The Georgetown news., 1855-12-20
The News by the Sonora.

proportion of whom are women and ~h5
dren H'''
There is nothing of Importance from -.
Crimea. Gen. Simpson is recalled aas I
Gen. Codrington appointed as his succas.as
Both armies are making preparations g.
winter environments, and it is probable tL0.
no operation of Importance will be attamr.
ed by either during the coming season
There are rumors of pending negociat;o..
for peace, but nothing definite has fran.
pired.
The Prussian and United States govo,,
ments have entered into an agreement -
specting the registry of letters Forwarded
by the Prussian closed mail
Major Hammond, late Collector of s.,
Francisco, is reported to be defaulter "a
a large amount.
The official returns of the election !,
New York, give the Know Nothings n
490 plurality over the Sewardites, III.
Secretary of State, Controller, Treasures
Attorney General and State Engineer sro
Know Nothings. Neither party has ma.
jority in either branch of the Legislature
The latest returns Of the vote for Cove,
nor of Wisconsin, leave the Democratic can.
didate 1900 ahead.
| According to the Minnesota Democrat
the Legislature of that Territory will stand
as follows: Council Democrats to Re-.
publicans. House-22 Democrats, II Re.
publicans, 2 Know Nothings.
In Louisiana, the entire Democratic tick.
ct for State officers is elected, and three
Democrats and one Know Nothing to Con.
gress.
In Mississippi the Democrats have elect
ed Governor and large majority Of the
Legislature, and securing the election ofU
S. Senator.
The result in Maryland is not so one-sid3
as was supposed. The Know Notbings
have four of the six members Of Congress.
The Democratic State Convention met
at Concord and nominated the Hon. J. S.
Wells for Governor. In the resolutions
adopted squatter sovereignty was fully en-.
dorsed. President Pierce was recommend.
ed for reelection.
A terrible accident had occurred on the
Harlem Railroad, occasioned by the cars
being blown off the track in heavy gale
of wind.
Gen. Scott has refused to accept the
amount Of back pay decided to be due him
by President Pierce. He considers it too
small.
The Legislature of Missouri have agreed
to 90 into an election for its Senator onthe
26th of December.
Several persons lost their lives by re,
cent conhagration at Alexandria.
California sevens, 1870, sold in n. York
on the 10Th November, for 841I.
The New York Herald announces the
formation of gigantic telegraph company,
with ample capital, whose intention is to
purchase or lease all the old lines, or 10
build new ones from New York to all the
principal cities of the country. They have
already leased the direct lines from New
York to Halifax.
The Supreme Court of the State of Indi.
ana has decided the Prohibitory Liquor
Law of that State unconstitutional.
The reports that the fever had returned
to Norfolk and Portsmouth are entirely
without foundation.
The outrages by political ruffian8 have
been continued since our last, says the New
Orleans Delta of the goth ult., and several
citizens, guilty of nothing but expressing
their opinions, have been knocked down
Gen. Gadsden, u S. Minister to Mexico.
had been extremely i'll, and at last accounts
was unable to attend to public business.
Gen. Almonte has been superseded as
Minister to the United States from Mexico
by Don Fernando Mangino, formerly Con-
sui General at Hamburg, and Secretary Of
Legation at various European ports.
One Ofthe acts of Alvarez that had given
unqualified satisfaction, was the ca8hiering
of Gen. Woll, who is stigmatized as the
'Haynau of Mexico
Lola Montez had had a difficulty with tho
newspapers at Melbourne, Australia, about
the spider dance
-FoRGETFUL.-The ethiopian Mnstresi
arrant humhngS--in their haste 70 leave