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It will be seen by our telegraph dispatches that Walker is again in the ascendency in Central Amercs, and that the Republic of San Salvador has declared in his favor The eldest son of Gov. Wise, of Virginia, is studying divinity at the Episcopal high school in Alexandria county, Pa., and will probably be ordained an Episcopal minister next year. Professor Maury communicates to the National Intelligencer the fact that two comets are now visible by means of the telescope. One of these is going from the other approaching the earth. Henry L. Breese, a son of Judge Brecse of Illinois, went to Nicaragua as an adventurer under Walker, and was killed in the trenches of Granada. He was 21 years of age. The Official Board of the M. E. Church at Edinburg, have declared the place of their pastor (Rev. James Mitchell) vacant, and asked their Presiding Elder to furnish them another. "Willard City" is the name of a new town located on the Verdergris river, at the foot of Silver Lake, in Kansas. The town is named in honor of Governor Willard of this State. Harper's Weekly advises Buchanan to send Douglas to the British Court The N. Y. Tribune thinks that would be something like sending Satan to Paradise. He would not be very well received, nor very happy. Persons holding notes of the Kentucky Trust Company Bank must present their claims to the Commissioner, J. W. Finnell, of Covington, before the moeting of the Circuit Court in next September, or they will be disallowed. The Clinton Republican came to us last week, after having been suspended some time on account of fire. It is a good paper, and the men who have the energy to refit such an office, after sach a loss, should be sustained by their friends and neighbors Governor Hammond has bought 16 feet 10 inches of ground, on Washington street for $1,800 cash. He expects to remove the old buildings (now occupied R. W. Dunlop) and put up a four story brick this summer. Senator Butler of South Carolina, is broken down in health, and has retired to the homestead, at Stonelande. It Ins been suggested that a good prescription for the Honorable Senator would be to abstain from all that intoxicates. In Iowa City, Iowa, a large population having recently sprung up in the vicinity of the railroad depot, a Sunday school which is attended by about firty children, is held every Sabbath in a railroad car in that place. ### A YOUNG COW A heifer, twelve months and twenty-eight days old, belonging to Joseph Goudie, of Franklin County, gave birth, two weeks ago, to a full time calf. The calf died, but the mother was doing well, at latest accounts. "When Dr. Barbour was at the head of the Palmer Honse it was a first class hotel, and one that any citizen of Indianapolis could speak of with pride, Now it has hun down far below its former respectability-a stopping place for ninth-rate old line politicians. A Germin Society in Chicago, numbering 800 members, are about to start for Kansas to form a city and settlement. Several weeks since they sent out three Commissioners to Kansas, iu company with Dr. Evans, whose purpose it was to select a site and make preliminary arrangements. It is stated that there are now in New York city not less than one thousand professional rag-pickers. The Express says that some of them have, by picking rags, accumulated fortunes, and live in splendid mansions, while others reside in shanties located in the outer wards. On the 21st ult., a wedding party in North Brookfield, Mass., having arrived within half a mile of the house of the bride, were blocked in by the snow, and it required the laborious service of eight men for an hour before the banks were so shoveled away as to admit of a passage. The Colonization ship Mary Caroline Stevens, at Baltimore, from Liberia, brings the news that the war which had existed at Cape Palmus for the past few months between the Maryland settlers and the Grebo Tribe had been brought to a close, and a permanent peace established. The Managers of the Female Bible Society of this city are taking steps to furnish every room in every hotel in the City with a copy of the Bible. Mr. Wiggam, of the "Little" has thus far been the most liberal contributor of any of the hotel proprietors, to the necessary fund. An Irish lady wrote to her lover, begging him to send her some money. Sho added, by way of postscript, "I am so ashamedof the request I have made in this letter, that I sent after the post-man to get it back, but the servent could not over-take him. Senator Green, of Tipton, was a guost at Little's Hotel, in this city, last week. He came, we learn, to pledge himself to the Governor, but wanted a copy of the Governor's Temperance Pledge, as a sample. He promises to be on hand when needed. A lady remarked in our hearing, after hearing the closing paragraph of Gov. Willard's address to the people-Why should he think of extorting pledges from others, as to matters of duty, when he pays so little regard to pledges himself? Did he not pledge himself to quit drinking if the people would elect him Governor, and how