Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-04-17

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ton some time since, on the charge of being in
command of the American brig Glamorgan
which vessel was captured on the coast OF
Africa in 1854, and brought to Boston BY Lieut.
Downs.
...... Humboldt, who is now past 80 years old,
is said to be as busy as he ever was in his
younger days, completing his Cosmos
49,. The Maiae Lao Adcocate says that OF
twelve criminals convicted at the late Superior
Court in Bridgeport, none of them were more
than twenty-one years of age, and that intern
perance was the principal cause of their Of
fences. ,
...... Wo,k Of an american A,my.-A
writer thus alludes to SCOTS achievements in
Mexico:
" He scaled the Cordlleras, bore the eagles
ofhis country in quick succession through the
streets of Jalapa, Perote, and Puebla; with
5000 men, swept resstless through the pass OF
Cerro Gordo, defended by l2,500 Mexicans-
with the same number Of men defeated $4,000
at Contreras and Cherubusco 49, with 7,l9O
stormed Chepultepec, defended by 10000
with 500 took the city of Mexico, occupied by
an army of $4,000"
49,. An artist in New Orleans is about
getting up panorama OF law suit. The
first scene opens with the year one, and the
last closes with doomsday.
$500. Paper from Broom Straao.--Mr. z. w.
Benedict, proprietor of paper mill near
Raleigh, has recently been testing, with signal
success, the practicabiity of manufacturing
wrapping paper from the ordinary broom
straw. For strength, it is particularly adapted
to the use of grocers and others.
...... Pasha attending Church.-A letter
from Jerusalem, states that on recent Sab
bath, his Excelency Kiamil Pasha, attended
the English service with his two Secretaries,
and followed as far as the door by a long train
of servants. Who would have anticipated such
an occurrence few years since the English
church bells ringing in the Holy City, and
Turkish Pasha walking gravely TO church.
49,. The New York Courier and Enquirer,
an old Native American paper, and with
leaning formerly to Know nothingism, says;
"The money brought into the country in the
pockets of immigrants is computed by tens OF
millions annually, and the value of the immi-
grants themselves in peopling the country, sub
DANG the forest, cultivating the prairie, and
opening the mines, is hardly to be reckoned in
dollars and cents
...... European Lntervention IN Nicaragua
The Boston Herald learns from private letters
received by the Illinois, that the British frgate
President, which had come down the coast
with silver TO Panama, Immediately upon her
arrival at that port fastened back to Punta
Arenas, the seaport Of Costa RIGA on the
Pacific, in order to defend the country against
an incursion of Walker, which was expected
by the authorities. A French frigate was at
the same port with the purpose Of acting with
the British force against Walker.
49,. Commodore McKeecer.-Ihis chival-
rous officer, who died at the Portsmouth navy
yard, a few days ago. was native Of Pennsyl-
vana, and entered the navy in 1909, since
which period he has served % years and 10
months at sea; IL years and months on
shore duty, and was 10 years and j months
unemployed. The last time he was at sea was
in July, 1853. His commission as Captain
was issued in 1885, Since the death of Com.
Morris, he stood number eight on the list of
captains.
49,. Wilnot Turned Up Again.-David Will
mot, Of proviso notoriety. has turned up again.
He comes out in letter requesting the friends
OF freedom in Pennsylvania to meet in Pitts
burg, ozark place, that Pittsburgh on the 10th
of June next to nominate a Niger Worship
ping State Ticket. This is to make capital
for the Niger Worshppers National Conven.
ton, which is called to meet in Philadelphia
on the nth Of June; but it won't do, Mr..
Wilmot.
...... Statistics Of Color.--The census Of
1850 shows that while more than one-fourth OF
the colored people Of the north are mulattoes,
only one-thirteenth of the slave population of
the slave States are mulattoesl Among the
3.2O3.3l4 slaves in the United States, 246,656
were found to have white blood in them. and
not all Of these could be considered mulattoes;
while Of $4,000 colored people Of the free
States, $1,000 were mulattoes In Ohio out
Of $4,000 of colored population, $4,000, or
more than oue-half are mulattoesl
80. Pensacola IN The Fut,re.--The Pensa-
cola (Fla.) Gazette is jubiant over the future
prospects Of that city. Property which last
year was in market for the smallest possible
price, is now so valuable that it can hardly be
bought, and property which was valuable be-
fore has now risen to be beyond purchase
Two lots we're sold on the 22d for 81, 025. This
favorable state Of things is in consequence of
the certain success Of the Pensacola and Mont
gomery Railroad, the surveys of which are
It'll. .~o,,xoss;n0 Within the space Of two