General Intelligence
Grcat Riot and Fire at Cantón, China.- By liiearnval at New York on the 1 üh, of the ship Delhi, from China, the New York Journal , of Commerce receivctl Cantón papers to DeI cember 13. The only iinporttmt uews by this arrivul is an account of a great riot imd fire at Cantón, on tie 7lli. The Chinese mob conimenced a fuViouá u'tack upon the foreign faclories, set them on ñre, and a great nuniber of tliem, with their contents, were entirely destroyed. Largo sums of money m thc treasuries of Ihese fucloried feil into the hands oflhe nuters. Al] cÃlbrt.-s to quell ihc riot or disperse the mob were ÃnefféciuaÃ, umi! the rioters had become satiated wiih rupine nnd plunder, whèh they quietly wilhdrew. The destruction of properly is incalculable. Tlio day tifler the disturbance two of the rioters were exrcuted in the pubhc square. A nmnber more had been capta red and were to share the sanie fate.- Detroit sldvcrliser. J"ew Wgroes.- The New Orleans papers, twelve or twentv days airo, gave an account of the unusual phenomennn ola snow storm in the Zar South. They eaid that the astonishment of tlic "uatiig negroes, fresh from Jij nca and Cuba," was very gretif, and the capers they cut on the occasion wore extraordinary. Hw carne those young nerroes from Jlfrka and Cvbal ia nolthe slave trade declared pinicy? Do not our orators on evëry Fourth of July, piaster the n-ition with praise, for tiiat magnaninious tariÃFon foretgn production, and consequent protection {o home manufacture? How, then, cnme thof?e young negroes into our Southern States, "fresh from Ãfrica?" Virginia shodd look into ihis matrer, It is an unjustifiable intererence with her monopoly of the trade.-?. S. Standard. The JYulmcg Tree flourishes n Singapore, near the equator, lt is raised from the nut in nuiseries, where it rema na till the fifih ear, when it puts forth its blossom and slews its sex. It is then set out permancnlly. The trees are planted thirty feet apart, Ãn diamond onïer; a male tree in the centre. Thoy are cultivated chiefly by Europeans. There is no nutmeg season. Every day of the ycar shows buds, blossoms, and fruit, in every stage of growlh lo maturity. The nutmeg a a large and beautiful tree, with tliick foliogeand of a rich and deep green color. The ripe ruit is singularly brilliant. The shell is glossy black, and the mace it exposes when it bursts, is bright scarlet; making it one of the most beautiful producÃs of the vegetable world. Solitary Imprisomnent. - It is demonstrated by a vast unmber of facts, snys the Boslon Mercantile Journnl, that this Punishmeut, as practiced in the prisona on theplanofthe Pliiladelpliia penitentiary, is of a ehnracter Iruly j terrible - and jus'ice nnd humanity exehum ngainst its use, except a a isubstïtntè for the gallows. The Lipectors of the Rhode Island State Pnson, conducted on this plan, in their last nnnual report, state lliat of the S7 convicts who have been committed to that prison, s-ix lmve beenjnsape, of whom fuur now ie main in prison, one has been cured, and one disdiÃu-ged. Several otliers ot times have cxliibited slight symptoms of derangement.
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