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Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20
Thc INDIANA SENATORIAL EIeetinn.

The great Importance necessarily attaching this Question
will trust Justify in making brief reference to it @
while it is undergoing examination before the Judicial
Committee but with no purpose to offer opinion on thy
question involved We have undoubted reasons for know
ing that the action Of the legislature in the election Hon
States Senate is cordially endorsed by the highest ud"
tribunals of the State Of Indiana Neither of the gentlemen
named we arc fully satisfied would have consented to 90
to the election had not the proposed method of choosing
senator's been anvassd and approved by
FIRST legal talent of the State Written opinions biased up
furnished by members of the supreme also by the
accomplished and learned judge of the United States district
ney General of Indiana.
Legislative action based upon the evidence and opinions
who the peculiar guardians of the constitution
the State and who justly supposed be best acquainted
with its letter and spirit is certainly entitled to
and WILL doubt receive the careful consideration the
Judiciary Committee Washington Union.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

A genius out in Iowa has just invented a wooden
horse that will jump thirty miles an hour. The mo.
tive power is a bag of feas. Who says this is not
an age of progress!
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

George Davis Esq, of this town, delivered lecture in
Petersburg Wednesday evening last-ubjsc "the ad-
mnistration of Gov Martini the last of the Royal Cover
nors of North Carolina
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

BosToN, Feb. 1.-THE sudden death of MIR. Gard
ner, postmaster at bingham, Mass, led to an inves-
tigalion of the case; and the circumstances were
sneh as to warrant the of his wife suspicion
of poisoping him.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

consignment of fifty hives of bees received in New
York on Thursday by the Erie Railroad for shipment to
California The bees from Sullivan county and the
nsr goes ont with them in the George Law the the 10th
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

By recent survey the total length CT the five S[ ooo
lakes is made 1884 miles, and their surface 9UO''
square miles.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

An elephant once nearly killed an Irshman for an nt
offered to his trunk The act rash in the extreme
it impossible the Hibernian said to resist nose
could pull with both hands . l.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20
Speaker of the House of REPRESENTATIVES.

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE CAMEL MIR. A. Ray,
Chief OF Camel Department. U. s. A., has favored
US with an interesting account OF the habits of the
camel, from which we make the following extracts ::
Food, 9c.-The camel appears to eat whatever We
getation the earth produces be loves to gather his
own food and will then eat almost everything. If
his food is given TO him ready cut gathered, he
becomes very fastidious, and only for thstles
or few tender herbs AS a general rule, care must
be taken that the camel not sent to feed before
The dew s off the grass ten at night is good hour
TO return them from The pasture In autumn they are
sent out after sunrise and returned from pasture after
sunset. In winter they are pastured as in autumn,
but they are only allowed to drink when the water
has been warmed by the sun. Camels are in tn hab.
it of lying down and Eliminating on their arrival at
camp; they must be compelled to rise and eat, be-
cause as they sleep only four hours they have time
to ramlnate during the night
In regard to the dew the Arabs are not agreed AZ
to it's injurious effects; The French in Algeria. how
ever, deem II hurtu Barley and straw (broken) are
given 10 the camel when pasturage cannot be had =
When on march or on arrival at camp, no berbape
or eel can tie found the camel then b., given to it
fe" balls OF dough made OF wheat horse beans and
barley iour Sustained by this, the traveller, Shaw
says be has seen camel carry load of 700 lbs fol-
ten or fifteen hours per day, without stopping The
Arabs say it IS necessary to let the camel have mas
turage and young sh rubs in the summer, and thew
give 1t neither barley straw. 1t subsiss on W hal
1t can let for itself, preferring spinous vegetables
except aloe. which it dislikes. To fattsn the came
its pasturage should be occasionally changed In a
good pasture it will eat enough in Two hours 10 la.
twenty four hours.
DR. distinguished and venerable man of scienc
died the I'd u in London, at the age of SO years He
well known by his writings in the United States especially
by his dictionary of Arts, Science and Mining which
has ne equal In any language.
PROSPERITY OF IRELAND The London Times O
a 'ae date remarks as follows
| The me.honored phrase of "poor old Ireland
m be considered as representing something which
has now ceased to exist. On the LIST of January, a
the commencement of new year, We may yentur
to predict that rich young Ireland will soon be
come the more appropriate denomination. On al
sides We hear Of Increasing agriculture decrea.sn,
poor rates. cessation of political agitation, good feel
ling between landlord and tenant, and other unmis
| taxable evidences of rising prosperity
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

ST Ihe Directors of the Wilmington, Charlotte
and Rutherford Railroad Company met at this place
yesterday, we believe, for the purpose of making
arrangements relative to the progress of the Road -
We shall probably be able, in day or two, to give
some information relative to the matter. They met
again thisImorning.s All the Directors are present
except one--Daily Journal, 18th inst.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

The S.aretary of State communicated to both
Houses of Congress on Wednesday last bis annual
report under the laws of 1912 and 1856, on the com
mercial relations of the United States with Foreign
Nations for the year ending Sept go 1856, with the
following letter:
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-02-20

90 The Chesapeake is said to be entirely clear o
ice, and the Norfolk boats have resumed their daily
trips to Baltimore in connection with the Seaboar
and Roanoke Rail Road
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21

The 2lst ult. was sanguinary day in Mem
phis. Here is catalogue of the day bloody
transactions:
A man at the Fair ground managed to let
his horse become unmanageablc and to run
over and hurt a woman and two Children
He stopped his horse and was about to get
out OF his buggy ana apologize, when scme
one stepped forward and gave him blow with
a cane. He drew knife and ran up to the
crowd, asking who it was struck him. A
man named Butler avOwcd himself the man.,
which, however, he was not, and drawing a
pistol, it went off by accident, and shot in
the stomach and fatally wounded the man
who had knocked the fellow out of the bug
gy. The man killed was named Mason. The
one who had started the row by running over
the woman and children, was Mr.. Lewis
On the evening of the same day, there was a
dispute between two men, names unknown,
and one of them plunged knife into the 9TH
er. About O'Clock on the same evening, at
the Commercial IIo:el, Dr. Frank Gibbs and
one Keene got into a dispute, and from that
into fight, Gibbs stabbing Keene three times
with knife, killing him at once. Keene was
W iting to receive his wife and children, who
had been placed Oh board steamer at Ev-
ansvllle, expecting to meet him at Memphis.
The night before this tragedy, at the same
house, ID. Coch ell, Esq, of the hotel, and a
DIR. Hooke had an atf'ray, in which they
wounded each other with canes, and cut with
knives for time, when Cochrcll shot Hooke
with pistol, giving him dangerous wound
in the lungs.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21

While the National haelligencer is strongly
advocating the establishment of Nat onal
Bank, it is somewhat singular to see some of
the Democratic papers regarding the prop
osition with favor. What is more strange
still, the Washington Union, the organ of
President Buchanan, throws out indications
that the administration have some project of
the kind under consideration.
They have as yet developed no plan, but
the following from the Washington Union of
Saturday, gives promise of one in due time:
The readers of the Union are we'll aware
that we have for some time been discussing
the evils, the consequences, and the de,noral-
izing effects of our present cystem Of bank
ing. We have satisfied ourself at least tnat
the present system is unsound, unsafe and
prejudicial to the true interests and wants of
the country.
We think that we risk nothing in saying
that this is the public verdict the true phase
Of public opinion. The popular sentiment is,
that there shall be radical reformation in
the present system of banking, and that it
shall DE replaced by something better, and
more usefully adapted to the wants of the
country. As yet, we have suggested nothing.
Indeed, we have fixed our mind on no partic-
ular plan. And amidst the number of
schemes proposed, it is difficult, perhaps, to
select that which is practically best. In due
time, however, we shall propose such plan,
as further information and further reflection
may suggest, as combining the greatest ad-
vantases for all classes of men and occupa-
tions in our country.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
EHdepend mt Action of the Grand En-.
campment of Ohio.

The important movement made this week
by the Grand Encampment of Knights Temp
lar, of the State Of Ohio, will be an epoch in
the Masonic world. Past Grand Master w.
B. Thrall, from a Select Committee, propos-
ed an out and out severance OF the connection
Of the Templar organization in Ohio, with
the Grand t.ncampmcnt OF the U. 5.
The Report, recommending action, closed
with the following Resolutions
Resolced, That this Grand Encampment is,
of right, "the hishest source of legitimate
Kmgnthood in the state OF Ohio" and as
such, has entire jurisdiction of the Order and
government, of the Encampments therein.
R,soluea That the body heretofore known
as the General Grand Enca,npment Of the
United States, having virtually disbanded by
ITS own action, we regard the time as having
now arrived when it behooves this Grand En-
campment to take its position as separate,
socereign and iudepeadent body and that it
does, therefore, hereby declared its connec-
ton with the body heretofore known as the
General Grand Encampment, now styling it.
self the Grand Encampment of the United
States, as Terminated.
Reso'ved, That Committee of three be ap-
pointed to correspond with the General En-
campment of the respective States, touching
the interest and welfare of Templar Masonry
in their several Jurisdictions.
A number of Sir Knights deemed the
complete severance of the connection at this
time permaturc, and on the adoption OF the
resolutions formally entered their dissent up
on the Record.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
Remarkable Instances of Heroism.

The Rev. Mr.. Scudder of India, in letter
to the Christian Intelligencer, gives the follow
ing Instances Of heroism, called forth by the
Indian mutinies:
Let Americans never be ashamed that Eng3
lishmen are their forcfathers. England is a
noble country-her sons are heroes and her
daughters heroines. This rebellion has
brought out deeds that deserve to be associa-
ted with those valorous nations which we,
with throbbing pulses read in history. In
one place, a lady and her husband fled in
their carriage. He stood upright She took
the reins. She lashed the horses through a
band of mutineers, while he, with cool aim,
shot dead one who seized the horses heads,
and another who climbed upon the carriage
behind to cut him down. On they fled, till
again they found themselves among foes, and
a rope stretched across the road made further
progress appear impossible. True to herself,
she dashed the horses at full speed against
the rope, and as they, bearing it down, stum-
bled, she, she by rein and whip, raised them,
while her husbands weapons again freed
them from those who succeeded in leaping
upon them. He was wounded, but both es-
capped with their lives.
In another rlace, a young lady, the daugh-
ter of an off ;er, shot seven mutneers before
they killed her. A captain, pressed by his
Sepoys. with his good sword slew twenty
seven of them before he fell !
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
The Pennsylvania Bank.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov,

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. y.
A meeting OF the stockholders Of the Penn
sylvania Bank was held here this morning.
Mr.. VIM. G. Patterson. who has been ap-
pointed to succeed Mr.. Allibone as Prcsi-
dent of the Bank, was called upon to make a
statement. He said no statement could he
made but would be falsified in "a hours. No
statement could be mad, to which he would
put his signature. The funds of the bank
had been used in improper transactions-for
purposes OF which only the directors were
aware. The creditors of the bank were bet
ter known to the public outside than by the
officers inside and the books had been fals-
fled.
MIR. P. declines the Presidency. All the
bank directors have resigned except Allihone,
who has lett the country. If the bank goes
to assignment, no man will pay its debts, but
if carefully nursed, the bank may be resusci-
tated. Meage and unsatisfactory as this
statement is, it is the only one that can be
made. There is no data by which to go-
the bills received were sold by the Pres-
dent, the funds We're abstracted in divers
WAYS, money was taken out and charged to
different accounts as the President chose -
1t would need officers to trace the operations
vi tuc Itoiuc1I uulluS iOur years. Large
transactions by the President unknown to
the directors, have just come to light.
Resolutions were adopted and a commit
tee of five large stockholders was appointed
to recommend proper directions also to re-
port to what extent the capital of the bank
is impaired by the unauthorized or fraudulent
acts of the late President, and the names Of
any aiders and abettorS in such acts, and de-
claring the seat of Allibone vacant.
John G. Dutton, of the firm Of Austin,
AlibOne & Co., made defense of the late
President Of the bank, and said that he
would return to America, and answer the
charges. He inquired if Mr.. p. could give
no figures why suit was brought against
Mr. Allibone for s2O0,Q0O. The speech was
missed, and the speaker proceeded with much
difficulty. He further stated that Allibone.
three weeks after accepting TIE Presidency,
said that if he had known the condition of
the bank, lie could not have been tempted to
accept it. Mr. P. replied that all the direct
ors on oath testified that Allibone used
$500, 900 improperly. At this stage Of the
proceedings there was much disorder, with
cries, "Allibone can't be whtewashed-
we'll known" &c.
The meeting proceeded to consider the
relief act, and accepted it.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
Later From the Plains.

Sr LouIs, Nov. IL.
Advices from Fort Laramie to October 22d,
state that Col. Cooks Command, the 2'l dra-
gopns, were four miles this side, and had
encountered snow storm five days previ-
Gus.
Col. Johnson, when last heard from, was
23O miles beyond Fort Laramie. The snow
was several inches deep, 100 miles this side,
where the express lett him. Owing to the
slim supply Of corn, and entire absence of
grass, the teams aud dragoon horses were fail
ing fast.
News had reached Laramie that the Nor
mons had burned a train Of 81 wagons near
Green River, 100 miles behind Col. Alexan-
ders command, which constitutes the van of
the general army.
1t is rumored that the 5th and 10th infan-
try batteries and the artillery would take
possession of the Mormon village at Bear
River for winter quarters.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21

The New York Post publishes the following
advertisement. 1t is little out of the ordi-
nary run of such documents. The sufferer
tells his troubles feelingly, and leaves the i'm
agination free to supply any deficiency:
Elegantly Embellished Wau Paper for sale.
About thirteen bushels of engrav paper,
re tady to Ego to the wall" consisting of rail-
road bonds, secured AID unsecured by 1st,
I'd and Sd mortgages, income, construction,
interest, and sinking fund bonds, with and
without coupons, of an endless variety Of pat
terms, pcrspectives, landscapes, and water
views, liqnidated and unliquidated.
Together with railroad share certificates of
every variety of color, design, pattern, size,
and hue, the par values ranging from five
dollars to thousand.
Also. the scrip and bonds of coal and ron
life and trust, foreign steamship and inland
navigation companies stage coaches, consol-
idated and unconsodated city railways,
telegraph, balloon steam road carriage, penny
bridge, ferry and other known water convey
ance association.
Also, powers of attorney, revocable and
irrevocablc; powers to collect dividends
earned and nnearned, and to transfer stocks :;
proxies to vote at regular and special meet
ings; Bull contracts and contracts Of Bears,
vecy spirited in style and execution, with
horns, hoof and jaws properly distributed,
but without the 'roar," and on all terms from
"buver sixty to ''seler ten."
The signature of these works of art are
recherche and unique, and characteristic of the
age we live in. The whole comprising an as
sortment of variegated shadows and styles of
figures, colored and plain, size and variety of
line and mezzotint engraving probably rever
heretofore and positively never hereafter to
be met with in any country, age or cline.
Some of the bonds are slightly creased by
the eternal fold, which time and damp brush
will eradicate, so that they will, with the in
stitution whose memory they perpetuate, go
readily "to the wall, ;" and take to it kindly.
The above assortment is the scrapings of
lifetime passed in 'the street" and compris-
es the crumbs of the ''bread of carefulness,r -
eaten by the advertiser.
They will be sold at wallpaper prices for
hard cash. and are recommended for the uu-
holstery of Wall Street officers after the
present crisis.
For terms, &C., which will be reasonable,
address, in all confidence,
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
A Minnesota Meeting.HOuse.

The following beautiful piece is from the
pen of Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm, soon to be-
come Editress of the st. Cloud AdUertiser-
resuscitated. We take the extract from .
letter written by her to the N. Y Tribune.
One of the days we spent in this vicinity
was Sabbath, and We had the pleasure Of
hearing the first sermon preac led in Rock
place which already numbers-four inlabi-
tants, has comfortable hotel. store, and
great heap Of hewed timber which hopes to
be saw mill in very short time-to sit in
the "nook by the babblng brook" compel
the dancing waters to turn great wheel, and
manufacture the old trees, which have laugh
ed and nodded to them as they went shout
ing by for centuries, into materials for build
ing another kind of canopy than that made
by the green curtairs of their foliage, and for
sheltering another order of beings than those
which have so long found their homes amid
and beneath its branches. The sermon and
its surroundings made a rich specimen IF
Western life. Forty-eight people, counting
baby, met in the store-roOm-a rough board
house sixteen by twenty feet, the boards nail
ed up and down, and an open crack between
each too, the floor of loose, uniointed boards.
the roof two-thirds shingled, and three large
openings in one end, designed, ultimately, for
windows and door. For pews, we had boards
laid on TRUSTEES. Our preacher came in a
wagon drawn by two oxen, and, in swal
low tailed coat of blue cloth, with high col
lar and brass buttons, sat behind the only
table in the town, which, being unpainted pine
and very primitive, corresponded exactly;
but, as several ladies' arrived in ox-waeons
and on foot wearing large hoops, white kid
gloves, lace mantles, and altogether displaying
taste and toilet which would have passed
muster on Broadway, we determined on some
display of luxury to suit the occasion. So,
by the aid of pair of Mackinaw blankets
and some carriage-cushions, We got up an el-
egant scarlet-cushoned pew. Fortunately,
to aid our efforts at magnificence, our preach
er took for his text the handwriting on the
wall in the far-famcd feast of Belshazaar. thus
bringing us into close communion with the
palaces of Babylon. 1t so happened that
the last sermon l heard in the States. and
that but few weeks previous, was from that
same text by man of the same denomina-
in Christ's Church. one of
the most elegant structures in the Iron Citv.
the pulpit being filled by one of the most
talented and cultivated men in the BODY
which boasts q Durbin. Well, the contrast
and the coincidence was rich enough, without
the addition of the preacher reading the
hymn and then walking across the room to
hand us his book, that we might aid in the
singing, and crossing to return it he, when
done, repeating the operation at each time of
singing. But doubt not the great Father
smiled on the soul of ,the simple-rninded,
earnest speaker, even as His sun shone down
upon bis body through the partially covered
roof.
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
More Frauds.

Not content, says the .Ners, with voting
Indians with bows and arrows in their hands
and squaws with pappooSes swung around
their necks, the Democracy of our frontier
resorted 10 other expeiients to defeat the will
of the people "The minority shall rule" is
the Interpretation given by the Democracy
everywhere 70 the principle Of Douglas
"Squatter Sovereignty The ST. Peter Free
Press says
Ever day brings to light some new frauds
perpctated by the Democrats at the late
election. We are informed by one of the
Judges of election at Traverse, that after the
polls were closed, and while they were count
ing the votes by candle-light, in the back
part of the room, the two Democratic judges
continued to receire cOtes at the wiadl 10! Who
the voters were, or whether they were ticti-
tiouS ones. or men who had voted before, of
course, it was impossible in the dark to tell"
The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-21
Money Matters I'm New York
New YORK. Nov. !

NEW 1ORk, NOV. y.
Money matters are improving slowly but
surely. Six Of our city banks are ready to
resume specie payments, and Others are grad
ually coming into line.
TIE Lodi print works in New Jersey, ex-
poets to resume business next week with 300
to 500 hands.
The specie statement tonight will show
$l4,OOO,OO0 specie in bank.
Four banks were thrown out to-day by
the MetropOlitan-the Western Bank OF
Lockport, Powell Bank of Newburg, Che
mung Co. Bank and Ontario Co. Bank of
Phelps;
Business to day at Clearing House nearly
$4,000, 900 clearings, and upwards of $780,
600 balances.
Stocks at First Board were unusually ac-
tive and prices buoyant. The Second Board
vas also active, but prices rather lower.