Squatter sovereign., 1856-12-09
News from all Quarters.
g The New York Herald declares itself
IN favor Of Fremont for President in 1860.

joke is good for anything after it is s'craeked.'
u There is nothing that hurts ones feel
| ings more than dog bite.
q There are two thousand booksellers In
| the United States.
~ Every member of Congress from New
| York city and Brooklyn, eight in nuRbar, are
democrats, which is>a gain Of seven.
% People become ill by drinking health 3,
| He who drinks the health of everybody, drinks
1 away his drinks.
" Gutta percha hoops suit the ladies best,
| because they can be pressed into any shape,
AMI Immediately resume their circular form.
~ The story that the coal crop is short
this season, is said to be fib stated to enhance
the price.
your wife's bill for hoops at the dry-goods
stores
CO The returns from Kentucky show Fre-
mont vote of several hundred. In Galloway
county 1S9 votes were cast for Fremont.
a. By order of Judge Lynch, two young
men have been forged for horse-steaiing in
Omaha City, Nebraska.
eI Several policemen in Cincinnati have
been detected in committing buTgSaries; they
enjoy superior facilities FOR the business.
gy Two hundred and ten slaves were re-
Gently sold in body, in Alabama, and brought,
on an average, seven hundred dollars each.
e. 4 California paper alleges, upon pretty
good evidence, that five Thousand murders have
been committed in that country In six montes.
@ nail in the inkstand, or some old steel
pens, that the acid OF the ink can eat upon,
will prevent steel pens in use from being rusty.
GT The New York Times makes an esti-
mate of the actual expenses of the recent Pres
identional election, and foots it up at S25, ,5O0,
600.
According to the New York Herald the del
egatIen from that State IN the next Congress
will stand fourteen democratic to nineteen op-
position, which is democratic gain of eleven
q There 10 an oyster shell owned by the
University of Key&en, which weighs one hun
dred and eighty pounds. The oyster was swaE
lowed whole by Dutch giHf
II Great excitement has been produced in
Detroit by the discovery that German has
been using horse meat in the manufacture of
sausages.
e. South Carolina is up to the times in
some things; at Charleston they take the da-
guerreotypes of all pickpockets and otlTer rogues
and keep them in tia police Office for future use.
@ Mr.. Micham, of East Wheeling, Ohio,
has eXhumed from his vineyard human skel-
eton ten feet nine Inches long. Its jaws and
teeth were almost as large ss those of horse.
e. The Chicago, H., correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, says Judge Douglas recently
sold ninety acres of ground on the southwest
side Of that city for $50 900, and that real es-
tate ls becoming m ore active in that city
The democrats have carried the Legislature
or Delaware. secur ed the reelection OF Mr..
Bayard to the Senate, and a successor to Mr..
Clayton, whose death has lately been announced
CT The celebrated Madame Pieiffer states,
that IN Rio Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, she
noticed some OF the negroes wearing tin
mask, fastened behind with lock, which is
applied, among other offences, for that Of drunk
! enRess.
"I will consent to all yhu desire, - said
young lady to her lover, Z" on condition that
You will give what you have not, what you new
er can have. and yet what you can give me-"
What did she ask for !? husband.
q The Pittsbnrg Post, democratic pa
per. says that large numbers Of PennsylvsE |
ans, in different parts OF the State, prepar-
cry Since the adoption of the constitution,
the people Of the South have voluntarily eman-
cipated about two hundred and fifty thousand
slaves. worth at least one hundred and twenty
FIVE millions dollars.
fT- To fatten fowls, feed them with broken
corn, mush or Indian meal, with raw potatoes,
cut into small pieces Place, also, broken char
coal within reach.
c. Samuel Swartwout, the collector of N.
York, whose plundering of the United States
treasury made SO much noise in the campaign
OF 1910, is now at the point OF death in that
city. May the great Auditor be mercifu in clo-
sing his final account.
GT Poor Fillmore has not the consolation
of carrying evGu his own county. He finds
himself in the third party at home. His Law
partner, s. 6. Haven, now representing the
Buffalo District in Congress, ran for Ee-elec-
tion and is defeated.
Wednesday, and the Inland Daily says he |
E' looked pleased" It is thought. however,
that by the 4th of March next he will feel
little worried from the attentions Of his friends
who may be anxious to serve the pubic.
g At Philadelphia, Monday, poor
woman named Mulcaney, went out to days
labor and locked heT two little girls in her room.
They hand lucifer matches, which set fire to
the bed, and they were suffocsted before assis-
tasce could reach them.
e n. p. Willis excuses himself from lee
turing, the ground that his otherwise defeat |
ed eonsumptive symptoms have left him with |
Ii tile or no voice, aud Just now, a recent hem
orrhage has reduced him to whisper.
~ A melancholy instance of matrimonial |
infideiity has been developed at Troy, n. Y. /
A young man returned from years absence in
California 10 ind that hrs wife had just eloped |
with an Albany dry-goOds clerk. Taking his
only child, he immediately started to return,
- A constable of Boston, says the Herald, |
Immediately after the nomination Of Col Fre- |
mont, made a VOW that he would not shave un- |
til after the election of Fremont to the Presi- |
deney. The white beard of the officer is now |
quite patriarchal, and is still growing.
a. A citfzed Of Alabama is believed to |
have solved the problem Of the application Of
of the rifle principle to cannon. He borss the
cannon like the rife barrel, and uses ball in |
genousiy composed OF cast and wrought iron
combined. Increase OF range and accuracy in
the fire of artillery are the two important re-
suits of the invention.
@ A gentlnman from New Haven had pa
peIs valued at $4,000 stolen from his inside
coat poe ket by pickpocket at Jersey City on
Wednesday evening. He Immediately institut-
ed search for the thief, and just as the ferry
boat was leaving the dock an old coat was
thrown back on the wharf by man, which,
upon investigation, was found to contain the
lost valuables, which the thief had doubtless