The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-08

ic, the property of the New York, Liverpool,
and United States Mail Steamship Company,
were sold at New York last week at public auc-
ton. sf@ i.a-u -33-F' SEA
Prior to the commencement of the sale, q
notice was given BY the u. s. District Attor-
ney, that the General Government had lien
upon said steamers to the amount Of SIS, 500.
a notice was also read from the Board Of So
pervisors, that the city had q claim upon the
Company for taxes of 1867, amounting to
5000, for which the Atlantic was holden. It
was declared, on behalf of the Company, that
all claims Of the General Government had been
duly satisfied and that the demand of the
city tor taxes was not authorized. Captain
the steamers held also q claim against the
Company for $4,000. ..s.g -.
The announcement was now made, that
Messrs. Clarkson, N. Potter, and J. N. Brown,
have liability of the Company Of $500, 600,
dated May l, 1855, drawing interest from
November l, 1857 also, o mortgage, dated
November 30, 1857, to secure the claim.
The terms of sale we're stated-20 per cent.
Immediately, and the residue tomorrow. The
fact that there were claims to be contested,
Operated as damper upon the sssemblage, an
original bid WAS taken, and the whole property
was sold for $780, 900. The purchaser was Dud-
ley B. Fuller, Esq. e.I
The Baltimore Exchange advocates the adop.
ton, BY the Senate, of the Montgomery amend
ment. 1t says:
"The Senate must, in the end, confirm this
action of the House, and thus pu. stop to the
agitation which has hitherto existed upon the
subject, both in and out of CONFESS, and which
has been the cause of 80 much bitterness of feel.
ing between different sections of our common
country. The mode of settlement is not iden.
tically that suggested by the Persident and sane.
toned by the Senate; but it is settlement,
and that, after all, is what the people want.
The great question with them has been, not
whether Congress should pass this or that bill
not how the question should be settled, but that
it should be settled in some way, and that
quickly"
On the 18th inst, in the House of Lords,
Lord Brougham, in presenting a petition from
the Anti.Slavery Society against the slave trade,
said that warrant act had been passed in the
island of Guadaloupe which would have an i'm
mediate and direct tendency to reduce the free
negroes q thGt colony to a state Of slaoery. He
acquitted the FRI nch Government of any blame,
but regretted that that power had not discon.
tinued its scheme for the free emigration of me-
groes. t..H
Lord Malmesbury promised attention to these
matters when they we're officially brought to his
notice.
The Boston Journal has been favored with
the perusal of private letter to gentleman
in that city, written by an an officer of the I'd
dragons, now encsmped on Henry's Fork of
Green river, Utah Territory. The letter is
dated January 80. The writer says the Utah
army consists of only 1900 rank and file, &C
cording to the official reports. From Mormon
prisoners and other sources, he judges that
SaltLake city contains about 36, 900 inhabitants.
divided a. follows 5000 males, from the age
of 10 to 80, which comprise the army; 5000
other males, older or younger than the above ;
and $4,000 females, of whom $4,000 are wives
of 5000 men. III
The Madrid journals of the 18th of March
publish the text of the speech delivered by M.
Isturitz in the Congress the preceding day, in
reply to question respecting the Mexican af.
fairs: - .'f
"He said that the Government would not
echo the cry of war against Mexico which had
been raised, and though differences existed be-
tween Spain and that country, they could be
settled by negotiation as we'll as by arms.
After expressing the opinion that preceding
Cabinets had acted with prudence and patriot.
ism in the affair, he said that the differences
between the two countries were only two-6rst,
that of the indemnity due to Spaniards, on
which the Mexican Government had acted with
little reason secondly, the events at Cuernsvi-
Ca He next said that England and France
had offered their intervention to prevent a war,
which must, if commenced, not only prove in.
furious to Spaniards, but endanger the rela-
soy,a hot nd He 10,
formally announced that General Zoloaga, the
new Mexican President, had promised to give
Spain every satisfaction, and he confirmed the
fact of NJ. Lafragua, the Mexican envoy, hav-
ing been dismissed, adding that new envoy
was likely to be appointed. He concluded by
saying that he must refuse to produce papers
on the matter, and that any discussion of it
would be inopportune."
A letter dated Montevi6eo, February 6, gives
some sad accounts of the civil war in tina,
Province. Gen. Dias and three hundred of his
officers and men had been taken prisoners by
the Government troops, and in few hours
after, by order of the President, twenty-eigh,
of the officers we're shot, and the throats of two
hundred of the men cut, although the Ameri
can Consul, American Commodore, and the
English, French, and Spanish Ministers, and
large number of ladies, implored the Presi.
dent to spare their ives. The affair has cas-,
gloom over Montevideo. Nearly all the men
leave large families. Mr.. Hamilton, the Uni
ted States Consul, who was in ill-health, was
about to return home, and had placed portion
of his furniture on board the barque Kate,
bound for Baltimore.
The late arrivals from Europe bring accounts
e IL g.. A. IS q ha
mainly from Philadelphia to raise the sunken
vessel has been recovered, and the force of
shipping engaged in the attempt has been with.
drawn and offered for sale. The difficulty
seems to have arisen from the perfect riddling
of the ships by the worms, rendering them so
porous that the water flowed in almost as fast
as it was pumped out. In addition to this diff.
Guilty, which the enterprising companies having
the undertaking in charge endeavored to over
come by caulking, the vessels had sunk from
four to six fathoms in the mud. The efforts to
blow them to pieces we're equally unsuccessful
As much as 5000 pounds of powder was tried
with two decker, but, a. the rotten timber
had too little power of resistance, the result
was, that the weakest point gave way, and the
explosion tore out small part in the side of
the vessel, leaving the rest altogether I'm.
touched. ltsI
It is said that the Earl of Rosse, one of the
first astronomers in Europe, has told gentle
man in England that he anticipates one of the
mos intensely hot summers this year that has
ever been known, and he advises farmers to
build sheds for their cattle, by way of protec.
ton against the extreme heat.
It has been estimated, says Boston paper,
that double the quantity of ice has has been cut
this year than during any former season. Mr..
Wilde, Of Medford, has housed 450,000 tons at
Spot Pond, and other parties have cut 10000
toms more Fi 1883. -. .Hs ..H q