Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-04-12
NEWS ITEMS.

tered out OF service by the hrSt OF May
REPoRrs from Florida represent that
emigrants are pouring into that State
from every direction.
THE firm of Beatty & Co., tea merch-
ants, New York, suspended on the 9TH
instant, with liabilities of 100000.
Captain John English was killed at
Crockett, Texas, on the morning of the
18th ultimo, by a squad of soldiers.
ez5~Raphael Semmens, of the cruiser
Shenandoah, has been released under his
original parole, by an order issued by the
President.
The Democratic Convention of Oregon
assembled on Saturday, and passed reso-
lutions indorsing President Johnson's pol
icy.
ca Governor Morton, of Indiana, and
Governor Curtin, Of Pennsylvania, are in
Washington. 1t is said the latter has
been rendered q foreign mission.
TIE Treasury at Washington holds
eleven million dollars available funds.
Since the first Of April, the national bank
circulation has been increased 81. .l35, 800.
Iris estimated, says The Chicago Times, that
one thousand persons were killed or woun-
ded by the late tornado in Pope and John
son counties, in Illinois.
The President has directed the appoint
ment Of a lady postmistress at New
Bloomfield, Pa, on the recommendation of
y. j. Glossbrenner, NJ. c.
TIE banking house of Ward & Bro,
Rochester, New York, suspended on the
9TH instant. They held deposits to the
amount of Sl,OOO,O0O.
TIE Military commission which has
been in session at Fortress Monroe since
February 2, was on Wednesday dissolved.
This was the least commission in session.
THE terrible tornado which recently Wis
tied Indiana also extended into Southern
Illinois 1t is estimated that not less
than a thousand persons were killed or
injured by it.
BUFFALO, April 9.-E. S Rich's bank
of exchange closed its doors this forenoon.
1t is thought everything Will be paid.
The cause of the suspension is from the
embarrassment Of the New York branch
house.
II IS reported thai all the muster-out
will be completed by the first of May, and
there will then be left in the service H.
065 white volunteers, ard 30,217 col
ored, making a total Of At ,2S2.
THE people of Vicksburg are very much
alarmed at the high wafer which now pre-
walls in the Mississippi, as there is every
indication Of the river breaking the levee
and overtiowing the country.
A white man named OIIern was as
saulted at Cairo, Illinois, on Sunday night,
by two negroes, who, without provocation,
fatally stabbed him twice. One negro
was arrested, but the other escaped.
TILE Bangor Wing reports the most Sc
rious freshet for years in the eastern part
of Maine. A gentleman from Ellsworth
says that they use canoes to sail about
their cellars, and navigate the streets in
fiat boats.
Dan Showalter, a native of Pennsylva-
MIA, and at one time a member Of the Cal
ifornia Legislature, fellow member of
which he killed in a duel, was recently shot
and killed by barkeeper at Mazatlan,
Mexico.
The Charleston Courier reports that
three thousand two hundred freedmen
have emigrated from North Carolina du-
ring the last three months to EIassachu-
sets, Connecticut, and the other New-Eng-
land States.
THREE men have been arrestedin Nash
vile, charged with being implicated in
heavy frauds against the Government.
The Board Of Inspection is investigating
the matter 1t has been recently discov-
cred that the frauds on the Government
will reach 8, ,00G,O 900.
REED Bigler, son of Ex-Governor Big
ler, died at the residence of his uncle, John
Watson, in Lock Haven, Clinton county,
on Monday of last week. He had but
recently returned from California, where
he has resided for the last ten years His
remains were taken to Clearfied for inter
ment. He was about so years of age.
The Connecticut election shows that
the Democrats have gained s members Of
the State Senate and 20 in the House.
Two ont of the four Congressional dis
tricts have been reclaimed. In those dis
tricts, however, it requires 1,441 and
24,626 voters for a Representative, while
in the Abolition districts it requires only
1916.
eg- \. Watkins, Esq, editor of the
Green county Republican, has retired from
that paper, and in his valedictory gives
as the reason for so doing that he cannot
go with his party in the effort to exalt the
negro and debase the white man-neither
is he willing to oppose the wise policy of
President Johnson.
CHEERING WoRDs.-Said the Presi-
dent TO a delegation of Democrats who
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