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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], A Representative American. (search)
A Representative American.
--Mr. Nesmith, one of the newly-elected Senators from Oregon, is a native of the State of Maine, and is now about forty-five years of age. He was educated in a carpenter's shop, and followed the business until he became of age, when he emigrated to the west, and finding himself one day out of money, and being unable to get employment at his trade, enlisted in the army.
He served five years on the western frontier, in Dodge's Regiment of Dragoons.
At the expiration of his term of service, he started overland for Oregon, with the emigration of 1843, and arrived in Oregon city in the fall of that year.
When the provisional Government was organized in 1844, Nesmith was elected one of the Territorial Judges.
He went to California in the summer of 1848, with many other Oregonians, worked for some months at mining, on Feather River, and returned to Oregon the next Spring.
He was afterwards Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon, but was removed.
Georgia Mint
--At the U. S. Mint at Dahlonega, Ga., during last month, the amount of gold received was 837 ounces, which was coined into $14,270. Of the ore, $5,334 came from Kansas, $4,214 from California, $386 from N. Carolina, and $3,455 from Georgia.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail publishes a rumor that Hon. and Rev. H. W. Hilliard, of Ala., has accepted a church in Brooklyn, N. Y.,-- salary $5,000.
Randall Clark was fined at the late term of the Circuit Court of Lowndes county, Ala., $1,000 for not feeding his slaves well.
Mr. McLane, our minister to Mexico, has resigned that post, and Ex-Gov. Weller, of California, has been appointed to succeed him.
J. J. Davids, a dentist, of Atlanta, Ga., committed suicide by shooting himself on the 12th inst.
The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Forgery and suicide. (search)
The California election.
Fort Kearney, Nov. 19.--The Overland mail says California election returns are doubtful.
Some say Douglas has 3,000 majority others that Lincoln is 2,000 ahead and likely to carry the State.
The California election.
Fort Kearney, Nov. 19.--The Overland mail says California election returns are doubtful.
Some say Douglas has 3,000 majority others that Lincoln is 2,000 ahead and likely to carry the State.