The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-07-07
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! The o. s.iJOunal.is now Issued in the NOR
4 ming. 49,
The steamer Luella arrived at Wheeling
last Thursday, with thirteen cnses Of cholerl
I. on board. n
t Lowenthal, the Cincinnati chess player, hal
been beaten twice in London.
: The balance remaining IN the Subtreasur
at New York. ON Thursday was $296O,OO.
!, Few days since FREpERIcK BENEEMAs wal
badly, perhaps fatally, injured by the falling D
the Piqua plankroad bridge.
ny- A little boy was drowned, in Chilli
cothe, the other day, by falling into a tub 81
water while his mother was absent from tht
room.
0-s Lucius v. Peck. the Free Soil nom
inee for Governor Of Vermont, has declined
, being candidate,
The California Papers announce the death o
an aged German, who is said to have made The
first discovery of gold in that country, while
digging mill race for Captain Sulter.
The Logansport Journal says, that in conse,
quence of the unusually wet weather in tha
section of country corn has most unpromisin(
appearance.
COnuicted--Abraham Parker has been found
guilty of manslaug Iter, at New Orleans, fol
shooting woman in house of ill-fame some
time since. n
The body of drowned man was found on the
9th ult. at the head of the Louisville and Port
land canal. Name not known. Also, anoth-
er in the river opposite Portland
In Columbia county, Pa, few days since
Louis Irvine. while hunting deers, was shot By
George Lindenmouth, who was also hunting
and took the unfortunate man for deer when
in the bushes.
MoNsERs The harbor of Charleston, S. o.,
is alive with tiger sharks. One measuring
twelve feet in length and six feet two inches IN
circumference, and another nine feet in length,
were caught on Tuesday last.
i HAsTY MARRAGE.-Deacon VIM Thayer
aged seventy -four years, was married to Miss
Dolly Simpson, aged fifty four years, at East
Randolph, Mass, recently, after a long and in.
teresting courtship Of one hour and twenty
minutes.
The N. Y. Legislature have before them a
bill aut horizing married women owning stock
in corporations Of any character, TO vote in
elections for trustees or directors, as the case
may be. This is taking step in the woman,s
rights direction.
News FROM HxYTI.-Advices from Haytl
state tina battle had been fought between the
| Haytiens and Dominicans, in which DO of the
former were killed. The loss Of the latter is
not stated, bat they were preparing for anoth-
er conflict.
We think that the new costume should be
called the Excelsior costume, firstly, because if
adopted, it owes its origin to New York. and
secondly, for reasons that every person acquain-
ted withsthe meaning of the word will readily
appreciate. Toledo Blade.
i ns- Great impositions are said to be
practised upon western farmers by itinerant
sheep peddlers. This class of spectators
buy up good looking sheep in the Eastern
States, and sell them 10 our farmers as i'm
ported sheep.
SUPPOSED WIFE MuRDER.-Jos. Johnson was
Committed to Burlington county IN. J.) Jail on
Saturday night last, charged with the murder
of his wife. She was found dead in bed, her
neck being tightly bound round with check
apron. He says that he found her dead in the
morning 1t is understood that both of them
were incorporate.
Social Intercourse in China.-The Hong Kong
Register announces with much qualification
that the Chinese residents in that city have bu-
gun to allow their ladies to enjoy social inter
course with the wives and daugters Of the bar
barians.
Judge Mullanphy, of st. Louis. has be-
queathed $500, 900 to the city of st. Louis,
for the benefit of foreign emigranls.
The University Of Virginia, at Charlotte
vile, is quite fourishing,-the number of
students for the past year being 1856.
OT The frame of the new rolling mill
at Ironton, which had been raised partly,
gave way and fell to the ground on Saturday
the 2Sth ult. A young man was precipita-
ted with it, and considerably injured.
D One thousand citizens of Montreal, and
neighbOring towns in Canada have made ar.
rangements to visit New York to-day, to see
how American patriotism ebbs and flows.
| u The Life Boat for July was laid on our
table yesterday. 1t contains large amount of
reading matter, and also an assault upon our
worthy Marshal for remisness of duty. Stand
from under
u The Chilicothe papers announce the
death of Mr., ParkerJ. Gardner, of the firm of
Gardner & Schultz.
| 0~y- c. Chauncey Burr has lef. for Eu.
rope. The Providence Mirror rather saw
agely quotes in connection with the above
item:
"True patriot he, for be ii understood,
He left his country for his country's good"
| 0~s- The New York Tribune says that
land warrants are in good demand at $l55
cash.
j Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, in
his late journey in Europe, has organized a
large number Of sewing circles in England,
Scotland and France. TO circulate peace
documents among the people.
The People"
i We have noticed in several Wing prints, when
lalluding to the provisions of the New Constitu-
ton, the words I" the people," used sneeringly--
whether at the constitutional provision merely.
or, the pecplc themselves, it matters but little.
When editors begin to sneer at " the people,
and intimate that they have power that does moi