Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-05
NEWS 1rExs FROM OUR ExcHANeEs

NEWS Ix&0S f6UM Ouk EACdAN06S.
There is now on the premises Of the Glendon
Rolling Mills, at East Boston, o pile of coal
containing twenty-six thousand tons, which
| at S. the ton, amounts to $3.50, 600. This i'm
| mense amount of coal is only to supply for
| the furnaces of the mill for ten months.
The Evening Post gives the following
| sketch of our new Consul to London "San-
ders is about forty years of age; possesses
more than ordinary ability; is amiable and
generous to fault; popular with all who
| know him; and, but for an unfortunate theory
of his about the public treasury being pub
| lie goose, which every one who is not a goose
will pluck whenever he has an opportunity,
would make a very unexceptionable public
! officer. Perhaps he may in spite Of his in
| frmity.'
By the arrival Of the ship Gondolia from
Buenos Ayres, we have advices to July 10
! The city was still beseiged, and the port in a
state of blockade. Governor Pinto died on
the last day of June, and was buried July 2.
General Auchirauo hos been solicited to sue
coed Pinto. His friends are urging him to
accept, which if done peace will Immediately
be restored.
A feet of over twelve hundred sail of Amer
| lean fishing vessels are off the N. Z. Canada
coast They have not been very successful,
as the British cruisers prevent them from
going near enough to the shore to take the
nackerel.
party off Newport, R. T., caught thirty
sharks in two hours.
An excursion took place from Philadelphia
to Cape May on Friday for the benefit of the
! New Orleans sufferers, and yielded about
$500. The boat was provided, free of expense,
by the Baltimore Railroad Company.
The Sunbury american says that there is
considerable sickness prevailing in the valley
of the Susquehannah, mostly of a bilious
character.
In the encounter between MIR. Hall of the
| New Orleans Crescent and Mr.. B. +. Hough-
ton. knives were used on both sides, and the
latter is not expected to recover from his
| wounds. The cause was an obnoxious article
in the Crescent.
The British ship Samuel, which was supposed
to have carried off two runaway slaves, was
Oyerhauled in Hampton Roads on Friday, and
searched, when the two negroes and young
MARINE who had deserted from the United
States ship Pennsylvania. were found secre-
ted on the vessel. Captain Morris, of the
Samuel, and the two fugtives were brought
to Portsmouth and committed for examina-
ton. 1t is said that Captain Morris took no
part in aiding the slaves to escape.
A St. Louis lady, who not long since mar
ried Mormon and emf grated to Salt Lake
rate place for new settlement" and notwith-
standing sickness in the family and tho loss of
crops, she is comfortable and contented-
About Brigham Young having so many wives,
she says, 1.-THE number, twenty-five, is right
and l can tell you he is about the best man
living; to her notions of men
1t is predicted that the hop crop will be one
third short the present year. Producers in
Madison county, N. y, having contracts to
deliver large lots the present fall, have been
obliged to go into the market and buy up
enough to make themselves good. They have
paid as high as thirty and thirty five cents
The English crop is expected to be light also
The Wilmington (Del.) Journal says For
a few days past there has been some uneasi
ness felt by the residents of Brandywine Vii
lage, in consequence Of several sudden deaths
having taken place there recently. Rumor
attributed this sudden mortality to yellow
fever, or black vomit but the physicians who
have had charge of the cases pronounce the
disease to be high state of bilious fever, not
at all contagious.
The Mobile papers mention desperate at,
tempt, by some negroes to break out of jail al
that place. They had been permitted to run
around the yard for exercise, and when the
Jallor ordered them into their cells. one of the
prisoners knocked him down and took the
keys away from him. After short scuff1e the
Jailor got hold of shot gun and threatened t.
shoot him If he did not give up the keys. But
the darkey did not believe him in earnest and
still held on to them, when he received tn,
contents of the gun in his legs. The gun wa
loaded with small shot, and Of course the in
jury was trihing The negro then rushed into
the cell and locked the door on the inside ano
not until the gun was reloaded with bucksho,
and pointed at him did he surrender the KEYS
The New York Journal of Commerce states
that Madame Sontag, who has been one O
the most successful Of her profession anC
therefore Is not to be taken as a specimen O
the whole, deposited with Count Rossi. pre-
viOus to May last, $40 900 as her net profits
from singing since her arrival in this country
This was done, notwithstanding sometime
like $4,000 was paid for renting concer
, rooms nearly 81 GOO for advertising, and sum
, of $4,000 to $4,000 or $4,000 to musicians fo
professional services, besides numerous othel
expenditures.
The Buffalo Commercial AIregtiser of tn,
18th. pronounces Mr.. Borland's appointment
unconstitutional. 1t says: 1.-THE sixth sec
ton of the first article of the Constitution
provides that no Senator or Representative
shall, during the time for which lie was elect
ed, be appointed to any civil Office under the
United States Whteh sh~N hare been created
, or the emoluments whereof shall have beer
increased duling such time"
, The Cumberland, Md, papers saw the Dem
ocratic Congressional Convention will meet al
uagerstown to-day. The aspirants for nom
lnation are Hamilton, of Washington county
kunkel, of Frederick, and Ex- Governor Thorn
as, of Allegany. The probability is thai
Hamilton will get the nomination, and tha
Thomas will run as an independent candi
date in opposition.