The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-24

%V'VUV o'oI Wv Oaruner, whose vote Is made
up of the l9,626 Fillmore votes Of last wear
10000 Fremont Americans, and enough Dam.
ocrats to make up the $4,000 conceded to him.
Mrs. La Vert, of Mobile, has lively poss;n.
ping notice of the English celebrities, in her
new book. The great Upper she found a
most pleasant, charming man." Albert Smith.
the Snowman, and Barnum's English ally, was
full of jest and merriment." Cruikshank
was s. queer, Withholding person" Miss
Pardoe is " fresh, brighteyed, merry, and talk.
ative." Miss Strickland is tall, formal, and
stately, but with an earnest and kind manner"
Mackay, the poet of the people, has fine face,
lighted up with noble emotions of the soul"
Monckton Mines, the poet and member of Par.
lament, has I" a beautiful forehead, and most
expressive eyes," " A soft shade of sadness
fingers over the poetic face" of Tennyson.
Harpsr's Weekly has portraits, side by side,
| of the Pennsylvania Gubernatorial candidates,
General Packer and Hon. David Wilmot They
are good lkeresses, and well engraved, but by
a droll error in the "making up," the name Of
General Packer is placed under Judge Wilmot's
portrait, and uice cersG. The consequence is,
| that the Pennsylvania politicians have become
cross-eyed in trying to get the hang of the thing
The Richmond Enquirer the oldest and one
| of the chief organs of the Virginia Democracy,
| contains long, elaborate, and most ominous
article in relation to the approaching election
of US Senator for that State. VERY much
has been said, by the American papers of Viz.
GINA, as to bitter conflict in the Democratic
ranks, between Mr.. Hunter 1.-THE present incum.
bent) and his friends on the one part, and Gov
| Wise and his friends on the other but we
| have thought there might possibly be more
smoke than fire about the matter. The article
of the Enquirer, however, put forth in that pc
per of last Monday, affords conclusive evidence
that the conflict, though it has been waged with
o considerable degree of secrecy, is as bitter a
anybody has at any time imagined it to be.
Some time since, the Legislature of Mas
sachusetts passed law which occasioned much
solicitude, making juries judges of law SIS well
as OF fact, independently of the instructions OF
the court The Supreme Court of that State
has now decided, within few weeks, on case
before them in which the jury bad been charg
ed in the old manner, (vz: that the Jury are
| bound by the instructions of the court on Legal
| points, that the new Statute, if it does purpor
| 10 change The law in that respect, is SO far un
constitutional. On this point the Judges deci
! ded by four against two. Ga the question
whether the statute does purpcrt to change Ire
law, they were equally divided This decisio,
1
in Massachusetts have accordingly no greater
| powers than else where.
| The budget of the civ of Paris for the year
| 1866, amounts to u, 100 652 francs Is confines
or a little more than fourteen million dollars
| This is moderate sum for the government Of
q cityiike Paris, particularly good portion
| of it will be needed for the completion of pro-
| jected and unfinished public improvements
| he extraordinary expenditures from 1853 to
| 1857 have been as follows for public build
| ings, 22703,2 03 francs; for aqueducts, &c.
| 6,726895 francs; repairs of streets and roads,
| 33,385,95l france; other public works,
24,3Gl, 1881 francs. Total, 87,l77,S82 francs.
The Hon. Clark Bissell, who was chosen
| Governor of Connecticut in 1913 by the Wings,
died at his residence, Norwalk, Conn, last
week, aged IS years. He was lawyer and
| gentleman of the old school, and very general
| ly respected
An Illinois correspondent, writing from Cal
houn county, says that there had been out there
| a mammoth tree which made 5 900 slaves, that
| sold for Sll per thousand-total $55 and the
| top made six cords and a half of wood, sold at
| So per cord-total $3.50 Total product of
| the tree S74.50.
"
"Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in
| England" and of sundry Walks and Talks in
| the slave States of the Union, has received the
| appointment of Superintendent of the Central
| Park, New York.
Victoria is spunky little Queen. She goes
| to Presbyterian church sometimes, when at
| her castle in Scotland, which some of her sub
jects think bad example for the head Of the
atoh bod oh To IL 3.
mind their mutterings.
At a picnic party at Orchard Lake Mich,
on Friday last, Mr.. John Owens, Mrs. Eliza
beth Newell, Miss Calvin, and Miss Harrington,
took skiff and padded out into the Lake, and
while amusing themselves the boat was upset.
| and all four of them were drowned.
A Springfield ILL.,, journal states that south
of that place, on the railroads, some of the
farmers are offering their corn at Is cents per
bushel, in the field others at IS per acre. The
indications are, unless the frost sets in early,
that the corn crop will be enormously large
The Scotch papers report that Miss Madeleine
Smith has gone to reside permanently with
family in the South of England, under an as
sumed name-travelling so secretly that her
departure was unknown out Of the family, until
shc uau
Spollen, the undoubted murderer of Mr..
Little, at Dublin, has been acquitted from ex-
traordinary causes, the principal criminator
| being his wife, who was not allowed by law TO
testify against him. and his children being too
young to be relied on for exact circunstantial
| evidence. He will be partly punished, proba-
bly,, under an indictment for robbery.
Mr.. Charles Turner, one of the hest mezzo-
tinto engravers that England has produced, is
dead, at the age of eighty-three.
Hon. Mr. North, who is about to marry Miss
Crockett, the Earl of E!lington's tepdaughter,
has an unencumbered estate, the annual income
of which is 100000 year.
The subject which Koasuth has chosen for
his lectures in Glasgow is, The Finger CT God
in History"
Over nine thousand locomotives are
running Ga railroads in the United States.
The potato rot in the vicinity Of New Bed.
ford is mostly confined to one variety-the Che,
nangoes.
promising young lady died in Providence
last week, from no disease but religious excite
ment and intense conviction of sin.
Mr. Griffihs, editor of the United States
Nautical Magazine, few days since
robbed of seven hundred dollars, On his passage
from Boston to New York.
"a conservative" Gays Douglas Jerrold, "is
a man who will not look at the new moon, out
of respect for that ancient institution, the old