The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-01-06
DOMESTIC SUMMARY

1t is the day for the severing of family ties, and
for the drawing lots for overseers and taskmas-
tiers. The following paragraph which we find
in the Baltimore San of Tuesday, will offset all
the beautiful sentimentality which the New
Year has given rise to in the press of Maryland
and Virginia:
| Hiring IN Viryinia.-There were number
of servants hired at Alexandria on Saturday at
an advance on last year. Men hired for from
$75 to Sl40; women, $50 TO $50; boys, $50 to
$75; and girls, from $40 to $50. At Winches-
ter, boys brought from $40 to $50; women $50
| to $685. and men, from $50 to $llO. The
Fredericksburg Herald notes an advance in
prices, and says:
Contractors public works are hiring
men at $3.50, which affects all other classes. A
contractor from Kentucky was here few DAYS
ago with "a pile of money" to buy slaves to
put on public works in that State. He stated
that he had paid $4,000 for ten slaves in
Charlottesville, and wanted still more, for which
he was willing to pay like sum- y
THE SEVERE SHOCK OF EARTHQUAKE IN CAL.
IFoRNIA-FURTHER PARTICULARs-It has al.
ready been mentioned that severe shock of
an earthquake was felt at San Francisco, and
in other sections of California, on the morning
of the 10th OF November. The San Francisco
| Herald thus describes it:
At twenty-seven minutes before one O'Clock
| yesterday morning, our city was visited by one
of the most violent shocks of earthquake that
has been experienced since California came
into American possession. 1t was preceded by
a deep rumbling noise coming from the north
east, which sounded as if heavily-loaded teams
of wagons were being driven fnriously through
our streets. This was Immediately succeeded
by premonitory shock, instantly followed by a
still heavier one, which lasted about ten or twelve
seconds An intermission of some FIVE or six
seconds ensued, when third shock, much
heavier and more prolonged than the second,
succeeded raising the fears of our citizens to a
painful degree. The motion was undulating,
and from northeast to southwest and the solid
earth moved as if suddenly converted into ocean
waves. The alarm was universal, and anxiety
was depicted on every face, to know whether
nature would continue in CONFUSION or sink
back to her usual rest"
Coon OLD AGE-Mrs Rebecca Outright died
in Cpshur county, Va, OIL the 18th inst, at the
extraordinary age of one hundred and sir years.
An obituary of her says
:" She was the first white woman who settled
in the valley of the Buckhannon river, coming
to Western Virginia when quite young, and
living with her husband in hollow tree at the
mouth of Turkey run, in what is now Upshur
county. The deceased retained all her facul-
ties in vigor until the close of her long and
eventful life and, on the morning of her de-
cease, was caressing one of her great-grand-
children, when, feeling weary, she requested the
child to be quiet, while granny would lay down
and Sleep The venerable old lady then laid
down upon her bed, and slept the sleep that
knows no waking Her descendants number
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LYNCH LAW IN ARKANSAS FIVE HORSE
THIEVES HUNG.- The fact that five men,
charged with being horse thieves, were summa,
rily executed in Arkansas, recently, was men
toned few days ago. The Memphis Appeal
says:
"As our informant rode past the spot where
the edict of Lynch law had gone FORTH and the
horrible spectacle of its execution was witness
ed, one poor fellow was seen dangling between
heaven and earth, suspended by his neck to the
limb of a tree, whose branches extended across
the road, with this inscription written upon hi.
back: Tennessee horse thief If you like him
better than do, you can take him down ant
, bury him.
The Richmond E.4Srer says:
I" fhe annual statements of commerce anC
navigation, just issued from the press, contain
a very gratifying exhibit of the commerce Of
Richmond for the last year, showing q marked
increase in the explorations, as compared with
tkoae Of the year preceding, and that, too, at a
period Of great depression in trade, when our
commercial transactions in other quarters were
experiencing a severe and startling contrac.
ton.
- The principal articles exported we're,
Tobacco, leaf $4,079,322
Wheat. topr 2,l65,8ll
The aggregate Of exports was 6,346. 39a
The imports on the other hand have suffer
ed some decrease. and consist principally Of
Coffee sfiom the BraziIs altogether) 365,644
Sugar l22,239
The aggregate Of imports WA G65,9O6
FINANCES OF WIscoysIN.-The report of the
State Treasurer of Wisconsin for the fiscal year
ending Sept. 30 has been published 1t ex-
hibits the following condition of affairs
AT the close of the fiscal year. the general
fund was not only exhausted, but $27, 1928 had
been paid out from other funds on its account
The amount of outstanding claims on the lst
of October was $20l ,687.32. The Aggregate
of the resources of the St,;,, ptexi0us and up TO
that time, :lsG6ts,aa3a, Should the whole of
hi. amount be promptly paid, there would still
remain $75,232.52 of Indebtedness to be paid
out of the State tax. The Treasurer estimateg,
however, that not over $4,000 will le yeceiyed
from these arrearagcs, and consequently a
balanes VIII Ne Jeff Of OVER Sl25, 900, to be paid
from the next State tax.
RAILROAD IRoN.-We see it stated that con-
tracts have been recently made OF taeOla6ie
terms for about 81 ;QGG ,6ns OF railroad iron,
sufficient 70 build about 800 miles of road, all
deliverable within the next fifteen months.
Among the roads for which this is designed are
the following:
"Atlanhc and Western, 81 900 tons Mobile
and Ohio 900 tons Galveston and Houston,
$4,000 tons Gentry's, Texas, |, 100 tons Mis-
sissippi Central, 1000 tons Tops, Tennessee.
5000 tons Whites, Tennessee, l,00Gj IU,neis
River, 1000; Staten islSEs l,a0g tons Butia'
10 Bayou a9a nFaaes; 1000 tons; Florida roads,
4,00Qt6hs,H
IMMIGRATION. = The tide of immisIa.ion
which has been flowing into sef state during
the last three G,cntps has Ear surpassed that of
sny r,eyions year. We think the number of
wagons which have passed through cur town
daily, during the last two months and half,
will exceed City. The immigrants are generally
of class that will add materially to the wealth
of the State, most of them bringing more or
less negroes.-Teras Standard
Suppression OF BANK PAPER IN AasAssAs.
In obedience to the recommendation Of the Coy
ernor, bills hare been introduced in beth
branches of the General Assembly, to suppress
the circulation of bank notes of a less demon
ination than $50 in that State,
DEAANn EOR sLAvEs.-The Mobile Mercury
says:
while the Georgians are obtaining slaves
from the coast of Africa at nero nominal
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