Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-28
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nailed the American flag above the Consular pal
ace at Taupico. Her friends cried to her to come
down, and the rude soldiers threw stones at her,
but she replied, "Whdt are The bew BRIT gears Of
my acaning life TO the glory Ct nay country" and
with one arm encircled round the flagstaff, with
the other she nailed the emblem of our nationality
70 it-and there it floats stll-snd when she dies,
Il is to be her winding sheet. Well docs she de
serve such an honor.
-. We find the annexed paragraph in one Of
our exchanges. It is curious, If true:-"All per-
sons, where snow abounds, are not perhaps, aware
Of the value of the feecy cakes in making light,
delicious and wholesome bread. There is no rails.
ing in the world perfectly physiological as good,
fresh sweet snow it raises bread or cakes as beau
tifu as the best yeast, or the purest acids and al
kalies, while il leaves no faint or fermentation
like the former, nor Injurious neutral salt ike the
latter. Indeed it raises by supplying atmosphere
Wherewith to puff up the dough. while the other
methods only supply carbonc acid gas"
80. correspondent Of the Morehouse PARISH
Advocate, Louisiana illustrates the value Of stable
manure for fruit trees by stating that graft in an
apple tree inserted by him on the 10Th of February
lastis now ten feet high. The gratis inserted
where no such invigorator WAS used we're only FIVE
feet high. The hOt-bed in which the tree first men
toned, stood, bad been made for raising cabbages
-sbout twelve inches deep. There is no doubt
the fruit of this graft will be altogether superior to
that of the other gratis.
no ~ 81 7 L. L.,
over one million of dollars deposited in the City In
sttutions for saving in that city. The number Of
depostors is 4, Alb, and ], 475 new accounts have
been opened during the year. In January, 1883,
the surplus profits then on hand were divided
among The depositors. Eight semi-annual dividends
(including the one payable next Saturday, at the
rate of per cent. per annum, have since been
paid, and there is now a surplus profit amounting
to $47, I47.74; tots amount, together with the fu-
ture earnings, will be divided in January, 1858,
among the pessons who shall have been depositOrs
for one year next previous to that time.
go. The editor of the Warrenton Wing, who
was recently on a visit to Richmond, was informed
by Messrs. Dickinson, Hill & Co., auctioneers of
that city that the gross amount of their sales Of
negroes last year reached the enormous sum Of
TWO NILLIoNsl The entire sales of other houses OF
similar kind in Richmond, it is said, would make
the amount to go over four miIlions-snd still the
business is increasing.
go. A meeting Of the Executive Committee OF
the Illinois State Agricultural Society was held in
Springfield on the 9th inst. Resolutions compi-
Hentary to the retiring Executive Board we're
passed. Il was also resolved to hold State Fair
nsIt fall, and to offer $lO,o 900 in premiums.
80. The taxable property of Obion county in
1896 amounted to s., 446, 9S7. OF slaves there
corn s26, All bushels; wheat Sc, 4s2 bushels; and
Of cotton 60 bales only.
80. A gentleman from New Orleans was recent.
ly put ashore at Hickman, KY, from the steam
boat Hiawatha. Cause-tOO much familiarity with
one Of the Camelia Jopanicas of the stage thereby
interfering With the gallantries Of the captain Of the
boat.
80. A correspondent of the Western Recorder,
writing from Greenville, s. c., says - am within
q few miles Of the place where the experiment was
plant will grow wei! enough, but wages are too
high in this country. We can not afford to pick,
roll up and dry any sort Of leaves here for half
dollar pound In China, where a man is hired
for one dollar a month and boards himself, il may
be done.
-. A St. Louis paper furnishes US with the fol
lowing item Of news: 1--WE put down the custom Of
endorsing what is called accommodation paper, as
"a grdnae olis Of the age In the FIRST place il may
be set down as general principle that no man who
can raise money on bona fds securities, will stOOp
90 the despicable meanness of begging his friends
endorsement. What right has any man to ask us
20 shoulder HE responsibilities to take all his risks
without any Of his profts-to entrust our fortune,
honor, eputation-everything that is dear to US
20 the casualties aud chances of private specula-
ions, in which we have no interest and over which
We have no controli The habit of exchanging en-.
dOrssments, pursued during a business career Of
ordinary length, In nine cases out Of ten involves
all the parties in ruin. Walter Scott lost the accu
mutation Of years, and died 10 debt from endorsing
his friends paper. The shreWd Barnum, who bad
piled fortune on fortune till his name became a
synonyme of success, was stricken down in q moe
ment and plunged into irretrievable bankruptcy by
IN endorsements. But il this habit Of mutual ems
dorsements among business men which in fact con.
stitute sort of partnership in which each CANDLES
the credit OF the other-if this deserves denun-
citation, what shall be said OF the cousummate i'm
pudenee OF the man who takes advantage Of your
private friendship TO entange you In the snarl Of
his financial embarrassmentsS That man ceases
70 be my friend, who asks me II ! viii be good
enough TO allow him to ruin me- Every man has
risks, cares aud an1ictes enough Of his own. Il
requires all the prudence, caution and foresight
which the gloomy lessons Of the business records
Of the country constantly teaching us, TO eaR.
bic one to steer clear Of the disasters which lie
thick in ones path. The man who would entail
his own peris on bis friends head, is not a friend
bat a-weI, yes--a fool OF a rascal"
-. A woman IN Indiana recently gave birth 70
three healthy male children aOd girl at one birth,
She named the boys respectively Buchanan, Fill.
more aud Fremont--on the SRI she bestowed the
name Of Jessie. The husband Of that woman s 70
be pittied.
-, letter from Lisbon, Portugal says -
" There is nothing OF particular Interest 20 be seen
In the city except Perhaps a chapel, 10 an old
church, about sixteen BY eighteen feet large, and
said to have cost $4,000 900 Il Is bulk almost
entirely Of amethyst, cOrneIian, lops, carrora mar
bic, porphyry, and other precious stones. The
three sides are filed h with mosaic plstes repre-
eentInp ecriptural subiecs and Al sboFi distsaee
cannot be told lrOm she original paintings. Tvo
candenbres IN this chapel are said 90 hsvs cost
5000 piece; they are Of silver elded, aad arc