Washington telegraph., 1855-08-01
NEWS ITEMS.

| 1ne gOio colnagc at Tue Nius OF Dan
Francisco, for June, was $l.441 900 and
the deposits of dust $2.15O,0OO.
On the night of the 11th ult-. a destruct-
i've fire occurred in Baltimore, which con-
sumed IL houses.
General SHIELDS, late United States
Senator from Illinois, has gone to farming
in Minnesota, about fifty miles from St.
Paul.
We see it stated that the Hermitage,
General JAcksoN's home and burial place.
is advertised for sale. Tennessee ought to
buy it.
Eight thousand persons witnessed the ex
ecution of SToDDARD, at Rock Island. ILL.,,
on the 18th. for the murder of his wife
He confessed the crime.
1t is said that Gen. Wilson oe Massachu-
sets. whose conscience is so sorely troubled
on the subject of slavery. makes living by
selling brogans for Southern slaves.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
has contracted for planting three rows of
locust trees on each side of the track The
roadway is 200 feet wide.
| The present owner of Mount Vernon as
offered to sell it to Virginia for 100000.
The ladies of the Old Dominion are ma
king vigorous efforts to raise the amount.
The resolution in the Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic State Convention at Harrisburg, on
the 4th, endorsing the Nebraska bill. was
lost by vote of 50 to IA.
The capture of the Mamelon. Cd the 7th
of June, cost the French more than either
of the great battles of MareDgo, Austerlitz,
or Jena /; and yet it was but a single out
work of besieged fortress.
The Buffalo Democracy relates that du-
ring the freshes which recently overfowed
the village of Hornellsville, New York. a
child which was in a cradle, was carried
three miles down the stream and rescued
alive and unhurt
The liquor law seems to lave been as
little observed in Boston on the 4th as in
New York For the "a hours ending at
o'clock on the 9Th, the whole number of
arrests were 124 committed, 65 non-res-
idents. 10; foreigners. 104 minors. c.
a number of the members of the Com
mon Council of Louisville were sent to Jail
in that city on the 9th ult.. for refusing to
issue licenses for the sale of liquor. in COM
pliance with mandate of the circuit court.
The charge against them was contempt of
court
During the last six months there were
lost on the Western rivers. 63 steamers and
80 flats, barges and keel boats. involving
property to the amount of 81, 100000. OF
the steamers. 35 were snagged, 13 burned,
9 we're destroyed by collision and 6 BY ex-
plosions In these calamities y persons
lost their lives and Sc were wounded.
Mr. " 7. Perkins was recently sentenc-
ed to one years Imprisonment in the Ken
tucky Penitentiary. for shooting with intent
to kill Col r. B. Carpenter, of Covington.
in December last Col Carpenter is an
eminent member of the Kentucky bar, and
assisted in prosecuting the Matt Ward case.
1t is reported that President PIERCE has
been engaged with other gentlemen of high
official distinction, in some land speculations
of rather disreputable character. at Fond
du Lac, on Lake Superior. We trust this
may prove incorrect.
The Richmond Whig says that Dem
ocratic Convention is proposed to be holden
in that city. next winter. about the time
Mr.. WISE is to be inaugurated. the object
of which is to put him on the road to the
Presidency. The wires are already laid,
and the Junta at work.
The second coroner's inquest on the body
of Mr.. RoBBINs. killed during the liquor
riot in Portland, Maine, returned verdict
that the deceased came to his death by the
rash and illegal orders of Mayor Dow
leaving it to the courts to determine wheth-
er the Mayor is guilty of manslaughter or
murder.
During the recent election at Paducah.
man accidentally fell into the river and was
drowned Political excitement was very
high at the time, and the only anxiety ex-
pressed by any one in regard to the unfortu-
nate occurrence, was to ascertain to which
party the defunct had belonged, and wheth-
er he had voted
Mayor WooD, of New York, whose broom
continues to make wide sweep. has turned
his attention to the idlers about the church
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