Daily national Democrat., 1860-12-21
European Items,

A national subscription had been opened in
olcllyto purchase n lila in the neighborhood
| OF Palermo as gift to General Garibaldi.
| General Carini is the originator of the pro.
| Ject The Sicillians in Paris were taking
pars in it,
Sir John Bowring, the diplomat and poet,
was married on the Sth Of November in a
Unitarian chapel at Bristol to Miss Deborah
Castle.
A curious work has recently been publish
ed IN Germany, the purpose of which is to
prove that Judas Iscarot was one of the most
conscientious and honorable men.
new religious sect has begun to develop
itself in the northern part OF Denmark-its
believers claiming that there are i've gods in
one, and calling themselves Pentariuns.
A case in chancery begun in England in
l19l was decided in London last October.
Burad Mahul, an Arab, was recently exc
cuted in Algiers for poisoning to death an en-
tire French family, consisting of five persons.
A modern Herod has appeared in Stock
holm, Sweden, having been arrested in Octo-
Der, for numbering seven infants, which he
justified by unique philosophy.
In October, at Pesth, Hungary, an old man
made lis appearance, who was supposed to
have been killed in battle thirty years be-
fore All his relatives but one were in the
grave
foreign letter writer declares St. Peters,
burg the most corrupt city on the European
continent, and that licentiousness there is
practiced to a most alarming extent
lhe amount of money expended on Pere
La Chaise, the famous cemetery of Paris up
to Sept. LIST, was over S6,0OO,000
WAsHoE MiNING.-The Territorial Enter
prise of Saturday has the following mining
intelligence
The Maldunados or Spanish Companv's
Mill has been in operation about three weeks
and crushed about sixty tons of fine sulphur
cited rock from the company's land The mill
erected by Messgs. Wilson d. Co. in the canon
below the Spanish mill, for the use of the
Gould Curry company, is nearly completed
On last Wednesday week the engine and
machinery were started, and performed ad-
mirably. The mill will have the crushing Of
twenty-five hundred tons Of rock from the
Gould Curry rock. under a contract al
ready completed The rock being taken
from the claim of this company continues of
the richest kind, peculiar to the Comstocl
The St Louis company are busy taking out
rock from a lode five or six feet in width -
several pieces taken promiscuously from Il
pile we're pulverised and worked, showing Il
large yield of golden particles much coarser
than is usually found about Silver City. At
Genoa number of companies are engaged
running tunnels into different veins OF quartz
back of the town. Some OF the mines around
Carson City are beginning to attract much
attention. The Hatfield claim, situated on
the east side Of Carson river, is proving quite
rich. Several companies owning ground in
| the vicinity have commenced work upon
their claims. The shaft OF lronside company
has reached the depth of on hundred feet, is
progressing rapidly and will be continued so
feet further Wooston, BIinton ,E Co. are
running a six hundred feet tunnel for the
Sweepstake Company. Smith Goodschal
and Others have struck, at Gold Hill, at the
depth Of seventy-hye feet, rock assaying
500 per ton in silver.
| THE OVERLAND MAIL COMPANY UNEoRru-
NATE.-The Overland Mail Company is un-
| fortunate, About eighteen months ago it was
robbed by a Deputy Division Supcrinteu-
dent, near El Paso, and then 10y a clerk in
| the New York Office, and now, again, hv a
clerk in the same Office 1t appears by Il
| dispatch, dated the 28th, that one Erastus r.
! Roberts was arrested at Fishkil, New York.
on the day previous, charged with robbing
the Company of $1,000. As if direct robbe-
ry was not enough we have news of far
worse disasters than that, by the arrival of
the stage which left san Francisco Nov. OH,
at Fort Smith on the 2Sth. A dispatch saws.
that hy this arrival tie passengers stated
| that two men, formerly of st, Louis, uamed
! Alfred Paringot and Samuel McNeal, employ.
ees of the Overland Mail Company, were
scaped by the Comanche Indians five miles
east Of the Riley Station, on the 22d inst
No interr ption. however, happened to the
Overland Stage or It's passengers. We are
wholly without the particulars Of this affair,
but it goes far to confirm the general impress
sion that the drouth of the past season, in
Texas and New MeXico will drive the Ind
ans in that region to many acts of despera-
ton which otherwise they would not con-
nit 1t is some consolation to know that
preparations have been made to avert the
danger, as much as possible by arming the
employees and supplying them with an
abundance of amunition.-lSt Louis letter.
EUGENE PRovosr, a musician of New Or
leans, and leader of the orchestra at the
Opera House in that city, has been knighted
! by the Queen of Spain. She conferred upon
him the cross of the order of Charles Third
This distinction is granted him in compliment
to some fiddle dee dee ing done by the lucky
musician at Madrid few years ago.
AMONG the late failures in New Orleans is
the old house of Fellowes & Co, the largest
aud one of the oldest houses in that city
They 90 down with liabilities to the amount
of four millions of dollars, and involve in
! 81, c,1I ~ -, Il :
and South. Benz J. Adams, a prominent
speculator of Louisville KY, who had some
connection with them, was at last accounts
business affairs, and was showing half loss
of mind in consequence.
CHMA-By the way Of the Sandwich Is
lands, we have some further news from
China. The Polynesian of November 9th,
has the following;
BY the arrival Of the whaleshp Marcngo'
Capt. Weld from llakodadi, and the polite
ness of Capt B. f Snow of this city, We have
been permitted to see a letter addressed to
him 10y Capt n. G. Brooks, under date Hako
dadi, Oct, 10th last, giving intelligence from
Shanghae to Oct. 9th The writer says:
GAS was coming down the Wosung river,
| passed dispatch boat from the Peiho,
bound up, and from the reporter, who after
wards boarded my vessel, obtained the fol-
lowing information: There had been a Sc
we're engagement within ten miles from
Pekn, where the Imperialists had concen-
trated their forces, and, after long fighting,
the Allies ad been victorious The killed
on both sides, were supposed to be about
$4,000. Al the time the steamer left the
Peiho, the Allies had resumed their march on
the Capital.