, 1859-03-10
Personal and Political.

Gov. Morrill,, Of Maine. has desi9natsd
Thursday, April 81. - f..s dsJ in that stats.
*-shAzman 0ros~sll, R.q., lsts editor Of the
Alaasy Arax,, died 1t New H.vsn On Thutsdsy
last. axed It,;
Tho population Of Ohio IL estimated 1t $2.-
aoo.ooo-juss above the figures which weze given
foE PeunsylEanis in 1850.
The object Of Ar. Cobdeu's vi1it to this
country, il said to be to look into the a1airs Of
the Illinois Central R.ilroad, in which he is 8
lsrge atoetholder-
-hr. Garrett. farmer 1t South Wsssrloo,
Albany county, fav days ago, sold his farm
for a. Co., 9avs 81, 600 to his w1fe and children,
and with the balance eloped With servant girl
to California
Mr.. Charles Sampson, Of tho well, known
publishing house Of Phillips, Sampson 4 Co. Of
Boston, disd ofcousumption Ut his residence in
Brookline, on Thursday. Hewaa about 20 years
ofage.
President Shannon, late Of tho Missouri
State UniversitY. died 1t his resideacs in Clin-
ton, on Friday last At tho .ime Of biz death he
was President Of the Christian University locs-
| Ted as Canton.
"A Stats eessus Of Texas Just taken shoxs =
population Of 1853 SEQ sgainss 213 4aa in the year
1850. when Iowa had but lo2. 900. though she
now has over 100000.
"A Nr. Beae of Ohio, has received $500
from 4 railway corporation for having been
ejscted from the cars by conductor, to whom
be had refused to pay the extra fire esnts tor =
| ticket purchased in the carr
"A New Orleans psper rays that Col. s. 4.
Lockr1dge is about to leave that city for Ari-
zoua, to make arrangements for the emigration
Of company Of ave or six hundred "peacea-
ble" persons to that region.
/ 1T il nov stated that Mile Piccolomini has
not renewed her contract With Nj. Lumley,
which expires the aoth Of this month, and that
consequently another farewell" seEies Of ope-
rss will be given.
| Tho child thrown from the cars near Cleyc-
land, BY ita brutal mother, haz since died. The
woman -was arrested At Dunkirk, but subse.
| quently, for some unassigned cause, set at lib
erty.
Tho Washington Star estimates that At
least 200 soiourners-members Of the fest,
second and third House, their families, birds Of
fashion, dc-iefs tho Federal Metropolis be-.
tween P. N. On Friday, and 4. II. On Satur-
day.
George Phillips Bond has been appointed
Director of tho Observatory at Cambridge, u
sueressor Of hia father. He graduated At Hsr-
vard, in 1s45, and for several years has been an
ssa:staus at the Observatory.
Tho New Hampshire Repnblicsa State Con.
vention have obtained q thorough canvass Of
the State, with the following result Of the pros
pec!ive vote for Governor - Goodwin, Rspub!i-
ean, IS els; Cats, Democrat. s3,706 doubtful,
1000. TheY eonsider q Republican nsiority
certain in each Of the Congressional districts-
| As the family IN the old Hancock House,
Bostop, were sitting at dinner ths other day. a
pannel in closet suddenly fell, disclosing a
receptacle hitherto unknown It was empty,
but wss probably used by John Hancock -
safe hiding place for his revolutionary cores
pondence.
| The Washington correspondent Of tho Bos.
ton journal says: "About III hour before Key
| was shot, he said to young lady whom be join
ed on her way home from church, and who is
my informant, i an despondcnt about my
health, and very desperate. Indeed, have half
mind to 60 ont On the prairiea and Try buffalo
hunting. The excursion would either care
ms or kill me-and really don't care much