The Daily spy., 1850-06-20

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Secretary Of the Treasury for allowing balances to
be transferred from one appropriation to another
It Is alleged, in violation of law. The resolution
was not disposed Of
The EXPLOSION AT GREENWICH. The damage
to the Church by the late explosion, in Greenwich.
proves to have been less severe than first accounts rep
resented There was an explosion, but the building
was not very materially injured.
New Salem in Franklin CO. has 1,259, inhabitants.
"a of whom between the ages of rs and lOl wears
The Asia which left Boston on Wednesday, is said
to have made her passage to Halifax in twenv-sx hours
the shortest trip record between the two ports.
A wag on hearing chimney sweep had given up
business, expressed his astonshment for he thought
the business SCOT ed him completely.
| The Midland Railroad CO. INCORPORATED bv the las.
Legislature, was organized Boston, last week, the
following gentlemen being chosen Directors: James ~
Bunce of Hartford, president of Willmantic and
thompson haroad j H. iSlater Providence, (Pres-
ident OF Southbrldge and Blackstone Railroad; y E. d.
Ammldown, (President of the Norfolk County Rail-
road;) Marshall p. Wilder of Dorchester Welcome
tarnum OF Blackstone, Robert Goldman, Henry K Hor-
ton, Joseph w. Ward, Thomas Richardson, Samuel
). Perkins. Isaac Adams and Francis Brnley Of Bos-
/ ton.
woman, named Segard, who has committed num-
erous robberes and forgeres in Fance was lately APP
pretended for having robbed portrait painter The
investigations respecting the robberes led to the dis
covery that she had poisoned two husbands and four
children; and though aiectedy pious had led life Of
scandaous immortality. She was condemned to death
In the ssgood old times" the nobility of Europe used
to hunt pheasans next they took to hunting wild boars
but now they hunt editors and printers The Spanish
Government prosecuting liberal newspapers, and has
four or five hundred indictments pending against one
, the Czamw Pa5lico sA#
new ''readlng made easy'' plan has been projected
in Paris. Carnot has presented petition to the As
semby from Jules Aex stating that he has discovered
method of education by which child may be taught
to read in fifteen lessons, ofone hour each grant OF
fifty thousand francs is asked for model school.
; letter passed through the Shields post Office,
short time ago, "For Betsy Robinson, Scotch Wo.
man with One Eye, Carey Bank, North Shields
The submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais
which was to have been opened last month, will moi
now be completed and opened until the end of june
: lighted camphine lamp was upset upon the dres.
of johanna Mahoney in Aostons and the fame comnun
eating to her cothing she so sadly burnt that her
, life is despaired of. m
AT farm house IN Cockerham may be seem it is said
a goose aged forty-six years Last year this an
cient bird left the of the flock and betook berse
TO solitude in field apart from other geese This vea
she has again associated with her kith an kin, and
, now sitting upon two eggs.
An lrishman, writing from the West, says pork is Sc
M at I'll, ,rd
.sam, what mechanical work did you first do ?'-
''Cut teeth, said the wag, 'sof course''
Carlyle asks, 'FWhat thing to admire has Americ;
ever produced?" She has produced girl deaf. dunn
and blind, who with her own hands did sewing enough
to send barrel of -four to Ireands starving people-
the victim Of tyrannica nation you so much admire
\ 81 can remember,' says Mr. Copeland ecturing be
fore the Royal Dublin Society, on tobacco, swhen
was quite young; seeing fine print, by one of the o
masters Of burly Dutchman, loungng in capaciou
arm chair, blowing cloud from his beloved pine. In
derneah was motto, Gloria np,di t4opis., aske,
. my father what tmeant Why said he, it has tw
meanngs First, the glory of the world is smoke an,
e second, smoking IS the glory Of the wsrld.
, FUe1rIvE SLAVES. We find the following state
ment in the Philadelphia North American. Th
facts curious and furnish abundant matter for re
e Election: 4, ,r,-s
] 'sAbout twelve years since, a whig member O
! Congress from Kentucky proposed new fugtiv,
bill, with more stringent provisions; il was rotec
docn atonce by the democratic majority as who'll,
unnecessary and inexpedent. AT a later period. +
lS4l-2, Gen Bayly, the present chairman Of tn,
f Committee of Ways and Means in the House. made
report in the Virginia Legislature on the subject
asserting very emphaticaly, that SHE la,c of i79:
lcds as nearly perfect 1t could be, and that NJ
further legislation by Congress rcas neccssaru''-
This report was sanctioned by the Virginia Legsla
ture, and until recently has been universally acou
esced in by the South'' aaA I s.s
This call for further Legislation for the recovery
fugitive slaves. is therefore new device, got up tc
serve the purposes oGthe day il .osis 1
t BURNING OF STEAMER GRITrIN. Butyalo
June Is. The burning of the steamer Griffin ba,
been attended with most serious loss of life. The
report late last evening states that over 25O has beer
burned to death or found watery grave; the great
er portion Of whom were emgrants. s9sl5
'NEw ORLEANS, June II. The examination o.
Gen. Lopez stopped to-day, and the case was sem
: TO the United States Circuit Court Bull $4,000.
80 Some men 60 through life pernetualIv plant.