Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-02-02

from New York, is ii,sane says a dispatch from
Utica, but thishas since been contradicted :. Gov
Ste vart of Missouri has refused to sign the bill late
ly passedby the Legislature of that State, for the
expulsion offrcc coored persons from the State. A
wise and humane act "A bill is before the Wis
consn Legislature to abolish all collection laws on o.
pen accounts and notes. Fourteen families offrce
negroes consisting of 81 persons. old and young re-
Gently departed from New Orleans to try their for
tunes in Hayti. The Egyptian Republic, editedb BY
d. Pettjohn who is we'll known in this section has
reached circulation of 400 without any effort OH
the part ofcanvassing agents. An Old Soldiers
Convention for the purpose of urging their claims
still stronger on Congress, has been called, to meet
at indianapolis on the first day of March next, by
ga number Of Old Soldiers of the war OF 1872"
Clerk in the Chicago Post Office named Dennis
McCarty was arrested for robbirg the mails, and
held to bail after an examination. Hon. Chas.
]. Faulkner's nomination as Minister to France i'm
place of John Y. Mason, deceased, has been con.
firmed in the Senate Notwithstanding his disunion
declarations. The gulls have already common
ccd going to Pixies Peak. Twenty three persons
were baptised in the Methodist Church at Crown
FONT last Sunday week. The acccssions to this
congregation since last quarterly meeting number
80 three Of them by letter, the rest on probation
The Barnard House in this place has had but one
boarder since Common Pleas Court, and that one
only remained four five days. From some cause
this establishment has not been as we'll patronzed
lately as it used to was. Is it because the propric-
tor does not furnish good enough grubl. =. The
expenses ofthe Poor in Marshall County this year,
it is estimated, will be from $500 $1,000 greater
than they were last year. j. The Recorder wants
all who have Deeds recorded to call and get them
and pay the fees. The Ohio Republican State
Convention is to meet on the Attn of March next to
appoint delegates to the Chicago Convention. .
Levi Pierce, and old resident of Like County died
at Hobart in that county on the 2lst ult -. Lady
Franklin, it is said, will visit New York in a few
weeks, and will be the guest Of Henry Gr;nnell,
Esq. John Heenan, the Benicia Boy, has sailed
for England to fight Tom Savers for the Champion
Belt of the world. The match is TO be fought on
Monday, April 10TH. The Virginia Legislature
has appropriated 81 900 to pay the expense Of the
Harper's Ferry affair. :. The Charleston Mercury
srys there cannot be said to be Democratic party
I
Gratis refuse to acknow ledge the principles of the
party. Senator Johnson has been nominated for
President by the Tennessee Democratic State Con-
vention. Who took from our Office the February
number of G ,dey's Lady's Book?. The subscrip-
tons in aid of the Lawrence sufferers amount to
$1,000. The total number Of killed is 206 wound
cd 3lS.. "A new independent paper with Demo
cratic procvtics. We presume, called the .Jc6erso-
nian, has been started at Crown Point. Its mcclan
ical execution is excellent. Tho Register, at
Crown Point is one of the best Republican papers
in this part of the State. II is as keen as brier
and cuts like kitchen knife sharpencd on brick
bat. The Indiana Democratic State Convention
gave the Southern part of the State, where the bulk
of their votes come from, only one candidate. and
that the last ON the list. :. The amount due mail
contractors on the lst Of January, 1860, was nine
and halfmillions Of dollars. Mr.. Elliott has re-
tired from the Lake City Commercial, published at
Warsaw, having sold his intererest in the paper to
Mr.. Frank Mutt. Joseph A. Funk, Esq, of
Warsaw is spoken frvorably Of by the Commercial
rs candidate for the nomination for Auditor OF
State, and says that better selection could not
reorganizcd and will attend political gatherings du-
ring the approaching Presidential campaign. The
conservative citizens of the South are moving for
the organization ola "Union party" opposed to
the fire eaters. Convention is to be held at Jack
son, Miss, on the 4th of March. The Terre
Haute Express says that he sons of Malta of that
city have distributed fully one thousand dollars a.
81 .1a-f ,f.,fs
strangers, since their organization there -. One
thousand people were killed on the railroads in this
country last ye,r. In all Europe, same time and
from same cause the whole number oil deaths did not
exceed 1907. The nomination of James Hughes
Of this State as Judge of the Court Of Claims to FIJI
the vacancy occasioned the death of Judge Black
ford has been confirmed by the Senate. They
are talking of erecting fine brick hotel in Valpa
raise. Some petty thief has been stealing letters
out of the heads of the papers at Valparaiso, causing
the proprictors mnch inconvenience and trouble.
!. The number ofemgrants that arrived at New York
last year was 1850 against 1859, for the yeaI
1853. John r. ca mpbell, son of Hon. l.. ID
Campbell, was run over by a train OF cars on tho
Cincinnati & Dayton r. r., some days since, and
instantly killed. He was - years ofagc. IA Mr.
Tipsy says he knows water is fine thing, but thcr
it is so thin They are getting ADVANTAGEOUS a
) Huntington. The papers say that four fights a
. week occur there on an average. Augusta Larn
ard, formerly of this place, died at Valparaiso OF
the 18th ult. in the 10Th year of her age... The
Republican State Convention Of Massachusetts,, il
to meet on the eth of March ncxtto select delegate
to the National Convention. -. The man who wa
izjurcd on the Railroad at Bourbon. last week. wa
4 named Mascn instead of Mills, and We understand
that he is'likely to recover His skull was not frac
turcd Rock, of the Porter Democrat, says that
he can find the chap that stole the letters from nj
new papcr head he will thrash him fitis at his moth
, cr's funeral. Doubtless the thief would rather tn
> Rock would fall on him than that big Doc Gamer
= on's (of the Valparaiso Repu5lic) wrath should
J. descend upon his devoted head. At Pixies Peal
II chickens sell for four dollars pair and eggs tw
!. dollars dozen. Wild turkeys, black-tailed dec
!. and bear mcat, however, sell cheap. The sno'
that feil here on Thursday last took melting moo
:; on Sunday because the wind was from the Soutl
n and principally MI disappeared, spelling the sleigh
ing effectuay; but. another bountiful supply fe
i again on Monday night, and the sleighing woul
now be fine If tho atmosphere was notquite 50 coli