. ... . .W<.<*.I*>.»>.»<.>W».».M.J’WK'».■>■...*■,<■.,M.»,mm.»>.*.■■>.. 
APRIL 25 
MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Items of News. 
New York Legislature, 
PUBLISH ILI 
Both branches of ouv Legislature adjourned on 
the 18th inst. During the past week a large amount 
of labor has been performed and a number of bills 
completed. The following are those of a public, 
character: 
Senate. —To amend the Revised Statutes rela¬ 
tive to proceeding under executions; To prohibit 
clerks of courts from practising as attorneys or 
counsel in the courts of which they are officers; 
To allow the several towns in the State to raise an 
increased amount, of money for road and bridge 
purposes, and to increase the compensation of 
highways and other town officers; relative to the 
arsenals of the State; For enoouraging the breed 
of horses; To provide for guarding more effect¬ 
ually against the spread of pestilential diseases; 
To amend the Revised Statutes relative to weights 
and measures; To facilitate the formation >f Ag¬ 
ricultural and Horticultural Societies; Tbe annual 
appropriation bill; The license bill; for improv¬ 
ing the breed of domestic animals; Defining tbe 
powers and duties of Court of Special Sessions, 
except New York and Albany; The emigrant pro¬ 
tection bill, amendatory of the law of 1849; To 
amend the act relative to banking, and the redemp¬ 
tion of notes of country banks; To establish reg¬ 
ulations for the port of New York; The tax, ap¬ 
propriation and supply bills. 
Assembly. —Excise bill; The Metropolitan po¬ 
lice bill; The bill making appropriations for certain 
religious and charitable institutions; To incorpo¬ 
rate the Iuternational Bridge Company; for the 
relief of the wives and minor children of drunk¬ 
ards; Annual Supply bill; To charter the Western 
Education Society. 
At the Arch Street Wharf, Philadelphia, lies a 
Simon Pure Russian clipper, with a Russian skip¬ 
per, Cossack crew, and thorough-going Cossack 
rigging and quarter deck arrangements. 
The authorities of Paris are about to place un¬ 
der each lantern at the street corners a clock dial, 
the hands of which, w'orked by electrical wire 
connecting with the principal clock, will tell tbe 
hour to the passers by at all hours of tbe night. 
A proposition has been made in the New York 
Common Council to tunnel several of tbe lateral 
streets, leading from Broadway, in order to relieve 
tbe upper ground avenues from the pressure of 
travel. The Board appeared to entertain the pro¬ 
ject with favor. 
Private advices received in Boston from New¬ 
foundland represent that all the vessels which have 
arrived from the spring fishery lor seals, up to the 
31st of March, have made quite successful voya¬ 
ges, affording every reasonable hope to the island¬ 
ers that the entire catch will prove much above 
the usual average. 
The winter in Great Salt Lake up tbe 24th Jan¬ 
uary had been very severe. The snow had fallen 
to an unusual depth, and caused much suffering 
amongst the people, and also caused the death of 
much stock. The grass ranges have been covered 
up, a thing never before known. 
The Evening Post commiserates the ladies upon 
the fact that the war in China will prevent the 
manufacture and exportation of crape shawls, 
which are made near Canton. For a few years 
past 300,000 per annum have been imported. But 
the war prevailing at Canton will put a stop to the 
trade. 
The Government have decided to send a force of 
1,000 men against the Navajoes in New Mexico.— 
The special reason for this is, the murder of Henry 
L. Dodge, U. S. Agent, whose corpse has been re¬ 
cently discovered near the Zuna river, toward the 
head-waters of the Gila. Mr. Dodge was the son 
of Hon. Henry Dodge, of Wisconsin. 
The defalcations liy the Sndlier tragedy, the 
British Bank swindle, and the Robson, Redpatb, 
aud a host of other frauds of a minor character, 
in England duriug 1856, have not been less than 
three millions sterling, 515,000,000. 
The Chinese Herald confirms the report that the 
far-famed porcelain towerat Nankin was destroyed 
in November, during a bloody massacre of some 
5,000 or G,000 Imperial troops by the insurgents, 
who had gained possession of the city by treason. 
At a collection iu aid of Kansas, recently taken 
up in an Episcopal church in Brookline, Mass., one 
individual—name not given—put into the box a 
roll of notes amounting to 512,656. 
E5?* Additions ro Oeons arc now in order, nud can be made 
at tbe Club rate—$1,50 per copy. Agents and otliev friends will 
please bear this in mind, and receive and lorward the subscrip¬ 
tions of all who desire to secure the Rural. 
(3t*Ast person so disposed can act as local agent for tbe 
Rdral, and till who do so « ill not only receive premiums, but 
their aid will be gratefully appreciated. 
Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one Post 
Office to another, should be particular iu specifying the offices 
at which they are now received. 
I3?“Back Ni'uiiers of the present volume cau still be sup¬ 
plied but those desiring them should be particularin specifying 
that they are wanted. 
Terms of Ad vert Muff.—'Twenty-five Cents a Line, EACH 
Insertion—in ad vim £ Brief and appropriate announcements 
preferred, and no Patent Medicine or deceptive advertisements 
inserted on any conditions, t sf- The circulation of the Rural 
New-Yoiumh largely exceeds that of any other Agricultural or 
similar Journal in the World,—and is from 20,000 to 30,000 preal** 
than that of any <irtrr paper (ont of New York city) published in 
this State or section of tho Union. 
Thr Child's Book of Nature. Three Parts in One. Part 
I—Plants; Port 11—Animals; Part lit—Air, Water, 
Heat, Light, &c. By WortbiNGTON HookRR, M. D. il¬ 
lustrated by numerous Engravings New York: Har¬ 
per & Brothers. 
A most valuable work (or the use of Families and Schools, 
*' intended to aid Mothers and Teachers in trniningchildren 
in the observation o( Nature.” It is a complete repository 
of rudimental k mrwledge on the subjects enumerated in the 
title. Written in a pleasant, lamilisr and elegant style, it 
most prove eminently instructive and entertaining to tbe 
young. The volume Is profusely and beautifully illustrat¬ 
ed, rendering it very attractive, and its subjects easily com¬ 
prehended by those for whom it is intended. This work 
would have been considered a wottdeilnl and inestimable 
treasure in the days when juveniles “trudged unwillingly 
to school" with such elementary fountains of knowledge as 
Wfustku's Spelling Book and Mouse’s Geography—which 
latter staled that “ Albany contained two thousand houses 
and eight thousand inhabitants, all standing- with their 
gable ends In the street /" Truly, the “ rising generation" 
are highly favored —and especially in the publication ol 
such works ns the above entitled For Bale by DEWEY. 
Lake Champlain is open, and steamboats running. 
Senator Sumner is in Paris, nearly perfect iu health. 
The Connecticut River is now almost entirely clear of 
— One of the novelties in New York city Sr a swimming 
school. 
— The hpalth of I.ord Palmerston is reported to be on 
the decline. 
Yellow fever prevails among the shipping at the port of 
Rio Janeiro. 
— A census of Cairo, Illinois, has just been taken. Popu¬ 
lation 1,756. 
— Cucumbers and green peas were abundant at Savannah 
two weeks since. 
— Hon. Caleb Cushing is spoken of as a candidate for the 
mission to China. 
— A revival of religion is in progress in the Rhode Is¬ 
land State Prison. 
— The Chinese Empire has a population at present, of 
350 or 400 millions. 
—There are over two hundred pupils in the Kentucky 
State Normal School. 
— A western court lias decided that arreBts by telegraphic 
dispatches are illegal. 
— The Quakers have 715 churches in the United States* 
with 293,000 attendants. 
— Six thousand emigrants arrived at New York during 
three days the past week. 
— The real estate sales in New York for the past two 
weeks, foot up 56.760,<538. 
— Potatoes of the new crop were on the tables at Charles¬ 
ton, S. C., on the 3d inst. 
— Large n umbers of young men are leaving Verinont for 
Minnesota and the West. 
— Elihu Burrit is lecturing in Boston on the emancipa¬ 
tion of slaves by purchase. 
— It Is stated that there were over 4,000 Kansas emi¬ 
grants in 8t. Louis, on the 2d. 
— The statue of Gen. Warren is to be erected on Bun¬ 
ker’s Hill, on the 17th of June. 
— The Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad is now com¬ 
pleted to the Mississippi River. 
— Nearly 24,000,000 acres have been granted for railroads 
in the Western States since 1860. 
— On the 15th of May, railway connection is to be per¬ 
fected to St. Louis via. Cincinnati. 
— Hon. NenI Dow sailed last Wednesday for Europe, to 
advocate tbe .Maine Law in England. 
— Land speculators have Invaded Southern Illinois, and 
are buy ing up all they can get hold of. 
— Thirty-six feet of building ground was sold last week 
in Chicago at the rate of $975 per foot. 
— The sum collected for water rent in Philadelphia the 
current year, will amount to $330,000. 
— The lost steamer down from San Francisco to Panama, 
brought only twenty-two recruits to Walker. 
— A miniature of Washington, painted upon ivory, sup¬ 
posed by Copley, in 1760, has been discovered. 
— Twenty families on the Des Moines river, Iowa, are re¬ 
ported to have been murdered by the Indians. 
— In 1850 there were 393 paper mills in England, and the 
duty in the year ending March, was £1,0-17,430. 
— Of the 2,536 marriages in Boston in 1856, the bride 
was 
List of New Advertisements this Week. 
25 Witnesses, or The Forger Convicted—.Tohu S live. 
Look at this—Valuable Kurins lor Sale—Wm. B. Ross. 
Combined Reaper and Mower-—Walter A Wood. 
Napoleon Bines Hawk—Drove Bradley A Co. 
Groat Original Works on trie Ho-se—C M. Saxton A Co. 
A Fence I A l'cncoi:— Myers A Oo 
Achromatic Microscope-—J ,V W flrnnow. 
Grape m-oners (Jtrfdfc—C M Saxton A Co. 
< iilnese Sugar Cane Seed—Cnrtis A Cobb 
Noithetn Muscadine Crap—J* Lewis or P. StewarL 
Great Sale ttf Pure Bred Stock—1 lios. Gould. 
Wakefield's Maud Coro Planter—M. W. Simmons. 
WhvTuil Trv HI—T- W. Briggs. 
To L-ncrs trf Flowers—O. M Saxton A ( o. 
K.-'Uie s Filter*—J. E. Cheney A Co. 
Rebecca Grape Vines for Saji—Wm. Broekslmnk. 
Strawberry Manual—C M, Saxton A Co. 
Land in Iowa—A F. Hannon. 
Farm lor Sale—A. 11 Franklin, .. 
Trees at Wholesale and Retail—Benj. J*ish A son. 
JltuMC Publisher*—J. Sage A- Sons. 
Fowls's Par or Dramas—Morris Cotton. 
Northern Chinese Sugar ( anc—Mellvain A Young. 
Coiljoring—C. It. Long. 
Superior Suffolk Swine—Jostfth Sl’ckney 
Lithographers and Engravers—J Sage A Sous. 
Gracib Amber. ByMrs.C. W. Denison, Author of “Home 
Pictures,” “ Wbat Not," “ Carrie Hamilton,” Ac. “ Tho' 
hand join in hand, the wicked shall Dot go unpunished." 
New York : Sheldon, Blnkeinnn & Co. 
Mrs. Denison is so favorably known ns a writer of 
sketches and books of an elevated moral tone, aud absorb¬ 
ing interest, that we feel Bafe in commending this volume 
before giving it more than a cursory examination. If 
equal to her former works, it will ceitainly exert a salutary 
inllliefioe upon the minds of the many readers to whom it 
will prove acceptable. It forms a handsome volume of 460 
pages. .Sold by Wm. Allixg. 
Reading Without Tears—O r, a Pleasant Mode of Learn¬ 
ing to Read. By the Author of “ Peep of Day,” Ac.— 
Beautifully illustrated. New York : Harper & Bros. 
AN admirable book, worthy its title. It is just the work 
to learu little* ones to read, being arranged to secure the 
progress ot the scholar, while the letters aud subjects are 
so fully illustrated »s to att ract bis at tention and keep him 
interested. A juvenile at our elbow is greatly delighted 
with its pretty pictures and pleasant reading. Sold by 
Dewey. 
Washington News. 
The Cabinet met on the 10th inst., to consider 
the^questions connected with New Grenada, and 
orders will.be sent by the next Aspinwall steamer 
for our Naval forces in the West. Judies aud the 
Pacific to concentrate in the Isthmus of Panama. 
Should it be necessary, men will be landed on both 
sides, and the neutrality oi tbe transit guaranteed 
to tliejvorld. The British and French Ministers 
have been odvised’of this determination. 
The correspondent of the N. Y. Times says:— 
The Administration have been engaged for two 
days on Mexican affairs, which have assued a new 
and serious aspect, in consequence of the imminent 
danger of the loss of the right of way across the 
Isthraus’of Tehuantepec. There is some trouble 
concerning this. Att'y Gen. Black is engaged in 
drawing up the history of the Tehuantepec Tran¬ 
sit, and the.Garay Grant and tbe Sloo claims to it, 
and the legal efleet of the Sth article of the Gads¬ 
den treaty, which warrants our interference for 
the protection of any contract rights of our citi- 
zins iu respect to that transit. 
There has been a change of programme in ref¬ 
erence tolNebraska appointments, for which there 
were over 100 applicants. They are officially pro¬ 
mulgated as follows:—G. TI. Nixon, of Tenn., Reg¬ 
ister of Land office. C. B. Smith, of Minnesota, 
Receiver of public monies for Nebraska Laud Dis¬ 
trict and H Andrew Hopkins, of Pa,, Register. Ed¬ 
ward Deglong, of Ala., Receiver at South Platte 
District and John M. H. Patrick, of Nebraska, Reg¬ 
ister. Jobn'O. Fink, Receiver, Dacotah District, 
A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans, re¬ 
ceived at Wa&liingtoD, states that a special mes¬ 
senger had ‘arrived there with news of the accept* 
ance of the Tehuantepec road under the Sloo con¬ 
tract, Arrangements for the Northern Oregon 
road tolCalifornia are completed. 
The 1V.O. Department has invited proposals until 
the 1st of June, for canying the entire letter mail 
overland from the Mississippi to San Francisco, 
on four horse coaches, semi-monthly, weekly and 
semi-weekly. The Interior Department has near¬ 
ly completed the arrangements for the construc¬ 
tion of the wagon'road. 
From Nicaragua, 
The steamship Tennessee arrived at New York 
on the 16th inst. from Aspinwall and San Juan, via 
Key West. 
Col. Lockridge advanced to Costillo on March 
28 with 300 men, one the steamers J. N. Scott and 
the Rescue, and found the enemy were 500 strong, 
and had fortified Nelson’s Hill, 250 yards in rear 
of the Castle, with strong breastworks, ditches, and 
several large guns. He retreated without making 
an attack, and destroyed all the fortifications be¬ 
low Costillo, having abandoned all hope of open¬ 
ing the river. Having disbanded the two battal¬ 
ions of recuruits, be subsequently formed a new 
one of those who were willing to go to Walker, 
via Panama. 
The boiler of the steamer J. N. Scott exploded 
near Serapiqni, during the retreat, killing and 
wounding fifty officers and men. These were im¬ 
mediately sent to Punta Arenas in the Rescue. 
The Tennessee brought away all the wounded 
who were able to be removed. 
Col. Lockridge still remained up tho river with 
bis force, aud was well supplied with provisions. 
ROCHESTER, APRIL 25, 1857. 
TRIAL. 8UBSCRIBKItS — HALF PRICE 
Remember that tee will send FOUR COPIES of the 
Rural for the current quarter, (thirteen numbers,) 
for SI—on trial. Many have already responded to 
the offer in last number by sending handsome lists of 
Trial Subscribers, while others order the paper sent 
to friends and neighbors, ns a present. All who 
wish to introduce the Rural in their localities, or to 
friends at a distance, can now do so at. just hall price 
by sending for four, eight, twelve or more copies. 
Conflagrations and Casualties, 
The Weather.—Destructive Snow Storm, 
The large hat manufactory and store of Messrs. 
Strong & Buggies, with a large quantity of wool and 
other stock, at Ashland, Greene Co., N. Y,, were 
entirely destroyed afew days since: loss of Messrs. 
S. & R., $8,000 to $10,000; insured for $5,000.— 
Several smaller buildings belonging to other par- 
lies were consumed, with a loss oi $600 to $800, 
upon which there was no insurance. 
In the burning of the bam of S. P. Clark, in 
Cayuga Co,, N, Y., last week, 47 head of cattle, 11 
calves, a quantity of clover seed, threshing ma¬ 
chine, Ac., were destroyed, valued together at 
$5,000. 
On the 6th inst, tbe barn of J. R. Latimer, one 
mile from Wilmington, Del., was destroyed by fire, 
with two horses, 17 cows, &c. 
A fire at Lacrosse, Wis., on the Sth inst., de¬ 
stroyed the flour and pinning mill of White, Dyes 
A Gregory. Loss $30,000; insurance $13,000. 
A collar manufactory, 5a Troy, N. Y r ., was 
burned on the 15th instant. Loss $6,000; insured 
$2 500. 
The freight depot at Caledonia, on the Buffalo 
aud Lake Huron Railway, was burned ou the 13th 
inst. Several thousand dollars worth of merchan¬ 
dize and flour was destroyed. 
The fire at Marietta, Ga., on the ICth inst., de¬ 
stroyed the Howard House, College Row, Post 
Office, and several stores. Loss $1)0,000. Insured 
$30,000, partly in Northern offices. 
The flour mill and stock of N. C. Skinner, Nor¬ 
folk, Ya., were destroyed by fire on the 17th inst. 
Loss $53,000, partly insured. 
A large lire occurred at Alton, III,, on the 16th 
inst., destroying the planing mill of Morrison & 
Beal, and the Methodist Chnrcb parsonage bouse, 
and doing great damage to the Waverly Hotel, 
Piazza House, and the warehouse of Hollister & 
Coffee. Loss $50,000. 
A disastrous fire occurred on the 13th inst. at 
South Pittsburg. The planing mill ol’ James Mil- 
linger was destroyed, together with two million 
leet of seasoned lumber. Also three adjoining 
dwellings. Mr. Millinger’s loss is estimated at 
$80,000, on which there is an insurance of $16,000. 
A destructive fire occurred at Buffalo on the 
19th inst. It broke out in the third story work 
shop of Cutler & De Forest’s Furniture Manufac¬ 
tory on Washington street. The flames were 
confined by the firemen to the establishment nam¬ 
ed, which was destroyed. Loss $80,000 to $100,- 
000. Insured $40,000. 
The Satinet Factory of the Steam Woolen Co. 
Co., Utica, was destroyed by fire the 18th instant. 
Loss $20,000 or $30,000. Insurance $25,000. 
On the 14th inst, a very destructive fire broke 
ont in Baltimore in the business part of the city. 
Loss $338,000. Insured $234,000. This fire was 
attended wiili considerable loss of life. At the 
latest accounts thirteen bodies had been recovered. 
There are still quite a number hubs Ing. 
The snow storm of the season opened for this 
vicinity on Saturday night Last. During Sunday 
and Monday it continued falling without interim's, 
sion, melting, however, nearly as fast as it fell.— 
Monday evening the atmosphere became a little 
cooler, and the deposits began to accnranlate, and 
at time of writing, (Tuesday morning,) there is as 
much snow on the ground as at any period during 
the winter, and but little prospect of a cessation 
of the storm. Owing to its weight great damage 
has resulted throughout the city. Hardly an awn¬ 
ing, where the cordage was strong enough to hold, 
but is torn to pieces, and the iron fasteniDgs are 
bent and warped as though they bad been under¬ 
going the teat of fire. Shade and fruit trees are 
broken or totally prostrated in every part of the 
city—scarcely a single resident but is grieving the 
loss of both trees and shrubs which huve received 
his attention and been anxiously watched for years. 
What damage has resulted to orchards throughout 
tbe country we cannot as yet ascertain, but if the 
same ratio of loss is sustained there as here, it 
must be very heavy. Butialo, on the West seems 
to be the limit of tile storm in that, direction—of 
the East we cannot saj’, as the wires are down in 
half a dozen places within the city limits. 
The Suspension Bridge over the Genesee in the 
northern portion of the city, fell with a tremen¬ 
dous crash this morning at about 3 o’clock. The 
cause was the accumulation of snow, which care¬ 
ful estimates set at one hundred twenty-five tuns 
weight. 
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser contains the 
following despatches: 
Pittsburgh, April 20.—Raining and snowing 
for ten days past with prospect of continuing ten 
days more. 
Cincinnati, April 20.—Heavy rain storm here 
yesterday and last night. Clear, pleasant, and 
warm this morning. Railroad all right and run¬ 
ning regular. 
Detroit, April 20.—Weather clear, mild, and 
pleasant as May. Railroads all right and running 
regular. No ice in the river. 
older than tho bridegroom In 397 iustances. 
- The income of the Marquis of Westminster, it is said, 
is £400,000 per annum, equal to $6,000 per day. 
— Maine has 508 miles of railroad, costing $17,500,000. 
Last year the gross Income was about $1,500,000. 
— More maple sugar will be made this season in Ver¬ 
mont than was ever before known to be produced. 
The hill providing for glass or transparent ballot-boxes, 
was lost in the Assembly, having but fifteen votes. 
— The loss by Ore in the United States last month was 
$1,783,000, and siuce tho 1st of January $4,923,000. 
_Goold Brown, tho distinguished grammarian, died at 
I.ynn, Mass., March 31st, in the 60th year ol his 8gu. 
_Tho oldest roan in America, it is said, is John Humes. 
lie now lives in Murray county, Ga., and is aged 131. 
Rev. L. M. Pease, the Five Points Missionary, has re¬ 
tired from his work, in consequence of failing health. 
— The U. S. District Attorney of Minnesota has pro¬ 
nounced a bill removing the Capital unconstitutional. 
_The St. Lawrence river is open iu front of Montreal' 
The ice is piled lorty feet high on Die banks of the river. 
— A Beet Hoot Sugar Manufacturing Company has been 
organized at San Jose, California, with a capital ol $50,000. 
_A heavy fall of snow on tho 14tlx lust, caused much 
damage to roofs ol housesand the telegraph wires in Utica 
—The Costa Ricin General has offered a reward of $10,- 
000 for Walker’s head, aud $20,000 for the whole of him 
alive. 
_It is understood that Commodore Terry Is to have 
command of the new squadron which is to be sent out to 
Japan. 
— A lady, named Ann Eliza Tyler, died suddenly on 
Thursday week, in Richmond, Va,, from the bite of a 
spider. 
— The stock of the Illinois Central Railroad rates at $137 
per share, it being tbe highest railroad stock in the 
country. 
— Tbe Cliippewa8 and Sioux, who have been for years at 
war, have buried the hatchet, and smoked the pipe of peace 
together. 
_pearls are now iound in fresh water clams! One 
worth $1,000, and others of less value, have been found in 
New Jersey. 
— Passengers now reach St. Louis from Leavenworth, 
Kansas Territory, iu 35 hours, via. Missouri river and Pa¬ 
cific railroad. 
— It is rumored that Sam Houston will be a candidate 
for the Governorship ot Texas in opposition to the Demo¬ 
cratic candidate. 
— Thomas E. Clark, Esq., one of the oldest and most re¬ 
spected members ot the bar of Oneida county, died in Utica 
last Tuesday week. 
— Judge Goodenow, of tbe Supreme Court of Maine, 
says colored persona, having three months’ residence, can 
vote In that State. 
— The emigration into Kansas is so great this spring 
that it is estimated 70,000 people will be added to the popu¬ 
lation thin season. 
— Tbe Infant Prince of Naples has been baptized, receiv¬ 
ing Gfty names, amongst which the first were— Gennaro 
Maria Immaculate. 
— Madame Rutlksy Kossuth, sister of the exiled Governor 
of Hungary, hiw opened a school for young ladleB, iu Corn¬ 
wall, Orange county. 
— The Legislature ot Massachusetts has passed a law al¬ 
lowing the testimony of Atheists to be received in the 
Courts of that State. 
— The production of the Australian goldmines may now 
be estimated at £13,000,000 per annum, ot which about 
£11,000,000 is exported. 
— General Packer and David Wilmot, rival candidates 
for Governor of Pennsylvania, are said to be two of the 
handsomest men iu the State. 
— A School Ship is fitting out at Baltimore for the pur¬ 
pose of teaching maritime pupils. Itls tho only Institution 
of the kind in tbe United States. 
— Mr. Jacob Tiipler, tbe oldest fireman iu Philadelphia, 
died on Sunday week. He was 80 years old, and has been 
for 05 years an active member the U. S. Engine Company. 
Santa Fe News. —Advices from SautnFe to the 
18th nit, have been received at St. Louis. The 
Democratic Convention had nomiuated for Gover¬ 
nor James L. Collins. Mr. Atero, late delegate to 
Congress, had been re elected. Considerable ex¬ 
citement had been occasioned in Santa Fe on ac¬ 
count of the circumstances growing out of ft col¬ 
lision between a Mexican named Glober and a 
soldier. Glober shot the soldier, and then gave 
himself up and was taken to jail. A party of 
troops thereon entered the jail and fired about 40 
shots, killing Glober and another prisoner, and 
wounding two others. Some of the soldiers en¬ 
gaged in tire proceeding had been identified and 
were to be tried for the offence. 
Welland Canal and the St. Lawrence.— 
The Oswego Times of the Nth inst. says:—We hear 
nothing from the Welland Canal, but it is supposed 
it will be open for the free passage of vessels soon. 
A number'orschooners have already taken their 
clearances at this port for the upper lakes. By 
advices from Port Maitland, at the month of Grand 
River, received to-day by telegraph, we learn that 
Lake Erie above that port was clear of ice, and 
the schooner Algerine, Capt, Clement, intended to 
sail the first fair wind. The Bay of Quinte is still 
closed by ice, but a telegraph dispatch says it will 
probably be open by Saturday. There is conside¬ 
rable floating ice in the St. Lawrence, but no ma¬ 
terial improvement to its navigation will be expe¬ 
rienced till after this week. 
Utah. —The Washington correspondent of the 
New York Commercial Advertiser says that Mr. 
Rencher, formerly a member of the House from 
North Carolina, Las been appointed Governor of 
the Territory of New Mexico. A Governor of 
Utah has not yet been found. It is proposed to 
send to Utah a military force of 2,500 men, officer¬ 
ed by men of character, who have families, who 
will accompany them; also to appoint as judges 
nud executive officers men of moral worth and 
standing who have families; and thus it is hoped 
that a society will be formed which will present a 
good example to the “Saints,” and form the nu¬ 
cleus of an enlightened and moral community. 
Native American Camels. —We have some 
camels in Texas to whom the naturalization laws 
would not apply—three having been born under 
the stars and stripes. The Washington Star Hays 
they are thriving, and five or six more births are 
expected. From the reports of the condition of 
the animals, at present, and through the eleven 
months that the first importations have been on 
the continent, we may regard all doubts as to their 
acclimation dissipated, and that so much of the 
experiment is a fixed fad. The only remaining 
indeterminate point is the character of the stock 
that may be produced. For this, time will be re¬ 
quired. 
Wheat in Livingston County. — The Living¬ 
ston Republican learns on inquiry of intelligent 
farmers lroni most parts of the county, that tbe 
wheat on the ground looks far better than it was 
feared it would from the nnfavorahlenesa ol ae 
weather last fall, and during the winter. nereis, 
however, a less number of acres to -v neat than has 
before been seen in some years, it is to be hoped 
that the most sanguine expectations of the farmers, 
will be realized this year in a honntil'ul crop. 
Carelessness in the Nf.w York Post Office. 
—The New York Tribune of the 18th inst. sayB:— 
“We were shown yesterday a package, evidently 
of money or valuable securities, mailed at Buffalo 
on Saturday last, by a banking house thereof to its 
corresponding banking house in this city, plainly 
directed in a large round hand, which was deliver¬ 
ed yesterday from onr city post office to a com¬ 
mercial firm, not bankers &t all, and whose names 
bear no resemblance to those so fairly inscribed 
on the package. Where this package has been 
since last Saturday, and how it turns up at this late 
day in the box of a firm who have no shadow of 
right to it, it behooves our post office managers to 
explain. The package has evidently not been 
tampered with in any way.” 
Wonder how many offices throughout the State 
furnish daily proof of negligence on the part of 
post r,asters and clerks, and how few of the latter 
could plead “ not guilty" to a charge of remissness? 
We Feed John Bull.—A Parliamentary paper 
has just been issued, showing the total imports of 
grain and flour into England, for the past year.— 
Three-fourths of the supply of foreign flour were 
obtained from the United States, in addition to 
three-fifths of the amount of Indian corn, and more 
than a fourth of the amount of wheat. 
Army Operations.— Instructions have been is¬ 
sued from tbe War Department, ordering General 
Harney and troops immediately from Florida to 
Port Leavenworth. Col. Sumner, wtth a force of 
about 1,000 men, has also been ordered against the 
Iowa and Cheyenne Indians, On the restoration 
of peace in those quarters, he will proceed with 
his troops to Utah. It is estimated that early in 
June there will be at least 3,000 United States 
troops in Kansas under the command of Maj. Gen. 
Harney and Persifer F. Smith. 
Havana News. —We have Havana dates to the 
30th ult. An attempt had been made to assassin¬ 
ate W. Sydney Smith, British Consul, on account 
of his exposures of certain slave transactions.— 
The impression that there would he no war with 
Mexico was becoming general. 
Indian Difficulties. — By a despatch dated 
Chicago, 17th iust., we learn that after the destruc¬ 
tion of the settlement at Spirit Lake the Sioux 
Indians made an attack on Springfield, in the 
Southern part of Missouri, but were repulsed with 
the loss of about a dozen men. A detachment of 
100 good troops pursued the Indians, but being 
without provisions, were compelled to return. 
A Novel Sunday School.— In Iowa City, Iowa, 
a large population having recently sprung up in 
the vicinity of the railroad depot, a Sunday 
School, which is attended by about 60 children, is 
held every Sabbath in a railroad car in that place. 
Closing the Asylums in Indiana.— Owing to 
the failure of the last Legislature of Indiana to 
make the necessary appropriations, the asylums 
for the deaf and dumb and tbe blind at Indianap¬ 
olis have been closed, and the children returned 
to their respective counties. The Journal says it 
was a melancholy sight to witness the appearance 
of the children as they were busy in preparing to 
depart from scenes so long familiar, and which, 
probably, they have visited for the last time. 
War in Liberia.— It is stated on the authority 
of letters from missionaries of the Methodist Epis¬ 
copal Church, that a furious war is raging in Li¬ 
beria, iu the vicinity of Cape PalmOS, between the 
colonists and the natives. Thirty-seven American 
houses and much property are stated to have been 
destroyed, and twenty eight lives had been lost.— 
All missionary and business matters were at a 
stand. 
Election in Kansas. — Henry J. Adams, Free 
State candidate, was elected Mayor of Leaven¬ 
worth, by a majority of ISO votes over all other 
candidates. 
Canal Navigation. —The general impression 
iu Albany is that the Cflnul Board will resolve to 
open the Canals of the State on the first of May. 
