The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-08-31

NC lion aAS uot SuuSuJ
yet. The latest reports state that 100000
Christian women have been sold intoI
slavery oy the Druses.
1t is probable that furnaces will
shortly be in operation in Chicago, manu-
featuring iron from the ore OF Lake Supe-
ror.
The census of New Orleans will show
population of 100000. This makes
New Orleans the fifth city, in size, in The
Union.
Mr.. Small, veterinary surgeon
Dunkrk, Scotland, recommends sand as
an excellent substitute for straw for hor1
ses bedding.
Miss Kate Dickens, the second daugh
ter of Charles Dickens, was recently mar
ried to Dir. Charles Collins, brother o
WiIkie Collins, and rising author.
The report that Gen. Cass is unwel
is contradicted by near neighbor of his |
who conyersed with him III the early part
Of the present week. The General was
then in excellent health.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschid has
been appointed Consul General of Prus
sia. He is the first jew who has exer
cieed such functions for the Kingdom
Cash vii! overcome the strongest prejudi
ces.
Mr.. Bancroft, the American hi.tori
an, and Bayard Tay Tor, the celebrated
traveller, accompanied by their ladies, ar
at present enjoying the beautiful scenery
of the lower St. Lawrence and Saguenay
FLORENCE Nightingale has lately ad
dressed letter to Lord SALISBURY, tho
| President Of the Sanitary Of the Interna
ti0nal Congress, on certain importan
topics.
The citizens Of New Orleans have de
/ cided to erect a colossal monument to tn !
memory of Robert Fulton. 1t will be on
hundred and fifty feet high, ten feet in di |
ameter, and with stairway inside.
On Sunday last the steam tug AlgeI
ma, with eleven barges in tow, laden will
2600 feet Of lumber, was met nea
! Princeton, on the Fox river, making GOOD
time, aud bound for he Wisconsin river
W. Il. Cristol, formerly editor of tn,
kankakee Democlet, and James Mann, ar
about to start daily paper at GAINESVILLE
Wis, to be called the GAINESVILLE Demo
crat. Mr.. Briatol, the future editor, is a
ardent admirer Of Judge Douglas.
Mrs. Mary Freer, a resident of Wis
consin, while riding in a hack, in Chica
| GO, laid her reticule, containing $G5 i
money and note for $50, on the seat an
when she got out left it. Although tn
hack was afterwards found, the reticuI
was missing.
On the 23d of July two fshermel
named Jonathan Roe aud Frank Daniels
living at Detroit Harbor, were drowned
while going from shore in a sail boat to
vessel at anchor, says the Green Ba
Press. Daniels was single man but Ro
has left wife and family.
Great excitement exists in Herkime
county, \. Y, relative to the drowning
Miss Abby Kelley Bowe, daughter of tn
late editor Of the Herkimer Journal. He
body was found in the canal at Mokawk
on the 10TH inst. The coroner's verdc
was suicide by drowning, but foul play i
suspected.
Col. John A. Finn, the Democrat
elector OF the third district of Kentucky
who refused to define his position unit
all the facts were before him, has CONF
gu. for Douglas and Johnson.
Lady Franklin, widow of Sir Joh}
Franklin, arrived at New York on Satud
day last by the steamship Adriatic. Id
dy Franklin is the guest Of Henry Grin
nell, Esq
"A horse thief giving his name as Cd
lumbus Nutterfeld, was taken from thI
Shelby county Gll.) Jail, last week, by
vigilance committee, and hanged on
tree till he was dead.
1t is said that when Mr.. Douglas wa
at Rutland, Vt, and just as he was enter
ing the hotel, a large Irish woman rushe !
up and grabbed him in her arms an !
kissed him.
Tho Buffalo Republic says: 1t is
fact not generally known, but most crsdi |
able to Mrs, Douglas, that prior to be
marriage size supported and educated I'D
brother with means acquired with her PEI !
Col. Forney SAYS of the Breckinridgf
disunionists, that g They had almost com
mitted suicide, when they were rescue
from that fate by the friendly hand of thl
masses of Kentucky ard Missouri, VIII
have put them to death in advance of til
scatfoid waiting for them in Noyembe
next.
Tho New York Herald having pub
lished call to the soldiers Of the Mexica
war, calling upon them to support BrecA
inridge and Lane, eleven officers of th
same war respondeded in card in the y
Y. News, in which they pledged their Wig
orous support to Judge Douglas.
"A gentleman of Louisville, Ky, OF
fers, through the columns of the Coaris
, of that city, TO bet one thousand dollar
that the Hon. John G. Breckenridge dos
not run for the Presidency in Novembd
next. II is significant that the PROPOSE
ton has no. been accepted.