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tearfully begged to be allowed to keep, while the man angrily refused. At length the wife almost threw the child into the husband's arms, and exclaimed, take it, I can soon have another ?" James Cruise was brutally murdered on Sunday evening, the 11th instant, at the grog-shop, corner of Greatmen and Post streets, New Orleans, by Patrick Kennedy, aided by his brother-in-law James Doyle. They were all drunk, and a quarrel having ensued, ended in the above fatal result. The Senate of Delaware passed a resolution a short time since to adjourn on the 25th inst., but the House on Wednesday amended it 80 as to adjourn on the second of March, which will be about the time business now before them will be settled. An Irishman named Murphy, employed at Fort Maison, near Annapolis, was drowned last Thursday, - Santa Anna, being short of money, is rumored he will sell another piece of Mexico to the United States-Senora and a strip of the North, which he keeps with difficulty, or Yucatan, as will be the most acceptable. He will have to sell his cork leg yet to save his neck. - All the leading hotel and coffee-house Reepers in Cincinnati have signed an agreement pledging themselves not to violate the Ohio prohibitory law by the sale of liquor, save only native wine and ale, those drinks being excepted by statute. The ladies who mobbed a liquor seller's premises, and destroyed $200 worth of the crathur," at Mount Pleasant, Hamilton county, Ohio, have all been discharged. The Cincinnati Commercial, in noticing the inyestigation, says: The ladies were most of them young, and all pretty." No wonder they were discharged. Twenty mail robbers have been arrested within the last two months, and there Mre "a few more left of the same sort." - The North Carolina Legislature, at its recent session, inserted in all the new charters, the re-charters, and amended charters of banks, a prohibition against the issuing or paying out of bills under $5. - Invariably in advance: a figurative expression used by newspaper publishers, and generally understood not to mean anything. The Bahama Herald, of the 24th ult., states that a British colored subject named Cox, had been kidnapped by an American shipmaster, and sold slavery, in Virginia; and fears were entertained respecting the fate of some other men who sailed lately for Texas. In some of the interior counties of Pennsylvania, the English language (until lately, since the appointment of county superintendents of schools, and the requirement that teachers shall understand English grammar) has been a strange tongue. In Cincinnati, during a post mortem examination held over the remains of Professor Mine, Dr. Miller, while making an incision with the scalpel, accidentally cut his finger. His arm and hand have since become greatly swollen, and it is thought that, unless the arm is amputated, the most serious consequences will ensue. The Panama Railroad is in operation. The road is fifty miles long, and the transit takes four hours. The tariff of rates is remarkable. The fare is $25, or fifty cents a mile. The charges for freight are on a similar scale of grandeur. The failure of Miller & Thompson, of Liverpool, is owing to losses in the Australian trade. Howe, Eager, & Co., London, have suspended for £130,000. Turiff & Sharp, iron dealers, New Cumnock, Scotland, have also suspended for a large amount. Government has remitted the penalty of $75,000 on the British steamship Alps, on a charge of smuggling, and subsequently declared forfeited to the United States by a decision of Judge Ingersoll, on payment of the costs. The demand for mechanics in Kansas is unprecedented in the annuls of city building. Carpenters, brick masons, blacksmiths, wagon makers, and other mechanics can get any quantity of work to do, at fair prices. A man by the name of Meshager was arrested in St. Louis, Weduesday, for selling a galvanized watch and chain to a newly arrived German emigrant, named Straube, representing them as gold. The Cincinnati Sun has set to rise no more. Wm. A. Lloyd has started the Public Ledger on the ruins of the Sun. There was another bank excitement at Versailles, Kentucky on Saturday. Messrs. Tilford & Barclay, brokers, of Lexington, sent a messenger to Versailles with $800 or 8400 in notes of the branch of the Commercial Bank at that place, to have them exchanged for coin. A large crowd of persons assembled with the fixed determination of preventing the withdrawal of the coin from the bank, in which they succeeded. It was generally supposed by the crowd that the amount to be drawn was much larger than it turned out to be. In St. Louis, last Sunday morning, about 2 o'clock, the elegant residence of Mr. C.L. Gilpin, on Locust street, near Sixteenth, was burned down. The destruction was total, and the loss about $20,000, which is fully covered by insurance. Austria has forbidden the publication of the bull respecting the immaculate conception in Lombardy, and has even prohibited the priests from preaching upon it. The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Juniata, which was recently destroyed by fire, has been rebuilt, 80 that all the freight and passenger train are now able to pass over it without detention. The bridge is a very substantial structure. A valuable lead mine, said to contain 25 per cent. of silver, has been discovered near Riceville, Tennessee. Nicholas Longworth, a few days ago, distributed 200 bushels of corn meal to the poor women of Cincinnati. The Maine law has been introduced into Africa. Moshesh, chief ruler of the Basotuland, has prohibited the importation and sale of liquors in an effectual decree, containing only three clauses. A child of Ben Morris, of Rochester, New York, was bitten 80 severely by a rat that it died, Large pieces of flesh were bitten from the cheek. The Points Coupee Echo (La.) learns that a disease, strongly resembling Asiatic cholera, has made its appearance among the negroes lately brought from Florida, by Mr. David Barrow, and placed on his plantation by Bayou Grosse Tete, in that parish. A number of the citizens of Cadiz, Ohio, are forming a company to emigrate to Kansas early in the spring. -Robt. M. Luckett, of Loudon county, Va., was killed on Wednesday, by his horse slipping on the ice and falling on him. -John N. Unger was committed to jail at Wheeling, for forgery. - Captains Gardiner and Engle, of the U. S. navy, are at present in New York, for the purpose