The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-04-08
NaTietieS.

see wild your eyes shut de great tilutity OBJ bein'
posted in de siance.'
The Professor thinks it a natural disgrace
that America was discovered by ''furriner''
EPITAPH.-The following is q copy of an Epi-
| taph on an old Tombstone in Scotland:
Here lies the body of Alexander Mcpherson,
| Who was very extraordinary person;
He was two yards high in his stocking feet
And kept his accoutrements clean and neat
He slew
At the battle of Nsterloo,
Plump through
The gullet 1t went III at the throat
And came out at the back of his coat.
CAPITAL PUNIsHMEST-A report Of the Select
COMMITTEES TO the Legislature Of Pennsylvania,
on the Abolition of Capital Punishment, says,
that in fifty -four years seventy persons have been
executed in this State for murder. or one hun
dred and eleven persons who have been charged
with murder in Philadelphia county, only ten
were capitally convicted, three Of these were
pardoned, two died before the sentence. and only
five were executed, being one in twenty-five of
the indicted. The Committee, after g careful con-
sideration of the subject, have come to the con-
clusioa that the death punishment, as penalty
for crime, out to be abolished.
Iron VEssELs OF WAR.-Some experiments
ct the Washington Navy Yard have been made,
which would seem TO establish the unhtneSs OF
iron as material for the hulls ofyessels of war.
4 condemned iron vessel was procured sn eight
inch shell was fired st her from 56-pOunder
gum at q distance of three hundred and fifty
yards. The shell went clear through both the
sides of the vessel, tearing large ragged holes
(much larger than the diameter Of the shell, and
too irregular for plugging, snd scattering small
and jagged fragments of iron, which in an &C
ton would be likely to prove more dangerous to
her own crew than the shot from enemy's
battery. Another shell fired at her wooden bull
warks made only clean, round hole.
A Costly ARsrY.-The discussion in Congress
on the Deficiency Bill, reveals some interesting
facts respecting the army. The navy used TO
be considered the moth that eat up large share
of the public revenue without rendering any
adequate equivalent, but the army seems to be
putting in its claims to considerable amount
The army numbers ten thousand men. Last
year Congress made an appropriation of one
million of dollars for the simple purpose of
transporting men, provisions and military stores
from one post to another. By some manage
ment of the War Department, it has been made
to cost US two millions or thereabouts, at the
rate Of two hundred dollars to every man in the
army The entire expenses of our army amount
ed last year to ten millions, or q thousand dol
lars man
A TRUE SToRY-A lady from the Far West
was, with her husband, awakened on the night
of their arrival in the city of Penn, by an alarm
of fire, and the yells of several companies Of
fremen, as they dashed along the streets.
Husband! husband" she cried, shaking her
worser-half into conscientiousness, ''only hear
the Injuns Why this beats all the scalp-dances
l ever heard J!
e.Nonsense," groWled the husband, composing
himself to sleep,-''There are no Indians IN fhl-
ladelphia."
..No Injuns, indeed As if 1 didn't know
war whoop when L heard one"
Next morning on descending to breakfast, they
were saluted with
..Did you hear the engine, last night What
q noise they made"
Turning to her husband, with on air of tri-
umph, the lady exclaimed-' There, told you
they trere I,yuns 20
WHAT A CoUxTRY.-The Cincinnati CONNER
cial piles UP the agony, and goes it with per-
feet rush, in a shouting paragraph, as follows
awe have the longest railway and telegraph
lines, the best wives, the fattest children, the
biggest rivers, the fastest steamboats,, the worst
police the adroitest rascals the sun ever shone
on. and can put chunk of ice in one of Hulls
20 info NpSnyluS haul
it out in after years, and cool a lemonade with
its contents. In short, we are one mighty mass
of conglomerated usefulness, each fragment do
ing the best for ITSELF but all making one mighty
big circumstance for the whole, as the hunter
said when he split fence rail for a ramrod.
Mov1SG.-Reader did you ever move? If SO,