• • * • " .41 500...."` Wir o • ° 11,14 if 1/40 LI tt A 1` .1111111V4'',\tiM' • 4111/.. VOLUME XVII. TERMS OF PUBLICATION: THE " HUNTINGDON JOURNAL" is published at the following rates, viz: If paid in advance, per annum, $1,50 If paid during the year, 1,75 If paid after the expiration of the year, • 2,50 To Clubs of five or more, in advance, • • 1,25 THE above Terms will he adhered to in all cases. No subscription will be taken fora less period than six months, and no paper will be discontinued un til all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the publisher. MISCELLANEOUS. LOVE AND CATNIP. BY EDGAR SO3IERS. The dim light of the lamp illuminates the apartment for a while, but at last went out, leaving the room in darkness, save when an occasional flash of light from the half-extinguished fire gleamed for a moment upon the obscurity. In one corner, seated upon a sofa, where the forms of a gentle maiden and hor ador ing lover. The youth was pleading his passion with all the burning eloquence of impetuous love and imploring his charmer to name the happy day that was to unite them forever. But what was his grief to find that she did not meet his fond wishes with corresponding ardor. "Ah, Susan," he sighed, "have I then deceived myself in fondly believing that your gentle heart reciprocated my pas sion?" She fixed her liquid eyes upon him, but her words were few and coldly utter- "I rather think you have." What! you cannot mean that you do pot love me! You will not tear from the sky of the future the bright sun of hope and leave line to grope forever in darkness! Oh, Susan! by the happy hours we have passed together—by all the bright dreams and happiness we have cherished—by the vows you have sworn to love me,—l con jure you to revoke what you have just ut tered and promise to be mine! But all unmoved by his appeal, she curls her ruby lips and scornfully an ewers— "l shan't do no such thing!" Merciful heaven! do I hear aright? must I then live on in loneliness, with all my hope-withered and dead like a solitary sunflower stalk in tho winter?— Nay, by the whole universe I swear it shall not be? Mark me, cruel ono; thou hast been the bright polar star by which I guided my whole existence. Thou vast the rock on which I founded my hope of happiness; and if thou wilt not consent to be mine, I swear by the blazing sun, when he rises as usual to-morrow morning, be fore breakfast, his rays shall shine on me a cold corpse, beneath the angry waves of the raging Merimac—or perchance my bloody remains will be found upon its banks; and if these means of death fail me, I will swallow poison! do you hear? and expire for the love of thee. Then you will have naught to remind you of him who loved you better than a thanksgiving din ner, save the consoling reflection that you are his murderess!" But his agony, his threats, affected her not. She was as cold as the icicle that in midwinter hangs front the nose of the town pump. Cruelly—deliberately did she crush his last hope, and with a mocking, incredulous smile she said,— You daresn't do it." He sprang to his feet; despair was paint ed on his features; desperation glared in his eyes. With his hands clasped in agony he turned an imploring look towards the mistress of his heart and exclaimed,— “Once more I implore you to reflect re call those cruel words or I go to fulfil my threat;” and with his hand upon the latch, he awaited her decision. It came like a thunder to the unhappy youth. "You may go—if you wish--to grass!" With one bound ho gained the street, —furiously he dashed along and turning the first corner ran against a gush of wind that was rushing the other way. The breeze knocked off his tile; it had cost him a V the week before; yet he heeded not its loss. Like a whirlwind he swept along the sidewalk, and espying a blue bottle in a druggist's window ho made traoks like a longitudinal stripe of crude and solidified city milk, to wards it. Opening the door with an impetuosity that made the clerk spring over the counter and seek safety be hind a glass case, ho fixed his eyes with the ferocity of a bereaved maternal tigress upon the slim and trembling attendant and hoarsely growled,— “Poison! give me poison.” "Eh—ah—whatt" gasped the horror stricken clerk from his place of refuge. "Poison! do you hear!" thundered the youth furiously. With a shaking hand the clerk filled a phial and overrun the liquid on his new, in expressibles, but not heeding this mishap he placed the significant label 'poison,' on the bottle, and standing on tip-toe reached it over the show-ease to his dangerous cus tomer. Clutching it fiercely the doomed young man hurled a quarter at the head of the clerk, and then hurried to his lodg ings. When he reached his own room the ex citement had passed away, but it was suc ceeded by a cool deliberation and determi nation that it was as absolutely blood-chil ling as a cold duck in December. Un dressing, he prepared for bed, and then seizing the phial of poison he drank its contents unfaltering. Getting into bed he aroused his chum, who had slept through the whole of the terrible scene, and bade him arise and call his parents and also send for his false lady-love to come and see him die. His request was com plied with, and soon his weeping parents arrived to bless their dying son. While they were lamenting over him the door opened and Susan—the cruel, but now re pentant object of his love—entered the room. As she approached the bed side of the expiring youth, he raised himself feebly and said,— "Susan for thee I die!" and sunk back helpless on his pillow. Who shall paint the anguish, the agony of the lovely maiden? With shrieks that rent the air into shreds and drove the an cient tabby from the room, she rushed to her doomed lover and implored his forgive ness. She called him by every endearing epithet, but alas it was too late,—too late! Fondly she embraced him,—tenderly she parted the hair from his brow and kissed his pale forehead. They were reconciled while he was on the brink of eternity. But the poison was at work within; ho felt it coursing its burning way through every vein. He was conscious that he had but a few short moments to live, when his chum, who had entered to bid him a last farewell, inquired what he had taken.— Perhaps there was an antidote. "Alas—no" murmured the unhappy victim; "it is too late to think of remedies. lam almost gone. The bottle of poison is on the mantle: I do not know its name." The chum seized the phial; he looked at what remained of the fatal draught,— dubiously he sighed, and extracting the cork applied it to his olfactory proposcis. Three long sniffs took he and the phial fell with a crash from his almost palsied hands, while in a tone of wonder ho ejaculated— " Catnip! by thunder!" 'What!' exclaimed the expiring lover, springing bolt upright in bed. "Extract of catnip, sure as skunks; you are not poisoned at all. With one bound the dying man gained the middle of the room. His lady-love fled in dismay and picking up the fragments of the phial, he soon satisfied himself that it was indeed catnip be had swallowed. Great was his rage at the discovery; with horrid imprecations on the luckless wight who had deceived him, he got into his clothing, and arming himself with a big stick he sallied forth to wreak bloody vengeance on his devoted head. But to his deep disappointment the drug store was closed and the attendant was gone. Ta king the edge off his wrath by shaking out of his boots a small boy whom ho encoun tered on his homeward way, he swore a deep and terrible oath of vengeance on the druggist's clerk, to be inflicted the first time he encountered him at largo and in the open air after sundown. Horrible to hear wore the words ho breathed, and the oath was registered—somewhere. And now each night may be seen a slon- HUNTINGDON, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1852. der stripling wending his way homewards at a rapid pace. He has a big bowie knife and revolver in each hand, yet he starts at every foot step and trembles at every shadow! ever and anon ho casts looks of terror behind, for he fears the avenger. It is the, doomed druggist's clerk, and since the threat of the poisoned man has been told him, he has grown so thin that his employer intends to use him as an illustration to a course of lectures on I I anatomy. MORAL.—When a rejected young man, bent on suicide, seeks to purchase poison, let him have it, it is decidedly the best thing he could take, and by complying with the request the apothecary may es cape a further drubbing. Secondly, young men—when you , gget the mitten," don't commit suicide in a hurry, if you do you, may live to re pent it.—Carpet Bag. THE PEEL FAMILY. 110 W =EY BECAME BO AIM Below is an interesting history of the inventions by which old Peel became the founder of a family so eminent in their country. We are inclined to think the old woman was as hard working, industrious a person, as the grandmother of the Ameri can Minister's daughter: Almost every person has been led to suppose, from the notices which have ap peared about him, that he was the descen dant of some haughty house, the offspring of a lordly raoe. But this he is not; his great wealth was acquired by the sagacity, enterprise and ingenuity of his grandfather, and the purchase of ono useful invention for a small sum. An account of this will not be uninteresting, and it will enable tts to review briefly the progress of one art, namely, calico printing. During the early 'I part of the last century, calico printing was not known in England. This kind of goods derived the name from Calcutta, from which place they were taken to Eng land. Among the men in England who took a lively interest in her rising manu facturers, was the grandfather of Robert Peel, a small but industrious farmer of Blackburn, in Lancashire. Ho was the inventor of the card cylinder for carding cotton cloth—cutting his own blocks, ma king his own colours, printing the goods, and then his wife and daughters set to work and ironed them. This was a clum sy way to finish calicoes, but it was the only way known then, and there was an abundant sale for them, however coarse their finish. But the old farmer was not sat isfied with this slow process, and no doubt he was a considerate man, for he set his inventive faculties to work, and invented the mangle, which at onoo relieved his wife and daughters of their severe toil, and finished his goods much quicker and far better. He afterwards got other machine ry for finishing, kept it secret, and produ ced the best finished goods then in the Eng lish market, and he was soon at the head of an extensive business and possessed of groat wealth for he was prudent and eco nomical also. His son, the father of Sir Robert, greatly assisted him, and became a very rich man. He was also a man of great ingenuity, and is accredited with printing calicoes with the pattern engrav ed on a copper revolving cylinder—impres sing the pattern on the cloth which is fed between it and another cylinder covered with a blanket. This was an improvement for great speed over block printing; but the styles of block printing long and suc cessfully competed with all other kinds, and only for the successive quarrels be tween the printers and their employers, would still be a good and extensive busi ness. In France block printing is still carried on quite extensively. It is stated that Sir Robert Peel's father purchased the secret of making resist paste, from a person named Grouse for twenty-five dol lars and that ho realized fifty thousand times that sum out of it. This paste is printed on white cloth, the cloth, then dyed, and afterwards washed, when all those parts which have been covered with tho paste, appear white—the white l and the blue common calico putt erns. Without Benefit of Clergy. We often hear this phrase, but very few comprehend its real meaning. Most per sons suppose it means that a criminal shall have no spiritual adviser, or roligous con solation previous to his execution. But this is a popular error. The dark cloud of barbarism which succeeded the downfall of the Roman empire having nearly effactod literary pursuits, the attention of the no-1 bility, and the body of the people placed above labor, was wholly absorbed by mili tary exercise and the chase, while the re gular and secular clergy, became for ages with some exceptions, almost the sole de positozies of books, and the learned lan guages. As It is natural to respect what we do not understand, the Monks turned the advantage to good account, and it gra dually became a principle of common law, that no common clerk, that is to say, no priest should be tried by the civil power. This privilege was enjoyed and abused without restriction, till the reign of Henry the Second, when the council, or parlia ment of Clarendon, or the sense of the na tion, was provoked by murder, rape, and other crimes, to set bounds to ecclesiastic licentiousness, by a salutary regulation on this subject, but a law so necessary was evaded by the insolence of Becket, and the base pusillanimity of King John, and his successor. During a period equally disgraceful to the monarch and the clergy, a provision, artful because it seemed to wear the face of a remedy, was enacted, by which any per son tried for felony and found guilty, was pronounced to bo exempt from punishment si legit ut clericus, if he was able th read as a priest. From this finesse the monks derived considerable emolument, by teach ing prisoners to read, which, however odi ous or bloody their crimes—rescued them from the penalty of the laws, and also an swered another important purpose as by those means, men of the most desperate character were thus rendered humble and obedient tools of the church. This lucra tive monopoly remained, till it was provi ded against in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of Edward the Third; but the noxious weed grow up in a shade of ignor ance and confusion, during the bloody con tests of the houses of Lancaster and York,l till it received a considerable check under Edward the Sixth, when it was determined that no person convicted of manslaughter should claim the benefit of clergy, unless he is a peer of the realm, or a clerk in priest's orders; and by the ninth of James the First, it was entirely taken away from those delinquents.—Gazette of Union. , Universal Relationship. You cannot go into the meadow and pluck up a'single daisy by the roots, with out breaking up a society of nice relations, and detecting a principle more extensive and more refined than mere gravitation.— The handful of earth that follows the tiny roots of the flower is replete with social el ements. A little social circle had been formed around that germinating daisy.— The sunbeam and dew drop met there; and the soft summer breeze came whispering through the tall grass to join the silent concert. And the ear took them to the daisy germ: and they all went to work to show that flower to the sun. Each mingled in the honey of its influence, and they nur sed the “wee oanny thing" with an aliment that made it grow. And when it lifted its eyes towards the sky, they wove a soft car pet of grass for its feet. And the sun saw it through the green leaves, and smiled as he passed on; and then by starlight and by moonlight they worked on. And the daisy lifted up his head, and ono morning while the sun was looking, it put on a silver-rimmed diadem, and show ed its yellow petals to the stars.—And it nodded to the little birds that were swim ming in the sky, and all of them that had silver lined wings came, and birds in black and gray and Quaker brown oame; and the querulous blue bird, and the eourtsoying yellow bird came; and each sung a native air at the coronation of the daisy.—(Elihu Barrit.) A Cmtz FOR SORE EYES.—The dust on an honest miller's hat, 4,tiorttaL The Men with Teihe A year or two ago some Prohch travel lers in Africa reported the existence of a negro tribe with tails. Lately, Count do Castlonau, the Wcplora of South America, well known and highly esteemed in the United States, communicated to the Geo graphical Society of Paris, the result of some personal inquiries at Bahia, which seem to confirm in a measure the direct re port: found myself there,' ho says, in the midst of a host of negroe slaves, and thought it possible to obtain from them information of the unknown parts of the African eon- tinent. I soon discovered that the Mahow cdan natives of Soudan were more advan ced in mind than the idolatrous inhabi tants of the coast. Several blacks of Ha oussa and Adamo.wah related to me that they had taken part in expeditions against a nation called Niam Niaws who had tails. They traced their route on which they en countered tigers, giraffes and wild camels. They reached at length a people of the same complexion as themselves but with tails from twelve to fifteen inches long. The Haouses massacred the greater part of the tribe; among the bodies wore some fe males with the apendage and both sexes went entirely naked. Some lived in hov els, but the greater part in caves. The only article of furniture seen among them was a wooden bench pierced with a hole to accommodate the tail!" This circumstance is comical enough; the witnesses declared that they had handled the excrescence and cut it. The Count does not guaranty the statements; he in tends to publish separately the interroga tions and answers along with the maps, &c., of distinct tribes which ho procured in his researches in Brazil. Singular and Fatal Accident. The following singular and fatal acci dent is stated in the Norwich Courier. It occurred at Danielsonville, Ct., a few days since. A young lad of about fourteen-- only son of Mr. Edwin Ely, of that place, and a member of Mr. Abbot's family school of Norwich, rose early in the morning with the intention of going a fishing. But as it was only three o'clock, his father remon strated with him, and induced him to re turn to bed. At four o'clock he again got up for the same purpose, but was finally persuaded to wait until he should got some breakfast. Immediately after getting his breakfast, he harnessed a horse into a small wagon and started off, as his parents sup posed, to a trout brook, two or three miles distant. Instead of going to the trout brook, however, ho drove down to Killingly Pond, and was afterwards seen driving in various directions, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes in tho road, sometimes on the sides of the road, and sometimes in the field, urging the horse over the roughest places and oven over the stone fences; at last was soon to drive with headlong speed down the steep bank of the Quienebaug river into the middle of the stream. The horse was soon drowned, and the boy float ed off on the wagon seat, and was also drowned. His body was recovered the next day. Ho had just recovered from sickness, and it is supposed that he was la boring under mental derangement at the time of the above accident. I:l7"Why art thou sad, my love, to-day? what grief is frowning o'er thy heart? Why dolt thou droop and turn away, and why do tears unbidden start? When first I wooed thee in thy islo—Erin emerald of the deep— I saw thee, sweetest, only smile, nor even 1 1 thought that thou couldst weep. The sun 1 1 of summer lights the earth, the zephyr's kiss is on the cheek; and nature calls thee back to mirth, then be not, prythoo, love, so weak." While thus I spoke, my som's queen, one deep, fond glance up on me stealing, exclaimed, "Bejabors, but you're green! It's onions, sure, Pans af ter peeling." ltrAn Irishman ruminating in his bliss upon tho bank of a Southern crook, espied a tarrapin pluming itself. "Ooh honor exclaimed ho solemnly, "that ivon should come to Amoriky to see a snuff box walk." 'Whistl' said his wife, "Don't be after ma kin' fun of the bird." NUMBER 20 A Tale of Sadness. We loath' by the New Orleans papers that a woman of rare beauty has for some days past been wandering about new Or leans; asking every ()nestle meets for her child. Poor demented creature, her ques tion IS a Valli one,-for the child she seeks is sleeping its last sleep in the chill bosom of the grave! But it were useless to speak to the'ehirdlesemother. She has a mona maniac's" belief in the existence of her dar ling,- which no words of cold dissuasion can alter or efface. Though one and another tell her that they know nothing of the Alit], still she persuee the calm tenor of her way, and to the next comer repeat's her inquiry with hope unwavering.- The youth and' beauty of the poor,- demented one, added' I to the palpable cause of her insanity, have' ' created a lively interest in her behalf. She was as it would seem, married young, and' l yonng she became a widow and a mother. The loss of her husband was woad blow to' her, but the loss of her child slid could not, bear, and it left her what she is—insane. Alas! poor childless one! INTERESTING FROM TEXAS.—WO have dates' from Texas to the 23d ult., from which we learn that the corn and cotton crops were very promising, although tho web worm was doing some damage to the cotton. The great fair at Corpus Christi - was attracting much attention, and five or six vessels were about to leave Galvestion for the exhibition. The anniversary of the. battle of San Jacinto was celebrated at- Galveston on the 21st, by the Odd Fellows,' and also at Houston—a grand ball closings the festivities in each place. A Convention of the Whigs of Eastern• Texas was to be held at Tyler, Smith coun ty, on the 20th ult., and one of the Whigs' of Western Texas is to be held at Houston , on the 6th of May, to elect delegates to the National Whig Convention, nominate Pres idential electors for the State, and appoint a State Central Committee. The town of Goliad has been selected as the site of the Presbyterian College in contemplation. The town gives to the Pres bytery the old Aranama Mission build ing, together with twenty acres of land on which it stands, and one league of the unsold land of the town tract.• The citizens of the country also subscribed 20,000 acres of land. Two trains, consisting of twenty largo wagons, five carriages, and a number of persons destined for California, loft Indi anola on the 16th for El Paso and New Mexico. At San Antonio about 75 Cali fornia emigrants were to join the party. LOST GOLD RECOVERED.—The Louis vino Journal states, that a few days ago the trunk belonging to Mr. Merritt, of Nashville, containing $12,000 in gold dust, lost on the steamer Robert Rogers, was fished up from the bottom of the river.- The gold was the total result of two or three years labor in California, and the recovery of the trunk was certainly an extra pieoo of hick. 117 - No two things diffor more than hur ry and dispatch; hurry is tho park of a weak mind—dispatch of a strong ono. 117°This may bo said for lovo, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would bo insipid, and our being but half anima ted. l3Thero is nothing Me a fixed, steady aim with an honorable purpose. It digni fies your nature, and insures you success. --- 'llen often aro not aware of what se vere and untiring labor they are capable, until they have made trial of their strength. 11'Love of praise dwells moat in great and heroic spirits, and those who best dea -1 erve it have generally the moat (Aguish relish of it. rrThat calm and elegant satiafaotion , which tho vulgar call melancholy, is the true and proper delight of mon of knowl edge and virtue. it "Wife," said a man, looking for bootjack "I have places whore I keep my things, and you ought to know it." Yes," said she I ought to know where you keeg your late hours."—Old but good. Custon gives the name of poverty to the want of surattitcs.
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