The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-10-13

cluzehs OF this place, in which he says that the
treaty lately ratified by the Government OF
Nicaragua Is acceptable to that of the United
States, and offers to Americans peaceable emf.
grafton to that country.
] DIR. Windship, the "strong man leotured in
Portland last week, with great success. The
! Advertiser SAYS
be lifted at one effort 929 pounds, an
amount which two strong men failed to lift, after
the close OF the exhibition. The exercise with
the monstrous dumbbells was equally wonder.
| ful, but when he shouldered barrel of -four.
the enthusiasm of the audience was unbound,
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| The FLORIDA Observation-Disclosures. Oct. 10.
The returns of the Florida election are incom-
plete but Mr. Dupont appears to be most GER
tain OF election as Chief JUSTICE The popular
vote is in decided opposition to the annexation
of West Florida to Alabama.
SuIcIDE+A valuable slave man. belonging
to Mr. Benton, of Sharpsburg, Maryland,
hung himself on Monday night last, in conse.
quence OF has master refusing to sell him to go
south with colored girl, upon whom his
hearts affection had been placed.
SUDDEN DEArH.-Reading, Penn, Oct L.
Colonel John Miller, a highly respectable citi.
zen of this city, and formerly Representative
from Berks county in the State Legislature,
died suddenly yesterday, of apopiexy.
FIRE AT New ORLEAxs.-Me,o Orleans, Oct.
6.-The Chicago rope factory in this city was
burned today. The loss amounted to 800, 000
ON which there is an insurance of $4,000.
FIRE AT LEAyENwoRTH.-H. Louis, Oct. g.
The planning mill of Higginbottom & Co., at
Leavenworth, Kansas, was burned on Sunday
Loss, $4,000; insurance $1,000.
During August, 3s,335 ounces of gold were
deposited in the San Francisco mint, 36,92O
ounces of silver were purchased, 1862, 1000 were
coined.
Severe shocks of an earthquake were felt at
Baton Rouge and Bayou Sara, La, on the 29th
ultmo.
Six hundred and fifty-seven mules were sold
at public sale in Paris, KY, on Monday last
for the aggregate or $63,495.20
On Thursday night last there was severe
frost in the neighborhood of Frostburg, Md.
In Quebec, few days since, man was sen.
fenced to pay fine Of el0, or Imprisonment
for thirty days, for having iron knuckles con-
cealed upon his person.
1t is rumored that Miss Evans, author of
Beulah," has become enamored of the stage,
and will soon appear in New York theatre.
A MAN LIVING FIVE DAYS WITH Broken
NECK The Louisville Journal says:
Some two weeks since, an elderly German
fell, during the night, down steep fight OF
steps, and struck the side Of his head against
the wall at the landing. He was taken up in
sensible, and carried to his room. 1t was found
on examination, when he became conscious
that he was paralyzed in all those parts of his
body below the neck, and that his neck was
broken. He remained in this condition some
thing over FIVE days, conversing freely with his
attendants, and describing to them all the SEN
sations which he had His attending surgeons
Drs. Thum and Goldsmith, we believe, made
an attempt to set the neck, but were obliged to
desist, on account of suffocaton coming on
whenever the head was brought into its natu-
raj position. Between the fifth and sixth days.
the nurse undertook to move him for the pur
pose of changing his Hnen and N doing so
the head was unwittingly turned so that the
neck was straight. Death took place instant.
ly. But for this accident, there is no telling
how long he might have lived. Altogether,
the case is a most extraordinary one, and no
doubt will, in due time, be published authori-
tatvely in some medical journal"
1t is psoposed, out of respect to his Honor
the Mayor, to change the name of Tammany
Hall to Tiemanny Hall. "-Sat,uday Press.
Query From recent occurrences, would not
the appellation of Psrdytion Hall be more APP
propriate -EOening Post.
THE GREAT ABoLIrIoNIsr IN Missouri, VIR-
GINA, AND kENTUCKY-the high price of me-
groes further South. If this price continues,
all the border grain-growing States will be
abolitionized-N. 7. Express
The Eufaula (Aabamal Spirit of the South
states that a young man, recently imported from
the North, but of foreign birth, was rode out of
town on a rail on Saturday night, on account
of repeated expressions of Abolition opinions
INDUCED in, after being warned that a persist
ence in such conduct could not be tolerated.
CONFLICT BETWEEN THE DRusEs AND THE
MARoYITEs.- We published few days ago
paragraph copied from an English paper, which
stated that sanguinary conflict had taken
place between the Druses and Christians in
village not far from Deyrout, and that several
aged, and some forty or fifty Of the complaints
killed. A letter has been received at the Mis-
sionary House, from Rev. j. E. Ford, dated
Beyrout, August l8, in which he says:
"The mountain has been in very disturbed
state for the last few days, in consequence of q
fierce quarrel, which broke out on Sunday last,
between the Druses and the Maropites, in one
of the villages located between the two sects.
There was imuinent danger that the flame of
civil war would spread over the whole of Leb
anon. Nor ia the danger wholly past, though
confidence is somewhat restored to-day. There
has been good deal of blood shed on both
sides, and several villages burnt"
The Druses and Maronites are religious sects,
both of them very numerous, and are continual
ly quarrelling with each other. The former
are more easily reached by the Missionaries
than the latter, and many of them have been
converted. The religion of the Maronites is
Catholic, but that Of the Druses is so poorly de-
fined that even the Missionaries have act been
able to gain much knowledge concerning it,
Boston Journal.
Down WITH THE DUsT-The Courier des
Etats Unis informs us that an ingenious French
chemist at Lyons has just hit upon an expe.
dent which promises to make the dusty high |
way as much dream of the past as the {" bla- |
zing hearth has become since the roaring back |
log gave place to she black furnace hole in the |
floor. This expedient has already been tried |
with great success in two of the leading thor
oughfares Of the large city of Lyons. 1t con-
sists in sprinkling hydrochloric acid on the
macadamized way. After baptism of this
sort in the morning B, the soil of the Place Belle.
cour at Lyons, although very light and gravelly,
is found at high noon to remain as solid and
moist as If it had Just been abpndsntly water
ed, and the wind fails to fan ii into that fine
dust which is the Egyptian plague of all great
cities in hot weather. Nor does il appear to be |
necessary that the application should be very