HUNTINGDON JOURNAL Wednesday Morning, March 15, 1854 — WILiIAIII BREWSTER, Editor. CIRCULATION 1000. Notice. The undersigned has purchased the Journal and all moneys now due for subscription have been transferred with it, and are pay able to me. For advertisements inserted for a limited time, if one heifer more than one half of the time has transpired, tho whole amount is to be settled with Mr. Glasgow; if cue-half of the time has not elapsed at this date, settlement is to be made with me. This notice is given to those having accounts in the books, so that they may know with whom set tlement is to be made. WILLIAM BREWSTER. Feb. 24, '34. New Advertisements. We invite the attention of our readers to our advertising columns. See Card of Samuel S. Smith. Valuable Personal Property for sale at Mill, by Mrs. Elizabeth Buchanan. Regis. ter's Notices, by M. F. Campbell. Sheriff's Sales and Proclamations, by Sheriff Greenland. Fresh Garden Seeds, by J. Bricker. Petitions for License, &c. we_ The absence of the editor accounts for the lack of editorial,interesting reading matter, &c., in this week's paper. star Messrs. Maguire and Gwin, of the Pa. Legislature, and Hon. John McCulloch, M. C., will please accept our thanks for continued fa• yore. bar The Whig State Convention assembles at Harrisburg to-dny t to place in nomination a State ticket. A MATIOGANY BaIDGE.—One of the bridges built by the Nicaragua Transit Company, on the road leading from Lake Nicaragua to San Juan del Sud, is made entiro of mahogany. 1e... David Jewell, the convicted murderer at Pittsburg, who was recently respited by Gov. Bigler, is to be hung on Friday the 24th inst. WWI B. Gough gets $l2OO a month for lecturing in Great Britain, and it is said the Scotch association he works for make a good thing out of it. ...._ lOW Statistics, carefully prepared, demon. strata that scarcely one-fourth of the inhabit. ants of Philadelphia are regular church-goers. In Boston it has been ascertained thatone-half of its inhabitants are stated worshippers. SUPPLIES OF WArmt.—The city of Paris is supplied daily with twenty-two millions of gal lons, London forty-five millions, Boston ten millions, New York thirty millions, and Phila delphia fifteen millions. TUE k ARM JOURNAL.-1110 Blinn number is now on our table. It will boar comparison -with any preceding number of this famous journal that has been issued. It is one of the best and largest Monthly Agricultural Publics• tions in the Union. Farmers, subscribe for it. Price only ONE DOLLAR, in advance. THE PEOPLES' JOURNAL—The March num ber of this excellent and useful periodical is on our table. It is embellished with Sixty-one Engravings, illustrative of the subjects treated. The price of this valuable journal is compara tively nothing, when the size and usefulness of it is taken into consideration. Price, $1 per year, or 50 cents a volume. • REA_ The Democratic State Convention met at Harrisburg on Wednesday last, and re-nom inated Gov. Bigler—five votes being cast for Hon. Thomas S. Bell. Judge Black was unan imously re-nominated for Supreme Judge. For Canal Commissioner, Henry S. Mott, of Pike county, was nominated on 2nd ballot. He re ceived 83 votes, out of 131—George Scott (the next highest) receiving 20 votes, and the re mainder scattering. Resolutions were adopted re-affirming the principles of the Baltimore Platform. • Kr A curious panic was caused at Sau Francisco some time since, by a rumor that the Express and Banking house of Adams & Co. had failed The holders of their receipts and other paper made a run which coptinued all day, the office being kept open until midnight. The amount drawn out is variously stated be tween $400,000 and $900,000; and the next day the credit of the house was better than ever. MINT OPERATIONS FOR FEBREART.--ThO to tal deposit of gold at the U. S. Mint, for the mouth of February, was $2,614,000, against $4,215,570 for the month of January. The gold coinage is wholly in double eagles, and to the amount of $3,085,940. The silver bullion deposited last month amounted to $1,166,000, against $lOB,OOO, in the month of January. OUR TRADE WITII LIBERIA:A letter from Liberian merchant, received in New York, says: "Unless I get a vessel to connect with us, to insrue to me regular supplies, and bring emigrants as well as frieght, I must quit busi ness with America, as the foreigners are about to monopolize the entire trade of our coast, by Supplying colonists and Africans with goods, paid for in palm oil and catnwood, to the great injury of our merchants." Premiums of Babies. The Southern Central Agricultural Associa• tion of Georgia have awarded the following premiums on babies at their next Fair. We are at a loss to know what branch of Agricul ture or Mechanic Arts these premiums come under. The Fine Arts, we presume: Ist premium. Silver pitcher, $5O, for the handsomest and finest baby two years old. 2nd premium. Silver pitcher, $l5, for the handsomest and finest baby one year old. 3rd premium. Silver goblet, $lO, for the handsomest and finest baby two months old. IMES.G.3II. ROBRIIT Anmsraim, editor of tho Washington Union, died in that city on the 22d ult. aged G 4 years. Ho wee the bosom friend of ? Oen. Jackson, and the Old Hero at his death bequeathed him his sword.. He was Consul to Liverpool under tho administration of President Polk, who gave him liberty to choose any post in his gift. He was a gallant soldier and distinguished himself on several oc casions. What Ruined Cuba 1 The Citizens, John Mitchel's newspaper, of New York, having penned a long and random article, rather more remarkable for ignorar.ce and imagination, than for truth or good logic, in relation to the want of vitality or nationality of Cuba; the New York Mi rror, the editor of which has 'seen the length and breadth of the island, gives the following "solid" paragraph: "We will tell the "Citizens," in a word, what has crushed this beautiful island—what has chained and despoiled this."fair Andromeda," is Ronianism—the same vampire that has sucked the lifeblood from the heart of his own poor, emaciated Erin. And setting all other questions aside, political, geographical and commercial, we protest against annexing to these free United States, such a mass of be. nighted fanatical Popery, as presses, like an incubus, upon the bleeding breast of "the ever faithful Island of Cuba." The Boston Bee says, "if annexation brings Popery, we say refuse now and forever. It has cursed Cuba—it has cursed Mexico—it has cur sed Spain, Italy, Germany, almost every king dom in Europe. It is cursing us and ours. It is binding itself, snake-like, around the so cial structure, the school, the government.— Against the influence of such we cannot be too watchful, or too working. Dr. Gardiner. The conviction and subsequent suicide of Dr. Gardiner, who, our readers will remember, has been under trial for nearly three years past, at Washington, on charges of fraud upon the government, by deceptive and fraudulent claims for losses in Mexico, have awakened a very gen. eral disposition to pursue the investigation and to hold all parties concerned to a strict access. lability. The Washington Star sayi: The ends of public justice require, if there be laws which may authorize such an investi gation, that all such persons implicated in the original case be prosecuted to the end. Their turn comes next. The more reclamation of the fraudulently obtained money, which has been enjoined in the hands of third parties, we apprehend, has not been the main object of the Government's proceedings; though that follows the verdict Andered yesterday. The main pur pose was to make an example of this flagrant transaction. The law's hand has fallen hard, indeed, upon the nominal principal. Those who use him, however, yet go "unwhipt of jus tire." Shall they escape much longer? On the Gardiner award, $428,750 was fraud ulently abstracted from the Treasury; $238,000 of which has been enjoined—to be probably returned into the Treasury. The deceased, Dr. George A. Gardiner, also drew from the Trea sury $153,000 on the claim of Dr. H. Mears, 83,000 of which went directly to his own en dowment. Mears, who is in Mexico, having been indicted, boldly admits that his claim was a shameless fraud, and unblushingly defies the Government of the United States, there being no extradition convention or treaty between the two governments, under which he can be demanded of Mexico for trial under indictment in this country. Sugar in Cuba and Louisiana. Mr. E.J. Fortstall, of N. 0., has furnished some information in relation to the sugar cul ture of Cuba and Louisiana, from which we learn that irrespective of the recent advance in the value of slaves, the capital invested in tho culture of the cane in Louisiana may very safe. ly be placed at the suns of $126, 929,000. The total crop of sugarin Cuba in 1840, was 321,636,000 lbs. In 1811, was 324,876,800 lbs. The iugar crop of Louisiana in 1840, was 119,947 hlls., or 119,947,000 lbs., and fur 1841, 120,000 hlids.. or 120,000,000 lbs. The crop of Cuba in 1093, has been stated in round numbers at 600,000,000 lbs. The crop of Louisiana, in 1853, as shown above, was equal to that of Cuba in 1840, say 321,939 hhds., or 321,931,000 lbs., and for 1854, will probably reach 400,000,000 lbs. The consumption of sugar in the U. S. for 1840, was estimated at 350,000,000 lbs., and for 1853, is estimated as 745,000,000 lbs.; of which, including what was grown in Louisiana, Texas and Florida, and the maple sugar, it mny be safely estimated at least one-half was of domestic production and the balance of for eign growth. Pennsylvania Cities and Towns. The United States Census of 1850 furnishes us the following statement of the population of the cities, towns and villages in this State, which will be found useful for reference: Pittsburg, 81,438 Lancaster, 12,209 Harrisburg, 7,831 Beaver, &c., 6,934 Norristown, 6,024 Carbondale, 4,945 Columbia, 4,140 Danville, 3,302 West Chester, 3,172 Lewistown, 2,733 Phoenixville, 2,670 Meadville, 2,579 Hollidaysburg, 2,439 Union, 2,333 Honesdale, 2,263 Gettysburg, 2,180 Schuyl. Haven, 2,071 St. Clair, 2,061 Philadelphia, 408,7621 Reading, 15,734 Easton, 8,761 Pottsville, 7,515 York, 6,863 Erie, 6,830 Carlisle, 4,581 Pittston, 4,049 Chamhersburg, 3,325 Tamaqua, 3,080 Wilkesbarre, 2,723 Washington, 2,662 Bristol, 2,570 Brownsville, 2,369 New Castle, 2,401 Lebanon, 2,148 Port Carbon, 2,142 Marietta, 2,099 Lewisburg, 2,012 This list embraces all in the State with a poput tants or more. he towns and villages ition of 2,000 inhabi• More Heroism. There are few instances, in the record of ac tual life, of greater heroism than that shown by Mr. Daggett, of Holmes' Hole, in the assis tance rendered to the crew and passengers of the ill-fated barque Elizabeth, which went ashore off Mace Point .Light On the 26th of December. Mr. Daggett was the pilot, but owing to the tremendous gale, which was ac companied by a furious snow storm, ho was unable to prevent the loss of the vessel. Sev eral of the crew perished. The captain, mate, a boy, and an ;Irishman were saved. The captain's wife and child were on board. When the vessel struck, the waves broke over her so that there was no safety in the cabin. Mr. Daggett advised Capt. Stout and his wife to wrap themselves up as warmly as they could, and go up into the rigging, and told them that he would put the babe into a "comfort" and bring it up to them. While he was engaged. in this humane occu pation, and as be was ascending the gangway, he met Captain S. and his wife returning to the cabin, saying, they "might as well die ono way as another." Just then a sea broke over the deck and wet them all, from the effects of which the child soon died. Having deposited the body below, Daggett again urged Capt. S. and his wife to go into the rigging, and accompanying them, lashed them to it. Mrs. Stoat wits very wet, and her limbs soon began to freeze, when Mr. Daggett commenced rubbing them, caring for her rath er than himself, until his own feet were badly frozen. Seeing that they must all perish if they remained on the vessel, he told the cap tain that their only chance was in swimming ashore; and taking Mrs. S. on his arm, he swam ashore, carefully plunging under each heavy sea, which threatened to sepemto them. The captain and the Irishman also swam ashore, and the latter is attempting to draw Mrs. S. from the water, as Mr. D. reached the hod with her, pulled otr her hood, which Mr. D. immediately replaced with his own cap, leaving his head exposed to the fury of the storm.-- Mrs. S. died during the night, the rest were eared, but all were more or lees frozen. Mr. Daggett froze his cars, part of hie head, and hid feet, but is now convalescent. coutdn't dant—it; man with the ‘ltidrfcr. The Late Pcnsicn Frauds in Lancaster County. The Philadelphia Ledger of yesterday morn ing says, that since the allelc,l extensive frauds on the United States Government have been ferretted out, the city of Lancaster has lost two of its most prominent citizens. The parties referred to, are dodge D. P. Vondersmith and Gen. George Ford, men of wealth and of the highest standing in society heretofore.. The charges against these two men have already been mentioned, but the amount of frauds which it is alleged have been carried on for a period of nine years, has not been stated. The sum total of which the Government, it is alleg ed, has been defrauded, is said to be upwards of $70,000, of which, Judge Vondersmith is al leged to have been the principal receiver—his supposed share being full two-thirds. The names of the females used to perpetrate the frauds in the cases which have thus far been investigated, arm Mrs. Susan Long, Margaret Lytle, Magdalena Russell, Rebecca Hurley, live Gallaghan, Margaret Hartman, Maria -Gray, Juliana Parker, Christiana Watson, and Jane Winnere. On one of the claims, that of Mrs. Lytle, over $lO,OOO was paid on frauds. lent pension papers. In the cases given, the most careful search has been made for the par. ties or theirrelatives, and in several of them no trace can be found that they ever existed. In the case of Mrs. Susan Long, the reputed clai mant for a pension, which claim was issued in 1344 and presented by Judge Vondersmith for a period of 13 years, it is alleged, was paid to that person, as appears from the official re cords; and regularly from that time up to 1854, when fraud was suspected. The amount paid on this claim was about $B,OOO. The husband, Andrew Long, moved from Lancaster county to Virginia in 1804, where he and his wife soon after died, whithout leaving any decendants— at least such is the statement of the officers who have not been able to learn of there where. shouts, if there are any living. Two or three other cases are similar in their character. The mode of operating in these alleged frauds, is said to be most ingenius and decep tive. For instance, there is filed in the Pen. sion Bureau at Washington, letters from sever al distinguished Pennsylvanians recommending the consideration of the claims on the govern. ment, at the solicitation of the persons impli cated in the frauds, in whose integrity the par ties prevailed upon to ask the aid of govern. ment for alleged services renderedehad the full est confidence. Among the gentlemen thus villainously and shamefully outraged and im posed upon, are James Buchanan, Simon Cameron and J. Strohm—all well and• favora bly known throughout the State and Country. Among the names forged, are those of Judge Schroffer, Post Master Reigart, Alderman Musser, and other respectable citizens of Lan caster, as has appeared since the defendants were taken into custody. It was before Judge Long they were taken on a writ of habeas cor pus, .d was admitted to bail in $2OOO, after the strongest remonstrance had been made by Marshall Wynkoop against taking such limi ted bail. Yet this was done by the Judge un der the conviction that the parties were inno cent of any such flagrant crimes as were charg ed against them. There were numerous other persons of like impressions with the Judge, and when the U. S. Marshal with Deputies Jahn Jenkins and Gco. IVynkoop made the arrest, much indignation was exhibited against the officers, none of the friends or acquaintances of Judge Vondersmith or Gen. Ford, believe ing the charges, nor are they yet prepared to think them trite. A delegation from Lancaster went to Wash ington and had an interview with President Pierce, with the hope of having the prosecu tion stopped, but without access. Several days after the defendants were ad. mitted to bail in $2,000 each, it was increased ssooo;and 'very readily obtained. Tuesday last was the time oppointed for a hearing be fore the United States District Court, but neither of the parties were present, hence the bail was forfeited, and bench warrants issued for their arrests. Marshal Wyekoop, and De puty Marshals Jenkins and Miller, unmeditely started in pursuit, of them. Miller went to Lancaster City, while the others went to New York and Boston, fearful, from certain repre sentations, they were about to leave the coun try. Nothing has been heard of either of them, except a rumor in New York that Ford took passage in the steamer Baltic fur Europe, on the 18th inst., and that Vonclersrnith had ta ken a steamer for a southern port. The alleged frauds have been undergoing an investigation during the past three months, by Deputy Marshal John Jenkins, who was ap pointed a special agent by the Secretary of the Interior nod Commission of Pensions, and through his instrumentality the parties were arrested. Important to Land• Holders. We presume that a very large portion of our land-holders are not aware of the stringent na ture of the law relative to the Recording of Deeds and Mortgages, &e., and the fewest num ber apprehend the inconvenience they may suf fer by neglecting to have such papers recorded within six MONTHS from the date of their exe cution, or, as the laws says in so many words, they . shall be adjudged fro:tangent and void against a subsequent purchaser or mortgage, who has complied with the provisions of the law. The following is a section of the Act of 28th, May, 1775: 8. No deed or mortgage, or defensible deed in the nature of a mortgage, hereatter to be made, shall be good or sufficient to convey or past any estate therein for life or years, unless such deed be acknowledged and approved, and recorded within six months after flee date there of where such lands lie. 'The first section of the Act of March 18, 1775,provides that all deeds and conveyances shal be recorded within six months after the execution of the same, and expressly declares that "every such deed and conveyance which 'shall not he proved and recorded as aforesaid, shall be adjudged frandtdent and void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for val uable consideration, unless such deed or con veyance ho recorded as aforesaid, before the proving and recording of the deed or convey ance under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim." It will a seen by the foregoing that every landholder or mortgagee should have his deeds or mortgages recorded in duo time and thus secure hiroselfagainst the stringent penalties im posed upon negli4ence.—Chambersburg Whig. Military Discipline and Religions Lib• A serious difference of opinion has arisen on a point of military discipline and religious lib erty between a general commanding a division of the army of Lyons, France, and a colonel of one of the divisions under him. The colonel marched the whole regiment in garrison at Bolfort to mass on Christmas Day, hav ing, however, according to one account, given previous notice that any man who, from religi ous scruples, might object, would not be coin polled to attend. The general of the district, Gen. Iteibell, who happens to he a Protestant, considered that the colonel had exceeded his authority, in calling his men to parade for the purpose of being marched in a body to any place of worship. He placed the colonel un der arrest for eight days, and caused an order of the day, stating his reasons, to be read at the head of the regiment. Tho colonel has ap pealed to the Minister of War. Meanwhile the matter is taken up with considerable warmth, as a religious party question, by the local jour nals.—Seen. Ltow Tintoons.--TWe learn from late French papers that the Imperial Superior Council of bridges and roads have made a favorable report on Vergnais' new east iron bridge. Two coin patties, a home and foreign have been formed. The home company has already built one after Vergnais' plan, which gives great satisfaction on account of be:ng cheap, easy to build strong mid durable. It makes a handsome, light ap pearance, judging from the model. Letters patent have been secured by the inventor in the United States, and it is worthy the attention of our railroad companies. List of Patents. loosed .front the United States Patent office,l for the week ending Fetntary 28,1854, dated Febuary 28, 1831. S. B. Batchelor, of Lowville, New York: For improvement in scythe fastenings. John W. Chittonden and William C. Mead, of Vevey, Indiana, For improved machine for splitting hoops. John. P. Conger, of Newark, New Jersey: For improvement in salt kilns. Lewis W. Culver, of Louisville, Kentucky: For improvement in seed• planters. Robert W. Davis, of Rodgersville, New York: For improvement in churns. A. K. Eaton, of New York, New York: For improvement in machines for pulverizing ores. Timothy D. Jackson, of New York, New York: Fur improvement in dies for making seamless metal tubes. Smith W. Bullock, of New York, New York: assignor to Stillman, Allen & Co., of same place: For improvement in quarts crushers. Michael M. Gray, of Philadelphia, Pennsyl vania: For improvement in railroad chair ma chines. Thomas D. Henson and kleorge Rohr, of Charlestown, Virginia: For improvement in seed planters. William Burnett and John Amsterdam, of Boston, Massachusetts: For improvement in the use of fusible disks in steam boilers. James Renton, of Newark, Now Jersey: For improvement in zinc white furnaces. Frank G. Johnson, of Brooklyn, New York: For table to hold bank notes when cut. ' A. B. Lyman, of New York, New York: For improvements in air engines. William Mcßride, of Bristoville, Ohio: For improvement in machines fur making bed James Pitts, of Lancaster, Massachusetts: For improvement in cotton picker cylinders. Joseph Sawyer, of South Itnyalston, Massa chusetts: For improved socket for bench hooks. - William Summer, of Worcester, Massachu setts: For improvement in organs. Solyman Bell, of Marseilles, Illinois: For improvement in harvesters. George A. Rollins, of Nashua, New Hamp shire: For improved tool-rest for turning lathes. John G. Snyder and Joseph Young, of Wheatfield township, Pennsylvania: For im: pr2yemet!t , in seed planters._ Linus Yale, of Newport New York: For inn projetnent in bank locks. Jacob Zook, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: For improved came for lathes. L. Otto P. Meyer, of Newport, Connecticut: For improvement in vulcanizing Milian-rubber, and other gums. James F. Brodhead, of Rondont, New York assignor to Thomas Bitch, of Napanock, New York: For improvement in forcep saw-sets. Stephen P. Ruggles, of Boston, Massachu setts: For improvedient in printing presses. Abijah Hall and Sylvanus . gturtevant, of South Paris, Maine: For improvrment in snow plows for railroads. • REISSUES'. Jonas Holmes and Epraim French, of Lee, Massachusetts: For improved process of manu facturing variegated roving; patented May 18 1852. William F. Ketchum, of Buffalo, New York: For improvement in grass harvesters; patten ted February 10,1852. Frederick Starr, of Rochester, New York: For cast iron legs for piano -fortes. Frederick Starr, of Rochester, New York: For cast iron pedal lyre for piano-fortes. ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENT. David Swartz, of Tom's Brook, Virginia: For improvement in plows; patented Tune 22, 1852. Scene in the 11. S. Senate. Information from Washington, states that after the adjournment of the Senate on last Thursday evening a week, scenes of furious ex citement occurred between Mr. Butler of South Carolina, and Mr. Walker of Wisconsin, be tween Messrs. Walker and Weller, between Messrs. Chase and Mason, and between Messre. Mason and Wade of Ohio. Mr. Wade made a furious, personal and vindictive speech against Mr. Mason, in reply to Mr. Mason's attack up on Mr. Chase, the most violent of the evening. Previous to this, menacing gestures had been observed between Senators. These disgraceful proceedings have grown out of the excitement upon the all engrossing Nebraska question.— Now, what kind of a report is the above, to go forth to the country, that the Senate of the U. States is the scene of -personal encounters be tween infuriated bullies, instead of the scene of dignified and able debates between Senators. How can the constituency of these Senators look up to the Senate with that respect and confidence which it commanded in its palmy days, when Webster, Clay and Calhoun, adorn ml its Halls. Such scenes are deeply mortify ing to every American citizen, and expose us to the ridicule and sneer of our jealous and watchful neighbors across the Atlantic.—Tele graph and Journal: Saved from the Destroyers A young lady of respectable parentage, edu cated, and gifted with many personal attrac tions, who has been residing for the last two years or more, in Dover, N. H., started, on Tuesday last, under the ears of a man well known in dover, for Cincinnati, Ohio, where her father now resides. He was to accompany her as far as Philadelphia, where a friend was to meet her. The young lady and her travel. ing companion arrived in Boston on Tuesday about noon,and stopped at the National House, she expecting to go direct to the Railroad sta tion for New York. Instead of this, she was left alone at the National House .for an hour or more, and from thence taken to a house of bad reputation in Endicott street. Here it was afterwards ascertained that her companion had engaged board for three days. Ho stated to her that important and unsuspected business would detain him for a day to two, in this city, and he had taken her to this quiet place, where she would be safe from intruders. At this she was much alarmed and requested to be sent back to Dover. Her companion refused so to do, and from that moment his designs were Apparent. Every inducement in his power was held out to effect her ruin without success. At a late hour on the same day, the police were informed of the rascality of this man. and the girl was rescued from his hands and the den of infamy into which she had been inveig. led. The man who made this attempt is about 30 years of age, and has a wife in New York. The girl is about 16 years old. Shocking Case of Destitution. The Manchester, (N. H.,) Mirror, relates the following case of destitution and want, caused by intemperance, which was recently discover. ed in Ilallsville, a small village in Manchester. The name of the family is not given. The Mirror says: "Last week, Friday, the neigh bors heard that death had entered their miser able dwelling, and on going in, they found an infant, born the night before. but just alive; and a child 3 years old had died the morning before; and another, 7 years old, quite sick, and also the mother. Upon looking around no food was found but d few cold boiled potatoes —not a stick of wood, save a little a poor man near, hearing of their distress, had brought in the night before from his own scanty pile.— From what they could learn, the family had lived mostly on meal, stirred up with water, and cooked in a spider, on the stove. Occa sionally, the father would get a hope that the meat had been cut off from, which, boiled, would give them fur a change, a broth. An old under bed, with one sheet, a cotton cover. lid, and two pieces of cotton cloth, tacked to gether, but no cotton between them, constitu ted the bed of the parents and child that died; whilst an old braided mat laid on the cords of a trundle-bed, and a piece of an old comforter for covering, has made up the bed for the old. est child through our severely cold winter." Da . ..Nebraska contains 136,700 sinarc miles and would make seventeen States as large as Massachusetts. Dreadful Marine Disaater=All on board 'fOit 7 fio - epTOne The coast of the Island of Barra, off the Western part of Scotland, lots been the scene of the total loss of the Liverpool ship W. H. Davis, Captain, Ceding, master, while on her voyage to New Orleans, with every soul on board (excepting one man) in all 30 persons. The ship had become unmanageable in the course of the recent fearful westerly gales, and in attempting, on the night of the 29th of Jan uary, to weather Barra head, she went ashore on the rocks of Vatersay, within a shoot dis tance of the spot where the Anne Jane, emi grant ship, was lost a few months since. The moment the ill-fated ship- touched the rocks, 'the master and crew took to the rigging, as their only chance of escape, expecting, no doubt, as the wreck heeled over, they would bp able to gain the rocks. In a few minutes the ship was dashed fo pieces, and the whole of the poor fellows fell amid the wreck and per ished. Only one escaped—the steward, a young man, named Robert William Ruchmere, of Liverpool. He took refuge on the bowsprit, and as the vessel went to pieces, ho sprang forward and'succeeded in reaching the rocks in safety, although very toughs bruised. He was. almost insensible when fissistance arrived the next morning. Several bodies- of the crew were discovered among the rocks by the fish ermen, who conveyed them to Vatersay for interment. Var. In the Court of Quarter • Sessions of Philadelphia, says the Pennsylvanian, on Mon day the 6th inst., James Robinson, Charles Darragh, John Robinson, James Parrott, and Robert Orr,4he five young men who were ar rested at a room in Fitzwater Street, near Broad, in which they met as the "Ringgole Institute," and who were subsequently ascer tained to be a band of desperate burglars, were tried and convicted of breaking into the house of Letitia Cooper,on Second Street,about two miles from the city. The articles stolen were recovered, except a silver watch. There are six or seven other bills against them. They were sentenced as fellows:—John Robinson, was sentenced to 9 years and six weeks; James Robinson, to 9 years and 6 months; Charles Darragh, to 9 years and 4 months; Robert Orr, to 10 years; and James Parrott, to 9 years and 7 mouths imprisonment in the. Penitentiary. The Judge said he had graduated their ten tence so that they would not all leave prison at the same time. The court-room was crowded with the young associates of these men. t e- Kalafat, of which so cinch has been said of late, is a town of two thousand houses. It is surrounded with walls, has a quarantine, a town hall, a custom house, three churches, and a cavalry barrack. It is the chief place of a sub•admtnistrator's district. The redoubts raised by the Turks are of great extent and very strong. They are partly raised on two high hills in the plains of KaWet, about a mile distant from each other, and have a nu. inerou.s artillery. All the neighboring country is commanded by these hills in such a way that no approach to the Danube can tie merle. In 1828 these hills were occupied and forti. by the Russiaus. Between Widdin and Kam fat the Danube is little less than a mile wide, and the course of it is very rapid. The island on which the Turks are fortified is situated near the left bank; it is partly covered with wood, and is defended by strong intrenchments is earth, bearing heavy artillery. Above \Yid din the Turks have constructed a new citadel according to all the rules of art.—Lon. Times. India Let out to Farm. "An Old Dealer in paper" publishes a letter in the London Times, in which he offers to supply the East India ompany with stationa ry as a free gift, if they will give him the amount saved by the extinction of the three stationary establishments at the three Presiden cies, which, he says, owing to the mismanage ment and swindling, are now productive of £20,000 loss annually. The writer has a friend "in the drug and chemical line," who is willing to make a similar offer for the supply of nu clical stores; and, in fact, he says, "a par ty of us have been thinking of offering to farm India altogether at a rent of £40,000,000 Btu ling annually—the total nett revenue at pres ent received from it being under £20,000,000 —giving a guarantee for the extinction of fam ines in ten years' time, and the completion of 200 miles of railway and half as much of ca nals annually, with a proportion of common thoroughfares, for the next twenty years." Rascality Among Seamen. Six sailors were recently sentenced in Liver pool to two months' imprisonment for robbing emigrants and their fellow seamen on board the packet ship Universe. The trial disclosed an organized plan of plunder which has been for months, if not fir years, in successful oper ation, and embraced a large number of conted. orates. The course of action has been to ship at Liverpool on different emigrant vessels in gangs of fuur to six each,.take every opportu nity to steal from the emigrants money, and all effects of any value; on reaching New York to join other ships bound for Liverpool, and in the same way plunder their passengers and crews. Their opportunities for mixing freely with the passengers in the steerage have enabled them to carry on this nefarious system to al most any extent. Fatal Aeoident--Extraordinary Present• ment. On Tuesday, Simeon C. Webster, formerly of Jericho, Vt., was caught by the belt of a driving shaft in a mill at Nashua, and instant ly killed—his neck having been broken and his body horribly mangled. Mr. Webster was in his twentieth year, and had been married about three months. We have learned, from a relative of Mr. Webster, that on the day of the accident Mrs. Webster was strongly impres sed with the idea that a terrible calamity was then to happen to her husband. She way ex ceedingly distressed, and weeping no if the event had already occurred, she expressed her convictions to the lady with whom she boarded. MN lady endeavored to calm her fears, and invited Mrs. Webster to her room. On the way, they observed from a window a crowd in the yard of the mill, and Mrs. Webster instant. ly exclaimed—" Simeon is dead I" Alas, it was true.— Vermont Watchman. A Remarkable Kam A New York letter to the Mobile Tribune says: There is a remarkable man connected with the custom house here—a Spaniard. His business is to receive and test money. Ho will pour the contents of an immense bag of gold and silver coin in a scale—for it is weighed, not counted—and in a trice announce the amount in dollars and cents. Then 'running his fingers through the shining pieces and ap plying his nose to thorn, immediately takes out every counterfeit coin. He has never been know to make a mistake in pronouncing money good or had; and his infallible instinct for detecting the spurious metal, is located in his olfactory organs. The Fate of Genial, Who, that has ever read the clever sketches of Forest Life, and the popular poems of Charles Fenno Hannay, will not be pained to learn that this once gifted el4ll agonies, and popu lar American author, Di now an inmate of the Peansylvanin State Lunatic Asylum, neap ilar rislirg.,—a pitiful (Mile of incurable insanity! Mr. llotfm an was brought there Wine six weeks since, from one of the Maryland Institutions.— Although at times he appears dreadfully exci ted yet a ray of reason will momentarily flit through his shattered intellect, and, as the ale. quent language of a gifted soul falls from his lip: and reaches the ear of the awe•strickcn visitor, a tear of sympathy will voluntarily ga. di, in his eye for the fate of.t7te unfortunate Itten;acl Prom the Nashville Whig, Feb. 21st Horrible Brutality. _ Trettteco two and three weeks ago. Gideon Riggs, of Riggs' Cross Roads, in Williamson county, in this State, suspecting n man named Miller, a chair-maker by trade, who lived on his premises, of having stolen two hundred and fifty dbllnrs out. of a.drawer in his house, seized hint, took him up stairs, and there con• fined him chained; from Sunday until Thursday night, when he was taken down and placed in the hands of three men, two of whom were na med Anderson and the other Archibald Hughes, and 'carried by them to the woods, where lie was hung up seven times, and beaten in the. most frightful manner, in order to make him him give up the money—he persisting all the time that he knew nothing of it, and beseech ing them to shoot him at once, and thus put an end to his sufferings. They stripped him, and beat him with branches torn from a beech tree, some of which were afterwards found, all bloody, on the ground. The night was one of the coldest of the semen. After hanging him np, and beating and lacerating and torturing him with truly Indian barbarity, they carried him to the house of a neighbor, and throwing him over into the yard there left him, with the hope and expectation; it is said, that he would he torn into pieces by the dogs of the place, which were known to he exceedingly fierce. Fortunately, however, the dogs were away, and Miller, although scarcely alive, was able to make himself heard by the inmates of the house, who kindly took him in, and offered such relief as it was in their power to furnish. His feet and hands were badly frost-bitten, and parts of his body horribly lacerated. Ho lies now in a very precarious condition. One of the Andersons is in jail. The other with Hughes and Riggs, has fled. We hear, but know not how to believe it, and hope it may not be true—Riggs, instead of taking Lim be fore an examining court; ns was his duty, took a bond of a thousand dollars fromdiim for • his appearance, and then let him go free. Riggs, immediately sold his land and "put out," ta• king his negroes with him. ' We undaStand that Miller was entirely inno• cent, and that the money had been stolen by Riggs' own negroes. Brutal Murder of a Woman, The Waynesburg Messenger ; of the 20th says: Wo nro indebted to Dr. I. N. Owen, of New Freeport, in Aleppo township, in this county, fdr the following particulars of a brutal mur der, perpetrated on the Bth lost, within a mile and a half of that place 'on the person of an aged woman named Gump. The Dr. says that on the morning of the Bth, between the hours of 5 and 6 o'clock ho was called upon by John Gump to visithis mother, who had received a frightful woundfrom an un known hand all hour or two before. On going to the house found the unfortunate woman ly ing on her left side in bed, with her frice to , wards the wall, in the same position, apparent. ly, as she had went to sleep the evening be. fore. There was a cut on the right side of the head, commencing a little back and above the right eye and running back.five inches. This cut was evidently inflicted with an axe, and in the middle, it penetrated at least two inches in to the brain. The nxe was found on the porch with blood, brains,and grey hairs still ad. hering to it. Mrs. Guinn. although unit rely insensible,in this condition livedabout eighteen hours after the wound had been inflicted. Sev eral persons in the neighborhood were respec tively suspected of committing this dreadful crime, but suspicion seemed to settle upon Henry Gump, a son of the murdered woman, who slept in the same room with her, and up• on whom she depended for her support. Ile was arrested and taken before a magistrate for examination, but the evidence against him was not deemed sufficient by the justice to warrant his commitment, and he was set at liberty.— Mrs Gump was about seventy years of age. The Water Buffalo, The water buffalo is an animal much in use at Singapore for a draught. It is a dull. heavy looking animal—slow at work, and I think, disgusting in appearunce,but remarkable for its sagacity and attachment to its native keepers. It lins,however,a . particular antipathy ton Euro pean and will immediately detect him in a crowd. Its dislike to and its courage in attack ing the tiger, is well known all over India.— Not long ago, as a Malayan boy, who was em ployed by his pp ea ts in herding some water buffaloes, was d g his charge home by the border of the ju „e; a tiger made a sudden spring, and seizing the lad by the thigh, was dragging him off, when two old Buffuloes,hear 'jug the shriek of distress from the well known voice of their little attendant, turned round and charged with the usual rapidity. The tiger, thus closely pressed, was obliged to drop his prey to defend himself. While one buffalo fought and sucessfully drove the tiger away, the other kept guard over the wounded boy.— Later in the evening, when the anxious father, alarmed, came out with attendants to seek bis child, he found that the whole heard, with the exceptions of the two old buffaloes, had disper sed themselves to feed, but that they were still there—one standing over the bleeding body of their little friend, while the other kept watch on the edge of the jungle for the return of the tiger. For the Journal. Miscellaneous Enigma. Composed of 16 letters. My 7,6, 5 is justly to be dreaded. 1,8, 3, 11, 4is a Food qualification. • " 3, 12, 11 is essential to animation. " 9, 11, 2is a science much practiced. " 10, 3, 15 is a mechanical process. " 13, 14, 15, 5, 16 is a powerful incentive. " 15, 6, 4, 5, 1 are much used in commerce. My whole is one of the United States. Shirleysburg, Pa. *Answer to last week's enigma—" The Father of his Country." ~~1C~,..~W175~S ~'S!'~io HUNTINGDON. March 14, 1854. Flour per bbl., $B.OO a $8,25 Clover Seed, per bu., 7,00 Red Wheat, per be., 1,70 White Wheat, per bu., 1,80 Rye, per bu 80 Corn, per bu 75 Buckwheat, per bu '5O Oats, per bu 44 Flaxseed. per bu 1 00 Slay, per ton 8 50 Butter, per lb., 18 PHILADELPHIA, March 13, 1854, Flour per 1,1,1 $8 00 Corn" Meal ' 3 75 White Wheat, per bu 190 Red, Corn, Oats, 45 BALTIMORE. March 13, 1854. Flour per big $8 25 Corn Meal 3 75 White Wheat, per bu 1 95 Red, 1 90 . Corn, 95 Oats, 48 r POISONING. 49 Thousands of Parents who use Vetrmifuge com posed of castor oil, Calomel, &c., are not aware, that while they appear to benefit the patient, they aro netutillY laying the foundations for It monies of diseases, snob as salivation, less of sight, weak ness oflinths, &c. In another column will ho fotind the advertise ment of llobensitek's Medicinns, to which wo ask the attention of all direetly'interosted in their own as well as their Childron's health. In Liver Complaints and all disorders arising from those of a hillious typo, should make use of the only genuine medicine, liohensack's Liver Pills. "Be not Deceived," lint ask for Ilobensnek's , Worm Syrup and Liver Pills, and observe thnt ends has the .igontoro of the Proprietor, .1. N. HOBENSACWS, as am else are ;ninth,. . Vie most extraordinary discovery in the World irth'e Clreut Arabian Remedy for Han and Beast. ' n. u. vAnnzLes CELEBRATED ARABIAN LINIMENT EVERY FAMILY should. at once procure a bottle alb° grhat Arabian remedy for man and beast, called 11. G. FARRELL'S ARA BIAN LINIMENT. It allays the most intents pains in a few minutes, restores the synovial ilia or joint water, and thus cures stiff joints: it penetrates the flesh to the bone, relaxes con tracted cords, cures rheumatism and palsied limbs of twenty years' standing; also tumors, swelled neck, enlargement of the glands, and is the best medicine for ailments of cattle over discovered, curing sweetly, spavins, splint, and all diseases whirls require an external applica tion. - Sun .Pain oflo years' standing cured by IL G. ParreWS Arabian Liniment. Mr. H. G. Farrell.—Dear sir: I bad been afflicted with the "Sun Pain" for the last ten years, and could never get relief except by bleeding; but by the use of 11. G. Farrelfs Ara bian Liniment, applied over the temples about three or four times a day, it was entirely remo ved, and I have felt nothing ef it since. I went into the stable one night, to apply it to a horse's sore leg, and being very lance he stumbled and fell against my legs, crushing and bruising them so badly that they turned black as my hat, rendering them powerless. I applied your Liniment, and was well enough in a few days to go about again as usual. I also crushed my finger in a shocking manner, by letting a back log full upon it; your Liniment soon heal ed it up, though. JOHN B. M'GEE. La Salle precinct, Peoria co., 111., Feb, '6, '49. [Esq. Barker, of Nilo Canton, _lll,, says:] Mr. H. G. Farrell's Arabian Liniment hag cured some bad cases hero, which every other remedy bad failed in; one was a white swelling and contracted cords in the leg of a boy twelve years old. The leg had withered away, and was so contracted that he had no use of it.— Three doctors had tried their shill upon it in vain, and he leas fast sinking to the grave, when the boy's father was induced to try H. G. Farrell's Arabian Liniment. Before the first bottle was used up he came to Mr. B.'s store, and the first words he said were, "Mr. Barker, I want all that Liniment you have in the store; the one bottle I got did my boy more good than all that had ever been done before." That boy is now well and hearty, and has free use of his legs. It is good for sprains, bruises, cuts, burns and swellings. Look out for Counter/ iii The public are cautioned against another counterfeit, which lots lately made its appear ance, called W. B. Farrell's Arabian Liniment, the most dangerous of all the counterfeits, be cause his having the name of Farrell, many will buy it in good faith, without the knowledge that a counterfeit exists, and they will perhaps only discover their error. when the spurious mixture has wrought its evil effects. The genuine article is manufrctured only by 11. G. Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, and wholesale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illinois, to whom all applications fur Agencies must be addressed. Be sure you got it with the letters H. G. before Farrell s, thus —H. G. FARRELL'S—and his signature on the wrapper, all others are counterfeits. Sold by ihos. Bead & Son, Huntingdon, A. E. Sellers .4; Fleming Brothers wholesale, Pitts- burg, and by regularly authorised agents throughout the. United States. Price 2 . 5 and 50 cenisand $1 per bottle. AGENTS WANTED in every town, village and hamlet in the United States, in which ono is not already established. Address N. G. Far. roll as above, accompanied with good referevois as to character, responsibility, &c. Fehunry 15, '54.-It. GARDEN SEEDS For sale at the Cheap Store at J. BRICKER VOTERS, ATTENTION! rpnE subscriber respectfully announces to the independent voters of the Borough of Hun tingdon'that he is Candidate for the office of Constable at the ensuing election. If elected, be pledges himself to perform the duties of said of fies*with fidelity. SAMUEL S. SMITH. March 15, 1854. HIGHLY IMPORTANT Valuable Property at Public Sale. WILL be sold at Public Outcry, at the late residence of Col. William Buchanan, Mill Creek, Brady township, Huntingdon county, on Tuesday the 21st, and Wednesday the 22nd of March, the following personal property belong ing to the said dec'd., to wit: A large and handsome assortment of House hold Furniture, consisting of Bedsteads, Beds, and Bedding, -elegantly worked Coverlids, Blankets, &c., &c., two Bureaus, Chairs, about 160 yards of excellent Carpets of various pat terns, also, n large collection of Ornamental China and Porcelain, and four kitchen and par lor Stoves, also, one man and one lady's Saddle. Also, about 12 bushels of Potatoes, 4 Hogs, and smoked meat, about 2000 Rail Road Ties, 300 saw logs, • and a lot of boards, of various sizes and qualities, 1 Wind Mill, 1 Log IVagon, 1 new Plough, 1 one horse Wagon, 1 cross-cut Saw, 1 Grinding Stone, and an excellent Plat form Scales, also, a lot of Iron, in pigs and blooms, together with many other articles too numerous to mention. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock, when the conditions will be made known. ELIZABETH BUCHANAN, 41dininistralrix to Estate of Col. B'. Buchanan. March 15, 1854.-Iw. LAMATIO?I, W uctin.ta by a precept to me directed , dated at Huntingdon, the 2lit day of January, A. D. 1874, under the hands and seals of the Hon. George Taylor, President of the Court of Common Pleas, Oyer and Terminer, and gener al jail delivery of the 24th judicial district of Penn- Sylvania composed of Huntingdon, Blair and Cam bria, and the Hon. Thomas Stuart and Jona than McWilliams, his associntes, Judges of the county of Huntingdon, justices assigned, appoint ed, to hear, try and determine all anti every in dictments made or taken for or concerning all crimes, which by the laws of the State aro made capital or felonies of death and other offences crimes and misdemeanors, which have been or shall hereafter ba committed or perpetrated for crimes aforesaid—l am commanded to intik° pub lic proclamation throughout my whole bailiwick that a Court of Oyer and Terminer, of Common Pleas and Quarter sessions, will be held at the Court House in the Borough of Huntingdon, on the second Monday (and 10th day) of April, next, and those who will prosecute tho said pri soners be then and there to prosecute them as it shall bo just, and that all Justices of the Peace, Coronors and Constables within said county be then and there in their proper persons, at 10 o'clock, A. M. of said day, with their records, in quisitions, examinations and remembrances, to do those things which to their Oleos respectfully appertain. Dated at Huntingdon the 21st day of January, in the Tear of our Lord 1854, and the 78th year of American Independence. JOSHUA GREENLAND, Sheriff. March 15, 1854. OILVKR Butter Knives, and Sult Slam's, at 0 E. Snare's Cheap Jewelry Store, loobushels ()lOW° Cloverseed, just mar ad and for sale by J. & W. SAXTON. AFRESH supply of Gingham, Chock, and Sharnbray, just received and fur sale by .1. & W. SAXTON. -„----- 4• l l to b f y Cud Fish, just received and lo 500 J. & W. SAXTON. •- Ale of Burning Fluid tbr sole at GEO. GWIN. superior era° the store of D15141i WIIITE LEAD, just received end fur _U sale by 1 b W. SAXTON. 50 .!I t tn ie ß s t r l, S e a rxtra I'amil~ Flour fur sole • • 10 DOE ZN Ante;' Nu. 2 Shovels,i.i re,ri nu' owl fur sale by .1. .54 W. S 4 XTON. •
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