Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-01-12
GLEANINGs.


Wisconsin, under the title of the Dodge Co.
Iron Company, with capital of $500, 900.
with the view of manufacturing railroad iron.
They are about to erect twenty blast furna-
ces, and it is said, have contracted to furnish
to the Milwaukee and La Crosse railroad fif-
ty tons of iron per day on and after the first
Of March next, until the track is laid to Por-
tage City.
Ma- A few years ago cargo of ice was
imported into England from Norway. Nos
having such an article in the Custom House
schedules, application was made to the Trea=
sury and to the Board of Trade, and after
some delay, it was decided that the ice should
be ordered as 'dry goods" but the whole
cargo had melted before the doubt was clear
ed.
l9- A neighbor of ours informs us that
wood goes further when left out of doors
than when housed; some Of his having gone
upwards of a quarter of mile one night.
~ The Washington Sentinel learns that
all but four Of the clerks engaged on the cen
sus returns have been notified that their SER
vices would not be required after the 23d,
and that the printed volume will be ready
for delivery to Congress at the commence
ment of the ensuing session.
8- There is great deol Of poetry, and a
vast sight more of truth, in the following
God and the doctor, we alike adore,
just on the brink of danger, not before,
The danger passed, both are alike requited,
God is forgotten, and the doctor sighted
Mg- Thirty-one of the nine hundred of
acers of the United States army, have died
since the lst of January last. This, in time
of peace, is a very large per centage Of
Deaths proving beyond question the hazard
ous nature of the services they are at all
times called Gnon to render to their country.
@s~ The salary Of the King of the Sand
wich Islands is $4,000 a year..
rs The Texas Legislature had organized
and Gov. Bell had delivered us Me- sage, a
large portion of which is devoted to ihe Pa
cifc Railway scheme. ThaGos recommends
the Ell Paso route.
IA. The New Orleans Delta tBasa
large cotton-house in that elty received a dis
patch that Louis Napoleon haa been assasst-
mated. There is, up to the present writing,
no confirmation of the news, and we only
give it as an on dit or rumor.
@g~ Silas Wright sleeps in an humble
I'M off ha
village of Canton, st. Lawrence county, with
simple monument bearing his name and
dates of his birth and DEATH His law Office
has been converted into an ice-house attached
to hotel.
g@ Several citizens of Newburg, New
York, have volunteered to plant grounds at
Washington's Head Quarters in that place
with ornamental trees. The day fixed for
breaking ground on that occasion was the
26th inst.
~ The corner stone of a new Masonic
Temple, in Philadelphia, was laid on the 21st,
with imposing ceremonies, before an immense
throng of Masons, notwithstanding pouring
rain. A powerful orchestra performed ap-
propriate music and an ode was sung by a
choir. The stone was laid by Grand Master
Beurnonyille, assisted by Samuel Sloan, the
architect. An address was delivered by DR..
J. K. Mitchell, and an anthem and benedction
closed the ceremonies.
R~ A company has been formed in Sa
voy, for the purpose of raising the vessels
which were sunk at the battle of Navarino,
particularly the Admiral's ship, a three-deck-
which, it is said, had on board at the time she
went down a sum of 6,000,OO0 in gold. All
the necessary apparatus has been embarked,
q number of divers have been engaged, and.
in addition to the ordinary diving bells, all
the recent inventions for such purposes will
be put in requisition.
Ns- There was an immense crowd assem-
led about the Prometheus, and great excite
ment as soon as it was known that Mitchell,
/ the Irish patriot, was among the passengers; !;
salutes were fred by the Irish military COM
panies- IT F. Meagher and Col. Doheny were
the first to greet the exile on his arrival
Mitchell was taken to carriage and proceed
ed to his mothers in Brooklyn. The Irish
societiel serenaded him tonight, and twenty
bands are engaged for the occasion.
@a- A recent census of the city of Detroit
shows a population of 36,436, in the city
proper, and about 5000 in the suburbs, max
ing total of over 81 ,00O Males, II, ,165;
females, II ,281. The Detroit Tribune says:
" This shows an increase in the city popula-
ton since 1850, period of three years, of
$4,000, which isAnprecedented in the history
of Detroit, and excelled by that of few other
cities in the Union. IF our population con-
tinues to increase at the same rate until the
next census, we shall have a population OF