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OP THIS WDMBEJL 

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Personal and Political 



The Republican Slate Convention of Maine is to 

 bo held in PorUadp on Uomltj, the 6th of July. 



1 in I,, .-i-lalurc of Connecticut U in session ot 

 the present time. Among other movements, a Li- 

 cense Law bo* been introduced, 05 it suli-tHuie for 

 the present Prohibitory Law, mid r» 

 proper committee. 



Tuk Democrats of Texas bare nominated for 

 Governor, H. R. Runnels ; for Lieut. Governor, P. 

 K. Lubbock j fur Commissioner of the General 

 Land Office, F. M. While, of Galveston— all ihree 

 the present incumbents. A resolution in favor of 

 the re-opening of the slave trade was tabled, after 

 a stormy debate. Col. W. N. Waul has been unan- 

 imously nominated for Congress by the Democrats 

 or the Galveston District. 



several of the Democratic Conventions in Al- 

 abama, for the nomination of candidates for Con- 

 gress, notice is given flint tbey will, nl the Charles- 

 Convention, insist upon a platform in which 

 the doctrine of Congressional intervention in favor 

 of Slavery in the Territories will be insisted upon. 

 The Washington States advises Mr. Buchanan to 

 convene Congress on the third Monday in Septem- 

 ber — the substantial reason for an extra session 

 being furnished by our peculiar relations with 



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ADVERTISEMENTS. 







ROCni'STr.R, N. y., MAY : 



dctiimenl to good neighborhood, pence and com- 

 merce, "Ife gem of the Antilles' is a mere stalking 

 horse to us at present, while Mexico is a loud, out- 

 spoken, palpable reality." 



Tns mixed up condition of party politics is 

 shown in the fact that the democrats of the ninth 

 Congressional District in Kentucky have re-affirm- 

 ed the doctrine of squatter sovereignty in respect 

 to slavery in the Territories and denied the au- 

 thority of Congress to legislate in respect to it, 

 while the opposition in the same district take the 

 ground that Congress can Qnd should legislate to 

 protect slavery in the territories. 



San Fjiancisco dates of the B5th lilt, have been 

 received. Senators B rode rick and G win wen 

 tering their respective forces for the ensuing 

 poign. There will be two democratic tickets 

 Held, Lecompton and Anti-Leeomplon. The Slate 

 Convention is to be held atSaeramento, June 



Weather of the First Half of May. 



Till tine weather ofanotherbalf month has been 

 quite acceptable, though preceded by so much of 

 the like kind for several months. The warmth of 

 many of the last fifteen days has been culled extra- 

 ordihory. Certainly it has been striking, as well 



beating. Let us see. The average heat of this 



half for twenty- two years is 6U,y*, and for this 



present is 59.7", showing above the mean about 



degrees. Last year this mean was about the 



ge. In May, 1842, the mean was ten degrees 



f tha 





esent. Indeed, I hud 

 liij;li n mean temperature as the present. 

 At the beginning of May the season was uot 

 uch in advance of some other years. But from 

 e 4th to the '.'th was very warm, and vegetation 

 rithgreatrapidity. Cherries, peai 



ulappl. 





search 

 remark 

 bility of the pui 



Affairs at Washington. 



reTious to Count Sarliges leaving Wash- 

 mown gentlemen of the State o! 

 Unit it there should be a European war 

 1 it would not be without ombarrass- 

 r commercial relations, for the right of 

 Id be re-asserlcd and enforced. This 

 tide with emphasis. The responsi- 

 from whom this information 

 ■ca no doubt of its truth. 

 Naval steamers are to be put in 

 e successfully 



finished, and before 



available vessel will probably be 



The design is not, however, iu reference 



■ 1P| as no 

 apprehended from th: 

 sidered, in official au 

 important points wh* 

 and hence additional 

 the Oulf of Mexico. The facilit 

 hood of Central America, afforded by 



. the 



sc. Vera Cruz is con- 



l. to be oue of the most 

 large fleet is required, 



■"" be despatched to 

 the neighboi 



ed a great profusion of blossoms, 



em. Lastyear at the Tth, vegetation was rapid, 



In the five years from 1643 to ] Ms, inclusive, the 

 average of this half of May was above the mean of 

 it for twenty-two years, but three to five degrees 

 leas tbau this year. Turning to an old record of 

 the beat of this pan iu ]s:.;o, the mean was a little 

 higher than this year; but of that season I find no 

 other record. 



The heat wasSC at noon of the Oth, and not much 

 less the day previous. But the heat has been less- 

 ened in the al'teruoun of several days, by a bi 

 from the N. N. E, and the cooler- Lake Ont 



The Pike's Peak Hnmbng. 



Toe Detroit Adeirtutr soys that Mr. Stephen C. 

 Johnson, or that city, an old California gold dig- 

 ger, left Detroit on the Stb of March last, and has 

 just returned. Be fully confirms the reports that 

 the whole thing is a most stupendous humbug, 

 conceived in (raud by a ect of unmitigated -harp- 

 ers and swindlers, the chief of whom is the notori- 

 ous Gen. Larimer. After having prospected the 

 alleged gold region thoroughly, he suti-:.. .1 I mi- :i 

 that the reports in regard to the inexhaustible sup- 

 ply of gold at Pike's Peak have been manufactured 

 by unprincipled spectators, for no other purpose 

 than to give them an opportunity to prey upon 

 those who might be drawn to the fabulous El Dora- 

 do in search of the precious metal. Mr. Johnson's 

 report is highly unfavorable in every respect, and 

 wherever his statements are credited, and his reli- 

 ability is vouched for by the Advertiser, they will 

 have the effect to stop further emigration to the 

 Pike's Peak " gold diggings." 



Mr. J. B. Bromley, Route Agent of the Overland 

 Mail Company, writes from Cottonwood Springs, 

 April 28th, to bis employers:— "Pike's Teak has 

 turned out to be a humbug, and the road is lined 

 with starving men; and God knows we have got 

 to give them something to eat as long as we have 



it. If you could do something to keep the | r 



deluded beings from starving, you would be doing 

 a kindness to humanity. We will try aud get 

 through as well as possible, but lots of the poor 

 fellows arc bound to die. There are no provisioi 

 in the country only what belongs to the Mail Cor 

 pany. The traders along the road have nothing i 

 the way of provisions. They (the emigrants) bai 

 not attempted to force anything yet, but are hour 

 to do it if you do not give them something to eat 

 A letter, daled Fort Kearney, 8th Last , Bays th: 

 the Pike's Peak emigrants are returning in drove 

 \ine hundred wagons hod passed the Fort in 

 reek- The emigrants were in an extremely dest 

 ute condition and selling their wagons, horses and 

 ut-fits almost for nothing. 



Leavenworth date3 to the 17th, state that there 

 is a great scarcity of provisions in the mines at 

 Pike's Peak, and much suffering among the emi- 

 grants. Several deaths were reported from star- 

 vation, and the emigrants arc arriving in a desl ilnte 

 condition. An abundance of provisions, however, 

 are on the way, from several points. Contradictory 

 reports prevailed regarding the mining prospects, 

 aDd the general tenor of the intelligence, however, 

 is not encouraging; but the unfavorable uecoiints 

 are ascribed lo the destitute and discontented emi- 



of e 



ipt it,.. 



is coming. Dp to the -Jd 

 had sailed from Liverpool for Hew York 

 "i aptO, and the number was ejected to reach 

 10,000 in the course of the month. 



Tub New York Courier says that the channel in 



the East River U rapidly closing, and where live 



years ago vessahiof any draft could safely paBa 



now those of ordinary draft find bottom. 



Mu. Henri Roarouak, a nephew of King Glass 



won country. West coast of Africa, was 



York, on Sunday week, to a Miss 



of Baltimore. Mr. Boardmun has 



, and has been em- 



" «ap«rln"E g rpL" 



The St. Joseph correspondent of the St. Louis 



Democrat notices the arrival at that place of 100 



Pike's Peakcrs who give deplorable accounts of 



ling prospects and suffering on the Plains. It 



that 10,000 men are now on their way, 



of whom, destitute of money and the 



perfectly reckless. Despi 



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1, St. . 



i-eoocnc, 



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thousand men are reported fifty miles west of 

 Omaha in a starving condition. Some of the 

 dents of Plattesroouth have closed up their 



and fled, fearing violeuco at the hands of the 

 enraged emigrant: 



ployed in the translation 

 Mpanga language. 



Tits celebrated Baron Humboldt, the most dis- 

 tinguished name of the age in the various depart- 



'•■nisof physical science, died at Berlin on the 



10 mst. His age was over 30. All the civilized 



orld will honor his memory. 



The Legislature or California has rejected the 

 Bachelor's Homestead bill, which proposed to give 

 to men who prefer a life of singlo blessedness, the 

 same immunity from seizure of their homesteads 

 for debt, as now enjoyed by those who have the 

 good sense to get married. 



Two American officers will probably take part 



Young Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who is a 



Lieutenant in the Chasseurs d'Afrique, and Major 

 Kearney, of N. Y., who, it is said, has entered the 

 stuff of one of the French Generals of Division, as 

 a volunteer. 



Tub Cleveland Leoder says there is quite a stir 

 in Coshocton, Ohio, touching what was supposed 

 to be a silver mine near West Lafayette. It is 

 staled that the ore has been taken to the Philadel- 

 phia mint, and was pronounced the richest ever 

 received there, every three pounds of ore making 

 one pound of pure silver. The ore is found in a 

 bed flfty yards wide and three feet thick, overlaid 

 with a vein of lead one foot thick. 



Letters from Montevideo intimate that Lopez i a 

 "gain disposed to be tyrannical, and six Paraguay- 

 ans and one Englishman of American sympathies 

 have been imprisoned siuccthe departure our fleet. 

 It was believed that Piesident Urquuawould soon 

 icgotiation, Buenos Ayres tojoiu 



Joan Jacob Aitor < 



sentry died lo the I 



;cu between Syracuse 1 





Post Ma- 



Postal Rev em rav— The returns 

 fice Department for the quarter er 

 BlSt, 1858, sum up as follows, a. 

 statement made by Ibc Acting . 

 Treasury for the Department: 



:, May 1 



Dam 



. tbc 



eithi 1 f. 







.1 for all emergen 



P.i s mo being made to supercede Mr. Dallas 



as Minister to Great Britain, by Attornev-Geucral 

 Black, and to replace the latter by Commissioner 

 K-ed.jiist home from China. 



Mr. Rbbii, ex-Miuister to China, closed the affairs 

 of his legation to the eutire satisfaction of all.— 

 The provisions of his principal treaty in June lost 

 are jet imperfectly understood. Mr. Ward, his 

 successor, took it to exchange ratifications. All 

 the great powers agreed upon having temporary 

 missions only at Pukin, abandoning the idea of 

 making thai u permanent residence. 



The basis of the treaty arranged by Minister 

 Mrl.'ine is on the principle of that which existed 

 before the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and which 

 regulated the commercial intercourse from the 

 ';""'" "' ""*1 I hum Santa Fe. In 



"Y * ""■ right of way over Mexican territory 

 Iro I ■ V ' a, ' f ' m "°- h '-fosed. wi.b every 



■ rdial reception from the 



i irith lommthe 

 government. 



Tns first iunlallmeot of |HJO,000 of th 

 certained and adjusted in the treat* ° 1 **" 



lue by it to certain Am,. . 



has already been received at the U. R, Tre„ ury . ' 



Tub Administration has recently received * ch 



evidences of the good faith of Gnat Britain u to 



tttiofy it iu the belief that she is mu. 



11 oil h«r •Dgagamsnta iritfa Ibis oountri 



a regard to the Central American question. 



BufTnlo 6'*i 



ent time a large amount of the genui 



broken Nebraska and other Western Banks, which 



have beeu altered by erasing the original name and 



serttog the title and name of the town and loca- 



an of very many good New England Banks. The 



altering process bus been so skillfully accomplished 



these spurious notes will deceive every one 



icquainted with the genuine bills of the banks 



whose issue they purport to be. 



Fne LtocoR '-.Nuisance" is Ma<.saciii;setts.— 



sie mouths since Judge Shaw deeided that into.xi- 



ing liquors might be destroyed in that State as 



' nuisance." A writ upon this decision was 



ried up to a full bench, and the unanimous 



DiOD of the Court, as now giveu, is that the legal 



ous liquors is not a nuisance of such a 



character as to justify it 3 destruction at the hands 



oftheeilizcus. A new trial of the case is therefore 



ordered. 



ThkCiibanFili. 





Correspondence from 

 I lunula, -th in st,, states, (hat the orders of General 

 Concha, to the commander of the Spanish war 



the Cuban "Convention," were to offer them a 

 passage to New York, and to supply them with 

 military misadi 



-that ii 

 t of funds. 





The expenditures, not including inland trans 



lompansalttm to poat-maglers $508,853 a 



naideulal expenses 277.0S8 



..?-;i;. 



This shows tho net proceeds to hove been 

 fi»S5,6G2 44, being an increase of $58,555 ~0 over 

 the preceding quarter, and $99,110 80 over the 

 i'"nespiiriding quarter of Inst year. The amount 

 of postage pre-paid in postage stamps and stamped 

 envelopes during the quarter Was $1,:.', 



the Argentine Confedei 



The Post-Office Department has 

 obtain with accuracy the number of 



New blanks are to be supplied to the 

 s, and it is presumed that this report 

 111 commence on the 1st of July. 

 Thb Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Osgood, of Springfield, 

 Mass., celebrated their golden wedding on Monday 

 week, in company with twenty or thirty children 

 ind grand-children, and scores of friends. The 

 ccasion was one of unalloyed pleasure to all the 



ed scholars among the German emigration to the 

 United States, died at the Lunatic Asylum on 

 Blackwell's Island, on Sunday week, in consequence 

 of the breaking of u blood vessel in the brain. 



They have in Boston, two children, who united- 

 ly weigh less than Tom Thumb. The elder of the 

 sisters is eleven years of age, weighs fifteen pounds, 

 and is twenty-eight inches iu height; the younger 

 is aged nine, weighs thirteen pounds, and her 

 height is twenty-sis inches. They are perfectly 

 formed, and, says the Gazette, une experiences 

 of the disgust at looking at them that the Big 

 a dwarf so often inspires, for nothing tan be ii 

 ined more ctbennl than these daintily formed aud 

 fairy little creatures. 



The lace makers of Mechlin, who spin the thread 



for lace and also for French cambrics, are obliged 

 to work in confined, dark rooms, into which light 

 is only admitted partially by a small aperture, 

 and by being thus compelled to pay more constaui 

 attention to their w.uk, they di.-eipline the eye and 

 attain the faculty of spinning the Uoi of that web- 

 like firmness which constitutes the excellenceof 

 lesc two fabrics. 



Tuk Albany Journal says that on 'Change, Sat- 

 rday morning, C. W. Armstrong, Esq., exhibited 

 sample of 100 barrels of flour manufactured in 

 from wheat grown in that country. The 



icily of producing 'J,MO,O0 



— New York elly, it Is e 



Hour was landed i 



i Mo 



utreal, Canad 



soon be forwarded 1 



, Alb 



.nv.»ben,tw 



Tub Havana pap 





port that two 







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Uxiox. — Tl 



ist Missionary Union held its Ml 

 anniversary in New York on the 19in inst. E 

 Briggs, of Massachusetts, presided. The a 

 tendance was large. The new Constitution pr. 



posed by the Board of Managers «u s di, cussed au 

 finally adopted. It was opposed mainly by tho; 

 ipsan 



Battle with tbi Indians.— Austin (Texas) 

 iceaol the lllh inst. stale that Ci.pt. Haver en 

 d the Upper Reserve on the Sd, with SO n 

 illedla Indians ond fled. A parly or drago 

 nd Indians were pursuing him. There 



l their 



l Blunder.— The Philadelphia _V .,->>, 

 ys that a characteristic blunder was 

 ig out the Paraguay Expedition, by 

 :o lay in a sufficient supply of j.invrJer. 

 ;nce was that even the peace salutes 

 from only one or two vessels of the 

 juadron. Had war actually occurred, our fleet 

 ould have been iu a nice predicament. Hut un- 

 Brtelting to tight without ammunition, according 

 > the ASUfUan, was not the only mistake made. 

 The deficiency in powder was mode up by au over- 

 mpply of coal. Some thousands of tuns more than 

 ould be burned, sold or brought home, were 

 anded in Rosaria, and remain there still, leaving 

 he Administration to foot a bill of $40,000. Had 

 the Government made the mistake the other way, 

 and bought too much powder.it might now be sold 

 at an advance, perhaps, to the Europeau belliger- 

 ents ; but the Government never has any such good 

 luck. It is sure to make the blunder in (he wav 

 that will cost most. 



an slaves were lauded recently on the easterr 

 ; of the Island, supposed lo be the two pro. 

 rs reported oft' the Island a few days previous 

 i supposed to be filled with idl, 



pell. 



ly, ond which 



busters. 



Viscount Db TaEiLLAnD, acting French Charge, 

 is now in Baltimore making contracts, it is under- 

 stood, for the purchase of several clipper ships for 



— The numerous arrival 



from sea the postfe 



■port heavy wiuds, and 





de as April B0. 





— Tho Italians residing 



u Rlehmond, 7a., ar 











— Tn Hie City Of Montr. 









e City Cterk* office. 







Iu trees. There o 



oaaandllx hundred and 









— Active steps are being 



token In order to ha 





by ihelattercnd of J 







-The Churchman stale 



that Bishop Poller, 



Exploring ExpEniTiox. — There are now 

 Surveying or Exploring parties employed by 

 Federal Government, and about taking the field 

 under the direction of the Topographical Bureau. 

 The first is dispatched to explore the Sao Juan 

 River, in New Mexico, a tributary of the Colorado 

 of the West, and to discover, if possible, u route 

 between Santa Fe ond Utah, in the vicinity of the 

 Son Juan. The other party is charged with the 

 exploration of the Yellow Stone and Missouri 

 Rivers, a service of magnitude and importance, 

 which will keep the Expedition in the field about 

 eighteen months. 



A Bishop Trusting in a Si«n.— -The facts in re- 

 gard to the breaking up of a Methodist Conference 

 in Texas, and the expulsion of Bishop Janes, have 

 already been made public, but there is one iucident 

 in the affair which is not generally known. When 

 the Bishop was cornered by the mob he resorted 

 for aid to the Masonic sign. Rev. I. Blackford, in 

 n report of the Conference to oneof our Methodist 

 inges says:— "The Bishop in the hour of ex 

 ly, gave the Masonic sign, the rabble dis- 

 persed and the Conference was permitted to close 



A Pkofessou ix Lues. — Prof. N. C. Morse, of 

 Louisville, recently took fifty acres of land in 

 West Tennessee on debt, at (40 per sere. On ex- 

 amination he found that it contained vast quanti- 

 ties of lead, the rocks beneath the soil being lead 

 ore. A thorough test shows pure lead ore to the 

 value of 8G per cent., and associated with sulphate 

 of baryta, equally valuoble as the lead ore. Since 

 scovery, Prof. M. has refused #1,000 per acre 

 eland, and has raised #25,000 in Cincinnati 

 where he formerly resided, to build furnaces and 

 ence mining operations immediately. 



