The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-07-31
VOLUME l.--IUMBER 70.

this port, southward-I cannot say to what
point-in guest of military seroice.
Steam communication across the Atlantic,
bids fair, in a few short years, to supercede the
splendid line of Packet Ships, which, but the
other day, wcre deemed unsurpassed and unap-
proachable. Boston, see, is about to enter
the field of competition with New York and
Philadelphia. A line of Steamships to Liver
pool is projected by the modern Athenians, with
every probability of success. The wealthy firm
Of SpOford & Tileston, the owners of the
Packet Ships known as the dramatic Line"
have already launched two propellers of gigan-
tic dimensions. These propellors are almost
ready to SAIL or rather, steam; and two others,
now on the stocks, will be launched, shortly
Moreover, strenuous efforts are being made
here, by some of the real friends Of ireland, to
purchase large Steamer, to ply between this
port and Galway. In connection with this en-
terprise, funds are being raised in Dublin,
Cork. and other cities, throughout Ireland, to
place second Steamship on the line, in order
to practically demonstrate the alleged superb
ority of Galway, as the Transatlantic Packet
Station.
1t is confidently expected, by the more san
guine, that Archbishop Hughes will subscribe,
at the very least, 81 900, '.for the cause"
seeing ..that, in 1S48, when he was a simple
Bishop, he was able to afford $500, to buy a
shield-an object decidedly utilitarian, and
some are apt to think, less evangelical, than
the present, in its aim and tendencies.
The Madrid correspondent of a Paris paper
gives an account of a successful experiment
with new flying apparatus. The flyer was
Miss Juanita Perez, who weighs some 24O
pounds, but who, nevertheless, moved through
the air, by the help of wings, with great ease
and rapidity. She announced that she would
rise 600 feet in'the air, and fly distance OF
1900 feet; but when she was once fairly afoat,
she evinced no inclination to stop; and greatly
exceeded her programme, both in heighth and
distance, to the surprise aud delight of the as
sembled thousands. Her wings are said to
have spread of some fifteen feet, and to be
fastened by Ggaments of great fexibiity. They
are arranged so as to move with great rapidity,
and they make a noise ike windmill.
1 see, by the Paris papers, that a gentleman
of that city, also, announces that he has invent
ed a complete apparatus for flying, which he
proposes to exhibit on the Champs de Mars, in
man says, that he and his two sons can move
| mp and down in the air, with all the facility of
swallow; skimming along near the ground,
or mounting upright to the sky, at their pleas
ure; and that the three have, several times,
flown across the Seine.
have had frequent occasion to refer to the
filthy condition of cur City, and, lest your rea-
ders should imagine my statements exaggera-
ted, viii just draw attention to the following
startling fact:
Deaths, for the week ending June 81, 1851:
New York, SOB
London, 93I
Now, the population of London is over A.
times that of New York, the mortality of the
former city would, if in the same proportion
| amount to 2,3SS; whereas, during the preva-
lence of the Cholera, in that city, in 1s49, the
| deaths never exceeded 1000 to I7OO
| Now, no man can pretend to compare the
natural advantages and position of the two
tcities, to what can we attribute the appalling
fact of such wholesale destruction of human
life, except to the criminal negligence of our
Municipal Authorities. and their entire inatten-
ton to the first laws of health and decency.-
! OuI WnaI IliHe nslS u Ildn Sa02IOry reform,
whose whole soul is engrossed in the profits to
be made, by gas contract, or paving Job?
have condensed from an English paper the
following anecdote, which viii afford your youth
fulreaders illgstratonof the result of earnest,
active, persevering and practical industry, when
combined with moderate tact and talent l am
sorry to say that agriculture and horticulture
are not regarded in this country, IS avenues to
/ greatness. Let this anecdote suffice 70 dispel
the illusion:
Some thirty years ago, a young gardener, who
worked for II shillings week, at garden near
| Chiswick, about five miles from London offend
ed his master, and was turned off He was
| standing, unemployed, one day, at garden
gate, near the residence of the Duke of Devon
shire, who, happening 10 pass, was pleased with
his intelligence and manners, and asked him TO
call at Devonshire House the next day. The
call resulted in his being sent down to Chats
worth, in Derbyshire. There he soon reached
as a practical and scientific gardener, the very
head of his profession, which position he had
long maintained, before he was known to the
world as Mr.. Paxton, the designer of the Crys-
tai Palace Yours truly,
FITZRoY.
The only obstacle we imagine, to Indies wear