, 1859-11-11
Late Foreign Intelligence.
Fate Of Sir John Franklin.

mnn 4 Co. supplied us with our usual files
Of papers from California and the Atlantic
States, from which we extract the follow
ing summary Of news.
PoLrTIcAL NEws.-In Georgia Govern
or's Browns majority will be about l6,-
900. The delegation in Congress will
stand as before-all Democrats except in
the Third and Seventh Districts.
Partial returns from Mississippi Indicate
majorities for the Democratic
candidates.
In the Sixth District of Massachusetts,,
G. B. Loving aud L. Wiliams-two Doug
las men-haVe been appointed delegates to
the Charleston Convention.
At Albany, n. Y, on the 9th, the Re-
publican Judicial Convention nominated
Judge Harris for Supreme Court in that
district.
Scattering returns from Florida indicate
the election Of Judge Dupont to the Chief
Jnsticeship. The popular vote shows
decided opposition to the annexation Of
Western Florida toAlabama.
NEW York PouTICs Buffalo (N
" Post, n paper favorable to Daniel s.
Dickinson for the Presidency, states thai
the delegation lately appointed TO cast the
vote Of New York in tho Charleston Con-
venIon stands divided as follows
Stephen A. Douglas. ....... .... .53
Daniel s. Dickinson. ..lT
A majority Of the delegation, under the
instruction of the Convention, will cast
the whole vote Of the State as unit
Douglas is, therefore, certain of the thirty
five votes Of New York at Charleston.
The election in Kansas October 4. on
the question OF the acceptance or rejection
Of the Wyandotte Constitution. passed of
quietly. The adoption Of the Constitution
is generally conceded as certain. Leaven.
worth City gives 23l majority for the Con.
sttution. Atchison City and township
give majority for the Constitution. 9th.
er precincts in the county not heard from
will increase the majority.
The Charleston CONriey's special New
Orleans dispatch gives the following add.
tional items Of Mexican intelligence
" 1t is reported that the Bishop of Mexi.
co is willing to guarantee loan Of five
millions to Miramon, pedging church prop
erty. The Archbishop aud clergy bitterly
oppose this policy Of their superior. Ii
was reported that Gen. Vidauri had Joined
the Church party.
The boiler in the steam Touring mill ol
S. NJ. Tinsley & Co, Of Springfield, Illinois,
exploded October 4, completely demolish.
in the building containing the boiler and
Air'. Two men have been taken out oI
ths ruins Michael Dunn, the engineer, is
badly injured, and it is thought cannot live.
Frederick Klamperg is badly injured by
the walls falling on him. but probably not
fatally. Fortunately there was no one III
that apartment of the mill but the engin.
eer at the time of the explosion.
In the absence Of Pos master General
Holt, says dispatch from Washington
the President himself has given attention
to the subject Of the carriage of Inc Cali
fornia mail, and the Government has been
strongly impressed with the necessity Of
getting that mail through for a certainty
hence the decision giving it to the bid
ders next lowest to Johnston Great CON,
plant is made by the merchants at New
Orleans of u state of things precpitated
by the failure Of the transportation Of the
mails from that point, whereby week is
lost to them so far as California is con
cerned
The most intimate friends of Senator
Douglas authoraIvely deny the truth oI
the prevailing rumor that he contem
plates replying 10 the late review Of his
HaTper's Magazine article, and further say
that none is to he published without bis
sanction or his supervision.
A dispatch from Washington says Mr.
Shannon, of Harrisburgh, has been np.
pointed private Secretary 10 President
Buchanan.
The Treasury receipts for the week end.
ing Sept. 26, amounted to 81, 40S, 900; the
drafts paid, to 81, l,40S, 600; the drafts is
sued, to $4,000 The amount subject
10 draft is So, l63, i59 The decrease over
last week is more than $758, 900, and a
million of dollars within the last two weeks.
An AMERICAN VESSEL FIRED INTO BY AN
ENGLISH SHIP-The bark Hazard, which
arrived at Boston, October 4th, from the
coast Of Africa, reports having been fired
into on the coast by the British war steam.
er Pluto.
The New York Herald of September 20,
received last evening by Overland Mail,
publishes i map of the Arroo Islands, in
Puget Sound, aud the disputed boundary
lines. The Herald says: Every ivtclli-
gent mind will come to tue conclusion that
our Government is fully sustained in Inau-
tanning the possession We have assumed, in
opposition to the assumption of title to ne
Island Of San Juan on the part of Great
Britain" In another article the same
journal holds this language: There must
be no compromising or yielding, though We
should he compelled to bring the contro-
Versy to bitter end.'