Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-07-05
News and Miscellaneous Items.

THE PREsIDENcv.-The Chicago Courier
of the 10Th inst, comes out with long ar
ticle recommending Fernando Wood chief
magistrate Of New York, for the Presiden-
cy in 1856.
T7+Col. Lumsden Of the New Orleans
Picayune, will, it is said, be the Know
Nothing candidate for Congress in that dis
trict.
L5-The Goldsborough IN. CO. Tribune
hoists the name Of Henry A. Wise, of Vir-
ginia, as a candidate for the Presidency in
1856.
DFThe first Methodist Episcopal church
in Germany, really beautiful building, has
been co mpleted, dedicated and occupied.
The Grand Lodge of the African Masons
of the West, has recently been in session at
indianapolis, fifteen Lodges being represen-
ted, two from New Orleans, three from
Cincinnati, and one from each of the follow
ing cities-Chigago, Cleveland, indianapolis,
St. Louis, Richmond, Terre Haute, Madison,
GAINESVILLE, o., and Louisville.
I5Mr. w. II. Goodwin, Virginian, has
lately set at liberty an old negro woman, her
daughter and two grand children. He took
them TO Detroit bought them house for
$500, and left $1,000 in bank there to
their credit. We ask ,chat .AJoliiion,st erer
did anything like this?
B=The Montreal Herald hints that the
Hon. Mr.. Hincks is to be knighted; Sir A.
McNab TO be created baronet, the Cana
dian regiments 10 be raised Immediately,
one of them to be commanded by Mr.. Ran
kin, M. p; convention TO be held at Que
bee from all the provinces 10 consider pro-
ject for federal union.
. fitzpatrick Mullin clerk in the house of
Hayden Mullin, of Wayne City, Mo-, was
drowned the other day, while bathing in
the river.
E5The St. Joseph Cycle of the 18th in
slant, denounces the proposition to release
the State lien,' as fagitious and unjust
EfHershel V. Johnson has been nomi-
mated as the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Georgia.
I5=Mr. Boteler, of Virginia, in the course
! of his remarks at Baltimore, stated that the
gentleman who reported the platform in the
5 Democratic Convention, held in that city in
a 1913, is the same gentleman who reported
the American platform in the National
Council at Philadelphia, viz: Judge Cone, Of
: Georgia.
I37A colored pianist, q youth, named
d Augustus Luca, who has dubbed himself
the Ethiopian Thaberg," has appeared in
New York. He is said to be wonderful
performer.
E9General Sam Houston delivered q
' speech at Houston, Texas, on the 9Th inst
in which he took occasion to condemn the
Nebraska bill, and also to fire few random
shots at President Pierce. The General
q said it was his intention 10 retire into pri.
: vate life.
j. I9The number of teachers employed in
S the schools throughout the empire of Aus
e tria, amounts to $4,000 of whom 20, 900 arr
III females.
=, I3eSeveral Of the more important rail
~ roads in the seacoast States have made o
- are making purchases of woodlands ct tn
South.
NA man recently died at stanford
Conn, leaving five children, all of whom
Is were born ulterhe was 10 years of age.
" B-The New York Euening Post pub
" fishes an extract from the forthcoming sec
p" ond volume of Benton's Thirty Years View
. showing conclusively that, at the time c
" the adoption Of the Missouri Compromise
- Mr.. Calhoun made no objection to it; bu
= admitted the full power of Congress owe
~ African slavery in the Territories. Hi
=" subsequent view Of the unconstitutonalit
of the measure was an after thought, exc
ted by the necessity for some excuse fc
- carrying slavery into the Territories.
l. I5A young, handsome and well educc
" ted lady in Maine, who some ten years sine
10 married Chippewa Indian, causing gre
P deal of talk at the time, now resides wit
n her aboriginal husband in Lawrence, X. 7
- where they live in good style, and have Il
Oh comforts of civilization around them. II,
1 g, husband graduated from Hamilton Collce
'n' New York, whether before or after ma
o. riage, we do not know.
"IN A Pros EyE.-There is drinkir
- and eating house in st Louis, called "Pig
Eye House."
Ex-PREsIDEsrs liz EUaopE.-Ex-Pre
IN idents Van Buren, and Fillmore, are at pre-
ent in England. They both attended 4