The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1854-07-12


rious accidet; butlast night one Of the
most disastrps conilagrations occurred with !
which ttatcty has eve- been resisted. II
caught in tllJNa,ional Theitre in Chcsnut
street below Ninth, in consequence OF some
persons havng attemp' ed to light match
against the scenery. The Theatre isa ruin,
as also are number of fine stores adioin.
ing il, and tle Chinese Muserm on Ninth
st. The GTard House also caught but was
damaged ony in the upper stories.
Intense excitement WAS created in Wall
st. ycstcrda: by the discovery that stu.
pcndous frard had been perpetrated by the
President ofthe New York and New IIeven
Railroad Comp my, who has also acted MS
transfer II" eEt in this city. 1t appears that
he has made IN over issue of about nine
teen Thousand shircs Of stock, the par value
OF which is 3 100000; this is in the hands
ofiunoccnt holders, some of whom have
lately taken several hundred thousand dol.
lars worth The characters of the New Ha-
ven Company and its President has hereto
fore been, like CUsar's wife, above suspi-
cion; no stock has been deemed safer. The
consequence yesterday WAS tremendous
panic. All the railroad securities fell from
one to,two per cont Reports are in circu.
lation that other interpretations are in sim.
ilar condition, and on the part of the pnblic
there is decided inclination TO convert their
script into specie sac ~ ..
The mild weather which enabled MS
short time since to forget thlt the dor-dav,
had come has given place to the intense
heat which we sometimes sweat under nj
thi IS seasoi In the middle of the day the
mercury in the coolest localities marks from
ga TO 90. The cholera continues ON tho
Increase 7S deaths were reported for last
week. II is feared that when green frnit
gnts in the urrkct, this disease will be found
st:H more fatal As yet the markets are ve
nv bare. We have no Long Island new no.
tatoes or cueum!hors. Strawberries are O..
yer; n few raspberrics have made their APP
pearance at cXtruvagtnt prices. We have
hlrdIy seen cherry this year the few tha.
have come in have soll FOR shilling
pound.
Mad Ime M~.:lenv, the youngest sister of
Kossutll, died in this CITY on the goth ut.
and was buried on Saturday !. ST. The dis
ense which carried her offwIs coasump ption
the seeds Of which were sown during the
period of her arrest and detention bv the
Austrian Police soon after the failure of her
brothers bold efforts in behalf of the indie
psndcnce of Hungary. Her obsequies were
attended not only by lnrge circle of friends
bv whom her virtues were held in high re-
spect, but also by the various foreign organ.
iza'ions who svmplthize with the liberal
movements in EnrHpc. a long procession
WIS formed anil the boiywts borne to the
Rev. De- Phillips church, ~.hcrc sermons
We're prelehsi IN Getmap and English.
Madame Nes.enys AMI her siSt,r have not
been nitog ,thcr FREE fpm embellishments
torinl their resiience in this city: bnt BY
hNve proved themselves superior 10 misfyr.T
fhnc. Thav atte upted fora time to make
a living bv tikiug bolr lars, ari with this
view hired fine building at the corner of
Fourteenth st and Irving Ptce. Not,
however, succeed ling in this. they opened a
lace and r.ncv store on Broadly " which has
been extensively pptronizel BY fashionable
circles. Throughout their whols career.
they have shnwn themselves aaiable, up
right. and industrious. "
An ordipG,ion of theological students ron.
ncctrd with the Episcnpil church was held
in Trinity Church ltst Suudly, at which
twelve were admitted to the order of Dea-
con AM three to that Of Priest. The Bish
open Quebec preached on the occnsion.
A series of Recollections of Washing ton
by the ycurublc George Washington Parke
Gusts. the only surviving member of his
Immediate family, is expected soon to ap-
pear from one of Our publishing houses
This g,ntlemln has been in the habit for
years of contributing to the National Intel.
ligencer on the anniversary of Washington's
birthday . sketch appropriate to the occs-
sion. These he has collected and intends
publishing in revised aud corrected FORM.
A number ofrother memoirs will before
long be given to the public. Tickner of
Boston will soon bring. out the first volume
of Webste,'s Life aud Letters. The veuer-
able Josiah Quincy will pubIishin the Fall
his Memoir of John Quincy Adams in Q
octave vols. SIR Cral,e Is bnsily occupied
with thelife and letters of Calhoun; and
DR.. Coltoa IS siriilary engaged with those
of Clay Yours, HUDSON.
GA DrsrRESsrsG cAss or HYDR oPHoBn-
The Dayton Empire notices an instance OF
man in Montgomery county, Ohio, who
was bitten some time agoby dog and who
now hna symptoms like hYdronhnhia