Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-29
THE NASHVILLE PATRIOT.
DAILY, TRI-wEEKLY AND WEEKLY,
BIZ SMITH, MORGAN * CO.


of them Thick that their yield will be more
than half crop. Some growers, who have
been in the habit of raising from ten to fifteen
tons, say that they do not expect 20 break q
pound of the present crop. II is added, that
men who have hemp on hand refuse to fix q
price at all.
According to a work recently issued, treat
ing of the history, principles and progress OF
the Baptists, it appears that in 1892 there was
but one Baptist commitment in the United
States to every ffty-six inhabitants, while in
1854 there was one to every thity inhabitants,
and the sect has more than one quarter Of the
whole church accommodation 10 this country.
The work referred TO also notices the gradual
decline Of infant baptism, and says that more
than twelve infants are born TO one bsptised
by all denominations the country through.
The will of John D. Fink, rich old bachelor
who died a few days since, in New Orleans,
has been fled 10 the second district court in
that city Mr.. Fink was q native of Written
burg, and was about 70 years old when he
died de had lived in New Orleans a great
many years, and amsssed large fortune,
amounting, it is said, TO several hundred
thousand dollars. De devotes the bulk of his
estate to the founding of an asylum for Protes
tant widows and orphans in that city, to be
called the Fink Asylum. Legacies are left to
several relatives, and provisions made for the
emancipation of a number of his slaves.
We learn from the Dallas Cexas) Herald
that the committee on Public Lands have re-
ported bill TO the Legislature of Texas ap-
propriatng one square league of land to the
heirs of Col Crockett, in recognition of his
great and heroic services in the war of indie
pendence. There is DO doubt but the bill will
become law. This act Of justice to the heirs
of the immortal Crockett, should have been
consummated long ago-but it is better late
than never.
The Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American says, that the consequence
of the recent postal arrangement between this
country and England is, that newspapers are
now delivered in Paris, free of cost, whether
coming only from Great Britain, or merely via
Great Britain from America and the transat-
lantic States. This is a great boon to Ameri-
can correspondents, previously subjected to a
very heavy and very arbitrary postage. In
future all printed matter is to be transmitted
between the two countries at the rate of
confines the 40 grammes."
During the past year there have been re-
ceived at various ports Of the United States,
~, GAO barrels sperm and l84, 0l6 barrels whale
oil, aud 2,7O7, 5O0p pounds whalebone-of which
a very large proportion arrived at the port and
district of New Bedford For the period of
fourteen years, ending with 1854, there were
imported into the United States 1865, 455
barrels sperm and S,S52,93 barrels whale OIL
and IS, 355, 4O6 pounds whalebone. The stock
of oil in Bristol county, in first and spectators
hands, Jaduary /, 1856, was Ia, 1857 barrels
sperm and 5S,597 barrels whale.
private letter giving an account Of the
recent bombardment of Sweaborg, says that
the men employed on the gun-boats had, as is
usual, their cars padded with cotton, and few
cases of deafness are reported, but all employ
ed experienced severe pain in the chest, and
in two days some Of the men had not recover
cd thir voices.
Mr.. Bates, Of New London, Conn, has in
vented an anti-compression valve for railroad
locomotives; the value being used on the cyln-
der to obviate an acknowledged difficulty al
ready existing, owing to the non escape of waste
steam as the piston advances or recedes. The
valve, as its title indicates, is designed to pre-
vent loss Of power by exhausting the cylinder
of all steam 10 advance of the stroke. The
loss by compression is computed at one-half,
which being remedied, is great item saved,
Railroad collisions, which are ever the ter
ror of travellers, are about TO be wholly pre-
vented, il is said, by recent invention lately
tested on the Madrid Railroad in Spain. IL is
done by new application of electricity, and
and is pronounced perfect safe guard against
the possibility of collisions In future-two To-
comotives infallibly stopping one another be-
fore coming together.
Mr.. John Lawrence Baxter, in the Louisville
Times, offers TO bet from So, 900 TO 80, 900 that
he can do as follows; Jump FIVE feet further on
a dead level than any man in Kentucky; three
feet further than any man in the United States;
one foot further than any man in the world; or
that be can stand flat. footed upon the earth,
and leap a brick wall fifteen feet high and four
thick.
There is some trouble anticipated in Mime
sofa this winter from the Indians. They Gre
leaving their reserves aud scattering over the
in hunting parties, sometimes TO the
great inconvenience and annoyance Of settlers
who are compelled to stay at home TO
protect their houses aud families. The In
dams are not backward to enter dwellings aud
help themselves TO whatever suits them. The
people of Rice county requested the Governor
20 send them back to their reserve, bat be has
Refused, and the people threaten TO take their
rifles to rid themselves Of the intruders.
The N. Y. Mirror has been shown a solid
hemisphere of pure gold, taken from the Co
lumbia mine, Georgia, the result of three days
work. The value Of the lump is 81 800.
These mines are owned BY few enterprising
gentleman who are working them with great
success. A company partly eompos Of the
..r;a,ore If tba Colnmbia nina ara ahout