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The Illuntinadon Journal.
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ORPHANS' COURT SALE.
114 p/ pursuance of an order of the Or.
phans' Court of Huntingdon county,
Hill bt exposed to sale by public vendue
or outcry, on the premises, on Monday
the g9th day of March next, the following
described real estate, late the property of
Benjamin Cornelius, dec'd. to wit—A
certain lot or parcel of land situate in
Cromwell township, in said county, ad
jnining another lot of said dec'd. and the
Black Log mountain ; containing two
acres and one quarter, more or less, with
a small tannery and a two story dwelling
house thereon erected.
Terms of Sale:—One half of the pur
chase money to be paid on the contirma
lion of the sale, and the residue in one
year thereafter with interest, to he secu
red by the bond and mortgage of the pur
chaser.
By the Court,
3.)1114 REED, Clerk,
Attendance will be given at the time
and place uf sale by the undersigned, Ad
ministrators of the said dec'tl.
JOSEPH CORNELIUS,
Aden's.
GEORGE CORNELIUS,
February 10, 1841.
NOTICE.
nn liErbusiness at the Juniata Rolling
AL Mill, Huntingdon County Pa., al
ter,the let of January 1841, will be con
ducted by Samuel Hatfield, John Hat
field, and Samuel Hatfield jr., under the
name of Samuel Hatfield Sons. and
they solicit the attenention of the public to
their superior article of
Boiler .Sheet, Fine and Tank
Iron. •
CJIR .11. LES
AND
BAR IRON OF ALL SIZES
made 'out of the best Juniata Blooms
which will be furnished on as acconimo•
dating terms as heretofore, and they at
the same time thankful for past patronage
Samuel Hatfield,
John Hatfield,
Samuel Hatfield jr.
Juniata Rolling Mill, Huntingdon I
County, Pa. Jan. Ist 1841. S
ROCKDALE FOUNDRY,
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wqull respect f ullyi
and
adjoining counties, that they have repaired
and newly fitted up the Rockdale Foundry,
on Clover Creek, two miles from Williams
burg, where they are now prepared to exe
cute all orders in their line, of the best ma
terials and workmanship, and with prompt
neqs and despatch.
They will keep constantly on hand stoves
of every description, such us
Cooking, Ten Plate, Parlor,
Coal and Wood Stoves:
Ploughs, Anvils, Hammers, Hollow-ware,
and every kind of castings necessary for
forges, mills, or machinery of any descrip
tion: wagon boxes of all descriptions, &c.,
which can be had on as good terms as they
can be had at any otoer foundry in the coun
ty or state. Remember the Rockdale Foun
y.
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JaniAry 1, 1841.
T _E ®•
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24. 1841.
POETRY,
From the Knickerbocker for March
THE WARNING.
AFTER THF. MANNER OF BERANGER.
DY R. AL CHARLTON.
Wlaiden of the blooming age,
O'er whose path the sunlight lingers,
O'er whose brow despair and rage
Ne'er have swept with loathsome fingers!
Virgin! pure in heart and mind,
Shun the spot where Love reposes;
Oh, beware! or thou wilt find
Shupest thorns among his t oses.
Damsel! thou whom time bath kissed
Slightly on thy lips of coral.
By the charms that .hou Nast missed,
Learn, oh! learn the simple moral ;
Time may seem to thee unkind—
Love a brighter fate discloses ;
Oh, beware! or then wilt find
Sharpest thorns among his roses.
Warrior! from the battle field,
With thy laurel wreath around thee,
Arm thyself with sword and shield,
Fly, ere yet the foe hath bound thee!
Love, for thee a spell bath twined,
Where the eye of beauty closes ;
Oh, beware! or thou wilt find
Sharpest thorns among his roses.
Father! thou whose tottering gait
Tells of lengthened years and sorrows—
Tells what soon will be thy fate,
Ere the sun brings many morrows—
Love will seek e'en thee to bind,
Ere Death's portal o'er thee closes ;
Oh, beware! or thou wilt find
Sharpest thorns among his roses.
Maiden, damsel, warrior, sire!
Shun the spell of this enchanter'
Come not near his hidden fire,
Heed ye not his idle banter ;
lie is fickle, false and blind—
He the source of all our woes is ;
Oh, beware! or yod will find
Sharpest thorns among his roses.
WHY DON'T HE COME?
Why don't he come? He promised m
He surely would be here ;
And dad and mam are out to tea,
For once the coast is clear.
I wonder what he wants to say?
When last his leave he took,
He asked me twice at home to stay.
I wonder how I look!
Oh! why I'm almost out of breath!
Suppose he asks! what then?
I'll certainly be scared to death,
I'm so afraid of men!
I think I'll have him though, at last,
But first I'll answer, no!
For many a girl by hurrying fast,
Outstrips her tardy beau!
Oh! here he comes—his steps I hear—
And now he'll soon begin ;
I would not for the world appear
In haste to let him in!
AARON MIRK
AND
HIS DAUGHTER
The history of every nation is fraught
with romantic incidents. England has
the story of her Allred, Scotland of her
Wallace, her Bruce, her Mary, and her
Charles Stuart, Ireland her Fitzgearld,
France her Maa with the Iron Mask and
Maria Antoinette, Poland her Thadeus,
and Rusaia her Siberan Exiles. But we
very much doubt whether any exceeds in
interest the singularly touching story of
Aaron Burr and his highly accomplished,
his beautiful and devoted daughter The•
odosia. The rise and fall of Burr in the
aflections of his countrymen, are subjects
of deep historical interest. At one time
we see him carried on the wave of popu
lar favor to such giddy heights that the
Presidency itself seemed almost within
his grasp, which he only missed to be
come the second oflicer in the new Re
public. He became Vice President of
the United States. How rapid his rise
and then his fall, how sudden, how com
plete ! In consequence of his duel with
Hamilton, he became a fugitive from jus
tice—is indicted for murder by the Grand
Jury of New Jersey—flies to the South—
lives for a few months in obscurity, until
the meeting of Congress, when he comes
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLISHER. AND PROPRIETOR.
forth and again takes the Chair, as Presi
dent of the Senate. After his term ex-
Ores, he goes to the West, becomes the
leading spirit in a scheme of ambition to
invade Mexico; (very few will now be
lieve that he sought a dismemberment of
the Union)—is brought back a prisoner of
state to Richmond, charged with high
treason—is ttied and acquitted—is forced
to leave his native land and go to Europe.
In England he is suspected, and retires
to France, where he lives in reduced cir
cutnstances, at times not being able to pro
cure a meal of victuals. After an ab
sence of several years he finds means to
return home—he lands in Beaton with
out a cent in his pocket. an object of dis
trust to all. Burr had no tidings of his
daughter, since his departure from home;
he was anxious to hear from her. her hus
band, and lie-- an only child, in whom
his it hole soul Ihmed bound up. The
first news he heard was that his grandchild
died while he was an outcast in foreign
lands, which stroke of Providence he felt
keenly, for he dearly loved the boy. The
odusia, the daughter of Burr, was the wife
of Governor Allston, of South Carolina.
She was married young, and while her
father was near the zenith of his fame.
She was beautiful and accomplished, a la
day of the finest feelings, an elegant wri
ter, a devoted wife, a fond mother, and a
most dutiful and loving daughter, who
clung with redoubled affection to the for
tunes of her fitther as the clouds of adver
sity gathered around him; anti he was de
serted by the friends whom he formerly
cherished. The first duty Burr perfor
med after his arrival het e, was to acquaint
Mrs. Allston of his return. She imme
diately wrote back to him that she was
coming to see him, and would meet him
in a few weeks at New Yin k. This let
ter was couched in the most affection
ate terms, and is another evidence of the
purity and power of woman's love.
In the expectation of seeing his (laugh •
ter in a few days, Burr received much
pleasure. She had become his all on
earth, /fife, grandchild, friends and all
were gone; his daughter alone remained
to cheer and solace the evening of his life
and to welcome him back from his exile.
Days passed on—then weeks—and weeks
were lengthened into months, yet naught
was heard of Mrs. Xllston. Bun grew
impatient, and begun to think that she
too had left him, so apt is misfortune to
doubt the sincerity of friendship. At
length he received a letter from Mr..Alls
ton, inquiring if his wife had arrived safe,
and stating that she had sailed from
Charleston some weeks previous, in a yes
eel chartered by him on purpose to con •
vey her to New York. Nut receiving
any tidings of her arrival, he was anxious
to learn the cause of her silence.
1V hat had occurred to delay the vessel?
Why had it not arrived? These were
questions which Burr ,ould ask himself,
but no one could answer.
The sequel is soon told. The vessel
never arrived. h undoubtedly foundered
at sea, and all on board perished. No
tidings have ever been heard of the yes•
sel, the crew, or the daughter of Aaron
Burr—all were lost. This last sad be
reavement was only required to till Burr's
cup of sorrow. Ehe last link was bro.
ken' which bound him to life. The un
certainty of her fate but added to the
poignancy of his grief. Hope, the last
reluge of the afliteted, became extinct
when years had rolled on, and yet no ti•
dings of the loved and lost one were glean
ed.
But r lived in New York until the year
1836, (we believe) when he died. The
last years of his life were passed in com
parative obscurity. Some few old friends
who never wholly deserted him, were his
companions; they closed his eyes in death
and followed his body to the grave, where
it will rest till the trump of the Almighty
shall call it to judgment.
Such is a brief sketch of the latter part
of the strange and eventful history of
Aaron Burr. None of the family now
live—it has become extinct.--and his name
but lives in the history of his county and
in the remembrance of those who knew
him.
A True Story.
It is a remark generally applicable to
the character of the "better half" of man,
that though she be given to censure, and
admonish her lord in those eloquent Phil •
lippics familiarly called curtain lectures,
or even enforce her precepts in the less
delicate mode of applying the broomstick
to his pate—yet, she will allow no mortal
but herself to abuse, or wield the chasten
ing rod over him with impunity—she is
as ready to take up the cudgels for his de..
fence as fur his correction. And the rule
has been noted to work both ways. It is
a singular and admirable trait in woman,
that she will unhesitatingly defend the
life, property, honor,—in short, "all and
singular the rights and credits" of her
husband, against all aggressions of third
persons—even though she be most scan
( deism!) , ill•treated and abused by him.
We have not ventured these specula- 1
tions without a "case in point" to back
us. A respectable old acquaintance of ,
ours says, when he was a young man, Nil
of the ardor and chivalry of youth, this
adventure betel him. While traveling in
a strange part of the country, he came up
on a cabin from which he heard the angry
voice of a man, mingled with the screams
of a woman, and at regular intervals a
hickory . stick singing
through the air as if
well laid on. He rode round to get sight
of the cause of all this clamor, when he
saw a burly looking fellow thrashing his
wife like fury, with a stick too formidable
to be within the meaning of the statute,
On perceiving our friend, the beligerants'
suspended operations—the "shower of
timber" ceased to fall, and there was a
great calm of a few moments' duration.
The young man, whose wrath had sad.
denly waxed hot against the cruel hus
band, cried out, "You brute! you rascal!
throw down that whip, and don't touch
the woman again, or I'll wear it over your
own ugly carcass! you savage you!" NV ho
should respond to this valiant defiance
but the injured lady herself! Turning
her hlowzed hair out of her face, and giv
ing ter fist a portentous shake, she squal
led out,—"He's as good as you are, you
gawky, good for nothing erecter you!"
"Night and Morning."
EXTRACTS FROM BULWER'S NEW NOVEL.
DEATH.—The funeral was over—the
dead shovelled away. What a strange
thia,g does it seem, that that very form
which we prized so charily, for which we
prayed the winds to be gentle, which we
lapped from the cold in our arms, from
whose footsteps we would have removed a
stone, should be suddenly thrust out of
sight—an abomination that the earth must
not look upon--a despicable loathsome
ness, to be concealed and to be forgotten!
And this same composition of bone and
muscle, that was yesterday so strong
which men respected, and women loved,
and children clung to— to-day so lamen
tably powerless, unable to defend or pro•
tect those who lay nearest to its heart—its
riches wrested from it, its wishes spat up
on, its influence expiring with its last sigh!
A breath from its lips making all that
mighty difference between what it was and
what it is!
TUE WORLD'S ESTIMATION Or A WOR
THY MAN —He never committed any ex
cess—never gambled or incurred debt--or
fallen into the warm errors most common
with his sex. He was a good husband—a
careful father—an agreeable neighbor--
rather charitable than otherwise to the
poor. He was honest and methodical in
his dealings, and had been known to be
have handsomely in di inrent relations of
life. Mr. Robert Beaufort, indeed, al
ways meant to do what was right--in the,
epes of the world! He had no other rule
of action but that which the world suppli
ed— his religion was decorum—his sense
of honor was regard to opinion. His
heart was a dial to which the world was a
slin: when the great eye of the public fell
on it, it answered every purpose that a
heart could answer; but when that eye
was invisible, the dial was mute--a piece
of brass, and nothing more.
HOPE.—At sixteen, what sorrow can
freeze the hope, or what prohetic fear
whisper "fool" to the ambition ? He
would bear back into ease and prosperity,
if not into affluence and station, the dear
ones left at home. From the eminence
of five shillings a week he looked over the
Promised Land.
SHOKING.—A pipe! It is a great sooth
er! a pleasant comforter! Blue devils
fly before its breath! It ripens the brain;
it opens the heart—and the man who
smokes, thinks like a sage, and acts like
a Samaritan!
SPIDERS versus LAWYERS.—There is
one class of spiders, industrious, hard
working octopedes, who, out of the sweat
of their brains, (I take it, by-the-by, that
a spider must have a fine craniological de
: velopement) make their own webs and
catch their own flies. There is another
class of spiders who have no stufF in them
wherewith to make webs, they, therefore,
wander about, looking out for food provi•
ded by the toll of their neighbors. When
ever they come to the web of a smaller
spider, whose larder seems well supplied,
they rush upon the domain—pursue him
to his hole--eat him up if they can—re
ject him if he is too tough for their maws
—•and quietly possess themselves of all
the legs and wings they find dangling in ,
his meshes: these spiders I call enemies
—the world calls them lawyers!
A MOTHER'S LOVE.--There is so divine a
holiness in the love of a mother, that, no
matter how the tie that binds her to the
child was formed, she becomes, as it were,
consecrated and sacred ; and the past is
forgotten, and the world and its harsh
verdicts swept away when that love alone
is visible; and the God who watches over
the little one, sheds his smile over the hu
man deputy, in whose tenderness there
breathes His own!
Prom the New York Express.
MAJOR DOWNING.
We commend the following letter es
pecially to our transatlantic brethren,--
simply remarking that in representativegov
ernments, like England and the United
States, the action of Government must
mainly depend on public sentiment.
A large portion o f the present genera.
tion of both countries know little perso
nally of the horrors and crimes of war,
and this fact may account, in part, for the
light and careless manner so grave a sub.
ject is treated by many.
We "approve of the major's temper in
discussing the matter, and hope with him
to live to see the great Anglo Saxon race
spread tar and wide, improving as they
extend, with good laws, good morals, and
a general disposition on human happiness.
WASHINGTON, March 8, 1841'
To John Bull Eaq.
Sin—l see, in reading the newspapers,
that you aro the man must folks out of of
fice write to, who have any business with
your Government in foreign matters. I
did think, at first, I would send this let,,
ter to the Queen herself; so there would
be:no mistake about it, as I find the best
way, atter all is to go right to the head of
the family—but it is now going on thir
teen years next grass since I wrote a let
ter to any kind of woman folks, and•the
last was to Miss Ilepsy Ann Appleby,
who kept a school at Saco, about a little
courting matter; and I riled her consider
ably by calling her an angle instead of an
angel, and she sent one back as sharp
and sour an answer as ever a man got—
there warn't a bit of that paper that
wouldn't turn a pan of milk as quick as a
piece of runnet—and all owing to that ac
cident in my putting an L before an E,
and she having a leetle crook in the back
which I never thought on—but women
are particular folks in such things, and
if you touch 'eni on a soft spot, the tat is
in the fire right off—and so I said I never
would again try my hand in writing any
on 'ein a letter again; and that is the main
reason why I don't send this letter to the
! Queen instead of you.
haye been considerable about this
country from East of sunrise to West of
sunset, and from the North where the
wild geese go in summer, to the South,
where they pass the winter, and I have
got a notion that I know pretty much how
folks feel and think here about most mat
ters, and there is no way in the world to
get this knowledge, unless by tumbling
about with folks, ar.d talking politics and
farming and lodging, and steam boating,
,and rail roading, and matters of that mi.
;tor, and no man can tell exactly how,
things are likely to work in this country,
unless he has wet his feet and watered
his licker from the Penobscot to the Mis
sissippi—and supposing you would like
to get the honest notions of such a man,
and seeing that there is some matters of
misunderstanding getting up betwixt the
two countries, 1 thought it best to send
you a letter ? . and that you might know it
is genuine, I let my printers print it, and
put my figure head at the top of on't—so
if one matt miscarrys the next may reach
you. _
In reading over the newspapers and the
proceedings of your Congress, I see that
there is a notion in England that folks in
this country want to take Camida, and to
prevent this, reports say you are
. going to
push more troops with red coats into Can
ada,
and are going to build war steamers
on the Lakes, and also to organize troops
with black faces in the West Indias, and
so forth. If these reports are true, you
are making about as great a mistake as if
you was to put on your shirt tail rend up
permost, unless you want to bring on a
difficulty, and if that is the case, then you
are doing exactly right.
The truth of the matter is, that excep-
ting a few unruly scamps, chiefly from
Canada, along the lines,there aint a corpo
rat's guard in all this country nat'rally die
posed to di,turb the power of Canada,
touch less taking possession; and the less
able Canada was to oppose a conquest by
the States the more secure she would be
from it, for our folks would go right in
and help thrash out any set of scamps who
should go in there to disturb the peace.
But if you don't believe in this state of
public feeling, and on the contrary go on
and crowd in fighting folks, and build war
steamers on the Lakes, our lolks must do
the same to keep an eye on you, and when
we come to calkilate the expense on't,
we may come to the notion that your folks
are expensive neighbors, and the best way
would be to get rid of such neighbors,
and then would come bad blood and fish.
ting and if that begins it won't eend till
one or the lather knocks undei-, and you
can guess which is the most likely to
do so as well as I can. War is bad enul
between foreigners, but it is shocking un
natural and ugly between folks speaking
plain English.
1 see also that some of your folks in
England think there is a natural animosi
ty growin4 ue betwixt the two nations of
[WnoLE No. 275
late. If this is so it is owing mainly to
j
yourselves, and it will keep growingjist
as fast as you take the measures you do
to protect, as you say, "her majesty's do.
minions." But this cniinosity, if any
there is, is not because Canada is English
—for, if the folks along that line had any
other mother toung than English, we
should have changed the boundry fine
long and long ago. Do you think that we
would be able to work along peaceably
with neighbors whose line fence divides
rivers and lakes with us—dipping in here
and cutting across there—if their mother
tongue made "oui" or "yo" spell yes?
See what quick work our folks made of
Texas! Ike are chips of the old Algo-
Saxon block, and think the safest boundry
line betwixt us and the nations that don't
speak plain English, is salt water. It
was just so when you owned this country
—there was no peace and quiet so long as
the "Oui" folks owned Canada Nova Sco
tia; and when at last you conqured them,
the only mistake you made was was in let
tin that lingo be spoken there in laws.—
This kept up a constant inward discon
tent and grumbling,until a few years ago
it broke out in a fresh spot, and your
soldiers was set on them and cut their
throats and burnt their houses, and this
was considered so strange and inhuman
by sonic of our folks near the lines, who ,
could not see the necessity in a country
of laws fur this unnat'ral severity, that
they bristled right up, by a sort of a nat'-
ral animal sympathy, jist as the pigs do
when they hear a squeel of one of their
kind caught by a gate or a dog--without
stopping to enquire whose pig he is, brie
ties up and shows fight. This is about
the amount and cause of present frontier
feeling, and it seems nat'ral to the Anglo
Saxon family, and dies a nat'ral death as
the cause is explained and examined into.
I don't care to say any thing in this let
ter about the N. E. boundry line, or the
burning of the Caroline, or the capture
and trial of McLeod, or the taking or,,ex•
amining our vessels on the Coast of Afri
ca, or the Oregon claims, and things of
that natur —and all that rs the business of
the Government, and they are all matters•
of law and treaty, and will go through
that mill, and will, and must, come out
strait, no matter whose toes are pinched.
Bat there is one thing I will say—that the
law will have its way here, from a justi
ce's Court to the Supreme tribunal, and
no man, or set of men can prevent it, and
no nation can awe it—and it all good old
English law to. if a treaty says a line
shall run thus or so—thus or so it will go
—just as a deed of a farm runs. If is
free countries, like England and America,
folks have a right to go where they please
they may go, and if they invade other
countries, and get caught, it is there look
out and they must suffer the consequences
—they can't claim the law of their coun
try to protect them, though they may
claim, if they can, its anima'. sympathy.
I Now, to show you now this works—
what has been done by this country to
shield the folks that got caught in Canada,
makin war there from this side? Noth
ing. 'You hang some, and others you
sent to Bottany Bay, by the law,—and
that was right, presuming they had a fair
trial—and see shall do the same on all oc
casions, and that will keep things strait--
by the law,--and be assured of one thing,
that we shall never hang a man here, on.
less it is clearly shown by the law he rich
ly deserves it,--for a man has to make
considerable interest here to get hanged;
and the natur of our folks preferring to
shut him up if he is a bad man, and keep
him from doing harm 'till lie is fit to let
out, and get an honest living.
But to return to general matters—if
you will take lay advice--and it is honest
though it may not be understood— if you
desire to keep pace between two impoe..
tant branches of the great Anglo-Saxon
faintly, and thereby escape the scandal of
a great family quarrel. (the worst of all
quarrels) don't give cause ,of jealousy be
tween your passions on this Continent and
ours; and bear in mind what you call pro•
lerting against attack, may be considered
her as intention to attack, and that may
bring gun for gun, and then guns want
scaling occasionally, and a salute may be
mistaken-4th of July, and 22d Februa
ry, and Bth of January may not agree
with some of your great days, and slight
mistakes may lead to great events; and
our folks don't wish to pay for the ex
pense of watching neighbors. You would
see this at once, if a line of boundary
divide your river Thames, or cut across
one of your counties, and red coats on
one side and blue coats on Vother.
It may be thLt you think that force,and
the fear of being licked may keep us qui-
et. This would be a fatal mistake, for
it would be the very thing, of all others.
that would stir up strife.
I don't pretend to account for it: but
such is the natur of the breed: a willing
ness to fight i only to show that they are
net afraid ofbeing licked; and there is no
other people since the days of Adam who
have shown this like the people who speak
English nat'rally. They never was known