THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PA.
Thursday Morning, Jan, 29, 1,452.
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Kr We return thanks to Wm. B.
Smith Esq. of the House, and Mr. Bene
dict, Mr. Mathias and Col. McMurtrie of
the Senate for documents.
ar ' Our Representative, Mr. Smith in
forms us that the act of 1835 for the gradua
tion of unpatented lands has been extended
until February 1853.
C7' GOOEY'S LADY'S BOOK for Februa
ry is received, stored with beautiful embel
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with a great many other, minor ones.—
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TESTIMONIAL TO Gov. JOHNSTON.—
A magnificent service of plate, manufac
tured by Caldwell & Co., at a cost of $9BO,
was presented to Gov. Johnston and Lady,
last evening, at the American Hotel, by
the citizens of Philadelphia, as a testimo
nial of their appreciation of the high char
acter of the Ex-elovernor, and their admi
ration of the manner in which his adminis
tration has been conducted.
ELECTION OF STATE TREASURER.—On
Monday the 19th inst., the Legislature re
elected Gen. John M. Bickel, State Trea
surer for the coming year. He was voted
for by every Democrat in the two Houses,
and the Whigs had no regular candidate.
Oen. Rickel, we have learned from the pa
pen, recovered a judgment against the
United States Bank sometime last fall, for
a large amount of money ; and he is re
garded as a great finaneinr.
Enlarge the Canal.
We bog leave to call the attention of
the citizens of Huntingdon county gener
ally and those of the Borough of Hunting
don in particular, to a proposition of a pub
lic nature refered to the Senate committee
on internal improvements for the session of
1851, but which was not acted upon du
ring said session. It may be for the inter
est of the Commonwealth generally to iuves
t.igate it and if on examination it appear, that
the public interest require its adoption; we
then urge the Representative from Hun
tingdon county in particular as also our
Senators and Representatives gener ally to
take such action as they may deem best.
With these remarks we shall endeavor
to give a synopsis of the plan as proposed
in the memorial refered to, and which should
the same be directed to be printed, we may
lay before our readers so that each for
himself may have an opportupity of for
ming his opinion as to the policy
and feasibility of the proposed improve
ment.
It is apparent that the public works of
this Coinmonwealth have not heretofore
yielded an amount of revenue proportionate
to their cost, and which was reasonably
anticipated from a route the most direct
that can be constructed from the Atlantic'
Cities to the valley of the Ohio. To obvi
ate certain of the drawbacks on this route
our memourialist proposes at an expendi
ture of say about three hundred thousand
dollars to adapt a portion of the canal locks
of the Juniata division and perhaps a por-
tion of those on the Western division of said
Pennsylvania Canal so as to allow vessels
of 150 tons burthen to pass direct to the
cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia and New
York, say from the borough of Hunting
don on the east, at which point will take
place on the completion of the Pennsylva
nia Railway and on the Extension of the
Portage rail-road from Sugar-run-gap East
ward, the trans-shipment of the products of
the great West.
In calling public attention to this sub
ject at this time we beg leave to refer our
Senators and Representatives at Harris
burg to what is being done by the Great
State of New York, towards the enlarge
ment of the Canal of said State; towards
which an appropriation of nine million of
dollars was authorized by the people of
that Commonwealth during the past year
—also to the proposed enlargement of the
Delaware and Raritan Canal so as to pass
vessels of some 500 tons burthen from the
City of l'hiladelphia to the Harbor of New
York—thereby avoiding the delays and
risks of a voyage around the Capes.
And did the finances of Pennsylvania at
present warrant the expenditure of the
means requisite, our memorialist would
have urged the construction of a slack
water navigation where practicable from
Columbia westward and when impractica
ble the widening and deepening of such por
tions of the Canal as may be required to
shorten distance and pass rapids, Sze,---and
on which light draught steam vessels of the
ordinary construction might be used.—
That such an improvement is not far distant
we may fondly hope. But for the present
it is proposed to build a portion of mason
ry at the end of some 60 Canal Locks and
at an exponditur o of probtibly three thous
and dollars per lock, each lock to be pro
vided with additional lock gates, so that
boats say 150 to 160 feet in length may bo
enabled to pass. This addition together
with widening of the canal where short
curves occur would allow canal Boats car- 1
rying 1500 to 2000 Barrels of Flour to I
load at our wharves and discharge cargo
at the wharves of our Atlantic cities.—
Similar vessels would load in the interior of
the Westein States and unload into cars
at the Western base of the Allegbaney
Mountain.
The applicability of steam power to ca
nal, river and bay navigation in the opin
ion of our memorialist admits of uo doubt
—to the elucidation of which subject, he
has given for several years his serious at
tention. 'But as questions of a public nature
are the proper and legitimate subjects of
Legislative action, be has deemed it proper
to refer the same to the respectful consid
eration of our Representatives—in order
that public opinion might be brought to
bear ou the subject.
lfThe Washington Commonwealth
comes to us very much enlarged, improved
and well dressed. It has evideptly been
associating with good company. We con
gratulate the proprietors on its elegant ap
pearance, which, we have no doubt will be
preserved, as long as the known genius of
its Senior Editor shall preside overits
columns. The Junior, we have not the
pleasure of knowing, but presume every
thing in his favor.
[1:1 Gov. Bigler was inaugurated on
Tuesday the 20th inst. His address is too
long for publication at this time. It is
rather moderate in its tone ; but as promi
ses are easily made and easier broken, we
do not see proper to judge him by it, but
by what he does. His remarks about ed
ucation and our mineral and other resour
ces, we are pleased with, but then subse
quently he says he does not wish to be con
( sidered as meaning any thing by what he
previously said. We refer to the following
sentence in his address :
" I would not be understood by any
thing I have said, as holding the opinion
that mere legislation, however wise, will
give prosperity to a country, while bad le
gislation may restrain its energies no mat
ter what the labor, industry, virtue and
patriotism of the people may be."
This is the common resort of both fools
and knaves, when the happy effects of a
protective tariff are referred to. The cur
rency part of the address is based on the
same foundation of folly, as the mineral.—
The parts which speak of the Union, Penn
sylvania water-power, agriculture, edu
cation, decrease of the State debt and liber
ty in general, we have no objection to.—
We were somewhat astonished, that he
neglected to say a word about Hungary.
(1:7 - Counterfeit two dollar notes, re-is
sue of the Harrisburg Bank, are in circu
lation, dated Jan. 1, 1851, signed William
Kerr, clerk. Tho notes are well executed
and likely to deceive. Look out for them.
BY" It is said that the secession move
ments in Mississippi, have put the State to
an expense of forty thousand dollars.
irr The U. S. propeller Princeton, at
the Navy Yard, Charlestown, is being fit
ted for sea, by orders from the Naval De
partment.
11J Gov. Bigler's Cabinet is composed
of the following persons: Secretary A* State,
Frances W. Hughes of Schuylkill,—Eli
sha S. Goodrich a Free Soiler of Bradford,
Deputy Secretary, and James Campbell of
Philadelphia, whom the Locofocos defeated
last fall for Judge of the Supreme Court,
because he is a Catholic, Attorney General.
The people of Harrisburg played row
dy so extensively at the Kossuth reception,
that a member of the legislature has mo
ved to transfer the seat of government to
some other place.
Louts NAPOLEON has succeeded ad
mirably in his usurpation. The people
have sustained him by about 7,000,000
majority. We do hope that some good re
publican will shortly send a bullet through
his heart. He has forfeited both life
and a peaceful death. His cariage is bul
let proof.
Pr - There were shooks of earthquake
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on the
10th inst. The houses shook alarmingly
in Warwich It. I. We aro afraid this lit
tle globe will burst up and go to pieces
some of these days.
A gONSTROSITY.—The Medical Repor
ter of New Jersey, just issued, states that
Dr. E. Buck, of Bridgeton, was present at
a post mortem examination in that town not
long since, upon the body of a child which
was born alive and of full term, the ab
dominal muscles and skin of which were
wholly wanting, exposing to view, as if by
the scalpel, the liver and bowels. The
breast, arms, and head were largely and
well developed, but the spine in the him
bar regions, was somewhat deficient, one
'leg was an exact wing or fin of a turtle,
and quite small, the end having two or
three unseparated toes. The other leg was
large and extended up to the face, and the
foot which was of the club order, rested
upon the nose.
Tim AMERICAN NAVY.—The follow
ing compliment is paid to the TJ. S. Navy
by a British publication, the United Ser
vice Journal.
"From its infancy to its present state,
most bravely, most gallantly, have the offi
cers and men in the naval profession of
America held up the honor of their flag.—
There is scarcely one action in which the
slightest imputation can be oast on any
individual. They have never avoided their
enemies, excepting when it would have
been the height of imprudence to have
faced them. They lave fought with the
most determined valor. They have in ma
ny cases, been successful over a nation
which held, undisputed, the command of
the ocean; and this very circumstance of
combating an enemy flushed with almost
universal victory, adds a great laurel to
the Navy of the United Staten."
The Mormons.
The United States Judges of the Terri
tory of Utah have addressed a long letter
to the President of the United States, in
which the most serious charges aro prefer
red against the Mormons. The leaders are
said to have denounced the Government in
the strongest language, and to have alluded
to the death of Gen. Taylor, in terms of
shocking profanity. They say :
"In reproach of our government, it was
declared, in our presence, before a large
audience, by another speaker, that " the
United States had intended the utter de
struction of the Mormons, and in a cruel,
wanton, and dastardly manner, had torn
away five hundred of them from their wives
and children, to perish on the frontiers."
Another speaker - in
.ft tirade against the
government, announced to the people, in
presence of two of us, invited to take seats
upon the stand, that " the laws and policy
of the United States were intended to op
press the poor ;" that " the government of
the United States was a stink in the nos
trils of Jehovah, and no wonder that the
Mormons wished it down ;". that "they
could save it by theocracy ; but rather than
sue it any other way they would see it
- first. Another one declared " that
it was going to -as fast as it could,
and the sooner the better."
In justification of their feelings of hos
tility to our government, another speaker
urged with much feeling that 6 , the Mor
mons were proscribed by the United States
—he had two wives, others of his brethren
had more, and brother Brigham Young had
still a greater number, and none of them
dare return to the United States with their
families ; for their dirty, mean, little, con
tracted laws would imprison them for
polygamy."
The Mayor of this city, (Jedediah M.
Grant) in a speech upon the subject, de
clared with great confidence, that a the U.
States could not conquer them with arms."
Various other allegations are made
against the peculiar customs and behaviour
of these people—some of them most de
' moralizing and outrageous in their charac
ter. Plurality of wives is a common cus
tom, sanctioned by the church, which in
, deed, governs everything. Some of the
prominent members have twenty and thir
ty, and Brigham Young, the Governor, has
even a greater number. It will be recol
lected we recently published an account of
his riding through the town in an =nib/is
with a great company of wives, more than
two-thirds of whom had infants in their
arms. It is not uncommon to find two or
more sisters married to the same man, and
report instances one case, where a mother
and her two daughters are among the wives
of a leading member of the church.
The Judges also allude to numerous per
sonal inconveniences they were constantly
subject to, from contact with a people who
seem totally lost to every just conception
• of morality, much more of common decen
cy. Their manners and general character
are so revolting to any one accustomed to
the usages of civilized life, that no Gen
tile" (as they call all who are not members
of their church) can long remain with them;
hence the resignation of the Government
officers, appointed to that place.
The Judges represent the city of the
Great Salt Lake as an important point in
the over-land route to Oregon and Califor
nia, but the outrageous character of the in
habitants renders it dangerous for emigrants
to stop there. No man dare open his
mouth in opposition to their lawless exac
tions, without feeling its effects upon his
liberty, his business, or his life. 4 , And
thus," say the Judges, upon the soil of
the United States, and under the broad
folds of its stars and stripes, which protect
him in his rights in every part of the civil
ized world, there is a spot where the citizen
dare not exercise the liberty of a freeman."
The Gentile citizens are punished for the
most trivial offences—some sentenced to
two, five, and ten years of labor upon the
public highways, with a ball and chain to
their legs, with no shelter at night but
caverns dug in the earth by their own
hands.
FIVE HUNDRED PERSONS DESTROYED
BY A WATER SPOUT.-OR Saturday in
telligence was received at Lloyd's, (Lon
don,) under date Malta, Monday, the Bth
ultimo, of the most awful occurrence at
the Island of Sicily, which had been swept
by two enormous water-spouts, accompa
nied by a terrific hurricane. Those who
witnessed the phenomena describe the wa
ter-spouts as two immense spherical bodies
of water reaching front .the clouds, their
cones nearly touching the earth, and as
far as could be judged; at a quarter of a
mile apart, travelling with immense velo
city. They passed over the island near
Marsala. In their progress houses were
unroofed, trees uprooted; men and women,
horses, cattle and sheep raised
.np, drawn
into their vortex, and borne on to destrne- '
tion; during their passage rain descended
in cataracts, accompanied with hail-stones
of enormous size and masses of ice. Go
ing over Castellamarre, near Stable, it de
stroyed half the town, and washed two
hundred of the inhabitants into the -sea ;
who all perished. Upwards of five hun
dred
persons have been destroyed by this
terrible visitation, and an immense amount
of property, the country being laid waste
for miles. The shipping in the harbor suf
fered severely, many vessels being destroy
ed, and their crews drowned. After the
occurrence numbers of dead human bodies
were picked up, all frightfully mutilated
and swollen.
The Maine Liquor Law.
A year or so ago the State of Maine
passed a law prohibiting, under very heavy
penalties, the sale of ardent spirits in any
part of the State. Its manufacture was
interdicted; the stores were not allowed to
keep so much as would wet a poor loaf
er's whistle; nor the taverns, and as for
the grog-shops, Othello-like, their 'occupa
tion' was completely gone. It went hard
with the bruisers at first, and they grum
bled a good deal, that in a 'free country'
they were not allowed the 'inalienable
right' of getting drunk, but the law was
enforced and they compelled to grin and
bear it. The effort, after a twelve-month's
trial, has been most salutary. Drunken
ness, rioting, and even crime of any sort,
is almost unknown. Hundreds of drunk
ards, irreclaimable in any other way, have
reformed, and become useful and respecta
ble members of society; homes have been
made cheerful, and the fortunes of the
most desperate have begun to look up.—
Nor is the 'total abstinence' which the
law necessarily imposes, longer hard to
bear. The temptation is removed, and
the appetite no more craves for what can
not be supplied. The result, therefore,
is, that the law has grown popular, and is
not likely to be repealed. Indeed we
have the assurance that it will not, in the
following extract of a letter written from
Augusta, the Capit)l of the State, to the
Editor of the Portland Advertiser:
"Both friends and opponents of the li
quor law may set their hearts at rest about
its repeal this session. It will not be re
pealed—it isn't among the possibilities.—
The feeling in favor of the law is much
more decided and unequivocal than at the
last session. One of the ablest members
of the House, who voted against it last
spring told use a day or two ago, that he
regarded the evidence of its beneficial ef
fects, and the favor, with which it is re
garded by a vast majority of the people as
altogether too conclusive and overwhelm
ing to be resisted.—On the other band, I
have not yet heard a single member say a
word in favor of repeal, and the general
opinion is that no serious attempt to repeal
it will be made. But if there is, it will
prove a complete failure."
Petitions are said to be pouring into our
Legislature for the passage of a similar
law. Unless it can be proven that the
traffic in liquor is actually beneficial to the
community and the State, we don't see
why the prayer of the petitioners should
not be granted.—Reacting Journal,
ATROCIOUS ;MURDER AND ROBBERY.-
On Sunday night, about 11 o'clock, two
persons came to the house of Mr. Herring,
on the Washington road, 9 miles above
Augusta, and called to stay all night.—
He asked them in. They told him to come
out, as they had a horse and buggy with
them. As soon as he got outside the door
he was shot down, Mrs. Herring then
barred the door and prevented the entrance
of the murderers. About an hour after
wards they returned and fired through an
augur bole in the door and killed her.--
She died in a few minutes after being shot.
They then entered the house and took
therefrom one hundred and seventy dol
lars.
Mr. Herring survived to give the above
particulars of this atrocious affair, and
was living at the last accounts. He was
shot twice, and hrts two balls in his body.
There is no prospect of his recovery from
his wounds. He states that one of the
men was a large and powerful mulatto fel
!
low. The other a white man. •
A pack of good track dogs have been
procured and put in pursuit, and we hope
to be enabled to announce the arrest of
the murderers.
Mr. and Mrs. Herring was an elderly
couple, aged about 60 years each, and
were living by themselves, there being no
other persons, white or black, living on
the premises.— Augusta Geo. Constitu
, tionalist, January, 18.
SOMETHING OP AN APPETITE.-A let
' ter from Paris has the following : A very
eccentric man, whose appetite has no equal,
I think, in the world, is now in Paris. Ills
name is Thomas, (the Bear,) and thus call
ed for his visiting daily several restaurants
of Paris, where he is fed with all the re
mains of the preceding day which are not
sold. A few days ago an American gen
tleman, who had met him at Boroy, in a
tavern, made a bet with ono of his friends
that he would furnish the 'Bear,' Thomas,
sixteen pounds of veal, a salad for sixteen
persons, a loaf of bread, weighing six
pounds, and ten bottles of wine. The bet
was accepted, and the dinner swallowed by
this ogre of the nineteenth century, who,
on the same day, ate for his supper four
teen pounds of codfish, a basket of twenty
pounds of strawberries, and six pounds of
bread. Decidedly, Thomas, the Pole, has
a stomach beyond that of an ostrich.
SINGULAR CASE OF DELIRIUM TRE
MENS.—There is a German in the new jail,
Cambridge street, suffering under delerium
tremens, which has assumed an unusually
novel us well as dangerous type. The ter
rible disease came on last Saturday night,
accompanied by the ravings of the mad
man and the physical power of the giant;
rendering it necessary to incarcerate him
in one of the strongest cells. During Sa
turday night his ferocity subsided, and
has only been manifested occasionally, and
in modified form, since. During all this
time he has not partaken of a particle of
food, and what is still more singular, has not
laid or sat down. He is quite weak, but
as yet nothing but a little valerian ex
tract has passed his lips, and that by force.
His case is a melancholy instance of the in
fluence of the glass. Six months ago he
located in a neighborhood where nearly
every family sold liquor in a small way.—
At this time he had rarely ever touched
the bottle—never to an injurous extent.—
By dealing in it he was drawn into the
wiles of an irresistable infatuation, and is
now what and where he is. The story of
his confinement in jail is an indictment for
the violation of the license law.
[Boston Tray
TUSCARORA. ACADEMY BURNED.—The
Tuscarora Academy building, formerly the
Presbyterian Church, was entirely consu
med by fire on the night of the 14th inst.
We learn that the fire originated iu the
north end of the building, and evidently
was the work of an incendiary. A number
of students lodged in tho building, but they
all made their escape without injury.—
Many of them, however, lost clothing,
books, &c., and several lost gold watches.
The binding is insured in the Perry Coun
ty Fire Insurance Company, but for what
amount we are not informed. The school
is suspended for the present, but we learn
that prompt measures will be taken to re
build and open the school agaiu.—Juntata
Sentinel.
is.:r Charles flanaway has wade oath
against Henry 11. Kline, the principal wit
ness in the Christiana treason case, for per
jury. Kline has been arrested and given
bail for his appearance.
(31?" The Grand Jury of Lineaster
County have ignored the bills, prefered ho--
fore it against the Christiana rioters.
KrThe Forrest Divorce case is conch',
ded and Mrs. Forrest has obtained a d .
yore() from her husband. The resulk s
this appears to be that he cannot mitt'
again and must support liar.
CC — Gov. Lowe, in his Message to the
Maryland Legislature, is down on the court
because Hanaway was not convicted for
treason, for his alleged participation in the
Christiana affair. Dear me.
IrrJames A. Cunningham is appointed
Supervisor of the Upper Juniata Division
of the Pennsylvania Canal, the place here
tofore filled by J. P. Anderson.
2 litiovLs:sa's GunstmtßlTTEßS.—TheSe cel
ebrated Bitters prepared by Dr. C. B. Jackson,
120 Arch street, Philadelphia, are performing as
tonishing cures throughout the whole country.—
We can bear witness to their curative powers in
the case of a friend of ours who had the Liver
Complaint, end who had tried almost every other
medicine, but without effect. After taking a few
bottles of these Bitters he was entirely cured.—
To those who are similarly afflicted we reecom—
mead theta to take the preparation, knowing that
Ithey will cure the disease spoken of and many
others to which " flesh is heir to." There is a
spurious article made in Philadelphia. The only
place to get the genuine article is 120 Arch street.
Philadelphia, of Dr. Jackson, or his agents
throughout the country.
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PRICES CURRENT.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 21, 1852.
Floor per bbl. $4 37
White Wheat per bathe! I 00
Red do 91
Rye 72
Corn 70
Oats 40
Clorerseed t 70
MARRIED,
On the 22d inst., by the Re,. Mr. Ba
ker, Mr. PETER N. MARKS, of Hunting
don, to Mice MARY CATIIARINE CLAD . -
BAUGH, of Altoona.
On the 22nd inst by the Rev. Mr. Col
lins Mr CHALES R. M'CARTHY to Miss
SARAH A. HUDSON all of this county.
In Huntingdon co., on Thursday the
22d inst., by Rev. L. P. Hawes, Mr. HEN
RY G. KNEPP, of Waterstreet, to bliss
MARY FEE, of Brady township.
In this borough, on the 6th inst., by the
same, Mr. MATsoN WALKER to Miss
CATHARINE ANN ORLADY.
In Orbisonia, on the 18th inst., by Rev.
J. B. Adams, Mr. JACOB H. ISZTT to
Miss MAAOARETTA MCCLAY.
" She is thine, the word is spoken
Band to hand, and heart to heart,
Though all other ties be broken
Time these bonds shall never part.