, 1857-06-05
NEWS ITEMS,
By LAST MAIL AND EXPRESS.
Personal and General Intelligence.

Eag- WIN. colgate, rlch ana soineN h"I
celebrated merchant, died in New York on
the 25th ult., aged IS years. He was the
manufacturer of the soap bearing his name,
and constant and assiduous attention to
business, from poor boy he came to be
man of large fortune. lie was q member
of the Baptist Church, and his donations to
the religious institutions of that denom-
ination have been large and frequent.
BSs- An exchange broker of New Or
leans, named John Oxnard, has been opera
ting Ia Huntington, and absconded from
the Crescent City with hundred thousand
dollars.
Rsg- The widow of the late professor OF
uecromancy, McAllister, commonly called
the Wizard of the North, whom many OF
our readers have seen on the stage, is now
giving exhibitions in the same line at st
Louis.
DsF Second Lieut.. Ralph Abercrombie,
9th U. S. Infantry, has resigned.
HEAVY FAILURE IN NEw YoRK-John
DeYlin &. Co., dealers in millinery, IN
Chambers street, New York, failed on the
2lst ult. Their liabilities are said to be
$3.50, 900, due chiefly to French importers.
An ON Man GoNE.-The Natchcz
Courier, of Wednesday last, says;
The Oldest resident in our country, Mr..
VIM. Adams, has been gathered to his
fathers. His precise age is not known, but
bis own recollections went back to period
considerably ante-dating the American
revolution, at which time he was living in
the Yazoo Swamp county. His reported
age, which we presume is about correct, at
any rate not under estimated, was lO2.
Mr.. Adams has been a resident of this
county upwards Of seventy years
ANOTHER OF THE OLD STocK GONE
Mr.. Sylvanus Howes died at Frankfort,
Me-, on the 18th ult., aged SO years and I
months. The Frankfort Gazette says:
lie came to Maine about the close Of the
war and has always resided in the State
since that time and was esteemed by all
who knew him. lie aud his wife (who is
still living) have lived together about II
years and were probably the oldest couple
in the State.
WESTWARD Ho!-We see it stated that
some of the Minnesota pioneers are prepar-
ing to emigrate to Dacotah. Westward,
ho" is still the cry with many Of the adven-
turous men in the new States and Terrific
ries.
ID- The officers in the Boston custom
house have presented the Hon. Charles II
Peasee, the late collector, service of sill
yer, valued at $1,000.
EGy, The Richmond Va, Dispatch
learns that the Blue Ridge is on fire at diff
ferent points, extending from Waynesboro,
Anguish, several miles northward. The
mountains east Of the Valley, from Wood.
stock to Mount Jackson, are also on fire.
On Monday and Tuesday nights of this
week the view Of the burning mountains
was magnificent.
p9- Brevet Major Sterne II. Fowler,
Captain 5th Infantry has resigned
L@- The Massachusetts House of Repre-
sentatives, by SO majority, has refused to
repeal the law Of 1855, establishing the
right of juries TO Judge Of the law in crimi
nal cases.
p|- Gov. King of New York, has re-
turned to the president of the Hudson Riy.
er railroad free pass that had been sent to
him, and declines to receive this delicate
attention from the corporation.
Ba- The Hon. Kensey Jones, Chancel
lor of the State of Delaware, died at his
residence in Newcastle, on the 28ih ult., in
the sixty-sixth year Of his age.
h9- The Legislature of Massachusetts
has passed law making the testimony Of
an atheist legal tender in the courts Of
that State
D6- A. /. Harrison, son Of the Hon.
John Scott Harrison, and grandson of
the late Gen. Harrison, has been appoin-
ted second lieutenant Of the 9th regiment
OF the United States infantry. The ap-
pointment was one of President Pierce's
last official acts.
Ex-SEcRETARY MARcY--It is stated that
number of the merchants of New York
have subscribed largely to purchase a SER
vice of plate to be presented to Gov. Mar
cy for his regard 10 mercantile interests
while Secretary of State.
DIR. KAYE's DEATH IN ENGIAXD.-The
English papers received by the Europa
have beautiful tributes to the memory of
DR.. Kane. The one in the London Athe-
neum closes with the following words
"His death will be severely felt by his
countrymen, by whom he was greatly loved
England, too, will mourn the loss Of so gal
liant and enterprising a man, who, although
young in years, had gained a high reputa-
tion."
D9r A New York letter speaking of the
House of Industry" at the Five Points un-
der the charge of the Rev. Mr.. Pease, saws
liberal Southern man was present some
time since from New Orleans, and he was
so well pleased with the institution that he
made donation Of $4,000 to it, and
SlO00 IN MIR Daosn for Ii, o,,,..