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Day
27
Month
May
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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Travel-Raüroads.- -The amount of travel on the Ceniral Railroads is three times as great as at this time last year. ThecaTsare crowded every day, and we are ioformed that 130 passengera ame into Jacksou by one train the other day. The receipts from travel wiii be great thia yeur. The number ofpassengers ovei the road in fhe month of April 1843.was 745, iiï April 1844 it vras S,755- more than five times as great! As the road ncreases ín length the passengers will increase in number; and when the westwird terminus of the road is advanced.as far as Marshall it must draw nearly the wbole of the western travel across the Península. - Marshall Expounder . They can.- There are two Female Masonic L.odges, in Paris. Who tsnys the ladies can't keep secrete, now 9 "Suved!-A gentlemen lately relurned from England, states that the eflccls of the Penny Postage System (now in successful operation throughout Grcat Britoin) upoiAhe intelectual, moral and social habite of theálower classes, are truly astonishing, as well as clieering; that hundreds of thousands are learning to write, for the eake of correspunding with their friends. The efilct of reducing postage from a shilling to a penny,in increasing the number of letters, is well told in the anecdote of an Irlehman, writing to hiö eon in Londnn, "Remember, my dear boy, nol lojorget to write often, for every letter saves me elevenpencc!" This, be it remembered, however, is not a mere anecdote! for the number of letters has actually increaped by many millionB; and as the result, for sereral years past the Bntish Mail, carrying letters at the uniform rate of a penny, and newspapers for nolhing, hus cleared, over all expense, alout thrkk siiitUONs of doJlars annuallyj- [Tribune.] Yankee Ingemnly.- The Boston Post of the 26th uit., gives the folio wing 'specimen.'- A gentleman boarder at the mansion Housp, Port8mouth N. H., on Saturday, missed I1Í6 watch on rising in the morning and being 'mformed that a traveüer, who stopped Ihere, had taken the first tram for Boston, started in pursuit. At Newburyport, by contrivance of the conductor, Mr. Bancroft, he was placed on the same eeat with the suspected man in the cars for Boston. They managed, by a dispute as to the time, to make the thief exhibit the stolen watch which the owner in stantly recogn;zed; and, after some troublo he hamled it over to the owner, and waa tben suffered to pursuehis journey. 'Hov long did Adam remain in Paradise, before he sinned?" asked an amiable "cara spousa," to her loving husband. "Till he got a wife," answered the husband calmiy- Government Hwnbvgs. - It appears that the wrought iron Guns got up by Capt. Stockton, such as the exploded Psacemaker, the Oregon, &c. cost the Government ten thoxisand dollars each. Mormons. - On Toesday, 2Sd uit., one hundred and fifty Mormons arrived at St. Louis, in Congres8. from England, making three hundied who have passed that city within ten days on their way to Nauvoo. Dogs and Martiagesin Boston. - It will be seen by rcference to the doings of the Board of Alderman, that the receipts of the City (.'lerk for the last quarter, ai e - Por license to keep dog., $222 00 For license or certificats ofinarriage, 187 00 Ascendency or excess of the Dog Star over that of Hymen, 25 90 We confess our faults in the plural, and deny them in the singular. Bernadotte's Bon, Oscar II, has succeeded to the throne of Sweden. He was born at Paris July 4th 1810. tt is said in the New Englond WashiDgtonian that there are 819 places where intoxicating drinks can be obtained in Boston- enougb we should think to sink Sodom. It takes the Yankee to out brag all creation A jockey at a late race in England asked an American ifhe had such svift horses in his country. 'Swift' 6aid Jonathan, 'why' Iguess we have; I seed a horse in Baltimore a aunshiney day start even with his own shadow, and beat it a quarter of a mile the first beat. The mngnetic powers of the compass needie, says the Magazine of science, may be enürely destroyed or changed by being touched with the juice of an onion. Caulion to Parents.- The Brooklyn Advertiser records the death of Emeline Brown, aged three years.daughter of James Brown, of that city, from eating phosporus off locofoco matches. OJSenator Woodbary of N. H, is out with a letter in faVor of annexing Texas immcdiately. (tThe Whigs have a majority of two on oint ballot ia the Virginia Legislature. So they say.

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