M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1858-01-21
Eicnls of News.

Va ~
Mr.. Chapman, Senator from Car.
roll and Stark counties, has been ad-
mitted to his seat, Mr.. Meyer, Re-
publican, who held the certificate OF
election, refusing to contest the elec.
tion when he ascertained the facts in
the case. This is All honorable act Of
Mr.. Meyer.
WM. II. CLOVES, lately under Gen.
Walker in Nicaragua, and afterwards
connected with the Memphis Bulletin,
committed suicide at Richmond, Va,
on the 7lh inst, by taking arsenic.
Gov. POWELL (Dem.) has been elect.
ed United States Senator from Ken.
lucky. He received 80 votes; Gar
rett Davis 81, and Thompson /.
On the 21st nit, young German,
named Thos. Wooster, a resident o!
Wheeling, got into q difficulty with
a farmer on the road from Pleasant
Hill to Moundsyille, in Marshall Co.,
and received a blow on the head,
which resulted in his death.
Among the documents sent to the
House on the 18th by the President,
was a letter from the Nicaraguan
Minister, Senor Yrissari, thanking
the Government for the arrest of Gen.
Walker by Commodore Paulding.
SUICIDE OF AN Ex-P -PREsIDENT.--Dr.
A. Jones, cx-President of Texas, com.
mitted suicide at Houston, on the 8th
instant, by blowing out his brains.
The leading commercial houses Of.
Montreal, Canada, have given notice
that, they will, on ard after the 1st
instant, adopt the decimal system Of
weights as well as currency. Amove-
mcnt towards the same object has
been made in Quebec.
The Virginia House, on the 18th,
adopted the caucus resolutions in favor
Of the admission Of Kansas under the
Lccompton constitution. The Senate
postponed them.
The Tampa Peninsular of the 10Th
utimo, contains intelligence ofanoth,
er battle between the volunteers and
Indians. This engagement occurred
on the ID ultimo, supposed to be with
the same Indians engaged in the mas
sacre Of horses belonging to Captains
Stevens's and Stewards expedition,
heretofore noticed. About two hun
drcd Indians participated in the en-
and one hundred and cigh,
ty.seyen volunteer troops. Five oil
the Indians and one Of the volunteers
were killed.
Hon. JouN 3. AsuE, formerly a.
member Of Congress from Tennessee,
died in Texas recently.
Miss ELIZA LESLIE, known to every
housekceper in the land by her books
on cookery, died at Gloucester, n. j.,
on New Years day. She was a ma
tive OF Philadelphia, and was 60 years
old. Besides her "Sevcnty.fve Re
ceipts," her Behavior Book" and
her works on housekeeping, Miss Les.
lie was the author Of "Althca Yer
non," Mrs. Washington POTTS." and
other spirited tales and sketches. She
was sister ofC. r. Leslie, the celc.
brated English painter.
Governor MORRILL,, of Maine, in .
his annual message, attributes the
monetary crisis to the overpowering
national tendency to over,trading and
social display. Inregard to tic banks
he suggests a prohibition Of the cir
culation of small bills, and holds that
the multiplicity Of banks in the State
IS an evil, and spirit of rivalry
among banks promotivo ofovil. Leg,
slative measures are suggested to
q recurrence of bank suspen-
,ions.
A portion of the embryo Territory
If Dacotah, situated on the high table
ands between the James and Missouri