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MERE-MENTION. The Greensboro' Patriot comes to us this week in an enlarged form, neatly printed on new type by means of a power-press. Among other things the Patriot says one of its subscribers has paid The suspended Banks five years in advance. of Charleston, and the Hamburg Bank, resumed specie payment on the 8th instant. The Mercury says "there waslittle or no demand for specie beyond what was wanted in the way of convenient change. One of the banks paid out only five dolAll a man has to do in these days to lars.' pass for a genius, is: to button his coat behind, The first and wear his hat wrong side out. printing press in North Carolina was established at Newbern in 1754, by James Davis, who in 1778 printed an edition of the laws of North Carolina. Blessed are they who do not advertise, for they will be rarely troubled with customers. The prohibitory liquor law passed by the Legislature of Maine, was ratified by the votes of the people on the 7th instant, very few votes being cast for the opposition or license law. The vote in Portland for prohibition was 1,257, and for liOn the 9th instant, the Legislacense 23! ture of New Hampshire re-elected J. P. HALE, United States Senator The Virginians resident in New York, have made preparations to remove the remains of ex-President MONROE, from Why is a hen sitting that city to Richmond on a fence like a cent? Because she has a head on one side, and a tail on the other. Col. W. H. GIST of Union, is nominated in the The MissouLancaster Ledger, for Governor. ri Telegraph says that Governor STEWART, of that State, while pretty drunk, got into a quarrel with a Mr. VANDIVER, about the pardon of the St. Louis murderer, BLENNIS, which ended in a fight, the Governor getting a very satisfactory thrashing. STEWART'S friends say it was not fair, as he was A Yankee baker has intoo drunk to fight. vented a new kind of yeast. It makes bread S0 light that a pound of it weighs only four ounces. Gen ScoTT was seventy-two years old on the 14th instant. He has been in the Army half The Richmond South understands a century upon undoubted authority, "that Mr. BOYCE is resolved to remain in his present position as long as it shall be the will of his constituents. A marriage epidemic is prevailing in Lexington, Ky., which is sweeping off numerous victims. On one day last week there were no less than seven Lo weddings and three runaway matches. custs bave made their appearance in the lower The cost of lighting counties of Mississippi. New York city by gas during the past year, was $400,000 The fourth of July falling on Sunday this year, the Darlington Flag says it has been resolved to celebrate it in that place by a reThe oldest military compaligious meeting ny in the State is the German Fusiliers, of Charleston, having been commissioned in the year 1775. The Fairfield Artillery was chartered in 1786 Withina year, South Carolina and Texas have each lost two United States Senators by death-the former, BUTLER and EVANS; the latter, RUSK and HENDERSON. A drunken Dutchman, by the name of CAIN, staggering through the streets one day, was asked if he was the man that slew his brother. "No," said he, "I was the one that got slewed.' The Weekly Level says there are more churches, more gambling hells, more grogshops, and more prostitutes in Memphis, at the present time, than in any other city in the Union containing the same amount of population. Col. ANDREW P. CALHOUN has been proposed by the Camden Journal for the next Governor of this State The hog cholera has again made its appearance in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee and Arkansas; and animals are dying by hundreds. The Selma (Ala.) Era says cotton is looking remarkably well, and the stand is generally good. e The farmers have just harvested the most abundant crop of wheat ever raised in this section. e The total national wealth of the United States, as an estate, is stated to be twenty-two billion dollars. Hon. WM. L. YANCEY, of Alabama, has been spoken of in connection with the next PresiThe dency, by some of the Southern press. n 2611th anniversary of the founding of Rome was e celebrated by the Archelogical Institute, in Rome, on the 24th ult. The Napoleon, Ark., Planter, says its last issue was "worked off" by the