lover, "I am well acquainted with Colo nel Sanford, the Town clerk, and he will do me a favor at a pinch. Come Harriet. cease these trifling objections, they are u.iworthy of you. My father already loves you as a daughter, and he has his' heart on having somebody married to mor row. He knows nothing m our engage ment; but l know that if our wedding can be arranged to take place to-morrow, he will be excessively pleased, and your pa rents, you are aware will not throw any obstacles in the way. All this parade and ceremony about being married, in an absurdity. When the parties have chos en wisely, and are truly attached to each other, the sooner they are united by Hy• men's chain the better." The persevering sailor carried his point. Harriet's remonstrances became weaki and weaker. Her love and her good na ture pleaded powerfully in his favour, and before this youthful couple parted on Christmas eve, James had wrung from her , a slow consent to become his bride in the church the following day. Great was the surprise and joy of Mr. Campbell on learning at the breakfast ta ble the following morning, that a wedding was to be celebrated in the family, and that Jnines and Harriet were in parties.' "James was always a smart lad," solilo quised the old gentleman, "but I should not have thought he could have brought it about ; he is worth a dozen Zenas Black. woods. Harriet, however, was always a sensible girl." All was bustle, pleasure, and confu • sion, among the families of the Campbells. and the Williamses on that day. Invita tions in abundance were sent round ; and such a sensation as was created among the inhabitants, when it was known that a marriage was to take place on Christmas day, between James Campbell and Har riet Williams, hail never been equalled since the "Great Earthquake," in 1775. By many amiable, unmarried ladies, the bride was soundly rated a forward minx sadly wanting in delicacy. The bride groom's taste was called in question by the young ladies,—and his impudence in thus, almost without an ..effort, winaing and wearing the fairest flower in the vil lage, was loudly censured by the young men But James and Harriet, having made up their minds to be happy, little heeded what was said of their conduct by the idle, the censorious, or the envious. They were stArtnitEn And their parents and their uncles, their aunts and their cousins, declared, that a finer couple never plight., ed their conjugal faith before the holy al,' tar. Old Mr. Campbell blessed the hppy pair on CHRISTMAS EVENING, and told some of his best stories ; and neither par ty, to this day have ever had occasion to admit the truth of the old maxim, "Mar ry in haste and repent at leisure."— .Boston ilerc, Journal. Encounter with a boa Constrictor.—ln 1 the Surrey Zoological Girdens are sev eral serpents, among which is an enor, mous boa, measuring upwards of twenty feet in length, and weighing more than two cwt. It is usual for the keepers to bathe them occasionally, and by every, means to endeavor to tame them, and! from time to time it is no uncommon thing fur one of the men in the habit of so doing to go into their room, or cage, and clean it, whilst two large constric tors lie coiled up in a corner. Their) foud—live rabbits—is put into their rooms, by a sliding pannel, which one of the keepers named Blackburn was in the act of doing,iwlien the enormous boa sprung at him, and seized loin by the aria. Th, man leaped backwards, and drew the ser• pent partly out of the cage, which imme diately spun round him like a windlass, and made one coil. Had he effected a• nother, Blackburn would have been inev itably killed, and partly swollowed be fore it was discovered, he being at the time alone, and without any one imme diately near him; but by pressing the throat of the powerful creature, and by more than usual strength, he was preser• ved. Having shut the slide, on reach• ing the other keepers, from the conflict in which he had been engaged, the pool fellow fainted; and on being taken home was found to be very much discolored' from the powerful pressure of his terrific antagonist. The same constrictor in full action, would squeeze a Buffalo into a shapeless mass, and swollow it most ea sily, The keeper, however, is now do ing well. Boman Fattened at Tunis, for Mar. riage.—A girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up in a small room; shackles of gold and silver are placed upon her an des and wrists, as a piece of dress. If she is to be married to a men who has dis charged, dispatched, or lust a former wife, the shackles which the former wife wore, are put on the now bride's limbs, and she is let till they are filled up to a proper thicknes.. The food used for this cus• tom, worthy of the barbarians, is called droguh, which is of an extraordinary tat ting !quality, also famous for rendering the milk of the nurse, rich and abundant. With this seed, and their national dish, cuscasco, the bride Is literally crammed; anu many actually die under the spoon. Shuners Burned Out—On Saturday three wooden houses at Petersdurg, Va. were burned down. l'wo of them were occupied as lawyers' offices, and one as a barber's shop. A HERO, Jame, Maxwell the Pilot.--In the 71st number of 'Chambers' Edinburg Journal.' 'here is a narrative detailing an instance • of one of the most miraculous preservad flans of human life from destruction on board a ship, that has almost ever occur red: It is under the thitle of a "Hero in Humble life," and exhibits the self denial and bravery of one James Maxwell, under the ficticious name of Cochrane, a pilot, who in the year 1827, was the individual means of saving the lives, to the number of between 70 and 80, of the passengers and crew of the Clydesdale steam pack- et. This vessel was destroyed by fire on, her voyage between Glasgo and Belfast,' and the preservation of those on board of her, by the pilot, is thus abridged from the article in Chambers' Journal alluded to.; "en it being ascertained that the only way to save th ose on board was to ruu the vessel ashore, the pilot instantly took the helm, and fixed himself to the spot. The fire, which the exertions of all the men could not keep under, soon raged with un governable fury, and keeping the engine in violent action, the vessel, one of the fleetest that had ever been built, flew through the water with incredible speed. Jill the passengers were gathered to the bow, the rapid flight of the vessel keeping that pat t clear of the flames, while it car. vied the fire, flames and smoke backward to the quarter deck, where the pilot stood like a martyr at the stake. Every thingl possible was done by the toaster and crew to keep the place on which he stood del uged with water; but this became every moment more and more difficult and hope less; for in spite of all that could be done, the flames seized the cabin under hint, and his feet were literally roasted on the deck. Still he never flinched; for, had he done so, all might have perished. At intervals the motion of the wind threw a side the interven'ng mass of flame and smoke for a moment, and then might be heard exclamations of hope and gratitude, and the multitude on the bow got a glimpse of the brave man, standing calm and fixed on his dreadful watch. By this time the vessel was within a stone cast of the Gal loway coast, girded as it is with perpendi cular masses of rock, but every corner of which the pilot was acquainted with; and . . this enabled him to run her into an open space, and alongside a ledge of rocks upon which every person got safe on shore, all unscathed, except the self devoted man to whom they owed their lives." The foreg oing particulars have been all, ascertained to be true. Poor Maxwell, however, was so injured, and his consti tution so shattered by his exertions and sufferings on that pwful occasion, that he has never been the same man since. He is now completely bed-ridden—in fact in a dying state—and laboring under severe ruinatism of the breast and legs, from the effects of the fire. A Just Sentence.—The Baltimore Pat riot of last evening states, that Jefferson Griffith, Alexander Cumin, NVm Hanna, and Frederick Honig, lately convicted of the murder of John Bingham, were pla t:ed in the bar of the Baltimore City Court yesterday morning, and sentenced each to confinement in the Maryland State Penitentiary until the 30th of August, 18 89, making seventeen years and ten mo. wanting three days. His Honor, Judge Brice, in a few brief remarks informed them of the character o t the crime for which they had been con temned to suffer— that it was one of fla _,,riint enormity, and that they may be well satisfied their lives had not beer( 'made to pay the forfeit. Such, ttlerefore, wing, the character of the outrage, the court felt it incumbent upon them to oake the sentence to the full extent of its authority. It may 'te proper to remark that there 14 a taw of Maryland requiring that all convicts shall be sent( need so that their -ime shall expire between the first of A pril and the first of September, An obe dience to this statue is doubtless the on• ly reoson why the full term of eighteen Years was not given. The sentence awar' •led to these individuals, who have so long been a scourge to the community, cannot but meet the approbation of every good citizen. Preservation of Health.—lt has been marked, arid most truly, that the three ordinary secrets of Health are early ris ing, exercise and personal cleanliness. all have in their power to observe; but to many, early rising is inconvenient, and exercise impossible. in consegence of the nature of their worldly avocations. To those the use of Bratlreth's Vegetable Universal Pills would prove of great val ue in the preservation of that invaluable blessing—Health. The peculiar action of these Pills is most surprising their operation'being more or less powerful, according t 0 ..; the pure of the circulating fluid. On a per son in a fair state of helth, who is only positive or slightly bilious, they will be scarcely felt; on the contrary, if the com plaint be chronic, and the constitution be much deranged, the effect generally at first is most powerful, until the system he treed Irom some of its most vitigated and turgid humors. This accomplished, doses to cause two or three copious evacuations, daily, will soon remove the disease, and the constitution will be restored to a state of hcaith and renewed vigor. TEMPERANCE. At a meeting of the Franklin Temper ance Society of the borough of Hunting don, held on the 6th inst., the following resolutions were moved and adopted: Resolved, That the pledge of the Fran klin Temperance Society of the Borough of Huntingilrn, be, and the same is here by altered, so as to read as follows: "Tfe, whose names are hereto subscribed, do solemly pledge our selves, to abstain from the use of all intoxicating liquors, and bev erages, vinous, distilled, and fer-1 mented, except when prescribed by a regular physician, or for sac ramental purposes." Resolved, That the pledge. thus altered be transcribed by the Secretary, and sign ed by each member of the society preb ent. The Society then proceeded to the e lection of officers for the ensuing yea., which resulted in the choice of the fol lowing named persons: JAMES GWIN, President. F. B. WALLACE, V. Prcident Geo Gwin, m an .. Wm. B Zeigler • Jno Cressw;ll jr pr., It was then Resolved, that the procee• dings of this meeting be published in both the newspapers of this borough. Extract from the minutes. GEO. TAYLOR, Sec. Nov. 10th 1841. Thirteen hundred gallons of spirituous liquors were burnt on the commons at Barree, Me, a few days since. The li quors constituted the stock of a retailer who had agreed to relinquish the traffic on condition that the temperance people would buy him out.—P. S. Courier. Public Sale. ifiN Friday, the 19th instant, there Mr will be so:d by publtc vendue or outcry at the dwelling house, late of John Hileman, dec'd., in Morris township, the following property, to wit; HORSES & COLTS, OMR • COll S, CALIAE 8, A' 00((0,, ) ,,v+ Tat Cattle, HOGS, & Diu El m, t , Wagon, Wagon Bed, and Hay Ladders, COMMON, A, AND Shovel N' Ploughs AND H ARROWS, Pleasure _ e Ca ion : T rit y4l , r . lll ,4 Liar 7 riage, and the ging thereto, HORSE GEERS OF ALL KINDS, GRAIN IN THE BARN, & GRAIN IN THE GROUND, ONE WINDMILL, HOUSEHOLD & KITCH EN FURNITURE, AND A VARIETY of articles to tedious to enumerate. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock it, the morning of said day. Due attendance will be gi. ven, and a reasonable credit allowed, by WILLIAM II !LEMAN, JOHN AURANDT, Ex'rs. November 10,1841. ORPHANS' COURT SALE. BY virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Huntingdon county, will be sold at public sale, on Friday, the 3d day of December, 1841, in the town of Warrtnrmark, in said county, at the dwelling house lately occupied by Wil liam Shipley, deceased, in said town, the following real estate of said deceased, to wit: A lot of ground situate in the said town, fronting 66 feet on the Main street, and extending in depth 165 feet along a cross street to an alley, adjoining a lot of Jacob Vantries, Esq. on the west, having thereon a two story frame tavern house, weather boarded and painted white, be ing 40 feet in front by 80 feet in depth with two wells of good water. Also an out let adjoining the said property, bourn ded by the said alley, lots of ‘Vm. Smith, and others, containing about three acres on which is the stabling belonging to tin said tavern. Terms of Sale.—One half of the pur chase money to be paid on confirmation of the sale, and the residue in one year thereafter with interest, to be secured by the bond and mortgage of the purchaser. Also, at the same time and place, the following personal properly, viz: End, Dining, and Breakfast Tables; ei dozen Chairs; 13 Beds anti Bedding; 1 side board; 140 yards of Carpeting; Looking Glasses, Cupboards, Stoves, Decanters, Bureaus, Book Cases and Books, 1 Clock, 1 Buggy, 1 Dearhorne. Saddles and Har ness, Cows, Hogs, and Sheep, and a vari ety of Household and Kitchen Furniture. Terms made known at time of sale. BENJAMIN F. PATTON,Eer. Nov.lo, 1841. ORP 8' COURT WILE. ••N pursuance of an order of the Or. piano' Court of Huntingdon county will be exposed to publtc sale on the pre mises. on Friday the 17th day ofDecem ber next, at one o'clock in the afternoon the following property, viz; All that val• uable plantation and TRACT OF LAND, situate on Big Trough Creek, in Tod township, in the said county of Hunting don, adjoining lands of John Kurfnian, Norris' Coal Bank Tract, Henry Elias, Jacob Chilcott, and others, containing 230 Acres, more or less; thereon erected a two story" log inntitna 1140Utit, a log barn, with double pen, about 130 ucres cleared, ten acres or thereabouts of which is natural meadow. Also thereon two excellent springs of running water, and a fine aPPLE ORCILIRD —late the estate of Win. Love all. Attendance will be given, and terms of sale made known on the day of sale, or before, by the undersigned, who resides within three miles thereof, and who will show the land to persons desirous of pur chasing, on the tenth day of December next. CALEB GREENLAND. Eer. of Wm. Loveall, dec'd. Nov. tO, 1841. N. B. It the above land be not dispo sed of at public sale, at the time above mentioned, it will be offered for rent for one or more years. C. G. 0:)" The ..Chambersburg Whig" will publish the above 4 times, and send 4 pa pers and bill to this office. 6 CENTS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber living in Barrec township Huntingdon Co. Liberty Johnston, an indented apprentice to the Carpenter business. This therefore is to caution all persons from harboring on trusting said boy on my account, as I am determined to prosecute all such persons. The above reward and no charges will be paid to any person who shall deliver the said appren• tice at the residence of JSOHUA VANCE. HUGH ALEXANDER. Barree tp. Nov. 10, 1841.—St. ORPHANS' COURT SALE WILL be sold by order of the Or. phans' Court of Huntingdon and Bedford counties, on the premises, in Dub- lin township, on Wednesday the 15th day of December, A. D. 1841, a certain tract of land situated on either side of the county line between Huntingdon and Bed ford counties , , containing about 500 Acres, more or less, about 90 acres cleared, and 4 under fence; and about 12 acres of which is meadow, and about 40 acres can be I made excellent meadow. Thereon erec- • ted two log houses, two stories ii a ii high, a double log barn, all shing,• s led ; and also two apple orchards. There is also a good water power on the Augh • wick creek, which runs through the tract; and the woodland is heavily timbered with white pine. There is a never tailing sprinc , and spring house near the dwelling . The whole land is tillable except 8 or 10 acres. All the buildings are situated in Bedford county, within a half mile of the State read leading from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, and within 15 miles of the turnpike leading from Phila delphia to Pittsburg. The terms of sale will be made known on the day of sale. Any persons wishing to purchase, can see the land or ascertain the terms at any time previous to sale, by calling on either of the undersigned, HENRY MATHIAS, Ex'rs. of Philip JOAN MATHIAS, S Muthias, deed. Nov. 10, 1841. Executors' N otice. OaETTERS testamentary on the estate of Jos. Roller late of Morris township, Huntingdon county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned. All persons having claims or demands against the estate ‘.I said deceased, will please make them known without delay ; and all persons in debted to said estate are requested to call and make settkment immediately. JOS ROLL ER Executors. J. K. NEFF. Nov 10, 1841. 6t. Stray Cattle. Came to the residence of the subscriber, living in Warriorsmark township Hunting don county, on Friday the 29th ult., a red and white spotted COW with a slit in the left ear; one black and white spotted STEER with a slit in the lett ear and the right ear cropt, one red and white HEIFER with a white hack and belly, the left ear slit and the right ear cropt. The cow is supposed to be 8 or 9 years old, and the Steer and Heif er two years old last spring. The owner is requested to come forward prove property pay charges and take them away or they will be disposed of according to law. MORRIS HICKS. Nov. 3, 1841. , 'THE JOURNAL. One country, one constitution one destiny flunlingdon, Nov. 10. 1841. With divine permission the Rev. Wm. VI. Jones will preach in the court house, in this town, on next Sabbaili evening (14th ,nst) by early candle light. Judge Woodward We learn, with no little regret, that i t is the intention of the Hon. Judge Wood ,ward, to resign his seat on the Bench in this district. Few men have won such universal es• ' teem in so short a time as has Judge Woodward. He came, we may say, a stranger, but a few months since, among, us, and at once was loved and honored for his amiability and unyielding integri ry. He will go, if go he must, with the best and kindest wishes for his future welfare, of every citizen of our district, and for ourself we say that we feel confi dent Ins place will not be easily supplied. The Huntingdon Members. It is not a little laughable to see how determined the Loco Foco papers are to , rank Messrs. Moore and Weston amoritz their partisans. Those Gentlemen have ever held in utter abhorrence the dogmas ) of these "latter clay" democrats; and what is more, these very gentlemen knew it when they voted for them, and of course they will stick to their friends. In order to set these worthy fellows I right on this subject, we will simply say Ithat it is a little strange that the mere vo. ting for a man makes it his duty to sus tain year wild notions, when you knew before you voted for him that he scouted at the ruinous notions of the voter and his party. Such is precisely the case here, The Loco Focos knew that Messrs Moore and Weston held their notions in the most pro found contempt. They knew that they held their measures and their men, as tending to prostrate our institutions, alike, that one was the cause and the other the /fed of corruption. All this they knew. But in order to make a split among their foes they assume to be the friends of part, and then claim the right to direct those elected in their course, declaring that they would call it ingratitude if these members did not stick to those who voted for them. This is entirely a new notion in the po litical world; and we feel assured that the Locos will find that'they , reckoned with. out their host." Neither Moore nor IVes ton will ever subscribe to the doctrines of the Loco Focus. But we trust that they will in all cases.sustain that cause which would seem to he the "greatest good to the greatest number." Lie have long known both gentlemen. They have long been our personal and political friends ; and we think we know them well enough to say they will not be found adhering to party, when the country demands anoth• er course. Consequently they will not be found with the Locos. ''Duly of the Legislature: , Our cotemporaries of the "Standard' have devoted a column, to the important duties of Legislatures, and Legislators, and introduce in another column from the "New York Evening Post" on the same subject. The Fost frankly admits that •'in a vast many instances Democratic (Loco oco) Legislatures have failed to carry out the principles upon which they were elected." This certainly is some thing of an admission, but the writer for gets to tell the whole truth ; and that is, that he and his cotemporaries invariably have cried amen to all "the vast many in- stances." We should like to have either the writer of the article from the the Post, or even lie of the "Standard" mention only one dozen cases of the "vast many" why u either of them did not at the time openly and unequivocally declare their conduct to be exactly right. They now admit the wrong done, but at the time, it was being done, they pronounced it real democratic, doctrine. The. Post says "they stand committed to carry out those principles which have, EVER been the creed of the Democracy", —Now in Pennsylvania we should like to know what has "ever been" their creed, Twelve years ago they were the moat strenuous advocates of the U. S. Bank, Eigh: or ten years ago, they called it a monster, and destructive of every thing honest, or good ; and they with a kind of a love at first sight, became wonderfully enamonred of the State Banks, particular ly the generals "Pets." But a year or two passed when they raised—for elec tioneering purposes, their hue and cry against all banks, and they went for the hard money or Tom Benton's Humbug-- In a short time they found that was a lit tle dangerous, and they said they were al ways in favor of a mixed currency—pa per founded on a specie basis. There should be no more suspensions—ln a few months they had a suspension; and Penn sylvanlas Democratic (bah !) Governor, and Legislatures immediately passed laws to legalize the suspension for one year. Then the glor i ous time would come when Banks would sin no more. The year ex pired ; and after a feeble struggle of a few days their doors were slut; and we have yet to hear of the first action being brought against a Bank for violation of the laws by the Governor—his prosecutors or any of the brawlers. At another time they were going to make all Bank stockholders liable in their individual capacity, for all notes issued. For one election this was one of their most prominent principles. The infection took. The people believed them; and they had la large majority in the legislature. But no Bank stockholders are yet made liable for their notes, and that principle has ,gone like the rant many to the tomb, and will be heard of no more. We had for gotten to say that the Legislature did pass one such Bank Bill, and their Democeatie Porter vetoed it, The Post says again. "The Democra cy are pledged to a THOROUGH RE FORM of that penurious Banking says tem which has robbed the people of un told millions." This is the latest change which has been rung upon the Bank hum bag. Now they propose no plan. Re commend no course whereby these "rob hers of untold millions" are to be "Thor oughly reformed." Formerly they got up a humbug in some tangible shape—at any rate they made some prelentions to ward letting the people know what they intended. These however like the shoe black's business—"busted up," and they have now got out a principle without eith er name or character. Now Mr. Standard, you endorse the ar ticle of the Post; and recommend it to your readers, of course you understand what kind of Reform they are pledged to make, for you certainly would not recom mend that as a guide to others, that you did not understand yourself. Now we say, tell us what kind of tfeform this "!borough Reform" is to he and how it i. to be effected. • We could write on for hours, and show what has ever been the practice, of this humbugging party. We could show that the subject of Banks is not the only one where they have been shifting their princi ples almost yearly, and we can in conclu sion only say that it their Legislatures are pledged to carry out only such measures as have ever ben the creed of their party l'hey will have hut little to do, unless they say that ever means only from on election till another. Just as He Expected. The news from New York is of the most cheering character—to the Loco Focos. 'They have swept over the State like a •vhirlwind," says one of their papers. No doubt of it: and when the storm subsides the same distruction and desolation wilt be scattered around; at any rate, they have "licked tee up" like salt. Thus Capt. Tyler can see how beauti ful lie has unit-ed his friends. In fact, we might say we are hardly a unit, we are lust barely a cypher in the public calcula• lion of this fall. Graham's Magazine. We neglected last week to notice the receipt of this beautiful and interesting pe riodical. "Better late than never." This valuable magazine, came to hand last week filled as usual with a variety of interesting articles, from the pens of our most distinguished writers. It was em bellished with a remarkably fine mezzo tint, engraving---" The Pet Lasnr—an embossed and partially collttred "view of Boston," and Bunkers hill; and a plate of the fashions.. The publisher has gone to enormous et pense to render his magazine equal to any in cor country, and the terms are very moderate. We should like to see it in the hands of every family in eac county. 4
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