The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-12-30
FROM OUR FxCHsrGEs-

The 700 tubs of Irish butter, imported per
steamship Niagara into Boston, were offered at
auction, and 100 tubs sold at 22 24c per 10
The remainder were withdrawn.
The Chambersburg Bar gave a supper in com
pliment of Hon. j. S. Black. Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on Monday
evening last.
aSa-They say that the correspondence OF Cen
eral Pierce, well as the number of his friends
has wonderfully increased since his election to
the Presidency, and that he receives, on an aver
age, about two bushels of letters a-day
Bs+The Washington Union, alluding to Sen.-
tor King, says that his health has much i'm
proved within the last two days. lie no longer
needs the attendance ola physician and tits con-
fdently hoped that he may soon appear in ths
Senate chamber.
Esa-One Of Tom Moore's obituaries
Here lies John Shaw,
Attorney at Law
And when he died,
The Devil cried,
Give us your paw,
John Shaw,
Attorney at Law
We learn from the Boston 7ranscrfsf, that NO.
ratio Greenough, the eminent Sculptor is ne
more. He died on Saturday morning of a yio-
lent attack of brain fever. Mr. G., was ma
tive of Boston, and was in the Ash year of his
age, at the time of his death.
On the 1st inst, the editor of the st. Louis
RepubIican visited the depot station of the Pa
eifc Railroad Company to see the first car start
horse on that side Of the Mississippi
Louis Napoleon is said to be deeply fascin.-
ted with a beautiful Spanish lady Of rank, who
is supposed to entertain the ambitious hope
of becoming Empress, instead of the Princess
Vasa
Some of the Wing papers have at last found
out that Gen. Pierce did make a speech in Con-
gress it was against the removal of political
opponents from Office, and they are quoting It
with much gravity as if they expected / the
author to be bonna by it
In the Northern parts of Vermont, the snow
is over foot deep on a level. On Friday morn
ing last the passenger train from Rutland for
Boston, got stuck in snow bank few miles
this side Of that place. and remained fast for a..
hour and half, until another engine Eith a
snow-piough reached them.
A Northern darkey says "dey isn't gwiue to
cotch him away down Souf. for dey makes poor
nigga work twenty-five hours every day ."--
How when there is only twenty -four in day.
''Why dey makes him get up in de mornin' aa
hour before day, and dat makes twenty -five!'
We arc much pleased TO learn that our friend
Col. ISRAEL PAINTER, has been elected President
of the Hempheld Railroad We have always
thought thai Colonel Painter made a most eti-
cient member Of the Board of Canal Commis-
Sioners, and we have no doubt he viii exert al
his energies in behalf of the Company over
which he has been called to preside.
THE CoxrEsr-Whilst every other nation OF
the earth IS in trouble how to create enough rev.
enue to keep their respective governments anoat.
the question which seems TO give the Statesmen
of the United States the most trouble just now.
is how they shall properly dispose of the accu-
muiating surplus revenues of the government Of
the model Republic. Our government is now
about out OF debt. and the annual surplus is
nearly twenty millions OF dollars.