JIks. Livingstone, wife of the traveler, has just 
returned to England from Africa, bringing with 
her a little daughter born somewhere in Zambesi, 
about 800 miles from the coaBt, and where Ur. 
Livingstone is passing the season. 
Hon. Samuel Bkakdslet died at his residence 
in Utica, on Sunday night, 6th inst. He had been 
a member of Congress four terms, Judge of tbe 
Supreme Court, and had filled other important 
stations. Mr. B. had for forty years been promi¬ 
nent as a lawyer and politician. 
A «KKAT natural curiosity, in the shape of an 
immense cave, has been discovered in Kentucky 
and explored for a considerable distance. It is 
located not many miles from the great Mammoth 
Cave, and is said to rival it in size and attractive¬ 
ness. It goes by the name of the Hundred Dome 
Cave. 
Five hundred and eighty three persons, disci¬ 
ples of Joe Smith, left Liverpool on the SOth ult., 
for New York and Salt Lake City. 
Political Intelligence. 
In our last issue we chronicled the assembling 
of the National Democratic Convention at Charles¬ 
ton, and Its organization, and now resume the 
detail of transactions. Two platforms, (majority 
and minority,) were presented for consideration, 
and, on vote, the former was rejected and the 
latter adopted. Tbe accepted platform reads thus: 
{{'tiih til, That wc, the pptnocniey ol the Union, in 
Convention assetolilsd, hereby doelnjo our approbation 
of the resolution.* unnnimouJy adopted and declared m 
a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention 
at Cincinnati, lo tbe year 1856, believing that Democratic 
principleM are unchangeable In their nature, when ap¬ 
plied to the name mbjee.t matter, and we recommend «.» 
onr only further resolution-- the following: 
That’inasmuch aa dllfereticOft of opinion exist in the 
Democratic party, aa to the nature and extent of the 
Territorial J.upuhitnrefi, and a* to the powers and duties 
of Congress under the Constitution of the United States 
over the institution of Slavery in the Territories, 
Roolve.il, That the Democratic party will abide by tbe 
decision of tlio Supreme Court of the United States over 
the Institution of Slavery in the Territories 
Ileeotved, That it is the duty ol the United States to 
nfiord ample and complete protection to all its citizens, 
whether at home or abroad, and whether native or for¬ 
eign born, 
Resolced, That one of the necessities of the age, in a 
military, commercial, and postal view, <8 speedy commu¬ 
nication between the Atlfluticand Pacific Slates, and tbe 
Democratic party pledge such constitutional government 
aid as will insure the construction of a railroad to the 
Pacific coast at the earliest practical period. 
Resolv'd, That the Dvmoej-atic party are in favor of 
tli* acquisition of the Island ot Cuba, on sne.li terms as 
will Ire honorable Vo ourselves and iust to Spain, 
Resolved, That the enactment of State Legislatures to 
defeat the faithful execution of the fagitive slave law. 
are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, 
and revolutionary in their effect. 
Upon the adoption of the foregoing, the dele¬ 
gates, from the following States, cither the whole 
or in part, withdrew from the Convention: — 
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Arkansas 
South Carolina, Alabama, Delaware, and Georgia. 
A resolution requiring that two-thirds of all 
the electoral votes of the United States shall be 
required lor nominations, was adopted, where¬ 
upon the Convention proceeded to ballot for a 
candidate for the Presidency. The first ballot 
resulted as follows: 
Dougins......... I46ji 
Outline.. 36J£ 
Dlckinaou.. 7 
Lane.. 6 
Hunter. 4 
Davis. 1 
Toucey.. 2}£ 
Pierce .. 1 
Johnson... 1 
The balloting continued until fifty-seven were 
taken, the result being, 
Douglas,. 161>£ 
Hunter,. 16 
Oulhrle,. 65}£ 
Dickinson,... 2 
Lane.16 
Jeff. Davis, . 1 
On the morning of the lid inst, when the Con¬ 
vention re-assemhlcd, Mr. llusBell, of Va., made 
an explanation touching the Tennessee Com¬ 
promise, and offered a resolution that when this 
Convention adjourn it be to meet at Baltimore on 
the 18th of June. 
This resolution was adopted by a vote of 195 
to 65. 
The Seeeders from the National Convention 
met and organized, John C. Preston, of South 
Carolina, presiding. 
Mr. Yancey proposed that they should take no 
action, hut remain here to watch the proceedings 
of the regular Convention. Should that Conven¬ 
tion nominate Douglas, it would then become 
their duty to present and recommend to the peo¬ 
ple of the United States a candidate for President 
and Vice-President on a Constitutional and Na¬ 
tional basis, and, therefore, Southern. He tho’t 
no steps should betaken by the Seceding Conven¬ 
tion until tho proper time. 
The Convention adopted the platform reported 
by the majority of the Platform Committee to the 
National Convention. 
Mr. Jackson, of Gft., then offered a resolution 
for a Southern Convention to be held at Washing¬ 
ton, on the second Monday in June, and it was 
adopted with hut five or six dissenting voices. 
A resolution providing that, an address, embody¬ 
ing the grounds on which the Southern members 
seceded, be prepared and published, together 
with the proceedings of this Convention, was 
adopted, when the Convention adjourned sine die. 
The Republican State Convention will beheld 
at Iowa City on the 23d inst. Candidates for 
Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney 
General, Land Commissioner, and Presidential 
Electors, are to be nominated. 
The Republican State Convention of Michigan 
mer in Detroit on the 2d inst, Austin Blair, W. 
M. Murphy, Thos. W. Ferry, and James J. St. 
Clair, were elected delegates at large to Chicago. 
Strong Seward resolutions were passed. The 
Convention was harmonious. 
The Republican State Convention of Virginia 
met nt Wheeling on the 2d inst Delegates were 
present from all parts of the State. The Conven¬ 
tion was called to order at 10 o’clock. Joseph 
Applegate, of Brooke county, was President, with 
eleven Vice-Presidents. 
Hon. Alfred Caldwell, E. M. Norton, of Ohio 
county, J. C. Underwood, of Clark county, and W. 
Agitt, of .Montgomery county, were appointed 
delegates from the State at large, to Chicago, with 
full district delegates and alternates. 
The Committee on Resolutions reported a 
lengthy address, with a series of resolutions, 
pledging support to the Chicago nominee, favor¬ 
ing a taritf affording protection and encourage- ' 
mem to the products of the white laboring men i 
of our country against that of foreign countries; 1 
equality of rights among citizens, and opposing < 
proscription on account of opinions; denouncing 
the action of tbe Administration regardingthe im¬ 
pressment of naturalized citizens, when visiting t 
the country of their birth; approving the Home- 1 
stead LiR, and favoring the plan of Colonizing t 
free negroes. t 
The next Convention will be held at Richmond. 
From Mexico. —Advices from Mexico to the 
27th, state that the Liberals have been victorious. 
Several skirmishes reported. 
The New Orleans Picayune contains tbe details 
of the Mexican news. At the city of Mexico a 
special Conducts of $3,000,000 was being made 
up and it would be escorted 83 far as tbe National 
bridge. The Church government would receives 
per cent on it The Conducta would leave for 
Vera Cruz on April 23d. The American Consu¬ 
late at Vera Cruz was fully organized. The news 
from the army operations in the interior are in¬ 
definite. The French and English are endeavor¬ 
ing to consummate a cessation of hostilities. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER 
®l)e News Conbeitstr. 
Pack. 
AGRICULTURAL, 
Culture of the I’ea, [Illustrated,}...149 
lliuts on Sheen Mailin'*incut,...-14® 
Grain for Breeding Ewes,..,.-149 
Summer Cate of Ijuobg, Ac.,.149 
True Short-horn Dull “Hiawatha," [Illustrated,].149 
Rearing and Training Milch Cows,.149 
About preparing ground for Corn,.WO 
How to Select Seed Com,...W0 
Weather, Crops, Ac., in Virginia,.WO 
How to Grow Manuel Wurael.150 
Pole Evil—Treatment, Ac..150 
The ReeKccjjcr- The queen Dee How Produced,...150 
inquiries and burger* — Spring Wheat—Core and 
Grubs; Dloasc-d Evea — Information Wanted; Blood 
Spavin; That Piece ol'Timber—Contents; Post ami Kail 
Pence,. - ,.- .UO 
Agricultural Miscellany —Tlio Season; U. S. Ac. So¬ 
ciety; Steam Ho wing a fixed fact; Monroe Co. Horse 
Show; The new Cattle disease: Wool-Growing in Cali¬ 
fornia; Sorghum Sugar; Logical Advice to Young Men,.150 
HORTICULTURAL. 
The Flower Garden,. 151 
Trees and Shrubs,. 151 
Annuals and Bedding Plante,. 15] 
Herbaceous and Perennial Plants,.151 
Bulbous Flowers [Illustrated,]......151 
Horticultural Exchange,.151 
The Spergula plhTera, IHluatrated,]..,...151 
New Perennial Spinach,. 151 
Inquiries and .Answers-Preserving Fruit, &c.; Cm 
and Grapes in Egypt; Patent-Office Seeds — Cree;>er 
Peas; Raspberries arid Blackberries; Hubbard Sqmnh; 
The Victoria Current; Compound Apples; Good use w 
Hard Soil,. .....151 
DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 
Inquiry; Washing made Easy: Hair Oil: New Knife 
Cleaner, [Illustrated;] Lemon and Root Beer; Sweet 
AJJple Pudding; Inquiry; Loaf Cake—Inquiry,..151 
LADIES’ OLIO. 
To one who Rung to me, [Poetical,] A Married Man's 
Reverie; More about Flirting; Lamartine'sOpinion Of 
Woman; A Sensible Young Lady; Words........152 
CHOICE MISCELLANY. 
Bright, Merry May, |Poetical.] “Strike while the Iron 
is Hot;" The Cricket in the Wall: Growing Old; The 
— New York city is fiooded with counterfeit coin. 
— Flour, at Carson Valley, is quoted at $20 per barrel. 
— The work of renovating Mount Vernon has com¬ 
menced. 
— New York and Brooklyn report aa ice crop of 400,- 
000 tuns. 
— The present population of New Jersey is estimated 
at 704,000. 
— The profits of the English cotton trade are five 
million dollars a month. 
— England pays to foreign countries an average of 
$8,000 ,000 per month for food. 
— The first car has been placed upon the horse railway 
now being built in Milwaukee. 
— A private letter says thBt Mr. Townsend Harris, our 
Consul General to Japan, is dead. 
— The stone for the government buildings at Ottawa, 
Canada, are to be procured from Ohio, 
— The culture of turtles is now prosecuted in La 
Camargue, in France, with great success. 
— At a cost of over $83,000, the late Ohio Legislature 
elected a U. S. Senator aud passed a dog law. 
— A lady in Fall River, Mass., has been successful in 
hatching goslings by means of artificial heat. 
— The municipal expenses of the city of Boston, for 
the current year, are estimated at $3,034,000. 
— Violent shocks of earthquake were felt in various 
portions of Hayti from the 8th to the 13th nit. 
— The Poet-Master General of Canada has abolished 
the postage on American newspaper exchanges. 
— A model farm a-soeiatiun is organized at Philadel¬ 
phia, with a capital of $50,000; shares $50 each 
— The expense of taking the census this year through¬ 
out the Union will be about a million of dollars. 
— The New Orleans papers chronicle persistent incen¬ 
diary attempts to fire cotton presses in that city. 
— Grapes are displayed in the windows of Broadway 
fruiteries, with the notice attached, $3 per pound. 
— The probabilities are that a full old-fashioned crop 
or peaches will be produced in New Jersey this year. 
— Chicago does not mean to be behind Charleston. 
They had strawberries and green peas there last week. 
— A negro of seventy years 
FOREIGN NEWS, 
The greater 
part of them were English, the Scotch being next 
in number. Only one was Irish, and seventy-four 
were foreigners, chiefly Germans, It is said that 
they appeared highly intelligent persons, and 
seemed to be of the class of substantial farmcrB 
and operatives. 
Vesuvius appears disposed to get up another 
sensation. The 20th and 21st of March the moun¬ 
tain threw out lire and burning stones, at the same 
time uttering a loud noise, as of thunder. At the 
foot of the mountain three small craters were 
formed, with the earth open, and currents of lava 
issuing. 
Tub London journals announce the death of 
the great Hungarian Statesman, Count Szecbenyi. 
He committed suicide. The immediate provoca¬ 
tion was a visit paid to his house by the Austrian 
police. He had become actually maddened by 
the sight of the misery of his country, and driven 
to despair by Austrain tyranny aud persecution. 
Thus has ended a life whose prime was passed in 
a career of usefulness such as few even among tbe 
greatest of the world can hope to emulate—whose 
latter years were passed in grief and tears, and 
whose gray hairs were brought in Borrow to the 
grave dug for him by Hapsburg perfidy. Count 
Szecbenyi Ishan was a magnate and member of 
one of the oldest families in Hungary. 
A coal bank in North Union, Fayette Co., 
Pa., says the Pittsburg Post, of April 30, is at the 
present time on fire, and has been for about six 
weeks. It caught from a fire kindled by some 
young men, which they failed fully to extinguish 
when leaving the bank Catching a prop, it com¬ 
municated with tbe coal, and spread till it. now 
covers a large space. All attempts to extinguish 
the fire have thus far proved abortive, and the 
result may be similar to that of a burning moun¬ 
tain in this State, where a hill of coal has been 
burning for years, and continues to burn, without 
any probability of being extinguished. 
A CORESPONDENT of the Rubai, writes ns that 
there are four persons living together in the south 
part of Cayuga Co., wlbse united ages amount to 
321 years. Their ages are as follows:—Phebe 
Underhill. 91: her son, Jesse, 71; his wife, 
Pamelia, (19; wife’s mother, Jane Purdy, 90; 
Eartli. 
THE TRAVELER. 
A Trip to California-Lettors Vll and VIII; An Italian 
Climate. 
USEFUL OLIO. 
May-Day for Tree-Planting; The Lost Arts,.. 
YOUNG RUKAUST. 
Mrs. Grammar’s Ball; Preservation of Birds, &c.—No. 
III. [Illustrated,] Coloring the Less, Making the Eyes, 
Insects, aud Mode of Fastening insects to the Setting 
Board,. 
STORY TELLER. 
Our Dead, [Poetical.] Penny Wise and Pound Foolish,.. 
was married Tuesday 
evening week, at Cincinnati, to a white girl of twenty. 
— Since the opening of Greenwood Cemetery, New 
York, in 1842, 75,893 bodies have been interred therein. 
— A Portland judge has just decided that umbrellas 
are private property. The local papers exult over the fact. 
— Extensive salt works are about being established at 
Goderich, C. W. The trials have been eminently suc¬ 
cessful. 
— The telegraph line from England, Shetland, Zealand, 
Greenland, and labrador, to Canada, will be in operation 
in 1861. 
— The city of Syracuse is to have a railroad through 
some of its principal streets for the convenience of its 
citizens. 
— The imports at Portland, Me., by the Canadian 
steamships during the winter, amounted to over twenty- 
five millions. 
— The East Saginaw (Mich.) Courier says that a large 
portion of the produce consumed in that section comes 
from Cauada. 
— Mrs. Jane Gamble, a widow lady, of Eatonton, Ga, 
under the influence of religions monomania, starved her¬ 
self to death. 
— It is said that Prince Napoleon, son of ex-King 
Jerome, and cousin of Napoleon IH, is coming to the 
United States. 
— On Tuesday evening week, a wild pigeon flew into 
the front engine lamp of an express train on the N. Y. 
Centra] Railroad. 
— The steamship Australasian is one of the largest 
steamships that ever visited our waters, belDg over 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
A New Book—Geo. W. Evans. 
Mrs. Holmes’ New Story in The New York Weekly 
Alden’s Patent Thill Horse-tine—Milton Alden. 
F.yyptinn Corn M. K Crandal. 
The Palmyra Normal Musi* School. 
Socket Shank Hues—N. B. Phelps. 
SPBCUI, NOTICES. 
Cure for Coughs—Brown’s Bronchial Troches. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y„ MAY 12, 18G0, 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Washington 31 nHere. 
Gov. CriiMiNo has informed the President 
that Utah is iu a condition bordering on anarchy, 
and some action is therefore necessary on the 
part of the Government to relieve the territory 
from present and impending evils. He alludes to 
the bands of desperadoes whose conduct renders 
the tenure of life and property uncertain, and re¬ 
quests that either Judges be sent out in place of 
those who had deserted Utah, or tho Probate 
Courts to be authorized exercise the powers 
claimed by them, and granted by the Legislative 
Assembly, to adopt some other meanB of safety. 
He requests that 500 soldiers be retained there, as 
the withdrawal of the entire army would be in¬ 
jurious and unjust Gov. C. states the popula¬ 
tion of Utah at 50.000 or 52,000, though a higher 
estimate is placed by the Mormons. 
The five new territories, which the House Com¬ 
mittee on Territories propose to organize, con¬ 
tain respectively the following number of inhab¬ 
itants:—Chippewa, from 8,000 to 10,000; Nevada, 
about the same; Dakotah, S,000; Idaho, Dike’s 
Peak, 15,000 to 20,000; Arizona, 0,000 to 8,000- 
The Supreme Court adjourned, on the 4th inst., 
till next December. Of about 70 California land 
cases adjudicated, 30, where there was contest of 
title, were decided ou the ground of fraud, in 
favor of the Federal Government. They involved 
upward of 1,000,000 acres of land, worth SI 5,500,- 
000 or $20,000,000, and included the Bolton or 
Santallan case, this claim being for 10.000 acres 
in the city of San Francisco, and 20,000 outside 
of its limits, estimated to be worth about$l(>,000,- 
000. The opinion of the Court in this case was 
that the claimants showed no legal title or record 
of the evidence in support of the grant; that the 
claimants have no equity for want of considera¬ 
tion, possession and improvement, and that the 
evidence satisfied the Court that the claim was 
fabricated in i860,—was ante-dated, and that it 
was false and forged. The judgment of the Dis¬ 
trict Court ot California, and the decision of the 
Land Commissioners was therefore reversed. 
The receipts of the Treasury for the quarter 
ending with March, were nearly $22,500,000, of 
which upwards of $15,000,000 were from customs, 
invested is $13,433,930. The largest interest is 
saw-mills, one thousand two hundred and twenty- 
five in number, valued at $4,435,200. There are 
four hundred and seventeen flouring mills, valued 
at $2,804,700. 
The grain warehouse of the Michigan Central 
Railroad is now so full, the Detroit papers say, 
that receivers have been notified that they must 
either cease bringing iu more or commence ship¬ 
ping oft There is, they estimate, at least 1 GO,000 
buBliels, of all kinds, in store in this building. 
This is the first time it has been full iu three years. 
Among the laws passed by the Massachusetts 
Legislature at the recent session, was one impos¬ 
ing a fine of $100 on any person who shall will¬ 
fully send to the publishers of any newspaper for 
the purpose of publication, a fraudulent notice of 
the birth of a child, or of the marriage of any 
parties, or of the death of any person. 
The largest circulation of any ODe bank in the 
United States, is that of the Citizens’ Bank, New 
Orleans, viz., $5,535,000. Others iu that city have 
large issues, viz., Bank of Louisiana, $1,005,000; 
State Bank, $2,898,000; Canal Bank, $1,023,000. 
It is recorded iu the April number of tbe Brit¬ 
ish American Journal, that a surgeon recently 
removed from a man’s ear a black beetle of no 
ordinary dimensions. The doctor was informed 
that, thirteen years before, the patient had slept in 
a buffalo skin, and was aroused during the night 
by a tickling sensation in his ear, but nothing of 
consequence was thought of it. 
Congressional Proceedings^ 
$500,000 from the lands, $249,000 from incidental 
and miscellaneous services, $5,588,000 from treas- 
ury notes, under the act of 1857, and $1,910,000 
from the loan act of 1858. The expenditures 
were $20,337,000, of which $11,500,000 was for 
civil and foreign intercourse and miscellaneous 
expenses, $3,037,000 for the War Department, 
2,444,000 for the Navy Department, $1,094,000 for 
the Indian Bnreau and Pensions, and the remain¬ 
ing $2,300,000 for the interest of the public debt, 
the reimbursement and payment of treasury notes, 
and payment of Texas creditors. 
News Paragraphs. 
A New York correspondent of the Washing 
ton Constitution 
intimates that Archbishop 
Hughes is soon to be made a Cardinal, and event¬ 
ually the Pope’s successor: inasmuch as it is 
whispered the Pope is thinking of removing the 
Holy See from Rome to St. Louis, Missouri, where 
his agents have secured vast quantities of land. 
