The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-04-01

San Francisco resulted in the election
of the Vigilance Committee candidate.
The Supreme Court of California has
decided that the Legislature has
no authority to appropriate money for
the payment of interest on the State
debt, and That the Court will enjoin
against levying a tax for that pur-
pose.
The Senate had passed a resolution
that the State honor required the pay
ment of the State debt. a resolution
submitting the proposition to the peo-
pie, was lost.
Mr.. Bates, late State Treasurer, iu-
dicted for felony, trial commenced the
day the steamer left. The deficit in his
accounts is $4,000.
Estelle, keeper of the State Prison,
was reI orted by the Legislative Com
mittee unworthy of his Office, for various
gross misdemeanors.
G. +. Waldron, book keeper of Wells,
Fargo s. Co., had been arrested for en-
bczzling $4,000. Advices from Oregon
and the Sandwich Islands unimportant.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-Tho cor
respondent of the daily Times say Walk
er leaves this city tomorrow for the
North, he will be in New York to-mor-
row night. He has accepted the post Of
Gov. of Kansas. He is entrusted with
plenipotentiary powers to the full extent
that can be bestowed under the constI-
tuition, and will b e compelled to wait no
Instructions from Washington in case Of
emergency. -.
The correspondence Of the Herald
saws the new Governor for Kansas had
an interview with the Cabinet and noti-
fed the President that he accepted the
appointment, but would not be able tie
leave for Kansas before May. First he
suggested that the Secretary whom he
had selected. Fred. p. Stanton, Of Tenn,
who 1 understand has accepted the Pc
sitiou, might assume the Governorship
until he arrived.
Orders have been issued from the War
department countermanding JEFF, Davis.
instruction for the removal of troops.
Peace in the territory will be preserved
bv the strong arm if necessary, and ev-
cry man protected in his right to vote
FOR or against any new constitution that
NAV be offered. No form of Govern
ment which does not command a clear
majority of the popular vote will meet
with confidence from the administra-
ton.
It is arranged that Edmund Burks of
n. II. is to be editor of the Union.
Correspondence from Washington of
Courier and Enquirer, says: Exon
gresham Denever of Cal, has been ap-
pointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Comptroller Whittlesey's resignation
takes effect Immediately on the settle
ment of Cormick and Rendall's Pacific
Coast Route Claim for $4,000, O00.
Ex-Secretary Marcy has prepared a
memorial in answer to the r-eclanations
of the British and French Governments
for the Greytown b~ombardment.
WASHINGTON, March 28.-Walkor
this morning had a long interview with
&c, t'emen from Kansas, concerning af-
fairs in that Territory, wishing to &C
quaint himself with all particulars pre-
urinary to proceeding there.
CHICAGO, March 28.-A gravel train
with a load of laborers from La Sale,
on Thursday, going southwark after
crossing the bridge, the embankment
which lad been undermined by heavy
rains, gave way, and the whole train
was precipitatcd % feet below. -Four
persons were killed and eight seriously
wounded,
New YoRK, March 2S.-Tbe Wash
ington correspondent of the Commercial
Advertiser, says: Mr.. Buchanan has
personally urged Robt. j. Walker to
accept the Governor Of Kansas, not as a
routine official but as a high Commits
s%iouer, to restore order in Kansas and
prevent a civil war. Gen. Persifer 4.
Smith, who is here, thinks that Mr.,
Walker would do that in thirty days.
Mr.. Walker has listened to the rep
reservations and promises of the Admin
istration, and will accept the Office with
a view to enhance his reputation, and al
he same time, probably, 20 lay the Al
min~istration under immense obligations
to him. lie will not remain there after
BIO shall have effected the high object Of
bis mission, ard his Secretary, whom he
is to choose, will remain as Governor.
He is not only to go out will full pow
ers, bat will dictate his own instruc.
tons.
Gov. Geary declared his intention OF
leaving Washington tomorrow morning;
on learning which, Mr.. Buchanan de.
sirel his address,, IS there might be
some future occasion f,r his services
It is understood that Geary's intention.
after a brief residence in Westmoreland
county, is to revisit Washington. He
will not, under any circumstances, ac-
cept a re-'p2ointment, after the Office
has been offered to another man, al
though he might have done so, had it
been offered to him first, with the same
absolute powers with which it is propos-
ed to clothe Mr.. Walker.
The Washington Star, Of last evening,
says Walker has accepted. OF this fact
We have no longer'a doubt. W. have
also every reason to believe that the
post of Territorial Secretary of State
has been rendered to Hon. I. p. Stan
ton, of Tenn.
CINCINNATI, March 27.--The steam
ship South America and Eva Clair came
iato collision night tofore last, twenty
miles below St, Louis, by which the
latter was cut down and sunk in twenty
feet of water. Probably a total loss.
The steamer Oglesby ran into the
steamer Grapeshot yesterday, a mile