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of the Board Of Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund. Also, to reimburse the Sinking Fund
for the deficiency occasioned by the defalca-
tion of the late Treasurer of State, prior to June
10th, 1857.
Mr.. Stafford made a report Of the cost of
$4,000 additional copies OF the Investigating
Committees report, based on a calculation Of
125 and 500 pages, (Which will be about half
sSS9 copies of tho Report alone ss,e
aa%S SaSS " l,SII lsI1 60 60
1000 in German..... 800 "
Tho resolution ordering 10000 copies in
English, and 1000 in German, was adopted;
twenty-nin Senators voting fer, "a none
sgainstit.
In the House, the removal of the county seat
of Paulding County was finally passed.
AEoTBER STEAMBOAT DIsAsTER.-The steamer
Monongahela Belle, heretofore running as n
packet on White River, between Jacksonport
and the mouth, but at the time en- route for
this port, was sunk about eleven O'Clock on
Wednesday night at Harbett's Landing, about
eight miles below here. We have few particu-
lars OF the disaster, yet from all that we can
learn II would seem that the Belle struck a
log, which stove a hole in her hull and caused
her to sink almost Immediately She lies tied
up to the shore on the Mississippi side, with
nothing above water but a portion of her hurri-
cane deck, and the pilot house. No lives are
supposed to have been lost by the occurrence
and the st. Francis No. 2, which passed the
wreck shortly after, took off nearly all her crew
and brought them to this city. The Belle being
an old boat, 1t is thought that unless the water
should speedily subside, she will 90 to pieces
from the action of the current, and thus, with
her cargo, prove total loss. We shall doubt
less have reliable information in time for our
next issue.-Aemphis Bulletin, 5h.
TuR Wv Tur Mo~rx- 1o-o
the minority of the Committee on Naval Con-
tracts and Expenditures, developing the start
ling fact Of the oxtent Of corruption to which
the Administration has gone, is enough to damn
any government We commend it to the con-
sideration of the people.-Franklin (Ky.) Com
monredhh.
Hon. Henry S. Geyer, an eminent LAWYER of
81. Louis, who succeeded Colonel Benton in the
United States Senate, died at ST. Louis on Sat-
urday night. lie was recovering from slight
indisposition, whom the receipt of news Of
distressing character produced violent palpita-
tions Of the heart, and he expired in few
minutes.
No TAxEs.-It would seem that nobody paws
taxes in Chicago. A late number of the Dem
ocrat, Of that city, has supplement containing
forty-seven columns Of closely printed matter,
representing delinquents of Chicago for the
past year. Not less than 13,6O0 lots are thus
On Wednesday, two men were smothered in
coal pit, near the line of the Cleveland and
Mahoning Railroad, at Brier HILL The moor
fellows were ut the bottom of the pit which il
23O feet deep, when the "fre-damp' caught
from the candles on their hats, and at once de-
prived them of life. ~
The terms of twenty-five members, or one
third of the United States Senate, expired with
the thiry-ffth Congress. OF these, ten are re-
oil EnW Ar.u Ill
., 1865, and the successors of three have not
yet been elected.
UNPRECEDENTED SPEED.-An important busi
ness letter, mailed at Philadelphia on the oath
February, and bearing the post mark of that
date, reached us this morning, being onLy thirteen
d0ys on The route. Great institution that Post
Office CoIum6us Fact.
The Wheeling Intelligencer mentions belli
cosc bull that attacked train of cars
on the Baltimore and Ohio Road the other day.
He valiantly advanced to meet the engine. and
was transformed into jerked beef'' in twink
ling.
A Board Of Surgeons has been ordered TO
meet at Philadelphia on the LIST of April, to
examine candidates for promotion and appoint
ment in the medical service of the army. APP
plications are to be addressed to the Secretary
of War.
Lieut. Governor Monitor of Louisiana has
resigned on a question of dignity. The Senate
took out of his hands the appointment of a
committee which he construed as a want Of con-
fdence decision.
The Athens Post says: "There is no mistake
about it, and that IL Netherland is the candi-
date OF the Opposition, he will go out of East
Tennessee with such n majority as will make
his election sure beyond contingency"
Thirteen lots, on the west side of Hicks street,
Brooklyn, N. Y, have been purchased for $52,-
600 by the Trustees of Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher's Church. A large edifce is to be
erected forthwith.
Two men, Josiah Wittemore, of Maquoketa,
and Philip Potter, of La Motte Iowa, were
drowned on Saturday, about two o'clock P NJ.
IN attempting to cross the Maquoketa River,
near Tubb's Mill, on their way to La Motto.
Says the Dayton Gazette: "The only Ohio
Democratic members who voted with the Re-
publicans that the Senate had infringed upon
the constitutional privileges of the House, were
Cox and Vallandigham."
The New York Sun now publishes the list
OF letters remaining in the post-ofice of that
city, its circulation being greater than that of
the Herald.
On Tuesday night an incendiary was caught
in the act Of setting fire to Elliott's Hotel, De-
troit. Not only are burglars and highwaymen
about, but incendiaries too.
II is reported that the Emperor Soulouque,
of Hayti, has fallen sick at Jamaica, and, as he
is nearly eighty years old, his death is not
Improbable.
young man, member Of an evangelical
church, advertises in a New York paper for
board in a pious family, where his Christian
example would be considered compensation.
In the British House of Commons Lord Bury
has obtained leave, by a vote Of 55 to 85, to
introduce bill legalizing marriage with de-
ceased wife's sister.
Through tickets, for storage passage, from
New York to San Francisco, now rate at $50
per head, including transportation over the
1sthmus.
species Of African sugar has been grown
in Florida this year, that produces sirip su-
perior to the best New Orleans molasses. The
yield is from fifty to sixty gallons to the acre.
The Grand Jury system is virtually abol-
ished in Michigan. The Circuit Judge is en-
powered to call it into requisition when he
thinks proper.
The Brooklyn(N. " City Railway Company
are making arrangements for running their
oars by night.
Colonel Oscar Turner, of Ballard County, Ky.,
has announced himself candidate for Congress
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