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ranging from fifty to seventy FIVE per cent less
than those obtained last year. At a public
hiring, 1t says, few days since, slave men
| brought only from three 10 eight dollars q
| month. At Alexandria there has been re.
duction in the hire of servants of about per
cent. Young men and boys ranged from $40
TO 500. Some choice servant men at $l25.
Women at $40 to SIS good cooks $50 to SIS;
girls and boys s25 @ $40.
Boston, Jan. 2.-Dsniel W. Goocb, of Mel
rose, has been nominated by the Republicans
to represent the seventh Congressional district
OF this State in the House of Representatives,
in place Of Hon. N. P. Banks, resigned.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia In
quirer writes that change is likely to take
place soon in the Senate. Senator Biggs, of
North Carolina, is to be appointed Judge of the
United States District Court for that State, and
his place in the Senate will probably be filled
by Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, now in the
House.
Secretary Toucey has sent q letter to C. w.
Field, Esq, informing him that the United
States frigate Niagara will be again detailed
/ to lay the Atlantic telegraph cable. Chief En-.
gineer Everett has been given leave of absence
TO give his services to the telegraph company.
The President and Secretary Toucey are both
favorable to the enterprise.
st. Louis, Dec. 30.-Further returns of the
election recently held in Kansas are being re.
ceived. johnson county gives 1000 majority
for the Constitution with the Slavery clause.
Thirteen hundred votes were cast at Oxford.
Wyandot.e gives IA majority against the Sla
very provision.
The news from Kansas which we publish to-
day is ofa highly important character. The
election frauds of October have been repeated
and in the Oxford precinct which Governor
Walker on the 2lst of October pronounced q
village Of six houses, including stores, and with
out tavern" has given, as before, a humping
majority for Slavery, not less, in fact, than
], 300 votes having been cast. johnson coun.
ty, including the Oxford precinct, gives not less
than 1000 majority for Slavery. The pscify-
ing policy of the Administration is also begin.
ming to work out it's legitimate results of blood
shed and civil war.
A United States marshal, with force of
eighty men, having demanded the surrender of
| the Free State force in Bourbon county, who
had been driven to arms by q series of oppres.
sive acts on the part of the Border Rufians, O
battle ensued, in which after an hours fight
the Pro-Savery men were beaten, and retreated
with the loss Of one man killed and two NOR.
| tally wounded. The United States marshal
was at the same time dangerously wounded.
General Lane, the regularly chosen commander
of the Territorial militia, had entrenched his
men on the Sugar Mound, and expressed de-.
termination to 6ght the United States Dragons
if they should attack him. Another battle was
regarded as inevitable Nep York Post, Jan. l.
Mr.. John Abel, clerk, residing at Evansville,
Pa, about ten weeks ago put out his hand to
play with a cat, when che instantly flew at him
and bit him. He complained little at the
time, but it passed away, and no more was
thought of it. He had at times, however, q
great repugnance to water, and the mere sight
of it caused shuddering sensation. On Christ
mas day he dined at the hotel of Mr.. David
MARI, at Evansville, and appeared in usual
health. On the morning of the Goth he CON-
planned of being sick, and at last took to his
bed. He suffered intense agony, trying to bite
the hand which the cat had bitten ten weeks
previous, and exclsiming that the sight of wa
ter made him mad-a raving maniac. His
friends had to hold him, to prevent his tearing
his breast. Medical skill proved of no avail,
and on Sunday morning, the 9th, he breathed
his last.
A lady named Catherine Gray, who resided
in Newark, N. j., fell dead in her house at an
early hour on Tuesday, while at prayer. Her
death is attributed to grief and depression of
spirits by the death of her husband, who was
lost by the wreck of the Central America, on
which he was passenger. Both the death of
herself and husband have been occasioned by
the delay in the reception of letter from her
husband, who was in California. He sent a
letter containing a check for $3.50, and stated
that when she acknowledged its receipt, he
would forward another. By some means the
letter was delayed, and number of steamers
having arrived since he wrote, without bringing
him an answer from his wife, he feared that
something was wrong, and took passage home
in the ill.fated Central America, and met
watery grave. Three children, the eldest but
two years old, are now left orphans.
The loss by fire in Boston in 1857 was about
two hundred and ffty.two thousand dollars
not much more than half of the average for
several years past.
Arrangements have been completed for the
establishment of large cotton factory at Ar
cadia, Florida, to be carried on entirely by
white labor.
Colonel Colt, of Hartford, Connecticut is
building two steam engines and large lot of
machinery for the Emperor of Russia.
Messrs. Shields and Rice, the newly.elected
Senators from Minnesota, have arrived in
Washington.
At the late term of the United States District
Court at Pontotoc, MISSISSIPPI, Alter, mail
robber, was sentenced to the penitentiary for
ten years.