Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-07-10
SUMMARY.
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The Wing Convention of Maryland
have unanimously nominated the Hon.
John F. Steel, of Dorchester county, for
the Office of Governor. The election is
to be held in October next. Mr.. Steel
was member Of the last Congress.
Mr.. Catherwood's circular building at
the corner Of Prince and Mercer streets,
near Broadway, is nearly completed, and
in few days the splendid panoramas of
Jerusalem and Niagara will be opened to
the public.
The Newark Daily Advertiser cautions
the public against Mr.. Harrington, who
is, without any authority to do SO, collec.
ting money for the benefit of the Charles.
ton sufferers.
Eleven of the crew Of the sloop of
war Levant, deserted short time since.
while the sloop was lying at Pensacola.
The commander offers reward .of $50
for each Of them The deserters are all
Americans, 4 from Connecticut, from
Maryland, 8 from New York, 9 from
Massachusetts, and / from Maine.
There was violent hail storm al Fort
Ann, Washington county, on the 22d ult.
Some of the stones are said to have been
three quarters of an inch in diameter.
A full grown lynx was shot near Fort
Ann, Washington county, a few days
since.
Five thousand one hundred and seven
ty one dollars have been collected in New
Orleans for the sufferers by the Charles
ton fire.
The ship Actress at New Orleans from
Liverpool, brought 100000.
The Lowell Courier expresses q belief
that the population of that city has in.
creased during the past year, notwith.
standing the hard times, and that it now
numbers at least 10000.
A committee of the Board of Assis.
tant Aldermen, consisting Of Murray,
| Hoffman, and Morris Franklin, have re.
ported that an Act for the registration of
voters in the city of New York may law.
fully be passed; and that the same is es.
sential for the well-being Of the city, and
the preservation of the right of suffrage.
FOrty-seven recruits for the United
States service, arrived mere yesterday
from the North. They were enlisted
at Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany. A
majority of them, our informant SAYS, are
foreigners, and one Navy Island Pat
riot"
The Gazette states that the Rev. DR..
Eastburn of this city, has declined the ap.
pointment of the Bishop of Maryland, to
which he had been invited.
The new steam ship British Queen, be.
longing to the "British and American
Steam Navigation Company of London,
was to be hoated out Of dock on Victoria's
birthday, oath May.
A State Colonization Convention, called
by the Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen,
Samuel L. Southland, r. F.. Stockton,
and others, is to be held at Trenton on the
10Th Of next month.
i Mr.. Michael Paff, who died in this city
last Sunday of apoplexy; aged IS years,
used to say that he was the first person In
New York who put curb stone into
street, plate glass into a window, or
granite front into building.
We learn from the Edenton Gazette,
that Gen. Scott had made requisition on
the Governor of North Carolina for one
regiment of Infantry, to aid him in the re-
noval of the Cherokees. The regiment
consists of ten companies, numbering Sc
ven hundred and eighty men, exclusive of
field officers.
/ OF fifty seven conVicts committed to
the Connecticut prison. the year preceding
April, 1887, forty-two were intemper-
ate.
Locomotive engines have been ordered
from the foundry Of Thomas Norris, Phil.
adelphia, for railroads in Austria, Saxo-
ny, Germany, and switzerland.
The following is the recent order Of
the Post Master General: "Letter pos
tage is to be charged on all hand-hills,
printed or written !; prices current, propo-
sails for new publications, circulars, lotte.
~ bills and advertisements, blank forms,
deeds, law processes, policies Of insurance,
and manuscripts copy for publication. AL
50, letter postage On all packets that are
closely enveloped and sealed, SO that what
) they contain cannot be known.
Lowell appears lively.--all her facio-
RES are il operation. We however fsll
sad, when we thought of the thousands d
Gods handy work, imprisoned in her
enormous factories.
A frantic lunatic, a colored man, Is.
capped from the Philadelphia Alnishouse
on Friday evening, and 80 violently as.
saulted Waterman, (John Bats with Z
club, as to Gauss instant death. Muchex
element was reused against the blacks
until the Mayors proclamation declared
the man a lunatic. A militia company
was ordered out.
There is curious collection of pictures
) at the S;uyvesani institute. Dc Is, callet
) the Wool Gallery. They ere made d
the afrangsmsnl of wool. Of various
shades Of color. ina manner entirsly usS
!. and are the work Of some efandchiI drsl
s 81 the Rev, Mr. Jay, 81 Bath, England
+ whose works "a devotional subjects ers s
s extensively circulated ia this country.
al There are le5 poor houses il assa