The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1847-11-15
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North American has gone to Ashland.
printed in Spanish in the city of Mexico and
leans to the side of the conquerors.
The Wing Caucus at Milledgeville, Ga,
has nominated Judge Berrien and Mr.. Daw-
son for u. S. Senators. They will be cleo
ted of course.
Several of our soldiers who were recently
wrecked on the Bahamas tried to desert at
Nassau, but they were caught and the cap
tors got their $40 head,
Lowndes county, Miss, which has given
McClung, 10, for Congress majority OF 90
gave Polk, in 1914, over 200.
The Democrats Of Missouri are trying to
rule Judge Bowlin off the track for the 3lst
Congress.
The Louisville Courier was to give spe-
cial report of Mr.. Clay's Lexington speech.
Mr.. Engle, Recevero Of Public Monies at
Charlottesville, Ind, is dead.
| 1t was believed in the city Of Mexico, at
last dates, that Macintosh was trying to get
Santa Ana out of the country by the way Of
Tuspan.
| The Americans are buying up wheat in
Canada at great rate.
| The Great Western Canada Railway is
going ahead 6nely--the government guaran-
teeing them bonds for million.
The Navy Department has ordered 1t.
w. F. Lynch to repair to the Dead Sea in
Palestine to make an exploration and survey
of that body of water
Nh Kendall, of the New Orleans Plea
yune, is to be succeeded in Mexico by a
competent correspondent.
Hardy county, Va, has turned out an ear
of corn Is inches long, with 16 rows on it.,
and SO grains to the row.
The Mormon Regiment in California will
not re-enlist They made capital soldiers,
they say.
The majority in Maine for electing Go
vernon by plurality is only 157, and several
towns to hear from.
Silver leaf breaks at the 60,000th part
Of an inch, or three times the thickness Of
gold leaf.
Another planet has been discovered near
star Is ofOrion. This is the fifth new pla-
net brought to light in the last Is months
A mine has been found at lrtusk in Sibe-
ria, in which the gold exists in complete
alloy with silver-a new neurological fact.
Mr.. Croswel has left the Albany Argus
to spend an expired life, as Mrs. Darlington
would say. His successor is Mr.. Litchfield
The friends of Gushing, the Apostate, ac-
cuse the Democrats of refusing to vote for
him. They were right.
The excess Of our imports for the week
ending the 9Th inst, at New York, over our
exports, is above one million. How long
can we stand this
| Last week, in New Orleans, Mr.. Armant,
whose wife brought suit of divorce against
him, attacked her brother, who stabbed him
in four places, but not MORALLY.
i Postmaster in New York having sent
back to the Auburn Advertiser, package
Of that paper with scurrilous epithets written
upon the cover, has been threatened by the
Postmaster General with removal, if he re-
peats the offence.
| Mary Runkle, who was hung at Utica last
week for the murder of her husband, protes-
ted her innocence of that crime and Others
attributed to her.
| The Mount Savage md. Iron Works
have been sold to Connolly & Winslow, o.
Albany, NJ Y, for 1926, 00o-above hall
their value.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has pro-
nounced the black code of that State to be
unconstitutional 1t made it crime for a
negro to enter that State without giving
bonds, SC. Z
The people of West Virginia are going tc
act for ask for an act of incorporation tc
build Rail Road from Parkersburg to in.
tersect the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad al
| Tygat's Valley.
The tolls on the Pennsylvania Canals thi.
: year will exceed one and half millions
) The law aboishing negro slavery in St
, Thomas went into force on the 18th of Sep
TENDER last.
: Judge John Ferguson of the Orphans
) Court of Charles County, Md, died last
! week, aged "a years.
The tide Of emigration is setting into
West Virginia.
A dealer in shirts in shirts and chemises
in New York, calls them male and female
envelopes.
Brick back logs are the best retainers Of
heat for fre-places.
Mustang of the New Orleans Delta is a
Hagerstown Md. boy and named Fraener.
The Ohio State Journal 10. doubts whethe,
any good will result to the country from Mr.
Clay's speech
The Canal tolls received at Utica during
1916, were $47,63l. This year they are
$57, 1913.
When Yankee Doodle was first played in
the Grand Theatre in the City of Mexico,
the audience came near bringing the house
down.
| The sugar crop of Louisiana, it is believed,
| will exceed that of last year 100000 hogs
heads.
One Of the men who helped to massacre
the Goliad prisoners is employed by our Of
icers in the police Of Vera Cruz-Shane
The Monitor of the City of Mexico says
that the statue of Santa Ana changed its
position in the earthquake, and that its up
lifted hand points to our flag, as much as to
say" that's my work"
The East Tennessee Regiment has been
II accented bv the Eyecut;ye