, 1857-04-10
FURTHER NEWS ITEMS.
BY LAST MAIL AND EXPRESS.

. DFrH's SrFAlIXcss Tie Hon Albion
X. Paris died suddGply, on the 4lth o
Feb at his residence in Portland, Maine
of disease of the heart, lie has been L.
). Senator, Judge of the Supreme Court,
was five times elected Governor of Maine
and has filed other Offices of honor and
trust. He was II years old
One of the patriots Of the Revolution,
John c. Reinhardt, died in Philadelphia, Il
few weeks since, at the age of ninety-eight
years. He was a native of Germany, and
came to America at nearly the same time
with Lafayette,
Mrs Olive Pollard died recently in Man
chester, y. II. She was 81 years old,
drew q revolutionary pension, and was
probably the oldest person in Manchester
Joshua Sears, an old merchant of Boston,
and one of its wcalthicst Inhabitants, died
Oh the 18th of February, aged GO years.
His will bequeaths $75 600 to his brothers
and their children SIj, 900 to his native
town of Yarmouth, Tor public schools, and
$4,000 to the Seamans Friend Society.
The balance, exceeding $l,500,0O0, he
leaves in trust TO his son, now three years
old.
Dr. Jack Shackleford died at CORTLAND,
Alabama, on the 18th Feb, in the Goth
year of his age. DR. s. participated in the
Texan struggle for independence. lie was
captain in that band under Cor Fannin
which was defeated at Goliad and massa-
cred by Santa Anna His life was spared
because he was physician, that his servi-
ces might he made available in the Mexi-
can army.
A1~ We learn from the Macomb ILL.,,
Enterprise, that stage driver named Hol-
loway was frozen TO death between Ma
Comb and Rushville, on the night of the
l4th ult.
TENAcTY OF LrFE-The Warrenton
| (Na.) Flagg tells Of sheep, belonging to
Mr. II. f. briggs, that lived under a snow
drift 81 days without food; also of fowl
Of Mr. j. JeirrieS that was showed under
for l6 days, and hog of Mr. Peter Redd
that was under drift for II days.
Ea~ The Hon. Andrew Stevenson, for
merly prominent Virginia politician,
member of Congress and Minister to Eng
land, died at his residence in Albemile on
Sunday, Jan. 25.
DG- The wolves in the river counties, at
the West have become so raveIous as to
destroy horses and cattle, and have attack
ed persons. On the evening Of the 5th
ult a son and daughter of Mr. Stockdal
left their residence on fork of the Little
Sioux river, in Woodbury., to attend par
ty at a neighbor's, about two miles distant,
and have not since been heard Of. On the
morning Of the 9th the bereaved parents
sent to Southon for assistance, and search
ed the neighborhood around them, and as
no traces of the lost ones had been found,
the conclusion is that they had been at
tackled by the wolves, and devourcd. A
gentleman from Wisconsin, who visited
Iowa lately, states in private letter that
he was chased four miles by these ravenous
creatures, and barely escaped from them
with his life. He describes them as fright
fully ferocious
Ray All the men who have been elected
Governors Of New Hampshire since 1888
are alive, and all before that period are
dead
bO- The number of Jews in the United
States exceeds quarter of million.
pay In Baltimore out of population
Of 220, 900, there are only about $4,000
tax payers.
| Carson VALLEY IN UTAH.-The Com
mttec on Territories have reported against
the petition of the citizens of Carson Val
ley and say the State of California is al
ready too large. They recommend, as a
relief for the petitioners, the passage of a
bill for "the prevention and punishment Of
polygamy," and there is no legislation
more earnestly demanded.
bdy- The new British commander in the
Crimea, Gen. Sir VIM. Codrington, is in
his 50th year. He saw his first active
service in the field during the recent cam
paigns in that region He is a son Of the
celebrated Admiral Codrington, who com.
manded the British navy at the battle Of
Navarino.
Da- +. II. Porter of Memphis, Tenn,
has donated 10000 acres of Arkansas
land to the Presbyterian College at Danvill,
Ky The gift is valued at $4,000. The
donor had previously given 10000 acres of
land in the sam2 State to the Methodist
Synodical College at La Grange, Tenn.
nara subterranean river has been struck
by the persons engaged in boring an artes-
ian well at Henderson, Kentucky, from
) which jet of water is forced up through
the bore and thrown to the height Of fifty
feet above the surface of the ground
AN ON RELIc.-0ne of the greatest
curiosties exhibited at the late Fair at
Winchester, Va, was a table-cloth made
in Frederick in 1850 from fax raised and
spun before Winchester was laid of. The
, cloth was made by Mrs. Lydia Neil wife
of Lewis Neill, one of the first settlers in
the valley of Virginia.