Butte record., 1857-01-17
From the California Express-Extra
ARRIVAL OF THE
GOLDEN GATE.
Congressional

Geary, from Kansas, recapitulatiDg his ex.
ploits in the Territory. He says peace has
been restored regardless of expense, and he
expects Congress to settle the bill
Gov. Shannon and Judge Lecompte came
in for smart castigation for their short
comings, in the House, on Tuesday.
Mr.. Wilson introduced bill proposing &c
abolish the Laws of the Kansas Legislature
relating to slavery, and q resolution wa.
adopted calling for copies of the letters oi
Col Sumner with regard to Kansas afairs.
Mr.. Brown gave notice of = bill providing
for railroad aud telegraph line 10 the Pa.
cino.
The bill granting further time to the cred
itors of Texas to present their claims, was
then taken up, ami debated until the ad
foarnment.
In the House, Mr.. Whitfield introduced a
bill to ascertain the AMOUNT required to in
demnify citizens of Kansas fer losses OF prop
erty during the late troubles in the Terrific
ry; also establishing two additional Land
Districts, and District Court at heaven
worth City.
The consideration cf the bill reducing the
duties en- imports was postponed until the
first Tuesday in January.
The CiTig, Array, and Indian approprie-
ton bills we're reported and referred
The debate on the Presidents message was
then continued antil the adjournment,
On Wednesday, 18th December, Mr.. We'll
Ter stated that he should call up the Pacific
Railroad bill after the holidays
The treaty between Great Britain and the
United States, relative to Central America.
was communicated by the President, for the
Information Of members only.
In the House the squabbling among the
politicians upon the Presidents message con-
tinued. Mr. Walker, of Alabama, strongly
animadyerted upon the course of the Gov
ernment towards Gen Walker, whom he eu-
logized in the highest terms.
The memorial of Mr.. Collins, asking for
the discontiuuance of his line of mail steam
ers and the purchase by Government of his
ships, was presented and referred to the Post
Office committee.
1t is reported that the request will be COM
piled with, and that Com. Vanderbilt will be
awarded the contract.
A Washington telegraph dispatch states
that bill providing tor the extinguishment
of the possessory right of the Hudson Bay
and Puget Sound Company, IN the U. S has
been matured. A quarter of million of
dollars will be required to effect this object.
new French spoliation bill is in course
of preparation, and its friends are confident
that it will pass, even over the President 5
veto.
On Thursday, Mr. 0tero presented a peti
ton from citizens residing on the Gadsden
Purchase, praying for the organization of a
Territory of Ariz1ns. Referred tc Terrific
rial Committee.
Municipal Elections.
BosToN, Dec 8
Hon. A. II. Rice was to-day elected Mayor
of Boston, by about 6,400 majority.
New YoRK, Dec IS.
Among the appointments confirmed by the
Senate on Wednesday, were those of James
o Harrison and VIM. Spencer, respectively
as Chief Justice and Marshal of Kansas, in
place of Lecompte and DorelsOn.
The U. S. receiving ship Union, at Phila
delphia, was cut through by the ice yester-
day and sunk The stores, ammunition, &c.
were saved. She was an old vessel. and for
many years had been unfit for service.
Dispatches to the New York press state
that a general insurrection of the negroes
was contemplated all over the Southern
States, but that in every instance it had been
frustrated. Quite a number had been ar
rested Nineteen negroes had been hung in
Tennessee, for being accomplices in the con
spiracy.
NEwBURYPoRT, Dec. s.
Our municipal election was warmly con-
tested. and more votes were cast than ut the
Presidential election. VIM. Cushing, the
present Mayor, was re elected-receiving
100 votes against Si3 for D. E. Pike.
H. J Raymond, of the New York Times.
was challenged to fight duel lately by Tho.
+. Meagher, for language used towards the
latter in the Times. Matters were subse-
quently amcably settled, by withdrawal OF
language used
The n. 0 Picayune announces that an
agreement has been entered into by the Te-
huantepec Company and party of contract
ors resident in Ohio and New York, for the
transportation of passengers, mails and
freight over the road now in course of con-
struction across the Isthmus, the carriages
and wagons to be ready at the eastern termi-
nus Of the Tehuant epec road on or before
the 9th Of February next.
VIM. Walker, the Deputy Warden of the
Massachusetts, States Prison, was stabbed by
convict named McGee, on leaving the chap
ell on Monday. and died in a few minutes.
On the 18th the President sent to the Sem
ate, for ratification, Mr.. Dallas new treaty
with Great Britain. on the Central Ameri-
can question
The only news we have from San Jose is
the following from the Panama Star, by tele..
graph from Aspinwaii, which says: The
steamer Thomas arrived here to-day--no til
dings of Walker have been received at San
Juan for some days before her departure. -
Walker had appropriated the steamers on
the lake and river to his own use. Scott
had quarrelled with him and stopped run
ming on the river. The fleet was beginning
TO leave. All were soon to 60
The account of an affair in Granada,
when % Americans were surrounded in a
church, is similar TO our last advices. The
Costa Rican Journal says on the 1st of De.
cember 200 men remained hemmed in the
ruins of the church of Guadalupe, in Gra-
NADIA, who fought with desperation, and
we're without water, and had to subsist on
their horses. They obstinately refused quar-
ter, though offered TO them by Gen Belleiso.
Europe.
The steamer City of Baltimore arrived in
the Delaware river on Dec. 18th. She brings
Liverpool dates to the 81 December, four
days later than those previously received
The news i. unimportant.
There had been an inSurrection in tn,
Province of Palermo on the I'D November
Troops had been sent against the insurrect
ionists. but the result had not transpired.
The difficulty between Prussia and Switz
erland appears to be widening.
Prussia, on one side, has suspended com
munieation with the Swiss Government, anC
the Federal Council on the other have neg
iected the suggestion of Napolean for the re
lease of the Neufchatel prisoners.
There is nothing of Importance from SpsiI
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