NEWS OF THE DAY.
Date: 21 March 1859
Our tiles of papers received from Buenos Ayres to January 20, contain a remarkable correspondence between the Secretary of State of that Government and the American Consul, Mr. W. H. HUDSON. It appears that the Buenos Ayrean executive had taken offence at the entrance of the American war-vessels into the Parana without its consent previously obtained, and had requested our Consul to signify so much to Commodore SHUBRICK.
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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Date: 22 March 1859
The Mexican mail brings us our usual letter from the capital, which, while it still gives the latest news from that point, should have reached us a fortnight ago. Our dates from Vera Cruz are, therefore, nearly three weeks later, and, in a measure, supersede the intelligence supplied by our correspondent. The imposition of the forced loan
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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.; FROM WASHINGTON. No Extra Session of Congress - Mexican Affairs.
Date: 22 March 1859
The President, having yielded to the views of the Cabinet, telegraphed to New-York to say that no Extra Session would be called. Dispatches just received from Mr. CHURCHWELL represent the cause of the Mexican Liberals as improving, and that there is a great probability of the speedy recognition of the Juarez Government.
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NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.; The Extra Session Question Still Undecided--The Trial of Mr. Sickles--The Indian Treaties, &c. FROM WASHINGTON.
Date: 21 March 1859
The Extra Session question is still undecided, though it will be settled to-morrow in time to telegraph for the California steamer. The President has been outvoted by the Cabinet, and begins to wane in his determination. I learn from a reliable source that the chances are now against a call for an Extra Session.
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Amusements.
Date: 21 March 1859
WALLACK'S THEATRE.--Mr. JOHN BROUGHAM takes his benefit to-night, when the "Veleran" wil be repeated for the fifty-fifth time. No other attraction is effered, or indeed necessary; but we may mention as an established fact that Mr. BROUGHAM never refuses to make a speech when he is asked, and that the knowing ones regard this as the most attractive feature of his benefit.
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OBITUARY.
Date: 22 March 1859
Mr. Samuel Jackson a surgeon in the Navy. died at his residence in Brooklyn March 16, and was buried on the 18th with military honors. In detachment of 50 Marines, with the band belonging to the North Carolina, formed the escort to the grave in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Celebration of Washington's Birth-Day at Berlin--Dinner at the American Minister's--Baron Humbeldt Among the Guests.
Date: 22 March 1859
The Americans now in Berlin were on the 19th invited to dine with the American Ambassador on WASHINGTON'S birth-day as a commemoration of that event: and at the appointed time nearly 70 persons assembled in the drawing-room of the Embassy.
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From Florida.; HOTEL FULL OF TRAVELERS IN PURSUIT OF ;HEALTH AND PLEASURE--ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF THE STATE--RENEWAL OF THE SEMINOLE WAR--RAILROADS--REOPENING OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.
Date: 21 March 1859
Your correspondent proposes to furnish your readers with a rambling discourse about matters and things in general in this region of flowers and balmy breezes, of swamps and everglades, piney woods and orange groves, plantations and saw mills. This old town, once the largest in the United States, for during the period of nearly fifty years, it was the only European settlement within the limits of what is now known as the great Republic;
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Europe and the Stock Exchange.
Date: 21 March 1859
It would not be easy to find a more striking illustration of the little wisdom which suffices not merely to govern mankind in the aggregate, but to regulate the private affairs of individual men, than is furnished by the influence exerted upon our domestic interests in America by the actual uncertainty and threatening aspect of the politics of Europe.
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