Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-21

chine, argued last summer at Cincinnati, b
Reverdy Johnson and E. n Dickerson for Nc
Cormick, and L. NJ. Stanton and Geo. Hardin!
for defendants, Nanny & Co., deciding al
points in favor of the defendants, refusing tn,
injunction and dismissiug the bill at McCor
mick's cost.
According to the Commerce., a respectable
OportU paper, all the worst anticipations O
the vintage of the Alto Douro for the asst yea
will be realized. A list is given of 45 cultiya
tors, possessing 6S vineyards, and their pro
duce for 1866 is compared with that of th,
average of former years. The result is 3SC
pipes, against 5l56 PIPES. Taking this as
guide for estimating the whole production, il
is presumed that it will not this year exceed Z
l-2 per cent Of the average quantity.
In order to obtain actual possession of the
property which formerly belonged to her faith
er in New Orleans, Mrs. Gaines is now at lib
erty to institute actions of ejectment against
those now in possession, but it is said she i.
disposed to make reasonable and liberal COM
promises with the occupants or owners.
We are grati6ed, says the Savannah RcpuJ
Hcan, to hear from the Tampa Peninsular o
the 9Th inst, that Lieut.. Hartsutf is not dead
but had returned to Fort Myers wounded, q
ball having passed through his arm and lodged
in the breast. he was doing well The name.
of the four soldiers killed by the Indians are a,
follows: Horth, Foster, Curran and Murtaagh
A large number of balls had perforated then
heads and chests, they were scalped, aud their
bodies most shockingy mutilated.
The Great Inner Sea of Africa, twice a,
large as the Black Sea, including Azoff, tn,
existence Of which Cooley, the African geogra-
of which has been previously announced, has
been further verified by explorations; but the
sea is not so remarkable as the people in its
neighborhood, who are said to read and write,
have no idols, are generally serious, solid, sen
sible people, and profess to believe in God, and
have no tincture of Mahomedanism. From
whom did they learn these things, or is it a
travellers story3
The wealth concentrated at the great com
mercial points of the United States is truly
astonishing For instance, one eighth part OF
the entire property of this coantry is owned
by the citizens Of New York and Boston.
Boston alone in its corporate limits owns one
twentieth the property on this entire Union,
being an amount equal to the wealth of any
three of the New England States, except Mas
sachusetts In this city is found the richest
community per capita, of any in the United
States. The next city in point of wealth, ac-
cording TO its population, is Providence, r. l.,
which city is one of the richest in the Union,
having valuation Of ffty-six millions with a
population of fifty thousand.
At a recent Convention of colored men held
at Sacramento, the total colored population OF
California was estimated at 4,9l5, with an ag-
gregate wealth of S2,S75,0O0.
Queen VICTORIA has given her official sane
ton to the prohibitory liquor law OF the pro-
vince Of New Brunswick, and directs the
Governor or Commander in chief, and all other
persons whom it may concern, 10 be governed
thereby accordingly. The law took effect on
the first ofJsnuary.
The Rochester Tribune says the cost ofw heat
now held by milers in that city, On store and
in transit,) is over 81, 100000, and that the
profits OF the milling business for tie past
season already exceed $4,000
John Mitchell, after a years silence and re-
tirement upon his plantation in this State
energies 20 the lght again, in New York,
where he lectured oh Tuesday night last. His
lectures on "Tbe Footsteps of The Cet," was
listened TO by a crowded audience.
The New Haven Register says ofthe Wakem-
antics; This tribe of deluded fanatics, now in
Jail, spend much OF their time IN the worship
peculiar 20 themselves, aud seem TO regard the
whole affair Of their Imprisonment as ''perse-
cuiionfor Righteousness saks"-and the old wo-
man keeps up her pretended revelations from
Heaven. ID seems she has been for many years
carrying on her nonsense. A gentleman writes
Us from Fairfield that as long ago as 1889.
when liytng IN that town, she pretended TO be
A spropheless, aud went from house 70 house
preaching md PROSECUTING. Al that time she
charged Der husband with being the 'lnan Of
sin, aud with '-bewitciing" all The iuvallds in
flsAt region! aud under this delnslon she muster
ed . company offanntics. who seized and bound
Linn. when sl,e made an nnnatrtal aud highly
criminal a-sull upon liin with katie inhiet
lag dangerous wouuds. The assanii migh' nave
rived fatal, bad MT some 81 ber disciples be-
,me alarmed, aud i,ui stop to The proeeed-
.ags. Il Is probable that her ''nlissionn for
u,lschSef Is about fulfilled,
Edwin Forrest Is lisyiug asncoessiul e.ieage-
aaenl IN BailimoFe.