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died within a few days from neglect and starva¬ 
tion, as the number, when Walker commenced to 
eat dogs and mule meat, amounted to 170. When 
Gen. Canas entered the hospital he waB perfectly 
horror-struck with the destitution and misery of 
the sufferers. He immediately ordered ventilation, 
clean linen, medicines, and even luxuries to the 
patients. The number of men who surrendered 
j with arms in their hands was 240. 
As a proof that fillibnstering is not holiday work 
it is.but necessary to show that the loss sustained 
by Walker, in proportion to the number engaged, 
averages more than double the number lost in the 
battles of Mexico by Taylor or Scott, and that 
Walker’s men engaged against an average of dou¬ 
ble the disparity of force which the United States 
armies had to struggle against in Mexico. Those of 
our readers wb o will take the trouble to fi gure out the 
matter, will discover that the loas was, for instance 
at Rivas, 11th April, 24 per cent.; at Granada, 37 
per cent; at St George, in the first battle, 23 per 
ceDt; in the last, 18 per cent Whereas, the first 
day’s battle in Monterey, in Mexico, gives under 9 
per cent. They will further discern the average 
ROCUESTER, JUNE 6, 1857. 
Progress, — To Agents and Others. 
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altogether” for the mutual benefit of themselves, 
the Rural and community. 
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will confer a special favor by forwarding to the 
office of publication. 
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Defeat and Eeturn of “Gen.” Walker. 
For a considerable period of time the arrivals 
from California have been invested with a pecu¬ 
liar interest ou account of the fillibnstering trans¬ 
actions of one Walker in Nicaragua. The glory 
thereof is now dimmed—in fact, lost in darkness 
—owing to the arrival, at New Orleans, of this 
redoubtable hero, he being compelled to surrender 
on the 1st of the past month. 
It is no w nearly two years, says the N. Y. Tribune, 
that Walker sailed from San Francisco with some 
sixty men, engaged to serve as soldiers in the 
civil war then pending in Nicaragua. He arrived 
atBealejo in June, 1855, where he was joined by 
about 150 men in tbe service of the party to which 
he had hired himself out. After some unsuccess¬ 
ful operations he was driven t,o take refuge at San 
Juan del Sar, where he was joined by some addi¬ 
tional recruits from California. By this time the 
Transit Company seems to have made up its mind 
to engage in the war, and by the help of their 
steamers, Walker and the natives with whom he 
acted succeeded in surprising Granada, which led, 
in the then exhausted state of the country, to 
the submission of the opposite faction, and the 
acknowledgment of the party with which Walker 
acted as the legitimate and undisputed Govern¬ 
ment. Under this new arrangement, completed 
about the end of October, 1855, Walker, who was 
reoognized as Commander-in-Chief of the forces 
of the new Government, was at once raised to a 
position of great influence and importance. 
Walker was in a hurry to enrich himself, and 
not waiting for tbe slow progress of the sales of 
confiscated estates, and not content with what 
could be got in the way of contributions levied 
npon the wealthier natives and the foreign mer¬ 
chants resident in Nicaragua, under pretense of 
certain sums of money due by the Transit Com¬ 
pany to the Nicaraguan Government, he pounced 
at once upon all the lake and river boats of liis 
old confederates, tbe Transit Company. This coup 
against the Transit Company was followed np by 
another against the native party in whose service 
Walker had originally entered the country—the 
native President being unceremoniously displaced, 
and Walker proclaiming himself President. 
From the time of this occurrence, which took 
place on the 12th of July last, the whole career of 
Walker, who was already involved in a war with 
Costa Rica, and the other Central American 
States, has been nothing but one series of rob¬ 
beries, murders, disasters and miseries, in the 
course of which some five thousand recruits, for¬ 
warded to him by his dupes and co-operators in 
the United States, were reduced to the miserable 
band of some two hundred desperadoes, with 
whom, thanks to the refuge afforded him by an 
American sbip-of-war—he has been enabled to 
escape out of the country. He began with the 
possession of all Nicaragua, the Transit route, and 
every military post in the country, and the whole 
government organization being in bis handB, but 
in spite of the men and money profusely supplied 
to him from the United States, in the course of six 
or seven mouths he lost everything. First he 
abandoned Leon, then he is driven from Managua, 
then from Massaya, then from Granada, which 
city, before leaving it, he firgt plundered, and then 
set to work deliberately to destroy'. Soon the river 
and lake steamers aud all the military posts of San 
J nan fell into the hands of Costa Ricans. Disease 
and desertion rapidly thinned his ranks; supplies 
from abroad wholly ceased. 
When Walker surrendered, ho had what he 
calculated as tour days’ provisions, viz.: two LuIIb, 
two horses and three mules. The fact that only 
80 of Walker’s men remained sick at Rivas at the 
capitulation shows that, at least, 100 must have | 
percent. They wall further eastern me average iaowagil)g wealth c 
fighting jn Nicaragua has been, all through rather Euggia 
more bloody than the memorable contest oi Lan- 
, , _ Corn ib scarce at No 
dy’s Lane, 
A sufficient"warniDg, we think, to those Young 
Americanswhose martial spirit over-rides common 
sense, and one we hope that will prove effectual 
in keeping them at home hereafter. It is evident 
that aDy .such investments are unprofitable—in 
vulgar parlance, fillibnstering “ don't pay.” 
Items o i News. 
A correspondent of tbe Christian Enquirer, 
writing from Vienna, says that Jenny Lind will . 
settle down permanently in six months, either in 
England or the United States. 
About three hundred artisans are now employed 
at the government factory at Harper’s Ferry, in the 
manufacture ot the rifle musket, and the rifle. 
A taxidermist in Lynn, Mass., has received the 
skin of the oelebrated trotting mare, Lady Suffolk, 
and it will shortly be set up in a life-like manner 
The United States steamer Arctic has been ap¬ 
pointed to take a party to the Isthmus of Darien 
for a survey of the Atrato and Truando Ship Ca¬ 
nal route. 
A Swiss colony advertises for 25,000 acres of 
land in Missouri, npon which they propose to set¬ 
tle, with $100,000 capital They will go largely 
into the grape culture. 
The annual supply of gold from the California 
mines is estimated at $50,000,000, while the mines 
of Australia contribute sixty millions annually to 
the increasing wealth of the world, and those of 
Washington Matters. 
The Secretary of War and Gen. Scott have been 
actively engaged for some days, and have about. 
Corn 5b scaroe at Norfolk, Va. The shipments 
from that port in all directions the first quarter 
barely exceeded 250,000 buBliels, against lully 1,- 
250,000 same time last year. 
The war department has ordered from Paris 
150,000 rations of concentrated food. It is for ma¬ 
king soup, and has been adopted by the English, 
French, and Sardinian armies. 
The Don Horse now pursues his way without 
stop or important deviation from a direct line 
from Bangor, Maine, to Jefferson City, Missouri, 
a distance of a little over seventeen hundred miles 
completed the arrangements to send a large mili- j —kalf as far as to London—in three daysl 
tary force to Utah, under command of Gen. Har¬ 
ney. Orders have ju3t been issued to the necessa¬ 
ry staff officers to have the following troops in 
readiness as soon as possible:—2d Regiment Dra¬ 
goons; 5th and 10th Regiment of Infantry; and 
Capt. Phelps’ Battery of Light Artillery, making 
upwards of 2,000 troops. 
Mr. Reid, on the; 29th ult., received hiB instruc¬ 
tions as Minister to China. His appointment has 
been officially announced. 
Gov. Broom, of Florida, has requested that a 
regiment of regular troops be substituted by 
mounted volunteers to be raised in that State, for 
the purpose of vigorously prosecuting hostilities 
against the Indians during the Bummer. The War 
Department has acceded to the proposition, and 
will cause to be mustered into the Bervice of the 
U. S. not more than ten companies of such vol¬ 
unteers. 
The net amount in the Treasury subject to draft 
is over 23,000,000, of which there is at New York 
$11,000,000; New Orleans $3,000,000; Philadelphia 
$2,000,000; and at San Francisco $1,500,000. 
The Government has no offioial account of the 
Ohio fugitive slave case. The Secretary of the In¬ 
terior has replied to the U. S. Marshal's tele graph¬ 
ic message aB follows:—‘‘Consult tbe District At¬ 
torney and execute the law. The President desires 
you to do your duty and he will do his.” 
Major McCulloch has again been tendered the 
Governorship of Utah. 
A telegraph dated June 1st says:—Our munici¬ 
pal election is in progress. There has been fight¬ 
ing at the polls and some bloodshed. By Execu¬ 
tive authority of the Mayor the marines were 
ordered out to preserve order throughout the city 
and prevent improper interference with voters 
at the polls. There is a great deal of excitement 
in the city. 
The State Department has information that the 
crops at tbe Cape de Verd Islands, though not 
abundant are sufficient to supply the wants of the 
inhabitants this year. Also that in the islands 
and in the archipelago, more than 20,000 persons 
had fallen victims to the cholera. 
W eather—Last Half of May. 
While the cold has prevailed for two-and-a-half 
months, it is good to find that the heat begins to 
predominate. Of the last half of May, the mean 
is 69.8 C , or about two degrees above the mean of 
the same period for twenty years, though the mean 
of the month, 53.6°, is 2J degrees below that of 
May (or the same time. A great ebange'in vegeta- 
tion has occurred intlie last half of themonth. This 
has been aided, too, by the abundance of raiD, 
which has so fully saturated the earth, being for 
May 3.718 inches, aud for the two monthB, 9.387 
inches, or nearly a third of a year’s supply in some 
instances; in this year so far 16.8 inches. 
In tbe middle of May few blossoms had appear¬ 
ed; but in the last fortnight, cherry, plum and 
peach, have thrown out and thrown off their blos¬ 
soms ; the pear blossoms are rapidly falling, and the 
apple is in full flower. The white lilac showed its 
blossoms four days since, and the purple is clothed 
now with rich flowers. Grass has shot up with 
unwonted rapidity; the foliage is full and rich on 
all the early trees and shrubs; the wheat fields arc 
An Indiana paper claims that in spite of its rep¬ 
utation for “f'ever-and-aguc,” the Hoosier State is 
the most healthy one in the Union. The per cent- 
age of death is but 1 to each 77 inhabitants. There 
is one county in Illinois (Perry) where the deaths 
average but 1 to 99. 
The Executive Committee of the Kentucky Hor¬ 
ticultural Society, has made a report relative to 
the prospects of the fruit crop. They state that 
the crop generally will exceed the average, but 
that the yield of peaches will be light. 
The Boston Advertiser learns from a well in¬ 
formed source, that the crop of currants in the 
Ionian Islands the present year, promises a very 
abundant, yield, and leads to hope that the vine 
blight, or other causes, which have so long baffled 
the efforts of the husbandman, have ceased. 
Bred Scott is a slave no more, having been 
emancipated with all his family by a gentleman of 
St. Louis, to whom they had been conveyed by Mr. 
Chaffee, of Massachusetts. 
A movement has been initiated in Great Britain 
and Ireland having for its object the obtaining of 
a pardon for all the Irish political exiles—inclu¬ 
ding Meagher, Mitchell and McManus—from Queen 
Victoria. Men of all shades of politics have signed 
a paper pledging themselves to press the matter 
on Lord Palmerston and Parliament. 
The dinner table at the railroad festival in 
Memphis was nearly three-quarters of a mile long, 
and had on it 8,000 plates and dishes, 2,500 lbs. 
beef and mutton, 75 hams, CO pigs, 125 turkeys, 
400 chickens, 180 beef tongues, 10 barrels of pota¬ 
toes, 18 basketB salad, 12 barrels ice water, 500 lbs. 
cake, besides raisins, almonds, oranges, etc. Some 
15,000 or 20,000 persons partook of the dinner. 
A Bio Ox is now on exhibition at Springfield, 
Mass. Tbe Republican says it is about the size of 
one of Sands, Nathan & Co.’s biggest elephants, 
and moves placidly about much as one of the ele- 
phats would do. It is said to be tbe largest framed 
ox in tbe world, and weighs, though far from fat, 
4,200 pounds, measnres six feet seven inches in 
height, at the shoulder, girth ten feet, and is thir¬ 
teen feet in length from stem to stern. Well fat¬ 
ted it would weigh in the neighborhood of 5,000 
pounds. 
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Enhancement in Prices of Produce. — The 
following table will give an idea of the enhance¬ 
ment in the retail values of the most common ar¬ 
ticles of consumption in New York since 1840: 
1840 1857. 
Cents. Cents. 
Meat, (fresh,) per ib. 7 @ 12 >b 16@ 25 
Meat, (salt,) do. 10 12@ 18 
Potatoes, per bbl.. 125 @2 00 3 77@ 7 00 
Flow, do. 6 00 @ 9 00 @11 00 
Batter, per lb __ 12 )b@ 1821 25@ 32 
Cheese, do. _....... 8 @ 10 12@ 20 
Fteb, do... 4 @ 6>4 8@ 14 
Poultry, do. ......_ 10 @ 12h* 18@ 25 
Sugar, do., (family nse,) 10 12@ 18 
Apples, per bid._1 50 @2 00 6 00@ 7 00 
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Sale of a Railroad.—T he Canandaigua and 
Niagara Falls Railroad was sold last week by auc¬ 
tion, at Canaudaigua, to two individuals—one rep¬ 
resenting a portion of the English bond-holders, 
the other a portion of the New York bond holders. 
Conflagrations, &c. 
A destructive fire occurred in Newark, N. J., 
on the 28th ult., and three of the large four story 
factories of the Newark India Robber Co., used for 
vulcanizing the shoes, were destroyed. It origi¬ 
nated from the heaters, and totally destroyed the 
buildings, and a large stock. The loss is about 
$16,000. Partially insured. Jacob Allen, foreman 
ot Engine Co. No. 4, RDd one of the firm of J. & 
F. Allen, Fire Engine manufacturers, were instantly 
killed by a falling wall, and James B. Thorn, 4th 
Assistant Engineer, seriously injured. 
We learn from the Ogdcnsburgh Sentinel that 
extensive fires are raging in the woods of Frank¬ 
lin and Clinton counties. Several barns have been 
burned and IraildingB threatened. A conductor of 
the night train from Rouse’s Point on tbo 25th ult., 
stated that the fires contiguous to the road had bo 
far consumed the tics, &o., in the “ Chateau gay 
Woods,” that it was necessary to stop the train and 
lay rails to enable the cars to pass. Later intelli¬ 
gence has been received relative to the fires in 
Clinton nnd Franklin counties. A letter from 
Brasher Falls thus speaks of its ravages:—‘‘The 
wind and fire bos wrought ruin in this region. At 
a settlement called tbe “ Lost Nation,” Borne six or 
eight miles from here, the dwelling of a Mr. Wait 
was burned, and his daughter, aged some twelve 
years, was bo much injured by the fire that she 
died. The barn of a Mr. Hurly, near this, was 
burned, and Mrs. Hnrly considerably injured by 
the fire. For a few hours this village was in peril 
The Brasher Iron Works are in utter ruins. The 
foundry, furnace, machine shop, coal houses, saw 
mill, store, boarding bouse, barns, sheds, taverns, 
Bchool bouse, post office and several dwellings, 
with the contents, were all consumed. The bridge 
over the river waB also burned. But about five on 
six houses arc left” 
On the 25th ult a fire broke out in Addison, 
Steuben Co., which soon spread and destroyed 
from fifteen to twenty buildings, extending on both 
sides of the street from the south side of the bridge 
to the vicinity of the American Hotel. The origin 
of the fire i8 unknown. Loss $30,000. Partially 
insured. 
The Nashville Iron Manufacturing Co.’s works 
were destroyed by fire on the 27th ult Loss $100,- 
000. Partly insured. One hundred and twenty 
men are thrown out of employment in conse¬ 
quence of this fire. 
A fire has been raging in the woods ncarDen- 
isville, Cape May Co., N. J., since the 25th nit, 
doing great damage. The people are endeavoring 
to extinguish it 
The Centra] Railroad Company’s buildings at 
Oneida, including the Btation, sbeds, and an im¬ 
mense quantity of wood were destroyed by lire on 
the 27th nit. The Uliea Herald states that several 
thousand cords of wood were destroyed. 
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Conflict of State and Federal Authority. 
On Tuesday, the 26th ult, an attempt was made 
by Deputy Marshall Churchill, of Cincinnati, to ar¬ 
rest a fugitive slave near Mechanicsburg, Cham¬ 
paign Co., Ohio, wlic-n tin- slave wusrescued l>y tbo 
people and started cn route for Canada. Warrants 
were issued Tor the arrest of four of the rescuing 
party, and they were taken in charge by the Depu¬ 
ty aud eleven assistants. While these thiugswere 
in progress, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by 
a Judge in Champaign Co., and the Sheriff at¬ 
tempted to serve it; but before he could do so the 
officers had conducted the prisoners beyond the 
bounds of the county. A second warrant was then 
procured in Clarke Co. The Sheriff in this in¬ 
stance pursued and came up with the party; but 
they refused to obey the writ. The Sheriff not 
having force to compel obedience, they proceeded 
on their journey to this city. A third writ was 
then obtained in Greene Co., and the Sheriff of 
that county, with his posse, served it upon the 
United States officers on the 27th. 
The United States officers resented the act of the 
county officers in seizing their horses’ reins. A 
warm altercation ensued. The Sheriff and his men 
were assisted by an excited crowd of two or three 
hundred persons. Rifles and piBtols were dis¬ 
played. The Marshall and his men drew their 
weapons, and several shots were fired. Mr. C’hnr- 
chill discharged his revolver at the crowd, but no 
one was injured, 
The conflict was sharp and stubborn, but supe¬ 
rior numbers prevailed, and the Deputy Marshal, 
with all his posse, were made prisoners, and they 
were Bent to Springfield for triaL 
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For Europe. — The United States mail steam¬ 
ship Arago, Capt D. Lines, for Havre and South¬ 
ampton, sailed from New York on the 30th ult.— 
She took out $1,053,000 in specie, and 307 passen¬ 
gers, which is the largest amount ever taken out 
by this line from the port of New York. Among 
the passengers were H. J. Raymond, of tho Daily 
Times, Baron von Gerolt, Prussian Minister, Sr. do 
Chacon, Spanish Vice Consul, and Grelet, the ab- 
flttos Clipngs. 
filled with life. All nature is clothed in her lovely The price paid was $500,000, without the rolling BGOa aiug Clerk of tho Northern Railroad of France, 
and gayest dress. The blossoms of the smaller 
plants cover tbe fields. 
The promise of fruit is most abundant. Over 
the country, east, west and south, this is the gene¬ 
ral statement in the papers. The farmers are 
rather late in planting; some have sowed a week 
later than occurs except rarely. A great deal of 
labor on tbe farm has been done in the last ten 
days. The indications of the grain crop over the 
country are good; aline harvest is anticipated.— 
Still, speculation continues to hold the price of 
wheat high, having been, for the best, of late, $1 85 
a buBhel c. d. 
Rochester, June 1, 1857. 
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Death of two U. 8. Senators. — Andrew P. 
Butler, U. 8. Senator, from South Carolina, died on 
the 28th ult This event had been lor some time 
expected—his disease being an incurable dropsy. 
Mr. Butler was appointed to the Senate in 1847, by 
Gov. Johnson, to fill the vacancy caused by the 
death of the Hon. George McDuffie, and has re¬ 
mained there ever since—having Mr. Culhoun for 
his colleague until 1861. 
The Hon. James Bell, U. S. Senator, from New 
Hampshire, died at his home in the town of Guil¬ 
ford, N. H. He had been suffering under a severe 
illness for some time, and serious apprehensions 
were felt in regard to his fate. 
stock which belongs to the N. Y. & Erie Co. The 
road cost, we believe, about $4,000,000, and has 
been sold at twelve and a half per cent, ouits cost. 
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From Santa Fe. —The Santa Fe mail arrived at 
St. Louis on the 27th ult., but the tho nown is not 
of an Important nature. The Indian depredations 
in March were unusually extensive. Judge Baird is 
anuounced as a candidate for Congress in opposi¬ 
tion to tbe present delegate, M. Otero. Col. Bon¬ 
neville had Bturted an expedition against tho 
Apaches of the Gila. 
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New York Sugar Market—Large Arrivals. 
—By a table published in the Ilerald, it appears 
that forty-five vessels landed the large quantity of 
fourteen thousand two hundred and ninety-one 
hogsheads of sugar, and two thousand seven hun¬ 
dred and seventy-nine hogsheads of molasses at 
the port of New York during the three days which 
ended on Sunday the 24th nit. 
who is sent back under the Extradition Treaty. _ Buildiogg jn Ch 
per cent, on tho cog 
Horses for England. —There are now in stables cannot exist long, 
connected with the Fushion Course, two very line _p u t an Americ 
yearlings under the care of Mr. Brown, agent for , in d he will Immedig 
It, Ten Broeck, Esq., which, npon the arrival of next cradle to order. 
— The new cent Is now in circulation. 
— A new synagogue In New Orleans is to cost $75,000. 
— Brooklyn has now attained a population of 210,000. 
— Gun. Walker lost two brothers by the Nicaraguan war. 
— The cost of the trans-Atlantic telegraph «able will be 
$1,004,100. 
— A Natural History Association has been organized in 
Milwaukee. 
— Baxnnm is lecturing in England in favor of the Maine 
Liquor Law. 
— Lake Champlain is dow higher than it has been in ten 
years before. 
— Snow fell for an honr or two at Burlington, Vt, on 
the 24 ih nit. 
— The Massachusetts Legislature adjourned sine die on 
the 30th ult. 
—Thirty thousand idavos were sold and removed out of 
Virginia last year. 
— Hon. Thomas Cunningham has resigned the Associate 
Judgahip Of Kansas. 
— The Ohio papers promise fine grain and fruit orops in 
that State this year. 
— Tomatoes are selling in New York at thirty-seven and 
a half cents per dozen. 
— On the 28th nit., the Presbyterian Church at Corning 
was destroyed by fire. 
— Lots which sold for $30 last winter in Lawrence, Kan¬ 
sas, now sell for $300. 
— Rev. Mr. Milburn, the blind preacher, sailed from New 
York lately for Europe. 
— There are one hundred thousand German inhabitants 
in the city of New York. 
— Farmers in Orleans county experience considerable 
difficulty in securing help. 
— Harper's Weekly boasts that it has fifty-four subscri¬ 
bers in the Sandwich Islands. 
— Tbe assessments in Boston are 90 cents on the $100 ; 
in New York about two dollars. 
— One dollar bills of the Liberty Bank, Providence, R. I., 
altered to tens, are in circulation. 
— Delaware, Florida, Arkansas, and, we believe, Missis¬ 
sippi, are yet without a daily paper. 
— The oyster trade of Baltimore gives employment to 
200 vessels and nearly 9,000 persons. 
— Die Duchess of Gloucester, the last surviving daugh¬ 
ter of George Third, died April 80th. 
— Green peas are selling in Norfolk, Va^ at $4 per bushel, 
and strawberries at 20 cents per quart. 
— About twelve Ihou.-and people of color left the United 
States for Africa during the isst year. 
— The citizens of Davenport, by 500 majority, have voted 
to loan $ 200,000 lor city improvements. 
— Foreign pajiers affirm that a Eocietytor assassinating 
the Emperor has beeu lormed in Paris. 
— Fifteen bales of hemp, from Leavenworth, Kansas Ter¬ 
ritory, have been received at St. Louis. 
— It is said that in Westchester Centro, Ct., there has 
not been a death in one and a half years. 
— In Litchfield county, Ct., ice formed on the 24th ult. 
to tho tbicknesB of a sixteenth of an inch. 
— One of the street railroads of New York have In use 
some cars with an upper “ hurricane” deck. 
— A “ Scrag-Head Right whale” baa been caught oil the 
south side of Nantucket, and towed ashore. 
— A cotton factory is to be started in New Orleans, and 
$30,000 has been subscribed towards the object. 
— A new daily paper has been started In Galveston, 
Texas. It Ls the first dally pilutod In the State. 
— The Post-master at Council Bluffs is a Mormon, and 
his household presided over by three gentle dames. 
— Potatoes have been selling lately at Quincy, 111., for 
$2 50 per bushel, and butter thirty cents per pound. 
— There have been siuoe April first, eleveu vessels totally 
wrecked upon the lakes nnd Iventy-seven lives loBt 
_It was rumored at Havana that Santa Anna is expected 
there on hta way to Mexico, under Spanish protection. 
— At an Old Folk's Concert in East Wilton, N. H. t Mr. 
Caleb Putnam, about eighty years of age, led the choir. 
_Shad Is said to be very abundant on the Cape Cod coast. 
About 4,OCO ,vere taken by one company u few days since. 
_The Rev. John A. CollinB, a distinguished clergyman 
ot the M. E. Chuicb, died in Baltimore last week, aged 67. 
_Sir Berjaroin Brodie, the leading surgeon of Kng1and> 
enjoys the comfoi table professional income of $35,000 a 
year. 
— Sixty persons who ate ice cream at a fair in Spencer, 
Mass., one evening last week, weie poisoned, though not 
fatally. 
— In Albemarle Co., Va-, one hundred and fifty indict- 
menta have been found against one m in for illegal sales of 
liquor. 
— John Back, in Batavia, recently swallowed oxalic 
acid, instead of Balts, and was immediately killed by the 
poison. 
_The diplomatic appointments have been agreed upon, 
Including Murphy for the Hague, and Wright, of Indiana, 
for Berlin. 
_Xbe Manchester Guardian mentions the case of a 
grandmother at 29 years of age. She was married when 
she was 14. 
— The tax-payers of OBwego have voted almost unani¬ 
mously in favor of a tax to provide for the deepening of 
their harbor. 
— Philadelphia has established a Fire Department De 
tective Police, whose duty it is to ferret out the cause of 
conflagrations. 
— More than $23,000 in Spanish coin was deposited at 
the Mint in Philadelphia on the 28th nit., in exchange 
for the new cent. 
— Hon. Ward Hunt, of Utica, has been appointed Mana¬ 
ger of the State Lunatic ABylntn, in place of the Hon. J. A. 
Spencer, deceased. 
— Buildings in Chicago, it Ib said, now rent for about 50 
per cent, on tho cost of erection. Such a Btate ol thingB 
cannot exist long. 
_Put an American baby, six months old, on his feet, 
nnd he will Immediately ssy, « Mr. Chairman,” and caltthe 
three or four others belonging to Mr. T. B., will be 
conveyed to England to join the American Btable 
there. One of those at the Fashion Course it£a 
very b'andBoine ch. c. by Imp. Glencoe, dam by 
Imp. Trustee, out of Picayune’B dam; the other is 
a hr. f. by Financier, out of Sarah Washington by 
Zingaree. 
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Loss of Government Money. —The Charleston 
— Destructive Bwarrns of locusts have made their appear¬ 
ance in various parts of Mexico, and done great harm to 
the growing crops. 
— A private in the 4th artillery, named Dunn, while in 
swimming at Cape 8abl<>, Fla , on the 15th nit., was seized 
and eaten by a shark. 
— A fanner of Stark county states in the Prairie Farmer 
that he has saved his bees from the cold, the past two win¬ 
ters, by bnryiug them- 
— Another coal mine has been discovered in Jackson 
Courier learns by an arrival at that port from In- county, Michigan, only 30 rods from tho tiadc of the 
dian River, Florida, that about the 12th ult., Maj. Michigan Central Railroad. 
Dashiel, Paymaster in the army, In attempting to 
land from a schooner, came near drowning, and 
lost overboard $23,000, intended for the payment 
of the troops in Florida. 
A Welch Colony. —The stoamer Circassian, 
last week, brought to Portland, Maine, a company 
of about two hundred persons from Wales, bound 
to the Btate of Tennessee, where they have pur¬ 
chased lands and intend to locate themselves.— 
Increase of the Wages of Laf.or. —The New _ T , ie lBst jf,. x j cau ,„. W9 includes the alarming item’ 
York Herald Buys that the mechanics and working* thst) on t he 20th of April, a woman at the capital 8 avB 
to tbe Btate of Tennessee, where they have pur- men of all classes in that city are preparing for a b lrth:at once to seven children. 
chased lands and intend to locate themselves.— general movement to increase tho daily wages of _ The importations of foreigu fruit trees and 
They are accompanied by their pastor, who is the labor, and that meetings for the promotion of that spring'are estimated to have been at least hity per 
chief Of the party. object will shortly be held. excess ot those of any former year. 
— More than ten times as many Bibles have been print¬ 
ed since the year 1600, as had ever beeu issued in the whole 
■world previous to tliut tims* 
— President llltohcook, the newly appointed Vermont 
State Geologist, has commenced the Burvey of the State, 
wtth’a corps of able aRBialants. 
_ The last Mexican news includes tho alarming Hem’ 
that, on the 20th of April, a woman at the capital B avB 
blrtiriat once to seven children. 
_ The importations of foreign fruit trees and seed this 
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