...stand that you were worth a good deal i mare; but— "No air," she replied, "no excuse nor apologies; think about what I lime said; you are embarrassed now, answer me a nother time," and rising. she Lade him good night. She Just escaped a trap: ha went the next day to her guardian to enquire inure particularly into her affairs, mid receiv ing the sauna answer, he dropped his suit at once. The next serious proposal followed soon alter, and this too, came from one' who succeeded to a large portion of her esteem, but applying the same crucible to the love he offered, she found a like re-1 suit. Ile, too, left her—and she II juiced I in another fortunate escape. She sometime after became acquainted with a young gentleman of slender for tune, in whose approaches she thought she discovered more of the timid tlilß deuce of love than she had witnessed be fore. She did not check his hopes—and in process of time, he, too, made her an' offer. But when she spoke of her for• tune, lie begged her to be silent; "It is to virtue, worth and beauty," said he, "that I pay m court—not to fortune. In you 1 shot!' obtain what is worth more than gold." Sip was most agreeably disappointed. They were married, and the union was solemnized; she made him master of her self. am, indeed, worth eighteen hundred dollars," said she to him, obut I never! said how much more; and I hope never to enjoy more pleasure than I feel at this moment, when I tell you my fortune is one hundred and eight thousand." It is actually so—but still her husband often tells her that in her he possesses a far nobler fortune. To the Senate and Douse of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylva- rata. The undersigned, citizens of said com monwealth, residing in Huntingdon Co., respectfully represent:— That they believe it would be of great benefit and advantage to the Common wealth if the Canal Commissioners were elected by the people at the annual elec tions for a period of years, say three, and after the first election one to go out and one to be elected in each year thereafter, in the manner of County Commissioners. The amount which the people of Penn sylvania have invested in their public works renders them an object of interest to the great mass of the people, paramount to all party considerations: And it is of vital importance that the conducting of them, so far as possible, should be seper ated from party politics, and that those who control and manag e them should be answerable directly a nd alone to the peo ple- The experience of the past, without intending to cast reflections on any party or particular set of men, has shown that the control of the public works, to much too great an extent, has been used to fur ther party views, and as necessary conse quences, while a few were benefited, the interests of the Commonwealth suffered, doubts have been created in the minds of many of their expediency and eventual benefit, and an unfavorable opinion of them thus unjustly made. All this it is belie • veil would be obviated, at least to a con. siderable extent, if the Canal Commis sioners held their offices, not at the will and for the benefit of any particular party, but for a certain number of years, one go ing out and one being elected in each year, and were answerable for their con-. duct, not to a particular man, set of men, or party, but to the whole people of the Commonwealth. Your petitioners therefore 'pm,' that a law may be speedily passed for the elec tion of three Canal, Commissioners, as before stated, and that until the next an nual election they be elected or created either according to the provisions in a bill relating . to this subject passed in the Senate during last session, or in such other manner as may be deemed most advisable. Tr_ IST OF LETTERS remaining in the 10A Pcst Offipe at Alexandria, Ist January ; I Anderson David Irwin David Bisbin Baker Angeline Bingham John Keiffer Rev. Bell Charles M. Knode Henry Brubaker Jacob D Lightner Samuel Dobson Martha 2 Davis Mary McFarland Andrew Munells Andrew Engart William Edmunson Joseph Neff John K. F Nash Samuel P. Forringer John it Fisher Daniel 2 Routh Benjamin G Gentry John Seabole John 2 Green John Speisse saniel Gemmill J. M. Shoenberger John Hammond Stephen ts. vv olford Daniel Johnston William CHARLES PORTE - 12, - P: M. January 1, 1841. 1017 climunrozo% ,„, AKE NOTICE. that I have applied to • the Judges of the Court of Common Peas of Centre county, for the benefit of the laws of this Commonwealth made for the relief at insolvent debtors ; and the said Court has the 4th Monday (25th day) of January, inst. for the ht awing in of me and my creditors, at the Court House the borough of Bell ef 'lite, when and where you may at tend if you see proper. _ _ _ DECOURSEY, Ja-mar) 6, 1841. TH E JOURN AL. One country,one constitution one deeti Unntingdon, Jan. 6, 1841 Democratic COUNTY CONVENTION. The friends of GEN. HARRISON within the several townships and boroughs of Hun tingdon county are requested to meet at their usual places of holding elections, on or be fore Saturday the 9th day of January next, and appoint two persons trom each town ship and borough in said county, to meet in convention at Huntingdon on Wednesday evening the 13th January, for the purpose of choosing two delegates to represent this county in the State Convention which will meet in Harrisburg on the 4th of March next, to nominate a candidate for Governor. BY THE COUNTY COMMITTEE. The Meetings. Our friends must not neglect to meet at their usual places of holding meetings, to elect delegates to the Convention of next week. To make their conventions what they are intended to be, the people should attend the primary meetings, and there e xpress their wishes by selecting honest and candid representatives to meet in conventions. Canal Commissioners. Our readers will find, inserted again,' in this week's paper, the copy of a peti. tion to the Legislature, relative to the manner of creating the Canal Commis sioners. We have republished it because' we neglected to call the special attention of our readers to the subject. The reform suggested in the petition, ' has Im p it , been one that we have advocated as of 'Vital importance, to the perma nency and prosperity of our public works. So long as their revenue is considered the plunder of power and place; and their of ficers the pack horses of corrupt party or ganization, so long will they be a curse in stead of a blessing. Instead of proving a source of income to the State, they will prove an intolerable burden which each year will make more oppressive on the people. When the people of Pennsylvania de dared the determination to remodel their Constitution, one of the great causes which led to that determination, was their anxiety to obtain, and retain in their own hands, the power of choosing their own officers. In a great measure their wishes have been carried out, but with regard, to the canal board, the party in power, ) have deemed it too good a bone for the l hungry hounds of their party to knaw, and have used all their means to still keep the power from the people. Independent of the advantages to be' derived from the removal of the power from the hands of the Governor, in a gem era! point of view, there is one which al)• pears paramount to all others. . It is the fact that by the plan proposed in the pe tition, the Board will always contain two persons who are experienced in the du. ties the office. If they be elected one each year, to continue for 3 years, as we do our board of County Commissioners, there must always be one that has been in two, and one that has been in one year; and either or both of them will under. stand the business, as well as the duties of the office. Whereas under the pres ent plan, every triumph of party is a cer. tain forerunner of a complete change in the canal Board; and men (no matter what their capacities in other matters) are appointed, totally ignorant of many impottant matters in the office, the con sequence of which is, that not un frequent ly persons from a distance go to the seat of government to settle some affairs with the Canal Board, and after a fruitless search return home no wiser than they started, cursing in silence the incapacity of the Board. Every man at all acquain ted with the transactions of the Board fur a long series of years must admit that I what we say is true. Nor is this all, the same advantages will result to the super. intendence of the public works themselves Now, not unfi equently, are men of known incapacity appointed, but even those who it is equally well known have not perfor. med their duties with fidelity; and when they arc appointed, regadless alike of their duty, and integrity to the interest) of the people, they leave their duties,l spend the time 4.. the money of the peoile to further the future hopes of their parti, san friends. Who is there in our cuun• try that will deny these facts? Not one 'who has any regard for himself or truth. We call, therefore, the attention of ev ry one of our readers to this subject—let them read and reflect upon the subject, and then copy out this petition, sign it, and call on their neighbors to do so, and forward it immediately on to Harrisburg. Go about the work as if you Intend not to rest until this important reformation was accomplished, Moderate Politicians Under this head we find in the '-intelli• gencer," an extract, froin the "Village Record," which with a considerable in genuity censures such of his cotempora• ries as may be disposed to object to the system of making the residense of Gen. Harrison a political bear garden. if a man wants an office, we say with that pa per, "let him ask fur it." But we say fur ther, and the history of past years proves it, that, in ninety•nine cases out of an hun dred, those who have the most impudence and the least qualifications, are the suc cessful office-seekers ; and why 1 they will push a-head. Many of them are, what may be called active politicians. They attend some meetings, and when there, render themselves particularly con spicuous without any pat ticular cause— they, not unfrequently, are among the first to suggest plans to be adopted, and generally among the last to carry them mit. The evidence they produce of their activity is a bundle of newspapers with proceedings of political meetings in which , is a resolution or two unanimo-sly wisp ted which was offered by these same ac five men. Such has long been the case. . 4. if those who have professed such a hor ror of office •seeking and office holding politicians, are now to deem it either pru. dent or honest, to pursue the same course,' we have only to say, that the members, of the party are not as honest as their prin . ciples. At any rate, we should like to know what is the test of activity. Is it the . man who went to the most conventions, meetings, parades, &c.? Is it he who made the greatest number or the longest speeches. Is it he whe may have played I bully and blackguard on the election I ground? Or is it he who was in a moder ate way "pouring cool istruction into heedless cars? What is the gage? Many,' no doubt, could they convince Harrison - they were as active in getting him his of; i flee as they are in triing to get one for r themselves, would be entered on the ac tive list. We wish, however, nut to be consid ered the advocate of those men w' , ose moderation will not let them hardly ex press their principles. We are in favor of the selection of firm and honest, as well as prominent men of the party. For thank Heaven, at the last contest, nearly all the great and good men in our country, stood foi th shoulder to shoulder, and fought the good fightOf such men we have hundreds, aye thousands in our ranks, who labored with untiring zeal, not for the prospect of an office, but in the earnest hope of relieving an oppres• sed country from the curses of corrupt rulers. Men who will honor the office more than the office them. It is in favor of such men we are willing to speak. _ . Nye are, howeve, inclined to think the Old Hero and Patriot of North Bend, will perform his part without fear, favor, or affection, and will, with a bold and un yielding determination, pursue his own 'course for the good of his whole country. State Treassrer. We see a suggestion in the Lewistown Gazette that Dr Thomas Whiteside would make a most excellent Slate Treasurer, des as like as not, but I don't believe a i l word of it.' At any rate should he be , successful we hope he will do the fair , thing with a poor fellow we know—this lick-it business keeps his nose to the grind stone. Hu's what we call an ac• live fellow. `Metcalf's Star &Democrat.) The Evening Star, of Philadelphia, has changed its name to that at the head of this notice. The paper is now printed but weekly and on very fine paper. The terms are now S 2 per annum payable in advance. We consider the paper an ex• cellent one; and wish our old friend much, success. The Legislature has commenced its session, and we shall ' l expect to give our readers a full account i l ot their doings. We du not mean by !this, that we intend to fill our paper with 'the nonsense which will consume clays and hours of their time. We mean that when they really do any business, we will us soon as received, serve it up to our readers. The Governor's Message we hope to receive to-night; and unless it is like most modern documents, of "learned length," we shall insert it all in our next paper. The Governor will have his hands full this session, to keep on the right of both parties of his friends. His lone oh the Banks at the last session, has not been forgotten, and he must do something to conciliate the Philadelphia "burn bur ners," or they will "whistle kin, off, and let him down the winds to prey on for tune ;" and then there will be a little dan ger, that like the dog in the fable— by trying to catch both, he may loose both— but why need we care, it is all in the fam• ily. On Friday of next week, the Banks must 'fork vp;" and we presume the Governor's Message will tell us what he intends to do with them, if they do not un lock their specie vaults. l'he Message will undoubtedly be very severe on them --especially it it is understood that they positively will resume; for it will be a first rate way of showing his anti-Bank• Democracy, especially when there will be no chance of its being put to the test. Ohre Money 'Wanted. The Secretary of the Commonwealth has advertised for a new loan, (another addition to the state debt) of one milt.ionl l et dollars. To be reimbursed at any' I time after the Ist of July, IR7O. We' good people of this state are only kis! begining to learn how extremely blest we were in the election of D. R. Porter to the Gubernatorial chair; we have a State Tax now to pay, and still the State Debt annually and rapidly increases. But where is the Governor to raise this money? Shall we have another coalition with the rascally banks? We shall see. Happy New Year. Patrons we wish you all a happy new year! Time, with its silent but cease less tread, has hurried us on another year nearer that "bourne whence no traveller returns." Yet how few of us think that ere another one shall have passed, our joys and our sorrows will only be known in that world where "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." Yet how exultingly we exclaim a hany new year! flow many who greeted the birth day of the last year, as we do now, • rejoicing in health and strength, have been foLowed by their weeping friends to that quiet, but dread monitor— the grave! Call up around you the shadows of your, happy friends who were with you on the last new year's day, and see how many of them are now sleeping beneath the clods of the valley! The "happy new year!" rang as merrily from their lips, a short year since, as it does now from yours, or our own. Where are they now? The melancholy truth murmurs— in the tomb! What theme for reflection, yet what a day of hilarity and joy. How joyously the sincere wish of "a happy new. year" is echoed from lip to lip; and how few think that it tells of another step to ward eternity! A happy new year may it be to all. Happy in this world—to those whom poverty has compelled to trust the sold charities of a cold and unfeeling world—and happy to those who "shuffle off this mortal coil," and are "By Him recalled to breath, Who captive led captivity, Who robbed the grave of victory, And took the sting from death." A happy new year! and may we all profit by experience, that we may make each succeeding year, or day of our lives, hap• pier than the past. EDITORIAL SUMMARY. The population of the State of Connec- ticut is 310,023, of which number there are only 633 white persons over the age of 20, who cannot read and write. In 17 townships, containing upwards of 21,000, there is not one white person over the age of 20, who cannot read and write. A New Haven paper says, let any State beat that. The Hon. Felix Grundy, U. S. Senator From Tennessee, died at his residence in Nashville, on Sunday two weeks. Mrs. Kinney, the lady who was char ged in Boston with poisoning her bus. band, has been found not guilty. Peake, (whose wife was killed by her own father, Wood,) died in the Alms House, and was buried from there on sa. Iturday. It is said that it is intended to bring Martin Van Buren again into the tied for 1844. We guess not. MURDER.-A man by the name of Beasley, murdered another by the name of Long, in Virginia. Ile struck him with a billet of wood, after which he laid down and slept; when he awoke, Long was dead. He then cut the body up, and bu llied a part under a stump in the woods, and the balance under the flour of the house, and set the house on fire. He has been arrested, and confessed his guilt. ANOTIIER.-A lad of sixteen years of age, deliberately shot one of his comp in ions, while they were on the ice neir Baltimore, skating. The gun had been brought on to the ice by a boy who had been watching for a hawk. The boy that committed the deed was immediately at rested. The Banks of Ohio, so says a corres pondent of the "/V. Y. Commercial;" will resume on the same day as those of this State, antl presumes they will generally be able to meet their demands. A Rmartove FENTENCE.—Goodhue, the wretch who was convicted for the crime with his own daughter, has been sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in the States prison. Col. M. G. C. Clark, the electoral messenger from Indiana, was with Harri son at the Maumee and Tippecanoe— and he is one of 29 sons and 2 daughters, by the same parents. lismoriticiiiiti".- - -:04 the 18th of May, 1635, Pr. Brandreth, for the first time, made known in the United States the cel ebrated Brandreth Vegetable Universal Pills. He left them to stand or fall by their own merits. He made no allusion to any other medicine; simply facts were stated, and the kllowing principle laid down as the Brandrethian Theory, viz: that all local diseases, whether of the stomach or bowels, enlargement of the joints, rheumatic affections, cutaneous e. ruptions, dyspeptic complaints, or what ever other forms such local disease put s on, where nothing more than so many symptoms of a disordered state of the con stitution, and that his pills, which were discoeared in England in 1751, were a medicine t!iat had the effect of restoring the constitution to health and vigor, sim ply by removing all bad and acrimonious humors from the blood by the stomach and bowels. The American public have now made trial of this medicine for near ly six years, and have found that the ined icine is not all humbug. The patronage Dr. Brandreth daily experiences, proves that the medicine gives perfect satisfac tion. Purchase them in HUNTIA GDON, of WM. STEJI ART, and only iu the county, of agents published In another part of this paper. Remember every agent has a certificate of agency, dated within the last twelve wraiths. If of au earlier date do not put chase. MAIBI' OF LETTERS remaining io the o,ist Office at Mill Creek on the 'let day of January, 1841. A roll Jacob, Kinnich Samuel Ames Thomas, Leidy Cornelius Barbin Martha M, Long Mathew Baght Emanuel Lane James Black Sarah Lamor John Boring Thomas Miller John Carr James Monsell John Collenbine Henry Nippes Daniel Craft Henry Norton Julia J Mrs. Condrin James Robison Henry Dickson John Rutherford John Daily Michael Ross James Dunlop John or Jas. Shoop John 2 Foster ‘Villiam Stout George Freeid Charles Jr. Shady Rubin Humphrey Wm. H. Sowder Jacob Henry Joseph Shaw 'Lillian' Jackson Ezekial C Spileman Elizabeth Kelley Absolam Umhallz Michel Kelley Aaron Walls James Young Samuel B E. L. PLOWMAN, P. M. Jan. 1, 1841. DISSOLVT/011- OF TAIRTITItatO 1.1 33). liE partnership heretofore existing between John Maguire and James ,Clarke, under the firm of John Maguire and Co., Sinking Valley, has been this day dissolved, by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the said firm, are , re quested to call and settle their accountsl previous to the 10th of March next, at which time the books will be removed for collection. JOHN MAGUIRE, JAMES CLARKE. January 1, 1841. The subscriber having purchased the entire stock of the late firm of John Ma guire 4' Co., will continue to do business at the old stand, and solicits a continu• ance of the favors of his friends and the put lic. JOHN MAGUIRK Sinking Valley, Jan. 1, Mt Notiet. MI persons indedted to the undersigned .ire requested to call and settle, on or before the Ist February, or their accounts will be left in the hands of a Justice for collection. JOHN WHITE. Jan. 8, 1841. GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE AND LADIES/ & GENTLEMAN/6 World of Literature AND PAEIZION. [The Casket and the Gentlentan'e united.] A New Volume, under the above title, of the well established and fashionable Maga zine, .1 he Philadelphia Casket in conjunc tion with the Gentleman's Magazine, which has been every where pronounced the moat readable and popular of the day, will be opened on the First of January, 1841, with an array of Contributors secured by the uni on of talent and fame, which no periodical in the country can boast or pretend to rival.— The December numter will, how( ver, be a specimen of the New Volume. The volume will be opened with new and beautiful type,. the finest white paper, and with the first of a series of EMBELLISHMENTS UNSURPASSED by any which have yet appeared in any Ma gazir• . The style of elegance, the beauty and finish of these illustrations, and the ex tensive improvements which will be made in its typographical appearance, and above all the tone of its literary department, by the brilliant array of Contributors, whose articles have em iclud the pages of each number, will give it a character, second to no Magazine in the Union. The character of the articles which shall appear in its pa ges, will h: equally removed from a sickly sentimentality, and frmi an e frectation aim • rality, but while a true delineation oh human nature in every variety of passion is aimed At, nothing shall be found in its pages to cause a blush upon the cheek of the most pure. The Literary Character will be sufficiently guirauteed by the repu tation of both Magazines thus united, for years past. Writers of the first rank have been regular contributors to their pages, and the tales and sketches published in them have been widely copied tthd read, and the firm and independent tone of the criticisms, upon the current literature of the ~ay, has been every where approved and commended. The List of Contributors Embraces the names of must of the princi pal writers in America, with a respectable number of English authors. Original arti cles have I ppeared, during the last y ear, from the pens 01 the following:— Professor Ingraham, Author of La Fine, Professor John Frost, Philadelphia, Profes sor N. C. Brooks, Baltimore, Professor C.F. Wines, Philadelphia, Author of Two Years in the Navy, Captain Maryatt, Authurlof Peter Simple, etc. Morton McMichael, Esq Philadelphia, Hon. R. T. Conrad, Esq. do. Willis Gaylord Clarke, Esq. do. Charles J. Peterson, do. Rev. Thomas H. Stockton, do. Samuel W. Stockton, do. E. Armstrong, E.q. do. Gen. 0. P. Morris, New York, L. Hunt, England, Mrs. Fanny Kemble Butler, Philadelphia; Park Benjamin, New York; Douglass Jerrold, Englatin; Joseph C. Neal, (Charcoal Sketches) The American Buz; J. F. Otis, New York; R. S. Elliott, Editor of Harrisburg Journal; David Heilman, EN. Baltimore; Charles West Thompson, Phila. Judge 'Temper, Dresden, New York; John Du Salle, Eeq.; Grenville Mellin, New Y.; P. B. Elder, Editor of Columbia Spy, Pa.; The Author of "Stanley;" Edgar A. Poe, Philadelphia; T. G. Spear, do; Author of 'Howard Pinckney;" Mrs. L. Sigourney, Hartford ; Miss Catherine H. Watermar, Philadelphia; Mrs. Ann Stephens, New Y.; Benson Hill, England, Editor of New Month ly Magazine; Dr J. Mitchell, Philadelphia; lames Montgomery, England; A. M'Makin and E. Holden, Esqs.; J. Beauchamp Jones, Baltimore; J. E. Dow, Me ashington City; Mrs. E. F. Ellett, Boston; Dr. Thos. Dunn English, Philadelphia. In addition to , his brilliant array of names known to fame. the distinguished sea s ice's of a host of anonymous writers of no ore :nary abilities, have given worth arid character to the pages of the Mag; aloes. The series of well known nautical papers entitled, "Crui zing in the last War," have had a run, une qualled by any series published in any Mag .tzine, for years. The author premises to open the first of a new series of TALES OF THE SEA, and from his known abilities as a depicter of .es scenes and life, much may be relied up on from him in maintaining the popularity of the Magazine. Papers may be expected du ring the volume, also from the author of the well known articles entitled, "The Log of Old Ironsides." Toe author of "Syrian Let ters," will also lend his powerful and grace ful pen, to sustain and increase the reputa lion of the work. The valuable aid of the author of "Leaves from a Lawyer's Port Fo lio," has ..lso been secured, and we may ex pect something still more thrilling from the capacious stores which a long life in the pro fession has enabled him to amass. An ecca sinual Chit-Chat, with "Jeremy Short," and "Oliver Oldfellow," is also promised; with a variety of choice articles in prose and verse from various writers of celebri , y, as Contri, hutors to the prominent Magazines of the country. The editors of both Magazines continue their services under the new ar rangement. With such an array of talent, a Magazine of unrivalled attractions, may safely be promised the coming volume. Fashions and Engravings. In compliance with the almost - unanimous wish of our lady subscribers, we shall the en suing volume furnish them with a beautiful and correct plate of ' , ASH, ONS 1 1 1 ,, NTHLY, feature, it is believed, that will neither be unwelcome nor unpopular. These fashion plaies shalt be drawn from original designs from Paris and I ondon, and may always be depended' upon as the prevailing' style in Philadelphia and New York for the month in which they are issued. These, however, shall in no wise interfere with the regular and choice engravings, and music which ac company each r umber of the work. The splendid Mezzotint engravings from the bu nne of Sartain, which have been so justly ad mired, will be followed during the volume by several from the same hand, while the steel engravings in the best style of art, from interesting scenes shall still enrich the Mag azine. The choicest pieces of music for the Piano and Guitar, shall accompany each number of the work.