Washington telegraph., 1855-05-09
NEWS ITEMS.


DANIEL WEBsTER's carriage was sold at
auction. in Boston, recently. for only ST.
$50.
The Democrats of the 10th District of
Kentucky. have nominated Gen. WILLIAM
o. BUTLER for Congress.
The race at New Orleans between Le-
compte and Lexington. On the 10th inst,
was witnessed by forty thousand persons.
AT THE late term of the Grand Jury, in
Emanuel county. Georgia, true bills for
murder were found against thirty-fve per-
sons
One young man in the vicinity Of Boston,
recently shot himself because he could not
get wife, and another because he could not
get divorce.
LAST year the British revenue from
newspaper stamps, at one penny duty, was
9464.009, Is. I'd The number issued vas
Ill, 1,362.179.
The New York Senate has adopted res
olutions denouncing the Nebraska Bill.
Slavery, the Fugitive Slave Bill. and Know
Nothingism.
THE King of Prussia has ordered a great
gold medal for science and a golden COS
mos medal to be presented to Lieutenant
MAURY, for his wind and current charts
The capital invested in the distilleries in
California is reported at S395.O00 There
are six in San Francisco, two in Marysville.
and one in San jose
IT'S SAID that there was never any time
in the history of criminal Jurisprudence in
New York city. when the prisons were so
full as now
Ex-Governor Seabrook, of South Caroli-
IA. died at his residence in Beaufort District
on the 18th inst. Mr. Seabrook was one
of the wealthiest planters in the South
Ninety thousand six hundred applications
for Land Warrants, under the act of March
last. had been received a. the Pension office,
at Washington city. up to the 21ss inst.
The Southern (Miss,) Argus nominates
Franklin Pierce as the Democratic candi-
date for President at the next election, and
jeff Davis for Vice President
The Marion. Alabama, Commonwealth"
states upon reliable authority: that the Hon.
Geo d. Shortbridge has declared himself
candidate for Governor of that State, in op-
position to Col. John Anthony Winston.
The leading hotels in New York have
decided, in view of the liquor law, to raise
the price of board to three dollars per day
The new system has already gone into ope-
ration.
In Adair county, Kentucky. on the 9th
of March. the venerable JOHN PENDLEToN,
aged 50 years, was married to the amiable
Mrs. MARY ADAMS. aged 70 The bride
is entirely blind
THE Trustees of the ST. Louis Church,
a. Buffalo, are out with another letter to
Bishop TIMoN,-short. sharp. spicy. Bish-
op TIMoN, if not Tartar himself, has pro-
baby caught one.
BosToN issues 113 papers. with an aunu-
al circulation of 54,0O0,OOO; New York.
104 papers-circulation 100000; and
Philadelphia 81 papers circulation 49,
100000.
IT is SAID that 1854 brick buildings
we're erected in St. Louis during the past
year Some of them cost from $4,000 to
100000 The total cost is estimated at
s3.S11,OOO
A MACHINE has been exhibited at Frank
fort. Germany. to record on paper the beat
ing of the pulse. The slightest motion Of
the arterial circulation is said to be indica-
ted by it with considerable exactness
One mandatory of teeth for dental pur-
poses, on Broadway. New York, employs
thirty men, AMI turns off about 800 900
teeth per day; they are made principal
ly of powdered quartz or stlez.
JOHN s. CARLISLE. of Harrison county,
is the American candidate for Congress in
the 11th district of Virginia. lately repre-
sented BY the Hon. 2. KlDwELL. He has
always heretofore been Democrat
The Chicago Qll) Democrat charges the
democratic Governor Matteson. of Illinois,
with robbing the State Treasury of $780,
900! Rather personal. We should like
to hear low Mattesen meets this little
charge.
PARsoN BRowNLow, Of the Knoxville
(Tenn) Wing. publishes what be calls the
Abridged gospel of Know -Nothingism
Foreigners and Roman Catholics, says he