The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-03-31
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ssWell meet at the Hatters,s = as the bea-
yer said to the otter.
ThersaIe Is, 500 practicing lawyers in the
u. States.
0 There Is now to be a,weekly mail to
California.
Three cent pieces, as provided for by the
Post Office law, ,are being coined at the u. s..
Mint In Philadelphia. ~ n
A cotton manufacturing establishment, with
capital of $4,000, is about to he started In
Van Buren, Ark.
/ A telegraphic dispatch to the War Depart
ment, announces the death Of Maj. Gen.. M.
Brooks. at San Antonio.
| lis estimated that Chicago will have 1,50O,-
600 bushels Of corn to ship, on the opening Of
navigation. Freights to Buffalo. 8 cents for
corn, I for wheat
It is mentioned int the French papers, that the
Pope is about to cause himself to be represent
ed as a asovereign at Washington by high diplo-
matte agent.
The increase Of population of Ohio for
the last ten years is nearly equal to the entire
population of Maryland.
Never be angry with your neigbbor because
his religious views differ from yours; for all
the branches of tree do not lem the same
way.
oCs- Hon. Joseph Johnson, longtime a
Congressman from the Wheeling District.
has been elected, by tn, Legislature Of Vir-
ginia, TO fill the unexpired term Of Governor
Floyd.
Christopher Strong, Of Charlotte, Tenn, re-
Gently deceased, bequeathed seven thousand
dollars to religious Institutions liberated all his
slaves and made Pro-i. ivs - s~..y then. IN 1t
IBERIA.
The Senate Of Kentucky on the 18th, by a
large majority, defeated proposition to submit
to vote of the people an appropriation by that
State OF 81, 900, 900 to the Louisville and Nash
| vile Railroad.
| In the Massachusetts Legislature the Senate
committee has reported in favor of the House
bill for plurality TO elect Representatives to
CONGRESS and Presidential electors, and the bill
will probably become law.
! It is said that the fortune of Rothschilds is
not less than 735,000,000 francs, $145,000
They are the true money kings Of the world. and
control the policyof nations more, perhaps, than
their Sovereigns do.
| The Indians above Crow Wing river, on the
Mississippi, are in starving condition, and it is
said that between five and seven hundred oi
them have died Of privations. A chief to whom
they applied for advice, is said to have recon-
mended them to acts of violence
A member of the bar, On his passage to
Europe in a steam vessel, observed shark
near them; and not knowing what it was,
asked one of the sailors who replied with
gravity, 'sHere we call 'em sea lawyers"
A man attempted to spell crockery, yes
terlay, and proceeded thus: Kraughkear-
reighe-but expired, adds the Post, in a
spasm before he could make ay, with which
| he intended to end the word.
A dog which had lost whole litter, wa;
seen yesterday trying to poke piece of Grape
through the handle of one Of the sausage
shops in this city.
ALFRED Kelly has been elected President
of the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula
Railroad Company, in place Of H. B. ELY
resigned.
DoING GooD.--A resolution was carried in
the New Jersey Legislature the other day
to present each member of the third house
i. e., the lobby melnbers-with a copy o
he Bible.
NrThe Spirit OF the Times announces
the dpcrase at New Orleans Of the celebra
ted Trotting Mare Lady Suffolk.
She, ,vss .'of age" being u years old, and
has trottpd mile in IN. rs Sec., the beS
time on record.
n-Grn. Brooks is making arrangement
10 set in motion at an early day, a strong ex
petition under command of Gen. Harney
| 10 chsstise the Indians. who have for yesE
been committing depredations on the from
tiers OF Texas.
nYPhiladelphia educates in her public
schools $4,000 children at six dollars and for
ty-six cents each yesrly. The expense o
the system in Massachusetts, is about eigh
dollars per scholar. In Cincinnati the ex
prnse is about fifteen dollars. In Baltimore
toartesl dollars
0~-The storm at Boston, New York AM
other points along the coast, was very sever
and very destructive TO property-foodin
houses, c, liars, &c. At New York man
families were got out of their abodes wit
great difficulty. The injury done in Bosto
is estimated at 100000 and upwards.
A Miss Ellen Graham advertises at Lon
don to give startling delineations Of charac
ter, both full and detailed, occupying the fou
pages Of sheet Of paper, the style of de
scriptinn differing from any thing yet at
tempted. She does it by examining the pc
culiarities in the persons handwriting
Price, Is. Sd.
The Cathedral Of Norte Dame (Antwerp
is one Of the finest Gothic buildings on tn
Continent. The principal spire is over 46
feet high. There are over 600 stairs to clint
before reaching the top. There are 80 bell
in the tower, the largest Of which weigh
10000 pounds, and requires l6 men to rim
: it.
The Electio Magazine says that whe
Dickens had nearly finished the "Old Cur
!; osity sSshon," he received heaps Of anon.
t nous letters, In female hands, implorlr
him "not to kill little Nell" The wretr
ungallantiy persisted in his murderous desigl
and those gentle readers only wept and 70
gave him. q
From documents relative to the wars {
{ the Scottish Covenanters in the seventeent
/ century, it appears that they assumed blu
ribbons as their colors, and wore them {
I.1..c. -. =. k...hae faetonad IN tho,r nj /,