MATTERS AND THINGS IN GENERAL.
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REVENUE OF w-YonK.- The New York Advertiser says :-"The amount of duties accuring from importations into this City fer the year 1884, Is asceftained to be ten millions one hundred and eighty four thousand dollars

 The packet ship Britannia. Capt. Waite, which arrived last week at New York from Liverpool, Is said to have brought the largest cargo of any packet since lhe line was established. II appears by the nani- fest, that she had on board 1895 cases and bales, 200 tons of iron and steel, Szc. Invoice cost of cargo, $497 7,ooo: one case et geld S5e,9eo. iaiue, on fist cost of cargo, $547,o00.

 ! lie number off American whale ships at sea on the 30th of January, ult was 257, comprising an aggregate of about 100000 tons. and manned by about 5000 seamen. There were in port at the same date, l6 whale ships, making total of 273. The number of sperm whale ships which may be expected to arrive within the present year is estimated al TO, and their cargoes at l35,000 bbls. oil, valued at more than three million dollars.

 Information had reached England through Russia, of the death of Teeth Ali Scah, the King of Persia. In the present cir camstances, of the East, this death may be of some importance, and Mr. Henry Ellis has been appointed on an Extraordi- nary Mission to Persia, to congratulate the new King on his accession.

 Bank of Kentucky learn from the Louisville Advertiser that the Board of Directors of the Bank of Kentucky, has iocaied the branches of that institution The Charter provides that one branch shall De located at Frankfort tie others are ike at Lexington, Maysville, Greensburg, Hop- kinsvlle and Bowling Green.

 .4 change Q fpositioa.-Eye have received the first number of the Washington Sun, Whiehs as warmly tn favor of Judge White, IS it was under its former name (the N orth American,) friendly to Mr. Van Buren. Ls orapeGu jtanc floats from ihe tunets of several independent States, which will not surrender to the Albany Regency.- Siar.

 .iiore Iadiap Murders. IA letter from the neighborhood of Yellow Banks, Ill.,, to the editors states, that n body of Ninneba- goes and Menominees, had killed, few days previous, six Fox Indians, somewhere in the vicinity of Fort Armstrong, Rock Island; the Foxes having previously killed some of both these nations, as noticed some time since.

 

 CoM. DowNEs has beon appointed to the command of the Navy Yard at Charles town, near Boston, to sneeeed Cow. EL- LOTT, appointed 10 command the Consti- tution lrigate.

 The House of Delegates of Maryland have passed bill providing for loan of two millions of dollars to the Chesapeake and 'Ohie Cana., and eGe ;.l;!iau ;o the Stisquehanna Rail Road Great joy ,sas manifested by the citizens of Baltimore upon the occasion.

 The plague has broken out with great violence at Bagdad.

 Harana.--It appears that the rev Gov ernor of Havana (Gen. Miguel Tacon) Is effecting a great and beneficial change in that heretofore corrupt place. Robbers, pirates, gamblers and yagrants of every des- cription, are apprehended and sent to labor on the public works, or compelled to fly the city. An efficient police and watch is or ganized, with power to check every species of disorder. Many other improvements, resulting from wisdom and energy, are ta- king place.

 The Philadelphia Herald says:-Mas- sachusetts, Virginia, and Sonth Carolina, are almost the only States where shining abilities are considered recommendation for public trusts--the result is seen in our national councils, and ill the halls of our national Legislature.

 From the .4lbanu Dolly .AdDertiser.

 Lawrence the maniac, says he called on MT. Van Buren and toid k,m he intended 10 murder Gst,erol JackSoni

 Did Mr. Van Buren communicate this fact to the Generall If Lawrence is not insane, as the Jackson papers would have Us believe, let them explain why MT. Van l Buren did not inform the General of this l threat!

 Can the Globe tell Us any thing about 1t! or is 1t a matter of such little importance that no inquiry has been made as to the truth or the faIsehoodz of what Lawrence saId. Did Mir. Van Buren consider Law renee as lunatic not deserving of noticel U. s. Tel.