The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-10-15

that we have an official report from a
Spanish lieutenant, that, coming across
twenty of the sick of Lopez, and an equal
number left to take care of them, he i'm
put them all to death. Men
who could be guilty Of such an atrocity
are competent to any thing.-N. o. Cres
cent.
A German matchmaker is said to have
invented and perfected what he calls a
writing telegraph, by which any person
of or inary capacity can telegraph in ev
cry minute one hundred and twenty let
t~rs, or as much as smart penman can
write. The instrument is operated by
the necessary number of keys, like the
House Telegraph, but writes with glass
pen. filled with common ink, on ordinary
paper. which is laid over cylinder. The
machinery IS very complicated.
1t is estimated that the city Of New
York pays $4,000 day for cigars, and
only s., 600 for bread. |: is also compu-
ted that $4,000 persons go into the
grave every year from the use of tobac-
co.
Several streets being about TO be open
ed through the Methodist Episcopal
grave yard. Light st. Baltimore. large
number Of the remains of the dead have
been removed by the relatives and
friends. This week, in taking out the
coffin of Mrs. Vansant, lady who has
been dead II years, the lid being par
TALLY broken in, Mr.. Vansant, the hus-
band of the deceased. and the Rey. Jo-
seph Shane, who were present, noticed
that the body appeared whole. and on
examining it, found that it was petrified
as hard as stone, and perfect in all its
parts, the only change being that il was
nearly black. The grave was in a wet
place.
The New Orleans papers state that
they have heard from Lieut.. Theodore A.
Stevens, who was with Col. Crittenden's
party at the time they were attacked by
the Spanish war steamer Habanero. It,
Stevens escaped by jumping overheard
and swimming ashore. After wandering
for month through the woods and
mountains, ragged and shoeless, and
without any other food than leaves and
wild fruit, he surrendered himself to the
authorities. and was taken to Havana.
Lieut.. S. belonged to Capt. kelley's COM
pany, and is the only surviving officer
who was with Col. Crittenden at The
time of his separation from Col. Haynes
and Capt. Kelly. He may, perhaps. be
able to give some information respecting
the thirty missing men, whose fate, as
yet, is unknown.
An article in the Alta California BY
Col. Worth, estimates the annual yield
from the gold mines at $50, 600, 900 for
many years to come. The veins, he
thinks. are inexhaustible, and extend for
hundreds of miles under the mountains.
young man named Pharaoh, aged 20
years, who murdered Miss Sharpless, in
Pennsylvania, an amiable school teacher,
and simply to get possession Of her gold
watch. before he was sent to the other
world from the gallows, turning to his
father, who was standing at the foot OF
the platform and gave him the following
terrible rebuke:
Father, you know you have not acted
a good part toward me; you have never
offered me good example to follow, but
permitted me to grow up in Ignorance
and vice.
What terrible words are these to be
addressed to father, by son standing
under gibbet!
/ The President of the United States has
( done an act which. next to mentioning
the matter favorably in his annual mes.
sage, is the highest sanction he could
give to the Bloomer costume. He has
appointed Mr.. Bloomer Postmaster al
Seneca Falls, New York, aud Mrs. Bloc
mer is the Deputy! The short dress ma
MIA is evidently rising into political i'm
portance.-Cin. Eng.