The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-09-20
AIi sorts OF ParagraDnx.

- WI. DGucTOIt, liiS AIueTICdu IVA ILfS-
ter, London letter, of August 24th, says
VIII return TO the United States in few
weeks. During his residence III Londbni
he has obtained valuable materials for his
history Of the United States. Hehas also
searched the public libraries of Paris for
important Information connected witt. .his
work.
GA man named Schnidel lately pre-
ferred q claim against the City Council of
Chicago, for damages by the loss of his
son who was drowned from bridge be-
longing to the city. The councils allowed
him twenty-five dollarsi
~ Torrents altman, who was convicted
in Clearfeld county last winter, of murder
in the first degree, for killing his brother,
was broughtup for a new trial on the 4th
inst, and plead guilty of murder in the
second degree, Judge Woodward senten-
.ced him TO twelve years in the Western
penitentiary.
80 Louis Napoleon has authorized an
English gentleman, Mr.. Jacob Brett, to
establish, on the coast of France. between
Calais and Boulogne, submarine electric
telegraph, which is to cross the channel
and communicate with the English coast
at Dover.
g'Fhe Hungarian Secretary Of War is
named Korplnay, and is a brother Of the
famous polkay dancer, who served the
United States as Captain in the Mexican
war, of Missouri company. He has
lately sailed for Hungary, though he had
been appointed professor Of cavalry tao
tics at West Point.
w Bennett of the New York Herald,
says: We have every reason to believe
a more corrnpt, deceitful, and selfish cabi-
net than the present one never existed at
Washington. How long are the honor OF
the President and the public interests to
remain in such hands!'
tThe travel on the New Y ork and
New Haven Railroad is unprecedented in
the annals of American railroads. The
receipts of the Company are about $4,000
daily.
OFAn Iowa paper, at the conclusion of
an article relative to the late democratic
victory in that State, remarks, that the
! The same may be said in this regicn of
I CCuHlI We UltI hiC@ Vi tlS ioOidtSu
one in Algerine Rhode Island.
EgThe Post-office at Charleston, S. c.,
was forcibly entered on Sunday night last,
and large number Of letters opened, and
scattered upon. the floor. No account OF
the amount of money stolen has been Civ
en-, nor has any clue been obtained of the
robbers.
g'Fhe net earnings of the Boston and
Maine Railroad during the last year
amounted TO the sum of two hundred and
fftyfour thousand dollars.
The late Board of Visitors at West
Point repeat tie recommendation of their
immediate predecessors, that the pay oil
the Cadets be raised from $24 to S29 pei
month, the original amount. With the
strictest economy, those who have nc
friends at home to assist them, find thai
they have not sufficient for their support
William Goodwin of New Haven, states
in one of the papers of that city, that du.
ring the last four years he has watched
the beds OF the sick and the dying one
thousand and one nights, and that he was
never poorer IN purse, richer IN health
nor higher in spirits than at the presen
time.
New discov Of lead ore have beer
made about two miles west of Dubuque
Iowa. 1t is said that there is between
10000 and 100000 lbs. of mineral il
sight, with a good prospect for more.
g Why don't that vessel start? rem ark
; ed General Taylor to friend as a vesse
was getting under weigh. They are
+ weighing anchor, replied the friend
Weighing the anchor? says the old Gener
al. Why they ought to have known how
much the anchor weighed when they
bought it.
6TAt a recent bull fight in Madrid
where the Queen assisted, the audience
were SO enraged at the cowardly conduc
of a lion and a tiger in the ring, whom tn
bull easily vanquished, that they broke th
chairs and benchesI
~ Lumbermen are cutting ship timbe
at the White Mountains. Pine masls SC
feet to 80 in length have been transportet
! on heavy wheels drawn by ten Or twelv,
head of cattle. down the Notch, for tn,
transportation of which TO the water they
! received $500 per stick.