VI, No. 46.] TERM 13 OF THY. lUNTINGDON JOURNAL. •• JOURNAL" will be published every h,e.s-loy morning, at two dollars a year, hl IN ADVANCE, and if not paid with months, two dollars and a half. :::ry person who obtains five subscribers, wards price of subscription, shall be isited with o sixth copy gratuitously for year. 4 , subscription received for a less period it months, nor any paper discontit,ued it all arrearages are paid. co:nmunications must be addressed • :‘,3 glitor, POST PAID, or they will not attended to. Icertisem,nts not exceeding one square, rill be inserted three times for one dollar, for every subsequent insertion, twenty• ,re cents pet• square will be charged. If no iefinite orders are given as to the time an lvertisement is to be continued, it will be .:-pt in 011 ordered out, and charged accor dingly. AGENTS The Illifinfitmdon Journal. Dance] Teague, orbisonia; David Blair, Esq. Shade Gap; Benjamin Lease. Shirleys burg; Eliel Smith. Esq. Chaeottstc.voz; Jas. Entriken. jr. Ce/Tee Run; Hugh Madden, Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; James Morrow. Union Furnace; John Sisler. Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. West township • D. H. Moore. Esq Frankstown; Eph. Galbreath. Esq. Holli daysburg; Henry Neff. Alexandria; Aaron Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water Street; Wm. Reed. Esq. Morris township; Solomon Hamer. Acr's Mill; James Dysart. Mouth Spruce Creek; Wm. Murray, Esq. Graysville; John Crum. Manor Hill; Jas. F. Stewart. Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler Mill Creek. NEW FOUNDRY THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends, and the citizens of Huntingdon county, that he has coin men ced a New Foundry at Alexandria, Hun tingdon county, where he has at all times Stoves of every Description, Cook Stoves, Ten Plate Wood Stoves, Coal Stoves, ItmEtor Stoves, made of Rus sian and American Iron. The aliow! Stoves are always on hand and will be furnished at the lowest rates. Old metal will be taken in exchange. _ He has also every variety of Tin ware which will he furnished at the same rates. ALS 0, Improved Self Sharpening Plouglio, for tw•o and three horsed, always ou hand. ISRAEL GRAFFIUS. Alexindrift, Oct. '2O. 1841. 3t. p EVANS' A MOM ILE AND APERIENT PILLS. D. EVANS does not pretend to say that nis medicine will cure all diseases that flesh and blood are heir to, but he does says that in all Debilitated and Impaired Constitutions —in Nervous diseases of all kinds, particular Iv of the DIGESTIVE ORG NA, and in Incipient Consumption, whether of the lungs or liver, they will cure. That dreadful dis ease, CONSUMPTION, might have been checked in its commencement, and disap pointed its prev all over the land, if the first symptoms of 'Nervous Debility* had been counteracted by the CAMOMILE FLOW ER chemically prepared ;together with many other diseases, where other remedies have 7roved tatal. _ _ • How many persnnsdo we daily find tortu red with that dreadful disease. SICK HEADACHE, If they would only make trial of this invaluable medicine , they would perceive that life is a pleasure and not a cource of misery and abhorrence. In conch* 'ion I would warn nervons persons against the abstraction of BLOOD, eith, by leech es, cupping, or the employment of thelancet. Dra*pc purgatives in delicate habits are al .lo Illy improper. Those are prac tices too often resorted tc in such cases, but they seldom fail to prove highly injurious. Certificat, actives ate daily received which ddsufficieuttestimony of the great efficacy a this invithutble medicine, in relieving at if cted mankind. The above medicine is for tlia at Jacob Miller's store, Huntingdon. STR ASS• %ME to the residence of the subscri ber, about nine weeks since, living on Raystown Branch below ITauri's one BLACK HEIFER wih white on her face and under her bel ly. She has a cut on the left leg above the hoof; and a beating above the right oar. The other is a RED CALF. The owner is requested to call prove property pay charges and take them away; or they will be disposod of according to THOMAS DEAN. Oat. 26th 1841 Executors , Notice. ETTRRS testamentary on the estate of slja Jos. Roller late of Morris township, Huntingdon county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned. All persons having claims or demands against the estate of said deceased, will please make them known without delay ; and all persons ins debted to said estate are requested to call and make settl-ment immediately. JOS ROLL ER J. K. NEFF. s xecutors. Nov 10, 1841. 6t. THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PgNNSITI.VANIA, WETESIP,SOI Y,NOVEMBER 17, 1841. POETRY. From the New Yorker• HE COMES NOT YET ! !! "yrs night--from Heaven's saphire loft The moon smiles on the lea, And zephyr's sighs are stealing soft Across the .arth and sea: The sister spirits of the even, In their blue home above, Have lit the twir,kling lamps of Heaven, To light the hour of love; And every Herb and tree and flower With twiiight's dew is wet: It is his own loved moonlight hour— But oh ! he comes not yet." "Each little wave hath murmured o'er Its moon-beam witnessed bliss, And stolen on to give the shore A holy vesper kiss ; Each flow'ret from the lip of night A drop of dew hath pressed, Then folded up its leaves in light And perfume-sweetened rest ; And every charm that sea and sky Have on our planets set, Proclaims that loves own hour is nigh— But oh ! he comes not yet," THE NIGHT JUMPERS ; OR, HE YANKEE TOM AND JERRY BY WILLIAM DUNLAP. In what was, at the time of which we write a village, although now a city, a few years ago resided a worthy practitioner of physic, who was ready at all times of the day or night to hasten to the call of the suifering, whether rich or poor; and like the generality of his liberal profession, was as ready to attend at the hovel of the beg gar as in the curtained chamber of the governor of the state. His skill and his charity brought him many customers; and few nights passed without a knock at his door from some inessenger,requesting aid for the sick. In the day, while at home, he was to be found at his office, the depos. itory of his books and his drugs, which was situated a few yards from his dwel ling house, and in a pleasant meadow that served to pasture two milch cows and the trusty nag, his companion by night or day on his professional visits to the neighbor ing villages. In that part of the country of which we speak, those who aided in performing the duties of the household, or the labors of the field, ti ere called the "help;" and dis dained to be known by any °Mei appelas tion. The help in a New England fitful ly composed of the sons and daeghters of the neighboring eomanry; they are lit erally helpers without servility. Cne of the help to Dr Thompson, was Toni Sea man; a lively boy, who pounded drugs (he had not arrived at the dignity of compouu dit:g) carried out medicines, took care of the horse, and occasionally cleaned out the shop or office. This latter duty is connected with our immediate story, and to be understood we must describe the premises. The shop was a wooden building facing the road, or street, with a door and two windows in front. The side opposite the Dr's house was without aperture of any kind; but on the other side of the shop one window o pened upon the meadow at so convenient a distance from the ground as to allow Tom occasionally to jump out and join a playmate on the pasture ground arid at will jump in again. Toni was directed on a Saturday after noon, to clean out the shop, while the doc for rode to a neighboring town. The weather was fine, arid Tom varied the uni fortuity of sweeping and dusting, by springing out at the window and p laying with some boys, who, by an accustomed signal, had noticed that the coast was clear. Thus passed the afternoon, jum ping out and in, as pleasure or policy die tated. The shop was cleaned; the doctor returned; and in due season the family re tired to rest. Juminng Torn slept in a garret ruom over the second story. About midnight a knocking came, (not ghost stories, at the window, but) at the door, which, as usual with the vigilant physician, was answered by hio.selifrom his chamber window. The night was pitch dark. "Who's il.erel" inquired the doctor, supposing it was a oil ti the sick. "J sir." "What do you want?" "To come in, sir." "Does any body want me?" "No, sir." "What do you want, then?" want to go to bed, sir." "Who are you?" "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." A. W. RI NEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. en. " ~ N % hat Ton-a" "Your Tom, sir." The doctor knowing that he had lock ed the door, asked with astonishme nt, "How did you get there?" ' "I jumped out of the shop— the garret 'window." Contused. and alarmed lest the boy had been hurt, the benevolent physician closed his window and hastened to the door, where Tom stood shivering with cold and fear, but otherwise experioncing no inju ry from jumping out of the garret win dow. On his way to bed, the bov explained. He dreamed that he was still in the shop, and his playmates in the meadow; to join them as before, he sprang out of the gar ret window. Fortunately for the dream-. er, a tree spread its branches between him and the ground, and through them Tom made his way safely down, only scratch- , ed enough to be conscious that a cold dark! night was not a sunny afternoon, and the hard•troden earth leading to the doctor's' kitchen in no wise like the meadow un der the shop window. The doctor laughed at the adventure and Tom went to bed again. In process of time, 'Foin Seaman trav elled west ; and his place was supplied by another help, called Jeremiah. Jerry was inducted by the doctor, after even ing prayer, to the sleeping-place of his predecessor, 'roin. It was warm, and the garret window stood open. "Now, boy" said the doctor, "don't you jump out of that window; for you see it is dark, and as it rains, you had better shut it." "No fear, sir," said the boy. Now, Jerry had walked five miles from his father's farm to the doctor's house, and had eat as hearty a supper as a Jerry at his age usually does, and he was asleep as soon as in bed. But at the awful hour of midnight the summons came—not to Jerry—but the doctor. "What a dreadful night to go oat, my dear; it pours drain:" said Mrs Thomp son: "Some poor creature wants me." The doctor openei the window with the usual "Who's there?" "It's I sir." "F hat do you want?" "To—to—to come in." "Who are you?" "Jerry." "Jerry! flow did you get there?" "Out of the garret window, sir." Jerry's supper had disturbed his slum bers, Ile dreamed of murders—started up—the window, impressed upon his mind by the doctor, appeared as the only open ing for escape--and out jumped Jerry. Through the friendly branches, he rolled on the wet earth; and drenched in the storm, found his way, he knew not how, to the street door. The kind doctor a gain put him to bed, but he did not seek his own until ho had nailed up the gar ret window. This story of Yankee Tom and Jerry is, :u all its material circumstances, strict ly true. The good doctor who was (tho' no jumper,) an actor In the drama, told me the tale as one connected with some of the wonderful phenomena of matter and mind. From the National Intelligencer. Extract of a Letter from an officer in Florida. "In my last hurried note to you, I men tioned having witnessed a scene here a few days before, which in my humble judgment, put the famed story of Damon and Pythycle quite in the shade. I will now give you some of the particulars A party of Indians was discovered by sonic of our troops, who succeeded in cap• turing three of their warriors; the rest of the party consisting of three men, and women and children, numbering in all a, bout twenty, fled. The captives were brought to this place, where they were interrogated by the Colonel, (Co. NVorth) during which tt was discovered that two of them had been concerned in killing and burying a mail rider some time in March last. They were told that for this cruel act of theirs they would be hung in 15 days, unless within that time the rest of their people should come in.—They were then placed in chains, and permitted to send out the third man of their party, with a talk to `aring in their people, while they were committed to the guard. The man thus sent out returned in five days, bring• ing with him a warrior by the name of Holate Fixico and some women and chil dren, among whom were the mother and sister of one of the prisoners, whose name is l'alof Hiajo. "I he scene which fol lowed may be dramatized thus : Scene—An open court in front of the Commanding officer's quarters—lndians are discovered under the trees, among them lio:ole Fixico, (Pythias,) on the grass, in the Indian posture— Tulof Had jo, (I)anon,) in ehatra, set a bench his .1,1(1 u . tiog, oga,a,l. toe frank of a tyre, looking towards the heavens, with a coon tenanre indicative of resignation—his mother and sister lying upon the grass at his feet, the mother weeping for the fate which awaits her son—the Colonel and other officers are discovered at a distance from the group of Indians Colonel to Hulate Fixeco.—Where are the rest of the people sent. Notate.— They have separated and can not be found. Your troops have scatter ed them, and they have taken different paths. CoOnel.—Know you not that, unless they are brought in, these men (pointing to the prisoners,) will be hung? (A pause, fhe Indians disconsolate but sp. parently resigned.) It I send you out for the people will you bring them in, in time to save their lives. Ilolate. —They have gone off, and I know not where to look for them. Like the frightened deer, they have fled at the presence of your troops. Colonel.—lndian can find Indian. If they are not here in ten days, these men will surely die. liolate.—The track of the Indian is cov ered ; ti:,s path is hidden; and cannot he found in ten suns. Colonel to Talof.—Have you a wife ! Talof.--My wife and child are with the people--I wish them here, that I may take leave of than. before I die. Coloxel.--Do you love your wife and child ? Talor,--The dog is fond of its kind ; and I love my own blood. _ . Coloncl.-- - Could you find the people that are out? Talof.—Tliey are scattered, and may not be found. Colonel.—Do you desire your freedom? Teof.-1 see the people going to and fro, and wish to be with them. I am tir ed of sty chains. Colonel: —lf I release you, will you bring in the people within the time fixed? Talof.—You will not trust me. Yet I would try. . . Celone' 1.-1 f Holate Fixico will consent to take your chains and be hung in your place it you should not return, you may go. (A long pause. Talof continues throughout the scene with his eyes fixed on the heavens—his mother and sister , now cast their imploring looks towards' Holate, who during the last few questions had struggled to maintain his composure, evincing, by the heaving of his breast and his gaspings, as though the rope was al ready about his neck, that he is ill at ease —all eyes are turned towards him--he recovered, and, with the utmost comps sure and firmness, replies—) Holate.-1 have no wife, or child, or 1 mother. It is more fit that he should live than I. I consent to take his chains, and abide his fate. Let him go. Colonel.—Be it so. But do not deceive yourselves. So sure as Talof , Milk) brings not in the people within ten days Holate dies the death of a dog. With the utmost solemnity the two In dians were then marched to the armory, where the chains were transferred, and in fifteen minutes after Talof was on his journey. Yesterday a messenger arrived bringing intelligence that Talof Iladjo was on his way in, with his people, and might be expected tomorrow or next day. There is more truth than poetry in the foregoing. And what makes it more re markable, when compared with the story of Damon and Pythias, is, that in the one case a strong and devoted friendship ex isted between the parties, while in the other there appears no such feeling, but the sacrifice offered by Holate, arose from a purely noble; disinterested motive; desire to save the life of one whom he considered of more consequence than himself. Pythias placed the utmost faith ill the promise of his friend to return at the appointed time. The Noble Ululate had no such assurance given him. On the contrary, he well knew it was barely probable that Talof would return with the people in time to save his life." THE GENTLEMAN True gentlemen are to be found in ev ery grade of society• The ploughman, with his broad sunbui nt hand, his home ly dress, and his open honest countenance, is oftener found tube possessed of real at tributes of a gentleman, than the enervated man-milliner, who is much more careful of his gloves than of his honor; whose shirt bosom must be as pure as a virgin's fame; and who, if one curl of his glossy wool were displaced, would be thrown imme diately into strong convulsions. The blood which flows in a rich and generous stream through the heart of a Russian serf, is as pure in the eyes of God as the life current which eddies round the princely fountain of the highest of England's noble men. It is a false, illiberal idea, that be cause a man cannot claim alliance with the proud and wealthy, his name should be stricken from the list of gentlemen. We are all created alike--our mother. 3,41i1:1 Li, Nall., . lnc ‘,11.: who is ushered into life upon a silk . .n couch, spurn him whose limbs were first laid on a truss of straw Which class, from time immemorial, has shed honor and glory on earth—the proud aristocrat or the peasant? Whose names are en. rolled in the dazzling pages of history-1 the gentleman of fashion or the gentleman of nature What voices are must heard, and to most effect, throughout the world ? Why, those of men born in poverty, but clothed by truth with the jewelled rube of honor. Does the mere fact of a man's being able to make a bow with a scrupu lous exactness constitute him a gentle man? Shall the children of one mother be divided, because one portion are gifted with gracefulness of action and coxcomb ry of demeanor, while the other will not stop to cringe at flattery's fawn, or waste the hours given them by Heaven to im prove, in the useless study of the puerile lorms of fashion ! Oh, how glad it makes one's heart to see the "painted lizards" trodden under foot by the gentleman of: nature ! to see them shrink away at the approach of honest men, fearing that they may be called upon to acknowledge their' own interiority ! ‘Vho is the gentleman ? he who can boast of nothing but a name, upon which dishonor has never thrown its leprous poison. He who can lie down upon his pillow at night knowing that he has done his neighbor no injury ; whose heart is aever locked to pity, and whose arm is always nerved to redress the injuries of the oppressor. Who smiles not at misfm, tune, and who mocks not the affliction of his tenon s. He who looks upon all men as equals, and who fears not to stand in the presence of a king. The man who is guided by moral honor, and not obliged to have laws made for his observance.—lle who has true democracy in his soul —who desires and gives to every man the enjoy ment of his own opinions, provided those opinions, do not infringe the decrees of justice to its most riged sense• Such a man and only such a one, should dare lay claim to the proud appellation of "gen tleman." Thank God !we are in a coutm• try where the field of honor and renown is open to all. Time lowest freeman in the land is in part the governor of its proud est officer. He who tills the earth walks erect in the proud dignity of naturill right, knowing that he cannot be oppressed while he respects himself.—There is no distinction of classes here—the black !smith and the senator—the shoemaker and the President all hail each other as ittgentlemen.''— Crocent City. Medical Aid 'Brig ahoy!" .'lialioo. - ' ^I hat brig is that?" '•Nancy, of Furtsmouth, New Hainp. shire." "If here arc you from?" "New Orleans." ~ 1. 1 ere are you bound?" "To Vera Cruz." "if hat do you mean by crush% our bow?" "Who be you?" "This is the United States sloop-of war 0-1--." "Oh lax parding„ Capting; I had no idee as how you was a man o' war." "Keep your es about you another time, or you may get fired into." "Ay, ay, sirs I guess I will. But Cap ting, do send a boat aboard, fur I need your assistance tarnation bad, now I tell you-7 The conversation was carried on by the commanders of two vessels, on a bright moon light May night, in the Gulf of Mex ico. Just as the master of the brig said that he was in want of assistance, and as• ked fur a boat, that vessel drop fed with in hailing distance. 'Mutiny, sir, nu doubt,' said the busy, fidgety little first lieutenant of the ()- to her gentlemanly commander. "Yes, sir, 1 suppose so," replied the captain. ill hat shall be done, sir?' "Board her yourself, sir and the boat's crew, and take six marines with you," The ship was hove to with the maintop. sail to the mast, which motion was follows ed by the brig. The excitment had now risen to a great degree on hoard the vessel of war, the first lieutenant was surrounded by volunteers. Wheresoever lie might wend his way, the young g , ntlemen were par ticularly zealous and courageous on this occasion; but he declined :he services of everybody, determined to have all the credit, honor and glory to himself. Ile shoved oft from the ship, with his alined boat's crew and half.a-dozen ma rines, and pulled for the brig. As he came along side of that vessel, the mate hailed and informed hint that the man ropes at the gangway were being shipped for him, in order that he might the better be able to go up the side of the vessel. "Never mind the man ropes," re/plied [WHOLE No. 306. the pdtrlut , c and valorous little officer, "jump on board, my men—come hurry up there you marines." Gallantly did he lead his force, and wee met on deck by the crew and officers of the brig. whose countenance expressed surprise, wonder and astonishment. "Why," said the captain, who evident ly thought his brig was about to be seized fur crossing a vessel of war's brow— " Why. what the tarnation did you bring these 'ere pirate looking chaps, with cut lashes about here for? And lord!: do look at the sogers." "You said that you were in need of as sistance from us, did you not?" "Yes, I did." "Well, what's the matter?" hy, Jonathan Doolittle, my second mate, (this is my first mate, sir hr. Ring bottom,) was took t'other day with the dysentery, tarnation bad, now I tell yon. and I only wanted for to know if you hadn't a doctor, or the likes ()idiot, aboard that could prescribe for poor Jonathan." "Why, we thought there was a muti ny on board, at least." "What? mutiny on board of a down east temperance craft? (f ell, now I'll be darned—whoever beam tell on such a thing? Why we'm all hail fellow well met, here from the captain to the cook." Flaying informed the master of the brig that he would send a physician on board, the first lieutenant, in a tone expressive of mortification and disappointment, or dered his men into the boat. He pulled to the ship. went on board, and made his report to the commander, who immediate ly sent the assistant surgeon to the brig, whence the officer returned, after having prescribed for Jonathan Doolittle. The two vessels, which had now drif ted within hailing distance again filled a.. way. The commander of the 0— took up a trumpet, and hailed as they parted company— " Brig ahoy!" cried he. "Sir!" replied the master of the ves sel. _ "Never say again that you need assis tance, when you are in want ot /Medical Aid." "Now sir, I guess I wont, now I tell you." The poor little patriotic, valorous and fidgety first lieutenant was laughed at for the adventure till the end of the cruise." NINE STATES A DAY.—Some gentle men on board the steamer Diamond, the other day, were conversing on the won derful powers of steam, the great facili ties it had given to travelling, &c. One gentleman remarked that a wan might leave New York in the morning, and ar rive the same night in Baltimore, thus be ing in five states in one day. 'Only five, is it ye say?" said an Irish man present, "and its meself who was in nine states on Monday lag." :i'he company were incredulous, and called on Paddy to explain how such a thing could be possible, which be did as fullows— " Well, ye 4;e, gentlemen, I was mar ried in New York last Monday morning at 6 o'clock, and went with my dear Bridget to Baltimore the same day, and sure before 1 got there, I was after getting as drunk as a baste, so ye persave I was in the state of New York, the state of Sobriety, the state of Single Blessedness, the state of New Jersey, the state of Con nubutl Felicity, (that's what we call mat• simony,) the state of Pennsylvania, the state of Delaware, the state of Intoxica tion, all in one day, and the whole of which was owing to :the wonderful power of steam." Marriage. Marriage is to a woman at once 'the happiest and the saddest events of her life; it is the promise of future bliss, rain ed on the death of all present enjoyment. She quits her home, her parents, her cotn. Ivinions, her occupations, her amusemeOs every thing on which she has hitherto de pended for comfort, for affection, for kind 'leis, for pleasure. The parents by whose advice she has been guided, the sister to whom she has dared impart every embryo thought and feeling, the brother who has played with her, by turns the counsellor and the counselled, and the younger chits dren, to whom she has hitherto been the mother and the playmate, all are to be forsaken at one fell stroke; every former tie is loosend, the spring of every hope and action is to he changed; and yet she flies with joy into the t:ntrodden path be. fore her; buoyed up by the confidence of requitted love, she bids sjonet and grate ful adieu to the life that is past, anti tarns with excited hopes and joyous anticipa tion of the happiness to come. rhea wo to the man who blights sues fair hope; who can treacherously lure PI ch a heart frem its peaceful enjoyment, ;tuid the watchful protection at home—who tan, coward like break the illusions that have won her, and destroy the confidence which love had in spired, We to hint who has too early
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