UNITED STATES.
The Mayor of Louisville has issued a proclamation stating that, in consequence of information which shows a disposition on the part of the coloured people to rise against the. whites, all slaves are to be imprisoned during the holidays who are absent from home after half-past eight in the evening.
A Charleston paper says that the law substituting confinement to their ships, of free coloured seamen, instead of imprisonment, has passed both houses of the South Carolina legislature.
Two trains on the Virginia Central Railroad came in collision near Gordonsville. Both wi?re smashed, four-or five men killed, and several o'.hers injured.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 466, 22 April 1857, Page 7
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103UNITED STATES. Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 466, 22 April 1857, Page 7
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