The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1854-01-12

mount 70 5IJ,4OT acers valued at T,654,679
Value OF buildings &c. 681,l37
aflots in Towns, 437,S92
I" of Buildings 69l 1853
o' 5 So. S9,465,46e
The valuation Of the Real Estate of the
city of Lancaster, and whiuh is inclused in
the above assessment amount to $675,449.
The LATEST FROM ERtE.-We learn
from the Plain Dealer that U. s.. Marshal
Frost, and Deputy Marshal Sproul, arrived
in Cleveland on Friday, and Immediately
proceeded to Erie on a locomotive special
" Detailed to take them down. The tele-
graph had been SO arranged that no intelli-
gence OF the decision ofthe Supreme Court
at Pittsburg had reached Erie. Conse-
quently the Marshal took them by surprise,
and last evening Messrs. Kirkpatrick, Kill
patrick, John Jack, and DIR. Sherman, the
ring leaders Of the Harbor Greek rioters,
were duly arrested. Tho excitement was
intense. The mob made tho most terrible
threats Of vengence. On Saturday morn
ing, the Marshal left Erie for Pittsburgh
with the four gentlemen-rioters in custody.
They refused to come by way of Cleveland,
and were therefore put into carriage, and
taken down by way of Meadville.
Mayor King telegraphed to Governor
Bigler for "aid and comfort" asking au-
thority to caH out the military for the pro-
lection Of Erie. Gov. Bigler Immediately
replied that he would willingly invest him
with authority 10 resist the rioters and pro-
tect the railroad men in re.laying the track!
This was a blow in the face from an unex-
pccted quarter, and the injury was not much
relieved when the proclamation to that eff
feet was subsequently, received.
RANK, TnE BANK RoBBEE We have al
.Eeady noted the arrest at Boston, on Mon
day, Of John Rank, who, in Nov, lS52iwas
triel at Norfolk for robbing the Farmers
Branch Bank, Portsmouth, Va, of about
sixty thousand dollars, and was convicted
and sentenced to ten years in the State
priscni but while in Jail, awaiting a decis-
ion on exceptions which had been filed,
managed to effect his escape. 1t appears
that officers from Virginia were in Boston
last week, in search OF him but being una-I
Bile to find him, left authority with officer
Clapp to arrest him, which he succeeded in
doing on Monday, having discovered him
walking along Court st. In default OF six
ty-siX thousand dollars bail, he was commit
ted to await a requisitiou from the Govern
or of Virginia. The Traveller says, Crank
effected his escape in this, way. Two fe-
males from Boston arrived at Norfolk, and,
as is the custom there, we're allowed unre-
structed intercourse with the prisoner
One night the females gave an entertain
ment in the Jail, at which the iuilor and
Rank were present. During this enter
.tainment the females managed to obtain the
.%jailor's key, and they and Rank walked off
together"
EsoArE OF SMITH o'BRnN.-Thc Liner
lex Reporter and Vindicator of December
18th contains tho following gratifying intel
ligence:
We have Just been handed a letter from a
respectable Irishman, resident in Mel
bourne, giving full details of the escape Of
Smith O'Brien from the penal exile to which
the British Government doomed him, and
from which no had been released by the
courage and fidelity of a few Irish friends
in the colony, and the sympathizing aid Of
the commander of an American trading YES
sci which was in the ofing to take him
away to the free shores Of Columbia. There
is no doubt whatever Of the fact, and we
need not state that we feel considerable lie
pleasure in being the first medium of an
nouncing it. The writer Of this letters was
one of those who assisted Smith O'Brien in
his escape. We may add that Smith 0'Dri-
en- was bound by no parole. Il
More TaouBLE.-4A letter in G late st.
Louis paper, from G. Muegge,a citizen Of
that place,who is now sojourning in Europe,
complains that he has been arrested at Dres-
den, and detained in custody for some time,
on the plea that his passport was not gen.
uine., 1t appears however that he was a
friend and admirer of Kossuth, and enter
tanned him when he was at st. Louis
The object of his %sojourn in Europe is not
stated.
THE CoprEn REGIONS. During the pres
ent season many important discoveries Of
copper have been made near the head of
Lake Superior, in this State and miners are
hocking thither, in large numbers, from the
other mining districts on the Lake. We
have couversed with several gentlemen Who
have spent years in exploring the copper
regions of the North, and they all agree that
the new discoveries present stronger indi-
cations of abundance Of that mineral than