Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-11-18
Ell NEWS OF THE DAY.

has been brought to a conclusion With a most
lucky and unlocked for expedition. In all our
Indian experience for the last twenty years
there has been nothing like it. And this sue
cess is the more creditable to the officers con-
cerned in the expedition, from the fact that
operations had to be carried on in a country
far removed from the white settlements, and
of a very difficult character To Judge by the
experience of the Oregon Indian wars. there
was every probability that this contest might
have lasted three or four years at the least,
and drained the treasury of ten or twelve mil
lions Of dollars.
A brief despatch from New Orleans, an
~nounces the receipt Of intelligence to the effect
that reports Prevailed at Indianola, Texas,
that the city Of Mexico had been attacked by
the liberals, and four hundred of Zuloaga's
troops killed; also, that the whole country was
in possession of the liberals except the capital.
Although any change in Mexico at this time
would not create surprise, yet it is advisable
to await a confirmation of this intelligence,
Intelligence from India, dated at Bombay,
on the 10th of October, states that the insur-
gents still kept the field in force, both in Dude
and Central India, but the British leaders were
preparing for a decisive campaign against
them.
The overland mail from California, arrived
at St. Louis on the 18th inst, having been de-
layed one day in consequence of bad roads on
the eastern part of the route There were six
through passengers, one of them a woman,
| Mrs. Crume.
A despatch from Cincinnati, on Monday
last, says that the steamer Fulton City, from
Pittsburgh to st. Louis, struck q stump at
Burlington Island, on Tuesday morning, and
sunk in sixteen feet of water. Twelve deck
passengers were drowned. The boat, which
was valued at SIS, 900, and insured for $l0.-
600, is a total loss. The rescued passengers
lost all their baggage.
The United States Express from Leaven-
worth City to Boonville, of the 18th instant,
report that favorable accounts continue to ar
rive from the gold regions in Kansas. Seven
men of a Georgia company took out five hun
dred dollars in FIVE days. Upwards of six
hundred wagons bound to the mines were met
last week between Fort Kearny and the eros
sing Of the Platte. Arrivals from Utah, re-
port six inches of snow on the Sweet Water,
and ice an inch thick. Twelve hundred Ind
ian lodges were erected in the vicinity of the
military road between this point and Fort La
ramie. The Indians are p~eaceable.
Judge Eckels aud several Mormons had
been passed ON their way in.
despatch from Louisville, KY, dated Nov.
18th, SAYS A mob of desperate men from
Campbellville, broke into the jail at Green's
burg. Ky, on the 10th inst, and seized and
hung two prisoners named Thompson and Des-
pau. These men are supposed to have belong
ed to the party who murdered Mr.. Henry
Simpson, some eighteen months ago. Another
one of the murderers, Elias Stagg, committed
suicide in prison to escape the action Of the
lynchers. A fourth prisoner, named Hunter,
confessed the murder of Simpson, and implica-
ted six others in the affair. The mob are az
ter these latter.
The boiler of a steam saw mill, at 1ndustri-
ana, Minnesota, exploded on the Sd inst, with
tremendous force. The mill was blown to
fragments, although seventeen men were en-
ployed In the mill, strange to say, not one was
killed Several had limbs broken, and were
otherwise seriously injured One of the boil
ers 80 feet long, weighing $500 pounds, was
blown over a quarter of a mile through the
air, passing over two dwelling houses in it's
flight. Another boiler of the same length was
driven half its length into an adjacent bank.
Ann Stewart was found in a BARRIERS shop
in Boston, on Thursday last, with all her
clothes burned off and her body shockinglY
burned. She was taken 70 the hospital, and
in her dying deposition States that a mulatto
named Mitchell, threw camphene on her, which
ignited, when he fled. She will not live
through the day. Mitchsll has been arrested.
The steam stave and heading mill at Rouse's
Point, n. Y, belonging to Mr.. Rich. of
Moore's, n. T., was burnt on Friday last, kill
ing QUE man named Schoolcraft and injuring
three others SO badly that they are not expec-
ted to live. The names of the three injured
are not ascertained.
The Wabash and Western Railroad Compa-
ny's safe at Fort Wayne, Michigan, was open
ed with false keys on Saturday night, and
$1,000 stolen of the amount $4,000 was in
new bills on the Frontier Bank, of Illinois, and
Wisconsin. No clue has yet been discovered
to the robbers
One of the most horrible butcheries ever
committed has just come to light in the Papal
territory, at the little village of San Giulian-
ellie, near Velletri A small snm of money
had been robbed from the priest of the village;
he accused a man of it who was arrested, but
for lack of evidence. The priest, flu
at the loss of the money and his ven
geance, resolved to procure the evidence him
He therefore enticed a son Of the sus-
pected thief into a cave, surprised and bound
him, and then began to torture him by max
ing slight incisjons with a knife. The boy
knew nothing or would tell nothing. The
of the blood crazed the priest, and the
sufferer died after having received twenty-five
Wounds. When the body was discovered, the
nriest ofieiated at the burial The bystanderS
that he was strangely moved. Next
day, when the certificate Of death was reques-
ted Of him, he showed still more emotion
Suspicion which had already been excited,
grew apace, and he was arrested.
Two farmers, neighbors. living in Southfeld,
Michigan, were such bitter enemies that they
never spoke with each other but to quarrel,
md frequently exchanged blows. On a recent
Sunday a COW belonging to one of the men
OH to the others premises. The own
sr of the COW proceeded with a loaded gun to
reclaim the animal, aud was met by his neigh
Dor with a club, who ordered him off. Upon
the owner of the COW leveled his gun and
fred, killing his neighbor almost instantly.
A village in the vicinity Of Chicago was re-
,ently thrown into a state Of great alarm, by
The explosion of a metallic burying case, in
a dead body was being transported into
The country for burial. The boiy had been
ioto it while warm, and the gases gen
Grated by decay burst the heavy plate class
with great noise.
The daily Delta states that four thousand
eight hundred and 6fty-eight persons have died
yellow fever in New Orleans, from the week
snding 9th of June to the week ending 3lst