HUNTINGDON JOURNAL BY JAMES CLARK:J.Iv VOL, XI, NO, '36. Kl , (la rmal els The "Jooitkia." will be published every Wed nesday morning, at $2 00 a year, if paid in advance, and if not paid within six months, $2 50. No subscription received for a shorter period than six months, nor any paper discontinued till all ar teeragits are paid. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for $1 00, and for every subse quent insertion 25 cents. If no definite orders are g iven ail to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged ac cordingly. V. B. PALMER, Esq., is authorized to act as Agent for this paper, to procure subscriptions and advertisements in Philadelphia, New York, Balti more and Boston. OFFICES: Philariekkia—Number 59 Pine street. igallimore—S. E. corner of Baltimore and Cal vert streets. Nero York—Number 160 Nassau street. Boston—Number 16 State street. POETICAL, WELCOME TO ELIHU BURRITT. B t ft. G. Alums. His bro* is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And he looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man." Lobgfellow's Village Blackmail& tip, tolling fetid* countrymen ! 'the good ship nears the strand, That bearan true and honest man From the far western land; Up, end give Mtn welcome ! No hats oft no cheers, But meet as a friend meets friettd After the lapse of years, With nervous grespings of the hands, And glances full of love, And joyOus words, end smiles as bright, As sun bursts fibril above. What though your cheeksbe suwerrtbrMt&d, Your hands grown hard with toil ; Think ye, he'll not return the grasp, And render smile for smile'! What though your speech be rude, and te Of knowledge have small store, While he has mastered many tongues, And deeply drank of lore, Wilt he disdainfully turn away, And sewn his follow ment Oh. no! 'tie such as you he loses— Up, up, and greet him then ! He cometh not as monarchs come, In pomp, and pride, end Mole I He weare no kingly crown, and yet, In truth, a king he is— A mighty one—in realthe of mind Hu bath a sovereignty ; He hence no sword—no laurel wreeth, Yet who like him hails fought, And difficulties overcome, And deeds of greatness wrought I He sends hie mesons,' before', The blessed words of peace, To bid all strife and jealousies, And vain contentions cease; His " olive leaves" are scattered round, And borne on every gale; Oh, may the lessons there impressed O'er human hearts prevail Then up, my fellow countrymen, And greet this working man-- This pioneer in life's great march, And. leader of the van. MISCELLANEOUS, The Sons Of Temperance. The article inserted below is from the pen of G. W. H. Fiekardt—his views of the character and design of the Order, will be read and approved by all. The Order of the Sons of Temper ance, which is seemingly thrusting its arms every where, and gathering the hosts of Temperance into its Division, is perhaps not so generally understood inits particulars as its great merits de serve. The Order, it is hardly worth while to say, was uilt up on the hint afforded by previous organizations. It is, however as a matter of principle, far more simple than its predecessors. Not that it attaches any blame to those or ders on account of complexity, but be cause taking advantages of their expe- Hence, .and aiming with all its heart, at universal reform of inteMperate habits and customs ; it also aims at the most wide spread approval. Its founders and Supporters knew end understood that union is the talisman of victory. Owing to a want of union, the preceding tem perance efforts, productive as they doubt less Were of vast and incalculable good, yet failed of the highest effect, The Or der is the experience of the mist thrown about the old principles as en impen etrable offetsilre and defensive armor, and splendidly does it answer the pur. pose. The history of associations for moral effort ; may in vain be searched for a parallel to its astounding progress. The Order of the Sons of Temperance, is not yet four years old, and numbers 700 Subordinate Divisions ; embracing 50,000 members. Organization, kind• ness and benevolence are the secrets of this success. Its arrangement is clear and natural. A National Division, Grand Divisions of States and Territo ries and Subordinate Divisions, are its machinery. The National Division is a tall primary shaft—the Grand Divis ions are the greater branches, and the Subordinates the smaller and mbre nu merous, whilst the individual members are the abundant fruits of this noble Temperance Tree. II is proper to our free soil, and of American origin and growth, and it is spreading and will con tinue to spread, an object of beauty and utility in the sight of the people, until it overshadows the whole land, with its glorious white foliage. Subordinate Divisions of the Order; are its immediate practical and popular portions. The Grand Divisions are chiefly judicial, and are representative in character. The National Ditisionl ie the supreme legislative power of the Order, having sole control over its ecin , stitutions, and is also vepresentatiVe.— The Members are active as the results will show. Their quiet individual operg ations are most alarming to the oppog nents of temperance, and "most happy in effect on the victims of a degraded appetite. The Order is moreover very pleasing in its ceremonies, and offers many attractions to the people in its fra. ternal tie, and benefits in sickness, &c, A Son of Temperance has the privilege of entering any Subordinate division in the United States. The whole Order is exceedingly interesting and imposing. Morally, it furnishes a safe resort for young men, and intellectually offers one of the best schools for moral and ,intel lectual developement in the country. FRlENDSHlP.—Friendship is not a pas sion, for it does not deprive you of a due dominion over yourself, neither is it a resource which we find within our selves, since it exposes the objects of Its• choice to the various vicissitudes that may arise from difference of lot or difference or elutra.dter j finally, it im vieSses titl*ith the sense thttt We require a return from others ; and, in this ptfint of view, it makes us feel in a grNit measure the pains that attend love, without promising us the enjoyment Of the vivid pleasures which love is wont to inspire. Man is placed by the oper ation. of all his . afibetions' in this mel ancholy alternative ; if to be loved is necessary to constitute his happiness, all system of certain and durable hap piness is gone for him; and if he be able to renounce being loved, then a great portion of his enjoyments is sac rificed in order to secure what may re main. Thus to abridge our enjoyments requires no ordinary exertion, for it tends only to enrich us at a future day: Marriageable IlaUghttrEh There is a great mistake made by some parents in the treatment of their daughters, in relation to matrimonar matters. "It is not good for man to be alone," nor woman either. A young man comes to this city from the coun try. He goes into a store as clerk, and works his way up, by labor and honest industry, till he becomes.a Marche/it himself. Another comes a mechanic he is sueeessful hit acquiring , property.— The instant prosperity begins to smile upon them, yet ere they become rich ; they marry—porhtipe girls that they hare been attached to from childhood in their native village, or, at arty rote, some one in their own sphere of life.— As years roll on, their wealth increases —they become rich—and their families increase also. Daughters, as well as sons, throng around, tied that sex require the particular attention acid protection of parents. Boys, whatever may be their course when buffeting through life, grow up to manhood, arid cart manage to get along ; but girls have to struggle hard, when left to fight poverty—and poverty oftentimes falls upon those who to-day may think themselves wealthy. Well, then, the clerk becomes a mer chant, and the mechanic a boss : they grow really rich—very wealthy in many cases ; and, as prosperity increases, they become proud. It is so, and the fact need not be disguised, in the meats- time, the parents say to each other— " Our daughters must marry in the high er ranks : we can pay for it." If the daughters are handsome, perhaps the thing is accomplished: if not, they live on in a state of single blessedness till they really become passe, and then take it into their heads to elope with the coachman, the gardener, or some worn mit roue whose pockets need replenish ing. The parents may blame them selves for this. Let the merchant look around him, and, where he sees a clerk worthy ; invite him to his house. If he proposes for his daughter, see if his cap ital of character is good, and then say— " Take my daughter with pleasure."— Let the rich mechanic do the same, Where he sees a promising journeyman, and happiness will be brought into fam ilies; instead e 4 Misery and discord.—, We, as a people,. pre/cord to be republi can; but, in our social habits, we have strange ways of showing the doctrine. —Noah's Alessenget, ÜbitiEcT 6%.--suisVoRTED HUNTINGDON, tE, SEPTEMBER 23, 1846. Eatly Rising; Early to.led and early to rise, Will make a man healthy, *ea* Mid ildite.t Poor Richard: the regular Mitre observed by per sons engaged in agricultural °coupes' tions, is probably an important reakon why far mere, as a class, are healthy and long-lived. It is an old and tdmost universal opinion, that the external air is much less salubrious during the night than during the day; and this opinion, which was first drawn from observation, is confirmed by chemical experitnents ; which tend to show that the air exhaled by vegetables, ivhile the sun is tthord the horizon, is much more pure and fit far respiration, than 'When it issues from' them in the. absence: of the sun. The ill eifeets produced by the latter are probably best aifoided, by seeking astute of repose .and insensibility, the morning air; on the dbiltrary; celebrated by poets rind philosopherk' for its benign and' cheerful influence oh the Mind and body ; is enjoyed in hitt* , perfection by persons devoted to agri , cultural life — and 'the aditantages they derive from this habit, in point of health; are doubtless very'greet: It is stated, on good authority, that a person, who was -very desirous toprO7 tract his' existence in this ivdrld es long as he was able, made every posiible in quiry concerning the regimen and Man• ner of life of these persons who had ar rived at a great age, but found no cir cumstance common to them all, save that they all had observed great regu: larity in the point of hours; both rising early, and going to' bed early. Avoid Bad Company. . . A Correpondent of the Temperance Banner tells the following true story to show what we get by being in bad com pany: It betas the fable of poor Tray, Which we used to read in our school days . : When I *as d •iittl6 138 y; about Mad or ten years old, I was one tiny with my father in the orchard, for the purposeof shooting - .the Mischievous jays. which pecked the apples and corn. Presently one of these birds perched in an apple tree near, at which my father levelled his gun and fired. Something was seen to .fall from the tree, whereupon I tan forward, expecting. to find the jay, but was surprised to find instead of .the jay, a couple of young mocking birds. The jay had escaped, I took thein to thy'. father s who surteyed theth 'with a Ilititlrn ftil look for several mornehts, and than throwing then': down, observed—" That's what you get for •beitig ffi boll cthnptitiy." The incident and remark were fixed upon my mind from that moment, and they have been of much use: to me many times tutee: Add Vbileil I have seed other persons suffer for being found in the company of mischievous people, and this 1 have seen many times,—L have said in my heart--- , .. That's what you get for being in bad conipany.'' • I haie ',mown school-boys to get Whipped for beittg iti bed. corimenyi • TEE DOMESTIC ReLATioxs,-.We ceive of no more Heaven-like circle than s embraced within the lithits of a vir tuous and happy family. There is no thing beneath the skies more ennobling to hurnan nature than such a household —where mildness and virtue, kindness and love, industry and peace, go hand in hand together. Where a contented and cheerful spirit chases away the gloom of the world, and Religion, with her sweet lessons of philosophy f softens and purifies the heart. Where the head of the family is recognised and respect ed as such—and the greatest happiness is derived from his approving smile.— Where the low.sweet voice of Woman is seldom heard but in accents of gen tleness and love, and the name of mother never uttered nnassociated with some endearing epithet. Such a family can only Ire collected together under the in.. fluence of a happy marriage-- - a union of hearts 'as well as haficisa tie consecra ted by pure.and d haste affection-7ft' en- , gagement formed on earth, but sane tioned in Heaven. Of such an union, the Angels who dwell in the bright abodes of the blest, must downward turn their spiritual eyes, and while they gaze with looks of interest and love, delight in and rejoice over the same. WHAT AN IDEA.-A late writer on kiss ing has very properly remarked, that the abominable fashion of ladies kissing each other, is a piece of wanton and unpro voked cruelty; a sheer waste of Hea ven's good gift, a miserable frittering away of what was designed for better purposes, It is absolutely wicked, and 99 cases in a hundred, it is done for no other purpose than to annoy and make wretched the poor things who stand with their hats in their hands, and dart not so much as open their watering mouths, for fear of slobbering their bo soms, A QUEER STORY. Every body knows that I, Jack Brag; Esq., haire been a great traveller, and every body else knows that travellers meet, With strange adventures. One Striding hot day, as I was walking be= side the river Nile, I.heard a rustlitig noise among the rushes that were grow ing a short distance from the path I was treading. What can that be'! said Ito myself, in a bit of a qualm, at the same time looking round, when behold there Was a tarnation great crocodile close by my heels, with his terrific jaws Wide open. " Oh! that's what yon mean," said Ito the monster, as the perspiration oozed from my skin, and in a jiffy I clap ped my walking stick, perpendicularly, in the horrid creature's mouth, and so gagged him at once. I had no sooner done this, than I heard a sepulchural like -voice say, "thankee massa! than ked Wiese! God blessee massa 1" and , in a second the woolly head of a nigger presented itself in the back part of the crocodile's huge jaws ; and in less than a minute after Out juiriped toaster Sato bof whtl fell upon his knees, and hugged my legs; exclaiming : " thankee massa! blessee massa! you sai`ed tiii lifethat ugly VarMifit swallow poor Samby whole, riot five minutes .ago, without so much as hurting nhair of dis nigger's head.— Then jumping hastily upon his legs, he ;exclaimed in .terror: "Hallos! !fiesta! see! see l look quick ! tnassa I the tiger the tiger!" I was altriost petrified With 'fear on beholding an immense tiger bounding towards us. "Lord, have mercy upon me," said I to myself, "it's all up With poor Jack now." The fierce animal, with dilated eyes, had even ap proached within a few yards. He.crouch ed to take his last fatal spring at me.— Instinctively I placed myself opposite the open jaws of the crocodile. The tiger took his horrid leap ; I stepped on one side ] and providentially my unre lentitig enemy bounded clear down the crocodile's throati • • t" Ha ! ha! massa ! braya, massa ! you Wicked - him nicely, this time, massa exclaimed the nigger, clappinglis hands, and almost burstin himself with laugh ter ; whilst I, taking my walking-stick out of the crocodile's mouth, suffered the monster's jaws to close on the dis appointed and furious tiger. I now gave the amphibious reptile a heavy blow on the snout with the stick. By this time he seemed somewhat tamed, so he tin , ned tail and walked back into the rushes, to digest a fierce tiger, instead of ma king a meal of a nigger and a Christian traveller. From that day to this, Seth bo has been my factotum, for the faith fish nigger will not leave me. MARRIED LIFE.—The following beau= tifdl and trite sentiments are from the pen of that charirling writer s Fredergett Bremer, whose obseniatithiS become the rates of life, so appropriate are they to litany of its phases "DeceiVe not one another in sinall things, nor in great: One little single lie, has, .before now, disturbed a whole married life: A small cause hag efteit great consequeacem Fold not the arms together and sit idle. a Laziness is the devil's cushion." Do not run much from home. One's own health is of more worth than gold. Many a marriage s my friends, begins like the rosy niarn iug, then falls away like a snow-wreath. And Because the married pair neglect to be as well pleasing to each other after marriage as before. Endeavor always,_ my children, to please one an other, but at the same time, keep God in your thoughts. Lavish not all your love on to-day, for remember that mar riage has its to-morrow likewise, and its day after to-morrow too. " Spare, as one may say, fuel for the *inter." Con sider, my daughters, what the word wife expresses: The married woman is the husband's domestic faith ; in her hand, he must be able to confide house and family be able t 6 &Arad her with the key of his heart, as well as the key of his. eating-roorm His honor and his home are under her keepingbis being is in her hand. Think of this ! And you, sons, be faithful husbands, and good fathers of families. Act so that your wives shall esteem and love you." Oci- Some forty odd of the Ohio Vol- unteers have returned recently from the' best of fiver-A-4hatring been discharged on aectiuf►t of sickness: They report that great at/tuber's of the men at Butite are sick atid dying. BD" A preacher being requested to perform the last sad office for a young woman at the point of death ; pressed her to beiiete that flest ntd bldod Could not eater the kingdom of leaden. "I ant safe c ' i said she,. "for 1 atn nothing but skis and bone." The Roman Citizen asks, Why is a clock like an aged man V and answers,. 'Because it slums the marks "of time upon its face." FROM MEXICO. From the Nit* &Teens Delta, Sept. 0. LATEST FROM THE ARMY. MOVEMENtS OF GEN. TAYLOR: We have been perriiittdd to peruse a letter from Gen. Taylor, dated Camar go; the 27th tilt: Ih it the General states that hd had Sent da 90 mules; 200 *agons, arid one hundred and sixty thousand rations; that he would move on the Ist td the sth . inst., himself; ta Monterey ; that if the eliethy dul ndt gike him fight there, he would rush Qn to Saltillo, and there arrange bbs plans for a future and more forward move ment: RIOT AMONG THE VOLUNTEERS.-Th y Picayune has an account of the riot which occurred among the Georgia vol unteers, at Burita, on the Rio Grande: On the night of the 31st ult., a riot broke out among some volunteers, on a steamboat lying at an encampment op posite Minim, in which several persons are said to have been killed, and others mortally wounded. The particulars of this shaiiieful affair, as we have them, are these : betitd the boat were some three of four companieS of Georgia volunteers— of these there was one Irish company, between which and some other company a feud had existed for several days; The quarrel reablied lig tllHiax dh the evening mentioned, and a terrible fight ensued. Shots were fired, and swords and bayonets were used indiscriminate' ly. In the affray, some fifteen or twen ty persons are reported to hate been killed or mortally wounded, and proba bly as many others were wounded more or less. Besides the dead and wounded seen on board and on shore, it is said that eight or ten were forced overboard, who either drowned or died of their wounds, The rioters were Subdued; Forced to surrender their arms, and placed kiiolt a strong guard. The full particulars of this outrageous transaction could not be procured before the McKim left. We shall probably hear further of it by the next arrival. The Picayune gives the names of sev eral of those who were wounded in the affray. We have only space to men tion those of Col. Baker, of the 4th re giment of Illinois volunteers, and one of his officers, Capt. Roberts, of company A. Their wounds ; however, it is thought will not prove fatal. FATAL STEAMBOAT EXPLoBION.—An ex plesioh occurred on board the steamboat Enterpfise, oh the Rio Grande. This Casualty occurred a little after daylight on the 21st ult., about 45 miles froth Reynosa. There were over 150 parsons on board ; acid many in the ithihediate iiicinity of, and directly over, the boil ers, who were scarcely injured. There were 5 killed; 16 badly; and 13 slightly wounded. From the Gulf Squadron. itfiiicx, Loss AND BURNING OF THE U. S. BRIO, TRUXTON. SURRENDER OF THE CAPTAIN AND A LARGE PORTION UP' HER CREW-THEIR MARCH TO TAMACO. By the arrival df the U. S. Revenue steamer Legare at New Orleans, from Vera C ruz, we are in receipt of letters from our correspondents as late the 29th ultimo. U. S. SQUADRON, OFF VERA CRUZ, August 29, 1846. The only event of importance which has transpired of late, is the loss of the U .S. brig Truxton, on the bar of the Tuxpan river 9 about 130 miles northward of Vera Cruz. It appears that Capt. Carpenter of the Truxton, wishing to get his vessel near shore to protect his boats while obtain ing provisions employed a Scotchman he had taken out of a Mexican prize to pilot him in, but who, whether from de , sign er accident ; run hint aground on the 16th, On the nth with the excel) , tiott of Lieut. Huttter and a bout's crest ; she was abandoned by the officers and then, who went ashore to the number of 60 in all, and surrendered themseltes to the Mexican commandment. They were hospitably received, and left next day for Tainpko i about 100' miles fur: ther north. Lieut. Hunter and his bones crew put to sea; eapttefed a small Mexican schooner ; and came down to our present anchetilie, making in all 2 officers and abbot 30 men saved. As soon as The news were received, the Primeetoh immediately got under Weigh, and proeeded to the scene of disaster: The Truxton Was found beating on the bar ; bilged and completely filled with Wafer, having about four feet over the berth deck. The surf was so iio-' lent on the bar that it was not uitil the 22d, that the boats of the Princeton could beard her, whetsfintlnt it itaiiios• Bible to ' get her ,or saire'hei,• she was fired and coMpletely burned. She is a total loss. She had been completely [BDItOii AND PROPRIETOR WHOLE NO, 54, plundered and stript by' the Mexicans before the tirrival of the Princeton. Her, guns were found to have been thrown overboard. • SeVeral: coitinitthictitidhs passed bc twCenAhe Princeton and shore by flags Of truee, and by them the fate of the captives was learnt: About ten days since Santa Anna left Vera Cruz ftir the city of Mexico, pre- Vious to which, however, he sent a po lite invitation to our Commodore to meet ,bibi qn board the English frigatt;‘ Endyntion • the ititertriew did not take place. The frigate Potomac is nearly disabled by the sickness of her crew, the seamy hits broken out on board of hor, ;Ind she has rib* 140 crises of the dreadful disease: drt . the 27th, the cut ter PorWard arrived from the Belize, but brought no intelligence of impor• tance. laxlean Females on Horseback The Matamoros correspondent of the Mew Orleans Bee thus describes the manner Of riding in vogue among the Mexicans: , t Did I ever tell you the style in which thh Mexicans, intile , and retuale, ride on a horse 1 I have written Fe much nOn sense that I have really forgotten whe cher I have spoken of this or not. St. James' bay is the tittle that etiery Mex. itan who can, bstridc a horse. • There trust hafe been more than 3,000 Mexi-, catt§ on horseback, most of whom passed the street on which I reside. Instead of the men and women riding as they do , in bill' diuntry; they reverse tho thing The gentleman gets ont of the saddle altogether on the broad piece of leather that hangs behind each Spanish saddl. I His feet are in the stirrups, the stone IV though they were in the saddle. Ile Catches the' Selibrry by the Waists flip her up oh the saddle, with the left hand hhcircling her waist, whilst the right as the rein : and in this manner they, start off pell mell, at a rate the we.. 1.1 onik.e one of our own ladies tremble for laOr. safety." Duelling : • Two musquiteetrone niorning met on a leaf in the garden. Both were filled with the blood draiv,u frbm their, noctur nal depredatiOns. They were silent and dumpy, cross and savage: One of , theM ran out his sting;and wiped -it on one leg. The other, thrust but his sting, and pointed it toward the first masqui: toe. This was considered an insult, and so the offended Musquitoe steps up te the other One and said— Did you run out your sting at me i" "I ran out my sting; you caa.apply it ds you choose," V;718 the answer. "Sir, your remarks savor of rascali ty f " said the first. a. Ha!" exclaimed foie other;."arlown: tight insult ! No gentlemaiily musqui toe will submit to such treatment with- Out satisfaction. Draw, villain, and de: fend, yoarselfC They rished idgether, and running one Intotber through the body; died ho nOrable deaths. ORIGIN OF THE WORD a QUlZ."—very few words ever took such a run; or Wert; saddled with so many meanings adthis monosyllable ; and, however strange the word, it is still More stranF,4 that not one of our leiieographers, from Bay ley to khnson, ever attempted an ex planation, or gave a derivation of it.— The reason is very obvious ; it is be cause it has no meaning ; tor' is it deri. ved from any language in the world ever known, from the Babylonish confu sion to this day: 'then llichdrd Daly was patentee of the Irish theatres, he spent the evening of a Saturday in com pany with many of the wits and men of fashion of the day. Gambling was in. troduced, when the manager staked large sum, that he would halve spdkee' tlirdligh all the principal streets of hat, lin by a certain hour next day ; SA, a word haVing no meaning; and being derived fret'n no knoicii lafiguage ; wa gers were laid andstifkes deposited.-- Daly repaired td the theatre, and de spatehed all the serVanis and superior: hierarieg - tfith the iiord "Quiz," which they ebalked On every door and shay: Window in town. Shops being shut next day, everybody going to eta Con. ing from their different houses Frady wet , ' ship, saw the word and.efel body re; peated it, so that "'Wile was heard all through Dubli44. 'rho circumstance of so strange a word being on every doer and Window, caused much surprise ; add ever since, should a story be at tenipted td be paesed current, it draws forth! the 4pression, °Yon , arc quiz= zing me.'' 'HE Btntl.---Wheresoever the Bible is unfurled; there freedom finds a foot ing, huniunity d ehai4ion, Christianity an OW, the soul a Sakiour, the Orphat' a father, and all that know, and lov , end believe in it an everla:ning and ble,sed heMe.