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WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY; WHEK THEV CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO FOLLOW.
V 'BY JOHN G. GIVEN.
EBENSBURG, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1850.
VOL. G. NO. 33.
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CXX80S LL AN I ; O Xi L
THE PAIR OF GLOVES.
A RUSSIAN ROMANCE.
The crying iniquities of the lettres de
ctchct, the abuse of which, it is now
needless to dwell on were not peculiar to
France, but may be traced throughout Eu
rope, disguised under various forms and
names. In England, the Bastile was the
Tower of London; in Prussia the fortress
of Spandau: in Spain the" castle of Pam
peluna; in Russia, it was represented by
Siberia. The following well authenticated
Tact, the last scenes of which have been
under our very eves, may be deemed interesting-,
as a matter of comparison.
. No sight is more striking than a review
of St. Petersburg, under the balconies of
the mahle palace or in the Place Bof the
Admiralty. The bronzed faces of the sol
diers, the unmoved sternness of their as
peer, the automaton like precision of their
evolutions, the strange mixture of costumes
ts varied as the different races that wear
themhere the Tcherkesses, in oriental
uniform there the royal guardsman, with
their silver breast-plates, in the midst of
which shines a golden sun then the drag
oons, in black hamlets, and the Don Cos
sacks, with their long lances; and the most
remarkable of all the imposing figure of
the Emperor towering above the rest, and
surrounded by his staff, consisting of the
most high-born nobles, and the finest men
of the Empire all combined to form an
unparalleled scpne. baffling all description
and the characteristics of which are as dif
ficult for the imagination to picture to itself
as for the pen the describe.
The military ceremony is held in St.
Petersburg every year, on Easter Sundav
It took place as usual in 1848. and would
have presented no peculiar feature to spec
ulate upon had not the Emperor, during
the whole time of parade, appeared in
company with a little old man. dressed in
a white coat tnrned up with red. yellow
breeches, white buckles in his shoes, three
eornered hat, and white aigre'.-who follow
ed him about with a look of bewilderment
mixed with sadness.
Thesiht of a costume belonging to the
time of Catherine II of course excited the
greitest surprise, and gave rise to a thou
ssnd conjectures. the truth, however,
was soon mide known; and we will re
peat, in the fewest possible words, the
mournful tale of the old man with the
white plume, as we heard it related on the
spot.
Potemkin was at once the most singular
and the most lucky man of the age he lived
in. Whenan ensign in the bodyguard he
had the good fortune to be noticed by the j
Empress, in whose service he drew his !
sword, in the time of the revolution that
occasioned the death of Peterlll. He was
handsome, enterprising and ambtious; he
became her favorite, and completely sub
jugated the strong minded woimn, whom
the OrlofTs had frightened, but had vainly
endeavered to subdue. j
Potemkin never loved Cathetine II nor
was he long beloved of her. Being drawn
together rather by the sympathy of natural .
genius than by any tender feelings, they !
were reciprocally unfaithful to each other.
Potemkin, like the true spoiled child of
fortune, tired of his easy conquests over ;
the fragile dames at court had grown skep
tic in matters of love, and only believed
li gullin:rv. A polish lady under. ook his
conversion. The Princess Zoumowski
was pretty, graceful, capricious, a complete i
coquette, full of wit and frivolity; aud was .
in short, like Countess Veroeff d'Aselikeff
of our times, the sovereign arbiter of fash
on, and the divinity of Russian society.
She inspired the favorite with a violent
passion, to which she hersell appeared not
wholly insensible.
But, just at the very moment when Po
temkin thought himself certain of his tri
umph, the princess suddenly changed her
mind, and became distant, reserved and
cold. It was observed that this change
had taken place ever since the fire at the
principal theatre, where her life had been
in danger had she not been rescued by the
heroic efforts of a young Major, who, on
hearing her screams had rushed into the
bu ruing house, and thanks to good luck,
and devoted courage had borne her from
her box already encircled in flames.
Potemkin, in despair of his non-success
became desirous of ascertaining at least the
cause of the rebuffs he had to bear: and
from that day he Princess Zoumowski
became the object of incessant, though cov
ert, espoinage. Not the slightest clue,
however could be found to the secret ol
her coldness; and Potemkin half beginning
to recover from his fears, attributed it to
one of those caprices as frequent as they
re transitory among women of her stamp
when circumstance apparently insignifican:
n nself, directed his suspicion in anothet
garter. .
On the 8th of March 1774, the Empress
dressed ia the national costums of which
die wore as much from coquetry as in
compliance with the distaste manifested by
the Russians for allfoieign inovations, and
attended by tho Princess Zoumowski and
Potemkin, had taken her place at one of
the windows of the hermitage, under which
the royal guard and and four regiments of
Proobajuski were about to defile along the
quay of the Court. When the second
battalion of this fine regiment of infantry
appeared in the sight on the bridge ot
Troist, the princess leaned on the balcony,
and her eyes seemed to be wandering in
search of some one; then either designedly
or by accident, she let fall one of her
gloves. A young officer whose eyes had
been fixed in the direction of the palace,
saw the glove drop from the princess" hand
aud without accelerating his pare, or brea
king from the ranks, adroitly received it on
the point of his sword, pressed it to his
lips, stealthily hid it beneath the buttons of
his uniform.
The princess blushed, Potemkin leaned
toward her.
"That officer," said he, in hollow voice
"has become enriched by one of your
gloves. To whom pray do you destiue
the other?"
"To you Count, if you are gallant e
nough to attach the least value to such a
trifle," was the reply.
"Give it me, then"
So saying Potemkin retired.
On the evening of the same day, a feld
jager and a couple of Cossacks made
their appearance in Galeruais, at Major
Teheghelowski's The officer turned pale
on beholding them, for such visits boded
no good.
Follow me!" said feldjager.
"Whither?"
"That's a secret."
"Bv whose order?"
"Look."
"Will the journey be long?"
"Perhaj s."
"Allow me to take a bag of roubles and
some papers."
"Neiiher roubles nor papers nothing!'
"Very well, sir, I will follow you,"
said the major, pale with emotion, "but
permit me, at least, to give a last embrace
to my mother, w ho is sleeping just by, in
conscious security, and who will wake in
tears and sorrow. For mercy s sake grant
me but one single moment!"
"I i is impossible! The orders are pos
itive. Ciet in!"
And the iron feldjager pointed to one
of those little covered carts, called "telea
gues," which stand very high from the
ground, and are provided witii only one
wooden seat. All resistance was vain,
and would have been punished with the
utmost severity.
The major stepped into the tealeage in
silence, and the horses; of the true Ukra
nian breed light as the wind had pres
ently borne them past vasili Ortroff, and
left the watchiowers, the blue domes, and
the golden spires of the citadel lar behind
them. The snow was falling in heavy
flakes, and drilling round the silent trav
ellers. For a moment the major felt half
tempted to sirangle his morose companion
when he should happen to fall asleep; but
the iron eye-lids of the feldjager were
never once closed during the whole of the
night. Thev now reached Pochezeroki.
The major ventured to ask whether they
had come to the end of their journey.
"Not yet," replied the feldjager.
They changed horses and went on.
Nystarita and Pounenskoe were left be
hind, as at each place the major, whose
anxietv waxed more and more intense in
proportion to the distance, questioned his
conductor laconically, and still receiv ed,'
as his only answer, that terrible reply,
"Not yet."
On crossing the forest of Vologsa, the
tealeague was surrounded by a band of;
famished wolves, that escorted it during
forty worsts, but without exciting the :
slightest notice on the part of the feldjager J
such episodes being of fiequent occur-;
rence in journeys of this kind, where the j
traveller has an even cliance ot neing de
voured by wild beasts, frozen alive, or
hitriofl in ; tfimh nf snn- that closes lor-
ever above its victims. Nothing can be I
more dreary than the inderminable suc
cession of white plains, the desolate uni
formity of which is only broken, at rare
intervals, by an Asiatic looking monaste
ry, a hut made of bomboes twisted togeth
er, or a gigantic rock, hollowed out by
the hand of time.
Seven days were spent in unspeakable
suffering, the major was half dead with
exhaustion, when the teleague halted on
the border of an arid steppe, where, here
and there, were sprinkled about twenty
wretched huts, more fit to serve as dens
for wild beasts than as human habitations.
"This is your destination," said the
feldjager.
The Major's face became livid.
"No, it is not possible!" cried he, con
vulsively wringing the hand of his sinister
companion, "you cannot leave me here,
alone, in this accursed spot! What have
I done? hat is my crime? Why was
I carried off in this mysterious fashion? I
am the victim of some inconceivable er
ror? Oli! for pity's sake take me back to
St. Petersburg, and all I possess, and all
that my family possesses, shall be yours."
'I cannot," answered the feldjager.
And then, drawing from the pocket in
his cloak, a s m.a 1 1 pamol,Jia'.. presented it
to Major Tcheghelowski, adding: "There
is what Gen. Potemkin bade me give you
when we parted."
It was the other irlove of the Princess
Zouwouski.
The Major started; his deep emotion
caused the blood to rush to his face; and , instantaneously calculating the distance of
a fond recollection awakened the courage ; objects, or he would dash himself to pie
tist had almost failed him, under so try- j ces. But in what conformation of his
ing a circumstance, he replied, "Very eyes does this consist? No one can an
well, fir; tell Gen. Potemkin that I value j swer. A cloud of ten thousand gnats dan
his present far more than I dread Siberia, ces up and down in the sun, the gnats be
and that he has given happiness enough , ing so close together that you can scarce
to support me during the period of my ! see the minutest interval between them,
exile." I yet no one knocks another headlong upon
The feldjager bowed, cracked his whip, the grass, or breaks a leg or a wing, long
and off the vehicle flew: while the unfor- and deli cateasthey are. Suddenly amidst
tunate exile watched its disappearance, ! your admiration of this matchless dance, a
with much the same feelings as the ivan- peculiarly high shouldered vicious gnat
derer, lost in a labyrinth of catacombs, ! with long pale, pendant nose, darts out of
would witness his feeble lamp flickering, j the rising and falling cloud, and settling on
and about to be extinguished, or perceive ! your cheek inserts a poisonous sting.
the thread that was to guide him back to . What possessed this little wretch to do
light and life, suddenly, snapped asunderv this? Did he smell your blood in the
Seventy years passed by seventy years mazy dance? No one knows. A four
were-dragged through amidst hardships, horse coach comes suddenly upon a flock
dangers, and privations of every kind. of geese on a narrow road, and drives
Yes, even in that iron clime, that most straight through the middle of them. A
desolate latitude, years' flew rapidly over goose was never yet fairly run over, or a
the exile's head for it is astonishing how duck. They are under the very wheels
time seems abridge by the sameness of ;
the life one leads.
Chance at length caused .the unhappy
victim to be discovered, in 1842, by an j
officer under government, who was sent j does the lonely woodpecker, when he de
on a mission to Tobolsk. Having learned j scends his tree and goes to drink, stop
his story, he caused it to be immediately ! several limes on his way, listen and look
reported to Gen. Tcherenlchow, who re- j around, before he takes his draught? No
lated it forthwith to the Emperor. The
injustice had been secret, the reparation
was open and signal. The exile now a
centenarian, was taken from the isba that
he had built with his own hands in Sibe
ria; he was brought to St. Petersburg, and
the Emperor, in the presence of the
twelve regiments assembled on the place
of Admiralty, addressed him in the follow
ing noble language: "Be assnred, sir, that
had I sooner known of your misfortunes,
they should long since have ceased. Re
main in St. Petersburg, a pension of 4000
roubles is henceforth insured to you; it is
Russia that gives it."
Major Tchelowski has religiously pre
served the uniform he wore in the eigh-
teenth centurv. Notwithstanding his ad- ;
vanced age, nearly a hundred and seven ! and always seeking the light of first prin
years. he may be seen walking about, on . ciples. On this account, he was often re
the Newtki Parade, with a figure still proached with an excessive fondness tor
erect, and a mildly serene countenance, ' abstractions; but it will be hard to point
looking with the greatest surprise, on the out an instance in which his practical sa
changes that seventy years have e fleeted gacity or executive energy was ever at
in society, and talking, with a degree of fault. He possessed an uncommon degree
enthusiasm that the snows of age have not j
vet frozen,' of Catherine 11., the Prince
de Linge, Count Segur, and Alexis Orloff, . terests of his native South Carolina, he
as if all these personages were still to be j took counsel with no one as to his meas
founcl in the Halls of the Hermitage, or j ures for her welfare; and in his most ex
in me giiruen 01 me j ouriue I aiaee. t
On reaching the capital, his first care
had been to write his will. It consisted
of the following words:
"I request, as a last favor, that I may
he buried with the glove that will be found
fastened to my neck by a black ribbon."
Workinsmrn Should SUidv Polilirs.
I respectfully console those whom, I
addiess (the workingmen of Americ i,) 1
console you to labor for a clear understan -
ding of the subjects which agitate the
community to make them yotir study
instead of wasting vour leisure in vague.
passionate talk about them. The time
thrown away by the mass of the people
rn the rumors of the day, might, if better
spent, give them a good acquaintance with
the constitution laws, history and interests
of their country, and thus establish them
on those great principles by which partic
ular measures are to be determined. In
proportion as the people thus improve
themselves, they will cease to he the tools
of designing politicians. Their intelligence
not their passions and jealousies, will be
addresseu by those who seek their vo!es.
They will exercise not a nominal hut a
real influence in the government and des
tinies of the country, and at the same time
will forward their own growth in truth
and virtue. Dr. Charming.
Free Schools in Mississippi. The
Legislature of Mississippi lias appropri
ated 8200.0JJ for which the people are
to be taxed, to be distributed among the
several counties in proportion to the num
ber of children, to establish a system of
free schols. Steps are also being taken
to procure an accurate return of the num
ber of children in the States between the
ages of six and. twenty years.
Sf&se and Sromllon.
The greyhound runs by eyesight only,
and this we observe as a fact. The carrier-pigeon
flies his two hundred ana fifty
miles homewatd, by eyesight, viz: from
point to point of objects which he has
marked but this is only our conjecture.
The fierce dragon-fly, with twelve thous
and lenses in his eyes, darts from angle to
angle with the rapidity of a flashing sword
and as rapidly darts back not turning in
the air, but a clash reversing the action of
his four wings the only known creature
that possesses this faculty. His sight, then
both forwards and backwards, must bo
proportionately rapid with his wings, and
and hoofs, and yet, somehow, they Contrive
to flap aud waddle safely off. Habitually
stupid, heavy and indolent, they are, nev-
ertheless, equal to any emergency". Why
one knows. How is it ihatthe species of
ant. which taken in battle by other ants
to be made slaves, should be the black or
negro ant? No one knows.
The Poor Artist.
Drnlh of Mr- Calhoun.
From the Manchester (Eng.) Examiner.
The Niagara brings tidings of the de-
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cease of Mr. Calhoun the distinguished
Senator from South Caroliua, an event
which it appears, had been expected for
several weeks.
Mr. Calhoun was one of the most re
markable men whom his country has pro
duced. His intellect was singularly clear
analytical, consecutive in its operations,
of mental independence. Devoted with j
almost fanatical love, to the honor and in- j
neiue suggestions, iciicu cAuiuaivci uit '
the resources of his own capacious and j
robust intellect. His eloquence was hee
from the faults that are often ascribed to
! the oratory of American statesmen. It
. had no verbiage, no pretension, no glitter,
no clap-trap, in its composition With
such severe logical precision, such ab
sence of superfluous ornament, such force
and compression of language, such vehe-
; mence and majesty of intellectual move
j ment. it would hardly be extravagant to
characterize it as possessing something of
the antique Demosthenic ff:andeur. The
friends of slavery have lost in him their
most powerful champion. Would that
i his noble talents had been devoted to a
worthier cause! With Weister. Clay,
and Benton, Mr. Calhoun formed one of
that illustrious group of statesmen who for
nearly forty years have been conspicuous
ly before the public eye, exerting a protn
nent and commanding influence on the
course of American politics.
Ep-The N. O. Picayune says that Mrs.
Partington, while visiting the Museum, on
looking among the old revolutionary relics
and Scottish claymores, asked the superin
tendent if he had among his famous cutlery
the "axe of the apostles."
CFA gentleman looking at his watch,
after midnight exclaimed:
"It's to-morrow morning I must bid
you good nighti"
"So here I am, between two tailors,"
said a dandy at a public table, where a
couple of young tailors were seated, who
had just begun business for themselves.
"True," was the reply, "we are only be
ginners, and can afford to keep but one
goose between us."
Ceaxlas Up an Eiprrutoc.
A brace f lovyers, anxious to secure
each other's shadows ere the substances
faded, stepped into a Daguerreotype es
tablishment, recently, to sit for their pic
ters. The lady gave precedence to her
swain, who. she said, had got to be tuck
fust, aud raal natral. lie brushed up his
tow heac of hair, gave a twist or two to
his neckerchief, asked his gal if his sheert
collar stood about X, and planted himself
in the operator's chair, where he soon as
sumed the physiognomical characteristics
of a poor mortal in a dentist's hands, and
about to part with one of his eye teeth.
'Now, dew look purtyi begged the lady,
casting at him one of her most languishing
glances. The picture was taken and when
produced, it reminded the girl, as she ex
pressed, jist how Josh looked when he
got over the measles! and as this was not
ah era in her suitor's history, particularly
worthy of their commemoration, she in
sisted that 'he should stand it again. lie
ohejed, and she attended him to the chair.
Josh, said she, 'jist look like smilin, and
then kinder don t. The poor fellow tried
to follow the indefinite injunction. La, !
she cried, (you look all puckered up.' One
direction followed another, but with as
little success. At last, growing impatient.
and becoming desperate, she resolved to j
try an expedient, which she considered :
infallible, and exclaimed I don t keer if j decomposed elements of last autumn are
there is folks around. She enjoined the 'the aliment of our present spring. Econ
operator to stand ready at his camera; she I omy, rigid economy, is one of the laws
then sat in her feller's lap, and placing j of nature; and we shaM not realize "th
her arms about his neck, managed to cast 1 good time comin g" until we have a care
a shadow of flaxen ringlets as a screen j fu I and economical world. Let this spirit
between the operator and her proceedings, j prevail, and mt only will Ibe master l
Which, however, were betrayed by a sue- '. saved from loss, but, in many instances,
cession of amorous sounds which revealed ! the servant will rescue himself frcra the
her expedient. When this billing and union,
cooing had lasted a few minutes, thecun- '
ning girl jumped from Josh's lap, a fid The Evansville (la.) Journal says, that
clapping her hands, cried to the astounded there is a voung man named Masterson.
ariist 'Now vou have got him! put htm
1
threw!'
Dow Jr., Crrfd.
Dow, Jr., the inimitable preacher of
Short Patent Sermons, gives us the arti
cles of his creed, and concludes with the
remark:
Poke over with the cane ot considera
tion what I have emptied before; and if j
you can find a single grain of wheat among
the four pecks of chaff, I shall be highly
gratified.
The following are the grains of the gen
uine article or we are no thrashers:
"I believe that the most industrious are
the most contented and happy. Idleness
is an incubus upon the bosom of enjoy
ment. 'It is the hardest work in the world
to do nothing by the month and have
nothing to do with it.
I believe that kicking against custom,
and spitting in the face of fashion is a fool
ish and futile endeavor. Both may need
correction but thev must and will have
their wav.
t believe that if the devil be the fath-
er of lies, he has a plaguy large family
to look after, and is rapidly on the in
crease. I believe that girls are like kittens
gently smooth the right Way, and they rub
and purr most affectionately; but give
them a contrary brush and their back is up
in a most disdainful manner. They like
to be kissed but sham delicacy about the
operation.
I believe that human flesh is hard to di
gest. Jonah didn't sit easy in the whale's
stomach.
I believe that simple honesty, the naked
truth, pure virtue, fc stiaight up and down
way of dealing wi th the world have as
mnch advantage Over vice, trick and strat
agem, in the long run. as a good square
trotting horse has over a pacing pony, or
a racker thai goes his mile or two like the
mischief, and is done for the rest of the
journey.
fcjCSome people have very inquiring
minds, but none', we think, carry their cu
riosity so far as a Yankee friend of ours,
who rung the bell of a fashionable resi
dence up town the other day, and when
the servant girl made her appearance po
litely inquired what the family intended to
have for dinner. Knickerbocker.
Law. A publication has been made,
giving, as far as can be ascertained, the
uame, residence, and post cfEce of every
practising lawyer in the United States.
The entire list shows that there are n;ie
teen thousand Jive hundred.
There are three things which cannot be
made too short and they are visits, pie
crusts, and communications' for papers.
Editors need condensers as much as
steamboats do.
The editress of the Lancaster Literary
Gazette says that she wonld as soon nestle
her nose in a rat's nest of swingle tow, as
allow a man with whiskers to kiss her.
Economy is Due to Our Employer.
"Waste not. want not," is a gotd old
proverb -He that ix faithful iu little is
faithful also in much." A person wbo
takes no care cf the materials committed
to fiis hands hy his master, will nerer
duly husband his own jiroperty. Encon
omv and wastfulness are hab'is that .will
influence us in all things, both when
are engaged about our owi
gaged about our own substance or
that of another. To waste anothers gorda
is the same as to 10b him. The less in
both cases ts equal, and the ptinciplea
whence they spring very much al ke.
The man who takes care of his employ
er's goods is sure to look after his own.
and thus is on the road to prosperity. . It
would be difficult to calculate the im
mense loss of property that every year
occurs from carelessness and want of eco
nomy. Some persons are worth nearly
half their wages more than others, be
cause they ner t injuro or waste anything
The employer being wealthy, or the t clc
abundant, is no excuse for carelessness.
A loss is a loss and a robbery is a. robbery.
whether taken from the heap of the mi
aer or the smalier store of the ' indigent.
Gather up the fragments, thai nothing
e lost, is a divine command. Heaven
allows nothing to be destroyed. There
has not b?en a single drop f water
wasted from the creation until now. The
awai
tiling his trial at Rockeport, in thai
State, who is able to throw a stone, with
almost the precision a man can send a t ul
let fr"m a go;d rifle. He can go into tne
woods, and kid as many squirrels with
dornicks, as an experienced hunter can
with his gun. A drunken man was pur
suing a brother of his. with a knife in hit
hand, when Masterson threw and struck
the fellow on the b;ck of his head, killing
him instantly. He says he intended la
strike the arm of the drunken man. to
knock the knife from his hand, but his
own arm was caught, and the object frus
trated. He can prova this, we under
stand. fA Re volutin in the currency is go.
inr on pn-dured by the discovery of the
California Gold Mines. The Philadel
phia North American says. "We have
a great abundence ot gold dust, and but
little silver. Formerly, the rverse W;is
the case.
Our stock of silver has fast di-
, minished, and is still diminishing, and
the cause is ensuy asceriameu. voia
dust, which can be readily sold
in this
city at SIM per ounce, can be as readily
bought at San Francisco at S15 50 per
ounce with silver coin and lar;e amounts
of silver con have been shipped to Cali
fornia for that purpose. 1 he investment
yields a profit of some twenty per cent,
while returns are made in the brief space
of ninety days.
ftO'Ma. I think you'r foolish sitd &
little bov as be sat "beside his youthful
mother." Vhy so, my dear?' Why, for
marrying pa, when -oa might have .nar
ried me if you only had waited a few
years.
A puzzle. M father is my son, and I
am my mother's mother My sister ia
my daughter, and I am grandmother to my
brother.
"Jim, did you ever double the Cape of
Good Hope?"
"I expect I have.
hen?"
"Last night, when I put my arms arannd
the cape that belongs to the dress of the
young lady that I have good hopes of ma
king Mrs. Dusenberry."
OTA minister at church approached a
little urchin about twelve years old, and
laying his hand upon his shoulder, thus
addressed him:
"My son I believe the devil has hold of
vou."
"I believe he has too." wis the signifi
cant reply of the urchin.
The preacher vamosed.
Jake your wife is not so pensive as she
used to be.
No, she has left that offend turned -expensive.
BP" You are writing my bity on very
rough paper, eaid a client to Jus attorney.
"Never mind, replied the lawyer, "It
has to be Jihd before it corns t Coart."