The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-09-25
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The steamer James jackson exploded On Sn.
day last, On the Ohio river, when opposite Sbsw
neetown, H., killing and woundng 35 pereo,
The American prisoners at Havana. arc .
be sent to Sp in, one hundred and thirty-oi,k.
in number. They have published card tbaeL
ing the officers of the U. S. sloop of war Aha
the officers of the prison at Havana the Br;,;:,,
Consul, and American residents, for their k;nS
ness and sympathy in their behalf and the ro
sures they had taken for their relief The =
habitants of Havana subscribed $4,000 for -.
relief of the widows and orphans Of those k;,Is,
in the Lopez expedition. The prisoners pubi;st
Il card condemning the conduct of Mr. Oua.
the American Consul. The Island Of Cubs =
| quiet and business improying.-A gentleYs~
| in New York who has heard Catharine Hava.
sing at rehearsal, was electrified with her yoi.s
and says she will create a tremendous seDsat;oI
when she appears in public. She and h.,
mother called upon Mrs. Presi dent FilImor.
and had a long Properly tn ~
amount of $4,000 was destroyed by 6re -
/ New York on Saturday. Thirteen houses wara
destroye d.--The river has only sixteen incbs.
of water in it at Pittsburg. .-The President, os
the L. s. has returned TO Washington, from tbn
Boston Jubilee, where they had great tr,e
/ Speeches made by the President, DAME
Webster, Lord Elgin, Governor General Of Csrs'
/ da, and many cthers.-Edwin Forrest. fbs
great Tragedian, has re-appeared upon the stsps
in the city of New York, after an absence AZ
/ two years, and was warmly applauded In
Mississippi the Union candidates have gained
hfty-twO counties, the hicuniAnis.s ouI., 80.
"A new expedition against Cuba is rumored
| to start from some place outside the United
States, but we doubt the story.-The Rt. Rev
Bishop Kenrick, of Philadelphia, has been made
Archbishop of Baltimore. Rev. p. Cullum. Pr;
mate of Ireland is deputed 70 superintend tho
ordination and bestow the Kalliun
Quitman has resigned, candidate for Cover
nor of Mississippi, and Col. Jefferson Davis.
I son-in-law of Gen. Taylor, has been nominated
in his stead.-Hon. Stephen A. Douglass Of
Illinois, delivered an able address to tie New
! ork State Agricultural Society last week
/ Oysters have been imported into England from
| New York, done up in jars with vinegar and
Ipepper.-Business of every kind is revivine
IN California, the mining interest never bet
! ter, and the yield of gold never larger-On
Saturday night last, there could not have been
less than twenty or thirty boomers in Chestnut
street, PhladelI tIia, all accompanied by gentle
men. "A lot of peaches were sold in New
York, on Thursday, at $40 per basket. Rather
| dear fruit eating, that-Father Ritchie, late
of the Washington Union, declines being can
dIdate for Governor of Virginia, and says: - l
could not be Governor if sc0uid and ,rould not
| # / could ''-James Fennimore Cooper, the
great and world renowned American Novelist
died at his residence at Cooperstown n Y, On
the lst inst, aged CO years. In his death =
great man has fallen. lie uled N full commu-
MON with the Episcopal Church, and a nation
mourns his loss.-Letters to the American
Consul at the Court of Austria, have been opened
10y tie officials Cf that despotic Government.
4 protest was addressed TO the Imperial Govern
ment by Mr.. Flagg, the American Represent
tive The Austrian Government replied that
! they had the right to open any documents sent
| 10 that country by any other nation, and that
| the packet in question had no external marx cf
a diplomatic characteF.-Louis kossutn was
| 10 have been released on the 18th September
He intends to proceed first to England, TO les.
| there his CHI i4dren and provide for their edues-
| uOn, and then sail for the United States Io
will be welcomed by ali-HJn. Benz r Cur
| us, OF Boston, has been appointed q justice Of
the L. 5. Supreme Court TO succeed Judge
Woodbury., and has accepted the ofice.-Fhe
fittsburg Dispatch says: Mayor Geshrie is wir-
ming goiden opinions by the1,roInpt and efio elt
manner in which he is executing the duties Of
MS othce-aisn, that James d. Alexander fy-
some years proprietor of the Bank Exciangc
Coffee House, died on Saturday evening yt il
tammation OF the bowels.-Con War in "a Z
Is seriously i'll at Washington. No hopes a. en-
tertained of his recovery.-A lady upon ia
king up She. ly's novel, The Last Man, tu. eE
1t down very suddenly, exclaim;ng, The last
man. Bless mel if such n thing ever were to
happen, what would become of the women? -
--Digby thinks young girl marrying an Old
mlser Is a striking example of cupid-ity.