The weekly Placer herald., 1855-07-21
President of this abolition

Ohio was elected President of this abolition
organization.
A duel was recently fought in Canada by
two young bloods from New York City, Leav-
enworth and Breckenridge. The former was
seriously wounded and was not expected to
live when the steamer sailed; the other, was
slightly wounded in the calf of the leg.
GEORGIA PoIIrICs.-Hon. A. H. Stephens
and Senator TOombs, of Georgia. addressed G
large meeting at Augusta. in oppositiun 10 tae
know nothings.
Col VIM. Preston. tbe whlg mAmher of the
last Coagrass. from the iouiasiIie (Ky,) dis
trict, declines rc-elen5j0a, N the ground
that he can have no5hnE tn 80 with the know
nothings. and announces tAat he will vote the
democratic ticket.
The Irish woman and her child, recently
sent from Boston to Liverpool, by the author
tiles, in consequence of being paupers, have
been sent for again by Mr.. Enoch Train, q
shipping merchant of Boston.
On the 4th of June there was q heavy frost
near Wheeling, Va.
The lynching of Phillips has been dsavow-
ed and denounced in the severest terms by the
citizens of Weston, Mo. The Weston Repor-
ter says: We have been credibly informed
that those ten or twelve persons from Leav-
y
ips. with one or two exceptions, have not q
dollars worth of interest in the town, and are
merely temporary residents there-young men
without families, who may or may not remain
there.
The prohibitory liquor law has been de-
feated in Illinois.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of kontucky
has issued an order forbiddipg Catholic pro-
cessions on Sunday.
Hon. John +. Hale ans .ames Bell. have
been elected Z. S. Senators y the Legisla-
ture Of New Hampshire. BCtD Abolitionsts
and Know Nothings.
A Washington despatch says that rumor
relative to Col. Greene, of the Boston Post.
succeeding Mr.. Buchanan as minister TO Eng
land, is without foundation.
LAND OFFICES CLo2ED.-The Secretary of
the Interior has just ordered the land Offices
at Dixon, Chicago. Quincy, Edmundsville and
Palestine. Illinois, to be closed, and the books
and other documents to be removed TO Spring
field, the seat of government of that State,
where the lands formerly for sale at those
offices will be hereafter subject to entry. An
existing law makes it obligatory to close all
land Offices whereat the quantity of land for
sale falls below 100000 acres, and to transfer
the remaining business of such Offices to others
in their vicinity.
At Buffalo, on the 9TH, Mason, the anti
Know Nothing Candidate for Judge of the
Superior Court, was elected by $500 ma
jorty.
The State of Indiana has pasaed a statute
prohibiting the organization of secret sOce-
ties, the object Of which is to deprive any one
of his political or religious rights.
DEATH or AN OLD SoLDIER.-Llewelen who
was wounded st the battle of Waterloo. where
he was an officer under Wellington, was
buried at Ellsworth. Maine, last week, where
he had resided for several years in humble
circumstances The Ellsworth paper says he
was own brother of Lady Raglan, wife of the
British commander in the Crimea.
On the 4th inst, in the New York Superior
Court in the case of Catherine n. Forrest. ps
Edwin Forrest. Judgment by default was en-.
tered for the plaintiff.
The New York Herald publishes an interest
ing account of the great submarine telegraph
which it is proposed to lay across the Atlantic
from st. Johns to the southern coast Of Ire
land, distance Of over sixteen hundred miles
The expense Of the undertaking is estim ited
at ten millions of dollars.
A number Of Frenchmen are about getting
up an establishment at Utica n. Y, for the
manufacture of boots and shoes by machinery.
/ 1t is said the manufacture of fine shoe will
cost but ten cents, and that of fine boot but
fifteen to twenty cents. The machines are to
be run by women and boys. and their proper
management does not require any knowledge
of the present way of making boots and shoes.
The Ericsson steamer with old fashioned
boilers, was advertised to sail from New York
for llavre on the 10th June.
Silver to the value Of Sll, 900 was extract
ed from the copper taken from the Lake Su-
peror mines during the past winter.
FAMINE IN Lower CANADA.-The editor OF
| the Montreal Commercial Advertiser has been
shown letters from ministers and others in
the eastern aud western townships, which de-
scribes the amount Of want existing among
all classes, from the scarcity of breadstuits, as
! frighttul in the extreme. In some partsscurvy
has made its appearance.
| DISAPPOINTED.-An Australian paper of the
2lst January says, that of 200 passengers ar
rived at Melbourne in one vessel from Eng
land, over l50 had. in less than week, en-
gagged their passage back.
The u. S. frigate Constitution arrived at
Portsmouth. n. H., on the I'd, from the'coast
of Africa, piG Havana She has been absent
three years. and will now be put out of com
mission. her crew paid off and discharged
The Kinney expedition, consisting of about
20 men had sailed for Nicaragua.
Several of the first class of hotels of New
York, having found the late advance in the
price Of board charged by them losing spec
ulatiOn, have returned to the old rates OF
| 50 so. The Astor still charges three dollars.
The SCHUYLER FRAUDs.--In the case Of Mil
Ter against Il. l.. Schuyler and the Illinois