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
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ber of this excellent and useful periodical is on
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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
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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.
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4• l l to b f y Cud Fish, just received and lo
500 J. & W. SAXTON.
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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
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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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