The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-11-05

from Hudson, N. ., Saturday afternoon and
twenty or thirty women and children had col.
lected to see the sight on top of wooden avn.
ing, which gave way, and precipitated them to
the ground with some severe injuries. Among
them we're Miss Louisa Marshall, skull fractur.
ed Miss Mary Hicks, leg broken; Miss Had.
rick, badly bruised; a son of Mr.. 8. Waterman,
slightly bruised. Some of those standing I'M.
derneath were also badly hurt; among those
we're A. Van Rensselaer,, back injured; Mrs. J.
G. Evarts, bruised.
Mr.. John Cone, who resides near Haddam,
Conn, appeared at the counter of the Middle
town Bank some days since, with 81, 900 of it's
bills, demanded the specie, and got it. The
profit OF the bank in the transaction was clear
two hundred per cent.-two thousand dollars.
The bills were paid to John in 1885, and he
carefully wrapped them in a napkin, where they
have remained ever since. He returned them
to the bank pinned up in the same slips that he
received, with the same marks. The savings
bank interest would have been nearly $4,000.
A stout, hearty negro, who made his escape
from Slavery some six years ago, was not salts.
fed with letting swell enough alone" but
must needs engage in running off the " proper
ty' of his late master at every opportunity
The gentleman, who lived in the vicinity of
Lexington, had long suspected "Ben" Of in
terfering with his goods aud chattels, and last
week, discovering certain suspicious movements
In house servant, concluded that he was
about to take passage on the underground
railroad"
He therefore watched him closely, and found
his suspicious correct, and calling in the aid
of two or three friends, followed the negro in
his fight, without arresting him, his object be-.
| ing to get hold of his old slave, who was caus-
ing him 40 much trouble. He was satisfied
Ben would meet the fugitive on the Kentucky
side Of the river; and sure enough, on Friday
evening last, by keeping close watch upon the
| fleeing negro, they were carried directly to
where Ben lay in wait for his passenger. Those
in pursuit Immediately bounced upon the old
| fugitive, leaving the new runaway to take care
of himself
Ben fought with the desperation Of man
who had once tasted the sweets of liberty after
having spent half life in Slavery, and it was
not until he had been several times brought to
| the ground with a stick, and his head severely
cut and bruised, that he yielded to his captors,
and allowed himuelft to be bound and conveyed
to Covington jail. A physician was called, and
the wounds on his head dressed, and on Satur-
day he was handed over to his former master,
and carried back into Slavery. Ben is not the
only man who has got himself into trouble by
trying to aid friend Cincinnati Gazette.
The exhibit of naval appropriations for the
month of October show amount drawn from the
Treasury on navy account in the month, iuclu.
ding $lll,250 paid Collinss line for mail ser.
vice, and transfers in settlement
of accounts 1888, 800 SO
Deduct transfers and repayments $500 %
NJ. ...1... 49, a, A., m on
OF this sum, there was RENTED to Boston
S42O, 769; of which 500, 900 was for transmits
sion in drafts to London, and to New York
$399, 650.l6; the balance to different stations
within the United States. This does not look
much like the stoppage of work at the navy
ysrds.-States.
Some of the New Y ork railroads have adopted
measure that will add considerably to the
price of beef in New York. They have in
creased the price of freight upon cattle equiva
lent to IS head from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and Kentucky, on the average, to 90 into opera.
ton on the LIST of November. This will add S.
to every bullock now in pasture, and it will add
about three-quarters of a cent pound the cost
of beef delivered from the West to the con-
sumers in New York. The drovers are very
wrathful, and they are endeavoring to make
an arrangement to throw all their freight upon
a single railroad line, to punish the others.
1t is stated that active preparations are being
made, with the view of laying the Atlantic sub.
marine cable next summer, the month of June
having been selected as the most favorable for
the work. The company have ordered the
manufacture of four hundred additional miles,
which will be ready for shipment, if necessary,
in January, with the understanding that if they
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the three hundred and forty miles now sub
merged, they are to have as much additional
cable made within twenty eight days as may be
considered necessary to supply the deficiency.
Governor Grimes, of Iowa, has appointed
Nov. 18th as a day of general Thank giving
in that State. New York, New Hampshire,
Pennsylvania, and Connecticut, have appointed
the same day. The Governor of Maine has sp-
pointed the 10Th.
The wholesale dealers in silk and millinery
goods in Boston have come to an agreeme mt
not to give more than four months credit.
There seems to be general disposition in
trade to shorten credit and get nearer the cash
system, the only safe system for business.
Silver coinage for Canada is in course of
preparation. The Montreal papers announce
that the Government has engaged Mr.. Wyon,
the celebrated designer of the Royal Mint, to
make designs for q Canadian silver coinaue,
which will be required on the adoption of the
dollar and cent system on the first of January
next. The diverse of the coin is to be the
Queens portrait, and the reverse wreath of
maple, with the value of the coin in the centre.
The New York Tribune states that the Hon.
Gerrit Smith is lying very i'll with neuralgia
and typhus fever, at the house of his nephew,
the Hon. John Cochrane, in that city.
At Miss Cushman's last benefit in New York,
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the eccentric Yankee
sculptor, figured on the stage in the play OF
Guy Mannering, as one Of the gipsies.
Col. Fuller, ("Bslle Britain" ~ who has owned
and edited the New York Mirror for the last
fourteen years, has disposed of his interest in
that journal.
Hon. J. F. Farnsworth, member of Congress
elect from Chicago, who was reported TO be dy-
ing, is now believed to be in a fair way of re-
covery.
Charles F. Woodbury., Esq, U. s. District
Attorney for the district of Massachusetts, is
among the distinguished strangers now here. |
He is the guest of his brother.in.law, Judge |
Montgomery Blair.
The Syracuse Courier says the salt interest |
is greatly depressed. A comparative small |
portion of this seasons yield has been shipped, |
and manufacturers generally are in straitened |
The Waterbury Comm factories, with the
exception of the American Pin Company and |
the establishment of Brown Brothers, have
stopped all business. Hundreds of men and |
women are in consequence thrown out of work.
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