The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-03-29

vile, was present, and assisted in the service,
and exhorted the newly consecrated Bishops to
the fulGlment of their duties.-Cin. Com. ooh.
ITEMS.
The Hon. Daniel Webster arrived in Boston
on Sunday morning last
Mohawk, the Indian, was executed according
to his sentence for murder in Butler CO., Penn.
Fifty men recently lost their lives in a coal
mine in Haverfordwest, England, by the Cled-
daw river nundatng the mine in which the men
were at work, under the river.
Duncan C. Ogden, one of the Texan prisoners
lately in the castle of Perote, has been released
Orleans
BY late Arkansas Intelligencer, we learn that
the young men of Van Buren, are forming wha,
they term " Shirt and Pie Club" the avowed
object Of which is to encourage young ladies in
the manufacture of shirts and pies.
Michael Marter, resident of Burlington, N.
j., attempted suicide on Sunday last, by taking
laudanum; this failing, on account of the guam
tity being insufficient, he cut his throat with
knife; but the wound not being very deep, the
probability is that he will recover. The act was
the result of mental depression, caused by pecu-
mary difficulties.
A white man named Joseph Weeks, and
negro named Ned Woods, had a quarrel recently
near st. Clairsville Ohio, when the former after
latter through the heart. Weeks confessed the
murder, and was imprisoned for trial.
The steamer Maid of Iowa passed up the Mis-
sisspp few days SINCE on her way to Nauvoo,
with about 200 passengers on board, all Nor
to be 1000 more coming.
A fire at Castine, Maine, last Wednesday,
consumed the store Of James Hopper, and every
thing connected with the Post Office Of the town
the office being kept in the store Loss, S 900
Louis Philippe recently made visit to Eu-
wishing, as Paris paper asserts, to judge of the
progress made in the Victoria Gallery which he
ordered TO be erected at the chateau, in honor OF
Victoria's visit.
The congregation with which Mr. Bockee, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, is connected, have investigated
the charge brought against him by the girl
McAuley, and have acquitted him.
A duel between two members of the South
Carolina bar, at five PAGES, was to be fought al
abbeville the day after the closing of the last
mail.
The Journeymen Saddle and Furniture Ma
kers OF Philadelphia are now, by resolution of
the society, standing out for an advance Of wages
The advance asked is said to be an average Of
some ten or fifteen per cent, or medium be-
tween the late and former prices.
The exports of Mexico for the year 1912, ex-
elusive Of gold and silver amounted to but one
million five hundred thousand dollars, yet Mex
leo contains population of eight millions. The
exports Of the United States during the same
period amounted to $94,OOO,0o0.
On last Saturday afternoon, the corner stone
of the new Brickmakers' Methodist Protestant
Church, in Schuylkill Third street, below Mar
ket street, Philadelphia, was laid, with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
On Saturday last, week, a little girl about
two years of age, daughter of Patrick Lawler,
was drowned in ST. Louis, by falling into buc-
ket Of water. The child got its head fast in the
bucket whilst its mother was absent and was
drowned before she returned
The Picayune has some original characters
for correspondents. One of them who signs
himself "Frank Markum," gives the editor the
following advice = "
eli you are a cingle man, Pix, talk my advice
and stay so; or, il you will marry-if you must
have wyf-never permit yerself to be over
cumd by wilder! Them's the sentiments of
one who has tried and noes %
Lazy rich girls make rich men poor while
industrious poor girls make poor men rich. Re-
member this, We affected fair ones, whose anti
pathy to putting your hands into cold water is
always getting your husbands into hot
The New Orleans Picayune notices the fact
that fellow who had seen some service in Flo
rida, and who
Brought from the war; as his share Of the plumber
A crack on the crown and the loss of legn
entered cabaret or drinking house in that CITY,
treated himself and sundry others, and when
called upon to pay, said his wooden leg was a
legal tender. Hewas taken before the Recorder
to prove that fact.