Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-05-31

and fifty feet.
sE General Joseph E. johnson was
on the 11th inst. elected President of
the Alabama and Tennessee River Rail-
road.
Two hundred sacks of corn, branded
''Peace," arrived in Memphis, Tenn,
the other day, for the destitute of Ala
bama.
g General Grant has directed the
muster-out of six more colored regiments,
while II, 900 will be retained in the ser
vice.
eB~ y large portion of the tunnel on the
Mountjoy branch of the Pennsylvania
Railroad fell on Monday. No one was
injured
e. \ dispatch from Eastpori, Maine,
reports two boats, loaded with supposed
Fenian arms, effected a landing at Indian
Island on Monday night
THE Radicals cannot get over Stanton's
desertion. He was their sheet-anchor.
They are now fearful he will be the rock
on which they will split.
g. A grand procession of Odd Fellows
took place in Reading on the 22d instant.
Forty lodges were represented from vari-
Gus counties throughout the State.
ez~ \ tornado on the 9TH nearly de-
molished the freedmen's village on Port
Royal Island, South Carolina. Forty
houses were demolished, and thirteen per-
sons were severely injured-two mortally-
c. Thomas w Birdsall, President of
the Security Fire Insurance Company,
committed suicide on Wednesday at his
office in Broadway, New York by taking
strychnine.
TIE temporary arsenal erected by the
United. States forces during the occupation
of Augusta, Georgia, was blown up by
the careless handling of shells on Monday
afternoon. Two negroes were killed and
two others wounded.
eg- Dr. Newland, who killed Professor
Evans, his daughters seducer, has return
ed to his home, at Bedford, Indiana, since
his acquittal where he received the con-
gratulations OF the citizens.
WASHINGTON gossip runs that Senator
Ben. Wade hurled forty-pound oath at
Secretary Stanton, during a testy talk up
on reconstruction, and that these two mild
men are no longer friends,
AN INFANT was accidentally hung near
Mahanoy city, lately, in consequence, of
its night slip catching on peg as the child
slid out of bed. When its mother awoke
and discovered the situation of the child,
it was suspended by the neck dead.
THE Two CANDIDATEs-A Harris
burg correspondent of one of our ex-
changes writes the following:
'sGeary and Clymer are both here, and
there is such marked difference in their
appearance and manners, that ii has be-
come a subject of remark with ALL Gea-
ry is a large, well-built man, but his
slouch hat, ponderous beard and whole de-
meanor show him to be a man of but lit
tie brains or refinement, and he would pass
anywhere for what is vulgarly called a
plug )" while Clymer's stately form, fine
manners and modest bearing, at once point
him out as a gentleman, a scholar and
statesman of the old school. His friends
here are anxious to have him and the
GHeraL stump the State together during
the campaign"
TIE NOTEs OF STATE BANKs-After
the 1st of June, the notes of all State
Banks will not. be received in payment of
debts at counters of the National Banks.
or on deposit, except at such discount
as will pay the expense of returning these
notes to the Banks that issued them, and
exchanging them for National Currency.
This is done on account of the high tax
imposed by the Federal Government on
the circulation of all State Banks that is
out after the date named. The effect of
this will be to give Us a uniform paper
currency.
The Radicals are complaining of the
President for refusing to commission the
notorious General AI'Neil as Surveyor of
the Port of St. Louis. 1t will be remem-
bered that ArNeil had twelve or thirteen
Southern men shot at Palmyra, Missouri,
for the supposed murder of one ''Union
man. who in a few days after turned up
unhurt. When the President commissions
MNeil Surveyor of the port of St. Louis,
he ought to have Probst, the murderer of
the Deering family, made Chaplain of the
United States Senate.
New YORK, May 24.-The evidence
taken before the Coroner shows that Mr..
Birdsall, who committed suicide yester-
day, was embarrassed in his pecuniary
affairs
This morning lady named Rudder,
whose husband is said to be clergyman
and now out of the city, while in de-
ranged state of mind, jumped from the
balcony of her residence, No. Z West
Nineteenth street, and was SO badly iniu-
red that she died.
The Senate has rejected the nomination
of w. ii. Purnell as Postmaster of Bal
timore