Washington sentinel., 1853-12-20

Serious Charge.-Mr. Dillingham;, formerly q
teller in the Lafayette bank in this city, was ar
rested Sunday evening by Deputy Marshal Gray
by authority of a warrant which charges him with
obtaining, under false pretences, 81 700, and up
wards, from Mr.. Carroll. II is claimed by Mr.
@. that he endorsed note for Mr.. d., upon Ger.
lain representations made TO him at the time o
such endorsement. Since then Mr.. G. has re-
ceiyed information which induces him 10 believe
that such representations were Intentionally false
and he has therefore caused the arrest Of Mr. d.
above.-Cin. GGs
New Invention.--The editor OF the Alton
Courier has been shown pocket-pistol and case
which is something of a novelty. The pistol, il is
said, will prime itself and fire thrty-sx times in
succession. II is small weapon, being only
about six inches in length, though il will throw
ball with sufficient force to perforate an inch plank
at the distance of a hundred feet.
Melancholy Casuality.-The Peru IlL) CAro-
nieLe of Wednesday, 7th inst, says: The large
four-story brick house east of the Hardy House,
which was approaching TO completion, fell down
night before last with aterr6c crash crushing and
burying under its fragments the residence of its
owner, who escaped with his child, but was in
stantly separated from his wife by mass of build
ing material from which her corpse was with
great difficulty subsequently extracted by large
number Of men.
Missouri Metal.-The Wheeling Gazette of the
9th says: Sweeney, Johnson & Co. received
yesterday per steamer Audubon, two hundred
and fifty tons metal from the celebrated Missouri
Iron Mountain Company. The metal produced
by this company is said to be the best in the Uni
ted States"
The Mayor of Charleston, 8. c., has issued,
in accordance with resolution of the city coun-
Gil, his proclamation in consequence Of informa-
ton received Of the existence of cholera in the
city Of New Orleans, requiring all vessels arriving
from that port to be brought TO anchor at the qua
rantine ground, subject TO the orders of the port
physician.
Chicago Air Llne.--We learn that iron is laid
down on the Chicago and Galena Air Line rail-
road twenty y-four miles west of the junction, and
that ii is still going down at the rate of mile each
day. Thiry.six car loads Of iron and other ma
terial daily dispatched from the city to supply
the workmen with materials, so as TO have the
work completed by the time specified 1st Of
January.
Live Freight.-Three thousand seven hun
dred and seventy-three live hogs for the New
York market were brought over the Erie railroad,
on the 1st inst The daily receipts Of hogs over
this road for the past month, have averaged about
or over thousand The shipments over the road
from Dunkirk alone, for the month Of November,
were 1896 hogs 5000 sheep,1 ,00s head Of cattle
Bailie Peyt0n. our late minister to Chill, and
formerly Of New Orleans, has taken up his resi-
dence in San Francisco. He has formed law
partnership with William Duer, formerly Of this
CITY, and since recently consul at Valparaiso under
the late administration.
A New Cotton Factory has just been erected
near Monticello, in Florida, for the manufacture
of osnaburgs This is the third establishment Of
the kind in middle Florida.
Nayal.--A. Norfolk dispatch Of the 18th, says:
"The U. s. steamer Fulton leaves this port to-day
for the purpose Of joining the home squadron. The
United States steamer Massachusetts went into
the dry dock, on Tuesday, TO receives new pro-
peer"
VA An iron company has been formed in Wis
consin, under the title of the Dodge County Iron
Company with capital of $5O0,0OO with the
view Of manufacturing railroad iron They are
about TO erect twenty blast furnaces, and. Ii is
said, have contracted to furnish to the Milwaukee
and La Cross railroad fifty tons of iron per day on
and after the first day Of March next, until the
track is laid 10 Portage city,
va Hugh Mclaughlin, brakeman on the
freight train from Stonington, was found dead
Tuesday morning, on the car, when the train stop
ped at the Warwick switch He was probably
killed instantly by hitting bridge as the train
passed. He was resident of Stonington, and
leaves wife and five children.
Mrs. Behethand Foote Butler, wife Of Gen
VIM Butler, of the revolution and mother Of the
Hon. A. p Butler, senator in Congress from South
Carolina, died at the residence her in Edge
field district on the evening OF the I'd inst.
Eas-Rear Admiral Arthur Fanshawe has been
appointed to succeed Sir George Seymour as Brit
ish naval commander on the North American and
West Indian stations.
NR-Twelve thousand barrels of apples have
been sent this season from Canandaigua, TO cas-
tern markets.
va The inhabitants of Elmira intend applying
TO the next Legislature for the incorporation fthat
village as city
GaS~ Between March and December, 1918, the
house OF Rothschld are reported 10 have lost
$4,000, 900 on account Of the sudden depreciation
of railway property in Europe.
Ng- On the Circassian frontier, twenty thou
sand Russian troops perish annually from disease
alone.
Nsa- A firm in Louisville, Kentucky, is engaged
IN packing pork for the British marker.
Remember tho industrious Poor. - Tha