Smyrna times., 1858-10-21
Summary of News,

| FROM CALIFORNIA.-The steamship Star oi
the West brings dates from California to the
2Ist ult., and nearly million and half in
gold. The news ofthe successful laying of the
Atlantic Te!egra ph Cable, which reached San
Francisco on the 10th of September, awakened
considerable enthusiasm, and has set people
generally to thinking about telegraph to con.
meet California with the Eastern States. 1t is
now confidently predicted that this will be done
within year, or eighteen months at farthest.
The eighth anniversary of the admission of
California into the Union was celebrated on the
9Th of September, by the Society Of California
Pioneers. There is nothing of special interes,
from the Frazer River mines. From Oregon
we learn that Major Garrett has had another
brush with the Indians.
by the steamship Ariel, off Cape Race, from
Liverpool, We have four days later news from
Europe. C"iton is reported lower and bread.
stuffs dull. Mr.. Reed, u S. commissioner to
China, had gone to Shanghae. Large guant.
ties of tea had accumulated at Canton, await.
ing the opening of trade. Cholera had appear
nd among the Chinese troops. There was
report that two French naval ships has appeared
at Lisbon, to enforce some demand.
The receipts of the National Treasury show
steady decline. During the last seven DAYS
they amounted to $764 52I, and for the last
week Of September to $575,OOO. The current
disbursements are double the income. The
balance in hand has run down 10 nine millions
and quarter, aud the prospect is that the un.
issued half of the twenty million loan bill we
required before the expiration of the calendar
ear.-PemnsylUGniGn.
Later advices from Mexico, confirm the re.
ported battle between Generals Vidaurri and
Miramon. 1t was fought near Ahualusco, and
resulted IN the defeat of Vidauri, who retreated
to Monterey, and was preparing to attack Mi.
ramon.
The second Overland mail, from California.
arrived at st. Louis on Saturday night, bringing
letters OF the twentieth ult., but no papers, and
Monday night the third Overland mail reached
st. Louis, in twenty-five days.
The great balloon race began Monday, at
Cincinnati, by the ascension of Steiner and
Goddard. who will stay up three days.
During the quarter ending the lst of July. the
receipts of the Post Office Department were
one million eight hundred thousand.
General Jerez will at once inform his gov.
ernmeni, Nicaragua. of the non-success of his
miss on. General Cass has emphatically in
formed him that the United States will protect
the transit route to the fullest extent, at all
hazards
Some leading men of the Administra ton
party, at Washington, have got up project for
direct application to Congress for On appro-
priationp with a view to negotiating for the pur.
chase Of Cuba.
We have news of desperate battle in west.
ern Texas. between a body of United States
troops and the Camanche Indians, in which the
whites lost five killed, one missing and ten
wounded, and the Indians forty killed and a
large number wounded.
There was great rowing match on FRIDAY
for one thousand dollars, between the Canadian
and Detroit boys, which was won by the latter.
The horse race 10 Boston between Ethan AL.
LEM and "Columbus, Jr," for one thousand
dollars. same day, was won by the former.
A despatch from Trinity Bay says that the
preconcerted signals, arranged on the other
side of che ocean, have, thus far, failed to effect
any better communication.
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