Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1853-06-02
FROM PAPERS RECEIVED YESTERDAY,


The Louisiana papers state that the Com
missioners appointed at the last term of the
Pike county Circuit Court, TO assess the DANA
ges against the plank road company, alledgedto
have been sustained by the various parties along
the line OF the road, who had instituted suits for
tresspass, closed an entire weeks labors on Sat-
urday last. Each case was acted on separately
and the verdict o. the commissioners sealed and
returned to the clerk of the Circuit Court, with
an order to not open it till the next Term of the
Circuit Court, leaving the parties themselves
and all others entirely in the dark as to the
amount Of damages awarded the compliments
1t is thought, however, that the damages assess
ed, will fall immeasurably short of the amounts
respectively claimed by The petitioners in their
trespass bills.
The Board of Publication of the Old School
Presbyterians, report TO the General Assembly
now in session at Philadelphia, that sales dur
ing the year amount to nearly $40 900
BY The Presbyterian Old School General As
sembly, May Goth
On motion of DIR. Breckenridge it was unani-
mousy resolved, that a first class Theological
Seminary be established in the West. New
Albany, Illinois; ST. Louis, Nashville, Danyllc
and Cincinnati, were named as locations.
! DIR. Wood advocated New Albany IN a speech
of some length, urging the proposition Of the
directors Of the establishment now there to
transfer to the General Assembly all control Of
the institutions and funds Of the projected school
TO be established.
DIR. Breckenridge discussed the claims of The
| Old School Lane Seminary at Cincinnati. Ad-
| journed.
The British government has complained Of
idepredations committed by the Americans at
the Falkland Islands, and force has been sent
there by our Government, TO protect the citizens
and property.
In the Norfolk Va, district, John s. Millron,
democrat is elected to Congress.
The Wings of Linn county are almost to a
man for Col. 10, Davis, of Fayette, as the Wing
candidate for Congress in the third district.
The Glasgow Times learns that arrangements
arc being made for the establishment of a Wing
Piper in Chillicolhe, at an early day.
1t is estimated that there will be 100000
visitors TO the new York Crystal Palace, who
will spend ten millions of dollars in that city in
three months.
a SLAYER has lately landed some $50 Afri
cans in Cuba. 1--.
Cincinnati has 558 gambling places, of all
kinds
A Baptist preacher named Carroway, citi-
zen of Hyde county, lately, on some frivolous
preteXt, knocked his wife down with chair,
and then seized large stick and continued to
beat her, until man named Lussiter, who was
boarding in the house, interlered TO prevent
her being murdered. Whereupon Corroway
took his gun to shoot Lassiter, but he dsarmed
him and left the house.
A few days afterwards, Lassiter CHANGED 10
go by the house, which stood near the public
road, when Corroway, seeing him pass, took his
gun and ran through his field TO cut him of, and
overtaking him in the Savannah, shot him dead;
then took his victim and carried him some half
mile into the swamp, threw him down into the
mud, and stampedhim below the surface Of lie
mud, covered Linn with brush, then ran Of, made
his escape from the county, and eluied pursuit.
lie had been married three times, and circum.
stances have now come out, which strongly in.
dictate tlat boiav IF his deceased wives came to
their deaths by his hands!
The Northern and Southern students at
the Law College at Cambridge, Mass. are
Gently got into difficulty about slavery