Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-09-30
THE NEWS.

The steamship Moses Taylor, arrived at
New York, from Aspinwall, on Tuesday last,
with $l,5T0, 924 in treasure
Geo. Penn johnson, Clerk Of the Circuit
Court, editor of the Natioal, and an Admins
~tration Democrat, fought a desperate duel on
Angel Island on the 2lst ult., with W. J..
Ferguson, State Senator from Sacramento and
anti-Lecompton Democrat. They exchanged
four shots, and on the last Ferguson had his
thigh broken. The affair grew out of a polit-
zeal controversy.
The accounts from the gold fields on Frazer
river are very encouraging. The miners are
busily employed, and gathering from five to
fifty dollars worth of dust per day. The In
dams were somewhat troublesome, aud several
white persons had been killed by them. The
Governor had sent an agent among the saw
ages, who had patched mp q sors of truce, but
apprehenslons prehailed that sk Indians con-
templated a general uprising against the in
~truslve miners. The Governor of the British
possessions, though averss to the outrages
committed by the Indians, is altogether op-
posed to the American settlers assuming the
right to chastise their foes whenever they deem
the provccation sufficient to justify their so
doing.
With regard to the Indian war In Oregon
we learn that the troops, numbering nine hun
dred, under Col. Wright, had marched into
the region inhabited by the hostile tribes -
On the 18th Of August Lieut. TX. Allen. oil
the Ninth Regiment, with fifteen men. was
ordered to surprise and attack a party Of In
dams in the neighborhood of Fort Simoe. Hel
succeeded in the enterprise, captaring twenty
one men fifty women and children. and a num-
Der of horses and cattle, but was m~ortallyl
wounded in the conflict, and died in a few
ours after reaching camp.
The third mate of the whaling brig Law
Erens a Portuguese, named Antoine. was fonnd
murdered in New London, Conn.,, on the gath.
He left his boarding house soon after four
o'clock in the morning. and was found dead in
the1street with a small dagger in the breast.
The cause of the murder is not yet known.-l
The person who found the body saw two men
and q woman leave the spot suspiciously as he
approached. The murdered man was paid
off the day before.
The Wyandstte Gazette, of the 18th inst
says that yesterday ten thousand dollars in
gold dust arrived at St. Davis Kansas, from
Pixies Peak. One man brought six thousand
the result of a few weeks work.
VIM. G. Clark was executed at Danvillo
Pa, on the oath inst, for the murder of his
wife by poison. He made a speech of nearly
an hours length, asserting his innoeeoee
and endeayorlng to implicate other parties,
while ayowing his readiness to die.
A German named Michael Elk killed his
wife at Cincinnati, on the 23d, by stabbing
her in the breast. The cause was jealousy.
A woman named Schelling. at Groyeport.
Ohio, committed murder on the 23d. bv throw.
ing into a well thirty-fve feet deep her four
children, one a boy, the other three girls the
Oldest twelve years, the youngest two wears.
She then jumped in herself. All were taken
out dead. The woman is supposed TO be in
sane.
Enoch Danforth, of Lagrange, and VIM. n
were killed by lightning ON the night
of the 22d, at Bangor, Me, the former was
in the barroom at the time, and the
other was on the road with his team Of horses
George Mercer, an Englishman, and a cut
Ter by trade, was killed in a prize fipbt in
New Haven Conn, by VIM. Houston, another
Englishman. Aut one witness present. /.
They fought five rounds. On the first fwol
fell, and on the other three Mercer
and did not recover from the last. His
brain was found to be congested. Houston Is i
committed for examination to-day. J,
Two brothers, Morris and Michael Taomev :
and John Hayes and John Keboe. got into - /
hgns sh Ffmay morning, corner of First /
asenue auu lenta street, During the melee {
The Tuomeys were defeated. and Morris was +
nnocAeu aown " q severe bloE on the hoad. ]
= reinaiugu insehsloie q short time. and then
IA A H. =. yes aha hoooe were arrested by 9
The returns of the Maine election. exclus;ve !
IF thirty-two districts, which last wear gave !
S58 3 Publiean.ss and se2 Democratic votes. ]
Dot up thus: !
Morrill,, (Rep.,) soI5elc
Smith, DEM 5t,iG3 t
MorrilPs majority. 1858 9
The State Sanata will oonc;s4 or tL;.t, d. :.