Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-04-18

borrifed at the innovation and protested Justify
AGAINST it. but all 70 no purpose This is 6. Qua
ker CITY now in nothing but mere name. The
sway and glory of the sect has departed forever.
No proselytes have been made to it for years, and
the yanities of the world . are entirely too al
tractve to the great mass of young Quakers to per-
NIT them to walk in the simple paths of their fore
fathers, and to wear plain coats or plain bonnets.
Quite a large portion of the defendants of former
Quaker families have connected themselves with
the Episcopal and other churches. 1t is only oc-
casionally that the prm old dress of the society
is met with, and were William Penn to return to
his beloved g city of brotherly love he would find
but small portion of its inhabitants true to the
creed and practices he much attached to.
A very athletic colored woman was arrested
here few days since on charge of the commits
sion of burglary in New Jersey, (where she was
sent for trial, J while disguised in male apparel
During the past winter it was common thing Tor
male robbers in this city to disguise themselves
as females, but she seems to have preferred exhi-
biting her genius in that line in the garb they
were 50 anxious to conceal.
The Historical Society OF Pennsylvania have re-
Gently issued Address recommending the es-
tablishment of a new National Holiday, on the
18th of September, the day upon which the Con-
stitution of the United States finally ratified.
Tie suggestion is good one, and should be gen
erarly adopted. The National Constitutions the
great link which binds our seperate sovereignties
together, and thus constitute as powerful nation,
and this fact should be thoroughly and fully inn
pressed upon the public mind
Experiments are now being tried with the new
street sweeping machines, of which there
veral varieties In one of them the apparatus
consists of series of revolving brooms, which re-
yolve with the wheels of the vehicle, with which
they are connected. By being arranged diagonal
w. they sweep the dirt into straight line at the
side, and thus they clean up space of about four
feet in width with each trip through the street,
the horses travelling in an ordinary walk.
street Of twenty-five feet in width, and one mile
long, would be swept by it in from two to three
hours, with the assistance Of one man and one
two horses; and it is preceded by sprinkling
machine to prevent it kicking up too much dust
1t appears to operate pretty well, where the sur
face of the ground is even. hut tie old fogies "
are inclined to think it very great improvement
on the old plan after all.
One of our physicians recently visited family
where lady and her son, who about fifteen
months old, were both Ill. He wrote a prescrip-
ton for each, and the apotheeary negligently re-
versed the the endorse nent, so that the mother
took the medicine intended for the child, and the
child that intended for the mother. The latter
died after. it was believed from the elec.s OF
the medicine thus enormously administered, and
the apothecary was arrested; but a postinorteln
examination satisfied the physician that the child
was carried off by a disease uninfneneed by the
medicine, and the apotbecary is thus relieved from
a very unpleasant but deserved predicment.
BY the America, We have later news from Eu
rope Before Sebastorol there had leen some
lard fighting, but without any decided results.
The sallies OF the Russians are Iepused; and those
of the Allies share the same fate. Louis Napoleon
and wife to visit Queen Victoria the 10th
of April and he expected to start for the Crimea
soon after. Meanw hiIe, there is faint hope of
peace from the deliberations of the Vienna Con
ference. The first and second points abolishing
the Protectorate of Russia the Moldayian pro-
vinces, and placing them under joint guardian
ship of the five Powers, and securing the freedom
Of the navigation of the Danube, appear to have
been pretty well agreed upon. The third point
refers to 8 the attachment of the Ottoman Empire
to the European Balance of Power,' and on this
question the Allies have receeded from their re-
quirement of the demolition Of the fortress OF Sc
bastopel The exact nature of their proposition is
not known, but it has been referred by the Rus
sian Envoy to st. Petersburg, and further procee-
dings suspended until he obtains an answer
from the Car.
Gov. Pollock-ha signed the bill abolishing the
present tavern license system, and allowing it to
be sold only by the quart, under very stringent
strictions
Our markets have not recently undergone any
important change. Beef fcattlc sell at the exhorbi-
tant rate offrom $l1 to sI3. Flour cammands So
% TO 81 per barrel Rye Flour. $e,75 Corn Meal,
$3.50, Wheat sells for from s2,5S to 1896; Rye,
si,37s Corn, lO2a1osc., Oats, eoae1c.
Truly, Yours. %
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