The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-10-07
Teiegraphic News.

! New YORK, OCT 1.-The steamer New
York from Glasgow, on The eve Of the l9th
ult., arrived this mornin a.. Shsreports hsv.
ing passed the Persia on The I'd, City Of Bal.
timore on t6A g, and Ariel on the 4th. tn
New York bEings 10 news.
4 Gen. Reed did before Delhi
/ Lord Elgin's mission to Calcutta, it was
understood, had reference to the loans fol
the Indian troops to China.
Another mutiny in one Of the native regi-
i ments Of Bombay had been suppressed.
/ Great fears had been felt for the Indigo
districts.
The merchants of Calcutta had sent a
I strong petition to the Queen to take the
command Of the Indian Empire into the
hands of the British Government.
Gen. Darks, who commanded in the recent
engagement at Lucknow, was killed.
4 The Bremen bark Laura, from Bremen,
arrived here this morning. She reports thai
It half past 2 O'Clock, on the 2Sth nlt., she
spoke the British brig Mary, Of Grenoch
| from Cardenas for Queenstown, and tool
from her j. Tice, I'd engineer, Alex. Graht
/ fireman, and Geo. Dawson, passenger,
whom the brig had rescued from thswreck
OF the Central America. Mr.. Tics makes
the following statement
sFrom the time Of the wreck, drifted "
hours on plank. succeeded in getting a
boat on the 4th morning after the wreck, and
on the 5th picked up Alex. Grant, who had
been drifting S days on part of the hurri-
cane deck, from which he swan to my boat.
We pulled for the hurricane deck and res
cued G. w. Dawson. Twelve men had once
been on that part Of the wreck. The Sd en-
gineer Geo. Budlington,) Jno. Bank, and
Patrick Card, coal passers; Mr.. Ives, fire.
man, and five coal psssers, whose names are
not known, died there. Dawson, Grant and
myself, were without food for eight days,
the sea all the time making breach over
us. The day after the steamer went down
We saw several of the passengers on pieces
Of the wreck but could not assist them.'
Mr.. Tice saw Capt. Herndon just before
the ship went down.
Tice, Dawson and Grant IRE sick and bad
~ bruised.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 5.--The banking house
Of Dunlevy, Drake & Co. suspended this
morning.
NEW YORK, Oct. 5.--The steamship Ca
hawba arrived this day from New Orleans,
via Havana, 30th ult. \; the latter place
business is very dull, and rates poor.
The yellow fever Was sensibly declining.
The SLAYER captured ut the east Of Carde-
mas proved 10 be the American ship Mast.
plea. II is said she had number Of slaves
on board.
The stock of sugar Mt Havana was 1885,
900 boxes. Money matters quite easy. Elk.
change on London ll{dl2 premium. New
York par. Not much doing amongst the
shipping. There was good deaf OF fever,
most OF the crews OF the American vessels
being down with it. The reduced duties on
Indian corn ceased on the Both ult. The
stock was light and prices heavy.
New YoRK, Oct. 5.--Ihe Steamship Star
Of the West arrived on Sunday morning with
$50 passengers, the California mails of Sept.
4th., and ST ,26S, 900 in specie.
The California election on the ID ult. result
ed in the election OF the entire Democratic
ticket. Miller was elected Governor by
probably $4,000 plurality. The State has
voted to pay its debt.
Columbia, Toulomna co., had been de-
stroyed BY fire. Loss 100000.
VIM. Bean had been convicted Of embeE-
cling public treasure from the branch mint,
California.
Haerasthy's defalcation from same estab.
lishment is $4,000.
Mining was being carried on successfully.
The Carson Valley people are agitating for
Territorial organization. From that quar-
ter We have m account Of the frightful mas
saere by the Indians.
From Oregon we learn that the Constitu-
tional convention met at Salem on the 18th
August.
From Washington Territory We have intel
ligence Of the murder Of Col. Ely, collector
Of the port of Townsend, by party Of In
dams. His family escaped. Eighteen In.
dians had been arrested by the inhabitants
and they would be hung.
Hon. venable, our Minister in Guatemala,
died Of cholera, on the 23d August. This
epidemic was ravaging Guatemala and San
Salvador.
The South American news, though month
later, is unimportant. The revolution in Pc
ru was without change.
NJ. @. Roberts furnishes list of the pas
sengers from the lsthmus on board the Gen.
trail America.
We omit the list, it being reported imper-
fectly.l
Ii now appears that the Central America
had 450 passengers, and 81 PIG SO in specie
when she left Aspinwal.
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