MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MAY 
Contents ol the Rural for May 22, 1858. f rom donations and legacies. The books printed 
agricultural. Page. bave been 250,000 Bibles and 381,000 Testaments, 
stock ihat can be kept upon an Hundred Acree,.•..165 and 500 volumes in raised letters for the blind; 
Horse Beans, [6 illustrations,]. 165 making a total of 031,500. The issues of the year 
Bean Cuit^ Ure ’. 165 have been 71G > 878 volumes, making a total, since 
Ring’s Patent Broadcast Sower, [illustrated,].165 the formation of the Society, of 12,808,487. The ; 
Raising Indian Com. 165 number of agents employed in the home field ! 
AGRICULTURAL 
(Stmptjisitoual. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
rungs Patent Broadcast Sower, [Illustrated,]. 165 hub uuwbi;, ui aa,ooo,*oi . rue Sttvatw Os rnnii™ aHO ‘ . -- Jt — —J 
Raising Indian Com . 1 G 5 number of agents employed in the home field v;,', r ' ~ ' , J mn, of La.,the . to seize and destroy liquor illegally kept for sale. 
Rotation Of Crops-Estirnates, . 166 is thirty-five, including those in California and • VT ® nal . ® d -> ust " ient of private Land Claims The decision creates a good deal of talk, and will 
Evener for Working a Team before Oxen, . 166 ml,. „ , , . . . m !■ lOTlda, Louisiana, Arkansas and Missouri, was 1 nrnhnbl'D V,o fnll/vnraA r.. • „ . _ . . . 
a Fiffv Varm i tx Oregon. I hree, also, are employed in foreign! .. . mn , .. ,, ’ prooaniy be followed by the invasion and destruc- 
a fifty Acrei arm, . 166 ° .’ „ ’ s considered. The bill excited considerable debate, [ „ a ,. 
.™ .... _. 
§W faragaplw. iht CoinUngtr. 
Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts, has de- Deaths in Philadelphia last week, 193. 
, cided that is lawful for anybody, or any set of men, —There were 430 deaths in New York city, last 
: a _._i,_,_, a , week. 
— The planters of the South are re-planting their 
cotton. 
— The slaves in Kentucky are escaping in large 
numbers. 
1)0 Bees Select a Home before Swarming,.166 and one in Turkey. Grants of money for publish- ! a third time and ad ..“ v ““* "I The Missouri Wine Company are holding a Fair . ~ The R old of fowa has proved to be nothing but 
Scriptures abroad, have been greater than Minnesota having been admitted as a State the at fit. Louis, and offerprizes amounting to $300, for Iron P^s.. 
Tbe Wheat-Midge.165 ever before, amounting to $31,432 90. These funds crede ntials of Mr. Rice and Gen Sihfi ds were pre | the best epecimena of native wines. The company ^7^ ^™g™tion of last year amount 
IS Turkey, 01 persia "ind^a, ^(rmrthe^^and southed) "f* “ d b ° th gentlemen sworn in ^Senators. ^ na ‘°. oditio ?’ and kas didded ten - Cate’rpiliars have appeared in great abundance 
Barometers for Farmers.166 siam a d Ch ’ ^ 1 and southern,) a resolution was submitted that the President be P er cent, on last years earnings. at Norfolk, Va. 
ieCulv f. 106 m n lna " _ requested, as far as compatible with the public TnE parties wj tb whom Government has con- —The national debt of Spain amounts to £140- 
ysfor Kentucky,. . ---------- -. 166 The New Yohk Custom Housf Returns for intereBtB > to communicate to the Senate the infor- t racted f or a supply of camels, are to deliver one 000,000 sterling. 
Co A, Scie.v A,. Anril Show that theimTinrtiovtra.ieio vet ft, mation which may have been received concerning : ft drecI ancl slxt J at ^ew Orleans on the first of —The population of all the world is estimat- 
Spare the Calves,. 166 
Aldemeys for Kentucky,. 166 
Rural Miscdlany .—New York State Fair. Devon Herd Book. 
Ontario Co. Ag. Society. Crops, Ac., in Canada West The Ru¬ 
ral-Crops in Tennessee. Crops in Northern Ohio. Convention 
Siam and China. 
The New York Custom House Returns for 
VUOJVa 11UURE AVETURNS IOr . . - --- ! brm( J r p d „ j • . . T • 
umiano uo.Ag. society, urops, Ac. in Canada west The ru- April show that the importing trade is yet far from ma t>°D which may have been received concerning <n _ lx ) a ew Orleans on the first of 
ral—Crops in Tennessee. Crops in Northern Ohio. Convention being fully revived. The total imports for that recent search or the seizure of American ves- , ( o icr, and have started two vessels from New 
of Agricultural Editors. Frost at the South,.166 month were but ten and h lf millions a „ ain8 t sels by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of Mex- 1 ork t0 P rocure them at Tangier. 
top npruiBii a vn n a imuv ^ __._t __ _ 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. „ „ . , . . , .. , . ico Or adiace 
Seasonable Gossip. 167 ° Ver tWeDty laSt ^ ar t0 the 8ame month-being a 7° ad -> aCe 
New Caiifomia Herbaceous Plant,.167 decrease of $9,034,932. The revenue fell off a mil- nave Deen 
Vitality Of Garden Seeds.167 lion and a half. This is a little heavier than the unaDimousl Y 
SSgggy-**- - 5 to to. importo for March, which we„ S ;“> 
Price of Horticultural Producteiu London............. 1C7 S8,02],000 lGSS thdD in Mftrcll last y 6 &r« Ill exports ^ 
the recent search or the seizure of American ves- ® cto1jer > an d have started two vessels from New ed at h, s >^09)000. 
sels by foreign armed cruisers in the Gulf of Mex- York to P rocure them at Tangier. Enro^S the^tM passeDgers left New York for 
ico or adjacent seas, and also what measures if any According to the Canadian Newspaper Directory _ThoTciri u* r n m • 
have been taken in relation thereto. Adopted there are twenty daily, eighteen tri weekly, fifteen the Government $ 0 , 000 . °* ’ en ‘ Tv,lggs ’ Wl11 cost 
semi-weekly, and one hundred and fifty-six weekly — Green is the predominant color in the fashion- 
decrease in the imports for March, which were Tke Senate > in Executive Session to-day, con- papers published in Canada A less number than able dresses in Broadway, 
$8,621,000 less than in March last year. In exports firmed Joseph Williams as Associate Justice of there are published in the city of New York. —Chicago never pledg 
the improvement in trade is more visible. During ^ ansas - Billy Bowleg3 and his whole party, consisting 3 dcd l7 ^ ^ ° f a rai,ro 
the month of March the exports this year were $5,- Lieut Ives, in his official letter, as sent into the of 166 persons, arrived at the United States bar- „ ? ere . ar ®t>ut three- 
The Caterpillar* . 167 the improvement in trade is more visible. During lvansas - 
To Destroy Caterpillars.167 the month of March the exports this year were $5 - Lieut Ives ’ in his official let ter, 
Two Free Shrubs now in Flower,. 167 000j000 less than last year while during April th ’ e Senate, states that the exploration 
— Chicago never pledged itself to the amount of 
a dollar in aid of a railroad. 
— There are but three Revolutionary pensioners 
The Japan Quince, [Ulnstrated.l. 167 i - ■ ——o —* -, , . . , , i 
The Fo;sythia Viridissima, [iUustrated.i .167 fallin R off is only $2,280,739. This shows that the d0 has 80 far progressed, and that the Mormons do way to the Indian Territory. 
exploration of the Colora- racks below New Orleans, on the 15th inst on their survi ^ 1Dg m ^ he ‘ State of ohl °- 
......... . . _ ' v “ — Ine forpurn nnrmlatins nf 
Water and Muskmelons,. 167 
Failure of a Dear Orchard,. 167 
The Rebecca Grape,. 167 . ,, ° ’ —--- nrnnolioa i , ,, . ’ -— ^ uvumc. 
The Hose slug,.. 167 promises well for the future. proacnes. _ damage by the various crevasses in that vicinity, —Steam canal boats have been used with success 
The Apple Bark Loose, . 167 ---- P ar ty.had been sent to examine the route from is counted by millions of dollars. The river is not 011 Ohio and Chesopeape canal. 
Tan-Bark for Cranberries,. 167 The Railroad Accident near Utica. the Mormon road to the Colorado, south of the Big yet falling. —The journals of the west announce the flourish- 
DOMESTIC economy. - Canon, which, with the exploration of the Yalley New York City is said to be flooded with altered ing condition of the growing crops. 
F “t 1 <’5xi cX^Skies. 5 Fa P r™7Ru;7n!f In the last issne of ^ral we made brief an- of the Virgin, would be finished in the course of bills on various city banks, and some of them are - ~ Tke , pnbli ? deb ‘ of Milwaukee, including its 
diddle Elderberry Fics. Found Cake Patent Beer. Suet Dud- nouncement of a dreadful accident on the N. Y. two weeks. When this information has been ob- so well executed that bankers say they should take „ , ^ t° railroads, is $2,285,850. 
King Philip Com Meal,.. ig 7 Central Railroad, near Utica, When the dispatch- tained, the practicability of the route as a channel them without question if their attention was not Co . Kinney has sailed from Aspinwall with 
ladies' PORT-FOLIO. . es were received we were just closing up for the of communication from Utah to the Pacific will drawn to the alteration. a ™ ltlon to seize Greytown. 
P ress - and g flve such general information as had Lave been determined. There has been rereiveri ter wheat Sn !iu Wm ' 
— The foreign population of Chicago are about 
to make an Orsini demostration. 
167 process of liquidating our debts abroad is going on f. ot apP ® ar to ha !. e b f en successful in conciliating The efforts to stop the crevasse twenty-five miles _ Jefferson Davis has recovered suffieientlv to 
J67 faster than that of incurring new ones, and thus tbe Mobaves - The latter are jealous of their ap- above New Orleans, have been abandoned. The take his seat in the U. S. Senate. 
promises well for the future. 
The Railroad Accident near Utica. 
damage by the various crevasses in that vicinity, —Steam canal boats have been used with success 
is counted by millions of doDars. The river is not on and Chesopeape canal. 
yet falling. — The journals of the west announce the flourish- 
LADIES' PORT-FOLIO. 
Oirr Gem, [Poetical] An Old Woman's Memories. Flowers. 
Maiden Ladies. Mount Vernon the Property of the Nation. 
- -rwmivio CUT W OUUU1U l Cl U n 1 fr • 1 _ - 
- ^*thont question,if their attention waan.t trS.^Si/eSejlST*" ’" lh 
awn o e a teration. — I. E. Owsley has 2,400 acres of beautiful win- 
There has been received at Buffalo, since the ter wheat some 20 miles from Springfield, III 
Self-Respect Mother.......... 1C8 come to hand. It was then reported that the acci- Private bills being in order, various matters were beginning of the year, by the Central Ra’ilroad, 34,- - Letters from the North of Europe speak un- 
CHOICE miscellany. dent was caused by collision, but later intelligence taken up and passed. 
W dr^re$<LW attributed it to the falling of the bridge crossing HorsE.-The lions 
Ability, Integrity, Ac .. i68 Saquoit creet, and the precipitation of the Express territorial 
971 beeves, 49,942 sheep, and 74,007 hogs. What favorabl Y of the prospects of the grain crop. 
House. The House proceeded to dispose of the must the resources of a country be that pours forth — Twenty years ago last Sunday week, the first 
rritorial business, and passed the bill making an its productiveness in such a tide? steamship arrived in New York from Liverpool. 
•* • . .. —The largest individual depositor in Boston has 
an immense activity reigns in the maritime ports no less than $1,950,000 to his credit on State street. 
SABBATH MUSlNGa train into the gulley below. Since that period a appropriation for the completion of the military .. —The largest individual depositor in Boston has 
^BS^Niro^’pTL^ thorough investigation as to the cause of this dread- road from Astoria to Salem, in Oregon Territory. 0 f Franco .mi Tni ’ 3 re ’7f m t!ie 7 antlme p ° rte D0 less than $1,950,000 to his credit on State street. 
ChribtianB obedience. The Resurrection,. I..’....™...*. 168 ful disaster has been in progress, and we condense Rejected two bills for roads in New Mexico and n, naval V iv, 1 .\° n ° ie wor increasing —Gen. Scott is in Washington, conferring with 
EDUCATIONAL the following from the report of the Coroner's in- Washington Territories. I ™™ 1 “?" g<h a ‘ present moment witk the the “ regard t0 tbe Voluateer Regiment 
of France, and no nation of the world is increasing — Gen. Scott is in Washington, conferring with 
EDUCATIONAL 
Groupings in History—No. 1. School-Houses. Education of the 
v*™. r athers Be Patient with the Little Ones Bad State of 
Affiurs in Indiana,. 169 
USEFUL OLIO. 
quest The verdict is: The Senate bill for the admission of Minnesota 
“We find that the persons whose bodies have was taken up. The House voted on the substitute 
been viewed by us, came to their death by the giv- proposed by Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, requiring, as a 
The Senate hill for the admission of Minnocoia B3me ra P idit Y aa that country. Its army now . —Morris O’Brien, a lad only 13 years old, died 
I Senate 1 for the admission of Minnesota numbei . s 620,000 men; its navy is very nearly and m Phllad elphia on the 9th inst, from intemperance, 
is taken up. The House voted on the substitute w51 , _ .., _ Flour is said to ho «oiii J in t— 
Christopher Columbus. [Illustrated.] Sketeh of Luther Home •-1 7 ’ , I ^ LUC glV ' " ' 88 a 
Diiiicuities. History in Words,. 169 ln g away of the bridge of the New York Central fundamental condition precedent for the admission 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
^Herbarium* 8 B ° y ’ i IJluetrated ] Destroying Caterpillars. The 
THE SKETCH BOOK.. 
Respect thine aged Father, [Poetical.] Waodville Sketches—No. 
1L Anna Mason,. 172 
Liat of New Advertisements this Week, 
The New American Cyclopaedia—D. Appleton Jk Co 
New York Wire Railing Oo—Hutchinson A Wickersham. 
■Revolution in Seed Sowing—E. D. JIallock 
Ontario MBsic School —iviikh C. G. Scott 
Burrali's New Adjustable Mower and Reaper—Thoa D.BurraU 
Patent Straw Cutter for Sale—Patentee. 
Lithographing—Removal—Joseph Ixiwis. 
N. Y. State Ac. Society—B. P. Johnson. 
Great Book Sale—Albert Colby A Co. 
Wanted Immediately—S. M. Myrick A Co 
Circulars—L A. Spalding. 
Deafness Cured—Dr. Boardman. 
600 Agents Wanted—K. & Rich. 
King Philip Corn—J. Rapalje. 
The Rural is put to press Tuesday noon, and hence adver¬ 
tisements should reach us on Monday to secure insertion. 
will soon perhaps be quite equal to that of England. — Flour is said to be selling in Knoxville, Tenn., 
a _ ,, „ . ‘ at one dollar and a half a sack, three dollars a bar- 
A new kind of cotton, called the rose cotton, reL 
excelling in firmness of lint and length of the —The N. Y. Express states that six million dol- 
Railroad, crossing the Saquoit creek, in the town of Minnesota, the alteration of its Constitution by a txoeiI,J1 e urmness of lint and length of the — --- 
of Whitestown, Oneida county, on the morning of new Convention, to make it conform to the Consti- staple the kind ordinarily produced, has been Bold expen ed to ca,r Y on the c *ty govern- 
the 11th May, and that they were all passengers on tution and laws of the United States, and it was re- ' n Galveston, Texas, at a price above the market _ 
waav, Auu ajac aj , ghu t aa»u tucv vvcic an on cumuli duu ittwes ui me umicu ana 11 was re- , ' 7 - A - — ^ *“ v ' *^»*^*/ rnv . ^ .. , . 
the Cincinnati Express train coming east. The jected, 51 against 141. The hill was then passed va ue °f the ^ ex ican Gulf cotton. As a new adjournment, voted to meet at Louisville Ky^next 
deaths were caused by the insecurity of the bridge, in the precise form in which it came from the Sen- vanet J> u Promises to he a very decided improve- year. 
owing to the same being decayed and rotten. A ate, by 157 against 38. 
portion of the bridge was constructed of inferior The House then took up the bill to prevent the 
The Hartford Courant says a dictionary is soon 
timber, the same being bastard elm. We find that inconvenient accumulation in the Post-Office De- be published which will contain 10,000 more time 
— The Canadian legislators were on a railroad 
trip to Collingwood last week, and had a pleasant 
the deaths were caused by culpable neglect on the partment of Deputy Post-Masters’ quarterly returns, words than any of its predecessors. We’are rather n “7w-n dd i a ? apolis . paperS l . bll(3 fau ! 1 w ! th r ? ov ‘ 
part of the Central Railroad Co. in not causing this and it was passed. disposed to regret this. It would, we think, be House yard ’ pa8tUnDg his C0W m the State 
bridge to be properly examined.” ----- — - better to have fewer words and more ideas. Words _ The bar of Leavenworth, Kansas, now num- 
ine manner of the accident was as follows:—The A I rouable Swindle. —We have received have more than quadrupled Bince the days of A ddi- bers over 1 00 members, and is said to possess much 
Express train was somewhat behind time at Whites- several letters stating that the writers had been son and Bunyan, and yet they expressed their ideas legal talent. 
boro’, and was coming at a high rate of speed, deceived by C. K. Bowen & Bro., who recently quite as clearly as the writers of the present day —A riot took place in Quebec lately, in conse- 
when it met on the bridge over the Saquoit creek, advertised in the Rural for agents to sell shoulder A train of eight wagons, with 1 501 buffalo attempt by the C ° UnCil t0 tax real 
the Utica Accommodation train for the west, each braces. The advertisers offered a certain salary robes and a large quanty of pelts and furs, arrived _ Mr Vb j addox recentIv died at Rt 
on own track. The eng.se. orosaed the bridge, per month, and we enppo.ed all waa fair and cor. at Kaneae city on tbe let in... front Benf. Fort, a Minn"».;'.Uhe!£ufe *ge ot one hundred 
but as the passenger cars of the Express and the rect But it appears that those who write for distance of 600 miles. The wagons had been ten and fou r years. 
ffJ ght .n arS . ° f the A ccommoda ! ion caniP ,,J ’ 0 . T ’ u nfr0110i00 arc !nforme d by Boww i Bro., that they weeks en route. - Leavenworth papers state that for the last three 
noi i t,ido gave way, precipitating the freight have been gulled (?) by so many that they have Prof. James Hall, the Geologist, has been m() nths that place has been flooded with counter- 
““ ^ Cr * and piHng tbe pa8senger cars adopted a new plan-tliat on receipt of $5 they awarded the Walloston medal by the Royal Geolog- feU S !! Ver C ° in ' 
one above the other, splintering platforms and seats will send 1 dozen braces, with certificate of agency, ical Society the first instance of the award nf +w . Gen ' Shields and Henry M. Rice, by the ad- 
&C ‘ Tbose w h° have been “ gulied” sufficiently to honor" an’the U°S ^ ^ membere ° f 
H. Pc“„, ”o C ct 8 ”r 0 N Y I, been .truck to Palludium, to commemoration of -<S M thousand converts bare been added to the 
Ibraham Mack Cincinnati , ,, ! ,2 ci .’t ., J ' ™' p0 “ w to “Sequent the discovery of that metal by Dr. Walloston. Chicago churches since the commencement of the 
Abraham Mack, Cincinnati, O., an infant child of letters. The whole thing is probably a swindle, Five traders arrived at St T nnia fmm a * x? P^sent revival. 
Karl Hover, St Louis, Mo.; John Fitzgerald, New and we caution our readers accordingly. bringing about $200 000 in Rrrooio 5 ~ The Cleveland Plaindealer reports that the 
York city; \Ym. II. Sharpe, a colored preacher; —Our rule is to exclude from our columns every ^ ’ specie, with which to President will take a trip to the West during the 
David A. Brayton, Phelps, Ontario Co., N.Y.: Chaa advertisement which we know or l II Vnrch^e goods. They report the loss of nearly all recess of Congress. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 22, 1858. 
— One thousand converts have been added to the 
Chicago churches since the commencement of the 
present revival. 
— The Cleveland Plaindealer reports that the 
the animals belonging to the Indians along their — Sir Colin Campbell has declined the offer of a 
route, by cold weather. Immense herds of buffalo peerage, but would like to be field marshal, and is 
— ===== David A - Brayton, Phelps, Ontario Co., N. Y.; Chas. advertisement which we know or suspect to be de- «, a • , T , • rep ? tbe , s of nearIy a11 reces8 of Congress. 
Latest Intelligence, Foreign and Domestic. Bettman, aged 12, Cincinnati, O. The number of ceptive, or a humbug. Almost every week and me an ™ al s belonging to the Indians along their —Sir Colin Cam 
- wounded amounts to upwards of fifty-very many frequently oftener, during the past year we’have ™ ’ 7 /““ense herds of buffalo Peerage,but would 
By reference to the “Congressional” depart- of whom received severe contusions. From the refused some humbugeous announcement, and re- * ereseen deai the settlements of Kansas. They that h °? dr 
“ e “ t ’ lt T“ 1 be observed that the Senate of the condition of the ruins it seems to be almost a turned the money sent us. But it seems that, with “T® snow 8torms on their Journey, sbad )( a8 ta ken fro. 
United States have requested the President to give miracle that all aboard the Express were notin- aP our caution, we have been “sold” by « C. K. , d ^ h ° rses . and mules - Kotllln g B ad ing boats at that pi 
such information as is in his possession, on the stantly killed. Says an eye-witness:—“The smash Bourn % Bro” We trust but few of our readers from Ca P tain Marc Y- — The American 
subject, of the detention of American vessels by is a terrible one, and the ruins convey a void im- hav e been deceived, and that the getters up of the TuE packet ski P Mar Y Caroline Stevens, Captain conversions report 
and lost many horses and mules. Nothing had 
been heard from Captain Marcy. 
— The Dunkirk Journal says that a salt water 
shad was taken from Lake Erie by one of the fish¬ 
ing boatB at that place. 
. 1 ‘ — The American Baptist says the aggregate of 
The packet ship Mary Caroline Stevens, Captain conversions reported in Baptist churches alone, 
foreign armed ernizers in the Gulf of Mexico, and pression of the horror of the disaster. Between swindle will speedily be “headed” and held by IIea P’ sailed from Baltimore on Saturday, May 1st, dur ing March, is 17,000. 
also what measures, if any, have been taken in rela- the stone abutments of the bridge is a space of I something stronger than shoulder-braces_such ^° r ^ onrovda * has about one hundred and — Massachusetts has 1,500 miles of railroad, 
tion thereto. The cause of this action is as follows: thirty-two feet. The ordinary length of the car is 4 jewels” as convicts wear on wrists and ankles! twenty P asse ngers on hoard, principally manumit- Si'for°aboul:*26 Bmo* 1 * 7 W ° Uld probably now 
On the 29th of April the American schooner thirty-five feet Depth to the bottom of the creek ---- ted slaves from Virginia and elsewhere. T „ ta , , ... 
n C rV° W V Vb ” e 0fnhe C0a8t 0f Fl0rida ’ ninefeet ' Three entire cars lay lengthways, crush- The Capacity of the Erie Canal. -At the Thf. New York City Bank tT~ for one year the three new\’ 0 iunier n rcginient8 n of 
and about thirty miles from Sand Key Light, was ed up like a telescope, between the two abutments P resent ll me, says the Albany Evening Journal, the 3 . * 0RK ClTY Banks.— It appears from 2,632 men, $4,289,547 35. 
fired into by the British war steamer Styx. The of the bridge — these occupying a space but little P ie Canal ha s a supply of water that would aston- ofllc,al Ba “ k Statement for the past week, that _ A company of 90 Mormons—most of them 
shots were from muskets, and two balls passed be- more than the length of one car. The first and * sb tbe °^ d Bne boatmen who did business in 1830. tb . 6 amount specie now held by the New Y'ork from Denmark, Sweden and Norway—arrived in 
tween two men working on the rigging. The second cars cannot be distinguished one from the There are now six feet of water throughout the en- Lity B a nks is $35,453,146, the largest ever reported. New Y oik, on Sunday week, 
schooner hove to, and afterwards two more shots other. The third car is entirely demolished excent tire len 8 th of the Erie Canal - allowing the boats The de P osits accumulate-yet more rapidly, and now —The public-spirited people of East Walpole, N. 
werefired. According to the statement of Capt. about one-third of the rear.” tocarry 1,200 barrels of flour from Buffalo to Albany, reach $81,727,146 undrawn. The banks are employ- 40 ‘feet ^n the^public roads ^ atintervas of 
Howe, his vessel was then boarded by a Lieutenant -—-- and enabling them with low tolls to compete sue- ing more circulation 5n the business transactions _ Tbe inabil i t of a wife ’ t0 make bread hag beeQ 
and six men. The officer behaved with great inso- Washington Matters. cessfully with the railroad for the carrying trade °f the city, by $600,000, than at the close of April, declared sufficient ground for divorce, by a County 
lence, and demanded the papers, stating that he - between the lakes and tide water. Boats now car- and tbeir dai5y exc h a nges with each other in Agricultural Society of Iowa. 
did not take the Mobile for a slaver, but his orders T 1IE verdict a t the Court Martial for the trial of ry 1,200 barrels of flour. With seven feet of water checks, drafts, Ac., have gone up over three mil- —It is represented that some of the old Mexican 
were to board every vessel that they fell in with, Ma J or G en - Twiggs on the charge of being guilty they will carry 2,000 barrels. In 1835, the largest Bons within the two weeks. The increase in loans, gubernatorial seals have been used to forge pri- 
passing up and down the Gulf. ’ of insubordinate conduet to the prejudice of gen- boats on the canal carried 300 barrels. It takes 011 tbe further siccumulation of deposits, is $873,- vate mud deeds m California. 
A dispatch from Boston states that on the same eral orderand military discipline, is approved, but no more hands to manage a boat that carries 400 m . The large banks are relaxin g th eir rule as to i T T n T rt?Sndri2« 0 cast , an “ ua1 ' 
day of the occurrence mentioned above, April 29, in consideration of his distinguished services and barrels, than one that carries 2,000. For this rea- tbe b *** s 0ver 90 days ’ in BOme instan ces taking t be Pennsylvania iron district ’ r ° Ug r ° m 
the brig Robert Wing, when off Inaguai was fired of tbe una oimous recommendation of the Court, son the larger the boat is, the better it makes it for auction and other paper of a prime character, due _ The 0 ld project for the formation of a new 
into by a British war vessel, name not given. She tke sentence that he be reprimanded by the Presi- the public and the boatmen. The latter obtains in October and November. Besides which their State from portions of Tennessee, Ylrginia and 
was then visited by a boat from the war vessel and dent is remi tted. Gen. Twiggs has arrived in larger loads, while the larger loads enable him to Side . investments in treasury bills, Ac., are still on North Carolina has been revived, 
her papers, subjected to scrutiny. A ship and a ^Ashington. He is continued in command of the reduce the price of freight. the increase, and probably comprise $16,000,000 or —Lucknow fell March 19th. One hundred and 
schooner were in company at time, and the latter Department of Texas. _ t . /_ $18,000,000 of the present line of $112,741,955. seventeen guns were captured, and 2,000 of the 
was detained on suspicion of being a slaver The Cabinet have determined to recognize Mr. Thk Locusts in Texas The Galveston \Wb _ " , '. g s l egd ’ 
M,"ieT' S Te , hU0 “ ,e| ; eC “ a lh = r«* of the m ult., gtoes mel.ncholj report, o t the “e rtrong'CifEn°gtnd rtTSS' 
, from the Bahamas, had been boarded by a boat Mast e_ r General j S instructed to make a contract ravages of this insect. It says that in many places ,., . ’ ything last struggles of the insurgents. 
rom the British steamer Styx while lying in port. ^ lth B for th e mails. The Pacific Mail Steam- entire corn-fields have been laid waste, there not attache’s of the Company Tef^fo^ CzvT °* 1116 “/ P he cost of printing ord ered by the Thirty- 
The officer in command overhauled her papers, and ship Company have already signed a contract being left a blade or stalk of anything green The wa a “^Company^ left for California on third Congress was $2,220,715; that by the Thirty- 
then proceeded to board all the otherAmerican witb « ^ take the mails and passengers on the corn^hich had grown fZoT^ZZZgU ha M °? 8 Tayl0r ‘~ fonrtb amoi *f d to 51,618,292. 
vessels in port. Pacific to San Francisco, and the Department have been utterly destroyed A trentiemnr, i, ^a The coaches, wagons, harness, Ac., Ac., are fast — The gold fever is on the increase in Iowa.— 
th extended the Pwilic Company', contoact one year, feo m S,„ L.ento/,.;, IS toSto eCp.eto™ S Z olTnj tofton “e^oSrL^ 
the British cruisers off the Cuban coast, of other the service to commence in October. The plan of cover the prairies in many places, destroying Pglil.!!! . f J , ° 1 ? - An order has been issued directing the French 
American vessels. The bark Glenburn recently Die Government is to discontinue the Panama route everything before them as they go. They are said K ether feed build 6 canals r< j’“. eacll end ' to 8 et t0 ' imperial postillions to wear ear-rings, after the 
arrived from Antwerp, was boarded by a British and substitute the Tehuantepec. to he quite small, only one-half or three-barters of J s ’ hmM Statl ° D8 ’ &C ” &c ' Con - fasMon nnder ancient regime. 
tbeCOast - _ Cass-Herran Treaty had passed the Senate of fairly provided with wings, they will take their de- aTeachend m ^ -The^^British StesthattheinuomP to 
The Fifty-First Anniversary of the American inent *0 the Vf C °“ paratlve, y unim P0 rtant amend- parture. It is said that year before last, when they --—-be announced at the British and Foreign Bible 
Bible Society was celebrated on Thursday week in seventh rcLivf 7 f r f lking out the W6re 80 destructive > the y left bet ^een the first and The Atlantic Telegraph-Id the experiments S ° Clety ’ 8 May meeting is $ 76 5,000. 
the Church of the Puritans, New York The States. ’ It is 1 d f ° r United “ ldde of May ’ as 800n 38 fled ged; and should they through the entire cable at Devonshire, considers- a ZZnl n^ g ° infor “ ed tbat Bishop 
manager's meeting was held ai the Bible House at thettter L^witli 11 ^^ 7 ^ f 7 ? D ° tbe t0 ° late t0raiSC ble ° bstacle to rapid communication arises! wS feSS ^ 
thechf;, 311 ^ 6 p bliC ri raee ^ ga “0 o’clock, in privilege’shall continue only so long affteeJsb g0 ° d Crop S ef corn from ^ second pIan tlEg ' the symbolic alphabet at present used, about two -Mrs. Ex President Tyler, during a visit to Rieh- 
the church. The President, Hon. Theodore Fre- ence of the treaty or snbipet t u n words and a half per minute only can be trans- mond, paid into the Mount Yernon Treasury, $400 
linghuysen, made a brief address in opening. Mr. a disagreement Both > d u vval in case of The Canadian Post Office—T he report of the mitted through the whole length of wire. This she had collected in Charles City Co. 
Fisher, assistant Treasurer, read the Treasurer’s sion when a maioritv ofMTfi 68 ^ Jomt . se8 ' ? Canada show8 an increa£e rate of transmission is only equal to 150 words, or ~ Xt is stated that the free negroes of Texas are 
report, by which it appears that the receipts of the «,* ’ , pot “ n J° 7 ./l 1 tbe votes determines of 131 Post-Offices in 1857, the whole number being about fifteen lines of the Rural an hour, - very avaibng themselves of a recent law enabling them 
year have been $390,752,40. Of this sum, $252,- the ?reatv would vus Zuh £‘ d,cat,ons were tbat ^^,506 Nine millions of newspapers have pass- little over two columns in twenty-four hours. This t0 choose masters and become slaves. 
831 04 were from tbe sale of books, and $337,1)28 32 .ra m ^Ll " “ al,0te defldt 1to >» «» «te« of tt. tr.n, m i S .toe power fo, 
me yearly rev enue is £34,064 16s. 5d. a single newspaper for the entire day. I being no sale for them in this country.; 
