The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1854-07-21

party could nave oucceeueo Win sucu 4" oSA
den upon It's back.
rIn Montreal, 535 cases Of cholera
were reported from the 9Th TO the 10th inst
The deaths average IS OF 40 day. i
| NJ Commissioner Wiieo1 OF Ohio. . Is
slated by The Cincinnati Enquirer, refused
10 aci one LAY las, week, when applied 10
by gentleman from Kentucky, 10 issue pa
Pers TO reclaim atsavs. l.l
i. ~Ths Richmond(va) Inquirer says
tina, a negro slave, who was tiled ut the last
l.ouden Court on q charge of setting fire 10
stable, was found guilty Of The crime,
and sente'sed to be transported beyond he Inn
its fthe United States. "
, Curious Fact. A man named Joseph
Campbell recently died IN Campbell coun-
ty, Georgia, nj The advanced age OF ninety
seven. His children, grand children and
great.arand-children were found 70 number
Two bundled and twenty Eve the Youngest
Of tho whole group was his own child.
| NJ Miss Ellen Dodge, daughter Of Pick.
ering Dodge. Esq Of Salem. was found dead
in her he'd, Thursday morning. at her "a,
theirs residence. Il is Supposed her death
may have been,caused by disappointment in
love.
nvS;las L. Young has been appointed
posi-. master Of Wiscasset, vice c. Turner re-
moved.
Ephraim Pinkham postmaster OF North
Booihbay, vice Robert Spinney, removed.
Cause Of removal sahi 10 be Morsillisnr
| and onoosiiion In Nebraska,
~ The Washington correspondence or
the N. Y. Erp5ts, says that General Cass
annlied for admission asa member of Know
Nothing Lodge in Washington. and was ro'
fused The same writer says that two Sem
aiors from South western States have joined
the order.
~ On Monday last, Mrs. Ann RusscI, y
woman "a years Of age, who bad been but
few days married. was seen 6n'mg IN the
race Of the Grit Sill above Niagara Falls
Before assistance could reach her, however
she had disappeared, having probably been
carried by the current into the river and
over The Falls.
- Col. Lane has found that pr~para--
tons were in progress to kick him out OF n
denomination, and to save all trouble, hc
declines. So there is another Nebrasknitc
put out OF the way. SO far nor a single
member Of Congress from this Slate that
voted for the " Swindle has been nomina-
ted. and We doubt very much IL any one
will bc.-Ind. Jour.
PACKAGES IMPROPERLY CHARGED WITH LET
TER POSTAGE. We have recently had occa-
sion TO ascertain that under the postal laws
and regulations, when sealed package,
charccable with letter postage, Is opened in
the presence Of the postmaster, and ound to
contain printed matter only, without any
thing secreted therein. he may remi, the
letter postage, and deliver the package at
the rates charged for printed matter
Washington Star, June 20.
Hydrophobia. John Cookson, late foret'
man Of foundry a, Cincinnati, was bitten
by ieroclous dog about nine weeks since,
and OIL Thursday evening last he was taken
i'll. and next day signs OF hydrophobia APP
peared, aud he was IN dreadful paii-brokc'
from the cords which bound HIM, aud when
six men held HIM, chloroform was admin.
is,ered, under The influence Of which he
slep, an half hour and then awoke aud
bfealhed his last.
REWARDS. The las, number of the Lin
coin Democrat has leader headed IN large
letters, " Nebraska Bill passed! Triumph
OF truly Democratic Principle! Popular
Sovereignty in Ascendancym Folded in
side is an extra, containing a TAT government
job Of advertising naval supplies. PRIMES. at
The office Of The Boston Post. The Belfast
boil MI r. ha
bonc.-Bangor Mercury.
REPEAL or the PuGIrIvE SLAVE Acr. We
learn from the Worcester Transcript that a
petition Tor The repeal Of the fugitive slave
act, which has been lying ut the Exchange
for two or three weeks, has now been sent
to Washington. 1t has the signatures OF
about six hundred citizens Of Worcester, OBJ
tanned without circulating the petition from
place To place. The name at the head Is
that Of Emory Washburn, the Governor OF
the State.
RAILROADS NOT EDucAToRs. A sedate old
blacksmith. originally mailing from the
"Keystoae Staie," but who had made his
residence among the tabernacles Of the Buck
eyes, was expatiating to an admiring audi
tory on the Pennsylvania anti.rairoad poll.
cy, and wound up rs follows; f'a'ns,
these railroads are bad things. In my
younger days, Pennsylvanians had to travel
a horseback ten or twenty days TO reach
Ohio, ard then they larned something on
the way now the railroads carry them in
as many hours, and set them down green as
rhen they started! Y.aas, railroads are bad
things.
To KANSAS! The first emigranls from
This Sc, lion 10 the new territories will leave
OIL Monday. under TIE auspices OF the Emf
gran, Aid Company. II is a small party,
charged with The preparations male ~ Inc
larger convoys which follow. twill receive
accessions oil Worcester, and al Buffalo, and
a, other western cities. The parry makes
The Train which leaves Boston $50 P.M.
for Albany. They carry with them irh's
for their summer encampmeni, tools anu
other requisites Of frontier lite.
II is with great pleasure we record ms
movement, rs one OF the very FIRST po'n's
in The history Of grea, Staie.-Bo'fon Ade.
18th. Do a .s.' HH.t
APrur Dlscounsr. We understand that
ON the last Sabbath at Grace Episcopal
Church In this city, after morning service,
tho rector, Rev. Mr.. Homer, made this
startling announcement to lis eongreya-
ton ;-"I shall no longer preach in thls
house n-and after a short pause amid inc
brcatblcss silence OF his hearers, no added,
:. 30 long rs Il is q house Of merchandise
ana an oil she'd" The bcnediction was then
abruptly pronounced. and The congregation
quietly separated. This we are told. was tho
Gr.t ;n,;,nniion TINT INV of the church had