Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, December 23, 1846, Image 1
HU\TF\GDON JOURNAL. BY JAMES CLARK :] VOL. XI, NO. 49. vCPcsoLrma. GO . The "Souk Kai." will be published every Wed nesday morning, at $2 00 a year, if paid in advance, and if not paid within six months, $2 N. No subscription received for a shorter period than six months, nor any paper discontinued till all ar rearsges 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 given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will bo kept in till ordered out, and charged ac cordingly. Cr 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: Philadelphia—Number 59 Pine street. Baltimore—S. E. corner of Baltimore and Cal- vert streets. New York—Number 160 Nassau street, Rosion—Number 16 State street. HOW SHALL I MEET THEE? How shall I meet thee I —With the trust, The free, fond trust of other years? With the deep, fervent joy that must Explain , itself in silent leers? With eager grasp, end glsdden'd tone Such smiles as fot our childhood shone No !—Frienship blooms no more for us, 'Tie long since I have met thee thus ! How Ala I meet thee?—With the blush That kindles at thine earliest gaze, While quirk thoughts o'er my spirit rush— The quivering lip my heart betrays: With voice whore faltering accents breath• The trembling joy that lurks beneath ! No !-Buch vain dreams aro not for ye, I Jo not wish to meet thee thus. How shall I meet thee I—W ith an eye That bath no lnightneaa. yet no tears With hectiles. tone and cold reply, The chilling garb indifference wear.; With saddened heart, yet careless mien, Revealing nought of what hal been ? Yes, changes sad have altered us, Ala. ! that I must meet thee thus ! ARKANSAS ELOQUENCE. We'll put the following sample of an Arkansas lawyer's eloquence against any thing they can bring from the west. As to the justness of his reasoning we say nothing, but as to its conclusiveness we defy any one to find a match. His client was brought up for stealing a mule. After the witnesses had all been sworn, and the lawyer on the other side had given his opinion, our orator gave the jury the following blast : " Gentlemen of the jury, the whole of you, there you set: You have heard what those witnesses have said, and of course you agree with me that my client didn't steal that mule. Do you s'pose, for one second, that he would steal a mule 1 a low-lived mule! D—n clear of it. What does he want of a mule when he has got a bang-up pony like that tied to von tree (pointing to a fine looking Mustang, opposite the log court-house). What, I say, in the name of General Jackson, does he want of a mule 1 Nothing—exactly nothing. No, gentlemen of the jury, he didn't steal the mule, he wouldn't be caught steal ing one. He never wanted a mule, he never had a mule, nor he never would have a mule about him. He has his antipathies as well as anybody, and you couldn't hire him to take a mule. Jurymen, that lawyer on the other side has been trying to spread wool over your eyes, and stuff you up with the notion that my client walked oft' with the aforesaid animal without asking leave ; but you ain't such a pack of fools as to believe him. Listen to me if you want to hear truth and reason—and while you are about it, wake up that fellow who's asleep ; I want him to hear too. That other lawyer says, too, that my client should be sent to prison. I'd like to see you send him once. But it's get ting towards dinner time, and I want a horn bad, so I'll give you a closer and ,! finish. Now you have no idea of send ing my client to prison ---I can see that fact striking out. Suppose either of you was in his place—suppose, for in stance, I was, and you should undertake to jug the—put me in a log jail without fire, where the wind was blowing in on one side and out of the other, and the only thing to brag of about the place wits the perfectly free circulation of air —do you suppose, I say, that I would go 'I I'd see you d—d first, and then I wouldn't." We don't know what verdict the jury returned, as when our informant left, they had all gone to the grocery to liquor.—X. 0. Picayune. THE LAST.—A school boy being ask ed by his teacher how he should flog him, replied, "If you please, sir, I should like to have it upon the Italian system of penmanship, viz :—the heavy strokes upwards, and the down ones light. Q - "If I were so unlucky," said an officer, "as to have a stupid son. I would certainly, by all means, make him a parson." A clergyman who was in his company, replied, " you think different ly, sir, from your father." mom TZI ALRIVIY The following letter is from WE. SNARE, of this borough, (now in the army) addressed to his father, of this place : MONTEREY, (Mexico,) Nov. 9,1846. * * * Since the battle, we have been comfortably quartered in some of the best houses in Monterey, and' have had first-rate times ; but we are again under marching orders. We are making preparations for a march to wards San Luis Potosi, a distance of 400 miles from Monterey—and the only place between here and there that we will meet with any opposition. Part of Gen. Worth's division (to which I be long) will. march immediately for Sal tillo, (75 miles) establish a depot, and remain a few days until we are relieved by other troops. We will then proceed to San Luis Potosi, establish depots, and remain there until we have sufficient force to attack that place. Gen. Patterson, with about 500 troops, has left Camargo for Tampico, a sea port, where everything can be landed by water with much more convenience than by land. Theiv is no doubt but that we will have a much harder fight yet than we have had, but not for two or three months. We were in hopes that Vera Cruz would have been attacked : but it seems that we have to do all the fighting.—Two divisions of our army, which Gen. Taylor was with, had hard times in the fight; they took the guns out of several of the Mexican forts, with a great loss of men. They could not hold their position; they were obliged to retreat with the guns, and could do nothing more. Gen. Worth's division was the means of conquering them here. We were fighting the Mex icans in town with small arms, when Gen. Taylor's division could not get into town. Climbing the hills in the rear of Monterey in the night saved our division; we could not have drawn them off had they stood their ground. By the time we reached the foot of the sec ond hill, which was about 2 o'clock in the night, their (the Mexicans) piquet guard hailed Capt. Walker, who was in front of us; he answered .4 Officer of the Guard," in Spanish, when the Mex ican sentinel, thinking he was their offi cer, allowed him to advance. He ran to the sentinel, caught him, and told him to lay down his musket, and go in the rear; if he did not, he would be shot; the sentinel was glad of the chance. The Mexicans on the hill, who were asleep, depended on their piquet guard giving the alarm. W e marched quietly and steadily up the hill, until we got within 30 or 40 yards of the top, when a dog that was with us ran up, which alarmed the Mexicans. They got up and commenced firing with great confusion, without seeing any of us. We laid down until they had fired away nearly all their ammunition ; we then com menced firing, and soon drove them away. You ask me how I like soldiering in a foreign country, among uncivilized peo ple. I like it about as well as I did heretofore, with the exception of when it comes to firing at each other ; but "He who'd rusli'twixt sword and lance, Of deadly wound. meat stand his chance." I have been well since I came here ; but there are a great many sick with the fever and ague, more among the volunteers than regulars. The nights are - cool, but the days are extremely warm, and likely to be so. There is no sign of winter in this coun try. There is attached to our quarters gar dens of fine oranges, of which we have not been wanting. We might have had something valua ble, had we been permitted to plunder their town,_ which would soon settle the war ; but by protecting the citizens who fought against us, our Government thinks they will gain the confidence of Mexican citizens, and thereby have it settled ; but that game won't work. The citizens will fight against us until we take them prisoners; and then they claim protection from us, which is grant ed. _ _ The Texans have all left, much dis satisfied at Gen. Taylor for allowing the Mexicans to march out armed and equip ped for another battle. You will hear from me again before the next battle. • * * * * Yours, &c., WM. SNARE NOT BAD.—When the steamboat reach- ed New Haven from New York the day after the election, the following• words were stuck up over the deck in large letters, "the Locofocos have got it !" Of course the good democrats gave such a shout as made all ring again, and some of them rushed on board and enquired of the captain if they had really got it I " Yes," replied the Captain ; "you're got a d—d good licking!" CORRECT PRINCIPLES-SUPPORTED BY TRUTH. HUNTINGDON, PA., DECEMBER 23, 1846. PUBLIC DOCUMENTS, SYNOPSIS OF THE WAR REPORT. It is chiefly occupied with a history of the commencement and progress of the Mexican war operations, embracing the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, the three days' conflict at Mon terey, the termination of the armistice, the conquest of Santa Fe and the Cali fornias' &c. &c. Satisfactory though not official infor mation had been received of the taking of Monclavo, but not of Chihuahua.— Gen. Kearney's detachment was expect ed to reach the Pacific about the last of November. The operations of Col. Fremont and Commodore Stock ton, west of the Rocky Mountains, are referred to with commendation. Au thentic information, but no official re port, had as yet been received. The military force of the U. States has been augmented from 7640 to 39,- 000. The duties of the department have been arduous and embarrassing. 'rue department of Tamaulipas, on the right bank of the Rio Grande, for several hundred miles from its mouth, New Leon, Coahuila, and Chihuahua, have all in effect been wrested from the Central government of Mexico, and the Mexican authorities, both military and civil, displaced in New Mexico and the Californias, all in the short space of 7 months. The regular army created under the law of the last session, when filled up, will amount to 16,998 officers and men, but it does not now exceed 10,300. The want of success in filling up the ranks is attributable, probably, to the large numbers of volunteers called out since the passage of the bill increasing the army. It is impossible to tell what number of troops the exigencies of the war may require. The volunteers call ed out who have encountered the enemy have more than justified the high expec tations formed of this description of troops, but it is no disparagement of them to say, that a regular force would be preferred in a war to be prosecuted in a foreign country. Considerations of economy also are decidedly in favor of troops being en gaged to serve during the war. The Secretary is most solicitous that this subject should receive the early atten tion of Congress, and that a body of troops should be raised to take the place of those volunteers who will claim a discharge at the end of their year's service. A plan recommended by Gen.. Ma coomb, in his report in 1837, in refer ence to regimental and field officers, is approved of by the Secretary, and the attention of Congress directed to it. Prevision should be made for the pun ishment of offences committed by our troops, and by persons connected with the army. A further increase of the regular army is recommended. The estimated appropriations for for tifications for the next year, is $495,- 600, including their defence, and the support of the sappers, and miners and topographical engineers. The present organization of the Ordnance Bureau is deemed inadequate. A deficiency exists in the Medical Staff of the army. A history is given of the operations in Mineral Lands during the past year.— The number of Pension agencies is 44, exclusive of navy pensions, and the number of pensioners about twenty thou sand. The independent treasury act contem plates the employment of officers there in named as pension agents, and ren ders it doubtful whether those hitherto employed arc not suspended. It is there fore recommended that authority be given to continue the present agents at a reasonable compensation. Thirty-four hundred and thirty-four Indians have been removed from the East to the West of the Mississippi, since the last annual report. Nontria BRITISH.—A Yankee boast ferred .. _ New treaties with the' Indians are re- street, which we take from the Philadel- To-day John P. Campbell of Spring ing an inveterate hatred of everything to, and the solicitude of govern- British, is living in a house in Boston phia Inquirer : ment expressed' for the promotion of the field arrived here, and brings our first The estimated means for the service positive information that our provision giving with a colonist family. He takes every welfare of the Indian tribes. opportunity to have a slap at brother of the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1848, trains are all breaking down and are given as $27,220,957. , here this winter. If t hi s i s t h e case, Bull, and the colonist does shat he can Synopsis of the Navy Report. out, and that few of them could reach to defend the venerable gentleman. The expenditures for the same period The Mediterraneon squadron has not $45,781,784. You are arguing," said the colonist, starvation will be the inevitable conse been continued during the last year, but A duty of 25 per cent on tea and coffee quence. No provisions can be had here. . it is proposed to revive it as soon as cir- is recommended. We have not ten nays' provisions at . against your ancestors." ' cutnstances will permit. The station at Twenty years is designated for the present. "No, lam not.' , Mahon has been discontinued, at the term of the new loan. A SECRET FOR A FARMER'S WIFE.— " 13 110 was your father 1" earnest request of the Portuguese Gov- The duties collected at Baltimore, While the milking of your cows is go- "A Yankee." ernment, and measures are in progress Philadelphia and New York during the i ng let your pans be taken from the "Who were your forefathers I" for the aemoval of the public stores at first five days of December, 1846, under on, that place. The East India squadron, the new Tariff; amounted to $416,802. hot kettle, and cover the same with ano- " Yankees." ther of the hot pans, and proceed in like "Who were Adam and Ever consisting of the Columbus 74, and the During the five days of December, tanner with the whole mess of milk, " Yankees, by—thunder l'' sloop Vincennes, is supposed to have under the old Tariff, $208,274. A l v B e 4 r s ; , and n you will have double the quantity sailed for Japan and Kainschatka in the silly contrast, as last year the Tariff was of good, rich cream ; that you will get i THAT is ALL.—The editor of the Bos month of May or June last, and to have not new, but was in regular course of double the quantity of sweet, delicious , ton Post says—" All that is necessary returned to Macao about this time.— operation. butter. Try it. Ifor the enjoyment of sausages at break- They will will probably commence their The gross estimate of revenue ditties 'fast is confidence." i , homeward cruise, via the North Pacific, this year is $27,835,731. Oy- What is that, which by putting i lin January or February next. The Sub-Treasury Bill is admitted to , its eye out leaves nothing but a nose 'I gy- Another regiment of troops ham Orders were sent to Corn. Biddle in be defective in some of its details. -- . Why; the word noise. you stupid. ' been called for from this State. January last, to proceed to the West More money is wanted to pay the Sub- [PUBLISHED BY REQUEST.] Coast of Mexico and assume the corn- treasurers, clerks, and incidental expen- Address to the People of Pennsylvania. mand of the squadron there ; but no ses. The Secretary says that no ad- Internal Improvement—Dr. OfcConnell's acknowledgment of them has been re- equate security is provided by law for Propeller. ceived at the Department. the security of the public money in the ~ by my last address to you, that The Brazil squadron consists of the hands of disbursing agents; and whilst FELLOW CiTizExsl—You will have per . am in the Capital of our great and maw; per frigate Columbus, Commander Ritchie, transfers are required to be made from ceived, and the brig Bainbridge, Lieut. Corn- place to place of specie, no uppropri- I mending Remmington, under Commo- ation is made by this law to pay the ex- nificent county}' ! and it is my purpose continue , my communications, and, from time to time, direct your dere Rosseau. The African squadron penses of these transfers, or to enable to consists of the frigate United States, disbursing agents to pay the dubl ic cred- shall t to matters connected With your at the sloop Marion,brig Dolphin and Boxer hors at all times and places with pane- tension and store ship Southampton-86 guns tuality and dispatch. The powers of interests and prosperity. The measures in all. A full and interesting narrative the Department in relation to that por- of government, the policy of the admin is given of the operation of the Pacific tion of the public moneys which must istration, with occasional descriptions Squadron since the war, both under be paid on the other side of the Atlantic, of those who are termed 'c great men," Politica Information, Disquis oh Commodore Stoat & Commodore Stock- or in ally foreign country, through the Science l and Literature, tocrether ns with ton, and copies are annexed of the medium of agencies existing, or to be official reports of these officers. The created there, and by the operation of whatever I may think will ' interest or squadron now consists of the Savannah, foreign bills of exchange, are not suffi- edify you, will more or less occupy my and the Congress, frigates; the sloops ciently defined by law. addresses, and I trust, while you are around your firesides on a cold Portsmouth, Levant, Warren, and Cy- Truly, the Bill is a budget of blunders. gathered ane: schooner Shark, and store ship The new Tariff is lauded, and its de- wintry night, that you may find some Eric. The razee Independence is on tails and operations are adverted to at entertainment front their perusal. The ' her way out, with Com. Shubrick, who, length. internal improvement of our Common on his arrival, will assume conunand of A Graduation Bill with regard to the wealth is a matter of much importance 1 to every citizen, and as the easy and l the squadron ; and the sloop Preble has Public Lands is recommended, on the sailed for the same destination. principle that reduction and graduation economical navigation of our canals and I The doings of the Home Squadron are rapidly augment the proceeds of the rivers is very desirable, I with pleasure call your attention to Dr. McConnell's also fully narrated, and copies are an- sales. In brief, the Secretary says that . nexed of the official reports of Commo- "if Congress, at an early period of the Propeller, doze Connor, in reference to the block- present session, would impose the pro- meat is admirably adapted to propelling a machine which, in my judg ode. the designs on Alvarado, the affair posed duty on tea and coffee, reduce and canal boats on canals and rivers of shal at Tobasco, and the taking of Tampico. graduate the prices of the public lands low water. The contrivances which Full justice is done to the Commanders in favor of settlers and cultivators, ex- have heretofore been made for canal pur of both these squadrons in whom the tend the pre-emption system to the un- 'Poses have invariably failed in the ex , confidence of the department seems un- surveyed lands to which the Indian title pectations of the inventors, and I regard C ll's Propellor us combining abated. Extracts front m illeonne advantages with a very' simple the instructions has been extinguished, and authorize the , under which they acted, show also a , sale of that portion of the public lands ,many disposition on the part of the Govern- I containing copper and other valttableores structure, which, if adopted, will be of immense benefit to the canal navigation meat to avoid all collision with Mexico, I —the loan might safely be reduced from of this Commonwealth. It appears to be if possible. The vessels comprising the ! twenty-three to seventeen millions of a modification of the instrument of pro , navy of Texas seem to have been found dollars." I pulsion designated as the Palntypede of unworthy of repair, with the exception Later from Santa re. : M. de Jouffrey, and in design, to speak of the Austin, which is at Pensacola ; The St. Louis Republican of the ritli I technically, is a piston working free or the others have been ordered to be sold. inst. furnishes the foll Owing extract of a combined with an open cylinder outside The estimates of the department are based on the employment of ten thousand letter front Col. Doniphan, commanding of, and at the after part of the vessel.— ough no more than eight thousand the first regiment of Missouri volunteers, ' It is placed on the after part of the keel ; men,th dated and being under water, is secure from five hundred are now in service. Au- SANTA FE, Oct. 21, 1846. I the weather, and more secure, as it can thority is asked to build four sea steam- We have established a Civil govern- I not be affected by any change in the lat. boats to be employed in connection with mcnt here, and all things wears the ap- , eral position of the boat. In a commu our squadrons abroad. satisfaction of profound peace and entire , nientron from Charles IL Haswell % Esq. The practicability of the dry dock at , satisfaction on the part of the people ; ; Engineer-in-chief 11. S. N., to Comm°. New York is not doubted, and the work but to a close observer it is evident that I dore Morris, in relation to Dr. McCon i gp t is all hypocrisy, indeed it could be nell's invention, he says, that " hitherto is ured uon the fayorable attention of Congress. A dock at Pensacola is also nothing else. A people conquered but this principle of propulsion has met recommended, and other improvements, , yesterday, could ~have no friendly feel- with but little favor, but the very full ing for their conquerors, who have taken I report made to the .dcadetnic des Sciences to increase the efficiency of the yam at that place. The restriction on the Mem ossession of their country, changed its I in 1840, by a commission who witnessed laws,and appointed new officers, prin- i a comparative trial between the Palini ofphis work, adopted at the last session cipaly foreigners. Yet such is their I pede of M. de Jouffrey and the side Congress, it is thought may be advan tageously removed. cunning and hypocrisy, that they par- I wheel, wherein the former is declared tinily imposed on Gen. Kearney up to ! to have been the most effective, added The exclusive employment of naval the very day of his departure; but there 1 to the modification now presented, indu officers as naval storekeepers abroad, is not thought to be wise, and a modifica are so many troops here now, that their i ces the opinion on my part, that for the bad feeling is a matter of perfect indiffe- purpose of canal navigation, and as an tion of the law on the subject is recom mended. rence. auxiliary instrument of propulsion for The Naval School is spoken of in terms Yesterday we obtained what we deem- Navy purposes, it is worthy of further ed pretty correct information from El consideration." In this opinion of Mr. of approbation, and the same appropria- Passe del Norte, that Magoffin, Dr. Con- Haswell I perfectly coincide, and I am tion is asked for as was had last year. A nelly, Colonels Owen and Glasgow were decidedly convinced, that for canal nay suitable notice is also given to the ob servatory, where valuable operations are retained there as prisoners by the troops, igation it is superior to any thing that but were treated very respectfully, yet has been suggested. It produces no beginning to attract the attention they deserve. not permitted to go to Chihuahua or re-' swell—is put in operation by steam pow- An addition to the number of Assist- turn. They had gone in advance of I cr—the speed can be accelerated or re ant Surgeons is very much desired, and their wagons, and will lose nothing, and , tarded ut pleasure—will be found cheap the department also recommends an in- will only be detained until orders can ! er considerably than horses, and will crease in the rank and file of the marine corps and in the number of warrant be obtained for their release. occupy but a small space. By the up- Our regiment is under marching or- I plication of this machine to our canal dets for Chihuahua, and would have vessels a great saving would be effected officers. The report concludes with ad wising that authority be given to the been off before to-day, if Gen. Kearney —and freight as a consequence being President to appoint one out of five or had not sent back orders, after he got lowered, our inland trade would be great six midshipmen at large, irrespective of ten days from here, requiring us to go ly increased. the place of residence of the person ap- into the Eutaw and Navijo countries, I trust that some of our enterprising pointed ; provision might thus be made and bring both these wars to a close be- , citizens will look to this matter, as it is for cases of peculiar merit which are fore we left lucre. We have made a 1 one eminently deserving serious atten now excluded. Nothing is said in the permanent treaty with the Eutaws— tion. I will state in further corrobora report of the system of promotion. Maj. Gilpin having penetrated far into tion of my views that twelve months The Secretary confines himself to a their country. Our whole regiment will I ago 1)r. McConnell's propeller was tried faithful narrative of the doings of the march into the Navijo country itninedi- I on a canal boat, and the speed obtained Navy, with practical suggestions such ately ; this lies between the Del Nortewas six miles an hour, no swell was pro as are mentioned above. His report is I and the waters running into the Pacific. duced, the Propeller was only fourteen a very interesting one. Maj. Gilpin goes up the Charms; Lieut. ! inches square, and the Engine three Col. Jackson up the Puerto o f th e West I horse power—it is supposed that if the The U. S. Treasury Report. (there being two of them) and Gen. Engine had been a five horse power that I The Annual Report of the Secretary I Doniphan (our command) up the Junes. a speed of ten miles an hour could have of the Treasury of the United States is iAs soon as we return, we will start with ; been obtained. So much for the present a document of much itnportance, but too I I the traders to Chihuahua. Col. Price 'on this subject. long for our paper. We must, therefore, and all his regiment and separate butte- Washington C ity, ..11 „, or. 27, 1846. be content with the following brief ab- lion will remain here this winter. . [EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, \\ HOLE NO. 569.