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The News of the Week. 
Matters of great interest, nationally consid¬ 
ered, have taken place at Washington, in the 
official recognition of Walker’s government of 
Nicaragua. The Administration, after resolv¬ 
ing and re-resolving, have at last come up to 
the point and admitted Padre Vijil as Minister 
from the new Government. The reception by 
the President took place on Wednesday of last 
week, in presence of Secretary Marcy, and 
other officers of the Government. The Wash¬ 
ington Union made no mention of the matter as 
late as Saturday, nor, up to that time, had any 
official announcement been made in the Senate. 
M. Marcoleta, the predecessor of Vijil, was 
informed officially on the day of the reception, 
at a personal interview, by Secretary Marcy, 
that his diplomatic functions had ceased, and he 
is now preparing a formal jirotest against the 
recognition. Most of the foreign Ministers 
called on him after the intelligence circulated, 
expressing their sympathy, and an idea is en¬ 
tertained, but not decided upon, of a general 
remonstrance. 
The Journal of Commerce learns from the 
official correspondence of the Panama Railroad 
Company, that the English and French Consuls 
have united with our own in sending for men- 
of-war on both sides of the Isthmus of Panama, 
to protect passengers and property from a re¬ 
currence of the outrage on the part of the in¬ 
habitants. 
Considerable interest was excited, inside and 
out of the Senate Chamber, on Wednesday, 
May 14, by Senator Clayton, of Delaware, call¬ 
ing attention to an article repoited to be an 
extract from a letter from the British Minister 
at Washington, dated March 31st, 1856, in which 
Mr. Crampton says :—“ It will be within your 
Lordship’s recollection that Mr. Clayton said 
to Sir Henry Bulwer, before the treaty of 1850 
was signed, that Ruatan was dejure and de facto 
a British possession, and Mr. Clayton has on 
various occasions in his connection with me, in¬ 
timated that he considered Ruatan a British 
possession, as much as Jamaica or any of the 
British West India Islands.” 
Mr. Clayton branded this statement as utter¬ 
ly untrue. The British Minister, he said, must 
have labored under as great a delusion as ever 
entered the brain of any man, to make such a 
declaration. Nothing like it had ever escaped 
him in conversation with Mr. Crampton or any¬ 
body else ; and Senator Crittenden stated also, 
that Crampton had said to him on one occasion 
that Mr. Clayton had made no admissions as to 
the rights of England in the premises. As the 
matter now stands, the letter must be a forgery, 
or the British Minister stands convicted of an 
unmitigated falsehood. Lord Clarendon’s re¬ 
ply to Secretary Marcy’s dispatch requesting 
the recall of Crampton was received on Satur¬ 
day. It is very volumnious, and it is under¬ 
stood declines the recall. 
The President has signed the Iowa land bill, 
and a similar bill has passed both Houses, 
granting land for railroad purposes in Florida 
and Alabama, giving the former State 1,000,000 
acres. Mr. Bennett, Chairman of the Pub¬ 
lic Land Committee in the House, said the 
committee intended to report similar bills for 
railroads in Michigan, Louisiana, and Missouri, 
requiring about 6,000,000 of acres. 
The Kansas Investigating Committee are now 
in session at Leavenworth, and startling devel¬ 
opments occur in relation to the manner in 
which the elections have been conducted. The 
grand jury at Lecompton, under the instruction 
of the territorial Chief Justice, have found bills 
of indictment for Treason against the chief 
officers and participants of the new Free State 
Government. Gov. Robinson, on his way down 
the Missouri, was detained by a committee at 
Lexington, May 10th, on the ground that he 
was fleeing from the territory to avoid an arrest. 
The Kansas correspondent of the St. Louis Re¬ 
publican writes that Gov. Shannon has sent an 
express to Lexington, with the papers necessary 
for the arrest and return of Mr. Robinson. 
Senate. —A message was received last week 
in the Senate from the President, relative to the 
routes of transit between the Atlantic and the 
Pacific, and the general condition of Central 
America, in which he says that a small body of 
citizens invited to Nicaragua by Cassillon’s 
party, had apparently put an end to the struggle. 
The documents accompanying the message are 
very voluminous ; those from the Attorney 
General comprising instructions to prevent the 
fitting out of expeditions, military or naval, for 
invading the territory of any foreign power. 
On motion of Mr. Fish, the Secretary of War 
was directed to report to the Senate an estimate 
for the removal of the rocks at Hurlgate, New 
York Sound, to admit of the passage of vessels 
of war and the largest class of merchantmen, 
and such other aids to navigation as to render 
this passage safe. 
The Senate passed the House bill granting 
lands in alternate sections, to aid in the con¬ 
struction of railroads in Florida and Alabama. 
House. —Mr. Knowlton offered a preamble 
setting forth the difficulty which occurred at 
Willard’s Hotel on the 8th inst., between Mr. 
Herbert, member from California, and Thomas 
Keating, waiter at that establishment, resulting 
in the death of the latter by a pistol in the 
hands of the former—concluding with a resolu¬ 
tion that the Committee of Judiciary take the 
matter into consideration, with power to send 
for persons and papers, and report to the House 
at their earliest convenience what action this 
Committee will take in the premises. 
Mr. Stephens moved to lay the question of the 
reception of the resolution as a question of priv¬ 
ilege on the table. Agreed to by 79 against 70. 
The House adopted the report of the.Commit¬ 
tee of Conference on the deficiency bill, from 
which had been stricken out the appropriation 
of $300,000 for the continuation of the Wash¬ 
ington Aqueduct. 
210,000 copies of the Agricultural portion of 
the Patent Office Report were ordered printed. 
The new Election bill for the city of Wash¬ 
ington was passed. It is deemed a blow aimed 
at the present municipal administration. 
A Remarkable Will. 
One of the most distinguished surgeons who 
ever lived in this country, Dr. John C. Warren, 
recently died in Boston. The Gazette furnishes 
the following item in relation to his remains: 
“ The will of the old doctor provides for the 
disposition of his body with an especial refer¬ 
ence to the science which he had so long pur¬ 
sued and adorned. It requires that the body 
shall remain twenty-four hours, at the close of 
which time arsenic should be infused into the 
veins ; at the end of the next twenty-four hours 
the funeral ceremonies should take place, and 
the body be deposited beneath St. Paul’s 
Church, and twenty-four hours thereafter was 
to be given for an examination to the officers of 
the Medical College and the physicians of the 
Massachusetts General Hospital, to ascertain 
regarding certain peculiarities which he sup¬ 
posed to exist. After this the flesh was to be 
taken from the bones, the bones macerated, 
wired, and deposited in the College Museum. 
The will, we understand, is peremptory upon 
the exact fulfillment of this requirement, and it 
has been complied with as far as time has 
permitted.” 
Dr. Warren was one of the founders and chief 
patrons of the Mass. General Hospital, whose 
museum he proposes to enrich with this singu¬ 
lar donation. 
1 iitrarg ^trort). 
The Heroes of Methodism, containing sketches of emi¬ 
nent Methodist Ministers and characteristic anecdotes of 
their Personal History. By Rev. J. B. Wakkley. New 
York : Carlton & Phillips. 1856. 
This book contains Memoirs, Sketches, etc., of the lead¬ 
ers in the ranks of Methodism. Many appear within its 
pages who are comparatively unknown to the Church—yet 
they were in the highest sense of the word Men —Men of 
the Cross. The compilation of religious biographies is like 
unto gathering gold-dust—no matter how small the parti¬ 
cles, they are gold. The subjects of this work were heroes- 
With no sword but of the Spirit, no banner but the Cross, 
they went forth to glorious war,—their object the promo¬ 
tion of earnest, real Christianity. The work is a valuable 
one, not alone as embalming the memories of the good, but 
to hand posterity as examples for respect and imitation.— 
For sale by Darrow & Bro. 
fjtos Clipings. 
Memoir of Reginald Heber, D. D., Bishop of Calcutta. 
By his Widow. Abridged by a Clergyman. Boston : 
John P. Jewett & Co. 
The youth, the early clerical career in England, the later 
discharge of duties as Bishop in India, and the literary 
labors of this distinguished minister are given,— the 
abridgment retaining most that is of interest to the gen¬ 
eral reader. Many incidents narrated, and liberal quota¬ 
tions from letters, give some insight of the rare beauty 
and excellence of his private life, his purity of character 
and goodness of heart. We find, too, a few of his beauti¬ 
ful poems. Those who would reverence and love a good 
man, would read this memoir with interest. For sale by 
Dewey. 
Clear as Mud. 
Abuses of English Railroads. —Large sums 
were paid to land owners as indemnity for ap¬ 
propriation. In this way companies have had 
to pay from £4,000 to £8,000 a mile for land. 
In one case £120,000 was paid for a tract of 
laud which was only valued at £5,000. A land 
owner once demanded £80,000 for his land, but 
finding rivals in the business, he ceded it for 
£80. The engineers were in many cases in the 
pay of these interested land owners. Even 
among members of Parliament these railway 
locusts were to be found. To have influence in 
the House of Commons, the companies elected 
members of Parliament as directors, and there 
are now no less than eighty-one directors mem¬ 
bers of Parliament. A goodly share of the 
profits is made way with by lawyers and attor¬ 
neys. In one case six of these locusts divided 
among themselves £57,000 ; and lately it was 
shown that a company had paid the sum of 
£48,000 for court and Parliament fees in the 
space of nine years. 
Railroad Accident at Panama.— A fearful 
accident occurred on the Panama Railroad on 
the 6th of May, occasioned by the cars running 
off the track. Over eight hundred passengers 
were on board the train, of whom, it is stated, 
three hundred were either killed or wounded. 
At the latest accounts thirty dead bodies had 
been taken from the wreck, which had not yet 
all been cleared away. Every brakeman on the 
train was killed, and among the passengers 
killed were two from this city, Wu. McMillen 
and Bartholemew Crowley. 
Riot in Kentucky. —On Monday week, while 
the German Society known as the “ Turners” 
were celebrating in Covington, Ky., they were 
stoned by some boys, from which resulted a 
fearful riot. The city Marshal, Mr. Butts, at¬ 
tempting to arrest some of the riotious mem¬ 
bers of the society, was shot through the shoul¬ 
der, and of his assistants received a blow on 
the head with a slung shot. The Marshal’s 
wound is a dangerous one, but the surgeons 
think he will escape. The deputy, Mr. Harvey, 
is not expected to recover. 
Internal Improvements. —The President ve¬ 
toed on Monday, the bill passed by both houses 
of Congress providing for the removal of ob¬ 
structions frdm the mouth of the Mississippi 
and the St. Clair Flats. The veto message re¬ 
fers for reasons to a similar message on the 
River and. Harbor bill of 1854. While vetoing 
these bills, passed for the benefit of commerce, 
the President at the same time signs bills ap¬ 
propriating millions of acres of the public do¬ 
main for railroad purposes. 
Fatal Accident. —On Sunday morning last, 
as Mr. Edward Behan, mother and child, of 
Chili in this county, were driving through the 
city, the horse took fright near the Canal 
Bridge, on Buffalo street, and ran away, throw¬ 
ing the persons in the buggy out upon the 
pavement. Mr. Behan was killed, and the 
lady seriously injured. The accident occurred 
about half past ten in the morning, when the 
streets were full of people on their way to 
church. 
The newspaper press, west of New York 
city, recently held a Convention at Utica and 
made arrangements for more satisfactory tele¬ 
graphic reports than those heretofore obtained. 
The dispatches of foreign news received from 
the Asia, and published Saturday morning, 
among other things equally lucid, contained the 
following : 
“It has been rumored in London that Lord 
Derby is satisfied with the treaty of peace in 
the main, and thinks it ought not to be made 
the subject of a party motion. It is also said 
that the House and the Personage in the Reall, 
deprecates any irritating allusion to the terms 
of peace, and have found many to commensu¬ 
rate the deep regret that would be felt at see¬ 
ing a subject of so much national importance 
made the occasion for the trial of party strength.” 
A Great Discovery.— An article under the 
above title is going the rounds of the press, in 
substance that a scientific Frenchman, taking 
into consideration the fact that the silk-worm 
feeds on the mulberry leaf, bethought himself 
to go to the fountain head and make use of the 
leaf to produce silk artificially. He therefore 
boiled the leaf to a thick paste, and has pro¬ 
duced therefrom all kinds of silk in immense 
quantities; and that it can be afforded very 
much cheaper than cotton. 
The press degrades itself by publishing as a 
matter of fact such a transparent humbug, and 
any editor who would credit the story for a 
moment could easily be convinced that the 
moon is made of green cheese. It might with 
the same propriety be stated that because cattle 
eat root crops and build up therefrom the ani¬ 
mal economy, therefore blood can be squeezed 
from turnips, and good fat pork boiled out of 
potatoes. 
The Catholic. Letters addressed by a Jurist to a young 
kinsman proposing to join the Church of Rome. By 
E. H. Derby. Boston : John P. Jewett & Co. 
This work is composed of a series of letters written by a 
member of the Bar to a young kinsman who had become 
a partial convert to the Romish faith, and announced his 
intention of applying to a Bishop for baptism. The writer 
learning that fact, addressed the neophyte a series of co¬ 
gent epistles for the purpose of impressing upon his mind 
the errors of his faith ; and for arguments, drew upon the 
writings of such fathers of the Church as Augustine, 
Clement, Irenleus, Chrysostom, Leo, &c. The letters 
having the desired effect, the author, at the earnest solici¬ 
tation of friends, completed the series, and now offers 
them to the public. Dewey has the book for sale. 
Peter Gott, The Cape Ann Fisherman. By J. Reynolds, 
M. D. Boston : John P. Jewett & Co. 
Of the toils, perils, and mingled romance and drudgery 
of the fisherman’s iife, of his habits at sea and ashore, 
multitudes are as ignorant as of the Japanese or Fejee 
Islanders—perhaps more so. The writer, by giving the 
simple narrative of the life of a native of Cape Ann—a 
fisherman, skipper, trader, husband and father—conveys 
much information about catching cod, mackerel, &c., on 
the Banks and along shore, of the character and habits of 
a large class of our countrymen, and of the peculiar aspect 
of the sandy capes and sea-shore villages where their 
homes are. Read this interesting book. Sold by Dewey. 
Beauchampe, or tbe Kentucky Tragedy,— a Sequel to 
Charlemont. By W. Gilmore Simms. New York : 
Redfield. 1856. 
Beauchampe is the fifih of the series of the “ Border Ro¬ 
mances of the South” by the same author. This story is 
the continuation of the narrative entitled “ Charlemont,” 
and will doubtless find many and attentive readers. 
Edinburgh Review. —The April number of this periodi¬ 
cal lias been issued by Leonard, Scott & Co. Its contents 
consist of the following papers, viz.:— Modern English 
History, the Corrector of Shakspeare, the Greek People 
and the Greek Kingdom, Body and Mind, the Austrian 
Concordat, Sir Isaac Newton, Ruskinism, French Judg¬ 
ments of England. 
Dewey, in the Arcade, is the agent in this city. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
Buried Alive and Rescued. —One of the most 
remarkable escapes from death occurred a few 
days since in a coalpit near Zanesville, Ohio, 
in which tour men were buried by the caving 
in of the bank under which the entrance was 
situated. The rescuers worked by gangs day 
and night, for more than two weeks, before the 
rubbish was removed ; when, to the joy of all, 
the men were found and taken out alive. They 
had but about one day’s provision at the time 
the accident occurred, on which they sustained 
life during this long and terrible period. From 
five hundred to a thousand persons were con¬ 
stantly on the ground, but very few individuals 
could work at a time. 
A family named Richardson were swept 
away by a flood near Pulaski, Ky., last week. 
Their house was carried off, their three children 
drowned, and Mr. R. and his wife saved by be¬ 
ing lodged against some fallen trees in the 
flood. Great damage was done to crops through¬ 
out the vicinity, bridges destroyed, <fcc. 
Left-handed Reform. —The Common Coun¬ 
cil of New York city have adopted a resolution 
by twenty-nine majority to increase the sala¬ 
ries of certain of the officials, viz., that of the 
Mayor from $3,000 to $6,000 per annum; the 
Comptroller’s from $3,000 to $5,000, ana the 
Street Commissioner’s from $2,500 to $5,000. 
With all the money expended by the New 
York city government, it is the most giganti¬ 
cally mis-governed municipality in the United 
States. 
Suspended Payment. —The firm of Coleman 
< fc Stetson, which for the past eighteen years 
has kept the celebrated Astor House, New York 
city, has suspended payment. The embarrass¬ 
ment arises from acceptances in favor of Mr. 
Coleman, of the Burnett House, Cincinnati,— 
$140,000 of which acceptances is about falling 
due and unprovided for. Coleman (of the As¬ 
tor) assigns his interest to his partner, who will 
continue the business. 
Land Monopoly. —Five noblemen are said to 
own about one-fourth of all the landed property 
in Scotland. They are the Marquis of Broad- 
albane, and the Dukes of Argyle, Athol, Suth¬ 
erland and Buccleugh. About two thousand 
proprietors are also said to own one-third of the 
land and total revenue of the three kingdoms 
of England, Scotland and Ireland. 
Green Bay. —The Green Bay Advocate notices 
the arrival of 900 Belgians at that point this 
spring, and states that there are from 3,000 to 
4,000 more on the way. The settle principally 
on the Peninsula, between Green Bay and 
Sturgeon Bay, and are described as strong and 
healthy looking settlers. 
Cardinal Wiseman resides in a very unpre¬ 
tending residence in Golden square, where on 
every Tuesday evening he has a reception, or 
rather levee, of the young Roman Catholic no¬ 
bility, gentry and many of the priesthood. By 
his own co-religionists he is treated with in¬ 
tense veneration—all, even in mixed companies, 
falling on one knee and kissing his hand when 
he enters. In person, he is of enormous bulk 
and proportions, and his countenance is dark 
and swarthy. 
Omar Pasha, notwithstanding his threescore 
years, has just married a young lady fifteen 
years of age, the daughter of the unlucky Gen. 
Hafiz Pasha. The bride and her family were 
strongly opposed to the match, and only yield¬ 
ed a reluctant assent in consideration of certain 
influences that were brought to bear upon them 
in high quarters. This is the tenth or twelfth 
marriage that Omar Pasha has contracted since 
he abjured Christianity. 
The statistical returns of Providence, R. I., 
show that patent medicines are manufactured 
there by the thousand barrels. Two establish¬ 
ments of this description in that city render the 
enormous product of one thousand barrels and 
432,000 bottles of medicine, amounting to $700- 
000 . 
A correspondent of the Savannah (Ga.) 
News relates the case of Wm. Ellison, a negro, 
who purchased his freedom from his master 
several years*ago, and now owns a large cotton 
plantation, upon which he works 50 hands, and 
about one-half of the town of Statesburg, in 
Sumpter district, S. C. 
Ralph G. Wells, who lives on the eastern 
slope of the Talcott mountain range, tells the 
Hartford Courant about a sheep which he lost 
on the 5th of January last, and found again 
among his flock on the 5th of May. The sheep 
had weathered it out alone among the snow 
j banks. 
The income of Ohio last year was about four 
and a quarter millions of dollars, and its ex¬ 
penditures three millions and a half. It has 
800 miles of canals, 600 of navigable rivers, and 
2,000 miles of railroads. Its wheat crop last 
year was 30,000,000 bushels, and corn 80,000,000 
bushels. 
Rev. Asa Mahan, formerly President of Ober- 
lin College and the University of Cleveland, 
has accepted the call of the First Congregation¬ 
al church, of Jackson, Michigan, to become its 
pastor. He is to be installed on the 26th inst. 
Baron Humboldt has written a letter in which 
he contradicts the report that he had become a 
convert to the spirit rapping humbug. He has 
a “ holy horror of pine wood spiritualism and 
psychographic mysticisms.” 
— The Legislature of Pennsylvania, at its recent sessim, 
passed over 1,200 bills. 
— The Newburyport jail has but one tenant, and henas 
been there eighteen years. 
— The wife of Senator Rusk, of Texas, died at Nacog¬ 
doches on the 25th of April. 
— There are 72,000 miles of Telegerph in the world— 30 - 
000 in the United States. 
— The Land Reformers are to hold a Congress in New 
York on the 11th of June next. 
— The Abington (Va.) Democrat estimates the losses by 
the forest fires in that vicinity at $100,000. 
— There are 800 idiots in the State of Connecticut, one- 
fourth of which are under 14 years of age. 
— Five negroes escaped from their owners in Covington, 
Ky., Sunday night, and have not been retaken. 
— Property to the amount of $2,028,900, was sunk in 
the Mississippi river in the year ending Sept. 30, 1855. 
The Kansas fund in Chicago amounts to $1,661 ex¬ 
clusive of some $800 paid to Gen. Schuyler. 
— The exhibition of the breeding animals of all nations 
will open in Paris on the 29th of this month. 
— The secret society, the Marianne, has already extend 
ed its ramifications over 69 of the departments of France. 
— The Oswego Palladium says a man proposes to erect 
water works and supply the city with lake water for $50 - 
000 . ’ 
— One hundred Polish families, mostly farmers, have 
settled in Karnes county, Texas, near the San Antonio 
river. 
^ — In February, 1856, there were 12 murders in San 
Francisco, 37 in the preceding February-, and 50 in Febru¬ 
ary, 1854. 
— An effort is making for the endowment of a female 
college in Worcester, Mass. $75,000 are pledged, and 
$200,000 are wanted. 
— None of the copper money of France stamped with 
the head of Liberty will be a legal tender after the 1st of 
next October. 
— The amount paid by the Clerk of the U. S. House of 
Representatives last year for engraving, lithographing, Ac., 
was over $86,000. 
— The meeting of Portuguese at the Portuguese Consu¬ 
late in New York subscribed $2,200 for the relief of the 
Cape de Yerde sufferers. 
Accounts from all parts of New Jersey agree in stat¬ 
ing that the prospects of a large yield of peaches were 
never better than at present. 
— Dr. Graham, recently pardoned by Governor Clark, for 
the murder of Col. Loring, has resumed the practice of his 
profession in New Orleans. 
— A French soldier who lost a leg by a Russian cannon 
shot in the Crimea, has set up a shop in Lyons, and hung 
the shot over his door as a sign. 
— The Minnesota Pioneer says that fourteen hundred 
emigrants to that Territory arrived at St. Paul upon the 
steamers Galena and War Eagle. 
— The quantity of meat consumed in Paris in 1845, was 
44,500,000 kilogrammes, (about 2 1-5 pounds,) in 1849 54 - 
000,000, and in 1854, 64,000,000. 
- Dr. Orville Dewey has donated the earnings of his last 
winter’s lectures to his native village, to be expended in 
planting shade trees along its streets. 
— During the religious anniversaries in New York, re¬ 
cently, oyer one thousand dollars in counterfeit money was 
dropped in the contribution boxes. 
— The penny newspaper experiment in London does not 
prosper. The proprietor of the Evening News has gone 
into the Insolvent Court. 
By a late decision of French Government, professor¬ 
ships of agriculture are to be founded in all the principal 
educational establishments of France. 
— The American Medical Association, which has been 
some days in session in Detroit, adjourned on the 9th 
inst., to meet in Nashville, Tenn., in May, 1857. 
— One hundred thousand dollars in silver, sent to Cin¬ 
cinnati by the U. S. Government, for the purpose of sup¬ 
plying change, arrived at the Custom House recently. 
— A pear tree more than 200 years old, was cut down in 
New Haven recently. It stood in Crown street, and was 
transplanted from England in the early days of the Colony. 
— The Indianola Bulletin of the 25th ult., says that the 
crops in the interior, where stands have been procured, are 
looking well, although there has been no rain for a month. 
According to a letter in the Savannah Republican, the 
Florida volunteers have been scalping the Indians, and ex¬ 
hibiting the scalps as trophies of war in the white settle- | 
ments. 
— Contracts have been made for the building of a Fe¬ 
male Seminary in connection with the Baptist College at 
Kalamazoo, the buildiDg to be 40 by 80 feet, and three 
stories in height. 
— There are twenty women in the employment of the 
United States, at various points, as keepers of light-houses 
beacon lights, &c. Three or four have the prefix of “Miss” 
before their names. 
— Mrs. Napoleon’s baby has been enrolled as one of the 
Grenadiers of the Imperial Guard. We should have sup¬ 
posed a place in the ranks of the infantry would have been 
more appropriate. 
A Dew line of telegraph between New York and Phila¬ 
delphia is to be opened this month. It will print messages 
in plain Roman letters at the rate of five thousand words 
an hour. 
— Boston papers express much dissatisfaction with the 
Cunard Co., on account of the transfer of the Arabia to 
New York, leaving the three smallest and poorest steam¬ 
ers to run to Boston. 
— The bayonet derives its name from the place where it 
was invented—Bayonne—in France, and was first used in 
battle as a weapon by the French, in the year 1603, prov¬ 
ing a novel and efficient arm. 
— Rents have been very high in Detroit this spring ; 
good frame and brick houses for medium sized families, 
ranging from $350 to $800, and a few have been rented 
even at a higher figure. 
— Lemuel Keyes, residing near Chicopee Falls, has 
buried his wife, three daughters and one son, from small 
pox, within two months. Mr. Keyes has also been down 
with the same disease. 
— The Charlotteville Advocate says that Faber’s lead 
mines, located in Albemarle county, Va., which were sold 
last year for $25,000, have now been disposed of to a com¬ 
pany of miners for $75,000. 
— The number of students in the Russian Universities 
has hitherto been limited bylaw. The Emperor Alexan¬ 
der has just signalized his zeal for the welfare of his sub¬ 
jects by removing this restriction. 
— All the Free State papers now published in Kansas— 
four in number—have announced their preferences for 
Fremont as a candidate for the President, and keep his 
name at the head of their columns. 
— The ship Witch of the Wave, recently cleared from 
Charleston for Havre with a cargo valued in all at $223,- 
983 — the most valuable cargo that ever cleared from 
(Charleston for any port in France. 
— The number of French officers now living, whose 
commissions date back as far as the Empire, is said to be 
3,500. The Government is talking of allowing them the 
moderate pension of 250 francs each. • 
— A large company, composed principally of citizens of 
Louisville, have laid out a town in Kansas Territory, and 
called it Prairie city. About the 1st of June it is said 
that 100 families will leave Louisville. 
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