Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-09-09
VOL. 4. NO. Al.

branches Of an academical education are ma
med and provided for in this instrument
Much attention appears to have been devoted
BY the people of Beulah to agriculture aud
manufactures, for we find in the .sSky" the
Constitution Of the '.Beulah Society of Rural
Arts" )" and also an address delivered before the
Society on Wednesday, Nov. 81. 179S. Ap-
pended to these documents is "Circular"
addressed by the Society to the 'Citizens of
United America, particularly those who re-
side on the Western Waters" propoundine q
number of "Queries in Agriculture" )" of wbicl,
the following are examples did YOU ever
cultivate the English barley? Does it not
far excel the American for making malt?-
Would not beer made of malt be more congo
niai to health and more benefcial to society
than distilled liquors? What is the best time
for brewing. and the best way of preserving
beer, ale and porter through the heat of sum.
mer 7" It is easily seen that the members of
the "Beulah Society of Rural Arts" were not
total abstincnts by jug full, but it is very
evident that their Welsh heads were about
right on the question of distilled liquors"
All honor TO their memories for that The
following query" upon a manufacturing SUBJ
ject seems to US to have indicated a rare in
ventive spirit among the Beulah settlers, and
art Of making paper do you know of auy
plants, or of the barks of any trees, which
may be applied to the purpose of paper-ma-
king ~ That they were strong protectionists
and sound political economists may be infer
red from this question ;-s.Would It not be
more patriotic to encourage the manufacture
of cotton, wool and fax, than to import our
wearing apparel7 Could not the linen of our
country be made as fine as that of ireland or
Holland, and the cloth as good as that of
Britain 2"
Next we find an Oration delivered at Beu
lab, on the 4th of July, 1903, by Morgan +
Rhees. Mr.. Rhees' Grafton IS well gotten
up, and brimfull of patriotism He goes in
for independence up to the hub puts in a
word for the ''poor despised Afrlcaus'' held
in bondage upon American soil and pitches
into France sans ccren,onic for attempting to
gerrymander the young American giant out
,of his rights. The Grafton winds up with
some wholesome moral advice to the audience,
Among the regular toasts read after the
speech and he dinner, we fnd one compli-
mentary to Gen. Washington, then living
another to John Adams and Benjamin Frank
lin /; another to the fair SEX" and another
in honor of the day those Beulab Welshmeu
celebratcd-some sixty years ago.
There is an excellent poetic efusion in one
corner of the SKY" entitled ..Stanzas, writ
ten after journey into North Wales" by
Charles Lloyd, brother of the venerable Ste
phen Lloyd, of Ebensburg
We close this curious relic of the early his
tory of Cambria county, and with it close the
subject under consideration, BY expressing
the conviction-in which we think the reader
will concur-that the Welsh men a, d women
who ''settled" Beulah were most worthy
and patriotic people, and made of the right
kind of stuff throughout. They only failed
in one thing. and for that let no man blame
them. their to,cn Of Bealah ncrer amounted TO
shacks