The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-05-27
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

would be fatigued after running all day, obser-
we'd Sam. ''Wen, yes,'' replied Seth, taking
squint at them, ''they do appear to be tired"
| BEF FMATR1MoNY.-Ho buckwheat cakes
warm beds-ccmfortable slippers-smoking cof-
fee-round arms-red hps-ect., ect.-shirts
exulting in buttons-redeemed stockings-boot
jacks-happiness, &C., sc.
geasSINGLE BLEssEDNEss.-Sheet iron quilts
blue noses-frosty rooms-ice in the pitcher
--unregenerated hnen-heeless stockings-cof-
fee sweetened with icicles-gutta percha bis
cuits-fabby steak--dull lraZors-cerns-coughs
and eholics, rhubarb, aloes, misery, sc. Ugh
The humorous Dean Swift whose antipathy TO
fishing was well known, having been asked by a
child what fishing rod meant
| Itmeans my dear sir said he only a long
pole with worm on one end and fool at the
other
! An Irish editor in speaking of the miseries of
Ireland, says. ''Her cup of misery has been
for ages overfowing and is not yet JaH.''
A CURE FOR SORE EYEs-The dust On an hon
est miller's hat.
| INDIANS STARVED TO DBATH.-The Minnesota
Pioneer says, that report has come from the Lac
qui Parlee, that over 40 Indians-men women
and dchildren-were found starved to death. hav-
ing eaten their dogs, moccasins, skin tents, and
every thing that could afford the least sustenance
| 1t was feared, last summer, that the loss of
crops by the floods would result disastrously to
them. We forbear to mention all the horrible
details we have heard of their suffering
B5@An exchange paper says-''Those far
mers who hesitate about their inability to take
q newspaper, are requested to keep one hen
more than usual. The profits will pay all
costs'
gGTOLE Built is said that this talented
musician intends to settle in the State of Virgin
ia, where he has purchased some lands, and is
about shortly to make arrangements for an ear
ly occupation of them. He has been somewhat
interrupted in his plans by the many requests
made to him to give few concerts in Washing
ton, Baltimore Philadelphia, and lastly New
York.
| B95@T The Democrats of the fifth district of
North Carolina have nominated Mr. buchanan
for the Presidency.
BsE DEMOCRATIC DELEGArEs.-The Demo-
the Hon. John N. Mason as one of the Delegates
to the Baltimore Convention. Both him and his
colleagues are said to be friends of Mr. Buchan-
an for the Presidency.
| nsa.It is singular how pious fresh clothes
makes people For month after Mrs Smith
ers gets a new mantilla, she is at church three
| times day. Should a woman paint heaven, it
Ill
brocade satin
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CoSyENTIoS-
The Baltimore 4rgus says the Committee of Ar
rangements are unwearied in their exertions to
perfect all measures which may tend to render
this Convention and its accessories, the greatest
ever held in this country. At meeting of the
Committee held yesterday, it was unanimously
resolved to invite all the Democratic members of
Congress, and of the State Legislature, to occu-
Ply seats on the floor of the Hall of the Maryland
Institute, during the sitting of the National Con-
vention.
| sa3THE STATE LoAS.-Fifty Thousand Dol
lars will be saved to the Commonwealth every
year, by Gov Bigler's fortunate suggestion to
negotiate loan of Sd, 900, 900 at 5 per cent,
ioA the PhPose VI PdyIhS the U per cent, loans
falling due in 1853 and 1854.
The latest theory in relation to the origin
| of the Mammoth Cave is that it was ''dug 6y
Daniel Boone for the purpose of hiding IL, from
the LRgnS :" This opinion was advanced by O
young hoosier in the neghborhood of Terre
Haute, who, we suppose, had just graduated in
some college.
gsA-Dr. Beeswax, in his essay on Woman,' -
says, 81 have made woman my study for series
| of years, but never found one who suffered.
| met with any number of men, every day, who
st-st-ammer, but never have 1 seen q woman
couldn't blow an unbroken blast"
| Bas@A project is broached is the southern
| (La.) Sentinel, which proposes that on the day
of the Presidential election in the several States
at every poll throughout the United States, a
box should be placed, having inscribed upon it
ssWashington Monument Box" and underneath
seOne Dime to the Memory of Washington
With the funds thus collected it proposes to COM
plete the Monument.
| BGs"The Massachusetts, Liquor-I4aw has been
signed by the Governor This is the law which
was passed after the Governors veto. The lie
gislature, we think, caught the Governor in o
kind of trap. 1t is evident, from his veto mes
sage, that he disapproves of the iquor-law, and
probably, to avoid the responsibility of going
against the wishes of the people, he chose to We