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THE JOURNAL.
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HUNTINGDON, TUESDAY, OCT, 30, 1849.
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47' We afe again at our post improved in
health and spirits, and ready to devote all our
energies during the coming winter to making oar
paper useful and interesting.
E.RATA.-In the card of Mr. J. A. HALL,
published last week, two typographical errors
occurred, viz: a Muse*" for Moses and ',ped
dling" for piddling. These were errors of the
printer and not of the author.
New Advertisements.
We call the attention of the public to the ad•
vertisements in this paper. Remember that
those who advertise sell cheaper than those who
do not.
Timms., ADAMS hue opened new Chair and
Furniture Ware-rooms a few aoore from this of
fice.
NIT! , & MILLER, (new firm) have just receiv.
ed a splendid assortment of watches and Jew•
elry at the old stand of Nett & Bro.
J. & W. SAXTON, have just received a supe
rior stock of Fall and Wintet goods, the arrival
of which has calised much excite merit up town.
The Winter Session of MILN WOOD ACADEMY
will commence on the first Wednesday of No-
vember,
t The Hollidaysburg Register has been
putting on a new rig during our absence from
home. We sincerely hope friend Jones may re
ceive a support that will enable him in a few
years to boast a larger " pile" than his
"down east" friend whose example in business
he no kindly advises us to imitate.
City Hotel,
By a card in another column, it will be seen
that the City,Hotel, located in :bird street, Phil
adelphia, has been leased by Col. A. H. HmsT,
well and favorably known in Huntingdon and
the neighboring counties, We recently stopped
a few days as this house and can assure the trav
elling public that it is kept in a most superior
style. As a landlord Col. H, cannot be sur
passed. In his manners he is a perfect gentle
man, and meets hls friends with a cordiality
that at once makes them feel perfectly at home.
His rooms ate pleasant, servants attentive and
obliging, and on his table is found every thing in
the way of substantials and delicacies that the
market can afford or the appetite crave, In
short, we felt mote at home and better satis
fied with the accOmodations at the City Hotel
during our brief stay there, than at any house
we ever stopped at in Philadelphia, and we have
therefore no hesitation in commending it to
public favor.
Coverly's Hotel.
During our absence from home we made abrief
stay tn Harrisburg, and was pleased to observe
that Col. COVERT, was repairing, enlarging and
entirely renovating his well known and popular
Hotel. His repairs are very extensive, and his
Louse will now be one of the most pleasant in
Ilafrisburg. We commend it to the patronage
of all visiting the Seat of Government. See
Card.
Blair County.
Our
. friends of the Hollidaysburg « Whig"
and " Register" are down on oar humble self in
their last papers, because we took occasion to
paldiely express our private opinion in re
lation to the result in Blair county. We con
t..sa ourself somewhat surprised at this. In
the article to which exception is taken, we made
no complaint of ineficiency or want of proper
effort on the part of the Whig press of that
county. On the other hand we admired the
zeal and ability with which the editors of the
Whig" and Register" advocated the usages
of the party in regard to their local nomina
tions as well as the State Whig nominee. What
we did say by way of reflection was intended
for others, and if our friends of the , 4 Whig"
and " Register" deemed our remarks worthy of
notice, it would in our humble opinion, have
been more becoming in them to have first shown
that we were wrong, before they commenced
harpooning us. When we commit an error, and
a friend frankly points it out to us, Wefeel more
like thanking than abusing that friend.
As a Whig that has as yet never flinched from
duty, we regret the late disaster in Blair coun
ty. We regret to see disorganization triumph ;
but we blame thefrst cause of this disorgani
zation more than we do those who made it sue•
cessful at the polls. The one who was mainly
instrumental in dividing the Whig forces in
Blair had been honored by one of :he best and
moat honorable offices in the county. Grati
tude, therefore, if nothing else, should Lave caus
ed his selfishness to yield to the interests of his
party. And it was because we regretted the
success of disorganization that we denounced the
chief cause of it.
Our friend of the " Register" is informed that
we are endeavoring to follow in the footsteps of
that worthy individual "down east" who made
himself comfortable i t a particular way. We
have still many subscribers in Blair, and hence
feel at liberty to occasionally comment on the
local transactions in that county. And our
friends of the " Whig" are informed that al
though we make no pretensions to be " far•see
ing'• or angularly "sagacious," yet we are sure
we have attributed the result in Blair to the
proper source, and hence have nothing to re-
the Complete Result.
We are enabled this week, in the language of
the Pa. Intelligencer, to give the complete re
sult of the late election in Pennsylxania, for
Canal Commissioner, a table of which will be
found in another column. The majority for Mr.
Gamble is 11,729.
The whole vote palled is 277,951, being 38,-
793 less than the vote for Governor last fall,
*n490,8011 less than , the vote for Prosideftf:
Of this enormous decrease in the vote, Fuller
received less than Johnston 35,412; and less
thun Taylor 55,4021 Gamble received less
than Longetreth 23,381, and less than Case 27,-
130.
Now what have the Democracy to boast of dr
to cheer them in such a result, or what is there,
in it to discourage or frighten the Whigs. Noth
ing. It is a mere temporary triumph of our dp
ponents, gained solely through the apathy and
censurable indifference of our friends. A full
Whig vote in the city of Philadelphia, and the
three Whig counties of Lancaster, Allegheny
and Adams, would alone have made a difference
of upwards of 12,000 votes in our favdr, and
elected Mr. Fuller, or if but one-third of the
indolent Whigs who voted for Johnston last fall,
or but one fourth of those who voted for Gen.
Taylor had turned out, the ?stilt would haVe
,been changed.
So also a proper understanding between the
friends of Johnston and Taylor in the county of
Philadelphia, would have secured the election of
the Whig Senator & members of the House of fie
pretentatives, and a very little more effort would
have elected another member in Alleghen'y, and
one in Bucks and Bedford, which woied have
given on a majority in both branches of thd Le
gislature. It is to be regretted to be sure, that
a little more. effort was not made by our friends
as we never had in our hands an easier victory,
yet there is nothing in the result to discourage
us, but rather to encourage and cheer us on to
more vigorous and determined efforts hereafter.
We repeat what we have often uttered before,
that Pennsylvania Is decidedly Whig, and all
that is required at any election is a fall zolug
vote to demonstrate it.
Fine.—We regret to learn that the extensive
buildin; occupied by the Democratic Union, in
Harrisburg, was almost entirely destroyed by
fire on Sunday last. The office of the Magnet
ic Telegraph was in the same buildinf.
(0. The important civil suit tried in Blair
county last week—The heirs of - Summerville vs.
Thomas Jartson—involving property to the
amount of $20,000, resulted in a verdict for the
plaintiffs. The case we understand was ably
argued on both sides. .1011:i G. MILES, Esq. of
this place, and J. F. Con, Esq. of Somerset,
argued the case for the defendant, and Hon.
T. STEVINS of Lancaster, and S. S. Blair, Esq.
of Hollidaysburg, for the plaintiffs. A motion
for a new trial was made bydefendant's counsel.
25" The notorious J. G. Mills, who seduced
three sisters, WEIS tried at Harrisburg last week.
For black-hearted villainy this case stands with
out a parallel. The trial last week was for the
seduction of the youngest sister, who is under
age, under the act of '43. We heard the speeches
of the counsel on both sides. .feud C. KUNKLE,
Esq., concluded for the prosecution, in a speech
which for eloquence and merited severity, we
never heard equalled in) any Court. It was
an effort of which Mr. K. and his friends May
justly feel proud, and which ranks him among
the most eloquent speakers in the State. Mills
was convicted, but as there ate three other
indictments hanging over him, he Will not re
ceive his sentence until they are disposed of.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN'S EXPEUITION.-The
whale ship McClellan, of New London, just ar
rived from the ice, announces that about the
Ist of August last, While in Bathos Bay, lat,
75 lon. 72, the natives of the coast implied by
signs that two large ships were lying at Prince
Regent's inlet, where they had been for four
seasons past. On being interrogated whether
the crews of the vessels were "asleep," that
is, dead, they replied that the men of the ships
were alive and well. There being no proba
bility of any other ships being ice-bound for so
long a time in these seas, the information of the
natives was regarded by the officers of the
McClellan, and of a ship called the Englishman
as indicating that Sir John and his gallant com
pany had survived the horrors of four polar
winters. On receiving this information, the
Captain of the Englishmen proceeded to Cape
Flay, near Pond's Bay, where the voyagers
must pass should they ever return, and landed
a supply of coals and provisions, with which
he had been furnished by the British Govern
ment for the use of the missing ships. After
all, there is s probability, for it scarcely amounts
to hope, that Sir John and his gallant adventur
ers may be safe.
Minnesota.
The St, Paul's (Minnesota) Chronicle
furnishes some interesting particulars
respecting the climate production, &c.,
of that territory. Esculents of every
description and of superior quality are
produced in abundance, and the crops
of oats and Indian corn are spoken of as
being• much heavier than those of Ohio
and Indiana. Mechanics and particu
larly house builders are in great de
mand, and it is believed that unmans
of small means could there acquire prop
erty and grow up with the country.—
The lumber business is spoken of as at
tracting much attention and increasing
in importance with the return of every
spring and the rapid augmentation of
the population. Mercantile and profes
sional pursuits are in small demand, al
though St. Paul', it is believed, would
compare favorably in this respect with
kny other town of the same size. The
oldest inhabitants of the territory de
clare'that at no place where they had
formerly resided, have they or their
families enjoyed a greater share of
health than in Minnesota,
The Diflicuity with France.
In addition to the inteligence already laid be
fore
our readers in regard to the difficulty with
France, the New York Courier and Enquirer
of yesterday furnishea the folierveing important
telegraphic despatch ffdtri UMW*, dated on the
day of the sailing of the Steamer
,4 The Paris koniteur of last night states
that the French Goveenmeni entirely disavows
the conduct of M. Pcruasin. It Mao announces
the appointment of M. Bois Le Conipt, at pres
eht French Minister at Turin, to be Minister
Plenipotentiary at Was'dington. He ie to be re
placed at Turin by M. Lomen Murat."
II the statements contained in this dispatch
are correct—and we see no good reasons to
doubt them—the conduct and the policy of the
Administration at Washington are vindicated in
a manner. which, while it redounds in the high
est degree to its honor, at the same time reflects
the utmost disgrace upon the unprincipled oppo-
Bifida which was raised by the Locofoco press.
It clod hot become us to inquire how the French
GovernMient came to disavow the action of M.
Pouseiiii especially in the face of M. de Tocque
yilie's letter to Mr. Rush, in which he imputed
faults on both sides; it is enough for us to know
the fact, and to feel that the character of our
Government has been nobly sustained by the
decisive and high boned cc/rade of the Adminis
tration. If Louis Napoleon, encouraged by the
extremes of gasconade and submission which
were eithibited by the late dynasty in the Ore
gon negotiation, hoped to strengthen his power
at home by an experiment upon the courage and
integrity of those now charged with the respon
sibility of government, he has awekened to a
sense of his mistake, and by a prudent cdnces
sion endeavored to repair the errer which he
committed, b 7 sactifiCing the instrument through
which it was attempted. • • • •
How the foreign organ at Washington and its
locofoco allies, who espousod the qharfel of the
French Minister, denounced the Secretary of
State, assailed the Administration, and reflected
upon the gallant conduct of Commander Car
penter, are to bear themselves after this news,
is more than we can conjecture. Their zeal
seems to have transcended their supposed au
thority, and like Poussin, they are now aban
doned—with the added shame that they are aban
doned—by the very men whose interests they
were engaged in defending, against the rights of
their own government. A spectacle' More Hu
miliating and cantemptible than that which the
Union exhibits at this time, has never before
been presented to the American public ; and
much as we have been compelled to denounce
its vindictive course, for the credit of the press
we feel pity for its present degredation. There
is a brand upon its brow which time cannot re
move, and a sentiment of well deserved scorn
in the American heart which no mere proton-
sion of repentance can ever' extinguish.—North
American.
Letter From Gov. Ramsey.
In a letter from Gov. Ramsey to a friend in
this State, we find information which will be of
advantage, perhaps, to some of our readers, and
which gives an idea of the resources and pros
pects of the new territory that can be relied on.
If any of our young men think of " seeking
their fortunes" in the great West, we would ad
vise them, by all means, to give consideration
to Minnesota
St. PAUL, Minesota, Sep. 19, 1810,
In almost eve
ry industrial pursuit, as Farmers, Mechanics,
Merchants, &c., Pennsylvanians would be at
home here, and from their high character for
integrity, would, I am sure, soon place them.
selves in comfortable positions. The great
characteristic of this country, and one that I am
satisfied will insure its rapid settlement, is this :
that while the soil is as fertile as any in the
Valley of the Mississippi, it is happily as heal
thy as the mountain regions of Pennsylvania.
We have no fever and ague here. In emigra
ting from Pennsylvania to Illinois, you would
have to anticipate suffering for two or three
years, from lever and ague, until you become ac
climated here there is nothing of that kind to
be feared. Here all kinds of (arm produce
command higher prices than in Pennsylvania,
and this will long continue to be the case, as the
military posts and Indian agencies, pineries and
the fur trade will ever continue to give us a good
' home market, and the Mississippi opens a high
way for the outlet of our surplus produce.
Of all other people I shall be most happy to
see Pennsylvanians among us. There are nosy
a large number here. 1 shall myself feel snore
at home when they settle amongst us, and I
know that in them the Territory will have its
best and most reliable population.
I By all means advise your friends and mine to
pay us a visit, and see for themselves; if they
• do so I have no doubt the 3 will remain.
Remember me to my Lebanon county friends
for whom I shall ever cherish the warmestfeel
1 .
iings.
Very truly, yours
ALEX. AMSEY.
Mr. Juo. Malty, JonestoWn, Lebanon Co., Pa
VERMONT.-It is one of the peculiar features
of the dovernment of Vermont that, at stated
periods a Council of revision" assembles to
overhaul the Constitution and Laws of the State
for the purpose of making such alterations as
the times may suggest, subject to the ratification
of the people. This council is now in session,
and among other things, has ;tilled a conven
tion of delegates from the people to amend the
Constitution, by altering the present mode of
electing Assemblymen. As the Constitution
stands, each town sends one representative and
no more, whether great or small: and thus
small towns have as large an influence as the
greatest.
- theamendment proposed provides that <in addi
tion to one Representative from every town, each
town which has twenty-five hundred inhabitants
shall have a second Representative, and one ad
ditional for every fifteen hundred inhabitants in
addition to the number first named.'
By an amendment adopted a few years ago,
the Senate of the State is apportioned among
the counties, according to the population.—.N.
American.
KENTUCKY.—In the constitutional con•
vention of Kentucky, a proposition has
been submitted by Mr. E. A. Wickliffe,
for the substitution, in lieu of the pun
ishment now imposed on free persons of
color, for crimes other than murder, the
penalty of exportation or of being sold
i again into bondage,
Shameful.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more American, some time since disclosed a
circumstance which we consider snore disgrace
ful to our country than anything that has ever
occurred in it. He says :
" The same selfish and corrupt spirit h
in:irked' every means used by. the nemies of t
administration in their Oppotioo to it. Di
carding everything . like Om le they hate de
scended to the petttguerilla Sytftern cf personal
abuse. One falsehood has scarcely been nailed
to the counter before another of the same spu
rious coin is uttered from this rich mint of men
dacity. !4o act of the President or of a mem
ber of his cabinet, Whether public or private,
,
has any roerit in their estimations Redo the
' former kindness of the Secretary of State\to a
worthy and talented editor—his old pelletal!
friend—has been perverted by the Union and its
allies into an act of grossest corruptiOn. 'they
stop at no falsehood however mean.--no rai!in\-
ny however malignant—no language howfver
vile and vituperative. Contemptible seribqers
such as "Heroic Age," not content with abusing
the President in the public prints have even IN
VADED THE SANCTUARY OF HIS FAMILY, AND
EYERY DAY THRUST UPON HIM LETTERS WITH
FICTITIOUS siargsruass, FILLED WITH rue
MOST 'BILLINGSGATE COMPOUIVID OF
PERSONAL ABUSE AND INSULT. Nor
do they stop even here. The LADIES of the
Presidential mansion have hail addressed to them
almost daily, letters containOtg Lice mast offen
sive and obscene language which. a fiend can
indite, until they can scarcely dare to open any
letter which is not from a well known and tb
miliar hand. Such a Mode of warfare they pos
sibly seem justifiable to those whose moral
sense is blunted by the determination to oppose
the administration, whether right or wrong,
'till the bitter end ;' but honest and well mean
ing men of all parties cannot but condemn a
course of conduct so shucking to decency and
morality."
The Richmond Whig comments on this in
the following just and appropriate terms
"The profound respect, with which the female
sex is treated in this country, has been the sub
ject of remark by all the intelligent foreigners
who have visited if, There is nothing like it
in arty other quarter of the globe. Even Fanny
Kemble, the bitter satyrist df Artrericon man
ners, draws a favorable contrast between the
countries of Europe, in this respect; and ours,
where she says, a lady may travel from Boston
to New Orleans, without an escort, and never
meet with the slightest rudeness We are con
vinced, however, from this paragraph, that
there are wretches amongst as as base as can be
found arty Where else. Anonymous letters of
every kiwi, we hold to be among the most in=
famous devices. But When they are seed fot
the purpose of insulting female delicacy, the
language supplies no term sufficiently expressive
of the infamy of the act. The Penitentiary is
far too good for the wretch who would conde
scend to such baseness.
A COSTLY DINNER. -Mr. S. S. Osgood, the
painter, in the course of a letter to the N. V.
Tribune, gives the following account of a forrth
of July dinner at the mines in California. He
says :
t 4 It was given by Ramsey to his cnstomers,
and filly sat down—or rather lay down—for our
dinner was spread on a level, which was made
by felling a tree, trimming it, and filling in
above it with earth and stones. We had a cloth
along the centre, and scraps of mats and blank
ets along the sides of this, on which we reclined
in Oriental style, each man had a tin plate and
a tin pot for his iquor, water not being allowed
on the table; champagneand of er liquors were
too plenty to make it desirable to but few.
There was some lack of dishes to serve up in ;
but with wash-basins, the pans of the gold wash
' ers and a cast iron bake kettle, and with the
assistance at two large soup terreens, the nu
merous dishes were all displayed. We had,
among other luxuries, fresh blackberries and
bon-bons; the latter were rather dry, and had
no doubt travelled fur. Each man had a three
pronged fork and a regular ease knife. I was
told that the cost of the dinner, exclusive of
wines and meats, was $1100.'?
THE THANCED CHILD AT BANGOR.—Readers
probably remember the story of the little girl at
Bangor, who apparently died of cholera, and
said she had been to Heaven, where she saw her
mother, and where she was to go again on the
following Sunday. The Bangor Whig of the
12th gives the sequel, as follows :
On Sunday afternoon Mr. Daniel Warren, a
very worthy, religious man, who has been much
among the cholera patients, feeling perhaps a
little moved by curiosity, called to see the lit
tle girl, and addressing her cheerfully, told her
that she appeared bitter and would soon be well,
and get out in a day or two.
'But I'm going to mother again at 4 o'clock,'
she quietly arid softly said.
'When, to-morrow('
'No, to d y '
Mr. Warren endeavored to turn her attention
to hopeful prospects of recovery, btit the little
sufferer was fast sinking away—the death tattle
was heard, and she soon ceased to breathe, her
pulse stopped, and the fixedness of death Was
impressed upon her beautiful countenance. She
was dead. Mr. Warren looked at the town
clock, in the distance, from the window, for
there was no clock in the house, and it was four
o'clock.
While pondering upon to him, the singular co
incidences in this case, and about half an hour
had passed, new signs of life appeared, and again
the spirit of the sweet girl returned. Ehe asked
for water and said she was tired, and sunk away
into a quiet sleep.
. . .
Since then she has been gradually recovering,
but the elder sister, who watched her so ten
derly, and who would have so willingly accom
panied her to live with her mother in heaven,
was the next day token with the cholera and
died, and was buried.
BENToN..—It is said by a paper published in
Missouri that Mr. Benton will retire to private
life for several potent reasons, which are com
pressed into brevity as follows
Ninety prominent members of the Legisla
ture, from different secttions of the State, have
avowed themselves openly against him.
Of the judges, numbering twenty in all, six
teen have committed themselves against Ben
ton, and not one has pronounced for him.
Of the Congressional delegation three are
deadly against himhis colleague and two Rep.
resentatives. (The representative has espoused
his cause, and two are as yet on the non-corn
mittal platform.
01t1;e democratic press, ten papers arcegainst
him, and two neutral.
A great majority of the county meetings
which have been held have gone against him de
cisively.
Mr... Benton is not likely, moralizes the Me
tropolition, to get a majority in any Ame county
in the State.
Canal Commissioner:
Official returns for Canal Commissioner, 1819,
official :
Gamble. Fullest.
5103 6253
Allegheny
Adam's ' 1230 1615
Armstrong • 1937 1618
terka ~: ' ','''-' .1182 t 2867
Beaver . .• r?' 20R2 2349
Biteke It' •
.4637 4432
Bedford 9572 2523
Blair 1319 3730
Butler 1911 2106
Bradford 2687 9131
Cambria 1373 1128
Carbon 750 490
Centre 209:1 1382
Cfiater 4238 5083
Cumberland 2909 2558
Columbilt q t IJ 16-16
Cra Vont 2483 2204
Clarion 1851 940
ClintoW 1001 • 670
Clearfield 891 526
Dauphin 21.98 • ' 2'788
Delnware 1311 1743
Erie 1300 2503
TA 258 131
Fayede /045 /113
Franklin /tn. 097
Greene • 2017 1081
Huntingdon 1330 1787
Indiana 1230 1720
Juniata 1099 929
'Jefferson 870 463
Lebanon 1788 2178
Lancaster 4221 7133
Lehigh 2591 2317
Lycoming 2130 1524
Luzerne 3149 2578
Monroe 1303 ' 251
Mercer26lB 2424
,
M iflin 1305 1031
Montgotnery 5081 3698
McKean 365 238
Northampton 2982 2215
Northumberland 1874 1111
Perry 1419 927
Philadelphia city 4602 7386
Philadelphia county 14680 11714
Pike 651 119
Putter 546 282
Schuylkill 3651 3479
Somerset 961 2141
Sullivan 330 119
Stisquehanna 2073 1361
Tiogs 1681 1183
Union . 1820 2131
Venango 1028 517
Westmoreland 1097 2397
Washington ooln 3576
Warren 943 813
Wayne 1297 624
Wyoming 706 763
York 4035 3350
'total
1.1.1810 133111
133111
Gamble's majority,
11729
Cr"Kimber Cleaver, the Native American
Candidate, received the following vote-:—Phila.
city and county, 2, 513 ; Mongomery, 82 ;
Berks,2 ; Dauphin, 15; Allegheny,s23; North
umberland, 62.
Things IA California.
The latest news from CaHernia shows that
the Gold Fever is not abating in that region as
some have asserted. On the contrary, the crowd
of adtentures is still increasing, and the love
of that 'root of all evil' is attracting its votaries
to the mines of California from all qtiarters of
the Globe.
The following is an extract from a letter pub
lished in the Pittsburg Mercury, which will give
some idea of the state of things in the gold re-
gion :
SAN FRANCTSCI, September 1, tsta.
As to your coming hete i I dare say yoti could
do a good business. The market 's filled with
evory variety and species of goods, selling at a
icrifice ; about three hundred vessels in port
and few men to take charge of them far $3OO
per month. Seamen cannot be got at these pri
ces. Captains turned cooks, or gone to the
mines. Some give good report, and some' Oil
of the amount of gold, just as they have been
successful. 1 came to see the Elephant, and
am bound to see him before I eon rest satisfied.
1). and 1,. that came with me are going to do
the same ; if not successful, wilt return to the
States.
Rents here are out of all character ; rent of
lot alone, without any improveui nt, from $2OO
to $550 per month, payable in advance, 10 by
40 feet; to put a frame on it and cover it with
muslin sides and roof, would cost from $lOOO to
$l5OO. Lumber from 5300 to $5OO per in.—
They asked me in a Drug Store about an hour
ago, $lO for a pound of saleratus. However,
in the stores it sells for $2 per pound. Some
time since the general price was $5.
Wages in stores from $l5O to $3OO per month.
Dry goods are very cheap. Liquor cheap if you
wish to sell an invoice ; if to buy, very high ;
up at Sacramento city it sells for $3 per quart,
and at the mines for $6. Land carriage to the
mines from Stockton amt Sacramento from $2O
to $4O per hundred pounds.
This is the greatest gambling place in the
world. Men risk from $l,OOO to $50,000, an a
single turn of the cards. Drink, 25 cents per
glass ; boarding from $2 to $7 per clay and no
lodging. Yon have to pitch your tent outside
the city for this purpose. Some have places
for sleeping, but not generally. One of our ship
mates went into a restaurant and got dinner ac
cording toorder, and had to pay $4,25. Pota
toes 25 cents per lb.; dried apples the same ;
peaches not so much ; butter in kegs, if you sell,
50 cents, and to buy again, $1,50; and that
which crosses the line, termed Oregon butter ;
brings $1,30 by the keg. Flour $8 by whole•
sale, $l5 retail. No vegetables, in short no
marketplace, all sand and no rain here ;
winds and cool afternoons and nights. I could
sit by the fire very comfortably but I have
not seen any since I left the States, except at
ourgny and happy valley where we have pitch
ed our tent ; very warm throughout the day.
I am of opinion the rents as well as btisiness
generally must change soon ; It seems imposSi
ble far such a state of affair% to continue very
long—no good title can be haft to any property,
every man purchasing or renting must pay down.
One mansit months ago leased a piece of ground
for 8120,000, out of which he makes annually
$35,000 profits. Gamblers pay enormous rents
to him. One room will contain 4 taoles ; n
game called Monte is very common here. Rut
I must close as the steatner is making up her
mails.
SAD ArrAirt.-- , -On Thursday last, h deranged
person, named Jacob Louck, living near York,
went to that town, and passing along the street
on horseback, fired a rifle at Captain George
Hay, who was in his ware room. The horse
wheeled when he was in the act of firing, and .
Capt. Hay was missed. He immediately rode
off. and several persons followed him. Henry
ltlginfritz, a young men overtook him, when
Loud: fired and killed him. He was after
warns captured by a David Ehrhart and Albur-
Ws Welsh; and is now in the York ?sil.
For the Journal;
MIME PRESENTATION.
3*. g,.litor :-Having had the pleasure of be
ing, pre Brit at the presentation or a Bible, by the
ladies or. Witliann.b'hrg, to"Orphans' Home
Liada,'i No. 313 of the f. 0. of 0. F., and at
the lieme time and pllse, a procession of that
order, I have thought a notice of the occasion,
might be #orthy of your columns, and accepta
ble to your readers.
The.day, (Oct. 12th,) opened out beautiful
and contini.ed fair until night.
In the morning delegations began to arrive
from other Lodges located at Huntingdon ' Hol
lidaysburg, Birmingham, Alexandria andSauls.
burg. The Independent Brass Band" of Hol
lidaysburg was also present, 'and announced
their arrival by a very well executed piece of
music.
....No pains seemed to have been spared by the
committee of arrangements, consisting of Messrs
And. Patterson, Lieut. J. L.. Madson and C.
Weitz, to have every thing in the best order
possible, and the successful manner in Which
the plans were conducted, was .as creditable to
th,inselves, and it must have been comfortable
and satisfactory to others.
At about 11 o'clock the procession was term
ed, the band in front—the members,pf the sob.
ordinet. Lodges in the centre and those of. the
Encampment in the rear. All were appropri
ately and neatly regalied, but the latter division
were peculiarly imposing in appearance.
Mr. Samuel WamVer acted as chief mar
shall. After prominadtng the principal streets
the proeMisitin Moved to the M. E. Church,
when after an appropriate prayer by the Rev.
P. Rightmyer, arid an ode by a choir of little
girls, the Ladies entered, preceded by Mr. Saml.
Rose whom they had selected as their median,
of presentation, slid siiirOunded the alter. Af
•ter an address by that gentleman, the bible was
received by Mr. 8. C. Wingert!, with an ad
dress on the part of the Lodge. The floc.
Judge McFarlane then spoke to the audience
on the subject of Odd Fellowship, in general.
The speeches were all highly creditable.
These exercises were followed with tiri ode
by the order, another by the choir and a bene•
diction, when the ladies were conducted to the
midst of the procession, and escorted to their
place of assemblage with music by the band.
Every thing passed off agreeebly, decently
and in order.
From all external evidences " Orphans' [fume
Lodge," is in a prosperous, flourishing and har
monious condition. Located fis it is, in the
wealthy and delightful region of Itforrison's
Cove, it bids fair to become an extensiVe and
useful organization for the " diffosion of the
principles of benevolence and charity."
A SCEC;ATOR
lour tke Journal,
To MR. J. A. HATA
Sir :-.Yost cast the first arrow into the field,
and it fell harmless at our feet. NoW, when
you have added scorn to intrnsion, I take the
liberty to bestow a few words upon you. I will
not contend with you in point of ability. lam
entirely willing to admityour superior talents
even willing to indulge you in your own
conceptions of yourself. Mr. Hall. Your
demical preeeptorship has given you an unlimi
ted command over the most beautiful figures of
.speech. "Fools," , toddling infants,"and.•char.
latans," flow from your pen in all the inane of
metaphorical confosion. These are the gloomy
companions of a disturbed imagination ; the
melancholly madness of poetry without the in
spiration. You are certainly a very considera
ble of a men, and I hope to give you a lesson of
wisdoin f by which you may profit through ) our
future lite. "History" tells tho , story of the
beautiful Narcissus, who, falling in love with
his own image in the water, pined away into
a daffbdil. You have plumed and ace') yourself
in the public pr.ins, and the oa•errrl.riming
peer is the only discoverable incentive that
prompteo you to int, ude upon those who' are
so far inferior as rot to be able to appreciate
your abilities. .
When you surrender that certain rule of liv
ing width becomes "asno" of our profession,
you alienate that i 117114111 peace of scul without
which life is a dreary waste, and yuur boasted
abilities but a shadow.
Your "benevolence" will allow me to pass
over the many cant ph razes which dance throtigh
your "supremely" intelligent communication,
and seem to characterize your ability as beneath
my notice, and worthy of a place only in "the
most vacant apartment of an empty understan t
ine." Grovelling minds seek their vissible in
carnation amid the grovelling objects of er.rth,
and if yours becomes weded to them, your in ,
tellectual acumen will betray its "mercenary,
meddling churletanry," in spite of your sell=
trumpeted abilities. Your friends, whom I re
gard and highly esteem, will forget your virtues.
The learned umversity, that home of at!sountl
education," though-happiest in the public prints,
will heroine, what in truth it ought to he, once
more a peaceful scene of thoughtless meditation.
If "licking the hand of piddling power" refers
to my liability to candid men, who appear to
regard, not the aspersions of disappointed r.r
peemms, I cheerfully acknowledge the liability;
for such an EXECUTIVE is ever confident that he
is avoiding the error of !hose, who are tut
dupes to their own prejudice and passion. If
you continue to offer erliontery to those
who regard you not, I fear I shall have
to make you a negative example to the intelli
gent readers of the Journal; and your intrusions
upon the public schools wilt be likened unto a
viper biting against a tile.
' In your cloning remark you augur a retreat
which I hope may be der, rred until your
manners shall happily be ripened to ma
turity where intrusion ceases to be a qualifica
tion, It gives me pleasure to learn that you
hate discovered that fountain of true wisdom
where we read, “Seest thou a man wise in bin
own conceit, there is more hope of a fool than
of him."—“Let another man praise thee and
hot thine own mouth." If thou bast done fool
ishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou halt thought,
etil ; lay thy hand Upon thy mouth.
Oct. 26, 10.19,J A. OWEN.
The Cuba Expedition.
h;teresting Developments..—lt has been a
matter of speculation, for some time, what
country the Round Islanders were to conquer.
Mr. Griffith Il Williams, Sergeant-major of the
late regiment on Round Island, informs the ed
itor of the St. Louis Union that their ultimate
destination was the island of Cuba. The men
were to have been shipped to the island of Lo
pez, to be drilled and armed. The expedition
had been in contemplation for many years, and.
the funds for its support had been accumulated
by annual donatiors from the planters of Cuba,
and wet e deposited in New York, subject to the
order of Gem Lopez, the general manager of
the expedition. Its abject was the establish
ment of a republican government in Cuba. For
the present the expedition bas been abandoned;
but Colonels White and Biscoo, the leaders, en
tertain no doubt as, to its ultimate success.
11.7'Pennsylvania Railroad Company have con
cluded an arrangement with the Harrisburg anif
Lancaster Railroad Company, by which the ears
of the Pennsylvania road will run through from
Lewistown to Lancaster.' The Cagle line of
cars is drawn off entirely.—lferr. Let. . .
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