The Next Congress.
THE GAZETTE
Norwalk, Tuesday, August 3,1858.
fl-Tnn NEW PRINTING Rooms or
ran ann'rrn ARE IN Woon’s New BRICK
BUILDING, IN MAIN STREET.
1105!.
Our Ridgefield Carrier dropped one of his
Route Books, weekbefore last, somewhere on
the road leading from New Canaan to Wilton:
The finder will be suitably rewarded by leav-
ing it in the possession of any subscriber
whose name is written therein.
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Union BonooI Examination.
We learn that the Public Examination at
this ‘ institution, during the past week, was
very satisfactory and highly gratifying to the
Friends of the School. The Scholars acquit-
‘ted themselves as well as at previous exami-
nations, and called out the highest approba-
. tion from the Examining Committee. The
Graduating Class, consisting of 13 members,
pamed a rigid examination, and all sustained
themselves with credit. The closing exerci-
ses by this class, on Friday afternoon, were
well attended and were veryintere sting. The
original essays, five in number, were received
with much favor by the audience, and were
certainly very creditable to the young ladies
who read them. “ The Progress of our Coun-
try,” “John Quincy Adams,” “ Self Con—
-quest,”and the ‘l‘ Valedictory,” original ad-
’dresses delivered by young men of the Class,
.were efforts which give hopeful promise for
the future of their lives. Two of the mem-
bers of this Class passed the examination at
New Haven, last week, preparatory to enter—
ing “ 01d Yale.” .
The exercises of the Examination were con-
ducted under the superintendence of Mr. H.
’8. HUNTINGTON, Classical Teacher, owing to
the illness of Mr. Bureaus. We understand
'that he acquitted himself in all respects to the
entire satisfaction of the Committee, who
award him high encomiums therefor.
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Special Town Meeting.
We call attention, especially of the proper-
ty holders of our town, to the call for a spec-
ial Meeting to consider the expediency of
erecting a fire proof Building for the Probate
Records. We presume our citizens have ex-
amined the subject sufficiently to act prudent-
ly and well.
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Adjourned—The important case of Can-
non as. the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad,
preferred to in our last, occupied two days in
taking testimony, when , owing to the en-
gagements of counsel, it was adjourned over
to Tuesday of this week (to-day).
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Got Left.
Owing to adverse winds and tides the Con-
fidenoe' arrived at her dock on Saturday eve-
ning, some five minutes after the Danbury
Train had left, having on board some fifty
passengers who desired to take that train to
the Bridge, Wilton, Redding, Bidgefield, 850.,
to Danbury. ' The passengers aware of being
a little behind time,consoled themselves with
the fact that the train was delayed afew min-
utes for them the Saturday before, and that
it would not require so long a delay on this
occasionyand, in addition, it seemed to beun-
derstood among them, that in compliance
with the wishes of very many of the patrons
of the Danbury road, that in case the Boat
was delayed and in sight, the train would not
leave them, although the Superintendent of
the New Haven road had forbidden it. At
'all events, the train didn’t wait the five min-
‘utes, and the Stockholders of the Danbury
road lost at least $25 in consequence. We
know nothing of the obligations the Danbury
road is under to the New Haven corporation,
but if nothing more than a reciprocal accom-
modation, we opinc it will live to discover
that said accommodations will be determined
entirely by their own interests or caprice.—-—
It has not, until compelled by starvatihn so
to do, given the public much evidence of any
disposition to sufi‘er martyrdom in the way of
_ disinterested accommodations. In fact. so far
as the experience of this town goes, its action
. towards passengers and freighters has been
copied somewhat aft er the independent prin-
ciple upon which calicoes were vended to the
, lady who desiredan abatement, by our friend
-“ Maltby” while clerk for the ancient firm of
Blackman dz. Betts—“ t-t-a-ake ’em or l-leave
‘ ’cm, d—n ye.” We know that this monster
‘ (in days lang syne,) Corporation is now on
the penitential stool, but death bed repentan-
‘oes are always to be received with circum-
' spection: Had this company said to the pub-
lic, in raising ourfares we made a fatal mis-
take, and we now purpose to go backyto the
'old rates, and hereafter permanently adhere
, to them,instead of inaugurating the present
arbitrary and unreasonably low rates , (wher-
ever therc is a Steamboat to be affected
thereby,)we believe it would have gone very
far towards restoring the public confidence
and good will. As it is. while all allow them
_ the right to “ battle” with whomsocver they
please, the course pursued challenges about
.as much admiration as the trickerics of a
horse jockey,for everybody knows that as
soon as this child’s play is over, up go the
fares again. But this is episode.
We happened to be on the dock at the ar-
:rival of the Boat on the occasion referred to,
and the expressions of admiration for the
management of our favorite little road, when
it was ascertained the train had left them
within fifty rods of the landing, were far
from complimentary. There were those who
couldn’t or wouldn’t see why the stuffed skin
of a dead Lion should so terrify the Danbury
' managers as to permit the perpetration of so
unnecessary an inconvenience. upon its pat-
_ sons and friends. Stages were very soon pro-
vided, however, and the left passengers were
sent on their way, some grumbling, some rc-
joicing, and all seriously enquiring what busi-
ness the New York and New Haven Railroad
has with the management of the Danbury
road, or the little Nor-walk Steamboat.
P. S.—We learn while writing that the
Express Train whicn leaves New York at S A.
M., has just arrived at the Norwalk Station,
(Monday 11.35,A. M.) cause assigned, “ broke
one Engine, and couldn’t get up steam on an-
other.” So it seems, the cars don’t always get
in on time 1 But what is most strange and
'nnaccountable, is the fact that the second
_ Danbury Train actually waited for it (I)
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h. Dr. Hill, who, by the way, is always
catching big fish, caught a Shark off Grego-
ry’s Point, last Wednesday, which measured
' 6 feet 8 inches in length. It was of the Shov-
el-nose species. We don’t think he could
have needed the doctor’s services profession-
ally, ashis molars all appeared to be in a
'good state of preservation, and it would
probably have preferred operating on a den-
tist, instead of being operated on by the doc-
tor. '
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Plumbing—We cheerfully commend the
attention of such of our friends as may have
Plumbing or Range Setting to do, to the adv.
of Mr. Fry. He is a mechanic of more than
ordinary cleverness in his business, and ca-
pable and willing to do faithful service for
.eneh as may require. '
Beecher's Sermong.——A 110ch feature
has been added to the Newsboys’ vocation, in
the vending of Popular Sermons. We had
one slipped into our hand on the cars, the
other day,embraclng two practical and co gcnt
sermons of that practical and cogent divine,
Henry Ward Beech er. The first discourse is
headed “ Men’s Excuses,” and is founded up-
on the text in Luke 14, 18—“ And they all
with one consent began to make excuse.” We
append below some of the moral lessons in-
culcatcd by this discourse, which we are con-
fident cannot fail of numerous applications
in every community. Would to God that the
preaching of such sermons might rou as Chris—
tian men, and men of the world, to a lughcr
sense of personal obligations, and arrest the
growing dispositiorf among men to break
their word for trivial causes, and excuse
themselves unworthi] y from their obligations.
But to the extracts of the sermon :
A man who has taught himself early to ex-
cusc delinquency in duties, has lost moral
feeling just in the proportion in which he has
gained a facility of justifying himself. There
never was a proverb truer than this, that “ A
man who is good at excuses is good for noth-
ing else.” For, though there are excuses
which justify men, yet the spirit of self-excu-
sation is always a mean one.
Excuses for moral delinquency are usually
essentially false. They are pretenses. They
do not state the truth. They are rather state—
ments made to conceal the truth. They are
devised merely to make a good show, and ei-
ther to deceive other eyes or to blind our own.
The excuses which we make to ourselves are
often eminently deceptive ; the excuses which
we make to others are still more gluringly so.
Excuses for moral delinquency are, there-
fore, usually processes of self-deception. At
first they may not be ; but at length, a man
who tries to deceive himself comes into that
state in Which he can do nothing else but de—
ceive himself. A man can put out his eyes,
inwardly, so that at last he will not see that
a lie is a lie, and a truth is a truth. Deceit
may be known to be so, at first ; it then be-
comes less and less noticeable; and finally
the mind is falsified, and lives without frank-
ness, Openness, truth, or purity. I think that
one of the most terrible spectacles in the.
world is to see a man that has destroyed the
power of moral judgement in respect to his
own action, his own moral stale, his own
moral character. The number of such per-
sons is not small; it is growing more and
more ; and what is more remarkable, they are
found more frequently in the Church, and
within the sound of preaching, than out of it.
On that very account,Christ declared that,
“ The publicans and harlots shall enter the
kingdom of God before you.”
_ The spirit of excusing one’s self is a spirit
much to be dreaded. There is something very
noble in openness and frankness, even when
exercised by bad men. A bold man always
attracts interest. When a man does wrong,
and says,“ Yes, I know it is wrong,” there
is something commendable in him. We feel
ashamed, sometimes, to think that we admire
anything in a bad man; but there is some-
thing in frankness, and in truth-speaking, and
especially in truth-speaking when the truth
which a man tells is to his own harm, that we
cannot help admiring. On the other hand,
there is something essentially mean and «le-
teslablc in a man who is always passmg of
a kind of small coin of lies—living wrong,
feeling wrong, doing wrong, and yet per-
petually imposing upon himself and other
persons by excuses. Making excuses is a
very mean business. It is like the manufac~
{)ch of bogus money—the issuing of false
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But, to be able to judge about another man,
you must have a spirit of love toward him.—
You are nevcrfit to judge a man, unless you
love him! If you seen man in the street, al-
though he is a detestable villain and a thief,
you are not qualified to judge him rightly,
unless you have such a spirit as this. He
may be a miserable dcbauchee, a mac ; be
may be rotten to the bone ; but you are not
fit to judge him,till you have kindness towards
him, till you have a yearning disposition. till
you have a loving heart. No’man is to judge
another till he feels that he can do it in a Spir-
it of kindness; and then, in the spirit of love,
you can form the best judgement.
Many persons excuse themselves for not be-
ing Christians now, by the promise that they
will be by and by. At the bottom, however,
their premises are all deceptive. They are
artifices simply to rid one’s self of importu.
nity. They are like many debtors’ promises,
who promise to pay what they (we, the next
month—not because theycxpect to pay it then,
but because they wish to get rid of your im-
portunity fill that time. It is a device. not
by which you are t9 get your money, but by
which they are not to pay it- So men say,
they cannot attend to religion now, but they
will at such and such a time. These excuses
are at bottom untrue and deceptive, and are
meant to be so. Oh! how many of them there
are! The mere statement does not begin to
cover the facts. Icall upon these that are
present to-night to remember how many of
those prayers, which they have made, have
been forgotten after they were made. If you
had made as many notes—written them.sign-
ed them, and. in the presence of witnesses,
g1ven. them out—as you have made solemn
promlses to God, covering the whole sphere
of your being, and if all these notes were to
be brought to your noliee now—you would
be bankrupt. Think of all that you made
when you were sick! Beginning at child-
hood, and coming down through five, ten, fif-
teen, twenty, forfy, fifty years—most solemn
promises that if God would, in your trouble,
remove that trouble; that if, in the sickness
of your child, God would spare that child,»
and let it be restored to life ; all the promi-
ses that you made to God,that if he would
fulfill certain conditions, or forget certain
threateningsyon would fulfill certain duties;
all that you made for the future, which you
made only to forget- all that you made upon
the sca,aud in the storm ; all that you made
in the distant lands, and in great exigencies
and emergencies; all that you made under
vehement pressure of business! Oh! what
promises have yowade to God ! How many
times have you adjourned present perform-
ance with the avowed solemn plomisc that
you would perform your duty at some other
day ?
N0 excuse can be framed why a man should
neglect his own character, why he shold live
forgetful of his immortality , of his honor,of
his power and capacity of enjoyment forever
and ever. No possible excuse can justify it!
There is no excuse why a man should build
up his whole character upon the basis of his
lower nature, instead of hishighcr. There
can be no excuse why a man should persist-
ently, all his life long, live without God.—
Therc can be no excuse why a man should cv-
er treat himself so cruelly as wicked men
treat themselves—starving their conscience.
starving their moral nature, starving out their
very life! 011 ! the heart of every man—I do
not care how wicked 11c fs—somclimcs him.-
gore and thirsts .' There is something in the
soul of every man that. first or last, cries out
for God 1 * "' , * * * *
I think that in thc’history of bad men—I
think? Iknow—therc are intervals when
there comes to them a sense of the inuttcrable
meanness of business, of the utter deceit in it
of the unsatisfying nature ofit. - ’
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Glad Tidings for the Poor—F. H. Nash,
at his Store, South Norwalk, has a good,
swcct quality of Family Flour, which he sells
at $4.50 cash ! We have examined the brand
and have no hesitation in pronouncing it as
good as any of the 86 brands which have
been retailcd in Norwalk during the past
twelve months. He s'ells a brand as good as
Richardson’s best for $7. His Flour is ship
pcd to him direct from first hands in Michi-
gan ,and he is himself satisfied with a small
profit. We feel that we are doing the public
a favor, as Well as him, in noticing the fact.
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W» A priest. named William Barrett, pus-
tor of St. Thomas Catholic Church,died in
Cincinnati on the 18th inst. His death was
caused by imprudent bathing several weeks
ago. Removing his furniture one warm day
he became overheatcdfand while in that con-
dition took a cold bath. He was instantly
seized with a fever, of which he died. I
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New Connterfeits.—The following new
counterfeit notes are now in circulation:
Bank 01' Norwalk, Conn., 33. vig. group of
girls gathering shells of ocean, paper coarse,
signed C. D. Walker, Pres; Bank of North
America, New York City, 5s. vig. drove of
wild horses; Hartford Bank, Conn., 3s, vig.
female, eag‘e and shield, Washingion’s por-
trait on left; Rockvillc Bank,Rockvillc,Ct.,
3s, vig. man and dog, female on left.
Yale College Commencement.
The Commencement Exercises at Yale Col-
lege embraced the usual routine. Mr. But-
ler’s Poem before the Phi Beta Kappa,was
well received. We hardly Mink it in advance
of his “ Nothing to Wear,” although most
persons differ from us. The speaking on'
Thursday was not of as high an order gcncrr
ally, as we have witnessed in years past. In
the graces of eiocntion several of the Speak-
ers were sadly dcficicnt. We have certainly
witnessed better articulation in the dcclama-
tions of the lads at our Union School. The
city was filled with strangers of course, the
weather was pleasant in the main, and all
passed ofi‘ to the entire satisfaction, we be-
lieve, of those most interested.
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Property Sale—The Selleck Dock Prop-
erty was “ knocked down for $4.900. If this
is a fair criterion of the value of other prop-
erty about the Bridge, all we have to say is
Real Estate has wofully depreciated since the
“ hard times” set in. We have heard it sur-
mised that the sale was merely designed to
test the strength of the street talk concerning
that Torpmlo. But as the purchaser can
doubtless take a cool thousand dollars for his
bargain in less than six months, we don’t be-
lieve there will be much anxiety on his part
as to‘the“ rumors on ’change.”
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Land Warrant Pound.-——A Land War-
rant issucd to Joshua L. Yeomans, a soldier
of the war of 1812, waspickcd up in the road,
'in Wilton, by a school boy. a few days since,
for which an owner is wanted. See adv.
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Another Change of Hour. ‘
To make doubly sure. Capt. Greene propo-
ses to leave New York at two o’clock,insfead'
of 2.1., on and after Friday of this week.—
thn the winds and tides are not both against
him, he can make the connection with the
Danbury road as he now leaves, but when he
has 110 contend against both elements, his
union is jcapordized, as was the case on Satur-
day. By leaving at 2 o’clock, he can reach
his dock under the most adverse circumstan-
ces. We are glad to see that the Capt. is not
disposed to die, although the Railroad is do-
ing allin its power to kill him.
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“Two Miliions," Butler’s sarcastic Poem,
delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society
of Yale College, on Wednesday Evening last,
is published, and on hand at Camp’s. His
reputation as author of that pleasant piece of
satire “ Nothing to Wear.” will give a greedy
appetite for this new effort of his genius.
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List of Deaths among the Alumni of Yale
Coilege.
The List of Graduates deceased during the
academical year ending July 28d, 1858, is as
follows :
Class of HST—Richard McCurdy, Lyme,
Conn ., Aug. 8, 1857, aged 88.
l788—Johu Woodworth, Albany, N. Y.,
June lst. 1858, aged 88.
1797—Warren Dntton, Brighton, Mass.,
March 3d, 1857, S3; Bethel Judd, Wilming-
ton Del., April 5th, 1858,82; Horatio Sey-
mour, Middlebury, Vt., Nov. 12, 1857, 79$.
1800—Duvid Ely, Rochester, N. Y., Sept.
3, 1857, 77.
1801—chry Dwight, Geneva, N. Y.,Sept.
6, 1857, 74 ; Martin Ellsworth, Windsor, Ct.,
Nov. 2, 1857, 74; Henry Dwight.
1804—Rcv. Geo. Colton, Wethersfield, Ct.,
Feb. 12, 1858, 79 ; Eliphalet Swift. Westport,
Conn., Sept. 21, 1857, 77; Bennett 'l‘yler,
East Windsor, Conn., May 14, 1858 74.
1806~Clark Bisscll, Norwalk, Conn., Sept.
15, 1857 , 75 ; George W. Bolles, Hartford,
Conn., May 1858, 71. .-
1807—Rev. Samuel R. Andrew, New Ha-
ven, Conn., May 26,1858, 71 ; Benjamin Bas-
sctt, Peekskill, N. Y., March 21, 1858, 75;
Holbrook Curtis, Watcrtown. Conn., Feb. 21,
1858, 70 1-2 ; John Dunwody, Roswell. Cobb
Co.,Gcorgia, June 6,1858, 72 ; Rev. Daniel
Huntington, New London. Conn., May 21,
1858, 69 ; Algernon Sidney Jones, Williams-
burg. N. Y., Feb. 23, 1858, 72; William Steb-
bins, Colchestcr, Conn.,June 28, 1858. 72 ;
Rev. Nathaniel W. Taylor,New Haven,Conn.
March 10,1858, 7]. . , ,
1808—Char1es Wheeler, Phil., Penn'., June
16,1858,71. '
18].0——Ethan Allen Andrews, NéwBrifain,
Conn., March 25,1858,71. '
181 l—Nathan Stark, Brooklyn, N. Y., June
18,1858, 70.
1812—David Prentice, Geneva,*N.Y., Aug.
14, 1857, 70. .
1814—Hugh Halsey, Bridgehampton. N.
Y., May 29, 1858, 62; John K. Kane, Phil.,
Penn-, Feb. 21, 1858, 63 ; Ebenezer Munger,
Homcr,N. Y., Oct. 13,1857, 63. .
ISIS—Charles Olcotf, Medina, Ohio, March
4th, 1857, 64.
ISIS—Earl Loomis, Herkimcr, N. Y., May
12, 1858, aged 63; James Raymond, West-
minstcr, Carroll Co., Md., Jan. 27, 1858,60.
1021~Asa Child, Norwich, Conn., May 11,
1858. 59.
1822—George B. Ripley, Norwich, Conn.,
July 9, 1858, 57.
1823—Henry Edward Peek, New Haven,
Conn., May 6, 1858, 53.
1827—-Rev. Richard Hooker, New Haven,
Conn., Dcc.19,1857, 49.
1828—Rev. Horace Woodrufi‘, Huntington,
L. 1., Feb. 18, 1858, 54.
1830—John George Anderson,Tallahassee,
Fla., March 1, 1858, 48.
Richard Griswold Drake, Phila., Penn.,
Feb. 20, 1858,53.
1831—John Milton Clapp, Charleston, S.
0., Dec. 16,1857,47.
1834—Rcv. Joseph Fowler, Magnolia, Illi-
nois, Sept. 16. 1856, 48 ; Henry Pomeroy,
Coventry, Ct., Feb. 3, 1858, 44.
184I—Frederick Hall, Middlcfown, Conn.,
Sept. 1, 1857. 36.
1844—Johu Contee Mullikin, Upper Marl-
boro, Md., May 28, 1858, 33.
1845—11-11 Benjamin Wheeler, 'Baltimore,
Md., Nov. 17, 1857, 31.
1847—John Hull Olmsted, Nice, Italy, Nov.
24, 1857,32. -
1850—John Isaac Ira Adams, Lawrence,
Kansas, Oct. 17,1857, 3|.
185l—David Lewis Judson, Birmingham,
Conn., March 18. 1858, 27.
1852—Henry Clay Blukeslec, Chicago, 111.,
Aug. 19, 1857, 26.
There are 48 names, and one sixth of the
wholearc from the class of 1807. Their ave
rage age is sixty-one years and eight-tenths-
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year The Alumni of Yale Collge met on
Wednesday, and the Journal. says it was a
stupid affair. Long speeches were made by
so many of the older members that no class
after 1838 could be called. Those that had
been graduated fifty years or over were invi-
ted to a seat on the platform. Twelve or
fourteen were thus accommodated. The obit-
uary notices were read, which we give in an-
other column. The Theologica! Alumni have
voted to procure a marble bust of Dr. Taylor.
J udgc Wm. Strong of Pennsylvania has been
chosen Phi Beta Kappa Orator for 1859 ; sub-
stitute, Wm. M. Evarts of New York. ' Poet
for 1859, James R. Lowell,Boston : substitute,
John G. Whittier.
A Great Chess Game.
It is announced in thllnstratcd London
News, that Mr. Staunfon, the English cham-
pion of Chess, (and Chess editor of that pop
ular journal,) has accepted the challenge of
Pfiul Morphy. to play a match of twenty-one
games for £500, provided they can be played
at such times as will not inierfere with other
engagements. It is supposed the match will
begin soon after the Chess Tourament at Bir-
mingham, which occurs at the end of August.
Mr. Staunton is generally considered the best
player at this game in England, and one of
the three or four best players in all; Europe.
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m The star-fish are eating up the oysters
in the beds of New York harbor, and the loss
by them this spring is estimated at thousands
of dollars. The proprietors bave'petitioned
the state to remit the usual tax upon beds,
and they assert that, unless some way is
found to check the ravages of these animals,
the oyster is in danger of becoming extinct
in that locality. '
the year.
N EWS ITEMS.
. . . .As soon as it was kubwn that Hor-
ace F. Clark, M. C. of N. Y., was intend-
ing to vote against Lecompton, the Pros-
1dcnt sent for him, and stated that it
would be “impossible for him to be re-
clcctcd if the federal patronage were ar-
rayed against him.” Mr. Clark asked
for a better argument.
. . . .Rarey, the horse tamcr’s career has
been unexpectedly stopped in England.—
He had cleared some $80,000 by his so,
cret, when a cheap American pamphlet
disclosed the whole. So Rarcy’s harvest
is over.
. . . .A gentleman from Boston, travelling
in Europe, was not permitted to enter
Naples, because he was one of the sub-
scribers to the cannon presented to Sur-
dinia. ,
[As a counterpart to the above, a
prominent Democrat in Massachusetts.
lost his office for taking part in a. public
meeting condemning the attack on Sena-
tor Sumner. Which is the worst, the
despot of N aplcs or the President of this
free republic?
. . . .The factory of Henry D. Stone, in
Worcester, which cost $90,000, sold latc-
ly for a little over $28,000. .
. . . .The little daughter of Wm. G. Lewis
of Framingham, Mass, dieda most dread-
ful death from hydrophobic, four weeks
after she was bitten. At first, her wounds
healed well, but her sufi‘erings at the close
of life were terrible. Can all the (logs in
the world compensate for one such death ?
. . . .Two horses,one owned by C. Pierpont
and the other by William. Kinley, were
nearly ruined on Saturday in New Haven
by standing in vitrol which had been
carelessly thrown into the street. Thclr
hoofs were nearly eaten off, and the one
belonging to Mr Pierpont, is entirely
spoiled.
. . . .The tobacco plant in the Connecti
cut valley looks remarkably Well. The
Hartford Times says a “ very large crop
has been planted, and it looks now as if
double the amount would be raised this
year, that there was last, although the
quality may not be as gooc .”-
. . . .The earnings of the New York and
New Haven Railroad for the first six
months of 1858, are $378,555, against
$503,442, for the corresponding months
of 1857.
. . . .Col Forney says that Mr. Buchanan
prepared the greater part of James B.
Clay’s speech which he delivered in Penn-
sylvania in 1856. James Buchanan was
Henry Clay’s bittcrest enemy.
. . . .The discovery of gold on Frazer’s
River is bringing new names into notice
and building up new towns. We now
hear of Victoria, Bellington Buy, What-
come and Scheme, &c. These may be
to the next generation, famiiliar as house-
hold words.
. . . .‘A great cricket match between
Canada and the United States, eleven on
a side, will be played at Hoboken, Aug.
2d and 3d.
. . . .Here is a piquant extract : “ He
kissed her, and promised. Such beauti-
ful lips i Man’s usual fate—he was lost
upon the coral reefs.”
. . . .A band of rowdies at Fort Lee at-
tempted to get on boarda steamboat and
take a sail to New York without paying.
The captain resisted and drove them off,
but unfortunately, a lady was accidental-
ly shot by a pistol fired at the rowdies by
the captain. ‘
. . . .The London Times thinks the Aga-
memnon clearly unfit for the task of lay-
ing the cable, If the Great Eastern
cannot be obtained for that purpose, the
Times recommends that a new vessel be
built.
. . . .The famous “ Log Cabin,” long the
residence of General Harrison, at North
Bend, Ind, was destrOyed by fire on the
25th inst., The house was occupied by
001. Taylor, son-in-law of Gen. Harrison.
A mass 6f valuable Correspondence was
destroyed. .
. . . .The Cincinnati Enquirer says Capt.
Davis Embee, Supervising Inspector, has
furnished a report of the burning of the
steamer Pennsylvania. The total num-
ber of persons on board of the time of the
explosion, is put dowu at 400, of whom
160 were lost. ’ ‘r
. , . .The number .emigrants which ar-
rived at the port of New York for the
week ending July 28th, was 1,666, ma-
king n. total of 44,534 since the first of
The arrivals for the corres-
ponding period in 1857 numbered 110,-
333.
.. . .Ex-President Tyler is in Norfolk,
Va., Ear-President Van Buren remains
at his home in Kinderhook ; Ex-Presi-
dent Fillmore is at Niagara Falls,and Ex-
Presidcnt Pierce is in Europe.
. . . .A. dispatch frow Washington an-
nounces that in view of the vigorous re-
sistunce which Paraguay is capable of
making, the Administration will send
there a fleet of six or seven vessels.
....Steam power has been applied to
boats 011 the Erie canal. '
. . . .The Minnesota Assembly have pas-
sed a law fixing the rate of interest at
fifteen per cent per annum on money.—
It is thought the Senate will stick for
eighteen.
.. . .Dr. Samuel Dickson, of London, a
medical officer in the British army, is op-
posed to bleeding in cases of sun-stroke
on the ground that opening a vein di-
minishes the power of the heart. He re-
lies upon ammonia quinnc, alcoholic stim-
ulants, and pouring cold water on the
head.
. . . .A Ilanover paper tells the world
that the “ silly prejudice against horse-
flesh” has altogether vanished in Denmark
and northern Germany ; and that in the
city of Hanover alone, in the course . of
Whitsun week,.about 2000 lbs. of horse-
flcsh were consumed. The number of hor-
ses slaughtered for eating in that city, is
between 200 and 300 a year.
. . . .The Hudson Bay company own forts
posts, trading houses and other property,
situated within our territories, which they
offer to sell to our country for $600,000.
. . . .The American party of Hamilton
County, Ohio, have voted not to nominate
a separate ticket, but to go in with the
Republicans.
. . . .It is reported that the Mexican Gov-
ernor of Vera Cruz has seized money set
apart for the payment of tho instalments
on the British debt, and has imprisoned
an English subject. In consequence, the
British Consul has sent for the whole
British fleet to bombard Vera Cruz. 1
. . . .A little boy named George Pritner,
of New York, was missing last Friday
and diligent search was made for him
without effect. On Tuesday morning his
body was found in large chest on which
was a spring lock. He had probably
secreted himself in the chest for some
purpose, supposing he could easily get
out. But the lock became'fastened as
the lid fell, and he was smothered to
death. '
. . . .Miss Jane Loyd, the- wealthiest of
English heiresses, is to be married to Col.
Lindsay, the “hero of the Alma,” who
was lucky enough to get nine Russian
balls fired into the colors which he car.-
ried, Without receiving one into his ,own-
body.
. . . .The teamsters report from Salt Lake
City that the reporters of the N. Y. Times
and N. Y. Herald had had afight in that
city. ~
Correction-In our allusion last week to
the act of incompeteucy or heedlessness of
one of the conductors of the New Haven
road, whereby his train was involved in the
double danger of a collision from the front
and from the rcar, we spoke ofit as beingthe
train leaving New York at 4.20 P. 11., under
the control of'Conductor Bosch. It is unnec-
essary for us to say to any one who knows
this wide-awake and efficient agent of the
company that he never was guilty of jeopar-
dizing the lives of his passengers in so stupid
a manner as that narrated, and if he ever
should be so bereft of reason or bcfogged as
to cut up such a caper, we think his good
sense would lead him to place his train in the
hands of the first brakeman or switch-tender
while he made tracks for the lap of his ma-
ternal ancestor. We may as well “ speak
right out in meetin’,”—we meant Conductor
Bacon, who leaves at 3.45. We have none
but the kindest feelings towards him, and
have during an acquaintance of almost a
score of years, had abundant reasons to res-
pect his personal worth, yet so well satisfied
are we of the existence of some physical, men-
tal, or moral obliquity or obtusencss, that
we shbuld shun, ourselves, and advise our
friends to shun, his trains as they would the
pestilence. For it is asserted that this is
the third time the some offence has been com~
mittcd. If the Companyis disposed to wink
at the matter and retain him in his position,
our duties as public journalists rise above all
considerations of personal friendship, when
errors involving such terrible consequences,
are'thus repeatedly perpetrated. Were he a
brother, we should advise, as the most friend-
ly not we could name, an instant resignation
of his frightfully responsible position. We
know nothing of the facts, but we have heard
it repeatedly asserted that no other Conduc-
tor upon the road would be allowed an op-
portunity for resignation. Be this as it may.
if family influence or personal friendship re-
tains such an officer in his place, it is not on-
ly doing a serious.injury to the man, but an
insult to those compelled to entrust their
lives in his hands.
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Allotment of Judges of the Superior
Court.
At a meeting of the Judges of theSupreme
Court of Errors,and of the Superior Court,
says the Hartford Courant, held at the Court
Room in the city of Hartford, on the 27th of
July, 1858,. upon the call of the Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Errors,fhe following
named Judges of the Superior Court were
designated to ofiiciate as Judges of the Sn-
preme Court of Errors for the year ensuing,
at the sessions of said court amxed to the
names of each respectively :
sunnsu rnans.
Seymour, J., Hartford Co. 2d Tues. Sept.1858
Waldo, J., New Haven “ 4th " ‘-’
Park, J.,Fairfield “ lat “ Oct. “
McCurdy, J., Windham “ 2d “ “
Seymour, J., Litchfield “ 3d ‘ " “
Park,J.. New London “ 4th -‘ “
Waldo, J., Middlesex “ 1st “ Nov. “
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Seymour, J., Tolland “ 2d “
WIN-ran roams.
Butler,J., Fairfield 00., 2d Tues. in Feb. 1859
McCurdy,J.,N.Haven 3d “ ”
Waldo,J., Hartford “ 4th “ “
Butler, J., Windham “ lat “ March “
McCurdy, J., N.Loudon 2d “ H
Butler, J., Middlesex “ 3d “ “
Park,J.,Tolland “ 4th “ “
Butler, J., Litebfield " 4th “ “
At the same meeting, the J udgcs of the
Supreme Court of Errors were designated to
hold terms of the Superior Court, as follows:
Sanford, J ., Windhampo. 1st Tues. Au g. 1858
“ ' N. Haven “ 1st “ Sept. 1858
“ Litchfield “ 3d “ Jan.‘ 1859
Ellsworth, J ., N.London 3d “ Nov‘. 1858
Hinman, J ., Fairfield “ 1st “ March 1859
Storrs, J., Middlesex “ 2d “ April 1859
Waldo J. was assigned to hold the March
term of the Superior Court in the County of
Hartford, commencing on the 2d Tuesday in
March, 1859. The allotments made by the
Judges of the Superior Court at their meet-
ing in May last, were modified so as to con-
form to the above arrangement, but in other
respects stand as they were than made.
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as. The public have not yet forgotten the
extraordinary exploit of Capt. Charles H.
Webb, in crossing the Atlantic in the yacht
Charter Oak, with only a boy as an assistant.
The Stamford Advocate says that Captain
Webb, of.that place, not entirely satisfied
with his former trip, has been for some
months past engaged in building another
yacht, to be called the ChristopherColumbus
and was to be launched July 31.’ This vessel
is 45 feet long on deck, 16 feet beam, and 6
feet deep in the hold, measuring 35 tons.—
Capt. Webb proposes to make a v0yage in
this vessel to St. Petersfirrgh, touching, at
Southampton and Copenhagen, and will re-
main at St. Petersburgh during the winter.
He will start at the earliest practicable day,
and confidently anticipates crossing the ocean
in 22 days, providing the weather is propi-
tions.
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mThe N. Y. Express declines any con-
troversy with the Republican papers of New
York. It says, “ We have no quarrel now
with the Republican party and therefore no
fight to make with it. When it did right in
the matter of the Crittcnden Montgomery
Kansas bill, it disarmed all our opposition
and deprived us of all disposition to keep
open a fight. ' ’ If the Anti-Lecompton
men in this Stale—men who agree together
in opinion -—can be permitted to unite—as
ninety-nine out of a hundred wish to unite—
they will sweep the State and lead the van
for making the next President of the United
States.” -
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N The citizens of Middletown are con-
sidering a proposition to raise $2500 to pur-
chase a permanent ground for county fairs.—
Mr. F. W. Russell, the President of the Coun-
ty Agricultural Society, offers to secure
$1200, if the Middletown people make up
the $500 necessary to complete the other
$ 300.
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fl‘ The company of Wheeler and Wilson’s
sewing machine, at Bridgeport. have declared
a dividend of fifty per cent. 0n the first of
January last, a dividend of twenty per cent
was declared, and a year ago one of forty
'per cent The capital stock is 190,000, and
the shares are now at a premium of three
hundred per cent. The company manufacture
fifty machines a day, and keep 250 men in
employment. They pay the patentec of one
particular combination in their machine ten
dollars for each machine they build.
Woo——
21st In the Woodman divorce case at New
Orleans, the following evidence was given :—
“ Mr. Piment sworn. Has known Mr. and
Mrs. Woodman for over ten years. Could
say that Mr. Woodman’s conduct towards his
wife has-always been' kind and indulgent.—
He never knew him to oppose her in anything.
Her, demands were very expensive. Could
not say exactly whether expenses were do.
.ringayear. Knows that their expenses to-
gether. were about $10,000. He was satisfied
that Mr. W.’s expenses did not exceed $2,500.
Mr. W. is noted for his extreme plainness in
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#- The Moutreal Advertiser believes that
the celebration of American Independence has
,cost more lossgof lifeaud limb than the‘conv
test which established it. ’Not quite. sobad‘
as that, but if it were the British need not
feel so bad about the latter, ,as they did not
share the perils. They suffered their portioni
of the loss in the first instance.
our Expedition to Paraguay.
The course to be pursued towards Para.
guay, which has occupied so much of the at.
tention of the admlnistralion, Is now deter-
mined upon. It is reliably ascertained that
from the isolated posltlon. of Pfiragnay and
the difficulty of accessto 1t, it Is capable of“
making a vigorous reelstancc to an outside
force independently of' a' few small vessels,
mounting altogether an armament of six or
eight guns. Paraguay has three or four
steamers recently constructed Ill Englandfand
at an eligible point on the ulnar a fort mount-
ing one hundred guns of (llfl'crent caliber.—
She has also a standing army of twelve thou-
sand men, and has r6000“! received l1'0!!!
England a cargo of arms and ammunition. In
the government employ as summers and or-
dinance men there are also several French of-
ficers. The administration will send a fleet
of‘ six or seven vessels, including the “ Har—
riet Lane, and the “ Fulton,” the former to
be the flag ship. Commander Page, who has
been selected for the command of' the expedi-
tion, has proceeded to the North in order to
charter such additional steamers as may be
adapted to the expedition, although it is not
supposed that it will be necessary to fire a
single gun, yet in view of the defensive pre-
parations of Paraguay it is determined our
force should be sufiicicntly formidable to meet
all possible contingencies. The commission-
er hus not yet been selected.
04.».
Swrxnnrso Ornnx'rloxs IN run Run“. Dis-
rnrcrs—During the month of June last, two
boot and shoe makers, named Eli Keefer and
William Beckaorth, residing in the vicinity
of Ridgefield,Conn., obtained from finndry
manufacturers in New Canaan, Conn., and Sa-
iem,N. Y., several cases of “ stock” to be
made up into boots and shoes at their own
residences,and returned within a reasonable
the lapse ofa month or so without seeing or
hearing anything from the shocmnkers, in~
anies were made respecting them, when it
was ascertained that the stock had all been
worked up and disposed of by the speculators
who were soon after arrested to answer a
charge of swindiing, preferred against them:
but they succeeded in effecting their escape
from the officers who had them in charge.—
Depnty Sheriff Bennct ascertaining that the
parties were still lurking about Ridgefield,
with the assistance of a number of citizens of
that place, kept «vatch on every road and
avenue, and effected their re-arrest a few
nights since. On taking them before the
magistrate at New Canaan the following day,
they both plead guilty to the charge prefer-
red against them and were committed, but at
the same time boldly asserted that the an-
thorities could do nothing with lhem,us it was
only a breach of trust, and great was their
astonishment when they were informed by the
Court that the Legislature of Connecticut had
recently framed a law to meet just such cases
of fraud. chlcr. when re-arrested, showed
fight, and his family were about to attempt
to rescue him from custody, when his captor
drew a revolver, and by his firmness soon rc-
stored quiet. Some sympathy is felt forBeck-
worth, who, it is thought, has been victimized
by Keeler, an old ofi'ender.— Tribune.
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pm A new swindling dodge has lately come
to.light in Albany, which shopkeepers will
do well to beware of. A young lady entered
a grocery, and after taking a seat on a chair
near the counter, ordered avariegy of arti
cles which were weighed, tied up and handed
to her by the attentive and polite storekeep-
er. As each package was given her, she drop-
ped it into an earthen vase which she held in
her lap. When she had completed her purch-
ases, she placed the lid on the vase, and set-
ting it on one end of the couter, requested
the storekceper to allow it to stand there for
a few minutes, while she attended to some
business in the vicinity, stating at the same
time that on her return she would settle the
bill. Shortly after her departnrc,-an attend-
ant of the store having occasion to move this
vase, it was found to be considerably lighter
than the number of articles placed in it would
warrant, and on removing the lid the secret
was discovered—there was no bottom to it 1—
It is supposed that the ingenious female had
a pocket in the front of her dress, in which
to place the articles as they were handed to
her. It is needless to say that she did not re-
turn for her vase.
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AN Enrron RUN Awnn—An extra of the
Canastoga, N. Y. Times, draped in mourning,
made its appearance a day or two ago with
the following announcement :
No Parsnl—Owing to the mysterious dis-
appearance of the Editor we shall issue no pa-
pcr this week. Mr. Williams took the cars
for Syracuse. on Monday last. saying that he
should return- the same day, since which time
nothing has been heard of him whatever. As
to the cause of his continued absence we are
unable to say; and we would here state to
the readers of the Times, that no paper will
be printed until he returns, or some other ar-
rangement has been made.
P. S.-—Any information as to his where-
abouts will be thankfully received 1
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fi The proprietor of the defunct religious
paper in N. Y. City, called “ The Way of
Life,” George P. Edgar, has been arrested by
the paper maker for obtaining paper on cred-
it, by false representations of the success of
the newspaper. Mr. Edgar represented he
had 10,000 subscribers, and that the'rcceipts-
from his advertisements were more than
enough to pay the expenses of the paper. In
consequence of these representations, be ob-
tained credit for paper to the amount of
$1000. These statemeuts, the afiidavit says,
were false. He had not more than 300 sub-
scribcrs, and the eight or ten thousand copies
which he printed were given away or sent
out gratuitously as advertisements, such is-
sues being no part of a regular circulation,
or to be counted as such. At no time has the
paper paid for itself. As we have stated
above, Mr. Edgar has been arrested and is
now in prison. _
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US: The case of the Philadelphia, dentist
will be remembered, who was accused and
convicted of outrage upon a lady under the
influence of chloroform, the lady herself be-
ing the only witness against him. There were
many persons who doubted the reliability of
the testimony of a person as to facts occur'
ring during the influence of the chloroform,
and if. was the subjectof much discussion.—
A very singular case has lately occurred in
Louisville, showing how little such testimony
can be relied upon. Dr. Goldsmith of the
Medical College, removed a huge cancer from
the breast of a lady in the presence of her
husband and seven of the leading physicians.
While partially under the influence of chlo-
roform, she sprang 11p and declared in the
most indignant manner that she “ would rath-
er‘ die than be abused in that way.” Says
the Journal:
It was only by the utmost efforts on the
part of Dr. Goldsmith and the lady's husband
that she could be induced to continue the use
of chloroform. After the operation was fin-
ished and the effects of the ancs thetic had pass-
ed ofi', she was asked if she remembered any-
thing of what had taken place. She answer-
ed, (her eyes, we are told, flashing with fury,)
that she did not feel the cutting but she knew
well enough the indecent remarks made and
the insulting liberties taken with her in her
helpless state. She said that it wasno use
to deny ; that she heard and felt all that had
been said and dose ; and it was with difficul-
ty she could be persuade that her impres-
rions were a hallucination.
.4.”
13- The shoe shop of John Mulloy, .of
Bridgeport was entered by practised burglars '
on Tuesday night and robbed of $60 worth of
has been robbed within six months. ,
.4...
A Psr1r Lancssr Couxrsxsxcs.—Ar good
story is told at the expense of Mr English, the
father of the “ English Bill.” It will be re-
membered that his portrait was published in
.Barper’s Weekly, 31.3.7118 time since. A lot of
the papers were sent home to English ’11 father
and the old man presented a copy of it to an
illiterate. hard-headed old Democratjocular-
l remarking that there was a picture of the!
resident. The old fellow scanned the pic- =
tore carefully for several minutes. and then,
with eyes still riveted upon it, and with ,an en.
ergy of utterance that showed conclusively
that his remarks were the result of thorough
conviction, he said—“ I don’t like that coun-
tenance. . M1. English, as sure as there‘s a
God in Heaven, that man will steal !” Of
course the 'hopeful father fainted away.
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m, Engine No. I, the famous old Rippe-
wam, of Stamford. recently’lhrew a stream
£99 feethorizontal,ly,'whe1i the base burst—V
t ‘wiil visit‘Alban‘y at the great prize" trial,
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period, as is usual in that business. After ~
code. This is the third time that Mr. Mulloy ~
Elections to the House of Representa-
tives take place as follows :
August, Ist Monday-—Alabama, Ar-
kansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Texas.
August, Ist 'l‘hursduy—'l‘c11ucssce and
North Carolina.
September, 1st Monday—Vermont.
“ 1st Thursday—California.
" 2d Monday—Maine.
2d Monday—Massachusetts
October, 1st lilonday,b‘lorida 8:. Georgia.
2d Monday—South Carolina.
2d '1‘ucsday,Indiana, Iowa, Min~
nesota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
November, Ist Tuesday—Delawarc,. Il-
linois, Michigan, New Jersey, New York
and Wisconsin.
November, lst Wednesday—Maryland
2d Monday—Massachusetts.
1859—March 2d Tuesday,-—-New Hamp-
shire, -
April, 1st Monday~—Connccticut,
Ist Wednesday Rhode Island.
May, 4th Tucsday——Virginia.
October, 1st Monday—Mississippi.
November, lst Monday—Louisiana.
The terms of the following senators ex-
pire March 4th, 1859. '
Alabama—Clement C. Clay, d., re-e-
lected.
Arkansas—Wm. K. Sebastian, d.
Delaware—Martin W. Bates, d.
Georgia—Robert Toombs, d., re-elec-
ed.
Illinois—Stephen A. Douglas, *d.
Iowa—George W. Jones, J.
Kentucky—John B. Thompson, '10.
Louisiana—Judah 1’. Benjamin, (1. r
Maine—Wm. P. Fessenden, r.
Massachusetts—Henry Wilson, 7'.
Michigan—Charles D. Stuart, *(l.
Minnesota—James Shields, *d.
MississippiwAlbcrt G. Brown, (I.
New Hampshire—John P. Hale, 7', re—
elected.
New Jerscy—Willliam Wright. J.
North Carolina—David S. Reid, (1.
Rhode Island—Philip Allen, (1.
South Carolina——John J. Evans, (1, de-
ceased.
Tcnncssce——John Bell, 10.
Texas—Samuel Houston, (l.
Virginiae—Robert T. M. Hunter, d, re-
elected.
d, democrats, 16, (including *3 Doug-
las Dcmocrats,) w, Whigs or Americans,
2, 7', Republicans, 3. Total, 21.
Jones, (1, Iowa, is succeeded by_JaInes
W. Grimes, r.
Thompson, w, Kentucky, is succeeded
by Lazarus W. Powell, d. '
Allen, J, Rhode Island, is succeeded by
Henry B. Anthony.
The successor of Bell, Tennessee, will
be a Democrat.
The successors of Bates of Deleware,
Douglas of Illinois, Stuart of Michigan,
Shields of Minnesota, Wright of New
Jersey, are in doubt. Bates will be suc-
ceeded by a Democrat or American : the
others by Douglas Democrats or Repub-
licans, except, perhaps, New Jersey.
The others will remain as they are.
Of those whose terms expire in March,
1861, the number is 14 ; the Republi-
cans 7 ; and Americans 1. Total 22.
Of those whose terms expires‘in March
1863, the :Democrats number 10; the
Republicans 10; and the Americans 1.
Total, 21.
So that after Maycb 4, 1859, from
present appearances, there will be in the
Senate : '
Democrats 36 to 40
Republicans 22 to 26
Americans , 2 to 3
w~——-——
NAVAL.-—Among those who passed a
satisfactory examination and been found
qualified for admission as 3d assistants
in the engineer corps of the Navy, are :
G. H. White, Trenton, N. J.; L. A.
Ayers, Stamford, Ct. ; E. Cronin and F.
Dobbs, N. Y.; G. W. Rogers, East
Hartford, Ct. ; W. K. Purse, E. B.
Hatch, G. D. Living, E. L. Dick, W. H.
Glading, James Wallace, and W. H.
Hopper, Philadelphia; and S. Albert,
Brooklyn, N. 'Y. In addition to the
above, there are eleven from the South-
ern States and District of Columbia.
W
a“ A family named Stearns, residing
in Corinth, N. Y., were recently arrested
for cruel treatment of a young girl who
was bound to them. Mrs. Stearus, be-
sides ordering her husband and son to
administer sundry severe whippings, had
at one time tied the girl’s hands behind
her, and then, with a shocmaker’s awl,
pinned her up to the door by her cars i—
For this fiendish conduct the wretch was
fined the sum of $1.
.>.
THE ATLANTIC Tsnnessrn AGAIN.—
The steamers engaged in laying the At-
lantic Telegrayh cable, having used up
less than 300 miles to their previous un-
successful experiments, were to have
started for another trial on the 17th.
‘ «C.»
W A liquor dealer at Chelsea, named
James White, whose demijohns were
emptied on the ground, by the city mar-
shal, under the nuisance act, has prose-
cuted the officer for spoiling the water in
his well with the liquor that soaked down.
W
lie, The President’s bitterness against
Douglas is not abated. Austin Brooks,
a postmaster at Quincy, 111., a post worth
$1,700 per annum, was dismissed last
Monday because he avowed himself 'a
Douglas Democrat. He had been reap-
pointed for four years only in May last.
Tuesday’s article in the Union, casting
Douglas finally out of the party, was en-
pervised by the President.
9
New HAVEN.-—.Am0llg those who re-
ceived, at Yale, the Honorary Degree of
Phil. B., were Mason C. Weld, of Hart-
ford ; Lewis Stadtmuellcr, Bristol. The
Honorary Degree of LL.D.was conferred
onHon. Marshall S. Bidwell, New York
formerly of Canada ; Win, E Stcarns,
Professor of Law in University of Missis-
Slppl ; Hon. Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois
. . . .A.man named Jackson is now en-
gaged in a walk of 110 consecutive hours
for a wager. He is allowed two minutes
rest each day, and eats while walking. . .
A man made an attempt on Wednesday
night to climb up to, and enter a second
story Window. He was met by a lady
With a chair, who knocked him back on
thcdpavement. . . .Rev. Jeremiah Atwat-
er led on Thursday evening aged 84.—
He had been a dlstingpisbed man.
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E‘The Court 91' (3011111101? Pleas 0’
the city of New York has decided. in “’9
case of the. Corporation against the Har-
lem Railroad Company, that the fill?
Authorities have a right to prevent the
use of steam below any limit they may
choose to specify. This decision compels
the coin nice to move their depots to
42p str st, and will gratify the Murray
Hill holders ,of property. Tile Judge
said he could not decule any point With
reissues to the New flares road.‘fo'r
their case was not prepariy before the
Court, bathe could not see how that
company could have any greater ri his
than the Harlem Company from w it‘ll
they derive the right of way.
Oboe——
. .Senator Douglas is put down for
thirteen‘sp'eeches in unison between J 01.1
,
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27th and August 17th.""‘-' "
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An Important 511“.
Messrs. Eliphaiet A. Bulkley, of Hart.
ford, Josiah M. Carter, of Norwalk. and
Wm. C. Camp, as Committee of the Sn-
perior Court, have been for some time
engaged tit-the Court House in this city
In the bearnig of a suit between the N ew
Haven County Bank and T. P. Jones,
of Bridgeport, on the one side, and the
Quinnlpiack Bank of New Haven on the
other, in relation to a mortgage of $35,-
000 ussxgncd by 1’. T. Barnum, to secure
some of his indebtedness. The investi-
gat1onohasinvolvcd the question of Bar-
nnm’s Insolvency, and the buying up and
settlement of claims against him. Gov.
Dntton,.Geo. Hawley, Wm. B. Bristol!
and Dw1ght Morris of Bridgeport ap"
peared for the County Bank Gov Bald-
win, Judge Blackman, and, E. I San-
ford, for Quinnipiack Bank. The testi-
mony closed last evening, and the argu-
ment will be heard today.— Courier.
m. We intended to give the particu.
lure of the above case as soon as it was
disposed of, but as the above appears in
the Journal of this morning, we copy it.
with the following corrections :-—For
Wm. C. Camp, read;Wm. C. Crump, of
New London ; for '1‘. P. Jones, read Seth
P. Jones ; for $35,000, read $50,000;
for “ to secure some of his indebtedness,”
read to procure a loan to the Jerome
Manufacturing Co, from the Quinnip'-
ack Bank ; for George Howley, read
Charles I’Iawlcy ; for Dwight Morris,
read J. C. Loomis. Messrs. Hawley,
Dntton, Bristoll and Loomis, appear not
only for the County Bank, but for the
Bank and Seth P. Jones, the plaintiffs.—
With these fcw exceptions, we believe
the article is correct solar as it goes.
_q-.(ll'_\'1’l!1: Palladium.
W»
fi-The loss by fire in the baggage
daymorning was much greater than at
first,supposed. It is thought it will go
‘ over'.$50,000. Four mén narrowly es-
caped with their lives. The baggage and
way mail from Buffalo to Albany were
destroyed. Many of the trunks had large
sums of money in them. A lump of melt-
ed gold was found near the car, worth
nearly a hundred dollars. Owing to the
delaycaused by the fire there was no
connection with the Hudson River rail-
road On Saturday morning. On the ar-
rivalof the train in Albany there was
quitaa rush for the superintendent’s of-
fice, by the passengers who had lost their
baggage, to receive pay for it, which
many, did, on producing their check and
making afiidavit as to the amount of bag-
gage cortained in their trunks. The fire
is supposed to have originated from sparks
from thelocomotive.
Au oldlady and gentleman were on
their way to California, and and every-
thing that btlonged to them was in their
trunks, whichwere destroyed. As soon
as the old lady heard that her baggage
was destroyed the wept like a child.—
Another young nan was also on his way
to California, wih a quantity of valuable
articles, including watches, money, jewel-
ry, &c., which were also destroyed. A
lady living in Reine had three large
trunks filled witbyaluable clothing.
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A Haxvr Sun—We hear that the
Trustee of the Briigeport Insurance Co.,
has commenced anaction against one of
the late Directorsl—damages $100,000.
The action, we beleve, is one of trovcr
—-the claim being that the Director has
taken into his possession sundry valuable
securities that (acceding to certain affi-
davits,) are or werethe property of the
Company. To ansrer this claim, the
real and personal esate of the Director
have been attached I) a large amount
‘ Britgeport Standard.
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. . . . President King, f Columbia College
narrowly escaped downing on Sunday
afternoon, at Rockawy L. 1., while bath-
ing in the surf. He ad his brother,Gov.
King, rode over from Eamaica after din-
ner to the Pavilion, whn the former took
a bath, and though an expert swimmer
be ventured out too far and finding the
current beyond his stregth he cried lus-
tily for help. A boat '93 launched and
pushed out to his reliefhappily in time,
for grasping the stern 1c was rowed in
safely, though nearly xhausted. The
boatmau in rescuing hisfpdt knowing his
dignity, called him an “ oi rooster,” and
rebuked him for going beynd his depth
on Sunday. , ,
. . . .A man by the name (’Spafi'ord is in
jail in Bennington, Vt. a suspicion of
having poisoned his wife,:hild and ser-
vant girl, by putting corru've sublimate
in their coffee. -
. . . .The Missouri Republics, St. Louis,
entered on the 51st yeanofits existence
on Monday the 12th. Floradiminutive
weekly sheet of 12 by 1,4 ches, issued
July 12th 1808, it has yet ally increas-
ed to its present mammoth oportions of
33 by 56 inches, being the rgest paper
published in Ihe West and ‘ h two ex-
ceptions the largest in the nion. .The
Republican employs 175 1- cent hands
and the aggregate expens
per week. '
....The Boston Traszllelaas that the
Tremont Temple Baptist 1 iety have
have unanimously recalled i Rev. 1. S.
Kalloch to their church, an, that he has
accepted the call, and will 're-commence
preaching there in Septembf.
. . .The new Episcopal chu;h at Strat-
ford, was consecrated on thesday last
by Bishop \Villlams. '
. . . .The dinner given to He. J. J. Crit-
tenden by the citizens of Walford, Ky.,
was a very splendid afi'air. .large num-
ber was present and euthusstic Auti-
Lecompton speeches were met.
. . . .The monument to the Pirim Fath.
ers in Plymouth is to cost 100,000.—
Thcre has been already smcribed in
Massachusetts $36,000. _‘
. . . .A foolish girl of 20 matted one of
the Sioux Chiefs, recently, aiWashing-
ton.- When she reached [115 ncely wig-
wam, she found it a mud ho ; occupied
by two other wives l ,
. . . .On July 24th, Satin-d! morning;
there were some three inchesf snow fell
on the tap of Mount Waington—a
thunder shower having taken lace in the
hi ht.-
. .g. .Hon. Abraham Belcher (.Bethlem
left two pair of oxen hitched to loaded
cart, and on returning fountthc hind
pair 011 the ground, both def. Their
necks were broken. All the eianations
given of this singular circumsuce seem
path 1.- more incomprchensibldhan the
acci xent itself.
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S‘Mr. and Mrs. Harris rd child,
With‘Miss Vintou, embarkedrorn Bos-
ton for Rangoon, Burmah, onll‘hursday
last in the ship Brutus. Miss‘inton has '
already been introduced to 0 readers.
She is a daughter of the lamend m1sslon-
ary 9f the same name, and is born 111
Bar. .11, whither she 110,7 goplolQll! he;
l-‘H' :1" . .lc . 'i A; ‘_ ,
mother 1n llJlSSlpl'lill'y inter. All
{orth under the patronage of be 4816!:
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fivNo man can tell whser he lg
rich or poor by turning to Wedges——
It is the heart that makes a in rich.—
He is rich or poor according twhat he
is, not according to what be h.
l ' Hgnry Wardudgr.
car on the N. Y. Central road, on Satnr- .
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