The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-12-04
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s~ Passed of pleasant ly-Thanksgi
ments for few days past.
sa- The embers of the dying year-No-
vember and December
vs. Hon. James irwin, OF Centre county
died on the 26th ult.
rsa- Gen. MDowell is now before Cour;
of inquiry at Washington.
A-9. Haven't yes come to time-our local
correspondents throughout the county. so!
dear, what can the matter be ~
saa- Speaking of fashionable hats, should
one say. the ''la;est STYLE the ''latest
tile %
f. At Memphis, bar-keepers have TO take
an oath Of allegiance before they are allowed
TO dispense punches, cobbIers and juieps.
TX We thought Sam Houston was dead
long ago, but he turns up in Brenhsn, Texas,
where be made secesh speech lately.
e. All the politicsl prisoners in Fort
Warren Boston, and Fort Lafayette, New
York, were released last week.
Es total eclipse of the moon will occur
visible throughout the United States.
<1~ England professes to shed private
tears over mishaps a nation, but
are inclined TO think her privateers are gen
orally for the Rebels.
pa- Rayther steep-seventeen cents, the
ruling price, per pound for butter. Those
WHO the article should know " hich side
Of their bread they rut it on.
s,1 awe mourn for our unfortunate coun-
try."-Dem. 4 Sent.
Boo-hoo-o-oi As Big Injin once sptly OBJ
served, 'The red man sco-ns to weep-that is
for squaws and psppooscsi' Ugh!
ES- In the c s. Supreme Court, at Wash
ingten, the black silk robes are abolished
the new members being ayerse to them. The
next session, therefore, the judges Will sit in
simple broadclotb.
t<r~ We want this Rebellion put down
the price of newspapers Rags viii become
plenty sgain, you know, on the 6isbauding of
the Rebel army
eS Tie store-room of S. Watterson L
Son, Blairsvilie, was broken open the other
night, and goods TO the amount of six or sew
en- hundred dollars aostracted.
The work OF BIairsviliains, we suppose
Ea- The Dem. Sent. says that Honest
John Covode would make smelling Gov
esnor.
Can't see it The D. { s., however, prob
| ably nose.
HA Ericsson's new gunboat, the Passac,
fires 15-inch guns inside the turret, which
closes and protects those handling the guns
except when in the act of firing. The trial
was triumph, and marks an era in naval
warfare.
Esa- The Dem. & Sent. is of opinion that
the new Postage Currency viii ultimately de-
teriorate into mere "portable trash"
Shakspere says that all money is "trash, /"
and the Postage Currency is certainly "por-
table" Why rot, then
rI~ Speaking of the whiskey taken from
the hoop skirt of female snug ggler, Prentice
says there sometimes very nice things
found within the broad circumference of erin
oline. Just SO ; and it is q pity they are so
often contraband!
aay" Our up-street neighbor calls Congress
;'hopeless body"
The Rebel army is q soapless body.
The editor of the Dem. & Sent is a rope
less body.
Apply the remedies.
psa. The Dem & Sent, we notice by last
weeks paper, processes to be a6le to peer
into futurity with almost prophetic vision.
Our neighbor peers into futurity through
one part evil eye and one part red-eye-which
accounts for his seeing things darky, as thro
a Glass.
p9s- The Richmond correspondent Of a
Memphis paper asserts that French and Ger
man women convey whiskey to retail about
the city, in bottles and bladders, under their
petticoats. When grog-seller wants TO set
| up a saloon, all he has to do is to put Dutch
woman son tap"
sSg~ Rags are growing scarcer and dearer
every day, and unless care is taken, the sup
ply Of paper will become so limited that
newspapers will command fabulous prices,
and half of those now published of necessity
be compelled to suspend. Look to your rag
bags, therefore, gudewives-saye the pieces.
1t viii pay in more ways than one:
sSg@ People have sometimes wondered why
Dem ocratic journals placed rooster at the
head of their papers as an emblem of victory.
Parson Brownlow fully explains the matter,
as follows:
GAS the Growing of the cock followed the
betrayal of Christ by Peter, so again the cock
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