Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-12-21
SUM M AIRY OF NEW S.

en- of in connection with the ONCE Oh AuJu'aii'
General, under Judge Pollock.
r|Col. John NJ Sullivan, of Butler county,
has received the appointment of Deputy Secretary
of State from Judge Pollock. The appointment
is said to be good one by those who ought to
know.
sGIrEon. E. Watts, of Carlisle, is spoken OF
for the Attorney Gcneralship.
e9-Thc Crane Iron Works in Lehigh county
have reduced the pay of their hands ten per cent,
and hove also stopped working several ore beds.
Ii is said they are driving a profitable business
but the pay is railroad bonds and not money.
gFThe House of Refuge of Western Pennsyl-
.yaIlia was dedicated on the 18th inst Judge
Wilkins delivered an interesting inaugural ad-
dress on the occasion
e5-The printers of Easton celebrate the birth
day of Franklin by supper.
Cz-John Staub, of Silver Spring, Cumberland
county, Pa, was killed by falling tree Mon
oay last.
GI-Major Klotz, of Maunch Chunk while on
bis way to Kansas territoiy, was robbed Of 500
in rnoYey and 5000 in drafts, on board the STERN
er Ednburg, at St. Louis.
ez-The Hon Sam. Houston was baptsed by
immersion, at Independence, in Texas, on the
oath ult, and joined the Baptist Church.
.o5-The Washington Star says it is understood
in that city, that Mr.. Buchanan will not return
from England until August
a-The Board of Directors of the New York
and Erie Railroad have reduced the wages Of their
duction.
GA new pistol has been patented by Messrs.
Peak and Grilles. of New Hayen! Connecticut,
which discharges twenty-one shots in the same
time Colts can six.
oa-The puplic printing of the United States
for the last fiscal year cost s544,944, Of which
! $182, ,4O7 was for the Senate; $321,516 for the
House, and $40, ,444 for the Departments.
05-The United States branch mint at tCharlotte,
North Carolina, was on fire on the 9TH inst.-The
fire. however, was discovered before it had made
much progress, and by the active ,exertions Of
those who were early at the place, was extin-
guisheA before it had done any serious damage
| es-According to the census, there are s47 ,445
holders of slaves in the United States Among
them are two who hold over a thousand each /;
nine who hold $50; ffty-six who hold 400; and
one hundred and eighty seven who hold 25o-
ey-The Hon. Clinton Roozevelt has sailed from
New York to hep The Russians. He is said to
be possessed of information of late great dis
covery and improvement in bomb shells and other
material of war, which viii render them marvel
lousy destructive. The celebrated Lancaster
guns will find their match.
es-Later advices from the Sandwich Islands
announce that the Islands desire to come into the
Union as State, but not rs j Territory.
o5-The whole number of paupers in the United
States, supported in whole or in part by public
funds, within the year ending June i, 1858, was
1884, ,972. The whole number of paupers ON june
/ /, 1850, was so 1928, and the total annual ex-
pense was e. .954 ,so6.
e5-Navigation upon the Illinois, Upper Missis-
sppi and Missouri Rivers, has been closed for the
season, and nearIyl all the boats withdrawn
from that trade.
0o-Wm. A. d. Pace, printer, said to be the
fastest compositor in the United States, died at
New Orleans, on the 4th inst.
0z-The Collins Steamships are, for the future,
to leave on Wednesdays, commencing with the
Pacific on the a7th inst.
es-The Legislature of Missouri meets on Christ
mas day.
05-There are 1s5 Sunday Schools in New York
under the supervision of the American Sunday
School Union.
05-The weaithiest citizen of Louisville is Hon.
James Guthrie, Secretary of the Treasury His
property in cne district of the city is taxed at
S6o1 ,2o5.
1.-THE total exports of specie from New York
last week, amounted to only Ss6,21s.
1.-THE depot of the Boston and Maine Rail
road, at Lawrence, was destroyed by fire on Fri
day night
GTA school for colored children has just beer
established at San Francisco.
i 05-Com. Perry, United States Navy, arrived Al
the Hague previous to the 10th ult.
G-At Louisville, this season, 1s0,929 hog
have been killed.
Go-There are fourteen candidates for U. S
Senator in Indiana, and one only to be elected
1.-THE British Journals still complain of {
want of surgeons for the army A is men
toned of one surgeon with two hundred and fifty
patients
e5-Letters from Sevastopol state that Admira
Naehinoh, who had been wounded, and whosP
death was erroneously reported in some despatch
es, had recovered, and was taking an active part
in the defence of the place
GA letter from st. Petersburg, published in
Vienna, states that the nobility there did not be-
leve the reports of the Russian generals; and al
ways waited for other accounts. An attempt tC
get up patriotic subscription for the wounded
soldiers at Sevastopol had failed.