Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1852-09-28

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PREsIDENT.-B,
and sOith The adpice and consent of The Sen
ate SUPERVISING INSPECTORS OF STEAM
BOATS. Ts.-Robt. D. Stevens, OF New York
Samuel Hall, Of Boston, Massachusetts Hi.
ram Barton, of Buffalo. New York; Davis
Embree, Of 81. Louis, Missouri; Benjamin
Crawford, Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; John
Shalcross, of Louisville, Kentucky; Peyton
II. Skipwilh, of New Orleans, Louisiana
John Murray, Of Baltimore, Maryland; Geo
W. Dole, of Chicago, Illinois.
One day last week, man from Big
Sandy, who gave his name asDavid Low.
ry,was taken up al Cincinnati for attempt.
ing 10 pass counterfeit. money, bu, for want
Of evidence, having swallowed the bills, he
was committed as vagranI merely
The friends The Wilmington and Zanes.
vile Railroad are now making vigorous eff.
forts for the extension Of the road from Ian.
caster to GAINESVILLE. Over $4,000 stock
was lately subscribed for the object al sup
per in GAINESVILLE.
Before the penny postage in England,
the number of letters delivered ,oeekiy was
less than half million. Now The delivery
is one million daily.
The Yankees don't mean 10 give up The
ice trade of California TO the Russians. A
cargo has just left Boston. AT frs. it sold
for 90 GEMS pound. 1t is now retalcd al
six cents.
Hon. RUFUS CHoArE.-The Boston Atlas
denies the assertion made by Mr., Winslow,
at meeting of the friends Of Mr. Webster in
that city on Tuesdays evening, TO the effect
that the Hon. Rufus Choate had said ,hat"he
would not 60 for Scott, but would go for
Webster" 1t SAYS Mr.. Choalc will sup.
port Gen. Scott.
Rev. Samuel Phillips for number Of
years pastor of the German Reformed
Church of BurkitlsviIe, Frederick county,
Md, The Boonsboro' Odd Fellow says, has
received and accepted call from the First
German Reformed Church of Dayton, o.
The last dates from Havana bring us in.
telligence ofquiet being restored 10 the city,
and The abatement Of sickness The prohi.
bition OF American newspapers in the Island
has been strictly enforced.
FRICTION OVERCOME. Mr.. w. S. M'Lean.
an ingenious mechanic Of Allegheny City,
Pa, has invented an anli-frclion box, which
can be applied 10 railroad cars, balance
wheels, or journals Of any description.
EXTENSIVE PURcHAsE.-Judge Mason, OF
Burlingloot loYa, recently purchasedlfom q
| New YORK Company the Hall, BreedTact ol
land in Iowa, amounting to several hundred
thousand acres, and some hundreds of lois
lin Keokuck, Iowa.
The Cholera is again travelling across
Europe, from Eas, TO West, as in 1882 and
1847, and is much more fatal than in those
years. The English are dreading its advent
there.
The number of visitors a, Saratoga, this
season, is said TO have been larger than ever
before, reaching near Y $4,000 in Two
months from June %, al the nine principal
hotels; whole number for the season about
10000.
On The 10Th inst, Mrs. Myers, near
Albion, Ia, turned her children out of the
house, and chopped her own head 10 pieces
with an axe. She mutiated her head fright
fully, more than fifty wounds being found
on the skull and scalp.
The State debt of California is SO, 8,44O,O 900,
an enormous debt for such new State. 1t
is expected that the General Government
will assume 30, 100000, that being the
amount of debt incurred in the wars with
The Indians.
Female pedestrians are allowed 10 pass
the Augusta toll bridge free Of charge, by a
recent vote Of the proprietors OF the bridge.
The Down casters don't believe in tolIing
The bellies.
The propretors of the New York Daily
Times have rented building for an office.
al the corner Of Ann and Nassau streets, for
80 500 per annum.
The steamer Pawnee was sunk, last week,
about twenty miles below Memphis; no
lives lost and the boat 10 be raised-and
the new steamer Piktona was wrecked on
the Alabama river, by the late Southern
storm.
The steamer Alvan Adams, one of the
Wheeling and Louisville line, is said to be
nearly completed, at Brownsville. She is
about the size Of the Allegheny, we believe
ten feet longer, and has one'fourlh more
power.
On Friday last, The steamer Reindeer
took fire and burned TO the waters edge At
Saugerlies, on the Hudson, where she ex'
ploded on the previous Saturday.
A girl 10 years of age was lately shipped
from Washington City TO her father, at Day
ton, by Express; the cost Of transportation,
Including boarding and extra care, was $l8.
Late Oregon udvicos state that battle had
been fought al Table Rock, between The
Whites and Indians, in which 40 whites
were killed.
The stockholders of the projected railroad
from Dayton by way Of Xenia to The Ma
retla and Cincinnati railroad, met at Xenia
few days ago, and organized The company
Among the directors are Daniel Beckel and
L. F. Drake.