The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-12-15
News OF all Sorts.

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relatIve-a cousin.
SorrrurrS ANoNA1Y.-A New Orleans paper OF
the 2lst ult says-On Saturday memng person
could fad homemade ice IN any part OF the city,
and vet al dinner on thai day, ate nice tender
green corn-corn grown in the open air, and as
sweet as that plucked IN August
YANKEES AT THE WEsr.-Racine county, Wiscon-
SIM contains population OF 6,3l3-trom down
east" aud necessarily INDUSTRIOUS thrifty and intel
hgent.
Recommendation Elliott, who used
10 command The 60 Constitution" was shovelling
the snow away from the front of his dwelling, the
other day, near Wesichhester, when an old Quaker
gentleman stopped and eyed him, "Ah, Commo-
dore," said he, p" thee has the will, but thee hasn't
any more the Constitution That was an unln-
territorial pun
PROFESSIONAL PUMA poor corset maker, out of
work, and starving, thus vented hei miserable COM
pant:-" Shame that should be wi .hout bread,
that have stayed the stomachs of thousands She
might have added =" Alas that the cause of SO
much hustle IN the world, should sink into such
neglect"
A New READING" ]. Cypress Jr" speaks of an
old friend OF his, who, when colleglan, was pre-
sentedwith bible from an old aunt. On receiving
II, he wrote upon the ly-leaf what he considered the
opposite sentiments OF Marc Antony
/" Let but the commons hear this testament
Which, pardon me, do not mean to read"
NAVIGATION OF THE MrssIssIPPI-A memorial 10
Congress on the subject OF improving the navigation
of the Mississippi was published in the ST Louis Re-
publican few days since IL is stated in the docu-
ment, that in four years I3S steamboats, were lost
IN the nyer, occaslonlng Pecuniary loss of 49,,
10000 Between the 1lth of September and 18Th
October last year, eight boats lost causing de-
strucon of property to the amount OF S2I9 900, and
the loss OF forty fifty lives. Five of the boats were
sunk within mile OF one place.
INTERESTING TRA.-We learn that an interest
ing trial took place at Natchitoches on the 18th
a ncnce OF which IS given Ivy the Herald OF that
city. IL the trial OF G. II. Pemberton in the
case OF Spohord, Iileston Il Co, of New York, vs.
Aharfn AZ paaly IL L..
suted some time in September last on a note
signed by the defendants, and the petition charged
that the defendants were guilty OF giving iraudu-
lent preference 10 some of their creditors and of
transporting their goods TO Texas to defraud their
creditors, and that they were fraudulent debtors
within the meaning OF the act OF 1910. Mr. Penn
berton, on the 2lst OF September under this charge
was committed TO prison, where he remained until
the day OF the trial The evidence in the case was
volumlnous. No facts whatever were proved TO
substantlae the charges of fraud and several wit
of high responsibility testified 10 the excel
lent character OF the defendant The jury returned
verdict tor the defendants against the plaintiffs for
$1,000 damages, Tor the wrongful imprisonment of
Pemberon, from which amount the claim of the
plaintiffs, amounting to about $500, is to be de-
Quoted
GOOD TRIcK.-The newspaper proprietors at
fitsourgh all mad expresses out to carry in the Pre-
sldent's message One of the papers says that the
owner OF the Pittsburgh Chronicle got seventeen
out OF the twenty-five newsboys in that city up into
room, by inviting them TO a feast of apples, and
then locked them up there until his paper was print
ed and readyfo sale, say from half past nine CLOCK
IN the morning TIL one at noon. In the meantime,
the other papers Were out, but there were no boys
TO sell them! That was a sharp trick Yet the
Chronicle Is capital paper
REMAINS OF Gen. BoLIvAR.-It will be seen bv
the following extract from the Norfolk Beacon that
the remaus OF the late Gen. Simon Bolivar are TO be
removed from their present resting place. to Cara
cas-, In Venezuela, in whose cause he served so long
as a soldier and statesman
1--WE learn from Capt Peddle, of brig Ann Eliza from
thn hro Earn, MI
chartered by the authorities of that place sailed thence ON
the 18th November last company four men of war
Tor Santa Martha tor the purpose of receiving board
ana conveying TO Lagura, for intermen the remains Of
the late President Bolivar"
ONO RrvER.-There has been sudden rise of the |
ONO AT Wheeling, on Saturday, there were six
teen feet water in the channel, and the river was
stll rising. AT Plttsburg, ON same day, the river
mad twenty feet OF water in the channel. At Gin
clnnati, on Friday last, the swell from above was
beginning 10 be felt. AT Louisville on Thursday
last there were four feet three inches of water in
the canal From Louisville down to the Mississippi
not more than four feet in the channel.
pIABoIlcAL.-The ST. Louis Era states that on the
night OF The LIST instant fire of some kind,
loaded with fifteen TO twenty bullets was discharged
into sleeping chamber, no doubt with the intention
OF killing John M. Eager, Esq. Circuit Attorney |
who was engaged In trying the murderers of Major
Floyd. The perpetrators OF this act mistook the |
position OF Mr.. Els chamber, aud his life was thus
saved. There was no doubt that they were the as
soclates OF the murderers who were then on trial
are now daily looked for at this port-among them
the -. Lawrence and Robert Fulton, from the East
indies; Thomas P. Cope, and Swatara, from Liver
pool; British ship Wellington, from Wales; brig
ever, that any OF these vessels are out of time =
Phid. Eng Dec Ia.
CENSUS OF THE BRowNs.--A committee of gen.
temen are at present employed in taking the cen. |
sus oil the John Browns IN the United States
ABORIGINAL CoNUNDRUMs. Why is cooper like |
he nd ,.,bo
wing Why Is Halleck-Tuste nuggee like a small |
emnence halt dug away Because he is semi |
knoll.
SAD AccIDENT-The Newport Mercury saws tho, |
letter received from Canton states, that CAPTAIN |
Lincoln Turner, who commanded 4 fast sailing |
schooner, while his passage from Macao to
Whampoa, was Knocked overheard by he boom of |
the vessel he commanded, and Notwithstanding
every effort was made TO save him, was 6rowned
Captain Turner was young man of great Promise |
and was the only son OF George Turner, of New.
port. Capt Turner, it will be recolected sailed |
from Boston, IN command of schooner Anglona for
Canton.
STEAMBOAT AccIDENTs.-The steamboat Boston
from Cincinnati tor ST. Louis, struck a snag last
week In the Mississippi, short distance above the
mouth OF the OHIO, by which hole was knocked !
into her bow forward of the bulk-head This thew |
succeeded In stopping At the foot of Devils Island
three miles above Cape Giradeau, on Thursday last
she struck another snag, which entered the breach |
formerly made, and passed through her after bull |
warks. She hung upon the snag, and sank imme- |
diatey In water from 20 TO rs feet deep As soon
as she began TO sink, the passengers gathered with
their baggage, the hurricane deck AS she filled
she careened over by which number of the trunks
were thrown overheard and lost. With the excep- |
ton of the trunks lost in this way the passengers
saved their baggage. No lives were lost The boat |
and cargo considered total loss Intelligence |
has been received at Cincinnati, Of the loss OF the
new steamboat American Eagle, at Plum Island ON |
the Mississippi. She was run aground and sunk |
Immediately after snagging. Pretty much all her |
cargo, consisting OF tobacco, bale rope and baggng
nd anAa IT,. i
TO save her, though with but little hope of success
The boat cost S2S,0oO, and was owned principally
6y the captain. An arrival at Cincinnati on the
loh instant reports the loss on the Mississippi of
lhe sieamhnafs Leander and uarrishnrr 1ne- .r