The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-03-11
GENERAL SUMMARY.

New York, March Tt is reported on pref
ty good authority that the Adriatic. Atlantic,
and Baltic, will be bought ia at the public
sale OF these vessels, by Messrs. Brown, Broth
ers, & Co., they being the largest creditors and
that they will continue the line as heretofore,
with the Sl92 $50 mail contract. 1t is also re-
ported that the trips of the hue will be extend.
ed to Southampton and Havre, and that the
vessels will commence running in the course of
month or SIX weeks.
Filibuster Walker is still lecturing about the
towns and villages of Louisiana, but the people
have lost their interest in his movements.
The Journal Of Commerce quotes the Leav.
enworth Ledger 10 show that there has been a
revulsion of opinion in Kansas, and that the
people are now willing to accept the Lecomp-
ton Constitution. The Ledger is the only
Lecompton paper in the Territory, and ia sus-
taired directly by the Administration. which
feeds It with the publication of the Government
laws and advertising.
The Legislature of Texas has not responded
to Gov. RunneIss message proposing to make
the rejection OF the Lsconpton Constitution by
Congress the cause Tor immediate preparation
for disunion. The joint committee to whom
Tug SGDJECb WAS EGtcTFSU rSpCrLSQ q series OF
resolutions, which were debated, opposed, and
referred, and returned back amended, and
finally passed the Senate
The bequest of S45, 900 10 Harvard College, by
the late DR.. Treadwell, of Salem, was encum-
bered with such conditions as to make it USE
less, and tee college therefore declines it. Ire
sum goes, by provision for this contingency in
the will, to the Massachusetts, General Hospital
at Boston.
The Secretary of War thinks be can send
into the field against the Mormons about 5000
men, without any addition to the army. We
have 70 donbt this would prove enough for the
purpose. But the Administration will press
again their demand for new regiments
Several of the officers of the army who are
now in Washington, who understand the nature
Of the country where the army of Utah rests,
and through which it has to march, as well as
the character of the Mormons, express great
fears for the men out there, unless they be rein
forced. General Harvey and other officers are
at the War Department daily, and urge the
sending out of sufficient reinforcemenis i'm.
nediately. If this be not done, the fate Of our
little army in passing through the narrow and
deep passes from Fort Bridger to Salt Lake
City may be like that Of the British army in
the Kyber Pass, in lndia, some years ago.
The Capitol is a miniature world, and world
of wonder, too. Its length is 74O feet and its
width 270, and covers, including its terraces,
which enclose q series of rooms come FIVE OF
Six acres of land The new dome, nov ID pro
cess of construction, will surpass in grandeur,
in beauty of conception, ia style and magnif-
cence, anything of the kind on this continent,
and perhaps not excelled by any similar struc-
ture in the world. 1t will rise 800 feet from the
base and 230 feet from the top of the building,
and will be surmounted by colossal figure,
representing the Genius of America, designed
by Crawford. The pediments in the extensons
a.e also to be filed with colossal g. stuary, much
of which ia already cut, and ready to occupy
its place.
The Westport Mo correspondent of the Re.
publican states that Mr.. Kitchen, from New
Mexico, brings intelligence of desperate fight
having occurred between the Pawnee and Ara
pahoe Indians Oil the Pawnee Fork, in which
ten of the former were killed. MIR. Kitchen
also reports being present at a meeting of
large number of Csmanche and Kiowa Indians,
who expressed the best feeling towards the
whites, and stated that as far as they were con-
cerned, the trains would not be molested. The
Indian tribes we're all quiet In New Mexico.