The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-12

mander OF the French squadron IN the PACING
who died ON board the ftigate La Forte" the
day before that vessel reached Callao. The fu
neral was conducted with great ceremony.
Australian dates to the 18th of January
come to hand by way of Panama, and give the
result of the at one time threatening rebellion
amongst the miners. The official investigation
into the matter showed that the leaders of the
dissatisfied miners were merely political rowdies,
who had themselves no wrongs to complain OF
OF redress, while the charges brought against the
Government officers were proved to be unbound
ed. The gold licences, however, were to be
done away with, so that the demonstration,
whatever its character, had produced the desired
result, and, until some other grievance agitates
the populace to violence, we may presume Aus
tralia will quietly submit to its colonial depend
ence.
From Chill, it is rumored that the United
States Minister at that Government is about to
return home, leaving the Secretary of Legation
to fill his place.
Mrs. Daniel Webster, who was injured by a
fall from her carriage, in New York, some days
since, is still seriously ill.
The Putnam Ohio) Citizen, of March 18th,
says that the Hon. Horace Mann, President of
Antioch College, has recently become COM
municant and preacher in the "Christain
Church." and remarks that he is an able pulpit
orator, and draws large congregations to hear
his discourses, and that the institution of which
he is President is in Furnishing condition.
The wife of Mr.. Cass, our Minister at Rome,
died suddenly in that city on the Sd of March,
The wife of Mr.. Schroeder, our Minister at Stock
holm, died recently in that city She was a
daughter of Col. Seaton, of the National Intelli-
gencer.
Connecticut has elected to Congress all four
Fusion candidates.
The bold, vigorous, and efficient, effort made
by Mayor Wood, of the city of New York, to
suppress immortality in that city, entities him to
praise and encouragement from every person in
the whole country; yet the Journal Of Com
nserce declares, and its statements are corrobo-
rated by other New York papers, that purse
of twenty thousand dollars has been raised by
the policy dealers, gamblers, and keepers of
liquor shops, and houses of bad repute, in that
city, for the purpose of procuring the passage
of such laws at Albany as will drive the present
Mayor from Office, at least fetter his power to
promote the public good by destroying their ne
farious traffic.
1t is so difficult to obtain seamen for the
United States naval service, that bounty of
from fifteen to twenty dollars is offered to those
who enlist for three years service.
An effort is in progress in the New York
Legislature either to abandon the practice of
imprisoning witnesses to await trial, or else
to cause them to be comfortably entertained
and compensated for ther time. At present, all
witnesses in important criminal cases, who can
not give ample security for their appearance
poor persons and strangers-are imprisoned in
the same prison apartments with the criminals
themselves
The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, recently took unanimous
and decided action against Anti-Slavery reso-
lutions sent in by the Conferences of Ohio and
Wisconsin, first voting that the resolutions
should not be allowed the courtesy of a read
ing, and then voting unanimously to non.con-
cur in them. The rejected resolutions prohibit
the buying of men, women and children, with
the intention to enslave them, and require the
emancipation of slaves, when it can be accom-
plished without injury to them. John Wesley
would have voted for these resolutions
1t is understood that the importers of wines
and spirits, and the dealers in these commodi-
ties, are to meet in New York, "not to petit
ton the Legislature in relation to the temper
ance law, but to consult together in relation to
the manner in which it will affect their consti-
tutional rights, and to agree upon the proper
mode of redress"
A DISASTER OR CRIME UPON THE OCEAN
The new ship James Cheston, from Baltimore for
Liverpool, which, with her cargo, was worth
$500, was fallen in with, abandoned at sea,
by the British ship Marathon, on the 28th of
February, having all the appearances of having
been pilfered by pirates, auger holes being
bored in her sides, but she otherwise sound and
in good order. The mate and six seamen of
the Marathon took her into Liverpool on the
10th of March, with perfect ease, where they
have entered claim for f25, 200, or Sl25, OO0
salvage. Captain White, his two mates, and six
of the crew, of the James Cheston, have arrived
at Wilmington, North Carolina, and seven 9th
ers at Savannah, Georgia. making sixteen in
all. They represent the ship as having sprung
a leak when two days out from the Capes at the
at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, and as be
ing leaky and in a sinking condition. The
case looks badly for them. The ship and cargo
were heavily insured. They belonged to James
Cheston & Son, and Hugh Jenkins & Co., Balti-
more.
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