Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-02-12
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Departure Of N. BedinI.-The N. Y. Rseman's
Journal says:
"The last week previous to his sailing he passed
some time al the residence Of the Rev. DIR. Cum
mngs; some time at that ofthe archbishop; some
time al the hospiable mansion of Terrence Dom
nelly, ESQ.,, near ManhattanviIle, where he had
passed delightful week previous 10 his visit 10
the west. There was not the least secrecy about
the movements of the nuncio during the last week.
He passed freely through Broadway and other
thoroughfares day after day, called on his friends
as far as his time permitted, and entered the most
public shops in purchasing such articles as he
wished before his departure. he told us, how
ever that. on leaving Washington, ne considered
his mission as closed and that he preferred no
further public notice be taken OF his steps The
last evening Of his stay was passed at the house
of a gentleman on Staten Island, and there he was
met on Saturday by the Right Rev. Bishop Lough-
lin, The Very Rev Mr. STAIRS, the Rev. DIR. Cum
mings, and other gentlemen of the clergy and
laity. The steam-tug Active. chartered for the
purpose by order Of the United States government,
waited on the nuncio at the Staten Island land
ing, and conveyed him ON board the Ataatic,
which stopped opposite the wharf, and fired
salute-gun when he embarked"
An Extinct American Race.-The follow
ing passage from the travels Of Humboldt pos-
sesses more than ordinary interest al the present
time:
"Amid the plains OF North America some
powerful nation, which has disappeared, con.
structed circular, square, and ociagonal fortica-
tons walls 5000 toises in length tumuli, from
TOO to 500 feet 10 diameter and i40 feet in height,
sometimes round; sometimes with several stories.
AID containing thousands OF skeletons The skele-
tons are the remains Of men less slender and
more squat than the present inhabitants Of those
countries. On vast space OF ground at the
Lower Orinoco as well on the banks Of the
Cassiquiare and between the sources Of the Es-
seoubo and the Rio Branco, there are rocks of
raj mill
sculptures denote that the extinct generations be-
longed 10 nations different from those which in
habit the same region"
Speculation I'm Breadstuffs.- oome idea says
The New York Express, Of the immense specula-
ton in breadstuifs and provisions between the
United States and Great Britain. had in the fol-
lowing list of imports of -four grain. cheese, &c
into Liverpool for the fortnight ending 18th jan
uary, 1854. The imports, the Liverpool journals
say, are unprecedented:
719,2s1 bushels wheat, 4,45e barrels meal,
23,S56 bags do. 1891 bags beans,
2l2,192 barrels -four, ls.7Co bush. do.
Y s'l27 bags saco do. 400 blshels oats,
Sl5,632 bush. Indian corn, $50 boxes cheese,
n, log bags rs do 80 casks do.
In anticipation of general war, English specu-
lators in the Liverpool market said 10 be buy
ing up and sending into store, all sorts OF provi-
sions, but particularly breadstufs-no doubt anti
cipating large prohts by and by when the plough
share is turned into the sword. Hence the bread
riots tina, have recently taken place in England
hence the famine prices which rule over here.
where no actual scarcity exists, but where specu-
lation is as rife il is abroad. II no war
however-ihat is no general war. involving Eng
land and France-there may be more money lost
than one, by and by, especially, when river and
canal navigation here is renewed, and the glutted
market stares the spectators in the face
a@ & - ~ s
Florida and CharIeston.-A greatly extended
field Of enterprise is about 10 be opened by the
construction of railroad from the mouth Of the
81. Mary's across the peninsula 10 Charlotte har
bor on the Gulf of Mexico The road will be
little over hundred miles long, traverses fine
planting region, does net encounter stream
worth mentioning the whole way, has fine port
at each terminus and will inevitably attract the
whole trade OF the western coast Of Florida. which
is fast becoming studded with productive sugar
planlations.-Ch Charleston Mercury.
Murderer Convicted.-Michael Jennings, at
New Haven, charged with the murder of Mrs.
Esther Bradley, of North Haven on the 24th Of
July last has been convicted in the superior court
now in session in that city, of murder in the first
degree. Jennings inflicted over fifty stabs upon
his victim. He is about eighteen years OF age,
and his father, from Brooklyn, was at his side du-
ring the trial.
Gone to Turkey.-Gustave Wagner, lately in
the employ of the Caiawissa (Pa) Railroad Com
pany as engineer and draughtsman, has started
for Constantinople. at the request of Kossuth He
was major in the Hungarian army. and kossuth
expects TO want him and all his old companions
in arms next summer when it is expected there
will be warm and destructive work going on in
Europe.
Hydrophobia among the lndians.--We learn
that hydrophobia prevails TO alarming extent
on the Indian reservation nj Catiaraugus creek.
Several Of the family of Buesky, one Of the chiefs
of the tribe have died within few days, from