American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-25
WASHINGTON, April 25.
VARIETIES.

HORACE ScUDDER, an enterprising Bostoi
merchant died at Dorchester, Mass, on tn
10Th instant.
1t is said that the mortality among the mem
bers of the House Of Commons is greater thar
among any similar number Of men belonging te
the same ranks of life.
THE LATEST NEws.-The New York Herald
says that Bryant is not poet. Our exchanges
will please put this under their telegraph head
How TO MAKE THIEF Hire clerks for two
hundred a year, and then insist on their keep
ing well dressed. This recipe has never been
known to fail.
Professor FILoPANTI, formerly Professor in
the University of Bologna, and afterwards q
conspicuous actor in the Roman revolution, has
become connected with the Providence Journal,
and is about to remove to that city.
1t is confidently announced that Mr.. Foote,
of the Buffalo AdUertiser, will soon join the
Washington Republic. Arrangements to that
effect are in train of completion.
Rev. DAVID A. WILSON, who is to take charge
of the Alexander High School, in Liberia, was
ordained by the Presbytery of Carlisle, few
days since.
The Erie Railroad has cost $21 100000
Mr.. ROBERT STEPHENSON, it is said, at the
request of Abbas Pasha, is about to commence
the construction of railroad from Cairo and
Alexandria, and thus bring into close proximity
the two principal cities of Egypt.
The population of Rome has been steadily
decreasing since 1848, when it amounted to
$4,000 souls. A diminution in nearly the
same proportion has taken place in the rest of
the Roman States.
The Madison (Indiana) Journal states that
the Wabash and Erie Canal is finished as far as
Point Commerce, and presents continuous line
of canal navigation from Toledo to that point
of three hundred and fifty-two miles.
A casting of iron is about to be made in Bir-
mingham, which will weigh one hundred tons
1t is the largest ever attempted in England
THE SISTERS OF CHARITY.-The beautiful es-
tate of j. b. Nichols, esq, at Providence, R. l.,
was sold to the Catholics for ten thousand dol
lars. 1t was purchased for the Sisters of
Charity.
Mr.. JOHN DICKENS, the father of Charles
Dickens, the author, died on the 31st ult
Secretary CoRwIN will, in a short time, pay
visit to his native State.
The Jesuits have obtained the restitution of
the Borromean College, at Rome. The Minis
ter of Commerce, who inhabited it, has been
obliged to leave it in less than decent haste, and
retired to the custom-house buildings.
The number of marriages this year, at Paris,
amongst the working class, is said to be larger
than usual. In the most populous arondisse-
ments of the capital, the boards on which the
publication of bans are placarded are constantly
covered.
We die piecemeal, by falling into habits Of
apathy and neglect, and by supposing this de-
bility and inactivity are the inevitable conse-
quences of age; the mind becomes weary of &C
ton it loses its desires, and the body sinks into
listlessness, palsy and universal decay.
Dir. THOMAS FULLER, of Exeter, N. H., has
two ewes, each Of which reared three white
lambs last year, and this year they have three
black ones.
The use of the shower bath rs means OF
punishment in Sing-Sing Prison is strongly
condemned by many of the New York papers.
There are three hundred buildings, many
large and substantial, erecting at Louisville.
Miss Kimberly is very successful at Boston
in her Shaksperean Readings.