Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-07-12
News Items.


President of the United States Senate, vice
Foster.
II is now said that General Joseph E.
johnson has accepted the presidency of
the Alabama and Tennessee railroad.
a COMPANY has bought the Gettys-
burg battle field springs property, and
will erect a soldiers hospital or watering
place upon it.
ARTENIUS WARD was met on his land
ing in England with an offer of G4,O
and all expenses paid for lecturing tour
of six months.
IT is supposed that the Great Eastern
will be ready to sail from Valentia on the
3Oth of July to make another attempt to
connect the continents by submarine tel
egraph cable.
SOME genius has discovered perpetual
motion. 1t consists in the perpetual mo-
tiOnS of the Rump Disunionists to amend
the Constitution, so as TO secure perpetu-
al power for themselves. The machine
works admirably so long as the people
are kept away from it.
ANOTHER 'Ioyal' fellow, George n.
Carlton, it seems, has left the Government
Treasury minus about half million dol
lars, as special agent and acting surveyor
of customs at Memphis, Tennessee. The
Rump House has appointed a committee
/ to send for persons and papers, and to
overhaul the evidence of his guilt.
JouN w. FoRNEY announced himself
candidate for United States Senator, in
/ speech at Lebanon, few days ago.
Twas well for John to go TO the rural
districts to make the announcement Had
/ he proclaimed himself a candidate for the
/ cast-off shoes of Edgar Cowan, in Phil
adelphia, the very bricks would have
/ laughed at him. Senators can't be made
of such stuff
The Green county soldiers met in con-
vention on the 23d at Wayresburg to take
measures for soldiers State convention,
and to repudiate the action of a few of
their number who sent delegates to the
Geary Pittsburg convention, which con-
demned the Presidents policy, and placed
the mass of the soldiers of Greene coun-
" in a false position. The proceedings
have not yet come to hand.
A CoNDUCroR has been fined $500
in Buffalo New York, for ejecting man
from a car because he refused TO give his
,>s.S L ne court held that
ladies, or those who wished to be consid-
cred such, are legally entitled to no more
privileges in public conveyances than men,
and that when the latter pay for seats
they have perfect right to occupy them
so long as they conduct themselves in a
proper manner.
SOLDIERS REPUDIATTNG THE PrTT5DUT,,'
CONvENTION-At meeting OF the "AlIft-
lintown and Patterson Soldiers Clymer
Club held at Patterson, Juniata county,
resolutions were adopted repudiating the
sentiments of the convention at Pittsburg,
and its candidate Geary. The Club also
recommend the holding of State John
son Clymer Soldiers Convention in Read
ing on the first day of August next, for
the purpose of placing themselves on a
true Union and Constitutional platform
each Representative district to have five
: delegates for every member elected to the
| Legislature.
Growth OF OUR NAvY.-In 1888 oar
navy consisted of four vessels; in 1915
! of 2-6, carrying l ,636 guns; ; in March,
: 1865, we had 6S4 vessels with 4,471
: guns. These comparisons of numbers O
ships and guns, however, do not fairly
represent our progress in naval power
= What comparison can be made between ;
: frigate or line-of-battIe ship of fifty year
ago, with its wooden sides, heavy spars
dependence upon wind for maneuvering
. and a battery of eighteen, thirty-two
Il and forty-two Founders, and monitor o
- impenetrable iron, moved independent o
:, wind or tide, and armed with battery O
y four fifteen inch guns!
t, SUICIDE OF SENATOR LANE.-A Leav
d enworth dispatch dated July I'd, says
o Senator Lane, of this State shot himse
= last evening, inficting a wound which re
y suited fatally at o'clock today. He ha
10 been acting strangely for several days
J. and careful watch kept over him bu
/ while riding last evening with his brother
y in-law, Mccall, and Captain Adams
4 brother of his son-in-law, he got out {
to the wagon, which stopped at the gate {
re the government farm, the residence
ID Mccall, and stepping to the rear, drew
pistol and shot himself in the mouth, II
ball passing out through the top of h
II skull. The act was undoubtedly the n
lie suit of temporary mental derangemen
le He is the third member of the fami