The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser., 1853-12-13
Miscellany.

~ letter from Uerfit Ninltl, SAYS thAt
he is suffering from rush of blood to the
head. which he fears will unfit him for taking
his seat in Congress.
A telegraphic despatch from Louisville
states that the steamer Volante has been burnt |
on the Yazoo river One passenger was burnt |
to death. The boat and cargo are total loss.
-Charleston papers rejoice at the recent
conviction ofThomas Motley Of fWaterborough |
Is C,) for numbering runaway slave.
The Congressional Westinghouse at
Greenfield Hill, (Ct) was destroyed by fire on
Sunday night It's supposed to have caught
from a defect in the stove.
A typographical error in Cleveland
paper made one of the hills of Japan only five
hundred miles high. In the next issue the
editor requests his readers to deduct 2,639,5OO
feet from the former statement.
The members of the Marlboro (Md)
bar held meeting on the Sth instant, for the
purpose of adopting suitable testimonials of
respect for the memory of three of their asso-
ctates, John B. Beubrook, Trueman Tyler, and
Richard II. Bryant, Esqrs., all of whom have
died since the last term of Court.
Some chap has been made to suffer
pretty severely out in Hancock county, Indiana
for having an unrully tongue. Names are not
given, but young lady was slandered by one
of her neghbors, and the court gave her
judgement of three thousand dollars A sis
ter had previously obtained an eighteen humid
red dollar judgment against the same sland-
erer The liberty ofspeech costs something
out West.
during the month of October, the con-
tributions ofmoney to the National Monument
received from all sources amounted to $2,65l,
and the expenditures were S2,467
At last accounts from Cincinnati wood
was selling at So per cord, coal at 40 cents
per bushel. The poor must have hard time
of it.
The Cadiz correspondent of Havana
Diaro writes Oct. from Madrid, that Mr..
Soule's presence there makes something OF a
sensation, but adds that Mr.. S. by some pub
licntions in the Paris Steele, proptiatory had
} paved the way for reception.
t Judge Edmonds, in his work ofspirit-
: uasm, says that the accident of the Henry
{ CLAY and Reindeer were foreted to him before
/ it occurred
General Scott and Wool are in Wash
ington to attend meeting of the Board o.
; Commissioners on the Military ASYLUM.
g -Catharine Hays, we see it stated, has
g sent over fifty thousand dollars to purchase al
a estate in Ireland
: The Boston Advertiser mentions as {
singular fact, that gentleman died at an adj
# vanced age, recently, in neigbboring town
Y who had never passed a single night out 0
i the house in which he was born.
a The New York Tribune says two mer
+ at Troy recently drank rum on a wager at {
e rum hole in that city. One of them cheated
+ by throwing the liquor under the table owe
;. his shoulder, AID the other drank 81 glasses
e and died in consequence.
$ THE Boston Transcript says thatSigno
e Botta, citizen of Turin, and relative of th
II country, for the purpose ofgaining authentl
e information in regard to our school system
y and the different religious sects and Institution
Of America Sgnor Botta is Professor Of Phi
osophy in the Sandman University.
G Commander Downing, it is said, vii
e he court-martiaed on his return to the Unite
$ States, for aiding in the escape Of Commodor
$ Coe in opposition to the wishes of the Argen
l. tine Republic
n -Rumor says that Mr.. Marcolletta wi
IT not be received by Secretary Marcy, as Minis
e ter from Nicaragua.
1t is stated that Mr.. Tallman, Of Jerse
e county, Illinois, raised 1860 bushels of shelle
u corn ostwelve acres of ground. Many of tn
y stalks were twenty feet in height.
i The New Albany and Salem railfoa
e is now completed through from Michigan cit
to Lafayette, Indiana, and Charlottesville,
distance of 1870 miles. Two passenger train
Z ave running daily, each way, between thes
E points.
/ ~ case is now being tried before tn
&c United States District Court at Philadelphia
h in which Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and hu'
If band ask for an INDUCTION to restrain F. W
re Thomas from publishing in his paper a Gel
man translation Of Uncle Toms Cabin.
Accounts from Alexandria to the lot
le of September, state that Abbas Pacha had is
$ sued an order prohibiting the export of graf
d from Egypt from and after the 2sth Septem
J. ber, but on the representation ofthe Euiopea
d consuls the prohibition may be delayed unit
Sc the 30th of November.
er -lhe Presbyterian Churcn III Oanad
IS comprises 8 Presbyteries, 100 Churches an
re Mission stations, and near 90 Ministers. Min
le years ago. there were only about 23 or 2
le Ministers.
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ES- Thinks to myself a man may be
* President and no great shakes either-for, a
ID ter all, he is only the lead horse of team
RS He has got the 60 in him, and that's all f; bl
d he can't hold back which is great matter BOT
IN in statesmen and horses. For if he slacks u