The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-02-18

lished, they show that he had been in secret
correspondence with Com. Vanderbilt. of New
York, and gentleman named Fitzgerald. in
New Orleans, for the purpose of purchasing
from the former q steamship, and from the lat.
ter a large quantity of muskets and other war
munitions. The Government officers of Peru
assert that they have copies of the original
contracts between the parties. The revolution
In Peru is at stand-still.
| At half past three o'clock on Saturday morn.
ing, fire broke out in the large stone building
| on BlackwelPs Island, New York, used and
known as the Island Hospital The fire was
| first discovered in the kitchen of the middle
| house, and had made great progress and, in
consequence OF the difficulty experienced in
| obtaining water, before the flames could be ex.
| tinguished the building and furniture we're
totally destroyed. There were six hundred
patients in the building at the breaking out of
the FIRE, all of whom were got out safely. The
wife of the resident physician, DR.. Sanger. mar.
rowly escaped with her life She was rescued
from q window in the third story, by means of
| ladder.
The Los Angeles Star, of the 26th of Decem.
Der, says:
"Msjor Blake, commanding at San Diego, is
/ ordered to take post at Martins Ranch, at the
mouth of the Cajon Pass, with the staff, band,
and all the mounted men of his command.
Lieut.. Mercer, of Fort TETON, is also under Or
| ders, with his company, for the same place.
DR.. Ten Brock is to accompany Lieut.. Mer-
GERS command. Lieut.. w. T. Magruder Regi.
mental Quartermaster, First Dragons, is au-
thorized to furnish stores and transportation
for the command. The united force, it is sup.
posed, will amount to about eighty men, and
are to hold themselves in readiness for march
to the Colorado"
1t has already been announced that Colonel
Wade Hampton expired suddenly on the 10th
instant, at one of his plantations in Louisiana
He was well and widely known throughout the
South, as gentleman and citizen of untiring
pDbic spirit, gallant demeanor, and heightened
courtesy and hospitaGty-in all points noble
| representative of the best old school and class
| of Carolina planters. At the memorable de-
| fence of New Orleans, in December, 1914, and
or the 9th of January, 1915, be acted as con.
| 6dential and wellapproved aid de camp for Gen.
Jackson, and shared largely the confidence and
| closest regards of that sagacous chieftain,
whose intuitive judgment of men was one of
his most remarkable traits. Few men above
the desire of station and Office, says the Charles.
ton Courier, have been 80 widely known as
Col. hampton, and the SAD intelligence we now
publish will be received with a widespread
sorrow, such as perhaps could not be created
by the death of any other private citizen.
| Everybody remembers the platform on which
the great Stebbins planted himself, when he
run for President of the United States. When
asked how he stood on the Maine law, he
promptly answered that he was in favor OF
the law, but against its execution" This ad-
| mirable political position has been assumed in
New Hampshire and other States by the Demo.
cratic party, in resolutions expressing undated
confidence in Mr.. Buchanan, and pronouncing
against the measure on which he has staked
his Administration. Mr.. Hale showed up the
resolutions from New Hampshire, and said
that the Democrats of his State only meant to
endorse Mr.. Buchanan, and to repudiate his
acts.-ProUidence Journal.
Over 1851, 900 les appears by the report Of
the Howard Association) were contributed tc
aid the people of Norfolk, in their terrible visit
alton by yellow fever, in 1856. The Washing
ton Union, from which we derive the informa
ton, does not mention from what part of the
country the bulk of this aid was received, bu
it appears that three of the Northern States
alone pennsylvania, New York, and Massa
| e. e.