VOL VI, No. 32.] TEM/I 13 OF TON: H UNTINGDON JOURN AL The JoURNAI." will be published every Wednesday morning, at two dollars a year, If paid [N ADV ANCE, and if not paid with in six months, two dollars and a half. Evzry person who obtains five subscribers, and forwards price of subscription, shall be iirnished with a sixth copy gratuitously for atm year. No subscription received for a less period than six months, nor any paper discontmued until all arrearages are paid. .37' \II communications moat be addressed to the F. liter, POST PAID, or they will not be attended to. Adve.t tisements not exceeding one square, will he inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subs7quent insertion, twenty , five cents per square will be civarged. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to he continued, it will be kept in till ordered out., and charged accor , Jingly. AGENTS, The 114,ilitazdnis Journal Teague, Orbisonia; David Blair, Esq. Shade Galt; li•aljamin Lease, Shirley', butw; Elie' Smith. Esq. Chi/cottstown; Jas. Entriken, jr. Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. .9i:ring:flea; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; Junes Morrow, Union Furnace; John Sigler, Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. West townshilt ; D. H. Moore, Esq Frankstortm; E I. G ilhreath, Esq. Holli daysbur4; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron Barns, Wlliamsbur; A. J. Stewart, Water Street; Win. Reed. Ma Hs township.; Sol nu in Hamer. Aer's /11111; James lysart, Mauch S/truce Creek; Wm. Murray, B.A. Graysville; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas. E. S••wart. Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler Mill Creek. or; *4.-:.9-"ftg.4psy, PO ET ItY From the B ,ston Daily Mail. TH E BLUSH AND THE SMILE. How sweet the tint of ruby fire, That lights the cheek of youth, The signal gem of fond desire, The kev note of the bosom's lyre, The herald of its truth, • The whisp'ring of the gentle tale, The soft, romantic dream, Each raise the blush, the friendly veil, Unconscious, seeks within its pale, To hide, as if from harm. But brighter far, and sweeter still, The welcome and the smile, Like morning, o'er some sunny hill; Or music of the "tinkli ,g rill," Life'S pilgrimage to beguile. The blush is like the rosy flower, Me smile, the lily white: Each charms us in its quiet bowsr, Each fragrant, fur the- passing hour, But both must close at night. As bloom the rose and lily fair And florish in the day, So blooms the heart, until despair, The child of sin, has entered there, And happy smiles decay. As shut the rose and lily fair, And hide without the light, So hide the heart from ev'ry air, But virtue's breezy garden, where The blush will find no night, From the Lady's Book. WE SHALL MEET NO MORE! Smile not, 'tis our parting hour, When tears alone should flaw; slope has lost her fairy power, And what is left is wo: But oh! when I ..m wondering Upon some distant slvirei Forget each love thought lingering, For we shall meet no more, Thy name as in some sacred shrine, 'Within my breast shall dwell; With life alone I can t esign My love to thee—farewell ! I left her and the briny waves For years I travelled o'er: I came to sorrow o'er her grave: Fur oh! we meet no more. LOVE. There sat a spider on his web. In the corner of the ceiling; Into his jaws, on wings of gauze, A silly fly came wheeling ! So Love, 'the varmint,' spins a net, As fine, and soft, and airy: A human fly comes flitting by, And feeds the spider-fairy ! 911. HE un r 4 ••,!' Ale From the Saturday Courier•, THE RESURRECTIONISTS Or, the Doctor Deceived. It is wicked to disturb the hallowed re 1113iIIS of the dead. After being persecu ted on this earth by all the toils to which poor erring mortals are ever subject; liar rassed by rare, poverty and disease, a man should at least be guttered, when his soul leaves its earthly tenement, quietly to repose in the narrow and silent grave. Yet, ere the Wain green above• him, ere the worms have commenced' to luxuriate on his decaying hotly, some young son of Esculapius must needs hoist him once more into the world, and with a laudable enterprise strip him of his flesh, and re duce him to a grinning skeleton,-and thus expose him in some corner of his studio, to advance his science, and frighten children. Like the hyena they prowl at midnight about the grave yard, eagerly seeking for their prey—but they are not always suc cessful. An instance in which their at tempts were completely foiled, may not be out of place. A small company of soldiers were quar tered in the fall .1 . 11 . 69, near the village of H., so beautifully situated on the ro• mantic banks of the Juniata. They were a merry and bolstering, yet a warlike band, and among them all none more so than their master spirit, Joe Hallriter. He was their oracle—and no trick could be played, or hazardous enterprise ac complished, unless Joe occupied a promi nent part. One evening, whilst he. with several others were sitting around a blaz ing fire, their attention was attracted by a sudden stillness in the adjoining room, an unusual occurrence, as the majority of the soldiers were there, whose spirits were never calmed to rest at such an early hour. They listened, and were scan let into the secret. A little doctor from the ' village, in an under tone t f voice, was bargaining with the soldiers to procure for him the body of a man who had lately (lied, and was consigned to the grave yard situated on the summit of a hill above the • village. Upon the delivery of the body at•his office, he promised to reward them with a keg of brandy. It was an un pleasant and difficult undertaking to ran sack a grave yard at the dead hour of night, for the remains of a fellow mortal. Yet, stimulated by the thoughts of the Inanity, an article unfrequently seen or tasted in those days, they agreed with one accord to the proposal of the little doc tor, and determined to set out on that ex pedition that very evening. Joe listened attentively to the arrange ment, and no donbt a little piqued that he had not been first applied to, proposed that they should anticipate the other sot diers in their movements. To this pro posal they gladly assented, and by Isis di rection were qtvickly provided oith sheets shovels and pick axes, and sallied forth on theirexcursion. Following, in solemn silence their leader, Joe, they soon ap proached the burial groom), the favorite haut t of ghosts and hub-goblins. The moon shone mysteriously from among the gathering coulds—the leaves stirred by the night breeze, •rustled mournfully a • mong the branches—one of nature's many warnings to mankind that every thing must wither and die—that our frail bodies, like the faded leaf, will soon decay, and the soul takes its upward flight to spend an eternity in other worlds. After some difficulty, they discovered the grave of which they were in search, and immedi ately commenced their labours. The melancholy sound of the pick axes striking against the frozen earth, some what affected the mind ofJoe, who though used to the din of war, the shrieks of the wounded and dying, yet his conscience smote him at the thought of robbing the grave of its victim. Stopping them, there fore, lie directed the earth to be replaced, saying he would counterfeit the dead man insist fortunate idea Having ac quainted them with his plan, and the man ner to proceed, the grave was refilled ; then wrapping him up in the sheets, they placed him on the ground, patiently to a-, wait the coming of the party. After some time they were heard stealthfully ap proaching, and as they came in sight ap• peared no little astounded to see persons around the grave, at first supposing them beings of a supernatural order. Their fears, however, were soon allayed, by one of the soldiers who was standing by the grave, commencing to reproach them for their tardiness. Whe have alrea , ly," said he, ."with great difficulty, and to the no small an noyance of olir nasal organs, dug up the body. It is now wrapped carefully up, and ready to be carried to town, a task which you will of course perform, not as yet having rendered any assistance." The other party, seeing the newly dis turbed grave and the white form of the body lying near, had no suspicion of their be ing any deception, and immediately con sented to this f►ir proposal. They ap proached the prostrate figure. The moon, perhaps ashamed to view such a wicked action, was about enucealing herself on,- "ONE COUNTRY, 011 E CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." A. W. morrnicir Torinorsium AND PROPWITITO'R. HUNTINGDON,* PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1841 der a dark cloud. —Every thing was still noisekss, and the soldiers almost repent• ed having come on such an expedition, whilst all appeared afraid to touch the body. At last one of their number, in fluenced doubtless by a sudden thought of brandy, walked up to the apparently dead body, and carefully lifting it up from the ground, placed it upon his shoulders. He then took the lead, whilst the others fol.' lowed solemnly in the rear, with their shovels and pick axes raised aloft, as if to guard themselves from any attacks of those spirits so frequently seen in their nightly preambulattons about old grave yards. Have you ever been in the silent rest ing place of the dead, at the laxly of mid night when a deathlike stillness pervades all nature ? Nl' hen your feelings are. so overpowered, that the withered leaf or the dry stick crackling beneath our het, cau• sea you to shudder and the cold sweat to' start upon your brow ? If you have, you can imagine their feelings as they noisless-' ly passed over the graves of those HUM , bend among the things "that were." They had reached the outside of the grave yard, all dilly impressed with it St . ll6e of the clime of removing a body from its mother earth, when the man who acted as carrier complained that the body was confounded heavy. "Perhaps if you let me down 1 call walk myself I" said the seemingly dead man in a hollow sepulchral voice. Never did an electric shuck produce such a speedy and puiverful effect I—Quick as lightening, the carrier flung the body to the earth, and flew down the hill as if a host of goblins were in Its rear. The others, dashing away their shovels, made as speedy a re treat, and vain would it have been for the spirits of the night to have pursued then!. Joe, unwilling to let the joke rest het e, and fearing least they should lose the brandy, walked along with his friends to the doctor's office. When they approach ed it,.7oe was once more shouldered, anal was thus carried to the doctor, alto after giving them a warm reception, mitered the body to be conveyed to a large dissect ing (Ale in the room. Having placed him closely wrapped up upon ttie tattle, and received the keg of brandy, they left Joe and the little doctor to themselves.l The latter important personage was well prepared for the occasion. A. large ket tle was bubbling on a bright hickory lire, huge knives, lancets. saws, and all other requisites of a physician were laying out in horrid array upon the table beside the body, and the little doctor evidently ap peared to have beet feasting his imagine , Lion for some time with the delicate plea sure of dissecting the dead hotly. After leaving the office, Joe's compan ions repaired with the brandy to their quarters, and endeavored to collect to gether the terror-strcken parts-, in which, after some time, they succeeded ; but they found them in a state more dead than alive, from the fright they haul re ceived. With plentiful potations of bran• dy, that all-powerful remedy, they were in a short time restored to their senses, and after an hour had elapsed, became up. • roarious. One of the soldiers pronouncA !a toast for the benefit of the suddenly restored dead man, when, mirable dicta! the dead man himself appeared ui propqa L I pentane, before them I The company were completely horrorstricken, and were unable to move from their seats, or make any retreat, as the figure stood in the ens trance of the room. At length foe, throwing aside his winding sheet, burst into a hearty laugh, in which, alter suffi dent time had elapsed to recover from their second alarm, he was joined by all the others. Joe then, at tile ur g ent re quest of his cwmpanions. related ille cir cumstances amidst peals of laughter. Ilis adventure with the doctor most excited their merriment. The little gentleman being fully prepared to commence his operations, took up his lamp, and ap proached to look at the body. Joe still laid prostrate and stiff upon the table, and the doctor stood at his side, making , sundry reflections. "1 wonder how old he was when he died." about twenty-eight years," quickly responded Joe, accompanying his words with a horrid grin. This was too great a shock for the little doctor to endure, and he immediately fainted away. Joe, rising, threw some water in his face, and leaving him to recover at his leisure, went to rejoin his companions in the room where they were carousing, as before mention ed. Joe Helfreiter received a great credit from his companions, for his successful trick ; and•though it was at their expense, yet they had obtained the brandy, which was all they desired, He was shortly al% ter promoted for his gallant bravery io his country's cause.• The little doctor, however, did not fare so well, being con tinually jeered by the soldiers, who de clared they would never be willing to I trust a living man in the hands of one who was not able to take care of a dead one L. An Affecting Incident The following anecdote is narrated by the • Washington correspond't of the Haiti-' more Sun, in connexion with his ac count of the 4emoval of the remains of lien. Ilwartisos from the Congressional cemetery to be transported to the West : The sight was truly atrecting. Whilst the remains of ihis patriot were amongst us, we felt some satisfaction, some ameli• oration of grief—but to part with them forever—to see them slowly moving oil to be taken far, far beyond the distant moun tains, touched a tender chord in t hu man soul, hitherto untouched. I felt a strange sensation at the thought, that this great man, or rather all of him that yet riemained on earth, was just leaving us forever. I wandered out into the open fields bordering the railway, to see as long - as I could see, the train that swiftly wheeled him away. • Approaching the row of the hill near to what was once the private residence of the imam tal ingtnn, I beheld a little in advance of me a solitary individual, gazing intensely on the flying pageant, as it wheeled along the winding. track far distant in the vale be low. He was above the ordinary height, dressed in black, with his hat pressed down upon his brow--- , his back towards me, as I Lalted within a few feet behind him—l felt that this solitary stranger's heart beat somewhat in uniftm with my own. And I stood still, as it by impulse not wisl,it,g to disturb his seeming quiet. • As the train of cars diminists in the increasing distance, and entered the gorge ul the biils almost out of view, the strans aer raised Ids hand towards heaven, and in a voice tremulous with agitation, he fervently exclaimed, "farewell thou hero and patio—thou poor 'nail's friend, fare well." ad Writing abruptly on his heel, he saw n,e, ;nut dropping his head with a part bow or salutation, passed With a quid: an 4 hurtled step by me. But I saw that the fountain of his soul was broken. The big tears were coursing down his manly cheeks and glistening in his deep dark eye. I wept also, as he walked a way, and loved him far his secret sorrow. It was General Murphy, of Ohio, the 'ear ly and ardent friend of Gen. Harrison, whose e:iiquence had shaken the Western country,-and had gained him the title: of the Patrick Henry of the West. A Dena Ktss.--A gentleman going down by a rail road a few days since,-hap pened to be in company and alone with a 'pretty yang v oman. After paying her a great deal of atttntion on the journey, anti being, as he thought, very well re ceived, he ventured, as they sere passing through a long tunnel in the dark, just before their arrive) to take a kiss. The young lady said nothing, but when the car stopped, be.:koned to a policeman, and gave the gentleman in charge for an as sault. He was brought before the Magis trate, and fined 45 for his cond act.— English paper. Going to Texas. Not long since might have been seen on the Vicksburg road, a staid lookipg old gentleman on horseback, with his coat buttoned tight around him and an umbrel• la hoisted over his head, protecting him from a drizzling rain that had that evert ing "set in," with every indication of a continuance. His horse moved sluggishly along as though jaded by a li•ng journey. The ruler seemed anxiously looking for a whereabouts to pass the night, when a tire a short dikance from the road attracted his attention: . He rode to the spot, and eheld what is very common in this see• non of the country, an encampment of a family "a•muving.'' By the In e• with logs of wood for lows, and each wrapped in a blanket, was lying two females,—near diem a small child. Leaning against the furewheel of the wagon, was a lad of about ten or ehn , en years of age. He wore q pair of dra fty wolsey trowsers, too short fur him—a roundauout that teached down half way from his shoulders to his waste—no hat, and possessing one of those tow-heads or hair so frequently to be met with among the piney• wood liondesc.ipts of Alabama; there he stow, crying lutist vociferously. Bei -a,-a,-a,— But a r a,—roared piney. wood. The old gentleman rode up to him, and in a tune of voice calculated to soothe the lad's distress, addressed him— "NN hat's the matter, my son," ''Matter! Fire and d--n, stranger! Don't you see mammy there shaking with the ager!—Daildy's gone a fishingl—Jdn's got every cent of money there is, playing poker at a nit antes!—nob Stokes is gone un a-head with Nance!—Sal's so corned she don't know that stick of wood from seven dollars and a half !—Every one of the horses is loose!—There is no meal in the wagon!—The skillet's broke!—The baby's in a 'bad fix,' and its a halt a utile to the creek!! and I don't care a d—'d . if I never see 'Texas!!!"—lia,•a,',a,-a,-a,- 13a,-a,-a fhe old gentleman gave spur to his horse and again moved forward, not hay• log any desire to prolong his chance visit to a fitodly going to Texas. HUNTLNGDtN, July sth. 1841. Rev. M. Crownover— Sir—The under signed were appointed a committee, by the Mechanics Huntingdon, at the Celebration of the tisth. Anniversary of American Intlepen .race. to request the speakers in that day to furnish copies of their addresses for publication. ,With an earnest hope that it meet your con sent, the committee Remain, Respectfully, Yo•ira, &c. M. BUOY, S. Ott:MILTS, J. SIMPSON. 11UNTINODON, July IGth. 1841 Gentle men-- • 'lle note from vou, re questing thy• speaker, to furnish copies of their addiLsses tl liiered on the 65th. .litniversary of A n rican Independence before the iVittehanics of Ifuntimplon .ett,bled to celebrate that 0,Q , , have been received, and if the few remarks made by me, Wilmot ally precious meditation, at• ford you any sAisfaction, they are en• tirely at your service. You s, With Respect M. CROWNOVER . Buo y. S. Grt t Otts, J. Si mp s it Foir.Nns:—.Y our speaker, to-day, has noticed vet- appropriately, the history of the past and also the present time, with a view of the future. As I have not pre• , pared a set speech, I will try to make a moral application of the whole. Tilere is evolcnce, sufficient, to prove to us that every revolving year sheds bles sings Upon our guilty world. and awakens new emotions of gratitude and pleasure in the heOrt of the Christian arid the Phi -1 lanthrophist. Every returning period which repeats the song of our country's freedom, swells a new chorus to the pr aise of our fathers. More and more, are we convinced, that the bloody struggles of gut- patriotic sires, which eventuated in giving liberty to millions of their favored posterity, was under the supervision of an Almighty Power, and directed for the ac complishment of wise and gracious pur poses, in regent to our Country, to the Church, and to the World; and while our bosoms glow oath feelings of the most ar dent patriotism, while as a people we glo ry in the freedom of our civil and reli gious institutions, let us remetnly , r, that American Liberty, though gPeat and im portant, in itself, is but a single link in a chain of events widen will reach to the end if time, and will involve the moral condition of unnumbered millions. In the first declaration of our independence we have been the admiration of the world. Nations have wandered and we hir-e wan• doted ourselves, that our fathers, so few in number, and so feeble, in comparison to the brave and gigantic power which op. .posed them, should so compleielv carry into effect their imble purposes of victo ry and freedom. What was it that gave success against such fearful odds? W hat was it that nerved a single arm against a thousand foes, and unfurled the banner or national independence over the very battle ground of European powers? It was the Lord of flosts,—lt was the arm of the mighty God of Israel streached oitt for the deience of this land, 81111 the accom plishment of those gracious purposes which have since been developed in the progress of civil and religious freedom. While, therefore, we venerate the mem ory of our patriotic fathers, who strug gled in the sanguinary conflict, and gaze upon the monuments which tell the [tapeless fate of those who fell upon the blood-stained soil of freedom. While we teach our children the wanders of for. rater days,—infuse into their minds the spirit of generous patriotism, and transmit to them the precious boon of liberty, let us cast our eyes beyond all this and lift our thoug is and b raw our hearts to that Almighty Power who achieved our victo ry, and maile•us what we are—to ack nowledge the hand of God in all this—to render him all the praise of our wander. ful deliverance is a sacred and indispen sable obligation to rejoice in any other way in the favors which distinguish us. To carouse in the abundance of our hles sings, and fortet the source Wont whence we derive theiii is an abuse of our liberty —a dark stain upon. the escutheon of our country's freedom. It is this more than any thing else, that would endanger our safety if the eagle of American liberty should ever take its flight from our shores. If God should ever curse this land and give it over to anarchy or despotism, the cause will be found in our nations ingarti tude. National favors demand national thank (WIToLt No. 292 offerings. It becomes us, in our associa ted capacity, to pay our vows to our Ilea, enly Benefactor, and render to Him our united praise; nor can we conceive it im proper, to celebrate in a public manner, the birth day of our country's freedom. The Jews were commanded to commem orate their wanderful deliverance from Egyptian bondage; and one of their most important and strikingly emblematic fes s tivals timivally reminded them of this r,ra corns event. Let the sentiment prevail. Let the feeling dwell in every heart, that we are under the government of God,— that to Him we are indented for all our civil and religious advantages; and that our safety and happiness are insepara• lily connected with national gratitude find virtue. Let this be the character of American freemen, and they will remain firemen still,— they will delight to as semble at 'the place appointed, to offer the grateful homage of their hearts. We deprecate sorely the practice of making this day a time of riot and the joy of fools. ft is the destruction of those very princi ples in which we professedly rejoice; and betrays our liberty into the hands of the severest tyranoy. . ft is to inculcate other principles and give to the mind a different bias. It is to guard our precious rights from such in sinuating and destructive evils, and pre serve the inheritance purchased by the blood of our fatliccs, that we properly make this day, or should make this day a religions testival, nod assemble in a so cial manner, to renew our solemn cove nant with our Baavenlv Father; and strengthen those bonds which unite us to gether as brethren. Be this, thentiday of sacred joy,—when but one feeling wall prevade the breasts of citizens—when the difference of political partisans shall be unknown, and the spirit of religious sec• tarism untelt. On this day, emphatically, we are brethren united to offer an undi vided sacrifice of praise, and pledge to promote one common cause.. L I repeat the sentiment, that the inde pendence of our country is but a solitary link in a long chain of important events. When we look at . the eventful period of our nations birth,—the political and mor al condition of the world at that time, and especially the state of the church, and tone of citristian benevolence, and com pare those things with subsequent events. both in America and the old world, we cannot fail to discover that our severance from the political power of our mother country, was riot too, fortuitous circum stance cast up in the ebullition of the re volutionary conflict; but an important in strument in the hands of the Almighty Ruler,--designed ultimately to change the entire mural and religious aspect of the whole world; that it has already efrec ted great and important changes, both in the political and religious world, is most .I.6ms to all who impartially study the history of Providence. It is nucleus, a• round which have gathered many new r.nd gemrous feelings of liberty, and many 1 1 new anti wonderful displays of God's gra cious regard to mankind. The morning of our country's freedom opened a new era in the history of God's moral government, and formed a new pe riod in the progress of those evangelical principles which are designed, ultimate.. ly, to enlighten all nations, and extend the Redeemers kingdom, from the rivers to the ends of the earth. We cannot now pause to notice the many instances, that might be selected Irons past history, to illustrate the truth, that human affairs are all made to sub serve the designs of Infinite Goodness. In this light, especially, should we view the remarkable circuntstaoces of our own eventful history—the political revolution of our country—the freedom of our civil and religious institutions,—our rapid pro gress in the arts and sciences, and the as tunishing success of the many benevolent operations which distinguish the present age, are events of no common interes', and should call up our attention as to what may be then• ultimate issue. That they argue something of vast impor tance may be safely supposed. God has nut put such mighty wheels in motion t) answer no purpose. Already, indeed, the plan is developing itself, and light is cast upon the future page of Providence, and lie that does not discover the approach of increasing important events, and be hold the rising splendor of a far brighter day than has ever yet dawned upon our world, must close his eyes against the blaze of evidence clear as the meridian , sun. - The note of liberty which was first sounded at Lexington has not yet died in silence, but is still swelling in its thril • ling accents through the gloomy cells of k vassalage, and awakening tyrants from their guilty slumber,— it will sound still louder and louder, and wake up nations which yet have hardly caught the distant echo, until all shall break their chains apd rush to liberty and happiness, and the , whole world rejoice in the siniteg e:• free— { dom. ..•