H T *TI)GDON JOIJIOAL BY JAMES CLARK :] VOL XII, NO. 25. TERMS The "HUNTINGDON JOURNAL" will be pupliehrd hereafter at the following rates, viz: $1.75 a year, if paid in advance; $2.00 if paid during the year, and $2.50 if not paid un til after the expiration of the year. The above terms to be adhered to in all cases. No subscription taken for leas than six months, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. a:7. To Clubs of six, or more, who pay in ad- vance, the Journal will be sent at $1.50 per .;,ry for one year ; and any one who will send us this number of names accompanied with the moneye shall receive the Journal one year for his trouble. Any crversvrexts not exceeding one squire. will be inserted three times for $1 00. and for every subsequent insertion 25 cents. If no deflinite or. dery are given as to the time nn advertisement is to he continued, it will be krpt in till ordered out and charged accordingly. POETICAL. MODEST =TORT. A suspicious nabob of the East, Haughty, being great, purse-proud being rich, Governor er a General at least, I have Ihrgotten which— Had in his family a humble youth, Who went from England in his patron's suit— An ...ming boy, and in bud). A lad of decent parts and good repute, But yet, with all his sense, excessive diffidence Obscured his merit. One day, at table, flushed with pride and wine, His honor proudly free, severely merry, ( onceived it would he vastly fine To crack a joke upon his aecretary, "Young man," said he. "by what art or trade Did your good father gain Ma livelihood. "lie was a saddler sir," Modestoa mid, end in his line wan considered good." "A sad Iler eh! and taught you Greek, Tor tend of teaching you to sew; And why did not your father make A saddler, pray, of you? Each parasite, then, as in duly hound, The joke applauded, and the laugh went round, °t length, Modestus, bowing low, "Sir, by your leave, I fain would know Your father's trade!" ..My father's t ads!—why blockhead thou art mad! My fattier, sir, did never stoop so low— Ile was agentleman, I'd have you know!" "Excuse the liberty I take,' Modestus said with archness on his prow, "Pray, why did not your father make A gehtlemon of you?" MISCELT,A.NEOUS. AN INCIDENT OP NAPO LEON'S REIGN. I nqw a lover wandering by, With one cold cheek and nerveless air, Ho pressed her heart, I heard him sigh, Oh! what wild thoughts were gathering there" It was past midnight when an individ ual, closely muffled in a dark military cloak, was passing rapidly through the most unfrequented streets of. Paris.—. 'Twas a black night, not a star was vis- • ible in the unclouded heavens—a circum stance which was suited to the purpose of the pedestrian, whose concealed per-' son and hasty movement plainly dicta ted his wish to gain his destination un observed. Suddenly, however, his pro gress was arrested by the hand of a page rho emerged from the obscurity of a portal and held a pistol to the pedestri an's head, demanding "money." "Psha !" cried the pedestrian, endeav oring to shake off his new acquaintance : Away, and don't detain me !" "I must have gold !" cried the frenzied 1 youth. "My miseries have maddened' me. Refuse me, and.this pistol sends a bullet through your head." The other perceiving his danger, sud denly disencumbered his right arm of his cloak and with the velocity of light ning laid his assailant prostrate. He then passed on, but suddenly retracing his steps towards the prostrate robber, he raised him from the ground and drag ged him some paces towards a lamp which cast a dim religious light over a bright part of the scene, he exclaimed —" Ah, alt !Louis Boncreur !" . . . . " Any I discovered !" exclaimed the youth, and falling at the feet of the other who again drew his cloak over the lower part of his face, he ejaculated, "Do not betray tne." . . " Sir," replied the other, . my duty to the emperor will compel me to disclose this atrocity." 4 , You will ruin me by so doing, for ever. Hear me, sir—hear my choly tale, and then say if I am not wor thy your pity. Since I have the honor to be in the emperor's service, the whole of my salary has been dedicated to the support of my poor and aged mother.— For three years I have been the sole prop of her weary life ; she has no other hope but me and heaven. I have brought joy and comfort again to her humble dwel ling; she was reduced to penury & wretch edness; my father had died in insol vent circumstances ; and my dear moth er was too aged to work for her subsis tence; I endeavored, but in vain, to ob tain work. Day after day I trod the streets of Paris, end with all the earnest- ness of ruin, besought, implored ern , Soon after, the servant intimated to that adore; the Emperor will protect ploymentt but there was no cordial drop the youth, that he was to sleep there, her. Are you prepared to take your in my cup of misery, and at length I sat and that his bed was ready. He follow- triall" down in the garden of the Tuilleries ed them, and as he passed out of the "I am." hopeless and despairing. 1 contempla- room, he perceived that two gene d'arme "Are you prepared to mbet the girl ted suicide, but the thought of leaving had been stationed outside of the door. you love) To hear from her own lips my dear parent desolate, chained me to They followed him up stairs, and when the stdry of her innocence, and the gen lite—but even that thought was becoin he was ushered into a small, narrow bed I erosity of him whom you have hatedl" ing overwhelmed by my despair, when chamber, and the door was fastened .1 am." our good emperor passed me—he inqui- upon him, he heard the heavy tread of I "'Tis well," responded the other.— red into the truth of my story, and then the gen's d'arme pacing to and fro on , "Be firm now—the scene that is about in the benevolence of his good heart, the outside., Here, in his loneliness, the ,to ensue is no common one. You will took me Into his suite. He saved me , thought of self destruction again occur- look upon the fdce of Adeline its Pitt from despair, and brought smiling joy ed to him. Oh that I could die at never looked upon it before. You will again into the widow's humble home." once !" he inwardly exclaimed. "'Tis , take her hand not as the poor and hum " And you have repaid his kindness," horrible to be brought out upon the scaf• ble bat innocent lover. She Will not observed the stranger, " by becoming a' fold of public execution before the gazing mingle her tears with yours over the midnight robber." I million. Mother, mother!" he said, "to story of your poverty and constant wor . No, no," hurriedly exclaimed the the protection of heaven I must leave ship, Yours will not be the language of youth, am no common robber. Heaven you. This world is done with me'? Oh! passionate hope, nor hers of encourage is my witness that till this night—but ; Adeline, this—this is thy work." ment and expectation. You have sever hear my story out. Among the trades- I He searched the apartment with in- ,ed the guardian knot of your fate and ' men who supply the palace, there is one sane curiosity, to discover sours instru• I must abide the issue. Come—she is having a daughter whose charms made m.urit of death, but the room was bare of ready." an impression upon my heart which rea , furniture, save the bed and its clothes, I With these words solemnly delivered, son cannot dispel, Long did 1 strive to W ith the latter he busied hithself, and the stranger pulled opened the door, and muster love, but i n va i n ; 1 struggled tearing some of the sheets into strings, I beckoning time youth to follow him, they against the rising passion of my heart, he was fastening them rapidly together, entered a dark and narrow passage, at but the more I strove to be master of when a man suddenly entered the room, the end of which was a door. the bewildering passion, the fiercer did and set down on the bedside. Louis as I They paused. . . . . it burn. We rnei, I told my love, I found it was returned, and disdaining conceal ment, I openly went to her father; but he, in all the pride and insolence of wealth, spurned my humble suit, and told me till the vmperor nad made me worth having, his daughter should not think of me. Seeing that his child ► s in clinations turned towards me, he intro-. duced a wealthy suitor and insistsd upon her wedding him. I cannot vie with my rival ; l►e lavished gold and gems upon the lovely Adeline; I have only a hum ble heart to offer. But that, she deem , ed preferable to all the wealth of the gross man of her father's choice—and this night 1 have seen her nt his side, her hand in his, her ear turned to his whispering lips, add the love tributes of gold and gems dazzling before her. I was maddened at the sight. I had clung to the hope that Adeline was con= slant, that hope was my solace by day and gave the inspirations to my dreams at night. 1 fancied the emperor might promote me, when I Would have demand ed the hand of Adeline in marriage, in the confidence of being able to support her without prejudice to the comforts and enjoyments of my aged mother.— This hope is destroyed ; my drea►ris are all vanished, and I only saw the despair ing certainty of Adeline's affectioni, turning to my rival. Oh, sir, if you have ever known the agony of a situation like mine, your heart may find some ex cuse for me, when I tell you in my des peration I purchased a pistol, and deter mined upon laying contributions upon the public ; that I might throw gold and jewels into Adeline's lap, and rival the favored one even in his splendor. I saw no other way of recovering Adeline's lost affection. I could not desert my poor mother, the result is as you see.- IV►ll you betray met" The pedestrian was silent. The youth with passionate emotion caught his arm and exclaimed convulsively, 4 , will you betray me I" and again he sunk at his feet. "1 will think upon it," said the pedes trian, coldly. "Give me that pistol" "No, cold hearted man !" suddenly starting upon his feet. " No, nor shall it be yours, till life is out of this wretch ed body ;" and he put the muzzle to his forehead. " For heaven's sake, hold I" cried the stranger. The trigger was pulled. The priming flashed in the pan. The pedestrian then seized upon the weapon, and, after a slight struggle, wrested it from the youth's grasp, lion dieu!" cries the pedestrian, "your blood boils." " Go," rejoined the youth, " disclose all you know. lam ready to go out on the seaflbld. lam tired of life. Death will be welcome," "Then come with me." Thus saying the stranger took him fast by the nrm , and hurried him through the dark and narrow thoroughfare. They proceeded along various obscure streets until they suddenly stopped be fore a doorway in a high and extended wall, and the stranger touching a secret spring, the door flew open, and they en tered, the stranger closing the door after them. In a few moments they were in a neat and comfortable nparttnent, where in were two servants, who arose on the parties entering, and the stranger, taking one of them aside, addressed a few words to hun, and abruptly left the room. It was soon evident to him that the servants lied been commanded to observe strict silence—lie was not in the mood of conversation, and this was therefore, to him a matter of more pleasure than grief ; Isis spirits were broken, and he looked upon death as the only refuge he could fly to for relief, CORRECT PRINCIPLES-SUPPORTED BY ThIITE. HUNTINGDON, PA., JUNE 23, 1847. suddenly leaped into bed, and the man "She is within this room," whispered remaining in the position he had taken the stranger. up, the youth insensible fell into a deep "Oh, may heaven support me," mut , sleep, wherein he remained through the i mered the youth. night. "Give me your hand," said the other It was midnight when he awoke. The "and as he took the youth's hand, he man was still in the chamber. Louis said, "be not craven, Louis, in a mo was calm and refreshed, and when the meat like this, for the honor of manhood." man asked him if he would arise and go And at that moment the doors were with him to the gentleman with whom thrown suddenly open, lie had become acquainted on the previ , The blaze of the light which illumine , 01/13 night, Louis cheerfully assented.— ted the apartment, into which they en- Shortly after, Louis stood again in the tered, dazzled the eyes of the youth—it presence of the cloaked man whose life I was so different froth the gloom and ob hc had threatened. It was a dark antique scurity of the large chambers and the chamber, and the gentleman had taken ;ong and narrow passages they had pre up his place in a recess in the depth of j viously been in. The stranger hurried which his person was dimly visible.— him along to the top of the apartment.— Louis entered, pale and trembling, and A hand was then placed within his, and with downcast tearful eyes he approach- a woman's face was buried in his bo ed the man whom he had in the moment som, It Was Adeline. of his frenzy assailed. A chair was They stood before the nuptial alter!— pointed out to him, into which he fell They were not alone. The father of and buried his face in his hands. deline and the rival of Louis were "Young man," said the stranger, "you there; the minister was at the altar, and show a becoming sorrow; but what of beside the entranced pair stood the al Suppose you had sent a bullet stranger, gazing with delight upon their through my heart last night, would your ecstaey. Louis gazed upon the strange penitence awaken meto life agaitft lours scene before hint in wonder and appre• is the old story. Every villian Is a pen , heasion , itent when the gallows stares him in the His eyes wandered from one to anoth face." er until they rested upon the stranger, "0, sir, spare me-- spare me. I hyp who looked upon the scene with a smile, plore you," cried the youth. Vpoil him the eyes of Louis rested, and "n by should II" You should have the stranger perceiving his amazement thought of the consequences of thecrime gradually allowed the cloak to full from you meditated, But you were head. his person, and Louis involuntary bent strong—a fool—and must suffer the con- ! his knee, as he beheld in the person of sequences." I the stranger, Napoleon, Emperor of "Sir, I aiti ready to meet my punish- France. meat. Do not aggrevate it by proof." I "Louis," exclaimed the Emperor, "you "I will—it is a satisfaction that is due have said the Emperor is the father of to me. I would show you the extent of his people. Is your father's mode of your folly and crime. I have made inqui- punishing the hot brained folly of his ries respecting your story; but mon Dieu! son satisfactoriyi" you were a fool. You adventured with "My sovereign, cried Louis, "I may me,l would be revenged for the outrage not—cannot speak," of ast night, and am revenged, in tel- "You must, Louis," continued the Em ling you, imprisoned as you are now, parer, "for I have given my word that and in a fair way to the scaffold, that Adeline should this day become a bride, your conclusion respecting your nils• and you must fulfil my promise. Come . . tress was a false one." i boy, no tears] your punishment was en " False!" echoed the youth. i ded when you left the dark chamber; the ~Ay, hot brained boy, false! Your ' reward of virtue now commences. The rival, pleased with your devotion, and Emperor Napoleon will not desert young your attention to your poor mother, had Frenchmen who gild the declining days even plead for you with Adeline's fath- of aged parents with filial loVe, and scat, er. He succeeded—the old man had ter joys upon their gray hairs. Now let Oren given his consent to your marriage the service begin. with his daughter, to tour rival—the ! The ceremony wns performed, Ade man who you saw whispering in the ear ' line became the bride of her beloved, of Adeline—had bestowed upon you a • and the Emperor Napoleon wits the con' marriage portion of 5000 frances, What stant friend of the Widow's son. think you now, rash boy?" "Heaven!" exclaimed the distracted AN ImPsovEmi:Nf.—A London hatter has introduced a very desirable improve youth, " qis impossible," ,nea t " Not so; you shall hear the story from,neatin the making of these coverings for the head. It consists of a valve, the girl's own lips—for justice allows which is placed in the crown of the lint, one meeting. Fine love yours, truly, to iving free exit to heat and perspiration doubt a lovely girl who has been constant dad of a grooved aparattis forming a to you for months, and resisted a rent's frown, and a rival's gold, merely P n° series of small channels in the back part of the leather lining, by which air because you saw something which you is admitted. This gives the following have tortured into a crime." ulvantaes The regulation of the "Oh, forbear! for heaven's sake for iltnaount - g of air admitted into the crown bear!" cried the youth. "If you would , i the hat by the opening and closing of not see me fall dead at your feet, for- the wearer; valve at the pleasure of the earer; , , "You Would hare laid me dead at the impossibility of an accumulation of heated air and perspiration; impermea yours, last night," rejoined the stran biltty to grease around the band; ex per, "How can you ask for niercyl" creme lightness, coolness, and durabili- I knew not what I did—love, destfliir, ty; and lastly, their acknowledged ebth , i a friendless, aged parent, all presented fort to all who suffer from headache, or themselves to me. I was distractedl— who are in the habit of taking violent ex- I was mad!—You know not—you cannot judge of my , feelings—then pray spare ereise • ___________ them now,' . An editor of a country paper thus hu "Ah, there's your mother, too; when morously bids farewell to his readers: the guillotine had done its office, she IThe sheriff is waiting for us in the next would be left to starve and die—" room: so we have no opportunity to be "Oh, no, the Emperor Napoleon is pathetic. Major Ntib'em says we are the father of his people; and he will , Wanted, and must go. Delinquent sub not let the dessolate widow perish," scribers, you will have much to an " Hum," responded the strangerj "I steer for. Heaven may forgive you, but bolieve you can make yourself happy on , we never Len. Professional Life. The ambition of adopting professional life, of all kinds, at the present day, is the source of countless instances of misery. Every profession, in England, is overstocked; not merely the prizes are beyond the general reach; but the tverest subsistence become difficult.-- The "Three black Graces, law, physic and divinity,' ; are weary of their innu. merable worshippers, and yearly sen tence crowds of them to perish of the aching sense of failure. A few glitter- ing successes allure the multitude— chancellorships. bishoprics and regi ments, figure before the public eye, and every aspirant from the cottage, and the more foolish parents of every aspi rant, set down the bauble as gained when they have once plunged their unlucky offspring into the sea of troubles which men call the world. But thousands have died of broken hearts in their per suits, thousands who would have been happy behind the plough; thousands in the desperate struggles of thankless pro fessions, look upon the simplicity of a life of manual labor with perpetual envy, and thousands, by a worse fate still, arc driven to necessities which degrade the principles of honor With theta, custom them to humilidting modes of ob taining subsistence, and make up, by ad ministering to the vices of society, the livelihood which was refused to their le gitimate exertionsi—Blacktebtith Goon SOCIETY. —The following article from the Portland Tribune and Bulletin, is well worthy the perusal of every young man: It should be the aim of young then to go into good society. We mean not the rich, the proud and fashionable, but the wise, the intelligent and the good.— Where you find men that know more than you do, and front whose eonVersa= tion you can gather information, it is al ways safe to be found. It has broken down many d than, by associating with the low, where the ribald song was in= culcated—and the indecent story to ex , cite laughter and influence bad passions, Lord Clarendon attributed his success and happiness in life to associating with persons more learned and Virtuous than himself. If you wish to be Wise and respected--if you desire happiness and not misery, We advise you to associate With the intelligent and good. Strive for moral exCellende and strict integrity, and you never will be found in the sinks of pollution or on the benches of retail ers and gamblers, Once habituate your selves to a virtuous course ; once secure a love of good society, and no punish ment is greater than by accident to be obliged lot half a day to associate with the low and vulgar. A GRAVE SCENE-RULING An honest oid Patriarch from Fader-land, the other day followed the remains of his wife to the cemetry, The littld party of mourners Were gathered around the grave, and an expression of moth sad ness was visible on their cOuntenances. The coffin was slowly lowered to its rest ing place, and the hollow sound of the falling dirt commenced, when the hus band nudged the parson and remarked, "dish ish not worry Boot land for wheat." CUT FOR CUT.-" YCIO treat me worse than you do a haunch of Venison," said a clerk to his employer. " How soil" demanded the merchant its surprise.— " The venison is taken into your family," replied the clerk, "1 never am." "Sup with the young ladies this evening if you like," said the merchant, "they will cut you up worse than 1 do venison." Da- Field, of the St. Louis Reveille, says On reading Scott's " General Orders," prior to the battle of Cerro Gordo, we fully made up our minds neVef to say " soup" to him again." A gIItART GlRla— is Mammal" exclaim ed a beautiful girl,w•ho had suff e red ctffecr tation to obscure the little intellect she possessed, " what is that long gween thing lying on the dish below you V' "A cucumber, by beloved Georgiana," replied the mamma, with a bland smile of approbation at her darling's commen dable curiosity. "A cucumbaw! Gwacious goodness, my deaw mamma, how Very extthuow dinawy ; I always imagined, until this moment, that they grew in slices !" A NATURAL CONSEquENCEi—Frequent marriges are taking place between the Americans in Mexico, and the dark.eyed senoritans. It thus appears that the Mexican ladies are superior to the men ; for the latter are not able to make con guises, while the former evidently are. A sour bachelor friend of one our con temporaries suggests, however, that it is the Very reverse of "conquering peace." WRY ARE PRINT/RS like Padd's Henl Because they set standing. [EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR WHOLE NO. 695. Gutting Oysters. An Irish paper gibes the folloWing anecdote of the simplicity of a raw Pat, who had just been transplanted from the , interidr td Put—had beer. sent by his master to purchase half a bushel of oysters, to the quay, but Was absent so long that apprehensions were entertained for his safety: He re turned at last, however; puffing under his load in the most Musical style. "Where the devil hate you beeni" ex. claimed his master: "Where have I been) Why, where should I be but to fetch the oysters'!" "And what in the name of St: Patrick kept you so lOngl" "Long! by my sowl I think I have been quick, considering all things!" " , Considering what thingsl" "Considering what things! Why considering the gutting of the fish, to be sure!" "Gutting what fish'!" "What fish! why, blud-an•oans, the oysters to be sure!" "What dd you mean'!" "What do I mane'? why 1 mane, that as I was resting myself down forenent the Pickled Herring, and having a dhrop W comlort me, a &Hainan axed me what I'd got in the sack'! 'oysters,' said I. 'Let's look at them,' says he; and opens the bag: 'Och! thunder and pra ties,' says he, 'who sowld you these— 'lt was Mic Carney,' says 1; 'aboard the Pow! Doodle smack.' 'Mick Carney, the thaif o' the world!' says he; 'what a black; guard lie must be to give then; to yott without gutting.' 'And ar'nt they gut; ted,' says 1. 'Divil o' one o' them,' saye he. 'Mucha ; then ; ' says I; 'what will I dol"Do,' says he; 'l'd sooner do it for you myself than have you abused;' and he took 'ern in doors & guts 'em nnte, and clone, as you'll see;' opening at the same time, his bag of oyster shells, which was as empty as the head that bore them td the haute. If *e had not this front art Irish paper, we would t entare to doubt its authenticity: WHAT SHALL I TAKE ?—A lady df oiii acquaintance, says an exchange paper; young, lovely, and intelligent, called on a physician to "do something" for d rush of blood to the head. "I have been doctoring thyself,'' said the languid fait' tine, with a smile to the bluff thbligh kind M.While he was feeling her pulse. "At ! howl" " Why, I have taken Brandreth's Pills, Farr's Pill's; Stranberg's Pills ; Sand's Sarsaparilla ; Jayne's Expectorant, used Dr. Sher rnan's Lozenges and Plaster, "My heatiens madam," interrupted the astonished doctor, "all these do youf complaint no good." No! then what shall I take'" pettishly inquired the pa. tient. " Take!" exclaimed he after a a moments reflection" take; why take off your corsets !" HAPPINESS.—Two wealthy citizens of Boston ; now pretty well adi'anced iii life ; were conversing in regard to the period when they had best enjoyed them , selves. "1 will tell you," says ones "when 1 most enjoyed my life: soon aP ter I was twenty one; 1 worked for Mr. -, laying stone Wall, at twem ty-five cents per day." "k‘ ell," replied the other; "that does not differ much from my experience. When 1 was twenty, I hired out at seven dollars per month; I have never enjoyed myself bet= ter since.° The experience of these twd indaVi& uals teaches first, that one's happiness does not depend on the amount of his gains, or the station he occupies; sec.; dnd ; that very small beginnings, with industry and prudence ; may securd wealth. FRUIT TnEEs.—An excellint plan for presenting young fruit trees from be coming hidebound and mossy, and for promoting their growth and health, is to take a bucket of soft-soup and apply it with a brush to the stem or trunk, from top to bottom, this cleanses the bark and destroys the worms, or the egg insects and the soap becoming dissolved by the rain, descends to the roots, and causes the tree to grow vigorously, TO 31 TIMMS TOR MARRIED.—=If report speaks true, General Torn Thumb has meditated much upon the common lot of humanity and, following ether tratious examples, has "woed a little maid," who has agreed to “wed, wed ; wed," and in a short time May are td be married, She is in her 10th year, weighs 16 pounds, and is thirty inches • high. The united weight of the coilpl9 is fifty pounds! Lady Bulwer it IS slid is 'Writing another book, in which her husband is to receive a severer castigation than that which he caught in her "Man of Hobo r. THE NUMBER of Paupers in the tiostotl House of Industry, is about 800, many of whom are suffering from Ship Fever.
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