Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-09
News Brevfties.

ly negotiated by Mr.. Dallas and which was surrep-
ttiously printed in the Ny. Herald, will not receive
the sanction of the Senate. "The principal ohjeo-
uon raised against the ratification of the treaty IT,
that it binds the United States not to exercise spe.
cial jurisdiction over any part Of Central America,
and is therefore antagonstic to the spirit of the
so-caled Monroe doctrine. There are some. how
ever, who rest their opposition upon the ground
that the treaty establishes too close an alliance with
England. As the points agreed upon by Mr. Dallas
are said to be based upon the instructions drawn up
for bis guidance by secretry Marcy, and are admit.
ted to be acceptable to the Cabinet at Washington,
their rejection by the Senate during the present
session of Congress would, il is supposed, lead to
the resignation Of the Secretary OF State, and to
complications which would require all the states.
manship Of the incoming administration so unrn-
vel"
-. The valuation of the taxable property of st.
Louis, reported by the Court of Appeals, is $780,
COS, 1850. St. Louis is getting to be quite res
pectable village.
80. A Paris correspondent of the New York
Mems says a singular robbery was committed on
one of the French railroads. The following is a
synopsis ofthe oaas Of the thing. stranger enters
into familiar conversation, takes dram from the
drinking dask, begs pardon for not offering you a
horn first, turns out another the cup has secret
compartment filed with drugged liquor You
drink and go to sleep; the rogue takes your money
and goes off the train at the next station.
$50. Copper mining in Michigan appears to have
been improbable. One Of orr Boston exchanges
says OF the one hundred companies engaged in il,
with an aggregate capital Of 10000, 900 not one
third have paid dividends. About one-half the
number have collapsed, having started upoh in
sufficient basis, or requiring too much capital for
preliminary operations. There are, undoubtedly
profitable mines of copper in Michigan, but copper
stock, both in that State and elsewhere, has been
proverbiaIy and uncertain investment
go. The Chicago Journal says that at Tullsburg,
in the prare region in Illinois, wood has been sell.
Ing at from $40 to Sl5 cord coal at 50 cents per
bushel.
.... The N. Y. Journal Of Commerce says there
is rumor current in New York, apparently from
g respectable source, that Mr.. Webster, an English
man, formerly resident at St. Petersburg, who went
out from here to PunIo Arenas, via the Isthmus.
little while since, was authorised by Commodore
Vanderbilt to negotiate a loan in favor of Costa
Rica of 100000, the funds to be used in extermi.
mating Walker and Nicaragua, after which the
Commodore is to have the right of transit over the
old Nicaragua route.
go. The New England Pin Company, of Win.
sted, Connecticut, have just started new machine
for seiOing pins upon papers, 1t selects the little
indispensabes from pile, and stretches them in
continuous row upon narrow strips of paper, at the
rate of 800 per minute.
80. Il is estimated that one of the rich men NJ
New York has now Irregular income" of 81. 900
day; about 81, 100 900, year.-0ut of this he can
probably manage, with economy, to clay aside for
q rainy day" the respectable sum of million
year. Add to this another million by the rapid an.
probation ofhis real estate and we have an annual
increasn of wealth for this individual amounting to
two millions Of dollars. VIM. B. Astor is that gen.
tleman.
80. During the past year there were 227 des.
tructive fires in the United States, occasioning a
loss of S2I, I29, 600 The number of lives des>
troyed by these fires was lS3 There we're l69
fatal railroad accidents, killing 1875 persons and
wounding 500. Of these, 2s we're frsmen and %
engineers.
The Philadelphia PennsylUdaiaa says that
the popular ship Palmetto, of the Boston line of
packets, arrived at that port Dec ST. having brokr
en- the ice of the river, in powerful and efficient
manner releasing several side wheel boats that had
been unable to move. The fact of side wheel
boat being unable to move where propeller could,
suggests very naturally inquiries as to the proper
form for the construction of boats for keeping open
the channels of icy rivers and crushing the letters
incident to hyperborean harbors.
Ill is rarely that public officer in England is
removed, especially postmaster, yet an order has
been promulgated by the Postmaster General of
England for the removal Of postmaster in the
county Of Kent on other ground than that of
being discourteous to those who had business with
his Office.
Eight years ago Charles c. Van located FIVE
hundred acres south of Fort DesMOines, not far
from that city. Il cost 81 25 an acre, or $625.-
he has recently been offered S22o an acre, or
$4,000.
....It is stated that the Eastern markets are
gutted with oysters. The Norfolk Herald informs
v
went from that city to New York, where il was
found impossible to dispose of the oysters upon any
Aerms whatever and the vessel returned TO Norfolk
with her cargo.
....At a recent trial for " maintaining a null
ance," at Exeter, England, il wac shown on the
part of Mr.. Abraham that his neighbor Mr.. Minty,
had cock which crowded SO times in 20 minstes
The learned Judge thought this an amosnt Of
srowing which humaa nature was not bound to put
ND with, and awarded to the plaintiff Is. damages.
-. Oregon Territory is said to be one of the
finest rsit growing regions in the world. Il IS es.
tmated, says exchange, that not less than 75 600
dollars worth OF apples viii be shipped 10 Califor>
mia this season, and that 20 900 dollars worth we're
sold last year. The size of che apples Is almos, in
credible, buskei having been exhibited whose sv-
erage was eighteen ounces each. 1t Is no unsOm-
mon thing to see spec linen apples weighing from
one aud haR TO two pounds.
-. The Boston and Worcester Railroad Com-
pany has adopted novel method Of preventing
collisions on that road to be used in all when
from any cause the signal Of aagmen indicating
danger ahead may chance to be overlooked. This
consists of ANAL tin boz hllel With an explosive
material with which each traia Is provided which
being fastened 70 the rail- delonaIes as soon The
wheel Of the eagins strikes Il, and thus gives efeo
tnsl warning 70 those upon the train.
IA contract has been haaIly entered into be-
tween the opelonsss Railroad Company and Com.
Vanderbilt, Of NewYork, By which the latter blnds
himself 20 put in ani keep sufficient number Of
boats between Berwiek's Bay, connecting with the
Railroad to Galveston, Texas, to answer all demands
of trade aud travel. The contract to be in force
for the term of Eve years; and II not further ez-