It is remarkable, if we may believe the current rumors of the day, how the slave trade is progressing. It is stated that a regular fleet of vessels clear from different ports of the United States at the same time, and that, distributed among them, are stores and water to fit out two or three of them for slavers, and then when the coast is clear, they all combine to aid the selected vessels in receiving stores and slaves with the greatest possible dispatch. By these means seven or eight vessels may be all engaged in the slave trade without having on board sufficient slave material to convict any one of them.
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From California.- Further by Pony Express.- Political.- Political meetings are held with remarkable frequency in the interior towns. Senator Latham addressed two thousand people at Sacramento on Saturday, strongly advocating Breckinridge…He was coolly received by the large audience, who voted down the Breckinridge resolutions and cheered Douglas, and the majority of the meeting being manifestly Douglas sympathizers, the demonstration has given the Douglas party renewed courage….
From Oregon and Washington.- Rich gold mines have been discovered at Walla-Walla and $14,000 worth of gold came down by the Pacific.
The Legislature of Washington Territory stands politically: Council, eight Democrats, one Republican; Assembly, twenty-three Democrats, seven Republicans.
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The Rebellion in China.- …Hang-chan…another important city…(occupied by the rebels for a week). It is estimated that from 50,000 to 80,000 lives were sacrificed, and the city was left in a state of desolation almost impossible to conceive. The utmost consternation exists among the Chinese population of Shanghai, who live in constant dread of a descent by the rebels on that city…The English and French forces were being concentrated near the Pei-ho, and we may expect soon to hear of the commencement of hostilities at that point.
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General Summary.-
There has been but a single case of yellow fever this season in Charleston S.C.
The additional lands for the New York Central Park extension, it is estimated, will cost $1,500,000.
A St. Louis paper says that the grasshoppers have eaten up the entire tobacco crop of Franklin county, and the last that was heard from them they were seated on the rails, begging every one that passed for a chaw.
Application will be made to the next General Assembly of the State of Florida for a Charter to construct a railroad form some point on the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad, east of the Suwanee river, via Newnansville, to some point on the Florida Railroad.
M. Jobard, a French savant, has astounded the scientific world. He has discovered a way of suspending animation, and also of bringing the dead back to life. He professes to be able to restore a drowned man after two days immersion, and a frozen subject after ten years “oblivion.” Provided a culprit’s neck be not broken, he can be brought back to life after hanging a whole day. A commission has been named to examine M. Jobard’s system of suspending animation.
The Asiatic telegraph has now been carried down to Jezirah, on the Tigris, a hundred miles north of Mosul….
A Washington dispatch, of the 3rd, says: General Walker’s plan excites so little interest in official quarters, that no naval vessels have been directed especially to watch his movements. Every precaution will, however, be taken to intercept any armed bodies leaving our shores to join him. The errand of Minister Dimitry, from Costa Rica to Nicaragua, recently, to exercise all the power vested in him to repel the invader, was, it is known, more in a spirit of diplomatic duty than with the means of success. Information has reached here, that before Walker captured Truxillo, he dispatched agents to Nicaragua to secretly organize his friends , in anticipation of his invasion of that State.
Fire in Alexandria La., - On Thursday night, about 10 o’clock, a fire broke out in or near the store kept by a Mr. Davis, situated on the corner, in the rear of the Rapides Hotel, commonly called “Tucks Row,” the whole of which was burnt. The loss we suppose is about $4000. We have no doubt that this is the continuation of that damnable plot which was concocted and had laid in ruins a number of towns in the State of Texas.
The Plot at Selma.- The Issue, of last Friday, says: Four negroes were arrested here on last evening upon information given by one of those in jail at Talladega, as accomplices in the general insurrectionary movements recently discovered at that place. Eighteen have been arrested there, and three hundred more, it is said, are implicated , and will be taken into custody as soon as they can be apprehended. A number at Mentevallo and Childersburg and in the surrounding country are mentioned by those already taken as engaged in the general plan.
The Lightning Train on the Hudson River Railroad- Fast Running- …this train, which consists of engine, paper car and one passenger car,…four hours and five minutes for the transit of 144 miles (with stops.) (Average speed 60 mph!)…and yet, in four months, not a person has been in any way injured, not even to the extent of a scratch!
Mock Naval Battle.- …10th of Sepember….Cleveland (Ohio),… the battle lake Erie will be represented. (100,000 to 200,000 spectators to watch a fleet of first class vessels as performers…It will be a sight once seen never to be forgotten.
Marine Losses.- …American marine losses during the month of August amounted to $956,000. Among the losses the steamer La Crosse, from New Orleans bound for Galveston; the bark Gleaner, from New Orleans for San Blas; schooner Wm. Colquett, from New Orleans for Havana; schooner D. F. Keeling, from Minatitaln for New Orleans. Besides these the following vessels were damaged (four New Orleans vessels named)
The total marine losses for the past eight months amount to $17,108,200, against $20,816,860 for the same time last year…. The loses this month (August) are the smallest, both for vessels and freight and for cargo, of any month since January, 1860…. (vessel prices and value of cargoes are up and shipping rates are down.)
The Mobile Omnibus Railroad Company- …the citizens will be able to take a railroad ride through the central street of the city about the first of next December.- Mobile Tribune.
Breckinridge Mass Meeting- …held in Annunciation Square last evening….
Political.-
…Mr. Buchanan in regard to the fusion movement in New York. The President opposes any amalgamation of the Breckinridge and Douglas ticket, for he would rather see Lincoln than Douglas occupying his seat.
…A gentleman of Hamilton county, Tenn., born under the reign of King George III, has cast his vote at every presidential election since he became of age for the Democratic candidates will, if he lives till November, vote for Bell and Everett, the conservative Union candidates, and against the Disunion tickets North and South…”it is the duty of every patriot to go for his country before any party.”
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David Upton