Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, December 04, 1844, Image 1
,4 f • \ 1)! • L N' , r I N " 5.) Debote7l to enteral Etat:Mem:cc, Mitertfollg, Volftito, Afteratttre, s,tientro, elfsri culture, Stnuottetent, scr., Szc. '"Q7Q1)11. THEODORE H. CREMER, Kcs)aurizatla3. The "JOURNAL" will be published every Wed nesday morning, at $2 00 a year, if paid in advance, Ind if not paid within six months, $2 50. "No subscription received for a shorter period than ix months, nor any paper discontinued till all ar rearages are paid. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for $1 00, and for every subse quent ipsertion 25 cents. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged ac cordingly. PO:TnT. WiNTER Xs COMING. nr D. C. cor.EswonTnr, j ie•coming—cold and drew— See ye the poor around? Oh, when the wrathful storms career, And snow o'erspreads tho ground, Will ye not take them by the hand, • Or to; the hovel go, And round the dying embers stand, And wipe the tears that flow? Winter is - coming—hear ye not, The mother's earnest cry For dark and dreary is her lot— No real friend is nigh, For wood and broad she asketh now, 0,! shill she ask in yaM See sorrow stamped upon her brow, • And mark the orphan train. Winter is coming --every drawer Should be unlocked to-day; Whom do you keep that clothing for? Why not give it away ? Come pull it out—a cloak—a vest, ' Whatever you can give, Wrapped snugly round the orphan'. breast Will make the dying live. The closet search—a pair of shoes Half worn—and here's a cap, Which you perhaps may never use— A hat with scarce a nap - A pair of pants—a rusty coat— 4. 0 give them to the poor; • Whatlis not worth to you a groat] Will health and warmth secure. What's in yotir garret Have the moths. For months been busy there? Ay.. they have quite destroyed the cloths Y.3u've saved with prudent care. Came, pull them out, perhaps we may Find something that will make A poor man rich, if given to-day, And bless the hearts that ache. Winter is coming ; give, oh give Whatever ye can spare ; A mite will Make the wretched live, And smooth the brow of care. When Plenty smiles around your door, And Comfort dwells within, if If you forgot the worthy poor, 'Twill be a grievous sin. " LONG AGO." Long ago Those words how thrilling Come they with their murmur low, lk The spirit's troubled waters stilling With the music—" Long ago." Memory's long deep hoarded treasure thing they to the spirits light: Days of yore with dreams of pleasure, Rushing back upon the sight. Long ago ! Those words of sadness, Bringing through the mists of years, 'Visions of departed gladness : Ne'cr forgotten sighs sod tears. Dreams of youth and thoughts of flowers, Fading, but:surpassing sweet ; 1 Skies where brightly nod the hours, Never more the sight to greet, Long ago ! Those words how dearer Far than others we may know, When they bring our spirits nearer • To the !eyed of long ago. The key-note of a measure, filling All the heart with harmony The discord of the present s.illing, _ Calming all its troubled sea. ICitiaiIL7.I.6.NMOTYS. The 430.:9anar • Ladies are interested in any informs tion relating to this beautiful and valuable animal, and it appears that her Majesty Queen Victoria liaa already commenced the rearing of them. A London editor i 'frientions having received a specimen of J t ,ilpaca wool, cut from one of the animals in possession of the Queen. The Alpaca is a wool-bearing animal, indigenous to South America, and is one of four varieties %vhi.-..11 bear general points 4 r emblance to each other. The Lama, •e of these varieties, has been long known and often derzribed : but it is only within a few years that the Alpaca has been considered of sufficient importance ..to merit particular notice. Nine tenths of the wool of the Alpaca is black, the remainder being partly white, red mid grizzled. It is of a very lung :;:il._.3c.mL - sa.: - Azr.r.:_;. - 11. - E - a 41 3 ac:34a43.. staple, often reaching twelve inches, and resembles soft glossy hair—which char acter is not lost in dying. The Indians n the South AmeriCan mountains manu facture nearly all their clothing ti•om this wool, and are enabled to appear in black dresses,: without the aid of a dyer. Both the Lama and Alpaca, are, perhaps, even of more value to the nati•res as beasts of burden than wool-bearing animals, and their obstinacy when irritated, is well known. The importance of this animal has already been considered by the En glish, in their hat, woollen and stall trade, and an essay on the subject has been pub lished by Dr. Hamilton, on London, from which some of these details are collected. The wool is so remarkable, being a Jet black, gloisy, silk-like hair, of texile fab rics differing from all others, occupying a medium position between the wool and silk. It is now mingled with other material: in such a sing,u!ar manner, that while a particular dye will affect those, it will leave the Al paca wool with its original black color, and thus giving rise to great diversity. The Alpaca weighs, when full grown, from 160 to 200 lbs. It yields annually a fleece weighing from 10 to 14 lbs. or More. The flesh is said to be wholesome and nutricious ; the skin may be used for• bookbinding and other purposes. An English writer inquires : Can the Alpaca be naturalized in England, and is it probable that its culture will yield a profitable return 1 The Alpaca is found in large herds on the Andes, sometimes at an elevation of 10,000 or 11,000 feet above the sea, where eternal snow rests on the mountain tops, where frequent and violent storms prevail, and where the scanty herbage is of the ' coarsest kind. There they prosper, meet ing with but slight attention on the part of the shepherds. Disease is unknown among them, they are attached to their keepers, and never stray from their herds. They brave the fiercest. snowdrifts, the strongest 011ie herd advance first, bend down their heads to meet the coming storm. and trampel down,or reap over the hillocks of snow thdt obstruct their pas- sage. Viewing the peculiar habits of this an imal the idea of the author is, that it might, with but little trouble or expense, and with great advantage, be naturaliied in those mountainous districts of Scotland and Ireland, and on the bleak and barren bills of England and Wales, which, from their nature, can never be brought into cultiva tion, and which now yield subsistence to no creatures fit for the use of man. From long and extensive inquiries he is convin ced that the Alpaca will live and flourish on the coarse mountain grasses, where an English sheep would starve; and he is satisfied that thus a large addition might be made to our national wealth, as the Alpaca would produce fleeces double the weight of those taken from an English sheep, and of a superior quality, while it would furnish a wholesome meat for gen ' eral consumption. The experiments which have hitherto. been made for naturalizing the Alpaca in England have not, it must be owned, tur ned out favorably; hut we must be care ful not to confound accidental casualties with a natural incapacity of the creature to flourish on our soil. The only trials yet made have been on too limited a scale to furnish any decisive result. They have been kept in pairs, or groups of Eve or six, and have rarely been judiciously treated, In soma instances they have received the seeds of disease during theie long voyage, from which they have never recovered, and in others have been injured by being afibrded rich pasturage, instead of the coarse and scanty load to which they are accustomed. Yet, even under these un- I favorable circumstances, the whole cur rent of taatirnony of these who have kept them is in favor of their prospering well on cur 'high lands if the experiment uvera fairly tried. Mr, R. Bell, of Villa-house, in the coun ty of Kerry, procured a small herd of Alpacas, and his account of them is so curious and interesting that we extract a ' tew of his sentences: • The Alpacas on his farm are of various colors, some being brown, others black, and one perfectly white. They have not been shorn since the month of June, MIL and the average length of their wool at this time is eleven inches, and so firm to theirbodies that the smallest lock cannot be pulled off without great force: there fore they never :rise a bit. It is exceeding ly fine and silky; indeed very much finer than any alpaca wool I have yet seen im ported into England; and, during the two years they have been here, there is a via ble improvement in the texture of their coat, and 1 think that the wool of the al paca lamb here is superior in fineness even to that of the vicuna. I have never, even after a whole day's rain, found them wet to the skin ; for their wool, on becom ing wet on the outside or surface, mats together, and becomes quite impervious to the heaviest showers. 1 certainly do not exaggerate when I say that each of the old alpacas here would clip at this time upwards of thirty pounds of wool. The Alpacas are exceedingly playful, and, to see them to full perfection, a dog should be taken into the field beside them; and, as they run at and play with the dog, their fine and noble positions are display ed to most advantage. From what I have observed of the nature and 'habits of the Alpaca, 1 do most heartily confirm your statement, " That they would live where a sheen would starve," and would be most valuable as a brerding stock in the United Kingdom. They are peculiarly well adap ted to mountainous districts, however coarse the herbage, if the ground be dry; although, at the same time, I will say that the Alpaca is as fond of a bite of good sweet grass as any animal I know of. From Mc New World. 3MOIVIANCI3 5m. 2.134.7A razz. "Marked on Tuesday," (not last) by the Rev. William Ask, Thomas Mowitt and Charlotte Conroy, both of this city. The above marriage was consummated in this city on last Tuesday week--some years ago ; and thereby hangs a tale .of. the marvellous, Mr. Mowitt ika respect: able shoemaker who keeps several men employed, and among the rest was John Pelsing, who had ingratiated himself so much in his favor by his fiita fulness, in dustry, and sobriety, that he took him in partnership about three years since, and had no cause to regret his kindness.-- From that time Mr. Mowitt and Mr. Pelsing were constant friends and com panions, and boarded in the same house, until about twelve months ago, when one day they were subpoenaed on a Cor oner's jury about to be held over the• body of a man that had been taken out cf the river et the foot of Maiden Lane. The deceased had all the appearence of being a regular dock loafer, and it was the opin ion of all present that he had fallen into the slip while in a state of intoxication : but the verdict, which was presently giv en, was merely Found drowned." The jury being dismissed, Mr. Mowitt turned around to look for his friend and fellow juror, who had been at his side till that moment; and he was gone, and he 1 1 thought he saw him running at full speed up Maiden Lane. This struck him as be ing curious, end also reminded him of another curious fact--at least curious as connected with his sudden flight --name ly, that when Mr. Pelsing first glanced at the face of the corpse, he started and turned deadly pale. Mr. M. then pro-- ceeded to his boarding house, and thence to the store, to look for his partner ; bat he had not been to either, nor did he re turn ; and nothing could be heard of or from him. Mr. M. gave up all farther in quiries, thinking there must have been some mysterious connection between Mr. Pelsing and the man that was found drown ed ; and that in consequence thereof, Mr. Pelsing had, in all probability, made way with himself. Su matters rested till a cet tain day last summer, when a lady called oa Mr. Mo witt, at his store; and asked for Mr. Pel sing. She was told the paticulars of his story. And he has not been here since " she inquired. " Not since," was the reply. I know he has," returned the lady. " Ile has nl4, I assure you ; at haat riot to My know:edge," replied Mr. Muwitt. "But I am positive I" said the lady. " What proof have you of it i" inquired Mr. N. "The best in the world :" returned the lady ; " for I am here. and Lir. Pe lsing and myself ere one and the same person." And ctrange es it may seem, such was the fact. The queetiSn then was, whether Mr. Pe(sing was a gentleman or a lady ; and it turned out that she was a lady, and that her name was Charlotte Conroy ; and fur ther more. that she was the widow of the man who 'sac found drowned. She then stated that her husband was a shoemaker 'in Philadelphia ; that she had been two years married ; that ter husband, whose, name was Coaoy, took to drinking, and treated Ler ihully ; having no children, she used to spend her leisure hours sit ting by and stitching shoes torher husband, intendieg, as soon as she could fints:i shoe to leave the drunken man, and work her way through the world alone. Hav ing equipped herself in men's clothes, she left her lord and master and soon arrived in New York. Of her success es a jour neyman, foreman and partner, we have seen above• As soon as the Coroner's inquest was finished, she started for Phil adelphia, where she learned that her hus band--who had become a wandering loaf-. er —had a week before, set out for New York, where, instead of finilins an injured wife, he fount( a watery grave. The finale of this romantic affair was, that Mr. Mowitt requested Mrs. C. to make his house her home ; and fading that lie loved Mrs. Conroy, even better than Mr. Peloing, he proposed a partner ship for Tile, which treaty was ratified by their becorqng man ti.id wife, in a few days theretiftee. This is perhaps the first instance on record wherein a wife performed the of- Ece of a Coroner's juryman on 'the body of her own husband. The lady, by the way, is very good locking, and still on the safe side of thirty. TRANSMISSION OF TYPES, IN STINCTS, AND HABITUDES. Take the mastiff, the Newfinind:and slog, and the greyhound, and keep their families severally pure from any Inter course with each other, and under similar circumstances and conditions, they will preserve their respective physical charac teristics, unaltered and unimpaired, from generation to generation ; just as if the races had each of them, so to express it, a canine Adam and Eva of their own.— But this is not the whole of the case. It is also found . that not only certain organ. is peculiarities, but certain habitudes, cer tain artificial instincts, may be acquired; and that, when cuie acquired, these, too, are transmissible from site to son. A careless observer might easily bo tempted to conclude that these acquired properties were primitivo and aboriginal, and dis tinctive of peculiar ond separate races . — But a due and unprejudiced attention to the above class of phenomena would soon satisfy hint that his conclusion was erre- nevus. We must confine ourselves to a few instances of these curious divergen cies from the right line of original stocks. • The wild dog, then, most certainly, has no great instinctive propensity for the ofilce of guardiad and master to a large flock of sheep. Ile is vastly more disposed to dine upon the mutton himself than to aid in preserving a supply of it for a race of car nivorous bipeds. And yet we have among us a breed of dogs,whose aptitude for that employment is an unvarying and heredit ary as if the keeping of sheep had been the final cause of their creation. A terrier, whose parents had been in the habit of fighting with polecats, will in stantly show every mark of anger and pugnacity on perceiving the scent of that animal; and this although the animal itself be wholly hid from sight. A young span iel, brought up with the terrier, will en dure the odor of the polecat without the slighiest symptom of emotion, but will pursue the first woodcock it has ever seen with clamor and impatience. A well- bred young pointer, which has never set eyes on a patridge, will stand trembling with agitation, its eyes fined, its muscles rigid, when introduced for the first time into the middle of a covey. Again, the natural paces of the horse . are to the walk, the trot, and the gallop. • But the horses bred on the table-land of the Cordillares are carefully taught a peculiar and artift• cial pace, a sort of running ambler and the horseg so trained became the sires of a race to which the amble is natural, and requires no teaching. The fact is so well known that such colts are described by the peculiar name of aguillas. Now, this class of the phenomena seems to be at moral stripe with the philosophy which in- Bists span the necessity of multiplying species in order to account for the almost endless variety of breeds. lt is abun daatly sualcient to show, that many ani mals, perhaps all animal?, are endowed with the capacity of acquiring and trans mitting a hurt of second nature; and that this capacity forms just as',lnuch a law of their enistence as the more general t law, which separates the race of the lion from the race of the on, and all animal races whatever from the race df men. a757.T.712.13.2.1 1 .0 IILaTZCZEZ. OlC\ z" "'"4-44570.% ' 4O ' I.4 .CNG THE HUNTINGDON JOHNAL, "One country, one constitution, one destiny." .I_:_gulizattfivadlz)aup TiTednesday znorning, Dec. 4, 1844. who is .71arns E. 'folk,? Pray, Mr. Cuon, hate you eta yet ob tained any inrorniaTim as to who this "obscure" individual might be?—Har risburg A 7,gus. " Who is James K. Polk?" Go ask hiS neighbors, where he resides, and has resi ded from his boyhood! The vote oleo.; lumbia, his place of residence, statds as follows . For Henry Clay, For James K. Polk, Majority for Clay, 109 That's who he is!—Are you answered Mr. Angus.—lktrrisburg laid . Tho rraul Cearnsed. The N. Y. Plebiun, a leading Lo cane° paper acknowledges that " in some parts of Pennsylvania, the friends of Gov. Polk practised dishonesty, and represented him as friendly to the Tariff of 1842." Folk's Native County. LuuEs K. Pala; was born in :Mecklen burg county, North Carolina, and it was in the same county that his grandfather swore allegiance to the British Crovin.— " To the same county,", says the Raleigh Register, " Gen. SANDERS and Gen. DRONGOOLE made a political pilgrimage, to enlighten the people and convert them from the error of their ways. But all these appliances failed of their effect.— The IVlngs have given a net gain in that County, since the August Election, of one hundred and forly-two votes I U. S. Senator. It is understood that Col. JAMES R. SNO%VDEN of Venango, WILSON WCAND LESS, E4q., of Allegheny, and Gov. POR. TP.R, will be brought forward by their re• spective friends as candidates for the U. S. Senate in place of Dr. Sturgeon whose term expires on the 4th of March next. Speaker of tho Rouse. Maj. FINDLAY PATTER SON of Arm strong, and E. Y. BRIGHT, Esq., of North umberland, have been named in the last number of the Harrisburg Argus as suita ble candidates for Speaker of the House. The Whig papers in Virginia hint that extensive frauds have likewise been perpetrated in that State. o:7' A brutal murder was committed near Kittanning a tew days ago upon an innocent and inoffensive man named Fla- vies Spencer; by two Irish Catholics whose names are O'Brien and Johnson. j ~+ czs Ziat z. - ) 0 4:3 e 3 More of the Dore:If:Ion of Loooteco ism and Dorris=. The following brutal attack upon the Whig Candidates for President andi. Vice President appeared in the Hartford l'imes, the organ of latter tlay Democra cy in Connecticut. We hope that those who profess Christianity here and else whet,. will ',nil it ; "The hyoerite FIV, LING I I UYSEN, nominated by the cocas us " a chloride of lime" to netitralize the stench of Clay's debaucher:es and other crimes, turas out to be, instead of a real chloride, an AD- O! lION OF Fi LTil to the coon-hole of 11 higgery. From the Newark Post we perceive he has taken the stump and is alternately addressing coon meeting) and Sunday ,Vcliools—in the one praising up the GAMBLING and duelling Clay, while in the latter with the gravity cf a 'Christian he effects piety and righteous ness the hypocrite I" From the liar trord Journal. Thrao Grcans for the President of tho :13-d Bible Society.' 4. Three Groans for the President of the d-d Bible Society P' This was one of the mad cries uttered by the ilkits sortrd rabble of foreigneis and degraded Americans, which on 'Thursday evening congregated in front of the Time 4 office. It followed the crv. of " Three groans for d-d old Clay!" We shall make no commentary on this occurrence—none is . needed. The c.•erupt party which has hugged to its bosom the horde . of ignorant and intolerant foreigners, whose only op position to Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, sprang from the fact that he occupies the distin guished poSt of President of the AMERMAN BIBLE SOCIETY, and is devoted and untiring in his exertions TO SPREAD THE HOLY WORD OF GOD—we , say this party, by this fact, has assumed a po sition which toast array against it the. pi • ety and true Christianity of the country.— When it comes to this, that a political par ty, exalting over the successful issue of a base anti-American coalition, signalizes its triumph, and panders to the passions and prejudices of its ignorant foreign allies by demon-shouts, and fiendish groans for the presiding officer of a Society havin for its object the highest, the holiest, an. most ennobling ends—then, Tuna it be comes the duty of every good citizen, every Christian, irrespective of party, to arre- as the emergency demands. Men of New England—sons of sires, wim, braving the storm and the sea; sought in tho wilderness of America, a temple where they might worship their God according to the dictates of their own consciences—the BIBLE for their guide and counsel—Freemen, a great and fearful responsibility rests on YOU I Prepare to meet it as men—as AMER ICANS. Minsk oft:---rplk and Free Trade! Iluzza !I The Charleston Alercury of the 12th inst., thus announces the election of Polk and Dallas! THE RESULT IS SURE AND ULO• RIOUS: Deniocracy 7'riumphant, and James K. Polk, Pleside)t Elect, The mails at yesterday removed all doubt. The Empire State has given Polk and Dallas a majority of thousands—and, with the exception at North Carolina, which too shews a decided turning back to the right, the whole South is united for Free Trade, Low Duties, No Debt, Sepa ration from Banks, Economy, Retrench ment, and a strict adherence to the Con stitution.' The italics—" Free Trade"—in the above extract are those of the Mercury, and are employed, no doubt by Mr. Cal houn's organ in South Carolina, to indi cate that Mr. Polk's Election in that vi cinity is regarded mainly as a Free Trade triumph. 0::r A trial for murder came off in the Allegheny Court of Quarter Sessions last week in which GEOM. DUNN, charged with the murder of John Anderson, wac found guilty of murder in the first degree. This is the first capital conviction ►n that court for several years. The "Union,' published in Lancaster. Pa., has renounced the Whig party, am , joined the Native Americans. It too this step immediately after the late el , • tion, agreeably to its announcement 4.1 a. ring the Philadelphia riots.