Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-23
News BreVities.

LOUIS
on Main street, was robbed of 81 800 worth of silks
and satins last week
-. A thousand acres of land have been given
at Carbondale I'LL nois, for the site of the first col.
lege in that benighted part of Illinois known as
Egypt.
-. A bill has been introduced in the Legisla-
ture Of New jersey, appropriating so, 600 to build
gubernatorial mansion.
-. The Missouri Senate on Tuesday passed. by
20 to 4, resolution declaring the emancipation Of
slaves in that State not only impractcabe, but any
movement towards it impolitic, unwise, and unjust
and that il should be dis countenanced by the peo.
pie. The House passed the resolution by a vote oil
1C7 to 90.
We learn from the RogersviIle Times that
there are seventy miles Of the East Tennessee and
Virginia Railroad yet TO complete. Thirty Of this
will eready for the cars by May, and the then re-
naming gap of forty, it is said will be closed be-
fore the end Of the year.
At IA late term Of the Campbell (Ky.) Circuit
Court, grocery keeper in Newport, was fined five
hundred dollars for allowI the game of Jdggtelle
to be played in his house.-It shown in the ril
al that the game was for "drinks" only, but the
plea did not avail to save the proprietor from the
penalty of the law.
80. The New York Journal Of Commerce of the
tn instant states that distinguished shpbuilder,
ormery doing business in that city, has contracted
with association of landholders in California for
the construction Of two mammoth steamships, each
OF 1000 TONS designed for the conveyance of g. 900
passengers to accomplish the trip, via the Isthmus,
in fifteen days The special object is to afford a
cheap and rapid Communication between California
and the Eastern States, in order to augment the
population Of the Pacific coast aud to enhance the
value of our possessions in that quarter. The d.
mansions proposed for these steamers are stated as
follows: length 44O feet; breadth of beam, 55 feet
depth of hold, "a feet.
80. There has been forty.fve thousand copies
of DR.. Kane's last work on the Arctic Regions
sold.
80. Maple molasses has made its appearance in
the Louisville market It is held at 81 90 per gal
3 Ion. Rather high, that.
80. The Madison (Fla) Messenger states that
the Cotton Factory OF that place, hitherto sue.
cessful enterprise, was burnt last week; loss $4O
600. The establishment had been insured: butthe
Messenger says the policy had run out.
-. The Abingdon Virginian says that during
the extreme cold in that region two or three weeks
ago, several strange things occurred, two or three
of which we viii mention. South of the Knobs a
few miles from Abingdon, couple of geese, after
RECALLING themselves for a time in a large spring,
very wisely squatted upon the bank to rest them
selves, and when they attempted to rise they didn't
do it, for they were frozen tight and fast to the
snow. duck 10 the same neghborhood had
been feeding aud padding about in spring branch,
at length grew tired Of swallowing tad.poles, and
concluded 20 stand upon one foot awhile and runs
inats-as ducks sometimes stand and ruminate.
In the mean~time the ice had formed around the
leg il the water and the duck was securely fAsten-
ed as if che had been in a steel-trap.
-. The Huntsville Aduocats ofthe 10Th, says:
ave are gratided in being able to state that on
Monday last, the Bonus of SO 900 offered to secure
the building OF Hotel TO cost not less than $780,
coo, 'OGs taken by the following gentlemen, viz. G.
w. Neal, Jos. c. Bradley, Thos. Fearn, NJ. w.
Steele, Thos. S. McCalley, w. 7. Bount, J. W.
Scruggs, and Geo. w. Jones. The new Hotel is
TO be erected on the site Of the old Bell Tavern,
near the spring. We congratulate the public that
we will soon have such Hotel in Huntsville as its
necessities require.
-. little girl aged about eleven years, whose
porsnts Eya pnon na.ba ri,yar ,rb;l,
week, on the immediate brnk of that stream, fell
from the bank, distance Of about eighteen feet,
into pile Of drift. The little creatures skull was
fractured by the fall, and her arm so shockngly
broken that amputation became at once necessary.
Her parents unslarmed at her absence from the
house made no search for her until after dark,
when they found her lying on the drift unable to
move.
.... woman, in Philadelphia, Pa, by the
name of Mrs J,ne Simpson, committed suicide on
I he night Of the 18Th inst, by cutting her throat
with razor. The case is involved in some mys-
terry.
80. TIE ROCKVILLE Mercury, of the 10Th, says
il informed that on the lst Of next month opera
t ions viii be recommended on the Ribun Gap rail-
road, and that it viii progress rapidly to compiler
t ion.
80. Six young meu were fined SOS each in the
Court Of Qiirler Sessions, of Chester County, Pa,
: eceuty, for disturbing newly married couple by
"calIi.humPiAn" serenade.
-. The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Herald understands that Mr.. Buchanan's
Inaugural Address Is entirely written out that il is
most comprehensive and luminous document,
simply an amphfsstion of Mr. Buchanan's letter Of
acceptance Of the nomination Of the Cincinnati
Convention, and thAtit opposes squatter sovereisn-
ty, and throws overheard that vagary which was
originally started by Gen Case
The Pee Dee H.rald states that Mr.. God
frey, E.q received on the 9th inst, letter which
was mailed by him on the 18Th January, A. D.
1855, at the postofee called Clio, in Marlborough
District The distance is twenty miles, aud the
letter has been nineteen years and twenty-four
days on the way, aud contained a twenty dollar
bill on the Merchants Blnk, with the request that
Mr. Godfrey would return twenty dollars in United
States Bank bills.
- h"Ashihga, chiet OF the Nav or Kansas ln-
dams, died near Independence, No, on the slst
ult' aud was buried the following day With the
useai ceremonies OF the tribe male member Of
tne tribe went 20 an undertaken and procured a
cola, returned TO camp and sent 4 sauaw 20 carry
It out KsashiugA was SHOWN TO every iuhabltant
of that country. His borse. according to the Gus
ton Of the trioe, was killed upon HE grave. 10 or.
derth't he nigh, aos and himself on FOO. in that
untried world.
-. Six elergymsu Of Manchester, n. a.. have