Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-11-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

it at the point of the bayonet.
A dispatch was sent to Gen. Scott request
ing him to take efficient measures to protect
the Custom house and Sub-treasury. The same
marines who done such terrible execution in
Washington, June 1st, have been ordered to
New York.
The President, on the 9TH, declared thatGov.
Walker and Secretary Stanton would not be
removed for rejecting the forged returns.
Thomas Holiday Hicks, the American
didate for Governor of Maryland, has been G.
lected by 6,167 majority. Fillmore carried
the State last year by s.345 majority over Bu-
chanan. The Americans have working major
tiles in both Houses of the Legislature. The
Congressional delegation elect consists of A
mericans and 3 Democrats. Last year it stood
4 Americans and 2 Democrats.
The Department has received no intelligence
of the slaughter of troops by Indians, or the
destruction of trains by Mormons. Yet it may
not be improbable. The force consists of l..
500 men, with three companies of flying artil-
lory, and are considered safe, unless resisted
in the mountain defiles. 1t is fully provision
ed for ten or eleven months.
No modification of the Tariff will be recon-
mended in the Treasury report, because, tho
its working thus far shows the eXpedency of
some changes, it has not been on trial long E.
nough to show what specific changes are need
ed. The Secretary will urge a curtalment of
all unnecessary expenditures. He will submit
his report early in the Session. unless future
developments suggest further delay.
A cotton factory, at Athens, Ga, was des-
troy ID by fire on the 11th. Loss $50, GOO.
Gen. Walker, has an agency regularly estab-
lished in Washington, which is Indirectly in
communication with the Administration, not
withstanding the Presidents diplomatic circu-
lar to our foreingn Ministers, guaranteeing alb
solute neutrality on the part of the U States.
1t is now understood that Geo. Pitt viii SUI
persede Mr.. Seaman as Superintendent of the
Public Printing, at the opening of Congress.
Pitt has taken Col. Forney's residence, and
Seaman will, it is presumed, retire with $780,
900, after five years. service upon salary OF
50, 500.
Cummings, who embezzlcd the funds of the
Bank of Upper Canada, has been sentenced TO
five years Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Samuel D. Ross, has been convicted of rob-
bing the mails on the cars between Montreal
and Toronto, and sentenced to Imprisonment
for life.
The store of Rogers & Nash, Boston, was
broken into on the 9th, and robbed of jewelry,
velvet, handkerchiefs, ribbons, &c, valued at
81 ,OOO, with which the burglars escaped.
Thirty one Irishmen left Hartford. Conn. on
their return to ireland to live, thinking their
chances better in the old country.
Near Heart Grove, H., person can stand
on an eminence, and at one view see over 30,-
GOO acres of corn, which ground, four years
ago was unbroken prairie.
Our Minister to France, Mr.. Mason, has re-
signed his post. His successor, Mr.. Slidell,
will go out to succeed him next Sprsng.
The expedition to Utah will make no hostile
movement against the Mormons this winter, as
the force is insufficient and no reinforcements
can be sent until the spring.
There is now prospect of an early recogni-
tion of the government of Nicaragua, the re-
eeption of Yrissari, and the negotiation of the
| the treaty which has already been prepared
relative to the transit route.
Walker and his men have sailed for Nicara-
qua, in Walkers fillibuster steamer, Fashion.
The party consists of about 400 men, thou
sand stand of arms, large quantity of muni-
| tions, and provisions for 5 or 4 months.
At Culpepper, Va, two newspaper offices
| and five stores were destroyed by fire on the
18th. Loss $50, ,0OO.
Five of the eight Democratic papers pub
lishedsin Oregon have come out in favor of es-
tablshing slavery in that Territory. Among
the advocates of the policy is General Lane
the Democratic delegate to Congress. The
Convention to form a Constitution chose a
pro- slavery man for President.
A fire at Brownsville, Texas, short time
since, destroyed property to the value of
500, 900, and blew up ninety-ive kegs of pow
der, killing four persons and injurng several
| others.
gentleman just from Superior, up North
| says that three weeks ago, he waded in snow
that was knee deep, between Stevens Point
and Superior.
The mountains in Giles county, Vermont
were covered with snow on the 30th ult., for
the second time this fall.
| A man named Jones, convicted at Columbus,
Ohio, of shooting Cyrus Beebe, has been SEN
| fenced to the pcnitentiary for life.
| The Goshen Bank, of Orange county, New
York, was robbed on Tuesday night a-week,
of thirty thousand dollars in bills, and all the
specie contained in its vaults
There are about 700 applicants for foreign
appointments, and but ten vacancies of that
grade to he filled.
In the Ohio Legislature the Democratic ma
jority in the Senate is Z, and in the House Is.