VoL• VI, No. 11 .] zmnrao OF THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. Th " JOURNAL" will be published every We'lnzsi sy morning, at two dollars a year, i if p Aid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid with in six in mths, two dollars and a half. Ev..try vrson who obtains five subscribers, and forw Ards price of subscription, shall he fir:ll4 l ml with a sixth copy gratuitously for .me year. N c sibszription received for a less period x 'ninths, nor any paper discontmued antil 11l arrearages are paid. ;17 - \ll commutilcitions must be addressed to thi E lit, e, P )ST PAID, or- they will not be attended to. Adve , tisemr.nts not exceeding one square, will he inserted three t i mes for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion, twenty five cents per square will be charged. Hon definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to he continued, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged actor - (Jingly. AG ENTS. FO The lla u ?ingdon Journal. Daniel Teague, Orbisonia; David Blair, Esq. Shade Gap; L enj :unin Lease, Shirleys burg.; Eliel Smith. Esq. Chiteottstown; Jas. Ent' ilcen, jr. Ceiree Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. Springfield; 1)r. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; J ain ,s Morrow, Union Furnace ; John bisler, Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. West township ; D. H. Moore, Esq Frankstonm; ELM. Gilbreath, Esq. Holli daysbur4:: Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water Street; Wtn. Reed, Esq. Ma • ris township; Solomon Hamer, Aeff's Mill; James Dysart, Mouth Spruce Creek; ‘Vni. Murray, E•q. Graysoille; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas. E S,ewart, Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler, Mill Creek. ORPHANS' COURT SALE N a r s c u a o cof r t e of anorder ,l of. the Huntingdon n coun ty,o, 0 ip • will be exposed to sale by public vendue or outcry, on the premises, on Monday, the Ist day of March, next, the following described reel estate, late the property of Abraham Vandevan der, dec'd., to wit:—The undivided hail part of a tract of land in the township of Henderson, in said county, composed of two adjoining surveys, one in the name of Daniel Ign, the other in the name of Ste• phen Duncan and James McAllister, ad joining land of John McComb on the east, other land of said dec'd. on the north and west, and adjoining the Juniata river on the south, containing about 135 Acres, and 18 perches, of which about S 5 acres are cleared, hav ing a cabin house and stable, and some fruit trees thereon. Terms of Sale.—One half of the pur chase money to be paid or, the confirma tion of the sale, and the residue in one year thereafter with interest, to be secu• red by the bond and mertgage of the pur chaser. JOIN REED, Clerk. Attendanee will be given at the time and place of sale, by the undersigned, Administrator of said deceased. PETER SM/OPE, Adm'r, Jan. 27, 1891. i'LwR. Compound Syrup of Pru nus of Virginana or wild Cherry This syrupis highly beneficial in all peels ral affections; also, in diseases of the cheo n which the lungs do not perform their proper office from want of due nervous energy: such as asthmas, pulmonary con sumption, recent or chronic coughs, hoarse ness, whooping cough, wheezing and dif ficulty of breathing, croup and spitting of blood, 4.c. flow many sufferers do we gaily behold approaching to an untimely Brave, wrested in the bloom of youth from heir dear relatives and friends, afflicted with that common and destructive rava ger, called consumption, which soon wasts the miserable sufferer until they become beyond the power of human skill; if such sufferers would cnly make a trial of Dr. Swayne's invaluable medicine, they would soon find themselves benelitted; than by gulphing the various ineffective certain remedies of which our newspapers daily abound. This syrup immediately begins to heal the ulcerated lungs, stopping pre - fuse night swtats, mititigating the distre - sing cough at the same time inducing a healthy and natural expectoration, also t e lieving the shortness of breath and pa' in the chest, which harrass the sufferer t the slightest exercise, and finally the he tic flash in the pallid and emaciated cheek will soon begin to vanish, and the sufferer will here peceive himself snatched from a premature grave, into the enjoyment again of comfortable health. For sale at Jacob Miller's store 11- Fee Bills for sale at this Office. , . :: „.„4, :: ; A , ,:, ~ ~. ..,,. 4,` ' '• , • Lw.,- ••; • POE:FRY. The following is from the pen of one of the most gifted poets of the day, the Louis ville Amelia. From the Louisville Journal. MELODIA. BY 'AMELIA? I met once in my girlish hours, A creature soft and warm— Her cottage bonnet, filled with flowers, Hung swinging on her arm ; Her voice was sweet as the voice of love, And her teeth were pure as pearls, [dove, While her forehead lay like a snow—white In a nest of nut-drown curls ; She was a thing unknown to fame— Melodia, was her strange sweet name. I never saw an eye so bright, And yet so soh as hers ; It sometimes swam in liquid light, And sometimes swam in tears; It seemed a beauty set apart For softness and for sighs ; But oh! Melodies melting heart, Was softer than her eyes ; For they were only formed to spread The softness tram her spirit shed. I've gazed on many a brighter face, But ne'er on one for years, Where beauty lett so soft a trace. As it had left on hers ; Bet who can paint the spell that wove A brightness round the whole; 'Twould take an angel from above To paint the immortal soul— To trace the light, the inborn grace, The sparkling o'er the youthful face. Her bosom was a soft retreat For love, and love alone, And yet her heart had never beat I'o love's delicious tone ; It dwelt within its circle free From tender thoughts like these, Waiting the little deity, As the blossom waits the breeze, Before it throws it leaves apart, And trembleslik,, the love-touched heart, She was a creature strange ma fair, First mournful and then wild, Now laughing on the clear bright air As merry as a child, Then melting down as soft as even, Beneath some new corm of ; She'd throw her hazel eyes to Heayen. And s ng with all her soul, Intones as rich as some young birds Warbling her own delightful words. Meloclia! oh. how soft thy darts, How gentle and how sweet! Thy song enchained a thousand hearts, And drew them to thy feet ; And as thy bright lips sang, they caught So beautiful a ray, That, as I gazed, I almost thought The spirit of the lay Had left, while melting on the air, Its sweet expression p.inted there. Sweet vision of that starry even! Thy virgin beauty yet, Next to the blessed hope of Heaven, Is in my spirit set ; It is a something shrined apart— A light from memory shed, Tolive until this tender heart On which it lives is dead, Remin ling me of brighter hours, Of summer eves, and summer flowers. A Secret worth knowing. "Truth is strange—stranger than fiction." Under this heading the Long Island Star, publishes an interesting tale, for the extended details of which, we cannot find room. But must content ourselves with giving the leading facts in a conden• sed form, for the benefit of our readers. A young grocer of good character and correct habits, commenced business in a good and improved neighborhood. His stock was small, as were his means, and his stock of customers were still smaller. His sales hardly met his expenses, and he was evidently going "down hill," and an old grocer on the opposite corner predic i ted that he would soon be at the button. The young man had reason to regret this opinion of the old grocer, ag will ap- pear. The latter had a daughter who had won the heart of the former. He of fered himse fto her and was rejected. It was done, howeyer, with the assurance that he was the man of her choice, but that she acted in obedience to her father's sommands. "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONR DESTINY." A. W. BENEDICT PIU'BIASIIER AND PROPRIETOR. HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1841. Assured of the affections of the wo man of his choice, he set himself about removing the only obstacle in the way of their union—the father's objection to his pecuniary prospects. * * * A year had elapsed, and to ! what a change ! The young grocer was now go ing up hilt with the power of a steam to coinotive--customers flocked to his store from all quarters, and even many had left the old established stand on the opposite corner, for the younger favorite. There was a mystery auout it which puzzled the old grocer sorely, but which he could nut unravel. He at :length became nearly siLk with losses and aggravations, and vain attempts to discover the secret 01 his neighbor's success. At this juncture, A ngelica--for that was the daughter's name—contrived to bring ;about an, apparently, accidental in terview between the parties. After the old man had become, through the inter vention of the daughter, tolerably good hu mored, he inquired with great earnestness of the young man, how he had contrived to effect so much in a single year, to thus extend his business and draw oft the cus• turners from older stands. 'the young man evaded an answer-1 but inquired it he had further objection. to his union with Angelica. "Nuner replied he, "provided you reveal the se. l cret of your success." This the young man promised, when his happiness was maJe complete. The old man commen ded his prudence on this point. The af fair was all settled and the marriage soon took place. The friends of the young couple were all assembled, and among them, many of the customers of the two stores. Angeli ca and Thomas looked as happy as well could be, and the old gentleman was, if possible, happier than they. The bridal cake was about to be cut, when the old man called out for "THE SECRET " "Ave, the secret," "the secret" exclai• toed fifty others. "It is a very simple matter," says Thomas,"l ADVERTISE": l! The old gentleman was very. very old fashioned, and while he shook Thomas heartily b) the hand, and kissed Angelica fifty tunes over, he merely muttered, "Why the dickens didn't I think of that." An Amusing Specimen of Humanity. Whoever travels through any of the New England States, and twigs, as he journies, the eccentricities of some of the NATIVES, cannot fail to be amused; and may ;I he chooses, derive many new ideas in respect to etymology and diversity of 1 1 character. Some years since an acquaintance of ours set out on horseback, from the eastern part of Massachusetts, to the Green Mountains of Vermont. While travel-, ling through the town of New Salem, his road led into a piece of woods some five miles in length, and long before he got out of which he began to entertain doubts whether he should be blest with the sight of a human habitation; but all things must have an end, and so at last had the woods, and the nut brown house of a far• 1 tner greeted his vision. Near the road was a tall, raw-boned, over-grown, tan- i tern jewel buy, probably seventeen years ' of age, digging potatoes. He was a curi ous figure to behold. What was lacking ; lin the length of kis low breeches, wit; am. ! (ply made up for behind ; his suspenders appeared to be made of birch bark, grape vine, and sheep akin; and as for his hat, which was of dingy white felt, poor thing) it hail once evidently seen better days, but alas: it was only the shadow of its glory., Whether the tempest of time had beaten the top in, or the lad's expanding genius had burst it out, was difficult to tell; at any rate it was missing—and through the aperture red hair in abundance stood six' ways for Sunday. In short he was one of the roughest specimens of domestic manufacture, that ever mortal beheld.-- Our travelling freed, feeling an itching to scrape acquaintance with the critter, drew up the reins of his bridle and began. "Hallo, my good friend, can you inform ' me how far it is to the next house?" Jonathan started up—leaned on his hoe handle —rested one toot on the gambrel of his sinister leg, and replied : "Hullo yourself how'd dew? \Val, just can. 'Taint near so fur as it used to he 'fore they cut the woods away—then 'twas generally reckon'd four miles, but now the sun shrivels up the road, and don't make more'n tew. fust house you come to tho' is a barn, and the next is a hay-stack; but old Iloskin's house is beyaut. You'll be sure to meet his gals lung afore you git there; tarnal rompin' critturs, they plague our folks more'n a little. His sheep git into our poster eve ry day, and his gals in our orchard. Dad sets the dog arter the sheep, and me arter the gals•—and the way we make the wool and the petticoats fly is a sin to snakes." , 'I see you are inclined to be facetious' young man—pray tell me how it happens that one of your legs is shorter than the other?" "I never 'lows any body to meddle with my grass tanglers, mistur; but seein' its you, I'll tell ye. I was born so at my 'tic kler request--so when I hold a plough I can go with one loot in the fuirer, and 'tother on land, and nut lop over ; besides it's very convenient when ; “tow round a side hill." "Very good, indeed—how do your po• tatoes come on this year?" 'They don't come o■ at all, t digs 'em out—and there's an everlastin' snarl on 'en, in each hill." "But they are small, I perceive." "Yes, I know it--you see we planted some whappin' blue noses over in that ere patch there, and they flourished so all tiredly that these stopt giowin' just out o' spite, 'cause they kuow'd they could'ut begin to keep up." . . ''You appeat:to be pretty smart, and 1 should think you could afford a better hat than the one you wear." "The looks ain't nothin', its all in the behavior. Ibis ere hat was my relil,ioas Sunday-go•to-meetin' hat, and it's jilt as chuccull o' pity now as a dog is full u' flees. I've gut a better one to hum, but don't dig taters in it, no how." "You have been in these parts some time, 1 should guess":" guess so tew. 1 was born',] and got my brot'in up in that ere house: but my native place is down in Porttunk." "Then you say it's about three and a half miles to the next house?" "Yes sir; 'twas a spell a go, and I don't believe it's grow'd much shorter since." "Much obliged—good bye." "Good bye to ye; that's a darn slick mare o' yourn." There reader—there is a Jonathan for you of the first water. You don't find his equal every where. The following article, from a late En glish paper, is amusing, and is character istic o! the freedom with which the press of that country speak of their sovereign rulers. Our readers can believe just as little of it as they please. The Royal liaby. We are betraying a confidential private correspondence in making public the fol lowing important event which took place in the royal nursery, and very much fear we shall lose our correspondent at the pa lace by so doing, but, being in possession of so interesting a fret, we cannot resist the temptation to treat public .h curiosity with the gossip. It seems that young Albert had been dining :ate, and sitting long, and as he drained his draughts of Rhenish down, he very innocently became slightly obvi ous of sublunary affairs. Paternal fund ness induced him to seek the nursery be t Ore retiring to rest, where great conster nation was occasioned by his unfortunate ly upsetting the cradle and tumbling the little heiress out upon the floor. There was instantly a great screaming and run • ring about of the maids of honor, and in rushed her majesty, presenting a picture much like the tragic heroine in the Critic, when she enters raving mad in white sat in! Seventeen nurses and nine of the maids of honor were endeavoring to lift the young husband of the Queen on to his legs, while all the rest of the royal house hold were stuffing towels and various other things into the infant's mouth to stop its squalling. "You!" said the Queen, upon seeing the condition of her lord and subject. "My love!" replied the nice young man, speaking somewhat thickly, while twenty-three ladies were holding him up l on his feet. "Maul" exclaimed Victoria, casting an indignant and withering glance at the un fortunate Albert. By this time twenty seven surgeons, the same number of phy sicians, upwards of seven royal apotheca• ries, and the whole sixty-nine nurses, all of whom had been summoned in hut haste, had assembled in the nursery. For a long time a breathless and solemn silence prevailed, contrasting awfully with the wild uproar which preceded it, and bro ken only by the subs of the infant, and the hiccoughs of Prince Albert. The physi cians and surgeons deliberated, while the afflicted Queen stood by in anxious solici tude. At length the chief surgeon opened his lips and declared that the child was nut dead, upon which the child rpened its mouth and gave a lusty squall. Dr. La cock then proceeded with a prolonged ex amination of little Regina, giving it at last as his settled opinion that no bones were broken, and no internal injury suft ered ; upon which the three hundred la dies of the royal bedchamber and nursery, lifted their eyes to die ceiling, crossed their hands upon their breasts, and gave a simultaneous aspiration of gratitude.— Here was a remarkable instance of the profound skill .1 the extraordinary Dr. Lacock, as the child had sunk into sweet and placid slumber, when the decision of "no bones broken" was made. The Queen was now leaving the apart ment, when there was a bustle among the thirty pule ladies who were holding up Prince Albert. An angry spot appeared on Victoria's cheek, which it seems the ladies understood, lur they all scattered instanter, and the Prince went staggering along after his royal bride. Our inform. ant states that the last thing heard, as the royal chamber door closed, was Albert in qun•ing of the Queen, "flow is the blessed baby?" alter which sounds followed as of one person beating another with a shoe, but they were so indistinct that none could determine whether or not such an operation did occasion the noise. The whole alThir has been hushed up and con fined within the palace, so that the Lon don papers have not got hold of the story. From the New York Express. 11 e commend the following letter of our respected friend Nlajor Downing, to "the croakers, and rankers," and we can only say, if any one feels chilled by the pres ent cold and duck aspect of things, he may seek and find a leading cause in the "etarnal poking" system mhich seems to have suited the policy of certain circles, and who have tound a ready and phaat press to aid them in their patriotic efforts. e commend this letter especially to "oil Pennsylvany," and if she is willing to have her fires poked out, be it so—she will not say that she was not timely cau tioned. Hut, let us not be disheartened, the coal is unconsumed —a little kind ling woad and a blowei will restore the steady warmth, and then keepin the po ker aloof, or in skilful hands alone, we may still enjoy the comforts of a wide circle around a genial fire. PHILADELFT. 9th Feb A.D. 1841. To the Ed tors of my old friend Mr Dwight's paper. that he used to take the lead on a spell ago. GENTLEMIFS/-1 suppose you will be considerable wonderated to know what on airth lead me from the track to IPash- , ington with the old hero of the North ! Rend cabin, an .I biting me here,—well, I'll tell you, I anti the Gineral was a drifting along down from the west, and bowing and shit king off the everlasting crowd of folks' all the way from the Ohio, till we struck! along the edge of old Pentisylvany, when we heard folks beginning to talk about , hard money, and paper money, and res su option, and suspension, and things of! that natur, when says I, ' , Cinema you may depend there is trouble brewing some wheres along here, and if you say so," says jist quit you for a shell and ! take a turn down to Phil:Welly, rind look ; into the matter a little, - and jine you at F; ashington." "Well," says he "Major,' seeing as how folks begin to thicken a mazingly around us, my calklation is you won't be much mist, but see that you git to NVa siting, on as noun as possible, and in the mean time let me know all you meet with worth hearing,"—and so I quit, and so the Gineral never wants to know noth ing more than the people know themselves I send you this letter to print, and you 'will please send a copy on't to the Giner al, so that lie will know as much as other I folks do about it. I got here last evening, jist ar'er lamp lighting, and took a run round to all the Banks to see if I could find any one on 'em open; but 1 lound 'eni all locked tip and bright lamps burning afore the doors, and good strong broad-shouldered watch. men standing at their posts w ith clubs and rattles jis for all the world as tho' the Banks was as full of specie payments as ever, and not a mite of difti.rence, I stopt and had a leetie talk witn one of these watchmen, and says l, "stranger. is there no girths in here to see folks?" "Not to-night," says he, "all the Banks I I are shut." "Ilow you talk," says I, and so I streaked it raund to Squire Biddle's p • wemeses for I had a notion if I could only git a fair talk with Squire, I would learn pretty much all about the matter. I found the Squire to hum, and he was amazin glad to see me; and he and I went right up into a room alone, where I found a good wares Lehigh coal fire burning, and a table kivered with papers; and he took one chair and I another, and we went at it strait oft. "So," says I, "Squire, you are all suspended again, I lams." 'Yes' says be, "Major, the folks who wanted hard money have got all the Banks had to give them; and as the Banks can't coin hard money, and can only git it from the folks who owe them, it turns out that, as the Banks have notgut the same power by the law to make folks pay them as fast as the other folks want it, the pond must run dry for a spell." "But," says I, "Squire, how on airth is it that things work so that one set of folks keep drawmg out of the spiggot taster than other talks pour into the bung-hold [WIJou& No. 04. Things waent so in Mr. Adams' time. says I. "Now, how is it?" This set the Squire scratching his head and thinking— and to give him time to answer, I took the poker and began poking up his Lehigh cool fire, to see if there was any blaze us it; and to rights says he, "Major what Ivo I you doing that fire fo 1 Do you expvt to make it burn brighter? If you will take my advice," says he, "yon will let it alone. Amt the room warm enuf ?" "Yes" vsys I, it's warm enuf, but a little poking wont do any harm, will it?" "Well," says he, "you go on poking, and you will see,"—and sure enuf, the more I poked, the darker the fire and coal got; and bime-by it all went out. "Well," says I, "Squire, this is a olagy odd kind of fire of your'n," says I. ;Yes' says he, "it's Pennsylvany Coal; it wont stand poking, Major,—it you let it alone, it will burn slowly and surely, and give out comfortable heat,—but if folks go to poking at it, it turns and looks black at them, and gives them a cold shiver." " Well," says I, "Squire, / want you to answer and explain to me now about this Bank matter. llow is it," says I, "that all your Banks have suspended sFecie payments—all broke--all gone to everlas Ong and etarbal smash? Now, how has all this come about?" says I. "Well," says he. "Major, I'll tell you. In the first place, when you first entered this room, did'nt you find it warm and comfortable, and a good fire burning ?— did'nt you take up that poker and begin to poke with it?—did'nt I give you is cavil hint to let it alone?—did'nt you continue poking and poking, till at last the fire went out?—and aint this room now cold and dark, compared to what it was? Now come here,"—and he took a candle and went up to the fire-place: and says he. "There is the coal yet,—it aint burnt up, —the fire has only gone out; I can put a little kindling under it, and clap on the blower, and in a little while you will see as bright and warm a fire as before,—but where is the use of kindling up again tic. less folks will see the folly of poking at it. It is just so in Banking matters. 1 tried it, and for sixteen years and over, and no people in creation ever saw a warmer and better fire than 1 kept up, it warmed all kind of folks, too; the circle around it was I wide enuf to admit every living critter in the country, and all equally felt the I warmth. But then began the poking sus Item. I tried every means to prevent it, but it was of no use—and then I quit, and Mr. Dunlap he tried it; but the pokers were still ready—snd no sooner was it kindling up, when at it they went, poking !and poking—and the result you see; and ' now the question is, shall we have a new fire kindled, and what shall be the fuel? Shall it be Lehigh Coal, or English Coal? . Old Pennsylvany has a word to say in this matter, if she chuses to speak, for there is just this difference between her I Coal and all other kind of Coal; it wont stand poking, but if let alone, will burn steadily and surely to the last— whilst other Coal may blaze up with poking, and the sooner go to ashes. The Coal is in the grate yet, Major" says he "though by puking, it has ceased burning." "Yes" says I. "Squire, but it is plagy ( cold though." 'lt is so Major" says he; but that comes front poking"—and with that says he "Lets you and I take a turn round and see some folks, and hear what news is stirring, and by the time we get_ back, this fire will be kindled and the blower on, and will soon give us a warm room—and we'll have a roast potato and a teethe cider, and can talk over matters comfortably and cheerfully; and if you will only let the poker alone, the evening will close brightly." And so it did; but 1 can't tell more about it till I write you illy next leiter—and all for the present I [can say ii. put a black cross on all croak. era. and especially the plers. Your friend and tellow•citizen, J. DOWNING, Major, ay. 4'e Good Advice Gratis..—The Journal of Commerce says-1f you would save your house from being entered by burglars with false keys, fasten your door by a plain holt on the inside, disconnected with tha lock. Burglars cau pick a ten dollar lock with all the ease in the world; but they cannot pick a two shilling bolt. It your houses should be robbed some night, bet sure to put a bolt on the dour immediately afterwards. Old .Maids—\\'e neera cou ld No it out, %%by class of mortals was so much abused. 11 they do not get married, it is the fault of the other sex; and the blame should attach where it belongs.--Atlas. There is some truth in every philoso phical system, hut each of them b.-c-rnes ridiculous when that truth is procli as the whole truth, and nothing list the truth. women generally consider consequm ces in love, seldom in resentment,