Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-08-27


Hon. D. r. ATcHIsos Platte City, Missouri.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Selma (Alabama) Sentinel says: "Capt STEWART
GEORGE left the landing last week with raft Of
eighty pine spars for Mobile to be shipped France
part of large contract which he has with the French
Government Capt. GEORGE is enterprising gsnile-
man. and this trade only shows Of what articles great
value the United States in possession No where on
the face of the globe suitable timber be obtained
for spars in the South, and particularly in Alabama.
The French Government has long since ascertaned the
fact through secret agents travelling through this country
We told some time ago that the English Government
has been trying to make contracts for the material
in the United States There is plenty of timber in
Alabama to furnish masts sufficient for the navy and
commerce of the world for years yet to come"
The Utica Gazette says: Grasshoppers Of the To-
Gust species, and though ordinarily harmless yet when
ravage resemble those of the locust We have par
cuars Of their dongs in the town Of Marcy One far
mer has completely lost his years labor by them. A.
field Of buckwheat Of five is perfectly devoured
leaf gor stem of the crop left They have npped of
his oats at the stem of the kernel that the grain
be scooped up by handfuls At evening tae field is black
with the insects They even penetrate the husks Of the
corn and eat the green kernels Another farmer has
been obliged fodder his CATTLE in winter for or
three weeks account Of his pasture being devoure1by
the grasshoppers"
At Chicago you buy house in gil its parts franz
ing timbers shingles DOORS window sashes shutters,
ready be put up upon the praires which the many
railroads will convey it. that the farmer from those
wide extended plains may come in one day, buy his
house complete, and take it out the next and with the
assistance Of his neighbors put il up within week
The disease which so long assailed the button wood
tree appears to have died The Providence Journal
notices e buttoAwoods By the road side are appa
renty vigorous and hourishDg, although bearing marks
Of their former suffering
is remark Of Dr. Stone that the old French never
n 90 For nd
years. going back as far memory runneth, You may
note sitting the balconies Of the old square of the city,
the same venerable whiteheaded porty old French and
creole ladies' dressed clean and neat looking contened
and happy with their brghteyed daughters and grand
daughters around hempefect models Of green old age
These venerable danes have lived in New Orleans
since it has been city. They have lived under three
Governments.
BABIES THE IsTHaUs.-A gentleman who has lately
Travelled over Jordan" his way to the promised
land Of California relates queer incident that took place
while he was crossing 1t seems there quite
Der Of ladies in the company from Aspnwa TO Panama,
and many Of them bountully supplied with respon
sbiies whose ages foated from to eight years On
these occasions amale midy is apt TO get little the
better Of maternal anxiety and the said responsibilities
instead Of being attached the apron strings Of their
anxious mammas picked in baskets and carried
the backs of the natives with the trunks and other bag
gage end fell considerably in the When night
and the party halted hotel the road the babes
in the wood among the list Of missing There was
great wailng and weeping among the bereavei and
probably some crashing Of teeth BY the children who
were desperately hungry party was dispatched 10 the
rear in search Of the lost treasures and they found the
natives cooly encamped in the woods with Young Ameri-
ca, utterly unconscious Of the fuss that going on
and doubt supposing that if the children and other
baggage got TO the steamer in time for sailing it
would be al right The young handed TO their
several mothers about daylight, and grief was speedily
changed to rejoicing.
DISTRESSING Communicative brothers, JosrpH and
Eli BARLOW, Of Wilson township Clinton county went
out hunting wild turkeys They separated and after
time Of them heard what he supposed was turkey
After watching moment he discovered through c-evice
in the fence something black which be supposed be
turkey. lie fred and the object fell lie commenced re-
loading, when he heard peculiar sound from the
place He approached and to his horror discovered that
he had shot his brother through the head The wounded
man died Immediately.
THREE MES MURDERED We learn that a man named
William Cooley, residing in the northern part Of Peru,
stabbed three Sunday evening last with bowie
knife We have not been able learn the particulars Of
this triple murder, bat understand that al Of the parties
were intoxicated One Of them died Monday, another
Tuesday and the third Wednesday. Cooley and one Of
the murdered men were Irishnen the other two were
Germans. The murderer arrested in Magnolia, and
is now in jail at ottawa-La Sale (Ek) Waterman.
The Northern Kentucky Importing Association Of breed
ers had an auction sale Of their pure-booded short
horned stock purchased in England in 1852 the farm
Of Brutus Clay Of Bourbon county Kentucky the 18th
day Of August, 1853. The Association is Ken.acky
one and the purchasers put under obligations not
TO remove the stock the State for one year With
this Limitation, the sale well attended and the bid
ding spirited.
Young Chiffon, three year bull which cost 5000 in
England was sold for So, 005 Diamond roam cayed in
June 1850 $500, sold for Sc 001 the Count roam
caved in July, 1851 cost $685. sold for $25l5; Oron-
tos red and white, calyed September 1851 cost $780,
sold for SI525 Fusileer ROAM calveI February 1863
cost 1915, sold for 4I5 Senator, white cayed April
1882 cost $780, sold for $1,000 Belevile roam cayed
January, 1882 cost 81 050 sold for 81 500 Challenger
roam, calved January 1882 $780, sold for 81 $751;
Fortunatus roam, calved December 1852 cost 1915 sold
for Sle0O; Yorkshire Maynard, dark roam, calved in
March 1857 cost 1913 sold for 81 000 Cows sold from
$1,000 down TO $3.50
RECKONING WITHOUT THEIR HosT.-The groggeres and
puppet shows that sprung up with the rapidly Of the
prophets gourd, and as plentifuy Egyptian frogs in
the vicinity OF the Crystal Palace New York present
mournful spectacle Public sentiment struck them with
blight and nildew, and about half Of them have already
disappeared Buildings left in unfinished state,
and the ominous words To Let" conspcuously pa-
carded Their calculated too largely upon the
deprAYitY of the --.Lon1nnl III Conrnsrcl