M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-05-28
News Items.

shot on the 9th ult. The country was
quiet.
Hon. John Petit, of Indiana, has
received the appointment Of Associate
Justice for Minnesota, vice Chatfield.
The wife of Mr.. o. S. Woodruff,
in Waterton, Washington County, O.,
was killed on the 10th inst. blythe ac-
cidental discharge ola gun, which
was ca%relessly kept loaded in the
house.
The three new Land Districts in
Kansas have their offices located at
Doniphan, for the Delaware District 4;
at Fort Scott, for the Usage District;
and at Ogden, for the Western Dis
trict.
There is a community of Perfection.
lists in Oneida county, New York, who
believe that death will be utterly abol-
ished in the world. What a delu5ionl
The brazilian Government, it is Of
ficially announced, adheres to the
proposition of the United States to
abolish privateering and exempt all
private property from seizure in time
of war.
~ Mr.. John NJ. B. Petriken, a
member Of the Pennsylvania House of
representative from Licoming coun-
ty, died on Friday afternoon last, in
Harrisburgh, Pa, of the Washington
ID. o. National Hotel disease.
MARRIAGE OF A GRAND DAUGHTER
OF HENRY CLAY.-A grand daughter
of Henry Clay was married in Paw
nee Valley, Ky. on Thursday evening
the 21st inst, to Henry 9. Mcdowell.
She is the daughter of Colonel Henry
Clay, who was killed in Mexico.
The Washington correspondent of
the N. Y. Herald says:
The arrival to-day at Wizards of
the unique-looking individual from
California, with the buckhorn chair
for the President, created quite q sens
alton. He will present ittot the Pres
ident on Friday.
We are glad to see the Scientific
american give currency to the re-
port that the present high price Of SUI
gar must come down. 1t is said that
the maple sugar product of this season
will not fall much short of seventy
million pounds.
Col. Benton has written another
letter, deploring slavery agitation as
an unmitigated evil. He claims that
the emancipation controversy in Mis-
souri, is intended only to excite the
and says that much mischief
has already been done in this way.
A SEVERE LAw.-Thero is q law
in South Carolina which inficts the
penalty ofdeath for grand larceny. A
man named Antonio Den has been
tried and convicted under it, at
Charleston, and on the 10Th inst, was
sentenced to be hung in December
next.
An important railroad case was tri-
ed last week in New Hampshire, in
which it was decided that the railroad
directors have a right to make extra
charges when tickets are not procured
before entering the cars, and that con
ductors are justified in eXpelling from
the cars those who refuse to pay such
charges.
Mrs. Galley was put upon trial in
the Fairfield Common Pleas Court last
week, for the murder Of her husband.
After two or three days investigation
of the case, we understand the coun-
sci for the State abandoned the prose-
cution for want Of sufficient evidence.
~ The decision of the Supreme
Court given on the 14th inst, finally
disposes Of the Noble County seat
question. Olive, henceforth, is the
County seat of that County. We uu-
der6tand, however, the public bust
ness will continue to be transacted
at Sarahsville until suitable rooms
and buildings can be provided at o.
i've.
1t is said that Judge Drummond
will 90 out to Utah as Governor, in
case Major McCulloch declines. lie
is the late Judge of the Territory--is
not quite six feet tall, well built, pos.
sesses a good constitution, with an
iron will, and a determination. lie
is of Scotch-Irish geneology--reared
and educated in Virginia. He re-
moved to Illinois nineteen years
since, and is now in his thirty-Seventh
year.
LONG SPEEoHEs.-Mr. Choate's
argument in behalf of Mrs. Dalton
occupied fifty-four feet CT solid print
ed matter, and by lineal measure
would reach a quarter ola mile. Mr..
Dana's argument on the other side
would more than 60 halfway round
the Boston Common; and these two
sneeches. with MIR. Durant's ~openinO