New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-17

S o. ~ ,hsse was placed agsins, the burn.
Ing builaDR and too smut men barely
n taking up the other ladder which tney rt.su ona
reaching 70 the desired point The loot o, w IN, -.
Isdder being firmly held IN their bands hr. Coe,
ascended both ladders, and With much dircuy ss-iv
the roof when he reached The woman, sne VA, siy
Ss5 with feb, but he took her 10 his arms, ana sN5
descended the ladders placed her on the zr'uhu anu
The congratulations If mis- friends who witnessed as
daring act with iesFsI suspense.
e The Nora Scotidn, speaking OF tne
alleged discoveries OF gold IN that Province, says we
want DO gold regions In the land OF the Mayno Wei.
Plutus has deposited mineral ~eatn lon si Tao
useful and valuable in the bowels OF Nova Scoet W
nischefs that the people for whom they were he.1
iru.i, have been cruelty cheated out OF tneir Hs' "
this particular ,.o.. IS
every landowner TO conceal ny every possible Means
the discovery Of every species Of mineral wealtn
There are probably hundreds Of msu In the provinces
actually cognzsnt ofthe presence If iron, copper CIV
&C. In any quantity who will probably carry tne Sc
cre, the grave rather than reveals them tor tne oen
eft Of the Mining Association, the British uoVeru,
mebt This state of things has most mischevous anu
disastrous tendency The man must be obtuse indeed
who does not trace much Of our want ct energy az
people, and our lack Of prosperity Province 70 tne
tedious monopoly which cramps the former and neu-
talizes the latter.
r A saiboat in which were Messrs.
D. McCuock Collector of the port Of Sockets dtroor,
Robert McVean, Capt Reed and Mr.. Forman, OF tnt
place. and James McCiuire John Henshaw and Lyman
Bodeet of this village left the G,loup islan1 tor
Sackets Hsrbor on the afternoon Of Tuesday the Is H.
and wbea shout six miles distant from that place AMI
four miles from Six Town Point the boat Ts' cspszed
IN voent tnunoerstorm Mort Of the party were 10
the cabin at the time of thu accident and they got our
40 they best could by pungng into the water aud held
ing ~ the rigging In this stu4tion the boat drtef
about for hour and halt, efforts being al the rine
msde n attract attention from the shore. fortunately
and bow IN skif IN round'-s the point Of a
small Island mile and half ron the wreck leewArd,
heard the call and t,enine 10 the SPOT. rescued the
whole Oar'y rom drowning.
~ There was an explosion of powder
magazine In Lafayette, Ia last week. One hundred
kegs of powder IN It. The damage Is estimated A.
$4,000 Scarce a house In the town but was more or
less injured Large buildings three or four squares
from the explosion. moved from their foundations
doors burst open. windows broken plaster knocked Of
walls cracked and other injuries sustained The via
dows o. the Catholic Church, over halt mile distant
were nearly all broken In Hon. John Pehts residence
In the quarter not very distant from the magazine,
So badly injured that cannot be repaired for less than
the original cost Of the house The residences OF Judge
Ball, X C. Gregory. James Spears and hr Patterson,
are among those most injured, after that OF Mr. Pc
The explosion II Ia thought must have been heard at
distance OF fifty miles.
ty@ The Chicago Tribune has the fol-
lowing IL said that since the tracks of the Railroads
around the Lake laid down. but enc single y lf
has been seen heard OF south of them, aud II ia
thought that he had been north since their
struction The farmers of Tsenty Mile Prairie. and
adjacent country longer troubled al nut herdiug
their sheep In pens during each night ne they for
merly The wolf Is at all times exceedingly suspicious
of traps and not disposed 10 venture Iron
steel however tempting the bait may be that lies
Ii hence their fear of crossing the railroad track 10
commit depredatons on the ocks In the farming coun
try south. At night, too, when they leave their dens,
the locomotives pass and their hdeous noise 10 cal
custej to inspire the varmnts With anv remarkable de-
gree Of confidence ard security from danger
e The son of Justice Anthony, of
Utica, for whom a call for information has been for
several weeks advertised In The AGs has returned 10
bis parents. He has been TO New York. Philadelphia,
&c. This erraiic genius, says The Utica Gazette is only
nine of age and this IL the third fourth of hts
expeditions. He starts off without preparation, funds
or baggage, as the hlmor prompts him and cOmmeuds
himself to the good graces and kindness OF conductors
hotelkeepers and others, by his handsome aud inte
gent appearance and good conduct Ia fact all his
wants seem TO be attended TO by those who become Ia
terested In him. On his two last expeditions he took
the precauton b travel under assumed name, 10
escape any embarrassment from the parental a5vsr.
Using He IL exemplary child in every respect save
this incorrigible disposition to rove.
q Mr.. Webster returned from Nahant
on Monday, and proceeded Immediately b bis farm at
Franklin. On reaching Concord. soon as the people
assembled at the station aware of his presence
they sent cheers long and loud This expression Of
respect for the great statesman was promptly respond
ed to by men Of all parties and no one sympathiZed
with the prevailing enthusiasm heartily thar
Franklin Pierce who happened TO be present on his
way to the Lake with few frien9s NJ Webster re.
sponded % this manifestation Ia few brief words. aud
thanked his old friends and Deighbors for the unexpect
cd token OF regard they SO cordially expressed.
Boston Post.
" The CnciFad6 Enquirer SAYS that
afew days since soout sixty German paupers arrived In
that city on Jne boat They were shipped from their
paiivS country 10 Eew. Orleans by ther government
and were shipped to Cincinnati by the authorities of
New Orleans. They all pen Hess and many them
sick beyond recovery They have already cost the CRY
some $500, and still necessarily supplied with med
cnes from the public poor funds They are all Gro -ded
into an old house In the Eleventh Ward.
U On Thursday, the Sch inst, Mr. Jno.
Holmes, of Adams Co, Miss, brought TO Cincinnati
three sayes-one girl and two boys-which we're raised
his plantation, whom he manumtted their arrival
Dir; John Ford, Jr., gentleman from The same Coun
~, liberated three Of bis slaves alsO-t~o girls and
boy. IL the int ntiOp ofihese gentlemen educate
them at their own expense az institution either In
Ohio or In the East. The boys aud girls are young
fnelooking children, and promise we'll
II John Smith, an English laborer of
kew.Albany, coming home from bis labor on the
Ing Of the ID inst found hi. wife intsxcaed and partly
undressed He requested Der to go to oed which she
refused 10 do He took hold Of her and en- iaav1rsd 70
force her. scuale epsued, when struck the woman
with the palm of his hand. She fell and Ia few
ments was dead. Physicians who held a post morton
examination this morning state that death was occa-
stoned by the breaking of bood-vesse In the head
done in falling the blood suusing the brain and not
| from the blow Of the hand
~ The Boston Herald records an act
Of daring and hero!sm performed at the late fire Ia that
city by an ex.nneman, named Thomas Courtney which
should not pass unnotced On the rolf OF one of ae
first houses burned, a woman Discovered while
the whole Interior of the building In Hight blaze
The woman IN the most extreme fear, but vas en-.
coursged By the spectators to keep up good courage.
u 1t is proposed to purchase Healy's
Great Painting Of Webster reply 10 Hayne and pre-
sent II to the city OF Boston The original plan was for
twenty gentlemen pay 500 each one ofthose whose
name was upon the list insists upon contributing $500
and hence 1t Is probable that the painting will soon be-
! the property Of the city
D- The FdrmriLle (Va.) Journal men
lions rumor that disease Of a most malignant char.
acter, somewhat milling cholera Is prevailing 70 40
alarming extent In Charlotte, Lunenourg Mecklensurg
and other counties south and Of that place among
The blacks Ticuarly and that large number of them
have died-6ne gentleman in Charlotte having lost ten