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The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24
The Union Dissolved!


A movement in favor of the Dissolution
ofthe Union has begun in Boston, among
the ultra Aboltionists. The following
petition is now in circulation among the
people of Massachusetts, and is warmly
advocated by the Abolition organ, the
Boston Liberator:
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION.
To the Senate and House Of Represe1a-
fatiUes of Massachusetts,: The under
signed, inhabitants of the town Of, in
this State, deeply impressed with the ne
cesslty, duty and importance of such an
act, earnestly request that you will imme-
diately call convention of the people of
this commonwealth, to determine what
measures shall be taken to effect peace
full secession from the American Union,
for some one of all the following reasons:
l. Because a portion of the citizens of
Massachusetts, solely on account of the
color of the skin which it has pleased an
Allwise creator to bestow upon them, on
visiting the Southern States, are seized,
thrust into prison, fined, condemned to
work with felons in the chain-gang, and
| frequently sold ON the auction block as
slaves, in contempt of the sovereignty OF
the State, and in utter disregard of that
clause in the United States Constitution
which declares, "The citizens of each
State shall be entitled to ali privileges and
immunities of citizens of the several
Statea."
2. Because perfectly legal measures to
, bring these outrages to the notice of the
federal courts are forbidden by severe pc
nal enactments; and the agents of the COM
ronn,yoal,h cnaoioll.- lonntaI 70 this
pose, have been driven back with insult
and violence; the federal government be-
ing appealed to in vain, through Congress,
for redress.
3. Because it is morally degrading, po-
litically disastrous, and a glaring paradox,
for State glorylng in Its freedom, TO be IN
partnership with States glorying in their
slavery.
4. Because, by. the alliance of the North
with the South, the slave power has been
ENABLED TO acquire the immense terrific
ries of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New
Mexico, and California, and is now plot
ting for the annexation of the Island of
Cuba, mainly for the purpose of extending
and perpetuating It's supremacy.
But especially:-
D. Because, by the compromise OF the
United States Constitution, Southern
shareholders are allowed a slave represen-
tation in Congress; the right to hunt and
seize their fugitive slaves on the soil ot
| Massachusetts; and, to demand in cases OF
emergency, the aid OF Massachusetts 10
suppress slave Instructions. And, so
long as the people of this commonwealth
consent 10 these compromises, so long
will they be morally and politically re-
sponsole for all the crueltics and horrors
of the slave system.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24
chemistry of The Stars.

This singular head forms the subject of
an article in the British Quarterly. The
design of ii is 10 show that the forms of life
existing in this world are not repeated in
the other planets and heavenly bodies
The article is destined to be read with
unusual interest. The data from which
it reasons, are the variety in weight, su-
perfcial phenomena, forms and color Of
the heavenly bodies 1t is shown to be
impossible that a system of animal and
vegetable life, resembling that of our globe,
can exist on many of them. The dry and
rugged surface of the moon. volcanic, yet
without sea and without atmosphere, the
varying quality of sideral light, and the
chemical poverty of meteorites or air.
stones, as far as their component substan-
ces have been discovered by analysis, are
among the data on which it is argued that
the stars are not telluric, that they do not
resemble the earth in their composition,
and, therefore, that life must be otherwise
associated and sustained on the surface of
those orbs, if it exists at all, than on onrs.
The chemistry of the stars, il is infer
red, must differ from the chemistry of the
earth; the grandeur of the universe and
the grandeur of Omnippotence are not OBJ
served, but vastly illustrated by this gener-
al fact of diversity, diversity that is al
ready seen TO surpass all previous thought
and all possible conception. Yet there
rIay be as wide range of vital as of che
mical diversity, and the reasons of analo-
gy urged in behalf of the hypothesis that
the stars are inhabited, are in no way in
validated by the discovery that they are
not-or that many of them are not-adapt-
ed to the sustentation of such living beings
as dwell on the surface of our earth.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24
From the Baltimore Argus.
An important Item for the Pig Iron Panic
Makers.


Three or four days ago, we fell IN COM
pany with an old friend, who is now ex-
tensiveIy engaged in the manufacture of
Iron. Being a little inquisItlve on this
subject at this particular time, we ques-
toned him about bis business, and were
both amazed and gratided al receiving this
answer:
Tariff, or no Tariff, high duties or low
duties, am bound to make money by man
ufacluring pig iron, because have adopt
ed the right course TO do it and with me
there is no such word as fall Although
my ore is transported near hundred
miles. and my coal not very convenient TO
my furnace, can make iron at cost Of
eighteen dollars ton. | now dispose of
it at twenty-five dollars ton, and | Meth
er ask nor desire more. lfpresent prices
continue, am bound to realize fortune
in quite reasonable time"
This is the kind of talk we like, and
for the informtiou of our readers, we viii
say that this iron master IS a Democrat,
and carries on his business at-HaVre-de-
grace. He commenced the mining busi
ness in the neighborhood OF this city.
some years ago, with scarcely dollar in
his pocket, and by dint OF Industry and
enterprise soon accumulated money
enough to become the owner in part Of an
iron furnace. He says the cause OF the
failure of many of our iron men. is their
very expensive and extravagant mode Of
living-most Of them driving their blood
horses and riding IN costly equipage TO The
field of their business operations. instead
of taking It on foot, or on a plain fifty dol
lar nag, as he does. Thes, is the secret OF
their failure, says he, and the contrary
course the secret Of his success. He
wants no Tariff, whilst prohibifory tariffs
would not benefit the riolous and extrav-
agant liver.
He gives it as his opinion that the
Pennsylvanians, with all their convenIen
ccs and facilities, could make iron some
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24
Scientific Wonders

Ihe general falth IN science as Won
der-worker is at present unlimited; land
along with this there is cherished the
conviction that every discovery and In-
vention adraits of a practical appli-
cation to the welfare of men. Is new
veget able product brought 10 this country
from abroad, or a new chemi cal compound f,
or nominal physical phenomenon recor-
ded: the question is Immediately asked,
cui bono? What is it good for? Is food
or drink to be got out of it! VIII it make
hats or shoes. or cover umbrellas? VIII
it kill or heal? VIII it drive a steam en-
CINE or make mill go! And truly this
cui bono question has of late been SO sat-
lsIactorlly answered, that we cannot Won
der that the public should persist in put
ting 1t, somewhat eagerly, to every dis
coverer and inventor, and should believe
that K substance has one valuable ap-
plication, it will prove, if further lnvesti-
gated, to have a thousand Gutta Percha
has not been known in this country ten
years; and already 1t would be more diff
hcGIt to say what purposes 1t had not been
applied to, than to enumerate those to
which 1t has been applied, ''Guncotton
had not proved in the ssddest way its pow
er TO kill. before certain ingenious Amer
leans showed that it has remarkable
power of healing, and forms the best
stick ing-piaster for wounds. Surgeon S
have not employed ethel and chloroform
as anaesthetics for three years; and aIrea-
dy an ether steam engine is at work in
Lyons, and chloroform engine in Lon
don. vi other sciences we need scarce IL
speak. Chemistry has long come down
from her aromic attitudes and elective
attnIlIes, and now scours and dyes, bakes,
brewS, cooks, and compounds drugs with
contented mposure.-EIectrity leaves
her thunderbo!t in the sky, and, like Mer
curry dismissed from Olympus, acts as
letter-carrief and message-boy. Even the
mysterious magnetism, which once
seemed living principle to culver in the
compass needle, is unclothed of mystery,
and set TO driving tur rning lathes. The
publiC,percev all these and has unlimited
tatn In mans power 10 conquer nature.
The credulltv which formerly fed upon
unIcorns, phoenixes, mermaids, vampires,
krakens, pestIlent:a comets, fairies, ghosts
witches, spectres, charms, curses. uni
verSal remedies, FACTIONS with Satan,
and the like, now tampers with chemistry
electricity, and magnetism as it once
did with the invisible world. Shoes of
switlness, seven league boots, and For
tunatu swishing caps, are banished even
from the nursery; but an electromagnetic
steam fire balloon, which viii ceave the air
like thunderboIt. and GO as straight to its
destination as the crow flies, is an inven-
ton which many hope to see realized, be-
tore railways are quite worn TO pieces.
A sunf box full of the new manure, about
TO be patented. will fertrlize a field; and
the same amount of the new explosive will
dismantle the forlifcations OK Paris. By
means ofthe fsh-tail propeller 70 be short
/ ly laid before the Admiralty, the Atlantic
will be crossed in three days.-Edi,a-
burgh ReUieU.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24
VOL. 6.-NO. I6.

five dollars the ton cheaper than he can.
and he cannot account for their complaint.
or "the depressed condition of the iron in
terest'there, except by supposing thatthey
expend one hundred dollars in tn cir FAM
lilies, where ten more than would suffice.
Let the iron panicmakers everywhere.
take note of this. I,sis no whig Roorback.
but the solid truth plainly and soberIy
told. II they want any more evidence
from his lips, of the prosperity that will
attend the iro n master of reasonable de
sires and ordIn ary economy and prudence.
we can, no doubt. prevail upon him to
speak TO EN- over his own sig nature and
also TO give them few lessons which will
be Of infinite serv ice to :hem If they Will
open their ears to his counsel.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24

DR.. WEBSTER IN JAIL.-We learn that
DIR. Webster has made frequent complaints
to Mr.. Andrews the jailor, that the occu-
pants of the cells in his immediate vicinity
are in the habit of shouting out to him al
nights, uttering all sorts of unkind epithets,
such as ''Y u're the man that cut mp DIR.
Parkman, ..Y re murderer" "Y our
blood-thirsty scoundrel," &C., &. Mr..
Andrews had no other knowledge Of this
matter except what he heard from Dr.
Webster. He one night placed two men
in the passage way that leads to the cells,
where they remained until morning, but
heard no unusual or unpleasant noises
The day following this the doctor repeat
ed his complaint to Mr.. Andrews, saying
that ''last night the same outrages had
been repeated;" Mr.. Andrews knowing
this not to be true, of course concludes
that the doctors Imagination is so wrought
upon, or that his dreams are of such an
unpleasant character as TO produce in some
degree mental alteration. DIR. Webster
has lost much Of the buoyancv of spirit
that sustained him when he first became
an inmate Of the Iail.-Bostoa NoH,
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24
To the Honorable, the Senate and House
Of Representatives. ofthe United States
IN Ho,,p press oSSe,16 6yed.-

an Congress assembled
At Convention Of the Editors of Penn
sylvania, held at Harrisburg on the Is;
inst, the undersigned were appointed
committee 10 memorialize your honorable
bodies, for the passage of an act permit
ting the free circulation of newspapers
within the Congressional District where
they are printed The passage of such
an act is asked by the people of every
section of the Commonwealth. Under
existing laws, taxing newspapers for any
distance, however short, and allowing the
city papers TO be carried and distributed
gratuitously outside of the mails, the citi-
zens resident in the interior of the State
are subject to an onerous taxation, and the
Country Press is seriously injured. Such
a clog upon the dissemination of useful
and general intelligence should not be suf-
fered to exist. No undue advantage
should be extended to one portion of the
public press at the expense of another
The general education of the people, being
one of the chief aims of our Institutions.
the postage law OF our country should be
framed upon a liberal and enlightened
basis, and believing that this object cannot
be accomplished under existing laws, and
that the present system of postage is I'M
Just in the extreme. we humbly petition
your honorable body for redress.
The following are the committee whose
names are attached to the above memo
rals.
w. II. Hutter, Easton Argus.
A. R. Mcclure, Juniata Sentinel.
Josiah Core, Easton Democrat.
II. J. Walters, True Democrat, Lewis
town.
n. Strickland. Republican & Democrat.
J. Nelson Smith. Mountain Echo.
+. T. Worth. Lebanon Courier.
Isaac G. Mckinley, Democratic Union.
Harrisburg.
Theo. Fem, Penn. Telegraph, Harrisb'g-
James Clark, Journal, Huntingdon,
]. b. Bratton, American Volunteer.
III. A. Mish, Franklin Intelligencer-
Jerome X. Boyer, American Democrat,
Carlisle.
NJ. d. Holbrook, Lancasterian, Lancaster.
]. L. Ringwalt, Monroe Democrat.
John G. Seltzcr, Lebanon Democrat.
Lebanon.
Alex. McKeever, Upland Union, Del. co.
w. P Copper, Juniata Register.
Jonah p. Hetrich, Easton Wing.
E. Beatty, Herald & Expositor, Carlisle.
George Frysinger, Lewistown Gazette.
| III. S. Evans, Village Record.
]. NJ. Cooper, Valley Spirit, Cha mbers-
! burg.
| Geo. w. Hammersly, Union & Tribune,
Lancaster,
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24

Man has the power of initiating every
motion but of flight. To effect these, he
has, in maturity and health, sixty bones in
his head, sixty in his thighs and legs, six
ty-three in his arms and hands, and sixty
seven in his trunk. He has four hundred
and thirty-four muscles. His heart makes
sixty-four pulsations in minute; and
therefore three thousand eight hundred
and forty in an hour, ninety-two thousand
one hundred and sixty in day. There
are also three complete circulations of his
blood in the short space of an hour. An
elk can run mile and half in seven min
utes; an antelope mile in minute The
wild mule of Tartary has a speed even
greater than that; an eagle can fly fifty
four miles an hour, and Canary falcon
can even reach a greater distance in that
space of time. A violent wind travels
sixty miles an hour. sound one thousand
one hundred and forty-two feet in sec
ond.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24
Bosfon statistics and Finances.
Lancaster

The new city authorities OF Boston
were Installed on Monday, Mayor Bige-
lows report gives asummary OF the city :
affairs. The following are the principal
statistics; Public shoots, 107; pupils in
attendance, 90, 600; cost for instruction,
fuel, repairs, SC, S334.ll4. Yearly
mortality ofthe city. $3.50, The ceme-
teries of the city are ful! and new burying
ground is asked for. The expense..of the
Police and watch departments for the year
was SIl3 600. The water works when
carried to East Boston, will have cost
SI,540,000.
The city debt exclusive Of that contrac-
ted for water, amounted. on the 3lst day
of December, TO I,623. SOB. Ii is esti-
mated py :he auditor that the debt, even
if unan.icipated expenditure shall.Oe az
thorized, will amount at the close OF the
financial year. (30lh Of Apr.D to the sum
of SI,726,S03.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24

ven-oorn inspiration, out of reach of many
but by dint of homely viltue within the
reach of all.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-01-24

GA single stroke of an axe is of little
consequence. vet by continual application
Of that small power, properly directed,
what amazing effects are produced
The sturdy oak and lofty pine do not
simply own It's power, but whole forests
lie before it, and the wilderness becomes
garden.
Industry, we'll directed, will give man
competency in few years Tha greatest
industry misapplicd IS useless,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-02-21
To our Subscribers.

We thank those who have needed our calls
and squared accounts: and now for fair and
important notice to those who are in arrear. On
the GOTH OF APRIL NEXT we shall erass
from our direction books the names of all sub.
scribers who are in arrear for more tlan two
years, and proceed to collect the amount due
from them. If any can pay without trouble
they have no excuse; if any trU not pay excen,
upon compulsion, duty to ourselves requires a,
to compel them; and if any really cannoi nav
it is time for US to stop furnishing papers with.
out compensation. Nor is this course for orr
advantage only: it is really for the adyan'ace
also of all whose accounts are running up faster
than they are aware Of. and will prove a serou,
difficulty to them if suffered to 90 on. We are
anxious to settle every case without recourse 70
the lawyer: but old accounts must be settled.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-02-21
Vote for Governor


DEAR SIR: WIN you have tie goodness to
give this note plice III your paper. ! have al
ways been supporter of the Vermont Patriot
until the editors thereof flew f7om the helm of
democracy, and lod yed in the suburbs OF coa!i-
tionism and there begged for pap. One would
Judge from iheirtik that they are as much lost in
going through this chlnrc as Rip Van Winkle
was uhen he awose from his sleep and accused
his friends of heiu. liars AMI traitors, they being
right AMI he being wrong. notice in the Pat
rot of Januar; 81, piecc Of DmJ Jtct sling
on which wish TO say word.
Dandy Jack a;.I the Mai)r have great deal
Of trouble about the Long Team Deputies and
Sicrilis, as they tern them. All there Is about
the loag team is ihis: the legislature saw fit to
Break down the bargaining ciques Of counties
which had too long p4yed the d'sppt in Vermont.
| ask the candid people 10 look and see the men
who ruled cur caucusses and conventions, and
Nho made the nominations for the people for
Instance, look at tie nominations OF the county
officers III Orange county, and o;Ler counties,
which we're made last lali by these cliques. Is
there freeman in the slate of Vermont, who will
say the legislature did wrong in using their CON
s'ltuionll right to put down the cIiques and
their game Of bargain and corruption?
wish The editors OF the Patriot and their con-
felerates, would crawl out Of tle mud in which
they lie, and tell US the difference between
wing and 4 Democrat in these ater DAYS |
am SIR, wha; | ever have been, true friend and
supporter OF equal rights, and really wish to
know whether the changelings or the unchanged
are the true democracy @.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-02-21
Congress.-.Clay's Speech.

We again omit the usual summary-this time
giving way TO the speech of Mr.. Clay. No
speech ever created greater sensation, either
in Congress or the country, and we cannot doubt
that our readers will be glad to forego the usual
variety in order to have it in their possession as
early as practicable. The remainder will be
given in our next.
In Congress, the debate uron the Slavery ques-
ton has been continued for the past week, and
will continue some weeks more. Mr.. Calhoun
and Mr.. Webster will speak on the question in
the Senate, and in the House-a legion. 1t Is
said that California will be admitted, with her
present constitution, by neury two thirds vote
in both Houses Disrnion is at discount.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-02-21
Godey's Ladys Book for March is received in
excellent season. 1t is Il good number.

| The Southern Convention. The Ler:sa,r.ra
of Virginia. on "Wednesday ofast week. p,sss5
the preamble and resolutions relative to the w
mot proyiso. the appointment OF delegates 10 ibe
Nashville Convention, SC. The resnlu.Ion,
were considerably modified. and cid not than
pass without much opposition. They 20 M,
treat the conven ION at Nashville, in June mex,
IS a body authorized TO act for tie whole Sou,b
but as a convention which can ONLY consult and
advise. They look on It merely as a nptIfcqilon
to define hat should be the ac'i1n or lhs $ ,u,b
in case of any Interference in slavery. Ia clse
of passage of the Wilmot pruvs,, the uogerp-
or is authorized To issue his writ tor 4 cnrvsn-
ton of The State, which shall be empowered Il,
select delegates to the general convention Of h,
South.
a. The Legislature of Kentucky SUSAN,
Mr Clay's position IN the Senate tot AMI c',ar.
w. and ihis, TOO, entirely unsolicited by her c.s
tIn.uished Senator. Ne rvl ,icc NJ Ihis and al
the more that lie has been assa ed b, 50 many
Senators fIom the slave states, the men Of marx
IN the DO IKE Berrien and aud DAVIS Of Hiss
as we'll as lis mounlebank, NJ. Foote.-.Nn
QFThe following aie Nh We5sier's remarks
on Monday, IN relation u receiving q petition
asking for dissolution Of the Cn.oH:
lr. President, aa much o5illel TO ihe men-
Der from Michigan, Tor Inc c.eif ness alt luce
with which he has expressed opinions in ahcl,
in the main, | entirely concur especially % what
he says OF that existing idealIsn which | ind
spread ever The country, that there can be may
be such a thing as peaceabe breaking Up Of
this Union.
am quite sorry that my friend from New
Hampshire has presented any such petition as
this, and | shall be quite surprised If there
be any votes IN The Senate receiving It. II would
be on our part an assumption OF power; 1t would
look as If by possibility We could DO something
10 the effect aud with tie tendency which Ills,
| will say presumptuous petition, from Whatever
source 1t comes, calls upon US to do.
| think the substance o. this petliiln is such
that, to be appropriate, I; should have had pre-
aabe ~ these words:
"Genticmen members Of Congress, whsr IS,
n the Commencement Of this session You sal
each Of you tJuk yoJr solemn oaiLs 10 tue pres
ence OF God, and on tie Il ly EsaHre.ists, That
you would support the constitution oi the UNI
.cG States {; now, therefore, we pray ycu 90 ia,s
immediate steps 10 break up tAe Union, aud
overthrow the constitution Of the United Suies
- soon as YOU caa. Anj, as IN duty bound, We
vii ever pray
A. r,S< srhaff- - ratio
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-02-21

California Politics. We learn from the " al
ia California" of Dec 81 that the Wings of San
Francisco met o. the 9Th and organized for the
first time as a political party. 3. Simmons Is
chairman of the committee FIR the city, and
Frederick Billings was nominated as a candidate
for vacancy in the Legisiature-both Vernon
tiers and Woodstock men, Fed, we are happy
to learn in other ways, is dong well. Good
luck 10 him.
The vote on the Constitution in California
stood ayes l2.06l, noes sill.