The Shasta courier., 1855-09-08
ARRIVAL OF THE
JOHN L. EPHEN S.
Two Weeks Later from the Atlantic
States and Europe.
Election News, &c.

aAS~AOn AvCWS, ~.
The P. Nj steamer John L. Stephens arrived at
San Francisco the morning of the lst inst.
bringing sixteen days later news.
The P0~fc Express Co. were first on hand
with files of Atlantic papers.
Hirlys, Fargo 8. Co. were also on hand with
Atlantic papers of the latest da;rs.
The following is compendiu m of the lates
news.
Political.
The New York Herald gives the following
as the substance of the late political news:
The returns of the election in North Carolina
and Tennessee. figure up anything but satstac-
rorily for the Know No,hings. In Tennessee.
even. the Result is regarded as doubiful. How
ever, as we have received no dispatches from
South and West later than on Saturday noon
owing to arrangement Of The telegraphs
-somrthing may yet iurn up. Al present, the
aspect, in Know Nothing poiat of view, is quite
dlscuuraglng.
Additional returns of he election in North
Carolina lead TO The belief that the Congression-
al delegation will stand four Democrats 10 two
Americans.
By our special tli<pn,,,l from Washington it
will be seen that there aix still in New York
politicians lingering in that ely. a.i that Pres
Ton King arrived there on Saturday. 1t is
stared that of their ideas present is to patch
up truce between the Hards and the Snfts, so
as 10 carry the State this fall. Ihe movement
is said to he approved by Gen. Pierce, who
thinks thereby To improve his chances for the
succession in sc.
The new Naval Board. which has been in ses
sion at Washington for several weeks has made
report to the Secretary of the Navy. and
taken recess until further instructions are re-
ceived from the head of the department.
John L. Dawson, of Pennsylvania, has been
appointed by the President Governor of Kansas,
III place of Governor Reeder, removed. Thns
the petition of the members of the Kansas Legis-
laure has been granted. Mr.. d. was member
of the last Congress, voted for the Nebraska
Kansas bill. and is strongly in favor of giving
homesteads TO actual settlers.
We learn, by our special dispatch from Wash
inston, that the removal of Goyerhor Reeder
has caused considerable excitement in that city.
it is reported that MIR. Dawson will not accept,
and that a Southern man will be appointed
Governor Of Kansas.
The New Jersey Know Nothing State Council
commenced its sessions at Trent II, Wednesday.
lst ut. and resplutio.is were adopted protesting
against The twelfth section of the Philadelphia
platform and against the repeal of the Missouri
compromise.
Cy he news from The Plains. il will be seen
that the Sionx Indians were sill warlike aud
were awaiting the arrival of troops about forty
miles above Fort Laramie. The Mormons had
discovered gold and large quantities of silver in
the vicinity of Sweet Water river, and were in
dns,riousy engaged in working the location.
Gold has also been discovered on Medicine Bow
river, to the southwest Of Fort laramie.
1t is proposed in New England to enrol
three thousand ciirgymen life members of The
Kansas EmisrHnt Aid Society. bv paying $50
each This will make fund of $50 OOC, which
it is proposed to eApend i'll settling Kansas with
III IL and women from New England.
The Pennsylvania papers are filled with ac-
counts Of terrific rain storms. floods dams carried
away. barns struck by lightning. horses and
cattle killed, &c. In one township four b,rns
one girls, mill and dwelling house, were either
injured or totally destroyed by lightning The
old keystone seems to be sort of modern Sod
ON on its last legs. They must be sinful peo
pie to be thus afflicted.
We publish some items from the New York
Herald of 'he 9Th niimo, complied from various
sources which will tend to show to what ex
tent the crops have suffered by recent wet
weather There appears to be doubt that in
New York State. and also in Michigan WIscou-
sin. and a portion of Pennsy lvania. the wheat
which has been cut and put up in stacks in the
fields has suffered to great extent from sprouf-
ing. while that which has not yet received the
cradle is comparatively uninjured; but the latter
bears no proportion in amount to the former. 1t
is consoling to know however that three-fourihs
of the crop Of the entire country was nnder
shelter before the wet season commenced In
the South and West, embracing the States of
Virginia, Ohio. Alabama. Illinois, Indiana. Iowa.
Kentucky. Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee,
the wheat crop, the largest ever known. was
gathered under the most favorable circumstan-
ces. and is now safe from the malign influence
of showers and moisture. Corn is yet saie
even in this section, while from The South we
learn that the crop was never In more prom
ising condition.
DR. John C. Calhoun, third son of the late
Hon. John C. Calhoun, died of consumption at
Winnsboro', S. c., on the 3lst of July.
The defalcatien of Tuckerman, late Treasn
rer of the Eastern (Massachusettsl railroad, is
found to amount TO the sum OF $24o'3oo.