The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-12-21
NEWS ITEMS.


H5-Eris. Pa. has theonly custom house
err ct-d BY the United States Government
be our northern lake frontier. 1t cost S29,
600
N0he hundred and twenty-one chill
dren and their teacher found room TO stand
in the big tree, exhibiting in Sacramento,
at once.
RS-Mr. John W. Sharp, the business
manager Of the Cincinnati Enquirer, has
been appointed mail Agent between New
York and San Francisco.
ES-Alate religious writer stigmatizes the
authors OF the yellow covered novels as 'lit-
erary scorpions; who sting virtue to death
with their tales.
Eg-During the past month, property tP
the value of 81, $50, 900 has been destroy
ed by fire in different sections of the Uni
on.
Eg-A report has beenmade in the'South
Carolina Legislature in favor of chartering
all the banks applying.
ES-The bakers of Philadelphia have re.
solved not to bake or serve bread on Sun
day.
Es-At the recent meeting of the Grand
Division of Ohio, it was proposed to hold
another Delegate Temperance Convention,
at Columbus, sometime in the early part OF
January next.
GE-On the 10Th inst. wolf was shot
by Mr.. Thos. S. Austin, of Bellville, Rich
land, County, o., about seven miles west OF
Kenton, in Hardin Co. The carcass meas
ured six feet eight inches, from tip to tip,
and three feet Six and. a half inches high.
Gg-An invoice of splended Turkish goods
has just been received for the Chrystal Pal
ace Exhibition of 1854, valued at $3.50, 900.
These goods will be opened and occupy the
space of goods removed.
A private letter dated Vera Cruz, 9th
says that Santa Anna has been proclaimed
Dictator for ten years, with the consent of
all the principal States and cities, excepting
Orisha, which wanted him declared per-
pe!ual Dictator.
EE~A spatch from Montpelier, Vt, of
the LIST instant says that the bill repeating
the liquor law of the last session had pass
ed to be engrossed in the House.. by thir
teen majority. The Senate is said to be
in favor of the law, with some notifications
RS-A constant stream Of emigration is
pouring into all the more Western States,
and branch off to the territories vet to be
made States. Burlington is one of the
points where the Mississippi is crossed to
reach young Iowa, and the Gazette of that
town says the primitive wagons and teams,
the horses, mules and cattle, the bronzed
and hardy looking men and women, the
swarns of dirty, uncombed children, starl-
inS round in astonishment, remind it of the
romantic tribes of Asiatics that we read Of,
1t resembles the migration of a whole people
in search of more favored region.
PROFESSIONAL STRIKES. Es.-The Norfolk Her
AID states that the NJ. DIS Of that city struck
for higher fees--300 per cent, rise in the
case of visits. The clergy of the rual dis
tricts are the only class of professional gen
tIeman who ought to strike. Many Of them
have large famii ard SMALL salaries, aud
those salaries are doIed out i'll niggaadly
sums, and often not half psid. we don't
kn owhow many of the clergy manage to
keep soul and body together --RicAmond
Dispatch.
elected to the Legislature, being publicly
charged with being an abolitionst, comes
out with card and proposes as a test that
any sentlcman' may make over few smart
negroes to pretty daughter, AMI see if he
won't make love to her.
GEOGRAPHICALLY Government, we be-
Neve, has adyices which show that the to-
t.1 oo.;lr,ot;.,, to tba IT Static r.on, tbo Do,t
Rremenfor the year ending on the 30'h
inst. will reach the enormous figure of 95.-
0O0 souls!
GE~Of 240 convicts confined in the
Tennessee Pcnitentary, 38 were temper
ate before sentence, end 202 Incorporate
and l27 were drunk when they commAted
crime. There are 43 whose fathers were
temperate, 1877 whose fathers were intem-
perate, of whom 70 were common drunkards.
There are who have had n classical edu-
cation, commoa EAg|iSh education l05
who can read and rite, 50 who can read
only and 90 who can neither readinor write
These statistics show very clearly that in
temperance and the want of education are
the Two most fruitful sources of crime.
NG Illc CduStOl iuS ldlluIC vi IuG dtCL-
in Bank is easily explained The Buffalo
and New York City Railroad has floating
debt of $1,000. 900, which it was intended
should be secured by Bonds and Mortgage
on the road, but the pressure of the money
market preven;ed this consumaion; hence
advances to the amount of$G0O, 900 or more
have bees made by the Patchin Bank, un-
der which loa the Bank, collapsed.
The Tribune says: "rhe Road cost about
50, 900, 900, and the indebtedness is about
$25,O90 per mile. There is one favorable
feature in this matter. which is, that the
Road is built in the most thorough manner
abundantly equipped, and is earning pc:
cent on its entire cost, stock and debt. The
receipts last month were $4,000. The
worst, therefore, the creditors can suffer is
the funding of their floating claims into
per cent securities. - Cin Gos
BABIEs.-The San Francisco Journal in
sists that the climate of California is pecu
liary adopted to the cultivation of babies
This has been shown by the rapid increase
of the Juvenile population during the las
two years. Old maids and bachelors an,
getting to be quite out of fashion, and if W.
may believe the Journal are hardly con
sidered to be bona fide members of the hu
man family. 1t Isl curious fact that larg'
proportion of the births are of the femal
sex. 1t is customary to announce these in
ltarestinr events in the neWsnapers and ev