Washington telegraph., 1854-10-11
News TtesEps.


ed by the Canadian Parliament.
There has been great increase Of pau
perism in England during the past year.
The Democrats of Baltimore have nomi-
mated W. c. THOMAS as their candidate for
Mayor.
The total number of deaths from cholera
in London, this season. is said to be about
2.783.
The aggregate receipts from the Railroads
in England during the past year Ut
$90000,0O0
Col. S. F. j. TRABUE. is spoken OF asthe
Know-Nothing candidate for Governor of
Kentucky.
Santa Anna has ordered two more war
steamers to be built at New York for the
Mexican Navy.
The anniversary of tie battle of North
Point was celebrated with great spirit at
Baltimore on the 18th ult
Genl Scott, nephew Of Gen1 Winfield
Scott, is spoken Of as candidate for Con-
gress, in the Norfolk District, Virginia.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered for
the apprehension of Mr. SCHUYLER, late
President Of the New Haven Railroad Com
pany.
Capt. JouN BoNNEL1., remarkable and
well known sea-faring veteran, died at
Charleston, s. G., recently, aged eigbty-two
years
c. G. NELSON, Postmaster at Keesville.
New York, has been arrested by a special
agent of the Post Office Department for rob-
bing the mail
\ fire, which did not spread to any ex-
tent, occurred recently in New Orleans, in
which married woman named Ellen Elan
agan lost her lifo
The damage to The lice plantations of
Georgia and South Carolina, by the late ter
rible storm on the South Atlantic coast, is
estimated at 100000,
The advocates Of a prohibitory liquor
law, in Pennsylvania. recommend Judge
Pollock, the Wing nominee. as the tenn
perance candidate f9r Governor.
RELIEF FOR SAvANNAH--At last accounts
from New York, nearly $4,000 had been
contributed in that city for the relief of the
Savannah sufferers by the yellow fever.
Mr. saml Nichols editor of the New
York Sunday Mercury was run ever by the
railroad cars, in that city, on the 18th ult.,
and so badly injured that he died few days
aSterward.
The Anti-Nebraska Convention, at Au-
burn, New-York, have adopted the Whig
ticket for the ensuing election, and The Free
Soil Democrats have nominated the Wing
candidate for Governor.
The Philadelphia Inquirer" says that
there is at present living in Wostmoreland
county, Pennsylvania, an old colored man,
who belonged to General WAsuNGrox, who
is now 100 years Of age.
Col. j. WArsoN WEBB, who is now in
England, writes to his paper the Y. York
Courier & Enquirer" that in three months
or before Christmas, wheat Will have fallen
from 65 to less than IS shillings per quar-
ter.
Six new steam frigates for the U. S.
Navy, are now being built-yiz: Roanoke
and Colorado. at Norfolk, Minnesota, at
Washington, Wabash, at Philadelphia, Nj
agara, at New York, and Merrimack, at
Boston.
The constitutionality of the Fugitive
Slave Law will be, shortly, tested in the
Supreme Court of the United States on an
appeal from the Supreme Court of Wiscon-
sin, which pronounced the law unconstitu-
tional
1t Is said that an invention for the re-
moval Of spiders and insects from houses and
gardens, is about to be patented This in
cludos, we suppose, every species of small
erawlers. If it effects its object it will be
valuable invention.
The Ledger" says that the municipal
debt of the city of Philadelphia, is near
twenty millions of dollars, and that the
debt of the State Of Pennsylvania is forty
millions. This would be an appalling debt
for State of less resources. PENNSYLVANIA.
however, can walk erect even with such a