The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07

mouths, and will visit Washington. he I'M.
douotediy goes to ask if he shall be sustained
in his judicial war upon polygsmy, and will be
told No, by no manner Of means" and then
he will resign his Office. The Secretary OF
Utah Territory has refused certificates of cleo.
ton to the Representatives to the Territorial
Legislature at Salt Lake City, because one more
than the legal number was elected.
The examination of Capt. Townsend, of the
SLAYER Echo, was concluded at Boston, on Tues
day, and the prisoner was fully committed for
piracy, to take his trial before the Circuit Court,
on the 10Th of October. Several of the u s.
brig Dolphin's officers were recognised as wit
nesses, In $500 each. A new complaint was
entered against Townsend for misdemeanor,
| under the fourth section of the act of 1918, to
which he pleaded not guilty., and was held in
the sum OF $4,000, and the witnesses were held
in $lO0 each. This alleges that Townsend
was engaged in the transportation of slaves
| and, if convicted, makes him liable to fne Of
from $1,000 to $4,000, with imprisonment for
three to seven years, according to discretion
of court. The prisoner is represented as being
calm, and confident that he will be sent to
| Charleston, s. c., for trial, and be acquitted
there. His counsel, Messrs. Train & Paine,
will make an effort before the Circuit Court to
obtain transfer of Jurisdiction.
John Jacob Astor, says the Philadelphia In.
quirer, visited Philadelphia in early life, and
consulted some of the oldest hatters as to the
policy OF his settling here, and establishing
himself in business. Considerable attention
was given to the matter, but it was determined
that the trade was overdone, and that in fact
there was no opening. The enterprising stran.
ger immediately directed his footsteps to New
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known, became the great millionaire of the
commercial metropolis. -
| One James Thorp, coIored individual, and
also teamster in Newark, has fallen upon
pleasant lines. A gentleman appeared in that
| part of Jersey last week, on a mission to Ill,
| cover James Thorp, who was entitled to an
estate of $4,000, left by a planter in North
| Carolina. The tsamster turns out to be the
man. He was born on the estate, but was sent
North to be educated, had his schooling at Nor.
ristown, Pa, is married, and is said to be in.
dustrious and worthy.
| The late Ebenezer Francis, of Boston, has
made no bequest to Harvard College, but will
ed 100000 to each of his daughters, Mrs. Ma
son and Mrs. Bowditch, left iegacies to the
amount OF 100000 to various parties, and
placed the balance of his fortune in trust for
the benefit of nine grandchildren, the interest
to go to bis daughters during their lifetime.
| All hopes of the safety of the unfortunate
Mr.. Thurston, who was carried away from terra
| TRINA in balloon, have been abandoned
Search was made throughout the country in
the vicinity of the place of ascension, but no
traces of the lost man found. Mr.. Bannister
who has been searching for Thurston, thinks
i hat he s<la ofs L. I'LL
swaying to and fro in the air, and its great ee
walton three miles) caused the unfortunate
man to resign his hold, and drop to the earth
in which case be must have been dashed to such
minute particles, as TO leave but few traces u
A body was found, on Friday last, in the river
near Chatham, c. W., which was supposed a,
first to be that of Mr.. Thurston, but, upon in
vestigation, it was found that the dress did not
correspond with that of the balloonist.
| For the first time in the history of emigra
ton to the United States from the British
islands, there is now q preponderance in the
movement towards Australia and Canada owe,
towards these shores. The official returns
made up in England show that, for the frs,
three months of 1853, the aggregate number O
emigrants from Great Britain was $4,000, O
whom $500 was bound for the United States
1857. OF the rest, 6,867 were for the Austria
lian colonies. Emigration to all parts of th,
world has not been at 80 low q figure for 6f
teen years past as it now ia. 1t attained it,
maximum figure in 1858, when it reached
| 372,725. This was reduced to less than one
half in 1857, when the emigration only reached
some 10000.
The Dudley Observatory quarrel has as
|
iE letter written at Albany on the l7th inst
and addressed to Mr.. Thomas W. Olcott
threatens to revoke her endowment of $50, 900
unless the property and control of the Observa
tory are vested in the Regents of the University
| of The State of New York. The lady has
appointed her nephew, Mr.. Rutger B. Miller
to act as her agent, in conference with the
Trustees, and this agent now threatens to apply
to the Attorney General for an iDj JUNCTION upoT
the Trustees, if Mrs. Dudleys proposition il
not scceded to by the Board. The correspond
ence which has passed between the parties il
rather sharp, Mrs. Dudley taking umbrage al
the fact that she was personally addressed by
Mr.. Olcott, after she had designated the az
pointment of Mr.. Miller as her representative
Important news reaches us from the Society
Islands, dated at Rsistea and Tahaa, on the
9th of june and at Tahiti on the 18th of July
The Governors of the frst-named Islands, who
have the power of appointing or dethroning the
King, had, it appears, taken the supreme pow
| or from Tamatoa V, son of Queen Pomare, OF
Tahiti, who was elected Chief Magistrate about
a year ago. The ex.King then decided to
return to the home of bis mother, Pomare, and
thus the Islands were left without ruler. In
this emergency, the Governors offered Consu
Owen, of the United States, to surrender the
islands Tahaa and Raiatea to our Government
and handed him official letters to that effec
for transmission to Washington. This move
ment gave great offence to the representatives
of England and France, who melted sort o.
revolution against the Governors. In this state
of affairs, the French war brig Hydrographe
| arrived at Raiatea, and her commander took Mr.
Thomas Croft and Mr.. Jordan, American citi
zens, into custody, and conveyed them te
Tahiti, on account of their annexation proclivi
ties. H-rIh
The workmen employed in cutting up tn,
cable in the machine.shop at the Brooklyn
navy yard found break short time since il
the communicating copper wire, about three
eighths of an inch long, through which the saw
passed in the solid gutta percha, showing tina
the disconnection must have occurred during
the process of manufacture, and therefore lead
ing to the very great probability that othel
similar lesiens may have occurred in Other
parts of the cable. What have the electricians
to say in regard to this fact which is reliably
authenticated ?-New York Times.
The Salt Lake mail reached st. Joseph or
the 25th ult., twenty-five days out. The Nor
mons were quiet and orderly at the time of de
parture. A violent snow storm was encountered
by the train west of Laramie. The Indians or
the route were quiet. The weekly Santa FL
mail left Independence on the 9th ultimo.