Washington telegraph., 1855-07-18
NEWS ITEMS.

Artificial stone is being manufactured in
Newark, n. j., out of sand, blood, and Plas-
:er of Paris.
Gov. PRICE, of N J., has offered himself
as candidate for the next Presidency
Who next?
A Washington letter says Dir. SoULE
has deferred his intended publication con-
corning his mission to Spain till the COM
mencement of the next session of Congress.
A Washington dispatch says that j. C..
WHITING. Chief Clerk in the Interior De-
partment. has been appointed by the Presi-
dent. Acting Commissioner of the Land
Office
The American party Of Georgia met in
Convention at Macon on the 28th ult., and
nominated Hon. GARNETr ANDREWS for
Governor, and ratified the Philadelphia plat
| form.
! The last rail on the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad, between St. Louis and Vincennes.
was laid on the morning of the 30th ult..
and a through train was expected at St.
Louis on the evening of that day.
Generals LANE and GAINES, candidates
for Congress in Oregon. recently became SO
much excited during a discussion, that they
pitched into each other, and had regular
fsticuf
Major ANDREW J. DoNELsoN has taken
the stump in Tennessee in behalf of the
American Organization. At meeting
| held in Lebanon to ratify the Platform he
addressed large audience with telling eff
feet.
The Cincinnati Times says that large
number of Southern steamers are laid up
there from sheer inability to do remunera-
tive business There is plenty of water.
but very little freight. This is unusual for
Cincinnati, for her tonnage has been ordina-
rily unequal to the trade.
There are now 35 young ladies attending
lectures in the Philadelphia Female Medl-
cal College At the last commencement
the degree of NJ d. was conferred upon six
ladies', graduates. Of the ten professors in
the college, four are ladies.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is only twenty
years old, and has a population of forty thou
sand
Chicago. Illinois, is only seventeen years
old. and has a population of eighty thou
sand.
The Cleveland Herald Of late date Of
fers to stake its reputation for veracity. that
-four will be down to So so per barrel in 80
days. 1t says the crops never looked better
in Ohio, and the prospect is that there
will be the largest yield ever known in that
! State
Major Rose, who has reached ST. Louis
from New Mexico, reports that he did not
see or hear of hostile Indian on the Plains,
and denies the correctness of all reports
about outrages being perpetrated by the In
dians, the story of a train being intercepted
and one hundred persons murdered, &C.
The National Natives of Boston and
vicinity have adopted and ratified platform
placing them on substantially the same foot
| Tag as their brethren of New York and
Philadelphia. They accuse the Massachu-
setts K Ms of having departed from the
true faith
The New York Sun, which pretends to
more or less of the confidence of the fill
busters. learHs from private letter, dated
the I4th ult., at San Juan, that COL WALK
Err was about to land at Tiger Island with
81 able men. and that he would fight against
the Government party. On the same au-
thority we have it that Col. KINNEY will not
land at Greytown. but that he will make a
descent upon that part of the coast where
his enemies will least expect him. but where
his friends will be ia waiting.
The st. Louis Republican has an account
of personal rencoDtre between General
Stringfellow and Gov. Reeder of Kansas
1t appears the parties met at Westport. Mo-.
and that Gen. Stringfellow demanded from
Gov. Reeder retraction of charges or i'm
putations made against him by the latter in
some one of his eastern speeches. Gov.
Reeder declined to make any retraction or
to give satisfaction, ard then followed the
personal rencontre, in which the Governor
was pretty severely handled. Both parties,
says the Republican, are we'll matched in
size though Stringfellow is the smallest man.
The MAINE Law IN MA1NE.-The dem
ocrats of Maine at their State Convention.
took very strong anti" Maine Law ground,
one of their speakers in favor of this course
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