Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-22

ne Richmond Examiner is exulting
over the passage of the Nebraska bill by the
Senate, in this way Abolition, a lawless,
rude, vulgar Cyclopian monster, lies prostrat-
ed, for the time, with mangled limbs and ray
less eye, the contempt and scorn of every
honest man. The execrations and yells of that
crushed and despied faction, are the only i'm
potent evidences Of vitality that it can now
exhibit. The fangless viper can hiss, but it
cannot wound. The South is now potential
in the Senate, omnipotent with the President,
and the speedy passage of the Nebraska bill
by the House Of Representatives, will demon
stratc that we have abolitionism in every form
and shape under our feet"
The Boston Post intimates that the
! political feeling which Unitarian clergymen
have excited in their congregations, by their
| participation i'll the Nebraska controversy, will
not facilitate the effort to raise $50, 900 to dis
seminate their doctrines. It is singular how
| pecuniary considerations always connect them
selves with the Posts ideas of principle. A
man with q soul above his buttons would be
as great prodigy in the Posts estimation, as
| Paul was in the eyes Of the barbarians Of Me-
lta, when he shook the scorpion from his
hand. Springfield Republican.
The report of the Cochituate Water
Board shows that during the last year the
| quantity of water consumed in Boston, drawn
from the Brooklyn reservoir. was 1886, Sl7 800
| gallons. An equal quantity, and one hun
| dred million gallons beside, was wasted at
| the outlet dam. The number Of water takers,
including public buildings, was 1870. The
daily average of consumption was 1862, 800
| gallons, or So gallons to each inhabitants
"Uncle Tom has been dramatized to
suit Southern tastes, and is drawing crowded
houses in New Orleans The Delta says "Mrs
| Beecher Stoves beau-ideal of African intelli-
gcnce, piety, and respectfully, has been strip
! ped of the false gliding of romance and hum
| bug, and clothed in the true attire of the
"cullud population" as they are He is put
Oh the stage as fact, not fiction just such
fellow as exists and can be met with in our
streets daily, full offun, good humor and con-
tentment."
John Smith, has been before the Re-
corder's Court in San Francisco charged with
passing brass button as a gold eagle. The
charge was for cheating by false pretenses; but
Smith showed conclusively that he had never
pretended that the button was of any value;
and he was not liable to the charge of coun-
terfeiting because it was not counterfeit coin.
The Recorder, after lengthy examination,
discharged the case, as being one to which no
law would apply. A button for such Justice!
In the case of David Ric hards, against
the town of Belchertown, for injuries sustain
ed by Mrs. Richards, in consequence of a de-
tectlye highway, the referees consisting of n.
I. Leonard, Melvin Copeland, and A. V. Ses-
sions, have awarded $500 damages. At one
time, Mr.. Richards offered to settle with the
town for $500.
A formidable strike of the operatives
in the foundries and machine shops of st.
Louis, has taken place. At the mass meeting
which they held at the outset of the move
ment, they passed resolutions declaring that
they would work fifty eight hours per week.
in one of the public streets of Wash
ington, about o'clock on Thursday after
noon, Miss Mcneil, daughter of the late Gen.
John Mcneil, and niece of President Pierce,
was knocked down by ruffian, and while "
ing insensible, was robbed of $50, certifi .ates
Of stock amounting to $4,000, and valuable
diamond pin. The robber made his escape.
The largest church in Europe is at ST
Petersburg. 1t was began III l77l, and in
twenty years two thousand men had not fin
ished its walls. 1t is of polished marble, both
outside and in the pillars are of one piece,
fifty feet high, the base and capitals of solid
silver; but the greatest curiosity Of all is
! wooden box constructed to cover it from the
weather.
The Springfield (Vt) Telegraph says
family of four slaves arrived in that town
on Monday last, on their way to Canada
| They escaped from Virginia several weeks
since. The citizens of Springfield contributed
supply of material aid for them, and furnish
ed them with new conductor for the next
station Of the underground railroad
The Woonsocket Patriot states that
four first class locomotive engines have been
built for the New York and Boston Central
Rail Road, and are now ready for service
They are named 9 Welcome Farnum, - I" Ed
ward Crane" II. Slater" and g Hamilton
Mills"
Punch thus compliments "one of the
Beechers." and taunts Mr.. Beecher's victim:
"He has not got the plantation, but one of the
Beechers Mrs Stoves brother) has, in
scourging letter, supplied the patriot with
the lash. That, as an inseparable element of
slavery, is something to begin with"
Col. Benton being asked what reply
could be made to the speech of Douglas, said
.'Reply sir Facts are not to be gainsayod;
any one who says that when l voted for the
Compromise of 1850, meant to repeal the
Compromise of 1920, lies, Sir, he tells a lie,
Sir"
The total estimate of expences for the
public schools of Cincinnati, for 1854, is $ll5,
600; Of this, $50 goo is fol tuition-an advance
Of $25, 900 over last year.
Ills stated that Bohn, the London
publisher, contemplates an edition of the his
torical essays of the Hon. G. G. Hazewell, in
volume uniform with his editions of Taci-
tus, Livy, Niebuhr, Gibbon, SC.
Henry A. Beecher, superintendent of
the Canal Railroad, had his skull fractured by
coming in contact with bridge at New
Haven, and his injuries are likely to prove ia
tai.
The New Haven Legislature adjourn
ed sine die at half past three oc clock on Satur-
day morning. The liquor law was defeated
% to IS,
Schooner Rachel P Brown, now w.
ing at Norfolk has been condemned for being
engaged in the slave trade.
A bill is now before the Legislature
of New York, making it obligatory on all isr-
ry steamboats, to carry life preservers and other
safety apparatus.
The appropriations asked for public
improvements at the present session of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, exceed $6,000,-
600,
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