The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-24 00:00:00

Enteral Ncl33s.

SLAVERY AR IT le.—At the April term, 1859, of the
Circuit Court for Cecil County, Maryland. a free
coloured man about 20 years of age, name John Scott,
was tried for going out of the State and returning
thereto, contrary to law, and convicted of the offence.
He was sentenced to pay a fine of 29 dollars and costa of
suit, and, in default thereof, to be sold as a slave. The
fine was not paid, and on Monday John Scott was sold
at Elkton, at public sale, to the highest bidder, for 975
dollars. He was sold as a slave for life, and is, no
doubt, before thia on his way to a southern market.
The purchaser was • man flamer: Fairbank, from Balti-
more. Does a more unjust and iniquitous law than the
one under which this man was sold into a lifelong
bondage disgrace the statute-books of any other
country ?
Chirrixo GOLD COINE.—Tbs offence of "clipping
coins," which was carried to so great an extent prior to
the restoration of the silver coinage in the reign of Wil-
liam 111. as greatly to lower its value, but of which we
have heard nothing for many yearn, appears to have
once more wade its appearance in this country. We
have seen a sovereign from the edge of which • ring of ,
metal had evidently been removed, and a fresh and
coarser milling put upon it. It was stated to us that
the Ima of metal amounted to one-fourth of the whole
weight, and it certsinly waA sufficient to diminish very '
obviously the diameter of the coin, so that it would he
alnio-t sure to attract the notice of any one who looked
carefully at it.— Manchester Guardian.
SINGULAR DIBCoVERY OF A Draturno.—A few days
ago the ostler at one of the principal hotels in Glouces•
ter was busily engaged cleaning a carriage, when lie saw
something suddenly fall from a sponge which he held in
his hand. The object was minute, out it attracted his
attention, and, after a search upon the ground, lie dis•
covered that it was a small stone possessing considerable
brilliancy. Ignorant of the value of the prise, he re'
paired to the nearest jeweller to know what good for-
tune had befallen him, but his friend, though convinced
the jetzt was one "of purest ray serene," determined to
act with becoming prudence and caution, and offered a
shilling for it ! The ostler, however, was unwilling to
part with his treasure on any such terms, and forwarded
at to Mr. W. Mann, silversmith, at the Cross, who said
the stone was • diamond, and had apparently fallen from
• ring in which it had been set; be was willing to give a
sovereign for it, but preferred sending it to • more expe-
rienced lapidary in London, to ascertain its real value.
The diamond was accordingly forwarded to the metropo-
lis, where it was duly examined, and its worth estimated
at about £6. _

BAIA COIN.-It appears from a return recently made
to Government, by Mr. Webster, the inspector and cus-
todian of the counterfeit coin to the Mint, that from the
prisoners tried at the 12 sessions of the Central Criminal
Court—frum October 25, 188, to October 24, 1859—the
below-mentioned almost incredible 9muitity of base coin
was taken possession of :—Sovereigns, 38' half-sove•
reigns, 46; crowns. 193; half-crowns, 1,00); florins,
422; ahilliiigr. 2,220 ; sixpences, 465; and fourpences,
66—in all 4,450 pieces, representing a value of 1:400.
The total weight of metal employed in making the coin
was three-quarters of a cwt. The Central Ciiininal
Court jurisdiction is 16 miles round the court, and this
return, which only embraces that area, it has been calcu-
lated, represents about one-third of the base coin in cir-
culation there. .

THIEVES AND THE TELEGRAPH.—The Defectire, a
new weekly journal, contains the startling announce-
ment that our dangerous classes are employing the tele-
graph to work their nefarious designs. Assassins and
burglars are using it to decoy people from their homes,
for who would distrust a telegram that announces the
illness of a distant relation, and suulmoned up to his
bedside? Telegrams written in London are dated
" Aberdeen" and "Brighton." The Detect ire urges
telegraph companies to date their telegrams only from
the place at which they are actually received.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. MY. OUClitcrlony, of
Goodaloor, not far from Madras, was walking with an
attendant, his horsekeeper, with a rifle on his estates,
on the 6th of December last, when the attendant went
on in advance, thinking lie saw a tiger. Mr. Ouchter-
lony took his rifle, and then crept till he got to some
high grass, and through it to a favourable po.,ition in the
grass, where he could watch any animals that might
come into it. After a while • movement below at-
tracted his attention. The grass moved, and Were was
a pause ; • dark object was raised apparently towards
the top of the grass, then it was depressed ; and these
movements, exactly resembling those of an animal in
the grass, were repeated. At 6rvt it seemed to coins
towards him, and then to be turning away, when lie
fired into the grass where it appeared to be. Hie horror
may be conceived, when on making his way to the spot,
he found that the shot had taken effect on the unhappy
horvekeeper. It bad passed through the brain, and
death had been instantaneous. . .

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MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN PARlS.—Great excitement
was caused last Tuesday, in the Rue Ste. Anne and its
neighbourhood, by the discovery of a murder committed
at No. 39 in that street, under very mysterious circum-
stances, on the person of • young woman named Marie
Tourtoulou, who occupied • small apartment on the
fourth flour. This young person, aged 23, appeared to
lead a regular life, and received no viaitors. Some of
the neighbours having remarked they had not seen her
go about to purchase provisions for two or three days,
suspected that something wrong had occurred, and the
commissary of police was informed of the fact. That
functionary accordingly forced oven the door of the
apartment. In the first room nothing unnatural was
observed, but on entering the bedroomahorrible seectacle
presented itself. Extended on the floor lay the dead
body of the poor girl, who had been killed by wveral
stale in the hreoit with • poniard. From her dress it
appeared she had either just come in or was ready to go
out. The instrument with which the crime hail been
committed WlB found ou the bed, and on the floor was •
hand-basin full of water stained with blood, in which
the murderer had evidently washed his hands after
killing his victim. As no robbery had been committed
it is supposed that jealousy or vengeance must have been
the cause of the crime. The police are making liaise
investigations into the matter.
THE LIVERPOOL STIPENDIARY MAGISTRACT.—The
Town Council of Liverpool met on Monday to discuss,
among other things, the steps to be taken for filling
the vacant office of stipendiary magistrate in the ,
borough. In accordance with the course prescribed by '
law, it was resolved that one police magistrate should
be appointed, at a salary of 1:1,900a year, and the Mayor
was requested to forward the resolution to the Home
Secretary, with whom the appointment rests. It ap-
peered that the Home Secretary had received 100 appli-
cations for the office, but the names of only four gentle-
men were before the council, namely :—Mr. J. S.
Raffles, Mr. C. J. Preston, Mr. Lefroy, and Mr. Messick.
Testimonials on behalf of each of these were read, but
the name of Mr. Raffia, who is the son of the Bev. Dr.
Raffles, was received with the greatest favour, and it
was resolved by • large majority to recommend him to
Sir G. C. Lewis forth. appointment.
A Ci.seninAlt CHARGED WITH BIOAMT.—OU Satur-
day week, at the Townliall, Leeds, the Rev. Henry
Lloyd Bickerstaff, • clergyman of the Church of
England, was arraigned before Mr. J. D. Luocock, Mr.
R. Harrison, and Mr. S. B. Hargreave, three of the
Leeds borough magistrates, on • charge of bigamy. The
prisoner, whoa 34 years of age, is • man of gentlemanly
appearance, but his attire was scarcely that usually worn
by the clergy of the established church, and he would
not generally have been taken for • clergyman. The
charge against the prisoner was that he had married I
Anna Maria Campbell, of Baker-street, London, at
West Linton, Cambridgealiire, his wife Mona Brougham
Bickerstaffe, being still alive. Mr. Ford. of the firm of
Messrs. Payne, Eddison, and Ford, solicitors. Leeds,
appeared for the prosecution, and after stating what the
charge against the prisoner was, and detailing some of
the chief circumstances in the case, he applied for •
remand, to afford time to have the necessary witnesees
in attendance. The prisoner, in reply to the angle-
trates, said that he had no reason to over why he
should not be remanded, and he was accordingly re-
manded till Saturday last The prisoner was lately
residing at Headingley, a village near Leeds, but from
which he abeoonded about a year ago. Just before
Christmas last a warrant was placed in the hands of Mr,.
English, the chief constable of Leeds, for his apprehen-
sion. Mr. English succeeded in tracing the rev, gentle-
lean to London, and thence to his father's, and after-
wards to Conway. There he lost all traces of him for a
time, but on Thursday last he received information
that he was at Abergele, near Rhyl, • small watering
place in Denbighshire. He had gone there, it appears,
and put up at the Bee Hotel, but being without funds
the landlord suspected that he was an imposter, and
gave information to the police. The superintendent came,
and Mr. Bickerstaffe announced who he was, and
stated that he was "wanted" at Leeds for bigamy.
The superintendent communicated with Mr. English,
who proceeded to Abergele on Thursday, and returned
o Leeds with the prisoner on Friday.

BIPLOSION AT • FIREWORE FACTORY.-011 Monday
evening the inhabitant& of Regent-street, Lambeth-
walk, were alarmed by a fearful explosion of fireworks
in the premixes belonging to Mr. Darby, the well-known
pyrotechnist, carrying on business in the before-named
street. Dense masses of smoke issuing from the back
workshops convincing every one in the immediate
locality that the place was on fire, and it being well
known that Mr. Bean, the foreman, • nephew of Mr.
Darby, and one of the workmen were in the premises
on Ate, the anxiety of the neighbours was increased.
These persons, with the assistance of the landlord of
the Globe Tavern, opposite, and several others, were
extricated, but on being surgically attended were
pronounced to be so badly injured and in such • pre-
carious condition that their removal to the hospital was
deemed indespensable, and the three unfortunate men
were accordingly taken there. In the course of a very
few minutes after the disaster the powerful engine be-
longing to Messrs. Hodges and Co., the distillers, ar-
rived, followed by several others of the parish and
London Brigade from Waterloo-road, Southwark-bridge-
road, and other stations, but the fire could not be ex-
tinguished until the workshops were burnt out. The
disaster happened in the filling room, from what cause
is not precisely known; but it is generally supposed to
have arisen from friction in ramming the competition
into the cases; or during the process of mixing the
ingredients used in the trade. The police of the L divi-
sion, under Mr. Superintendent Beacrson, were pre-
sent, and rendered great assistauce.
CRUELTY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SHIP.—The ad-
journed inquest respecting the death of John Craven, •
seaman, lately employed on board the American ship
Wizard King, at present lying in the Victoria Docks,
who, it was alleged, had died from starvation and cruelty
while on • voyage from Bombay to London, was resumed
on Monday evening, the 16th inst., by Mr. Humphreys,
the coroner of East Middlesex, at the Wellington tavern,
Cannon-street, St. George-in-the-East. It appeared
from the evidence that the deceased was attacked with
illness when the vessel was off St. Helena, and applied
to the mate for medicine, who refused it, on the ground
that it was too dear. During his illness no change was
made in his rations of salt junk and hard bread, which
he could not eat. He kept his berth from the time of
Lie illness until the arrival of the vessel in the Pool,
when the mate told him " he must get out of this."
Deceased was too weak to move, and was, in con-
sequence, carried on shore in an exposed state, placed
an a cart to be conveyed to a lodging, and died 20
minutes after his arrival there. From the evidence
given on Monday it was shown that the deceased had
been most grossly neglected during his illness; his mo-
tions were left under him, and his bedding never changed,
sii that, to use the words of the witness Donoghue." the
stench from deceased's berth was awful." Donoghue
also stated that, although the deceased was so ill at St.
Helena, that the captain had informed the medicel man
who came alongside that no one on boaid was unwell ;
ad that deceased, when almost unable to move, was
pulled out of his berth by the boatswain, brought on
deck, and pushed down on the anchor chain, and was
kept at the wheel all night, and on the next day had to
be removed to his berth. While ill deceased received
only three hard biscuits and three ounces of hard salt
beef a-day. Other witnesses testified to the bad usage
received by the deceased, who had been kieked and
beaten on the voyage, and to the unfit quality of the
food given to him and crew. Mr. Ross, the surgeon,
gave it as his opinion, alter a post ',torten examination
of the body, that the cause of death was exhaustion,
produced from undergoing a long journey in the tree-
irate condition deceased was in, and that he would have
lived longer if he had been allowed to remain on board.
The jury returned the following special verdict :
" That the deemed died from exhaustion on board the
American ship the Wizard King, and the jurors are of
opinion that the deceased was greedy and cruelly neg-
lected by the officers and commander of the said vessel;
and the said jurors further say that the food given to the
deceased was neither good in quality nor sufficient in
quantity."
Loss OP THE BARQUE NIAGARA. Intelligence
reached Greenock on Saturday afternoon of the loss of
the barque Niagara on the shore of Cantyre, during the
night of Thursday preceding. The Niagara was a
Greenock vessel, and was bound for that port from
London with ballast. She left London on Sunday, and
hall clear weather until she rounded the Lizard on
Tuesday, when it became somewhat hazy, and • dense
fog soon bet in. The wind was almost south-east, but
occasionally variable. On Thursday night a glimmer-
ing of light was observed, and it was supposed to be the
cruisers off the Mull of Kintyre. The order was given
to put the ship's head west in the expectation of reach-
ing the Rathlin Light, which was accordingly sighted
the same evening about 9 o'clock. The mead then
stood to the eastward till half-past 10, when she tacked
to the westward, and again to the eastward. At hell-
oed 12 she was among the breakers, and orders were
given to stay, but the vessel would not come round. It
was next tried to wear her, but she suddenly struck the
shore. The long-boat was launched, and the captain's
wife and four men got into it, but the boat was speedily
stove in against the ship. The four men were rescued
by the rest of the crew on board, but in the effort to
lift the captain's wife out of the shattered boat she
slipped from their hold and fell into the water. Fortu-
nately, however, they succeeded in getting hold of her
again, and she was lifted on deck. At the point of the
coast where the casualty occurred the rucks are very
precipitous, and so close was the vessel to the in
that the gaff of the spritsail was dewed round towards
the shore, and one of the seamen slid down from the
Point of the gaff upon the rocks. Three other men
then followed, and ropes were passed from the ship and
fastened to a part of the rock. On the strongest of these
ropes the crew drew themselves to land. To facilitate
the landing • loop or bowline was made on • small rope,
which was fasteLed round the waist of the woman and
she was drawn to the shore, leanitig all time while on the
stouter rope. Her three children were then brought on
shore by the seamen. In this manner they all landed
in iafety on • part of the coast a few wiles to the north-
ward of the lighthouse, and within 1(8) yards of the
spot where the casualty occurred to the New York
packet Last year. Having scrambled over the rocks
which they did with much difficulty, they arrived at •
farmer's house, where they were as hoepitably treated
as the shelling would permit. On the following day the
mate and the seamen, 13 in number, were conveyed to
Campbeltown, from which place on Saturday they pro-
ceeded to Greenock. The captain remained by the
vessel, but she is a total wreck.
TELEGRAPUIC ARRANGEMENTS vol AUSTRALIA.—
Arrangements have been made by the Submarine
Telegraph Company to forward messages to Australia
rid Malta. Marseilles, and Trieste. Accordingly
messages will be received at any of the stations in the
Uuited Kingdom belonging to the Submarine and the
Magnetic Telegraph Companies, and forwarded to any
of the stations on the intereolonial telegraph lines in
Australis. The mail for Australia rid Marseilles leaves
on the letth of each month, but by these arrangemeuts
messages can be sent rid Trieste up to the 26th, in time
to overtake it at Aden by the Austrian Lloyd's steamer,
which leaves Trieste on the 27di, and is due at
Alexandria on the 31st. As the Australian mail
steamer does not leave Aden before the 2nd of the
following mouth, there is ample time allowed for reed-
ing messages by the Red Sea Telegraph from Alexandria
to Aden previous to her departure for Australia. Time
rates for 20 words, exclusive of five allowed for time
address of the receiver, are—rid Calais sod Malta to
Adelaide, £3 14s. 3,1. ; Ballarat, 5:4 Is. 9d. ; Geelong
and Melbourne, £4 24. 9,1,..; Sydney, Hobart Town, and
Launceston, £4 se. 9,1.; ria Calais and Marseilles to
Adelaide £2 145.; Ballarat, £3 Is. 6d.; Geelong and
Melbourne, El 2s. ; Sydney, Hubert Town,
and Launceston, rJ sa. 6d.; tin Ostend and Tricete to
Adelaide, £2 15a. ; Ballarat, 4.1 2e. &I. ; Geelong and
Melbourne, £3 3s. &I. ; Sydney, Hobart Town, and
Launceston, td 6s. 6d.—destralian and New Zealand
Gazette.
THE ROWLEY SCANDAL—Vie understand that the
ease of the Hon. Hugh Rowley and his late wife has
been definitively settled, so that neither party will take
any further public proceedings. Under the advice of
counsel the proceedings at the Westurituster Police-court
are to be allowed to die a natural death. No statements
in explanation are to be made on either side, as it was
reported would be the case.
A SLAVE DEALER.—The slaver captain, Don Eugenio
Vines, has made another—his 84th or 85th—successful
voyage to the ooast of Africa. He took on board the
Julie, in which vessel he sailed hence some eight or
nine months ago, if I reumember aright, under Brazilian
colours, 1,200 bozales, but 450 of them died on the
voyage; the residue were landed about three weeks ago
between Cardenas and Segue he Grande. Twenty-nine
more of the bozales died before the cargo was lauded.
The Sienish authorities, however, made • fine haul, for
I hear Don Eugenio laid them above $lOO,OOO. There
was rather • laughable occurrence took place at the
place of landing. It mans that POWS of the parties
interested meant to be prevent, and among them were
some friends, who came ashore from the v ssel in a
launch, with five of the bozales, but on reaching the
shore they were all arrested and had to pay handsomely
to go free. The vessel has again sailed, or will shortly
do so, for the Coast of Africa, under a new captain and
crew sent to her on the 6th inst., as Don Eugenio Vial's
never goes back a second time in the MUM vessel. He
was on the wharf a week ago, boasting that after all time
money he had to pay in bribes, he had made more than
$lBO,OOO by the trip, in about eight months, and that he
oould now afford to take • few months pleasure in
Spain, where lie intended to go by the Spanish mail
steamer, to sail on the 12th inst.—lie walked about
quite independently, apparently utterly regardless of the
general attention his presence Icaused.—Havannah Cor-
respondence of the New York Herald.
BITUMENISED PAPER TVIIING.-011 Thursday an ex-
periment was made under the great Clock Tower, West-
minder, for the purpose of testing the strength, by hy-
draulic pressure, of a novel description of tubing, com-
posed of bitunienised paper, invented by M. Jaloureau,
of Paris. M. Jalourean is a contractor for paving
Paris, and other large towns of France, with bitumenous
concrete. In the mune of his experiments some paper
which had been coated with bitumen was laid aside in a
coiled form, and after some time it autuned • very stiff
and solid them. Pursuing time idea which accident
thus developed, M. Jeloureau put several layers of bitu-
ruenieed paper round • cylinder, and submitting them
to internal pressure, he found that a tube a j inch in
thickness was capable of resisting • pressure of 2501 be.
to the square inch. The lightness of these tubes, their
portability, their cheapness, and their non-liability to
oxidation induced the 1111111iCip&I authorities of Pans to
try them for the conveyance of gas, and in the experi-
ments of Thursday • piece of tube was produced, which,
though stated to have been under groun4 in Paris as •
gas pipe for 12 months, had the appearance of being •
perfectly new pipe. The tubes subjected to the pressure
of the hydraulic pump on Thursday bore a strain of
2501b5. to the square inch without bursting, which is
more than they would be ever called on to bear in or-
dinary use, being equal to 1050 feet head of water. One
of the tithes half sn inch thick, and with • bore of twos
inches, was also tested by weight, and it only gave way
to a pressure of 4281 be., the bearings being three feel
apart. Mr. Smith, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Dingier, Mr.
Braithwaite, Mr. Dennis, and other engineers, who
were present, expreamed themselves entirely satisfied
with the experiments, and considered that they might
be substituted with advantage in many cases where
iron tubes were now used. As to their capability of
resisting heat, it was stated that they might be sub-
mitted to a temperature of 160 degrees of Fahrenheit
without any detonation of the material. Of course the
economical cmosideration of price is • main ingredient in
the practical value of all these inventions; and in this
view we understand the new tubing has a decided
superiority, as its cod is not mee half that of the ordi-
nary iron piping. Messrs. Paul Foske and Alexander
Young are the patentees of the invention in this
country.