The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-10-27

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PorAroEs.-Potatoes everywhere Po-
tatoes in the counting-room the study, the
shop, and the family circle, as well as IN
the ground and in bins. Potatoes-noth-
ing but potatoes. IF you drop In on any
convention consisting of two persons or
more, wherever assembled, these latter
days. ycu hear not the war nor the elec-
ton, but potatoes, discussed. Wars and
elections may be all we'll enough in their
p.ace, but just now they are decidedly out
of place. Potatoes have usurped the front
seat. They rule the reast-monopolIze
public attention. People talk potato: eat
Dotato, think potato, and talk, eat and
think nothing else. Potatoes all the time
We haven't heard preacher preach pota-
o rs vet, but even that may come in sea-
son. Approach a man en- business, and
ten to one he is too deeply immersed IN
the mystery of potato to look intelligibly
Il YOU: or if he does make an effort to
give ycu a hearing, twenty to one he
branches of insensibly to potato before be
converses with you five minutes. The
customary morning greeting used TO be
nGood morning, Sir. Smith how's your
health ?" Now it is-'sGood morning,
Mr. Smith how's your potato - Wa
king or dreaming, working or Willing,
potato is the prominent object before the
mind Of man Loves and hates, and re-
wards and punishnlents, and things tenn
poraI and things spiritual, and even mat
ters of dollars and cents, give way before
and arc lost sight Of in potato. 1t IS all
engrossing-all-absorbing-all-in all A
mans status is now measured by potato.
# he can boast thousand bushels or so,
the hat of the common herd Is tipped to
hin; if he owns FIVE hundred, the COM
mon herd bow to him without tipping
their nat is he owns only one hundred,
the common herd neither bow nor tip
their hat while if he counts his bushels
by twcnty-fves or ffties, he is nobody,
and the common herd avoid him as
leper. Potato Is king, and It's subtle in
auence ramifes and impregnates and dyes
to loug-red or nashanuoc white color
the entire. social system. A mania for
tulips, for long tailed bulls, for steam saw
mills, has each in turn possessed the pub
lie soul a potato mania is certainly now
thick about it.
We are speaking with respect to Eb-
cnsburg and vicinity. The potato crop is
now being housed, and, to use an express
sive phrase, it is crop Gas is a crop
The ''oldest inhabitant" says he never saw
the ike of it, and a liberal reward is offered
for the man who ever heard of a parallel
to it. 1t is tremeudous-overshadowing
mammoth. More potatoes than you
could shake srick at. The weather
giseacres last summer said certain pro-
tracted "dry spelr'' was going to spile the
potatoes If it did so spoil them, it
was not Dad thing, for counting this
half crop, and half crop giving us more
potatoes than there are sands IN an ant
hill, what would we have done with a
whole crop! All the cellars wouldn't
contain and all the real estate IN Cambria
county would be insufficient to cover them.
Ard then such potatoes The entire crop
Is unparalleled as to size, and specimen
representatives weighing one, two and
three pounds are thick as leaves in Val
iambrosa. In short, the potatoes are lar
ger and longer and plentier and cheaper
here now than they ever were before
Under the circumstances, it is not strange
that the mania affecting the people is
potato one. Is it
THANKSGIVING President, In
accordance with his usual custom, has
appointed the last Thursday in November
as day of National thanksgiving and
prayer. Thaugsgiving there is mag
Ic In the word. 1t conjures up before US