Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-04-11
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at ninety-seven millions of dollars California ST.
SOC 1872, and Australia, AZ. .333, ,430.
DZA complete list ofthe Census returns of
Kansas, shows the total population of the terri
tory to be $500. Ofthese 5.0ss are white males,
4OS foreigners.
O-Gen T. s. Cunningham, of Mercer county,
Pa, long familiar in political circles, and of
those Democrats who voted for the character Of
the United States Bank of Pennsylvania, died re-
Gently at Mercer.
| GrThe Custom House receipts at New York
Boston, and Philadelphia for the first quarter OF
the present year. show falling off OF 4,0e2, ,290,
as compared with the corresponding period oflast
year.
| 1.-THE Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tves has passed to third reading bill prohibit
ing the exclusion Of colored children from any of
tie public schools, an.. the act will probably pass
both branches with slight opposition.
| co-The Maine Law has passed in the New
York Senate, by vo:eo 81 to IL. It has yet to
pass the House in an amended form and this, it
is said, will be accomplished. The prospect
therefore is, that it viii soon be . law.
0J-Neal Dow, the author of the Maine Liquor
Law, has been elected Mayor Of Portland.
G1-The returns from Iowa, as far as received,
indicate the success of the Prohibitory Liquor
Law.
There no less than twelve individuals in the
Tombs of New York. charged either with man
slaughter or murder.
Co The deep Artesian well at Charestown,
after afording transient supply of water. refuses
to yield any more. Major Welton is still employ
ed on it.
the Know Nothing candidate for Governor, has
taken the stump for Wise.
oJOnc Of the last acts of the Emperor Nicholas
swas to present diamond ring to writer named
Rotchod, for pamphlet entitled :. The Truth
About England"
Pinto, who was recently executed at Havana
had private fortune of 1000 He was the
father Of six or seven children, some of very ten
der years.
OuMrs. Cass. wife of the U. s. Minister at
Rome, died suddenly in that city. on the srd of
March.
G5-Tbe Democrats of Tennessee met in Conven-
ton in Nashville, on Tuesday, the 26th ult., and
nominated ASpREw JoHNsos, the present Gov
ernor, for reelection The contest, it is pre-
sumed. will be between him and the Hon. NJ. P.
GENTRY. who has announced hirnselfa candidate.
DTbe New Orleans Picayune, of the 27th
ultimo announces the death of Mrs. Teltha Twiggs,
wife Of Major General Twiggs, Of the United States
army.
eo-Thc manufacture Of naacearoni has been com
menced in this country by Mr. Heeker. Of New
York. It is said to be as good as that made in
Italy.
eo-The Emperor Nicholas, by his will, which
was opened after his death by the present Emper-
or, expresses a wish that the duration of the
mourning on the occasion Ct his death should be
shortened as much possible.
eo-Letters from Berlin state that the Grand
Dukes Michael and Nicholas (brothers of the pre-
sent Emperor of Russia,) left Sevastopol on the
18th inst on their reture home occasioned by Ill
health
The State Grand Council of KNOWN -Nothirgs,
which was in session in Lancaster last week, broke
up on Thursday afternoon in confusion. The
cause of the difficulty is understood to be opposition
TO the proposed open organization Gen. Gamer
on, Ex-Governor johnson, and Gen. Irwin, were
among those who left the Council in disgust at the
proceedings.
eo-The Green Bay Advocate, speaking of the
cold weather, says an Indian was found dead, from
sc the whiskey freezing in his stomach.
e5-Of 64 900 voters in Connecticut, only 5000,
it is stated, are adopted citizens.
oo-In the Gaines case, at New Orleans, new
trial has been refused.
oo-Parson BaowNLow, of the Knoxville (Tenn.J
Wing intimates it as his belief that two-thirds of
the Methodist clergy belong to the Know Nothing
organization. The Parson is. of course, a MEM
Der.
oo-The New Jersey Senate has postponed the
Prohibitory Liquor Law bill, until next session.
eJ-The Mcintyre estate, bequeathed to the city
of GAINESVILLE. Ohio, it is said, amounts to
about $500 ,0O0-the annual proceeds of which.
in interest, rents, &c, are tsbe appropriated to
the support of school for the poor.
0o-A young German has been arrested in New
York, charged with an attempt to burn dwelling,
on which he had effected an insurance for two
hundred dollars
65-Samuel L. NJ. Barlow, Esq, has been ap-
pointed assignee in New Yor k, Of the property
of Page, Bacon & Co., of st. Louis.
DrTHE Lumber going down the Susquehanna
river, this spring. Of greater amount than during
any previous season.
oo-The King of Prussia has given permission to
have the magnificent statue of the late King,