The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1853-02-23
EDITORIAL SUMMARY.

ToIn the tltle vi us OpcnihS iuSs Suhiuiei W
the lst of january last, or about six months,
was $4,l64.67. The receipts from sales dur
ing the same period, for medicinal or me-
chanical purposes, were $4,s96.25. The cx-
penses of the agency were $661.0S-and |
thus the aggregate amount paid out exceed |
ed the aggregate receipts by the sum of
$454.Ul. There was, however, stock of
liquor on hand on the lst of January worth
$962.ls. The agency would seem to be do
ing good business-that is, disposing of
poses, at the rate of nine or ten thousand
dollars per annum.
In the United States Senate on Saturday
the bill to regulate the fees and costs to be
allowed clerks, marshals, and attorneys Of
the circuit and district courts of the United
States, and for other purposes, was taken up,
amended, and passed.
A bill for the incorporation of an "Atlan-
tic and Pacific Rail Road Company" we see,
has just been introduced into the New Jer-
sey Legislature. II embraces large num-
Der Of corporators, who are prominent men
in that and other States. The capital is
stated at $4,000 900, with the privilege of
$l5O,ooo,ooO,
| Thomas Chittenden died at Wiliston,
Vermont, on the lst instant, aged 80 years
! He was the son Of Thomas Chittcndcn, the
first Governor Of Vermont He was the
youngest of n family of nine children, and
was born in Salisbury, Connecticut, on the
Sd of August, ITO. Thomas Chittcnden
removed to Willston in l774.
SUDDEN DEATn.--On Monday last (says
the Darlington Flag of the 10th inst, n very
sudden death occurred near this place.
kinion Mclcndon, man in the prime Of life
and apparently in the enjoyment Of good
health, was riding on horseback coming up
TO this village, when he suddenly fell from
his horse and when reached by those short
distance behind was found perfectly dead.
Jerome Bonapartc, ex-King Of Wcstpha-
lin, is said to be privately married to the
Marchcsa Bartolini, a beautiful Florentine
widow Of high rank.
Philip Allen g. Son, manufacturers OF
prints, at Providence, X. l., have recovered
n verdict Of Si,250 G6 damages, in tile ,'ir.
cult Court at Louisville, KY, against A.
Gowdry g. Co., in an action for counterfeit
ing their labels and affixng thcm to prints
of different quality.
THE WEArHER.-Thc Boston Traveller
says the mean temperature Of the first seven
days in February was 4I.33 or thirteen dc.
grccs and half warmer than the average oi
the first quarter of this month in the corrs,
Of the last twcnty-ninc years. :
statement in the Sayannah Republican, wa
an officer in the revolutionary army Of tn,
United States. Ills na"ic was Michael X n
dolf lie was, it is said, Of German parent
age, and was born on the Eastern Shore o
Maryland. Alta very carly age Re ctitcre,
The army, and achieved distinction in Ice.
legion. lie married in Liberty county
Georgia, but after he sailed for France, from
Sunbury, he never returned to the Unitct
States. The historians of France report hi,
birth place to be Saric Louis, on the confine,
Of the Rhine.
The New York Courier and Inquirer state.
from evidence in its own possession tha
hossuth dare not return 10 this country
THAT he required the generosity of our pco
pie by the basest ingratitude, and that bcfor,
h. ] n; from our shore, under the alias
Alexander Smith, he signed a contract tc
head an expedition from this city against .
country with which we are at peace, in oper
defiance Of our Neutrality Laws. This W.
say We know from the evidence Of our owr
eyes, before the Infamous contract was pla
ced in the Department of State; and If hs
venture again to come among us, our Gov.
eminent, whether Wing or Democrat, will
not hesitate TO arrest and punish him.
MOTIVE POwER WITHOUT FUEL,-Amono
the many wonderful discoveries of the aoe
The Genoa correspondent Of the Newark
advertiser notes that n complete revolution
III the means Of steam navigation and loco
motion is anticipated from recent invention
by Doctor Carosio, Of that city. He has. Il
Is said succeeded in constructing an appara.
tus Tor the decomposition Of water by elec-
sro magnetism, which will Introduce the
gases thus generated into the engine in a
way to save all the expense of fuel! His
invention has been approved by Swans and
practical engineers, and n company has sub