Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-01
ITEMS OF NEWS.

morning. Although IL was not known what hour
the steamer which brought him would land,
there was yet large number Of people on the
levee ready TO greet his arrival A national salute
was fired from the fort in honor of the occasion
This served as signal 10 the people in the neigh
borhood OF some miles, and from ten o'clock till
late in the afternoon they were seen focking in
from all directions 10 pay their respects TO him.
lie was conveyed in carriage 10 The house OF
Captain Hunt, the commander of the garrison,
and there entertained in style every way praise
worthy Captain Hunts doors were open and
tables spread 10 the citizens during the day. AT
three O'Clock, p. M, according 10 previous arrange
ments among the people, Governor Reeder was
welcomed to the Territory by DR.. Charles Leib, in
neat and appropriate speech, delivered in the
presence OF numerous collection OF the men OF
Kansas. His excellency, though taken almost by
surprise, responded in remarks entirely credtable
10 him as just and able man."
STEAM WHISTLES, BELLS, AND FoGs.-The Sta
ten Island steamboats, have been provided with
steam whistles, for use in fogs. On Saturday
morning the Staten Islander came up through
dense fog, whisilng and tolng in rapid success
sion, with sharp look out forward, and landed
her passengers only ten or fifteen minutes behind
time. She met the steamers Wyoming and John
Potter, exactly in her track, and encountered half
dozen other vessels, but so admirable were the
precautions that she passed alongside them all
without collision or risk. AS sound can be heard
only short distance in fogs, the interval between
each alarm should be very brief Two steamboats,
one mile apart each moving fifteen miles an hour,
would strike In TWO minutes and hence the i'm
portance OF sounding the bell whistle every
quarter of of a minutes as was done on the Staten
Islander. The steam whistle can be heard farther
than common steamboat bell-N Or and Eng.
TRIAL OF MRS. LAMB FOR MuRpER.-This un.
fortunate woman had her trial last week, at Ore
gon City, for the murder of her husband, Nathan
J. Lamb. Several days were occupied in the trial,
resulting in verdict by the jury Of murder in the
second degree and under the law she was SEN
fenced 10 hard labor in the penitentiary for life.
Since that time she has taken up her abode of
dreary confinement according to sentence. She
had an infant child, which has been taken and
adopted by some kind hearted man in the upper
valley She is said 10 be about forty-fve years of
age.
This having been the first case in the Territory
where female has been arraigned for murder, il
elected more than ordinary interest.-P0,tlaad
Oregon Times.
SABBATH DEsEcRATIoN.-The New York Sam
says: We observe that one of our minor
theatres in Chatham street is now kept open on
Sabbath evening, for some kind of performances.
The bills say Sacred concerts of vocal and in
slrumental music The addition of the word
sacred to Sunday evening concerts at such
place cannot deceive anybody. Music is sacred
only when il is employed in praise and fervent
alteration of the Almighty. If the authorities of
this city countenance or permit vocal and instru-
mental performances in our theatres on Sabbath
evenings, under the delusve name Of Sacred Con-
certs, the next step will be the introduction OF
comedy and farce under, perhaps, the title of
Moral Dramas Our authorities have the power,
and we trust they will exercise it, TO prevent the
naturalization of Sunday evening theatricals in
New York"
CuILDRES's HoME.-They have in Philadelphia
what is called the Children's Home Since the
last anniversary, the friends of this home for neg
lected and frendless little ones have greatly ex-
tended their labors. They have erected large
and handsome edifce at the corner of Twelfth and
Fitzwatsr streets, and have now under their care
over one hundred children. Most of these little
ones have been taken from that section of sin and
misery-thai receptacle Of all that isfoul and vile
usually called the "infected district"
THE VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD is now
finished to Mack's Meadow, nine miles east of
Wytheville, Va and, as we learn from the Peters
burg MteHigenoer the cars carried passengers to
and from that point on Monday. The track is laid
TO within a mile and half Of the Southwestern
turnpike, at point three miles east OF Wythe-
vile, and that distance is expected TO be finished
during the present week. There will, therefore,
soon be an uninterrupted communication by rail
road between Petersburg and the fourishing vii.
lase Of wytheville,
ANOTHER PATHWAY TO THE FATHER OF WATERS.
The last link in the chain, the last rail necessary
TO complete the continuous railway from Chicago
TO Galena, was laid at Scales Mound on Wednes-
day Ii was intended TO start the first locomotive
on visit from Michigan TO Mississippi, over this
route, last Monday.
The LAST AND MEASEsT VILLAINY-Recentlya
gentlemanly looking stranger called upon the sex
ton in Louisville and ordered child's grave 10 be
dug, offering ten dollar bill in payment for the
services and receiving eight dollars in return No
childs funeral appearing at the appointed time,
the sexton was led TO examine his ten dollar bill
when he found il was counterfeit.
PoTAToEs-The New York Journal SAYS that
private families are clubbing together in numer-
Gus instances TO supply themselves with potatoes
that they may avoid being feeced by middle men
and Spectators. Potatoes that can be bought in
Massachusetts for twenty or thirty cents per
bushel sell in New York for five times that sum.
We would recommend a similar course 10
house-keepers in Washington. They could each
contribute certain sum, and, after paying the
expenses Of a special agent, and freight, obtain
their supplies Of potatoes for the winter at leas,
onethird less the present market rates in this
vicinity.
EGYPTIAN TRAvELERs.-Thc Boston Tyapeley
has an account Of two distinguished Egyptians
who have been travelling in the United State. and
have just returned to their own country, one of
them bearing with him New York wife
CALWoRMA-During the nine months of the
present year, twenty-six thousand seven hundred
and oryour 10 the net addition to the population