The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1848-01-08

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Mn. BORIS was asked before the holidays who,
tller he was going home to spend the Christmas
No. he replied, Il am going home 10 get my
cttersh
Some Of the people in Virginia do not receive their
newspapers containing the proceedings Of Congress-
called upon gentlemen to give heed to the mandates
Of boards of trade TO tho desires OF people north and
SOUTH everywhere, to relieve the Postmaster General
from the difficulties In which no had involved him
sef -
III A dispatch from Cincinnati states that the
steamer Sea Bird, from New Orleans for 81. Louis
loaded with over one thousand kegs of powder, took
fire on Wednesday, near Cape Girardean, and blew
up iDe e,nlosion was ! tremendous one and wa,
heard at a distance Of 40 miles. The boat was, Of
course blown to atoms. The passengers and crew
luckily escaped before the explosion.
s-y Cave johnson, our Postmaster General, pro-
fesses to be great champion of free trade. He ia
jse trads be admitted into his own department Of the
put down Every thing in the shape Of private express
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DsrAIcArsor AZ m. Mnsr---It was snnounced
yesterday that cass Of default has occurred al the
United States Mint In this city. Rankal Hutchin-
son, who has been employed IN the Mint az clerk
$4,000 Of the ordinary fund provided for the pay
men Of the incidental expenses of thu Mint of which
fund he had the Immediate charge. Phad. North
American, Jan. z
LlKENEss OF Mn. DALtAs.-Mr. Hofy (says the
Philadelphia North Amercan) has Autographed a
likeness OF the Vice President, from daguerreotype
by Root II y enough like him, to give casting
vote against Pennsylvania interests or northern prin.
ciples. His friends win be delighted with it.
IN The contract for building the Telegraph from
Lexington TO Nashville has been taken BY W. Tan.
ner editor Of the Frankfort Yeoman and Paul Shaft
ner. &
A CHAsH--The large Hotel which Mr. Cozzens
has been enclosing during the autumn and winter,
mile below West Point fell into mass Of ruins last
Sunday morning, The basement was Of stone, some
ton feet high, and the 3uperstructlre of wood four
or Ave stories high. The rafters were up, when the
whole structure Of wood fell into the centre
5-1f man named Sudbury, against whom there
is an Indictment for shooting his father in this coun
" three or four years ago, was arrested in
Monday, and placed in jail. He has been in Florida,
we understand, since the murder was committed
and was on the point Of leaving to go back there
when arrested Wilmington NJ 6. Chronicle
ARREsT.--It is stated In letter to the WHINING.
ton Delawarian, that man has been arrested and
taken to Phiadelphia from the neghborhood Of Port
Deposit, charged with being concerned in the rob
berry Of DR. Darlington Of the West Chester Bank.
II Gov. Young, Of NJ York, in his annual mes
sage, says
"The country, always ndisposed To war, would
receive with Joy intelligence Of nn honorable peace
Tut 10 render peace honorable, think she would
demnnd, and has right 70 require, that II shall be
accompanied with such Indemnity rs, upon the page
Of history, will be evidence Of an Acknowledgment
BY Mexico Of the superiority Of our armies"
al, Mr.. Buchanan has been nominated for the
Presidency by the Democrats Of Warren county
ar The Sandy and Beaver Canal has been com
ploted. Itcommences us Glasgow on the Ohio river
distant about forty miles from Pitsbnrg, and passing
through the richest agricultural region OF the State
mr. In n of Al
Ohio canal, sevenly-three miles from the beginning
III A letter from Prague Of the 9Th inst, in the
Cologne Gazette, states that an order had been re-
ccived to place all the troops Of Bohemia in,mcdi-
ately on a war footing.
SIR Another fiiremans fight came OFF on Wcdnes.
day last in the city Of brothcrly love.
a-.5. The great question Can n man marry him
seIflp ia now before tho courts Of New York, and
will be decided In day or two. NJ
ST. Louis, Jan. 6.--Thc Mississippi is clear Of ice,
and boats arr reghting for the upper rivers There
is six feet of water at Cairo.
The ISrLuEszA. Throughout the length and
breadth Of the British isles has this epidemic been
raging, as well as In most parts Of the continent of
Europe, In London, nearly one half Of the persons
employed IN public and private establishments have
been laid up. On one day alone there were $50 clerks
and others absent from tho Post Office and 200 OF
the police force of duty. In the country all
classes have suffered from II. M
TT Dr. Lardner Is acting aa Paris correspondent
for the London Daily News.
oanoco river, venszuela-the Government OF TINT
country having granted charter to vespasan FL
lis, Esq, for the purposos about TO 90 into opera
ton. The capital necessary $500 0o0 has been sub
scribed and three steamers of 400 300 and 200 tons
are 10 be constructed without delay.
fy The Washington Union says--aIt IL believed
tina General Scott was at the last adyicos about to
desn atch two columns TO the mining districts, TO