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been committed at No. % East Twelfth street Nv
| York. Mrs. Sarah Shank, a widow lady aped
| ABOUT 5O years, who kept at that number a small
thread and needle store, was found lyipp upon the
noor OF her sleeping-room, with her throat cut and
| her head literally beaten in. She had been seen
| about her shop in the morning. her fires had been
lighted, and little girl from a neighboring board
ing house had conveyed her breakfast to her about
! Sc O'Clock, making it probable that the murder
was committed about 0 o'clock. Near the body lay
tne fragments of heavy earthen water-pitcher,
S iVn Wulch sue nad doubtless been assaed in the
hrsI instance NO clue can yet be found to the
| perpetrators.
REV ROBERT j. BRECKINRIDGE, of Kentucky has
written letter on the political condition of the
country, which is worthy of attention. He hits
the causes of the existing troubles with good deal
of accuracy when he says that off the North insists
on using the National Government to put down
slavery if the South insists on using it to per-
petuate and extend slavery, the Union cannot last'
Dr. breckenridge thinks that if the Union can sur
we the present crisis the result will be the tr
umph of the Democratic party in 1864, probably
under John G. Breckenridge, the whole South and
aporuon ot the North uniting in his support. This
Is the best result he foresee. He speaks in the
strongest terms of Mr.. BIS devotion to the Union
and the false accusations of avoring dsunion which
have been brought against him during the canvass
LTQUoRICE GROwING IN TExAs.-We learn from
the San Antonio Ledger that a Mr.. Poinsard, of
that city, has been eminenty successful in the cul
ture and acclimatiOn of iquOrce root which he
had imported from France. OF all the plants i'm
ported, one alone survived. The growth was lux
uriant, Notwithstanding the drouth, covering the
ground for a circumference of fifteen feet, proving
that irrigation is not necessary to its successful
growth. Indeed, so successful has Mr.. Poinsard
been, both in relation to its accmature and cul-
ture, that he looks forward to the liquorice root
becoming. speedily an article of extensive export
from Western Texas.-N. o. Bulletin.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Nal of the 4th instant.
COMPLIMENT TO THE NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRrDaE.
MI. W; Barlow, an engineer having visited
America Tor the purpose OF carefully examining the
construction of the Niagara Railway Suspension
Bridge-the strength and durability of which have
been greatly questioned by English engireers-has
returned with so high opinion of bridges of this
Kind that he proposes their immediate adoption for
several extraordinary purposes. He proposes to
connect Liverpool with Birkenhead by such a
bridge, lO5 feet above the level of the river at an
estimated cost of million sterling. He likewise
advocates the construction of a suspension girder
yladuct for the purpose of relieving the street
traic of London, and offers to connect Hoborn and
NeWgate streets by level bridge, and thus avoid
Holborn Hill.
CAPTURE OF ANoTHER SLAvER.-Advices from the
African squadron report the capture of another
SLAYER with 7O5 Africans on board She il called
the bark Cora, and halls from New York, She
was taken about eighty miles off the Congo river.
by the U. S. corvette Constellation person calling
himself Loretto Ring, plocaiming himself her mas
ter. a Spaniard and American were on
board; Gov. Morgan, OF New York, formerly
owned the Cora. The Cora is classed an A on the
Register, is 43l tons burthern and was built at Bal
tmore in 1851. The Africans were landed at Mon
rOvia and the vessel sent to Norfolk in charge of a
prize crew. She has not yet arrived.
The CANAL BoARD.-At meeting of the Com
missioners of Public Works of MARYLAND held in
Washington, Thursday, at the office of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio Canal Company, the following
gentlemen were elected President and Directors of
that work, to serve until their successors snail take
their place, viz: President DR.. j. Fitzpatrick,
Cumberland. Directors, Alfred Spates, Alleghany
county; Victor Holmes, Baltimore county; J. j.
Heckart, Cecil county; Edward Mealy, Hagers-
town. Col. Jonn johnson, Martinsburg, Va; Robt
Nandiyer, Hartford county, Md.
The following amendment was offered and
adopted by the South Carolina Legislature to the
army bill
That if in the Judgment of the Governor it shall
at any time become necessary, he shall be author
lied at his discretion to receive into the military
service Of the State such bodies of volunteers from
the other slaveholding States may tender their
services for term of service such may to him
appear advisable.
FATAL AFFRAY.-At Paducah, KY, a few days
since, Captain Pigg and Mr.. Pryor got into quar-
rel, both drew revovers and fired; Pigg was Killed
on the spot and Pryor received fatal wound. A
son of Pigg - wears old hearing of his fathers
death, rushed into the hotel where Pryor had been
carried, revolver in hand, and was Just pulling
trigger on Pryor when his hand was arrested by a
bystander.
FREE LABOR FOR FREE MEN-The Fruits of RepuJ-
hcan'sm.-With the election of Lincoln the Repub-
llcan party have given practical effect to at least
one OF the cardinal points in their creed Not
tent with having free farms, they must have free
labor and they have at last succeeded in obtaining
1t; for since the election of Lincoln the supply of
labor has so far exceeded the demand that in New
York city it can be obtained at such slight remu-
neration as to render it almost literally free.
A correspondent of the Columbus (Ga.) Times
concludes a letter to that Journal as folIOws:-'I
am one of few who ever dared to think that Re
wa 81 from IFS inca and |
have never shruuk from giving my opinion when it
was worth while. have never wished to see this
Union disrupted, but if it must be, then | raise my
voice for return to Constitutional Monarchy
Nine bodies, supposed to be those of the crew of
the schooner Harrcane, of Buffalo, wrecked on
Lake Huron, were washed ashore near st. Joseph,
Michigan, on the 30th ult. On the following day
the body Of a woman, supposed to be one of the
victims OF the Lady Elgin disaster; came ashore at
the same place.
Letters have been received from Geo Peabody,
Esq, Of London stating that he has deferred his
return to his native home until 1854 when he pro-
to make this country his permanent residence
lie states that his health never was better than at
the time of his writing.
The new 'Vigilance Committee of New Or
leans is severely handled by the press for its un-
action in ordering persons without
the shadow of proof of being aboitionists, from
the city as has been done in several cases of late
In the Blue Book 78l South Carolnians are set
down receipting the United States pay rolls for
different services. Nine only have resigned and
these designations to take effect on the 4th of
March next.
The Governor of the British province of New
Brunswick has appointed Thursday, the 18th inst,
as day of Thanksgiving.
One house in Lafayette, Indiana, has lost 400
hogs by the cholera, this season, and the disease
still prevails all along the Wabash.
VIM. l.. Yancey and Thos. H.Watts are the can
Iabo
Montgomery.
Thirteen thousand letters, supposed to contain
lottery circulars, were mailed at CharestOwn, Ce-
Gil county, Md, on Tuesday last.
A physician named A. H. Burrett and his wife,
were on Monday last warned to leave New Orleans,
because Of uttering abolition sentiments.
DR.. Peter p. Woodbury., brotber.to Judge Levi
Woodbury., died Manchester, n. H., on the
9Th inst.
The Richmond Despatch says that another fine
ship is being built in Baltimore Richmond ac-
count.
A meeting of the friends of the Union rrespec
tive of party, is to be held in Wilmington, N. c.,
tomorrow night.
Of the seventy-seven teachers in the Charleston
Public Schools, only seven are from the Northern
States
The Croton troubles in New York have ended
The pipes were repaired on Friday.
Samuel Mark, Esq, cashier of the Bank of Vir-
ginia, at Richmond, died on Friday last.
Montgomery county, Ala, has a population Of
36, 900, of whom 90, 752 are slaves.
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