Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1856-01-30
MARY OF NEWS.
e>- Lent commences on the 9th of February
O. The Fayette city people are again agitetins
he subject Of new county. I'll

: Gy- The Ohio Legislature haG ref
r abolishing capital punishment. s6opt TO extend
* The Virginia Legis,atsg.s n that State.
the charters Of the TaE the Q. s. District Court
c. The Grand bills against several filibu-
n s., have
r tiers. >. Mary Batter died At Gardiner, Me, on
o ,1Dth inst, aged one hundred years and six
p Months.
C% bill TO punish SANDER as nislemeaDor
has bsen introduced in the Pennsylvania Legis-
lature.
o. The bill to repeal the restraining liquor law
of last session passed the House by vote Of 90
to %.
e- Many sailing vessels and two or three steam
ers are said to b. locked up in ice on Long Island
Sound.
9s- Complete Census returns, received by the
Secretary Of state, make the population cf Hi
uois, 300, ,25l
-, Wheat continues 70 come i rapiaiE a. tHe
Steubsny.e mills, which sge paying s. sc Fer
bushe! for it.
c,- The number of hogs packed III Cincinnati
this season is 3ss, ,62, increase of over 10000
| over last season.
o. The population of Prussia is Il, rs, ,091.-
Emigration from that country to the United States
has almost entirely ceased.
GJ- The House of Representatives, at Harrisburg
adopted resolution Of thanks to Dr. Kane, the
intrepid Arctic explorer.
CO. The fall Of Kars'' in Europe, and the
| smashing of cars in America, occupy tie columns
| Of al our eastern exchanges
o. An Irishman was killed, few days since,
near Mt. Pleasant, Va, by large mass Of slate
falling hi.n, in q coal-pit.
So Alabama has declared FOR he re nomination
of President Pierce Massachusetts, and South
Carolina. We believe, had done 50 previously.
90 The circulation Of the banks in kentucky
has increased nearly three aud half millions Of
dollars since the first Of July last.
C1t Bears are very plenty in some of the north
ern counties in this state. Two big fat fellows
were killed in Potter county last week.
O. The London News says that after May Eext
fifteen gigantic mail steam packets will leave
England in each month for the United States.
GA fresh batch of new counterfeit S2's
the Middletovn Bank have found their way into
the circulating medium Of the eastern counties.
o. Bennett, snder sentence Of death in Louis
vile, is engaged in writing his life, which he III
tends to sell for the benefit Of his family.
Co Uzal Knapp, one of Washington's life
guard, (said to be the last SURVIVOR died at New
bIrg, New York, last week. lie was 81 years
old.
~ Samuel Sly has been indicted at New, Ha-
ven for the murder of Justus Matthews-and a
- true bill' has been returned against the'' pro-
phetess."
g. The religious world Of England is just now
excited by r,.4ors tpat Prince Albert has embra-
ced Unitarian doctrines, and that the Queen SYM
patLises with him N sentiment.
C. Nearly six hundred murders commit
ted last year in California. Of the perpetrators
fifty were hanged by the people, and eight or ten
by public officers.
g. The Know-Nothng Councils of Lancaster
have given public notice Of the fact that the. have
disbanded, and propose selling the furniture, fix
lures, &C., of their several lodge-roons.
CA letter from Gottingen reports the death
of Professor Karl friedrich Hermann, IN hlo 52d
year of his age He was one of the best Philoogiss
in Germany, and drew many students to Gottia-
gen.
o. Governor Wise, of Virginia, has sent
Special Message to the Legislature Of Virginia, in
which he warmly urges prompt action in relation
to the Monum ent to the Signcrs Of the Declaration
Of independence.
G, Tie Grand Jury, of Tuolumne county Ca
fornia, have indicted Hon. J. W. CofIroth Of the
State Senate, (fornelly of Philadelphia and a
number Of others, for being connected with re
cent hanging by raob-law, in Sonora.
g. 1t is stated taat 50 many applications have
been made to the s,a,e Legislature Of Virginis,
for the voluntary enslavement of free negroes,
that the Senate has deemed it expedient to pass
a general act providing for voluntary enslare-
ment.
Gy- There is quite excitement in the Nebras-
ka legislature on the subject of banks. a letter
writer says quite number of the members seem
resolved to vote themselves each q bank, and
supply the territory right speedily with paper
money.
60 The fruit growers of Western New York
met last week at Rochester. The apple crop Of
the season has proved more profitable than that
CT any other product, and several said they had
cleared from one hundred to a hundred and fifty
dollars an acre.
o. On the 18th inst, Jew pedar in Balti-
more, named Michael Cohen, put a pistol to his
breast and shot himself through the heart, at
street corner. From a memorandum in his pock-
ct it would appear that some one had wrongfuily
accused him of dishonesty.