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# NEWS ITEMS.
It is said that Santa Anna is intrieguing with Spain to place a Spanish Prince as Monarch over Mexico.
We learn that the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank of Indianapolis has failed.
For the year ending March, 1856, the tax on dogs in England yielded about one million dollars.
Ex Governor Shannon has removed from Ohio to Lecompton, Kansas, and opened a law office.
A Mr. Alexander, of Woodford, in Kentucky, recently paid $15,000 for the celebrated race horse, Lexington.
The Etna Fire insurance Company has declared a semiannual dividend of 5 per cent., payable on the 15th ult.
The new Post Office, at Cincinnati, opened on the 12th inst., contains over twenty-seven hundred boxes, at three, five and six dollars per year.
The Toledo Times says they are sinking a well in that city which will be 2,500 feet deep. It will be the deepest well in the world.
Sing Sing Prison is at present the hom of about nine hundred prisoners, of whom about eight hundred are men and boys, and nearly one hundred are women.
MONTRELIER, January 15. Samuel Prentiss, Judge of the U. S. District Court of Vermont, and for many years, U. S. Senator, died here this morning.
Francis S. Edwards, of New York, is said to be the member of Congress who offered Mr. Paine $1,500 for his vote. He is a Republican-Know Nothing in politics.
A man named Lyons, who said he was from Wheeling, was found lying on the ice of the Ohio, near Steubenville, on Sunday night, nearly perished from freezing.
The Philadelphia North American says that within the limit of three blocks on Third street, in that city, $24,000,000 worth of goods was sold during the last year.
Mr. Grosvenor, a stock actor at the Broadway Theatre for several years, recently married a daughter of the celebaated Robert Schuyler. So says the Boston Post.
WILMINGTON, January 14. The Democratic members of the Legislature met in caucus last night and nominated the Hon. James A. Bayard and Martin W. Bates for United States Senators from this State.
The Louisville papers say the last bushel of coal has now disappeared from the coal yards, and the suffering among the poor for want of fuel is very great.
A FORMER TIME. Distinctly marked tracks of men, birds and animals, all of gigantic size, it is said, have been discovered recently at Barnesville, Ohio, which have caused much curious speculation.
We learn that the Ohio and Mississippi rail road will be entirely completed by the first of March. Cars will run directly through from Cincinnati to St. Louis on that day.
UP-HILL LEGISLATION. -The St. Louis Democrat says the price of board at Jefferson City, Mo., is raised this winter to $30 a week. The pay of the members of the Legislature amounts to only $21.
An article on education in France, published in the Constitutional, states that in the year 1855, more than 400,000 young girls-850,000 children from six to thirteen years of age, received no kind of instruction whatever.
The Elitors of the State are under many obligations to the Editors of the Mansfield Herald, and the Mansfield Shield and Banner, for the attention and kindness bestowed upon them, during the late Convention.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune mentions a singular fact. He says: "The President gives a farewell dinner to-morrow to the whole diplomatic corps and their families, the ladies of which are all American but one."
A Washington letter states that Mr. Cad-mowalader, member of Congress from Philadelphia, who recently made a speech against Know-Nothingism, was shot at in the evening while walking on 14th street, and the ball passed close to his head.
FATAL DUEL. It is reported that a duel took place on Saturday weeek, near Columbia South Carolina, between Messrs. Bryan and Pope, two members of the House from Charleston. At the first shot Byran was killed, and Pope shot through the thigh.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 19. The Territorial legislature of Kansas was organized on the 12th. Thomas Johnson was chosen President of the Senate and W. G. Mathias Speaker of the House. The Governor's Message was to delivered on the 13th,
NEW FIBM. The proprietorship of the Monroe House, says the Wheeling Argus, has been changed, by the inception of a gentleman named Heslip. The firm is now Barrett & Heslip, and both gentlemen being experienced in the business, the house cannot fail to transact even an increase upon its old and well established business.
HONZ WMA CORRY. We understand, saye the Statesman, that this gentleman, whose illness we alluded to some days ago, is labouring under an attack of small pox. We hope Mr Corry will early recover from this most painful disease, and resume his seat in the House, where he can so illy be spared.
CHICAGO, Jan. 17. Several city banks yesterday threw out the notes of the People's Bank Carmi, Rushville Bank, Prairie State Bank ane Washington Stock Security Band and of Danville, all Illinois. The latter is partially secured by California bonds. Others owned by Gramercy Bank, Lafayette. Total circulation $825,000. Securities $900,000
