Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-05-26

VI
est was feH, either inthe State Of out of
lit, in regard to the election for three unim-
portant Offices, that the actual result has
only just. been announced, six weeks after
the voting took place Instead of the g.
| 500 Democratic nsajDrity which the presses
of that party have been boastihg over for
n week or two, the Democratic candidates
for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
and Register of Land once Have but BOZ
and sos majority respectively,, and he
Republican candidate for Commissioner of
the Des Moines Improvement Is ssiected by
3l5 majority. Seven counties held mo
election at.all. The vote, was yerwlight y
the Democratic vote being 1000 less thar
Buchanan's, and the Republicans 1000
less than Fremont's 49, Valley Register. ~
Es- A letter from Providence, in tho
Boston Bee, says; ''rhere has been Sc
ries of very heavy failures within the last
few days. They were those of William
Huntley Sigourney q Co., dry goods deal
ers on Broadway, New York; Sigourney
q Clayton, Baltimore and Sigourney d5
Henry of this city-liabilities S280,00O.
1t is rumored that they will GO into bank
ruptcy, not being able to pay their liabili
ties. Mr.. Sigourney has left his business
1t is said that Mr.. S. made An attempt to
commit suicide on learning the proceedings,
Of his partners, butwas rescued from the
water where he had thrown himself in the
North River, New York, by one Of the
Harbor police, and taken insensible to the
residence of his mother-in- law, Mrs. Fill
more, on Fifth Avenue, Now York" '
NEW YoRK, May 21---The steamship
Black Warrior arrived from Havana with
dates to the 18th inst "A report was cur
rent at Havana that the Spanish steamer
was hourly expected, and would bring or
ders for the immediate commencement of
hostilities against Mexico, to be opened by
a naval attack upon Vera Cruz. 7fF
The sugar crop was nearly harvested,
and the crop will fall short of last years
about 90 per cent. Prices still have an
upward tendency. The present stock at
Havana and Matanzas is 27I 900 boxes
STARVATION IN NlIcHIGAN.-At meet
ing last Friday evening at the City Hail..
Detroit, to consider means of relief for the.
destitute people OF Northern Michigan,
citizen of Gratjot county was present
whose wife and three children had died of
starvation. He gave a gloomy accoul of
the suffering IN thrt region. People were
dying for a want of the most common food.
1t was decided to raise $4,000 in. that
city to purcha Sc provisions; one thousand
of which was subscribed in the Hall.
The Boilers in two of the Ironton
Rolling Mills, about thirty men, have
struck for higher wages. They were re-
ceiving $5, SO per ton and they struck for
six. Their employers told them they
-, H. a.. l.
ing ($5, SO per tom if they would go to,
work within three days; that after that they
might go to work within the week at SIS;
and if not then at work none of the stri-
king Boilers would be employed by them
for three years.
These mills are now lying idle. and a
large, number of hands are out of employ
Three partners in one brewery firm will
nave seats in the newly elected English
House of Commons: Sir f. n. Buxton for
East Norfolk, Mr.. Charles Buxton, for
Newport, Isle of Wight and Mr. Robert
Eianbury, the younger, for Middlesex.
FIRE AT ToLEDo-The elevators and
grain house Of the Toledo, Wabash, and
Western Railroad took fire on the 18th
nst., from sparks from the smoke-pipe of
he ground. The loss of the building is
estimated at $75, O0O-insured for $780,
700. A large amount of produce was.
destroyed, the loss of which is not known.
Fillbustering is fading out. The latest
'xpedition-the one to Sonora-has failed,
md the sixty infatuated pirates engaged
n it, are said to have been shot. Whether
Walker has fled, or been shot or hung, is
ct in doubt.
FROM KANsAs.-St. LOUIS. May-19.-
rbe Lecompton correspondent of the Re-
publican says that by the advice of Sec
etary Stanton, District Attorney Weir
las entered nolle prosequi in all treason
rials. Prosecutions for usurpation of Of
ice will probably be disposed of in the
anne manner.
DIsTRICT CoURTs-There being som e..
INQUIRY as to what Judges of the Supreme
Jourt will attend the several District
Iourts, the Ohio Statesman gives the fol-
owing assignments made by the Judges
f the Supreme Court of their circuit du-
les for 1857: -
First Circuit, Judge Scott;
Second '' ' Brinkerhoff;
Third &c Bowen;
Fourth &C Barley;
Fifth &c Swan s.l et,7.t.
CLEVELAND, May GA clerk, in the
American Express Office, at Plymouth
indiana, absconded this morning, with u,
ackage containing So, 300, He was ar