, 1859-09-02


Louis, had insurance on his life in different
Offices to the amount Of $4,000.
Ba4-Two more cargoes of coolies have
arrival at Havana, landing alive $50. The
whole number shipped by vessels which
have arrived in Cuba is 47,63l-delivered
at the port of Havana, 4O,564-leaving
on their ocean path seven thousand and
sixty-four.
raa-In one week, 2s, COS ounces of gold,
worth about $550,OOO, were deposited in
the San Francisco Mint; including 379l
ounces of private California and foreign
coin. OF silver, 22,693 ounces were de-
posted; l248 ounces of it for dollars, and
the remainder, 81 l,445, ounces, purchased
The coinage in double eagles, amounted to
$6OO,OOO
B@.The cornerstone of the New York
State Agricultural College, at Ovid, Sena-
ca county, was laid on Wednesday last, by
Ex- Gov John A. King, with appropriate
ceremonies. Three thousand persons were
present.
p@-A large factory in Terryville c.,
belonging to the Eagle Lock Company,
was destroyed by fire Monday night. Loss
$4,000 10 $4,000; insurance $22,0 to
$24, 900.
p9- The work on the Pilgrim Monument,
at Plymouth, is well commenced, and the
corner stone will be laid on the lst Of Au-
gust.
EApOne Of the passengers in the late
disaster upon the Michigan Southern Rail
road settled with the company for the loss
of his wife and child for $500.
B9. German named Green, has been
arrested in Pendleton county, Ky, while in
the act of running four slaves across the
Ohio.
p4.The climate of Arizona is slightly
warm at this season Of the year. On the
lIth of June the thermometer at Tubac, in
the shade Of cool hall, with the floor
spripkled, stood at 1869, and yet it was
said that the "hot season" had not COM
menced.
NEON the LIST inst, the hog pens at
tached to the distillery Of George Coon, in
Cincinnati, fell with an immense crash, pre-
cipitating four thousand head into the Mill
creek Valley, distance of thirty feet, and
, bruising in the ruins at least $50 900 worth
of stock. The loss will amount to several
thousand dollars.
RA-The Mayor of Baltimore having is
sued orders against the paradiug Of fantas-
tical clubs, the police interfered with two
professions Of the kind and we're roughly
handled. Pistols aud tomahawks were
freely used. ...,. ..-.. tf
BA-PREsIDENr BUCHANAN has COMMITTED
to Imprisonment for life, the sentence of
death impending over the youth, Cyrus W.
Plummer, convicted at Boston, Of piracy
and murder The case has excited more
interest in Boston and New York than any
other one known to the history of maritime
tragedies. Some twenty thousand persons,
principally Immediately connected with
maritime affairs, besought the President to
this exercise Of his prerogative by petitions,
on the ground that the prisoner was far
less guilty than others who escaped punish
ment altogether.
RA-During the first six months of 1859,
IA boats and 327 lives were lost on the
Western waters; 26 of the boats were
burned Yalue Of boats and cargoes, ST.
77O,5OO -
p@-T Thomas Coleman, for twenty years
one of the most prominent delineators Of
the Ethiopian character, died at Newark,
N. j., on the 5th inst. He was born in
Boston.
nA-T The remarkable exemption of the
city of New Orleans from yellow fever this
year thus far, it is believed, is due to the
long continued overflow of the Mississippi
river. The theory that overfows are pre-
ventiyes of this disease, is strongly defend
ed in the New Orleans Medical RcrielO, and
is daily becoming stronger in the public
mind.
b1- P. ST. George Cooke, Esq, has pre-
sented to the Virginia Military Institute
$40, 900 for the establishment Of an agri-
cultural department at that institution.
R9- DR.. Henry Northall, the acting
British Vice-Consul at the port Of Glou-
cester, committed suicide on Sunday night
by hanging.
TREMENDOUS MAN OF Waffle Lon
don Times says that the new Iron Steam
Ram will be aaoat next June. Her total
length will be $50 feet breadth, So to-
tai weight at sea, about 5000 tons full
speed, l6 miles an hour The Ram will
run down ships by driving at them at full
speed.
p3- At Montgomery, Ala, on the Both
ult., the grand jury found FIVE bills Of in
dictment against N. Maroney, a former
employee of the Adams Express Company,
for embezzIing some $50, 900, as it now ap-
pears, from the company, and making it
appear that he was robbed.
E9- The San Antonio (Texas) Herald,
of the 10th ult., announces that the health
Of Gen. Twiggs is restored, be being able
to walk about his house with ease, and