Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-16
News Brevities.

Wv yoSisb MT Janice OalVert, formerly capital
merchant. He was the sole proprietor of the first
prize ticket which ever drew so high prize as
100000 in the English lottery, and 10 subsequent
lottery be got 900. This result of lottery money
is to be found generally attending those who are
no unfortunate Is to draw high prizes"
-. The great bell of Westminster, intended for
the clock tower of the new Houses of Parliament,
and known as Big Ben' has been sOIemnly tested.
Mr. Dsnison, its designer, and great COMPANY Of
the curious, we're present The bell was not in It's
place, but within a bordering at the base of the
toWer. The clapper, Of twelve hundred weight.
was on this occasion sWaysd to and fro By ei0bt
laborers. The note struck proved TO be E natural
the note it was designed to give forth. The bell
10 described as perfect piece of castine' and its
power OF tone surpasses that Of all other bells, na-
tive or foreign.
49, The Salem Rsoistsr says, il ia an old time
custom with the MsrbIehead fishermen. still cop-
nnued, we believe, for each man on board the YES,
sci TO throw, as she passes Hallway. outward
pound, copper or cent on the rock for good luck.
a. they say. When or how the custom originated,
we are not informed. But some Of the knowing
ones among the boys used to obtain pocket money
somewhat chesply by watching their chance and
visiting the rock after the feet had sailed to gather
up the pennies.
go. In 1855, the United States imported seven
millions dollars worth of sugar more than in 1s65
The increase in the importation of dry goods was
nearly sixty millions Of dollars.
49, A man in Berkshire, England, is calling at
iention TO his mandatory, where he makes wine
and bread from mangel wurtzel. The wine is eaIly
gooo, and may be produced at about six per cent.
per quart. In making bread, the mAngel wurtzel
~ mixed with -four, (about 6fty per cent and, al.
Enough it is rather too moist for the palate, it is
sweet and good.
80. The Pulaski Citizen says the BOYS in that
section are having fine sport shooting pigeons
Three of them few nights since bagged .Oo thOus~
and in a short time.
The government OF France hasmade a pron.
osition to the American government for eonven.
tion in regard to postal matters which is extremely
liberal, aud which, i: is confidently believed, will
greatly facilitate American correspondence, not
only with France, but with the continent of Europe.
The chief benefit of the convention s, that all pre-.
paid letters for :he continent may be sent through
France free from all restrictions, and be placed up.
on the same footing as French correspondence. In
other words the United States will enjoy the same
privileges in the transmission of its letters that
France now does. The rates per quarter ounce
from the United States are said TO be as follows
To France, 10 cents; to Belgium, 81 cents; Italy
and Austria, 2s cents; Constantinople, &C., 81
cents, and the Indies, Ss cents.
80. Some time Lass summer a lawyer of Hamil.
ton G. W., eloped with the wife of Mr.. Brodgin,
another lawyer. Her husband shot the seducer,
was tried for murder and acquitted 1t is now said
that Mrs. Brodgin has committed suicide by cutting
her throat.
A orreIpondentfu furnishes the Boston Tran.
ssript with fact in regard to the noble conduct of
sWoman that deserves honorable mention The
clipper ship Nsptune's Car, Captain Jacob Paaen,
sailed from New York for San Francisco about the
10th Of July last. The captain, on the passage,
attacked with brain fever and subsequent blind
ness; she chief mate having been deposed from
duty previous to the captains Illness and the Sec
ond mate being incompetent to navigate the vessel
the captains wife, who happened proVidentially to
be on board, and who had been taught navigation
by her husband, took charge of the ship and
brought il safely into port.
-. The resolution of the Judiciary Committee
OF the Senate deciding against the right of Mr..
Harlan, Of Iowa, to the seat claimed by him has
been adOpted-ayes 2S; nays Is.
80. The New York Christian Advocate, as a cure
for snicide, proposes the enactment of law con-
signing TO the schools of anatomy the body of eve
cry individual Of whatever rank in life, whom q
coroner. jury should declare to have committed
slO de sc. This is singular proposition to origi,
nate with a religious journal. But these are sin.
gular times-the pulpit and the religious press of
she North have strayed afar of from the path Of
Christian duty
-. Two engineers on the Virginia and Central
Railroad have contrived machine for laying rail-
road tracks by steam. According TO the account
Published, it does all the work Of grading the road,
laying the ties, and putting the rails and chairs in
position. The machine used is SiIty-two feet in
length, and iS estimated that it will lay the track
81 the rate Of ten feet a minute.
,.... Russia has adopted the new style in calen.
dAr time. Heretofore the dates of all Russian ofs
neisliSm have been fifteen days behind the almanac
Of the rest of the world. The Georgian calendar
10 at las, proclaimed by the autocrst
80. A Frog Supper was given in Boston on the
9Th inst, by distinguished Bon vivant, to few
friends. The Times says the "game" was Of his
procuring, and Of the right kind-having proud
manor Of the same near Chelsea. The frog busi>
ness is becoming one Of importance, and the Times
hears that as many as 1000 fat green hides are pro.
cured day, BY good spOrtsmsn. They sell for
81 so per hundred; and when thoy become better
known as table delicacy, they will command a
still higher price, No taste has 10 be cultivated 70
enjoy them, when properly cooked. The time will
come when the quotations Of the frog market win
be considered as essential as those Of the Brighton
or Cambridge cattle market.
-. Near the centre are we Of Nashville. The
same dates from New Orleans and New York are
received almost daily BY the same malta
-. The Palestine CTe1as) Advocate describes a
recent wish made by tbs editor 50 pigeons roOst
on Wolf creek, some twenty or thirty miles above
Palestine. The company arrived at the Foost be-
fore night and Nhen the pigeons were ABSENT
They we're struck with sstonishmsnt Al the hAvte
she pigeons had made. 'on all sides large tresS
were either broken or swisied down, aud ,hs Eunls
Of towering oaks literally stripped Of the branches"
About sundown they heard loud roaring TO the
North, and looking up they saw the trout Of large
column OF birds approaching, and for several min.
utes il continued 20 pOsr along In one unbrOken
stream" Directly. Others came from every direO-
ton .''until the whole air appeared 10 be fun o.
them" The company commenced operations after