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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