Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1866-04-19
NEWS ITEMS.

to meet the English champion oarsman,
Kelly, in an international sculling and
rowing match
ey- Fred. Douglass, after an interview
with President Lincoln, remarked that
''Mr. Lincoln was the first white man he
ever passed an hour with, who failed to
remind him, in some way, before the in
teryiew terminated, that he was a ne
gro ?"
The report that Mrs. Jefferson Davis
is or has been recently in Washington is
incorrect. She is now in New York on
her way to Canada, by permession, to
visit her children who are at school in
that Province.
THE people of Nashville are nobly re-
spending to the call for food from Ala
| bama's starving poor. The Chamber of
Commerce, Churches, sporting men, all
have come forward with money, flour,
meats and corn.
AT the recent election in Madison,
Wisconsin, thirty-fve negroes exercised
the right of suffrage under the recent de-
cision of the Supreme Court of that
State but the Democratic ticket was sue
cessful notwithstanding
e. A girl, not fourteen years of age,
died recently in Smithfield, \. Y, from an
overdose of arsenic, which she had been
taking in large quantities for a series of
weeks in order to improve her complex
ion.
| lT is said that the reported case of
cholera in Delaney street, New York,
was in fact nothing more nor less than a
case of poisoning.
Some excitement has been caused in
Washington by the discovery, within a
few days, of some gold quartz, about
fourteen miles from the city, on the Poto-
mac.
The Macon Telegraph says that there
are forty-three thousand negroes and up
wards fed at the expense of the govern
ment in Georgia, and that in all the
| Southern States the number exceeds four
hundred and thirty-four thousand thus
| fed.
The United States Counsul at Halifax
reports that one hundred and thirty addi-
tional deaths have taken place among the
passengers'of the England, being an addi-
ton to the forty that occurred during
the voyage.
er Henry Gardiner member of the
18th United States infantry, has been
convicted of numbering an old man at
Elmira, New York, named Muleck, and
sentenced to be hanged on the 1st of
June next.
GREAT destitution is reported to exist
among the citizens of Marshall county,
Ala. Many are in a starving condition.
1t is said that three persons recently died
there from absolute want, and thousands
must perish unless quick relief is furnish
ed them.
A supposed accomplice in the late muir
der in Philadelphia was arrested in Lon
don, G. W., on the 10th inst. He gives
the name of Charles McCutcheon.
eg A horrible murder was committed
in Richmond County, Va, on the Sd inst.
n man by the name of Julius Hall went
into the kitchen where colored woman
and her three children were and with an
axe killed them all. 1t is supposed that
his mind was deranged at the time the
deed was committed.
A few months ago ''No Prefix Geary
declined a nomination because-s'The
wealth which it seems necessary for the
candidate to possess is not mine" As he
has since accepted, the question now ar
ises-where has the wealth come from
Who knows ?
THE Democracy Of Toledo, Ohio, car
ried the late city election by 325 majori-
ty. Last year the Republican majority
was 529. Democratic gain S54. The
! 10th Congressional district, misrepresented
by the notorious Ashley, will be redeemed.
The Democrats of Fort Wayne, Indi-
ana, carried their spring election by 700
majority-the largest majority ever polled
there. In the adjoining townships the
| Democratic gains have been from fifty to
seventy-five.
ez- Mr.. Davis, Senator from Kentucky,
said something last week which Sumner
! didn't like. 1t is therefore intimated that
he must be Stocktonized The next vic
| tim in the House is said to be Mr..
Dawson. What pretty lot of prece-
dents the Disunionss are making for the
| Democracy to carry home to them in a
couple of years! Won't their faces be
wry when they shall be made to swallow
their own sauce?
The Charleston Tribune makes the
statement that, contrary to all previous re-
ports, there is no demand for labor in the
West. 1t says hundreds of laborers have
been sent on these wild goose chases to
the Upper Missouri from St Louis and
Chicago. The Intelligence offices are at
the bottom of the knavery.
In Charleston, South Carolina, few
days ago, lot of negro SOLDIERS at,
tempted to rescue a drunken and disor.
derly negro from the authorities, and ii