The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-03

County, sIarteu 10 seize nlu Mr. r., hearing
of their approach, escaped into Laurel county,
and, by travelling late in the night, reached a
place of safety; from whence, by travelling on
Monday night, he reached home on Tuesday
morning. The mob had expressed determine
ton to follow him there, and he was preparing
to arm himself. They hunted him all Sunday
night, and till ten o'clock on Monday; but, be-
ing on the wrong track, were unable to find
him. Rev. j. M. Mellain, graduate of ODER
lin, who has been preaching in that vicinity,
has had his life threatened if he did not leave
the region.
The mob are mostly poor whites, who own
no slaves, but are excited by liquor and en-
couraged by two or three shareholders. This
Is In poor section of the State, and not more
than one in forty of the men have any interest
in slaves.
For some reason, Mr.. G. NJ. Clay has svowed
his want of sympathy with the position Mr.. Fee
has assumed, and has said he could not support
him in it. This has probably had its effect
upon the mob Cincinnati Gazette.
Lawrence (Kansas) correspondent of the
st. Louis Democrat says that the sheriff of
Douglas county lately applied to the camp of
the U. 5. troops there for military aid to arrest
certain citizens of Lawrence, but was refused,
being told to attempt to arrest them without
assistance, and then, if resisted, the dragons
would be furnished him. But he did not fol-
low the advice, and has not been to Lawrence
since. The Democrats correspondent supposes
that all arrests in Lawrence will be postponed
until after the Grasshopper-F Falls Walker.D Dem
ocratc- Free-State Convention, and he assigns
as reason, that any attempt Of this kind in
Lawrence would knock the Walker element in
the Free State party into a very cooked hat
too cooked, in fact, to appear at Grasshopper
Falls"
The election for State officers in Maine
Gomez off in about fortnight; and the brisk
series OF county conventions and the lists of
speakers appointments give some appearance
OF lively campaign. But we Judge that there
Is too much one-sided anticipation felt as to the
result to make much of contest. The Repub
licans are perfectly sure that they shall not only
retain their supremacy in the State; but shall
have their this years Administration endorsed
by a majority as respectable as they could
wish. 1t Is but just to the Democrats to say
that most of them, also, are possessing their
minds IN patience for the same result.-B0Ston
Journal.
The yellow fever is said to be prevailing very
seriously in Havana. Some three hundred of
the officers and crew of the Sanish line-of. bat.
tie ship Isabel Segunda are understood to have
fallen victims to it. Nevertheless, the Spanish
Government is at this season sending out more
soldiers there, as if to be victims to the pesti
lence. The Mexican Consul died on the 18th
instant, of yellow fever.
The st. Paul Minnesotan tells us that, in the
Democratic branch of the Constitutional Con.
ventlon, on the 18th, resolution was adopted
lnstructlng the representatives of that body in
the conference committee to see if both bodies
could not agree to submit the two Constitutions,
instead OF one, to popular vote, so that the
people might choose between them. This has
been the idea of the Democrats from the be.
ginning, as, according to their figuring, they
had majority upon the popular vote.
The stock business of New York city is aptly
illustrated by communication in the New
York Express, which states, that during the
last eightyfour days the brokers in that mar
ket have sold $685. shares of the Reading
railroad stock, the amount ($l7,96l,750) be-
ing but 81 ,20l.40 less than the entire cost of
the work, whereas it is we'll known that but
very small number of shares are held or for
sale there at any time. The whole business is
fictitious, and is nothing more or less than
gambling, and gambling, too, of the very worst
description. The shares at the stock board are
merely counters.
The peach crop is said to be in many quar-
tiers failure, and indeed the same assertion is
made respecting the whole crop, but some of
the papers of South Jersey deny it, and say
that all such reports are started by interested
persons, who wish to command high prices for
their fruit. Great quantities of peaches and
tomatoes are daily poured into Philadelphia
from the neighboring State, and much also
goes thence to New York city.
How riot may grow ont of very little diff
hculty, was shown recently in St. Louis Mo-,
where the wife of grocer, named Marley,
having beaten child of neighbor named
Daley, the latter mustered his friends, and
Marley his, so that a score of persons had
great fight, with bricks, stones, clubs, &c, end.
ing in Daley being murderously wounded and
picked up for dead.
Petitions are in circulation in Frederick, and
other counties in Virginia, asking the Legisla.
ture to confer on the county courts power to
sell free negroes where they refuse to pay their
just debts, or neglect to provide for their fami-
lies.
If the precedent is once established in Vir-
ginia, of selling men who neglect to pay their
just debts, we know many white men there who |
may well begin to shake in their shoes.-Cin.
cinnati Gazette.
The Broad Tree Tunnel Git is known to our
readers,) forty miles from Wheeling, on the |
Baltimore and Ohio railroad, has been closed |
for some four or FIVE weeks past by the fall of
large quantities of earth while the roof was be-
ing arched. On Saturday night last, however, |
the tunnel was entirely cleared; and since that |
time, we are told that two hundred and twenty |
cars of freight have been carried through, by |
which the back loading of the road of all kinds |
is reported as fully in motion to destination.
The editor of the Greenville Patriot speaks |
of having seen an open ball of cotton, grown |
on the plantation of DR.. 7. G. Croft, in New.
berry district, being the first seen this season |
in the upper part of the State. In the Chester |
district, the corn crop is very promising, and
some Chinese sugar cane has been grown there, |
from which excellent strip has been made. |
Specimens have also been produced in the |
York district.
Foreign immigration to the United States is |
again very large. From the official report of
the New York Superintendent Of Emigration, |
we learn that during the current year, up to the
26th of August, there have arrived at the port |
of New York l22,888 foreign immigrants, |
against total of 88,085 to the parallel date |
last year. This is an increase Of fifty per cent |
Mr.. Henry O'Reilly announces that, in COM
pany with John j. Speed, John Butterfield, and
others, he is about to push forward the great
enterprise of connecting our Atlantic with our
Pacific territory by means of the magnetic tel
egraph. We are heartily glad to hear it, and
trust that these efforts will be seasonably crown.
ed with success.
Dispatches are said to have been received at
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