The American patriot., 1854-12-27

EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIZA Philadelphia
dispatch says that on the afternoon Of the 18th
inst, the engine /" Wisconsin, while drawing s.
coal train ON the Reading Railroad, exploded near
Manayunk Tunnel, instantly killing George Long,
Engineer, Of Baltimore; John Lynch, fireman,
and Charles Miller, of Dsuphin county and Sc
fiousy injuring q lad and passenger, who resides
Aear Reading, name not stated. The engine is a
complete wreck. .sa1. - e.' s7ar'@s ~ as
It is stated in the Boston Traveller that Little,
Brown & Co., Of Boston, have paid the family Of
the late Judge Story, $4,000 for copyrights Of
the various works written BY the Judge. His copy
rights have sometimes yielded his family $4,000
per annum. OF Daniel Webster's writings the
same house has sold $4,000 volumes, and Of Ban
croft's History Of the United States 80 600 copies
have already been sold. For one series Of works,
the Cambridge Mathematics) they paid $aO, 600
for the copyright. '9ag2.a a. ''Na255 =
BrnSlsc or THE pEsIrENrIARv At R,cnNoNp-
On Thursday night the 7th inst, We learn from
the Richmond papers, all the workshops connect
ed with the Richmond Penitentiary were entirely
destroyed by fire, which is supposed to have orr
gnatcd in the machine shop and to have been the
work ef an incendiary, as the shop contained a
large quantity of WOOL The loss is estimated at
$4,000. During the conAagrstion, the prisoners,
under strong guard, were released from the main
building, which ut one time was almost enshroud-
ed by the flames The Penitentiary was destroyed
by fire once before-on the 9th August, 1928.
BRooxLyN NAVY YARD.-The New York Ex-
press says that nearly five hundred men have just
been discharged from the Navy Yard, comprising
men from all the different mechanical departments
and laborers. Nearly every one employed on the
U s. frigatc Sabine was included in the dismissal
There are only some eight hundred men now left
in the Yard NJ lr7e- i9 g.t b. 7o 5aai s1i
| MISSING VEssEis.-Thc New York Journal of
Commerce gives list in detail of the missing
vessels since the 1st Of January last yp to the
present time. From this list it appears that
fifty-one American vessels, of all classes have
been reported missing; and of this number forty
five have never been heard from-six only arri-
wing at their destined ports. The total value Of
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these vessels and their cargoes is put down at
$595,7O0, on which there was an insurance of
S343, $50. The crews of these vessels are esti-
mated at four hundred and thir9y-scvcn souls
AMERICANS AT THE TABLE-Robcrt Chambers,
in his recent volume on Things in America" re-
marks, that person accustomed to visit among
the middle classes in Great Britain, is astonished
at the PROVISION at table in all quarters of America.
"Therc is" he says, mo stinting as to food y
He adds, 8" 1t was often pressed to my notice in
the United States, that the hired laborers in the
field are provided with better fare than falls to the
lot Of thousands of the genteel" classes in
England" fiis 10 une'' ''''iisf''s
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CoNvlcrED. Fitzgibbons, an employee Of
the New York Post Office, whose arrest some
time was published in the papers, on a charge Of
purlonng letters, has been tried in the U. S. Cir
cult Court in that city, and convicted. r
I Several of the Tennessee papers, among them
the Knoxville Whig, have come out in favor o
Meredith P. Gentry for next Governor Of that
State. ''' '' ~'''
The thermometer stood in Boston, on the morn
ing of the 9th inst, at II degrees below zero.
THE ALAND IsLANps-The Russians, it is said
have rcoccupied the Aland Islands, and are resto
ring the fortress of Bomarsund. ul.. .1
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1t is announced that Mrs. Anna Cora Mowat
Richie has another book in press which will b
published shortly. car
The Newark Daily Advertiser comes out for tn
Know Nothings, but begs them to change thei
name. az, . A
The President of tho United States has rccog
nized Rollin Thorne as Consul of Peru for tn
port of Boston. F"oz5
An address congratulating Smith O'Bricn, O
his partial restoration to liberty, is now rcceivin
signatures in New York. Is eth 4.S 15aa
T. B. R. Hatch, long known as the princip'
3 editor of the Baton Rouge Democratic Advocat'
. ond tho fnundcr IF that journal has rctred frOl