The constitutional union., 1861-04-05
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 Senator enden, of Kentucky l d. clined an invitation of his Philadelphia friends to visit that city.
 Mir. Rarey, the horse tanner, is il Boston, where he has given twolectures witl- his usu- al success. I
 WITH tears of indignation and sorrow we may manage to acquiescc in the abandonment of Fort Sumter. N. '. Tribune
 The small pox is raging terribly in Coing- ton. Kentucky On the 22d there were about two hundred and fifty cases in thatcity.
 As AN evidence of the healthiness of Nan tuckct, Massachusetts, it is stated that among 500 voters in the town, one hundred and thirty are upwards of seventy years.
 Prentice says flowers and pretty girs are sweeter the more they are pressed. Weguess he is decidedly in favor of the freelomof the press. Ditto.
 The judges in the British House of Lords have decided that clergyman has ID power to solemnize his own marriage, and hat the children of such union are illegtinate.
 Mrs Boomer, inventor of woman's" petit looms and short dresses, has becOm one of the editors of The City Item, at Saupau, Wisconsin.
 Miss Ellen Smith, of Boston, Lssachu- sets, has just recovered S400O ofFrancls Clementson, for breach of promise of mar riage, after twenty years courshiE Only S200 a year for waiting so long.
 An editor thus justly intimates hs desire for a settlement: We don't want m0ey des- peratelv bad, but our creditors do and no doubt they owe you. If you wantus, we Il pay them, and they'll pay you.
 A call has been issued in Arizon, signed by near hundred citizens, for CnYention to concert measures to secede from tb United States, and attach that Territory the for tunes of the Cotton Confederacy
 Under the head of |" terrible retbution," we find it chronicled that young, unmarried eirl of St. Louis who ;" loved, not vsely but too we'll" gave birth, on Tuesday to three children All doing well.
 A weary juror at Lartinzes Indnna, was fined s200 a few days since, aid imprisoned three days, for slipping from tie jury room, getting supper at comfortable bed, contrary to law.
 In Chicago, Milwaukie, and nearly all Of the ports upon the upper lakes, vessels are preparing to get under way, and i is thought within one week hence, most of the shipping will be entirely rigged and refttedfd serVice'
 popULArroNor v1Re1N1i.-Accrding to the returns of the census buteau, the popula- ton of Virginia is as folloH,s whites, d' O49, ,613; free negroes 57 7,Te; saves 49V'- S86. A.FoRrUNArE PoLrr1cHNr rlIartin Van Buren is the mly individual Sh has hllea the four highest positions nj fere he Amer, |. can government. He H ben oVi.ea W;a States Senato.; Secretary'of 'a'c' vice l President and President.
 The question of leasing the ptoiic ~ofks 2, s of Ohio is btfore the Ieglsiatre ol Una, {, t State. The canals havetT sometime ceaseu 7 to be selfsustaning unlers State control anu 3 the choice appars to- be narroWsi uo"A W leasing or selling them.
 n WHEAT C,op-The 4ccount with refe ronce to tbe rowing whett crop 1.-the West ara'1 arn on;te f;yorable. THe Bosihg Green l lIe Kentucky & Gazette says Ehe yiel of whea 2 in a the Green river county pTFnlses to b' z z larger than ever before
 n PENSIONERS PRovIDIb foEF-lhe Geor $ o;a State ss convention has passedp resolution | E providing for the annual paymer to pension :. CTS resident in the Statesof a sm equal tbatpaid to them by the | hitd States gov
 ernment prior to the secession oI the o'a'e