Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1858-06-23

ing. lie reports that Governor Cumming
nad returned, after making an Intellectual eff.
Lort to arrest the Mormon hegira to the South.
salt Lake city and the northern settlements
were nearly deserted, only a few persons re.
naming TO guard the city. Forty thousand
MormoDs were said to be in motion. their
trains extending for miles down the valley.
They had advanced already three hundred
miles from the city. Kane met Colonel Hoff-
mans command 20 miles from the Platte
bridge. Gen. johnson would avail the ar
rival OF the peace commissioners.
The Session Closed.
The ~Thirty-Fifth Congress closed its ses-
on the l4th-a shorter one by about two
months than the average length of first ses-
slons has been for many years past. Not
withstanding this unusual brevity, says the
National InteLIigencer, it appears by a care
ful examination into the facts, that the House
Of Representatives has sat more hours and
passed a greater number of bills during the
present session, than it has during any, even
thelongest of any previous longsession. The
Appropriation Bills were all passed and sign
ed by the President; and the Post Office bill
as /. wen from the Senate.
WASHINGTON, June 14.-General Scott has
received important official dispatches from
Utah, five days later than those received by
the President from Governor Cumming,
which have been published.
The dispatches state that the Mormons
have deceived Governor Cumming; that
there is no disposition to make peace; and
that after the Mormons had removed their
women and children from Salt Lake City, the
men had returned, strengthened their posts,
and assumed a threatening attitude,
We clip the above from the Erening Post,
of Tuesday. subsequent dispatch corrects
it as follows:
Washington, June 5.-Contrary to the ad-
vices sent from here to some Of the press, the
War Department has received no later dates
from Utah than those from Governor Cum
ming. The views ofsome officers of the army,
as expressed in letters, is that he went into
Salt Lake City too hastily that he has been
deceived, and hat the Mormon friendship
is not to be relied upon.
1t will be recollected that the army was
sent to Utah as a posse comitatuS, subject to
the orders of Gov. Cumming, and cannot
move without his direction. There are no
new developments by the last arrival. The
army will move as recently directed, branch
ing off at such intermediate localities as re-
quire protection.
gY7 If the news given above be correct,
the execution of the following orders, may
prove most unfortunate:
WASHINGTON, June 13th.-Orders have
been forwarded by express to turn back at
large portion of the Utah troops, but supplies
will be forwarded, as a considerable body Of
troops will be stationed there.
WASHINGTON, June 16.-The Senate to-day
passed the British Aggression resolutions
unanimously and then adjourned sine die.
The resolutions are the following:
ReSOIced, (as the judgment of the Senate
That American vessels on the high seas, in
time of peace, bearing the American flag, re,
main under the jurisdiction of the country tc
which they belong, and therefore any vista
ton, molestation, or detention of such vessel:
by force or by the exhibition of force, on the
part of a foreign power, is in derogation o
the sovereignty of the United States.
ResoLged, That the recent and repeated vi
%olation of this immunity, committed by YES
sells of war belonging to the navy of Grea
Britain in the Gulf of Mexico, and the ada
cent seas, by firing into, interrupting, anC
otherwise forcibly OBTAINING them on their
voyage, requires, in the judgment of the Sen
ate, such %unequivocal and final disposition o
the subject, by the Government Of Great Bri
tain and the United States, touching tn
rights involved, as shall preclude hereafte
the occurrence oflike aggressions.
ResolDed, That the Senate fully approve
the action of the Executive in sending a ma
val force into the infested seas, with order
ito protect all vessels of the United States O
the high seas from search or detention by tn
vessels of war of any other nation" And
is the opinion of the Senate, that, if it becom
necessary, such additional legislation shout
D be supplied in aid of the Executive Power
r shall make such protection effectual.
MEMPHIS, June 4-The steamer Penn8y
r vania, exploded her boilers and was burnt
the waters edgeo on Sunday morning, 70 mile
below this city. Three hundred and fit
e passengers were on board, one hundred
whom, it is believed, are killed or missing.
CENTRALIA, ILL, June 15.-Sixty sufferer
by the Pennsylvania disaster arrived hel
from Cairo, bound for St. Louis. They we
d most destitute. The number of passenge
ii is estimated at 400, and it is thought tn
O. $50 were lost.
4 BosroN, June 12.-The French packet fro
st. Pierre to Sydney reports a heavy ga
70 previous to the LIST inst, on the Banks
Newfoundland, attended with immense 10
4 of life and property to the French fsherme
" Besides the loss and damage of vessels, it
:, said that no less than three hundred mt
i persisted during the storm.
j. Crops DEsTRoYED.-The amount of sug
r destroyed by the inundation in Louisiana
estimated at fifty thousand hogsheads,-wo
" So, 600, 900. The cotton destroyed by t
Id overflow on the banks of the Mississippi, it
w said, will be 100, 600 bales, whose value wou
sh probably be $4,000, 600. In the Waba
TX Valley, as represented by the Evansvi
to Journal, the losses by the farmers and pro
-erty-owners will certainly be equally as heaN
ot F95" The Weldon correspondent of the
d, tersburg Democrat, says:
III The latest intelligence with regard to t
mail arrangements is of a very interest
to character. 1t seems that the announcemC
of a transfer of the great northern and sou
he ern mails to the Lynchburg route was p
he mature. A contract has been closed with
is Department, l learn, by which those m;
be- are to come this way, and thence to Charl
ort ton via the Wilmington and Weldon, "
Use mington inc Manchester, and northeast R
roads-thence to Fernandira by Steame
is thence across Florida by Railroad, and the
by steamers to New Orleans. The ii
ms agreed upon is considerably less than pro
ole sed by any other route, and the Califor
of weekly mails are to be carried on the EN-
route. The Department pays an additio
$3.50 per mile for the service.
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