Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-24

tearfally begged to be allowed TO keep, while the
man angrily refused. At length the wife almost
threw the child into the husbands arms, and ex-
claimed take it. can soon have another 7"
- James Cruise was brutaIy murdered on
Sunday evening, the 18th instant, at the grogshop
corner Of Greatmen and Post streets, New Orleans
by Patrick Kennedy, aided by his brother-in-law,
James Doyle They were all drunk, and a quarrel
having ensued, ended in the above fatal result
- The Senate of Delaware passed a resolu-
uon short time since to adjourn on the 25th inst,
but the House on Wednesday amended ii so as to
ADJOURN on the second Of March, which viii be
about the time business now before them will be
settled.
49, An Irshman named Murphy, employed at
Fort Maison, near Annapolis, was drowned last
Thursday,
- Santa Anna, being short Of money, 1t Is ru-
mored he will sell another piece Of Mexico to the
United States-Senora and q strip of the North,
which he keeps with difficulty, or Yucatan, as will
be the most acceptable. He win have to sell his
cork leg yet TO save his neck.
- All the leading hotel and coffee-house
Keepers in Cincinnati have signed an agreement
pledging themselves not to violate the Ohio pro-
hbitory law by the sale of liquor, save only native
wine and ale, those drinks being excepted by
statute.
- The ladies who mobbed liquor sellers
premises, and destroyed 5000 worth of the era
thur, at Mount Pleasant, Hamilton county, Ohio
have all been discharged. The Cincinnati Com
mercial In noticing the Investigation, says The
ladies were most of them young, and all pretty"
No wonder they were discharged.
- Twenty mail robbers have been arreste
within the last two months, and there lire "a fe W
more left of the same sort"
- The North Carolina Legislature, at its re-
cent session. inserted in all the new charters, the
re-charters, and amended charters of banks a pro-
hibiton against the issuing or paying out of bills
under $5.
preston used by newspaper publishers, and gene
rally understood not to mean anything.
- The Bahama Herald, of the oath ult,
states that British colored subject named Cox,
had been kidnapped by an American shipmaster,
and sold into slavery, in Virginia and fears were
entertained respecting the fate of some other men
who sailed lately for Texas.
- In some of the interior counties of Penn
sylvania the English language (until lately, since
the appointment of county superintendent of
schools, and the requirement that teachers shall
understand English grammar) has been strange
tongue.
- In Cincinnati, during post norton exam
nation held over the remains of Professor Mine,
DR.. Miller, while making an incision with the seal
pei, accidentally cut his finger. His arm and hand
have since become greatly swollen and iii thought
that unless the arm Is amputated, the most seri-
GUS consequences will ensue.
- The Panama Railroad is in operation. The
road is fifty miles long, and the transit takes four
hours. The tariff of rates is remarkable The fare
is $25, fifty cents mile The charges for freight
are on similar scale of grandeur
- The failure of Miller l. Thompson of Liv-
erpool, is owing to losses in the Australian trade.
Howe, Eager, & Co., London, have suspended for
f130,000. Turif Sharp, iron dealers, New Cum
mock, Scotland, have also suspended for large
amount
Government has RENTED the penalty of
$4,000 on the British steamship Alps on charge
of smuggling, and subsequently declared forfeited
to the United States by decision of Judge Inger-
soil, on payment of the costs.
The demand for mechanics in Kansas is un-
precedented in the annuls of I" city building"
Carpenters, brick masons, blacksmiths, wagon
makers, and other mechanics can get any quantity
OF work to do, at fair prices.
A man by the name of Meshager was ar
rested in st. Louis, "Wednesday, for selling gal
vanized watch and chain to a newly arrived Ger
man emigrant, named Straube, representing them
as gold.
- The Cincinnati Sun has set to rise no more.
the ruins Of the Sun.
--T There was another bank excitement at Yer.
sailles, Kentucky on Saturday Messrs Tilfsrd 4
Barclay, brokers, of Lexington, sent messenger
to Versailles with $500 or $500 in notes of the
branch of the Commercial Bank at that place, to
have them exchanged for coin. A large crowd of
persons assembled with the fixed determination of
preventing the withdrawal of the coin from the
bank, in which they succeeded. 1t was generally
ottxxv. - H. - 49, L.
drawn was much larger than it turned out to be.
- In st. Louis, last Sunday morning, about
o'clock, the elegant residence Of Mr.. G. L. Gilpin,
on Locust street, near Sixteenth, was burned down.
The destruction was total and the loss about $20,
600, which is fully covered by insurance.
-- Austria has forbidden the publication of
the bull respecting the immaculate conception In
Lombardy, and has even prohibited the priests
from preaching upon it,
- The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the
Juniata, which was recently destroyed by fire, has
been rebuilt, so that all the freight and passenger
train are now able to pass over 1t without deten-
ton. The bridge is very substantial structure.
--A valuable lead mine, said to contain 26
per cent of silver has been discovered near Rice
vile, Tennessee.
tributed 200 bushels of corn meal to the poor
women of Cincinnati.
- The Maine law has been introduced into
Africa. Mosbesh, chief ruler of the Basotuland,
has prohibited the importation and sale of liquors
in an effectud decree, containing only three
clauses.
- A child of Ben Morris, Of Rochester, New
York, was bitten so severely by rat that IL died.
Large pieces of flesh were bitten from the cheek.
- The Points Coupee Echo Ua-) learns that
disease, strongly resembling Asatic cholera, has
made its appearance among the negroes lately
brought from Florida, by Mr.. David Barrow, and
placed on his plantation by Bayou Crosse Tetc, in
that parish.
- number of the citizens of Cadiz, Ohio,
are forming company to emigrate TO Kansas
early in the spring
---Robt. M. Luckett, of Loudon county, Va,
was killed on Wednesday, by his horse slipping on
the ice and falling on him.
John N. Unger was committed 10 Jail at
Wheeling, for forgery.
- Captains Gardiner and Englc, of the U. s.
- rroaor,t In, Nav Vorlr for tba rnrvaao