CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
AGRICULTURAL. Pack 
Oafs—'Varieties, . . 
The Wool Growers’ Association,. . 1*9 
A Peep into Modern Philosophy. 149 
Premium Farm House —No. Ill, [Illustrated,] . 119 
The Wheat Midge— Experiments. 150 
The Back Furrow . 150 
Care of Young Lambs. 150 
Kirby's American Harvester as a Reaper, [Illustrated,] 150 
Agricultural Miscellany. — Midge-Proof Wheat; 
People’s College; Market Fairs; To Kill Sheep Ticks; 
Preventive for Black Quarter; Cure for the Horn Ail; 
Remarkable Fecundation in a Cow; Endurance of the 
Horse; Exports of Eggs from France to England; China- 
Tea Wheat,. 150 
Condensed Correspondence. — Mangel Wurtzels ; 
Unburnt Brick Houses: About Hens and Eggs,. 150 
Rural Spirit of the Press— Steeps for Seeds; Suc¬ 
cessful Turkey-Raising; Potato Culture.150 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Season.151 
Profits of a Garden,.151 
Apple Pie Melon. 151 
A Small and Cheap Vinery, [Illustrated,]. 151 
Effects of a Southern Exposure,. 151 
Preserving Fruit,. 151 
Setting Hedge Plants, [Illustrated,].151 
The Pear Orchard,. 151 
Yankee Horticultural Criticism. 151 
Spare the Birds. 151 
Isabella Grapes in April.151 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
To Preserve Oranges; Sponge Cake; White Cake; Raised 
Cake; Cream Cake; Log Cabin Cake; Soda Cake; 
Molasses Cookies; Sugar Cookies; Fried Cakes; 
Beans for Dyspeptic Bachelors,. lol 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
W 7 innie Asleep, [Poetical.] The Two Homes:Scotch Mar¬ 
riages; Gossip; Twenty-One and Seventeen,.Ia2 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Music of Earth. I Poet ical.] An Old Church; Our Young 
Men; Signs of Spring Life; Happiness. Iu2 
SABBATH MUSINGS. 
the payment of the English claims, demanding a 
million and a half of dollars under the penalty of 
the bombardment ot Vera Cruz. British men-of- 
war are also threatening the Mexican ports on the 
Pacific. 
The telegraph gives information of the arrival oi 
ttvo steamers from Europe with later and impor¬ 
tant intelligence. The British Parliament has been 
dissolved. The Queen’s speech merely says that a 
dissolution has been resolved on to give an oppor¬ 
tunity for an expression of opinion on public affairs, 
and give to the Government the confidence of the 
House of Commons. The dissolution would take 
place on the 23d, and the election a few days after¬ 
wards. The British Ministry have made an official 
statement relative to European affairs. It was 
considered a matter of regret that Lord Cowley 
had not been allowed a longer time to mediate, as 
there would have been more chance of a successful 
result than at present. The Ministry could not, 
however, refuse the proposal made by Prussia for a 
Congress. The five powers agreed to the stipula¬ 
tions that the treaties of 1815 should be left undis¬ 
turbed, but subsequently collateral questions arose 
as to the composition of the Congress, and the dis¬ 
armament of the powers antagonistic to each other. 
The latter had not been settled. It was the opin¬ 
ion of Her Majesty’s government that a disarma¬ 
ment was necessary previous to the assembling of 
the Congress. Sardinia had also been invited to 
disarm, but refused on the ground of non-admission 
to the Congress. Some remarks were made by 
-Lords Clarendon and Derby, the forming stating 
that no party spirit would prevent him from mak¬ 
ing every allowance for the difficulties ot the sub¬ 
ject, and that he should be only too glad to hear of 
its success; and the latter stating that in case of 
I’ll Pray for Thee, [Poetical.] Let Us Sing; Church Eti¬ 
quette; Children to be Told of Christ. 152 
THE REVIEWER. 
Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic; Easy Instructor for 
the Piano Forte; Sixty Years’ Gleanings from Life’s 
Harvest; Waverly Novels,. lo3 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Is it “False Philosophy?” Adulteration of Food— 
Bread, [2 Illustrations,]. 153 
YOUNG RURALIST. 
Pleasure Gardening for Youth—No. II; A Word to the 
Boys; Little Men,. 153 
war, which God forbid, the position of England 
must be one of armed neutrality. Lord Palmerston 
thought the Congress might meet at once, and set¬ 
tle the real questions upon which the peace of 
Europe depended. Let France and Austria with¬ 
draw their troops from Central Italy, and pledge 
themselves that at no future time they shall return. 
The Congress, might then, if it pleased, go into the 
question of amelioration of Italy in general. Lord 
STORY TELLER. 
John Russell coincided with Palmerston. 
Hymn to the People, [Poetical.] The Twin Cottages—A 
Story of Rural Life; Industry. 156 
LIST OF NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Wooden Water Pipe Triumphant—I. S. llobbie & Co. 
Bayard Taylor's New Travel Sketches. 
N. Y. State Agricultural Society—B. P. Johnson. 
Agricultural Implements—Whiteside, Barnett & Co. 
Flowers! Flowers! Flowers!—Negley & Co. 
Wakefield’s Cora and Bean Planter—M. W. Simmons. 
Wanted—S. Hough. 
Choice Flower Seed—J. Rapalje. 
special notice. 
Morgan Horses—“Strike but Hear!”—S. Benson. 
Summary of Home and Foreign News. 
In Washington , since the acquittal of Daniel E. 
Sickles for killing Phillip B. Key, the excitement 
has passed away, and those who possess that pe¬ 
culiar organism requiring “ fever heat” to be at all 
comfortable, are patiently “ waiting for something 
to turn up.” We make the following synopsis of 
affairs at the National Capital; 
On the 28th ult., Senor Mata was formally pre¬ 
sented to the President by Secretary Cass. In de¬ 
livering the letter which accredits him as the 
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary 
of the Mexican Government to the United States, 
he conveyed to the President at the same time the 
sentiments of friendship and high regard which the 
Constitutional Government, as well as the people 
of Mexico, entertain for him and for the citizens of 
this great Republic. 
The revenue for the current month from Boston, 
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Or¬ 
leans, is assumed to be $4,000,000, on the basis of 
returns already received. The revenue for the 
quarter is estimated at over $12,000,000. 
England has signified her willingness to accept 
Secretary Marcy’s proposition substantially, for 
the exemption of all private property from seizure 
on the ocean, but Mr. BucnANAN insists upon a 
condition respecting the blockades, which effectu¬ 
ally prevents the conclusion of the negotiation. 
The Navy Department have received voluminous 
dispatches from Commodore Conover, of the Afri¬ 
can squadron, dated Porto Praya, March 12. The 
sloop-of-war Vincennes, and the flag-ship of the 
squadron, were at that port, and the Dale was 
shortly expected. The slave trade, as usual, was 
being carried on extensively. Quite a number of 
captures had been made, both by American and 
English cruisers. 
Dr. Forney, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in 
Utah, writes to the Indian Bureau, under date of 
March 18th, that he is in possession of reliable in¬ 
formation that leaves no doubt of the complicity of 
the Mormons in the Mountain Meadow Massacre, 
and that, after which, there was distributed among 
the leading church dignitaries, thirty dollars’ worth 
of property. The seventeen children who escaped 
were in his (Forney’s) care, and arrangements had 
been made to restore them to their friends in Ar¬ 
kansas. 
Our Mexican news will be found at length in 
another column, and we will only remark here that 
Miramon, the Constitutional Chief of Mexico, has 
succeeded in the purpose he formed after abandon¬ 
ing the attack upon Yera Cruz. He has cut his 
way through the lines of the Liberals, and reached 
the city of Mexico, which was in the possession of 
his troops. Arrived there, he has commenced a 
work of slaughter and imprisonment of foreigners. 
Mr. Black, the American Consul General, is ban¬ 
ished. In the meantime, Juarez, (Senor Mata, 
whose recognition and reception by our Govern¬ 
ment as Mexican Minister we have noted above, is 
the protege of Juarez we believe) who holds the sea 
coast and most of the lower country, is having trou¬ 
bles of his own. The British Minister insists upon 
The Moniteur (the organ of the French govern¬ 
ment,) of the 19th, has an official article on the 
War question. It explains the basis agreed upon 
for the proposed Congress, and the present condi¬ 
tion of the negotiation, and says that France is 
willing to prove her conciliatory disposition, and 
promises to request Piedmont to disarm on the 
condition that Piedmont and the other Italian 
States be invited to take part in the Congress. It 
hoped this proposal would meet with the unani¬ 
mous consent of the other powers. France has 
ever proved that she is disposed to consent to the 
disarmament preliminary to the CoDgress. Every¬ 
thing, therefore, seems to justify a belief that if all 
the difficulties are not removed, a definite under¬ 
standing will ere long be established, and that no 
further obstacle will oppose the assembling of the 
Congress. 
r\ _ n.. .«•••• * * * “ “ " 
comprising the Ministry,) seem to have a lively 
time of it. The Supply bill passed the lower House 
after a sharp fight; but while the Cabinet was re¬ 
joicing over that achievement, the bill was defeated 
in the Council by a vote of 20 to 33 ! This vote 
will embarrass the Ministry quite as much as the 
loss of the Appropriation bill in our owr Legisla¬ 
ture would embarrass our State officers. Resign, 
gentlemen, and appeal to the people — there’s no 
use working without the reward which alleviates 
toil and sweetens labor. 
Weather of April. 
The cooler weather of the last half of April lias 
delayed the progress of vegetation, so that there is 
no advance on that of ordinary years. Indeed, 
some flowers are now later by a week than in 1858. 
Forsythia, that beautiful shrub of yellow blossoms, 
before aleaf appears on it, showed its first blossoms 
last year on April 23d, and was full of blossoms on 
the 30th; but this year the blossoms first opened 
on the 30th, and came out with far more rapidity 
than last year. Except wheat and grass, and some 
few early maples and elms, vegetation is much the 
same in forwardness as in common years. The 
mean beat of the last half of April is 42.1°, or five 
degress less than the average for twenty-two years. 
The mean of the month is 41°, or three degrees be¬ 
low the average for twenty-two years. 
The rain of the 22d, and violent snow storm of 
the 23d, gave us 1.74 inch of water, and much re¬ 
sembled that of two days earlier in the month, 
1856, when the Suspension Bridge, below the Lower 
Falls of the Genesee, collapsed. Then we had less 
wind, but more rain and snow, which gave us 2.8 
inches of water. From the great and continued 
rise of the Gcnosee the last week, it is probable 
that the amount of snow and rain was greater at 
the south of us than about us. A large quantity 
of water has fallen in April, and from the heavy 
rains at the west, the Lakes have risen—Lake On¬ 
tario has risen half a foot in the month, yet the 
Lake is not so high by o}i inches as in August, 
185S. No less than 4.11 inches have fallen here in 
the month, more than one inch of which fell on one 
day in the first half. 
In the warmer parts of Kentucky, Indian corn 
was mostly planted before the 25th; and in South¬ 
eastern Missouri wheat was fully headed by that 
day, and apples, cherries, &c., were as large as 
bullets. There the earliest cherries began to show 
. ripeness on the 29 th. 
Aurora Borealis was splendid on the evenings of 
the 27th, 2Sth and 29th. The auroral arch and 
cloud did not rise to the height of the Pole Star, 
though some streams passed higher. On the even¬ 
ing of the 27th and 29th, a fine belt of cotton from 
Aurora extended from east to west, many degrees 
south. c. D. 
May 2d, 1S59. 
British Annexation. —The British have taken 
possession of another island in the Red Sea, which 
they claim to have purchased from an Arab Sheik. 
The name of this last acquisition is Kramakan.— 
It lies north of Perim, near the Arabian shore, and 
it is said to be almost wholly surrounded by sub¬ 
marine banks, rendering it easy of defence. 
Personal and Political 
Mr. Letcher, of Virginia, is too ill to take the 
stump in his candidacy for Governor. 
The Anti-Douglas Democracy of Illinois have is¬ 
sued a circular announcing that they will elect del¬ 
egates to the Charleston Convention, in opposition 
to the Douglas faction. 
A General Convention of the colored voters of 
New England has been called to meet in Boston on 
the 1st ot August, to take action in reference to the 
Presidential campaign of I860. 
The Democrats have called their State Conven¬ 
tion in Ohio for the last week in May, and the Re¬ 
publicans early in June. 
Mr. Phillip Clayton is appointed acting Secre¬ 
tary of the Treasury duriDg the absence of Secro¬ 
tary Cobb, who left on Tuesday week for Georgia. 
Senr. Mata, the new Mexican Minister, has ar¬ 
rived at Washington, and will be presented im¬ 
mediately. 
Dr. Acklet, of Cleveland, a distinguished phy¬ 
sician of the West, died in Cleveland, on the 24th, 
after a very brief illness. Dr. Ackley was one of 
the founders of the Willoughby Medical College, 
now located at Cleveland. He was a man of emi¬ 
nent ability, and ranked among the first in his pro¬ 
fession. He was formerly a resident of Rochester. 
Mu. Bibb, who died at Washington on the 14th 
ult., was a National Senator nearly 50 years ago, 
in 1811, and was active as a politician before Jef¬ 
ferson was President. He had been forgotten, and 
the announcement of his death was to most persons 
the first they knew that he had not been long in his 
grave. He was one of President Tyler’s army of 
cabinet officers—for if that gentleman’s party 
could have been got into an omnibus, it is certain 
that the ark might have served to accommodate his 
constitutional advisers — whose advice he rarely 
followed. 
Mr. Forsyth, ex-Minister to Mexico, in a letter 
to some friends at Columbus, Ga., who had invited 
him to a public dinner, explains the failure of his 
mission by laying the blame on President Buchan¬ 
an. Under the Pierce administration, Mr. F. had 
concluded a Convention by which commercial in¬ 
tercourse with Mexico would have been largely in¬ 
creased, American colonization encouraged, public 
safety secured, and the country gradually Ameri¬ 
canized by a natural, easy and peaceful process.— 
This Convention waspending when Mr. Buchanan 
came into power. It was rejected, but the Admin¬ 
istration never furnished him with any form or 
outline of its Mexican policy; and he adds, truly 
enough, that it had none. It approved in express 
and flattering terms of every step he took but fail¬ 
ed to sustain him in his views and measures. If 
he had been praised less, and supported more, he 
thinks bis usefulness might have been greater. 
Excitin?- News from Utah. 
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The news by the UtSn mail represents the affairs 
of that Territory as fearing a very threatening 
ty of the federal court ^ministering justice. Judge 
Cradlebaugh, on the occasion of discharging the 
grand and traverse juries, charged the Mormons 
with obstructing the officers of the Court, and sup¬ 
pressing testimony, and refusing to make pro¬ 
visions for the confinement and maintenance of the 
prisoners. 
Owing to the excited state of popular feeliDg, 
about 1,000 men moved frog? Camp Floyd, and eu- 
camped near Provo. Gov. Cumming issued a 
proclamation taking ground with the Mormon sen¬ 
timent. It is not stated whether he demanded the 
withdrawal of the troops from Provo, but by his 
action he has laid himself open to the charge of 
complicity with the Mormon theocracy. Much bad 
feeling exists between the troops and the Mormons, 
though the former stationed at Provo behaved with 
remarkable forbearance. A collision is imminent. 
The Utah correspondent of the St. Louis Repub¬ 
lican, writing about the affairs of that Territory, 
says that things are in a worse condition than ever 
before. After the advent of the army, the feeling 
reached the culminating point, and we are on the 
eve of open hostilities. The writer also says that 
there is a difference between General Johnston and 
Governor Cumming in relation to their respective 
powers, and an open division and rupture between 
the Executive and Judiciary. The misunderstand¬ 
ing between Gov. C. and Gen. J., seems to have 
grown out of the refusal of the latter to withdraw 
the troops from Provo, sent there under a requisi¬ 
tion of the Court to protect witnesses. 
The Deseret News has published a memorial 
from the people to Gov. Cumming, attempting to 
prove the illegality of Judge Cradlebaugh’s hold¬ 
ing Court at Provo. It also severely criticises the 
Judge’s course, and accuses him of setting himself 
up against the civil authorities of the Territory.— 
It also charges him with a settled purpose to force 
a collision between the people of the Territory and 
the troops. The Mormons regard President Bu¬ 
chanan’s proclamation as exempting parties from 
arrest for past offences. 
Liberian Intelligence. —The Liberian brig E. 
M. Rogers, Captain Alexander, arrived at New 
York on the 28th ult., from Monrovia, which port 
she left on the 15th of March. This is the first 
vessel belonging to Liberian merchants which has 
arrived at that port. When she left, everything 
was going on favorably, and the prospects were 
pleasant. Among the public acts passed by the 
Legislature is one prohibiting enlistment of na¬ 
tive African emigrants. The Liberia Herald ex¬ 
presses its satisfaction at the appointment of the 
Rev. John Seys in place of the late Dr. Forney.— 
Dr. F., American Commercial Agent for Liberia, 
died at Monrovia on the 9th of February. Chief 
Justice Day died at Monrovia on the 15th of Feb¬ 
ruary, in the 62d year of his age. 
Mormon Exodus from Denmark.— Over four 
hundred Danish Mormons left Flensburg on the 
2d inst., in the steamship L. L. Hoidt, bound for 
Hull, England, where they would embark for the 
United States. Their destination is the Great Salt 
Lake. The men were mainly youDg and robust, 
while the women seemed somewhat more advanced 
in years, and many of them had infants in their 
arms. 
News Jkragrapljs. 
The Charleston Mercury says that the jury ac¬ 
quitted the men of the Echo slaver, because they 
considered the foreign slave trade no more a crime 
than the domestic trade, and that further prosecu¬ 
tions at the South will be idle, expensive and vain. 
A draft for the $10,000 awarded by Paraguay 
as indemnification to the family of the seaman 
killed on the Water-Witch, by a shot from the fort, 
has been received at the State Department in Wash¬ 
ington. 
A Frazer River correspondent writes to a Cali¬ 
fornia paper:—“ We had a splendid dinner on New 
Year’s day. This is the bill of fareFirst course, 
bean soup ; second course, boiled beans; then some 
baked beans, with frijolis plain ; then fried beans, 
frijolis guisados oon mantaca. Desert—coffee and 
beans.” 
Four hundred Allopathic doctors in Paris ate a 
three dollar dinner, on the 29th of March, in honor 
of their triumph over the Homceopathists, in a trial 
before the French Courts. 
Genio C. Scott says that the sweeping machines 
of the Broadway sidewalks, are “ thirty yards of 
eight dollar silk, mounted on a reticulated frame 
of whalebone and steel.” 
The American ship Florence, of 1,000 tuns, has 
arrived in the London docks, from Japan, with a 
cargo consisting chiefly of vegetable wax. This is 
the first cargo from that country. 
The Legislative Council of Canada have taken a i 
firm stand against death-bed bequests — enacting 
that no bequests will be valid if made within six 
months of the testator’s death. 
Baron Humboldt, the confidential adviser of the 
Prince Regent of Prussia, writes to a diplomatic 
correspondent at Washington, that war cannot be 
postponed beyond July. 
The Vicksburgli papers state that card playing 
among steamboat travelers in the West has dimin¬ 
ished fully one-half within the past year, and its 
place has been supplied by chess. This is a good 
move. 
Southern papers state that recruiting agents 
are traveling through the South, endeavoring to 
enlist men for an expedition against Cuba, and in 
many instances with considerable success. The 
Augusta (Ga.) Dispatch says that a number of 
worthy young men in that town are inclined to try 
their fortunes in this way, and warns them to re¬ 
member the fate of Lopez, Crittenden and their 
companions. 
The National Treasury is in better condition 
than was anticipated. The receipts from import 
revenues are large, the balance of trade against 
this country since the 1st of January being about 
forty-five millions. No Treasury notes have been 
issued as yet, and Secretary Cobb will withhold 
them so long as his receipts continue as full as at 
present. 
The flood in the valley of the Lower Mississippi 
is almost unprecedented, and immense damage has 
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Under the act of Congress of 1856, some fifty or 
sixty guano islands in the Pacific ocean have been 
taken possession of by Americans. Six of them are 
known to have large and valuable deposits of guano, 
and this is believed to be the case with twenty. Of 
the others little is known. 
Important Mexican News. 
The steamer Tennessee, which arrived at New 
Orleans on the 26th ult., brought advices from 
Vera Cruz to the 22d, and from the City of Mexico 
to the 19th of April. The news is of great interest, 
and indicates a very decided change in the aspect 
of affairs in Mexico. Gen. Miramon had succeeded 
in forcing the lines of the Liberal Generals Ampu- 
dia and Llave at Orizaba, and had hastened forward 
to the Capital, which city he reached on the 11th, 
with a diminished army. The victorious general 
had already commenced the work of slaughter, 
and was murdering peaceable foreigners indis¬ 
criminately. He had also issued a formal protest 
against the recognition of the Juarez government. 
Ttie Exequatur of Mr. Black, the American Con¬ 
sul General, had been withdrawn, and he banished 
from the country. 
Mazatlan had been captured by Pasquira. The 
English were threatening that place, and the other 
Mexican Pacific ports, and demanding payment of 
claims against them. At Yera Cruz, too, matters 
are approaching a crisis. The British Ministers 
had insisted on the full payment of all the claims 
of his countrymen, and had instructed the com¬ 
mander of the English fleet at Vera Cruz to de¬ 
mand $16,500,000 from the custom house in that 
city—and in case of refusal, to hi nba - d the city. 
Juarez had withdrawn the Exequatur of the 
Spanish Consul at Vera Cruz. 
Pike’s Peak Fillibusterism. — Advices from 
Leavenworth confirm previous statements of a 
secret movement at Pike’s Peak for a descent upon 
Mexico. Agents of this movement are at Leaven¬ 
worth and other points, urging forward the migra¬ 
tion to the gold regions in order to have at Pike’s 
Peak sufficient material for their purposes. The 
leaders base their hopes on anticipated develop¬ 
ments in the gold country, and the probable dis¬ 
satisfaction of great numbers with their prospects 
at the mines. The plan of the leaders is not yet 
fully developed, but it embraces, it is said, first, a 
descend upon Sonora, and afterwards upon Du¬ 
rango and Chihuahua. Ten thousand emigrants 
have already left different points on the Missouri 
for Pike’s Peak. 
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Continued Shipment of Silver to India and 
China.— The stimulus which the increase of Eu¬ 
ropean trade has given to industry in India and 
China, and the consequent increase of the value of 
labor there, which, though adding but a few cents a 
day to the wages of the natives, in the aggregate, 
among so many millions of people, reaches a great 
sum, causes the draw of silver from England and 
the Continent to continue on an enormous scale.— 
The last fortnightly steamer for Calcutta and Hong 
Kong from Southampton took out about $5,000,000. 
The place of silver in the circulating money of 
Europe is supplied by gold. 
Stye 3fcro3 Conbcnscr. 
— The population of Ohio la 2,300,000. 
— The tax levy for Boston this year is $3,055,030. 
— A large bank defalcation has been discovered in 
St. Louis. 
— A hospital for sick children is to bo established in 
Edinburgh. 
— The project for a daily religious paper in New York 
has been abandoned. 
— Do Tocqneville, the distinguished French author, 
died recently in Paris. 
— The Millerites of Newark, N. J., are hourly looking 
for the end of the world. 
— James Buchanan, President of the U. 8., was 63 
years old on Saturday, the 23d ult 
— There have been four hundred cases of measles at 
Niles, Mich., within the past four months. 
— Mathew Gilroy died at Deerfield, Oneida Co., N. 
Y., on Monday week, at the age of 105 years. 
— A bill to prohibit the marriage of white and black 
persons has passed the Wisconsin legislature. 
— Eighteen thousand herrings were caught, on Mon¬ 
day week, at Squawbetty, near Taunton, Mass. 
— Steamboat navigation has been resumed on the St 
Lawrence river between Montreal and Quebec. 
— The first daily paper issued in Virginia was in 
1730, the annual subscription to which was $50. 
— The Camanches have killed several families ia 
Denton Co., Texas, and run ofi with their stock. 
— The San Antonio Texan states that Gen. Twiggs 
has been dangerously ill, but is slowly recovering. 
— Our Texas exchanges are talking of dishes of straw¬ 
berries and cream, and “corn waving, breast high.” 
— Fifty men succeeded in killing a bear at Chittenden, 
Vt, on Wednesday week, that weighed 360 pounds. 
— Letter writers from the Continent give it as their 
opinion that war cannot be delayed longer than July. 
— The Savannah Republican says that a vessel is 
now loading at that port with lumber for Beirut, Syria. 
— A correspondent writing from Leavenworth, Kan¬ 
sas, abbreviates the name of that town thus—“ 11 worth.” 
— General Sir Willian Eyro has tendered his resig¬ 
nation as commander-in-chief of the forces in Canada. 
— A special committee of the Lower House of the 
Canadian Parliament have reported a prohibitory liquor 
law. 
— In Florida, a town known by tho ambitious name 
of “ Enterprise,” consists of a hotel and a nine-pin 
alley. 
— Quite an excitement has been started in Danby, 
VL, by the discovery of gold on the banks of the White- 
brook. 
— Since 1839, six persons have been convicted of 
murder in Vermont, but no executions have taken 
place. 
— Two agents of the Ilayticn Government are in St. 
Louis to promote the emigration of free negroes to that 
country. 
— Statistics show that within the last twenty years 
thirteen steamships with three thousand persons havo 
been lost. 
— A Galveston paper says that Liverpool letters com¬ 
plain strongly about cheating in the packing of cotton 
inj^as. 
first Episcopal Church in Kansas has been 
consecrated at Leavenworth by Bishop Kemper, of 
Wisconsin. 
— Lake Pepin is now open for navigation. The first 
boat from St. Paul, Min., arrived at La Crosse, Wis., on 
the 23d ult. 
- The Stamford Mercury, in England, has been pub¬ 
lished, without interruption, for one hundred and sixty - 
threo years. 
- It is said by many of the Western papers, that 
prices of lumber will rule unusually high throughoutthc 
coming season. 
— A son of Samuel Short, of Newburyport, came to 
his death last week, In consequence of swallowing a 
percussion cap. 
- A family of nine persons were murdered recently, 
In the vicinity of Cooper's Camp, Texas, by a band of 
Caddo Indians. 
— Miss Burdetts Couts has endowed the bishopric of 
British Columbia with the sum of twenty-five thousand 
pounds sterling. 
— An arrival at Baltimore reports the death of Mr. 
Morush, United States Consul to Trinidad. lie died on 
the 1st of March. 
— A gentleman recently from England brought two 
dozen English sparrows, three pairs of which he loosed 
in Portland, Maine. 
—Mr. Jessie Trammel, who is one hundred years old, 
served the whole of last week as a juryman in the Court 
at Greenville, S. C. 
— The Gloucester (Mass.) Telegraph says that at a 
wedding which took place in that town lately, there 
were 62 cousins present 
— Rev. Dr. Richards, recently deceased at Hanover, 
N. H., left manuscript sketches of nearly all the gradu¬ 
ates of Dartmouth College. 
— A rich deposit of zinc ore, extending over a large 
area of ground, has been discovered in East Penn 
township, Carbon Co., Pa. 
— In Illinois some $700,000 are lyiDg under protest 
because the banks refuse to redeem their bills with any¬ 
thing but small silver coin. 
— The Steuben Co. (Ind.) Republican reports the di¬ 
vorce of about twenty couples at the late term of the 
Circuit Court in that county. 
— The London Police includes a force of 6,139 men, 
and the total expense of the last year was nearly two 
milliuD and a half of dollars. 
— Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has consented to occupy 
the desk of the society of Rev. Theodore Parker, Bos¬ 
ton, some time during the summer. 
— Elder Joel Hudson, of Geneseo, a respected ok 
gentleman of 88, and a resident in the Genesee Valle 
for 50 years, died on Tuesday week. 
— A La Porte, Sierra Co., California paper meutioi 
a snow storm which lasted three weeks, and leftfic 
15 to 20. feet of snow on the gronnd. 
— Some of the London papers now assert that Li 
Cowley went to Vienna as a peacemaker, at the urg 
request of the Emperor of the French. 
— A Ballimo-e paper says that there are three set 
harnesses, two carriages, and a double and single bu 
in preparation there for Louis Napoleon. 
— A disturbance occurred among the students o 0 
Georgia Military Academy a few days ago, which Ti¬ 
ed in the dismissal of the entire senior class. 
_The New Orleans Crescent estimates the prod 
the cane crop for 1858 at 650,000 hogsheads of sug.- 
450,000 barrels of molasses, valued at $24,000,000. 
_A large Bengal tiger, which was lately exl* 4e 
at Philadelphia, died on the 12th. ne was M lnest 
specimen ev er seen in this country and valued at ’ , 
