The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-01-17
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
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An attempt was made to assissinate Sen
ator Wade, of Ohio, on Wednesday night last
in Washington City. He was called upon
by an unknown individual to sign some pa
pers He refused. The stranger showed i'll
feeling, and Senator Wade retired moment
and secured pistol. The stranger, in grey,
again demanded Senator Wade's signature
but produced no papers at all. On Senator
Wades refusing, he drew bowie knife
Wade drew his pistol and drove him out OF
the room into the street, when lie made off
Senator Wade was alone The signing of
the papers was thought to have been used as
apretext for an interview with the Senator.
Secretary Harlan, of the Interior, has
been elected U. S. Senator from Iowa for the
long term. This is the first vacancy in the
Presidents cabinet.
There has been rumor prevalent in
Richmond that Gov. Pierpoint would resign.
1t had no just foundation.
Robert Toombs, of Ca, is in Cuba.
"A company has been formed in Weldon,
N. c., to rent or purchase lands and build
houses for industrious emigrants, who may
come there
Among the funds in the hands of the
corporation of London. is the sum of e200
year, left in trust I" to burn heretics.''
The immigration from Canada to the
United States is immense; thinning out dis
.tricts in Canada, and depicting seriously the
cities
The Rev. Benz. Kurtz, distinguished
divine of the Lutheran Church, died in Balti-
more on Monday.
From returns of the English income tax,
it appears that in 1854, the amount of income
liable to taxation was sos, 844, 222, the num-
Der of persons charged with income tax was
30S,416, and the. average of their income
about e31O. The number of persons having
incomes over 100000 was 81 the amount of
their incomes averaged little less than
100000.
Near half a million tons of Nova Scotia
coal has come to the United States this wear,
Efforts are being made to have the ma
rine corps mustered into the regular army as
a heavy artillery regiment.
-Ex-Generals Marmaduke, Preston and
Walker, of Texas, are in London, as is also
Mr. Judah P Benjamin.
Business is declining in New Orleans,
and stores have been sold for less than the
bricks were worth
Another expedition to the Aratic regions
from Prussia is contemplated
Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws, who COM
handed division in Longstreet's Corps, is
a candidate for Clerk of the Superior Court
of Richmond county, Georgia.
I'm the Baltimore Court last year there
were 1859 divorce petitions filed, 50 of which
were granted
An exchange asserts that the Lowell
Mills now make one dollar on every pound of
cotton they use. Tall profit, that.
The Georgia Legislature have passed a
joint resolution stating that President John
son has been magnanimous in his treatment
of the people of that State.
1t is reported on good authority that the
cotton tax to be paid at Macon, Ga, alone,
for January, February and March, will exceed
S., ZOO, 900.
THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT NASHVILLE.
The building of the abutment of this
bridge has been completed on the Edgefeld
side, and the fastenings fixed on the Nash
vile side of the river
The following are interesting and impor-
tant items of Southern news:
German emigrants are arriving in strong
force In Louisiana and Mississippi Many
more are expected, not only in these States,
but also in Alabama, Georgia and Tennes-
see.
AT Columbus, Miss, an oil and mining
company has been organized to operate in
(. that State and Alabama. They have made
; important discoveries, and have bought
| 5000 acres of land.
During the month of December, seven
thousand three hundred guns and pistols,
J ninety-four thousand pounds of power, eight
hundred and thirty-two thousand pounds of
shot, and thirteen million percussion caps
were sent South from New York.
DIR. John Clark, charged with killing a
negro near Americas, Ca, last fall and who
was discharged by the Provost Marshal at
Americas, has again been hauled up for trial
| at Macon.
From Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, Jan. 12.-The last military