The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1869-09-02


bulk, aud 20 cents per barrel cheaper
then rates to New York. BY connect
lug With steamers at the dock, trans
ferring without additional cost, and
shipping thence to Liverpool at the
same rates as from New York to that
city. Il proposes, including the saving OF
handling aud forwarding, to make the
rates from the above places 80 cents
per barrel cheaper via Baltimore TO
Liverpool than via New York to Liver.
pool This matter is now engaging the
attention ofmerchants.
( Al Telegram received in st. Louis,
from Topeka, Kansas, announces the
sale of thirty.two thousand acres Of land
for The Kansas Pacific Railway Company,
to The representatives, Of AN English
colony, comprising twelve hundred fam
lilies. The average price per acre was
about SO 75. Eighteen members of the
colony havealready arrived and commen.
ced making improvements ON the land
Most oil the others are expected to ar.
rive during the coming fall and spring
They are superior class of English
emigrauts, and are said to possess SUI.
iicient means to improve their property
at once.
Al portion of the crew of the United
States frigate Sabine conspired to blow
S up the ship by setting fire to the pow.
der magazine whilst laying at the port
Of Cherbourg, France. The train had
been lighted, and in few moments
the vessel would have been d stroyed
and her officers and crew murdered had
not the burning fuse been discovered BY
4 cabin boy aud extinguished Justice
vas swif, and fatal, seven of the mis-
creants having since been hung at the
yard arm.
The Coast Survey eclipse expedition,
which witnessed the eclipse from the
Chilkah river, in Alaska, report that
they found position, after considera
BE difficulty, only twenty miles from
the central path Of totality, The day
was cloudy, but the observations through
occasional breaks in the clouds we're al.
most perfect. Secretary Seward visited
the camp OF the expedition, aud saw the
phenomenon. The Indians were so
much alarmed that they hid in their
houses or took to the bushes.
The sixty thousand dollars that Mr..
Peabody recently donated to General
Lees College in Virginia is said TO con.
sist of certain humber of old State
bonds, which were lost on the Arctic
while in Mr.. Peabody's possession aud
for the reissue of which be yaip!y nett.
TONED the State LEGISLATURE several
wears ago. If this is true the donation
will not be Of much benefit to Washing.
Ton College.
Ks The Pine Ridge Colliery, near WIKI.
esbarrc, Pa, took fire about g O'Clock
Saturday evening, by the explosion of a
fire. damp. Thirty workmen we're in the
mine at the time, and it was feared that
all means of escape for them were cut
of, but they were finally rescued Al
last accoapts the fire was still burning,
but will probably be smothered, OF the
! risk of a more severe fire damp eKplo.
sion, in few days.
The Office Of the Receiver of City
Taxes, at Philadelphia, was broken into
B by burglars Friday night, the door Of
= the safe chiseled of, aud forty thousand
dollars twenty-five thousand ip bonds,
4 &c, the balance in cash. we're carried
off, The securities Of the Receiver, it
is supposed. will have TO nav for the
loss, as the law requires him to make
daily deposits in bank.
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