The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1860-10-27
Gastrrn Nrms

CioIp Dotl.A1ts III Is stated that nj
the Mint In philadelphia there are now
three millions Of gold dollars, to he melted
aud recoined into double eagles.
NISr NEeRoss RpskwAy EscAfE on
4 WnoIE FAMitY.-Wc learn from ir..
Hatcher, Circuit Court Clerk, Of Palmyra,
that fonr valuable negro men ran away
from their masters ia that immediate VII
cibity sunday night, the 29d nit Mr..
jas. y. Leake, residing on Pike creek.
ST Paui's settlement, Rails Co, had o
whole family, iian and liis wife aud their
three children, To make their escape Mons
day night. They had not been gone.
more than three hours before they were.
missed aud runners were sent out 20
Intercept their fight. Mr.. McCarty SON.
iii.iaw OF Mr.. Leal,e, arrived here yestert
day morning, and lad The negroes posted
Our citizens Wilt llays to appoint q vigil
ance committee or adopt some means Of
protection against these heavy losses.
.TBefe,is hut little doubt but that white
men. III Vie majority of INSTANCES, decey
the negroes away, and We know the Flu
,gitive,slaFe law has become a dead letter
III the free States, ais was practically d.
Honstrafed in Ohio only d few days since.
Tue exigancies Of the tunes demand pro,
lection, speaceably II we can, but forcil5ly
il we mnst iiaaatbdl Bfssseagey. !.
Ex-PosrNAsfKR FowIxR Messrs. Law
and Conover, sureties TO the defaultiug
Postmaster, Isaac W. Fowler, 10 the
amount Of $4,000, have succeeded Id
getting commission from the United
States Court 70 90 to Cuba, and take. the
deposition 81 Mr. Fowler as to the state
Eof his accounts with the Department at
Washington at the time their bonds were
given for hin. ltwould not be Surprising
Eif Mr.. Fowler should swear that. during
the Pierce administration, be was n do.
fanlter; that bis friend, Mr.. III T.. Clark,
Iabored with Mr.. Buchanan for his reap.
pointment, because he would otherwise
have been Il ruined man, and that il was
well Understood al Washington, when
Mr.. Buchanan did reappoint him, that lie
was largely hi arrears 10 the C;oyerujnert,
We say We should not he surprised i
such were 10 be the gist Of the develop
ments made BY Mr.. Fowler III wonld also
be interesting to know where the late
| Postmaster disposed of SO much money
especially II, as some suppose, Il was ex.
pended nj bchaIf.of the Administration,
There Is bat little doubt that Mr. Fowler
will faske such developments as will as.
solve his b0ndsmeh from all liabilities on
his account.
The NeapoIitan Minister 1T Washing,
ton has taken leave Of the ~, S. Govern
ulrtlt, his diplomatic functions having been
s1nfnarily brought TO amend hy the Ga
-rihaldian revolution. As there Is no
.lengera Neapolitan Kingdom he perceiyeS
the propriety Of there being no longer a
Nenpolitan Minister, under. the former
rsgimc. Nipples II now q portion Of Sar-
ditiia, and will be represented at Wash
ilgtoa BY the Sardipian Minister ;
nlspSioN. correspondents Of the
M y. HorA, writing under date Of Sept:
22d from Richmond, Va, says, "It hns
zbeen asccriained here that n powerful
Influence, of fhe ultra stamp.
VIII be ttuugiit to bear upon the Virgin
ia Legislature, which is To- meet hi extra
session next January, to takethe Initiative
iii the work or di$pnioI, should Lincoln
be elected. This movement Is said to
have originated with the linen who were
most prominent In bringing abont the
secession at Charleston. 1t is in fact un.
Aerstood 10 he part of the programme
framed under their auspices with u view
10 prUm9tethe disUnioa scheme which it
lis supposed dictated tile secession move
=fient'nt Charleston. It matters not what
disayOwals maybe made TO the contrary,
that movement was conceived III a spiri,
Of hostility to the Union, and with q view
to furnish. to the border slave states such
u prete1t FOR disupion, as it was supposed
1.-The election Of IintVln would present
ElsThe project Of making Virginia the mil
ttary agent IN a disuhion movement, is SCI
on foot in pursuance Of that idea. = :: =. =. ;.
FRoM NV Mexico. THE New-Mext
lean mail, with dates to Sept H. arrived
Int Independence, Mo. on the Both uIt
/ Rogers was condemned to lie hung, aiJi
Suffered the extreme penalty Of tie law OF
| the. 18th ,.ult. The correspondent state,
that his execution was the most crue
tsight he ever witnessed. The prisons
+ was Kept on the ground while the prepar
t.htions for his execution were going on
i He persisted TO the last that tile act wa
! done in seltdelense, and that the witnesse
i for tile State swore falsely. The prepar
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