Vol,. VI. No. 52•] TER.UEI OF THE HUNTINGDON JOURNAL. 1 . .4" Jou itNAL" will be published ever) Xednesday tnorning, at two dollars a year, paid IN ADVANCE. and if not paid with trumths, two dollars and a half. Every person who obtains five subscribers, ADA forwards price of subscription, shall be n•nished with a sixth copy gratuitously for .ine year. )Ia subscription received for a less period months, nor any paper discontit ued until All arrearages are paid. \II communications most be addressed to tho IL liter, POST PAID, or they will not be attended to. lv,ttisements not exceeding one square, will inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion, twenty ve cents per square will be charged. If no lesnite orders are given as to the time an ,tiseinent is to he continued, it will he •ot in till ordered out, and charged accor• tingly. AGENTS 1'!&e ►/:cutittwdo►a Journal. DAniel Teague, Orbisonia; David Blair Ksq. Shade Gap; Benjamin Lease. .Shirleys , Eliel Smith, Esq. Chilcottetown; Jas. Entriken. jr. Ceffee Run; Hugh Madden , Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewe,, Bir mingham; James Morrow. Union Furnace; John Skier. Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. West township ; D. H. Moore. E , q Prankstown; Eph. G ilhreath. Esq. Holli ,/ny,thisre: Henry Neff. Alexandria; .Aaron Burns, FlNtiomsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water ' , Street; Win. Reed. Esq. Moris township; Sol anm Hiner. Arff's Min;James 9ys: , rt. bfouth .S/truce Creek; Wm. Murray, Esq. Graysville; John Crum. Manor Hill; Jas. V. •wart. Sinking Valley; L. C . Kessler Mill Creek. ISSIG - EES' NOTICE. I ?HGREAS William Politick, of Win Chester Fur..ac , Cromwell town ship, Hunting&n county, has as signed all his property, real, personal and mixed, to tht subscribers in trust for the benefit of his creditors. All persons known ing themselves indebted to the said William Pollock, are hereby notified and requited to come forward and make p •yment on be fore the 10th day of January next. Those neglecting this notice will find their accounts &c. left in the hands of an officer for collec tion. And all persons haying unsettled a.c counts with the said William Pollock, are desired to call with the subscribers imnie diately, fur the purpose of winking settle ment. The books of said Pollock will he left at Winchester Curnace for settlement; and the subscribers will he f , unl at that place on Thursday and Friday of each week until the time above mentioned. D VII) BURKE l', ? Assigness W. B. LEAS, AB'M. LONG. SWm. Pollock, Dec, 8, 1841. MECHANIC'S LI EN. HUNTINGDON COUNTY SS. •, The Commonwealth of P , nn-1 2 t sylnania to the Sheriff Huntingdon County Greet tog Whereas Samuel Duff and Joseph Hunter actin; and trading under the firm of Duff and Hunter, have filed a claim in our conty Court, of Common Pleas, for the county of Huntingdon against Samuel E. Barr (owner or repoi ted owner) for the sum of twen.y three dollars and forty nine cents, with in terest from the Ist May 1841' for work done to a certain frame stable, sixteen feet high, twenty eight feet long and eighteen feet wide erected, built and situate on tilt North-west end of a certain lot or piece of grouud, ad joing a lot of James Stewart on the South East and by Stone creek on the North west at McAlaveys Fort in Barree Township in the said county, on the road leading from Pine Grove to Green Wooed, also, a furth er claim of 63 dollars an] 9 cents, with in-, terest from the first of May 1841, for work done to a certain frame house and building for a dwelling house, two stories high, 20 feet wide by 15 feet front, situate at McAl avey's Fort aforesaid—the same building being attached to and adj.)i ng a certain twit story frame hoes occupied as a tavern at said McAlavey's Fort, on the South East end of the lot aforesaid: and whereas it is alleged that the aforesaid several sums of money still remairs due and unpaid to the said Duff and Hunter. Now we command you that you make known to the said Sam. E. Barr and to all such persons as may hold or occupy toe aforesaid several buildings, that they be and appear before the Judges of the said court at a court of common Pleas to he held at Huntingdon on the 2d Mond a y oflanuary next to show if any thing they know or have to say why the said sum of twenty three dollars and forty Moe cents should not be held of the said building to the use of the said Duff & Hunter according to the form and effect of the act of Assembly in such case made and provided, if to them it shall seem expedient, and have you then and there this writ, Witness the Hon. Geo Woodward Esq. President of said court at Huntingdon the seventh day of December. A. 1). 1841, JAMES STEEL. Proey. Dec. 15, 1841. dram:.? isT R.I TO WS amETTER* of Administration upon the estate of Henn 14, Weonnell Esq., formerly of Hunting on Huntingd o n county, d e ceased, have been granted to the subscCi her. All persons therefore indebted to th e estate are requested to make immediate pay- Menton n before the 10th of January next and all having claims to present them duly attested, to DAVID SNARE, adner. puntinplon, DEC.. I ,1841, THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1841. TEMPEILUNCE SONGS. Am-- Gaily the Troubadour. Brightly has Temperance Dawn'd on our land; Spreading her radiance On every hand, Kind were her beauteous rays, Chasing our tears, Temperance, Temperance, Give her thre cheers. Richly she brought us, too, Tidings of peace; Giving the heart of wo, Joyful release, MP.4112C of gladness she Brought to our ears, Temperance, Temperance, Give her three cheers'. Food with her visit comes, Cheering the soul; Bringing our needy homes Bread to the full, She wipes with mercy's hand, Want's briny tears; Temperance. Temperance, Give her three cheers. Raiment of goodly store, Where'er she goes, She nn the tatter'd poor, Freely bestows, Banlsh, ye needy ones. All your dark cares; Temperance, Temperance, Give her three cheers ! They whom the I Iramshop's will Turn*(l out of door, She, with her magic skill, Shelters once more. Home, with its joys again, For them appears; Temperance, Temperance, Give her three cheers ! Oft in her track there flies A message of grace; Bringing from upper skies Pardon and peace, This all her other joys Richly endears, Temperance, Temperance, Give her three cheers. What means all this great commotion, mo film. motion, The country through? Why 'tis the drunkards waking up To life anew and tempera ce too, To life anew and temperance ton, And to pure cold water they come, come, come, And leave their rum, And to clear cold water they come. in all the cities south and east, east, east, Cold water hosts you'll view, An army fifty thousand strong, Shouting anew for temperance too, Shouting anew for temperance too, And to pure cold water they come, come, come, And leave their rum, And to clear cold water they come. A little hand are here at work, work, work, United and trne, Against King Alcohol they fight For life anew and temperance too, For life anew and temperance too, And to pure cold water they come, come, come, And leave their rum, And to clear cold water they come. This noble band were once the dupes, dupes. dupes, Of this delusive foe; March'd boldly forward in his cause, Got awful blue and lik'd it too, Got awful blue and lik'd it too, But now to cold water they come, come, come, And leave their rum, But now to cold'water they come. Now, drunkard, just a friendly word, word, word, We wish to say to yoii: Comejoin with us , and one and all WVill stand by you & temperance too, Will stand by You & temperance too, And to pure cold water we'll come, come, come, And leave our rum, And to clear cold water we'll come. Come ladies, we implore your help, help, help. Our re orm tocarry through, If you will aid us heart and hand We'll strike for you & temperance too, We'll strike for you & temperance too, And to pare cold water we'll come, come, come, And leave our rum. And to clear cold water we'll come To all rum-sellers in our land, land, land, A lung farewell to you; Year poison plelse to take yourselves. We're not an blue to buy it of you, We're out so blue to buy it of you, For to pure cold water we've come, conic, Caine, And left yourrum. For to dear cold walcr we've crow. "lONS COUNTRY, OA E CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." A. W. HFINEDICT PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. From the Phiirdelphia Saturday Courier. The Merchant and his Daugh. ter. A TALE OF REAL LIFE. It was a cold, stormy evening in De cember—the snow fell in flakes, last and thick—the wind whistled mournfully through the streets, striking a chill to the heart of the pedestrian, as with difficulty, I he wended his way through the snow al ready fallen. Not a star was to be seen, and all seemed dark and gloomy, save where the feeble light from the street lamps fell on the immediately surround ing objects. The great thoroughfares of the metropolis, which some hours before had been thronged with people, were now almost wholly deserted. 1 had been call ed on to visit a patient, and was now re• turning home, when, wrapping my cloak more closely around me, 1 quickened my pace—anxious to escape, in part, at least, the fury of the storm. l proceeded along the great thoroughfare, and was on the point of turning the corner of another street, when my attention was arrested by the sobbing of a child. 1 stopped, and turning round, beheld a small boy, ap parently about eight years of age, with scarce rats enough to cover his almost frozen holly.--Ile was shivering with cold, and, to my enquiry of where he lived, could scarcely answer. "And what are you doing here, at this late hour i" "I was trying to beg of the gentlemen a few cents, to buy some fond tor my poor sick mother. sir, do please give me a few cents, do.' I was struck with the sorrowful tone of the child, which convinced me he was no imposter, and sheltering him from the storm as well as I could, with part of my cloak, I asked-- "Is your mother very sick 7" "Oh, yes, sir—she is very sick, and has nothing at all to eat, nor no money to buy any thing with." "Nu money Why how do you get the medicine the doctor orders 7" "Mother has no doctor, sir. My sis ter Mary says he would not come, be cause he was afraid mother would never be able to pay him." "No doctor, neither ! Come, my lad," said 1, stal sheltering him trom the storm with my cloak; "come, show me where your mother lives, and I will see that she has something to eat, and a doctor too." We started, and I followed him up one street, and down another, until we came to a small, narrow alley. lighted but with a single lamp. Picking our way, with great difficulty, through the mud and snow that had accumulated, we at last stopped before a dilapidated building, which had seemingly withstood the test of years, but which now tottered beneath the heavy gusts that ever and anon, swept whistling' through the dark and narrow street. My little guide opened the door, and we mi -1 tered, groping our way through the dark, until we came to an old broken pair of stairs, that creaked and shook beneath our steps as we ascended. Having reach l ed the landing, from which the door open ed into the worn where the buy informed me his mother lay, 1 stopped, whilst I sent hint lorward to acquaint his mother and sister of my presence. Lifting the latch softly, he entered, leaving the door open behind him. I stepped back a pace or two, and stood for a moment to con template tie interim• of the apartment: and oh ! what t sight was presented to , my view ! It was a sight that would have melted a heart of stone. Ott a bed in one corner of the "oom, with but a single blanket as a covering, lay, a sick woman; whilst near her on the only chair, and indeed with the exception of an old shackling bench—the only seat that was visible in the apartment—sat a girl about ten or eleven years of age, who had been reading from a book which she held in her hand. The remnant of an old carpet was on the floor; a few cook ing utensils hung against the wall; and a stool, an old broen tnirrur, and a kind of wooden chest or trunk, completed the furniture of the apartment. f had, in the course °fitly personal career, visited many scenes oldistress--many abodes ot mis ery and want; but then they were almost always coupled with filthiness and obvi ous neglect. Here it was di&rent— cleanlmess and order prevailing through out the room, indeed to a much greater extent than could have been expected in so old a fabric, where the snow and rain drifted in at every gust of wind, chilling the room at such an extent, that the few lying embers in the chimney could be scarcely felt. The boy stepped out, and requested me to enter. "This is the kind gentleman, tnother," said he, as we aproo 'died the bed. The woman whi,pered something which was drowned by a gust of wind that shook die house to its foundation, and drove the snow and sleet through the cracks and crevices that were visible on every side. It was evident, from the expression of her (countenance, that it was thanks she was whispering, for a gleam of blended mel- I ancholy and joy stole across her face, and a faint smile played about her mouth, which was as pretty a one as I had ever seen. Indeed, from her appearance, she 'had been, when in health, extremely beau tiful. Her eyes were black, and even in sickness retained a srilltaney that is 621. (loin seen; her hair was a dark auburn; and her lips thin, and with a natural curl, which, corresponding with a nose of tire clan shape, formed a model of beauty, ev en amid the poverty that surrounded. Her children, too, inherited their moth-' er•'s beauty, and, unlike the generality of poverty's childi en, were mannerly, even to politeness. I made known to her the fact that 1 was a physician, and requested her to let toe feel her pulse. It was low and feeble as might nave been expected, from her nut having had for a week past scarce lood e nough to sustain life. I was about to ui - ' der refreshments, but I suddenly recullec• ted myself. I bade them be of good cheer until morning, when the storm being somewhat abated, I would return, prepa- red to aid them. I descended the totter• lug stairs, by the aid of the lioy, and was soon again braving the fury of the storm, which still raged with unabated violence. NV rapping my cloak more closely around ine, and quickening my pace, 1 soon reach ed my home; and on retiring to rest I lis tened to the pattering of the snow and hail against the window, and the now whistling, now hollow sound of the wind, as it swept along, I shuddered to think of the poor woman and her children, with their scanty clothing and untenantable home. Next morning, I acquainted my wife with the circumstances of the case, and she immediately set about preparing some articles of apparel, and other necessaries, whilst I set out to visit my patients, and procure some medicine for the sick wo man, whose name I learned was Mrs. %% it liau~s. By the time I returned, she had them prepared, and ordering the carriage, we proceeded to find cur way to the street in which the porn• woman lived. Driving to the place where I had met the boy on the proceeding evening, we followed. as well as I could - remember, the route that he had lead me, turning up one street and down another, until we It last arrived at the house or fabric which I could only re member from its dilapidated looks. We were welcomed at the dour by the smiling face of the little fellow, who was beautiful even in his rags; and on enter ing the room, we passed the girl, who ex claimed, "Oh, sir, how glad I am you've come ! We were afraid you had forgotten us, too, like our" but a look from her moth. er prevented her from expres,ing herself, and she concluded—.had forsaken us too.' Struck with the beauty antlr:/;;Ort; girl, my wile had not observed the look that arrested her expression. I had, and I determined to fathom the painful secret for such it appeared to be to the woman, whose eyes filled with tears as the girl was about to disclose it. I concluded, ;however, to let it rest until some other. time, and accordingly leaving my wile there, and giving some directions as to the administering the medicine. I took my leave. In shout half an hour I scot the carriage, and my wife returned. She told the that she hail given the miulicine to Mrs Williams, and hail clo , hed the children. ;:she had, also, porcha , ed some things at it grocery, nn her way home, which she had ordered to be sent to them as soon as possible. “And 1 hope,” bile added, "that they are now more comfortable. On the following morning I again visi. ted them, and found them, as my wife had hoped, much more comfortable, and Mrs Williams somewhat better. On leav ing them, I beckoned the little girl to fol low me, and when we had got down stairs I asked her who she alluded to on the pre ceding day: A t — first'she seemed to hesitate, but up on my promising nut to let her mother know that she told me, she answered "It was our grandfather, sir." "Your grandfather'?" "Yes, sir it was our grandfather. And mother says he is very rich, and has a great many ships; but mother does not like us to mention it." "And why not, my girl? ff'hy does he not help your mother?" I asked. "0, sir;niother, says that it is becaus. she married poor father, who is dead now!' The truth at once flashed upon my mind, Mrs Williams had been deserted by her father for marrying the man she loved. I asked the girl her grandfather's name, and she mentioned one that made me start; it was the name of one of our most wealthy merchants. I was some what acquainted with him, and knew him to be open-hearted and generous. I had even known him to visit in person the a bodes of the poor and needy, and I deter mined it should not be long ere he should be made acquainted with the wants of one whose near relationship , claimed his care, let her fault be what it might. knew from what the little girl had• told me, that he had been inexorable, and that if he knew for whom I solicited, he would' refuse; for long and deep is a father's dis like for a child µho has disobeyed him. I therefore resolved not to mention toe name of the object of niy solicitations, but simply to represent her case, and get him to accompany me to her residence. On the second day following that on which the little girl had told nie of her grandfather's circumstances and name, I drove up to the door of his elegant man. sion, situated in one of the most lashiona• ble streets of the city. I inquired if he was at home, and was answered in the affirmative. I was shown into his library where he sat reading, at his leisure, ih papers at the day. Mr. D-," said f, as I entered, "1 have presumed upon our acquaintance, knowing you to be a man of benevol,nce and feeling, to solicit your aid in behalf of a poor sick widow, who, with her two children, reside in the lower part of the city. They are entirely destitute, and in this cold weather have neither wo o d nor clothes to keep thew warm. The old house, too, in which they live is scared . , tenantable, and they have to depend, from war to day, upon the charity of strangers; the boy being ton small to work, and the girl having to attend to her sick mother.'' I might have added. 'Her relations are wealthy, but refuse to aid hell' or I might have disclosed her name at once. but I did not, for fear he might refuse his aid. In the first. I thought he might ink trust, although it could hardly be expe;•t ed. as the little girl had told me he had not heard from them for some years past ; consequently he knew not whether she was yet alive, or what hail become of her. In the second, I knew he would peremp torily refuse. As 1 have said, 1 did not inform him of the particulars of the case, but simply asked him to accompany me to her dwel ling, that he might see for himself her sit uation. lie immediately consented, and, jumping into my carriage, we were soon rolling along towards the house in which 1 intended to take him. Ais we proceeded on our way, my mind reverted to the scenes I had witnessed.— The one of splendour and magnificence, front which an only daughter had been banished, for wedding one she loved, but whom her father had deemed unfit for her, on account of his pecuniary circum stances : the other an abode of poverty and distress, where penury and want were endured by one o Ito had forsaken he fa ther, friends and home, for the love ~ ,I !rot to whom she hart entrusted her 11:111,,,, Such is a father's enmity to an ntl•n/ting child;—such the strength of w, man's Inv.. to man. The on, forsakes his oily regardless of her fate ; the other clings to her only love, enduring a father's• curse, rather than retract her plighted vows. We had now arrived at the house, and as we descended from the carriage my heart almost failed me, for I trembled liar the consequences of this visit. II owever, I ascended the stairs; he following. I , opened the door without knocking, a ,, d en tered with hint precipitately, trusting ra• titer to the feeling of a moment to accom• plish my object, to a more slow, though, perhaps, not more sure course. As we entered, Mrs. Williams, who had now got considerably better, rose from a chair on which site had been sitting, to receive, us. Site at once recognized her !;,they, and the next instant was rushing into his arms. At first he attemple.3 to thrust her from hut from weakness and caress of joy, sit: fainted on his boso m , and then it Was that maternal feelings trititophed ; and tears, thick and fast, flowed in tor rents upon the almost lifeless form of Ins only child. I had until now stood aloof, when, catching up a pitcher of water from the table, I commenced bathing her temples ; whilst her father, in agonizing tones, cal led upon her name, as though his voice alone could recall her dormant senses.— Slowly she recovered, and opening her dark and expressive eyes, she faintly whispered, "Father I" Tears again gushed from the old man's eyes, and he exchsimed— '..111y daughter, I am unworthy of 111'A name, but oht forgive me—forgive rie!" is I, f.ther, who should ask I ,orgive• ness," said Mrs. Williams. "Carne Charles." said she to the li,itle boy, who had just entered, "come Mary. you too ask grandfather's forgiveness for your mother." The old man caught his grandchildren in his arms, and wept over them like a child. Need it be said tliat iii a few weeks in tine of the splendid pillows of his mag nificent mansion, might lie seen Nlrs. Williams and her two rosy children, no more attired in the humble garb of pover ty, nor wo Itricken ill countenance, but [WiroLE No. 312. blest with s father's and grandlatlier's love, living truly contented and hippy. Ler us LAUGH.—A clergyman was the other day reproving a young person for het too gay and laughing character. °There are times for all things," said the pious man—"a time to Nag'', and s time to weep, as the good book tells us." "Sir." replied the arch young girl, "did you not tell us in your sermon on Sun - u a y, that Heaven itself is all smiles; that there was n. ther tears nor grief nor sigh ing there ; and tiot saints and angels would feast eternally on the smiles. of Go.!?" "Yes, my dear." - . "Weil, then," said the little piece of sainted carnation, 'mad• I not do on earth what's done in, heaven—can't I have toy giggle too ?" The parson thought this "a time to laugh," and laugh lie ditt,—Bult. lirgua THE RIGHTS ov WomEzr.—The State 01 . Louisiana guards the rights of women ' with a kind and parental cure. The hus ' band cannot alienate the property, even by the consent of the wife; and even the money given by the parents, either before or after marriage, is as much the sepa rate poprerty of the wife as the land and negioes.. Site can even make the husband her debtor,. awl sue him in a f.ourt of law. Dashing young fellows used to gn and marry young creoles of the territory, and spend their. property witlin a shori period, leaving them to penury. It is said th:“ it was to guard against this conduct! on the part of the unprincipled adventurers, .that the enact meat of this law was found necessary b, the prudent and kind French creolcs that hospitable region.—Pennvytoauia. ONE WAY AS GOOD AS ANOTIIEI4.--Ths people all over the world are driving oyes the road ot• life at a most unaccountabl. rate. Not only can a fellow be haute. along by steam at lightning : speed but be can get married at- the rate of a knot minute. Nitness. ls,w the '.Esqr' doss up these bundles of felicity among Os Hoosers;— 'What is your name, sit?' 'John.' 'Well Miss what is your natne 'Polly.' 'John, do you love Polly?' 'Yes, sit—no mistake.' 'Polly do you love John?' do, sir.' 'Well, that's right; now then I pronounce you man - and wife All the days of your life.'' •('he happy pair, each one giving tf. -:ir , • .1 'hp•' walked away arm in►arm s h :opy as love could make them; to en joy •domestic happiness' in a hovel' on th prat ie. .11a110, friend? Are you a Washingto nian7' No I am a Thompsonian.' Yee I see you have been ateamingit. FutsT GUN.-A tn.y got his grandfath ers gull and loaded it. but was afraid to fire it, he however, liked the fun of load• .rig„ and so put in amdther charge, but was 'still afield to fire.--I/e kept en chargin; but without firi.ng until he had got sis charges in The old piece. His grand mother! 'learning his temerity, smartly re. proved him, and grasping tie old conti nental discharged it. The recoil was tre mendous; throwing the old lady on her back, she promptly struggled to regain her feet, but the boy cried out, "Lay still Igranny there are five charges more to gt oft vet." SCRIPTURE AUTHORITY. A Quaker was married by a Vicar, to a lady of the church of England. The Vicar demand. ed a fee of five shillings. The Quaker was astonished, but said if the Vicar would prove that five shillings was the proper lee, he would pay it. The Vicar directly turned to the passage, "A virtuous wit man is a crown (55.) to her husband."— "Thou art right,"rqdied;the Qua ker,— "Solomon was a 'wise loath" t , ti saying, he paid the fiv e shillings, and presented the Vicar a pair of new gloves be sides. THE TIME or DAY —"What &dock Pali" inquired a traveller. ' "Next to nothing," answered the Mile-. sian with great confidence. "What do you mean 7" asked the trav eller. "Not quite one," replied Pat, "and it follows in course, that what isn't one is nest to nothing." DEAD OR ALIVR , - . TOTTIp. what de debbil any a jury ob inkest?" “Wel, de fac is oiggar— a jury ob Must ant a lot ob Cellars what sits down on a dead roan to find out nheddar he am dead far ur only playing possuni•—
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