The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-12-21
NEWS GLEANYNGS.

Know NoTHINGsI IN CoNGREss-A Wash
ington correspondent saya, that it is stated
that on direct vote large majority ofthe
House would be found Native Americans
in principle, and that about eighty members
belong to the Know Nothing order.
Judge Porter, of Wayne county, Penn
sylvanis, has instructed the grand jury to
indict all the Know Nothings. He con-
siders the organization unconstitutional,
and under the ban of the law. l: Is said
that two-thirds of the grand jury were
members of the order, and that the proba-
bilities were they would demur to the
charge.
The Baltimore San says, an CAN'T
WISE CONVENTION" is about to be held in
Virginia, to be composed of all those op-
posed to the election of the Hon. Henry
A. Wise to the Gubernatorial chair of that
State. The Petersburg Intellgencer sug-
gests that it be held at Lynchburg.
There are thirtytwo railroad companies
| in Canada that have commenced their
roads, Eleven. hundred and ninety three
miles of road have been completed, and
two thousand and twenty-five ore in prog
ress of construction.
Mr.. Lewis Cass the United States Charge
d'Affaires to the Court of Rome, had an
audience of tho Pope ON the 10th, in which
he delivered new letters of credence rails
ing him 10 the rank of resident Minister at
| Rome.
There being no regular work carried on
in the county prison. at which DR.. Beal
could be employed to advantage, he oficl-
ates as an assistant in the apothecary's de-
psrtment, and performs all the dental op'
erations required by the prisoners.
WThe Macarthur Herald informs us
that David Moore, who committed suicide
in Vinton county, as announced on
yesterday, was 80 years of age, and had
but recently married young lady.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the State
Bank of Indiana are in circulation. They
are we'll executed, but are darker than The
genuine, and the numbering on both sides
are in the same hand.
Senators Houston and Rusk have ap
proved, in writing, the course pursued by
Gov. Pease in rejecting the securities ten
dered by Messrs. Walker and King in full
fllment of tho Pacific Railroad contract.
!, NJ. Cueta, the Spanish Minister, is rap
idly recovering from the injury sustained
by being thrown from his carriage, & socl
be expected about again. .,,
The entire row of workshops belongin!
to the Penitentiary at Richmond, Va, wa
burned on the evening of the 7th inst
Loss, estimated at 100000,
) The Journal, at Galveston, Texas, take
: strong American grounds, and urges MI
Fillmore as candidate for President il
, 1885,
E.W. Nc Comas, Esq, Democratic nom
ipee for Lieutenant Governor Of Virginia
was robbed in Richmond, on Wednesda!
of one hundred dollars! a. .sr
Col. John R. Grymcs, the distinguish
ed lawyer of New Orleans, who died fe'
). days ago, was an aid-de-camp to Ger
Jackson, at the battle Of New-orleans:
1t is said that mine of block tin hasbee
t discovered in Upshar county,'Va. We re
: gard this as doubtful, as none has yet bee
found in the United States.
Abraham Quady, the last of the Nantucl
ct Indians, died at Nantucket on the Est
ultimo. ~. t,' ~.
> A Mrs. Sarah Comfy died at New L
t IBERIA, Louisiana, lately, at the age of 10
years.