Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-13
News Brevities.

an offset 10 this debt the State holds as single item
of assets the Western and Atlantic Railroad built
at a cost of s., 500, 2S5 10. The finances Of the
great Southern Yankee State seem to be in pros
porous condition.
49, A late number of the Liverpool England,
Mail says that quantity of cotton imported sir.y
years ago, when cotton was worth from one to two
; shillings per pound, was sold, few DAYS ago bv
order Of the Court of Chaucery, for 8 pepce
per pound. The cotton, when landed originally
was warehoused, but owing to come dispute be.
tween the importer and the warehouse owner the
whole affair got into Chanccry, and was only re-
Gently decided
-. The London Aaene4m announces the dis.
cOVery Of buried Greek City in the Levant BY
Mr.. Newton, British Vice Consul at Cos. The
Sofaon steam frigate has been sent out, with the
necessary apparatus for excavations together with
eamaras and Photographic chemicals.
-. II was announced last week by teleyranb
that Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers had been an.
pointed, by Her Britannia Msjesty. Minister To the
United States. He is brother to the present Earl
OF Clarendon, Her Maiesty's principal Secretary of
State Tor Foreign Affairs. HI was born in 1902.
graduated at Cambridge, was called to the bar at
Lincoln's Inn in 1927, and is or was Examiner of
the Rolls in the Court of Chancery. He was, also.
from 1885 to the date of his present appointment.
member of Parliament for WAverhamp ton. and
was appointed Deputy Lieut. of Hartfordshire in
1850 and PriVy Councillor in 1853. From his
relations he may be supposed to represent the most
just and conservative sentiment of the presept
government Of Great Britain, and from his cbarac.
ter and abilities, must be an agreeable representa-
tive at the Government Of the United States II
has been suggested that the foreign influence at
Washington, in the formation Of Mr.. Buchanan's
Cabinet, may have been the cause Of an earlier ap
Pointment than has been contemplated but bet1
ter motive may be found in the pleasant feelings
inspired in she people of Great Britain by the late
mission Of Hartstene. The return of the Resol,ts
has touched chord in the English heart, and we
may readily suppose that this is one of its ybras
tons.
-. Incendiary handbills are constantly affixed
to the walls of Paris and that, too, during the day
time, notwithstanding the continual presence of the
police To discover the mode in which it lie done
defeats the ingenuity Of the officials till some &C
cident betrays the offender and then the detected
artifcs is abandoned and new one employed. A
rag picker was recently observed to rest bis basket
against wall. When he removed there was one
Of the terrible pacards staring at all passers>by,
and defying the Emperer's myrmidons EIamna
ton Of the basket revealed little urchin who op-
Grated through door in the wicket work.
80. The London Times, in reply the Paris JourS
nal dss DebGfs, says that "Frauce has nothing to
fear from the ambition OF England. Our spheres
are separate; French ideas and French habits are
quoted and initiated at Madrid and Milan, at Stock.
holm and Bucharest; England is at work far away
to the east Of the Red Sea or west OF the American
Gulf Stream. Now, the Anglo-French alliance
great as its importance is lie essentially European
The existence of the United States makes il appi.
cable to the New World, and we ourselves car
never admit even coadjutor in our dealings with
the monarchies OF Asia, which form parts of Out
Indian system. It follows, then, that in this al
lance, cou6ned as il is TO Europe, France mus
ever be the leader. In war, in diplomacy, in socis
influence she must ever bear the first part A
strange admission, indeed, from such source.
49,. A writer in the New York Journal Of Com
Hssres says the following is a simple and effectua
remedy for frosted feet, and one that will afford i'm
mediate relief "Heat brick very hot, and hold
the foot over il closely il be held without
burning. Cut an onion in two, and, dipping it re.
peatedly in SALT rub It all the foot. The juice
of the onion will be dried into the foot and effect
a cure in q very short time. II this is done for Q
few times, il is almost certain to your feet
tirey."
-. A London magistrate lately fined a respect.
able woman ten pounds, and 10 default OF payment,
sent her to jail for three months because she gave
agood character to a dishonest domestic, and 80
enabled the latter to rob q new employer little
Of that kind OF justice would be very useful on this
side Of the water, and tend to make our domestcs
more useful as "hslps" and honorable as a class.
go. DR.. Valentine Mott performed the operation
last month, for the fOry>fourth time, of tying the
carotid artery In the living subject. The Napoleon
of surgeons is now II years old, yet is straight
as ever, and as young at heart as when 90 years
younger. he does not even glasses when be
operates, and the man Is not eItanI who ever saw
bis hand trembe.
-. An exchange says that il costs the genera
government several thousand dollars q session e
furnish members Of Congress with snuff A boz
shat win hold half peck is secured by the desk o.
the Clerk Of the House, and is filed with frcst
.hAccaboy every morning.
80. The New Orleans Piedyuns SAYS ''Oui
friend, Mr. Charles Pride, the architect, who bull
Holmes splendid dry goods store, on Canal street
afsv years since, finished his work BY putting up
q magnificent mirror which was the largest Mr..
Holmes could Snd In Paris. u measured sever
feet nine inches in width and eleven feet five inch.
es in height il is half an inch thick, aud cost Mr.
H. about o., Ooo"
-. The Boston Ledger says she scarlet fever Il
prevailing TO a fearful extent in Cambridge, snS
especially in Cambridgeport, where great numbs
of children have died from IT,
-. Mr.. Paine stated in the House Of Represen
tatives on the eth inst, that distinct proposition
had been made TO him by member Of the Hope
10 regard to the Minnesota Land Bil and ,hA. 6f
teen hundred dollars would be given as a eOnsde
ration for a vote for that bill He offered TO civ
evidence before a committee Of investigation. A
resolution providing for the appointment Of such
committee vas adopted
-. A few weeks ago poor man 10 New York
10 procure 1oar and Few groceries to keep hi
family from starvation, forged an order and va
sentenced TO elk years IN the psutentiAry. Nor
recently, Huntingdon. for fOrgiag to the amount o
millions, hss been sentenced for less than 6v,
years The New Workers seem very proud ofhav
ing convicted Huntingdon, but they have abundan
reason 20 be ashamed Of their scandaloBsly uuequa