| Show EASTERN NEWS BY MAIL mall the ile last weeks mail which arrived on ou sunday morning brought a few papers from the atlantic states to nov I 1 bap and from the frontier to nov ad but by far the greatest number of our regular exchanges did not come to hand including the new york tribune albany evening jarnal boston statesman and other eastern northern and northwestern papers there was something out of gea r somewhere tile the news is unimportant things generally seemed to be more quiet on the eve of the election than for months before some of the t fire eaters were talking loudly about what would be done dope in the event of Lincol ns election but their threats were generally considered mere assertions for political effect without any posit positive lye iye meaning there th ere were some however who considered that what was thus spoken would be literally fulfilled and that a majority of the southern states would surely secede i ja the republicans were successful in electing their candidate for the presidency the following extract from the cor correspondence nd of the new york herald of oct savors somewhat of blood and thunder and is quite in accordance with the general tone of feeling expressed by southern ora orators orb ors as reported in the journals of the day in virginia they are enro ling men all over the state and the regular volunteers drill daily the four baner batteries ies iea of rifled cannon twenty pieces lately ordered by coonel smith will arrive in richmond next week with hivo five thousand revolving pistols and awen ty give five ve hundred carbines eight hundred barrels rei rel of powder have already gone on there is 13 no exaggeration in all this governor lecher declares openly that his object is to sustain any sovereign state against federal f coercion letters from georgia georia say all par ties are u united for secession W on Lincol ns election no doubt is entertained here that in less than sixty days several of nf the southern states will have dissolved their connection with the tho government mr toombs was very rampant towards the close of the canvass and in a speech at mont gamery ala oct he urged resistance to the death in case of the election of lin coin coln others were equally bitter in their declarations and if the people of the south can be sufficiently operated upon by such speeches to follow their leaders there is no question but that the union will be shortly dissolved by the secession of most of the southern states and the formation ofa ota south ern e rn confederacy coref before the close of buchanann Bucha nans administration mr douglas pilgrimage through tennessee tenness e georgia and alabama to mobile was a bly ably mentioned by several southern papers and correspondents and if the enthusiasm reported to have been manifested by those who assembled to hear the speeches of the little giant is any index to the public sentiment in the section of country through which he hv passed he has some friends even in the southern states it was reported that several conservative and highly respectable gentlemen called upon the president the last of october and had bad a conversation touching the state of affairs mr buchanan expressed himself quite unreservedly edly to the effect that the skies looked threateningly but he in no way intimated what course he would pursue in case of secession the president had made a decision in the case of general jel JEI arney Though he was regarded as having violated the orders of general 4 scott he was in consideration of distinguished military se service bervice merely slightly officially censured A A dispatch from fram oct ot ath says the T cited states court C ourt ox 0 claims haare su fumed i liss s bession session later after a long decess recess the number of ca cases uses on the bpck is iq smal swai ke re efforts will b be mabb amadeio ma deio deto to p procure r 0 kune cure an amendment of ot the law establishing this tribunal BO so that awa ads not exceeding may a be final instead of having as now to be m definitively g acted upon by congress the executive committees of the four political parties are closing up their business having ceased to issue aay moro printed diate rial it is estimated that the aggregate number of documents circulated circulate I by them since pince the commencement of the presidential canvass is between six and seven millions Near nearly lyall all ali of them were folded at the capitol mr wi wigfall I 1 fall fail was at latest dates about to return to tex texas as and ana did not expect to go to washington again as he intended to resign his seat in the tile senate other resignations were anticipated the record of disasters and calamities durin during the last week in october is quite limite limited d compared with the published accounts during the preceding four months the storm on the plains on the of october of which an account was published last week is reported to have been very extensive and unusually severe A dispatch from st joseph dlo blo oct says by pony express this morning we have ad ail vices from Ju lesburg miles from here at 0 one of the most severe storms that sas sab was yas ever known on the plains on the ij it blew a hurricane accompanied by bail hail until three clock pm when a heavy snow storm set in the weather is rapidly growing 0 cold emigrant emigrant trains line that station on eert e very side bide 91 de their cattle suffering mare than in midwinter it was thought that the emigrants above and below jules juies julesburg lesburg Ju burg would also suffer severely and great loss ensue the rony pony wab was detained five hours in consequence it is blo bio blowing wing furiously here and has tle the th appearance of snow and is growing cold A fire occurred in philadelphia oct destroying property to the amount of the same night at a fire destroyed nine stores on oct a brewery vas was gas gab destroyed by fire in chicago loss three hundred bales of cotton were burned in the union press yand yard neav orleans octo beresth loss there were many other cither similar occurrences reported of 0 less magnitude in various parts of the country with no diminution odthe cf the record of crime but it would be next to impossible to give details even if space would permit the schooner foaming roaming billow of belfast was totally wrecked on oct jtb near prince edwards island and aad all hands thirteen in number lost the british onan onar humming bird from labrador to halifax wab was wrecked oct ath off Anti antl costa the captai captain ii steward and one seaman were drowned the others four in number were saved two on a raft and two were picked erom from the wreck having been six days without food or drink steamer pixie dixie from shreveport for alexandria struck a snag C on the and sunk the boat was a total loss lom it was reported that a mackerel sc schooner boober of gloucester was recently run down by a stearn steams er in a dense fog nea near cape causti causo caubo and after floating loafing two days water lagged logged seven of the crew were washed overboard the remaining seven recovered the boat and two more died of exhaustion ohp survivors were rescued by a vessel and carried to st domingo where the american consul treated them kindly and would send them home A train from fall river to boston ran oo off the track near myricks station oct ap 26 by which several persons were injured red but nona none fatally the amount of grain that was waiting transportation fran the northwestern north western states eastward was represented as bein being very great and the michigan southern railroad company had ordered one hundred new cars in addition to their former large number as it would he be impossible to transport what freight was oa on hand without more cars reports from southern hansas kansas of a late date represent that sixty drag dragoon pons pono under capt sturgis accompanied agent cowall had been driving the settlers from what is known as the lands seventy houses had been burned and occupants turn turned bont bout out it ws thau thought ht the report was wag exaggerated that is certainly an ul ilk fated country |
