Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-11-26

LATEST NEWS.


The steamship Atlantic arrived at New
York bringing Liverpool dates to the l1th
inst. The financial news is important and
exceedingly unfavorable. The monetary
,reyulsion here seems to have crossed the
ocean with enough of force to cause great
disaster there. The Bank of England had
advanced its rate of discount to ten per
cent, the money market having grown de-
eidedly more stringent, The house of
Dennistoun & Co., well known dealers in
american produce, had failed-liabilities
E2,000,000. The Western Bank of Scot
land had also failed with a reported deficit
amounting to .e6,000,000 A rumor pre-
vailed at Liverpool that the Bank of France
had stopped, but it was afterwards ascer-
tanned that this was not true, and that the
Bank had only advanced its rates of dis
count. The cotton and breadstuffs markets
were dull and declining. Two weeks later
news from India had been received, the
purport of which is explained by the fol-
lowing Dispatch
Delhi, which fell into our hands on the Goth
Of September entirely occupied on the
0Ist. and the whole of the enemy expelled
In the assault of the l4th, sixty-one officers
and eleven hundred and seventy eight men,
being one third OF the sterming party, were
killed and wounded. General Nicholson died
Of his wounds ON the 2lst.
The old king said he was ninety years of
sre when he surrendered to Capt. Hodgson,
about fifteen miles south of Delhi. He was
accompanied by his chief wife. Their lives |
were spared Two of his sens and grand |
son were also captured by Capt. Hodgson,
about FIVE miles from Delhi, and were shot on
the spot. Two moveable columns were de-
.patched from Delhi, on the 23d, in pursuit |
uf the enemy BY accounts frem Agra one /
column appears to have reached the neighbor-
hood Of Alyghar and the other that of Nut I
n era on the 28th of September.
NJ General Havelock, with twenty five hundred I
men. crossed the Ganges, from Cawnpore, on /
NJ she 18th Of September, and relieved Lucknow |
NJ on the 18th. juzt a. ID was ready to be blown
up by its besiegers.
On the Goth the encmy's ehtrenchments i
we're sssrued and OF the 18th large part Of
N she city was taken. Fur hundred and fifty
British were killed and wounded. Gen. Neil
4 was killed.
A slight rising Of ll.e rebels took place near
Sassick, ia the Bombay Presidency, in the
suppression of which Lieut.. Henry was kill
q ed The Madras troops defeated the mutt
s. neers Of the ffty second regiment. near KEN
81 pee, and killed one hundred and fifty Of them
HAYRE De GRAcg, Nov. 23.-The steamer
IN Juniata left here on Saturday evening with a
Hi tow Of % beats, and when off Spesatia Island
I'M encountered heavy gale of wind which broke
# the tow Loose from the steamer and scattered
@ the boats over the bay in different directions
The beat IIiawatlia. ioaded with iron, and the
boat West Branch. loaded with coal, were
SUNK. TI, steamer Lancaster went from here
# yesterday and assisted to hitch up the renaiIs-
ilg boats, and got all bat Eve, four being
blown ashore, and one anchored out of reach
Of the steamer. No lives lest.
II Burning of tie !SteamJoat Ran6op.
81 CINCINNATI, Nov. 23.-The seamboat Rain
bow burnt Saturday morning, about
Zen miles above Napoleon. Arkansas. From
atE to seventy lives reported % be h,st,
iacuding al tho officers of the buat Tue
buat, cargo, aud ali her books and papers are
i total lose. The Rainbow was fine boat, Of
4sI tons, aud Was built at New Albany, Ohio.
in 1851.
E Stores The Ohio.
tMcNSATI, Nov. 23-The steamer Repub.
TIC arrived at Louisville on Saturday, reports
HAT sl1seerG coal boats were sunk during the
storm GA Wednesday last. ia the Ohio ard
Mississippi rivers near Cairo, by which it is
eslmated that one hundred lives we're lost
The beats contained 3GG 900 bushels uf ceni
fSaaed at SsG 600, which IS n total loss
sA- Dr. uayne. the famous bigamiSt, who
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