The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-08 00:00:00

STRANGE CHARGE OF INFANTICIDE.

At the Chelmsford Assizes on Saturday, Eliza Smart,
40, was indicted for the wilful murder of the child of her
daughter, Rebecca Smart, of the age of one hour, or
thereabouts, by strangling it. This was a very remarkable
case. The prisoner was a married woman, the wife of a
labourer, residing at Nazeing, in the county of Essex,
and the allegation on the part of the prosecution was
that she had murdered her grandchild, the illegiti-
mate offspring of her daughter Rebecca, a young
woman of twenty. The principal witness for the
prosecution was a married woman named Susan Starks,
and, according to her evidence, she actually saw the
prisoner commit the murder, and there was this corrobora-
tion of her testimony that upon a search being made in the
garden attached to the cottage of the prisoner the bones
and other decomposed remains of a child were
discovered. The murder was represented to have
been committed in August last, but no information
appeared to have been given by the witness respect
ing it until several months afterwards ; and, upon inquiries
being made by the police, the result was that the prisoner
was committed for trial upon the present charge. Susan
Starks said : In August last I lived next door to the
prisoner and her husband at Nazeing, and I remember
tieing called up in the night on account of the prisoner's
daughter being confined. After the child had been born,
the prisoner put one of her fingers into its mouth, and
the baby cried; and the prisoner's daughter said to her,
" Dear mother, don't let the baby cry." The prisoner
replied, " Don't fear ; it will not trouble anybody long."
The prisoner then asked me what she was to do, and I
rep:ied, " Please yourself, Mrs. Smart ; you know your
own cat_ e best:" The prisoner then took off one of her
garters and tied it round the baby's neck, and tied it
on the bed, and I went away and never saw the child
again. Two days after this the prisoner told me that she
had buried the child in the garden.—Cross-examined
What did you do when you saw her, as you
say, tie her garter round the throat of an in-
fant just born ?—I did not do anything.—The
Lord Chief Justice (to the witness) : Did you believe
that the prisoner was going to murder the child ?—I did
not know what she was going to do. His lordship : What
did you mean by saying to the prisoner " Please yourself"
when she put the question to you what she was to do ?
Witness (hesitating) : I understood her to ask me whether
she was to kill the child or uot. His lordship : And you
coolly told her to please herself. Is that what you mean
to say ? The witness made no answer. Mr. Codd :
Did you say one word of the story you have
row told until after you had heard that the prisoner had
threatened to tell your husband of something that had
occurred ?—lt is not true.—The Lord Chief Justice told
Irer to answer the question, and after a deal of pressing
she admitted that some charge had been made affecting
:er character as a married woman, and that she had heard
that the prisoner had threatened to tell her husband some-
thing upon the subject. It was after this that she
went to the police and made the statement.—Rebecca
Smart, the daughter of the prisoner, was then examined,
mid- she stated that her mother assisted her at the
d..:livery, but she never heard the child cry, and after
it was born she took the child away, and witness did not
::new what had become of it, until her mother told her
sane time afterwards that she had buried it. She heard
Starks say to her mother, " If I was you, I would
hot let it live, and no one should know anything about it."
Thomas Gowers, one of the Essex constabulary, proved
that, in cow.t,inence of directions he received, he went to
the cottage - where the prisoner had lived at Nazeing,
and, upon digging in the garden, he found a number
of bones, apparently those of a child, and a quantity
of decomposed matter tied up in a piece of black cloth.
Mr. Simpson, the superitttendent of 'Police, having stated
that he questioned the prisoner about the charge, was
told by the Lord Chief Justice that he had no right to do
so. The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up the case,
said that undoubtedly the charge rested almost entirely
upon the evidence of the witness Mrs. Starks, and it would
be for them to say whether they could possibly rely upon
it. If a murder had actually been committed, this
witness really almost stood in the position of an accom-
plice.—The jury immediately returned a verdict of not
;uilty of murder, but guilty of endeavouring to conceal the
dead body of the child.—The Lord Chief Justice, address-
big the prisoner, said that she had been very properly
tcquitted of the more serious crime, but there was no
doubt she had committed the offence of which the jury had
found her g ditty. It was one of a serious character, and
required that severe punishment should attend it, Tide he
sentenced her to be imprisoned and kept to hard labs for
six months. •

At the Leitrim Assizes another batch of prisoners
have been charged with assaulting a congregation of
Methodists. The same result followed as in the first
trial—the jury disagreed.

BURPING OF A STEA3rBOAT.—The Mississippi
steamboat, Emma,, has been destroyed by fire with lament-
able losi of life. While going through Chute Island en
route foiCincinnati she struck a snag and careened. The
stove in the ladies cabin upset, setting the boat on fire and
totally destroying her. A. special despatch from. Cairo
gives the loss as twelve passengers, among them five ladies,
six 'officers, and the entire crew. The steamer Coltpnbian
brought the,survivors to Cairo.

Go ABROAD. AND LEAN.—.The adherents to*the
old belief as to the civilizing influence of British inter-
course have recently received several severe shocks. Not
only does it appear upon trustworthy authority that
the " semi-barbarous," as we are told to call them, people
of Japan have for many hundred years been in the
enjoyment of a complete system of primary edu-
cation,
i by means of which every member of the popu-
lation s instructed ; but even in wholly barbarous Chinese
'rartary, we learn from Mr. Shaw's paper, read last week
at the Royal Geographical Society, that every street in
the numerous cities with which the country is dotted con-
tains its primary school, where rows of turbaned boys may
be seen daily at their first lessons in reading and writing.
CUBA.—lmportant news has been received at
Uavana from Nassau. General Quesada and five com-
panions arrived at Nassau on the 14th of February in a
small boat. It is reported that the steamer Anna has
again been seized on the declaration of one of her crew.
The Governor of New Providence, hearing that a Cuban
depot and rendezvous had been established on Green Key,
de. patched the English gunboat Dart there to break it up.
She has just returned to Nassau with two cannon and a
quantity of arms and ammunition, which had been depo-
sited on the Key for the steamer Anna. A Cuban con-
nected with the murder of the American has been ar-
rested.

THE SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION.—The feeling
in Hong Kong against the Supp!ementaiy Convention re-
cently concluded by Sir Rutherford Alcock with the
Chinese Government, continues to be very strong.
Two memorials have come to England by
this mail, both protesting against it : one of
them being from the Chamber of Commerce
at Hong Kong, and the other from the Hong Kong com-
munity. The clauses which are most objected to are the
second clause, under which the Chinese Government wili
claim to place a consul at Hong Kong ; the fourth clause,
which seems to prevent the forwardin.. of goods to Hong
Kong for transhipment ; the fifth clause, which
presses unduly on Hong Kong with respect
to duty - pail goods, and the sixth clause,
which agrees to abandon the port of Kinn... Chau. It is to
the first and last of these questions that the memorialists
attach most importance. They furnish extensive reasons
against the appointment of a Chinese Consul ; and with
rt.g.ard to the abandonment of the port, they urge
that the only treaty port for the whole of the
South and south-west of China is Canton, situated
about 100 miles up a river, and not fitted either by its
geographical position or its means of access to be the only
channel of trade. By the existing edict no goods can go
to Hainan, or the south-west, without paying duty at
Canton so importers have to go and return 100 miles
more than would be otherwise necessary, a fact which
the memorialists contend has greatly damaged the trade.
The following par7rapli appears in tne _nut mats
Gazette :—The laundry 4-orlc of the Royal Military Aca-
demy at Woolwich has hitherto been given to the widows
of sergeant-majors, about forty of whom have found in
that employment their only means of livelihood. An order
has now been issued which deprives these women of their
employment, without a moment's notice it being directed
that the washing shall in future be given to the wives
of the cadets' servants. to compensate thorn for the
loss of certain fees which have been abolished. The
widows are consequently applying to the parish for poor
relief.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo. American Times.)

There has 13,61 a dehaie in the :.-enate on. the
proposud Internatimmi Exlobitinn at Washington, -the

bib to'encourage and promote it hat-ing 13,.en brought up
on the lBth, February. We fear that it will not be re-
garded by the Waslingtoniaus as encouraging, for some
of the Senators Made impudent remarks about that inte-
resting city ; indeed, one unblushingly recommended that
the $2,000,000 already raised should be applied by the
citizens in paving their muddy stns. Is. An ather objected
to bring foreigners to see what a miserable thing in capi-
tals they had ; but cxcepdon was generally taken on the
score of expense, the belief being that an exhibition hold
in such a city as Washington would cost an enormous
sum, and that the largo balance necessary to give it a
chance of success would eventually fall upon the Govern-
ment. If such an exhibition must b 3 got up the proper
place was in one of the large commercial cities. Those,
even of London and Paris had all, except th., first.
been pecuniary failures; and what- chance could Wash-
ington have if such cJntres of population, wealth,
and commerce failed to make an international exhibition
self-supporting. Mr. Merrill reiterated his former objec-
tions, terming the proposal an experiment of the Wash-
ington citizens to silence the cry about the removal of the
capital ; but it was dangerous, for in the very probable event
of failure the reproaches against the city would be mul-
tiplied. The tendency to branch off from the subject was
illustrated by a remark of Mr. Morrill, one of whose ob-
jections was that travellers to 'Washington who passed
through Now Jersey would be taxed by that State $1
each,and the discussion immediately turned to this subject.
Many Senators, however, warmly defended Washington,
Mr. Nye declaring that there was no building equal to the
Capitol, and that the city would one day be the pride of
the nation. It was asserted that $2,000,000 had been
raised in Washington, and that men of wealth would carry
the Exhibition through without any other charge to the
Government than those specified in the bill.

The monthly statement of the Secretary of the
Treasury, for the Ist March, shows the total debt, less
cash and bonds in the Treasury, was $2,438,328,477, being
a decrease during the month of February of $6,484,811.
The decrease since last March is $87,134,782, this being
the total decrease during the first year of Grant's Adminis-
tration. The total of the bonds purchtised, with accruad
interest is $106,659,283. The money in the Treasury in
gold amounts to $102,400,739 ; in currency to $10,280,285.
General Schaffer, of Illinois, the new Governor
of Utah, after receiving at. Washington important instruc-
tions, has left for the Salt Lake City. On the 17th Feb.
Mr. Cullom brought up his bill to prevent and punish ply-
gamy in Utah, and advocated it in a vigorous speech. His
belief is that the longer delayed the more difficult the ques-
tion becomes. He described Brigham Young as all powerful,
the first step was to sujotitute a U.S. Judiciary for the Ter-
ritorial one; the Legislature was all composed of Mormons
who practised polygamy,and these by his bill would be ren-
dered ineligible to vote or to hold office. They were critui
nals, as ineligible as the late rebels. If some such bill did
not pass every Gentile would be driven out of Utah. Doubt-
less it would render a fe w companies of soldiers necessary,but
the Mormon strength did not exceed 8,000 men, and they
would not attempt a general resistance ; but whether they
would resist or not, it was the nation's duty not to tem-
porize longer with the iniquity, but get rid of a relic of
barbarism, which was a stigma on the country. Per-
haps Mr. Cullom is right is his belief that the Mor-
mons will not resist it, if the nation shows that it will
submit no longer to so gross an infraction of its laws; still
the general impression is that Brigham will not only resist,
but is preparing for resistance, an I those who have most
experience of the folly of mankind would not be surprised
if the Mormons took the initiative in declaring war on the
Gentiles.

Great anxiety has prevailed during the week
about the City of Boston, now overdue several weeks.
The Bristol Post published a telegram to Lady Amelia
Gray, who has a daughter on boa7d, from Mr. W. Ross
Hall of the Excellent, stationed off Portsmouth, reporting
that she had been spoken off Ireland, both cylinders of
engines gone. No news of her, however, has been re-
ceiv ~I at Liverpool. The City of Boston has a crew of 98
men, and the following cabin passengers from New York
M-s M. Cosgrove, Mr Ginguene, A. C. Morton, J. Whit-
taker, four children, and infant; Dr Tupper, Allan Ebbs,
wife, children, and infant; James Adahead, M. A. Praeger,
J. M'Colt, C. P. Archibald, Mr Roland and wife, W. N.
Cochrane, James Cosgrove, Mr Lawdler, R. J. M'Donald,
Duncan M'Donald, James WHinnon, P. H. Priewr, John
Leresley, and T. O'Neill. • At Halifax she is said to
have embarked a number of passengers, both cabin and
steerag., also troops. There is some hope that the
Canadian mail steamer, now duo, may have fallen iu
with her.

We hoi:e and believe that the City of Boston will
srr►ve all right, the delay being caused by an accident to
her machinery during the late rough weather ; but what
ever may be her fate, two disastrous shipwrecks of Ame-
rican vessels have been reported. The Golden City, on her
way from San Francisco to Panama, was lost off the Mexi-
can coast on the 22d of February. Fortunately another
steamer of the same line, fin Colorall, on her way front
Panama to San Francisco, came up, and through her m ens
the passengers and crew, tin mtils, troasure, an I lugg Lgp,
were saved and taken back to Sin Francisco, but the
Golden City and her cargo, valued at $250,000, were lost.
The other was an appalling affair, news of which simulta-
neously reached Washington and London. It appears that
the eeninsnlarand Oriental Company's steamer Bombay was
running for Yokohama in a dense fog, and when about 15
miles from that port she cam into colli.;ioa with th 3 Ame-
rican corvette Oneida, a screw steamer of 1,800 tons,
mounting 8 guns, having on board a crew of 176 men.
The Oneida was sunk by the collision, and as b•.tt 56 were
saved, it follows the 120 lives were lost. The Bombay
a screw steamer of 1,327 tons, with'engines of 250 horse-
power, was but little injured. From San Francisco we
le am that the Golden City, on leaving that city, had 300
passengers, and $791,000 in treasure, $lO,OOO of which
was for New York, $437,000 for England, $95,000 for
France, $240,000 for South America, and $lO,OOO for
Panama.

The Winnepeg Convention nominated Rielle as
President, appointing a Chief Justice, Secretary of State,
a Treasurer, an Under-Secretary of the Treasury, to form
a Government pending negotiations with Canada. We
suppose the Convention was induced to appoint so many
Treasury officers from the fact that there being nothing in
the Treasury it was their earnest desire to fill it. Three
delegates proceed to open negotiations at Ottawa. Dr.
Cowan and PciStmaster Banuatyne, who had been arrested
by Rielle, had been set at liberty. The arrival of Bishop
ache was anxiousli, awaited, as his influence is very great,
and Rielle is said to owe his election to the necessity tor
conciliating the French party. Affai rs,to we ver, bad taking
another turn, Recording to a telegram front Toronto. On
Tuesday last the Canadian and English settlers, headed by
Dr. Schultz mail Major Bolton, had raised an armed force,
'end setting at naught the Provisional Government of the
insurgents, demanded Rielle's retirement. The Loyalists
number from 400 to 500 men, with two pieces of artillery.
Rielle holds Fort Garry, and holds twenty Canadian
prisoners, and he threatens if attacked to bombard the
town.

We are happy to perceive propositions originally
made in .this paper, bearing fruit. Three years ago we
urged the directors of the Panama and Australian line to
take vigCrous steps to change their Pacific eastern ter-
minus from•Panama`to San Francisco, and, failing in making
an impros'sion there, we proposed the extension of the line
from the Sandwich Islands to the Feejoes, with branch
steamers, one to Sydney, and the other to Auckland. By
such means the Australian colonies would be brought into
direct communication with North America,and by the trans-
continental railroad and the numerous fleets plying be-
tween Europe and the Atlantic seaboard, into direct com-
munication with England. If we failed in making any
impression in England, we have been more fortunate in
America, for the Senate Postal Committee, at their meet-
ing on the 17th Feb., had the establishment of such a line
under discussion. The plan proposed is that we advo-
cated, from San Francisco via the Sandwich Island and
the Foejees. Although no conclusion has as yet been
reached concerning the subsidy, the scheme itself was
heartily approved; in truth, its advantages are too appa-
rent to escape recognition when once attention is directed
to them.

The House of Representatives, by 107 votes
against 48, passed a resolution declaring that the inte-
rests of the country demand such a tariff on foreign im-
ports as will best protect home manufactures and indus-
tries without impairing the revenue. The new Tariff
Bill is exciting much opposition, and, on the other hand, is
strenuously supported by the Protectionists. Tho above
resolution shows that the latter are still all-powerful in
Congress ; but such general resolutions do not mean
much, as men who would vote against particular imposi-
tions might still support the principle therein embodied.
The Freetraders held a mass meeting at New York on the
24th Feb., at which were to attend many of the leading
commercial men of the Empire City and several members
of Congress. The Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
protests against the tariff, denouncing the principle on
which it is framed, and, as far as wo can see, it may be
that the country is, on this subject, in advance of Congress.
We now learn that Mr. Whittemore is not the
only Southern Representative of the class nicknamed car-
-;—,:--bagger against whom evidence has boon procured of
selling nominations to th) West Point Academy, and to the
Naval School at Annapolis. Two others have resigned
in anticipation of expulsion, and six or seven more aro
implicated. A telegram received yesterday gives their
names as Mr. Deweese, Republican, from North Carolina,
and Mr. Golladay, Democrat, from Kentucky ; two others
accused are Republicans, and one a Democrat. The
labour of the military committee had been unremitting,
and a great mass of evidence had been accumulated.
Several editors and correspondents of newspapers had
been examined, and the public are at any rate now aware
of Ithe value affixed to these appointments, which seems
to range from $5OO to $l,OOO.

A decision is announced by the Superior Court
of Cincinnati on the question of reading the Bible in the
public schools of that city. Of the three judges, two de-

cided that the Bible should be read, a decision from which
the third, a Unitarian, dissented; of the ()the" two one
was an Episcopalian, the other, a Methodist
POLITICAL NEWS.—The MiutleSotA House of
Reprusentatives, by a vote of 83 to 18. on the. 15th of
February, passed a -resolution submitting a female. ;suf-
frage amendment to the .people... It is believedthe Senate
will concur. The Georgia Legislative, Feb. 15, elected
Messrs. Blodgett, Farrow, and Whitely• United States
Senators, the latter for the one-year term. - As Georgia
already has two Senators, this election ems five to that
State, from whom the Senate may 'select. Blodgett's
nomination is for the term ending 1877, Farrow's for 1873,
and Whitely for March, 1871. General David Atwood,
editor of the Madison State Journal, has been elected to
Congress by the Republicans of the Second Wisconsin
District to succeed Mr. Hopkins, deceased. There was
no organized opposition to his election. The Louisiana
Legislature bas passed a bill for the issue of $3,000,000 in
bonds for levee purposes, and another providing for
'mixed" schoOls. The M"nnesota Assembly bas passed
an Act to submit. to the women sit the State at the next
election a propodtion for female suffrage, but the Colorado
Legislature has rejected a female suffrage resolution. Gov.
Butler, of Nebraska, convened the State 'Legislature on
the 17th Feb. to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment, which
it did by an almost unanimous vote completing the ratio-
cation, which now only awaits the proclamation to become
operative. Thirty States, in all, have ratified, of which
New York claims to retract, and Indiana's action is chal-
lenged, as, through the maueouvrintr of the Democrats, it
was impossible to get a quorum of two-thirds of the
Legislature; Still there remain 28, giving the necessary
number of States. The Maine Railroad Consolidation Bill
was carried by six to two through the Committee on the
17th Feb., and the great battle will now open all along the
line. It is by far the most important scheme of legislation
the State has ever had.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.-The Rev. Dr. Lyman
has resigned the rectorship of the American Chapel in
Rome, arid the Rev. Mr. Nevin has taken his place.-The
post of Commander of the "Grand Army of the Constitu-
tion," the Democratic soldiers' organization, is to be offered
to General M'Olellan. Hancock being the second choice.-
Colonel William G. Moore, Paymaster, and ex-private
secretary of President Johnson, has resigned his position
in the army.-John H. Surratt is a grocer in Baltimore.
-A monument to Prentice is proposed in Louisville.-
Cassius M. Clay, formerly Minister to Russia, is said to bo
engaged at Waterbury, Connecticut, in making a new
kind of candle, a Russian invention, for which he has a
patent.- The Naples Observer announces the. death of
an American lady, Miss Frances Minns of Boston, which
took place in the Motel de Louvre, Naples, on the 18th
Feb.-Eayard Taylor says we work too much and think
too Mlle.-President Grant's father was 76 years of age;
on Sunday, Feb. 6.-Judge William Strong, whose nomi-
nation has been confirmed by the Senate as Associate
Justice on the Supremo Bench, is a native of Connec-
ticut, and emigrated many years ago to Reading, Penn-
sylvania, having represented the Berks County Court
in Congress. Ho received the Domocratio nomination
for Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and
was elected by a large majority. About a year ago
he resigned, and has been living a retired life in Philadel-
phia, whore ho is held in high esteem for his great legal
ability and learning, and though never taking an active
part in politics, his leaning has lately been towards the
Republican party. Mr. Goo. W. Childs of the since
Ledger, on arrival at New York, called by requeatoristrince
Arthur. Mr. Childs was on his way to attend the funeral
of the late Mr. Peabody.- On Washington's birthday at
Berlin, the American Aruba sador, Mr. G. 'Bancroft, gave a
Soirée in the Embassy. A large number of American
gentlemen and ladies, and most of the celebrities of the
diplomatic and learned world were present.-The widow
of Col. T. Bigelow Lawrence of Boston has promised a
gift of $25,000 for the erection of a Boston art museum,
on condition that an additional amount of $75,000 is col.
lected by subscription.-William Cullen Bryar.t is said to
be worth $500,000.-General John IL Liddell was killed
on the steamer St. Marys, near Monro Louisiana, on Feb.
14.- It is said his murderers were Colonel Charles Jones
and two of the latter's sons.-Seven unmarried American
ladies are now practising sculpture in Rome, namely, Miss
Whitney, Miss Hosmer, Miss Freeman, Miss Stebbins,
Miss Edmonia Lewis, Miss Vinnie Ream, and Miss Foley.
G. F. Train says if he couldn't speak every day ho
would burst. Won't some one "gag" him for a day or
two? asks some one.-Warren Leland, of the Metropoli-
tan Hotel, left for Saratoga, last week, to personally
superintend the erection of the two cottages on the
Union Hotel grounds, which, it is' sail, but we-know not
how truly, are to be occupied by the Empress Eugenie and
suite next summon-Mt. Hoag, of Ohio, the member of
Congress who lately died, is said to have left $1,000,000.
Cassius M. Clay's new candles are said to burn at a cost
of one cent for twenty-four hours of light.-Pr. Mary
Walker was robbed by highwaymen the other day, who
wouldn't have been so ungallant had they not supposed
from her costume that she was a mau.-Fisk, jun., has
withdrawn his suit for libel against the Springfield Repub-
lican. As the Englishmen are preparing to attack him, he
is girding on his armour for what promises to be the most
difficult lawsuit Erie has cot experienced. - A General
Jackson, at Louisville, is called "Mudwall," to distinzuish
him from "Stonewall."-Senator Grimes writes to frien Is
in lowa, that his health is failing rapidly, and he will
probably not survive the journey Jones,
driver of a mail waggon in Chicago, has been arrested on
the charge of having robbed the maik of over $lOO,OOO in
drafts.-Mrs. Stanton has been unable to keep her lec-
ture euga;ements through illue s, and Miss Susan B.
Anthony offers to take her place,,General Alatorre
is at the head of all the Mexican La:33. -The New
York Mail thinks Victor Hugo is rapidly becoMing
the. French George Francis Train.-Ad.rin 13aierle, a pro-
minent brewer of Chicago, has mysteriously disappeared,
and it is stated ;that he absconded to avoid paying his
debts. His liabilities were $70,600, while his assets are
reported at $lOO,OOO. Ho took away $15,000.-The Senate
ou the 18th Feb. confirmed the appointment of John F.
Delaplane, of New York, as Secretary of Legation at
Vienna.
BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS. The Kentucky
Legislature has named a county after General Lee.-New
York expects t' see a tunnel opened to Brooklyn before
the East River Bridge is completed.-A thief in Cincin-
nati has gone to gaol for stealing a copy of Mrs. Stowe's
book. It is only just to say that he immediately pawned
it.-The ccllectiou of the laws of New Jersey is progress-
ing rapidly. Oortlandt Parker, Esq., of Newark, has
charge of the work.-The Massachusetts Legislature is
debating to sell fruit hereafter by weight.-A valentine
dealer in New York this year sold 78 valentines valued at
$5O each.-The Missouri Legislature is about to erect a
monument to General Lyon.-The shipment of specie
from San Francisco since Jan. 1 amounts to B,6ll2,ooo,in-
eluding. 81,961,000 sent to Now York by the Union
Pacific Railroad.-Farmingston, Connecticut, as a mea-
sure of .economy,
.and in the scarcity of- funerals, hires
out the town hearse to serve milk from.-Another
earthquake shock has been felt at San Francisco.-The
new bridge over the Ohio at Louisville was formally opened
on Feb. 18.-A. verdict of $2,000 has been given against
the Hudson River Railroad Company for brutally ejecting a
passenger.--Florida has a total valuation of property of
$25,000,00C, yet the State Legislature has just passed a
bill allowing a railway to create a loan on the State credit
of over $8,000,000 in gold.
NAVAL ITEMS.-Enlistments for the navy have
been directed to cease, the full number allowed by law
(8,500) having been reached. This will prevent several
vessels from sailing, and will keep the Delaware on the
Asiatic station. retaining her men beyond their term, with
one-fourth additional pay.-Commodore Stephens Champ-
lin, U. 8. N., tho last surviving officer of the battle of Lake
Erie, is dangerously ill at his residence in Boston.