Huntingdon journal. (Huntingdon, Pa.) 1843-1859, November 09, 1847, Image 1
IL "NTT ''...GDON JOLt '-.,AIL. RT. JAMES CLARK VOI,, XII, NO. 45. enough to encourage the enemy to bring out their largest armies and fight their hardest battles. One of the hardest brushes we had, after 1 got here, was the attack on Chap ultepec. I had been into the city trying to bring Santa Anna to terms; but, when 1 found it was no use, I come out and told Gineral Scott there was no way but to fight it out, and, although I was only the President's private embassador, I didn't like to stand and look on when he was so weak-handed, and if he would tell me where to take hold I would give him a lift. The Ginerel said he expect ed there would be a hard pull to take Chapultepec, and as Gineral Pillow was placed where he would be likely to have the heaviest brunt of it, I might be do ing the country a great service if I would jine in with Gineral Pillow, as my experience under Gineral Jackson and insight into military affairs would no doubt be very useful to that valiant officer. So I took hold for that day as one of Gineral Pillow's aids. When we come to march up and see hoar strong the enemy's works was, says 1, Gineral Pillow it is as much as all our lives is worth to go right straight up and storm that place in the face and eyes of all their aims ; I think we ought to fortify a little. Suppose we dig a ditch round here in front of the enemy's works. At that the Gineral's eyes flash ed, and he swore right out. Says he, "No, d—n the ditches, I've no opinion of 'em ; they are nothing but a bother, and never ought to be used. The best way is to go right into the enemy pell melt." So, on we went, and Pillow fit like a tiger till he got wounded, and then the rest of us that wasn't shot down had to finish the work up the best way we The long and the short of it is, we fit our way into the city of Mexico and an nexed it. Santa Anna cleared out the ; night afore with what troops lie had left, and is scouring about the country bESPATCHES FROM MAJOR DOWNING. to get some more places ready for us to annex. When he gets another place all CITY OF MEXICO, UUITED STATES, I ready for the ceremony, and gets it well September 27, 1817.; fortified, and has an army of twenty or Mit. GALES & SEATON My dear old i thirty thousand men in the forts and be friends, I'm alive yet, though I've been j hind the breastworks, we shall march through showers of balls as tlaidlc as hail , I down upon 'em with fitre or six thous.; stones. 1 got your paper containing my ! and Men and go through the flurry.— letter that I wrote on the road to the . After they have shot down about hair of war. The letters I wrote afterwards, us, the rest of us will climb in, over the the guerillas and rubbers are so thick, I mouths of their cannons, and annex that think it's ten chances to one if you got ; place ; and so on, one after another. 'em. Some of Gineral Scott's letters is I It is pretty bard work annexin in this TERMS The .HUNTINGDON JOURNAL" will be pupliehed hereafter at the following rotes, 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 less than six months, Jed no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. cCr To Clubs of nix, or more, Who pay In ad vance, the Journal will be sent at $1.50 per copy for one year ; and any ono who will send us thnt number of names accompanied with the money shall receive the Journal one year for his trouble. POETICAL, LITTLE cruLDREN, BY XARIA ROSEAU Speak gently to the little child, So guileltss and so fice, Who with a trustful loving heart, Puts confidence in thee. Speak not the cold and careless thoughts Which time bath taught the well, Nor breathe ono word whose hitter tone Disraesx might soem to tell. If on his brow there rests a cloud, However light it be, Speak loving words, and let him feel He has a friend in thee; And do not send him from thy side Till un his face shall reef The joyous look, the sunny smile That mark a happy breast. Oh! te_ach him •rots should be his aim, To Cheer the aching heart, To strive where thickest darkness reigns Some radiance to impart ; To spread a peaceful quiet calm Where dwells the noise of strife, Thus doing good and blessing all To spend the whole of life. To love, with pure affection deep, All creatures great and mall, And still a stronger love to bear For Him who made them ell. Remember, 'tis no common task That thus to thee is given To rear a spirit tit to be The inhabitant of beaten. Missing just in the same way. Now! way ; but that is the only way it can be We've got the city of Mexico annexed, I done. It twill be necessary for the Pres think the Postmaster General ought to ident to keep hurrying on his men this have a more regular line of stages run- way to keep our rnnks full, for we've ming here, so our letters may go safe.—! got a great deal of ground to go over I wish you would touch the President' yet. What we've annexed in Mexico, and Mr. Johnson up a little about this so far, isn't but a mere circumstance to mail-stage business, so they may keep what we've got to do. all the coachmakers at work, and see! Some think the business isn't profit that the farmers raise horses as fast as ! able ; but it's only because they have'nt they can, for I don't think they have ; ciphered into it fur enough to under any idea how long the roads is this way,' stand it. Upon an average, we get at nor how fast we are gaining south. lf ; least ten to one for our outlay, any way We keep on annexin as fast as we have y,,u can figure it up—l mean in the mat done a year or two past, it wouldn't take, ter of people. Take, for instance, the touch more than half a dozen years to city of Mexico. It cost us only two or get clear down TO t'other end of South three thousand men to annex it, after America, clear to Cape Horn, which 'we got into the neighborhood of it ; and would be a very good stopping place ; we get at least a hundred and fifty thou for then, if our Government got into bad sand people in that city, and some put sledding in North America, and found it down as high as two hundred thou: thettiselves in a dilemma that hadn't no sand. Some find fault With the quality horn to suit 'ern, they would have a horn of the people we get in this country, in South America that they might hold ~lest as if tnat had any thing to do with on to. i the merits of the case. They ought to I hope there aint no truth in the story remember that in a Government like that was buzz'd about here in the army ours, where the people is used for voting, a day or two ago, that Mr. Polk had an ' and where every nose counts one, it is idta i when we get through annexin down the number that we are to sten about in this Wan of trying his hand at it oter ancexin, and not the quality, by no in Europe and Africa, and round there. means. So that in the matter of people .t.nd, to prevent any quarrelling before-; we are doing a grand business. And as about it on this side of the water, to the money, it is no matter what it ageing to agree to run the Missouri costs us, for money grows in the ground , romise line over there, and cut En- in Mexico, and can always be had for >e up into free States and Africa into digging. . :ye States. Now, I think he had bet- There's a thousand things in this coun , • - keep still about flak till we get this try that I should like to tell you about .)outh 'America business all done, and if I had time; but things is so onset- <tell tied up. It isn't well for a body to tied hero yet, that I have rather a con %are too much business on his hands at fused chance to write. So 1 must break 'ince. There's no knowing what little off here, and write a few lines to the flurries we may get into yet ; and there's President ; but remain your old friend, always danger if you have ton much in all latitudes, clear down to Cape sail spread in a squall. Howeeer, F I Horn. MAJOR JACK DOWNING haven't time to talk about this now: You will get the accounts of the bat tles in Gin'rl Scott's letters, so I needn't tty a great deal about them aeon ; hard np-hill work all the way troin Vera Cruz here ; and I don't think my old friend Gincral Jackson himself would have worked through all the diffi- culties and done the business up better than Gineral Scott has. and the wounded, the dead and the dy ing, scattered all along the way for three hundred miles, it's a heart aching • thought I don't love to think about it. _ . It igloo bad that we didn't have more men, so as to march straight through without fighting, instead of having just To James K. Polk, President of the Uni ted States, and all ✓annexed Countries: DEAR SIR: 1'1h) done toy best, accor ding to your directions, to get round Santa Anna, but it is all no use. He's as slippery as an eel, and has as many lives as n cut. 'Frist and I together can't hold hint, and Scott and Taylor can't kill him off. We get fast hold of him with our diploinatice, but he slips through our fingers; and Scott and Tay= for cuts his head off in everS, town where they catch him, but he always conies to life in the next town, and shows as many heads as if he had nev er lost one. I had a long talk with him But it's But the killed CCORRECT PRINCIPLES-.-SUPPOkTES BY TRUTA4] AUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1847, in the city, and pinned hitn right doWn I Love in a Printing Office. when beyond my reach, and with her to the bargain he made with you when I I once heard an old Jour remark that roguish face peering in at the doorway, _ you let hint into Vera Cruz, and asked a printing office Was ho place for love shouted, ..I say, Charley, what kind of • him why he didn't stick to it. He said making, and 1 have siii'de experienced i a roller does my hand make!" 1 The summer has left us wit h her gar. he did stick to it as far as circumstan- the truth of his observation—being now i "Oh," said I, "you take too much lands of flowers, and her sunny days.— ces rendered it prudent. perfectly convinced that the flower of i ink." Autumn with her clear skies and whole " But," says I, "Gineral Santa Annai love can never bloom iii the midst of '• "Ha! Ha!" she laughed, "well good that aint the thing; a bargain's a bar- types, stands and printing ink. bye Charly—thats my itnpressibn ha ! sonic air, is with us. So still was the death of Summer that we knew of it gain, and if a man has any honor he It was my fortune once tti Sojdurh for I ha!" only by the presence of Autumn. For will stick to it. Now," says 1, "did'nt a few days in the village bf --. I 1 went to the glass and surveyed my you agree, if the President would giVe Directly opposite the office was a pretty self for a moment, and verily believe I ourself we do not sigh to think that the hut July and the thick =aired August orders to our Commodore to let you into white cottage with a rose bush elaiiiber- I could have passed for a Guinea negro Vera Cruz, did'nt you agree to put your ing around the casement, and I was not without the slightest difficulty. have given place to mild beautiful Sep.: tember. We do not mourn that the shoulder to the wheel and help on this long in making the discovery that the I "And so," said Ito myself, "this is burning Summer - sun and brazen sky ' annexin business, so as to snake easy aforesaid white cottage with the rose love in a printing office. The devil fly are superceded by the gentler warmth, work of ill And now, I ask you, as a shaded window, contained a fair inmate away with such love," • aiid the sweet blue sky of Autumn. man of honor, have you done ill" a flower whose beauty outshone the re; Witty, if not all True. "Circumstances alters cases, Major," see that clustered around the window. A friend at our elbow, says the Pitts- But the fact jhai these days are gone, Says Santa Anna. "When Mr. Polk She was a little blue eyed, saucy crea- burg American; sticks to itthat the re -, though we us bf the flight of time; and al- Saysthough we welcome the change, yet ' and I had that understanding, lie I tare, of the village. Her name was turns from Westinoreland are the tame ' thought he needed a few more votes Mary—Sweet poetic Mary. • tally-sticks that were sent in ISI4 w i t h gaze at the landmarks erected in our , we feel a sadness in the heart when we ' than lie could muster in his own coun- ot !lain, a poetic passion for the name of Mary." only sonic verbal Alterations. In gloom . boyhood and see them receding from 'try to bring him into the Presidency ' another term. So we agreed, if ' T It was a beautiful summer morning they use a pine stick. On one side ' our view. And there were hours very and I had raised the window to admit they put an owl for "Democrat," and pleakint to the memory that existed in ' would turn over the votes of Mexico 'to ]biro to bring him in another term, the cool breeze from the flower decked on the other a coon for "Whig," and as the Summer that is gone. Hopes have afterwards turn over his fields, and it was not long before 1 per. every elector comes with a jack-knife, been born in those hours which are now ' he would ' part of the votes in North America to ceited that the cottage windows were al. he notches knowingly on the side he growing reality ; and some alas ! that so hoisted, Rini that Sweet little Mary wants to vote. In most parts of Barks lie dead at our feet. But nouwithstand ' me, so as to bring me in the next time. , ' But I soon found it would be ' throwing was seated near it, busily with county they use beans. The small white ing we have loved the Summer; we love 4 our labor away , for Mr. Polks part of her needle. 1 worked but engaged little that are the Whigs; the speckled, green, the Aututtin fav mororit e: e of ours. Her clear,' - morning. My eyes constantly wander. white and yellow are for the Democrats, She a , the votes in his country was getting ' to be so small that they wouldn't do : eel towards the cottage window, where and black beans are allowed to the Ab- cool and pleasant days; her fair, glori. ous sky and exhilerating winds, velour; • much good to either of us. So I con- ! little Mary sat, and all sorts of strange olitionists. After they arc counted, the ' eluded to hold on to what I had got. : • and fantastic notions whirled through beans are put back and remain for the How can it be otherwise than that we should love her, for with a - charming ' and stick to the presidency of Mexico. imy fancy-lighted brain, and I began to next election for Governor. Then as a "Then," says 1, "you (tint a going to • " ' think 1 felt a slight touch of whnt the Democrat or a Whig dies, they take one age;theygrace she bestows upon us her luscious fruits,. and magnificent flowers; the stick to your bargain, are you'!" poets call sovp, sliding 11l at the corner out, or one comes of put one in: They hale a good rule there, which Of trig heart:meanwhile her fair open brow is render ',No.," says he, ' , circumstances alters 1 A -,. phased cases.." I made me acquainted with Mary—Hear. tage ; they nerd. allow a mail to vote I overflows from the clear blue of her eye.' Then I tried to scare him out of it. I told hitn our folks would whip the INlcic 1 ens ! she was a sweet creature—she had until he is Married; This id under the See is our benefactress ; therefore we icons all into shoestrings in a little while. : a form that Would have stunned the fa- supposition that he has little dif;cretion !!' ).- e her; -------: - moos Venus do Medici—a cheek that until he gets it front his wife. By the And it made no odds whether he fit for Domestic Happinets.' annexin or against it, we should go on outblushed the richest peach—and a lip same process of reasoning, they allow Alt ! what so refreshing, so soothing; that would have tempted a bee from his ! him to vote as soon as lie has a wife, the jest the same, and before another year so satisfying, as the placid joys of home! was out Mr. Polk would be President of !live en a frosty morning I thought as fact of his marrying being taken as et ' See the traveller—does duty call him ngazed on in mete admiration that I ideate that he has come to the use, WI every foot of Mexico; for we should get upon one so exquisitely I notyears, ofdiscretion. mar- , image , . for a season to leave his beloved circle ! though annexin the whole of it. had never looked' A minor. ~ , The of his eartlili lidppmeas con "Very well," says he, "go on; the beautiful. She seemed the embodiment tying there is what is called "hiking the , ' Mexicans like the busines s they can of all that is lovely and bewitching. beans." But Berks, like Saxon Eng. ! tinkles vivid iii his reirictithrante,it quick ' stand it longer than Mr. Polk can i for ,q time passedon, andonedayland;has common aw usages I Well • lpeculiar' ens him to diligence, it makes him hail expressed a desire to visit the to only certain districts. j the hour which sees his p'tirpoic accom -4 Mr; Polk Will have all the work to do ! lished, and his face turned toward j i nr a in r t Y ing office. Oh! tho't I, what a Interesting Incident. ' over again every year as lung as he : home; it coMinuitse With hiM as he chance! I'll do it there , yes there in A letter from ati officer in Mexico, te ' journeys, and lie hears the promises , lives, for there isn't a place in all the m idst of the implements of mine ' Mexico that will stay annexed anyllia family in New York, gives a art—whyhouldn' I - I 'Are in a Pita. glow- : which rouses him to hope, "Thou shalt ' lthiger than jest while you are holding , , 'mg O ffi ce—eh ! was something ~ and glorious victories in and about the in peace, and thou .shalt sisit thy tuber ' on to it." So you see there's no doing any thing orioinal in etas' and I resolved to try it city of Mexico, city at a'll hazzards.,includes the following ! uncle and not sin." 0 i the joyful re with Santa Anna. What course it is , soul-stirring incident. i union of 9 divided family—the pleasures Well, Mary came to the office and I best to take now seems rather a puzzle; explained " * * * I rejoice in the glorious !Of reiiew&l interview and conversation I havn't time to giva you my to her the various iinpfeinents latirels Which the Rifles hare won. It , after days of absence: of the•finabic airr—the press and the about it in this despatch, but will r t• i ; '' t. ' c s i is, as all acicnowledge, the fighting Reg- ,' Beheld the. Man of science—lie drops , roller—the ink and the stands and the soon. Give my love to Mr. Richie, I iment of the army. It entered Chapul- ' the laborious arid siniMtil research—chi- . I meant to write him too, but 1 shill have boxes t ' he A B C'F• I took an opportunity tepee simultaneously with the storming , sea his volume—smoothes his wrinkled to ivdit till next time: ' to snatch her hilly white hand, and she It wits fi rst in all the enemy's , brow—leaves his study, and, unbending ' drew it back knocked d stick full of party. Your faithful friend and private em- , . '. works from Chapultepee to the Citadel. himself, stoops to the capacities, yields matter into pt. bassador, It was the first entered the city and : to the wishes, and mingles with the di- MAJOR JACK DOWNING. Ity one, "I must have a kiss for that, mv pret first planted its triton Kant banner on ; versions of his children. said I, and at it I went . ' I man- Pof I IV P ' the Glace Lie lontezu . mas Whe , e; i ' aged to twist my arm around her waist;• i "He will not blush that hath a father's heart, vet bloody work Was to be done, 'The and in struggling to free herself, she up-To take, in childish play. a childish part ; Rifles' was the cry, and they were there. But bends his sturdy neck. to play the toy, set a galley of Editorial, n long article All speak of them in terms of praise and That youth takes pleasure in, to please the boy." OD the Oregon question. Nothing daun ted, I made at her again. This time ladmiration. Let me give you but a sin- i Take the man of trade—what recon was more successful, for I obtained a I gle instunce. Some of their officers 1 cites him to the toil of business 1 What and men wore standing together when ' kis,. Be St. Paul! it was a sweet one enables him teS endued the fastidiousness and the 'little witch bore it like a tear- Gen: Scott happened to ride by. Cheek-1 and impestinenee of customers 'I What r tyr ing his horse; he returned their salute, she never screamed once; but de 1 . rewards him for so many house of tedi raised my lips from hers, she lifted tier Saying with great energy and emphasis: : otts confinement I By and by the sea delicate little lided, Mid gave me a box 'Brave Rifles .' Veterans ! You have son of intercourse will arrive ; he will on the ear, that muds me see more stars been baptized in fire and blood, and hiss liehold the desire of his eyes and the than ever was viewed by Herschel come oat steel.' Had you seen the un- children of his love, for whom he resigns through his big telescope. Somewhat bidden tear stealing to the eyes of those , hi s ens , ; and in their welfare and rec. , nettled, and with my cheek smarting rough but gallant spirits whose hearts ° m os., with pain, I again seized her waist and knew no fear, and who had net‘er yet in ! Yonder comes the laborer—he has said, "Well if you don't like it, just take their long trial; faltered or fallen back ; ' borne the labor and heat of the day ; the back the kiss." She made a deaperate While their flashing eyes and upright descending sun has released him from struggle, as she jerked Iteself from my forms be spoke its truth, you would have , his toil, and he is hastening home to en army, her foot struck the lye-pot, and felt with me that such words as those i joy repose. Half way down the lane, over it went! Another galley of Edito- wiped out " long months of hardship and i by the side of which stands his cottage, suffering. vial Was eprinked coSer the floes end in his children run to meet him. One he lies efforts to reach the door, her foot ELootscs . r.—We make the following ' carries and one he hounds. The compan slipped and she fell, and in the effort to extract front a speech delivered by the ion of his humble life is ready to fur detain herself, her hand—her little Hon. B. F. Hallet, at Bunker Hill. Speak- ' nish him with his humble repast. See white hand—the same little hand that ing of England's arrogant interference his toil-worn countenance assume an had come in contact with my ear--- in the negotiations of our government air of cheerfulness ! his hardships are 'oh horrible! wits stuck up to the elbow s for the anntssation of Texas; the orator !.ii gotten ; fatigue vanishes; he cats and in the ink keg! Shade of Franklin! indignantly exclaims i ,is satisfied. The encoding fair, he Walks what a change over the beauty of that I "England opposed to slavery, indeed! ' with uncovered head around hid Orden; hand! She slowly drew it from the England, the modern Babylon of Miele'. cutters again, and retires to rest ; and keg dripping with itik, and asked the ty, hypocrisy, and refined despotism, . " the rest of a laboring man is sweet, what use 1 made of tar ! I began to be i sitting in the high places of her power, 'vliether he eats little or much." Inhab seriously alarmed, and apologized in the with one foot of her iron oppression up- stunt of thus lowly dwelling ! who can hest manner I could and to tny surprise, ,on down-trodAsn Ireland, and the other he indifferent to thy comfort ! Peace bo she seemed rather pleased than angry, i on plundered , India ; her right band re- i lii this house !' but there was a "lurking devil in her i eeiving the price of blood from the poor -- eye" that told me that there was this=' Chinese, whom her cannon had forced ' CLERICAL WIT.—"I fear," said a coon; chief afloat." As I s um surveying the to continue to besot themselves with try curate to his fleck, "when I explain black covering of her hand, scarcely her opium ' to enrich her East India mcr- ed Co you, in my last charity sermon, able to surpress a laugh at its strange chains ! England with her hundred that philanthropy was the love of our metamorphosis, she quickly raised it on ! million worse than slaVes in Hindostan, . species, you must have misunderstood High, and bro't it down "leer slap" upon , her tilenty million of starving operatives me to say specie, w!iielt may account for my cheek 1 Before I could recover ' —and her seven million of wronged and the smallness of the collection.. You from my surprise, the same little hand outraged Irishmen—she to whine over will prove, I hope by yOur present con again left its inky imprint on my cheek. ' slavery 111 the United States which we tribution, that you are no longer labor - "Why Mary, I exclaimed, What are , rtilierit froth her original cupidity ! She kg under that mistake." you about." to raise her voice for philanthropy; in "I think you told me you rolled itik her luxurious palaces, built of the bones The Smallest Horse yet.—A mere 'pig on the form," with a loud lough, and and muscles and blood of her worse My horse; weighing only forty-five' again her hand lit upon m'y face.--taking than sliOe label', rind to' tell how benev- ' pcbnds the smalleet one that ever lived, me' 6 broad slap in the itliddle of the olently desirous she is to break off ev- ;has been sent to Gen. Tom Thumb as countenance and most wofully bedaub-' cry body's sin but her own ; and to 1 a present from Java. le is a great ing My eyes. With a light step and abolish black slavery throughout the . wonder, and the little General will Merry peal of laughter she skipped world. Magnificent hutnbuggery ! doubtless find him a valdablenequisition' through the door. She turned back Splendid hypocrisy !" to his personal convenience.. Smoot,Aa.---On Sunday week, during the moment intelligence of the late bat tle in the city of Mexico was being transmitted to Philadelphia, by the Telegraph, two Doves which were perched upon the wires near the rail road depot nt Marcus Hook, were ob. served to fall to the ground very sod= denly. A gentleman who witnessed the occurrence, approached and found one of the birds dead—the other fluttering away apparently wounded. On exam ining the dead bird, a hole ns if made by a small ball, was found in its breast, passing entirely through its body. We leave the fact to be accounted for by those who know more of the nature of electricity than we profess to.---[Del aware Co. Republican. SELFISIINESS.—SeIfishness has no sou!. It is a heart of stone encased in iron. Selfishness cannot see the miser ies of the world—it cannot feel the pangs of thirst and hunger. It robs its own grave—sells its own bone to the doctor, and its soul to the devil. Who will not fight manfully against a selfish disposi tion 1 It grows gradually, atid when mutual increases day by day. Prosper ity and good luck feeds the passion. Siltcr and gold makes rt laugh outright: Who has no seen the eyes of the selfish water at a good trade I—who has not I seen him leap for very joy at the rise of ! flour, while the poor were starving about himi Selfishness is a passion of hell, ' and all good men should labour to keep it there: An anecdote is told of Bantle a French author, which may serve to illustrate this passion. He called upon a dying man, to obtain his opinion on a new comedy, and insisted that he should Ihear him read it.—Consider," said the dying man, "I have not more than an hour to live." "Ay," replied the selfish man, "but it will occupy but half the I time." Consolation.—. Are you not afraid that your wife will get married again when you die?" hopo she may,. as there will then be one than in the world who will know how to pity me !." EDITOR AND PROPRIETO WHOLE NO. 615, AUTUMN BV D. W. BARTLETT,