Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-04-28

800 g., 1853 1910 ------. e, sos
181O--k - +4,177 185O------. 1900
1920 A, 500
At the date of the last census the slaves
only formed two and half per cent. of the
population of the State, while free negroes
were about twenty per cent. The increase
of free colored people in the State has been
from 8, 1909 in 1890. to Ia, ,O73 in 1880. In
effect, Delaware is now nearly as much a
free State as New Jersey or Illinois. The
anti slavery sentiment has a strong hold
upon the population. LAT the Presidential
Eelection last fall no less than 302 votes
were polled in one county for the Republi-
can electoral ticket: Had the State been
thoroughly organized by the Republicans,
we do not doubt that they would have poll
ed at least one-third Of the whole vote cast.
The census of 1860 will show large de-
crease of the slaves, and make more man
ifest the fact that Delaware has ceased to be
distinctly n slave State. mo! Democrat.
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Just at this time two important lines of
railroad connections have been completed
the Charleston & Memphis Railroad,
connecting the Atlantic at Charleston, >. q.
with the Mississippiat Memphis, Tenn;
the other is the completion of the Cincin-
natl & Mississippi r r.. making direct
and again. the railroad between Cincinnati
and Marietta is just completed, and a
steamboat line from Marietta to Parkers-
burg forms a connecting link with the N.
w. railroad, connecting with the Baltimore
dS Ohio railroad; thus making an almost
air line railroad between the Monumental
City; at the head of the Chesapeake. to st.
Louis. 'i''"'1' '''" f',tl" "i. : .i.-'"
II 'Ina 1Y1aI-
of the General Land Office claims that
where the price of land is raised by bid
ding, land warrant cannot legally be
laid; consequently all those warrants laid
on such land (and the excess paid in mon
ey) must be taken up, and the money paid
instead, viz one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre. p, The decision will tend to
| reduce the value of land warrants. We
cannot perceive the justice of the decision,
unless land acaYrants are made not trans
ferable. They represent value in unap-
propriated land, as does money universal
value, and should be applicable in taking
up one piece of land as we'll as another.
WHEELING, April 2o.-The passenger
engine house, lath shop, blacksmith shop,
DC, of the Baltimore dS Ohio Railroad
, Company in this city, with three slocomo-
!, tives and all the machinery, were destroyed
, by fire this afternoon fi rI i" ~ta cdt
The loss has not yet been ascertained
; but cannotbe less than $50, o,ooo!1r
A heavy Northwest wind rendered flu
tile all efforts to save the buildings which
were constructed of wood. jig 90" r'
Six hundred Bozal negroes were landed
in Cuba, between Cardenas and Sierra Mo
7 rena, on the 4th Of March, by a vessel fit
: ted out III New York Between the / 4tl
and 25th of February, there were LANDED
? in Cuba 612 coolies, apprenticed for eigh
: years; in one ship, the Cora, owned IL
: New York, 200 coolies perished. The
,, Government at Havana have fitted out or
1 expedition to explore the ,guano islands re-
, Gently discovered on the southwest coas
: of Cuba. ,l3 E.,- -3,, ..s...s ,.g.- ..Gf
Thirty women of Belleville, RichlanC
6 county, were arIaigned for riot at MANSFIELD
a few days since, for spilling' the liquor ant
breaking the bottles of John Morton, rum
, seller. The evidence was conclusive, ano
the defense was laudable desire to abat'
nuisance The jury rendered a'verdic
: of not guilty. Morris, the dealer, was
then tried and convicted of selling liquor
, without license, and was fined $40 and sen
, fenced to Jail for 20 days. a.tJfs" H
? THE LAND SALE IN KANsAs PosTPoNED
LINE commissioner Oh 1ndldH hHtiiIS Id
t given notice in the Washington Union tha
5 the days designated for the commencement
of the sale of certain Indian trust lands
are changed and postponed to the following
periods: iI,,g,& a1t D.. ,,si.,f, III. q. O..
/ Iowa lands, at Iowa, Point, to Wednes
day, Sd day of June next. III ~ i,l5 d.
The lands of the Weas, ETC., at Paoi, t.
/ "Wednesday. 24th day of June next.
: Delaware lands, at Oswakee, to Wed
nesday, 18th day of July next, ~. 81. .,.5,
: SAVAGE F1GHT.- The Baltimore paper.
l publish a correspondence from Winston
Md, to the effect that on the 9th ult., tive
young men named Pendleton and Drain
r the former of Winston, the latter from
. Chicago, had misunderstanding at the
| / former place, which caused a challenge tC
pass from Drain. They nailed themselve:
, by the pants to a two inch oak plank anC
, fought with bowie knifes until Drain was
) mortally wounded, and Pehdleton nearly
cut to pieces, .'' ''i
h Under the auspices of the NJ az @. R.
r. Co., line of Telegraph is being con-
structed between the west and east ex
tremes of the completed part of the road
Posts are now set for some miles this side
of. Loveland, and it is expected that the
line will be in operation as far east as Chill
licothe by the list of May, and will pro-
gress towards Marietta as rapidly as cir+
cumstances will permit.---Athens -MesSe1t-
4 GER Ee In Zr.isi roo -sis- HRel 5d
4 iFinfay, of Martha Washington notorie-
ty, who was arrested some eight months
ago, charged with forging checks on the
ChernicaI Rank of New York has been re-