The Kanzas news., 1858-03-27
Editorial News Items.


under the Lecompton Constitution.
New York has nearly five hundred
miles Of paved streets.
About thirty artesian wells are in sue
cessful operation in Iroquois County. Wis.
"A bill has passed the Rhode Island
Legislature which requires the sale of grain
by weight. sssat, *
The nett proceeds of the Calico Ball
lately given in New York for the benefit of
the poor vas s4,685.
a--A white man received thirty lashes on
his bare back, at Winchester. Va, on Fri
day last, for stealing stove.
The majority of the Democratic lead
ers and newspapers in California side with
Douglas, against Buchanan, on the Kanzas
question. iJa
The Tennessee House of Representa-
tives have rejected resolution inviting
Gen. VIM. Walker to address them upon
Nicaraguan affairs.
The Washington correspondent of
Forney's Philadelphia Press. says, sit is
not an extrayagant surmise that ere another
week rolls by the vote against Lecompton
will reach two thirds of the members of
the House."
IA Mr.. Tudor. living near Lynn, Mass,
planted several acres of potatoes, in No
yember last. They were planted in the
usual manner except little deeper, with
no covering but the earth. The result will
be looked for with some curiosity.
The Republicans were triumphant at
the recent city election in Chicago. Mr..
Haines, their candidate for Mayor, having
been elected by majority of over eleven
hundred votes.
The Ohio Statesman claims that there
are not three hundred naturalized Demo-
Gratis in Ohio, who do not protest against
''the Know Nothing Lecompton Consti-
tuition"
The editor of the Mattoon (Ill. Gazette,
Democratic paper, has come out in favor
of the Slave Trade. This is the Democra-
cy of 1853!
Another Administration paper called
the National Democrat, is to be started in
Chicago. J 5ar aal
The opinion has been freely expressed
by various Washington correspondents that
Mr.. Buchanan cannot live long. The har-
assing nature of his cares are making great
inrosds on his health.
ia The Chicago Tribune says that Sena-
tor Seward's great speech against the Le-
compton Constitution has added cubit to
the political stature of this statesman.
Col. Benton is preparing life of An
drew Jackson, to be published by the Ap
pletons.
a-Madame Goldschmidt is expected to
arrive in England early in June, it is said,
with the intention of taking up her perma-
nent residence there-and, possibly, of
singing in public.
The Town Elections in New York
have resulted in great gains to the Repub
lican party. Thirty-ni counties have
been heard from, which elect 424 Repub-
ican, 79 American and 221 Democratic
Supervisors. This is a forcible comment
on Mr.. Buchanan's Lecompton policy.
- The Washington correspondent of the
New York Courier and Enquirer says it is
commonly supposed that Calhoun has al
ready issued certificates to Marshall, the
pro-slavery candidate for Governor of Kan
zas, 10 the other persons on the State tick
ct with him, and to majority of the pro-
slavery candidates for the Legislature.
a The salary of Henry Ward Beecher,
it is said, is to be raised to $1,000 per annum.
"A little girl about four years of age,
died in Auburn, N. z, on the Esd ult.,
from accidentally swallowing pin while
playing with it.
The Southern papers threaten Balti-
more with withdrawal of trade. on ac-
count of Winter Davis vote against the
Lecompton Constitution.
1T is said there were applicants at
Washington for Judge Kane's place, be-
fore he was dead.
The Superior Chronicle of Feb. 10th.
says that the weather remains quite cold.
On the 10th, the coolest of the season,
the thermometer indicated twenty -four de
grees below zero.
The weekly Bank statement shows
an increase of S6e, ,3s2 in loans : an in
g crease in specie of S242. .6i7; a decrease in
circulation of 81, ,s5s an increase in nom
inal deposits of s6i3, 13e and decrease
in undrawn deposits of s275.6S5- Total
specie. s31.e58. .694.
Capt. Harrison, who Is to command
the Leviatkaa, writes to friend in Boston,
that be Is in hopes to be in Portland with
his vessel IN the latter part of the month Of
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