The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-05-29
From the Southern Presbyterian.
SU Nm GARY.

The gigantic project for the construction
Of railway between the Atlantic and Pacif-
&c oceans is just now attracting the attention
of English capitalists
Elder Brigham Young pledges his honor
that he has only twenty-six wives! He is
the saint upon whom fell the mantel of Joe
Smith.
The number Of people killed on our steam
boats during the year 1850 was over eleven
hundred, while the number who lost their
lives by collisions on our railroads amounted
to SIX hundred and seventy more.
Some of the best farmers in Western New
York have purchased lands in Virginia, and
viii soon become eultiyators Of the soil III
that State.
We understand that a paper will soon be
established in this city, Csays the Washing
ton UniOn) devoted to Irish interests.
The Welshmen of New York city, and
their descendants, have determined to contrib
ute stone to the National Washington Mon
ument.
The Austrians recently had the census Of
Croatia, SlayOnia, Banet and Pennsylvania Ia
ken, and the returns show that there are
twenty-five thousand widows of men killed
in the Hungarian war in those provinces
1t appears that the first plank road in Can
ada was laid down in 1886, and in N. York
in 1887, but it is only within the last four
years that they have been much prosecuted,
1t is estimated that two hundred families,
numbering one hundred thousand souls, are
now houseless and destitute, from the inun-
dation of the Mississippi river, in the New
River country, in the Parishes of Ibaryille
and Ascension, Louisiana.
Forty railroad companies have during the
past year, excluded 1000 miles of Sunday
travel.
It is calculated that at the end of 1851,
there will be 10000 miles of railroad in or-
Grafton in our country.
"A NIillerite Convention is now in session
at New York, endeavoring to fix the day a.
gain, for the final end of all things.
Lynch Law takes its name from James
Lynch, Mayor of Galway, Ireland, who in
1893 performed the operation of hanging his
own son, rather than suffer him to escape jus
tice.
The Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye states,
that more than 100 wagons have crossed the
river at that place, thus far, this season, on
their way to California and Oregon, the most
of them for the latter destination.
Prof Pages Electro Magnetic Locomotive
has been tried again, with better success than
before, having attained speed of 10 miles
an hour.
Capt R. Gown, of Plymouth, is making
sOunding-line for the United States Gov
eminent, ten thousand yards long.
The Acknowledgement has decided that the
franking privilege of Members of Congress
commences with the beginning of the new
Z Congress, and not thirty days before, as for
merly allowed.
e Great enthusiasm prevails in all parts Of
q ireland in favor of the movement of the Irish
i Beet Sugar Company; and, from the readi-
. ness evinced to grow the roots, it is expected
s that next season the Company viii have fac
/ tories IN every part of the country.
!. A parish journal is, it is said, on the eve
e Of publishing an authenticated romance and
d tales by the Emperor Napoleon, written when
n a youth.
The Emperor of Austria has granted an
4 amnesty to seventeen political convicts
n The barque Regatta arrived at New York
b on Sunday, having a large freight of live an
(, finals from India, consigned to AIessrs. p. T
= Barnum and Seth B. Hows, intended fol
g their great museum caravan.
i Jenny Lind sent $500, and Barnun sen
d the same amount, to the Mayor Of Cincinna
= Z, to be distributed in charity.
4 The General Assembly Of MOrmons, Of til
s Great Salt Lake have issued a proclamation
s recommending abstinence from vine. stron
S drink and tobacco, excepting the pure juic
q Of tie grape.
Z. The Jews arc saidto be sufFcring drc.ldfll
. persecution again in the East.
3, The last suFyiyorof tie Wyoming q
sh ere, Alrs. Hannah Nils, died g g ellaeh
~ Conn.,, on the 9th nit, age e l,., 49,.
ed ere, st viii be recol looted took pace ili Atoe
Ih- by the Indians Of the Is nations
csnfa nns aboul h return to Mexico
s. 81 l;s5 + S s0ppesed be viii be made Pres