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THINGS IN GENERAL
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The argument in the of Mcleod, to be heard on the 10th inst in the Supreme Court, but in consequence of other engagements, it was deferred till the l7th.

 The Erickson prorellers, applied to the steamer Clarion, are proved, by her recent trip to Havana, to surpass the expectation of their inventor She made the passage in about eight s-ayeraginglOa knots an hour. The weather was exceedingly bois- terous during the greater part of her passage, and fully tested the power of the propeers to resist the hardest gale. On her way, she fell in with the ship Cornthian, which was wrecked ten days before, on the Bahama Banks. During that time, over thirty vessels had been obliged to pass her without being a. ble to approach sufficiently to afford relief The Clarion, by the aid of propeers, up to within cable length of the wreck and rescued her crew, who otherwise would inevitably have perished.

 The Nashua Telegraph, the paper in which the story of the five children at birth originally appear ed, says [" the statement is not true after all. We rhall have take of four of ie little ones but it is a good story at that. We don't intend to take of any more. The rest of the story is true"

 A curious story was recently told before of the telnpPTance lneellngS I'll NeW oIh, dn oiu ing man, Captain Thomas Lane. He stated that, the age of seven, he could drink old drukards der the table, and from that period down to the pre- sent day. which brought him into his sixtieth year, he had been in the habit of drinking large quantities, and what astounding than that, he could get drunk. He drank at one time on wager, twenty bottles of champaigne, without producing the least effect en him. He said he had consersed with many physicians both in this and foreign lands, upon the subject, but they never could give him any why liquor did not effect him, well as other He weighs 263 pounds, is 60 years of age, and has constitution like lion.

 THE "DEmoCRATIC"A "ADMINIsTRATIoN.-Th Postmaster General has taken the printing of the pro- posals of carrying the mails from the Hartford (Con) Times and given it to the Hartford Courant, whose editor is Theodore DwigM, J. Secretary of he Harf ford Contention! The Times says that it is the first time, since the administration of John Adams, that the Courant has had the printing from any of the de- partments at Washington. Is it the federal or demo- cratic party that is in power, with Daniel Webster for Secretary ofSte and the Secretary of the Hart ford Convention printer of the laws!