Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-11-05
Items of News and miscellany.

Dir. >. " Di"eheo1s VINO mas .ooon np-
pointed Naval Officer in New yorE, is the
a.,hor of a History Of New York under
the Dutch Government, Of which one vol.
ume has been published. lie is better
known in literary Than in political circles.
Never was game. says the Winchester
IVA. Republican, more abundant Than at
the present season. In the fields and
woods, paTiriJgcs. pheaSanis, turkeys.
squirrels and the like ae found in great
numbers.
The schooner Ceres, loaded with $40
tons of railroad iron for the Ohio and In.
diana Railroad, was sunk in The Cuysho.
ga last Saturday, by being snagged upon
one Of the piers Of the bridge. She lies
above The proposed bridge. in about ten
feet water. Boat and iron will be raised
soon.
The Commissioners of the land Office
has issued circular, embracing detailed
instructions respecting surveying lands,
granting pre-emption rights, &C., in Cali
lornia, very important 10 settlers in that
State.
The louisville Journal hears of a con,
tract Of between 1000 and l,40O hogs,
in Hardin county. Ky, to average 200
lbs. net, oni to he delivered about the
middle Of December, at $3.50 per cent.
! net.
The Big Sandy News says a vein of
G anol Coal has been discovered on the
Big Sandy, sixteen feet thick, and the
samples the editor has seen were of excel
lent quality. A vein of bituminous coal,
three and halrfeet thick, has been OPEN
ed on the Big Sandy.
The Wholesalers at Winchester, Va.
have resolved TO haul no more wood to
that town after the first of November. un-
less the corporation repeal an ordinance
lately passed for the inspection of wood.
Mcssrs. Diego, of Havana, who lately
failed Tor Sl,70O,000, it is said, have Of
fered tc pay their creditors at the rate of
$500, per annum, with interest at six per
cent.
The Camanches are again committing
devastalions in Western Texas, wherever
he U. States troops happen 10 be obseut.
A party Of them, on the 29lh ult., made
a descent on the settlements eight miles
above Bolton, and stole 25 horses, with
which they decamped. A party of fif.
teen volunteers started in pursuit ofthem.
Robert W. Johnson, late member of
the u. y. House of Representatives has
been appointed by The Governor of Ark
onsas, to fill the vacancy in the U. S.
Senate, caused by tho resignation of the
the Hon. Scion Borland, now filing d.
p!omatic station.
1t is stated that certain capitalists have
purchased some eleven hundred acres of
land Just below the Guyandotte river. in
I,Tgn'o, for which they pay $as. 600.
They contemplate laying portion of this
: tract in town lois, which are expected 10
sell well and readily, Guyandotte being
the focus of grand system of railroads.
Geo. W Clinton, Esq, the s'hardshcIl,
candidate for the office Of Secretary of
State IN New York, closed his speech in
2 the Park on Monday evening, by express
, i"g the hope "lhst the glorious conledcr.
acy shall cover not only this Continent.
but the isles Of the sea. and Cuba, and
hetaad ShaN be embraced in on. arms."
s The Cincinnati Columbian saws -
I Within the last three months there ha.
Q an order sprang u?, in this city, new
secret order under the nomenclature of
, the Family Compact The orderis oDcn
to females as we'll as for the males it is
1 for beneficial and charitable purposes and
, already numbers about five hund drcd mem.
bers in this city.
The late heavy northwest gale has ey,
tended great distance along the coas',
: and no doubt immense damage 10 the ship
, ping. The Charleston and Savannah
! papers received yesterday, mention nu.
merous disasters, almost every vessel ar
irving at those ports showing the effects
of the storm, and bring accounts of dam.
age done to other vessels passed at sea.
The Legislature ofTennessee has final.
y succeeded in electing a U. S. Senator.
lion. John Bell was reelected on on Mon
day, after many fruitless attempts 1t is
his third term.
Hon. Robert McLanc, recently an.
pointed Minister to China, is to sail on
: the 18th.
The weather on the Upper Mississip-
pi, about the 9Th ult., was severely cold.
The Galena Advertiser of the 26th, states
that the morning previous, the river was
frozen over.
The Louisville Courier notices the ar.
rival of 63 emancipate slaves from the
interior, destined for Liberia via Baltimore,
and under the care of Rev. A. NJ. CowAN.
A western paper, in speaking of one of
our newly elected Senators. says his ig-
norance is SO dense that the auger OF COM
mon sense will be longer in boring thro
II, than it would take boiled carrot to-
pore through Mont Blanc. He's the old
gentleman lha. took the other side on
she Squilgee question.
The publisher of newspaper out west
in the first issue of his journal. returns his
thanks to those who have loaned him Pc
cuniary means to commence. and express
es his qualification that there is no law IN
1 that State enforcinp i'm nriconment Cor