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150 Years Ago Today- Aug. 25, 1860

Boston Evening Transcript- Boston Massachusetts, Saturday, August 25, 1860.

Further Foreign News, By the City of Baltimore- The Neapolitan Court party claim to have repulsed an attempted landing of Garibaldians at Raggio and a Caniotel.
It is reported that if Garibaldi lands at Naples, Lamorierere will cross the Roman frontier under the promise of support from Austria, and that Austria will abrogate the treaty of Villafranca and attack Garibaldi.
Austria was assuming a threatening aspect, and there are rumors of a manifesto on the Emperor’s birthday, declaring his release from the Villafranca treaty, and uttering threats against Piedmont.
Austria had already demanded explanations from Piedmont of Gribaldi’s letter to Victor Emanuel announcing a projected attack on Venice. There is great activity in the Austrian marine.
The establishment of a complete understanding between Austria and Prussia is officially announced.

The Emperor of Austria and the King of Bavaria had attended a railroad celebration at Salseburg, and both monarchs delivered speeches favorable to German unity…

The frigate John Adams was at Foochow, and the Hartford and Saginaw at Shanghae…

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From Mexico- New Orleans, 24th. Schooner Red Fox had arrived from Tampico with dates of the 9th. A coducta with $2,000,000 in specie arrived in Tampico on the 2d.
The late storm did immense damage to shipping on the coast.
Famine was feared in Northern Mexico.

Guadalajara was besieged, and Miramon was everywhere surrounded by the Liberals, who were marching on the City of Mexico, and expected to reach there by the 10th of September.

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The Withdrawal of Gov. Banks. His Excellency the Governor yesterday addressed the following letter to the Chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, withdrawing his name as a candidate for reelection to the office, which he has now held for nearly three years:

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Gov. Banks has been tendered the appointment of Vice-President and Resident Manager in Illinois, of the Illinois Central Railroad, made vacant by the recent resignation of George McLeland, Esq. The Governor will probably make his residence in Chicago, that city being the principal business point of the road.

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What War is Like. – Mr. Gowan, writing form Sebastopol, says that the graves of those who fell in the Crimean war occupy twenty-square miles of territory. Add to this terrible evidence the deaths of those whose lives were abridged in consequence of exposure and camp disease, but who carried away their exhausted lives to expire among their kindred, and we may form some conception of the character of war. Finish the picture with the natural and individual demoralization inevitable from the disturbance of peace among civilized nations, and we may well wonder at the little influence which the Christian culture of eighteen centuries has exerted upon the world. We do not mean to say that nothing has been done in the way of curbing the monstrous appetite of men for bloodshed, rapine and wrong. For it is unquestionable that certain enormities, once regarded as legitimate concomitants of warfare, are now, if not entirely laid aside, yet much abated. The attention of Western nations has of late been most painfully directed to the terrible barbarities inflicted upon the Christians of Syria by the wild and fanatical Druses. Those outrages furnish a most striking illustration of the cruel and barbarous modes of ancient warfare. The monuments of antiquity, whereon conflicts between hostile warriors are inscribed, reveal how captives were tortured and maimed by their conquerors.

A great deal has been gained since the Christian era in humanity to prisoners, and in the security of women and children form wanton outrage. Yet much more remains to be done; and we are among those who believe that it will yet be attained; and that the time will come when the civilization and Christianity of the nineteenth century will be reviewed in the spirit of apology, in which we now look back on what we complacently call “the dark ages.” Meanwhile let us think, when we are tempted to boast of our own times, of the twenty square miles of graves in the Crimea. Let one look at the subject in its lowest economical light even, and ask what has been secured by this horrible slaughter? That “sick man”, the Turk, is more an invalid than ever, and the portentous Syrian question is even more troublesome than it was before France dragged Great Britain into the quarrel with Russia. Possibly if the Crimean necropolis had not been filled with its ghastly tenants, the murderous frays of the Syrian native factions would not have filled the world with horror. The Turkish rule must be put down, and the Crescent, long a misnomer, must confess to its waning fortune. Another Crimean slaughter even could not avert this evident necessity.

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Too Much of the Gulf Stream.- The New York Commercial Advertiser expresses the opinion that the great oceanic current which proceeds along our Eastern coast is this week making its influence felt to the no small discomfort of multitudes, who have been suffering from a lassitude occasioned by a damp and muggy atmosphere. The Gulf Stream is held responsible for the dull weather we are now experiencing, and the writer above referred to thus explains the recent influence of that wonderful flow of water from the Southern to the Northern seas.

In summer, the Gulf Stream hugs the coast of this part of North America more closely than in winter; and the south-east wind brings us more directly under th e influence of that heated current. The atmosphere, on passing over it, becomes surcharged with vapors, which partially congeal upon reaching the land. That moisture is so abundant that the human system is unable to perform the insensible perspiration required to preserve it in a high tone of health and vigor, and hence the disagreeable feelings experienced.

The prevailing atmosphere currents in this section of country come from the northwest, and in traversing the continent these have become nearly exhausted of their moisture. Hence they are found to absorb it freely from animals as well as the surface of the ground, and in that condition the human being, discharging freely through the porous system, feels unusually active in body and clear in intellect. The physical and mental characteristics of the American people, in fact,are owing, in a great degree to the winds which prevail in this country.

On the other hand, the West of Europe has a climate more mild and moist than ours, because the Southwest winds are more or less laden with moisture collected from the Gulf Stream and the remainder of the North Atlantic. This difference in climate has produced a different type of mankind- one that is heavy, slow, phlegmatic and dull, in comparison with ourselves. Owing to similar causes, the Anglo-Saxon stock will produce still other varieties in South Africa, Australia, and Hindestan.
The Gulf Stream is an excellent “institution” in December; but if it can do no better by us than for the last few days, we shall vote it a nuisance.

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The Coming Man.- Appearance indicate that John A. Andrew, Esq., is the favorite of the Republican Party of this State as the successor of Governor Banks…

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The Late Rains have extended over the Middle and Northern States and British Provinces. In Rhode Island the water was most acceptable, as the supply now enables the mills to run up to their full capacity….

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Mr. Douglas is to make a tour of the northwest in September, and has appointed the 20th for a speech at St. Paul. This is two days after Mr. Seward’s visit to the same city.

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Aid For Syria.- The Committee appointed by the meeting 18th inst., at the Boylston Office, to collect and receive donations for the Syrian sufferers, of which mention was made at that time, consists of the following named gentlemen….

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The Boston Fusileers in Montreal.- A special dispatch to the Journal, reports that at Montreal this morning , a distinguished honor was conferred upon the Boston Independent Fusileers in the procession, the right of the column being assigned to them. They are also appointed a guard of honor at the Bridge celebration….

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Woman Drowned.- …Mrs. Mary McGurk, a widow, about 32 years of age, who had been boarding at Mrs. Brown’s, on Canal street. She was drowned while bathing in a creek formed by the high tide.

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Prince of Wales,- blah, blah, blah

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Printing Private Letters.- The appearance of the correspondence of Humboldt in print has illustrated the wisdom of the British law in regard to the publication of the private letters. The courts of equity prevented the publication of a volume of Sir Walter Scott’s letters, at the instance of his executors, and it is now a well established legal principle in England, that the consent of the writer is indispensable, before any letter can be made public….

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News From Japan- (Letter from Hon. Townsend Harris) …I have received a communication from the Japanese Government to the effect that the subjects of non-treaty Powers, arriving at the opened ports in vessels of nations who have made treaties with Japan, will not be allowed to land or reside therein. In calling your attention to the above, I have to desire that you notify the masters of American vessels not to land those passengers who come under the above description. The latter will have to return without coming on shore…

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Later From California.- The Pony Express, with San Francisco dates the 11th, has arrived.
…The Democrates have divided, and delegates have been elected in all the counties for both the Douglas and Breckinridge Electoral Conventions.
Senator Latham returns to Washington by the 10th of September, by the overland route.
A fire in Grass Valley destroyed thirty-five buildings, including the Commercial and Washington Hotels. Loss heavy.
A fire in the grain fields near Swizon has done great damage to the crops.
Confidence in the Pony Express is returning. The buildings on the route, to replace those burnt by the Indians, are to be used as forts, if necessary.
The Shoshone and Sabute Indians are about going to war with each other.
Capt. Nightingale’s scouting party had returned to Honey Lake, having traversed 150 miles without meeting any Indians. Very few Indian depredations are reported.

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Military.- Yesterday forenoon the Salem Cadets encamped at South Reading, visited the village, where they went through a dress parade. At four o’clock the company was reviewed by Major General Sutton. The camp will be struck this afternoon. This encampment has been highly successful in every particular.

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The Essex County Horse Show-

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Fire in Broad Street- Narrow Escape of a Whole Family From Suffocation.

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An anaconda, which escaped from the showman’s box in the Mansion House, Troy, some weeks since, has been found in the kitchen of that hotel in snug quarters between the cistern and heater, making himself known to a frightened cook by protruding his head and running out his tongue at her.

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David Upton

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