Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-08-06
News Items.

! News Items.
During the 1nonth of July, the number o
emigrant5 that arrived at New York, was forty
five thousand seven hundred and fifty eight
By an act of the Legislature of New York
Williamsburg, Brooklyn and Bushwick, are tt
be governed hereafter by single corporation
Fred Douglass, (black man, we learn from
the Boston Courier, will soon take charge of thu
Daily Commonwealth, in that city. VI
The operatives in the Bay State Mills, at Law
renee, have contributed the noble sum of 1926 5:
to aid in the completion Of the Washington Mon
ument. 90
From a giving way of ring-bolt, on boart
the London belonging to the British Navy, thu
cable flew round with such force as to kill Lieut.
lChapman and six men, who were sitting dowr
to dinner, and wounded nine others.
! The Pope held public consistory on the 27tl
ult., in whichhe conferred the Cardinals hal
upon Monsigneur Donlet, Archbishop of Bor
deaux, and Monseigneur Mortol Archbishop
Tours, already raised to the dignity of Cardi-
nails on the 7th March last
Something ike forty bills of indictment have
been found by the Grand Jury of the United
States Circuit Conrtin Michigan, against parties
engaged in depredations upon the Government
timber lands. 1t is s;ird that members of Con-
gress, Judges of Courts, &c., are implicated.
| Abijah Learned, the Oswego Bank robber,
being far gone IL consumption, was pardoned
out of the New York State prison on Monday,
the 8th inst, and died the next day. He de-
MED to the, last any participation in the rob
berry.
report reached Singapore on the 9Th of May,
that Mr.. Gibson, Of the American schooner Flirt,
had succeeded in making his escape from prison
at Batavia, and that he had sailed in the Amer
lean ship N. B. Palmer, Captain Lowe, for New
York.
The aggregate value Of real and personal es-
tate in the city of New York, according to the
valuation by the assessors for the present year,
is SAB, $50, 94294. Compared with the valua-
ton last year, there is an increase of S41 49,,
O41 so in the value of real estate, and 500, Az
095 Al in the value of personal estate.
The great influx of strangers to New York it
seems, has SO increased the population that the
prices of provisions of all kinds have taken rise.
The beef market particularly has made great
advance in prices. Beefsteak is now quoted at
sixteen cents per pound, veal eighteen and lamb
twenty-one.
Dispatches have been received at the Navy
Department from Commodore Perry, up to the
9th Of April when he was at Macao, preparing
to sail Immediately in the Mississippi for Shang
hal. He expected on arriving at Shanghai to
meet the sloops of war belonging to his squad
ron and to sail with all his ships, as soon as
possible for Japan.
The New York Dutchman, speaking of the
multitudes who seek office under every new adj
ministration, says: "Men will doubt their fit
ness to open brokers shop, peddle CLAIMS, Or
act as switch-tender to railroad; but who ever
coxu ,uI;V al rho d;c&r cd 10
take charge of q customhouse, go to Congress
or fill foreign embassy"
The steamboat Empire was run into on Satur-
day morning the 10th ult, seven miles be-
low Poughkeepsie New York, on the Hudson
river, staving her boilers, in consequence of
which two persons at least were killed, and sew
eral others dangerously scalded-among the
latter N, S. Built, of Washington City, who
has also leg broken.
The Washington Republic says it is the inn
preston that Mr.. Buchanan sailed for Liver
pool on Saturday next. Mr.. Soule will sail in
the steamer Of the 9th. and spend q few daysin
Paris, on his way to Madrid Governor Trous-
dale is en- route to Brazil, and will sail in the
first good vessel for Rio from either New York
or Baltimore.
A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUsBAND.-The st.
Louis Daily Herald of the 22d ult., says: A man
named William Stevens, living on sa5enth street,
between Franklin Avenue and Washington street,
killed his wife about 8 o'clock last evening. He
was Immediately arrested by Officer Gomsell and
taken to the calaboose. We have not ascertained
the particular, but understand that the face Of
the deceased wears the appearance of having
been choked to DEATH The Coroner was sum-
moned to hold an inquest
The New Workers are determined on the con-
struction of the great ship canal, which is to
unite the waters of the Chesapeake and Della
ware bays, and decrease the distance from Bal
timor to New York nearly two hundred miles.
large portion of the stock has already been
subscribed, and an effort is being made to have
an exit. session of the Legislature of Delaware
called to act on the charter, which has already
received the sanction of the Legislature Of Mary
land.
MISSIONARIES SA1LED.-The bark Sultana
sailed on the 10Th inst, from Boston to Smyrna,
with the following passengers Rev. W. Good
ell Mrs. Goodell, Rev. J. Ball, Mrs. Ball, Mrs.
Schneider and son, missionaries of the Amer
lean Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions, Miss s. A. Danforth, of Pittsfeld, Mass.
Mrs. Amey Allen, of Providence, R. l., Miss.
Anne Page, Mary Page, Emma Page, Of Paw
tucket, r. l.
The St. Johns New Brunswicker learns from
Halifax, that in order to insure uniformity of
action, and for the purpose of protecting the
fisheries in the most efficient manner, the exec
utive government of Nova Scotia has placed the
colonial cruisers under the command of Vice
Admiral Sir George F. Seymour. The whole
fishery squadron will therefore act under pre-
cisely similar orders, and be SO disposed at va
nous points as to work harmoniously together,
and form complete coast guard during the fish
ing season.
The celebrated American clipper ship sove-
reign Of the Seas, Captain Mckay, arrived in
the Mersery, Liverpool, on Saturday evening,
I'd inst, from New York, having made The run
in a shorter time than was ever previously ac-
complished by sailing ship. She departed
from New York towe Of Q steamer, at P. NJ,
on the 18th ult., and consequently made the
trip in about fourteen days. 1t is said she ran
from the Grand Banks of Cape Clear, distance
of 1868 miles, in 1876 hours, being an average |
of 296 miles per day. On one day she made !
244 miles and On two others $40 each She has |