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DOMESTIC NEWS. 
Matters at Washington. 
Reliable information just received from Utah, 
states that Judges Sinclair and Cradlebaugh are 
on their way to Washington. Mr. Hartnett, Sec¬ 
retary of the Territory, arrived on the 9th inst. It 
appears that there continues to be frequent mur¬ 
ders and assassinations, hut no arrests, as the 
Mormons systematically obstruct the course of 
justice. The opinion prevails among all the Gen¬ 
tiles, that the courts will be useless unless Govern¬ 
ment changes its policy. General Johnston is so 
governed by his instructions that he cannot afford 
the necessary protection. The continuance of the 
army at Camp Floyd only serves to add to the 
prosperity of the Mormons by means of the large 
sums of money spent in the Territory for supplies. 
The N. Y. Times Washington correspondent 
says, Secretary Floyd has just completed his esti¬ 
mates for the ensuing fiscal year. They are less 
by $1 ,500,000 than those of last year, and half a 
million less than the appropriation for the actual 
year. 
The N. Y. Tribune’s Washington correspondent 
says, the Post-Master General will ask about $10,- 
000,000 for mail service the next fiscal year, — the 
increase being made necessary by the overland 
and other routes established before he entered 
upon the duties of his office. 
While the Cabinet were in session on the 8th 
inst., the President received a dispatch showing 
the pressing necessity for military assistance at 
Brownsville. The Secretary of War within half 
an hour thereafter, issued instructions to Capt. 
Pickett, commanding the artillery company at 
Baton Rouge, to place his men in readiness for 
a march, while at the same time the Quartermaster 
at New Orleans was telegraphed to make arrange¬ 
ments for transporting the troops to Point Isabel, 
towards which place they are now probably on 
their way. J. B. Thomas, the special delegate 
from Brownsville, had an interview with the Sec¬ 
retary of War, and fully explained to him the 
alarming condition of the frontier of the Rio 
Grande. 
The receipts into the Treasury last week were 
$891,000. A reduction from the amount on hand 
in the previous week of nearly $125,000. Amount 
subject to draft $4,141,000. 
Personal and Political. 
John Mitchell, who is now in Paris, has com¬ 
menced a series of letters in a Dublin paper,called 
the Irishman (similar in its politics and designs to 
the Nation,) in which his object is to suggest to 
the Irish peasantry that France will soon be at 
war with England in the Mediterranean, and that 
the opportunity will then have arrived for in¬ 
ducing the Emperor Napoleon to invade Ireland. 
During the past week the telegraph conveyed 
the melancholy intelligence of the insanity of 
Gerrit Smith, and his removal to the Insane 
Asylum. A person writing from Utica to the 
Albany Argus says:—“Gerrit Smith was brought 
to our Asylum yesterday, and is quite deranged, 
intellectually and morally; and he is also feeble 
physically. He refused to take an anodyne, 
alleging that they only wanted to put him to 
sleep for the purpose of boxing him up and takmg 
him to Virginia. When informed that he must 
take it, voluntarily or by compulsion, be opened 
the door and sereamed (into the hall) I protest! 
He then took it.” 
The case is a melancholy one, and it is only 
with emotions of deep regret that we can chron¬ 
icle the obscuration of an intellect so brilliant yet 
of such uncertain light. 
The Republican majority on joint ballot in the 
Ohio Legislature is 27. 
New Jersey. —Returns from New Jersey indi¬ 
cate the election of Olden, Republican candidate 
for Governor, by about 2,000 majority. Senate— 
12 Democrats, 8 Opposition and 1 American 
elected. House— 29 Democrats, 28 Opposition 
and 3 Americans chosen. 
Massachusetts.— Returns from nearly the whole 
State give Banks Rep., majority of upwards of 
9,000 in the whole vote. His plurality over 
Butler, Dem., is upwards of 23,000. Senate 
stands 34 Rep., 4 Dem., 2 doubtful. House 182 
Rep., 50 Dem., and 4 Opposition. The entire 
Republican State ticket is elected. 
Mississippi.' —A special dispatch to the Charles¬ 
ton Courier from New Orleans, states that the 
Mississippi Legislature organized on Tuesday, by 
electing Mr. Drone President of the Senate, and 
Mr. Campbell Speaker of the House. The Gov¬ 
ernor’s inauguration will take place on the 21st. 
Wisconsin.— The returns from Wisconsin are 
yet incomplete. The Milwaukee Sentinel of the 
10th says that those already received confirm the 
opinion that the entire Republican State Ticket is 
elected by a handsome majority, and that the 
Republicans are in the ascendant in the State 
Legislature. 
Louisiana. —The Democratic State Ticket is 
reported to be elected. Slidell, Democrat, and 
Bouligney, American, are elected to Congress. 
In New Orleans the American ticket was tri¬ 
umphant by about 2,500 majority. Nineteen out 
out of the twenty-three city Representatives, and J 
all three of the Senators, are Americans. 
New York. —The election in this State passed 
off very quietly. The vote was exceedingly light. 
That portion of the Republican Ticket which 
received the endorsement of the American Con¬ 
vention, was chosen by a large majority—25,000 is 
the amount claimed—while the remaing portion is 
still in doubt. The Republicans claim the entire 
ticket—figuring a small majority upon those who 
received only strict party support. The position 
this morning (Monday,) is: 
Leavenworth, Republican. 46,541 
Jones, Dem. and Amer. 44,817 
Leavenworth over Jones. 1,724 
The Senate, (on reported majorities,) stands as 
follows: 
Republicans,. 23 
Democrats,. 9 
Taking a like basis for the Assembly, the result 
is thus reported: 
Republicans,. 88 
Democrats,. 34 
To hear from. 6 
The Justices of the Supreme Court chosen are: 
William H. Leonard, W. W. Scrugham, Rufus 
W. Peckham, Democrats; Augustus Bockes, 
Le Roy Morgan, John M. Parker, Addison T. 
Knox, Martin Grover, Republicans. Democrats, 
3; Republicans, 5. It is thought that the Official 
Canvass will be necessary to settle the political 
complexion of a portion of the State ticket. 
Kansas.— Parrot’s majority for delegate from 
Kansas, will probably reach 3,000. The Republi¬ 
cans have a majority in both branches of the 
Legislature. _ 
Mews Paragraphs. 
A late Utah City paper mentions the arrival of 
a company of European Saints who came in fifty- 
six wagons, and numbered about four hundred 
souls, mostly from Scandinavia. There were six 
deaths and three births on their journey of three 
months through the country. 
The California Annual Conference of the M. E. 
Church, at their session in September, passed 
resolutions requesting the next General Confer¬ 
ence to provide for the residence of a Bishop on 
the Pacific coast. 
A student in the University of Virginia, writing 
from that institution, states that “no vestige of 
the marble slab that designated the last resting 
place of the author of the Declaration of Indepen¬ 
dence,” remains to mark the spot. The visitors to 
his tomb, by chipping off fragments, have com¬ 
pletely demolished it, and by piecemeal carried it 
away. An uncouth granite pedestal, greatly dis¬ 
figured, alone remains to mark his grave. 
An anonymous advertisement appears in the 
Richmond Whig, ofiering $10,000 for the delivery 
of Joshua R. Giddings in that city, or $5,000 for 
his head. 
A letter was lately sent from Paris to New 
York and a reply received back in Paris in three 
weeks, four days and nine hours. The Vanderbilt 
out and the Persia back were the mediums of trans¬ 
mission. 
It is stated that the New York snuff manufac¬ 
turers employ hundreds of juveniles whose sole 
business consists in collecting old stubs of cigars, 
which are ground into snuff, and sold to customers. 
According to a late census taken in Georgia, by 
the State authorities, its population is about 1,050,- 
000. In 1850 it had 905,000. Increase in nine years, 
about 150,000. 
It is stated as a curious fact in regard to persons 
who are killed by an explosion of steam, that in 
some cases, a few moments after the accident they 
are apparently unhurt and are able to walk about 
and converse. Where not begrimed by the smoke 
and ashes, the peculiar bright, soft whiteness 
of the face, hands, or breast, however, tells us 
us at once that the skin, though unbroken, has in 
fact been boiled by the steam, and they soon sink 
from the result of their injuries. One man on the 
Great Eastern, when assistance was proffered, said 
quietly, “I am all right. Others are worse than I; 
go after them,” while at the moment, though walk¬ 
ing about, the flesh of his thighs was burnt in 
deep holes, and he was the very first to die. 
In New Jersey the ether day a young couple 
while courting by the fire fell asleep. While 
asleep the young lady’s dress took fire. As soon 
as they awoke, the young man made every exertion 
to extinguish the fire, but without success. The 
youDg girl rushed out ef the door enveloped in a 
sheet of flame, which continued to burn antil her 
clothiDg was all consumed. She lived only a few 
hours afterwards. The young man will probably 
be crippled in the hands for life. 
The disappointment concerning the Great East¬ 
ern’s visit has been a great injury to Portland, 
says the Argus. Much has been expended in 
various ways in anticipation of her presence and 
the crowd it would draw, which will be a partial or 
total loss. It has also had the effect to delay and 
embarrass business transactions. 
The Clerk of the Cincinnati Probate Court the 
other day issued a marriage license for the union 
of a man of sixty with a buxom damsel of sixteen. 
The old man, a rickety old chap, said the disparity 
in their years was more than counterbalanced by 
what he called the “ unusual amount of affection” 
that existed between them. 
Some of the Iowa papers Cod fault with the 
Governor’s proclamation for a day of thanksgiving, 
because in it is the assertion that the State has been 
blessed with a plentiful harvest this year, whereas, 
they say, every one knows that there wa3 but half 
a crop ! 
R. L. Davenport, son of Lewis Davenport, of 
Holyoke, Mass., suddenly disappeared from West- 
field about three years ago, and nothing was known 
of his whereabouts. A letter has just been received 
by his father, announcing his death at Kurrachee 
in the Scinde, India. It seems he joined an artil¬ 
lery company of the English army in India, and 
survived the late war to die a natural death. 
The Requisition for Gerrit Smith.— During 
the past week the telegraph has several times 
announced, upon “ undoubted authority ,” that 
Gov. Wise had made a demand upon Governor 
Morgan for the delivering of Gerrit Smith to 
Virginia. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., on 
the 12th inst., states, “on the highest authority, 
that no requisition has been made by Gov. Wise 
on Gov. Morgan, of New York, for Gerrit Smith.” 
Thanksgiving.— We find, by gathering the 
proclamations together, says the Rochester Dem¬ 
ocrat, that the good old Yankee observance of 
Thanksgiving is to be honored this year in seven¬ 
teen States on the same day. The following are 
the States that it will observe the day on the 24th 
inst:—New York, North Carolina, Alabama, 
South Carolina, Connecticut, New Hampshire, 
Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Kentucky, 
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, 
Maryland, Ohio, and Kansas. Mrs. Sarah Jane 
Hale, a well known literary lady, has been active¬ 
ly interested in procuring the assent of the Gov¬ 
ernors of the different States to the appointment 
of a uniform dav of Thanksgiving. She proposes 
that the las?V , ‘Wfe rs day of November, shall be 
made the regular day of National Thanksgiving, 
and she has procured the assent of the Governors 
of some of the above named States to that ar¬ 
rangement. 
The Insurrectionists. —Cook, Coppie, Green 
and Copeland have been found guilty. Copeland 
and Green are negroes, and the jury, under the 
“ Dred Scott decision,” did “not find them guilty 
of treason, as they are not citizens, but of inciting 
the slaves to insurrection, and murder in the first 
degree.” When the prisoners were brought out 
for sentence, the negroes Copeland and Green 
declined to say anything. Cook and Coppie both 
addressed the Court, denying that they had any 
knowledge of Brown’s intentions to seize the 
Ferry, until the Sunday previous. They were 
called on to take the oath of obedience to their 
commander. They expected to be punished, but 
did not think they would be hung. 
The negroes are to be hung on the morning of 
the 16th, and the whites on the afternoon of the 
same day. 
From California. —The steamship Atlantic 
from Aspinwall, the 20th ult., with 344 passen¬ 
gers and $1,569,107 in treasure, arrived at New 
York on the 10th inst., with California news. 
Gen. Scott arrived at San Francisco on the 17th, 
and received a flattering ovation from the people. 
He left the next day for San Juan. The Saranac 
had arrived at Aspinwall and San Juan del Norte, 
with news that Rummels had really obtained a 
contract with Nicaragua for opening the transit 
route. The contract is for $50,000. No passenger 
tax to be paid, the government receiving $15,000 
per annum. The Harbor of the San Juan was 
fast filling up. 
Mexico. —The New Orleans Picayune speaking 
of Americans in that ill-fated Republic, says:— 
“ We have seen our limited numbers robbed of 
their property, and thinned by imprisonments, 
banishments and assassinations, without exciting 
any positive action at Washington. We have 
witnessed the gradually increasing hatred and 
cowardly animosity against us until an apparent 
climax has been reached in the brutal assassina¬ 
tion, and hanging afterwards, of one of our num¬ 
ber, Mr. Chase, (as you doubtless already have in¬ 
telligence,) to whom fame accords nothing but an 
unblemished name.” 
From Texas. —We have advices from Browns¬ 
ville, to the 24th ult. Cardinas and his band still 
continue their depredations, threatening the in¬ 
habitants with fire and sword. On the 20th inst., 
thirty men entered and fired one round, when 
they were dispersed by artillery and fled. On the 
24th,-and twenty men, with cannon and 
howitzers, marched against Cardinas, and drove 
the guard from his house. Subsequently they 
were surprised in an ambuscade, and lost a cannon 
and howitzer, and finally were entirely defeated, 
with four men wounded and one killed. Cardinas 
lost two men, killed. Cardinas sent a letter de¬ 
manding of the citizens of Brownsville that they 
should surrender the Sheriff - and others, to save 
the city from destruction. A general panic pre¬ 
vailed at Brownsville. The city was barricaded 
and trenches dug for defence. An attack was 
hourly expected. It was reported that after sack¬ 
ing Brownsville, Cardinas would attack Brazos. 
The Mayor of Brownsville appeals to New Orleans 
for 100 men, as their own citizens are worn out, 
and the rangers had not arrived from Mexico.— 
Sixty felons released from the prison at Victoria 
had joined the Guerilla band, and were devastating 
the country. 
Great Britain.— The following is taken from 
♦he Liverpool Daily Post of the 27th Oct:—“The 
public will learn this morning, with overwhelming 
grief, that the splendid vessel, the Royal Charter, 
was totally lost yesterday in Muffa Bay, near 
Bangor. The melancholy intelligence was brief, 
but only too true—out of the 465 persons on board, 
only ten were saved. The Royal Charter had 
about half a million of gold when the disaster took 
place. The telegraph had eeased to work, and so 
destructive had been the storm along the coast 
yesterday, that the Chester and Birkenhead Rail¬ 
way had been destroyed in many places. At 
Penmanaw, 20 of the dead bodies had been washed 
ashore. The bay in which the catastrophe occur¬ 
red, is two or three miles to the eastward of Puffin 
Island, in Anglesea, and six or seven miles to the 
northwest of Beaumarris. It has a shallow, sandy 
beach for several miles, with promotories at each 
end of the bay. The country around is wild, and 
few houses are to be seen.” 
Another heavy gale had been experienced on the 
English coast, but no disasters to American ship¬ 
ping had jet been reported. 
The widow of Sir Robert Peel is dead. 
France.— A letter purporting to have been 
written by Napoleon to the King of Sardinia, 
dated October 20th, ha3 found its way into print. 
There was some doubt of its authenticity, but it 
was generally regarded as genuine. The Paris 
correspondent of the London Times, who started 
the letter, guarantees its authenticity. 
The Emperor writes to the King to settle with 
him the course which ought to be followed for the 
future. The circumstances, he says, are grave, 
and it is requisite to lay aside idle allusions. He 
says that the question is not now, whether he has 
done well or ill at Villa Franca, but rather to 
obtain from the treaty the results most favorable 
for the pacification of Italy, and the repose of 
Europe. It is necessary to conclude a treaty that 
shall secure in the best manner possible the inde¬ 
pendence of Italy-which should satisfy Piedmont, 
and yet should not wound the Catholic sentiment 
of the rights of sovereigns, in whom the Pope felt 
an interest. The Emperor gives in detail his views 
as to the mode in which his object may be best 
accomplished, and adds,—it is the real interest of 
your Majesty to second me ia the development of 
the plan, in order to obtain from it the best 
results; for your Majesty cannot forget that I am 
bound by treaty, and I cannot, in the Congress 
about to open, withdraw myself from my engage¬ 
ment. The part of France is placed before hand. 
The plan itself is already known. The Emperor 
demands that the Dutchess of Parma shall be 
called to Modena. Parma is to be united to 
Piedmont, and Tuscany augmented, perhaps, by a 
portion of territory, is to be restored to the Grand 
Duke Ferdinand, and a system of moderate liberty 
shall be adopted in all the States of Italian confed¬ 
eration, with the Pope as Honorary President. 
This increase of his moral influence, would 
enable him to make concessions in conformity 
with the legitimate wishes of the population. 
The letter attracted much attention, and some 
English journals see in it good reasons why 
England should refuse to join the Congress. 
The French government has given orders for 
100 gun boats, 25 of which are to be completed 
with the utmost despatch. 
The Minister of War has placed materials of 
war at the disposal of the Spanish Government, 
and has declared that the Emperor shall support 
the military operations of Spain in a war against 
Morocco in a similar way to those made to 
Piedmont during the late war. 
Italy. —The Times Ministerial asserts that the 
Sardinian Cabinet has not adhered to the diplo¬ 
matic arrangements by which Italy has been dis¬ 
posed of at Lurich, and in case of Romagna being 
attacked Piedmont will take the field to assist 
them. 
According to advices from Sicily the insurrec¬ 
tion there had not ceased. Reinforcements of 
troops are being dispatched. Numerous arrests 
were made. 
The Pope, according to several journals, has 
accepted the several principles of reform that has 
been suggested, but desires to be himself the judge 
of the time they shall be applied, and herein is 
the difficulty. 
Napoleon bad written a letter to the King of 
Sardinia, urging him to carry out the Villa Franca 
agreement. In the letter he says that France 
demands that the Duke be recalled to Modena, 
that Parma be united to Piedmont, and that 
Tuscany, with an augmentation of her territory, 
be restored to the reign of the Grand Duke, and 
that the projected confederation on the basis of 
moderate reforms be carried out. 
Spain.— The Spanish Government have charter¬ 
ed all the steam packets which run between its 
ports and Marseilles, for the conveyance of the 
expedition against Morocco. 
The Queen offered to contribute part of her civil 
list, and to sell her jewels towards defraying the 
expenses of the war. 
Marching orders have been given to the troops 
which are to join the expeditionary army against 
Morocco. Marshal O’Donnell will start at the end 
of the week. 
From Mexico. —The steamship Tennessee, from 
Vera Gruz on the 8th inst., arrived at New Orleans 
on the 11th. The Liberal expedition against 
Tehuacan, Orizaba and Cordova proved a disas¬ 
trous failure. Gen. Mejia retreated without firing 
a gun, losing 600 men, who were taken prisoners; 
also 1,000 muskets and 12 cannon, which Gen. 
Minion captured without killing a man. Gen. 
Marquiza had pronounced for Santa Anna, after 
seizing a conducta with $2,800,000 in specie, 
which he undertook to escort to Tepic. He ap¬ 
propriated $600,000 to himself, and detained the 
rest at Guanajuato. The British and French 
Ministers had energetically protested against this 
conduct. Gen. Miramon, against the wishes of 
his Cabinet, with only four aids, had left the 
Capital, ostensibly to collect troops and pursue 
Marquiza as a traitor, but it was feared that he 
was really leagued with him. The Liberals were 
greatly encouraged thereby. Gen. Degollado had 
defeated Alford, capturing his artillery, and 
entering Guanajuato with 5,000 men. Gen. Wool, 
at Legros, and Gen. Degollado were pushing on to 
attack him. 
— They had a delightful fall of snow at Quebec on 
the 5th inst 
— The «ost of living ia onr cities has increased 10 per 
cent in 10 years. 
— Letters from Paris state that the old Prince Jerome 
Bonaparte is dying. 
— The proposition to annex "Western Florida to Ala¬ 
bama has been defeated. 
— The aggregate public debt of Virginia on the 1st 
of October was $80,190,009. 
— The New Hampshire Gazette has entered upon it* 
one hundred and fourth year. 
— The coinage of the United States Mint during 
October amounted to $349,661. 
— There is a new Swedish singer, Mile. Roesk, who 
is said to be equal to Jenny Lifad. 
— On the 25th ult., 35 proprietors of real estate went 
under the hammer at Philadelphia. 
— Mr. Everett is writing an article on Washington 
for one of the foreign encyelopmdias. 
— Highway robberies were never so frequent in and 
about New York, as during the last month. 
— St. Louis has manufactured more lager beer than 
she can drink, and is therefore in utter despair. 
— Thirty flounces per dress, and not one less, is said 
to be the last order from fashion’s head-quarters. 
— A writer in the Medical Gazette cautions patient* 
against the use of soap in any cutaneous disorder. 
— The authorities of Missouri have offered a premium 
of $3,000 for the best plan of a national monument. 
— Plans for a new hospital, on an extensive scale, 
have been adopted by the City Council of Cincinnati. 
— A monstrous alligator found Us way into Mr. Ilait- 
ley’s residence at Galveston, Texas, a few weeks ago. 
— The colored peopie of Canada have been holding 
a meeting to consider the expediency of seeking a new 
home. 
— Mary Howit, the distinguished English authoress, 
has announced her belief in the doctrines of Sweden¬ 
borg. 
— The Hon. Mr. Burlingame and the Hon. M. J. Par¬ 
rott, of Massachusetts, have gone to hunt buffaloes out 
West. 
— The Boston Traveller says that the business of 
the world has not reached the capacity of the tunnage 
afloat 
— Last Saturday «0t£e four miles of drives in the 
Central Park, New York, were thrown open to the 
public. 
— The funeral of Mr. Mason, late U. S. Minister to 
France, took place at Richmond, Va., on Sunday, the 
80th ult. 
— Three bears were killed the other day in Cambria 
Co., Pa., by a farmer. They had come right up to his 
front door. 
— There never has been an execution in our country 
for Treason. John Adams pardoned Fries and his 
associates. 
— Mies Thompson, in Tennessee, has recovered j 
$15,000 in a suit for a breach of promise against Mr, 
Patterson. 
— A number of interesting drawings and manu- | 
scripts, by Michael Angelo, have just been discovered 
at Florence. 
— During the present Napoleon’s reign, the French 
have constructed railways to the extent of more than 
4,500 miles. 
— John A. Washington has lost all the money he > 
received for the Mount Yernon estate, by speculating 
in Chicago lots. 
— The Arizona papers say that Col. Bonneville had 
given orders for an immediate campaign against the J 
Apache Indians. 
— Sir John Bowring expresses his opinion that Ghina . J 
will yet be a great cotton-growing country, and will 
supply England. 
— The Tuscan Government has, by a decree of the 
15th of Sept., raised Major Gen. Garibaldi to the rank 
of Lieut. General. 
— The sale of Rufus Choate’s library, just completed 
by auction, will realize to his family about $15,000—less 
than half it cost. 
— Capt. Joseph Wood of West Lebanon, N. H. has 
reached his one hundredth year, and his faculties re¬ 
main unimpaired. 
— Gen. Twiggs has gone to the Rio Grande to drive 
off the Red Skins who threaten to ravage the settle¬ 
ments on its border. 
— The merchants and business men of Califqrnia 
design to erect a monument to the memory of the late 
Senator Broderick. 
— Mr. Alfred Robinson, of Hartford, has, in his pos¬ 
session, a Hebrew shekel, which is supposed to be more 
than 8,000 years old. 
— One hundred different patents have been issued in 
France for as many different styles of that favorite 
garment, “ crinoline.” 
— The Massachusetts Legislature has passed an act 
providing for the establishment of a nautical branch of 
the State Reform School. 
— The Choctaw nation numbers about 18,000. They 
have diminished since they left Alabama. They still 
hold their lands in common. 
— A new mineral spring has been excavated at Sara¬ 
toga. The spring was struck at a depth of 47 feet, issu¬ 
ing from two Assures in the rock. 
— Rosa Bonheur, the renowned female artist, shortly 
intends visiting America, with a view of studying the 
life of our prairies and backwoods. 
— During August, 89,835 ounces of gold were depos¬ 
ited in the San Francisco mint; 36,620 ounces of silver 
were purchased; $962,000 coined. 
— Prof. Lowe commenced inflating his balloon at 
Reservoir Square, New York, on the 1st, and expects 
to start for Europe in a fortnight. 
— The male births in Europe surpass the female 
4 ,000,000 every year, but are balanced by the greater 
number of accidents to males. 
— In Mobile, Ala., the other day, a fisherman pulled 
up a half pint bottle. A crab had got into it and grown 
so large that he could not get out. 
— The persons who killed Pres’t Geffrard’s daughter 
in Hayti, confess that they did it in order to attract her 
father to the spot and then kill him. 
- Mr. Joseph Cline died in Freeport, Ill., Inst week > 
m the bite of a cat. He was bit in the finger, and in 
ir days died, in the most intense agony. 
— Seven ships of the English Channel fleet were un 
r orders to prepare for sea immediately, the destina- 
n of which is said to be Vancouver’s Island. 
- A racoon entered a church in Princeton, Ill., d ur " 
j service, and created much stir among the crinoline. 
was captured and “ taken out of meeting.” 
— The clause in the Kansas Constitution excepting 
> homestead from attachment for debt was separately 
Knitted to the people, and adopted by a large maj. 
