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AG ENTS.
The Otoulingylon Journal.
Daniel Teague, Orbisonia; David Blob.,
Esq. Shade GO; Benjamin Lease, 3/drier/a
burg; Eliel Smith, Esq. Chi/cons:own; JUs.
Entrikem jr. C"fl'ee Run; Madden,
Esq. Sfiringfietd; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir
mingham; Jaones Morrow, Union Furnace;
John Sister, Warrior Mark; James Davis,
Esq. West township ; H. H. Moore, Esq,
Frankatown; Eph. Galbreath, Esq. Holli
daysburg; Henry Neff, .Alexandria; Aaron
Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water
Street; Win. Reed, Esq. Mo-ris townshin;
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Mouth Spruce Creek; Wm. Murray, Esq.
Graysville; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas.
E. Stewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler.
Mill Creek.
POETRY,
POC H A II ONT A 8
DY GEORGE P. MORRIS.
Upon the barren;sand,
A single captive stood,
Arc and him came with bow and brand,
The red men of the wood.
Like him of clef his doom he hears,
Rock-bound on ocean's rim—
The Chieftan's daughter knelt in tears,
And breathed a prayer for him.
Above his head in air,
The savage war-dub swung—
The frantic girl, in wild despair,
Her arms about him flung.
Then shook the warriors of the shade,
Like leaves on aspen-limb,
Subdued by Grit heroic maid,
Who breathed a prayer for him.
"Unbind him!" gasped the Chief,
"It is your King's decree,"—
He kissed away her tears of grief,
And set the captive free!
'Ti s ever thus, when in life's storm,
Hope's teen• to man grows dim,
An Angel kneels, in Woman's form,
And breathes a prayer for hini!
NEW 11 0 0 T 8 .
Of all our troubles here below,
The worry wust I knows on,
Is the insinivathe vay
A new boot alvays goes on.
You goes and tiles it on, you does,
It seems a perfect fit,
And lets you valk a square at least,
Before it hurts a bit.
You FEELS it THEN, I feels it now,
Your foot feels all on tire;
You vants to lay down in the mud,
You almost has to swear.
You vents to kick each man you meets,
You no kick all the dogs—
The little niggers in you► vay,
You treats them vus nor hogs.
The vorld to you is vun vast boot,
Vith nought but pain inside it
-11 such a thing as joy there is,
1 venders vere they hide it.
Boots causes half our n.iscry,
And more than half our crimes—
For tight fits sours the werry best
Of tempers at such times.
AN OLD STORY VERSIFIED.—The ancient
anecdote, explaining why women are beard
less, is well rhymed in the following;
How wisely Nature, ordering all below,
Forbade, on woman's chin,a beard to grow;
For how should she be shav'd, what'er the
skill, ...-
Whose tongue would never let her chin be
still?
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HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1841
MISCELLANY.
From the N. 0. Ricayune,
A Real Game Cock or The
Wilderness,
Conscience, says Shakspeare, makes
cowards of us all, and odd conceits, say
we, make fools of us all. A live Hoosier,
who was returning from one of the fancy
balls on Saturday night last, while on his
way home to his flat boat, cut up such ex•
traordinary shines and antics that the
watchman thought him every way enti
tled to an introduction to our worthy Pe.
corder. Two or three nights previous he
had seen Dan Marble in the "Game Cock
of the Wilderness," and the thing pleas
ed lion so well that he rigged himself out
on Saturday evening as much like the
game chicken as possible, and went to
the ball. While there he gave occasion
ally a crow, and took occasionally a drink
until at length he found himself sonic.•
what loaded down by the head although
elevated in spurts, and perfectly ripe for
anything.
The putting out of the lights, at some
two o'clock in the morning, was the sig.
ea, fur our hero to put out for home. Ile
felt so well, to use his own words, 'that
he could'nt hold himself still,' and so wide
awake, that every corner he caine to, he
would flap his arms violently against his
side, and crow so much like a chicken,
that every rooster in the neighborhood.
thinking it the signal for lay break, join
ed in the chorus. Chapman himself in
his happiest eflurts never could excel this
second Sampson Hardhead.
Ile had just given a specimen of his
skill in crowing, at the corner of Poydras
and Tchouplas streets, hen a watchman
came up and told him he must make less
noise.
'Noise! Ooo.ooh-a.ooh! Do you call
that a noise?' said the fellow, giving anoth
er rample of his abilities at crowing.
'Noise! yes you must shut up. Who
are you any how!'
'l'm the second Game Cork of the
Wilderness—look out for your galTh,' at
the same time jumping sideways at the
watchman, hitting with his right foot and
elbow, and sending him tumbling in the
middle of the street.
'You're a hard chicken, at all events,'
said the Charley, recovering himself and
walking up to this new species of custo•
mer a second time. 'Blow me if I can
get the hang of you.'
'You will soon—Ooh-a-ooh-a-ooh!'
re
plied the droll customer, hoppin; up and
giving the watchman another 'side winder'
as the latter called it in court. This was
too much, and the Charley accordingly
called in the assistance of one of his broth
mu, and soon had the game cock safely
under lock and key. He crowed several
times on his way to the watch•house, and
once or twice tried to hop up and knock
over• the Clinches upon the same princi
ple a regular game chicken goes to work
at his adversary, but they soon understood
his tricks, and took measures to keep out
of• his reach. On being pushed into the
dark rooms, he broke out with—
'Well, this is a pretty place I don't
think. It's as dark as a box of blackin.
Let inc look out or I'll butt the door doe n
I wish I hail my big lamp here to light it
up with. Pis a perfect prairie on fire. I
rot it out, once, the darkest night that ev
er come over, and all creation riz, think
in' it was daylight.—Let me out, I'm a
liberty pole, and can't bear confinement.'
In this way lie went on, using a part of
the time ideas he recollected from the
Flay, and filling up the test with original
specimens of his own.
In the morning, on being brought before
the Recorder, he said his old name was
Bill Bloom, but that Je had taken that of
Samson liardhead, Jr. because it pleased
him better.
'Well, Satmon,' said his honor; what
do you follow?'
'Crowing., principally,' retorted Hard
head. 'l've taken up the business late
ly.
'You was fighting the watchman last
night,' said the Iteci.rder.
•Fighting! You don't call that fighting,
do you! I was only practising on a new
principle. If you should see me 'sure e
nough' fighting ont'st you'd think war
had brake out in earnest. Fighting! why
it I'd been really fighting with that chap,
I'd have jumped clean down his throat,
and stopped his digestion for a fortnight.'
'State the c . rcumstances of the arrest,'
said his honor to the watchn►an.
The latter was proceeding, when the
Hoosier sung out—
'Squire, that varmint is telling lies so
last that you can't find time to believe
him. Look here Squire, do the thing
Hut's right by me, will you;—don't be
lieve that chap.'
'Silence,' said the Recorder.
'Oh, well, if you're going in on the gag
ging principle, iliut up; but there's
one thing you niust understand, that I'm
au American etizen, slightly touched
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR.
with the game cock, and I go it on the
broad principle that one country is just as
good as another in time of peace, and a
d-d sight better. 000-a•ooli.a-ooh:
day's a brakin!'
'Silence!' again said the Recorder.
shall line you te•n dollars fur this offence,
but it ou are caught here again you won't
get off so easy.'
'Go ahead,' said the Hoosier, as he
walked out of the office. He took one
more crow, however, on the steps, and
then made ler his Qat boat.
Fanny Eissler and the Dying
Uahc,
Two scenes in Richmond, Va. on the
night in which Fanny Elssler recently ap
peared in the theatre of that city.
"She floated about like a fair, but very
voluptuous looking spirit, and cut her
'toes hither and thither, and swayed- her
body to and fro in a way which was a
caution to all inflamable young gentle
men grey headed or not. The lovely
creatures who graced the scene looked oa
enchanted, and made all bright with their
smiles; the vast crowd of men shouted
and applauded will► their whole might,
and the beautiful dancing woman, giving
them an extra flirt or two, which set them
off in a perfect agony of delight, made her
bow —the curtain dropped, the dear Fanny
tapping her wring•your-neck-ofl upon the
shoulder, said, "Dere, dere is to one thou•
sand dollars almos—let us go." But the
audience said no, and they shouted and
screamed, and thumped fur her to come
out, and
"At that moment, in an obscure hovel,
open in many parts to the cold, biting
without fire, alone sat a poor
woman, holding to her chilled bosom her
sick and dying babe, while upon a ride
pallet of straw lay two shivering little
creatures, her children too. Her eye
was heavy with watching, her cheek sun,
ken with hunger and sufiring, her heart
filled with the very gall and bitterness of
life. Still how truly, oh! how truly, an
swered that heart to the pang of a moth.
se's love, as she gazed into the innocent
face of her dying babe ; how fast flowed
the tears from eyes which had known lit
tle but sorrow and weeping through many
weary days—how deep and fervent was
the prayer which came up from
. the very
fountains of privation and grief. There
was no heart near to sympathize, no kind
hand to aid, no soft voice to soothe—the
physician's healing art—charity's angel
arm came not to soften the dyingmoments
of her poor babe, and us life flickered and
waved in its fair urn, and the sobs of the
mother sounded in that solitary room, as
in the agony of her :grief she exclaimed,
"a few pence had saved thee to me, my
sweet babe," as the sleepers on the pallet
of straw murmered in their uneasy slum
ber; "Mother, dear mother, give me
sonic bread" —as the keen wind came
through the crevices, and she clasped the
dying child to her bosom; at that moment,
a denting woman, a stranger, with her
wealth of thousands, and her ingots of
gold and silver, made her last graceful
bow, and took the princely 611 M which
was her's fur a few *imams pleasant la
bor.
"As the spectators gave their last shout
he babe's innocent spirit winged its tl , ght
o heaven, and the mother gazed in des
mir upon all that remained to her of the
ittle prattler whom she so clearly loved.
"Such is life."
An Altbcling Sight.
There are Some odd souls in this world,
who appear to derive their very existence
from a humorous saying or a good joke,
and who undoubtedly would ..swell up
and die," if they were not permitted to
indulge their waggish propensity. Chat
terbox, as he is called, is one of those
laughter loving, joke-cracking mortals.
We will quote a specimen.
Somewhere cast of the Susquehanna,
there is a barren, lone spot, where no one
would suspect that any thing but such
quadrupeds as can live upon the vapors
of a dungeon, would ever think of seek•
ing a subsistence. Ben's occupation of
ten leads him through this abode of stet.
ility, and he as ate!' has some waggish re
mark concerning it. After passing this
place one day, Ben went limns from some
cause unknown, with a countenance as
grave as that of a judge, and a "bridle on
his totrue." This being something new
under the sun, led to the following dia•
!ague between him and an old lady belon
gingto the house:
.';'11 hat is the matter of you, Bent Are
you sick or mad, that males you so std.
emu all at once'?"
..011: if you had seen what I did this
moining, I gue:s you'd look solemn too."
What have you seen, lieu?"
".t heart rending bight, I assure you."
elI what was it? I know it must
he somethiug remarkable, or it wuuld nut
;tact you so. Oat with it do."
"Yoo know that place I've told you of
that nothing can live on."
"Yes."
"Hell, as I was coining by there to•
day, I saw a chip-muck sitting on a rock,
gnawing a gravel stone, and big tears rol
ling down his cherks."
When he had list thus fur with his ato•
ry, the old woman flew at him with the
broom, and our hero vanished in a roar of
laup,hter.
The Printer.
"I pity--I pity the printer," said my
uncle Toby; "he is a poor devil," rejoin
ed I. How so?" said my uncle Toby.—
"In the first place he inset entleavou. to
'please every body. In the negligence of
a moment perhaps a small paragraph pops
upon him; he hastily throws it to the
compositor—and he is d—il to all in
tents and purposes." " Too much the
case," said my uncle Toby with a sigh—
'too much the case." "Nor is th at ell,"
'continued I, "lie sometimes hits upon a
piece that pleases him mightily, and he
thinks that it cannot but go down with
his subscribers; but alas! who can calcu
late? He inserts it, and it is over with
him. They forgive others, but they can
not forgive a printer. He has a host to
print fur; and every one sets up fora cu.
tic. The pretty bliss exclaims, "why
don't he give us more poetry, and bon
mots?" "Away with these stale pieces."
The politician claps his specks upon his
nose, and runs over it in search of violent
invective; finds none, he takes his specks
oil, folds them, sticks them in his pocket,
declaring the paper good for nothing but
to burn. So it goes. Every one thinks
it ought to be printed for himself, as he is
a subscriber ; and thus weekly it is bro't
to the grand ordeal !!
How TO BOTHER ♦ SIIIRIFF,—The .
Vermont Yeoman Gazette says:—Dr.
J----s, having just finished digging his
potatoes, thought fit, a few days since, to
make an attempt to raise himself a little in
the world, and for this purpose, with the
aid of a ladder, he ascended to a roof a
barn, where he was exerting himself in
the very laudable business of nailing shin
, glee. In this situation lie received a vis
it from an officer of the law, for the pur
pose of arresting his body by virtue of an
execution remaining unsatisfied. The of
ficer made known the object of his visit,
and not perhaps considering the differ
ence between the situation of a man on
the barn and a man on the ground,Ttep:
ped down from the ladder. H hereupon
the Doctor forthwith drew the ladder up
to the roof of the barn, and being seized
with a sudden fit of industry, fell to shin
gling incontinently, observing that he had
no time to come down, and if the officer
had any business with him, he had better .
come up and attend to it—at the same
time utterly disclaiming any obligation to
furnish said officer with a ladder for that
purpose. The officer remonstrated—the
doctor shingled. The one would not
rome down— the other could not get up;
and as there is something rather peculiar
in the position of these two parties in re.
lotion to each other, it may afford matt,r
of cur'ous speculation to leave them in
that position--so they are accordingly
left.
LAW IN TTIE WEST. —. GeIIIICRICTI of
the Jury," said a lawyer, in defence of his
client, say that magnanimous sun shines
lin the heavens though you can't see it,
kase its behind a cloud ; but you know it,
though I can't prove it. Nuw, if you be.
lieve what I tell you about the sun, you
are bound by your Bible oath to believe
what I tell you about my client's case;
and if you don't, why then you call me a
liar ; and that 111 be squataw'd if I'll
stand any how ; and so if you don't want
to swear false and have no trouble, you
had better give us a verdict."
Apnea' ES. —Landlady,—ffill you
take another cup of coffee, sir? It is not
so good as I could wish, owing to the
haste with which you wished it got ready.
Traveller.-111adam, there is no occa
sion for an apology; your coffee is most
excellent—what there is of
The landlady colored. He immediate
ly recollected himself nod added, 'Par
don, madam, I did not mean what I said,
I meant to say, there is an abundance
such as it is.
MORALS OF MANNERS,--The following
epigram, though, written long ago, hate lost
none of its applicability by time:
"What's fashionable, I'll maintain
Is always right," cries sprightly Jam:
"At ! would to lieav'n!" cries graver S uc,
'What's right, were fa shiunable too!"
A NEAT OLD LADT.-.-A story is told
of an old lady in the Ancient Dominion,
who was so very neat that she rubbed her
floor with sand until she fell through into
the cellar, and broke her leg, which caus
ed her death,
A : Galveston paper says there is a
young lady in Texas, each of whose fect
measures eighteen inches. It is the first
time we ever heard of two red making a
yard.:
BENEVOLENCE.-A society for amelior
ating the condition of grasshoppers has
been set on foot in Maine. The society
rub down the kness and back of those in.
teresting animals with candle grease,
which removes the stiffness and rheumatic
pains to which they are sometimes subjeet
An assylum for them during the cold
weather is about to be built.
; SPEECH OF MR. MILES.
Mr. MILES said he had thought on
yesterday that he would not take part in
this debate, as prompt action was so much
importance; but a call had been made by
the gentleman from Luzerne upon some
of the members of the party with which
he has the honor of acting, to give their
reasons for the passage of the resolutions'
under consideration. He rose to respond
to that call, and add a few remarks to
those already so ably made by the gentle.
man from Crawford. to show the nature of
the claim, we as Pennsylvanians make
upon the general government fora portion
of the proceeds of the public lands. He
wanted to demonstrate that it is found
ed on the clearest principles of law and
equity. It was was here he intrenched
himself—on the legal and equitable prin
ciples goveruing the very deeds under,
which the U. S. holds the lands in ques•
tion. What, sir, were the circumstances
under which those deeds were executed
This country was a vast wilderness, with
out known boundaries, inhabited alone by
savages and beasts of prey, and a large
portion of it was claimed by the crown of
England upon the ground of priority of
discovery. Special grants of territory,
undefined in their limits, were made from
time to time by that crown to colonists
who crossed the trackless ocean, fleeing
from the oppressions of the old world to
plant,the standard of liberty in the western
wilds. Whether those grants were made
I with or without right, legally or illegally,
is of no importance in this enquiry. They
were recognised and acted upon, but were
uncertain in extent, reaching, in the lan
guage of sonic of the charters, "from sea
to sea." The grantees established colon•
ies, opened settlements, adopted laws for
[their government, and grew to population,
resources and wealth, until their prosper
' ous condition excited the cupidity of the
ulers of the country which gave them
birth. Again the hand of oppressive
power was laid heavily upon then. But
the spirit of freedom animated their bo
soms, and, although they were distinct
people in their colonial governments, yet
as a band of brothers they united and
(confederated together to defend them
selves against the common invader of their
rights. They fought together— their
mingled blood inriched the same ground,
and their property was freely given fur a
common purpose. But notwithstanding
the nature and external circumstances
which tended to their union, there were
internal difficulties which were calculated
to estrange and seperate them. A heavy
debt, incurred in their common defence,
was to be appropriated among them—and
the uncertain and conflicting boundaries
of their original royal grants were to be
adjusted in accordance with their respec
tive rights. These things were calculated
to produ7,e strife, war and bloodshed
amongst themselves. [l.v. Story on Con.
.9, I 4-15.] As this common debt was to
be paid, and as it was of vital conse•
quence to the peace of the confederated
states that the causes adifficulty and dis
satisfaction should be removed, to provide
a means fur the extinguishment of one,
and the removal of the other, the Con
gress of the confederated states invited
several states to cede their lands to the IL
States, and in the year 1780 adopted the
following resolution, to wit, ""That the
unappropriated lands that may be ceded
or relinquished to the Unitrd Slates by
any parsicutar state, pursuant to the re
commendotion of Congress, shall be dis•
posed of for the benefit of the U. States.-
47 v. Niles Reg. 338.
Here, then, was an invitation and a re
commendation to the states to make ces
sions under the terms and upon the faith
of this resolution. The people of the re
spective states were still animated by a
common spirit of patriutistn. They re.
membered their common toils and com
mon dangers in defence of the whole of
the confederated states, and they felt tie
necessity of providing a fund tar the pays
moot of the COIIIIIIOJ debt, and the inapt
rioua necessity of removing all cause of
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quarrel between themselves. Influenced
by these patriotic motives, they made the
cession upon the basis of the resolution ot
Congress, New York leading the way.
Her deed of cession hears date the tat
March, 1781, one of the conditions of
which is in the following words:
"Shall be and endure for the use and
benefit of such of the United States as
shall become members of the federal alli
ance ot the said States, and for no other
purposes whatsoeyer."
Virginia made her cession on the 7th
March, 1784, one of the conditiune of
which was as follows:
"That all the lands within the territ=
so ceded to U. S. and rwi reserved
for and appropriated to any of the befoie
mentioned purposes, or disposed of in
bounties to officers and soldiers of the
American army, shall be considered as a
common fund for the use and benefit of
such of the U. S. as have become or shall
become members of the said states, Vir
ginia inclusive, according
to the usual re
spective proportions in the general charge
and expenditure, and shall be faithfully
and bona fide disposed of for that pur
pose, and for no other use or purpose
whatsoever." 45 v. Niles Reg. 286.
Veto of the Land Bill.
Now these two cessions were made be
fore the adoption of the constitution.
Again, within the years 1785-6-7, Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, and South Car.
olina ceded their claims upon similar
terms. 45 Niles Reg. 486. The consti.
tution was adopted on the 17th Sept. 1787,
and the government of the U. S. went in
to operation under it on the 4th March
1789. The cessation of North Carolina
and Georgia were made alter the govern
ment was in full operation under the con
stitution. The deed from N. Carolina
was executed in Dec. 1789, and accepted
by an act of Congress approved April 2,
1790. [45 Niles' Reg. 986.) The third
condition of this Cession was in the fol
lowing words, viz:
"That all lands intended to be ceded
by virtue of this act to the U. S. of Amer
ica and not appropriated as before men
tioned, shall be considered as a common
fund fur the use and benefit of the U. S.
of America, North Carolina inclusive, ac
cording to their respective and usual pro
portions of the general charge and expen •
diture, and shall be faithfully disposed of
for that purpose, and for no other use or
purpose whatever."
The cession ofGeorgia was completed
on the 16th June, 1809., and its leading
condition, is precisely like that of Virginia
Wand North Carolina. (Mr. M. here re
niariftd that he cited those deeds from the
veto message of Pres. Jackson on Mr.
Clay's land bill, which passed both houses
of Congress in the session of 1832-4, and
he knew this document would be received
as good authority by at least a portion of
the House.) Now, sir, what is the legal
construction of these deeds, and what
estate do they pass and for what benefit? If
the case had depended alone upon
.the
deeds executed prior to the adoption of the
constitution, when the states were bound
together only by the articles of confedera
tion, there might have been some difficulty
in arriving at a correct conclusion. But
taking the terms of the North Carolina
and Georgia deed into consideration, all
difficulty of construction seems to vanish.
It will be recollected these two deeds
were executed, after we had become, so
far as the general government is concerned
one people, "we the people of the United
States, in order, axe. do ordain and eget'.,
lisp this Constitution" &c. This instil'.
inent made us a nation of people instead of
a confederation of states to the extent of
the powers vested in the national govern
ment. Now the construction for which
we contend is, that the deed vested the
legal title in the government of the Union,
'subject to an express trust, fur the benefit
of the whole of the States composing the
Union, in severalty; that is for their ben
efit, as distinct and independent states,
and nut for the benefit of that unit, or in
tlivisable corporate being known as the U.
States, deriving its existence from the
constitution. By the adoption of that in
strument, so far as national purposes are
concerned, except in one branch of the
legislature, the existence of the states is,
in the main, merged in the National exist
ence. But as to all the powers not dole.
gated 'o the government of the Union, the
states still maintain a distinct independent
existence. Keeping this distinction, then
in view, how can the words in the North
Carolina deed, "shall be considered as a
common lund for the use and benefit of
the United States of America, N,n114 car-
Winn inclusive" be reconciled with the
supposition:of a use declared for the U.
states as an indivisible corporate being, a
unit created by th constitution? As such,
North Carolina has no independent exist
ence, as au essential ingredient or comp°.
vent part of that indivisible corporate
being. But here is a reservation of a right,
o• a limitation of a use to North Carolina
herself as an independent being. Thi
alone ought to be enough to e.taolish the