The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07

diameter, and cut it short eff as effectively as
| if hit by twelve pound cannon ball. Another
| piece, weighing six or eight pounds, hit George
Brooks, young man, the Oldest son of L.
Brooks, of Lodi, and inflicted wound which
is evidently mortal-the hip bone being smash.
ed to pieces. The father of the woun Jed man
carried his son home, but tainted on beholding
the extent of his injuries.
| A telegraphic dispatch from New Orleans,
dated the 29th ultimo, says, that the report of
the Board of Health for the week past is very
similar to that of the preceding week, the fig
ures being as follows Week ending the 10Th,
total deaths 628, fever deaths 460 Week end
ing the 9th, total deaths GIG, fever deaths
444. Showing decrease for the past week
in the total number of deaths of 8, and of fever
deaths of Is. The deaths in the Charity Hos.
pital in twenty four hours, ending at 6 o'clock
on Monday evening, were 9, while for the "a
hours ending last Tuesday evening they reach
ed H."
| A physician, writing from New Orleans on
the 23d ult, describes the fever as very preya.
lent, and up to that time without abatement
The disease is more malignant than in 1854
and 1866, and many physicians consider it
worse than the fever of 1853, taking the mum.
Der of population into account-for everybo
has left the city who could. Strangers should
by all means avoid coming here until very late
in the season--say LIST of December; certainly
not before the middle of November The vel.
low fever was worse last week than the week be-
fore, and so far Thursday is worse this week
| than last"
| There have been received at Chicago du.
ring the last week III POI barrels of -four,
234, S2l bushels wheat, 1921 bushels corn
| 1921 bushels oats, and L. 885 bushels barley,
making 555, 1853 bushels grain. The total re.
ceips of the season, up to this time, are 339 588
barrels -four, 1864, 1899 bushels wheat, 1923 500
bushels corn, l,850,079 bushels oats, and prob
ably $4,000 bushels barley-making total of
nearly nineteen million bushels Of grain--name.
ly, 1891 ,287 bushels.
The shipments during the last week have
been 6, 1855 barrels -four, 346,347 bushels wheat
and 264, 282 bushels commanding 636.sO9
bushels of grain. The total shipments of the
season are now I'll ,6l2 barrels -four, 1875, 1892
bushels wheat, 6647 ,234 bushels corn, Q ,O9O
bushels outstanding total Of ever sirteen
million bushels Of grsin-namely, l6,492,77
bushels.
Wheat sold here yesterday at $I.I5 for white
winter, SLOT $l.08 for No. l red winter; 80
cents No. spring, and "a a IS cents for No. 2
spring-all in store. The best corn sold at so
cents, delivered on board of vessels Chicago
| Times.
| The Csss- Yrissarri steamer, Capt. Slocum, be-.
longing to the American, Atlantic, and Pacific
Ship Canal Company, arrived at Key West after
a rough passage, on the 18th ult., all safe
proving herself good and stanch sea boat.
The Cass Yrissarri took in a supply of coal, and
sailed for San Juan del Norte on 22d, TO take
her place on Lake Nicaragua, as q part of
the line of the New Transit route, via Nicara.
qua.
Neao York, October 4-Msrshal Rynders has
returned from New Bedford with Macomler,
the mate, and four of the crew of the brig Hal
dee, which recently landed nine hundred slaves
at Cardenas. The Haidee was scuttled off
Montauk, the Portuguese crew landing at that
point. She belongs to New York. Macomler
belongs to New Bedford.
Letters from the Pacific wagon road expedi.
ton, dated Big Sandy, Oregon, Sept. 7th, have
been received at St. Louis. They state that
Col. Lander was pushing the work with all pos
sible dispatch, and was in hopes of reaching
Soda Springs before bad weather sets in. Two
hundred miles of the road is finished, and an
additional force is now at work beyond Salt
river. The expedition will winter at Laramie
Col. Lander starts for Washington on the 9Th
of October.
The Indians are friendly, and the health Of
the expedition is good.
The Western papers contain very contradic
tory accounts relative to the South Platte gold
diggings.
The electricians engaged on the Atlantic
Telegraph appear unanimous in the opinion
that the insulation of the cable has become in
ljured by being suspended upon some project
ing point of steep bsnk, and thus gradually
injured by its own weight. The soundings
taken a few hundred miles from the Irish coast
show that bank or steep range exists, the
highest and lowest points of which are eight
miles apart, showing difference in elevation
of 1900 feet. But no one can form an idea OF
the nature of the ground in this intervening
space of eight miles-whether the sides Of the
submarine mountain be broken by ravines or
precipitous cliffs, or whether it be gentle
slope. This spot, which is about 800 miles
from the Valentia end of the cable, is supposed
to be the one where the insulation of the cable
has been injured.
This idea seems to coincide with the opinion
expressed by our correspondent B. f. j., on
Saturday last. We copy the following extract
from an official statement dated Valentia Sep
TENDER IL, wherein this idea is set forth as be.
ing the prevalent one among the electricians
ut must always remain q matter of doubt,
however, whether the falling off in the strain on
the speed of the cable was observable at all un-
til the top of the bank had been reached; and
had this been the case, it ia quite possible that
the cable may have remained suspended upon
some projecting points on the steep, and its in
sulation soon become gradually injured by its
own weight. This is of course but probable
conjecture, based upon the facts above stated,
But at the same time it is impossible to account
in any other way for the cable having become
damaged since its submersion."
An official letter has been received in this
city from the paymaster of the army at Fort
Vancouver, Washington Territory, from which
we have been permitted to make the following
extract relative to the operations in that quar-.
ter against the Indians, and the death of Lieut..
Allen:
"On the 18th instant August an affair of
some consequence occurred with the command
under Major Garnett, of the 9th infantry, now
in the field in the Yakima country. A detach-
ment of only fifteen men, under Lieut.. jesse K.
Allen, 9th infantry, made a night attack, and
surprised and captured Il men, so women, with
a corresponding number of children, 10 horses,
end "a head of cattle. Although it resulted in
the death of Lieut.. Allen, a very estimabe Off
Ger, it is regarded as brilliant and creditable
affair, calculated to give prestige to the troops.
George w. Bell, a mulsto, arrested at st.
Louis for being negro in the State without a
license, stated that his father was negro, but
his mother was a white woman, and the owner
of his father, in Virginia He insisted that he
should be considered as following the condition
of his mother, and as therefore white man in
the eye of the law. The annual assessment in
st. Louis shows that there are in that city 929
slaves, valued at $456,055. A slave boy and
his wife, from Mississippi, were followed to