Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1853-09-02
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fill the vacancy occasioned by the recent demise
of JAS D. Clarke, the late incumbent.
g~The statement which has appeared in the
papers to the effect that an order had been receiv
ed prohibiting any further enlistment of persons
not native Americans into the marine or naval
service is without foundation There has been no
change whatever in the regulations upon this
subject. Enlistments take place every day of
persons Of foreign birth or parentage.
Cz-Thc snow at Rochester, y Y, ON the 7th
inst, was forty inches in depth on a level, and
still continued to fall. Several vessels have been
wrecked on Lake Ontario during the storm, and
the loss of property viii be large.
G5-The st. Louis Democrat of the 9th ult,
says that ''about thirty of the recent emigrants
to Kansas returned yesterday evening, en- route
for home. They are originally from Massachu-
setts but had reached Kansas too late cultivate
crops and as provisions very high, and
very scarce they bave determined to return to the
East, believing that they viii lie more comfort
able in their old homes than in the new territory,
at least for the present"
G5-The new steamer Chancellor, bound for
New Orleans, sunk near Cairo on the Sth inst
She is total loss.
GJ-The Ashland Cotton Factory at Gwynn's
Falls, near Weatheredville, Balti1nore co., Md,
belonging to a company, Of which Thomas G..
Thomas is President was entirely DESTROYED bv
fire on the morning of the 7th inst The loss is
estimated at $50 600, and is fully covered by in
surance. \ large number of hands have been
thrown out Of employment by the destruction of
this factory.
GCS-The boiler of the Ames' Manufacturing
Company, at Chickopoe, Mass, exploded on the
7th inst. The engineer \. B. Hoyt, was Instantly
killed, and Mr.. Lumnas, nachinist. was dread
fully injured, The explosion is attributed 10
lack of water in the boiler.
g5-A fire occurred. at Columbia S c.. on the
night of'the 9th inst, destroying an entire block
on the main street, including Motifs drug store
Springer's grocery store, the Exchange Rcstaur-
ant Crawforl's clothing store, Caroline Hail. and
Squiers & Bowers furniture stores, numerous Of
fees, Comhe's Express, the Caroliajan newspaper
| and job printing Office, and Boatwright & Co.'S
Carriage Repository. The stock was saved from
the latter establishment. The Carolinian was
owned by R. NJ. Gibbs s. Co., whose loss is about
i =
losses have not been ascortained.
! aG65-Extensjve forgcrics amounting in all to
$50 900 have recently been discovered. in Bati-
more. They were perpetrated by a house-car-
penter doing an extensive business 4 number
of buildings put up by him during the last year,
including large female seminary, have been
seized under the lien law by parties having claims
for materials furnished.
Ga-H. P. McGirak, the Teller of the Ocean
Bank, Bergen, \. j, who is charged with having
enbezzed $50, 600 in October last, was arrested at
Columbia, s. c., on Thursday last, and committed
| to await requsition from the Executive of New
jersey.
Io-The official vote for Governor. in the State
of New York, for Governor gives Clark 500 of a
plurality over Seymour.
GJ-The steamer Ellen Gibson, it is presumed,
foundered her passage from Boston to St
Johns All dands, it is believed, pershed.
l@5-The Bellfontaine Republican says the IIoos-
iers on the Wabash turn their .'agyshakes'' to
some account. They climb into the top Of a
''sheI-bark'' just as the chill comes on, and by
the time the personal earthquake" leaves them
there's not hickory nut left on the tree.
GG-The snow throughout the greater part of
/ New York State ranges from twenty four to forty
inches in depth.
0J-Thc Treasurer Of Holmes county, Ohio has
absconded with about $4,000 of the peoples
/ cash Such absquatulations seem to be the order
Of the day.
&z-James c. Preston, postmaster at Haskins-
vile, n. Y, was arrested at Cleveland last week
for passing counterfeit 5's on the Merchants and
Mechanics Bank of Troy.
O~The wife of Mr.. Joseph T. Little, of Ar
mold, Me-, recently made her husband present
of three LitJes at one birth.
GS-Grecn, the Chicago banker, charged with
poisoning his wife, has had a true bill found
against him for murder.
C5At the close Of the current year, it is stated,
the treasury of the State Of Missouri viii have on
hand the handsame surgus sum of S4OO, ,OoO
C-When a bank suspends IN Australia, they
take the president to a neighboring tree and serve
him in the same manner. A simple remedy, but
very etticacous.
1s5-Great numbers of monkeys are said to be
dying Of cholera in the woods near Trinidad de
Cuba. Hundreds may be seen lying dead on the
ground, where the have fallen from the trees
C-Abraham J, Ackernan war arrested in
New York, on Tuesday last, charged with swim
ding to the amount Of $1,000 from the Ohio
Life and Trust Co. he was clerk of the Com
pany.
G5-The freight train from Boston, on the Nor