The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-10-08
GENERAL SUMMARY.

GENERAL SUMMARY.
The New York Post gives some "advice to
the tillers of the SOIL" from which we take the
following sensible and timely remarks:
"The revolt in India is the harbinger of fam
inc; one hundred and eighty millions of human
creatures will need large supplies of food from
the products of other regions. The army of
India. the transport feet for that army and its
supplies, the necessities growing out of the dis
turbed state of that great English dependency.
will call for much of our surplus beef, pork, and
-four. The two last named articles are the pro-
duct of every year, but beef requires years of
nourishment before it is ready for use. The
wicked, wanton, waste of breeding power, which
is the besetting sin of American farmers, ought
to be checked. Every farmer ought to be re-
quired to give an account of himself, who kills
q female calf. We ought to preserve every
'cow-caf' for five years to come. By this
method we might soon have supply of beef,
not only for ourselves, but for any emergency
abroad"
With the characteristic industry of the Gen.
eral Post Office Department, the business of the
dead letter bureau for the quarter which will
expire on Wednesday next is already COM
pleted. Some 10000 letters for foreign coun-
tries were duly returned last week. The results
show, that of the letters originating in and des,
tined for the United States, 2,ls9 were found
to contain money, amounting in the aggregate
to $12,655-a less number of letters, with about
$500 more money, than in the previous quarter.
1t is gratifying to know, that by the present
regular and prompt system of operation the
Department, as the agent of the great public,
has succeeded in restoring to its rightful owners
about nine-tenths of the money that has travelled
all over the United States been subjected to
the care and handling of hundreds of postmas-
tiers offered and advertised remaied to the
dead-letter Office; and then, without additional
expense, safely returned to the original sender.
Il was briefly stated, in the foreign news
few weeks since, that an American named Eli
Boggs has been tried by the British authorities
at Hong Kong, for piracy, and sentenced to
transportation for life. The London TTmes's
correspondent communicates the following sim
gular and truly aggravating particulars of the
crime and criminal:
"His name would do for a villain of the
Blackboard class, but in form and feature he
was the hero of sentimental novel; as he
stood in the DOCK bravely battling for his life it
seemed impossible that that handsome boy could
be the pirate whose name had been for three
years connected with the boldest and bloodiest
acts of piracy. 1t was face of feminine beau
ty. Not down upon the upper lip, large lus-
trous eyes, mouth the smile of which might
WOO coy maiden, afauent black hair not care
lessly parted, hands 80 small and so delicately.
white that they would create a sensation in Bel.
gravia--such was the Hong Kong pirate, Eli
Boggs. 1t has been proved that he had hoard.
cd q junk, and destroyed, by cannon, pistol,
and sword, fifteen men; and that, having
forced all the rest overheard, he had fred at
one of the victims who had clutched rope
and held on astern. No witness, however, could
prove that he saw man die from blow or
shot struck or fired by the pirate. The Jury,
moved by his youth and courage, and straining
hard their cohsciences, acquitted him of the
murder, but found him guilty of piracy. He
was sentenced to be transported for life.
The Cunningham case has turned up once
more in the Supreme Court, on the petition of
the defendant to remove her bogus baby trial
from the Court of Sessions to the court above.
The petition, after argument, was granted.
The Boston TraveAer, which swallowed M
three good Republican papers, 1.-THE Atlas, Tel.
egrapk, and Chronicle,) with the promise to be
itself better Republican paper than them all,
has at length swallowed ITSELF and become the
organ of intensified Know. Nothingism, under
the lead OF Governor Gardner.
The advance sheets of the catalogue of
Yale College show that the total number of
undergraduate students in that institution is
437, which is seven more than the Average Of
the last ten years. The classes aumber as fol.
lows Seniors SO, Juniors l09, Sophomores
III, and Freshmen 1l8. Thirty-three stu.
dents come from States south of Mason and
Dixon's line, including representatives from the
District Of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, Geo-,
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, California, Missouri, and Kentucky.
It is stated that there are now two casgoes of
sugar in Georgetown, D. O., on which the loss,
In consequence of the reduced prices, is forty
thousand dollars.
The Mormons are breaking up their quarters
in all the Eastern States, preparatory, as is
surmised, to general migration to Utah.
There was quite frost up the Hudson river
or Tuesday night and the railroad track was
80 thickly coated as to materially delay the pro-
gress of the trains.
The Raris correspondent Of the New York
7tiSunf gives sQpe particulars Of the Ameri-
can Artists residing there. Greenough is at
work on has relief illustrating the life of
Franklin, intended for the pedestal of his
statue of Franklin in Boston. He has in his
stndio two works finished this winter. The
first is an Indian returned to the grounds of
his forefathers, aeated on q log by a fire kindled
in the cleared forest. 1t is to be put in bronze,
and has been purchased by Bostonian. The
second work is cupid seated on tortoise,
with head appraised; his hands as well a. wings
and thars Is ! box on Ii; handsome face which
plainly says, "VAs there epsr such bore ,"
The clunay slow tortoise serves a. q good foil to
the youthful beauty Of the cupid, and there ia
something very comical in his exquisite tor
ment
The barque Kershsw, Of CaisAso, snd last
FROM thai port, hss lately reached Liverpool,
aftef passage Of tNenty-six days from Quebec.
This ID the second vessel sent from Chicago to
Liverpool, and she was commanded by Captain
Pierce, who successfully nsyisated the frst one,
the Dean Aiehm0nd.' The bsrque Kershaw
carried outA grain freight, and her peculist
model and rig made her quite a curiosity TO the