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1st (search for this): article 5
Arrival of the Palestine at Portland. Portland, Me., March 18. --The steamship Palestine, from Liverpool on the 28th ult., via Londonderry on the 1st, arrived here at 8 o'clock yesterday (Sunday) morning, with 44 passengers and £7,500 in specie. Reports experienced continued head winds during the voyage, and passed, March 3d, a steamer, supposed to be the United Kingdom, bound East. The news by the Palestine is anticipated.
7th (search for this): article 1
Trustee's sale of land and five Negroes, in Hanover. --Pursuant to the provisions of a deed of trust; dated the 24th October, 1860, and recorded in the Clerk's Office of Hanover County Court, on the 25th October, 1860, from Burwell B. Dickinson, and Otery F., his wife, to the subscriber, I shall at the request of--& Hutcheson, the beneficiaries in said deed, on Friday, the 19th of April, 1861. (If fair; if not, the first fair day thereafter, Sundays excepted,) proceed to sell at auction, for Cash, to the highest bidder, at Green Bay, in the upper end of Hanover, three miles from Beaver Dam Depot, on the Virginia Central Railroad, and half a mile from Green Bay Crossing, the following property, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the debt, $2,084.80, secured by said deed of trust, with interest thereon from the 24th October, 1860, and all costs of preparing and enforcing said deed of trust, selling the Negroes first. The property to be sold is thus described in the de
7th (search for this): article 2
The weather at Lake superior. --The Marquette (Wis.) Journal, of the 12th February, says: "This month has been piercingly cold. On the 7th instant the thermometer stood at 30 degrees below zero in the morning, 33 degrees below in the evening. A teamster, named Lampson, was frozen to death whilst going towards Negaunee. An Irishman was also frozen to death. Nine persons arrived on snow shoes at Marquette from Portage Lake --four days in coming — left on Wednesday, were on the Huron mountains Thursday night, when the thermometer in Marquette stood at 33 degrees below zero, but kept from freezing by their big fire."
12th (search for this): article 3
Secession in Hanover. --On Tuesday, the 12th inst., the good people of old Hanover assembled at their Court-House and gave expression to their sentiments in the existing crisis, by the erection of a secession flag.--Amid the approving shouts of the crowd, Mr. James Lyons, of Henrico, in eloquent strains, addressed the people, hailing the flag as a happy omen of a purer and better feeling in Virginia. He was followed in brief speeches by Capt. George W. Bassett, St. George Tucker, Chastain White, Dr. E. S. Talley, John H. Taliaferro, and Dr. John B. Fontaine, who were present, breathing the right spirit and bearing decided testimony to the unanimity of the secession sentiment in Hanover. The glorious old county which was a pioneer in the cause of Freedom in 1776, has resolved to be among the first in asserting the rights of the South, and in a firm determination to maintain them.
13th (search for this): article 38
Hotel burnt. --The hotel at the Sulphur Springs, near Asheville, N. C., a popular summer resort, was burnt on the 13th inst. It was owned by Wm. L. Henry, and the loss is estimated at $12,000.
14th (search for this): article 39
Thomas McWilliams, master carpenter on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, was killed on the 14th inst., in attempting to leap on the cars while in motion. Mr. E. Dickinson, a merchant from California, was assassinated at Jefferson city, Mo., last week. Rev. P. S. Henson, formerly of Virginia, has accepted a call to the Broad Street Baptist Church, in Philadelphia. Since the 16th of December last the sum of $19,320,466 in specie has been imported into the United States from Europe.
18th (search for this): article 5
Robbery. --We learn that Mr. William H. Dixon was attacked at the corner of 7th and Cary streets, on the evening of the 18th inst., by three men, who robbed him of one hundred and forty-three dollars and a small gold pencil. Mr. Dixon had his jaw broken by the ruffians in three places, and was very badly bruised about the body and head. We did not hear that there was any clue to the discovery of the perpetrators of the violence.
20th (search for this): article 25
The Old Copper cents. --In November last the Directors of the mint at Philadelphia made an arrangement with the Adams Express Company, to convey to the mint, free of charge, all old cents to be exchanged for new ones. On the 20th of last month this arrangement was brought to a close. During this time (about three months) there have been received and exchanged, at the mint, 5,400,000 cents, ($54,000)--1,100,000 ($11,000) were sent from Boston and the East.
25th (search for this): article 10
Troubles in Arizona --Another Massacre.--A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from Tucson, Arizona, under date of the 25th ult., furnishes the following particulars of the latest massacre: Last evening a party returned who had gone out to the aid of several persons en route for Fort Breckinridge. Intelligence had reached us the day previously that the party, consisting of six men, in charge of an ox-wagon laden with provisions, had been attacked and routed. Four of the men had come in, each giving a different account as to the number of Indians, and all ignorant of the fate of the missing men. The scout of citizens which went out from here found the remains of the wagon at the spot indicated. The road at that point runs along a ridge, upon one side of which is a precipitate bank. They there found eighteen holes in the ground, which had been dug by the Indians as hiding places, and as the wagon approached they were enabled to fire upon them without being
25th (search for this): article 12
Tragedy on Shipboard. --The ship General Parkhill, Capt. Pyke, bound from England for Charleston, S. C., left the Mersey on the 25th ult.: The crew consisted of first and second mates, boatswain, steward, and eleven seamen. It appears that the ship had not got far down the river when some angry words took place between the captain and crew, and two of the crew were flogged. Shortly after they attached the captain and first mate, killing the former and terribly wounding the latter. The vessel was carried back to Liverpool and the crew were arrested. Captain Pyke was a native of Preston, England, and was about 34 years of age. He was a married man, with a family. After the removal of the body of the unfortunate man to the dead house, the detective officers examined his cabin. They found under the pillow of his bed photographs of his wife and the youngest child, a little fellow about two years of age. In the cabin was also a pair of child's shoes, and attached to them a
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