The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-11-05
GENERAL SUMMARY,
Thirty slaves made their escape from Cam.
bridge, Maryland, last week. This makes forty.
four who have escaped within fortnight.

four who have escaped within a fortnight
The city of Washington was on Saturday
night the scene of riot, bloodshed, and pillage
Hundreds of armed rutfians held possession OF
the streets, and fire arms we're heard in various
quarters. 1t is difficult to learn the particular
deeds of the night, or the persons by whom
they were enacted for the rufians operate in
clans, and these clans are protected and foster
ed in their organized capacity by the city cor.
poration itself.
From o'clock Sunday morning until late at
night that portion of the city north and north.
west of the Capitol was the scene of most dis.
graceful and riotous conduct. The locality Sc
lected was within a space of half dozen
squares around the new buildings erected by
the Hon. Mr.. Rice. Judge Douglas, and Vice
President Breckenridge
On the Saturday night previous, small par
ties of vagabond negroes-boys from ten years
old and upwards, and men in flash apparel,
wearing caps and illustrated vests-assembled
around different corners, and amused their
leisure BY firing pistols at treeboxes, and in
sulting persons passing. The report of fire.
arms was of constant occurrence, and, to avoid
the random Shots houses were generally closed.
These proceedings we're only preliminary to
the grand saturnalia of blackguardism which
reigned during the whole of the ensuing Sab
bath. Early in the morning, the vagabond
hordes assembled in fun force between Second,
Third, and / streets, and inaugursted the days
proceedings by impudent staring at luckless ser.
want girls, whose duties called them from the
shelter of their homes. Gentlemen and ladies
going to church were greeted with language
too obscene for repetition. When such dem.
onstrations failed to attract notice, the unwash.
ed vagabonds would dance around the persons
intended to be insulted, frequently jostlng
them from the sidewalks-States, Adm. print
The amount of specie brought from Europe,
Cubs, Mexico, and California, to New York, St.
Louie, and New Orleans, during October, is
set down at 81, 45l,1s5. The New York Her.
aid, in stating this fact, adds:
ITO this sum should be added certificates
of deposit received by the Persia to the amount
of over million of dollars, which certificates
are as good as, and in q more convenient form
than specie itself, because remittances to Eng.
land can be made BY means of them. Out of
these monthly cash receipts of seven and half
millions of dollars we have not actually sent
out of the country more than q mere trife-
say two or three hundred thousand dollars-so
that the LIST of November sees it richer BY at
least seven millions of dollars in specie than
we were on the LIST of October. This may seem
extraordinary, in view of the depression in trade,
but the fact is nevertheless 30. Though times
are hard, specie is plenty"
A few days ago, the steamboat Southern Star
was destroyed by fire at Mobile. Loss $l8, 1000;
insurance $4,000.
The 4errimac Manufacturing Company of
Lowell, Mass, have reduced the wages of their
operatives ten per cent.
Ice made on Thursday night of the thickness
Of quarter Of en- inch in the suburbs of Boston.