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Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-18

Here Is unquestlonably an alarming
symptom; aud the inquiry will be imme-
diately made Are we 10 have such
times, aud such pressures, as followed
the expansions of 1916 and 1885, By
no means. IL Is questionable whether
we shall have any "pressurep that will
effect the people generally. Why mott
Like causes will produce like effects
Unquestionably; but, the financial con-
dition of country II always modified, by
many causes, and that of which we speak
Is only one. In this case, all other con-
ditons of the problem are different from
what they were in 1916, or in 1896
We will mention some Of these difieren-
ces, and the grounds Of confidence.
I'm 1916, and in 1886, the money
OF circulation was mostly paper; which,
if not redeemed in specie, was compara-
lively worthless. In lSl6,the paper cir
culation was to the coin, as 1 to / (Uide
Record, page y and in 1896, it was a.
to ] but in 1853. il is about to 1. The
differeece is immense. In 1916, the
coin in the country was only S7,500, 600;
in 1886, S2S 900 900; but in 1853, the
coin and bullion is, at least $l60, 100000!
The coin in the country is actually S20,-
OOO, 900 more than il was year since
The paper and coin circulation OF the
United States now equal three hundred
and ttceniy millions, or about IL to I OF
the population In this state Of things
II is utterly impossible that the currency
should not continue sound and safe.--
This taxes out one of the greatest evils
Of 1916. and 1886. SO
2.---The heavy crops, and high prices
Of those crops, enable the farmers to
make ready payments, and accumulate
surplus means, which did not exist In
former periods Of embarras
3.-The accumulated capital Of the
country, in the past ten years, enables
US to be less dependent on foreign capi-
ital, and TO have q surplus continual,
returning for new works. For example,
the railroad dividends amount now TO
about hpenty millions per dnntm, and
double that sum In their actual pay
ments. Here is IN immense income,
most Of which is surplus, to be turned
over 10 new uses. .4. a..ui lea 80
4.-The exports now are much great
or, In proportion TO the imports, than
they were In the two former periods we
have referred to.
The following are the deficits Of ex-
ports, under imports, In each OF the
three periods:
ist period, isls, 40. ~. 'is,..... sies 100000
9d period, ie9i, IS, 70, T,''."' iioooopoo
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-18
Total, S4sl, 1000
Average, ge,...... l20.256 900

Average, l20.256,000
This period was followed, by one Of
great mercantile depression. The storm
swept over tho Western country, In lS-
10, 80, 81, -, prostrating every bank
making all property unsaleable, and re-
quiring ten years for the peoplcto to recov-
or from the shock. Ten years after
this, the average imports OF the country,
were FORTY millions less per dnnum, and In
that period the country recovered It's
prosperity, and elasticity. In a short
time, ouertrdding was again commenced,
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-18

or Gov. Joe Lane. OF Oregon, and
Lieut.. Allen, Of tho army, were both
wounded In an engagement with the
Rogue River Indians.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-18

or The work on the ship canal
around the falls OF st. Mary, will DO
continued through the winter. On ac-
CONT OF the increase OF wages, IL will
lost much more than half a million OF
dollars,-the original computation.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-18

In the Tour Years which followed, The
banks Of he country tioice suspended, and
the bankrupt net, swept of .fps hundred
millions Of dollars IN ieorthiess debisi
In the ten years, which followed that
period, the average Imports OF the conn-
try were thirty millions per anntm less, /,
and the country again recovered Its COM
merclal health; but, In tho four last
yeara. Wa have this result: Pee
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-11-18

0TThero have been about sixty-threc
millions OF dollars nominally subscribed
TO the Pac ifc Railway, at New York
Mr.. Gray, the Engineer, Is organizing
his surveying party and will soon set
out for the Rio Grundo.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Female Women.

The editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Repu6-
can. is in love with temaie women-he appears
to adore them, but he hates the mate women
Hear him talk
1--we respect, admire, and love female wo-
man. We admire her in the beauty of her per-
son, her moral presence, and her position we
respect her simple trutAfulness and innocence,
and we love her as the embodiment of the high
est charms and sweetest attributes of humanity.
But a male woman, who can rear We cannot
read of monster meetings III which women per-
form the principal parts of lectures on the
subject of marriage, to all class IS by female
tongues and of the perambulating female
sponters who go about the country, without an
involuntary emotion of disgust. Many OF these
women have families of tender age at home, and
husbands who should have tender heads. Home
duties are fnrsaken, and the misguided mistress
ses go about teaching other people thelr duties
What comfortable wives the must be What
kind and assiduous mothers How they must
hqIow home that is too small TO hold them -
Gods of war We would soon live with
hyena. or a steam engine Don't come this
way, We beg of you %
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Good Advice.

A Messenger of Adam & Co. Express. gives
the following good advice to persons sending
packages by express. We commend it TO the
attention of ''all whom it may concern -
''Make up your parcels in good thick parer
or if the paper be light. use two or three thick
nesses. tie up with strong cord or twine. and
mark them in letters legihle the signature
of John Hancock in the Declaration of Indep
dence. Paper hoxes are poor things to trust for
outside packages. 1t is curious to see the shape
that hats assume in pa H.tters and miliners
use light wooden boxes for this purpose, and
make great saving by it. Don't pack raw
turkey. half peck of cranherries, stone jar
'of pickles. two thin glass bottles of preserved
sweetmeats, and picked horse radish, bottle
of ink, daguerreotype, two or three letters,
and parcel of expensive lace and infant appa-
rel. with a handful of hay, all in the same box
1t is possible that some of them would spde.-
In fact to tell the whole truth a
case, or rather a box in which it had been tried,
and, as You are born, it was sight to
behold. The close atmosphere of the box had
not improved the sweethes Of tile turkey. of
course. and the stone jars of pickles had
pitched incOntinently into the weaker vessels y
the horse radish and ieies had united, with no
advantage TO their own flavor. and very unpro-
ftable for the album. daguerrotype, lace work
and infantine clothing, which they had com
pletely saturated
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
OromedarY Riding.

Bayard Taylor, in a recent letter from South
ern Nuhia. publi he'd in tire New York TriJUne.
in which he describes n ride across the great
Nuban Desert, thus speaks Of the pleasures
and pecularities of dromedary riding. 81 found
dronedary riding not Mt all difficult One sits
a lofty seat, with his feet across over the an
mals shoulders, resting on his neck. The
body is obliged to rock backwards and forwards.
account of the long swinging gait, and as
there is stay fucrum. except blunt pom
MEL around which the legs are crossed. some
little power Of equilibrium is necessary. My
dromedary was strong stately beast. ofa light
cream color and so gait, that il would
bear the Arab test; that is one might drink "A
cup of coffee while going full trot. without
sPilling drop. | found n great advantage in
the use of the Turkish costume. My trousers.
which contain eighteen yards of muslin though
they only reach to the knees. allow the leg per
feet freedom of motion. and have learnt So
many different modes of crossing those members
that no day is sufficient to exhaust them. The
rising and kneeling of the animal i hazardous
at first, rs his long legs double like carpenter
rule. and YOU thrown forward and backward
again, but the trick is soon learned. The sore
ness and fatigue of which mary travellers com
plain have not experienced. | ride from eight
to ten hours day. read and dream in the snd-
die, and am fresh and unweary as when be
gan the journey
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Saw Mills.
The Boston Journal says:

The Boston Journal says:
1.-The old practice in making boards. was TO
split the logs with wedges; and. announcement as
the practice WAS it WIS no easy thing to pur
suade the world that it could be done in any
better way. Saws were afterwards introduced
for the purpose of pr eparing timber and boards
and ..bits" were then invented for the action 0f
the two handed saw. This mode OF saving logs
was greatly in use in New England. where water
power could not easily he obtained. in the early
pant of the present century; and probably.
there are plls es yet where they are known and
render useful service. Saw mills first
used in Europe in the fifteenth century: hut 50
latey as 1855, an English ambassador. having
seen "a saw mill in France thought il a novelty
which deserved particular description. 1t is
amusing To see how the aversion to labor saving
machinery has always agitated England The
first SAY mill was established by dutchmau in
1868; but the public outcFy against the ncw-fan-
ged machine was so violent that the proprietor
was forced te decamp with more expedition rham
ever did Dutchman before. The evil was thus
kept out of England for several years, on rather
generations: bat in lT6S, unlucky timber
merchant hoping that after SO long "a time. the
public would he less watchful Of its own inter
ests made rash attempt tn constru another
mill. The guardians Of the public welfare. how
ever, were the alert, and a conscientious mob
at once collected and pulled the mill to pieces"
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Serious Accidsnt---Faliing of a Roof, and Pro
bable Loss OF Life.

About five o'clock yesterday evening, por-
ton Of the roof and of the southern wall Of
Clark & Thaw's large warehouse. on the corner
of Penn and Wayne streets: fell with loud,
crash, burying laboring man named james
Purcell in the ruins, and nficting injuries OF
so serious nature to render his recovery
highly improbable. John Gray, foreman Of the
warehouse. and Patrick Fitzgerald and John
Ward. laboreis, were somewhat hurt, though
not dangerously. Mr.. Clark, "a member of the
firm, saved himself from injury by jumping on
:, canal boat lying by the warehouse door The
boat on which Mr.. G.. secured II footing. and
which was laden with dry goods, was broken
in, and the cargo slightly damaged. quan,l-
ty of -four in the upper story fell through, and
several barrels STAYED in. The cause of
the accident is believed to he n deficiency in the
foundation of the building, which covers n large
area The loss, which has not yet been fully
estimated will amount to n considerable sum.
In case of the death of Purcell, who, rs is ahnve
stated, will hardly survive, Coroner's jury
will officially determine the cause of the unfor
tunate occurrence. II l'ttsburg Union, March 20.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Lime-Water for Hens.

During the last season Mr.. Jos. Wilcox, Of
this town, having occasion to administer lime,
water to a sick horse, inadvertently lett pan
of the preparation in his barn, which remalnea
there for some months, serving as favorite dr!nA
for his hens. lie soon afterwards found thar
the layinc of his hens was apparently increased
to considerable extent Being conyincedol %
the Importance of the Ito him) new discovery
he has during the present season kept his neHs
constantly supplied with hme-water placed !.
troughs within their convenient access, ana tn0
result was an increase of nearly four fold as com
pared with previous experience. The neWh'., ;,
of the discovery though il may not be new IA
ally is claimed only as applicable to the Nm n
Of importinr the lime in this case its use u
another form, for the same purpose, having Ts..
previously understood BY many.-HdS"s ''
tinsl.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Tho Fittsburg POST

Mr.. Harper, editor of the above paper in his
paper of Saturday last, publishes the card of n
number of passengers over the Pennsylvania
Railroad, written at Hollidaysburg. under date
of March 18th, which complains of the detention
and delays on that route, and advises passen-
gers going east or west to take some other route.
1t appears these passengers had ''missed the
connection, at the Mountain House, and were,
therefore, delayed.
Mr.. Harper in commenting upon the card re-
ferred 10, goes on to say s'that there is gross
mismanagement on the line of road between
Pittsburg and Philadelphia" and that 1.-THE
Pennsylvania Railroad is not the party in fault"
''that the cars of that company are always up to
time, unless unavoidable accident should pre-
vent" and that 1.-The delays which cause all the
trouble and give rise to all the complaint are
on that portion of the railroad owned by the
state, and controlled by its agents" He excu-
ses the Penna. Railroad and lays all the blame
upon the poor old Portage
When man begins to 60 "down hill" the
saying is that everybody gives him kick. So
with the Portage-as it is fading from OR view,
Mr.. Harper in givngit a kick expects to knock
it out of sight. The Post further says, Through
gross mismaEagement and reckless earelessness.
the Portage Road has become terror to tray-
ellers. Neither life nor property is safe in pas
sing over it" Mr.. Harper having crossed and
re-crosscd the road number of times during
the last year or so, must be courageous man
TO have brared the dangers of the Portage and
SO often hazarded his precious life. Perhaps he
has it insured We warrant you that were the
Portage Road a Cabinet Officer, it would be
delightful Portage" 'most excellent Portage"
"soundly democratic Portage" 'safe, speedy
Portage" But the poor Portage has s'no friends
to reward" The Portage cannot be "a terror
to travellers" because, during its existence for
twenty years, there has not BEEN to our knowl-
edge, single passenger killed IN crossing Over 1t.
Can your Pennsylvania Road, your Cumberland,
or your Penna. and Ohio Road tell as good a
tale True. it causes the death of dozen or
so persons, yearly, through their own careless
ness, but passengers have so far, been exempt
from injury, and while We are content that the
Portage should be held accountable for its vic
tins, we are not content that it should be over
charged with slaughter, uncommitted. And
furthermore, ''the cars of the Penna. Road" are
not ''always up to time" There has been much
more detention during the past six months upon
the Perna. Read, than upon the Portage, rs can
be easily showR, and which is universally ad-
mitted by those who ought to know. The old
Portage is dying Mr. Harper-t has grown into
s'the scar and yellow leaf''-be kind to it in its
old age and bear patiently its few faults
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Combinations, Appointments, Sc.

NAsUINCTON, MaFch y.
The Senate to day, confrn.ed Hon. Hugh J.
Anderson. of Maine, Commissioner of Customs;
Richard F. Hammond, Collector at San Francis
CO. aud Philip \. Roach. ApPrtscrat SAN Fran
cisco, and Henry Wilton, Marshal Of Illinois.
The President has nominated Nathaniel naw
thorne. Of Mass, (the Bioglupbcr), Consul at
Liverpool Thomas p. Pierce Ga distant rGa-
tive of the Prcsdent). Post master at IlilIsbor-
ough. \. Hampshire; Benjamin Jackaway, In
dian Agent of the Choctaw Agency.
The Senate viii probably adjourn finally on
Monday.
The Census Bureau is about being re-organ-
zed. The clerical force is to he increased to
nbout 40 hy reinstatements and perhaps new ap-
pOiutments.
6. W. Featherstonaugh has posted A. McEa-
ton, of Wisconsin,
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31

nI~ Fetter continues to take admirable like
nesses in the Academy building, and we advise
our citizens to call upon him soon if they desire
n life-lke portrait He has the best selection
of paper mache, tortoise e-shell. and fancy cases
that we have ever seen, and he can take as cor
rect and perfect likeness as Root or White
hurst. We intend having our ''rhiz" daguerre-
otyped, and would say to our friends ego thou.
and do likewise" Such souvenir will be
highly priced after you have ''shufied off this
mortal COLL by those friends you have left be-
hind. Get it done, and quickly, ere it be too
late
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31

GG5- Early last week, man named McCaf-
frey, in jumping off the cars ut Jefferson, was
thrown with his breast against a switch, from
the effects of which he died on Sunday morning.
ROn Friday last carman named Egan,
rs he was conducting train over the Portage
Road, which was into by another train
near the big viaduct, had both legs crushed
between the bumpers. He died on Tuesday,
and leaves wife and six children to mourn his
loss.
EGrA section boat was thrown off the track
near Jefferson, Tuesday; one of the mules
sprang cut of the hatch and the fall broke its
neck, causing Immediate death.
Ba~ Tuesday and Wednesday were delightful
days-admirably adapted for the moving of
household and kitchen furniture. Several of
our citizens changed their residence.
ss.g-M~. James Runyan had one of his feet
badly crushed between two cars, at Plane No
4, one day last week. lie is recovering from
the accident
gG~LARGE VEGETABLEs.-We are requested
70 state that Mr.. Peter McGraw, near Plane No
4, raised a beet, lest season, which measured
e6 inches in length, and l74 inches in circum-
ference, and a head or cabbage which weighed
23 lbs. 1t is worthy of remark that these yege-
tables were grown in ground among the hemlock
trees which was not mannTed
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Blair County Affairs.

We learn from tho Standard that the trial of
James Shirley. for the murder of his wife, COM
menced on Friday last, and would not conclude
before to-day or tomorrow
Henry Calm and Martin Donahue, convicted
of Larceny, were sentenced to Is months inn
prisonment in the Penitentary. Ed 7ard o.
Reilly, convicted of Larceny, sentenced to two
years imprisonment in the Pententiary. Dan
iel and Martin Keith and Peter Burns, convicted
of an aggravated riot, and assault with intent
to kill, sentenced: the Kieths to Is months i'm
prisonment in the Penitentary, and Burns l
year in thu same institution
An Irish woman from one of the railroad sec
tions, was hastily buried in the Catholic grave
yard in Hollidaysburg last week afterwards
infirmaton made to the police force that she
came to her death from the maltreatment of her
husband, and suspicious were abroad that she
had been murdered. The body was disiuterred
and post naortem examination made by Drs.
Rodrigue, Christy and Mckee, who discovered
that she had died of disease of the lungs The
husband who had been arrested was discharged.
On Monday evening, a young man named
George Shade, employed as driver on the rail
road, in Gaysport, while hauling two sections
of boat, fell upon the track, and two wheels
of the truck passed over his left arm complete
ly crushing it. The arm was amputed, and the
sufferer is doing well.
new locomotive, named the Jupiter is at
Gaysport. 1t is intended for the heavy grade
at the foot of Plane No. q, and is, no doubt, "a
screamer," having no less than eighteen wheels
TO Sruport the enpine and fender
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Nominations and Combinations.

WASHINGTON, March 29.-Tbe President nom
mated to the Senate, to-day, ex-senator Dicku-
son, as Collector ex-senator Dix, MS Sub Trea-
surer and Charles O'Connor, as District Attor-
neY for New York. These nominations took the
Senate by surprise, and it is said were received
with laugh all round, and then confirmed i'm
mediately.
The Hon. Volvney E. Howard. of Texas, ap-
pointed rs Land Agent, to represent the United
States before the Board of Commissioners on
California Land Claims, took the oath of Office
to- day.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Later from Buenos Ayres.

NEW YORK, March 70.
Dates from Buenos Ayres to Jan. 20 had been
received. The city still closely besieged
and skrmishes taking plnee daily. The
Governor had issued proclamation requiring
all males to unite in driving off the insurgents,
and consequently nearly the whole population
was under arms. There prospect of the
siege being raised, Urquiza having immense in
fuence over the country people. Produce was
scarce aud business was suspended.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
1sECoND DESPATH. I
The killed and wounded.

BALTIMORE, March %.
The accident occurred at o'clock this morn
ing The train was coming east from Cumber-
land 1t consisted of a baggage car and three
passenger cars drawn by one heavy and one
small engine. When passing the ''eight feet
filing on section T6, descending curved grade
of lG feet to Cheat River, the heavy engine
started the nails binding the rails to the ties
All the train passed over safely except the two
last passenger cars, which by the parting of the
track were thrown down the river side Of the
embankment, falling the frightful distance %.
over 100 feet and making four somersets before
they reached the base, when they were shatter-
ed TO fragments. and many Of the unfortunate
inmates were either sadly injured or Instantly
killed.
There were forty passengers IN the two cars.
The following are dead: Daniel Holt of Balti
more E; Aurelius Talle, supposed to be from
South CaaUlina; Lewis Define. French emf
grant rnturning home from California; Richard
Clayton. Of Wesyille, Virginia; young lady
and a middle aged gentleman, supposed to be
from Kentucky 4; n small stepson Of Robert Muir
ray, the supervisor on the road and child Of
Mr. GeIse, of st. Louis, on his way to New Y YOrk.
MIR. Gese and his lady were both much injured.
They are with their three other children now at
Cumberland A train left Cumberland this
morning for the locality of the sad occurrence
with physicians and comforts for the sufferers.
who will be brought TO Cumberland al five o'clock
this evening. when full particulars Of the aeci-
don't. together with the names of the wounded
viii be received.
The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-31
Dreadful a Accident the Ba1ftm ore anu
Ohio RaiIroad--Loss OF Life
BALTIMORE, March %.

BALTIMORE, March -.
a most distressing accident Occurred about .
o'clock SUNDAY afternoon on the fillmore and
Ohio Railr al. about seventy miles westoi CGm-
herland. The train rFn on the track. and a
number Of passengers were killed and wound
ed. The particulars have not Yet beeH receiY-
cd but five arc known to have been killed and
a number Of others are more or less ininred
Among the killed are Mr.. Daniel Hel' cf ti'
firm Of Messrs. Holt & Maltby, oyster dealers,
Of this city. young woman and child, and two
strangers, names unknown.