Nebraska advertiser., 1860-08-02


ded the advent Of a ticket on the public
Stage ?-Cin. Enquirer.
The San Francisco Golden Era, annou
ces the marriage of Mrs. Burdell Gun
The post mortem examination of the.
bedy of Prince Jerome led to the dis
coVery of a ball which had remained in
his chest after a duel which he fought in
his youth with a brother of Marshal De-
voist.
/, John Adams being called upon for a
contribution for foreign missions remark
ed: 81 have nothing to give for that cause
but there are in this city six ministers;
and not one will preach in the others
pulpit; now l viii give as mnch and
more than any n else to '%civilize these
Clergymen." a~ 4
Knox College, at Galesburg, ILL.,, at
its late commencemnt, conferred upon
Abraham Lincoln the decree of LII. d.
Judge Terry, indicted for the BrOder-
ick duel, has been acquitted. The trial
came off before Judge Hardy, in the sew
enth District Court, San Rafael, Marion
county.
Hon. John B. Floyd, Secretary of war
has ben elected President Of the Virgin
ia and Kentucky Railroad.
Bishop Timon, Of Buffalo, has sent to
the Pope $4,000 as the offering of the
Catholics Of Buffalo to the Holy Father.
The wool crop of Ohio this year is
over nine millions of pounds, and has all
been sold at a price a little oyer $4,000
600. as lEt
Dispatches received from Mr.. Faux
ner, our Minister to France, make no
mention of the rumored intervention on
the part of France in Mexican affairs.
The Havana Gazette, gives the total
revenue of the royal treasury of Cuba
for the first four months of the present
year as S6,583, Isl, which is a slight
increase over the year 1859. Of this
amount, S4,363,635 is classed "marine
revenues" and 50, $780, 16 Island reve.
nues." The probability is now that the
total receipts into the royal treasury from
both sources, during the present year,
will reach the enormous and ~unpreceden-
ted sum of $4,000, 900.
A traveller by rail- betweenN. Y. city
N.Orleans, writes that he took breakfast
at Rochester, dinner at Erie, Penn,
and supper at Cleveland, Ohio, then
breakfast the next morning at Seymour,
Ind, dinner at Olney, H., and breakfast
the next morning at Columbus, KY, be-
ing only one meal in each of these large
States, as he swept through them-hav-
ing left Chambers street at 7P. M, one
day, and arrived in Cleveland, at 5, P.
M, on the next making the whole dis
lance travelled, SIX hundred and ~forty-one
miles, in t~wenty-f60r hours and twenty
minutes, and passing Through the States
of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois and Kentucky.
The meeting recently held at Union
Square, New York, composed of Fill
more and other conservative men, who
were in favor of the election of Lincoln
and Hamlin, was very large and enthu-
siastic. Judge VIM. Mitchell presided.
Speeches were made by Horace Greedy,
Rufus Andrews, and Daniel Ulman, and
letters were read from Roger S. Bald.
win, of Conn, James o. Putnam, of
Chataque county, Truman Smith and 9TH
ers. Resolutions endorsing Lincoln and
Hamlin were unanimously passed.
The census returns from Illinois, al
ready received at Washington, indicate
the total population of that State to be
$4,000, 900, against 65l 900 in 1885,
On the basis Of one Congressman to eve.
ry 10000 inhabitants, it will now be
entitled to fifteen members of Congress
instead Of nine.
1t is a remarkable and interesting fact,
that a majority os the wives of the pres
idents have been devotedly Christian wo-
men-a fact which accounts for the bear
ing of our Chief Magistrates.
1t also accounts, in a degree, for the
miserable course and conduct of the pres
ent incumbent the cold hearted old bach.
James Buchanan.