Squatter sovereign., 1856-03-11
News from all Quarters.

News from all Quarters.
s Flour commands 50 perbarrei at Gree
VIt is said that the Sultan contemplate
. trip to France and England.
a There have been 7,5oo hogs slaughtere,
at SC. Joseph, Me-, this season.
~ The present estimate of the populatisl
of China is four hundred millions.
a. 1t is said that Charles Dickens receive.
over sixty thousand dollars for Bleak House,
e During the late cold snap. five hundre.
srow birds have been found dead near Char
lottesviiie, Va.
~ DR.. Wm. A. Graham, of Lexington
Va, died few days since. from breaking ons
of bis legs.
- Nicaragua embraces about forty-nine
thousand square miles, and contains popuia-
ton of nearly four hundred thousand.
~ The population of New Orleans is now
said to be, at least, one hundred and ffty thou
sand.
@ The sugar crop OF Texas, this season
has been unusually large. The crop In Brazil
county is estimated at $500, 600.
w The Potomac river at Alexandria has
beea ascertained by measurement to be 1 ,3l5
yards in width, with channel 499 yards wide.
s~ Fire flies are SO large in California that
they nail them against posts and light the streets
with them.
e. Snow commenced falling at Fort Lara
mie on the Ath of November, and continued
without cessation until the I'd OF December
e. Immense herds of Buffalo have been
seen as far east as the Little Blne. They are
estimated at hundreds Of thousands
sSooner than marry woman of fifty, .
said fellow, lately, ssl'd take two at twenty
fye.o Feller must have been Mormon.
CO The citizeus Of louisville have decided
by majority OF thirteen only, to loan 900 OGO
to the Louisville and NashyiIis railroad.
Ca The smallpox is prevailing to some ex-
tent IN Philadelphia, and the Board of Health
call upon ali who have not been vaccinated to
have it done without delay.
ca Georgia is nearly chequered by rail-
ROADS, and yet her debt is only two millions six
hundred and forty-four thousand two hundred
and twenty-one dollars.
Ca The Vicksburg and Texas Railroad, now
In progress, does not vary three miles from an
air line throughout its entire length, which is
100 miles.
~A jury in New Orleans last week, refus-
ed to allow the liberation of twenty slaves by
their mistress, unless they would leave the State.
The slaves declined leaving.
Some idea may be formed of the immense
patronage of the Government, when the sum of
SIT 900 has been paid to the presses of Wash
ington City alone, Cor advertising.
~A correspondent OF tie Petersburg Dem
ocrac reports, upon credible Information, that
there are $50 cases of small pox in the city Of
Richmond.
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ty, Ia, on goingto bed last Saturday week, took
a vessel of live charcoal into their room. On
the next morning they were all found dead.
~ The Louisville Journal saws "the
peaches are all killed, and it is likely that the
apricots, piums and cherries have shared the
same fate"
GA man at Newburg, New York, has a
presentiment that he viii die on the goth of
August next, and has already purchased cof-
fin and engaged the services of an undertaken
for that day.
CO The Richmond Whig has entered upon
the role of independent journalism, and will
discuss public men and measures with an eye
only to the interest of the country, and not of
party.
eV Captain Edds has changed the name of
his new Missouri river packet from James
Harrison to VIM. Campbell. The Campbell
will run as regular Monday packet to IVES
ton, next season.
q Satirist, Junius, who says-@The Di-
vile Right of Beauty is the only Divine Right a
gentleman is not allowed to question: beau
tiful woman is the only tyrant he is not author
lied to resist"
GY Col. B. HARRISON, Democrat, is elected
to the Senate of Louisiana by thirty majority,
in place of Hon. b. Wickliife, elected Governor
of that State. This gives the Democrats ma
joiity Of two in the Louisiana Senate.
CO Bradley, an Irishman, of Philadelphia,
offers to fight any Native American for $4,000.
The gauntlet has been taken up by Rush, an
American, of the same city, and meetings have
been held but thus far Intellectually for the set
tlement of preiiminaries.
GV In the Canary Islands there are to be
found trees which yield an abundance of pure
fresh water in the driest season. In China, tai
low is procured by a certain species of plants
and in Chill there trees which supply the
people with salt.