American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-11-05
Whole No. l7G.
ITEMS or NE W.S, DC.

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A fashionable drinking saloon in N. York
displays the legend, mo swearing aud no
religious discussions allowed here"
| The Methodists are talking OF petitioning
the Governor of Maryland 10 pardon Rev.
Samuel Greene, colored preacher of that
denomination, who is said TO be serving
term OF ten years in the penileniisry, for The
crime Of. having Il volume OF Uncle TOMS
Cabin in his possession.
! A young couple in Quincy, Pa, fell sleep
while courting and the mahogany table on
which the candle wes left burning took fire,
aud considerably injured before they awoke.
The Philadelphia Journal records The pre-
valence Of matrimonial epidemic in that
city. which is making sad ha,oc among the
young ladies.
The Buffalo Republic says negro who
was being defended by LAWYER with intense
pathos, picked his counsel's pocket of u
handkerchief.
Rev. Samuel Parker,a Methodist minister.
OF Hinckly. Ohio, was gored 10 death on a
recent Sunday morning, while attempting to
drive his bull from one field to another.
Flour is selling in Tazewell county, Va,
at $500 pei. barrel, and new corn ii is said
will sell at 40 cents per bushei. e.r
u
A Keokuk paper gives distressing &C.
count Of things in Iowa, comparing its con-
dition TO that of "the doomed city of Jeru:
SALEM" They have creditors without and
creditors within, every third man is lawyer,
every other man virtually pauper, and all
standing i'll listless and Improbable idleness,
except The police and cons,ables.
Aa Indian chief in testifying before the
I Of a At 4
went to Suffers when | was thirsty ,tWere
you often thirsty?' was asked. HADN'T
much money in those tines 'Were you
thirsty whenever you had money! 'Was
very much thirsty always whenl had money
LIBERALiTY The Southern Bible Society
| Of New Orleans, having received 81 900 from
a man who can neither read nor write. He
is not member of any church, nor does he
| live within twenty-five miles of one.
YELLOW FEvER.-There were $40 deathS
! in New Orleans for The week ending Oct 81,
$50 of yellow fever. In Mobile on the 4th
there were four deaths from yellow fever,
and nine on the 9Th.
ANOTHER CAUTIoN. The Mayor Of Vicks-
/ burg has published card in the Whig, Of
the Cd, requesting unaclinoated persons 10
keep away from that city until notice shall
be given that the yellow fever has subsided.
MINISTERIAL STUpENTs.-Th New York
Evangelist states that more than fifty students
! have been received at the Union Theological
Seminary in that city. AT Andover the class
entering The autumn is larger than for sever
al years past. The middle class numbers
thlrty.e eight and the senior class thirty. seven,
with the expectation Of additional increase.
! Princeton and the leading institutions OF the
I various denomnaio"s also report largely
increased classes.
\ Coon Sign. Nearly all of the
mills of Lowell, Massachusetts,, are
now running, and all on full time.
BaE~ The city of St. Joseph, Missou-
81, with 10000 inhabitants, has not
one public school, nor any place to hold
/ one.
/ EXPENSES OF TIE GovERNMENT.---
The Cincinnati Commercial estimates.
from official reports, that the expenses
OF the general government last week
were 5000, 800 moro that the receipts.
! SG~ The majority for Thaddcus
Stevens, in Mr.. Buchanans own dis.
trict, in Pennsylvania, rotwithstana,
ing the Presidents personal POPULAR.
ty there, and the great efforts made to
defeat Mr.. S., is upwards OF three thou
sand.
iSaS~ 1t is said that as much as 81O,@
600 worth Of bogus coin is manufactu-
red every month at IIoosac, near Troy.
The principal coins made by the coun-
terfciters thoreabouts arc American
halves and quarters, and the business
is brought to grca, pcrfecton.
DGg" The Peori Inion publishes
authentic copies Of mortgages recently
made by Judge Douglas, Of Illinois,
upon his property in Chicago, to the
amount Of $4,000, Fernando Wood,
Of New York city, is the principal
mortgageo.
GS2A, Ten thousand dollars were sto-
len from Buffalo banking house lase
week by the use Of chlorofrom upon
the sleeping clerks. The thieves stu.
peficd the young men, took the keys Of
the safe, and then helped themselves to
the money, but overlooked bag Of
S20, 900 in gold. The clerks .Scro ye-
ry giddy in tho morning, but soo,i
found out tho loss.
! CoNvicrED.-Gedrge Shaw, chsrF(
CO with an attempt to kidaap George
W. Ferriet mulatto, by enticipg him
from his homo in Pittsburgh, South,
with the view Of selling bin as q slave,
has been convicted at Pittsburgh.
THE MextcAN DEpr. - The London
Times, which has long been urging tho
United States TO annex tho whole az
Mexico, now charges us with the design
Of repudiating the debt OF that country.
had better wait ill va k,.. ...,s