Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-02-03
NEWS AND MISCELLANY.


BJ The Pennsylvania Senate has passed the
bill consolidating Philadelphia and districts
u The rumour that Mr.. Soule had fought an
other duel at Madrid and been killed is contra
dicted.
u The Pennsylvania railroad is now compile
ted over the mountains. In few days the
trains win be running through from Philadelphia
to Pittsburgh in about u hours.
1--WE observe by the last * Alieghanian, y
that Jonathan OIdbuck, Esq, one of our most
ingenious citizens, and a candidate for Congress,
received severe blow from a brick last week
the brick is supposed to have been made of the
celebrated White clay; Mr.. Oldbuck is said to
suffer excrnciatlng pain from his wound this
fact may perhaps account for the howls ef rage
which this week interrupt the dulcet music of
the '-organ, on which instrument Mr.. 0ldbuck
is known to be the principal performer.
D- The PlliIadclphia papers claim that the
next State Fair shall be held in Philadelphia
IL Collector Redfeld's nomination was voted
against by Senator's Badger, benjamin, Bell, Dix
on, Dawson, Toombs, Jones and Thompson, of
KY. all wings. Senators Seward and Fish, wings
both spoke in favor of the nomination.
HIGH PRICE OF WooD.-Thc Philadelphia pa
pers state that wood is selling in that city at pr
ces ranging from seven and half to ten dollars
per cord.
GFWhile the g organ" is on the subject of
definitions, perhaps they could explain what
manner Of '.Whis," he is who will agree to stick
TO his party, provided that hc receives Z. $500 in
cash z" s- -.-s ..sr.-- -...
u Edgar COwan, Esq, of Groensburgh, is
spoken ofin some ofthe papers as Whig candi-
date for Governor.
u Patrick 0 Donohoe, one Of the Irish rebels
who was transported to Van Diernan' S Land, by
the British Government, in 1913, for participa-
ting in the attempted rebellion, died on Saturday
last in Brooklyn, of severe form of dysentery.
1--we have not shown the White feathers
-fNeghanian.
You show the mark of the beast plainly enough.
Do not skulk Ike coward, Mr.. Oldbuck, come
out Of your den, and We viii throw bricks with
you, until you VIII not have even one pin left to
stand upon.
IA new whig paper styled the Chronicle,
edited By John II. Filler, Esq, has been started
in Bedford.
u We had fourteen presidents in ffty-sevcn
years. The average length Of the presidential
term, therefore, is four years and twenty five days
FTThc PRESIDENT Message has been far more
extensively copied and discussed in the English
papers, this year, than ever before.
u The names of the Erie rioters, who sent
their strong women, - with axes and
torches, TO cut and burn down the railroad bridg-
es, should be asccrtained and published for the
benefit ofposterity.
GL-Ne learn that Col. John Piper, was allow
ed last week, to leave this place without being
arrested; he nothaying libelled or slandered any
of our citizens. aa-
~ It's said that the fishing difficulty is now
settled, and that the terms will soon be made
known at Washington.
u OF the 23l, ,78l soldiers who participated
in the revolutionary war, less than 100 are now
alive.
II Within about six weeks. says late Cali
fornia paper, from fifty to sixty murders have
been committed in California, and not one Of the
offenders have been punished.
Ut Counterfeit Post Office envelopes are in
circulation. y very small business, but look out
for them.
'G-5-The 'Alleghanan" thinks that we are Col
Piper's organ; as you acknowledge that You
pay the Piper" We viii have to consider you as
the Col. s yinaneial organ. .'
~ Four more of the Wheeling iron furnaces
have resumed operations.
u Never attempt to mend joke after it is
cracked y
u The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
that the custom house at st. Louis he built of
marble.
u The Theological Seminary, in Allegheny
city, Pa, was destroyed by fire. on Monday
evening. The fire is supposed to have been. COM
municated to the building from a stove-pipe.
Allthe efforts made to save it were in vain
The library Of the Seminary was also destroyed,
and all the students lost something, books, clo-
thing, &c. The Seminary belonged to the Pres
byter1an Church. .-.-s{ a.s -----
L1-GETTING WoRsE.-We are sorry to say
that Mr.. Oldbuck, whose wound we have already
noticed, ''is getting no better fast - his malady
has assumed singular character-at the very
sight, or mention of anything JThie, he is sure
to go off in commissions.
1t has been suggested, if he do not soon i'm
prove, to try Homeopathy, and hit him with an
other brick; care must be taken, however: if he
is hit with another brick Ike the last, he viii 90
q clean daft 81. Ais9
: [C1r An immense Catholic Cathedral, the lar
gest in America, is to be erected in New York
next spring. Its length is to be $50 feet. and