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Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-08-03

70 The Emperor of France has returned to
Paris from his Italian Campaign.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-08-03

Or 1t is said that the potatee rot, has made
its appearance in Rhode Island.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-08-03


DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
ASSEMBLY.
DANIEL LITZINGER, Of Chest Springs.
PROTHONOTARY.
JOSEPH M'DONALD, Of E6ensbury.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
PHILIP S. NOON, Of E6ensbrg.
TREASURER.
JOHN A. BLAIR. Of E6ens6ury.
COMMISSIONER.
d. 7. STORM, Of Richland Io,cnship.
CORONER.
JAMES S. TODD, Of Ebensbrg.
AUDITORS.
GEORGE G. X. ZAHM, 6 years,
L. B. MOORE, & years.
POORHOUSE DIRECTOR.
REES ]. LLOYD, Of Cambria Toacnship.
COUNTY SURVEYOR.
S. D. PRYCE, Of E6ensburg.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-08-03
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.
AUDITOR GENERAL,
RICHARDSON l.. WRIGHT,
OF PHILADELPHIA.
SURVEYOR GENERAL,
JOHN ROWE,
OF FRANKLIN COUNTY.
SENATOR.

SENATOR.
AUGUSTIN DURBIN, Of Munster Township,
(Sutject to the Decision Of the Senatorial Con-
ference.)
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MISCELLANY. /.
An Hour With a Raoy Eastern
Traveller.
A ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.

Somebody has said, briefly, strongly,
truly, that "devils are made of angels "
It is even so. And nothing perhaps
brought the apothegm SO forcibly to our
mind as the perusal Of story, to be
found in "Tent life in the Holy and, !"
by William G. Prime, author Of " Boat
Life in Egypt and Nubia," "The Old
House by the River" and Later Years"
1t beats romance in its own domain.
That entertaining writer was, in 1857,
at Damascus. and there visited the gor-
geous residence Of a woman, whose. girl
life in England resembled the pure, crys-
tai waters of the Jordan, when it breaks
from Genesareth and ripplcs over the first
ledge of rocks; whose midwomanhOod
grew like that sanity river, less translu-
cent and more turbid as it flowed along,
and whose subsequent life is as its swol-
len toyrent mingling with the unlovely
and stagnant waters of the Dead Sea.
A native of lake-laden Cumberland, Of
a line of noble ancestors, dating back to
the reign of the second Charles, the young
girl, in the freshness and loveliness Of
youth, was possessed Of home, wealth
and admirers, which the proudest beauty
in all England might envy.
The halcyon days Of youth-hood passed
away in Eden innocence, and not a fieck
was discerned in the clear sky Of the life-
t0-c0me.
. At length, a peer, distinguished 10
Great Britain. and famous on this side Of
the Atlantic, as we'll as on the Continent,
sought her hand in marriage The we'd
ding was brilliant and the guests depar-
ted with the false idea that the curtain Of
happiness had rung upon
1.-TWO souls with but single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one
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THE PRAIRIE NEWS,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY
JNo. RICEEARD9oN,
AT - PER ANNUM. IN ADVANCE.
POETRY )
THE WIND AND THE sTREAN

THE WIND AND THE STREAM.
A brook came stealing from the ground;
You scarcely saw its silvery gleam
Among the herbs that hung around
The borders of that winding stream
pretty stream--a placid stream
A softly. gliding, bashful stream.
A breeze came wandering from the sky,
Light as the whispers Of q dream;
lie put the oerhanging grasses by,
And gaiy stopped to kiss the stream
The pretty stream--the fattered stream
The shy, yet unreluctant stream.
The water, as the wind passed DER,
Shot upward many Il glancing beam,
Dimpled and quivered more and more,
And tripped along livelier stream,
The hattercd stream-the silnperiDg stream
The fond, delighted, silly stream.
Away the airy wanderer few,
To where the fields with blossoms teem--
10 sparkling springs and rivers blue
And left alone that little stream
The hattcred stream-the cheated stream
The sad, forsaken, lonely stream.
The careless wind no more came back;
He wanders yet the fields, deem;
But on its melancholy track
Complaining went the little stream
The cheated stream-the hopeless stream
The ever murmuring, moaning stream,
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LET HER RIP.


One sunny afternoon last week,
thought I'd take a ride;
And hired nag they said was fast,
I'm sure she was when "tied."
My friend, Bill Spriggns, drove the mare
While laid on the whip,
And shouted till was quite h0arse--
Billy, put that animated female projecting
power through-gelan
Let her rip
We stopped at Bensels oil the road,
OF course We had to smile"
And give the expeditions nag
A drink, and rest awhile.
We "hgged," then calling for the mare,
tossed the man ftp,
Jumped into the wagon, and seizing the
reins, requested the Ethiopian individual who
held the double distilled essence of lightning in
emphatic tones; to=-
Let her rip!
A chap who drove a large bay nag,
Seemed anxious for a brush,"
So whipping up our own fast crab,
We went it with rush
Twas neck and neck mile or more;
When his mare made trip,
We glided by like lightning creased,
For, having hired the extraordinary ami
NAL, we considered that we had perfect right
to get the worth Of our money, and therefore
Let her rip!
We drove along, without mishap,
At least dozen miles;
Stopping, now and then, Of course
To take several smiles;
At last we ran into chap,
Who gave us too much lip,
The ho,se broke--the wagon too-pitching
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OkOLONA, MISS, JULY y. 1859.

desert. The Countess was not outdone,
and seeking him in the midst Of the sands
Of Palmyra, married him according to the
rites of his tribe.
Subsequently, she induced him to come
to Damascus, and here is description OF
the interior of the residence of the fallen
angel. Says Prime, after taking peep
into her bed room and her boudoir =
1.-The former was furnished in gorgeous
style. The hangings were of the heaviest
damask, the floors carpeted with the most
costly fabrics of Persian looms. 1t was
a "reminiscences Of her early Afe that she
had revived in Damascus, by importing
from France, this costly furniture, which
l have never seen surpassed by the same
in the bedchambers of royalty in Euro
pean palaces. But there were reminis, en-
ces of her childhood that must sometimes
have thrilled her now cold heart. There
.was.a portrait of her father, wearing the
uniform of his high rank, and looking
kindly on the strange scene. There was
the heportrait of herself, in gorgeous frame
of purple and gold; portraits of two chill
dren (long since dead) of her brief and
honored married life several magnificent
folios, bound in dark morocco, and on
the side of each, a coroneb of gold, with
the single name, "Ianthe," and books
familiar to the Christian world, such as
"Daily Food" Marriage au point de
vue Chretien." C) "Lynch's Dead Sea
Expedition" and Robinson's Biblical
Researches"
Who is this remarkable person who
lives in Arab fashion, and eats from
platter on the floor with her fingers, and
her Arab hound of husband opposite
her p
Who but'the once gloriously beautiful,
innocent and admired wife Of an English
peer-Lady Peterborough
If the behests of blood and of fashion
had been disregarded; if she had been
permitted in her girhood to have married
a man she could have loved, what then I
Who is responsible for the sacrifice of
youth and beauty, soul and all, 10 the
conventionalities of English aristocratic
life, making her, in the words of the au-
thor of Life History of Mirabeau, like the
unfortunate Sophie, the victim of a
" most unhappy married unmarried life :"
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Clerical Anecdotes.

Clerical Anecdotes.
The San Jose Tribune California; tells
this annecdote of recent occurrence over
that way:
Rev. Moses Clampit, an eccentric
preacher was holding forth in Santa Cla-
ra Valley young man arose to 60 out,
when the preacher said: Young man,
if you'd rather 60 TO hell than hear me
preach, you may go!" The sinner stop
ped and reflected a moment, and then say
ing respectfully" "Well, IJeliere Iuould,"
went on.
This has point, but We think another,
forwarded to us lately by friend from
Minnesota, rather caps it. A minister,
noted for combining the somewhat incon-
gruous professions Of preacher and mon
ey lender, was proffering a prayer, in
which was the following petition :--
Grant that we may have more interest
in heaven y
Don't do it," exclaimed one of the
congregation, '..don't do it.! The old sin
ner gets five per cent month now and
that's enough, the Llrd knows"
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. VOL. vII.-.-NO 43.

l tell you. But lying, stealing and rob.
bing are considered fair business transac.
tions nowadays; and fiat anytime your
feet should slip from under you, gather
up and lie the louder, steal the more and
rob the heavier lin financial or CONNER
cial way, of course y and you will soon
get a footing upon ground wholly devoid
of danger.
4 little stealing isN dangerous thing
Dive deep, or touch not, taste not
! forget exactly how brother Pope has
Now word to young Ambition
Whatever be the goal you have in view.
be determined to reach it, and you will
do it. The temple of Fame is built upon
a high hill, and the path that leads to it
Is, indeed, steep and slippery one; but
there are always a few bushes to grab at,
and, if you don't "lose your grip" you
willfnd thatits summit can be attainedby
modest merit asby well as hawks, vultures
and loathsome reptiles. Then, should you
gain even the highest eminence of earth.
you will look for a higher still. You will
see it looming up, in sublime beauty and
grandeur, far above the horizon of this
undulating sphere. 1t is the heavenly
Mount Zlon-very steep, and very hard
to climb. You will need the staff of faith,
and consciousness at all times that you
are upon the right track but if you once
slip before losing sight of this "vale of
tears" down, down you will slide, fiat
upon your back, into that bottomless pit,
whence no backsliders ever was knownto
find his way out SO mote it not be
NoTlcE.-Before the hat proceeds on
IFS usual round, permit me to state that I
receive rupees and Bolivian halves at for.
ty cents each; but any one contributing
two of either, may save twenty per cent,
as they will be taken for an even dollar.
FURTHER NoTIcE-A trial Waltz will
take place this eyenhing, at 8 o'clock pre-.
cisely,'in the dancing cellar on Pacific
street, two doors above the Tennessee
House. After which, Spanish Flamin.
go will be performed upon one leg by
celebrated professor and teacher of the
st. Vitus Dance. Two-thirds of the pro.
ceeds to be given in aid of that charity
which ever begins and ends at home the
to be applied for the more gen.
eral diffusion oflong pipes and lager beer;
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Witicisms. Asa
II the Austrians only had a General
Taylor, what patrh he could makeupon
the scat of War
Travellers on our railroads who use
the sleeping cars. arc certainly a Jed-rid-
den set.
Women's Rights females should issue
Their proclamations In the form Of. . mailed
sirhlllers." A bad spell" that -
What a horrible creature! A bache-
lor says be dislikes young married cou.
pies " because they are 50 apt to givo !
themselves hcirs - 1, .s3
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-07-07

OLD GEar.-Why don't you 60 10
work and stop picking your nose? Boy
It's my nose. amt It and its Fourth Of
July too. III pick thunder outofit. if s
I've mird to- a~s
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-07-07

CO The following letter, says the Lou
isyile Journal, reached us yesterday. by
mail, and contains the autobiography
of a life i'll spent. We have no obituary
notice to pen over the watery grave Of
the writeri the Wabash will ripple his
dirge, and its spring floods stand for bis
monument. But for the information of
the friends Of the now ueteran departed,
we publish his dying speech and confess
sion just as we receiyedit:
June the 18th 1859
Mr. george ID prentice
pleas publish few lines for one Of the
old subscribers of the Democrat in your
next Jouinil make it as request was
born in green Co Ky twas Raised in Hart
Co was Raised by Plus parents. at the
age Of II years old | professed faith in
Chris Joined the baptist Church in 1858
| was excluded from the Church in nov
1926 j married in Hart Co Ky march the
18th 1857 Committed an act that has
murdered all thepeace andhapiness of my
Friends on the 80 of March me aud my
wife parted to meet TO more forever am
now. in Flora Clay Co and as soon as i
Mail this letter i expect to make the Wa
bash River my grave must Die md go
to He'll j w b
s Of Hart Co Ky
pleas send Mr. motley gore Copy to
Monroe Ky 81
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1859-07-07

OF A woman, not young. recently
founded suit for breach Of marriage
contract on the following killet-doux that
accompanied boquet of flowers. The
case of that ST. Louis woman. who re-
covered 100000 from a faithless lover.
has turned the heads Of some Of the wo-
men,
:" Dear, 4 send hi the boy d
buckett Of fiours. They is like my love
for u. The mite shade menes kepe dark.
The dog fenil menes am ure slaive.-
Kosls red and posts pail.-My Iuy for u
shall never faile.'
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A Fanny ,farrigc.
An economical couple from Iowa arrI.
we'd at Alexandria, Mo-, few days ago,
to get married. The groom had neither
haf, coat, nor vest, but Justice Spencer
kindly loaned him those needed garments,
and then tied the knot for them. When
the ceremony was over, the groom told
the Squire he i" hadn't red, but would
IKE to trade him a pet wolf, ifthey could
agree on the terms. The " Squire" took
the yarmint, and gave tue happy bride
groom dollar to boot.
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That's So.
The editor ofthe Brandon Republican.
IN his Salutattry, in laying down his pro-
gramme which he intends to follow. says
The course of many journals Of the day
making themselves mouth-pieces and
puiling-machines to aspirants in their sew
eral sections, | disapprove. As I once
before said, | believe with Sir Peter Tea
eel, in the :" School for Scandle." when
he says--"Sir Oliver, this is did wick
ed world, and the fewer in it. we prnise
the better"
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-06-23

ANOTHER PRIZE FIGHT IN PROSPECT George
King, a boxer of renown, lately arrived from
England, last week issued cartel Of defiance to
the equally celebrated Ed. Price, of Boston-so
says Porter's SPIRIT of the Times. Mr.. Price is
fighting man, every inch of him, and has not
been slow in picking up the gauntlet. A friend
of his has deposited in our hands draft for two
hundred dollars, with which to bind match, at
Kings earliest convenience for battle, to come
off in Canada. Price wants to make the thing
a thousand dollars a side, and has no objection
to double that amount at the shortest possible
notice. He means business; wants to give King
a good, square chance and the only favor he
asks is for the other party to hurry up. The two
hundred dollars Cor one hundred, if it will suit
King better) waits to be covered-Neoo YORK;
Sun, June 18th.
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8arriages,

June 9Th, at the Methodist Parsonage in
Pennington, by Rev. Thomas Walters, Phillip
2. Seals, Of Raritan, to Levina Fisher, of New
Hope, Pa.
June--l6th, at the same place, by the same
Oliver III. Ewing to Miss Deborah Kinney,
both of Readington, n. J.
On Saturday, June 10th, by Rev. G. W.
Milford, Mr.. Gabriel Woolyerton to Miss Kate
Cole, all of Pennington.
In Lambertville, on the 18th inst, by the
Rev. B. Carroll, Mr. B. johnson Hoffman, to
Miss Elizabeth Godown.
On the 10th inst, by Rev. John Fort, Mr..
Alpheus Morgan, to Miss Amy Ent both of Della
ware Township, N. ].
By the same, on the 10Th inst, Mr.. John
Gutchol, to Miss Sarah Stephenson, both of East
Amwel Township, N. J.
On the 18th, inst, by Rev. VIM. Archer, Mr..
Jesse Warman, of Mansfield, Warren Co., N
j.. toMiss Eliza Larenah Peoplesdorph, of
Bethlehem, Hunterdon Co., N. j.
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-06-23

Miss CAROLINE RIoHINGs ROBBED. We learn
from the Syracuse (N Y. Standard that the ac-
tress Miss Richings, who was stopping at the
VOORHEES, House. in that city, on Saturday night
was robbed. 1t appears that Miss r. left a
number of her valuable rings on the toilet table
in her room at the VOORHEES, House AS soon
as her loss was discovered despatch was sent
to Barney Becker, and search was instituted,
but the rings could not be found The porter
Patrick Frayno, was suspected, from various
circumstances, but he denied all knowledge of
the rings. Mr.. Becker procured the service of
Officers Putnam and Shattuck, and the porter
was called into a room, where he was questioned,
but he stoutly denied everything. Finally, the
officers proceeded to search him. notwithstanding
his remonstrances, and in the pocket Of his pant
aloons the rings were found, rolled up in piece
of newspaper
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-06-23

Coon BRANDY. the past four years q
cask has lain in the Union depot in Indianapolis,
Indiana, uncalled for. A few days since it was
opened and found to contain the bodies of a pair
of twin babies put together a la Samese. But
the liquor (alcohoD which had originally sur
rounded these remains, as fluid preservative,
had all been drawn off. The fast young men
about the depot had from time to time piled
straws vigorously through gimblet-holes in the
cask thus procuring an article with which they
smacked their lips and pronounced good bran
dy" The color of brandy had been impaired to
the alcohol by the dead babies. Several railroad
employees have abstained since the discovery
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VOL. 1, NO. So.
gtngraphies.
lFoR THE PREss.l
George Rogers Clarke.
TcoNTINURD.1
BY W. D.

[coNrMUED]
In the centre of the hail. at a little table, sat
the Commissary, General Clarke, the indefati-
gable scourge of these very marauders; General
Richard Butler, and Mr.. Parsons there was
present also, Capt. Denny, who believe only
died few years ago. (and who afterward told
the story.)
On the part Of the Bed Sktns, an old Coun-
Gil Sachem and war chief, took the (cbair)
log He was tall, raw-boned fellow, with an
impudent and villainous look, made boisterous
and threatening speech, which operated effectu-
ally ON the passions of the Indians, who set up
a prodigious whoop at every pause.
He concluded by presenting black and white
wampum, to signify they were prepared for eth
er event, peace, or war. Clarke exhibited the
same unaltered and careless countenance he had
shown during the whole scene, his head leaning
on his left hand, and his elbow resting T.. the
table He raised his little cane and pushed the
sacred wampum off the table with very little
ceremony, every Indian at the same moment
started from his seat with one of those sudden
simultaneous, and peculiarly savage sounds,
which startle and diSconcert the stoutest heart.
nor can neither be described nor forgotten.
Parsons, more civil than military in his hab-
It's was poorly fitted for an emergency that pro-
badly embarrassed even the hero of Saratoga; the
brother and father of soldiers. At this juncture
Clarke arose, the scrutinizing eye covered at
his glance; he stamped his foot on the PROSTATE
|
insulted symbol, and ordered them to leave the
hall They did so, apparently involuntarily.
They were heard all that night debating in the
bushes near the fort The raw-boned chief was
for war; the old Sachem for peace. The latter
prevailed; and the next morning they came back
and sued for peace.
General Clarke died at his seat, at Locust
Grove, near Louisville, Kentucky, on the 18th
of February, 1917, in the sixty sixth year of his
age.
He had justly acquired the appellation of the
father of the western country,
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-06-23

A CURIOUS su1r-The Bangor Whdo saws
that a queer case of malpractice was tried at
East Corinth, Me-, few days since, before H.
D Dexter, Esq. Mrs. Eliza Butler, of Charles
ton, brought suit against DR.. Phipps. to recover
damages " for that the said Phpps, for the consi-
deratior of fifty CENTS agreed to extract for her.
the said Eliza, certain decayed tooth, situate
in the upper jaw; but the said Phipps, by his
negligence or ignorance, did not remove said
unsound tooth in pursuance Of his contract but
instead thereof extracted sound and valuable
tooth, to wit, of the value Of 800" The de-
fence was, that the lady tainted during the oper-
alton, and the instrument slipped on the wrong
" grinder" M R. Bragg testified that D.
osgood, of Bangor, pulled by mistake sound
tooth for him and Drs. Thompson, Fuller, and
"aterhouse, said that, with nervous patients,
such mistakes were liable to happen The lady
ala not discover the loss for some DAYS. when
the :" old ache" came back. The magistrate
gave Judgment for the defendant.
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The Battle Of Magenta---Six Weeks of

The Geographic news which reaches America
with each successive steamer is generally vague
inexact and plundering, in precise ratio with
its Importance. After perusing the accout of
the battle fought at Magenta on the Sd and 4th
of June, and sitting tie positive intelligence
from the. gossip of London and Paris. we can
make out clearly at least four facts ofthe biobest
Importance: That the French army. commanded
by the Emperor in person, crossed the Ticino in
its march upon Milan on the I'd of June that
on the Sd, 4th, and 5th of June it encountered
the Austrian army posted at Magenta to dispute
its advance; that a furious conflict followed
the result of which was the retreat of the Aus
TRANS southwark in the direction of Abbiate
Grasso and Payia; and that Milan having been
evacuated by the Austrians, deputation from
that city waited upon Victor Emanuel on the
9th of June, in the presence of Napoleon Ill,
and requested him to take possession ofthe Cap
ital of Lonlbardy. By the previous arrival of
the Europa, the usually well informed correspon-
dent Of the Londen Daily News, ajournal which
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-06-23

Till DooM.oF THE WoRLD.-The North Brit
ash Reviea0; discoursing on the doom of the
world, has the following remark What this
change is we dare not even conjecture but we
see in the heavens themselves some traces of
destructive elements and some indications of their
power. The fragments of broken planets, the
descent of meteoric stones upon our globe whirl-
ing comets welding their loose material at the
solar surface the volcanic eruption in our own
satellite, the appearance Of new stars and the
disappearance of others, are all foreshadows of
that impending convulson to which the world
is doomed. Thus placed on planet which is to
be burned up, and under heavens which are to
pass away-thus residing, as it were on the
cemeteries and dwelling upon the mausoleums of
former worlds, let us learn the lesson of humility
and wisdom, FIVE have not already been taught
in the school of Revelation. "
The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-06-23

The RACE BETWEEN FLORA TEMPLE AND
YORK, June16-There were large attendance
to day at the Eclipse Course, Long Island to
witness the great trotting match between Flora
Temple and Princess, the California mare. Flora
three miles each She made the second heat of
three miles in I m. SCI s.. The stakes were
$4,000.