Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-12
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ces entitled 10 the fullest confidence. that
another place. had been substituted for this.
and that 81. Cloud is after all the palace des-
tined to witness the contamination of this great
event. which will happen, il is thought, about
the 15fh Vr goth of March. The Courtess
o MoniiIo and tie Drke and Duchess of Alba
WI reach Paris toward the latter part of the
-fnonih. What perl aTs. gave rise to the ru-
nor thar the Empress would BE- delivered soon.
er than this is the fact that the nurse who is
tD attend her during her confinement was Sc
lected long ago, and has been for some time.
duly enstalled in her quarters at the Tuilleries.
She is hne-looking Norman woman, from
the canton of Verneiul, where she was chosen
by DIR. Dubois, who owns estates in that neigh
bOFhood.' sI.
- Garland the New Orleans defaulter has
been bound over in $4,000 to answer the
charge of embezzling city funds Other de-
facatons have been discovered making the
amount nearly 100000. An immensely heavy
trunk ia yet unopened, among his baggage.
The captain of the schooner in which he at
tempted to leave, has been held to bail, for
scomplicityin the matter. The schooner has also
been seized.
The Madrid correspondent of the London
TINES, writing on 4th nit, says: We are now
in the midst of the carnival, and nothing but
fun and folly seems thought Of Yesterday, As
the worthy representative ofthe United States,
Mr.. Dodge. was riding towards the Prado, q
mask sprung on the horse behind him with a
clever jump, and proDouncing bis name, nsis-
ted on accompanying him on his ride in that
position. Mr.. Dodge, not exactly relishing
making so public q display, and conceiving
that the voice of his would be companion was
not wholly unknown to him, got down and
consigned his horse TO the discretion of the
mask, who, in due course of time, returned it
by q messenger TO The owner, giving fcti-
tious name.
1t Is said that the Paris Conference will be
carried on as though Nicholas still lived The
Allies not having been officially informed of the
death of Nicholas and the accession of Alex.
ander, are supposed automatically to be igno-
rant of the change. And should a treaty of
peace be signed, one of the first acts of tie
Russian government will be, on resuming d.
plomatio intercourse with England, France and
Turkey, to inform those governments that His
Imperial Majesty the Gar Nicholas is no more
aud his august son. Alexander reigns in his
stead over all the Russias.
a writer in the New York EgeniRg Post
states that the recent annexation of Mosquito
To Nicaragua by Gen. Walker, seriously com
pcates the Central American question. Eng
land has assumed the protectorate of Mosqui-
70, and will not it is thought easily relax her
hold. 1t will be remembered that in lS4S,
when the Nicaraguans attempted to assert
jurisdiction in GreytOwn, the British govern
ment promptly thawarted them, expelled their
officials and replaced the British Mosquito, flag
which still waves over The town. The Mica.
guans formally renowned any sovereignty over
Greytown, in a treaty of March 8, 1913.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal says
45 per cent insurance on the cargo of the Pa
cifc has been offered and refused.
A vast iron lighthouse has been constructed
for the island of ST. Isaac, among the West
India Islands. 1t is twenty -four feet in diane
ter at the base, and will rise to the elevation
of one hundred and Fifty feet to the top of the
lantern. dThe entire work is formed of a series
of vast iron plates of about one and three.
quarter inches in thickness upon the lower
course, with radiating joints diminishing to
the thickness OF seven eig!Iths of an inch in the
upper courses. The lower portions of the
lighthouse, 10 the height of twenty-five feet,
will be filled in with solid concrete.
Davenport the actor is playing an engage.
ment at the ST. Charles New Orleans.
From the tabular statement of the New
York Journal of Commerce it appears that the
imports on foreign dry goods at this port Of
New York during the four weeks ending the
23d ult., amounted in value To $7,044 407,
which is $i,5l6,S 42 larger than for he cor
responding period of last year, but $640, 3S5
less than for the same time Ia 1854 The to-
tai receipts of foreign dry goods a. that port
since January lst. is So 579 ,22O Ia excess ofihe
corresponding eight weeks of last year, and
Sl95, 0S5 less than for the same III 1854. A
very large amount Of merchandise, especially
of dry goods fabrics, are now 90 their way to
New York, and Just at hand.
It's estimated by the Hon. Mr.. McDougal,
of Sonth Carolina, that in 1853 there arrived
at San Francisco $l00,000,O0O worth of rner-
chandise at An aggregate cost for freights and
insurance of SIS, $685. 600 That the passenger
travel amounted 10 $50, SOC, 900, and govern.
ment trsusportiUn 50 ,739, 900, making aggre-
gate Of over $40, 100000 for expense of travel
ing, merchandise and stores from the Atlantic
to the Pacific States. This would have been
done on Pacific Railroad al less than one
third the cost.
The N. Y. Sun of Tuesday, says: Mr.. Peter
Cooper, it is known, has been engaged. for the
the last two Cor three years, in the erection OF
an extensive and beautiful edifce, opposite the
StuyVesant Park, near, the junction OF Bowery
and Third Avenue. He gave notice, yesterday,
of an application TO the Legislature for an act
Of incorporation, authorship him 10 convey 10
Board of Control ''suoh properly, real aud
personal as may be necessary for founding and
maintaining 10 New York an institution, 10 be
denominated the Union for the Advancement
of Science aud Art" The building, including
the site, costs not less than half "a million ot
dollars, and the intention Of Mr. Cooper, IL is
said, is TO endow it AS University, aud make
il present TO the City Of New York. Ii will
be one of the most valuable aud noble gifts
ever made 10 the public by an individual, and
be a source OF benefit TO the city, a. Il will
confer nnfading honor upon the noble donor.
Considerable excitemeul has BEEN created nt
Paris, Bourbon county. Ky, in consequence OF
iii, defacation OF Taylor, Sheriff of the county,
for the amount $4,000.
The Louisville Times states that Capt.
Cassius NJ. Clay has failed 10 very large
amount. Capt. Clay has been large specula-
tor IN hogs for several years, and TO the re-
cent decline 10 hog products Is attributed his
failure. Ills brother Br1tns J. Clay aud ~
G. Johnson are the assiguees
The Hon. Carroll Spence, American Min.
lister to the Porte, has presented MI official
communication 10 the Sultan on the subject
of the law which makes IL a capital offence
for a Mussulman TO renounoellslalnisn, setting
forth ia 4 condensed view the various reforms
effected in Turkey, and an elaborate argument
urging the immediate repeal OF tie existing
law
Thackeray is lecturing in New Orleans.
The Richmond Dispateh, allading 10 the
Aboitionists of the North, thinks IL must be
satisfaction 10 them 10 know that the prices OF
negroes are rising in the same proportion With
the Northern excitement on the subject OF
slavery. The rapid appreciation of this species
of property within few year.; has been re
markable, aud seems not yet 10 have reached
iEs highest point. Prices now are certainly
well up In the figures, and yet there Is DO
EXPANSION ia our money snarkei, nor are Oos