Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-08-27

be printed, are the only ones which are away
i ilom the tthce, and the committee will, doubt
less, take the proper care of them, and the
printer Is under the same responsibility to return
them uninjured that he was under to return
nnlnJured, the important agreements
Whleh the watering committee directed him to
print few weeks since.
The clerk is not responsible Tor interIinea-
tons and eraspres if made by the committee in
the progress OF preparing the ordinances for
puDlicati3n, other erasures or interlincations
were made by direction of Council while the
ordinances were on passage, the immemorial
mode of altering bill on its passage in Couu-
Gil being, as 1t is in many bodies, by erasures
ana interlincations Of the original bill.
Ii. HARTMAN.
A FEMALE CowHIDiNG a BuRdLAR.-The res
idence of Mrs. Madden, Williamsburg, N. ",
was entered by a burglar a few nights SINCE
me fellow must have indulged rather freely,
from the fact that he helped himself to some re-
lreshments, and then camped down upon the
moor, where he tell asleep and remained until
mnrning. Mrs. Madden went down to the base
nent, and pereeiving the sleeping intruder,
locked the door, and seizing cudgel COM
menced to lay it over the fellow with good
wll. Having striking proof that some
.hihg unpleasant was Transporting, he ran about
the room in bewilderment, the lady all the
while showering down blows upon his head
ana body, until he finally escaped by boiling
hrough the basement window.
The failure of the Ohio Life and Trust Com
pany turns out to be very disastrous. With
capital of two million ofdollars this corpora-
Hoh lalls Tor from five to seven Millions It
was Cincinnati concern, but ventured into the
vortex OF New York speculation, where it was
swallowed up and ruined. The failure has
created panic in Wall street, in which the
banking houses OF L. S. Munro, John Thomp-
son, ana dc Launay, lselin & Co., suspended.
PATRIOTISM VS.. THE PocKET.-We perceive
IN one OF our Southern exchanges that a con-
iecti0ner in the city has generously offered to
SET apart one cent for every glass Of ice cream
or sherbet he sells throughout the week from
the 18th inst, to be appropriated toward the
fund for tho erection of the Washington Mon.
ulnent 6 The force Of patriotism cln no fur.
ther co.
SPURIOUS COMA quantity of spurious
com, purporting to be five dollar gold pieces
OF Becker's North Carolina mint, were offered
~ tne once OF broker, in Augusta, Georgia,
on "Wednesday. The Constitutionalist says
this spurious money came from Edgeield Dis
trct, South CAROLINA, where there is, no doubt,
a gang OF coiners and counterfeitcrs In opera
ton.
DRUNKENNESS IN CANADA.-The Toronto
Ilmes states that last year one eighth OF the
gross population Of that city was arrested for
drunkenness, and that at recent feast the cost
OF the liquors exceeded the contributions of
the city for one year to all the public charities
There are nearly $40 licensed and unlicensed
groggeries in the city.
The SEASON IN ENGLANp.-The London cor
respondent OF the New York Commerce l AID
Vertlser says; " Tie summer continues withou
a single day of cloud or rain, and the haryes
is everywhere being secured In the most splen
did order"
GERMAN EMIGRATIoN.--Th emigration from
Germany to America has taken an increased
start this summer, 49, 900 able-bodied men hay
ing departed from the duchy of Mecklenberg-
Schwarin alone.
The LATE FAILURE IN ENaLAED.--NeV
lorh, dug. 20.-We learn by the City of
Washington that the failure of Carr, Brothers
\ Co., Of Newcastle, is for sum equal to
S3,OO0,000, but the investigation of their ac-
counts is said, thus far, to have resulted very
satisfactorily.
PREPARATIONS EoR REJoICINd.- Portland
Aug. 25.-fhe city government has resolved
TO fire u salute of 100 guns, aud to ring tho
bells on the receipt of favorable news from the
Sub marine cable fleet.