The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-03-18
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0rThe ship Golden Eagle cleared at Mo-
bile last week, with 5000 bales of cotton for St. Pc
tersburg, Russia.
0-TThe Managers Of the House of Refuge,
in Philadelphia, offer premium of 800 for the best
and $50 for the next beet essay on Juvenile den.
quency, its causes and preventatives
6TThe new territory Of Nebraska con-
toins, it is said, 10000 square miles, with white
population of less than GOO
0TLetters by the Humbolt state that the
cargo of the ship Caspian. from Charleston, ashore
near Torbay, will be saved. The cargo was insured
ut Havre for 600 francs.
0JCoScoRD, IN. H. March 9.-The
Slate election has resulted in the choice of Cover.
nor Martini tdem.,) by four to five thousand MAORI
ty. Three democratic Congressman elected Amos
Tuck, in the LIST District, defeated. House and Sen.
ate probably unanimously Democratic. ..
OrIt has been ascertained that 100000
persons daily arrive in and depart from London, by
railroad. The number who arrive in and depart
from New York, daily by the various railroads, is
not far from 10000.
0TPHILADELPHIA, March THE Man
agers of the State Agricultural Society met at TIar
rsburgh to-day. and selected Pittsburgh as the place
in which the next fair will be held They also fixed
upon the 27th, 2Sth and 29th Of September as the
days.
0TThe contributions to the Washington
National Monumen, during February, amounted to
| & ha nd E,rt tho nf Eah
ruary, were s2,lO9 10.
OErAbout 50 500, 900 is invested in Bra
zoria county, Texas, in the making of sugar. The
crop of the last year was 5000 hogsheads, valued
a 1928 Oso, with 1900 barrels of molasses at $780,,
0O0
0EPThe California State census gives the
total population oil the city of San Francisco, ex-
elusive OF the rural districts of the county, at 3iS76
of which number there are 29,lG6 white males, and
5,l5l white females.
GTThere is perhaps as much interest felt
in Minnesota at this time upon the subject of Rail
roads, as in any other part OF the country. Before
the adjournment of the present Legislative Assem-.
bly,, charters will have been passed incorporating
companies to construct road between ST. Paul and
st. Anthony; from the Mississippi to Fond du Lac
on Lake SUPERIOR; from St. Paul or St. Anthony to
the Iowa linc--our part of the Louisiana and Min.
nesota Railroad and, we hope, also to announce
the passage of charter looking 70 the construction
of road directly across the State OF Wisconsin to-
ward Milwaukee and Chicago.-St. Paul MINNIE
sotidn.
65~The Currency law, recently passed by
the Legislature of Illinois, orbids, under heavy pen
allies, every species Of illegal banking, the crcu
ation Of any foreign bank notes of less dencmna-
ton than five dollars. The Alton Telegraph believes
to be well mniured law, and that it will have the
effect of driving Of the State the vast amount OF
irresponsible trash which at present constitutes the
principal part Of the Illinois currency.
@The receipts of the American Tract
Society for January were sG2 29, of which s2l 1852
were donations.
| CIV. Carney, of Clark county, KY, re-
covered ten runaway slaves In Wayne county, In.
diana, on the 25th. Resistance was made by the ne-
groes, and Mr. c. severely injured in the fracas
ora little girl two years old, the daughter
of VIM II. Shields, of Richmond, fell into the pit Of
a water closet last Wednesday. She was taken out
dead.
CIV. G. Breese, Of Cincinnati has been
mulcted in $1,000 damages for leaving his CRATE be-
fore his house open, by which S. w. Davis fell into
it and was severely injured.
0-Fne specimens of copper ore have re-
Leesburg, Va.
GrThe National Intelligencer publishes a
! letter from number of the citizens of Washington,
ot both parties addressed to Ex-Pr esident Fillmore
inquring the time and mode Of departure, in order
that they may unite in public manifestation OF res
pect. 1t is expected that he will leave in about
week. He is delayed by the indispositon Of u por.
ton Of his family.
6rWe extract the following from yestcr-
day evenings Pittsburgh Chronicle:
A girl residing ON Butchers Rum Allegheny City,
ON Friday morning last, gave birth to four SONS,
who, with their mother all living and doing well
She is said TO be only about Is years of age, and is
unmarried.
TPITTsBURGH, March lO.-The Penn
syvania Rail Road Company has reduced the rates
of toll on Bacon, Beef, PORK Whskey, Lard, and
lard Oil to fifty cents per hundred from Pittsburgh
to Philadelphia or Baltimore.
GTNEw HAVEN, Murch 1.-THE New
II aven temperance Convention yesterday adopted
the Free Soil State Ticket.
0-The New Orleans Delta states that
the fare for steerage passengers 10 California, by the
mail steamer Philadelphia which connects at Pana-
ma with the steamer John l., Stephens, has been
duced TO eighty five dollars.
01-A stranger dropped dead on Main
street near Monroe, yesterday, Sunday. From in
formation ELECTED before the Coroners jury, it was
supposed he was from Wellsvie, and had worked
at shoemaking for Mr. Deal OF that town. He was
seen Saturday ut Sleubenville, anu had come 10 our
city Saturday night or Sunday morning, lie ap'
peared to be 80 yenrs old. We understand the jury
returned verdict ol--"chuse OF death unknown
bul we are inclined to the belief that when the case
is brought before the Great Judge of the Universe,
that the verdict will be different The punishment
in this world and in the world to come, certainly |
M, ha unnn him that drinks, whilst he