The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-11-08
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tors OF the Country, Press Of Southern
Ohio" to meetin Convention al Lebanon
on the 22d inst. The object ofthe Con
vention is to devise measures 10 relieve
the country press from certain abuses to
which it is at present subjected.
The Democrats of Texas have already
called Convention for the nomination
Of Presidential Electors for 1856. Wis
consin Democrats have air eady nomina.
ted their electors and their candidates for
the National Convention at Cincinnati,
Ohio.
Ralph Scott, Of Bledsoe county, Tenn,
has been convicted of forging bounty
land papers, and sentenced to three years
Imprisonment in the penitenliary.
Advices from Mexico announce the
capture Of San Louis Potos by the revo-
Iutionists. The National Guard we're
organizing Throughout the country, 10 be
in readiness to march upon the capital
should Vidaurri think proper.
Sidney c. Burton and Nathan Coons
have been indicted for perjury, at the
pre- esent term OF the U. S. Circuit Court,
at Cincinnati, alIedged to have been com
mitled on the trial Of the Martha w ash
inglon case, at Columbus.
Horace Greeley offers e premium of$5O
to the New York boy, under l8 years OF
age, who will produce the best acre of
corn in 1856, also the same sum for the
best acre of roots.
There are 669 students in the different
departments of Harvard University, Cam.
bridge. Of these, 36G are under -gradu.
ates, which is the largest number ever on
the rolls at one time.
1t is alleged to be a fact susceptible of
easy demonstration, that with but sin
gle exception, every message or other
public paper, bearing Jackson s sigma
ture, while he was President, was writ.
ten by Mr., Kendall The exception is
the proclamation" from the hand of
Edward Livingston. . ...
The New York Tribune, in an able ar
ticle on the decline of immigration, says
il is all mistake to attribute this decline
to Know Nothinglsm. The falling of is
owing to the increased demand for labor
and prices in Europe, and to the want of
demand for labor in this country. Thou.
sands have returned to Ireland and Ger
many dsgusted with our high prices for
provisions, and low prices for labor.
The Canadian government have con-
tracted for semi monthly line of steam
ers between Quebec and Liverpool, dur
ing the summer, andbvsEeen Portland
and Liverpool during the winter, The
government is to pay the contractor $780,
900 year for carrying the mails.
HEAVY BURGLARY.--A very extensive
burglary was committed on Fifth street,
Cincinnati, on Thursday night. The
Dry Goods establishment Of the Messsrs.
Cameron, was entered and robbed Of st.
900 worth of fsilks and satins. The bur.
glars were not arrested.
Parod sang the Marseillaise Hyme at
her concert at Philadelphia, and was en-
Enthusiastically encored by her immense
audience,
The exact amount back pay award
ed to Gen. Scott is $40, ,4O5, being ST.
$50 per year. in addition to his pay as
Major General.
II is said that six thousand Irishmen,
aside from other laborers, perished in the
construction OF the Panama Railroad.
II is stated that DR.. Clark, owner of
= Congress Springs" Saratoga, derives
from il a yearly revenue Of $4,000,
!hree times The Presidents salary.
A late Georgia paper nominales John
J. Criuenden, of Kentucky, for Presi-
dent, ard jeremiah Clemens for Vice
President.
The Mammoth Iron Furnace near
Tennessee, was sold a lew
lays ago for $3.50 900; among the appur.
enances We're sixty negroes,
EE- One of the religious papers has an
Irticle on the benefits of life insurance to
,lergymen, 1t says: "We have heard
If congregations who have presented their
with tomb life insurance
'olicy, it strikes us, would be much
more acceptable gift"
E:s- The transfer of the Canadian Gov
rnmcnt from Quebec to Toronto is now
icing made with all convenient dispatch.
0Ir Sixty mules were sold in Sangamon
he other day for SliOpe head.
OF Best brands -four was selling at S13
'er barrels at San Francisco, on the 10th
4 September.
Ey> The Presbyterian Church recently
old at Chicago for S65, 900, is to be turn
d into theatre. K
re- The Land Office receipts in Chilli. I
othe, for the past month, were upwards :
{ four thousand dollars. Ii