The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1853-06-30
VARIETY ITEMS.

VARIETY ITEMS.
CuR1osrrY is on tip toe at ST. Louis to
see tie great Eclipse, which has gone up
there to astonish the natives.
THE public debt Of the United States,
on the % of March, 1853, amounted to
s65, 131, ,692.
RyH Hon. II. V. JOHNSON hssbccn NOM
mated, on the 9Th ballot, as a candidate
for Governor of Georgia, by the Democra-
tic Convention of that State.
CAPT. Summons says the water is get
ting so shoal at Warsaw that the mud
turtles congregate there to tighten the
"big cats" over the bar.
The railroad interest of the country is
becoming one of great magnitude. The
Central and New York and Erie lines alone
represent seventy millions of capital.
THE Boston .1tlos, in giving an account
of riot, says:
"Tkc Irish maintained their ground, re-
treating inch by inch.'
ATTACHED.-Thc steamer Pawnce was
attached at ST. Louis on Saturday. Her
liabilities are over 500, geo, She took a
full cargo for New Orleans, which was re-
shipped.
CHANCELLOR II, Walworth has been
chosen Grand Master ofthe Grand Lodge
of Free Masons OF the State of New York.
The Chancelloris convert, as he was
formerly an snti-Mason.
AMONG the curiosities which will be ex-
hibited at the Worlds Fair is leather
watch. The main spring is India rubber,
while the works are composed of gutta
percha. The whole is wound up by two
boys and bed wrench.
Two boys, about 8 years of age each,
were amusing themselves at Centersyille,
Miss, last week by throwing corn-cobs
at each other, when unfortunately ono OF
them received blow on the temple which
caused his deaih in few hours.
BARNuM's LAsr-A Bearded Lady is
the last wonder go. up by Barnum, and
she is exciting the admiration of the New
Workers. It's probable she will have a
prominent place in the New York Crystal
Palace Exhibition of the Industry of all
Nations
Rg-"Docs hanging prevent murder?'
asks the Columbia SPY. The question has
heretofore been widely debated, with
great differences of opinion. Hanging
may not deter others from crime, but ii
generally prevents fellow from doing the
deed again.
A Cleveland paper thinks Judge Finn,
having regard to the reputation of the city,
should change his rule, and swear tha Re
porters not to report truly the things that
take place in his Court. That would look
tolerably sensible.
CHOLERA AMONG THE ENGLISH TRoops
IN INDIA.-The Calcutta correspondent
of the Newburyport Herald, under date
of April 92d, says:
eve have accounts from Rome up to
the 4sh Of April. The cholera is raging
very virulently among all the regiments
there, having already carried off two or
three hundred men.
A VALUABLE CAReo.-The Ship Chaos
III tons register, Capt. J. L. Dunton,
cleared at Savannah on Thursday last for
Havre, with a Cargo of 1919 bales Up
land, and 80 bales Sea Island Cotton
weighing ,518,688 lbs, and valued al
one hundred and sixty thousand sew
en- hundred ard ninety five dollars. But
few ships of this tonnage carry SO large q
cargo.
TIE town board Of excise of Saratoga
have licensed thirty hotels and small tav.
erns to sell spirituous liquors-which, fol
a watering place, will do pretty well, W.
should say. Fifteen of the licenses, We
observe, are granted with the condition
not to be drunk on the premises, bu
whether the proviso is meant to apply t.
the drink or the drinkers, is not very dis
4 tinctly stated.
FLoeeING.--AtButte City, on Wednes
I day last, a Mexican who had been detect
ed stealing, was Immediately led out ant
without any ceremony or waste of tim,
tied to stake, and had forty-nine lashes
administered to him, laid on with righ
good viii. He suffered good deal b,
A the inhiction, which we hope viii have
salutary effect upon tie large Mexican
population in the neigfboshood.- CAL Ea
E. A voe was taken on the 9th inst
at Big Flat, Trinity county, for the Pun
pose of determining whether the China
men should be permitted to work tn
mines in that locality. The contest wa