Nebraska advertiser., 1857-04-02

they styled the Portsmouth, and also
the shell and ~scrapnell from the efici-
ent howitzer, we're altogether intoler-
able. Had the Portsmouth been
equipped with a less efficient battery
than the one which she now carries,
she hardly could have sustained the
rapid and accurate fire of the four forts
as she did on Sunday, the 10th. She
fred on that day alone, no less than
two hundred and thirty shells; and the
total weight of the iron and powder
which she threw during the several
engagements was about eighteen tons.
- The English papers say, that owing
the failure of crops in Lapland and
INLAND, the inhabitants on the north
coast Of Norway are starving to death
at the rate of about one hundred per
day. The living are compelled to live
as best they can on the bark Of trees
ground up and cooked with oats. In
addition the cold is ola severity rarely
experienced, even in that ice bound
region. Societies have been formed
to collect food and carry it to them.
A man entered the Marine bank, inl
Chicago, on the morning of the Sd ult.
and laid a bag containing $4,000 on
the floor beside him, and looking
around a momentafterKar discovered
it was gone. No clue has yet been
found as to the thief is, or where the
moneyhas gone. sg
The liquor law is being vigorously
enforced in several counties in Ohio.
lis proposed to make the bridge
over the Mississippi at St. Louis 122l
feet above low water mark.
W. B. Astoris put down in the New
York city tax schedule at $3,200,000.
real, and $754,0O0 personal estate.
The anniversary of the Frenchrevo-
luton in 1S4S, was c~elebratedin New
York, Feb. "a.
There was ffty-six deaths by delirum
.tremens last year in the New Orleans
city hospital. So tsse
Seventeen employees of the Ohio
Central railroad have been arrested
fer stealing articles Of freight.
The bill to expedite the construction
ola telegraph from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, has just passed the United
States Senate.
The wheat crop in the vicinity of
Springfield, Illinois, is represented as
promising well.
The Queen of Great Britain has COM
,manded that a medal be granted to all
persons, Of eTeryrank and class, who
have been engaged in the several ex-
petitions to the Arctic regions, whether
of discovery or search, between the
years Of 1913 and 1S55both inclusive.
The Office of State Engineer. with a
salary of $4,000, has been created in
Missouri.
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The Wisconsin assembly has passed
the suffrage amendment, giving the
right of voting to women. IF it passes
the Senate, itmustb be submitted to the
people before it becomes a portion of
the constitution.
The Louisville Courier says that the
earliert trees are putting out their leaves
in that vicinity.
Formal charges of i-ncompetency
and improper conduct in Office, have
been preferred against Coroner Con-
nery, of n. Y. city, and laid before
Governor King, ~agreeably With the
requirements of the statute. Con-
merry has been notified of the fact. and.
has been instructed to forward his
defence.
Th~eiee-hOuses in Philadelphia now
contain 120,500 tons of ice.
The GipeinRah Commercial has fears
fOrthe coming peach crop in that vici-
nifty, as the young buds are already
bursting forth.
If expedition is humanity, then the
guilotine Of Paris is the most humane
instrument of its kind in existence
From the time Ferger issued from the
door Of the prison, at the distance OF
& hundred feet from the guiIlotine,
until his mutilated body drawn away
IN a close carriage, was but one
minute.
The Grand Juries Of Stark and
Wayne counties, Ohio, have returned
bills Of indictment against nineteen
persons for stealing freight from the
EH6W 9. Railroad. s