Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-07-28

THE NEWS.

BY the advices of the Indian we
learn that the Agamemnon and Nalo-
rous returned to Queenstown on the
18th.
The final break in the Atlantic cable
was just below the stern of the Aga
memnon, after LAG miles had been
paid out of that vessel.
The Agamemnon then returned to
the rendezvous in mid ocean and
cruised there for five days in an
ticipation of meeting the Niagara.
On her arrival at Queenstown it was
resolved to coal and start on another
and final trial trip; there being still
twenty five hundred miles of cable on
both vessels.
1t is officially announced that the
grand naval review at Cherbourg, will
take place on the 4th of August.
There has been a terrible massacre
of Christians at Jcddo by the Mahome-
dams: 20 persons were murdered, in
Guiding among them both the English
and French creoles. Three British
men-of-war had been ordered thore.
We see a statement in the New
York journal of Commerce, copied
from Virginia paper that Anthony
Burns, the fugitive slave who was taken
out Of Boston at the point of the bayo-
net, and afterwards purchased from his
master, is now in the Massachusetts
pcnitentiary for robbery.
A London correspondent of the N.
Y. Herald explodcs Barnum's last en-
terprise. 1t will be remembered that
Barnum proposed to bring to this coun-
try the Royal Opera of England, under
the control of the great Lumley. 1t
appears now that Barnum had no au-
thority to use the name of Mr.. Lumlcy;
that the director of Tier Majesty's
theatre never answered the letters writ
ten by the proprietor of the mermaid,
and that in no event could the artistes
which Barnum announced have crossed
the Atlantic this season.
G. p. r. James, it is said, has &C
copied the Consul Gencralship of
Odessa, and is about to leave Rich
mOnd.
DR.. HAYES is receiving encourage
ment for his proposed Arctic expcdi-
ton, and it is SAID that it will certainly
be undertaken.
The long and vexatious litigation, by
means of which Col, Fremont has been
kept from the enjoyment of any reve-
nue. from his Mariposa estate, in Cali
fornia, it is said to approach a just and
satisfactory conclusion.
The gold on Frazer river was first
discovered by an American named
Charles Adams, who fell martyr to
the discovery, having been shot by his
partner, Charles M'Donald, in con-
troversy about the gold.
A correspondent of the Brownsville,
Texas, Flag, says that the Indians
had made a descent on the Gu
ara silver mines recently opened by
the American Company, taking all the
property of any value that they could
lay their hands on.
Twelve or fifteen respectable ladies
Of West Cameron, Ohio, abated nui-
sance in the way Of grog shop, one
day last week, carrying the liquors and
fixtures into the street and making
bonfire Of them. The proprietor fled
in dismay, with q small keg Of gin
under his arm.
Charles L. Taylor, alias Sanders, who
was charged with setting fire to the
Pacific House at St. Louis, was again
arrested in that city on Monday night
ON charge Of setting fire to his boarding
house.
The Philadelphia Ledger states that
m American scheme Of crossing the
Atlantic with the electric wire has been
broached. At a recent meeting in
Philadelphia OF stockholders of various
Telegraph Companies, including the
Magnetic Telegraph Company, extend
ing from New York to Washington
the Union companies, of Boston and
eastward; and the great southern sea.
board line, from Washington to New
Orleans, . resolution was adopted tc
aasist in the project ef uniting the Uni
ted States and Europe by telegraph
line via Greenland, Iceland and the
Farce Islands, the required grant hav.
ing been made to 7 P. Shaffer, Of Ken
lucky, for landing the cable, and it,
necessary connection over the terrific
ries Of Denmark, Norway, Sweden ant
Russia with . promise Of all the ma
tsrial and necessary aid for the SUR
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