The constitutional union., 1861-03-01
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ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

FIVE printers occupy the pulpits of i've churches in Portsmouth, Virginia.
 Low & SON, of Dondon, arc soon to pub- fish memoir of Abraham Lincoln.
 THE Cleveland, Ohio National Democrat, a late Breckinridge journal, has expired.
 STEPS are being taken in Chicago for the of the United States Zotare cadets.
 HERR PAUER is far advanced in the musi- cal drama, which is to be produced at Name helm.
 FOURTEEN men are now confined in the Toombs, in New York city, awaiting trial for capital ofenses. ......
 Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, on the 9th ult., while in England, presented Mir. Goldschmidt with another son.
 OF thirty-six graves at Virginia City, Utah Territory, thirty-tiye are occupied by persons killed by violence.
 ONE day last week 100000 pounds of fish were brought into Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, by nine vessels.
 THE more married men you have, says Vol taire, the more crimes there will be, as the history of the world shows
 MATILDA BEDENAUGH, semi-pauper of weak intellect, was killed by panther, at Stephentown, New York, few days ago.
 EDWARD BERRY and wife received ore thousand dollars in Maine few days since for injuries from defect of highway.
 DEATHS of women by abortion are very frequent nowadays; our exchanges contain accounts of such catastrophe8 almost daily.
 RECENTLY a woman obtained divorce in Defiance county, Ohio, and married second husband on the afternoon of the same day.
 IN the Emperors palace at Pekin, China the slippers of the females were found to be invariably for those who had not cramped feet
 A WESTERN editor thinks sewing girls can- not be expected to compete with sewing ma chimes, for they havnt such iron constitutions.
 WHY are the people of this confederacy, like a married couple being divorsed? Be- cause their united states are being dissolved.
 PRIoN, the French satirist, once said that it was impossible to respect any woman, after you had become intimately acquainted with her.
 THE man who would shine in conversation must possess original ideas and strong sympa- thies, and be able both to communicate and listen.
 MARGARETrA QUINN, aged ninety-thrce years, was burned to death the other night, in Philadelphia, while warming her feet at a furnace.
 LA GRANGE has recently met with a tri- umphant success at the Victoria theater, Der lin, in Lucretia Borgia, with NJ. Carrion as tho tenor.
 IN Floyd county, Virginia, recently, Flem- ming Alley undertook to whip an apprentice boy, who drew a knife and stabbed him to the lUltrt. ....-a..---
 THE Charleston Mercury proposes, as all the Northern papers seem disposed to make saint of Major Anderson, to first canon-ize him here.
 The Turks have this significant proverb: " Men who have been married enjoy them selves in he'll"
 . A sHREwD little child being asked by his hen-pecked father where cotton grew, replied, with the greatest simplicity, in foolish hus- bands ears.
 TnE citizens of Seneca, Wisconsin, have formed themselves into an association for the purpose of ferreting out and arresting horse thieves.
 \ PIECE of land was recently sold in Lon don at the rate of Sl,000,000 per acre, sufii- cient to cover it with silver equal to the depth of half a dollar in thickness.
 MANY men die martyrs and then have an impartial judgment passed upon their lives, just as the poor whales arc killed first and tried afterward
 BALzAC ascribes the fall of many women to the beauty of their figures their vanity preventing them from enjoying such knowl- edge alone.
 IN Rowan county, North Carolina, last week, two little boys, four and five years old, were butted to death by vicious goat which they had been annoying
 A BILL has been presented to the Legisla- ture of New Jersey, protiding for the drain age of the meadows between Newark and Elizabeth by making ditches.
 IN Bath, England, woman beat her hus- band to death on tho 1Zth ult., because te lad found fault with a beefsteak she had cooked for breakfast.
 THE report that the British consul at Pen sacola had officially indorsed state of clear arce for cotton laden ship, at that port, is positively denied
 TIE astronomical lecturer, Professor NJ. T: Hutchinson, has been arrested for polygamy, at Carlinville, Illinois The professor will be likely to " see stars"
 No smoking allowed here" said the cap- tain of steamboat to a cigar-pufGng passen- ger, an Irishman {" And surely" said Pat, < am not smoking aloud"
 HEROIC toll and silence, and endurance, says Carlyle, lead to the high places of this universe, and the golden mountain tops where dwell the spirits of the dawn.
 Twofremen having quarreled at the recent fire in Detroit, Michigan one of them went to sleep in the engne-house, and was kicked to death by the other.
 TIE sheriff of Lucas county Ohio, has challenoad Seareitnr tho oraat hiiliard nlaver