Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-09
80. The following table is made up from the
rpnorf III the Auditor Of Iouisiana-

Orleans owns property in value equal TO one
third Of the State, less by sl4,4l7o s2 pays SS9-
l2S 81 over one-third Of the entire taxes and
contains in aggregate population 1925 souls less
than third of the entire poPula of the State of
Louisiana, aud has $40 less than one-third Of the
educable children.
-. The Tampa (Fa.) PeS,iasular ssys-"Pri-
vato Langley of Company A, 4th Art'y, was acci-
IDENTIFY shot at Camp Smead under the following
circumstances: He partaking of his camp fare
about dusk. loaded gun was in the adjoining
tent by some means it fell, sad in 50 doing, went
off, the ball passed through the sides OF the two
tents, penetrated Langley under the right arm pit,
passed out the chest near the breat-bone, grazing
his chin. He fell backwards eKelsiming my
God, I'm shot" He was conveyed to the Hospital
tent aud only said 'rm dying" and in half an
hour be was a corpse"
-. The late foreign papers state that terrible
hurricane devastated the Philippine Islands the
9th October All the suburbs of Manila aud the
neighboring villages reduced TO heaps ofruns.
The number OF houses destroyed at that place alone
is stated at upwards of three thousand i've hun.
dred. Official returns show that more than ten
thousand houses we're destroyed within circuit Of
about eight leagues around Manila Six foreign
vessels In the roads of Manila we're also driven
ashore.
-. A bill has been introduced into the New
York Legislature providing that the wife of any
man who habitually spends bis time aud money at
places where Intoxicating liquors are sold as bev>
srsge, thus bridging bis family to want and destitu-
tiOn, shall be entitled to Der own earnings and
those Of her minor children, without mOlestAtion,
90 account OF the caprice, debts, judgments, or
other liabilities of her husband.
80. The Knoxville Register sAysa large lumber
OF Welsh immigrants settling in Campbell, Scott
and other counties in East Tennessee upon lands
sold them by Ohio Abolitionists, E1-Gov. Bebb the
prime mover. They were made 70 believe the lands
exceedingly fertile. Instead OF this, they and they
have purchased, at enormous prices no doubt,
range of wild mouuian lands, totally unfit for cul-
tivAsion and barely worth the registry fees. Worse
than all this, in many instances the lands they have
bought cannot be found. and more frequently il
turns out that the same lands comprised 10 Sew
eral different surveys.
-. The McMinnsille Mercury says line Of
tri.wsekly NEIL coaches is 10 be established to run
between MeNinnvile, Sparta and Smishville The
Mercury says" shoald the contractors fnd {, 20
thsir interest, they doubtless will daily stages
can be run We believe the travel 90 both routes
viii justify the additional expense The citizens Of
White, DeHAlA, and the other contiguous counties
will come 90 heMinnsile to take the cars for Nash
vile and other places"
80 -. The shsbyEiIle EzOos'er of Friday says
"Welearn that Messrs English, waisrhouse &
Co, Of this place. slaughtered at their Establish
H,enu over the river, 1000 Hogs during the late
hog killing seAson.-rhese hogs averaged is5
pounds They have sold out aa their Bacon put
uPtbess 10 MsssrA 0'Nsa & Bailey, Of Ineians."
-. correspondent Of the Paris Academy Of
Sciences states that the poisonous properties Of
lead paint are doe to The urpensne which i mix
ed WITH a. not the lead This opinion il Antagonists.
is 70 the eo@mOnly received one Il may be cor
rect, however, 10 tbs way The iuspentne Is vol
yatile, hence t may M some Of thl lead when q.
vsporating AID thus lhe metal be Inhaled by the
psinter 10 the form Of mineral gas. He asserts
that Il turpeniine were cot used, psiul poison
would be unknosA.