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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-06-26
Original 1)ortrp.
For the Montgomery County Sentinel.
L WONDER WHY?
ny THE MAN WITH THE WALKING STICK.

by THE MAN WITH THE WALKING STICK.
We ancient men of silver hair
Are given much to musing,
On good old days and ladies fair,
And modern times abusing;
To sit and think, and think and sigh,
And deem it strange that all things change
And wonder why.
Those fancy things termed Fashion Plates,
I've often puzzled over;
But what's the sense of half Of them
never could discover;
Mems necks done up in magic tie,
And ladies too, founced not a few,
wonder why2
The "last, best giftn is crinoline,
Now claiming more attention
In churches than the preacher cam
The cost | dare not mention,
And oft sit, and think and sigh
On merchants gains and pocket pains,
And wonder why.
And dandies are let run at large,
But the most gigantic wonder
Is how some girls prefer much hair
To brains, that should be under;
A plain man comes with soulful eye,
Awkward or poor-pray come no more,
| wonder why?
Yet society improves somewhat,
Which covers other losses,
For honest men now keep at home,
Since mostly rogues get office;
From Congress halls dark rumors fly,
The bird of fame droops now with shame,
! wonder why?
But we've some sores to heal at homo,
Although of less dimensions
A certain remedy would prove
Most blest Of all inventions,
The homo leeches' victims cry
And many weep while others sleep
| wonder why?
Why is it men spend so content
Their nights at public places
Unless 10 make their wives repent
They ever saw their Accs2
While Hell's own ferryman is nigh
With cards and wine they spend their time
! wonder why?
A powerful purgative to clear
Our town of every loafer,
Would be the very happiest thing
That ever.yet came over;
Cats, birds, and squirrels less would die
By sticks and stones, mid shouts and groans
! wonder why?
Blest be the power, too, that would ease
Our tavern steps Of asses,
Whose scurrilous remarks are bane
To all our modest lasses
Tobacco fumes ascend on high,
Sweet atmosphere Of rum and beer
| wonder why?
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A WEALTHY OH GENTLEMAN.-Tlio
present condition Of Uncle Sam worldly
Affairs is thus halaerensly stated by ll.e
Brooklyn Eagle:
Uncle Sam, after carrying on bust
ness for the past eighty years having
three warsg-buyiag teffit4sFgs gefels. -9AE.tanco
and Mexico, building railroads, specu-
lating in u bank, and trading with all
creation, comes ont with a snug little
little balance on hand Of twenty-five
millions--enough to set up several mil
'onaires-and which makes Sam mil.
lionare among nations. Since our reyo-
luton England has quadrupled her ma
tional debt, and other nations Of Europa
have run up a score nearly in proportion,
while Sam has paid off his debts. bought
real estate, and has money laid by for
rainy day"
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wnicn, II taken up by the mind, may give Sc.
renity and resignation to many a troubled epoch
OF lie. 1t Is this: We foresee events in the
mass, out they reach us in detail Our strength.
winch would indeed be hopeless against the
mass, quietly conquers it in detail. To walk
Thousand miles seems an impossible feat vet
q lew weeks of our daily avocation carries us
over more ground without fatigue. In the
course or every year we eat ton and half of
soIo 1000, and think nothing of it, but are star
tied on learning the amount. And 80 it is
with troubles, punishments, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
reacn US single, and at intervals we foresee
mem IN the mass, and despairingly ask, How
am 10 meet this overwhelming load /? Men
of inactive imaginations move amid untoward
circumstances with little trouble. They dis.
pose OF each difficulty as it arrives, and are not
apprehensive of what may remain behind.
imaginative men, on the contrary, have their
apPrehenslons stimulated by each arrival: and
10 them our argument is especially addressed.
Iney may reinstate their vigor of resistance
oy recognising the fact that the army of evils
wnlch overawes them cannot as an army over.
wheim them, but must in the nature of things
attack them by ones and twos in separate inter
vais, under greatly altered circumstances: so
tnat the mass of gunpowder, which seems 80
formidable, is scattered into small heaps and
grams, some of them not exploding because
camp others blown away by the wind, and
nose which do explode only creating damage,
not ruin.
Three sources of prevention, and only three,
are thus discoverable; and these. of course'
only affecting cases of deliberate suicide: re.
iigious conviction giving resignation or hope :;
intellectual conviction of our inability rightly
TO f0resee events and results; and last, though
not least, medical treatment.
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FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE ATLANTIC
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.

This great enterprise has been aided and en-
Outraged In various ways, by seven different
Governments, viz: Great Britain, the United
States, Canada, Newfoundland, Prince Edwards
Island, and the State of Maine; and it NAV not
be amiss to enumerate here the different aids
granted by these respective Governments, as
follows:
Great Britain.-1. Annual subsidy of sl4,OOO
sterling, until the net profit of the company
reaches per cent. per annum on the whole
capital of G350,0C0 sterling; the grant to be
then reduced to 10000 sterling per annum
for period of twenty-five years. 2. The aid of
navy to lay the cable-the Again emnon and
the Leopard. 3. A Gove.nment ste amship 1.-THE
Cyclops) to take furtaer sounding.,, and verify
those already taken. :
United States. a. Annual subsidy of SO, 900,
until the net profits yield per cent. per annum,
then to re reduced to $4,000 pei anuum, for
period of twenty-five years, su' oject to termi-
na'ion by Congress after ten J ears, on giving
one years, notice. s. The Unite ID States steam
ship Arctic to take soundings last year. 6.
Steamships Niagara and Susquehanns to lay
the cable. Z. A Government sgseamer to make
further soundings on the coast of Newiound-
land this year.
Newfoundland Exclusive privileges, for
fifty years, of landing cables on Newfou,, dland,
Labrador, and their dependencies. 9. Grant
of Fifty square miles ofland on completion o. tel.
egraph to Cape Breton. 10. Similar concess. ION
of additional fifty square miles when the cab.,e
shall have been laid between Ireland and New.
'foundland. III. Guarantee of interest for 20
years, at per cent. on $4,000 sterling. r..
Grant OF $4,000 sterling in money towards
building road along the line of the telegraph.
iS' remission OF duties on importation of all
wires and materials for the use of the comnanv.
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PERIODICAL LITERATURE IN ENGLAND.

Some changes in periodical literature have
lately been made, and others are announced,
which appear worthy of notice. In London,
which was once celebrated for its magazines.
that entertaining description of literature is al
most in abeyance. OF the long-established
magazines, The Gentleman's (which first sd.
peared l26 years ago) is now the best. 1t re-
Gently came into the hands of an intelligent
enterprising publisher, who has got it under
excellent editorship, and, albeit it still is the
antiquarian organ of the time, many new and
agreeable features have greatly improved and
popularized it. Frazer's Magazine continues
with circulation which probably pays ex.
penses, and may yield some small profit Since
the death of Maginn, and the withdrawal of
Mahoney {" Father Prout ~ and Carlyle, it has
become secondrate periodical; for time, it
recovered some of its popularity, while Kingsley
wrote for it, but it has latterly gone back. Aims
,oortHs, and the Neo Monthly Magazines, once
30 well conducted, now yield very limited prof
its. They continue to be taken in by circula.
ting libraries, book clubs, and such institutions,
but have very few individual purchasers. They
are conducted on the principle-a killing one
in the end-of paying nothing, or next to moth
ing, for contributions; and the result is, they
are filled with weak inanities, in prose and
verse. Mr.. Ainsworth, good novelist, is bad
magazine editor. Even the magazine which
bears his name was ill-conducted from the time
that the suicide of its excellent sub-editor, La
man Blanchard, threw it back wholly on its
proprietors hands. So, too, with the Ne,c
Monthly, successfully edited by Thomas Camp
bell, Cyrus Redding, S. C. Hall, Edward Lytton
Bulwer, Thomas Hood, and Theodore Hook. 1t
is now wholly in Mr.. Ainsworths hands, and
may be said to edit itself pretty much, but not
pretty well. There is also Bentteys Miscella.
ny, which actually aourished for some years
while conducted by Dickens, who was succeed
ed by Ainsworth. Latterly, it was very care
lessly got up, and is now even worse, having
also passed into Mr.. Ainsworth's proprietorship
and fatal editorship.
Per contra. There is National Maqczine
lately established in London under the new
law of limited liabilities on partnership by q
joint stock company, which is rapidly anc de-
servedly making way. 1t has two editors-one
poet, j. Westland Marston; the other also a
dramatist, but an experienced editor and man
of business to boot. Twelve years ago, Mr..
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For the Era
MY FATHERS BIRTHDAY.
BY ANN PRESTON.

IT'S gain fathers birthday changed how changed
r{from birthdays DID,
Bic I'd in other sunny harvests crowned with sheaves
and waves of gold
Sui he summer air is laden with the fragrant ath of
hay, VI.
Sui he rusng grain is ripening through the long and
quiet day;
Bir and breezes still singing olden songs in house
hold trees,
An from farm TO farm outringng, sounds of goags are
blent with these;
Blu %ey call not thee dear father thy place the board
beside
SUI aoned to another table gathered with the sanct-
fed
An of all the kindred faces which around thee daily
drew,
WIZ their love- and hope, and gladness here, today,
only two
BaI ward, past the buried summers, have gone in
thought to-day
Go where Hope the Morning Singer chanted wild her
Ar along the years, father, firm and WISE and Just,
and mild,
W. thy presence as a shelter dear and ample to thy
child;
Th' thy strong heart bore burdens there thy smile
and tone remain,
Sw 81 when thy words of soothing strangely chased
Sc denying single hearted, not for selfish ends thou
wrought
Jus the simple TRUTH the kernel straight in everything
thou sought;
Ho ling fast the Faith sustaining on the rock of DUTY
firm,
Tb upheld thine own convictions fearing never man,
the worm.
No for thee form unmeaning only kept that men NAV
laud
Tb vast called preach the freedom which befteth
sous of God.
So hou blessed the world in walking bravely thy line
oflght,
Ii wing the issue of thy warfare for the Right
thou lived with us in sweetness frank and genial
child,
n ping still the morning freshness and the loving spirit
mild.
b. there a change of sadness-fang strength and
trembling knee
A. THOU leaned us dear father who had leaned so
- long thee!
81 forgetting, still thy spirit throbbed for bowed and
suffering man,
W ne thy dear face grew yet paler, and slow the
he-iide ran.
NJ ekly thou accepted sickness thou had worked while
il twas day;
Aid, from all the years behind thee memories sweet
came round thy way,
And the peace of God divnely DER thy thankful spirit
rolled,
While the faithful Hand thoud trusted led thee gently to
the fold.
Oh the sweets of many Hayings DER yon meadow float
away,
And the hearts of oden summers trembe in these leaves
to-day,
On these green fields dearer beauty from thy virtues
been cast
Unto US the ground holy over which thy fee, have
tpsssed.
Darkness is not left behind thee for we know the just
mans way,
AS shining light still shineh and more to perfect
day.
Loving more, and more uphed grow we for our sained
dead;
Blooms immortal here watered by the tears which
love has shed.
oh we deal with things eternal earth is lighted from
above;
Sorrows, mysteries wrongs, and changes ouench not
Beauty, Truth, and Love!
For the rich celestial sweetness good men leave where
= they have trod;
For my father, housed from tempest bless Thee nv IA
theirs God.
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toned. 1t will be good exercise for the dog
days-if you can find then-the authorities, l
mean, not the dog-dsys, which are, alas only
too palpable .
When your cake hos for sufficient length Of
time undergone the ordeal of fire, bring it again
to the blessed light of dag. If the edge be black
and blistered, like q gis' 4 tree blasted by the
hghtning's stroke, or if .he crust be rent and
torn as by thermal cor <nlsions, cast it away.
1t is worthless. Tramp > it under foot. Item
put on your stoutest boo j, and provide yourself
with cork soles; otherwi e, the trampling may
prove to be anything butean agreeable pastime.
But if the surface be -autiful auburn brown
crisp, brittle, and unbroi sen-
Joy, JOY, forever! yo IT task is done!
The gates are past, aSd breakfast is won;
or, as the clown said {. the apple-dumplings,
I" Them's the jockeys 70 me-"
1t you are an outside arbsrian, ignorant Ct
the re6nements of civilis d life, you will at once
proceed to cut open Yil. your knife the steam:
ing cake, as you would IN oyster, and thereky
render it heavy as thes heart of the weeping
Niobe; but if you are gentleman and s
scholar, you will gently sunder its cinginy
sides without armed interference" and 50
preserve its spongy, r rous texture. To tie
uninitiated, one part is.Ss good as another bit
let ne con6dentially WI isper in your ear, if il
should be your duty to pass the plate, preseet
to your neighbor that side which bears tie
under-crust, as that is fable to be burnt AID
unpalatable; and reserve to yourself the
smoothly rounded upp. crust, which is del
ciously toothsome. "I.and ignota loguor p
Lay your portion on yoar plate, crust down
ward. With your own polished knife the
reason of this you will presently perceiye)
carve from the ball of golden butter lump of
magnificent dimensions. Be not niggardly in
this respect. Exercise toward yourself lar;se
hearted generosity; for butter sinks into itself
and in itself is lost with wonderful rapidly,
when it rests on pedestal of hot bread. Press
your butter, still adhering to ycpr knife, down
into the warm, soft bread, in various places,
forming little wells, whose walls are unctuous
with the melted luxury, and then-Oh THEN
but cannot sustain the picture which my
fancy has drawn.
"My eyesare dim with childish tears,
My heart is idly stirred;
For the same sound in my
That in those days heard.
"Thus fares it still in our decay
Yet mourns the wiser mind
Less for the crusts time takes away,
Than those he leaves behind"
"The bridegroom may forget the bride
Was made his welded wife yesireen
The monarch may forget the crown
That on his cad an hour hath BEEN
But never, Oh! Brown Bread Cakes never
may your taste pass away from my lips, YOUR
odor from my nostrils, or your memory fSom
my heart, till "my eyes shall be turned to be-
hold, for the last time, the sun in the heavel,s
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Prince Edaoards LsLand.-l4 Ia. Exclusive
privilege, for fifty years, of landing cables. Is.
Free grant of 5000 acres of land. l6. A grant
of E3OO currency per annum for ten years.
Canada.-17. Act authorizing the building
of telegraph lines throughout the Provinces
l8. Remission of duties on all wires and mate
rials imported for the use of the company.
Nora Scotia.-l9. Grant of exclusive priv
lege for twenty five years, of landing telegraph
cables from Europe on the shores of this Prov.
ince.
State Of Maine.-20. Similar grant of excu-
sive privilege for like period of twenty. five
years.
That the enterprise will be persevered in un-
til successfully accomplished, there can be no
question; for the exclusive privileges and guar
antees themselves, which the companies have
obtained, are, in the opinion of those most COM
petent to judge, of more value than the whole
capital required to manufacture the cable.
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face of the globe, and rot all the frs of the
Forest that look so romantic alive, and die into
desks. 1t is impossible to cheat this frolic.
some humorist with any pretence, any exagger.
ated sentiment, any of the do-nue-goodisms OF
weiimeaning moral feebleuess. A lady sends
him Coelebs in Search of a Wife," for his De-
rusal and guidance. He returns it with this
quartrain written on the Ay-leaf, expressing
the slight disagreement between his views of
matrimony and those entertained by Miss Han.
nah More
"yfever I marry a wife,
I'll marry a landlords daughter,
Add sit in the bar all day.
And drink cold brandy and watern
1t he tLns slips out of controversy BY making
the broadcast absurdities the vehicles of the
hnest insight, his sense and enjoyment of alb
surditles in others rises to rapture. The nom
senslcal ingenuity of the pamphlet in which
his friend Capel Loft took the ground that
Napoleon, while in the hands of the English,
might sus out writ of ha6eas corpus, threw
him into ecstasies. And not only has he quips
and quirks and twisted words for all he sees
and teels, but he has the pleasantest art of
making bis very maladies interesting, by trans
muhng them into jests. Out of the darkest
depths OF the "dismals fly some of his happi
est conceits. any bedfellows," he writes to
wordsworth, care cough and cramp. We
sleep three in a bed" aHow is it," he says,
that cannot get rid of this cold ? 1t can't
be from lack of care. have studiously been
out all these rainy nights until twelve o'clock,
have had my feet wet constantly, drank copious-
ly OF brandy to allay inflammation, and done
everything else to cure it, and yet it won't de
part "a sage decision, worthy of that illustri-
oustphysician who told his patient that if he
had DO serious drawbacks he would probably
be worse in a week. To crown all, and to
make the character perfect in its winning cou-
tradfctions, there beats beneath the fantastic
covering and incalculable caprices of the hu-
mofist the best heart in the world. capable of
courtesy, of friendship, of love, of heroic self.
devotion, and unostentstious self sacrifice.
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man would overturn any system, however con-
ventional. The misery of the elective affinity
scheme Is, that men are not chemical sub
stances, and that, in nine cases out of ten, the
force of the attraction works more constantly
and lastingly upon the woman than the man.
The Mormon Polygamy is nothing more than a
plant from the same evil seed sown in q baser
soil, and is an attempt to compromise between
the higher instincts of mankind, organized in
their institutions, and the bestial propensities
of sensualized individuals. flames Russell
Losoel.
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Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1857-03-28
VOL.XXI,
State Central Committee.

In pursuance of resolution of the last
Democratic State Convention, the follow
ing named gentlemen have been appointed
to be the State Central Committee for the
ensuing year:
CuAIRMAN-CHARLES r. BUOKA.
LEW, of Bloomsbury, Columbia county.
PhilaoleLphia--Hon. Richard Vaux,
Edward G. Webb, Dr. Andrew Nebinger,
Gen, VIM. Reilly, VIM. A. Porter, John
q. kirkpatrick, Eugene Ahern, VIM. Ser.
geant, John Robbins, Jr,, DR., Edward
Morwitz, Geo. Williams, Alex Brown.
liOntg2nery-Edward Suttcrthwaite,
Henry w. Bonsall.
Chester and Delauare - Robert Z. Mon
aghan, Joseph R. Morris.
Bcrks DR.. c. Hunter, E. l.. Smith.
Backs-RobertT r yler, Stokes L. Roberts.
Lancaster and Lebanon--George San
derson, Ii. North. ..
Nothumberlanda,M Dauphta-W. B.
Sipes, James NJ. Bay, Richard Haldeman,
Jesse G. Horton i -'
Southampton anil Lehigh--Jno. Davis,
Jno. w. Hutchinson, Mifiin Hannum.
Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne--
Samuel NcLean, S, s. Dreher, o. H Mott,
w. T. Wood.
Adams and Fanklin-Henry niley,J.
W. Douglass. Ir. -
York-W. II. Welsh, Jacob S. Keidel.
Cumberland and Pe,ry--Thomas M.
Biddle, G. J. T. Mcintyre.
Clinton, Lycomtng and .StSlitvar
L. Diffenbach, John W. Maynard, James
Degan. .s
Blur, Cansbra and Hu,ui0gtoa--R. B.
Pctrikin, Geo. Adolphus Patterson.
C0lumbia, LuzeyAe, 3.c.-Asa Brundage.
BraJt6rd, Susquehmna, 5,c.--D. ".
Overton, Gen. John Blanding.
1aoga, Potter, S'c.-D. l.. Sherwood,
Edwin B. Eldrcd. ...........
Mercer, Venongo and Warren-Hon.
NJ. G. Trout, L. 7. Parmlec.
Erie and Craayord- Murray Whallon,
John P. Davis. 0-G rFfr1.
Bedyer, Butler and Lalmencc-Gen.
Jonathan Ayres, Gen. Charles Garter, J ohm
Graham.
ANegheny-Hon. P. c. Shannon, R,
Biddle Roberts, Charles Barnet, William
Blurk.
Bedford, Laacrence-Hon. NJ. +. Doug
herty, w. j. Bare.
armstrong, Indiana ant CAarton-J.
Alexander Fulton, Col W, T. Alexander.
.WlNjn, Junlata and Uaion-P. NJ.
Dull, Charles Merrill.
Fayette and WeStmoreland-Hon. John
L. Dawson, Col. A. E. Wilson. ..
SchuylkiH-Hon. F. w. Hughes, Benz.
Churst.
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Caution to Lovers.

\ young gentleman residing in the
ncighborhood Of Richmond, had occasion,
a short time since, to drive his pretty cousin
Fanny down to Windsor in gig. Littlo
Charlie, brother of Fanny's, accompanied
and sat between them in the gig; bit MS he
was only five or six years of age, was con-
sidercd nobody. Unfortunately, however,
the urchin had got a new hat that very
day, of which he was exceedingly proud.
Finding, on his arrival at Windsor, that it
had sustained some injury during the jour
ncy, he rushed to his mamma to complain.
" | declare, mamma" he cried, "I'll never
ride in a gig between sister Fanny and
cousin George again."
"Why SO, my dear!" inquired mamma.
"Becausc," he replied, they've crushed
my new hat all to pieces, with leaning over
to kiss each other, all the way from Rich
mond"