THE JOURNAL.
HUNTINGDON, PA,
Wednesady Morning, Feb. 9, 1853.
A. W. BENEDICT, ESQ., POLITICAL En,
V. B. PALMER
Is our authorised agent in Philadelphia, New
York and Boston, to receive n i lvertisenmts; inid
any persons in those cities wishing to advertise
in our columns, will *Ase call on him.
sr Announcements of candidates for county
or district offices, will be inserted at the same rates
as other advertisements, if paid far in advance;
otherwise they will be charged double, or refused
No candidate's name can he favorably prevented
in our tolumns, fur any local office of honor or
profit, in the gift of the people, unless he is a pay
ing subscriber to the " Journal," or a regular
nominee of the Whig party.
See new advertisements on next page.
igar Our thanks are due Messrs. Carothers,
;Mans, and Sallivun, of the Senate, and Messrs.
Wharton, Goin, and others, of the House, for
public documents.
_ _
a- Through the kind attention of our esteem
ell young friend, Mr. H. M. Ker, a member of the
Sophomore Class, in LA Fayette College, at East
on, Pa., we have received a beautiful Circular,
containing the triennial and annual Catalogues of
the Officers and Students of that reputable Insti
tution. We are pleased to learn of the increasing
prosperity of this College, whirls is now placed on
a permanent basis, and is destined, in the provi
dence of God, to accomplish great good to the
interests of education and religion.
gir We are obliged to Mr. J. G. Reed, the
gentlemanly publisher of the Family Circle and
Parlor Annual," for the back numbers of the pre
sent volume. We have concluded that the best
commendation we can bestow upon this neat and
excellent periodical, is the re-publication of some
of its many interesting and instructive articles.—
This we shall do. Our readers will thus he ena
bled to form a true estimate of the tone and char
acter of the work. The embellishments are chaste
and beautiful.
Broad Top Coal.
The superior coal of Broad Top is now coming
into notice. Since the Coal Company has been
oiganized , people abroad are bcgining to enquire
after our cowl, and its character is commanding at
t ion.
Perhaps it is not saying too much, to say, that
it is equal, if not superior to any coal now known
fur some purposes; especially all those connected
with the working of iron. We are. told that it
contains more caloric, in a given quantity titan
any other, and consequently where the generation
of heat is alone desired it is die cad. It is said,
further that it possesses those qualities which are
so much needed, in order that it can he used on
Locomotives ; and we arc glad to learn that the
Pennsylvania Rail Road Company have express
ed a desire to be furnished with a sufficient num
ber of tuns to give it a fair trial.
We take pleasure in letting those interested
know, that the Board of Directors.of the Broad
Tup Rail Ricoh an I Coal Company, have adopted
measures to furnish such a supply to the Venn'a.
Rail Road. So confident are they, that the
Broad Top Coal, is the very article that is needed
to fire Locomot.ves that they purpos: t
out to the Pcrea. Rail Road in wag ins. This is
the true spirit.
When the Pewee. Rail Road ascertains, as it
dou'tiless will, that it can ruin its engines at a
much cheaper rate with this coal than with any
other fuel, we shall expect to see that company
come forward and take a hundred thousand dol
lars of the Broad Top Stock. If the company
has not the power to do so now, lc t that power be
given to that company this winter. Look to it,
you who are interested.
Grand Temperance Densimstratios
in New Jersey.
On Thursday, the 27th ult., a State Temper
ance Meeting . was held at Trenton, N. J. The
procession, numbering over 7000, marched to the
Capitol, and presented a petition with 50,000 sig
natures, praying fur a prohibitory liquor law.—
The petition was 1400 feet long, and nearly one
half the names appended were those of legal vo
ters. The ladies 111.‘o presented a petition to the
Senate. This bore the signature of 9000 women
of Now Jersey. Both. Houses were densely
crowded and we trust the members were favora
bly impressed with the imposing delegation S—
. State Temperance Conveatioapassed resolu
tions calling for political action.
gir We have received uo"Legislative Record"
since Thursday, hut have learned from other sour
ces that our Menihers, Messrs. Wharton and
Gwin, have introduced several local, or private
bills not noticed in our synopsis of Legislative
proceedings. Mr. Gain has also presented sev
eral petitions numerously signed by citizens of
Blair and Huntingdon counties, praying for the
enactment of a prohibitory Liquor Law. We feel
proud of these evidences of the vigilance and in
dustry of our Representatives.
isr Horace Greeley lm.p.laced the public at
large, and the Whig party in partici*, under
obligations, by the publication of his. excellent
Almanac f o r 1853. It contains more, important
information than can any where else lic.found in
the tame 3P I K6. 1431 10 4 1 ftwi ite way into every
family in,the country. Price, single copy, I
- ,
cents. $1 a.lOO. or $7 a 1000. Address Greeley
& Mcglrath, Tribunes Buil.lings, N. Y.
EXHIBITION.
The semi-annual exhibition of the Atronwicx
COLLTAIATZ SOHOOI n will take place on Wed
nesday, the second day of March. The public
generally, are respectfully incited to attend.
“He Never Made his Mother tinsile.”
Some where in our reading of the last
few weeks we fell in with the above expres
sion, as made by a daughter of Erin's green
isle, when on her examination, in court as
to the character of the defendant; to some
question put by the counsel, she answered
'Arrab ! He never made his mother smile.'
What a picture; and how truthful of the
rude ruffian who seeks for pleasure in the
road to ruin,—how indicative of a bold bad
heart.
In all his years of childhood, youth, and
manhood, no gambol of innocence, no en
dearing fondness, no kindred sympathy ev
er called a smile from her, who bore and
nursed him. A peevish petulant child, a
wayward obstinate, awl unkind boy,—a
bold oruel unso:ial and abando: ed man,—
,"lie never made his mother smile."
To our dear young readers, ye have a
word to say. Let it not be said truly of I
you, that "you never made your mother
smile." Your Bibles teach you, that "the
eye that dispiseth to obey his mother, the
ravens of the valley shall pick it nut and
the young eagles shall eat it;" and if you
would live and enjoy the respect of your
kind, cultivate, and cherish a self denying
love for your. another. Her vigils of affec
tion while you.slept, her trials, her tears of
love, her holy guardianship, are but a few
among the many evidences, that her love.
for you shall never die. Others may aban
don and condemn, but a mother's love, and
a mother's hope hive nestled in your era
des, and have. gathered their tireless
strength, from a mother's heart, and will
cling to you with an energy time cannot
, waste.
Children, who are so reckless, unfeeling,
so dead to that sympathy which marks the
good from the bad,—as to manifest and
display, a disregard of a mother's care, are
no longer fit associates or companions of
the virtuous of our race—they should be
shunned by their fellows, and dreaded as,
mates through life. He, or she, whose
nonduct brings no smile to a mother's lip
and heart, will wring or break the heart
of husband or wife; and their "children
will rise up to call them" cursed.
Learn then, young friends, with filial pi
ety and love to win and wear as the jewels
nearest your hearts, the fond, endearing
smiles of a mothers.
"That smile shall brighten the dint evening star
That points cur destined tomb, nor e'er depart
Till the faint light of life in fled afar,
And hn=hed the last deep breathing, of the heart,
The meteor•heorer of our carting breath,
The moon-beam in the midnight cloud of
death."
Slavery Agitation.
Two years are a little more than past,
since all that was great, good, and patriot
ic produced a kind of essential extract,
which was known as the compromise bill;
and wbioh some men think saved the
Union, in spite of an over ruling provi
dence. Subsequently this bill received a
new name; its several, and severed frag
ments were dignified with the title of "ad
justment measures," and became laws,
and the Union was again saved.
Shortly after that an election was to be
held in Pennsylvania; and the Union was
once more in danger. A negro riot in
Lancaster County, which resulted in the
death of a citizen of Maryland; called out
the earnest and most heart rendering wails
from a few Union savers, and among
them sonic who claim to be Whigs.—Gov
ernor Johnston was charged with the mur
der, by these traitors to truth; and the en
raged South, and the pliant North would
not permit the Union a"ain to be saved un
less Johnston the Whig candidate was
beaten. Nothing else would quiet the
"agitation," and on no other terms could
the Union be preserved. Well, Governor
Johnston was beaten, and of course the
Union saved once more, and Slavery agita
tion was considered settled. The fugitive
Slave bill (which we published this week)
was declared a finality, and some were
silly enough to think that peace. was final
ly attained..
We weee aura that the submissive north
must come down a little lower to satisfy
the Slave power. Permitted to have its
own way, it becomes arrogant, and, exac
ting and dough faced allies in the north
become more plastic, and this year we
see Governor Bigler recommendiqg the
enactment of a law to permit Slave owners
'with their domestic Slaves to have a free
transit through our State. But does it
stop here or, is Pennsylvania the only State
in which this agitation is again started? in
New York, the, same thing is tried, in
Virginia, they go, further, there they pro
posed to sell the free negroes, and pay the
fund thus raised into the State- Treasury.
All this is not agitation, the moment how
ever that a man writes or speaks a word.
on the side of truth and freedom; titan
every where you hear these real agitators I
cry out "don't agitate!"
We for one have concluded to speak
out. If they of the finality family, can
legislate, write, and talk without agitation,
so can we; and we will try it any how.
And to start, we will merely enquire of
our Democratic friends of this county,
how they would like to see this law recom
mended by Governor Bigler passed, and
then see droves of Slaves manacled togeth
er driven over our soil, and along our
strees to be shipped to some Texian, or it
may be Californian] 'Market?
Legislative News.
The slave trade, or negro business, bids
fair to occupy a very considerable portion
of the time of the Legislature. There is
now, before both Houses, (so that both may
be in blast at the same time,) a bill to car
ry out the recommendation of Gov. Bigler,
to permit slave owners to drive their ne
groes through our State, when migrating to
any other State: and the bill of the House
permits owners to remain in our State six
months with their slaves. 'We see, also,
in the House, that Hook, generally known
as "Hook and wife," read in place a bill
to prevent fugitives from labor, and manu
mitted slaves from settling in Pennsylva
nia. These are the progeny of the "no
agitation" party.
A bill has been reported from the Com
mittee on Inland Navigation, repealing the
Act of last year, relinquishing the right of
the State, to resume the Pennsylvanit Sec
tion of the Delaware and Hudson Canal.—
This law of last year gdve to a Company
of Speculators, a right belonging to our
State, which, we doubt not, would if sold
under the hammer, bring half a million
of dollars; and just to that amount relieve
our tax payers. While Governor Bigler
was busy vetoing little saving fund Banks,
of a few tens of thousands of dollars, and
little Mining Companies, of similar capital,
in which there was not a brass farthing in
volved for the State, he signed this bill,
giving away hundreds of thousands of val
uable property. By the above bill it would
seem, that, having seen the folly of the act,
they now intend to consider it only as an
"Indian gift," and take it back. We like
to see these lovers of the people " wiggle
waggle."
The Harrisburg Savings Institution, and
the Carlisle Deposit Bank, both passed the
Senate, after a little individual li..bilily
buncomb was let off. Governor Bigler
will most likely knock the life out of all
the Banks sent to him, with his veto, un
less they can bring themselves within the
rule of the East on Bank, which he signed
last :ear— viz : prove their democracy by
their large majority, then any county can
have a bank.
Mr. McMurtrie, in the senate, attached
to the Frankford anti Oxford Plank Road
Supplement, a section relative to an alley
in the Borough of Huntingdon; and so the
bill passed.
Mr. Wharton, from the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House, reported a supplement
to the act concerning divorces; a bill chang
ing the general,electiondaws, and a bill re
lative to commissioners of other States resi
dent in Pennsylvania.
Mr. Fulton, from the same committee,
reported a bill to carry out, in good faith,
the provisions of the Constitution of the
United States, and to promote fraternal'and
friendly feelings between citizens of the
different States. Also, a bill regulating
1 county printing.
What provisions this first bill contains,
we cannot imagine, and what provisions of
the Constitution have not been faithfully
executed in our State, we are at a loss to
know. We shall carefully watch for the
progress of this bill, in order to ascertain
its purpose. The mere re7orting of such
a bill implies that the Judiciary Committee
believe that our State, and her authorities,
hare acted in bad faith, and disregarded
their oaths, and the requirements of the
Constitution of the ,United States. What
is the Basis of this. Legislative slander upon
our ever faithful old 'Commonwealth, we
cannot devise. Who demands Legislative
acknowledgment of our own shame Will
this law, if passed, be more powerful than
the Constitution—more binding than an
oath ? We have fallen upon strange times
--"fraternal and friendly feelings between
citizens of the different States" are now to
be "promoted" by sot of Assembly. We
would suggest, as we need money in our
State Treasury, that a section. be added,
by way of amendment, permitting citizens
of our State to talk about Southern Insti4
tutions upon the payment of a certain sum
as a license.
A bill has passed the Senate, for the
election of &State Printer, and the appoint
ment of a Superintendent of the printing,
who must be a practical printer. This is
only a new way of spending a few thousand
dollars of the State taxes: and fattening
another Loeofoco at the public crib. The!
bill in relation to fugitives and manumitted
slaves, we see was reported from the Ji. di
ciary Committee by Col. Wharton, with a
negative recommendation.
The Senate, on motion of Mr. O'Neill,
proceeded to the consideration of the bill
from the House, making an appropriation
to aid in the erection of a monitmeEt in In
dependence Square, in the city of Phila
delphia, commemorative of the original
thirteen States, and of the Signers of the
Declaration of Independence, and after
' some discuss - on, in which Messrs. O'Neill,
Crabb, Darlington, and McCaslin took part,
i the bill passed finally.
The nominations of the Governor, for
Trustees for the State Lunatic Asylum,
were confirmed by the Senate: and we are
glad to observe that Dr. Joseph Hender
son, of Mifflin county, is one of them. No
better selection could have been wade.
The New Tax Law.
The Commissioners appointed to revise
our present Tax Laws have reported a long,
and from our hasty perusal, a very good
and effective one, as a proper law to supply
the place of existing laws.
To one thing we except, and trust our
Legislators will correct it. The last and
repealing sections makes it a question,
which it will take a lawyer to settle, as to
what laws are repealed The Commission
ers of the rural Counties will not have as
much time to go over all our tax laws and
see if they are "altered and supplied," as
did the codifying Commissioners; nor will
they always be so competent to judge when
that is done. We say, let the n: w law
cover the whole ground, and repeal all the
old laws, unless you desire to have confu
sion worse codounded.
(1.7 The friends of the Jlaine Law in
Philiadelphia and Pittsburg have issued
°ails for a State Temperance convention to
be held at llarrisburg on the 23d and 24th
of February. Temperance Associations
and the friends of Prohibition generally
throughout the Country are expected to
call meetings and appoint Delegates to the
proposed Convention.
American Rail Road Iron.
From a well authenticated statement,
says the Banker's Circular, we learn that
American Railroad Iron, manufactured
from American pig, is in quality superior,
by almost 3 to 1, to the imported article.
The following is the test furnished by the
engineers of the Reading Railroad—a route
better calculated than any other in the U.
States to try the qualities of Iron mils :
Annual wear of English Iron 4 1-10 per cent.
Annu.il wear of American Iron 1 4-10 "
Difference in favor of A rnenicnn 2 7-10 .4
On lines principally for the conveyance
of passengers, the wear is not so great,con
sequently the difference in favor of Amer
ican iron is less; but the average disparity
is about 2 to 1 in wear, being the difference
in cost for repairs. The Lowmoor Iron,
which stands highest in estimation of our
managers, is far inferior in tenacity to or
dinary American iron in use.
ODD FEI.I.OWFIIII? IN PENNSYLVANIA
—From the late annual official report of
the Grand Lodgc of Pennsylvania, we learn
that the Grand Lodge is compsoed of 4480
members, and has under its jurisdiction
460 Lodges. The number of initiations
into the Order during the year, amounted
to 5788: rejected 559. Admitted on card,
445. Withdrawn on card 1481. Rein
stated 347. Suspended 2652. Expelled
137. Deaths 393. Past Grands 4428.
Menunbers 44,237. Total receipts, $220,-
, 964 37. Funds in Treasurer's hands,
$54,004 29; do. invested, $175,700 17;
Widows and Orphans' Fund, $24,102 91 •
—total amount,
$253,807 40. Number of
I brothers releivod 7263. number of widow
: ed families relieved 1353; number of broth-
I ers buried, 356: amount paid fir relief of
brothers, $93,123 73; for relief of widowed
families, $7,068 22; for education of or
phans, $462 77; for burying the dead,
$118,649 30—total amount of relief ;
$219,304 02.
ti...r*Quite an excitement prevails among
the citizens of New-York, in consequence of
the large quantity of impure and adultera
ted milk that is sold there. A, pamphlet
has just appeared, whieb , shows that thou.
sands of children, mostly of the humbler
classes, are destroyed annually through
the agency of the deadly poison, imbibed
by them under the swindling appellation of
milk. It is said that two-thirds of the
milk which conies from the country is dilu
ted with chalk, magnesia,. sze:, so that
it may boar more water..
The man is not sound in heart
against whom the world has not something
to say; for some one always sp eaks ill
against a good patriot, a lover o ffreedom,
sad an honorable man.
Tr The State of Arkansas owes the
United States the snug little sow of $867,-
366, prinnipal And interest.
Splinters and Shavings.
enowDEn—ottr Splinters and Sharing,—
SCA TTERED—the Globe', notion.' of original De-
prOVlty --.COMMINO—Saint Valentirie's , day.
—Gotxo, gone—the cash we received during
Court term.—CLosa—the contest between the
"spirited and splendid" Blair County Whig end
the "gay and incomparable Standard."—...TM
PROVING—the health of the Vice President elect.
R , Pride is BA loud a heeffnr as want, and
great deal more ' , alley. or Vegetation in so
scarce at Cape Cod. that two toullen stalks and n
I whortleherry hush are called a genre. tar The
friends of the Maine LAB' held n soiritell and im
, posing Temperance Meeting in 'Bellefonte. en the
24th ult. H. N. McAlister, Esq., Gets. Irwin.
and others addressed the people, and vigorous
measures were adopted to advance the good
cause. Ctir Kossuth is preparing to inflict on us
another season of agitation, in the hope, it is said.
of enlisting the new administration, in schemes of
foreign intervention.—A NOBLE EXAMPLE—n
deputation of ladies presented to the New York
Legislature, last week, a petition signed by 28,000
of their sex, praying for the speedy enactment of
a prohibitory Liquor Law. The deputation was
received at the har oldie House; Mrs. McKnight
rend a feeling address to the Solons. and sent the
petition to the Clerk's table. tar Barnes is
sometimes spelled with an a, Dr. Items. eir The
'Blue Juniata,' at Huntingdon, has not been fro
zen over, this season.—STßAttog—henry freight
is carried ellealowiriom Pittsburg to Baltimore, by
way of Wheeling and the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, than by our own thoroughfares! So
says the Pittsburg American. itEr The educa
tion that has religion for its basis, is the only edu
cation that can fit man for his destiny. Gr A
man that has riches and does not enjoy them, is
like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.—
(V' The General Synod of the Luthern Church
will assemble in Winchester, Vu., in May next.
Cr The Mexican revolution is still progressing;
the government party has been defeated, and the
President has resigutl. Santa Anna is daily ex-
pected to land in the country. Cir Penn'a.
Railroad stock is now selling in Phil's. nt 12k per
Cent. OM, par. 0" The citizens of Westmore
land County are looking efforts to build two
branch Railroads, the Rempfield, and Uniontown
Railroads, to connect with the Central Road.—
cr If prayer without study is presumption, stu
dy without prayer is atheism. Cr Um. Snare
is prepared to furnish the young folks with some
very interesting articles for Valentine eve.
cir The Clarion Register is in favor of Gen.
Luramer of Pittsburg, as the next Whig candi
date for Governor.—Equivocar.—"A stabile
stolen by D. Riddle," says the Hollidaysburg Re
gister, in its notice of New Advertisements—
Well, why not prosecute him then?—Goon—
Potter county has no licensed liquor retail°r3
within its borders. cir He who openly sneers
at any fundamental truth of religion, is a worse
enemy to human virtue and happiness, than he
thatt,keeps a grogg CT Congress is doing
the 'wind work' of a Pacific Railroad. 0 - One
thousand dollars are offered fur the apprehension
of the fiend who fired several out-buildings, in
Hollidaysburg, some time ago. CO" If nature
had designed Masi for a drunkard, he would have
been constructed like a churn, so that the more he
drank the firmer he would stand.—REcirnoct-
Tl—the Virginia Legislature is about passing a
law to enslave the free colored population of the
State. To legislate men into bondage, in Vir
ginia, is esteemed patriotic and right; but to talk
of liberty and human rights, in Pennsylvania, is
trenton. dir In Oregon, Lumber is worth $7O
per 1000 feet. Wheat sells at $4 and $5 per
bushel.. Cr A lady, in New London has made
two quilts of pieces of silk and satin; one contain
ing 8000, the other 12052 pieces, ell fitted and sew
ed so neatly as to represent the finest Mosaic
work. lir Whitt on un-grateful world !—as the
man said before coal was used for fuel. ifFir A
company of eight or ten men will leave Pittsburg
to-morrow. for the gold regions of Australia.—
r . Hon. R. J. Walker is in Washington. llis
health is rapidly declining: and but faint hope is
entertained of his recovery.—FOßElGN IMPOR
TATION—the new Weighninster, fit Hollidays
burg, is from Centre County; the Collector, from
Butler county; the Cargo Inspector. front Clari
on county; and some other Canal officer from
Washington county! Was there no suitable ma
aerial in little Blair?—L AUDAHLE—by contri
butions raised in a Methodist Congregntion. in
Washington, Gen's. Scott and •Pierce and their
wives have been made life members of the Pa
rent Missionary Society of that city. Cr The
Laccifoco State Convention will meet in Harris
burg, on the Ist of March, to ilminate a candi
date for Canal Commissioner.—UNDEnsrsB Ds
tats ambit:el.-the penny-a-liner who writes for the
Globe upon "Slandar" and "Depravity."
r Yesterday the people of Vermont voted on
the acceptance or rejection of the new Liquor sel
ling prohibition Law.—A KICK AT TIIE DY
lNG—the New York Tribune gives the Washing
ton Republic a hard kick, far wheat it considers,
the Republic's dying kiek,—llit him again Greely.
—BULL-10N—thnt in the bank of England
amounts to $105.000,000. (g" The Globe thinks
our article on Whigs and Whig presses, "humble,"
and "ellotistical"—woold it prefer an article on
IVhig editors of Litcofoco presses, Cr Specula
tion is at fault with Pierce and his Cabinet--
Washington letter writers, cannot get even a start.
a - Oliver Cromwell, colored, a soldier of the
Revolution, died lately in Burlington, N. J. He
was mach respected through life. Cr Two re
spectable eitizene-of Baltimore were shockingly
beaten in a tavern in that city on Saturday, by
rowdies. T hey need some "adjustment" measures
in that city as well as we at the north. Cr The
Locos, of Huntingdon county, who flatter them
selves, over the wit and wisdom of their or
gan, are not aware Volt a' Meg' turns the crank.
—THlN—woman's Shoes, and the mud for the
last week.—THlCK—some peoples schulls, and
the hair on a dog's back. cia- Fanny Fern don't
believe in the female physician's. She says "for
myself I prefer prescriptions in a masculine hand!
Shan't submit my pulse to any thing that wears a
INGITIRL.--MEAT FOR MEN, MILK FOR LA.
DlES—the editorials of the Globe, are likely now
to serengthen its party. They take their Whiy
nounshment, through astraw, it is thin—then oth
er, with s spoon, it Is
A MAGNIFICENT PLEAtiUR - FTRIP. —A
prominent amboat owner of New York,
who has Age an immense fortune in steam•
boating, has devised a novel, most liberal,
and magnificent plan for disbursing ample of
his gains. He proposes to rig, in the•inost
perfect style, a steamer yaoht, now nearly
completed, furnishing her in the richest
manner, at a cost of $50,000 over ordinary
ships of the kind. About the first of May
he will take on board his sons and daugh
ters, and forty or fifty other guestp, and sail
for London, Copenhagen, Stockholm, St.
Petersburg, Havre. Bordeaux, Lisbon, Gib
tilter, Marseilles, Naples, Malta, and such
other ports as may be desirable, staying a
short time at each port, giving fetes and
seeing the lions. The entire expense, which
is estimated at more than $20,000, will be
borne by the prjector. This is about the
west extenfive plan of a pleasure trip ever
entertained, and, when carried out, which
it will undoubtedly be, will be very apt to ,
give Europelns some new ideas of the out
side barbarians of Yankeedom.
EXTRAVAGANT SPEECII.—The late Bish
op Ileddiug used to tell an incident in his
episcopal career, striking:y illustrative of
the despotic power of long idulged habit.
At one of the Conferences where he presi
ded a young preacher was charged with in
dulging in too great excess in exaggeration.
He was not said to be guilty of positive
falsehood, but superlatives flowed so freely
from his tongue that truth had the sem
blance, and frequently did all the mischief
of a lie. The young man was sentenced
to be publicly ad:uonished by the chair.—
He stood up in the presence of his breth
ren, and the Bishop, with the greatest kind
ness, pointed out the evil resulting from
the habit. After hearing him thrnngh, the
accused, bathed in tears, requested perntis
si,.n to say a few words. He commenced
by a candid acknowledgment of los fault,
and thanked the Bisl op for his admonition.
Turning to his brethren in the ministry, he
assured them of his determination to con
quer his besetting propensity. "I regret
it as much as any of you. I have struggled
against it. I have wept over it. Yes breth
ren, by night and by day, 1 have wept on
account of it, and I can truly say, it has
already caused me to shed barrels of tears."
INFORMATION WANTED.-A lad named
Henry Geiss, in the 13th year of his age,
lett Reading some time last June, and no
thing has since been heard of him. He is
descr;bed as a robust boy, dark hair, brown
eyes and rather dark complexion. H• is
the son of a widowed mother, in great, dis
tress over his absence, and the Press will
confer a favor upon her by publishing this
notice that it may lead to his restoration
to his home.
TILE MACKEREL FISHERY.—The follow
ing statement of the mackerel fishery in the
district of Barnstable is furnished to the
Yarmouth Register : —Vessels employed,
18,733 tons; men do., 2,366; boys do. 706.
Mackerel packed : No. 1, 24,390 barrels,
value, $258,000; No. 2, 22,242 barrels;
value, 177,830; No. 3, 15,043 barrels; val
ue $90,258. Total value $522,184.
Err A contractor on the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Railroad, who has disappear
ed with $2OOO, is said to be indebted to
his laborers and others for $lO,OOO or
$15,000. A store which he owned has
been seized by his creditors.
Qom' There is an inmate of the lunatic
asylum Staunton, Va., the cause of whose
insanity was indolence.
No. 11. Pulmonary Consumption is at disease
which annually sweeps thousands from the face of
our land ; it is a Innate which has generally been
considered incurable, and in fact, until lately, we
have known but few races which have heen cur
ed. But recently we have seen on record evi
dence sufficient to convince anv one that it is
nest!', curable, and that Dr. .1. W. C. oper's In
dian Vegetable Cough or consumptive Syrup,
(which is prepared .ly by C. P. Hewes, after di
rection., of Dr..l. W. Cooper. the celebrated In
dian Ilerb Doctor,) has And still continues to cure
many cases of this heretotl,re supposed incurable
dice s and as a remedy far Coughs, Colds, and
Consumption. it is undoubtedly what it is recom
mended to be, the most successful medicine ever
discoverd for the cure of the above mention dis
eases.
The Genuine may, aim., he hut of T. Rawl,
& Sun, HuntinLtdon: Geo. W. Breehman, McVey
town; and J. M. Belford, Mifflintown.
eir We have frequently heard the celebrated
German Bitters. sold by 1)r. C. M. Jackson, 120
Arch street Philadelphia, spoken of in terms of
the highest comm.ndation, and we honestly be
lieve that it is One of the hest medicines advertised
fo. the complaints for which it is recommended.
They are pleasant to the taste, and can he taken
under any circumstances by the most
stomaoh. The press far and wide, hare united in
commending this invaluable remedy for dyspepsia,
&c.; and such are the healing effects of
this panacea, that we hope it may be introduced
into every family where dyspepsia has, or is like
ly to hare, a victim. 4.
Feb. 2, 1853.
THE MARKETS
HUNTINGDON, Feb. 8, 1853.
Flour,• per bbl.,. $4,50 a $5,00
White Wheat,. 1,00 ete per bu
Red• 95
Corn,4s a 50
Buolwheat,
Oats,
Butter,
Tallow,
Lard,
Eggs, 124 " " dos
Potatoes, per bu., 374 a 50
Beef, per owt., $4,00 a $5,00
Pork " " 5,50 ai6,00
Dry Apples, per bu., $l,OO
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8, 1853.
Flour, per bbl., $5,50
White Whout, per bu., 1,20 •
Red 44 " " 1,15
Clover Send, 4 , 4 , 5.7 h .g nn
15 eta. per Ib,
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