MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 6, 28 November 1862, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Free Negroes attacked by a Mob. — A mob ?aid to consist of Irish Ivad attacked a tobacco manufactory, in Brooklyn, in which negroes were employed The\ approached ihe place screaming like infuriated <lemons, and rryingoui, "Kill the d — n Naygurs,*' ''Burn tlie Naygt>rs,"and other elegant parts of speech. .The factory was surrounded, and bombar.led with stones and brickbats, and almost every pane of glass in the building was broken, when the in mates retreated to 'lie upper stosey. The nejiiws kept the excited mob al bay for neatly an hour/ on- the st invay, and iought with • de-pera-ion. until finally one of thenr was seized and dragged outride, wliere the mob went at him in hi hod hound fashion, and would have carried ou; their threat 10 kill him, had not the crowd been so great that only a f*w of their blows rpnulipd the victim. A' this junciur<>, a police force- armed, and tiirt iifgro who had been so < badly- beaten was forced liack into the building for protec on. But this was not Accomplished un il die police used their clubs freely. Ihe u.ob had fired the whole lower part of the factory and seeing the police inter feie foT- the- protection- «»f the inmates, their leader, a. man named Patrick Keenan, the keejur of a low grocery iii Columbia street, an*! candidate for .alderman in the Sixth Ward, gave direci ions' to fire the builoin^.' A pot of t^r was -upset in. the lower sioiey. a quantity, of wood-w-ts placed o»er v, and fire was applied. It commenced to burn briskly; and but for the superhuman exertions of the polire. the building would have been burned and the lives of the employes, who had crowded in o the' upper stoiw; must have been sacrificed. \V hile rh : e' police were engaged in extinguishing the lire, the stones- an* l bricks tluoAii l»y the mob, to use the words of one of the atficers, *' rained upon them in shower>," and s» ver.il of the force weie severly injuied. The police finally extinguished the fire, /ind after awhile dispersed the crowd, which,. -at one tiine, numbered several thousand persons. The Kmpeuou at a Sbi.D.ijEiOs Ball — The Kmpt-ror, accomp liied by several peisons attached t<>the Imperial household, readied the camp .it. Vi«*hy urperceived, and sat dowfi on a bench'" in the crow), sinokiiig a cigarette. He w:is recognised, however, bef -ie danninsr begun, and bailed with repeated cries of"' Vive I' Empcreur'f" After looking at the dancer* f'»r somenme. his M«j-' s ty, who wns a -conxpanied bv I'ririre Aiim.t, N! Barrot. the Ambassador at Mariiid, ant other "entlemen^ e^nhaned a tew words with tho<e around him. and then rose to take pait in the dance, laving selected for his partner a anting workwoman, of Cu.sset.- a neighbouring village. It would be impossible to describe the effect produced by this proceeding on all )>;esent. The cheers and cries of " Vive I' Empcrour!" were quite frantic. Anion» the persons who witnessed this ctiHous scen-i was General W , an intima'e friend of the Kin* of Prussia. Th'e'ieneral was astounded, and could h'ariljy be■ieve his eyes He v.'ill, doubtless, be at>le • o draw from thi<; incident some valuable counsel for King William. .When the •lance was over the Emperor, after saying a few kinil words to his partner, went towards tlie refreshment room, and then quietly left the camp. At fen o'clock, when I was quietly strolling h mie. smoka ciaar, a middle a^ed peasant fisked me to allow him to light his p'pe. then eivinj; me a friendly tap on the shoulder, as if to thank nu>, exclaimed, " Did yoii see how he danced with Marie Boilon?" l)n you k—ow her?' 1 "To be sure: she is my niece.' "JShe must be much pleased." " 1 believe you; >he and her family will remember it lor 30f) years. Look you, Cnaifes X. was king of the nobiliiy, Louis Philippe of the middlo-cbisses, but Napoleon i> the Kmpeior of'the pcAsanis. ' In t-liese thiee words my inteilocut»r had j»iVeh me the history of half a centurj. — Frewh paper. Colonel CATTAbENR. — The Timts oorreppondont gives the following account of the recent bank robbery at tifen^a, am) the arrest of the alleged robber, Colonel Cattabene. one of Garibaldi's tmstv knights : — " There is one more soriowful epi-ode in ihis (?arihaldian affair, which I must put down in wilting, and then 1 shall have done. The telegraph informed yon of a famous bank robbery perpetrated in Ml da\ -light at the B-ink of Pato-if, at Genoa, *rom which th? sum of BCK) O'.lOf was car ried away by might of arms. One of the persons arrested, as supposed to bo impli-ca-ed in that daring deed, i* Colonel Caitahene, one of the bravest officers in Garibaldi's statf Cattabenc, a native of I'esarn-, belonging to ft decent family, is Cyvefe 1 with honorable wounds received in battle at Vlelo/zo and Catazze. Theie is no n{ in more impetuously and liemiraUy daring in the field. But he is said to be a'ways h»rd up for money, being desperately addicted to ganihiinjr, a habit he hid in common uith iSuIIo. an! othej Garibaldians. Thut bis lediibe 1 fot tunes miy havejdiiven him to so cri i'.al attempt is what many are still l«>th o believe, and there are also some who surn.i>e *h*'< if he really had a hand in Uint alfait, his o' ject was not to fill his own po< kef. I ut o -procure means for the intended .G:irihal.dinn enteipme, an.d.in one word, do e>«l tjiat goii^inay dome oV iti. lie must! riotor a'>i««e his "iriiili^ and the proceedings .are c irried on-y^tfa it he utmost setiecy." It is eri fatly to be hoped baths? may e.tear hinHtlf of so foul an . imptitatior; Meanwhire a vu-

inoHir" tnat^eirfier ' -he,"^or big *3Tellpwpmott^w;««re*YreJSted wiih harshness^ has (>een f>flic!aHy contradicted upon his own (Cu£tiibeneV) good evidence.. The day on which' so brave a. patriot might bo declared innocent would be a happy dnie for" Italy." A Canard.— We find the foHowing'paragraph in"a ; French newspaper, youclwd foi by two names, Chavette and Calino ;— •' The' Emperor of Austria recently met a soldier,.in lull uniform, with ; one ■ arm.. nnd^ac.o^ted him thus : — * Where did you lose, .your arm!' 'At Solferino, Sire,' Mis Mnjesty at once detachpil a decorotion from his coat and placed it himself on the hreast of the man. Such a sudden and unexpected recompense overwhelmed the poor fellow; as may be imagined, who, trembling, exclaimed, 'Ah, Site! this areat decoration f«»r the los* o^hut an arm in your Majesu's service ! If I bad lost two '■■■■,' He was pi-oneeding, perhnps, to sav that the decoration would have been t.v£o l.otjnHful, when the Emperor remarked, with a SLiile, '* JF yptt had lost both, I would haye made you an officer.'" In.ao instant the soldier drew hi* sword nnd cut off his remaining arm." This is just a dish weil seas ned to the taste of the French revlers of the journal v. v e allude to as benefited by this anecdote of Messrs .Chavette and Calino, and, doubtless, the anecdote drew a large amount of subscribers' tears. Less inipressionnblf, and a lit Me" more mathematical, we of tha British pr^ss wonld .simply ask how the man could perform the feat of- drawing Itis sa!>re with his remaining arm, andcuttinsr offthat remaining arm with that remaining sabre. — t'ourt Journal. ' Naval Prize Monet. — Among the moneys distributed during the financial year 1861-2 have V.pen £14,571, a portion of booty captured at Canton in 1837; £12,444 out of the Parliaments y erant of thirty, days .additional jpny to tho naral force employed on the China station in 1856-8 and £G3O balance of tho Parliamentary vote of t he officers and crew of Mie Fox for services in tho Arctic reuious hot ween Juno 3857 and September '59. There still remains undistributed above £"17000 for slave and tonnage bounty, £'6:968 for salvage ferviees rendered by her Majesty's ships, 4Gfi,-9H6 bounty for destruction of pirates, and £7.fi57 of tho grant for special services on the China station. The Art oi?" Getting up a Public Compant. — T.hejjettinjj up of companies has become an art. Ij is said, and wiih much apparent proba* bility, that there are men who make a living by it. A curious example has recently beßn supp'ied of tliis branch of industry, in a series of letters lately published, respecting the projected " Bunk of Queensland." Mr. Mackay, the eminent shipowner, was invited to become a director, and his inteivst in .the colony inclined him to t:ike o fa. vorable view of the proposal. But he found that the hew company wns to bo saddled with the payment of £K>,ooo to a .(retain gentleman, under the name of ;' formation money," and, upon his de. murrinjr to such an engagement, he vas told that out of this sum a d-oucer would probably be paid to. each director, :a,nd a much larger one to the I slmrebroker. Mr. Mackay therefore repudiated the I wlv >le affair in a letter which he at onco made public. We need not recapitulate tho correspondence. We gather from it that the proposed bargain was not known to all the gentlemen who had consented to become directors ; but we al>o peiveive that the existence of such an understanding is not explicitly denied. The Viee-chairm in of the Board, who made the communication to Mr.Mackay, has ■ resigned his. post. The publicity given to the affair has indused the projci3 tor to make, a. very large .reduction in his first demand for formation money. We conceive that the curse taken by Mr. Mackoy will have ddrie good sewice, to the public, - if, a,s he suggests, it induces directors. to. take some trouble in sifting the cost of hi\' fhing their projects: and thereby tends io diß-coiir-'sge im practicable'' sc'horbes, which in his own words, "come to -grief '■ every, dny, and bring innocent. people along .with them.."— Dispatch. New, CttiMfxAi Act. — A new Criminal A<t lina been iss.ued for the trial, ofcer.tain cases of homicide by persons subject to "tlie Muti'iy Act. Tlie object of tne A'cfc is 'to b'S-ifiV'jSe'Fsons' charged with murder or tnanslrtiighrfer to : trial without waiting For Ihe as-iizes. 1 " It'.is coriiiidered expedient, and that it would con! rrbute to the more speedy punishment of persons guilty, and- to the maintenance of goofl ordef;. and, military discipline, if when eliarged^wHh murder or manslaughter committed in England, Wales, and out of the jurisdiction of the Central"' Criminal Courf>, such persons wpre rendered liable tob> indicted and tried at the Central Criminal Court, and if, when charged with murder or manslaughter committed ■in Ireland, and elsewhere than in Dublin, such persons were rendered li iblc to be indicted and tried in Dublin. Bv virtue of thu Act a judge can order a removal «ns eta'ed. and the proceedings 'are to be carried on in the same manner as in ordinary cases.. .With the view ot preventing a prisoner being injured by the removal, the expenses of his witnesses may he ordered, and facilities given for his defence. A prisoner may be femovrcd to and from the Central Criminal Court as often as npcos'sarv. - The. Act has immediate operation. KcCLKSfASTTtAL TtHANNP IN SPAIN.— The fishermen at Ti<jo bad been detained on the Coast for some days by a terrific storm which had deprived them of the means of providing fi>r their starving fntnilip*. A gleam of culm sunshine shone forth on Siindnv week list. They attended high mass in a body, and then put forth to sea, and returned with ample store of fish The authorities seized not. onlv the fish. but. the fishermen, on landing, by order of the clergy, who forbid fishing on Sundays. The fishermen have petitioned O'Donne.ll, who will le!l them that thev ate amenable to higher authorities Mian himself. — Daily Neios Paris Correspondent. Sensitive "Drapers' Assistants. — The Paris tribunals have dealt with an aIU-ged libel on what nre railed " f>raper > s assistants. " apropos of a pamphlet entitled, " ASa-t lex Calicots .'" found pefsotmlly offen ire by t^is class of soft goods' shopmen. The squib was a plea in favor of women's attendance on lady customers, and simply embodied what is generally thought of masculin'e employment behind silk and toilette counters. N'o individual plaintiff having substantiated a loss or wrong, it was ruled t-hat in their collective capacity these persons c tild not sue as a corporation or guild, and were thus put out of court. — Paris Correspondent of G-lnhe.