The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-02-17

cherry Creek has been augmented to some
three thousand persons.
| BALTIMORE AND Ono RAILRoAD.-The total
receipts for the month of January, 1859, were
1920, 3l.S9, showing an increase this year for
the month Of $7,044.76.
The receipts on the main stem and north
west Virginia branch were S7,l84.75 greater
than last January; but the decrease on the
Washington branch of Sl39.99, leaves the net
increase $7,044.76, as before stated.
The receipts for December, 1853, were
! $336,S6l.0l.
| The New Orleans Crescent of Wednesday
states that there were at that time forty-nine
vessels, inward and outward bound. living at
the mouth of the Mississippi unable TO cross
the bar, for want of water. OF the whole num-
ber twenty-nine were outward-bound ships,
some of which cleared from New Orleans on
the 9th of December, two months previous.
| The Ocean Mail Steamer Bill, reported from
the Committee Of Ways and Means, proposes
and appropriation of $50, 500 for carving mails
| from New Orleans to San Francisco by way of
| Tehauntepec. This is the only new route
specially provided for. The Postmaster Gen.
eral has discretion to procure their conveyance
to European ports.
/ WILLIAM AND MARY CoLLLGE, at Williams
burg, Va, one of the most distinguished and
venerable institutions of learning in the coun-
try, and the alma mater of Jefferson, was de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of February 18th.
Its valuable library and laboratory have been
destroyed, and in fact everything else. All
the students escaped unframed. The total loss
is estimated at $780, 900, only So, 1000 of which
| was covered by insurance.
|. THE KANSAS LEGIsLATURE-S. Louis. Feb.
IA bill appropriating 1000, and authori-
zlng the employment Of counsel for the defence
OF MIR. boy and his son, who are charged with
abducting negroes from Missouri, and who are
now in jail at Platte city, Missouri, was passed
in the lower House of the Kansas Legislature,
on the 9TH inst, without opposition.
| Montreal, Feb. I2.-The Assembly passed
| the vote fixing the seat of Government at Que
bee for four years, by majority of thirty-seven.
! This will probably result in the permanent loca-
| ton of the seat of Government there.
! Sdrannah, FEB. l2-The Grand Jury has
found true bills against Captain Corrie and
three others, implicated in the slave trade in
connection with the Wanderer. They are now
in prison.
A dispatch from Jackson Tenn, says, that
! Miller, the cashier of the bank there, who was
murdered, received two blows on the head with
sledge- hammer, which scattered his brains in
every direction. 1t is thought the murderer
was some person of high standing who had in
duced the cashier to open the doors after bust
ness hours, and, from the position in which the
victim was found, it is supposed he was making
out check for the murderer.
Among the graves in the rural cemetery at
Camden, Arkansas, is that of brother of the
illustrious Henry Clay. His only monument is
an oak tree, with the initials of his name rude
ly carved in its rough bark He is said to
have been devoted minister of the Gospel.
Nor A HOPEFUL CoXvERT"-A cruel rob-
berry was perpetrated at Father Mason's prayer
meeting, at the corner of North and Ferry
streets, on Tuesday noon. A young was
in attendance at the meeting, and apparently
was deeply interested in the religious exercises,
Het sat Immediately behind the venerable Dea-
can Lewis Wilder, and during the singing look
ing over the Deacon's hymn book. In the
midst of the service he called the Deacon to the
door, and informed him that he had been
great sinner, but then felt himself to be under
conviction. He was DESTROYS, he said, of return
ing from his sinful ways, and asked to haze the
way of salvation pointed out 20 aim. The good
old man mutually interested in the case of
the young convert, and addressed to him some
pious counsel. But alas for the depravitv of
the human heart. The young man ASKED what
time it was, and the insuspecting Deacon had
no SOONER removed his watch from his pocket,
than it was snatched from his hands, aud the
thief was on his way down stairs. The Deacon
started in pursuit, and ran down down North
street, crying stop thief" his white locks
streaming in the wind, but the hypocrtica ras
cal proved the swiftest Of foot, and turning
down into Commercial street. was soon lost to
veiw.-B0StOa Herald.
CoNGo IDEA OF HOPED SKIRTs.-Some of
the Wanderers Africans are in Mississippi.
The Viekebprg sun saysi
@We do not think they are valuable from
the fact that we believe no white man would
like to oversee a set of such hideous, senseless-
looking creatures besides, it would, in our
opinion, be great deal of trouble to keep them
at work. They can ask for tobacco and whis-
Ky, and perhaps chew the former AND drink the
latter, but they can IL nothing else. They
| know nothing about the use of clothing, and
would place pair of pants their
shoulders. as on their legs. One of them has
formed great fancy for umbrellas and when
couple Of young ladies approached nim, dressed
| IN The present extensive fashion, he flung down
| his hoe and pursued one Of them with all posi-
| BILE speed, and as he came near her he vigor-
ously grabbed at the skirt of her dress but be-
fore he succeeded in getting hold Oft one of the
attaches of the Mississippi Central Railroad
succeeded in knocking fim down, Mr. Mon
tague then took him in charge, and asked him
in his own gihherish what he pursued the lady
| for, when he replied that she had an umbrella
under her dress, and he wanted it."
| In justice to Daviss Pain Killer, must say
that never sold an article whirh gave such uni.
versal Satisfaction 70 all who used it. | never
kept medicine which met with such rapid
sale; its virtues are the topic of conversation
in many places in this vicinity.
W. W. ROBERTS, prVSgiat,
81 Laporte, Indiana.
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