The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-11-06
From Our EXChanyea

Postmaster at Seneca Falls, N. Y, Mrs. Bloc.
being the deputy-at least SO say our excba,.."
, The impression is general, in England ~.
Kossuth win return from the United Stats.
reside in England. So says the London corr.
pondent of the Commercial.
Gen. Quitmah and Gen. Foote were bo,b
; New Orleans at the last dates. The former -
in fine health, although rather mortified a, :.
cent events in Mississippi. The latter had h..
sick, but was recovering.
Father Mathew sails for Europe the 9Th =.
} this month. Various donations, amoun,in,
a considerable sum, have been presentedto b;-.
and Mr. Barnum gave him benefit at the NJ.
scum, in Philadelphia.
The marble slab, contributed by Teun.ss..
to the Washington Monument, has been fo,.
warded to its destination. 1t bore, as an in.
scription, the motto" Tennessee.-The Federal
Union. 1t must be preserved"
Snow fell in Prospect, Conn, on Mop5,,
morning, to the depth of two inches. In B,,,
ford the ground was whitened by the fro,,v
visiter, and the thermometer ran down n 40
Snow also fell in Boston on Sunday
Hon. Walter Forward, recently elected ipd,.
in the Allegheny district in Pennsylvania, r.
turned from Europe in the steamer Pacific. o,
Sunday. 1t will be recollected that he resigned
his foreign mission some time since, in view O,
accepting the judicial nomination.
The probability of rupture between Austr,
and Turkey seems to be believed in by the Ger
man press A Vienna paper asserts that the
Car of Russia has been consulted on the subiec,
and has answered that he is ready to aid Austria
In any demonstration she may make, provided
she adheres strictly to the letter of treaties be-
tween her and Turkey.
A singular accident occurred on the Harlem,
Railroad on Sunday. AS the train was passing
through deep cut, horse and cart, loaded
with stone, backed off the embankment, lodging
upon the hinder car, crushing in the roof and
splintering several seats. There were but four
passengers in the apartment, one of whom was
seriously injured The horse rolled of the Cur
and lodged on the track without injury
A COSTLY BUILDING.-The proposed enlargr
meat of the capitol at Washington, a correspon-
pondent of the New York Journal of Commerce
says, will cost FIVE millions of dollars The
marble and setting for the exterior must cost.
at least, twelve hundred thousand dollars, and
that for the interior as much more. The whole
present appropriation for the work is only one
hundred thousand dollars.
THE FIRST COMMERCIAL NATIoS-An English
correspondent states that the commercial ton
mage of England is 3,130, 900 tons If so, the
United States will stand as the first commercial,
nation in the world, as her tonnage on the SOth
of June, 1850, was as follows :-Registered ton
mage in foreign trade, .5s5, I'll tons; vessels
in coasting trade, 1,797, ,s24 tons; fishing yes
sells, Isl, ,91s; in whale fishery, l46,0l6 tons.
Total, 1861, 400 tons.
4 horse with FIVE feet is the only approach to
competition which America has yet made with
the Russian product of pianist with four arms.
The fve-footed wonder is at Hartford, owned by
Mr.. Remington, keeper of the hotel. His left
hind leg, (says the Herald's correspondent
terminates in two distinct ankles and feet They
are attached together BY the skin, but are both
well formed, though the inside foot is smaller
than the outside one. The horse is black, Of
good size, fast trotter, and excellent under the
saddle"
Mr. Hobbs, who has done so much during the
Exhibition in London % to pluck up drowning
honor by the locks" has, we see, obtained another
triumph, having had his lock restored to him
-uninjured, after fortnight's persevering a.
tempts on the part of Garbutt, with the report
of the Committee affirming its impregnability.
Hobbs, therefore, comes out, in the London
Times, and says he should be "most happy 10
give any other party an opportunity of trying
their skill, soon as he can make arrangements
for suitable place for the trial"
An old Dutchman returned recently from
political torchight procession, slightly ''by the
head" when by-stander near bar obtained
his assent to "a cocktail with him" That
finished his business. He fell asleep in chair
and didn't wake for an hour. His courteous
friend, meanwhile, was reading the evening pa
pers by the fire. Presently the inebriated Dutch
man partially awoke from his troubled nap, and
asked this maudlin question: swat did you lsy
dat wash l drinks? Wash it cocktail, or wash
it a torchlight brozeshion?" 1t must have been
a dubious stomach that inspired that fancy!
| The removal of the Chry stall Palace from ]"
position in Hyde Park has alre ady commencea'
1t is to be reconstructed in the new Battersea
i Park, about 2'miles from its present focati0h'
i where it will be used as winter garden lH'
4 weight of iron of which it is composed IS iOu-
thousand tons, and the quantity of glass used
Il 500 900 superficial feet. The total cubic o"H