Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-26

ton 10 the arrest of the parties implicated in
the heavy frauds in the Adjutant Generals Of
fee, of which we had intelligence on the arri-
val Of the steamship Louisiana. The News
learns that Blankenship and Lewis, the per-
sons implicated, are ia custody in Austin,
awaiting trial. No Austin papers have come
to hand BY this arrival, and consequently the
above is all the information we have on the
subject. The News is informed that Gen.
Chambers charter for company 10 operate
his terraqueous machine, was granted by the
Legislature. but that the land bonus asked for
was withheld.
Tie greatest snow storm that ever occurred
at 0swego, New York, upon Lake Ontario,
region famous for sRch storms, occurred on
Friday the Ist inst The railroads stopped
running the window shutters of the stores
were not taken down, the newspapers were
not published for three days. The streets in
many parts of the city were impossible, the
snow ranging fiom four to ten and twenty feet
deep. Many of the residences were banked
up with snow TO the second story. Snow now
lies to a depth on q level of from six to eight
feet in the woods.
By a census just completed, it appears the
population of st. Louis is 122,252. OF these
ll9,054 are white, 1850 black, and 1889
slaves. 59,76S are males, and 55.s68 are fe-
males. The increase of population since 1850
has been about 100000 The number of man
ufacturing establishments is COL, and the CAPT
tai invested therein amounts TO $6,558, 200.
Total number of houses 143ll.
1t is said that Mr. Buchanan is very DESTROYS
of availing himself of the present opportunity
10 visit Paris and Rome-neither of which
cities he has ever seen. lie will, after the ar
rival of his successor, Mr. Dallas, spend two
months on the continent before returning
home Therefore, he will not return to the
United States long before the time fixed for
the Convention at Cincinnati.
The ST. Louis Letelligencer, of the 9Th inst,
says: Plum Point Bend, Familiarity known
among steamboatmen rs the Devils Bone
Yard, is and always has been the worst point
on the whole river for navigation At all sea
sons of the year, when boats approach it, they
do so with caution. 1t is always filed with
snags and sand-bars, and a larger number of
boats have SINK there than at any other poiat
on the river The water is lower there than
at any other point, aud the channel is said TO
be narrow and crooked, besides being filed up
with the wrecks of more than dozen steam
boats that have sunk there during the past ten
years. Just now Plum Point Bend is place
Of interest, more particularly on account of
there being no less than fourteen boats aground
there, and none of them likely TO get off until
the river rises.
The Fayetteville N. @ Observer, Of the
l4thinst., announces the discovery of seam
OF exceedingly rich bituminous coal on Deep
river, branch of the Cape Fear. The vein is
four and a half feet thick, and of beautiful
quality, and lies about four hundred feet below
the surface Of the earth. The company 10
which the Mines belong have extensive build
ings and machinery ready to be pat up, and
expect TO be prepared to ship 300 tons per day
in less than two months from this date, If
means of transportation are afforded. La the
mean time efforts are making to raise money
to build a railroad from Fayetteville TO the
mines distance of not over fOrty-twO miles,
and proposals are issued for loan OF 100000
on the bonds Of the town of Fayetteville. The
coal region contains about 800 square miles
The Development Of this coal del o lite which
promises TO be inexhaustibe in quantity, will
open a new era IN the Southern States. There
is no doubt that the same mineral formation
exteud> much farther South, and will, before
long, be discovered.
The n o. Crescent of the 18th inst, gives
the report of the commissioners of the Nc
Donough estate with accompanying docu-
ments From 1t we learn the whole valuation
of property to be $2,272, 406 %. The receipts
for 1895 are set down ,$l07, 500 49, the ex-
pcndltures at S32l2S 90. The rent roll is
SCI, Ol0 49, The rent notes and leases on
hand Of property leased for a longer period
than one year, and falling due annually to
$780, amount TO $50, 957. Litigation concern
ing the estate is not yet entirely ended. There
are four actions now pending, the parties con-
cerned ali claiming various legacies and sums
which, in the aggregate, seriously affect the
value of the property.
The St. Louis Republican learns that the
praai1ant of ha Unffad Stasaa has ar1a cd
10 Fort Leavenworth pardon for the Indians
held in confinement at that post, charged with
the murder of the mail party near Fort Lara
mic, last year. These Indians, five in num-
ber were delivered up To Gen. Harvey, and
sent to Fort Leavenworth for confinement aud
trial.
Mr. Lewis W. Washington, of jefferson
county, Va, son OF the late Hon George &.
Washington, of Nd, as heir of the estate, has
rendered TO the State of Virginia, through
Gov Wise, the title to sixty acres of land in
Westmoreland county, the site of the birth
place of George Washington, and the house
and graves of his progenitors in America. The
condition of the gift is, that the State shall
cause the premises 10 be permanently enclosed
by an iron fence, based on a stone foundation,
aud shall mark the same by suitable and mod.
est, though substantial tablets, to coinmsmo-
spots. The Governor recommends the accep-
lance of the gift on the terms proposed, and
says an appropriation OF two thousand dollars
will be sufficient.
\ paragraph has been published to the ef
feet that Hiram Powers, the sculptor, was in
pecuniary distress; it would appear, however,
not to be true, for in letter recently received
from him, he says: 81 am now most prospe-
rous having passed over many years of great
trial aud difficulties, which, but for the Yankee
blood in my veins would have broken me up
long ago, and sent me home to pursue a inore
lucrative business" He anticipates u perIna-
nent home among his countrynen; he says:
sand under the laws of the only country
which assures ull equality to mankind"
Mr.. Writ Trimble, OF Georgetown, ID. O.,
has invented composition for Printers Roll
lers which will be unaffected BY temperature
not made too soft by summer heat, nor too
hard by winters eold-besides being more te-
nacious aud durable. This Improvement will
obyiate a great Inconvenience experienced in
Tire present composition used for rollers. aud
viii be a most welcome discovery for all Prin-
tiers.
Recent experiments, as stated in the Mark
baue (tag) Erpress, 10 10 show that common
salt Is a valuable addition 10 all applications of
gaano 70 the soil Ii not only has y tendency
10 give strength and hardness 90 the straw,
(Which guRnO weakens,) but prevents the loss
of ammonia which is constantly going on even
in dry atmosphere. 3. Barral the editor of
French agricultural journal, says: ave left
iR,the open air, in plates, during fifteen days,
equal weights of The pure guano aud she gaAno
previously mixed with salt. Al the eud OF
that time we examined anew the amount Of
nitrogen, aud found that the pure guano bad
lost lA6 per oent of its Nitrogen, while that
mixed with salI had lost only per cent" The
Erpres recommends the use OF the refuse salt