The Nevada journal., 1859-10-21
Eastern IfeIns.

Barrett Browning is lying seriously
ill at herhome near Florence.-
A private letter from Rome thus
describes the Pope and his Premier !:
sDay before yesterday saw his Ho-
illness. 1t was in his library at the
Vatican. Heitakes snuff !: has fe-
ver-sorc on his leg. and does not stand
or walk much is 81 years old. very
corpulent, and seems truly Ito be
touched with feeling of our infrmi-
ties" He does not do much; is regar-
ded as near his time, and Cardinals
begin to look for his shoes. Cardinal
Antonellfwhose Office at the Vatican
is directly above the Pope's room, is
really the Pope. He is a man As
years of age, active. shrewd, clever.
with good address, and engaging
manners, and works all the time, like
a politician as he is. Temporal af-
fairs occupy him solely: he knows
and cares little for anything beside.
Religion he leaves entirely to the
professors of it,"
The eighth volume of Bancroft's
History of the United States will be
published in a few weeks the histo-
ry including the period e!apsing from
the battle of Bunker Hill to the final
signing of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. Mr. Bancroft's first vol
ume was published twenty-five years
ago. The seventh volume published
last year. is the first of a series of four.
extending from the outbreak of the
Revolutionary War 10 the peace of
Paris in 1852. It's intimated in Har-
per's Weekly that beyond that date
the formation of the Union-Mr.
Bancroft does not intend to proceed,
inasmuch as ogr republican system
since then is toe much of an undeci-
ded experiment TO be treated in a
satisfactory manner by the historian.
The Richmond Enquirer. having
reeeiysd the permission of Harper &
Brothers, republishes Senator Dou-
glas' manifesto entire, and appends
tie following comments:
"Mr. Douglas essay can be regar-
ded in no other light than as an in
ccndiary document, calculated to
produce nothing less than n repeti-
ton Of the anarchy and bloodshed
which has lately disgraced the soil of
our territories. We publish it only
for the purpose of pointing out its er-
rors, and of warning the conservative
men of the whole country against this
last and most dangerous phase which
Anti~Slavery agitatio1has yet assum-
! ed"
Of the proposed monument to Thos.
II. Benton. in St. Louis, the Repu6H-
can of that city says: at was once
proposed. we think, and perhaps steps
were taken TO carry it ont, but it has
fingered so long that it seems necess-
| ary 10 remind his personal and polhi-
cal friends of the fact"
Mrs /. Stowe Is IN England, prepar-
fling her last work, "The Minister'S
Wooing," for publication. It will ap-
pear in October. from the press of
Sampson, Low & Co. The title will
remain unaltered. and the serial pub
licatinu in the pages of the Atlantic
Monthly will continue until the work
is completed.
| The Grand Enearnpment Of the
Grand lodge of Frcemasons of the
Emitted States commenced its session
at Chicago, on the 18th. The dele
CATION was large, and composedo of the
MOST influential men in the Masonic
l Order.
The Seandin ayians in Chicago pro-
pose to establish two Morse newspa-
pers in that city-one to be printed
in the Swedish language and the 9TH
er in Norwegian. One association of
proprietors is to control both estab-
lishments.'
The Edge6eld rs. CT Adrertiscr,
which has hitherto favored tie nomi
nation of Mr. Douglas for the Presi-
dency, regards his article in Harper's
Magazine as rendering it impossible
for the South to support him. Still
it protests against liasty action on the
part of the Southern Democracy in
regard to candidates.
/ The Worcester. Mass Transcript
AYERS that the Hon. Isaac Davis of
Worcester. Gen. Whitney of SPRING
field, and other prominent Massachu-
setts politicians, have deserted the
Administration for Douglas.
~Oh the 18th of September the
the Tax Collector of New York city
received Fefs062 60 for taxes, The
largest sum. 2.7S5 SO, was paid by
the Manhattan Bank.
4 Buffalo IN. Y.ppaper gives the
following as the cost of rolling stock
and track for rail.oad;"A first class
locomotive costs $4,000; a passeu-
ger car $4,000; abaggage car 81 500;
freight car $3.50; gravel car $3.50.
The iron of the railroad costs from
$4,000 to $4,000 per mile"
The Hon. Robert c.. Schenck, of
Dayton. Ohm. who has hitherto a acted