Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-09

Poole's Annual Register has last been
issued, with a complete list of the executive
and Legislative departments, and the overseers
OF Harvard College. Of the 40 members of
the Senate and the 329 of the House, 70 are
farmers and horticulturisis, SO merchants and
traders, 2S legal gentlemen, % boot and shoe
manufacturers, Is builders and housewrghts.
Is manufacturers, 9 sea captains, s clergy
men, editors and printers, z physicians, an
the remainder allotted to 50 ether branches of
trade or profession. Their nativity is stated
as follows Massachusetts 2S6, New Ha1np-
shire 81, Maine IA, Connecticut 10, Vermont
Z, Rhode Island 5, and from New ork and
from England. Well written sketches are
also given of the personal character, manners
and history OF the presiding officers of both
branches.
The election of Mr.. Banks is the first in
stance on record p our Congressional history
in which slavery, with an administration at
Its back, has not been able to force its meas
ures, either by fair means or intrigue and de-
lay, on the House of Representatives. Freedom
has heretofore baffled pro- slavery admins
tration taken singly, and has sometimes sue
cessfully grappled with the slavery represen-
tation on the floor. But it was reserved for
the Republicans of the Thirty Fourth Con-
gress to win the first victory over both the
combined forces, at once.-ABany Evening
Journal.
Governor German, in his late message
to the Minnesota legislature, estimates the
population of the territory at IS, 600. He an
nounces that the President has given him no.
tice that the three tribes Of Indians now re-
siding in the territory cannot be disturbed and
sent further west All the tribes are peace
able and friapCiv 1Ic. IL.
territory has a school for the education of
small children, and the colleges and seminar
les OF learning in st. Paul are in fourishing
condition.
An old lady named Elizabeth Farmer.
living in Newton, N. H., who has been wide
ly known for her parsimonious habits, died
week before last, leaving from seventy. five to
hundred thousand dollars worth of proper
ty, to be divided among her nearest relatives
embracing some fifteen or twenty cousins.
Most of the property consists of very heavy
timber lands, some railroad stock, and large
accumulation of gold and silver coin, found
snugly slowed away in an old chest.
The Buffalo Republic says John Ma
good, the man that chased the highway rob.
Der, Lettis, from Fort Erie across the river.
on to Strawberry Island, and shot him. has
the
government of Canada, in addition 10 which
the Council at Niagara have presented him
three hundred dollars more, as reward for
Kidding the country of a dangerous and des-
perate character.
Judge Kane is earnestly pressing the
Pennsylvania Legislature to transfer the case
OF Passmore Williamson against himself for
damages on account Of three months illegal
imprisonment,tr from Delaware County, TO Phil
aeeipbla, AS Delaware is his own County,
the Judge betrays consciousness of the
weakness OF his cause at home.
A singulor case of death by suffoca-
ton was brought to light in New York, on
wednesday. "A mason searching for some OBJ.
struction that prevented chimney from
drawing, found the body of man wedged
into the nue., which was ascertained 10 be
that OF Louis Miller, insane from intemper-
anee, who has been missing since New Years
day.
The Reading (Pa.) Gazette mentions
the arrival in that city Of gentleman from
Montreal, Canada, who drove the whole Jour
ney GOO miles) in a sleigh. We presume
there has not been winter for many years
during which this distance could have been
Travelled continuously on runners.
In Pittsburg, Pa, last week, gentle
man Of misanthropic turn, lay down upon the
railway track, said his prayers, and waited for
the coming train to finish him. A Waterman
having liyelier views OF life, carried him to
the station house.
The contract for supplying lO5, 45O
gallons Of winter and spring sperm oil for
light houses on the coast and lakes has been
awarded to W. A. Robinson Co., Of New
Bedford.
Whittier is the author of the fine bal
lad OF tho Ranger. which appeared in the last