Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1859-04-02
NEWs OF THE DAY.

We see it stated that the two front doors
of the Capitol at Washington cost SAT ,o72.
During eleven months OF last year Great
y Britain exported manufactured cotton goods
of the value of SI45, ZOO, Ooo... General
Walker, who has sailed Tor California, intends,
It is said, 10 organize an expedition there
against Nicaragua. 49,. . The coroners jury in
the case Of Mike Walsh, have given verdict
of death from apoplexy -. There are 1924
Catholic churches in the United States. -.
London has 90 daily papers. A cargo OF
wheat, from France, is expected at New Io.k,
orders having been sent some time since in
consequence of high domestic prices. "A
Dahlgreu gun, ct Norfolk-a 50 pounder-
can be so accurately directed as to bit figure
the size of man at the distance of six miles.
-. Notes on the Bank Of kanawha, of the
denomination of SO, have been sklilfully al
tered into 500, as to deceive good judges
Look out for them. -. Gen. Vim. I. Haskell
died in the lunatic asylum at EopSinsville,
KY, on the 18th inst.... The French army,
it is said, is compo>ed of $4,000 fighting
nen, of which over 100000 are available for
foreign war. "a woman recently drank
thirty-:wo glasses OF lager beer, at one sitting,
in bar>roon in Lafayette, H., to the great
delight of all the loafers present. The
chief of a band of gipsies encamped near In.
diauapoIis offers the hand Of his daughter,
with dover OF $4,000 to any respectable
man who will marry her. Two Chicago
ladies went 10 ball the other evening in a
furniture wagon !; no ordinary carriage could
contain the dresses they wore. 90. a bill to
prohibit The marriage cf Write with black
persons has passed the Wisconsin Legislature
1.-THE present railroads in France cost
$4OO,ooO,OOO. Their annual receipts are
about five million dollars. There are up
wards of nine hundred agricultural societies
now in the COUNTRY; nearly one hundred of
which are in New York. The whole nuns
ber of coolies introduced into Cuba thus far
is upwards of $4,000. The Conneaut
(Pa,) Reporter tells a story of a man who
killed twenty crows at a single shot, the other
day. Counterfeit IS notes on the Central
Bank of Frederick, Nd, are in circulation.
....The foreign imports at the port Of New
York since the LIST of January amount to S4s,-
615,4o5. The total exports OF specie from
that port for the same period was ST, 2SI, $50:
for the same time in 1853, S9,l3l $685..
By the act Of Congress of 1873, new star,
being the thirty>third, will be added to the
National Flag, for Oregon, on the 4th of July
next. Colonel MauIsby, prominent laws
yer of Frederick, Md, was fined $500 few
days ago. for refusing to present in court a
certain promissory note in his possession to
the Grand Jury in the case of Joseph A.
Lechlider, whose case was before them, on a
charge of forgery, and was committed to the
custody of the Sheriff until the said .ooper
should be produced. T.. The Benton Gala. y
Herald, of the 10th inst, learns that two
wagon loads of wild Africans had lust arrived
at q plantation in that vicinity The &C.
counts from nearly all parts OF Virginia and
Maryland speak favorabIy of the appearance
and prospect of the growing wheat at this
time. The Columbus (Ga.,) Sun mentions
the receipt of basket of beets, ca6bages and
green peas of this years growth. A most
distressing casualty occurred in Forsyth CO.,
Ga, oa Friday night of last week. Els
Waldrup and his wife, about o'clock at nigl
left their four children, two girls and two boys,
the eldest twelve years old, and walked to a
neighbor's house, quarter of a lie off. to
see sick person. They left their child ZEN
all asleep. On returning home, they discov-
cred their hous. in flames, aud we're not ale
to reach the scene Of the ~ful calamity un-
ill after the building had fallen in. The chill
dreu all persisted 10 the fames-every one
they had in the world. The police com,
missioners Of New York have Instituted seven
thousand suits against persons in that city for
selling liquor without license. Geo. w.
Reed, of Murfreesboro', Ga, has lost five chill
dren by death from scarlet fever within the
short space of one mouth. . Rev. DR.. Ide
showed some 'eight dollar brandy at tenn
perance meeting in Springfield. Mass, on
Wednesday evening, which was manufactured
at a cost of only ten cents per gallon !....
A child died at Rochester, New York, last
week, from swallowing cent of the new
coinage.