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are dissenters. The salary of the Primate
Of France amounts to eight thousand dol

are dissenters. The salary of the Primate
of France amounts to eight thousand dol.
lars.
HORACE GREELEY was to take passage by
the overland mail of the 18th ult He was
expected in st. Louis about the Goth inst.
The library of the late Baron Won Hum.
BoLDr, bequeathed by him to his old valet
has been purchased for 10000 thalers, the
Vienna journals state, by Lord BLOOM.
FIELD, Minister of England at Berlin.
The Democrats of New Hampshire hold
their State Convention at Concord, on
Tuesday, the 18th of October, to nominate
candidates for the State election next
March, and appoint delegates to the
Charleston Convention.
The articles of association of the Ameri-
can Express Company expire by limitation
with the end of this year, and sale of its
good will and effects is notified for Wednes.
day, November 10th, at New York. The
stockholders meet, however, on the day pre-
ceding the sale, to organize anew, and bid in
the property.
The American State Convention of New
York has voted down a resolution for the
appointment of straight American ticket.
A committee has been appointed to select
candidates from the tickets now In the field.
IT is said that the militia of the United
States number 2,766,726, of which about
100000 are infantry, 10000 cavalry, 49,
600 artillery, and $4,000 rifemen.
A WINE merchant, in extoling " an ex.
cellent article of port" says, lin his adver-
tisement) 6 it is as pure as the tears which
bereaved affection drops upon a new made
grave"
SLAVERY has been abolished at Fernando
Pc, the new Spanish settlement in the Gulf
Of Guinea. The Spanish government has
refused to give up some fugitive slaves from
the Portuguese Islands of Santa Tome and
Principe, on the ground that at Fernando
Pc slavery is not recognized and all men in
snch countries are considered free.
The prevailing style of skirts allows ladies
in hot weather to " lay off everything else
and sit in their bones, "--as Rev. Sydney
Smith once wished to do.-N. Y. Post.
MARY GAFF, aged IS, told SAMUEL
CLARK and ROBERT F1sHER-two young
gentlemen not yet Is years of age-that
MARY NooNAN, pretty little girl, II years
old, who happened to be passing at the
time, lin Mulberry street, New York; had
called her brother names; whereupon the
two boys seized MARY NooNAN, and held
her until MARY GoFF had kicked and beat
en- the poor child so severely that she died
in two days thereafter. The boys have
have been arrested.
EIGHTEEN hundred pages of testimony
have already been taken in Brooklyn, New
York, relative to EFFIE CARsTANG, who re.
covered 100000 of HENRY SHAW, in St.
Louis. What character must EFFIE's be?
A New YORK preacher has been demolish-
ing the opera by preaching against it. The
Herald gives the sermon entire, and says, in
spite OF its doctrines, /" the perverse public,
to the number of nearly four thousand,
rushed to the opera house on Monday, and
we presume that the Brooklyn Academy of
Music, at which this anathema was espe-
cialy levelled, will still be built. The rev.
erend gentleman's point, that the associa-
tions of the opera house are invariably bad,
tells against his brethren, who clamored for
free tickets to the soirees of JENNY LIND,
(Lothng but an opera singer and were
used by the Chevalier BARNUM as advertise
ments."
"WHAT wise compensation Providence
does Afford exclaimed pretty belle during
severe gale " the same wind that muses.
our crinoline, blows dust in the eyes of the
wicked young men who would take advan-
tage of our admirable confusion Philo-
sophical young woman that, says an ex-
change.
THE New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press writes, "Our literary
club, the Atheneum q am sorry to say is
rapidly losing its literary character) is about
to inaugurate novel experiment in the
annals of clubbery, viz: weekly reunions of
the members, enabling them, on one evening
of each week, from October till June, to
have modest. enjoyable time, with any
amount of weed unlimited malt, and good
deal of billiard. And then one evening of
each month they will let in the women"
The New Orleans Delta does not admire
CHAs. MACKAY, saying that he has no more
wit than beefstake, no more humor than
stale porter, and no more enthusiasm than a
cold plumb pudding.
Mrs. SEYMOUR, wife of the late HENRY
SEYMOUR, and mother of the Ex-Governor
of New York died at her residence in Utica
on Friday.
MAssA GREELEY's sermons to the Nor
mons did not win their hearts. The Rev.
HEBAR KMBALL, in one of his late dis
courses" speaking Of HORACE, said, "What
faithful imagination he must have! He
is the greatest liar on the face of the earth.
Why, bless your souls, he is the father of
all liars. He will go to hell and be the
father of liars there. Amen" ["Amen
sounded throughout the congregation.
THE Union of the two Canadas does not
please the whole people thereof, and "disso-
luton of the Union is phrase as familiar
to our neighbors as to ourselves. The
opposers of the union propose to hold a
national convention to consider the SUBJ
ject.
PUNCH says-Tbe only love in which a
man has no rival, but has it all to his own
SELF is in the wonderful Love he generally
has for himself.
A TRIFLE to fill up cup in the converse.
ton
How is the Sun supported? @
Why, by its beams, of course.
HOME CoMFoMrs.-A mans comfort is
like his cigar-if he cannot get it at home.
be will 60 in search of it elsewhere.