Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-15
The News.

nobody knows The banks hereafter will not
consider gold as one of the thing TO be "taken
for granted"
Jedg0 Hanna, Of Vincennss has decided tie
Indiana liqnor law unconstitutional
VIM. Lingo, superintendent of the Work
honse at 81. Louis. has been found guilty of
brutal aud inhuman treatment to prisoners. of
neglect Of dnty, and of apuropriating the time
and labor of the prisoners TO his own use, and
las been dismissed from the office
petition has been presented to the New
York Legislature asking that law be passed
making every alternate year "leap year"
The petition sets forth that for the past few
weeks Of the new year many more marriages
have taken place and much more counting been
going forward; aud they believe that leap year
Is a useful and beneficial institution, calculated
10 do much for "wOmans rights"
1t is believed that Coffee can be cultivated
in some of our Southern States as successfully
as in Brazil, Java, and jamaica That irs
cultivation 10 our country would be invaluable
may be inferred from the fact that il costs US
no less than $lh7O0,0GO annuity as an i'm
,portstion. the coffee tree, it is well known.
lives To great age, provided the soil is kept
well drained, and begins 10 bear when three
years old, increasing in fruItion Till seven wears
of age. II is to be hoped that the experiment
will speedily be tried in some OF our Southern
States.
The Springfield Argus speaks of a ne rifle
musket manufactured at TIE United States
Armory in that city, which has just been
brought TO perfection under the direction of the
War Department, and which will hereafter be
made for the service. This weapon weighs
about nine and one-h half pounds, has the rifle
barrel, the MAYNARD primer, and all the i'm
proVmen's which modern science has brought
To the aid of this branch Of manufacture
As an evidence OF the progress of civiliza-
ton, We observe in late Melbourne paper
that the clipper ship Gen. Blanco, of Hawaii,
Sandwich Islands, 800 tons burden, is adver-
tsed TO sail from that port for Hong Kong,
China. 1t was but few years ago that these
Islands were inhabited by savsges, but COG
slant communication with the Anglo-Saxon
race has bad its effect.
A party of nineteen emigrants for Kansas
left Charleston Is. O. on the 9th instant and
the News of that city earnestly appeals To Il e
citizens to aid by liberal contributions a bona
tide emigration TO that Territory.
Fries the late wharfInaSter at Cncinncti |
has proved defaulier in the sum of s., 600.
The Washington correspondent of the New |
York Ereaing Post says: Lord Clarendon hav- |
ing refused to comuDicare to Parliament he cor. |
respondence, our Government has assumed the |
office Of enl'g htenlng them, aud am informed |
that copy Of the pampiet containing 10 lods
transmitted by Saturdays steamer 10 each |
member Of the House Of Lords md Commons.
Quite important discoveries OF lead ore have /
been made in Coosa County, Alabama A |
specimen, taken from pit on the top of |
vein, fifteen or twenty feet below The surface
contains not only lead, bUt gold. Black, red /
and grey copper is also found in that vicinity |
Only a month ago we learned (says the |
Boston Traveller) that Mr. Chacornac, at
Paris, on the 18th of January discovered a |
planet, the 3Sth between Mars and Jupiter; |
but yesterday the Director of The Observatory |
at Cambridge received circular letter from !
the celebrated lie Verrier, in which the dis |
covery of the S9th, on the 9th ultimo was !
announced
A witness in n liquor case at Manchester. |
n. 3, the other day, gave the following testi- |
mony; ''Sal soda is ice and water and some
stuff squirted into it from concern. Don't |
know whether it is Intoxicating or MOTT /
makes one feel good-feet lift easier"
IL has been been decided ia England that |
railroad companies are liable To an action at |
law ia case of time not being kept ia depart |
ure, arrival and progress.
Bossuet, says his latest biographer, resorted |
nightly TO the theatre, TO learn bow to carry |
his drapery and modulate his eIeoqution. He .
made amends for this weakness by writing |
vigorously against the Stage. lie himself went /.
TO The play with a good end IN view--hke /.
that other holy man described by Madame de /
Sevigne, who cheated at cards for the benefit |
of his fayorte charity.
Agnes Robertson is playing in Charleston /
South Carolina.
Louis Napoleon, il is affirmed, will get that
clause of the Treaty Of Vienna removed by .
which the family of the elder Napoleon were
forever excluded from the French ihroi e. .
That this was mere form of words is ,hOwn /
by the fact that one az the descendants OF the /
Imperial family thus excluded fills the throne .
of France, while his tide has been recognized /
by all the crowned heads who were parties |
% that treaty, with one of which he is in ALI.
Rnce. But il will be matter of pride for
Louis Napoleon TO compel these very parties 10
undo what they set their hands TO, in solemn
convention.
1t is stated that no less than nine hundred .
horses have been killed in the city ct New
York since the first considerable fall of snow, .
little more than two months ago They have /
been driven TO death.
The Burlington Qowa) Telegraph says that /
CONTRACTS for buildings TO be erected that city /
during the present year, have already been /
entered into, involving the expenditure of hall .
a million of dollars.
As sign of the mildness of the season in .
Europe last month, several beautiful butter.
flies were caught on the llJh utimO in gardens .
near Paris.
Mr.. Barnes a soap manufacturer in New /
Orleans, La, has manufactured new article .
of soap, made from cotton seed, 1t is purely .
vegetable, aud has the same properties rs
CASTLE soaps the color is dark, for the reason |
that ii is made from the dirtiest portion of /
theseed. IL is sold at six cents per pound.
The war is generally popular with the En-
glish press, because il increases the circulation /
of the newspapers. The book trade languisl- /
es, and If peace does not come soon, the poets
will be obliged TO lay down The Tyre and take /
mn the sword As in our Mexican war, the Sc NJ
of combat is too far off 10 affect Commercial /
matters; but il gives impulse Ia newspapers /
and in LAYING the basis OF terrible revolution
IN Western Europe during the next season OF
peace.
Roger 4. Pryor writes Ia the SluthSide /
(Va) Democrat = letter announcing las return
from Europe, concluding with this remsrk:
Peace is inevitable. France Is bent nn 10 aud
there is an understanding between the Emperor
of France aud Russia The English are indg-
nant, and say they are betrayed. Po"or Fog
land, how fallen! Yet she prelends she wants
20 fight against ". There is much excitement
there abCI.t a war between EuglInd aud the
United States Louis Napoleon desires IL.
Heaven forbid al
A i,int resolution has been introduced into
the Council OF Minnesota, providing Tor a
Convention 20 he he'd ia June. 1856 70 frame
a STATE Constitution as n preliminary 10 asking
for admission into the Uuion. The presenI
population 81 the Territory Is said 10 be DC.
tween sixty and seventy thousand.
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