Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1858-10-21
Three Days Later from Europe.


The Cunard steamship Africa has arrived,
bringing Liverpool dates to Saturday, the ID
inst
Tnc Ships Sultana and Ocean Chief had
reached Liverpool, with g36000O sterling from
Australia.
The ship Saranak, from Philadelphia, arriv
ed at Liverpool Oct I'd just as the steamer
Africa was about leaving s
The steamer Propeller, on arriving at Gal
way, had to be run around to prevent her sink
ing owing to leak
The steamers of the Galway line are here
after to call at ST Johns ~ +.
Prince Napoleon had met with distinguish
ed reception IRON the Emperor Alexander, at
Warsaw.
The Emperor Napoleon had returned from
BlarritZ, aud was about to visit the camp at
Chalons
The fortress of Vincennes was about to be
enlarged
The Spanish elections were expected to be
stormy RumOrS prevailed of a Ministerial
crisis but they were contradictcd.
The Russian Steam Navigation Company
has taken possession Of the port of Villa Franca
on the Mediterranean
Advices from Turkey and the East shcw
continued excitement against the Christians
The Indian and China mail previously tcIe-
graphcd, reached England on the I'd
Lord Elgm and Admiral Seymour had gone
to Japan. The French had gone to Cochin
China
The British Consul and all foreigners had
Quilted Canton.
The Chinese exchanges on England had de-
clined two per cent
The Steamship Propeller reached Galway
on the 29th nit the Fulton arrived ont on the
30th the Pacific on the lst and the Asia on
the 2d
Mr. Earley, one of the consulting electricians
of the Atlantic Teegraph Company, writes to
the Times IN response to an article calling in
question his estimate of the distance of the
faults in the cable He states that his means
of testing are rot wholly dependent upon the
resistance offered by the cable and that he
searched diligently for indications Of fault
nearer shore, bnt without success He also
says that by the modes of testing adopted by
him, the estimated distances are seldom more
than five per cent in error, and then only in
cases of difliculty In testing the Atlantic
cable he adopted four distinct modes. .-
The shaft of the Page Bank Coal Pit, near
Durham, took fire, while the men and BOYS to
the number of 50 were at work in the mine -
1t was feared the lives of all would be sacrificed
but after great eXertions in subduing the flames
u persons were drawn out of the pit alive and
the other ten dead
The ships Sultana with Rl6O, 900 of Aus
tralian gold, and the Ocean Chief with about
&200, 600, arrived at Liverpool on the lst,
from Melbourne ~
A letter from Bernc contradictS, in the
strongest terms report that the French Gov
ernment had addressed fresh note to the
Swiss Minister at Paris had received special
instructions on the subject. 1t is asserted
that the Emperor of the French is perfectly
satisfied with the decree published by the Fed
eral Council
Mr.. Morphy, the American chcsspaver,
had been astonishing the Parisians by repeating
his extraordinary performance of playing eight
games, with eight separate PLAYERS at one and
the same time without seeing the boards Mr..
Morphy won six of the games and the other
two were drawn. The play lasted ten hours,
during which time Mr.. Morphy never took the
slightest refreshment, and at the conclusion
did not appear to be much fatigued
s7'At Paris, on the lst inst the settlement on
the Bourse passed off easily, and the Three per
Cents closed at 73 80 for money and 73 35 for
account as "F -. H.. odds.
Some ships of the line were to proceed to
Cochin China to protect the Spaniards there
THE EPlnEmc SouTH.-The yellow fever is
on the decrease at Savannah, aud in Charles
ton the indications are that it has about done
its worst; but it hangs on at New Orleans with
a pertinacity and malignity that has always
marked its ravages there. 1t is to be hoped
the warning of the Howard Association, that
strangers stay away till frost sets in, will not
pass unheeded To go from this to that climate
Just now, is but TO add fresh fuel to the flame.
1t is curious fact-attested by common eX-
perience-that, duIing yellow fever epidemics,
clear and beautiful weather mostly predomin
ates Such is the case the present season at
New Orleans, and such was the case on pre-
vious visitations Of the pestilence Who can
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