The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-12-03

tino aye. NONE OF tne exceptions TAKEN DelOW
were allowed, and consequently the motion to re-
verse judgment and have new trial was refused.
Donnelly will be executed on the 9th of jan
uary.
The distillery of NJ. Devln, and four frame
dwellings adjoining, in the seventeenth ward,
Philadelphia, were burned on the 24th inst.
Loss, $4,000. Insurance, $4,000.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald says that the Kansas question
has has been thoroughly canvassed in the
Cabinet Council, and the action of the Con,
vention approved.
The warehouse of Fisher, Boyd l. Brother,
Baltimore, was burned on the 2lst, together
with an immense stock of goods. Loss esti-
mated at $50, 000-nearly covered by insurance.
B. C. Bachman has been tried in the Lancas
ter County Court of Quarter Sessions, for embez
zling money from the Lancaster Bank, and &C.
quilted. The Times expresses great dissatis-
faction with the verdict.
The Great Western rolling mill, at Brady's
Bend, Armstrong county, has discharged about
seven hundred operatives. 1t has been engaged
in making railroad iron largely, and the demand
for that article having fallen off materially, it s
curtalilng operations 10 suit.
A very singular thing is being brought to
light at the Minnesota Mine, Lake Superior.
By examination among the broken rocks on the
side of the bluff, pieces of veinstone, with cop
per and silicate, were picked up at one point in
considerable quantities, and it was thought best
to pull away the adjacent rubbish, and examine
for the out crop of the vein. A party of men
were put upon the ground, and soon found the
conglomerate, with channel or trench passing
through it, some five or six feet in width. This
was filled with soft rubbish, containing char
coal and other traces of the works of the an.
cient miners. Its depth has not yet been as
tanned.
During the debate on the banking articles of
the Kansas bogus Constitution, it came out that
in making up bank at Lecompton, last sum.
mer, it was necessary, in accordance with the
charter, to exhibit cash capital of $4,000
While the Governor counted one bag at time,
the other was carried out and brought in again,
and this was done until $4,000 were counted
and certificates obtained.
By direction of the Postmaster General, q
system of post.ofice delivery, nearly similar to
that of London, is now in successful operation
in New York. There have been established
six sub post offices in different parts of the city,
and to these offices letters are sent seven times
each day, and collections from them for the
mails are made eight times day, by horse ex-
press.
At the late session of the Vermont Legisa-
ture, bill increasing the salary of the Govern
or from $500 to 81, 900, and that of the Treas.
urer to $500, was passed. A bill relating to
fugitive slaves, similar in its provisions to the
" personal liberty law" of Massachusetts, was
reported by select committee, but it failed of
passage.
The Philadelphia Ledger has substituted the
word Morseographic" for telegraphic in the
heading of its telegraphic dispatches. What
are we coming to?
The Lake Ontario and st. Lawrence Steam
boat Company, whose stock a few years ago
was so good that it could not be obtained, has
gone into liquidation. The company owes
seventy FIVE thousand dollars, with nothing to
meet it but the boats and furniture. Ia order
to save the property from the hands of the sher-
if, an attempt will be made to organize a new
company, and assess the stockholders pro rata
to pay the seventy FIVE thousand dollars. A Pc
Rod of thirty days is allowed, in order to carry
the plan into effect. The capital stock of the
company ia five hundred thousand dollars, and
they have nine steamers, some of which cost
over one hundred thousand dollars each.
The New York Herald's London correspond
ent ,narrates the particulars of a mutiny of the
British soldiers at Cawnpore, in India. A party
Of Sepoys had been captured, and, in accord
ance with the orders Of the Government, they
were placed in prison to await a trial. This
proceeding disguised the soldiers, and at night
they forced the prison, and put the Sepoys to
death For this breach of discipline, the lead
ers of the troops were arrested but their com
rades at once released them by force, and de-
clared that if they were punished, they would
lay down their arms at once. Since the out
break of the Sepoys, the English press has
breathed nothing but vengeance and Wholesale
massacre for the mutineers, and the Indian
Government will not find it an easy matter to
enforce their humane policy.
An appalling tragedy occurred in the village
of Port Jefferson, N. Y, on the 2lst. 1t ap-
pears that a man named Waters, resident of
Port jefferson, entered his dwelling, where his
wife, her daughter, and her daughters husband,
Mr.. Sturdevant, we're partaking of breakfast,
armed with heavy bar of iron. Waters at
tackled the party, killing his wife aud Mr.. Stur-
devant almost instantly, and wounding Mrs.
Sturdevant 80 seriously as to render her recov-
cry very doubtful. Having accomplished this
horrid deed, Waters proceeded to bis barn and
hanged himself. No reasonable cause can be
coniectured for Wa.ers's conduct, save that he
was laboring under a fit of insanity. Mrs. Wa
tiers was formerly the wife of Mr.. Darling, a
shipbuilder OF repute at Port Jefferson.
The Philadelphia Press, the daily Democrat.
ic paper which was established by Colonel
Forney, some three months ago, has so far
proved itself a journal of considerable indie
pendence and honesty, while in ability it is
second to very few Eastern papers. On the.
Kansas question, it has ably sustained Walker
in his prompt rejection of the Oxford fraud
upon the real voters Of that Territory, and liz.
the article given below takes a position in re-
gard to the bogus Constitutional Convention
which will, before three months, bring it into
collision with the Democrats of the South, un-;
less, indeed, like the Northern Democracy here
tofore, it eats its words, and allows Constitu.
ton, conceived in fraud and brought forth in
inquity, to be forced upon an unwilling people
at the point of Federal bayonets. What the
Press year hence will say, we do not pretend
to predict; but trust it may not vary from the
position taken in the following article, which
We find in its columns of the 18th:
"The drift of all the news from Kansas, By
mail and telegraph, show conclusively that the
so-called Pro Slavery Constitutional Convention,
like other bodies of whom we have read, is en-
other formidable instance of the adage that
whom the gods wish to destroy they first make
mad Some of the propositions presented to
that Convention-which, be it remembered,
represents mere fragment of the voters of the
Territory-would disgrace a despotism others
are merely ridiculous; while the whole affair
looks to us, at this distance, as if the parties
mortgage the new State to their own individual
interest for a century to come.