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Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-12-16
A Thief in a Trap.

The Evansville (Ia.) Journal gives an account
of a curious attempt at robbery in that city. 1t
seems thot few nights ago the Rev Mr. McCa-
rer, of Evansville, was disturbed twice in the
course of the night by noise about the house
Upon making his second thorough search, he
tracked the noise TO the chimney. a close ex-
animation convinced him that some owl or other
wild animal had taken up quarters there for the
night In truly unchristian spirit, he resolved
to burn the intruder out, when what was his sur
prise as the big volumes of smoke and fame roll
ed up the chimney, to hear halfsdhed voice
proceed from the iue, imploring him TO ''put out
the fire" The fire was Immediately quenched,
the city marshal was sent for, and the occupant
of the chimney, who turned out TO be a strapping
thief was hoisted out of his nest by means of a
strong rope. He confessed that he had been par
tcularly struck with the appearance of a fine
watch which Mr.. McCarer, had worn, and had
resolved in this way 10 gain an entrance and APP
propriate the same for his own Unfortu-
nately for himself, he forgot to measure the size
of the chimney beforehand, and ON arriving at the
bottom of it. found himself in sort of eUl de
The apperature was too small for him to pass
through, and all his attempts 10 ascend proved
fruitless 1t was the noise he made in trying to
return which aroused his captors.
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EBENSBIRC, FRIDAY, DECEMBER is, 1853.

cadets. Supper comes next, and after supper re-
creation until eight o'clock, when the bugle sounds
to call to quarter, and every cadet must be found
in his room within few minutes at study and
must remain there thus employed until half-2ast
nine the bugle again sounds this is called tattoo
and at ten the drum taps and every cadet must
be in bed, having his light extinguished, and
must remain there until morning If fduriug tn,
night the cadet is found to be absent from his
room more than thirty minutes, and does not
give satisfactory account Of fhimself charges are
preferred against him, and he is court-martialed
The l.ea :-t~-,is.sotIls5 urlnKs auu toUacco
is strictly repudiated, playing at chess
wearing whisllers, and great many other things.
The punishment to which cadets are liable are
privation of recreation, &C.. extra hours of duty
reprimands, arrests, or confinement to his room
or tent confinement in light prison, confinement
in dark prison. dismission with the privilege of
resigning, and public dismssion.
Through the months of July and August the
cadets are encamped and during the encampment
the instructions is exclusively military.
The only furlough allowed to cadets is two
months when they arc in the third class.
The pay of the cadets is twenty-four dollars
per month, and the board costs him ten of this
From the balance he is required to dress and de-
contracting debts without.
As the reward for his labor and deprivation
the cadet acquires an excellent education, in
mathematics, better probably than he can get at
any other institution in the country. The train
ing here of both body and mind is worry thorough
and complete.
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VOL. mo. ID.

" As We were playing the last game, Rex said
in rather familiar manner, Major, suppose
you know George Washington, the Father of his
country Father be id says he, he was
cursed rebel, and had ! served him right he
would be hung long ago. This OF course. riled
me, and to that degree, that [ just drew back.
and gave him blow between the eyes, Tint fell
cd him like bullock. The next moment Pitt
and Burke mounted me, and in less than ten
minutes my shirt and breeches were so torn and
tattcred, that looked like Lazarus. This gave
the next morning fset SziIiifA sacastF.-snd or
weeks afterwards landed at Washington Tho
first person met, after entering tho city was
Q?''
90! what o." ~-#H
Why, that id old lederalist, Quincy Ad-
ans lie wanted me 10 play ninepinS with him.
and did SO. Won 5000 at two shiIlings game.
and then had row."
About what 2"
- He wanted to pay me of in Continental mon
ey, worth about a shilling peck. i got angry,
and knocked him into spittoon- Whilst ] still
had him down, Jim came in and dragged me of
to the White House"
q What Jim 90
for two hours, when Tom came in and insisted
that / should go home with him."
What Tom 2"
why, Tom Jefferson. Jim. however. would
not listen TO it. and the consequence that
they went into a fight. In the midst Of it they
fell over the banisters, and dropped about fifly
feet. When left they were giving each other
hell in the coal cellar. How it terminated
Inever could learn, as just then Martha came in.
and said must accompany her up 10 Mount
Vernon, TO see George.
- What Martha do YOU meanl'
Martha Washington, wife Of George, the old
boy that give Jessy to the lIessians."
About here, Coombs said the stranger began
TO discover that he was swallowing things. -
The next stage that came along he took passage
in it for an adjacent town. The Major We be
lieve, is still living, and still believes that the
walloping he gave Louis the Eighteenth is the
d--st best thing on record.-Netr York Dutch
man.
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Longevity of Great Men.

From the advance sheets of ''The Art of pro-
longing Life'-In press by Tickner, Reed and
Fields:
Academicians, in respect to longevity, have
been particularly distinguished. Ineed mention
only the venerable Fontenelle, who wanted but
one year of hundred, and that Nester, Formey.
both perpetual secretaries, the former of the
French, and the latter of the Berlin Academy.
We find, also, many instances of long life
t,-st continual intercourse with youth may con-
tribute some thing towards our renovation and
support.
Bat poets and artists; in short all those fortu-
nate mortals whose principal occupation leads
them to be conversant with the sports of fancy
and self fcreated worlds, and whose whole life, in
the properest sense, is an agreeable dream, have
particular claim to place in the history of lon
ge5ity. We have already to what great
agt Anacreon, Sopocles, and Pinder attained
Yong, Voltaire, Bodmer, Haller, Metastasion,
GlSm, Utz, and Oeser, all lived to be very old.
The following short list of the ages of distin-
guished men may be interesting to the reader in
this place; for more complete catalogue, ar
ranged according to the classes of science and lit
erature upon which they shed their light, he is
referred to Madden "Infrmitics of Genius"
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Romantic Maria &c.

On the last trip of the steamer Sonora, one Of
those little episodes of life occurred which is be-
yond those ordinary transactions that make the
sum total of human existence. At an early hour
as We arc informed, this feet and noble steamer
might have been seen nearing the town of Green
vile. The anxious looks exchanged between
many of her passengers, portended that there was
something extraordinary about to occur. Was
it a case of cholera or had some ones pocket
been picked were the ordinations Of those who
saw, but did not comprehend the mystery. At
length the matter was explained by the announce
ment that ic there was Judge, Justice or Par
son on board, his services were required. Every
one breathed easier, for it was clear case OF
matrimony, and that too % on the wing" This
important functionary was soon found in the per-
son of Judge Barnett, who being on his way to
Grecnvillc, upon being introduced to the couple
declared his readiness to solemnize the bans or
the arrival of the steamer at that place. Every
body was happy, for wedding is always a joy
full event, whatever the consequences may b,
that result from it. In few minutes the boa
arrived and after she was fairly landed, the IA
nous % shepherd boy" Thomas G. Noel of Jel
crson, led forth from the ladies' cabin the beau
tiful and accomplished Miss Lydia Stinson, Q
Evansville, attended by the charming Miss Y.
of New Orleans, and gentleman from France
when his Honor, in the presence of a hundre
passengers, awed into specchloss silence by hi
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Bill Leaeh,s Dream,

Bill Leach, (who, by the way, can always be
found at his rancho, corner Of Concord and Jay
streets, Brooklyn, cooked and primed with all
the luxuries that thirst or appetite may desire,)
tells good one, as follows:
% Some years ago" says Bill, q was sick with
the measles (ugh, did you ever have them y
During my illness 1 dreamt dream'-a singu-
lar one too. dreamed that had died, and went
where the good folks go-IIeaven of course. A
short time after my arrival at my new home, AN
old gentleman, carrying in one hand large bum
die ofkeys, and whom took to be St. Peter,
from the description had read of him, came up
TO me, and with good natuTcd smile illunina-
ting his phz, says he:
Young man what your name ~
William Leach, sir, - answered.
"Leachl Leach ?'' mumbled the old gentle
man to himself Mr.. Leach he resumed,
where arc you from 60
From Brooklyn, sir, repeated.
"Oh, no. my young friend, says St. Peter,
mot Brooklyn-you re mistaken"
.. No, sir, am not was born in Brooklyn,
and always lived there answered.
- Brooklyn -Brooklyn-let me see" says St.
Peter, drawing the palm of his hand over his
/ eyes, and then down over his face evidently try
ing to call TO his mind some name long since for
| gotten.
9 Young man, he resumed, q are you certain
/ that the name ofthc place is Brooklyn 2
! ''Yes, sir, of course | am"
"Where is it located!''
''In the United States-State of New York
county of Kings-directly opposite New York
city, ] answered.
I" Here, point it out 10 me, says ST. Peter, al
/ the same time handing me map of the State o
New York.
I, of course, did so very readily, which aston
ished the old gentleman, and he acknowledges
! the corn
Wei, young man, says he. 81 was never
more astonished in my life"
"Why so, sir 90 asked.
From this fact, sir: SO long as / have had
charge of this department, have never known
/ man, woman, or child to enter Heaven, rcltc
+ hauled from Brooklyn :"
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Life of a West Point Cadet.

The Cadet sleeps in the barracks, in a room
with one other. At five in the morning, in sum-
mer, and at half past five in the winter reveille
awakens him. he Immediately arises, doubles up
his blankets and mattress, and places them on
the head of his iron bedstead, he studies until
seven o'clock at the hour the drum beats for
breakfast and the cadets fall into rank and pro-
coed to the mess hall. Twenty minutes is the
usual time to spend at the breakfast. Guard
mounting takes place at halfpast seven, and
twenty-four arc placed on guard every day At
eight clock the bugle sounds, and the rectatlons
commence At one o'clock the bugle again
sounds, the professors dismiss their respective
stations the cadets form ranks opposite the bar
racks and march to dinner. Between eleven and
one part of the cadets are occupied in riding
and others in fencing daily. After dinner they
have until two o'clock for recreation and from
two TO four they arc in recitations. At Jour O.
clock the bugle sounds, and they go either tc
battalion light artillery drill These eHerci
ses last an hour and a half After that they de
yote the time to recreation until parade, which
takes place at sunset. After parade they form
into rank in front of the barracks and the name:
! of the delinquents read by an officer of tin
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Lindley Murray.

Tt is not generally known that this 20 prince of
English grammarians" was American, and
born within the present limits of Lebanon coun-
ty. He was born in the year lT45, on the Swa-
tara, in East Hanover township, then Lancaster,
now Lebanon county. His father miller,
and followed that occupation when Lindley was
born, but afterwards devoted his attention to
mercantile pursuits and amassed considerable
fortune by trading to the West Indies. Lindley
was the eldest of twelve children, andwhen about
seven years of age was sent to Philadelphia, that
he might have the benefit of a better education
than could be had at Swatara. He studied law
in New York, and at the age of twenty-t two was
called to the bar where he gained for himself the
reputation of an q honest lawyer" His g Gram
mar of the English Language" was composed in
England, in 1894 and published in the spring Of
1875, many millions of copies ofwhich have been
sold. He resided f0rty-two years in England,
most of which time lac was an invalid. He COM
posed many other works besides his Grammar.
lie died in 1926, in village in Yorkshire, being
upwards ofeighty years old. lie is represented
as christian and philanthropist. He left leg
acics to number of relatives and friends, and
sums of money to many religious societies He
also directed that the residue of his property, af
ter the death of his wife, "a New York lady, his
beloved and affcctionate Hannah" who ha6
been his companion for sixty years should be
devoted to pious and benevolent uses. lie was ;
Quaker, and inferred IN burying ground of tha
sect. in the city Of York, - far from friend ans
fatherland."
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. Calls ann skrttbrs.
aLead us not into Temptation"
AN EXPECTING COURT INDICTMENT.

iAw-though framed for the protection of So
ciety, for the individual benefit of its members
eften admits of construction adverse to the de-
signs of its legislators and in its application,
frequently defeats the object which it intend
ed to sustain. We have however, numerous in
stances, wherein honest iuries have given their
.erdicts, conformable to the promptings justice
and happily, when such decisions have not been
too widely different from the expressed rule, they
have escaped from the appeal.
We take pleasure in relating an incident, which
greatly enlisted our sympathies, held us SPELL
bound by its interest, and finally made out heart
leap with joy at it's happy termination.
In the spring of 1874 we Glanced to be spend
ing few days in n beautiful inland country
town in Pennsylvania, 1t was court-week, and
10 relieve us from the somewhat monotonous in
dictments of village life, we stepped into the room
where the court had convened.
Among the prisoners in the box, we a lad
but ten years of age, whose sad and pensive coun-
tenance, his young and innocent appearance,
caused him to look sadly out of place among the
hardenad criminals by whom he surrounded.
Close by tho box, and manifcsting the greatest
interest in the proceedings, sat a fearful woman,
whose anxious glance from the judge to the boy,
left us no room to doubt that it was his mother.
We turned with sadness from the scene TO inquire
of the offence of the prisoner, and learned he was
accused Of stealing money.
The case was soon commenced, and by the in
terest manifested by that large crowd, we found
that our heart was not the only one in which
sympathy for the lad existed. How we pitied
him The bright smile had vanished from his
face, and now it more expressed the cares of the
aged His young sistera bright eyed girl--had
gained admission to his side, and cheercd hm
with the whisperings of hope. But that sweet
voice, which before caused his heart to bouno
with happiness, added only TO the grief hs shame
had brought upon him.
The progress of the case acquainted us viii
the circumstances of theJoss, the extent of which
was but dimc- no more E -
The lads employer, wealthy, miserly an'
unprinciplcd n nnanulact2rer, had made u=e of II
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saw, como circling TO the ground.
November's scar and yellow leaf,
While drcary autumn strewed around
Its garb TO wrap the soul in grief.
All, melancholy hour of time,
The sadest that my heart e'er knows,
When summer voices ceases to cline,
And winter round the mantle throws.
The wailing winds come rushing by,
And seem to mock the summers stay,
The dark clouds send across the sky,
The bird now has ceased his lay;
We feel the blasts sweep per the heath,
Where bloomed the flower fresh and fair,
And see the hand that plucks the wreath,
And hangs its icy sccptre there.
High on the tree top, bare and scar,
Where SHOWS on SHOWS are pilng high,
The rook through the day we hear
Mingling his notes with winds that sigh
The heart grows sick, the spirits low,
While winter harps his doleful strain
Yes, tits the saddest hour | know
When summer voices leave the plain.
How unlike spring, Oh winter drear
Thou art, in all thy blighting sway;
Oh, give me back the kindly cheer
That glads the merry month of May;
We hear no more the morning song
Ofthrush and robin on the hills,
While winter binds in fetters strong
The gentle ripples of the rills.
Those which in sparkling gambols stole
With joyous music to the main,
Now feels the hand that holds control,
And sing no more in merry strain;
The leaf that lent its grateful shade
To cheer the weary travellers way,
Yic1ds to the change that winters made,
And shrinking fiuttcrs from the spray.
And then think viii Time no more
Review the ashes of the urn,
And will not spring when winters Ger,
Bring back those forms when flow rs re
turn.
] seem to hear the voice once dear,
see the forms, know the tread,
Tho autumn's leaves, now brown and scar
Strew thick .ie dwellings of the dead.
I know t1e time shall come again
To clothe the earth in verdant bloom,
Apd death shall cease his gloomy reign,
Amid his tenants of the tomb,
A mighty voice shall break the spell
OF all that moulder's in the dust,
And Death ro II ore of victories tell,
For earth shall render back its trust.
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Gen, Leslie Coombs on Story Telling

Few men have ever gone to Congress with
more fun and popularity than the Hon. Leslie
Coombs, of ofKentucky. In the way of anecdote,
he is unequallcd while his mode Of telling stories
mparts tone to them that no one can appreci-
ate who has not made his acquaintance.
Among the 's characters that Mr.. Coombs
knows like book, is old Major Luckey, whose
taste for Dragging amounts at times to the sub
lime. Whenever the Major has a stranger in the
neighborhood, he "opens wide and spreads him
self and with a success that leaves US nothing
to desire. The following scene took place be-
tween the Major and Col. Peters, late arrival
from Illinois -: t
Major, l understand from Gen. Coombs, that
shortly after the Revolution you visited England;
how did You like the jaunt 2"
'sCapitally had not been in London five
hours before Rex sent for me to play whist, and
devil of time we had of it -
.. Rex what Rex 90
Why. Rex the King-George the third. The
game came of at Windsor Castle-Rex and
played against Billy Pitt and Edward Burke
and resulted rather comcaliy.@
How SO p
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Dick Dailey's Stump Speech.

TELLER CITIZENS This day for the pop
erlation of BoonviIle, like bobtailcd pullet on
rickety hen roost, to be looiin' up. crisis
have arriven and somehin'S bust. What
we Here it is, and I'd stand here and eXpirate
from now till the days of the synagogues, If YOU
but whoop for Dick Daley.
FeHer Citj-cns-Jerusalem's to pay, an We
haint got any pitch. Our hyPerbolical and ma
estic canal of creation has unshipped her rudder.
and the captains broke his neck and the cook
div to the depths of the vasty deep IN search Of
dimuns Our wigwam s torn TO pieces like
shirt on a bush fence and cities of these ere lat
itudes is vanishing in blue flame. Are such
things to be did l ask you in the name Of ths
American Eagle who was whipped by the shaggy
headed lion, and now sits on the magnetic tele-
graph, if such doings is going TO be conglomera-
ted | repeat to you in the name Of the peacock
of Liberty, when he's fewin over the cloud cab
ped SUBMITS of the Rocky Mountains, If ives
goin' TO be extemporaneousiy bigdoggod in this
fashion
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~ The New York Courier says that the Mon
~ Market Of that city is beginning TO improve
Good paper is becoming scarce, and the rates are
tesding downwards
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- Oh answer nc.
Let me not blush in Ignorance.

- pi answer INC.
Let me not blush in ignorance"
as Shakespcal says. Shall VIC be bamboozleified
with such unmitigatcd oudaciousncss Methinks
can hear you yep No, sir, e-e-e-c hossfiy =
Then lect me TO Kongress, and thar1 be rev
olution sartan'
FeLIer Cifl-ens-lf / was staRdin' on the ada
mantine throne Of Jupiter, and the lightning was
flashing around me- I'd continue to spout I'm
full of bilin' lathcr of Mount Ebny, and won't
be quenchod I've sprung n leak, and must
howl like a bear with sore head. Flop together
Jump into ranks-aad bear me through.
FeHer Cui=ens-YOu know me, and blast my
picturs if won't stick to yer like brick dust 10
a bar of soap. Whar is my opponent! No
whar / was brought up among ye, fller citi-
zens, and papped in a school house, but he csnt
get round me with his highfalutn big words
Quasha, albran o. catnip, Brazzel, Eoelosncy.
and Baiiins Bay, what do you think o. that
- 60 it porllie-root hog or die"
as Shakcspcal said when Caesar stabbed him IN
the House of Representatives.
Fcller Citi=eas-Lect me to KongrSSS and IR
abolish mad dogs, mrskeetcrs, bad cents and go
in for the annihilation of niggers, camp meetins
and iails. I'll repudia;e crows and snstifibsn,
hawx-I1l have barn rsisihs' every day, Sundays
excepted, and hcker eRosgh 10 swim IL Acs,
feller citizens, leot me to Kongress, and shall
be led to exciairn IN the sublime and terrific Ian
guagc of Bopaparte, when preachin' IN the wll-
derneSs-
Richards hSsasef again.
On. then, onward TO the polls" gnloP ap2cS
Rerv-footed steeds," and let the welkin ring With
a,t;-sDsS.podio Wells for naVteV
Hence, We Brutus broad axe and glory
Let's ticker,
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TNorE.-The above incident, so graphically
described by correspondent of Arthur's Home
Gazette. occurred in our Court at Harris isburg.-
The youthful attorney alluded 10, who made
such a brilliant debut, JoHN c. kUNKEL,
now one of the ablest and most successful law
yers in this Judicial district. For several years
he represented Dauphin county in the popular
branch of the Legislature, and was subsequently
elected to the State Senate of which distinguished
body he is now mersbcr. The Wings regard
Mr. KUNKEI as one of their ablest champions,
and in various quarters we hear his name men
toned in connection with the next Gubernatorial
nomination.-Crystdl Fountain.
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r~7-The New York Herald says that the hsses
on fancy stocks in that oity within the last three
months. have not been less than three millions of
dollars,
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y The Liquor Law has been defeated in Wis
consin.