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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-28
RAILROAD LIABILITIES

is not generally known that in the State of Connect
cut statute framed in the session of l84S which
provides that factions for injury to the person. sAehe
such injury result in death not shall survive to the exc
cutor administrator provided aore than one year
eapse between the injury and DEATH and provided also
the cause Of action shall have occurred subsequently, to
June 81 1848."
This provision seems to have escaped general observa
on owing to the fact that before the Norwak massacre
had occurred for its application The plain con-
structon of this statute authorizes the executors Of any
person injured killed through the neglect or default Of
any person. corporation damages and with
out any restriction the the amount
The Hartford Times is informed that one suit has al
ready been commenced by the surviving relatives
eminent deceased physician for twenty five thousand dol
lars and another by the friends of of the deceased
Boston passengers for one hundred thousand dollars.
In New York similar law exists, with the exception
that the damages exceed FIVE thousand dollars in
each case The object of this restriction to guard
against those yndctye and excessive damages which ju
rles under the influence of passion, nfamed by the
artfu appeals of advocates will sometimes give 1t is
presumed that the New York and New Haven Railroad
Company liable to be sued under the law Of New York
as well as under that Of Connecticut the contract Of
passage made in New York. and the company is also
New York corporation. If thus liable under the New
York statute the damages recovered against the New
York and New Haven company for those who killed
at Norwalk, would amount two hundred and fifty
FIVE thousand dollars and the damages for injuries to
persons and destruction of property fifty thousand dol
lars sixty thousand dollars more Under the statute
of Connecticut the damages for the dead would be limit
ed only by the verdcts of jures.-Boston alias.
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FoUSDLISG-Last night about ten o'clock an in
FAINT apparently three days DID, found on the door.
step Of house Ill Broadway. With the child who was
snugy slowed in basket found the following letter
Of introduction " The finder will please take care Of
me. am poor child. My father has gone into the
country, and my mother has means of supporting
me."-Nep York EUenig Post.
How much of human suffering is comprised in the sim
pie language of this petition" The finder will please
take care of mel" am lost parentess homeless none
to look after, nobody to love waif floating upon
the current of fe to be drawn down by the whirlpool
dashed to destruction against the rocks have no little
brother to me, little sister to fondle me in her
arms Leave not to perish alone in the chill damps
of the night air.
:" am poor child" Poor indeed art thou. little
one Poor in oil that constitutes the worlds wealth
but poorer still in all that comprises earhs richest trea
sures. Destitute Of mothers affections fathers care
Cold are the night Winds and dark the shadows that en-
compass thee, but colder still is the long winter Of life
that before thee and deeper the darkness of the night
which with thee is but just begun Who shall love
thee? Who shah draw thine affections from the hidden
wells Of thine own nature Whom wilt thou ever love !?
Where is thy sister, where thy brotheri Sickness will
come upon thee who will watch by thy bedside in the
silent hours and answer thy feeble cry? Death may
call thee home who will wipe the cold damps from thy
marble brow, and who will deck thy little corpse in gar
lands of fresh flowers for the grave Who will weep over
thee when thou art laid in thy last sleeping place. and
who will drop tear the sod at will be green above
theef If thou art spared little one, until shall
dawn upon thee let thy first prayer the God of the
helpless be to take thee the home prepared for children
in Heaven Ask to be spared the trials the temptations
the hard battle Of e for which mothers Instructions
no fathers teachings have prepared and against which no
parental guidance will help to sustain thee
My father has gone into the country and my mother
has no means Of supporting me-" The oft-tod tale Of
mans cruelty and deserton and possibly that Of womans
weakness and shame Hard best and deep and hope
less must that restitution be that pucks up from the
mothers heart the instinct Of natural affection Utter
the poverty and that impes her to cast her little
one in it's hepessness upon the cold charity Of the
world, to begin life homeless and riendess pauper in
infancy, and to become at best as life advances mental
in the house of strangers.--Al6any State Register.
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INTERESTING PROM AusrRALIA.-The California papers
contain adyces from Hobart Town the 25th of Febru
ary The gold fever at Sydney exciting than
ever and far exceeding that of 1849 in California 1t was
impossible to hire to work the most exorbtant
rates board vessels anchor in the harbor or to ship
sailors for the voyage all being carried away with the
prodigious accounts from the mines.
The Victoria mines have yielded up the end of last
year. four millions and ninety thousand of god
equal to f19,373,0O0. The Melbourne Argus says:
Within the last few days three unparalleled masses
of gold have been brought light such perhaps the
world has never seen before They found in spot
never much frequented hitherto and there reports
numerous smaller Jumps having been found in the same
locality The largest of these three great humps weighs
hundred and thirty-four pounds and half, OF which
upwards of hundred and twenty pounds are pure gold
The other two Jumps weigh SO lbs. dwts and SO
lbs or o dwts, respectively, only very small pro-
portion being quartz. They be taken to England
for exhibition"
Capitalists are beginning to suffer from plethora of
wealth. arising solely out Of the mineral treasures found
in the colony during the past year. AT Sydney -four had
advanced to f23 q ton.
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There are those living who followed General JAoxsox
through all his crusades against the distribution Of public
lands to whom the following extracts from the Washing
ton correspondence of the Baltimore Sun may be parcu
ary interesting and therefore commend them to their
serious consideration altogether worthy of their de.
hberate reflection 6
"The great Central Illinois Railroad Company appear
to be in full tide Of practical success The grant of pub
lie land transferred to them win build the road for the
whole distance Of TO miles, and the stockholders win
own the road without paying cent for their stock 1t is
donation to them from the Government Of seventeen
millions Of dolars-the estimated cost Of the roadfor
their personal benefit The land is already estimated to
Dc worth that and the loans for carrying the work
are based upon the value Of those lands at that rate
Loans to the amount Of seven or eight millions have
already been effected and a new loan of three millions
has now been called for, and will be readily filed
The stockholders Of the Southwest branch of the
Missouri and Pacific Railroad Company will never be
obliged to pay dollar for that road of $40 miles in
length The lands granted to the State by the Govern
men during the late session transferred by the State
to the company and they will sell for enough to build the
road loan will be proposed for the purpose of
completing this road and it will be based in great mea
the value of the bonds All these Western rail-
roads will undoubtedly give dividends of ten per cent on
their cost and besides made at the expense of the
public treasury"
1t was objected to the land distribution system by Gen.
Jackson and his parisans that would corrupt the States
and therefore they arrested it. Now the lands are made
by Democratic Congress- which boasts its devotion to
Jacksonism, the fruitful of profit the railroad
stockholders and land Spectators while the old States
to whom the territory originally belonged are entirely
cut off from all participation in the proceeds of their sales
The truth of history is therefore but developing and
fulfilling the prophecies Of the lustrous Clay and his
distinguished compatriot who advocated the distribution
among all the States while yet the old States had the
power to control the matter Their counsels dsre
garded, the system repudiated, and we are now
gathering the fruits Of Jacksonism.
AUGUSTA Ga.) Chronicle
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PROM rHE IonRNAL or coMMERok

Messrs EDIToRs Having noticed the following inter
estng incident in the Alta California of the 18th of April
send it you, believing that it will interest others Of
your readers much as it has
Speaking Of the steamer Jenny Lind disaster the editor
One of the touching incidents being
selfish feeling and exhibiting generosity and goodness
heart seldom the unremitting and parental
tenderness exhibited by Mr. f. f. Coyer his friend and fell
sufferer, Mr.. Wyman Although horribly scaded him
SELF with his face and hands wrapped in poulce and his
eyes in such condition be scarcely able see Mr.
Coyer by the side of his agonzed and also horribly caded
friend and regardless of his intense suferngs
siduous and unremitting in his attentions to him.
'They both from the place, Racine Wisconsin
have been always together while in this country California
and occupying the the Rosetta House.
This morning Mr.. Coyers eyes entirely closed and
though he has to be fed with poon win touch nothing
have thing done for him until he knows that Mr. Wyman
has been provided for The Editor goes say ruy
Such instances oftue friendship fall like the sunshine the
heart and recall the beautiful description Of the affection of
David and Jonathan"
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Whatever opinion may be entertained Of the Russian Gov
eminent in abstract view idle deny the energy Of
its and its perfect adaptation 70 the condition
Of the nation The destruction of Moscow the most heroic
display OF unconquerabe patriotism which history records,
illustrates the devotion of the people to their country and its
institutions.
The Governments Of Russia and the United States
ever been Of the most amcable kind President Jackson in
an Official message spoke Russia ancient and stead
fast friend. Mr. Jefferson, radical Democrat he was
oyed and ecrocated the ardent esteem Of the Emperor
Alexander Indeed strange it may to theorists Of
the Ormuzd and Ahrman school, this chivarous Emperor
entertained admiration for American institutions 1t
his friendly mediation that initiated the negotiation which
resulted in the Treaty of Ghen and by his arbitration
that the Of the South got indemnity for the slaves
which were kidnapped by the British in the last The
regning Emperor shares the feelings and opinions Of his
predecessor and have every to believe that the
United States and Russia will consolidate and perpetuate
their friendly relations by the just and pacific policy
which has regulated their intercourse in times past
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-28

LARGE LIQUOR SEIzURE.-On Friday last Marshal Jones
seized forty or fifty barrels Of different liquors. amount
ing in all to 345 gallons the same having been brought
from Boston by schooner Rochester and placed in the
storehouse on Faggs wharf. There is direction on
the casks and nothing to indicate the 1t will be
advertised under the provisions of the law and disposed
Of as contraband unless appears and proves
the contrary Another lot contained in BARREL three
Kegs two demijohns, and two bottles seized an
establishment State street kept by Greeneaf Brown
The keeper prosecuted for alleged SALE convicted
and fined according law and the liquor ordered to be
destroyed -Kennebec Journal
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FATAL ACCIDENTS FROM CAMpHExE 8 o'clock
on saturday evening camphene lamp exploded in the
mouse o. Mr. Robert Anderson at Brooklyn whereby his
daughter, little girl some or s years Of age was SO
badly injured that she died about O'clock the subse-
quent morning The servant was filing the lamp while
tne WICK was burning and the child standing by look
ing at the operation when the explosion took place
On Friday evening similar accident occurred Mt MOL
267 Bridge street. involving the death Of the servant girl
Bridget McGnnes She held the lamp in her hand at the
time 1t exploded, and the burning fluid saturstng her
dress, she soon enveoped in flames.
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GREAT EARTHQUAKES THE MoLUccAs.-There was
terrific earthquake and marine CONFUSION Banda Nera
on the 10th November The houses public and private
were reduced to heaps of ruins The seaquake was if
possible the more terrible The Singapore Free Press
describes the latter wherein than sixty lost
their lives. From the islands Resengien and Ag and
from Coram, Ambona, and Ternante learn that the
same earthquake was felt there.
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RESTLESS ToSeuE-A Boston lady has ut this time
somewhat novel disease continual motion OF the
tongue which no device, effort Of the will or medication
controls. We do not mean that she is nuisance
taker or retailer of street gossip On the contrary
worthier does not exist She has expended FIVE
hundred dollars among the dentists for artificial teeth
which her unruy member has knocked out repeatedly
that they are now wholly abandoned Her tongue is
moving nimbly and involuntarily within the mouth,
against the walls Of the cheeks In conversation the
organ takes on normal action but instantly into
it's usual rapdity Of motion the conclusion of SEN
ence-Bonon Medical and Surgical Journal
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gentleman Of Stettin, who had n number Of stuffed
birds in his study covered them with to secure
their preservation Soon afterwards he became seriously
indisposed without being able to assign any for ILL.,
ness until was discovered by physician whom he con-
suited at Berlin that he had from residence in
the study, absorbed the deadly poison with which his
system became gradually impregnated.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-05-28

Four PERSONS DRowNED.-On Monday evening last
while the steamboat Commodore and Worcester. from
New York, were going through the Hurl Gate a small
boat, in which were six persons was swamped between
hiokes Island and Hurl Gate through the heavy swell
caused by the steamer Commodore while passing them
Lioel stephen Horton of the Hurl Gate pilots with
MS small boat saved two Of the unfortunates the other
four were drowned
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THE WASHINGTON NEWS MANDATORY.

Among the many ingenious ways Of living by ones
wits that OF Washington deserves
brief notice. There certain journals who wish to
show their enterprise by having "wel-nformed cor.
respondent at the Capital They therefore contract for
number OF rumors to be forwarded daily by telegraph,
and for number of letters weekly simplifying and
planning the rumors AS two persons manufacture
the rumors for journals in different parts of the country
and duplicate their letters in the manner the
to each journal is triing the manufacturer being able
supply customers at low prices in consideration of the
extensive demand.
For some time past the Washington market has
been rather dull but its duness does necessarily
produce stringency in the market The two are,
to great extent, independent of each other Whoever
has seen boys blowing soap bubbles from the bowl of
pipe must have noticed that very small quantity Of
suds" will supply, to skilfu practitioner, almost
nexhaustible material The rumor manufacturers are
equal the best bubblebowers In feet they surpass
them, because the reproductive capacity of Washington
rumor is unlimited
Thus, the rumor of to-day produces the explanatory
rumo OF Tomorrow the explanatory produces the
qualified rumor the qualified rumor the basis for rehec
tons and contradictions and these again give birth
surmises speculatons, doubts positive opinions narra
tons of Incidents guessing of motives assangs of in
tenons supposed to be entertained by the President
praise of view which he member of his Ca
bnet may, can, might, could should shall, will, or
ought to take And so the rumors run-postve con-
Trajectory, ridiculous, and presumptve-untl at last
the rumorst finds he all wrong though he will devote
half dozen dispatches and many letters claim
ing credit for his wonderful accuracy-New York Sum-
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LONG WnL.-Henry A. Hamilton last week en-
gagged recording in the books of the Probate Court this
county of the longest wills perhaps of record in this
State if not in the United States The will is that of the
late Gen. James Taylor, of Newport Kentucky 1t
2 pages of royal octave, closely and may add well
written The fee for recording it amounts to SOL 80 1t
relates to property valued at $4 100000 and gives
dom and property to than twenty human beings and
their posterity AS the tesator the owner Of real
estate in twentysx counties of this State the will has
be recorded in each of them The land owned by him
this county lies in Miami township, in the vicinity of Cliff
ton.-Yeuia (OLio1 TorrhIi1bL
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The New York Journal of Commerce, in an article con-
demnatory Of the Russ and Reid contract remarks that
the injunction which it has called forth and which the Al
dermen have fit to dsobey does purport to re-
strain the members of the Common Council from voting
but only the making Of the contract which remains to be
completed by the head of the Department of Repairs and
Supplies
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The Mobile Register says that the effort place the
United States frgate Columbus in the Drydock at Pensa-
cola had been fully successful The ship had been haul
ed into the basin where the operations Of cleaning and
repairing would be speedily completed.
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UNITARIAN FEsTTvAL.-The Unitarian Society of Boston
held its usual festival in Faneu Hall on Tuesday after
noon Tables were set in all the galleries, as we'll as
upon the platform and body of the hall An immense
throng present and the are said to have
been highly interesting.
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DEATH OF AN OLD CITIzEs.-The venerable JOHN Nc
COMB died at New York Wednesday morning in the
Goth year Of his age He for many years street n
spector, and filled other public offices with acceptance
He also of the designers Of the City Hall in New
York, and contractor for its erection
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CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CARoLMA-There is a prsy.
sion in the Constitution of South Carolina which proh-
bits the Governor from leaving the State during his
of office. Gov. Manning, of that State has, in conse
quence been compelled decline invitation to attend
the Memphis Convention.
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DEATH FROM CHLoRoFonM J. Whippe, Of Hub
bard Trumbull county Ohio lately inhaled choroform
preparatory to submitting to surgical operation on the
face After nhalng the chloroorm ten or fifteen nspira
tons his countenance changed he Strengthened himself in
his chair, drew several breaths and died
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QUEENS PRESENT TO QuRFs.A steam packet recently
arrived at Southampton, Eng) bringing hyena .id
cat as presentto Queen Victoria from the Queen Of Portugal
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No ship made of iron propelled by steam has ever
says the Journal of Commerce been struck by lightning
The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-05-17

BoYs.-Boys, when they are boys, are
queer enough. How many ridiculous notions
they have; and what singular desires, which
IN after life change and shape themselves into
characteristics. Who remembers when he
would have have exchanged his birthright for
a rocking-horse, ard his new suit Of clothes
for a monkeyl VIII forgets the sweet-faced
girl, older than himself, against whose golden
hair he leaned and wept his griefs away r.
Who rccollects when the thoughts of being
q circus rider appeared greater than to be
President; and how jealousy he watched the
little fellows that wore spangled jackets and
turned somersets, and prayed to become like
them II memory preserve not these ca
prices, or something similar, the boy is lost in
the man. Happy visions they come but
once, and go quickly, leaving us ever to sigh
for . return of what can never be again.
The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-05-17
Two large Cancers, effectu-
ally Cured, by

l13, Gyavier street. New Orleans.
CERTIFICATE of cure from Captain
Mat. Ostrander !:
"Dr. j. Reynolds: SIR-Having for many
years been afflicted with two large and invet-
crate Cancers, Zone upon my right hand, the
other upon my left arm,) | sought in vain for
cure at the hands Of our most experienced sur
geons.
Hearing of your successful treatment of
Cancers, | determined to have the benefit of
your experience, and for this purpose came to
New Orleans, eight months ago, when / spec
Oily received relief, by yonr mild and effec-
tual mode of taking both Cancers out, without
the aid Of the knife. The Canoe: upon my
hand weighed over a quarter of pound, that
on my arm, more than three quarters OF a
pound, yet the new and healthy flesh took
their place so rapidly that l was entirely res
tered 10 health in a few weeks.
As a token of gratitude for your able and
successful treatment Of my Cancers, | volun-
tarily add this my testimony to your numer-
ots credentials, and trust that those effected
with Cancers may be directed to you, for a
speedy and efiectnal cure. Respectfully,
yours NATHANIEL oSTANDER.5'
jI-ly22 OF Louisville, Kentucky.