Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-26


80 There have been five constitutions in France
during the last forty eight years.
- The Pennsylvania Canal i, now open for
business. aasr
g Tennessee has passed $500 homestead
exemption law. a
II Virginia has a state debt Of nearly twelve
millions.
gE Several thousand passengers are now at Pam
anna, awaiting passage to California. Vessels of
every description go crowded to suffocation.
g Cigars to the amount of $5,52l 900, have
been imported into the U. S. the last year. A vast
amount to eyaporate in smoke.
u There thirty-one periodicals in Tur-
key, Of which only three are in the Turkish LAM
guage t aieas fds 81
y Mary Hewitt has been for some time prepar-
ing materials for handbook Of Illustrious Women
of the Nineteenth Century 4
LARGE FAILURE.-Messrs Moore & Haven, ex
tensve iron Dealers at Norrstown, Pa have failed.
Liabilities, $4,000.
) u The packet ship Manhattan arrived at New
York on Tuesday, from Liverpool, with 773 immi-
grant passengers.
. The Norfolk Herald states that there is not
a book. budery in that commercial city of $4,000
inhabitants. .f.5
% Hon Alexander Duncan, several years in
Congress from the Cincinnati District, was drowned
few days SINCE while attempting to draw from the
water duck he had shot. e
y A Floating Palace, designed to traverse the
Ohio and Mississippi, and to be used Circus
and Theatre is now nearly completed at Cincinnati
1t is two hundred feet long and sixty broad.
% Six and women emigrating west. were
murdered short time since, in Doddridge county,
Va, by another party who put up at the same house,
They robbed them Of S22 900 and escaped @
SIT is stated that Essex County, Mass, is more
densey populated than any tract OF land of its size in
the United States, Its population in 1850 was
l31, 3O7; number Of towns, 30; population to a
square mile, 1928. o
B~The Russian Imperial Gazette contains the
sentence Of Maria Giehweger segar roller, four
months imprisonment in irons, and twenty stripes
with rods, for melting her fellow laborers to strike
for wages. ao 1'# ~ Ho.i g
70 Palmer & Co., who sold the hunbug tickets
for California, have absconded from New York
The consul writes. from Panama that 800 persons,
with Palmer tickets, were there in helpless con.
dition.
The Missouri Brunswcker OF the 9th, says the
Hungarans in Iowa, under GOV. Ujhazy, have sold
out their claim at New Buda, and are about to col
onize in Texas, the cima,e in Iowa being too cold
and inhospitabe for them. AA Il
EXPULSION OF MISSIONARIES. A treaty has
been entered into with the Indian tribes of the Mid
die District of Oregon, which contains the extra
ordinary provision that no American missionary
shall be allowed ever again to enter into their
country.
( "a The Germans, Hungarlans, and Creole Gu
bans that were among the prisoners captured in
Cuba, have not been released. They doomed to
ten years. hard labor in the prison Of Ceua. 1t was
only the Americans and English that have expert
enced the mercy of the Spanish Government. & 80
JOB WORTH HAyING.-Mr. Rves' census con-
tract of 1910 cost the people $lS2OOO. He cleared
100000 exactly!-enough to erect splendid build
ing, and neatly itit up. The lowest bid for the
present census job is 100000; the highst bid is
$l,8OO,OOO. hae w r0di
NOTED CHARACTER GoNR.-Reuben Ed
mondson, better known as slack Bowers" the
most noted thief in the Mississippi valley, died at
St. Louis on the 9th inst. He was sxty-three years
Of age, and stated in confession, which he made
just before his death, that he had beensarrested
hundred and fifteen times, and incarcerated in va
rious prisons sixty-one times. ' s"y
Ten lrishmen were arrested in Dorchester, on the
22d inst, while engaged in fight, which appears 10
have grown out Of love and religion. A young wo-
man who had two heaux, Roman Catholic and
Protestant, agreed 10 accept the one who should
whip the other. The two engaged in the trial. and
this led TO general row, in which several women
took part, and one beat boy severely with a stone.
Boston Post,
AMERICAN TROUBLE IN EGYPT.--We find in
the "Allgemeine Zeitung," under date OF 2lst Of
February from Alexandria in Egypt, statement
tbatthe American Consul, Gen. McAnlev, had pull
ed down his flag, on of delay Of justice
upon the part Of the Director Of Foreign Affairs
The Minister Of War being asked it the United 4
States had any vessels Of war, replied that he be.
ieyed they had, but that they would hardly venture
SO far as Egypt.-N z. Tribune. s''F VIZ
Il 80 The Washington Telegraph of March 18th
says, in reference to Charles Summers speech on
cheap ocean postage:
The learned and very eloquent Senator from the
Bay State made muLtam in payvo speech last week,
upou his resolution of inquiry about cheap ocean
postage. 1t is the brieest, yet most comprehensive
argument in favor of this humane, benifcent, and
world desired reform that could come from the
mouth Of man. w hope our government will enter
without delay upon postal negotiations with the