The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-03

In Washington, band of music performs at
the Capitol gardens on Wednesday afternoon,
and at the Presidents gardens on Saturday af.
ternoon, from FIVE o'clock until sunset, during
the whole spring and summer.
On Saturday last, April 2sth halfpnt
tumbler full of large ripe strawberries could be
bought in the Centre Market for fifty cents.
They will be more plentiful anon Rock-fsh
were abundant and cheap. Fifty pound ones
could be bought for that many cents.
| A Southern Railroad Convention met in
Washington on the LIST instant.
Thomas wigglesworth, one of the oldest mer-
chants of Boston, died on Sunday, April 29th,
leaving property to the amount of $2,00O,OOO.
Water was to be let into the Oswego canal
on Tuesday, May LIST.
J. Mercer Langston, q colored graduate of
Oberlin, has been elected Clerk of the township
| in which he resides, viz: Brownhelm, Lorain
county, Ohio. He is said to be an eloquent
speaker.
On Saturday, April 2Sth, a Mr.. Clark, a mer-
| chant of New Haven, Connecticut, shot Rich
ard White, the crime being induced by Whites
marrying Miss Boagart, to whom Clark was
attached. The murderer was arrested.
The remains of Martin Van Buren,, jr., arriv-
ed at New York on Thursday, April 26th, in
the St. Louis, from Havre, and were taken by
his relatives and friends to Undertook, for
burial. He died at Paris on the 10Th March,
as we have heretofore mentioned, at the age q
forty-two, and was the third son of ex-Presi-
dent Van Buren,.
| A juvenile Know Nothing organization in
New York city is comprised of members under
sixteen years Of age.
The compliment of Presidential nomina-
ton is becoming rather too cheap. Mr.. George
Law, Mr.. Vanderbilt, Commodore Stockton,
and others, are amused and fattered by them !;
but, even as compliment, the thing is grow
| ing threadbare.
The affair of the Baltimore ship James
Cheston is not yet settled; but things look bad
for the captain and mate, though their motive
for abandoning her is not very apparent.
FATAL ACCIDENTAL Philade .phia, May lst,
William Manghan, aged seventy, was caught
in the machinery of Stavely & McCalla's print
| ing office, and instantly killed. BE had been
employed in the Office as pressman for twenty
one years. His body was awfully mangled.
SERIOUS RAILROAD AccIDENT-The accom-
mediation train from Rochester to Syracuse, N.
Y, on the night of April Doth, ran over a
horse, which threw th4 hind car down on EN-
bankment twenty feet, smashing the car, con-
tanning eight passengers, causing the instant
death of NJ. O. Wilder, q lawyer of Canandai-
qua, and badly injuring s. Fl. IngersoIl and
Clinton Crainard, of New York; VIM. Hall
and z. Turmen, of Skaneateles Charles 1seu-
ring, and Joseph Lieb, of Syracuse; NJ. Becker,
of Rochester, and the brakesman.
1t is gravely stated in the Leader, London
journal of some Importance as an ultra-liberal
organ, that the real motive of inviting the EN-
peror of the French to Windsor was to prevent
him from going, at present at least, to the Cri-
mea. 1t was considered probable that the Eng
lish Sovereign would pay return visit to
Paris in May or June, which would interpose
another delay to the Imperial and somewhat
Quixotic expedition.
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| dicted for perjury in wifully receiving illegal
votes while acting as Judge of the election in
| Toledo, recently. He has had one trial, but the
| jury could not agree, and the next trial will
come on in July.
! DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILROAD CONDUCTOR
A jury in New York has given verdict of
$4,000 damages against conductor on the
| New Jersey railroad, for ejecting Francis HUI
hnr A1<.o ,ryhn aDx,h 1oor hrOlr
The FIRES IN THE WooDs in North Carolina
continue to rage. The saw mills of Respies
Jordon, in Craven county, are destroyed. Loss
100000, and no insurance. In Washington
county, Riddick & Co. have sustained loss of
$4,000 worth of juniper timber and shingles.
The Baltimore american collects the accounts
| received from all parts of the country, to show,
that with a favorable season, the grain crop of
the present year will be unusually large.
| CoNDUoToRs, LOOK OUT I'VE are informed
that servant girl, belonging to a gentleman
in this city, was arrested at Weldon, N. c., a
few days since, on her way to New York. She
had passed on the cars, closely yelled and
| gloved, thus far, as lady, and was only dis
covered at last by the slipping of one Of her
| gloves, which disclosed her complexion. A
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escaped from this place to New York in the
same way. Conductors ON the cars cannot be
/ too careful in this respect. With proper tact
| they can easily ascertain, without reasonable
offence, the character of those persons who
travel muf1led and incog.
| Montgomery (Ata.) Journal, april 10.
| AN ARRANGEMENT has been made for re-
! duction Of fare to those who are to be in at
tendance on the sessions of the Presbyterian
| General Assembly, to be held in st. Louis in
May. Commissioners and delegates, with their
wives Also may take the Erie, Lake Shore, and
Michigan Southern Railroads to Chicago, and
thence by Alton to st. Louis, for two-thirds of
the usual fare. The same arrangement ex-
tends to the route by Elmira, Canandaigua,
Niagara Falls, and Detroit. The one route
may be taken in going, and the other returning.
The Baptist Missionary Convention at Chicago,
in May, have the same privilege.
| SpEcULArIoNs IN PRoDUCR.-At New York,
| April 18th, there were some heavy operations
| in the produce market, stimulated by the small
stock on hand and the light receipts from tho
interior. sale of 5000 barrels Of -four was
made at 1915 for common State, deliverable In
| June, and $4,000 bushels Western mixed corn,
at 95 cents for June, and SO for July. A sale
of 500 barrels of pork is also reported at $3.50
for mess, deliverable in June.
LARGE TRArN.-The largest train of cars
which has passed over the Steubenville and In
diana Railroad twenty-seven in number-ar-
rived at Steubenville, from Newark, Ohio, on
| the oath of April, freighted with produce and
hogs. The hogs were shipped risa Wheeling
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, for the