The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-03-04

number OF murders and ARRAYS had occurred
In various parts of the State. At San Diego,
Mr.. Getman, sheriff of Los Angeles county,
had been killed by an insane man named Reed,
from Texas. In a subsequent attempt to arrest
the murderer, regular battle ensued, which
resulted in the killing of the homicide, his body
being rddled with balls. A thrilling account
of the affair is given in our compilation of the
news. A suicide mania prevailed at San
Francisco. No less than thirteen suicides and
attempts at selfdestruction were perpetrsted
during the fortnight previous to the sailing of
the steamer. A duel had taken place between
two French editors. They fought with small
swords, and both were wounded.
There is nothing important from Oregon.
The gold mines on Frazer's river were said to
be rich in the precious ore.
The intelligence from Salt Lake City repre-
SCENTS the Mormons as suffering for want of pro-
visions, clothing, and dry goods. A party had
arrived at the Mohave river in quest of supplies,
and with orders to prevent the further emigra-
ton OF the Saints from Bernsrdino. Two COM
panies of artillery had been sent to San Bernar-
dino, to protect the inhabitants from any vio-
lence from the Mormons.
Nice Point of Law.
l heard this anecdote from a gentleman
long resident in Philadelphia Two Quakers
in that place applied to their society, as they
do not go to law, to decide in the following
difficulty A is uneasy about a ship that ought
to have arrived, meets B, an insurer, and states
his wish to have the vessel insured. The mat.
ter is agreed upon. A returns home, and
receives letter informing him of the loss of
his ship. What shall he do? He is afraid
that the policy is not filled up, and should B
hear of the matter soon, it is all over with him !;
he therefore writes to B thus: "Friend B, if
thee hasn't filed up the policy, thee NEEDN'T, for
Zee heard Of the ship" "Oh, oh !" thinks b
to himself, cunning fellow; he wants to do me
out of the premium" So he writes thus to A
=" Friend A, thee be'est too late by half an hour,
the policy is filed" A rubs his hands with
delight, yet B refuses to pay. Well, what is
the decision? The loss is divided between
Magazine, by the ReU. John Eagles, M. A.
The ship John Milton, Capt. Ephraim Hard.
ing, from Chincha Islands, via Hampton Roads,
bound to New York, with a cargo of guano,
was wrecked off Montauk, l.. l., on Saturday
last, during the severe snow-storm, and shortly
after became o total wreck. There are very
little hopes of any persons being saved from
her. Eight dead bodies had been found on the
beach; alsoi the captains writing .desk, with
some of the ships papers in it.
The John Milton belonged to E. & N. Robin
son, and others, of New Bedford, was very So
perior vessel of l,445 tons, built at Fairhaven
in 1854, valued at $4,000; freight $50, 900
and cargo about 5000 Total loss, $4,000
The John Milton, from her tonnage, we sup
pose had crew of about thirty persons.
The Hon. John Y Mason, our Minister tc
France, has written to the President of the
James River and Kanawha Company, desert
bling in very complimentary terms the sigma
ability and success with which the Hon. VIM
Ballard Preston had fulfilled his mission tc
France, in regard to direct trade to Virginia
1t appears that an arrangement has been made
with the Orleans Railroad Company, by which
a line of steamers is to be run between San
Nazaire, at the mouth of the Loire, and Nor
folk, in Virginia. Judge Mason states that a,
the mouth of the Loire "the French Govern
NETT is constructing the most magnificent
artificial harbor in the world. Opening to the
ocean, q ship sailing between that point ano
Chesapeake Bay avoids the channel, and viii
find her route shorter by considerable time
than between Hsvre and the same point" he
adds, that the Orleans Company has large
capital, is the best-managed concern in France
and owns network of railroad which covers
one.third of the Empire, connecting Paris with
the ocean, and connecting with other lines to
Switzerland, Italy, and Germany.-Nation0l
htelligencer.
The venerable Josiah Quincy, sr., of Boston
is about to publish I" Life of John Quincy
Adams" This work is to be comprised in one
octave volume, and, in addition to its intrinsic
literary merits, which cannot fail to be Of a
high order, it will possess unusual interest, from
the fact that its venerable author is now eighty
six years of age. Mr.. Quincy was born on the
4th of February, l772, when George the Third
was King of Americans as well as of English
men. 1t ia said that "he came into the world
little ahead of Lord Lyndhurst, the same
nurse officiating at each BIRTH" He is proba.
bly, tho only native Bostonau who has clear
remembrance Of the Declaration of Independ
ence, which happened when he was not quite
four and half years old.
A MODEL FIRM.-It is said that Messrs
Gales & Seaton, of the National Lsteligencer
Washington, ID. e., partners for forty.6ve years
in the publishing business, never had diff
ference of opinion on political questions, and
never Jar or Misunderstanding of any sort
They have never known division Of interest
from their common Golfer each has always
drawn whatever he chose, and for more than
thirty years past, there has never been settle.
ment of accounts between them.
In the New York Legislature, bill to re-
peal the Metropolitan Police law has been re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole. A bill
has been introduced for the registration OF
voters. A bill has been introduced for the bet
ter protection of the remains of the dead. The
Committee on Commerce and Navigation re-
ceived power to send for persons and papers
relative to the New York ferries Gov. King
having nominated successor to N. s. Benton,
Auditor, the Senate refused to confirm 80 that
Mr.. Benton remains in Office. Lorenzo Bur
roughs has been elected by both Houses a
Regent of the University, in the place of John
Reyes Paige, deceased.
Gen. Jim Lane has began the publication OF
his autobiography in the Kansas Crusader, in
which he states that his father and two other
Democrats held the State Convention of Indi-
ana at which Andrew Jackson was nominated
for the Presidency and that this nomination
was probably the means of putting Jackson on
the Presidential track.
We have files from the West Indies. dated at
Kingston, Jamaica, on the 10Th OF February,
with later news from most of the other islands.
Generally speaking, the weather was good, and
the prospects of the sugar crop encouraging.
The labor supply question engaged the atten.
ton of ell parties. Whilst the importation of
African slaves, according to the French plan,
was denounced, it was acknowledged that the
plan of coole emigration from India did not
promise any decided relief, and the hopes OF
the arrival of convict sepoys were fast din,in-
ishing. The public health remained good.
The recent conduct of the Emperor Napoleon
in encouraging the hostile fulminations of his
army against England has aroused the spirit of
John Bull, who retorts upon ''little Nap" with
some keen home thrusts. The London Times