Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-09-23
SUMMARY OF HEWS.


the expected Walker expedition to be pratt
treated accordingly.
The Citizens Bank of Linead Collard and /
Hughes, suspended on the lith.
special dispatch to the n. Y. Tribune from |
Washington City says the Commissioners of
the Land and Patent offices had conference |
with the Secretary of the Interior, a few days !
since, at which it was decided to dismiss all |
clerks suspected of being tainted with Know
Nothingism or Repubicansm. The heads of
these unfortunates are to fall on the 30th inst
Three clerks were dismissed from the Treasury
Department on Saturday; Is more are to die
on the Both, and four heads of bureaus perish |
on the same day.
Advices by the Persia from Europe state
that, eleven more British regiments are under
orders for India. The Paris ':Pays" denies
the reported occupation of the Island of For
mosa by the United States. The Court of AS
sizes of Paris have condemned Ledru R ollin,
Mazzini, and others, to Deportation. The
Spanish papers deny the existence of secret
treaty between the United States and Mexico.
The King of Prussia's health causes uneasi-
ness. 1t is stated that diplomatic relations
with Naples will shortly be resumed by France
and England. The Russian troops are concen-
trating on the Austrian frontier to prevent the
interference OF the latter with the affairs OF the
Principalties. Adyices from ConStantinoplc
state that the Porte still firmly insists that
England shall evacuatc the Isle of Perrin and
restore it to Turkey.
.Tho 1dy from TaxrS Ind
Hemphll and Governor Pease candidates for
| the U. S. Senate in place of Rusk deceased.
| The Mobile Register states that $4,000
have been raised in Georgia to aid General
| Walker in descent upon Nicaragua.
| The Revolution in the Island of St. Domingo
| is still progressing, and the revoutionists seem
| to be making headway against Baez and the
! government. 1t is reported that Baez had to
leave st. Domingo, and that the provisional
government were occupied selecting a compe-
tent chief
The election in Washington Territory result
| ted in the selection Of 30 Democrats and Re-
| pUblicans as Representatives.
| Mr.. Curtis resignation as Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the United States,
has been accepted.
The Pacific overland mail contract was sign
ed at y. York on the 10Th, by MesSrs j ohm But
terficld, William B. Dinsmore, Vim. G. Fargo,
and others, and Mr.. Dundas, on behalf of the
government. The contract runs six years, at
S600,000 per annum, and goes into effect one
year from date. The contractors contemplate
forming joint stock company.
The President has signed the proclamation,
IL
acres of public lands in California, and upward
of $50, 900 acres inMissouri and in the unlocat-
ed tracts in the Sioux Half-breed Reservation
on Lake Pepin, Minnesota. The sales in CAL
iforna will take place in May and in Missouri
and Minnesota in March next.
The Administration is determined to enforce
the neutrality laws, and on the 18th took the
initiatory steps for that purpose. In addition
to information having been received of the
fitting out of three several expeditions, viz : at
New York, New Orleans, aud Mobile, for the
re-invasion of Nicaragua, under the leadership
of General Walker, intelligence from an Of
fetal quarter has come to hand of another ex-
pediton, having its centre in, if not nearly al
together confined to Texas, for the invasion OF
Mexico, and it is supposed being designed for
, the seizure of the State of TanaulipaS. Gen.
Houston is, by the reports received, mplicat-
ed as the leader of this expedition. The form
of instructions was prepared by Executive au-
f thority, and copies were despatched on the
10Th to the various United States Marshals and
f District Attorneys on the seaboard as well as
! the officers of the army and navy, to use all
, lawful means at their command, to prevent
such expeditions leaving the United States for
' the hostile invasion of any country with which
we are at peace. In other words enjoining
t them to strictly enforce the neutrality laws
At present no Presidential proclamation will
2 be issued.
I During the latter part of the week ending or
the 18th, and the beginning of the past week
e there were heavy gales on the Atlantic Ocean
f and several vessels were lost. Among them
. were the Norfolk, the John Parker, and the
? Central America. No lives were lost on the
S first named two; but 500 persons, out of about
600, on board the latter, are among the miss
n ing, tho it is said that all the females and
o children were saved.
i The Mutiny in India is the absorbing topic
n of the English press. The mail by the Baltic
d reports no new events, but brings a mass of in.
d teresting details. AS late as July 18th tho
4 EOglsh had not taken Delhi. Cholera had ap
> peared in the camp, and it was feared the siege
y must be raised before reinforcements could "a
: rive. An officer writes that a force of only
. two thousand active men could be raised, which
: leaves an inference of the ravage of sickness
+; among a force originally seven Thousand