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THE JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED XYXKT THTR8DAT WOBNTSO,
Br JAMES HARPER.
At the low price of $1 00, in advance.
UALLIPOLIS.
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WHIG STATE NOMINATIONS.
'"- ' "or Gmrmor, -
- JTELS05 BAEKERE, of BghlanL X
For Lieutenant Ooermot,
ISAAC J. ALLEN, of Richland.
Fr Tmnurer of Sta- .,
HEX RY BRACHMAN, of Hamilton.
' For StrHaty Stale,
KELS05H.VAJI V0RHES,of Athens. .
. For Attorney General,
WILLIAM H. GIBSOX.of Seneca.?
V Supreme Judge, "
FEASXLIX T. BACKUS, of Cuyahoga. "
For Board of Public "VTorh,
JOSS WADDLE, of Coshocton.
PeopU't nownet Jor Cowtmisttoner of Common
Schools,
L0RI5 ANDREWS.
Whig Conventions Our next issue
will present our readers with the result
of the Senatorial and Countj Conven
tions. That the nominees may be such
as will meet the approval of all good
citizens of the county, the township
meetings on Saturday next should be
fully attended. If the people of the
several townships will attend their
primary meetings and select delegates
who will look well to the character of
the men they nominate, we may expect
the nominees will satisfy the great ma
jority of our citizens. Attend the
meetings on Saturday.
Railroad Meeting. There was
railroad meeting at the Court House
on Monday afternoon, which was well
attended. Judge Nash addressed the
citizens on the importance of putting
their shoulders to this great improve-
ment and pushing it through. Now is
the time above all others for our citizens
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w aci, u uicjr jet me preseub lavurnuie
opportunity slip there is no telling what
Gallipolis will be reduced to. Already
our trade has been divided. A deter
mined energy to provide the necessary
means to build the road seemed to be
manifested.
In this connection we give the fol
lowing extract from the late report of
President Cutler, of the Marietta and
Cincinnati road:
In addition to these nattering pros
pects, from Baltimore and Philadelphia
and various points reached from Wheel
ing, the Virginia Legislature has de
veloped the policy of that State in re
gard to her seaboard cities, as connected
with western trade, by the pledge of
81,000,000 to the extension of her Cen
tral road to the Ohio river. Although
it has been decided to locate the main
line of that road to the Mouth of Big
Sandy, with a view to southern connex
ions, this will undoubtedly be followed
by the construction of a branch to the
Month of the Big Kanawha. From
that point, the Gallipolis, Jackson and
Chillicothe railroad company are pre
pared to supply the necessary link for a
connection with our road, at a point
about 30 miles east of Chillicothe. -
While a very direct line will thus be
offorded from Richmond and Norfolk,
to Cincinnati, those cities will secure
their most direct connexion with the
Scioto and Miami Valleys, and, through
them, with the great Lakes, and all the
central and northern portions of In
diana and Illinois.
During the past year, the Maysville
and Big Sandy Railroad has been placed
under contract from Maysville to Ports
mouth. An agreement has been made
with that Company, for a running con-1
nexicm thus securing most valuable
contributions from the Kentucky system
of railroads, which will be commanded
through the Scioto and Hocking Valley
and the Maysville and Big Sandy lines.
Active preparations are being made for
the construction of the Hocking Valley
fine, from Columbus, through Lan
caster, to Athens. Also of the Frank
lin, Pickaway and Ross county road;
both of which will prove important
mDuuuies to our business.
The Dayton, Xenia and Belpre com
pany, it is understood, have placed their
entire line under contract, to its inter
section with our own, near Frankfort.
Ohio State Faib or 1853. The 4th
Annual State Fair will be held on the
20th, 21st, 22d and 23d of September
next, at the city of Dayton. The Fair
grounds, comprising thirty-six acres,
amply supplied with water and Bhade
trees, will be provided . with spacious
tents and buildings. The address is to
be delivered by Hon. Jas. A. Pearce, of
Maryland, on the 23d, at 3 o'clock, af
ter which the premiums will be an
nounced. The first day will be devoted
to arranging articles for exhibition and
stock, and their examination by the committees.
1-The Washington County Whig
Convention has made the following nom
inations: Representative Ansel B. Ford; Au
ditor F. A. Wheeler; Treasurer A.
L. Guitteau; Clerk Wm. C. Taylor. '
ly We were happy to meet our old
friend, Mr. Rufus Beman, in town, last
Tuesday.
MS" The Maine Liquor Law will be
found on the outside of the Journal.
As a large portion of our readers have
not had an opportunity of perusing this
much talked of act, we now give them
an opportunity.
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CoNVEN-
TI0. We stepped into the court house
last Thursday afternoon, while this bo
dy was in session, and in the absence of
the regular minutes will give what we
saw and heard there.
When we entered there appeared to
be a general whispering going on with
the delegates composing this body, rel
ative to the nomination of a suitable
man for State Senator, one that was the
least pledged and could be swallowed
by the mass. There appeared to be
some difficulty with them as to who
should be the candidate, and after some
time spent in this manner Mr. Leet, of
the Ironton Times, moved that they
retire to some room for the purpose of
making preliminary arrangemei
We noticed Lewis Berthe figuring ex
tensively with them, and supposed him
to be in their full confidence, until they
all retired, leaving him alone gaping
after them. He felt this rebuke, and
turning to some Whig spectators on the
outside of the bar, who knew his for
mer position and recent change of poll
tics, and putting on that peculiar grin
of his, remarked "Well now I'm only
half a Democrat." which created no
little merriment, as they saw the pecu
uar nx ne was in. .Lie wis must now
think it is
"Betterjto bear with the ills we hare
Than fly toothers we know not of."
In about an hour thereafter the dele
gates, having compared notes and ar
ranged matters to their liking, made
their appearance with the ballots in the
hat, all cut and dried, which resulted in
V. M. Firor receiving 19, Wm. McAboy
17, John Campbell 3, Benj. Johnson 5,
it being a complimentary vote to Mr.
Firor for past services. Every thing
worked like a charm in favor of this
gentleman, until Dr. Morgan, by a pre
concerted arrangement, made a few re
marks as to Mr. F.'s position on the
Maine Law, which of course killed him,
as they wanted a candidate unpledged.
At this stage of the farce there were
knowing looks given and received by
the delegates, but it was a matter of
much doubt with the Whigs as to who
would be the nominee, until Lewis An
derson left the room, when all doubts
disappeared. The delegates immedi
ately retired again to the jury room and,
after an absence of fifteen or twenty
minutes, returned with the ballots in the
hat, which resulted in the nomination of
Lewis Anderson, of Lawrence county,
whereupon a committee was appointed
to inform Mr. A. of his nomination.
During the interim Mr. Firor, the
next best, arose and stated that the nom
ination met his warm approval he had
no doubt the gentleman would receive
the full Democratic vote and a larse
vote from the opposition that they
were largely in the minority but no doubt
rested on hit mind that the gentleman
would be elected and after making
some fine gestures and arriving at no
particular conclusion, took his seat,
when the convention took a long breath.
and Mr. Anderson was introduced.
This gentleman thanked his friends for
the honor conferred on him said he
was in favor of reducing the per diem
of members from four dollars, as im
posed by the last rascally (Loco) Legis
lature, to three dollars was in favor of
the land bill, and, rather unexpectedly
to a large number present, took hi
seat
Leet, of the Ironton Times, looked
pleased at how the nomination was
made; Berthe, the old "Taylor Repub
lican, put on an extra rheumatic grin
and declared that "Lewis A
pulled the strings here, and that he was
going to Porter to see who pulled them
there;" Mose Gates drew down his
spectacles and looked at Dan, his son,
and Dan smiled; the Meigs delegate
lengthened out his visage at least an
inch more than nature designed, to put
on a sober air; Dr. Morgan's jolly coun
tenance was perfectly inflamed with
laughter, but he had to hold in; Firor,
wrapped up in ignorance of how the
thing was done, looked at his left bower
Thompson, and Thompson, seeing the
eyes of his right bower on him, drew
two more wrinkles in his forehead,
and tried to look wise, without knowing
for what purpose, until the farce closed
by a motion to nominate Geo. House
by acclamation, which was effected,
there being but one loud No against him
and that by the Bottle Stopper man.
In the midst of some confusion the con
vention then adjourned sine die.
G. J. Beebe, Esq., of Rochester,
N. Y., will address the citizens of Gal
lipolis, to-day, at the Court House, in
opposition to the Maine Law.
j
jt7The officers of the steamers Ohio
and Justice will accept of our thanks
for late Cincinnati papers.
jC7'The State Journal says of the
nominee for School Commissioner:
Mr. Barney, the nominee of the
Locofocoa for School Commissioner, is
at the head of the Common Schools in
Cincinnati, and is a teacher of estab
lished reputation. He was one of the
teachers that urged the nominaticn of
Mr. Andrews at the Teachers' State
Convention, at Dayton, in July.
tS-i. O. WiHard, Cashier of the
Ironton Bank, states, in a card in the
Remitter, that there are genuine notes in
circulation with forged signatures
Register, President and Cashier, on the
following Banks, viz:
Savings Bank Cincinnati Counter
feits dated May 4, 1852. There are
genuine notes of this date.
Forest City Bank Counterfeits dated
Dec. 14, 1852. There are genuine
notes oi the same date.
Springfield Bank Counterfeits dated
JNov. 4, 1852., No genuine of this date.
Adams was not Register in 1852.
Champaign County Bank Counter
feits dated Nov. 1 8, 1 852. No genuine
of this date. There are genuine
Nov. 18, 1851.
Miami Valley Bank Numbering and
filling up bad. The letter m in Emeley
is made in the counterfeit commencing
with an up hair line stroke, and ends
with a hair line tail; in the genuine the
m in all cases commences with a curl at
the top, and ends square down. - . ' '
Bank of Marion Counterfeits dated
March 4, fec. No genuine of this date.
He states that the numbering and fil
ling up of all the above are stiff and
awkward, like a school boy's hand. No
counterfeit signatures of genuine notes
have yet been discovered on any of the
other Free Banks.
New Advertisements.
The finder of a gold cuff-pin will re
ceive a reward by leaving it at this of
fice.
The old and favorably known house of
II. Ciiilds & Co., is prepared to furnish
their Fall customers with Shoes, dec.
This is one of the oldest houses in Pitts
burgh, and has heretofore received a lib
eral patronage from this section of Ohio.
See the advertisement.
Messrs. Henking Sc Cadot have
new supply of Cotton yarn. Glass and
Stone ware, tc. Call and see.
Bring on your Woolen Rags, and re
ceive the Uash, at the upper l'aper
Mill.
JtiT Dickens' Household Words for
September has been received. It con
tains a great deal of choice reading,
and all the articles are original. Price
$2.
t3T The London Quarterly Review
contains the following table of Contents:
Annals of Ireland by the Four Mas
ters; Baron Haxthausen's Notes of
Russia; Writings of Professor Owen
Generalizations of Comparative Anato
my; Shepherd on Ecclesiastical Forge
ries; Autobiography of feignor Kumni;
Court Ficquelmont on the Palmerston
Policy; The Oxford Commission; Me
moirs of Thomas Moore.
Terms. For one Review, 83 a year;
for Two, 85; for Three, 87; for the Four,
88; Blackwood's Magazine, 83; Black
wood and the Four Reviews, 810.
Locofoco State Convention. The
Locofoco State Convention assembled
in Columbus on the 24th inst. The
State Journal says a debute arose
whether any resolutions should be
passed. The Convention decided
against the adoption of any at this time.
As usual, a rumpus arose in the Hamil
ton delegation. Mr. Griffin said the
Miamiswere trying to get everything,
and that there would be no trouble
there if they could get that tribe out of
the county. The scene was rich at
times, but passed off without fights or
broken heads this time.
James Myers, of Toledo, was nomi
nated Lieutenant Governor, and H. H.
Barney, of Hamilton county for School
Commissioner.
jfcgr We call attcniion of the Whigs
to the fact that the County Convention
meets at Rodney, and the Senatoria
Convention at Porter, both on the same
day, September 6th, and that conse
quently on next Saturday two sets of
delegates will have to be selected.
JtSTMr. Harper, of the Gallipolis
Journal, while attending camp meeting,
called over to our sanctum, and gave
himself and Mr. Hebard, ( also of Gal
lipolis) an introduction. Mr. Harper is
said to be one of the best printers in the
west, The printers of Louisville, we
understand, awarded him a printers'
rule made of gold. He prints a good
paper. We have an old man in town
who has nearly as much faith in the
Journal as he has in the Bible. Ouy-
andoue Herald.
We called on our friends of the Her
ald, as stated, and found them and the
citizens of Guyandotte going ahead.
The town has much improved, within a
few years, and with its Railroad is des
tined to be a place of considerable im
portance. Messrs. Wheeler & Smith
are publishing an excellent paper, and
contributing in no small degree in draw
ing attention to the increasing impor
tance of their town, and Western Vir
ginia generally.
Horrible Affair. The Ironton
Times of the 13th inst., says: We un
derstand that a man by the name of
Daniel Swim, at Cattlesburgh, Ky., at
breakfast yesterday morning, from some
slight imaginary wrong attacked his
wife in the most brutal manner, knocked
her down with a chair, kicked three of
her ribs loose from the body and other
wise injured her so that she is not ex
pected to live. He was immediately
arrested and ironed. He first became
a brute by intoxication.
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Failure of the Vine Crops. The
vines of France first, and now all Eu
rope, have been attacked by a disease of
a character parasitical and similar to the
mushroom, but very minute, covering
the wood of the vine and destroying the
plant.
This disease has been attributed to
various causes. Once first propagated,
its pollen seems to have been carried in
the winds over all Europe and the Is
lands of the Mediterranean, and has
caused wide spread fears for the exist
ence of the Vine in Europe. Last year's
crop was a total failure in consequence
of this disease.
4t37The debate at Columbus, on the
Maine Liquor Law, between Dr. Jewett
and G. J. Beebe, is thus noticed by the
reporter of the Cincinnati Times. We
shall, give the points of the argument
next week, so that all may judge for
themselves:
"The combatants were Dr. Charles
Jewett, a shrewd and talented lecturer
from the old Bay State, in favor of the
law, and G. J. Beebe, Esq., a New York
lawyer, in opposition. They spoke,
with the exception of an intermission for
dinner, all day, from 10 o'clock in the
morning until 6 o'clock in the evening,
taking it hour about. As is usual in
all discussions of this character, each
speaker was cheered by those who be
lieved with him, and both came off vic
torious in the estimation of their friends.
Without saying anything in regard to
the arguments produced, I must inti
mate that I think the Yankee more than
a match for the Yorker.
"At the close of the debate it was pro
posed to take a vote of the audience up
on the Maine Law. Those in favor of
the law went to one side of the lot, and
the anties to the other. As soon as the
two crowds were effectually separated,
one cheered Beebe and the other Jew
ett. The Maine Law crowd was much
the largest, but then it contained all the
ladies as Jewett said, "See, not one fe
male is on the side of rum!" Counting
the males in each crowd, they were
about even. A large portion of the an
ties were Germans. The combatants
announced future appointments, when
the crowd quietly dispersed, and thus
ended the discussion here."
California Intelligence.
Our news by the Northern Light mail
is of some interest.
The present season is highly favora
ble to mining operations in all the gold
districts; the miners seem to be gener
ally fortunate in possessing valuable
claims, which are yielding abundantly
by the use of improved means for ex
tracting the metal. From present ap
pearances, the total production of gold
for the six months commencing with the
first of June, will be larger than during
any similar period since the opening of
the mines.
The wheat crops in nearly all parts of
the Mate are sunenng with rust, which,
it is said, will make the yield twenty or
twenty-five per cent, less than it would
have been otherwise. This, with the
present rates of flour, has advanced the
price of wheat considerably, and the
larmers will realize large profits from
their crops, notwithstanding the rust,
Parties were arriving every week at
some point in California. On the 23d
July, Hugh Dickson, from Chillicothe,
Ohio, reached DownieviIIe. He left
Fort Laramie, with two others, on the
10th of June, and reached DownieviIIe
in forty days. Mr. Dickson thinks the
emigration is heavier this year than it
ever has been, but a great many are
Oregon-bound. He left five hundred
wagons at Fort Laramie, waiting to get
on the north side of the rirer. He re-'
ports a great many families on the road
and a goodly number of young ladies.
He made some calculation of the num
ber of cattle that would cross the Plains
for Oregon and California, and he
sure that 300,000 head would not be too
high an estimate.
The Humboldt was very high, and
emigrants were compelled to keep the
ridge road, on the north side, all the way
down, tie passed through bait Lake,
ana lound times bard and provisions
high. He passed Kit Carson on the
Humboldt, with 7,000 head of sheep.
I he party came into DownieviIIe by way
of Jackson s ranch. Ihey met with
ready sale for their animals at liberal
prices.
The Supreme Court of the State
made a decision lately that will attract
attention and create some surprise to
the Atlantic states. I he Court decided
that the mines of gold and other pre
cious metals of California are the exclu
sive property of that State; that the
United States have no interest in them.
and cannot exercise any jurisdiction over
them. The decision does not include
the lands containing the minerals, but
only the minerals themselves.
A Disgusting Monster. Dr. Grant,
visiting Mosul, thus describes Shereef
Pacha, the successor of Mohammed
Pacha:
He is, I believe, the most hideous
man I ever saw; four feet high, lame,
crooked, with only one eye, one ear and
half a nose. His face, too, is most hor
ribly scarred with small-pox. His soul
is the fit inhabitant of such a body.
He is a perfect compound of every bad
propensity cruelty, craftiness, greedi
ness, and lust. He cuts off heads,
strangles people, throws others into the
river generally for the sake of their
property, but sometimes, as it would
seem, merely for fun. I myself saw!
him firing bombs among the people just
to enjoy Aeir fright Beside, this hor
rid monster, when he hears of girls to
his liking in any family, sends his
kavasses to take them into his harem.
The place would be deserted, but that
he has walled up some of the gates,
and posted soldiers at the others, to pre
vent the people escaping from his
clutches, I
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of
Escape or a Convict. On Satur
day last we visited Sing Sing, where we
learned that a convict escaped from the
State prison the day previous in a very
skillful manner. James Dunn, the con
vict in question, though but 20 years
old, had served one term in the State
prison, and had been but a few months
returned on another sentence which was
for life. He worked in a weaver shop,
and managed to procure strips of India
rubber cloth, with which he made a
tube some six feet long and water-tight.
To one end of this he attached a bag of
the same material and shaped like a
duck. During the forenoon of Friday,
he left his shop and managed to allude
all the vigilant keepers nntil he reached
the river, where he threw off and se
creted all his clothing, and with his
India rubber life-preserver, plunged into
the water. Sinking to the bottom, he
kept one end of the tube in his mouth,
while the bag floated upon the surface,
through which the air passed to supply
respiration. In this manner he went
some distance from the shore, and drift
ing with the tide, he passed the guards
and keepers, and all the men employed
along the prison docks, the railroad,
Robinson's dock, the Farmer's dock,
the lower landing of the village, Man
sion House dock, and up to Colver's
dock, a distance of half a mile. Here
he found a number of men and boys
who were astonished to see a stranger
swimming from a bay four miles wide
at mid-day, and under a burning sun of
one of the hottest days of the season.
On gaining the snore, he remarked
with perfect composure that he had
"won the bet!" Some one inquired
where his clothes were. He pointed to
the Upper Landing, and remarked that
he had "left them up there when he
went in." He then started up the rail
road track, and meeting a Mr. Fowler
he pointed to a person still further
north, and inquired of Mr. Fowler "if j
that man had a bundle of clothing."
He received a negative answer, when
he replied that "he had stolen his
clothes while he went in swimming,'
and then started off a few hundred
yards, when he left the road, and
entered Gen. Van Wyck's grove. Soon
after, he was observed crossing the
yards and fields toward the Dale
cemetery, in the same condition in which
he left the river, since which he has not
been seen.
Important from Venezuela. The
Earthquake at Cumana Awful Destrue-
ty. so terrific at all times in Southern
countries, has proved far more disas-
trous in the present instance than the
first reports gave reason to suppose.
Private letters to July 22 from Puerto
Cabello, received by the last convey
ance, give us unwelcome particulars,
as they prove that the earthquake of
the I5tb of July at Cumana was one of
the most disastrous that ever occurred
in South America. The present un
happy state of civil war in Venezuela is
the cause of delays in communications,
as the province of Cumana is the only
one now holding out against the govern
ment, the rebellion having been else
where suppressed. The news brought
to Puerto Cabello by the crew of a na
tional vessel, the Bolivar, who had
deserted and joined the rebels
The first shock of the earthquake
was so violent, that, although it con
tinued its vibrations only two minutes,
it destroyed in that short space of time,
every house but one in that principal
part of the city, called Puente Arriba.
Many of the inhabitants of the portion
which contained the dwellings of the
more opulent were buried in the ruins.
There can be no doubt that some of the
succeeding details are liable to be ques
tioned on account of the channel by
which the news was brought to Puerto
Cabello; but they generally received
credit among respectable men at that
place, from several of whom the story
has been received here.
This shocking catastrophe seems to
have put a sudden and complete end to
the war; for 600 soldiers in the bar
racks were among the victims, together
with almost all the officers of the revo
lution. The utmost consternation natu
rally prevailed among the survivors, and
it was said that a respectable ecclesiastic
was sent to General J. f. Monagas,
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who was preparing his troops to march
asking assistance' for the sufferers. It
is added that these requests were as
sen ted to, and that he immediately sent
one of his brothers with a supply of
provisions and men. The earthquake
was felt in Barcelona, and destroyed
three large buildings, including the bar
racks, just after 700 soldiers had left
them. All along the coast of Venezue
la, shocks were felt, but
was known.
It is said that the superstitions of the
people led many of them to look upon
the earthquake as an evidence of the
Divine disapprobation of the revolution.
tjumana is a city oi almost b.uuu in
habitants, lying on the gulf of Cariaco,
the mouth of the Maranares. It is
the oldest European city on the Ameri
can continent, having been founded in
1523.
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ST. THOMAS, Aug. 3.
Xegro Insurrection at Tortola. There
has been an insurrection among the
negroes at the Island of Tortola. The
town has been burnt and several per
sons killed. All the whites were flee
ing, and many have arrived at St
Thomas. Soldiers were sent from St
Thomas to quell the revolt
This is only the beginning of what
must eventually and soon be the result
all the iJnush West India Islands,
to
to
is
for
where the negroes have the supremacy
power, which is the case in most of
the smaller Islands. brick
The African fever ( called the yellow
fever,) which has caused such frightful of
ravages the past year among sailors and
strangers, has nearly left and the
island is becoming more healthy. as
TTortola is one of the Caribbean
Lslands, and is under the government of I ges
Great Britain. Eds I
Thi Iktroductioh or the Yellow
Fever. The New York Tribune makea
the following statement:
"We have private advices from New
Orleans which reveal the astounding
and alarming fact that the clothes and
soiled linen, sick chamber rags, and so
forth of persons dying of the yellow
fever and black vomit, are shipped to
this city by rag speculators!" Our au
thorities should immediately be on the
alert, or we shall have the pestilence in
the midst of ua. Rag-men, of whom
there is a great "number in New Or
leans, on being asked what they did
with these rags and clothes, which they
nicked no. referred our informant to
several places where they were ur
chased. With some friends he went to
the raw buyers' depot, who informed
him tlfat the rags were sent to New
York, and that a lot had been shipped the
da before! Lookout, therefore, lor the
pestilence messengers!
Incidents or the Epidemic at New
Orleans. The Daily Delta of the 14th
contains the following melancholy state
ments:
"We greeted an old acquaintance
yesterday on Nay ades street whom 'we
had not seen for a fortnight before. He
had a care-worn and troubled counte
nance, his eyes were sunken, and his
cheeks were hollow, and care had left
its foot-prints on his brow. He looked
at least ten years older than when last
we 6aw him. We asked if he had been
sick, and if not, to explain the cause of
this great change. 'Alas! he replied,
'a few days ago and I was happy in
the possession of a father, a mother,
and three loved sisters; but I am alone
now, I buried the last one yesterday.'
We were answered; it was indeed
enough to turn the darkest hairs to
snowy whiteness. And yet it is but
one instance out of the many which
daily occur in our city.
"On Triton Walk yesterday we no
ticed a boy, about eleven years of age,
carrying on his head a coffin, which, on
inquiry, we learned contained the body
of his little sisteTwho had died of
yellow fever. He was accompanied by
his elder sister, a girl of some thirteen
years of age; they were slowly and
sadly making their way to the cemete-
nr."
Democratic Senatorial Convention.
Pursuant to previous notice the De
mocracy of the 8th Senatorial District,
met in Convention at the Court House,
in Gallipolis, on Thursday, the 25th of
Au?ush at one o'clock P. M., and or-
ganized by calling Moses Gates, of
Gallia, to the chair and appointing E. F.
Bingham, Esq., of Vinton, Secretary.
Un motion of r . Leet it was resolved,
that the delegates of each county be
authorized to determine the manner of
casting the vote of their respective
counties.
On motion the Convention proceeded
to ballot for a candidate for Senator, a
majority of all the votes cast bein
necessary for a choice. The first ballot
resulted as follows:
V. M. Firor, of Gallia, 19
Wm. McAbot, of Meigs, 17
JonN Campbell, of Lawrence, 3
Benjamin Johnson, do 5
No one having a majority of all the
votes cast, the Convention proceded to
the second ballot, which resulted as fol
lows: Lewis Anderson, of Lawrence, 30
Wm. McAbot, 14
Whereupon Lewis Anderson was de
clared duly nominated.
A committee was appointed to inform
Mr. Anderson of his nomination.
Who appeared and accepted the nomi
nation in a few brief and appropriate
remarks,
The Convention then proceeded to
nominate a candidate for a member of
the State Board of Equalization.
hereupon, on motion, Gen. George
House was nominated. '
Ordered that the proceedings be
published in the several newspapers in
tne District.
On motion the Convention adjourned
sine ate.
MOSES GATES, Chairman.
E. F. BINGHAM, Sec'y.
A Magnificent Speculation. Our
friend Bateham, of the Cultivator, has
ust returned from an inspection of the
iamous i eacn orcnaru oi air. uavis.
about two miles east of Milford, Cler
mont county. He says it is the finest
fruit sight he ever saw. One hundred
acres of ground covered with ten thou
sand peach trees. They were set out
years ago. In 1 850, they averaged
basket, or three-quarters of a bush-
nprtrpo. which hrmirrht htm
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tana aouars. mis paia ior nis land
trees, and something to spare.
lAst year there was no fruit This
year they will average three baskets to a
tree. They readily sell for from 81,25
81,50 per basket. The crop of this
season will bring him 830,000, with a
profit of 825,000. Before the
peaches were' ripe, Mr. Davis was of
fered twenty thousand dollars for the
fruit of this year. He has been offered
hundred dollars per acre for his
alone, but he can do much better
keep them. The fruit is now in its
glory, and presents one of the finest
sights imaginable.
such things should stimulate others
go and follow his example. There
no danger of overstocking the market
railroads will soon carry the fruit to
every State and city of the Union.
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Downfall or- a House. On Wed-
nesday night of last week, during a
severe storm, the one half of the large
building, near the depot in this
place, belonging to Mr. C. M. Damarin,
Portsmouth, fell prostrate to the
ground. This building was nearly
completed, and was intended by Mr. D.,
a Forwarding and Commission
House, and Grocery Store. The dama-
are estimated at about 81000.
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Jackson Standard.
Meios Cocirrr. The Whigs of Meigs
county held their County Convention on
the 18th inst, and nominated the follow
ing ticket. We have an acquaintance
with most of the nominees, and can tru
ly say that it is an excellent ticket:
For Representative, J. M. Evans, of
Chester; for Prosecuting Attorney,
Thomas Irvin, of Pomeroy; for Sheriff,
S. Bradbury, of Middleport; for Treas
urer, 0. Branch, of Pomeroy; for Com
missioner, J. F. Brown, of Orange; for
Surveyor, Aaron Stivers, of Pomeroy;
for Coroner, J. R. Philson, of Racine.
The Telegraph says of the contest in
Meigs county:
There is no disguising the fact that
the present contest will turn mainly up
on one question Maine Law or No
Maine Law. The Democratic party,
which was allowed first choice, with re
markable consistency, arrayed them
selves against the Law. Many honest,
moral, enlightened Democrats, favoring
the Law, determined to vote some other
ticket The Whig party, without any
sacrifice of principles or preferences,
unanimously nominated a Maine Law, or
Temperance ticket Personally, the
candidates on both tickets are popular.
The contest, therefore, will be for prin
ciples, not men. Our own opinion is
that the ticket nominated last Thursday
will be elected by a handsome majority.
Mr. J amis Harper Dear Sin: lam
but just in receipt of a letter from the
Cashier of one of the State Stock Banks
of Ohio, from which the following is an
extract:
"I have just returned from Cincinnati
and Columbus, which explains delay in
my reply.
We are going to get up new plates,
85 and 810, for the present, each Bank
separate plate.
You will observe by the papers that
there are no counterfeit signatures on
the
Pickaway County Bank,
Bank of Commerce, .
Iron Bank of Ironton,
Union Bank, Sandusky,
Portage County Bank,
Merchants' Bank, Massillon,
Stark County Bank.
All the signatures, Registers, and
Bank officers are forgeries."
All the notes of the above named
State Stock Banks I will receive at par.
either on deposit or in exchange. The
notes of the balance of the Ohio State
Stock Banks I shall only receive at a dis
count of twenty per cent.
Truly yours,
CHAS. HENKING.
I3T We have received a communi
cation from "S. M." which we decline
inserting on account of its extreme
length. If he will bring his communi
cation into a reasonable space we will
insert it with pleasure.
The Recent Fatal Duel in South
Carolina. Our comments on this af
fair so far have been the means of get
ting us reliable information concerning
its particulars. We have been thus fa
vored with a sight of reliable letters
from Charleston, from which we gather
that Mr. Legare was engaged to a young
lady in Columbia. Her friends inquired
of Dunovant what was the character
and habits of L. f?) This coming to
his ears, he inquired of D. what he had
answered, and found that he had spoken
favorably of him; but not satisfied with
a verbal statement, he demanded it in
writing, which was refused. Legare
challenged on this refusal. The dis
tance was twelve paces. Legare fired
at the word "one," and missed; Duno
vant fired at the word "two," and
killed his antagonist The survivor was
wholly unskilled in the use of the pistol,
having never before had anything to do
with a duel. Legare, on the contrary,
was notoriously a crack shot, having, a
few days before the affair came off (in
practising,) placed forty-eight out of fif
ty balls in a card at the word. He be
came very nervous on starting for the
ground, and remarked that he felt a
presentiment that be would fall, not
withstanding his skill with the pistol.
He was formerly in the navy as a mid
shipman, from which he was dismissed,
is said, for running a sword through
marine. Washington Star, Aug. 14.
HONOLULU, July 12, 1853.
The Legislature of the islands, afters
long and stormy session, adjourned yes
terday. The United States frigate St Law
rence, 44 guns, is now lving here. We
had, a few days ago, a visit from a Swe
dish frigate of 36 guns the first Swe
dish man-of-war that ever was here.
They were the whitest looking sailors I
ever saw, and looked as if they had nev
er been in the sun in their lives. The
St Lawrence is stationed here to fight
the French, if necessary. We expect
the controversy between them and the
Hawaiian Government will soon be re
newed, and probably settled. It mar
interest yon to know (what till lately I
did not know,) that when we arrived
here, an American and a French frigate
lay here with guns shotted, and all rea
dy for action the latter for the purpose
firing into the town, and the former
the purpose of preventing their do
so. two or inree American nags
had been prepared, and the first gun
from the French would have been the
signal for hauling down the Hawaiian
running up the American flag on
shore. The French commander was ap
of the intention on the part of the
Hawaiian Government to hoist the
American flag, about an hoar before
firing was to have commenced.
odds against him seemed too great.
he was compelled, much against his
to postpone his revenge until news
could be had from France. That news
are now daily expecting; but as we
the St Lawrence to take care of
we anticipate no trouble, as the dif
ficulty will probably be settled without
guns in the matter.