The Democratic press. (Eaton, Preble County, Ohio) 1860-1865, 1861-02-28
News Items.

Washington.
One Ramsey, an overseeri N Drew
county, Ark, was killed, recently,
Eby a slave, whom he hadattemptcd
to chastise.
The question in Louisiana is not
now whether a man is fright on the
goose" but is he Fright on the pei
%ican"
A man was frozen to death, with
in sight of his own door, in the
fearful storm of Thursday night, at
Vienna, N. Y. .....
The President has ordered an
extra session of the Senate on the
4th of March to confirm Lincoln's
Cabinet appointments.
The Kentucky Legislature has
adjourned until the Goth of March,
to await the action of the Peace
Commissioners.
Senator Sebastian, of Arkansas,
has received intelligence from that
State that she will not follow the
other cotton States out ofthc Union.
Mr.. Crittendcn, yesterday pre-
scented petitions intlle Senate, sign
ed by $4,000 citizens Of Massachu-
sets, for the Crittenden Compro-
mise.
The Convention, of Louisiana has
adopted a State flag. Itconsists Of
a rcd field with a single pale star,
with 10 stripes, blue, white, and
red.
The Texas Convention has passed
an ordinance favoring the forma-
ton of a Southern confederacy and
f elected seven delegates to the South
, ern Congress.
t The agent of u New Orleans
house was robbed at a Memphis
CTenn.) hotel, the other night, of
$500 in checks and drafts, and q
f small amount of gold.
I Last year there were 1896 pat
ents issued, and % extended for q
+ period of seven years. The whole
number of patents applied for was
y 5,73S. .....
The French women have less
beauty of face than those of any
other nation in Europe, but their
figures are, with the aid of art, de-
cidedIy attractive.
, The celebrated Girard House in
Philadelphia, will be closed on the
1st of March, in consequence of the
: falling off in travel, making the
i concern no longer profitable.
. The New Workers have surren-
s dered the muskots belonging to
Georgia, and the authorities at Sa-
: vannah in return have released the
New York vessels, seizedin retalia.
ton. This looks better.
l. Hon. John G. Wright, of Gin.
/ cinnati, andone ofthe Commission
. ers from Ohio, died at Washington
II City, on the 18th, of pneumonia
IL He was in his 10th year, and one o
q the first men of the country.
. There is q great abundance o
If grain in Upper Canada, and thu
Is ~storehouscS upon the railway sta
'. tons are filed to repletion. Thu
railroads, and river and lake craft
ID will have much to do when thu
4 market moves.
&c Judge Robinson, the Commits
y. sioner from Virginia to the cottol
p States, telegraphs that Georgia anc
X Alabama have agreed to abstain
IN from any military acts until afte
n the action Of the peace Congress-
Mt and that South Carolina will con
tt form to the same policy.
y Capt. Morrison, of the revenu
~ cutter Lewis Cass, who surrendere'
his vessel to the authorities of Ala
u bama, afterwards sent in his rcsig
nation, but Secretary Dix rcfuse'
8 to receive it, and Morrison's nam
~ is to be stricken from the roll Of tn
service.
na. One of the signers of the De
=! claration of Independence, Jane
W. Wilson, is buried near Charlestowr
ne Clark county, in this State, in
mt grave entirely unmarked. A res
C. olution to erect a monument over
at the expense of the State, wa
no recently introduced in the Legisla