The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1848-12-30
WEEKLY VARIETY.

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0y-6everal farmers at Bastrop and Atstin. Tex
as, have raised eighty to one hundred bushels ef
corn to the acre this season. and one or two have
raised one hundred and ten bushels to the aero
without manure. a @
eo-Tbe Rev. w. McLain, Secretary Of the A.
merican Colonization Society. has been appointed
by the Republic of Liberia, minister extraordinary
to the government of the United States. Nj. Nc
Lain's object will be not only to secure recoEni.
ton Of the Republic Of Liberis by our governments
bnt also to negotiate for commerce between ihs
two countries.
DJ-Governor Mason of California has to do sik
his own cooking and washing! The servants have
all sIoped for the gold mines. 81. !.
oo-Half and quarter Eagles made from Calfor-
mia Gold are already in circulation in New York.
eo-The papers say that MIR Clay has invited
General Taylor to partske Of the hospitalities Of
Ashland, on his way ta ashington Gen. Taylor
has invited Mr.. Clay to Baton Rouge.
0utA well executed counterfeit IS on the Chill.
licothe Branch of the State Bank OF Ohio, letter
C, is described as in circulation in the towns on
the Upper Mississippi
Do-A census has just been taken Of the city Of
ST Louis, and it contains within the corporate linn.
its, $500 souls. aa6.'@
05-Fifty thousand persons, it is said. have a.
ready gone to California in search Of gold mines.
09-The Maysville (Ky,) Heard estimates the
number Of hogs packed at that place At $1,000.
o5-Hon. Andrew Stewart, of the House Of Rep.
resentatves. has been for the last week con6nedto
his room in Cumberland, Nd.
o. Gen. Taylor, in Ietter oi the 9Th inst de.
clines free passage rendered himself and family
in the line Of steamers from Savannah TO Charles.
ton, on bis way to Washington. He says: elm.
portant private business, which have neglected
for some years, will compel me to take the route
of the Mississippi and Ohio river" a u'1A
Do-Aher two or three days debate in the House
OF Representatives, New Hampshire, they passed
resolves, expressing the belief that slavery cannot
te introduced into free Territories, without the
positive interiei ence Of Congress. .t ~5
% letter, of July 81, from E. G. Buffum, in
California, TO his father in Portland, Me-. says
that danO',ds. as well as plaina, gold. &c., have
been found in the placers. i.m1 Ei9l
0u-The New York Tribune is out in favor Of
Mr. Clay's return to the United States Senate for
the next Congress, and thinks the terms of his let.
ter of decesion last does not preclude such
course when il becomes "the clear dictate o.
duty"
eJ-The area Of the United States is now nearly
1000. 900 square miles, equal to the support Of
200 900 900 Of population, leaving the county
then less thckly settled than the State Of Massa-
Chusetts.
01-Henry Clay is proposed as . member of the
Kentucky Convention for reforming the constitu-
ton, the gradual abolition of slavery being one Of
the contemplated objects Of the reform
G3-The Anti. Slavery Convention of Eastern
Pennsylvania met at hiladelphia on Wednesday.
Resolutions recommending petitions to Congress
for the full exercise of its powers over the slavs
subject, and for the abolition OF slavery in the Dis
trict. were discussed nearly all day. Edward M.
Davis was elected president Of the society, and
one OF secretaries was lady.
Do-The Dublin Evening Post ssys that most oil
the persons who have left ireland for America
since September, have been OF the grade Of com.
Portable farmers, and that more money has been ta-
ken from Ireland in the last three months than tor
three years previous. srss 81. oif.f,s
0o-A telegraphic dispatch to the Baltimore Sun,
dated New Orleans. Dec. 20, says: "The cholera
il on the increase 10 city. Within day or two
past several new cases have occurred. and.a mum.
Der Of deaths from that disease. There is now no
doubt Of It's being the real Asiatic Cholera Tie
deaths have, thus far, been mostly at the Charity
Hospital. Our citizens are much alarmed. especi.
ally so 10 consequence Of the extraordinary and
unusual mildness Of weather. which is altoge.hsr
unreasonable. and favorable. ss is believed, 10 the
spread ofthe fearful maady.''
0,-A party of 100 sdventurers. raised in west.
srn Pennsylvania, passed through Cincinnati from
Pittsburgh, last week. on their way to California
Oo-The cholera at New York, it seems. on the
increase. The Health Officer on Friday, noon,
reports seven new cases aud three deaths during
the previous twenty four hours. These were IN
inmates Of the hospital before the arrival ,oi the
ship New York. No new cases reported IN the
city. tits to be hoped that the cold snap willcur.
tail its career g0i GgtFG
Oo-A gentleman. whom the dazzling prospect
early induced to start for the gold dFgngs by De
Chagres route, has just returned, alter getting y
lar as Panama. iuding there two thousand psrsons
entitled to precedence In the vessIs from themes;
and il is computed there are six thousand ihsrs
now eager for chance 70 San Frspeiseo. sss