Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-12-20
Late News Items.

Three yachts-the Festa Henrietta
aud Fleetwing-left Sandy Hook last
Tuesday on race to the Needle, Eng
and. The prize is $4,000.
Sergeant alarms Ordway started to-
day with the Speakers warrant to bring
Hon. c. V. Culver, now temporarily de-
tanned in Venango county.
From January first to December
twelfth, 1866, 235,l11 emigrants arrived
at New York from foreign parts. This
is the largest number since 1854, when
19,228 landed at that port.
1t appears by statement made in
Congress that suits are now pending in the
civil courts of England and France for the
recovery of Confederate property valued
at S20,O00,OOO.
The Canadian-St. Marie-who
''peached' on Surratt, whilst both were
members of the Papal ZouaveS, was
prompted to do so by jealousy-he and
John, having the misfortune to love the
same girl
The department has commenced TO
pay the extra bounties authorized by the
act of July %, 1866. Only those due
soldiers from New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio in the regulars and reserves, are
now being paid, however.
1t is said that Gen. Schofield has or
dered military commission to assemble
in Washington for the trial ofDr. Watson,
negro in Rockbridge, Va. We thought
that military satraps were no longer supe-
rior to the civil authorities and the laws.
Among the latest reports with regard
to the movements Of the Fenians is the an
nouncement that Fenian privateer has
succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the
Government officials and set sail from
Newburyport, Massachusetts. 1t is also
reported from Halifax, that Baitish
man-of-war, the Wolverine, has sailed in
pursuit of her. We give these reports as
we find them.
1t is announced that the Empress
Carlotta, wife of Macmillan, died at
Miramar, at noon on Friday. For some
time the reports from Paris have announ-
ced that her health was more critical than
ever +; and the latest French journals re-
celved by mail stated that she had fallen
into great physical and mental prostration;
that, not only her reason, but her life,
was in danger ; and that her physicians
had but faint hopes of her recovery. Her
diseases Of mind and body, ii is reported,
have at length ended ia her death.
The news that the London Times
joins the general appeal for mercy to the
condemned Fenian prisoners at Toronto
may be regarded as an assurance that
their sentences will I've committed, for the
Times always follows the prevailing SEN
timent of England, and that sentiment is
now most earnest for the Cancellation of
the United States. The authorities in
Canada. it is announced, will comply with
the request ofo government and prompt
ly furnish records of the trials and conyic-
tions of these prisoners.
On Sunday morning the United
States frigate New Ironsides, lying at
League Island, just below Philadelphia
wassdiscovered to be on fire, and notwith-
standing every effort to check the flames,
the vessel was totally destroyed.
Owing to the distance from the city
considerable time elapsed before any fire
engines reached the spot, and they were
able to do but little towards saving the
noble ship. No other of the feet anchor
ed near her where injured. The naval
officers know nothing about the affair, but
the fire is believed to have been the work
of design.
The New Ironsides was built at Phila-
delphia in 1868, and was c. istened by
the veteran Commodore Stewart She
was very prominent actor in the events
OF the war on the Southern coast, and re-
ceived many hard knocks from the rebel
batteries, but was never injured by them,
nor was she much damaged by the torpe-
do the rebels exploded under her in
Charleston harbor. The event causes
great regret in Philadelphia, where every
citizen felt pride in her history She
was about :, 800 tons burthen, and cost
over 100000 as she went to sea.
Raymond, of the Times and the Rump
Congress, poked himself into the Radical
caucus, held on the night of the 9Th,
where he cringed to the lash of his old
masters like worthless spaniel Some
body inquired whether he had any right
there. Morrill,, the chairman, replied by
saying that ''While the lamp holds out to
burn the vilest sinner may return" Ste
vens could not see how he could pretend
to any connection with the Radical party
after being member of the Philadelphia
convention and writing the National
Union address. He was then put upon
the stool of repentance, where he was
"smoked" numerically, and made to eat
dirt a long time for the amusement of his
tormentors. Finally Schofeld moved that
he be allowed to remain in the caucus or
not as he saw fit, and to judge for himself
haf har ha Sc L..