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VOLUME XVII.
LOOK HERE!
THERE'S NO HUMBUG ABOUT TIM.
JAMES E. WOOD.
Respectfully informs his friends and the public
generally, that he has taken a shop ono door east
bf Henry Smith's chair manufactory, where ho is
prepared to manufacture BOOTS AND SHOES
In the most fashionable and durable manlier; and
he pledges himself to spare no pains to lit and
please all who may favor hint with their custom.
lle purchases the best materials ho can get in the
market. Ile hopes by strict attention to business
to receive a share of public patronage.
All kinds of country produce taken in exchange
for work.
lluntingdon, May 8, 1851.
State Mutual Fire lusurance Company,
HARRISBURG PA.
Guarantee Capital over $lOO,OOO
Surplus Cash 25,000
THIS Company has been doing business about
a year and has accumulated an earnest
Capital of over $125,000 above all losses and
expenses, with a surplus in Cash of over
$25,000 on hand. The Premiums are as low
as in any other good and responsible Campany.
No assessments have been made on the In
sured and it is the intention and expectation of
the Company that none need or shall be made ;
the surplus cash on hand will always be suffi
cient to meet any losses which may be sus
tained, as no risk to exceed $2,500 will be
taken in ono locality.
The profits are wholly divided to the mem
bers. This Company otter inducements to the
owners of safe property over most Companies
in the State.
For further particulars enquire of the sub•
scriber, DAVID BLAIR, Agent.
Huntingdon, Juno 12, 1851.—tf.
TAKE NOTICE.
In the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County.
HUNTINGDON COUNTY, SS.
The Commonwealth tf Permsglva nia to
L. S. the Sheriff of Huntingdon County,
GREETDrci:—
Whereas, Mary Jordan, surviving Executrix of
Bernard Sweeney, deceased, heretofore in our
Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County,
before our Judges at Huntingdon, to wit : in the
term of April 1832 recovered against Catharine
Cadwallader and Moses Canon, surviving Execu
tors of John Cadwallader, dec'd, lute of your
county, yeomen in your bailiwick, as well as a
certain debt of fiifty-six dollars and 32 cents, law
ful money of Pennsylvania, as also ten dollars and
77 cents, like money, which to the said Mary Jor
dan, surviving Executrix as aforesaid, in our
same Court, were adjudged for her damages which
she sustained by occasion of the detention of that
debt, whereof the said Catharine Cadwallader and
Moses Canon, surviving Executors of John Cad
wallader, dec'd are convict, as appears of record,
&c. And Whereas the said Catharine Cadwalla
der is since deceased and Daniel Africa is Admin
istrator, de basis non, of said John Cadwallader,
deed, and whereas execution of the debt and
damages us aforesaid, us yet remains to be done
as by the insinuation of the said Mary Jordan,
Executrix as aforesaid we have this day received.
And she having besought us to provide fur her a
suitable remedy in this behalf; and we being wil
ling that those things which in our said Court are
rightly done be demanded by duo execution, Do
T herefore, command you as wo often before com
manded you, that, by honest and keel men of
yonr bailiwick, you make known to said Daniel
Africa, Esq., Administrator, do basis non, mpg the
will annexed of John Cadwallader, dec'd with
notice to Mitchiver Cadwallader, Proctor Cad
wallader and Anna Maria Cadwallader, heirs of
the said John, deed, that they be and appear be
fore our Judges at Huntingdon, at Court of Com
mon Pleas to be held at lluntingdon, for the
County of Huntingdon, on the second Monday in
August next, to show if any thing for themselves
they know or have to say why execution should
not be had against the effects of the said dec'd for
the debt and damages aforesaid, and why the
same should not continue a lion against the real
estate of said Jolm, dee'd, according to the form
and effect of said recovery, if to them it shall
seem expedient. And have you then and there
the names of those by whom you shall make the
same known to them and this writ.
Witness the Hon. GEORGE T.tvam, President
of the said Court at Huntingdon, the lath day of
May, A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
Que. THEO. 11. CItEMEII,
Prothonotary.
June 26, 1851.-3 t.
HUNTINGDON FOUNDRY.
R. C. IIfcGILL
Returns his sincere thanks to his friends and the
public generally fur their very liberal patronage,
and hopes.by strict attention to business to merit
a continuance of the same. lie would embrace
the present opportunity of informing the public
that he is still prepared to furnish thcm with all
kinds of castings; ho has
STOVES
of every description, for burning either wood or
coal, such as Cook, Parlor, Egg, Cannon and
Ten Plato Stoves, together with
LP a cz) ttu zxlla
and Plongh Irons of all patterns used in the State;
Forge, Grist and Saw-mill castings; Lewistown
Threshing machine patterns, and the four and
two horse power patterns of Chambersbug, and
all othor castings usually made at foundries, all of
*Melt will be sold very low for en&
May, 29, 1851.
NOTICE.
ALE persons interested are hereby notified that
the Trust Account of Thomas M. Owens, Com
mittee of Jane Pierce, a lunatic, late of Tyrone
township, (formerly in Huntingdon, now in Blair
county,) which said lunatic is now deceased, has
boon filed in the office of the Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas of said county, and that
the same will be presented to the said Court on
rho second Monday of August next, forhonfirma
tion ; at Which time the same will be allbwed by
the said Court, unless cause be shown why it
should not be allured.
TIIEO. 11. CHEMER,
June 19, 1811.-3t.] Prothonotary.
GOLD PENS-8 or 10 different kinds, from
62k cts. to 10 dollars, at
Scott's Cheap Jovtlry Store.
GIVE ME THY HAND, BROTHER.
IIY"A. D. RICDADDSON4
WOULDST thou speak gently to the sad,
And soothe the aching heart?
Wouldst make the child of sufering glad,
And calm content impart?
Wouldst wipe tho drops of anguish
From Sorrow's burning brow 1
Then, give me thy hand brother,—
My heart is with thee now !
The lowly wouldst thou kindly cheer
With words of joy arid peace?
Wouldst o'er their sorrow drop a tear,
And bid their trouble cease?
Wouldst gently speak the erring,
And softly calm their fear?
Then, give me thy hand, brother—
My heart is with thee here !
Wouldst for the humble dare to speak,
And battle 'gainst the wrong?
Defend the trodden and the weak,
Nor fear the proud and strong?
For right wouldst labor sternly,
And with an iron will?
Then, give me thy hand, brother,—
My heart is with thee still l
Sit Down, Sad Soul.
DT TENNYSON.
Sit down, sad soul, and count
The moments flying;
Come—tell the sweet amount
That's lost by sighing.
How many smiles?—a score?
Then laugh, and count no morn,
For day is dying !
Lie down, sad soul, and sleep,
And no more measure
The flight of Time, nor weep
The loss of leisure;
But hero, by this lone stream,
Lie down, with us, and dream
Of starry treasure !
Wo dream : do thou the same,
We love forever;
We laugh, yet few wo shame,
The gentle, never;
Stay then, till sorrow dies—
Then, hope and happy skies
Aro thine forever!
WOMAN'S SPHERE.
There is much dispute now a-day iu cer
tain quarters about what should be "Wo
man's Sphere," " Woman's Mission," and
" Woman's Rights." It may bo all sum
moned up in a few words, but they are
wonderfully comprehensive. Her sphere
is every where, her mission, usefulness ,her
rights without limit. •
"Her sphere is every where." This
may need a little explanation to some who
suppose a person cannot influence or act
except in corporeal presence; but minds ac
customed to observe well, know that the
most powerful agents in nature aro often
invisible, and like the mountain spring,
work unsuspected and silently their mighty
results. Thus let it be with woman—not,
in broils, or tumults, or maddening politi- 1
cal jars may she be found, but ever given,
forth an influence, a sphere, of light, love
and virtue, that shall move through all an
oleotorial impulse of irresistable power.
Her sphere is usefulness. Not that she
I be made, as iu heathen countries, the
drudge and slave of society. Oh, no! still
let her labor bo the lighter and more ele
gant branches of industry; but, in the name
of common justice, let liar be adequately
paid. Shame on that miserable parsimony,
that would exult on a paltry saving in the'
making of a garment, or the teaching of a'
school, because done by a woman! If the
work is well done, promptly done, what
matter who does it ? Is it the work, or'
the sex of the worker that you owe for?
How many instances are there in this very
city, yes, even here, where the rights and
privileges of woman aro more adequately
appreciated than in most places, of widows
and fatherless children toiling year after
year for a bare subsistence, when the same
labor, performed by a man, would soon se
cure a complete competency. It is useless
to urge that it is not the design of Provi
dence that woman should bo self-dependent.
It probably would not be necessary in a
public harmonic state of society Rut so
long as life has so many discordant ele
ments at play, so long as destruction may
scatter the products of a father's toil, or
fraud rob his children of their patrimony,
so long as death may call the head of a
family to the spirit world, so long will
there a necessity for woman's being able
to moot the ills of unprotected loneliness,
end cope with them, earnestly, hopefully.
HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1851.
Let her then be encouraged to labor,
diligently, usefully;—but let her have the
hope of fair remuneration and the approv
ing smile of all the wise upon her efforts.
It is useful, well-trained women that wo
need, more by far than noisy politicians.—
Their influence would be very sanitary and
applied at home, at the fountains of the
great public rivers; surely there would
soon be a healing of the waters. But how
are women to be thus trained Not by
undervaluing their position, not by allow
' ing the paltry excuse, ~w e are only women,
and not much is expected of us;" but, on
the contrary, by the solemn and continuous
repetition of omnious words—“because we
are women, and much is expected of us."
Surely hors is a noble destiny, a labor of
love, a work of patience. A true woman,
with the full development of her heaven
directed energies, with mind, and heart,
and hands all usefully, cheerfully devoted
to some worthy employment, is a being in
ferior to none on earth.
Widely and wisely different from man
in her physical and mental nature, she is
so organized as to move in perfect harmony
with him through a far-reaching orbit, ever
revolving round the central luminary, the
great All-Father. We would not separate
what He has joined, and send the dissever
ed fragments of one perfect whole into
confusion and darkness, but wo would give
to each the best training that circumstances
will admit of here on earth, which, at
best, is but the primary school of Heaven.
TO THE GIRLS,
Ladies, you caged birds of the beautiful
plumage, but sickly looks ; you pale pets of
the parlor, vegetating in au unhealthy
shade with a greenish white complexion,
like that of a potato sprout in a dark cel
lar—why don't you go out in the open air
and warm sunshine, and add lustre to your
eyes, bloom to your cheeks, elasticity to
your steps, and vigor to your frames
Take early morning exercise—let loose
your corset strings, and run up a hill on a
wager and down again for fun. Roam in
the fields, climb the fences, leap the ditches,
wade the brooks, and go home with an ex
cellent appetite. Liberty thus exercised
and enjoyed will render you healthy.—
Blooming and beautiful—as lovely as the
Cracoes and as prolific as Devera. The
buxom, bright eyed, rosy checked, full
breasted bouncing lass—who can darn a
stocking, mend her own frocks, command
a regiment of pots and kettles, feed the
pigs milk the cows, and be a lady with all
the company, is just the sort of a girl for
me or any other worthy young man to mar
ry; but you, ye pining, lolling, screwed up,
wasp waisted, doll dressed, putty faced,
consumption mortgaged music murdering,
novel devouring daughters of fashion, and
idleness—you aro no more fit for matrimo
ny, than a pullet is to look after a family
of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my
dear girls, loss fashionable restraint—more
kitchen and less parlor—more leg exercise
and less sofa—more pudding and less piano
—more frankness and less mock modesty—
more corned beef and less bishop. Loo
sen yourselves a little; enjoy more liberty
and less restraint by fashion. Breath the
pure atmosphere of freedom, and become
something nearly as lovely and beautiful as
the god of Nature designed.
A COMICAL MISTAKE.-A good story
is told of a verdant daughter of Erin, a
servant in ono of our city families. The
first day she made her appearance in the
kitchen the lady of the house was present
to initiate the unsophisticated daughter of
Erin in the mystery of cooking. In pre
paring for dinner, she desired the girl to
bring her a " spider."
"The what, ma'am?" inquired Biddy,
with groat astonishment.
~ Why, the spider," replied the lady of
the house.
~ The spider, is it? Och ! howly Mo
ses ! and do yo ate spidhors in this country?"
[CT - The Chilian Government are calling
in all their currency to coin a now ono,
same as that in the United States—dimes
and half dimes, quarter dollar, half dollar,
dollars, (both gold and silver,) quarter
eagles, half eagles, whole eagles, two ea
gles and ounces.
THE PERILS OF SUSPICION.
TILE NICTIMS.
" And shall we all condemn, and all distrust,
Beemisesome men are false; and some tmjus't
Forbid it, Heaven ! fur better 'twero to l;
Duped of the fond impossibility
Of light and radiance, which sleep's visions grave,
Than thus to live, Suanciox's hitter slave."
We cannot well conceive a more cruel
ease, than that of au individual who is
made to suffer in character, in feelings or
in fortune, through an UNFOUNDED CUSPS
crox,—a suspicion too, that has some ap
parent ground, from the force of circum
stances. And yet, how prone are most
persons to indulge thoughtlessly and rock
lessly, if not wantonly, in this species of
accusation and injustice. There is scarce
ly an individual of mature years, who has
mingled with the world with any degree of
activity, who cannot remember circum
stances in which he himself was unjustly
and improperly suspected of some unkind
or ungenerous act, and thus made to suf
fer,—or who is not able to recall some pe
riod of life, when he for months, nay, per
haps for years, dealt with like injustice
toward others. It is so easy for poor hu
man nature to be deceived or mistaken.—
Our prejudices aro so strong, our infirmi
ties are so great, that wo are apt to believe
according to our wishes, rather than the
facts, and thus to examine and decide, not
iu conformity with truth, equity and jus
tice, but of falsehood, bigotry, and preju
dice. It sometimes happens, too, that oven
when individuals know that they are erro
neously suspected of some discourtesy or
ill-will, circumstances exist which render
an explanation painful or improper; and
hence they are compelled to suffer on, oven
at the expense of peace of mind, loss of
character, nay, of health itself. The sen
sitive, the timid and the conscientious, are
especially adapted to become victims un
der such circumstances. Alas! how much
wrong, injustice, and outrage have been
perpetrated through the influence of un
founded suspicions ! How many hearts
have been broken? How many lives have
been sacrificed ? How often has jealousy
been thus kindled into madness, and love
converted into hate? How a word, or a
look, may sometimes strengthen distrust
in the minds of the morbid, the watchful
and suspecting, and give a false yet vivid
coloring to innocent ants! Lot suspicion
or distrust once exist in a family circle,
between husband and wife, the lover and
his affianced, and what a world of anxiety
and anguish may be produced. There are,
moreover, demons in human shape, who
take delight in fomenting such feelings,
who watch for oportunities when they may
whisper words of doubt, and thus excite in
the susceptible or the sensitive thoughts
and emotions of the most painful charac
ter. We not long since heard of an in
stance, which an annonymous letter, care
fully and plausibly written, was addressed
to a distinguished citizen of a neighboring
State, the object being to create distrust
and discord between man and wife. just
enough facts were mentioned, to give an
air of probability to the story, and for a
time, the effect was truely unpleasant.—
Fortunately, the slandered was fully able
to exonerate himself, and to prove that the
malignant and distardly author was prompt
ed, either by mistaken folly or wanton
malice, and thus the evil was but tempora
ry. Conduct like this deserves the keen
est censure. Ho who wantonly sports with
the feelings or affections, who delights in
sowing the seeds of distrust and suspicion,
who takes pleasure in hunting out the in
firmities and short comings of his friends
and neighbors, is very apt, not only to
forget his own errors and misdoings, but
iu the absence of facts, to resort to fic
tion, and thus in the gratification of a per
verted taste to manufacture slander and li
bels of the worst description. The habit
is a pernicious one, and it is likely to in
crease with years and practice. There arc
certain suspicious people who aro perpet
ually on the watch for some mishap, er
ror or false step, on the part of those with
whom they associate, or indeed, anywhere
in the out-door or in-deer world—and the
moment they get an inkling of any unto
ward circumstances, they vividly imagine
a traits of incidents calculated to make out
a dark story, and nut satisfied with fancily
ing it, they speedily give it currency. •
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POLITICAL ECONOMY.
In the April number of tho American
Whig Review, we find the following some
what striking calculations, as to what the
people of the United States aro now doing,
in contrast with what they might do if they
would but establish and maintain such a
system of political economy as is applica
ble to the condition and capacity of the
country :
661 f the population of the U. States is
25,000,000, and the imports of 1850 are
slso,ooo,ooo—though there is little doubt,
by smuggling and ad valorems o. false
valuations—they will come nearer $200,-
000,000—every man, woman and child in
the U. States will have paid $0 to foreign
merchants and manufacturers. The pay
ment will be made in money, and in pro
visions, flour, &c., in a proportion not well
ascertained.
cc This tax or tribute is paid chiefly on
manufactured articles, such as can easily
be made in America, and upon products
which can easily be grown upon our own
soil. The entire expenditure, excepting
about $10,000,000 paid for materials which
cannot now be grown or made upon Amer
ican soil, is paid by our people to enable
other nations, but chiefly England, to
drive us out of all the markets of the world.
A part of the profits of this enormous tax
ation maintains the English steam navy,
pays the salaries of the English free trade
Ministers, the cost of armies in India, and
the murderous armed police of Ireland.—
A yearly subscription of not less than five
dollars a year for every man, woman and
child in America is paid out directly or in
directly for the maintenance of the British
empire.
There aro not less than two millions
of industrions and able artificers in Ameri
ca, living in forced idleness, or digging the
earth for a scanty subsistence, to the det
riment of the true American farmer, who
could produce at least ono hundred more
than they do in the kind of labor suited to
their knowledge and capacity. Full a
million more could be profitably employed
in the production of food and raw material
to be used by the two millions of artisans
well employed.
4 , Three millions of persons, now either
bankrupt, idle, or badly employed, would
add, if well employed, at least $300,000,-
000 to the annual income of the nation.—
$100,000,000 of this would build annual
ly and keep afloat a steam navy of an hun
dred vessels, which would enable us soon
to dictate terms for the defence of the lib
erty of all nations, and compel England to
share with us the markets she now monop
olizes.
"The five dollars a year paid by every
man, woman and child in America for the
support of the British Commercial Empire,
would be invested in profitable industry,
and give employment to the entire idle or
impoverished population, native or immi
grant of the U. S. An enormous and cheap
supply of manufactures and produce would
be the consequence, yielding a grand sur
plus to be sent away and sold in foreign
markets. The prophets of such a trade,
so defended; would come back to us in the
shape of money and all the elegaucies and
luxuries of other nations and climates.—
An im mouse commerce, five-fold our pres
ent trade, wiuld be the consequence.—
Every mode of industry, every kind of en
terprise, would be employed. The Repub
lic would be not only tho first power, but
absolutely the ruling power of the
earth. No nation would dare to make
war upon it. All this, and more may be
accomplished by mere legislation. But at
present England legislates for America,
and Congress dares not do anything for the
people because they have no steam navy.
Shame!"
When we hear a man say, "1 will
consult my wife," we unhesitatingly set
that man down us a safu man to do busi
ness with; and if a mechanic, one who will
ultimately be rich, and respected by the
world.
LL'A boy who had been attending a col
ored funeral was asked ou his return
whore ho had been. IL replied very
quickly, "I've Lecu a blitck, bur yi ng.'?
NUMBER 28.
The Old Hunkers trying to Keep
their Offices,
The five candidates on the Opposition
Judicial Ticket have held office in all sev
enty-seven years, or an average of over
fifteen years to each man! Judge Gib
son has been in office thirty-five years ;
Judge Lewis, eighteen ; Judge Black, ten ,
Judge Campbell, nine, and Judge Low
rie, five, Judge Gibson is a relic of the'
Snyder, Shultz, and Ritner dynasties;
Judges Lowrie of the Shunk dynasty, and
Judges Lewis, Campbell, and Black, of the
days when David R. Porter and his men•
ruled Pennsylvania.
Should this ticket be elected it will be
a continuance in office of those pensioners
on the public bounty, who have been quar
tered on the State Treasury for a long
series of years—under whose eyes our enor
mous State debt has arisen, and whose
friends are always clamoring for " increas
ed taxation."
A Secret Movement against Cass.
The Harrisburg correspondent of the
Now York Herald, in a letter dated June
10, says-4 4 I can tell you a secret which
has not yet transpired, and which the Bu
chauanitcs arc keeping as still as the grave
till the proper time for action comes.—
They have a stone in their sling for Cass,
with which they intend to smite him in the
forehead, somewlicit after the fashion that
David slew Goßah. They intend to attack
him on the ground of his declining to vote
for the Fugitive Slave law, though in his
place in the Senate, at the time it was
brought forward. This is one reason why
they brought forward such strong Union
and Compromise resolutions ; and why they
are assailing Governor Johnston with such
vigor for refusing to sign the bill granting
the use of the jails for the detention of
gitive slaves, because they think every
stab they give the Whig Governor passes
through him into Cass. Such is ono phase
of the political chessboard.
CU'anouT two o'clock, on a December
night, when the thermometer stood in the
neighborhood of zero, a party of wags
hailed a farm-house in a very boisterous
manner. Tho farmer sprang out of his
warm bed, drew on a few articles of cloth
ing, and ran out to see what was wanted,
when the following dialogue occurred:—
cc you any hay, M—?"
, 4 Plenty of it, sir."
cc Have you plenty of corn?"
cc Yes."
cc Plenty of meat and breadstuff?"
cc Yes."
" Well, we are glad to hear it, for they
ate very useful articles in a family."
The party then drove off, leaving the
farmer to his reflections.
THE HEIGHT OF IHPUDENCE.-A young
spark, who boarded at one of the principal
hotels, managed, for a long time, by one
artifice or another, to postpone the pay
ment of his bill. At last the landlord be
came quite impatient, and stepping up to
his Juvenile boarder slapped him gently
on the shoulder, and asked him for some
money.
" I have not a red °cut about mo at pres
ent," was the laconic reply.
"But, my dear sir," said the landlord, "I
cannot afford to keep boarding-house with
out being paid."
" exclaimed Cur young
philosopher, "if you cannot afford it, sell
out to some one that can !"—San Fran
cisco Balance.
TUE MAN THAT WAS "BROKE OF MS
'—About the drollest luau alive is
a man now in Chicago, well-known in nor
thern Vermont by the name of “Tim Wait."
Say what you might to Tim, he was always
ready with a repartee, and a good one.—
On one occasion ho collie into a hotel in
Burlington, looking rather jaded and down
in the mouth.
REST,".
"IVhaelt the matter, Tim , " .4aid on,
of the company; "you look rather the
worse for wear."
Why, you seo," raid Titu,• , .l !well%
. slept a wick for three nightb—lad nigia
fu-night and lu-asuriato night !"
Having set IL L.O-ruwu ut n ruar, Tua
left to make up for his I,y a tliplt,
,nueze.--13osion rose.