Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-01-12
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force of the city 400 men,
THE freight agencies in Cincinnati are
said TO cost $50 900 year; heavy tax
on railroad shareholders, ..
ISAAC FOWLER, late postmaster of New
York, is no in Mexico, and said to be in
very destitute circumstances.
THE sum of e25 900 has been collected
for the building of the monster chapel
being erected for Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon, of
London.
THE Florence correspondent of the
Providence Journal says, that no less than
fifty American families are now domiciled ,
in that city.
Gov. CURTIN, has appointed i. Slifer,
Esq, of Union county-at present State
Treasurer-Sccretary of the Common.
wealth.
FIREs.--Thc barn of j. Detwiler, in
Lancaster county, Pa, was destroyed by
fire last week. Loss very heavy, and
insurance only $4,000.
In New Haven, Conn, the carriage
business, owing to the troubles in the coun-
ty, has been almost destroyed. Many
hundred workmen are out of work.
WENDELL PHILLIps, keeps a body
guard armed with revolvcrs, to prevent
him being mobbcd while making his dis
union Abolition speeches in Boston.
TIE citizens of Philadelphia, a few days
ago presented Mr.. VIM. b. Wood, the
veteran actor, in the SD year Of his age,
with check for $3.50 as q Christmas
present
The second Wednesday in February
is the day fixed by law for counting the
electoral votes in Congress, and declaring
the election of President and Vice. Presi-
dent of the United States.
. CoUSTERFE1TEE SENTENcED.-James
. Wilson, convicted in the United States
District Court at Pit'sburg, of counterfeit.
ing, has been sentenced to pay fine of
81 900 and undergo 8 years imprison.
, ment.
THE news from Hungary are very
revolutionary. Riots have taken place
at Pesth, Dcbrtzin, and in several other
large towns, while there is evidently an
impatienee on the part of the population
of the whole country, to rise against
Austria.
A REWARD of one thousand dollars is
offered in New York, for the recovery of
boy about fifteen years of age, named
Walter Tucker, who was forciby kdnap-
ped from his room at No. 23 Amity street,
while retiring to bed about half past nine
o'clock on Friday night.
, WE regret to learn that DR.. Thomas B.
Cooper, member of Congress elect from
the Bucks and Lehigh district, lies dan
c gerously i'll, at his residence in Lehigh
. county. His disease is diphthcria-throat
:, disease, which seems recently to have be-
', come quite malignant in that neighbor-
!, hood.
i THE CITIES OF TIE UNIoN.--Accord-
. ing to the recent census, the ten principal
cities of the Union rank in population as
follows New York lst, Philadelphia I'd
Brooklyn Sd, Baltimore 4th, Boston 5th
:, New Orleans 9th, St. Louis, 7th, Cincin-
;, natl sth, Chicago 9th, Buffalo 10th.
q TROOPS FOR Fort M'HENRY.-Yes-
, terdav all the troops stationed at the
10 Carlisle Barracks were sent to Fort NJ
C Henry, by order Of Lieut.. Con. Scott
n They numbered about one hundred and
r forty, and nearly all of them were enlisted
= for cavalry service.
: -Harrisbmg Patrio', Jan. sth.
l. OUTRAGE IN THE CARIBBEAN SEA-
III By the Schooner Alice Moa0e, which arri
c. we'd at Baltimore on Friday last from St
to Domingo, we learn that the guano island
III of Alta Vela, in the Caribbean Sea, and
heretofore in the legal possession of Anne.
40 rican citizens, had been forcibly seized
ne by the Dominican Government, American
ID property destroyed, and the settlers sent
as as prisoners to st. Domingo.
ce INFAMous.--On Saturday, as we learr
, 7 from the Rochester Democrat, some infa
~ nous wretch removed two rails from the
er track of the Buffalo, New York and Erie
C, Railroad, about ten miles this side Of
l- Corning, intending, of course, to cause
en- smash-up of the next train due, whicl
ng was stock train. Fortunately, when tn,
i'll train came along it passed over the breach
tn and took the track beyond, all in goot
n n order, and without breaking thing,
le MARRIAGE IN Hon LIFE.-Mr. II
&C Berghman, Secretary of the Belgian LIE
l. CATION at Washington, was married, OIL
" Thursday aveninn IN Miss I ilv Mooolas