True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1855-07-18
WH In RRIEF.

The prospect of the crops Is still very
good from all parts of the country, in spite
of the itching palms Of spectators in bread
and beef.
Cholera has broken out in Georgetown
No., and there had been twenty-five
deaths at tho last accounts. Not q single
family ia the town, it is stated, had esca-
ped visitation with the epidemic.
The Pension Office has received the mus
ter aud party rolls Of tie Kentucky troops
who served under Gen. Wayne in 1884,
and gives notice Of the fact, in order that
all persons in any way interested may have
the full benefit of those documents.
A Locofoco Editor says that "the re-
spectacle portion Of the Know Nothing
party have lost all control of the Order"
But how can there be respectable por-
ton of the Know Nothing party" if, as
the Locofoco papers assert. all the mem
bers of that party are midnight asSassins,
traitors 'liars,' 'sneaks,' and 'perjured
wretches ... ...
A man in st. Louis who ran away with
bis neighbor's wife and boots few days
since, has been arrested and will be tried
fer stealing the boots, but abduction Of the
wife the law does not regard as crime.
Mrs. Mary Channel, a member of the
United Society of Hartford, Mass, died a
day or two since, at the advanced age Of
80 years. Mrs G. was one of the choir
of singers that welcomed Gen. Washing
ton upon his visit to Boston.
The Know-Nothings of Louisville held
a meeting on Tuesday night, Sd inst, to
ratify the action of tho Philadelphia Con-
vontion. An imposing procession took
place. Speeches were made by Hon. Hum
phrey Marshall, President Bartlett, Gen.
Pitcher, Mr.. Prentice and others. Great
enthusiasm was manifested, and the crowd
was estimated at ten thousand persons.
A letter from New Mexico on the 30th
Of June, tells of the unprecedented success
Colonels Fauntleroy and St. Vain over the
hostile Utah and Apache Indians, with
their respective commands. For years,
these land pirates have been a terror to the
inhabitants Of this territory-pillaging and
massacreing the inOffensive people, and
this with almost perfect impuDity.
A letter from Eaton, Ohio, dated 18th
ult., speaking of harvest laborers, says -
Several thousand able-bodied men are need.
ed here. They would receive twelve or
eighteen dollars per month and found, sew.
eral hundred could find employment in
this section and receive good wages, and
be otherwise we'll cared for. ...
Advices from Central America state that
the authorities ofNcaragua have ordered
that Col. Kinney and Mr.. Fabens should
be put to death by any civil or military Of
6cer or officers, if. they are found within
the territory of the Republic. Much al
arm prevailed. Col. John H. Wheeler,
u. S. Minister to Nicaragua, is expected
to arrive in the United States about the
10th proximo, bearing new treaty with
that power, which it is thought he has by
this time negotiated.
By dispatch from Independence, Mo-,
on the 28th instant, VIC learn that the Salt
Lake mail train arrived on the night pre-.
yious, with the mails for May. The party
had no interruption from Salt Lake to Lar
annie. Indians are reported to be numer.
GUS around Black Hill, and are much al
armed at the movements Of the troops and
desirous Of peace They propose giving
up the mqrberers of the mail party last
fall, The reports of SO many persons hav-
ing been killed by them arc all mereN fab
relations. Four hundred had reached Ft.
Laramie.