New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-13
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% The Messrs. Belcher of the St
Louis sugar refnery,are digging an Artesan Well on
their premises, with every prospect of ultimately OBJ
tanning an abundant supply Of pure water for the
use Of that extensive establishment. They have
already attained depth of I275 feet below the sur
face Jas feet below the level of the sea- and thev
expect to go some 500 feet deeper The IateIigencer
says that the different formations of the earth have
been carefully noted from the commencement, and
are found to consist of limestone sandstone shells
or clay slate, felspar kind of crystalized clay red
mari, bituminous marl &C., principally, however, of
the two first named
B John Giley, Esq, Deputy Collector
of the port of Marblehead, has prepared full and
accurate table of the amount of tunnage employed
and product Of the Bank and Cod Fishery, during
the fishing season ending Dec. 81, 1851 in the dis
tiict of Marblehead. Thirty-one schOoners were
employed, of SOL tuns, and employing 32s men,
The product for the season was 49, lI9 auintals of
fish, landed and cured, of the value of $l27 AIS O3-
The oil produced 81 57 gallons, of the value of
Sl7447 so. The bounty money amounted to slI,55l
49, The total amount Of fish, oil and bounty was
Sl56,4l7 &c.
q It's proposed to erect thirteen mon
uments upon Independence square, in Philadelphia
commemorative of the Old Thirteen States, and of
the Declaration of Independence. The Massachu.
the Convention to be held IN Philadelphia on the
4th July 1852 for the purpose of taking measures to
erect these monuments.
% At recent meeting of the Board of
OveIseers of Harvard University, Rev Mr. Ellis
lom the Committee on the Divinity School submitted
report in favor of separating the Unitarian Theo
logical School al Cambridge from its connection with
Harvard University. The Corporation Of the College
assent TO the arrangement.
q At Madison, Ia, Kossuth received
$S5O-mostly from the Germans. At indianapolis,
the amount contributed to the Hungarian fund was
$500, large portion Of which presented by the
State Hungarian Association, formed on Monday
last. The Germans contributed $l5O,-the Printers
S5O,-and the ladies presented a handsome purse.
~ The Savannah papers announce the
death Of Hon. VIM. B. Bulloch, prominent citizen
of that place, aged n years. He was a member of
the U. S. Senate in 1878, and in 1916 was elected
President of the Bank of the State Of Georgia,
which posth filed for 81 years.
"a A merchant in Indiana offers to make
bet of IS 600 that he will soin from Cincinnati to
to Madison, in the Ohio River, upward of so niles
il the month Of August next without sleep and with
only fifteen minutes rest and refreshments every six
hours.
z It is computed that there were
1884 957 persons carried railroads in the United
States, last year, and about Sc killed and Al injured
Most Of the killed we're employees of the companies
There were 957 persons carried for every mile of
line
B Reid and Clements, convicted in
Richmond of mutiny and murder on board the barque
]. B. Lindsay, about year ago have been tentenced
to be hung on the 9th of April next.
u We learn by the Bangor Mercury
that the net amount realized from the Ladies' Hun
garian Levee in that city, including sale of bonds at
the time, was ssl4 so.
q The Slave Trade is still carried on
at fearful rate in Cuba Two vessels recently
brought upward of l,4OO slaves to different pOintsof
the Island
w There were seventy-One divorces le-
galized at the recent session of the Alabama Legis-
tuTe.
E Gov. Seymour of Connecticut has
appoited the 9th of April as day of fasting and
prayer.
~ A motion is to be argued in April
next, by the counsel of Mrs. Gaines, for new trial
1t is thought however, that it will not be granted.
a It is estimated that one thousand
German emigrants have settled in Cincinnati, within
the last sixty days.
q A petition has been sent to the Maine
Legislature praying that the use Of tobacco may be
prohibited in that State.
q The steamer Trustee was snagged
upon the Arkansas river about two weeks since
She was entirely wrecked. No lives lest.
TrLLzT ia our Agent for the sale of The TS,Suns
rg 1; D; cAMFHELL our agent for the sale of The