New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-04
N all Gleaniug 70.

New Orleans. tits built by the Federal Government
as a Custom House, and made large enough 10 in
cluse the United States Court rooms, together with
the necessary warehouses for the the Gov
eminent. The building covers some two acres of
ground, and is onethrd larger than the Capitol at
Washington, as completed with the new wings The
granite for the BUILDING is furnished from the Quincy
(Mass) quarries. Almost all the companies at the
quarries have contracts to furnish the stone. 1t Is
expected 1t will be- about three years before the
building will be entirely completed.
g"Stop dat knocking at de door" One
of the chimneys on the mansion Of Col. Greene,
editor of The Boston Post, was blown over by the
gale Of Saturday night with such violence as to make
hole through the roof. The first crash was quite
alarming but the noise of the bricks as they fell one
after another upon the attic floor, was more appalling
still. The Colonel was aroused from his slumbers
BY the strange sounds overhead and, after excaim-
ing once or twice whence is that knocking no
proceeded to investigate. He found a cart-load Of
bricks in his gsrret, and Of Whiteleys veniila-
tors protrudipg through the hole in the roof.
r. The Boston Traveller mentions the
following facts Of the trade of that city During the
las five months over s5 600 cases OF boots and shoes
have been shipped from this port. In the same time
nearly 10000 bales Of cotton have been landed here
The receipts of coal from Philadelphia alone, last
wear, we're over 300 600 tuns. Everything else used
in manufacturing and required for home consump-
ton is in about the same proportion.
B An attempt was recently made to
break into the house OF John Armstrong, in Boston
The family heard a noise Of breaking glass, and
upon reaching rear window found that.the glass
was broken, and an attempt made to push In the
SASH The robber was caught as he was climbing
over the fence of the yard to escape into the street.
He gave his name John O'Brien, and he was COM
mitted for trial in the Municipal Court.
B Ebenezer Jackson, or more gener-
slly known as Jackson the Old Fortune Teller
a negro residing in Salisbury Township, Pa died
on Thursday last. This man attained quite ce'
lebrity in his neighborhood as pretended fortune
teller and conurer. He was frequently called upon
by those who believed he possessed the powers of
| conjuration.
u The Nashville and Chattanooga Rail-
road having been completed to Tullahoma, dis
lance of seventy miles from the former place, app'
cation has been made to the Post. Office Department
to have the mail between Tuahoma and Nashville
by railroad, which will be gain of six hours over
the present arrar cement by stages.
u The benevolent institution of Odd
pers There are 2,s35 Lodges and 600 Encampments
in the United States. The amount of revenue for
the year 1851 was 81, 100000. The amount paid the
same year for relief was nearly 100000.
~ Some Railroad workmen at Gambia,
| n. IL. placed key of powder in blacksmth's
| sbop for keeping over night and next morning MI
uieley and an Irishmsn went to work there the
| ooxder exploded. Mr.. Higley was badly burned
and is recovering, BUTT is thought the lrishman can
not live.
| " A machine for the manufacture OF
ny cts is shortly to be put in operation in Louisville
The inventor is native of England, and Is now in
that CITY. It is said that the machine, when con-
,ructed. will manufacture bricks ready for use in
the short space of thirtysx hours and at cost o.
a, ,east ffty per cent less than the usual mode OF
| manufacturing them.
T Two thousand nine hundred and fifty
FIVE dollars and fifty nine cents has been raised IN
| Georgia for the Washington Monument IHs 81
yaunah Morning News complains OF the smailnes' or
this sum, and suggests some organized ana ene'{
getic action to further the great object.
~ The Hudson N. Y. Democratic Free
man relates that Newton Gay, who was recently
convicted of rape upon the person OF Sarah Plns'
and sentenced to ten years in the State Prison, Is
now declared innocent by the same girl, who swore
positively on the trial tina. he was the man.
~ Ii is mentioned as remarkable cir
cumsiance that within the past month ice mace nrm'
~ into Lake Ontario distance OF some three miles
from the piers to the depth of four inches. Such
hing is OF recol ected by the Oldest nhabtant and
MAY no, be seen again for century to come.
~ The Bangor Democrat states that
there are four feet sno OIL level at Moose-Head
Lake and tina, the ,new between Bangor and taa'
pont piled up in the road fifteen feet deep in soma
n,ces and for miles It lays on level with tne tops
Of the fence posts
~ A machine for the printing OF DE
LANES has teea invented and put in operation 10
Providence THAT ~ill prin. twelve colors. This Il
going beyond any other machine hitherto made fol
the same purpose. Let the yankees alone for doing
any thing which will pay"
~ Mrs. Ann Edelen, who resides near
Leonardtown, Md, had twenty-five old sheep and
fifteen lambs killed by dogs the llth inst, besides
some FIVE OF Elk lambs badly crippled Mr. John
M,ard, neighbor of Mrs E.'s, has also lost thirty
Ave sheep this winter BY dogs
tF On Tuesday last the Masonic fra
,erIitv Of Alexandria, at.ired in their regalia paid
the las, tribute If respect to the memory Of the late
Samuel Hilton who departed this life on the a2d uis
Mr. H. was the last OF the survivors OF the pail
ers of w sshing;on.
~ The Clinton Courant says that a
man named Houghton, who inhabited shanty IN the
woods in the north part of Lancaster, which he de-
voted it is SAID to the purpose Of Illicit rum.sellins,
WAS found dead in his cabaret on wednesday Of last
week.
II The Congreg asional Church at North
Micdleboro, known az Colby's Church, caught FIRE
from the stove, and was totally consumed. This
house has lately been under repairs, and Rev
Thomas Bliss was to be ordained this week. There
was no IL surance on the church
e In Worcester, few nights since, a