Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-25

The Boston Mercantile Library Asso-
citation have been very successful in their
lectures during the past winter. The amount
received from the sale of tickets, as stated in
recent report, was $5,031; expended for hall,
lectures, advertising, &c., $3,292,57, leaving
balance of $l,73S,33. The net income from
this source has exceeded that of any previous
| year. Lecturing there does not seem to be an
obsolete or improbable business.
The total real and personal property
valuation at Boston, is $206, 000, 900. OF this
sum, more than one-fourth, say sixty mil
| lions of dollars, is assessed in Ward Four
That Ward pays, too, over $780, 900, out of
an aggregate tax of s. 900 ,00O or considera-
| bly, more than quarter of the whole tax of
| the city. The valuation of this one Ward is
| larger than that of several of the States, and
larger too, it is believed, than any other city
in New England.
An item, says the Washington Star,
has just come to our knowledge, in regard to
a portion of the expenses of the American
Minister in London, which will show chow
the money goes" He lives in respectable
and decently- furnished house, No. Sc Harley
street, for which he pays an annual rent Of
$S,5Sl,6O The rent alone is more than a
third Of the salary attached to his office.
The Hartford Times says the surplus
money in the Treasury of Connecticut at the
end of the present fiscal year, now near its
close, will be over 100000. The people in
the land of steady habits are economical, and
their rulers likewise.
The Bangor, Maine, Wing says, that
in that portion Of the country the average
depth of snow is still about too feet. and in the
l., Al
five feet depth of snow. The ice is about two
feet thick in the ponds and streams, amp re-
mains almost as solid and strong as ever.
The Legislature of Louisiana has ap-
propriated ten thousand dollars toward the en-
couragement of ship building.
lin the free States, ship building needs no
encouragement from the legislature
A child, three years old, was found
dead in a well, in Coventry, r. l., on the
goth. Godfrey Pierce, who lived with the
mother of the child, has been arrested, and
the grand jury have returned bill against
| him for the murder.
Santa Anna, it is said, has sent an or
der to Messrs. Ames, the great cannon man
ufacturcrs of Chicopee, Mass for 200 guns of
from 10 to 10 pound calibre each, and that
the payment of the order, which also includes
the supply of vast amount of ammunition,
| musketry, revolyers. &c., is to be made con-
tingent on the passage of the Gadsden treaty.
The Boston papers speak in the high
est terms of commentator of lecture deliv-
cred on Thursday evening, in that city, by
| Rev. E. E. Hale of Worcester on the subject
of the Missouri Compromise, in connection
with the pending attempt Tor its repeal.
The State Superintendent of the
Schools of Louisiana, states that in several
parts of the State, the School Committees are
incapable Of attending to their duties, for the
reason that they cannot soritei In one parish,
the warrant Of a teacher was signed by twelve
different members of the committee, making
their mark instead of regular signature.
The Baltimore Sun intimates that Gen.
Houston will shortly resign his seat in the U.
| S. Senate.
The Washington correspondent of the
Journal of Commerce considers the reference
of the Nebraska bill to the Committee of the
Whole, as virtual defeat.
Mr. Franklin Slater, foreman of the
Taunton Locomotive Mandatory, was killed
on Wednesday, by the falling of two pairs of
driving wheels upon his body.
The Wings of the Cape Cod District
have nominated Hon. T. d. Elliot of New
Bedford, as candidate for Congress, to FILL
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Hon. Zeno Scudder.
Major Hobbie, Assistant Postmaster
General, died in Washington, on Thursday,
Of consumption.
A colony for Nebraska was to leave
Chicago on Monday last.
The Nashville Banner notices the
death of Mr.. Meredith P. Gentry.