The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-12-31
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THAT jolly parson and editor, Mrgrown.
low Of Tennessee, has the following s,,d;ro
advertisement at the head OF his editoria col.
umns =
WASTED.-Fiftecn able bodied loafers tt.,t
in the editors office from sunrise 10 sunset.
None need apply except those who can smok
all the time, and swear loud enough to preven.
the editor from trhnsacting any business what.
ever They will of course be expected to read
al the editors private letters and manuscripts
In ms absence. We don't want all the fools in
Town 70 come at once, lest the business Of ths
place should suffer
a CoEGRrssMAs KAsEp.-Col. Disseii. Of
Illinois, has generally been regarded as tho
"bravest OF the brave" 1t will be seen, how.
ever, from the little paragraph which we elm
| from the Belvi!lc, III. Advocate, that he has
lately been publicly Kancd, and stranger STILL he
tamely submitted
| Married-At the Residence of W. c. Kin.
ney, in this city on the 23d inst, by Rev Mr
Ostlanqcrberg, Hon W. II. Bisstll to Miss.
Elizabeth X. Kane, Of Kaskaskia, ILL.,. ,
The AMERICA xCnARAcrrn-An Amercan
writer says tive are born in hurry we are
educated with speed; we make E r.une with
the wave Of a wand, and lose it in Ike manner,
TO re make and re-ose IN The twinklitr Of mn.
eye. Our body is locomotive travelling a:-ten
leagues an hour: our spirit is high PRESSURE
engine; cur lite resembles shooting star; md.
death surprises as like an electric stroke "
HonR,D.-We saw blue Boomer this morn.
ing get out Of BulI's Head omnibus and
march thro' the Park. She had on a muckerai
blue bonnet, skirt of the same color, reaching
Just below the knees, and trimmed with band
of yellow tnsel-blue trowscrs puckered.arou
the ankle like an inverted indigo bag, blue gai.
ters, and---such feet = The Park dwnde 10
half an acre as she walked through it-.E y.
Day Book. .,s. r.
THE GREAT DEFALeATIoS IN OEIo "A lets
ter from Newark, Ohio, dated December 3,
says "Every day developes evidences Of the
wide spread disaster. A. j. Smith has gone,
no one knows where. 1t is not supposed he has
taken anything with him. Ills liabilities viii
amount to not less than 100000. The active
means Of the town itself, destroyed by this
affair, is not less than 800, 000.'' .
New CoUSrERFEIT.-A new and very dan.
gorous counterfeit put in circulation ii
Louisville last Saturday The Courier says it
was new $40 note on the Bank of Louisville,
dated Dec. / 1851, and hard to detect, being
like the genuine in every respect excepting tho
words-"Banl Of Louisville , which occupy .
shorter space than the genuine. ~
u ) Lyuiu Etdil nus iFCDFcTtd, III Ul1 UCJ on
before the Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,
81 400 damages Of The city of Lowell, for in.
jnres received by her in falling upon The lev
sidewalks of that city, by which her thigh born
was broken, and she was confined TO her bed !os
several months 7}af
THE PRESIDENCY ~ OHro The ChllIic,tile
Advertiser, the Pike County Democrat, the
Portsmouth Dispatch, ting Perry County Dem.
ncrat, and the Democratic Banner, arr out for
the Hon. Wl!inm Allen for The nrxt Prcsidea.
cy-- StrnbcnriU. Uaioa. ss
ty."Shakspcarc Iaua,s me nirht and day."
said stage s,rutting hero "That hc is 50
cternnlv haunted. remarked by-s,andcr, sis
not to be wondered at, a; all, tor he has most
cruelty murdered him in every thing he has un.
dcrtaken.'
SALE OF Tnr STEAMBOAT OrEoTA Mon.
day afternoon Constable Starr sold the Oneo.a
at public sale. The boat, subject to certain dis.
pued claims, was bid oft by B III. Campbell,
Esq, ofthis city = Galcna .3dceriiser.
IS Mile Jenny Lind will sing in Philadpl-
pha on the 10Th, 10Th, and 22d of this month.
Her mex, appearance in New York will be on
the 30tlI inst, and her farewell concert in Amer.
ica, in that city on the 18th Of January saa
w A portion of Gen W. Smiths survey.
lag party have arrived in town. The balances
of the party will be along in few days.
They must have had a severe time Of il. 7a
LIBEL SUlr-A verdict Of $1,000 damages
was rendered against James Gordon Bennef, in
the Court Of Common Pleas, New York at the
suit of James Hunt, for libel, published in the
Herald, in lS45.
.vs The President has officially recognized
G.. H. F. Mocrng as Consul of the Free and
IIanscatic city of Bremen for the port OF Boy
| ION.
,yA srcwd and intelligent Democrat Of
Cincinnati lately Informed rs that the Ohio del.
eraton Will 30 into the National Convention In.
structed for Elk Senator Allen for President
OF this he entcrtains no doubt.-FatsbEyga
Post.
rY' Several serious shocks Of earthquake
have been experienced OF late in Albania. Th.
town and castle Of Vallona, according 10 le'-
ter from Zara of the 5th instant, have been NJ
teuly destroyed. Two thousand persons have
perished
g--"Bo-n in land of liberty, my anxons
reccolections. my sympathetic feelings and my
best wishes, are irr,sistaby excited, whenever,
in any country sec an oppressed nation un.
furl the banner of freedom. George Wash.
ngton.
THe STEAMER KEYSTONE SrATE.--This sfeam.
er left Detroit late Monday evening last tor
Dunkirh but she proceeded only as far asM alden
when she was frozen in, and whore she found
herself neither able to go forward nor return.
Mr.. Webster has declined addressing 90
su,h in either House or in any official mnnner-
thereby imitat timg the conduct Of Lord Palmers.
ton.
Allen Nav has been elected StateAgcnt of In
diam, by the Legislature of that State, in place
of Mr.. Colling, whose term of Office has ex
pred
The Legislature of South Carolina have re
> fused to repeal their law in relation to th'
5 Imprisonment Of free negroes entering tha
Y State.
: -" Women nre good deal like Frcnci
c watches-very pretty to look at, bat very diff
. icult to regulate when they once take to goin:
j. wrong.
s~ pous man suggests an extra sermon &
be furnishes outside the city churches, for tn
:, coachmen who stand waiting in front.
o -~ The paper currency Of the Austria
70 States has deterioratcd much in value with
% in short period, that silver is held at ~ pe
70 cent above the banking currency of that En
70 pire. -
- tyThe receipts of the New York and Eri
~ railroad for the month of November were ss2Jo
- 422 40-an increase over the same months bt
~ ~ siness last year Of $l4o,272 45.
30 Richard Cowling Taylor, the eminent geol
o,,pinoer Of Phi2hplnili1 die