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ThiU'iday Morning, July 1800.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
The Vote on Mr. Brooks’ Expulsion.
We shftU publish to-morrow a complete ana
lysis of the above vote, showing the politics
and States of the voters, the absentees, non
voters, etc. The vote is divided as follows :
For the expulsion 119 free State men and two
slave State men, or six Democrats and 115
opposition. Against the expulsion 13 free
and 82 slave State men, or 63 Democrats and
32 opposition. The two slave State men who
voted for expulsion, wero Hoffman, of Mary
land, and Cullen, of Delaware, both Know
Nothings. We Had Mr. Cullen’s name among
the absent or not voting, but we have Mr.
Brooks’ authority’ (see his card) for classing
him as above. Possibly he afterward* record
ed his vote, and if so, the vote would then be
122 yeas to 95 nays.
Tho entire Pennsylvania delegation, with
five exceptions, voted for expulsion. Cadwal
lftder, J. Glaucey Jones and Thos. B. Florence
voted against: while David Barclay and Hen
ry M. Fuller wero absent.
Injunction Dissolved.
C Mtgatt et. al. 1 injunction in Muscogee
VB, f Superior Court.
R. R. Qoetciiilh. J
Many of our patrons having manifested an
interest in the result of this case, we have ob
tained an epitome of the Bill and Answer,
which will be sufficient to a correet under
standing of the merits of the case.
The Bill charges that tho complainants own
valuable real estate, being tho lots on which
they reside in the city of Columbus, and lying
from 100 to 300 feet from the lot on which Mr.
Goetchius proposes to build a steam-power
sash and blind factory. That complainants’
residences are on tho north side of St. Clair
street, and tho proposed factory on the south
side of said street. That the proposed facto
ry, if built, will resu’‘ in very great damngo
and inconvenience, as well as prove a great
nuisance to the complainants, and the public
at large, because they say that the boiler to
be attached to said engine will be in danger
of explosion. That tho smoke and soot aris
ing from tlie burning of such fuel as is ordina
rily used in said engine, will be scattered all
over the premises of complainants without a
possibility of preventing it; and the sparks
arising from said burning as well as the burn
ing itself, and the fact that manufactories of
this kind are filled with large quantities of
combustible matter, will render the said manu
factory more liable to be destroyed by fire,
and consequently will tlie more subject the
premises of oomplair.ants to bo destroyed by
fire. That tho continued din, noise and bustle
from the lotting off steam from said engine
and the rolling and chango and working of
machinery attached thereto, and the whistle
thereto attached, will subject complainants to
the greatest nnnoyanco and unpleasantness ;
and in case of sickness will be an insufferable
nuisance. That the fire risk would be increas
ed and thereby the rates of insurance would
be higher, and that by the orection of said
building and machinery tho value of their pro
perty would lie deteriorated. That tho con
gregation assembled for worship *C thu Metho
dist Episcopal Church, and tho Odd Fellows’
school would bo greatly disturbed.
The Judge of the Superior Court granted
Injunction upon the complainants giving bond
and security in the sum of ten thousand dol
lars conditioned to pay tho defendant all dam
ages which he might sustain in the premises.
The defendant admits in his answer that he
contemplates building a machine shop on lot
No. 240. That ho hr.s had on the adjoining
lot, for many years, a large wooden and
lumber yard, and by his industry and the favor
of his friends, he is enabled to put up good
aud safe buildings, better suited to his busi
ness, and as lie verily believes much safer to
his neighbors; and he goes on to inform the
Court of the plan upon which he desigus to
erect his said building and tho machinery
which he proposes to operate therein. The
building proposed will bo constructed of
brick, with iron doors next to tho furnace,
brick engine floor and fire-proof, us near as
the same can be done. The furnace will
be in the rear of the building. Tho ma
chinery will consist of cno or more planeing
machines, circular saws, and such other ma
chinery r.s are usual in a moderate sized fac
tory. That it is intended for building pur
poses, including the manufacture of doors,
sash aud bliuds. The furnace will be con
structed in the most approved manner, entire
ly disconnected with all combustible matter.
The chimney will be about seventy feet high,
and under tho recent scientific improvements,
will be so constructed as to consume a large
portion of the smoko and soot ordinarily made.
By this means, in bis opinion, iu which he is
sustained by scientific mechanics, the objec
tion on aocount ot smoke, soot and sparks, con
and will be almost entirely obviated.
Respondent denies that the erection of the
house, eugino and machinery proposed to be
placed on said lot will result in very great
damage, annoyance and inconvenience ; or
prove a great nuisance to complainants, or
other persons, or to tho public at largo; and
defendant says that the possibility that the
engine boiler might explode, is no reason why
an engine boiler should not be used. That
the progress of the age, the state of scientific
improvements, and tho wants of mankind,
render it necessary that power of this kind
should be ued. The dispensation of hand
and horse power is passing away, a..i is sup
planted by tho cheaper and more powerful
agency of local scientific power. That this
powerful agent might, under exigencies, be
destructive of the lives ot those about it aud
managing it, *o one will deny. but beCftUse
of this bare possibility, it should be repudiat
ed and enjoined in its use, th re are, fortu
nately for the industry of the country, but
ew who wil. eriously and upon any just prin
ciple, contend. r
Defendant refers to the sworn statement of
Taomas W. Stanford, ths intelligent Engineer
and Mechanic employed by him to construct
his boiler, who says that all boilers properly
constructed, are intended to bear a pressure
of two hundred pounds to tue square inch,
and government regulations prescribe that as
the capacity of boilers. The said regulations
also require that not more than one hundred
and thirty pounds pressure shall be allowed,
i and that there is not within his knowledge an
i instance on record of an explosion when these
• regulations are observed. The boiler will be
twenty six feet lfing, thirty eight inches in
diameter with two return flues. The iron is
to be number one, government stamped iron,
| one fourth of an inch thick, and will safely
| bear a pressure of two hundred pounds to the
square inch; whereus the machinery of de
j fendant will not require a pressure of more
than forty pounds to the sqnaro inch. In the
opinion of Mr. Stanford there can be no danger
i of an explosion of said boiler.
The defendant admits that his machine shop
when in full operation may make some little
1 noise, nor does he perceive how it is possible
1 that any mechanical pursuit in wood or metal,
can be carried on, without sounds of the plane
or the hammer proceeding from it. If a little
noise is to be tho basis of an Injunction, then
the industry and operations of the mechanic
must be driveu from the city. The defendant
does not intend to use a whistle ; aud by the
improvements in machinery the waste steam
from tho scapo pipe or boiler may be discharg
ed witli but very little noise. He denies that
the working and changing of the machinery
will seriously interfere with the comfort even
of complainants, and as he does not intend to
run his machinery at night or on tho Sabbath
day, he apprehends the congregation worship
ping ut the Methodist church, will not be dis
turbed as is stated by complainants in their
Bill.
The foregoing is a condensed statement of
tho Bill and Answer. The full answer of the
defendant, and the opinions and statements,
under oath, of C. P. Levy of the Union Iron
Works, W. L. Clark Superintendnnt of the
Muscogee Rail Road Machine Work 9, Israel
11. Janncy and Thomas W. Stanford, experi
enced and well known Engineers and Mechan
ics, presents an intelligent and interesting
statement of the philosophy and operations of
steam power generally, but would occupy
more of our space than we can spare.
The judgment of the Court below dissolving
the Injunction, was affirmed by the Supreme
Court.
The Rev. Mr. Brown, of Montgomery, de
livers a sermon at the Grave Yard of that city
every Sunday evening, and it is said he has
large audiences. Rather a strange place to
preach we should think.— Selma Sentinel.
We do not agree with you. Shakspeare
says there are sermons in stones, and serious
ly sneuking, for we would not speak lightly on
such a subject, there has always seemed to us
much more of a sermon in the tombstone than
any other. But aside from this, we cordially
approve out door preaching for the benefit of
tho great mass who never go to Church, aud
who, not to mince matters, are not often wel
come there, as society is now constituted.
A correspondent of the Pennsylvanian states
that the New York Herald has lost one thou
sand subscribers in Philadelphia since it has
come out for Freinunt. TTe Have Leant of no
such stampede in Georgia where the Herald
has a larger circulation, as we believe, than
any other paper north of Mason and Dixon.
Yet Georgia has much more reason than Penn
sylvania, for ignoring the Herald, and refus
ing to contribute to its support. Bennett has
not only gone for Fremont, but has denounc
ed, in vile language, the South as a section.
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The Charleston Mercury announces the
death, in that city, on Monday last, of Mr.
James English, for forty years one of tho most
active, esteemed, and successful busiuess men
of Charleston.
The Savannah Georgian states that the stock
of cotton on hand in that city, and on ship
board not oleared, Monday, amounted to 3,575
bales uplands, and 850 bales Sea Islands. Os
this, less than 800 bales are on sale.
From Brunswick.
The Macon Telegraph states that the Bruns
wick lload is now under full headway, and
regular trains are running daily over the first
completed section of twenty five miles, which
is in good order, well built, aud laid with hea
vy rails.
Tho bridge over the Satilla wil! be finished,
and the road extended two miles west of it in
ample time for the present crop. It will thus
secure for the next Beasou the cotton and other
produce from Wayne, Ware, Clinch, Lowndes,
Thomas and tlie neighboring counties. The
road is under contract to tho Allapaha River,
about a hundred miles from Brunswick ; and
the company are pushing the work vigorously
forward, having at this time over three hun
dred hands engaged upon it.
Agricultural and Mineral Specimens from
Nicaragua.
General Goicuria brought with him from
Nicaragua specimens of the sugar, chocolate,
the gold, silver, copper, and zinc ores, and the
coal of that country. The sugar, though made
by the rudest of processes, and self-crystnliz
ed, is one of tho finest specimens we ever saw
The grains are very large, and almost trans
parent, and the sugar possesses a racy flavor
and riohuoss unknown to that which is pro
duced in a more ungenialclimate and soil, and
granulated by chemical appliances. Tho ores
are all rich in metal. The gold imbedded in
quartz which requires to be broken or ground;
but even to the rudest specimens of labor the
yield is sometimes immense. About two years
ago, two Frenchmen went into the gold re
gions of Nicaragua; they had no machines
and no tools but pick nxes ; yet a few weeks
back, after paying the most ruinous freights
and charges to Greytown, they embarked for
Europe with a net gain of about forty thou
sand dollars.
In a short time, we presume bonds of the
Nicaraguan Government will be agitated, con
vertible into land script at a certain minimum
price per acre ; and it is contemplated, we un
derstand, that the reservation of land for this
purpose, will be distributed so as to lie partly
in the sugar regions, the character and re
sources of which, respectively, are but par
tially exhibited by the specimens to which we
refer— N. 0. Delta.
Mr. Brooks’ Letter to His Constituents.
We find in the Columbia South Carolinian of
tlie 22nd, the following letter from the Hon.
Preston S. Brooks, addressed to his constitu
ents. It will be lead with interest: —
A Cabu.
1 am induced to address the voters of the
Fourth Congressional District, through the col
i uuuis of the “South Carolinian,” because it is
a paper having an extensive circulation in rny
district, and because of the shortness of the
■ time that will elapse before the election to sup
ply the vacancy created by my resignation,
which 1 have observed is on the 28th inst.
When l accepted, fellow-citizens, the oom
i mission to represent you, I felt that you had
! committed your honor to my care, together
j with your interests. Upon the instant of my
j first election, the responsibilities of my new
! position weighed heavily upon me. I found re
| lief, however, in the reflection that, although
! a benificent Creator bad vouchsafed great intel
i lectunl endowments to comparatively but few
j of his creatures, yet that he had constituted
every man of common sense with power to be
just, loyal and true; and I silently vowed that,
though nature should deny me the privilege of
adding even an humble intellectual flower to
the ciiaplet of South Carolina, I would be a
sentinel to her honor and guard the glories,
with w hich better and abler men had graced her
brow.
On the 19th and 20th of May last past, a
Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachu
setts falsified her history and defamed her char
acter. I remembered rny resolve, and per
formed my vow. For this act, with which you
are familiar, the House of Representatives en
deavored to expel me from that body. The
vote on the resolution to expel was 121 yeas
and 95 nays—less than two-thirds, which is tlie
number required by the Constitution to expel a
member. There were circumstances of gratifi
cation attending this vote, but there were also
circumstances of displeasure. Every member
from the slave-owning States voted to sustain
me but two, and they were Know Nothings—
the one from Maryland (Mr. Hoffman) and the
other from Delaware, (Mr. Cullen.) Thirteen
gentlemen from the free States also voted
against the resolution to expel.
But a majority of the House has pronounced
me, because of my act, unworthy of a seat in
the American Congress. I could not, as the
representative of a high-toned and gallant con
stituency, rest with this imputation upon you
and myself. I resigned my seat, and, kicking
the black dust of a Black Republican majority
from my feet, I left the Hall in indignation and
disgust.
My appeal is to you. If I have represented
you faithfully, then re-elect me with an unan
imity which will lliunder into the cars of fa
naticism the terrors of the storm that is
coming upon them. If iu aught I have failed
to represent you as you are, then in God’s
came send some man whose blood is more slug
glisli than mine.
It was my purpose to have made my appeal
to you in person, but there are circumstances,
not necessary now to mention, which have in
duced me under the advice of discreet friends,
to remain “on the ground.” For nearly two
months I have been in daily receipt of many
letters, threatening my life, whether in the
Capitol, in the streets or in my chamber.—
Though seemingly undisturbed during the time,
now that the crisis is past, I realize that I have
been in a condition of continuous excitement,
and that I need repose. I could be but one
week in the State even if I were to return, and
of necessity could sec but a few of my constit
uents.
While I am here, though I may not represent
you ns a member, I can and will, as a private
gentleman, defend tho honor of our good old
State from assaults proceeding from any and
every quarter.
I herewith couple an extract from the “Jour
nal of Commerce,” which is published in New
York city, together with the comments upon it
by tho “New York Daily Times: ’
P. S. Bbooks. —We are glad to see that the
first impulse of approbation expressed by some
of the Southern papers [of Brooks’ attack up
on Sumner] has passed away, and that nearly
the whole South, in common with the whole
North, now condemn the assault as unjustifia
ble and brutal. —Journal of Commerce.
“ We shall soon have an opportunity of test
ing the truth of these assurances. Mr. Brooks
has gone home to appeal to his constituents.—
If it be true, as the Journal of Commerce and
other papers of the same stamp assert, that his
conduct is condemned by ‘the whole South,’ or
by any considerable portion of it, as ‘unjustifi
able and brutal,’ they will manifest that dis
pleasure by refusing to re-elect him. Under
the circumstances of the case, his re-election
would be the strongest possible endorsement of
his conduct. And if his constituents aro desi
rous of having it understood that they do not
approve of it, they have a very simple way of
making it manifest. This will be tho only is
sue presented in his case. Upon all other sub
jects others may readily be found who will be
as acceptable representatives as lie. If he is
re-nominatod and re-elected, it will be solely
and exclusively because his constituents desire
thus to endorse and applaud his assault upon
Mr. Sumner.
“Now, does tho Journal of Commerce be
lieve they will re-elect him, or not 0 If it
does, it can hardly pretend also to believe that
they condemn his conduct as ‘unjustifiable and
brutal.”
The issuo involved is distinctly set forth in
the above extracts, and it is for you to say
which of these editors is the Daniel in judg
ment.
1 have the honor to have been your servant,
and am respectfully your fellow citizen,
P. S. BROOKS.
Washington City, July 18.
Mr. Toombs and the Naval Board.
Last Thursday, Mr. Toombs introduced the
following joint resolution, declaring the notion
of the late Naval Board in the case of Lieut.
Washington Bartlett to be in violation of the
Constitution of tho United States :
Resolved, &c. That, by the Constitution of
the United States, “in all criminal prosecu
tions the nccused shall enjoy tho right to a
speedy and public trial, and to be informed of
the nature aud cause of accusation, to be con
fronted with the witnesses against aud to have
j compulsory process, for obtaining witnesses iu
. his favor.”
2. Resolved, further, That it is abhorrent to
, the principles of natural justice and fatal to
toe security of life, liberty, reputation, and
property that any person should sit in judg
ment upon another who has a direct and sub
stantial interest in the examination of the nc
cused.
>. Resolved. ‘I hat neither Congress nor any
j othci Federal authority can deprive any citi
sen ot the United States of their inestimable
rights.
4 - Hesolved, That the finding of the late
i ri aval Bonrd, approved and executed by the
President ot the Lnited States, in the case of
Lieut. Washington Bartlett, violated these con
i stitutional rights of the accused, and is there
i fore null, void, and of no effect.
Late Texas Items.
Mr. J. 8. Thorne was arrested in our city on
Saturday, the sth inst., on a capias from lra
vis county, and carried to that community to
answer the charge of perjury and forgery. It
appears that Mr. T. had been dealing very ex- j
tensively in bogus land claims, borrowing
money under false pretenses, &c.
The engine “Paul Bremoud,” together with
a second class passenger car, arrived at our
wharf yesterday morning. The engine and
tender weigh tweuty-eight tons. The car is
forty-five feet long and twelve feet wide.
Mr. A. D. Kennard is now engaged in the
manufacture of salt at the springs located
about 100 miles north of Fort Graham, on
the Brazos. With the present appurtenances, j
Mr. K. succeeds in turning out about ten bush
els per day. The salt is of the very best qual
ity, and finds ready sale at $2 per bushel.
This promises to become a lucrative business
to Mr. K., and a benefit to the peoplo of that
section of the State. —Houston (Texas) Tele
graph 11 th.
Fusion in New Hampshire.
A correspondent of the New York Daily
Times, writing from Concord, New Hamp
shire, says:
“ Tho Stato is now completely rescued from
the grasp of that tyrannical party, which has
ruled it with a rod of iron for thirty years.—
The various divisions of tlie opposition are
now T cordially united. The old Whigs have
joined the party of Freedom, and their recent
candidate for Governor is now a leader in the
Republican movement. * *
On the Fourth of July, a second call was made
by the State Republican Committee for a Con
vention to ratify the nomination of Fremont
and Dayton. Rarely has a larger crowd been
seen iu Concord. No one estimated it less
than ten thousand. The utmost harmony pre
vailed and all predicted a triumphant victory
at the Presidential election. If numbers, en
thusiasm, and unity of purpose are any indi
cations of success, tlie Stato is certainly safe
for the nominees of the Philadelphia Conven
tion. The Republican party, here, presents
no divided front. Know Nothingism, Free
soilism, and Whigism, are all merged in an in
tense love of freedom and hatred of oppres
sion. The great principle which moves all
hearts is limitation of slavery.”
Bible Revision—Gross Mismanagement.
The Rev. Dr. Maclay, who has recently re
signed the Presidency of the American Bible
Union, to which ho was elected on the death
of the Rev. Dr. Cone, has made a most pain
ful and humiliating exposition of the gross
mismangement, if not something worse, of the
affairs of the society by his subordinates.
Large sums of money have been collected for
a revision and new translatian of tho Bible ;
and it is alleged that these have been squan
dered and misappropriated in a shameless
manner, on incompetent translators, some of
whose renderings, he says, are “well calcula
ted to shake the confidence of men in God’s
word.” In the language of the New York
Commercial Advertiser, “after such disclos
ures, honorable Christian gentlemen can
ccarcely remain in connection with it, and
those who may still endeavor to carry on its
operations are not likely to receive from the
community the pecuniary aid necessary for
that purpose.”
Building with Wet Bricks.
We notice in an exchange paper, a para
graph upon this subject, which we think of
considerable importance to builders. It is sta
ted on what is considered good authority, that
of experience, that a wall twelve inches thick,
built of good mortar with bricks well soaked,
is stronger in every respect than one sixteen
iuches thick built dry. The reason of this is,
that if the bricks are saturated with wa
ter, they will not abstract from the mortar the
moisture which is necessary to its crystaliz
ation, but on the contrary they will chemi
cally unite with the mortar, and become as
solid as a rock. On the other hand, if the
bricks are put up dry, they immediately take
all tlie moisture from the mortar, leaving it too
dry to harden, and the consequence is, that
when a building of this description is taken
or tumbles down of its own accord, the mortar
from it is like so much sand.
Harvesting in Kansas.
The farmers in the vicinity of Lecompton
are now busily engaged in cutting their wheat
which is unquestionably the finest crop we ever
saw. Wo had occasion to visit our friend Tod
hunter the other day, whom we found scythe
in hand, mowing one of the most magnificent
fields of wheat our eyes ever beheld. The
straw was between four and five feet in length,
standing as thick as it possibly could on the
ground, and all so near the same height that
the whole field seemed to be as level as a mir
ror, the golden aspect of which at a distance
presented a most beautiful appearance. The
wheat crop in this vicinity will average thirty
bushels to the acre. Kansas is, doubtless,
one of the best wheat growing sections of tho
L nited States.— Lecompton Union.
Senator Sumner to be a Morgan until af
ter the Election.
It has now become evident that the game of
the opposition is to have Mr. Sumner “play
sick” until afte r the election. The Express,
of New fork, which has sympathised with
Mr. Sumner, has received a letter from Wash
ington putting them on the guard. It says :
I khow that your press have sympathised
with, and protected Sumner from the allega
tions made, that he was shamming sickness, or
that bis friends were lying about him. The
Express has warmly defended him, as if a Black
Republican Journal—it may be for old ac
quaintance sake ; —but be on your guard: don’t
be duped. There is cheating somewhere.
Senator Sumner himself is a briliant actor, a
dashing rhetorienn, a sparkling fancy man, a j
Chesteifleldian gentleman, and a scholar—but
he is a man of no mettle, and no stuff—stamina j
—and of no real use, in public or private life, j
except for party purposes. There are able 1
t men about him, who would freely use him, only !
as“ a good enough Morgan for tho election,” I
[ but that he would die for their benefit I have no
idea. Nevertheless they have been plying liis
imagination with all sorts suggestions, insinua
tions, and misgivings—and they make him
really believe his head is in peril. Indeed he
is just such a man as can thus be frightened, i
to death, through his fancy. You have read of
1 reach experiments of a man’s being bled to
death— in fancy —when the victim had not lost
a drop of blood. Sumner’s susceptibility is
just of that character. The unscrupulous
men that have him in charge for election pur
poses are playing this game—even with him.
Be on your guard—and I will write yon fur
ther.
Fire in Columbia, Tenn.
A gentleman from Columbia,Tenn., imform
ed us this morning that a very destructive fire
occurred in that place on Wednesday night
last, which burnt the stable of Messrs. Car
ter, Thomas & Cos., 700 barrels of corn, 1
horse and 10 new and valuable stage coaches.
The fire was supposed to be the work es an
incendiary. Loss estimated at $14,000. !
Florence (Ala.) Gazette.
general ITEMS. ~~
A cargo of 750 Africans has
landed at Cabanas, Cuba, without
Gov. Wise, of Virginia, and a partv n f u
friends arrived at Norfolk on w 7 H
bound to Cape Charles on a fishing exturst/ 1
Mr. E. McMaster, a New York nr.- ♦ ‘
Kir"’ *° a portrait $ £
that the cholera* has S"appeal l
western and south-western suburbs nf v
t w i * , „ 801 v *euna 1
In Washington, on Saturday, during ~1
, Herbert trial, Mr. Brooks came into r I
and paid his fine of three hundred dollar* “!
| eighty-five dollars costs. ‘ 8 ’ 1111 '■
A dog suit was tried at Newark New I
sey, on Monday, in which a man ’bitten i 1
The Erie Canal, in the vicinity of Svrno,, ‘
New York, is said to be crowded with h i
for five miles in each direction, awaiting n J
repairing of one of the locks. b *
The Governor of Mississippi has offered *1
reward of SI,OOO, for the arrest of che n e „ 4
or persons who fired the railroad brideo lie J
Quitman. 6 ea l
. The English Crystal Palace Company ml
just put forth its balance sheet. It profj 3
to show liabilities paid, and a balanru, 1
$150,000 on Land. “ nce “f
A large number of ships have recently to J
traded guano freights to Europe, at from li
to $5 per ton, which is the best business f r j
ships now offering. 1
The widows of Marshal St. Arnaud and,]
Field Marshal Lord Raglan, the two first com.
manders of the allied armies in the Crime’
are at present sojourning together at Pombier
for the season.
It is said that the Rope with which Palmer
the English Poisoner was hung, finds read
sale, across the water, at five shillings e
inch—rather a low rate compared with prices
usually paid for such commodities.
A correspondent of the Daily Cincinmu
Commercial asserts that in his presence am
that of several others, Governor Reeder ex
pressed himself strongly in favor of the elec
tion of Buchanan.
Punch has a pictorial representation 0
“Life at an American Hotel.” In the pictur
a guest is represented as holding a revolver ti
the head of his opposite neighbor, with tin
imperious demand, “Pass the Mustard ! ”
The President, Secretary and two trustee
of the New York Internal Insurance Compa
ny are charged with over issuing stock to tin
amount of several thousand dollars, and cer
tain other financial schemes involving a lam
amount of money.
Among the passengers that arrived at Xes
York on Thursday;, in the Fulton, s Mr. Craw,
ford, the celebrated American sculptor. Hi
comes to superintend the erection of tin
Washington monument, at Richmond, whicl
he has had cast at Munich.
The Philadelphia Ledger contradicts the re
port that Mr. Vanstavoren the delinquent con
ductor in the late terrible accident on tin
North Pennsylvania Railroad, had committee
suicide, and says that he died of internal in
juries received in the collision.
The jewels recently stolen from the Madric
Chapel, and which were worth 7,000,000 reals,
have, in consequence of a communication
made by one of the thieves, been found buried
in a vacant piece of ground near the prin
cipal prison.
A River Fire Steamer has just been built al
Cincinnati, constructed like a ferry boat, ant
having a fixed steam fire engine on board, t(
be used in the port of St. Louis, in case of a
fire occurring among the steamboats at tbs
levee.
J. B. Daines, ot London, has obtained a pa
tent for a cement which protects walls from
damp. It consists of eight parts of oil to on.
part of flour sulpher, which, by being heatec
to two hundred and seventy degrees, unite
The cement is applied by means of a brush.
The taking of the quinquennial census it
Paris has terminated, and it appears from il
that the population, including the soldiers
the sick in the hospitals, and the occupants o
the prisons, exceeds 1,200,000 souls within tin
octori walls, and 1,800,000 within the fortifi
cations.
The Paris journal, Le Pays, says that all
the difficulties in the way of the constructioi
of the canal across the Isthmus of Suez ban
been surmounted, and that more than the cap
itnl required for the execution of the works
which are already in progress, has been sub
scribed.
A Washington letter says: The policy of tin
Black Republican Know Nothing majority it
the Representative branch of Congress, is to
pass Mr. Toombs’ Senate bill, and attach ai
amendment restoring the Missouri Compromisf
law. The Senate will not sanction the amend
ment, and Congress will adjourn without pass
ing any new act in relation to Kansas.
In a list of States which hold elections prict
to November, Georgia is reported to hold lici
election next October. This is a mistake-
Thero aro no general elections to be held in
this State until November, and then for tho
election of President and Vice President. Thu
same mistake is made in regard to Alabama,
having its origin, probably, in the old law.
A valuable horse, named “Young llostoD, 1
belonging to Mr. Smith, of Alabama, and jus
purchased for $3,000, fell from a freight cax
while on the way from Richmond to Peters
burg last Thursday afternoon, and the suppo
sition is that he was killed, though nothing
was known of the accident until the train ar
rived at its destination.
It is stated that tho Legislature of lot™
have passed a bill giving lands recently dona
ted by Congress for railroad purposes, to four
railroads running across that State, the Mis
sissippi and Missouri, the Dubuque and 13 g
Sioux, tho Lyons and lowa Central, and tb
Burlington and Missouri. These roads get
about 1,200,000 acres each.
A gentleman writes to the Hartford Courant
that about a year ago, while engaged in count
ing over money, he carelessly put his name
on the back of a S2O bill. A son of Erin
came into his office a few days since with tb
bill, and said he came from East Hartford, t ‘
get gold from the endorser. The gentleman
looked in the Bank Note Reporter, and font l
the bank bad suspended payment, and wa
obliged to give the man a good bill for it.
George Hastings, Conductor of a frsifbt
train on the South Carolina Railroad, wn? un
fortunately killed on Saturday last. The tram
was on its way from Branchville to Cbaru
ton, and the conductor approaching the sue
door to give some directions to the Engine; -
missed his hold, and fell head-foremost in 1 -- 1 -
cross-ties, and thence down an embankment!
twenty-five feet. The train was immediate-. I
stopped, and every attention was paid t 0 ‘ jj
injured man, but without avail, and he > -
about two hours after the accident.