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

geantatsrms and B. j. Hinton Reporter.
The Convention passed q resolution to sd-
journ to Lsavenworth. lq
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
The election in Connecticut has resulted in
a fine Republican triumph. In that State, the
two parties have been usually of pretty nearly
equal strength, but Buckingham, Republican,
is elected by from 5000 to 5000 majority, over
Pratt, Democrat, who was silent on the Lecomp,
ton swindle. Hartford, which is a stronghold
of the Rum and Hunker Democracy, succeeded
in electing two Democrats to the Legislature,
BY selecting Anti Lecompton candidates. Let
the Anti Lscompton Democratic members of
Congress take courage from this election.
The programme for the laying of the Allan
tic telegraph cable has been arranged.
The 400 miles of cable ordered to replace
the 3S4 which were Loaf last autumn eff Valen.
tia, have been completed and it is intended,
in order to make better provision for casualties,
that an additional 800 miles shall be at once
proceeded with. The Agamemnon and the
Niagara are the vessels again to be employed
in the attempt to Icy the wire; and the opera
ton will, this year, be commenced in the mid
die of June, in which mouth, it is said, there
are some five or six consecutive days during
which gale in the Atlantic is seldom or never
known TO occur. The line will be Joined and
laid from the centre of the ocean, the Niagara
bringing her end of the cable to Ireland, snd
the Agamemnon conveying hers to America.
As soon as the vessels have slowed away the
cable, they will proceed to deep water to make
experiments.
The Italian assassins, Orsini and Pierri, who
were the principal persons implicated IN the
attempt to kill Louis Napoleon, have been ex-
ecuted. Orsini, to the last, was calm and eour-
ageous. He seems to have been noble man,
whom oppression had made mad. Dwelling
continually upon the wrongs of his native land,
he gradually became willing to crush her enc
mics at every hazard of life, and, if necessary,
by assassination. A Paris correspondent of the
Boston Post writes:
The peace which was promised by the de-
lection and capture of Orsini is not nigh. On
Monday last, another shot, am told, was fred
at the Emperor, just az he was leaving the little
garden to the right of the gateway of the Tuile.
ries, to cross over to the parterre on the other
side. The shot came from sub-offcer of one
of the regiments of the line. But few persons
were present and he stood isolated from the
little knot of faneurs who assemble against
the grating, to see the Emperor pass by. No
event of the kind is, of course, ever registered
in the journals-not even to state that the shot
has missed, as usual, nor to mention about the
star and the mission under which, and for
which, Louis Napoleon pronounces himself in.
vulnerable. The rumor runs, that the culprit
was shot on the instant and another report
declares that the character he had assumed was
fictitious one, and that he had turned out on
examination, to belong to the Italian section
of conspirators, although himself a Frenchmau.
The story is believed throughout Paris, in spite
of the secrecy with which it has been hushed
up; and has not tended to increase the secu-
rity of the public mind, as you may well ina
gine."
b6 The flibusters are turning their atten-
ton to Mexico just now, and, it is said, con-
template raid on the territory bordering the
Rio Grande.
1t is stated, on good authority, that compa-
MES are forming, and some are soon to sail
for the seat of the future flibus:ering war.