The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-08-27


vote polled, as compared with that of two years
since, of 825 votes.
A SPECIAL MESSENGER FOR UTAH-We hear
from the best authority that the Secretary of
War will dispatch a special messenger to the
army for Utah. We have good reason to be.
lieve that this messenger is sent thither to see
that the mails for the officers and men are regu-
larly delivered, as it is we'll known that Brig
ham Young and his confederates are in the
habit of interfering and tampering with the
United States mails, and making postal arrange
ments to suit hemselves.-StGtes.
LitchGeld county, Connecticut, it is said, has
been the birth place of thirteen United States
Senators; it has given birth to twenty-five Rep
resentatives~in Congress. 1t has also been the
birthplace of nine Judges of the Supreme
Court of the State of New York, and of at least
fifteen Judges Of the higher courts in other
States ten Presidents and eight Professors of
Colleges. In 1881, the Vice President of the
United States, and one-eighth of the United
States Senator's were either natives of this
county, or had been educated in it. In 1850,
one seventh of the whole number of the United
States Senators were found to have been edu.
Gated in that county. The list contains the
names of large number of individuals Of
still greater distinction in various departments
of life.
The NeU York Tribune of Wednesday saws !:
Mrs. Cunningham, under the attention of the
physician of the city prison. is recovering rap
idly from the combined effects of cucumbers
and tartar emetic; but the reporter of the Ifib-
une was informed on Tuesday, by the female
warden of the prison, that Mrs. Cunningham
is still very feeble, seems greatly troubled in
her mind, and does not look as we'll as when
she was there before. For special reasons of
the District Attorney no one, unless by special
permission, is allowed access to her cell, or to
the cell where DR.. Catlin is confined. Mrs. C.
says she is sure of being acquitted on the charge
of fraudulently producing an heir, and that her
character will show forth white as the drifted
snow She repudates the rumor that DR.. Cat.
lin personated Burdell at the wedding. In re-
gard to her children, she says they will be well
provided for, no matter what may happen to
her. She remains most of the time In her cell"
1t is known that the q. S. Government is
having six little sixty-ton cutters built for the
revenue service on the lakes, at Milan, Ohio
The Buffalo Commercial thus laughs at Uncle
Sam:
"These six revenue schooners, if command
ed, as they should be, by officers of Judgment
and discretion, unmarried, and devoted to the
ladies, will be most capital substitutes for pleas
ure yachts. We have long urged upon our
citizens the propriety of building yachts for the
the encouragement of aquatic tastes and fun !;
but should the General Government locate one
of these schooners at this point, and put it
under the right influences, fun will abound.
Large parties of ladies and gentlemen will be
impressed to go in search of smugslers along
the cliffs of Hamburg, even to the picturesque
shore of Dunkirk, or the lovely fishing port of
Barcelona. If the Secretary of the Navy has
any regard for his popularity in this region, he
will see that these revenue cutters are differed
by good fellows, who know how to win the kind
affections of the people,"
Mr.. Cough sailed from Boston, in the Mag
ara, on the 22d ultimo. He is engaged, by the
London League and the Edinburgh Temper
snce League, to deliver four lectures a ,oeek for
three years, or six hundred lectures. Eight
months in the year are TO be spent in England,
and four in Scotland.