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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

A GALS WATsT-A School boy
Down East was noted among his play
fellows for his frolics with the girls, was
reading aloud In the Old Testament
when coming to the phrase making
waist places glad" he was asked by
the pedagogue what it meant. The
youngster paused--scratching his head
but could give no answer, when up
jumped more precocious urchin, and
cried out.
Il know what it means. master, i
means hugging the gals. for Tom Ros'
is always hugging 'em around the waist
it makes 'em SO glad as can be-"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

The " Matthew Ward" named in Tex
as as a candidate for Congress, is not the
Kentucky murderer, but we'll known
merchant formerly residing in Jefferson,
Texas. "He is very good man, with
bad name"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

Now papa, tell me what is humbug'' p
at is" replied papa, "When mamma
pretends to be very fond ofme, and puts
no buttons on my shirt till reminded oft
dozen times" Queer definition, that ;
still there s some truth in it.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

An advertisement in a country paper
reads as follows -" Stolen, a watch
worth 500. If the thief will return il,
he shall be informed. gratis. where he
may steal one worth two of it, and no
questions asked" Great inducement,
sartain,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

An Irishman. giving description of a
toad, said that he was I" baist what lies
close to the ghround, has a laundering
big side at one end, and no tail at all, I"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

VERY LIKELY-"Ma, want q sled.
do want sled. Can't have a sled.
ma ?" Certainly, my son-I suppose
so. Ask your father" al don't like
to ask him, ma "Why, what non.
sense. Ask him." "No, ma-yOu ask
him--youu ue known him The longest! I!
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

~ Say twice, without a mistake,
Peter Piper's peocock pecked peck of
pepper cut of pewter platter /; if Peter
Piper's peocock pecked peck o! pepper
out of a pewter platter, where's the peck
of pepper Peter Pipers peocock peckedi'
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

paddy, my jewel, why don Z you get
your ears Oropped--they are entirly too
large for man ?" "And yours, ys
spalPoen.' replied Paddy, "are too short
for an ass. y
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

A clergyman was censuring a young
lady for tight lacing. "WLg." replied
the lady, "you would not surely recon.
mend loose habits to Jour parishioners."
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

"Why don't your father take a news
paper?" said man to little boy whom
he caught pilfering his paper from his
doorstep. "Coz, he sends me to take it, ="
answered the urchin.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

An Irishman was asked why he wore
his stockings wrong side out ? "An'
sure don t you see. said Paddy, "there's
a hole on the other side, darhnt."
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

The following notice was affixed to a
shop in Leeds - This Ouse Q Lett.--
Hinquir Neeks Doar,"
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

Bob, did you 60 to the gold mines?.
Eyes" what did you dig?" 81
dug home os soon as possible" p,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

SIIA b. DICKASON, Dealer in Fancy Dry
u . Goods, Main street, doors east of Post
Office, Jackson Ohio.
Jackson, Aug. 10, '54 20-y
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

A LEX. CRISWELL, Grocer and Provision.
"A er, Water street, opposite the Rail Road
Depot,
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

ROHN A. BROWN, Blacksmith, Columbia
n street, opposite DR.. 0. G. Miller.
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-08-23

~ X. HOOD, Blacksmith, Pearl street, op-
~. posite Browns Wagon Maker Shop.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
From the Fulton Democrat.
Temperance Legislation.

This is the age of fanaticism. Laws are
enacted to cure all kinds of moral and social
evils, which if left alone would cure them
selves The morals of the people are to be men,
ded not by argument addressed to their un-
derstandings but by the force of prohibitory
legal euactments The effort has been and is
now being made to legislate men into chris
tians-a process most absurd and ridiculous.
The Blue laws of Connecticut are to be re-
yived-eating and drinking are to be regula-
ted by law, and the law we suppose viii par
ticularize the cut and style of our garments.
1t would be well to pause and reflect 1t is
our belief, that the legal enactments of the
present day, from the Main law down to that
most ridiculous and foolish of all laws. the
anti-License Jug Law of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, do more injury to the temperance
cause than good In fact sound temperance
principles are disappearing from our midst,
and in their place we have the empty and va
pid rantins Of fanatical and interested place
seeking demagogues Moral suasion is dis
carded. Argument is avoided. Laws are
sought to be enacted which public opinion
condemn, and as a consequence the cause
sought to be benefited is really injured. We
confidently believe that no good effects can
flow from SO much Legislation on the subject
of temperance. In an address to the people
of Kentucky in 1912. the Patriot HENRY
Clay, made use of the followong memorable
language which should be laid to heart by the
temperance fanatics of the present day:
:. 1 protest against any Inference of my be-
ing inimical to the Temperance cause--Ou
the contrary, / think it an admirable cause
that has done great good. and viii continue
to do good as long as LEGAL COERCION
Is NOT EMPLOYED, and it rests exclu
siyely upon PERSUASION, AND ITS
OWN INTRINSIC MERITS"
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08

The friedrich Citizen Gays that Mr.. Steele.
from Virginia, one Of the most accomplished
orators OF the great demonstration at Fredcr-
ick, on the 18th instant. denominated the
Know Nothings Of his own State (who voted
for DIR. Wise) thus:
They are doubly damned, deeply-dyed
hell begotten, -forsaken. hydra-headed,
treble-tongued, and cloven-footed, set of per-
jured traitors, who if the earth was the full
crum and the Heaven the lever. Almighty
Power could not in thousand years raise to
the common level of culprits."
These Know-Nothings must be rather bad,
as Mr.. Steele surely knows them, being one of
the High Priests over the river apparently
He, however, seemed to entertain Just az
bad an opinion of what he called :. the lop-
cared Dutch and the sinking Irish Paddles
and appeared, also. to be Disguised with the
real native population, who according to MS
accounts. we're sadly accessible to BRIBEs of
. half a loud Of fodder and THREE MONTHS
COW PASTURE"
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
Governov Reeder.

The removal of Goyesnor Reeder appears to be
quite God send 10 the Abolition aud Know
Nothing press Of the county. They were entire
" out Of frel. Their fires burned but dinly.
The indcpt ndence and manlpess exhibited by the
President in removing fren dzhce many of their
order, his ul,tiring hostility s6wards them created
a deadly feeling of revenge within their l,osoms.
Their pent up wrath waited impatiently for an
opportunity, and the moment that opportunity
presented itself their mad howlings broke forth.
Meetings were called -nfarnatory speeches leliv-
ered-the great moguls of the order, glad to have
opportunity of belching forth their foul slime,
worked of their bile amidst the howlings and
cheers Of the ignoramuses who blindly follow
them. The large dogs Of the press are making
vigorous efforts to bite while the smaller ours are
echoipg their harkings. Were these all who were
loud on the subject we should pass the matter
over silently, hoping that the relief given to their
stomachs by this emetic would produce healthier
tone, but unfortunately some of the Democratic
presses are equally severe on the subjects With
out Waiting for the Presidents reasons for fhe re-
moval, without taking into consideration what
causes there may be for that removal, they come
out with Trades of abuse. Now is this fair Is
it manly7 The President took time to consider
on the matter. He weighed things we'll, and we
venture the prediction that he viii be sustained
eventually when people reason on the subject. No
man will deny that Gov. Reeder, as an individual
and private citizen, had the same right to invest
his money in land speculations as any other pri-
vate citizen. But if he took advantage of his po-
sition as Governor, and the patronage which that
position gave him; if he prostitufed his position
to self agrandsement, and by SO doing forfeited
that confidence and respect which it was neccssa-
ry for him to have, in order to fulfil his office as
Governor, why should he be retained2 Why
forced on the people and legislature of that terri
tory 2 Public opinion in the North has to a GER
tain extent, been created through the medium of
false reports. The statements which have gener-
ally found their way into the papers, have been
manufactured for the purpose. In such cases gen
orally distance lends enchantment to the view"
Now we do not wish to condemn Gov. Reeder.
nor will we condemn the President unheard. We
wait for future developments, and ask our breth-
ren of the press to do the same. and when the
matter is fairly before the people let justice be
DONE ~ he - H
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
The War in Europe.

The siege of Sebastopol still continues, but judg-
ing from the late intelligence from the scat of war,
it will be long time before the efforts Of the Al
lies will &c crowned with success. Everything
Of late has gone in favor Of the beseged, and the
glory of Alma, has been eclpsed by the disastrous
result of the attack on the Mamelon tower. We
think tie time IS not far dstaut, when the Allies
VIII refssse thatthey lave spent enough OF blood
and in fruitless undertaking, and that
it IS their true siey to raise fhe siege 1t is al
most iInpossihie to ascertain the number Of lives
that have been lost since the commencement of
the siege. Thousands of gallant young men, who
kft tl.e shores of Ensland and France with their
breasts ssisuing with ambition, and hoping to re-
( lrn to t.eir country and friends covered with
fine and military glory, have found soldiers
grave in foreign land
.sThere shah they rot-ambitior's honor'l FOOLS,
Yes honor decks the turf chat wraps their clay. .
It's vain Ia attempt to conjectnre when the
war will end, but We sincerely hope. Ger the sake
q humanity that the time will soon arrive.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
a Cain, after a Storm.

Tbere has not b.e, fr . lono time in tl,e bisto
yvof the roltics of This county. such a complete
calm. as there has been since the nominations
To say the least Of our Convention it was compo
sea of the verv best men the county could nro-
.cs and # ,bex were not as brilliant as those Of
other eount;es. tbev were the hest our market
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Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
Foreign Abuse.

Some scientific men, and many travelling vaga-
bonds from Europe, whilst perigrinating the Uni
ted States, and receiving from our citizens that
kindness which the Lord has enjoined should be
manifested towards " strangers in strangeland,' -
have abused the good Offices of our people-sneer-
ed at our institutions-con contemnedour Government
--and affected to despise our race. In most in
stances, these retailers of slang had been gorged
to the throat with the meal Of America. But they
took not temanifest their maligity until they
had been waited to their homes, and when the
pillows and the breakers of an ocean INTERVIEWED
between them and those they had vilifed- With
out pausing to enumerate the many instances af-
for,led by England and France, which have fur
nished abundant material for travelling defamers
of national hospitality throughout the world, we
will restrict ourselves for the present to the ,n-
pleasing task of dssectns beast in breeches, who
hangs out the sign Of Qesocqueville, who halls
from France and who has written upon the =. De-
mocracy of America" His work. contains four
hundred and four pages; in four of which, we
aver, there are more audacious lies Illuminated,
than would he sufficient to supply a text to ac-
commodate the libening propensities of four thou
sand lesser lights of defamation. With this COM
plinentary notice, fling out the following
pleasant extracts from DeTocqueville, which
should be read and remembered.
Page 2S7. g Freedom of opinion does not exist
in the United States2'
He complains that there is no public organ
Of infdelity in the United States!v He denoun-
the majority of the people in terms varied and
virulent. The Empire of the majority'-The
Z Tyranny Of the majority"-The "Despotism
of the majority'' OF the United States are among
this travelling caitis discovered facts upon which
be chews the cud of satisfied malgnity.
Page 2s9, he :. Deplores the mausa6iity and the
ignorance of the Democracy
Thus speaks this vapid Frenchman fresh on re-
treat from the three days revolution of Paris.
Speaks, at a time when his own nation was con-
vused with intestine bros, and boiling over with
the concrete putridity Of external peace.
From the foregoing extracts, it can be CLEANED
how much sympathy Americans owe to France as
she is. When Caesar conquered France, he des-
cribed the inhabitants as animals, formed of a
mixture of the Monkey and the Cat. The nation
still retains these characteristics.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08

PRoeREss OF MoRMoSIsM Twenty FIVE
years ago the :. Prophet" Joseph Smith or
ganized the Mormon Church with six mem
bers.-At the present time the Church an
Utah Territory contains three Presidents. sew
en- apostles, two thousand and twenty-s4
seventies" seven hundred and fifteen niga
priests, nine hundred and ninety -foar ELDERS
i've hundred and fourteen priests, iour sun,
and trentv-seven deacons. besides the usual
rat; rat;o Of persons in training for the ministry
but not vet ordained. and four hundred and
e;gbty-nine missionaries abroad. During the
six months ending with the beginning Of
April last. nine hundred and sixty 1--WE were
born in the Territory of Utah, two hundred
and seventy eight persons died, four hundred
and seventy-nine were baptized IN the Nor
mon faith. and eighty-six were eex-cemmunica-
ted from the Church.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
Hear Both Eides--A Letter from the Rev. r
essi J. Breckenridge.

/
U-The Rev. r. j. Breckenridge, of KY. :, has
addressed letter to the Hon. Charles Summer, of
Mass 1t is in reply to an Anti-Slavery discourse,
as some time since delivered at Niblo's Theatre.
The following passage its source considered, will
arrest attention:
Slavery. Mr.. Summer, Is not modern nstitu-
ton it is as ancient as human society. And yet
it is not permanent institution, in the sense of
being perpetuated In one particular race or ccun-
try. We have the sad advantage of being able to
contemplate it In every age of the world, in every
condition of severity, and in contact with every
form of civilization. We ought, by this time, to
be able to comprehend it From this point of
view have two statements to make, both of
which fear may appear to you Inaccurate. The
first is, that nothing concerning the structure OF
human society is more clearly established by the
entire career of man on this earth, than that, in
some form or other, the social subugation of one
part of every highly developed community to an
other part Of that is, servitude in some form
or other is absolutely inevitable just much as
the existence of crime, or want, OF sorrow.
Let us bewail this as badge Of our fallen con-
dition; let us seek its constant amelioration, as
one of our cearest duties but let respect truth,
and justice, and honor, and good faith, in all our
attempts. The second statement have to make
is, that the general condition of negro slavery in
America, so far from being particularly dreful
and loathsome you represent it to be, is really,
and indeed of necessity, in all respects mitigated
and regulated after the pervading spirit of our
Protestant civilization, and is gradually requiring
more endurable position, as the power Of the
Gospel gradually extends its influence, and as the
Slave States gradually settle into the conviction
that their duty obliges them to accept this insti-
tuition permanent part of their social system.
do not myself believe that servitude in this par
ticular form is, original question, either
cessary or desirable; and l am well convinced
that in many of our Slave States it might be grad
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer
The Negroes and Chssa.

Two big sauey negroes have taken the
stump for the Chase Abolition ticket in the
northwestern counties of Ohio The Repub-
lican alias Abolition Convention in Lorraine
county. Ohio, passed the following resolution :
:. Resolped, That it is the sense of this
Convention that the colored people are enti-
tied to have the elective franchise given them.
In noticing these movements the Columbus
Statesman well remarks:
:. This is a proper preclude to the change
to be proposed if the Fusion ticket shopld be
successful-giving to negroes IN Ohio the
right of voting and eligibility to Office Yet
the ruling wing ofthe party who will do this
thing, if in power, are pledged. to shut out
white Roman Catholics and white foreigners
from the rights with which that party wish to
invest the african"
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08

ARE THEY ALL SwoRs I've copy the fol-
lowing instructive story from the Columbia
Times:
A very instructive as well as amusing incl
dent occurred at Crawford. Rtssel county, Al
ALBANIA, during the discussion there between
Messrs Dowdell and Watts. Mr.. Dowdell
charged that the Know Nothings took certain
oaths in their several degrees, which a free
man ought not to take, and was making it
tell against his adversary, when the following
dialogue occurred
Mr.. Watts. II meter took IN oath"
Mr. Dowdel1. :. If there is another Know
Nothing in the house who has not been sworn,
hope he will rise and meke it known
Mr.. b. III Baker. IL never was sworn"
MANY voices" I'VE were" I'VE were"
1--WE were"
Mr.. Dowdell. How is this fellow citi-
zens? The chiefs of the party, the wire work.
ers, it seems, are not sworn; their pledge of
honor, / presume. is sufficient But the
wool-bat boys, the honest yeomen of the
country, are compelled to take an oath before
they are permitted to enjoy the benefits Of
Know Nothihgism.
The effect of this hit may be better imagin-
ed than described The house rang with ap-
plause How is itf Are they all sworn. or
does the order discriminate between its mem
bership, and take the words Of some and pin
others down by solemn oaths.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08
Cambria County Agricultural Society.

The Cambria County Agricultural Society viii
hold their first annual exhibition and fair at this
place some time in October next, the programme
for which we publish on the first page of this
week IS paper. AS full time and notice is given to
enable all who may wish to enter into competition
for the premiums. we hope for the credit of the
county to see our farmers enter into the matter in
earnest, and render the exhibition credtable to
little Cambria Let no one be deferred from bring
ing ary article from thinking it may not be wor-
thy of exhibition but 'et all do their best, and the
result we feel assured will be satisfactory to all
concerned. We direct the attention OF our rea-
ders to the list of premiums.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08

re- The dangers of Catholicism in Ten
uessee are thus noticed in the Chattanooga
-4dreHiser:
:. The Know -Nothings are calling upon the
people of Tennessee to arouse, arm, and go
forward to battle--to battle against what -
why, simply, against the three Gatholic-
churches that the census of 1850 gives as in
Tennessee. What a grand spectaclei Be-
hold fsro dousaad and elegen Protestant
churches arrayed against three Catholic
ehurchesl What 9 smash and to put down
these Apve Catholic churchesl @, 1empora
What are We not coming to Only think of
the fghf two thousand and eleven Protest
ant churches and the outsiders. against three
Catholic churches Win not the sun stand
still to witness the contest p
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08

MR DALLAS a correspondent Of the New
York Journal of Commerce, who signs him
self the I. Spirit of '76." has long communl-
cation showing that Geo. N. Dallas is tho
most available candidate for the next Press.
depcv which the :" Constitutional party could
Nominate. as the friends of the constitution
both North and South, could unite IN harmo-
nv in his support The writer thinks that AZ
Tie next election the question viii be tho
g ccpstitution and its Compromises, or the
Free Soilers and Disorganization-
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-08

CALrFoRNIA. Democratic State Con-
vention has nominated Governor Bigler and
Lieutenant Governor Purdy for reelection
It also adopted platform resembling the last
Baltimore platform, with an additional resolu-
ton denouncing the Know-Nothings. This
is the third time John Bigler has been nomi-
mated. 1t is a tribute to his talents and fidel-
ity to the cause of Democracy which ne de-
serves.