The national whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1847, 1847-07-31
She liyeth yet,
NEWS Sc. BY THE MAILS.

NEWS SC. BY THE MAILS.
The track clear. General Houston, the old
Alabama member Of Congress, has again clear.
ed the field Of all independent Democrats, and
he will doubtless be returned to his old seat
The Alabama Democratic Regulars can al
ways scare away these volunteers.
.M,ureliism again. There is fellow by the
name Of Fry 10 Newton county, Miss, who
has revived Murrellism. Rec9htly he ran of
with two negroes Of his employer, a Mr.. San
dali, and one Of Mr.. Sandals sons aged l2
years. One Of the negroes has been retaken,
but the other and the child have not been heard
Of Fry has two accomplices, VIM. and Geo.
Mcintosh, and he processes religion.
Iaylor's Pen. The Cincinnati Gazette, that
took us SO fercely to task for declaring il to be
our opinion that General Taylor never wrote
the Signal letter, says in its number of the 18th
instant, that the old Hero emarshals his ideas
with as much beauty, precision, and effect as
he does his troops True, every word Of it,
but why does not the Gazette state the fact,
that he did not marshal the ideas in the Signal
letter? We asserted he did not, and il is adj
mtted he did not. He is at least innocent OF
the crime ofpenning such letter with his
own hand, We shall soon know whether he
ever signed it.
Flashing IN the West. The Lightning fash
ed upon. GAINESVILLE from Boston on the 23d
instant. BY the middle Of August it will burst
upon Cincinnati, aud by the middle Of Septem.
Der Louisville will be struck by the fluid from
Bunker Hill. u.s. Fl
o. A counterfeiter Of money has been cau'
in Dayton.
The steamboat Chesapeake affair on Lake
Erie is before the U. s. District Court at Co
lumbus Wish the officers and owners could
be made to spend four or five years in solitary
confinement
The Irish Warbler. This is the title they
have given in the West to Mrs. Ablamowicz,
Polish Lady singer. They say she sings with
abandon, which in English means, perfect
rush.
00- A few days ago a little boy was assailed
by steer that had escaped in New Orleans
from his prison house. The child. was pitched
into the air, the horn catching him under the
chin, and waen he fell the animal gored him
terribly and trampled upon him. He would
probably survive.
o. Peter M. Deshong, the wonderful sum
mer up Of figures, is figuring away in New
York. and writing to the Southern papers
abou, his great qualifications. Peter is an ar
rant Figaro.
A Tohmtcer's Testimony. | know lady
in Monterey who is $50 years old; she can walk
four miles per hour; she has a foot l23 inches
broad; her great toe is six inches longer than
the balance of the toes--her height is four feet
six inches, and she is four feet SIX inches round
the waist she has heard as strong as any
man, and wears moustaches. She has been
married seven times"
The Delian Problem Solred.-The Worces-
ter (Md) Shield publishes geometrical solu.
ton of The duplication of the Cube, with dia-
gram, which is so badly executed, and so in
correctly le,tered, that we cannot tell whether
the author has approximated TO theresult or
not. From the description given we think we
recognise the old and only approximate geom-
critically TO the solution Of this question by Eu
Ter.
05-The Mannheim, Lancaster county, (Pa.
Planet has old Zach's flag flying.
Utraism. Whenever any act is done or any
step is taken, either publicly or privately at the
North. and thai act or step can be explained
by reference to the abolition Of slavery, the
press in the slave-holding States gets out of all
temper, and sees abolition dissolving the Union.
On the other hand when the South does any
act, or takes any step no matter how public or
how private, and that act or step can be tor
ured into an explanation by referring il to the
extension Of slavery, the North grows furious.
y angry, and points TO the disruption Of the
Union by the slave power. This ulTaism is
unworthy Of both North and South.
DR.. Hanks has accepted the Presidency Of
he University Of Louisiana. So William and
Mary must try again.
BRowN's. We would call attention to the
advertisement Of the Indian Queen Hotel, a,
Washington, now KEEP, by the sons Of the late
Mr.. Brown, under whose management the
house acquired It's celebrity. Notwithstanding
The number Of excellent new hotels in Wash
ington, Browns retains It's place as delightful
sojourn for the Sou,herner. IN. o. Pic. 2oth
instant.
o. In New Orleans, in three days, 1885 i'm
migrants arrived.
o. Up TO yesterday Baltimore received s.
1872 bbls. Of -four and exported 6,433 bbls.
eJ- Mr.. Charles r. Stewart, il is said, will
be the Wing opponent of Mr.. Lyon. If he is,