Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-21

1t is stated that ex. President Fillmore is
about to lead to the altar Miss Elizabeth
Porter, of Niagara Falls, only daughter of the
late Gen. Peter B. Porter, hero OF the war Of
1912, and Secretary of War under John Quincy
Adams Miss Porter is 80 years of age, and
lady OF superior intellect high cultivation, and
large fortune Her brother and herself are the
sole heirs Of their fathers great estate, in
GLIDING Goat Island and other lucrative prop
erty at Niagara Falls. Miss Porter has long
been reigning belle in Western New York.
Mrs. Robert Armstrong, Of Richmond, Va,
gave birth ON Tuesday to three children, two
girls and boy. All are alive and doing well
The word Muscovado applies to the manu-
facture Of sugar. II is primarily an adjective,
and signifies being further advanced in the pro-
cess than the syrup. IL is the raw material
from which loaf and lump sugar are procured
by refining, and is obtained from the juice Of
the sugar cane by evaporation.
Seamen are still very scarce in England, and
their wages keep up. In London they COM
mand very high wages as much as f5 los. .
month is given them on board GOLFERS.
The New York Canal Enlargement was car
ried by vote of the State, on Wednesday, by
very overwhelming majority The vote was
on proposition to amend the Constitution 80
as to legalize the borrowing of ten millions of
dollars. IL was carried seven to one, as far as
heard from.
Hon. John Wentworth, editor Of the Chicago
Democrat, has just sold lot in that city SO
by $50 feet, for $50 000-making according 70
the Demecr Press, abont 500 900 worth Of
property he has sold within year; and he has
more than as much still on hand.
Mr.. +. ]. Perkins, yiolinist, aged eighteen
years of Washington, ID. c., has been recently
admitted M pupil at the Conservatoire I'm
periale, at Paris, over more than thirty :" con-
currantsn This is the first instance OF an
American violinist being admitted
COL George Rivers, lawyer Of ability, died
in Providence, R y, on Saturday lasr-a VIC
tim to intemperance.
The Territory of Nebraska contains SO 700
square. miles and would make seventeen States
as large as Massachusetts,.
Buy only what you want
Bennett is about to raise the price Of his
Herald to three cents.
A pension OF ESQ year has boon conferred
on Mrs. Hogg, the widow of the Ettrick Shep
herd.
A person with bad name is already halt
hanged.
Tt has been proved that nine-tenths of the
poor rates in some Of the large towns in Scot
land have been caused by intemperance But
this is true of large towns in most countries I;
certainly in our own.
One duke one marquis ten earls, two bsh-
OPS, three barons, and twelve members of the
House of Commons, died last year in England.
The mode Of remedying cracks in stoves, is
to Ill the cracks with composition OF equal
par Is Of salt and wood ashes, mixed to prop
err consistency with water
aUncle Tom has been introduced into
Athens under the gentlemauly title Of 0mpar-
pas Thomas.
A ship is daily expected to arrive at Panama,
from China, with cargo of Chinese iaborers
for the Panama railroad
An Ambassador Extraordinary, from tho
United States to the Ottoman Porte, is report
ed to be on his way to Constantionple.
Chinese saying drunkard's nose is said
to be lighthouse, warning us Of the little
water that passes underneath"
A meeting Of the citizens opposed TO the Ne
braska bill is called at Rochester, MY, to
meet on the 18th instant.
The Columbus papers inform us that the
upper air in that region is darkened by miles
upm mills Of pigeons
There is an unusual quantity Of floating loo
in Lake Ontario this winter, especially in the
vicinity Of the Niagara river. II causes delay
in the passage Of the steamers.
The Scientific Amricdn contains commit
nication Of H. A. Frost Of Worcester, in which
he claims to havo invented marine locomo-
tive,p which will cross the Atlantic in four
days.