Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-03-05
' News Brevities.

members had withdrawn in an irregular manner,
finding that they could not succeed in destroying
0Eshe democratic principle, prestring to substitute
the patriarchal. The minority have removed to
ST. Louis and they are the persons who have petit
2 toned for repeal Of the act Of incorporation. 4
Ei.k -. The Cincinnati Bng6rer tells Of member
Of the Ohio Legislature who recently attended
party at the residence Of one Of the elite OF the
fssbiouables Of Columbus. After psrtAking Of the
splendid -sspper spread on the OCCASION he sought
---- out the host and found him entertaining bevy
- Of hisiady guests. The member from pull
led out his purse and desired TO know what he
topAy for his supper.
- .....A despatch from Washington. dated Feb.
VslN 2sth says-David Hume, Of Virginia proceed to
the Pension Office this morning to demand sretrac-
zion Of the charge by DR.. Lee, Clerk in that office,
shat he (Hnme) had picked his pocket at the Presi
dents levee last night. Lee declined to retract,
when Hume struck him with a stick. Lee there
upon shOt him dead with pistol and coon after
gave himself to the officers Great excitement pre-
bI2 walls concerning the affair.
-. Another desr s:eh says The President has
issued his proclamation ordering the sale Of the Iu-
dian trust lands 10 Kansas IN Msy aud June next.
There about CSC, 900 Of these lands which
will be sold to the highest bidder, but not at less
. han the appraised value. ~
.... The subject Of the Hudson Bay compaay's
charter appears to have been among the first
brought to the notice of the British Parls-
ment at the present session. Il has gave
rise 30 lively and interesting discussion, In
which the most prominent members Of the House
of Commons participated. The weight Of opinion
seems to be decidedly in favor of eItnguishing the
gigantic monopoly Of the company, and we have
y doubt that il will be eKtinguished, or at least
materially diminished. Certainly the interests Of
~ civilization require that it should be.ai-- a,
-. The price per thousand feet for gas in Lon
don is IS cents, in Liverpool So cents, 10 Bolton
sc cents, in Rochdale 70 to IS cents, in White
haven 65 cents, 10 Sheffield n ss cents in Bir-
81 mingham ca to So cents in Bristol SO cent?, in
Belfast 81 cents, in Dublin 81 IS. This estimate
90 suppOses the shilling to be worth p cents. The
Dublin citizens complain much of the e1horbitant
price Of their gas The average price in the cities
of the United States is about 81 so per thousand
. The value of the brown sugar imported into
the United States during 1856 was $22, 4OOS5s;
white loaf aud refined sugar and moasses s., 1884,
COS; tea s6,6OsS9l, coffee s2l, 6l4,l'6
-. new Chinese paper has been started in
x Sacramento California. Hang Tale is the. editor.
.... There we're 5, 6s7, S9l bushels Of wheat
harvested in Iowa last year. -WEIy.
.... The receipts of the railroads, in the United
States last year are put down at $1,000 10000.
- ball in New York for nursery for poor
.ET children, on the 9th inst, realized $1,000.
49,. The winter at Newfoundland has been.re>
markedly mild and open the bay OF St. Johns
f..o-;,o, o,ar txea and naithar strong.
" as to interfere even with the rowing of boats.
Fish left on the decks Of ships remained without
freezing and even bad TO be sailed in order to be
preserved.
BOZ .... The English papers say that owing to the
failure Of their crops the Inhabitants Of Lapland
and Finmark, bordering on the North Cape Of Nor
way, are in a state dreadful misery. Hundreds are
dying daily Of starvation, and the living COM
PEELED to subsist as they best on the bark OF
trees ground aud cooked with oats In order to al.
IeviAte these suferngs charitable committees have
been organized on the opposite coast OF the Gulf
of BothniA TO collect contributions in kind, such as
corn, -four, vegetables and spirits, which will be
conveyed 70 them across the ice in sledges. As an
addition to the sufIernss Of these poor creatures
the cold is ola severity rarely experienced in
those ice.bound countries.
.... rogue asked charity on pretence of being
dumb. A lady having asked lin, with equal sim
81 pIcity and humanity, how long he had been dumb
he was thrown of his guard answered from birth,
madam. Poor fellow said the lady, and gave him
dollar. fT .r...-rr-H ra...s
-. The Washington Geographic reporter OF the
New York Tribune, learns from Dispatch received
at Washington, brought BY the Asia that British
Capitalists have taken up the Honduras Railroad
enterprise and bought out the American holders Of
the grant. They about to set the work ener-
getcalIy on foot. 1t viii positively be commenced
in April. The enterprise is one Of the first impor-
tance its communication will very materially
shorten the travellers rout from the Atlantic states
80 California, and il is to be hoped that the above
announcement is true. EFsf
81 a.... Seventy vessels owned or Insured 10 the
q. United States, we're lost in January, value of yes
sels, Ss92 900; value OF cArgoeS Ascer.Ained, tl,-
$4,000; value Of cargoes not AsceftAinsd. probably
100000 more.
go. The new coinage bill has received the Pres
ideut's signature, and is nov the Law of the land.
For the space OF two years. Spanish coins to be
received at the mint at their nominal value, TO be
paid in the new one-csnt pieces, made Of Nickel
and copper The Spanish coins, accordingly will
be worth their full value 10 cents and there need be
panic or loss, in consequence Of the passage Of
the law.
80. One day last week, Drs- Freeman and Per-
ry, Of Saratoga, New York, ampu.sted the leg Of
Mr.. Smith, residenLof that village. The cause
for she AmputAtiOn The actual death Of the limb
Mr., S. who is lAbOring man Of industrious and
temperate habits, some six weeks since, while walk
ing was seized With sudden pain IN the leg, about
half way from the knee to the ankle and immsdi.
ately all sensation feeling below the region Of the
pain ceased. The look and color OF theskin, and
20 Ihe touch, vast that Of dead body, and oil life
or animation below. midway from the knee to the
ankle was entirely eradieated.
-. The Baton Rouge AdsOsats Of the cath
ult, aunounces that Sunday lastthe cora crib
on the PLANTATION Of NJ. T. J. Bird, about three
miles from Baton Rouge, With about ops thousand
barrels Of coru, was consumed by hrs The Oss
~ul reach $500, on shish there l. 40 Insurance
The Are is supposed to hATe been caused BY al in
csndiary. puvEfrFffvT
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