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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16
Money. and Business Items.

Money in the street" continues scarce and high
Twelve per cent may be quoted the rate upon
all but strictly first class securities In the banks how
ever, and on "a No. " paper at the private houses
money is quite abundant and reasonably cheap The best
notes readily taken at per cent, and within few
days loans have been effected at s. Money is get
ting easier slowly but regularly and the demand is not
pressing, either in the banks in the Stocks as
may be perceived by the list of sales very dull This
dullness however, arises partially from the increased
mness of holders and the fact that nearly all securities
have fallen, by this time, into hands ready and willing
hold them Copper stocks very at last quota
tions.
As to business, tkere is pretty good feeling. Tie
western trade is beginning well.
In New York, money is very easy to really first class
borrowers. 1t has been loaned call low as per cent
The banks taking acceptable paper at 7, with
freedom Within few days the general demand has in
creased. Stocks duh and heavy, with invest
call for fayore securities Business is dull, goods
arriving in large quantities, and merchants blue
enough The assortment of foreign and domestic dry
goods excellent but buyers have the advantage nmak-
ing prices. 1t if the importers would suffer
heavily The auction sales thus far have been expensive
sacrifices of property considerable portion of the i'm
ports doubtless, is foreign The total of the
dry goods entered New York last week. was S239oO
against 1865 in the corresponding week of ls53
Boston Post, 4ugUst 15ta,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

We have been looking up the Statistics of
Homicide. mainly in this City and its vicini-
ty. for SO much Of the current year as has al
ready TRANSFERRED. The following are the ag-
gregates
Homicides reported in The Tribune from JAM
l, to Aug. 10, 1854,
Whole number of cases, "a one double
murder, making 30.
of which LIQUOR is known TO have caused. ........1s
OF which Liquor indirectly caused. 8
OF which Jealousy (no often dry passOn) caused a
Reported Accidental. .,,.,>,l Unknown causes. g
OF the eighteen murders committed under
the direct inspiration of Liquor, no less than
fifteen aoere committed by IriShmea, several of
them keepers of groggeries. VIII not Irish
born voters reflect on this before they cast an
other vote in support of the Rum Traffic =
Arc they content to have their million or two
of population in this country charged with
two-thirds of all the murders committed
among Twenty Millions of People If not,
they must unite in shutting up the grog- shops
which are the main causes Of Irish crime, IT.
ish degradation and Irish unpcpularity among
us. Ttoeaty.oae in all of the thirty-fve muir
ders are charged upon hishmen, and five
more of the murderers are supposed to be r.
ish. Only fire are known to have been ma
tives Of this country.
We believe there were more executions for
murder in this country last year than ever be-
fore; but these at least did not prevent a
bountiful crop of murders this year. Does
any man doubt thatif we had hung fewer and
stopped the Liquor Traffic, the murders of
1854 would have been feweri Ne0 York
Tribune.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16
California IteEMss

MELANCHOLY OCcURRENCE.-Mr Lawless,
a lady from Boston, with two children-boy
IA years old, aud daughter in her ninth wear,
had all got safely landed on board the steamer
Sierra Nevada, on the afternoon of the 18th
Of June. She took her children upon the af-
ter deck and left them while she went below.
During the absence OF the mother the chill
dren fell asleep on the benches When the
mother came back the boy was there, but the
girl was gone. Search was made throughout
the ship, but no child could be found. 1t was
evident from the position the child occupied,
that it must have fallen oberboard.
A New PLANT. B. Policy, Esq, of
Downieville, has sent to the California Farmer
a specimen plant Of the most remarkable and
most beautiful habit, character, and speces.-
1t is a fbrous rooted plant of succulent
growth, throwing up a spike of very rich
crimson flowers and fruit, and giving forth
pleasant odor. The spike of flowers is about
fifteen inches long, and contains, within the
flowers, about sixty berries Or fruit the size of
filbert, enclosed in a covering similar to the
flbert, but Of deep crimson Altogether it is
wonderful and curious specimen.
AN OLD TREE.-There is tree in the
mountains. which, like an old kitchen tramol.
'shangs and BEARS but never blossoms that
is, bears a berry, but never flowers 1t is
similar in appearance to the Yew mentioned
of old. The Indians make their bows from
its wood. In Bird Valley there is also shrub
which bears burr, containing balsam,
which the Indians use with great success, as
remedy for bowel complaints, and similar
diseases.
BooT AND SHOE MARKET.-From the Price
Current and Shipping List, printed in San
Francisco, July ID, 1854, we extract the fol-
lowing article in relation to the shipments of
boots and shoes to that market =
:" Imports from June 30 to July IA, 224I
cases. The market remains as at our last, in
a very depressed and languid condition, with
a stock estimated equal to full year S supply.
There is hardly any description of these goods
paying more than cost and charges, while the
great bulk realize heavy loss to shippers
The trade, too, is passing into the hands of
parties here who are interested in the manu-
tacture in eastern towns, and, of course, these
are able to undersell all parties importing on
their own accountable manufacturers profit
and their commission on sales enabling them
to go on where outside operators must be
heavy losers. We see no reason to believe
that hereafter there will be any encourage
ment to ship to this market. AS usual, the
great bulk of transactions has been, since our
last, through the auction rooms"
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16
Republicnn stn,e Convention.

The Provisional Committee, appointed by the Conven-
ton of the People, held Worcester the 10th day of
July current, call upon the Republicans of each of the
towns and cities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
to elect number of Delegates, equal to three times the
number of Representatives to which they entitled in the
General Court, to attend a STATE CONVENTION, at
WORCESTER on THURSDAY, 7ti day of
September, at IL o'clock, A. M, to nom
nate candidates for State officers and to take such other
action may be thought proper in order promote the
cause of resistance to the Slave Power.
The Committee, on consultation with the President
and various other officers of the late Convention, and a
ter meeting this day in Boston, which all the members
of the provisional committee present, were unani-
mously of opinion that the tenth day of August is too
hand to render it possible for all the towns and
cities to be notified Of the place Of meeting, and be
seasonaby organized for the choice of delegates 1t
the highest degree desirable that every constituency in
the Commonwealth should be fully and fairly represented
in the Convention in order that complete expression of
the will of the People shall be made
The Committee having in view this, which is the lead
ing purpose and necessity of such meeting Of the peo
pies ard considering also that the Convention by holding
its sson later day. than the originally suggested
will have the opportunity Of being addressed by Of
the distinguished Senators and Representatives of this
Commonwealth in the Congress Of the United States and
by other eminent friends of the causes which the Repub
party rapidly organizing in the Free States
to promote have decided upon the responsibity-whc
the necessity of the to impose upon them of
making the change of day above mentioned The FIRST
THURSDAY IN SEPTEMBER seemed to them to be the
most convenient considering the of the year and
the business engagements Of the people, of the several
days which suggested, after allowing reasonable
time perfect the local organizations of the party And
they that the friends of the throughout the
Commonwealth, will recognize and approve their decision
The CITY OF WORCESTER is selected as the place Of
meeting being the Judgment of the Committee thade
legates from larger number Of towns can assemble at
that place. returning their homes the evening of the
day, than at any other.
Trusting the patriotism and love of liberty which dis
ngu5h Massachusetts, that the great body of her free
will ren0unce amerey personal and party consider
ations and will rally together now upon a common plat
form of opposition to a common enemy, the Committee
earnestly and respectfully invite the cordial and efficient
cooperation of the whole People of this Commonwealth
JOHN A. ANDREW, of bingham.
JOHN l. BAKER Of Beverly
WILLIAM CLARK, of Northampton.
j. G. FULLER, Of Charestown.
MITCHELL HOOPER, of Bridgewater
ESTES HOWE, of Cambridge.
Boston, July &C. 1854.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

Alpheus Mayors, of Logansport, Ind,
has startled the medical and scientific worlds
bv an invention which deserves full record.
1t is for the purpose of catching tape worms
"a manner of deluding them from the hui
man frame. He has made small trap, on
which bait is secured, and after fasting for
some time, the patient swallows the trap and
bait, the latter being snapped at by the worm,
which gets its head into the trap, and is at
once drawn to the surface captured tenant.
The white inhabitants on the shores
of Lake Superior are agitating the question of
forming new State, to be called the State of
Superior.
A letter from Bucksport, Me-, states
that all vegetation is parched and withered,
and to add to this evil, fires arc prevailing in
the woods up the Penobscot river. 1t is diff
cult to tell where or when they will STOP or
what danger they may cause; unless rain
comes speedily, there is great danger Of their
proving highly disastrous.
From New Brunswick we learn that
the cholera at St. John is somewhat on the de-
cline. The total number of deaths since the
breaking out of the epidemic is SCI. Indian
Town is said to be completely deserted, only
twenty persons remaining in it.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16
CBe 59ailp SPY,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1o, 1854.
The Administration.

The Country experienced blssful sense of
relief, when Congress adjourned. Everybody
felt as if an ogre had fallen asleep through
the effects of much whiskey, and would not
wake up again for six months to come Ev-
erybody felt as if some imminent danger had
been avoided-as if an earthquake or a volca-
noe had received its quietuS, and would not
work any more mischief till its displosive ele-
ments had been once more gathered together
in the Capitol 1t seems singular that we
should experience relief, when our public SER
wants leave the business which we pay them
to attend to, and go home for season, to at
tend to their own yet it is so. No subjects
of thievish, scottish monarch ever experienced
more satisfaction from his abdcation, than we
have received from the adjournment of the
last Congress. The country could afford to
breathe after that suspicious event. The pc
Rod of mischief was past then, and the pc
Rod of repose had come Montesquieu COM
planned that the world was governed too much.
We do not care how much it is governed, if it
is only governed well, If our government
could show that it did well, during the last
session of Congress, the country would defend
it against all charges of over zeal But its
zeal was employed only to perfect evil, and
hence the universal scorn and shame which
overwhelms it.
What honorable or manly thing has the adj
ministration and its congressional lacqueys
done, since it was inaugurated? Not one.
They have repealed the Missouri Compact,
defeated the Homestead bill, spent some fifty
millions of dollars, and bombarded Greytown.
If they have done anything else worth record
ing, the bar rooms of Washington must fur
nish the facts.
We do not think the infamous villainy of
the administration can be better illustrated,
than by taking, for example, its conduct in
reference to the Homestead bill Its whole
course in connection with that measure,
shows firm determination to support slavery
and to ignore the principles of freedom
The Homestead bill granted to actual set
tiers, after five years of occupancy, full title
to their lands. The Senate defeated the
ehomestead provisions" of this bill, and sub
stituted graduation and pre- emption BILL
The actual, aehite settler is to have the privi-
lege Of purchasing his farm at graduated
rates, after he has reclaimed it from the will
derness; but even this limited privilege is not
to extend to Nebraska or Kansas. The
Homestead bill was defeated simply because
it would have tendency to encourage the
| settlement of freemen in those territories; and
even the limited privileges of the graduation
| bill were denied to them for the same reason
Our contemplate government rejected mea-
sure of infinite importance to every poor man
in the country, because it would encourage
competition between free and slave labor il
Nebraska and Kansas. They acted like tht
! funkeys of slavery instead of like the repre-
sentatives of treemen. 1t was because they
were funkeys, that the people reioiced whe1
they ceased to torment the country and de
plete the treasury,
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

A Salem correspondent of the Newburyport
Herald, speaking of the prospects of the
Wings at the coming election, says:
Some congressional districts, by the plurall-
ty law, may be retained by the Wings proper; ;
but the g Know Nothings'' speak confidently
Of obtaining pluralities for their candidates in
all the eastern districts. Mr.. Banks place
they consider secure, also their man in the
Lowell district, and Mr.. Burlingame in the
Boston and Cambridge district, and for Essex
they claim clean majority.
The same correspondent intimates that Hon.
Charles w. Upham, of Salem, the present
member of Congress from that district, will
withdraw from the canvass, and reserve his
we'll earned popularity for more favorable
OCCASION
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

A MARROW EscAPE.-The Niagara Iris of
August %, says that slave, escaping from
servitude, arrived in that village ON the Sth
instant, and reached the ferry just in time to
get into the little boat as it was preparing to
leave for the Canada side. His master was on
the same train, in pursuit. and reached the
ferry only in time TO see his chattel midway
across the foaming waters of Niagara. We
learn that the slave was last seen by the mas
ter at Cleveland yet, although both were on
the same train, the slave succeeded in eluding
his vigilance, and placing himself beyond pur-
suit
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

THE WHIG CONVENTION. = The Wings of
| Massachusetts hold their State Convention,
to-day, at Boston, for the purpose of month";
ating candidates for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, and to adopt the usual number of
resolutions common to such occasions. There
seems to have been considerable opposition in
some sections of the State, Judging by the tune
Of the wing newspapers, to the denomination
of Gov. Washburn, but we appreherd that all
difficulty from this source was smoothed over
at the preliminary meeting Of the Boston wire
pullers last evening, and that the refractory
ones, will lay their noses as quietly TO the
grindstone to- day as they have done on any
previous occasion. 1t viii be somewhat diff
ficult task for the committee on resolutions to
draft series which shall meet the wishes of
the honest well meaning members of thepar-
ty, who entertain some very common sense
views upon the Subject of slavery, at the
same time they shall give no offence to their
southern brethren, who have just voted for
the Nebraska bill, but they will manage
somehow or other to do it. And when the
Convention adjourns, one portion will as US
ual retrurn totheir homes congratulating them.
selves upon being connected with the true
Anti- Slavery party of the country, and the
other portion will feel as equally well salts
fed, that in such perilous hour, the bond
of fellowship between themselves and their
southern brethren is still unbroken, and that
the ''great and united National Wing party
is still the hope and the only hope of the
country.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

ALPHA DELTA PHI. = This fraternity, a
Library College Society, established in 1882,
and having chapters at nearly every College
in the Union, met in Convention at Hamilton
College, Clinton, n. Y, at the time of its
last commencement. We learn that the atten-
dance was very large, and all of the exercises
were of the highest order. Hon. A. 2. Will
lard, Lieut.. Governor of Indiana, presided
over the business proceedings, and public
Grafton was delivered by Hon. G. w. Scofeld,
Of Pennsylvania. Hon. Caleb Lyon, NJ. c.,
of Lyonsdale, N. Y, the poet of the occasion,
was prevented by illness from appearing. His
place was supplied, however, by Alfred B.
street, Esq, who favored his audience with a
production well worthy of his wide reputation.
A Levee was held by President North, in
honor of the Society, which the delegates at
tended in body. A magnificent supper CIV
en- by the Geneva Chapter, of Clinton, made
an agreeable finale.
The Fraternity meet next year at Cambridge,
with the Harvard Chapter. whose roll in
cludes the name of many scholar, jurist and
divine, well known to fame.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16
Police Court.

TUESDAY, Aug. 10Th.
Before Special Justice overwhelmingly
Luby, for being drunk on the l4th inst, was
fined 8 and costs, amounting to 5000, and
in default was committed.
Patrick Lemon, for being drunk, was fined
81 and costs, amounting to 1921, and was
committed.
Simon Carney, for being a common drunk
ard, was sentenced to two months in the
House of Correction.
Catharine McKenney, .CatharinG Buckley,
and jeremiah Buckley, were each sentenced
to months in the House of Correction, for
being common drunkards.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

vegetable production of South America
These are much like horse chestnut in ap-
pearance, but about twice their SIZE and
when turned into articles of fancy or orna-
ment. are exceedingly clear, and of an alabas-
ter appearance They do not wear however,
are brittle. and soon become diseolored and
Opaque. They may be seen in the form OF
Infants rings, needle boxes, &c. IN any OF the
fancy stores.--M T. Jour. Of Com.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

LONGEVITY. Drew, Esq, of Dur
ham, n. H., is now living and enjoying as
good health as usual at the advanced age of
100 years and 5 months. His head is as free
of gray hairs as when but 20 years old. Mr..
D. had wife and two sisters his wife died
at the age of 95 years; one of the sisters is
now living at the advanced age of lO3 years;
the other died at the age of 90. Mr.. Drew
lived with his wife rs years, and has always
enjoyed good health for 76 years he did not
fail to be present at the annual town meeting.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

The DAUGHTERS OF THE CRoss, by Daniel G. Eddy. Pup.
lshed by Dayton Wentworth, Sc Washington Street,
Boston.
eleven women who eminent missionaries to the hea
then in foreign lands. Mr.. Eddy is popular and
cessul wr and of the rich materials gathered together
in the lives experience of those noble women, he has
made most iuiicous
This interesting work is for sale at n Heryeys Book
store, 207 Main Street.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

The recent election of Rev. VIM. p Paine,
Of Holden, to be member of the Corporation
of Amherst College, gives great satisfaction
where he is best known. A wiser choice
could not have been made.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

SUDDEN DEArH.-1he Providence Tribune
states that Capt. Smith, the master of a steam
propeller, running from New London to New
York, died in the wheel house of his boat on
Saturday, while ON his passage to or from N
York The boat was run ashore, which was
the first intimation the crew had of the death
Of the captain.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

SINouLAR. Patterson On. - Intellt-
geaeeregiVes a curious incident of the late
thunder storm. A little girl was standing at
a window before which was young maple
tree. After a brilliant fash, acomplete image
of the tree was found imprinted on her body.
This is not the first instance of the kind, but
it is a singular phenomenon.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

Havana accounts announce the landing of
more slaves in Cuba from American slavers.
A cargo of 400 is stated to have been landed
at San Carlos, from vessel called the Julia
Mister, or Mista. The vessel was Immediate
ly burned, and the seamen on board forwarded
by the agents of the enterprise to Havana, as
distressed mariners.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

TERRIBLE ExPosroN.-The powder maya
zine at Maysville, KY, was fired by some
miscreant at 2 o'clock, Saturday morning !;
the explosion was terrific the magazine con-
tanning 500 kegs of gunpowder. Thirteen
houses were demolished, but singular to say,
no lives were lost by the actual explosion, and
few persons were injured. One lady has since
died from the effects of the fright. The citi-
zens were so much alarmed that some min
utes elapsed before any one would venture in
to the streets, the general impression being
that the day of Judgment had arrived. When
they did go out, they found the streets cover
ed with the fragments of demolished houses,
&c.,
The damage done to the property is between
fifty and one hundred thousand dollars. The
Mayor has offered reward Of $1,000 for in
formation which will lead to the conviction of
the rascal that set fire to the magazine.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

BEEF.-The supply of beef cattle at the
New York markets on Monday, was very
large. and prices were fully 81 per hundred
lower than last week.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

An ExAMPLE.-Ameriea is not so powerful
yet as Spain was three centuries ago. Spain
rose, moreover, as America has done through
the reign of free institutions. She fell by en-
tering on course of policy similar to that
which is now proposed for America. So long
as Spain honored labor, and made war only
just cause, so long she prospered; but when
she lent her sword to wanton conquest, and
took to living on the spoils of captured ma
tons, she began Immediately to decline. 1t
is pregnant warning. A great law lies at the
either nations or individuals neglect produce
tive industry, and seek to shine by unlaw-
full gains, they inevitably go to ruin.-PhiIad.
Ledger.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

The deaths last week in Baltimore,
were l49, of whom 80 were under ten years
Of age. No cholera. The deaths by cholera,
in Buffalo, last week, were So, of which only
three were Americans.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

The Roman Catholics have purchased
a large piece of property with buildings in
Morris county, N. near Madison, which is
to be occupied for college.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-16

From the Lowell Courier we learn
that the number of corporations and persons
paying upwards of 500 in Lowell, is 307.-
The highest tax paid is by the Merrimack
Company, $4,000. The largest individual
tax payer is William Livingston, whose tax is
81, 23S 9B. The amount of real and personal
propertyis $2l, 077, O72. This is an increase
Of $7lS, $50 on last year. The rate of taxa
ton is ~ cents per 500.