The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-01-20
NUMBER IL.
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

EzAsharflSon hlnanS LETT baltimore few
years ego, poor boy, but with an improved
mind, acquired at a country school. with geni
us, ambition and enterprise. He worked in Eu-
rope TO the head of the machinists and engi-
| neers, and became leading contractor on the
| great railroad between Moscow and St Peters
| burg, 400 miles long. Heiaade over s., 600 OOo
| On his return TO Paris he married n talented
amiable and beautiful lady, and will soon build
cage Tor her, in the shape of a villa and a park
of three acres, beautifully ornamented, where
rich and poor may feast their eyes on indigenous
plants and rare exotics. He goes again to Rus
sia to fill contract With the Emperor on pub
nc works, by which he will bring $500 600 in
gold for his mental labors.
sa.A curious case OF somnambulism is re.
corded IN the Chillicothe Gazette. A daughter
OF Mr. Thomas Kane arose from her sleep, and
IN her night clothes, walked four miles up the
Sclota river, waded into the stream and swan
across deep part, and was found by an ssearIy
riser sitting on the bank of the river-asleepI
Remarkable enough, as the girl was only Is
years old, and couldn't swim when awakei And
yet, they say this midnight tour en- chenise didn't
hurt her q bit.
ssa@The California block of marble destined
for the Washington monument, was, it will be
reeollected, just after it had been completed,
destroyed in the Sacramento IRE We learn
from the California papers that a new block,
four feet long by two deep, has been prepared,
| at cost of $4,000, and viii be forwarded i'm.
mediately to Washington.
srapMr. Meagher, in the course of n sneech
recently delivered at Cincinnati made this
statement =
! 81 did not regain my freedom to forget others.
Suffice it to say, that if they are not soon a
mongst you as free as am, it is not my fault,
nor the fault of those who may assist them. but
their own. Measures have been taken. and
means afforded, and l trust that before long we
shall hear that another ship, bearing another
Irish REBEL has left that shore, and left it under
that flag of the five stars beneath which found
an asylum in this land.''
nsa.The Paris correspondent of the New
York Commercial Advertiser corroborates the
, statement made by others, that the match be-
tween the Emperor Napoleon and the Princess
Vasa was broken off, on account of the reports
that had reached her OF the Righteousness Of
Louis Napoleon.
BI@A contemporary, in speaking ofthe Jaw
ful waste Of twenty-five casks of LIQUOR pour
ed upon the ground in Maine remarks that such
an amount of liquor properly distributed"
would have carried the primary election in two
or three wards of New York city.
Cabinet speculations still go on Mr.. Hunter
of Virginia, seems to be settled on by public o.
pinion, at least; Little confidence is to be pla-
cedin such guessing.
EaESome wags in Wilmington got up sub
scription for the burial of Mr.. Oldyear, who it
was alledged, died on Friday night last Seve-
raj benevolent gentlemen subscribed dollar
each.
sGLThe marriage of the Princess Vasa, (ths
supposed bride of Louis Napoleon with Prince
Albert of Saxony, is said TO have been determin-
ed upon. The Prince has gone to Prague, where
the tiancaieles are to take place.
Col. WILSON McCANpLEss.-That sterling,
able and influential paper, the Clarion Democrat,
eCol ~
as the person to fill place in Gen. Pierce's Cab
met in case James Buchanan will not accept
Col. McCandless viii honorably acquit himself
in any place in the Cabinet that the President
may fit TO call him to-"
An EXTRAORDINARY LAMP.-Among the list
of late English patents, is one taken out by Mr.
L. Whele, for candle lamp of very novel char
acter The lamp has dial clock face, and.
the candle burns, the handle marks the hours
and minutes correctly, and hammer strikes
the time. As a chamber-light for sick room,
it marks the time, and can be set to strike at
any given period, when the patient requires at
tention.
PRESIDENTIAL ELEcTroS-We have now the
full official vote of all the States except FIVE, viz:
Virginia, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Cali
fornia. OF Virginia only five counties
official; and fifteen in Missouri are yet to bs
heard from. The whole foot up as follows:
Pierce ,547, ,2cS; Scott, 1884, ,827: Hale, 1867
69S; Pierce's majority over Scott 2l2, ,3Sl.
VERY LITERAL-In a murder trial, lately, an
Irishman was asked by the Judge if he saw the
deceased dancing at certain ball, to which the
witness replied, No, by me sowl, it is more
than he or any deceased man could dO.''
COL KING.-Wm. II. KING has made his Will
He was born in 1856; owns 1000 acres of land
in one body in Dallas county, Alabama, and up
wards of 100 slaves His entire estate is worth
about S150,000.
EEs@ We notice that number of Democratic
papers speak favorably of Hon. john L. DAw-
SON, Nj. c. from Fayette county, Penna., in con-
nection with place in the Cabinet of General
PIERCE.
sea. As far ascertaiued the Democratic
majority for Governor of Louisiana is 1910.
The Senate stands IL Democrats to Wings
and the House 35 Democrats to IL Wings.
Ey- "Ma," said a little girl, who had just
comn cnced her lessons in geography, 'twhere
shall / find the state of Matrimony Z" ssOh,"
| replied the mother, fyou viii find it TO be one
| of the United States
| eGF- The San Antonio (Texas) Ledger says
| that the ferryman at the Seguin crossing on the
Guadalupe river, in one day killed over thirteen
| hundred rats, and adds These undermining
creatures having aggregated in an immense
body, are travelling westward. Indiscriminate-
/ ly they attack everything of vegetable nature
| on their route Many theories are suggested
for their emigration. We have heard Of ne
plausible one