The national whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1847, 1847-05-10
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.


votes, voted down grog licenses by 407 majo-
rity, and decided in favor of the city's subscrb-
ing to the Frankfort and Louisville Railway,
by majority of ll8l votes.
The well known steamboat, Duke of Or.
leans, was burnt last week 80 miles below ST.
Louis, Mo-, with cargo of hemp.
Two inches and twenty hundredths of
rain fell at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the month Of
April.
The 9th instant (May) was observed in
South Carolina as day Of thanksgiving and
prayer. aaiiee
General Taylor, says the N. O. Bulletin.
will lose 1900 bales Of cotton by the overflow
Of his plantation above Vicksburg.
The people Of New Orleans have signifed
their intention not to illuminate the city until
peace is made with Mexico.
The law in England now limits the rum
ming of the Factories to SO hours per week.
---One thousand and more Of the churches
at Shanghai hear the Gospel preached every
Sabbath, and the knowledge Of the LORDS
prayer is common among the hearers.
"A poor Irishman was rewarded with a
shilling the other day by brother Of Wall
street, New York, for finding $1,000 bill
which the latter had dropped in the street,
The honest Hibernian threw the shilling in the
face Of the mean donor.
-There are IA daily newspapers printed in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
/ r all IF Dali
killed herself with laudanum because she dis
covered that her husband was faithless to her.
She had lived with him IL years.
"A company is about to be chartered in N.
York for Building Houses for the poor.
THE first Railroad ever built in the United
States was constructed by H. McAlpin, near
Savannah, Ga, in January, 1920. q" N
THE Revenue Cutter Legare is at New
4 York.
THE Irish Relief Fund Of Nashville
amounted TO $4,000 last week.
Over 5000 families changed residences
in New York the LIST instant, at an expense Of
$74, 900.
-They are going to build canal across
the Isthmus of the head of the bay of Fundy,
between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
The arrest Of drunkards in the city sof N.
York for the month Of April was Sill.
THE Georgians have sent to Ireland provi-
sions, SIC. amounting in value to $l2, 900 near
|ly. III
MIR. Webster reached Wilmington, N. c.,
on the 9Th instant, and was warmly received
by the inhabitants.
| No definite arrangement has been come
10 in regard to carrying the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad to Wheeling. The cost Of the
route is to be revised first-General Duncan,
: of Louisville, KY, is spoken Of as Mr.. Thorn
asson's successor. Duncan is sterling Wing.
and an able man. 2t14
I've learn from the Richmond Enquirer
that the Right Rev. Bishop Johns has declined
!. the Presidency of William and Mary College.
The Phjla'phia Pennsylvania expresses
f the opinion that President Polk win reverse the
sentence of Lieut.. Hunter, for taking Avara-
| do, SC.
-Cassius NJ Clay and fis brother prisoners
have returned to Saltillo from their captivity.
}-Exract de Palo Alto and Extract du Gen.
Taylor are two perfumes invented recently by
] Hauel Of Philadelphia, and pronounced by the
4 u. S. Gazette TO be like their names-in first
rate order.
j Mrs. Rowand, Of Charleston, s. c.. who
ordered one of her slavesto beat another Of her
slaves until the latter died, has been acquitted
j of the charge of murder.
Lower is in Cincinnati.
They talk of raising Regiment Of accli-
mated men in Louisiana to garrison Vera
Cruz, Tampico, sc. H sa,
The Baron Rothschild bought grain and
-four to the value Of Ave millions Of dollars
last winter, and is now selling it to the poor in
4 Paris at cost. slira I'll Sai g.s 1aisg aa
1.-THE Wings Of Madison county, Ca, have
nominated old Zach for the Presidency.
The Pacha Of Damascus lately issued a
proclamation TO the women Of that city, in
which he enjoined them to be more strictly
yelled when they went abroad, or that he
would cut off the noses Of all who dsobeyed
his orders. ii a sais.ss
The Caledonia brought out two and half
millions Of specie. tasss m
The Catworm has appeared in the Parish
of ST. Landry, La, and is said TO be doing in
jury to the cotton plant.
Priest O'Reilly writes home from the seat
of war that the whole army, officers and men;