The Iowa patriot. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1839-1839, 1839-08-15
MARcu OF FREE PRINcIpLEs.-The
Legislature of New Hampshire, Isaac

elections. The laws of the same state re-
quire this same class of persons to per-
form military duty and pay taxes.
TIE BRITIsH QUEEN is 275 feet IN
length, and GA in breadth over the paddle
boxes. Besides carrying 1000 tons OF
coal, she has room for 1000 tons Of goods
and three hundred passengers.
The British Queen made an expert
mental voyage to Liverpool, and made the
run from Liverpool to Gravesend, a dis
lance Of 700 miles, in IS hours, being an
average speed Of LII miles an hour. On
the other hand, London correspondent
speaks Of her speed as not being very ex-
.raordinary, '.the power being rather de-
fcient in comparison with the enormous
magnitude Of the ship"
RAILROAD FROM PORTLAND TO LAKE
CHAMPLAlN.-The whole cost of Rail
Road from Portland to Lake Champlaln
(ls8 miles) is estimated at SO, $50, 900.
M1L1TARY.--One hundred raw recruits
destined for Fort Winnebago, under the
command Of Capt. Montgomery U. S. A.,
left Buffalo, few days since, for the
above place.
The ship Mary Rowland, lately arriv-
ed at New York from Liverpool, brought
ten Durham cows and one bull, for the
Hon. Henry Clay. They are said to be
of fine blood and beautiful in FORM
A weekly newspaper for the use Of the
blind has been established at Palermo; in
Sicily.
x-Governor G.. NJ. Troup, Of Geor-
gia, is announced as candidate for the
presidency, in one of the Georgia papers.
The Militia of Pennsylvania amounts
to 2O7, 900 men.
The North American, philadelphia, }
says one of the fashionable amusements
of Ohio, at present, is hog racing. Would
the editor of that print like to take heat!
The "Bugle of Democracy, and gener-
al Wing Exterminator,' is the title of a
new paper about to be started in Illinois.
Oh dear!
The Mississippi at Galena is reported
to be very low and the reports from St.
Peters state that it is still falling.
Henry Bright, first officer Of the pack
ct ship ssLa Duchesse d'Orleans,'' who
stole from that vessel box containing
doubloons, amounting to $4,000, was ar
rested on Saturday, at Baltimore.
The Liverpool Mercury states that &C.
neral Shrzynecki, the heroic leader of the
Poles during the last attempt of that brave
people to obtain their independence, has
been appointed to command the Egyptian
army.
A gentleman of Boston returned to New
York in the Great Western, having been
absent from the country but six weeks, of
which time he spent eight days in Eng
land.
IGNORANCE AND vIcE.-The criminal
tables for 1888, which have been laid be-.
fore the British Parliament, shows that of
23,G94 persons committed for offences,
1884 could neither read nor write, and
of the remainder, l2,3 1884 could read and
write but imperfectly.
A correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce, under date of Val.
paraiso, March goth, states that the wheat
crop there was very short, and it was sup
posed that this article would be very high
during the year.
A bed of zinc ore has been discovered
in the neighborhood Of the village of Adri.
an, Michigan, which yields fifty per cen,
of pure zinc.
A gentleman, who at breakfast the 9TH
er morning, broke an egg, and disturbed
the repose Of sentimental biddy, called
the waiter, and insinuated that he did not
! like to have bill presented '..ill he had
done eating
The city of Bangor is making war up
on the dogs, and has passed an ordinance
requiring five dollars from every man who
suffers his dog to go at large in the city.
The law goes into operation on the first
day Of September.
Military Companies on the Pennsylva.
MIA canals, are by a state law, allowed to
travel toll free; the riots at Harrisburg may
have suggested this idea.
The Chinese are said to have conceiv.
ed horror and antipathy for the steam.
boat which nothing can conquer-they
contend that it is most ssindecent and
disgusting" invention.
A Texas paper states that a large cata
comb has been discovered near Durango
in Mexico, with collection of Mummies
They are in a sitting posture, but have
the same wrappings, bands and ornament
as the Egyptian. Among them was fount
poignard Of flint with sculptured han
die, chaplets, necklaces, &c. Of alternate
~ colored beads, fragments Of bones pol
ished like ivory.
The French frigate "Erwine," arrived
at Rio on the 9th May, from the Fire Is
lands, South Seas, reports the ship Johr
Barr, (whaler,) of Havre, lying there quite
destitute Of hands--the captain, officer.
and crew, having been killed and eaten b,
the savages. Thesfrigate brought two o
the Chiefs to Rio on her way to France
The Western Star Liberty Clay co.
NO. says, the U. S. ARSENAL, which i.
being built near that place, is in a state
completion. The Arms to be deposited
h0~,o r.