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JUNE 14. 
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News of the Week. 
Omaha City, N. T., May, 1856. 
Mr. Moore :—Dear Sir : Oo my arrival here 
I found a package of the Rural —also show 
bills. I have posted one of the latter in the 
P. O.,—and will do the same over the river in 
Council Bluffs. 
Your paper will be valuable to our Nebraska 
farmers, except what you say on manures, which 
we throw into the river—the soil being more 
than four feet deep on an average. I promised 
more than fifty of my Western New York 
friends, letters, and as most of them either take 
or read your paper, can I not fulfil my promise 
by writing one through the medium of the Ru 
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trip up the river, an account of the growth of 
this place, and of the appearance and prospects 
of this great and beautiful country. This is the 
Promised Land—the Eden of the Union,—and 
yet many are continually passing through it to 
the “Par West.” I now look out of my win 
dow and count six California teams — large, 
heavy, covered wagons, one drawn by six yoke 
of oxen, two by four yoke, dbc. Yesterday a 
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ing her cow, which supplied her with milk and 
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Remarks. —Though not designed for publica¬ 
tion, we take the liberty of giving the above 
from Prof. Kellom, late of East Bloomfield 
Let us have the description, by all means, for it 
will be interesting to thousands of our readers. 
But, pray don’t be too sanguine about the Eden 
of America, (all things considered,) being loca¬ 
ted outside of Western New York. —Eds. 
Railroad Casualties. 
The great and engrossing subject of public 
interest during the week past, has been the 
Democratic Convention ; the results of which 
are stated elsewhere in our columns. Congress 
did not adjourn formally, as announced by tel¬ 
egraph, but the members scattered on their own 
responsibility, some going to Cincinnati, and 
others home; so that, on the re-assembling of 
the House, no quorum could be obtained.— 
Probably very little will be done this week, 
and next comes the Republican Convention, and 
thus, by the time this is over, three weeks will 
have been consumed by the members under 
pay. In private matters such an evasion of 
duty, for which a man is paid, would be called*) 
a swindle. 
Rumors from Kansas continue vague and un¬ 
reliable, but there can be no doubt that an 
unhappy state of affairs exists in the territory. 
Violence, robbery, and murder run riot, and the 
Governor, now that an immeasurable amount of 
mischief and suffering have been inflicted, has 
found it necessary to call out the United States 
troops to preserve peace. 
Diplomatic relations between our government 
and England have ceased at Washington, as, on 
the dismissal of Mr. Cramfton, the office was 
closed, and no agent of the British Government 
left through whom communications can pass. 
There are various rumors as to the whereabouts 
of the Ex-Minister, some papers stating that he 
was being feted and feasted in Canada, while 
others, and the most reliable, declare he set sail 
for Europe in the last Cunarder, accompanied 
by the discarded Consuls. Whether England 
will retaliate and send Mr. Dallas home, re¬ 
mains to be seen. 
Indignation meetings continue to be held 
throughout the Northern States, on the subject 
of the recent troubles in Kansas, and the outrage 
on Mr. Sumner, at Washington. We are glad 
to see that very many of the most respectable 
Southern papers are severe in their condemna¬ 
tion of the South Carolinian who was guilty of 
the offence. 
Much rain has fallen in this vicinity recently, 
and the ground is thoroughly saturated. Sev¬ 
eral of the storms which occurred were accom¬ 
panied with thunder and lightning, and some 
damage resulted therefrom. Heretofore this 
spring, the rains have been light, and some 
people feared a drouth until within the past two 
weeks, when the fears shifted into the opposite 
scale. These last have also proved fallacious, 
as settled weather appears to have come again. 
A collision occurred, Thursday evening of 
last Aveek, on the Rochester and Niagara Falls 
division of the New York Central Railroad, at 
Pekin, Niagara county, between tAvo Express 
trains; by which two persons were killed, fif¬ 
teen or twenty others very severely injured, and 
the locomotives made complete wrecks. The 
Falls train from this city had reached the switch 
where the trains pass, and was in the act of 
backing upon the turn-out, when the other 
came down upon it at full speed causing the 
the most lamentable consequences. The persons 
killed Avere J. H. Haines of this city, fireman 
on one of the engines, and Mrs. Spencer, of 
Charlestown, Mass. Ten legs, one thigh, one 
collar bone were broken, two hurt badly with¬ 
out any bones broken, and others slightly. 
A brakeman, employed on the Great Western 
Raihvay, was killed on Tuesday week, near the 
Suspension Bridge. He was on top of a car and 
Avas struck by a bridge under which the train 
was passing. 
A young man named McDonald, of Wayland, 
Steuben Co., brakeman on the Buffalo and 
Corning road was killed at Le Roy, on the 4th 
inst., by being run over by the cars. 
Political Effort). 
The Democratic Convention. 
The National Democratic Convention, which 
held its session at Cincinnati last week, com¬ 
mencing Monday, on the seventeenth ballot, by 
a unanimious vote, nominated James Buchanan, 
of Pennsylvania, as candidate for the Presi¬ 
dency. On a subsequent vote, John C. Breck- 
enridge, of Kentucky, was nominated as Vice 
President. The four candidates before the 
Convention for the highest office in the gift of 
the people, were Buchanan, Pierce, Douglas, 
and Cass ; all the others being led in the num¬ 
ber of votes from the beginning by the final 
nominee, and no doubt exists in the mind of 
any one but that the party have made the 
strongest nomination possible. 
In this nomination the Democrats have wisely 
repudiated one principle on which they have 
heretofore sometimes acted, viz., selecting name¬ 
less and unknown men mearly because they 
were available. This time, as in that of Jack- 
son, they have planted themselves boldly upon 
a platform, and selected as their standard bearer 
a man who has been in public life more than 
forty years. The following is the first vote by 
States. 
For Buchanan—M aine 5 ; Massachusetts 4 ; Connecti¬ 
cut 6 ; New York 17 ; New JerRey 7 ; PennRylvnnia 27 ; 
Delaware 3 ; Maryland 6 ; Virginia 15 ; Louisiana 6; Ohio’ 
13 'A 1 Kentucky 4 ; Indiana 13 ; Michigan 6 ; Wisconsin 
5. Total 135%. 
Pierce— Maine 3 ; New Hampshire 5 ; Vermont 5 ; 
Massachusetts 9 ; Rhode Island 4 ; New York 18 ; Mary- 
South Carolina 8 ; Georgia 
% itwarg |lmrb. 
land 2; North Carolina 10 __ 
10 ; Alabama 9 ; Mississippi 7 ; Ohio 4% ; Kentucky °5 ; 
Tennessee 12 ; Arkansas 4 ; Florida 3 ; Texas 4 : Wiscon¬ 
sin 2. Total 124%. 
Douglass —Ohio 4 ; Kentucky 3 ; Illinois 11 ; Missouri 
; Iowa 4. Total 33. 
Cass —Ohio 1 ; California 4. Total 5. 
Previous to the ballot commencing, the-Con- 
vention adopted the Baltimore platform of 1852, 
with several additional resolves; the first of 
which is intended as a condemnation of the 
American and Republican parties ; the second 
and third endorse the Kansas Nebraska bill ; 
the fourth recognizes the necessity, (in the 
language of the resolution,) “of a safe and 
speedy communication within our own territory 
between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of this 
Union ; and it is the duty of the federal govern¬ 
ment to exercise promptly all its constitutional 
powers for the attainment of this objectthe 
fifth is a mere flourish of rhetoric, and does not 
add to or take from the planks of the platform. 
On the matter of foreign policy, the resolu¬ 
tions declare in favor of free trade and the 
Monroe Doctrine; they sympathize with the 
Walker movement in Nicaragua, in spirit 
though not in letter, and, it seems to us, in the 
closing resolution, hint at the acquisition of 
Cuba. The resolution is as follows • 
The States and Terretoriks of the Great West; their 
Geography, History, Advantages, Resources, and Pros 
pects ; comprising their local history, Institutions and 
Laws—giving a table of distances and the most direct 
routes and modes of conveyance, &c., &c., with a map 
and numerous illustrations. By Jacob Ferris. New 
York and Auburn : Miller, Orton & Mulligan. Buffalo 
E. F. Beadle. 
The title of this work sufficiently indicates its contents 
It is a popular treatise upon the Great West as it exists to¬ 
day, and containsmuch interesting information, not only 
for the residents and those about to become such in the 
Western States and Territories, but also for the people of 
the older States. Among the illustrations may be men¬ 
tioned “ Prairie Plowing,” “ Lumbering in Wisconsin,” 
“The Falls of St. Anthony,” “Eagle Harbor, on Lake Su¬ 
perior,” and the Coats of Arms of several of the Western 
States. The work is worthy the special attention of all 
who desire to become thoroughly informed in regard to the 
great and growing West. Dewey sells the book in this city. 
Homeric Ballads, and Comedies of Lucian—translated 
by the late William Maginn, L. L. D. Annotated by Dr. 
Shelton Mackenzie, author of Noctes Ambrosiana, etc 
New York: J. S. Redfield. 
This volume is composed of free translations in verse 
from those famous epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odys¬ 
sey, accompanied by copious notes in prose by Dr. Macken¬ 
zie. Among the subjects translated may be mentioned the 
“ Song of the Trojan horse ; The dog Argos ; The funeral 
of Achilles ; The first appearance of Helen ; The arming of 
Achilles,” &c., &c. To those who are unable to read the 
original Greek, (which it must be confessed very few can 
do with facility,) this volume will prove acceptable. 
The four comedies of Lucian embraced in the work are 
“Timon, or the Misanthrope ; Charon, or the Looker-on ; 
Menippus, or the Necyomantia ; Menippus and Chiron.” 
Dewey is agent for the book in this city. j 
Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling and the 
Sorrowing. 
Friends and Neighbors : or, Two Ways of LiviDgintlie 
World. By T. S. Arthur. Rochester: Darrow & Bro., 
1856. 
The above are the titles of two volumes intended for the 
family library. There is much to entertain, amuse and 
instruct in the various articles here compiled—characters 
and scenes of every-day life are depicted graphically and 
faithfully, while an elevated moral tone pervades each 
composition. For sale by the publishers. 
Five Hundred Mistakes, of daily occurrence in Speak¬ 
ing, Pronouncing, and Writing the Englieh Language, 
Corrected. New York: Daniel Burgess & Co. 
The aim of this little hook of seventy-five pages, is, by 
correcting a multitude of common errors in the use of 
language, mainly to offer assistance to such persons as 
need greater facilities for accurate expression in ordinary 
conversation. It is filled up with short sentences involv¬ 
ing grammatical errors, bad construction, and wrong pro¬ 
nunciation, and then a brief comment is’ added pointing 
out the error. 
Miscellaneous Items. 
The Constitution of Utah.— The constitu¬ 
tion adopted by the people of Utah provides 
that the members of the House of Representa¬ 
tives shall be elected for two years, and Sena¬ 
tors for four years, and no person is eligible to 
either office unless he be a free white male citi¬ 
zen of the United States. Persons engaging in 
a duel are disqualified from holding office. The 
Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor of Pub¬ 
lic Accounts and Attorney General, are elected 
by the General Assembly for the term of four 
years, and the Supreme Judges for six years. 
The Judges of the District Court are elected by 
the people. Any amendments to the constitu¬ 
tion are to be submitted to a direct vote of the 
people. 
The Thunder Storm. 
In the thunder shower of last Sabbath, the 
house of E. N. Buell, Esq., was struck by light¬ 
ning about one and a half P. M. Some circum¬ 
stances make the case interesting. The house 
was protected by a large lightning rod, termi¬ 
nating upwards by three long points tipped 
with silver. The lightning struck the western 
point, melting it so as to make it blunt, while 
the other points were not touched. Still a part 
of the bolt passed down the inside of the chim¬ 
ney to which the rod was fastened. By this 
chimney the smoke passes of! from the furnace 
in the cellar, the inside of which was made a 
good conductor by the soot upon it. Into this 
chimney the smoke pipe entered in the second 
story, and just below its entrance a soot box 
was placed and terminated the chimney down¬ 
wards, and at this point the lightning passed 
out, through the chimney to the lightning rod, 
knocking out two or three bricks, and making 
an opening outwards. So great was the power 
of the lightning, that it swept off the white 
“ pointing” from a large part of the upper sur¬ 
face of the chimney. 
The bolt of lightning must have been very 
great and powerful, and the family as well as 
the house were protected by the large lightning 
rod. Who will not use the Franklinean pro¬ 
tection for their dwellings, constructed accord¬ 
ing to the laws by which God governs this 
mighty element ? 0. d. 
June 9, 1856. 
Mails to Lake Superior. —The Post Office 
Department has established mail routes from 
Cleveland, by the way of Detroit and the Sault, 
to Marquette, Eagle River, Eagle Harbor, Fort 
Williams, Ontonagon, Le-Point and Superior 
and has offered the carrying of the mails to the 
Lake Superior Line of boats at a stipulated 
price the round trip, making the masters of said 
boats Route Agents to assort and deliver mails, 
the same as on a railroad. This arrangement 
meets the unqualified approbation of the East 
ern coriespondents of the inhabitants of the 
Superior country, who have long felt its ne¬ 
cessity. 
Loss of Lifb in the War. —The participation 
of England in the war has cost her 22,457 sol¬ 
diers. Of these 1,993 fell in action, 1,621 sank 
under their wounds, 4,279 died of cholera, and 
11,451 of other diseases. The losses of the 
French, so far as they have been ascertained, 
amount to 60,000. Count Orloff has admitted 
in Paris that the Russian loss has not been less 
than 500,000. The loss sustained by the Sar¬ 
dinians has not been, and the loss sustained by 
the Turks never will be ascertained. 
Quartz Mining Statistics. —The late report 
of Dr. Trask, State Geologist of California gives 
the whole number of mills now in operation as 
52. Eleven quartz mines produced in 1854, 
$777,790, eighteen produced in 1855, $2,239,161. 
Total in two years $3,016,951. Of some other 
mines he had obtained the product confidenti-* 
ally, and estimates that the aggregate products 
of the whole fifty-two would fall but little short 
of six millions. 
Devon Breeders are referred to the announce¬ 
ment of Sanford Howard, Esq., American 
Editor of the Devon Herd-Book, in our ad¬ 
vertising department. Mr. H. is now collect¬ 
ing materials for the third volume of the Devon 
Herd-Book, and invites breeders to furnish 
pedigrees of all animals eligible for entry. 
Resolved—That the Democratic party will expect of the 
next administration that every proper effort be made to 
insure our asccDdeupv i »bo Gulf „f Moxico to 
a permanent protection of the great outlets through which 
is emptied into its waters the products raised upon our soil, 
and the commodities created by the industry of the people 
in our western valleys and the Union at large. 
With this platform, and James Buchanan as 
the nominee, the Democratic party take the 
field under favorable auspices, and will make a 
powerful demonstration, if they do not sweep 
the States. On the 17th inst., the Republicans 
enter the course, and then we may look for one 
of the most spirited presidential contests we 
have ever yet witpessed. 
New Hampshire Politics.— The Republican 
and American coalition have elected the Gov¬ 
ernor and State officers in New Hampshire. 
Gov. Metcalf sent his annual message to the 
Legislature June 6. One-third of it is devoted 
to national affairs, principally on the slavery 
question, denouncing the repeal of the Missouri 
Compromise, Kansas outrages, the assault on 
Sumner, dec. On the morning of the 5tli effigies 
of Franklin Pierce and Preston S. Brooks 
were found hanging on the Pierce and King 
Liberty Pole of 1852, in front of the State 
House, 80 feet in the air. Also, effigy of Col. 
George, in another part of the city, bearing the 
words “The Glorious and God-like Administra¬ 
tion of Fierce,” which were the words recently 
used by him at Cincinnati. 
Iron Enterprise.— The Detroit Tribune states 
that Mr. Geo. Kinzie Smith, of that city, has 
obtained a patent from the Canadian govern¬ 
ment for 640 acres of land on the Micliipocoton 
river, about 100 miles above the Sault, embrac¬ 
ing a hill 500 feet in height, which is traversed 
with valuable iron dykes from 30 to 100 feet in 
width. A company is to be formed to work 
this mine, the ore of which has been found to 
yield from 50 to 65 per cent., and in some 
instances 75 per cent, of iron. 
John Bunyan’s Flute. —The flute on which 
John Bunyau beguiled the tediousDess of his 
captive hours, is now in possession of Mr. Ilow- 
els, tailor, Gainsborough. In appearance it 
does not look unlike the leg of a stool, out of 
which, it is said, that Bunyan, while in prison, 
manufactured it. When the turnkey, attracted 
by the sound of music, entered his cell to ascer¬ 
tain, if possible, the cause of the melody, the 
flute was replaced in the stool, and by this 
means detection was avoided. 
The Mount of Olives, near Jerusalem, has 
been purchased by a Madame Polack, the wid¬ 
ow of a wealthy banker of the Hebrew persua¬ 
sion at Konigsberg, in Prussia. This lady in¬ 
tends to beautify the place and improve the 
whole neighborhood at her own expense. The 
first thing she did was to plant the whole area 
with a grove of olive trees, and thus restore it 
to the original state from which it derives its 
name. 
While Ex-President Yan Buren was riding 
through the village of Kinderhook, on horse 
back, June 4th, his horse took fright, throwing 
him to the ground. He was considerably in¬ 
jured about the head, but is not considered 
dangerously hurt. 
The adjourned meeting held at Chicago on 
Saturday night, May 3lst, for the further con¬ 
sideration of Kansas afFairs, and ratification of 
the KepuUlicau ticket, was the largest ever held 
in Illinois. It was resolved to send five hund¬ 
red settlers from Illinois to Kansas, and $15,000 
was subscribed for that purpose. A Committee 
was appointed to procure further subscriptions 
and take charge of the arrangements. 
In attempting to ford the Kansas river at 
Lawrence, the horse of a U. S. Dragoon became 
restive, and after a brief struggle, both horse 
and rider sank. The Dragoon was from Sack- 
ett’s Harbor, but his name is not given. 
Henry Green, a free negro of respectability, 
living in Baltimore, has recently been tried for 
larceny, and during the trial it came out, that 
having married a slave woman, many years 
ago, he purchased her, but never gave her free¬ 
dom — consequently their children were his 
slaves. Last year he sold two of his sons, 18. 
and 20 years of age, to a slave dealer, for $1,000 
each, and they were shipped to Louisiana. He 
was himself born a slave, but was manumitted 
when young. 
Some are anxious to know the relationship 
existing between Senator Butler and Brooks. 
It is contained in a letter to a gentleman in 
Boston from Mr. Brooks in February last, which 
says :—“ My grandfather married Senator But¬ 
ler’s father’s aunt.” 
The will of Jabez Barber, of Chicago, who 
with his wife and eldest daughter were passen¬ 
gers on the ill-fated Pacific, was opened on the 
16th inst., before the Judge of Probate. The 
bulk of his property, amounting to $250,000, 
will fall to the only surviving child, a little girl 
of three years old. 
The Suez Canal, which is to unite the Medi¬ 
terranean and Red Seas, is to cost thirty-five 
million dollars. This is considered a mere 
trifle, and the shares are everywhere sought 
after. The Viceroy of Egypt has taken six 
millions. A branch canal is to be constructed, 
to unite the river Nile with the main work and 
furnish fresh water for iirigation. 
The Sheriff of Kings county, Long Island, 
has levied upon all the engines, hose and other 
fire apparatus of the city of Brooklyn, together 
with the portraits of all the Ex-Mayors of the 
city, hanging in the Governor’s room, City Hall, 
o sa i) an execution for $23,513.71, on judg¬ 
ment for that amount obtained by Samuel R. 
Tobey, a Street Contractor, for work done for 
the Corporation. 
—The grand jury of Fayetteville, N. C., has indicted the 
bank of Fayetteville for issuing small notes. 
— One hundred and fifty U. S. troops passed through 
Buffalo June 5th en route for Kansas. 
— All the democratic papers in New England have con¬ 
demned the assault on Mr. Sumner. 
— A life of the celebrated David Crockett is to be pub¬ 
lished by his son, Col. R. H. Crockett. 
— Judge Lecompte refused to admit Messrs. Robinson, 
Smith, Deitzler, Brown and Jenkins to bail. 
— A new police has been organized in Philadelphia for 
the capture of dogs found running at large unmuzzled. 
— Only thirty members appeared in the House June 4, 
the Cincinnati_Con vent ion calling off a large number. 
The young men of Waterbury, Ct., have subscribed 
for 1,000 copies of Senator Sumner’s speech for general 
circulation. 
" — A11 but thirty-one of the German Turners alleged to 
have been engaged in the riot at Covington, Ky., have been 
discharged. 
A safe, containing $50,000 worth of jewelry, in charge 
of the Express Co., recently fell into Detroit river, but was 
got out. 
— The corner stone of St. Jeseph’s (Catholic) church 
was laid at ,Albany on Monday week, in the presence of 
10,000 persons. 
— The Wabash Intelligencer notices a sign in one of the 
shops in that place, which reads thus “ Ho Maid Shug- 
gar for Sal Hur. 
— The storm of last week Tuesday was very violent at 
Owego and Binghampton. Trees were torn up and many 
buildings somewhat damaged. 
— Two children of Mr. Donough, of Evansville, Ind., 
recently died from drinking coffee with which tobacco had 
become accidentally mixed. 
— The Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company have re¬ 
solved to rebuild the hotel at Lawrence destroyed by Sher¬ 
iff Jones and his posse. 
— Salt works have been established on the west side of 
the Colorado River, Texas, and a very superior article of 
salt is manufactured. 
— The brig Gen. Pierce, of New York, has been captur¬ 
ed by a Portuguese war vessel on the coast of Africa, and 
condemned as a slaver. 
— On the 7th of July next, Barnum’s American Muse¬ 
um, New York, will open with the representation, in da¬ 
guerreotype, of 700 American beauties. 
— London papers mention that a monument, to the 
memory of the Rev. John Wesley, is to be erected in his 
native town, Epworth, Lincolnshire. 
— The value of the property held by the Romish Church 
in Mexico, is believed to amount to $400,000,000, produc¬ 
ing an annual income of $12,000,000. 
The editors of the five daily papers of Chicago have 
organized a committee to take measures for the immediate 
re-establishment of the Herald of Freedom. 
— The Connecticut Legislature on the 4th inst. elected 
James Dixon American Rep. U. S. Senator. The vote 
stood Dixon, 115 Toucey 101, scattering 7. 
— New York city is taxed six millions a year. It is 
stated that the levy for the current year, will fall little 
short of $10 per head for the entire population. 
1 — The third annual meeting of the “ Editorial Associa¬ 
tion,” of Western and Middle New York took place at 
Brigham Hall, Binghampton, Friday, June 13th. 
— Texas is said to have increased in population during 
the last ten years at the rate of about four hundred per 
cent., a thing unprecedented at the South. 
— A lawyer in Brooklyn has been arrested for violating 
the statute making it a misdemeanor for an attorney to 
purchano a claim in order to bring a suit thereon. 
— Gov. Price, of Missouri, has ordered an election to be 
held the first Monday in August, to fill the vacancy occa¬ 
sioned by the death of the Hon. John G. Miller. 
— The Democracy of New York city fired a salute of one 
hundred guns in honor of the nomination of James Bu¬ 
chanan. The Democracy of Brooklyn did likewise. 
— The editor of the Courier dcs Etats Unis writes 
from Washington that all the archives of the British lega¬ 
tion have been packed up, and are to be sent to Canada. 
— The Supreme Court of New York recently decided 
that a juror actually empannelled on a circuit and attend¬ 
ing from day to day, was privileged from arrest during the 
term. 
Colt’s Revolver’s. —Over 400,000 pistols have 
been turned out at the manufactory in Hartford. 
Of these, over one-third have been sold in Cali¬ 
fornia. The United States have been furnished 
with six thousand, which, at a cost of $28, 
would be $168,000; added to repairs, which 
would amount to several thousands more.— 
About 2,000 are annually sold in New York 
city, by jobbers and the retail trade, which 
would amount by average to nearly $40,000. 
— Gen. Pomeroy, of Kansas, was at Chicago, Ill., Tues¬ 
day week on his way to Washington, bearing to the Pres¬ 
ident an appeal for the protection of the people of Kansas 
against violence. 
The Legislature of Wisconsin has again refused to re¬ 
establish capital punishment—the bill to repeal the anti¬ 
hanging act having been rejected in the Assembly by a 
majority of one. 
— In the Choctaw country, on the borders of Arkansas, 
so great has been the recent devastation of the locusts as 
to compel nearly all to abandon their corn and cotton 
crops in despair. 
— The wife of Gov. Robinson heard of the burning of 
her house at Lawrence while in the cars near Chicago on 
her way to Kansas. The passengers presented her with a 
purse to procure new furniture. 
— Three thousand insurgents have arisen against the 
Emperor of Hayti. The greatest consternation exists, and 
a rumor, at last dates, prevailed that the Emperor’s troops 
had been beaten. 
— Wm. L. Storrs has been elected by the Legislature 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Errors for the State 
of Connecticut. He received 168 votes out of 175, the 
whole number cast. 
— The Canada sailed from Boston on the 4th of June 
with thirty-three passengers and $54,000 specie. Ex-Min¬ 
ister Crampton and three dismissed British Consuls were 
among the passengers. 
— The rumor of the re-union of foreign sovereigns the 
present summer, at Berlin, is revived with more explicit¬ 
ness. Among those named are the Emperors of France, 
Austria, and Russia. 
— The news of recent and important discoveries of gold 
in French Guiana seems to be confirmed, and at last ac¬ 
counts companies of adventurers were organizing in many 
parts of France. 
— The valuation of Providence, R. I., is $56,000,000 ; 
and its total wealth is $75,792,298, which, distributed 
among 47,785 people, would give an average of nearly 
$1,600 to each. 
— A lady who fell from the railroad bridge into the 
Mowhawk, in Lansingburgb, one day last week, was saved 
from drowning by her dress and skirts becoming filled with 
air, which buoyed her up. . 
— At the recent Kansas meeting in Detroit, Duncan 
Stewart, a merchant of that city, offered $2,000 per year 
towards the maintenance of a company in Kansas to assist 
in making it a free State. 
— The estate left by John M. Niles, of Connecticut, is 
valued at $76,000. He devised $20,000 to the poor of Hart¬ 
ford, one-half the income to be used in purchasing fuel, 
and the other half in paying rent. 
The ship Stephen Heath, from Port Phillip, Austra¬ 
lia, has arrived at London, and reported that she had 2% 
tons of gold on board, and one-half her crew in irons, for 
an attempt to take possession of the ship. 
— Henry Manuel, the lawyer of Racine, Wis., recently 
convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to fourteen 
years’ imprisonment, twenty days of each year solitary, 
hung himself in his cell, after four days’ incarceration. 
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