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The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05

'ow citZens-of those who know them
best, and have known them longest.
We appeal also 10 our fellow citizens,
and especially TO the Democratic party, to
keep constantly In view the great import
ance OF electing honest and well-tried men
to represent US in The State Legislatures;
men who will advocate the usages which
have made our glorious principles trirnn-
phant; who viii participate in the regular
party caucuses; and who Will sternly abide
by the nominations made by the majority.
4 United States Senator is TO be elected
in January for SIX years next ensuing the
4th of March, 1851, and it is due to our
State that such Democrat shall be cho-
sen as will prove to be equal to the lofty
responsibilities of the position, and faith
iul representative OF the we'll known opin-
ions of the Democratic party.
1t must not be forgotten, fellow citizens,
that however ample are the causes plead
ing in favor of the success of the Demo
cratic party, and however odious the po-
litical principles TO which we are all OPP
posed, victory cannot be attained without
vigorous and harmonious effort on our
part. Do not let us suppose that the
Whig party is disorganized by recent
events and recent exposures. We have
seen a majority of Wings on the floor of
Congress voting TO sustain the Galphin
in!amy; and we must not be astonshed to
see the Whig leaders in our State, trying,
III the face of receut occurrences, TO OBJ
tain the mastery in the coming contest. 1t
is now as ii always has been, a contest
between the two antagonist parties; be-
tween the friends of aristocratc doctrines
and expensive government, and the advo-
Gates Of Democratic doctrines and frugal
government; and, however disastrously
the fortune of the day may eventuate TO
the first, it will retain nothing of lis ancient
vigor to contend against the last a every
fitting opportunity
Therefore, fellow. Democrats, we invoke
you TO harmony and TO concert. In sew
eral of the connties differences exist which
prudence and patriotism may soon COM
pose. VIII not our political friends in
those counties pause and ponder upon the
importance of sinking all personal differ
ences for the good of the common cause.
Remember if these fueds are left opening
and fostering, you may have Wings i'll
your State offices; a Whig United States
Senator; and Wing Congressional dele
CATION, which, In the event of the next
Presidential contest going into the House,
would throw the vote of Democratic Penn
sylvania against the Democratic candidate.
How utterly humiljated those will be,
who, failing 10 exercise Il disinterested
spirit, may aid TO give victory 10 our adj
versarics, and who IN the hour of Demo
cratic defeat may be. held justly accounta-
bic for the fatal consequences! We again
invoke our political brethren to exercise
all prudence and care-we invoke all cam
didates 10 remember that the cause is
higher than mere men-and, if our coun-
sells shall be needed, we may look forward
to triumph worthy of the best days of
the glorious Democratic Stale of Pennsyl-
vanla.
JOHN HICKMAN, Chairman.
L. ]. p. STOKES, Secretary.
EDWARD MAYNARD, Sec'y pro tenn.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05
JOHN HICKMAN, Chairman.
L. ]. Z. STOKES, Secretary.
EDWARD MAYNARD, Scc'Y pro tenn.
lie Had Him There,

The following sqrib was "perpetrated'
IN one of the public schools in Philadel-
phia county; am not aware of its ever
having appeared in print, and il is TOO good
TO be lost:
1t seems that d few hours exemption
from mischief had greatly enlarged the
bump of ''treachery" in the upper stories
of the young 'sidcas,' and took and smear
ell the balustrades from top to bottom with
mud, and when the master came in he
very naturally laid his hand on it when he
mounted the stairs. He was soon aware
of his sad mishap, but said nothing about
it until the scholars had all been called
in and had taken their seats, when he ac-
quainted them of the fact, and said he
would give any one five dollars who
would inform him who had had hand
in it.
At this moment up jumped a little red
headed urchin who said-''ThIr, you thay
you'll give any one five dollarth who IL tell
who had hand in il!'
"Yes."
"Now, thir you'll not whip me, will
you!"
Mo
"Well, thir' wow you wont whip
"You young scamp, I'll lick you if you
don't tell pretty soon.
.Thir v-o-u-Oh, | don't like to.
..Go on, or | shall skin YOU aliyer'
.Well thir, yOu had hand ia ar
The master gave in and forked over
Yan. Blade.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05

Matrimonial FeHcity.-"My love"
SAYS Mrs Foozle to her husband, "oblige
me with $50 to-day, to purchase new
Dress "Shan't do any such thing, Ag-
nes-you called me bear yesterday!
Law. love, that was nothing; | only
meant by it you were very fond OF hug
ging." ~ ou're saucy little puss, (sound
heard like the explosin of pistol,) but
here's $50
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05

~ Under all circumstances, "laugh
dull care away!" Don't be in hurry to
get out OF the world; il is very good
world, considering the creatures who in
habit il, and is about as full of fun as it
can be. You never saw a man cut his
throat with broad grin on his face; it is
good preventive against suicide.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05

Curious CircumSta,ce- While Mr..
Simon w. Cumming, OF this town, was
laboring in the field few days ago, he
felt something hard pass from the inside
of his nose into his mouth which he i'm
mediately spit out, and upon examination
it proved to be brass button about half
an inch in diameter. His parents and
others we'll recollect the time when he got
up his nose; it was in the month of Aug
ust, 1888, he then being only four years
old. From that time forward 1t caused
him no trouble until last winter, when he
had fall which Jared his head consider
ably, and as he thinks, partially dislodged
the button and was the ultimate cause of
its finding its way out, after being ten
ant of his nose for about seventeen years.
The button is covered with kind of bony
substance which gives II a rough ragged
appearance. 1t has been carefully pre-
served and can be examined by any that
feel disposed TO doubt the correctness of
the above WiLiamalliC Ne
dium.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05
The EiYR CradlPS.

A man who had recently become a vo-
tary TO Bacchus, returned home one night
in an Intermediate stale of booziness; that
is TO say he was comfortably drunk, but
perfectly conscious of his unfortunate sit
uation. Knowing that his wife was
asleep. he decided to attempt gaining his
bed without disturbing her, and by sleep
ing off his inebriation, conceal the fact
from her altogether. He reached the door
of his room without creating much distur
bance, and after Illuminating few minutes
on the matter, he thought he could reach
the bedstead, and hold on to it while he
slipped out Of his apparel. Unfortunately
for his scheme, a cradle stood in a direct
line with the bedpost about the middle Of
the floor. OF course when his shins came
in contact with the aforesaid piece of fur
niture, he pitched over it with perfect
looseness; and upon gaining an erect po-
sition, ere an equilibrium was established,
he went over it backward in an equally
summary manner. Again struggled to his
feet and went headforemost over the
bower of infant happiness. At length,
with the fifth fall his patience became ex-
hausted, and the object was yet to be
overcome, In desperation he cried oui to
his sleeping partner-''Wife! wifel how
many cradles have you got in the house!
I've fallen over FIVE, and here's another
afore me!'' Suffice it 10 say that his wife
was by this time completely awake, and
a curtain lecture ensued, which rang in
his ears for many a succeeding day.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05

UThe Legislature of Wisconsin have
made it penal offence for the owners OF
land to allow the Canada thistle TO go TO
seed thereon,
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05

Industry is the great moralizer OF
man. The great art of education, there
fore, consists in knowing how 10 occupy
every moment in well-directed and useful
activity of the youthful powers.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-09-05
Startling News from The South.
WASHINGTON, Aug. %

An insurrection in which 400 slaves
were to be engaged, was discovered at
Lowndes county, Alabama, last week
The rendevouz of the negroes was fired
upon by the whites, killing one slave and
wounding twenty others. The slaves then
fed. 1t is said the slaves were melted to
the insurrection by an Abolitionist. for
whose apprehension a reward of $4,000
has been offered. Large parties are in
pursuit of him. He is supposed TO have
fled towards Charleston. A general mas
sacre is supposed TO have been intended.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14
Whole Number 77s.
LAMESrAsLE SurcrDr.-Tb. Bal,i.

LAMENTABLE SuIcIDE.-The Balti1
more American has the following ac.
count Of d lamentabls suicide in thar
city, on Tuesdays e
A respectable married Iady resid4
ing in the southwestern part of the
city, committed suicide at an early
hour yesterday morning, under cir.
cumstances OF the most lamentable
character. She retired to rest with
her husband the previous night, in
her usual health and spirits; some.
time after midnight they were dis
turbed by young child which was
in the room, and its mother got up
Tor the porpose Of attending to its
wants. The child was quieted, and
the husband fell into sleep. from
which he was awakened sometims
afterwards by relative living in the
house, who informed him that she
heard noise in the room over which
she had been sleeping. and that she
feared some one had obtained en-.
trance into the house. The hus.
band turned to awake his vile, but
was alarmed at finding she was not
IN the room. A light was then pro-
cured, and on entering the room ia
which the noise had been heard, the
unfortunate lady was found on the
lioor. almost deluged with her own
blood, and nearly liieless. A razor
was lying by, with which she had
ut terrible cash through the Aeshy
part Of the left arm, just above the
elbow, severing all the large blood
'esseIs in that part of the body. A
physician was instantly summoned,
'ut before his arrival she had ceased
o breathe. The melancholy act is
ntirely unaccountable on any other
than that the unIortun-
te lady was suffering under sons
alienation OF mind; she
vas happy in all her domestic rela.
ions, and surrounded by friends by
whom she was both loved and es.
eemed.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14

him over again-the old furrowsd
sailor, the very double Of Bueua Wis.
Ia General Torrejon, standing by the
tiller Of his miserable little schooner,
as she rolled staggering along under
heavy sea. We encountered him
east Of Admiralty Inlet, by a queer
coincidence just opposite the point Of
his escape from an almost hopeless
Imprisonment in the polar wilder
ness. What thoughts must have
crowded upon the old sea dogi Fe-
lix Booth, his GrinneIl, is dead
Give kind words for me to ours.
Sood bye, once more. E. X. K.
ohIO EleetIon--the vote.
l848-GovERNoR-l850
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CiNcrNNArrI AND PIrrspURuH VI.

CINCINNATI AND PITTSBURGH VIA
CoLuMBUs.--The New York Tri-
bune, under its commercial head,
thus alludes TO the communication
between the two great manufacture
ing cities Of the Wests
General Robinson of Pittsburgh.
President Of the Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, has Just
closed contract in Boston for a
number Of Express Locomotives,
with all the latest improvements, and
adapted 10 run at the highest rates Of
speed. They are to be delivered in
the spring, and will be capable Of
carrying passenger trains in fifteen
hours from Cincinnati to PITTSBURGH.
by the way Of Columbus, which con.
nection will be completed next year,
The time from Pittsburgh to Mas.
'illon will be four hours"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14

BALTIMORE AND SUsoUEHANNAH
RAiLRoRD.-This road within the
past month has been finished to Mid
dletown, so that there is now a rail-
road communication from Baltimore,
via New York, Columbia, Middle.
town, Harrisburgh and Holidays.
burgh--and thence by stages or ca.
nal to Pittsburgh.
The business on this road during
the past year, has increased-the to-
tai amout Of down freight being l43,.
424 tons, and up freight 81, 300 tons.
In lS47 the total receipts for passen.
gers and freight were S249 ,9l3,3S;
in 1850 s279, ,596,72.
Our object in noticing this road
was, mainly to direct attention TO
the singular feature In its business,
viz,-the Forwarding Business done
on il by individuals. The Company
is the great fcrwarder, but it allows
and encourages individuals and COM
panies TO become forwarders on the
road, their cars being drawn by tho
company's engines at regular stipu-
lated rates. There are now fourteen
forwarding companies on this
road, and the extent OF their opera
lions can be inferred from the fact
that the whole number Of burden
ears on the road is SAB, of which 264
belong to the private companies.--
And 80 Of the private cars are de-
voted 10 carrying oysters, &C., to
York, Columbia, Lancaster, Harris.
burg, Carlise, and other towns in the
Interior of PeDnsylvania.-Cin. Ga=.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14

The MORMON SErrLEMsrr.-Ia
England and Wales, conversions TO
Mormonism are rapidly increasing.
Within the last twelve months large
numbers, in those countries have
joined the Saints, and several ship
loads have arrived in this country.
upon their way to Utah the Mormon
settlement. M
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14
To an Absens Hasband.

To an Absent HuSband.
Dearest, come homel cannot bear
Thy long protracted stay,
So sad and lonely is my heart
When thou art gone away.
I've tried, alas! how vainly tried,
Thine absence to forget,
Yet still can but think of thes
With fondness and regret.
As mourns the gentle, cooling dove,
In accents desolate,
When forced by some unkindly hand
Far from her loving mate -
So through the chambers of my heart
Echoes a mournful tone,
Whilst every pulse affection beats,
Re-echoes "l'm alonel"
Things that are bright when thou art
here,
Look dark and gloomy now,
And nature seems to share my grief
Which clouds upon her brow.
The birds sing now a sadder song
Than e'er they sang before,
And flowers have lost the sunny hue
They once SO sweetly wore.
To while the weary hours away,
That lag with laden feet,
| read thy favorite authors DER,
Their choicest parts repeat.
But even books, those voiceless friends,
Have lost all charm for me,
And fail to cheer my heart, unless
| read them, love, with thee.
And music, with her voice so sweet,
I've called her to my aid,
And soft, and low, with trembling
hand,
Thy favorite air I've played.
But ah! those tender notes have stirred
Affections fountain deep,
And sadly | have left my song
To think of thee and weep.
Thus gloomy thoughts their dismal
shade
Der brightest objects fling,
How true it is a saddened heart
Can sadden everythingl
Then, dearest, come-thy vife's fond
heart
Still warmly beats for you
A heart whose every throbbing pulse
Is faithful, kind, and true, M.
BARDsTowN, Oct. ls, 1850.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14
TExAs.--Abont 20nnn !

TExAs.--About 10000 votes vera
returned at the August election in
Texas. From ten counties, no rs.
turns were received. The Calves
ten Civilian, Judging from this vote.
is Of opinion that there are now
about thirty thousand voters in Tex.
as, exclusive Of Santa Fs..
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14
Total, 148e66 I48saI

CURIOUS MEDICAL DIsCovERY.-A
very curious medical discovery has
lately been made in Paris. |; is the
method of curing inslantaneously
sciaIica, By applying a small jet OF
FIRE upon the ear of the side affected.
This treatment, known and employed
for ages among the Scythians, in Per-
sin. and in Portugal, is now only 10
actual use in some parts Of Corsica.
Several experiments have lately been
made by some Of the most eminent
physicians of Paris, and with aston
ished success. Persons who have
been for months affected with sciati-
ca, have been instantly cured by this
light and innocent burning.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14

EAt meeting of the Massachu-
sets Charitable Mechanic Association,
held in Lowell. a few evenings since,
Ihe following beautiful ode, which had
been composed for the occasion by
Epes Sargent, was sung:
The camp has had its day ofsong;
The sword, the bayonet, the plume
Have crowded out of rhyme too long
The plough, the anvil, and the looml
o, not upon our tented fields
Are Freedoms heroes bred alone;
The training of the workshop yields
More heroes true than War has knownl
Who drives the bolt, who shapes the
steel,
May, with heart as valiant, smite,
As he who sees foeman reel
In blood before his blow of might
The skill that conquers space and time,
That graces life, that lightens toll,
May spring from courage more sublime
Than that which makes realm its spoil.
Let labor, then, look up and see,
His craft no pith of honor lacks;
The soldiers rife yet shall be
Less honored than the woodman's axe
Let Art his own appointment prize.
Nor deem that gold or outward height
Can compensate the worth that lies
In tastes that breed their own delight.
And may the time draw nearer still
When men this sacred truth shall heed
That from the thought and from the will
Must all that raises man proceed
Though Pride should hold our calling
Es1 low,
For Us shall duty make it good;
And We from truth to truth shall 20
Tfil life and death are understood.
: 1H'-
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" Stone for the Washington
MOnument.-The Grand Division of
the Sons of Temperance for the State
ol Ohio, at the annual session, order
ed block Of marble to be prepared
for the Washington monument. The
block is to be equal in size and finish
10 that ordered by the State.
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ADVERTISING:
From the Louisville Journal

TWe are sure that husband, so
beautifully and touchingly appealed
to, will Fly home upon the wings of
love:
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Only a few miles from where we
saw these poor Wretches, some
wrecked whaIemen stumbled, not
lohg ago, over a group Of Esquimaux
huts. The snow was untrodden
around, but they found more than
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14

The amount of Treasury notes out
standing on the lst inst. wasssl ,sSe.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14
Correspondence of the New York Tribune.
The American Artic RxPedInsn.
LETTER FROM KANE.
LANCASTER SOUND, between
Cape Crawford and York. I
Wednesday, August 81. }

q
On the 18th of August, a stead
breeze and open Leads helped US
} an unlocked for progress. We &c
to the north OF IS deg. 40 min.. an
the snow lay close aboard Of US. sui
} mounting cliffs of Trap. Some dee
} valleys we passed were the. nests {
remarkable glaciers, and the ice gen
} orally interested me by the move
character of its formations. | ha
a fine opportunity, too, of adding t
my stock OF observation on refrac
ton. have now some forty quart
pages of them.
Throughout these regions, the phe
nomena of Refraetion eclipse an
thing have seen of Fata Morganl
or Mirage in Africa or Mexico. Som,
of these distortions were indeed 81
wonderful that | am inclined tc
think we have been favored in thi:
respect beyond previous voyages
Certainly, we have witnessed al
least twice what no description has
yet approached. Parry, with Fish
er and Sabine, had sketched instan.
ces of bergs so doubled as to throw
the base Of one high into the air; but
we have had illusions SO extrava-
gantly fancifui that to attempt any
description Of them would be simply
ridiculous.
Since we left Disco, our day has
been one unending sunshine; and
midnight the time for series Of sun
downs deepening in color with the
advance Of the year. Bitter cold as
we have had itin earnest, strange to
say, the warmest sky of the Medi-
terranean does not look warmer in
the coloring than that Of the Sum-
mer evening upon Baffin's Bay. /
have learned TO believe in Turner, in
my delight with the rich purple shad-
dows Of the slanting sun here; and
the violet hues it gives TO the reach.
es of white snow and the tranquil
water Leads that are like alcove look
ing glasses unclouded by a breath OF
air.
1t is in these lingering hours that
make the wedding of sunset TO SUM-
rise, the refractions are so regular
ly beautiful. The earth borrows from
the sky its clouds and its colors, still
il is hard to tell where they do or do
not mingle. And the line where you
look for the horizon fits up and
down so capriciously, and it is so be-
studded with glowing figures, some
Of them coming up from the water and
others from the sky, that you can
not help puzzling yourself with the
notion that your little vessel some
how or other got out Of her place,
and is either swinging or hanging be-
tween them. | have seen in the
course of a single night, regularly |
feudel towers, glittering
oinnacles with pennons streaming
rom them, mountains crimsoned |
with lava fires, oriental domes of gol-
len tracery, and heaven knows what
Ill Of ideal architecture, mixed up
With bizarre forms Of hieroglyph and |
'eraldry; things that have been and |
ire, and things that Imagination
las never dreamt of; melting into
'ach other like the phantasms of
lream. One evening, the 18th. we
aw fleet of ocean steamers in the
Iir, with their tall smoke pipes, sail
ng along in line, as if TO marshal
IS our way.
EsquImaux.
Early in the morning of that day,
Is we passed Cape York, two hu-
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14

Early in the morning of that day,
as we passed Cape York, two hu-
manish looking beings made signals
to US. We sent boat of, and found
them to be a couple of Esquimaux.
These far Northern savsges-for we
are now close upon rs deg. NJ
were expressive figures in the pic
ture Of this lev wilderness. They
were clad in bear skin breeches and
seal skin hooded jackets; their shoes
a badly put together composite Of
skin and dog fur; lance harpoon,
bone, wood, and iron tipped. in their
hands, and a big, inflated bladder of
seal skin hanging back between their
shoulders. They were equipped for
the seal chase upon the shore ice.--
Their faces were fat and flabby, but
as much Of patient good nature in
them as We see in horses and dogs;
their pantomime was expressive Of
the coarsest fun that pantomime can
express. They would have met us
with open arms but we did not meet
them half way. They pointed with
five fingers spread out to spaces be-
tween the hills and made signs to us
that there was that number OF huts
there. They were anxious to be
taken aboard, but this we would not
do either.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1850-11-14

BY this time being the middle Of
Augustine began to despair ofrsach-
ing our searching ground for active
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GALLIPoLIs. OHIO. NOVEMBER 14.1s5o

his way in such a cookie shell, SO
far from home, and through polar
storm, TO the rescue Of brother ad-
venturer.
Here then we are, the 22d Of Au-
gust, the sound free from ice, and
the harbor Of Port Leopold not more
than forty miles ahead. Now let
me help you TO some conjecture Of
our future.