Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-04
News By PONY Exnrcss.

lowing news from the Unions disuatch.
Important intelligence is received from
China by way of Russia. The Celestial Elm,
pre- Is said to be in a very disorlerlv state.
owing to internal disturbance. The insrrr.
ents are within fourteen miles Of Pekin.-
The British fleet had not left IIone,ong.
OWING TO the adverse winds. On the dav the
mail left, a favorable change had succeeded
and the fleet was to leave Immediately.
PARIS, ILL.,, August 2Oh-A great mass
meeting Of the people Of Champagne. Fdrar.
bougm5 and Nermllon counties, was held at
Hickory Grove, Edgar county, on Saturday
last, at which there were from ten to twelve
Thousand persons present Speeches were
made by O. =. Fickiin, J. G. Robinson. J. T..
Drake A. Green and others. The enthusi-
asm for Douglas and johnson and the Demo
cratic State ticket was unJoundcd.
There Is great excitement in Santa Fo -
Ihe Navajo Indians attacked a little settle.
nent eleven miles below, and killed two men
and drove of all their stock. There were
only eleven soldiers in Santa Fc. and thew
were sent in pursuit Of the Indians in n
wagon. y party of citizcns went ont and
overlook the Indians and recovered the
stock bat had to fight for it; and, owing to
the cowardce Of some MeXicaus, three Of The
party were killed and five wounded. two Of
whom have since died One of them was
Christian Fclzeu, a highly respectable citizen
and a cabinet maker 10y trade. lie, with
| has own hands, brought down five of the
Indians, whose total loss was thirteen killed
and several wounded. They fought entirely
with arrows, and only retrcated when their
arrows gave out The conductor Of them
states that report was current that Mr.
Bent had been murdered by the Indians, at
his fort but that he does not place much re-
lance on it.
New ORLEANS, August 20th.-The schooner
Armaminta, from Euatan, August 9th, brings
the crew of the schooner Clifton. recently
captured from Walker by the British. Gen.
Walker landed at TruXillo, August 9TH and
took possession of the town. Only one gun
was fired by the troops, by which two of
w aIkers men We're wounded Great excite
meut prevailed.
Brownsville advises to August 18th rep
resent all as quiet there. The revolution in
Northern Mexico was progressing. a. Bam-
berry had defeated Nidaurri and General
Iuagua was killed.
News from Liverpool is received to the
llth Of August by the Arabia.
There lad been over four hundred arrests
at Damascus of persons implicated in the late
horrible massacre, Immediate trial was had
OF all the culprits, and those found guilty
were speedily executed.
Garbadi still remains at Messina, where
he was preparing his forces for his contem-
plated descent on the main land.
In the British Parliament Lord John Rus
sell explained the position of the question
of making Spain one Of the Great Powers
The movement, he stated, was first initiated
by the French Government. Suggestions
were also under consideration that Sweden.
and perhaps Portugal and Sardinia, ought
also to he added to the Great Powers
The Emperor of France had delivered an
address to the troops designed for Syria
The latest dates from Damascus report all
quiet there, but murders were still committed
In the surrounding country Four thousand
Christian women were sold at twenty-five
piastrees each, and were detained in harcms.
The Paris Patriot says that Garibaldi, in a
letter to the King Of Sardinia, said he con-
sidered 1t a sacred duty to deliver Ncuctia,
and that the possession ofa powerful navy
like that OF Naples would enable him to do it.
In Italy, General Iamoriciere had sup
pressed demonstration in favor of Garbaldi
at Lodi, and levied a war contribution Of
el4,o00 and made the leaders prisoners.
recent interview between the Kings of
Denmark and Sweden gave rise to a report
that the scandinavian kingdoms Intended to
form an alliance against Germany. The
Swedish press, however, combats the idea
of any aggressive policy, and the Swedish
people are represented to be decidedly op-
posed to anything Of the kind.
MoNo.-The Territorial Enterprise says:
There are four or Eve hundred miners in the
vicinity Of Nonoyille at present, averaging
very unequal wages, from 50 to $50 per day
Goods OF al kinds are cheap; a good many
coming in over the Sonora trail. 1t is tho't
that about one bali the miners now in that
region will attempt to winter there, rs they
| can do so much more cheap and comfortably
this winter than was the case last The In
dians are peaceable, mix freely with the
whites, and have in no instance shown any
hostile disposition, Notwithstanding the re-
ports Of certain timid or i'll disposed parties
to the contrary. Nothing lad been heard in
that section Of the rumorel killing Of Rev.
jesse Bennett and mpanions--auother
wretched hoax, no doubt, gotten up to ex-
cite hostility against the Indians.
WoaE OF Coz. LANDnn.-The Territorial
Enterprise Of Saturday has the followirg
Yesterday, Col. Lander, having accom-
plished the objects Of his expedition was to
have left Honey Lake for Marysville, where
his command, composed ofsome 80 men, will
be disbanded The work performed by his
party consists in improving the road-clear-
ing it Of stones, &c, from Honey Lake Nal-
ley across the desert TO the Humboldt, a dis
tance Of 49, miles, and in digging out and
walling up She Springs along the route the
latter, work of considerable magnitude and
great Importance the stone work in many
cases having been laid up with cement, there
10y nsurng constant supply Of water, along
route hitherto difficult Of travel, because Of
its aridity. Hereafter the greatest trouble
in crossing this desert will be removed, as
these springs will at all seasons afford suAi
cheney OF sweet and healtAful weter
BRusH CoLUNpM.-TAe British Colonist
of August 2Gth, has the following items:
Within the past two or three days, rumor
has been floating round town to the effect
/ that the Chinese and Indians have taken the
| Hudson Bay Conpauv's establishment at
Fort Simpson murdered Mr. Molit, the chief
factor ana three Of his employees, and pllag-
ed the place
The authorities in Victoria refused to de-
liver to the American authorities certain In
diaus accused Of having murdered certain
Americans "a year ago, on u little schooner
.IhG1uurderer5 were demanded under the eX-
tradition treaty.
! A vcia oi silver ore, found near Fort Hope,
is said to contain S2J7 to the ton, according
to assay,
TupnsuNc.- The Knights Landing News