The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-12

The steam propeller J. w. Brooks, on her
passage from Cleveland to Ogdensburg, blew
uppear Ashtabula on the 9Th. Two of the en-
gineers were badly scalded-one of them prob
ably fatally. Two of the deck hands jumped
overheard, and were drowned. No passengers
were injured.
Dates from Matanzas, to the 10th utimo. state
that the general health was good, the weather
fine, and the prospects of the crops favorable.
Sugar and molasses were scarce, and held high
Business and freights dull
The Louisiana Know Nothing Council have
wholly repudiated the Roman Catholic test of
the Philadelphia platform, and will receive into
the Order all American-born Roman Catholics.
Mrs. James Lancelot, of Cranston, and Mrs.
Stephen Sturgeon, of New York, were drowned
while bathing at Fields Point, three miles be-
low Providence, Rhode Island, on the 9th in
slant.
1t is stated in the Springfield Journal that
the Hon. Thomas II. Benton has been invited
and is expected to deliver an address before the
association on the last day of the Illinois State
Fair, the 18th of September next.
A New Sunday Law has been passed in St.
Louis, Mo-, by which all stores may be kept
open the whole Sunday, except places for the
sale Of liquor, which must be closed from nine
o'clock a. NJ. until four p. NJ.
McCrea, who shot Malcolm Clark at Leaven-
worth, is said to have been committed to Jail
on the charge of murder, bail being refused.
The revenue collected at the port of Boston,
during the month of June amounted to
S505, 96l.03, being a decrease of Sl57, 23304,
as compared with the corresponding quarter of
last year.
The imports at New York, for the month of
June, show falling off of I,794, $40, as COM
pared with the corresponding month of last
year.
A violent storm in the harbor of Mazatlan
has done immense damage to the shipping the
loss of cargoes being estimated at more than a
million of dollars. Six vessels were nearly en-
tirely destroyed, and twentythree of the crews
drowned.
Mr.. Alexander d. Duval was elected Treasu.
rer of the city of Louisville, on Saturday last.
1t having been special election, no other officer
was chosen. Mr.. Duval is Know Nothing,
and had no competitor for the office.
The Baltimore Patriot says: awe learn,
from reliable authority, that Messrs. Bareda &
Bro. have advanced the price of Peruvian
Guano So per ton. They now charge S55,
instead of $50, as heretofore, for amounts less
than thirty TONS"
According to the St. Louis Lntelligencer, ex-
celent Catawba champagne is now made in
that city, from grapes grown in Missouri, by the
Missouri Wine Company"
The Harrisburg Keystone has placed the
name of George NJ. Dallas at the head of its
columns, as a candidate for the Presidency.
The Canada West papers say that there is a
great want of cattle in Canada-that farmers
are beginning to find out that wheat-growing, to
the neglect of stock, is not the most profitable
kind of farming, and that it has become neces-
sary to import bullocks from this side of the
line.
AYOTHER.-T. +. Denniston, clerk in the
Chicago posi- office, has been arrested for rob-
bling letters of money. 1t is thought that
his depredations amount to eight or ten thou
sand dollars.
On Friday, the third and fourth stories of
Charles Urban's safe mandatory at Cincinnati
fell in, crushing eight laborers, one Of whom,
f. Kleinmann, was instantly killed, and six
others badly injured.
Madame d'Aubigne, wife of NJ. Merle d'Au-
bigne, author of " the History of the Reforma-
tion," died at Geneva, Switzerland, June II.
Thirty German families have settled in Los
Angeles, California, to commence the manufac.
ture of wine.
From the results arrived at by the census Ia
kers, the Albany Argus estimates the popula-
ton Of New York State at four millions.
The Connecticut Legislature has authorized
the New York and New Haven railroad TO set
tie the difficulties growing out Of the Schuyler
fraud, by increase of the capital stock.
Elk Governor Eaton, of Vermont, late Pro
fessor in Middlebury College, died at Montpe-
her, on the 9TH instant.
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