American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-07-23
ITEMS OF NE US, DC.

TIE abolition of the Congressional
chaplancies seems to have operated well.
AT the recent session 29i prayers were offer
cd by thirty different clergymen,a and twenty
six discourses were preached i'm the new hall
OF the capitol on Sundays by as many differ
ent clergymen, and the religious services
were never SO well attended or 10 decorous-
ly conducted. ...r .. .... ...
AT the Annual Convention of tho
Sunday.school teachers Of the State OF Con-
neclicui. held recently at New Haven, the
statistic reports give over four thousand
scholars in the schools OF the State to have
been hopefully converted during the year,
while only nine bundled were ported the
previous year. ..... ... .m.
The Boston Traveller has an article
on the results Of the revival in that city,
from which It appears that there have been
ABOUT 3oO hopeful conversions among the
baptists, in fourteen churches, and about
450 among the Methodists. About 600 a.
mong the Orthodox Congregalionalists.
In recent trial at New York, q
gambler named Young testified that he was
SO years DID, that he was born in ALBANY,
could not read writing, had never read the
Lords Prayer. though he could read little,
and did not know wha, the Lords Prayer
was; that he had never read chapter in
the Bible, though he had once held the sacred
volume in his hand. ...
TIE congregation of the Moravian
church ut Bethlehem. Pa, is supposed TO be
one oil the richest in The United States. Il
has over one million dollars at interest.
Enrich johnson, merchant at Lock
port, N. Y, was arrested for ultering bouus
hall.dollars. lie held such respectful posi-.
llon IN LockpoIt that the citizens had seIious
thoughts OF rescue: but The evidence was so
conclusive that the u. s. Commissioner al
Buffalo held him Tor lriul nm. lT
A counterfeiter was rocently arrest
ed III New York swallowed several of the
spurious bills, which were brought 10 the
iiSh'' oy means OF an emetic furnishing
iul proof Of his guilt. . ...'... -
A MIR. Peter Fudge recently returned
to NewbuTypor,, Mass, after MI absence Of
lorty-sx years. In the meantime his wife
had married twice and finally died. ...-
Judge Perkins, of the Supreme Court
OF Indiana, having decided that it is consi.
tulional to tax the people for the building of
H.
pose taxes Tor the support, OF schools, the
Public Schools Of tho State have suspended
operations. turning loose scme thirty thou.
sand children.
a chief of the Snake Indians, resid-
ing near Utah, lately died, and his relatives,
IN addition TO the killing of his favorile horse
over hlsgrave, buried with him, alive, lille
boy, OF whom the deceased was very fond,
IN order that he might accompany him TO the
spirit land. They wrapped The boy up.aliye,
in blanket, aud placing him in the grave,
with the corpse, buried them together.
TIE London Times saws :--"Att the
present time il is evident that The strupql.
Sgalnst the slave trade has reached an i'm.
portant crisis. IL hangs on thread whether
the policy OF England during the las thirty
years shall be abandoned or retained. The
three States which from their present mower
or their former prosperity, have The least
share IN the matter, are manifeslIy al issue
with England" 1t then proceeds to argue
Tat the United States and France are equal.
ly guilty with Spain, and says il will never
DO OF attempt coercion with weak Spain.
and al the same time wink at the dclinuu.
encies oil the more powerful States.
Forty or fifty persons were injured
at Masonic celebration in Wellivlle, N. Y.
by the giving way Of the floor of the room in
which some seven hundred persons we're
dining -..r..
AN exchange paper contains an adj
reriisemeDt by All express company of some
uncalled Tor goods, by an accident the letter
has dropped from the word lawful, and il
now reads Persons to whom those pack.
ages are directed are requested to come for
ward and pay The awtm charges OH tbs
same.' ...r - .... ....- H.
Missouri Politics.--Tho Republicans
Of the st. Louis Congt essional district in
convention on Monday last nomina ted Hon.
Frank L. Biar,Jr, forro election to Congress,
by reclamation. Resolutions were passed
reafirmDg the doctrine Of Thomas Jefferson.
denouncing The administration, opposing
negro equality, educating The extinction Of
slavery in Missouri and the removal Of
the negroes from the State. Three full tick.
cts are now in the field, American, Dcmoc.
rat and Republican.
FIVE more deaths from sun stroke
occurred in Cincinnati on Thursday. I, Is
significantly added ,ho, Of nearly every deaf
in That city, from sun stroke, the deceased
were addicted 10 drinking. |
The New Orleans Crescent utters the
following prediction "WM. II. SEWARD will
be the next Pfesdcnt Of the United States,
il he lives, and The Union Ia sts.'
Il Cool Place.--"Oakland," on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, must be cool
two or three mornings in succession last
tyeuL IN al, Al,