Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-03-20
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blfor the protection Of merchants and
manufacturers, has been reported in the Ohio Leg
lAure. II provides that any persen doing business
asa merchant, or eggaged in buying and selling any
goods, wares, merchandise any article or articles
Of traffic and commerce, or trading therein, or in
the manufacture Of any such article or commerce,
with view to sale, or protesting to be SO engaged,
who shall desgnedy, by exhibiting any false and
fraudulent statement 10 writing of bis business or
MEANS for the purpose Of obtaining and with
the intent to cheat and defaud or by means OF any
forged, false and fraudulent instrument Of writing
purporting to be the certificate, Recommendation,
or Endorsement Of another person, or by any other
false and fraudulent means, false statements or
pretense, with the intent to cheat defraud, OBJ
tain any goods, wares, merchandise or other article
or articles Of trade and commerce, the property of
another. of the value of thiry-fve dollars or up-
wards, shall be deemed guilty Of e misdemesnor,
and upon couviction thereof be imprisoned in the
penIseDiary not more than three years nor lessthan
one.
-. A gentleman called at the Office Of the In
disnspolis Journal on Tuesday evening last, to say
that be was informed on Monday, by Jesse T. Mat
lock, OF Hendricks county, that five hundred hogs.
which had died of Hog cholera in that county, had
been brought to Indianapolis; that some of those
who brought them had Informed him that thew pur-
posed selling some Of the BAN, and lard, from other
portions and bad the meat made 10 10 BOLOGNA sans
sAges that one individual had lost ave, buried them
10 keep his other hogs from them, and afterwards
brought them to this city.
zee. The St. Catharine's Journal SAWS "Owino
TO the unexamped mildness of the weather. the ga
nal is clear Of ice, and there were some movemen,s
In Its waters last Week-events that never before
happened 10 February. A schooner loaded with Goa
Tor Toronto, took the opportunity of getting away
and the 'Athenian,, with II, 200 bushels Of wheat
which had also been frozen up near Therold got
down to she harbor and waited for instructions from
her owners at oswego." .-rs
-. An extensive planter, who has recently ex-
amined large number of plantations in the parish
offs Aary's, La, the New Orleans Bee that
the prospect OF the next sugar crop is magnificent,
and was never finer than at present.
The people of the Northern States. saws
the Louisville Journal, who can see on plainly the
mote in their neighbours eyes without discovering
the beam 10 their own, and who have been laboring
so assduousy and perlinaciOusly for the abolition
of African slavery beginning to get tired of the
worthless free black population they have invited
TO come among them. A large number of citizens
OF Philadelphia aud Bucks counties, Pennsylvan
have petitioDed the Legislature of that State to
pass laws preventing colored persons from other
States from SECURING idence in Pennsylvania.
oirn;lo 4.
do and in the western portion of New York. Their
philanthropy is more theoretical than practical.
They are moving heaven and earth to produce
emancipation of the negro slaves in the South, but
they are not willing even to allow the emancipated
negroes home among them. If even less than
oDs-half of the slaves in the South we're set free
and sent to live in the Northern States, these same
lOud-mOuthed freedom shriekers would soon petit
tOn Congress to drive the negroes out of the North
srn States even into a state of slavery.
At the last session of the Illinois Legisla-
sure, heavy banking institution was chartered
lis to be sSavngs Bank and the capital is s., oOO,-
600. The stock lie nearly all subscribed, and the
Bank will doubtless soon be fully organized and go
into active operation.
49,. VIM. Z. Clark, a Spectator in Barrow
street, New York city, has been arrested, charged
with bigamy. It is alleged by the complaint that
in the month of September last he was married to
Miss Hannah NJ. Allen, at the house Of her father
Washington street; that on the Sd of November
1850, be was married at Birmingham, Conn, 10
Miss Emma Underwood of New York, and that
under the assumed name of VIM Smith, he was on
nf h. OED =,
street NJ (. Church to Miss Mary Achee, all Of
which ladies are yet living.
80. 1t is clear that another grand effort il N bo
made, not only by the English people, but by the
Government also, to obtain an increased supply of
cotton from their colonial possessions and especial
ly from the East Indies As to their ultimate sue.
cess we can form no satisfactory opinion The tee.
iimony Of the American planters who went to the
East Indies in $780, under the most favorable aus.
pices, Is clear, direct and We had almost said, con.
elusive. The acknowledged physical and clinical
difficulties, sudden changes and unequal tempera-
sure Of the climate, excessive humidity alternating
with long continued droughts aud the moral defects
OF the HindoO character, seem almost too great %
overcome Stll what effect almost fabulous prices
pressing demand never known before and thes,
uuwearied, vigorous efforts may have in ssimulatlns
shs.prOductiou in India and elsewhere, the futar,
ouly will show. one thing. however, is certain
that for the coming and possibly many succeeding
years the deficiency will be large and the prOspec
70 the English people is not without reason, alarm
ing. aiH lle la
49, The Navy Department has issued en- orde
TO Commodore Mervine to dpatch a vessel to Jar
Wis Island, with view TO making soundings, ascer
tanning its locality, and the quantity and quality o
the guAno said to exist upon u. Also, to visit 81,
sland to which Commodore Boutwell, vas dispatch
ed 10 the Independence but was unable to eIplor,
on account OF the peculiar season fthe year.
-. As the fashion has been introduced IN thu
country OF shrotIling innocent man 10 the stree
for the purpose o. rObhing him, we wHlinform al
gAroeers thata new ami yarot collar has Jus. beer
imported for The protection OF Innocent men AMI
the destruction Of rogues. The collar is surround
ed with short, sharp, steel points which are touch
ed with deadly. poison, and when the garoter a,
tacks man, his fingers are impregnated with th,
poison, and he dies shortly afterwards by hls owl
hand EF
-. Nine OF the crew Of the ship Charles Mervh
were recently arrested at New Orleans, 1t the in
stance Of the captain, on = charge Of mutinous co
duct during recent voyage from Boston 70 tina
port itis alleged that one Of the psrty attacke'
the fret mate Of the ship, while the Others, arme
with knives, stood guard 90 prevent the ntsrfsrene
Of captain AID other mates. The sesO0a mate
however, made a bold push 20 rescue his associate
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