American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1857-11-20
ITEMS OF NEWS.

brave actions arc the substance of
~. aud good sayings the ornsmen, of
it.
Guilt. though j may attain temporary
So''"uoi' can never confer real happi-
ness.
The Prussian government has pro.
claimed the legal equality of the differ
cnt religious denominations.
The news of our hard times has reach
ed LELAND, and will tend to check en-
igration.
Eleven States unite in the appoint
ment of Thursday, Nov. goth, as a day
Of Thanksgiving.
y letter from Zurich states ,ha, ,bir-
ty commercial houses, prircipally in the
SILK and riband trade, have failed there.
In future no protcstan,s are to be
appointed chief physicians or profess.
ors in the General Hospital Of Vienna.
Johu ID. Wiirhi, convicted Of forgery
in Lynchburg, Va has been sentenced
I" two years confinement in the PEN
itenriary.
A Ghent paror says that the powder
m'lls at Wetterton, which empoly 200
hands. have received large orders for
supplies to tho English Government.
The Rev. DR.. Wood, of Lexington,
Ky, recently declared 10 his cnngrega.
ton that the ma j"rity of thom were The
most calIous and uucompromising souls
that he had ever preached to. -.
Tho people in one of the upper dis
trlcts of Wisconsin were represented
in the last Legislature by Mr.. Gunr;
but he not making noise enough, rhcy
have this year nominated a MIR. Can
non.
The Kansas Constitutional Conven-
ton has adapted clause concerning
Slavery, which recognizes tho institution
as already y established in the Territory,
aud prohibits the Legislature from get
ting rid oft.
Some of the Chicago papers are adj
vertisiug their subscription prices as
follows: "This paper is sent one year
Tor three bushels of wheat. six months
for three bushels of oats, three months
for berrel ofpotatoes."
A clergyman in New York recently
preached a discourse on the hard times,
enforcing the duty of economy. In
mcdlately the congregation took him
at his word by cutting down his sala.
ry from 81, 900 to 5000. ...
There is no such thing known among
the Burmese as drunkard. a Bur
man knows that to be guilty of intox-
ication is to be punished with death
for the government inHicts this punish
mcnt for drunkenness as rigidly as it
does for murder.
The will of Mrs. Lucy Fine, of Lou.
isville, who liberated all her slaves,
nine in Number, was registered on Mon
day. She gave to each of them 800
in cash, and made them equal heirs to
her real estate in Jefferson street at the
death of an aged brother. The slaves
are to be sent to Ohio.
a gentleman whose business includes
traffic in ardent spirits, recently avow~
ed the opinion that "therc is not so
much as Il gill of pure brandy on sale
in the United Statcs!" Who can doubt
it, when even the cheaper forms of
"fre-water' are "Villainously Iruggcd"
---whiskcy, for example, with strych-
nine?
Another sale ofpubiic lands has been
made in Minnesota, under circumstan-
ces similar to those attending the sale
of the Fort Smelling Reservation. a
tract of the best land in the Northern
Mississippi, known as the Fort Ripley
Reservation, consisting of 81, 900 acres
vas recently purchased by combina-
ton OF spectators at an average price
OF t0t" cents an acr'e--S2, ,280 in all.
Another slave case has excited the
people Of Boston. MIR. Lewis Sweet
aud family have for somo months beer,
travelling in tho North, accompanied
by slave gil, named Betty. While
at Lawrence, Mass, a writ of haJeas
corpus was suod out TO obtain posses.
sion oi Betty. on the ground that she
was restrained of her liberty. A bear,
ing was bad before Chief Justice Shaw,
where it tranopred, after a private ex.
animation Of tho woman, that il was
her voluntary wish To return TO Tennes.
see with her master.
D@5' 0. A. BRONSON, says the New
York Observer, has been for 10 years
In the bosom of the Roman Catholic
Church; a long period for him to re-
main III the same relations, or to ON.
tertaln the Same views. And now he
seems to become restiyo and uneasy.
In the last number Of his Quarterly, he
has q severe article on the bigotry, mar.
rowness and intolerance Of the Gmeri-
a