Nebraska advertiser., 1858-03-04
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NElWS 11btAS
The number of postage stamps used IN
the United States, last year, IS SAID 10
have been nearly one hundred and sixty
nine millions, valued at $4,649,975.
The Artesian Well of Belcher s. Bros.
in ST. Louis, is now 1920 feet deep, be-
ing 400 feet deeper than that Of Messrs.
Dupont, at Louisville, KY,
II is said that George Loder, the musi-
cal composer, is to marry Mrs. Catharine
Sinclair Forrest, the divorced wife of Ed
win Forrest the tragedian.
THE oldestmarried couple alive are sup
posed to be a Mr.. Snyder and his wife,
who reside at Burnside, Pa. He sill,
and she is 107 years old, and they have
been married SO years.
The Empress Eugene, Of France, re-
Gently appeared at a ball, wearing jewels
whose value was e~stimated1at $500, 600,
and having founces of lace on her robe
that cost $4,000.
The bill to prevent the circulation Of
foreign bank notes Of a less denomination
than SIS has passed both Houses Of the
Legislature Of Kentucky. The bill takes
effect on the 1st Of January next.
Mai. John P. Gaines, who was elected
to Congress, a Wing, from the district of
Kentucky opposite Cincinnati, while he
Twas a prisoner in Mexico, and late Gov
ernor of Oregon, died recently in that
Territory. eAt
A correspondent at Fort Wayne writes
to the Indianapolis State Journal, that the
aRegulators" in Noble county hung two
more men, on Saturday, at Kendalville.
The excitement in Noble and adjoining
counties continues great. The same Greg
u~lators" who hung McDougal at Ligoni-
er, hung the two men at Kendalville on
Saturday. W
!. The Boston Transcript of Feb. A, says:
{. "Our city has fairly recovered from the
depression which prevailed early in the
winter, and is now quite gay. The best
musicians and caterers will not experience
so dull a season as was anticipated six
weeks ago. Private theatricals are held
nightly in several parts of the city, and
in many cases the performances are of a
high order of merritt a
CANAL BANK OF CLrvELAND.-Let
any person who holds a note on this Bank,
look to it now. The following note will
tell why:
OFF1cE TREAsURER OF STATE
Columbus Jan. %, '58.
AlEpersons holding the circulating notes
Of the Canal Bank of Cleveland, or other
claims on which no dividend has been
paid, and not in litigation, are hereby no.
titled to present the same at this office, on
or before the first day of March next.
All claims of the above character not pre-
scented by that time will be ruled out.
A. P. Stone Treasurer of State.
g ANOTHER New TERRIToRY.-It is
proposed to make an effort for a Terri
torial organization of the upper PENN
sula of Michigan, under the name of Su-
perior or Mackinaw. The country en-
braces some sixteen thousand square miles
abounds in mineral resources, and has an
estimated population of ten thousand. At
present, it is a part of the state of Mich
tigan, from the main portion of which, it
is separated by the Straits of Mackinaw,
and with which it has no common in
terests. 'F -35 d. ~.
The Secretary of the Treasury has Civ
en- official notice that sealed proposals will
be received at this department until the
fifteenth day of March proximo, for the
issue of any portion, or the whole, of FIVE
millions of dollars in Treasury notes in
exchange for gold coin of the United
States, the Treasurer of the Mint at,Phil-
adelphia, the Treasurer of the Branch
Mint at New Orleans, or the Assistant
Treasurers at Boston, New York, Charles
ton, or St. Louis, within ten days from the
acceptance of such proposals, under the
authority of the act of Congress entitled,
, "An act to authorize the issue of Treas
ury notes, approved 23d Dec, 1857.
No wonder they died like rotten sheep
at the National Hotel in Washington city.
The new lessees of that establishment, in
cleaning out, found an enormous quantity
of decayed matter, enough of all sorts to
have killed an army, if they had been
subjected to its exhalations. They re-
moved sixty-seven cart loads Of putrid
stuff, part of which was the contents of
the privy vault, that had overfown into
the cellar, from the drains that became
damned up in some way. The remain
der was from the kitchen, and all in the
most offensive condition imaginable. 1t
is strange that more persons were not de-
stroyed.
The Governors of Kansas are a short
lived race-real political ephemera. Gov
ernor No l, A. H. Reeder, reached Kan
sas October 6, 1854; removed July 81,
1S55-term of service ten months. Gov
ernor No 2, Wilson Shannon, reached
Kansas September l, 1856; removed Au-
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