The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-02-07
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nary'-an institution founded by citizens
of Beulah for the purpose, as the preamble
to the constitution sets forth, of .'dissem-
mating knowledge and virtue" Several
professorships of the higher branches> of
an acaiemical education are named and
provided for in this instrument Much
attention appears to have been devoted by
the people of Beulah to agriculture and
manufactures, for we find IN the ~Sky'
the constitution of the "Beulah Society
Of Rural Arts" and also an address de-
livered before the society on Wednesday,
November y, 1898. Appended to these
articles is a .'Circular" addressed by the
society to the ''citizens of United Ameri-
ca, particular those who reside on the
Western waters,' propounding a number
of Queries in Agriculture" of which 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 congenial to health and more bene-
fcial 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 summer !' 1t
is easily seen that the members Of the
"Beulah Society of Rural Arts" were not
total abstinents by jug-full, but it is very
evident that their " Welsh heads were about
right on the question of distilled IL
quors." All honor to theiranemories for
that The following "query' upon
manufacturing subject seems to us to have
indicated rare inventive spirit among
the Beulah settlers, and to have fore
shadowed late invention in the art Of
making paper: ''Do you know of any
plants, or of the barks OF any trees, which
may be applied to the purpose of paper
making 2" That they were strong pro-
tectionists and sound political economists
may be inferred from these questions =
''N ould it not be more patriotic to en-
courage the manufacture Of cotton, wool
and flax, than to import our wearing APP
parel! 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 Grafton delivered at
Beulah on the Fourth Of July, 1898, by
Morgan j. Rhces. Mr. Rhees' Grafton
is well gotten up and brim-full of patriot
ism. lie goes in for independence up TO
the hub; puts i'll word for the 'poor
despised Africans" held in bondage upon
American soil, and pitches into France
sans cerentoHje for attempting to gerry
mander the young American giant out of
his rights. The Grafton winds up with
some wholesome moral advice to the audi
enee. Among the regular toasts read
after the speech and the dinner, we find
one complimentary to Gen. Washington,
then living another to John Adams and
Benjamin Franklin; another to the ''fair
sex" and another in ho,Sr of the day
those Beulah Welshmen celebrated-some
sixty years ago.
There is an excellent poetic effuson in
one corner of the "Sky," entitled NStanzas
written after journey into North Wales
by Charles Lloyd, brother of the venerable
Stephen Lloyd, of Ebemsburg.
We close this curious relic of the early
history of Cambria county, and with it
close the subject under consideration, by
expressing the conviction---in which we
think the reader viii concur-that the
Welsh men and women who ''settled'
Beulah were a most worthy and patriotic
people, aud made of the right kind of
stuff throughout. They only failed in one
thing, and for that let no man blame
them-their torn IF Beu1ah ncver amon,tcd.
to Shucks
FIT FOR A LAwYER.-An old lady