The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-08-04
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( uFThe name Of the paper published, at Per-
rysbufg, o, by our former citizen, Simon
CLARK, has been changed from the sport Meigs
Reyeille." to the 'Perrysburg STAR
or We would call the special attention Of
parents to the suggestions Of our correspondent
"M.,'' as of consequence to proper advance
msnt.o their children in learning. ~
U- The officers and others, are poisoning dogs
in Cincinnati, on the streets, by throwing pois-
oned meat to them. Several hogs have died
ffom eating what was prepared for their tor
mentors. II
W The Cincinnati Commercial says: "Cin-
cinnati is nov wallow of crime, and in the
turmoil of fly-bIown carrion. Where are the
buzzards of the law.'' I'D 70
0T The President, accompanied by the
Secretaries Of Interior and War, leave
Washington on Tuesday for the White Sui
phur Springs, Va.
UE- Col. Doniphan. of Mo-, declined the
post OF Commissioner of Land Claims in
California, rendered HIM by President Fill
more. a., ~,
r. E. Byrd, has been denominated the
Union candidate for congress, in the Freder4
ick District, Virginia, against the former
member, Hon. H. Bedinger. Y III
CATHARiNE HafEs. The New York Mir
tks., Abo
Astor House for Miss Catharine Hays, the
Irish Swan, who is expected to arrive about
he l5ih Of September.
One thousand acres Of land in central New
York, is now planted with tobacco. 1t is prin-
cipally the loamy sandy soil cas-. Of Syracuse.
The yield is fine and the profit is large.
Two men in Boston, named Murray and Hen
messy, while unloading schooner a. Charles
town, got into fight, and both fell overheard
and were drowned.
The tolls on the Erie Canal this year, up to
July 1st, are 238, 600 more than they were last
year, up 10 the same time, though the tolls this
season have been reduced about 25 per cent
When enlarged, the business done will be enor-
nous.
4 SOOQ G6dCutS are u COSLl! luAuIy III lCHS lduu
, A London correspondent of the Albany Euen-
ing Journal says that he inquired the price oi
some fine looking ones, and found them sirty
sAillings per dozen, or about 81 ,25 each.
The Circleville Watchman, of Friday, has
a rumor that Auditor Woods has loaned some
800, 900 belonging to the State of Ohio, to
a Railroad Company in which it is said he is
largely interested, running from Cincinnati
up through Hamilton! and SO on. Wonder
if its SO Gin. Eng.
The Zanespille Courier says that the Direc-
tors of the Central Ohio Railroad, have deter
mined to put on three different parties Of Engi-
neers on the route between GAINESVILLE and
Wheeling, in order TO have the road located in
season 10 be put under contract this fall il
there should be no disappointment about the
county and individual subscriptions along the
I line.
The Toledo Blade is informed that there is
now in store at that place 270, 900 bushels Of
corn and 10000 bushels of wheat, beins
10000 bushels more than has ever been II
store at that city at any one time before. Tht
warehouses are said to be filled and vessel
are very scarce, causing an advance in freight
The receipts for AS hours previous to Jul.
Sd, were 10000 bushels corn 1851 d.
!. wheat, 5000 do oats and GA bbls -four. =.