n 19 111 & ti fi il w a., aa. 77 BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE, UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. id Mr . EV SERIES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1863. VOL. 10 NO. 52. nEMOCRAT & SENTINEL" jis published every Wednesday . five Dollar and Fifty Cents " am, payable ia advance ; Oxe Dol Sbventt Five Cksts, if not paid j E six months ; and 'lwo dollar it .'I WITH U'C Itlliliuuwvu 'r period than si c months, and no !;r will be at liberty to discontinue "r until all arrearages are paid, ex iDtionkof the editor. Any per. - i-.hscribing for six months wil le char. f Qst DOLLAR, unless me money aid in advance. r Idvertlslng Rates. Que insert n. Two do. Three do f 12 lineal $ 60 $ 75 $1,00 v Voj i i oo 7 ro no 1p-es-36 lines iVfji or less. $1 50 art, wares. .ijnires. utcouiinu. ilaiun. 1 00 1 50 2 00 3 00 3 months. 6 do. 12 do $3 00 $5 00 4 50 9 00 7 00 12 00 9 00 14 00 12 00 .20 00 22 00 35 00 12 lines! 2 50 24 lines 4 00 30 lines 6 00 10 00 15 00 Xo Irish Xcel Apply." The other Jay as I walked out Upon a wild goose chase, isnw n advertisement Abuut a decent place, I knew will that the place would suit, I',i;t I can't t!l you why, T'etady said, did you not read, y.lr..-h iited apply!" C 'tis my country you dislike, 1 ru.tily can't tell why. But you lose youcsenses When rou say, no Irish need apply ! Y -'I talk cUiut jour soldiers But tell me if you can. If the Invest of them all Are "t true Irishmen ? When this RyV-llion first broke out, ' We want nieD." w.is the cry, B::t r.iey never rnaAc an exception by "No Irish need apply!" If 'tis my couiitry you dislike, &c. Of Gen- r:il and of Statesmen, too. Old Ireland can boast ; The lVts, too, well known to you, Are Universal Hosts ; There's Campbell. 'Moore and Conner, And G "Idsmith, by the by! V.'herf will you find their "equals? "No IriiNU i.eed apply !" J';'. take a trip to Ireland, They'll treat you like a man : The whiskey they'll pour into you As long as you can stand. With heart and hand they'll welcome you, Then tell me the reason why Our ears offend w ith that dirty cry, " No Irish need apply " And when you leave this world of care, They'll put you in the earth, F they serve us alike when dead. No matter what's our birth ; They'll make no such exceptions then Between either you or I ; But I Lope Old Nick has on bis door " Nu Irish nted apply !" "Golly Ise Free!" On Thursday, jut nine o'clock, parties around the 'Wui House were startled by the loud " golly Tso fn dey don't get me ?iin." A search revealed a sable son of Afiica, clad in blue shoddy, armed with .Springfield rifle and fixed bayonet ; and ' the panoply of an American soldier. fc-n he recovered bis breath and had time to answer the numerous questions of ws. curious fellow'-countryraen, he told 'hem that when he enlisted, the .colonel promised him all sorts of good things ; K" added he pathetically, "when dey P me in de barracks I found dat I was no tetter dan da whie trash, and so I left, ttd here goes for Catharn." Windsor L Record The 1ivalCaniuate. Acorrespon- tjinone worse because it has appeared ""..izines. is very That time the lv I , .iliA tilti waf 141(1 n Lower Mississippi Very ff 7 u happened in several places. Pol are very much alike. 5daItefuue upon "apoor V: i x ' who had a vole to ive, if he ittt0Td MS Wn m'ing. The the e ' unC?' a8k0d him if ehouW hold T. whuh seemed to be uneasv. and .rl'nting readily, he took - v the horns nn.l V.nU ;n .v -niilOll u-ua r , t mie' inquired the candi. "Oh vhv aid the old man ; He's Hiiwl , l , ,fUU 1,18 o man ; Jmd th. barn, I From the N. Y. Freeman's Journal. The Pobllc Ruin Who Must Pay ? The rare delusion has nossessed an un thinking public that, some way, this war is feeding itself. The infamous class of newspapers that deceive the public, points to the activity and the luxury prevailing in the North States, as evidence that out jrojcrity is not even unfavorably affected by the war. The fundamental truths of political economy arc not abstruse, yet they are not generally understood- The nomenclature of public finance, by its pompous pretensions, imposes on the un wary, and leads them to consider the mat ter one too deep for common men to fath om. Let us simplify affairs a little. The territory embraced, or held: by the late United States, presented a vast un occupied acreage, giving room and verge for industry profitably to develop. No healthy man or woman was compelled to be idle, except by temporary mismanage ment, which speedily corrected itself. The jopulation was engaged in jyroduchig. The bounties of earth and of climate were such that production was in excess. Hence rose a class of non-producers, living on the proceeds of wonderfully enhanced values, and consuming, vithout producing. Luxuries multiplied, and the preparing of these opened new fields for industry and enterprise. Accumulated production, and the desire to live without manual labor, drew the fortunate, and those that aspired to be such, to cities, to live on the labor of others. Necessity, at brief periods, came in to correct such excesses, and, every tew years, a new brood pushed "out to oc cupy vacant lands, and to replenish the demands for production. Thus, with nothing harder than individual discomfort here and there, the general resources of the people of the United States went on augmenting. At length, in their self-con ceit, they thought they had solved the tangled problem that Providence has ap pointed -for men to be exercised with They thought" they had taken a bond of fate, and could flourish without farther care of God, or regard for the laws He has established in the order of nature The breaking up of the Union between the States, changed the relations of their peoples from harmony and mutjal ad van tage into hostile and warring States. That portent found the granaries and storehouses of the country groaning with the accumulations of years of unexampled proppenty our holds tull and pouring over with the elements of exuberant supply. The war between the States cut off the mutually advantageous commerce between their respective peoples. For two and half years, it has taken from a million to a million and a half of men, from a North crn population of some twenty millions. One million, at the least, of these men were producers, not mere consumers of pro- ductive industry. Yet, so prodigious was the surplus of accumulated production, that its holders found rather a benefit than an injury in the revulsion. With those were not holders with many clashes of the poor there was, two years ago. wan misery. But this tended, chiefly, to recruiting the army, while women, chu- Iren, and men, incapaciated for war, were huddled out of sight, to groan and die The appearances of prosperity were kept up But, urho have been paying for this From a million to a million and a half of men, out of a population of twenty mill ions, have been turned from producers to non-productive consumers. Add to this that, while at least one million of these soldiers were producers, only a minority of the twenty millions were of the actively producing classes. Add, farther, that this million and a half have not merely been idle consumers, but have been turned into active destroyers of what were, lately, elements of our common prosperity. Add to this the waste of war, and the embez zlements of public property by another army of unprincipled and greedy specula tori in contracts. Add to this the extra vagant outlay and consumption that these he same acknowledgments of transgressing beggars, put on horseback, have been in- gents, that they owe thus much. - dulging in, involving frightful exhaustion t We dare not blame the prudence of any and waste of real values. Add to this $ne having values in these .States, if-be- the increasing crowds of maimed and dis- coming frightened at the certainty of ap- eased, and of helpless widows and orphans, proaching ruin, he exchanges those values Who is to pay who is now paying for for greenbacks or " bonds," and, the same all this ! at the ruling rates, gets what gold he They tell us that the war is self-sup- can for the paper, and gets that gold out porting, because they are incurring no of the country before ' the Government' foreign debt. The funds are advanced at Abe, S. P. C. & Co. seize his gold as home, and so, they assure us, the money a " military necessity," exchanging for it tinues to grow on the brawny arms of the sons of toil, so sure is it that the money getting bumpkins who have loaned their money- to usurping sharpers pretending to administer a Government, will lose their " investments." The moneyed fools, who trusted agents exceeding their commiss ions, will forfeit all of their advances, ex ecpt such as they push off on other fools. The States that is, the people of each State as an organized community, will, not for devotion to the ideal of high prin ciple, but as a legitimate plea for getting rid of an intolerable debt, and of intoler able taxation,' repudiate the Federal power as having exceeded its functions. We appeal to no once-supposed higher advance in the scale of political liberty, which we used to claim for Americans. We simply say that sophists, like Seward, raised is " only changing hands." An some farther " certificates of indebted imbecile, who thin ks he owns nearly two ness." millions of dollars worth of property, said On what does this " currency " depend? that in the street the other day. The The Administration has substituted its immense outlays in artillery, small arms, promises and its certificates titat it is in debt powder, forage, and quartermaster's stores for the gold that capitalists owned. Cap- are only " changing hands !" Well, they ital has thus been made a partner and do cliange hands very often. Lee cap- supporter of this new-fangled " Govern- tures Meade's trains, now and then, and nient," unknown to our ancestors. If it I are viistaken in supposing that this people Bragg made a swoop on Rosecrans' sup- J happens that, next year, or a year or two have fallen so much below the level of plies! It is all m the family, however ; later, the peoples, of the btates of New their luropean ancestors. l lie most aes- but who pays? York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 1 potic of European powers dares not, at Barring what is stolen by contractors Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wis- this day, so trifle with the inalienable and their official accomplices, the muni- consm and Michigan should conclude to rights of a people. Americans will learn tions of war are expended, consumed, made " let the Union slide," in the classic lan- now, and will vindicate liieir rights, an end of. The powder, when fired, is guage of Major-General Banks should . .- mostly expended in smoke, or in propell-J the peoples of these and other States,! Story of a Sailor. ing round shot to batter brick-and-mortar I acting each in their highest, unalienated I Four years ago I left the port of Bos- ort Sumter, or to plough up more J and inalienable capacities as organized ton, th? master of a line ship bound for scientific earthworks. Sometimes it avails J and sovereign communities, determine to I China. 1 was worth ten. thousand dollar, to kill somebody, lately a citizen of the J disown and discard the Federal agency j and was the husband of a young and United States. Is this a provident way J that had, without constitutional warrant, I handsome wife whom I married ; fcix of values " chan"inf hands?" Who pays? I incurred overwhelming debts should they months before. V hen L left her 1 prom- Whv, the accumulatea capital of the by simply refusing to recognize or send ised to return to her in less than twelve country is paying for it, and is becoming J Representatives to Congress, or Electors months. I took all my money with me, rapidly exhausted in doing it. Look at to Colleges for the choosing of a Preai- save enough to support my wife during what the banks have done, and are now- derit, let the federal powcr lapse, with J my absence, for the purpose ot T trading, doin". The banks are institutions into nothing to depend on but its army, and ! when in China, on my account, rora which capitalists put part of their wealth, I that army made up of people of the States, long time we were favored with a pros- which means gold the universal measure and paid only in Federal greenback paper I perous wind, but when in China sea .a of value. "The Government," as Lin-I if these thuigs should happen, what terrible storm came upon us, so that in a coin, Seward, and Shin-Plaster Chase call would be the fate of those foolish moneyed 1 short time I saw that the vessel must be themselves, have induced and pressed the bumpkins who have exchanged their gold lost, for we were drifting on the rocks of banks of New York to loan to them more and their real values for the shinplasters of an unknown shore. I ordered the men than these banks can lose, without ruin. Messrs. Lincoln, Seward and Chase ? fo provide each for himself, in the best They are now pressing the Banks to loan I Reduced to simple terms the matter I possible manner, and forget the ship as it them all tlie rest of their capital once the I stands, that cajrital, a cowardly thing, and was an impossibility to save her. e equivalent of gold and take piper promt'- handled by a low order of intellect, places struck a sea threw me upon the rocks ses to pay, instead of real values given. I its hopes in the artillery and bayonets of senseless, and the next would have carried The alternative of the banks is, forthwith j a usurped Administration of Federal me back into a watery grave, had not One to break and wind up in debt to their de- Government. Capitalists feel and see of the sailors dragged me further upon positors and creditors, or to protract the J that what they have loaned to these j the rocks. agony and lose everything at a date slightly Washington people are 11 permanent invest- There were only four of us alive, and more distant. As they are cowardly ments !" They do not hope ever to get when morning came we found we were on affairs, they will probably put off the evil back their capital. So they try to com- a small uninhabited island, with nothing day, and shut their eyes to the utter ruin fort themselves with thinking that this to eat but the wild fruit common to that before them. , capital can be made a funded stock, on portion of the earth. 1 will not distress Values are simply " changing hands," which they can draw interest. They make I you by an account of my suffering there ; are they ? The farmer parts with his consolatory reflections on the British debt suffice it to say that we remained sixty wheat and Indian corn with his bullocks forgetting two things ; first the essen- days before we could make ourselves and his sheep, and liis swine with his tially different constitution of English so- known. We were taken to Canton, and butter, his vegetables, &c, &c, and takes ciety, and, second, that the government of there I had to beg ; for my money was at nome what ! Promises to pay ! Prom- England is not, like that of the United the bottom of the sea, and I had not taken ises made by whom ? By the agents of a States was, an artificial arrangement, the precaution to have it insured, certain artificial and delegated form of drawn upon paper, and agreed to by It was nearly a year before I found a Government called a " Union," for defi- States having a distinct and natural sover- chance to come home, and then I, a cap. nite and limited purposes, of States, each eignty independent of jxijter Constitutions, tain, was obliged to ship as a common one of whom claims for itself, according In the end, the reliance is not on constitu- sailor. It was two years from the time I to the constitutional law, ultimate sover- tions, not on law, not on rigid, but on the left America that I landed in Boston. 1 eignty ! How do those agents come to brute force of armies Their only hope was walking in a hurried manner up one have any authority ? By the Constitution J is that capital will be able permanently to of its streets, when I met my brother-in- Is the power they are now executing con- hire soldiers enough to stand with Bayonets law. He could not speak, nor move, but stitutioncd? Do they pretend that it b! pointed at the breasts of the laboring he grasped my hand, and the tears gushed The farmer, then, takes home, in re- classes, to compel the latter to keep at from his eyes, turn for his hard-earned values, the prom- work, at starvation prices, so as to pay " Is my wife alive?" I asked. ises of agents that have, confessedly, ex- the interest on the two or three thousand He said nothing. ceeded their powers. I give an agent millions of dollars that capitalists have Then I wished I had perished with my power to collect. floating debts. Some loaned to Lincoln, Seward and S. P. C. ship, for I thought my wife was dead; o ; VoolUh ftnnnah toive him title to We can tell these capitalists, whofe in- but he very soou said: real estate in my name. Caveat venditor, tellects, by addiction to money-hoarding, says the law. The seller runs his own have been blinded to a higher order of risk. I never authorized my agent to ideas, that their hopes are vain.. They meddle in real estate. 'have put their trust in lies, and have made As the farmer for his produce, so the falsehood their refuge ilia overnowing scourge will assuredly carry them away. We hope, but we are not assured, that enough of the political virtues of our fore fathers remains to save . free institutions among us. But, if not, the despotism that is to succeed is, in no case, going to be founded on the vulgar, ignorant, shoddy class, who, because they keep carriages, and bedeck themselves with expensive "cw-gaws, fancy that they can form an aristocracy. As sure as the sun continues t6 thine in the heavens ; as sure as' muscle con- She opened the wWlow and asked- " Who is there! ' - J " Sarah, do you. know me?" aid L ' She screamed with fright, for she thought me a ghost ; but I told her to un fasten the door and let me in for I wanted to see my wife. She let me in and gave me a light, and I went up stairs to my wife's room. She lay sleeping quietly. Upon her bosom lay one child whom I had never seen. She was as beautiful as when I left her, but I could see a mourn ful expression upon her face. Perhaps she was dreaming of me. I gazed for a long time I did not make any noise, for I dare not wake her. . At length I im printed a soft kiss upon he check. Her eyes opened clearly as though she had not been sleeping. I saw that she began to- be frightened, and I said , " Mary it is your husband." And she clasped me about the neck and fainted. But I cannot describe to you that 6cene. She is now the happy wife of a poor man. I am endeavoring to accumulate a little property, and then I will leave the eea forever. C3 A not very skillful mason was em ployed to build an oven, which he com pleted in his usual style. The first time it was used, the whole structure tumbled into ruins, and the owner having found the mason, the following conversation oc curred : " I have some news for you." "Ah! What is it?" "The oven you have built for mo has fallen down." " Oh that is nothing new if it had fallen up that would ' have been . news in deed." In spite of his vexation, the owner had to laugh at the mason's cool ness, and left him to seek a good work man to rebuild the oven. fty While at Berryville, Virginia, writes an army correspondent, we estab lished our lines, and all persons residing within them were required to take the oath of allegiance. An intelligent coun traband' wishing to go through, on learn ing the requisition, very innocently asked; "What is de oath?" - " You must swear to support the Con stitution," replied the marshal. " Why," .said Sam, " 1 can't hardly support de ole woman, times is so dread ful hard !" The marshal let him pass. A Doctor Souk Dr. Spoouer- was walking down the street the other day, when he saw two boys on the sidewalk apparently searching for something. One of the lads remarked just as he leached them, " Well, five dollars is worth hunting after." So the doctor stopped and searched awhile. Finally he got tired and Baid to the bovs, " Have vou lost a five dollar bill?" No sir," said they, " but we don't know but what we could find one." . The doctor left the lads in a hurry. " A Whole Nageu." At a recent negro celebration, an Irishman stood lis tening to Frederick Douglass, who was expatiating upon Government and Free dom, and as the orator came to a period from the highest political heights, the Irishman said : ' . ... " liedad, he speaks well for a nager." " Don't you know," said one, " that he isn't a negro ? he is only half negro." " Only a half nager, is be ? Well if a lialf nager can talk in that style, I'm thinking a whole nager might beat tho prophet Jeremiah 1" , , owner of other values, takes these promi ses to pay. The merchant takes them for his wares. He paid gold for his goods, or he once owned gold,-or its equivalent, and now he parts with these for an ob scure promise to pay, or rather an ac knowledgment of debt for they no longer even promise to pay of agents that have trampled on the Constitution by which alone ' they have any authority ! The owner of real-estate congratulates himself that "prices are sustained," and he parts with lands and houses, taking as hi price "She is alive." Then it was my turn to cry for joy. He clung to me and said : . " Your funeral : sermon has been preached for we thought that you were dead for a long time.". . i -' , .He said that my wife was living in our cottage in the interior of the State, It was then about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, j and I took a train of cars that would carry me within 25 miles of my wife. leaving the cars, I hired a loy though it j to- " Ah Doctor how is my wife day?" '. The Doctor shook his head and said : ".You must prepare for .the worst." " What !" exclaimed the alarmed hus- band, , " is she likely to recover F' C3 A lady who had boasted highly, at a dinner party, of the good manners of the little darling, addressed him thus : Charley, ray dear, won't you have f some liwns ?" " ' . "No!" was the ill-mannered reply of the petulant cherub. .. " No what ?" quizzed the lady.. . . " No bejui",' replied the urchin. was nicrht, to drive me home. It was 4 w . - . c . i fcj- A man out est is so stingv, that about two o'clock in the morning when j hold.s his breath when ihe tailor is ta that sweet little cottage of mine appeared j' king his mcapure for a salt of clothes, o in s'Hit. . I got out of the carriage and j that it take less cloth. went to the window of the room where the servant girl slept, and gently knocked. 2" A great lorlane in the hand of- a fool is a crrat mis-fortune. " i 1 i t i .
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