The Cattle Disease in Massachusetts. —The 
Special Session of the Legislature to take into 
consideration the cattle distemper, convened May 
30th, when a communication was received from 
the Governor on the subject, and was referred to 
a joint committee of fourteen of the House and 
seventeen of the Senate. The Governor estimates 
the number of neat cattle In the United States at 
20,000,000. He urges the importance of checking 
the contagion, and suggests athorough investiga¬ 
tion of the character of the disease; thinks that 
the transit of cattle through the several towns 
may require additional legislation, and leaves to 
the wisdom of the legislature the subject of en¬ 
larging the number of the Board of Commission¬ 
ers, and increasing their authority. The Massa¬ 
chusetts Medical Society, now in session, appoint¬ 
ed a committee of gentlemen to recommend to 
the Legislature the appointment of a scientific 
commission for the investigation of the prevalent 
cattle disease. The general opinion of the speakers 
appears to be that an unnecessary panic exists in 
relation to this disease. 
Trouble kea red with the Indians.— The Fort 
Smith (Ark.) Times fearB that something horrible 
is about to be enacted on the frontier, growing 
out of a secret organization going on in the 
Cherokee nation, which it is feared may extend 
to the other tribes on the frontier. No mixed 
blood Indian is taken into the secret organization. 
Death is the penalty for divulging the Bccrct of 
the society, and every attempt on the part of the 
alarmed mixed bloods to find ont the object of 
this secret cabarhas thus far proved abortive. 
Tennessee promises an immense crop of peaches 
this season. The papers of some partB of the 
State say, “there will be more frnitthis season 
than there has been is five years. The trees are 
fairly freighted with fruit.” 
In parts of Vermont, on Sunday night, the 20th 
inst.the weather was so cold that the ground wsb 
frozen to the depth of half an inch or more, and 
early vegetables were killed. 
The Hon. Edward Everett has signified his ac¬ 
ceptance of the nomination of Vice President on 
the Union ticket, made at Baltimore. 
lawB of the United States, or those of a foreign 
government with whom we have treaties of ex¬ 
tradition, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
meanor, and shall be fined and imprisoned, accord¬ 
ing to the discretion of the Court, having respect 
to the nature of the crimes wiih which the per¬ 
sons are charged. 
Senate. —The bill making appropriations to 
complete the Geological Surveys of Oregon and 
Washington Territories, was taken up and passed. 
A resolution instructing the Naval Committee 
to make inquiries soncerning the government 
purchase uf the naval depot at Brunswick, Geor¬ 
gia, was adopted. 
On the 21st ult., a most destructive hail and 
rain storm visited Backs county. Pennsylvania. 
It was only half a mile in width, but traveled 
rapidly through several towns, and was must 
destructive to growing crops. In many fields of 
wheat there i* not a stalk left unbroken, and fields 
of oats and grass were also cut down and trashed 
away, leaving the ground as bare as a dried up 
pasture field. The fruit of all kinds was also 
entirely destroyed, and the forest trees so entirely 
stripped of their foliage as to giva them the 
appearance, at a distance, of being dead. 
On Wednesday, the 30th, there was a most 
severe hail storm in parts of Genesee Co,, N. Y., 
and in Broekport a church was struck by light¬ 
ning. On the same day, the telegraph announces 
that much damage was done to the fruit in Lex¬ 
ington, Mo., by haiL Nearly ail the glass in the 
city was broken; some hail stoneB weighed Beven 
ounces, and split the shingles on the houses in 
their descent. 
Just as we were going to press a telegram was 
received from Chicago, giving an account of a 
terrible tornado which visited Eastern Iowa and 
Northwestern Illinois on the night of the 3d inst., 
causing great destruction to property and life. 
Chicago, June 4.—A terrible tornado passed 
over Eastern Iowa and Northwestern Illinois last 
night The telegraph lineH west of the Missis¬ 
sippi being down, we are unable to ascertain how 
far west the tornado readied, and what is the 
amount of loss of life and property. 
At Clinton, lows, it commenced at 7,30 last 
evening, and although lasting but two and a half 
minutes, caused more destruction of life and 
property than any similar storm that has ever 
visited that portion of the country. 
The towns of Ciunancbie, Iowa, and Albany, 
Illinois, on opposite sides of the river, and five 
miles south of Clinton, were completely demol¬ 
ished. In the former place, thirty-two dead 
bodies have already been taken from the ruins, 
and there arc still a number that cannot be got at. 
In Albany, five or six bodies have been found, 
with about fifty wounded—some seriously. We 
have not yet been able to obtain a list of the vic¬ 
tims. The citizeiiB of Fulton, HI,, and Clinton, 
Iowa, are doing everything in their power to 
relieve the sufferers. 
At Lynda, three miles south of Stoling, several 
persons were killed, and fifteen persons in that 
vicinity were badly injured by having arms and 
logs broken. 
The storm passed two miles northward of Am¬ 
boy. Report Bays that ten lives were lost there, 
and a number badly injured. The tornado appears 
to have taken a course almost due east from the 
Mississippi to Rock River. Scarcely a house or 
barn in the direct tract, which was about half a 
mile in width, is left standing. 
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SPECIAL NOTICES. 
The “ IJttle Fairy" on the Monroe Co Fair Ground* 
For Cortivein-M or Consul*jition—Brown’* Troche*. 
— The Prince de Joumlie i* at Washington. 
— There are 2,500 turnpike gates in England. 
— Equestrianism is the rage this summer iu New York 
— Flour, St Carson Valley, is quoted at $52 pe r 100 
pounds. 
— Sir C. Clark has been gazetted as the Governor of 
Bombay. 
— Mr. Howard has received his seat in the House of 
Representatives. 
— A boy, eight year* old, has been sent to the Wisc<, B . 
bid State Prison. 
— Street passenger railways are about being laid down 
in Memphis, Tenn. 
— It is stated that Post-Master Fowler left New York 
in the Moses Taylor. 
— The sum expended annually for spirits and beer in 
Holland is $250,000,000. 
— An English paper says Gen. Deed Scott command* 
the United States Army. 
— There are now In operation in Chili I0gold,]2siber 
and about 300 copper mines. 
— It i* estimated that every fiftieth person in Great 
Britain U addicted to strong drink. 
— A second Morphy has made his appearance at Rich¬ 
mond, Ya. He is only seven years old. 
— The Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United 
States now number* 160,000 commuuicante. 
— The Japanese Embassy will probably leave Washing¬ 
ton for the North oa the Otb or 7th of Jane. 
— Sixteen members of the royal bouse of Europe died 
during 1859—seven princes and nine princesses. 
— Littleton Waller Tazewell, formerly O. S. Senator 
and ex-Gorernor of Virginia, died at Norfolk on the 6th 
ult. 
— A private dispatch says the steamer Peerless burned 
at the levee, at New Orleans, on the 27th ult. Total 
loss. 
— Ex-Governor John A King and family sailed from 
New York for Havre, in the steamer Fulton, on Saturday 
week. 
— A number of cows belonging to farmers in the 23d 
Ward, Philadelphia, have died with what is called lung 
fever. 
— A strong feeling prevails In Europe that Louis 
Napoleon is abost to commence a campaign on the 
Rhine. 
— Malcom Murray, a Justice of the Peace at Iowa City, 
Iowa, has fallen heir to an estate in Ireland valued at 
$80,000. 
— A violent storp which passed over Washington, on 
Saturday night week, unroofed the mansion of Judge 
Douglas. 
— The Camden and Amboy R. R Depot, at Bordertown, 
Penn., was burnt on the 29th ult., with three engines and 
ten cars. 
— Three of the four Ex-Presidents of the U. S. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 9, 18C0. 
DOMESTIC NEWS 
Washington Mutters. 
The Attorney General has given an opinion in 
favor of allowing the fit ate of Missouri about 
$400,000, being the two per cent, arising from the 
Bale of public lands in that State, heretofore 
reserved for the Federal Government, on account 
of the construction of a railroad, but which was 
never extended to the Missouri. A draft for the 
amount will be issued in a few days. 
The Senate was in executive session four hours 
on Thursday on the Mexican treaty. There was 
an earnest debate involving the entire question. 
Several amendments were voted on and rejected, 
including those of Mr. Simmons which had been 
previously approved by some of the Republicans 
who were opposed to the treaty in its original 
form. The treaty was finally rejected by a large 
majority. This result has produced much disap¬ 
pointment as well as surprise, as indications dur¬ 
ing the few weeks past were favorable to its ratifi¬ 
cation. 
The colossal plaster statue of “Liberty,” by 
Crawford, bas been removed from the old Hall of 
Representatives to the premises of Clark Mills, 
who has a contract from the Government to pro¬ 
duce one from the model In bronze for the orna¬ 
mentation of the Capitol dome. 
The War Department, to-day, telegraphed the 
commander at Camp Floyd, directing adequate 
protection from Salt Lake to Carson Valley, which 
will effectually guard emigrants and the mails, 
and secure the safety of the pony express iu 
future. 
On receiving the newR of the attack by Indians 
on the pony express riders, a large number of 
Senators and Representatives addressed a note to 
the Secretary of War asking the intervention of 
the army. Mr. Floyd immediately telegraped to 
Col. Smith, commanding at Camp Floyd, to send 
immediately a sufficient force to protect and keep 
open the route for the mail and emigrants between 
Camp Floyd and Carson Valley. This dispatch 
will leave St. Joseph on Saturday evening, and in 
eight days the troops will be on their route. Mr. 
Russell, President of the Express Co-, ha* no fear 
that the express mail bags are lost. Two trips 
FOREIGN NEWS 
were 
in New York last week—Messrs. Van Burcn, Fillmore, 
and Pierce. 
— Owiog to the large business doing upon the lakes, 
seamen have been very scarce in New York for the last 
two weeks. 
— It is reported that the Pope has been in the habit of 
taking small doses of strychnine for producing mental 
excitement. 
— The Lynn strikers have resumed work at greatly 
increased wagep, many of them realizing an advance of 
100 per cent. 
— A bo ot fifty miles of the Atlantic cable on this side 
have been taken up, and fracturesfound where they were 
supposed to be. 
— M. Oerstedt, celebrated as a jurisconsult, and ex- 
Prime Minister of Denmark, has just diedat Copenhagen, 
aged 82 years. 
— The New York Colonization Journal says more free 
colored men are now favorably contemplating emigration 
than ever before. 
— The coming census of Texas, it is estimated by those 
best Informed, will show a population of 550,000, includ¬ 
ing 150,000 slaves. 
— Hon. John A. Dix, ex-U. S. Senator of N. Y.,has 
been appointed Post-Master of that city in the place of 
Fowler, the defaulter. 
— The deepest artesian well in the United States is the 
one at Columbus, Ohio, which is 2,840 feet in depth- 
more than half a mile. 
— Hon. Wm. C. Preston, formerly a Senator from South 
Carolina, and one of the most eloquent orators of his 
time, died on the 23d uP. 
— Over 100 men are employed night and day in prepar¬ 
ing the Metropolitan Hotel in New York forthe reception 
of the Japanese Embassy. 
— In France, only one traveler is killed out of every 
two million passengers on the railroads, and only one 
wounded in every 600,000. 
— The Japanese Ambassadors say that it is contrary to 
their custom to go out after dark, and so they decline 
invitations for the evening. 
— A new gold field has lately been discovered in the 
far-olf islands of New Zealand, which bids fair to be one 
of the richest in the world, 
— Rev. Dr. Hitchcock, of Amherst College, has received 
the merited boDor of an election to the Imperial Geo¬ 
logical Institute of Austria. 
— The number of lost children found, and restored by 
means of the police telegraph, w ill average 100 per month 
in New York and Brooklyn. 
— The President of Liberia receives $2,500 per annum; 
Vice-President, $400; Secretary of State, $800; and Sec¬ 
retary of the Treasury, $800. 
— The slaves of Huntsville, Ala., recently made a com¬ 
mon puree, and purchased a splendid hearse, to be used 
for the interment of their dead, 
— The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are constantly 
replacing the wooden bridges upon the road and branches 
with substantial iron structures. 
— The have raised $5,000 iu England for a monument 
to Hallam, the historian. How much better to have 
raised it for his use in his lifetime. 
— The Japanese think that oyster soup is the finest 
American institution that they have yet seen. They call 
the hotel waiters “ soup gentlemen.” 
— According to the Spiritual Telegraph, itself now 
dead, 38 spiritual periodicals have been started and dis¬ 
continued within the la6t nine years. 
— The people of Madison are about to raise $100 to 
purchase a banner, to be presented to the county making 
the best display at the Stute Ag Fair. 
— A St. Augustine (Fla.) paper tells about green corn 
old enough for eating; while down East, in some places, 
corn-planting has not yet commenced. 
— The Legislature of Tennessee has pasted a very strin¬ 
gent law against the adulteration of liquors. Using 
poisonous ingredients is declared a felony. 
— Letters from Jerusalem complain of the desecration 
of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre The dome has fallen 
in, and the church is partially inundated with water. 
From all aocounts, 
probably not less than GO lives were lost. The 
extent of the damage to property, which is very 
large, cannot he fully ascertained for some time. 
At a public meeting of the citizens of Fulton, it 
was resolved to furnish the sufferers with homes 
and all the assistance required. 
DKA-rn of Rxv. Theodore Parker.— The Rev. 
Theodore Parker died in Florence on the 10th of 
May. His death was not unlooked for, as infor¬ 
mation was brought by the previous steamer that 
he was fast sinking. Mr. Parker was born at Lex¬ 
ington, Mass., in 1810, and was consequently in 
the 50th year of his age at the date of his decease. 
His ancestry was in the direct Puritan line. His 
grandfather was a soldier iu the old French tvar, 
and was a captain at the battle of Lexington, 
when he captured a British grenadier, taking 
from him a musket, which was one of the 
cherished ornaments of his grandson's ample 
library. In his earliest youth, Theodore Parker 
showed a marvelous taste fur knowledge, and rare 
facility for its acquisition. Before he was ten 
Consul to Jerusalem. The United States Senate, 
on Monday, confirmed H. D. Johnson, Consul 
General at Constantinople; Mr. Mallett, Consnl at 
Florence; and Mr. Moore, Marshal of Nebraska. 
The Washington correspondent of the New 
York Times says:—“The calculation now is, that 
we shall have a Special Session of Congress, as 
the House will refuse to pass the bill for the pay¬ 
ment of the public debt, unless accompanied by 
the Tariff amendment. This amendment the Sen¬ 
ate will reject The result will be an adjournment 
without the passage of the bill, and a call of an 
Extra Session. Such is the expectation of the 
Republicans, who have determined on having no 
provision for raising money, if Buch an appropri¬ 
ation of it be made. 
TnE Javanese. —In consequence of an acci¬ 
dent to the Niagara, it is said she will have to 
undergo repairs, and will not be in readiness to 
take our Japan visitors home before July. Some 
of the Washington letter writers say this caused 
them a great deal of uneasiness, as they, at first, 
thought this was a ruse to keep them in the 
country, and they became quite “ homesick. ” 
Their stay iu the cities north of Washington 
will he limited to a few days, where they will not 
receive visitors to the extent they have done iu 
this city. Persons have come hither from dis¬ 
tances of over 500 miles purposely to see them. 
They are busily engaged in making estimates of 
the comparative value of the coinage of the two 
countries, with a view to reciprocal circulation. 
The programme of the movements of the Jap 
anese is as follows: — They leave Washington for 
Baltimore, June 5th, and the latter city on the 
Gth, arriving at Philadelphia on the 7th, leaving 
Philadelphia on the 11th, arriving at Niagara on 
the 12th, and at Albany on the 14th. They will 
arrive at Boston on the lGtb. and leave on the 
19th, and will remain in New York from the 20th 
to the 30th. At Buffalo they will make a trip on 
Lake Erie. 
As there is no probability that the steamship 
Niagara will be ready before the 7th of July, they 
will arrive at New York with time to spare. Some 
of the Japanese are learning the daguerreotype 
business, and are apt scholars. 
City, and an attack is apprehended. A meeting 
of citizens was held for the purpose of taking 
precautionary measures for defence in case they 
wore attacked by Indians. The city was divided 
into four wards, aud places of rendezvous ap¬ 
pointed in each in case of surprise. It was 
reported by French traders that an attack on the 
whites was threatened. 
There are now large numbers of Kiowas, Appa- 
ches, Camancbes, Sioux, Cheyennes, and Ampa- 
lioes, encamped within a few miles of the city, and 
some depredations have been committed on the 
Ranches in the vicinity, bnt nothing serious. The 
meeting passed a resolution to inflict 50 lashes in 
public and compel to leave the country any per¬ 
son found guilty of selling or giving intoxicating 
liquors, arms, or ammunition, to the Indians. 
The reports from the mines arc favorable. 
Weather warm. 
News Paragraphs. 
Storms and Tornados. —Last week we gave 
an account of the terrible tornado at Cincinnati, 
and which extended to Columbus, and was quite 
severe in other places in Ohio. Since that time 
there has been a series of storms in various parts 
of the country,and quite destructive at some places. 
A dispatch from Cattaraugus, iu this State, 
dated May 31, says:—A lornado passed over this 
place at about 4.) o’clock yesterday afternoon, 
sweeping everything before it—entirely destroy¬ 
ing six dwellings, unroofing part of the railroad 
depot, and blowing the woodshed of the railroad 
entirely down. Four persous were dangerously 
injured and several slightly. The storm passed 
