The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-12-31
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Il WEasfEas Sirius The Abcli,Ioni.,. - I
l ultra RePahliean4 Of Massachusetts IRE clrevI..
iilg pettsoEs 70 the Legislature 81 III. STAT. 4,
remove from The Stateshouse grounds the st.sa.
Of Daniel Webster, designed 81 power.. ab;ss !,
Fss recsntly. with he proper solesnhl,les. ,l...
!. there by The admirers and friends 81 lbe rreat
statesman. Garrlson's paper d q course ram
rant on tbe subject WI omit bin remarks. ID.
append the petition 70 he legislature. owe. ,he
Undersigned, citizens Of Tie Commonwealth a.
the State o. Massachusetts, respectfully al Won
e remove from the State-houss grounds & Il
i honor g The State and fep1enart 10 he moral
fsnss q The people The statue II Daniel Web
stper, whose last years were spent II defendlua
4 Inc Fugitive. Slave Bin, and whose last eoun.sI I
g the commonwealth was % conquer her pre-
4 lualess5 sga inat slaye-huutina, and 10 return
men g bondage with aIacfity..,'
AnEaicaN RlplRp cAsKos. "A trial q !. I.
riiled slx Founder was recently made Il Fiusbnn.
~ before several military officers oe ,hs Mex
loan Constitutional Government The firsng w.s
extraordinary, and rivals THAT 81 he most. CON,
nlex English and French pieces. The gun IL i
common bronze cannon, five feel long. weighing
$50 pounds, and ritled with eight grooves The
.argst 5 by Z feet, moorsd a. 4 mile distance.
received Elk ont Of eight shots Cred aiter Inc Gun
was brought % bear upon Il, i've Of which
were within 20 inches or The centre 81 The bull,l
eye This suc cess II attributed 10 new ccnstfcss
tion Of projectile. invented by The late Andrew
Il Hotchkiss, of Connecticut, and aaid 10 have been
recently improved. Afterths target practice.
4 the mufzle of The rum was elevated, and several
1 shots thrown 70 distances yarioubly estimated
between three and four miles. The projeciiles
are oblong, weighing nine and three-quAtter
pounds each, and were fired on the long range
i with fourtetnouncss n Dupsrt's powder. m
! Coon sfUHH The London coaff clrculav
1. has q funny story about . LADY, who mora than
y sixteen years ago, named Colson, residing ID
i Hyde Park Terrace, resolved .nsyer to see me
j painted IN her matrimonial ylsws win U6ioneI
I, A. - Ever since the year 1s4s this eccentric
!. maiden lady has lived and slept in ! chambsr
from which al light i tigiily excluded. save what
i furnished % her BY the wax chambers q
! Piccadilly s.
a table compiled from official documents gives
q the number Of Freemasons IN the United States
as oil ,53s. and the income Of al The lodges 10
Z about 81 $50, 900.
sruRdEoE's TA1rRNAcLE. Spurgeon,s nav
tabernacle II deaigned oseat on The ground floor.
I,572; FIRST gallery 7gl upper gallery, GA; total.
i 3,037; standing room, 2 5e6Oj altogether 1897
Madame Dabois DlYtnne, The French scnlp.
tress, has been commissioned 10 execute mar
1 BE bust Of Rsrangsr for ths ACADEMY 81 Paris.
/ Nav MSS Of swedenSOrg's Writings, con.
tanning sketches Of hij journey in Holland ID
Il iI43, and several Of bis mystieAI speculations,
have been discovered in Stockholm. II.
\ NEw PnxsE OF SrtniT-RArFIR0.--A recent
Paris correspondence Of The London Ismsa says:
--tt Hums, the welltkn AmeFicai. Trapping
I medium, has just passed through Paris with his
i wife on his way to America. He not only has
not lost bis power Of evoLing splits, but has
acquired new ADD more terrible power. Instsad
/ q eOnhnirg bis miracles to conversation and
\ communion between the living aud the dead. he
nov places living out widely separated frisnts In
connection, and enables them 70 hold converse
Etogeiher.n
Verdi, The composer, rs one of the dspulatian
sent by the Parma Annexation COMMITTEES to
Tarip. was recognized on his arrival IN that city,
and greeted with aVfpa Fsrdi!' which was tie
Isvorise popular accIamatioa during The late war
exeitsment, the name Of Verdi constituting ,hs
initials Of VietoT ENnaansls, Re q Italia.
Mirielte, the celebrated French archaeioeist,
has engaged 5000 persons TO work al excavations
in The principal historical sites Of Upper Egypt.
! Dr. McGowan Of New York, late 81 Ningpo,
China, has Lately called the attention u the
London Royal biographical Society to the am
Gent changes Of the Yangtss River. and to the
fact that the Chinese procure iron BY washing
the sands Of rivers
The NnE-The great problem Of The source
Of the Nde, which has oeeupisd the attention u
The wotla during % many ages, may now Be
considered Is definitely solved. Captain Spoke,
who has just returned 70 England from an en-.
tended tour N Central Africa, n company with
Captain Bartons discovered . lake, called By tbs
natives NyMaa, bnt BY the Arabs uksrews,
which appears to be the great reservoir otths
Nile It extends from degrees so minutes
south TO 3 degrees 80 minutes north latitude.
lying across the equator In east Longitude a3
degrees. Its waters are The drainage Of numsr-
Gus hills which surround n on almost every side.
The new lake washes ont che MOuntaIas q The
! Moon a. OF present existing on our atlassA f,b: