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ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 24, 1858. 
News of the Week. 
The note of Gen. Cass to Lord Napier, relative 
to the Slave Trade, has come before the House as 
an official document The General communicates 
to the British Minister the views of our govern¬ 
ment at length, commenting with severity upon 
the Coolie trade and the laws of England relating 
thereto, and also animadverting on the African 
apprentice system of France. He regrets the abuse 
of the American flag by vessels not entitled to claim 
its protection, but does not admit that our govern¬ 
ment is responsible for this abuse to a greater ex¬ 
tent than it has employed its efforts to prevent it. 
He also refuses to acknowledge that we are bound 
to add another vessel to our African squadron, and 
reviewing the treaty stipulations, contends that we 
have fully complied with them in letter and spirit 
A general order has been issued by the Com- 
mander-in-Chief, directing particularly the move¬ 
ments of troops from the barracks at Newport, 
Jefferson and Carlisle, and from the forts Columbus 
and Randal, for Utah, at the earliest notiee. Gen. 
Smith is appointed to the command of the Depart¬ 
ment of Utah. Brig. Gens. Harney and Johnston 
to command according to their brevet ranks. The 
greater portion of the troops destined for Utali will 
be concentrated at Ft Leavenworth, to be ready to 
leave on the arrival of Gen. Smith. 
Frightful consequences are likely to ensue along 
the Lower Mississippi, which is new higher in some 
places than ever before known, by the accession of 
the combined floods from tbe upper rivers running 
into tbe Mississippi, which are rising from St. Paul 
down. The Missouri and Illinois rivers are both 
high and rising, and all their tributaries are at flood 
height The high water Is occasioned by the heavy 
rains which have extended through the whole 
western and north-western country. The usua^ 
spring mountain rise has not yet taken place, and 
should it do so before the present flood subsides, 
the whole lower country doubtless will be inun¬ 
dated. By telegraph from New Orleans, we learn 
that the river continues very high, and has run 
over the levees in several places on the side of the 
river near the city, but all have been repaired. On 
the opposite side the water is overflowing the plan¬ 
tations. Other crevasses are reported above, doing 
much damage. 
Concerning the funeral of Col. Benton, we have 
the following dispatch from St Louis, on the 10th 
inst.:—“At 10 o’clock this morning, the remains of 
Col. Benton were conveyed to the Second Presby¬ 
terian Church, where the funeral ceremonies were 
performed by Rev. Mr. Cordon, assisted by Rev. 
Dr. Anderson and Rev. Mr. Brooks. When the 
services were over, the body was placed in the 
hearse, and was followed to the Bellefontaine Cem- 
etry by the most impossing procession ever formed 
in St. Louis. It consisted of the relatives and 
friends of the deceased, all the military companies 
of the city, 7tli regiment U. S. Infantry, the Judges 
of the Courts, members of the Bar and City Govern¬ 
ment, a large number of the benevolent societies, 
the,Turner’s Association, and an immense con¬ 
course of citizens in carriages and on foot The 
cortege was forty-five minutes in passing a given 
point. The body of McDowell Jones, the grand¬ 
child of CoL B., was conveyed to tbe tomb at the 
same time.” 
Tue WnEAT Crop in Illinois. —The editor of 
the St Louis Republican is informed by a gentleman 
who has traveled in the counties of Illinois lying 
on tbe Chicago and St Louis, Great Western, Illi¬ 
nois Central, and Ohio and Mississippi Railroads, 
that the wheat crop looks more promising than in 
any Spring for the last ten years. It is well up, 
covers the ground well, is well set, good color, and 
the number of acres of it is prodigious. The 
Chester (Ill.) Herald of tbe 25th ult, reports the 
most cheering news of the wheat crop in that sec¬ 
tion. It says the prospect is almost fabulous,—the 
wheat stands unusually thick upon the ground, 
seems finely rooted, and presents a very green, 
luxurious color. The Bellville Advocate gives the 
like account of tbe prospects of the wheat in that 
vicinity. That paper of the 2Gth ult says:—“The 
farmers inform us that the prospect of a first rate 
crop of wheat is most excellent. We expect to 
astonish all our cotemporaries again next fall, with 
statements of the large yields per acre.” 
Commerce of New York.— 1 The foreign imports 
at New York for the first quarter of the current 
year (three months ending March 21st) are $37,622,- 
264 less than for the same period in 1857, and $22,- 
820,841 less than for the same period in 1856. The 
exports for the three months (exclusive of specie) 
are $5,794,671 less than for the corresponding 
quarter of 1857, and $5,776,507 less than for the 
same period of 1856. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —A re-consideration of the vote on the 
$3,800,000 Canal Loan bill, was moved and carried. 
On the final vote the bill was rejected—ayes 12, 
nays 16. 
Bills Passed. —The Supply bill; providing for 
the support of the Government by imposing one 
and a quarter mill tax; instructing Prof. Bache to 
complete the map of New York Harbor and lands 
adjacent; impose a half-mill tax to pay interest on 
Canal debt; relative to suits againBt the corpora¬ 
tion of the city of New York; appropriating $30,- 
000 for the removal of obstructions from the outlet 
of Cayuga lake and Seneca river; the Canal Boat 
Lien Registry bill; the Chemung Canal Lock bill 
Concurrent resolutions requesting the members 
of Congress to vote for a grant of lands to construct 
a Ship Canal around the Falls of Niagara, were 
passed. 
The bill to Toll Railroads was indefinitely post¬ 
poned in the Senate, by a vote of 20 to 11. 
The joint resolution agreeing to the reduction of 
Canal Tolls, was unanimously adopted, and also the 
reduction of tolls on stoves. 
The hundred days for which the members of the 
Legislature receive pay, expired on Thursday, the 
15th inst, and the business was far from finished. 
Under these circumstances, the two Houses donat¬ 
ed three days to the weal of the people, and ad¬ 
journed sine die on the night of the 19th. Owing 
to the confusion consequent upon this hurried state 
of affairs, many important bills were not reached, 
while those that were acted upon were pushed 
through in a crude state. 
Assembly. — Bills Passed. — The bill relative to 
grants of land under water in the city of New York; 
to amend the Brooklyn Water act; imposing a tax 
of a mill to provide means for the support of gov¬ 
ernment, and ahalf mill tax to provide for payment 
of the interest on the Canal debt; the Supply bill, 
as amended by the Senate; to prevent frauds in 
local assessments; relative to the jurisdiction of 
the Marine Court of New York. 
The House non-concurred in tbe Senate’s amend¬ 
ments to the General Appropriation bill, not receiv¬ 
ing a two-thirds vote. 
The Senate resolution requesting Prof. Bache to 
continue his drafts of his maps of the Harbor of 
New York, also, in favor of a grant of land from the 
General Government to the Niagara Ship Canal, 
were concurred in. 
A vote of thanks to the Clerks, offered by Mr. 
Van Valkenburgh, was agreed to. Adjourned. 
Weather for the First Half of April. —The 
heat of the latter part of March had brought for¬ 
ward vegetation, so that the buds were much en¬ 
larged, and some blooms were put forth, as well as 
the flowers of the soft maple, poplar, and common 
elm. The first week in April extended these results 
very much, as the thermometer showed a heat rang¬ 
ing at noon fr.om 63° to 70°. The drouth had 
begun to be felt considerably, and the cold of the 
second week made a very considerable check on 
this progress. The flowers of our great variety of 
fruit trees can be too early, so as to be likely to 
meet with frosts in the last of April or beginning 
of May. Tbe rain of tlie 12th and 13th was a great 
benefit, and the temperature rose. The promise is 
fine again. The average heat of this half of April 
is 45.7°, or 5° above the average for 21 years. The 
hottest day was the 4th, 76°, and the coldest was on 
the 7th, 27°, on which was the lowest mean, 30°. 
The operations of gardening began in March, as 
it is said they occurred in the early days of the 
city, and have been much extended in this half of 
April. 
The evening of April 10th, showed us a fine Au¬ 
rora Borealis. The old moon in the young moon's 
arms, attracted much attention on the evening of 
the 15th, as some imagined the arms of the new 
moon to be uncommonly full, even to overflowing. 
The arms or cusps of the new moon were very 
much turned upwards, as the weather-mopers say, 
a dry moon. Look out for this, but do not forget 
that the position of the cusps or horns depends 
upon the relative places of the sun, moon, and 
earth.—C. D., April 16,1858. 
From British Honduras and Venezuela. —De¬ 
tails of the recent Indian massacres in British Hon¬ 
duras are received. When the Indians took the 
town of Beccalaw, they killed over 5,00 persons 
and captured forty, of whom thirty are women.— 
They were subsequently massacred in cold blood. 
Dates are received from Maracaibo to April 1st. 
The Monagas government was overthrown in that 
province on the 21st ult., without bloodshed. 
Advices from Caraccas to the 31st of March, 
state that a provisional government had been in¬ 
augurated, which had demanded of the French 
Consul the surrender of the Monagas family, who 
had taken refuge with him. They were surrendered 
and are in confinement It is said they have de¬ 
posited at the French Legation 1,000,000 in gold. 
Gen. Castro had decided on the removal of all em¬ 
ployees of the late government It is said that the 
U. S. Consul nailed his flag over the door of the 
French Consul, in conjunction with that of Spain, 
Denmark and Brazil, threatening to haul it down 
and demand his passports, if any attempts were 
made to arrest the Monagas, then at the Legation. 
Horses for England. —The N. Y. Spirit of the 
Times, says that “ R. Ten Broeck, Esq., on the 7th 
inst, sent out to England, in the City of Baltimore, 
the race-horse Charleston, by Imp. Sovereign, out 
of Millwood by Imp. Monarch, five years old, and 
some carriage horses for his private use. We hope 
English handicappers will examine Charleston, and 
judge of his merits as they find him, and not be 
swayed by what may be said of what he has done. 
He has not been fit to run a race since March ’57, 
and may prove a far inferior horse to what his 
early performances seemed to warrant us in be¬ 
lieving him.” 
Regent of the University. — The Legislature 
on Thursday week elected William Cullen Bryant, 
a Regent of the University, in place of Hon. John 
Greig, deceased. The vote stood, in joint meeting, 
for Mr. Bryant 68, for Isaac McConhie 47, Addison 
I Gardiner 1, &c. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —The Vice-President presented a memo¬ 
rial of the Legislature of Utah setting forth their 
grievances. It is semi-defiant in style. Laid on 
the table—32 to 31. 
Mr. Fessenden, of Me., offered a resolution re¬ 
quiring the Secretary of War to give information 
respecting all contracts for supplies to the army in 
Utah, which have been made without public notice. 
Agreed to. 
The Pacific Railroad Bill was laid over until 
December next 
The Secretary of War transmitted, in reply to a 
resolution, information of the Utah contracts en¬ 
tered into without the special authorization of 
Congress. 
Bills passed, —On motion of Mr. Seward, the bill 
repealing the 5th section of the Registry Act of 
March 3d, 1825. 
On motion of Mr. Hunter, the Diplomatic and 
Consular appropriation till. 
House. —The House went into committee on the 
bill to establish an auxiliary guard for the protec¬ 
tion of life and property in Washington. 
The committee rose and the House took up the 
Kansas bill. A message from the Senate insisting 
on its disagreement, and asking committee of con¬ 
ference, was read. 
Mr. Montgomery moved that the House insist on 
its adherence, and demanded the previous question. 
Ayes, 108; nays, 107: the Speaker voted in the 
negative which made a tie, and the question was 
lost 
Mr. English,|that he might not be misunderstood, 
said he was opposed to the Senate bill in its present 
shape; but, notwithstanding this, he was willing 
to hear what the Senate had to say, and was in 
favor of the appointment of a Committee of Con¬ 
ference. He could not see that any harm would 
result from it, and therefore he moved that the 
House agree to a Committee of Conference on the 
subject matter of the disagreeing votes, and that 
three Managers be appointed on the part of the 
House. On this proposition, he called for the 
previous question. The vote stood yeas 108; 
nays, 108—a tie. The Chair then voted in the 
affirmative, and so Mr. English’s proposition was 
agreed to. 
Decayed Aristocrats. — The London Court 
Journal, of recent date, contains the following in¬ 
teresting item:—“A curious study has been made 
concerning the decay of some great European 
families, and the result is most ridiculous and sub¬ 
lime. A Duchess de Saint Simon is a femme de 
menage at Bellville. The heir of the last Doge of 
Venice is a perfumer at Saint Dennis. The keys of 
Venice, gilt with care, confided to the hereditary 
keeping of the family, repose beneath a glass shade 
on the mantle-piece in his back shop. The Captal 
de Buch, an unique title, one of the noblest in 
France, is a little actor on little wages at the little 
theater of Beaumarchais, and the grand-daughter 
of a Duchess de San Severino works by the day at 
a fashionable milliners. We may add to the above 
that tbe sole descendant of the beautiful Aisse who 
was asked in marriage by tbe Prince de Conde, 
earns a pitiful living at Challot” 
Yellow Fever in New York. —The U. S. frigate 
Susquehanna arrived at New York on the 16th inst, 
with yellow fever on board. The fever first made 
its appearance March 19 th, while lying in Grey town. 
The Susquehanna immediately put to sea, intending 
to proceed to Pensacola, but being short of coal 
and medical stores, she put into Jamaca. Before 
her arrival at Kingston, the disease became epi¬ 
demic, and before reaching port she had 155 cases! 
Six officers and 57 of the erew were placed in 
hospitals at Kingston, where most prompt and effi¬ 
cient efforts for their relief were accorded by the 
British naval and medical officers. There have 
been 17 deaths, and there are now some 40 cases on 
board, generally of a mild form. 
First Settlement in Ohio. — The N. Y. Evening 
Post says it was seventy-one years ago on the 7th 
inst, since the emigrant party from New Hamp¬ 
shire landed in Marietta, Ohio. This was the first 
permanent settlement of white inhabitants in that 
Territory. Among those who went with the infant 
colony were Gen. Lewis Cass, Ex-Governor Wood- 
bridge,-of Michigan, and Dr. Hildreth. Ohio has 
now 2,500,000 people, industrious, enterprising and 
intelligent She has $850,000,000 of taxable prop¬ 
erty; $3,500,000 in school houses; and an annual 
school tax for the education of all her children, of 
$2,500,000, and more miles of canal and railroad 
than any State in the Union. 
Old and Young Must Go. —The National Intelli¬ 
gencer says:—“It is a curious and affecting circum¬ 
stance, that the youngest and the oldest of the 
family should have died within a few hourB of each 
other, under the same roof. An infant grandson 
of Col. Benton, the child of Mr. William Carey 
Jones, died in the house of his grandfather yester¬ 
day morning, and the nurseling and the grandsire 
now lie side by side in death on the same bier. 
The remains of both were placed in the railroad 
cars on Monday afternoon, on their way to SL 
Louis for interment.” 
Direct Trade Between England and the 
Pacific. —Arrangements have been made by the 
British Government for the opening of the chan¬ 
nel of communication with its Pacific squadron 
via Panama, and men and material are already on 
their way to the Pacific on the new route. An ar¬ 
rangement has also been made between the Liver¬ 
pool and the London Steam Navigation Companies, 
and the Panama Railroad Company of New York, 
by which through bills of lading will be given for 
merchandize, &c., destined for the Pacific. 
The London correspondent of the Commercial 
Advertiser states that on the 1st of April, George 
Peabody & Co., repaid to the Bank of England, in 
full, all the money borrowed of that institution 
during the crisis in November, although it would 
not have become due until August. At the same 
time, the firm cancelled the remainder of the 
credit unused, and released all the securities given 
by them to the bank. 
Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven 
Years Explorations aad Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, 
the Kirghiz Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and part of Cen¬ 
tral Asia. By Thomas Witlam Atkinson. With a Map 
and numerous Illustrations. New York: Harper & 
Bro’s.—1858. 
In a large and handsome octavo volume, comprising 533 
pages, the author furnishes a narrative of rare interest 
and value. The object of his journey in the outset was 
to sketch the scenery of Siberia, scarcely at all known to 
Europeans or Americans, without any intention of pub¬ 
lishing either a book of Travels or any other work. The 
author’s explorations lasted seven years, during which he 
travered a distance of about 39,500 miles, in regions rarely 
or never before visited by any European. This work pro¬ 
fesses to be only a simple narrative of facts, “ taken from 
journals kept with scrupulous care during the whole 
journey, often under the influence of great fatigue, and 
amid the pressure of numerous difficulties.” Albeit he 
often suffered from hunger and thirst—was placed in 
many critical situations—several times looked upon what 
appeared inevitable death—and had a fair allowance of 
hair-breadth escapes when riding and sketching on the 
brinks of precipices with a perpendicular depth of 1,500 
feet below him—our artist-author traversed much of the 
hitherto unexplored regions of Central Asia, and produced 
560 sketches of the scenery. The passport of the late 
Emperor of Russia proved a talisman wherever presented 
in his dominions, and enabled the author to surmount 
every obstacle raised to bar his progress—and finally to 
produce an unusually interesting and valuable book of 
travels. Sold by Dewey. 
The Lost Daughter— and other Stories of the Heart.— 
By Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz. Phila.— T. B. Peterson. 
This volume of 308 pages comprises ten Sketches by 
one of the most popular and lovely female writers Ameri¬ 
ca has produced. They are entitled—The Lost Daughter; 
The Maiden of Judea; The Pea-Green Taffeta; The Pur¬ 
ple Satin Dress; The Bed Velvet Bodice; The Snow Flakes; 
The Soldier's Bride; De Lara’s Bride; The Premature 
Declaration of Love; Aunt Patty’s Scrap Bag. Sold by 
Dewey. 
Lucy Howard’s Journal. By Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.— 
“We want a history of Firesides.”— Webster. New 
York: Harper & Bro’s. 
It is safe to endorse any work from the pen of Mrs. 
Sigourney, even without perusal, — but we have read 
sufficiently in this volume to be enabled to commend it, 
especially to females and all who admire the best traits of 
domestic life or inner habitudes of New Englanders during 
the last half century. For sale by Dewey. 
Sartarok: A Tale of Norway. By Jas. A. Maitland, 
author of “ The Watchman,” “ The Wanderer,” etc., etc. 
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Bro’s. 
From the reputation of the author, it is inferred—for 
we have not perused the volume—that this is a work of 
some interest and merit. The noise which has been made 
relative to its commendation by Washington Irving, has 
attracted considerable attention, and will undoubtedly 
give it wider circulation and popularity than it would 
otherwise have attained. 
The Atlantic Monthly. Devoted to Literature. Art 
and Politics. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.—$3 per 
annum. 
The Atlantic has been published only six months, yet 
in this comparatively brief period it has attained a popu¬ 
larity and success which places it in the very front rank. 
Indeed, in originality, ability and independence, it is al¬ 
ready the Napoleon of American Magazines, and is evi¬ 
dently destined to achieve a position, and wield an influ¬ 
ence upon our literature, never yet reached or exercised 
by any periodical ir this country. The monthly contribu¬ 
tions of Dr. O. W. Holmes, under the title of “ The 
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” are alone worth far 
more than the subscription price of the work. We rejoice 
at the success of the Atlantic, and commend it to the 
thoughtful and discriminating of all classes. 
At Oswego there are ten elevators, independent 
of the mills, with combined storage accommoda¬ 
tions for 2,330,000 bushels. There are sixteen 
mills, which are capable of making 8,500 barrels of 
flour per day. The elevators, attached exclusively 
to the mills, can deliver 12,400 bushels per hour.— 
The elevators at the grain stores can deliver 37,500 
bushels per hour. 
The Caucase states that within the memory of 
man so much snow has not fallen in the mountains 
of the Caucasus in any winter as during the present 
year. The village of Sabaltmia, near Kutais, has 
been completely buried; twelve houses were crush¬ 
ed by avalanches from the mountains, and seven¬ 
teen persons killed. 
A Commission in the Cortes has just examined 
the financial condition of Spain, and it has found 
that the national debt amounts to upwards of four¬ 
teen milliards of reals, or about 140 millions ster¬ 
ling. 
The plow, the press, and the Yankee are hound 
to go together around the world. When the last 
makes a “claim,” he begins by guiding the first 
and setting up the second. 
Miss Sarah Pellet, the reformer, has turned 
up again; she proposes to forward to California a 
consignment of five thousand marriageable girls 
from the New England States. They are to be con¬ 
signed to the various Divisions of the Sons of Tem¬ 
perance, who are to provide for all their wants, 
husbands included. 
Such quantities of steel are being turned out by 
a Connecticut firm for tbe manufacture of ladies’ 
hooped skirts, that the railway train which for¬ 
wards the weekly instalment to the factory in New 
York is ycleped the “hoop train,” and of course 
regarded with more than ordinary consideration. 
The “ Stuyvesant pear tree,” which stands at the 
corner of Third Avenue and Thirteenth Streets, 
New York, is again in bud. It wa3 planted in 1647, 
211 years ago. 
Advices from Walla Walla, on the Columbia 
river, state that the Mormon settlements in that 
region are being broken up, and the Mormons 
leaving for Salt Lake. 
Official documents have been discovered in 
Canton, in which it appears that Yeh, during the 
short period of three months, put to death no less 
than the enormous number of 20,000 human beings. 
This a fact beyond doubt* the documents taken 
showing the name of every man and woman, and 
for what they were executed. 
Starch Manufacturers are in trouble, and de¬ 
spond of business success. Where in times past 
they found ready sale for their manufactures, the 
article is now a drug. This change is attributed to 
the general use of crinoline and the hoops—starch 
being no longer necessary to produce expansion. 
$lw pc us CundcnscL 
—The King of Prussia has become stark mad. 
— Lowell has over nineteen miles of girls end¬ 
wise. 
— Pennsylvania is about to offer a regiment for 
Utah. 
— The beech trees are in full bloom in Southern 
Illinois. 
— The Yankees now shoe their hens to save their 
gardens. 
—A Normal School is about to be established in 
New Orleans. 
— An Insurance Company in Baltimore now 
takes risks on rents. 
—Three pianos have been made from the wood 
of the Charter Oak. 
—They had 4198 arrests in Boston during the 
first quarter of 1858. 
—George P. Morris, the poet, is spoken of for 
U. S. consul to London. 
— The Russian Navy is to be manned fully, and 
ship building increased. 
— There are 451 peers entitled to seats in the 
British House of Lords. 
— The War Department has been offered ten 
regiments of volunteers. 
—Counterfeit one dollar hills are in circulation 
on the Bank of Chemung. 
—The New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern 
Railroad, is just completed. 
— The business transactions of Alton, for the 
last year, foot to $16,000,000. 
— There are 50 churches in London, whose ave¬ 
rage attendence are only 33. 
— In Montreal, prayer meetings are held three 
times a day, and largely attended. 
—Ex-President Comonfort of Mexico, is on his 
way from New Orleans to New York. 
— Sixty thousand dozen of palm leaf hats are 
annually manufactured at Nashua, N. H. 
— The late gale, the fore part of last week, drove 
many vessels ashore in Lake Michigan. 
— The Masonic fraternity of Mobile have con¬ 
tributed $980 to the Mount Vernon fund. 
—The Mormons claim to have 480,000 members 
of their church scattered over the world. 
— In Washington Co., Ohio, Mr. Thompson has 
a daughter 4 years old, who weighs 150 lbs. 
— Mr. Colt has made a contract with the War 
Department for $100,000 worth of his arms. 
—Planters in Louisiana are putting in their cot¬ 
ton crops, for which the season is favorable. 
— Four screw steamers are building in the Clyde 
for the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company. 
— The value of the salt made in Ohio in 1857 was 
$362,500—being in quantity 1,450,000 bushels. 
—Chinese coolies are arriving at Havana in 
great numbers. In one week, 3,000 were landed. 
—Professor Bache has gone to Florida to ex¬ 
amine the progress of the work near Fernandina. 
— Every policeman in London walks about 20 
miles a day, besides attending to the police office. 
— It is intended to re-inforce Col. Johnston with 
6,000 men, including two regiments of volunteers. 
—The hill to suppress hank notes under $20 has 
been rejected by the Virginia House of Delegates. 
—The House of Delegates at Harrisburg, has 
voted by 52 to 37, to sell the Pennsylvania state 
canals. 
—The consolidated debt of the city of Boston 
amounts to nearly eight and a half millions of 
dollars. 
—The Bank and the Sub Treasury of New York, 
have now, together, nearly forty millions of dollars 
in specie. 
—Government lias bought 13,000 head of oxen 
in Missouri at $126 a yoke, for the use of the 
army in Utah. 
— Gov. Me Willie, of Miss., and his wife, have 
just been blessed with a twenty-first pledge of con¬ 
jugal affection. 
—The Steamer Glasgow, from Glasgow 17th ult., 
passed on the 26th, an iceberg 200 feet high and 
half a mile long. 
—The legislature of Louisiana has passed a law 
abolishing capital punishment and substituting 
hard labor for life. 
—The amount of specie in the New York banks 
on the 19th inst., was $33,196,949; the largest 
amount ever held. 
—Capt. Simpson, Gov. Powell, and Maj. McLel- 
lan, Utah Peace Commissioners, arrived at St 
Louis on the 17th inst. 
—Harrisburg, Pa., has hurst out into a building 
fever—one hundred new buildings are to be put 
up the present season. 
—The Paris Bourse had experienced a relapse 
from the late buoyancy, and the funds showed a 
daily decline in prices. 
—Boston spends nearly three millions a year for 
municipal purposes, about three times as much as 
the State Government 
—Gen. J. Addison Thomas of New York city, 
Assistant Secretary of State under Mr. Marcy, died 
at Paris, on the 23d ult 
— The Pennsylvania regiment for Utah lias been 
fully organized. It numbers 1,000 men, under 
command of Col. Breece. 
—The cotton mills, which were almost every 
where closed during the winter, are now generally 
starting again on full time. 
—Henry Potter, Judge of the U. States Court of 
North Carolina, died in Fayetteville in that State, 
on Sunday week, aged 93. 
—An Iowa editor, in noticing a new and splendid 
hearse, says, “ It will no doubt afford much satis¬ 
faction to those who use it!” 
—The Richmond Enquirer says that the transfer 
of Mount Vernon to the Ladies’ Mount Vernon 
Association is now a fixed fact. 
— The Richmond South proposes to exchange 
with the British Government the New England 
States for the island of Jamaca. 
—J. W. Gray, editor of the Cleveland Plaindealer, 
lost the sight of one eye on Friday last, from the 
explosion of a percussion cap. 
—It is said that southern Indiana is fall of 
pigeons. There are millions of them darkening 
the air and covering the woods. 
— The citizens of Richmond, Va., have sent a 
delegation to Washington to urge the Government 
to locate a national foundry there. 
— Messrs. Powell & Me Lellan, the commissioners 
appointed by the President to proceed to Utah, 
started on their mission last week. 
—The weather in Cuba has been intensely cold, 
and in several districts frost has been formed, des¬ 
troying the sugar cane extensively. 
— A white pine, from which 3,000 feet of inch 
boards were sawed, was recently cut down—the 
king of the pines—in Warwick, Mass. 
—Rev. S. R. Riggs, the missionary at Licqui- 
parle, Minnesota, has completed the translation 
into Dakota of the Pilgrim’s Progress. 
— A new dish for epicures was presented at a 
dinner table in Philadelphia, a few days since— 
eggs fried in butter, with their shells on. 
—It is estimated that the present population of 
Oregon is 80,300, viz: whites, 75,000; Chinese, 
5,000; colored, 300. Number of voters, 15,000. 
—Gov. Weller, of California, has recommended 
the appointment of a night watch to guard the 
State Treasury, while the Legislature is in session. 
