Old World Matters. 
®je Bettis €oithcnser 
Furthermore, Spain has declared that it has not 
the remotest idea of attempting to re-subjugate 
Mexico. The United States have no objection to 
one canal or twenty canals in Central America.— 
This is no question under the Monroe doctrine. 
What they mean to make good is, that the contract 
already made and existing with our citizens shall 
not be violated, and that such canals, when made, 
shall be equally free and open to all commercial 
nations, and shall not be controlled by any one 
power, especially any European power. Our gov¬ 
ernment is officially assured that England is not 
treacherous or dishonest policy in Nic- 
The British government proposes fairness, 
Contents of the Rural for March 19, 1859. 
The news received from the Old World during 
the week, by steamers Washington and Weser, has 
some features of peculiar interest. We present the 
following synopsis: 
Great Britain'. —D’Israeli’s Reform Bill confers 
the franchise upon all members of the learned pro¬ 
fessions and upon parties having small investments 
in funds in Savings Banks. The representation of 
fifteen small boroughs is reduced from ten to one 
member each, and vacated seats are given to coun¬ 
ties and new boroughs. The bill is strongly attack¬ 
ed by the Reformers, but a large meeting of the 
Conservatives, two hundred strong, at Lord Der¬ 
by’s, pledge their unanimous support to the mea¬ 
sure. Walpole, the Home Secretary, and Henley, 
President of the Board of Trade, retired from the 
Cabinet on account of differences of opinion on the 
Reform Bill. Mr. Sotlieron Estcourt succeeds the 
former and Lord Donoughmore the latter. Lord 
March replaces Estcourt as President of the Poor 
Law Board. Rumor of further secessions from the 
Cabinet include the Earl of Salisbury and Mr. 
Aiderly. 
The British exports show an enormous increase 
over last j'ear. 
Parliamentary proceedings uninteresting. 
An unimportant movement had taken place 
among the leaders of the Liberal party, Lords Rus¬ 
sell and Palmerston having coalesced against the 
Government Reform Bill. Lord Lenox, one of the 
Lords of the Treasury, had resigned, and was 
succeeded by Peter Blackburn. The Morning 
Advertiser repeats the assurance that Marquis 
Salisbury, Lord Manners and Sir Edward Lytton, 
only hold office temporarily. 
The War question remains unaltered. 
The latest correspondence of the London Jour¬ 
nal, indicates very little confidence in the success of 
Lord Cowley’s mission. 
France.— There is a rumor that the Count Ca- 
vour is expected at Paris. 
It is stated in Paris that Austria had made coun¬ 
ter proposals to Lord Cowley, in which it is sup¬ 
ported by Prussia. 
The French Government organs are getting more 
belligerent, but war preparations at Marseilles are 
somewhat relaxed. 
The Bourse continued sensitive and fluctuated. 
The Constitutionel had announced positively the 
withdrawal of the French troops from Rome, but 
the Moniteur pronounced the statement premature. 
Preparations are being made for the arrival in 
France of some distinguished personage, and hinted 
that it might be the Pope. 
On the Budget being called up for discussion, the 
Committee declared, by a majority of 10 to 4, that 
they could not examine the Peace Budget in the 
presence of War demonstrations on all sides, and 
that the War Budget would be required. They 
consider it ridiculous to consider the proposed 
figures, when the expenses already incurred exceed 
the amount demanded, they therefore resolved to 
wait explanations from the government, although 
the minority proposes/I an amendment. They forth¬ 
with rejected i:, ancNt persisted in their original 
design. \ V 
The French pnn^A^What Lopez accepted the 
proposed mediat-'-'^B'kc/de-azilian government in 
the affair with ihe^^/-rtd States. 
Austria. —From Austria it is announced that the 
Emperor had become more determinedly warlike 
and embittered against France. The Vienna jour¬ 
nals arc also more warlike. The Cabinet at 
Vienna had agreed to maintain 150,000 men in 
Lombardy, and to erect fortifications in all direc¬ 
tions. 
The lower classes at Vienna arc becoming ex¬ 
ceedingly warlike. The government, it is said, 
have contracted with the Lombardo Venetian Rail¬ 
way for the transport of 7,000 men during March. 
The official Vienna Gazette saysAs soon as the 
notification in writing of Cardinal Antonelli arrives 
here, it is understood that the evacuation of the 
States of the Church by Austrian troops will follow. 
It is said that Austria will grant foreign vessels 
the privilege of navigating the Danube. 
The Austrian army in Italy had been placed on 
a war footing. 
Commercial— Breadstuffs.— Richardson, Spence & 
Co. report wheat and flour in improved inquiry, with 
sales to a limited extent at full Friday’s rates. Western 
red wheat 8s9d@9s2d ; white 8s7d@10s9d. Corn steady, 
with retail sales at 5sl0d@6s2d for mixed and yellow, 
and 7s@7s3d for white. 
AGRICULTURAL. Page. 
Potato —Early Varieties,.101 
Spring Management of Cattle,.101 
Dairy Farm of Hon. Zadock Pratt, [two illustrations,]_101 
A New Sort of Plow Suggested.102 
Black Tooth in Swine.102 
Seeding to Clover.102 
Plans for Corn Houses, [Illustrated,].102 
Chinese Sugar Cane Mills.102 
To Prevent Oyer-Reaching.102 
Inquiries and Answers .—Hemlock and White Cedar; 
Keeping Hens in Cities; Stable Floors; Sawdust as an 
Absorbent.102 
Rural Spirit of the Press .—Hen Manure for Com; 
Liquid Manures; Scab or Itch on Sheep; Lampas in 
Horses.102 
Agricultural Miscellany .—Market Fairs; Liberal Pre¬ 
miums; Maple Sugar in Pennsylvania; To Cleanse Maple 
Sirup; Longevity of the Horse; Cattle Breeders’ Conven¬ 
tion; Potatoes for Seed; The Season.102 
HORTICULTURAL. 
Native Grapes.103 
Grape Growing at Hammondsport.103 
Grafting Wax.-.103 
Early Spring Flowers—The Snow Drop, [Illustrated,].103 
Standard, as Applied to Pear Trees.103 
Improved Grapes from Seed.103 
New Ilardy Grapes.103 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
Presentment, [Poetical.] Youth’s Dreamings; A Good 
Idea; To Spoil a Daughter; “Dear Mother;’’ Time's 
Literature; Charm of the Mind,.104 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Voices of Night, [Poetical.] Bygones—No. II; The Flight 
of Time; A LittleBun and Bright Air; The Sunny Side, .10-1 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
Hymn for Sabbath Morning. [Poetical.] “For He Careth 
for You; Hope foi-the Vilest; "Leading Men;” Godin 
Little Things..104 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Our School Laws; Punctuality; The Proper Improvement 
of our Time; Reading and Definition.103 
USEFUL OLIO. 
“Passthe Pepper;" Air; Calmness Under Provocation; 
Fertility of the Holy Land; Echoes; Well and Spring 
Cleaning,.105 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
The People's College; The Foundation of Character,.105 
STORY TELLER. 
Time,s Changes, [Poetical.] The Myst eries of Tattletown,. 105 
At the Commencement of the Jefferson Medical 
College in Philadelphia, 256 young men received 
the degree of Doctor of Medicine. This is the 
largest class, with a single exception, which has 
ever graduated from Jefferson College. 
All the governments of Europe are wanting to 
borrow money. Austria wants to borrow $30,000,- 
000; England, $35,000,000; Sardinia, $10,000,000. 
France wants a large sum, and Russia, it is ex¬ 
pected, will also be trying its credit to a large ex¬ 
tent. About $100,000,000 is the aggregate wanted 
by these different governments, to put themselves 
in a position to prevent one being eaten up by the 
other. 
The New Orleans Picayune speaks of Louisiana 
as a “State in mourning,” consequent upon the 
explosion of the steamer Princess. It says “there 
is scarcely a community from which some one of 
the lost is not missing.” 
Some sharpers in St. Louis have been doing a 
flourishing business by advertising for members to 
join a “ hand-cart train ” to Pike’s Peak, charging 
an entrance fee of $50—which answered all the 
purposes of initiating their dupes into the nature 
of their rascality, but did not serve to advance 
them one step towards the land of promise. 
The London Globe's Paris correspondent says 
that the French Maritime Insurance Companies 
now insert in each policy a clause referring to 
casualties from war on the high seas. 
Mary Shaughnessy, of Canton, Mass., was found 
dead in her bed on Monday morning week. She 
was one hundred and twelve years of age. Deceased 
had resided in Canton for the past twenty years. 
Timothy Sweeney, a native of County Kerry, 
Ireland, died at Fairview, Pa., on the 26th ult., 
aged 122 years. He emigrated to America when 
100 years old. He was never known to have had 
an hour’s sickness, even up to the very day of his 
death, but was always remarkably stout and healthy, 
having the full use of all his faculties to the last, 
with a delicacy of hearing and a quickness of per¬ 
ception that was really marvellous. 
It is estimated that at least four thousand per¬ 
sons in the U. S. Navy annually are tattoed with 
figures costing from seventy-five cents to fifteen 
dollars, and showing the annual expenditure in the 
aggregate of $20,000! A single “ artist ” has been 
known to pocket over a thousand dollars in a cruise 
of a frigate, in these India ink pictures. 
PERiiArs the most remarkable of the muny Burns’ 
banquets in Scotland, took place at the village of 
AJyth. A number of the female admirers of the 
poet resolved on having a tea party, composed of 
women exclusively. Sixty of them assembled in a 
ball, where all enjoyed themselves with a comfort¬ 
able tea, nnder the presidency of one of their sex. 
After refreshment, their husbands were admitted, 
when there were reels, polkas, and vocal music. 
Of the large stock purchased by Mr. Barret, of 
Henderson, Ky., in England, at a cost of more than 
$20,000, only one cow was alive on the arrival of 
the ship at New York. One after another, the valu¬ 
able animals sickened and died; among them was 
a bull which cost $5,000, and a cow for which 
$2,500 was paid. 
We sec it stated that many farmers throughout' 
the State, and as far west as Chautauque Co., have 
contracted their butter for the coining season at 
twenty-two cents per pound. 
— Mexico had seven Presidents in the month of Jan¬ 
uary. 
— The new State of Oregon contains $1S5,000 square 
miles. 
— In Chicago, 13,000 lots are advertised for non-pay¬ 
ment of taxes. 
— There is said to be a weed in Canada that produces 
a sort of cotton. 
— A library is now opened in Boston, expressly for 
the use of ladies. 
— It is said that six new churches are to be built in 
Boston this season. 
— Great preparations are being made on the seaboard 
for mackerel catching. , 
— The sufferers by the Princess explosion are daily 
dying of their injuries. 
— Ericsson’s Caloric Engines arc now manufactured 
for mechanical purposes. 
— The unclaimed dividends in the Bank of England 
amount to over five million. 
— Strawberries and aparagus have been brought to 
New York from the South. 
— Letters from Havana, dated the 9th, mention the 
presence of Fillibuster Walker. 
— It is said that Gen. Cass’ health is so infirm that 
his death at any time would be no surprise. 
— A bill to prohibit the marriage of white with black 
persons has passed the Wisconsin Legislature. 
— The first of the season, the man with white panto- 
loons, has appeared in the streets in Baltimore. 
— The Queen’s theatre in London is about to be trans¬ 
formed into a large hotel on the American plan. 
— The Christy Minstrels arc performing in Paris, 
where they arc called the Bouffes Americains ! 
— The Western Lakes are all open, and navigation 
upon them has fairly commenced for the season. 
— Sherman Croswell, Esq., late editor of the Albany 
Argus, died on Friday at New Haven, aged 56 years. 
— It is stated, for the information of husbands and 
papas, that there are seventy different styles of skirts. 
— A man by the name of Twitcliell died at Bloom¬ 
field, Ohio, a few days since, who weighed 386 pounds. 
— Over $7,000 have already been received at a fair in 
Boston, held to raise money for a Ilomoepathic hospital. 
— During the year of 1858 there were carried over 
the New York city railroads thirty-five million persons. 
— Gideon B. Smith, of Baltimore, the locust man, 
predicts invasion by that insect of several Southern 
States. 
— There arc four sisters in Taunton, Mass., whose 
united weight is 985 pounds, the youngest weighing 256 
pounds. 
— A couple in Portland, Me., celebrated their “ tin ” 
wedding last week, on the tenth anniversary of their 
marriage. 
— The railroad bridge at Middlebury, Vt., together 
with four cars, was destroyed by fire on Thursday morn¬ 
ing week. 
— A Utah correspondent says Ileber Kimball and 
Brigham Young have harems that cover each an acre 
of ground. 
— It is stated that the Russian war, for single a year, 
cost over $250,000,000 ; no small amount spent in shoot¬ 
ing people. 
— The Richmond Whig announces that free white 
girls are now employed in the Virginia factories to put 
up tobacco. 
— The New York Central Park is expected to be 
completed some time in 1S60. Its total cost is estimated 
at $2,225,000. 
— The French army, it is said, is composed of 621,- 
000 fighting men, of which over 500,000 are available 
for foreign war. 
— A revival of great power is in progress in Rye, N. 
H. One hundred and fifty persons are stated to have 
been converted. 
— The latest sensations in New York are Bonner hats, 
asparagus and green peas, and French theatricals on 
Sunday evenings. 
— Southern papers concur in the statement that vege¬ 
tation in that latitude is at least one month in advance 
of ordinary years. 
— Walker, Ilenningsen, and other fillibusters, are 
reported to be organizing at San Antonio, Texas, for a 
march into Sonora. 
— Fine trout fishing up Lake Superior way; four 
hundred two pounders were killed by an angler in one 
day, near Marquette. 
— A little girl and several dogs have been bitten by a 
mad dog in Lowell, Mass., and excitement prevails 
there on the subject. 
— The Empire machine company of Norfolk, Conn., 
has contracted for building 5,000 sewing machines for a 
New York company. 
— The circulation of the banks throughout the Union, 
in the year 1S58, was $193,330,000, against $155,000,000 
in the previous year. 
— The number of miles of railroad now open in Texas, 
is 1S3; besides which there are 113 miles more graded, 
and 41 under contract. 
— The professional juror’s occupation is gone in Illi¬ 
nois, as by law no person is allowed to serve more than 
once a year upon a jury. 
— At the ball given by the Americans in raris, on 
Feb. 22d, one of the ladies is said to have worn lace to 
the value of SO,000 francs. 
— The total real and personal estate of Hartford, Conn., 
is valued at $21,512,499, among which are 2,559 dwelling 
houses, valued at $7,S50,2S7. 
— A singular work is in preparation abroad. It con¬ 
sists of a book of parodies on all manner of living poets, 
to be called “ Rival Rhymes.” 
— Four persons were drowned off Port Darlington, 
Canada, on the 15tli inst.—two men, a woman and child. 
The boat was capsized in a gale. 
— The number of letters which passed through the 
Post-Office of Great Britain, the past year, was five hun¬ 
dred and twenty-three million. 
— The Willimantic (Conn.) Journal says a trout was 
caught in that vicinity a few days since which weighed 
20 pounds. A very fishy story. 
— Forty citizens of Watcrville, in Litchfield, Conn., 
have formed a joint stock company, with $10,000 capital, 
for the manufacture of penknives. 
— The age of the great California tree, estimated by 
the count of the annual layers of wood, is 6,40S years, 
somewhat older than the human race. 
— The Canal Board have reduced the canal tolls, for 
the present year, on beer, eider, vinegar, rye, peas, 
beans and rags, from three to two mills. 
_The town of Hooksett, N. J., has voted to discon¬ 
tinue its liquor agency, April 1st, and divide the liquor 
on hand equally among the legal voters. 
— Some miscreant, on the night of the 17th ult., en¬ 
tered the stables of Messrs. Sumns & Sutton, Grenada, 
Miss., and poisoned between 80 and 50 of their horses. 
pursuing a 
aragua. 
and ours is not at liberty to doubt their honor or 
treaties. They meditate treaties with the govern¬ 
ment of Nicaragua, one for the regulation of the 
transit route, and the other for the abandonment of 
the MosquitoProtectorate. The general principles 
have been submitted to the government of the 
United States, and approved by it. 
Among matters of interest at Washington, we 
learn that the Cabinet met at an unusually early 
hour on the 17th inst., and resumed the considera¬ 
tion of the affairs of the Post-Office Department. 
The question of an extra session of Congress is 
still undetermined. Attorney General Black has 
decided that United States Consuls in Turkey have 
jurisdiction over American citizens in commercial 
cases only. Private advices, just received, state 
that the Dutch government are about to lay claim 
to the famous Aves Guano Island in the Caribbean 
sea, which has been successfully worked by the 
Atlantic and Pacific Guano Company of New York 
for the last two years. The Grand Jury have 
brought in a presentment against Sickles for mur¬ 
der, and there is no doubt a true bill will be found 
against him, when a day will be set apart for his 
trial. The Secretary of State recently submitted 
to the Attorney General, the question whether the 
Chinese Coolie Trade, as carried on by American 
ships, comes within the laws or discretion of the 
slave trade. Diplomatic correspondence from Mad¬ 
rid, says Mr. Preston will be received uncondition¬ 
ally, but that any proposition touching Cuba will 
be followed by the government sending him his 
passports. 
During a portion of the past week a Railroad 
Convention was in session at Buffalo. Attendance 
was very full, forty-six Roads being represented. 
The Convention was organized by electing Owen 
Follett, Of the Sandusky, Dayton and Cincinnatti 
Roads, President, and Lafayette Devenny, of the 
Pittsburg, Columbus and Cincinnati Road, and J. 
B. Anderson, of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and 
Chicago Road, Secretaries. A strormj’- time was 
anticipated—anticipations were fully realized— 
probabilities are that it will prove, of its kind, one 
of the most terrific and prolonged ever witnessed. 
Our Canadian friends are much exercised just at 
present in the consideration of a new Tariff. In 
Parliament, on the night of the 18th inst., the mo¬ 
tion that the House do not go into committee on 
the tariff of Inspector General was lost by a ma¬ 
jority of 15. This motion was looked upon as a mo¬ 
tion of loss of confidence in the administration, 
and it is probable that the tariff will be passed 
with slight modifications. Should it go into ope¬ 
ration, it will make some sweeping changes. It 
raises the duties on manufactured articles in some 
cases five, in some ten, in some twenty oi- thirty 
per cent. Unmanufactured articles from the U. 
States are of course left untouched, their impor¬ 
tation being regulated by the Reciprocity Treaty. 
List of New Advertisements this Week, 
First Premium Horse Powers, Threshing Machines, &c.,— 
G. IVestinghouse & Co, 
Early Northern Muscadine Grape—,T. Lewis,D. C. Brainard. 
New Seedling Pears—Hovey <fc Co. 
Lawton Blackberries, <Src„—A. Fahnestock & Sons. 
Removal of Horticultural Agency—Wm. P. Sheppard. 
The Atlantic Monthly—Phillips, Sampson & Co. 
Seven Years in the Wilds of Siberia—.T. W. Bradley. 
Six Years in Northern and Central Africa—J. W. Bradley. 
Lawton or New Rochelle Blackberry—Drew & French. 
Wilson’s Albany Seedling—Wm. Richardson. 
Seymour's Grain Drill—Seymour & Lewises. 
Flower Seeds by Mall—Allen & McElwain. 
Fruit Trees For Sale Cheap—H. M. Ranney. 
Agents Wanted—James Cliallen & Son. 
Stocks—W. P. Townsend. 
For Sale! A Pleasant Home—D. I). Tooker. 
Tobacco Seeds—I. W. Briggs. 
Tobacco Seeds—E. I). Hallock. 
Hubbard Squash Seeds, &c„—E. D. Hallock. 
Jerusalem Artichokes—L. D. Scott. 
Norman Stallion For Sale—Ira E. Humphrey. 
Compound Extract of Roots—Potter & Champlin. 
Premium Fowls, Eggs for Setting—J. II. Clapham. 
Entirely New—Geo. K. Snow. 
Drew & French. Commission Merchants. 
Notice—G. T. Hollingworth & Bro. 
Wanted—Bernard Arnoldt. 
Seed Potatoes—Drew & French. 
Lawton Blackberry Plants—Win. Lawton. 
Nursery—Partner Wanted, 
9,000 Plants Linnmus Rhubarb—B. Brown. 
IS?” For new Horticultural Advertisements see page 103. 
Outbreak in Auburn Prison, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MARCH 26, 1859. 
Personal and Political. 
TnE telegraph yesterday (21st) brought the fol¬ 
lowing dispatch from Auburn, N. Y.:—“One of 
the convicts employed in the hame shop being 
unruly, the head keeper, Mr. Austin, ordered him 
to be taken to the dungeon. The shop keeper, Mr. 
Hubbard, proceeded to execute the order, and while 
in the act of unlocking the cell door, the prisoner 
broke away from him and ran back to the shop, 
calling upon the other convicts for assistance.— 
The head keeper then attempted to secure him, 
when the convict struck him with a bar of iron, 
and drew a weapon—a round file, sharpened to a 
point—which the keeper wrested from him. All 
the convicts in the shop then made a rush and com¬ 
menced throwing hammers, planes, &c., at the offi¬ 
cers. The Agent then ordered the guard to fire 
upon them, and two of the convicts were mortally 
wounded and one slightly. They were then marched 
to their cells at the point of the bayonet. One of 
them, a German, is armed with a knife, and de¬ 
clares that he will kill the first man that attempts 
to open his cell. The head keeper has armed him¬ 
self, and gone to see him.” Up to the hour of 
going to press we have heard nothing further— 
probabilities are, the unruly convicts have been 
subdued. 
ANOTHER QUARTER-RENEWALS, &c, 
Mr. Baker, member of Assembly from Catta¬ 
raugus county, N. Y., died March 14th. 
Dr. Thomas D. Motter, Professor of Surgery in 
Jefferson College, Philadelphia, died at Charleston, 
S. €., on the 17th inst. 
Capt. Daniel Brown, believed to be the last 
survivor of the Wyoming massqdre, died at Wyalus- 
ing, Pa., on the 3d inst., at the age of 88 years. 
Thomas Brown, his father, emigrated from Con¬ 
necticut to the valley of the Wyoming, and was the 
father of twenty-one children, two of whom fell in 
the massacre, and all of whom are now dead. 
The body of Hon. Mike Walsh, ex-member of 
Congress from the city of New York, was found in 
the area of a building on 8th avenue, on the morn¬ 
ing of the 17th inst. The inquest resulted in a ver¬ 
dict that his death was caused by falling in a fit of 
apoplexy, after which he was robbed by some per¬ 
sons unknown. 
The Brooklyn City American Convention met on 
the 18th inst., and nominated a straight American 
ticket, which is headed by ex-Mayor George Hall 
for Mayor. Sam “ still lives.” 
The Democrats of Rhode Island held their Con¬ 
vention in Providence, on the 18th inst. Mr. 
Elisha R. Potter, of South Kingston, was nomi¬ 
nated for Governor, and Mr. Fenner Brown, of 
Cumberland, for Lt. Governor; Mr. Olsney Arnold 
of North Providence, for the Eastern, and Alfred 
Anthony, of Johnston, for the Western Congres¬ 
sional district. 
The following is the result of the election in New 
Jersey for U. S. Senator:— John C. Ten Eyck, Rep., 
42; Peter D. Vroom, Dem., 34; Robert F. Stockton, 
Dem., 2; Wm. Wright, Dem., 3. Mr. Ten Eyck 
was declared elected. All the opposition candi¬ 
dates were elected. 
As the present number closes the first quarter of our 
Tenth Volume, we would remind all whose subscriptions 
expire therewith that our invariable rule is to discon¬ 
tinue the Rural at the expiratien of the time paid for. 
Those whose terms expire this week will find “ Time 
Up ” printed on the margins of their papers—and we 
trust all interested will heed the notice rfnd renew at 
once if they wish to secure the uninterrupted visits of) 
the Rural to their homes. That most of these will 
respond promptly, we are confident, anil we hope all 
who can consistently to do so will invite others to join 
them in subscribing. The New Quarter, commencing 
next week, will be a good time to subscribe, and affords 
a favorable opportunity to form new clubs. See our 
liberal offers in first column of next page. 
Terrible Railroad Accident. 
Our Advertising Friends are very numerous about 
these days, and so urgent in their demands that we are 
constrained to infringe somewhat upon reading depart¬ 
ments for a few weeks, in order to make room for their 
favors. However, we trust what is inserted in this line 
will prove of interest and value to our readers—that the 
advertisements will pay all parties interested. With 
this view we invite a careful perusal of all new an¬ 
nouncements. It may be proper to add that though we 
considerably exceed our limit this week, we are obliged 
to omit one or two columns of advertisements. 
One of those terrible railroad accidents, the re¬ 
cital of which makes the blood chill, occurred on 
the Great Western Railway a few miles north of 
Dundas on Saturday morning, at about half-past 
two o’clock. All our readers in this part of the 
country will recollect the violent storm of wind, 
rain and snow which commenced on Friday eve¬ 
ning, and continued through Saturday. It was 
during this storm that the accident occurred, of 
which it was the principal if not the sole cause.— 
Many who have travelled over the Great Western 
Railway will recollect the high embankment west 
of Dundas, and between that station and Flam- 
boro. If our recollectiou serves us right, this 
embankment is made across a narrow valley, 
through which runs a small stream, carried under 
the road by a fine stone culvert. In the wider 
part of this valley, south and east of the road, lies 
the village of Dundas. The place of accident, we 
think must have been from the west end of the 
embankment, where it unites witli the mountain 
side, and down which the water rushed, sweeping 
away the earth into the valley below, and leaving 
an awful chasm, described by passengers as 40 to 
50 feet deep, and more than 100 in length. The 
Night Express train that left Windsor at 7 o’clock 
on Friday evening, reached this fatal spot on 
Saturday morning, in the midst of the raging fury 
of the storm, with 70 passengers on board, plung¬ 
ed into the gulpli—a heap of ruins—causing the 
instant death of six or eight persons, while twelve 
or more are seriously wounded. The Hamilton 
Spectator gives the following names of the killed 
as far as ascertained : 
Killed— Mr. Jones Boyer, of Ohio ; Mr. Alex¬ 
ander Braid, of Hamilton; G. Morgan, engine 
driver; W. Milne, brakeman. 
Abuses of toe Franking Privilege. —Senator 
Iverson, of Georgia, says the Buffalo Covrier, in a 
speech upon the abuses of the franking privilege 
by members of Congress, read a list of the number 
of newspapers and pamphlets folded in the Senate 
folding-room in 1858, all of which were of course 
franked for the mails. The aggregate number was 
1,1G0,450, the postage on which would have been 
$34,813. The least number, 100, was sent by Mr. 
Biggs; the highest number, 345,500, by Mr. Doug¬ 
las. Mr. Bright, of Indiana, loaded the mails with 
104,050, the next highest number after Mr. Doug¬ 
las. Mr. Cameron, of Pa., who had 10,350 docu¬ 
ments folded in the Senate folding-room, interrupt¬ 
ed Mr. Iverson, to say that he had franked twice 
that number. Mr. Iverson estimated the whole 
amount of postage consumed by the Senate in 1858 
to be $92,400, which is probably a very moderate 
estimate. During the Congressional recess of 1857, 
no less than 3,539 bags of mail matter were dis¬ 
patched from the Senate folding-room. 
Review of the Week. 
The Washington Union of the 16th inst. contains 
a very important article upon our Mexican and 
Central American affairs which seems to be sanc¬ 
tioned by the President. From the statements 
therein it would appear that there is not the least 
reason to believe, from anything which has yet 
transpired, that either the French or British gov¬ 
ernments meditate any interference in the political 
concerns of Mexico; but it is known that Captain 
Turner, the American commanding officer, has 
entered into an arrangement with the French and 
British commanders, that the Naval forces of the 
three nations shall land together, should it be nec¬ 
essary, to afford protection to their respective citi¬ 
zens. It appears, further, our government does 
not think the Monroe doctrine precludes any Euro¬ 
pean nation from going to war with Mexico, what¬ 
ever the cause which might exist. It maintains 
the position that the Spanish American States 
shall not again be reduced to European dominion, 
but not that those States may commit just such 
wrongs as they please against European powers, 
without being responsible to those powers for so 
doing. 
From Buenos Ayres —Buenos Ayres dates oftlie 
23d ult., have been received at New York. The 
supply ships Release, Corvette, Preble and steamer 
Southern Star had arrived at Montevideo, and the 
latter had started for Corinth, towing the Preble. 
On the arrival of the advance part of the squadron 
at Rosario, the local authorities sent a dispatch to 
Admiral Shubrick, asking the reason of this collec¬ 
tion of force. The answer was not published. 
On the 10th, the squadron was at Parana, where 
Commissioner Bowlin and Admiral Shubrick had 
an interview with Urquiza. The latter had since 
gone north, and, it was said, was bound to Para¬ 
guay, to tender his offices to Lopez. The Buenos 
Ayres Times says, hopes of a peaceful settlement 
are more generally entertained, and thinks Lopez 
will cut down the claim to its lowest limits, ratify 
the former treaty, and promise protection and en¬ 
couragement to American citizens. 
From Mexico. — The Tennessee’s mail, at New 
Orleans on the 15th inst., confirms the reported suc¬ 
cess of the Liberals. Gen. Ampudia reports that 
the re-actionists under Gen. Cobauz, 1,500 strong, 
were twice beaten back by an inferior force. Nuva- 
mon was retreating to Ouzaba. Only 500 troops 
were at the Capital. The news of the' intended 
action of the American Government had greatly 
discouraged the Liberals. The English and French 
fleets were harassing Juarez. 
