The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-06-30

/ inst, for 100000.
9T The bill for the enlargement Of tn
Erie Canal passed tfe N. Y. Senate BY yot
! of "a yeas TO 8 nays.
= UT Competition on the, North Rive
nade has reduced the fare to 25 cents from
Albany TO New York.
: OCT- One hundred thousand dead letter
were received at the Post-office Department
from California, on the 23d.
0T The steamer Europa arrived on thl
? 4th, ten days from Liverpool. Nothing
important in her news.
j Gr The Directors Of the MaJsville ant
Lexington Railroad have decided on th'
route upon which the road shall be located
os- The brig Dolphin, arrived at N. York
on the 25th, from cruise around the worlS
in 80 months.
] The harvest has been going on in North
Carolina for the last ten days, and the wheat
is better than for many years.
Lieut.. Thomas Sands of the revenue SER
vice, has been promoted to q cap!aipcy, and
ordered to New Orleans.
Mr.. George Hempslone of New York,
was found dead in his bed last week, near
Leesburg, Va. He died from an attack Of
paralysis.
The jury to assess damages on the Valley
Railroad, from Downingtown, were upon
the route last week, in the discharge OF their
duties.
Joseph Burke has been re-engaged by Jen-
ny Lind to accompany her throughout her
concerts in the United States.
Senator Dawson, Of Georgia, had his leg
broken last week, by a restiye horse jerking
him against rail-
A young woman, Mary Shaw, abandoned
by her husband at st. Louis, committed sui
eide with laudanum.
| When we are alone we have our thoughts
to watch; in our families, our tempers |; and
in society, our tongues
Two of the best news papers in the British
West Indias are owned and edited by gen.
tleman Of color.
The crops in Liberty county, Ca, are ruin.
ed by the drought. The wells are all dried
up.
OT The larger class boats have nearly
all laid up owing to the low water, and the
dinkies are beginning 10 make sosn, and
puff and smoke and whistle with seeming
ly vast importance.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that " a
lady belonging to one Of The first Jcmilies'
of that city was knocked down and robbed !
the other evening.
0T A new Steamer, with the cabin in
the hold, building for the Maysville and
Cincinnati trade, is nearly completed.
Os- The total mortality in st. Louis last
week was 273, of which l49 were from
cholera. This disease is mostly confined to
emigrants. e. ~ sly !
Or A majority Of tie stores in Clncin-
natl will close business on and after the first
Of next month at 8 o'clock in the summer
season, and { O'Clock in the winter season.
An excellent move.
0s- The school teachers of Georgia have
called Convention, 10 meet on the 18th of
August. for the purpose of considering the
adoption of general free school education.
WHITE CRows.-Two white crows nd
black one were all taken from one nest at
Augusta, Me-, last week, in the neighbor-
lood were one white crow was caught last
summer.
The ladies of Lowell, Massachusetts. have {
lad meeting in one of the city halls, when
hey resolved to join in the 4th Of July process.
sion, dressed in full Boomers! Bravo!
General Arbuckle died at Fort NTH on lllb
nst. Eighteen to twenty men had died of
cholera at that Fort. The recruits had left. and
ickness was abating at the latest date.
Turning Twk.-MisS Lucy E. Rounsvell an
LOUNGES publicly in the Sheboygan Mercury,
hat she is out for short dresses, and without
Waiting for others, will adopt them immediate S
y. Take your time, Miss Lucy.
Carrying politeness to excess is said TO be
aising your hat TO young lady in the street
nd allowing couple of dirty collars and
'air OF socks to fall out upon the side walk. S
Os- The Salt well in Pomeroy, is now :
t a depth Of over 800 feet, with stronger !
upply of water, both in quality and guam :
lty than when We noticed it last week. y
We understand that the furnace will soon :
e commenced.-Msigs County Telegraph. :
PRovERB ILLUSTRATED. AT Peoria, ILL.,, v
N the 18th ult., Rev. Mr.. Pierce ma arried C
Ar. Henry w. Seine to Miss Ellen Hurd. d
he bride was but Is. This is fulfilling the n
venile adjunct that children should be seen I
nd not heard.
0T Two women, in market, Yesterday
lorn'ng, got into a dispute which came to !.
lows, and then to throwing eggs, both bad !
nd good. Their appearance, after dozen
Iefl laid on, can be better imagined than J.
escribed.-Cin. Com.
0Y We copy the following item from :
le Pittsburgh Dispatch. It's pretty good Il
it: "a
"The Chronicle, noticing the appearance !, !,
lady, dressed in the new American !
1stume, says she was followed BY num- =
er of gaping boys and very innocently y
Ids 'Tc endeayored to get sight oil her Il, Z
Tall Trees. Id
The following tall story of tall trees Is y
I'D by California correspondent of the Ty;. L