The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-03-04

THE UNIFORM GAUGE.-A law was few days
snce passed by the Legislature, requiring that
all the railroads hereafter to be built in Penn
sylvania, be of a uniform gauge, and to CORES
pond with the roads belonging to this State.
The measure, we have reason to believe, has
given very general satisfaction-and in its oper
alton cannot but be attended with great good.
As a matter of State policy, as well as of per-
maneut Legislation, we hope that this wise and
patriotic enactment viii be sustained and ad-
hered to-
SUNBURY AND ERIE RAILRoAD.-A telegraphic
despatch from Lockhaven, under date of Feb.
ODD. 8 p. NJ. says:-
"a vote has just been taken, and it has been
decided that the Borough shall subscribe $ 20,
900, and the County be recommended to sub
scribe > 100, 900 to the Sunbury and Erie Rail
road. For the subscription, 102: against, 8.
This is among the first fruits of the bill recent
ly passed by our Legislature. The city of Erie
has already subscribed 3 5000 The pros
pect is every way encouraging"
One of the proposed measures of national de-
fence in England, in the present apprehension
of an invasion from Frace, is to change the uni
form of the troops from red to some neutral CO.
lor, in order to avoid offering so distin gnished
mark to the French sharp-shooters as they now
present. 1t is a singular fact, that the Danes
were compelled to change their uniform from
red to blue, i'll consequence of the execution
done upon them from this cause by the Prussian
bullets i'll the late Schleswig- Holstein war.
There is nothing like u red-coot for marks
mans eye.
We perceive that resolutions are before the
Virginia House of Delegates requesting the Gov
ernor to open correspondence with the Gov
ernOrs of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and North Carolina, and urge
them to cooperate with Virginia in the passage
of a law restricting tina circulation of Bank notes
in such manner as to prevent the issue of notes
of less denomination than So. Another reso-
luton instructs the members Of Congress from
Virginia to urge the passage of law to prevent
the circulation Of small notes in the District of
Columbia
a Paris correspondent of the n York Com
mercial says it is now ascertained that the story
of Louis Napoleon having been shot at by SOL
dier-one of the Chasseurs of Vincennes-is
quite true. This took place in the court of the
Elysee, between twelve and one o'clock at night,
when the President was about to enter his car
riage to go to the house of his mistress, near
by The bullet grazed his shoulder, but infiic-
ted no wound. The man was instantly secured,
but refused to make any disclosures. He was
shot and buried in the garden of the palace
The following, from the Lendon Times, is
somewhat Of admission from that source:
Early in the American war it was plainly dis
cerned by the most sagacious of British states
men, THAI our armies, superior as they showed
themselvs in the field must be ultimately una
yaillng against the resources of IA country where
every citizen could WELD musket with good
will against an invader. The result proved the
truth of the prediction; and though we do net,
we have said, consider the tendencies OF these
institutions highly pacific, there is no doubt
that they furnish an impregnable bulwark
against hostile attack -