The Empire County argus., 1854-12-16

elected from this State are as follows:
Maj
Isaiah D. Clawson Wing, K N.......... 1900
&. r. Robbins, Wing, Anti-N ...... 80. $500
James Bishop, Wing, Anti-N, ...... ..... 1900
! George Vail, Dem. Nebraska ..... ...... 500
A. c. M Pennington, Wing, Anti-N., .... 1900
Anti-Nebraska majority in this State,about 5000
Vail and Pennington were reelected.
MIcHIGAN.-The Republican State and Congress
sional candidates have all been chosen as follows:
Governor, Kinsley S Bingham Lieut. Governor,
George A. Coe; Sec. of State, John Mckinney
State Treasurer, Silas NJ Holmes; Auditor Gener-
al, Whitney Jones Com. Land Office Seymour B.
Treadwell; Superintendent Public instruction, Ira
Mayhem; Attorney General, Jacob M. Howard
Board of Education, John R. Kellogg; To fill vacan-
cy, Hiram L. Miller Congressman, William A:
Howard, Henry Waldron, David S. Walbridge, and
Moses Wsmer
In many of the counties the Republican county
tickets have been successful. The result of the
election is terrible rebuke to the members of
Congress from Michigan who cast their votes for
the Nebraska iniquity.
The usual number of murders stabbinrs and
clubbings took place in New York for the week en-
ding November 18th. Only four were murdered
outright.
Mrs Alexander Hamilton died in Washington
City, Nov. 9th.
Charles S. T. Burke, the actor, died at Florence's
HOTEL n Y, Nov. 10th, aged 80 years
CoNGREss--There are "a members of Congress
yet to be elected If the Administration carries
every one Of them it will have majority of four in
the next Congress. The States yet to elect are
Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia. Ken
lucky, louisiana, Maryland Massachusetts, Misss.
sipp, New Hampshire, North Carolina Rhode Is
land, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. and they will
probably elect about an equal proportion Admins
tration men and anti-Nebraskals, which will make
a majority of about ninety in the next Congress
against the Administration. 1t came into power
with majority in its favor of exactly ninety.
AwFUL-A letter from an officer of the United
States steamer Saranac, dated at Spezzia, Septem-
ber 18th, states that when she was at Constantine
pie, the combined English and French forces had
lost some thirty thousand men by cholera and that
they were still dying III great numbers. The Eng
lish Frgate had lost one hundred and seventy men
during the night.
The Philadelphia Bulletin calls on President
Pierce to resign his office.
the New York Tribune says that the sum of
S66l has been paid for insertion of an adver-
tisement in its weekly paper-at the rate of fifty
cents line.
With the last trip of the Steamship Atlantic,
Captain West made his two hundred and thirty
fifth voyage across the Atlantic.
The average weight of the mails despatched from
London every evening is between fourteen and ff-
teen tons. The newspapers and the bags weigh
twelve tons five hundred pounds
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navy yard to fit out the "Famouth" for sea mme-
diAtey. In few weeks she will be ready The
"Roanoke' and ''Colorado' steam frigates now in
progress at the Gosport yard, to be finished by
the first of October next, in conformity with the
orders from the department.
The total value of oysters annually sold in New
York is set down at between five and six millions of
dollars.
Hon. Ogden Hoffman, Judge of the United States
District Court for the Northern District of Califor
mia, is to leave for California on the 18th inst
The loss of property by the Arctic was great
Mr.. Gayard French importer, who lost his life,
is supposed to have had with him, some diamonds
and other jewelry, amounting in value, to Sl53,.
| 900.
! There was $4,000 insurance on the life of Ed
ward Sanford, Esq, who lost by the wreck of
the Arctic.
The Arctic was insured in England for eco 900
sterling, and in this country for S3l0000 making
total of S600,00O; the valuation of the skip.
Rev. John H. Hanson author of ''Have we
Bourbon among u.s. in Putman's Magazine, died in
New York, on the 9th of October
The Vermont Mercury says, that gold has been
washed from the sand of stream in Plymouth
and the yield of the washings has been so consd
cradle to render it probable that profitable
business may be made out of it.
Barque Edward Koppisch, Capt. John H. Eagles
ton, cleared at the Salem Custom House the Sth
for voyage to Japan and ports in the Pacific
Ocean.
Solon Borland of Greytown memory, has settled
down at Little Rock, Ark, following the peaceful
profession of dentist.
The whippingpost is still in use in Covington
Kentucky Lawrence Hunt was publicly whipped
in that place last week for stealing caps.
The New York Herald on the morning of cleo
ton, thus appealed to the popular tastes of foreign
ers:
hishmen Your national institution, whiskey
punch, is in danger. Rally to its support. Faugh
a Ballagh!
Frenchmen :! The wines of la bella France are to
be cut off. Rally for Cognac. One struggle for
the demi-asse Vive In bagatelle!
Germans!-Thc pride of your fatherland lager
bier is imperlled. Next they'll want your pipes
One blow for your luxuries
The N. Y. Tribune declares many banners bore
the motto of Seymour and Rum"
Capt James Smith, of the Julia Moulton, has
been tried in the u S. District Court before Judge
Nelson, for being engaged in the slave trade, and
was found guilty by the Jury The crime was
made piracy by the law of 1920, and the punish
ment death
Mr.. Belmont denies most positively having had
anything to do with the negotiation OF Russian
loan.
EURoPE-The Allies before Sebastopol had sue
ceeded in blowing up the White Tower and in 81
lenclng the Quarantine Fort The Allied fleet had
suffered severely. The Russians had captured a
French battery, and taken Lord Dunkaln
Sebastopol is still standing and likely to stand
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