Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-08-19
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LocoMoTIyEs.-There arc said to be 5000
locomotives in active operation on the various
railroads in the United States
u THE BEDFORD GAzETTE.-Gen Bowman
has disposed of the Bedford Gazette to Messrs.
Meyers and Bedford, late attorneys in Som
erset. gH2saE
Tho Hon. John A. Quitman has been
renominated, without opposition, as the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress from the fifth
district of Mississippi. 4
AN AGED MIN1sTER.-The Rev. Mr.. Wal
do, late Chaplain to Congress, and the oldest
living graduate of Yale College, is now at
New Haven CT, and will attend the College
commencement this week. He Is 80 years
old. =. s+-s5.rr =: =. ss.,z ~
The Canal Department Of the Pennsyl-I
vania Railroad Company has been placed un-
| der the charge of w. b. Foster, Jr.. Vice
| President,as neutrality-suspicious.. T. H.
Dupuy, Esq, Engineer, and d. L Mitchell,
Esq, Secretary and Auditor.
| THE Two QUEENS The Queen Of Dude
| has waited nine months in England, vainly
attempting to obtain an interview with Queen
Victoria. Since the news of the East India
mutiny, the palace doors were opened to her
L
nifcence that quite eclipsed the modest cos
tune of the Island Queen.
A SAD RECORD Out of the ffty-nine Sen
ators during the last Congress, (there being
vacancies from Indiana, Missouri and Cali
fornia, } no less than FIVE have already passed
away viz !: Messrs. Clayton of Delaware
Bell, of New Hampshire, Adams, of Missis
sippi, Butler, of South Carolina, and Rusk o
> | IN o1
the history of the country.
REPUBLICAN INCoNsIsTEEcY.-TheT Topek
Constitution, which the Black Republican
desire to make the fundamental law of Kansa
when admitted as State, allows white NAL
persons to vote also Indians who have adop
| ted the habits of white men, but excludes tn
negro. They have thus practically adopte
. the principle of the Dred Scott decisio
g against which they clamor SO loudly.
K1rrANN1Ne BANK.-This institution w;
organized on Monday last. The ,followin
Brown, Esq, President; John B. Finne,
ESQ.,, Cashier and Messrs. Robert Brown
Sen., Hon. Robert Orr, Hon James Dol
glass, E. S. Golden, Esq, G. T. Nealc, T
q L. Brown, j. S. Bonnet, Absalom Reynold
4 Thomas Mcconnell, John T. Crawford.
Coal FOR THE Gov1RNMENr.-The Seer
: tary of the Navy, Gov. Toucey, has formal
j, determined that, hereafter, all anthracite CO
shall be purchased by the duly appointe
O agent of the government in Pennsylvania, ar
shipped from Philadelphia to our naval st
Il tions in the various parts of the world. Pu
Z; chasing coal in foreign ports for the supp
j of our ships of war, has been found ruinou
!, ly expensive business.
SUCKED TO DEATH.-A boy met his dea
of recently near Paris, France, by falling into
T. marsh or pond used as nursery for leech
by neighboring druggist. The boy had {
g neither shoes or stockings, and was four
y struggling feebly to extricate himself from Il
70 mire, and to defend himself from the hundre
of voracious creatures that had crawled und
1T bis clothes and fixed upon every limb /
died in few hours. sds ~ 40 ie3.seg il4.
DEATHS DeNGs.-Two Of Pre- side
1 Pierce's. Cabinet oH6cers-Messrs. Marcy al
) Dobbin-haye died within six months of b
E tretirementl His POSTMASTER General
r. also lost his wife, and General Rusk Of TIE
|, as, who was elected President pro tempo
!. of the Senate, at the close of his term, is al
r among the dead. Rarely do we fnd solar
IN an amount of mortality in 90 short time in
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