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DM'LAUGHLrN. Atterney at Law, Johnstown. Pa. OffiVe in the Ex change building, on the Corner of Clinton mod Locust streets up 6tairs. Will attend to all bueiarss connected with his profcsMon. Dec. 9. 18G3.-tf. WILLIAM KITTELL. ttorntn at afa, (tbcnsburq, Cambria County Penna. Office Colonade row. Dec. 4. lets CYRUS L. PERSHING, Esq. Attouxky at Law, Johnstown, Cambria Co. Pa. Office on Main street, second floor over Bank. ix 2 MICHAEL HASSON, Esq. Attorskt at LAWj.Ebenburg. Cambria Co. Pa. Oftiice on Main street, threo doors East of Julian. ix 2- ' J. E. Scanlau, ATTORNEY AT LA V , Ebhssbi-rg. Pa., OFFICE OX MAIN STREET, THREE DOORS EAST of the LOGAN HOUSE. December 10, 18C3.-ly. R. L. Johnston. Geo. W. Oatman. JOHNSTON 6t 0 ATM AN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Ebecsburg Cambria County Penna. OFFICE REMOVED TO LLOYD ST., One door West of K. L. Johnston's Res idence. Dec. 4. 1861. Iy. JOHN FENLON, Esq. Attorney at Ia", Ebensburg, Cambria county Pa. 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Niv. 19, 1853.-3ra THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE On tbe American Civil War. Each nanny has her billy goat. Each poison has an antidote. Each vision of the human brain Might be a greater loss than gain. If God to man did not dispense That greatest blessing "common sense. When fanatics on topmost vave. Use people's time to rant and rave. And talk about emancipation. As if themselves composed the nation. And they of all our choicest stock. The only ones to teach the flx:k How battles should be lust and won. And negroes fromtheir masters "run" Inflated by false erudition. They urge the country to perdition. Each thinks himsclt the smartest man, Himself most fit to lead the van. Astride the Abolitign horse Thev 8ieed alona their bloodv course. But two who would the same horse ride, ' Can never do it side by side. The charger " war " in at his speed, "ow comr.s the struggle which shall lead None care what ills befall the nation. That he may reach the highest station. Thus witl it he till common sense Pitches these villains o'er the fence ; Then poisonous Abolitionccracy, Will find its antidote. Democracy. Tlie Captain' Story. When I was about forty years of age I took command of the ship l'etersam. She was and old craft, and had seen full as much service as she was capable of seeing with safety. But her owners were willing to trust a valuable cargo in her, so I would not refuse to trust myself. We were bound to Liverpool, and nothing unusual hapened until about the eighth day out, when we ran foul of a small ice- benr. It was early in the morning. fore sunrise, and not above., six or,Jcight feet of ice was above the water, it having" nearly all been melted in the warm region of the gulf stream. I did not think we had sustained much injury, for the shock was light ; but I was very angry, and gave the look-out a severe punishment, without stopping to inquire, whether he could have seen the berg in time to escape if. My cabin boy was named Jack With er?. He was fourteen years of age, and this was his first voyage. I had taken him from his widowed mother, and I had promised her that I would see him well treated, that was, if he behaved himself. He was a bright, quick, intelligent lad. I soon made myself believe he had an awful disposition. I fancied he was the most stubborn piece of humanity I had ever conic across. I made up my mind that he had never been properly governed, and had resolved to break him in. I told him I'd curb his tenier before I'd done with him. In reply he told methatl might kill him if I liked ; and I flogged him with the end of mizzeii top gallant hal yards till he could hardly stand. I asked him if he'd got enough, and he told me I might flog him more if I wished to. I felt a strong inclination to throw him overboard, but at the moment he stagger ed back against tbe mizzen-mast from ab solute weakness, and I left him to him self. When I reasoned calmly about the boy's disposition, I was forced to ac knowledge that ho was ono of the smart est and most intelligent and faithful lads I had ever seen. When I asked him to do anything he would be off like a rocket ; but when I roughly ordered him to do it, then came the disposition with which I found fault. One day, when it was very near noon, I spoke to him to bring Up my quadrant. He was looking over the quarter-rail, and and I knew he did not hear me ; the next time I spoke I ripped out an oath and in timated if he did not move I'd help him. " I din't hear you," ho said, with an independent tone. "No words," said I. " I suppose I can't speak," he retorted moving slowly toward the companion way. His looks, words, and the slow, careless maner in which he moved, fired me in a moment, and I grasped him by the collar. " Speak to me again like that, and I'll flog you within an inch of your life," said I. You may flog away," be replied firm and undaunted as a rock. And I did flog him. I caught up the end of a rope, and beat him till my arm fairly ached ; but he never winced. 4 How'e that 1n said I. . "There's a littlo more life in me. you'd better flog it out " was the reply. And I beat him again. I beat him till he sank from roy hand against the rail ; and I ent one of my other men for my quadrant. When it came, and I had ad justed it for observation, I found that the un was already past the meridian, and that I was too late. This added fuel to ' DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1864. to the fire oi my madness, and quickly seizing the lad by the collar, led him to the main hatchwa, and had the hatch taken off. I then thrust him down, and swore I would keep him there till his stub bornness was broken. The hatch was then put on and I went into the cabin. I suf fered a good deal that afternoon, not with any compunctions of conscience for what I had done, but with my own temper and bitterness. It made me mad to think that I could not conquer that boy that I could not break down qis cool, stern op position. " Hut I'll do it," I said to ray self; "I'll starve him into it, or he shall die under the operation." After supper I went to the hatchway and called out to him but lie returned me no answer. At 8 o'clock . I called out again, and again got no answer. I might have thought that the flogging had taken his senses, had not some of the men as- sured me that they heard him, not an hour Cefbre, talking to himself. I did not trouble him again until morning. After breakfast I went to the hatchway and called to him once more. I heard noth ing from, nor could I see him I had not seen him since I put him down there. I called out several times, but he would make no reply, ami yet the same men told me they had heard him talking that very morning He seemed to be calling on them for help, but he would not ask for me. I meant to break him into it. He'll beg before he'll starve,-1 thought ; and so determined to let him stay there, I sup posed that he had crawled forwarl to the forecastle bulkhead, in order to make the sailors hear him. Some of the men asked leave to go down and look for hi:n, but 1 refused, and threatened to punish the first man that dared to go down. At noon I i went again, and as he did not answer me tfifis time, I resolved that he should come to the hatchway and ask for me, ere I went again. The day passed away, and when evening came again, I began to be startled. I thought of the many good qualities the boy had, and of his widowed mother. He had been in the hold thirty six hours, and all of forty hours without food or drink. He must be too weak to cry out now. It was hard for me to give up, but if he died there, from actual star vation, it might go hard with me still. So at length 1 made up my mind to go and see him. It was not quite sundown when I had the hatch taken off, and jumped down on the boxes alone. A little way forward I saw space where Jack might easily have gone down, and to this point I crawled on my hands and knees. I called out there, but could get no answer. A short distance further was a wide space, which I had entirely forgotten, but which I now remembered had been left open, on account of a break in the flooring of the hold, which would let anything that might have been stored there rest directly upon the thin planking of the spip. To this place I made my way, ami looked down, I heard the splashing of water, and thought I could detect a sound like the incoming of a tiny jet. or stream. At first I could sec nothing; but as soon as I became used to the dim light, I could dis tinguish the faint outline of the boy at some distance below me. He seemed to be sitting on the broken floor, with his feet stretched out against a cask I called out to him and thought he looked up " Jack, are you there ?" He answered mo. in a faint, weary tone; ' Yes ! help me ! Do help me! Bring men and bring a lantern ; the ship has sprung a leak ?" I hesitated, and he added, in a more eager tone, "Make haste, I will try and hold it till you comeback." I waited to hear no more, but Lurried on deck as soon as jxissible, and returned with a lantern and tluvc men. I leaped down beside the boy, and could scarcely believe the evidence of my own senses. Threo of the timbers were completely worm eaten to the very heart, and one of the outer planks had been broken, and would burst in any moment the boy might leave it, whose feet were braced against tbe plank before him. Half-a-dozen lit tle jets of water were streaming in about him, and he was wet to tho skin. I saw that tbe plank must burst the moment the strain was removed from it, so I made my men brace themselves against it before I lifted him up. Other men were called down with planks, and spikes, and adzes, and, with much care and ' trouble, we finally succeeded in stopping the leak and avertiug tho , danger. The plank which had been stove in was six feet long by eight inches wide, and would let in a stream of water of that capacity. It would have been beyond our reach long before we could have discovered it. and would have sunk us in a very short time. I know it must be where the iceberg struck it DISTRIBUTED ALIKE. UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW. THE RICH AND Jack Withers wag taken to the cabin and there he managed to tell his story. Shortly after I put him in the hold ho crawled forward and when he became used to the dim glimmer that came through the dead lights, he looked about for asnu place in which to lie, for his limbs were very sore. He went to sleep, and when he awoke he heard a faint sound like wa ter streaming through a small hole. He went to the open place in the cargo and looked down and was sure that he ssiw a small jet of water springing up through the ship's bottom. He leaped down, and in a few moments found that the timbers had given wholly away, and that the stream was increasing in size. He placed his hand upon the plank, and found it broken, and discovered that the pressure of the water without was forcing it in ward. He had sense to see that if it gained an inch more it must all go, and the ship be lost, and jierhaps all hands (terish. And he saw, too, tliat if he could keep the broken plank in its place he might stop the incoming flood. ' So he sat himself upon it, and braced his feet against the cask, and then called for help. But he was too far away so low down, with such a mass of cargo about him, that his voice scarcely reached other ears than his own. Some of the men heard him, but thought he was talking to himself, and there he sat, with his feet braced, for four and twenty dreary hours, with the water spirting all over and drenching him to the very skin He had several times thought of going to the hatchway and calling for help, but he knew that the broken plank would be forced in if he left it, for he could feci it heave beneath him. His limbs were racked with pain, but he would not give it up. I asked him if he should not have given up if I had not come to him as I did. lie answered that he could not have done it while he had life in him. He said he thought not of himself ; he was ready to die ; but he would save the rest if lie could and he had saved us, surely saved us. The boy lay sick almost unto death ; but I nursed him with my own hands nursed him all through his delirium ; and when his reason returned, and he could sit up and talk, I bowed myself before hi in ami humbly asked his pardon for all the wrong I had done him. He threw his arms around my neck, and told me if I would be good to hira, he would never give me cause of offense; and added, as he sat up again, "I am not a coward, I could not be a dog." I never forgot those words; and from that hour I have never stnick a blow on board my ship. I make my men feel that they are men, that I so regard them, and that I wish to make them comfortable and happy as possible ; and I have not failed to gain their respect and confidence. I givo no undue license: but make my crews feel that they have a friend and su perior in the same person. T'or nine years I have sailed in three different ships, with the same crew. A man could not be hired to leave mo save for an officer's berth. And Jack Withers remained with me thirteen years. He was my cabin boy ; one of my fore-mast hands, my sec ond mate, and the last time he sailed with me, he refused the command of a new bark, because he would not be separated from me. But he is a captain now, and one of the best the country ever afforded. Such, gentlemen, is my experience in gov ernment and discipline on shipboard. A farmer in Canada recently lost his wife, and on tbe day appointed for the funeral, when the guests were assembled, he persisted in postponing the funeral. Several sympathetics, who endeavored to reconcile him to a final leave of the loved remains, elicited from the distracted man the fact that he had been disappointed in the attendance of a professional gentle man to extract several teeth containing gold filling, which had cost him 12 some years previous. A Hichmond paper says : A gentleman gave us for, publication tho following re ceipt for making good wholesome soup. He obtained it of bis landlord: Take three buckets of water, four onions, two long-legged collard leaves, and a small beef bone, .and put them in a large pot, over the smoke. When the. pot boils, stir with a tallow candle and add one pint of common salt, that has been used in pickling pork. A celebrated philosopher used to say ; "The favors of fortune are like steep rocks only eagles and creeping things mount to the summit" A Washington paper describes a beau tiful young lady as having a face a painter J might dwell upon. That would lw a dc I ligbtful residence. Army Letter. Camp 115th Keg't Pa. Vols., Near Brandy Station, Va., April 27. j Mb. Kimtok: Having a few leisure moments this pleasant Spring morning I take the liberty of communicating to you a few passing thoughts, that ever and anon come forth during the quiet hours in camp. During the inactive part of sol diering camp life grows monotonous, and, too frequently, the mind indulges in gloomy reveries or dark forebodings, even leaving the participator feci to surrender to sad despair So, in order to flank these manoeuverings of the brain it is necessary to either read or write, when not in the routine of daily duty, and having thus concluded, my thoughts were first with the yood people of -the Allegheny Moun tains the place of my childhood, itearal friends and brightest prospects. Feeling an interest in the welfare of the JJern. 4r Sent, and the integrity of Cam bria's noble sons and dpghters, whose virtuous actions have spoken in tones of thunder, I know no other medium than the pen. The country and soldiery owes her a mountain of gratitude for her deci sive voice and punctuality in furnishing her quota of soldiers. Kevicws, inspection, cleaning and fixing up quarters has been the order of the sev eral last weeks, preparatory to the import ant movement which we are daily antici pating, but entirely ignorant of its desti nation, or how it may terminate. Never before has there been so little room for speculations about any movement as the present. We never hear a word about moving from any official source, but "ac tions often speak as loud as words," and there have been sufficient preparations for a mighty move. Between the Engineers and I'ioneer corps a great deal of corduroy road is laid, and many bridges erected over streams that might prove an obstacle in the coming movement. The reviewing of troops by Lieut. Gen. Grant a few days since, was a grand dis play of American soldiery. It was sup posed to surpass any previous one. Court martials are being speedily pros ecuted, and sentences put into execution. On the 25th ult. two sentences were put into execution in our (2d) corps. One in the forenoon and the other in the after noon. The one in the forenoon was hung, and the one in the afternoon was drum med out of the service. Unfortunately the latter was of our own regiment ; not being sane iu mind he took it merely as a piece of sport. There is much said about consolidating our Kegt. with the 2Gth 1. V., but as yet they have not accom plished their favorite scheme. It will cause much dissatisfaction amongst the boys of our I?egt. to lose both colors and State, number. Our regiment turned in its old Hug to the State capital last winter in exchange for a new one, the old one be ing unserviceable. I judge were the old colors to be exchanged, ours would not be left in the shade of honor to any other one. Some of the regiments' time is about expiring, and feel both disapjointt'd and dissatisfied that they will have to remain until three years from the date of being mustered into the I J. S. service, which will in some cases vary near two months from the date of enlistment, or from the time from which they were first payed. The weather has been cold and wet generally, this spring, attended with sev eral high waters, but of late it has become pleasantcr, and now the ground is getting green with grass and herbage, and the trees in their foliage are presenting a beau tiful sectacle. For fear of trespassing upon your room I will close, with best wishes for the read ers of the l)m. o Sent. Vox. How to Go It. Go it strong in your praise of the absent. Some of it will bo sure to get around. Go it strong when you make love to a pretty widow. More people have erred by two little than two much in this par ticular. (Jo it strong wheu taking up a contri bution for charitable purposes. It will Go it strong when j'ou make a public speech. Nine people out of ten never take any allusions unless it cuts like a short handle whip whip or a rhinocerous cowhide. Go it strong when you advertise. Bus iness is like architecture its best sup porters are solid columns. Go it strong and pay the printer. Never grudge him his price. tiectUjct it is he who brings customers to your very doors, who otherwise wovld never discover your whereabouts. . m m w -i To be cheerfully disposed at the boor of meals is one of the beet signs of health. THE POOR. VOL.. 11-no. 21. The Two llables. A good story is related of our hoiicft, good-natured old friend S . "In th course of human events," S 's wif.j was blessed with a baby, which of course was a most wonderful child. S was in raptures, as he was in duty bound to be and bragged considerably nbout his boy among bis friends. One day he was over taken near his door by a waggiah neigh bor, whom he invited to see the prodigy. 1 demurred, alleging that he wa in somewhat of a hurry was no judge of the article, etc., but S would not listen. "Oh, corao in," said he "and I'll show you something that'll cpen your eye; come, come along, don't be afraid." Thus urged 1 consented, and in they walked. Mrs. S was appa rently absent, but in one corner stood the cradle, in which was the ensconced and fast asleep S future hopes. " There," said he, gently drawing down the quilt, " there's a boy for you 1" Saying which he gently lifted the slum bercr out of his warm nest, and holding him out in both hands, continued - " Talk about your boys -let cm get up and beat this. What d'ye think of him isn't he a specimen ? That'll do pretty well for new beginners, won't it, eh ?" At this moment Mrs. S entered from a side room. Why, S- !" said she, that isn't our baby it's Mrs. So and So's," (their next door neighbor ) " She wanted me to take care of it a moment while sba wont out." S was completely bewildered. "Isn't this ours?" he inquired inno cently, looking first at his wife and than at I' who stood ready to burst with laughter. "No," said Mrs. S , decidedly. " Here is ours," she continued, bringing from an adjoining room another infant wonder. ' Well, I declare," suid.S , look: first at one and then at the other, " have thought I Could have made mistake V Harper's Monthly. ; , A irood woman is not thoroughly km. before marriage. Of how many 6wce domestic virtues iftay not she be possessed, of which even he who values her mos: highly is unaware until he has placed her in his own mansion to be the guardian angel of his household happiness! A countryman walking along New York found his progress stopped by a barricade of lumber, and he asked what it was for. "O, that's io stop the yellow fever," was the reply. "Eh? I have often heard of the board of health, but I never saw one before.' An Irishman recently handed in to the telegraph office a dispatch intended to inform another Emeradler employed upon the works in a neighboring city of tho de cease of a friend. It read thus : "Barney, come home; I died last night." 'Some people," said a red-nosed indi vidual, haranguing three or four bystand ers, "waste their money in charity, others squander theirs in supporting wives and families; but as for me, I save mine to buy spirits." Skxsibilities. Fine sensibilities arc like woodbines, delija'al luxuries ot" beauty to twine round a fcolid upright stem of understanding; but very poor things if they are left to creep along the ground. An exchange says, There is sometlm inexpressibly sweet about little girls. The Louisville Journal adds, " And it grows on 'cm as they get bigger." There tiow ! Heal fidelity may be rare, but it exists in the heart. They only deny its worth and power who never loved a friend, nor labored to make a friend happy. "See here, misther," said an Irish lad of seven summers, who was treed by a dog, "if you don't take that dog awa I'll eat up all your nice apples." Girls dont accept the hand of any mat who tells you that he is going to marry and settle. Make him settle first and marry nfterwards. "Sotoo say the quickest Way to destroy weeds is to marry a widow. It is no doubt a most agtveable species of hus bandry. The Boston l'ost vays Count Curowskl is niton t to jterforra two bold exploits, vLc: get married and start a newspaper. A coffin maker subscribed for a news paper tltc other day. and wanted tho edi tor to take his pay in trrde. The Hound Table says " it is time that ! Congress understood that the people , aw ' dir-infc-ted with it." v. J
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