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The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-06-27

SclS III tue NtCiI1lty tdSte " utS Vudiit}
IN That line. have seen him and anoth.
er fellow the night previous. pracucing;
they stand one each side of hYdrant
some ten yards distant, and run at each
other with their heads lowered, and clap
ping their hands on the hydran,. they
would bu, like veteran rams. A thought
struck me that might cure him OF his
Dragging, and have some sport aiso;-so
told the boys 10 keep dark. and I called
Old Jake over.
They tell me you are grea, fellow
for butting Jake?"
81 is some. Massa, da,'s fac-I done
butt de wool 'tireiy off OBJ ole Petr's head
las night and Massa Nichols was gwine
to glib me goss! can jiss bang de head
OFT any niger in these parts. myself
kin"
"Well. Jake. I've go, little Job in that
line for you when you havn't any thing
else TO do,
Use on han for all dem kin OBJ jobs.
myself"
Well you see tha: large cheese back
| there7"
81 does dat!-I does myself"
CHOW. if you can buu dent 10 it. you
| shall have 1t
sGoIly. Massa! you fooiin' dis nigges!'
"No, I'm not Jake-just try me-"
"Wol7 you glib ME dc whole oh dat
cheese -f but. dent in um."
| Yes"
sItell you now-I bust 'e,n vide open
. I wiz. nys~i. Juss stand back dar. you
Orleans nIggers. and clear de track for
/ Ole Souf Carolina, case Use cummIn' m v.
| seff-I is!
And old Jake started back some fifty
| feet and went at II at a good quick run,
and the next instant heard dull, heavy
sound, kind OF splash, and Old Jake's
head disappeared from sight. with The top
just visible on the other side as he rose
with his new fashioned necklace, the soft
rotten cheese oozing down all around him
as ii settled down. SO that just his eyes
were visible. From the centre of it Jake
voice was scarcely audible and half smoth
cred, as he vainly tried to remove the I'M
mense cheese:
"O-o-o-o! for de lub OBJ de Lord! Ease
TUX um orf! O-o-o-o! Lifum up!-O.o-o!
Meanwhile | was nearly dead myself
having laid back on cotton bale, holding
myself together to keep from bursting
while the boys stood round Old Jake pay
ing him off.
80! how de nigger's breff smell! You
doesn't clean your teeth, old Jake"
Il say, you didm't make more dan fou
times dat han, did you old hoss?"
"Well you is de biggest kline OBJ Welsl
Rabbit, you isl"
"Whar you git your har greese!'
nd thuS ho bore run Old ToE
half smothered-until | took compassion
on him, and told them TO take it off. Jake
didn't stay to claim his prize, but put GU
growing.
'.For de sake!-I done!-got sole da
time!-Fse a case Oh yaller feber-I il
my sel!''
Old Jake was never known to do any
more butting after that.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-06-27
How Biz Darkfy Jake was Cured of Bnttins.

Some years since | was employd as a
ware house clerk in a large shipping
house in New ORLEANS. and while in that
capacity. the following funny incident
occurred;
One day vessel came in, consigned TO
the house, having on board large lot Of
chesses from New York. During the
voyage some of them had become dam
aged by bilge water, (lhe ship having
proved leaky.) consequently the owners
refused to receive them; they were, there
fore, sent TO The consignees OF the ship,
to be adjusted. | discoverd few DAYS
aftrrward, that as to perfume. they were
entirely too fragrant TO remain IN The ware
house in June, and reported the same 10
my employers, from whom | received or
ders TO have them overhaud, and send all
that were paSsable to Beard & Cdlhoun's
auction mart, (then in Old Camp street
1'heatre) TO be disposed of for The benefit
ofthe underwriters and the rest TO the
swamp. | got gang Of black boys to
work on them. and when they stirred en-
up, BE the bones of Molly Kelly's quart
muel but the smell was Elegantly entire
ly." kept q respectable distance, be-
lieve me, for strong niger and strong
cheese. on a hot June day, just bangs all
common essenses. including a certain
Uarm1int we read about. Presently the
boys tnrned out an immense fellow about
three feet six ..acfoss The stump" from
which the box had roited off; in the CEN
tre. space OF about len inches was very
much decayrd and appeared to be about
The consistencv of muSh, Of blueIsh TIM
which was caused by the bilge walter
The boys had just set it up on ITS edge on
bale of gnnny bags, when noticed big
tarky (then on sale) from Charleston S.
c., who was notorious for his bulting pro.
pensitIes, having given most Of the mig,
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the white chariot, and join in the joyous
welcome TO the father of his country.
And equally punctual in his engage
ments was this remarkable man nearer
home. To the review, the theatre. Or the
ball room he repaired precisely at the ap-
pointed time. The manager of the theatre,
waiting on the President to request him
to command a play, was ed,-sAt
what time. Mr.. Wignell, does your cur
tain rise7" The manager replied, "Seven
clock is the hour. but Of course the cur
tain will not rise until your Excellency's
arrival" The President observed. Il
will be punctual, sir. to the time; nobody
waits single moment for me-" And,
sure enough. precisely at seven. ,he noble
form of Washington was seen TO enter the
stage box. amid the acclaim ations of the
audience and the music Of the Presidents s
March.
In the domestic arrangement. of the
Presidential mansion, the private dinner
was served at three o'clock, the public
one at four. The drawing room COM
menced at seven. and ended little past
/ ten. The levee begun at three. and ended
at four. On the public occasions the
company arrived within a very short time
of each other. and departed in the same
manner. The president is punctual, saic
every BODY. and every body became pune
tual.
On the great national days Of the 4th Of
July and 22d of February, the salute from
the then head of Market street Eighth
streeO announced the opening of the lev
ee. Then was seen the venerable corps
r L. hal
respects to their President General. who
received them at head quarters, and in the
uniform of the commander-in-c chief. This
! veteran hand Of the revolution had learned
punctuality from their General in the
s.limes that tried mems souls;" for no
, sooner had the thunder peals of Col.
I Proctor's twelve Founders caused the
windo ws to rattle in Market street, than
this venerable body of the Cincinnati were
in full march for the head quarters.
| fine voluntary corps. called the Ligh
infantry, from the framed light infantry Of
the Revolutionary army, commanded by
Lafayette, mounted guard Of honor n
head quarters during the levee on the ma
tional days. When it was about to close
the soldiers. headed by their sergeants
marched with trailed arms and noiseles:
step through the hall TO spot where huge
bowls of punch had been prepared for
their refreshment, when, after quaffing a
deep carouse, with three hearty cheers to
the health of the President, they counter
marched to the street, the bands STRUCK
up the favorite air, forward was the word
and the levee was ended.
"Old times are changed, OLD manner:
are gone" True, we have become a
mighty empire in extent, wealth, and pop
ulation, but where. Americans, is The
spirit of '76, ,he glorious and immorta
spirit that dignified and adorned the early
days of the Republic and the age o.
WASHINGTON! Shall it decline and die
among us! Swear on the altar of you
liberty that it shall live forever!
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VOL. G.-NO. 80.

medicine. tha, art which deals death aud
uncertainty. they had not attained TO more
light. The sge Of nian has shorenrd;
the limit Of the psalmist is rarely reached
now; our young men and maidens drop
of, like frosted blossoms. and mingic with
the dust. Our syrups and our nostrums.
our balsams ahd our drugs are of doubt-
ful efficacy. What the aneienis could do
for the living. is seen In what they have
done for the dead. They have stayed
The hand of decay. they isave cheated the
worm of It's banquet e. ;he embalmedbody
ratains the freshness ofiife tEro' the lapse
ofthousands Of years. And. then. again IN
sculpture. The chisei of the student OF
The preseht day derives its beauties from
the models OF the artist whose name Is
lost. but whose work is immortal. The
deal of the scui iptor 6nds its reality ia
The remains Of some work of art whica
was the production Of a former age. The
genius Of this age creates its fame upon
the plunder of the dead. Nor can iii s
wiser age equal The one tha, has passed
away. All but the inventive power Of
this age. The discovery of steam; the
laIegra ph. which has subdueG the light.
ming and answered the question Of Job:
"Can'st thou say TO the Hghtninig 60
there" There is no record that these
mighty influences were knowc. or that
they were ever before applied TO human
purposes. Still they may have been.
But there are remains shat speak vol
umes in behalf of the inventive power OF
a past age. The Chinese knew the ase
of gunpowder long before an accidental
explosion astonished the ineuisitivc frlar
! Bacon. The wire bridges. which are
constructed in this country as more cura-
| Bile than those of wood and stone. werB
| in vogue, in China, TWO thousand years
ago. The plough, which has undergone
no material improvement, was an impte-
ment of hu.bandry In primitive times.
Our plank road and our turn pixies. our
tunnels and our caIverts belong TO the ee-
| MUS of past age. Our water works.
and aqueducts. and water pipes, which
convey water for miles. and are regarded
as objects of wonder and curiosity ana
| held up 10 show what this age can de-
are to be found in the ruins OF Egyptand
ancient Rome. And with all the power
of steam. al the mechanical power We
can muster, your man power and yohr
water power, this present age cannot sx-
| ert the strength that must have oeen en-
poyed BY the builders Of the monuments
of Egypt. Your shears. and your up.
rights would snap Ike pipe stems. How
these immense blocks OF InaTbie were
moved and raised 10 their resting places.
is involved IN mystery. The secret died
with a past age.-Hdrrisburg Union.
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Ertrarugnace.-Afu full grown Buckeye
in rather an o5livious and "balmy" state,
tumbled into 4 stage coach one bright NOR
ming, beside traveller who was in "Pur-
suit of knowledge" certainly al that Time
"under difficulties" After the ribbons
had been picked up and the "hosses" re-
ceived notice TO start, The traveller remark
ed 10 the new conner that ''Ohic was fae
county"
..'Ta-hic-ain, no.hin else!" hicooughed
the Buckeye.
"Wha, is the staple production, sir'"
"Co-or-on''
"You must raise large quaEEiy'-
What is done with il. SIR!
Nv Whar-hic-why, great de-e-ai IS
nsed up for whs-hic-isky. and some
they .oaste in ., aking 6reed!'
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RWllis once said, in speaking OF
Daniel Websier's style, that every seu
tence weighed a pound" Here one Or
two that average considerably over that
weight
New England. il is we'll kaown. Is
the chosen seat Of the abolition presses
and the abolition soci eties. Here II is.
principally, that the former cheer the
morning. by full columns of cancellations
over the fate of human beings, free by Ma
sure. and by law above the constitution;
but sent back. nevertheless, chained and
manacled, to slavery and.io stripes. And
The latter refresh themselves from daily
toL, by orgies Of the night. devoted 10 tho
same outpourings of philanthropy, ming
ling, all the while, their anathemas at
what they call man catching with the
most horrid and profane abiurations OF the
Christian Sabbath, and indeed OF the
whole Divine Revelation. They sanct.
fly their philanthropy by irreiigIon and
profanity; they manifest their charity by
contempt Of God and his commandments,
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-06-27

"A Toad An Irishman describing
toad, said il was very queer bird; when
It stood up it was no taller :han when II
sat down, and when il few, !. went VITA
a ID Of . jolt.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-06-27

IN Old MaiG.-Norman the daughter
of Enoch, was $50 years cid when she
was married
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13
How a WIFE WAS MADE JEALOUS

How WIFE WAS MADE JEALOUS
Boy-Ma, is MT Miss Lovelock d nice
lady? is MT she, though?
MOther.-Yes, love, she is indeed.
very fine lady.
B.-And don't father :hink heap of
her? don't he. though.
M.-Yes, father, as we'll as myself.
thinks very highly of Miss Lovelock.
B.-That's what l thought today
when | see him hugging and kissing her
IN the front parlor
M-lspringing to her feet with all the
agility of having pressed her fooE OH a
hot smoothing iron.) Your father hug
ging and kissing Miss Lovelock!
B. Tin the highest glee)-My eye, was
mt he.
M. (distractedly)-And did she suffer
him TO do such thing without raising an
alarm!
B. (winking his left eye in remarka-
bly, cute style)-She did mt SUITES any
at all; she just hugged and kissed back
again, as if she liked it better than apple
dumpling covered with 'lasses dip
NJ (wildly hystefical and hysterlcally
wild) oh. the mean. rat-eyed, pug-nosed.
red-headed fright. The scandalous, how
dacious huzzy. I'll tear out her eyes. |
will.
Falls down fain.ing-tears her hair.
and kicks her heels on the carpet, crying
aloud for divorce, while her son runs
off for a doctor, and meeting pappy COM
ing home, tells him. en- paSSant, that he.
his hopeful SOnney. would Mt staud IN
his boots for something. and triae over.
Akbany Dutchmetn.
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13
IMPROVEMENT OF THE OHIO.


The u. S. Senate has voted $4,000
for an experimental examination, with a
view to some important improvements oI
the navigation of the Ohio river, having
been induced to vote this sum by the
merits of scheme recently presented
by MIR. Ellet, civil engineer. MIR. E., in
a recent paper constituting one of the
Smithonian contributions to knowl-
| edge, says that less than million and a
quarter of dollars will suffice to supply
the Ohio with depth sufficient for boats
OF five feet draught; to carry an open and
permanent river navigation up the ALLIE
ghany to Franklin, and a slack water
navigation, during three-fourths of the
year, from Franklin to the line of the Erie
Railroad in New York; improve the navi-
CATION of the Monongahela in Virginia,
and extend that Of the Kanawa 10 or
90 miles above Point Pleasant; supply
ing water power OF unrivaIled capacity
and permanence Oh numerous lines of
Steamboat navigation, and curbing most
essentially the destructive power of the
floods. The total discharge OF tine Ohio
IN ordinary low water, he says is bur
6,OOO.0 900 cubic feet per hour.
"a pipe three feet in diameter will
discharge very nearly 100000 cubic feet
per hour under head of 60 feet. Six
such pipes then. placed OH a dam only
oo feet high. and provided with proper
valves, would emit water enongh to
double the quantity flowing down the
Ohio at It's summer stage. And if there
were such dams on different streams, and
II pipes in each, and one man to superin-
tend each dam, and obey the tele graphic
signal to open or close the valves--or an
equipment equal to three DAMS no higher
than have been already built in this coun-
try, and 36 pipes equal in diameter to
tie mains in Broadway, and threa men
10 manage the whole-the quanaity of
water could he increased six-fold, and the
navigation could be maintained above
hve ieet during all ordinary drous.hts.-
AT the same time such is happily the
form OF many OF the Western Valleys that
dams or double this height can bss often
erected without injury to any appreciable
amount of property, improved or sussep-
tible Of improvement"
The measurements. presented i'm this
paper, and the abundant facts collected
by personal labor and observation for a
long series OF years. have SO convinced
Mr. Elet of The feasibility of his PROPOSE
ton as to justify him in maintaining that
it is "entlrely III the power of man 10 con-
troll all the waters of the Mississippi and
Missouri, and compel every river to flow
with an even current, from its source in
the Allegheny or Rocky Mountains, to its
home in the ocean, forever free from the
hurttul effects of floods and d-oughGs."
Cincinnati Commercial.
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13

WANTED TO KNow.-If steamships
are psed in navigating the "sea of
troubles"
If ships in "stays" are addicted TO
eight lacing."
If it is owing to the rate of interment
being cheap that so many are "buried i'm
oblivion"
Whether The sun shone during the
"dark ages
Whether the stale" which the ghost
of Hamlets father could unfold, was
"founded on fact"
The elevation of the pinnacle of
fame above the ocean
The extreme length of the "long par
lament"
If Hydropathic treatment would be
Likely to cure the "eruptions" Of Mount
Etna,
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13

A REMINIscENcE.-The subjoined ex-
tract from the proclamation issued by
Gen. Jackson, in 1882, is appropriately
republished at this time. The traitors
who are endeavoring violently to rupture
the bonds of the Union, may read in it
their own doom, if their project should
unhappily succeed.
What have you to gain by division and
dissension? pelude not yourselves with
the belief that breach may be after
wards repaired. If the Union is once
severed, the line of separation will grow
wider and wider, and the controversies
which are now debated and settled in the
halls of legislation, will then be tried
in the field of battle, and determined by
the sword. Neither should you deceive
yourselves with the hope that the first
line of separation would be the permanent
one, and that nothing but harmony and
concord would be found in the new as
ISOLATION formed upon the dissolution of
the Union. Local interests would still
be found there, unchastened ambition.
And if the recollection of common dan
gers, in which the people of these United
States stood side by side against the COM
mon foe: the memory Of victories won by
your united valor: the prosperity and hap.
pinsss they have enjoyed under the pre-
sent constitution; the proud name they
bear as citizens of this great Republic
1t all the recolleetions and proofs of CON-
mon Interest are not strong enough to
bind it together as ore people, what tie
will hold united the new divisions of en-
pires, when these bonds have been bro
ken and discovered?
The first line of separation would not
last for single generation; new coming
fragments would be torn off, new leaders
would spring up, and this great and glori-
Gus republic would soon be broken into
a multitude of States, without commerce,
without credit, jealous of one another,
armed for mutual aggressons, loaded with
taxes to pay armies and leaders, seeking
aid against each other from foreign powers
insulted and trampleG upon by the nations
OF Europe. until harrassed with conflicts,
and humbed and debased in spirit, they
would be ready to submit it TO the alb
solute dominion of any military adventu-
rer and surrender their liberty for the
sake of repose. 1t is impossible to look
on the consequences that would inevita-
bly, follow the destruction Of this govern
ment, and not feel indignant when we
hear cold calculations about the value of
the Union, and have so constantly before
us line of conduct so well calculated
to weaken its ties
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13
FEARFUL SPoRT.-A correspondent of

FEARFUL SPoRT.-A correspondent of
the Boston Traveller writes. that men,
Der of Mr. White school,, Amherst, Mass,
lad of II, OH Sunday the 18th, having
rifle in his hand, loaded with ball, in
sport placed the muzZle under his chin,
and said to another youth present, "see
how easy man could kill himself" at
the same time placing his foot against
the hammer, pushed it back until it haC
nearly cooked, when his foot slipping,
the hammer fell upon the cap. and the
rifle discharged. The chin was entirely
blown away and tire ball passed out
through the back part of his head. The
unfortunate youth never knew what hurt
him. His name was FredeTjek Goodale.
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13
IPUBLIC--NO. 9

A RESOLUTION to amend a resolution ap-
proved on the tenth Of August, eighteen hnndred
and fifty, relative TO the payment OF dividends
or interest on war bounty scrip.
ResoIred by the SenIte and House of Repre-
sentatipes of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the Secretary OF the
Treasury be, aud he is hereby directed, where The
principal has been heretofore redeemed OF any
war bounty scrip, to pay the dividend, or dividends,
or interest," due at the time of such redemption, to
the person or persons who would be entitled to
the same under the resolution to which this is an
amendment, in case such scrip was hereafter pre-
srnted for payment or redemption, or that ne pay
the to the assignee attorney, or legal repre-
sentative, as the case may be.
Approved September 2G, 1851.
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13
Approved September 26, 1850.
PUBLIC ALI

AN ACT to provide Tor carrying into execution,
in lulther part, the twelfth article OF the treaty
with Mexico concluded at Guadalupe Hidalgo
BE it enacted by the Senate and House Of
Representatives. Of the United States Of America
in Congress assembled, That the sum Of three
millions three hundred and sixty thousand dollars
be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out Of
any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
prla,ed, tor the payment of the instalment and
interest which will iai due on the thIrteih OF May,
eighteen hundred and fifty -one, under the twelfth
article of the treaty between the United States
and Mexico, made and concluded at Guadalupe
H.dalgo, on the second of February, eighteen
hundred and forty eight
Appro red September 26, 1850.
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13

A GALLANT CENSUS TAKER R-"What
is your age, miss!' inquired marshal of
a young lady about sixty. in the-district
the other day. whats that to you Mr..
impertinence!" said the fair one, drawing
up and exhibiting formidable cheuanz
de .friSe of broken teeth. at is a very
unpleasant question but it must be ask
ed. What age shall l place you att
twenty, should think" "Yes." said the
old girl, completely modified. II think {
was twenty last spring"-and the graft
fled damsel invited our friend to take a
glass of wine and call again before hs
left town.
Washington telegraph., 1850-11-13
GPUBIc-No. II.
A RESOLUTION relative to the Public Printing.

Resolped by the Senate and House of Repre-"
..ntatipes of the United States of Amer ica in
Congress- assembled, That the Secretary of the
Senate and the Clerk of the House, and the clerk
of the Joint Committee OH Printing jointly be, and
they hereby are, authorized and empowered to
examine, audit, and pass upon all accounts tor
printing, except they shall not audit or allow the
account for printing the obituary notices on the
ductiou in the compensation allowed, or to refuse
the work altogether should it be inferior to the
standard: and in all things TO possess the same
power over the public printing as is conferred upon
the Joint Committee on Printing by the JOINT reso
luton approved August third, eighteen hundred
and forty six: PROVIDED, That the authority here
by conferred shall only be exercised during the
next recess OF Congress, and shall cease at the
commencement of the next session Of Congress.
Approved September %, 1850.