The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1858-04-21

tory.
1t is estimated that the Great East
ern will cost when ready to run, about "a,
100000.
The recent illness of Mrs. Senator
Douglas, it is said, deprives the Judge of
an expected heir.
Ono hundred and twenty guns were
fired over the defeat of Lecompton at In
dianapolis, on Thursday.
No pupil is SO greatly to be pitied
as the pupil Of the eye, for that is contin-
ually under the lash.
There are yet Is, 10000 of acres of
public land unsold in Wisconsin, most of
which is adapted for cultivation.
"A new sect has been formed in Wur-
temburg, with the object of reconstructing
the temple Of Jerusalem.
An effort is being made in Wall St.
to induce Gov. King to grant a pardon
to Chas. B. Huntington the forger.
The Boston Common Counsel have
an order providing that Mohammed Pa
sha shall be invited to that city and enter
tanned at public expense.
Tho Philadelphia Press predicts that
the revival of the Slave trade will be, at
the end of another year, the test of Dem
ocracy.
One Kentucky editor sued another
for barking his shins. The jury award
ed him damages. he will probably be paid
in shin plasters.
The young man who recently mar
ried widow with six children, furnishes
bis house with second handed furniture,
in order to have everything match.
You have no business to have any
business with other peoples business, but
mind your own business, and that is bust
ness enough.
A Washington letter writer SAYS
that the bar of one of the fashionable
hotels Of that city has taken $2l, 900
for drinks, in the past fourteen months.
"A poor sailor, wrecked on an un-
known coast, wandered about in momen-
tary apprehension of being seized by saw
ages, when no suddenly came in sight of
a gallows. "Ah!' said he, 'tLank God
I'm in civilized country"
Tho New York Heraasays ex-May-
or Wood will shortly bring mammoth
libel against the Tribune. 1t will contain
screen hundred and .ttty distinct h5els-
principly charges of swindling, thieving,
forging, etc.
Mr.. Van Doren comes out with
ong article in the Nation (Ill.) Gazette,
advoe ating the re-opening of the African
Slave Trade! Articles in defence of horse
stealing, highway robbery and midnight
murder, we presume will follow in due
course.
1t is positively asserted that the hair
If Orsini, who attemted the life Of Louis
Napoleon recently, was jet black when
he was arrested, that at the time of his
rial it had turned very gray, and that
shon he was executed it was almost
White.
Gen. Walker, the defunct fillibuster,
) at present at Mobile, where his pres
nee seems to excite no curiosity whatev-
r. The steamer Fashion, seized by the
Government and sold at public auction, is
ting up at Mobile, to run between that
ort and Galveston.
p. I. BARNUM is getting on his legs
gain. He has lately resumed the man.
cement of the New York Museum, and t
laboring with extraordinary vigor and
Sill to make it pay. He has lately re-
sived $4,000 insurance on "Iranistan." !
nd is making preparations to rebuild it. L
The room of MoHAMMEp PASTA. the
urkish Adm raj, at Wizards Hotel. /
1ashingtop, was broken into within TWEEN b
minutes after his arrival at the Capitol. g
is trunks were ransacked and the contents
altered about. Alarge amount of mon = !
and valuables escaped the vigilance of 9
10 thieves.