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w of these e ire urn stances, the probabilities arc 

 ,t our Government moj feel constrained to 

 mpy the Northern part of Mexico to secure the 

 ratification of the claims of our citizen* against 

 that couutrj, as well as for the security of Ameri- 

 cans on the frontier. From all that can he ascer- 

 tained, it is fair to presume that some of the 

 vessels of the home squadron will soon proceed to 

 Vera Cruz, and other porta of Mexico. Indeed 

 this seems lo he certain, so impending ore the 

 reported purposes of France, England aud Spain 

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EOCHESTEU, S. T., NOVEMBER 26, 



DOMESTIC NEWS. 



Matters at Washington. 



The estimate of the War Department has been 

 reduced $8,000, 000 for next year, and half a million 

 below the actual appropriation made by Congress. 



The War Department has received a dispatch 

 from Gen. Twiggs, dated Sao Antonio, 12th inst., 

 saying that an express had just arrived from Rio 

 Grande city, stating that Cortinos had laid Browns- 

 ville in ashes, killing a hundred American citizens, 

 and Cortinos, with 600 men, was marching toward 

 the Nueces. Full credence was not given to the 



Mr. Word, Minister to China, recently expressed 

 o wiBh to return home afier exchanging the ratifi- 

 cation treaty, but the President objects, and wishes 

 him to go to Shanghai and settle the American 

 claims for which the treaty provides. 



The correspondent of the N. V. Tribune writes 

 that Secretary Cobb has not commenced writing 

 his Annual Report, and will not until the latest 

 figures are received. The clerks are now digesting 

 information already obtained from his notes and 

 references. Besides apparent balance of |4 700- 

 000 in the Treasury, the Secretary has $5,000,000 

 in notes received from customs during the heavy 

 imports, which are capable of re-issue, and about 



f 1,000, anticipate! by imseeilnrjeous securities. 



These two euros, with a temporary draft upon 

 the workiDg margin of the Department, will enable 

 him to meet the Post- Office demand of about $8 - 

 000,000 by about the 1st of January, and $1,000,000 

 for Congressional mileage. If the revenue fululls 

 his anticipations afterwards, he can get on ; if not,. 

 a new law will be neceessary. 



Upwards of twenty members of Congress ure 

 now here, and others have been here to make 

 arrangements for accommodation during the Ses- 



Nothing can yet be positively ascertained con- 

 cerning the precise object of sending large bodies 

 of troops to tho Rio Grande further than the pro- 

 tection of that frontier from the attacks of the 

 force of Cortinos, to utterly destroy which it is the 

 purpose of tho Administration. As it was but 

 recently supposed, in official quarters, that two 

 companies from Fort Clark and one from Baton 

 Rouge would he sufficient to check the movements 

 Of that brigand, the augmentation just ordered 

 has naturally excited suspicions of other contem- 

 plated measures. Various speculations are in- 

 dulged in, but the moat plausible theory, formed 

 i deemed to be reliable, is 

 t Spain, France and England meditate prompt 

 iou in satisfying claims in which thtfr subjects 

 e interested, and which may involve the national 

 existence of Mexico, or the substitution or a monar- 

 chy under the protection of those powers. In 



it regarded in official quarters. 



Personal and Political. 



The official returns of the late election in this 

 State have not all been received as yet, but suffi- 

 cient, intelligence has come to hand to show that 

 Jones, Richmond and Skinner, Democrats, have 

 beeD elected by majorities ranging from 400 to 

 1,200. Forrest, Republican candidate for State 

 Prison Inspector, has between oOOond BOO majority 

 over his Democratic competitor. 



Augustus Belmont, our former Minister at the 

 Hague, is to remove to Europe, to take the place of 

 head of the house of Rothschild. 



Ex-Gov. GiLiiEn died at Lexington, Co., Wed- 

 nesday afternoon, 10th inst., after a month's illness. 



A whiter in One* a With, gives the following 

 account of the death of the great Pitt:— "Pitt 

 died at his house on Putney Heath, near the spot 

 where Canning and Castlereagh fought their duel, 

 in a very neglected state, none of his family or 

 friends being with him at the time. One, who was 

 sincerely attached to him, hearing of bis illness, 

 rode from London to see him. Arriving at his 

 house, he rang the bell at the entrance-gate, but 

 no one cume. Dismounting, be made his way to 

 the hall door, and repeatedly raDg the bell, which 

 no one answered. He then entered the bouse 

 wandered from room to room, till at last he dis- 

 covered Pitt on a bed— dead ana entirely neglect- 

 ed. It is supposed, that such was bis poverty be 

 bud not been able to pay the wages of bis servant*, 

 and that they had absconded, taking with them 

 what they could." 



The vote called out in New York was only 66,- 

 353 in all, where One Hundred and Four Thousand 

 stood on the Registers. 



Skxatiir Doi'Glas' physician considers his con- 

 dition considerably improved, and he is considered 



The Brooklyn Stor seriously and strongly urges 

 Horace Greeley for President. 



Tee returns of the election, in Louisiana, lor 

 Governor, thus far, foot up 0,66iS for Moore, Dem., 

 against 0,775 for Wells, Opp. The Representa- 

 tives stand i2 Democrats to 22 Opposition and six 

 Independent. 



Tfje London papers are remarkably well inform- 

 ed upon the personnel oT American politics. The 

 latest evidence of this is the announcement in one 

 of them that " amgDg the candidates of the Demo- 

 cratic party for the Presidency, the most promi- 

 nent is Stephen A. Douglas, a black man. who for 

 many years has conducted un abolition and eman- 

 cipation paper with signal success." 



The Dubuque Herald gives the following foot- 

 ings of the official vote ou Supreme Judges at the 

 late election in Iowa : 



Republican, Democrats. 



Ax election for State officers takes place in Kan- 

 sas on the 4th of next month. Samuel Medary is 

 the Democratic candidate for Governor, and Gov. 

 C. Robinson the Republican candidate. 



The official vote of Maryland at the recent elec- 

 tion foots up Democratic 2S,-iUS, Opposition •ls.iULi. 

 This, however, includes the vote of Baltimore, 

 much of which is claimed to he fraudulent. 



The Milwaukee Sentinel now has returns from 

 all but eleven counties in Wisconsin. The majori- 

 ty for Randall, Rep., thus far is 3,000, and the 

 counties to come will probably increase it. 



The Provisional Government of Nebraska has 

 gone into operation by the organization of both 

 branches of the Legislature, Mr. Steele, the Gov- 

 ernor elect, delivered a message in which he urges 

 the necessity of the present form of go' 

 until Congress shall take action in reference to the 

 Territory. 



News Paragraphs, 



A firm in Minneapolis is engaged in building 

 eight large ice boats, which they intend to load 

 with ice at the foot of Lake Pepin, during the 

 winter, and run in the spring to Memphis and 

 other southern markets. The boats will hold in 

 the aggregate about 28,000 tons. 



The Elmira Female College is in a nourishing 

 condition. President Cowles informs us that the 

 aggregate attendance is greater at 

 ever before since the opening of 

 the number of pupils now in regular attendance 

 bciDg about one hundred and sixty. 



Califohxia bids fair to excel Ohio in the produc- 

 tion of native wine. Most of the wine made there 

 is consumed in the State, and hence very little of 

 it is seen in this quarter; but one of the San 

 Francisco papers advertises a list of 26 brands. 



The Secretary of the Treasury has received 

 through the mail an anonymous letter enclosing 

 sixty dollars, with a statement that it belongs tc 

 the Indian Department. The conscience of somt 

 defaulter has been touched. 



The last overland news received in San Fran 

 Cisco was telegraphed from a new station, Poebcoco 

 Pass, about one hundred and ten miles from 

 city, the operator seated on a box, and holding the 

 machine in his lap, while tho files of the Eastern 

 papers are spread ou the grass nround him. The 

 telegraph line is slowly creeping eastward at the 

 rate of about four miles per day. 



The Bordens, who solidify milk up In Litchfield 

 county, Ct., have also succeeded in solidifying 

 sweet cider, so that five quarts are reduced to one, 

 which becomes a jellyish substance, and can al- 

 ways be made sweet and liquid cider ugain by 

 adding water. The Winsted Herald editor, who 

 ought to know, seems lo like the article. 



A Vsbmokt paper states that a short time since 



a man in Coventry, while engaged in digging a 

 well, came upon a quantity of frogs, embedded in 

 the clay, about twenty feet below the surface.— 

 After exposing them to the air a short time, tbey 

 became active and hopped off. 



A hard winter is predicted in California. The 

 crop of mast is enormous. The trees in maDy 

 places are liternlly loaded down with acorns. The 

 Indians predict, "heap snow, heap snow — much 



Tin; foundation of a new Fort on Hog Island 

 Ledge, Portland Harbor, has just been completed. 

 The foundations could only be worked ut tow water, 

 and the process was a long and tedious one. The 

 cost of the Fort is $450,000, and it i3 to be fitted to 

 mount ninety-three guns. 



At the first census of the United States, which 

 wa3 completed in 1701, the population was 3,'.'-V 

 G2iJ; revenue, $4,771,000; export3, $10,000,000; 

 imports, $20,000,000. 



The government of Peru has entered into a con- 

 tract with Dr. Edward Cullen for the introduction 

 of 25,000 Irish emigrants. The principal stipula- 

 tions ore that the emigrants shall renounce alle- 

 giance to their government, and must become 

 Peruvian citizens. The government of Peru has 

 to pay their sea passage, and every colonist is to 

 have about nine English acres of laud, at an eleva- 

 tion of 4,000 feet above the level of the sea. 



A little plant is found upon the prairies of 

 Texaa, called the " compass flower," which under 

 all circumstances of climate, changes of weather, 

 rain, frost or sunshine, invariably turns its leaves 

 and flowers towards the north, thus affording an 

 unerring guide to the traveler who, unaided by the 

 needle, seeks to explore those vast plains alone. 



The last Ruilal contoined the oiler of a South- 

 erner tor Mr. Giddings, dead or alive. The re- 

 ward has met the eyeof Mr. G., and he replies that 

 "when he has done with bis caput, the enraged 

 Southerner can have it for $5,000. 



The Jews of Cincinnati have agreed to close 

 their places of business on the Christian Sunday, 

 and to allow no business to be transacted on that 

 day in their stores and offices. 



Funs Extraordinary. — A New York corres- 

 pondent of a Charleston paper says, our leading 

 fur manufacturers have been working up, during 

 the past summer, skunk skins, exclusively intend- 

 ed for the foreign market, where the skunk aud his 

 remarkable <|ualilies are entirely unknown. Large 

 quantities of them go to Europe, and they are 

 highly prized there under various fictitious and 



Safetv of tde North Star.— For some days a 

 great deal of anxiety has been felt in reference to 

 the safety of this California steamer, as she was 

 nearly two weeks overdue, and had not been heard 

 from. Or the 17th inst., the joyful intelligence 

 was received that all was right with the steamer, 

 and the S73 souls ou board, by a letter to the 

 Charleston Courier, stating that she got ashore 

 about the £6th of October on the French Keys and 

 remained on the Keys six or seven days, but 

 finally got off without extra assistance by throw- 

 ing over some coal and with a loss of anchors, 

 and proceeded on her voyage on the 2d inst. 



Rescue of Forty -three Persons from a Sink- 

 ing Vessel.— TheHungarian which arrived atPort- 

 Und last week, put into St. Johns, N. F., on the 9th 

 inst., for the purpose of landing forty-three per- 

 sons who bad been rescued from the British 

 schooner John Martin, bound from Labrador to 

 Carbonier. In addition to ber own crew, the 

 John Martin had on board the crew of another 

 schooner which was wrecked on the coast of Lab- 

 rador in September, The rescue was not made 

 without considerable difficulty and danger, the 

 sea running so high that it was nei 

 for the life-boat to approach the sinking 

 without being stove to pieces. But the task wa 

 finally accomplished without accident. The crer 

 who manned the life-boat were presented by tb 

 passengers of the Hungarian with tw< 

 each, and a silver cup was also voted 

 of the brave fellows. 



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dred million dollars of railroad bonds mature 

 within the next five years. It is estimated that 

 not five per cent, of this amount will be returned 

 from the earnings of the roads. From a tabic of 

 one hundred and twenty roads, not one-third of 

 them declared a last half-yearly dividend. 



Exports. — The statement is made that tho 

 exportation of specie, from the first of January to 

 the first of November, reached the sum of $53,270,- 

 C14, while the exports of produce amounted to 

 148,828,748, or only fifteen million more specie 



Schooner Wrecked.— The schooner Charles S. 

 Peaslee, Capt. Baker, from Jacksonville for Phila- 

 delphia, was totally wrecked in a gale while at 

 sea, when all hands perished except one seaman. 

 At the commencement of the gale tho vessel was 

 thrown on her beam euds, the sea sweeping over 

 her, filling the cabin and forecastle, drowning the 

 captain's wife, who was below, and dashiog the 

 man from the wheel. The caplain perished in an 

 effort to save his wife, and all the sailors excepting 

 one were washed overboard in attempting to cut 

 away the masts. The seaman who was saved was 

 named George Satterly. He was taken off the 2d 

 inst., lat 81" 18', Ion. 77" 55', by the bark Samuel 

 Shepherd, Capt. Hathaway, which arrived at Bos- 

 ton. The C. S. P. was 104 tuns burden, and 

 owned by Mr. Huffman, of Philadelphia. 



From Mexico and Brownsville.— The India- 

 nola Courier of the 2^th, says that an express from 

 the Sheriff of Mercer county, has arrived, and 

 reports Cortinos with 1,500 men and nine cannon 

 in full possession of the Rio Grande, from Browns- 

 ville to Itima. His forces arc scouring the country. 

 All communication west of the Neuces was cut off 

 with Corpus Christie. Capt. Tobin, with 100 men 

 from Corpus Christie, had been defeated, and it is 

 feared that he is cut off. The reports, however, 

 ore conflicting, and probably exaggerated. The 

 latest reliable accounts from Brownsville, ore 

 received by the New Orleans morchants, direct 

 from Brownsville to the 4th, when affairs were 

 unchanged. 



New Line of Summarise Cable.— Mr. Sam'l. 

 C. Bishop, of New York, has just completed an 



iportant length in oar Cape Cod tetegrnpr 

 :ilities by laying a very substantial submarine 

 legraph cable of bis own manufacture, from 

 Edgartown to Nantucket, a distance of from eight 

 ) ten miles. This new Hue will supply u want 

 mch felt by the people of Nantucket. The new 

 ne connects with the Boston and Cape Cod line 

 t Edwardstown. 



FOREIGN NEWS. 



Grrat Britain.— It is asserted that England 

 will join the Congress, and that the French and 

 English Government a have agreed on a basis for 

 the settlement of the Italian question. 



The Great Eastern left Holyhead on the 2d, UiA 

 re ic bed Si i ii thai np tun on the Itb, She experienced 

 very rough weather and a heavy sea on the passing 

 round. The Times' account of this third trial says 

 that when the ship was exposed to the roll of the 

 Atlantic, she rolled and dipped with ease. The 

 ship seemed to swing herself with a side-long gen- 

 tle motion over every wave, dropping deeply and 

 easily beyond them. The whole roll of the vessel 

 is calculated at only eight degrees each way, or 

 sixteen degrees in all, an every -day amount to 

 smaller vessels, though something for one which 

 was supposed to be almost immovable by wind or 

 sen. The greatest speed attained was \by t knots, 

 close on to IS miles per hour. However, the run 

 from Holyhead to Southampton is pronounced far 

 more satisfactory tbno either of her previous trips. 

 The engines were under the sole control of Mr. 

 McLennan, Chief Engineer of the ship. 



France.— The organization of the French armj 

 for China is considered definitely settled, and the 

 preparations at the seaports for embarkation have 

 already commenced. 



Cholera had broken out among the French 

 troops destined to invade Morocco, and carried off 

 several distinguished officers, including Colonel 

 Lafout, commanding the engineers. The ravages 

 exceeded lifty per day, and the total deaths were 



Italy.— It was vaguely reported that Garibaldi, 

 in his interview with the KiDg of Sardinia, de- 

 clared that Italy was betrayed, and that he would 

 lead the revolution. The King protested against 

 such proceeding. 



The Sardinian Plenipotentiaries have rec 

 orders from Turin to sign the treaty of peac 

 is believed that the treaty will be signe 

 morrow, and the convocation to be held at Paris 

 will immediately follow. 



The elections of members of the Municipality 

 Florence and other places have terminated without 

 any result, almost all the electors having abstained 

 from Toting. The National Assembly has been 

 convoked fur Nov, 7th. 



Austria. — The Vienna correspondent of the 

 Tini'-i says it is tolerably certain that the mi 

 in which the Austrian Government will be 

 make concessions to Hungary, is not far dist 



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From the Pacific Side. 



The Overland Mail arrived at St. Louis on the 

 17th inst., with California dotes of the 28th ult. 

 The accounts from Carson Valley and Walker 

 River Mines continue to excite great attei 

 stampede of CaliforniaDS in that diret 

 already commenced, and a promised ei 

 equal to that of Eraser River. These mic 

 the east side of the Sierra Nevada, and 

 posed to extend from Honey Luke on t 

 about 200 miles. The principal discovery is called 

 Gold Hill. It is o mound (10 feet high, and 5,000 

 feet long, and 200 feet wide, and lies 20 

 north of Carson Valley. It is traversed by 

 of quartz, a part of which ' 

 realized from $500 to $2,500 per tun. 



Gov, Walker bad appointed Judge H. T. Haron 

 formerly of Ky., as United States Senator, to fil 

 the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Erode 

 rick. The new Senator was to leave for Washing 

 ton on the steamer of Nov. 5th. 



Colonel Lander, Superintendent of the Fort 

 Kearney and Honey Lako Wagon Road Expedi- 

 tion, had completed his work in season, end was 

 about to repair to Washington, having in hand au 

 unexpended balance of $17,000. His stock, pur 

 chased in Missouri last spring at $13 per head, 

 had been sold for the benefit of the Government. 

 at over $200 per head. 



Business was more active at San Francisco, but 

 without improvement in prices. 



The dates from the Sandwich Islands 

 Od. The prospects of business were poor, and the 

 community wos troubled by reports from 

 Atlantic States, relative to the cheapness of 

 oil, which it was thought would diminish the 

 demands for whale oil, and injure the whaling 

 business of Honolulu. Some of the sugar ph 

 tions were paying moderately well, but the coffee 

 crop was an entire failure. 



The British ship Achilles, Copt. Hart, which 

 arrived at Honolulu on the 27th of September, 

 reported that the American clipper ship Mastiff, 

 Capt. Johnson, from San Francisco to Hong Kong, 

 having on board one hundred and eighty passen- 

 gers, of whom one hundred and seventy-live were 

 Chinese, was burned at sea on the 15th of Septem- 

 ber. The passengers, with the exception ot one 

 Chinaman, who was smothered, weie safely taken 

 off by the Achilles and conveyed to Honolulu. 

 Among the passengers were Richard H. Dana, 

 of Boston, C. C. Harris, George Clifford, and 

 I. H. C. Richmond. The Chinese are said to 

 have lost a large amount of treasure. The cargo, 

 consisting of about 500 tuns, was lost. The fire 

 originated between decks Irom the Chinamen 

 ullowing sparks to e.et among their combustible 

 nrhele-Tttlm-li ><»>u had the whole ship in o blazel 

 The escape of passengers was owing 



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-Two men were suffocated In a com bin at Chlcae© 



- Amicable relatione nre established, between Turkej 



- The C»nadl»n Parliament la lo meet at Qoebrc 



owed to New Fork, 

 — One hay specula 



steamer New World has Wa 

 or tn Canada ha* pur-based 

 near Placerrille, Col., furnished 

 ending Not. T, the number or 

 is sailed from Quebec, for Eig- 



ue of tho taxable property tn the 



02,303,476. 



— A census of Iowa Just completed st 

 State has a population of 633,540. 



inaw, Mich., at the depth of 600 feet. 



a England, fur $25,01 



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he Northern and Central parts of Illinois. 



— The Philadelphia sheriff's advertisements I 

 olumns of one of lie largest papers in that city. 



— The taxable properly In Texas this year Is j 



- M. Victor A 



e Veal Btndolpb Statesman 



t negroes going out 

 — A vein, supposed lo I 

 Id-foshloncd Pittsburgh c 



some el tbe papers. 



- Eli Thayer keeps at work at Ceredo t 



e colony. Several New England families 



■oil j hc id.ni ni Albany the !< 

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