New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-18
MISCELLANEOUS.


TIE Hartford murder is harvest 20 TIE daily papers
there. TIE Pest tells with much complacency nov
mary extra copies we've solj, and The CoErGHt says
the murderer "spoks 10 several gentlemen regarding
the report IN The C0graEt, which ne Understood WiS
very full"
A. a socis party in Providence, few evenings SEQ,
ladJ tbrost iIom her your man sho attempted 70
kris her with such violence that he fell ard broke his
wrist.
bill TO prohibit the marriage Of ~hits with black
persons has passed the Wisconsin Legislature.
Some nisoreant, on the night of the 18th ult., en-
tered the stables OF Messrs Simms & Sutton, Grenada,
ST. and poisoned between 80 and 30 Of their horses.
AFArHER KILLS HIS SoS.-James Il. Bates killed
his cop. John Bs.es, Fulon, Tenn, on Monday
light Msrch !. A disoute arose between father ami
con atous some csrjs which younger brother was
play WITH the father sayog he did not al ow suca 10
Lie house. when the young man les toe house, followed
hy the father Sho 'Od hm not 10 return, or ne would
stick lis Knife in him. The retained, nayiog 90
iles his father would the knife, when hls father
stabbed him through the lief; breast, causing instant
death.
FIy's Bill IN PRlcrIcE.-TRe Montreal Ga=e"e
If The 18th instant, ssys: Mr.. Murdoch Morrison,
advocate L ade violent sssauit on Mr. ReDbie
tie supposed editor OF The Plot, on Sturoay after
Ioon In the Pace Ames, Tor, We are toll, an article
which appe AIRED in that Journal uieniiug upon the
m. cling of thu Bar to Da held to-day. MI Morrison
struck Mr.. ReDnie in the face.
1HE WIscoSsIs LAsD GRANT IsyEsrIGArIos -
TIE material portion Of The report OF Messrs Eshme,
Ne Kissou, Hooper, Orton and Palmer It rec Repubh
cams ara tao Democratic, the Committee OF the Wis
consin L. sisature to whom referred the memorial
If Ex-Governor Coles B3shford asking for au eytm
nation Of the charges of bribery and corruption made
against hiIa in the disposal OF the La Crosse Land
Grant, is as follows:
our Committee have adopted part Of the testimony -
this 81. the evidence taken before zoe investigating Com
Ieeence ana att fo aud careful soo Of .aoh
your Committee unanimously Of hs opinion te the
Committee Of last Winter received by Bsshfod
rrsuy the La Goose Company after the grant hi
was TO II csye whatever from SAID Com.
Nt 'ss S%m 0 3; % s s
receiving any favor. nom those having business relation, Of
al fetal with them The Comuittes be-
ve due to Gov BaOrd t1s they cannot hod that he
his off al aticn Ia the disposal Of the grant
BY any from the La Crosse Co0paoy do the, bc,ve
that he INTENDED should influence bis action in the dis
charge OF h.. official a. les"
FRoH SYRIA.-Lstters from Syris state that car
risge Ioad is sctusy commenced ut Beyrout which is
10 terminate at the ancient City of Damascus, toe
Oldest city the globe, according 70 biblical chTonol
oey When the and other apparatus for be gin-
mug the new highway made their sppesrance-tOr q
cart proboby never before seen by any OF the
inhabitants, with the exception OF foreign resi4ents
quite a sensation made in that out othe. say SIT
OF creation. They are talking OF a breskwa,er, or
something like an artificial haIbor at -yrou', which
now has no kind OF pro,scton tor the shipping Some
English capitalists have estsblifhe bank Of dis
CONT and deposit at BeyrOnt which IS another new
feature, and extr, msly useul. There recently
shock OF an earthquake ~ Bsyrout, which
ceedingy alarmed tie strsngsrs ojOurnlng there.
Boston lady writes that the floor 10 the house, waere
che was staying, rose up little way and then fell
back sgtin No lives were lost. All a0ng the course
Of the Forden and in tde neighborhood of the Deaf
Sea, shocks and trembllngs sre so frequent to
t6bish toe fact thet tue whole tract is volcanic one
and therefore always liable TO burst on, with awfuy
destructive energy.
BILL TO PREVENT CRUELTY TO ASIMiLs.-The
following bill TO prevent cruelty TO animals has passed
the Massachusetts Legislature, and received the ap-
pfoVsi of the Governor:
Every pr,0n ~ho shs cruelty beat. psn torture any
animals shall BE- pu'Ssd b, Imprisonment; in the county
exceeding hundred dolsa"
SrRAYED.-A young girl, calling herself Mary Bobb
Of Pbiladelpbs, wss fOuOd wandering about tho
streets Of Baltimore, on Tuesday by the police who
took chsrge of her. 1t turned out that she was the
daughter Of Mr.. Shulz, No. lO4O Ne,tsrine-strest,
aceipbia, end thst she lett bis house on Monday
morning, to go to school, and he'd not before bsen
heard Of. She ia s1bjcct 10 fits Of arrangement.
UsLUcKr.-A gentleman in Cincinnati, fe Sdsys
snce emptled biz pockets OF parcel OF letters and pa
peTs which be had accumulated there and burnt them.
The next morning he dsc 1vered that among them vas
oue containing $500 in bills which be he'd intended for
the mail.
A STRIKE-The laborers employed by the New
York and Erie Railroad at Piermont, struck Tues
day in consequence Of the Company failing TO pay
their wages Tor severa months past.
SLAVE TRADE Is CUBA.-The Havans correspond
ent Of TIE SaTdRn0h Republican writes: Duricg The
years have resided in this Island the average an.
nus plumber OF Africans imported has been about
eight thousand Last year, however, that number
was nearly trebled-twenty. three Thousand having
been imported.
KNow.NoTHISGIsN.-The editor % Georgia paper
overheard the fclosng conversation the reopsning
Of the slavc. trade;
Glen, lee tel you, if dey gwine to deavors to
fetch dem ported niggers ob=r dis way which j hear
cey be, dsren be fuis in &c family Spec dey
want us to 'sociste vid dem ngge's on quality.
Neber DO IT, sure"
sam, dus you rally think dyl fetch dem nggers
here?"
For ssriin. Clew, heard msssa say dare was i've
thousand ported soul in Carolina, ana half of dom
DOW ready 10 dis State. l tell you, Clem, if one OF
dem oIin uDst allied gers caic late to sociste vii
DIS chile, be is hoin dc wrong patch. Sometain will
hit him Ike mule kicked him FOX sarter and il won't
be dat animule eder
The CHIycHoSA TREE.-7Te Richmond D.spates
rays that letter from G. X. Bucksew Of the United
States Legation at Ecuador, to DR. Leidy, of Phia-
delpha, calls attention to the expediency o. growing
the Chin ehons tire in this country lie hiss no doa0t
that il would flourish IN many parts OF the United
Stses L. grows at elevations Of six % eight thou
sand Zee. in Ecu ,dor at temperature OF Sky TO six
ty-siI; but Humboldt declared that companion OF
the climate Of tIose OIs with others, Was unsa,ls
factory. The seeds small, and may De sent 0y
letter. The English are enfaAvoring to transplant
10 India. The seeds sent 10 Engaud have been prOpa
gated there and tie plants forwarded 10 India IN elass
covered boxes. with wha; success is not yet known.
OHIo GOLD DrGGISGs.-Tte Cincinnati Conner.
eial auIou1css the discovery OF gold dggings ia Sec
ton tventy-eebt, Symnes township, about one mile
almost due west from Poktown on the Little Miami
Railroad. The placer is 10 little branch called Dry
Rup which enters the Little Miami River below Polk
town, and ia on the premises of Mr.. Nathaniel Hum
phrey, who was struck with the similarity of the
typographical formation of that section Of the country
Bitb that % the gold IegisAs u Cah5szsis. Pz0sscus-