Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1855-02-17
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yilTwenty.nine steamers recently arri;
we'd at New Orleans with tull cargoes of
Western produce. '-5: a..
The New York Courier takes ground
fn,favor Of the repeal of the naturaliza.
tion laws, and the restriction Of politi.
cal power 10 American hands.
Flogsing as punishment for c,imi.
hals has lately been introduced into the
prisons Of Saxony. 1t is extended to
female convicts, as we'll as males.
A clerk in a mercantile establishment
writes to his friend at homo: "Plaguey
easy times now.a.days-very little work
to do-our firm don't ADVERTISED"
The Boston Courier says that money
is much more abundant in that city, and
the prediction on charge is, that the
rates will be down to six per cent, be-
fore the close of the present month.
The House of Representatives on the
1st inst. passed, in an amended form, the
bill authorizing the construction of a
line of sraterranean telegraph to the
Pacific. y
A counterfeit article Of buckwheat is
said, by the Western papers to be a,
broad. 1t is made from the seed of
broom corn, and meets with an extern
sive sale in Pittsburg and northern
Ohio, a, four cents per pound.
A lawyer of the Philadelphia bar
lately stated to judge that he had two
witnesses in court in support of the
cause of his client who would be sure
to speak the truth, as he had had no OPP.
qortunity Of communicating ~it1 them'
A HARD SsEEzE.-A young lady of
Bridge.on, while in the act of sneesing,
came near dislocating her neck; she
was insensible for some hours, and had
it not been for the skill Of the surgeon.
who was Immediately sent for, life would
have been extinct.
Ono TEMpERANtE LAw.-lmportast
Deciision.-The Supreme Court of Ohio
on Saturday last, Goth ult. unanimously
decided tho Prohibitdry Liquor Law;
enacted by the last Legislature, 10 be
constitutional on all The points raised a.
gainst it.
An English paper thus alindes to the
Life of Barnum ":-
"Fame is altogether comparative, and
notoriely very often encroaches on fame
One man aspiresio be d great general,
another great statesman, but Barnum
ambilioned to be great humbug, aud
he succeeded"
President Of Western bank says TO
his friend,
"Charley, cant you give me change
fnr q dollar? 81 see the Bank Examiner
Is in town, and l want some specie in
the vault 10 make show"
A dispatch dated Cincinnati, Tuesday,
Juu. so, 1856, says: A, Mount Pleasant, in
this county about fifty women attacked
tavern and destroyed latge quanlity ol IL
quor belonging 10 the keeper After demol'
ishing the liquor casks, &C., they dragged the
owner through the liquid, which stood six
inches on the floor. Warrants were issued
against about twenty Of the parties, but the
officers returned this afternoon and reported
their inability to serve the processes
asy- The ladies' who mobbcd a liquor
sellers premises, and destroyed $500
worth Of the crathur," at Mt. Pleas
ant, Hamilton county, Ohio, have oil
been discharged. The Cincinnatti Com
mcyvial, in noticing the investigation
saws: ".['he ladies were most of them
Young, and pretty" No wonder they
were discharged.
sg Our readers have probably heard
of Busby. thecelobrated English schonI'
master He lived in times when teach
ors used the imp~aticsmoOd, and before
the "meral suasion system" came in
10 fashion. lie seems TO have under
stoodsolomon very literally when speak
ing of the use of the rod, If we may
Judge from his practice. Hs was a
thorough teacher and rigid discipline
rian-sometimes laying on the rod with
yeugeance-as it would be considered
now.a.days. Hi however made good
scholars. One day going into the House
of Lords. and seeing a full bench OF
bishops, he remarked that he had "''h,p-
rtd nise ef Mose Bishops up 10 "a'
hmh."