Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-10
News Brevities.

-. Paris letter to the Ny. Commercial tells
The following very probable story: Bot another
expedition is spoken of which will interest particu.
larry the United States, and that is an expedition
on the part of England and France against China.
1t is rnmoTed that very large and formidable Gee.
Is to leave IN tie spring for the China ports, 10
give assistance to missionaries who have been NAL
treated in that country, and at the same time to
attempt the negotiation of more liberal commercial
treaties. The Catholic clergy of France are in
great Joy at this anticipated poject, and large
Numbered missionaries are preparing 70 accompany
the expedition"
-. The Genoese correspondent Of the Newark
Advertiser states that the grape harvest the pres
ent year has proved much better than for ge years
previous The vine which has almost entirely fail
cd since $780, has yielded near half an ordinary
crop, and the silk and olive hsrVests are also much
more plenty. large proprietor who used to make
40 and SC, 900 barrels Of wine annually before the
appearance Of the maady, which is no disappear.
ing, and those whole produce last year did not
exceed dozen barrels, tells me that bis vineyards
this season yielded several thousands Lombardy
and Venice which produced last year only 342, 500
hsetolitres "a hectOre is 26I gallons is estimated
to have yielded this seasee over four millions of
that measure. This is encouraging for the vine is
TO Italy what the corn is to you. The vine is to
the poor. who have little, to eat aud nothing to
drink, the staff of life.
go. The salaries of the State officers of Indiana
very beggarly, and we are not astonished that
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an increase. The HOosiers pay the Governor only
$1,000, the Supreme Judge $1,000, and the Circuit
Court Judge $1,000. But, perhaps, those sums
are all the sag NIGHT officials merit
80. From the Baltimore ADaeriean we learn the
receipts Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for the
month of December were within a fraction of
100000, and that the prospects, predcated on
the approximate revenue, for the present month,
would exceed that amount.
Bishop Kavanaugh of the Methodist EpisS
copsl Church, South, returned by the last steamer
from California, where he had been about nine
months in attending to his official duties Previous
TO bis departure, some friends presented to the
Bishop splendid manzanito cane with massive
gold head, set with beautiful specimen of quartz
Bishop, who responded briefly, thanking the Civ.
ers for their beautiful present. assuring them of the
high regard he entertained for them and the entire
Conference, and assuring them that if in after life,
he should find it necessary to lean upon the cane
for support, il would recall to his mind the many
pleasant associations connected with bis visit to
California" The cane cost SIS.
go The Philadelphia Inquirer learns from pas
senger, who left Nicaragua in the Tennessee, that
the troops that had arrived just previous to his
departure from that country would swell Walkers
available force to something like 1000 men, and
the probability was that another battle took place
shortly after with decisive result
go. The ship Columbia arrived at NewYork on
Tuesday, from Liverpool, with 22l Mormon immi>
grants, about one-half of whom were women and
children. Most Of them were from Bristol Twen-
ty-three we're from Wales and some from London,
Yorkshire, and other parts of Great Britain.
-. The Alexandra Gazette gives the following
particulars OF the murder of Mr.. George Green, in
Prince William County, Va, on the night before
Christmas: "He was in his house when it
tered by three negro women, young man and
negro boy, all Of whom attacked Mr.. e., but he
kept them of. During the attack be was struck by
the Oldest of the women (said to be aged about 70
years. with an axe, which Mr.. Green succeeded in
taking from her, and with which he defended hm-
self for some time, but was finally oysrpowered
and the axe taken from him, when he made bis
escape from the house. but was pursued and over
taken by the negroes about $50 yards from the
house and killed. His body was then taken back
into the house, and the house set FIRE to and burn
cd down. Mr.. G.'s watch and other articles which
be had on his person at the time were not stolen,
but we're found with his remains. The negroes,
after committing this daboGal and heinous atroci-
~ went TO their quarters, and when the neighbors
arrived, pretended to be asleep. Traces Of blood
were discovered, and suspicion Immediately arous-
ed and when they were charged with having cons
mitted the crime they made full coufessioni aud
we're taken into custody, and at once committed TO
jail. Mr. Green resided by himself"
-. The Charleston Standard Of the 9Th says by
the advces received by the steamer Carolina, from
Jacksonville, Fla., il appears that family named
Shive, consisting of father, wife and two children,
had been found murdered at Indiana River, Fla,
and the house in which they resided had been
burnt.-The deed, some supposed, was done By the
Indians, but suspicion also rests others parties.
-. The Hartford Tines gives an account Of Ca
roliss Banks and her children, and Mary FrGseis,
slaves lately liberated by their mistress Mrs Sa~
rah Branch, Of Chesterfield, Va, who have vOlun-
tarily returned bondage, after trying 90 support
themselves in Boston, as free people. They deelar-
ed that they had toed constantly, and could scar
.ely gain subsistence, and wanted master TO pro-
tect them.
80. The Msrtinsburg, Va, American says that
on last Friday night the dwelling house of Mr..
George cOuchmsH, in Berkley county, was burnt
TO the ground.--Ar. Couehnan, who had been 10.
sane for same time, snd was as a means Of safety
and mercy, kept chained, was burned to death. 1t
Is supposed that the Ere originated In bis room
the rest of the family barely escaped with their
lives, to such an extent had the Ere progressed bes
lore they were aroused, rendng is impossible 10
save the poor maniac.
-. The Richmond Despaieh announces that on
Monday week the tunnel was hnslly carried through
the mountain, and daylight now shines through the
Blue Ridge. The WORK will be carried on nov with
energy. and in very few months the trains viii
exchange their labOriOus climbing over the mOun-
tain track for the easy grades through the tunnel
So accurately bad all the calculations been made
that the sagur hole from both ends Of tunnel we're
Only half an inch distant from each otter, when
they met, and the difTerenee IN the length Of the
tunnel, az computed by measurement oa thc out