Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-04-06
NEWS ITEMS.

FSpluuleSi .,tt rl ...'' al g.s.. .y-sI.J
GE-The Washington correspondent, of
the "Tribune," telegraphs that James
Gordon Bennett win be appointed Minis
ter to Austria as soon as Congress adj
journs. 'fela0' Lttt 81 .o7ii e.Eid
EN-A bill has been introduced IN the
Virginia Senate, to exempt from distress
or levy, one slave, The list of articles .es-
kelnpted winds up as followa Bibles.l
prayer book, nigger. This shows that
slavery is "a divine institution. '1esisai =
Es"One day, not quite three weeks ago,
a lady of this vicinity, says the Johns
town, Pa "Echo," attended the funeral of
her mother at three O'Clock, P. M; was
led to the altar blushing bride 1--WE pre-
sumo she blushed; if she didn'tsho ought)
at 6 o'clock, just three hours afterwards
and now is making application for a di-
vorce.-ET, -.. r.t.
Gs- The jury in the case Of Hiram Cole,
indicted for poisoning his wife. Adeli.
Cole on the 9th and 9th days of Septem-
Der, 1856, in Geauga Co., have failed to
agree upon verdict, and having been out
twenty-five hours, they were on the 10th
inst. discharged. .. .. .t
|. MI IL 10 oChLcu budLI OuClC orc dDOuO Ouo
million bushels of wheat in store, and
about sixty thousand barrels of flour at Chi
cago. Wheat is selling at 53@ 55 cents.
1t is the general opinion that two millions
bushels Of grain will be ready there for
transportation upon the opening of nayi-
CATION. ...... ... ... ...... .... -..t
TIE PATENT OFFIcE.-It is well known
that Messrs. Gale IL Lane, Examiners of
the Patent Office, were removed from
Office on account Of their alleged connection
with the school maintained in Washington
for the instruction of coored children.
The removal, for the same cause of an
| other Examiner Mr.. Peale, is now de-
manded by Southern newspaper.
E9-The Springfield tHl. " Journal
states that Rev. Andrew Jackson, highly
respectable clergyman of color. contem-
plates visiting Liberia in the spring, as an
exploring agent in company with a small
band of emigrants from Springfield and
Jacksonville who go out as pioneers of a
larger number who expect to emigrate TO
Liberia in Autumn.
Ey"The Chicago ''Tribune" says that
| Col. Dversev is about to establish an Ad-
ministration organ in that city, to oppose
Douglas. 1t will be called the "National
Democrat" This is the opening of the
Buchanan programme against Douglas of
| Illinois. The Senate has confirmed Cook
rs Postmaster at Chicago, and the Douglas
Postmasters in Illinois may now prepare
to walk the plank. s.
! TIE HARPERs' F1RE-It will be recol-
lected that the burning of Harpers' print-
ing establishment, In New York, i'll 1855,
WIS caused by TIN owing match into some
camphene kept for cleansing rollers. Tho
Insurance Companies refused to pay tho
! insurance on the ground that the use of
camphene, being dangerous article, vita
ted the policy. The Court of Appeals i'll
New York, however, decided in Harpers'
favor. The ground of the decision was,
that when an Insurance Company insures
on ork-shop, they take the risk of all
the articles ordinarily and necessarily used
in the trade carried OH, and that the fact
of camphene being on tho premises does
not violate the insurance, because it was
necessarily used in the business. -...
lsy The passage by the Texas Legisla-
ture, Just adjourned, of an act calling for
a Southern Convention to dissolve the
Union, and appropriating $4,000 out of
any money in the Treasury, to defray ex-
penses, in the event of the rejection of the
Kansas swiudle by Congress, IS Il rich joke,
when it is considered that the Treasury is
bankrupt and that the Safe is compound
ing with her creditors. The Treasury of
Texas don't contain ten thousand dollars,
or ten thousand cents. These are the fel-
lows who want the Union dissolved, if
q, ,I,,,,
a rcpudialed swindle for Constitution
Ci Com. 81
E9y-A few days since libel snit was
brought against Anson G. Phelps Presi-
j dent of the New York Colonization Socie-
! ty, by a colo-ed man named Lewis IL.
Putnam, in the Supreme Court of New
York. The damages We're laid at $1O,-
900. 1t appears that the plaintiff was en-
gagged iha new plan whereby to co!onize
Liberia, and collected considerable money
i'll behalf of the object. The Colonization
! Soc3ty, believing his operations were
fraudulent, dehotnced him as aswindler,
and hence the suit.
e On Saturday morning the jury were
D. charged by Judge Lod and, half an hours
deiberation, returned with verdict for
tho defendant.
Mr.. Van Buren,, counsel for defendant,
moved that Putnam be sent before the
Grand Jury, in order to be indicted for
perjury. it being alleged that the plaintiff
swore falsely on the witness stand. The
| Judge aaid lie would lay the papers be-
fore the Grand Jury.
INFANrIcIDE-Mrs. Sciotha Gregg, Il
widow woman, in Rockville, Parke county,
Indiana, was committed to Jail on Sunday
the 2lst inst, on a charge of intanicide.1
1t appears from evidence before coroner's
! jury that Mrs G. had given birth to n
child some time in February, had encased
!, itin pillow slip, into which she also put