Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-07-14

DECEAsE OF EMrNENT AMERICAN STATES
MEN.-In recording the death of Ex-
Secretary Marcy the Philadelphia Times
remarks;
1t seems as if death had found a
banquet among our master spirits in the
last decade. Almost all the great and
illustrious men who came into public life
during the first twenty-five years of the
present century, have been snatched
away within that time. The list which
memory calls at the moment is formidable
in numbers, and the persons whose names
are upon it were conspicuous for vast and
varied ability. First, in point of time, is
that of John Quincy Adams, who died in
1847; then follows those of Kent, Polk,
Taylor, Calhoun, Clay, McDuifie, Story,
Webster, King, Woodbury., Sergeant
Berrien, Clayton, Hill, Burgess, Cheves
and Marcy. What immense powers, what
political and legal research, what ora
torical skill and diplomatic eruditon, what
wise foresight and wonderful experience
have been lost by their deaths to the nation!
When will it, if ever be restored IN the
persons and minds of others?
The largest landholders of Virginia are
taking steps to dispose by wholesale of i'm
mense tracts Of country to Eli Thayer's
company to be sold to bodies of settlers
now about emigrating from the Eastern
and Western States. Kentucky and Ten
nessce have been bidding for the attention
of the company, and it is probable that
considerable purchases will be made in
those States.
The Ohio State Journal says that state
ments which have been made several times
in the Cleveland Plaindealer, that Mr..
Breslin holds "Mr, Gibson's receipt in full
for all the money in the Treasury, save
those accounted for by bad investments"
we know to be untrue.
The Lebanon (Ohio) Star has entered
upon it's ffty-second volume. With the
exception of the Cincinnati Gazette and
the Chillicothe Gazette, it is said to be the
oldest paper in Ohio. 1t was started by
Judge Mclean, but has been in the hands
of its present proprietor, Hon. w. II. p.
Denny, for the last twenty-one years.
The Carroll county Press gives the
particulars of q trial for seduction, in which
young girl of seventeen is the plaintiff,
and a Rev. Mr.. Barclay, OF the second
Church. defendant. The jury gave all
the damage requii ed-$5, 600. and would
have given much more if asked
Among the freight at the depot in Par
kersburg, Va, the other day, was large
quantity goo tuns) of palm oil, direct
from Africa, and consigned to Cincinnati,
having been recently imported in the Mark
G. Stevens, the Liberia emigrant packet
at Baltimore.
The Chicago Press notices, as "sig-
nifieant fact" that Messrs. Slidell, Toombs,
Orr, Douglas, Bleckinridge, Richardson,
and Bright, all pro-slavery leaders, have
recently been interested in large purchases
of real estate in the free States and Terri
tories!
The gold fever has broken out in Maine.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal,
writing from Sharon, Maine. SAYS that two
men in that vicinity obtained SS23, SO worth
of gold in five days. 1t is obtained only
in the river among the rocks. 1t is said
to be richer than the California gold
Great excitement exists. and explorations
are being made in the surrounding regions
! by returned CaliforRians.