Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-05-25
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OF May, the Senate concured Yesterday
IN the amendment. So that the 9TH is the
day fixed for the ad journment-- AID. Arg
A LARGE SCHOOL FUND-The school
fund OF Connecticut, amounts to two mill
lions, and its income is over one hundred
thousand dollars.
Clark, for attempting to blow up the anti
slave depository, at Hartford, was bound
over to answer at Count.
Queen Victoria has pardoned Musgrave,
who committed rape on a beautiful girl
aged l6, who was condemned to die!
A FEARFUL IMPENDING FATE!-The St.
John Chronicle, speaking of war be-
tween Great Britain and the U. States,
says, "we see nothing to prevent the total
humiliation, by Great Britain, of the IT,
States, as nation" Pro-di-ge-ous.
A COOP BEGINNING.-On the Sd ult.
Lord Burlington, the new lord lieutenant
of Ireland, arrived in Dublin. 1t is said he
refused to receive an address from the cor
poration, as it contained some offensive
expressions; and thot he had, 1.-THE better
to show his dislike of party colors, chang
ed the hue Of his liveries fro - ORANGE TO
yellow.
The following is the report of the COM
mlttcc oy the judiciary against the petit
lions csAing for the passage of a law abol-
lshlng capital punishment--they say -
fap f,t
ON. and discern the correspondence of mo-
ton to action, is, to your committee incvi-
table, that any relaxation of the existing
penalty Of death for murder afore though,
would be but disguised premium for its
more frequent occurrence.
ANOTHER FEvER.--A new species of
cotton feed is now rselling in Alabama at
80 cents a kernel!
The Picayune says-and Pic knows
something about eating and drinking:
transact your business before eating
then devote the remainder of the day to
dinner, wife, family, the ladies and intel
scctual amusement.
The Rhode Island wings ought to give
Sprague-their defeated candidate for Co
yernor--a dinner, for there is no reason
why he should not he as hungry as Rives
and IaIlmado.
Persons betting on elections, by a late
law Of Maryland, on being convinced of
the office, are subject to fines, varying
from fifty dollars to five hundred.
A bill for the prevention of illegal voting
has been introduced into the Legislature
of New York
At Albany, Schenectady, Little Falls
and Rome, in ten days, from the opening
of canal navigation, forty thousand five
hundred and eighty two dollars were re-
ceived.
Genuine Whiggism--A correspondent
ofthe Providence Journal exclaims--
"Oh, the miscries o.. free Suffrage"
1t is in contemplation to erect splen-
did Catholic Church in Natchez. On Mon
day last an election for trustees was held,
and seven appointed. 1t appears the
church there is the owner, in free simple,
Of a large amount Of property.
The Philadelphia Ledger Of the 18th
inst, says the accounts from every quar-
ter of the country, speak Of the crops this
season, being more promising then they
have been for number ofyears
The act of the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture granting 100000 dollars to the
Western Railroad, has received the Go
vernors's signature, and il now a law.
The CRoPpY, is the name of a new work
by the .O'Hara family" 1t is said to be
emphatically Irish, and pictures the sffer-
ings of a portion of that people, during
ne times of political troubles, with great
fidelity.
Thestoamer Mediator on her trip down,
when rounding to, to wood, above Hen
derson, struck snag and sunk. The car
90 was considerably damaged, but it is
supposed the boat will be raised.
The Buffalo Republican says that this
apostatizing must be very hungry bust
ness, for as soon as Rives, Talmadge, or
any such fellows turn traitors, the feds
begin to give them dinners.
A daily-the American being the
first in Illinois,) has been commenced at
Chicago.
There has been no Court in Carroll
County, owing the illness of Judge Shat
tuck.
We notice that in public meeting re-
Gently held in London, the private debts
in Great Britain are set down at $780,
000,O00,000!
Chancellor Dessasure Of South Carroll
ma, one of the Oldest and most distinguish
cd jurists of that State, is dead.
Lord Ponsonby, the ambassador at Con
stantlnople, has been made an Irish Wis
count.