The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-10-13
mis- CELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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O-The name oftbe Post Office at "Bs Eagle, !"
SCOTT county, Ky, has been changed to "Litlle
Eagle and John S. Getty appointed Postmaster.
InPoRIAST ISvESrIoN-Messers JoHN WARp
aud GEORGE PErERMAS, Jr., of Madison, la. have
invented simple. but very effective switch, 10
prevent railroad cars and locomotive engines from
running off the track. With this switch IL ia inn
possible train can get off The track, for II will al
WAYS take the train TO the side track or keep IL ON
the main track.
u Royal marriages are much upon the tapis at
present The Emperor of Austria is to marry
Saxon Princess, and Prince George of Sarony 10
be united to Prussian Princess. Nothing more ia
known about the marriage of Louis Napoleon to
the Princess of Sweden although it is said to be
determined upon.
III All the cables Of the ire suspension Bridge
across the Ohio at Wheeling, have been put up
ane anchored, and it is supposed the bridge will
be Passable in three weeks.
FANNY FORESTER NO LossEa.-One of the
publishers OF the New York Recorder has receiv-
ed letter from DR.. Judson, dated June 2Oth, in
which he speaks of Mrs. Judson' health (the lite
rary Fanny Foireste) so infrm as to require her
to lay aside her pen for the present, and of the
possibility that she may never resume il again for
the purpose of authorship
RESIGNATION OF Ma. CALHouS.-The Philadel-
Phia NORTH American states that a private letter
was received in that city on Sunday, from a re-
spectacle source in Charleston stating that INTEL
lgence had just reached there announcing Mr..
Calhoun's purpose to resign his seat in the Senate
OF the United States at an early day.
Observation-Disclosures revivals seem TO be much
in vogue in parts of Mississippi. Al camp meet.
ing held near Paulding, there have been seventy or
eighty converts. At Pontotoc there have been
one hundred and fifty; at another meeting FIVE
miles south of that place there have been fifty;
twelve miles east of it Twenty-Five; a large mum.
Der at another place, and about one hundred and
nifty at place twelve miles south of Houston.
CUBA-Ths Governor General has issued a gen.
eral pardon for all poitica offences committed an
terror to the publication Of the decree, except such
offences as hare had for their object the separation
from Spain Of any Of her eoLoaies. Those who
wish to take the benefit of this amnesty are re-
quested to present themselves to the proper
authorities, 10 take the oath within one month
irom the date of said decree: but in the ultra ma
rine provinces they can present themselves with
IL one month Of its publication.
C5-Rev. Howard Malcolm, u. D., the late Pres.
ieent of Georgetown College, KY, has accepted
the pastoral charge of the Fifth Baptist Church,
SAMSON street, Philadelphia.
SANTA ASEA.-El Leeero says that informs.
ton has just been received from jamaica, stating
that Gen. Santa Anna is labo.ing most earnestly
10 return to Mexico.
Us-At the magnificent soiree given by the
French Minister of Foreign Affairs to the MeLl.
5eTs Of the Peace Congress, Mad. de Toucqueyille
took Mr.. William Wells Brown, the escaped
slave, b. the hand, as a mark of her especial
sympathy and favor
C5-The French government, il is said, have
sent to Rome an imperative order for the release
Of the famous DR.. Achilli, who was thrown into
the dungeons of The inquisition at Rome. on the
restoration Of the cardinals to power.
ENIGRAroN.-There has arrived at the quaran-
tine ground, Staten Island, from the % April to
the lst of October, one hundred and sixty-thrss
thousand hundred and Ninety three passengers;
being an average of eight hundred and ninely-si1
per day; being increase Of near IS 900 over the
same number Of days last year.
AMoSUNESr is about To be erected to the me-
mory of the late SiIas Wright, OF New York, by
some Of his friends in the interior of that State.
GJMiss Logan is playing in Baltimore to fash
ionable houses.
Tbs PUBLIC FUSDs.-The u. S Treasurers
statement for the oath September, shows IS, 1885,.
$40 16 deposit, in the several repositories and
mints of which 50, $751; 249 IS is subject to draft
The amount in the hands of the Assistant Treasu-
rer in this city, is sl,277, 2Ss %; New York,
s., SIS, All so; and in the U. S. Mint here, sS4i
$50. The transfers ordered are 500, 900 from the
Assistant Treasurer ia this city the treasury at
Washington.
PICTURES ON GLAss-The Philadelphia North
American has been favored by the Messrs. Lsngen-
helm with a view of numerous pictures of the
photograph kind-tTue sun Pictures-executed on
glass. This is a new art, the invention of the
| Messrs. Langenheim, and the results they have
obtained are equally surprising and beautiful
There are portraits, land scspe views, copies Of
daguerreotypes, &C., exhibiting the powers of the
new method, which admits Of numerous useful
and important applications.
| pMiss Frederika Bremen, the very popular
and accomplished Swedish authoress, arrived in
New York on the 4th, and took lodging a. the Aston
House. She intends soon to visit Mr.. Downing al
his villa near Newburg.
/ u-The Cunsrd steamer Canada, in her last
passage to England made $50 miles in three sue.
cessive days-a greater speed, we believe, than
was ever maintained for so long period at one
time by any Of the line of steamers.
UThe following new Post Offices have been
established in Kentucky:
Unity, Muhlenburg, county, John S. caves, p.
NJ; Lynniord, jefferson county, Whelon W.
Evans, 2. NJ; Pleasant Grove Mills, Fleming
county, Austin K. Saunders, z. NJ; Cuuy's Run
Harrison county, James Sade P. NJ.