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

The overland mail, from San Francisco on the
18th ultimo, has arrived at st. Louis. The alta
California furnishes the following summary
of news since the departure of the steamer mail
of the 5th
The first mail from St. Louis reached San
Francisco unexpectedly on the morning of the
10th, twenty-four days out, and arrangements
were being made to appropriately celebrate the
event.
telegraphic dispatch had been received
from the summit of the Sierra Nevada.
The steamer Cortes sailed for Victoria on the
9th, with only twenty passengers but steamers
were daily returning from Victoria, loaded down
with disheartened miners.
The total amount of Fraser river gold dust
deposited in the San Francisco Mint to October
LIST was 1000.
On the night of the 9Th, fire at jamestown
destroyed twenty-seven houses, involving loss
Of $3.50, 900.
Business generally since the departure of the
steamer had been quiet, but the demand from
the country was full
BY the arrival at New Orleans of the schooner
Victoria, Capt. Wilson, the Picayane has dates
from Tehuantepec to the 25th ult.
The Victoria went to Minatitlan with cargo
of lumber for the Tehuantepec Company
Captain Wilson informs the Picay,ne that
everything connected with the Tehuantepec
Conpany's affairs the Isthmus was progress
ing favorably. Every preparation was made to
take the mails by the Quaker City over, without
loss of time.
Enough lumber had been received from Pen
sacola to build about twothirds of the number
of bridges required to cross the numerous small
mountain streams that ntersect the route. The
company had about five hundred men actively
engaged on the roads and bridges, under the
supervision of the company's superintendent,
Mr.. John Mcleod Murphy.
The cOmpanys steamer Jasper was running
regularly, and had made already many trips,
conveying passengers, laborers and materials.
The barque Flash, from New York, entered
the river at the moment of the Victoria's de-
parture, having on board full cargo of mate
rails for the company, comprising some twenty
stages, with harness, coal, hay, &c. and about
thirty stagedrivers and teamsters.
ST. Johns, n F., Nou. 4.-The Government
of this Province has agreed to pay the New
York and Galway Steamship Company $40 500,
in addition to the grant of $4,000 by the I'm
perial Government, in consideration of the Com
panys making this port port of call for their
steamers semi-monthly to and from New York
and Galway The company are bound to make
the passage between Galway and st. Johns
within seven DAYS. With a view to afford the
public every accommodation in their power,
the steamship company will receive here tele-
graphic dispatches to the latest moment, and
forward the same to Galway where they will
be delivered as they may be directed, as soon
as the steamers arrive at that port. The Tele-
graph Companies associated with the American
company (2l Wall street, have also agreed to
receive all dispatches which may be offered,
and transmit the same through to this place
to intercept the steamers, or, failing to do SO,
no charge will be made for tolls. Thus the
public of the United States will be placed with
in seven days of Galway and London, and uice
Uersa. The next steamer from this port for
Galway will leave on or about the 18th inst.
The Cincinnati Commercial publishes the fol-
lowing communication from Nicholas Long
worth, the great wine manufacturer of that city ::
"All the papers had, giving the cure for
scrofula, have been distributed to persons send
ing for the remedy. / have never heard of a
case where it did not effect speedy cure, and
in no case do any injury. In several instances,
where it has been applied to old sores, it has
also speedily effected perfect cures. Put one
ounce of aquafortis in a bowl or saucer drop in
it two copper cents it will efervesce; leave the
cents in; when the effervescence ceases, add
two ounces of strong vinegar. The fluid will
be a dark-green color. 1t should and will
smart. If too severe put in little rain water.
Apply it to the sore, morning and evening, by
soft brush or rag. Before applying it, wash
the sore with water. Its first application
known to me was poor GIRL sent to our city
from Memphis to have her leg cut off, as it was
feared she might not live long enough to have
it cut off in that hot climate.
"She was refused admittance to the poor
house, and was lying on the sidewalk, as she
could not even stand up. From her knee to
her foot, one-third of the flesh was gone and all
the skin, except strip about two inches wide:
She was laid ON bed, and the remedy placed
on chair by it. She could not rise up and
apply it. In few days her peace of mind re-
turned, and she declared it was getting well.
1t was supposed it was relief from the pain
only, but when examined, fresh flesh was found
growing, and the skin over it. She was soon
running about and would work, which delayed
the entire cure, leaving small sore, (Which was
in few months entirely healed. A Young girl
with scrofula in her neck, having q large open
hole and deemed incurable, came one month
after entirely cured, and recently married, with
her husband, on their way to the East have
never known case where it did not effect q
cure"
The Rev. Mr.. Grove, Missionary to Central
America from the American Bible Union, has
been expelled by the Government from the
State of Salvador In July last, Mr.. c. opened
a school in San Miguel, but through the inter
ference of the priests attempt was made to
drive him away, and he was ordered up to the
capital. On his way he was seized by an armed
force, taken to Acajutla, and placed on board
the Columbus bound to Panama. The case,
as represented by Mr.. Grove himself, appears
to be one of great hardship on his part, and of
unjust persecution on the part of the authori-
ties of these States. Independent of the anx-
iety which he has had to undergo, his health has
been seriously impaired by his Imprisonment in
close, damp room in Acajutla, and he has
been compelled to leave all his property behind
him.-Boston Journal.
A late letter has been received BY a gentle
man OF this city, from a member of the Bound
airy Commission appointed to run and mark the
boundary line between the United States terri
tory and the British possessions, from the
Pacific coast to where the line is already estab-
lished 1t is dated at Camp, on the Bay of
Simiahano, September 5th. The writer says
that the English Commissioners appointed to
run the same boundary arrived one year after
the American Commissioners, and took the field
in August last, the Americans being ahead OF
them on the survey. 1t was the expectation OF
both parties to reach Fort Colville, near the
head waters of the Columbia river, by next
spring, if the Indians do not prove too trouble