Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-01
aEoRaETowN AND IT'S AFFAIRs.
Gronerrows, Jan. LIZ m.

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GEoRaErowS, Jan. liz m
A FIRE occurred last night in the stable Of Mr.. 4
VIM. Ritter, on Market street, near Water, which
consumed it, and considerable quantity Of hay
which was in it, AT the time the fire occurred,
there were four horses in it, but all were saved.
1t is supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
An effort is being made to clear our canal OF
ice, to enable the large number of boats which
are here unloaded to pass up, and those which
are above loaded to descend before the water is
let of, which understand will be on the 10Th
instant, for the purpose of making some neces-
sary repairs.
Under the new law for the government of the
night-watch, which goes into effect to-day, Mayor
Addison this morning made the following ap-
pointments A. X. Arnold, captain; Jesse Ketch-
em, VIM. Adams, Robt. Rawlings, John Clements,
f. Jones and Grafton Harper, assistants
Mr.. vanderwerken's Union Line of omnibuses
are literally crowded this morning, by old and
young, male and female, rich and poor-all bound
to the Presidents levee.
Rascality.--Some would-be young gentlemen
stopped last night at the confectionery store Of
poor widow woman, on Bridge street, and after
filling their pockets paid her off in Fowler shin
plasters, and decamped before she discovered the
fraud.
The fire at Mr.. Ritter's stable last night broke
up the Retrocession meeting before the speaking
| commenced.
The flour, grain, and pork markets remain
firm at last quotations ELEcTRo.
project is on foot in the southern and central
portions of Illinois for the establishment of an in
dustrial university, in which the science of agri-
culture and the principles of mechanism shall be
practically taught. The fund for this purpose,
now at the command Of the State, has accrued
from the action and foresight of the constitutional
convention assembled at Kaskaskia, in August
1878, in accepting certain propositions of Con
gress in relation to certain lands for school pur
poses.
CHURCH BURNED. The Roman Catholic Church
at Schaghtiooke, New York, was destroyed by fire
between eight, and nine o'clock on Wednesday
evening @
D6y~ Bloomer is defined by the Pittsburg
/" Post = to be one who pants for notoriety
The Legislature of Maryland will meet at An
napolis on Monday next.
ne Few persons have advertized regularly
in the AMERICAN TELEGRApH who have not as
sured us that they proftted greatly byit
The following, from the Knickerbocker for
October, is not bad:
II should like you to have seen,n said friend
to us the other day, "a specimen of green
Yankee who came down the Sound in Hart
ford steamer with me. He had never been to
York f" before, and he was asking questions of
everybody on board the boat However, if he
was "green as grass" he was picking up
good deal of information, which will doubtless
stand him in good stead hereafter One of
his comparisons struck me as decidedly origin
al: Cup to Northampton said he, ~ took
breakfast and they taxed me tew shillin's!
"Twas pooty good price, but gin it to
'em. Twas enough any way. Well, when |
came down to Har' ford, took breakfast
ag'in, next mornin' and when l asked 'em
How much q they looked at me and said,
Half dollar y | looked back at 'em |
pooty sharp-but paid it; and arter I'd paid
it | sot down, and ciphered up inside how
much it would, cost a fellow to board long at
that rate; and tell you what, pooty soon
found out that fore the end of month it
would make fellows pocket-book look as If
an elephant had stomped onto :"
California astonishes us not only by its i'm
mense beds of gold and the unexampled rapid
ity of its growth, but it will be seen that in
the vegetable line it is not easily equalled.
The extract is from the Tribune.
~ few days ago. sat down to dine with
ten others mostly adults A large dish of po-
tatoes graced the table, cut in pieces before
boiling. Our landlady informed us that there
were two potatoes in the dish, and no more.
But there was enough, and to spare. On an
other dish was one-third of beet Onions
often exceed pound in weight "A cabbage
at the door of restaurant near me weighs
twenty-eight pounds These vegetables are
not the result of forced culture The soil in
many localities cannot help producing them
THE SUPPOSED ROUTE OF SIR JOHN FRANK
LIN.--At late meeting of the London Geo
graphical Society, Lieutenant Osborne, by in
vitation from the Chair, dwelt on various indi-
cations likely to elucidate the question of the
route taken by Sir John Franklin. He denied
that the navigator could have perished either
in Baffin's Bay, Barrow's Straits, or Lancaster
Sound, or within 200 or 300 miles of the mouth
of Wellington Channel; because in that case,
the constantly prevailing current must have
drifted fragments of wreck to the neighborhood
of some of the places visited by the exploring
parties IL was therefore his firm conviction
that Franklin had reached far to the north
west up Wellington Channel.--Jouraal
NATIONAL THEATRE.
Mr.. L. A. MARSHALL Sole Lessee.