VOL. V, No. 48.] rmr.zza OF Tli E HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. The JOURNAL" will be published every Wednesday morning, at two dollars a year, a paid IN ADVANCE, 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 larnished with a sixth copy gratuitously for one year. No subscription received for a less period than six months, nor any paper disconttuued until all arrearages are paid. • trpAll communications must be addressed to the Editor, POST PAID, or they will not be attended to. Advettisements 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. Ifno definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continued, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged accor dingly. AGENTS. FO It The Muntingdon Journal. Daniel Teague, Orbisonia; David Blair, Esq. Shade Ga/i; Benjamin Lease, Shirleys bard.; Eliel Smith. Esq. Chilcottstown; Jas. Entriken, jr. Ceffee Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingha m ; James Morrow, Union Furnace; John Sisler, Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. West township ; D. H. Moore, E.q. Franketown; Eph. Galbreath, Esq. Holli daysburg; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water Street; Wm. Reed, Esq. Morris townshi/s; Solanyin Hamer. ..hieff's Mill; James Dysart, Mouth Sfiruce Creek;. Wm. Murray, Esq. Gruysville; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas. E. Stewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler, Mill Creek. LIVER COMPL ILVT Cured by the use of Dr Harlich's Compound Strengthening and German Aperient Pills Mr. Win. Richard, Pittsburg, Pa. entirely cured of the above distressing disease: His somptoms were, pain and weight in the left side, loss of appetite, vomiting, acrid cructa tions, a distention of the stomach, sick headache, furred tongue, countenance chang ed to a t.itron color, difficulty of breathing, disturbed rest, attended with a cough, great debility, with other symtoms indicating great deranvement of the functiens of the liver. Mr. Richard Lail the advice of several phy sicians, but receivud no relief, until usin g Dr flarlicit's medicine, which terminated in ef fecting a perfect cure. Principal Mika, 19 North Eight stree Philadelphia. [don Pa For sale at Jacob Miller's store hluntin DYSPEPSIA! DYSPEPSIA ! ! More proofs of the of of Dr. Harlich' Medicinee. Mr Jonas Hartman, of Sumneytnwn, Pa. entirely cured of the above disease, which 1 ne was afflicted with for six years. His I 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 flatulency, acrid eructations, some limos vomiting, and pain in the right side, depression of spirits. disturbed rest, faint• ness, and not able to pursue his business without causing immediate exhitustim and weariness. Mr. II is happy to state to the pub lie awl is willing to give any information to the afflicted, t`especting the wonderful ben efit he received from the use of Dr. Harlich Compound Sixengthening and German ape ] imt pills. Principal office No. 19 North Eighth street Philadelphia. Also for stile t the store of Jacob Miller, Huntingdon. SYMPTOMS, Dyepepsia may be described from a wan of appetite or an unnatural and voracious one nausea, sometimes bilious vomiting, sudden. and transient distensions of the stomach Lf ter-e sting, acid and prutrescent eructathms, water brash, pains in the legion of the stem 3ch, costiveness palpitation of the heart, diz einem and dimness of sight, disturbed rest, tremors, mental despondency, flatulency, spasms, nervous irritability, chillness, sal lowness of complexion, oppressing after• eat ing, generaljangour and debility; this disease will also very'often produce the 'sick head ache, as proved by the experience of these who have suffzred of it. LIVER COMPLAINT. This disease is discovered 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 pile or citron color or yellow, like those i af flicted with jaudice—difficulty of breathing, disturbed rest, attended with dry caugh, dif ficulty of laying on the left side—the nody becomes weak, and 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 corn ohund tonic strengthening and German ape rient'pills,if taken at the commencement of this disease, will check it, and by continu ng the use of the medicine a few weeks, a ;wrfect cure cure will he performed. Thou hands can testify to this fact. Certificates of many persons may daily be ice to of the efficacy of this invaluable mecii ine, by applying at the Medical Office, No .9 North Eight street, Philadeltihia. Also, at the Fore of Jacob Miller. who agent for Ifuntingdon county. -: '"" 'l' . 11 4 ::,,,..!:' . '.:;.:: -..- i,, tr,e ; •T , . , :., ::: ;...•:. - ~.• ,„ ~ -: ; - . y,...i.- ~: , - :,,t. ... . , .. , TiA 1 j t -., _ F . : 6i 7i 4 HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 1840. TIWATMEN T The principal objects to be kept In slew are Ist, to tree the stomach mid intestines om 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 Dar. O. P. HARLICies GERMAN APERIENT To improve the functions of the de bilitatedorgans and invigorate the system generally, no medicine has ever been on prominently efficacious as DR. Harli Ch's Compound Tonic Strengthening l'ills, 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 tntimony. Re member Dr. Harlieli's Cempi.und Tonic Strengthening Pills, shay are put up in small ets with full directions. incipal (Bee for the United States, is N. 19 North Eighth street Phibidel i pilia. where all communications must be ac.dres, sed. Also for sale at the store of Jpc(•b Miller who is agent for Hunting( C( piny. RILE UNA TLS'it. Entirely cured by the use of Dr. 0. P. Harlich's C..rnp,und Strengthening and Get• man Aperient Pills. Mr. Saiom oi , Wilson, of Chester co. Pa., afflicted for two years with the above dis tressing disease, 01 which he had to use his crutches fur 18 months, his sytnptc•ms were excruciating pain in all his Joints, espf.cially n his hip, Shoulders and :nicks, pain thereat. ng al ways towards eveing attended with heat. Mr. Wilson, was at 0 e time not able to move his limbs on account of the pain be ing so great; he being advised by a friend of Iris to procure Dr. Harlich's pill of which he sot to the agent in VVest Chester and pro cored stint; on using the medicine the third day the pain disappeared slid his strength increasing fast, and in three weeks was able to attend to his business, which he had not clone for 18 months; for the benefit of others afflicted, lie 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. ALSO—For sale at the Store of Jacob Mil ler, Huntingdon, Pa. CAUSE OF DYSPEPSIA This disease often originates frcni a hab of overloading or distending, the stomach by excessive eating or drinking, er vet y income ted periods of fasting, an inMilent or s:der.- tory life, in which no eYercise is affio•dcd to the muscular fibres or mental faculties, fear grief. and deep anxiety, token too frequent ly str ng purgingmechcmes, dysentery, mis" cart loges, intermittent and sysismcdic affec tions of the stomach and bowels; the mo common of the latter causes are late bout and the too frequent use of spirituos Pram Ole Roden Chronicle, Jan. 10 We see by an advertisement in anoth er column that Messrs. Comstock & co., the American Agents for Old ridge's Battu of Columbia, have deputies to sell that ar rticle in Boston and elsewhere. /I e know a lady of this city whose hair was so near ly gone as to expose entirely her phrenol ogical developments, which, considering that they betokened a most amiable dispo sition, was not in reality very unfortunate Nevertheless she mourned the loss of locks that she had worn, and alter a year's fruitless resort to unicalled resto ratives, purchased; some months ago, a bottle or two of Oldridge's Palm, and she has now ringlets in rich profusion, glossy, and of raven blackness. We are nut put - - I ling, none of the comodity has been sent to us, and indeed, we do not want any, for though we were obliged to wear• a wig a year ago, we have now, though its vir tue, hair enough, and of a passable quali ty, of our own. lbe Bald IJeaded.•—Bhis is to certi fy, that I have licen bald about twenty years, and by the use of the genuine Balm of Columbia, my head is now covered with hair. I shall be happy to convince any one of the fact that will call and see me Delhi village. abov• r. tide I bought at Griswold, Case & c , .'s store, win had it from Comstock & t. 41. JOIN JAQUISII, Jr. DARING PROD The Balm of Columbia has been itni; toted by a notorious eouutetreiter. Let it never be purchased or used unless it has the name of L. 111. Comstock, or the signs tare of Comstock & co, on a splendid wrapper. This is the only external test that will secure the public from deception Address Comstock & Co. // hulesale Druggists, New-York, No 2 Fletcher•street. Sept. 23, 1840.-3 m I. Fisher & A. K. Cornyn, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. wILL carefully attend to all bj:iness committed to theircare in the Courts of Huntingdon & Mifflin counties. Mr. Cur nyn may be found at his office, in M irk et St., opposite the Store of Mr. Dorris, in the borough of Hunting:lon. Hunt. Sep. 9, 1840. "ONE COUNTRY, OPIE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. 4 - 277 e -1.44 : 11") --. 417-hr::S;--$71.4e POETRY From the Rural Repository. It is said Queen Elizabeth exclaimed on her death bi ii, "Millions, millions for one inch of time." ELIZABETH WAS laid Upon a bed of pain, Sadly she mourned the moments fled That might not come again; Vain was the pomp and power— The diadem and a rone— Could they recall one wasted hour, Or one brief moment flown? Thus spake the dying one— " Must I thus pass away! Have ye no spell the soul to bind Unto this dying clay! Oh! must I—must I go Thus darkly stained with clime! Millions of gold, on nailli'r, now, For but one inch of time!" Alas! thou hapless one, Vain is thy bitter cry, Vain thy r egret, for moments gone, No treasure, life can buy. Sad—sad it is to pass, Thus from the earth away; To yield the corning breath at last; Ia such deep misery. • Tears from the languid eye, Full 'A and quick did start; And many a deep and bitter sigh, Broke from that fearful heart: Pale was that marble brow, Cold was the trembling hand, And sadly thus she passed away, Unto the spirit land. Oh! Who we uld wear a crown, Thus to lie down and die! Woe to the throned, the sceptered one, When the pale king is nigh, If no hi igl,t angel band On wings of lace are there, To :car her to the spirit land, The peace of Heaven to share. From the London Friendships Oaring. The Doctor's Two Patients. ny Tim AUTIIOII OF "THE REFOHNER.” The doctor had made a long round; he was tired to death, and the worst of the matter was that all these foolish patients had real maladies; not the imaginary fan tastical complaints of the rich, who are ill because they have leisure, but the positive subtantial maladies of the poor. Now, ns these troublesome patients were really afflicted with the long cata logues of ills that flesh is heir to, and as our young doctor was very foolishly un like a great many of his wiser brethren, he felt himself unable to miss them, or forget them, or cut them altogether; and as one disagreeable consequence gener ally comes pretty on the heels of another it of course came to pass that as all his patients •sere poor, the doctor himself was not so very rich; and thus again it followed that he was obliged to resort to that primitive mode of conveying himself about, the fashion of which was first set by Adam; we mean that the doctor not being able to afford a carriage or a cab, or a stanhope, or a tilbury was obliged to carry himself. Now on the morning in question, the doctor had carried himself, until he was thoroughly tired of his burden, and he came home weary and worn, and though not complaining, just within a few de grees of the danger of doing so. "Two. new patients, sir, that want you directly," said the doctor's assistant. "Wilt not to-morrow morning du?" asked the young doctor, as he looked at his own arm- chair by the fire, and the fire a good one, his slippers most inviting ly ready for his feet, the table spread for his ditmer—"llill not to-morrow mor ning db?" .q believe not, sir—they seemed ur gent„" ... . . "But if people only scratch a finger, or happen to sneeze, the doctor mu.t come on his peril, without a moment's delay. Did you ask what was the matter?" ‘lhe lady has a fever sir, and the man— " "The lady and the man—oh, then the the lady is a lad), and the nian is only a man. All! 1 understand they are of dif lerent conditions." "You could lease the loan till to•mor• row, sir." "Could 1?--and suppose he should die to nighty" Now, though our doctor had fairly and honestly earned a light to a little rest, having most thoroughly tired him self in his vocation, the loutish sort of conscience of which we have spoken as forming one of his component parts of his character, would not allow him to dis' card his boot, or plunge into the easy than; so breaking WY a crust, and giving one last, lingering look to his cheerful fi re, he summoned up a;l his resolution, and once more ventured forth into the rain and mud. The doctor made his nearest patient his first; it happened to be the lady. The evening was darkening, and the gas growing brighter, when the doctor lifted the knocker of a short of shabby genteel house in one of those ambiguous streets of which it is impossible to say whether they are within or without the pale of polite toleration, the difficulty a rising from their standing just on the line where gentility ends and vulgarity begins and being in fact the worst of the best, and the best of the worst, nobody being able to decide which, except the inhabi tants, and they can give a positive opinion because they know that the street, where ever it may happen to stand, is second only to Grosvenor square. Our doctor's summons was answered by a maid el the same nondescript character. The inside of the house was in exact keeping with its external countenance, the furniture and arrangements being all of a similar class of shabby gentility, and our hero saw at a glanel, that it was "Lodgings to Let." The appartment into which he was ush erd,. looked sufficiently uncomfortable; there were marks in the fire place that there had once been a tire, but it might have been a week ago, for any symptoms which appeared to the contrary—Our doe tor felt the gloom of the place, but when he was shown into the adjoining room, the scene was still more desolate. A feint untrimmed lamp burning low in the sock et, emited flickering flashes of light over the apartment, just sufficient to show a woman in the middle of life, burning with a fever, and raving with delirium, laying on a bed, aad a girl, the perfect image of fear and misery, weeping over her. The dott,r sat down by the side of that solitary bed, and proceeded to speak of hope and comfort, and the young nurse dried her tears, and listened to his words as if they had been syllabled by an angel, '.You are not alone?" asked the doc tor. "Yes," replied the girl with a sorrow ful shake of the head. '•lt is not fit that you should continue so. Had you not better send for some friend to share your vigils?" Fresh tears came into the young girl's eyes as she answered. "We have no friends--at least none in this great town --if anywhere." .'Are you strangers in town?" "We have been here only a month." "And have you really no connections in town?" "No, Mamma came on law business" "And are you sole nurse?" "We are alone," replied the girl, alone in the world. "The people of the house --'y "Are afraid of coming near us. They dread infection--it is natural." "May I send you a nurse?" The girl again shook her head. The doctor felt rather than saw that pe cuniary difficulties were the objection. "You will not be able to endure much more fatigue," and the doctor looked on her flushed cheeks, her blood shot eyes, and her evident exhaustation. "Yes, I can endure anything; you have given me new hope." "But to-night will be an anxious night —a crisis in this disorder; and in the midst of fever and delirium, lam obli ged to warn you—it is not right that yru should be lett unsupported." "You know that she will die!" exclaim, ed the girl, and in a paroxysm of fran tic grief, she threw herself upon her knees by the bed-side, hidin e ry her face in its folds, and clutching Landfalls of dra pery in her convulsive grasp, have already told you' said the doc tor, 'that I do not know it, that I do not even think it; but certainly something bet ter than the indulgence ot a childish sor row is imperatively called for." The girl rose up again with an offended air notwithstanding her grief, "I shall do all that I can do." "Arid 1 shall do the same," replied the doctor. Our doctor went from that shabby gen. teel house to one of much less doubtful aspect, ►t was so thoroughly and perfect• ly .miserable, that no one in his senses could shut his eyes on its wretchedness and desolation. It was now quite dark; the streets were like the Black Sea, perfectly fluid with mire and mud. Not a light glimmered in the obscure court into which our doctor entered, for the commissioners of light ing and paving left the one to the moon, and the other to the mud; and as the moon happened to be absent on other duty, it required some courage and praerverance on Mr, Kendrick's part to steer himself into the farther extremity of the court. land up three pail of stairs into a back at tic, where he at length found his patient. Alas! gas! these bodies of ours should be the avenues of such misery. Not a nerve of this corporeal frame but opens a channel to suffering--not an atom that may not vibrate with agony! Very dreary and desolate was that miser able chamber--the fitting scene for hu. man suffering. Not a spark of fire to lighten the aspect of its squalid poverty; la deal table, a chair with broken spindles and a worn•out rush bottom, and a truc kle bed were all its furniture ; and on that bed was lying the second patient. Our doctor drew his ricketty chair close to him, and sat down. A wretched rushlight made the darkness visible, and cast its pale light on the features of the miserable man ; he was caiaverous and attenuated, his features almost incredibly sharp and thin; a pair of wild but faded eyes, deep sunken in their sockets, shot out fierce glances of anger and suspicion; lowering shaggy eyebrows, a bald forehead and a few white lucks Of/ either side, com pleted the picture. The expres Ann of his countenance was that of distrust and fear and fretfulness. "And who are you:" exclaimed the sick man, starting fiercely, as the doctor took his station - by the bedside; "Who are you?" . . "1 have come to see if I can do you any good," replied the doctor, in sooth ing tones. ''Good! no! nobody can do me any good." "You must not be too sure of that.— It is worth the trial." "Sure! yes, lam sure! I suppose you are a doctor. I want no doctors! they kill more than they cure. Don't waste your time here." "I shall not thick it wasted if I can be of any service to you." "There, go away—go away— I hate your whole tribe! Leechers: liloodsuck. era:" "Well, even they are good things in their way—a doctor may be so too in his way," replied Mr. Kendrick good natur edly. "Better out of the Way," grumbled the impatient patient. "Have you tried them ?" asked the doctor. "No, nor intend it." "'then you condemn in ignorance; a wise man ought not to do so." "Hark ye, air," exclaimed the sick man, raising himself upon his elbow, with a look of fierce exultation, as though what he was about to say were quite unanswer able; "Hark ye, sir; the poor arc bad patients for your tribe. Look round this room ; do you think a broker would give five shiilings for all that it contains?" "Probably not," replied Mr. Kends rick. "Ila! ha!—and where do you think the money is to come from to pay your long bills? No, no; go away, go away. You would never get paid ; you know you %ould never get paid." "I am wiliing to give up the expecta tion ; but that is no reason why I should leave you to die." "Btit it you never get paid, what does it matter to you whether I live or die?" 'lf I bad never seen you. or known of your existence—nothing; but having seen you, I am bound is my own conscience to do all that I can do lOr you." "Without getting paid?" screamed the patient, " without getting paid?" "That does not affect ray responsibility. I think I can do you some good—it is my duty to try—it is yours to let me." "Try, then," grumbled the sick man. The Doctor went home, but not to the enjoyment of his dinner, his easy chair, his slippera, ua his good fire ; it was only to make preparations for the care of his two new patients. Another hour had made a wonderful difference in the aspect of affairs. %Ir. Kendrick had managed, in that time, to surround his poor patient with a few com forts ; had sent him a blanket, procured hin► the cheering advantages of a fire, hail given him medicine, and what was equal ly necessary, nutritious food. Neither had he been less careful of his other patient. There he had himself ad ministered medicine, himself smoothed ] the sick pillow, and seen all that was needful duly done. And never was kindness and support more craved for, than in that sick cham ber. The girl, totally unused to depend upon herself, and in a situation that would have tried the strongest fortitude, sat by the bedside of her mother, who was ra ving with delirium, almost paralysed with terror. They were evidently strangers, ; unknowing and unknown. There was .not a relative or friend to share her toil, or to cheer or sustain ter under it. Our [Wnotx No. 256. doctor, however, sanctioned by his pro f fession, became bath nurse and comforter, and by that immutable law, which makes the weak lean upon the strong, he was, under G ed, her trust, her oracle, her strength. Three days—three days of unspeakable anxiety and terror to poor Esther, follow ed. Alas the heavy weight of moments, that seemed hours—of hours, that seemed days—of days, that seemed years. Poor Esther's bloodshot eyes, her pallid lips, her fainting frame, bore witness to the flagging spirit; but our doctor's cheering voice, his strength of mind, and his conso ling courage still sustained tier. By a gentle, but a firm compulsion, he made her at intervals, take an hour's rest upon the sofa in the adjoining room, whilst he assumed her station by the bedside. la his calm, kind, and authoritive voice, lie .ordered her to take needful food, and she had obeyed him like a child. Wnen she grew frantic, he reproved; when she de spaired, he consoled. Oh! profession, too noble for man—office rather of an angel, to be the instrument of binding up the broken heart, of snatching life from the grasp of death, of giving to the mother the child, to the husband the wile, the loved one to the loving, shame that thy offices should ever be filled pith a sordid priest hood We have said that the three days of the bitterest anxiety had passed ; the fourth brought with it better hopes. The deliri um had abated, the fever was allayed, and Mrs. Heathcote lay weak and motionless, but memory and comprehension bad re sumed their functions. But memory and comprehension, the' they served to reassure poor Esther's spi rits, by seeming to give her back the iden tity of her living parent, brought with them but little solace to the sufferer, for with them came the remembrance of those anxieties which had been in fact the ac. casion of her maladies, and our dactor found, what he had before more than sus pected, that his own bill was not quite as "safe as the Bank of England." The doctor's other patient lay with his head half raised from his pillow, support ed by his hand, striving to catch the first echo of his footsteps on the stairs. ~ A nother half hour gone, and not here yet," said the poor patient, his glistening eyes fastened to the door—'another half hour. Has he forgotten me, or has some thing happened?" The clock of a neighboring church struck the hour. "One--two —three, and not here yet! Hark! that is the street door! No, pshaw ! what a fool I am to expect him thus--and yet his is the only kind voice that has sounded in my ears these last twenty years. 'Who was ever so kind to me since the day my mother wept over, and kissed me, and—died?-- Who ever saw any thing in me since the day that her love left me, but a miserable, ungainly miserly clod?" and the old man wiped from his glistening eyes a tear.— While lie was yet speaking, our dotter entered his lowly chamber, with so lighta step, that the patient was not at first aware of his presence. "Well, old friend," said the doctor; cheerily, " how are you today?—nay, what is this?" as the old man's eyes, suf fused with their unwonted moisture, met his own. "What is this? what has gone wrong? what has happened?" "It was a tear," replied the old man, ""a tear to the memory of my mother.— She alone, of all the millions of beings Ia this wide world, ever loved me, and a sudden remembrance (I often think of her in the unquiet night,) brought the tears is my eyes." "A mother's love is an unfathomable well," replied the doctor with a sigh,— "but I never knew it." "Then you have never known the dear est love on earth," replied the sick man,. fixing his eyes commsere tingly upon him. The doctor shook off his sentiment, and with a slight laugh said, "Oh, the dearest say you—are you sure of that?" The patient fixed his eyes searchingry upon him. "So, then, you are thinking of marrying. That will quite ruin you— quite spoil you." .'No, no," replied the doctor, with. a nother slight laugh,but this time it was a constrained one. No, no, I must make my fortune first, I am toe pocr to marry' "But you are not poor! you are not poor!" reiterated the sick man. "And not very likely ever to be rich," replied the doctor. "Not if you are so extravagant," an swered the sick man; "you have torn that good piece of white paper all to pieces.' "It was only what your medicine was wrapped responded the doctor as he extricated the cork from the bottle, and presented its contents to his patient. "It •vould have done for another bottle if you had nut destroyed it," replied the careful man; "there now you have thrown tha cork into the fire,— that is sheer waste —and pray, while I think of it, do ve 'want the bottles back again."
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