GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM WASHINGTON; The Seventh Regiment in Camp; THE WALTON AND MATHEWS MURDER (7/9/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 7/9/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Sunday, July 8. During the difficulties with the Mormons, which came near leading to a serious collision with the American troops, a plan proposed by Capt. WALTER M. GIBSON for the immediate emigration of the Mormons to Oceanica was adopted by BRIGHAM YOUNG, and forwarded to Dr. BERNHEISEL to be laid before the President for his approval, with a request for some proposition on the part of the Government to purchase their improvements in Utah. The President refused to notice the matter further than to remark that BRIGHAM YOUNG could do as he pleased, as the only duty of the Executive was to see the laws properly executed and enforced. Mr. GIBSON has since identified himself with the Mormon fraternity, and made their interests his own. He now proposes to them to emigrate to one of the East India Islands, and reliable information has been received here to the effect that the views of Capt. GIBSON will be carried out.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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General Telegraphic news from Washington – 2-3
The Seventh Regiment in Camp – 3
The Walton and Mathews Murder – 4
Mobile Slave-Trade Trials – 4
Interesting Overland News: Capture of a Band of Outlaws – 4
Staten Island: Accident to a Sailing Party and Narrow Escape – 4
Interesting From Nebraska and the Pawnee Reservation: Sioux Indians Attacking the Pawnees – 4-5
The Slave Trade: An Original Letter from Patrick Henry – 5
The Captured Africans – 5
Mr. Spurgeon’s Sermons – 5-6
Editorial: The Highway Murder [see The Walton and Mathews Murder on page 4-HJS] – 6
Politics of the Day: The Four Candidates (letter to the NYT from “A Veteran Observer) – 6-7
Presidential Politics: Another Letter from Mr. Lincoln – 7
The Great Eastern – 7
Coroners’ Inquests – 7
Police Reports – 7

[Red Badger]

He now proposes to them to emigrate to one of the East India Islands, and reliable information has been received here to the effect that the views of Capt. GIBSON will be carried out................

[rdl6989]

I loved that story about the seventh regt.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I loved that story about the seventh regt.

Check back each day. I think the NYT will have their war correspondent stationed on Staten Island for the whole 10-day expedition.