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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
MAY 29 
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Contents of the Bural for May 29, 1858. 
AGRICULTURAL. Page. 
Mangold Wurtzel for Stock,.173 
Hedges for Farm Fencing, [4 Illustrations,]. 173 
Culture of Flax,. 174 
Krake’s Patent Fanning Mill,—"Few York Sifter," [Illustrated] 174 
The Potato Kot—Another Theory. 174 
Experiments with Guano,. 174 
The Pea-Nut, Its Culture,.174 
Bees and Bee Hives.—My Experience,. 174 
Hungarian Grass,... 174 
Cardoon,.. 174 
Grubs in the Head of Sheep,. 174 
To Correspondents,. 174 
Horse Show,... 174 
English Beans,. 174 
THE ORCHARD AND GARDEN. 
Seasonable Hints,.175 
Spurious Rebecca Grapes,. 175 
Celery Raising,. 175 
Failare of the Pear Orchard—No. II. 175 
Planting Melons and Cucumbers,. 175 
Hardiness of New Rochelle Blackberry,.- 175 
Turpentine ar d Plaster for Bugs,. 175 
Fruit Growing on the Hudson,. 175 
The Canada Grape Wine.175 
Premium for the Slrawberry. 175 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
A SpeciBc for Inflammatory Diseases. Starch Cake Imperial 
Cake Starch Pudding. Indian Pudding Flour Pudding An 
Excellent Sauce Custard Pudding. Sticking Salve Tempe¬ 
rance Beer. Ginger Beer. To Color Cochineal Scarlet To 
Color Cotton Lemon Color,...175 
LADIES’ PORT-FOLIO. 
Magic Minors, [PoeticaL] A “ Rural’ Panic. The Spring Breeze. 
About Those Girls. Our Ladies Pride and Vanity,.176 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Twilight, [Poetical.] Music. Aptitudes in Men. The Growing 
World The Dreamers. Life. 176 
SABBATH MUSING& 
O, Weary Not, [Poetical.] Wealth is Not AIL Open the Bible 
Pointless Sermons. The Daily Life. Spiritual Healing,.176 
EDUCATIONAL. 
Schools and School Commissioners. Notation and Numeration. 
Education in Wisconsin. Schools in the West Progressive 
Development Visit the Pupils. Educatioaal Matters in 
Kentucky,.... 177 
USEFUL OLIO. 
Seal of Minnesota, [Illnstrated] Seal of Oregon, [Illustrated] 
Salutations among Different Nation",. 177 
THE YOUNG RURALIST. 
“It is not always May/’[Poetical] TotheGirls. Time. Character. 177 
THE SKETCH BOOK. 
The Reign of May, (Poetical ] Bom to Love Pigs and Chickens. ISO 
Lint of New Advertisements this Week, 
Turnip Reed! Turnip Seed!—J. M. Thorbum A Ca 
Choice Bedding Plants—A. Frost A Co. 
Removal 10 New Yrrk of Th<* Horticulturist—0. AL Saxton. 
Impel taut to Farmers and Millers—J. A. Krake. 
Desirable Village Residence for Sale—C. J. 1 cl/»:d 
What Every Family Wante—II. M Bragg. 
Important to Flower Growers—Neglcy A Co 
Kirby’s American Harvester—If. C. White. 
Rale of Short-Horns—J. F. Brooks. 
The Atlantic Monthly—.Phillips, Sampson A 0<x 
Pure Wice, Made from A’ ative Grapes—E. Ferguson. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Which is the best Machine ior Cutting Grain and Grass—Wayne. 
Catarrh Permanently Cured—Guilford D. Sanborn, M. I). 
Fruit Growers’ Meeting—C P. Bissell 
The Rural is put to press Tuesday noon, and hence adver¬ 
tisements should reach us on Monday to secure insertion. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 29, 1858. 
The British Outrages in the Gulf, 
In the last Rural brief notice of the detention 
of American vessels in the Gulf of Mexico was 
made, and the action that had up to that time been 
taken by our Government. Each day that has 
since elapsed, has brought up new cases of the in¬ 
terference of the commander of the British war 
steamer Styx, and the hoarding of our commercial 
marine, putting in operation the doctrine of the 
"right of search,” and insulting and hazarding 
the lives of American seamen, has been repeated 
whenever an opportunity offered. This state of 
affairs has created great excitement at Washington, 
and, on the 19th inst., the President sent in a 
brief message to the Senate, and transmitted cer¬ 
tain documents in reply to a resolution calling for 
information upon the subject 
The most interesting among these is a note to 
Lord Napier, dated May 4th, in which Secretary 
Cass says that in his letter of the 10th ultimo, he 
alluded to the statements then appearing in the 
public journals, that a merchant vessel of the 
United States had been fired at and boarded by a 
British vessel of war, the Styx, off the coast of 
Cuba, and had informed him that he had received 
no official information on the subject, and therefore 
could say nothing as to the truth of the report, hut 
that he had taken measures to ascertain whether 
such an occurrence happened. 
He now transmitted to his Lordship a copy of a 
letter from the Collector of Customs at Savannah, 
enclosing a statement from the Captain of the 
N. B. Borden, from which it appears that an unjus¬ 
tifiable act of violence had been committed against 
a merchant vessel of the United States, to which 
the attention of Her Majesty’s Government is re¬ 
quested, in the confident expectation that the act 
will be disavowed, and such measures adopted as 
are called for by the circumstances, and as will 
tend to prevent the occurrence of similar proceed¬ 
ings hereafter. 
Lord Napier replied, May lGtb, that he had the 
honor to receive Secretary Cass’ letter conveying 
an account of the circumstances which are alleged 
to have attended the boarding of the American 
vessel N. B. Borden by Her Majesty’s steamer Styx. 
He says he has transmitted copies of Gen. Cass’ 
communication to Her Majesty’s Government and 
to the Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty’s forces 
in the West India station. 
Gen. Cass writes to Mr. Dallas, May 12th:_Sir: 
The accompanying papers, copies of the originals, 
which have just been received, will make known 
to yon that another outrage has been committed 
against the rights of the United States, by a British 
armed vessel, which calls for the immediate atten¬ 
tion of the British Government. 
The flagrant violations of the rights of the 
United States have excited deep feeling throughout 
the country, and have attracted the attention of 
both Houses of Congress. Their continuance can¬ 
not fail to produce the most serious effect on the 
relations of the two countries. 
The President confidently believes that the Brit¬ 
ish naval officers, in the adoption of these high¬ 
handed measures, have acted without authority, 
and have mistaken the views of their Government 
—but it is no less due to the United States that their 
conduct shall be disavowed, and peremptory orders 
issued to prevent the recurrence of similar pro¬ 
ceedings. 
You will communicate to Lord Malmesbury the 
reasonable expectations of the President, that this 
subject shall receive the immediate attention of 
Her Britannic Majesty’s Government, and that the 
officers who have been guilty of these outrages 
shall he held properly responsible for their con¬ 
duct, and that where pecuniary losses have been 
sustained, the interested parties shall recover just 
compensation. 
Synopsis of Proceedings. 
Senate. —Mr. Seward’s resolution of inquiry into 
the outrages on American vessels by British cruis¬ 
ers in the gulf, was unanimously adopted. I 
Mr. Douglas moved that the Oregon hill he taken 
up, upon which motion the yeas and nays were 
called for. The vote being 28 against 28, the chair, 
Mr. Breckinbridge, voted affirmatively. Conse¬ 
quently the bill was before the Senate. The pend¬ 
ing motion was Mr. Trumbull’s, that the considera¬ 
tion be postponed till December next. The post¬ 
ponement till December next was lost by a vote of 
38 to 16. The bill was then reported without 
amendment, except unimportant verbal ones, and 
finally passed by a vote of 35 against 17. 
On motion of Mr. Douglas, the hill to run the 
boundary between the United States and the State 
of Texas, was taken up. A brief debate ensued on 
the Committee of Territories’ amendment, by 
which it is provided that the duty be united with 
marking the boundary without scientific researches- 
Mr. Davis recommended a scientific commission 
without committing himself, that their report be 
printed. Finally, the bill, retaining the amend¬ 
ment, was passed. 
The hill for the repeal of the Fishery Bounties 
act was taken up, and a discussion ensued on the 
amendments to repeal the duties on salt and sugar. 
The subject was finally disposed of as follows:— 
The amendment to the amendment repealing the 
duty on sugar was lost, 27 against 27. The amend¬ 
ment itself, to repeal the duty on salt, was lost, 41 
against 18. The bill being reported, Mr. Wilson 
moved that it do not take effect till the 31st of De¬ 
cember, 1862. Lost, 30 against 26. The hill was 
then passed by a final vote of 30 against 25. It 
takes effect December 31, 1858. 
A message was received from the President, in¬ 
closing a letter from the Secretary of the Navy, on 
the subject of British aggressions in Gulf of Mexico. 
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
and ordered to he printed. 
The Senate received communications from the 
Secretary of War, covering information respecting 
the Utah expedition. Also, recommending the 
expenditure of $100,000 for breech-loading fire¬ 
arms for a portion of the army. 
Mr. Wilson submitted a resolution to print for 
the use of the Senate 60,000 extra copies of the 
patent office agricultural report Agreed to. 
Mr. Mason, of Va., presented a resolution re¬ 
questing the President to communicate informa¬ 
tion respecting the seizure, by the British Govern¬ 
ment, of the ship Tampico on the coast of Africa. 
Also, enquiring whether the President has any 
further information regarding the British outrages 
in the Gulf. Agreed to. 
Mr. Wilson, of Mass., offered a resolution that 
the Secretary of the Treasury be requested to re¬ 
port to the Senate specific estimates for retrench¬ 
ment and reform in the expenditures for the several 
branches of the public service, to remedy the evils 
of an excess of the expenditures over the means of 
the Government as mentioned by him in his report 
of May 18th, and that he further report what efforts 
have been made, and by whom since 1857, to re¬ 
strain the government to an economical expendi¬ 
ture of the public money, and what has been the 
result of those efforts. Agreed to. 
Private matters occupied the attention of the 
Senate during a considerable portion of the time 
since our last report. 
House. —The House proceeded to the election 
of Doorkeeper, and Joseph L. Wright, of New 
Jersey, the Democratic nominee, was chosen. He 
received 117 votes. The Republicans voted for 
Arthur W. Fletcher, who received 77 votes. 
The House then passed the Senate bill for the 
prevention and punishment of frauds in land titles 
in California, and for the collection and safe keep¬ 
ing of the public archives in that State. 
Mr. Singleton, of Mississippi, from the Commit¬ 
tee on Printing, reported a resolution, which was 
adopted, to print two hundred thousand copies of 
the Agricultural Report of the Patent Office. 
Mr. Nichols, of Indiana, from the Committee on 
Printing, called up the resolution modifying former 
orders, so that no extra copies of the volume of 
charts of the Pacific Railroad Survey he printed 
for distribution; that the printing of the volume 
comprising the narrative of the expedition under 
Gov. Stevens, he suspended until the further order 
of the House; and that 3,000, instead of 10,000, 
extra copies of the second volume of Emory’s 
Mexican Boundary Survey he printed. Mr. Nichols 
said the Committee only proposed to suspend the 
work not commenced, nor under contract. The 
action proposed would save $316,000. The resolu¬ 
tions were adopted by 115 against 65. 
The civil appropriation hill was passed after 
striking out a million of dollars for the Capital ex¬ 
tension, and by four majority retained nearly an 
equal amount for the completion of the Washing¬ 
ton aqueduct. 
The communication of the Secretary of the Trea¬ 
sury, asking for a loan of $15,000,000, was referred 
to the Committee of Ways and Means. 
Messrs. Phelps and Cavanaugh, members from 
Minnesota, were then sworn in. 
The First Wine Fair of Missouri opened at 
St Louis on the 13th inst About seventy speci¬ 
mens were exhibited, contributed from Illinois, 
New York, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Iowa, Ken¬ 
tucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. Seventeen gentle¬ 
men were selected as a hoard of jndges, to com¬ 
pare the specimens and award the premiums. They 
report that all the specimens are very superior in 
character, and indicate great improvement in the 
manufacture of native wines. It has been decided 
by the Missouri Wine Company to hold hereafter, 
in St. Louis, an annual fair, from which most en¬ 
couraging results are expected. 
The Boy Missionary By Jenny Marsh Parker. New 
York: General Protestant Episcopal S. S. Union, and 
Church Book Depository. 
We have perused this neat little rolume with much in¬ 
terest and no little emotion. For the young—Sabbath 
School scholars especially—it is a most admirable and in¬ 
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and heart of its writer. It teaches a salutary lesson— 
that wealth, position and education are not essential to 
great usefulness, but that the poor, sick and afflicted may 
exert a powerful and lasting influence in behalf of the pres¬ 
ent and future welfare of individuals and communities. We 
warmly commend “ The Boy Missionary” to parents, and 
for Sunday School Libraries. The talented authoress has 
produced an excellent and most useful book in a difficult 
branch of literature, and we trust its success will he such 
as to induce further efforts of a similar character. 
Thk Harpy Home. By “Kirwan,” author of “Letters 
to Bishop Hughes,” “Romanism at Home,” “Men and 
Things in Europe,” etc., etc. New York: Harper & 
Bros. 
An unpretendinglittle volume, but one peculiarly adapt¬ 
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elevate both individuals and families, and promote their 
temporal and future welfare. Sold by Dewey. 
The True Glory or Woman, as portrayed in the Beau¬ 
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Savior, Jesus Christ. By Rev. M. Hap.bough, A. M., 
author of “ Heavenly Recognition,” “ The Sainted 
Dead,” “The Heavenly Home,” etc. Philadelphia: 
Lindsay & Blakiston. 
This volume, by an able Protestant divine, is dedicated 
“to all Earnest Women, who, like the Virgin Mary, in 
modest and holy silence, are nursing great hopes for them¬ 
selves and the world.” Sold by Dewey. 
The Westminster Review for April is at hand. Nine 
articles are embraced in its Table of Contents:—The Re¬ 
ligion of Positivism; Recollections of Shelly and Byron; 
China: Past and Present; Party Government; The Bosco- 
bel Tracts; Our Relation to the Princes of India; Medical 
Reform; Organization of the War Department, and Con¬ 
temporary Literature. For sale by Dewey. 
Littell's Living Age.—A new series of this valuable and 
long-time popular weekly publication was commenced on 
the 1st ult.,— each number containing 80 pages, with¬ 
out any increase of price. The proprietorship and edi¬ 
torial management remain as heretofore, but the work is 
now published by Stanford & Dklisser, of New York, 
to whose recent announcement in our advertising depart¬ 
ment we refer for terms and other particulars. 
The Mormon War Ended. 
The Seminole war, which many had believed to 
he interminable, has ended, and close upon the 
reception of the intelligence comes word that the 
Mormons have grounded their arms. As far as we 
can ascertain, no official information has been 
received by the Government at Washington, giv¬ 
ing confirmation to the advices that have been 
telegraped, but these latter come with such an 
impress of truth that they are generally received.— 
It is hardly consistent, however, with previous in¬ 
telligence of the vigorous measures taken by the 
Mormons to cut off our supply trains and harass 
our army in detail; hut the news is so gratifying 
and so welcome, that few are disposed to ques¬ 
tion it. '*• V- 
The report was brought by Mr. Gerrist, who left 
Camp Scott on the 12th of April, arriving at St. 
Louis on the 18th inst. He says that Col. Kane has 
been to Camp Scott, and had frequently passed 
from the camp to a place of conference with lead¬ 
ing Mormons outside, that in pursuance of nego¬ 
tiations then entered into, Gov. Cumming left the 
camp April 5th for Salt Lake City, and was on the 
9th within about ten days travel from the city. He 
was accompanied by Col. Kane, and escorted by 
Messrs. Porter, Rockwell, Eagan and other Mor¬ 
mons. It is anticipated he would reach the city 
on the lltb. Handsome apartments had been pro¬ 
vided for his reception. Well informed gentleman 
in Salt Lake say the general feeling in that city 
was in favor of peace, only a portion of the leaders 
advocating resistance. 
Fickling’s scouting party about whose safety ap¬ 
prehensions had been felt, had returned safely to 
camp. Provision trains for the camp left Fort 
Laramie on the 2i!h of April. 
Colonel Hoffman’s command was to leave the 
next day. Captain Marcy, with horses, mules, and 
three thousand sheep, was heard from on the Chero¬ 
kee trail, two hundred miles south of Laramie.— 
He had not been joined yet by the reinforcements 
sent him by General Garland, hut was awaiting 
their arrival. He expected to reach Camp Scott 
about the 20th of May. Messrs. Powell and McCul¬ 
lough, the Peace Commissioners, were met on the 
6th of May, twenty miles from Fort Kearney. 
Washington Matters. 
The Committee on Commerce have made a 
report in favor of removing the railroad bridge at 
Rock Island, as an obstruction to navigation on the 
Mississippi. 
The Foreign Committee have instructed Mr. 
Burlingame to report a resolution requesting the 
President to inquire into the facts concerning the 
seizure of the bark Adriatic by the French Gov¬ 
ernment, and to require an explanation of the 
grounds for the seizure and demand redress. 
The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee have re¬ 
solved to report a bill repealing the neatrality laws. 
The Cabinet have resolved to reinforce the 
Home Squadron by every available means. The 
Colorado, which sailed on Tuesday week for San 
Domingo, goes out to make inquiries into the in¬ 
sults and injuries to our Consul and citizens there. 
Dispatches referring to the more recent proceed¬ 
ings of the British cruisers in the Gulf, have been 
sent to meet the Colorado at San Domingo. 
The Cabinet have determined to ask Congress for 
a loan of $15,000,000. The Secretary will not name 
a specific rate of interest, but will name six per 
cent, as the maximum. 
Official evidence is received from our Consul at 
Havana, containing the statements of masters 
whose vessels had been searched. The testimony 
is clear and positive, and justifies the fullest action. 
A correspondence has already been opened with 
Lord Napier, and from informal conferences held 
here, there is every reason to believe that the out¬ 
rages will he disavowed, and the offending officers 
dismissed. 
Government intends keeping a large military 
force in Salt Lake Valley, and will make Salt Lake 
City a depot for stores, equipments, Ac. Even if 
the late Utah intelligence prove true, the supply 
trains will be pushed on and communications es¬ 
tablished and maintained between Fort Leaven¬ 
worth and Salt Lake. 
A Fort Laramie correspondent of the Lecomp- 
ton Union says that “ the number of desertions from 
the ranks of the regular U. S. army the past winter 
have been quite numerous, whether owing to the 
hardships of their camp life, or the alluring induce¬ 
ments of some of the ‘peculiar institutions ’ of the 
Mormon faith, I have not the means of knowing.” 
At the paper mill of Wm. Claik & Co., Northamp¬ 
ton, Mass., a bale of rags was recently opened, which 
came from the Crimea. Pillow-cases, sheets, shirts, 
bandages, surgical aprons, remnants, and parts of 
clothing stained with blood told of the uses to 
which the articles had been put. 
In the trial of a lottery case in Philadelphia, a 
victim testified that he had lost by the purchase of 
tickets over thirty thousand dollars; that he was 
broken up and robbed in business. His first start 
was from Richmond, Virginia, where he purchased 
from eighty to one hundred dollars’ worth of tickets. 
Admiral Carden, of the Royal Navy, who com¬ 
manded the English ship Macedonian, when she was 
fought and taken by the American frigate United 
States, died in Ireland lately. 
A report lately presented to the Emperor Alex¬ 
ander contains the following statistical returns rela¬ 
tive to landed property and serfs in Russia. The 
number of families who are land owners amounts 
to 127,000. Out of these 2,000 possess from 1,000 
to 10,000 serfs; 2,000 from 500 to 1,000; 18,000from 
100 to 600; 30,000 from 21 to 100; and 75,000 have 
less than 21. The total number of peasant serfs of 
the nobility amount to 11,760,600, and those of the 
crown to 9,000,000. There are, therefore, 20,750,000 
persons anxiously waiting for an improvement in 
their condition. 
It is said that the Government intends keeping a 
large force at Salt Lake, even if the Mormons emi¬ 
grate, and will make Salt Lake City a depot for 
military stores. The trains now on their way will 
accordingly proceed. 
Henry Wood, a chaplain in the United States 
Navy, writing from St. Helena, says that in the 
room where Napoleon died, there is now a thresh¬ 
ing machine in operation, and stalls for the horses 
that move it in his bed-chamber. 
The Legislature of Virginia at its late session ap¬ 
propriated $2,000 for the removal of the remains of 
Ex President Monroe, from the city of New York 
to Virginia, the State which gave him birth. He 
died at the residence of his son-in-law Sam’l L.Gov- 
erneur, in New York, on the 4th of July, 1830. 
John W. Farmer, 47 Ludlow st.,New York, gave 
230,893 meals to the poor at his free eating saloon 
during the winter and spring. Many offered to 
share in the expense, but he refused. Each meal 
he estimates to have cost 7 cents. 
An eminent lawyer, who has given much atten¬ 
tion to the sul ject of the Police of the city of New 
York, estimates the number of dead bodies taken 
annually from the waters surrounding that city to 
be four hundred. 
A firm in Havana have obtained permission to 
lay down a submarine telegraph from Cuba to Key 
West, Florida. The work will be speedily proceed¬ 
ed with. 
The Gold Fields of Australia. — The London 
(Eng.) Times, speaking of the condition of mining 
and the prospects of Australia, says:—“As was the 
case last year, the gold returns for the first two 
months this year exhibit a serious falling off of the 
quantity produced in the corresponding period of 
1856. There is also a decrease in the quantity- 
raised since the opening of the current year, as 
compared with 1851. In the present condition of 
mining in this Colony, fluctuations in the quantities 
of gold produced are to be looked for, the cause 
being attributable less to any deficiency in the nat¬ 
ural wealth of our gold fields, than to the unsettled 
habits of the miners, and the very wasteful manner 
in which they work.” 
The State Temperance Convention. —The fol¬ 
lowing resolutions were submitted in the State 
Temperance Society at Auburn, N. Y., on the 19th 
inst., and were adopted unanimously after much 
debate: 
Whereas, by an act of the Legislature for 1858, 
the question is to be submitted to the people on 
the 2d of November next, whether there shall be a 
Convention to revise the Constitution and amend 
the same, therefore, 
Resolved, That the friends of Temperance 
throughout the State he urged to vote on this 
proposition in the affirmative, with a view to the 
insertion in the new Constitution of a clause pro¬ 
hibiting the sale of inebriating liquors, for the pur¬ 
pose of a beverage. 
Resolved, That by urging the insertion of such 
clause in the Constitution, we countenance no remis¬ 
sion of effort for immediate legislation; on the 
contrary, we urge the enactment, by the next Le¬ 
gislature of a law declaring the sale of intoxica¬ 
ting liquors as a beverage, to be a misdemeanor, 
and the liquor so offered for sale, the place of sale, 
and the implements of traffic, to he a public nui¬ 
sance. 
The delegates and agents of the Society report 
that the present license law exerts little or no re¬ 
straint upon the traffic; also, that there is a glar¬ 
ing increase of intemperance, especially among 
young men. 
The State Inebriate Asylum. — This institu¬ 
tion, which promises to he one of vast benefit to an 
unfortunate class of community, and consequently 
to their, in some respects, more unfortunate friends, 
has been located at Binghamton, the citizens of 
that place having presented the Trustees with 250 
acres of land, valued at $25,000, as a site for the 
Asylum. The Trustees held a meeting in New 
York on Wednesday week, to make arrangements 
for commencing building operations, and it is un¬ 
derstood that the corner stone will be laid in June. 
Death of Persifer F. Smith. — A dispatch to 
the St Louis Republican announces the death of 
Gen. Persifer F. Smith, commander of the Utah 
forces, at the head quarters at Fort Leavenworth, 
at 12 J o’clock, on the 15th inst The officers of the 
steamer Dickie, arrived at Boonville, report that 
the remains of Gen. Smith were to leave for the 
east on the 19th inst Gen. Harney succeeds to the 
command. 
§ku!is (CotuUnsifv. 
— Gold been discovered in Gentry Co., Mo. 
— Senator Sumner sailed on Saturday week for 
Europe. 
— The Tailleries at Paris is to be demolished and 
rebuilt 
— It is said the Mormons intend to locate on the 
Colorado. 
— The Constitution of Oregon disfranchises all 
Chinamen. 
— The railways of Great Britain have cost $1,- 
565,000,000. 
— Fortune telling is a pillory offence in the State 
of Delaware. 
— The Wisconsin Legislature are about to restore 
the death penalty. 
The new Queen of Portugal is on a visit to the 
Queen of England. 
— The population of the city of New York is 
estimated at 812,000. 
— The Legislature of Oregon, at its last session, 
divorced sixty couples. 
— Hon. Willie P. MaDgum, of North Carolina, is 
lying ill with paralysis. 
— A church for deaf mutes is about to he or¬ 
ganized in New York. 
— The typhoid fever is very alarming and fatal 
in some parts of Virginia. 
— The schooner Col. Cook sailed on Wednesday 
from Detroit for Liverpool. 
— The Tehuantepec route to California will 
probably he opened next fall. 
— There is a prospect of a renewal of the rail¬ 
road troullis at Erie, Peon. 
— The grasshoppers of the West are said to be 
on their way to the Middle States. 
— The United States practice ship Preble has 
been put in commission in Norfolk. 
— Billy Bowlegs is on his way to the Indian 
Territory. His party consists of 166. 
— Henry Ward Beecher intends spending a few 
weeks in Kansas the coming summer. 
— The damage by the crevasse, two miles above 
New Orleans, is estimated at $5,000,000. 
— Right Rev. G. W. Freeman, D. D., Bishop of 
Arkansas and Texas, died April 29th, aged 68. 
— Women, in Canada, may acquire and hold 
property, independent of the marriage relation. 
— There was a fall of snow on the high grounds 
of Northern New Hampshire, Wednesday week. 
— There were brought into N. Y. City, Monday, 
week, from Norfolk, Va., 500 barrels of green peas. 
— The Governor of South Carolina has appoint¬ 
ed A. P. Hayne, as U. S. Senator in Mr. Evans’ room. 
— The Russian serfs are to remain attached to 
the property until they have purchased their free¬ 
dom. 
— Yellow fever has made its appearance among 
the sailors of the shipping in the harbor of Havana, 
Cuba. 
— A physician at Danville, Virginia, has a horse 
that loves tobacco, and not only chews, hut swal¬ 
lows it 
— The boot and shoemakers of Eastern Massa¬ 
chusetts have organized a league for mutual pro¬ 
tection. 
— According to the Massachusetts Register, there 
are in Massachusetts a little rising of one thousand 
lawyers. 
— A few Mormons linger in Boston. They are 
mostly English. Religious services are held every 
Sunday. 
— Col. Morgan, U. S. Consul at Marseilles, it is 
said, will be Minister to Portugal, vice O. Sullivan 
re-called. 
— Mr. Reid, U. S. Senator from North Carolina, 
is still lying ill at home, with but little prospect of 
recovery. 
— During the first quarter of 1858, the National 
receipts were $19,090,135; and the expenditures 
$18,104,916. 
— The McKean Citizen learns that the work on 
the Genesee Valley Canal extension is soon to he 
commenced. 
— All the hanks at Savannah, Ga., resumed specie 
payment Saturday week, hut there was no extra de¬ 
mand for coin. 
— The damage to the sugar crop of Louisiana, 
by the Bell crevasse alone, is estimated at not less 
than $3,000,000. 
— The New York newspapers generally credit 
the news of the entrance of Gov. Cummings into 
Salt Lake City, 
— The Submarine Telegraph from Key West to 
Havana, has received the sanction of the Captain 
General of Cuba. 
— Sixteen thousand Texascattle arenowmoving 
northward, that will he in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri 
and Kansas in the fall. 
— Two new Colleges have been completed at 
Amherst, Mass., and they were formally dedicated 
on Wednesday week. 
— The press of Georgia is complaining a good 
deal because the banks of South Carolina do not 
resume specie payments. 
— In the seven islands of the Hawaiian group, 
there are reported to be ten Mormon missionaries 
and 3,132 communicants. 
— One of the government measures now before 
the Canadian Parliament is a hill to exempt jour¬ 
nalists from jury service. 
— Silver coin is so plenty at New York that it is 
advertised for sale in lots of $100 and upwards, at 
one-half per cent, discount. 
—The people of Kingston, Jamaica, are encourag¬ 
ing the emigration to that Island of free colored 
people from this country. 
— A compaDy of 100 families of Ware, Mas?., 
with their minister, migrate this spring to a newly 
selected settlement in Iowa. 
— A man was arrested on Monday week, in Cin¬ 
cinnati, with a bundle of counterfeit bills under his 
arm, amounting to $13,000. 
— A number of anti-rent cases were decided in 
the Supreme Court at Albany on Saturday in favor 
of Van Rensselaer, the landlord. 
— Armed men are being regularly drilled at 
Yorktown, De Witt Co., Texas, preparatory to an 
irruption into Northern Mexico. 
— There are complaints in Boston of a lack of 
small dwellings, suitable for persons whose incomes 
range from $800 to $1,500 a year. 
— Rev. Dr. Tyler, formerly and for a quarter of 
a century a Professor in the Theological Institute 
at New Haven, Conn., died last week. 
— It is estimated that not less than 5,000 lights 
of glass were broken in the hail storm that passed 
over Borodino, N. Y., on Saturday week. 
— The Atlantic Telegraph Company have ap¬ 
plied to the Secretary of the Navy for another 
frigate to help the Niagara lay the cable. 
— Over 1,500 places for the sale of liquor, cigars, 
&c., were open in N. Y. City Sunday week, and yet 
the police report a manifest improvement. 
— The Ballston Journal says that nearly all the 
plank roads in Saratoga county have proved un¬ 
profitable investments, and been abandoned. 
_CoL Prince has introduced a bill into the Leg¬ 
islative Council of Canada for the abolition of the 
office of Solicitor General of Upper Canada. 
_The seat of a member of the Connecticut 
Legislature is contested on the ground that he 
“treated” some of the voters on election day. 
