The Placer herald., 1855-11-17
Col Fremont has appied to Gen McClel-


land, Secretary Of the Interior, for patent
to his ten square leagues of land under the
decision of the Supreme Court, in the cee-
brated Mariposa case. But an unexpected
obstacle intervenes which precludes the issue
of the patent. The Supreme Court directed
the Crcnit Court of California to enter a
decree in conformity with its opinion. That
decree was entered on the 2lst of july but
on the 23d, the Court placed on record an
appeal made by the u. S. District Attorney,
against the decree as entered, as not in con-
formity with the judgment Of the Supreme
Court and granted certificate that such ap-
peal was valid and would be entertained.
The completed record has not been received
in Washington, but affidavits Of these facts
have been forwarded to the Department, and
the Secretary declines to act until the re-
ceipts of the record, conten1ing that no final
decree has been rendered as provided by the
act of Congress relative to land claims in
California.
THE LOST CABLE--BosToN, Oct. 20.-The
company in which the Newfoundland sub
marine cable was insured, have admitted
their liability for its loss, and paid over to
the Telegraph Company the $4,000 for
which it was insured. 1t is not yet known
what will be done in reference to the cable,
| but it is the impression the Insurance Com
pany will sell their claim to it pretty low,
in which event the Telegraph Company will
purchase and endeavor to recover it,
--latest from Europe.
The latest European dates are to the 9th
of October.
The chief items in the English news are
the rise in the rate Of interest from to 3 l-2
per cent, which took place on the 4th. A
good deal of commercial uneasiness has re-
suited. Cotton down 1-sd. Breadstufls
stoady, though not so strong.
The revenue returns Of the United King
dom show an increase in the year of nearly
eight and half millions sterling, chiefly
caused by the additional income tax
The old firm of De Lisle, Janvrin d Lisle,
Merchant Bankers of London, has stopped
payment Liabilities 81, 100000 The losses
Of the house have been made in Canada.
In France, the Government has interfered
to regulate the price of butchers meat. Corn
has reached its maximum price.
The War.
The last official dispatches announce the
south side of Sebastopol to be occupied by
detachments of French and English troops
who have had distinct quarters assigned to
them.
| The Russians are concentrating their forces
in the northern forts, and were occasionally
firing upon the town, to which the Allies
replied from the two forts which remained
intact, nicholas and Quarantine and from
the ruins ofother forts. Prince GOrtschakoff,
in his report, describes the fire of the Allies
as heavy. They are reported to have estab
lished one hundred and twenty mortars with
which it was expected they would soon rem
der the north side untenable.
Preparations were making by the British
mense mines, to destroy the splendid docks,
arsenals and shipbuilding yards of Sebas-
topol, and thus uproot the place as a naval
stronghold
Prince Gortchakof on the 23d ult., re-
ported that 10000 men had been landed at
Eupatoria, and that on the Goth this force
was increased to SO, 1000 men. He has since
reported that imposing masses" of the Allied
| troops continue to threaten the left wing of
the Russian army from the valley Of Baidar,
while a force amounting to between 10000
and 10000 men threatens the right wing Of
the Russians from Eupatora
1t is uncertain, and will remain so for
some little time, which Of these threatened
attacks is the real one, but there is quite
| enough in Prince Gorchakotf's dispatches
to show that he considers himself seriously
threatened in front and on both tanks
Another significant fact is that the English
land transport corps are in full activity; that
the field batteries of the artillery are in
marching order; that large numbers Of the
| French cavalry have embarked for Eupatoria:
and by the telegraphc accounts from Wen
na) it is stated that the Allied fleets had left
| Sebastopol on some secret expedition.
1t is again asserted from Vienna that the
Russian army is retreating.
The Times correspondent writing on the
2lst, is not at all sanguine that the Russians
will be forced to abandon their position on
the approach of winter.
| Marshal Peissier reports on the lst inst.
that brilliant contest of cavalry was fought
on the 29th ult., at Koughl, five leagues
north east of Eupatoria, in which the Russian
cavalry, commanded by Gen. Korf, were de-
feated by the French cavalry, under General
d'Allonville. Six guns, twelve ammunition
wagons and a campaign forge, with all the
appurtenances, and one hundred and sixty
prisoners, of whom two were officers, were
captured, besides two hundred and fifty horses
Of the Russian Hulans. Fifty Of the Russians
were killed; among them was Col. Androwsky
OF the French, six were killed and twenty
seven wounded.
Prince GorchakofPs Dispatch.
HAMBURG, Oct. 5.-Intelligence has been
received at St. Petersburg, from Prince Cor
chakof, which brings news from the Crimea
up to the Sd inst. The Prince reports that
on the previous day the enemy made an in