Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-11-16
SUMMARY OF NEW S


triet Court at New York for being engaged in
the slave trade. was found guilty on Friday.
G1-By the Rock Island railroad disaster twelve
persons were killed, five fatally wounded> Seven.
badly scalded, and eleven not dangerously. Of
those killed and wounded fifteen were Pennsyl-
vanians.
oo-The Catholic Church at Oxford, Chenango
| county, n. T., was broken into On Thursday
night, and the silver pix, a vessel cased with
gold, for containing the blessed sacrament, was
stolen, and other outrages committed.
I os-A terrible riot occurred at Williamsburg on
Thursday last. Some FIVE hundred men paraded
the streets beating all the Irishnca in their way,
and finally attacked st. Peters and ST. Ps.ul's
Catholic churches, and many shots were fred
Tie military being ordered out, the rioters dis
peFsed. Oiie man was shot.
g5-We learn from Cincinnati that young Arri-
son. who is accused Of sending the Internal ma
chine to the keeper Of theIIosp pital, last summer
in that city, aud by which, both Allison and his
wife were killed, has been arrested at Muscatine,
Iowa, and is now At Cincinnati, awaiting his
trial.
LAST HONE For THE PBISTER.-The Savannah
NecS SAYS t4ab, previous 10 Tie Geatn OI the rate
Samuel Chapman, editor of the Savannah Jour
nj and Cowiey, few weeks since, that gentle
man purchased "a lot In Laurel Grove Cemetery
to be appropriated especially as place of burial
for printers The purchase was hardly completed
when ne himself Sas called to the mansions of
the blessed, and his body became the first oeeu-
pant of the tomb.
g5-Advices from Acapulco speak Of further re-
volutionary demonstrations, and intirnates that
Santa Anna cannot holl out sixty days longer
An engagement recently took place at Cucuas, in
which the troops Of the Government were put to
fight by body OF the friends of Alvarez, com
manded by Gen. Andrade The former are said
to have lest three hundred in killed and wounded
Santa Anna had retired to Taeubaya
ecs-For the first time for four hundred years a
cross has been publicly erected in the Turkish
capital. 1t was while a funeral mass was read
for Marshal ST. Arnaud.
U=The St. Paul's Church, and much neighbor-
ing property at Kingston, Canada, were destroy
ed by fire on the 10th. Loss 100000.
g1-The steam propeller Mohawk. on her pass
age from Albany to Hartford on Thursday. the
9th inst, was wrecked on Saybrook Bar, at Con
! necticut River She was loaded with corn and
oats below, and with flour on deck. The -four
viii be saved, but the grain will undoubtedly be
total loss.
EJ-one hundred aud one Cinnamon died in
San Francisco during the month of September.
CrTAe Secretary of the Ohio State Board of
Agriculture reports the receipts of the late State
Fair, at Sl4,960.
e1-The Farmers Bank at Half Moon, Saratoga
county, n. Y, has failed.
GA large amount of counterfeit quarter eagles
are in circulation, and SO well executed as to
deceive any one.
Tcs-Miss Martin Parker, of Westmoreland, New
York, recovered a verdict for two thousand five
! hundred dollars against fellow who had slam
dered her, and the young men of Rome gave her
! a gold watch.
/ 0cs- Six journeyrnen tailors, named Patrick
Grainey, Patrick Farley, James Purcell, Thomas
Hagan, AIr. Reynolds and Mr.. Mullen, have just
been found guilty, at Toronto, of conspiracy
against Thomas Hutchson, merchant tailor, who,
it seerls refused to accede to the prices the Jour
i ney men hal fixed. The Court charged the jury
! strongly against the prisoners.
i fs5-The steamer Forester was burned at New
/ Richmond, % miles above Cincinnati, On the
/ night Il tie 18th She is total loss The
steward, ehambermaid and one deck hand, arc
/ supposed to have perishesl in the flames.
/ ca-A Geographic despatch from Chicago states,
that the Merchants and Mechanics of that city,
| the Napersville Bank, and the Union Bank, were
closed on the ifth The Bank Of L gin notes
are also refused.
ga-The City Bank Of Columbus, Ohio, closed
its doors on Friday lest The liabilities are sup
posed to be large. Western money should be
rejected.
Hz-Dr Graham, convicted of manslaughter at
New York, in killing Col Loring, has been sen
fenced to seven years imprisonment at Sing Sing,
in the State prison, being the utmost limit Of the
law for the grade Of the offence
Married.