The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-08

Letters from Algiers state that new chief
Mahomed Ben Abdallah, is endeavoring TO rouse
the populnce in the south against the French
Troops have been sent to arrest him. Ea8a
At a secret consstory in the Vatican, accor-
ding to the Autographed correspondence the
Pope conceded TO an English company the exc
cution Of a railway between Ancona and Bolcg-
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The lectric telegraph is to be established
throughout Turkey.
A Captain Garrett has accomplished the task
OF walking mile, running mile, and riding
mile, in twenty minutes. The captain had
twenty-five seconds to spare. a3 ..ga
WEIGH paper states that 100000 watches
have been pawned and sold in Wales, for the
purpose Of finding funds to pay the expenses of
ajourney to ard from London to see the Great
Exhibition. In some cases even beds have
been disposed Of ,.r
hichard OGorman, esq, one OF the Oldest
and most respectable merchants Of Dublin, has
left Ireland for this country. He took with him
capital Of over E2O,OOO. The exile of his
who is at present practising lawyer at the New
York bar, has been the cause of Mr.. O'Gorman's
departure. atfia9 oia1
A letter from Madrid says: The luchG de- ferds
( hts of wild beasts) is at length to take place..
II is announced for the l4th. The programme
as now put forth is as follows: lst. A panther
to fight with eight dogs, to be set on him two
by two. End. A hyena to fight with four dogs.
Sd. A wolf to fight with two dogs 4th., The
lion to fight again with the bull Carnoso, which
vanquished him at Aranjuez.
The Genoa Gdaette, of the 18th inst, quotes
the following under date Nice, the 10th SAT
about eleven o'clock Of Saturday night, a band
Of 48 peasants from the county Of Nice were re-
turning from Broe, French village, close to the
frontier, with a quantity OF salt, the price Of
which in France is one-half less than in Pied
mont The customs officers, to the number of
SO, having opposed their passage, dreadful col
li,ion eEsued, in which IA Of the peasants were
killed. Some of the customs officers were slight
ly wounded"
Two cases of Asiatic cholera are said to have
occurred at birmingham.
Some unusual mportations have been lately
made into London. A vessel from Alexandra
brought fifty cases Of eggs. One from New
York brought twenty barrels Of cider, the pro-
duce Of the United States; and another arrived
from this city with $4,000 packages of butter as
portion Of her cargo This is the largest i'm
portation of butter which has taken place from
the United States.
II is reported that more than 500 foreigners,
nearly all Germans and Italians, are already on
the books of the police as being too dangerous
for them to be permitted to remain in Paris.
Dissention is increasing in the party Of order
The Independence Beige, Brussels paper, says
that It's Hamburg correspondent mentions q RI.
NOR current in that city, which causes great dis
quotude, namely, that the German Diet intends
to suppress the independence CT the three free
towns, Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubec, and TO in
corporate them in other German states. Ham,
burg is to fall to Prussia.
A meeting has been held at Chaux de Forrels,
to discuss the question whether it was not de-
sirable to form a grand league of the people
against the svvereieus. The speeches were in
French. About 10000 persons were present,
and about 1000 attended at banquet
The Florence Constitutional OF the 18th, states
that Mr.. Semple, the English minister at Ma
Piles, has been suddenly summoned to London
BY the foreign Office, on matters Of great import
ance.