VOL. VII, No. 4.] PUBLISHED BY THEODORE H. CREMER. TlBMattel. The "Jotnewst." will be published every Wednesday morning, at two dollars a year, if paid IN ADVANCE, and if not paid within six months, two dollars and a half. No subscription received for a shorter pe• clod than six months, nor any paper discon tinued till all arrearages are paid. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and for every subsequent insertion twenty five cents. If no definite orders are given as to thetime an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged accordingly. agents for the Journal. Daniel Teague, Orbieoni a; David Blair Esq. Shade Gap; Benj. Lease, Shirleye burg; Eliel Smith. Esq. Chilcottstown; Jas. Entriken. jr. Coffee Run; Hugh Madden Esq. Springfield; Dr. S. S. Dewey, Bir mingham; las. Morrow, Union Furnace; John Sisler, Warrior Mark; James Davis, Esq. Weet township ; D. H. Moore. Esq. .Franketown; Eph. Galbreath, Esq. Holli daysburg; Henry Neff, Alexandria; Aaron Burns, Williamsburg; A. J. Stewart, Water Street; Wm. Reed. Esq. Morrie township; Solomon Hamer, Arra Mill; Jas. Dysart, Mouth Spruce Creek ; Wm. Murray, Esq. Grayszsille; John Crum, Manor Hill; Jas. E. Stewart. Sinking Valley; L. C. Kessler, Mill Creek. COME AND SIGN THE PLEDGE, JO Tune—Oh let me in this ne night: Oh .bruisers" are you sober yet, Or are you drinking, I would wit, For Rum has bound me hand and fit, And I would lain be in, jo. Oh let me join this ae night This ae, ae, ae, night, For pity's sake this ae night, Oh let me sign the pledge, jo. I've drank till friends have left me now; Disease is written on my brow, Oh, let me take the Temperance vow, And be a sober man, jo. Oh, let me join 4.c. No more I'll taste the pois'nous bowl, 'That ruins health, and damn; the soul, Oh, take me then 'aeath your control, And guard me from the foe, jo. Oh let me join 4.c. My friends once more to me will come, And their bright smiles will welcome home The happy man that's free from rum, And pledg'd to drink no more, jo. Oh let me join ckc. ANSWER. Yea, welcome friend we hear your cry; Conic help us raise our banner high, s'But touch not, Mate not till you die," Then you are welcome in, jo. Oh I join us then this ae night, This ae, ae, ae. niOt ; But once for all this ae night, Andyou will be a man, jo. Shake off at once the tempter's chain Your limbs will then be free from pain, And joy and gladness ever reign Around your happy home, jo. Oh join us &c. Wher'er our glorious banner waves, The tyrant rum can keep no slaves, Then haste, to shun the drunkards i graves; And fly to join our band jo. Oh join us &c. Then welcome, welcome, mid our throng, We'll roll the Temp'ranee ball along, And raise aloud the joyous song, Oh come and join our band, ju. Oh join us this ae night, This ae, ae, ae, night, And rest assur'd from this night, That you will be a man, ju. ' BE DAYS OF DRINKING WINE FORGOT: Tune—Auld Lang Sync. 13e days of drinking wine forgot. Let water goblets shine ; And from your mem'ry ever blot The days of drinking wine. Those days of drinking wine, my friend, Those days of drinking wine; 'A Temperance hour is worth a power 01 days of drinking wine. twa have quaff'd to days long past, Blight juices of the vine ; Mut let us from our mem'ries cast Those customs of "lang syne." Mad customs of "tang sync," my friend, Bad customs of "tang syne.' , Oar Temperance age must blot the page Of customs' of "tang sync." twa can meet as friends should meet, We twa together dine; Our bev'rage quail' from fountains sweet, And ne'er regret the wine. 'At Temp'rance's shrine, my friend, my friend, We're pledged at her fair shrine, And hold her cause above the laws An t k customs of _tang sync" THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1842. MISCELLANEOUS. How Parma - got married to Mass Out readers shall have the benefit of a good story that we once heard read. Here it is. Travelling into town one night about dusk, Parson - had occa sion to call at the mansion of an esteemed parishioner, who had among other worldly possessions, two or three very fine daugh ters. He had scarce knocked at the door when it was hastily opened by one of these blooming maidens, who as quick as thought, threw her arms around Lis neck, and before he had time to say "Oh, don't" pressed her warm delicate lips to his, and gave him as sweet a kiss as ever heart of swain deserved. In utter aston ishment, the worth) divine was endeavor ing to stammer out something, "Oh, mer cy mercy! Mr.-, is this you? I thought as could be it was my brother Henry." "Pshaw!" thought the parson to him self, "didn't think any such thing," But taking her hand, he said in a forgiving tone, "There is no harm done. Don't give yourself any uneasiness; though you ought to be a littl; snore careful." After this gentle reproof, he was usher ed into the parlor by the maiden, who, as she came to the light, could not conceal the deep blush that glowed upon her cheek; while the bouquet that was pinned upon her bosom, shook like a flower gar den in an earthquake. And when he rose to depart, it somehow fell to her lot to wait upon him to the door; and it may be added, that in the entry they held dis course together for some mirutes—on what subject it is not for us to say. As the warm hearted 'pastor plodded homewards he argued with himself in this wise— Miss -- knew that it was me who knocked at the door, or h'w did she re cognise me before I spoke? And is it pro. bable that her brother would knock before entering? She must be desperately in-- pshaw! Why, if she loves a brother at that rate, how must she love her husband; for, by the great squash, I never felt such a kiss in my liter Three weeks after the above incident, Parson - was married to Miss-. Miners' Journal. A Goon STORY.—There is a good sto ry told about a certain steamboat captain, says the Cincinnati Message, which is al together too good to be lost. The cap tain had become popular on the river as a commander, and was about to take charge of a new boat, one of the handsomest that has ever been built in the west. On the evening preceping the morning she was to leave port, he was induced by one of the owners to visit his house, where there was to be a party of ladies, some of whom were to be his passengers to New Orleans. The captain felt a little queer about go ing; he was more at home on the hurri cane deck, or the social hall of his boat, than in the drawing room among ladies. He summoned up courage, however, went and was introduced to the company. "Capt. D.," said one of the lady pas sengers. "you must be a happy man, to be master of so beautiful a boat." "She is a beautiful boat, madam—sets on the water like a duck." He was "in town," as long as the con• venation was about steamboats. "Capt. D ~" said another lady, a blue stocking of the Lydia Languish tribe, "what do you think of the immortal Shake pears?" "Think, madam! think! I think she burns too much wood, draws to much wa ter, and carries too little freight." We never heard whether the captain staid any longer or not. CALVIN'S SINGULAR RODE OF COURTSHIP. --Calvin had little time or inclination for courtship, and he therefore wrote circu lars to his friends, requesting that they would look out for a wife suitable for a preacher. The qualifications he requir ed are enumerated in his letter to Fare' : "I care not for personal charms; the only' beauty that delights me is that she should be chaste, economical, obedient, patient, and that there should be a reasonable hope of her being attentive to the care of my health." Several young ladies were proffered to the advertiser, but they were all rejected on the score of levity; at length the widow of a German Anabaptist presented herself, and though she was encumbered with a large family by her former husband, she carried away the prize frontall her competitors. The only circumstance recorded of this union is, that the only child which Calvin had was still-born, and that Calvin's insensibility on the occasion gave great offence to his wife and her friends.—.Mherteum. A man down east has patented an im provement on the corn shelling machine; by the use of his invention he can put In a lot of newspaper bills and shell out the cash! Send us one. "ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY." Real men and women never sneer r.t mechanics and operatives, but self-styled gentlemen and i ladies not unlrequently do. We have heard of a lady who once left the ball room because a mechanic entered. She married a basket-maker, and died a wash-woman. SENstaLe.--"Pa," said a fashionably educated farmer's daughter, "Pa, if I should marry a farmer, what shall I do with my French?" "Call the chickens, Betsey, call the chickens!" "Arra'', Jamy! are you kilt:" said the loving wile of a liodman, as he fell from the top of a ladder. "No indade, honey! but I am spachleaa." was the son of Erin's reply. A judge out west has decided that a dandy does not belong to the human spe cies, and may be kicked into the gutter as well as any other puppy. " Ladies wear pantaletts," remal ked Mr. Jay, "to hide the holes in their stock ings." "And gentlemen," replied Miss Tartar, "wear their hair long to hide the places where their ears were cropped oft." A man was once speaking of the excel lence of a telescope. 'To you see that wee speck on the hill yonder? That now Is my old pig, though it is hardly discer• nable ; but when I look at him with my glass, it brings him so near that 1 can plainly hear him grunt." SPIRIT OF. 1776. Journals of the New York Provincial Congress. Camp at Cambridge Aug. 8, 1775 GUNTLEMEN-It must give great con- 1 cern to every considerate mind, that when this whole Continent at a vast extent of blood and treasure, is endeavoring to es tablish its liberties on the most secure and solid foundation, not only by a laud• able opposition of force to force, but deny ing itself the usual advantages of trade, there are men among us so sordid as to counteract all our exertions for the sake of a little gain. You cannot but have heard that the distresses of the Ministerial troops for fresh provisions and many oth er necessaries at Boston, were very great. It is a policy justifiable by all the laws of war, to endeavor to increase them. De sertions, discouragement and dissatisfac tion with the service, besides weakening their strength, are some of the natural consequences of such a situation, and if continued might afford the fairest hope of success without further effusion of human blood. A vessel cleared lately out of New York for St. Croix, with fresh pro• visions and other articles, has just gone, into Boston instead of pursuing her voy age to the West Indies. I have endea vored to discover the name of the captain or owner, but as yet without success. The owner, (it is said) went to St. Croix before the vessel, from which, and her , late arrival, I make no doubt you will be' able to discover and expose the villain. And if you could fall on sonic effectual measures to prevent the like in future, it would be doing a signal service to our common country. I have been endeavoring by every means in my power, to discover the future in tentions of our enemy here. I find a gen oral idea prevailing through the army and in the town of Boston, that the troops are soon to leave the town and go to some oth er part on the continent. New-York is the place generally mentioned as their destination. I should think a rumor or suggestion of this kind worthy of very lit tle notice if it was not confirmed by some corresponding circumstances. But a four weeks total inactivity with all their reinforcements arrived and recruited, the daily diminution by desertion, sickness and small skermishes, induce an opinion that any efforts they proposed to make will be directed elsewhere. I thought it prop. er just to hint to you what is probably in- tended ; you will then consider what re.. gard is to be paid to it, and what steps will be proper for you to take, it any. I am, with great respect and regard, Gent. your most obed. and very humble servt. GEO. WASHINGTON. The Rouble. the Provincial con• gress, of the Province of New-York. Philadelphia, June 24, 1775. GENTLCXEN-By order of the Congress 1 enclose you certain resolves passed yes terday respecting those who were con cerned in taking and garrisoning Crown Point and Ticonderoga. As the Congress are of opinion that the employing the Green Mountain Boys in the American army would be advantageous to the com mon cause, as well as on account of their situations as of their dispositions and ales t- ness, they are desirous you should em body them among the troops you shall raise. As it is represented to the Con• gress that they will not serve under any officers but such as they themselves choose you are desired to consult with General Schuyler, in whom the Congress are in formed those people place a great confi dence about the field officers to be set ov er them. I am, gentlemen, Your most obedt. hum servt. To JOHN 11 ANCOCK, Prat, The Members of the Provincial Congress of New York I IN THE ComitTrEE OF SAFETY. Phtladelphia August 26, 1775, Sra—Having this morning received a small additional supply of gunpowder, we have lost no time, but immediately order ed a ton of it to be packed in tight casks and forwarded to you forthwith agreea bly to your request of the 16th instant, and wish it sale to your hands. We are getting our militia in order with all pos sible expedition ; and are, with great re spect for the Congress and yourself, Sir, your most obedient servants, By order.. B. FRANKLIN, Presidt. Honble P. V. B. LiviNosroN, and the Provincial Congress, New York [A letter from Genl. Wooster on the sub ject of enlisting apprentices and servants.] Camp near .IV. Y. July, 7lh 1775. SIR—We have among the Connecticut troops a number of apprentices and in dented servants who ran away from their toasters in this city, and have enlisted themselves and received their pay in Cons necticut. Since our arrival at this place, many of them have been detained in town '3y their masters. As the Governor of Connecticut has subjected me and the troops under my command to the direc tion of the Continental and this Provin cial Congress, I desire you, sir, to take the opinion of your Congress, and advise me what plan of conduct 1 shall pursue with regard to such persons, and you will much oblige sir, Your hble. servt., DAVID WOOSTER. PETER V. B. Ln•lvovTon, Esq. Prest. of the Provincial Congress. IN PROVINCIAL CONORRSS, Waterton, May 26, 1775. Resolved, That the following letter be sent to the Provincial Congress of the Colony of New York now sitting in that Colony. GENa'N.—Enclosed are copies of a let ter from Col. Arnold, and a list of mili tary stores at Ticonderoga, &c. You can not fail to observe that Mr. Arnold, for the defence of this Colony, is endeavoring that such ordnance as he judges can be spared from that quarter, should be trans ported to the army in this Colony. This step is taken in consequence of orders given him by our Committee of Safety. Gentlemen and brethren, could you have seen the horrid devastation and car nage in this Colony, committed by Minis terial troops—those sons of violence, who, through our supineness, have got a foot ing here—the breach of a most solemn treaty with respect to the inhabitants of Boston when they had surrendered their arms and put themselves wholly in the power of military commander, relying up on his faith then pledged that they should immediately depart the town with their effects, as stipulated; which was no soon er done, than they were not only refused to carry out the most valuable part of those effects, but their persons detained under the most idle pretences, and suffered only to scatter from their prison a few in a day, hardly to be seen or noticed. We say, gentlemen, could you see and realize these scenes of distress, you could not re frain one moment in doing every thing in your power to prevent the like distress from happening to your metropolis, and availing yourselves of every article which our enemies can improve with the least advantage to themselves for effecting the like dessolation, horrors and insults on the inhabitants of your city and Colony, or which might enable you to make the most effectual defence. Have you not, gentlemen, divers of those articles, as it were, under your hand I If you should delay securing them until they should be out of your power, and within a few days you should behold those very materials improved in murdering you, and your. selves perishing for the want of them, will not the chagrin and regret be intolerable. Brethren, pardon our importunity; it is our own case. Don't we daily behold Castle William, and realize the ample warlike provisions and apparatus therein held by our enemies to our infinite and inexpressible mortification 1 We wish to lli even that you may be timely admonish ed by the consequences of our delay. We are, gentlemen ;with great Respect, your most obedient Humble servants, JOS. WARREN, PrestTlid. Philadelphia, 6th July, 1775. GENTLEMEN—We have the honor of your favour at the 29th of June, accom• panyiug your plan and proceedings re specting an accommodation with the pa rent State. Nothing could be more inter esting or acceptable to us than a commu nication of the sentiments and wishes of our worthy constituents on this most im portant subject, and while we applaud the wisdom of your decisions, we beg you to be assured that they shall command our most earnest and respectable attention. Deeply sensible of the calamities of civil war, we have nothing more at heart than to be instrumental in compromising this unnatural quarrel between the two countries, on the solid bases of mutual justice and constitutional liberty ; and the most strenuous efforts on our part shall be exerted with unremitting ardour to ac. complish this salutary purpose. We acknowledge with the utmost grati tude the deference you are pleased to pay our judgement, and your delicacy in leav ing us unrestrained in a point, of all oth ers the most essential to yourselves and your posterty—to the Continent of Amer ica and the whole British Empire; and happy shall we esteem ourselves, if, in the discharge of this difficult and ardous trust we shall merit your approbation and the confidence of our country. We have the honor to be, with the greatest respect, gentlemen, Your obedient hum, servants, PHIL. LIVINGSTON, JAS. DUANE, JOHN ALSOP, ROBT. T. LIVINGSTON, JOWL HENRY WISNER, WM. FLOYD, JOHN JAY. Provincial Congress of New-York. P. S. We have unanimously agreed to be silent on that article in the plan of ac commodation, which assert "that no earthly .legislature or tribunal ought or can of right interfere or interpose in any wise however in the religious or eceleai asticle concerns of the Colonies, as the inhabitants of the continent are happily united in a political creed." We are of opinion that it would be highly imprudent to run the risk of dividing them by the introduction of disputes foreign to the present controversy, especially as the dis cussion of them can be attended with no one single advantage; they are points about which mankind will forever differ, and therefore should always, and at least in times like these be kept out of sight. Re are the more confirmed in these sen timents by this circumstance, that both this and the former Congress have cau'. tiously avoided the least hint on subjects of this kind, all the members concurring in a desire of burying all disputes on eccle siastical points, which have fUr ages had no other tendency than that of banishing peace and charity from the world. PHILIP LIVINGSTON, JAS. DUANE, JOHN ALSOP, JOHN JAY, FRANS. LEWIS, WM. FLOYD, HENRY WISNER, LEWIS MORRIS, ROBT. R. LIVINGSTON, il/NR N. B. The other Delegates are absent. July Bth, 1775. Philadelahia, July 17,1775. Ste—As the appointment of a brigade major to the army under Major-General Schuyler's command, is by the Continen tal Cor.gress recommended,to your choice, we beg leave to introduce Mr. Morgan Lewis, to your favour for that appoinrnent, being informed it would be agreeable to General Schuyler, who has promised him that office with the approbation of your Convention, We have the honor to be sir, Your very humble servts. PHIL. LIVINGSTON, JOHN ALSOP, WM. FLOYD, HENRY WISNER, LEWIS MORRIS, JOHN JAY, To PETER V. B. LIVINGSTON, Esqr. President of the Provincial Conven tion at New York. Philadelphia Sd Nov. 1775. GENTLEMEN —On perusing our creden tials we find the continuance of our dele gation u►:limited. As this appears to us an omission of great importance, we thick it our duty to apprise you of it and hope that no delicacy with respect to us may in fluence you to decline a new appointment. lf e have been informed that compen sation for our expenses and loss of time, is under your consideration; and as we presume an account of the provision made by the other Colonies for their respective Delegates would be agreeable to you, we take the liberty of subjoining it : Georgia—£loo ster. to each Delegate per month. S. Carolinia—Soo ster. to each fo the last Congress. N. Carolinia-500 to each per year. Virginia—A half josh. per day to each. Mary/anl-40s. to each per day Prov. [WitoLE No. 310. Pennsylvania -20s, to each per day, be sides the allowance to such of the mem • hers as come from the country. Connecticut-3 dollars to each per day for loss of time. besides all expenses. allowing each Delegate a servant and two horses. Rhode-1 eland —Exactly the same as Con necticut. Massachusetts— All expenses as above, and 2 dollars to each per day. New- Hampshire— All expenses as above, and half a guinea per day to each. lire are, sir with the greatest respect, the Congress's and, your hble, servts. ROBT. R. LIVINGSTON, ham. FRANS. LEWIS, HENRY WISNER, MS. DUANE, JOHN ALSO?, JOHN JAY, WM. FLOYD. Colo. NATHANIEL If OODHULL, Presi dent of the Convention of the Prov.of N, Y Albany, August 10,1775. Ilin--The first division of the York troops ' are arrived, but without powder. By ac cident it is in my power to furnish them. I beg that powder may he sent at the rate of a quarter of a pound per man for the troops destined for this rout, as it is very improper they should march to Ticonde roga without it. I have been obliged to supply this division from a small reserve I had made for Tryon county out of that which lately arrived from Philadelphia. I am, sir, with great respect, your most obedt, servt, RICHARD MONTGOMERY, Crown• Point, 2d of June, 1775: RESPECTABLE Gm:TzEnies--Before this time you have undoubtedly received intel igence, not only of the taking of the forti fied places on Lake Champlain, and also the armed sloops and boats therein, and the taking posession of a Schooner, which is the property of Major Scene, and armed and manned it ; and of the conversion of them, with a large train of artillery, to the defence of the liberties and constitutional rights of America. You have likewise undoubtedly been informed that the expe dition was undertaken at the special en couragement and requests of a number of respectable gentlemen in the Colony of Connecticut. The pork forwarded to subsist the army by your Honours' direc tions, evinces your approbation of the procedure; and as it was a private expe dition, and common fame reports that there are a number of overgrown tories in the Province, your Honours will the rea dier excuse me in not first taking your advico in the matter, lest the enterprize might have been prevented by their treachery. It is here reported, that some 'of them have lately been savingly conver ted and that others have lost their in fluence. If in those achievements there be any thing honoury, the subjects of your government, viz: the New Hampshire settlers, are justly entitled to a large sharo as they had a great majority of numbers of the soldiery, as well as the command in making those acquisitions; and as your Honours justify and approye the same, I desire and expect your Honours already have, or soon will, lay before the grand ,Continental Congress the great disadvan tage it must inevitably be to the Colonies, to evacuate Lake Champlain, and give it up to the enemies of our country those invaluable acquisitions—the key of either Canada:or our country, according as which party holds the same in posession, and makes a proper improvement of it. The key is our as yet, and provided the Colo nies would suddenly push an army of two or three thousand men into Canada, they might make a conquest of all that would oppose them:in the extensive Province of Quebec, except reinforcements from En gland should prevent. such a diversion would weaken Genl. Gage or insure us of Canada. I wish to God America would, at this critical juncture, exert herself, agreeably to the indiginity offered her by a tyrannical ministry. She might rise on eagle's wings, and mount up to glory, freedom and im mortal honour, if she did but know and exert her strength. Fame is now hovering over her head. A vast continent must now sink to slavery, poverty, bokdage and horror, or rise to unconquerable freedom, immense wealth, inexpressible felicity. and immortal tame. I will lay my life on it, that with fifteen hundred men, and a proper artillery, I will take Montreal. provided I could thus be furnished ; and ►f an:army command the field, it would be no insuperable difficulty to take Quebec. This object should be pursued, though it should take ten thousand men to accom plish the end proposed, for England can tot spare but a certain number of her troops. Nay, she has but a small number that are disciplined ; and it is as long as it is broad—the more that are sent to Quebec, the less they can send to Boston, or any other part of the Continent. And there will be this unspeakable advantage in directing the war into Canada, that
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