". y lit'' i ' X f t t i- J. Si'-.'ii.t t i 1 i: ;- THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. NEW SERIES; EBENSBURG, OCTOBER 26, 1854. VOL. 2. no: 5, TERMS: THE DEMOCRAT & SENTINEL, is publish ed every Thursday morning, in Elcnslmrg, Cambria Co., Fa;, at $1 50 per annum, if paid fx advance, if not $2 will be charged. -ADVERTISEMENTS will he conspicuously in ' sertcd at the following rates, viz : : ;. 1 square 3 insertions, . , , Every subsequent insertion 1 square 3 months, ' '' '- i " 6 " . ' 6 : x " " 1 year, -., . " col'n 1 year, t "'J . . ' 1 .' Business Cards with one copy cf the Democrat &. Seftixei... per, year, . $1 00 25 00 00 12 00 25 00 50 00 ; frlrrt ortrij: LINES, TO ONE WHO WILL UNDERSTAND THEM. Fair girl, have you forgotten when You vowed your soul was mine When, trusting in thy smil.'s, I pledg'd My life and love were thine? Do not f nl memories hang amid ' The shadowy vanished l'ust, And bring to mind again those scene s : That o'er our way were cast 1 Do no regrets stir up thy soul To shed a siugle tear O'er fond affection's cherished fiow'rs, Now withered, dry and sere ? Alas! despair with with' ring wand Has blighted every ray Of joy, and all my proudest hopes Are shrouded ia decay. Across my soul the memories Of other days (.ft jdide, Of joys as transient as the gleam Of stars on Ocean's title. . In ruins hang my lyre unstrung, And, taneks.i. in y jn shade 2v more across its trcmbMng strings Is love's sweet music played. I've trusted in toy faithless vows And Talsc deceitful smiles ; Hut now to sorrow I'm convinced In woman's heart there's wiles. A Know-Nothing-Yarn. i All creation and the balance of mankind were, early one morning, aroused from the dulness usually pervading the pious, prim and peaceful town of EastNutmeg, by the cry of . a. "What's it all about ?" When did they come?" "Hot many are they?" "What do they look like?'' "DM you see 'cm?" "Are they human critter3?". "What are they going to do ?" "Who? what?" "The Know-Nothings." - "Know-Nothings ?" says a native. "Know-Nothings." "Well, I'd give a fo'poncc to know," con tinued the native, "what in sin it's all about?" "Oh, you haven't soon 'em, eh ?" sajs a jolly, round-visaged, bright-eyed individual, who, with other strangers, and natives of East Nutmeg, were gathered in a knot about the depot, discussing the topic which had in a single night came, saw, and took the town. Haven't seen 'em ?" "Seen who?" gays the native.. . "The Know-Nothings" "Know-Nothings ! Wal, L kinder calc'late I hav, a few." "O, you are oio of 'em, eh ?" "Look a here, squire, cf ycou don't want tew be squattin cross-legged in you heap o' Band I calculate yeou'd better not say my edecation has been neglected in any sich a way." "Not at all, my dear friend, I only pre dicted that you were a that is, hang it I mean, do you know what's out?" "Yes; I'll tell ycou what's out, squire." "Good ; what is it?" "A writ agin Josh Pruden for brcakin the Sabbath all tew flinders, .playing keards in Deacon Dinkle's barn." . "Pshaw!" said the jolly man, "I don't mean that sort of work ; I suppose j'ou are like the rest of these Know-Nothings, too sly eh, to be caught ?" ' "Squire, don't you chaw ?" "Yes," said the jolly man. - "Hand us ycour tobacco, then." " "Yes, I don't chaw." "Git cout ! gettin' kinder sharp-set, too, I calc'late Now lock a here, squire, I gin tew expect ycour from York." "I 'spect 3'ou arc correct in your remarks." ' 4 Wal, I knew ycou was ; can tell yeou fel lers a mile off; yes, can, by kingdom. Now; I calc'late -there's pomcthin' goin' on, that's a fact all firedest raow arcound this yer town, this mornin 'beout somethin' a feller never Learn." "Ah, that's what I was coming at. Nqw, they, Bay, you've got a new invention a new fanglcd society, or a new order, party, or (something' that's bound to get Christendom in an uproar ; how is it?" "Eh, yes; when they goin' to begin it, squire V "O, ycou git cent; sly dog, aintyou one of 'cm?" " i-' 2 ' v"WLat ! t'uci follows that's goin' to raise sin and break thintrs ?" . " - "I don't know ; I only ask you "continued the squire; "I only ask for information, you see. - "Wal, naow, look a here, a feUer never made much by dod-rotted ignorance in this land of universal liberty and gineral edecation, and a feller hates tew come right daown and confess he don't know nothings that's a fact; but, squire, I've got tew acknowledge the corn, a-a-nd it's no use talkin' ; but darn my buttons tew apple sass, cf I wont, as poor a feller as I be, gin jist ten skillins and upwards tew knpw what's kinder busted raound here." ' "Would yon?" " - - -:.- r. - . ...:;. Wouldn't I ? Iiy goUy, squire,- I gness ycour the critter kin jist tell us allabebut it ?" "I'am just the man that can." - "I knew yeou be! Grea-a-t kingdom, let's hear all abeout it." "Ilis-s-h," said the humorous man, "I've been sounding you." ' Yeou don't say so ?'. echoes the citizen of Nutmeg. . - 'Yes, sir ; we have to bo cautious.' 'Eh, yes,' abstractedly responds the Nut mogor. Can't speak out to everybody ' 'So.' ' -i - . ' Yes. sir ; now I know you frc a good egg.' Aiggs?' .! 'Good egg- s?und to the core !' 'Saound ? wouldn't wonder, never ailin but once in my hull life ; then 1 had the darndest scratchin' time ycou ever did see, I reckon. Ever had the itch, squire ?' ' 'Never, thank you ' 'O, not at all, squire, you are quite wel come, as Uncle Nat said, when he shot the Ingin.' 'WeU, sir, now 111 give you a whL-sper, an idea of what's up ; and if you love -our coun try ' . 'l.leV T . - 'The land of the free, and the home of the brave!' . : . . 'Grea-a-t Fourth of July pitch in the big liaks, squire.'- , 'Our own dear native land !' 'That's the ginger ! go it squire !' says Nut meg, . - ... : r. 'Now, tir, jii; t "follow me over o the liotd : so take a chair. Here we arc now, I'll give you the secret i You see this is a grand society.' !:h, yes.' 'And the greatest secrcsy is to be adhered to. Now rise, hold up both hands, high above your head, so ; now swear ' 'Swear? can't dew it, squire agin my re ligion.' 'Arc you an American ?' 'Am I? I aius uothin' else, by Bunker Hill , ;-r . yrzr , : 'Will you stand by your country?' 'Willi? Yes, sir; till Gabriel toots his horn?' - 'Then swear that. you will stand by the American Eagle, the stars and the stripes, and never reveal the recrefs.' Fourth of July, and Bunker Hill !' chimes in the excited Yankee. 'That's it, good, good egg" said the humorous man. 'Now, sir, you are one of us. you are a Know-Nothing ' 'Yeou don't say so ?' 'Yes, sir ; now we have some mysterious signs and countersigns, by which you can tell a brother of the society, When you see a man looking at you with his right eye shut, his hands in his pockets, and a cigar, should he be smoking, in the left side of his mouth, you may know he's a Know-Nothing.' Eh, yes.' . 'Well, then, you go toward him, and shut your left eye, ro ; you bite your thumb, of the left hand, if he bites ' Bites ?' 'Yes, if he bites ; if he is reclly one of 'cm he will say something in a grumbling tone something like 'what do you mean ?' or 'do you mean that for me ?' Then he bites, you see ; then you advance close, and say, slowly 'nix a weed in cully !' 'Hutch, aint it?' 'Well, not exactly, it is our language, He will then say, 'what do you mean ?' mind, he wUl be very apt to say that, once or twice, sure You reply, 'nibs.' don't forget, 'nibs tag his nibs cully !' Nibs eh, yes.' 'Nibs, cully, hop's nibs?' You then ap proach close up, shut tho right eye, grasp his hand, and put your forefinger alongside of your nose, so He will then up and tell you all about it.' , 'Ac wiU ? How many fellers in th!stown have joined this society ?' 'O, hundreds ; nearly everybody you meet are members ; it's raising the greatest excite ment imaginable.' "Beats Millerites? I was one of 'em.' 'JBeats everything out, sir. , Now, here's the oath ; you swear by this emblem' ele vating aboot jack. ' ; , .. 'What, a boot jack?' 'Yes, it looks like a jack, but it aint, it' a blind, a mystery ; we swear by this. You put your forefinger on your nose, - shut one eys, and swear never to reveal these, our secrets, so help your Independence day ! Now, to night, there wiU be a crowd -near the depot, about dark ; when the crowd moves, you fob low ; they will take you to the secret chamberj where you will learn more particulars. Now SCOOt.' ;., ": 1 ' . ; ... ' 'Eh.yea,' and Nutmeg left. . , He had just got into the street, when a veritable slgivmet his eyes. , A long-Jegoa, dauble-fisted fallow" with but one" eye in his head, stood gaping around, with hands in h' head; up goes Nutmeg, shuts 'his eye, an pokes his thumb between his molars. Thq man with the closed eye, looked daggers with the other, and by tUe twitching of his lips! seemed to be ppeaking, or doing something like it. inwardly. ' Nix a weed in'cully !' says Nutmeg, ad-v vaneing. 'What in yaller thunder d'ye mean ?' Eays j the one-eyed man. " j 'Nibs stag his nibs, cully, how's nibs?' con tinued Nutmeg, advancing, and placing his finger upon his long sharp nose, and. grabb ing at the stranger, i;ho, mistrusting the movement no good, drew off, and put in sued; a 'soult paw,' that Nutmeg doubled up ancj went down all in a heap cobiff! . j 'Goll darn you, aint you one of 'em ? why didn't you say so?' bawls Nutmeg, travelling into the hotel to find tho Professor of Know Nothingness, 'and settle his 'hash.' But the Professor had suddenly left for the city. Nut meg was wanting since to see him The First Sabbath cf the Pilgrims. It was in December 1620 that the ship Mayflower, which brought over th e first emi gration of Puritans, anchored on the wild New England shore. There were none to show them kindness, or bid them welcome. A boat was sent from the vessel to explore the coast, and seek & favorable landing. She was manned by the bravest hearts and. stoutest arms. The cold was severe, and tho Fpray froze as it fell on theiu ; making their clothes like iron coats. No convenient harbor was yet discovered. After some hours of hard sailing, a Uonn of sleet and bnow sets in ; night is at fiand, the swells, the storm increased, the ridder splits, the mast bends and breaks and the sail falls overboard. The frigUcned pilot would have run the boat ashoro in a cove full of breakers. 'About her! jhouts one of the sailors, 'or we are lost,' 'Thej hasten to obey their order; the boat rises over the serf, and is soon under the lee of land. It is dark, and tlie storm rages furious ly. Hungry and wet, cold and tired,1 the men creep ashore, and after much difficulty kindled a fire When morning dawned, they found themselves on a small island at the en trance of a harbor, which proved to le Ply mouth harbor ; and here they spent die day, from their fatigue, and repair their boat. The next day the Sabbath. Time was pre cious, it was late in the season and their com rades in the ship might suffer anxiety on their accounts : everything demanded haste, but they remembered the Sabbath day to keop it holy." All labor was put aside, nnd on a frozen ground in a chilly air, under a frown ing sky, without shelter and almost without food, they spent the day in divine worship and holy rest. Here is a picture of die first observance of the Sabbath in New England. There are Carver and Winslow, and Bradford and Standish, honored names among the Pu ritan fathers. They do not ask to be excus ed from tho obligations of religious duty, even under circumstances so pressing and un favorable. The Sabbath and the God of the Sabbath, have claims upon them superior to anything besides. Strict and unflinching obedience to Bible law, is the rule of their lives. These were puritan principles, and it was these principles which gave excellence and honor to the New England forefathers, and which now give to her institutions their mo ral power Let not their children prove un faithful to to them. jJSrOur Jim, of the Boston Post, perpe trated the following on the marriage of Thos. Hawk, of Mansfield, to Miss Sarah J. Dove: It isn't often that you see So queer a kind of love ; O what savage he must be To Tommy-IIaick a Dove ! 3?" An EngUsh jury, in a criminal case, it is said, brought in the following verdict : "Guilty, with some little doubt as as to wheth er he is tho man." - ' 57"A mile or so from town, a gentle man met a boy on horseback, crying, with cold "Why don't you get down and lead the horse ?" said our friend, "that's", the way to get warm " ."It's a b-b-borrowed horse, and I'll ride him if I freeze." . One cf the Mean Men. ' Many instances have been cited of mean ness, and several persons have been held up as' examples, possessing that quality, in a superlative degree. One of the most "emi nent" men of this class that we ever knew, was a "boss carpenter." He had, of course, a youngest apprentice, on whom his meanness was contracted, like the rays of the sun con verged by a burning glass. Tho boy, whom we will call Joe, and who was very cunning and shrewd withal, was Obliged, to uLnjiti.Qjmieh rigor a regarded the, severity of his labors and scantiness of his clothing and food One evening Joe was supping on the fragments of a repast that had been set before some guests the good wife had "company" that afternoon and he com mitted the enormity of applying a lump of butter that was left on his plate to a chunk of gingerbread which he was about to swallow. Alas for poor Joe! his master opened the kitchen door just as he was opening his mouth , and before he could swallow the deli cious morfcl his crime was detected. The indignant master was struck aghast at first by this species of juvenile turpitude, but he seized the young epicure by the hair of his head and gave him an unmerciful beating. Joe went to bed sorrowing, but comforted himself with the reflection that he was four teen years old, and had but seven more years to be flogged for eating of buttered ginger bread. Joe was ingenious, and before he had com posed himself to sleep that night, he formed a plan of revenge upon his master. .According to that plan ho arose early next morning, and as he was hurrying on his clothes he muttered ;- "I'll fix a story on to the old feller : I'll raise a laugh agin him ; I'll learn hiia how to lick me like blazes " t- j ji i r .3 i . ( , ji.s eoou as jue was uresseu, ne rusneu into the streets, and ran towards the principal hotel, bawling lustily, and simulating the most clamorous grief. As he tore along the streets, bellowing like a yearling bull, and rubbing his eyes with a dingy pocket-handkerchief, he naturally attracted the attention of every person within sight or hearing By tho time he had reached the front of the hotel quite a crowd was ready to intercept him, as he made a feint to rush by. "What's the matter?" cried a dozen of voices. "Oh dear! Oh dear! it's so dreadful 1" bellowed Joe, twisting his countenance into the similitude of a baked apple. "What's so dreadful ?" "Oh, my master's dead died sich an aw ful death too O dear !" "Your master's dead awful death ! How did it happen ? Stop your confounded bellow ing, and tell us about it." . "O, dear !" said Joe, his voice broken with sobs, "you know what a small soul my mas ter had, what an old feller (sob) he was for money (sob). Wall, it appcrrs that somebody (sob) had suthen agin him, (sob) and went last nigh Oh. dear! oh dear! it's so orful!" "Look here, young man ; stop that crying and tell the sto;y." "Wal, my master, he used to sleep with his mouth wide open, a snoring, (sob) and somebody went last night and baited the steel trap with a fourpence, and set it on his pillor, and hetclied Itis sou! afore mornln, and left his body in the bed ! Boo-hoo-hoo. O, dear." And with this Joe made a break througthe astonished crowd and disappeared around a corner, while the welkin was ringing with shouts of laughter. Joe's master did not hear the last of hi3 awful decease for a long time, and those who knew him best declare that Joe's story wag no myth, and that the longer his body walks about, clutching greedily everything that the law allows him, the stronger evidence he gives that he is troubled with no such incum brance as a soul. Sensible to the Last. Brown had been long on a sick bed, was frequently delirious, and now obviously ap proached his end His"old friend Smith had come a long ride in the cold December air to visit the dying man, and bid him a solemn "good-bye before his departure to "that un discovered country from whose bourne no tra veller returns." Smith enters the house care fully, inquires after the health of Mr Brown and hopes he may be no worse than when he saw him last. "Oh, sirhe is very low he can't hold out much longer. Smith (Who sits near the door, blowing his cold fingers) Is it possible ? I am sorry to hear it Would you have any objection to my speaking a word with him I Mr. Brown. Oh, no but he's out of his head and wouldn't know you. (Here Smith approaches the bed sick man looks at him and exclaims "Mrs. Brown give that man a glass of hot toddy he s cold !" Smith (delightfully) You say, .Mr Bro wn, he is out of his head, but that remark of his strikes mo as. a very sensible obscrva tiou ! ' . ftiicrrlliiiifoiw. Froverbs for Women. When cats wash their faces.ad weather is at hand ; when women use wahes to their complexion, it is a true sign that tho beauty of their day is gone. Many powder their faces that their skin may seem white ; it is a poulterer that flours an old hen, that it may pass for a tender chicken. , The stepping stone of fortune is not to lie j i".ivl in . j-wcllcr'a hop. - How many womeu have Won ruined by diamonds; as bird-catchers fi.tiee the lark from heaven to earth with sparkling glass. Like the colored bottles in a chemist's win dow, is the rougj on the cheek of a maiden ; it attracts tha passers-by, but all know the drug they advertise. Choose not your wives, as you do grapes from the bloom on them. He who marries a pretty face, only, is like a buyer of cheap furniture the varnish that caught the eye will not endure the firs-fdde blaze. The girdle of beauty is not a staj-laee. ' This is the only excuse for tight-lacing ; a good house-mife should have no waist. When a maid takes lo spaniels and parrots, it means that her beauty has gone to the dogs and that henceforth her lift is a lirJen to her. The mouth of a wise woman is like a money box which is seldom opened, so that much treasures come forth from it. . Store up the truth, O woman ' Be charita ble unto thy fallen sister. Imitate not the stags that chase from their herd their wound ed companion. The wise wife opposeth wrath with kind ness. A sand bag will stop a cannon ball hy its yielding. A good woman, is like a com mon fiddle, oge only makes its tone sweeter. Self-Confidence is a good deal of an institu tion. A brass face is about as sure to lead to a golden pocket, as it is to show up an empty brain. Still self-confidence isn't al ways associated with brass or I painlessness. We commend the modest style to cverybody and his relations. T57"From the ranks of the bar have pprung the noblest defenders of innocence the ear liest and most steadfast champions of right and freedom. From the ranks of the bar, also, have sprung n3ar!y every candidate for the gallows tunce the world began. ,jT5?The more good deeds people perform, the happier they feel. Give a poor widow a nourishing breakfast, a pretty girl a kiss and a "love of a shawl," an old fool a little flat tery, and the contribution box about a couple of dollars, and you'll feel as happy as a piece of animated calico in the houcy-moon. Jt-t?It's the little troubles, pa-3 a writer, that wear the heart out. It is easier to throw a lomb-?hell a mile, than a feather won with artillery. Forty little debts of one doi las each, will cause you more trouble and dunning than one big one of a thousand. jfiflle who knows the world will not be too bashful, and lie who knows himself will never be impudent. jtif'It is good to have one's practical sense of the world's nothingness refreshed and stirred up anew by the sight of a' deathbed. Sr"SeIf-examination is generally self hy- poensy It is a tribunal wnere culprit, wit ness, advocate, and judge, are all engaged in one interest to pervert the truth. ,57Givc your children fortnno without education, and at least one-half of tho num- be r will go down to the tomb of oblivion perhaps to" ruin. Give them education, and they will be a fortune to themselves and their country. It is an inheritance worth more than gold, for it buys true honour they can never spend nor lose it ; and through life it ever proves a friend, in death a consolation. Backbiter "What is the moaning of a backbiter?" said a reverend gentleman during an examination at a parochial school This was a puzzle. It went down the class till it came to a simple little urchin, who said, "Pr'aps it be a jlca " School Kkepixo. "First class" in mathe matics, stand up. What is simple division?" "Please, sir, I know. Breaking Bob Smith's cake, and eating half yourself." "Right! What is compound division?" "Hooking the whole of Bob Smith's cake. and dividing it between yourself and broth er " 'Right again. Now go out of doors and put your head against something cold, to keep your noso from bleeding." 5TA lady, on being asked to join the Daughters of Temperance, replied that she intended to join one of the sons in the course of the week. ITEMS. Daniel Chandler, of Concord, N. II., has been sentenced to the State Prison for life, on conviction of having altered a fwiteh, which caused a train f cars to l e thrown from the track of the Concord railroad It is now assumed in England that the t-hip Lady Nugent, which, la?t spring, went from Madras, with troopr for the British army in Burmah, was Wt in the Bay of Bengal, with nil onboard, over four hundred persons. Nothing has f-ince been heard of her - On TlmrlnT n.-nt, Adams & C' TI press Office was entered in Wilmington, Del., and robbed of 2,200. Kenedy's clock factory at Hartford, (Ct.), was burned on the '20. inst. loss -0,000. There were three deaths from yellow fever on Thursday, and three ou Friday in Savannah. There was no deaths from the epidemic ia Augusta. There was 15,000 insurance on the life of Edward Sandford, Esq., who was loft by the wreck of the Arctic. - A deserted husband in Baltimore ad vertises his wife as having left his bed nnl board, and offers a reward of fifty dollars to any man that is white, and has never been convicted of stealing, who will marry her and take her to' California. Miss Jcnie Bear, :.n amiable young lady in Ohio, recently hung hcr?elf, having Ixn disappointed in a love affair. She could not 'bear" it any longer. A Madrid correspondent, describing the interest (he poor classes take in a bull-fight says, that a week or two ago a man actually cutoff his wife's hair while she was asleep, and sold it, in order to raise money for the fight. Dr. George Buehannan, of Hillsdale, Ohio, killed himself, the other day,, by an overdose of morphine, while suffering from an attack of cholera morbus. It would seem that he was a little it:e!iued to give large doses of that medicine, as he had a short time before been arretted for ni:d-pra iicc iu causing the death of a child bv it. There is an old man ia Park, who fol lows the novel trade of throwing himself under the wheels of omnibusses, in order to get hurt and be paid for it, and has within the last five years received more than 20,000 for broken legs alone. Dr Thayer has been indicted for murd er in tho second degree. An intemperate man, named Lesan, fantastically dressed, rode up to the doctor's house, near Belfast. Maine, arid began to taunt him upon some delicate domestic matters Dr Thayer hav ing married Lcsan's wife, after she had ob tained a divorce when the doctor pulled Le san from his horse, breaking his thigh, of which injury he is alleged to have died. Jacob Macscr, a tavern keeper at West Wheeling, was robbed on Sabbath last, while he and his wife were .at church, of about $2,G00. The yum of $1,300 in gold, with a certificate of dejosite of 1,000 in the Savings Institution, and a considerable amount in banknotes, were taken from a desk in a drawer of which Mr M had left his key. The Xumcrmt Democrat of the ISth inst. says : We learn that an affray occurred near the Sand Patch Tunnel, in this county, on Saturday evening last between a number of the Irish employed there' whhh terminat ed in a severe beating by them of Chauncy F. Stoncr and Jacob ? Ilutzell, of Green ville township. Stoncr died of his wounds early on Monday morning, and officers were immediately despatched to arrest the perpe trators of the act. It is said that the beating of Stoncr and Ilutzell originated from their interference iu the Irish quarrel. Ilutzell is ccnsidcrabl- injured. We have no doubt the guilty parties have been permitted to escape, as no arrests have yet been made A fire at Louisville on Thursday, destroy ed property to the amount of "0,000. --Graham's saw mill, at Frcdonia, Pa., was destroyed by fire on Saturday Loss, $00,000. " The "Niagara Mail" of the iKth inst.. says that the larg3 throe masted vessel, the Ocean, with a very valuable cargo, was total ly destroyed by fire on the 17th inst., in the harbor of Part Dalhousfe ; loss cf timated a t 200,000. Port Dalhousie is the harbor for St. Catharines, about eleven miles from Niagara. A Dastard ok tiik AntTic. The New York papers state that one of the escaped seamen of the Arctic shipped on board the Atlantic on Saturday. Just as the steamer was about to sail he was discovered by Capt. West, who took him by the collar and march ed him ashore, paying he wanted no fucIi men to go to a with him.