The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-12-24
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John Brown and Virginia continue
ITO be the subjects Of general interest
In eastern newspaperdom. The anig-
fger-worshippers" have resolved them.
selves into praying classes for honest
but misguided, unfortunate John, and
the ssnigger drivers are as feryent
in their declarations that the day of
grace is past. Some hay stacks
and barns in the neighborhood Of
CharlestoBn having become d prey to.
deYouring flames, the charge Of in
|cendiarism IS laid against & Abolition.
emissaTies. The presence of d few
northern mem Mr.. Hoyt, Browns
counsel, Mr., Jewett, an artist in the es-.
tabiishment Of Frank Leslie, and d Mr..
Sennott tendedto keep up excitement.
Mi. Hoyt was gathering up the scatter
ed effects Of Brown, In behalf of his
family, and attending to professional.
business legitimate enough4it WINS, how
7eyer,d istastefnl TO the schivalry''to have
him there. Mr.. Jewett was suspected
.of being the correspondent of the ~. ".
Tribune Mr.. Sennott was somebody
else-senot one Of 'em. " The Mayor
warned such strangers to clear out,
which kind admonition they concluded to
profit by, and at last adyices they were
.indulging in the harmless expenditure
Of Ga little of their mind. The hay
burning alluded to drought out the
military, sent the electric spark to
Washington, and . general time Of
getting ready e.to march at a moments
notice. was ordered. At latest adj:
vices, however, they were only ready
and waiting. .... III. .|4 :=. 81
Great fears had been entertained Of
the safety OF the Vanderbilt steamer
North Star. She had 1913 passengers
on board, on her passage from New
York to Aspinwall, and not having
been heard Of for some time, the worst
apprehensions were entertained. "a
despatch from Charleston of the
18th announces her safety. She had
been driven on to the French Keys and
kept there by q severe gale for seven
days. BY casting overheard and slight
ening up'' she got off and resumed her
voyage. The New Orleans papers say
that the gale in the Gulf, in which the
North Star was caught, was the most
extensive and prolonged recorded in
many years. 1t commenced on the
sd Oct, and lasted ten days.
Two extensive eonaagrations are re-
ported at Atlanta, Ca, on the 18th;
loss in buildings and merchandise esti-
mated at 500, 900. Two children were
burned to death. h ..- -.. &: .- !:
The Schooner Chas. s. Peaslee,
Baker, from Jacksonville for Philadel-
phia, was recently totally wrecked in d
gale at sea, in which she was thrown on
her beam ends, when the sea swept over
fher and filed the cabin and forecastle,
drowning the captains wife, who wa
| below, and dashing the man from thu
wheel. The captain, in trying to saw
| his wife, persisted, and FIVE sailors, ii
/ trying to cut away the masts, wer,
washed overheard, and only one wa
left, who was afterwards picked up ant
brought into Boston. :@. 4;
1 Ex-Goy. Gilmer died at Lexington
Ga, on the 10th, after months i'll
mess. !, q s 4
\ The estimates Of the War Depart
ment are said to have been reduced tM'
millions from last year. . :.
J. Joseph w. Thornton, who shot Mr.
Charless, Of st. Louis, in june last, wa
executed in the jail-yard of that city
Ion the 11th ult. .;@