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America. The American Papers Appear Jusf...
to an old < man of Spanish blood , wtho was suspected ( but it is thought wrongfully ) of : baving stolen a faorsc from a Mr . Wolfsfcillj somewhere near Puta Creek , Sacrainento . Ke was hunted down ' by Wolfskill and some other-men , who said he must go before a judge . OHeex--pressed his -willingness , -but subsequently escaped to Vacavllle , < where the judge resided . Here he was befriended by an American lady ; but hispersecutorsoame upon him , beat him , and levelled a pistol at his head . The lady , who behaved with geeat courage and generosity , stepped between the old man and the weapon , and said he should not be murdered . At length , however , he OtUU , UD O 1 IVU 1 U A * V *« * S * s * - *«» . " *» v >* v »»*» . »» w » wi . g . —j .. _ - _ , -
was dragged to a tree , and hanged till he was nearly dead . " More than forty Americans , " says the account , " witnessed the scene , and not one raised hie voice . This is not the first outrage whioh has happened in that vicinity . " Tuckerman , the treasurer to the Eastern Railway , Uoston , whose arrest at New Haven , Connecticut , on a charge of robbing a mail train , we have already noticed , has , it appears , carried on for the last few months a series of railway robberies , chiefly on the Boston and New York line . Nothing was known of these depredations until about six weeks ago , when several mails from Boston were missed , in consequence of which the
postal detective police officers were put upon the watch . One of these , a special mail agent , named Holbrook , observed Tuckermafl , one Sunday night , enter the baggagecar of a . train which was about to start for New York from Boston . Holbrook therefore accompanied the train on its journey , and , having closely watched Tuckerman , saw him throw himself on the mail bags in the van , and lie there for some time , apparently asleep , when suddenly he jumped up , seized two small bags , and hastily slipped them into a trunk he had with him opening with a spring . It seems , however , that he must afterwards have been alarmed by something unusual about the bags , as he restored them to their place in the car before the train arrived at New Haven . He was taken into custody at the latter place , and , on being searched , several burglars' implements were found on him . The numerous railway robberies committed by
Tuckerman , were contrived in a very subtle and ingenious manner . He managed to gain the favour and confidence of the various railway officials by his courteous and affable niannej-a , aided by a liberal donation of cigars . By these means he secured admission to the baggage vans ; and , watching his opportunity , when the men who had the care of them were otherwise engaged at the , different stations on the line , he succeeded in plundering them of their contents to a considerable amount . Since last October , especially , the quantity of property abstracted has been considerably more than a hundred thousand dollars . in notes and cheques . Most of these are supposed to have been destroyed ; but a carpet bag belonging to Tuckerman , and containing a large . amount of notes , has been found since his apprehension . Hie depredations among the letters destined for Europe were very great .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian , feeling ia to be condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion , of trie hujpQan raoe but tbat to which itself belongs . DE . AttNOJiD . FRANCE . It is . asserted ithat permission lias been given to all the exiled generals to return to -France , without condition of any kind . This is attributed to the intercession of Mar-. shal cPelissier . JkL 'GJiaplea Lagrange , the well-known liod Republican , ( who took a loading part in the insurrection at Lyons in the roign of Louis Philippe , and in the revolution of February , X > 848 , has just died at the Hague , after a Jong and painful illness . After the coup d'dtut of December , 1651 , he was exiled . JLola ftlontes has arrived at Havre from America . M . < 3 auvain , barrister-at the Imperial Court of Paris , . hoBibeen appointed by the Minister of 'State one of the barristers of tho civil list and of the household of the Emperor . " Some journals , " snya the Spectatenr , have stated that Madame de Jenfosse and her children nro about to lake up their Tcsidonoe in Italy for a short time . "Wo « re , ionabled to contradict the statement , as Madame de . Jeufoeseand her sons have never had any intention of quitting their estate . " Tho Marionettes Theatre at Cologne has brought out for its Christmas entertainment a new , ;] riece called ' Tho Joufosso Family , or a True Tale of Domestic Life in 1857 . ' Imperial decrees are published in the Moniteur convoktfng ^ tUe ^& onjttoJfo ^ appointing M . Troplong its President for tho ensuing " year , and M . Mesnard , Marshal PolUaior , Unrngimy dtfliiliors , and General lleguuud de St . Jeun d'Angoly , V'ice-Prosidontb . tflhe press has'been 'invited' not < to glvo particulars of duels , einglo oorrtbata having shown < i tendency lately'to increase . An ' invitation' has also boon Hunt to tho joarnrth * not to discuss philosophical and rullgioun questions , for fear of giving tho clergy offonoo . It Is ditliouK to'imagine < vt < hnt will bo ioft lor journalists to describe < as d « bauke ifanamy mvm of these ' ?• invitations' are issued .
Admiral Iiugeol , at ithe head of a party of marines , has inflicted severe chastisement on the tribe of Ta'ipi-• Vahi in the Marquesas Islands , the last of the cannibal tribes of ¦ those regions . They had made an attempt to seize two young women belonging to the French . mission , of whom they intended to make sacrifices . The admiral penetrated a thicbly-woofled < valley , rested for the night in the temple of the high priest , and next morning chased the savages into the woods at the point of the bayonet . He also burnt a good many villages . None of " the marines were wounded , though the savages made use of muskets , with which they had been supplied , a American whaler ? who
short time previously , by some .-, smuggled the weapons on shore . Three journals in the -French colonies of Guadaloupe and Martinique have been temporarily suspended , for having written in a sense displeasing to the authorities . In the course of some works which were being executed the other day by M . Leon Fallue , on the estate called Manoir du Mont , the property of M . Cremieux , some vestiges of a Gallo-Roman village and burial-place were unmasked . A crypt , a subterranean church , galleries , and graves containing skeletons , were thus brought to light after their long obscurity . The architecture is very ° masaive , and is said to belong to the Merovingian
period . With reference to the proposed revival , in a . modified form , of the French slave trade , the Daily Neics \ writes : — " The Paris Constitutionnel of Monday , in an article signed 'P . Dubois , ' throws off the mask on this subject ; boldly defends the system which the French Government has adopted of purchasing negroes on the coast of Africa ancl carrying tliem to compulsory service in the French Antilles ; argues that in no other manner can prosperity be restored to them ; and ridioules the opposition of the English philanthropists . From this manifestation on the part of the leading Government print of France , the deplorable inference is that Lord Clarendon's remonstrances have utterly failed . "
The Jeufosse story has been repeated . A youth of eighteen was in the habit of visiting a girl of sixteen in her bedroom at night . The father accordingly stationed his son in the room , armed with a gun ; and , on the lover appearing at the window one night , he was shot dead . The father aiid son have been arrested . " The disturbances at Appencourt between the municipal authorities and the cure of the place , " says the Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent , " have at last come to an end . It mav be recollected that the Abbe Dupont ,
who had formerly served as cure at Appencourt , having given offence to " certain of his nock , had been removed to another diocese . A short time ago he was reinstated . This so annoyed the municipal authorities that in a body they resigned their po 6 ts . Seeing this , the ecclesiastical authorities gave in . The Abbe Dupont has been once more removed . This time , however , it is to the county . gaol . The ecclesiastic is accused of ' resisting tho authorities , and menacing his superiors . ' The mayor and the municipal authorities have returned to their posts . " PORTUGAL . The epidemic in Lisbon is reported to have ceased . ITALY . Count Cattaneo was recently killed in a duel near Paris , by Captain Froidefont , of tho Guides ; and the seconds of the Count have received notico not to return to Naples , to which they belong , as , if they do , they will be punished by hard labour at tho gulloys , according to a Neapolitan law in these mutters . " A sad and mysterious incident has occurred at Turin , " says the Times correspondent of that city . " Tho well-known Count George Breinbati , of Bergamo , was coming out of a lum .-io the other evening , when ho received a blow which knocked liia hat over his eyes , and a stab in the neck , which , however , is not a severe wound ; finally ,-a blow in tho side from an iron-ahod stick , whioh has brought on bloodapitting . His assailant escaped , and made no attempt at robbery . The ¦ Count w « s bled thrice , and in the evening ho wna worse . Some arrests have been made . "
The details which continue to arrivo with respect to the lute earthquake in tho kingdom of Naples do not diminish the first vague reports of tho vast dimonaiona of tho calumity . Potonzu , tho capital ol Bnailicuta , and tho immediate neighbourhood , have bcon dreadfully shattered . The townshipo of Tito , Marsico , Nuovo , Luurenzana , « nd iBrienssa , havo been almost dor > U-oyad ; iPertosn , Ateean , and Auletta entirely . Two-thirds of Vignola liavo perished . Viggiano , Calvello , Anssi , Abrioln , Bjiri , lticigliano , Canoaa , Padula , St . Vlutvo , Suln , Dinno , fciasaano , Buprl , und other placet ? , have also suffered terribly ; and the desolation and niuory spread broadcast over a large extent of territory aue such that tho"Govornment-reporlier-iweB-tho- « xpi'OHfliyu , Jl . T : i ^ lJ < iyi falls horror-struck-from onu's hund . " Tlioro havo boon somo more alight shocks in tho city of Naples , uutl euoat ulnTm him boon i ' ult . The Government hua aont food and
other necessaries to the poor people who have bean rendered houseloHU by tho calamity ; and > U » o kill'jd and wounded ace being dug out of ithe anting . Tho , p » oolao number of those -who luwe'perished cannot yet bo ntiuortulnod ; but it anuet amount . to awonvl thousands . A strange incident oacunrotf during td « e shook axpoi'lenood An 'the oapltnfl on the l ' tHhartt . IS © aoonor < w » b * t < fu & t
than a horde etf thieves-and assassins rushed towards the Toledo , with a fview to plunder during the confusion ; but the gendarmes suppressed the attempt with -their drawn swords . The people of the city , also , soon recovered their appetite for play , and thronged / to tho lottery offices as soon as the immediate danger was over . In the height of their terror , however , they called frantically on the saints for protection ; and a report went about that the blood of St . Januarius had boiled—which seems to have been looked upon as a favourable symptom . Parkes , the English engineer confined at Salerno , hail another of his nervous attacks after the great shock . The trial of him and his fellow prisoners will not commence till towards the end of the present month—some seven months after the commission of the imputed offence .
Some interesting anoient relics have been discovered at Ostia , in the Papal dominions ; among them , a room built of alabaster and other stones , and exquisitely adorned . With respect to the English engineers , the Daily JVewj Naples correspondent says : — " There are several reports going about town which are worth recording . The lirst I received from a friend in this form : — 'A foreign minister told me yesterday that Signor Carafa , the Minister for Foreign Affairs , was showing a letter whioh be had received from Lord Clarendon , thanking him for the attention paid to the engineers . '" We trust it mny prove that so injudicious an act has not been committed .
The English papers publish some documents addressed by Acting-Consul Barbar to the Earl of Clarendon , to the effect that the Neapolitan Attorney-General exhibits a strong animus against the English prisoners , and has even told untruths with respect-to them ; that the engineers state that -all they did in connexion with the Cagliari affair was under compulsion from thr insurgents ; that our countrymen have been confined in close , filthy , and disgusting rooms during the hottest weather , fed on the worst food , handcuffed , kept for a long time from seeing their friends , and subjected to usage little short of torture ; and that their health in consequence has seriously suffered . In fact , all the worst rumours are thus officially continued .
AUSTRIA . A severe shock of earthquake was experienced at Agram , in Croatia , on the 20 th ult . The undulating motion continued at intervals for a considerable time , and the noise ( which lasted after the motion ceased ) was of a rolling , metallic character , as of a heavy carriage passing quickly over a rough pavement . M . Alertz , the officer who was in command of the fortress of Coniorn at tlie commencement of the revolution of 1848 , died at Vienna a few days ago . For some mysterious offence , of which people generally believe him innocent , he was deprived , about four years ago , of his military rank and honours , but , as a mark of great favour , was allowed a pension of three hundred floriu * . He was eighty-one when lie died .
The Emperor has directed that tho walls and fortifications of the inner city of Vienna shall be levelled , ami the dry moat filled up . Proper measures for enlarging the city are to be taken without delay . Lord Stratford de Kcdcliffo has been staying at Vienna . On Christmas Day , he and Sir Hamilton Seymour dined with the Emperor and Empress ; and our repjreaontative at Constantinople had the honour of handing the Empress into the drawing-room after dinner .
SPAIN . Tho Infanta Dona Josofa , sister of tho King , was nearly killed a short time ago , by her horses running away with her as she wus driving out . She jumped from the vehicle , fell on the road , and received several cute and bruises . Narvaez , who happened to bo walking by at tho time , stopped a gontlemau ' s carriage , and hint tho princess conveyed to the palace in it . Singularly enough , this lady is the wife of Gueil y Route , with whom Narvaez id at such deadly . enmity . The Gazette announces that on tho 25 th ult . tolegraphic stations were to bo opened to the public at Cadiz , Almeira , Leon , Ciudad Heal , and Kous , ajud . that 011 January 1 st tho international lines of telegraph , w . ero also to bo opened to tho public .
Tho army U said to bo aoriou « ly disaflcotoil , owing to a belief Unit tho now Ministry will not take advantage of tho birth of tho infant prince to curtail tho period of service by two yours— -a boon contideutly anticipated whilo Nui'vmus wus in power . Seditious placards havo beau posted , and aoino apprehension has boon foil . Lord llowdon , tho English Miuialur , 1 ms returned ti > Madrid .
TUUIUCY . An old wall , with several aruwdos of slono , which liml boon left standing after tho lato dostructivo llro lit Galutu , T oir ^ aolv ) r-ft ~ ibw-dayB-ago . ^« o . voml ~ Blu ) likooy « r ., l . ilJj ^ ouLdklitihod tliuiiiaolvod in tho arched , and uftaan pornoiM wore buried . in tho ruluu . Of thoao , only throe wore go" - out ulive . M . Boutiulofl ' , tbo liusalan Ambassador at Constantinople , » uw daolucqd , on tuinpart of hia Govennnuut , that uhe . ouoiipution by 1 U 16 JingHuw of , tl » o Aaland o ( Puwro , wlUoh took place < abaut 11 y . oar ago , iitt a viloltt . tlon of tho integrity of tho Timkitjli lunpivo . . A'badcy af TjuxUb have matloan u & taokiun about four
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 2, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02011858/page/6/
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