The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1848-10-07


line. II frigates, . rsxees. FL ships Of war. IL
sts.mers. ! brigs. schoonep and = steamships,
making 7s sail 10 oil, with 2l74 cannon.
0u-Judgs Lafayette Saunders. Of Louisisas,
who gave the assurances for Taylor, 10 the Ph'a-
delphis Convention. died recently 1t the Red
Sulphur Springs.
0orThe Mexican government 10 said to have
made . contract, disposing at the monopoly Of
tobacco.
coin the course Of the next month the Central
(Mich.) Road, in Michigan, will be completed to
Miles. leaving Is miles by stages to St. Joseph.
Passengers then will make the distance between
Chicago and Detroit in "a hours.
0o-The colored people Of Illinois being exclu.
ded ~ witnesses 10 courts OF justice, and denied
the right Of suffrage, have called aconvention to
petition the legislature for redress Of those griev
ances
no-The ecntrol Of the Bank Of Sandusky has
!. again reverted back 10 the former stockholders,
who give assurance that its credit will be sustain.
ed. Though the notes Of the bank are redeema.
bic on presentation il will not do to be too sure.
GA writer in the Louisville Democrat rec.
ommends the use ofcamelst to carry the mail from
some point on the Mississippi to the Pacific
cows see by the papers in Indiana, Illinois
and from other western papers, that the potato
rot has sppesred In their respective sections Of
country.
0o-G Gen. Pillow will probably be member Of
the next Congress from the district In Tennessee
now represented by Hon. J. M. Thomas-that
gentleman declining in his favor.
Mrs. Tam. Of Pittsburgh. Pa. who had been
oi unsound mind for some time past. killed two Of
her children on Sunday week by holding their
heads in copper kettle Of water.
0o-The Superior Court Of the United States has
decided that United States stock and Treasury
notes are not taxable under state laws.
Uo-Ths average progress of the cholera has
been sscertained to be about seventeen miles a
day.
0o-Ths Florida Everglades are about to be
drained, 80 as to bring one million Of acres Of fine
land into cultivation.
0o-Messrs. Hall & Speer. Of Pittsburgh, have
sold 50 Of their excellent p!ows, to 90 to Puebla.
Mexico.
D3-Twentytwo miles below Cincinnati there is
field of corn covering six thousand acres, the
crop of which 10 valued at seventy-two thousand
dollars.
cJ-An arrival. at New York, on the 23d. from
Sierra Leone reports the capture of four Brazilian
sIavers. and the rescue OF two thousand blacks
which were found therein.
03-Potatoes are an entire failure in Wisconsin
this season from the rot, though the wheat crop is
good. aud the cat crop very heavy.
Cocoon. Stockton has taken measures to in
troduce into the United States some Of the breed
OF horses called canalos, with which Col. Free
mont performed his wonderful feats in travelling
in California.
0o-The great comet whose revolution around
the sun is accomplished 10 292 years, has at length
appeared according to expectation. 1t will no.
come 80 near the earth az in 1864. Itis visible in
che evening. in the northeast.
0o-A Hebrew Synsgogue was consccrated last
week in Cincinnati. There are three synagogues
there, with population Of three thousand Jews.
ca. and his wife and daughter are learning Eng.
lish.
0o-Thers Is said to h,vc been something re.
markable in the appearance Of the heavens, and in
the state Of the atmosphere, at New York, OIL
Monday evening. Abou, dark, as some will have
It. . shower Of grasshoppers fell in the upper part
Of the city. and the Sun positively AYERS that
cloud Of gnau filled the air. Many creduIous per-
sons saw in this visitation ptognostic of epden.
les and plague. nprevious to the cholera Of 1882,
the city was visited by similar swarms Of ephem.
ere.
0o-The city police Of st Louis estimate that
regular thieves in that CITY
0o-The Governor Of Oregon and the United
States Marshal Of that territory have proceeded
southwark. through Santa Fe and California. in
tending to take ship at San Diego or San Fran
cisco far the Columbia river. The norlher route
was deemed impTacticable at this season.
0o-The Cincinnati Commercial says that gen.
ileman Of that city wears a watch guard made Of
the hairs Of Old Zack's "oid Whitley"
Oo-Ths coinage Of the United States Branch
Mint At New Orleans during the month Of August
was $iss, ,o0o-aii in half dollars.
0o-The number of votes cast. at the last Presi.
dential election. for Mr.. Polk was ,355. .436. and
the number which Mr. Clay received was ,297..
e7s. M. Polks majority So 1857. In the electoral
college the vote stood Polk l7O, Clay los.
03-Whils Senator Corwin was making speech,
. few days since at Cleveland. some returned VOL
unteers hung his efigy on tree within sight Of
ihs stand Corwins anti-war speech gives him
little popularity with those who periled their lives
in their countryi defence.