Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-14
News BreVities.

mother-in Jaw with h-e,wood. man who has
Eve wives having returned home, asks something
of No. /. No. ! refers him TO No. 2. Ne. de-
sires him to 60 to the one he loves best He is
handled about from one to another till he becomes
quite enraged; but all he do is to 60 upon the
top of tree and cry aloud, II thought had got
Eve wives but find have got FIVE witches" II
woman beats her husband she is punished 10 this
way: Both are taken to the market place and the
wife is compelled TO take the husband home Cd her
back, amidst the people. On these occasions the
women generally cry out, "GiVe it to him again"
-. Messrs Maxwell, Wright & Co.'s Rio Cir.
culsr, of the 18th ut. Gays 1--WE learn that the law
passed the last session Of the Brazilian Legislative
Assembly raising the export duty on coffee from
to IL per cent, will be put into execution on ,bo
LIST Of January next" We also informed that
in consequence Of the increasing cost of labor the
shipping honses Of Rio de Janero find them.
selves obliged to increase the charge Of shipping
expenses, and that it will be probably advanced az
ter the lst January from about 100 rails per bag to
2io rails.
The Baltimore american Of the 18th saws:
The mild weather Of the past week is rapidly re
moving the effects Of the previous severity Of the
winter and already business is beginning to revive
whilst the hope that it will soon resume its full ac>
tivity grows every day more bouyant The soft
weather has so far weakened the ice in our harbor
and bay that the determined effort now making can
scarcely fail to open our port aud enable the com.
mercial transactions delayed by the embargo to be
again prosecuted. From the West we also have
of a.
cation upon the Ohio and other great river chan
nels Of trade. It is not probable, if the obstru,.
lions from these rivers and our harbur are removed
that general or permanent freeze will occur again
at this late period of the winter, and revival of
business all over the sountry will ensue. The
Spring trade will make early commeu cement
hotels I'll up with customers from the South and
West, and the city present a business activity in
strong contrast with the dunsss of the present
month. The weather yet continues favorable to
the possibility Of such an agreeable state of affairs
aud until ii changes we have right to the pleas
ant anticipation"
An eminent New York physician has, ac-
cordng to the Buffalo Republic, written an elabo-
rate work in favor of the practice of burning the
dead, which is to be published after bis own DEATH
BY his WILL he directs bis mortal remains to be kept
in warm roomi the thorax then to be opened, and
the heart extracted, which is to be embalmed and
enclosed in thick vellum bag strongly mpreg.
mated with asphaltum; the remainder of his body
is then to be publicly burnt on pyre of sassafras
or sandal wood, in one of the public cemeteres,-
the ashes carefully gathered and deposited with
the embalmed heart in a bronze urn. Five copies
of the leading daily city papers, containing an &C
count of the whole proceedings, are likewise d.
reced to be deposited in the urn, which is then to
be Theoretically sealed, and taken to the New York
Museum. In the midst of the excitement created
by these proceedings the work ia to be published.
For its. circulation 900 are appropriated
$4,000 more for distribution among the city off,
cials and leading politicians of all parties, who are
to receive from $25 to 500 each for assisting in
the ceremony; and $4,000 more for the editorial
fraternity to be divided pro rata according to their
Influence. Should anything occur to prevent the
due execution Of the will the bulk of his property
is to be at transferred to charitable institu.
tiOn in Philadelphia. The Republic has these facts
from the attorney who drew up the will He es.
Inmates the property at $685. 600.
On Saturday afternoon large mass Of red
hot cinder was thrown into the outside Bur.
dsns Iron Works, at Troy, n. Y, when some boys
broke the with an iron bar, letting the mol
ten lava run out among the snow and water The
mass instantly exploded with loud noise, throws
ing the cinder in every direct ion. workman
named Michael Smith, was completely blinded and
severely wounded about the head and face; his
clothes and boots were also torn from his person.
Two boys, named Campbell, and another named
banks, we're also terribly burned about their heads
and faces. Medical aid was quickly furnished and
the sufferers attended to-
bill has been introduced into the New
York Senate which provides that it shall not be
lawful for any person to kill or destroy upon any
land not owned by himself any of the following
description Of birds The robin, or red breast blue
bird, sWalloW.mArtn, or swift, nihgt or mosquito
hawk, wood-pesker, eat-bird, high tailed thrush
or brown thrasher, mourning dove, meadow lark or
marsh quail, summer red bird, hanging bird, spider
bird, or wax bird, ground robR, bOboink or rice
bird, and sparrow-under penalty $40.
-. A New York letter says: An elopsment in
high life has just come to my knowledge, which
has created considerable excitement 10 the neigh.
Sorhood Of Washington square 1t appears that
merchant Of New Brunswick, N. j., came 70 The
city last week, and stopped over night with ins
innate friend "a widow LADY, in West Washington
Place. Next morning. 10 company with young
and beautiful girl Of seventeen-dAughter of his
hostess-he went out ostensibly TO pay visit to
some friends living in Brooklyn, since which time
no tidings have been received OF the missing par
ties. 1t has been asceriained that previous TO
leaving New Brunswick, he dsfrauded his partner
and other conhding friends out Of large sums Of
money. His wife followed him to New York, and
IL stopping al friends house in E state bordering
on distraction. The poor widowed mother Of this
internal sooundreIs victim Is bowed 10 the earth
with grief and shame. This, however, is but one
OF thousand familiar episodes in every day life in
this great metropolis.
80. Mr.. Myers Truett who was prominent
member of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee,
was arrested a. New York on Thursday last just
as the steamer for California vas departing. The
arrest was made at the instigatOn Of Charles p.
Duane, William Aulligan, and Reuben Mallory,
who were eziled by the committee.
.... The Lager Beer drinkers in Cincinnati,
have had bomb shell thrown ioto their ranks by
the physicians shoNing shat coeuius adigas aud
other poisonous drugs are used to give this bever~
ase body and favor.
-. In town in Orange county. IN the Stste