The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-06-05
From Our Exchanges.

New Orleans to st. Louis--Gen. Persifer F,
Smith is at Washington city-Gen. Wool,
Gen. Shields and Gov. Boutwell, of Massachus-
etts, reviewed the Boston Ancient Artillery
Company on Monday-The steamer Washing
ton has arrived at New York from Bremen
Kossuth is to be detained in Turkey for some
months longer-The Reading Convention as:
sembled yesterday-The Sioux Indians are on
q war expedition after the Pawnees-A gen.
tleman told us the other day the Sentinel
was the best country paper in the State, and he
subscribed--M. Theirs says France wants a
Republican President-The ladies are adopt-
ing the short dress and breeches in the State of
New York--The French troops will soon leave
Rome-FatherM Matthew is on visit to Henry
Clay--Jenny Lind gives three farewell con-
certs in Philadelphia next week-Goy. MDon-
aid has been nominated by the Southern Rights
Party, for Governor of Georgia-Hon Howell
Cobb an Union man is his opponent and should
be elected--The loeusts have appeared in
Blair county--Gleason should send us his
Ladies' Cdmpanion-On the 10Th of May the
Queen OF England gave grand bali at Buck
ingham Palace and many Americans were pres
Corwin the s'hospitable' gen
tleman has gone to Ohio-The Indian warfare
in Yucatan is about closing There should be
a celebration at Ebensburg on the 4th of July
One million of three cent pieces were coin
ed at the U. S. Mint during the month of Nav
Gov. Dorr now edits the Providence Herald.
Rhode Island-Our friend Col w. A. German
of Bloomington, Indiana, one of the heroes of
buena vista, has been nominated for Con-
gress-Be kind to every body-The Eques-
trian Statue of Gen. Jackson weighs 35, 900 lbs.
made out of old brass cannon taken by him at
New Orleans, it is to be placed on the Pedestal
in Lafayette Square, Washington, on the 4th of
July-The Mountain Sentinel" will circulate
free of postage in this county, on and after the
Both day of June-The American Steamship
Pacific, made her last passage from New York
to Liverpool, 5000 miles, in 81 days, the quick
est trip yet-The receipts at the Worlds
Fair averaged SIS, 900 per day-Kossuth has
issued protest against his further detention
in Turkey, and it is an eloquent production.
An Italian boy of 13 years of age the
only son of poor shoemaker of Bologna, in
defending his little dog from the attacks of a
large dog belonging to an Austrian officer, killed
the dog. For this, the poor lad was sentenced
TO receive % strokes of the bastinado; but at
the 18th blow the child expired. This piece of
cruelty so affected the father that he became
frantic; and, armed with stiletto, followed the
Austrian officer to coffee house and despatch
ed him without interference from the bystan-
aers, and then escaped.
The Virginia Free Press has received a
stalk of rye from the farm of Mr.. Jacob Orn-
dorff, near Shepherdstown, which measured
eight feet three inches
The Hon. Armistead Burt, the leading
man of the South Carolina delegation in the
House of Representatives, has come out in op-
position to any rashness in the act of secession
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: On the
ast trip of the Brilliant down from Pittsburg, a
lady on board, whose residence is in New Alba
ny, gave birth to twins, a girl and boy, fine
healthy children. In consideration of the kind
treatment she received at the hands of the cap
tain and clerk she named one Grace and the
other Beltzhoover.
At the request of Mr.. Barclay, the Brit
sh consul, Mayor Kingsland has concluded to
despatch officers Bower and Hopkins to London,
TO watch the movements of the New York pick
pockets at the Worlds Fair. The British Gov
ernment pays all expenses.
Last week man in Decatur county, Ind,
sold his farm, receiving payment in bank bills,
which he tied in the corner of quilt, and hid
among some straw in his wagon. Having occa-
sion to leave the vehicle for moment, he laid
down his lighted pipe, and when he came back
the straw, quilt and farm had disappeared in a
blaze.
Ladies la Turk are appearing in all
quarters, at the North, but yet they are very
few in number in each place. One has come out
at New Bedford another at Newark, N. j., and
others are preparing to follow suit. Western
New York towns, however, still take the lead.
Master Tommy ourrin, a bvy Or IA, 49,;
ding in Kildare, Ireland, has eloped with Miss
Eliza j, girl aged Is, the servant girl
who managed the affair as confdante being be-
tween fifteen and sixteen years old.-The juve-
nile fugitive took with her ETA belonging to her
mother, and the boy and girl have proceeded to
America together.
The London illustrated News has an en-
craving of Mrs. Mary Banton, who is called the
oldest woman in the world. She was born on
the 18th of Feb, 1871, and is of course more
than one hundred and twenty years of age