Weekly Trinity journal., 1858-05-22
Prominent Eastern Events.

Col THOMAS II. BENTON died at Washington
on the 10th Of April aged 76 yeats.
No settlement Of the Kansas difficulty, nor is
there any likelihood of agreement unless it be
by adoption of the new Constitution, framed re-
Gently in Kansas new one has been digested
and adopted at Leavenworth, excluding slavery,
and denying elective franchise to colOred per-
sons and aliens who have only declared intention
of becoming citizens. This Constitution has
been sent to Washington.
THE Connecticut and Rhode Island elections
have gone Republican, and in St. Louis and JEFF
ferson City the Free Democrats have been sue
cessful.
Mrs. swIssHELx, who published paper at St.
Pauls, Minnesota, has had her establishment de-
stroyed for speaking her mind too freely.
THE New York Legislature came within two
votes Of enactng the Registry Law, and have
aban ndoned it, for this year.
THE religious revival is abating. The New
York Police have arrested several Gift Enter
prise swindlers. Mayor Wood has been over
thrown in the Tammany Society, and his secret
conclave of Foresters' defeated. Postmaster
! Fowler was too heavy for him. The New York
: Custom House incumbents are implicated in an
other land fraud.
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issue IS 100000 of Congressional notes after the
10th of May, in exchange for gold.
SENATOR GwIN presented the Kansas resolution
passed by the California Legislature, bat Brod
erick declared that they did not embody the SEN
timents of the people, and they went for moth
ing.
Both Houses Of Congress have resolved to ad
journ on the 7tb of June.
| THE poet Bryant has been elected Regent Of
the New York University.
THEY are building new Custom House at
Galveston, Texas.
A WOMAN with big hooped dress was refused
admission to lecture in Detroit, without pay
ment of double price. Her husband has sued the
manager.
THERE were 696 lunatcs In New York last
year.
CONGRESSMAN CRAIG, of North Carolina, and
an abolition writer, had two manual fstcuf in
the House recently
A PENNSYLVANIA man stole q horse to get to
the Penitentiary, out of the way Of woman who
was going to force marriage
They are building bridge across the Missis-
sippi at st. Pauls, which will cost $4,000.
TnEER are 100 attorneys in Cincinnati who
have never had a case before even magistrate
THEY are trying to pass a law in New York to
prohibit the sale Of camphene
SENATOR DOUGLAS is about to canvass Illinois
for re election.
A STUDENT was killed in q row at Delaware
College ; be was announced for graduating
speech on Departed Glory
A rN-BACK whale, sixty-two feet long, ran
ashore at Marthas Vineyard, and there was great
excitement among the fishermen.
IT is proposed to make new State of territory
lying between Lakes Superior and Michigan.
THE ship Kennebec, from Liverpool to New
England port, vas struck by light thing two men
killed and vessel lost
THE western wheat crop appears better than it
has for the past ten years.
INDIANS at Crow Wing, Minnesota, attacked
and destroyed grocery for selling whiskey to
to the tribe the affair ended in fight between
whites, in which two persons were killed.
THREE boys, in Maine, were tried, and two
convicted of numbering their father in the woods
and burning the body.
A SHERIFF in Alabama shot father and daughf
ter Dead in attempting to arrest the former.
THREE furious bulls ran through street of
New York, trampling and gorng a number of
persons.
THE twenty-five years. war with the Florida
Seninoles has ended by departure Of the Indians
on payment of $1,000 to the chiefs, $500 to the
warriors and $3.50 to the squaws billy Bow
| legs has surrendered his sword.
| CHARLES MCMICKEN has left to the city of
Cincinnati SS00,00O to found free University,
on the plan of Girard College.
IT is rumored in Washington that Mr.. McKib-
ben, Navy Agent at Philadelphia, and father of
the California Congressman, will be removed by
the President because of bis sons opposition to
Administrative Kansas policy. We do not be-
lieve the President will be guilty of SO mean an
act.
THREE hundred thousand persons petition Con.
gress for general bankrupt law.
A TEXAN has contracted to supply the army
with camels to amount OF $4,000.
A VIRGINIAN was nearly torn to pieces by his
own dogs, and was saved from death by his
daughter who chopped out the beasts brains
with an axe.
THE lower Mississippi has recently been higher
than ever known before great storms of wind
and rain occurred in the southwest.
Ex-GovERNoR BOsHFoRD of Wisconsin, says
that he was offered s15O,OOO bribs, to approve a
certain land bill.
THE new Kansas Constitution provides for sub
mission to popular vote on the third Tuesday in
May, and that legislators, judges and State Off
GERS be elected at the same time.
Two men had fearful fight in Springfield,
Kentucky after firing several pistol shots, one
hurled his pistol at the other, who seized him by
the collar and cut him all to pieces with bowie
knife. A man called Bob Griffin was taken
from Jail and hung for selling liquor to negroes
A YOUNG girl, of Georgia, gave birth to au il
Legitimate child, which she choked to death with
a cord and then died in child bed.
HAIL stones, of pound weight, fell last month
in Texas A San Antonio paper says that grass.
hoppers are swarming there. They must be stout
grasshoppers to stand such hail.
THE Philadelphians are trying to buy the Col
lins line of steamers, to run from that city to
Europe.