Washington telegraph., 1855-05-16
NEWS ITEMS.
Louis NAPOLEON, it is said, has made
large investments in California.

The Massachusetts Senate has passed
resolution, with but one dissenting vote, that
no foreigner shall be eligible to Office.
JOSEPH B. SPEAR late clerk in the Bos-
ton post-ofice. has been found guilty of alb
stracting money from letters.
Col. WIN. H. SNEED has been nominated
by the Know -Nothings for Congress in the
Knoxville district, Tenn.
During the last three months, 4,645 pas
sengers arrived at San Francisco. against
I1,760 in the same period of 1854.
A Chicago paper mentions rumor that
either Gen. Shields OF Mr.. Breckenridge
will soon be appointed Governor of Mime
sofa. vice German removed.
The House of Representatives of the
Pennsylvania Legislature has passed resolu-
tons in favor of removing the capital to Phil
adelphia.
The District Court of Cincinnati has
granted writ of error in the case of Arri-
son. the torpedo man, and suspended his
sentence.
Maine law meetings are being constantly
held throughout England. Scotland and
Wales Some reform in the customs of the
people is much needed.
ANOTHER DEFAuLTER.--JAcoB RICH
ARDsoN, Collector of Customs at Oswego.
New York, is a defaulter to the tune of
100000!
THE Federal Council of Switzerland has
given assurance to Mr. FAY, our Minister
resident, that no more convicts shall be
shipped from that country to this
A RUSSIAN dispatch from Warsaw states
that an army of 10000 men is corentra-
ting in the Baltic provinces, aud that 800
guns are already afoat
LEWIS S. NOBLE, soldier of the reyolu-
ton and a trooper in MARIoN's legion, died
on the 10Th ult.. in Clinch CO., GA, at
the advanced age of log years.
THE Illinois Central Railroad Company
have received the contract for carrying the
river mail between Cairo and New Orleans
The compensation is SlS0,000 per annum.
SINCE the first of January last there has
been shipped from San Francisco. by steam
ers, seven millions, six hundred and thir-
teen thousand, six hundred and two dollars
4 MAN named MUIR, said to be worth
100000, was recently sentenced to the
Penitentiary for two years from Ripley CO.,
Indiana, for forging note for twenty FIVE
dollars.
THE LIoUoR DEALERS of New York are
combining to resist the new prohbito-y Ii
quor law. A meeting was recently held, at
which $4,000 were subscribed to carry on
the war.
Seventeen years have elapsed since the
first Atlantic steamer arrived at New York
The first boat was the Sireus, and her arri-
val was followed but few hours afterwards
! by The Great Western.
Mr. FABENs, late Consul to Greytown
and who was indicted in New York for be-
| ing concerned in the KINNEY expedition to
| Central America, was arrested in Washing
ton city. on the I'd inst. and taken to New
York for trial.
The great anxiety with both armies in the
Crimea, is the dread of an epidemic burst
ing out in consequence of the putrid ema
nations the heat will generate from the
plain and the ravines, where SO many dead
bodies and the careasses of horses are now
lying.
At an Anti Slavery Convention recently
held at Cincinnati GEORGE W. JULIAN, o.
Indiana. presided The Rev. Miss AN.
ToINETTE L. Brown, and w. WELLS
Brown, a Massachusetts negro 0ere among
the speakers.
The Liverpool Times has an article ex.
pressing the hope that, if a war between
Spain and the United States, arises out of
Cuba, England will not take sides with eli
ther. 1t says that such is the universal SEN
timent of England-even of the arstocracy
and that its sympathies. in such a contest
would be with the United States.
The New York Times says: "The num-
ber of emigrants to this country seems like.
ly to be as large if not larger, the present
as on any previous summer. We under.
stand from reliable authority, that ninety
six ships. all of which will bring more or
less cmigrant passengers, have cleared al
different European ports for this city,
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RESOURCES OF RUssIA.-It appears from
an elaborate article in the New York Con-