The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-09-28

SOMETHING FOR THE MARvELLoUs-It Is
only once in while that we get hold of some.
tning truly wonderful and marvellous like the
following from the Boston Chronicle Of last
Saturday $ The f,Ilowing remarkut.e stale
ments were made to US by Mr.. Robert L. Ellis,
OF Medford, deacon Of the first Baptist church,
ard very excellent man: On Wednesday
evening last, Mr.. Edwards, member ola
band, died suddenly at his residence on Ship
street. Mr.. Ellis kindly called upon the Attic.
ted family to render his services to perform
those Offices required at such time He had
oeen IN the house but few moments when he 4
heard The notes Of post horn coming seeminc-
| ~ from an apartment in the house the souuda
were repeated at intervals OF from five to ten
minutes, at least half dozen times Annoyed
by il, he searched the house and vicinity to dis
cover the cause, but without success. There
| were ten or twelve other persons in the room.s
all Of whom heard the sounds, and were utterly
| at a loss to account for them. Mr.. Lnchheld,
a very respectable man, ~hof.crupies part of
the house, suggested that the sounds proceeded
from a certain closet. 1t was opened, and the
sounds were more distinct. On shelf lay the
post horn Of the deceased 1t was removed
by request, the sounds ceased, and have not
been heard since. We know Mr.. Ellis person
ally as a gentleman Of intelligence and stric.
test integrity. lie SAYS all who were there will
testify to the same facts. Here is, then, an item
for the marvellous, which has caused no little
excitement in Medford.
VERY DEAD, INDEED.-Read the followi ing
statement from that staunch wing journal, the
| New York Express, as to the success of the
wings of that city in their attempt to send del
egates to their approaching State convention
| Not five hundred votes polled in ali Surely
this is The beginning of the end" of the wing
| party.
"The wing primary meetings held in this city
yesterday morning indicate, more than any.
| thing We have seen, the apathy and deafness Of
the wing party In several of the districts, for
the first Of the two hours during which the polls
were open, not vote was polled. In some of
the wards no tickets printed. In the
eleventh ward no call was published until Tues.
day morning, and then only in one paper, though
/ the general committee required two whole days
notice, and two daily newspapers. In the six
teenth ward, one of the largest wards in the city,
only nine votes we're polled in the twentieth,
but thirty; and in the eighteenth, not SO many,
! we believe. In the thirteenth ward nnety-six
| votes polled All told, as nearly as We
| can learn, about five hundred votes were polled
in city where there to day twenty-five
| thousand voters who have been identified with
the wing party and attached to wing principles.
We do not now propose to consider the cause of
all this apathy!
In the course Gifts article, the Express, init
mating that the Sewardites have the whole Of
the tracks, declares that the convention will be
harmonious. We should think SO. There
does not appear to be life enough to get up a
quarrel. But is the Express sure than any body
aciH go to the convention 9-Washingtoa
Union.