The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-29

ticket, State and town. How the lady inter.
preted the missive we do not know; but the
! moderator and clerk ungsllsntly refused to
count the love-letter, and the Republican can
didate was declared elected by one majority.
So says the Providence IL. l. Journal
The Chicago Daily Press of the 10th says:
ave find, by consulting our files, that on
the 9th day of June, 1857, fifty bushels Of
new barley from Southern Illinois were sold in
the Cincinnati market and we learn, further,
that by the 4th of July the wheat harvest had
fairly commenced in Union and adjoining coun-
ties. That was early, but, judging from present
indications, the harvest in that section of our
state will commence a week or two earlier the
present season. Winter wheat has already at
tanned very strong growth. and we should
not be surprised if the first offerings of Egypt
should be made by the middle of june"
The question of calling Constitutional Con.
vention, which the New York Legislature has
submitted for the election next November,
takes the people by surprise, no antecedent
discussion or suggestion even having been had
or heard. The present Constitution was framed
in 1916, and provides in itself that the cues
ton now submitted shall be voted upon in 1866,
and each twentieth year thereafter. The Al
bany Journal, therefore, thinks it might be
better to bear with the defects in the present
instrument until 1866, rather than run the risk
of getting worse, or even no better.
The New York Mayor and Aldermen have
disposed of the vexed street commissioner
Question, by voting Devlin, Mayor Woods man.
cut, and Edward Cooper, new and honest
Iaan, the papers say, in. Devlin is to come
before the Grand Jury for bis supposed venali.
| ties in office.
| 1t is stated that Senator Biggs is to be i'm.
| raedistely made district Judge of Nor.h Caro-
Ina. he will be succeeded by Mr.. Chngmsn
IN the Senate, by the Governors appointment.
The New York Legislature closed its annual
+, session on Tuesday night, having lasted about
g week over the hundred days to which it's pay
| j. limited by the Constitution. 1t omitted al.
| together any provision for the continuance and
completion of the enlargement of the canals
refusing alike propositions to impose toll on
! the freight over the New York central railroad
for the benefit of the canals, to borrow four
millions which would finish up the whole job,
end to lay mill tax to carry on the work this
| year. The other great omission of the SEES
| sion is the registry law strenuous efforts to
enact one failed for the lack of very few votes
o.,
to make up for the loss of those things which it
should have done, but did not. The Democrats,
upon whom the responsibility of legislation
rested, did not dare to meet it in any form on
the canal question. They got power because
| the Republicans last year met the question by
direct tax they will lose it next fell, because
they were so timid as to do nothing, and let the
great work stand still.-Sprinqtfeld Republican.
Seventy-one years ago, the 7.h day of this
month, April, the first emigrsnt party arrived
at Marietta, Ohio, from Massachusetts,, and
made the first permanent settlement that was
made in the State. Among those who went
with the infant colony were Gen. Lewis Glass;
Ex-Governor Woodbridge of Michigan, and Dr.
Hidreth, who yet live, and enjoy hale and
vigorous old age.
"What a change in seventy-one years Ohio
has now two million Eve hundred thousand
people, industrious, enterprising, intelligent.
She has $85 100000 of taxable property,
S3,500,000 in school-houses, and an annual
school tax for the education of all her children
of 100000; and more miles of canal and
railroad than any State in the Union. How
wonderful has been her growth and her pro.
gress in all the elements of material, moral,
| and intellectual wealth"
The old Methodist pioneer, Rev. Peter Cart.
| wright, was q delegate from Sangamon county
| to the late Illinois Democratic State Conven-
| ton.
Charles Dickens read his Christmas Carol in
the Music Hall at Edinburgh, Scotland, on the
evening of the Goth ult., and the Lord Provost
presented to him massive silver wassail cup,
amid the prolonged cheers of the assembly.
The sale of Mount Vernon to the Ladies'
Mount Vernon Association has been made, and
SIS, 900 paid on it. Mr.. Washington keeps
possession until $4,000 is paid.
If Col. Colt does not succeed in getting an ex.
tension of his patent from Congress, he keeps
on the kind side of the army, and manages to
get fat contracts from the ordnance department.
1t has just ordered new lot of 1000 of his re-
volrers, of which 1000 are to be delivered i'm.
mediately.
The introduction of cotton manufactures into
the State penitentiary has proved very satisfsc.
tory. The mills now turn out from ten to
twelve thousand yards per week. The impcr-
lance to the people of Eastern Texas of the
little stream Angelina has been demonstrated
the past winter. Several thousand bales of
cotton have been taken off by this route, with
out the aid of steam-the planters and the
merchants Of the vicinity having constructed
fats and keels for the purpose. The prospect
for the grain and fruit crops in Western Texas
is reported as remarkably good.
According to the United States Treasures
statement, the fc lowing is the condition of the
Treasury:
Amount on deposit $7,035 1902
Drafts drawn, but not paid l,5l2,276.47
Amount subject to draft 1923 506.55
Reduction from last week ls6 9572I
Receipts $4,000 oil
Drafts paid 607,93l II
Drafts issued 784, 1922
Pelisser, Duke of Malakoff, the new French
ambassador 10 England, is preparing for
splendid display. His official carriage will sur
pass in beauty and cost that made for Marshal
Soult and the coronation of Queen Victoria.
The new Minister'S income is now as follows !:
Annual salary as ambassador, 800, 900 francs !;
for installation, or what was called under our
old diplomatic law outfit" 100, 900 francs; to
support the title of Duke of Malakof, 100000
francs a year; as Marshal of France, 10000
francs and after these, several smaller sums
for the various decorations he wears. The TO-
tai is about $4,000 francs year, or $ll5,00
As he ia a bachelor, the Baroness Mslsret,
wife of the first Secretary of Legation, lady
eminently qualified, will do the honors of the
embassy.
A story has been travelling the rounds, to the
effect that Lord Rose had predicted an exces
sively hot summer, and had built shelters for