Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-01-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The SPEAKERs-Mr. Piatt Of the Senate, is
said to be somewhat anti-slavery in his views
Mr.. Wright, of the House, is native of Ireland.
Or 1t is said that the non-conyiction of Baker
has given new life to ruffanism in New York.
o. mandatory has been established in New
York, for the production Of watches entirely of
| American manufacture.
os- ST. Mary's College, a Catholic institution,
near Dayton, Ohio, was destroyed by FIRE on
Thursday last.
CO M;,hael Mccarthy charged with the muir
| der of Timothy Scanlan, has been convicted in
Indiana county of murder in the second degree
| 05- There is no franking privilege in England.
Even the Queen has to pay her penny.
o. The New York Herald makes the losses by
fire in the United States last year sl2 ,oo0,o ,oo0
e- Bills have hecn read in place, in the state
legislature, to incorporate banks in Mercer and
| Crawford counties.
or Beach, of the'New York Sun, the first PEN
ny paper established, invented the first rag
cutting machine in ls2s.
Or Agitation in respect TO the Usury laws has
commenced in earnest in several Legislatures
| Gently convened.
,r- The Corporations of Pennsylvania pay an
annual tax into the State Treasury exceeding six
hundred thousand dollars.
o. Hon. John II. Ber-ien, ex United States
Senator from Georgia. and Attorney General I'M
der jackson, died at Savannah on Tuesday the
sth inst
Or Tie Cincinnati Sun says that such is tie
stagnaton of business in that city that there are
| over ten thousand applications for relief from the
| public charities.
| Or Mr.. Morehead, the new K. n Governor of
Kentucky, says in his message to the Legislature
| lie believes the national men, Of all parties, will
| finally unite to save the Union.
! e5- In case the next Presidency should be
thrown into Congress, and the States should vote
as they stand at present, there would lie ii Dem
ocratic, IL Republican, American. and two tie
o. OF the eighty members to the Pennsylvania
| Democratic State Convention already elected.
seventy-two are reported for Buchanan, five for
Dallas, and three doubtful, on the Presidential
question.
| g5- Isaac Adams, the engineer of the Camden
and Amboy rail road, at the time DIR. Hennekn
caused the terrible accident ON that road, was
tried for mansllughter at Trenton and acquitted.
| % The Canal Board organized at Harris
burg the sth. VIM. Hopkins, Esq, retired,
and Arnold Plumer, Esq, entered upon the du-
ties of the Office. The Board now consists of Col
Thomas III. Forsyth, President COL II. S. Mott
and Arnold Plumer. All are Democrats.
GA depth of $50 feet has been attained in
| the Artesian we'll at New Orleans, and, contrary
to expectation, new layer of sand has been
touched The sand is of greysh color, with but
very tiiling admixture of sea shells. In conse-
queIce of the looseness of the sand in which the
augsrs are now at work, it is found impossible to
penetrate any further, until the pipe has been
! sunk to the bottom of the existing excavation.
e1 A tub of butter. weighing about 200 pounds
was recently discovered several feet beneath the
surface of the earth, at Winsted, Conn. The spot
upon which it was found had been occupied some
twenty years before by country store, and the
supposition is that the butter has remained buried
all tnat time. The cask was partially decayed,
but its contents were sweet, and without any un-
palatable taint or flavor.