Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-03-26

Minor News Items.

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l-There are now no Cadets at West Pointl
fiom the seeded States. \
--Greek, sooins have been found in England
within shors period-supposed to have been
brought there by the Romans.
Tie Bank Of England lost E2 l50.-about
$40, ,OOO--last year byy forgeries. This is lesa
than the average. ,H Milo VII III
Sir Arthur Cotton, an eminent engineer In
Indias says that TO produce GO ton 10 itnat coun.
try successfully will require Irrigation by means
OF canal commnhication withrivers. - si'-f !
Martin Van Buren is the only individual
who has. filed the four highest positions under
the American Government. He has been U b.
Senator, Secretary Of State, Vice. President and
President. liilEli0 II GNHl4 a
During the three months ending February
20, the Adams Express Company conveyed to
the United States Mint atPhiladelphia, $5, ,4OO,.
900 copper cents, to be exchanged for the nickel
ones. of this amount, 81 100000 were sent
from Boston and the East dgq W ns..i ii.s airto
Upon our great Northwestern lakes In 1860
no less than 76 vessels were wrecked, and be
tween three and fouf hundred lives were lost
For ak years the aggregate losses, as reported
byi the Board of Underwriters, were 81 ,252, !
6l9 and nearly two thousandl lives. "a f01 =
- The last c9nsusI6 of the several provinces
gives the following resultsfor the kingdom ol
| Italy: Piedmont, 3,Sl5 .637 inhabitants; Sar-
dina, 573 ll5; Lombardy, 277l ,647; Modena
609 1888; Parma, sos 764; Tuscany, 1,779 1888
ex-States of the Church, 1860, 1850; Naples
6s43, 1855; Sicily, 2. .23l, ,020-total, ,092, ,02(
| inhabitants, Y EuIQ 4HNW lif
--secretary Chase has our most cordial sym
| pathies Our correspondent announces thirty
t,OO bushels as his proportion of applications NJ
| to this writing, and the cry s "stll they come,
At this rate the Treasury building will soon b
full, and he, will have to secure outside
storage room Gin Gazette. DIT uEdl ~
GRowLINo.-The Democrats in the Reput
lican ranks say they don't get their share Of thu
Washington crumbs The New York Poe
lex Dem. and now Rep) as If in ..dudgeon
thus sums up;-Ex Wings %, ex Democrats A
/ A WONDERFUL PRooREss7-The Melbourn,
Herald states that in less, than q quarter of
| century Australia has increased from popula
ltion of NO to $50, 900 persons; and 10 ten year
has exported $4,000, 900 ounces of gold
| Mrs Gaines isreceiviDg a great many at
teptions in Washington since the decision in he
favor. Though depending upon the pension
given her by Congress for her husband eervi
ces, and now becoming millionaire, her great
eat joy is that, by this decision, che is recognize
as the only legitimate child of Daniel Clark, an
the attempt to place bar sinister upon be
escutcheon has failed.
= An American and Mexican, having g
into an affray in q gambling saloon in Monterey
they drew their knives, when several Of the ma
tives rushed up to help their countryman, where
upon the American attacked the whole Of then
killed two, seriously wounded three others, an
then found himself alone 10 his glory, all the rel
of the Mexicans--g gamblers, spectators and al
having fed from the saloon.