The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-02-04

in 1856 were sSss, 1853.
! NTThe debt of England is fsls,OOo,Ooo-
s4,o90Ooo,OOo.
01-COunterfeit fves on she MOrrih county
Bank, New Jersey, are in circulation.
01rA screw steamship is being fitted out al
Providence for the northern whale fishery.
MMwAUKIE, Wisconsin, Jan. .'24.-Mr. Doo-
little was elected u s. Senator from Wisconsin.
0<TThe bill relative to foreign coins and the
issue Of the new cent pieces, previously passed
by the Senate, hasbsen passed by the House.
6rThs county Of Hancock in Virginia is
without 4 resident lawyer. Fortune smiles on
little Hancock.
0rThe Legislature OF Iowa has decided
against the removal Of the Capital from Iowa
City to Fort De MOincs.
OTWatcrtown, y. Y, carries of the palm
for cold weather. 1t was forty degrees below
zero up there on Monday.
PITTsBUBGH, Jan. 30.-The river has risen
but triAe since yesterday. The ice still firm;
weather continues mild and clear.
ALBANY, N. Y, Jan. So.-A Republican eau
ems met this evening and nominated Preston
King U. S. Ssnator on first ballot.
61rThe Board of Agriculture have decided to
hold the State Fair at Cincinnati, on the 18th.
10th, 18th and 18th days of September next.
0rP. Melandy, Esq, has sold "Chaupion
Black Hawk" formerly owned by Jas. D. & W.
Ii. Ladd, Richmond, Jefferson county, Ohio to
company in Green county, Illinois for $4,000.
G~TA Woman stopped at q hotel in Coving.
ton, KY, a few days since with her husband and
thirty-two children, all her own. THIS beats
Mark Beaubien.
0~rThirty thousand passengers were carried
last year blythe steamships between Europe and
the United States
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-Mr Buchanan ar
rived in this city at IL o'clock this morning,
and proceeded to the National Hall, where
number of his friends were waiting to receive
him,
Gy-Some idea of the extreme scarcity of fuel
in the city, says the Cincinnati Commercial OF
Thursday, may be had from the fact that many
perons are keeping themselves from freezing by
using the cracklings from the lard oil factories,
and the hoofS obtained at tanneries.
GrBy the operation of a general law Of the
State Of Maine the charters of all the Banks in
the State will expire during 1857, and all will
have to wind up their affairs unless rechartered
by the Legislature now in session.
BURNT OUr.-We are sorry to record that
the office of the Pittsburgh Post was partially
destroyed by fire on Wednesday last. The
damage amounts to about $4,000, which we are
glad to learn is covered by insurance. For the
present the Post is published in the Chronicle
Office
Or7-The Aboltionists of Ohio will hold their
next State Convention on the 18th OF August
being about week subsequent to the Demo-
cratic State Convention. We cannot help com
mending the mannerly conduct of that party in
taking its proper place, as usual, in the rear Of
the Democracy.
0T-Hon Truston Polk, the newly elected
United States Senator from Missouri, is ma
tive Of Delaware; a graduate of Yale College, a
lawyer by profession, and prominent member
of the NJ. Z. Church. lie is brother of Col.
VIM G. Polk, of Carroll county, Md.
0ETAdams Express Company very recently
transported thirty five tons of specie from New
Orleans to Philadelphia. 1t came up the river
to Carlo, and thence by railroad through Indian
opolis, Crestlne and Pittsburgh. 1t took four
cars, and had two guards to each car. The a.
mount was $1,500000.
0~Few men have run more diversified ca
reer than Mr. Banks, Speaker of the House o.
Representatives. He is now little over forty
years old-has been factory boy, carpenter,
machinist, a dancing master, an actor, a law
yer, national democrat, coalitionist, an ar
dent lover of the Irish, a champion Of religious
liberty, Know Nothing and is now a Free
soiler.
0TA clergyman who was reading to his con.
gregation chapter from Genesis, found the last
last sentence to be: "And the Lord gave unto
Adam wife" Turning over two leaves to.
gcther he found written and read in an audible
voice, land she was pitched without and with
in" lie had, unhappily, got into the middle oi
n descrintion of NoahS Ark
A WHOLE FAMILY TO DE HUNG.-The five
Negroes grandmother, mother and three sons
(the eldest nineteen, and the youngest twelve)
who killed their master, the late George
Green, in Prince William County, Va, on Christ
mas night last, were fully convicted on Tuesday
night last, after trial lasting two days. They
are sentenced to be hung in thirty days aftcr the
date Of their conviction.
| G7-A very young lady who went to circus
in Sacramento, fell in love with the ring-master,
contrived to let him know it, and they were
married after the performance. They started
next morning on wedding tour! Is this accor-
dug to the phrase, "Marry in haste and repent
at leisurer' Never mind go ahead" is the
word-we are fast people, anyhow.
| A CASE OF CATALEPsY The Salem Nll)
Aluccate mentions case Of catalepsy which is
now exciting much interest in that town. A
young woman, apparently 26 or 27 years Of age,
stranger called at the house Of a citizen, where
she soon fell asleep. She has remained in this
state for several days. She lies apparently ia a
| deep, lethargic slumber, perfectly motionless