The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-08-08 00:00:00

SINGULAR APPLICATION'.

At the tamteth police-.Cotitt; on Monday, shortly
after ten o'clock, a well.dressed and gii,edd=lociking yoUng
woman presented herself at the police-statiOn adjoining
the court, and addressing police-constable Tannest L';
inquired if she could be admitted into the court to wit.
ness the further hearing of Wm. Godfrey (as she called ,
him), who was in custody for the Walworth murder,
and who, she understood, was to be further examined on
that day. The constable told her that that was not the
day to which the accused was remanded, upon which she
expressed some disappointment, and said she had come
all the way from Staffordshire (as the officer understood
her) to EEC him. She then asked Tanner if he had seen
'William Godfrey, and he replied that, though not
engaged in the case, he had been present on Tuesday,
and had seen that person in the court as well as in
the cell. The young woman here drew from her bosom
a handsomely-framed photographic portrait, and asked
the officer if it bore any resemblante to the person in
custody. Tanner, alter a moment's examination;
replied that there could not be the slightest doubt
about it, for a more striking likeness of Williams God.:
frey Youngman be had never seed, The applicant. one
this announcement became deadly pale, aild appeared to
be much overcome, arid, taking back the portrait with a
trembling had, she put it her pocket, and not into her
bosom, from which she had taken it. She again ex-
pressed a wish to be present at the examination of the
accused, and was told by Tanner that if she called again
on the day which Youngman was remanded he would
use his efforts to get her into court: She then left, hitt
it appeared before leaving the neighbourhood she had
communicated to other persons that she *as engaged in
marriage to William Godfrey, and that seeing the re-
ports in the newspapers about the murders in Manor-
place, and the name of William Godfrey Youngart
given as the suspected murderer, it struck her that he
was no other than her intended husband, and had come
from Staffordshire to satisfy herself of the fact.

GLEANINGS FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

LADIES IN A BILLIARD SALOON.—TWO hundred
tdies in Syracuse are regular patrons of a billiard

saloon there.

A steam whistle for alarms in foggy weather has been
placed outside the harbour of St. John, N.B. It can be
heard eight miles.
A PROFITABLE PRISON.—The earnings of the Anbuni
(New York) State Prison, for the month of June, were

$7,830 62e. ; expenditure for prison support, &c., $5,698
58e. ; leaving a surplus of $2,132 4c.

From the census the indications are that the increase

of population in the border States is far beyond the most
sanguine estimates, while in Ohio, Indiana, New York,
Pennsylvania, and New England, outside of the large
towns and cities, it has remained nearly stationary.

AN AMERICAN IGNORAMES.—A cannon burst on
Monday evening at Boucherville, grievously wounding
five persons in its vicinity. One of the wounded, a
young man named Latour, one of whose lags the doctors
have amputated, has declared that not knowing the
consequences, he had placed an enormous quantity of
powder and earth in the cannon.

A BLOWING-UP. —At the percussion factory in
Brooklyn, N.Y., lately, there was a fearful explosion,
which carried the roof into the air a distance of twenty
or thirty feet. Otto Liest, who had charge of the
department in which the explosion took place, was im-
pelled a distance of about twenty-five feet, and fell into
Gowanus Creek, some distance from shore, and to the
astonishment of everyone who witnessed it, swam to the
land unaided.

One company of German emigrants that recently
arrived in New York was made up almost entirely of
vine growers bound for Missouri, where their prede-
cessors are having great success in wine making, the
fame of which has penetrated into Germany, and is
causing a large influx into the United States of hardy
people whose object is the planting of vineyards. These
Germans are, in many instances, highly educed ;
meanwhile, all of them have cash enough to buy haul
and implements.

BONES OF AN UNXNOWN ANIMAL.—A gentleman.
in blasting a rock in a sink-hole about a mile from Me-
gaheysville in Rockingham county, for the purpose of
getting water, made an opening which admitted his,
entrance into a cavern, in which he found the skull and
leg bone of an animal which belonged to a species which
is now extinct in this country, and which, it is supposed,
does not exist at this period in any country on the globe.
It belonged possibly to a species which existed at that
remote geological period when this lovely valley now
teeming with population was covered with the waters of
a vast ocean. The size of the skull and leg bone shows
that it was a large animal, and the articulations of the
leg bone indicate that that limb was not thrown directly
forward as is the case with land quadrupeds, but that it
was used laterally after the manner of the creeping
monsters of the deep. The latter part of the head is
very long proportionately—has an elevated process in
the direction of its length—and seems to have been
covered with a very thick skin like that of a crocodile.
But the character of its teeth, and the fact that it had'
tusks inserted in the same manner and locality as that
which characterises the elephant, negative the idea of
its belonging to the alligator or crocodile species. To
what species the animal belonged ? at which period it.
lived ? and bow it got into
.a cavern, the entrance to
which, before it was increased by a blast, would not
admit the body of a boy, are questions which stand for
answers.-- Virginian paper.
THE LAST OF THE BUNKER HILL HEROES.—An
interesting celebration took place at Milton Mills, N.H.,
on the 7th ult., it being a birthday anniversary which no
other community on the globe could have observed, the
subject of the commemoration himself being present.
Ralph Farnham, a veteran of the Revolution, on that day
attained the one-hundred-and-fourth year of his age. He
is undoubtedly the only one alive of all those who took
part in the battle of Bunker Hill, either on this or the
other side of the Atlantic, as it is highly improbable,
after the lapse of eighty-five years, that any other can
be alive. Mr. Farnham was born in Lebanon, Me.,
when that town was a mere wilderness. After sustaining
in early youth the hardship and toil incident to backwoods
life, he emigrated to Boston. When the tocsin of war
was sounded his young spirit caught the general enthu-
siasm. On the evening of the 16th of June, he.enrolleel
himself as a volunteer, and on the morning of the me-
morable 17th was ordered out with the guard detailed
to protect some munitions of the provincials, about three
quarters of a mile from Breed's Hill. He was thus
prevented from sharing in the more arduous duties of
the day. Many interesting circumstances connected
with the battle are still fresh in his recollection, which
he is ever ready to recount to attentive listeners. In
stature he is about five feet eight inches, strongly built,
of dark complexion, and but slightly shows the effects
of time in his form or carriage. He is of a religious
turn of mind, having been a member of the Free Will
Baptist Church eighty years ago. The address was
delivered by Rev. Theodore Stevens, of Berwick, and
remarks were made by Hon. J. D. Layman, of Farming-
ton ; Rev. Ira Taggart, of Union ; Rev. Charles Emer-
son and others. One hundred and four guns were fired,
and the affair closed with a dinner.
LIFE IN UPPER MISSOVRI.—A difficulty occurred on
the Key West, on her upward trip, between Lieutenant
G. W. Carr and Henry Dix, pilot of the boat. It
appears, from the statements of gentlemen who were
present, that Lieutenant Carr, or some one, of his
soldiers, was desirous of shooting an elk which was seen
upon the bank. The boat was approaching the bluffs
above Port Pierre, and it was desired to give notice of
her approach to persons on the shore, so as not to delay
the boat niore than possible. To effect this, Mr. Dix
blew the whistle, and at the same moment the soldier
was going to shoot at the elk. The elk was startled by
the noise, and ran off. Lieutenant Carr then took a
squad of soldiers, and went up to the pilot-house to
attack Mr. Dix. He fired his Sharpe's rifle at him,
but missed him, when Mr. Dix drew his revolver
and commenced firing upon Lieutenant Carr. He fired
four shots (the fifth one missing fire), only one of
which took,effect upon Carr, very seriously wounding
him in the shoulder. The soldiers then rushed
into the pilot-house, knocked Mr. Dix down, thrust at
him with their bayonets, (one going through his hand,)
and finally tied him, and locking him in a stateroom,
placed a guard over him. During all this time the boat
was under way, with no one at the wheel. When any
one tried to reach the roof of the boat the soldiers would
force them back, and when some remonstrated with Carr,
and told him that there was danger of sinking the boat,
his reply was, " Let her sink and be d—d." Captain
Wright finally, when he found he could not reach the
pilot-house to manage the boat, went below and had the
engines stopped until the other
.boats came up. Major
Brice promptly released Mr. Dix, and Lieut. Carr was
court-martialea, but their verdict was not determined
upon when the Spread Eagle left on her return trip.
Buffalo, elk, deer, bear, and big-horn were reported
plentiful along the river.

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AUGUSTB,
_EIGH-RTREBT. Liverpool.
1860.