The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-11-27
From Our EXCHANGES.

operation III INC ohdteo states and Canada i
estimated at from L, 900 to 5000 miles m.
most distant points in communication are H.I.
fax, n. S., and Quebec with New Orleap, n
5000 miles intervening between them, foI,o,
ing the circuitous routes of the wires n.
towns and villages which are accomn,o3...,
with telegraph stations amount to between .5o
and 500. AS there are two or three lines r-.
der different companies, between New York ,,,
other principal cities, many of the towns nav,
two or three separate telegraph offices.
/ One of the large water pipes in Albany In.
suddenly day or two since, under the sidav.r
at the corner of State and Exchange st,...
So sudden was the mishap that a gentla,,..
who was crossing the street was swallowed NJ
/, in the hole caused by the bursting and buriol
up to his neck. He extricated himself bovsr..
escaping with a pretty thorough drcnchinr.
| HoRRIBLE.-A woman was committed n -.
Jail of Lebanon, Pa, last week, on a cbargs -,
whipping to death little girl three years old =,
whom she was step-mother. The child fell fyom
her hands dead
The Democratic papers generally speak in f.
SOr of Judge Campbell, of Philadelphia, for At
torney General. This We believe would be q
very popular appointment.
| An Irish sailor, as he was riding, made,
pause; the horse in beating off the flies. caupbt
his hind foot in the strrup; the sailor ebseryipr
| ii, exclaimed, chow now, Dublin, if you are
going to get on; viii get off, for by the powers.
will not ride double with you"
g 81,
is sweetness of temper. Heaven did not give
to women insinuation and persuasion in oritr
to be imperious; it did not give them a swee;
voice to be employed in scOlding.
1t has been decided by the department that
subscribers living in a county where newspa-
per is published, are entitled to receive it fee
OF postage, even though the post office through
which they receive it may be out of the COUNTY.
Subscribers and postmasters viii please uoles
this.
The Hungarian exiles who arrived at New
York in the Mississippi, receive unremitting at
tention from the committee charged with dis
pensing the city hospitalities. Alderman Frank
lin accompanied them, on Sunday morning 10
the Rev. DR.. Cones church, and in the evening
to the church of the Rev. DIR. Beccher, Brooklyn.
Robert j. Walkers Speech at the Southamp-
ton banquet to Kossuth has attracted much at
tention in England The London News speak3
of it as the most remarkable speech that has
been heard for years; and says that BOssuth
himself could not surpsss it in the depth #
meaning or power of expression.
The Bunker Hill Aurora says that Of compa-
ny II, which went from that town with the Mas
sachusetts Regiment of volunteers to Mexico,
and numbered nearly 100 men, only 2I officers
and men are now known or supposed to be living.
OF these remaining soldiers, several are 50 de
bilitated by the effects of that campaign, tia:
they are entitled to pensions.
SHARP RETeRT.-Two smart fellows, riding
after a fast nag, observed farmer sowing seed,
and one of them accostcd him thus:
Well, honest fellow, its your business to
SOW, but we reap the fruit Of your labor
Ills very likely you may" replied the far
mer, 'Sfor am sowing hemp"
The Saco, Me-, Union, tells about singular
sea monster captured at sea, about twenty miles
from that place. He is described as having
head like a pOrpOise, sharks teeth, fms like
whale and a tail resembling a lizards. He Is
sixteen feet long, and, when taken, weighed
500 pounds His skin has been stuffed, and Is
now on exhibition.
With the present rate Of emigration from Ire
land there viii not be million of Irish left II
that country m 1852. The English, meantime,
are hiring the estates and moving in, and the
prospect is imminent, (says a Galway paper
that the Celtic race will become extinct on lis
proper soil.
The Red Land, tIa.) says, as incredible as II
may appear to many, the secret of the perpetn-
al motion has really been discovered by three
young men of our county, by the name 81 + oree'
They are now in Washington City applying Tor
a patent, and they write back that there IS n
doubt of success. The principle upon when
the machinery is propelled, is the pressure OF
atmospheric air upon succession of vacuumS'
They have been offered in Washington S5O,OJo
for the patent right for the State of New 1Ork-
Michigan is fast becoming, and perhaps
one of the most prosperous States IN the Union'
though but about twenty years OF age as SCI
tlement of any agricultural growth, and mucn
less than this as State, her real and personal
property is valued at 800, ,000, 900, while she
raises 1000, 900 pounds of wool, 5,OOO'Oo'
bushels of wheat, S10,000,000 worth of manu-
factures, has $500 farms, and nearly ZOl'VVV'-
900 of acres of improved land
1t is understood, says the n. Y. Commerce.