The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THERE are in Cincinnati one hundred and severity-five
persons and companies that pay an annual tax of between
five and tell thousand dollars.

THE United States mail-stamer, the Baltic, took to
Europe. on her last voyage from New York, 30,831 letters
and 18,000 newspapers.
AIID-EL-KADER.—A letter from Broussa states that the
health of Abd-el-Kader is good.. He lives in the greatest
retirement, spending all his time in reading and prayer.
It is said that he has commenced writing a religious work,
to be called " Meditations on the Koran."
SPIRIT RAPPINGS.—In the Ohio Lunatic Asylum
there are at present confined twenty-six victims of the
" spirit rappings" delusion, the number being equally
divided between males and females.

LOUIS NAPOLEON has purchased for the Empress the
splendid piano of Erard, which attracted such attention at
the London Exhibition. The price is stated to have been
40,000 f.

THE EMIGRATION constantly going on from New York
to California is hardly less than that from Great Britain
to Australia. On Saturday, the sth ultimo, 2,037 pas-
sengers left New York for California.

THE Montreal True WitnesA(Roman Catholic), in a
selected article on the threatened invasion of Great Bri-
tain by Louis Napoleon, makes use of the following loyal
language :—" Great Britain is the main-stay of the ene-
mies of God and Christ ; she is drunk with the blood of
martyrs, and, in the approaching contest, the powers of
two hundred millions of Catholics throughout the world
will daily and hourly ascend for her defeat."

RAILWAY FROM NEW YORR TO SAN FRANCISCO.—
An experienced writer, in the New York Tribune, says :
" I am prepared to say, there is no obstacle in the way of
constructing a double truck railroad from New York to
Nisqually, Astoria, or San Francisco. The country from
Independence, Mo., to either of these places, is no
rougher than it is from New York to Dunkirk."

INTERESTING FAMILY FEUD.—The Louisville Jour-
nal states that the trial of the parties surviving the last
fray in Garrard county, Kentucky, between the Hills and
the Evanses, has resulted in their acquittal. The different
clans, with the exception of the Murphys and the Mays
have signed a formal treaty of peace. By the various
battles, assassinations, sieges, &c., among the partici,
eight men and boys have been killed, several crippled and
maimed for life, and forty-eight children left fatherless.
The quarrel commenced about the year 1822.

STRANGE AND FEAREISL DEATH.—TWO young yen,
of the village of Brandee, in France, lately perished is a.
very singular manner. They went out to shoto Aild
ducks. In order to arrive at the marshy ground waich,
the birds frequented, they determined to proceed docat to
the canal in a boat, and then crossing over to the other
side, to walk the rest of their way. The waters being
unusually high, in consequence of the rains, the young
men found that they could scarcely pass under the arch
in their boat. They thought, it is supposed, that by
lying down in the boat they could pass. It so happened
that the water was higher than they anticipated, on that
when the boat got under the arch it stuck fast, taus !n-
-closing the young men completely, without their having
any means to extricate tholselves. They were found two
days after dead in the goat, and clasped in each other's
arms.

A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY took place a few days ago in
the little village of Canret, department of the Clouse. A.
young man named Daguet, son of a wealthy farmer, sud-
denly rushed on his mother-in-law as she was peeling
potatoes, and struck her on the back of the head with a
hatchet until the skull was completely beaten in, and she
fell dead. Shortly after the murderer's father entered,
and he discharged his gun at him. Although it was only
charged with powder, the commotion it occasioned caused
the old man to fall. He then loaded his gua, and as his
sister entered at the moment, discharged it at her. She
was wounded in the hand and shoulder. He then knocked
her down, and beat her on the head with the hatchet until
she was dead. He next dispatched his father in the same
way. He did not attempt to fly, and calmly said to one
of his relatives who came in, "All is over—take up the
bodies ! You may do with me what you will—l mean
neither to fly nor to do any harm to you or to myself !"
He was arrested, and lodged in the gaol of Gueret. As
no motive for these crimes is known, it is supposed that
the murderer had become suddenly insane.

YOUTHFUL CRIME IN AMERICA.—A Fitchburg cor-
respondent of the Boston Traveller states that four boys
have been arrested in that city for store-breaking and
larceny. They had regularly prepared themselves for
tbieving, and fitted up a small room in a barn adjoining
the house of one of them as a receptacle for stolen goods.
On examining this room a large number of articles, which
was ascertained to have been stolen, were discovered. A
book was found, in which was a long list of houses and
stores that had been entered, and an account of all the
articles taken. A ledger was also found, in whicli each
boy had an account, and was credited on one side with
the amount he stole, and on the other side was charged
with the amount he received of the stolen property. A
large quantity of tools, taken from different workshops in
town, were also found. The boys had regular signals,
and have been in the habit of attending public meetings
and creating disturbances. Two of the offenders were
sentenced to the State Reform School during their
minority, and the other two were fined ten dollars
.each
and costs. All the boys belonged to respectable
and had enjoyed, as is believed, excellent home privi-
leges and instruction. The oldest was but 16 years of
age, and the youngest 13. One of the lads was the son of
a widow, whose heart is almost broken by the wickedness
and disgrace of her child.
DANES AT THE DIGGINGS.—The following letter from
Jens. Peter Neilsen, a saddler, late of Aalborg, in Jutland,
but now of Sydney, New South Wales, to his brother, 0.
C. Neilsen, a baker at Aalborg, is extensively published
by the Danish papers :—" Sydney, Sept. 11th, 1852. I
am now in Australia. After working 10 months in Lon-
don, and clearing half a hundred pounds, I resolved fo
try my luck in Australia. I sailed from Liverpool, and
the passage cost me £3O. There were two more Danes
on board, who also intended to dig gold, and we agreed
in all and everything to enter into a partnership * * *
We have now been above three months at work, and have
cone; ted 443 ounces of gold, in pieces, of from one to six
ounces, and we have moreover 134 ounces of gold dust.
At this present moment we are in Sydney, which is 12
Danish miles distance from the mines, in order to secure
our gold, which is placed in a bank at our disposition.
You can have no idea where, and in what manner the gold
is found here; the more we go about it, the richer are the
treasures we find. In a few days we shall again go out to
the mines. * * * We live here chiefly on game, which
I provide for our kitchen, for you know that I am a good
shot. Three weeks ago , I shot a wild horse,
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ni.hi eatingchw tai?.eaNste,ne
at the mines by 50 diggers,who assisted
intend to remain here about a twelvemonth, and after that
time I believe we shall all be rich enough for all our born
days, This is a splendid climate. The average warmth is as

in Den mark, on a hat June day. Generally speaking,'people
here are in good health, but those who have weak el°
suffer much. A man from Hamburg is going about
posing upon people, by pretending to sell what he ow
" eye water," at £1 per bottle. He drives a roaring trade,
and it is thought that he will soon have a bullet seo
through his head. But a man who is careful, and does 1101
mix himself up with quarrels, and behaves decently and
keeps on good terms with the people at the mines, mg
here live as peaceably as people do in our country. IF
few months there will be an Enelish functionary goint
back to his own country and then I will send you £5O tha'
you may come to Australia. When you get the mood,
you must come at once, whatever your position at home
may be, for here something worth having is to be made,
that is all !"

HORRIBLE HOMICIDE AT WASHINGTON.—On the
evening of the 3d ultimo, Mr. Edward Fuller was about
to enter the National Hotel ; he was met by James -V"
Schaumberg, formerly of the United States Dragoong'
who, without the exchange of any words, discharged
pistol at Mr. Fuller, wounding him severely in the right
side. Mr. Fuller immediately retreated into the street'
passing between the hackney carriages, and crossed to the
opposite side of the street, where he fell, and was their
conveyed into the Waverley House. Physicians wet°
immediately sent for. The wound was pronounced at_gte°
o'clock that evening to be in all probability mortal. X.;
Fuller was sensible up to that hour, and his family Wets attendance upon him. Mr. Schaumberg, upon NI:
Fuller's retreating, supposed, as we were informed, tbS"
his fire had taken no effect, pursued Mr. Fuller nearly
the other side of the avenue, when, by the interference°,
bystanders and others, and upon the information the;
Fuller had fallen, he retraced his steps to the hotel, 8,3°
ascended to his room. He was arrested there shorat
after by some officers. Much indignation at his conduct
was expressed by the crowd who had congregated at the
doors and in the office of the hotel. Schaumberg vot°_
committed to jail for further examination, an offer to r,
bail being refused. The immediate cause of this unhapPl
event was the appearance of large placards on Mond,/
morning posted in the vicinity of all the hotels, headed
"James W. Schaumberg a Liar, a Coward, and e
Swindler," and which contained a statement tending t°
show and prove Schaumberg to be guilty of lying'
cowardice and swindling, interspersed with many other
opprobrious epithets. Schaumberg was indebted to bit'
Fuller, and ill-feeling had existed between them for I
considerable time; and which, on a former occasion, lea
Schaumberg to make a publication concerning Faller'
and Fuller to make a personal assault on Schaumberg'
The Bulletin's dispatch says, the ball is supposed to he
passed through and lodged in the liver. if so, it 01,
mortal. Schaumberg is still in jail, where he was visited
this morning by nearly half the members of the senate'
who all pledged their will to support him.