Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-10-14
Summary 0F NEWS.

Bocas del \ Orte, and then to land at that port.
The Ministers request that a vessel of war may
be sent to the former harbor, and that the one
flying at San Juan del Norte be ordered to pre-
vent the landing. They also desire that the
fiIlibusters may be sent back to the United
States as transgressors of our laws and distur-
bers of the peace of friendly nations.
Mr.. Ten Broeck's three year old horse sSBa-
bylon," was run at the Doncaster races, Eng
land, on the 14th of September and was badly
| beaten. Ten horses were entered, ssBabylon''
coming out fifth in the race. Mr.. Payne's
horse, e'Orlanda," !" won the race-prize seven
| ty sovereigns.
The State election in California resulted in
the success of the Democratic ticket through
/ the division of the opposition. On the vote
| for Governor, Weller, Democrat, received 40
600; Stanley, Republican, q 900; Bowie, A
merican, p 900.
In Central America a revolution against Car
rera, the Indian Dictator of Guatemala, has
| broken out in that State, where the cholera is
also raging.
! Damage to the amount of 100000 has been
caused by an earthquake in the city of Puira,
horrors of civil war.
a despatch from Dubuqe, Iowa, says that
| the steamer Ben Coursn was run into by the
/ steamer Key City, about two O'Clock on Sun
day morning the 4th, when near La Crosse, on
the Mississippi river, and sunk Immediately in
| Is feet of water. Fifteen of her deck passen-
gers were drowned. The steamer is a total
loss.
The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald hears of
considerable distress in the shoe manufactur-
ing towns in Essex county. During the last
week many hands discharged in Lynn
and more expected to be this week. sThe
winter prospects for the poor, hereabouts. are
gloomy" We fear the foregoing quotation
might be written of many towns in other States
beside Massachusetts,.
A draft for Sill 900 was forwarded from the
Treasury, on Tuesday the 9th, for mail pay to
the Collins steamers.
Stocks to the value of $4,000 were re-
deemed on Thursday the Sth.
Captain Moore, the Agent in Mexico of the
chihuahua and San Francisco Railroad Com
pany, writes that the Tehuantepec grant is un-
favorable to the United States and of but lit
tie use to the grantees. He thinks the new
constitutional system likely to expire in finan-
cial inanition, and says that President Comon-
fort may, if his ambition is equal to his for
tune, make himself dictator for life, or, at
least, until the next revolution.
The substance of Carey Jones's letter to the
State Department is that he has not vet sue
ceeded in finding the Government of Nicara-
qua, but will prosecute his researches so long
as Gen. Cass is willing to pay him So dav
1t is stated that eX-Mayor Samuel A. Elliot.
of Boston, has become insane, and was taken
to the Insane Hospital on Saturday the Sd, in
consequence of the loss of his whole estate
by the failure of c. II. Hills & Co.
Andrew Johnson, the present Governor of
Tennessee, was elected on the Sth as success
sor to the Hon. James C. Jones in the United
States Senate, from that State.
About O'Clock on the morning of the Sth,
a violent shock of earthquake was felt at St.
Louis. Seven minutes later another shock,
less severe, was felt. They made the most
substantial buildings tremble, and overturned
small articles in dwellings. The shocks were
also felt at Springfield, Illinois.
Three distinct shocks of earthquake were
telt at Centralia, H., on the morning of the
Sth, about o'clock. The first shock was so
violent as to demolish chimneys and awaken
citizens.
Letters from VIM. Carey Jones contain re-
ports of his conversations with President Mo-
ra, but throw but little light upon the affairs
of Nicaragua. jones has no diplomatic pow
I ar- hut y&-in
which to regulate the transit route and matters
connected Herewith.
Rumors Of division in the Cabinet are in
creasing. Toucy will be thrust out if possible
but the most serious difficulty arises from a
disagreement between Secretary Cobb and the
President as to Governor Walkers course. If
Slavery tEiumphs in Kansas, things will remain
| as they are; if not, Southern extremists NAV
force COBB out and put full-blooded fire-eater
in his shoes.
Late adyiceS from Kansas state that the
Democratic majority in Leavenworth county is
lGO; Atchison AZ Johnson $50; Doniphan a.
bout even. The same authority thinks that
the Democrats have carried the Legislature by
small majority, but disinterested gentle
man just arrived at Boonville from Santa Fe.
VINO passed through the interior counties of
Kansas, and resident of Boonville lust ar
rived from Lawrence, reports that the Repub-
means have carried the Legislature by large
majority.
new Mexican who left Sante Fe on the
18th ult. reached independence on the 9TH
inst. He states that Otero was reelected to
| Congress by 1000 majority. The Indians are
quiet. The Cheyennes are anxious to male
peace.