Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-05-02
Gitq Correspondence.
From Philadelphia.
Correspondence etrme Democrat & sentind

PHILADELPHIA, April %, 1855.
The 9Th Anniversary of the battle of Cerro Cor
do was appropriately celebrated by tho returned
volunteers of the Mexican war, by dedicating the
new Scott Legion Monument, erected by the State
in Glenwood Cernetry, to mark the last resting
place of number of their gallant companions who
have already shuffed off this mortal coil, and
where they, too, viii find their last earthly resting
place. About one hundred and fifty of them were
in the procession, most of them still quite youth
full in their appearance, but deeply tinged with the
bronze hue Of Mexican sun. They were accom-
panied by large military escort OF our volunteer
companies, forming very handsome display, and
DR.. Joel B. Sutherland delivered an appropriate
and eloquent grafton at the Genetry-
The u S. Sloop-of-war st. Louis, commanded
by Captain Ingraham, who warmly lauded
for his brave conduct in reference to Kozsta,
few wears snce is daily expected at this port for
the purpose of being reftted. The Captain is one
of the noblest ornaments of the Navy, and it is
pity it does not contain more of the same sort.
Considerable difficulty is found to obtain a full
crew for the ships setting out from this port for
the Polar region for the relief of DR.. Kane, and
fine chance is thus open for young men who want
a NICE or rather, an ice birth. Just now, as the
thermometer has by some strange freak found Its
way up above so degrees, there is something rather
refreshing in the idea of GOODNESS, and the journey
does not wear so terrible an aspect.
AT the hearing of I. Bucknell, one of the par
fjes charged with violating the neutrality by en-
deavoring to enlist men for the British service in
the Crimea, and who issupposed to be captain
in the British army, witness from New York
testified that he keeps an intelligence Office in that
city, and was requested by the defendant to visit
a Sir Joseph Howe, at Delmonico's hotel, who APP
pears to have been the director of the whole affair.
Sir Joseph endeavored to make arrangements with
him to procure from three to FIVE thousand men to
be shipped to Nova Scotia under the guise of Ia
borers and afterwards to be enlisted and sent to
the Crimea. This Sir Joseph Howe is probably a
descendant of the General Howe who commanded
the British Army of Invasion in the days of the
Revolution, and it is pity he too has not been
arrested and committed for trial with his confede
rates. who superintended the details of the scheme.
The whole project grossly illegal and auda-
cious one. If, during the Mexican war, any Off
GERS of the United States Army had opened re-
cruiting offices in England, we should never had
heard the last of it, and they would have been
COMMITTED to transportation to one of her penal
colonies
a gentleman from Virginia was robbed of $1,000
by a fat, ugly. jet black colored woman with whom
he had been having some agreeable conversation,
in alley, in the negro quarter of the city. He
made complaint to the police, one of whom for
tunately arrested the fair charmer, who had proved
so attractive to him, and nearly all the money was
in her possession and restored to him.
New railroad arrangements have recently been
effected here. by which on and after the first Mon
day Of May, passengers leaving the city at o.
clock A. NJ, by the Reading Railroad Depot, will
arrive at Niagara Falls the same evening, before
I04 P. NJ. at which time train will leave for
Detroit, and arrive there at 81 O'Clock the next
inorning. By this arrangement, we are brought
within 141 hours travel of Niagara, "a hours of
Detroit, and "a hours of Chicago.
A child about eighteen months old, while play
ing in the streets, was over by dirt cart and
Immediately killed. The Coroner's Jury returned
verdict of accidental death, and the driver who
had been arrested was therefore discharged.
gentleman down town while digging in his
yard struck upon a leaden pipe about five inches
IN diameter. Its course was traced and found to
viously unknown by the owner of the property.
where dilapidated desk, crucible, finger ring
ring-bolt secured to the wall, and a number of
human bones We're found. The quid suncs have
so far failed to solve the mystery.
Aquestion is pending in the yearly meeting of
the Orthodox Friends of Quakers, which it is
feared viii have an almost inevitable tendency to
iead to another separation or division of the So
ciety. lhe contending parties are known re-
spectively as the Guornyites and the Wilburites.
Great numbers of them have assembled here from
the country and our streets full of broad bris
and plain bonnets surmounting countenances
looking unusually dismal and solemn.
Our markets have not recently undergone any
important change Beef cattle sell at the exhorbi
tant rate of from s104 to $I3. Flour commands
sl0,75 to sll per barrel; Rye Flour, 81 90; Corn
Meal, S4,62; Wheat sells for from $2, go to s2 75
Rye, SI,61; Corn, 10sa110c.; Oats, esa7oc.
Truly, Yours. 90
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