The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-11-08
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are wars, base drums and heroes;' and In
proof states that in England the Duke of
| Wellington since 1911, has received in
military pay, bounties, grants, &C., about
s 100000! or some 100000 per year
more than we pay Congress, Senate,
President, and thirty-one State Governors.
Why, that great sum would educate some
$4,000 of the poor children of the English
peasantry, and yet it is all spent on one
man.
~ Among the pupils attending the lee
lures of the Medical College recently
opened at Syracuse, n. Y. are Mrs.
Gleason, of the Glen Haven Water Cure,
Mrs. Davis of Mt. Morris, and Miss Mary
M. Taylor, of Buffalo.
SSr Moses Montefiore has founded at
Damascus a large hospital and two prima-
ry schools for INDECENT Jews, among whom
he has also distributed 100000 Turkish
piastres, (about 10000 francs.) The Jews
of Damascus, in order to testify their graf
itude to Sir Moses Montefore, for these
acts of benevolence, have bestowed on him
the title of Nassi, (Prince) of the Israelites
Iof Damascus.
! SA democratic mass meeting was
called to be held at ST. Paul Minnesota,
on the Goth inst. The objects Of the
meeting were TO memorialiZe the Legisla-
ture to ask the Congress of the United
States to favor The annexation of Canada.
Party lines are now strongly drawn IN that
new territory.
|The Sunday ordinance at Norfolk,
Va, imposes a fine of So for barber sha-
wing on Sunday.
wEl Siglo, of the 22d ult, states that
the late victory of Gen. Uroga over the
insurgent in the Sierra Gorda, has so dis
pirited them that there are now hopes of a
speedy pacifcaton of that hot bed of re-
volt. The hostile indians on the frontiers
have received severe chastisement in sew
eral encounters lately, from American
guerilla parties in the service of Mexico.
w Gen. Houston, of Texas, has writ
ten letter declaring his conviction that
but few fanatics at the north are hostile
to southern right and regarding apprehen-
sions of trouble about slavery as idle. The
Texas papers declare Bell, the lately elect
ed Governor, to be democrat, and say
that not one of the candidates ran as a
whig.
GA young lady of Boston has accept
ed an offer of S400 per month to act as
book-k eeper in mercantile house IN San
Francisco. We also learn that several
young ladies are about leaving Boston for
California,
The Houses in California are TO come
from all parts of the world, as well as the
L,il in
Bordeaux, France, to send to California,
and some have already been shipped from
Belgium.
The sum of $4,000 has already been
raised at New Orleans to make prelimi-
5 nary investigation, in relation to the Ie-
: huantepec. Railroad.
A cargo ofEnglish iron, arrived at Bos-
. ton, had to be sold very low in conse-
! quence of being chalked by contract with
that article, which prevents it from weld
ing.
CA matrimonial alliance is defnitive
t ly fixed to take place between the Crown
Prince of Sweden and the Princess Lou
e isa, eldest daughter of his royol highness
S Prince Frederick Of the Netherlands
s The marriage VIII take place early in the
d ensuing year.
gThe Strait of the Dardaneles, upor
which the English fleet has lately movec
divides Europe from Africa, and unite:
0 the sea of Mamora TO the Archipelago. |
= is so miles in length, and its width varies
: from 10 miles to less than l mile. 1t il
Q very strongly fortified.
!. DThe New York Commercial un
!. derstands that an insurance has been ef
$ fected by one mercantile house in tha
!. city on SIX hundred thousand dollars to b.
O. received by the three next steamers from
h California.
h The American (Catholic) Patriarcl
r at ConstantinopIe, has been commissionet
/. by the Turkish Sultan. to transmit, o'
his part to Pope Plus TX, the sum of l30
900 francs for Papel exchequer. We re
member that the Sultan contributed lib
orally towards the relief of the Irish dis
tress. How the 10Th century differs fror
le the l7th.
10 yThe accounts from Ireland relativ
ID to the potato crop are painfully distres
D. sing. Emigration, especially from tn
n South. is proceeding at rapid rate
Is The class OF persons emigrating IS yer
IN respectable. The cler gymen, Protestar
al and Catholic share in the distress. .
le every side the signs of general ruin ar
al muIatng. and the low prices prevail
is ing in the Irish market deepen the di