Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-14


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The Maine liquor law is agitating in Ken
lucky.
Thirteen in every hundred mechanics in Paris
are unable to read or write.
DELlcATE.-'Bus dricer -s1Would any lady be
80 kind as to ride outside to oblige gentleman?
The Union men of Augusta, Georgia, have re-
solved not to send delegates to the Baltimore
Convention.
Is the sale of intoxicating liquors rs drink
necessary for the good of any community?
A Mrs, Emily Norton recently expired in
New Haven, Connecticut from the effects of ad-
ministering chloroform
The people of Cuba are in a continual state of
excitement owing to the rumors of another
invasion.
On the old Mexican quarters struck in the
time Of lturbide, he is called a sovereign by the
''providence," not by the ''gracc" Of God.
Another ship, under the direction of the Colo
nization Society, will sail from Baltimore on the
first of May, with emigrants for Liberia.
A memorial is to be presented to Congress,
signed by one hundred and fifty members of the
bar of Cincinnati, for the division of Ohio into
two Judicial districts
A train was recently taken south the
Cleveland and Columbus railroad, by one engine,
containing ninety cars, 1t was five-eighths Of a
mile i'll length.
The steamboats, which daily leave Pittsburg for
the West are reported to be infested with gangs
of thieves, whose depredatons have become a
matter of serious alarm to passengers.
The public debt of North Carolina, exclusive
of the States obligations imposed by the Central
railroad charter, does not now exceed one mil
lion two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
A medical writer in England is endeavoring to
prove that salt was the @ forbidden fruit" and
that if it was longer used by the human race,
i" their beauty, bodily perfection and power of
mind" would exceed any era before known in the
world.
THE CnEvALIER WYcKoFr.--This notorious
parsonage, who is now i'll prison i'll Geneva for
attempting to secure n wife by abduction, is
quietly mt work making stockings, suspenders,
and other useful articles. The King of Sardinia
refuses to pardon MIN, even to commute his
sentence.
ILLUSTRATORS OF "BuYcoMpE alderman,
lin embryo )-'' As it is impossible to deceive
gentleman of your great sagacity and knowledge,
shall not insult you by any elaborate exposition
Of my political principles. All say is,
elect me, and you will save your country, and be
always welcome at my groggery around the cor
ner." Etector.-''F Fait, if your whiskey's good,
| you're my man"
The monopoly of steam navigation in the riv-
ers of Paraguay is insured to the first steamer
which enters her waters from the Atlantic sea-
board The government of Bolivia, under the
presidency of General Andres Santa Cruz offers
premium of SO, 900 to the first who reaches
her frontier by steam from the Atlantic, and gives
to each emigrant from one to fifty square miles
Of arabic land.
A PRINcELY CoNsuL.-It was stated in the
foreign news, the other day. that Prince Pierre
Bonaparte was to be sent to the United States as
n consul, with salary of $1,000 francs,
about $4,000 1t appears that it is the port of
Charleston, S. c., to which he is to be sent.
lie is n cousin of the Prince President of France
is an cx-Representative, cx-Montagandist, &C.,
and succeeds Count Choiseul in the consulate.
THE GENTLEMAN.-No man is a gentleman
who, without provocation, would treat with in
civility the humblest of his species. 1t is vul-
garity for which no accomplishments or dress can
ever atone. Show me the man who desires to
make every one happy around him, and whose
greatest sOlicitude is never to give just cause of
offence to any one, and will show you n gentle
man by nature and by practce-though he may
never have worn suit Of broadcloth, nor ever
heard Of lexicon.
New HousE-whRMERS. A "new fire" has
! lust been patented in London-in other words,
a new method of warming rooms by means Of
n series of thin metal plates placed in an or
dnary CRATE, and heated by gas obtained from
a decomposition Of water The plates become
red-hot, and are kept so by combustion Of
gas and so you can dispense with Goals Com
pared to the latter. it is said to be cheaper more
cleanly, and healthy 1t Is now exhibited, with
countless other scientific maryels, at the Poly
technc Institution and should it deserve all the
fine things said Of it, it must create quite n do
mestiC revolution
VARIOUS STATIsTICs.-The railways of Britain
have cost twelve hundred millions of dollars the
canals thirteen hundred millions; the docks. one
hundred and fifty millions. There are 80, 900
merchant vessels; 3S5 war vessels; $50 yachts
altogether represent tonnage Of 4, 763, 600 TONS
and are manned by 100000 men. An average
of one vessel is lost at every tide The amount
Of coal mined in Pennsylvania during the year
1851 was 100000 tons Of bituminons, and
T. 900, 600 of anthracite of which the aggregate
value is So, ,00O,O The coal-felds of Penn
,ylvana cover 10000 square miles; those Of
Great Britain cover 600 square miles. The
first are above or within the water level the
second from 900 to ! 800 feet below the surface
Of the ground
The following curious ceremony lately took
place in Hamburg
Atnoon on the 10th of March, just as the Ex-
change IN Hamburg, crowded with merchants.
presented its busiest aspect, two drummers in the
civic uniform came up and rolled their drums for
the space of ten minutes, causing great com
motion both within and without of the Bourse
While this was going on, workmen were seen over
tho principal gateway of the building elevating
black board, on which was painted in white
letters the name Of merchant of the city who