Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-05
MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

The cigar makers of Albany are on strike for higher
wages.
The revenue duty sugar for the last five years has
amounted to 36,000,0o0.
Ohio now sends daily to New York Quantities Of meat.
ready dressed via Erie railroad. An excellent idea
The track of the Great Western railroad is laid from
Detroit for twenty miles eastwardly and the work goes
on brayely.
During the week ending October 18th fifty vessels de-
stned to United States ports and fourteen to British
ports passed through the Welland canal.
The Circuit Court in Broome county has awarded 4 600
damages to Mrs. Primrose Johnson whose husband was
Killed by an accident on the Erie railway.
The aggregate valuation of the real and personal pro-
perty in Michigan fixed by the State Board of Eoua
zation, is $l20 373 474 nearly four times as much as
in 1851
Capt Griffin the principal engineer of the Rabun Gap
railroad, arrived in Knoxville, Tennessee on the 9th
instant, with his corps of assistants and to have
proceeded forthwith to locate the road between that place
and the North Carolina State line.
There have been l3 arrests for drunkenness in Port
land for the last six months which is fortysx less than
during the same time last year. and fourteen less than
during the corresponding months in 1851.
The Abingdon "Vrginian" says that on Wednesday
the 18th instant forty free coored persons left that place
for Africa They going to Norfolk first and sail
from there on November 5h for their faherland There
were several old persons in the company who for the
sake Of their children.
The :" State of Maine" says At Damariscotta and
Newcastle there are nine new ships, either building
Just launched which range from 1000 to 1900 tons
burden EACH AT Thomason there ships build
ing which average 1920 tons each. Richmond, Bath,
and oil the great shpbudng places in fact have far ex
ceeded their ordinary business in this line The amount
Of ne tonnage built in Maine this year win be
we do not know but double the the increase
elsewhere is very great
DEPARTURE OF MISSIONARIES The Rev. Messrs Tracy
Little and Scott with their wives, embarked Boston,
on Friday morning in the Pscataqua for Madras Messrs
Tracy and Little members Of the Madurn mission
der the Of the American Board, and to
field in which they have already spent years Mr.
and Mrs Scott will proceed from Madras Calcutta and
thence TO Ayra where they expecting to labor unde
the direction of the Presbyterian Board of Missions Mr.
Scott is also returning work with which he has be
come familiar
LAW ron RALRoADs.-The Circuit Court In Broom
county, New York, has awarded 81 900 dana res TO Mr
PRIMROSE Johnson, whose husband killed by az
cdent on the Erie railway. This is different concuso
from that Of Of the courts Of Louisiana which recen
decided that though man might claim damages hmse
for injuries sustained to his person. yet If he be ke
outright his wife legal heirs representatives ha,
no claim.
ALMOST DuEL-A challenge was recently passed =
tween Judge Ghoson and Judge Rogers of Mississippi
to settle by hostile meeting difference growing outd
the political canvass going on in Mississippi. 70
parties with their seconds, started for the pce OF me
ing, and proceeded for Columbus, when Judge Y
gers taken i'll, and the meeting was consequeW
postponed Subsequently their friends nterposed ~
the matter amicably adjusted.
The Directors of the Cincinnati and Iiilsborough Ill
road have rejected proposition of the consolidatonh
the Cincinnati and Marietta Railroad. They haHap-
peaed to Baltimore for aid in accomplishing then eis
nal purpose Of connecting directly with the Northve
Virginia Railroad TO Parkersburg and OF thus urrs
to Baltimore the important link that will give eJ,no
shortest most direct and altogether the most acvpa
geous route to Cincinnati and st. Louis.