The Empire County argus., 1855-09-08
Arrival of the John L. StephenS.

The Pacific Mail Steamship John L. Stephens
arrived at San Francisco on Saturday last from
Panama.
FOREIGN News. By the arrival of the steam
ships Washington and Asia, the former at New
York and the latter at Boston, we have dates from
Europe to the 18th of July eleven days later than
that last received.
The London Times, of the latest date, says
"We have great pleasure in announcing that Sir
William Molesworth is to succeed Lord John Rus
sell in the direction of the Colonial Office"
Besides the 1,5OO Germans collected near Sand
gate there are also about 1000 Swiss at Dover-so
that the Foreign Legion now muster a force of
25OO men, in very respectable state of disci-
pline.
The Turkish Loan bill passed the Commons on
Friday night by vote of 135 to 1872.
The Herald claims the small ma ority of three
virtual defeat of the government
The Times remarkng upon the same. says ave
can scarcely believe that within so short time,
the alliance with France the prospects of the war
and the very existence of Turkey should have been
saved from the most serious risk by the narrow ma
jorty of 1876 to 1872"
The Cunard steamship Arabia was at Liverpool
embarking troops for the seat of war.
The week had been entirely unproductive of any
event of moment in the Crimea or Baltc-the po-
stion of the begerents remaining precisely the
same as at last advices.
The Paris Steele says that the programmes of
fetes in celebration of Queen Victora's visit will
soon be published. The fetes begin August H.
and will last fortnight.
bill to give effect to convention between
England and the United States of America was
brought into the house of Parliament
An expedition sent i'll H. NJ steamship the Tea
zer to compel the chief Bambo Murich Sake to
fulfil the treaty entered into between him and Com
Gal, &c 4lAo
which the chief promised to pay an indemnity of
GlO3O for injury done to the British, had failed
The British had two officers killed and two seamen
besides others wounded. Of the $50 rank and file
of the West India regiment forming the expedi-
ton, II were killed, wounded and missing.
A letter from the Baltic feet announces the in
telligence that the night of the 23d and oath of
June, H. M. ship Harriet, whilst lying off Siple
Wahas, destroyed by her boats AZ Russian ships
averaging from 100 to 1900 tons each, which com
prises the whole of the Nystad shipping probably
amounting to upwards of 10000 tons
We have received file of papers from the Cape
of Good Hope to the 18th of June Every thing
was going on satisfactorily to the colony.
Jan Hannck Pratmaster of Amsterdam, who
absconded recently with Dutch securities to the
value of G8OO. was apprehended, 10th ult in Liv-
erpool soon after having changed the notes at
brokers' in that town He was taken to the Bride
well, where he contrived to hang himself in the
evening
Letters from the Sandman army in the Crimea
had been received in Turin to the 30th of June
They resemble in tone very much the correspond
ence from the English army at Varna last year
They complain of the heat, the insects, the COM
missarat and the cholera, but above all, of their
inactivity. The cholera had almost disappeared.
but still there good deal of sickness in the
camp, and it was calculated there were upwards of
1000 men in hospital when the last accounts left
Major General De Cavero had been named to the
command OF the reserve brigade, vacant by the
death of Major General Ansaldi
A letter from Alexandria, under date of July
9th says:
The Archduke Maximilian brother to the EN-
peror of Austria, arrived here yesterday from the
coast of Syria and is now visiting the Viceroy,
under the salute of guns and with military state.
Tomorrow, the Archduke, nothing daunted by the
heat, the lowness of the Nile, and the prevalence
cholera, proceeds to Cairo, and thence perhaps to
Upper Egypt. His arrival in Alexandria was pre-
ceeded by the entrance into the harbor of three
corvettes, three frigates six briggs and three steam
frigates, constituting almost the entire Austrian
navy, and the object of this visit is no doubt cacu-
lated for some political purpose.
Private letters from st. Petersburg, dated the
Ith ult. mention that Prince Gortschakoff has writ
ten to his government to say that up to the 30h of
June he had received the greater part of his rein
forcements, and that he expected the rest in the
first days of July. He is said to express the ut
most confidence in the of his efforts to de-
fend Sebastopol.
Advces from Lisbon of July state that the
Ministers intended to bring forward bill to regu-
late the conveyance of Portuguese emgrants to the
Brazils, which has become matter of urgent ne
cessty, the misery entaiied in some cases being
equal to that of the slave trade In one of the
most recent-that of the Portuguese brig Defense
ra-forty-seven deaths from hunger, thirst and bad
treatment reported out of two hundred and
eighty emigrants, during a short passage from
Oporte to Peru.
DOMESTIC News. Hon. A. H. Reader has been
removed by Gen. Pierce as Governor of Kansas
vania, has been appointed his successor. 1t is not
nor Reeders removal has produced some excite
mova the fact that he gave unsatisfactory reply
to charges concerning certain alleged transactions
The Black Warrior dispute with the United
States is definitely settled by the indemnity of
million reals.
DR.. John C. Calhoun, third son of the late Hon.
John c. Calhoun, died of consumption at Winns-
boro', s. C.
There is great excitement at Portsmouth, Va,
owing to the prevalence of yellow fever. Up to
Monday evening there had been sixty eight cases,
twenty-six of which proved fatal. In Norfolk
there had been twenty cases and four deaths. The
infected districts had been fenced ill., ana other pre-
cautions taken to prevent the spread of the con-
tagion.
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