Nebraska advertiser., 1859-12-08
ne News.

eeRn, aoout seventy mics fromA t1aIHaX
% Monday the 2lst 6lt. Wilhin half an
hour AFTER the shock The vessel parted
amdships. The schooner Lou.ea was
Totally wrecked In endeavoring to render
aid to the Indian. Twenty-seven lives
were lost the victims being chiefly steer
agePasssngers -
FrPn California we learn that Judge
Terry had been indicted for the murder
of Senator BfodericK.
An important antisM Mormon movement
had taken place in CarsonAyalley.l The
Grand Jury had presented a strong re-
monstrance against the continuance of the
Mormon jurisdiction over that portion Of
the Territory. s1u
News from Brownsville states that
Capt. Tobin, with one hundred Rangers,
was encamped halfway between Corpus
Christi AID Brownsville, awaiting REIN
forcements. Fifty menlof the First Ar
6llefy had arrived at Brazos, and would
proceed at once to Brownsville. Tie
sworn statements put forth By one Miller
which announced the capture Of thatlown
by Cortinas, prove To- have been utterly
false. The force at Brownsville. num-
boring some 306 men, was considered
sufficient to arepeI any attack. Cortfnas'
chief officer had been executed at
Brownsville. II is stated that in revenge
Cortinas hung three Americans e51t
o The Legislature of Texas has author
lied the Governor to cali out the troops
necessary for the protection Of the from
ter The Governor appointed Capt.
Ford cOmmander1o of the troops, and he
started for the Rio Grande on the 18th,
with orders 10 arrest Cortinas and his
band. Cortinas had returned Deputy
Sheriff Campbell to Brownsville unharm-
ed, against the wishes Of his own men.
The arrival of Gen. Scott at Portland,
Oregon, is announced BY the Overland
Mail. His reception was enthusiastic.
Notice of his coming had been given,
the steamer bearing him having touched
at a point lower down the coast, from
which word was forwarded. Gen. Har-
ney, it is reported, retired from his
command with u~ndisguised disgust and
anger. A dispatch received from Gen.
Scott, at the War Department, reports
that the proposition he was instructed to
make to Gov. Douglass had been pre-
scented, and would doubtless be accepted.
The nature Of the proposal is undivulged.
The Democratic Convention of Cuya-
hoga county, Ohio, stood, Douglas l28,
Buchanan 10. Collector Parks, and u.
s. Clerk Green went for Douglas. U.
S. Marshal johnson was voted down in
his own ward. s5Ta .l.r.5 I'D Il.
In Cincinnati, on the 30th ult., the
Democratic election for delegates to Dis.
trict Convention, resulted almost unanim.
ously for the friends of Douglas. The
Postmaster and Surveyor of Port were
beaten in their own wards d is8d ls esa.
A telegram from New York announces
the death of the venerable Washington
Irving. He died at Irvington on the 18th
nit. : voru 5.5Hs4sT
John Mitchell writes a second letter OF
his series from Paris to the Hishhuan,
counseling the. "nationalists" Of ireland
ttto be prepared He expects. ere long
to see Gibraltar, as the key of the Medi-
~terrahean, and San Juan, as the key Of
the Columbian Archipelago, wrested
from the '~'swindler and usurer Of ma.
lions" England then he adds, on be-
half of his brother "Celts'' Happy il
we can but prepare ourselves to rise tc
our own feet, and stand erect upon our
own soil, when the f%eloniouf grippe is loo
sened from our throats.9 ann
q5 1t is understood that Secretary Thomp.
son will urge on Congress the necessity OF
aboiishng the Indian reservation system
which he regards as inseparably- connect.
ed with fraud. giv a3rs
1t is stated that Judge Douglas and hi:
wife design leaving Washington on the
18th of December, for Florida, on the
recommendation Of their physicians.
Lss The London Times deyotes ~considera-
bic space TO- an article showing the prev.
alent feeling in France on the question Of
a war with England. The chief author
lily for the opinions expressed is a respec-
table French Review published in Lon
don. 1t isstated that in France the pro-
ject Of a war with England is incessant-
y discussed in the high places of power,
in the public Offices, in the Army and in
the Navy, among the working classes and
among the business men, The armyis
reported to be unanimous for war. Ii
the Navy the desire for # amounts to a
frenzy. The Church IS as eager a. eth