Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-03-01

@as good deal amused and pleased by des-
cnption Of meeting, held in Ebensburg, and
published ID the Johnstown IFibsine d last week.
and although was not there, I enjoyed the read
ing II it very much. / am for the erection of
Cosernaueh county, although it ID said that the
editor Of the Tribune is NANCY item, and that
those who urge him on, are the mendicant lazaro-
hi of Johnstown, and that the description of that
meeting j. not digni6ed enough, and MY calcula-
ted to further the prospects of the Aforesaid man
gy item. and his lazaroni, but on the contrary Is
only calculated to throw g Bran bags into the
fire." and is production. only worthy to come
out Of the lodge, and could only Be prepared in
some hole whore they perfect the American sys-
tem. What, suppose the men Of substance and
character in Johnstown, don't want new comty2
They are behind the age, they never dived into
the subterranean abodes to get enlightened and
Zee Samuel. What though it may be said that
bread and beef is more wanted there, than new
county, that soup society would be more desira-
bic than court, and that morality and decency
would be greater distinction to the inhabitants,
than to berenrolled among the catalogue Of coun-
ties. Still if the lazaroni want it, they should
have it. 1t is not right when they ask for bread
to give them stones, or when they ask for fish, to
give them scorpions. Now they simply ask a
new county, why not crafty Ahnnn
The leaning spirits who ask this county are mrn
Of ofextraorinary capacity, and it is pity to keep
them undistinguished in a rural village, whose
only public building would be no great convenience
for a SOW and six pigs. Had .he immortal author
Of the celebrated Bran bag speech, or those legal
gentlemen who are his admirers. and adherents,
been living in county scat, or city, instead of a
rural village, the former would not have been put
of with member of Congress, or Superintency of a
Railroad, nor would the latter be left 's unweps
unhonored and unsung." No sir, they would
have stood high in the councils of the Nation
Well may they repeat the lines of that sweet
poet
!" Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
But better day is dawning on the horizon Of
that atmosphere, and the people of the State viii
see by their representative specimen of the shin
ing talents that bushelled up in that obscurty
They are such great distance from the county
that it takes them almost three hours to reach
it, penned up in railroad cars and hacks, passing
over iron rails and spruce plank, to the great det
riment of their health and understanding. Their
civil and criminal jurisprudence is very important
and greatly neglected
Their civil business consists of appeals from
Justice of the Peace. and the most unimportant OF
them amounts to five dollars and thirty-three
cents, and many Of them great deal more; and
their lawyers compelled to go to distance OF
eighteen miles and make four hours speeches on
these cases, before they are concluded, and then
two hours speech more In motion for a new trial
Nor is their criminal calendar less unpleasant,
they have vigilant set Of officers, who will not
permit the laws to be trampled on except by them
selves Their offenders who prosecuted, are
classified in grades, from those who steal three
chickens up to barrel of whiskey, and the officers
of Johnstown with their guards and assistants,
are compelled to take them 10 distant Jail, and
get nothing for it but the mere pittanoe that the
law allows. Whereas if they had Jail at home
the greater part of these offenders could go into II
when the navigation would close, and those off,
GERS would not be compelled to go to a distance
to testify against them. Owing to the great dis
tance and trouble in criminal prosecutions, they
have only thirteen in the Western Penitentiary at
the present time from Johnstown, whereas if there
was greater facility in obtaining Justice, there
might be three times that amount of their citizens
there Looking at the matter in any point OF
from the reasons set forth that Conemaugh county
should be erected
A FARMER OF JACKSON TOWNSHIP.