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

ctnDnti to Baltimore without OTtaklhs
bulk, aud 20 cents per barrel cheaper
then rates to New York BY connect
ine 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. it proposes, including the saving OF
handling and 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
Mention ofmerchants.
A telegram received ia st. Louis.
HON Topeka, Kansas Announces the
ale of thirty.two thousand acres of land
ior the Kansas Pacific Railway Company,
20 the representatives Of an English
colony, comprising twelve hundred fam
HES. The average price per acre was
about So 70. Eighteen members of the
colony have already arrived and common
ced making improvements on the land
Most ofthe others are expected to ar
rive during the coming fall aud spring
They are superior class Of English
emigrants, aud are said to possess SUI.
fcient means to improve their property
at once.
A portion of the crew of the United
States frigate Sabine conspired to blow
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 n few moments
the vessel would have been stroycd
and her officers and crew murdered had
not the burning fuse been discovered by
cabin boy and extinguished. Justice
was swift 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
n Chilkah river, in Alaska, report that
they found a position, after considera
BILE difficulty, only twenty miles from
the central path of totality. The day
was cloudy, but the observations through
occasional breaks in the clouds were al.
most perfect. Secretary Seward visited
the camp of the expedition, aud saw the
phenomenon The Indians were so
much alarmed that they hid ip their
houses or took to the bushes.
The sixty thousand dollars that Mr..
Peabody recently donated to General
Lees College in Virginia is said 70 eou.
sist of u certain number 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 petit
toned the State Legislature several
years ago. II this is true the donation
will not be OF much benefit to Washing.
4 ton College. r..
The Pine Ridge Colliery, pear Wilk.
esbarre, Pa, took FIRE about O'Clock
Saturday evening, by the explosion Of a
fire.damp. Thirty workmen were 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. AT
last accounts the FIRE was still burning,
but will probably be smothered, at the
risk of more severe fire damp ekplo.
sion, in a few days.
The Office of the Receiver of City
Taxes, at Philadelphia, was broken into
by burglars Friday night, the door oil
the safe chiseled off, and forty thousand
dollars (twenty.6ve thousand 10 bonds
&c, the balance in cash. were carried
off, The securities Of the Receiver, il
is supposed, will have to pay for the
loss, as the law requires him to make
daily deposits in bank.
About l / O. clock, on the 24th ultimo,
fire broke out in the oak UNI factory OF
hlessrs, II. b. Hannah Co., on Thames
street, East Baltimore, which soon spread
to the surrounding buildings, involving
heavier loss than has been occasioned
by fire in Baltimore for some years
Twenty houses, Methodist Church
and lumber yard, were DESTROYED
The loss is estimated at $3.50 900.
Robert l.. Written, an insurance
agent in Pittsburg, recently beca me
blind after having himself shaved in
the barber shop Of the Monongahela
House, of that city The barber had
wiped his face, after shaving him, with
towel which had been used in the ap.
plication Of arsenic TO whiten the com.
plexiou.
Some time since citizen Of Portland
Maine, had his pocket picked Of $500
Shortly afterwards he received letter
from the thief, saying that he had start
ed in business with his stolen capital
and that he should pay interest on il
until he was able to return the priuci
pal. Two payments of interest hav.
already been made.
Gen. Sam Carey 10 his recent speech
at Cincinnati, said that "the Republ
can party has yielded itself up to tn,
control of land monopolies, BANKERS
and bondholders, and the sons and
daughters Of toll eau have no sympath,
with it, and are therefore forced TO act
with the Democracy"
Plat, the Congressman elect from
the Petersburg District ofVirginia, hal
been served with summons to appeal
bei9re the county court of Chesterfield
70 answer to five separate charges o
selling liquor in said county without I
license.
Governor Bowie having received in
forpatiop that vessel from German
port, having on board large humble
OF c9pyiets, Is % ito way to Baltimore
has taken measures to prevent thei
landing aud compel the vessel to return
TO Europe. 81 ssIHrE
A young Fifth avenue snob Is sal,
10 hive mid Ten dollars 70 n nnlara.