The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1858-03-26
Miscellaneous Items.

| SURPRISE PREsESrs. Hon. Linus Child
was visited at his residence. OH Wednesday
evening. by about fifty members Of his Sab
bath School Class. and presented with VOL
ume containing photographs OF forty-one of
them. The photographs were take by War
rem. and were splendid specimens of art.
u A little more of that ISL. 900 has been
accounted for. A man named Reynolds from
New York was before the Congressional in
vestigating committee and stated that Mr..
Stone paid him $500 for his influence in Sc
curing the passage of the tariff bill, but says
he did not use any Of the money to buy
members of Congress.
IL The Delaware Indians in Kansas are
wealthy. The General Government owes
them upwards of million of dollars, and
when their lands are divided there will be
about three hundred acres for every man,
woman and child in the tribe. 1t is estimat-
ed by many that the average worth Of these
lands will be $50 per acre.
The LILIES. A traveller in Palestine says !;
"Sot far from the probable site of where
the sermon was delivered on the Mount, our
guide plucked two flowers, supposed to be Of
that species to which our Lord alluded when
he said consider the lilies of the field The
ealyx OF this giant lily resembled crimson vel
vet; and the gorgeous flower was of white
and lilac. and truly no earthly monarch could
have been 'auayed' more gloriously than zone
of these Such is the testimony Of nature to
the words spoken by our Lord"
II An infant child Of Mrs. Stephen Mon
agan of Ellsworth, Maine. was left in the
cradle while she went after a pail of water.
When the mother returned. she found. to her
horror that stray pig had forced his way
into the room and eaten of two fingers from
one hand of the child. and badly mangled an
other.
IL A correspondence Of New Orleans
paper. in description of the marriage Of two
slaves on a neishbOring plantation, remarks
that the minister, instead OF the words, "un-
til death do part ye," used the words, sunless
you are uAavoidably separated"
To- Hon. S. 5. Cox, Representative from
Ohio, writing home to his constituents. says
that those who undertake to read the West
ern democrats opposing Lecompton, out Of
the party, might Us well try to read the hiek-
/ cries out OF the western woods.
w The Great Shoshonee Falls, on the
Snake river. a branch OF the Columbia, for
merly called Lewis Fork, in Oregon, are said
to be next to Niagara in grandeur. They are
situated in the great volcanic desert Of Ore
son, region OF appalling sterili,y. and lie so
tar from the ordinary route across the con-
tinen,. that they have been comparatively IN
known.
L. The Philadelphia Press predicts that
the revival OF the slave trade will be. at the
end OF another year. the test oil Democracy.
-. A correspondent OF the Argus thinks
that 500. 900 people will visit Portland, while
the monster steamship Le,ia,han is lying at
that port the coming summer. lie says New
England ought to furnish 100000 the British
dependencies $4,000. the valley Of the Missis.
sippi so, 900, the Middle States 100000; and
adds, that this vast army will probably leave
in the State. and most oft in the city, S3,Ooo.-
900. OF $40 each.
CLOSE CALCULATION. The republican State
committee, at the head OF which is Hon. L.
II. Rollins of Concord. before the election
made thorough and careful canvas of the
State, and published the result, giving Halle
a majority OF All votes. His actual majori.
~ in all Is about one hundred more than
that.
4 Col. SUMNER ACQUITTED. The recent court
martial assembled for the trial OF Col. Sum
ner. returned an aequittal, holding that no
challenge was sent by him to Gen. Harvey.
The Secretary of War dissents from the End.
ing OF the court, but we are not informed
what he intends to do about it.
NEw HAMPsniRE ELECTION. Returns from
. all but seven small towns give Halle s6.292
, Cate, 3i,l6S. Hailes majority $3.50.
rT Altered bills on the Rutland (vt.I
bank. of the denomination of ten dollars ar,
in circulation in Boston.
r. little boy. son Of J. q. Dickerson
ESQ, Of Belfast, was shockingly burned or
Friday evening Of last week. by the break
} ing Of fluid lamp. Leaning on the leaf O
. table, IL was tipped over, and the lamI
broken. The little fellow fingers in great az
ony with but slight hopes OF recovery.
TIA man named wyman. stole sax
from Miss Sally Fuller of Alstesd. y. IL.
and Aed to Keene, Deerfeld and Ashburn
ham, Mass, where he was arrested on sun
day. lie had spent about $50. loaned $loo
buried SIS. and had 800 IN his possession.
" The large pail factory OF Jonathan
Wheeler, in Athoi, Mass, was destroyed b,
Dire last Saturday morning, and the loss "
roughly estimated at $4,000. with an insur'
anee OF only $4,000.
Long Tsrm,.--Three desperadoes eonvietec
at Boston of an assault with intent to rob
reserved severe sentences on Tuesday, George
, II. Stone to ten years in the state prison
George w. Burriit to fifteen years, and Eben'
lsssf Whiting To thirteen years.