ii 11 1 III! 1 I I III III III III III III III 111 IB t III III III III 'WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY J WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW.' I3V JOHN G. GIVEN. EBENSBURG, THURSDAY, MAY 31, 1819. VOL. 5. NO. 31. Carry Me Back. Virginia's woods were clothed in green, When from my home I turned, With hope to win undying fame, My youthful passion burned. I'm dying now in a foreign land. Life's cherished dream is o'er; Oh carry me back to old Virginia, To old Virginia's shore: I'm dying, dying all alone, And not a friend is near; No brotlier.s voice, no sister's sigh, Falls on my dying car. Ob, for a heart that Iove3 mo now, Ere life's wild dream is o'er, To carry me back to old Virginia, To old Virginia's fchore. It may not bo 'neath Italia's sky Oh let me gently sleep, Where spangling Tiber's yellow waves To ocean's bosom sweep; . And there in slumbers soft I'll Ho, And dream forever more, That you carried me back to old Virginia, To old Virginia's shore. IVI "lSCE LLANSUOS" From the Boston Olive Branch. A Thrilling Story. In the fallof 1836, I was travelling eastward in a stage coach from Pittsburg over the mountains. My fellow passen gers were two gentlemen and a lady. The elderly gentleman's appearance interested me exceedingly. In years he seemed about thirty; in air and manner he was calm, dignified and polished; and the con tour of his features was singularly intel lectual. lie conversed freely on general topics, until the road became more abrupt and precipitous; but on my directing his at tention to the great altitude of a precipice, on the verge of which our coach wheels were leisurely rolling, there came a mark ed change over his whole countenance. The eyes, so lately filled with the light of a mild intelligence, became wild, restless aud anxious; the mouth twitched spas modically; and the forehead was heated with a cold perspiration. With a sharp convulsive shudder hp. turnpd bis rrnrp from the criddv height, and clutchinff rav arm tightly with both hands, he clung to me like a drowning man. 'Use this cologne,' said the lady, hand ing me a bottle with the instinctive good ness of her sex. I sprinkled a little on his face and he soon became s6mewhat more composed, but it was not until he had entirely travers ed the mountain and descended to the level country beneath, that his fine features re laxed from their perturbed look, and assu med the placid, quiet dignity I had at first noticed. I owe an apology to the lady,' said he, with a bland smile and a gentle inclination of his head to our fair companion, 'and tome explanation to my fellow travellers; also; and perhaps I cannot better acquit myself of the double debt than by recount ing the cause of my recent agitation.' It will pain your feelings,' delicately urged the lady. On the contrary it will relieve-them,' was the respectful reply. Having signified our several desires to hear more, the traveller thus proceeded. At the age of 18 1 was light of heart, light of foot, and I fear (here he smiled) light of head. A fine property on the right bank of the Ohio, acknowledged me as sole owner. I was hastening home to enjoy it, and delighted to get free from col lege life. The month was October, the air bracing, and the mode of conveyance a stagecoach like this, only more cumbrous. The othei passengers were few but three in all an old grey-headed planter of Loui siana, his daughter a joyous, bewitching creature about 17 years of age. They were just returning from France, of which country the young lady discussed in terms so eloquent as to absorb my attention. The father was taciturn, but the daughter was vivacious by nature; and we soon became so mutually pleased with each other she as a talker, I as a listner that it was not l until a sudden flash of lightning and a heaw dasb nf w elicited an exclamation from my charming companion, that I noticed how '. ranifiUr v,:u. i i j j sently there was a low rumbling sound, . several tremendous peals oi mui,m accompanied with Hashes of light ning. 1 he rain descended in torrents, and an angry wind began to howl and moan by turns through the forest trees. I look ed out from the window of our vehicle; the night was dark as ebony, but the limtnin revealed the dangers of the road! We were on the eiLje of a frightful precipice. I could see at intervals huge jutting rocks far away down its side, and the sight made me solicitous for the safety of my fair companion. I thought of the mere hair breadths that were between us and eternity; j a , single little - rock in the track of our coach wheels, a tiny billet of wood, a stray root from a tempest torn tree, a restive horse, or a careless driver; any of these might hurl us from our sublunary existence with the speed of thought. ''Tis a perfect tempest,' observed the lady. IIow I love a sudden storm! There is something so grand in the mournful voice of the winds whan let loose among the hills. I never encountered a night like this, but Byron's storm in the Juro immediately occurs to my mind. But are we on the mountain yet?' Yes; we have began the descent.' 'It is not said to be dangerous?' 'By no means,' I replied, in as easy a tone as I could assume. I only wish it were daylight, that we might enjoy the mountain scenery. But Jesu Marie! what's that?' and she cover ed her eyes from the glare of a sheet of lightning that illuminated the rugged moun tain with brilliant intensity. Peal after peal of crashing thunder instantly succeed ed; there was an immense volume of rain coming down at each successive thunder burst and, with the deep moaning of an animal, as if in dreadful agony, breaking upon my ears I found that the coach had come to a dead halt. Louise, my beauti ful fellow traveller, became pale as ashes; she fixed her eyes on mine with a look of anxious dread, and turning to her father, hurredly remarked : ' We are on the mountains!' 'I reckon sol' was the un concerned reply. With instant activity I put my head through the window and called to the dri ver; but the only answer was the heavy moaning of an agonized animal, borne past me by the swift wings of the tempest. I seized the handle of the door and strain ed at it in vain; it would not yield a jot. At that instant I felt a cold hand on mine, and heard Louise's voice faintly articula ting in my ear the appalling words 'The coach in being moved backward-?! God in Heaven! Never shall I forget the fierce agony with which I tugged at the coach door and called on the driver in toneswhich rivalled the force of the blast, while the dreadful conviction was burning into my oram mat me coacn was moving slowly backwards! What followed was. of such swift occurrence that it seems to me like a frightful dream. I rushed against the door with all my force; but it mocked my utmost efforts. One side of our vehicle was sensibly go ing down, down. The moaning of the agonized animal became deeper; and I knew from his desperate plunges against the traces, that it was one of our horses. Crash upon crash of hoarse thunder roll ed down the mountain; and vivid flashes of the lightning played around our devo ted carriage as if in glee at our misery. By its light I could see for a moment the old planter standing erect, with his hands on his son and daughter, his eyes raised to heaven, and his lips moving like those of one in prayer; I could see Louise turn her ashy cheeks and superb eyes to wards me as if imploring my protection; and I could see by the bold glance of the young boy, flashing defiance at the de cending carriage, the war of elements, and the awful danger that awaited him. There was a heavy roll, a desperate plunge, as if an animal last throes of dissolution, a harsh grating in the jar, a sharp, piercing scream of mortal terror, and I had but time to clasp Louise firmly around the waist with one hand, and seize the leather fastenings attached to the roof with the other, when we were precipitated over the precipice. I can distinctly recollect preserving con sciousness for a few seconds of time, of how rapidly my breath was being exhaust ed; but of that tremendous descent I soon lost all further individual knowledge, by a t . -i . -r ... concussion so violent mat l was mstantly deprived of sense and motion.' The traveller paused: his features work ed for a minute or two as they had work ed when Ave were on the mountain; he pressed his hands across his forehead as if in pain, and then resumed his interest ing story 'Un a low couch, m a humble room of a small country house, I next opened my eyes in this world of light and shade, of joy and sorrow, mirthand madness. Gen tie hands smoothed my pillow, gende feet glided across my chamber, and a gentle voice hushed, lor a time, all my question ings. I was kindly tended by a fairy young girl about fifteen, who refused for several days to have any discourse with me. At length, one morning, finding ray- sell suthciently recovered to sit up, I in sisted on learning the result of the acci dent. xou were discovered, said she, 'on a ledge of rock 'mid the branches oi a shat tered tree, clinging to a part of the roof of your broken coach 'with one hand, and to the insensible form of a lady with the other.' And the lady!' I gasped, scanning the girls face with an earnestness that caused her to draw back and blush. 'She was saved, sir, by the same means that saved you- the friendly tree.' 'And her father and brother?' I impa tently demanded. They were both found crushed to pieces at the bottom of the precipice, a great way below where my father and Joe got you and the lady. We buried their bodies both in one grave close by the clo ver patch, down in our meadow ground.' Poor Louise! poor orphan! God pity you!' I muttered in broken tones, utterly unconscious that I had a listener. God pity her, indeed sir!' said the young girl, with a gush of heartfelt sym pathy. 'Would you like to see her?' she added. Take me to her,' I replied. I found the orphan bathed in tears, by the grave of her buried kindred. She re ceived me with sorrowful sweetness of j manner. I will not detain :pur attention by detailing the efforts I made to win her j from grief; but briefly acquaint you that I at last accompanied her to her forlorn home at the sunny south, and that twelve months after the dreadful occurrence that I have related, we stood at the altar together as man and wife. She still lives to bless my home with her smiles, and my children with her good precepts; but on the anni versary of that terrible night she secludes herself in her room and devotes the hours of darkness to solitary, prayer. 'As for me,' added the traveller, while a faint flush tinged his noble brow at the avowal, 'as for me that accident has redu ced me to a mere coward at the sight of a mountain precipice.' 'But the driver?' urged our lady pas senger, who had attended to the recital of the story with much attention, 'what be came of the driver? or did you ever learn the reason of his deserting his post?' 'His body was found on the.road, with in a few steps of the spot where the coach went over. He had been struck by the same flash of lightning that blinded the restive horses.' The traveller here fell into a musinff at titude, as if all further allusion to the sub ject -would be unpleasant to him. We shortly alter reached the railroad station, where 1 parted from the nervous gendemari with feelings of profound esteem. Speech of Lot Doolitile. On the bill for the protection of Hen JIOOSIS. Mistur Sneaker: 1 have sotbere in mv seat and heered the opponents of this great nashunal measure expectorate again it, till I'm purty nigh busted with indig nant commotions ot my lacerated sensi bilities. Mistur Speaker are it possible that men can be so infatuated as to vote ajrin this bill? Mistur Sneaker, allow me - r ' ' to pictur to your excited and denuded ima gination some of the heart-rending evils wnicn arise :rom me want oi purtection to hen roosts in my vicinity, among my constituents. Mistur Speaker, we will suppose it to be the awful and melancholy hour of midnight all natur am hushed in deep repose the solemn wind sottly moans through the waving branches of the trees, and naught is heered to break the sblem choly stillness, save an occasional grunt from the hog pen! I will now carry you in imagination to that devoted hen house. Behold its peaceful and hnnnv inmatps gently declining in balmy slumbers on ineir elevated and majestic roosts! Look at the aged and venerable and highly re spectable rooster, as he keeps his silent vigils with patience and unmitiratprl watch- y m. - - r fulness over those innocent, helpless and virtuous nens and pullets! Just let your eyes glance around and behold that digni fied and matronal hen, who watches with tender solicitude and parental congratula tions of those little juvenile chickens, who crowd around their resnectfnl nrn- jenitor, and nestle under her circumambient wings. row, l ask, Mistur Speaker, am there to be found a wretch so lost and abandoned, as will enter that peaceful and happy abode, and tear those interesting little biddies from their agonized and heart-broken parents? Mistur Speaker, I answer in thunder tones, there am! Are thar anything so mean and sneaking as such a robbery? No, there are not. You may search the wide universe from the natives who repose in solitarv jn-andpnr and superlative maiestv under thp. shad. of the tall cedars that grow on the tops of the Himmaleh mountains in the valley of r t. i i j , , , J vi j ustquiai, uown io tne degraded and Daroarous savages who repose in obscuri ty in their miserable whrwams on the. rnrl- of Gibralter in the Gulf of Mexico, and then you will be so much nuzzled to find any thing so mean, as you would see the arm revolve around the sun once in twen ty-four hours without the aid of a tele scope. Mistur Speaker, I feel that I have said enough on this subject to convince the most oostinate member ol the unapprqgch able necessity of a law which shall forev er and weverlastingly put a stop to these fowl proceedings, and I propose that every ccayictel offender shall suffer the penalty of the laws as follows: For the first offence he shall be obliged to suck twelve rotten eggs, with no salt on 'em. For the second offence, he shall be obli ged to set on twenty rotten eggs, until he hatches 'em. Mistur Speaher, all I want is for every member to act on this, subject according to his conscienciousnes. - Let him dp this and he will be remembered everlastingly by a grateful posterity. Mistur Speaker, I've done. Where's my hat. The eloquent gentleman, according to the Boston Post's report, here donned his seal-cap, and sat down, apparently much exhausted. r i - , ,.JLElD0TE OF HOOK. Lounging by Soho Square in the after noon, with Terry, the actor, the nostrils of the promenaders were suddenly saluted with a concord of sweet odors arising from a spacious area. They stopped, snuffed the grateful incense, and peeping down, perceived through the kitchen window, preparations for a handsome dinner, evi dently on the point of being served. ' W hat a least!' said Terry. Jolly dogs! should like to make one of them.' 'I'll take any bet,' returned Hook, 'that do call for me here at ten o'clock, and you will find that I shall be able to give you a tolerable account of the worthy gen tleman's champagne and venison.' So saying, he marched up the steps, gave an authorative rap with the knocker, and was quickly lost fo the siffht of his aston ished companion. As a matter of course he was immediately ushered by the servant as an expected guest, into the drawing room, where a large party had already as sembled. The apartment beinsr well nijrh full, no notice was at first taken of his in trusion, and half a dozen people were laughing at his bon-mots, before the host discovered the mistake. Affectinor not to observ e the visible embarrassment of the latter, and ingeniously avoiding any op portunity lor explanation, Hook rattled on till he had attracted the crreaier part of thp company in a circle round him and some considerable time had elapsed ere the old gentleman was able to catch the attention of tne agreeable stranger. '1 beg your pardon, sir,' he said, contri ving at last to get in a M ord; 'but your name, sir I did not quite catch it ser vants are so abominably incorrect and I am really a little at a loss ' 'Don t apologize, I beg,' graciously re plied Theodore; 'Smith my name is Smith and, as you jusUy observe, ser vants are always making some stupid blun der or another I remember a remarkable instance,' &c. But really, my dear sir,' continued the host at the termination of the storv illus trative of the stupidity in servants, 'I think the mistake on the present occasion docs not originate in the source you allude to; I certainly did not anticipate the pleasure of Mr. Smith's company at dinner to-day.' 'No, I dare say not you said four in your note, I know, and it is now, I see, a quarter past five yon are a little fast by the way; but the fact of the matter is, I have been detained in the city as I was about to explain when Pray,' exclaimed the other as soon as he could stay the volubity of his guest, 'whom, may I ask you, do you suppose you are addressing?' Whom? Why, Mr. Thomson, of course an old friend of my father. I have not the pleasure indeed of being per sonally known to you, but having received your kind invitation yesterday, on my ar. rival from Liverpool, Frith street four o'clock family party come in boots you see I have taken you at your word. I am only afraid I have kept you waiting.' 'No, no, not at all. But permit me to observe, my dear sir, my name is not ex actly Thomson; it is Jones, and' Jones!' replied the soi disant Smith, in admirable assumed consternation; 'Jones why surely I cannot havj yes, I must good heaven! I see it all! My dear, sir, what an unfortunate blunder, wrong house what must you think of such an intrusion! I am really at a loss for words in which to apologize you will permit me to retire at present, and to-morrow ' 'Pray don't think of retiring,' exclaimed the hospitable old gentleman. 'Your friend's table must have been cleared long ago, if, as you say, four was the hour named, and I'm only too happy to be able to offer you a seat at mine.' . Hook, of course, could not hear of such a thing, could not think of, tresspassing upon the kindness of a perfect stranger; if too late for Thomson, there were plenty of chop houses at hand; the unfortunate part oi tne business was, he had made an ap pointment with a gentleman to call at ten o clock. The good-natured Jones;, how ever, positively refused to allow so enter taining a visitor to withdraw dinncrless. Mrs. Jones joined in solicitations, the Misses Jones smiled bewitchingly, and at last Mr. Smith, who soon recovered from his confusion, was prevailed upon to offer his arm to one of the ladies, and take his place at the well-furnished board. In all probability the family of the Jones never passed such an evening before. Hook naturally exerted himself to the ut most to keep the party in an unceasing roar ofalaughter, and made good the first impression. The mirth grew fast and fu rious, when, by way of a coup de grace he seated himself at the piano-forte, and struck off in one of those extemporaneous effusions which had filled more critical judges than the Jones' with delight and astonish ment. Ten o'clock struck, and on Mr- Terry being announced, his triumph ant friend wound up the performance with the explanitory stanzas: "I am very much pleased with your fare, Youi cellar's as prime as your cook, My friend's Mr. Terry; the player, And I'm Mr. Theodora Hook I" NEWSPAPERS- Mr. Senator Allen, in a speech in the Senate, not long since, said that he looked upon the newspapers of this country as the great book of the people as the great me dium of communication, withont which public liberty itself could not subsist. The multiplicity of newspepers in this country form a prominen feature of our social and political system. They are representative in their . character, as all such emanation from the business interests and political sentiments of the people must of course be. Yet they possess a reactive influence of wonderful powers. That power, howev er, is as yet but rarely recognized in its nature; it is not organized at all; it is in its first elements. The time will be when the first order of intellect, of knowledge, of refinement, the substantial governing pow er, in short, which is to give direction to opinions and taste throughout th'e Repub lic will be found as in France at the head of the press. The power, however, thus indicated and exercised should not, properly speaking, be called the power of the press because the press is a mere instrumentality by means of which truths and fact and just references and elevated sentiments are brought to bear upon the public mind. The newspaper press is the more efficient instrumentality, since it can cause a more immediate, continual and thorough diffu sion throughout the masses of the people, of those wholesome influences which are so potent and so salutary in tlieir opera tion upon society. AVhcrc the press is entirely free as in this country, it must follow that bad prin ciples as well as good will find diffusion through it. Any one man start a newspa per, who has sufficient means and is dis posed so to apply them just as any one may invest his capital in the dry goods business. Hence there must be manv va rieties of capacity, of fitness and unfitness, among those who assume the responsible position of conductors of newapapers men who by their own election undertake to form and to express opinions on all sub jects of public concern. I he egotism of our American journals, as a general thing, is perhaps the most se riotfs drawback upon their usefulness in the more elevated sphere of iniliiencc. A newspaper should be an impersonality. The journal speaks; the editor never. It is bound to the community by public rela tions, in which all individualism of persons is lost. A journal is a unity comprised indeed of many parts, but its aggregate character is one. The personal concerns of an editor, his likes or his dislikes, his enjoyments and grievances, have nothing to do with liis function, as a journalist. 1 he public care nothing- lor him as an in dividual nothing more than for any one else of equal merit. The fact that he has a printing press at his disposal gives him no priveliges of obtrusion, no special claims ta sympathy in his private griefs.. He has his duties and his rights as a citizen, precisely like any other man. But a newspaper appearing regularly and constandy before the public, becomes a seperate entity a distinct existence. It gives intelligence relative to business and events; the public are entided to the ut most accuracy of info rotation. It express es opinions on great public questions; the public are entitled to a knowledge of the pertinent facts. It advocates one side or the other in a controverted issue of policy; the public are entitled to the honest exer cise of its best judgment and to a fair and courteous demeanor in discussion. These qualities, or the want of them, give char acter to a journal and effect its influence. The newspaper press, in its representa tive character, merely exhibits 'the age and body of the time' in its form and pres sure, without influencing it one way or a- nother. The representative character, however, is only the foundation upon which its higher character arises. It must be representative, or it canhave no perma nent existence. It is not a power in the midst of society, acting independent but it is a part of the system. From the Cincinnati Atlas. The Mormons. We wish to call the reader's attention to the new, and most extraordinary con dition of the Mormons. Seven thousand of them have found a resting place in the most remarkable spot on the "North Ameri can continent. Since the children of Is rael wandered through the Wilderness, or the Crusaders rushed on Palestine, there has been nothing so historically singular, as the emigration and recent settlement of the Mormons. Thousands of them came from the Manchester and Shefliclds of England, to join other thousands congre gated from Western New York, and New England boasted decendants of the Pil grim Fathers together to follow after a New Jerusalem in the West- Having a temple amid the churches and schools of Lake county Ohio, and driven from it by popular opinion, they built the Nauvoo of Illinois. It becomes a great town. Twenty thousand people flock to it. They are again assaulted by popular persecution; their prophet murdered their town de populated, and finally their temple burned! Does all this persecution to which thev have been subjected, destroy them? Not ai an. oeven tnousand are now settled, in flourishing circumstences, on the Pla teau summit of the North American conti nent. Thousands more are about to join them from Iowa, and thousands more are coming from Wales. The spectacle is most singular, and this is owe of the singu lar episodes of the great drama of this age. The spot, on which the Mormons are now settled, is, geographically, one of the most interesting in the western world. There is no other iust like it. that we , . recollect, on the globe. Look at the map a litfle east of the creat Salt Lake, and just south of the Southwest Pass, and :n : -I. .i a y ou m sue in me iionnwesi comer oi aiitomia, me summit. level ot the waters which flow on the North American conti nent. It must be six thousand feet, per haps more, above the level of the Atlan tic. In this sequestered comer, in a vale hidden among mountains and lakes, are the Mormons; and there rise the mighty rivers, than which no cqntinenLhas great er. AVithin a stone's throw- almcfst. of one another, lie the head sprirrgs of the Sweet Hater and Green Rivers. The former flows into the Platte river, that into the Missouri; and lhat into the Mississip pi; and that into the Gulf of Mexico, and becomes a part of the Gulf stream, leaving the shores of distant lands. The latter, the Green river, flows into the Colorado; the Colorado into the Gulf of California. and is mingled with the Pacific. The one flows more than 2,500 miles: the other more than 1,500. These flow into tropical regions. Just north of the same spot are me head streams ol nake liiver, which flows into the Columbia, near lat." 45 deg after a course of 1,000 miles. Just south are the sources of the Rio Grande, which after winding 1.700 miles- finds thcGulf of Mexico. It is a remark able point in the earth's surface where the .Mormons are; and locked m by moun toins and lakes, they will probably remain and constitute a new and peculiar colony. Gallantry. Irishmen arc proverbial' for their off-hand gallantry. Yankees, we believe are eqnal' to any of them. A case in point: Recently there came to our city on a visit, a verdant youth direct from, snow-clad Green-Mountain-dom. His city connections .are of some importance, and it was not long ere lie had an invitation to an upper-ten party. Dressed in his 'Sun-. day-go-to-meetins,' lie was . ushered into the parlor at an early hour. Among the company was a very pretty and quite be witching Miss,, to whom the- youth 'paid his special devoirs. She is quite petite he fully a "six-footer.' When the com pany was invited from the parlor to par take of refreshments, the tall youth, wait ed on the pretty, petite Miss. They took a posidon back of the table, where the crowd was large and room scarce. The youth invited his partner to. step up on a stair which led out into another apartmeuU 'Oil, no! she' returned, I shotdd be toa far. above you.'' 'Not at all,' he replied, casting a significant glance at her; 'nier area i7e loicer than the angels! We commend the following recipe to housekeepers:. To mase potatees very mealy, take and wash them well just be fore you wish to use them, and then, with out drying or wiping, put them in an old meal bag. Wheeling Times -: . '- .lew . 13 The more a mux w&rkut hard ( time he will have to crumb'' umce.