Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-06-06

and Geo. ID. Blsikis. Secretary, Of the wlmnS ton
and Baltimore Railroad Co.
| Our Conieetioners as we'll as Apolheeares have
concluded to close their shops on Sundays
Some NEGROES concerned in the murder OF w. II.
| English OF Mobile, were hung the other day without
any trial.
One hundred and twenty Suffrage men Of woon.
socket X. Island, have renowned Dorr and all his
works.
lhe Baltimore papers say, that the Rev. Doctor
Johns. OF that city has accepted the appointment Of
Of Va.
The Sergeant a, Arms of the House OF Represen-
au'es sin New York. serving subp~nas.
Good Butter is selling in the Phsdephia market
at lsi cents Here II is double that price and none
OF the best. either.
The Postmaster at South Durham. N. Y. has
been arrested for robbing the mail Of package of
money.
The wings Of Louisville. KY, lately held meet.
ing and formed Clay Club.
| The paramount tendency of Locofoeosu, i. IN
| reputation, di'organiEaton and revolution.
The political Gullotiue is kept in constant mo
ton by the new Wing Council, in the City OF
New York. Il, never was moved in moro worthy
cause.
The corner stone OF new Methodist Church,
was lard IN Martinsburs, few days since.
Ahe isucoioco bovcrnots oil Name ana Conn.
seem 10 sympathiZe very strongly with their friend
Dorr-thc latter refusing 10 surrender him on a
tequisition from Gov. King.
A Deputation ofSugar Planters has been appoint.
ed IN Louisiana, 10 proceed 10 Washington, to
urge upon congress the necessity OF protecting and
fostering that great Agricultural interest of the
South.
surgeon Dentist, at Wakefield had to pay
500 short time since, for kissing a young lady,
from whom he had just extrac ted tooth.
Srooxs New York State per cents were sell.
ing IN n. Y. on the lst inst, at 9l!-Oho ditto at
| .st-heniucky do 19-lllinois ut IL, and Indiana
SIS at 81.
SIX Stocking Loco Foeos.-The Chicago Ame.
riean winds up an enumeration of the Arls,ocracy
OF Locoiocoism thus
by the way, speaking Of silk stockings we reeol-
ect that IN what Is sometimes termed the C;overno,s
Room IN the City Hail. New York, there isl full
length painting Of Martin Van Buren,, taken by or6er
OF the Loco Focos while he was Governor OF the
State OF New York. which actually represents him
tricked out in pumps and black Sill Stockings as
nicely as II he had just stepped from bOndbox
The whole painting indeed is remarkably suggestive
| OF cologne water"
Nor TO BE BEAr-On Saturday last III Shade,
Esq, whose piscntory reputation is nearly equal TO
that OF old Isaac Walton himself, caught with hook
\ and line IN Big Buffalo Creek muskeonge Ia spe-
ces OF pike of immense power,l weighing 2OI
pounds. The contest for some time desperate
but the huge creature finally obliged to give
up, and was safely seoured.- BuGalo Commercial
Mr. Sherwood, Philadelphia Florist, has
magnificent Spear Flower, from New Holland, in
tuIl bloom-ihe hrst ever produced IN the country.
The Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, is completed
to Hancock, Md. 100 miles, and by the first of
Oct. will be finished far as Cumbe Iand 40 miles
west Of Hancock.
The apporIionment adopted in the Senate will
give Virginia Is members.
A boy FIVE years old is astonishing the Bostonians
with performances on the Harp.
Queen Victoria has sent a cradle. with the figure
OF nurse holding in her arms an infant, resembling
the Prince OF Wales, all OF pure gold, to their Ma
jesties Of Prussia.
The domestic consumption OF Cotton in this coun.
try amounts to $4,000 bales, per annum.
Amos Kendall has pe,lioned Congress for relief
from Judgment for 81 200 obtained against him
by Stockton & Stokes.
The election OF Mr. NicKennan TO Congress
from the Washington, Pa. District. was the result
OF the activity and energy of the Clay Clubs re-
Gently organized. Let them be established through
out the country at once.
Eek Senator Strange, OF N. C recently declared
that the unparalleled triumph OF the Wings in the
tall OF lS4O, was owing mainly to the idolatrv maid
to Log Cabins and hard Cider by the Ladies
Whnta Monster! We saw during that campaign
1000 Ladies in Log Cabin at one time but there
was no hard Cider 10 be seen-aud we hone to
witness the same glorious enthusiasm again in si4
L ne amount OF Government shin D'asteTs. alias
Treasury No'es,-a currency introduced by Van
Buren, and his SubTreasury associates-now
aAoa', is almost Sl0,OOO,OOO.
The Madisonian says that "tho people have be-
come offended at the impudence of their spoiled DO
liticians." Disguised would be much the better
term and its especial objects are Capt TYLER. his
man Friday, OF the Official organ, aud that beautiful
cluster OF worthless pertaining TO the Kitchen gene
rally.
An arrival at Biluu,ore brings accounts OF the
loss OF one of the British Mail Steamers, from run
ming aground near Turks Island. Name and other
particulars not given.
The trunk OF Col. NJ. Edwards, under arrest in
New York, was examined at the Bank of North
America, Phila, last week, by a special commits
sloner rom N. Y. and found TO contain 500 900 in
gold and Treasury Notes.
DR.. Martin. who wrote himself into one good
othce, IS about commencing a political paper at
Washington, with the view Of obtaining another
His present prospect is not the most cheering.
A Convention Of Presbyterian churches and Mi
nlsters in the West, is to be held at CINCINNATI
this week.
a new and beautiful Methodist Church was rc.
Gently dedicated at Lexington, Ky.-Rey. II Bias.
com preaching on the occasion.
Beauty and wit will die; Learning and wealth
vanish away; all the arts of life be forgotten but
virtue will remain forever Planted on earth in
cold. ungenia cline, it will bloom and riper in
heaven.
The Oldest newspaper in tine United States is the
IN 1857.
The Alabama Bank Notes are now about the
most worthless Of any in the Union. Our brokers
charge from 80 to 80 per cent discount on them and
regard them MS hard bargains at those prices.
The Cashier Of the Planters Bank OF Tennessee
has very suddenly become Texan volunteer-tnk.
ing with him some $4,000 to appropriate to the
patriotic cause
Judge in Georgia is said to have compelled n
Sheriff receive certain bank notes at five per cent
discount, in payment OF executions which were near
ly useless TO the creditor
The l1s, Old Dominion scods loudly nj the dis.
charge o nearly thousand workmen from the Ports
mouth Navy Yard.
a Cool Ons.-Paron Fisk says, in his Inst. that
"prevlOus to the last Presidential election the Wbig
party promised that the expenses Of tho Government
should he only thirteen millions Of dollars per an.
mum"
demon, in human shape, has been convicted IN |
NJ ssour, Of he crime Of numbering his wife by means
OF pounded glass IN her food.
Mr. Senator Crittenden has added 10 his high repu.
taton rs Statesman and able debater in his recent
speeches on the Appouonment bill.
Money isabundant in Boston, and readily obtained
at the banks on good securities.
The n. Y. Daily Aurora Extra, Of mammoth size,
received Saturday evening, contains the entire Re
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