Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-09-07
NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR EXCHANGE,

Transcript, 5h inst.
NEWS ITEMS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
Advices from Venezuela of August 18th
state that the political disturbances in that
State had been nearly settled. Two other
earthquakes, it is said, had occurred at Cuma-
ma, completely destroying what remained of
the town. No lives lost
The heat was so intense at New York on
Monday, that outdoor laborers had to suspend
work.
Dates from Aux Cages to the 14th of Au-
gust, have been received. The Yellow Fever
was raging with great violence, particularly
among the shipping, several vessels being
without hands
The steamer Atlantic brings intelligence
of the death of Admiral Cockburn, who was
| signalized during the war of 1872, with Great
Britain by certain outrages committed by the
troops under his command in the waters of
the Potomac and Chesapeake.
A writer in the New Orleans Bulletin says
the great mass of the people in that city have
concluded, contrary to the opinion Of the doc
tors, that the yellow fever is contagious, and
| that its appearance there this season was en-
| tirely owing to unrestricted intercourse with
Rio Janeiro, Havana, St. Thomas and other
places where the disease originates and
belongs.
Louis Chitti, one of the regular contribu-
tors to the Eco ne Italia, was found dead in
his room at his lodgings, No. 40 Hudson street.
New York, on Saturday. He was in the habit
of taking a bath every night and had just
come out of his bath and in the act of
getting into bed, when he fell dead upon the
floor. He was about 70 years of age, and had
been political exile since 1920.
From Tefhs, July Is, we learn that the
Russian Government was preparing for anoth-
| or campaign against the tribes of Caucasus
Operations would commence in the latter part
of August.
1t has been proved this summer, by several
leases" at the South, that rattlesnakes do not
lay eggs, as many other snakes do. but their
| young are bred in separate sack like the
young of squirrels or rabbits.
The Directors of the Crystal Palace adver-
tlse the Exhibition now complete in all its
| parts, and that it will close some time in the
month of December.
/ correspondent of the Journal of Acricui-
tnre states that he has for more than fifteen
years used sulphur as a cure for mildew on
grapes and greenhouse plants and he has
never known it to fail.
John Neal and Neal Dow are having a very
pretty quarrel in the Portland papers. The
last pronunciamento is from Mr.. Neal and ap-
pears in the State Of Maine, occupying some
four columns of that print. In the course of
his remarks, Neal says: Glow has been for
many years the anonymous and malignant
slanderer of hundreds Of their best men
preachers Of the gospel among Others The
whole philippe is anything but a pleasan,
sleigh ride story"
In San Francisco the Catholics have Just
dedicated n new church. The Unitarians are
in very prosperous condition. The Metho-
dlSts have just leased the new Music hall and
installed Rev. n. P. Heath as pastor. The
Bapists are progressing rapidly and soon are
to erect new and beautiful brick church.
NJ. Wisham, of England, has Invented a
| new lock, applicable to banks. by the employ
| ment or electromagnetic The lock is open
ed by breaking magnetic current.
In consequence of the cholera, the opening
| OF Copenhagen Denmark University has been
postponed for a month. Six hundr, d families
| are living in tents and shanties outside the
| city. The disease was, however. relaxing its
vlrulence, and not more than fifty new cases
were announced per day.
a return just issued from the English mint
has excited much attention from the extraOr-
binary amount of gold and silver which it
shows to have been coined in the country
during the first half of the present year 1t
appears that the totals have been So 900 900
OF gold and t4l6,00 OF silver making an az
gregate equal to twice the quantity coined in
tho same period of 1852, when the coinage
was already beyond all former precedent.
The New York Express says that the Hunk
ers are getting the upper hand of the Barn
burners in the choice of delegates to the Sy-
racuse Convention. The Rochester Adtertiser
announces the election of q large number Of
that sort in the western part of the State.
despatch dated Albany, Sept. 5th says !:
ceventy-two delegates have been elected to
the Democratic State Convention thus far. of
whom thirty are Hardshells, twenty -four
Softs and Barnburners, and twelve seats are
contested. There is a great excitement here
in political circles, and the indications are
that the Hardshells will have large MAORI
ty in the Convention.
UTLola Montez offered the fircmen of
San Francisco the service of cher head