Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-11-23
SUMMARY OF NEW

e1si-The Legislature of this State viii assemble
in Harrisburg on the first Tuesday in January,
and tie Inauguration Of the Governor viii take
place on the third Tuesday of the same month.
G5-The house of Wm. S. Smith, in the valley
Of Warriors Mark, Huntington county, was
burned on Wednesday of last week, and his
youngest child destroyed IN the flames. The
family were absent at a neighbors house, and had
left the child asleep.
GA movement has been made in New Castle,
Lawrence County, to organize q company for
ernigrating to Kansas, in the Spring. Some
citizens who have returned from an excursion to
that territory, give such glorious accounts Of the
country, that quite a fever has been got up IN
favor of moving thither. They advise all e1ni-
grants. however, not to set out before spring.
C-Hon. James A. Campbell, Of Ohio, has just
returned from Kansas territory, and he confirms
/ the opinion of every sensible northern man that
| it viii undoubtedly free State He Is free
soil Whig- Kansas is nearly three times as large
as Ohio,
ea-FIRE At MoKraosE.-A destructive fire
broke out in Montrose, Susq.ehanna county,
early on Friday mornings 18th inst, which con
suIned nearly half the town. The loss IS estimated
at 100000, partly covered by insurance
05-THE LosT TREAsUEE-We understand that
the treasure (Sl5s ,ooo) shipped by Page, Bacon
/ & Co, on the Yankee Blade, was insured al s17
per ounce SO that the house viii lose only s., ,00o
by the accident. It is thought that the specie
will ,evar 1,s raoovorad
/ C-The number of persons on board the New
Era at the time Of her wreck, nearly all Of whom
were Germans, was 425. The loss Of 40 by
cholera, on the passage, left an aggregate of S85
persons, passengers, officers and crew, when the
vessel struck. The number saved is but 1e3.-
The number Of lives lost IS 222.
y gg-Ffve hundred recruits for the Un.ted States
Army were obtained during the month Of October
just passel-the offers Of 2ss being rejected for
various causes. This result shows the capital
working of the new army pay law, the descrip-
ton of men enlisted under it being much more
satisfactory thad heretofore.
Ga-A letter from San Francisco states t.at an
effort was then m progress, to induce the large
wheat growers of that State to charter clipper
ship, and load her with $4,000 bushels Of wheat
and barley. for New York Many Of the Farmers
had already come into the arrangement, and
agreed to ship about % per cent. Of their crops
Tho freight would be about so cents per bushel
! MoRMoNs IN KANsAs.-A mormon settlement
is being made in Kansas About 2 900 families
go out in charge of Elder Erastus, Snow, one of
! the Twelve to a point about 100 miles west of the
town Of Kansas.
HEAVY BANK RoBBERr.-T -ThefWindharn Bank.
Of WindhaTn, Conn, was robbed on the night Of
the 18th inst, of twenty y-two thousand dollars
This is the most extensive 3epre5ationof tis char
acter that has occurred for a long time.
Ngw LoNDoN, November l9.-Cieorge Bliss.
sheriff, arrested four roBberso Of thc Ninaam Bank
who were going on board tho steamer at Aliens
Point, last night, for New York. He recovered
ala but $4,000.
o5-It is stated that the two American ships
that have been seized at Barraeoa, in the Island
of Cuba, were loaded with arms and munitions =
war It has occasioned great excitement at Ha-
tanI. Some alleged that the arms were sent by
Hngfsh abolitionsts to theslavea to prepare thern
for insurrecton; Others, that It was the fbusters
arfning the revoIutionists.
SLAVES L1BgRA7'HD.- ifty-tllree ,nanulnitted
slaves arrived at Beaver on Saturday, the 1lth
inst, on their way to a tract of land. purchased
as a home for them, in Mercer County. They
had belonged to ]. J. Everett, Of Amherst county,
Virginia, who recently died, leaving them. by viii
their freedom, and $1,000 each to buy land. lie
left money, also, to be used in buying up and
setting free their immediate relatives whowere in
possession of other masters. His executors were
accompanying them to the lands purchased for
them, which lies a few miles north Of Mercer
Considerable excitement was created BY their ar
rival.
e5-several persons died very suddenly insalis-
bury, IId last week, Immediately after indulging
freely in eating oysters. The symptoms are eaid
to have been those Of Asiatic cholera
Oa-A despatch from Cincinnati says that. on
the 18th, the tower Of the new sCongregationalist
Church, in the course of erection at New London.
Butler county, fell upon the worknlen and Others,
and caused laDentabIe loss of life, besides woun-
dine ten ;,ersons Robert Jones and n. Jones
were killed, ana ten others were crushed by the
falling of tirnbers, and ole two it thought,
could not recover Among the wounded is John
C. Jones, wealthy Welchman, wilo IS generally
known among his countrymen throughout the
country.
| G5-A Mexican, caught running away with a
gro woman, was tried by jury at Goliad, Texas,
and sentenced to one hundred and fifty lashes, and