, 1861-11-28

both roads. The suit is brought by d stock
holder III the Erie road, who claims:
That The contraets intended to be executed
by defendants, arc unlawful and void, IN VIOLA
ton of their charters, and injurious to the !
rights and interests Of the eomplalnan51s:
Injunction, Will act upon said contracts Us |
though they were. binding, to the prejudice OF
the complainant, and that the bonds OF the
Philadelphia and Eric Railroad Company, SO
purposcd to lie purchased by the FehnsylFa-
MA Railroad Company, will be comparatively
if not wholly, yalucless.
Tho soldiers relief fund at Pittsburgh,
Pa, is exhausted, and although sn addition OF
SCI, Geo was voted the commissioners have 50
bogg1cd the matter that it can neither be
raised by tax or loan. Tie women Interested
in the fund are in great anxiety, and they visit
the commits issicners daily By hundreds, clamor
after tlcm in the street, and haunt taefn
o'rightE.
- The Coroner Of Pittsburgh, Pa, found on
| the late cold Sunday, two miserable parents IN
drunken stupor, and their child, live years
| old, dead. The little fellow had got some Of
| the whisky, and that, and an insufficiency OF
| clothing, killed him. The parents were not ar-
| rested.
| -Tle Fishkill murder still puts at fault all
efforts to discover the pcrpetrator, though III
! its investigation the skill Of some OF tic most
/ experienced New York detectives iias been
I employed for a couple Of wceks.--Y. Z. df7-
| 1Nac.
| On Saturday, the following prisoners
were discharged from Fort Lafayette, BY order
| from Washington: Morris Never; john
| Pennington, mastcr of tho przc schooner Jo-
| seyh Il. Toone; Charles Brown, mate; Fred
crick c: Mcnsell, steward; and John Brown,
c. B. stratton, Thomas Cook, John PEiee,
Anthony Penalty, scalncn. Also, L. H. Hud-
son, William Ayn1r, and Theodore Lewis, the
latter claiming to be an English army officer
| Nessrs. Pennington, Aymar, Brown, and Men
sci will be detained is witnesses before the
Prize Commissioncrs.-NY 7. Tribune.
- The steamers Delaware, Boston and Cos
1nopolitan, that lave been chartered at New
York to convey 1000 troops from Fortress
Monroe to the Southern coast, are denounced
as ordinary river boats, and poor at that, ut
tcrly unfit and unsafe for the rougll usage OF
the ocean. It is hoped Gen. Wool will look
into thc nattcr, and if not all right, that he
will prevent the risk Of so many troops in
such shaky bottoms.
Tho citizens Of Alexandria, Va, elected
I'll entire new set Of city officers, last week,
Union men, who rcpudiate tho Richmond or.
dinance and stand by the Wheeling Conyeu,
lion. Provost Judge Frccsc declared Ill the
old incunabcnts out Of Office, because they n.
fused to accept the Wheeling ordinance IL
law, and tllc President sustained him in Lis
decision. Hence the new deal.
The following is the daily circulation o1
tic different Paris papers, as shown By the re-
turns in the government stamp Office report
| for The month Of October The Steele Ire.
: rubllcan}, 55,0V; Fhtr(e {goTeTn1nent). =, o0O
Constitutional {ditto), 2y,000; P,rsse Demo
craticl, .,6C0; Opinion lNttioHn7e (ditto), To-.
eco; De5ats (Or!eanist), 1850: Monde {Catho
licl 9,G00; Union {diftol, $500; Temps Libc
rlD, $500; Gazette de France Icgi1;mist), s..
30U; Idys {goyernment), 5,0o0; AmIla ID
M1igion, 4,CG0.
- The Buffalo Express mentions an opera
tion recently performed III that city on Capt
Stephen Champlin, Z. s. n, by which hc has
received relief from the ranking effects Of !;
wound in one OF his limbs, inflicted by Il can
lister shot in an engagement on Lake Michigan
forty-scycn years ago. At different time;
since the injury was received, operations have
; been performed, but up to the date Of this last
lie has been subject to mitch suffering. Dr.. J
F. Miner was the successful operator, assisted
, by Drs. Rochester, Mason, Lothrop and King
The operation consisted in cutting through
! the flesh Of the thigh, and also through til.
, !, wall Of the thigh bone, to its centre, whcr.
was found Il quantity Of diseased bone, whicl
was carefully and thoroughly removed. Thi:
: | hone, which had foilcd al previous efforts II
: discover or remove, WAS securely cnrascd il
Il strong bons covering Of nearly Ill inch il
t thickness, which had grown over and are11nt
5 | il since the injury, leaving only a minute is
| sure to allow thu escape Of matter.