Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-03-19
News Brevities.

....At recent SUE in Fleming county, accord
ing TO the Maysvle (Ky.} Eagle. the following
prices were had: IS head Of fat bulocks, averag-
ing 1000 pounds gross, So per hundred; 60 head
No. Spanish mules, yearnrs, 500 per head. One
Spanish jack, "Cordova, sold for 81, 500.
-. The New York pspers publish a mass OF
news from Mexico. The principal inteligencais an
outline of the tresty now before the o. S. Senate
for ratification. We gave the principal points oil
THE treaty few days ago furnished by the Mex
can Extraordinary. We see itststed in the Noone
Tribune that this treaty was effected BY Gen Gads-
den, and not Mr. Forsyth, our present minister al
Mexico. Very rich discoveries OF gold are report
ed to have been msde n Chihuahua company
In San Francisco are said to have purchased hun
dred ,ouare miles of land in the State of Sinaloa,
Including p,rtion of the city Of Mazatltn, it is
,upoosed for miring purposes. At Acapulco the
smallpox was raging virulently that the plssen'
0ers bv the California steamers were not allowed 10
land. Mr. Walsh, our newly appointed Consul at
Monterey, who had been denounced as a il'ibuster,
had received bis ereqn1tmr from the government.
The Evansville Qa.) Journal of the 18th inst,
gives the following account of democratic row IN
Kentucky. The Democrats of Hopkins county, KY,
met on Monday last at Jacksonville, to make legis-
Iature nominations for the ensuing campaign. The
aspirants before the Convention for q seat in the
lower branch Of the Legislature were Morrow, the
present member, and Mr.. Clarke, brother Of Be-
VERY l. Clarke, the late Democratic candidate for
Governor against Mr.. Morehead. 1t is stated that
both Clarke and Morrow had agreed to submit their
claims to the decision of The convention, which,
after much wnDgling and excited discussion, gave
the nomination to Morrow. Whereupon, Clarke
Immediately declared himself an independent can
didate. This gave rise to a quarrel 10 which the
lie and charges of bad faith were exchanged A fist
fight ensusd, but the combatauts were finally sepa-
rated by their friends. Later in the day the par
ties again in hostile collision, when Clarke shot
Morrow in bis bowels, iuAicting wound which
several physicians at once pronounced mortal
Clarke was arrested and imprisoned, and Morrow
was eDdeavering to give directions about his tenn
pOrAl affairs when the mail carrier left jacksonville
on Monday night. The track for the Legislature
In the Hopkins district is probably clear now for
some other ambitious Democrats. We have since
learned that Morrow died the same evening"
80. A new Invention has been introduced in
England, on some Of the principal railways. Two
lights, one red and the other white are fixed to an
arm, at certain distance from each other, and at
g certain angle and are connected with the axle of
one of the wheels of the last carriage of each night
train, and caused to revolve by the motion of the
train.
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there have been fourteen Presidents of the United
States, and only two Chief Justices have admins
tered the oaths Of Office to the whole number. In
1901, Chief Justice Marshall administered the oath
to Jefferson, and afterwards to all the Presidents
until 1887, when Chief Justice fancy administered
the oath to Van Buren, and has performed the GER
emory at every Inauguration since that time
Mr. Martin Smith, OF Harrison county, Ky,
has lost $50 out of 25O chickens belonging to him,
within the last ten days. The disease is unknown.
The chickens seized with a violent sickness, re-
sembling cholera, and die 10 the short space of
three or four hours. None taken ever recover al
though the life Of one was sustlined for about
week by administering whisky and pepper The
chickens of Mr.. Smith, before the appearance of
the disease among them, we're in remarkably fine
condition.
80. The Mobile Register gives the following de-
scriPuon Of a barometer on the Mexican war steam
er y lerrero:-0n board the Mexican steamer is a
barometer Of the most simple construction, but
greatest accuracy. 1t consists only of long strip
OF cedar, very thin, about two aud a half feet in
length, about an inch vide, cut with the grain and
SET IN block or foot This cedar strip is backed,
orined, with one Of white pine, cut across the grain,
and the two are tightly glued together To bend
'0ese when dry is to snap them, but on the APP
PrOaSn OIL Dad weather the cedar curs over until the
top at times touches the ground. This simple in
s'rument is the invention of q Mexican guitar-n,.
ker, and such sits accuracy that II will indicate the
coming on Of 'norther" full twenty four hours be.
fore any other kind Of barometer known on the
coast Had this been the production Of Yankee in
genuity, it would have been patented long ago and
aior'une made by its inventor
-. The ST. Louis Mercantile Library Associs.
ton, has received several slabs from the ruins Of
Niuevah, which are Of very great antiquity. They
lett hosul on the banks Of the Tigris IN Juv 1s5s
and their transportation by caravan TO the ses
cost s6,776.
.... A respectable Virginia farmer. named Bsbt
and his son were arrested in Petersburg. Va on
Monday, for fraud practiced upon a merchant IL
selling him lard with stones embedded ia the cen
tre of the 6rkins. Il was in evidence that the wifi
Of the elder Bsbb, and s.ep-mOther Of the younl
man, had pllcedthem there n furthersnce Of ma
Tcious threat 70 get her husband, with whom sh,
did not live happily, in trouble. The money wa
there upon refunded and the case dismissed.
Genio Scott, the fashion purveyor for tbt
Home Journal, (N. " writes 10 the latest number
IS follows, about berage shawls This article o
dress in silk and wool, is striped 10 rayures tbre,
inches wide, with chine border, or of plaid 10 mod
est eolors; and TRUCE edges These chine stripe,
shawls appear charming for demoisslles. Those O
black berage, with Dor lers of flowers and foliage il
nitural cOOrs, and in imitation Of oil painting, ar
very beantiiai; the centre is divided into Iarg
squares by narrow sstns Of black" Tie adds: 9Th
lfssssito iOrs for shawls Of an kinds are green
crimson. and black. That old iAvori tie, the stella
is sill in fashion, though there are many variete
OF the same genre. OF these. perhaps the satin or
shtal-sll wOol-is the most desirable. Then ther
are those Of cashmere with narrow Scotch borders
the zines, goods in the market There are also lon
shA~ls Of exquisite beauty, in imitation Of the PEI
sian ones, Only more strongly pronounced in col
ora"
srr -. Col sam Medary, the pstriArch Of Obi
Journalism, has been appointed Governor Of Mime
cots, vice Wills A. German supsrseded W. A
Richardson's, lsss democratic saadidate for Govern
or Of Ilanos. pressed by DOaglas for The place