VOLUME XVI.
J. D. WILLIAMS. JOHN HAFT, JR.
Z. D. WILLIAMS & Co.,
Whohleale Grocers and Commission Merchants an
Dealers in Produce and Pittsburg
Manufactures,
No. 116, Wood Street, Pittsburg.
HAVE NOW IN STORE, and to arrive this
week, the following goods, of the most re
cent importations, which are offered on the most
reasonable terms:
115 catty boxes prime Green Tea.
45 half chests do Is
46 " Oolong and Chelan.
100 bags Rio Coffee.
15 ‘. Laguyra and Java.
60 boxes B's, s's, and Ilb lump tobacco,
35 bbls. NO,. 1 and 3 Mackerel:
10and do No. 1 do
2 and do Salmon.
50 oxes sealed Herring.
1300 lbs extra Madder.
3 bales Cassia, 1 bale Cloves,
6 bags Pepper & Alspiee, 1 bbl Nutmegs,
2 bbls Ground Ginger, 1 bbl ground pepper,
bbl Ground Pimento, 10 kegs ground Mustard
TO kegs ground Cassia, 10 du do Cloves,
2 bbls Garret's Snuff, 45 tois Mearin Candles,
20 bxs Star Candles, 10 do Sperm do
100 doz Masons Bbick'g 100 lbs sup. Rice Flour,
TOO lbs S..F. Indigo, 20 doe Ink,
156 dot Corn Brooms, 125 des Patent. Zinc
50 bxs extra pure Starch, Wash Boardg,
15 do Saleratus, 75 bbls N. 0. Molasses,
15 bbls S. 11. Molasses, 10 do Golden Syrup;
25 do Loaf, Crashed, 5501bs seedless Raisins,
& Powdered Sugar, 50 drums Smyrna Figs,
20 jars Bordeaux Prunes, 50 Ihs Sicily Prunes,
5 boxes Rock Candy, 2 boxes Genoa Citrons,
10 do Cocoa & Chocblate, 5 do Caslild & Almond
12 doz Military &AP, Soap,
bbl sup. Curb. Soda, 1 bbl Cream Tartar,
1 case Pearl Sago, 2 cases Isinglass,
2 cases Sicily & Refined 1 case Arrow Root,
Liquorice', 150 Bath Brick,
bbl Flour Sulphur,loo gross Matches,
100 doz Extract of ein. 5 doe Leition Sugar,
on, Rose & Venilla, 1 cask Sal Soda,
Glass, Nails, White Lead, Lard oil, &c."
Refer to Merchants Thomas Read & Son,
4 6 •• Fisher & M'Aftirtrie,
Charles Miller,
Minor/ibis Jobtr leer„
Hu'ntingddn,
May 15, 1851.--ly,
FITS, FITS, FITS:
• JOBS A. KING
Begs leave to return his shicere thanks, for the
lery liberal patronage he has heretofore received,
and at the same time informs a generous public,
that lie still continues thd
TAILORING BUSINESS,
at the old stand of Jacob Snyder, where be will
be pleased to have his friends call and leave their
Every garmat is warranted to tit neatly, and
Shall be well made.
JOHN A. KING'
Hunt., July, 185 T
GRAND COMBINATION
OF 'PIIE
Useful, Beautiful and Ornamental !!
EDMUND SNARE
BEGS LEAVE to inform the people of Hun-
Oigdon, anti the rest of mankind, that he has
bought, brought and opened' the richest, largest
and cheapest assortment of
WAIGNES Bi, JEWELRY
ever beheld in tills Meridian In addition to hp,
unprecedented .stock of Watches and Jewelry
he is just Opening a most excellent variety o
miscellaneous.. BOOKS, ae well as School
Books and S'r A TIOI•TARY, which he is de
termined shall be sold levier than ever sold in
Huntingdon.
. . . .
Call 'in and see if this statement is not cor•
rect. Store formerly occupied by Neff & Mil.
0:7 - 01d Gold and Silver wanted
April 24; 1831.
tO OWNERS OF
INPATENTED L A ND S.—All persons in pos
t-.' session of, or owning unpatented lands with
in this.Crmmitinwealth, and havehy notified that
the act of assembly, pealed the inth of April,
11335, entitled "Au Act to graduate lands on which
money is due and unpaid to the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania,' and which act haS been extend
ed from time to time by supplementary laws,
WILL EXPJUtEON VIE FIRST DAY 01?
DECEMBER NMI, after whiCh tithe no
sthatemennt can be made Of any interest which
May have accrued upon the original purchase
Money.
It will therefore he highly important to those in
terested to secure their patents and tho benefits
of the said act and its supplements during the
time the same will continue in force.
WILLIAM HUTCIIISON,
ISAAC` PEIGHTAL,
BENJAMIN LEAS,
Commissioners.
August 28, 1851
ABeautiful lot of the latest style of Bonnets,
large and small. Also, children's Flats for
sale by J. i t W. Saxton.
May 29, '5l.
TIAGLEY'S Superior Gold Pens, in gold and
silver patent extension cases, warranted to
give entire satisfaction, for sale at
Scott's Cheap Jewelry Store.
ILVER SPObNS of the latest patterns can be
.0 had at
E. &lard's Jewelry Siore.
FORTE MONNAIES-8 or 10 different kind's;
from 25 cents toll dollars at
Seott's Cheap Jewelry Store.
SIX DOLLARS and Fifty cents for the largest
Gold Pencils, at
Ed. Snare's Jewelry Store.
ASplendid assortment of Ladigs Slip r pers for
sale by J. i t W. Saxton.
May 29, '5l.
THE beet assortment of Hardware in town, for
sale by J. t W. Saxton.
May ta,
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THE LAY OF A LIFE
DY RICHARD YAUX.
'Tw
As sunrise when the thought was born,
And bright and gay
This er!fant lay,
For not a cloud bedecked the morn ;
Midst birds and flowers
The early hours
Of its young life away were worn.
In perfect joy
The laughing boy,
Now robbd iit pleastfre and content,
On fairy's wings
He rooms add swigs •
'Restillined nor know . ilAg whdie lie went;
The golden sun,
Its course begun,
Had kissed tho . Waters of a hike,
Upon whose shore
• One echo more
The artless youth again would wake;
Thus wiled itway
His boyhood-day, -
Not dreaming that a cloud could rtsu,
In hand-like farm,
To end in storm,
All curtaining in gloom the skies.
- At noon-day tide,
On either side,
The man in vain sought c"en a shadow;
So blithe Lindsay
Had been a day,
A jewel rare in "Old Time's" cadeau,
'Twas harmony
And euphony
Attendant came on every thought,
Nothing to mar,
A-near or far,
The bliid meridian houi's had brought.
Erb el:entitle,
On sunset-side,
• The dark clouds spen filchr onward way,
Thiiir very form
ilclokct ii stdritt,
Shrouding all gladness from the day.
The latest gleam ,
Of light, a Wale,
Lit "Ignis &tuns' en the plain,
And as it flared
The old man glared,
Too late resolved a Heaven to gain.
'T is often 7rfl.;
Through life we go,
No thought bestowed upon its end;
For brightest morn
Is changed to storm
By little clouds we ne'er forefend
Oh, wise is man
In life's short span
At sunrise looks to sunset hours;
That he pert:bailee,
At single glance,
The cloud may see before it ItilverS.
Prom the Home Journal
A REMINISCENCE.
Some time in the month of May, 1826,
while I was concerned in publishing the
Northern Spectator," a weekly newspa
per; in the village of East Poultney, Ver
mont, I was one month engaged, in my
garden, when there came to me a stripling
about fourteen years of agii aid enquired
if I was the than who carried on the prin.:
ting office? I answered that I was. He
asked ire if 1 wanted to take a boy as an
appentice? .I told him I had thought of it,
and asked' him if be wished to become a
printer? He said he had some notion of
learning the printing business. He had come
some ten miles on foot that morning from
an bumble bottle in the vicinity of Wea
llaved, to make this application. I had not,
at first, paid much attention to his address
—and now turning to the young stranger,
I saw standing before me a light, slender
form, dressed in the plain farmer's cloth of
the day, and with a negtzge not in' accor=
dance - with thti fastidious taste of Beau
Nash or Broininel. His hail., of a light
hue, shading upon the orange, lay thinly
upon his broad fore head, and over a head
rocking on shedders' apparently too slen
der to support the weight Of di:umber so dis
proportioned to his general outline. On en
tering into conversation, and a partial ex
amination of the qualifications of my new
applicant, it required but little time to dis
cover that he possessed a mind of no coin
mon order, and an acquired intelligence
far beyond his years. lie had but little
opportunity at the common school, but he
said, "he had read some"—and what he
had ho well understood and remembered.
In addition to the ripe intelligence mani
fested in one so young, and whose instruc
tion had been so limited, there was a sin
glemindedness, a truthfulness, and com
mon sense in what he said, that at once
commanded my regard. After conver
sing with him a while, I told him to go to
the office and talk with the foreman. He
did so, and soon returned with a line from,
HUNTINGDON, PA:, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1851.
the forman, saying ho thought we had bet
ter try the Ind.—He soon entered the of
fice, after having bound himself an appren
tice for four years.
iii fiist entering the office, there was
quite a sensation among the older appren
tices and journeymen. They thought they
had caught a green one, and resolved on a
treat of fun. But the new-comer paid no
attention to what was passing. He took
his copy end composing-stick from the
'Ordain, and stood up to the desk Of ems,
"intent on thought, and all the world a
blank." He had not stood there many
days before his office companions appeared
somewhat to doubt, and the more tame
ones began to sniff a little of the young
lion. But they could not entirely forego
the anticipated pleasure of initiating their
young friend, so as his hair was of a light
er hue than they thought became the
trade of ink and types, they applied the
"black balls;" until they thought the im
pression would come off intelligibly,—
This was done while he stood at the desk
of types; but ifone e these thfirgs moved
him, nor did he lose a single em by the
operation.
About this time the late Rev. L. J.
Reynolds, a sound, well-read theologian,
and practical printer, was employed to ed
it and conduct the paper. This opened a
desirable school for the intellectual culture
of our young debutant. Debates ensued
—historical, political and religious ques-;
tions were discussed, and often while all
hands were engaged at the font of types ;
and here; the purposes foi which out young
friend "had read some," was made mani
fest. Such was the correctness of his
memory in what he had read, in both bib
lical and profane history, that the Rev.
Mr. R. was often put at fault by his correc
tions, He•always quoted the chapter and
verse to prove the point in dispute. Ou
one occasion, the Rev. Mr. R. said that
money was the root of all evil, when he
was corrected by the "devil," Who said he
believed it read in the bible that the love
of money was the root of all evil. -
A small town library gave him access to
books, by which, together with the read
ing of the exchaUgepapersof the' office, lie
improved all his leisure hours. He be
came a frequent talker in our village lyce
um, and often wrote dissertations.
In the first organization of our village
temperance society, the question arose as
to the age when the young might become
members. Fearing lest his own age might
liar him, he nieved that they be received
when they were old enough to drink.
Though modest and retiring, he was of
ten led into political discussions with our
ablest politicians, and few would leave the
field without being isiatrueted by the Sound
ness of his views; and the . unerring correct
ness of his statements of political events.
Having a thirst for lam/lodge, he bent
his mind and all his energies to its acqui
sition with unceasing application and un
tiring devotion—and I doubt, if, in the
whole term of hl apprenticeship,- he ever
spent an' hour in the common . recreations
of young men. He used to pass my door
as he went to his daily meals, and though
I often sat near or stood in the way, so
much absorbed did he appear in his own
thoughts—his head bent forwird. arid his
eyes fixed upon the gifoinid, that I have the
charity to belieVe'the reason why he never
turned his head or gave sue a look, was be
cause he had no idea I was there!
At the end of about four years' ho went
to Chatauque county, where I think, he
sojourned about a year employed as a
jburneyman printer, but lost all hia earn
ings by which he had hoped to place him
self in better circumstances.
We next see him in the city of New
York—a stranger in a strange city, friend
less and alone, in queat of employment as
a foreman printer. At this time he wrote
me the first letter, giving an account of
himself since he had left Poultney-'—sta
ting his object in going to the city, and
the many obstacles lie met with in the way
of obtaining the etnployment he desired.
Now, all the rest of the acts . of HORACE
GREELEY, from first to last, aro they not
writtenin the late New Yorker,' The Log
Cabin, The New York Tribune, and the
coteruporary literature Of his country 1 ex
oept we have late seen him at the assem
bling of nations, speaking for America at
the Paxton dinner, or, as an American Li
on, shaking paws with a British Lioness at
a levee of England's nobility. A. B.
Extiavaiance in Living.
"One cannot wonder that the times oc
casionally get hard," said a venerable citi
zen, the other day, " when ono sees the
way in which the people live and ladies
dress." We thought there was a good
deal of truth in what the old gentleman
said. Houses at from five hundred to
thousand dollars rent; brocades at thre
dollars a yard; bonnets at twenty; and
shawls, cloaks, &c., &c., from fifty dollars
up, are enough to embarrass any commu
nity, which indulges in such extravagance
as extensively as Americans do. For it
is not only the families of realized wealth,
who could afford it, that spend money in
this way, but those who aro yet laboring
to make a fortune, and who, by the
chances of trade, may fail of this desirable
result after all. Everybody almost wishes
to live, now-a-days, as if already rich.—
The wives and daughters of men, not
worth two thousand a year, dress as rich
ly nearly as those of men worth ten or
twenty thousand. The young, too, begin
where their parents left off. Extrav
agance; in a word, is piled on extravagance
till
" Alps o'er Alps arise."
The folly of this is apparent. Tho stuns
thus lavished go for mere show, and nei
ther refine the mind nor improve the
health. They gratify vanity, and that is
all. By the practice of a wise economy,
most families might, in time, entitle them
selves to such luxuries : and then, indul
gence in them would not be reprehensible.
If thole r:re two men, each making a Clear
two thousand a year and one lays by a
thousand at simple interest, while the
other spends his entire income, the first
will have acquired a fortune, in sixteen
years, sufficient to yield him an income
equal to his abeustomed expenses, while
the other will be as poor as wheu he
started in life. And so of larger sums !
In fine, any man, by living on half of what
he annually ma'...es,' be it more or less,
can, before he is forty, acquire enough,
and have it invested in good securities,
to live for the rest of his life in the style
in which ho has been living all along.—
Yet how few do it ! But what prevents ?
Extravagance, extravagance, and again
extravagance.
Obstiimcy
An obstinate man doed not hold opinions,
but they hold him ; for when he is once
posses Seed of an error, it is like a devil,
only cast out with great difficulty.' What
soever he lays hold on, like a drunken
man, he never looses, though it do but
help to sink him sooner. His ignorance
is abrupt and inaccessible, impregnable
both by art and nature, and will hold out
till the last, though it, has nothing but
rubbish to defend. It is as dark as pitch
and sticks as fast to anything it lays hold
on. His skull is so thick, that it is proof
against reason, and never cracks but. oir
the wrong side, just opposite to that on
which the impression is made, which sur
geons say does happen very frequently.—
The slighter and more inconsistaht his
opinions aro, the faster he holds them,
otherwise they would fall asunder of them
selves; for opinions that are false ought
to be held with more strictness and as
surance than those that are true, other
wise they will be apt to betray their own
ers before they are aware. He delights
most of all to differ in things indifferent,
no matter how frivolous they are, they
are weighty enough in his weak judge
went ; and he will rather suffer self-mar-
tyrdom than part with the least scruple
of his freehold, for it is impossible to dye
his dark ignorance into any lighter color.
He is resolved to understand no man's
reason but his own, because ho finds no
man can understand his but himself. ills
wits are like a sack, which 'the French
proverb says is tied faster before it is full
than when it is ; and his opinions aro like
plants that grow upon rocks, that Ohl
fast though they have no footing. His
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understanding is hardened, like Pharaoh's
heart, and is proof against all sorts of
judgements whatsoever.
WOMEN AND MEN,
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Women may talk of their inherent
rights as much as they please, but they
can't overcome nature--they way pre.eli
about the equality of the sex, but they
can't overcome facts and organizations.—
Men and oaks are made to be twined, and
women'and ivy were made to twine about
them. Though an equality were estab
lished Vetwebn calico and cassitnere to
morrow, it would not be a week before
all the officers would be men, and all the
soldiers women. Females are perfectly
willing to go ahead, provided the men go
first. Set fire to a steamboat, and not a
yard of dimity will budge till corduroy
sets the example. So long as the men
cling to the vessel, the women will cling
to the men. But if the men plunge over
board, chimezettes plunge too. As we
said before, reformers may prate as they
may about equal right, but they can't al
ter the regulation of God. It is as impos
sible for women to cut themselves loose
from men, as it is for steel dust to free
itself from its attachment to a magnet.—
[Exchange Paper.
tBA.
This island is six hundred and twenty
four miles in length, with an average
width of about sixty miles, containing an
area of thirty-seven thousand square miles,
and a population of 1,500,000.—The val
ue of its agricultural productions in 1849'
was $62,781,035. The exports during
the same period were $27,880,921, of
which $8,700,224 were to the United
State. Its imports during the same peri
od were $26;708,843 ; of which $7,280,-
'214 lciere froui the United States. The'
amount of American tonnage employed in
the trade with the island, during the same
period, was 501,268 tons. The total a
mount of taxes levied upon the American
commerce with the island; in the shape of
duties Upon elports, exceed $ . 4,000,000
annually. There are three hundred and
fifty-nine miles of railway in operation on
the island. Of the $27,000,000 of annual
imports according to official documents
-1'16,000,000 are in provisions, lumber,
fabrics, materials, &c., which the one or
the other of the United States could fur
nish more readily than any other country ;
but, through the taxes and restrictions im
posed by the Spanish policy, not more than
one-third of it conies from the fichls and
factories of the United States.
AN ANECDOTE or Join AnAmf.—When
John Adams was a young 'twin, he was in
vited to dine with the Cotirt and Bar at
the house of Judge Paine, an eminent Loy
aliSt; at Worcester.. When the wine wus
circulated round the table, Judge Paine
gave as a toast, "The King." Some of
the Whigs were about to refuse to drink
it. But Mr. Adams whispered to them to
comply, - saying—. We shall• have an op
portunity to return the compliment." At
length, when John Adams was desired to
give a toast, he gave " The Devil." As
the host was about to resent the supposed,
indignity, his wife calmed him, and turned
the laugh upon Mr. Adams by immediate
ly saying, "My dear, as the gentleman
has seen fit to drink to our friend, - let us
by no means refuse, in our turn, to drink
to Izzi:"
"'The water that flows from a spring
does not congeal in winter, and those sen
timents of Friendship that flow from the
heart, cannot be frozen by advesity."
"Forgiveness is the odor exhaled by
flowers when trampled upori." 'Sweet
is the Memory of an absent friend; like
the last rays of the declining sun, it falls
sweet yet sadly upin'the soul."
"Every man has three characters, ono
which his enemies give him ; one given
him by his friends; and one which he
really merits."
SYDNEY S3fITU said there wore
`three things which every roan ftnrcied he
could do—farm a small property, drive
gig, and edits newspaper.
NVVIBER 40.
Rules to be observed in an Editor's
Sanctum.
F. Comp in at all times; what business
has he to be private
2. Take his papers with perfect free
dom —what use can he have for them
3. If you bring in a long Communisa
tion, just , to fill up his paper,' heat on
reading and discussing it. Why shouldn't
he be glad to spend an hour in listening'!
4. If you see his &changes piled upon
his table, sieze and scatter them. What
business has he to be particular?
5. If you find his chair vacant at any
time, sit id it. Why shonid he wish to
keep his stationary and scissoring from
visitors I
6. If you can't get that chair, though
there' are a dozen others in the sanctum,
be sure to sit on a table, and put your
feet on another. If you can't practice
such freedom in an editor's room, where
awn you do it
If you see the editor particularly en
din writing a leader,' talk to him as
industriously as you can. Will he not
be gratified to hear you? Of course be
will.—Benjamin Franklin.
Miss Sum ON EDUCATICN.—We give
the nip of a very amusing sketch which
we find going the rounds without credit.—
Miss Smix, a remarkable cephalic " school
maim," is giving an account of her en
deavors to teach a " young idea"—a re
markable hard case—how to spell
"At last," and here the sweet face of
Miss Smia brightened, and the glimmer of
some ihtehded smile phiyed over it, " I
got him clean through the alphabet, and
ho could point out any letter by name.--
In two weeks he got through with his ba
ba, &c., and one bright Monday morning
I put him into la-la, dy-dy—lady. I had
to tell him lifty.times the nature of sylla
bles, but his brain was opaque as a rock.
"Do you love pies ?" said I, in order
to interest him.
" Yea,- ma'am."
" Well, then, 4 apple and pie' put to
gether, spell ' apple pie,' don't they I"
" Yes ina'm."
"By a like rule, 'la' and 'dy' spell la
dy—you understand ?"
Ye§ .
„, ./Ifince and Tie' spell what ?”
.Mince-pie."
"Right! 'Pumpkin' and 'pie' what,"
Pumpkin-pie."
"Then what does 1-a la d-y dy, veil!"
"Custard-pie !" said he, with a yell of
delight at his success.
Dye A down east poet, thus exuberates
on the anticipated joyi of wedlock. Hold
him. . '
I wish I had a little wife, • •
A little stove and fire ;
I'd hug her like a lump of gold,
And let no oil 6 ewe nigh' her ;'
I'd spend thy dayg in happiness,
I'd vegetate in eloidr ,
And when I died, I'd shut thieyes,
Lay down and roll right over.
THE,RE is nothing purer than hon
esty—,nothing sweeter than charity—noth
ing warmer than love—nothing richer than
wisdom—nothing more steadfast than faith.
These united in one mind, form the purest,
the sweetest, the warmest, the 'richest
the brightest and the most steadfast hap
p i nes s .
[lam If your sister, while tenderly enga
ged in a conversation with her sweetheart,
asks you to bring a glitss of water from an
adjoining room, you can start on the eiTand,
but you need not return. Yciu will not be
missed, that's certain---we've seen it tried.
[l7, The fbllbwing has been used down
east as a very pleasant substitute for a
priatbr's dun, and is to be set to the mu
sic of the jingling of the dollars:
" We'll gaily chase dull care away,
And banish every sorrow—
Subscribers, pay your debts to-day; .
And we'll pay ours to-morrow."
EIJ=" Flour is an article well enough in
its sphere but we deprecate the rubbing of
it upon ladies' faces.
try-A coquette is a rose bush from
which each young beau plucks a leaf, and
the thorns are left for the husband.