Washington telegraph., 1854-10-25
News EtaEils.
- The population of San Francisco is
estimated at $4,000.

iho IdZoo \4AiSH'J '" hio siys
there has been a slight frost at that place.
- The hop crop has failed in Eng
land, and foreign hops are in great demand
- The sales of cotton at New Orleans
during the week ending on the 18th inst,
amounted to 10000 bales.
- The total receipts of cotton at New
Orleans up to the 18Th instant, were 99,653
bales.
- Five ships arrived at London on
the 18th ult., from Australia, with gold to
the value of S2,99G,600.
- The Louisiana Democrat says
that the dengue, or break bone" fever is
prevailing to some extent at Alexandria, in
/ that State
| - The steamer T. X. Collins was
burnt recently on lake Erie, and twenty
three persons lost their lives by the melan-
choly accident.
- Tt is thought that .JoHN N GENN,
well-known halter in Broadway, New
York. will be the Independent candidate for
Mayor Of that city.
- The returns, as far as heard from,
indicate that Judge POLLOCK, the Wing
candidate for Governor OF Pennsylvania has
been elected by a large majority.
! - Mrs. ANN RoYAL, the well-kpown
editress of the "uuntress," at Washington,
died recently in that city, at very advanc-
ed age. May she rest in peace.
- A recent obituary notice on lady,
says in her praisc-"She was married for
twenty years, and in all that time never
once banged the door"
- Hon. DANIEL DEXTER LAComBE
has been appointed Chief Justice of Kan
sas Territory, in place of Judge Brown,
who declined the appointment.
- An excitement was created in
Shreveport a few days since, by a report
that the yellow fever had made its appear
ance. The report proved to be unfounded.
and the town. it is stated, continues healthy.
- The steamboat Malta sunk in the
lower Ohio, on the 9th inst. About twenty
persons, it is supposed, pelished. The
Malta was a regular packet between Gin
cinnali and Memphis.
- The American reform ticket has
prevailed in Cincinnati, by large majority.
In TIE Congressional Districts of the State
of Ohio, as far as heard from, six anti-Ad-
ministration candidates have been elected.
- The notes Of the bank of England
are now signed BY machinery. Twenty
clerks were formerly employed at salary
of $500 each, to sign them. 1t is thought
that tie new arrangement will effectually
prevent counterfeiting.
- BULwER, the novelist. in letter
to friend in Boston, says that he is gloomy
and unhappy. His only happiness mast
have been derived from writing, and the
decline of his powers in this line has rem
dered him miserable
- Prof MORSE is said to have diseov-
cred the skeleton Of mastadon near
Poughkeepsie, n Y and is now at work in
excavating it, 1t is spoken of as the most
perfect specimen ever yet found. The
bones are partly petriGed.
/ - 4 correspondent of the New OK
Tribune says that Mr.. BELMONT, the
American Minister at the Hague, has taken
the loan Which Russia has been for some
time trying to negotiate He acts in thc
business for bis father and uueles, the broth
ers RoTHsCHILD.
- 1t is said that the receipts from du
ties into the l. S. Treasury for the month
of September last, were one and half mil
lions of dollars less than the receipts for the
same month last year,-the decrease a
New York being about S7C0,000.
- y Richmond. Va, paper says tha
an immense amount of wheat is now in tht
different Railroad depots in that city, which
; will be ground into -four, and shippel
{ to the South American market The secre
of keeping -four sweet is said to be packing
, it while hot
- The screw steamship City of Phil.
adelpha, Captain LErTcH, on her first triI
from Liverpool to Philadelphia, was strand
ed off Cane Race. ON the 1ih nlt The ms