Freeman's champion., 1858-07-08
Editorial Brevities.

the world is said to be at Richmond
Va. The Whi0 Of the 18th inst. ,,
says that Messrs. Warwick, Barks
dale & Co.. have Just finished putting
up mill there, which is ninety-six
by hundred and sixty-fve feet, and
tsoelve stories high,, and the entire cost.
OF it is supposed to be about one hum
dred and thirty thousand dollars.
Foley, the "Indianny ieller,""
who is now "turned 'loase" in his
District, acknowledges he " did write
that letter. that's fact, but they
mucilated it most damnably in pnb-'
fishing it,"
- A duel was fought in Missis-
sippi, short time since, by Mr.. T.
Knott and Mr.. A. w. Shott. The
result was Knott was shot, and Shott
was not. AS it resulted we would ,
rather have been Shott than Mott
- There is one good thing about
the slavery party-they take care Of
the wounded in their cause. Judge
Loring's bleeding wound ashealea~
at Washington, and the next victim
of Massachusetts, fanaticism, Rev.
Seth Bliss of the tract society, is
translated to a fat place in the free
and easy tract Office at New York.
The New York Tribune says
satisfactory letters had been received
from Mr.. Sumner, dated the 1lth
ult., written on board the Vanderbilt
in the English Channel. Mr.. Sum
ner had borne the passage better than
on his previous voyage, and was in
hopes that few months would exter-
inmate his deep-Seated trouble.
David Cline, the Free Labor
candidate, was elected Mayor of
Memphis, Mo-, on the 18th. He
beat Philip Payne, the Pro-Slavery
candidate, by a large majority.
John Stockton Of New Jer-
sey, son of Commodore Stockton,
has been nominated Minister to
Switzerland, in place Of Theodore S.
Fay, whose commission dates back
at least twenty years. Mr. Stockton
has hitherto acted with the Republi-
can party.
- 1t costs twenty-six dollars an
hour to light the new hall of the House
of Representatives at Washington
with gas. ,r.S,,.
- The French Gazette Med;cale
states that by an accident, charcoal
has been discovered to be cure for
burns. By laying piece of cold
charcoal upon the burn, the pain sub
sides Immediately. By leaving the
charcoal on one hour, the wound is
healed, as has been demonstrated on
several occasions. The remedy is
'cheap and simple, and certainly de-
serves a trial.
- During the first quarter of the
current year, only fifteen hundred
white persons were added to the pop
ulation of California by immigration.
- The working days in Switzer-
land are from fourteen to nineteen
hours. Wages, for children, five
cents per day; women, from sixteen,
to thiNy men, forty to fifty.
- 1t has been going the rounds
Of the press, that the Wisconsin Leg
islature lately restored capital pun
ishment as q part Of their criminal
code. The Free Democrat denies the
statement.
A letter from the coast Of
Africa mentions twenty-five vessels
Of all descriptions, which have been
captured by the English cruiuers since
April Of last year, for being engaged.
in the slave trade; All but ono
American, and the larger humber be-
longed to New York, Boston and New
Orleans.
The w estern part Of the State
of Virginia is becoming leavenod
with free labor like Missouri, and the
free soilers have just carried Hancock.