The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-09-13
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All Sorts Of Paragrap hs.
~ Mr.. Calvin Fairbanks, of Genesee,
New York, was convicted in Kentucky
five years ago, for aiding the escape Of
slave, and sentenced to the penitentiary for
fifteen years. Yielding to petitions signed
by Mr.. Clay and other distinguished cti-
zens, Gov. Crittenden has pardoned him,
and he has gone home.
OTThe New York Herald, an original
and claiming to be the earliest, Taylor pa
per says: ave have every reason to be-
lieve that more corrupt, deceitful, and
selfish cabinet than the present one never
existed at Washington. How long is the
honor of the President and public interests
to remain in such hands?''
~ The pumpkins grow SO large out
West that they are obliged to turn them
over by putting the ends of rails under
them. One of them scooped out makes
very good meeting house for small So
ciety.
The factory girls of the Ogden Mills
Cohoes, n. Y, are on strike against
reduction OF wages.
sgThe mother of the exiled Irish pa
triot, John Mitchell, arrived in Philadelph-
ia, on Wednesday last, accompanied by
two of her daughters. We have no doubt
that the patriotic citizens of Philadelphia
more especially those from the "Green
Isle of the Sea- will take an early oppor-
tunity to pay their respects to the mother
of one who is suffering for freedom and
humanity's sake.
! tgIt is stated in Western paper, that
number of boxes, with dead bodies In
them-the remains of gallant men-Amer-
lean soldiers who fell in Mexico-have
been stored at New Orleans, for a long
time past, with nobody to claim them.-
One of them mark I'd l.. NJ. Pryor, contains,
it seems, the body of DIR. McPhall, of
Tennessee, and was brought to n. Orleans
two Years ago.
E7-It is stated that some of English
railway companies now issue insurance
tickets to their passengers. A first class
passenger may on buying his ticket, by
paying three pence extra, have his life
insured for the journey 20 the extent of
$1,000 payable, if he is killed, to his lie gal
representatives-and compensation o r
personal injury, If his life is not lost. A
second class passenger may insure TO
$500 for two pence, and third class,
g20O for one penny.
gThe election in Missouri for mem
bers of the Legislature does not take
place until next year, the elections being
biennial.
g'The Winchester Republican states
that gang of negroes made their escape
from the neighborhood of White Post, Va.
about ten days ago. They were seen in
a body of some twelve or fifteen and can
hardly reach Pennsylvania before they are
, caught,
1S Luke Lea, Esq, has consented to
run as the nominee of the Taylor ticke
for Governor of Mississippi.
Definition of nowhere-'A place where
no Yankee has never been, and never
will be"
In California, winter is said to be the
, most delightful season of the year, anC
G July the most unpleasant month in the
. twelve.
The damage by>th late overflow OF
Red river, is estimated at S5,OOO,0O0.
: is thought that where 10000 bales o
cotton were gathered last year, not 10000
y will be made this year. Alexandria i:
= said to be 4 feet under water.
r Rev. William Nj. Thomson, missionar,
of the American Board, at Beirut, Syria
arrived at New York on the 29th ult il
the ship Danube, 80 days from London
1t is seventeen years since Mr.. Thomson
r entered upon his missionary labors.
C An exchange says figures do lie The
n editor has got bank note that promise
), to pay, on demand: 'one dollar and they
t won't give him but forty cents for it. l
r figures don't lie who does!
=, Soft soap, in some shape, pleases all
d and, generally speaking, the more Lye yo,
put in it the better.
In Stewards dry goods palace. New
York, there are l60 clerks empIoyed-o
about $4,000 per annum for clerk hire.
e Daguerreotypes.-'The most mischie
IS vous liars are those that keep on the verg
IS of truth
: There is young man in Cincinnati, s.
S modest that he will not embrace all oppor
: tunity.
e DIR. Franklin used to say that rich wild
% ows were the only piece of second-han
goods that sold at prime cost.
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