The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-09
News items.

&kEVlFIr0 AN OB6OLETE LAVA tai
ler / London has been fined forty shil-
Engs for making a coat with cloth-cov-
cred buttons! An act of Parliament Of
George III. enacts that every coat must
have brass buttons, and the act being
still unrepealed, the magistrate had nc.
option but to infict the fine.
EmIGRANTs ron KAKsAs.-It il said
that fifty or sixty families from Vermont
are making preparations to start for
Kansas. They will probably go out in
August, under the auspicies Of the Emil
grant Aid Society. The Secretary Of
this society is overwhelmed with applica-
lions for information.
EE The wheat crop in the Sand
wlch Islands promise to yield a supply
fully equal to the consumption of tho
Hawaiian kingdom for the ensuing year..
80 that there will be no need of export
ing breadstuffs thither. We have SINH
lar adyices from California and Oregon,
and the relief which this will afford to-
our markets here is a matter of more
than ordinary qualification
TREATY WITH SPAM.-The Richmond.
Enquirer learns from an intelligent COR
respondent at Washington, that . rumor
exists of an anticipated treaty with
Spain respecting Cuba, and it is conjec-
tured that a prolongation of the sessiea
is designed, to obHiate delay in the rati-
f~cation of the treaty, and the voting Of
the required appropriations. The con-
tinued inactivity of the Senate gives
c~ountenance to the report.
FooTE BuILD1Nas.AGen 3. s. Foote,
late Governor of Mississippi, and in
many respects one of the most remarka-
bic men Of his /" day and generation !"
is said to be erecting a splendid mansion
in Clinton, Contra Costa, opposite San
Francisco California. His reputation
as a statesman was built upon the sand.
We hope he has not selected the same
foundation for his splendid mansion :"
QUEER PLACE FOR A TeAD.&One of
the operators of the House Telegraph,
informs us that while repairing the tele-
graph wires at Fairfield, a few days since,
a live full grown toad, was found under
the glass ~insulator, on the top of pole,
which was a chestnut, perfectly smooth,
twenty-five feet high, and not near any
tree or building. How his toadship.
came there, or how long he had occupied
his aerial, but precarious positionF Is .
matter for curious speculation.-LLayt~
ford CoxrGNt.
CoMrse BAck.-A cargo Of goods.
lately arrived at New York, on their re-
turn from California, having been chip
ped thither eight or ten months since.
and found unsaleable except at ruinous;
prices. They embraced a general as
sortment. Anew York paper suggests
that there is now but one commodity
that viii pay to ship to California. That
article is domestic servants. Let any
man, it says, ship a cargo of Irish girls
and men to San Francisco, and hire
them out by the month, and he Wilt
the servants can be kept TO their bargain
make q fortune in no time. Any other
export is perilous-
e The Albany atlas states, that
30 strong is the Know Nothing tenden-
cies of the Wings in New York, that
Seward and Weed, who oppose it, will
be powerless to control the nominations
this fall. This, if true, will be the frat
time in twenty years that those men failed
to have their own way in Wing conven-
tions in the Empire State. Much a.
re desired the political downfall of these
ambitious and unprincipled p~artizans,
we could nave waited a while In patience,
rather than see them pitched overheard
by their own party, because they adhere
to the doctrine of religious liberty and
equal rights for all the citizens of this
republie.-Enqairer.
r. Charles Dickens is said to have
run away from his creditors and gone to-
the continent During several years his.
income equaled $l0o, 600, and he might
have amassed nearlyna-million in all
But SO completely did he realize the old
story of +" beggar on horseback, that
he was obliged to fly to escape imprison--
ment for a paltry wine-bill, He has al
SO recently committed the incredible;
meanness Of selling one of his children,
to Miss Burdett Coutts, an ~intiquated'
wealthy lady, to whom he made an ap--
peal for money. Miss Coutts refused to.
comply a second time with his request.
but she offered to " bring up " one of hiG
daughters; and this fellow who SO loud
" arraigned the Americans for " man.
selling - actually parted with one of his
children, in manner which any mechan-
ic earning thirty shillings a week would
have spurned at.
The GARDINER EsrATE.-Some time
since our United States Government,
through the Treasurer of the United
States, applied to the Orphans Court
for letters of administration on the per-
sonal estate of the late DIR. George A.
Gardiner. The case was, on Saturday,
argued by Messers. Fendall, Key, and
Reddin, for the United States, against
Messers. Bradley and Carlisle, who like
wise applied for letters of administration,
they being creditors of the said estate.
But Judge Purcell decided in favor of
the United States, on the ground that
the Government is p7ima facie the lar
ger creditor remafkingthat he regarded
the Secretary of the Treasury q the
proper trustee to protect the interests Of
the Treasury. The amountEin issue il
upwards of $500, 600. Mesaers, Bradley
and Carlisle have appealed to the CiFe
cult Court aahfaatga Star, 31st:
CHoLHRAN D. RBADoEs.-Al late mum.
Der Of the Vest Indian speaka a. fol-
lows of the dreadful destruction Of life
be the cholera in the Island Of Barba-
does:
We are unable to state with accuracy
the total number of deaths throughout
the Island from the epidemic up to the