Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-01-06
The Gardener Trial. sc.

WASHINGTON, Dec 31st.-The Gardener trial
progresses slowly. Witnesses Meyer, Evans Davis.
Barry, Doubleday, Partridge, Mackie, Cochran, p
C.. Johnson, Arraugos, Aquilar Niles and Angus,
for the prosecution, repeat their former evidence
The only new witnesses examined have been B
Holsey and Mariana Waldanado, Of Mexico, who
testified to seeing DR.. Gardener engaged the Nor
ella mines at the time he alledges in his memorial
that he mining in Lagnullas, hundreds of miles
distant. There is prospect of conclusion of the
trial for several weeks
The total value of stocks redeemed during the
week was S491,SOO
Senator Anterior, il stated, left $4,000, (to
which reference has heretofore been made) TO Presi-
dent Pierce, not for his personal
fund of truS ta he 9 :1Se' bIt as
ceftan purposes The sealed letter to the President,
mentioned in the will, directs the disposition Of the
fund.
HoM1c1DE-We understand that negro man,
Tom, the property Of Mr. ROBERT +. WILSON, was
found dead this morning at the Florence Station
Wilmington and Manchester Railroad, where he has
been employed as pump hand. The marks upon his
person render it certain that his death Occa-
stoned by violence Maj. WINGATE the Coroner,
has gone down to investigate the matter, but we
shall probably not hear the result in time Tor tits
paper. darlington Flag, 18th ut
Private letters received in New York from Europe
state that the Emperor of Russia bent prose
cutting the war with the utmost vigor; that he would
put 300, 900 men under the command OF PasklevItch
in the spring to march ConsantinopIe, and that
the Russian merchants had offered nm any amount OF
money he might require
Russ1A-The highest estimate have of th"
yearly revenue of Russia is G2S, 100000 the lowest
Gl6 900 900 Sir Archibald Allison states it to be
ego 900 900 Mr.. McGregar in his Commercial
Statistics makes it two millions less, ELS, 1862
7IS Mr.. McCulloch says it is ELS, S47 900.
At the recent Mitchell Festival, in New York city
Mr.. P. J. Smyth, in replying to toast, stated thai
| the honor of rescung Mitchell from bondage, belongs
to the g Irish Directory" who employed HIM, Smyth
as an agent for that purpose and usei TO that end
the funds subscribed by riShmen in this country &c
aid the struggle in which Mitchell and his compatrots
were engaged in Ireland. This statement cOrrob
Grated by Mr. Robert Emmitt. This secret has been
remarkably we'll kept, in the face of the repeated and
continued newspaper attacks upon the members Of
the Directory with respect TO the distribution OF the
| funds.
DOLLARS IN CH1NA,-The Boston Daily 1ddvertise,
has received Gazette supplement TO the China Mai
of Sept. g. which, among other public documents
contains communication from the Imperial commits
sioner, Yeh, Governor General of the Twang prov
inces and proclamation of the local authorities o.
Canton Hoo, and LIE, decreeing that in consequence
of the scarcity of the dollars which have hitherto
formed the principal medium of trade, all dollars
whether Of the or old coinage, shall be allowed
to circulate, among merchants and dealers, IN ont
uniform mode; and that the treasury will in future
be guided in the receipt of dollars by their purity
without raising any question whether they bear Int
devices of eagles, horses, flowers plants, at on
and the same rate those with fowery mllings.
/ This decree apparently authorizes the receipt o
United States, Mexican, Puruvan and Bolivian dol
lars on the same footing Spanish mlIed dollars
subject TO an allowance for difference OF purity
| weight, when ascertalned.