Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-04-23
SUM MARY OF NE IS.

The Democrats of Westn1oreland nominate
county ticket on the 18th of June.
The new State Treasurer, Henry s. Magraw,
Esq, will enter upon the duties of his Office on
the 1st of May.
Last year the State of Ohio sent to the New
York market 4O, 900 head of cattle; Illinois over
$4,000; Kentucky 10, 500, and Indiana 9oo0.-
Preparations are making in England to cee-
brate with great pomp the conclusion of the Rus
sian war.
In Trenton, N J., the Democrats elected their
Mayor by 23O majority. on the 14th. There is a
tie in the councils.
The Democrats have elected a mayor in Annap-
oils, Nd, by six majority decided gain over
the vote of last year.
In Chicago, on the 4th, nine thousand passen-
gers arrived by the Michigan Central and South
ern Railroads.
There are now one hundred and thirty-thr2e
inmates in the Pennsylvania institution for the
instruction of the Blind.
The bill granting writs of error in criminal ca
ses has passed the Legislature, as amended by the
committee of conference.
Land S now selling on the Guadalupe river in
Texas, at $40 per acre. A few years ago it could
be bought for sir bits.
The Daily Czeauelander says the Cleaveland
and Mahoning Railroad will be in running order
from that city to Warren, by the 18th of June.
Senato Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, is spoken of
Al r.. ,o{iof for
the Vice Presidency.
John M'Closkey has been appointed postmas-
ter at Port Perry, Allegheny county, vice William
Rupp resigned.
The Canadian Parliament has refused. by one
majority, to pass prohibitory liquor law.
The Senate have rejected the bill to increase the
feeSof Justices, 13 to 15-and refused to consider
that to reduce their own pay, to %,
The Governor has vetoed bill relative to Kit
tanning boro., because the courts have power to
grant what it confers.
The New Libel Law has passed the House. 1t
makes the truth good defence, in all such prose-
cutions.
Last Monday the bids for carrying the mails in
Pennsylvania were opened. 1t will be several
weeks before the result will be announced.
The Governor has signed three hundred and
nineteen acts of Assembly, and thirteen joint res
olutions, this season.
The n Freemaus' Journal says there is now
no doubt but Bishop O'Reilly perished on the
steamer Pacific.
The Beaver Bank bill was indefinitely postpo-
ned in the House, on the 10th, by vote of "a to
33-and the Allegheny City Bank, 81 to 81.
A portable mill for grinding and boiling -four,
occupying twenty-one by four feet, has been got
up in the East, and sells for five hundred dollars.
1t turns out a barrel of -four in two hours.
The new railroad law requires all companies in
the State to fence their road within nine months
or pay double damages to any one injured by
their default.
The slave Margaret has been shipped South
again by Mr. Gaines. Margaret. it will be recol-
lected, is the woman who murdered her child in
Cincinnati few weeks since, sooner than have
it brought up a slave.
Peter Mattocks, who is to be hanged on the
23d of May, for the murder of Elizabeth Gilbert,
in Philadelphia, is socitous the Sheriff should per-
form the ceremony, contending that the deputa-
ton of hangman is not legal.
Wm Roberts apprentice in the office of the
Junlata Sentinel, Mifflin, Pa, died on the 7th
from hydrophobia. from the bite of deg received
on the 18th of February.
The President of the American State Council
of this State Col Fde has issued call for meet
ing of that body to be held at Harrisburg on Tues
day the 18th of Nay.
Hugh Brawley, Esq, of Randolph township,
Crawford county, died the 3rd inst, in the sew
enty-third year of his age. He was one of the
earliest settlers of the county, and the father of j.
Porter Brawley, Esq, the present Surveyor Gen
eral of this State.
Walker has more than two thousand troops
der his command, in Nicaragua. He has already
| captured Zapoya, in Costa Rica, where eight hun
| ity of ammunition, three hundred horses and
mules, and ran from two hundred of his men,
The Supreme Court of this State recently deci-
ded that when building is destroyed by accident,
mechanics lien will not lie against the ground
on which the building was erected.
Russia, Austria and Prussia, when they recog-
nized Louis Napoleon as Emperor, made treaty
| by which they agreed not to recognize his chill
dren heirs to the imperial purple, but to aid in
restoring the Bourbons. They look upon Louis as
but tenant for ife and that life not likely to be
| insured at ordinary rates.
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