Civilian & telegraph., 1860-05-10

and dancing. The Mormons can't be Sur.
, passed for devotedness to the Terpsichorear
art. Every hall in the city has vibrated time
and again talk with the vigorous and lively
D tappings of the eight fantastic toe" MOI
c the least lack Of ''fair partners" either.
: A time-ball weighing about three hund.
red pounds, has been placed upon the GUS
0 tom house, New York, and will fall precise.
, ly at IL M. each day.
A marrird rian in Worthwhile, Wayne
county, MICHIGAN, lately decamped with q
widow On bis return the prominent citizens
= treated him to tar and feathers. He has in
: stituted prosecution against them.
$ Mr.. Thomas Board, of Orange G. H., Va.
Y has received patent for All anger to bore a
! square hole, which is a most ingenious and
useful invention. 1t bores with great exact
ness and certainty, and can be worked with
as much case as the anger for boring round
holes.
A monument to the memory OF the Virgin
ians who fell at the Battle of Germantown,
will be erected in that vicinity sometime in
May. 1t is expected that all onr military
will unite in the parade on the occasion.
The Pittsburg Journal says unprecedented
quantities of lumber are coming down the
Allegany river. Some six thousand feet will
60 to Cincinnati this season.
A sergeant and his small party, near Fort
Defiance, New Mexico was recently surround
ed by Navaioes. lie fastened tin cup filled
| Al 1. I'll 10 4 aI,al
through the Indians to the Fort and a not tied
about his neck brought relief to the little
party.
1t is remarked that at no former time in
the history of this country, were the people
of the United States SO fully and profitably
employed as at present. Industry is every
where well rewarded.
A FIN in Savannah have inst received an
order for 10000 feet ofpine lumber for the
Holy Land. Portions of the cargo are dcs-
tined for Jerusalem and Ben7ascus. A sim
lar venture made last year was successful.
The newly-invented common road locomo-
tive, made the trip from Hannibal. (Mo.) to
Monroe City-thirty- three miles--in seven
hours.
Scnor don Manuel Carvallo, late Misister
Of Chill at Washington has been appointed
! by that Government Minister Extraordinary
| to Paris and Brussels.
Noble Towner, esq. T. s. Consul at Bar
BADGES, died at Bridgetown, ON March 3lst,
Of inflammation of the bowels. He was in
tered on Monday, April LIST, with military
and civic honors.
Five hundred and ninety four Mcrnons
arrived in New York, on Tuesday, in the
ship Undewriter Captain Roberts, from Liv-
| erpool
Marshal valiant has sent to the French
Academy an account of an insect which A.
muses. itself by boring holes in lcaden balls.
A train on the Hudson River Railroad on
Monday, the Both ulto., ran seven miles in
six minutes
Gen. Pomeroy arrived in Washington from
Atclison, Kansas, in three days--tho quick
est trip ever made from that Territory to that
city. 1t was accompl shed by the aid of the
New line Of railroad Just opened between At
Gibson and st. Joseph, where connection il
made with the railroad to Illinois
There are in London l6 900 children train
ed to crime, 5000 receivers of stolen g,ols,
$4,000 gamblers $4,000 heggars, 10000
drunkards, 10000 habitual gin drinkers,
$50. 900 persons subsisting on profiigacy, and
1000 thieves.
Maria de Conception is the principle of a.
i Al 4 r
Queen Isabella born December &C. 1869.
Mr.. Green sued lady for breach of prom
isc, and her friends offered him 200 dollars to
settle it. "Whatl' cried Green, "two hun
mind, blasted life, and bleeding heart. -
Never, but make it three hundred dollars, |
and it is a bargain"
An account is given in the Cincinnati pa
pers of the marriage in that city of young
white girl said to te quite pretty, to an
old wretch of negro, seventy years Of age |
who kept low gregory and ance-house and |
resort of the vilest character.
TnE New JERSEY PEACH CRop.-The New
ark Mercury says:-'From various quarters
of the State we have the cheering tidngs
that the indications for a full, oldfashoned |
crop Of peaches are more favorable than they |
have been for several years. We are glad to |
learn that many orchards, which have either |
not bloomcd since 1866 or whose early prom
ise has been blithed by late spling frosts,
now display wealth Of pink blossoms, from
whose fruiton their owners are sanguine of |
obtaining pleuteous healthy yield.
The Richmond Enquirer states that a con-
trac. is made by merchants in that city for
the construction of two cotton ships for the
Liverpool trade, each to be 800 tons, and to
cost SSS1 900. One will be built in Richmond
and another in Baltimore. Tho Company
propose to build four.
Mrs. John Weden died in Columbia I.or-
ain county, Ohio, on last Friday week, in the
93d year of ner age. She was the last sur
vivor Of Wyoming massacre, at which period
she was twelve years of age aud escaped
from the fort where every male had been put
to death by the tomahawk.
+. W. Forniss, young journeyman prin-
ter of Cleveland, Ohio, has fallen heir to f1O,-
600 by the death of relative In London
lie started for Europe last week in the schoon-
er r. A. Harmon, to secure the legacy. Fat
take that.
The last news from Paris is that the ladies
have appeared at court altogether without
crinoline, and the favorite beauties Of the
public balls have discarded crinoline for pet
ticoats frilled and large at tho extremity OF
the skirt.
The Lynn Reporter says: The deaths by
consumption have decreased some fifty per
cent per annum among the stone cutters Of
Quincy, Milton, Rockport, and the marble
work of Vermont since they have ceased sha-
wing and given nature her sway, in matters