The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1859-10-13
News Items.

A SNAKE FOR A BEDFELLoW. About two
weeks ago Mr.. John Elder, Of this town, had All
undersack fol. bed filed with straw at g Ken
more,n b5 a negro MAN. It was brought home
and placed under feather bed which was slept
on by a daughter Of Mr. E. The young lady
Complained on q humber ofoccasions of having
her slumbers disturbed by distinct thumps from
underneath, but exam ihation revealed nothing.
On Thursday morning whilst Miss E. was sitting
down stairs, facing the steps which led up to
her room she was startled by curious hoise
and looking UP saw a nocodsih snake descen-
ding, blowing and Kissing in style peculiar to
the reptile. An examination Of the premises
was made at once, when a small hole was discov-
cred in the understanding, and on ripping the
bed open, the full length ola snake was found at
the hole, which his snakeship had shed before
he, resolvedgpn his strike for freedom. Fred
ericksbug 1Ta.) Herald.
Sir JOHN FRANKLIN. Tidings Of this long
lost navigator have at last been received We
learn from England that the steamer Fox, sent
by Lady Franklin to the Artic regions in search
of the traces of Sir John Franklin's expedition
had returned to England having been complete
ly successful At Point William, on the north
west coast of King Williams Island, record
was found dated April 25th, 184S, signed by
Capts Crozier and Fitz James. The record
says the Erebus and Terror were abandoned
three days previously in the ice, and that the
survivors, in all amounting to 1885, were proceed
ing to Great Fish River. Sir John Franklin
had died June 11th 1848, and the total deaths
to date had been nine officers and fifteen men.
FROM OREGON The Oregon dates by the
overland mail are to the Goth of August, at
which time there was considerable excitement
at Portland, in consequence of information hav-
ing been received at head quarters that the In
dams have been committing serious depredations
upon the sparsely settled districts of Oregon.
In the vicinity Of the Warm Spring Reservation
the Indians notified the whites to leave or they
would be massacred. General Harvey haG or
dered small body Of soldiers to march and
chastise them Great quantities of smoke had
recently been noticed issuing from the summit
of Mount Hood, caused, it was thought, by a
volcanic eruption Mount Hood has never be-
fore, within the recollection of the oldest nhabi-
tants exhibited any sign of activity.
NOVELTY A man by the name of Ross has
invented quite novel machine for the proven
ton Of burglary. BY means of wires from each
window the opening of any shutter or door,
attached, is Immediately communicated to the
instrument, which is placed in the sleeping ROOM
the alarm is given, the lamp lighted, and the
door or window indicated simultaneously. The
instrument does not at all interfere with the ev-
cry day opening or closing of the doors, and can
be thrown off or attached at will by the simple
movement Of bolt or pin
The steamer Indian brings report said to
have been received at St. Petersburg, that Mr..
Pekin, but was kept in confinement as prison
err. IF this intelligence proves to be correct
OUT country will no doubt become d party to the
war against China in which France and Eng
ldIlu DIT uOW
JOHN MCGEE a man 80 years Of age, and
an inmate of the workhouse on Blackwell's
Island, was beaten to death on Wednesday by
his roommate Daniel Driscoll, man sent to
the island as a drunken vagrant, but who, it
turns out, was a lunatic. Drscoll beat the man
to death with stool.
A LONDON Journal discussing American
politics. has the following valuable information ::
THE Presidential nominations form the
chief topic of conversation in America There
are three candidates in the field-Wire, Douglas
and Bolts At last accounts Bolts was little
ahead"
V1cKsBURG, Miss, Oct 8-Mr. Partridge,
editor of the Wing, and McGarr, late a candidate
for the State Legislature, had hostile meeting
at De Soto city, but their difficulties were ami
cably adjusted, and no shots were fired.
M. Blondin the great rope walker has pnr-
chased o house completely furnished, at Maya
"a Falls for $4,000 cash-whch amount is p0r-
ton Of the profits of his feats across the chasm
Of the Niagara during the summer.