Georgetown weekly news., 1854-12-28
Arrival of the Uncle Sam.

Latest News from the Atlantic States.
We condense the following news gathered
from papers furnished us by our accommo
dating Express companies:
Myron HI. Clark is elected Governor o
New Y ork.
The Grand Jury of New York have in
dicted persons for publishing libels against
j. w. Barker, the Know Nothing candi
date for Mayor of New York, on the day
before election; and ex-RecOrder Talmadge
has commenced kbel suits against the 1ri-
bune and Courier for libels published in the
course of the campaign.
The New York Herald says that Marcy
is to go to England as Minister, and Cush-
ing to be made Secretary of State.
IMPORTANT TREATY.-A convention be-
tween the United States and the Kingdom
of Bavaria, for the mutual extradition of
fugitives from justice in certain cases, was
duly ratified on the 1st Nov, at London,
and has just been made public by proclama-
tion by the President.
ANOTHER SPECK OF WAR-The n. Y.
Herald learns from Genoa, that our Minister
to Sardinia, Mr.. Daniels, has been expelled
from club of gentlemen of Turin, in con-
sequence of his having written certain let
ter, in which he said all manner of hard
things about the governments and people of
Europe. Will the Administration show
fight?
No appointment has yet been made to
the Governorship of Utah.
The mammoth clipper, Great Republic,
was soon to sail for San Francisco.
Judge Norris of the Supreme Court,
New Y York. has allowed the writ of error in
the case of DIR. Graham, on application of
his counsel, and the sentence Of the law is
deferred until January. Meantime Doctor
Graham remains in the City Prison.
NATIONAL CONVENTION OF Know NorH-
INGs.-The Know Nothings held Nation
al Convention last week in Cincinnati, at
which Senator Clayton and other politi-
clans, seeking new arrangements, attended.
Beyond thereported adoption of anew con-
stitution, and new signals, the proceedings
were not divulged.
Attorney General Cushing has given an
opinion adverse to the legal qualifications
Of United States Consuls residing abroad
to solemnize matrimony, which practice has
prevailed at German ports, where emigrants
on the eve of departure for America have
been married by wholesale, so as to avoid
the expense Or prohibitions of their own
laws
CtO1 Thomas IT Pon+o, o,,,;ro1 =; q,
Louis on the 18th, and was we'll received
He had been rendered dinner in Lafayette,
Illinois, but had declined.
The Hudson and Berkshire Railroad has
been sold for $l50,000, by the New York
State Comptroller.
THEATRE IN New ORLEANS BURNr.-On
the 2lst, the Varieties Theatre, owned or
leased by Mr. Placide, was bu1nt-loss,
$4,000. Mr.. Placide hada narrow escape
for his life. TTz.T .41r-
The Atlantic correspondent of the Times
and Transcript says that the Journal of
Commerce shows by figures, that the strength
on the repeal of the Nebraska law, in the
U. S. Senate, will be only 13 for it to 80
against it; and that in both Houses, espe-
cially in the Senate, the Democrats will
maintain a majority; and even should a re-
peal be passed that President Pierce would
veto it. 1t thinks that long before any
practical attempt can be made at repeal
Nebraska will be admitted into the Uuion
as free State.
MEx1co.-It is said that Tampico had
hoisted the flag of rebellion.
Gen. Yanez, the executiOner of Count
Raousset Boulbon, had refused to obey the
commands of Santa Ana at Guadalajara. =
Mr.. Macrae, Consul to Paris, had sailed.
He had acted as special bearer of dispatches
for the Congress at Ostend, and of the letter
of Mr.. Buchanan in regard to Cuba. Heis
on his way to Europe, with answers to those
dispatches