Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-19
Additional AtInntfc Ne,vs.

travel, and says;
The Company have made every prepara-
tion to open the Tehuantepec route by the
lst of November In July last sailing YES
sci left New York with a large number OF
workmen who are to take active steps in
opening the road, and have provisions and
other material in abundance to last them un-
til November They were expected to ar
rive out 10y the last of August The officials
with them had the authority and means to
emplov five hundred natives to aid the white
workmen in the road making labors An
other vessel from this port has taken down,
among other supplies, some forty or fifty well
trained American mules, that are intended
to be used in breaking for coach drawing ser
vice some fifteen hundred mules, which the
companv's officials have been orduel to
purchase. The stage coaches, harness and
other material of that kind, with the hotel
requirements for travellers, have been pur-
chased at the North, and the Company here
expect daily to hear that these articles are
shipped. The materials for several frame
houses for the accommodation of passengers,
| employees, etc, have also been shipped, and
at Pensacola five schooner loads of prepared
timber, for the bridges required on the road,
have been ordered, some of which has al
ready shipped. The company has had built
in New York a small iron steamer, TO carry
about 500 passengers and their baggage, and
to draw only % inches, and which Is destined
| for the trafiick on the CoatZacoalos river.
The steamer will be at her destination on
the lst of October in time to start on the
first regular mail and passenger trip. The
steamer Jasper has been chartered for three
months to run up and down the Coatzacoalos
| river and transport the workmen, engineers,
road materials, etc She leaves here to-mor-
row for Tehuanterec with party of engineers
laborers, mules and other needed resources.
Meanwhile Vanderbilt and Garrison are
not idle. Vanderbilt, it is said, has received
notice that the present subsidy of $4,000
per month will be withdrawn after the lst of
October, and is negotiating for the establish
ment of a weekly line ria Panama, to alter
nate with the present trips of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, to which end a
charter is said to be in view Of the Atlantic
and Baltic, late of the Collins line, which are
capable of being altered in their cabin and
steerage arrangements to accommodate each
1900 passenges.
The present Department of the Pacific is
to be divided into two distinct departments
the southern to oe called the Department of
California, with the headquarters at San
Francisco, to be commanded by Brevet Brig
adler G eneral Clarke, of the Sixth Infantry !;
and the northern to be called the Department
of Oregon, to embrace the Territories of
Washington AMI Oregon, with the exception
of the Rogue River and Umpqua districts,
with the headquarters at Fort Vancouver, to
be under the command of Brigader General
IIarney. The great extent of the former De
partment, and the consequent length of time
necessary for the transportation of troops
and supplies from one extremity to the other,
are among the reasons which have induced
this movement
Col. Harris, member of Congress from the
Sixth District in illinois, came near commit
ting a fatal mistake the other day. Ieswal-
lowed pisonous mixture instead of medi
cine BY instantly forcing the poiso ing
stuff from his stomach, his life was saved,
though the escape was narrow one,
In a speech delivered at New Albany, Ind,
the Hon. VIM H. English, author of the Kan
sas bill, repudiates one of its provisions, by
declaring that he will vote for the admission
Of Kansas whenever represents herself with
a Consultation legally formed and approved
by the people of the Territory.
Judge James B. Bowln, of Missouri, has
accepted the mission to Paraguay. Several
other gentlemen had b en- favorably named
in that connection, but he had the superior
advantage ofprominence of political position,
in addition to his fitness for the important
station. He was United States Minister to
Bogota under the late Administration.
Capt de Riviere, the Zouave, so disgrace
fully notorious from his persecution of the
Blount family of Mobile, was arrested on the
9th inst, for an assault upon Mr., Grant of
the Nicaraguan Army, and held to bail IN
the sum of $500 to answer the charge at the
Court of Special Sessions.
The vote for Governor in Vermont in sew
enteen towns foot up 1883 for IIiland Hall,
Republican, 2,ll8 for Henry Keyes, Demo
crat--a net Republican gain of 22O over last
year, and indicating an increase on the whole
vote of about 5000 over the majority of last
year. The Republican candidates for Congress
are elected by large majorities
The Republicans have carried Maine by
decreased majority In three Congressional
Districts, which two years ago gave $500
majority, they only have AGO this year. Nor
rill, for Governor, leads Smith about 1900
votes. The Republica ms elect all their Con.
gressmen, French, in the third district, re
ceiying only 2S majority. They also have
large majority on joint ballot, thus securing
the election of Republican U. 5. Senator.
jim Lane, of Kansas, has been whipped,
as we learn by the st. Joseph papers The
whipping was done by lawyer named Quig-
ly, and occurred in one of the border towns
of Kansas Lane was dissatisfied with the
thrlshing, and sent challenge to Quigly.
1t was accepted, and a duel was expected.
A locomotive on the Hamilton and DAYTON
railroad, when near Cummingsville, Ohio. a
few days since, ran into the carriage of Mr..
d. p. Fessenden. Mrs. Fessenden was thrown
ont of the carriage and caught in the cow
catcher She was carried some distance
when she was picked up horribly mangled
corpse.
We learn from Washington that the Gov.
ernment has concluded treaty" with the
American Colonization Society, by which the
Society agrees to take charge of and instruct.
for year after their arrival in Liberia, the
Africans taken from on board the brig Put
nam. Something near $4,000 is the sum
the Government is to pay.
The Young Mems Christian Association. of
Baltimore, are taking up collections for the
relief of those who are suffering from the
fever in New Orleans. The Young Mems
Christian Association of the latter city have
between two and three hundred sick under
treatment, and are sadly in want of funds.
a young woman named Henry was shot
at Pittsburg on the 18th September by Thos.
Smithson. She refused to speak with him
when he was intoxicated, whereupon he
drew pistol and shot her Smithson has
been arrested. Miss Henry is not yet dead,
but is beyond the hope of recovery
suRGERY-Charles Wooge, German, was