The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-06-03
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.


nea-According to Livingsten's Law Ledger
for 1852, our country has % OGO.lawyers, whose
annual income is not far from $50, 100000
FEMALE MAMMoTH-Catharine Scholey, "a
years fage, and weighing sir hundred and eter-
en- pounds, is to be exhibited at Columbus, Ohio
She is a native of Pickaway county in that
State.
ESS The Michigan Central Railroad, has been
completed to Chicago, and on the 21st inst, a
train of cars arrived there, carrying 500 first
class and over 800 emigrant passengers.
| Two WORDS To A BARGAIN.-Japanese. ''We
won't have free trade Our ports are closed and
shall remain 500 american. Then we will
open our ports, and convince you that you're
wrong"
BSE~ Wife, said man, looking for boot
jack, Il have places where keep my things and
you ought to know it. Yes said she, 1 ought
to know where you keep your late hours-but
| 1 don't
DEATH OF CHILD BY RATs.-A little child
died in Boston, a few days ago, in consequence
of rats entering its cradle during the night, eat
ing off one of its fingers, and gnawing the flesh
| off its arm to the bone, in most frightful man
ner.
B2g@ Arrangements are already being madein
many of the cities and towns of the United Stats
for celebrating the approaching anniversary of
American independence.
Coon STORY SPoILED.-The New York Express
copies the article from the Pennsy1Uonial, which
stated that Mrs Clay had never visited Wash
ington, and says This is very good story,
and we are sorry to spoil it, but truth requires
the correction. Mrs. Clay, then, in her day,
has been one of the gayest and most graceful
women of the Federal Metropolis, and is so rem
embered by many in the District of Columbia
She has, however, been excellent wife and
mother, and always distinguished for her DOM
este qualities
Bg@Several Jumps of gold were discovered
in mine in the village of Mineral Point, wis
consin, Saturday, the 1st inst, worth from
two to four dollars. On the Monday following
half the town turned out to search for the .'hid
den treasure and in a short time found a lead
containing gold, silver and diamonds, and be-
fore noon two hundred dollars worth of these
precious metals were taken from the earth.
ANOTHER AMERICAN PRISONER RELEASED
Mr. John Cunningham, engineer the Havana
Railroad, who had been imprisoned at that place
since the 8th day of September last, charged
with carelessness and neglect of duty in running
the engine and train off the track, whereby
some 20 or 80 passengers were wounded, one of
whom died. was acquitted conditionally and
placed at liberty on the 18th inst.
gS@Dr Mayo, in his philosophy ofLiving,"
says that ''spare habit, maintained by intel
lectual and bodily activity, short of oyerfatigue
and exhaustion, constitutes the wholesomest
condition of economy. 1t is met with in persons
of the mixed temperament, in its most faultless
character. 1t is seen in the sanguine and the
bilious, but then it is less exempt from the dis
eases to which each of the latter is prone
THE MAINE LloUoR LAW IN HAvANA.-The
American captains at Havana, having been much
troubled ON account of the drunkenness of their
crews, who purchased liquor of the fruit boats
which came out to get them, got up petition
to the authorities to have the nuisance abated.
1t was signed by forty-fve captains then in port,
and received the endorsement of Judge Sharkey
the Consul After considering the matter, a
regulation was issued by the Captain of the Port,
forbidding the sale and afixing the following
penalties; first offence, the destruction of the Ii
quor; second offence, the confscation of the boat
and destruction of the liquor third offence, the
former penalties, with the addition of two
months imprisonment, and then term of years
on board man-of-war. The convictions for the
first offence had been rigidly put in force, and
all the liquor in possession of the offenders had
been poured into the sea-
HsA.At the Convention of Congregational
Ministers, held at Boston on the Goth inst, the
committee on Tobacco, appointedlas year, made
a report. They stated that the annual export
of tobacco, amounts to SO, ,219, PSI, and the i'm
ports in the article of cigars, to 81 500 s12 and
the annual cost of cigars in the United States,
is $40, ,000,0 900.
/ LETTER FROM JOHN Mitchell, THE IRISH Pa
TRIoT.-The Limerick Qreland) Reporter says:
Father Kenyon, of Templederry, has just
received long letter from his friend John Nit
affords glowing picture of the present position
and prospects of the exile and his family, who
are enjoying the sweets of domestic happiness
in Van Dieman's Land Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell
and their children are all in the best health 5
John Martin is living with them, and his health
also is greatly improved. John Mitchell has ta-
ken large tract of land, which he is farming
himself, and which affords him constant occupa-