Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1877-10-05
General News.

London was enlarged by 226 new streets, . new
squares, and IL, 93s new houses last year
Gen. McIellan's name is in the directory of
Baltimore as a resident of that city.
Alodge has been built near Brigham Youngs
grave, and q continual guard is kept there night
and day.
j. w. Ferry, President pro TEN. OF the Senate,
has entirely recovered from his illness and will be
on hand for the extra session of Congress.
It is asserted that fully 1000 negroes favorng
the Liberian emigration scheme attended a recent
meeting to further it in Shreveport, La.
Queen Victorias allowance from the nation
during the past year was about So 033,5i5. The
Prince of Wales received 100000.
The Memphis Avalanche (Dem.) says that Mis-
sissipp needs twenty five legal hangings and one
hundred accessions to the penitentiary within the
next ninety days.
| St. Louis merchants are much disturbed by the
passage of a city ordinance proposing to levy a
tax on all commercial travellers who Wis it the city
for the purpose of cling goods. They are APP
pcaling to the Mayor to veto it.
An effort is being made to secure the prohibi
ton of pool-selling at the Fall meeting of the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association
1t Is said to meet the decided approval of several
influential members of the Association.
1t is now little more than six years since
group Of eminent citizens of New York proposed
to set upa statue. in imperishable brass, of the
Hon. VIM. M. Tweed.
Wade Hampton, Jr., son of the Governor, and
once aid on the staff Of Gen. j. L. Johnston, has
received, without asking, a nomination to the
Mississippi Legislature from the democrats of
Washington County, wherein he is planter.
A plaster cast of tablet containing treaty
made by the Greeks in 400 B. G., and containing
mention Of the first political acts Of Alcibiades,
has just been received at Washington by the Off
Gals of the State Department. The tablet was
discovered in Greece in April last, and sent to this
country by Mr.. Read, our Charge d Afares.
An autograph letter of John Quincy Adams adj
dressed to John Mcleod, of North Carolina, has
just been discovered in that State. 1t gives ad-
vice regarding the education of McLcod's son,
assigning the preference among universities first
to Harvard then to Yale. He says in CONCLUSION
"The disposition" Ito religio enthu sasm) "man-
iifested by your son is one which, were the posi-
ton in which it places you my own, should not
only deem it incumbent me to treat with the
utmost tenderness, but to cherish and direct, rath
er than to restrain. So strong is the tendency Of
all human learning, as taught in the present age,
to in6delity, that nothing but deep religious fer
yer can preserve young man in the process of a
literary education from falling into religious in
differences from which there is but one step to
speculative atheism. This is the disease of the
age, and it creeps downward from the enlightened
and school-taught to the unrestricted and neces-
sarly ignorant mind. Indifference to the question
what and where we are to be, after the close of
our short career upon earth, is the swift and fatal
step to the disbelief that there is any future state
of responsible existence for us in reserve"