The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1860-05-17
EDITORIAL N0TIKGS.

| EsS- Reading matter on every page.
| SGyn Behind time-Saturday' western mail
gggn Up to time-Blain's Ice Cream Saloon
gga. The japanese Embassy arrived a
Washington city on the l4th inst.
Bs9g~ Look well-garden "sass" and sucl
things, since the big rain.
Bag" \ late definition of Potter's feld-"th
open air, with bowie-knives."
Re- Mr.. f. Z. Price, of Boston, has chal
lenged Morrisey to fight him for purse o
| $4,000.
Rsa- The brig Storm King has been siezec
at New York on suspicion of fitting out fol
| the slave trade.
pss- raft passed down the Susquehanns
river the other day, that contained Il, 290fee
of timber, Marietta measure.
re- Chicago does not mean to be behind
Charleston. They have straw berries and greer
peas there this week
rsa- Col. John C. Everhart has received the
appointment of Deputy Marshal to take the
census of Blair county.
EGs Men don't generally like to be hamp-
cred, but if you are going out to spend week
in the woods, you had better hamper yourself
By Blain, the interchangeable, has already
opened out his Ice Cream Saloon Give him
a call, We parched and overheated NOR
tails.
HEae We are compelled to decline the pub
ication of the answer to ~ would be thine,
g l,
umns.
Eas~ The vast quantity of rain which has
fallen during the past week, has done much
damage to property along the line of the Penn
sylrania Railroad.
EsA- On Saturday last, Daniel c. Kenyon,
the defaulting Cashier of the Rhode Island
Exchange Bank, was sentenced to eight years
Imprisonment in the State Prison
ra- The skeleton Of an infant was recently
found in the cellar of Jacob Weyandt, Clays-
burg, Blair county. 1t was enclosed in a box
and is supposed TO have been buried there
several years ago
s@- Peterson's Magazine for May is here
We always an&iously expect the coming of
this monthly, for the reason that it always
contains something strikingly new and orig
inal
EsE The great wigwam at Chicago, to ac-
commodate the National Convention, is one
hundred and eighty feet long by one hundred
broad, and capable of holding ten thousand
persons
s8~ The new celebrated pony express, by
which intelligence is obtained from San Fran
CISCO IN ten days, traverSes 1900 miles of a
Wild and and unbroken country. infested by
powerful tribes of warlike Indians Nearly
'ne hundred horses are employed, and ONLY
hirty-six couriers, each riding about fifty
niles.
asAp Serious fears are entertained that
thief Justice Taney of the Supreme Court of
he United States, will never again take his
eat on the Bench He fell from sheer exhaus-
ion few days ago, and had to be carried
rom his chamber. Another of the aged mem
'ers of this high tribunal is also in a very
nfeebled condition.
IssH The friends of Heenan in New Nork
lave determined to present Jack M'Donald |
With splendid trOtting pony, wagon and |
harness for his kind service to the Bov. If |
lie does not come to this country. the testi-
nonials will be shipped to him. Subscription |
lists TO procure suitable testimonials for both |
Donald and Cusick, have also been opened |
t Philadelphia and New York
ssas lad was recently called upon to tes-
ity in New York Court, whose tender wears
aised doubts as to his competency as wit
ess, by not understanding the nature and
of an oath. The question put was
Are you son of the plaintiff?" The little
elbow, crossing his legs and deliberately put
ing about half paper of tobacco into his
louth, with the utmost sang froid replied
Well, it's so reported"
Ess~ There is seduction bill before the
entucky Legislature, to which an amend
lent has been presented, which, if adopted,
i'll create some stir among the ladies. It
rovides that any female guilty of attempting
seduce young man by wearing low neck
resses, and other captivating articles of at
re, shall de punished with the same penalty
liked to cases of seduction. Should the
nendment be adopted, the gay deceivers will
ost likely be obliged to correct their habits
sea. A jury in this State having refused to
'mpel the husband of Mrs. Swisshelm, now
Minnesota editress, to pay for watch she {
ought several years ago, Mrs. S. improves
e occasion to tell the public the story of ,
r domestic troubles. She says she has sup-
'rted herself for twenty years by her own
Dor, besides contributing to meet the family L.
penses, and the extent of her self-depiaI =