{&££: 
received at the State Department, Washington, 
to the effect that the Libcnd army under the 
command of Gen, Louis Tcrraescz, had taken 
Chihuahua after a severe battle, resulting in the 
overthrow of the Imperialists, and that the State 
was in quiet possession of the national troops. 
Juarez and his Cabinet Intended to occupy the 
city of Chihuahua immediately. 
Hard lighting had been in progress at Mazatlan 
I for two days, with no decisive result. Conspira¬ 
cies are rife in the city of Mexico, and frequent 
arrests are made. There is a report of a Liberal 
victory at. Tabasco. The Imperialists claim suc¬ 
cesses at various points. 
It is reported that our Government has Bent 
stringent instructions to our Minister at Vienna 
in reference to the project of sending Austrian 
troops to the aid of Maximilian, and a strong 
protest against such action will be made. 
Jeff. Davis’ Trial. — The Government has 
so far made preparations for the trial of Jeff. 
Davis as to appoint counsel for the prosecution. 
The gentlemen selected are Messrs. Evarts of 
New York, Clifford of Massachusetts, and Gen. 
Rousseau of Kentucky. So says a Washington 
dispatch to the New York Tribune. 
©t)e Ncros (Eonftcnser 
— Rente are going down in Chicago. 
— The debt of Hartford, Ct„ is §1,270,805. 
— Milk retails at 7 cts. per quart at Boston. 
— There are 87,000 churches in the United States. 
— Last week’s imports at Boston were valued at 
$2,250,000. 
— The Universaliets of Portland, Michigan, have a 
female pastor. 
— Tobacco sold at $135 per 100 lbs. in Richmond, 
Ya., last week. 
— The emigration to Kansas is estimated at 200 
families a week. 
— The late D. S. Dickinson had an insurance upon 
his life of $25,000. 
— Eleven million gallons of whisky were sold in 
Scotland last year. 
— Garters with diamond buckles are worn with the 
new hoops in Paris. 
— Green peas, new potatoes, and other vegetables 
are plenty In Mobile. 
— Mrs. Jane Carpenter died in Delhi, N. Y., last 
week, aged 103 years. 
— At least twelve million acres of arable land are 
yet untonched in Iowa. 
— Look out for counterfeit 5s on the Slater Bank, 
North Providence, R. I. 
— The Vermont State Fair will be held at Brattle- 
boro, September 11—14. 
— Look out Tor counterfeit 2s on the Merchant's 
Bank, New Bedford, Mass. 
— A convention of loyal men is to be held in Alex¬ 
andria, Va., on the 17th of May. 
— Lake Winnipiseogce, N. H., is still frozen over 
to the depth of more than a foot. 
— Castle Thunder, Richmond, Vft., is being repaired 
and fitted up for a tobacco factory. 
— The mule distemper in the vicinity of Vicksburg 
is assuming dangerous proportions. 
— A horse dropped dead at Wcetville, Ct., Friday 
week, from fright at seeing an elephant. 
— Forty new factories, mostly to produce woolen 
goods, will be erected ip Illinois this summer. 
— Prospects for an abundant crop of wheat were 
never better in Illinois than they are this spring, 
— Mr. Winans of Baltimore has presented $25,000 
to the managers of the Southern Relief Fair in that 
city. 
— A heathen temple has been purchased at Pekin, 
China, the idols removed, and a missionary hospital 
commenced. 
— Bishop M'llvaine has proposed a prayer to avert 
the cholera, which will be read in all the congrega¬ 
tions of the diocese of Ohio. 
New Advertisements. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 5, 1856. 
^“ADVERTISING TERMS, in Advance- 
Ftftt Cents a Link, each insertion. A price and » 
half for extra display, or 73 cents per line ot space.- 
Spkcxax* Noticxs, (following reading matter, leaded.) 
One Dollar per line, each Insertion. 
OT Marriage Notices, cot exceeding lour lines, $i 
Obituaries, same length, SO cents. Each additional line 
35 cents. Marriage and Obituary notices sent ua by mail 
must be accompanied by a responsible name. 
NEWS or THE WEEK 
Affaire at Washington. 
Thu name of Gen. D. E. Sickles has been 
6 ent to the Senate as Minister to the Hague. 
The bill for the admission of Colorado passed 
the Senate on the 25tl>ult. by a vote of W to 13. 
Speaker Colfax has expressed the opinion that 
Congress will not adjourn until the first of July. 
A bin has passed the House to aid In con¬ 
structing a telegraph line to the Island of Cuba. 
It is reported in Washington that Mrs. Jeff. 
Davis has obtained permission of the President 
to visit her husband. 
Since May, 1865, to the present time, the 
Government has sold two hundred and ten 
thousand horses for ? 14,500,000. 
It Ib reported that the Spanish Minister at 
Washington has proposed to accept-the media¬ 
tion of the United States in the Spanish- 
Chilian difficulties. 
A petition Is In circulation in Washington 
praying Congress to enact a civil code, a general 
corporation law, and to allow the District a 
delegate in Congress. 
The Quartermaster-General recommends the 
appropriation of $1,000,000, for the purpose of 
removing the remains of a largo number of 
Union eoldiers to cemotaries, and to preserve 
the graves of others in various parts of the 
South from desecration. 
The whole number of National Banks (accord¬ 
ing to official report) now doing business in the 
United States is 1,650. The amount of notes in 
circulation is $268,638,040. 
The President has upproved of the joint reso¬ 
lution, “ that in addition to (he thanks heretofore 
voted by joint resolution to Major-General Geo. i 
G. Meade, Major-General Oliver O. Howard, and 
to the officers and eoldiers of the army of the 
Potomac, for the skill and heroic valor, which at 
Gettysburg repulsed, defeated and drove back 
the veteran army of the rebellion, the gratitude 
of the American people and the thanks of their 
representatives In Congress are likewise due, 
and are hereby tendered, to Major-General Win- 
Held 8. Hancock, for his gallant, and meritori¬ 
ous, aud conspicuous share in that great and 
decisive victory.” 
The Committee of Ways and Means have 
reported to the House the Internal Revenue 
Bill. It reduces internal taxation on an average 
fully one-fifth. There is to be no tax on incomes 
below §1,000. Above $1,000, five per cent 
The Secretary of the Treasury estimates that 
the national income for the present year will 
reach five hundred millions of dollars. The 
balauces at present at the command of the Sec¬ 
retary, from all sources, arc believed to be fully 
We learn from the “local” of the Cincinnati 
Enquirer, that there are now four hundred 
and eleven miles of paved streets and alleys in 
that city. 
A Convention of all the Episcopal Metho¬ 
dists of America is to be held in Cincinnati 
during the present month, for the purpose of 
forming a Union. 
Colonel Wheeler, held by the authorities 
of Cornwall, C- W., as a Fenian conspirator, 
has been released from custody on his plea of 
American citizenship. * 
Thirty thoushnd lobsters arc brought into 
Boston daily. The catchers get three cents a 
piece for them, but tbey who eat them have to 
pay eight cents per pound. 
The widow of Joseph Smith, the Mormon, i6 
still living at Nanvoo, Illinois, and is represented 
as being a devout believer in the Mormon faith. 
She is sixty-two years of age. 
General Ca98 is ill at his home in Detroit. 
His malady appears to be a softening of the 
brain. Most of the time he is in a comatose 
state. He is in his 85th year. 
General Connor, lately in Command at Balt 
Lake, says Brigham Young has a force of ten 
thousand men, and is inclined to be ngly. He 
thinks we must have more troopB there. 
Elder Knapp, the revival preacher, whose 
career dates back forty years, preached his fare¬ 
well sermon at the Leight Street Baptist Church, 
New York, on Monday evening, the 28d ult. 
Governor Fenton has called an extra session 
of the Senate of this State, to meet on the second 
Tuesday of June, for the trial of the charges 
against George W. Smith, Judge of Oneida Co. 
A GOLD MINE has been struck in the Franconia 
mountains, New Hampshire. The rock yields 
$867 to the tun. A company has been formed 
to work it. Plumbago and silver arc also found * 
King George of Greece, brother of the 
Princess Alexandria of Wales, is to marry the 
Grand Duchess Wera, daughter of the Russian 
Duke of Constine. George is 21 years of age, 
and Wera 12. 
The largest steer in Indiana —the largest in 
America—aud probably the largest in the world, 
is now in Shelby Co., and is owned by Geo. W. 
Spurrier. He is six years old, and weighs four 
thousand pounds. 
By the raising of the sunken 6hips in the har¬ 
bor of Sebastopol, Russia, 1,200 cannon, 4,000 
balls, 1,200 cast iron ballast pigs, 100 chain 
cables, and a large quantity of miscellaneous 
stores were recovered. 
F. O. Palmer, living near Maysville, Ky., 
raised on two and a half acres last season, 5,040 
pounds of tobacco, and sold the crop to General 
Sumrall for $882, — thus realizing $352.80 per 
acre — seven times the cost of the land. 
The yield of petroleum in the United States, 
during the last five years, has been as follows: — 
In 1861, 24,000,000 gallons; in 1862,40,000,000; 
in 1803, 70,000,000; in 1864, 87,000,000; in 1865, 
01,000,000. The product is now 14,000 barrels 
per day. 
Col. John O’Mahony, the Head Center, 
makes lois appearance as an author. The vol¬ 
ume is a large and important looking work, and 
is entitled “The History of Ireland," a transla¬ 
tion from the original Gaelic, by Rev. Geoffry 
Keating. 
The propeller Buckeye arrived at Oswego on 
the 25th ult. from Toledo. This is the first ves¬ 
sel from Lake Erie through the Welland Canal 
this spring. The captain of the Buckeye reports 
that he passed through about sixty miles of ice 
in Lake Eric. 
In Canada the attempt to commit suicide is a 
crime. An Ottawa dispatch says, “ Micheal Sal¬ 
ter, who was committed for trial at the Assizes, 
for attempting to destroy his life in a fit of jeal¬ 
ousy, has been sentenced to imprisonment for 
seven days.” 
Commodore Rogers, at present at Valparaiso, 
in conjunction with the British Admiral in that 
port, has protested against its bombardment by 
the Spanish fleet. He says should the Spaniards 
persist in. their designs on the city, he will resist 
them by force of arms. 
An Albany dispatch the 23d ult., Bays: — “By 
direction of the Governor, his private Secretary 
has indorsed upon the Central Railroad Fare Bill 
the following: — ‘The Governor directs me to 
forward this bill to the Secretary of State with¬ 
out his approvaL’ ” 
The oil seekers at Red Wing, Minnesota, 
recently struck a well, and upon testing it, 
pronounced it “a good pumping well." A 
watch was set by outsiders, and at night the 
owners were detected in the act of pouring oil 
into the well to be pumped out the next day. 
The Lieutenant-Governor of Nevada, who is 
Warden of the State Prison, having recently 
received a lot of new uniform clothing for the 
convicts, put on a suit and went into town. He 
was immediately apprehended, taken before a 
justice of the peace and 6ent to the prison as an 
escaped convict. 
A farmer near Bay City, Michigan, lost his 
wife early one morning, recently; hitched up 
his team and drove to the city with his servant 
girl to buy the garments for the dead; and while 
there, married the girl, being a widower less 
than twelve hours. The new wife attended the 
funeral, next day, attired in deep black, and was 
one of the principal mourners for her predecessor. 
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J LALLAN CAt KEN BLEB at uuurually low prices; 
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one hundred and 6ixty millions of dollars. 
Used tn Furs. Woolens, &c , Is a very low rate of insur¬ 
ance against Moths. Ac. C. O. Is sold by every Druggist. 
HARRIS As CHAPMAN, Makers, Boston, Mass. 
Southern Item*, 
There is another crevasse in the Mississippi 
river a lew miles below New Orleans. It is very 
extensive—the flood covering many miles. 
The cotton 6eed which has been planted in a 
large section of country in Louisiana, turns out 
to be defective—a universal failure to germinate. 
At a recent, sale in Washington county, Twin., 
corn sold at five dollars per bushel, and bacon 
at eighty cents per pound, on a credit of a year. 
The rains have injured the cotton badly in 
Texas, and re-planting is generally in progress. 
The seed Is bad. It is estimated that, there are 
only 3,000 bales of cotton up Trinity River, 
Texas. The old crop is uearly cleared out. 
Reports from Arkansas to the Freed men’s 
Bureau state that great destitution exists among 
the poor whites of that State. A large number 
of persons have died from starvation. During 
the last quarter, the agents of the Freedmen’s 
Bureau in Arkansas distributed eight times ns 
many rations to the whites as to the blacks. 
New Orleans pilots, who have been getting 
five hundred dollars a month, have had their 
wages reduced to three hundred dollars, and 
the wages of mates from three hundred to two 
hundred dollars. 
The Indians.— The THbtffie's special says 
I that Col. E. W. Wynkoop, Special Indian Agent, 
stationed at Fort Liiramie, Kansas, reports to 
the Commissioner of the , Indian Bureau, that 
mall traveling without an escort across the 
plains, is now' attended with no danger. The 
Indiaus along the various rontes are peaceably 
disposed. The agent, states that in his opinion 
if the Government will only fulfill its pledgee, 
the Indians hitherto hostile, will continue to 
comply with the provisions of recent treaties. 
We learn that thelndians in Arizona are trouble, 
some. Recently the Major of the 14th regi¬ 
ment of U. 8. infantry, and four men, were 
killed by the Apachas while going from Fort 
Grant to Tuscan. The murderers were pursued 
by a party of friendly Indians, and being over¬ 
taken a battle occurred in which twenty-four 
of them were killed and a large number captured. 
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Durkee’s Automatic T 
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Lard, tried.19®lBjz c Hups:"...i”::;: Juggg 
Do. rough .15@ due Whltefish, « bbl.. 7 , 504 * 8,00 
Tallow, tried. 9® 9He Codfish, F 100 its. .6J)0®7.00 
Do. rough. 0 ® 6Hc Honey, box, F it,,. 20® 30c 
Eggs, dozen. 17 ® 18 c Cat,cues, box. l va 16c 
_ .. t OHABB. DO. extra. 17 ® 00 c 
Hay $1 tun.B,00®16,00 Barrels. 87® 42c 
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NEW YORK, Aj-kii. 3H.~Cotton 820B6e, for middling*, 
f lour ranges trom *7,25®12,00 aa to quality. Wheat, *1.S5 
W®»8c. Barley, dull. Coral 83®97c. Outs, 
“®68 q.‘ 0C. Port, new moss, $27,8,(*29.12; old 
do, $26.75^27.00; prime, *28, 7B&24; BUoulders,10K®la\e; 
Haras, LSHilslf cts. Lard, 17$®21 cts. Butter, 35®60 cts. 
Cheese to®22c- Clover seed, s®lOi*o; Timothy, $J, 5 Q® 6 ; 
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Trade with Japan.—' The President has pro¬ 
claimed the convention between the United 
States and Japan for the reduction of import 
duties on articles imported into that country. 
Sheet lead, solder, matting, rattan, oil for paint¬ 
ing, gypsum, and other articles used in the 
preparation and packing of teaE,—are to be ad¬ 
mitted free. On machines and machinery, drugs 
and medicines, a reduction of five per cent, is 
made. Many other articles, the product of the 
United States, are to he admitted at a reduced 
rate of duties. 
The above Is the name of a New Insurance Company 
which Is now being Introduced to the favorable consid¬ 
eration of the public, and 1 * the first of the kind ever of- 
gantzed In thu United states. The object of this Com¬ 
pany la to Insure buildings against loss or damage by 
lightning, lor the period Ol teti ve*rs, snld buildings to be 
first protected by lightning rods In accordance with the 
Instructions laid down in the Patent Ofilco Report ol 
1859. This Company 1» working under a Charter granted 
by the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania with a 
Capita) of *!0d,(XQ, and In case that any toss or damage 
should occur to any building Itutnrrd by tn Is Company, 
they agree to pay the mil amount of the loss sustained 
within ten days utter notice and proof of the same ha* 
been made. This Company have now a largo cumber ot 
Agents traveling through the United State,, who arc put¬ 
ting up Lightning Beds In accordance with the instruc¬ 
tions issued by this Company, which ore strictly upon 
scientific principles, and wuo are authorized to Issue 
Policies of insurance in the Girard Electrical Insurance 
Company at the time that rods are put upon their build¬ 
ings. The cost ol the rods including the insurance ot 
tliolr property lOr ten years Is uo more than what is 
charged bv other Companies who do not Insure your 
property. 
£ 3 ?”References are made to the Hon. A. G. Clrtiv, 
Gov. of Pa., Hon. Davu> Ton, Ex-Uov. of Ohio, Hon. 
TUADOaUS STKVBNS Of Pa., HOD. IlKIbTER Cltmeb of 
Pa., Hon. M. B. Lower of Erie, Pa., M»J.-Geri. J. W. 
Gkaky, Hon. J. H. Walker of Erie, Pa„ Hon. Wm. Gal¬ 
braith of Erie, Fa., Dsa.x Richmond, Esq., President 
A corresponding decline will 
take place iu the Missouri River, wfiich. will 
allow many idle boats to resume business. 
Mayor Monroe of New Orleans, lias been par¬ 
doned, and will therefore enter upon liis duties 
as chief officer of the Crescent City. The spepial 
charges of assassination brought against him 
were refuted, and he was a traitor, it was as¬ 
sumed, only on general principles. 
The Mississippi, during the high water now 
prevailing, is reported to have broken through 
Terrapin Bend, near Vicksburg, which General 
Williams wasted so much labor to cut through 
without success. Gen. Grant afterwards made 
a still more earnest effort, wfiich was also a fail¬ 
ure. And now the Mississippi 1ms shown her¬ 
self superior to both. This cut shortens the 
river fifteen miles, and will leave Eagle Bend a 
lake fourteen miles long. 
From Mexico. 
Rio Grande advices to the 15th ult, state 
that Mejia had returned to Matamoras, leaving 
a portion of his army with Gen. Jeavingro, 
who was charged with operations against the 
Liberals. On his return, Mejia fell into an am¬ 
buscade during the night, commanded by Gens. 
Canales and Cortinas, aud lost quite a number 
of his men in killed and wounded, . 
Mejia brought into Matamoras 200 wagons 
containing $500,000 in coin. Before Mejia’s ar¬ 
rival it was reported that Cortinas came within 
three miles of Matamoras and hung two con¬ 
ductors of the train. It wn3 also reported that 
the Liberals had procured eighteen pontoons, 
and were crossing artillery from the American 
side of the river. 
Later information from Mexico has been 
The New State Asylum for the Blind.— 
The Trustees of the new institution for the 
blind—temporarily located at Binghamton and 
permanently at Batavia—had their first, meeting 
at Albany on the 25th nit. J. Stanton Gould of 
lludeon, was chosen President, Dr. J. G. Orion 
of Binghamton, Secretary. The Asylum is to 
go into immediate operation in Binghamton, in 
a large building formerly occupied as a seminary. 
It will be probably two or three years before the 
new building can be completed at Batavia. 
'LOUR OF UNBURNED BONE.-The 
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CATTLE MARKETS. 
NEW YORK, AI-bil 24 — Bales Beel Cattle, $11,00®17; 
Cow* and Calves, $403100; Veal Calves, 8®12Kc; Sheep 
and Lambs, 8Ji®i0c; Swine, 9®10c. 
8^^ Af^.-Beeves U^OfiO.OO; Sheep, C*® 
BRIGHTON & CAMBRIDGE, April 25.—Beeves,sales 
•tlOAMo. Working oxen $200@300* pr. Handy steers 
$100® 150. Yearlingsk00®00i two-year olds, $85@45; three- 
yeor $6MM0. Milch cow*. $45®125. Hen’er*. AS6® 
Urn ana sols cionsri 0 / the only Machinery by which 
Purr Flour of L'HinfJufWr Bonk can he made, which 
la sold only by them, and thi-tr regularly appointed ana 
udvcrtlacd agents. This Company is composed 01 gen¬ 
tlemen or high commercial standing and responsibility. 
Every packag« of Flour 0 / Bono mode- by them will hear 
Uielr thadk mark (none genuine without it.) and G 
guaranteed to DO made Horn Pitre Usbcrnku Bon so 
and free- from ml alteration or admixture, except five per 
cent, ot salt, which la indispensable In packing to pre¬ 
vent decomposition. 
BRIGGS & BR0., Rochester, N. Y,, 
Have the exclusive sale of this fertilizer In Canada, 
Michigan, and that part of New York lying west of the 
Hudson rlve.r, except Albany,Schenectady and Saratoga 
counties, and 
B. H, STAIR & GO., Cleveland, Ohio, 
Have the exclusive agency for Northern Ohio, Erie 
county and the Oil Territory in Pennsylvania.. 
The Erie Canal, 
To-morrow, May 1st, is 
the day fixed for the opening of navigation on 
the Erie Canal. So far as appearances here are 
concerned, there is nothing to prevent the inten¬ 
tion of the State authorities from being carried 
into effect. Water has been let into the canal, 
and at 11 o’clock last night it was within twelve 
or fourteen Inches of a full level. There was 
considerable current eastward, showing that the 
levels below were drawing.— Roch. Bern., 30 Ih ult. 
county and the Oil Territory in Pennsylvania. 
Orders for Flour ol Bone from their territories should 
be sent direct to them and from other territory to 
€. U. GARDNER, 
General Agent, 16 Cortaiult St., N. Y. 
These Agents are too well known to the Agriculturists 
and Horticulturists of the whole country to require any 
reference or guarantee ae to their being periectly re¬ 
sponsible, honest and reliable. 
GY” For full particulars, see the March numbers of the 
Rural. Circulars containing directions for use, Pnces, 
Analyses, Ac., sent free. 850-tf 
The Cholera.— A New York dispatch of the 
30th ult., says “the cholera is fast abating at 
the lower quarantine. No deaths have taken 
place nor additional cases received on board 
the hospital ship since Friday last,” The sick 
passengers of the steamer England left at Hali¬ 
fax, have recovered; the cholera has disappeared. 
