American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-15
NEWS BY THIS MORNINGS MAILS.


guehanna Railroad Bill. - The Susquehanna
Railroad bill, authorizing the connexion between
the Cumberland valley and the Central railroad
on the west bank of the Susquehanna, has just
passed both branches Of the Legislature. On
Saturday night it was defeated in the House by
tie vote, and carried to-day by 48 to AZ votes,
after the hardest struggle of the session.
CINCINNATI, April 12.--Jemy Lind's Route
M'dlle Jenny Lind is announced for three con-
certs in this city next week. Arrangements
have been made for her to sing at Wheeling the
succeeding week, when she will proceed to Bal
timore, Philadelphia, and New York. She will
not visit Pittsburg this spring.
RELAXING THE TRAcK.-We learn from the
Philadelphia Ledger that the Philadelphia, Will
mington & Baltimore Railroad Company is about
to relay its track between Wilmington and Bal
timore. They have purchased six thousand
tons of heavy rail, half Of which is from the
Montrose iron-works, at Danville, Pa.
The City Council of Charleston have caused
to be prepared q massive and beautiful gold
medal, which is to be presented to "Clarke
Mills as a mark of respect for his Genius for
Sculpture exhibited in his bust of the favorite
son of South Carolina, John G. Calhoun, and as
an incentive to further exertions." The medal
is enclosed in an elegant gold case.
BUSINESS IN CALIFoRNIA.-A correspondent
of the New York Journal of Commerce, writing
from San Francisco, under date Of March 18th,
says:
Business is here growing more and more
slack, and the quantity Of goods daily arriving
and forced at auction is truly immense. On
Monday last, at John Middleton's public sale
of boots, clothing, &c. the company, which
was large, assembled at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing, and did not adjourn till dark. Some five
hundred lots of goods were sold, which, on the
average, did not realize freight and charges,
although the quality and condition of the goods
were unexceptionable / notice to-day in the
papers that in one vessel, from Baltimore, the
ship A. M. Lawrence, the agent advertises two
thousand two hundred and sixty packages
to ten different consignees, to be sold to pay
freight and charges; and this is sample Of
almost every ship-load that arrives"
RETURN OF Mrs. JUDsoN-This estimable
lady was to have sailed from Maulmain for CAL
cutta in January, and thence to the United
States by the way of England. To enable her
to take this route home, which is the most
agreeable one, without additional expense to
the Missionary Union, q number of persons mt
Calcutta spontaneously contributed sum of
money for the purpose She is expected to
arrive in this country in May or June.
NAvAL.-The U. S. ship Marion, Captain
Glendy, sailed from Canton for Manila about
the 28th of January.
M. LAMARTINE has presented to the National
Assembly of France q petition from VIM. Tell
Poussin, formerly Minister Of the Republic in
the United States praying the government to
grant block of granite taken from the quarries
of Cherbourg for the monument to General
Washington, now in the course of construction
in Washington city.
The ship Otilia, which left Liverpool for New
Orleans on the I'd of February, with 449 emf
grants, did not arrive at the latter port until
the I'd instant. Mutiny among the crew obliged
the captain to put into Jamaica, where several
Of them were tried and sentenced to three
months imprisonment at hard labor. Having
been renamed the Otilia again set sail, but
the ship fever soon broke out, and FIVE persons
died, who were buried at sea. On her arrival
at the Balize she had forty cases of ship fever
on board, besides other diseases and her decks
and hold were so filthy, that the wonder was
that all her passengers were not the victims Of
disease
PRESIDENT SPARKS RECEIVERS but slowly from
the effects Of his accident, says the Boston Tap-
eller. 1t is feared that his health will never be
permanently restored.
The Massachusetts, railroads carried twenty
three millions of passengers last year.
NORTH BEND.--The Ohio State Journal sup-
gests North Bend, the farm of President Harri-
son, as suitable location for military ASYLUM.
BANvARD IN EGYPT.-Our countryman Ban
ward is now in Egypt, preparing panorama of
the river Nile.
SHIPPING WOMEN BY THE BARREI.-Captain
White of the British bark Express, which ar
rived at Charleston, s. c., on Sunday, from
Liverpool, states that when fourteen days out
he discovered two females concealed in barrels,
in which they had been clandestinely rolled
into the vessel, and subsequently that several
other persons were discovered concealed in the
hold among the cargo.
The following comes to us through the N. Y
Herald: