The Placer herald., 1858-10-30
Arrival of the Overland Mail.

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The overland mail by the Butterfield route
arrived at San Jose on the 22d inst with
four days later news from the Atlantic States.
The Atlantic Telegraph is yet out of order,
and fears are entertained of its failure. 1t is
thought the difficulty exists in the shore end
on the Irish coast, and that a portion Of the
cable will have to be taken up In answer
to the dispatch of Cyrus w. Field, Mr.. De
Sanity, the chief electrician at Trinity Bay,
sends the following:
TRINITY BAY, N. F., Sept oath.
To Cyrus W. Field: In reply to your in
quiries of to-day, l reply that | received no,
thing Ineligible from Valentia since the lst
of September, with the exception Of few
signals, yesterday. l cannot, therefore,
send anything to Valentia. There has been
very little variation in the electrical manifes-
tatons De SANITY.
The Africans taken on board of the SLAYER
Echo, short time since, and now on the
Niagara preparatory to being returned to
their own country, Capt Chauncey writes to
the Secretary of War, that two-thirds of
them were suffering with the diarrhpa, and
nearly one-thrd with asthma. Two of them
died within a day after being received on
board of the vessel.
The steamship arabia upon her arrival at
Halifax, reported having fell in at sea with a
steamship on fire. No persons were seen on
board. The name Of the vessel could not be
ascertained. Much anxiety and apprehension
existed in reference to the matter.
The yellow fever still prevails at Savannah
and New Orleans.
Great excitement prevails in western Mis-
souri, and Kansas respecting the new gold
mines of Pixies Peak, in the Rocky Noun
tains Large numbers of persons were going
to the digg;ngs, and nearly every one was
under the influence of the gold fever.
Later Arrival.
Another mail by the Butterfeld route ar
rived at San Francisco on Tuesday last, with
Eastern dates to the 9th September.
The steamship on fire, seen by the Arabia,
proves to be the Austria Only 81 passen-
gers out of $50 were saved. A portion of
the rescued had arrived at New York and
Halifax
The Kansas and Missouri papers generally
admit that, while gold is found at Pixies
Peak, almost everywhere, it is in too small
quantities to pay. The average is not over
fifty cents day.
The N. Y. Herald says it is proved con
clusively that the deep sea cable line is not
broken, and that the continuity is not de
stroyed. The Board of Directors were to
hold meeting on the 1lth of October, and
have made preparations for the laying Of the
shore end. Hughes has not yet had an op-
portunity of trying his instruments on the
submarine line, and it would seem that the
electrical department is without any direc-
ton whatever. The Herald feels certain
that when tn. line is placed under the con-
troll Of able and experienced electricians, all
the dithcnties which have beset the enter
prise will be removed.
The yellow fever is abating rapidly at New
Orleans
Morphy, the American Chess player, was
beaten at Paris in bis first game with
Hwarwitz, the celebrated German player
On the 4th of September, Major Van
Doran's command had a fight with tie
Camanches in the Choctaw nation Forty
four Camanches were killed and wounded
and all their women and children taken
prisoners. Lieut.. Van Camp and three sol
diers were killed, and Major Van Doran
Capt. Ross, and eight soldiers wounded.
Robert n. Woodworth, cashier of the
Brighton Bank, Mass. who recently resigned
turns out to be a detauler He is a leading
Baptist in Brighton and the revelations o
his guilt are heard with concern by the church
Paul Morphy, the famous ohess-paye1
came of age last June. lie was born il
New Orleans in 1887; his mother was
French Creole.
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