Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-05-11
Rejection Of the U1timatum 6u the Gear
.4ctive Preparations for War!
FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA
DEATH OF COL. WALKER.

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The Nicaragua Steamer Pacific arrived this
afternoon, at 81 O'Clock, bringing dates from
New York, to April 9Th.
Another great fire occurred in New 7 York
on the 4th of April, by.which property to the
amount of one hundred thousand dollars was
destroyed. ssf.sa,Ff
Gov. Seymour of New York has vetoed the
Temperance Law, lately passed. fqs Ii
The Wings have made clean sweep in
Connecticut They have elected nearly all
their candidates for the Senate, and about
two thirds of those for the House. Ill
A difficulty had occurred between Mr..
Breckenridge of K, and Mr.. Cutting of N.
York, members of Congress. Throug friends,
the difficulty was amicably arranged.
| 0g. BosToN, April 4th.
Further returns from the first Congression-
al district, show the election of Thos. D. FL
liot, Whig. by~about 500 majority. Mr., Ell
liot is determined opponent of the Nebras-
ka bill.
I'll a BUFFALO, April. IA 49,. !
Geo. W. Clinton and John A. Verplanck,
the unsuccessful candidates for Secretary of
State at the late election, were to-day elected
Judges of the Superior Court a
PHILADELPHIA, April H.
The Ship "Frigate Bird arrived from
Manila, reports having been fred into by a
Chinese Piratical Junk, off Pulo Foley, and
chased for ten hours, but escaped.
| WAsHINGToN.-The Senate was occupied
most of last Tuesday last in Executive ses-
sion on the Gadsden treaty, which it is be-
lieved will certainly be rejected. 53q8va
The bill for the construction of six Steam
Frigates, passed Immediately after its recep-
tion from the House. se,
Major Hobbie, Assistant Postmaster Gene
raj, died of consumption in Washington,
tuesday week. eoa96R 1852 D
The steamship "Balticn arrived at New
York on the 4th inst, bringing dates to
March 23d. The Baltic left at noon on Sat-
urday, but in consequence of the fog was
compelled to anchor in the lower bay, got
under way the next Sunday morning and
crossed the bar at Sandy Hook, at 9 A. M.
she proceeded favorably until Thursday the
9th at P. M, when at lat. 46 Q 80 minutes,
longitude AZ in a fog, she ran sudden
ly into an opening in an immense ice crack
filled with ice bergs, and owing to the fogs
was unable to find the way out until Satur-
r. 4. 1o4 A how 1re
ruin distance of over 300 miles to the South
and West between large number of ice
bergs and large patches of field ice. On Sat-
urday and Sunday, 18th, soon after getting
off the ice, encountered violent gale from
West to N. N. West, during the remainder of
the voyage, more moderate weather was ex-
perienced. The ship arrived at Liverpool on
Sunday, 10Th, at 8 A. M.
On the goth, in the House of Commons,
Mr. Kinnard put the following motion:
"In what state at the present time is the
correspondence between the U. S. and Great
Britain with reference to the arrest of Sea-
men, being British subjects on the vessels to
which they belong upon arriving at any port
in the Southern States. and being imprisoned
on account of their color, and further, in
quiring whether there would be any objec-
tion to lay the correspondence on the table
of the house." s.t,f,,
Lord John Russell, in reply, stated thai
there had been a great deal of correspon-
dence and beneficial changes had been pro-
posed in Georgia and South Carolina which
would soon be carried into effect He thought
it was better not to produce the correspon-
dence, as hopes were entertained that there
would be great improvements in the legisla-
tion of the States he had mentioned.
The Marquis of Claricade failed to elicit
from the Government its intentions with re-
spect to neutral flags in the coming war. His
endeayors to gain precise information were
attended with no better success than other
enquiries on the same subject. s-sis II
The Globe says we are enabled to state that