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News of the Week. 
The foreign news by the Persia is of no very 
great public interest. The Peace Conference 
has finally broken up, and several of the Pleni¬ 
potentiaries returned home. Breadstufifs con¬ 
tinue to decline, and the prospects of renewed 
high prices are not at all fluttering. Money 
must be lost by holders who have been await¬ 
ing a favorable turn in the ebbiDg tide. 
We have news of startling import nearer 
home, however, among which may be mention¬ 
ed, first the renewal of difficulties in Kansas, 
and secondly, the fearful riot and outrages upon 
American citizens at Panama. Contrary to our 
hopes, the rumors from Kansas, briefly men¬ 
tioned in our last week’s issue, have proved too 
true. Sheriff Jones, in attempting to make 
some arrests at Lawrence on warrants issued by 
judicial officers appointed by the Territorial 
Legislature, was resisted ; whereupon he called 
upon the bystanders to assist, as a posse commi- 
tatus. This being refused, he went away in a 
passion, reported to Gov. Shannon, and received 
from him a detachment of United States troops 
from Fort Leavenworth, who proceeded to Law¬ 
rence with the Sheriff, and arrested several cit¬ 
izens for refusing to assist the Sheriff in exe¬ 
cuting process. ' While sitting in a tent with 
some soldiers, on the night of April 23, Jones 
was shot in the back by some person outside 
of the tent, who escaped amid the darkness, 
and cannot be identified. The wounded man 
was carried to the Free State Hotel, where he 
was lying, at the last accounts, in a precarious 
state. All men, of whatever party, in favor of 
peace and order in the territory, lament the 
outrage, and join m condemnation of the deed. 
Jones has carried matters with a high hand, but 
that does not excuse or palliate the crime of 
murder. 
One of the most terrible and bloody riots it 
has been our lot to chronicle occurred at Pana¬ 
ma on the 15th ult., in which forty or fifty un¬ 
armed and defenceless Americans were killed 
and many others wounded, the baggage of the 
railroad and steamer passengers pillaged, and 
the railroad buildings and other property bro¬ 
ken up and destroyed. The trouble arose 
between some passengers of the Transit Com¬ 
pany, who were landed at Panama in conse¬ 
quence of the Walker difficulties in Nicaragua, 
and the natives. The riot soon spread, enlist¬ 
ing all the ignorant and vicious half-breed and 
native population, and venting its fury on all 
foreigners, resident or otherwise. The dastard¬ 
ly police, so far from protecting defenceless 
men, women and children from the mob, joined 
it in the massacre and pillage, fired into the 
buildings in which the passengers had hurried 
for protection, and performed other acts of 
wrong and outrage, that, if all is true which is 
charged, entitles them to a visitation of sum¬ 
mary vengeance. Our Government will at 
once institute the most rigid investigation into 
the affair, and has already ordered a naval force 
to rendezvous at both termini of the railroad for 
future protection. 
Walker’s organs, in and out of Nicaragua, 
still continue to play peans in his favor, but the 
truth probably is, his affairs are in a desperate 
condition, Schlessenger’s defeat is only the 
beginning of the end with fillibusterism in 
Central America. 
Many and disastrous conflagrations have oc¬ 
curred in different parts of the country, ac¬ 
counts of which, together with the prospects of 
canal and lake navigation, &c., will be found 
under various heads in our columns. 
The weather has been somewhat colder du¬ 
ring the past week, and checked the progress of 
vegetation. No frosts of any severity have oc¬ 
curred, but chill north and west winds remind 
us that ice fields are yet floating in the lakes. 
Conflagrations. 
A terrible conflagration occurred in Phila¬ 
delphia on the night of April 30tli, burning a 
large number of warehouses, stores and dwel¬ 
lings on Market, Sixth, Commerce and North 
streets amounting in the aggregate of damage to 
two millions of dollars ! Nearly fifty business 
firms have met with partial or total loss, and 
many families are rendered homeless. 
The New Haven Railroad Depot, Centre 
street, New York, was partially destroyed by 
fire on the morning of the 1st. The building is 
an immense brick structure, covering the space 
bounded by Centre, Franklin and Elm streets, 
and it was occupied in the upper stories by a 
large number of mechanics. Loss very large. 
The fire destroyed nearly the whole of that part 
of the building fronting on Elm street, and 
more than half the block on Franklin and White 
streets. The Centre street front escaped with¬ 
out much damage. 
The village of Gowanda, Cattaraugus county, 
N. Y., was almost destroyed by fire on the night 
of April 30th. Sixty buildings were consumed, 
among which were all the Palmer ..block, 
Welch’s block, Henrie’s storehouse, Mansion 
House, the bridge, <fcc. Loss not ascertained. 
Wednesday morning of last week, the factory 
at Cohoes, near Troy, N. Y., known as the Mus¬ 
lin de Laiue Mill, was destroyed by fire. Loss 
estimated at $10,000. On the evening succeed¬ 
ing, a fire at Utica broke out in the Eagle Tav¬ 
ern block, but it was extinguished without great 
damage ; but another at Geneva, which occurred 
simultaneously, destroyed several buildings and 
property, amounting to $50,000. 
On Monday night about 12 o’clock, fire was 
discovered in the carpenter shop of the repair 
house belonging to the New York Central Rail¬ 
road in this city ; and, owing to the combustible 
nature of the materials contained in the build¬ 
ing, it was speedily converted into a heap of 
ruins. Several passenger cars, and a large 
amount of materials, tools, paints, Ac., were 
consumed. The building was of brick, one 
story in height, two or three hundred feet long, 
and built originally as a car house for the Niag¬ 
ara Falls road. 
Lake Navigation. —Contrary to expectation 
when we went to press last week, the ice in 
Lake Ontario lingered on the South Shore, 
impeding but not suspending navigation. Lake 
Erie is still full of floating ice, but one or two 
propellers have managed to evade the ice em¬ 
bargo at Buffalo by hugging the shore along 
which was a narrow open channel. Clearances 
have been made from Dunkirk for the upper 
ports. The propellers Wisconsin and Louis¬ 
ville, from Chicago, have reached Detroit, and 
report the Straits of Mackinac and Green Bay 
to be clear of ice. The Sault Ste Marie, it is 
expected, will soon be open, if it is not ere this. 
Death of Ogden Hoffman. —The Hon. Og¬ 
den Hoffman died in New York on Thursday 
week, in the 63d year of his age, of congestion 
of the lungs. In his boyhood he was an officer 
in the Navy, served with reputation against the 
Algerines, and, in the last war with England, 
fought under Decatur. His manhood has been 
distinguished for eminence as a lawyer in eve¬ 
ry department of the profession—for the abili¬ 
ty and faithfulness with which he discharged 
the trusts committed to him by the people and 
by Government. 
Congressional. —The telegraphic dispatches 
to the daily press, from whose reports we have 
usually made up our brief weekly summary of 
Congressional matters, came to an untimely end 
about the middle of last week, in consequence 
of a misunderstanding between the New York 
reporter and the telegraph company. We have 
waded with long and rapid strides through the 
columns of the metropolitan press, and do not 
see enough of interest in their reports from 
Washington to make up a paragraph. 
Insurance for Farmers. — The announce¬ 
ments of Insurance Companies, in our advertis¬ 
ing department, are worthy the attention of 
farmers and others. The Syracuse Company is 
organized upon a new plan, and one which is 
highly commended by competent and disinter¬ 
ested parties. The Monroe Mutual, which is 
emphatically a Farmers’ Company, presents a 
very encouraging summary of its business dur¬ 
ing the past twenty years. We commend the 
announcements of both Companies to a careful 
examination by all interested. 
Another Newspaper Office Mobbed. —The 
office of the American True Flag at Salem, la., 
was broken into and demolished by a mob on 
the night of the 24th ult. All the type in the 
office, with the exception of some job type, was 
thrown on the floor in a heterogeneous mass of 
pi, and the stands and cases were nearly all 
smashed to pieces. The cause of this outrage 
is found in the fact that the True Flag had jus¬ 
tified some acts committed by the rioters of Sa¬ 
lem against the property of liquor dealers. 
Drowned. —Last week Thursday, a party of 
young lads connected with several of the daily 
papers in this city, went down to Irondequoit 
bay for the purpose of fishing, and two of them 
while in a boat at some distance from the shore, 
were accidentally capsized. One clung to the 
boat and finally escaped, but the other, named 
Philip Hawks, a feeder to the American press, 
attempting to swim ashore, was drowned. 
Opening the Canals. —It turns out, as we 
stated last week, that the canals will not be 
ready for the water on the 5th, as announced. 
Commissioner Whallon, of the Western divis¬ 
ion, publishes a notice postponing the opening 
until the 12th. 
Provincial Items. 
A project is on foot to obtain from the Cana¬ 
dian Parliament a charter for a line of railway 
from Quebec on the north shore of the St. Law¬ 
rence to Montreal, thence through the valley of 
the Ottawa river, via Bytown, Pembroke, Ac., 
to Georgian Bay. The project was conceived 
by Hon. Joseph Cauchon, Commissioner-Gene¬ 
ral of the Crown Lands, and contemplates a 
grant of three million acres of public lands to 
aid in the construction of the road. 
The propeller, Lord Elgin, arrived at Cleve¬ 
land via the Welland Canal, April 30th. Capt. 
Young of the Elgin, encountered large fields of 
ice in the lake, some extending five or six miles. 
The propeller Oliver Cromwell also passed 
out of the canal on her way to Toledo, the Rein¬ 
deer to Port Stanley, and several sail vessels 
were also in the bay bound up. 
Tnn Toronto Globe says a new bank is to be 
established in that city, under the name and 
style of the “Union Bank of Canada.” The 
capital is to be one million, and the charter is 
before the House, under charge of Mr. Freeman. 
The capital, it is said, will be subscribed chiefly 
in England. 
Negotiations are now on foot which will 
probably supply the same line of boats on the 
Collingwood route to Chicago which ran last 
year. The final arrangements have not yet 
been completed. 
Counterfeit tens on the Bank of Upper Can¬ 
ada at Toronto, are in circulation. 
Another Canadian Minister, Mr. Cauchon, is 
about to resign. A general disruption of the 
Ministry is imminent. 
The Montreal Transcript of a late date sajs : 
“ Our readers will remember that about Christ¬ 
mas last, during a violent snow storm which 
then prevailed, a young girl, of Lower Lacliine, 
left Montreal after church on her return home, 
but never made her appearance. It was sup¬ 
posed she had perished in the snow drifts ; and 
though search was made for her body, it could 
not be discovered. She was, however, found a 
few days since, by two men who were crossing 
the ground. Her death had been caused as was 
suspected.” 
The Canadian Government were defeated in 
Parliament on Tuesday week, on a motion offer¬ 
ed by Mr. Mackenzie, petitioning the Queen to 
unconditionally pardon Smith O’Brien, the 
Irish patriot, and John Frost, the Chartist. The 
Ministry opposed the motion ; but it was carried 
—40 to 38. 
Caft. J. W. Hicks, Assistant Superintendent 
of the Great Western Railway, was run over by 
an engine at the station in Hamilton, C. W., 
May 1st, and instantly killed. He leaves quite 
a family to mourn his untimely death. 
Fall of a Bridge. —A telegraph despatch 
from Montreal, dated April 30th, announces the 
fall of the suspension bridge over the Montmo- 
renci, near Quebec, and that a man and a wo¬ 
man, cart and horse, together with the structure, 
were carried over the falls. 
Among suspension bridges, fallen structures 
are the rule, and standing ones the excep¬ 
tion. Several have fallen in Europe within a 
few years, while in this country, one at Phila¬ 
delphia, one at Wheeling, St. Anthony’s Falls 
and Montmorenci, have shared the same fate, 
leaving the Niagara and the Lewiston bridges 
about the only finished structures standing. 
Horrible Tragedy. —The Galena (Ill.) Ad¬ 
vertiser relates that on the 13th ult., while the 
steamer Golden Era was lying at Dunleith, and 
while the passengers were at supper, a man by 
the name of Willard H. Brown, formerly resi¬ 
dent of Worcester, Mass., and who had a ticket 
from Dunleith to Hastings, Minnesota, rose from 
his chair at the table and inflicted upon himself 
several wounds with a bowie-knife before it 
could be wrested from him, which wounds have 
terminated fatally. Mr. Brown also cut several 
of the passengers badly before he could be se¬ 
cured. 
Florida War. —One hundred and eight Uni¬ 
ted States troops, under Major Arnold, had an 
engagement recently with the Florida Indians 
in Big Cypress Swamp. The enemy, after a 
brief skirmish, retired and were followed by the 
soldiers through mud and water two feet deep 
until all traces of the former were lost. The 
Indians have united to oppose all entrance to 
the Big Cypress Swamp, and severe fighting is 
soon expected. All appearances indicate the 
commencement of another war in Florida, sim¬ 
ilar to the last, which cost the United States 
thirty million of dollars ! 
Collision on Lake Huron.— A fearful collis¬ 
ion occurred on Lake Huron, between the 
steamers Forest Queen and Northerner, on the 
night of April 28th, from the results of which 
the latter boat sunk in six minutes, in twenty- 
five feet of water, and one and a half miles 
from shore. It is the opinion of passengers 
that many lives were lost, although only one 
person is fatown to be missing. The night was 
intensely dark and foggy, and most of the pas¬ 
sengers were in their berths at the time of the 
accident. The persons rescued amounted to 
120 in number. 
Case of Conscience. —A few weeks since one 
of the banks in this city received $40, enclosed 
in a note, stating it to be a fourfold restitution 
for a fraud committed sixteen years ago, and 
requesting tlie amount to be divided equitably 
among the stockholders. This being deemed 
impossible, as the stocks bad been much of it 
transferred since then, the directors passed over 
the amount to the credit of the Orphan Asylum. 
littrarg Urtos Clippings. 
The English Bible. History of the Translation of the 
Holy Scriptures into the English Tongue. With speci¬ 
mens of the old English versions. By Mrs. H. C. Co- 
naxt, author of “ Translations of Neander’s Practical 
Commentaries.” New York : Sheldon, Blakeman & Co. 
Though we have been unable to give this volume a 
careful perusal, we are satisfied it is one of no ordinary 
merit and value—a scholarly production, and of great in¬ 
terest in the present state of the discussion on the subject 
of Bible Translation. The importance of the topic, at the 
present juncture, would alone attract attention to the 
work, but its readers will be increased by the ability and 
reputation of the author. As a history of English Bible 
Translation it will be likely to prove widely popular and 
instructive, finding readers among all classes and denomi¬ 
nations. The volume comprises 466 pages, with portraits 
of Wickliffe and Tyndale. Sold by Dkwky. 
The Sparrowgrass Papers: Or, Living in the Country. 
By Frederic S. Cozzf.ns. New Yqrk: Derby & Jackson. 
Thanks to the enterprising publishers, these “ Papers”— 
which have become celebrated and popular from the sam¬ 
ple chapters published in “Putnam,” “The Knickerbocker,” 
etc.—have been issued in a handsome volume, and thus 
rendered a permanent institution. The work abounds in 
genial humor, and truthful contrasts of city and country 
life. The advantages and disadvantages of “ Living in 
the Country,” are humorously, yet, in the main, faithfully 
enumerated and delineated ; and the experiences of the 
author -will please, while they entertain and instruct, the 
appreciative reader- A specimen of the “Papers” was 
given in a late number of the Rural, and we are confident 
many of our readers will gladly hail this announcement of 
their publication in a permanent form. 
The Great American Battle ; or the Contest between 
Christianity and Political Romanism. By Anna Ella 
Oarroll. New York: Miller, Orton & Mulligan. 1856. 
Here we have a political work—and by a woman. The 
authoress in her first chapter, entitled “ The Women of 
America,” scrutinizes the causes which led to the American 
Revolution, the energy and self-sacrificing spirit displayed 
by the females in the times “ that tried men’s souls,” and 
reasons that the present exhibits a crisis equal to seventy- 
six. “ The fate of the child,” remarked Napoleon, “ is 
the work of his mother.” “ The fate of America,” says 
our authoress, “ is the work of America’s daughters. On 
their stern virtue, their cultivated intelligence, their 
faithfulness to duty, to God and their country, depend 
America’s salvation now.” The work is devoted to the 
principles of Americanism; contains portraits, on steel, 
of the leaders of that party, and also of the writer. Its 
mechanical execution is excellent, and displays taste on 
the part of the publishers. Dewey. 
The Rose : Its History, Poetry, Culture and Classification. 
By S. B. Parsons. New York : Wiley & Halsted. 1856. 
At all times the Rose, by its many pleasing associations, 
has been a favorite. Ancient and modern poets apostro¬ 
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festivals, altars, and tombs—with the moderns it is the 
emblem of purity, beauty, youth and innocence. This 
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admirers of this Queen of flowers. For sale by Dewey. 
The Bunsby Papers. (Second Series.) Irish Echoes. 
By John Brougham, author of “A Basket of Chips.” 
New York : Derby & Jackson. 
This is a beautiful volume of some 300 pages, comprising 
several interesting legendary tales and traditions of the 
Irish nation—than which no country or nation in the 
world can furnish a more varied or whimsical store. The 
author is a genuine Irish wit and humorist, and to those 
who have already made his acquaintance, it is quite un¬ 
necessary to say more than that this volume sustains his 
reputation. For sale by Darrow & Brother. 
“Thf. Earnest Man,” is the appropriate title of a Me¬ 
moir of Rev. Adoniram Judson, D. D., by Mrs. Conant, 
of this city, soon to be issued by the enterprising publish¬ 
ing house of Phillips, Sampson & Co., of Boston. See ' 
announcement in our advertising department. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
The Emperor Napoleon lias bestowed medals 
of the first and second class, upon the captain, 
mate and four sailors of the American ship 
Northampton, as a reward for rescuing the crew 
of the French ship Eugenie, which was sinking 
from the injuries sustained ;n a collision with 
another vessel, on the 19th of December, 1855. 
The venerable Stuyvesant pear tree, on the 
corner of 3d avenue and 13th street, New York, 
has budded out vigorously this spring, and 
given promise of its wonted crop of fruit. The 
veteran tree, though now entering upon the 
third century of its existence, is hale and hearty, 
and bids fair to weather the storms of another 
century. 
The California papers are discussing the 
question of the decreasing emigration to Cali¬ 
fornia. It is stated that in 1854 the excess of 
arrivals over departures was 27,529, and in the 
year 1855 only 13,926, a decrease of nearly fifty 
per cent. 
The Council Bluffs Chronotype says that the 
entries of government lands at the land office in 
that city, have been progressing a little more 
rapidly during the last week or two, and it 
seems to he understood that the progress will 
be still further accelerated during the present 
month. Nearly all the entries are made with 
land warrants. 
It is set forth in the geological survey of Mis¬ 
souri, that the State can furnish 100,000,000 tons 
of coal per annum for the next 1,300 years; and 
with regard to iron, that there is ore enough of 
the very best quality, within a few miles of 
Pilot and Iron Mountains, above the surface of 
the valleys, to furnish 100,000,000 tons per 
annum of manufactured iron for the next two 
hundred years. 
A neat specimen of five cent stamps, for post¬ 
age of foreign letters, has recently been issued. 
They bear the likeness of Jefferson, and are 
easily distinguished from the three cent stamps, 
from their color and the different impress. 
Scakcity. —Provisions on Lake Superior are 
very scarce and enormously high. A corres¬ 
pondent writes to the Chicago Press from Su¬ 
perior City under date of April 8th :—We are 
in a state of painful suspense—for we have 
reached, in regard to provisions, almost Califor¬ 
nia prices, and apprehensions are entertained 
that there may not be a little suffering before 
relief can be obtained. Flour is $30 per barrel; 
beans $5 per bushel; eggs 75 cents per dozen ; 
and even at these prices, supplies cannot readily 
be obtained, as our warehouses are exhausted. 
— The total bonded debt of St. Louis is $4,922,396. 
— Timber brings uncommonly high prices just now in 
the Liverpool market. 
— The Bankers of London have under their control a 
capital of £64,000,000. 
— The crops in Southern Illinois are represented as look¬ 
ing unusually fine. 
— The Legislature of Minnesota had been increased to 
thirty-nine members. 
— There are twenty-one brick yards in operation in 
Keokuk, Iowa. 
— The sales of 444 of the principal firms in St. Louis 
for 1855, amounted to $87,033,697. 
— There are said to be over thirty hands of Ethiopian 
minstrels traveling through the country. 
— The Union Bank of Albany has increased its capital 
stock from $250,000 to $500,000. 
— The taxable property of New York city is set down at 
$600,565,909. 
— Chicago has eight dailies, five tri-weeklies, and not 
less than twenty-eight weeklies. 
— During the past year one in ten of all the inhabitants 
of New Orleans have been under arrest. 
— It is estimated that the revenue of Virginia under the 
new tax bill, will amount to $3,600,000. 
—The Columbus (Ind.) Independent says the prospects of 
the wheat crop in Indiana are excellent. 
— Tuesday week was the birthday of Alexander II. The 
Czar Is now in his thirty-ninth year. 
— It is determined that there shall be no alteration of 
the Tariff during the present session of Congress. 
— The ruling rates for money on good security, in Ne¬ 
braska Territory, is from 3 to 7 per cent, per month. 
— Jacob Gale, Esq., received all hut twenty-four votes 
cast for Judge in Peoria county at the recent election. 
— Humboldt, who is now past 80 years old, is said to be 
as busy as he ever was in his younger days, completing his 
“ Cosmos.” 
— The late Robert L. Stevens left an estate of several 
millions to his brothers. He was one of the wealthiest 
men in New York. 
— The most expensive of the new spring bonnets for la¬ 
dies, direct from Paris, are put by the New York milliners 
at the modest price of $300. 
— The “ Abolitionists ” proper, have issued a call for a 
National Nominating Convention, to meet at Syracuse, 
New York, on May the 28th. 
— The construction account of the New York and Erie 
Railroad, up to the 30th of September last, amounted to 
the snug little sum of $36,832,209. 
— The twenty-six Medical Colleges of the U. S. sent out 
last year about 1,300 physicians, of which 173 graduated 
at the New York Institutions. 
— Out of 36 political papers published in North Caroli¬ 
na, 23 are stated to support the nomination of Fillmore 
and Donelson. 
— A few days since a little son of Mr. Bower was drown¬ 
ed in Memphis, Tennessee, by falling in the immersion 
pool of the Baptist Church. 
— An English church is to be built in Constantinople, 
by subscription, as a memorial of the British who perished 
in the war. 
— The value of the property left by the late Mrs. Garrett 
to the Garrett Biblical Institute, of Chicago, is to be not 
less than $300,000. 
— A biography of the Emperor Napoleon has been pub¬ 
lished in Russia, and several large editions were immedi¬ 
ately bought up by the people. 
— The Rev. Dr. Wayland, in an article on the principles 
and practices of the Baptist Churches, condemns the 
practice of sitting in prayer, and recommends kneeling. 
— The Germans of New York have purchased four lots 
on Crosby and Prince streets, upon which to erect a grand 
opera house and music hall, like those of Milan and Paris. 
— If a man is seen running in the streets of Chicago, 
the police at once assume that he is guilty of some crime 
and arrest him. One poor fellow lost a railroad train. 
— The Indianola (Texas) Bulletin says workmen are 
erecting enclosures for the camels that are now daily ex¬ 
pected at that port, for service on the Western plains. 
— The length of all the different streets of London is 
1,750 miles. ' The paving of them cost £14,000,000, and the 
yearly cost of keeping the pavement in repair is £1,800,000- 
— Prominently displayed on the wall of a building in 
Northampton, in this State, is a label to this effect:—“No 
smoking allowed within or without this building.” 
— The Superintendent of Public Instruction in Califor¬ 
nia recommends that a copy of Webster’s dictionary, una¬ 
bridged, should be placed in every school in the State. 
— Postage stamps, similar to those used in England and 
France, have been introduced into the Swedish postal ser¬ 
vice, and a universal rate of postage exists for all Sweden. 
— The steamboat men on the Mississippi show much 
animosity to the new railroad bridge at Rock Island, and 
represent that it causes frequent detention to their boats. 
— Gen. Tom Thumb is again holding levees at New 
York. He appears as Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Ajax, 
and pretty much all the heroes, ancient and modern, in 
miniature. 
— Stephen H. Luther a few days ago killed an otter in 
Warwick, R. I., which was five feet long, weighed 25 lbs., 
and the skin is worth $15. These animals are rarely seen 
in New England. 
— The Schuylkill Navigation Company have established 
their rate freight for coal at fifteen cents per tun less than 
last year, and the Reading Railroad Company have also 
reduced their rates. 
— The United States officials have pulled down all the 
houses in Pawnee, on the ground that they were built on 
Indian land. One of the houses belonged to Gov. Reeder, 
and cost $1,000. 
— The letter of Mr. Fillmore, accepting his nomination 
for the Presidency, is believed to he now in Baltimore. So 
says the Richmond Whig, on the authority of the Hon. 
John P. Kennedy. 
— The publishers of the Northern Islander, at St. James, 
Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, announce their purpose to 
commence the publication of the Daily Islander on the 
opening of navigation. 
— A number of the London Sun was recently seized at 
the French postolllce, in consequence of its appearing 
with a black border, as a token of mourning for the “ dis¬ 
graceful” peace. 
— The Archbishop of Paris, in a recent Pastoral Letter, 
says that Mahometanism in Turkey is fast assuming a 
new character, and is, “ at bottom, only a sect of Chris¬ 
tianity.” 
— The tobacco exported from the United States to 
Europe in 1855, ameunted to 140,000,000 lbs., and the 
revenue derived from it by the European governments 
amounted to $36,567,869. 
— The people of Covington, Ky., have, with the sub¬ 
scription of the corporation, taken $175,000 of the stock, 
and only need $125,000 more, to begin the work of a bridge 
to connect them with Cincinnati. 
— There is lying dormant in the Sub-Treasury vaults of 
New York, about ten millions of dollars in gold, the in¬ 
terest on which, at the rate of 7 per cent per annum, 
would amount to over $1,900 a day. 
_Rumors are in circulation of the establishment of two 
new banks in New York city, one of $20,000,000 of capital, 
and one of $30,000,000 ; the latter to be organized with 
foreign capital as a branch of a London bank. 
— The Havana fruit trade is said to be greater than it 
has been for fifteen years. It is estimated at $100,000.— 
From the Mediterranean the supply is much larger, the 
total value of the importation being $500,000. 
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