Washington telegraph., 1855-05-02
News Items.

- Gen. DODGE. accompanied BY his
family. left Burlington. Iowa. a short time
since, en- route for Washington and Spain.
- A bill abolishing all licenses for the
sale of liquor has passed both branches of
the Pennsylvania Legislature.
- The chapel erected il Mount Au-
burn. Mass. few years ago. at cost of
$4,000. has been leveled to the ground on
account of defects in its construction.
- The Governor of Rhode Island Of
fers reward of 81 900 for the apprehension
of the murderers Of Mrs BAKER and Mrs.
HAMLlN
- The Baltimore American says the
cost of living in that city is fully one hun
dred per cent higher than it was ten years
ago
- WM. P. DUNroN. Esq. well
known lawyer in Boston, committed suicide
on the 18th ult by shooting himself at his
residence in that city.
IL DdS iOliSi illOi UiSr
resenting EsCULAPIUs attending a patient
has been discovered at Cyzica, in Asia Mi
nor. and brought to the Louvre.
! - The churches of Massachusetts, are
discussing the propriety of abolishing the
annual fast, which has so long been desecra-
/ ted to uses the most inconsistent with those
+ for which it is set apart.
| - The Bank of Commerce has Just
/ bought lot in New York, on the corner of
Nassau street, 20 feet front. for which the
price paid was s23o,0O0. almost equal to
s3,400 front foot
- Sixty-three cases of yellow fever
were sent from the L. S. frigate Columbia
to the Naval Hospital at Norfolk. out of
which, at last accounts, there had been Eve
deaths
- The Memphis Eagle f. Enquirer
learns that Dr. SAMUEL GILBERT formerly
a citizen of New Orleans but now resi-
dent in New York, has become deranged in
consequence of belief in spiritualsm.
- a telegraphic dispatch from Wash
ington says the Government makes but poor
headway in getting suitable vessels to rein
force the Gulf Squadron, and poorer still in
getting men to man the vessels.
Gov CLARK, Of n York, has signed
the Church Property bill. which deprives
Roman Catholic Bishops of that State, of the
control of the real estate belonging to their
respective dioceses.
- 4 man named ANDERSON. in Hen
ry county, Virginia. while placing cap up
on gun, accidentIy caused the discharge of
the weapon, killing the wife of bis brother
instantly.
- II is reported that Messrs. CoRco-
RAN and RIGGS, of Washington. have paid
over to the government about 100000, at
tached in their hands as being part of the
money fraudulently obtained under the GAR
DINER claim.
- Intelligence received at New York.
from Aux Cages, Hayti, mentions that Mr.
OAKsMITH, Z. S. Commercial Agent at that
port, had absconded considerably in debt,
and :hat ISRAEL KNIGHT had been appoint
cd his successor.
- MARTIN VAN BuREN, jr.. son of
Ex-President VAN BUREN, who had been
seriously Ill for some time, died at Paris on
the Goth of March last lie was next to
the youngest Of Mr. VAN BUREN's four
sons. and was about 10 years of age.
- The Know-Nothing Convention in
the Petersburg District. Virginia. has noun
mated LITTLEToN TAzEwELL, of Mecklen-
burg county, fer Congress. in opposition to
the Hon. WILLIAM o. GooDE, Democrat
who is candidate for reelection.
- The news of the death of the En-.
peror PAUL. 1901. was 81 days in getting
to London. That of the late Emperor
NICHOLAS four hours and half ct the ut
most. according TO Lord CLARENDoN's state.
ment in the House Of Lords of the time ii
had been received at the foreign Office.
- The know Nothing CoLbler" is
now the fashionable drink in Memphis
and. the Eagle 6- Enquirer says. seems
to be even quite as popular as the princi-
pies of the Order The most intoxicating
liquor used in its composition is Catawba
wine, which, as all know, is product of a
native grape, almost entirely harmless in its
effects.
- In the Circuit Court at Boston. on
the 18th ult., Judge Curtis delivered an
opinion IN the case of THEODORE PARKER
and ethers, that the indictment was void on
the ground that the process was not sufi