Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-05-01
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Our Washington Correspondence O
the 9th received yesterday afternoon
contains no items of importance, in ad
dition TO those which we have report.
Cd in our telegraphic column.
The following additional European
items, We find in the mails by the Can
ada.
The Paris correspondent Of the
Manchester Guardian states that an.
other plot to assassinate the Emperor
Of the French had been discovered, and
that this Was the cause for the great
military display At the Inauguration Of
the new Boulevard de Sebastopol.-
The ceremony was originally intended
70 have been . purely civil and NUM-
cipal one. DR.. Simon Bernard, late of
the French navy, had been put on tri-
q before . special commission in Lon
don, charged with being an accessory
before the fact to the attempt Of Qrsini
and Others to assassinate his Majesty
the Emperor of the French. In his
charge to the Grand Jury Justice
Campbell held that if Bernard was
privy to the plot, Orsini, Pierri, Gomez
and de Rudio, in throwing the grena-
des - they did, must be considered as
having acted in conformity with his
plans and instructions, and he was rs
werable as accessory for the conse-
quences. The Grand Jury found four
true bills, two Of which charged the
prisoner as a principle with the MUIR
der Of persons named Nicholas, BATH
and Eugene Rigueur. The other
charged him with being an accessory
before the fact to the commission Of
tho same murders.
The Fort Leavcnworth correspon-
dent Of the New York Times learns
from the renegade Elder, F. Loba, that
Brigham Young is about to receive a
Especial revelation" directing him to
run away on the approach OF the Uni
ted States troops. He also thinks that
the statements Of the Elder are entitled
to credit.
The persons who again fired the
Quarantine buildings at Sequines
Point, Staten Island a few days since
have not yet been discovered.
The Steamer Cortez, Of New York
NOT q Spanish vessel as we supposed
the seizure Of which, as we yesterday
announced in our telegraphic column,
had created an intense excitement in
Havana, was taken, on Sunday night,
18th inst, by the English war steamer
Forward, on suspicion of being a SLAYER.
They we're lying at anchor under
Stone Key. Light, entrance Of Garden
- on Monday evening, 10th inst
The vessel was dismasteG and seriously
injured in various ways; but was, We
understand, totally innocent of any
connection with the Slave trade. 1t
10 now time that some steps were be.
ing taken to prevent these continual
outrages by this English Man-of. War,
upon American vessels.
Townsend in regard to whom there
was 80 much conflicting testimony as
to whether he was Townsend the noted
highwayman or M'nenry, an honest,
hard working man residing in Califor
mia, who was discharged few days
since, after a protracted trial, for muir
der and was Immediately rearrested on
another similar charge, has again
been acquitted and is now under arrest
third time. The charge on this oc-
casion ia highway robbery.
The alarm felt in regard to the ex-
traordiuary numbers of fires in Torou.
to, Canada West, is greatly increasing
Scarcely night passes without one OF
more of destructive character 1t is
supposed they were set by an organ
lied band of incendiaries. An extensive
patrol is being organized and large
reward offered in the hope of arrcsting
them.
It is said by the Washington cores
pendent Of the New York Evening
Post, that there are this moment one
thousand men, under command of ono
Of Walkers lieutenants, encamped on
the Northern bank Of the Rio Grande,
waiting orders to make descent upon
the Mexican provinces Of Tamaulipa.
and Neuvo Leou. 1t is believed tina,
this army is gathered to advance the
ambitious views of Comonfort, late
President Of the Mexican Republic.
A court martial commenced at New
mort Barracks, Kentucky, on Wednes
day, for the trial of Brevet Maj. Gen
Twiggs, on charges preferred BY the
Secretary Of War.
Tbs whole thing turns upon a mat
ter Of discipline in the army. for, if a,
officer ::of . subordinate grade can b.
allowed to criticise and bring into die
repute the acts Of his superior, then q
discipline is At an end. It will be a.
sumed, perhaps, that the order of tn
Secretary Of War, which was the sub
jectof criticism by Gen. Twiggs, though
expressing the views of the Command
erin CHIEF, did not come properly from
superior in the army, and that j
WA therefore, competent for Ger
Twiggs to comment upon it. Eve
this may we'll be doubted, for it is dea
tructive Of the interests Of the servic,
lbe any officer to arraign the Secretar
az War for acts done in his official CT
paeity, and which, it may be presuu
"a, ere never done without the san,
Ion Of the President himself.
The express to Gen Garland, cen
uandee Of the United States forces
Nov Mexico, directing him TO furnil
ChpG Marcy On additional military
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