Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-13

Ory of Hon. JOSIAH Bartlett, Slgfer OF tne
Declaration of Independence, and the first
man in the convention who voted to dissolve
connection with Great Britain. He. was born
in Amesbury in 1927.
1t is stated that Edwin Forrest, the tragedi-
an, at a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free
Masons of New York, on Tuesday night, pre-
sented the lodge with check for $500, being
the amount of the verdict recently awarded
him in the libel case against n. 2. Willis.
The sum goes towards the fund for the relief
of widows and orphans of Free Masons.
FOREIGN ITEMS.
We read in the Paris papers the interesting
news from Egypt that NJ. Marietta, who con-
duets the excavations there, has found at The
be the grave of Pharao Amasis, completely
undamaged The king lay in a coffin, which
was quite covered with gold, and ornamanted
with large wings. About thirty pieces of jew
elry of great value were found. Among these
worthy of especial notice is a gold ak, with re-
lievo figures on lapiS lazuli.
Some unpublished manuscripts of great in
terest for the history of France in the six
tenth and seventeenth centuries have just
been discovered at Madrid. Among them is a
letter from the Spanish Embasssdor in Paris,
written at the Louvre on the very day OF the
massacre of st. Bartholomew, and filled with
curious details.
The French Academy has unanimously
awarded its great prize of poetry to young
lady, Mademoiselle Ernestine Drout, a gov
erness in a school at Paris. The title of the
poem sent in by her is "The Sister of Char
ity."
On the 9th ult., Madame Frezzolini was in
London en- route for the United States. The
Spectator says that the great cantatrice has
refused the most liberal offers at Paris at St.
Doto- a,,1 n
more independent and less laborious career in
America. She has been singing in Paris the
past season with what the Musical Journal OF
France calls desperate perfection"
Amongst the commanders in the Austrian
army, Count Neipperg, the son of Marie
Louise, and half brother to the Due de Reichs-
tadt, the son of Napoleon l., stands foremost,
A recOntre between him and the Emperor of
the French would be singular enough. The
Count is said to bear strong resemblance to
the late Due de Reichstadt.
The Austrians are afraid of Garibaldi the
natives of the Sesia district which has been
occupied and evacuated by the Austrians, say
that whenever the advanced parties of the en-
envy reached new point, one of their first
questions was, whether Garibaldi was in that
district. They know the composition of his
force, and fear him.
A Turin letter says GAS an illustration of
the difficulty of getting positive news even
here, L may mention that nobody can tell me
whether Captain Bonaparte 1.-THE son of Miss
Patterson of Baltimore) was or was not in the
action. 1t is the story at the cafes that he
was, and that he distinguished himself greatly /;
one report says, cutting down two Hungarian
hussars of the regiment of Prince Charles of
Bavaria, with his own hand.
The Paris Moniteur says "the Countess de
Morny is in deep afflcton at the news of the
death of Prince Serge Troubetskoi, her IA
Their" 1t is well known that the late Car
Nicholas was her papa.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On Tuesday, May 18th, the proprietors of
the San Francisco Evening Bulletin were ar
rested on a warrant issued under the act to
prevent the vending of obscene publications.
The ground of the complaint is, that the con-
tession of Mrs. Sickles was published without
expurgation in the Bulletin.
The Louisville journal says that on Monday
evening terrific descent of gnats was made
on that city. Places of amusement were rem
dered unbearable. Gnats were showered on
the hotel tables till the lights in the chande-
Tiers had to be eXtinguished. Eyes, ears, and
mouths were exposed to the annoyance.
The Western Christian Advocate says that
all the preachers of the Episcopal Church,
NOTbl, except TWO, nave Deen uTlFcH OUT Vi
Texas by the shareholders.
The st. Paul Mnnesotian states that the
machine shops of the Minnesota and Pacific
Railroad is about to go into operation there, a
large portion of the machinery having arrived
and also that from st. Paul to st. Anthony the
road will soon be tiled" and "irOned' so that
freight and passenger cars can run over it.
In Wisconsin, a vein of ammonia, two feet
thick and almost solid, has been discovered
within two miles of st. Clairsville. Ammonia
is one of the ingredients Of type metal-worth
about 40 cents a pound-and it has been sup
posed that it was only to be found in Germany
y doSP"teh from W aShinotnn states tnal
owing to complaints from the English authori-
ties OF the inetticiency of our navy in carrying
out the treaty stipulations for the suppression
OF the slave trade, President Buchanan has
determined to send to the coast of Africa and
the Gulf of Mexico all the gunboats now be-
ing built at the several navy yards.
The Senate of Missouri met last Monday to
try Albert Jackson Judge of the Fifteenth
judicial Circuit on articles of impeachment
preferred against him by the other branch OF
the Legislature. This is the first case of the
kind III the history of the State of Missouri
The Utica Herald says that Mr. Gates of
Frankfort, Herkimer County, has made, dur
ing the last eighteen years, 6,455, 100000 of
matches, using 100000 feet of lumber. He
now makes 2750000 matches daily, making
use of 500 feet of lumber. He uses five pounds
OF phosphorus daily, which is about the amount
found III the bones Of single horse. He has
thus used up the skeletons of about 230O
horses-a host of matched" horses. No won
der that horse starts at "the fiz which fol-
lows the primitive scratch"
The Frost in WiSconSin.-The Milwaukee
Democrat says the frost of Friday and Satur-
day nights was very severe in many parts of
Wisconsin. The corn and potato crops had
not arrived at that advanced stage when a Sc
we're frost is fatal, but upon early vegetables it
fell with blighting force.
An incidental ImpIication-In an article de-
scribing the heavy Austrian taxes under
which Lombardy groans, reaching tuenty seven
to f0ryttree per cent. of the income of the
Italians, the Journal of Commerce observes :
1.-The amount Of these mammoth burdens may
astonish even New Yorker"
Jersey Strawberries are very abundant and
very fine in New York. They are sold in
Boston for % cents per box. The crop in the
vicinity Of Baltimore is immense. Two far
mers have each over hundred acres covered
with them. ~ steamer load is taken daily to
Philadelphia. Ripe peaches have appeared in
the Savannah market.
1t is crediby stated that a canary, owned
by gentleman i'll Seneca county, N. Y, has
outbid the American eagle by warbling "Hail
Columbia" without missing note.
Divorces IN ENGLAND.-We find the fol.
lowing summary OF three days proceedings
under the new divorce law in a recent London
journal