The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-06-10
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.

q body of well equipped soldiers, ready to give
the American expedition under Com. PERRY, a
warm greeting. The Dutch officers all think our
force despatched to that quarter as utterly ina
dequate to the task of forcing an entry into the
city of Jeddo
WONDERFUL DIsCovERY.-The Paramount (Va)
True Virginian says:
'sWe are informed by Col. Raymond and 9th
ers, that portion of a regularly Macadamized
road has been discovered on the opposite side
of the river from this place We have not seen
it ourselvs, bnt learn thatit extends pretty much
along the bank Of the river. Its width is about
16 feet, and the track weel graded. The bed of
stone seems to be about two inches thick, and
made precisely after the plan of our Macadami-
zed roads, the stone being broken to about the
same size of that used for our roads. The dis
eoYery was made by the washing away of a hill
side which partially covered the road. When,
and by what race Of people this road was made,
is unknown at the present day, but it gives evi-
dence of the existence Of population here at
some former age of the world, as far advanced
in civilization, at least in the art Of roadma-
king, as the stump of chesnut tree, which was
ascertained to be $50 years old at the least, and
how much older, our informant could not tell,
as the stump was hollow. Here is food for tho't
Who were the people that made the road-when
did they make it-and what has become of them?
PITTsBURG AND STEUBENvILLE RAILROAD
The Board of Directors of this company have re-
solved to proceed at once to the prosecution of
the work on this road to the Virginia line
Bids for the work very numerous, from the
best contractors of the country, upon highly IA
vorabIe terms. meeting of the Board was
held yesterday to proceed with an examination
of the bids. The contracts will be given out at
the earliest possible moment
lGs Mr.. John Shields. who is now in his 92d
year, lately walked from his residence in Fairfax
county va to Alexandria, the same day, the
distance being full eighteen miles On the follow
ing day he walked home again. All things con-
sidered, the "trip may be set down as one Of
the most remarkable on record.
na-A shilling subscription is to be started in
England, to raise fund to be placed at the ser
vice of Kossuth and Mazzini.
Eag=If you wish to re-fasten the loose hand
les of knives and forks, make your, cement of
common brick dust and rosin melted together.
Seal engravers understand this recipe.
ESg@ATl the whalers at Hong Kong believe in
the safety of Sir John Franklin. The Esqui-
maux go from the Asiatc continent and back
constantly.
ges- Miss Hayes, who has given three very
successful concerts at Toronto, vas thrown from
a horse on Saturday morning but not seriously
injured.
gsa.A countryman brought to the Dayton,
Ohio, market, on Thursday last, four hundred
wild pigeons They were caught in a net, and
sold alive at so cents per dozen.
If a fat hog comes to five dollars, what will
poor one come to? Ans. To pail of swill.
Rgy@ The wheat crop in many parts of Lancas
ter county, Pa, is said to be suffering badly
from the attacks of the fly.
sn-The Paducah (Ky.,) Democrat, speaking
of DR.. Haynes, says, that in twenty-five days he
married two wives, travelled fifteen hundred
miles, told four Thousand lies, and in twenty
days more, was arrested, tired, convicted, and
lodged in the State prison. lie is decidedly a.
''fast'' man.
EayHIt is a capital suggestion, says an ex-
change, that ladies using the newly invented air
tight skirt ezpGndsr, may pass down side of
the street as thin whipping-post, and fail
ing to make a sensation, can go up oafhe other
as full as hogshead, or bale ofcotton. Great
invention.
LEGISLATION IN MASSACHUSETTS, the
acts passed by the late Legislature of ofMassachu-
setts were the Maine Liquor Law an act calling
State Convention, if the people ratify the call;
a law authorizing aliens to hold real estate, re-
lieying large class of the inhabitants from a
most depressing incapacity. Treason, rape and
arson are no longer capital offences, and muir
der remains the only crime punishable with
death. law similar to that of Maine was also
PASSED, by which execution is delayed for a year
after sentence.
rsa- The London papers by the Asia, an
nounce a recent very curious and interesting
discovery made at Nineveh, namely, coffin con-
tanning the body of a lady of the Royal house
many of whose garments were entire, also the
pold studs which fastened her vest. The most
singular discovery, however, was mask of thin
gold pressed upon the face, as to assume and
retain the features of the deceased.
nI~The subject Of accidents on railways is
one much attended to in England just now
Among the most numerous causes, out of two
ted burst and leaky tubes, broken springs and