Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1850-05-02

insurance on house and furniture. Total loss
cannot be less than $4,000.
The engine Companies done nobly, and
through their exertions much property was
saved from destruction, as high wind prevailed
at the time.
Insurance. The Portsmouth Journal saws
that Messrs. Moses & Oxford, who had 500
value in merchandise on board the schr. Pearl
after the storm commenced on Thursday, sent
to Boston for insurance. The policy had not
been delivered ten minutes. before news of the
wreck of the vessel reached the Insurance Office
! SUDDEN DEATH. A man named David Bell
of Buxton, Me-, about sixty-ive years OF age
Thursday evening called at a house on the
Portland road in Saco, and requested lodgings
1t was granted, and in the morning he was
found dead. He was a man of incorporate
habits, and has wandered about for several
months.
! YelloD Fever ia Brazil Brig Boston, from
Bahia. March TO- fully confirms the accounts
of the ravages of this pestilence in that CITY and
province. especially among the slaves, of whom
it is computed that 5000 have persisted. The
disease was, however, disappearing. owing to
favorable change in the weather. A passenger
aboard bark Weskeag, for California. died at
| Bahia.
| The Bunker Hill Monument Association
have voted to have grand celebration on the
18th of June. at Charlestown, and the Hon.
| w Eyeref. has tod
deliver Grafton on the occasion
Charles Bunker, of Massachusetts,, has been
confirmed VS. United States consul for Lahaina,
in the island of Maui.
sDe The postmaster general has made ar
engagements that the mail between New York
and Boston shall he conveyed hereafter BY
railroad, and the hours of departure will con-
sequently be changed.
From Calitornia.-It is stated that Mr. James
Bryant, carpenter, who borrowed the means
of going to California year ago in January,
returned in the last steamer, and has arrived in
Boston with 100000.
From HaWi.-The Eben Atkins, at Boston,
from Port au Prince April 5, reports that the
emperor will make the contemplated attack on
the Spanish part of the island after the crops
have been secured, by which time his army
and navy will be ready. The island was quiet,
and business matters slightly improving. The
paper money of the island has risen in value
within few months from 225 dollars for
doubloon to $50.
Com. Hul's wines are to be sold at auction,
in Philadelphia on Monday. Among them is
some very old Madeira, taken from the British
ship Macedonian, when captured by Commo-
dore Decatur, and purchased of him by Com
modore Hull
APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED. Washington,
april 27h. Combinations of hIarshals VIM.
Paine, for Maine Samuel Garfield, for New
Hampshire Chas Devens. for Massachusetts,
A. A. Pittigill, for Connecticut Geo. w. Jack
son, for Rhode Island.
The U. S. ship Ohio, which arrived in Bos-
ton last week, from San Francisco, brought
Sll4,256 in gold, consigned as follows A
Hemmenway, stamped gold bars, $35, $50
Charles Bre yer, bars, Sc. SOS; n. c. Cum
bingham, do, Sl6,675: d. B. Shelley, do SlS5;
DR.. Brandreth, do, $3.50; Maitland, Phelps &
Co, do, $4,000; VIM. II. Milton. do. SS26s
R. Morse & Sons. dust, $4,000.
A sleigh, IL manufactured of gutta percha, con-
vertible at pleasure into boat, is to be sent
out with the English arctic expedition on the
first of May.
FIRE. The Farmers House, in Belfast, Me.
was discovered to be on fire at quarter before
three Sunday morning. II is thought that
sailor set fire to the house after stealing $3.50.
| The house and barn of James Mahoney,
about two miles from Belfast, was destr Dyed on
Saturday night. Loss $1,000. Insured.
90 The Hallowcl Gazette says that the op-
erations on the Railroad between that place
and Augusta are in full blast 1t hopes that
the road will be graded to Augusta by the 4th
of July.
MERCHANTS, and all others. are invited to re-
member the Silk and Shawl Store of Jecett &
Prescott No. Milk Street, Boston. 1t is the
great New England Depot of Shawls and Silk
Goods, where purchasers will meet with a
| reception, whether their wants are
small or large.
! iDP The legislature of Mississippi has ap-
propriated $500. 900, for which the people are
to be taxed, to be distributed among the seve-
raj counties in proportion to the number Of
children, to establish system of free schools
The effort of the administration to retain the
territories under military government is too re-
pugnant to the republican sense of the people
to succeed
The Swedish sloop of war, Najadin. COM
mander Hitchcock, twelve days from Havana,
arrived at New York on Thursday. She car
ries is guns, and has crew of l39 meu.
iEF The gold snuff box, presented to Sam
uel Colt, of Hartford, CT, by Abdul Maid, sui
tan of Turkey, is valued at 10000 piasters,
has S75 diamonds, and is intended as a token of
the suldan's appreciation of that clever inven-
ton, the shooting revolver.