The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-09-27
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HoPE IT May BE rRUE.-A letter in the
n. Y. Tribune, from source worthy of
all credence, gives the probable amount of
gold TO be taken out of the California mines
in next three months, al SI2 100000.
~A Person was lately sentenced to
ten years hard labor in the Peniten:iary
at San Francisco. We guess this Peni-
ten'iary is hole in the ground with a.
stone over it, or an exhausted gold digging
planked up.
HEAvY.-At Berkshire Mass, last week
a verdict of $1,000 was rendered against
the Berkshire Railroad Company and in
favor of ID. B. Campbell and wife, for in
juries sustained by them while crossing
the railroad track.
gThe editor Of the Bangor Courier
was robbed, the other night, of silver
watch, and lot of clothing. No doubtitI
was dot of clothing; and as to the silver
watch, careful examination would have
shown it to be only plated.
S A convention, which has for its OBJ
ject the improvement of the rapids of the
upper Mississippi, is 10 assemble at Daven-
port, Iowa, on the 10th prox.
gThe damage by the late overflow on
Red river is estimated at S5,OOO,OOO. 1t
is thought that where 10000 bales, of
cotton were gathered last year, not 10000
will be made this year. Alexandria is
said to be feet under water.
OrOn the 9th inst, in St. Louis, a wo-
man and man named Heisler had diff
Guilty, in which Heisler drew pistol and
fired, the ball taking effect in the side of
the woman's head and wounding her very
severely. The man was immediately ar
rested.
II An exchange says that the girls in
some parts of Pennsy ylvania, are SO hard
up for husbands, that they sometimes take
up with printers and lawyers.
I'll 1t seems that the Mormons are all
wings. Pouawattomie county Ia, is in
habited chiefly by them. At the Presi
dental election their vote was thrown out
but at the recent elections for State Off
GERS they voted as follows: Wing So;
Democrat 4.
The hair has been SO pulled out of
Whitey's fly sweeper, by his whig admi-
rers, that it is completely raw, and it is
feared by his attendents that modification
will set in.
gR Rey has informed the editor of the
Picayune that at the slime of his abduction
he was drugged, and in state stupefac-
tion,'' although he knew what was going
! on.
gOscar, King of Sweden, has turned
teetotaller, and is sending tetotal missiona-
ries throughout his country to show the
blessings of temperance.
~American Machinery for London is
In the course of construction at Trenton,
to be used in the manufacture of India
rubber.
0FIt is reported that the savagest kind
of the cotton worm is crawling all over
Texas, and that not more than fourth of
crop of cotton will be gathered in that
State. The corn crop of Texas is excel
| lent.
g We learn, says the Boston Journal
that a letter has been received from Cali
fornia, which states that the ship Leonore' s
company had been offered one hundred
thousand dollars for the little iron steam
boat which they took out with them, but
they declined accepting it. They are
confident that when she is in operation
she will make for them one thousand dollars
per day.
20 The number of immigrants into the
{ United States last year was estimated, on
the most accurate data that could be obtain
ed. at 25O,0OO. This year the number
will probably reach 100000.
BThe Governor of Louisiana, has re-
quested committee of 1872 citizens oftha;
State to attend the Internal Improveme nj
Convention at Memphis Tennessee, on
the % of next month, as delegates from
! Louisiana.
The editor of the Great West an
nounces t e astonishing fact, that he has
succeeded in discovering living, actual
bona ide descendant from one of the sec
o,ad Families of Virgiuia.'
/ Ink is the blackest sea on which thought
rides at anchor.