The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-06-22
NEWS OF THE WE FIX.

CALIFORNIA EMIGRATION. The lapse of
years, says the New York Herald, seems to
make no decrease in the run of our people to
wards the western slope of the Rocky Noun
tains. Indeed the emigration to Cafornia,by
actual count, is greater to-day than it was when
the gold fever was at its height IN 1649 so.
Steadily the tide ebbs and flows across the 18TH
mus of Panama, or by way of Nicaragua or
Fehuantepec, or trversing the mighty desert
between our frontier States and the heights of
Sierra Nevada. With such prospects the fnan.
ciers of Wall street are encouraged to set up
new routes, to compete for the golden prize
to meet the old company in opposition and to
Before many months we shall have four or FIVE
sea routes open to the Golden Gate and daily
stage communicaton-fhe best pioneer for the
railway-across the Plains. Tins California
emigration will he widely extended, and stim-
ulated beyond precedent.
The breach of promise case at ST. Louis -
The verdict of 800 900 damages rendered at
St. Louis against Mr.. Shaw for not marrying
Miss Efie Carstang, seem to have pleased the
crowd of spectators in the court room, as they
made the building ring with applause in its
rendition. The jury it appears. was absent
only ten minutes The Democrat says:
Though the defendant, Mr. Shaw, is very
rich, some surprise is expressed at the liber-
ality of the jury. There are few, if any, in
stances on record in which so large sum has
been considered necessary to sooth the anguish
of lady fair. deserted by her lover. Now
that Miss Carstang has respectable dowry,
we recommend that Mr.. Shaw entreat her for
givress and renew bis suit. The sex are nev.
er 80 generous as in the hour of triumph
Let Mr.. Shaw strike while the iron is hot, or
rather while the gold is hot, for Miss Effe's
character has come out of the ordeal TO which
it was su bjected, like gold from the furnace
We are for compromise of this kind between
the parties, especially as it would be likely to
cave the lawyers in the lurch for the big fees
they calculate upon getting.
Garibaldi, the white-haired leader of the
Italian volunteers in the army of Sardinia, was
exiled from Italy in l848, and found refuge
in the United States A Western exchange
says that he kept coffee-house in Cincinnati
a few years ago, and retailed Iquor by the
dram. He is now a general in the Sandman
service, commanding fifteen thousand men, and
to great extent controlling the destinies of
States
Crinoline not for negroes AT the late term
of the Circuit Court of Lawrence county,
Mississippi, Edward Langsford was indicted
for selling a.hoop-skirt to negro Without per-
mission, and fined $1OO and costs of suit.
State AntiFugirive Law.-Fhe people of
New Hampshire are emulous of the position
of Vermont touching the Infamous Fugitive
Slave law, and are circulating petitions, pray
ing the Legislature TO pass law forbidding
the delivery of any fugitive slave persons
claiming such under the larws of Slave State.
The petitions are receiving numerous sigma
lures. .
The National Intellgencerfgures The cost
keeping Cuba, if we got it, at twenty.nne
millions per annum, in addition to the eighty
or hundred millions already spent.