, 1858-08-13
The P NJ. S. S. Co.'s steamer Panama-

W. l.. DALI, commander-arrived in the
harbor of Olympia OH yesterday morning
with freight, the mails and passengers
The dates from the al tlautic cities are nm
to July 5th.
CHAs. II. Mason, Esq, Secretary of the
Territory, returned from visit to the At
lantic side, on the Panama. lie was warm
ly and cordially received here by his friends
and on the announcement Of his arrival n
salute of one A~ndred guns were fired.
ELwOoD EVANS, Esq, of this place, ac.
cOmpanied by his lady and respOnsibilitvr
also returned on the Panama from visit
to friends and relatives in the east-tbe
Quaker City" and elsewhere, and were.
heartily welcomed back 10 the home os
their adoption.
The news brought by the Panama is by
no means startling or important, and we
shall not, this week, undertake to give de-
tails
Ahe M p o. 70. 5 steamer oregon
lately struck on Point Reycrs, during a
thick fog, which caused some fifty passeu.
gers to jump overheard and take their
chances on the rocks there, of whom six
are supposed to have drowned. The HI
son G. Hunt had also recently returned to
San Francisco, in leaky condition.
Concerning our relations with Great
Britain, the news is confirmed that "John
Bull " has backed down from the right of
search, and completely hauled in his horns
on that subject.
The London Star gives US a rumor that
Mr. Dallas has expressed his satisfaction
with regard to the arrangements Of Eng
land on this question
The Washington correspondent of the
San Francisco Herald, nnder date of June
Sd, says that the intelligence from Utah
IS ndecisivc as to the prospect of the abso-
lutte submission of the Mormons. Abont
two thousand FIVE hundred men will be
marched into Salt Lake city. Gen. Har-
ney has discretionary authority to advance
with an additional force or not, according
to the information he may Foceye.
p9- A regiment will be detached from
the Utah Army to suppress Indian hostli-
ties in Washington Territory, etc.
D6r The revenue does not increase, and
trade and business throughout the country
are very dull The whole amount of the
appropriations for the fiscal year now COM
menced is short Of seventy millions. Tho
Treasury Notes authorized have been is
sued, and proposals are offered for loan
of twenty millions, at five per cent. interest,
1t is believed that owing to the abundance
of idle capital the loan will be taken at
from five to ten per cent. premium
B6- General William Walker has pub
liShed q letter in which he denounces the
conduct Of Judge Campbell, who presided
at the recent farcical trial of the great fill
bnster in New Orleans A gentleman
from that city, who is well posted in all the
movements of the 6libusers, states positive
ly that Walkers plans for another attempt
upon Nicaragua are nearly matured. The
expedition is to be Of different character
from the former ones, but in what respect
it is to differ from them is not positively
known outside Of the leaders. 1t is whisp-
cred, however, that the General is to pro-
ceed to the Isthmus without on armed
force.
Da~ 1t is reported that Gen. Denver
will resign his office as Governor of Kan
saS, after the election on the lst Of August.
Mr.. Mix is now the Commissioner Of In
dian Affairs, but possibly Gen. Denver may
resume that post.
The Ocean Telegraph fleet had not
reached the Atlantic shores at last ac-
counts, although overdue. Fears are en-
tertained that the project will again bo un-
successful The great Leviathan is prepar-
ing for voyage to Portland, Maine, and
Queen Victoria is reported as about to in
crease the Royal family.
B9- The rumors of the disaster to Col
onel Steptoe's command in Oregon. are
disbelieved in Washington, General Clarke
sent no dispatches to the War Department
by last steamer, but his Adjutant, Captain
Mccall, writes that the rumors Of Steptoe's
reverses are unfounded. Captain Swords,
Quartermastcr, at San Francisco, however,
writes 10 the department, that he had re-
ceived Information of reVerses," and re-
quests that supplies and reinforcements may
be hurried forward.
D@-Commodore Vanderbilt has succeed
ed in obtaining from the Nicaraguan Gov
ernment the concession of the Transit route.
and will reopen it in the course of two or
three months
nas- A despatch from Washington says
Should the news about Col. Steptoe's stu
alton in Oregon prove true, one of the re-
giments of infantry now in Utah will be
Immediately pushed forward to Fort Walla
Walla.
Dar The Washington Star, of Thursday,
says the Attorney-General has decided that
the law prohibiting the Postmaster-G -Gener-
al from making any steamship or other con-
tracts for carrying the mails on sea for
lOnper DariO1 than two wears does NOT an