Show GENERALL SUMMARY f continued from last paper papera the attack lutack at matamoras commenced oct 21 phe fhe mexican government troops were holding out with the loss of men nov ad while the revolutionists under gen caravajal had lost but 3 no quarters to the americans mr longstroth a merchant of I 1 matamoras was lulled killed on the the city fired the custom house and other buildings destroyed new orleans custom house and several stores and clocks idocks destroyed by fire nov ad loss indians in northern california are very troublesome several emigrants have been killed by the indians on columbia river it is estimated that in five years with a contina continuation a of the present ratio of emigration to the U S I 1 ireland will be de populated certainly the south and west per week are reported as leaving A paris correspondent of the london M herald says t louis napoleon has grappled with journalism he has bound it with fetters of iron gagged its mouth cast it into prison and cleared out its pockets and the people have cave applauded hirn him the railroad from cincinnati to st louis is under contract eiery everything thing to be ready tor for use in three years dr owen oen the geological surveyor of the U S for iowa reports not less than square miles of coal field extend extending inz upwards of miles in direction of the des moines and westerly from the des moines nearly across the state of iowa iowa A daily mail route is established between independence pen dence and st louis and two dalies one on the nort n and the other on the south side of the river from st louis to jefferson city the people of massachusetts have failed to elect their governor lut deal governor ac I 1 the free banking system of 0 illinois has been carried by a large majority steam communication i is s in in prospect between san j francisco and the sandwich islands some of the california papers are appealing to the vigilance committee to renew their labors too many desperadoes yet nov near st louis steamer die vernon ran into the archer which sunk immediately with 30 deck passengers and hands java coffee has grown this year in in caswell co N C fully matured rope carpets are coming into general use in in cincinnati the cormons mormons pretend to have received two new revelations the mormons cormons Mor mons receive receive revelations every ery day which two does the author refer to I 1 the california convention passed resolutions recommending Dr om the division of the state the california bianch iBran cli mint bill passed the senate dec 16 the commissioner of the general land office at Was washinton washington binton 11 has received a letter from thos jefferson Bo Po near linden mo complaining that the mormons cormons had laid claim to all the unoccupied lands on the pottawatomie track calling them a set of land speculators p ac iwho has a better claim to purchase than tl those iose who made the roads killed the snakes built the bridges fenced and tilled the land thirteen men belonging to a french ship were killed and eaten by the cannibals in in new caledonia new zealand last june great excitement in in france every prospect of a dreadful revolution great numbers of families leaving for the colonies and west india islands hamden co emigrant agents 0 are said to have failed tele telegraphic aphia r wires wires encased in in a lead tube have been laid across the mississippi over biver bottom at st I 1 louis mo the queen of En glands salary is is about two millions of dollars the crown jewels are valued at the duke of wellington was born in in ireland on the 1st ast of may 1769 A building fell in in the city of new york having bushels of barley in in the upper story crushing the blacksmiths shop of hoes press pi ess factory killing and wounding 11 several men in in its fall the prospect for an exciting session session of congress is is great peat p eat the slavery question is is again on the docket louth south carolina against the fugitive slave law a as s being too inefficient and the abolitionists against it because it admits slavery in in any form A louit joint resolution was bro brought into congress by mi mr foot of miss to request the president of the TJ S to open correspondence with the queen of 0 great britain for the release of the lish I 1 ish patriots smith obrien T F meag meagher her and their associates who are now transport prisoners to new south wales and to offer them the hospitalities of this country report says that nearly all the U S troops which have been stationed on the borders of mexico and texas bacq hav deserted to join the revolutionists revolutionists of nothern northern no thern mexico bills have been brought into congress 0 tor for a railroad and telegraph aph line from missouri to 0 o san francisco and a line of steamships ps from san francisco to china I 1 there are also bins bills preparing for the annexation of the sandwich islands fora naval intervention to prevent russia from overcoming liberty mEu ti europe rope En enquiries s are also going on at washington relative to british outrages in central Arii america erica and nd the illegal condemnation and imprisonment of mr Thra thrashed stier in havana cuba and many other bills of alike a like nature making 11 plenty of work tor for the representative 5 of the people I 1 A conspiracy against the imperial government of russia has been detected amerig the russian nobles i A tailor in berlin insured his life for tha lers after which he be took a notion to di die e his wife buried the coffin bribed a doctor and received a certificate of his death received the insul insurance ance money and left for other lands to enjoy the same with the insured tailor who is now in jail having been seized in the country whither he had fled A person in connecticut nas has discovered a in method to imitate marble on wood or stone giving it all the polish and perfect appearance of the original pine a british officer is now on his way to the north pole by land in search of sir john franklin there were lost in the late terrible gale at prince edwards island three vessels named henry clay all hands lost with one exception lbs ibs of tobacco are raised in north I 1 america annually A mr bates of dundas dandas at the west of like lake ontario has discovered means of producing a beautiful bright light from a decomposition of air on a simple nd cheap scale it is is estimated that the deaths by murders s suicides accidents 3 ac in the U S average 45 per day or nearly per annum this we suppose does not include california the whale fishery trade is now a lucrative bus business mess at san francisco and bids fair to take all the business from nantucket new bedford and ther other eastern towns which have been built up and sul supported port by it the irish tenants are selling their produce household furniture ac and de camping bythol by wholesale asale to the united states forgetting to pay the landlord his rent one agent of a landlord received upwards of I 1 1000 or of rent from the passengers of one ship the rather too quick for them the clerk of the dead letter office in washington lately burned eight hundred and twenty five bushels of dead letters the refuse of three months associations are now in operation in the several eastern cities concocting concoct ing measures for a uniformity of postage of one cent for single letters to all parts of the union |