Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-05-10
NEWS ITEMS.

! Tenn. Entire fields have been destroyed.
! NEW YoRK, May 4.-One new case of
cholera Is reported at quarantine, and two
cases OF varioloid.
I es- 4 case of cholera occurred in Third
avenue, New York, on Tuesday evening,
which resulted fatally
Two new cases of cholera occurred on
Wednesday from the steamship Virginia,
at New York quarantine
@ The Johnstown Democrat SAYS Col.
Campbell, Surveyor General, is not ap-
pointing soldiers to clerkships in his Of
flee. Why?
e. a new Judicial District has been
formed of Mercer and Venango counties,
and Isaac Gordon, Esq, of Brookville,
has received the appointment of President
Judge.
"THE Hermitage" General Jackson's
estate, has been offered by Tennessee TO
the United States, conditional upon a
branch Of the West Point Academy being
located there.
By recent advices it appears that Aus
trla, notwithstanding the warning given by
our minister not TO dispatch troops to
Mexico, has embarked the first Install
ment to that country.
The Government will lose about one
quarter Of million dollars by the failure
OF the National. bank at Venango, Penn
sylvanla.. Tie money was placed on de-
posit there by the Internal Revenue Col
lector and Postmaster at that place.
TnE peach crop in Western Pennsylva-
MIA and Ohio will be failure The present
year. \ Cincinnati paper says that
peach grower in that vicinity has ten thou
sand trees, and will get perhaps ten bush
els Of fruit.
-" y young soldier, with respectable
connections, named Alexander Webb. shot
himself through the heart, on Wednesday.
at baltimore, alleging as cause that he
could get nothing to do, and hated to see
his mother in want
e. 4 young man died suddenly in
Albany on Tuesday afternoon of last
week OF what is supposed to be cholera
lie was we'll up TO a late hour Monday
evening, when he was suddenly attacked
with dlarrhoa, followed BY the prominent
symptoms Of cholera.
WASHINGTON, May The Govern
ment has appointed Receiver to take
charge of the Merchants National Bank.
which failed here last week. He entered
on his duties this morning. The Govern
ment will lose at least half million dol
lars by the failure.
ez~ James L. Coleman, q member of
the Indiana county bar, recently convic-
ted of seduction and sentenced to the Peni
tertiary for one year, has been pardoned
on condition that he pay to Lucinda Sny-
der, the prosecutrIX, the sum of s., 900.
lie has arrived home and complied with
the conditions.
81 petition was presented 10 The
kump Senate on the Goth, by Summer,
from, thirty citizens Of the United States
residing in New York State, PRAYING the
expulsion of Senator Davis. of Kentucky.
for saying he would oppose the execution
of the Negro ''Rights'' bill It turns ont
that all of the said thirty ''citizens of the
United States" are negroes. Things are
coming to pretty pass, amt they
ANorHER SUIcIDE-We learn that on
Friday last, Mr.. John Peddicord. a we'll
to-do farmer, of Brushvalev tp., this
county, committed suicide by hanging
himself We have not learned from what
cause he was thus prompted to destroy his .
own life. This is the third case of suicide /
that we have been called upon to clron
lcle in this county, in the short period of /
SIX months.-IadiGna AMERICAN
WAsHINGroN, May 5.-The financial
excitement here has been increased to-day
by the fact of the suspension of the bank /
ing house of Maurice & Co, who it is /
said, are involved by that of the Merch /
ants National Bank. It is stated in be-
half of this firm that there is good reason /
to believe that it will soon be able 70 re-
sumo operations. A check for one thous- /
and dollars was to day refused payment,
IT being for deposit
EXEMPT FROM TAXATION H.-The follow |
ing act passed both branches of the last
Legislature, and has been signed by Gov /
ernOr Curtin:
hat all persons who have been mus /
tered into the military service of the Uni
ted States, and have served therein for a
period OF not less than nine months in the
war to suppress the rebellion. and their
property. and those persons who have been
discharged from said service on account of /
wounds or physical disability contracted
IN such service, and their property. and /
the widows and orphans of such persons.
and their property, shall be exempt from
the payment of all bounty and per capita
tax levied for paying bounties to voIun-