Washington telegraph., 1854-11-08
Editorial News items.

- Boston, including Charlestown, has
population of about $4,000
- The Know-Nothings elected their
Mayor at late election for that Office, at
Newark, n j.
- The Arctic was insured in Eng
land and America to the amount of $780,
600, the full value e-of the ship.
- The Germans of Williamsburg, n
Y, have resolved never to vote for Know
Nothing or Temperance man.
- 1t is estimated that the Girard pro-
perty in the city of Philadelphia. rents, an
nually for S9S,542.
- It is said that the private fortune of
SoULoUouE the black Emperor Of Hayti,
is S2.000,OCO. He is the richest darkie
in the world.
-A A Jersey editor says he declines
publishing some of Com Stockton's letters
because he has not capital Is enough in his
office to DO it.
- A Mr.. Lorrimer lately gave the
United States Senator from Iowa, Mr.. Jones
severe humping for calling him id
liar.
- The Governor of this State has ap-
pointed John Hutt, Esq. as Swamp Land
Commissioner in place of Lambert j. Rear
don, decd.
- The MILLERITEs, at late meeting
at Syracuse, n. Y, fixed upon the 18th day
of May, 1855, as positire!y the last day Of
the world. 1t is like the pesiticety last
night in play-bill
- The steam ship Niagara which is
to be built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
will, when finished, be the largest ever built
in this country. Her length will be 345
feet
- D. N. Thomas, printer by trade,
and strong believer in spiritual manifesta-
tions committed suicide lately in New York
from arrangement OF mind caused BY his
belief
- A pastor once told pari>hioner
that the line in scripture "He was cloihed
with carses as with garment" meant that
the person spoken Of had habit Of Slrear-
ing.
- \ new trial has been moved for in
the case of Dr. Graham who killed Col. Lo-
ring, on the ground that one Of the jurors
in the late trial was cousin OF Mrs. Gra-
ham.
- Theodore Wheeler. son of Judge
John F. Wheeler, Editor of the Fort Smith
Herald was shot in the back and killed BY
man named Grown, at South Platte, On
TIE first Of July last.
- The following is said to be inscribed
on a tombstone ont west:
After lifes ftful ferer and ague. lie
sleeps WELL a very appropriate amend
ment for some sections OF the country.
- 1t is rumored that Mr. Dobbin, Sec
retary of the Navy, will probably 60 into
the United States Senate, and that Col.
PHILLIPS Of Alabama, will probably take
his place in the Cabinet.
- The Boston Transcript" says that
there is a young farmer Of Litleton, Mas
sachnsetts, scarcely II years of age, who is
six feet eleven inches in hei eht aid weighs
$50 pounds.
- A letter from Duval's Bluff to Lit
tie Rock states that the Engineers Of the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad were at
that place, and that they would be in Little
Rock in eight days. The route, SO far. is
said to be very favorable.
- Hon. HUMPHREY MARSHALL, who
was Minister to China under Mr. Fillmores
Administration. ard who was Representa-
tive in Congress from Kentucky, has return
ed to Louisville and resumed the practice Of
! the law
- We see it announced in the ''Ar-
kansas Wing" that Bishop kAvANAUGH, Of
the Methodist Church, will preach at Little
/ Rock on the 18th inst He is the Bishop
who is to preside at the Conference to com
mence at this place on the 22d inst
The Cincinnati Gazette" saws that
the Methodist Conference. held lately in
that city, passed resolutions for the repeal
OF the fugitive slave law, and for the reen-
actment of the Missouri Compromise 1t
was certainly acting beyond its sphere, and