Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-19
The News.
ThackeraY is lecturinp In New Orleans.

features OF the seizure anu hGSIluCilfe Ciau~e~
of the existing statute. and provisions for
licensing parties 10 sail, but under such restric
tions as to prevent the keeping Of drinking
houses and tippling shops. Parties are also
made liable for damages committed by persons
while intoxicated, and there is a heavy penalty
for the selling Of impure or fabricated liquor
Licences also are to be g ven Tor tie nanufac-
ture Of liquors under presc il ed regulations
There are also provisions against the sale of
liquors to in'oxica'ed ind viduals, and to men
of whom not c. has been given that they are
habitually Incorporate.
A Toronto correspondent Of the New York
Daily Times writes on the 4lh inst: A port
entous story is at the present moment passing
from mouth to mouth, and meets with some
degree of credeHce. II is confidently stated
that a plot has been discovered having for its
object the placing of Canada under the banner
Of the stars and stripes, and that n number of
men holding high office in this country are
Implicated 10 it. II is eaid that when Mr.
Seward, sometime ago in the United States
Senate, spoke Of the probable conduct of
Canada in the event of war with England, he
proceeded II on vague estimate OF the s ate
of public feeling, bat on tangible documentary
evidence in the shape OF letters from ntuel tai
parties on this side, then actually in his hands
And it is added, that the conspiracy has been
blown upon. and that the Governor General
is now in possession OF the names of eight
members of tie Canadiun Parliament, and of
number of Canadiln Magistrates, who have
been engaged in reasonable correspondence
with Mr.. Seward.
An English paper. under date Of Plymouth,
FEBRUARY 7th, publishes the following: The
Retriever (s) arrived from Fernando Pc, &c,
reports that the Hecate, on the lst Of january,
hi, Of iol,
run on shore and deserted by her crew. On
examination she proved To be an American
built vessel with the name of "Chatsworth, of
New York on her stern, and was fully
equipped for large number of slaves. She
was DESTROYED by her Captors. The only
vessel of that name and class we have any
knowledge of was reported to have sailed from
Aspnwall on the 18th of August last, for
Carthage
Another claimant for the honor of fixing
this igHis tatuuS has sprung up in the person
of Mr. E. p. Wilt of New Haven, who has on
exhibition a machine which he claims to be an
exemplfcalion of tho principle Of ceaseless loco
motion.
The New York Journal of Commerce, of
Friday, is in the receipt Of reliable private in
telligence, from St. PetersburgI, to the LIST of
February, which says that all classes have
hatred TO the English is eth violent The war
has developed the resources of Russia, and it
is thought she, will be stronger ia every parti-
cular than when the struggle commenced.
The Governor of Alabama has issued his
proclamation commanding, under the joint
resolutions passed 10y the recent legislature,
general election within the State on the first
Monday of Nav next, for the purpose of elicit.
ing the popular will on The subject Of calling
convention to amend the Constitution.
young chemist of Cuba, named Peyron-
net, has discovered process OF making wine
with the juice of the orange aud pineapple, as
delightful in flavor and equal in quality Ia
champagne. He has already made contracts
for a large expectation of this article to Eu-
rope.
The British Board of Admiralty have mott
fed our Government that they have adopted
Dr. Kane's charts, thus throwing overheard
the charts of Capt. lNGLRFIELD aud other Attic
navigstors belonging 10 The British Navy, as
well as the works of all OF DR.. Kane's prede-
cessors on the coast of Greenland.
A Paris paper says: Rachel has come back
10 US again, broken down in health aud spirit
by her transatlantic tour.
Captain Sampson, Of the packet ship John
E. Th0yer, which arrived ut Boston on Friday
from Liverpool, reports having encountered
lnintubc ut3ub VI lOt, "llCll tAltIhtI lIDll
lat 46 to 42l 2 and Ion. AZ to CO. He was in
the ice FIVE days, aud his ship received some
damage around the bows by striking against
some of the floating masses, bat the injury was
not serious. Capt. ). states that he never be
fore saw so much ice in the Atlantic.
Queen Victoria (whO ought To- know advised
the Empress Eugene 10 Use chlorotorm as al
alleviutor Ofpain in her hour of trial Bat the
Partisan doctors protested, saying that she
must retain her faculties.
An inv eution has been recently matured 5y
Mr. Rufus Porter, of Washington, which gives
promise of extraordinary utility in preventing
shipwrecks aud marine disasters on our coast,
The invention consists ut loud whistle, or
series of whistles, ATTACHED to the head OF
vertical hollow cy linder, t. be adjusted aud Sc
cured upon dangerous points Of our coast o.
over reefs shoals, aud submarine rocks, tur
the purpose OF being operated by tie undula-
ton of the waves or the swe,ls of the SEN, and
at the approach of every wave sending forth
sounds similar to the shrlll steam whistle of
locomotive engines.
1t reported that the Secretary Of the Navy
has rendered 10 Duncan n. Ingrahan, o t 9
u. ). ship 81 Louis, the post Ut Chief al tre
bureau OF ordinance and photography, made
vacant by the death OF Commodore Morris.
The will of the late Mr.. Thomas Cubitt, the
eminent London builder is one of he longest
upon record, and extends 10 $50 Chancery 70
hos, covering 80 skins of parchment. The
personal estate exceeds 9l,0OO,OOO aud is
charged with the highest amulul ia the scale
ofprobate duty, the stamp beng ElG,OjO. The
widow has an immediate beQaesj OF 100000,
and al annuity of $4,000. Mr.. CubItt began
as a day laborer.
The near completion the Leyiathan steam
er, the ocesn monster noN being built IA Eng
land for the Atlantic trade, IL 10 believed will
insugurate new era in steam navigation. Her
success will determine, al least. whether the
theories which restricted the dimensions at
ships TO hundreds OF tons, ius cad of tens OF
thousands were correct an principle or not. Il
is believed that vessels of the enormous size
of the Levialhan will be found the most eco
nomcal, As we'll rs the safest aud swltle,t,
that can be built. She measures tnsuty -tr0
thousand tons, or about seven times greater
than any ocean steamer engaged ia commerce.
She has a draught OF thirty feet, aud This
great draughl i Causing discussion OF tho
question which is the best har Dor "u our coast
for lie 10 visit Port!aud claims to have the
only har1or which will admit her, but the
New York Courier thin>s That she could come
into Long Island Sound aud East River with
in ghteen miles OF that city, aud 10y extend
ing piers, every facility Tor receiving aud dis
charging cargo and coaing could DC provided
and with the aid OF steam tugs and lighters,
no difficulty would be experienced by freight
ers. IL she is successful, SHE viii be followed
by other steamers ot the same size.
The body of Capt. Palmer, OF The schooner
Fedora lmngene the vessel scnttlvd aud sunk
near CITY Island, New York, last fall, on her
pass age from Williamsburg 10 New Haven