Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-05-27

NoHFolk. Va. May R2.--Robsrl Chris
tie, Superintendent Of the Norfolk and Pc
/. teKshurg railroad was killed yesterday by ths
falling Of q derrick.
The Herald correspondent says tha. Gen
Gadsen, who recently arrived at New Or
leans from Mexico, brings an important pos
ial treaty, one ofih provisions Of which Il
that Mexico and The United Slates shall pay
$4,000 each towards defraying The expen'
SOS of steam communication between the
Two wocoualries, along the Gulfof Mexico.
The Newport. (Ky.) News says:
Amass meeling Of the Republicans ol
Campbell, KY, will be held in the Couri
House q, Alexandria, on Saturday the 24lh
instant, for The purpose Of organizing o
County Republican Association, and for the
election Of delegaieS,o The National Con-
vention, 10 be held al Philadelphia in June
next. Casslus M. Cay and other eminent
speakers will address tho meeting. Omni-
buses will leave Newport at 7 o'clock in the
morning, starting from this Office. Tickets
there and back, rs cents. Distance thirteen
miles.
WASHINGTON, May 19.--Sena,e. Two
Messages were received from the President,
veioing the bill for the improvement of the
mouth OF the Mississippi river and the flats
OF the ST. Clair river. The President re-
turns them because he regards them as paris
Of ageneFal system Of internal improve.
ments and refers 10 his message Of 1854,
vetoing the River and Harbor Bill. On
motion, the consideration Of the subject was
postponed until next Wednesday.
WHAT NExTl-Mr. Winter Davis, a
Member ofihe House Of Representatives
from MaryIand--a pro slavery American
in q speech, on the 9th, denounced Thomas
Jefferson, as Higher Law man! Wash.
inglon will be called an Aboli,ionist and
Black Republican next. All right, consid
ering the source whence il came. ~
COURSES. Paducah Sentinel says
tina, there will be five eclipses this year.
Two Of the sun, one Of the moon, and one
Of Frank Pierce. The later will be visible
oil over The United States in November next.
e The National lntelIigencer of yesterday,
contains letter from Judge Leavitt, of Gin.
cinnati, in reply to one from number of
members, asking whether his decision in the
recent case OF Gaines and his slaves, was
suggested to Judge Mclean. Judge Leavitl
acquis Judge Mclean OF all participation
in The matter, be being in Washington a,
the time the decision was made.
THR DIFFERENCE We learn tha. DR.,
Aills, the newly appointed Superintendent,
OF the Central Ohio Luna,ic Asylum, will
make tour through the Eastern cities pre-.
vious to en,ering upon his official duties for
the purpose Of informing himself Of the
mosi.approved methods Of treating insanity,
as Practice a Jhe most experienced phYsi.
Clans 10 L, Mes. STATE institutions. DR..
Hills goes St his own expense, thereby
showing the great difference between the
appoiniee OF the Republican and Locofcco
parties.
A Locofcco would have waited until he
was Installed 10 Office. and then he would
have made she tour and charged the State
with the expense: The people should con.
graduate themselves that honest and con.
scien,ous men viii, a, last. have the con.
1nof Of ahe Public Insssuionss @. g. aosr
nal.
ANOTHER SltcE.-li is reported currently
q, Washington and has passed into the lei.
iors of various correspondents from that
ciiys 4hat General Gadsen The hero of the
Mesilla purchase, is engaged in negotiations
for another slice Of Mexico. He offers S.
100000 for an acute angle Of Sonora, which
will embrace the head Of The California
Gulf. The next step will belhe annexation
Of Lower California, which, by the con.
summa.ioGSof the contemplated purchase,
will have become insulated. These are lu
bricaling processes preparatory TO the final
swallowing of Mexico. .
CAIRO, May 13.-The steumer James
Park and two barges were destroyed by fire
in the Mississippi above here, opposite
Thebss. Particulars not known.
CIRCULATION OF METHODIST PERIODICALS.
The, following is the sta,emen, Of the cir:
cula,ion OF Me.hedisw newspapers and mag.
mines, as reporter to Conferences:
Christian Advocate and Journal N. Y. 1855
Western Christian Advocate, (Cin.) 2S,7l8
Northern Christian Advocate, $4,000
North Western Christian Advocate 10,032
Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, 5000
Sunday School Advocate 1862
Missionary Advocate $4,000
Christian Apologist Germany 6,967
Quarterly Review 2,7Sl
National Magazine, 1886
Ladies Repository 29,6s0
The above says the Cincinnati CONNER
cisl is the Average circulation for the past