The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-03-11
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. c, MARCH IL, 1858

senator Sumner, says the New York Evenino
Iost, appears to be gratefully remembered in
| the young Territory whose rights he defended
so memorably and at so severe a cost. A town
bearing his name has already been established
in Kansas, of which the geography and history
are given in the following paragraph from a
Western paper:
The growth of Sumner ia almost without
parallel in the history of the West. The town
is not four months old, and contains some fifty
houses, four hundred inhabitants, a good school,
i've stores, two brick yards, two steam mills,
and printing office, from which issues the
Sumner Gazette, paper having wide Eastern
circulation"
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Erening Post, under date of February
18th, says:
=" Mr.. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, is
here, trying to divert the South Americans from
voting for Lecompton. This balance of.power
party have had several caucuses for the consid
Grafton CT the question whether they will leap
into the gulf opened for them by the blunders
of Buchanan's Administration, aud precipitate
a civil war upon the country; or whether thew
will take the responsibility of averting the
pending calamity, saving the country from a
bloody internal strife, aud administering lust
rebuke to the sectional powers that be-"
Boston, March 6.-The Portland correspond
ent of the Journal says: There has been some
talk of OBTAINING the steamer North American,
when she arrives here, till the facts of her run.
ming down the barque Leander in the English
channel, can be inquired into, as there appears
to be gross negligence somewhere"
The North American is due at Portland,
about Tuesday next.
The United States steam frigate Niagara sail
Cd from New York on Saturday, for England,
to iesume the attempt to lay the electric tele.
graph cable across the Atlantic. The Post SAYS:
The Niagara is the largest ship in the
world, Except the Leviathan, Just launched at
London,) but her movements, as she passed
among the vessels in the river and through the
ice, were as easy and quick and graceful as
those of our river steamers. She is to take
oDehalf the cable on board, and an English
ship probably the Agamemnon) will take the
other half. The two ships will then proceed to
mid ocean, where they will unite two ends Of
the cable, and then one steamiDg for England
and the other for America, will occupy but half
the time in laying the whole which would be
required in the attempt to commence at the
English coast aud proceed continuously 10 this
The chances of fair weather during the process
will thus be doubled. The time occupied, after
the vessels part from the starting point, will, if
no accident occurs, oe about seven to eight DAYS
in reaching the two shores. The Niagara will
probably return to this country in August.
We have accounts from almost every section
of the country of the gradual revival of bust.
ness. The cotton factories at Lancaster, it is
stated, are about to resume operations At
Lewiston, Me-, all the mills will soon be at
work. with 10000 additional spindles in one of
them. The Woonsocket, (R. ~ cotton mills,
which have been running only FIVE days in the
week, are about to be put upon full time. Ii
Massachusetts,, the Bay State mill at Lawrence
now employs 600 hands, and will, it is believed,
ere long be in full operation. The Pemberton
mill is about to begin running under the new
owners, and the Duck mill in Lawrence has
renewed work.
The death of freeman Hunt, of the Mer.
chants Magazine, is national loss. For near
ly twenty years, he has lsboriously and unre-
mittingly devoted himself to the duties of a work
which has established its fame on both sides of
the Atlantic, as the eblest and best of all sta
tistical and commercial publications.
The Hon. Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mis-
sissppi, will not, it is said, be able to Fill his
seat in the Senate for two months. His physi-