THE JOURNAL. A letter from an officer of the army, dated in the city of Mexico, September 28th, and published in the St. Louis Re publican, relates an incident which has not been heretofore mentioned. It ap pears that, on the 13th of September, after the fortifications at Chapultepee had been carried and Generals Wolin' -------------- and QUITMAN had fought their way into W An Apprentice anted. ' the city, "and when our Spartan band A boy from the country, between 11' anticipated a fiercer struggle during the and 16 years of age, who can read and ensuing day than that which they had write, is wanted at this office to learn just ertcount , 3red, commissioners were the Printing Business. Application despatclu e d from the city of Mexico, on should be made soon. the part of the municipal authorities, to Huntingdon, Tuesday, November 18, 18.17, A SERMON will be preached to the young men of Huntingdon and vicinit:;, in the Germnn Reformed Church, on Thursday, 25th inst., being the day ap pointed by the Governors of Pennsylva nia, and also by Governors of other states, to be observed ns a day of thanksgiving and prayer. Services will commence at 6 o'clock in the evening. The public in general and young men in particular, are invited to attend. RElitntons NoncE.--The Dedication of the new Methodist Church near Or bisonia, we are requested to say, will rake place on Sunday next, 21st inst.-- The attendance of the public generally is requested. Services will commence at 11 o'clock, A. M. nz i- Considerable space is given in this week's Journal to the publication of Mr. Van Buren's speeck, delivered at Albany previous to the late election in New York. It is well worth a perusal ; and coming from so prominent a mem ber of the Locofoco party of the North as the son of Ex-President Van Buren, is very important. We commend it to the attention of all. NEW SHERIFF. - M. Crownover, Esq., Sheriff elect of this county, enters upon the duties of his office to-morrow. We hope he may wake a humane and effi cient officer. The retiring Sheriff; John Armitage, Esq., it is admitted by men of all .par ties, has made the most prompt and effi cient officer ever elected in the county of Huntingdon. His administration has been an honor to himself and creditable to the party tl•.at elected him. COUNTY ComxissioNEns.—Joshua Green land, Esq., the newly elected County Commissioner., took the necessary oath, and entered upon the duties of his office on Monday last. Mr. G., we hesitate not to predict, will make a gentlemanly, upright and capable officer, and there- fore give the People of Huntingdon county no cause to regret his election. The Board now consists of Messrs. Teague, Cummins and Greenland. The two former were elected last fall, and have thus far given universal satisfac tion. The retiring Commissioner, Mr. John F. Miller, has served the county for three years, and we but express the general opinion, when we say that he was a most admirable Commissioner.— He well understood the duties of the office, and guarded, with a jealous eye, the interests of the tax-payers. From the fact of his residing in this borough, a large proportion of the responsibility of the office naturally fell upon him.— Notwithstanding this, Ile succeeded in giving general satisfaction, and retires with the approbation of all who had any official transactions with him, as well as of the community at large. Q::7 - Among the list of officers who have leave of absence to return to the United States, we observe the name of Capt. W. H. Irvin, of Mifflin county.— Those who are not incapacitated by wounds or sickness arc to recruit for their respective regiments. 0:".; The Supreme Court of this State has decided that under the Act of 1833, a Will, to which the " mark" of the tes tator is made, is void. The testator must sign the testamentary instrument by his own proper signature, if lie be able to do so, but if prevented from do ing this by sickness, infirmity or other incapacity, resource is to be had to the alternative mode of authentication poin. • ted out by the statute, to wit : signing the testator's name to the instrument at the end thereof, by some person in his presence, and by his express direction, and both the incompetency and signature by express request must be proved by two witnesses. THE CANAL•—The water was let into the canal from Duncan's Island to New ton Hamilton, on Saturday last. [l7- A number of the hands employ ed at Piper's Dam have quit work.— They allege that the rules adopted for tl:etr government were too severe. The Battles of Mexico. Tacubaya, to agree upon terms of capit ulation with the General-in-chief. They arrived about midnight and continued their interview until near daylight, without accomplishingany thing. Gen. Scott informed them that he would sign any paper in the city that he would out of it; and that, as they had caused him all the loss and trouble they could, he intended HIS ARMY SHOULD NOW MARCH INTO THE CITY IN TRI UMPH unrestricted by any terms of ca pitulation whatever." Pennsylvania Rail Road. 'the Pa. Intelligencer says:—Propo sals will be rccived at Lewistown, until ! Thursday the 25th inst. for the delivery on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail Road, of Nineteen Hundred and Ffty cross ties for each mile of the Road, be ginning with the 27th mile from Harris burg, and extending to Lewistown, a distance of 33 miles. Proposals will also be received for the grading and masonry of about thirty. six miles of the Pennsylvania Rail Road. The letting to take place on the 27th inst. About eighteen miles of the Eastern end of the road, embracing 1S sections, were let in July last, from Harrisburg west to the junction of the Pennsylva nia canal, on the Juniata, near Duncan's Island. Since that letting it was found that contracts could be effected on fa vorable terms for the construction of sections No. 19 and 20, and they were accordingly given out. From the let ter point to the dam near Lewistown, proposals arc now to be received. It is contemplated to put that portion of the the line, between Lewistown and Holli lidaysburg, under contract early in the spring. IVIr. Clay and the War. The Lexington Observer of Wednes day last says : "A public meeting of the citizens of the county and such others as choose to attend, is requested at the Court House in Lexington, at 1 o'clock, A. M., on Saturday the 13th inst. We are authorized to say that Mr. Clay will address the meeting on the subjects of the existing War with Mexico, the con quest of Mexico, its annexation to the United States, &c., and will present res olutions for the consideration of the meeting." TAVERN LICENSE.—Judges Parsons and Kelly, of Philadalphia, deprived a tavern keeper of his license, on com plaint, of disorderly conduct on the premises and selling liquor on the Sab bath. They decided that the selling of liquor on the Sabbath was a violation of law, rendering any tavern keeper liable to the forfeiture of his license. GENEROUS.—We learn from the Pitts burg papers that the officers of the 4th regiment of artillery, to which Capt. Drum was attached at the time he fell, have made a contribution to his widow a nal family of $2,000, which has been forwarded to her. -A young lady at New Brunswick horse-whivped a lawyer for laming her dog. It is reported that the parties were privately married three days after the occurrence. SENATOR HANNEGAIN. - ‘‘ e learn from the Cincinnati Gazette, that during week before last, at Crawfordo'ille, la., a quarrel took place between Senator Han negan and a Mr. E. McDonald, which had its origin a year past in what i s said to have lAen a mob, when McDonald says he got knocked into the canal, through the Senator's instrumentality. This was the first time the parties met since. The Senator was attacked by McDonald—knocked down and trampled under foot, and his face horribly lacera ted. After the Senator was released, he returned with a gun, for vengeance on McDonald, but he had escaped. Such scenes are much to be regretted. Otr- Nativeism is growing " small by degrees and beautifully less." The na tive vote for Governor this year is 11,- 207. Last fall, for Canal Commissioner, it was 25,438. A falling off of more than one half. Nativeism will soon be defunct in this State, as it is already in New York. 2 , 11113 -- iliiiiiilial-. New York. The returns of the majorities in the counties heard from, comprising all but seven, in this State, show a Whig ma jority of over thirty thousand. The Legislature, according to a table in the Albany Argus, will stand thus: Whigs. Locos. 24 8 94 33 The following important intelligence from Mexico we find in the Baltimore Sun of Friday last, brought by express, and taken from the New Orleans Picay une extra, of the sth inst : The steamship New Orleans, Capt. Auld, arrived this morning, having left Vera Cruz on the Ist inst. The British courier arrived at Vera Cruz on the 31st of October, having left Mexico on the 29th, to which date we have letters and papers. Gen. Lane entered Puebla on the 13th tilt., with 3,000 men and six pieces of artilery—so says a dispatch of Santa Anna. The latter could effect nothing against him on the Pine!. Gen. Smith has been appointed Gov ernor of the City of Mexico. Gen. Quitman is about to return to the United States. Gen. Shields, Capt. Philip Kearney, Capt. Davis, Lieut. Kiger and others, will accompany him. From the Durango Journal, of the 14th ult., is derived the information that the U. S. frigate Portsmouth arrived in the waters of Mazatlan on the 22d of September, from Monterey, in California. The U. S. Squadron, consisting of the frigates Congress,Deale, the Cyane, and and a transport, eft Monterey on the Ist of September, for Maztalan and Sun Clas, and for those of Guayamas and Acapulco. ' The health of the army is far front ' being good. The climate of the valley of Mexico is not, as it appears, congeni al to the contitutions of the South. It is just as enervating and fatal to the southern, as is that of Vern Cruz to the northern constitutions. The effective force of the entire army is reduced ten or fifteen per cent. ' The city of Mexico was filled with ' rumors of peace. It was said that a quorum had met at Queretaro; and that the majority decided in favor of an am icable adjustment of difficulties. The train which is to come down will be under the command of Col. Harney. A great number of wounded officers are to accompany. Major Gaines, Capt. Cassius M. Clay, Capt. Headyt, Major Borland, Capt, Danley and Midshipman Rogers come home and we are happy to add our as cociate, .Alr Kendall. A letter from an English house, dated Puebla, October 20th, has been received at Vera Cruz, from which our corres pondent makes the following extract : PcEBLA, October 20, 1847. * * * However we may soon have our communication open, for 1,500 Americans left yesterday, with eight pieces of artillery, and entered Atlisco, as we understand, with very slight re sistance. Particulars have not transpi red. This will make our State Government I remove to a distance, and carry along with it the guerillas which have been doing so much injury. They all (guer illas) came from a distance—the popu lation of our immediate neighborhood I never having shown any great disposi- Ition to take up arms in this present war, The principal part of the force recent ly under Santa Anna is understood to have marched for. Puebla. Being en- I tirely unprovided for, they subsisted by rapine and plunder. Lieut. E. B. Daniels, of the 2d Artil lery, has died of his wounds. The Vera Cruz Genius of Liberty, says: From four French gentlemen who left the city of Mexico on the 13th, and Pu ebla on the 16th of the present month, we have received intelligence of a very important nature, concerning the state of affairs in those quarters. Gen. Lane having arrived at Perote, was there joined by Capt. Walker and his command, and both advanced togeth er on the Puebla road until they reach ed the town of Vryes. At this place Capt. Walker, by order of the commanding General, took up his line of march to Huatnantla, by way of the towns of San Francisco and Guapa stla. On his arrival at Huamantla a sanguinary engagement ensued in the streets between the force of Capt. Walker, consisting of 250 men, and that l of the Mexicans, numbering 1,600, the i result of which was the total expulsion RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—A dreaful acci- i of the enemy from the town, and its oc dent occurred on the Massochusetts ; cupation by our valiant little army. Railroad, between Springfied and Bos- But the gallant Walker after perform ton, on Saturday lust. A car, called i ing prodigies of valor and feats of the the Jim Crow, was dashed to pieces, I most daring character, fell in a single combat, pierced by the spear of an en ond seven Irish-emigrants were instant- I raged father, who goaded to actual ly killed, their liodies being most borri frenzy by the death of his son, whose The ae ., I full beneath the arm of Capt. Walker he bly mangled. Several other passen- I had just witnessed, rushed forward, hers were severally wounded. i heedless of all danger , . to avenge his cident was caused by the break falling I beneath the cur while in rapid motion. i death, and attacking the captain with I almost irresistible violence, plunged his spear into his body, and slew him al most instantly. The Mexicans lost two hundred men and three pieces of artillery. The lat. ter were thrown into a galley in the rear of the town by the victors, who, after the achievment of their object, the dispersion of the guerillas, for which they were despatched to Huamantla, evacuated the place, and directed their In the Senate, In the House, 118 41 Whig majority on joint ballot, seventy seven ! ! New Jersey. The Whigs in this State have a ma jority of 18 in the House and 5 in the Senate, making 23 on joint ballot. Haines, the Locofoco candidate for Governor, has a majority of about 2,000 over Wright, the nominee of the Whig State Convention. The Whig papers say that this result was not unexpected, for Mr. Wright, having permitted himself in 1843 to de feat, with the aid of his political friends and the opponents of the Whig party, the regular nomination of the Whig can didate for the sth Congressional District, by running himself, unextinguishable objections were thereby raised in the minds of many Whigs to any further support of Mr. Wright. He was nevertheless pressed upon and carried through the Convention—but the Whig party would not be forced, and the result is seen in the defeat of Mr. Wr., while the State, in both branches of the Legislature, remains strongly Whig. Wiassachusetts, The old "Bay State" is still true to the Whig cause. The election on Men day of last week has resulted in the election of a Whig Governor, a Whig House, and a unanimous Whig Senate. All honor to the ‘N higs of the old Bay State. They deserve the heart-felt thanks of all true Patriots. Geo. N. Briggs as far as heard from, bents Caleb Cushing, Polk's General, about 13,000. The last news received says :—The total vote for Briggs in 277 towns, (all but 31) is 49,039 ; Cushing, 36,707 ; all others, 11,565. Briggs' ma jority, thus far, over all others, 767. The towns yet to come in will make Briggs' clear majority about 2,000. The Whigs will have a majority of about 100 in the House, and the Senate will be all Whig. MICHIGAN has gone Locofoco as usual, lby about 8 or 9000 majority. LOUISIANA.—The re-election of La Sere, (dem.,) in the Ist, Thibodeaux, (whig,) in the 2d, and Hermatison, (dem.,) iu the 3d district, is the result so far as to Congress. The Legislature remains in doubt. So far, there appears to be a net whig gain of one Senator and three Representatives. The democratic ma jority last year, on joint ballot was eleven. rams EUROPE. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10, 1847 By the arrival of the French steam ship Washington, we have intelligence from Liverpool to the 24th ult. At the time of her departure there had been no change in the price of Provisions. The price of Corn had declined from Ito 2 shillings. There had been a fall in Wheat of 2s per 70 lbs ; in Corn Meal of 6s. on the bbl ; and Cotten had declined id per lb. since the sailing of the Caledonia. The commercial distresses of Eng land continued without any abatement ; and the Bank of England had been ex tending no relief to the community. Failures were still being reported. Flour was quoted at 265. 6d. The Cholera was making fearful rav ages in Russia. The distresses in Ireland seem to be unabated ; and riots, and collisions with the military, were continually ta king place._ The rival Swiss cantons appear to be on the eve of bloodshed. GALLANT YouT►is.—Among the pris- oners taken by our army in the attack upon Chepultepec were about a hundred cadets.