The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-09-09

\ staunch and stern disciple she
OF Calvin's fiery creed.
At meeting twice week, in prayer
Would she so strongly wrestle,
That all the wondering neighbors thonght
She was chosen vessel.
But old John Tuell, he was said
To be hardened man,
Who to perceive his fallen state
Had never yet began.
His dame had often preached to him,
That man was wholly evil,
And tried to stir his conscience up,
And scare him with the Devil.
But John would only smoke his pipe
Or drop into dose,
Or say, s.Wall meow, l rather guess
You'd better fix my hose ~
This night, dame Tuell in her sleep
Grew conscious of some sound,
But thinking it must be dream
She only turned her round.
Till loud and long, the yo-O-o,
Came ringing in her ear;
She started, woke, and plunged beneath
The bed-clothes in her fear.
On howled the hound, his voice grew as
He exercised it more;
Such hideous cries had ne'r been heard,
In Cooper town before.
The dame as meath the clothes she hid,
Half petrifed by fright,
Thought that the world was at an end,
And this the final night.
An hour or more she trembling lay,
And scarce her breath could take,
She did not dare to speak or move
The slumbering John to wake.
At last the morning dawned, and she
A little courage took,
And with weak and trembling hand
Her sleepy spouse she shook.
''Get up, for Gods sake! John, get up.
All flesh awaits its doom,
/ hear the trumpet loud proclaim
The day of Judgments come,
Hark, bark how near the awful peal
That calls us all from hence,
I'm sure the Angel of the Lord
Has perched upon our fence
All UbIIis IL Is NOuI elUlC
That makes him come so near,
Get up, get up and dress yourself,
I'm almost dead with fear"
But John he only turned him DER
And grunted, he would fain
Have shut his ears to all she said
And gone to sleep again.
But Mrs. Tuell kicked and shook,
And gave such earnest cries,
OF '.man get up the Judgments comei'
That he just oped his eyes,
And murmured, ''Wall, if Judgement-day
Is as you assert
Just let me be, l can't show forth,
You know, Eve no clean shirt?"
''But hear" she cried, ''that solemn sound
To linger now's no use,
You're like the wedding guests who all
Began to make excuse ~
So out of Led with plunge and push
She thrust her drowsy half,
Who staggering to the window burst
Into loud hoarse laugh
''Why, Beck 70 he cried, ''you often take
Your husband for hog,
But now you hear an Angel in
Nation ugly dog :"
This story soon got wind and when
Dame Tuell walked abroad,
Folks often asked, ''when she'd heard
The Angel of the Lord -
Nor held she forth again in prayer,
But would some urchin pert
Hint, ''Judgment-day was coming, and
She'd better wash Johns shirtl'
Now, if Dame Tuell's piety
Had really been sincere,
l can't tell why the Judgement-day
Had caused her so much fear
But this learn, she afterwards
Left others souls alone,
And stayed at home to spin and cook,
And get her washing done.
And farther still, that honest John
When in his home began
Such pleasant change, in gratitude
Turned quite pious man.
A happy couple they, and could
Their after life be seen,
1 doubt not they'd be ever found
With shirt and conscience clean.
July 20, 1852.
INFORMATION WANTED.-If the wings, aft'
lacing citizen of North Carolina on their til
ct, and after making unprecedented ezertior
y the circulation of New Boston Gbels, congre
ional certificates, secret circulars and pictur'
looks, by thousands and ten of thousands, ca
lot carry the old North State, what State ca
hey carry? That is the question of the da.
md it is very perplexing and hard to answe