The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-09-30


ed with cloth, all belonging to the Government
were hkew Sc consumed. The property de
stroyed In the city comprised l2l dwellings,, i
docks, many of them full of goods, and stone
church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The
number of vessels lost, and the value of the
property destroyed, have not yet been ascer'
tanned"
The Boston Advertiser says of the Hon
Charles sumner, that at the last accounts he
was on his wayto A x, in Savoy, where douches
and ice were 10 be applied to the spine. After
few weeks of this treatment, be was to re-
turn to Paris, when the fire was again to be
applied. 1t is too early, as yet, TO say wbal
may be the result. Ii pain and suffering,
borne with heroic endurance, could insure
health, he certainly would have it. Meanwhile
We are grieved to learn that one result of the
active surgical treatment he has undergone has
been the development of neuralgia pains in the
chest, which have added to the discomforts OF
his long martyrdom.
The United States steam frigate Niagara ar
rived off this port on Saturday, about one
o'clockS T. NJ, and came to anchor in about
eight fathoms of water. Her topmasts can just
be distinguished from the city wharves over
Morris's Island. She has full frigate's guard
on board, consisting of three hundred sailors
and fifty marines.
Being DESTROYS of placing before our readers
all the incidents attending the removal of the
negroes from Fort Sumter to TIE Niagara, we
several days since made application to the
United States District Marshal for perm;ss;on
to allow gentleman connected with the Office
to be on board of the steamer which was 10
make the transfer. The Marshal received the
application very kindly, but declined our re.
quest, stating that no person would be permit.
ted to be on board but himself and two depu.
ties, not even the officers of the court, as he
considered that it would be highly indecorous
to give any information respecting the removal
OF the negroes to the public, through the press,
before the President had been informed
NO agent OF the Colonization Society is GU
board the Niagara, and the ship is provided with
sufficient stores only for the officers and crew.
The Marshal has, however, supplied from one
OF our Charleston merchants the necessary
stores for the Africans, which were convened
to the Niagara yesterday. The Marshal and
his assistants, the United States ATTORNEY, and
the ship chandler, we're the only parties allow
ed to visit the ship.
The steamer Gen. Clinch yesterday forenoon
visited Fort Sumter, took on board the Afri
cans, and conveyed them to the frigate. A
heavy sea was running, and it required all the
ingenuity OF the officers in charge to ship the
cargo. Finally, they hit upon the expedient.
80 successfully practiced among the Indians OF
South America in crossing rapid streams. The
frgate and the steamer were connected BY two
hawsers, and large tub placed upon a third
line, run from the spanker boom of the frigste
to the deck of the steamer, and thus the awful
chasm was bridged Upon this line the negroes
were placed, and hauled by tub fulls to the
frigate.- Charleston Mercury, 10th.
Lieut.. Habsrsham, of the steamer Powha.
tan, in his last letter from China to the Phila
delphis Ledger, thus describes the fraterniza.
ton OF the American and Russian Ministers to
China, which occurred after the English and
French had opened the route to Tien Sing:
mo sooner had the allies thus established
themselves at Tien-Sing, than our able repre-.
sentative, MIR. William b. Reed, left his large
cabin on board of the Minnesota, pulled on
board OF the Russian steamer OF war America,
hoisted the American flag at her fore, along.
side OF the lssian eagle, and was steamed no
towards Tlen'Sing. Then was seen strange
s'ght-an un natural one, Acknowledgements and
freedom walking hand in hand. On the quar-.
ter deck OF the Russian steamer of war Ameri
ca walked Count Poutaitine and Mr.. w. B
II SEQ, In earnest conversation below, in the
mess, Russian and American officers drinking
champagne and fraternizing and at the Amer
lcs's ferenast head waved the Hags of Russia
and the URited States, side by side"
Madame LIE Vert and Mrs. Anna Cora
Richie have declined the public demonstra-
ton of a matinee or soriee, with which several
papers have announced they were to bs com
plimented by their literary friends.
Some interesting unpublished letters of the
Lavater have recently been dis.
covered in st. Petersburgh. The Grand Duke
Constantine having directed that the library of
Paul | should be rearranged and catalogued,
a package of manuscripts was found, which
proved to be letters from Lavater to the EN-
press Maria Feodorowna.
The quickest rate OF locomotion, after the
electric spark, light, sound, and cannon balls,
is ascertained to be the fight of a swallow.
One of these birds has been let off at Client,
and made its way to its nest, at Antwerp, in
twelve and a half minutes, going at the rate of
five kilometres a minute ii. e. four and a half
miles, .
The announcement from Halifax that the ship
AsSoShhCosh
on the 18th inst, in latitude 45o l2/, longitude
4l0 49,, has created deep sensation in New
York. There are now on the Atlantic ten
steamships, namely, the Saxonia, Ariel, Alps,
Canada, Edinburgh, City of Baltimore, North
Star, Austria, New York, Prince Albert, and
Hudson. Ssven of the vessels are from New
York, bound to European ports, and three
the Austria, Prince Albert, and Hudsen-are
on their way to New York. The Herald SAYS !:
From careful examination into the proba
BILE positions of all the above. entioned steam
ships at the time the burning ship was seen, it is
conjectured that the unfortunate vessel was
either the Ariel, Alps, Canada, Edinburgh, or
Austria. The Austria sailed from Ham burg
via Southampton, on the 4.h inst for New York
and should have arrived some days since. She
has on board, it is supposed, upwards of 500
passengers. The information with regard to
the burning ship is very indefinite.
"The Journal Of Commerce says thesAustria
is the only one among the above with red
bottom, like the steamer on fire, but she has
not walking beam. Until some further par
liculars are received, the indemnity of the burn.
ing steamer is but matter of speculation. As
she lay in q frequented track, it is probable her
people succeeded in getting aboard some pass
ing vessel"
The President did not 90 to Wheatland to
meddle with the Congressional election-no-
not at abby no means. He went TO get his
razors sharpened by one of that class of biped
who have no rights that white man ia bound
10 respect. In witness whereof, the following
etter is published
WHEATLAND, Sept II, 1858.
"MR. WILLIAMS: The razors which you sent
ne by Miss Parker are excellent never owned
\ better. They have become a little dull by
constant use. would thank you to put them
n good order for me by tomorrow afternoon,
when I will send or call for them.
Yours, &C., JAMES BUCHANAN"