Washington telegraph., 1855-06-27
NEWS ITEMS.

The North Carolina papers give favora-
bic accounts of the wheat crops in that
State.
The Boston Post predicts the reelection
of Gen. PIERCE in 1856 The editor of
the Post is an inveteratc joker.
\ train of cars recently passed through
Michigan containing 954 paying passengers
and 595 babies. all bound to Chicago. and
the West.
\ Chicago dispatch. of the 7th inst. says
that returns from the State at large show
1000 majority in Illinois in favor Of the
prohibtOry liquor law.
WIsEs majority for Governor of Virgin
ia is 1O,174. Wyoming county only to be
heard from. which. at the Presidential elec-
tion of 1852. cast only II votes, viz: Scorr
20. PIERCE %.
The Democratic State Convention of
Georgia. recently in session at Mille]geville,
nominated HrRscHEL V. JOHNSON, tic
present incumbent. for the Gubernatorial
chair
y man named BATCuELoR. a resident Of
Illinois. has recovered S21 600 from Rail-
road Company at Brant, Canada, as COM
pensation for having both legs broken by a
collision
The receipts from customs, at philadelphia
for May. amounted to S225 3SS, making
since the first of January. Slab 0S2,-
against S2.OSS, ,6l9 for the same period las,
year.
The sales of land for the month Of May
at the Illinois Central Railroad Land Office,
at Chicago, amounted to S555.000, the
lands having sold at an average of ten dol
lars and sixty cents per acre.
JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES has written
pamphlet with the object of proving that
"'he Gospel attributed to MATTHEW" was
composed by all the apostles together, who
employed Matthew as peuman.
This year, UP TO tie % irst, 50 21S i'm
migrants had arrived at New York. Du-
ring the same period last year the arrivals
amounted 10 III 437-a falling eff this
year of more than fly per cent
James r. Whiting. of New Yor,k, has
given an elaborate opinion on the new Ii.
quor law. declaring it Illegal, and that tie
Legislature trarsccuded its power in rasSin 9
it.
The New York Hard Shell Safe Gem.
mittee have resolved to hold a State Con.
vention at Syracuse. on the 9th of Sept. next,
for the purpose of nominating State tick
ct for Comptroller. Secretary of State, At
torncy General. Sc.
The exports Of specie from New York
tor the last eleven months, have increased
S5,019.S83; the total exports of all descrip,
tons to foreign ports have decreased only
S)S96, ,52l. while the total imports from
foreign ports have decreased S34.774,157.
Mr.. HoaArIo j. PERRY. the late CHARGE
to Spain. who was sacrificed by the Admin
l>tration TO appease the wrath of Mr. SoULE
it seems, has married Spanish literary la
dy, which may account for his decidedly an
ti-fiIlibustering tendencies.
The Charleston Mercury says that the
ladies' Of Charleston. who have been active
ly engaged for some tine past. in raising
funds to erect monument to the memory
Of JOHN G. CALnoUN. have been so success
ful as to insure the accomplishment of the
noble design.
n New Haven negro has challenged Mr.
MADDOX. of the House of Representatives,,
to meet him, to discuss the subject of color,
voting, &c, the negro TO pay half of the
bills, Congo no doubt. will show that the
colored race is infinitely superior to the
POOR white trash"
The .. S. frigatc Constifution, Com
MAYO. recently arrived at Portsmouth, n .
H.. from the African station. via Havana.
has been in commission since the 2od of
December. 1852. and has not lest man bv
disease. and but one by accident.
The A(baHy Argus says that a company
OF Canadian volunteer riflemen. number.ng
some sixty members. young. athletic and
hardy. bound for the Crimea. passed through
that city on the 5h instant, on their way to
Boston TO embark for Constantinope.
Mr.. Preston. the Whig member of the
last Congress from the Louisville District.
Kentucky. declines being a candidate for
reelection. on the ground that he can have
nothing to do with the Know Noihings, and
announces that be viii vote the Democratic
ticket