Mr. Unmet moved to strike out the names 
of the contractors—Messix. Barnum, Sibley, and 
others, and inaeit that the contract shall be given 
to the lowest guaranteed bidder, after proposals 
have been inserted CO days after the passage of 
the hill. The amendment was then agreed to—93 
against 82. 
Among those concurred iD, was one appropri¬ 
ating $30,000 for seeds and cuttings, to be 
distributed by the Patent Office. Among its 
appropriations is $1,000,000 for taking the census. 
The bill v* as passed. 
Mr. Burnett's amendment to the Pacific Tele¬ 
graph bill was also adopted —101 to 73 . 
A communication was received from the Post- 
Master General, with regard to the late defalcation 
in the New York Post-office, stating that the fact 
was made known to the Department for the first 
time on the 10th of May; and there ie no reason to 
suppose that any prior knowledge existed in the 
Department 
On motion of Mr. Hall, the appointment of a 
new Board of Examiners-in-Chief was transferred 
from the Commissioner to the President of the 
United States, by the advice and consent of the 
Senate. 
The Indian Appropriation bill was taken up. 
Mr. Latham offered an amendment to give author¬ 
ity to the State of California to take charge of the 
Indians within her limits, which was lost 
Mr. Latham offered another amendment, divid¬ 
ing the State of California into two Indian Dis¬ 
tricts, and providing for the appointment of 
Superintendents, Agents, &c. Carried. 
After further amendments had been agreed to, 
the bill was read a third time and passed. 
News I’nrngrnphs. 
One of the Japanese Embassadors has already 
signified his intention to procure a full and com¬ 
plete ladies’ costume to carry back. So wc may 
expect to learn that the almond-eyed belles of 
Ycddo have adopted a more expansive style of 
attire. 
A gentleman received, a day or two since,® 
lctler from Australia in sixty-tiro days from date. 
It came by way of England, and by the Adriatic 
to New York. This is the most rapid transit 
recorded. 
The Ban Francisco merchant who attempted to 
swindle liis creditors by sending them a bogus 
iugotof gold, has been branded as Cain was. His 
' the high honor done me, which you formally 
announce, deeply and even painfully sensible of 
the great responsibility which is inseparable Irorn 
that honor—a rcrpotiubilty which l could almost 
wi»h had fallen upon some one of the far more 
eminent men and experienced statesman, whoso 
distinguished names were before the Convention. 
I shall, by your leave, consider.more fully the 
resolutions of the Convention, denominated the 
platform, and without unieasonable delay respond 
to 3011 , Mr. Chairman, in writing, not doubting 
that the platform will be found satisfactory, and 
the nomination acceptable. 
The New Orleans Bee thinks that the fortunes 
of the National Union candidates in the South 
will depend on the result of the Richmond and 
Baltimore Conventions. If the Democratic party 
should remain divided, Bell and Lincoln will have 
a very large vote, and will carry several Stales. 
The Hon. F. A. Hoffman, who was nominated 
for Lieut. Governor of Illinois, has been forced by 
ill health to decline the nomination. The vacancy 
will bo filled by the State Committee. 
A large meeting lias been held in New York 
city in favor of Sam Houston for the Presidency. 
A desire was expressed for the substitution of his 
name for that of John Bell, by the Union party. 
Tjie Philadelphia Enquirer has a dispatch from 
Washington to the effect that Mr. Seward has tel¬ 
egraphed to liis friends there that the rumor that 
he intends to resign his seat in the Senate, is 
entirely without foundation. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
FOREIGN NEWS 
<£l)e Rictus <£onbenscr 
Emerson Bennett's DoIIm Monthly- Bennett & flamelln. 
Exi'elsior Ak' 1 Works Charles h Pease. 
Public Sale of Tliofotitfli-Bred Stock- A. B. Conger. 
Ii.formation Wanted A i". Hutchison. 
Consternation -Wm. Keenan. 
Something N< » J. II Atwater. 
300 Agents Wanted— M. M. Sanborn. 
HI’ECIAL NOTICES. 
For Dyspepsia—Brown's Troches. 
— Flour, from new wheat, is in Augusta, Ga. 
— Green corn has appeared at St. Augustine, Fla. 
— The death of Professor Amos, of Cambridge, is an¬ 
nounced. 
— It is said that the Quakers are gradually disappear¬ 
ing from England, 
— There are 112 Sunday Schools in Chicago—2,500 
teachers and 16,000 scholars. 
— Gold has lately been discovered in the Chagrea river 
about 20 miles from Panama. 
— A nnmher of hogs hare died recently in St. Mary’s 
Co., Md., from eating locusts. 
— There is a project on foot to briDg out a new Roman 
Catholic daily paper in London, Eng. 
— Fifteen hundred barrels of green peas arrived at New 
York from Richmond, Va., in one day. 
— They have subscribed $100,000 for the establishment 
of a cotton factory at Carrollton, Miss. 
— The EnTopean steamers now arriving, all report see¬ 
ing more or less ice off Newfoundland. 
— The fires In the Northern New York woods have 
been extinguished hy the recent rains. 
— Connecticut is severe on pick-pockets. The lightest 
penalty is two years in the State Prison. 
— Rome has a population of 180,307—a figure atwhich 
that city has stood for the last 250 years. 
— The famous “ Rubicon’' is now the boundary be- 
tween the King of Sardinia and the Pope. 
— One of the New York pilots has gone to England to 
pilot the Great Eastern into N. Y. harbor. 
— Ithnsbeeo established by the Courts that the first 
stroke of the clock is the record of the hour. 
— It Is estimated that $0,000 will not pay for the fences 
destroyed by fire in one county in Wisconsin. 
— Violent shocks-of earthquake were felt in various 
portions of Hayti, from the 8th to the 13th ult. 
— Frogs sell in GreeDfield, Mass., at 20 cents per dozen, 
at which price bovarfurnish the village restaurants. 
— A medical publication gives an account of arsenia 
being detected in a dilution reduced 560,000 timea. 
— Seven members of the Boston police have been 
arrested on charge of being concerned in store robberies. 
— The English language has, of late, become a com¬ 
pulsory branch of education in the public schools in Nor¬ 
way. 
— Two English Plenipotentiaries are now, It is report¬ 
ed, in Paris, discussing the Newfoundland fisheries ques¬ 
tion, 
— A dispatch from Memphis says that the cotton crop 
in that State has been seriously injured by the late heavy 
frost 
— In the different parte of Philadelphia aDd neighbor¬ 
hood, $97,000 arc asked for the purpose of erecting school 
bouses. 
— The students of the College, at Columbia, S. C., 
have come out in suits of gray kerseys, of homo manu¬ 
facture. 
— The Minister of Finance, in Canada, thinks that 
hard times are over in the Province, and that prosperity 
is ahead. 
— A traveler writing from Carthagena, South America, 
says there has been no dwellings built there for forty or 
fifty years. 
— A Macon, Ga., merchant, within a month past, has 
lost $.5,000 by the non-receipt of letters containing 
remittances. 
— There are now engaged in the various manufactur¬ 
ing establishments of Cincinnati, 23,161 men, 1,423 girls, 
and 949 boys. 
— In Boston, there are 120 persons, firms, or corpora¬ 
tions, that are taxed for a quarter of a million dollars 
and upwards. 
— More than a million dollars have been subscribed 
towards the International Exhibition in England, pro¬ 
posed for 1S62. 
— Joseph Beard, Commercial editor of the Louisville 
Journal for nearly twenty years past, died, the other day, 
of pneumoniA. 
— Simon Hill, who was one of the U. S. marine corps 
at the Battle of New Orleans, died near Winchester, Va., 
on the 18th ult, 
— The Press says the population of Philadelphia, count¬ 
ing none hut those who sleep in the municipal limits, 
exceeds, 650,000, 
— The Baron do Rothschild haB imported from Cali¬ 
fornia a pair of elks; he intends to breed from them in his 
park at Feviiercs. 
— Sixty years ago the population of Cincinnati was but 
750 persons; in 1830, 24,000. Now she estimates her pop¬ 
ulation at 200,000. 
— Rain fell at Cape Cod on Monday week, the first for 
more than a month. Parts of New England are suffering 
severely from drouth. 
— An Apothecary in New Bedford, Mass., F. H. Dodge, 
came near losing bi» life, on Tuesday week, by the explo¬ 
sion of a soda fountain. 
— The average price of wheat in England, for the last 
20 years, has been only about $1.40 per bushel, and at 
Dantxic about 70 cents. 
— Mr. Lucretia Griswold died on the 11th ult., Ln Hart¬ 
ford, Conn. She was the oldest resident of that city, 
being over 96 years old. 
— MiJch cows arc from $5 to $10 a head cheaper this 
spring, iu Orange Co., N. Y., than they have been for the 
last three or four years. 
— England and France have sent an energetic note to 
the Porte, demanding 3,000,000 francs as an indemnity 
for the Jeddah massacre. 
— Mr. Johns, a delegate at largo to the Chicago Con¬ 
vention, from Iowa, walked 150 miles to reach the railroad 
that he might he present. 
— The Legislature of Kentucky recently established 
five new counties, under the names of Magqffin, Metcalfe, 
Boyd, Webster, and Wolfe. 
— A pine tree shilling, hearing date of 1652, in good 
preservation, and an Indian axe, were found, a day or two 
since, in Norwich Town, Conn. 
— It is proposed that the fire department of Philadel¬ 
phia shall consist of 16 steam fire-engines, and become a 
branch of the city government. 
— Two hundred sewing machine patents have been 
taken out iu Great BritaiD. Not more than twenty of 
them have been brought into use. 
— A man of Scott Co., Miss . has been convicted of bet¬ 
ting a dime with a minor,and sentenced toaconfinement 
of three months, and a fine of $300. 
— The authorities of Portsmouth, R. I., have prohibited 
the importation of cattle from Massachusetts, lest the 
pleuro-pneumonta should he communicated. 
— A farmer in Liberty, Iowa, set fire to a straw stack, 
not knowing that his little son was asleep upon it, and 
afterwards found his remains burnt to a crisp. 
— The Press of Philadelphia says that at present 300 
new buildings are going up, and that more buildings will 
be put up this season than at any previous one. 
insubordination, in openly denouncing Mr. Wil¬ 
son’s Indian financial programme. Sir Henry 
Wood, at present Governor of Ceylon, iB spoken 
of us his successor. 
S:rong opposition was threatened by the Derby 
party in the House of Lords to repeal paper duty. 
Lord Wodehouse explained the result of nego¬ 
tiations in Central America. He Baid the Nica¬ 
ragua treaty was signed, but not yet ratified. 
The right of passage over the Isthmus of Panama 
had been recognized. 
Pullinger, the defaulting Cashier of the Union 
Bank of London, had been sentenced to twenty 
years’ penal servitude. 
An influenlial deputation, headed by Milner 
Gibson, had laid before Lord Palmerston the 
plans for Col. Sbaffner’B telegraph to America 
via Faroe Islands arid Ireland. 
The British Government had issued a proclama¬ 
tion against enlistment for the Pope in Ireland, 
not to interfere with the subscriptions for the 
Sicilian insurgents, the law officers of the crown 
not regarding the latter as illegal. 
The English funds were very heavy under con¬ 
tinental politics, but there was more steadiness at 
the close. 
France. —Tt is rumored, but discredited, that 
France has demanded explanations from Prussia 
relative to the augmented war estimates. 
Nothing of morneht relative to the proposed 
Conference. 
The Monitonr announces that the Supreme 
Council of Commerce, appointed for the execu¬ 
tion of the treaty with England, assembled on 
Monday Iasi, and will, in the future, meet on Mon¬ 
day, Thursday end Friday of each week. 
The French Minister at Naples had asked for 
four ships of war, and the vessels bad been sent. 
The French were about to sail for levant,e. 
There were vague and unautheDtic rumors of a 
new French loan for military purposes. 
It was stated that date was fixed for the evacua¬ 
tion of Rome. A detachment would leave shortly. 
Italy. —Garibaldi's force, 2,200 strong, em¬ 
barked near Geneva in three steamers, at mid¬ 
night of the 6 th, well provided with arms, ammu¬ 
nition, &c. Nearly 6,000 persons of all ranks 
flocked to the beach to Lid them good speed. 
The enthusiasm of the troops at Geneva was so 
great that it was necessary to confine them to the 
barracks to prevent deserting to enroll them 
selves. Garibaldi had sangnine hopes of cutiing 
out the Neapolitan frigates on watch for him. 
Medici, Garibaldi’s lieutenant, was to start in a 
few days with 2,000 more volunteers. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 2, 1860. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
CongrcMlonal Proceedings. 
Senate.- On motion of Mr. Pearce, the Senate 
insisted on its amendments to the Consular and 
Diplomatic bills, and the Committee on Confer¬ 
ence were ordered to confer with a similar Com¬ 
mittee on the part of the House. 
A message was received Irora the President in 
relation to the capture of more negroes off the 
Isle of Pines by the IJ. B. steamer Wyandotte. 
Referred to Judiciary Committee. Mr. Benjamin 
called attention to the necessity of doing some¬ 
thing at once on the bill from the Judiciary Com¬ 
mittee to provide for the negroes now at Key 
West Tt authorized the President lo enter into a 
contract with any person or corporations to 
from the U. 8 . authorities the Africans 
receive 
seized on the vessels engaged iu the slave trade, 
arid to support them for six months from the date 
of their landing on the coast of Africa, provided 
the cost of the same shall notexceed $100 for each 
The President is also authorized to nse 
was. 
bankers decline further dealings with hlin, the In¬ 
surance companies canceled their policies, and no 
one patronizes him. Up to this time he had been 
doing a business of $ 1,000 a day. 
The President of the Connecticut State Agri¬ 
cultural Society announces that the cattle dis¬ 
temper which is so fatal in Massachusetts, lias 
made its way into Connecticut. Cattle have died 
of it in Stafford, Tolland county. 
Tnos. Hickey, a member of the Kane Expedi¬ 
tion, entertains the idea that some of Sir John 
Franklin’s men are yet to be found living with 
the Esquimaux, and has volunteered his services 
as a member of the expedition now organizing. 
A Trojan thinks he has discovered a gold mine 
within less than five hundred miles of Troy, but 
will not state in what direction. He handed a 
piece of quartz to a jeweller, who pronounced it 
an exceedingly rich specimen of gold bearing 
quartz. 
An arrangement is about to be perfected by 
which the whole Union will be daily enlightened, 
through the Smithsonian Institution at Washing¬ 
ton, as to thg condition of the weather prevail¬ 
ing in every section of the country penetrated by 
a telegraphic wire. 
A BRiTisn soldier, taken prisoner during the 
Revolution, and who declined to be exchanged, 
resides with his wife on the line of the Ohio and 
Baltimore Railroad, some forty miles from Wheel¬ 
ing, Ya. Their ages are respectively 110 and 108 
years. 
State Editorial Convention. —The Seventh 
Annual Meeting of the New York State Editorial 
and Typographical Association, will bo held be 
in Buffalo, on the 14th of June. The address of 
the occasion is to be delivered by Mr. Williams, of 
the Utica J/rrd/d, and the poem will be from the 
graceful pen of Mrs. Gildersleeve, of Buffalo. 
These appointments are sufficient guaranty that 
the literary part of the programme of this news¬ 
paper rennion will be of an interesting order. 
Tuk Atlantic Cable. —Parties interested in 
the enterprise, state that some filly miles of the 
Atlantic cable have been taken up oft - Trinity Bay. 
Fractures were found in the cable just where they 
had been indicated by the instruments on Bliore. 
The intention is to under run a similar length of 
the wire on the European side; and it is then 
thought, by the sanguine promoters of ocean tele¬ 
graphing, that the Atlantic cable will be made to 
work. 
From Mexico. 
person, 
vessels of war to transport them to Africa; and 
$ 200,000 is appropriated for the purpose of the bill. 
Mr. Pugh offered an amendment to extend the 
period during which the negroes are to be sup¬ 
ported to not less than one year, instead of six 
months. Adopted—ayes 25, nays 17. 
The bill, aa amended, then passed by a vote of 
41 to 14. 
Senator Davls : 
Garibaldi 
is said to have exchanged, for gold, 3,OQO,OOOf, in 
notes at the Bank of Geneva. It is stated that 
the expedition was not to land In Sicily, but in¬ 
tended to create a diversion in Calabria. 
The headquarters of the Sicilian insurgents 
were at Celalu, some fifteen leagues from Palermo. 
The royal troops several times attacked this posi¬ 
tion unsuccessfully. 
The latest reports are that Garibaldi had landed 
at Ortizza, in Calabria, and that an Insurrection¬ 
ary movement had taken place in Calabria. Ga- 
rabaldi took with him his only son, and George 
Martin, only son of the illustrious defender of 
Venice. 
Letters from Genoa state that Col. Menici, a 
fHcnd of Garibaldi, is forming a second expedi¬ 
tion to Sicily, for w’hich C,000 volunteers are 
already enrolled. There is great excitement at 
Genoa and Lombardy, fiom whence almost all 
the volunteers have come, but it is asserted that 
the government will be asked to prevent the de¬ 
parture of the expedition. 
The Patrie asserts that the Neapolitan govern¬ 
ment is able to defeat all attacks. 
Intelligence relative to Garibaldi’s expedition 
is still meagre and conflicting, but the reports 
generally concur in 6 tating that he was making 
good progress. Borne say he has captured the 
most important position in Sicily except Messina 
and Palermo. After his landing at Marsala, the 
Neapolitan war vessels bombarded that town 
without a warning, and the British vessels inter¬ 
fered for the protection of English residents. 
An important announcement was made via 
Madiid, that the King of Naples had applied for 
non-intervention. 
Among other questionable rumors was one that 
a treaty had been concluded between Naples and 
Rome, Austria, and all the deposed Italian sover¬ 
eigns. 
The latest accounts from Naples represent the 
utmost consternation there. The troops were 
dispirited, and tumultuous manifestations were 
taking place. The Royal Family are packing up 
all their jewels and valuables, and other strong 
indications that a great insurrection is looked for 
at any moment were observable. 
Austria. —M. Yon Plener permanently succeeds 
Baron Cruck as Austrian Minister of Finance. 
Russia. — Russian intrigues are reported iu 
Turkey, a strong Russian force being concentra¬ 
ted on Purth. 
Austria refused to admit Piedmont to the con¬ 
ference on the ground that Cavour had declaied 
she intended to take no part in the dispute be¬ 
tween France and Switzerland. 
Srain.—G c-n. Concha had been elected Presi- 
dentof the Spanish Senate, and decorated with the 
order of the Golden Fleece. 
The army of Africa entered Madrid amid much 
enthusiasm. 
India and China. — India and China mails, 
from Calcutta April 13th and Ilong Kong to 
March 30th, came by the Persia, 
It was rumored that a collision had taken place 
between the Russians and Chinese on the frontier. 
The allies w’ere to occupy Ckusau immediately. 
A panic prevailed at Shanghai, and business 
wu3 suspended, owing to the advance of the rebels. 
Commercial J sTKLr.tr; axes — firr.nibtuffs —Richardson, 
Spence ic Co. report the weather favorable for the crops. 
Flour firm, hut American neglected. Sales 20t6tl@30*. 
Wheat advanced ld@2d; Red 10n«rl0 B t>J; White U*@ 
I2t,6d. Cora very dull, and all qu&lith-x slightly lower. 
Prices nominal; 35 for mixed, 35«@&*ifc0d for yellow; 
3fia8d(£37s for white. Wakefield, Nash A Cu. report flour 
6d higher. Provisions .—Bigland, Althya A Co. report 
port dull and steady. 
Territorial Resolutions 
taken up, and tbc following were carried: 
Resolved, That experience havingalrendy shown 
that the Constitution and ihe common iaw, un- 
were 
“ v * ' ........... . ----- - --.vimvvv.v * M*?VI III * lUll, 
shall he maintained or prohibited without their 
jurisdiction, and that they shall be received Into 
the Union with or without slavery, ns tlic-ir Con¬ 
stitutions may prescribe at the’ time of their 
admission. 
House.— The Speaker laid before the House a 
message from the President similar to that com¬ 
municated to the Senate on Saturday, recommend¬ 
ing further legislation in regard to the recaptured 
Africans. 
Mr. Montgomeiy introduced a resolution pro¬ 
viding for the adjournment of Congress on the 
providing for evening sessions. The resolution 
was adopted, 12 C against 55. 
On motion of Mr. Lovejoy, the House, under a 
suspension of the rules, took up the Homestead 
bill as amended by the Senate, and substituted 
therefor the original House bill by 104 to 55,— so 
the subject will again go to the Senate. 
The House passed the Senate bill, with an 
amendment, to regulate and increase the pay of 
the officers of the Navy. It gives them an aver¬ 
age of 25 per cent, over the present salaries. 
Mr. Dawes, from the Committee on Elections, 
reported a resolution declaring—first, that J. B. 
Barrett is not, and secondly, that Francis P. 
Blair is, entitled to a seat from the first Congres¬ 
sional District of Missouri. The majority and 
minority reports were ordered to be printed. 
Mr. Dawes said it was the desire of the Com¬ 
mittee to call np the subject at the earliest period. 
On his motion, a resolution was adopted giving 
leave to Mr. Blair to occupy a seat on the floor 
and speak as to the merits of the question. 
The House, by twelve majority, disagreed to 
the Senate’s amendment of the Military Academy 
bill, providing for the Mounted Regiment of 
Texas Volunteers iu the field. 
The Speaker laid before the House a special 
message from the President, communicating the 
fact of the capture, by the Wyandotte, of another 
cargo of Africans, making, with those of the 
Wildfire, over 1,000 in charge of the U. S. Marshal, 
at Key West. 
governments. Bo odious has become the traffic 
by recent transactions, that other governments 
have either forbidden their vessels to be engaged 
in it, or so restrained or governed it, as to throw 
it almost entirely into the hands of Americans. 
Mr. Ward expresses the earnest hope that Con¬ 
gress will puss a law to punish such offenses, 
which obstruct the faithful performance of our 
treaty stipulation. He says the horrors of the 
Coolie traffic, us conducted at Whampoa, cannot 
be properly described within the limits of a dis¬ 
patch. The kidnapping grievance has become 
so intolerable, that the Governor-General has 
been aroused to action, and at Canton rewards 
have been again offered for the heads of for¬ 
eigners. 
The bill which Mr. Elliot has introduced into 
the House for the removal of the evil, so far as 
American shipmasters are concerned, is in ac¬ 
cordance with the views of the State Department, 
■The Charleston Courier has a 
special dispatch stating that the steamer Poca¬ 
hontas has arrived at New Orleans with Vera Cruz 
dates of the lGth inst. Euolaga issued a decree on 
the 1st of May, deposing Miramon and assumed 
the Presidency. The movement caused great 
alarm. Miramon had sustained several reverses, 
and imposed heavy loan 3 on the city of Mexico 
and the foreign commercial houses. Urago, with 
G,0G0 Liberals, occupied Guanajuata on the 5tli of 
May, preparatory to attacking the Capital. 
•The most destructive 
FitiGimaiL Tornado. 
tornado ever known, visited Cincinnati on the 
ufternoou of the 21st ult. The storm came from 
the northwest, and appeared to be a cloud, densely 
black, some two miles iu breadth, rushing forward 
with fearful rapidity, accompanied with thunder 
and lightning, and torrents of rain. The damage 
Political Intelligence. 
The Committee appointed by the Republican 
National Convention, consisting of President 
Ashmun, and the Chairmen of the State Delega¬ 
tions, to officially announce to Mr. Lincoln his 
nomination, arrived at Springfield, and proceeded 
to Mr. Lincoln’s residence, where Mr. Ashmun, 
in a brief speech, presented Mr. Lincoln the 
letter announcing his nomination. Mr. Lincoln 
replied as follows: 
Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Com¬ 
mittee.— 1 tender you, and through you, to the 
Republican National Convention, and all the peo¬ 
ple represented in it, my profoundest thanks for 
It suggests immediate action for 
their accommodation and health, and says, that 
more may daily be expected to be brought in. 
The message was referred to the Committee on 
the Judiciary. 
The House proceeded to act on the amendments 
reported from the Committee of the Whole, on 
the State of the Union, to the Civil Appropria¬ 
tion bill. 
Mr. Colfax called np the Senate Pacific Tele¬ 
graph bill. He was originally in favor of giving 
out the contract to the lowest bidder, but he had 
become convinced that it was not the best plan. 
