The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-08-26

still. small voice of commendation from this res
pectable whig paper is heard with delight amid
the storm of calumny and detraction which as
sails our noble leader:
..All who have with an impartial eye observ-
ed the conduct of the nominee of the democrat
ic party for the Office of President, must nave
been struck with his unobtrusive and modest
course, and not less with the high and manly
spirit evinced whenever called upon to act OF
sneak These traits of character are rare IN
public men, and especially among those VINO
bred to other pursuits, quit them in time OF war
for services in the field. They arc ever associ-
ated with the highest qualities of mind and of
heart and win for their possessor the respect
and esteem which General Pierce's nelghoors
and friends so generally and so warmly felt to-
wards him. We were lately near his residence
in the Granite Hills, and should personally have
paid our respects to him, but that it might have
been misrepresented We heard, however, not
only from his political friends, but also from his
political opponents, his neighbors and acquain-
tances, the most friendly and respectful, and of
ten the most enthusiastic, testimony of his high
and noble qualities. Even in the time of Judge
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had command of the State, but that he never
used his power and influence for himself, as he
preferred ever to live among his neighbors as a
private citizen, enjoying the honors awarded to
him on all hands as the head Of the bar of New
Hampshire. His resignation as senatorin Con-
gress, as an officer of the army when service
could no longer be rendered, and lis refusal to
accept the Office Of Attorney General and the gu
bernatoral chair of his State, are acts in harm
ony with the universal opinion held towards him
by his neighbors and friends. Gen. Pierce,
however, by no act or procurement Of his, and
from the spontaneous action of the Democratic
Convention-such it unquestionable was, for we
were present and witnessed-has become the
nominee Of the great party which it represented
for the presidential Office, and instantly his
whole career is examined for some spot or blem-
ish on which calumny may expatiate until the ell
ections have decided the questions now before
the country. A career which opened un-
der the teaching of an ancestry which had
fought and bled in the country's service in the
great battle of the revolution, an ancestry fam
Gus for its high and patriotic tone and bearing,
was beginning which could by no possibility
terminate in the dishonor which party maligni-
ty would now attach to the name of Gen. Pierce.
Throughout the war in Mexico he acted with
courage; and if he erred at ali, it was on the
side of imprudence and unnecessary exposure.
The spontaneous tribute of Gen. Scott, paid to
Gen. Pierce when the nomination of the former
was first announced at Washington by an assem-
bled crowd, proves incontestably that the senti-
ment of the army towards General Pierce, was
such as ever attends soldier who has courage
ously performed his duty in battle. The name
and fame of those who have rendered patriotic
service are dear to the American people, and
should be protected from unjust attack"
SurmountinS Difficulty.
A correspondent of the Scientific American
describes an interesting method adopted by a
Yankee Of East Dorset, Vermont, of transport
ing timber from the Green Mountains. The
gentleman referred to had contracted to furnish
the Western Vermont railroad with 80, 900 ties
and other timber. As the only place from
which he could get ties and timber was three
miles distant from the railroad on the tops of
the Green Mountains, in place inaccessible by
any feasible road, his friends joined in the pre-
dictions that it was impossible for him to fulfill
the contract. He ascended through narrow
ravine to the mountains top and there gathered
in vast pile 50, 900 ties and other timbers-
Then the question arose with every one, by what
means is this to be conveyed to the railroad ?
Only few weeks of summer is allowed to ac-
complish it in, and nothing but rocks and gull
lies intervene. Surely, necessity is the mother
ofinvention.' He goes to work and builds
a small substantial spout or flume of long mar
row plank, stretching from rock to rock down
the mountain gorge. Here it rests rock,
there high on the branches of tree, and there
again high in the air, it threads across the val
ley supported like telegraph wire. In four OF
five weeks the three miles were completed, al
built in the most substantial manner. A small
stream of water is turned into the fume, TWEEN
ty men go merrily to work dashing in the heavy
ties and timbers; away they fly as on the wings
of dove. In four summer days that pile oi
$500 tons Of lumber is conveyed, without coast
from the Green Mountains in Peru to the rail,
road in Dorset.
The fume still stands, and the thousands Of
acres hitherto worthless, can now be cleared oi
lumber and fuel, and Will make the fortune OF
the proprietor.
Bonararte ina tE;e American Army.
A promotion of 43 cadets Of the Military Ac
ademy at West Point has just taken place in th'
g. S. Army We remark among the numbe
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