Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-03

icy We learn from catalogue Of the Prince.
ton, New Jersey College, recently issued, that the
whole number of graduates thus far il 5000, and
that there are still living 2023. The first class,
that OF l74S, contained six members, of whom
five became clergymen; the sixth was signer of
the Declaration of Independence Among the
graduates there have been one President of the
United States two Vice Presidents of the United
States; thirteen members of the Cabinet; twelve
Foreign Ministers thirty-two Chief Justices of
particular States twenty nine Governors of States
thirty-two Presidents of Colleges
AZ Senator Spencer has introduced bill in the
Legislature Of New York, defining the law in rela-
ton to grace or sight drafts, and checks payable
after date. 1t explains that all drafts, bills of
change, drawn at sight, shall hereafter be deemed
due and payable on presentation without grace.
That all checks or drafts upon banks or bankers,
drawn payable on a day subsequent to date shall
hereafter be deemed due and payable on the day
of maturity without grace; nor shall il be neces-
cary or lawful to protest the same for nonaccept-
ance
rE- Mr.. Nathaniel Harmon, Of Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, left that city on last Wednesday, with
large sail-boat, fully rugged, which is intended to
be placed on Lake Minnotonka, beautiful sheet
of water, about ten miles west Of St. Anthony
Falls in Minnesota.
~ There are employed on the canals ofNew
York State, during the season OF navigation, about
$4,000 boatmen and 5000 boys.
~ boy in Terre Haute, a. has recovered
$500 damages from a liquor dealer who sold his
father glass of liquor on the day he was
drowned.
NSy- The restaurant Of Messrs Boles & Coots,%h
Petersburg, was robbed last Thursday evening Of
some 1920.
gH- II. A. Edmundson has accepted the nomi.
nation Of the Democracy of the 18th district of
Il r.. n -.
Der Of the last Congress.
eT- John NJ. Finks, special agent Of the Post
Office Department, arrested Jos. Marstiller, mail
carrier at Kingwood, Preston county, on Thursday
last, for robbng the mail. He has been arraigned
before magistrate, and committed
ICY The st. Louis Herald raises the name Of
Sam Houston az a candidate for the Presidency,
subject to the decision Of the Democratic voters at
the polls.
gE3" Andrew Ii. Brown, brakeman on the Hart
ford, Providence, and Fall River Railroad, was
killed by falling from train while ia notion last
Thursday, near Waldo's Station, Connecticut.
~ Judge Lazarus II. Read, late Chief Justice
of Utah, died at his residence, in Bath New York,
few days ago
e5y- A daughter of Mr.. r. L. Walker, fourteen
years Of age, was accidentally drowned in a mill
pond near Merritt's Bridge, in Lexington district
South Carolina, on the Goth ultimo.
tF- The New York Herald says The disclo-
sures among the politicians in Albany astound-
ing. Simony is there practiscd a large scale by
the party in power The tariff of procuring offices
on the canals is fixed at prices varying from $500
to 81, 900 each, according to value. Such are the
charges openly made. Thurlow Weed, what do you
say Is not this as bad AZ shaving of Monroes
whskers, and passing him off for " a good enough
MorganY
AMERICAN NoNfSATIoNs IN VIRGINIA. The
American party Of Campbell and Appomattox
viii support Col Thomas H. Flood for the State
Senate and Francis b. Deano, of Lynchburg, and
Matthew b. Nowln, of Campbell viii be supported
for the House Of Delegates.
~ The Peoples Advocate states that free
woman living South of Dan, left her house short
time since TO 90 on some errand, locking up her
three children In IL, TO keep them from wandering
of during her absence. When she returned she
found the house in ashes, and the children burnt
to death.
1E- That remarkable phenomena in natural
science, the ceal mountain in Pennsylvania, which
has been ON fire since $780, will probably soon be
extinguishcj, the FIRE Is approaching point
which can be submerged in water A mass Of coal
has been consumed three-eighths Of 4 mile long,
60 feet wide, 800 deep, and equal to 100000
tons of coal