Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-08-11
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WEDNESDAY,...AUGUST1 IL, 1879.
CONDENSED TELEGRhMS.

A New York dispatch of yesterday
saws the firmer tone to the market is
explained by the talk of specie ship
ments tomorrow. 1t seems that the
suspension of Archibald Baxter & Co
was directly traceable to sensation
stories Of the banking embarras ,ments
started by the stock spectators for
their own purposes, the latter part OF
last week.
A Washington dispatch dated yes
terday says Commodore Ammon, Act
ing Secretary of the Navy, to-day re-
ceived from the Acting Secretary of
the State, a dispatch from Tripoli, dat
ed the 18th, stating that Mr.. Vedal,
the American Consul and wife, had
been insulted by Tripolitan sailors,
and asking whether any of our vessels
of war could conveniently reach that
port. Orders were issued that the
steamer hartford, Captain Harmony,
now at Port Said, en- route home from
the Asiatic station, should proceed to
inquire into the facts and demand that
the perpetrators of the insult be arrest
ed and punished. Rear Admiral Wor-
den, commanding the European sta
ton, was also instructed to keep HIM
self advised of the circumstances, and,
if necessary, send other vessels to Trip.
oil, to act with the Hartford.
At late hour on Monday night
Marshal Maxwell took Lee from his
cell in Beaver, and started off quietly
for Salt Lake. He thought, probably,
Lee would be safer there. Dame is
now to be confined in the place Lee
occupied.
A letter from San Miguel, in the
Star and Herald Of Panama, received
to-day, says of the massacre, that
after the barracks had been taken,
nothing was heard but the savage
yells of the assailants dispensing in all
directions, breaking open the doors
and windows of the houses Of mer-
chants and others, robbing, pillaging
and assassinating in their tiendish oc-
cupation, and applying the torch to
houses and whatever else their whims
| chose. Amidst all the cries of "death
to foreigners "death to heretics,n
were constantly heard. The town re-
mained three days at the mercy OF the
assailants. During that time all class
es of crimes were committed, and even
those who took refuge in the church
were threatened with assassination by
the mob. The loss of property will
not fall short of 81 10000 The Pres
ident of the republic has done what he
could to bring the offenders to pun
ishment, but so numerous are they
| that they can't be dealt with. The
foreigners in the place have addressed
| their respective Governments for the
purpose of making the Government
responsible for the losses incurred.
8Tqe Evening NeaUs, Church organ,
to-day presents the defense of the
Mormons in the Mountain Meadows
massacre, and pleads that the act was
perpetrated when Utah was in state
of war that the MormOns believed
that the United States had sent troops
to murder them, and adds that Brig
ham Young early in 1858, laid the par
| ticulars of the massacre before Gov.
Cummins, his successor, and urged an
investigation and offered help. This
contradicts all the evidence elected
by the defense in Lees trial at Beav-
er, and also Brigham Young's deposit
tion lately published.
Under date of yesterday, we have
| tho follouins from Monaphie, Tom.
| The Avalanche this morning has a
lengthy review of the situation along
the river in the Memphis district. In
summing up it says the cotton already
in water is about two thousand acres.
The writer regards the situation as
more hopeful than few days ago
He urges constant and sleepless vigil
ance on the part of the owners of those
lands which are threatened. 1t says
that the danger to the five plantations
| at Walnut Bend, sixty miles below
here, is from the back water of the st.
Francis, which last week extended up
| to Wilkesburg, a distance of ninety
miles.
A Panama dispatch of the 1st says
the electoral struggle for President of
the United States of Columbia threat
ems to create a war and division of
the country.
From Salt Lake, under date of the
10Th, comes the following: Considera-
BILE excitement is prevailing in the
neighborhood of Corinne, on the Cen
trail Pacific, growing out of the dem
onstrations of large body of Indians
camped near there, belonging to the
Snakes, Bannack and other tribes.
Nearly one thousand of them were
lately baptised into the Mormon
Church. They have supplied them
selves with ammunition and guns and
to-day it is reported that they have
sent all the squaws away and made
threats of driving the Gentiles from
the West side OF Bear river, which
they claim has been granted them by
the Mormons for reservation. Gov.
Emery has asked for company of
troops to be sent to Corinne for the
protection of the people.