THE JOURNAL. HUNTINGDON, PA. Thursday Morning, May ii, 14-52. J. SEWELL STEWART—EniTon, TERMS OF PUBLICATION: Tun "Iluw MOD ON Jo V UNA L " is published at the following rates, viz : If paid in advance, per annum, $1,30 If paid during the year, 1.7.5 If paid after the expiration of the year, • 2,50 To Clubs of five or more, in advance, • • 1,2.5 Tea above Terms will be adhered to in all cases. No subscription will he taken fora less period than six months, and no paper will ho discontinued un til all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. V. B. PALMER Is our authorized agent in Philadelphia, New York and Baltimore, to receive advertisements, and any persons in those cities wishing to adver tise in our columns, will please call on him. FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1852, WINFIELD SCOTT, OF NEW JERSEY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT IN 1852, JAMES C. JONES, OF TENNESSEE. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, JACOB HOFFMAN, OF BERNS COUNTY Look Out for the Locomotive when the Bell Rings I A public meeting of the citizens of Hun tingdon and vicinity, favorable to the Hun tingdon & Broadtop Rail Road, will be held at the Town Hall on Friday evening the 14th inst., at the ringing of the Court House Bell. Preliminary measures will be adopted towards raising material aid for the enterprise. . _ Gen. Ayres, of Harrisburg, will be pre sent and address the meeting MANY. TO OUR READERS. We have disposed of a portion of our in terest in the Huntingdon Journal to our friend J. A. Hall, of this borough, who will hereafter be associated with us in its publication. Mr. Hall is a man of intelli gence, strict integrity of character and an unflinching and undeviating Whig, whose connection with the paper, as far as the department assigned to him is concerned, we doubt not, will give satisfaction to its numerous patrons and friends. He will direct the principal part of the business of the establishment and control its miscella neous and general reading department; while we will control, and be entirely re sponsible for its politics, which will be pure and unadulterated Whig, as we understand them. The back accounts for subscription will be payable at the office to the business partner, so that subscribers will have no more trouble in settling their accounts than if the new arrangement had not been made. WHIG COUNTY CONVENTION. After due consideration it is thought best to hold the next nominating Conven tion of the Whigs of Huntingdon County at the usual time, which is the first week of the August Court. We have consulted several of the Whigs of the county, who very generally oppose the calling of the Convention in June as recommended by the Whig meeting held in this borough du ring the last court. It will therefore not be called to meet earlier than August. • BROADTOP RAILROAD.—We, this week, publish the act incorporating this road. It has been signed by the Governor, and on Tuesday morning last, one hundred dollars was raised in a few minutes by contribution in Huntingdon and sent to Harrisburg, which will procure the charter. At the meeting in the Court House on Friday evening next, the preliminary steps will be taken to effect the organization of the Com pany, after which every person who may wish to make a speculation, will have an opportunity to subscribe to its capital stock. It will be a splendid investment for Hun tingdon county as well as'the stockhold ers. The prospects of the road are now flattering. [Cr The Westminster Review for April 1852, of the republication of Leonor Scott A: Co., N. Y., is at hand. The subjects discussed are—The Government of India —Physical Puritanism—Europe; its con dition and Prospects—A Theory of popu lation—Shelly and the letters of poets— The commerce of literature—Lord Pal merston and his polioy—The early Quakers. and Quakerism—Contemporary literature of England, of America, of Germany, and of France. Price $3,00 yer year. Spiritual Telegraph—Communica tion with the Spirit World. We have received the first number of the Spiritual Telegraph, a paper published in New York at $1,50 per year, and devoted to the discussion and illustration of spirit ual manifestations, or spiritual rappings, as they are more commonly designated. The device at its head is a dark globe, exhibi ting a shadowy outline of the American Continent and surrounded by heavy dark clouds, through one point of which breaks a cluster of rays which fall upon North America. We had thought at one time that independent clairvoyance was the boldest stride that human aspirations could ever make; but it, electricity and animal magnetism sink into insignificance, before the spiritual wire that dips its farther point in the burning batteries of the skies. The angel which Jacob saw, was engaged in the vulgar exercise of climbing up and down the ladder whose top was lost in heaven; but now, at the end of near four thousand years, despatches can be trans mitted to the earth, from the world of spir its without the intervention of such mate rial connections. We can now converse with our deceased friends through the me dium of persons, who have the power to put themselves in some kind of magnetic con nection with their disembodied spirits.— Messages are daily received from the informing their friends on earth of the hap piness they enjoy or the misery they suf fer; and the wonderful faculties of the seers of antiquity and the Witch of Endor are fairly surpassed by the nervous or illusive susceptibilities of American Yankees.— Physical science having become nearly ex hausted, inquiring minds are beginning to wander in the shadowy realms of psycho logy; and we shall be gratified to learn their ability, to descend at any time from their etherial contemplations, to the con sideration of things earthly, with minds such as wo should desire to find outside of a lunatic asylum. There are plenty of women, and probably some men, whose minds, a message from eternity would very considerably disturb—in view of which we would advise, that the Spiritual Telegraph be worked with great caution. A few ticks, by the operator at the celestial end of the wire, might very essensially jerk some of the earthly batteries out of their boots. Whig State Convention. At meeting of the Whig State Central Committee, held at Harrisburg on Tuesday the 4th instant, it was resolved that the Delegates to the late Whig State Conven tion be requested to assemble in Philadel phia on the NINETEENTH DAY OF JUNE next, at 9 o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the Hon. Richard Coulter. Among the can didates suggested for that office, the Hon. GEO. CHAMBERS, of Franklin, Hon. Wm. JESSUP, of Lycoming, and the Hon. JA3IES POLLOCK, of Northumberland, have been respectively named, either of whom would do credit to the station, and receive a cor dial support. The meeting of the Judicial Convention will take place a few days after the ad journment of the Whig National Conven tion—just in time to ratify the nominations made at Baltimore, and open the Campaign with an outburst of popular enthusiasm that will cause a general waking up throughout the entire Commonwealth. A State Mass Meeting on the evening of the 19th ofJune, in the city of Philadelphia, is also suggest ed in several papers, to set the Whig ball in motion. The idea is a good one. We should be glad to see it carried into ef fect.—Reading Journal. The Farm Journal for May has been received. We have glanced over its con tents, which are very instructive, and of practical use to the farmer. Every far mer should take it, especially as the cost is so trifling. It is published monthly, in Lancaster, I'a., at $l,OO per year. Church's Bizarre for the fortnight ending Saturday May Ist, 1852, in on our table, with pretty cuts and good reading. It contains 30 pages and is published eve ry other week at $l,OO per year by Church & CO., Phila. SHOCKING OCCIIIRKKCE.-OH Saturday night an Irishman, name unknown, was put off the Express cars at Bell's station by Conductor Boley; but before the Cars were under way he got on again. On Sunday morning he was found on the track a short distance below, cut in two! It is supposed that the train again stopped and put him off, and that the freight train which came along some time after ran over him.—Hol lidaysburg Register, sth inst. Great Eruption--Magnificent Sight. We have in our boyhood read and won dered over the accounts of the eruptions of "Etna and Vesuvius—we have traced the last days of Pompeii in Bulwer's pages— and we have read of the excavations of Herculaneum, and other ancient cities; but we have never read of anything to equal the magnificence of the eruption now going on from Mauna Loa, in the Island of Ha waii. The latest accounts from the scene of the fiery visitation are dated March 6. The spectacle is said to be sublime beyond anything of the kind ever witnessed. The eruption exceeds in grandeur any of the volcanic convulsions of Mauna Loa before seen by white men on the Islands. We subjoin accounts of its action from the Po lynesian : "We have received verbal information in regard to the state of the eruption, as late as to the 6th instant, from the leeward side of Hawaii. At that date the light from the flowing current was as bright as it had been at any former period, sufficient to enable a person to pick up a needle from the ground at midnight, from which fact the inference is drawn that the current is still flowing on towards the sea. "The current seems to have broken out through an old fissure, about one-third down the side of Loa, on the north-west side, and not from the old crater on the summit, called Moknoweoweo. The alti tude of the present eruption is about 10,- 000 feet above the level of the sea, and from the bay of Hilo (Byron's bay) must be some fifty or sixty miles. If it succeeds in reaching the ocean at the point suppo sed, after having filled up all the ravines, gulches, and inequalities of a very broken country, it will undoubtedly be one of the most extensive eruptions of modern times. "It would seem, from the last note from Mr. Coen, that the stream had divided— one part taking an easterly course towards Puna—while the other took a northerly one tawords Ililo. This may so divide the vol ume of lava that neither branch will reaoh the sea; but from the latest acounts the northerly branch was still burning its way through a dense forest; and if the supply holds out long enough, it will naturally fall into the course of Walluku river, and fol low it to where it diseuthogues into the bay at Hilo. We anxiously wait further intelli gence." An abstract from a correspondent's let ter, in the Polynesian, is of so much inter est that we copy it entire. A jet of la va playing five hundred feet in the air, must be indeed a magnificent and sublime sight: "By an accurate measurement of the en ormous jet of glowing lava, where it first broke forth on the side of Mauna Loa, it was ascertained to be five hundred feet high! This was upon the supposition that it was thirty miles distant. We are of the opinion that it was a greater distance—say from forty to sixty miles. NVith a glass, the play of this jet at night was distinctly obser ved, and a more sublime sight can scarce ly be imagined. A column of molten lava, glowing with the most intense heat, and projecting into the air to a distance of five hundred feet, was a sight so rare, and at the same time so awfully grand, as to ex cite the most lively feelings of awe and ad miration, even when viewed at a distance of forty or fifty miles. How much more awe inspiring would it have been at a distance of one or two miles, where the sounds ac companying such an eruption could have been heard. The fall of such a column would doubtless cause the earth to trem ble, and the roar of the rushing mass would have been like the mighty waves of the ocean beating upon a rock-bound coast. "The diameter of this jet is supposed to be over one hundred feet, and this we can easily believe, when we reflect that from it proceeded the river of lava that flowed off from it toward the sea. In some places this river is a mile wide, and in others more contracted. At some points it has filled up ravines ono hundred, two hundred, and three hundred feet in depth, and still it flowed on. It entered a heavy forest, and the giant growth of centuries is cut down before it like grass before the mower's scythe! No obstacle can arrest it in its descent to the sea. Mounds are covered over, rivers are filled up, forests are des troye4, and the habitations of men are con sumed like flax in a furnace. Truly 'He toucheth the hills and they smoke.' "We have not yet heard of any destruc tion of life from the eruption now in pro gress. A rumor has reached us that a small village has been destroyed; but of this we have no authentic intelligence. Should it reach the sea without destroying life or property, it will be a matter of thankful ness and almost unhoped for exemption. "A largo number of the residents of Honolulu had gone to Howau to witness the upheavings of Mauna Loa." BROAD TOP RAILROAD. AN ACT To incorporate the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Rail Road and Coal Com- pang. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Com monwealth of Pennsylvania in General As sembly met and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John G. Miles, A. P. Wilson, Thomas Fisher, John McCa hen, James Gwin, James Entrekin, David Blair, James Saxton, John Ker, John Scott, S. S. Wharton, John A. Doyle, George Jack son, John Porter Israel Grafius, S. M. Greer., John McCullough, James Clark, J. B. Wint rode, Jacob Cresswell, Charles Mickley, Alexander King, Job Mann, Samuel L. Rus sell, William Evans, Andrew J. Neff, Wm. P. Schell, David McMurtrie, John B. Given, Wm. Ayres, George W. Speer, William P. Orbison, Levi Evans, James Patton, R. B. Petrikett, Adin W. Benedict, Alexander Port, James Maguire, Isaac Cook, George Gwin,James Campbell, Daniel Grove, Henry Zimmerman, W. T. Dougherty, and their as sociates, successors and assigns be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate by the name, style and title of the "Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Rail Road and Coal Company," for the purpose of constructing a railroad as hereinafter is pro vided; and also for the purpose of mining coal, and for the transacting the usual busi ness of companies engaged in mining, trans porting and selling coal and the other pro ducts of coal lands. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed three hun dred thousand dollars; and the said Company may hold not exceeding at any one time, One Thousand acres of Land, in the counties of Huntingdon, Fulton and Bedford, togethet with such quantity as may be necessarily required in the prosecution of their legiti mate business for stations along their road, and a depot on the Pennsylvania canal and railroad, at or near the borough of Hunting don; and the said company shall have the same powers, liberties, privileges, immuni ties, and be subject to the same terms and conditions as are imposed in the act regulating railroad companies incorporated by an act of Assembly, passed the nineteenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "An Act to regulate rail road Companies." SECTION 2. That the President and Direc tors of said Company, be and are hereby au thorized if they deem it advisable to pay to the shareholders entitled to receive the same in the months of January and July, in each year, interest at the rate of six per centum per annum on all installments paid by them on their several shares of stocks and shall continue to pay the same till the •road and improvements ate in operation, and the said profits or earnings of the said road and mi ning within the same time, shall be credi ted to the cost of construction, and all inter est paid shall be charged to the cost of con struction ; Provided, That the interest shall not be paid on any share of stock upon which any installment which has been called for re mains unpaid: Provided further, That the stock of the said company shall not be sub ject to any tax in consequence of the pay ment of the interest hereby authorized until the net increase of the company shall realize at least six per cent. per annum upon the capital invested, and the said corporation are hereby authorized and empowered at such times as the President and the Directors may deem necessary for the purpose of raising funds or paying for iron, to , issue certificates of indebtedness or corporate bonds not ex ceeding in amount two hundred thousand dollars, none of which shall be of a less de nomination than one hundred dollars, signed by the President and attested by the Secre tary of the Company under the corporate seal of the corporation and bearing an inter est of six per cent. per annum payable on the first Monday of January and July, in each and every year, at the office of the Treasurer of the company, or at the Harrisburg, Phila delphia or Baltimore banks. SECTION 3. That the Stockholders in said company whether holding the certificates of stock in their own names, or being the par ties beneficially interested therein, shall be jointly and severally liable in their individu al capacities and estates, for all debts, con tracts and liabilities of said Company for ma terials and labor in the mining of coal