Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-12-08

ing, 27th ut. The ice cut hole in her.---
The boat is injured butIittle, and wi sooB
be repaired. The cargo s~asanuch damaged.
u1r Nicaragua has declared ear against cos-
ia Rica. The proclamation. was signed by
both Martinez and Inrez- Marines takes
charge of the army. Col. Can.y hal deman-
ded the surrender of Fort San Carlos. threat
ening blockads in case o refusf. The u.
S. steamer Fulton was at Boca del Torres,
watching for Walker.
3fGJ' The puce of hogs is declining IN. Gin
cinnati, in consequence Of the unfasorabie
weather AMI increased arrivals. The latest
Quotations are $4.75aS5.
New YoRK ELEcrIoS.-Temann beats Wood
about 1000, for Mayor, according to oui latest
advsces. Too good to be true. we fear.
u. Hon. Horatio seymour.gLL. D., died, at
Middlebury, Vermont, on Saturday, 2ist ult.
He had served twelve years in, the United
States Senate from Vermont.
FREE LovERs.-A den OF Free Levers was
btoEen up by the authorities at Berlin, Erie
county, O., short time ago. 5sa
NEwsPAPER CovERLErs.-Iti is said hat news
papers spread on bed make an excellent
substit ute for ooverlets or comforters. Half a
dozen newspapers are said to be equal to a
heavy comforter, in keeping the cold out. II
any one wishes to try the experiment., we will
furnish the newspapers for that purpose gra-
tuitously.
FIRE IN RrPLEY.-The principal portion OF
the business houses in Ripley, the county
seat of Jackson county, Virginia. were de-,
stroyed by fire on Sunday morning, 22d u 1t.
Loss about Sc ,OOe. a
AFFRAY.-Wm. Mayfeld stabbed John p.
Harris, lit is supposed fatality at Point Pleas
ant, last Friday. Mayfeld'accused Harris of
stealing hog. quarrel ensued, which re.
suited in the stahbing.
u The suit between, the Northern and
Southern branches of the NJ. E. Church in
town of Parkersburg,s Virginia., has been de-
cided by the circuit court of. Wood county in
favor of the Northern bran ch. ! 1t will most
likely be carried up to higher court.
ArFRAY.-In Mason township, Lawrence
courty, on the 10th ult., John Samson struck
VIM. Hull with handspike, fIacturing his
skull. Hull died about a week afterwards,
and Samson left for par.s unknowp.f
The steamer New Lucy burned fast week
while ice-bound at Dewitt, in the Missouri
river. No lives lost. Loss $4,000.
Ex-Governor Harmond has been elected L. >.
S. Senator from South Carotina,ato fill the
vacancy occasioned BY the death az Mr.. ut
ler--the man with the gallant neRasew.
At late municipal election in Dover, N.
H.. the Republicans carried every ward, and
elected their Mayor by handsome majority.
At the Preachers Association recently
held at Burlington, Vermont, question
for discussion was selected for the next
meeting, as follows: "Is it desirable that
the Methodist Episcopal Church should
have Liturgy to be used in her regular
public services"
THE KANSAS CoNsTIrUTIoN.-Only 26
persons voted for the Kansas Constitution
on the final vote, which is not a majority
of the whole number; and next day it re-
ceived but twenty-five signatures, one
more than majority, and some of those
who signed it are persons who had pre-
viously resigned their seats. Thus fraud
and villalny follow this outrage at every
step.
Some time since, letter enclosed in a
bottle, and purporting to, have been writ
ten on board the steamer Paciic-just as
she was about to gink--s-was picked up on
the coast of Franco It spoke of the Pa
ci6c as having caught between two ice
bergs. It commenced thus: "Steamer
Pacific, Eldridge, captain; Smith, passen-
ger" The Norfork Gazette says that the
friends of Legrand Smith, who was pas
senger in the steamer, believe this to have
been genuine document.
The Washington Star says, the reported
massacre Of five hundred United States
troops by the Indians, near the Missouri
river, detailed with savage minuteness in a
letter from the Rev. Thos. Williamson to
the St. Paul (Minn. Times, gains no Gre
dence at the War Department whatever.
Mr.. James Morrison, one of the wealth.
est merchants of London, is dead. The
value of his property iSestimated at nearly
four million pounds sterling. a consider
able portion of which is investedin secur-
tiles in the United States. -.
A dispatch from Washington says the
administration has telegraphed the United
States marshal at New Orleans to send the
revenue cutters in pursuit of Gen. Walker
The Constitutional Convention of Ore
gon, has closed It's labors, and the Con
stitution was to be submitted to the vott
of the people on the 9th November. AL
most every influential newspaper in thu
Territory has taken grounds against thu
adoption Of the Constitution by the people
and not a few members of the convention