At the new’ blacksmith shop, Washington j
Navy Yard, they are putting up a new steam
hammer composed of a solid block of iron
weighing 16,000 lbs. The tied in which
this is to lie placed, weighs 10,000 —making
the weight of the hammer w hen completed,
26,000 pounds.
’The Boston Journal says that the money
panic in England is re-acting with two fold
violence on the British West India colonies.
Ihe correspondent of the Commercial
Advertiser says it is certain that the cabi
net have the intention of recalling General
Scott, and appointing Gen. Taylor com
mander-in-chief.
The largest number of convicts in the
Ohio prison during the past year was 498;
the smallest number 445—average 461.
The Commissioner of Pensions represents |
the business of his department so much ac- ;
cumulated, that eleven or twelve additional
clerks are necessary to bring up the business
of the year.
The monetary world continues to be
agitated from day to day, by rumors con
nected with the operations of the Govern
ment.
Mr. Daniel Cummings, an engineer on
the Taunton Railroad, was accidentally kill
ed a few days since.
A serious revolt took place on board the
barque A\ inthrop, on Wednesday last, in
New York bay. Before it was quelled,
the second mate fired a pistol amongst the
mutineers, and broke the ann of one of them.
The wreck of the U. S. Revenue Cutter
(Wawford, ashore near London, has been
sold at auction for s9l.
Letters from Washington mention rumors
of a probable duel between Col. Benton and
Gen. Kearney.
