The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-09-12
FOREIGN 1T NEWS.
ARRIVAL OF TIE
A Il l. A N TIC
THREE DAYS LATER FROM ExsLAs,

THREE DAYS LATER FROM ENsiAsn
NEW YORK, Sept
The steamer Atlantic arrived oil Tie B,,,.,r !.
1 o'clock, p. M. She brings 1888 passenger -
mong whom 10 Jenny Lind, in good hesllh ~ :,
spirits On leaving Liverpool, the excitem., ~" y
see Jenny was so great, that il was with dif;sa,o
she could reach The dock. .u'y
Accounts from Schleswig represent comn,.,.
suspension OF operations in both armies. Inc -.
eral impression is, that this stiffness win no ~ !.
Of long duration. y
The Cholera Is making fearful ravsges: sim.
June 300 persons have died. S''e
At Belgium the Hoods have done great dana.
to the low lands; Tor sixty one miles be,ween ~
and Nemur the fields are completely aoaS.s ,s
and the crops destroyed, as also in other places on
the line.
A letter states that the floods are genera, =,
that Belgium must be buyer OF corn this v.,. wv
FRANCE. Paris Sunday. The speech Of IL.
President Of the lyons Banquet caused much ,,e
sensation; the general feeling, save among ~.
Leei,imis,s and Democrats, that of ssslassa .n'
| Louis Napoleon announced his de,ernina,oo ~
lemain at The head Of affairs, if public opin;au
should be in his favor, without regard 10 anv Nh
s,acles placed in his way by the trainers q n.
| Constitution.
Advices state that the wheat crops are n,n,.a
by the late rains. Prices have advanced G,,,.
ENGLANp.--The weather in Eng and and H..
land is good, the harvest promising abuna,,as
and satisfactorily. In London, prices Of wh.,,
had declined; no sales OF Indian corn a, Liy.rnoo
good four supported hrmer prices; red ahe,
was Id Cd lower.
| In London, American -four was Cd lower
| American stocks unchanged.
HAMBuRe.--A number ofpeas ants, taken IN on
suspicion Of firing at the Danish troops. h.w
been restored to liberty.
IrALY.--Tbc Pope Is in sad pcrplexity in con-
sequence OF the conviction oil six murlerer,. II
whose sentence Of decapi,n,ion he is called upon
| 10 affix his name. No execution has vet taken
place under the reign OF Plus *, owing 10 hi,
insincible reluctance 10 sign death warrant. II,
wishes the miscreants sent 10 the galleys for lis
but the government and Judges are not inclined
to give way.
MALTA.--1he cholera was declining il had
broken out al Alexandria and the Viceroy took 10
flight down the Nile.
AWFUL EXPLOSION.
CHICAGO, Sept.
Last evening, shortly sfter lighting up the city from
| the Gas Works, very serious explosion occurred il
| the Bank off. n Burch Co. The smel Of gss M
dscoverd the oice and man sent round to h,
all was right. In looking from whence II had issued
from the pipe, he placed lightsd candle crack
in the door, when violent explosion followed. The
explosion was very severe--the doors and windo@so
the bailding and the doors OF the safe blown A
| and the money scattered over the aoor. The wall Of
the building sprung-the floor in URielly's Tel.
graph Once, in the second story, was also torn md
Mr. Gilbert, the chief clerk in Bank, Was cut slightly
In the forehead, by flying board. The person uhp
attending to the pipes, had bis hair bred nua
burnt. 1t was truly wonderful from the wreck mad,
inside the Bank, that tho inmates escaped with ph
tie injury.