The Placer herald., 1857-07-04
LATER FROM THE ATLANTIC STATES.
ARRIVAL OF the SONORA.

AnUvHI VI ju6 OUNUnHs
The Sonora arrived at San Francisco on
Tuesday afternoon, bringing large mail and
ee4 passengers. The Hon VIM. NJ. Gwin
returned upon her.
General Intelligence,
KAxsAs.-Gov. Walker has reached LIE
compton, Kansas. His inaugural address as
ssrts, among other declarations, that the
laws of the Territory will be maintained by
the entire force Of the government.
Gov. Walker was warmly received BY
men of all parties.
Judge Lecompte is positively to be re-
moved, and Judge Williams is to succeed
him.
UrAH-The administration have decided
upon sending formidable body Of troops
to Utah. Orders have been issued for the
dispatch to that Territory OF the Second
Regiment Of Dragons, the Fifth and Tenth
Regiments Of artillery, and Capt. Phelps
battery Of Light Infantry, numbering in all
some two thousand men, under the command
Of Gen. Harney.
PoLlrrcAL Rlor IN WAsHINaroN.-The
Federal Capitol has been the scene Of one
Of the most disgraceful political riots which
has ever occurred in this country. While
the municipal election was progressing on
the lst Of June, band of rioters, from Bal
timore, made terrible attack upon the Dem
ocratic voters, with pistols, bcwie-knives,
&c, driving them away from the polls, and
dispensing the Commissioners. The row
commenced in the first precinct of the 4th
Ward The vagabonds making the disturb
ance belonged, It is said, to the Know Moth
ing party, and were organized under the
respective names Of "Plug- -Uglys," Grip
Raps," and "Chunkers." The President
ordered out the marines, who fired upon the
rioters. Some five or six were killed. and
sixteen or seventeen wounded. The election
resulted favorably to the Democracy.
VIRGINIA ELEcrIoNs.-The Virginia elec-
tions have resulted in general Democratic
success.
AMERICAN NATIONAL CoUNc1L.-The ses-
sion of the American National Council com
menced at Louisville, on June I'd. A prop
position to reconstruct the party throughout
the Union was adopted.
The old officers of the council were gen.
orally reelected, and the Philadelphia plat
form of principles was re-affirmed, after
striking out the thirteenth, fourteenth and
fifteenth resolutions, relating to the Pierce
Administration.
The OVERLAND MAIL-The leading rail-
road men of New England, New York,
Pennsylvania and Maryland and of the Sta
tes lying to the west Of them. are sending
petitions to the President, praying that the
overland mail toCalifo MIA shall be carried by
route commencing on the Mississippi river
not south of St. Louis.
MINNESOTA Observation-Disclosures from
southern Minnesota indicate a Republican
majority Of the delegates to the Constitu-
tional Convention.
The bids for the contract for carrying
| the overland mail to California are not
| opened vet. The successful applicant WAS
not known when the steamer .aiIed.
In New Orleans an election for con:roll-
er, Recorders and members Of the Common
Council took place on the first June, when
the whole Know Nothing ticket was cleo
ted-there being no opposition, the Demo
Gratis not having made any nominations.
The whole vote poled was less than two
thousand.
The United States Senate, within a few
weeks, has lost three Of its members. Ste
phen Adams, of Mississippi; A. p. Butler,
of South Carolina and James Bell, of New
Hampshire. The two last died on the same
day.
Farley P. Pratt, formerly Mormon Mis-
sonary in San Francisco, has been shot
dead in Van Buren,, Arkansas, by II. II.
McLain, whose wife he seduced in San Fran.
cisco.
The steamship Louisiana was burned few
and fifty lives lost.
At New Haven, on the lst of June,
the municipal election WAS held, tho Demo.
Gratis carrying all branches Of the city gov.
ernment by a majority Of 500
Gen. Walker was received at New Or
leans with great eclat.
1t is confidently asserted by the friends
Of Gen. Walker, in Newt Orleans, that he
will 90 back to Nicaragua in from thirty
to seventy days, with plenty Of men and
means.
NICARAGUA AND CosTA R1cA.-W. r. G..
Webster, on behalf of Costa Rica and Mic
sragua, and G: K. Garrison. on the part Of
Garrison & Morgan, have proposed to this
Government and Lord Napier, plan of ar
rangement touching the conflicting interests
Of the Nicaragua Transit Company, and in.
directly invoking the settlement OF the Gen.
trail American question. The plan is we'll
thought Of by the Administration. The
Government will receive any representative
the power now existing in Nicaragua may
accredit to Washington.
EuRoPE.-Lord Napier has officially de-
MED the report Of a cession Of an island
by New Granada to Great Britain,