I UNTOGDON JOURNAL,
i3Y JAMES CLARK
VOL, XIII, NO. 8.
RECEIPTS 4' EXPENDITURES ; Jacob Miller, Dockets and Index Books for Regis.
ter and Recorder's office,
OFHUNTINGDON COUNTY John Cresswell, Esq., auditing the accounts of the
Prothonotary and Register & Recorder for 1846,
Front the Bth day of January .4. D. 1847, up to and including Wm. Drenn in, planting trees on the Court House lots,
the 7th day of January, .4. D. 1848. Sundry persons, redemption money of lands sold at
Treasurer's sale,
Sundry Supervisors road tax on unseated lands, •
Sundry School Treasurer's School tax on unseated
lands,
Sundry persons refunded taxes and costs of lands
sold at Treasurer's sale,
Sundry persons, Stationary and Candles, blank
books for assessments and Duplicates, &c., &c.,
F. B. Wallace, postage,
Jackson Enyeart, for election boxes,
Henry Myers, for cutting fire wood, hauling, &c.,
Sundry persons, for repairs to jail & Court House,
James Steel, Esq., Prothonotary and Clerk of Ses
sions fees, and for furnishing stationary for the
Court,
State Treasurer, interest on balance of State tax
for 1846 clue and unpaid on the 2d Tuesday of
January last,
John Armitag e,(late Sh'ff ) summoning jurors, com
mission on fines collected, carrying assessments
and Duplicates, &c.,
Joseph Law, Esq., Treasurer, for advertising and
selling lands which afterwards appeared to be seated 30 50
Joseph Law, Esq., Treasurer, notes of the Lewis
town-Bank, Susquehanna county Bank and Dela
ware Bridge company received in payment of taxes, 125 00
Jacob Africa, (Jailor) boarding prisoners, 35 30
Treasurer's commission on $23,311 08 a per ct. 349 66
Balance in the Treasury, 420 40
RECEIPTS.
Years. Collectors.
1840 George Kelly,
1841 James Leonard,
1842 Josiah Clossin,
1843 Michael Bossier,
1845 John R. Hunter,
Robert Peterson,
John Brumbaugh,
Benjamin Bowers,
1846 Charles Cowden,
Jacob Crotsley,
Michael Bernd°liar,
John H. Blair,
John Zentmyre,
Samuel R. Boggs,
John Russell,
Robert Mcßurney,
William Hileman,
Jacob Rough,
George Bowman,
George Taylor,
Jacob Hegie, ,
Henry Houpt,
James Hampson,
William Hutchison,
Samuel Ewing,
John Osburn,
1847 Robert Massey,
Joseph Z. King,
Daniel I. Logan,
Lemuel Green,
Moses Greenland,
Thomas W. Neely,
John H. Stoncbraker,
John Flenner,
Jacob Russell,
William B. Smith,
John M. Tussey,
Andrew McClure,
John Anderson,
John Shaver,
William Ramsey,
Adams Houck, _
John Bu►naarner, Sr. Union,
James Ganoe, Warriorsmark,
Samuel Ewing, West,
John Heffner, Walker,
Jacob Vantries, Esq., proceeds of sale of estrays,
John Oswalt, on account of Note,
Samuel Caldwell, for grass on Court House lots,
Joseph Law, for Coal,
County Tax on Unseated Lands,
School "
Road "
Redemption money of Unseated Lands paid in since
last settlement,
Amos Clark and J. P. Snare, on account of forfeited
recognizancee, 54 00
John Armitage, (late Sheriff) fines and jury fees, 173 00
Balance in the Treasury at last settlement, 852 50
/312,040 57
Note.—The interest origgiate Tax of 1846, amounting to
$31.45 is included in the above amounts received from Col
lectors in 1846.
EXPENDITURES.
Attorney General and others, on criminal pros
ecutione,
Grand and Traverse Jurors, cryer, &c.
Constables, making returns,
Do. advdertising spring election, and set ,
ving notices,
Assessors,
Judges, Inspectors and Clerks of elections,
Road and Bridge viewers,
Inquisitions on dead bodies,
Sundry persons, premiums on wild cats, foxes,
and wolves,
ComtissioNEas—
JOhn P. Miller,
Daniel Teague,
Robert Cummins,
AIIDITORS—
William Hutchison,
George Wilson,
L. G. Kessler,
W. S. Africa, Clerk to Comm's and Auditors, 1846,
do. " on acc't, 1847,
A. K. Cornyn, Esq., Counsel to Comm's,
County Printing--James Clark,
Whittaker & Raymond,
William Lewis,
John Dougherty 3 00
Sexton & Fockler, for 15 tons of Coal, 80 62
W. B. White, delivering fire wood to county jail, 1846, 36 96
John Kerr, on acc't, ti « 1847, 40 00
Mary Gibson, sweeping and scrubbing the Court
House,
Jane Keim, washing for prisoners,
BRIDGES-
Robert Madden, (of Hugh) in full of Bridge across
the Little Juniata river at Gray sport near the
mouth of Spruce Creek,
Aaron Stains, on account, of Bridge across Sideling
Hill Creek, in Springfield township, 450 00
Aaron Stains, on account, of Bridge across Anti
wick Creek in Cromwell township,
William Taylor, on account, of Bridge across the
Raystown Branch of the Juniata River near Con
rad Snare's, in Hopewell township, 1200 00
William Walker and John Huyett, on account, of
Bridge at the borough of Alexandria,
Alexander Carmon, on account, of Bridge across
Crooked Creek in Walker township,
Thomas Irvin and Wm. Chilcoe, repairing Bridge
at Vandevander'., {O,OO
Townships.
Dublin,
Barren,
Antes, Wooberry,
Barree,
Dublin,
Hopewell,
Woodberry,
Barree, •
Cass,
Clay,
.Imint Paid.
$ 17 60
157 97
Franklin,
Henderson,
Hopewell,
Jackson,
Morris,
Porter,
Shirley,
Springfield,
Tell,
Tod,
Union,
Warriorsmarlt,
West,
Walker,
Barree,
Brady,
Cromwell,
Cass,
Clay,
Dublin,
Franklin,
Henderson,
Hopewell,
Jackson,
Morris,
Porter,
Penn,
Shirley,
Springfield,
Tod,
56 22
14 72
60 32
32 88
$ 261 77
2887 25
152 30
109 60
724 37
460 06
120,00
3 .50
230 62
71 50
110 00
61 00
9 00
9 00
7 50
300 00
200 00
40 00
•248 25
27 00
45 00
20 00
15 00
441 75
700 00
950 00
200 00
HUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1848.
In testimony of the correctness of the above account we
have hereunto set our hands this 7th day of January A. D.
1848. DANIEL TEAGUE,
.attest --W . S. AFRICA, Clerk•
We, the undersigned Auditors of Huntingdon County, do
hereby certify that we have examined the drafts of the Com
missioners of said county, and the receipts for the same, for
the past year, and find a balance in the Treasury of four
hundred and twenty dollars and forty cents.
Given under our hands this 7th day of January A. D.
1848. L. G. KESSLER,
GEO. t% ILSON,
JAMES' GILLAM,
Huntingdon, Jan. 7, 1848.] auditors.
COUNTY TAX.
•
List of outstanding balances due by the following Collectors
1840,
S. Robison, A:1, gheny,
1846,
Charley Cowden, "lame,
M. Bnrndollnr, ('lay, - • .
lino. Zentrnyer, Franklin, - -
S. R. Boggs, Henderson, - -
Jacob Kough, Porter,
Jar. Hampson, Union, - - -
1847.
'Robert Massey, Harree, • 354 00
nine. L. King, Brady,ss 10
• - - - - -
•tD..I. Logan, Cromwell, 181 68
'Lemuel Green. Came. - t .... . 70 36
'Moses Greenland, Clay. 79 31
frhos. W. Neely, Dublin,
inn. H. Stonebraker, Franklin, 418 98
tJaeob Russell. Hopewell, - ..... - 157 40
t Wm. B. Smith, Jackson, - ..... - 349 35
tino. M. 'Nosey, Morrie, - 185 98
•
tit ndrew McClure, Porter,- 193 30
- - -
John Anderson, Penn,- - 177 79
- • •
'John Shover, Shirley, -- - 208 69
- •
t Wm. Ramsey. Springfield,- . - - 80 94
- •
tGeo. May, 'fell,- 161 73
- •
t Adams Houck, 'no,- • • 40 03
- -
tine. Bumoardner. Sr., Union, .40 14
-
t'amuel Ewing. West,- 683 81
• - -
tlohn Heffner, Walker,- • - - 255 40
-
•Since paid in full. tSince paid in part.
febB-31.
TOM PAINE'S BONES.—The fate that has befallen this un
happy man, (Thomas Paine, the Infidel,) is both curious and
wonderful—the sanctuary of the grave not even having been
granted to him for a resting place. Mr. Paine died about
the year 1820, a little distance from New York city, in
Westchester county, if we are not mistaken. The scene at
his death-bed, which was horrid, has often been described.
he could not, dare not be left alone for a moment. He died
at the house of a brother Infidel, and a grave being denied
him in any consecrated spot, his friend buried him, without
ceremony, beside a fence on his farm. A number of years
after, an Englishman, an ardent admirer and follower, disin
terred his skeleton, and carrying it to England, kept it as a
sacred relic in his house. At that time he was possessed of
immense wealth, but in a few years became a bankrupt and
died. His effects having been seized by his creditors, were
sold according to law, and among other articles of house
hold furniture and apparel, Tom Paine's bones were put up
at public auction, and sold to a wealthy amateur and curiosity
hunter for the sum of £4.0. Within the cabinet of this gen
tleman, in company with many other curiosities, the bones of
Tom Paine are now deposited—a warning and example that
when the wicked died' their expectations shall perish. The
splendid talents and education of Mr. Paine, if exerted in a
better cause, would have merited and insured for him a dif
ferent fate, We derive this account from a gentleman ac
quainted with the circumstances, and it is, no doubt, correct.
[Springfield Republican.
CUAHITY.—The outward work, without charity, profiteth
nothing ; but whatsoever is done out of charity, be it ever
so little and contemptible in the sight of the world, is wholly
fruitful ; for God weigheth more with how much love one
worked), than how much he cloth. He doth much that loveth
much ; he cloth much that doth a thing well.—Wesley,
[CORRECT PRINCIPLES-SUPPORTED BY TRUTH.]
40 42
30 00
37 50
51 86
49 17
53 78
69 05
59 16
7 22
4 00
19 46
31 86
108 66
16 61
235 91
12,0 , 10 57
ROBERT CUMMINS,
JOSHUA GREENLAND,
Commissioners
400 33
316 07
• - 3 72
• 370 81
. - 206 10
484 88
• - - 14 47
I was engaged in lecturing in New
Jersey just before the License Election.
Two days before I lectured at Port Mur
ray, a man with whom I had no acquain
tance, threatened that if I lectured at
Port Murray as I did elsewhere, he would
have me " turpentined." The day on
1 which I did lecture at Port Murray he
inquired for rotten eggs, and told the
merchant to keep them for him, that lie
intended them for me. After my lec
ture had commenced, he arrived, and
immediately
,interrupted me in my dis
course. I gave him fair warning that
" men who played with cats must ex
pect to be scratched." He felt very good,
and thought he had an easy task before
him. But he soon found that it was
easier to get into a scrape than to get
out of it. I put him upon his profession
of a "Liquor seller," and defied him to
prove, by any living creature, any good
thing about himself as such. It was
what he had never even dreamed of be
fore ; and his looks of despair were re
ally amusing. 1 then undertook to prove
that almost any meanness could be pro
ved on liquor selling. He admitted that
there was a great deal of adulteration
by poisonous drugs,
done by liquor sel
lers. I asked him, Do you know of any
man who abuses his family in conse
quence of the business of liquor selling?
He said he did not. A gentleman pres
ent replied. There is a man in company
with him now, abuses his family and is
separated from his wife in consequence
of it. This could not be denied. I then
asked him if he knew any body killed
in consequence of the liquor business 1
He said lie did not. A lady in the au-'
dience began to whisper to me. I ask
ed what she said 1 Another lady re
plied, She says that two men have died
in his house, in consequence of liquor.
I remarked, A lady says that two men
have died in his house, but she uses no
names. She does not say who he is, and
I know nothing about it. One replied,
Pity, Mr. Hunt s but what you knew all
about it. No, said I, Ido not wish to
know—l merely ask the questions with
out knowing the man or any thing about
his doings. I then continued asking
him questions until ho was fairly si
lenced—frequently in imploring tones,
saying, Will he never let me alone?—
Why does the fellow keep at me 1—
When will lie stop 1 Some one propo
sed to put him out. But I resisted it,
and proposed to hire him, and take him
$5714 50
POETICAL,
THE POOR MAN'S GRAVE
BY ELIZA COOK,
No sable pall, no waving plume,
No thousand torch-lights to inutile;
No parting glance, no heavy tear,
is seen to fall upon the bier.
There is not ono of kindred clay
To watch the coffin on its way ;
No mortal form, no human breast,
Cares where the pauper's bones may :eat.
Hut one deep mourner follows there,
Whose grief outlives the funeral prayer,
He does not sigh he does not weep,
Hut will not leave the settles. herip;
'Tis he who was the poor men's mate,
And made him more content with fate;
The mongrel dog that shored hie cruet,
Is all that stands beside his dust.
He bends his listening ear as though
He thought he heard a voice below ;
He pines to miss the voice so kind,
And wonders why he's left behind.
The sun goes down, the night is come—
He needs no food—he need., no home
But stretched upon the dreamless bed,
With doleful howls call back the dead,
The p.sing gaze may coldly dwell
On all that polished marbles tell ;
For temples built on church-yard earth
Are claimed by riches more than worth;
But who would mark with undimmed eyes
The mourning dog that starves and dies?
Who would not ask, who would not crave,
Such love and faith to guard his gravel
[BY REQUEST.]
LETTER FROM THE REV. THOMAS
P. HUNT.
To the Cor. Sec. 7'. U.
WYOMING, PENN., Dec. 22, 1847.
DEAR SIR :-1 see that you have
brought a wrong accusation against the
Liquor sellers of Belvedere. Not one
of them approves of the course of my
friend Jim Anderson (who hails from a
place known by the name of Anderson
town; New Jersey,) who brought suit
against me for slandering him. I will
thank you, therefore, to correct the mis
take. Honor to whom honor is due, is
as correct a principle as that which re
quires that a certain great one should
have his clue. Wrong no titan—no; not
even Jim Anderson.
As the affair is likely lo become one
of interest, not only from the personali
ty of it, but also on account of the prin
ciples involved, it may not be improper
to give to the public, through your col
umns, a brief statement of the whole
matter.
with me, in order that he might aid the I Sant Sentiments.
Temperance cause. After the meeting We must be permitted to add, while dl
was over he invited me to go home with this subject, that the doctrine involved
him, promising to treat me well, and to ! in the popular outcry, "Our eonntry,.
take me on my journey the next day.— right or wrong," is in our judgement
But I had no disposition to put myself one of the most outragous ever broached.
I into his power, and declined his invite- It is a clear infraction of the teachings
tion. The night was very dark, so that of God's Holy Bible, and of the plainest
it was difficult to distinguish persons.— lessons of common justice. Nothing
Mr. John Castner, son of that most in- I but the captivating lure which it so' art
defatigable, judicious and early pleader fully throws out, of the putative patriot
of the Temperancedause, the Rev. Mr. isni which is made to gleam from be-
Castner of Mansfield, N. J. had taken neath its adroit and hidden sophistry,
me fee Port Murray. The Liquor sellers could ever have reconciled an inteNigent
thought no doubt that I would return and honest mind to its adoption. if tits
with him. But I did not. He took up monstrous motto were founded in truth
a youth in his buggy. He had not gone then our patriot fathers had never wres
very far, before he found the road block- ted this country from the iron yoke of
ed up by a wagon. Presently another British tyranny,and we should still be the
vehicle drove up behind him, and the abject tassels of a foreign potentate ;
persons in it commenced throwing eggS then Luther had never come forth to
at Castner. They spoiled his coat and preach and pray and labor against the
that of the youth with him. They thought fearful abuses of church and state in the
that I was there. But I was not. I was days of the refOrmation ;
then
sitting down in the house of my friend i the people and state Were right anddeser-
Ramsay, eating buckwheat cakes and ved to be sustained when they condemn
honey, instead of being bedaubed with ed the Son of God to the ignominious
the unsavory eggs of the Liquor seller. death of the cross ;—then there, is an
By the way, I would much prefer being end of all progress in the political econ-•
struck with his eggs, than being coin- omy, the nationsof Europe are bound
pelled to drink his liquor. moat loyally to' support elf the ettesses
A day or two after I gave an account and despotic usurpations of their respec
of the meeting at Port Murray; and af- tire governments, no matter whether or
ter stating the whole circumstances, I not they are thereby ground to powder
remarked there, however liquor sellers and dust. But enough. If adherences to
might be•ignorant of the deaths caused this sophism is to be regarded as ft test
by liquor, I apprehended it could be pro-, of patriotism, we can lay no claim to
ved, "That a man was found dead in al such patriotism.. Our motto is, "let God
Bar room." I did not say he was mur- I be trueatid every man a liar ;" and hence
dered, nor did I say where the Bar room ' we can only justify our country, so far
was. Some one told Anderson that I as itgoes with God and the teachings
had accused him of murdering a man in of his Word; not an inch farther. But in
his bar room. Forthwith lie followed'' pursuing this course we feel assured,
me to Belvedere, and had a writ served that We are a better and truer friend to
on me. The plan I suppose was, to have the country, than he who is prepared to
it so served that I could get no one to vindicate and support the decisions of
go my bail ; for I cannot else understand the masses when wrong, no less then
why its service was delayed until after when they are right. This, at least, for
my meeting and the audience had dis- the present, is one of the articles of our
persed. But the kind friends in Belve- political creed, and until convinced that
dere had got wind of the matter, and we are ill the error we must adhere to
we had every thing ready for them. So it, even if our adherence should subject
1 escaped sleeping in the jail, as I did 1 us to the loss of every subscriber we
the pelting of the eggs, and no thanks have. No consideration under heaven,
to the liquor seller for either. The Sher-if we know ourselves, even if it were
ifl remarkedohat it was a new business I sure to crowd our list with subscribers
to be serving writs on ministers of the and fill our coffers with gold, coisld tempt
gospel. In this, however, he was great- us to violate the manifest diotations of
ly in error. For my master was arrest- conscience.
ed, and so were Peter and Paul, and so . We however started with the intention
would be any good man, if the wicked to give expressionto just one thought.
had their way. I Asking pardon for so long a preface here
My trial will come on in May, 1818, it is. Was our government established
at Belvedere. I intend to plead my own ! for an offensive one, or was it not rather
cause. * * * **_ * ! for the "common defence and general wel-
In my plea I intend to make the follow- fare," as expressly stated in theconsti.
ing points : tution 1 We find the celebrated John
1. That a man violating the law can-lßandolph bringing this very argument
not sue for words spoken in reference to to bear in Congress as far back as the
_ I
that act. onelof his speeches he
year 1806 . . n . _
2. When a man sues for damage, we says : "I declare in the face of day that
have the right to ascertain the value of this government was not instituted for
the property injured. Some things are the purpose of offensive war—no—it
worth nothing—you can neither sell was framed (to use its own language)
nor give them away—nobody will have for the common defence and the general
them. And' even the owner would be welfare, which are inconsistent with
benefited if he would get rid of them.— offensive war. I call that offensive war
And some things would be very value- which goes out of our own limits and ju
ble in some men's hands, while the same risdiction for the attainment of objects
thing in other men's possession would I not within those limits and that juris
tapt
e such and
a sentiments
lo
rulers
less. nots
be like a jewel on a swine's snout, en- diction.
tirely out of place, and entirely value- pity". ac h t a u t a a tetlie people
h
3. That suits growing out of malice The chimerical idea of a" manifest des
arel
not to be sustained. tiny" which has seized the minds of
4. That men have been found dead in many has overturned all pre-existing
a bar-room. notions of right. The hallucination is
5. That I never snid that Jim Ander- so transcendental that it scarcely de
sonf or any other liquor-seller murder- serves a serious thought. If it be our
ed a man in a bar-room, destiny to conquer Mexico, God grant
From all quarters inquiries are made that it may be effected by the peaceful
as to the time of the trial. It is to be I influences of our holy religion, instead
in Belvedere, N. J., the 4th week in of "the hideous logic of the red-mouthed
May, 1848. A great crowd will be there artillery." We go heart and hand for
—lawyers, of the first talent and legal any measure which will stop the farther
acquirements have volunteered their ser- effusion of blood, be it the occupying of
vices. I have everything now ready for a certain line or a definite treaty of
trial, and do not fear the result. peace; and may there be one united and
I am seeking out a case in which it vigorous effort to quench this spirit of
can be sustained before a court and conquest—to blast this moral trims tree
jury, that death has resulted from which is blighting our fairest prospects.
liquors sold and drank in a grog-shop. —Lutheran Observer.
Should the proof be clear, I intend to t .
KARIN° BAOTHER.—WouId you throw
put such a liquor seller, if I can find one,
a brickbat at a friend who had fallen
on
overboard? Would you gather stones
no
t f o or tiieresiilt. manslaughter. I have
and le them on a bank that had fallen
* * *
. his doubt trial
as
With affection * yours *
*
on a brother ? Would you throw a keg
RUNT.s *nt f p owder to a friend who had fallen
o
the fire 1 'Then why heap words of re
proach upon him who had erred from
the path of duty 1 Why denounce him
and spurn him frosts your presence?—
Can you be a stranger to the human
heart—you who have so often fallen?
He cannot know the human heart,
Who, when a weaker brother errs,
Instead of acting Mercy's part,
Each base malignant passion stirs.
Harsh words and epithets but prove
That he himself is in the wrong—.
That first he used a brother's tows,
To nerve his heart and guide his tongue.
PRAYER.
Go, when the morning . shineth,
Go, when the moon is bright,
Go, when the eve declineth,
Go, in the hush of night,
Go, with pure mind and feeling,
Fling earthly thoughts away,
And in thy chamber kneeling,
Do thou in secret pray."
V- Rev. Mr. Stewart advised three
questions to be put to ourselves before
speaking evil of any man: Ist. Is it
right 1 2d. Is it kind 1 3d. Is it neees•
sary 1
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
WHOLE NO, 680,
"A soft answer turneth away
wrath," as the man said when he hurled
a rotten pumpkin at his enemy's heath