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Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15
BENSBURG, PA WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY IS, 1865

there is another ventriloquist here | am
sure of it, and think this stranger, our
friend, must be the man y
Passenger addressing the stranger, J
-" Are you ventriloquist o.
Stranger (blandly),-" When at home,
/ am ~
Blitz [staring at the young stranger, T
" And your name Is -"
Stranger smiling. WYMAN, the
wizard and ventriloquist -
Blitz -" And the confounded wasp
was nothing more nor less than--''
Stranger [interrupting. =" Wyman the
ventriloquist y
The two wizards shook hands heartily
while the passengers enjoyed a laugh
which fairly shook the boat from stem to
stern, and for the balance of the trip there
was 10 end to the fun. The boat was
stopped by Blitz, started by Wyman ;
Blitz got up a false alarm of fire, and
Wyman burst the boiler to the holy horror
of several old maids. Blitz bOlted whole
potatoes at the table. Wyman slowed
away chickens alive and kicking. Blitz
had dozen waters constantly bringing
the wrong dishes Wyman had dogs and
cats under the table; and between them
both the splendid steamer, Goddess OF
Liberty" was completely turned into an
immense stage, with the '' Comedy of
Errors" upon it for the amusement of
three hundred passengers.
Both wizards have since become init
mately acquainted; and they have many
hearty laugh at the fun created on the
Mississippi by the rival ventriloqeists.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

FROZEN PorAToEs-rbo.. ,
unfortunate as to have pota,o.. So
may find comfort from the Ge,,,,n,o,a,
1elegraph:
" If your potatoes freeze in the cellar.
don't wait for them to tha-, but throw,
them into conical heap, either ~hers
they are. or in the open ai-, and cover
them with dirt, straw, shavins.. old
clothes, or chaff, packed tight .ith them.
and they are safe. The covee will pre-.
vent sudden changes, which csu>es all the
mischief. L have saved frozen potatoes
IN this way it may be new TO some OF
your readers, and may be OF use to them,
as it has been 10 me-"
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

e. The late King of Prussia once
sent TO an aid-de-camp, Colonel Malatc-
howskl, who was brave but poor, q small
portfolio, bound like book, in which
were deposited five hundred crowns
sometime afterwards he met the officer.
and SAID to him, "Ah, well, how did
you Ike the new work which sent you 7''
" Excessively, SIRE" replied the Colonel.
" L read 1t with such interest that | ex-
pect the second volume with impa.ience."
The King smiled, and when the officers
birthday arrived, he presented him with
another portfolio, similar in every respect
10 thu first, but with these words engraved
upon it." This book is complete in
two volumes.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15
Letter from "A SeCeSia S0ger to
his Better-Rasf.
CAMP OF lsr S. c. GRAYBACKs, BEFORE
A SWAMP AND BEHIND PETERSBURG OR
THEREABoUTs, july 81, 1864.

Belored Of ny Soul Your war-worn
husband takes his pen in hand III STANCE
land, on a foreign strand. under the COM
mand of our mutual friend, Colonel Pluck
Buzzard, of Rainwater Court House,
). G. Ny pen is pale and have no ale.
My ink is poor ard so is my grub. My
quarters in camp are passabie, but the
quarters IN my pocket are not. Last
night L had a mud puddle for my pillow,
| and covered myself with a sheet of water.
| long for more whiskey barrels and less
gun barrels, more biscuit and less bullets.
How l wish you were here. The further
L get away from you the better | like you.
SO that you may know how we work
here in defiance of the cussed Yankee
send you, what dye call ia diary of
my daily labor.
Five o'clock. Called up from a roll
in the mud by roll OF drums. No pros
pect of a roll of bread. Shoulder spades.
Half-past five to six, A. Nj dig and
throw up the earth. Get sick and throw
up my yesterdays rations. -r
Seven o'clock.-Another roll of drums
Filing off into line ard defling my mex
pressibles with mud and other sacred soil,
drawing ramrods but no pay, No shelling
out by Government, but cussed sight too
much shelling out by Grant.
Nine O'Clock. drilling, but not of
the cotton kind, wherewith to increase my
present supply of one shirt.
Ten O'Clock. digging. SpaduIar
researches into the geological formation of
the earth Find it TO comprise alternate
stratas of sweat, sunstroke, swearing and
blsters.
Twelve O'Clock. of dinner
Saw Captain Yawslack picking his teeth
with ten-penny nail, and the corporal
taking chew of tobacco.
Oh, Marian, if you only knew what
have suffered to save you from being
hombarded by the diabolical Yankees
Rather than any of the Northern scum
should blockade my dear Marian I'd di-
vorce her. Colonel Pluck come very
near being shot in the neck By one of his
own officers.
The Colonel had just got his staff to-
gether, and struck his noble steed with it
when Captain Swipes leveled bottle at
him. Fortunately the contents missed
his Juguiar, and went down the natural
way. L am reduced to skeleton NV
eyes are sunk so far into my head that l
can look down my windpipe clean through
my whole interior
If there was hole in the top Of my
head I'd make first class telescope, Owe
got the glasses in me now Ny chin is
50 sharp it shaves itself | am going on
picket duty tonight. Picket duty is aw-
full hard work. Almost every night a
picket's gun goes off, and when we 90 to
look for him we find he has gone off too.
Ever your dear husband,
BUCKHORN HANDLE
p. S.-If your old father has drank up
all the tangleroot juice l left at home, I'll
cram the demijohn down his throat and
cork up his sarcophagus with boot heel
That's so Marian
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

- man applied 10 DR. jackson
the celebrated chemist of Boston, with .
box of specimens:
Can you tell me what this is, sirs"
Certainly | can, sir; that is iron py-
rites
What, sir ;" in voice of thunder.
g Iron pyrites,"
g Iron pyrites and what is that."
That's what it is said the chemist,
putting lot on the shovel over the hot
Goals, where it disappeared. "Dros.."
And what is Iron pyrites worth f'-
Nothing"
Nothing! Why there's a woman
who owns hill full of that in our town.
and Eve married herI''
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

How THE Devil LoSr.-The follow
ing is too good to be lost A young man
who ardently desired wealth, was visited
to promise his soul for eternity if he could
be supplied on this earth with all the mo.
ney he could use. The bargain was con-
cluded the devil was to supply the
money, and was at last to have the soul.
unless the young man could spend more
money than the devil could furnish. Years
passed away, the man married, was ex-
travagant in his living, built palaces,
speculated widely, lost and gave away
fortunes, and yet his Golfers were always
full He turned politician, aud bribed
his way to power and fame, without re-
ducing his ''pile' of gold. He became
" filibuster," and fitted out ships and
armies, but his banker horored all his
drafts. He went to st. Paul to live, and
paid the usual rates of interest for all the
money he could borrow but though the
devil made wry faces when he came TO
pay the bills, yet they were all paid. One
expedient after another failed; the devil
counted the time, only two years, that he
must wait for the soal, and n..-;ked the
efforts Of the dispair,n. nan One more
trial wa, resolved up.S---ths :nao started
a newspaper The devil growled at the
bill at the end u the first quartes, vas
savage in sig months, melancholy in nine
and broke" dead broke at the end
| of the year. So the newspaper went
down. but the soul was saved
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15
RadiCa Changes in Fashions.

A Paris correspondent of the Iader
gives notice of some curious, and, as she
says, " radical" changes in ladies' dress,
ter OF fahsion. Her descriptions will be
sure to interest many Of our lady readers.
She writes:
So In ladies' evening toilets it is impossi-
ble not to perceive a decided tendency
toward radical change. This change,
or reform, is as yet confined to the very
elite of fashionable society, but by we'll
extend in another season or two to all
classes that pretend to dress and not
merely 10 be clothed.
AT Conpeigne this winter one might
have fanCied ones self at the court of the
Empress Josephepe, SO close was the
imitation to the fashion of the first empire.
Crinolines were discarded, the skirts
being narrow, almost tight; the waists
very short, cut III the shape of a heart in
front, and supported by broad Wristbands
with fancy clasps the materials worn
were dotted with gold stars or bees; the
hair, much raised behind, was artistically
disposed in mass of tiny ringlets upon
the forehead, and encircled 10y diadem
Of massive gold or of precious stones
Rich necklaces, extremely long earrings,
and gloves coming far over the wrist,
completed the illusion Of a return to the
taste of Maimaison."
She adds somewhat wick kedly:
{" Few styles of toilet are more trying
to female lovliness. If a woman is truly
beautiful it singularly enhances the effect
of her natural graces, of the elegance and
ease of her every movement On the
other hand what n risk of revelations
which the cunning art of the dressmaker
has no longer the same discretion to pre-
vent For this reason it is to be expect
ed that the new fashion will be slow in
gaining universal favor.
Another contemplated change is to re-
yivc with muslin for evening parties.
Female society would thus divide itself
into two clases the riches elegantes who
will wear satin of embroidered gr0s de
Naples, or velvet braided with fur, toilets
which for dinner party are considered
| of the last elegance and the s,nlpletteS,
who will please modest white muslin.
Economy is given as the reason for this
return to an almost discarded fashion
but we all know how severely exacting is
this most Simple of toilets.
sFor morning dress in the country and
at the watering, or rather wintering pla-
ces in the south of France, long skirts
have very sensibly been discarded. The
skirt is worn tucked up over short fancy
petticoats. The short, tight-ftting casqaIs
held by a wide waistband, is of the same
material as the skirt, generally a pretty
English made gray or some darker shade
The petticoat is cashmere of a livel,
color, either blue, red or lilac, e..livenet
by a small flounce. and ornamented with
some trimmings or braiding, according t.
taste. An English hat, Polish bottines
stockings of the same color as the petit
coat, and straw colored dog skin gloves
complete walking costume as pictur
esaue as it ia convenient"
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

- A droll story is related of an hon.
est Old farmer, who, in attempting to
drive home bull, got suddenly hoisted
over fence. Recovering himself, be saw
the animal or the other side of the rails,
saving the air with his head and neck.
and paving the ground. The good old
man looked steadily at him moment and
and exclaimed. Darn your apologies.
you needn't stand there, you tarnal critter,
bowln' and scapin'-you did it a purpose,
darn your curly pictur
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

q During n recent performance of
Romeo and Juliet at Marblehead, the
talr Juliet's question in the soiloquy be-
fore taking the sleeping draught what
If this mixture does not work at all +! wa.
answered by an urchin in the pit-sThep
take q dose of pills.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

81 Benevolence," " said Sidney Smith
in charity sermon, 81. sentimen,
common TO human nature. A never sees
Is III distress without wishing c to relieve
him !" Rochetocault never said q more
brilliant thing than that, nor one more
sarcastic.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

- Heaven bless the wives. They
I'LL our hives with little bees and honey.
They ease our hte's shocks, they mend
our socks, but don't they spend the moneyf
When we are sick they heal US quick
that is, if they do love us; if not. W.
die, and yet they Cry, and raise tomb.
stones above US.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

SUBSTITUTE FOR BUTrER. the
incest giri you kao~. You will then
have her TO preside at your breakfast
table, and unless you are sad dog in
deed, you will not require any 5u.-her.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

t. \ sack of -four which has been
sold and resold in California aud Oregon
for the benefit of the Sanitary Commission
till the sum of $50. 200 has hen paid for
it, is now on its way East TO 90 through
a similar process
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

e. A philosopher writes to a tailor
who had failed TO get ready his wedding
suit =" 1t was no serious disappoint-
ment; only | should have been married
II l had received the goods" That man
Will never be seriously disappointed.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

G. A modern psychologist notes the
extraordinary fact that at the dinner table
every time q man crooks his elbow his
mouth opens.
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CT 4 down east editor declares tha,
u-.s5e-s. is . quality that highly adorns a
woman but ruins a man.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1865-02-15

g. When belle 10 married docs -
not rassirs a riIs
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p. S.-If your old father has drank up
all the tangleroot juice left at home, I'll
cram The demUohn down his throat and
cork up his sarcophagus with boot heel
That's so Marian.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03

A UOTION NOTICE.-FOR SALE, FINE TONED ~
~ octave rosewood Piano four round corners carved legs
and Also general assortment Of Household Furni-
turs Apply at Al Lexington avenue, between Twenty fourth
M Twenty
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03

TINTED STATES MAII. LINE FOR CALIFORNIA,
u VIA ISTfJMUS OF PANAMA.
Lower passage rates commencing July 1865 The Atlantic
Mail Steamship Company will despatch steamers scmi-
monthly nj from the Companys and commodoua
pier No. a. North river foot Of Canal street.
DEPARTURES.
July II ,.......... COSTA RICA. .Tiukiepaugh
Connecting at Panama with Sacramento)
August ......... OCEAN QUEEN. .Siocum,
fConnecting at Panama with Golden City,
For freight or passage apply 70 D. n. ALLEN,
No Bowling Green.
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3. ROTH, AUcTIoNEER.

a. BOTH AuGTloNEE HousrHonD FURNITURE
S9S AL the s n. aS
s:s s
T. fsss! Dan
ecs Gobieis, engraved tSsmpasns: Wines, Dscan,ers
'S
S bs @ sSa w
scs a
Ss sps doors ys Of SSs ky
oh marble Centre and Pier Tables rich lace Curtains
and
hzdSirISEST ROSEWOOD r.II4AsSoroRrE.
with ali the a1
overstruns bass, full iron plate French action, full "a
Chambers and Nursery Costly rosewood and mahogany
twenty sDg sst Hair from
B Sna pw 81
d SS
Ss. oIelohs stair Carpets and Rods mahogany cushioned
s..s%sn. sSa Kitchen Utensils E s '
goods for purchasers at a reasonable charge.
A UCTIoN N0TICE.-MoRTGAGE SALE OF ELEGANT
:.S 'S % p.S. @ s
ssfsT
With four round corners fun seven octave containing all
s SsSS an%
Esy o sa a s
Ware, Clocks Cutlery Crockery Mantel Ornaments &c.
70
A JOURNEAY AUCTIONEER. OFFICE NO. 6 PINE
s sale public Ius0n or TsS
III broadway, n = Farm Of samuel H. BARNES Esq New
Do staten issnd containing 10y acres Land extends 70
the Vater sale pecmptoy account Of sickness Of
owner Bns with further particulars At Office of auconeer
No. Pine street
A UCTION sALE-THE FURNITURE OF THE HOUSE
"A Of Engine Company No A, Live Oak also large Dou-
Van Moss will be sold Thursday July at the Engine
House, 81 East Houston street. At 10 s64i,up vo
A UCTION NOTICE.-FOR SALE, A FINE TONED ~
~ octave rosewood Piano four round carved legs
Lure Apply Lexington avenue between Twenty fourth
and Twenty fifth streets
DEREMPTORY SALE PUBLIC AUCTION.-FARM 100
at New Dorp Staten Island Thursday. July g. at
- O'Clock NJ at Exchange salesroom Ill Broadway N Y
zuotionser, No. 8 Pine street. -
IN JACKSON AUcrIoNEER-THIs DAY AT TWO
O'Clock at the auction rooms 24S East street,
Lounges Bedseads Cottage suits Paintings Engravings
Par0r Suits Kitchen Furniture Bedding &C. the contents
u large boarding house. removed for Of SALE
Dealers the above In well worthy your attention
VUM T. BOYD WILL SELL THIS MORNING, AT 10Y
w O'Clock Broadway and Thirty sixth street
assortment OF Saloon Furnture-Counters Tables Chairs
E inWsss Prints, fsn,inss' &c '' '''' ''~''
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MISCELLANEOUS.

CANCER.
" NEW AND WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.
DIR. J. c. DIxONS Cancer Antidote, which has already
proved hundred be the successful
Treatment that has been used by The
method Of treatment is indeed simple This terrible disease
IL entirely removed solid without the Of the
knife loss of blood producing Of pain causc burning
affecting the sound paris OAce hours from NJ TO r.
NJ NJ Broadway. J. c. DIXON, NJ ID.
CANcERs CANCERS. CANCERS.
~ Cancers be radically extermnated and
effected without the OF the knife This recipe
obtained u great expense from old Indian chief
For further particulars inquire ut go Hudson street. fourth
door below King street.
TIOwE SEWING MACHINES
III Peculiarly adapted heavy tailoring leather work.
TO rent and all the rent allowed on purchases. Sewing
Machine rooms $50 broadway corner Of Twentysecond
ptroet, up stairs
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03
MILITARY.

CEvENTY. NINTH VETERAN HIGHLANDERS' ASSO-
- ciation-wll At the Mercer House. on Monday
evening July at O'Clock precisely 70 perfect .rrsnss
every member and his friends will be present The
Same his drum corps already engaged for
the parade BE punctual all and let friends that We
stllivc Remember Knoxville. aud beware OF Fasah or
gAnizations. Lieutenant Colonel JOHN MORE.
Jos. STEWART, Secretary. Chairman.
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CLOTHING.

Of CHALDRON FOR COKE, At THE GAS
pr Works. Twenty street and avenue OF delivered
Immediately ~ the lowest market price y. r. SHERWOOD
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UCTION sALE.-THE FURNITURE OF THE HOUSE
"A OF Engine Company No. ~ Live Oak; also large Dou
bio Decker BIZ cylinder In good ORDER made by william H.
Van Moss viii be sold Thursday, July at the Engine
HOUSE, lN East Houston street, at 10 A. M
VIM r. SQUIRE Foreman
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03

DArLRoAD TO LAKE NORTHUMBERLAND
III lers for Newport tvermont and The Lake from New
New York and New Haven Railroad At l2l6 M arrive At
white River Junction q II a odge leave there via
time 10 dine and at Newport and Lake Memphremaeog at
r. M leave Twenty street station ats p M
by New Haven steamer, pier - Peck slip At $50 r. NJ
dodge at Springheld leave Springfield At S nett morning
Memphremsgoe M6OP. NJ Passengers will ind this route
the seventy miles than any other and
The scenery along the banks Of the Connecticut river Is
surpassed.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03

INSTRUMENTATION REBECCA WATSON, NO. 1910
POPLAR street. the best female physician In Philadcl
phia fails 70 give satisfaction Medicine sent 70 any
address In the United States receipt Of dollar
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-03

A JOURNEAY, AUCTIONEER. OFFICE NO. PINE
street .Perempory sale, At public auction on Thurs
day July 1865 at IL O'clock NJ Exchange Salesroom,
III Bresdwayi NJ Farm Of samuel H Barnes ESQ New
water; crops with farm splendid grove acres and
the vaer sale percmpoy account OF sickness Of
Bls with further particulars at Office of auconeer
No, street
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-08-28

CHAMP FERGUSON IN Missouri.
ST. l4ouls correspondent of the Chi
cago Tri6une says:
Accounts arc received from the intc-
rior daily of difficulties between loyal
men and returned rebels. It is cur
rently reported that there are many
eases OF shooting returned rebels which
are never printed. The perpetrators
DO not report snch incidents, and tho
fricnds'of the victim deem it inrxpe
dlent generally to make any noise on
the subject
And yet the St. Louis RepuJlicun, Il
thoroughly radical paper, comments
:ts follows on this statement:
1t is but fair and true to say that
the rebels who have returned to Mis-
souri, have generally conducted them
selves in the most 1mexceptionable
manner. 1t is true, too, that some of
them have been killed, and that many
of them have been driven out of the
State. OF the death and banishment
Of these men the public hears but lit
tie. No matter how unprovoked may
be the homicide which ends their days;
no matter if it amounts to cool and
cruelty barbarous murder, the friends
of the murdered man, as this corres-
pondent admits, think it "inexpedi-
ent" toAay anything about-it.
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Negro Suffrn gc--NOrtIl and South.

AS the case stands at present, suf-
frage is accorded in few States Of the
North to the negroes Of that region.
Our conservative friends ut the North
have planted themselves on this
ground: They say it is absurd and in
solcnt, on the part Of the North, to in
sist upon negro suffrage at the South
while denying it in the Northern
States. Suppose shat, resolved on
subjecting the South to this humilia-
ton, they proceed to accord suffrage
to the negroes of their own States.
This will be q fraud and delusion
The negroes in the Northern States
constitute so small an integral of the
population that they cannot, by any
possibility, effect tho returns, or in
huence the vote of the white body
polite. They are but q drop in the
bucket. The matter will be more
serious III the South, where the
negroes constitute 50 large u por'