Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-01-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

at Harrisburg, on Monday the 2lst inst
o. Thackeray commences course of lectures
at Philadelphia on the I'd of next month.
eo- The reported death of the wife of the late
Louis Philippe is contradicted she is recovering.
gSs- Such is the demand for ships in Baltimore
that there is not an unemployed hip in port
o. The Grand Division Of the Sons of Tenn
perence for the District of Columbia has dissolved
its organization
gu- The indianapolis Sentinel estimates that
over one hundred thousand hogs win be packed
at that place this season.
o. James Buchanan is said to be sixty four
years old. The Washington Star says ne was
born on the 18th of April, 1871.
vs- The Calais (Me.) Advertiser says that there
is more lumber of all kinds the wharves of that
city than has been seen for Is years.
o. The taxes of New York city for next year
will be but trile below 81 900 ,OO0-much more
than the whole State tax of Pennsylvania.
o. Bears are very plenty in some of the north
ern counties of this State this season. Two big
fat fellows were killed in Potter county last week.
o. The Secretary of the Interior has decided
that the volunteers who were engaged in the re-
moval of the Cherokee Indians are entitled to
bounty lands.
TAsMANIA-Queen Victoria has acceeded TO
the request of the colony of Van Deman's Land
to change the name of that island and colony TO
Tasmania.
eo- The semi annual report of the New Orleans
chief of police shows that in six months nearly
one-twelfth of the entire population of the city
has been placed under arrest.
letters to Washington, in which he mentions that
the British Ministry expect Mr.. Champion viii
be dismissed by this Government.
o. train of seventy-three cars of live hogs
recently passed over the Eaton and Hamilton
Railroad to Cincinnati. There were between four
and five thousand hogs, valued at $4,000.
es- Crowds of people are daily vending their
way into the territory of Kansas, and it is be
lieved that its population is now nearly 10000,
and will be 10000 or 1oO, 900 by spring.
ao- The name Republican has become so bad
since the party of reasonable proclvites adopted
it that the Rock Island (Illinois) Republican, a
staunch Democratic sheet, has taken the name of
Aygus.
oa-Alvarez has resigned the presidency of Mex
leo and been succeeded by General Comonfort. A
new ministry has been formed, and affairs look a
little more promising for that unfortunate repub
lie.
ez- 1t must be REMEMBERED by letter writers,
that no letters be sent through the mails,
unless they are pre- paid by stamps. Every per-
son, then, should take care to provide himself
with stamps.
0c- Preparing in time-It is said that the
French making preparations for the accfn-
mediation OF the expected heir to the Crowd
Queer people, the French. Suppose it should
happen to be girl.
OD- Col. Cunning, U. S. Superintendent of Indian
Affairs, St. Louis, has returned to Council Bluffs,
after an absence of several months, having formed
treaties with the Black Feet, Nez Perces, and one
or two other tribes of Indians.
Or Anthony E. Drane, keeper of the State Ar
senai at Harrisburg, has been charged with taking
arms from the Arsenal and selling them Il is
thought he has accomplices in Philadelphia, and
that the arms are sold to filbusters for Nisar-
aqua.
o.. Owing to the withdrawal of the transpor-
tation companies from our main line of public
works. its earnings for the year just ended will be
900 short of the year previous; but the ear
nings of all the public works of the State for the
year will nevertheless exceed those of the previous
year by $37, 900.
A CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR WITHDRAwx.-
VIM. Montgomery, Esq. of Washington county,
who has been urged by his friends for the office
of q. S. Senator, and for whom the members of
that county were instructed, by public meeting,
to vote, publishes letter, withdrawing his name
from the list of candidates
MANUFACTURE OF WINE IN GEoRGIA-The
Southern Cutivator states that the attempt to
manufacture wine from native grape has been
successfully tried by Mr.. A. Leary, of Monroe
county, Georgia. The grape is known as tie
" Warrcnton." and the produce is at the rate Of
eight hundred gallons per acre.
gD- At Know Nothing Convention held in the
Thirteenth Congressional District of New York,
where seventy-fve Councils were represented, a
resolution adopted in favor of postpsnipg the
nomination of President and Vice President to a
later period than the 22d os February. The indi-
cations are that the Convention will be postponed
to some time in June.
o. The Tribune says George Law spent $10,-
900 to carry New York State for the Know-Noth-
ings at the late election. The Argus says if he
has SO much spare cash, he had better come to
got to pay, when he left there few years ago.
So! Sc Murder will outi"
The GREAT OPEN SEA-Dr Kama states that