Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-06-07
News Items.

Ex-President Pierce was confirmed a
member of St Paul's Episcopal Church,
by Bishop Chase, at Concord, New Hamp
shire, or Sunday.
Ok the 10Th inst, Mary Ann Bostine
died at the Almshouse, aged 118 years.
She was a native of New York City and
was never married.
The commission of General Sickles as
Minister to the Hague was sent TO him on
Saturday. He has not yet signified his
acceptance or declination of the appoint
ment.
ISAAC DoRGAN, a former slave of Gen.
Lee, of Virginia. was arrested in Boston,
last week, for robbing his employer of
clothing and jewelry valued at one hun
dred dollars.
The exchanges and dispatches from all
points West and South, report unusually
cold weather for the season. 1t is feared
that serious damage will result to the
crops.
FoUR seperate specimens of the new
fve-cent coin have been struck off, and
were on the 30th uIt, submitted to the
Secretary of the Treasury as samples,
from which he will select one for issue.
AT Memphis the Congressional Com
mittee has begun its investigation of the
late riots There was trouble there again
on Tuesday by means of a strike among
the negro levee lab0rers for higher wages,
Two hundred and thirty five (235) hon
orably dischared soldiers of York bOr-
ough lately enrolled themelves as mem
bers of the Clymer Club, at the first meet
ing. The names were published in the
| York Gazette.
THE Sweeny wing of the Fenian party
appears TO have taken the field. Fenians
by train loads have been arriving at Buff
falo, Clev, land, and other cities along the
border confronting Canada, and the move
ment has assumed a threatening attitude.
! FROM the reports made to the Columbus,
! Ohio, Horticultural Society, at their last
meeting, it seems that in that vicinity the
crop of all kinds of fruit is likely TO be a
! small one. Peaches and cherries are en-
| tircly destroyed.
THE Abingdon T1gi,aian says the wheat
crop in that section will be almost total
| failure at best not moro than a fourth Of
the usual yield. To make amends, how
ever, the prospect is excellent for an un-
usually large corn crop.
The report that three emigrant children
died from Asiatic cholera in Detroit on
Saturday is positively contradicted. The
disease with which the children died was
pronounced by leading physicians simple
dysentery, induced by tilthiness and expo
sure.
The pick-pockets have been reaping a
harvest at the railroad depot in New Ha-
ven during the past week In all losses
to the amount of 81 ,985 are reported, of
which a Mr.. Sherry, of Philadelphia, lost
! 81, I,O2O.
A SWITCH tender has been convicted of
/ mansIaughter, with a recommendation 10
mercy, at Newark, \. J. BY his neglect
/ to replace a switch on the New Jersey
Railroad the through Washington train
ran off the track and two lives were lost
New YORK, June 1-Dr. Bisselfs re-
port to-day shows that fifty-nine new cases
and eight deaths from cholera have oc-
CURED on board the Peruvian and Union
since the last report, leaving ninety seven
cases on the hospital ship.
The I.ynchburg TUgmlul says: ''We
understand that there are a great many
musketS in the hands mostly of the ne
/ groes in this city and neighborhood We
+ even learn that they are forming companies
and mastering and drilling in the suburbs
TIE editor of the La crosse (Wiscon-
/ SIM Democrat" says: Gle who called
the Republican party a Union party is a
liar, and the truth is not in him. He who
/ calls Thad Stevens or any of his followers
/ patriot, is himself a traitor
The British steamship Union, after a
! passage Of sixteen and a half days from
| Liverpool, arrived at the Lower Quaran-
/ tine at New York, on Tuesday afternoon,
with 434 passengers, about a score of
whom were down with cholera Thirty
I passengers and two of the crew died of
cholera on the passage.
THE President has approved the bill
/ authorizing tho Secretary of the Treasury
to make and carry into effect such orders
and regulations of quarantine, as may be
deemed necessary and proper, to guard
against the introduction of the cholera in
to the ports of the United States.
Nor only is General Grant himself lib
/ orally rewarded for his services, but all
| his relations and friends are being taken
care of by the Government. We find
the following in an exchange: Douglass
/ Grant, son of General Grant, has been
appointed cadet at West Point by the
President.
WHEN Andrew johnson first became
President the Disunionists declared that
Providence, for some wise and good pur-
pose, had called him to the Executive