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It Is Said The Governor Of Maine Is About To Convene The Le...

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Day
2
Month
May
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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It is eaid the Governor of Maine is about to e onvene the Legislature in consequence of is jatches received by him from Mr. Webster u ive to the boundary question. jy Ohio Domkstic Loan.- Undcr the law requiring the Cnnal Fund Comniissioners to borrow 1 300,000 on Statf; stock at par. books were opèned at Cincinnati, Columbus, Cantón, and J Cleveland, but not a single bid was received at eithi-r place. The Commissinncre in atjendancc tl l Canïon offcrod to tak. Chillicothe and Franklin Bank of ColumbuB paper, but no offers werft a made even for that. I At the district Court sitting at Belfust, Mc., g last week, the jury decided a case which f eed uvo ycarsbefore, for the recovery of ninetyZo The costs have been about-.four hundred dollars. ■L ■ , 5 . . Texas lote of Liberty.- The. Texnns, it ie said, ire selling thcir slaves at public auction, to gel Soney toghelP hem fight for hbertv These traf1 cers in thesouls andbodies of men. have einployed a methodist minister as chaplain, to pray the God of the opprossed.to crown their arms with victory. What more reasonablc, thnn that God should bless those who trade in his children? A ''running account" means getting trusted, and then putting out for Iowa or Texas. Adjournedfor taant of Light.- The Convention ihat was callcd at Boston to investígate the claims to inspiration of Moses and the prophets. have finuKy udjourned without coming to a decisión. This unsatisfactory result was occasioned by a want of light- not mental, but iallow- which n straitened treasuiy prevented them from purchasing. , _ Texas. - The Richmond Star says that Dr. Vaughan, who shot young Pleasantsat the Columbia Hotel some years ago, was recently killed in Texas. Vaughan went to cowhide a young carpenter'. formerly of Richmond, for some expreseions that were used at a public meeting, and as Vaughan collared him, the young man seized a hatchet, and cleft his skull to the brain, killing him outright. A New Dctice. - The customers of the taverns have becomc so scarce in New York, that he keepers of them have been obliged to resort to new expedienta lor the purpose of drawing persons into their houses. At one place they have three females "walking the plank;" at another a live Yankee" is turning a grmdstone forforty hours; at a third aman in sitting in a chair with his head over the back of it, with an empty beer barrel in his lap: he is to renwn in this position for twenty-four hours; and, lasdy, a man is attempting to eat a half pound-of corn bread every hour for Jifty hours. The pretense is that there are wagers depending upon these feats: but the fact is tlat it is only a tnek to draw eustomers.- Lcdger. Mr Heron. a minister, had a large family 0 children-vhen dying, his weeping wife eaid, "alas! what will become of all these children? He pleasantly replied, Never fear; He thot feeds the young ravens won't starve the young Herons. Rail RidinT- Sheriff Resistcd-Nullification.- The (Va.) Republican states that in the countyof Hamson the Deputy Sheriff) have thrown up, anJ gave notice to the high sheriff that they would no longer act, and that in the lower end of the same county, the people met to the numberof four hundred or more, and passed resolutions that during the present state of aflairs. they would resist the collection of all debts by the officers of the law. They entered into an agreement to chastise and ride upon a rail any man who would attempt a sale of executed property for the purposo of bidding for it, and a number of othrresolutionaofthesame import and beanng.- This is rcally a disgraceful state of things. Hoes instead of Whahs.-Mr. Ellsworth, in his report to the Palent office, makes oalcu lations to show that the United States may supply herself and Europe with sperm oil, made from lard. A late discovery is. that lard yields an oiï, in all respects, and for 'all purpose, equal to the best sperm oil. Eight pounds of lard are equal, in ■ iu io onc gallon of sperm oil; and the v.io;e convertible into oleint or oil, tmdsteanne or spermaecti. The report states that if all the swine, now in the country, were converted into lard lor oil, the product would be five times greater than that of the Whale fishery. And if only one-fifth of thapork now produced, annually converted into oil, the product, in anieles equal to spermnciti and pure sperm oil, will exceed the whole proceedso the whale fishery in spermaceti and oils oí all 1 The expense ofsecunng these substances from pork, is an important consideratton; and, accordine to the report, when lard is at six cents for the pound, the oil can be sol d for a good profil at nlty cents for the gallon; and the sterine n a clear gam besides. But the present average pnce ol lard in the western Siates, is only four or uve cents. The effect might be a tolal destruction of the whale fisheries, a result very desireable to all phihnthropist8. OA petiüon for the psrdon of Benjamin Rathbun, now confined in the State pnson at Sing Sing, signed by the most reepectable citizens of western New York and a rnajonty of the members of the New York Lsgislnture has been presented to Gov. Seward,

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