Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-04-18
News Brevities.

80. The Washington correspondent Of the Bal
timore Sun says that Mr.. Reuiker, Of N. c., has
been appointed Governor of New Mexico in place
Of Gov. Merri~ether.
-. correspondent Of the Boston Traveller
says: The island of Malta did not escape the terri
bic visitation which, on the night Of October IL laid
city and villages Of Rhodes in ruins, shaking as it
did, the ofiest mountains to their very submits as
well as the coast aud plains which surround the
great bed of the Mediterranean. The shocks we're
long and violent at Malta under which the whole
island trembled and rocked to and fro and the for
si6catIons Of the oil Knights, which defy oil human
power, seemed ready to tumble by the stroke Of
hand as resistless as invisible. There armor, rat
ting 10 the palace where It had been 80 long sus-
pended as though instinct with the bravery Of the
heroes who once wore it, seemed ready to fight a.
gain on their own hook, unless the old sleepers
awoke whose bodies reposed under the Church Of
st. John. The afirighted population fed from their
houses, and betaking themselves to the churches
or standing bali petr6ed in the streets, either load
ed the air with screeches in the one. or lifted up
such a moment, when a whole island seems to be
ready to be engulfed 10 the profound abyss from
which IL originally was upFfted. Happily, though
many buildings were cracked and severely Injured.
the city was saved, and no lives we're lOst. The
whole Of Egypt felt the same shock, and one humid
red and sixty houses fell in the vicinity Of Cairo
It was also violent at Alexandra.
go. The n Y. Tribune has correspondent on
board the steamship archaeological Channel
who, under the date Of March TO- 1887, informs the
public that the SEA voyage has restored Senator
Summers health. Yes-yesl
-. Til re iss Rosin Oil Factory 10 New Orleans.
The Picaysme concludes an account Of visit to it,
as foIlows:-"0ur visit to the oil works on Thurs
day was mlds doubly interesting, as the coal used
10 ore Of TIE furnaces was Southern article from
recently discovered mine within four hundred miles
of New Orleans and accessible by navigation at al
most ell seasons of the year. The furnace heated
by this coal was aongside of another in which Pitts
burg coal was used so that fair test was afforded
of the comparative value of the two descriptions Of
fossil The new coal burns with clear white fame,
WITH but little smoke, and entirely dissolves away
70 golden ash, leaving not particle Of coke or
cuker. Either for domesticoF household uses it is
pronounced infinitely superior to the Pittsburg arti
Gle, though in heating power no difference dis
cernible between the two. Arrangements have al
ready been consummated by which the New Orleans
market will be aburdantly supplied with the new
Southern coal before the approach Of another win
ter. So not only in the matter Of oil, but Of COAL
we are about TO declare our independence, and
achieve triumphs which will add greatly to our ma
terial prosperity"
....P. Rogan died in New York last week from
poison. While handling hides, on Thursday, he
rubbeda pimpe on his face in such manner as to
get the poison into the circulation. BE was mott Sc
riously i'll until Saturday, when the pimpe CON-
menced swelling very rapidly. 1t soon extended
to bis whole head and then descended to his body
as far down as the waist. At the time of bis death
his head was as large as a bali bushel, while his
features we're 80 distorted that his most intimatA
friends could not recognize him. The death of Mr..
Rogan has led to two opnions-one Is, that he died
from the effects Of poison while the other is that the
matter introduced into the pimple led to erysipeas
and that to DEATH Mr.. Z. was young man Of good
habits.
lkhppcato Nuht uuIthB thc lOur gehIb pTbNl-
Gus to 1853 the average annual number of appli-
cations for patents at the Uuited States Patent
Office 1922; while for the four subsequent
years such average will be about 4 600. The num-
Der Of patents annually issued during the former
period averages $50; during the latter about !, =
$50. For the current year the whole humber Of
applications made, the whole number of patents
granted, and the amount of revenue rec lived will
respectively be at least double what they we're 10
any previous year. The number of applications
for patents at the United States Office The last year
was greater than that 10 any other country, having
been 44s5, agaipst 2, s5s in Great Britain and 4
o56 in France. For the present year il is thought
shat the number Of app cations will reach 5000.
go. The Pensscola (FIorida) Gazette of the 9Th
inst mt says "0n Tuesday last thirty FIVE free col
ored persons took their departure from this city for
Tsmpico, aud in few days those who are still re.
msinng will also leave for the same place. II was
painful sight 10 see them parting from their
friends and their native cOuetry to seek homes In
foreign land"
-. A correspondent Of the Buffalo Republic
tells q good one about laxative old gentleman
who "never lectures for money" He was going
down the Hudson on q steamer not long since, and
when the clerk Of the boat asked him for bis name
the old man replied, "Sir, you have heard my
name often; Il is com non, cir, hereabouts." The
clerk still looking at him, Mr.. B. continued, "Ny
name Il Benton" "Thomls II. Bentoui'' eyes,
sir" The clerk bOyed politely, passing the money
back, and handed Mr. B. a ticket aud key to a
state room. Mr.. B. said, "This Is a sivlity had
hoped to escipe here" He concluded, however,
that discretion the better part of vAior, BY tax
ing the money and key and marching of.
-. In mining FOR lead, few days ago, 10 the
vicinity of Blue Mound, Wisconsin, Mr. Carpenter
opened a somewhat remarkable cavern, at depth
of sixty TO seventy feet in the solid rock The
cave filed with bones of Kind not recognize
ed by the naturalias Of tia. vicinity, amoog which
were a number Of teeth to "a inches square, with
prOngs more than an inch long
80. A new iron steamer called toe General
RHsk, 10 honor Of the distinguished Senator from
Texas, has lately been built at Wilmington, Della
A.. ware, for the SDnthern Steamship Company OF New
Orleans she Is 10 ran between New Orleans and
Texas, connecting with the railroad at Berwicks
Boy. Her length is 900 feet keel, s5l feet beau.
and 81 feet bold. She has four vstsr-sighs con-
partments.
-. The St. Louis Repsbliean Of the i4tb. Civ
Ing an sceouat Of the mi.haps 10 steamboats, Oeea-
stoned By the Rock Island bridge says THE
steamer Rescue, upward bound, on tie I0th Inst,
made an effort 10 pass thrOagh the bridge, ard had
nearly effected the passage when shs rapid carrsx