The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-06-24
Friday EveninE. Iu,.e ls. 1850

| IN ilupDeil mas drTlVeu dt Ot. LOUIS from /
Santa Fe, bringing thirty thousand dol
lars in gold and silver. All was quiet in
New Mexico. Gov. Calhoun was about
starting for st. Louis The Indians on the
Arkansas were about decamping for the Cal
ifornia road, to intercept the emigants. He
met the United States troops at Diamond
Springs, getting along slowly; they had lost
25 men by cholera. Met Mr.. Aubry at Ball
Creek; nine men sick with cholera-one
death. 1t is believed that il will soon be
impossible to cross the Plains, if the Govern
ment does not interfere with the hostile In.
tdians
05-The modest young editor pro- tenn. Of
the Eagle, has again adorned its columns
with another batch of editorials, call well
lpeppered with lofty ordinations :" A
mite, was anciently considered the limit of
ittleness; but the pro. TEN. Of the Eagle has
written himself % 100000 times smaller
than mite. 1t was hardly necessary for
him TO run around town in search Of the ken
10 his SancluH.; for without doubt his dimn-
utive proportions would have admitted Of free
ingress to the bsy-hols. pa z.Eo.i"
CHOLERA AT New ORLEAxs.-During the
week ending the 5th inst, there were $40
deaths at New OOrleans, Of which number
l79 were from cholera. --. sarc-
SPECULATION Is BEEF CATTLE-The
Philadelphia ledger contains communica-
ton from correspondent, who says
ave all remember the high price Of beef
in 1874, kept up by the monopoly ofa man
named Steinberger, from Baltimore, who had
all the funds ofthe Maryland Bank at his
control, and bought all the beef cattle, and
supplied the Baltimore. Philadelphia and
New York markets. The same system is
now carried on by several cattle- dealers cal
led the "Shugar Party One of the most
respectable butchers informed me that one
man has all the cattle to sell; that his party
buy all'the beefcattle They have the con-
troI Of all The money. and western drovers
actually get from 81, 80 10 50 30 H.ss for cat
tie than was paid six weeks age; yet the
price 70 the butchersis as high os it was be-
fore.
"HOw longthis state Of things can last is
hesf known to the banks who furnish the
money TO these spectators The same rem
cdy should be applied TO the ''Shugar Party"
as that which was applied To Steinberger." )"
trT The following decision in the Supreme
Court, New York, may be of interest to
some people nearer home a5
|, SUIT To RECOVER MONEY OBTAINED BY
J GAMBLISG.-William Mootry, assignee OF
. John Taylor, against Sherlock Hillman. To
, recover $4,000 alleged to have been obtained
al gambling by defendant, from John Tay-
i. lor, at the house OF said Hillman first at
, 1853 Broadway, and subsequently, to where
+. he had removed his establishment, (said to
4 be gaming house) in Liberty street
S Mr.. Taylor, it was said, belonged to Dan.
e bury, CT, where he had a comb mandatory
r The claim having been assigned, he was
e called as a witness. He said, in and shortly
before Dec, 1850, he played faro at the
t house, l53 Broadway, and lost over $4,000
r defendant removed to 81 Liberty street,
where said Taylor subsequently lost at one
| time $50, at another SI,04l, at another
e $3.50, and at another $500.
On his cross examination he said he had
visited two other houses-they were in Park
IL. Place-might have lost S400 or $500. Was
ataHother house in Broadway, but lost no,
: thing there; might have been at No. = Bar
clay street. Occasionally won little; bu
= the run was the other way,
lit was said that Mrs. Taylor, wife OF tht
J. witness, received about 81 900 from her ia
ther's estate. Mr.. T. also borrowed s ,0O
D. from his mother, being about half that sh
possessed, and for which the mortgage wa
b. forcclosed-he had fine establishment,
was said, as a comb mandatory, but faile
n for some $4,000 or $4,000. He and b
family now reside in New York, where
= pursues the business of carman. He
% said to be sober man, but became infatuat
IS ed at the period spoken Of, by visiting hou
e ses for gaming. The District Attorne,
J. Counsel employed of the county in Conn
,r came to New York, it is said, on behalf Q
his mother and creditors, and this suit wa
8. the result. .r,-1 g
The particular point of defence was, tina
: no consideration had been shown to hOv
been given by plaintiff for the claim: tina
b. plaintiff is the attorney at law, and that tn
statute prohibits debt beings sold for tn
L. purpose of litigation. The Court said it wa
question for the jury as to whether ther
: had been any consideration OF not. In rt
b. gard to the main question, if the money ha
been obtained by defendant, as represente,
o. he is bound, in law, to pay itbsck.
M Verdict for plaintiff, So, 3,245, being amour
provedto have been lost. 81. - -.''.
IA .
~ SLEEPtNG IN CHURCH. lisa matter ofre,
ord that about one hundred years ago, a
q Indian was condueteddy white to witnei
~ the service of sanctuary on the Lords da.
II 7 When the services were ended. the citizel
: ontheir way homeward, in order to irhpre:
/, upon his tawny friend the superiority
- Christianity over heathenism, entered into
no detaii ofthe money appropriated by the col
q gregatfen. of wrich he was a monbeb f
the support of public worship, the erectio
n. tof the house, the salary of the minister's
+" To all this the son of the forest, who o
H. served the drowsy disposition which perv
y" ded the assembls, replied: "Umph!" fndi
IL sleep just as sosEs under tree, and not p
nothing, "r,..,.,,s,o Ms .rs. ; a......
- fETThe Lpcos Of Cincinnati held the
q Ratification meeting on Monday evening.
" The Atlds says it was composed Of Abont o.
II. men, one half Wings, and some two or thre
: hundred boys, enticed tbhher by rocket
N. rsquibs, and magniloquent brass bana coll
- iposed of a base drum, and 2 "swlnetii !, =
ula midst the wells Of the Juveniles, the snon'
~ Iofthe awnterrAied,'' the discordant trains
Voy The aswinet" and '.toljon." the immense al
a lsemblaps was called to: order, and an effo