Washington sentinel., 1856-03-29

disappeared from the port OF Nutrias, where II
had carried of l80 persons in eighteen D.
and from Santa Lucia, where it carried 6H
eighty victims in twelve days In Sabaneta
in the canton Of Obispos, there had been only
six cases. From Apure the accounts state
that, besides the ravages in San Fernando and
other points in that region, between twenty and
thirty persons had been carried off in Palma
rto in a few days.
...... The city of Wheeling, in Virginia, with
a population of only $4,000, has 8 founderies,
7 forges, 6 manufactures of nails, 10 of glass
ware, or of cotton goods, Of paper, Of
steam engines, of silk goods, and several Of
wire and -four, woollen goods, white lead, and
many other articles, are produced there in
large quantities.
...... The origin of the BARRIERS pole is to be
traced to the period when the BARRIERS were also
surgeons and practiced phlebotomy. To assist
this operation, it being necessary for the pa
tent to grasp staff, stick or pole was
always kept by the barber-surgeon, together
with fllet or bandaging he used for tying the
patients arm. When the pole was not in use,
the tape was tied to it. that they might be both
together when wanted. On person coming
in to be bled, the tape was disengaged from
the pole and bound round the arm, and the
pole was put into the persons hand After it
was done with, the tape was again tied to the
pole, and, in this state, pole and tape were often
hung at the door for sign or notice to passen-
gers that they might there be bled. At length,
instead of hanging out the identical pole used
in the operation, pole was painted with
stripes round it, in imitation of the real pole
and its bandagings and thus came the sign.
ia court-martial was held at Simpheropol
on the 2sth of January, on DR.. Stoddard, an
American surgeon in the Russian service,
charged with assaulting D. Bondler, a German
surgeon, for interfering with his duties in his
ward. On one occasion DR.. s. had slapped
him in the face, and on another knocked him
down. DR.. Stoddard was dismissed from the
service. Under the command of Gortschakof
he was subsequently, rsinstated, but died in a
short time after.
...... Guano is said to have been discovered
on the small island called Pajaros, situated in
the lake in front of the city of Maracaibo. An
examination of it has led to its being pro-
nounced of superior quality, and lis discovery
is hailed as quite wind fall for the unfortu.
nate country.
...... A serious loss is feared from the fact
that the Liverpool packet ship Northumber-
land, bound for New York, is now on her six
lieth day out, and nothing has been heard of
her. She had on board two of the noted per-
forming elephants, which had been purchased
by Richard Sands and Abram Smith, who have
for some time been in Europe on the look out
for attractive novelties for their menageries.
1t is known in New York that the Norihum-
berland had not provisions enough for these
animals to last two months, and it is much
feared that these valuable beasts will have per-
ished from famine before she arrives.
......A water tortoise, (Emys Guttata,) in
the possession of James G. Shute, of Woburn,
an amateur zoologist, has just died, after living
in water two years and six months without
food. 1t is believed that this exceeds, very
much, any instance of this reptiles wonderful
tenacity of life. Redi, distinguished Italian
physician, kept one fasting eighteen months ;
and a land tortoise, from which he had remov-
ed its entire brain, lived, and was active more
.bar - L.. oE,o IL II. II -.
lowly animal, enclosed in strong suit Of ar.
NOR, in which it ordinarily lives a century.
lives no less dilatory in the process of dying
than in its motions, which have passed into a
proverb.
...... The director of the United States Mint
at Philadelphia has given notice that purchases
of silver for coinage will be made on the follow
ing terms, payable in silver coins Of the new
issues. Five franc pieces at 80 cents; old
Spanish dollars at los cents; Mexican and
South American dollars at LOOT cts; balfdollars
the United States coined before 1887. at 52t
cents; the same from 1887 to 1853, at 521
cents; German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian
and old French crowns at ia cents each ;
German forins ALI cents; Prussian and
Hanoverian thalers at u cents American
plate best manufacture, at l20al22 cents per
ounce, and genuine British plate l25 cents per
ounce.
...... The Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
gave children's fancy dress ball on the twenty
second of January, at the residence of the
British Embassy in Pera, Turkey. The two
hundred little creatures present included little
Turks little Greeks, Albanians, Armenians, and
Syrians ofevery race. All we're in their richest
costumes, chattering each in their own tongue,
and dancing after their own fashion. And
there were the children Of diplomatsts, and Of
the Frank colony, dressed in every variety Of
picturesque costume, and speaking among them
every language in Europe. At midnight the
gay little crowd were led away to their homes,
some across the Golden Horn to Stamboul,
others to villas on the Bosphorus, and others to