The Placer herald., 1858-04-03
ARRIVAL OF THE JOHN L. STEPHENS

ARRIVAL OF THE JOHN L. STEPHENS
The Stephens arrived at San Francisco on
Wednesday morning, bringing 1897 passen.
gers, including ss2 women and children.
Miscellaneous Intelligence.
The Democracy Of Connecticut met in
convention at New Haven, and nominated
James T. Pratt for Governor; John Cotton
Smith, for Lieut.. Gov; F. Williams, ir.. for
Secretary of State Daniel B. Warner. for
Treasurer, and Peleg G. Childs, for Controll-
er. Resolutions heartily endorsing the policy
Of President Buchanan were adopted.
B. F. Washington has been confirmed as
Collector of San Francisco.
A large and enthusiastic meeting has been
held in New York city, to sustain the Ad.
ministration on Kansas affairs.
The Latest aevices from Col. johnson are
favorable. The army is in good spirits, and
we'll provisioned.
Large transactions have taken place in
sales Of California bonds; highest quotations
rs, 10, 80 1-2.
The N. O. Delta, in an editorial article.
asserts that the African Slave-trad has al
ready been reopened by the South and that
regular depot has been established on Pearl
River, in Mississippi, where cargoes of me-
groes have been received, and sold into
Slavery. The vessels engagedin the business
carry the French flag, because the British
cruisers ON the African coast will not trouble
it. The article bears the impress of being a
hoax.
The Louisiana House of Representatives
have passed bill authorizing a company,
which is already organized, to import $500
free blacks from the African coast, to be in
dentured for term of not less than fifteen
years.
The Contractors for the great Overland
Pacific Mail are in Washington, after addi-
tional Legislation for their benefit. They are
bound by contract to have their line in &C.
tive operation by September next, and if
they fail the contract will be assuredly for
feited. The prospect is not very f1attering.
The Senate Committee on Territories will
report a bill for the organization of the Ter
ritory of Arizona. 1t has been delayed by
a difficulty in reference to the boundaries.
The Texas Legislature have passed an act
providing that the entire public domain of
the State is for sale at fixed prices, in lots
varying at from 16O to 1880 acres. The
prices are TO range from 81 25 to 50 per
acre.
The y. S. Marshal Of Indiana made dis
cent upon gang of counterfeiters in Lafay-
cite, on the Goth, and arrested ten or twelve
Of them. large amount of bogus coin
was discovered. The gang Las long infested
the vicinity.
i,o
tion for Governor rendered him 10y the Ame-
rican Party in Connecticut on the ground
that the party is not national" enough.
The destruction of the Pacific Hotel, in
st. Louis, hy which 81 persons lost their
lives is believed to have been the worl of
IN incendiarv and murderer. A man nam
cd Taylor, formerly of California, was sus-
lsected Of having murdered Mr. Doane,
in the hotel, aud then fired the building
lie has been arrested.
Tie Massachusetts Senate has refused, by a
vote Of % to 7, to amend the resolve in rea-
tion to qualification of voters, Ivy substituting
9 for two years residence of foreigners, and
also rejected All amendment to substitute five,
ty a vote of 2G to 0.
Detroit has Il population Of 10000. In
1850 it had only 81 600.
The Dcmocatic State Convention, of Penn
sylvania, passed resolutions fully sustaining
the President in lis views on the Kansas
question.
LAWRENCE, Friday, Feb. 18th, 1858.
The Topeka Legislature, after recessl lof
three weeks, reassembled on the 10th inst.
The codifyiug Committee have made their
report. The code is composed of such laws
as are necessary to render the Government
complete, as it may he determined to put
into operation, in the event of Kansas being
admitted under the Lecompton Constitution.
Concurrent resolutions were introduced
into the Senate, setting forth that as Presi-
dent Buchanan, in his message, openly adj
vocated the passage through Congress Of the
Lecompton Constitution, Gov. Robinson be
requested to correspond with the Governors
Of States friendly 20 the peoples Govern
ernment in Kansas, and solicit their aid and
good Offices in case it should be necessary to
resist such an encroachment upon the prin-
cples Of republicanism.
Fears are entertained that the Constitu-
tional Convention bill, introduced into the
Territorial Legislature, has been lost, on ac-
count Of its not being sent to the Governor
in time to be returned aud passed over his
veto, should he not approve it. A similar
bill for Constitutional Convention has been
introduced into the Topeka Legislature, so
that If he first fails, the second can be re-
sorted to.
FoRr LEAvENwoRrH, X. T., Feb. ls.
In this Territory everything is quiet, with
the exception Of another outbreak, or trespass,
near old Fort Scott Some Of the DANTE
band Of the patriot, Jim Lane, are at work
agaia. Governor Denver sent to the COM
manding officer Of the fort for troops to dis
patch to the scene Of the emeute, for the pro-