Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-11
The News.

The New York Journal Of Commerce. refer
ring to the missing steamer Pacific, saws the
insurance on her IL very large The amount
on the slip is 100000, half in this country
and half in Europe; the freight money is in
sured for $4,000. She had between six and
seven hundred tons Of cargo, valued at over
Sl,500.O0O, most of which was insured
good part 10 this country. The insurance is
divided among various Offices throughout the
country, so that in case Of loss or damage to
the ship cargo the blow would not fall ex-
ciusively on New York. The Pacific is com
msnded by Captain Asa Eldridee, who has
navigated the Atlantic with the most respon-
sihe commands for nearly quarter of CEN
tpry.
In Paris Mons. de Sora has recently dis
covered the secret of making hens lay eggs
every day in the year. He feeds them ON
horse flesh, and obtains his supply of twenty
five or thirty day. among the used up hacks
of the CITY. His hennery, y few miles from
Paris, has furnished about forty thousand doz-
en- of eggs week at the rate of sz dozens for
our francs, yielding the proprietor for every
seven days the round sum of 5000, or $780,
600 year. Mons. lie SOra employs about
one hundred persons, mostly females. and his
entire expenses are only about $75 900 a year,
leaving bin the handsome balance of 1875. 900
profit. lie never allews q hen TO set, and all
bis chickens are hatched by steam The eggs
are arranged upon the shelves and covered with
blankets; and each mordiDg q swarm of chick
ems are taken to the nursery
1t appears that the bodies of many Of those
who died of yellow fever at Norfolk, last
summer are being constantly disrterred by
their friends. This has created among the
citizens some fears of the health of the town
and TO quiet all approximations the board of
alfh IL L.
Inents shall be made between this time and the
first of January next. In the meantime, the
graves are to be decently arranged, aud their
identity preserved, while those that have been
opened are TO be strewed with ashes and lime
and sowed with clover seed.
letter from Florence, under date u Janu-
AIRY 9, says:-'This Is the only cheap place to
live in have seen. | have a dining room
and two chambers and a servants room. and
have for breakfast and dinner whatever want
have an excellent Swiss servant who speaks
French and Italian, IA coachman and pair of
horses two carriages, one open and the other
close, and all this cost me 1920 month. Ny
man servant waits upon me and gees on the
carriage, and has nothing TO do with cooking
for me. That is done by the master of the
house for me, and Is inclUded in the above
estimate"
Mr.. Maosulsy tells ne that what is now
called the leading article in a newspaper, sell |
dom appeared, even after the cenSurshIp of the |
press expired in 1895, unless there Il want |
of news! "When there was a scarcity of in |
telligence, when the Dutch mails were detain- |
ed by the West vino, when the rapparees |
were quiet in the Bog of Allen, when no |
stage coach had been stopped 10y highwayman |
when no non,juring congregation had been |
dispersed Ivy cOnstables, when no ambassador |
had made his entry with long train of coach |
es sndsiI, when no lord or poet had been |
buried IN the Abbey, and when, Consequently |
1t was difficult TO Gil four Scanty pages then |
the editor supplied leading article
An interesting lace run recently at |
Cairo Egypt between an English mare and an |
Arab horse belonging 10 Haeen Pacha, when |
the former beat the latter. The length of the |
race was eight miles, the time occupied by |
the mare eighteen and a-half minutes over q !
srough, gravelly, and sandy road. The same
race has been offered for the last two years !
against all England, for 10 600 sovereigns, with
:he same horse, and not accepted. The Egyp-
tlen princes are now convinced that their
Arabs can be beaten by English horses. The
late Niceroy Abbas Pacha had offered TO stake
any amount up to 100, OO0f on his own horse,
against any others that might be brought To-
run.
We regret to see il stated in the Petersburgh
Express that the Hon. Thomas II. Bayy, #
Virginia, continues dangerously i'll at Havana
whittier he went in the beginning OF winter for
ihe benefit of his health.
The deve opment ufthe commercial resources |
OF Turkey is likely T. attract considerable atteu-
ton from capitalists in Western Europe The |
first undertaking with this object is announced
under the title of the Ottoman Bank, with |
capital of $500, 900, 10 be increased TO e., 900,
600.
Benson Blake, Esq, informed MS yesterday,
says the Vcksburg Wing Of the Goth, that fire |
had burst ont of the centre of a pile of cotton |
seed that lay 10y the side of his gin house. on
his plantation on the Yazoo river, few days |
since. The cotton seed had been exposed TO |
the weather all winter, and he had commenced |
hauling II away, when the fire broke out of the /
centre OF the pile. After it was eItingui,hed, |
on examination it Was found charred TO II con
siderable depth, and bore the appearance of |
having been smothered in for some time. Mr.. |
Blake assures us there can be no doubt of the !
fire originating from the heat of the seed. No !
doubt this is the cause Of many gins burning
down; and we would advise all who have piles
Of cotton seed lying about their gins TO haul il
out forthwith
ThePoynesian the that states Hawaiian ma
ton, which, 90 years ago WAS estimated
VsriOusy at from 100000 TO 100000, now
only COUNTS lE,UOU, decrease Nlllln lLls
period of at least twothrds Vast tracts Of
lands, once under cultivation, are left u the
rule Of grass aud weeds. The island Of Kauai
remarkable for the prOduciveness of It's soil
and capable to sustain population of At least
100000, contains only 5000. Ii is not Ia
cruel and devastating wars that We have Ia
attribute this unparalleled falling OF ia so
short a time
The continued absence of tidings Of the
steamship Pacific frequently calls forth the |
remark that thatwe were to- nine days with /
out intelligence of the steamship Atlantic. |
when she put back in the winter of 1850 and
'5l, correspondent who was on board the |
Atlantic writes us that the time during which |
we were without intelligence from the Atlantic |
Is understated by one day; he says; ''it WAS e1
acty nifty days before she heard from IA |
this country" Our correspondent adds that |
latter turning round, /; was extraordinary
good tScE which enabled the Atlantic 10 reach |
the other side 50 soon. She proved herself an
excellent sea boat and sailer under all olrcum
stances. Remembering that more Than once
she Was half seas over Snd rIghted.' / still |
believe that the Pacific is Ahoat.'
IL is stated that Russian agent was in
Worcester, Mass, Il few days since and made
a contract with 4 manufacturer there Tor
several thousand rifles. They are to be Of he
Sharp pattern, with some improvements.
Pom the New York Express
An OppoEIune Sentiment.
SIch o. our MI ..iAa fellow ciliz rs AZ don't be-
Gsve ia "Sm," twill be remembered resolved
themse,e s into CIVIL ind-relig oIsLiberty Auu-
al dmiration Society, at the AstOr House, on the
nj Rifth-iay. and Ia The /