Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1860-02-04
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TRADE OF CANAL.-The aggregate
amount of revenue earned during the late
wear on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
is very largely ia excess of that OF any
previous year. The coal brought down
during the year was 800, SAG tons, against
254,6S4 tons last year flour l20,SS0
lhbls., against litIe over halt that much
last wear: wheat 2l7,75S bushels; corn
2OO. 247 bushels mill 0tIsI 3S.376 bush
lels oats 24.242 bush hay 252 tons
! wood 1886 cords tan bark Goa cords ;
and limestne 10000 pelches. ! he rev.
epue AT Georgetown was Al ID. .032, which,
with that a, Cumberland and The inlerme-
date points. will make an apPr"Xiu!a'e
total of 1854. or $4,000 more than
la.,ves,and S29, 600 more than the pre-
vioIs year.
They have fresh shad in Norfolk,
caught in Cape Fear river.
ENLARGEMENT OF PARs.-On the NOR
ming of January lsl The whole clIcumIer-
ence of Paris stepped out nile and
drew within its embraces three hundred
thousand new inhabitants. Paris now
contains population of million and
half, Wien completed the new. ci'y will
he thirty miles in clrcumierence, with
niuety.iwo gates. The old octTol wall Is
10 be converted into boulevard aud plan
| ted with trees, and will constitute the lar
! gest street in the world.
A lady was recently found weeping
bitterly at The ice-house attached 10 MI.
Vernon, mistaklng it for the tomb of
Washington.
A DAY OF STATE CONVENTIONS The
god Uf February, the anniversary of the
birth of Washington, will be great day
for the holding OF State conventions.
The opposition convention of Tennessee
will meet al Nashville the democratic
convention Of Iowa will meet at Des
Mones the democratic convention Of
Michigan will meet in Detroit the whig
convention of North Carolina will meet
in Raleigh The peoples party convention
of Penns, lyania VIII meet in Harrisburg
the oppo-i,ion convention OF Virginia will
meet in Richmond, and The republican
convention OF Indiana will meet i'll Indian
spolis.
, Within the past week from City TO six
ly men from Baltimore have gone South,
, abunJanlly provided with arms. They
! form portion Of large party whose des-
tinalon is said 10 be MrN,co, TO assist the
f liberal government
DISAPPOINTED IN REALF.-Old Browns
Secretary of Stale concluded his testimony
before The Senate Committee on Monday.
7 II was detailed account of the orgsniza-
ton of the Brown Provisional Govern
ment in Canada, which has already been
published. He testified that he went 10
England in 1858, and knew nothing about
Browns operations after that time. lie
, will get about 5000 mileage. having been
brought from Texss. Ii is evident that
some members Of the committee have been
, disappointed in Resl's testimony, he hsv-
ing testified to nothing OF any importance
that was not before in evidence.
DEATH FROM JoY.-We understand.
, says the Richmond Dispatch. that an old
, resident Of this city. after long litigation
in the courts, succeeded, few days since
in recovering 81 100 from debtor, which
so elsled him that on It's reception he was
seized with apopIexy and died in less
than a day. JOY can kill, as well as
grief. 1t is relaed that the door oIkeeper Of
the Old Congress, on heariGg Of Ibe sur
render Of CornwaIis, at yorktown, fell
dead 10 paroxyom Of delight al The men
liOn OF the circumstance.
STATE ALLEGHNCg.-Mr Voolfolk. Of
the Virginia house OF delegates, has offer
ed resolution SECURING an oath ol alie-
glance 10 the State 10 be taken by all In-
migrants IRON non.sIst steholding regions.
, a DocTuR COwHlDgD FOR kIssING.-
q spicy bit OF scandal lhas been ~ clrcua-
ZION for the last lcw 8, 'sIauve 80 the
cowhIding and ll0ggihg OF Brooklyn
physlclan by the husband Uf lady pa
irn,. whom he treated ia an unprofrssion-
Il manner whhe msElos cal. The
LADY, Mrs. Ewing, has pub;ished, over
/ her own signature. full statement Of the
whole affair. The doctors name 10
Smith. Poor Smith, he Won't want 10
kiss many nose Of his patients.
Z The Doke OF Wellington giving orders
one day during the PeSiGsulAr campaign,
for battalion TO siiempia rather danger