, 1857-04-17
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY APRIL H. 1857

scarcity OF 1000, especially IN SIMON county,
to be very great. The Board of Managers
of the New York State Colonization Soci-
ETY. have directed an appeal to the humane
and benevolent, for contributions OF behalf
Of these poor people A vessel is Eow
loading for Liberia at New York, which
offers TO take freight free for this object.
GICANric ScuEME.-A scheme is under
the consideration orthe Metropolitan Board
Of Works for carrying the main drainage
of London to The German Ocean. Sir $.
NJ. PetO has offered to execute the plan 70.
a fixed sum, and if the commissioners
will pay four per cent on it, and let him have
the manure from the sewerage, lie will
guarantee the carving ont of the scheme.
The purilication of the Thames will then
have been accomplished.
GARoTING.-The daring crime known as
garotlng, which has recently caused such
panic in New York, and which the numcr-
Gus and well-dri!ea police Of that city seem
unable to suppress, has fornd its way to
Cincinnati, aud on last Sunday evening
before nine o'clock, two robbereS of this
kind were perpetrated in Seventh street,
which is one Of the most frcquented through
fares in the city. The murderOus wretcheS
who rob in this manner, walk in the same
direction with their victim, and when an
opportunity occurs, one knocks him down
with sIung shot, and grasps him by the
throat so as TO prevent an outcry, while the
other rifles bis pockets, after which both
the SArotcrs make Of, leaving the person
they have robbed TO recover as lie may
This plan of robbery is so daring and so
quickly executed, that it is extremely dli-
cnlt to detect it. The gentlemen who
were robbed on Sunday evening were re-
turning from church when thus assaled.
Fatal Duel IN NEW ORLEAYs "A hos
tile meeting took place in New Orleans on
The afternoon of the 18th January, between
Packenham LcBIance, deputy sheriff of the
Supreme Court, and Geo w White, the
book-keeper of n C. Folgcr, of OLD Leyee
street. The immediate insult that led to-
the challenge and the duel was of the gros-
SeSt kind, and demanded appeal to the
most deadly redress among those who abide
by the code Of honor" or who have man
hood to resent the most objectionable of.
Tense. The cause that led 10 the insult
being offered was the refusal of the COM
mittee Of invitation to one of our public
halls to issue ticket Of admittance for
friend of Mr.. Packenham LeBlance The
gentleman, cosidering himself alfronted,
concluded TO visit his displeasure on one of
the committee, and chance was the cause
of White being selected. He was met by
MrLeBlauc, who spat in his face. They
met at "The Oaks" the conditions Of the
duel being double barrelCd shot guns, twen-
ty PAGES, and to fire at the word. Two
seconds on each gentleman were on the
ground. The word was given, and Mr..
LeBlance fell mortally wounded, discharg-
ing his gun as he fell. His opponent, of
course was unhurt.
B8- They make sandwiches in Lowell,
by putting q piece Of leather between two
shingles. Price, two for cent piece.
An ITEM FOR HousEKEEpERs.-It will
cost but penny to try the following,
which an exchange recommends for keep.
ing stoves and ranges bright:
Make weak alum water and mix your
British lustre with it; put two spoonsfull TO-
a gill Of alum water; let the stove be cold,
aHd brush it with the mixture; then take q
lry brush and lustre, and rub the stove till
it is dry. Should any part, before polish
ing, becomes so dry as to look gray, moisten
it with a wet brush, aud proceed as before,
By two applications year it can DO kept
as bright as a coach body.
A PRorHEcY. During the late Presiden-
tial campaign, Gen. WILSON told his black
friends that the election Of Buchanan
would place the Republican party beyond
resuscitntion," speaker Banks declared that
the election would decide the politics Of
the country for the next thirty years"
Thus we have the authority Of these two
leaders of the opposition for saying that
the black republican party is dead, aud
that the Democracy are to rule the coun-
try for the next thirty years, and in both
these predictions, WILSON aad BANKS
exhibited stronger indications OF being gif-
ted with the spirit Of true political prophe-
cy, than they ever before manifested.
RICE IN CALIFORNIA San Joaquin
(CaIifornia) Republican states that a tract
of land containing some thirty-fivc thou
sand acres,s now being surveyed with the
view OF cultivating rice.
WINTER ON THE PfAIYs.-By our last in-
formation from the West, we learn that
the winter, thus far, on the plains, is the
most severe ever known by the oldest in-
habitanls' Of that region.
E~- The Nashrilie Banner says the 23d
Jan. was the coolest day they had had
during the season. The thermometer stood
at six degrees below zero.
R9- Hon. w. c. Rivers, one of our
greatest Of living American statesmen, has
undertaken to edit the papers Of President
Madison, and he is now actively engaged
in the work The publication will include
a great Union" letter. addressed by Nj
Madison to his countymen, and which he
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