Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-11-25

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Il.
DETROIT, Nov. 15.--It has been ascer-
tanned that the steamer Superior has been
wrecked. She struck a rock iii Lake Su-
perior during the storm of the 2sth ult.,
and went to pieces. Thirty five lives were
lost, and sixteen were saved. The' names
of the lost are ~. s. Jones, captain; Will
liam Morris, clerk; Henry White, stewart;
Jefferson Warren and William Welch, bar
keepers; Henry Barns, second mate, and
the following deck hands: Alexander Bar
ney, John Smith, George Davis, Patrick
Curley, Alexander and Thomas Hers, be-
sides several colored cooks and walters.
Among the passengers lost were Steph-
EN- Winter and four sisters, belonging to
Onontagon; Margaret Foster, Of Michigan;
william Siss, Of Indianapolis; and William
Rowe.
Nor SATIsFIED.---The Charleston IS.
C.) Mercury contains letter from Mr..
Rhett, of that State, to Gov. Adams, upon
the present position Of political afairs.---
While conceding the elsctibn of mfr. Buch-
anan, it contends that the vote be received
in the North evinces the power of the par.
ty in that section opposed to the "rights of
the South" and proves that the States
south Of Mason and Dixon's Line have
nothing to hope in the future. Mr.. Rhett
contends for dissolution of the Union as
the best solution of the difficulties with
which the slaveholding community i. now
compelled to struggle.
GREAT FIRE IN MrcHreAN.-Jackson,
Mich, Nov. l5.-Last night, about q
O'Clock, fire broke out in the saloon kept
by E. Roe, from which it spread to the
Bennett Block, and east to Holmes q Jen-i
kins' grocery. Losses, as near as can be-
ascertained, are as follows:
Empire House and depot, $1,000, no
insurance. Rathburn loss on furniture.
$4,000, partly insured. Bean u Clarke
produce dealers, loss $500, no insurance.
D. Morrison, grocer and liquor dealer, loss
on goods and buildings 500, 900; no in-
surance. Several other smaller losses.
EEFremont has larger electoral vote,
with California, than any defeated candidate
ever had; and Mr., Buchanan has smaller
proportion of the whole popular vote than
any man who was ever chosen President
by the people.
New England gave her entire vote to
Washington, and now gives tito Fremont.
No Presidential candidate intervening
shares with them that honor.
ONO ELECTION. The Ohio State Jour.
nal Of Wednesday gives a table ofcountiesy
which foot up:
Fremont I04, ,988
Buchanan 1854,
Fillmore I7,437
Gerrit Smith 92
Leaving Defiance, Fulton, Henry, No
ble, Ottawa, Warren and Wood counties
to be heard from, which, says the Journal,
will probably increase Fremont's majority
to some figure over fifteen thousand. The
above returns give Fremont a majority Of
49, over Buchanan, and 1851. over
Fillmore.
w A "tough" subscriber to a country
paper was struck from its mail list. because
he wouldn't pay up. The delinquent's
wife insisted wrathfully that "she knew
what was newspaper law-athat she did
the proprietor was bound to send the paper
until all arrearages were paid!"
EE A little boy, while writhing under
the tortures Of an ague, was told to rise up
and take a powder which had been prepar.
ed for him. "Powder! powder' said he,
raising himself on one elbow and putting
on smile; Mother, amt gun!'
PRorEsson MoEsE KSreHrED.--The
king Of Denmark has conferred the order
Of Danneborg on Professor Morse, for the
invention Of the magnetic telegraph. The
inventive genius and scientific knowledge
which have placed in possession of the
world this the greatest invention the mind
of man has ever originated, receives hom-
age in every part of the world.
OFFICIAL VoTE OF PENNsYLvANIA.--'
Harrisburg, Nov. "a. The following Is
the official vote of Pennsylvania, complete:
Buchanan $50, 500; Union eos 556, Of
which Fremont has l47, 6l9, and Fillmore
55, ,937; straight Fillmore s6,338.
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