Demoine courier., 1856-01-31

d A~ffaires, at Washington, was married
in Springfield, Mass, on the End, to Miss
Eliza w. Howard. Yankee girls, at least,
are not afraid of the ''hug OF the Northern
Bears"
ga gentleman who is very anxious to
obtain a seat la the legislature, found one
on the sidewalk yesterday. Ice is treach-
[ erous." Is ..4
There will be two eclipses of the sun
and two of the moon this year.
The Bellevilie Dali, Tribune in dead
t.Verdict Of the jury died of Douglasism /.
1t win be safe to say, that railroads
have, within the past FIVE years, added
$3.50, coo, 600 to the value of land in this
State and $1,000, 900 to the value of the
crops Of the past season. asst
Anew comet has been discovered. 1t
is moving towards the west; has a bright
and dense, but not q sharp nrcleu us, and its.
light isstrikinsly intermittent. Ws.f
49," T .H' m NH'
The small pox is prevailing to a consi-
derable extent at Bloomington, Ill. a~a
The income of Trinity Church, N. Y,
last year, was ss9.476. asN.li'
Saturn s.,rings vil be visible all this year.
with the aid of a telescope.
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Counterfeit tens on the Pittsield Bank.
Mass, are in circulation.
1t is said that the recent troubles in
Kansas cost the contending parties some
thing like a hundred thousand dollars.
The Indiana Republican papers are very
severe in their denunciation of Dunn, the
bolter, in Congress, who leads the 18th
Section Know.Notlings. >
Fanny Fern. was, married in New York
on Saturday last, to James Parton. the
"Autobiographer' of Horace Greeley.
The coolest day in Chicago was Tues
day, the Sth, WHEN a well, behaved and not
vely exciteable thermometer touched 30
below zero.
A late London paper informs its read.
ers that the NEBRASKA Territory of the
United States is a tract Of several millions
OF acres, lately purchased BY the Ameri-
cans from the Mosquito King"
Gen. Scott is having a new military
coat-a Lieutenant Generals, we suppose
manufactured in New York at a cost Of
$3.50. aa atH Tsg 5aS 30
The loss of property by disasters to.
steamboats, Oh the western rivers during
the past year. cannot be much less than
I 1000, 600. eaA4i Z 9 s
w nsdys las4t9 Fis8 81
A company of twenty picked marksmen
are about sailing from San Francisco for
Singapore where tigers have for years past
destroyed many lives with ~inpanity.
The arrival Of the Canada brings intsl-
li.ence Of the death Of Samuel Rogers, ths
poet.
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The Supreme Cot It of the United States
has decided, at its present session, in the
case Of William Wells, that tbs President
has no power to commute a sentence,
and that he possesses only the power Of
unconditional pardon. $500
Gen. Stringlellow says, that "the Abo,
litionists have cone The Yankee over US
this time-the Goyeraor has betrayed Us.
He has betrayed himself, the South, and
the whole of the pro Slavery party. We
had had them, and he spoiled all. Next
time we must plan fer ourselves"
$50 casB ssMf4 Gt h4taa #s i3N
The N. Y. Herald of Monday, says that
"a snow storm OF unexampled severity
visited the whole Atlantic coast, from
Maryland to Halifax, on Saturday last, and
continued to rage for from fifteen to eigh.
teen hours. In Boston it was the most
severe storm that has occurred for seventy
years, and in New York the coolest In
habitant" can remember nothing like it.
Tbs Common Council of Buffalo. took
the following action:
Resolution by Aid. H. Miller, that the
trustees Of the First Presbyterian Church
cause the posts at the sidewalks to b. re-
movedto sufficient wild h, SO thatladies
wearing hoops may be enabled to- pass
through. !. .sg "a sss - .sw sssg
"A Convention of the Democracy, ofths
counties Of Mahaska, Wapello, Keokuk.