Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-18
BY TELEGRAPH.
BY THE NATIONAL LINE.
Reports Furnished by the Associated Press.1

Nxw York, Feb. l7-FIour declining; 4oa6 so.
Wheat declining. Corn buoysnt; 321 for mixed.
Provisions steady. Whisky 2S4.
CIXcINKAri, Feb. IL Flour dull at 20a5 %.
Whisky %. Provisons-Mess Pork and Lard firm
at full rates.
PHILADELPHIA Feb. IA private dispatch,
dated Havana 18th, says DR.. Kane could not sur
vive a day.
Mr. Hosea has been elected representative from
Cincinnati, in place of Slough, the expelled mem
Der.
WASHINGTON Feb. 16-0n motion Of Mr.. Fish
sresOlution adopted, requesting the Post'mas-
ter General to inform the Senate what additional
legislation is required to insure tie delivery OF pub
lie documents from Members of Congress to those
20 whom said documents are directed. Adjourned.
HoUsE-Three hours were spent in discussing
bill authorizing settlement with South Carolina
! company of militia for services rendered in the
war of 1912. The su ject was postponed until
Monday.
The House then went into a committee of the
whole on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Wakeman went for harmonious action to
reduce revenue.
The Committee rose, and the House adjourned.
NEW YORK, Feb. disqualification will be made
for charter to build bridge between this city
and Brooklyn.
The Burdell murder case will soon be presented
to the public. The coroner's jury Of inquest rem"
dered their verdict at IL o'clock Saturday night
against Mrs. Cunningham and Eckel as principals,
young Snodgrass as accessory before the fact, and
the two Misses Cunnnghams as having a guilty
knowledge and conceaing the same. Coroner
Conway had private interview with Eekel, Mrs.
Cunningham ard Snodgrass. They all protested
Innocence the latter adding that II any one
knows anything about the murder 1t is Augusta
Cunningham, or her mother.
Boston, Feb. l6.-A private letter from Hong
Kong dated 18th, says that the United States ship
Levant is near the factories. The San Jacnto, the
flag ship of the Squadron, is at Whampoa, and the
Portsmouth at Hong Kong bound tor Shanghai.
The officers and men exhibited the greatest gal
lautry and skill in their attacks upon Barrier Forts,
and while on duty at Canton. None of the officers
wounded.
WAsHINGToS, Feb l6.-The Senate ratified the
extradition treaty between the United States and
Netherand. The war department has received in
telligence from Gen. Wool, dated Beniee, Califor-
MIA, January 5 J, saying that peace and quiet pre-"
vailed through the department.; which he thinks
will continue. Among fifty Senate bills ported
by Washburn OF H., in the House to day were
those for the Improvement of Hurgate channels,
of the Hudson aud Illinois Rivers Lake Michigan
and harbors of Providence, Cape Cod, Chicago,
Erie and Michigan City.
The report of the Investigating Committee is
expected tomorrow.
The Central American treaty was discussed sew
eral hours TO day.
BosroN, Feb. l6.-Liverpool papers show that
the Bullion in the Bank of England las been flight
ly increased instead oil decreased, was reported
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 1.-THE river was falling yes
terday with 6 feet inches water on the falls -
Thermometer TO day IS. Weather cloudy.
New ORLEANS, Feb I6.-Cotton-market firm.
Sales at l25al2g; Sugar firm, lo4; Yellow Corn,
SO; Lard in bbls, l2i.