The Kanzas news., 1858-01-23
News Summary.

the United States in iron castings.
It is stated that not a single bank in tine
British North American Provinces sus-
pended specie payment in the recent crisis
A State temperance convention will be
held in Des Moines, Iowa, on the first
Tuesday of Feb.
The Chicago Press foots up the loss of
property by lake disasters for the year at
81, ,9eO,515. The loss of lives at 221.
1t is stated that rich lead deposits have re-
Gently been brought TO light In Savannah,
Hardin county, Ill.
The preliminary steps for the construc-
ton of bridge across the Niagara at Buf-
falo, are being taken.
Mr.. Orr, the Speaker of the present
House of Representatives, is but thlrty-six
years of age.
Bloodhounds are introduced in the Flor
ida Indian war Several officers have packs
with which TO hunt the Seminoles.
A cultivated mind and good heart will
give an intellectual and even beautiful ex-
preston to the face.
The receipts of the New York Tribune
for subscriptions alone during the first week
in Dec, amounted to 81, 552 81.
The total shipment of coal from Pitts
burg this season, to the first of Nov, was
thirty millions of bushels.
The bees which have been imported into
California thrive so well that good hive
of them is worth 500.
Mr.. Tiemann, the newly elected Mayor
of New York, is native of Penn. He
once carried on the red and white lead
business in Pittsburgh.
The editor of the Medical Journal in
France has been committed to prison for
three months for speaking disrespectfully of
the Emperor.
Furs to the amount of $18O,O0O have
been exported from Minnesota the past year.
being an increase of $4,000 over that of
1856.
The Mormon war closes the great thor
oughfare to California via the South Pass,
leaving open only the Southern route along
the 32d parallel.
Geo. D. Prentice, the well known editor
of the Louisville Journal, has for two years
past written his editorials by auaanuenses,
his hands being paralyzed to such a degree
that he cannot use them.
1t is said that Forney's Press has ad-
vanced so rapidly in circulation since his
revolt agaigst Buchanan's Lecompton poll
cy, that he has been obliged to order new
fast press to meet the demand.
The New Orleans Courier, the leading
Democratic paper in that city, insists that
President Buchanan must acquire Cuba, as
off-c of To oh
come in as free State.
Ex-Governor Walker intends to take the
stump against the Administration in the
South. He has letters approving his course
from leading Democrats of Maryland and
Texas.
Portsmouth, co. is in danger of being
washed away by the Ohio river Several
acres have been carried off, several blocks
of buildings have been undermined, and the
channel is enchroaching at the rate of a
foot per day.
1t is said that Mr.. Giddings will, in the
course of the present session, prepare a
speech on the Slavery question, which he
will either read himself or have read by
brother member. His usual extempore
style is not permitted by his physician.
Columbia will press upon Congress the
project of allowing the District delegate
on the floor of the House of course, with
out the right to vote, the same as is now
permitted to the various Territories.
The Jersey City Telegraph, which for a
year past has carried the name of Stephen
A. Douglas at its head as its candidate for
President in 1860, has hauled down its flag
and denounced the Little Giant without
stint.
Gov. Wise. in one of his recent messages
says that Virginia has 100000 acres,
containing at least 784, ,OOO, 900 bushels of
oysters and that the maternal oyster is SO
prolific that she spawns 5000, 900 annually,
all in one month.
The Freemasons of New York propose
to erect a monument in honor of DIR. Kane
"a snow peak of immense hight-in the
white marble, of irregular shape, with four
tablets in the base, appropriately inscribed.
The Philadelphia EUening Journal prints
an extract from letter from England re-
ceived by gentleman of that city, which |
states the number of Sepoys slaughtered in
the storming and capture of Delhi at ten
thousand.
Miss Hester A. Burgess sued N. F.
Wood, in Kanawa county, Va, last week,
for damages for breach of promise. 1t was
proved in evidence that the young lady was
a fiirt, and the jury tccordingly awarded
her but one cent damages.
Letters have been received at Newark.
N. j., from India, announcing the massacre
at Delhi of the Rev. Mr.. Freeman and wife, |
American missionary. They were behead-
ed by the natives after having been kept
prisoners for some days; they were both
natives of Newark.
The Presbyterian Board have re-estab-
lished mission among the Afghans, an in