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MOORE’S RURAL NEW-tORhliK: AX AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER 
Indian War in Minnesota and Iowa. 
Frost and Famine in Texas, 
Items of News 
For some time startling reports concerning 
depredations by Indians upon the settlements in 
the vicinity of the south bend of tbo Minnesota 
river have been received at the frontier towns. It 
was stated tbattbe Sioux Indians were burning the 
settlements on the Blue Earth and Walton Ore,and 
murdering and massacre ing the settlers—and that 
upwards of six hundred Indiaus were moving to¬ 
wards Alankato for the purpose of destroying it— 
A call was raado upon the surronuding country for 
assistance, and iu response thereto Col. Smith, the 
commandant at Fort Sneiling, immediately dis¬ 
patched three companies of infantry, fnliy armed 
and equipped, for the scene of action. In addition 
forty men lift M mkato and a like number St Peter 
under the command of Gov. Dodd. 
Since the reception of the first intelligence, the 
particulars of the massacre at Springfield in Blue 
Earth county have come to hand. The number 
killed bad not been precisely known, but William 
Wood, George 51. Wood, Mr. Cnurcli, and Josiah 
Stewart, a re among the number. The attack was 
without provocation, and was unsuspected by the 
settlers. Mr. Wm. Wood, a trader, and an old set¬ 
tler of Mankato, had been proceeding to have a 
talk with the Indians on the bank of the river, 
when he was shot dead and his body burned. Af¬ 
ter this a general massacre took place, in which all 
who were not armed suffered more or less. Those 
Two Indians 
Tf-rum of \,ivcrtlMng;.—Twenty-five Ointa a Line, each 
I nsertion— in alt . mat Brief and appropriate annonncemetitB 
preferred, and no Patent Medicine or deceptive advertisement* 
Inserted on any conditions. t"y The circulation of the Rural 
New-Yorsrk larsely exceeds that of nny other Agricultural or 
Bimtlar Journal iu the World.—and is from 20,(ICO to Sn.lHHiyrroirr 
than that of any oilier paper font of Now York city) pnbllahod In 
this State or sceifon of the Union. 
A man named Beirman, foreman of a brewery 
near Cleveland, was killed by the explosion of a 
beer cask, in which he burned a hole for a faucet 
with a hot iron. 
Tub total number of persons saved from ship¬ 
wreck by the British Royal National Life-boat In¬ 
stitution, since its first establishment in 1824, has 
been 10,101. 
Upwards of three hundred and fifty letters were 
received at the General Laud Office on the 13tli 
nit. This is the second time so large a number has 
been received by that department in one day. 
Among the eight hundred acts passed by the N. 
A. Legislature at its late scssiod, at least six hun¬ 
dred were enacted during the closing three weeks. 
On the 13ih inst.. Gov. Kiug signed 62 acts; on 
the 14ih, 58; on the loth, 173; on the lGtb, 60; 
and on the 17th, 91. So says the Atlas. 
A son of Mr. B. F. Svvett, of Jit. Morris, while 
feeding a corn-sheller, on the 20th nit., had his 
hand caught in the machine, anil it was so badly 
torn as to make it necessary to amputate the first 
and second fingers. 
During the election at Quebec last week, a seri- 
our riot occurred during which several of the 
police were severely injured—the Chief so severe¬ 
ly that he is not expected to recover. The milita¬ 
ry bad to he called out before quiet was restored. 
The Nova Scotia House of Assembly have pass¬ 
ed the bill giviug the New Yolk, New Foundland 
and London Telegraph Company, the exclusive 
privilege of landing the submarine telegraph ca¬ 
ble from any part of Europe on any part of tbe 
shores of Nova Scotia rind Cape Breton. 
The Hon. J. G. Montgomery, Congressman elect 
for the 13th district, Pennsylvania, died on the 
24th ult., from the National Hotel disease, con¬ 
tracted during the Inauguration week, at Wash¬ 
ington. 
A bxi.l to charter the International Bridge 
Company on the part of Canada, has been intro¬ 
duced into the Parliament by Mi'. A. Jlorrison, 
and awaits its second reading. It is not anticipa- 
ed that there will be any serious opposition to its 
passage. 
Two large telegraph cables have just been laid 
across the North River, from the foot of Thirteenth 
Each cable 
Shad are plentifully caught in the North River 
now. 
— There were 626 vessels in port in New York, on the 
23d nit 
— The State debt of New Jersey is something less than 
$200,000. 
— Tbe new VermontState House is to coBt from $200,000 
to $260,000. 
— An English pnper hss an advertisement of 2,000 cats 
for Australia. 
— The Code Napoleon is in course of translation into the 
Turkish language. 
— A woman whs arrested in London, recently, for actual¬ 
ly skinning cats alive I 
— Rev. W. W. Howland, missionary at Ceylon, writes 
that he is coming home. 
— L. H, Moss, of Morehouse, La., killed lour fine bucks 
at one shot! A big story. 
— In 20 years, Ohio has increased its valuation from 
$80,000,000 to $860,000,000. 
— Gen. Todtlcben, the chief defender of Sebastopol, ar¬ 
rived in Paris on tbe 2d ult. 
— Mrs. IT. B. Stowe has been received iu the kindliest 
manner at Rome by the Tope. 
— A new township hag been laid out near Ottawa, Cana¬ 
da, which is called Sebastopol. 
—The peach and cherry trees in the vicinity of Cincinnati 
have been destroyed by the frost. 
— The exploring expedition of William’s College sin- 
dents have returned from Florida. 
— Pantaloons coating $60 a pair are among the Spring 
fashions announced in New York. 
— Thirty-five robust young men left Boston on Monday 
to settle in Hutchinson, Minnesota. 
— There are seven psper mills in North Carolinn, turning 
out 12,000 pounds of pnper per day. 
— An explosion took place In tbe Egypt mines, N. C., 
titling six persons, on the 16th ult. 
It is understood that Miss Nightingale is about to in¬ 
spect in turn all the largo hospitals. 
The Cunnl Board has adopted a resolution to open the 
Canals for navigation on the 6th inst. 
— Two white men 
tfp-AmuTio.es ro CLUBS are now in order, and can bo made 
at the Club rate—$1,50 per copy. Agents and other friends will 
please bear this in mind, and receive and forward the subscrip¬ 
tions of ail who desire to secure the Rural. 
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Rural, and all who do so will not only receive premiums, bnt 
their aid will be gratefully appreciated. 
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I 1 out-Office, County, and Suite, Territory or Province. 
very forward wheat The quantity sown is over 
double that of last year; the stand is excellent, and 
it needs one more .genial rniu to insure a yield be¬ 
yond that of any previous year. 
The San Antonio nernld says that, in that re¬ 
gion, notwithstanding the dry weather, corn is 
looking quite well. The chief injury worked by 
the drouth that it prevents farmers from secur¬ 
ing their stuuds where the late severe frost has 
compelled a re-planting. Corn that is up would 
not suffer so much. 
Letters from Baa Antonio and Indianola, Texas, 
dated respectively on the 7th and 8lh ult., furnish 
the following interesting extracts:—“We hoped to 
have hsd fine gardens, but this year the frosts have 
been severe. Only hist night (April G) we had a 
frost that killed every garden in this part of Texas. 
We have all to plant over again. We have a 
wretched prospect before us for the summer. Two 
frosts—the last two days ago—have cut down the 
corn, cotton, vegetables and all fruit. For tbe 
want of rain the ground is now too dry to plant. 
Unless it rains in ^wo weeks, there is danger of 
famine. No grass is up for pasture; the streams 
are dry that can get so; the cattle are, some of 
them, starving, and have to be thrown out to save 
the calves, so that we shall soon be without milk; 
while butter is already forty cents per pound and 
rising. It is a lamentable prospect which a merci¬ 
ful Providence can alone avert the realization of.” 
List of I\ew Advertisements this Week, 
Harper's Weekly—Iterpor nod Brothers, 
lie IJo-r’s Review. 
Atkins' Automfunn Reaper A Mower— II. B Hapgood. 
Trial of Koapurx A Mowers—.Ino. Xi. Klippart. 
Thu Oriental Xinrse Charmer—Chxs. J Eldridge. 
Trees mid Stocks—II, Collins. 
To Persons out of Employ maul—Robert Sears. 
Colomfcir.n Cur,no—A Longerl. 
Great IridncMiient—R Lawrence. 
Nursery for Safo—C. P. Weaver. 
J Jays' failure—W. \V. Panelis 
Apple Grails—Rvt j Kish .V. Hon. 
A Hare Chance—11 C. V lilto. 
Trotting Stock—C M. Vinson. 
Important to IJiirrlwaro Heater*—Sargent & Foster. 
Blacksmith Wanted—Elixb Yeomans. 
Commercial Agents Wanted—A. W. Harrison. 
Fowls— O. My. 
who were not armed barely esoaped 
were killed. 
The latest information rec 
eived in respect to 
this attack places the number of whites killed at 
fifty-three, and that four women were carried off as 
captives. Of kite frequent threats have been 
thrown out by the Sioux, among which was one 
stating that “ when the grass should grow, and the 
green leaves were on the trees, they would then 
sweep the whites from'the Blue Earth settlement” 
We copy the following extract relative to the 
wholesale slaughter in Iowa, from the official 
report: 
“The Indians commenced low down on Little 
Sioux River near the south-west corner of Buena 
Vista county, and proceed to break up and destroy 
all the settlements in that county. Cluv, Dickinson 
and Emmitt counties; then intended coming down 
the West Branch as far as they dare. Throughout 
their whole course they have eompetely demolish¬ 
ed every settlement, killed all the cattle. Along 
that river they approached; and got into the 
ROCHESTER, MAY 2, 1867. 
convicted of petty larceny were pub¬ 
licly flogged at Columbia, S. C., lately. 
— A cargo oi Ivory was recen tly brought to Salem, .Mass., 
from Zanzibar, Africa, worth $90,000. 
— The Philadelphia Councils have agreed to fix the tax 
rate in that city at $2 on the hundred. 
— The Cincinnati, Wilmington and Zanesville Railroad, 
has passed into llie hands of a receiver. 
— There are no less than fourteen men confined in jail 
at Louisville, Ky., charged with murder. 
— Eleven more black snakes hare been taken from that 
hole In East Hartford, making 102 in all. 
— It is said that peaches in Indiana are not killed. The 
apples are safe, and promise a heavy crop. 
— The Dubuque and Pacific Railroad Company have ne¬ 
gotiated six mi llione of honda In Europe. 
The quantity of drain pipes made in England is said 
by the builder to avernge 40 miles a week 1 
It is estimated that Vermont will produce sugar 
enough this season for home consumption. 
The Legislature of Louisiana has authorized the issne 
of $700,000 of State bonds for the school fund. 
— The New Oheans Picayune, learns that the Mexican 
government him accepted Hie Tehuantepec road. 
— A piece of coal weighing three tana was last week 
taken from the Tadey mines at Duquoin, Illinois. 
— It is confidently expected that the Galt and Guelph 
Railway, C. ff, wiU bu in operation by July next. 
Mormonism—The Administration. 
From the tenor of a military order recently 
published, it is to be inferred that a portion of the 
United States army is to move to Utah, the “ prom¬ 
ised land” of the Mor ions. Although the Admin¬ 
istration proclaims that “ its design is t,o pursue a 
peaceful policy towards Utah, in order that the 
laws may be executed and the rights of the inhab¬ 
itants be protected without recourse to arms;” 
still, from the antecedents of the person to whom 
the Governorship has been tendered, it is palpable 
that the President expects resistance will be offer¬ 
ed t.o tbe demands of tbe general government, aud 
is placing the responsibility in the hands of one 
from whom no “child’s f lay” may be anticipated. 
Major McCulloch, the individual selected, was one 
of the Texas Rangers, and in battling for tbe inde¬ 
pendence of the Lone Star Republic, achieved a 
name for dauntless bravery. After the annexation 
of Tc-xas aud the declaration of war against Mcx- 
co, he united his forces with the American army, 
and rendered special service. Those acquainted 
with 1,he man consider him well fitted for a post 
where either rough work or hard fighting is to be 
met. Under these circumstances, the questions 
arise, to what extent can resistance be offered? 
Wbatare the means of this people for an encounter 
should affairs assume a hostile aspect? To these 
we find an answer iu the form of a letter to the Na¬ 
tional Intelligencer by one who seems to be well 
informed on the subject. He says: 
“ The entire male population of the State are en¬ 
rolled in the militia, who are under weekly (some 
daily) military drill, every one of whom, from the 
boy of twelve to the man of eighty years, is re¬ 
quired to keep on hand one hundred rounds of 
cartridge, one gun or rifle, one or more pistols, 
swords, sabres, knives, Ac., all he can obtain; and 
then, in tbe event of war, the women and children 
are to fight with whatever weapons they can com¬ 
mand. Now, when we consider their location, a 
thousand miles inland on every side, in the moun¬ 
tain fastnesses of the continent; their numbex-s, 
which, according to Chief Justice Drummond, are 
one hundred thousand iu the Territory, an I two 
hundred thousand in surrounding States aid Ter¬ 
ritories 
Singular Identification op Property.—A 
singular case of identification of property recent¬ 
ly occurred in one of the Boston Courts. Mrs. 
Margaret Farrell brought an action against Daniel 
Coughlan to recover a cow. It was proved lhat 
the husband of Mrs. Farrell, before he died.insert- 
ed a five cent piece under a certain portion of the 
cow's hide, so that in case the animal was atolen it 
could be identified without any trouble. Mr. Far¬ 
rell died, and the cow was stolen. The place 
where the silver was inserted was cut open and 
tbe money found, aud the jury being satisfied that 
the animal belonged to Mrs. Farrell, returned a 
verdict restoring the cow to her, and awarding $10 
damages. 
street New York, to the Jersey shore, 
contains three conducting wires. 
Tixe delegates present at the Railroad Conven¬ 
tion in Buffalo on the 23d and 24th nlt„ represented 
the very pretty sum of over Three Hundred. Millions 
of Dollars, 
The government has had to pay about $700,000 
a8 damages accruing to mail contractors whose 
contracts were cancelled by the late Postmaster 
General Campbell. 
Three dogs in York township, Ohio, recently 
attacked a little son of Mr. G. W. Stuart, aged five 
years, and bit him so terribly that he died in thirty- 
five hours. Several of the muscles were torn from 
their places, and he was bitten through the neck 
five times. 
The Coolie Trade. — A late arrival from Cuba 
brings information that of 1,322 Coolies, compris¬ 
ing four cargoes, designed for lhat Island, four 
hundred and fifty, or more than one-third of the 
whole number “spoiled” on the passage; and that 
the total number arrived on the Island since April, 
1855, is 10,534—died on the voyage, 1,789. Of all 
the nefarious trades in which man ever engaged, 
the Cooliejtrade is among tbe most horribly re¬ 
volting. Its barbarities far surpass the horrors of 
the “middle passage,” and yet those who are most 
active in its prosecution are citizens of those na¬ 
tions in which we hear the loudest outcries in be¬ 
half of humanity and freedom. 
Conflagrations and Casualties 
will Du in operation by July next. 
— The government contemplates the establishment of a 
Submarine Telegraph between Canada and the U, S. 
The London Critic says that ShfcUspeare's works are 
less known in France than those of Charles Dickens. 
— Eighty thon-and dozen of eggs were received in 
Philadelphia by the Delaware railroad, on tbe 23d ult. 
A German boy in New York died from eating eggs, 
which had been boiled iu Prussian blue, on Easter day. 
— Senator Butter of South Caroliua, is broken down in 
health, snd hss retired to the homestead at Stanelands. 
— The Democratic Convention of Tennessee, havu nomi¬ 
nated Hon. Iiham 0. HarriB for Governor of that State. 
— The Cleveland Plaiudeater says the prospect for a 
bountiful peach crop In the Lake Shore region is excellent- 
— Colonel L. D. Baker, Collector of the pott of Balti¬ 
more, is lying dangerously ill of the Washington epidemic. 
— The sum of $1.50,006 has been subscribed for the per" 
manent endowment of Bacon College, at Harrodsburg, Ky. 
— Seven men were stabbed in the various affrays that 
occurred in New Orleans on the 20th ult. Two men were 
killed. 
— The Cooperstown Freeman’s Journal says the yield of 
maple sugar in that county this season is half a million of 
pounds. 
— The postmaster of Waterville, N. Y., found a letter 
containing $260 In his office the other day, without any 
address. 
— DuriDg the week ending 21st March, 40 ships 
A workshop in the Jfaryland Penitentiary, Bal 
timoro, was burnt orx the 23d ult. Loss $20,000.— 
No prisoners escaped, 
The fire was evidently 
planned by some of them with that view. 
The University of Northern New York, in Beth¬ 
any, was destroyed by fire on the 18th ult. The 
building was owned by John F. Stoddard, Esq.— 
The amount of the loss has not been ascertained. 
On the 30th ult. a tire occurred in Mr. Lewis’ 
stables, Nos. 36 and 38 West .'iGth-st., New York.— 
The fliimes spreuil with great rapidity, and the 
building was entirely destroyed, together with 38 
horses, a large number of carriages, wagons, har- 
ness, &c., &c* 
The boiler in tho steam planing mill of Ray¬ 
mond & Hathaway, Toledo, O., exploded on the 
27th ult., seriously injuring five persons, of whom 
one has died, and two others are not expected to 
live. The building was nearly demolished. 
Ox the 27th ult., as the steamer Rainbow was 
ascending the Ohio, when opposite Slim Island, 
she came in collision with the steamer Julia Dean, 
bound for Wabash River. Tho Julia Dean struck 
the Rainbow on the starboard side, breaking a hole 
in her hull, and sinking herself immediately. Five 
or six persons were drowned—four of them deck 
hand3. The Dean’s cargo is a total loss, but is in¬ 
sured. Thers was no insurance on the boat. The 
Rainbow received very little damage. 
Slavery to bk “Bought Out” in Kentucky.— 
The Newport (Ky.) News says:—“A proposition is 
in contemplation to buy the land and negroes own¬ 
ed by slaveholders in Kentucky at their present 
valuation; aud if three-fourths of the slaveholders 
in the State will agree to sell, the proposed com¬ 
pany will advance a sum of money equal to one- 
half the estimated Taluo of both, and in one year 
after, pay the whole balance. The sIhvob will be 
set free and the land sold at an advanced price, in 
view of the State becoming free in one year after 
the first payment to the masters, and the State be¬ 
come settled with real industrious, enterprising 
free people.” 
Affairs at Washington, 
The following vessels have been ordered to ren¬ 
dezvous at Panama, during tbependiDg of the ne¬ 
gotiations with Grenada:—Frigate Independence 
and sloops-of-war Decatur and John Adams. The 
two former are already there, 
; their appliances of war; their secret 
agents in every nook and corner of the Republic; 
their emissaries among every Indian tribe on the 
continent, teaching them ‘the mechanic arts and 
military tactics,’ they amount to something inure 
than we have been accusT eted to regard them,— 
Now, in view of these tacts herein set forth, and 
the assumption by Chief Justice Drummond, with 
every facility for obtaining and transmiting infor¬ 
mation-allied to a savage Indian horde of three 
hundred thousand more, who are, in their hands, 
the ‘ battle axe of the Lord,’ to be wielded agaitiBt 
the Gentiles—added to a thousand miles of land 
travel, prairie and mountain, with natural means 
at hand to throw every obstacle in the way of an 
army, by running off their animals, cutting off 
small parties, poisoning the springs of water, aud 
blockading the canons and mountain passes—I re¬ 
peat, in view of all these facts, they form an ob¬ 
stacle of no mean character.” 
The resources of this people seem to be ample, 
and should hostilities lie commenced, it is impos- 
The John Adams 
is on her woy from Callao. 
The following vessels of the Home Squadifn 
have been ordered to Aspinwall, viz., the steam- 
frigate Wabash and sloops-of-war Cyane and Sara¬ 
toga. The Cyane is already there, and the others 
are on the way? The frigate Roanoke and the 
sloop-of-war St. Mary will probably soon be added 
to the squadron. 
The Postmaster General has made a temporary 
contract with C. Iv. Garrison, for carrying a semi¬ 
monthly mail between New Orleans to Vera Cruz. 
Contracts for about 1,500 mail routes, principal¬ 
ly in New England and New York, were let out on 
the 25th ult. by the Postmaster General. The con¬ 
tracts are somewhat more expensive than the pre¬ 
ceding ones. 
The Department, of the Interior has completed 
the organization of the Wagon Roads Corps, viz. 
Fort Ridgely aud South Pass road, W. H. Nobles' 
of Minnesota, Superintendent; Philo P, Hubble, of 
Minnesota, Disbursing Agent; Samuel A. Medary, 
of Ohio, Engineer. 
The New Cent. —This new coin will he dis¬ 
tributed to the public in about three weeks. A 
million are already completed, and two million 
more will be finished before the Mint commences 
paying them out. Col. Snowden declares that 
since the establishment of the Jlint the large 
amount of eighteen hundred tuns of copper have 
been used up in the manufacture of pennies, mak¬ 
ing 150,000,000 of pieces. The quantity of Spanish 
coin still in tbe country is estimated at two and a 
half millions of dollars. 
were re¬ 
ported at Loyds', all of which had foundered at sea, with 
all bands. 
— Mr. E. Mariam, who has been ill of erysipelas, has 
suffered a relupse, and serious apprehensions are felt as to 
the reBolt. 
— Mrs. Hnniet Hodges ha6 been appointed post mistress 
at Norton, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of 
her huiband. 
— The Associated Press of New York, comprising leas 
than a dozen papers, pay $3,000 per week for telegraphic 
dispatches. 
— The imports in the United States for the first two 
quarters of the present fiscal year exceed the exports by 
$9,000,000. 
— The Southern papers announce the death of Professor 
Tuomoy, at TnscaloosB, Ala. He whb an eminent Geologist 
and Naturalist. 
— Mr. William Watson died in Aqunsco district, in Prince 
George's county, Md., on tbe 2d inst, aged one hundred 
and eight years. 
— The number of newspapers taken in the town of Hart¬ 
ford, Vt,, per week, is 1,170. The vote of the town seldom 
reaches four hundred. 
— There is great sporting down in Virginia. In the 
vicinity of Wythovilte, seven bears have been killed lately ; 
in Augusta county nine. 
— The place of sale of the Delaware Trust Lands in Kan¬ 
sas, to be sold 23d of June next, has been changed from 
Lecompton to Asawakle. 
— Charles Lever, the celebrated author, has an offer, it 
is said, of £10,000, to visit the States as a lecturer—style, 
Thackeray—lor six months. 
— At the next commencement of Dartmouth College, 
Geo. W. Curtis, Esq-, of New York, will deliver the oration 
aud John G. Saxe, the poem. 
— President Urqnlzv, of the Argentine Republic, has a 
cattle herd that yields him half a million a year. There 
are three hundred thousand cattle. 
— The aggregate number of steamboats and barges built 
along the Ohio river rince 1849, Is 062 ; there are now ply¬ 
ing on the river 900 boats of all kindB. 
— A corrouporuien l of tho New Orleans Picayune says 
that about tun thousand uegrtm imported from Africa have 
been lauded ou tiro Cuban coast this season. 
New York City Bankrupt. — Among the list 
of failures in the New York Independent of last 
week, we find the following:—“New York City, 
suspended; assets said to be large; good divi¬ 
dends expected. The City Chamberlain, A. V. 
Stout, Esq., President of the Shoe and Leather 
Bank, having advanced already about a million 
and a half of dollars to ‘help us through,’ has de¬ 
clined to ‘ go it blind' any further. Ho is right." 
Illness of Mr. Crawford. —Mr. Crawford, the 
eminent sculptor, it is now stated, upon the authori¬ 
ty of late letters from Paris, is “ hopelessly beyond 
human aid," His physicians had discontinued their 
visits to him, and all that could be done was to alle¬ 
viate L5s Sufferings as much as possible, and await 
the fatal result. The intelligence of the loss of so 
distinguished a sculptor will be received with sor¬ 
row wherever genius is appreciated. lie is a 
native of New York, and was born in 1814. 
Tub Camel. —A gentleman writing to one of the 
Texas journals in reference to the powers of this 
breed of animals, says:—While at Indianola I saw 
one of tho camels tried with a couple of 500-pound 
bales of cotton. He moved oil' with them with as 
much ease as a mule would with a sack of corn.— 
The natives looked astonished. He could have 
carried another bale, I am satisfied, with perfect 
ease.” 
Fort Kearney and South Pass, 
and lloney Lake, East Division, Wm, F. Magraw, 
of Missouri, Superintendent; Asa Beall, of Mary¬ 
land, Disbursing Agent; J. W. Lanier, of Mass., 
Engineer. Western Division, John Kirk, of Cali¬ 
fornia, Superintendent; Frank Denver, of Califor¬ 
nia, Disbursing Agent; Bishop, of California, En¬ 
gineer. El Paso and Fort Yumu, Jas. B. Leech, of 
Texas, Superintendent; Gabriel Jordan, of Ala¬ 
bama, Disbursing Agent; N. 1L Hullen, Eugineer. 
McGraw, Nobles and Leech left Washington on the 
27th ult* Kirk is en route for California. Opera¬ 
tions are to he commenced with the least practica¬ 
ble delay. 
The War Department has not completed its or¬ 
ganization for the road assigned it. 
A Military Telegraph. — From our foreign 
journals we learn that M. Hipp, of Berlin, Prussia, 
has invented a very neat and said to he an effective 
portable telegraph for field operations. It prints 
like the Morse Telegraph, and weighs only twelve 
pounds—battery and all. 
Immense Train. —A train of twenty-eight emi¬ 
grant cars, drawn by three locomotives, and con¬ 
taining nearly one thousand Mormons on their 
way to Salt Lake, passed through our city on the 
25th ult. They were to go to Chicago, via the 
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroads. 
California Gold not Goon Enough. —Califor¬ 
nia gold pieces are not received at par at Toronto 
banks. The California Mint is not Federal, and 
the gold coined there is deficient in hardness, be¬ 
ing almost entirely without alloy. 
The Poisoning at Washington. —It is now 
believed that no less than seven hundred persons 
have been seriously aud daDgeronsly affected by 
the National Hotel poison, at Washington; and 
some twenty or thirty deaths have occurred in 
consequence. There are still several persons very 
Berionsly ill in that city, whose recovery is doubt¬ 
ful. Among others tbe Hon. Robert J. Walker has 
not yet entirely recovered from his severe attack. 
Senator Hale, of New Hampshire, has become a 
thin, lean man, under its ravages. It is nowihe 
opinion of many persons that there was a delibe¬ 
rate purpose to poison Mr. Buchanan, — and that 
tbe diabolical scoundrel hazarded the lives of 
thousands in the attempt. 
Emigration.— From the 1st to the 21st of April, 
there have arrived at Now York from Europe 13,- 
623 passengers, as follows:—From Liverpool, 7,- 
798; Bremen, 1,330; Hamburg, G83; London, 574; 
Havre, 2,024; Antwerp, 979; Glasgow, 145. 
Death op a Veteran Editor. —Amos Butler, 
for more than forty years editor and proprietor of 
the N. Y. Mercantile Advertiser, died at Natchez, 
Miss., ou tho 13th inst,, at the residence of his son, 
John T. Butler, Esq. 
Death of J. J. McPherson. — The Democrat 
announces the death of Hon. J. J. McPherson of 
Le Roy, late a member of the Assembly. He was 
taken with “brain fever” on Friday morning, and 
died at 10 o’clock in the evening. Ho was not 
considered in any danger until three or four hours 
before his death. lie was aged 50 years. 
Drayage in Chicago.— Upwards of four hun¬ 
dred drays have been licensed since the first of 
April, a pretty good indication of the extent of 
this class of business in that city. 
Death of an Eminent Lawyer. —Joshua A. 
Spencer, of Utica, died at his residence in that 
city, on Saturday, at II o'clock, A. M. nis disease 
was an abscess of the liver. 
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