Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-12-07
SUM MARY OF. NEW S.

Commonwealth lie served for several years as
Clerk of the Senate. 81
GA New York stock broker has been arrested
on a chargeof defrauding the Lafayette Mineral
Company IN Pennsylvania, to the amount Of
SIS, 900, IN their bonds.
GrMercer county has no representative proper
in the House of Representatives.
05-The Washington National Monument is
progressing slowly, only twelve men being at
work on it. Gause---aSaht of funds. igs saa
e5-The National oonvention of Know Moth
ings are to meet in Philadeiphia city next May,
the anniversary of the Native riots, for the pur-
pose Of nominating President.
eaHenry A. Wise, (Dem. }, has been nominat-
ed for Governor Of Virginia sa fa
e5-A large public meeting was held at Cincin-
natl on the I'd inst, to take measures to resist
the payment Of unjust taxes assessed by the State
Auditor.
e5-By the arrival of the Black Warrior, we
learn, that cargo of negroes had been landed
from a Spanish vessel ON the south side of the
Island of Cuba.
GsyrThe Frontier Flour Mills, at Black Rock
were totally destroyed by FIRE on the night of the
Ist inst. with all their contents, including l5oeQ
bushels of grain, and 8 goo bbIs. of f1our.-The
propeller international, lying at the dock, took
fire and was burned to the waters edge.-The
mills were fully insured
e5-The citizens of Boston have contributed
s27oso9o the present year for public charities 3
O..
mont Legislature for the Office of Brigadier Gene
raj in the militia of that State. W
0e-The two last steamers from California,
brought in gold an aggregate of s2,sO5, ,0oo.
GJ-on the night of Wednesday last, the Office
of the Georgia Railroad Depot, at Augusta, was
broken into and robbed of $4,000 in cash, and
several thousand dollars in bank notes. ei
GLBy a recent order from Washington the en-
listment of foreigners in-the Marine corps, now
stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard, is to
cease. 1t is believed that the same order has
been sent to, all our military posts
ea-The Judge of Probate at Cincinnati, during
the last eleven months, issued $3.50 marriage IL
censes. making an. average of ,2a7 per month
oo-The Supreme Court Of, the United States
organized at Washington or Monday.
to-The steamer Sally West recently struck a
snag in the Mississippi. and sunk
~ The Black. Warrior, on her way from New
Orleans, has 81 300 in specie The Nautilus IS
announced at New Orleans from. Brazos with
$3.50 in specie.
eS-The entire vote of California at the recent
election, was s4,6o4.
e0-Boston has just sent back $50 paupers from
the different Institutions of the State All but
% return of their own free Will, the balance have
been sentenced to be returned. One of those who
goes back is an old man who has been in this
country for thirty-six years, and who has raised
family and buried them all in America.
OS-Tbe New Orleans Della has received tidings
of the death of Mr.. R. R. Cation, of Virginia, y
S. consul a. Mazatlan.
cs-Gen Paez, ex-President of Venezuela, has
returned to New Orleans from a visit to SAINTS
Anna
CrJohn L. Norris has been convicted of rrurl
er in the second. degree, in St Mary's county.
Nd, for killing his slave, and sentenced TO thS
penitentiary for five years and seven months
eo-The prospects, it is said. are that Kenneth
Raynor, Of North Carolina. will be the Know
Nothing candidate for the Presidency.
lrTJohn Mitchell has written. a letter to a
Know Nothing acquaintance in which he gives il
as bis opinion that our naturalization laws re
quire change, but at the same time he de-
noumoes the proposition TO prevent naturahzed
citizens from holding Office.
/ 0o-Thc schooner Chas. Edmondston, of Charles
ton, johnson, master, sailed from Brandywine
Del, on the 2sd of August last, For Santa Cruz
since which no tidings have been heard of her.
It IS feared she may have been lost in the heay,
gale of last September.
ez-The revenue of the Island of Cuba for th'
past month has increased ,s27 over that of th
same period. lastsyear.
eJ-Ihe Natchez papers publish rumor tha
the National Council of Know-Nothings at Gin
einnati. have nominated Millard Fillmore Il
President. a aie
| trJMrs Barnett an actress at the People,
Theatre in ST. Louis, had two of her ribs broken
and it is feared that her skull was fractured, b
the falling on her of scene, while performing a
the Theatre on the night of the 21st ult.
Loss OF SrEcIE.-On the I'd ult., boat tina
was transporting specie board the Englis
steamer off Vera Cruz, was capsized, with the los
of $4,000
| / CoTToN.-During the forty-eight hours el.din
Nov. 25th, upwards of IL 900 bales of cotton ar
rived at New Orleans. .taless s& sas s. u 81.
CA letter from London to the New Yorl
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