Encouragement for the Rum Trade

The rum dealers, says the Worcester (Mass.) Transcript, have one good customer left. The Government, we perceive, has advertised for sixty thousand gallons! for the navy alone. American Republican and Baltimore Daily…

Shipwreck of Two Vessels in Torres Straits

The steamer Thistle Brings account of H.M. cutter Prince George, Lieut. Aird, being at Twofold Bay, wind bound, and coming on to Sydney after taking in a supply of water, and that the Prince George reports the total wreck of the ship Hydrabad, 694 tons, Captain Robertson, and the barque Coringa Packet, 230 tons. Captain Chilicott, in Torres Straits. The former vessel left Sydney, for Calcutta, oil the 3rd of May last with horses and tile latter on the 14th April for Ceylon with sundries. No particulars have yet been received relative to link unfortunate occurrence, further than it was stated one man belonging to the Hydrabad had been drowned and that some of the passengers and crew had remained on an island, while others had left in boats for Port Essington where, it is stated, they had arrived.

Entertainment at the Hyperion

Poster for a Herrmann the Great show.

Herrmann, the greatest of all prestidigitateurs, will be the attraction to morrow evening. He has for several years been giving an exhibition of necromancy that is as fascinating as it is baffling. He announces this season a most wonderful exhibition, including a number of startling illusions and sensations. One of these is his latest and greatest effort called “Yako-yo,” the great Chinese immigration mystery. Sale of seats now open.

A Thrilling Ascent

Miss Mary Way took her celestial way from the Place d'Armes, last evening, in the air-ship "Paul Morphy," attended, as usual, by her gallant cavalier, Prof. Wilson. Prof. Wilbur and…