Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

On the 9th, Judge Peabody, of New York
city, delivered his decision on the writ OF
habeas corpus in the case of Mrs. Cunning ham
admitting her to bail in the sum of $4,000.
BY the explosion of a portion of Russels
powder mill at Pennington, Vermont, on the
9th, two boys were killed.
On the 5th, Mr.. Samuel Davis, of Gloucester,
Massachusetts,, shot his wife dead with pistol,
after which he placed the pistol tc his own
breast, fired and killed himself. There are
many rumors as to the cause of the murder and
gether. 90 3
The Grand Jury on the 10th, found truo
bill against Mrs. Cunningham, on the charge
of producing a fictitious heir to the BurdeIl
estate.
A Mrs. Drummond has been convicted, be-
fore the Circuit Court of Shenandoah county,
Va, of stsbbing and killing deputy sheriff Of
that county, named Hutchinson, while he was
in the act of arresting her for shooting one Of
her neighbor's cows. She was sentenced to
the penitentiary for four years.
In letter dated Travcrs des Sioux, Minno-
sofa, Aug. 2s, the following important state
ment is made.-The Sissitons have succeeded
in killing the whole Of Ink -pa-du-tah's band,
except one Indian, who fed to a band of Yank-
tons, to which he was pursued by the Sissitons.
Here an engagement took place between the
Sissitons and the Yanktons. Twenty FIVE of
the former and large number of the latter
were killed.
The Hon. Henry j. Gardner was nominated
for Governor of Massachusetts,, on the 10th,
by Conventions, which met as two-the one
representing the so-called National American
party and the other the so-caled American
party of Massachusetts-but which soon prac-
tically fused into one. Gov. Gardner acccp-
ted the nomination in a characteristic speech,
in the course of which he placed himself upon
the Springfield Platform of 1855. Alexander
De Witt of Oxford was nominated for Lieu
nant-Governor, and John II. Clifford of New
Bedford for Attorney General. ~
The municipal election held at Leavenworth,
Kansas, on Monday the 5th, resulted in the e.
lection of the Free State ticket by 290 major
ity. The Constitutional Convention convened
at Leayenworth on the 9TH inst.
Dispatches to the Tribune, from Washing
ton. say the strife over the bureaucratic APP
pointments is intestine and terrific. Faulkner
protests. against the appointment of Tate OF
Virginia as Sixth Auditor, because Faulkner's
district has but six Federal officers, while
Floyd's has twenty, including Gov. McMullin.
The President calms the fury of the combat
ants by retaining Phillips, the present Andi-
tor. Sherman of Michigan is pressed for
Second Controller. Secretary Cobb urges
Hillyer of Georgia as Solicitor of the Trea-
sury, while the Secretary of the Interior backs
a Mississippian. The Administration is some
what vexed by pamphlet-defense of its Kan
sas policy, written by fiery Anti-Northern
States Rights Democrat, but attributed to the
dictation of the President.
By the arrival of the steamship Europe, at
Halifax, on Wednesday last, We have Liver
pool dates to the 29th ult. The cotton market
has been active, and all the qualities had
slightly advanced. The weather continued IA
yorable for the crops. No further intelligence
had been received from India. twas thought
that the Atlantic Telegraph cable would be
sold to Government, for a line to India.
Strong hopes are entertained by many, how
ever. that the enterprise will yet be carried
through.
Rev. James B. Finley, the pioneer Metho-
dist preacher, died at Eaton, Ohio, on the 9th,
of paralysis, aged II. He was much beloved
by the Methodist community, among whom he
has labored for nearly ffty-years
w. II. Greenman, a lawyer of Canton, Brad
ford county, Pa, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat. Mr.. Spaulding, the proprie-
tor of the hotel, on seeing the corpse, fell ina
fit and died Immediately. 49,