, 1859-10-28
PUGET SOUND HERALD.
STEILACOON, ". T, FRIDAY, OCT. &, TSja
ATLANTIC NEWS.

The Pacific Mail Co. S steamer NortherRer brings
dates from New York to Sept. 2Oth, and from New
Orleans to 9th. From our exchanges We CLEAN
the annexed summary: -
The U. s. Steamer Fulton was wrecked ON
Santa Rosa Island, about twenty miles east Of
Pensacola, on the 9TH September. No lives lost.
Vessel total wreck.
The proposition for state organization in Pixies
Peak country has been defeated.
A Vigilance committee has beeu organized at
the mines, and three notorious thieves have been
banished.
The receipts of the Treasury. during the week
ending Sept. 23d, amount to $S35,000. The
amount Of drafts issued was 81 ,l5S,OO0. The
amount Of specie remaining in the Treasury
subject to drait is Sl,lOj,OOO.
William ]. lane, tho transfer and foreign note
clerk Of the Fulton Bank, in New York, was
arrested Sept 20, on the charge Of having embez-
zled S64, 900. Of the funds of that instution.
1t is publicly stated at Washington that the
court-martial recently convened for the trial Of
Major Gross, U. S. A, have found verdict Of
honorable acquittal.
Major Gen. Jessup Of last dates from Washing
ton, was confined to his bed from severe Illness
Col. Rankin, formerly Register of the Land Office
ut Olympia, w. T., arrived at Washington on the
2btn SePtempc. aliec' IRON san Juan isnna nc
the San Juan affair.
A Washington dispatch, published in the St
Louis papers, dated Sept oath, says The British
legation in this city is in receipt of advces from
its Government touching the San Juan difficulty
In the North Pacific. They are to the effect that
the British Government has, like our own, dis
patched distinguished officers Of the army to Van
ceuyer WIN INSTRUCTIONS N rGgaru 70 tne setIeen!
S,o.t W. an % H. jsrartnra '" '''''S e''N'
D." S..a,i ,,o p,,,;.n >,;,;..o h.,,,u
DarSn StoeNi, 'le nussi.l ia' minister, mas mlgy
t;rc 70 tEc traders in Russian Amer;cS. arJ their
ob;cct;onable mononoles.
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pochcstor Son sent 18th ~ The aSr or ss "''" :"
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nhs ~ pce, rn noL''t,a ~ " 'ie DI'Ipe.a:S m'T.
Cc1yen!iCn' IN tne roailn OTIgr.ssiT.a W, ns!ic'
tho Ra1roSaniat;vn in the last Conor.ss WIS not
a cordtIsto
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IN NV iork' otP'. SSu, Young man IHiuien y.
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Ereat prepaTSuonS ate making 70 cSiesrate 'he
ARRIVAL OF tne 1Teds H0''er" a' Eoruanu'
The Ordnance Bureau Of the .. >. Navy DO
partment has lately ordered hNe hundred Of Jos
lyns breacf-lOading firearms aud nine hundred
Sharps rifles
slah In mcmorv Of Rrniamin FrnnkIin and b;s
wife Il now 6xed in ,be noSi, lion as.icned for i,
II r,sts nnon \ plain foundation of SLATE and in
dimpnsions l. s;T Get ten INCHES long fnnr ESt L
inches wide and three I;ct dep Tbe new lettering
sh;SoIsi IN tha snl;d s,one comrr;scS tho a;m,Is T
sription, Benjamin and Deborah Franklin,
1880"
A FIRE had occurred at Columbia which tlcs-
troyed rs buildings. Allthe business part Of Camp
Scott is burned.
The Indian Agent at Nabor was killed on the
18th by the Indians Col Leebcr the agent Of the
Alembanche, has been shot by the indians.
Afire occurred in Cairo. UIl) Sent, 20, whichdc-
stroyed the Taylor house and fourteen other build
ings on Commerce street. The loss is estimated ut
$4,000.
A heavy storm has becn expcrienced on the west-
ern lukes, in which several vessels have been wreck
cd, and many others have sustained more or less
damage.
Advice, from R;o Jonc-;o -oror+ that tho IT q
sloop-oEwar John Adams. Commander Mason, nut
into that port on the 3lst July, in distress, having
sprung aleak and been badly strained in a severe
gale The vessel is declared 10 he unseaworthy
,E .o Mason .S remains at Rio