The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1855-02-09

season. the river 81. Lawrence was frosel
} % hard as to admit Of thS crossing o
teams.
: They have commenced running omni
!, bus cars IN the streets Of Philadelphia
J after the New York fashion.
In the Pennsylvania Legislature, on tn,
LIST, abill passed its second reading, fix
ing the salary Of members at $500 pei
lannuln. and mileage atten cents mile.
The New York Mirror thinks that jus
now. inste ad of sending Injuries to th'
fiat and jolly heathen," We had bette
keep the american poor from starving.
Reasonable, that. r Si { ''a H
Il The Mayor Of Boston has effectually
suppressed Sunday liquor traffic in thai
city. But one shop was reported ope1
/ last sabbath. .- 6
4 A crazy Mormoa preacher has appear.
ed in St. Louis, proclaiming that he isJoe
Smith, the prophet, raised from the dead
Mounted artillery, such as Gen, Scot
took into Mexico. to be mounted on mules,
is being introduced into Cuba.
i. A sad affair occurred at Toledo, on
Il
Monday last. While, Thomas Lyous and
Michael Egan were employed in repairing
fthe wheelof ferry boat, the engine was
started, and they were both killed, -...' g, n
A great6re occurred in New Orleans
on the Cd. Loss $4,000. .Ga'
On the Sd; as a large party was skating
on the Schuylkill, above Fairmount, the
ice broke, and two persons one a lady I
were drowned. = "
The Office Of Peyton King, the receiver
of money for the United States Land Of
flee. at Monroe, La, was lately entered,
ana SlU,OUU St0ien.
The New York Board Of Emigration es-a
ftimale that s2o,oeo, 900 in money have
been brought into this country in the last
year by German emigrants.
1t is said that vessel Of war is to be
sent out Immediately to Bird Island, to re-
dress the wrongs sustained by our glano
diggers there at the hands of the govern
ment of Venezuela, ;s ,'ea q,
The statement published some time
since, in regard to the American Minister
at Turin being expelled from club Of
gentlemen, on account of private letter
written by him last year, and published
without his consent, is pronounced by the
Richmond Dispatch to be without word
Of truth. ~, ,i.l'lsh s.f 49,,
! Thethird annual meeting Of the United
States Agricultural Society win take
place at Washington, Feb. 28th. ,...
The House of Representatives has pass
ed the bill authorizing the people of Ore
gon to form State constitution and pre-
pare for admission into the Union. This
bill will be accepted, and Oregon will
doubtless be admitted during the next
Congress. The admission of Minnesota
cannot be delayed more than two years.
Kansas, Nebraska and Washington terri
tories viii soon follow, and then our Union
will consist of thirty-six sovereign States.
When Gen. Whitfield, Indian agent,
visited the Cheyennes, and q few other
wild tribes of Indians, to pay their annu-
tiles, this fall, they informed him that the
next year he must bring them one thous-.
and white squaws, and the balance they
would take in money. ar.-g,g /
The Rev. Antoinette L. Brown has set
tied in Andover, Mass, the Zion of New
England theology, and heldsherself ready
to preach, lecture or discuss with the Pro-
fessors as may seem betting.
During the visit of the old soldiers at
Mount Vernon, while standing on the new
steps of the old mansion, one of the num-
Der from Ohio. aged,seventy-nine by the
name Of Ridgeway, said he had now rv-
ing fourteen children, one hundred. and
ten grand children, thirty-seyen great
grand children. and seven great great
grand children, and that one of his daugh-
ters had twenty children.
In the counties on the Missouri river,
Kansas, land Is worth from $40
to, $50 per acre. !
John Shisely, a young man residing
near Ashland, was killed last week by the |
bursting Of the cylinder of a threshing !
Wednesday night, a lad named John
Sumer, 15years old, was made drunk at
Vincennes, Ia, and turned into, the street,
where he froze to death before morning.
The great ben Of Vienna weighs s5,-
400 pounds, and a small family could live