The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-04-29
GENERAL SUMMARY.
Later from California.

MINERAL SUMMARY.
Later from California.
Nep York, april 27.-The steamship Moses
Taylor, from Aspinwsll 18th, has arrived, with
nearly 81 SOC, 900 treasure, and upward of SOC
passengers. She left at Aspinwall the United
States storeship Reiisf.
The California news is unimportant. Mar
kets dull and quiet. Colonel Schlessinger il
passenger.
Valparaiso dates are of the 18th of March
Vivanco was defeated at Arequipe, with great
slaughter to his forces, and has fed to Bolivia
All his steamers were captured.
The frigate Merrimac had arrived at Callao
DR.. Ashford, American Consul at Tumbes, is
dead.
By the arrival of the Bohio. from Porto Co
bello, we have advices from Porto Cabello to
the 10th, and from Caracas to the 3lst Of
March.
The overthrow of Monagas appears to have
been complete. He and his brother were taken
under the protection of the foreign diplomatic
corps, being lodged in the French Embassy
where all the foreign flags were hoisted. Against
this the Provisional Government protested, and
finally the Minister of Foreign Affairs took
them thence by force, and imprisoned them
This action of the diplomatic corps had caus ed
much popular excitement, and would probably
result in the dismissal of some of the foreign
Ministers. The representative of England, Mr..
Bingham, having shown special sympathy with
Monagas, was very unpopular. The two broth.
ers and their Ministry are charged with having
misappropriated $l7,24O,OOO of the public
moneys. The people demand the Punishment
of Monagas himself.
1t was generally reported that Mr. Eames, the
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shortly before his fall to declare the city of
Dictator; that Mr.. Van Rees, the Dutch Minis
ter, urged the Governor of Curacao to capture
the steamer Liberater as pirate; and that the
Spanish Minister, Quevao, offered to import
some Canary Islanders to fight the revolution
lists. The French charge d 'affaires, NJ Leoreaud
and Mr.. Bingham, had sent to the West Indies
for vessels of war, and it is not improbable
that the whole diplomatic corps would receive
their congo from the Provisional Government
of Gen. Castro.
A Spanish brig has arrived at New Orleans
bringing dates from Vera Cruz to the lth in
stant-four days later than previous accounts
There was very little change in the condition
of affairs in Mexico, and no great movement
had taken place. The utmost confusion pre-.
vailed. .s7
The Legislature of New York has elected
William G. Bryant Regent of the University.
The Massachusetts Legislature recently elected
John G. Whittier one of the overseers of Har-
ward University, and the New York Congress
sional delegation wish George P. Morris ap.
pointed American Consul at London.
The dispute as to whether Mrs. Fremont's
name ia Jessie or Ann has been decided by the
publication of her fathers (Col. Benton's) will.
Her name is Jessie Ann; so that both parties
to this important controversy were right, and
both were wrong.
The Hon. Edward Everett has again been
called home from his lecturing tour in the
South, by letters from his family. He ex.
presses deep regret that he is obliged second
time to postpone the ful6lment of his engage
ments.
Benton's Thirty Years View is said to have
already attained the sale of seventy thousand
volumesl The publishers (Messrs. Appleton)
are about to issue new edition, with a copious
analytical index, and an photographed me-
moir of Colonel Benton, written within three
months of his death. This will much enhance
the interest of the work.
The scheme for constructing a telegraphic
line across the Plains from the Mississippi to
California, by way of Utah, is one which ought
to commend itself to every mind. 1t is a much
more practicable undertaking than the laying
of telegraph wire in the bed of the ocean,
which is about, We trust, to be accomplished.
1t is more feasible by far than the Pacific rail.
road, about which we hear so much. A tele-
graphic wire stretching across the continent
would unite the Pacific and Atlantic States in
a close bond of Union, and would confer large
benefits on commerce. We hope the subject
will receive due consideration.-Nep York
Herald.
It is stated in a number of our exchanges
that several men of wealth, in New York, But.
falo, and Chicago, have it in contemplation to
establish somewhere in the West q leviathan
farm of from 100, 900 TO 100000 acres. Their
object is to do for agriculture, by the use of
combined wealth and the power of machinery,
what has been done in the past half century by
the railroad and factory to supersede the old
stage.coach and the spinning They will
organize the vast tract into two rivai3ed estab-
lishments, with military organization of labor,
gigantic machinery to plough, plant, reap, and
render harvests; vast herds of horses, sheep,
and cattle, of the most select stock, and the
cultivation of fruit and grains on large scale.
1t will be remembered that some time since
Senator Iverson, Of Georgia, incautiously limited
that Gen. Calhoun was advised by Southern
men to give certificates OF election to the Free.
State members of the Kansas Legislature. 1t
is now stated, in Southern papers, that Messrs.
Cobb, Toombs, and Stephens, of Georgia, and
Mr. Secretary Thompson, of Mississippi, were
the parties who gave him this advice.
The Savannah NeUs mentions the arrival
of vessel, the captain of which reports that,
on the night of the 18th instant, on the eastern
edge of the Gulf of Mexico, heard and saw fired,
in rapid succession, sixty shots, apparently 81
pounders, between two ships. Some on board
supposed it was the Spanish feet, exercising
the crews at the gums; but the Netcs supposes
it more likely to have been an encounter with
SLAYER or suspected flbuster.
In a certain town in this State, a letter ar.
rived for q young lady from her lover, on the
day of the election. The postmaster, as - not
unfreauent in the rural districts, knowing the
eagerness with which q message of that tender
character would be expected, took upon him.
self the pleasing duty of delivering it; but first
like q good Democrat, he must vote, and OF
course, in . separate self-sealing envelope,
This was duly prepared, with the Democratic
| ticket safely enclosed, and the gluten stuck TO-
pether. Stopping at the town-meetipg, he de-
posted the letter in the ballot box, and pro
ceedsd with the separate and self-sealed to
the house of the blooming maiden. to whom
he gallantly handed the entire Democratic