Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-04-26
NEWS ITEMS.

over last falls vote. The State will GER
ta.niy be redeemed next fall.
IiiK House of Representatives of Ten
nesSee has expelled James r. Hood, one
OF the members charged with wiIlfully
absentins himself 10 prevent quorum.
THERE is considerable alarm in Balti-
mere about the approach Of the cholera,
aul active preparations are making by
the authorities and citizens to ward it off:
81 \ man died at Cortland, Maine, on
the 18th instant, of cholera. He is said
10 be one Of the five who escaped from
the steamer England.
y A man named Taylor murdered a
woman near PerryyilIc, Ky, named Bot
tom. He was arrested, and soon after
seized by mob and hung on the spot.
The government sales of hospital stores
which have taken place in Washington
from time to time, during the past six
months, have nelted the government about
$l,00O,O00.
TIE receipts from customs at New
York and Philadelphia for the week end
ing April I4th, were ~ follows: New
York, 8, 900; Philadelphia, Sl93,-
778.
THE Aberdeen (3iiss .Sts,ny South ap-
pears with its columns draped in mourn
ing in its issue announcing the passage Of
the Civil Rights bill over the Presidents
veto.
TIL steamship Virginia arrived at New
York on the 18th instant, with l,043
passengers. She has had thirty-eight
deaths during the voyage. The disease is
said to be similar to that with which the
steamer England is infected.
6sy- Major General James Shields ad-
dressed a mass meeting of the citizens of
Living ston county, Missouri, on April g.
He took emphatic ground against the
Radicals and their policy, and vigorously
defended President johnson.
\ ''SoCDoLAGER.''-E Senator who
voted for the civil rights bill over the veto
was presented with boquet Of flowers by
q delegation OF wenches, who visited the
Senate chamber for that purpose. "Oh !!
my country"
Esy- A call has been issued for q con-
vention to meet a Knoxville on May 3rd,
composed of delegates from all counties
in East Tennessee, to mcmorialize the
Legislature for leave TO form new State,
10 be called the State of East Tennessee.
ca \ terrible explosion occurred at
Aspinwall, on the Sd inst, on board the
steamer European, destroying the ship.
The cause of the explosion Is supposed 70
be from nitrO-glvcerine. Fifty persons
are reported killed
THE Omaha Republican has some rather
exciting news from Utah. 1t learns that
'rhe greatest excitement prevails among
the Mormons, and fixed determination
on their part to drive out or exterminate
all Gontile5"
GzE- \ boy from the country was recent
ly taken into gentleman's family. One
evening after having been called up 10 the
drawing room, he came down into the
kitchen, laughing immoderately. "What's
the matter 2" cried the cook. ''Why'
said he, ''there are twelve OF 'em up there
who could not snuff the candle, and they
had to ring for me to do it"
LANDS IN IOwA.-An Iowa journal
states that at least twelve millions of acres
or arabic land yet lie untouched by the
rlow within the borders of that State
What is the use of our people emigrating
TO Mexico when all these broad and fertile
acres await an owner?
Daytoa Empire says family named Nc
Laushlin, husband, wife and five children,
the parents aged forty and thirty eight
years, the children from five to thirteen,
living on branch Of the Iowa River, were
all drowned on the night of the 1st inst,
by heavy storm food that encompassed
their dwelling, driving them, in their night
clothes, to seek safety in wagon, which
the father had quickly harnessed up, but
which was furiously swept away. AL
were lost, the mother and her two younger
children not yet being found.
TuE Civil RIGHTS BuL-We have
no doubt that the Civil Rights bill has ye
to encounter another veto, and final one
at the hands of the judiciary The
objections 10 IL Slaied IN the message
with which the President returned it tC
Congress have lost none Of their force be
cause that body chose not to heed them
They rest upon the Constitution, which
binds the men who make the laws and thc
people for whom they are made alike, anC
although the provisions of the great char
ter may be ignored by partisan representa-
tives in their eagerness to prolong theil
tenure of power, they are not likely to be
overlooked or shghted by the judges who
are its appointed guardians.