The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-24

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~F, 1000
| Fortifcations.
The army appropriation act, recently pass.
ed by Congress, appropriates for continuing
the construction of fort at Hog Island Ledge.
Portland harbor, SAC, 900; Fort Richmond
New York harbor, S75, 900; Fort Delaware. Del.
aware river, $4,000; Fort Carroll. Baltimore
harbor, $4,000; Fort Taylor, Key West,
$4,000; Fort Jefferson, Garden Key, Fla.
$l5O,0O0; Fart Point, San Francisco, $ll2,5OO.
| From Havana.
] The steamer Black Warrior has arrived at
New York, With dstes from Havana to the 18th
The United States steamers Fulton and Water
| Witch had touched at Cardenas and then re.
sumed their cruise. The American shipmas.
tiers had called meeting at Havana, to act on
the basis OF the Sickles resolution, and put their
ships in fighting order.
Sugar ana molasses were more active, but
prices unchsged.
The Rev. Moncure d. Conway, late of Wash.
ington, d. c., nov Pastor of the Unitarian con.
gregstion in Cincinnati, was married on Tuea.
day, June I'd, to Miss Ellen D. Dana, daughter
of Mr.. Charles B. Dana, of that city. The Ger.
emony, which was in Mr.. Conway's own church.
which was 30 crowded that hundreds were nm.
able to obtain admittance, was performed by
the Rev. DIR. Furness, of Philadelphia, and
Esquire Gatzendenner, of Cincinnati-the la wa
of Ohio requiring the knot" to be adjusted
| by a resident authorized person. The Rev. Mr..
Longfellow, of Brooklyn, was one of the
| groomsmen.
William NJ. Connolly, sentenced to twenty
days imprisonment at Cincinnati, for aiding
the escape of two fugitive boudmer, who were
not bondmen, was visited, during the period of
his Incarceration, by troops of friends The
members OF the Unitarian Conference visited
him in body, and made no scruple of ex.
pressing in strong terms their detestation of
the law which makes practical Christianity an
| offence.
The Rev. j. s. Lame, regular member of
| the Philadelphia Conference, stationed last year
and this at Snow Hill, Worcester co., Md, has
been driven from the State, simply because sus.
| pected OF being the author of letters signed
"Junius," in Zion's Herald! The letters, SAYS
the editor OF that paper, contained "the truth,
and nothing but the truth, and only half of
that" in relation to Slavery in the Northern
Methodist Church.
The late Buchanan State Convention in
| Springfield, ILL.,, had four hundred delegates
from elghtyone counties but the committee
on credentials refused seats to all delegates not
regularly elected by county convention, and
this action reduced the number of official dele.
cations to 48, and threw out Buchanan men
| from over twenty counties, who failed to come
provided with formal credentials. The Chicago
Tribune says the Convention was no farce, and
that, before the summer is over, Buccaneers
will be found willing to bet that their ticket will
poll more votes than the Douglas one, and be
second in the race.
patent has been granted to citizen of
Utica, for new kind of overshoe, designed for
persons travelling by sea and land. 1t is made
OF braided straw. Straw being non conduct.
or of heat the warmth of the foot is retained.
without being subject to dampness by the foot
sweating, the straw being porous, and either
absorbing the dampness, or allowing it to pass
off. - 0'
William Il. Russell, the Crimean and now
the Indian correspondent of the London Times,
has $4,000 year, and all expenses paid.
When be arrived in India, he was received
with great distinction by the big wigs, and
Lord Canning fastened to invite him to dinner,
and show him every politeness in his power.
| The English House of Commons is disciplin.
ing an editor for libelling the chairman of one
of its committees. The editor (of the Carlisle
Eraminer) admits the authorship of the often.
sive paragraph, but sticks to it, and is conse.
quently held in arrest, and placed under the
surveillance of the sergeant alarms.
Walker is preparing third expedition agains,
Nicaragua, and Vanderbilt has the credit of fur
nishing the money. The latter wants the transit
route himself, or else that it shall be kept
broken up. He owns heavily in the Pacifi
mail steamship company, via Panama, who can
afford to pay literally to keep their monopoly
from being disturbed.
Dennis Corcoren, who was among the killed
by the explosion on the steamer PENNSYLVANIA,
near Memphis, has been prominent editor at
New Orleans for many years, first with the Pic.
dy"ne and then with the Delta, of which he
was one of the principal founders.
Senator Shields passed through Chicago last
Wednesday, en- route for Minnesota, breathing
threstenings and slaughter against the Admin
istration in fearful manner. On Illinois pol.
itics, the General ventured the opinion that his
old colleague, Mr.. Douglas, ought to be re-.
elected, but that he would not be.
The City of Cairo, at the junction of the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers, now under water,
Is principally owned by company represented
by stock to the amount of 1900, 900, of which
George Peabody owns $500, having pur.
chased the same during his visit to this country
last year.
It. Gov. Henry Seden, of Rochester, N. Y :,
declines to be candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor, towards which the
tide of public sentiment was strongly setting in
that State.
| Prof B. A. Gould, who went from Harvard
College to take charge of the Dudley Observa.
| tory at Albany, has got into trouble with the
board of trustees, and they have asked for his
dismission.
| The Dubuque Times says that all hope that
the Democrats of Iowa would split upon this
| Lecompton business must now be given up, and
that the Republicans must meet and vanq uish,
| as heretofore, united Democracy.
Edward R. Campbell, brother of the Hon.
| Lewis D., of Ohio, has been appointed by Gov
| Weller to the position of State Registrar, in
California.
| 1t is said that the Duke of Oporto, brother
of the King of Portugal, is to marry the daugh.
ter of the Emperor Of Brazil.
NJ. Thalbergs concert tour in the West has
been abruptly terminated, owing to circum.
| stances which render his immediate departure
| to Europe necessary.
Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, com.
! plains of personal embarrassment by the debts
of the National Emancipation Society.
Lady Franklin has written beautiful letter
to the Kane Lodge of Free Masons of New
York, respecting the proposed monument in
honor of Dr.. Kane.