March. The veFgel wa3 insured for $115,000, and 
the cargo for $10,000. 
San Juao Island was in occupancy by American 
and British troops. 
It was estimated that 3,000 white men and 2,000 
Chinamen were engaged in mining on the Frazer 
ltiver. Mining accounts are encouraging, and 
new diggings have been discovered in various 
places. 
The news from Oregon and Washington Terri¬ 
tories is unimportant. 
resolution on the ICth, to adjourn over until 
early in May, so as to give an opportunity to the 
Democrats to attend the Charleston Convention, 
and meet and settle up business before the Chi¬ 
cago Convention. The resolution will be coupled 
with the provision that no new business is to be 
initiated. The object is to defeat the supposed 
design of the Governor to kill the city railroad 
bill, which he recommended in his annual mes¬ 
sage, by leaving them unsigned after the Legisla¬ 
ture has finally adjourned. 
The bill to repeal the act of 1851, releasing the 
railroads from the payment of tolls, came up for 
a third reading. The bill was recommitted, with 
instructions to insert the following in place of 
section 2, of the original bill: 
“The New York Central Railroad Company, 
and the Oswego and Syracuse Railroad Company, 
shall hereafter ruakc returns at. such period and 
in such manner as may he directed by the Com¬ 
missioner of the Canal Fund, of all the goods, 
chattels, and other property transported upon 
said railroads respectively, and shall pay into the 
treasury ot the State the same tolls per mile on all 
goods, chattels, and other property so transport' d, 
as would have been paid on them from the point 
of receipt to the point of delivery had they been 
transported on the Eric or Oswego canal. But the 
Canal Board shall make such rnles and regulations 
in regard to the transportation of frieghts on the 
said Central Railroad west of Utica, so as to con¬ 
tinue to the said road the privilege of transporting 
local freight without the pay merit of toll wherever 
the railroad companies consolidated into the. said 
Central Railroad Company enjoyed that privilege 
previous to 1 KM. And all sets and parts of acts 
repealed by the act hereby repealed, are hereby 
revived.” With this amendment the bill passed. 
<£f)e Nctns Conhenstr 
right the Saratoga, a ship-of-war belonging to 
the United States, has undertaken, iu time of 
peace, and without the Band ion of Congress, to 
use force against two other vcsselfrot-wnr. at that 
time in Mexican waters, and alter a bloody con¬ 
test to capture the same and to bring them as 
pretended prizes of war into u port of the United 
States, holding their officers and ciews as prison¬ 
ers; and also, to consider if any action of Con¬ 
gress he required to prevent the occurrence of 
such collision and such an assumption to make 
a prize of war and prisoners in time of peace. 
JJilh Pamvd —To arnmd the act for the admis¬ 
sion of Oregon, so as to extend the period when 
Oregon could locate certain grantB of land; for 
the relief of settlers on landB in Arkansas. 
House.— Mr. MorriH offered a resolution, which, 
after amendment, wss adopted, calling for all 
information concerning the slave trade, with in¬ 
structions to navul officers and the opinion of the 
President whether any further legislation was 
necessary. 
The bill for tbe admission of Kansas was called 
up, and after considerable discussion, was passed 
—yeas 134, nays 73. The bill declares that the 
State of Kansas shall be admitted into the Union 
under the Wyandotte Constitution, on an equal 
footing with the origlual States in all respects 
whatever. The boundaries begin at the point on 
the western boundary of Missouri, where the 37th 
parallel of north latitude crosses tbe same; thence 
west on said parallel to the 25th meridian of lon¬ 
gitude, west of Washington; thence north on 
that meridian to the 40th parallel of latitude; 
thence cast on said parallel to the western bound¬ 
ary of Missouri; th'nce south with the western 
boundary of that Elate to ihe place of beginning, 
provided nothing contained iu the constitution 
of Kansas shall be construed to impair the rights 
of persons or property now pertaining to the 
Indians in the territory, according to existing 
treaties; nor shall tbeir territory lie included 
with the State, until said tribe shall signify their 
assent thereto. Until the next general appoint¬ 
ment, Kansas shall be entitled to one member in 
the House of Representatives. Tbe remainder of 
the bill contains tbe usual land provisions and 
conditions. _ 
New York Legislature. 
Senate. —As the time fixed by law for the 
adjournment of our legislature expired last 
week, both branches have been busily at work 
pressing matters to completion. 
Bills I’assed. —To amend the net to facilitate 
the collection of debts against corporations; to 
compel the better attendance at offices of County 
Clerks and Clerks of Courts of Record; to sub¬ 
ject the foreign insurance companies and agencies 
to the Btate laws; for the incorporation of the 
Fine Art Associations; to provide for the ap¬ 
pointment of inspectors of elections in New 
York; to provide for the inspection of steam 
boilers in New York and Brooklyn; to amend the 
act for the incorporation of religious societies; 
to Incorporate Down Town Associations in New 
York: to amend the Revised Statutes, relative to 
alienation by deed; to amend law of indictments 
and proceedings thereon; for prepayment of in¬ 
terest on canal drafts. 
The General Appropriation bill was taken up 
and amended, by appropriating $5,000 to tho In¬ 
stitution for the Rlind, and for the publication of 
works on Musical Notation; $5,000 for the Monte¬ 
zuma Salt Springs. Tbe appropriation of $5,000 
to complete tbe Map of New York Harbor, was 
stricken out. 
Several other amendments were made, and the 
bill was read a third time and passed. 
Assembly. —The Governor returned, with a 
veto, the bill to erect the new county of Canisteo. 
The main objection is on account of the insuffi¬ 
ciency of population. 
Mr. Robinson called up tbe concurrent resolu¬ 
tion, which was adopted, appointing a commis¬ 
sion to examine the ‘discipline of the State 
Prisons, and report, to the next Legislature, with 
a view to araeud the condition of the convicts 
and to their reformation. 
A message was then announced from the Senate 
informing the Ilouse that that body refuses to 
recede from its amendments to the Assembly 
Railroad Toll bill. The House insisted upon its 
own bill—81 to 25. The bill substituted by the 
Senate for the Assembly Fro Rata bill was then 
nnuounced as a message from that body. Both 
of these subjects were acted on many days since 
by the Senate, and transmitted to the House, but 
have been kept back till now. 
Mr. Flagler moved to amend the Senate bill by 
naming the Comptroller, Auditor, State Engineer 
and the Commissioners, and adding a section 
applying pro rata at once to all the railroads in 
the State, and making it a misdemeanor for any 
railroad to charge less per mile for through than 
for way freight. Tbe amendments were adopted 
and the bill returned to the Senate. 
Bills Passed, —To preserve wild birds and fish; 
relating to Colonial History; to extend the power 
and confirm the acts of Notaries Public; to au¬ 
thorize the sale of land in the City Hall Park, 
New York, to the United States; to incorporate 
the Western Agricultural Association; to amend 
tbe Revised Statutes respecting indictments and 
proceedings thereon; to exempt certain property 
of physicians and surgeons from levy and sale on 
execution; to assure creditors a just division of 
the property of debtors on assignments; to estab¬ 
lish fire limits, and for the more effectual preven¬ 
tion of fires, in the east district of Brooklyn; to 
perfect the amendment to the Constitution abol¬ 
ishing qualification for Negroes; for the relief of 
insolvent debtors; the Metropolitan Police Law; 
to provide for 1| mill tax for the support of the 
government; to repeal tbe act allowing tbe N. Y. 
Central Railroad to charge five cents additional 
when tickets are not purchased before entering 
the cars; in relation to the Colonial History of 
the Slate; to amend tbe general manufacturing 
association law; the supply bill. 
Mr. Callicutt moved a vote of thanks to Speaker 
Littlejohn for tbe fairness, dignity, skill, and im¬ 
partiality with which he had discharged the ardu¬ 
ous duties of the Chair during the session. Carried 
unanimously. 
It has been agreed on by a number of members 
of tbe Senate and Assembly to introduce a joint- 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
Attnntlon Farmer*— K, L. Howard. 
Victoria 1'otatoeB—H. W. Dean. 
$10,000 l‘«intin(t J. M. Emerson A Co. 
New York Slate Air Society- B 1*. Johnson. 
Ljok! A r«lRot I'lawman-Gilbert C. Robinson. 
Heed Potatoes John Kapa'je. 
Tea* lor Bale -John Itsijiftlyo. 
Stork in v Doom ,1. H. .Inhrjiu'U St Co. 
To Fruit Grower*, StO—Wm. Lawton. 
Dav.sf Needling Potato Geo Babcock- 
Cheap Bti-awtieny Vine' JosephCaldwell. 
New Rot-beilo Rl»eliherry Plante. A>— John F. Chapman. 
Hungarian Crura Seed— Wilder, RobiOSOB « Lo. 
AV i Iron’ll All ..in v .-dot wherry-Thomas & Jlereudeen. 
Egyptian Corn— Jl. K. Crandal. 
RI-ICCIAL JIuTlCaS. 
Agricultural Cauldron and Steamer—D. R. Prindle. 
— The peach and plum trees are in bloom in Wash¬ 
ington. 
— The number of newspapers in England and Ireland 
is 1.04L 
— The library of Harvard College now contains about 
120,000 volumes. 
— There are 2,662 students in the various Medical Col¬ 
leges of the United States, 
— The maple sugar crop of Vermont this Eeason is esti¬ 
mated at nearly l.iOO tons. 
— Drinking establishments, in Charleston, are not per¬ 
mitted to keep open on Sundays. 
— The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, England, 
were founded about the year 1200. 
— Gerrit Smith continues to improve in health. All 
the old vigor of mind has returned. 
— An English paper Eays Rosa Bonheur has received 
an offer of marriage from an American. 
— The earnings of the Auburn State Prison, for March, 
were $2,236 IT in excess of expenditures, 
— In the United States, there are about 200,000 Jews, 
while there are in all England only 35,000. 
— Mrs. Jameson is dead, and Florence Nightingale is 
dying. Thus the great and the good pass away. 
— A shower of hlack rain, last week, fell in Syracuse, 
Utica, Rome, and some parts of Oswego county. 
— The proposition for a State Government in Nebraska 
proves to have been voted down by S00 majority. 
— Large quantities of fish are taken at Toledo. The 
shipments are said to be from 30 to 40 tuns daily. 
— Mrs. Henry Pope, of Louisville, Ky., recently came 
to her death by inhaling chloroform, for headache. 
— A printing-office and lithographic establishment hap 
recently been formed for the first time in Greenland. 
— A woman died recently, ill Wick ow county, Ireland, 
at the advanced age of one hundred and forty years. 
— The Galveston (Texas) News says that frost, in vaii. 
ous parts of the interior, has injured the early cotton, 
— Ten tons of flsb were caught at Chaumont Bay, Jef. 
ferson Co., on Monday week. They wore mostly pike. 
— There is a factory operative in England, the oldest 
extant, now In liis ninetieth year; he still woiks daily. 
—Over 18,000 persons in New York live in underground 
basements, averaging about five persons to a basement. 
— Frederick Weber, tho largest man in Baltimore, 
weighing 472 pounds, died, suddenly, on Thursday week. 
— A gas-meter attached to tbe St, Charles Hotel, New 
Orleans, burst, on Wednesday week, and killed ten men. 
— Cucumbers are selling at Savannah, Georgia, at 26 
cents each, and green peas at 37 cents per quart in the 
pod. 
— Gov. Henry Dodge, of Wisconsin, is said to be tbe 
first white American born north and west of the Ohio 
river. 
— Douglas E. Jerrold, a son of the celebrated English 
wit and author, Douglas Jeirold, is on a visit to Charles¬ 
ton, S. C. 
— Arrangements are making in England to establish a 
fund for the relief of the sufferers by the wreck of the 
Hungarian. 
— A boy, sixteen years of age, has been arrested at 
Washington, charged with the recent incendiarism at the 
Navy Yard. 
— There are 998 booksellers in the eight Western 
States, Illinois standing first, with 263, and Minnesota, 
lout, With 18. 
— Horses are dying rapidly in Brooklyn, N. Y., of * 
disease called by the veterinary surgeons there paral)«* 
of the throat. 
—The State of Arkansas is the only State in tbe Union 
without a Telegraph, and she has not a foot of line with¬ 
in her border. 
— It is expected that tbe Japanese Commissioners will 
arrive at Panama, cn route for Washington, about the 
middle of May, 
— The last act of the Tennessee Legislature was to 
pass a hill repealing all acts of the session granting State 
aid to railroads. 
— The Canadians propose constructing a branch of tho 
“ Great Western Railway ’’ from the Falls to Fort Erie, 
opposite Buffalo. 
— Over one thousand acres on the Fishkill mountains, 
in Dutchess county, N. Y., were burnt over on Saturday 
and Sunday week. 
—The first time grain was ever exported from Canada 
was iu the year 1762, when two ships arrived in Marseilles, 
laden with wheat. 
— It is rumored that Paul Morphy is to return to Paris, 
with his mother, with the intention of making the French 
capital their home 
— Baron Rothschild, of Paris, one of the rich Jews, 
upon whom the kings of Europe are dependent, is about 
to visit this country. 
— A quantity of strawberries were brought to New 
York, by a Savannah steamer, on Saturday. They were 
the first of the season. 
— The census just taken in Washington Territory 
shows a population of 6,844, and assessed property 
News Paragraphs. 
From Mexico. — Advices from Vera Cruz of 
April 1st, confirm the raising of the siege by Mi 
ramoD, owing to want of provisions and munitions 
of war. He had lost 2,000. of the 3,000 men.— 
The loss to the city was trifling. 
Ad vices from tho city of Mexico state that there 
is a strong feeling in that city in favor of war 
with the United States. Tho American Minister, 
Mr, Lane, arrived at Vera Cruz on the 28tb. De- 
gollado lias gone to Tampico upon a campaign.— 
Valdez, with 2,500 men, had been defeated with a 
loss of 1,500. 
A Mormon Schism. —Joseph Smith, Jr., (tbe 
son of “the Prophet,”) who is now in Illinois, has 
accepted tbe invitation to take the place of bis 
father in the Church, and at the Conference at 
Amboy, Illinois, last week, where this was settled, 
the apostacy of the Church in Utah was de¬ 
nounced, l’oligamy attacked, and a purpose 
avowed to restore the primeval doctrines. This 
will probably lead to a split. 
The Secretary of the Treasury on Tuesday 
communicated to the Senate the amount of reve¬ 
nue collected and tbe expenses thereof, with the 
number of persons employed. In 1858, tbe reve¬ 
nue amounted to $42,542,287; tbe expenses to 
$3,528,788. Tbe number of employees was 3,041. 
In 1859, tbe revenue collected amounted to $49,* 
353,439. Expenses, $3,395,030. The employees 
numbered 2,972. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 21, 1860. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Washington Matter*. 
By order of the Secretary Of War, a detach¬ 
ment of twenty-six privates, with two sergeants 
and corporals, under the command of Lieut. 
Mullin, detailed from two companies of dragoons 
at Fort Laramie, have been ordered for service 
with the expedition under Captain Reynolds, for 
exploration of the headwaters of the Yellowstone 
and Missouri rivers. They will leave as soon as 
the season will permit, 
Tho Commissioner of Patents granted an ex¬ 
tension of the Morse patent, tor seven years from 
April lltb. It covers tlic patent of 1846, includ¬ 
ing the instruments now in nse, and the mode of 
transmission. The grounds on which the Com¬ 
missioner granted the extension, are that the in¬ 
vention was original, novel, useful, and patenta¬ 
ble; thut it was valuable and important to the 
public, and that the inventor has not been ade¬ 
quately remunerated for his time, ingenuity, or 
expense, in originating or perfecting it. 
The House having requested the President to 
communicate all the information in his possession 
relative to the expulsion of Americans from tbe 
city of Mexico, and the confiscation of their 
property by Gen. Miramon, the Secretary of State 
has replied that no information on the subject Las 
reached the Department. 
The House Territorial Committee to-day or¬ 
dered bills to be prepared for the organization of 
Dacota, Pike’s Peak, Nevada, and Arizona; the 
latter bill to include the western portion of the 
Territory, and not the southern half, as devised 
by the fl Uibustcrs. 
Tho other bills will be very much like the Sen¬ 
ate bill, so far as boundaries are concerned. 
It is understood that some of the Republican 
Senators held a conference last week, in order to 
consider an amendment, prepared by Senator Sim¬ 
mons, to the commercial clause ol'the Mexican 
treaty. As the treaty now stands,it would, in the 
matter of importations, confer on France, Eng¬ 
land, Belgium, and other nations, equal advanta¬ 
ges with this country, because by our existing 
treaties with them, they could claim all the bene¬ 
fits extended to the must favored nations, among 
which Mexico would he included, thus giving 
them advantages equal to our own, in Mexico, at 
our expense. This is the interpretation given to 
the danse by one of the Senators. The object of 
the amendment of Mr. Simmons is to secure for 
ourselves exclusively the advantages in com¬ 
merce and domestic products. This, it is sup¬ 
posed, can be accomplished; in which event the 
other clause of the treaty will become compara¬ 
tively unobjectionable to several of those Senators 
who are opposed to tbe treaty in its original 
form. This movement is regarded as indicative 
of an improvement of the prospects of the ratifi¬ 
cation of the treaty. There is reason to believe 
that the parties directly interested will aeqniescc 
in such an amendment. 
I.and sales are to take place in Michigan in 
July and August, of alternate sections, under the 
Railroad Act of 1846, the minimum proceeds of 
which is $2 50 per acre, together with the lands 
heretofore unoffered, embracing an area of 1,680,- 
000 acres. 
It appears from the files of the State Depart¬ 
ment that nothing has been effected by our Minis¬ 
ters abroad to remove the restrictions on the 
tobacco trade. The latest, communication on the 
subject is from our late Minister to France, Mr. 
Mason. This communication is dated August, 
1858, in which he says that the French Govern¬ 
ment has no desire to surrender the monopoly 
and sale of the article. 
The postal rates between the United States and 
the Graud Duchy of Luxemburg, by the Bremen 
mail, has been reduced from 22 to 15 cents, pre¬ 
payment optional, so that the uniform rate of the 
latter amount is now chargeable on all letters con¬ 
veyed in the Bremen mail between the United 
States and the States belonging to the German 
and Austrian Union. 
The Attorney General concurs with the Secre¬ 
tary of the Navy in justifying the capture of the 
Mexican steamers, and has given an opinion to 
that effect. They are libeled at New Orleans. In 
regard to the prisoners, the question will be legally 
determined whether they were pirates or become 
prisoners through au alledged act of war in 
firing into the Indianola, 
FOREIGN NEWS 
•Lord John Russell had stated 
Great Britain. 
in tbe House of Commons that the San Juan ques¬ 
tion was approaching a settlement 
The House of Commons had adopted an address 
to the Crown, urging strong efforts to obtain from 
France the abolition of restrictions on British 
shipping. 
JiOrd Elgin’s departure for China had been de¬ 
layed till the middle of April. 
The London Herald understands that a Con¬ 
gress of the great Powers will be held in the 
course of a few weeks in London. 
Franck.— The first returning batallions of the 
French army, from Italy, had entered Savoy. Re¬ 
ports bad been in circulation that orderB had been 
transmitted to suspend the departure, but they 
were pronounced untrue. 
Franco assumes 175,000,000 of francs of the 
debt of Piedmont, in consideration of the cession 
of Savoy. 
The Palrie asserts that the King of Naples, not¬ 
withstanding the Invitation of tho Pope, refuses to 
occupy the Papal States with Neapolitan troops. 
The French Senate had Indirectly rejected, by 
n large majority, petitions requesting tbeir in¬ 
tervention in favor of the temporal powers of the 
Pope. 
Italy. —The result of the election for represen¬ 
tatives in Parliament is very favorable to the Lib¬ 
eral cause. 
It is reported from Rome that on the 20tli, the 
gens d’ armie charged the people, and that more 
than thirty were wounded. 
In the administration of Tuscany, Prince Carig- 
nan is appointed Lieutenant of the King, and 
Commander of the naval atul military forces.— 
Rlcusoli is appointed General Governor. The 
Ministry is discontinued, and the urmy of Tuscany 
will be incorporated with the Sardinian army. A 
squadron with Sardinian troops had left Genoa 
for Tuscany. 
The Pope had issued the act of major excom¬ 
munication against all who had counseled rebel¬ 
lion, invasion or usurpation in the Romagna, and 
had sent a protest to all the governments against 
the annexation of the legations to Sardinia. 
Austki a. —The Minister of the Interior has re¬ 
buked the Austrian functionaries in Hungary for 
not watching the movements of the populace and 
not reporting the manner of persons hostile to 
the government. 
Austria had handed to the German Diet a pro¬ 
test against the annexation of the Italian Duchies 
to Sardinia. 
Stain and Morocco _The official Madrid Ga- 
zette contains the preliminaries of a treaty of 
peace between Spain and Morocco. Tho latter 
cedes all the territory between the Sea and the 
road to Augheria. The convention of 1659, relat¬ 
ing to Manilla is ratified. Au indemnity of 20,- 
000,000 piastres is to be paid to Spain for the ex¬ 
penses of the war, and in tbe meantime Spain is 
to hold Tetuau, A commercial treaty is guaran¬ 
teed, and a Spanish minister and missionaries are 
permitted to reside at Fez. The treaty is to be 
signed at Tetuan, April 2d, and a commissioner is 
to be appointed to determine the boundaries be¬ 
tween Spain and Morocco. 
Later intelligence states that the preliminaries 
of peace between Spain and Morocco were signed 
tbe 25th, and an armistice was concluded previ¬ 
ously. A battle occurred on the 23d, on the road 
to Tangiers, in which the Spaniards were com¬ 
pletely victorious. 
Switzerland. —It is expected that England and 
Prussia will act in concert, especially in main¬ 
taining the rights of Switzerland. 
A dispatch from Berlin says that the answer to 
Thouvenel’s note is destined for the preservation 
of the rights, and energetically supports the de¬ 
mand of .Switzerland. 
India.— India dates are to February 25th, hut 
nothing important. 
The total cost of the mutinies is estimated at 
£40,000,000 sterling. It is proposed to tax manu¬ 
factured tobacco Cd per pound. 
The U. S. steamer Hartford was at Hong Kong. 
workmanship. They have conducted themselves 
with great dignify and propriety. 
The Powliftttan, on the day of her arrival, went 
to the Marc Island Navy Yard, all the embassadors 
remaining on board. It will reqnire several 
days to overhaul the steamer and take in coal, 
when she will kail for Panama. The embassadors 
will theuc© proceed to Aspinwall, where tbe 
United Slates steamer Roanoke is expected to he 
in waiting to convey them to Washington. They 
are so well pleased with the Powhattan that they 
expressed a wish to have her detained at Panama 
to convey them hack to Japan, on their return 
from tbe United States. They propose spending 
about’a month on the Atlantic side, although 
tbeir time is not limited. 
By the Powhattan, advices from Japan are 
received to tho 15th of February. The govern¬ 
ment of Japan had commenced etampiug Mexican 
dollars, making them legal currency in that 
country, thus obviating one of tbe principal diffi¬ 
culties in prosecuting trade with foreigners. 
The Powhattan arrived at Honolula March 5th, 
and remained till the 18th. The embassadors 
were there received with all formal honors. 
Private hospitalities were extended on every 
hand, and the King and Queen held a council at 
the Falace for the reception of the distinguished 
foreigners, and welcomed them in appropriate 
terms. 
There has been much excitement in Eldorado, 
during the past few days, on account of the dis¬ 
covery 7 , near Georgetown, of some valuable speci¬ 
mens of silver ore, resembling that from the 
Washoe mines. Whether the lead is extensive or 
not has not been determined. 
The Senate hits passed a bill appropriating 
$700,000 for tbe commencement of a State Capitol 
at Sacramento. Also, a bill appropriating $240,- 
000, to build nine wagon roads across the Sierra 
Nevada Mountains. 
The amount of gold bullion deposited in the 
mint last week, was 29,994 ounces, and silver bul¬ 
lion to the amount of 7,000 ounces. The amount 
of money coined was $236,000, mostly in double 
eagles. 
Tbe excitement in regard to the silver and gold 
mines in Carson Valley, is unabated. Hundreds 
are pouring in from all parts of California. 
Scarcely a company who are prospecting have 
failed in striking rich ore where they anticipated 
to find it. The mineral region extends for 100 
miles in every direction, and rich discoveries 
have been made over 100 miles up the Humboldt. 
The Spanish claims, situated where the mines 
were first opened, were yielding $20,000 per day. 
Ground is changing hands at from $20 to $100 
per foot 
The Meno Lake and Walker River country is 
rich in minerals. Hundreds are prospecting that 
region, and generally with good success. Ore is 
now being shipped to San Francisco for smelting. 
Five different companies are making arrange¬ 
ments to ship their ore as soon as animals can be 
procured. The ore sent yields from $2,000 to 
$2,500 per tun. Discoveries of gold-bearing 
quartz are being made every day. 
The steamer Brother Jonathan arrived at San 
Francisco, bringing Oregon dates to the 26th 
ulL, Washington, the 29tli, and British Columbia, 
the 30th. 
The bark Glimpse, with a cargo valued at $28,- 
000, was wrecked near Victoria on the 13th of 
CengreMional Proceedings. 
Senate.— -Mr. Hale introduced a resolution, 
which was adopted, instructing the Committee 
on Naval Affaits to inquire whether any corporal 
punishment has been substituted since the aboli¬ 
tion of flogging in the navy, and by what author¬ 
ity; and what steps have been taken in regard to 
the recent murder on board a United States vessel 
and what steps may be necessary for the protec¬ 
tion of seamen on board of United States and 
merchant vessels. 
On motion of Mr. Sumner it was 
Reuolved, That the Committee on Foreign Re¬ 
lations be instructed to consider hy what title or 
