The Shasta courier., 1853-10-22
ARRIVAL OF THE CoRrEs.

last Saturday evening, in 12 days from San Juan
She brings 500 passengers We ere indebted t,
Rhodes & Lusk and Adams & Co. for all of the
Atlantic papers.
we take the following resume of the most in.
teresting news from the Commercial Advertiser
The Washington news received by the eastern
mails OF yesterday is of comparatively slight im-
portance-
The s,weties of Mr. Collier have paid over
Siio-Sos on account OF his Indebtedness 10 gov
ernment.
The China EMISSION is still in dispute. "A
Californian" is talked of, but no person named.
Such selection would be sectional in the risLt
way-
Our teiegraphic advioes announce the apnear.
ance OF yellow fever in PHILADELPHIA. Three
deaths had occurred
Railroad accidents as usual One has lately
oscafTed on the road between Syracuse and Ro-
chester.
The captain and crew of the brig RoSoqyif, of
Boston, owned by Capt A. B. Fisher OF this
esy, were killed by the 1atives at Kings Mill
Islands, Dec. 1851, and the ship itself burned by
the murderers
The Crystal Palace does not paw
zen. DIX, IN published letter, has taken
southern ground on the Compromises
Vermont and Maine elections give no choice
lor governors OF those States.
The delegates to the Whig Convention in
rniiaoeiPhla who We're proved to have taken
bribes, were rejected.
Senator Shields is sick in Illinois.
Rumors OF British seizures on the fishery
grounds are revived as usual, but not aulhenti-
Gated.
Gen. Pillow and Mr.. Gushing have made war
speeches in Washington in favor of general an
nexation
California appointments are as follows: To q
Naval Pursership, William &. Marcy; Naval
Agency at San Francisco, Richard p Ashe; Ma
val Storekeeper at same, j. c. McKibben; Sac
ramento Collectorship, Charles c. Sackett
species OF cholera, attended with fever of a
malignant type, is desolating the Island of Gu
ba.
A great fire has occurred in Augusta. Maine,
destroying siA mills and manufactures, and
throwing out of employment five hundred op.
eratives. The loss is estimated at 5000, 700.
Fifteen millions has been subscribed for the
Pacific Railroad Company organized in New
York Robert j. Walker represents, for various
parties the amount of $4,000, 900.
The Grand Lodge of the Order of Odd Eel
lows OF the United States met at Philadelphia,
Sept 5th, III Independence {iaN. y'he meeting
was large and harmonious w. G. De Saussure,
of South Carolina, was chosen Grand Sire for
the coming year
Robert J. Walkers resignation of the China
Mission has been accepted.
Col. Forney's projected democratic daily pa
per in New York hangs FIRE. The Times denies
tde absurd charge that overtures Of sale were
made osa the part Of the proprietors to Col. For
ney.
The Washington Union, in anticipation ol
Forney's paper, has read the New York Nation
al Democrat out of the party.
The weekly exhibits Of the New York Banks
show increasing strength, and the financial con-
dltlon OF the country is considered TO be improv-
ing.
The Democratic Convention met Sept 18th,
and, amid great confusion, nonlinated two dis
tnct tickets for State officers. The softs were
aided by powerful body of shoulder strikers
from New York, and had the advantage of the
hards throughout the conventions. James 7.
Brady, of New York. is on the Hard ticket for
Attorney General.
A heavy forgery has come to light in Wall
street The individual implicated, Mr.. ]. G..
Forsyth, left for Europe before he could be ar
rested. His standing has heretofore been good.
The amount OF his forgeries is aboat Sl59 ,O0o.
at Fitchburgh, Sept 18th. Henry Wilson was
nominated for Governor. Horace Mann, who
is to remove to Ohio, was spoken of as the fu-
ture Governor of the State.
Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, has been ac-
quilted by the Court of all fraudulent designs
in his fnanciering operations.
The cholera has re-appeared at Cumberland
Md % deaths occurred i'll ole day.
The demand for breadstetfs In England keeps
up the price OF grain and -four in the American
market at last quotations. Large speculations
going Oh in the interior, further rise being
looked for.