The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-04-04
EDITORIAL H0TlkGS.

at Hollidaysburg was well attended
nsa. patent skirt extender-the wind on
Monday.
psm Why is it-that the only apoiogists
for Secession are to be found in the Loco-Fo-
co ranks?
ne, The Legislature has passed and the
Governor signed the bill for the suppression
of fortune telling.
eea The initiatory steps are being taken
for the establishing of a Loco-Foco paper in
Indiana.
DsY- The Tribune says that Altoona is
pestered with rowdies. Let 'em slide-thro'
:, noosed rope.
asa- A toast-Woman: to her virtues we
give love; to her beauty, admiration and to
her hoops, the whole sidewalk
gea Currently reported that Ebensburg
needs ''hotel on the modern plan" Does
that mean hotel where they charge $3.50
a day for feed and dime for drinks?
nea, Cassius NJ. Clay, who declined the ap
pontment of Minister 10 Spain, has been
tranferred to Russia. Carl Schurz has been
substituted as Minister to Spain.
GGs- 1t is held to be great crime to steal
rigger or even a mulatto, and yet the
cession leaders of New Orleans kidnapped
100000 yellow boys" at once.
ga An agent from Mississippi visited
Springfield, Illinois, few weeks ago for the
purpose of soliciting corn for the suffering
poor of his State, and the home of Lincoln
contributed one thousand bushels.
nsA The Confederate States having abol-
ished Yankee Doodle as national air, it is
suggested that they adopt the 'Rogue's March
as substitute. The chaplain of the Southern
Congress, it is understood, opens the sessions
with prayer and reading the hymn commcnc-
ing, Il love to steal" etc.
asa. The Mssissippians are already expe-
riencing the benefits of secession. There is
already special tax levied of so per cent,
and if they get through their career, says
Louisiana paper, without having their taxes
increased more than 500 per cent, they will
come out well indeed.
nsa- The local of the Echo says that an
old bachelor of Johnstown was recently,
thrown into highly rapturous condition by
the accidental finding of garter on the pave
ment. One Bulwer's standing interrogatory
suits this occasion precisely-What Will He
Do With 1t?
g8g@ The following is the receipt of John
Vine Hall, the father of the commander of the
Great Eastern, for the cure of drunkenness,
which Las enabled so many men to overcome
the malady: Sulphate of iron, 5 grains mag
nesia, grains peppermint water, / drachms
and spirit of nutmeg drachm, twice day.
Bay- The Times correspondent says that
the Guatemala mission pays $500, and so
per cent. of the above amount extra for Hon
duras. ssThe duties are light-consisting of
swinging all day in hammock, and runnin Q
around at night to tertuhas, and flirting with
the Senoritas."
VS. Poetical--the conclusion to the stere-
otyped puff of a certain city firm:
Stop your blinkin,
! And keep a thinkin
OF Old A. Blincoln,
And you'll know
Where to go
Like winkin'.
| ESy@ What We Want-Tnot given in the
Iountaineers catalogue but should be No
! Compromise With Traitors, a good livery sta
| ble plenty of specie and perfect looseness as
| to investing it in public and private enterDri-
ses, total annihilation of Loco-Focracy, q
cash system, less diluted whisky and things
earlier spring weather, go-aheadative public
officials, oil wells, ard few other items that
we haven't time to mention just now.
Bgy~ Mrs. Townsend, wife of respectable
farmer in Araret, Susquehanna county, was
seized with symptoms of hydrophobia while
riding with Mr.. Townsend, some days ago, and
died during the night following. Two years
ago, while crossing a field near her fathers
| house. she was attacked by large dog, from,
which she happened to escape without receiv-
! ing any wound of which she was conscious
| 1t is now supposed the animal was mad, and
the virus penetrated the system through some
| abrasion Of the skin.
| gsA. "If the present President is right (as
regards Lincoln's policy in the Fort Sumter
matter,) how infamously has his venerable
predecessor been slandered. - Kountaineer
And who, allow us to inquire, was more
forcibly opposed to the course of Buchanan
than the Mountaineer? Who slandered this
| venerable predecessor" more eloquently than
.he Douglas press throughout the country
Echo answers-nobody. Why don't the Noun
taineer at once come out with public avow-
al of the error of its way, and promise to dc
better in the future? While the lamp holds
| out to burn, etc.
! g~A- circumstances alter cases." "A few
weeks ago the Mountaineer denounced Presi-
! don't buchanan for not re-anforcino Na;o,