AIEyANDRrA, November 10.
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/ ALENAN DtIA, november ~.
We learn from friend who was present on the
occasion, that the venerable and vencrated JAMES
,loYnor, late President Of the United States, was
sworn in as a Justice of the Peace for the county
of Loutloun. in which he sides, on Tuesday last,
and Immediately took his seat On the bench as a
Iiunior member oftiie Court. The chair OF the
presiding magistrate WAS rendered, and, with
great propriety, dcciined'


The governments of Colombia, Mexico and
Peru, have acceeded 20 the proposition oil Boil
war to hold general congress OF the new ner-
sran States at Panama. The Executives OF Co
lombia and Mexico hare also instructed their dip
omatic agents at Washington to invite the Presi-
dent of the United States to send plenipotcnta-
ics to the Congress at Panama. These facts ap
pear in official letters published in the govern
mcnt paper at Bogota, in September.


We regret to learn that the distrcsses OF the
Mercantile community of Ncw-york still contin
lie. The National Advocate, i'll relation to th.
+ Eubiect, says:-


"We have heard it remarked by many intelli
rent merchants, that the distress of the mercan
File classes of this city has exceeded for the las
(Our months any period since the hard times o
SIG and 1877. Since the beginning OF Angus
ho fewer than ffty mercantile failures have takel
place in New-York, and about thirty in the south
I'm cities connected with them, making in th
hort space of three months not far short of 4 hun
ired. the banks do not extend a liberal han'


is feared that more failures will be the consc
Ruence.