Telegraphic Synopsis of Northern news. Petersburg, August 11
--New York papers of the 8th have been received here.
The Golden Gate, which left San Francisco on the 21st July for Panama, with 230 passengers and $1,114,000 in gold for New York, and $270,000 for England, was burnt at sea on the 27th. One hundred and eighty passengers and all the treasure were lost.
The news of the disaster caused a sensation in Wall street.
Hon. A. O. P. Nicholson has been arrested at Columbia, Tenn., and placed in confinement on soldier' fare, by order of Gen. Negley, for sympathizing with the rebellion.
A telegram from St. Josephs, Mo., Aug. 5th, says that the guerrilla leader Quantrell seized a descending steamer Sunday evening, and crossed 1,500 men to this side of the river.
The military authorities at Fort Leavenworth, hearing of the capture, not knowing Quantrell's strength, sent one hundred men to intercept him all of whom O. captured, and marched on, capturing Liberty.
ter after five the upper deck fell in.
Soon after, the steamer struck the beach, and the passengers and crew who had not got into the boats, jumped overboard and endeavored to swim ashore.
About one hundred, including five children, swam or were washed ashore alive.
The ship burned to the water's edge, and soon disappeared.
Those passengers who reached the shore made their way near to Manzanilla, where they arrived on the 28th, just as the steamer St. Louis arrived up from Panama.
Some few others escaped to Manzanilla in boats.
One boat, with thirty persons on board, has not been heard from, but probably made the shore south of Manzanilla.
The St. Louis arrived here to-night, bringing seventy-eight of the Golden Gate's passengers — all that are known to be saved — and a portion of the crew.
Captain Hudson, with a portion of the crew, remained at Manzanilla, to look after the missing passengers.
A dispatch states that the ship's papers were lost.
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In commenting upon the causes of the destruction of the steamship Golden Gate, the New York Times says:
The disaster was wholly unexpected.
In the Eastern Pacific half the terrors of sea travel are disarmed.
In July there are no frightful gales and tremendous seas to imperil the strength of the vessel.
Unless the pilot wander from a well defined course, there are no reefs nor shoals where he may be suddenly sunk.
So plain and secure has been the journey from San Francisco to Panama, that the voyager has come to regard it as less formidable than the crossing of an inland ferry.
But from the one danger of which no vessels is free, even when its ribs and their coverings are of iron, the boats of the Pacific Steamship Company are not exempt.
The Golden Gate was burned at sea. Nearly one-fourth of her passengers perished.
There was every chance to escape, had means of escape been provided.
Herein, as the case stands at present, there is a melancholy balance of repro
Arrival of California gold.
--The steamship Northern Light, from Aspinwall on the 25th ultimo, arrived at New York on Friday night. She brought $754,840 in California gold on freight.
On the passage of the last steamer from San Francisco to Panama, the schooner Active was at Many vanilla, near the spot where the Golden Gate was wreaked.
She had been sent down from San Francisco, under the command of Captain Watermann, for the purpose of saving the $1,000,000 in gold which was lost in the above steamer, but when the mail steamer passed the divers had gone back to San Francisco for further assistance.
It was the opinion of the passengers that on the return of the divers the gold or at least the greater portion of it, would be saved.
onging to Messrs. Wells.
Fargo & Co., and $1,500 in sliver for Nicaragua, belonging to Peyton Middleton, Esq., late United States Special Inspector of Customs in Panama, and to his American partner in Nicaragua E. S. Lane, Esq. Being assured by the purser that the Ariel had no letter man, he did not overhaul the sacks, and in fact nothing in that line was disturbed.
Wells Fargo & Co.'s sacks, the private sacks of the Panama Railroad Company, the South and Central American and Panama mails, and even the State Department sacks for the United States Consul at Aspin wall, containing his own correspondence and that for other course's, ministers, and naval officers were safely delivered to the proper authorities at Panama.
The ship was however, bonded for $125,000, and the cargo and freight for $135,000 more, making a total of $260,000, the whole to be paid to the Confederate authorities within thirty days after the establishment of the independence of the Confederate States.
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force under Buckner or Presion, or both, strengthened by John Morgan's, Forrest's, and Champ Ferguson's cavalry, will co-operate with him in the invasion.
Commercial and Financial.
Gold opened in New York Wednesday with some degree of activity at 165; but when it was announced that Mr. Cisco had set the price of the gold certificates at 164 it became heavy, and dropped down to 163½.
The Herald's commercial report says:
By the Champion, from Aspinwall, we learn the arrival at Panama of two millions and a half of gold, which the Golden City brought from California.
Only two hundred and seventy thousand dollars of the treasure come to this city — the rest going to England as a measure of security.
We may thank Secretary Welles for the sending of our products to England.
The subscriptions to the two hundred million loan to-day at the Sub-Treasury amounted to $94,300, and at the First National Bank to $151,000.--The subscriptions in Philadelphia have not yet reached
suitable arrangements can be made.
San Salvador Aiding rebels — the case of Bradshaw and Reynolds.
The Yankees are about to bully another weak nation.
A Washington telegram says:
A dispatch from Acting Rear-Admiral Pearson, dated Panama, November 5, received at the Navy Department, calls attention to the action of the Government of Salvador in regard to the rebel pirates Bradshaw and Reynolds, arrested at San Salvador on suspicion of being emissaries of ex-President Barrios, bu the sole object of their visit was the destruction of American commerce in order to obtain from them, in effect, free passes to do as they pleased, has somewhat changed the aspect of affairs in this particular." New naval vessels will soon be at Panama and in the Pacific, to replace the slow-going crafts on which American honor and interests are obliged now to depend for protection, of sufficient speed and capacity to prevent further possibility of danger from rebel pirates, whether afloat or c
