Freeman's champion., 1858-06-03
Terms---S2 Per Annum
Editorial Brevities.

trmed by the Senate, in his office Of
Receiver at Fort Scott.
A frightful accident occurred
on the 11th inst. on the N, Y. Cen.
tral Railroad, at q point 81 miles.
west of Utica. It was caused by tho
crushing of a bridge. Over 40 were
injured, eight Of whom were dead,
and five Others we're net expected to-
survive at the last accounts.
Henry Dwight, a Wall street
broker, was arrested in N. Y. City,
on charge Of embezzlement, fraud
and purjury in connection with the
Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad,
by which bondholders and creditors
of that company, as we'll as several
New England banks and New York
merchants, are sufferers to the amount
Of millions of dollars. Warrants
have been issued for the arrest Of
Henry Hotchkiss and Hamilton Spen-
Ger, charged with completely in the
same affair.
- One hundred and twelve loco A.,
motives are in use on the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad Of which twenty-one
burn coal.
Three thousand cmigrantS q
day are pouring into the Territories,
by way of the Missouri river.
- Gov. Aston, of South Caro-
lima, has appointed j. P. Payne, U.
S. Senator in place ex-senator Evans,
deceased. The term expires March
4, 1889, So, it seems, Mr.. Keitt
does not come in this time--probably
because he "stubbed his toc." We
believe this is Mr.. Paync's first ap:
pearance in Congress.
-. Candidates for State offers
have been put in nomination by the
Republicans and Democrats in Ore
gon, and an active campaign is in
progress.
- The Washington correspond
ent of the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser says that the French SRolia-
ton bill will be passed over till the
next session, when, if the treasury
should recover from its embarasS-
ments, it may have a good chance.
1t would no doubt be vetoed now.
Green, it is said, is to be the
fashionable color for ladies at this
time, and likely to remain so all
the summer. ALT various articles
Of summer attire is said to have more
or less of this vsrdGncy about them.
Greenness in man would be laughed
at, but the ladies are privileged char
acters, even to the extent Of being
green, though not verdant.
- Henry Livingston, of New
York, has been confirmed consul Of
Genoa.
- The experiment upon the new
paying out machine for the Atlantic
Gable, demonstrated its perfect sue
cess. On the 30th the Agamnon had
1860, and the Niagara 900 miles Of
wire on hand. The directors had de-
cided to order 100 miles moro cable,
SO that there will be on each ship 4
surplus Of over 500 miles.
----- The French Government finds
it necessary to be less stringent in itS
administration than it has been for
some months past.
----- The English Ministry has
lust carried q test question through
the House Of Commons by an almost
unanimous vote. II was on tho mo-
tion Of Mr.. Disrsalli to transfer the
Government Of India from the East
India Company to the Grown, which
involves a complete change in tho
system adopted hitherto in relation
to that portion Of the British Empire
-- Very generally the Scpoy in
surgents are being crushed out by the
British armies in. India Several
important engagements have lately
tAkon place. in VII Ofwhich tho nativeu
were defeated with great loss,
The skin Of boiled egg 10
the nosk efficient remedy that can be