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E. Stewart, Sinking Valley ; L. C. Kessler,
Mill Creek.
Tune—Oft in the stilly night.
Oft in my sober thought,
Since Liquor's chains had bound me,
Has memory's rapid thought
CAIN scenes of bliss around me.
The wife's fond smile, that cares beguile,
No fear ere spoke of sorrow ;
A mother's prayer, just echoed there,—
"Oh! save my son to-morrow."
When I but think of this,
And think of vows then plighted,
I trust that hopes of bliss
Will cheer those scenes, rum blighted
And I shall then remember when
That I from drink departed,
Nor wife and child, with tears half wild,
Will seem as broken hearted.
COME CHEER UP MY LADS.
Come cheer up my lads, and obey natures
laws,
By /units of temperance, 'tie a glorious
cause,
To the pledge we invite you, no longer be
slaves,
But rejoice in the freedom sobriety gives.
To the pledge give your name
And let this be your aim.
To be always ready, sober and steady,
While we drink from the fountain again
and again.
Io our old haunts of drinking, we ne'er
- wish to stay,
Where indolence and ruin alone bear the
sway;
With pleasure we drink from the pure
crystal stream,
While health, peace and plenty returns to
us again.
To the pledge give your name Stc
Intemperance no longer, shall stalk tho'
our land,
Its strong holds are broken by the Tens•
perance Band;
We'll rally to the standard and prove our•
_
selves men,
And never will we taste of the poison
again.
To the pledge give your name, &c.
Then come one and all sign liberty's
pledge;
And proudly we'll wear the Temperance
----
Badge;
And while conquests around us are loud
ly proclaimed
Our hills shall re-echo Old Huntingdon
redeemed.
To the pledge give your name, &c
ROGER WILLIAMS' SPRING.
Tune—The Poachers.
Some sing the praise of rosy wine,
Its sparkling color bright ;
Uut in such songs with them to join
We cannot take delight;
We have a rich and noble theme,
Fit for a prince and king—
'Tis water, pure, and fresh, and good,
From Roger Williams' spring.
This will give health, and joy, and peace
Refreshing every power ;
We want no better drink than this
In trials darkest hour.
To cheer the heart and quench the thirst
It is the very thing;
Then give us water pure and good,
From Roger Williams' spring.
Our sires drank from this living sprang
Two hundred years ago ;
And from this fountain water clear
Continues still to flow.
Then we, on this our festal day.
Will of its via tues sing,
And drink this water, pure and good,
From Roger Williams' spring.
THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1842.
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Patriarch.
The Position of the Wife.
There is something enigmatical in the
relative position of the wile, and )et the
lines of office and duty are distinctly
drawn in nature- It, perhaps, may be
said with truth, that she is the equal of
her husband in nothing. In all things,
she is either his superior or inferior. In
physical strength, inferior ; in symmetry
and beauty, superior. In intellect, she
has more imagination, vivacity, and bril
liancy; less power of reasoning and ac
uteness in argument. In moral sensibil-
ity she is greatly the superior; in power
of persuasion, it not of argument, she
holds a controlling influence. She can
most readily find the way to the heart, and
easily subdues it. But when she leaves
the moral and gentle means of exercising
control, and assumes to command, she
must always expect to find a master. By
courtesy, every thing she asks will be
granted, her wants will be anticipated.—
But when she. assumes to be a man, or to
take the place of a man, she transcends
her sphere, and resembles a star thrown
from its orbit, its laws of motion subvert-
ed, and its position doubtful. Let her, in
the retired position assigned her by the
Gospel, be satisfied with her legitimate
and proper influence, and she may appear
the superior in every thing praiseworthy,
without exciting jealousy, and without
dispute. . . . _
...The man is the head of the woman,"
and she is reqiitred to be "in subjection to
her husband," and yet she rules him.—
"Submission" is unquestionably her duty,
where he chooses to command, and he has
power to enforce it. Yet from her very
weakness, from her purity and tenderness,
from her greater freedom trom the causes
of irritation, he learns to respect her deci•
sions in morals and religion, and his con.
science comes in aid of the influence she
seeks to exert over him. He rules as her
natural lord; she influences him as an
angel of light and love. He may, in the
pride of his heart, hate the Gospel, and
despise the cause of the poor, but he will
go to church with her, and freely put his
hand in his pocket to supply her charities.
She is the weaker vessel, and yet she
is strongest. He may rage in giant
strength, against the objects of his hatred,
and yet, let her interpose, and she holds
his arm nerveless, like the arm of a child.
While she is gentle, kind, affectionate,
devoted, true, the mother of his children,
and their guardian angel, she holds him
by a silken cord, which is stronger than
cable, stronger than the chains of the
slave, because it entwines his heart, it
binds the affections, which are the seat
and motive power of the will. While,
therefore, in the pride of his power, he
opposes force by force, towards her he is
all kindness and condescension. But
let her assume the tone of a dictator, and
of masculine command, let her prate of
"woman's rights," and write a code of
laws to define them anywhere but in the
heart, the common law of the soul, and
she appears shorn of her locks, which are
"her ornament ;" she abjures her woman
hood, she has cut out her breast to rest
the javelin there, she affects the man, and
must contend with men.
No—the proper sphere of woman is
home. Her great office in the social sys •
tem is to make that home a happy one to
her husband, that his affections iimy cen
tre there—that he may have no tempta
tion to wander, and may always hasten
to return to it. Let her train her child
ren so that they may be the pride of their
lather, so that he may love to own them,
and be not ashamed to show them as the
jewels of his country. Let her always
stand ready to receive him with compla
cency after his conflicts with the world,
when his brow is knit with care, when his
heart has been rudely convulsed by cons
tact with treachery, dishonesty, or abuse,
and his passions are striving for mastery ;
then front her still and quiet retreat, from
her communion with the innocent spirits
of her nursery, front her closet of prayer,
which opens to heaven, let her meet him
like a ministering angel, and lie will lie at
her feet like a lion tamed ; he will imbibe
from her something of her own spirit, and
his spirit will be chastened under such a
ministry.
Here lies the great strength of the wife,
Here is her high, honorable and honored
sphere of action, where men are made,
moulded, controlled—not where they
contend, and cherish the angry passions.
Does she seek for honor? It lies in the
honor she renders to her husband, "call
it% him lord ;" in her children, educated,
and led to paths of uselulness and heaven;
in her domestic arrangements, the admi
ration of all. Dues she seek for happi
ness? Where can she find it but in a
peaceful home? The wife was appointed
to make a home for min, to form a centre
for his affections, and bind them there; to
act constantly as oil upon the troubled
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, oNE DESTINY."
waters of life. If a man quarrels with
me, I let hint go home before I press the
issue. If he has a home, an honored wife,
a family, I am sure to see him in the mor
ning with a subdued spirit, and more rea
dy to render justice. I honor above all
the wife who does her office, who admin
isters from the sanctuary of home to the
troubled spirits of men, to soothe their
sorrows and allay their passions—to sub
due them by gentleness and truth, and to
send them all out every morkini* with the
law of kindness imprinted on t heir hearts
by a new lesson of love.
- -
I lately saw a scene for a painter, ex
emplifying most clearly the position of the
wife. Two men had' become violently
enraged, and sought each other with
deadly weapons. I trembled for the is.
sue. But as they came near, their arms
fell powerless, and their voices of anger
softened. I pressed through the crowd,
and sa w a female figure, like the presence
angel, standing between them. She was
the wile of the one and the sister of the
other. She spoke not—but she had pow
er. She led her husband home, and in the
morning he went with a brothee's heart
and sought a reconciliation.
The Scenes of Childhood.
The man who spent his childhood in the
country, loves his native hills—he loves
the fields which lie in sight of his father's
door. Every tree and shrub is connected
with some pleasant recollection of child
hood. Was ho born at the foot of the lof
ty mountains 1 The first thing upon which
he fi xed his eye in the morning, was its
top, gilded by the rising sun; and upon
that too, his eye rested the last thing in
the evening , as its head faded away in
darkness. Was he born on the spot where
the land and the ocean meet 'I To him
there is no music like the hoarse voice of
the ocean, and in that ceaseless, eternal
motion of its face, he sees a charm which
can never be forgotten. What man ever
forgot the steep hill which he climbed in
childhood—the rock in the sea, where Ile
planted his foot, as he began to fish—the
brook over which he used to leap in his
buoyancy, or the tree under whose shade
lie used to read? He returns to child
hood's home after many long years. The
hair on his head has turned gray—the
generation who were born with him have
passed away —the dwellings have altered
—but he can recollect the countenance of
each rock—can commune with the aged
tree that sheltered his boyhood—and go
back to the mornin g of life, as he treads
the little footpath that winds through the
village graveyard.
THE DIFFERENCE.--A dog is account
ed mad when he won't take "something
to drink," and a man insane when he
takes too much. A financier remains "re
spectable" with a fortune that don't be
long to him, while a beggar becomes a
i.riminal for purloining a piece of meat.
A YOUNG FELLOW OF PLEASURE:"II.
say, Wildgoose," said an old Sobersides,
"d►cl you ever see a little kitten in pursuit
of its own tail? Round.and round ►t goes,
'now on one haunch and then on the oth
er, gravely kicking and grinning—and all
for what? If hy, if it sat still, there's its
tail under its nose. Now that's the 'trio
rat' of a young fellow of pleasure."
"Sammy, my son, what are you doing
out there in your shirt sleeves ?"
"I want to catch a big cold, an' get
some more of Pease's candy to cure it."
A DUTCH STORT..--1 and brother Honsc
and two other togs vas out hunting next
week, and we trove nine woodchuck into
a stone heap, and kilt ten out of the nine
before tey cot in.
"Congo, are you willing to be damned,
if it be the Lord's will 1" inquired a pious
friend. "Oh yes, Massa, and more too;
I willing to have you damned also, Mas
sa," replied Congo.
INFORMATION WANTED. -A if - estern
editor wants to know whether the law en
acted against carrying concealed weapons,
applies - to doctors carrying pills in their
pockets.
An old bachelor having been laughed at
by a bevy of pretty girls, told them they
were small potatoes.
"We may be small potatoes," replied
one of the maidens, "but we are sweet
ones."
"Dick, you arc a good for nothing ras
cal, and the next time you do that,
I'll—make mouths at your sister!"
Love comes in all shapes, but mostly
asking for cash. It must have shawls,
silks, satins, and jewelry, it draws upon
our pockets in all ways; it is truly an ex
pensive thing, this love,
SPIRIT OF 1776.
Journals of the New York
Provincial Congress.
CONTINUED.
Crown Point, 19th May, 1775.
GENTLEMEN—My last was on the 14th
inst. by Mr. Rort.ans, via New Haven.
I then acquainted you of the occasion of
delay in not carrying your orders into
execution. The afternoon of the same
day, being joined by Captains Brown and
Oswald, with 50 men enlisted on the road.
They having taken possession of a small
schooner at Skeensborough, we immedi
ately proceeded on our way for St. Johns,
and at 8 o'clock P. M. the 17th inst. arri
ved within 30 miles of St. Johns; the
weather proving calm, manned out two
small batteaux, with 35 men, and the next
morning, at 6 o'clock, arrived at St. Johns;
surprised and took a sergeant and his
party of 12 men, the King's sloop of about
70 tuns, with two brass six pounders and
seven men, without any loss on either
side. The captain was gone to Montreal
and hourly expected with a large detach-',
meat for Ticonderoga, a number of guns
and carriage for the sloop, which was just
fixed for sailing; add to this there was a
captain and 40 men at Chamblee, 12
miles distant from St. Johns, who was
expected there every minute with his par.
ty ; so that it seemed a mere interposition
of Providence that we arrived in so fortu
nate an hour. We took such stores on
board as were valuable, and the wind
proving favorable, in two hours after our
arrival weighed anchor for this place, with !
i the sloop and four of the King's batteaux,
having destroyed three others; so that
there is not left a single batteaux for the
King's troops, Canadians or Indians to
cross the lake in, if they have any such
intention. 1 must in justice to Colo. Al
len, observe that lie left Crown Point soon
after me for St. Johns, with 150 men, and
on my return met him five leagues this
side and supplied him wit!: provisions, his
men being in a starving condition. He
informed me of his intention of proceeding
on to St Johns with 80 or 100 men, and
keeping posession there. It appears to
me a wild, impracticable scheme, and
provided it could be carried into execution,
of no,;ousequence, so long as we are mas
ters of the lake; and of that I make no''
doubt, as I am determined to arm the'
sloop and schooner immediately.
I wrote you, gentlemen in my former
letters, that I should be extremely glad to
be superseded in my command here, as I
find it next to impossible to repair the old
fort at Ticonderoga, and am nut quallified
to direst in building a new one. lam re
ally of opinion it will be necessary to
employ 1,000 to 1,500 men here this SUM
mer, in which I have the pleasure of being !
joined in sentiment by Mr. Comans, who
is esteemed an able engineer.
1 am making all possible provision for
wheel carriages, &c. to convey such can
non &c. to Albany as can be spared here,
and will be serviceable to our army at
Cambridge.
I must refer you for particulars to the
bearer, Captn. John Brown, who has been
very active and serviceable, and is a pru
dent, good officer ; and beg leave to ob
serve I have had intimations given me
that sonic persons had determined to
apply to you and the Provincial Congress
to injure me in your esteem by misrepre
senting matters of fact. I know of no
other motive they can have, only my refu
sing them commissions from the very
simple reason that I did not think them
qualified. However, gentlemen, I have
the satisfaction of imagining I am employ
ed by gentlemen of so much candour, that
my conduct will not be condemned until
I have the opportunity of being heard.
am, with the greatest resp. gent.
Your most devoted and very hbhe. servt.
BENEDICT ARNOLD.
:A letter from Frederick Winsfield,
Marinus Willett, and six other persons,
appying for commissions in military
servie.]
New York, 6th June, 1775.
GENTLEMEN—As we have ever been
heartily.attached to the cause of our coun
try ; so are we now ready to engage in
the defence of its rights. And as we un
derstand troops are soon to be raised in
this Province, we think it a duty incum
bent on us to offer our service. Should
you think proper to confide in us, appoint
us respectively to the command of a com
pany, we shall study to conduct ourselves
in such a manner as to merit your appro•
bation.
We are, with the greatest respect,
Gentlemen, your most Numb. servts.
FREDK. WEISSENFELS,
MARINUS WILLETT,
GRENHOM MOTT,
JOHN JOHNSON,
GERRIT ROORBACK,
JACUAUS WYNCOOP,
JAMES ALNER,
JOHN QUACKENBOS.
To the lion. Povincial Congress.
for the Province of New Yolk.
[Copy of a lettei written in the Mohawk
Indian language, which we found on
the road, and supposed to be lost by
some Indians or other.
[TRANSLATED.]
Written at - Guy Johnsonla, May, 1775.
This is your letter you great ones, or
sachems. Guy Johnson says he will be
glad if you get this intelligence your
Oneydas had. It goes with him now, and
he is now more certain concerning the in
tension of the Boston people. Guy John
son is in great fear of being taken prisoner
by the Bostoneers.
We Mohawks are obliged to watch him
constantly—therefore we send you this
intelligence, that you shall know it ; Guy
Johnson assures himself and depends upon
your coming to his assistance, and that
' you will, without tail, be of that opinion.
lie believes not that you will assent to let
him softer : we therefore expect you in a
couple of days time. ho much at present
we send but so far as to you Oneydas ; but
afterwards, perhaps to all the other Na
tions. We conclude, and expect that you
will have concern for our ruler, Guy John
son, because we are united.
ARON KANONRANON,
JOHANNES TEGARIHOGE,
JOSEPH BRANDT,
DEYAGODEAGHNAWEOGH.
N. B. Joseph: Brandt is Guy Johnson's
interpreter.
Guy Park, May 20th, 1773,
GY.STLINNEN .. -i have lately had repea
ted accounts that a body of New• E
nglanders were to come to seize and carry
away my person and attack our family,
under colour of malicious insinuations that
I intend to set the Indians upon the peo
ple. Men of sense and character know
that my office is one of the highest im
portance to promote peace amongst the
Sig. Nations and prevent their entering
into any dispute; this I effected last year,
%lien they were much vexed about the
attack made upon the Shawnese ; and
lest winter appointed them to meet me
this month, to receive the answer of the
Virginians. And all men must allow, that
if the Indians find their council fire dis
turbed and their superintendent insul.
1 ted, they will take a dreadful revenge.—
It is, therefore, the duty of all people to
prevent this, and to satisfy any who may
have been imposed on, that their suspi
cions and the allegations that they have
collected against me arc false and incon
sistent with my character and office.
I recommend this to you, as hibhly
necessary at this time, as my regard for
the interest of the country and self pres
ervation has obliged one to fortify my
house and keep men armed for my defence,
till those idle and rediculous reports are
removed.
You may lay this letter before such as
are interested in these matters.
I am, gentlemen,
Your humble servant,
G. JOHNSON.
To the Magistrates and others of Palatine,
Canajoharie, and the upper districts.
7'iconderoßyt, Nov. e 9, 1775.
My DEAR Sul-I received yours of the
14th inst. ten days after date. lam un•
der infinite obligations to you for your
attention and the confidence you have
placed in me in your several letters of the
Ist September and 14th inst. Be assured
sir, that I shall maintain the trust you
have reposed in me, and hope very soon
in some measure to requite you for your
many favours.
I expect soon to retire to Albany or
Saratoga, in winter quarters.
That brave man you allude to is more
in words than deeds—a sample—at the ap
preach limn the shell from the enemy, a
whole cargo of his men disembarked in
the midst of the stream—bravo fellows!
I ate, in great haste, yours alfectionataly
RICIID. VARICK.
John McKesson, Esq.
My respects to my old friend Jonny Sot
[A Letter from Robert R. Livingston,
Esq. informing about Powder.]
M. of L. the 19th October,l77s.
Sun—l have received yours by Mr.
Watkins, who was here this morning ; as
I was not sure there was any powder
in the mill, it was not thought proper to
' send him back six miles at an uncertainty.
I have also received your order to send
2001 b. to the committe at Albany : this
my powder maker has promised should be
ready tomorrow, when I shall have an
opportunity to send it by Capt. Dow. I
am sorry to inform you that my mill does
not turn off half so much as I expected ;
it is partly owing to my carpenter com
mitting some faults in the formation,
though I had seat him at my exprnse to
see those in Pennsylvania. lam building
a stove room to dry the powder in, which
I was not told was wanted till lately, and
am promised it shall go better for the fu
ture. Out of the powder mixed with
water sent me from Albany, I have made
1,0201 b, of very good ; when I get the last
receipt, shall send it down to you. My
powder maker thinks it hard you should
[WnoLE No. 317.
order him to send up 200 weight to the
committee at £2O, when he can retail as
much as he can make at 6s. the lb. and it
by the 100 lb at £25 ; however, what you
have ordered shall be sent and the price
left to the Congress.
I remain, sir, yr. most humble servt.
ROBT. It. LIVINGSTON.
Albany,November 2,1775.
GENTLEMEN-By the death of John
Keyser, second lieutenant in Capt. Chris. ,
topher Yates' company, a lieutenancy is
become vacant in my regiment, of which
I give the Congress this early notice, and
take liberty to recommend to the
Congress, for that vacancy, Mr. Tobias
Van Veighten, a young gentlemen in this
town, whose political sentiments and zeal
ous attachment to the cause of liberty are
such as can be confided in. The Congress
will readily perceive the necessity of a
speedy appointment, that the officer ap
pointed may have an opportunity to join
the regiment, which is at present in Can•
ada, before the passes are impracticable.
I am with perfect esteem,
Your most obednt. humble servt.
GOOSE VAN SHAICK..
To the President of the Provincial
Congress in New York:
'Address to the Inhabitants of the Fret
vince of Quebec.]
LS PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, /
New-York, June 2,1775,
FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN --
The Parent of the Universe, hath divi
ded this earth amongst the children of
men, and drawn nut the line of their habi
tations. 'this great God having ordained
that all our joys and sorrows here below.
should proceed from the effect of human
action upon human beings. Our situation
has drawn together this great bond of mu
tual dependence, and enabled us to deal
out injuries and kindnesses to each other.
Ile consider you as our friends, and we
feel for vou, the affection of brothers.
The great:question between Britian and
her Colonies, is whether they are subjects.
or whether they are slaves.
The rights delivered down to us from
our forefathers--the venerable laws of our
country, have subjected our own property
to our own disposal, nor bath any earthly
power a right to -taka it away.. Mankind
ought to be governed by the dictates of
justice, and not by the hand of oppression.
The peaceable enjoyment of what we call
our own, and that liberty which confers
on every man the right of adoring his God
in the manner which he humbly thinks
most agreeable to the divine nature; these
are the objects of all our labors, and of
all our cares.
Ministerial tyranny hath endeavored,
throughout all these Colonies, to rend
from us the dearest rights of humanity.
And in the defence of those rights, some
persons have taken certain forts in this
Colony, which are near your frontiers.
ff e have heard that others have made
an attack upon the posts at St. Johns, an
attempt without our counsel or participa
tion ; and although we have taken mea
sures for the defence of our fortresses,
yet our only intention is to prevent any
hostile incursions upon us, by troops in
your Province.
ConfitlenV,that the enemies of our Icing
and his people will take every oppertuni
ty to excite jealousies and discord
amongst us, we beseech you not to be
imposed on by their artifices, but tall to
your remembrance the complicated hor
rors of a barbarous war. Avoid those
measures:which must plunge us both into
distress, and instead of consenting to be
come miserable slaves, generously dare to
participate with your subjects is the
sweets of that security which in the gle.
rious lot of freedom.
We are, with sincere affection,
Your brethren and friends,
P. B. LIVINGSTON:Pres
POOVINCIAL CONGRESS.
Watertown, 19, 1775.. t
. _
Resolved, As the opinion of this Con
gress that post riders be immediately
established to go from Cambridge, and to
ride the following roads, vizt. To George
town. in the county of Lincoln, to Hay.
erhill, to Piovidence, to Woodstock by
Worcestes, and from Worcester to
Great Barrington, by Springfield, and to-
Falmouth in the county of Barnstable.—
And that post offices be kept as followeth,
vizt, one at Cambridge, one at Salem, one
at Ipswich, one at Haverhill, oue at New
bury Port, one at Kennebunk in hells,
one at Falmouth in the county of Cumber
land, one at Georgetown in the county of
Lincoln, one at horchester. one at
Springfield, one at Great Barrington, one
at Plymouth, one at Sandwich and one at
Falmouth in the county of Barnstable.—
And it is further
Resolved, That Mr. James Winthrop be
appointed postmaster for the town of Cam
bridge, and that Mr. Edward !Norris be
appointed for Salem, Mr. James Foster for
Ipswich. Mr. Simon Greenough for Hav
erhill, Mr. Bulkley Emerson for Newbury.