The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-11-26

or, that ever heard Of the electric telegraph,
was told me by the cashier of the Bank of EGG
land. You may have heard it. 1t may have
been in print; am sure it deserves to be.
Once upon time, then, on certain Saturday
night, the folks at the bank could not make the
balance come right by just one hundred pounds.
This is serious matter in that little establish
ment. L do not mean the cash, but this
mistake in the arithmetic; 70: it occasions q
world OF scrutiny. An error in the balance
has been known, am told, to keep delega-
ton of clerks from each Office at work some
times through the whole night. A hue and cry
of course was made after this one hundred
pounds, as if the old lady in Threadneedle
street would be in the Gazette for want of it.
Luckily, on the Sunday morning, the clerk lin
the middle of a sermon, dare say, if the truth
was KNOWN felt suspicion of the truth dart
through his mind, quicker than the fash of the
telegraph itself. He told the chief cashier on
Monday morning that perhaps the mistake
might have occurred in packing some boxes of
specie for the West Indies, which had been sent
to Southampton for shipment. The suggestion
was Immediately acted upon. Here was a race,
lightning against steam, with eight-apd forty
hours the start. Instantly the wire asked
+" whether such vessel had left the harbor
just weighing anchor" was the reply. "Stop
her franticaliy shouted the telegraph. 1t was
done. Have you up On deck certain boxes
marked so and so; weigh them carefully"
They were weighed aud one, the delinquent
was found heavier by just one package of one
hundred sovereigns than it ought to be. :" Let
her CO." said the mysterious telegraph. The
West India folks were debitedswith Just one
hundred pounds more, and tie error was cor
rected without ever locking into the boxes or
delaying the voyage al hour. Now, this is
what may be called doing business"
The recently-enlarged and capacious apart
ments at the British Legation at Washington
were filled OF Friday evening by distinguish
ed and select circle of guests, invited by Lord
and Lady Napier, to meet Sir William Gore
Ousley. They were entertained by choice Sc.
lGctions of music by Frezzolini, Patti, Stra-
kosch, and Thalberg, followed by choice sup.
per. So says the Star.
Among those who sailed from New Orleans
with General Walker, in his proposed expedition
to Nicaragua, was Major j. V. Hoof, a native of
this place, who il one of General Walker
aids.-AlerGndria Gazette.
Over one hundred enligrants from Missouri
and Arkansas, en- route overland for California,
were waylaid and cruelty butchered on the route,
at place called Santa Clara canon, near the rim
of the Great Basin, about 800 miles from Salt
Lake City. The scene of the massacre is diff.
ferently designated, as he Santa Clara canon,
the Mountain Springs, and the Mountain Mead.
ows but all agree lii locating it near the rim of
the Great Basin, and about fifty miles from Ce.
dar City, the most southern of the Mormon
settlements. Of party of about $50 persons,
only fifteen infant children were saved. 1t is
stated tina. the emigrants had an OK, which
died, and they placed poison in the body, and
also poisoned the water standing in pools, for
the purpose of killing the Indians; that several
had died from this cause, and that the whole
force mustered, pursued the train, and coming
up with them at the abovepamed place, which
favored their purpose, attacked and murdered
the whole party, except q few infant children.
The Indians state that they made but one
charge on the party, in which they cut off the
greater portion of the men, end then guarded
the outlets OF the canon, and shot the men and
women down as they came out for water that
one man was making his escape with few
children, and they followed him, killed him,
and took the children, fifteen in number, the
eldest under five years of age. j. W. Christian,
OF San BerDardino, in letter dated October
4th, intimates that the Mormons will be held
responsible for the murder, and in this respect
he Is fully borne out by present indications,
for general belief pervades tie public mind
that the Indians were ins.igated to this crime
by the Destroying Angels" of the church,
and that tie blow fell On the emigrants from Ar.
kansas, III retribution of the death Of Farley
Pratt, which took place in that State.
The New York Journal Of Commerce pub.
lishes a statement showing tie number Of ships
which have loaded with grain, and sailed or
yuiu sail trnn that ,crt H,r;,r IN, /.
month, for Europe. Tie aggregate quantity Of
grain included in the statement is about
100000 bushels. Last year, in November,
while the extraordinary shipments of grain
were taking place, the number OF grain vessels
which left New York was but forty-one, whereas
it is calculated that not less than srty -one will
sail before the present month expires.
During the excavation OF street in Evans.
vile, Ind, last Tuesday, the workmen came
across the remains of q cabin, eighteen feet
below the surface Of tho earth. This wonder
ful subterranean house was about twelve feet
ia length, formed by upright posts set in the
ground, and boarded up with split oak punch
cons, secured by wooden pins. The posts,
puLcheons and pins, were partially decayed but
found portions of an old fashioned spinning.
wheel, a wooden maui, several pairs of boots
and shoes, and the identical charred stick
which the former occupant of the house had
used to punch the fire with.
The marriage of Bayard Taylor, in Gotha,
Saxony, to Mics Hansen, of Gotha, took place
on the 9th ult. Mr. Taylor passes the winter
with his bride at Moscow, where she has rea-
tives residing. He is to come back to Ameri-
ca next autumn, and Willis announces that he
has "alresdy written to him to claim for Idle
wild the honeymoon of his return"
The Administration papers of the North are
divided In sentiment concerning the Kansas
Constitution. While many approve of it, it is
denounced by the Chicago Times, DOUGLASS
organ,) the Detroit Free Press, 1.-THE organ of
Gen. Cass,) Providence Post, Albany Atlas,
Philadelphia Press, Buffalo Courier, Roches-
ter Union, Seneca Observer, and other organs
of the party.
The French Government has presented the
Liberian Republic with a small vessel of war
the schooner L'Hermdisle--and orders have
been issued to the Plymouth dock-ysrd for the
thorough repair, at the expense of the British
Government, of the Liberian schooner Lark, by
few years since. The hidden history of this
kindness is, doubtless, the desire to secure the
trade of the Western coast of Africa.
On Monday last, says the Abingdon Virgin-
ian, the Rev. Mr.. Goodykoontz, who was sent
to this circuit by the M. E. Conference the week
before last, was buried in this place. The same
day the Rev. James NJ. Woods, who was sent to
the adjoining circuit by the NJ. P. Conference,
about the same time, was brought to this place
a raving maniac, and is now confined, awaiting
q vacancy at the lunatic asylum. "What shad.
ows we are, and what shadows we pursued"
Bv direction of the Postmasfer Genera1 O