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Arrests by the Police. --The police yesterday arrested William, slave of Meredith Brown, for stealing $2.50 from J. E. L. Masourier. The darkey was a runaway at the time. Officer Gentry arrested a negro named Jim Robinson (one of Hatcher & Webster's drivers) for being implicated in the abduction of Mr. Persons Walker's trunk, and $200 therein contained. In searching the premises occupied by him the officer found, next to the slats of his bed, a breach-loading flintlock musket, inscribed "U. S., North Middleton, Conn., 1834." It was evidently stolen from a Government wagon, or private soldier, and concealed for sinister purposes. It can be reclaimed by the owner's going to the cage.
in, witnessed the battles of Easling and Wagran. In 1812 she followed the grand army to Russia, and was present at the battle of Moscow, where her husband fell in storming a redoubt. She came back to France with the remnant of the army, and took part in the campaign of 1813; was at Baulzen and Leipaic, and at Waterloo in 1813. When the army was reorganized she was attached to the Fourth Regiment of the Line and accompanied it to Spain, under the Duke d'argonieme, in 1823. From 1830 to 1834 she was in Africa, in 1859, she went there again with the depot of the Fourth regiment, and remained till 1860. are the service of this extraordinary She went to Issondun with the depot of the Fourth, the officers of which allowed her a pension and she had rations with the men, who absolutely She had survived all relatives, but never wanted for friends, She retained her faculties to the last, and died without pain. The whole battalion, too strong, attended her funeral, and a Sergeant-Mayo
-Lord John Campbell, whose speech we published a few days since, is now about 82 years of age. He was educated at a Scotch university; went to London in 1800 as a law student, and commenced practice in 1806. He is the son of a Scotch clergyman, and whilst studying for his profession wrote law reports and theatrical criticisms for the London Chronicle. He soon acquired practice and married a daughter of Sir James Geariett. In 1830 he was elected to Parliament for the borough of Stafford. In 1834 he was made Attorney General. In 1841 he was made Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In 1841 he was created a Baron. From that time till 1850 he devoted himself to literary pursuits, and published the Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Seal, from the earliest time to the reign of George the IV. It was a great work, in seven volumes. Following that was the Lives of the Chief Justices of England from the Norman Conquest to the death of Lord Mansfield. In 1830, on the retirement of
ussellville, in Kentucky. He was elected to the Senate of the United States, and took his seat in 1817,--A few years afterward he removed to Frankfort. I think under the appointment as Attorney-General of the State. He did not appear upon the theatre of general policies, after his removal to Frankfort, for many years, being given up mainly to his profession, having been elected in the meantime frequently to the popular branch of the State Legislature, and frequently chosen its Speaker. In 1834 he was chosen as the successor of Judge Bibb in the United States Senate. In 1841 he was, appointed attorney General of the United States by Gen. Harrison, a position retained by him until political differences between the Cabinet and President Tyler induced all of the members to resign except Mr. Webster. After an interval be returned again to the Senate. In 1849 he was tendered by President Taylor the position of Secretary of State, a position declined by him on account of his recent ele
Officers of the army of Tennessee.[from our own correspondent.] Thomaston, Ga., Dec. 28th, 1863. Lieut.-General Harder. Lieut. General Wm. J. Hardee was born in Camden county, Ga., and not in Appling county, as has been stated by some, nor in St. Augustine, Fla., as has been stated by others. He entered West Point in 1834 and graduated in 1838. His first duty as a soldier, after graduating, was performed under Gen. Scott in the Cherokee country of Georgia, which is the same district that is now occupied by the army he commands. In the latter part of 1838 he went to Florida and engaged in the Indian war until the fall of 1840. He was then chosen by the War Department of the United States as one of three promising young officers to be sent to France to perfect themselves in cavalry tactics. His companions were Capt. Floyd Bell and Lieut. Newton, and they entered the military school of Saul Mur, where they remained until the fall of 1842, having acquired a thorough knowl
The late sold weather in Atlanta was the oldest that has been left in that locality since 1834. The exposed thermometers at 10 o'clock P. M., January 1, 1864, indicated 12 degrees above zero; at 7 o'clock A. M., January 2, 1864, 8 degrees above zero. The unexposed, at 10 o'clock P. M., January 1, indicated 18 degrees above zero, and 7 A. M., January 2, 12 degrees. One Saturday in 1834 the mercury fell below zero. The late sold weather in Atlanta was the oldest that has been left in that locality since 1834. The exposed thermometers at 10 o'clock P. M., January 1, 1864, indicated 12 degrees above zero; at 7 o'clock A. M., January 2, 1864, 8 degrees above zero. The unexposed, at 10 o'clock P. M., January 1, indicated 18 degrees above zero, and 7 A. M., January 2, 12 degrees. One Saturday in 1834 the mercury fell below zero.
gland has always manifested great wisdom in her financial and commercial laws, except in a very few instances. The Bank of England suspended specie payment in 1797, and did not resume fully until 1821. In the interval her notes, at one time, fell to fifteen or twenty per cent discount. Yet she never dreamed, during that interval, of making them a legal tender, for the all sufficient reason that they were not equal to gold and silver in value — the very reason that is now prompting our Legislature to a contrary course. At length, in 1834, when the notes of the Bank of England were worth pound for pound and shilling for shilling of gold and silver, an act of Parliament did declare them legal tender, purely as a matter of convenience, and because the receiver could lose nothing by it. The act declared that such notes were to be a legal tender everywhere but at the counter of the bank itself. If a man present a check there, or a note, and demand specie, the bank is bound to pay it.
Dead. --Dr. H. S. LeVert, a prominent citizen of Mobile, Ala., died on the 16th inst. He was born in King William county, Virginia, in the year 1834. His father came over to America as Fleet Surgeon with Gen. Lafayette, and his mother was the niece of Admiral Vernon. He graduated in Philadelphia in 1828, and in 1829 settled in Mobile for the practice of his profession.
Bears and Bulls. --The singular epithets of "bears" and "bulls" were first applied to speculators in stocks on the London Exchange about 1834. When two parties contract, the one to deliver and the other to take stocks on a future day at a specified price, it is the interest of the delivering party, in the intervening period, to depress stocks, and of the receiving party to raise them. The former is styled a "bear," in allusion to the habit of that animal to pull things down with his paws, and the latter a "bull," from the custom of that beast to throw an object up with his horns.
The British Emancipation Act, passed in 1834, provided for the liberation of about eight hundred thousand slaves in five years from the passage of the act. The sum appropriated for the compensation of the proprietors was twenty millions of pounds sterling, or not half the value of the slave, and in many instances not a third. From the date of that act the agricultural produce of the island gradually disappeared, until it became a wilderness in comparison with its former fertility. The planters never received anything but the interest of the twenty millions; and their once garden like estates have returned, like the negroes, to the freedom of nature. The island of St. Domingo, before the emancipation of the negroes, produced seven hundred millions pounds of sugar, being more than all the rest of the world put together. After emancipation, it was compelled to import that article.--Let us hear Napoleon: "Had any of your philosophic Liberals come out to Egypt to proclaim lib