Washington telegraph., 1855-04-04
News ktems.


- WILLIAM KIssANE, the forger, has
been found guilty of forgery. and sentenced
to two and half years imprisonment in
the New York Penitentiary.
- Messrs. Nixon Il WALsH's cotton
shed at Brownsville landing on Hatchie riv
er. containing 1900 bales of cotton, was
consumed by fire on the night Of the 23d
ult
- The Democratic State Convention
of Kentucky, met at Frankfort, on the 10Th
inst, and nominated BEVERLY l.. CLARK,
for Governor, and BERIAH MAGoFFIN, for
Lieutenant Governor Resolutions strongly
denunciatory of Know -Nothingism, were
passed.
- 1t is stated that the New York leg
islature, ON their recent visit to New York
city. consumed precisely three hundred
and secemty-ttco bottles Of liquor, in one
day. That is just what might be reasona-
bly, expected from Legislature that would
elect W. H. SEWARD IT, S. Senator.
- Col. BENTON informs the Messrs.
APPLETON, the New York publishers of his
Thirty Years in the Senate that the de
struction of his residence in Washington,
will delay the second volume of that work
some six months, giving him double duty in
the mean time.
- GEORGE CATLIN. the famous Indi-
an portrait painter. traveller and champion
of the red men, has been heard from on the
head waters of the Amazon, painting the
portraits and taking notes of the manners
of the uncouth tribes in those regions, late
ly made SO interesting by the reports of
Lieutenants HERNDoN and GIBBoN.
"A Provision, practically applying
the Maine Law to St. Louis county, was
smuggled through the Missouri Legislature.
about the first day of the session, "cloaked
in bill to build a brick house, upon
which one of the editors remarks that it
might better have been styled "a bill to
take bricks out of a mans hat
- CONGRESS presented each of the
reporters of the Washington "Globe," for
the last session. with $500 Of the public
funds. amounting in the aggregate to Sl0s-
000 This is in addition to their regular
compensation. At the previous session.
$500 was given to each Of the Globe" re-
porters in addition to their regular pay from
the publisher of the Globe
- A bill has been introduced in the
New York Assembly, prohibiting the pay
ment of any money TO any school where
in any particular creed or doctrine, pc
culiar to any sect or denomination, shall
be taught; and providing that in every
school supported in whole or in part by the
public money. the exercises shall be daily
opened by the reading of a chapter in the
Bible, without note OF comment.
- On the first eight Sundays in 1854
the arrests in New York city were nearly
nine hundred; On the first eight Sundays
in 1855 they were three hundred and thir-
ty-eight. Last year the Sunday arrests av-
eraged over hundred this year, less than
forty-fve. This improvement in morals is
attributable to the closing of grog shops on
Sunday.
- Since Col KINNEY's resignation of
the command Of the famous Central Amcri-
can Expedition, it is said. his intention was
to take some hundreds of armed men with
him for the purpose of participating with
Gen. CAsTILLoN, the revolutionary chief in
Nicaragua, who is now at war with that gov
ernment. CAsTILLoN wishes to establish
white mans government over Nicaragua
and in Central America generally-and he
has offered great inducements TO volunteers
from the United States.