Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-04-22
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.



Barney williams and wife are in Pittsburg
Butter sells in Louisville at 40 cents per
pound.
Henry !, in 1880, made the first canal in Eng
land, ana it was profitable work.
Two new daily papers are to be started soon in
Cincinnati.
A man sold his Bible in Cincinnati last week to
obtain rum! {.
There is no act so delicate as that of comforting
obligations
The Virginia House of Delegates has passed a
bill abolshing public executions.
John p. Hale, United States Senator from New
Hampshire, has concluded to remove to New
York
The pay of the members of the Ohio legisla-
ture has been raised to four dollars per day, by
their own vote.
The wild potato is found indigenous on tho
Gillian mountains and on the islands of the Cha
mos Archipelago
Question. was England to be bought
cheapest? Anstcer. When King Richard offered
his kingdom for a horse
Mr.. GEoRaE SUMNER, brother of Senator Sum
ner, returned to his native country on Sunday,
in the Arctic, after absence of about ten years
The Syracuse Star has passed out of the hands
of Mr.. Winslow M. Watson the new proprietors
are Barstow s. Judd
In England and Scotland there are 1914 churches
and chapels, and 972 priests; and in Ireland ,2O5
churches, and 1862 priests.
II is said that Bordentown, N. j., is increas-
ing so fast in population that there is not sufh-
cient dwellings to supply applicants
Floods in the Ohio do not always indicate
spring, although the amount of drift soould sug-.
gests that the trees have begun to leave.
man advertises for competent person to-
undertake the sale of q "new medicine" and
adds, that it will be profitable to the znder-
taker" No doubt Of it.
THE MAINE LAVA Portland correspondent
Of the New York Express says: "Four-ffths of
the people of Maine are satisfied with the law,
nor could its repeal be effected by any party or
combination Of parties"
Ben. Knight, of Cincinnati, is fitting out full
set Of colors for Russian war vessel, building at
Chillicothe. The idea of sending to the back
woods Of the West for the like of this is some
what novel.
George Washington was raised to the degree of
Master Mason on the 18th of August 1863, hav-
ing been initiated 4th November, 1852. The
Tooth anniversary of his initiation is to be cele-
brated throughout the Union.
Fl. G.. Wallace killed John R. Mitchell, few
days since, for clandestinely marrying his daugh-
ter. Wallace surrendered himself, and the ma
gistrate refused to grant him bail. The parties
reside in Grenada, Mississippi.
WORTHY A Decentralization" said ragged
little newsboy to his comrade yesterday, f" do you
know what makes a man." "No." swell it's
to put the brick in the hod, and not in your
hat"
Childhood is like a mirror, catching and re-
fecting images all around it. Remember that an
impious, profane, or vulgar thought may operate
upon young heart like careless spray of water
thrown upon polished steel, staining it with rust
that no after efforts can efface.
The American Flag, which has been struck for
some time, pending the satisfaction of claim
made upon the Egyptian government for damage
to property of United States subject, was re-
hoisted on the 18th ult, under salute from the
batteries of twent,-one guns.
An itemizer, at an evening sewing-party, re-
ports that one young lady made the exclamation,
al thought should have died." one hundred and
twenty eight times; and she put the inquiry
"Did you ever" one hundred and thirty-seven
times.
steamer American Star have commenced suit
against the Terre Haute Bridge Company for
damages sustained in butting against the abut-
ments, and the company has cross-suited for the
amount necessary to repair the bridge
ADVISABLE ABBREvIATIoN.-The Evening Jour
nal suggests that the word "7slegram' be sub
stituted for that of photographic Report" as ex
pressing by single word what now requires
two most disjointed ones. 1t would be more eu-
phonious, and expresses precisely the idea.
The Emperor Soulouque has sent an order to
Paris for complete collection of all the French
classics. They to be elegantly bound, with the
Emperor's arms on the covers, consisting of
palm tree, 9Th the motto Dieu ma pdtrie ct mon
Epee.
In breach Of promise case recently tried in
Burlington, Vermont, Mr.. Lester S. Warner was
ordered to pay Miss Celina Bailey $4,000 dam
ages for "leaving undone those things which
he ought to have done" The verdict has so
alarmed the old bachelors of that region that
they think of emigrating to the Great Salt lake.
The city authorities of New York are making
provision for the construction Of new Croton
water reservoir which will have q capacity of
nearly eight hundred millions Of gallons Of water,
and, with the reservoirs now in use, sufficient to
contain at the present rate of consumption sup
ply for the city for thirty days
The conference at Hanover for the purpose of
saving the German feet from the auctioneer's
hammer has failed in its aim. The German
States convened could not manage altogether, to
raise the necessary annual sum of G186, 600.
They may congratulate themselves that their
poverty has saved them from piece of folly.
In 1926 Lafayette, while in Cincinnati, was
asked as TO affairs in France. He said Louis
Philippe would be king-and so it came to pass
Ave years afterwards, and principally through
Lafayette. Louis Philippe was then school
master, near Pittsburg One Of Cincinnati's