Daily national Democrat., 1858-12-14
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Overland Mail arrived on the nth inst

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Overland Mail arrived on the llth inst
A woman, named Anna Stuart, was found
in barber shop in New York, on the 18th
of November, shockngly burned, and in a
! dying condition. She says mulatto, named
/ Thomas Mitchell, threw camphene on her
clothes, set fire to it, and then fed. She was
not expected to live through the day. The
mulatto was arrested.
Henry Reed, night clerk in the Post Of
fee in New York city. was arrested on the
| llth of Nov. in the act of purloining let
! ters He confesses to the robbing, some sew
en- weeks since. of package Of over one hun
dred letters to Brooklyn.
Policeman Cairnes of the First Ward, New
York, was called upon to suppress a disturb
ance on board the ship St Charles, lying at
the foot Of Wall street. Cairnes arrested a
man. named John HALLS or Michael Mccoy
ern, long-shore man, and, while conveying
him to the Tombs, the prisoner Knocked the
policeman down, and attempted to escape
The officer pursued, firing his revolver, and
the third or fourth discharge struck him in
the back The wounded man died while on
his way to the City Hospital. Cairnes sur
rendered himself and was in prison awaiting
the result of the Coroner's inquest.
The captured SLAYER, Ketch Brothers, which
was taken on the south coast of Africa, arri
we'd at Charleston, South Carolina, on the
llth of November, in charge Of i. I. Stone,
of the IT, S. s,oop-of-war Marion. The Keteh
was formerly owned by Street 6 Bros, of
Charleston, and was sold to parties in Hava-
ma. She was provided with slaver's outfit,
but she had no slaves on board eighty-seven
hundred dollars in gold was found on her.
AT the third meeting of the creditors of
Lawrence Stone & Co.. held at Boston on the
10th of November, additional claims were
presented, which, together with the claim of
George Peabody, of London, amounting to
100000, will swell the sum owed by the
firm at the time of failure to nearly $4,000
600.
Edward Everett is already under way
again with his Washington Grafton. His
earnings with that production are already
above one hundred thousand dollars.
w. c. Bryant has resumed the editorial
supervision of the New York Evening Post,
during the absence of Biglow in Europe.
The third volume of Prescotts History of
Philip the Second is completed, and will be
published in December.
douglas is in the ring for 1860" eXclaims
an enthusiastic admirer of the Little Giant"
In the ring "Well," says Prentice, 'as he
vaulted over the canvass this Fall, he may be |
able to jump a balloon of fire at Charleston |
turning a snmmerset as he goes through
In Paducah Ky, young married lady, !
aged about thirteen years, says a local paper |
was recently delivered of child weighing |
one and 9 quarter pounds.
zen of the forty medical students at the
rittsfeld Mass Medical College manifested
such an opposition to the admission of Libe-
rians to the school that the eolored men were
sent off by the faculty, with letters of recon-
nendation to another institution.
Another rich beggar was discovered in the
,ity of Philadelphia the other day. lie had
orty eight $5 gold pieces sewed up in his
greasy gaberdine.
The Sub-Treasury balance is reduced to
less than eight millions of dollors, by trans
fer of 100000 in gold to the Department at
The statement that the Suffolk Bank had
lcceeded to the request of many of the banks
If Boston, to postpone the time at which that
would cease the redemption of
country money from the 3Oth of Nov. to the
18th of February, isineorreet.