Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-01-18
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 At Alexandria, Va., they have play called Ossawatomie Brown which is having great run.
 In Milwaukie, not long since, lady purchased a trunk at an auction sale. Upon taking 1t home and opening 1t, the body of dead infant was found in it. Of course the child was white one.
 During the last quarter S3,300.O00 % worth of the new nickel cents, were coined at the U. s. mint. m o4
 A couple of abolition merchants in Chi cago had debt against southern firm.- They got judgment and execution and levi ed on two negroes whom they sold to make the debt, More philanthrophy, you see. Victor Hugo has written letter about John Brown. He takes the English view of the matter and is eloquently wrong and wrongly eloquent. Thackeray gets $l5,000, each for the stories which he is to write for the Corn. hill Magazine, besides a salary of $10,000 1 a year as editor Genius and luck are unit ed in him.
 l The committee of the United States Sen ate, charged with the investigation of the affair at Harper's Ferry, have sent Charles | $. Jones, door-keeper of the Senate, to Texas, to bring John R. Realf, the secreta- ry of state under the provisional govern ment of Brown & Co.
 It is now four hundred years since the invention of printing. yet in many places there are no books or papers. Fifty years after the discovery of tobacco 1t was in uni versal use at all the ends of the earth
 A Mrs. Cross of Florida, lately gave birth to an infant son weighing one pound. The Boston Post says that cross was not hard to bear'
 The president of the New York horti cultural society at late meeting exhibited some sweet peas, which had been taken from the breats covering of an Egyptian mummy, and were more than three thou sand years old.
 Colt, the manufacturer, is about to estab fish branch of his manufactory of fire arms at Richmond, Virginia.
 Chief Justice Fancy is said to be danger ously ill. His health has been very infrm for years past.
 The director of the U. S. mint publishe! that there will be no change in the device of the silver coins of the country, excep the dime, which will appear in new anC improved dress in 1860.
 Dr. Merry, dentist of St. Louis, having met with disappointment recently, wen to the railroad track, cut his throat and fel on the railroad so that the train passed over him. As natural consequence he was killed very dead
 The watch Wanderer is getting to have quite a history of its own. After landing its cargo of Africans 1t was confscated, sold and bought by Mr. Lamar. From him 1t was stolen by a nice Yankee speci- men, one Lincoln P. Patten, of Bath, Maine. Patten bought some stores at Charleston which he forgot to pay for His crew were not all privy to his plans and part of them began to look about for means of escape. Patten went to the wes- tern islands where he got, by the aid of the l British consul, about $l5 ,000 worth of provisions with which he set sail without paying for them. It appears now to have been his intention to turn pirate. He pur- sued several merchantmen with a view of plundering them, and having overhauled one took boat to board her. While he was gone the crew he left on the Wanderer hoisted all sail and finally brought the yes sel into the Boston harbor. Of course Mr. Lamar is entitled to his watch, it having been stolen from him.
 A tender specimen of the angelic sex at Pittsburg, Penn., being arrested, confessed to the willful murder of her child, hn infant only three months old This amiable lady says she had given it, with view of pro- ducing death, saddler's tacks, pins, copper as, laudanum, etc, but as these were too slow, she smothered it.
 They had a blowing match, at Mont gomery, Alabama, where one blow was drawn by camel and another by mule The camel won.
 A new book published at Washington city Is creating quite stir. It is styled, "A Look at Home or Life in the Poor house of New England," and illustrates white slavery.
 The prompt proceedings at Dardanelle and elsewhere have had the effect of stop- ping all operations of abolitionists in this State. Considerable excitement existed in some communities at one time. This was the case at Clarksville, but no attempt at violence was made there except perhaps, the storming of the house of Judge Batson. However, that was the act of white fellow, named Frost.
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