Squatter sovereign., 1856-08-05
News from all Quarters.

very
rious. Bricho, Morine, and the two Figaros,
leaders of the revolution, had taken four towns,
and were marching on Bolivar. They had |
seized two English schooners and put two Brit |
ish subjects to death.
V The seizure of the brig Gen. Pierce, as !
siaver, by the Portuguese brig-of- war Sierra |
de Pillar. and her condemnation by mixed |
Court at Loanda, are confirmed According to |
the evidence. the brig was owned by a company |
of Portuguese at New York, who are largely |
engaged in the slave trade.
Ecy The subscriptions in New York for the |
reiIeT of the sufferers by the inundations in |
France reached nearly $500, the most OF which
was forwarded by the Arago. 1t is thoug h4 |
that the committee will be able to send $1,000
more by the next steamer.
| %. The President has officially recognized
Fe,uinand A. Reuss as Consul of Frankfort-on-
/ the Main at S.. Louis. Chas. Criswold, of New
York, has been appointed and confirmed to be
| Consul Of the United States for the port OF
Manila, Philippine Islands.
IL A prize fight for $500 side took place
| at Horse Neck Beach, Warwick Neck, last
Saturday. 1t lasted about FIVE minutes, and
| then turned into s'miscellaneous' fight among
the friends of the parties. The pugilists be-
ionged in Boston.
| CO We are informed that the Postmaster
General has decided receiving proposals for
the transportation Of the U. S. mails for Cali
| fornia, direct from n. Orleans; Also for daily
mail to Galveston via the Opelousas Rail
Rail.
e. John Mitchell, having opposed the pass
age of the Kansas Nebraska act, is out in the
| Standard, acknowledging his error, and plant
| ing himself on the Cincinnati platform. He
goes in for Buck and Breck, with will.
i F~ From the first of January. 1856. up to
, the 2Sth uit., there have been 1906 deaths. of
which number 2617 were females. and 2749
&c a1nr
boys and 15OS girls
CO On Thursday, June 26th, the wife of
Henry Harrison Goliath, of Exeter, VT. pre-
scented her husband three fin" girls. weighing
=, together I6 pounds. The mother and infants
are all doing well.
G@ Horses, valued at $4,000, have been
stolen from Grant co.. Wisconsin in the course
of ten days. There appears TO be in western
Wisconsin, a very successful gang OF horse
thieves.
: FV The Countess Dowager Am.rfque de
Bernstoff died lately in Wesenburg, Mecklen-
burg. She was adaughter of the Hessian Cen
cral Baron de Riedesel, and was bora in Amer
lea during the war of Independence.
CO Charles Henry Wingfell, assistant
Post master at the Junction, was tried for rob-
= bing the mail in Richmond on Wednesday, and
was discharged, there was evidence to
impiicate him in the robbery.
. CO Hon. Alfred cuthbert, for many years
leading and distinguished politician. in Geor-
4 ga. and United States Senator from March,
y 1897, to March, 1S43, died at his residence in
Jasper county, on the 9th inst.
Ey Fremont has a plantation we'll stocked
: wHiI negroes. in South Carolina 1t is the
, worst form OF Slavery. when the master is an
absentee, and entrusts his negroes to over
5 seer.
!. ET Robert Burnside, native of Glasgow
Scotland, for 40 years an American citizen
} died at Shreveport, La, June 26. He was
II soldier under Gen. Jackson, at New Orleans.
IS EV At a recent Democratic barbecue il
Scout county KY, four of the speeches weIs
made by Wings who are now supporting Blu
chanan and Breckenridge with ardor.
u CO Gen. F.. c. Wilson of PENN, and G
Of NJ. r landers of n. j. two Of the most eminen
If Whg orators, engaged in the canvass on tn,
- side of the Democracy.
E55- The House, on the Sd inst, reconsiderec
a action on the bill admitting Kansas under
, the Topeka Constitution. and passed the bill by
- a vote of-yeas 101, nays 80.
5 E1Y9 The parishioners of Rev. Mr.. Wads
g worth, of Philadelphia, presented to him the
6 title deeds of the house and lot where he now
80 resides, valued at S III 900.
II 90 Hon. Ichabod Goodwin, late Whie can
diu.,e for Governor of New Hampshire, is tn,
President of the Fremont Club, Just formed il
Portsmouth.
l. eI- The Boston Chronicle predicts tha
Charles S'.mner will, upon the next meeting o
the Legislature, be reelected Senator by tn,
. unanimous vote of all parties.
~ CO. The Court of Claims expect, before th,
er.d of the Congressional session, to decide on,
I. hundred and twenty-five cases, and to have ex
y, amined two hundred.
n GV It is said that the Know Nothing Repub
lcahs have raised an electionesrieg fund O.
near So 900 900, on the strength of '1sympath,
for Kansas" They'll do to travel-they will
CO A California farmer expresses the opin
t, ion that hereafter coffee will be grown i'm tha
state both for their own consumption and 70
Ii expectation.
is G+ The French Government has rscenti,
Il made profuse declarations of friendly feelin:
towards us, and apologized ampiy-informaIly y
'i of course-for Marshal Vailiant's rudeness.
e EF On the Fourth the Free School systeu
d was for the fist time introduced in Charleston
5. c., the first free school being opened on tina
day, with unusual demonstrations.
T tunnel of 1000 feet in length is ben
bored under Bergen Hill, for the New York AM
= Erie Railroad, to be finished by November
T, 1857.
ri GV Col. Sam. Colt has just been married
- With all his revolvers, he could not defcn
l. himself against the little boy with the bow an
:. arrow.
i W Goethe, the German poet, was on tn
;" eve of emigrating to America, before the daw
of his greatness. ~
ca Texas is said to have increased in pops,
latlon, during the last ten yoars, at the rate
N about four hundred per cent.
/ c. There is no bigger fool in the wcrl
- than he who thinks himself the wisest ma
\. in it.
ee GO The Gov. of California has called upo
or the President for United States troops to sub
due the insurrection in San Francisco.
The Concordia Intellgencer, publishe
ed at idaiia, La, gives rather gloomy aceour
OF the cotton crop of that parish.
.Q Ihe report that Col. Wright had bee
nd killed in battle with the indiana in OREGON
.r not credited in Washington.
,. CO Later advices from the West India. vi
IL Bermuda. state that sugar was sali;n- - hi.