The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17

uance Of the present organization may serve
to mislead the Public, and so give them a
chance to reorganize with more secrecy.
Telegraphic dispatches inform us that on the
Sd inst, the cholera, in most malignant form,
broke out at Westport, Missouri, causing thir.
teen deaths in twenty -four hours. Among the
victims were the wife and daughter of DR.. J.
o. Boggs. The disease had also appeared at
Kansas city, Missouri, and the inhabitants, it is
stated, were leaving in every direction. We
suppose Kansas city, Kansas is here meant,
though we do not wonder that this mistake
should be made Mr.. ,Atchison and his friends
have made like error. We incline to the opin-
ion, however, that the cries of Indians"
cholera" "lynching," &C., are vociferated in
good part for the purpose of lettering the Free.
men of the North from going to that region of
country. We would not that such persons
should be wantonly exposed to danger of any
kind, but we would have them always remem.
Der the character and craftiness of their foes.
| On the 18th instant, in the Massachusetts,
House Representatives, Mr.. Hiss, the expelled
member, twice resumed his vacant seat, and
was each time removed by the sergeant-at-arms,
at the order of the House, passed nearly unan.
imously. 1t is presumed that Mr. Hiss acted by
the advice of his counsel, b. f. Butler and
Benjamin Dean, who have published an address
denouncing the expulsion of Mr.. Hiss as an ar
bitrary exercise of power, and intimating that
the House feared important developments to
be made in the case.
We regret to learn that destructive fire oe.
CURED at Springfield, Illinois, on the 18th in
slant, consuming the best business portion of
the city, including the State House Square.
Nine splendid stores were destroyed, and the
loss is estimated at Sl5O,OOO, mostly covered by
insurance.
| The Republican of the 18th has advices of
the arrival of the Mackinaw express at Kansas
City, from the Rocky Mountains, reporting the
snow as being three feet six inches deep.
The Indians, it is said had been very trouble
some, and were determined to take white scalps.
But we do not believe these reports. There is a
motive in circulating them.
The ship Climax has been lost in the harbor oil
Callao, with cargo of guano. She belonged
to Messrs. Howes & Cromwell, of Boston, and
was insured for $50, 900 on the ship, and $4,000
on the freight of guano, in various companies Of
this city.
The Provincial Council of the Roman Cath
Ollie Church, in connection with the Archiepis
copal See of Cincinnati, commenced its session
at the Cathedral in that city on the 18th.
The "Sag NIGHTS !" secret convention assem-
bled at Columbus, Ohio, on the 9th instant
adopted the Democratic State ticket, with the
exception of the candidates for Governor, At
torney General, and Auditor.
The Presbyterian General Assembly New
SchooD is to meet at ST. Louis, Missouri, this
day. The opening sermon will be preached by
the Rev. DR.. Skinner, of New York, the Mode
rator of the last Assembly.
The jury in the case of James G. Barnard,
charged in the United States Circuit Court,
Philadelphia, with engaging in the slave trade
and piracy in the brig Gray Eagle, have return
ed verdict of "not guilty"
Professor Woodbury., of Massachusetts,, has
greatly stimulated the musical fervor of the
people of Washington city, during their recent
musical convention.
| The Honesdale, Pennsylvania, charter cleo
ton has resulted in the success of the entire
Know Nothing ticket.
The Judges of the United States Court of
Claims appointed Hon. Samuel H. Huntington,
of Connecticut, to the clerkship of the Court.
Garesche's drying and grinding powder mills,
near Wilmington, Delaware, blew up at ii
o'clock, On the 18th instant. No one was hurt
General Anthony Lamb, highly-esteemed
citizen of New York, died on the 18th instant,
aged 81.
Martin Eastwood has been convicted, at
Rochester, of the murder of Edward Prereton, in
January last.
John S. Harris, Esq, long prominent poll
tician of Providence, r. l., was killed recently
in Cranston, by being struck by the locomotive
of the Hartford railroad.
James A. Ashbridge, a ship broker of New
Orleans, has failed, with liabilities amounting
to $4,000.
MISSISSIPPI PoLITICs.-Sixty gentlemen of
the Democratic party in the county of Lauder
dale, Mississippi have published a card an
nouncing their withdrawal from the Know
Nothing organization. NJ. A. McKinnon, the
President Of the Know Nothing Council at Ok
ford, Mississippi, also publishes a card announc
ing his withdrawal, and giving history of the
origin, progress, and plans of the Order in that
county.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT. - President Hitchcock
and wife, of Amherst, Massachusetts, in COM
ing out of the American Hotel in that place,
walked off platform, and fell some eight or
ten feet to the ground Mrs. H. had two ribs
fractured, her head badly hurt, and her person
otherwise seriously bruised. Her husband was
also much injured, but had no bones broken.
The Washington Union says that Governor
Reeder is not in Washington for the purpose Of
invoking the action of the General Government,
but simply preparatory to his return to the
Territory, which he proposes making his future
home. The Union proceeds to praise the Gov
ernor as a firm and conservative Democrat,
siding with neither party in relation to the ex-
listing excitement in Kansas.
We learn from Macon, Georgia, the news of
the death of the Hon. Walter L. Colquitt,
prominent State Rights Democrat, who former.
" represented Georgia in the House of Repre-
sentatives and the Senate at Washington. he
died on the 7th instant.
The new gold mines on the Arkansas river
are located near the foot of the Washington