Nebraska advertiser., 1858-01-14

' ~ NH4OA ~ was Resolved lQdL
10000 mounted volunteers Should at once
be called for to fight the Mornons.
Commodore Jones urges an appropria-
ton of $4,000 600, to provide armaments
and munitions for volunteer navy and
PrIyateers, to be ready In the emergency
of a war. Eascr
AT the recent charter election in Peo-
ria, Ill, the democratic candidate for
Mayor was electedSy a considerable ma
jority.
A rag picker died the other day in
Cincinnati. Seven hundred dollars were
found upon him.
Mr.. Edwin Booth, the Young tragedian.
IS about erecting a monument over his
fathers remains in Baltimore.
The British steamer Alectra has cap
tured a SLAYER with six hundred captives,
two hundred of whom were drowned.
The marriage of the Princess ROYAL
and Prince Frederick William of Prussia
is set down for the 25th of January.
In Alabama, en- the inauguration of the
Governor, an oath is administered that he
viii abstain from the luxury of duelfing
during his term of office.
That venerable wit and genial humor-
ist, the Knickerbocker Magazine, has re-
Gently passed into the hands of Mr.. John
A, Gray, who has become sole proprie-
tor
a seizure was made in New Orleans,
on the LIST instant, of 1134 loayes of bread
for being short weight.
1t costs the New York Central Railroad
Company Il million three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year for wood
only.
The Brunswick, Me-, Telegraph says
that November 25th was the coolest day
Of November in that vicinity for the past
ifty-two years. 49,
The Schenectady Star avs that she
ice Is thick over Erie's bosom, and sher
waters throb no more"
Jubilee college, Illinois, the especial
care of the yenerated Bishop Chase, was
destroyed by fire on the 25th ult.
A young horse in Waterville, Me-, It
is said, would recently have trotted a
mile in 2:3O had the distance not been
too long. -e4as1.
The Charleston (S. c. Courier thus
alludes to the emancipation of his slaves
by the late G. w. P. Gusts at is high
time Virginia had some law on her sta
tute book against this destruction of pro-
perry"
Late advices from Yucatan are TO the
effect that the Campeachy revolutionists
still holdOut.
The small pox which has slightly pre-
vailed In Georgetown has made its ap-
pearance in Montgomery county, Mary
land.
On the Sth of January there was three
conventions of the soldiers of 1SI2-one
in Washington, one in Philadelphia, and
one in New York.
Senator Houston, having arrived in
Washington, appeared in his seat in the
Senate chamber on the 25th ult., for the
first time during the present session.
For more than two years, Mr.. GEORGE
d. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal. has
written his editorials by his
hands being paralyzed to such a degree
that he cannot use them.
Simeon Holton, of Middleburg, claims
to have invented a thermometer that will
register any degree of heat or cold with
out the use of mercury, spirits, or any,
thing of the kind, whatever.
Jacob A. Smith, formerly for many
years owner of the Bangor Wing, assist
ed that paper in setting up the last Presi-
dents Message. After disposing prompt
ly Of his "take7 he remarked that this
was the tUenty-seUenh annual Presiden-
tlal Message which he had assisted to put
IN type, and further that it was the 9th
In succession.
The Albany Knickerbocker denies the
commonly received statement that the
sculptor Crawford was a native American
and at the same time says
ave know that he was a native of
Ireland, and emigrated with his parnnts
an an early age, (about seven years.
from Ballyshanon, in the county of Done
gal, and the writer of this was we'll ac-
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