They have reduced the contingent ex penses of bath Houses of Congress, in the ratio of from 80,000 tip to more than 110,- 000. In short, such has been their strict and rigid economy, and the unyielding tenaci- ty with which they have stuck to their I of retrenchment, that they have nobly succeeded in reducing the whole expenditures of government, from the enormous sum of $12,000000, up to the trifling amount of over $30,000000 a year. They have also continued this work of reduction by adding to the small amount which they denied the State department had a right to expend to purchase a print of our beloved Washington, sufficient to purchase prints of the Hero of New Or- leans, and of the immortal Martin, which now hang in almost every room in the several departments, to the exclusion of that of such a stupid, worthless old fellow as George Washington! Whenever I hear a stickler fur the ad_ ministration, advocating or defendin g some of its measures, I am forcibly re minded of the story of the Cordibands and the Abiporres of South America, who once had a quarrel, when the latter ro ving too strong fur their neighbors pur sued them across a plain, filled with holes which the wild bulls of the country had made, by tearing up the ground with their horns. It was sometimes impossible to tell their precise location or capacity, from their being frequently covered with water. Such was the blind and stupid devotion of the Cordobands to•their lead er, that if he chanced: to step into one of these holes, all Iris devotees followed in turn. The story of the rats that got in to Jabez Doolittle's patent trap, seems al so peculiarly illustrative of the present position of many of 'the party.' Jabez invented a rat trap which con- sisted of an oblong wire box divided into two compartments ; a rat entered one where the bait was hung, which he no sooner touched, than the door at which he entered, fell. His only apparent es cape was by a funnel shaped hole, into the other appartment, m passing which, he moved another wire which instantly re ad the trap, and thus, rat after rat "fol lowed in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor," until the trap was full. I should not be surprised if the rate about the "White !louse' at Washington who have been so long nibbling at the National bait, should find themselves in the same sorry prediciment before the close of another year. If they don't find Jabez Doolittle after them, I mistake the signs of the times. Sei Musty, I think it should be recorded as among the greatest wonders of the present age, that so many honest, well-in" formed and reflecting men, as are cer tainly to be found in the ranks of the ad ministration, will still advocate the de structive measures of our present rulers, stick as with a death•grasp, to the men whose corrupt policy has brought so much ruin and distress upon their country : and minion-like, obsequiously, kiss the hand uplifted to st. ike the fatal blow at their dearest interests. And what seems still more surprising, is the fact that they will not admit there is any distress in the country. Their mighty champion at the seat of government has said it, and, like the order of the commanding general which runs from monster to monster a long the whole line, they echo it from the one end of the land to the other. Although, but a kw short years ago, when the present dominant party came into power, oar treasury was _overflowing our National credit unshaken, both at home and abroad, our currency, the best li the world ever saw, our commerce and manufactures in the most flourishing con dition, our mechanics found plenty of em ployment and plenty of pay. our farmers found a ready market and good prices fo r ' the products of their toil, the whole coml. t ry was full of life, and animation, and prosperity, and the machinery of the goy_ erninent might be, almost, said to mov e with the regularity and harmony of the stars that glitter above us ; and although now, our treasury is empty, the govern_ meet bankrupt, its credit gone, the cur. rency tinkered to destruction, our com merce crippled, our factories closed, our mechanics out of employment. our far• l iners without a market for their crops, the right arm of all business paralyzed, the whole land is covered with depression and gloom, and mourning, the wheels of government clogged and the machinery deranged and disordered ; yet they can see no difference, only, that times are much better now than they were under former administrations ; and when re minded of the true state of the country at the present time, like the man, who, in the time of the flood, sought the highest mountain-peak, and with the water up to his very chin, looked up to the clouds quite composedly, and thought there was not much prospects of a shower, so the lo co locos, while up to their ears in ruin and distress, very (complacently reply that there is no pressure in the country, which any honest man ought to regret—no pros pect of a shower. I have, however, in my eye one excep tion which deserves to be duly noticed. lit conversing with a rather candid lo cofoco a few evenings since, to my great surprise, he did acknowledge that there might be some little distress in the coun try, growing out of certain measures of the Administration ; but it would have amused you to see how adroitly he got over it all, without impugning the motives or acknowledging the imbicility of its au thors. It is true, he said, the country i, in a very distressed situation at the pres- } ent time, but it is only temporary. The wound must be probed in order to be heal ed, •and will sometimes requires a little cutting of the new flesh, you know—the very depression under which we are now suffering, will have the most salutary els fect upon the further prosperity of the country, and is necessarily ,incident to the accomplishment of great national plans which, if carried into effect, will work wonders for the benefit of the peo ple. It reminds me of the story of the jug.' ' glers. Some few years ago, several t jug glers skilled in what they called the 'black art,' stopped at a village in the state of Maine, and fitted up a room for the exhi bition of their tricks. The whole village and the neighborhood round about assent- I bled to witness the astonishing feats. Soon after the performances commenced, down went the floor, and with ir, men, women, boys, girls and all tumbled is a heap into the cellar. An old gentleman among them, who had implicit faith in the skill of the black perfbrmers, while the women and children were screaming and crying, exhorted them in an under tone to be quiet. "Lie still, lie still," said he, "this only a part of the play—they'll raise us all up again in a minute." But the whole people are uniting in ap. plying the proper remedy for the evils to which I have alluded. The turning of every ballut.box in the country, speaks as with an angel-trump, •qt. Star a Star has arisen in the Nest, which fortells the day of our deliverance from tyrany and op pression. The people of these United States are moving as one man, to the sal. vation of the Republic ; and of which we have so noble and striking a proof in the late Convention at Baltimore, where like the cross handed position of four in a dance, the East and the West, the North and the South, came together, crossed hands, each looked the other in the face, smiled, and bid him God-speed in the cause of their common country. You have seen better and far more interesting accounts of the doings of that vast body 'df the bone and sinew 'of the country, than I ant able to give you on this oc casion. I can only say, generally, that the mighty mass of human beings who could be counted only by acres, had came there for one purpose, were moved by one impulse, were prompted by one spi rit-- the spirit of liberty—it was that spirit alone that prevailed the great oc casion, and directed all its movements. It lighted op the features of youth—it deepened the glow upon the cheek of man hood, as the shout went up from the vast multitude ; it beamed from the eye of the veteran of '7th as he leant upon his stafl by the way-side; it fluttered with the waving of handkerchiefs ; it played in the approving smiles of beauty and loveliness. NI e went up from every point of the compass, and from the farthest verge of [WooLE No. 237. the Union, to pay homage to virtue—to acknowledge gratitude to our benefactors, and to renew in concert, our determine- tion to burst the shackles that so long have bound us. We felt that we were the sons of those brave and devoted men, who, but a few short years ago, left their bones to bleach on Bunker 11111, and upon the fields of Concord and Lexington, as the purchase-price of the freedom we enjoy, the country in which we live—that we had witnessed attempts in high places to wrest from us this glorious heritage.— With our bosoms swelling with the love of country, and our hearts sin fire, we went up to the rescue, and with the bles sing of God and our own right arm, we will defend that birth-right to the last hour of our existence ; as a duty we owe, not only to ourselves, but to the memory of our fathers aad the welfare of our chil dren. Fellow citizens, we are contending net for men, but for principles—principles of the Revolution—principles which were inculcated by the framers of our glorious constitution, and at the point of the bayo net, promulgated by the Heroes of the Revolution—principles which urged them on through so much blood shed, and so many toils and dangers; which prompted them to face all the horrors of war, and to endure all the fatigues of the camp, that they might leave their children a her itage, end their country a name, among the nations of the earth—principles which brought to the cabinet a Franklin, and to the field a Washington. Our opponents, however, contend that we are striving not for principles, but the spoils of office. We deny this ; but allow it to be true, it would Se no more that , fair play! I see no good reason why we should not have a bite at the national loaf once in twelve years. We should only, even in that case, be claiming what the honest llibernian claimed fur his ducks— aqui/ fatting.. A gentleman living a few years since on one of the islands in the vicinity of Boston, kept great numbers of fowl for the Boston market. His servant man, whose business it was to take care of them, was in the habit of feeding all the different kinds together, corn upon the cob; when one day, observing that the ducks, from the width of their bills, were unable to get off the corn with as much dexterity as their sharp-billed neigh , bore, Pat caught them, and, taking out his jack-knife, very complacently commenced sharpening their bills, crying out at the same time, "aquil luteing—aquil fulling, in this coonthry." Now this is all we claim. The truth r is that we have been duck-billed for the last twelve years. Our sharp billed op_ ponents have picked off all the cora, and left us to dub away at the cob. But gentlemen I have detained you toe long ; in conclusion let me say that our work in not yet done. Let us not slack en our efforts to "redeem the Republic ;" let us not rest supinely upon our arms. but march boldly on to the great contest, and upon it, victory will soon perch upon our standard. I say, depend upon it . that if we do our duty, our whole duty and nothing but our duty, as friends to our common country, se good citizens and good ithigs, as sure as there is a 'Divini ty which shapes our ends ,' before the close of 1841, of the whole ancient and ponderous fabric of Locofocoism, there shall not be left one stone upon another. A FARMER OUTWITTED. The following anecdote is related of the late Mr. Cilley, Member of 'Congress from Maine, who, it will be recollected, tell in a duel with Graves of Kentucky. While Mr. Cilley was practising law at Thomaston, he kept a dog of most vora cious appetite, and withal notoriously mis chievous. A farmer coining along one day with his load of fresh meat fur market, stopped his wagon near Mr. C's office. The dog was on the look out and no soon.' er was the farmer's back turned than he seized a fine piece of mutton and made . off at the top of his speed. The fr A rmer returned catch a lima a it learned an rc e.d, to pursuit whom ns t h i o n ,t t w i t t han..s useless time a t_o of his moat as it disappeared *in d is ob*longed, he di rected his steps to Mr . r , -iirev's office.
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