American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-06-03

GRATIFYING CHANGE.-The steamers of the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which hereto
fore have been obliged by the post office ar
rangements to sail on the Sabbath when their
regular day of sailing occurred on that day,
have gained permission, through the efforts Of
the managers, to delay their steamers until
Monday, whenever the lst or 10Th comes on a
Sunday. Them that honor me-" says the
Lord of the Sabbath, :" will honor"
1t has been calculated that it would occupy
one man e9ht hundred years, reading fourteen
hours each day, to read the merely historical
works III the Bibiotheque Royale, Paris Among
these are more than tWenty thousand the
most part in several voumes-relative to the
history of France alone, from the complete and
elaborate histories of MN. Royou, Fautin, De-
sodards, and Anquell, to the quaint old chroni-
cles of Froissard, Confines, and Jean dc Troyes;
from which we learn that such day the
King was sick; and that on such other day. q
man drowned himself in the Seine.
The Suadury 4merican thinks that, as GER
tainly as the waters of the Susquehanna flow
into the Chesapeake, the Susquehnnna and Sum
bury and Erie Railroad will be made. The
people in the valley of the Susquehanna are
moving in the matter. On Tuesday last, a con-
vention was held Mt New Berlin, Union county,
in reference to the completion Of this road.
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RADIsnEs PoLlTlcAL EMBLEM-The tri-
color, which is the republican emblem of Italian
independence, is the object of special jealousy
in Tuscany The vigilance of the police at
| Florence permits no attempt to exhibit it. even
| In private. An old market woman was recently
arrested for having basket of white and red
radishes, which with the green tops made the
hated talisman.
THE Protestant EPISCOPAL CONVENTION for
the diocese of Virginia closed its session at
Staunton the 23d ultimo. The Right Rev.
Bishop Meade presided During the session
the Female Institute, at Staunton, was pur-
| chased by the convention, and it will hereafter
be under the entire control of the diocese
SHOCKING "A little school girl in McDo-
nough county, H., near the village of Macomb,
was accused by her mistress with stealing
piece of money, who threatened to hang her If
she didn't confess. She protested innocence,
when the mistress proceeded to put a handker-
chief around her neck, with which she lifted
the child from the floor, dislocating her neck'
RICHARD Ill.--A writer in the Notes and
queries says that DR.. Wallis, of Oxford, who
published a grammatical work in the year 1868,
treating of the words crook, crouch cross, de-,
remarks that Richard Ill WAS called crouch
backed, not because he was deformed, but be-
cause he wore on his back the form Of q cross
viii you keep eye on my horse, my son,
while step in and get drink ~
"Yes, sir"
[Stranger goes in, gets his drink, comes out,
and finds his horse missing
"Where is my horse, boy?"
:. He's runnd away, sir"
didn't / tell you to take care Of him, you
young scamp"
M cir Won tal'n mo to kaap NM o,o -,
him, and did till he got clean out o. sight
The Lancaster (o.) Eagle supposes that over
fifteen thousand panes OF glass were broken in
that place by the recent hail storm. Some Of
the hail-stones were as large good sized wal
nuts The wheat and rye in some parts of
Fairfield county were so damaged that the farm
ers turning their cattle on it.
| PRoPHEcY.-A correspondent Of the Boston
Post, more than year ago, ventured the fol-
lowing prediction, based upon the fashions of
that period. lie saw it literally fulfilled, at a
very early period:
4 'When coats, hats, and jackets taken
by our precious acquisitiye spouses,
Our confidence may well te shaken
In respect TO retaining our 'trouseSP"
lady hired a western country girl for family
:. help" and was surprised TO see her poke her
! head into the parlor one afternoon when vsiters
D were present, and ask, Marin, did you call
just now ? ! thought hearn yell"
: stout stickler for the literal in holy writ
/ asserts that the mariners compass is not q
molern invention, and in proof he quotes the
} following passage in the narrative Of Paurs voy-
age to Rome: And landing at Syracuse we
ttrried there three days from thence we fetched
a compass and came to Rhegum."
. LIABILITY by TELEGRAPH.-The liability Of
n man the strength of q business transac-
tion by telegraph was established on Wednes-
day, in the superior court at New York, the
5 jury finding a verdict of 81, 500, in q case in
which that was the turning point.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.--lt was six years on
Monday May Goth, since Sir John Franklin
sailed IRON Sheerness on his dangerous eIpe-
dition.
Among the other high sounding titles the
King of Ava has that Of : Lord Of twenty -four
Umbrellas" This looks as if he was prepared
for a long reign
"Pray, Miss Sophia, what are you making ~
said DIR. B 10 young lady who was at work
On garment of certain description. "A So
ply cover, Doctor" was the reply.
The use of the English language in Berk,